Raise Your Hands - Rabbi Ephy Greene

there's a well-known story about the tsa met a jew who's looking for a bracha and he says what do you do so the jew says i have this in this job and i sell this in this produce i understand but what do you do she says well you know i have to get things from the supplier i have to make deals and package things and and then get it out to stores and companies that i sell to because kind of says no what do you do the jew says i don't understand what you're asking because i'm explaining all those things you explain to me that's what hashem does for you but what do you do we have to ask ourselves this question as well you see what we do in this world is called use this term all the time for what kind of parnelson person makes what kind of produce they achieve and the mice a dime of a person seems to typify who they are but it doesn't really but pinkis points out in partial shmini that we have the incredible first uh ever berkus kohanim after the inauguration of the mishkan after the shivasimehamilum where moshe beno had performed all the carbonos to inaugurate the mishkan the first day when arunachalen brings the first carbon so after bringing that first carbon he turns around that he picks up his arms to the nation and he blessed the jewish people why was that because aaron cohen was this representative of the conduit of the kedusa and the bracha from shamayim coming down to the jewish people how does it come down like we see the kohanim in shul giving us the bracha here in extras every day or in the shallow garden we see that they cover their hands because their hands represent that the conduit from the shamayim to the seaboard to the arm and iron according is representing that and our hands represent what we can receive from the kohana [Music] every single person has really three positions to their hands their hands can be upwards straight or downwards he says downwards is not considered appropriate because it represents the lower more animalistic uh needs of the human being however straight ahead represents our mycelium represents what are you doing in this world what are you doing in the interpersonal plane and the best is obviously when the hands are reaching heavenward in tefila and bakasha in a form of receiving to from the from shamai receiving the bracha from shamayim in fact i once heard a story about somebody who asked for abraham from and he told him his special sugula when the kohanim give a bracha to go stick your hands under the tallest to receive the blessing from the gohanim i don't suggest that it's not necessarily a good idea however the concept is there that we are receivers of kardash we have to use our hands we have to use our mice adayam not just as a means of interpersonal behavior but as a means towards receiving and with that we can follow in the ways of aaron kohin who when they set up the mishkan is bringing kalusha into this world and so too in today's day and age through berkeley's kohanim through our telos we can reach up a heavenward and be a receiver an acceptor of hashem's tremendous bracha and with that please god resolve her to greater and greater levels