Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz: Who Will Build the Final Beit HaMikdash?

my baby [Music] thank you hello I hope you're welcome when the month of other comes in we increase our Simka our spiritual simcha and so we all hope and pray that this other should be ishua eventually leading to the gaola that will become nescala will become revealed in the month of Nissan so part of the idea of Ador is it is the precursor through the month of Nisan and gazelle tell us benissa nigalo we were redeemed in Nissan ubin Nissan and then Nissan will be the future Redemption so today's share is an aliat nashama for the father of Kaya Feingold David Moshe David mosheb and avram Fishel and the brother of khaya fine gold yonatan Israel Ben David Moshe May the learning be in aliat nishmatam a refur shlima for Ben Fredo and Sarah whenever I see my wife's name it always strikes Me Like Jesus my wife's name it is she's doing much better but we might appreciate that filos as well and in addition from arik javinsky that he requested that we I say abraha for his dad's yard site on the 6th of Adar his name is shalomo Ben Hubble and they usually start drinking before so I never have a chance to be my climate but tonight indeed I will make a brother that it should be perfect a bit very well and if I could just add in my mother's yard site Allah Shalom is this week it's going to be Wednesday night and Thursday so I personally would also like to dedicate this year um and finally the following Special dedications by Rina and mark questel the entire month of Adar thank you very much in appreciation of righteous of the Torah he shares as a circus for a full Israel and that should be filled with simcha for all of Ami so thank you and our main Kane we are entering a very large section of the book of shmos and if you recall we spoke a few weeks ago that the ramban says there are three major themes in the book of shmos with a number of detours there is which is leaving impurity there is Kabbalah Satora which is getting a mission but then we have the ultimate goal of everything and that is to make a dwelling place for the divine presence in this lowly world in the language of the balatanya to make a Dira bhattanam it is God's deepest desire in ways that we don't fully perceive that his presence should be manifest specifically in this lowly Earth in this dark darkness in this Hester upon him in the concealment of the Divine and the mishkan and later the base of mikdash is the tangible evidence so to speak of God's presence existing within us and everyone knows the famous Treasure of Ghazal make for me a sanctuary make for me a holy place so I may dwell in their hearts and souls it is not the building the building is a symbol of something much more deeper and much more profound the divine presence that exists within our hearts within our soul the famous statements from the safer haredom that's been put to music as well beloved I build a dwelling place for God in my heart in my soul in fact when the basic was destroyed was boasting that he destroyed the house of God and God's response was I don't live there anymore you didn't destroy my house I moved and the concept is I lived there when Hashem is in the heart and soul of the Jewish people when we are not worthy of Hashem being in our heart and soul the apartment is vacant so he told the book of nature or he said about anybody could destroy it it's just a building at that point I'm not there so when we read about these partios we're recognizing that it's not just about a beautiful building there are beautiful buildings the Michigan was beautiful the base was more so but there are beautiful buildings I I can't tell you maybe it's sacrilegious if the basement was more beautiful than the Taj Mahal you know I don't know but that's that's really besides the point it wasn't the physical building it was the presence of akalisparkus and that is why we still have a Mitzvah building a basement today even if the physical building of the mikdash must await mashiach and that is the sheet of the rambam I'll talk a little bit about the halachic aspects of that a little later on but the Swarm hakadoshim tell us that we still have an obligation to build the base of mikdash by creating a place in our hearts for the divine presence that is our Binion base I make that and if enough of us do that and there'll be a critical mass at some point there will be the basamiktas coming down because we've reached the whole level where we are worthy of the sochan now did you read the prasek forward and backwards make me yeah well I tell you um I remember and actually somebody confirmed they sent me a YouTube video I remember being at the culture once and maybe around 10 years ago I don't know and there was this something looked like a satellite all of a sudden that was coming down really really really fast going all the way down and then it went straight up really really fast I don't know it sounded to me like you know Hashem was bringing down the base of English and decided nah not ready yet you really had that that said it was really very amazing thing so you know Bezos Hashem next time it comes uh we should be ready so keep your helmet on it's good your your midsapa you believe in in the opinion base in the return of the of the base of the base so I want to discuss a few issues here first of all there's a very very interesting sheetah of Rashi if you read the Hamish essentially all of The Commandments about building the mishkan are are while Moshe is at Mount Sinai for 40 days right the end of last week's Parsha said Moshe enters the cloud and Moshe is with Hashem for 40 days and 40 nights that's the very end of last week's Parsha how is this belief of the temple going down from Seven yeah something like 100 mid space from the um how many mistress are connected to the temple to build the temple yeah well there's a well well there's a mystery to build the temple and then uh there are subdivisions about the different utensils and then of course there are many Commandments about corbanos so there are certainly over a hundred commandments connected with the temple and connected with the worship of the temple no the building no no technically according to the rambam there's only one commandment called building the Temple yeah that's the only one but according to Rashi uh Rashi seems to say that we don't have a Mitzvah to build a temple Hashem will bring down the temple not inside that's correct it's about the spiritual well you know you okay you want to give an explanation all right you can give an explanation okay you know maybe yeah maybe not I mean I I understand but okay uh we're not going to argue over what is the shot of Rashi okay I mean Rashi says the third mix comes down uh you're offering an interpretation okay so how can Russia well first first of all it doesn't say that every single detail will come down Minister mime it could be the basic thing will come down and we'll have a lot of things we have to do meaning uh it could be a partnership it could be a collaboration Hashem will will do minashimayam and we will have to do the finishing work and the like so it's not a it's not a contradiction in that way now Rashi says in Hamish not in Russia says a very very interesting issue even though the Mitzvah of mishkan seems to be while Moshe is in the 40 days which is before the golden calf because the Heigl is after Moshe comes down Rashi says this is an amazing example that means the Torah does not always follow chronological sequence and Rashi says in point of fact Moshe was not given any commandment about the mishkan till after that and then Moshe rabena went up a second and actually was the third time because the second time he prayed but when he went up the second time to get the second Lucas and he came down on Yom Kippur that is when Hashem gave him the Commandments about the mishkan and that of course is when he communicated to us the day after Yom Kippur that we should build a Michigan which means Rashi is saying a very startling proposition had there not been a Cairo Eagle had we gotten the first tablets right Moshe comes down with the first luchos Moshe gives us Mitzvahs whatever mitzvos he gave us at the time it was not have included the Michigan there would not have been a mission had there not been a greater ego that necessitated Moshe Rubino going up a second time again it was the third time but the second time to get the second now Rashi doesn't explain why in fact rashi's proof is a very tenuous proof the only proof Rashi gives is that Moshe did not command Bene Israel about the Michigan till he came down the second time well that's fine but that doesn't prove he didn't get the Commandment from Hashem and in fact the ramban says the ramban says there is no reason right remember the ramban has doesn't like the cloud he can't dismiss it entirely because the gamara says it but ramban does not like the rule of Ain because the ramban likes to make everything chronological so the ramban says of course Moshe got true true mentors of emotion got the Mitzvah of mishkan and the Mitzvah big day Kahuna the first 40 days but because of the eagle he didn't get around to communicating it to the Jewish people until he came down the second time and you follow the torika Seder truma and titsave which is mishkan and big day Kahuna are before the the Commandment is before then there's to go up and down and pray and go up a second time and then he but Rashi says no Rashi says it's not just moshe's command to Rene Israel that was after the it was the atsum command by Hashem to Moshe now Rashi does not give us the logic of this like what is the sevora that the khaira created mishkan and there wouldn't have been a Michigan without so there are different forests that beforesham say and based on crasals and sometimes based on separate Suarez the first is savara of the saporno soporno the great Italian commentator of the Renaissance who on his own comes to the same conclusion as wrestling not because of Russia he also understands that the Michigan is a response to the he says the following he says on one hand the mishkan is a wonderful thing it means God's presence is with us on the other hand it also represents a certain Monument to spiritual failure because mishkan means you approach God in a specific place a specific location with specific authorized people kohanim you know the VM in a certain way through the ritual of corbanos in an Ideal World of caducea every single person would be like a coin every single place would be like a basement as Hashem says me every place where my I will cause my name to be mentioned I will come to you and I will bless you so says the saporno in an Ideal World we wouldn't have needed to approach God in a specific place and a specific way it is only because of the ego that even though Baruch Hashem Hashem forgave us there was atonement but there was a certain distancing we no longer have the ability to access the shechina every single place and by every single person and therefore the mishkan is actually you might even call it a monument to spiritual failure this is how the saporno's idea which fit into Rashi that without the ego there wouldn't have been a mission now the question is how far does that mean I mean does Rashi mean without the Heidegger there wouldn't have been a base in other words how far are you going to take it are you going to who needs a base to make this at that point I don't know but at least in the mid bar perhaps where the ashra sashrina was so obvious the entire Machina would have had the Holiness of the Michigan so that is the saporno's understanding that we could bring into Rashi there's a second understanding and again this is from view the halebi and the khusri now he was before Roger so obviously he's not explaining Raji but he's coming to his own conclusion review to halebi who also learns that mishkan is a response to the to the um and he says a very interesting idea he says you know on one end the Telluride is very against idolatry in all of its forms over and over and over again no idolatry no images and the Torah even says remember remember on the day of matantara when Hashem revealed his presence you saw no picture you saw no image right Hashem is very very emphatic and indeed the rambam took that almost as an obsession to kind of remove any semblance of a visualization of corporeality and the like and that's why the homo in the book although he branches off into many many things but the rambam himself writes the purpose of the Marine was to explain the anthropomorphic expressions in Tanakh like the hand of God the eyes of God Etc to that to be sure that people understand them not to be literal ideas and yet paradoxically in the code of succession the holiest of holiest places you walk in there's an ark right they are in a kodesh and on top of the Ark are statuettes statues of angelic children the crewing it's as if we have abodeazara in our holiest place what's going on so the kusri develops an idea that actually although the rambam happened not to like because we as a safer that's that's a separate issue but the kuseri develops an idea that the rambam actually uses later although I'm not sure he got it from the kusary and that is he said that when people have a need and that need could take them into bad negative places Hashem will find some way to incorporate that need within a framework that will avoid the negative consequences rather than compel that we go cold turkey because that would be against the nature that we have and because we mentioned that part of the attraction of avidazara it's a complex phenomenon was the notion of having a tangible way of connecting to God a tantra I need a visualization I need some type of physical Connection in fact some have said that that is the was the power of Christianity in and of itself in which God on some aspect got incorporated into a human form a Son of God whatever the the idea the idea is that way I can connect that way I can feel that you know I'm part of him he's part of me so that's why people including the Jewish people in mitzrayim were a Duke attached to our very desire now God doesn't want that because God is not a body God is not a form God wants to take us away from idolatus rituals but to Simply abolish them totally would be against our nature we were not ready for that type of transition so how could this gave us physical structures instead of simply saying relate to me by meditation and prayer who needs physical buildings who needs sacrifices God said no you need this you have this urge for physicality you have this urge for tangible avoda I'll give it to you and if you have this urge for our voters are I'll even give you Idols in the Michigan itself but they have to be concealed they have to be withdrawn you know they're there and that can be a focus of your prayer and devotion so the culture he says had there not been had the Jewish people not needed that physical representation we would have graduated to a higher level of spiritual worship precisely that idea that we needed that physical intermediary system so God says I'll give it to you within the framework of the mishkan and all of the rules so you see unlike the saporno who sees the mishkan as signifying God's distancing himself from us the kuzuri looked at the mishkan as God accommodating human weakness God is accommodating God now the Martin krullen says this even by contrast we were talking about conscious before it mentions that God made a world where every non-kosher animal uh has a corresponding culture animal that tastes the same except for one particular fish that says you can only get in the tray variety but everything has its parallel taste because God doesn't want to deprive you if you like shrimp right so that's why we have a fake shrimp or whatever whatever it would be there will always be a taste that will parallel the the non-kosher kosher variety because Hashem wants to accommodate our weaknesses now when I said that I think the rambam either borrowed the idea or came up with I mean that's exactly what the rambam says by corbanos that carbonos were a concession to our idealist impulse the kuzuri is extending it to the mishkan and to the crew right so that is the second idea so the idea number one is mishkan represents distancing idea number two mishkan represents accommodation and then there's idea number three which is the earliest Source a major shift that mishkan represents a tangible sign that Hashem has forgiven meaning to say that after the Hashem wanted to destroy us Hashem wanted to abrogate the covenants Hashem wanted to make a private deal with Moshe Rabino which Moshe rabenu turned down he said if you're not gonna if you're going to erase them take me out of the book Etc and eventually Moses felis and Carl Israel's truva and Hashem shows I Am With You by the Michigan meaning had there not been he didn't have to show it in that particular way but I'm sorry but the mishkan is a sign of divine forgiveness so these are three explanations of shitas Rashi shitas Rashi is mishkan is response that's all Rocky doesn't say why he just says that's how the chronology is understood and this is an example of an muktam um but we have three possible reasons this saporno because we're no longer zoha to access God at all places the eruda levy it is a concession to our need for visualization and the medrish it is a sign of divine reconciliation in the aftermath of the golden calf but that sadhashavel the common denominator of all three explanations is without aego there wouldn't have been Michigan quite amazing and therefore two whole partials remember the eagle is in parshisa so true you actually rip it out and put it after the it's a very you know normally in might be a plastic or two I mean here your mom is taking two whole partios moving them later on into the towing now all of this just to be sure you understand the sheets us all of this is only according to Rashi according to ramban mishkan is independent that's Maisha rabeno got the Commandments of Michigan in the first 40 days that it's not connected it's a separate area of hashras hashrina now let me just I I don't want to get into the details of halaka too much but let me just point out that we really have two different electric mitzvos connected uh with mikdash number one uh vyasa lee mcdush the rambam does say is a positive commandment to build a house for God based on the instructions of course if we would do it today it wouldn't be the instructions of Michigan but it would be the instructions of based on mikdus which are a different architectural plant and then there's a separate separate issue of bringing corbanos now it's important to know how logically the Mitzvah bringing corbanos and the Mitzvah building a basement are two separate Mitzvahs in point of fact How likely bringing corbanos bizmanas does not even require a base because according to the rambam the Holiness of the makom hamiktash survived the qurban so even if we don't have a basement the caduce the rambam says is still there and therefore we could bring corbanos now you may ask a question what do you mean you can bring corbinos for carrots since the Ramba maintains the Holiness of the mikdush is there that's why we can't even enter at least some areas of the harbor bias or some areas might be permitted but certainly there are areas of the harabayas where the Miz bayach was and the Quran were not even allowed to enter Because all of us are tame because of contact with a dead body and we're not purified because we don't have the ashes of paraduma so my mother how can you say oh we could bring corbanos because it still has kadusha if it has kadusha we're not even allowed to enter which is why we don't enter but the answer is no that's actually not true because it is true that a person that's tummy is not allowed to enter those areas but it's also true there's another principle about corvanos that's called Tuma hutra but sibor and that actually means the laws of impurity are suspended if one is in order to bring the communal offerings of the base so kohani muratame would be allowed to bring the Corbin tamit they would be allowed to bring the musaf they would light the menorah they would bring the ketaurus so yes I'm not allowed to go in just to be a bystander I'm not allowed to go in for a teal because I'm Tommy and that's a holy place but the avedas would be permitted even without a billion based on make such because of Tomah now the truth of the matter is this issue was raised around 250 Years Ago by reps V Hirsch kalisher who was it was it was a big Thomas Qualcomm he was a mama but he was one of the first religious scientists around the theater rehearsal Simon he was a Visionary he wrote a safe air to reshat seon which is one of the first rabbinic books about establishing a state and the like back in the 1850s or whatever and one of his proposals was hey why don't we bring corbanos putting aside the political issues of what that would mean and he argued that hola quickly we can bring corbanos based on tumor so you couldn't bring your private sin offering because your tummy that's true but communal offerings have the header of Tuma Putra bit sieber so he sent his book to the Godzilla hador rabbit sofa later of Jaco vettlinger the Oracle near Future's rebbe and as you would expect virtually all of them really all of them said doesn't work and I don't want to get into all the reason I just want to mention rebecci Vega's idea Rebecca Vega said whether the makam hamiktas has Holiness today or not is really a machlokas the rambam and the rivet the rambam says the makam hamiktas has kadusha even today but the Ravid says the Malcolm hamiktas lost its katusha when there was a Corbin now Rebecca points out each opinion has a leniency and a strictness according to the rivet if the Maka hamiktas does not have sanctity today you are 100 allowed to walk around the makama make that you can even enter the holy of holies it doesn't have caducea today that's the Raven's leniency but the camera is if it doesn't have kadusha you wouldn't be allowed to bring corbanos bringing a Corban and bahara by it would be like bringing a carbon in your backyard so like the rivet the Kula is I'm allowed to walk around is I'm not allowed to bring a carbon like the rambam it would Factor exactly the opposite because the place has kadusha I wouldn't be allowed to just go in because I'm tummy so says Rebecca veger kind of simple that since this is a great great mahlokus and we don't have the power to decide between the rambam and the rivet we have to be machmere according to both positions even though it's inconsistent where mahmir like the rambam that we don't enter again I'm not dealing with the outer stuck in that's another but we don't enter the inner part of the Arabia but we don't drink carbonos because maybe the halach is like the rivet which is actually a very fascinating point because essentially Rebecca Vega is conceding that according to the rambam you would be able to bring carbonos but we have to be koshish for the shita of the of the Rival this is uh when uh the basement is rebuilt you would have to rebuild the base of makers now so that brings us to the second question okay that's about corbinos no the building of the basement the building of the basement itself because once the caducea has lapsed you need a Binion now so the question then becomes okay what about the midst of building the base on mikdish like what stops us from building the base of making well first of all there are some problems here because uh tomahutra bitsiber only applies to carbonos in other words in other words if we are tame and we can't enter the area then even though we're doing it for the purpose of corbanos the law of Tomorrow does not apply to Binion right so we would have to wait till we have paraduma that's that's one issue the other issue is the rambam has a suck and then the question is what's the mucker of the realm of the ramam clearly says that Binion based on mikdash is a Messianic task that one of the roles of mashiach is to be Bona the basa miktas implying that until there's a revelation of mashiach we don't do that Mitzvah now that's a sphere rambam actually it is a difficult Rama because where do you ever find that a Mitzvah is suspended or not activated until mashiach comes and indeed there is a tomadu xiaomi that says the opposite the time of jerusalemi says what was that line in that movie build it and they shall come very famous whatever uh the usami says it exactly about the basic build it and he shall come meaning yeah let's feel this is that's right but this is build amazing and mashiach will come so the rambam does not pass him like that you shami the rambam paskins that Binion basically make this is say again yeah what qualifies okay so that's a whole yeah that's a whole lot okay but simple yeah that's the whole discussion is at least a king or a leader yeah it wouldn't be a compound each on every one of us too no that's correct we have to have someone who says he's mashiach and meets meets the criteria meets the criteria which again maybe we'll give a separate share on that uh someday well the rambam says the following the rambam says there are two levels in mashiach Revelation the first is he brings the Jews back to Eric Israel uh and he is like a Miller and at that point he is what's called we assume he's mashiach once he meets the standard of he then has the right to try to rebuild the base of mikdesh if he is successful we now know he's if he's not successful we know he's not mashiach but the point is you don't listen to him until he qualifies as kraska well again if you remember in the book of Ezra which was the building of the second base on mikdash so there was a non-jewish population that wanted to participate either financially or actually by building uh the mickness and they said no we don't want we don't want you to be involved they could do it but you see that if it's not that was not a proper it was not a proper thing to do um and uh it's recorded in Tanakh that way so mistama we would not do the midst of that I think okay so again um you know different people have driven political she just about this I don't want to get into to to all of the politics but at least with respect to Yin as I say it is very very clear that seabor would not be a matter for Binion basically okay very interesting and by the way by the way uh even though we're mahmir that Jews cannot bring corbanos today Noah actually could and Bene Noah are allowed to bring corbanos even on bombots on private altars so Abe Noah a guy could bring a carbon in his backyard uh that would be mutter not only in Irish Australia so I understand that some rabbis who are involved in the benowa movement have been talking about encouraging non-jews to bring corbanos others think that's a terribly a bad idea because the one that'll confuse a lot of Jews who think they could do the same thing which they could not and number two whatever carbonos McCloud are very very controversial in this in this day and age so I'll leave it at that but now I want to share with you a very interesting how Aura of the Moshe Rabino is told that he should take from the Jewish people all sorts of donations this didn't happen until young after Yom Kippur but but still the Commandment is given in truma and it seems to enumerate them in descending order going down gold silver copper Tequilas going down down down down down and it ends however with avne me luim the precious jewels and the coming God knows breastplate so the archaim asks that certainly at least some of the Avenue were much more precious even than gold so if the Torah is going from the highest to the lowest why does it end with the Avenue that are the most precious right that's the arachim's classroom so the archaim gives three answers answer number one is it is true that the Avenue at least some of them Diamond you know Ruby emeralds were the most precious but they were used for big day Kahuna they were used for the Priestly garments they were not used in the mishkan itself and since the mishkan itself is more holy than the big de Kahuna so the Avenue are mentioned last because they were actually not part of the mishkan they were part of the big day Kahuna right that's a technical answer that is answer number one but then he gives an answer number two it says in parshus piku day that the Avenue were actually donated it's the only thing that we're given the actual people who donated it donated by the niseum the heads of the tribes came up with this donation for the jewels and khazal described that the way it worked was they waited to see what everybody else gave and they said we'll make up whatever was not yet given the evidence weren't given yet so then to see him were mashlim so what's wrong with that so since the arakayan that is a little bit of a hisaran in the spontaneous generosity of one who wants to give when you want to do you don't wait to see what stalker or building a base on mikdash or a show you don't necessarily wait to see what everybody else does number one that may smack up a little of competition oh you gave I'm gonna give you something better and number two in a sense if you have a genuine desire in your heart you almost can't contain yourself if you have to wait till everybody gave that's a he saw around in what is called medievous halif right the Torah describes donating to the Michigan College anyone whose heart wants to be generous a native lathe doesn't wait and be reactive a native wave is proactive and therefore even though we didn't yet know Moshe didn't know that The Tennessean would give but when Hashem gives him the list Hashem puts it less knowing that the necium are going to be the ones that are going to wait and give it last and that's his surround in the Divas her life that is the second Terrace of the arachayam and then the arachaim gives the third terrorist that's very interesting there's a metric that says when it says the necium gave the word in the same as a double meaning the CM means heads of tribes but niseum in Biblical Hebrew also means clouds are described as niseum in mishley there are a number of that talk about the Nissim bringing the rain and the metrics explains this double meaning that every day the Jewish people got man and the man came down in a cloud and Hashem gave the Nasim these jewels as a gift writing to see him to see him then to see him got the abnem Elohim through the Nissim through the clouds that brought them their money so here's what the arachham says every Jew that gave gold silver copper this is what they got when they left mitzrayim or this is what they got at the yamsa this represented compensation for their labor for their work for their suffering like everything they took whether whether when they left mithrayim or when they got it in the yams of so this came to what they gave represented struggle and suffering then they see him got this as a freebie easy come easy go and Hashem is those who donate that which caused to cause them to struggle and suffer as perkiavo says Sarah Agra according to the suffering is the rewards we know for example that the Ani who may give five dollars to it stucca that may be much more valuable in the eyes of Hashem than a very wealthy person who gives a thousand dollars right Bill Gates gives Bill Gates there's more than a thousand dollars but Bill Getz give me a thousand dollars what do they say they say that um talk about the shears if Bill Gates would drop a thousand dollars on the floor it would not be economically worth his time to pick it up because the time that it takes to bend over and pick it up he would have he could have made much more money doing whatever it was he was doing left a thousand dollars go so Hashem looks at the sacrifice Hashem looks at the struggle and the gold and the silver and the Tequilas that the Jewish people gave as a result of their sacrifice and their suffering is much more beloved to God than that that came as a freebie right so these are three answers of the why we mentioned the Ave name at the end of the list although they were the most valuable but now I want to go backwards a little bit there is a famous famous sport I'm sure you you've heard it before that when Hashem commands Moshe to collect from binay Israel all of these donations so it says Israel speak to Bene Israel I truma they should take for me an offering so people asked Akasha Moshe is asking them to give Moshe might be taking Hashem should have said you should take but I'm speaking to you to donate to the Mishka so why would I use to say take for me a truma it shouldn't say trauma it should say the basically says a very very well-known you say beautiful you say that a person should feel that that which they give for holiness that's which they give for Casa that's which they give for sadaka they're not really giving they're taking they're getting much more than they're giving they shouldn't feel that they're sacrificing yeah they're giving something up but they're getting so much more than they're giving up this idea that when you give you really take it reminds me a little bit of a story the story is only peripherally related many years ago was engaged to a young woman and he took his collar to meet roughshak and uh if shark spoke to the camera for a few minutes and the comma said my only goal in life is that my husband should learn I am willing to make every sacrifice I'm willing to live on the floor I'm willing to live on bread and water I'm willing you know to to be to not have a house live outside anything I will sacrifice I will suffer I will struggle no matter what sounds good so the story goes this might be a story I don't know if it's true that when a shark talk to the bucker privately said break off the immediately because if her attitude is that this is suffering this is struggling I'm gonna be a martyr but I'm gonna do it that's not sustainable that's not going to last eventually people crack and they become embittered it should be the other way it shouldn't be I will suffer for this it should be who's suffering this is the purpose of life right surf shock said you have to have a positive attitude that promotional Feinstein once said again with a little hyperbole that the old Yiddish saying it it's hard to be a Jew he felt destroyed a whole generation of Jews in America this is the famous Lost Generation between World War one and World War II like you had before World War one you had the Russian and polish Jews who came most of them were from but they were living in poverty but they were religious and most of their children totally left that's kind of a Lost Generation after World War I mean we still have unfortunately we still have so many Jews that are lost but after World War II was the building of day schools the building of Yeshiva so things became much more stronger but between World War one and World War II the generation of Jewish kids that were born in those years there were some again some except some very great exceptions but most of them totally left yiddishkite even though their parents were from and ramosha said because the parents were conveying the idea that Judaism is so hard and indeed it was you know the idea of not finding a job if you didn't work go to work on Saturday you have to find a new job on on Monday and the poverty and the discrimination and the kids are growing up in a Land of freedom and they see what their parents are going through so they leave it but Dr of Moshe said if they would have absorbed the idea of the Simka of Judaism the simcha of Torah that you're getting more than you're giving up they would have had a different perspective and that's how important it is that we have to communicate to our children of course we can only communicate it to our children if we feel that way ourselves that's kind of the trick here that the joy of Torah the goodness of Torah and that goes back to this plastic the basilaves thought what you give is what you take so they tell a story and again some of these stories I I don't know if they're true uh that there was a gevir a rich guy who was from in Europe but he didn't give any stalker he didn't want to give anything uh to causes or whatever so all the Russia yeshivas never got us sent out of him but they say the altar of novartic the old man of Nevada so he's a very extreme person he was he locked himself up in a house for two years the Hermits whatever and he then he started 100 yeshivas out of Nevada was a very very extreme person and the altar of novartic was able to get money from it so the Russian ship has asked the altar in the writing what's your secret we can't get a Copic out of it so he says I'll tell you the difference in you and me he says you respect his wealth you walk into his Mansion you wipe your shoes of the mud uh you carefully hold your coat you don't throw your coat on the on the couch you convey to him your wealth is great your wealth is important you then ask him to give it up people don't like to give things up you're telling me to give up this wealth says I am different he says I have no respect for his wealth I track muds into his uh living room I put my feet on his table I convey to him you have nothing at all here but I got a deal for you I'm gonna give you a way in which you can turn this worthless wealth into something really great so I don't ask you to give I'm offering to give you something says well so people may not want to give but they're certainly happy to take so the difference is I come with the attitude that I'm giving you something you come with the attitude that you're asking him to give you something again in truth had this story been said about any other God all I I probably would not have believed it at all with the outer of noviardic it's shayak it's possible although I'm not sure I believe it either but it's in the realm of possibility knowing that the alternative articles tended to be very very extreme uh in many many matters in fact his whole thing was um a person should never ask if something is possible to be done or not they should just ask is it needed if it's needed you start doing it even if you think it's impossible that's not your husband it is only Hashem you have to decide what is good and what is needed you make no hushman at all if it's possible very impossible and indeed he established over a hundred yeshivas that survived during stalinist Russia the Holocaust ended many things but uh the only two things that continue to operate in a large scale uh in the darkness of the years of Stalin because they had their amazing courage so because he recognized just to mention what one particular peculiarity because he recognized that often people get inhibited by embarrassment or fear of failure he had special exercises teaches students not to be embarrassed so he would make them go into a grocery store and ask for nails or go into a tailor and ask for milk so what happens I go to a tailor and I say can you show me the milk so the Taylor says are you crazy this is a table show so you get used to being called crazy now you may say well why is that good he says that is good because when you have to carry things out and people call you crazy it's not going to bother you so much you're used to that idea he wanted to be Marvel then not to be embarrassed because that could then be used in very positive ways now suffice it to say that there were many Godzilla who thought this was crazy and they thought there was a little Hashem and the like so I'm not getting into it but but you see the altar of the verdict was a very very extreme person in this way and he was able to accomplish amazing amazing things because of it by the way he was um his um daughter married Robert Foyle shmuel Levitz who was the father of Christ so the greater of crimes beloveds the Shiva of a mainstream Miri Yeshiva was the grandson of the altar of of Nevada so um it got kind of modified also had some of that tremendous passion that the altar of Nevada can okay um so finally I just want to want to end with uh a story about the funny picture of that part of building a mishkan requires collaboration it requires actus it requires that we all do it together one of the meanings of the half shekel all right why is the donation a half shuttle not a whole shekel because a half is incomplete unless you connect it to another half and therefore part of the mishkan message is the inner interdependence that all of us needs so here I just want to again share with you just different stories a beautiful beautiful story about the funny picture of was quite an amazing person uh he was Nifty I think in 1968. and I still remember this in 1968 giving away my age I was a ninth grader in their Israel and I just got into the Yeshiva a few months before and the whole Yeshiva gets assembled because revertraman my roshishiva who knew the partnership was a friend of the planet of was going to give a eulogy and it was all in Yiddish I didn't really know what was going on and I was sitting there and I was I was you know falling asleep and I was a Yiddish a Yiddish husband and all of a sudden I saw something that I have never seen before and I have never seen since then all of a sudden he said all of us have to sit on the ground I had never seen that I've never seen that little body that he said we have to get off our seats we have to sit on the ground to be missabel over the Punjab now the point of which you rub was the rav of panovic which was in Lithuania and Lithuania had 800 rabbanim 799 of them were murdered by the Nazis he literally was the only literature RAV of a kahila I mean there were other he was the only literature of a kahila that survived the Holocaust and as a result he was obsessed with the idea of why did God give me life and he knew he had a mission his mission was to rebuild Torah in many many many many ways was not the only one that he did he did many yeshivas he did hospitals he did orphanages I did soup kitchens he did stuck on most of us basicos girls schools Kindergartens elementary schools one of the great great Builders of Torah and as a result he spent a lot of his time traveling all over the world and he once said that his biggest sacrifice for Chloe Israel our all of this forum that he could have written but he gave it up because he said this was his mission in life the satma ready once said back in 1968 I think shortly before the brother Fitzgerald died when they had the moon uh launching so people were discussing could there be intelligent life on other planets the Moon Mars so the South murabbi said the scientist I'm not a scientist but I know for sure there is no intelligent life on other planets because if there would be intelligent life on other planets the planet that you have would be raising money there and if he didn't get to Mars there's nothing there that's what he said something already said it so the Punisher of um was an unusual personality because he was a godobitorah but he's also warm and kind and and funny and had a wealth of stories from so many levels of experience so every person could talk to him you could be a great Russia Shiva and you could talk to him in learning and you could be a simple person and you would joke to joke with you about different things that were going on kind of a man of the people because of that he happened to be very successful in fundraising because he was able to connect to everybody so The Story Goes that uh one day he came to Chicago and in those days the before Jets to fly from here to South to Chicago even if there was a direct flight I don't know if there was would be something like 25 hours or 30 hours would be a really really long schlep much much slower than today and he came every year and he got a lot of money and one time when he came from a novartika Yeshiva in benebraack came at the same time who would also make his trip and of course he only made a fraction of what the planet Victor of made and when he saw the benefit giraffe walk in the same day that he walked in he turned white because he realized this isn't going to be a good day for me because the part of if you rub is going to get everything I'm gonna get nothing but then he figured okay listen so today I'm not going to collect money today I'm going to sit I'm going to listen I'm going to be inspired I'm going to hear tiger I'm going to hear her joke I'm going to remind him so he just resolved I'm going to be a spectator and learn from a garden so he sits and upon a picture of tells stories and tells jokes and tells Torah and tells Muslim and inspires and his mahasek people and people are pulling out their checkbooks and they're gonna write everything and at the end of the speech the funny picture of Ezra both sides such an honor to talk to you it'soka schmuck but I just want to tell you there's a very who also has a wonderful wonderful Yeshiva and I just ask you that whatever you were going to give me please give it to him because this is also something that's very very important and valuable so suffice it to say that the novartic mashola did much better than they ever did he really got much much more than ever so he went over to the point of it you're up and he said you know Rabbi I'm so so grateful but I don't get it you took a 30-hour trip to get to Chicago and you're not young yeah was already old the trip was not easy for him and you just gave away all of the money so the funny picture I've said I don't know what you mean give it away you and I am using more modern language we're on the same team he says if this is enough money so let's say 20 people could learn for a week he says why do I care if the 20 people are in the panovic based Madras or the 20 people on the novartic-based metrics the point is this is for Total Learning this is for God's work there's no me and I here it's all for Hashem now this is an extremely rare attitude even among Russia Davis because everybody has a certain proprietary interest in the particular thing that they're establishing but he didn't all that matters is that this goes for Torah this goes for Kita shashem this goes for good things I don't care if it's me or it's you we're on the same team we're not competing with each other in that way and that's again that is emblematic of the notion of interdependence of the Marx we all need each other we got to work together now there is actually a more modern day counterpart from thousands to be Finkel of mere exactly the same way uh you know he had Parkinson's for many many years but he continued to travel tremendously great courage in doing this and he would collect money and then he'd speak in Baltimore he'd speak in Lakewood he'd speak to an average in Lakewood he would give him the money he said oh you need it so as a result I understand that Mir made a made them always go with somebody who took the body meaning someone gave the money it into the hands of the representative to be sure that it wasn't diverted but his own sheeta was it's not my Yeshiva it's hashem's Torah that's the only thing we should care about and that's a wonderful thing the idea that um we don't have a proprietary interest that it got to be me in any way the main thing is that God's name be elevated God's name be be Sanctified so again I want to wish everybody a code stove and especially Mr nicknam everybody [Music]