Terumah - Israel is G-d's Child

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with Ari goldwag recorded with hm's never running assistance in Rish Israel 5784 2024 this week's par truma and we have the beginning of the construction of the mishkon of the Tabernacle we talk about what we're looking forward to the B mikos the temple this was the precursor of that and the PK starts off by telling us truma that there's an obl ation to bring to Hashem to take to Hashem a truma a donation and I'd like to read to you a piece in the M here and also another piece in the M by the by thees by the holy Arc first let's see the mes here the mes starts off daring the words as the explains it understands that there's something let's read it inside actually you should take an example for that which I have in heaven when we create the mishon and we're going to see this in detail in depth when we are to create the mishon it's supposed to parallel that which Hashem has in heaven there's supposed to be the the creation that we have is supposed to be the same as that which we have in shamim the M the Tabernacle represents hashem's physical Abode the place where God as it were dwells it's his throne room we could say it's his Palace and it corresponds to in every way the way that hashem's Heavenly Throne looks whatever we find in shamim whatever we find in the heavens we're suppos to supposed to create a parallel for that on the [Music] earth says to you is the greatness is the power the says all that is in heaven and in Earth he as follow everything that hasem created above hasem created below everything that we find in the Heavenly Abode we also find in the physical Abode as it were of now we're going to describe this at length and the reason I want to read the entire thing is because it's so beautiful it's so awesome know it reminds me of a story Mar Shiva tells about a particular individual who said to to should be healthy and well particular person said why do we why does God need so much Praises why does why do we have to say so many things about how great God is I'm saying why is it necessary and Mara explained to him you don't understand who God is God created the entire universe 13.8 billion light years across we are ants we're not even ants we're nothing we're so small we're so insignificant God created the entire ecosystem he created all of the the foundations of the world incredible uh incredible amount of of uh complexity that's the word I'm looking for and we need to know before whom we stand we need to have a recognition of of of the greatness of Hashem um I would say this is AR goldwag talking I would say that it's not for him he doesn't need our Praises but it's for us to understand with whom we are dealing but let's get a little bit of a taste of what the Heavenly Court looks like what the Heavenly Abode looks like and we'll start to understand the the what we're missing what the mishon represented what the Tabernacle represented what the bdash is supposed to be gives us a taste of God's greatness of the of the awesomeness of 's presence says that there's an abode the word Z it's hard to translate exactly but it refers to the Abode the place where God as it were is present and there's a Darkness there in God's space as it were in the place where God is where person experiences God that's I would say even better there's a certain darkness which I would say denotes the fact that we can't understand God we can't understand the depth of the greatness of the creator of the entire universe of the planets of the stars of the galaxies of the of the of the black holes and the the Milky Way everything the Andromeda Etc everything that's going on in the universe God is the creator of all that he's much he's Beyond he transcends it so there's a Darkness that's there and mosha walked into that darkness which we could call humility recognizing that we're nothing compared to God lat in regards the the Torah tells us in in 8 vers2 King Salon refers to the to the house which is an abode for God same word zul and he talks about the darkness that God wants to dwell in the darkness the Bish the Mish the The KES the holiest area was a dark place physically dark represents the mystery the [Music] mystery ter tells us and isah 6:2 that there are Sim fiery Angels which stand they stand above and what do we find in regards to the Mish on the Tabernacle it tells us that there are that there are um pieces of wood uh cedar wood that stand okay to know what these ideas represent what is the idea of standing reminds me of something that Marisha said that he had been walking on a on the boardwalk in in uh in farak and he saw a group of Arabs that they were lying down and they were praying in a in a uh bowing position completely on the ground and he took note of the fact that the way that we DAV it's called amida We Stand before God we stand before God our relationship with Hashem it's not a of course we are completely subservient to Hashem of course we are his we are his servants we are we strive to serve him properly but we don't we don't we are still human beings we stand up straight we Str stand up tall it's a relationship that could be represented by the fact that the angels surround him are standing the the structure is described as standing we find that there are cherubs it's another kind of Angel childlike faces childlike innocence God is surrounded by these he sits on the Angels who have childlike faces we find that in the Mish of the Tabernacle there's there were these cherubs that were on the the cover of the of the Ark of course the ark represents the Torah it's the place where the Torah is kept it's the place where it's in the holy of holies it's about our relationship with Hashem it's about the the commands of Hashem that God gives us in order to have a relationship with him and there's a childlike innocence in that relationship it says inel 1 verse that there are another kind of Angel right it's interesting we have these different levels of Angels We Have angels that are standing there we have different kind of angels that are that areem sits on as it were they're like his throne we have angels that move it's it's called AA right there's a Mera as it were the Chariot God comes down in a chariot into the world or he rides Upon Us upon the sadim the righteous he rides he manifests in the world through our actions so the they carry these are a kind of Angel called an ofan which means a wheel they carry we find in regards to the to theik speaks of as well which correspond this this this these Angelic beings that are called Wheels right again we have we're standing we're upright we're childlike in our approach to our relationship with hem children just believe they trust their parents we trust hasem and we are the ones who carry as it were the message of God the the manifestation of hm in the world okay you find it elsewhere also this word in God's Heavenly Abode God is there in the in the Holy the holy uh Throne area it's a place where he manifests the the the malim or the word is Mal he the says right the greatest of the Angels is is mik and Gabriel who we we know protect us and and take care of us when we go to sleep at night we we mention them they surround there they are and also in regards to the Bish we find that there are hosts hosts is a reference to the armies we spoke about last week we spoke about how every time we do a Mitzvah we create an army or we call the army of Hashem to us right it's a parallel idea to what we're speaking about here in the heavens we find of course this is an important uh Point here that that in braus when we speak about the creation of the world it refers to certain things that are actually a reference to spiritual things not per se physical things it speaks about the firmament that's in the midst of the water we find that there are separations we have a curtain which separates between The KES and the Kesh and the holy and the holy of holies there are designations there's places of Greater Holiness and that's true in the spiritual Realms and it's true in the Physical Realm in the Heavenly realm there's a throne of the the temple is referred to as a throne of God and of course a throne is a place where the king sits in order to Reign upon his people to to enact decrees to hear about what the people need hasem interacts with us from a Heavenly place he interacts with us and in the Physical Realm he interacts with us through the bikash on this understand what we're missing understand what we're we're waiting for Io says is there a number to the amount of of uh Army encampments Hashem has an army that surrounds him and takes so to speak it's it's more like an honor guard than than anything we find also in the they were which I think refers to the m the the the Levites they would there would be guards also an honor guard around the bdes in the temple we find the P says count the Stars very interesting you are like the stars of the heaven so this is the most interesting to me so far because we're talking about the Bas of English we're talking about God's Heavenly Abode and we're we're referring to the Jewish people the stars in the heavens I'm referring to the Jewish people as those Stars what's the idea of course the idea is that the stars are an aspect of the light that Hashem brings into the world they Points of Light each one is important tell us hasem PK says hasem counts the Stars which means that he he gives significance to each and every Star each each individual as it reflects itself in the Jewish people being called Stars each individual has a special way of serving Hashem and reflects hashem's light every single star is important every one of us our individual purpose in life is significant important essential and that's part of what the mishon is it's part of what the bdes is it's a place where we serve Hashem it's the place where our our service of God is recognized I would say it that in the English a person would sometimes experience have a Divine understanding for the first time Y for the first time he had his prophecy was in the B mikdash they would meditate on the Ken the the sound of God's voice spoke from between the Ken between the cherubs this it's all here who we are who the Jewish people are each individual within the Jewish people before I keep reading and it's reflected who we are as individuals we are the stars that reflect hashem's light and there are stars above which represents that in the Heavenly spheres in the B so to speak the temple which is above there's also lights that are coming out that are our lights that are each of our individual lights it's we are rooted there that's what it seems to be [Music] saying in Ezekiel when he describes what's going on in heaven so he speaks about the angel who is wearing Bim it's a certain kind of clothing which if you look in the by when he dancing in front of the AR when the arem returns to its rightful place so he was wearing a bad he was wearing a fod bad which Fort explain that those who are spiritual those who are mised they go off on their own and they focus on spirituality they wear this special kind of clothing and it's a spiritual clothing and it represents the person's humility the angels in heaven wear spiritual clothes that represent their humility and we below the Kan the priests wear a special bad they wear a special cloth clothing that's made out of um uh pishon made out of uh linen which represents humility comes from the ground it comes from the earth the way to access the way to have a relationship with Hashem the way to serve Hashem properly is through humility as we spoke about last week above there's an encampment of angels of God in referring to the the righteous and perhaps the K the priests they're referred to as Angels We the human being at our highest level when we are serving Hashem properly when we are striving to grow in our service of God we are called angels in in reference in yesai in Isaiah 6:6 it refers to a m an altar in heaven and of course we have a m an altar as well we hear in in our in our Temple where we bring our offerings where we sacrifice the animals that we purchase with our money we give up something of ourselves something significant of ourselves in order to draw ourselves closer to hem it speaks of the of the Heavenly tent the Heavenly tent which is spread out and we too have a tent it's called the the mishon theik it's called a tent it's called a Suka also it's called a a an impermanent Dwelling Place there are there are curtains that hasm has in the heavens and there are curtains which we are to use to surround the area of the Tabernacle says interestingly in contrast to what we said at the beginning where there's darkness in the place of hasem the PK also refers to the light that's there cuz it's a darkness of course for for us as we come into the mystery and we realize that we don't understand Hashem God is beyond anything that we can comprehend but at the same time there's a light there's a spiritual light that's that's coming out in the greatest force from the Mish of hem the the Tabernacle in heaven and we have that same light which is reflected on the manora which we light we bring God's light into the world once again now the magish finishes off with something amazing and it's going to lead us into the second part of what I want to read which is much shorter not only that so when we look at all of these parallels we say okay there's a there's a Tabernacle in heaven so to speak there's aikd a temple in heaven and we have a temple on Earth which is greater which is stronger which is more beloved to Hashem says the the the B here in this world is much more beloved or it doesn't say much more it is be it's more beloved to hasem than the one above why simply we're the ones creating it the one in in in heaven is perhaps the potential of it but until it comes down and manifests in the world it's not real hasn't been created by human beings we know that hem left his Heavenly abat above in order to come down into his Heavenly into his physical Abode below the PK tells us an amazing thing when you create a mikdash when you create a place for my divine presence to exist to to manifest I will come and I will manifest there that's the beauty of the P the depth of the verse that says that all all that is in heaven is in Earth meaning really where does it belong it comes down from heaven it's contained in heaven and through our actions through our creation of an abode for hem God comes down into the into the Earth God com comes down to the place where he really wants to be so to speak through US finishes off by saying that that all the gold and the silver is mine God says which really means that in the Bas of MDES the all the vessels were gold and silver this is really an interesting point all of the K you know until now we were talking about spiritual things we talking about angels we've been talking about Thrones we've been talking about very high things ideas Concepts gold and silver are very human they represent Val value they represent money they represent the things that the human being considers important and when Hashem says in a certain way has is saying if you direct what you think is important to me that's how you're using it properly when we use our possessions when we use our wherewithal we serve God with all of our abundance that's the true and proper use of our of our abilities our talents our our wherewithal and hasem manifests there Le becomes is it becomes spiritual as well last Pointes two pieces later we in parad we just read from the first section in lad now we're going to read no I'm sorry we read from the first section in lad gim the third section of sorry get this right the fourth section of now we're in the third section you shall make a box to put the Torah in through this somehow it manifests the the temple says you are my sheep and I'm your Shepherd when we create a place for God's bod what's the main thing in the temple it's the it's the relationship it's the box in the middle it's the the the box of the charbon which has the the directives through which we create a relationship with God we become his sheep he becomes Our [Music] Shepherd you are the human being you are my you are the true human being the says God is our Shepherd make a a place where I can come and I can lead you I can lead my sheep I can lead my [Music] flock this should sound familiar because we use this language on on the day of's love when he forgives [Music] us I'm the guardian of the vineyard create a place where the one who's the guard can guard over his Vineyard create this create this Tabernacle you are my children I your father says explicitly you are the children of hem God is your father it's an honor for the children when they come to visit their parents it's an honor for the father when he comes to visit his children God wants to manifest around us God Wants To Be Our Shepherd God wants to be our protector God wants to be wants to act as our father when we have a right especially in light of you know the stories we're hearing coming out of Gaza the soldiers who see that on every single house and every single Hospital every single location they have a picture of the golden dome which is not even holy it's not even considered a mosque in in Islam it's just it's just ourd and they call it MD means the holy place the place that they call Holy is really our place we are the true children of hem that is the place which expresses the fact that God is our father that God chose us when we want to create that place and we have the sh the desire the recognition of where we belong Earth Israel is the land we belong based on English we should be building we should be striving to build that Temple that's what this is all about it's about our relationship with asem and when we do that when we have that in mind when we are trying to have that in mind when we are trying to build that mikdash when we are trying to build that relationship when we are trying to create a world down here which is parallel to the world above when we're trying to shine the light of hem we trying to be a vehicle for God's light into the world we're headed in the right direction I want to bless you and I ask you to bless me hasm should help us that we should indeed have these feelings have this desire have this shifa for this incredible manifestation of hasem angels fiery angels all kinds of different angels and we are the Angels shall help us to want it to want to be the sheep that follow God Our Shepherd to to want to be the vineyard that God is protecting to want to be in this place called Isel to want to be the children to whom Hashem is the father thank you so much for listening have a wonderful shabas this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you for more podcasts like this please visit 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