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Rabbi Moshe Haber Perashat Beha’alotecha: The Flame of Dedication 6.5.26 · Rabbi Moshe Haber - Daily Mussar/Weekly Perasha

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  And it's kind of right at the Pasadena.
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  So, so there's like we discussed on Wednesday night in that
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  class. So there's many different parts
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  of this part shot and they all seem unrelated.
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  So I just tell you the Ford open up one.
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  We talk about the Manila for a second.
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  Then we talk about the preparation of the Levine for
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  service and how they get prepared, which is very strange,
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  actually very interesting process.
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  And then we talk about moving do Pesa Cheney and then we talk
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  about moving to traveling in the mid barn.
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  You seem all unrelated and this foreigner writes, he says these
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  four things all carry 1 trait and then we'll analyze some of
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  them and that is they carry a trait of city zoos.
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  I'm yourself being very dedicated to the service of
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  Hashem in different ways. And why is that necessary?
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  He says because these 4 aspects of the Jewish people, I don't I
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  believe he brings. I don't regarding the bar.
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  There's a being regarding the service like you mentioned the
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  the travel and beforehand I was dealing with Pesacheni.
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  They all four representative Zook and he says that they were
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  all were going to build a merit for the Jewish people to be
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  going to AIDS and sale easily. We were this close to walking
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  right a couple of days away to walk right in.
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  Then everything went haywire with the complaining and the
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  spies and next to Prasha and the complaining already and this is
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  Prasha and took everything off the rails.
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  But technically speaking, these 4 aspects were for
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  representation of Jewish people and I was rizzuta a shame
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  because of that. Zuzu literally means alacrity
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  and motivation and this form and means excitement and service of
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  a shame. And if you look at the
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  underlying root of these different examples, they all
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  carry that. They all carry excitement.
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  For example, I don't with the Manera what happened where she
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  says that Lazy's by a shot at the end in the seam were told
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  about bringing sacrifices to inaugurate the misbehah.
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  They all brought different sacrifice to represent their
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  tribe, each not CBH tribe. And now I don't felt bad because
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  not him or his tribe, they did not have a sacrifice.
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  They did not have the ability to enorgate them as Bear felt bad.
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  Why did the tribe of I don't not have that ability to enorgate
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  them Bear? Well, the reason they don't have
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  the ability to do so is because they're bigger than that.
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  They're the Kwani, they're the beam.
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  They're much better than that. Didn't matter.
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  They felt bad. I know I don't felt bad
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  actually. And because of that he was told
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  about his job in lighting them in the eye and other people in
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  the dash, the Mishkan. And that was based on his
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  interest in serving God. He was given a task to serve
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  Hashem. And that was for him an example
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  of the Zilizut of dedication, the willingness and the rather
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  the the interest and the need to find a way to serve Hashem.
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  That was his Zilizut. I redo the swano inside.
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  Why I say it overwhelming. That's if I have it.
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  Yeah, he says like this Sipara katuf Alva mazin tovim.
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  So I want to tell you 4 good actions Shah Sui said that the
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  Jews were doing. Shah Baham is a holy.
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  With these 4 deeds we were on our way to go into the land of
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  Israel immediately without even needing to lift up our one
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  single finger to fight Bilty Mukhama without any fight.
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  Lulu Ahmad Ali, Without the sin of the spies we would have gone
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  right in #1 Rishana sipar Hanukkah Tamasbeh.
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  The first example was the service of the Naseem last week
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  of bringing Kobano to inaugurate them asbeh and then our own
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  continuing with Lion manera also as the Hanukkah of the mishkan
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  #2 Shanit Shizu Tam Binyan Henuka Levine.
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  The preparation of the Levine to be ready to be servants of our
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  shamanes bear also a dedication #3 Corbana Pesar, as you
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  mentioned, pesar de Shanit, people who wanted to serve for
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  Corbana pesar who were found to be Thaman, unable to serve the
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  first pesar on the right time. They have a story that they
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  would give me a makeup tape, serve on a liberty.
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  And 4th, the fact that the Jewish people followed Hashem in
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  the mid bar and the basuk tells us that they followed God
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  wherever God would say to go. They went following Hashem
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  without any questions and any debates and any complaining.
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  These are 4 examples of dedication of Hashem.
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  And these all were going to lead us straight into the land
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  without any issues. And then we started to complain.
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  That's the process, right? And complaining took the entire
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  thing off of the rails as we know these.
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  In fact, there's a question on these four points in the
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  beginning of Pasha. They're not in order and not
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  really in the same order. So why is it that I bring them?
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  Didn't happen? They didn't happen in the same
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  quarter. So why would the Tara bring one
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  after the other? And this is the answer.
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  So now I want to show you 4 examples of our people showing
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  excitement and love to Hashem and following His way and loving
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  His mitzvoth. And because I want to show us
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  that it says all four together. But then, like we said,
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  everything went different when we started to complain.
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  Let's analyze the first one for now.
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  When you light the minera, when you light the minera, you should
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  know you're lighting toward the center.
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  What exactly is she says these words.
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  It's a word for the flame coming upward.
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  Katuv. It doesn't say the word when you
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  light the Manila, which I should say it says instead when you
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  elevate the candle, ha Allah means when you let the flame
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  rise. Why are you using that language?
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  Why don't you use a simple language when you light the
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  Manila? We're talking about the fact
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  that Arun was given the task as a kohan to light the Manana
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  Mishkan. Why are we using that language
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  when you let the flame rise? It should be when you light.
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  Classic question. What's the answer?
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  Says Rashi. Because the requirement is that
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  you only fulfill the mitzvah of lighting up Manila when the
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  flame rises on its own. Which means if you take a match
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  and put it up against that Wick in the mid bethemitage and you
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  through your connection, the flame rises.
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  But if you would pull away that match, the flame would fall
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  apart. Flame would you know, full go go
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  away. That means you didn't really
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  light it properly, and that's not to fill in the mitwal of
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  lighting. It has to be Hala.
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  Ah, Hala means it goes on its own it when you take it away,
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  when you take away the source, it's still rising.
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  Fine. It's still going fine.
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  I don't think you have anything fair question.
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  I don't think so. It's funny album and the not the
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  same the different numbers, different amounts.
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  I don't know, it's a good question.
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  So it has to be when it comes to the bed, to mikdash, shall I
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  have it? Or Allah, may Allah, that the
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  flame is rising on its own. Good.
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  That's the halaha. That's why we use the word
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  halaha not to use now use the word light.
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  And we all know the lesson. What's the lesson in this ideal?
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  You can imagine the lesson in life.
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  Any one of us, for any one of our children, we all tried to
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  give them the right influence, the right direction, the right
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  frame of mind. But beyond that, our hope is
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  that they're rising on their own, which means way after or in
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  their ear and way after, even when we're not able to tell them
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  everything and guide them every way.
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  We're not able to discipline every manner.
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  Our whole business is they're rising on their own, which
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  basically means our impression and our input and our guidance
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  back then will carry them themselves throughout their life
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  and throughout the future. That is literally the idea of
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  allow them to be elevated on their own.
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  You can, you know, talk to them all you want and you can control
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  them all you want, but one day they can be on their own.
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  And our job is that at that point they're still rising
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  because they have enough of the right mindset.
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  The other two go. That's power one.
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  And then about strokes is about to bring it out.
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  El Mool Panama, all the candles are facing toward the center.
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  All facing toward the center. What is the idea of that?
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  Why having all the candles faced toward the middle?
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  Why didn't Hashem structure them that at the opposite way?
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  I don't talk to this right? So the theme again a message.
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  What do you think the theme is? Or she says 1 might believe that
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  when I'm lying in the Manila and God's Mishkan, I'm doing it for
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  the Mishkan to have light. God needs a good electrician and
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  he needs good light. So he asked me to light the
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  Manila and I don't is being told it's not what you're doing.
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  You're not giving Hashem's room light.
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  He doesn't need our light. He has miraculous light, doesn't
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  need our help. We make it face inward on
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  purpose so that we realize it's not done for Hashem's sake, it's
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  done for the mitzvah's sake. And even better, it's done
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  inward for our own sake. Which means lighting the menorah
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  is really for ourselves. It's not for Hashem, where if
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  you were doing it for Hashem's sake to light up the building,
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  you would have done it our you're doing inward, which
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  basically means I'm lighting for myself, I'm lighting for the
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  mitzvah, I'm not lighting for God, I'm lying for myself.
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  And that's also part of your message when you are, like we
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  said, lighting the flame of your children, of your family, part
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  of the message is this is for yourselves, this is good for
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  you. This is this benefits your life
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  and your future. And that's the idea of the
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  minrah. Lastly, the message of the
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  Minrah Azza Basuk says it has to be Miksha Miksha me, that's one
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  brick of gold. I was thrown into a fire.
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  Different medahashim. Why?
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  It started off as one brick of gold?
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  Why is it 1 brick? Why can't it be the The mineral
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  has many intricate pots. It has different fruits shapes
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  on it, different cups on it, different arms.
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  It's the most separated killi of all killi.
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  All the other vessels in the Mishkan are literally like, you
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  know, the mineral, sorry, the Aron and the sukhan.
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  The mana has so many different intricate details and then we're
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  telling you at the same time it's got to be 1 block.
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  What's the message of this idea? The message and the symbolism is
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  pretty clear. The Jewish people, we all have
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  different ways of life and we're not all trying to be the same.
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  That's a mistake. The belief that we all need to
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  be the same is a mistake. We are all different.
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  That's perfectly fine. But at its core, the person
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  needs to have this feeling of all being one, this mindset of I
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  don't need to look at someone who lives life differently than
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  me and therefore believe that he's off.
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  And he doesn't need to look at me and think I'm off.
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  That's not the approach. The approach is we can do
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  different things to have one core.
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  We can have different tracks but have one belief and that's
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  perfectly fine. There's nothing wrong with that.
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  When someone gets bothered and they watch someone who lives
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  life not exactly their way 'cause they have different men,
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  I gim and they do things differently and they therefore
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  get upset. You're looking at the Torah the
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  wrong way. The Torah has the ability to
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  have, as we know, Shivim Panima Torah, 70 different forms to the
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  same Torah. That means you can take 1 basuk
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  and there are at least 70 different Peshawar team.
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  There are way more than that, different explanations and you
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  have to say although there are different tracks, you'll have
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  one core. Although there are different
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  branches, we have one base and that is something that actually
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  leads to more Shalom. People believe that Shalom is
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  everyone doing the same thing. That's not Shalom.
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  Shalom is everyone being OK with others doing different things
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  are being good with it. That's Shalom.
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  And so you have three different symbolisms from the Manila One,
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  when you light it, it needs to be going up on its own.
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  That's how we say if our children and those who learn
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  from us and they need to be able to carry our weight way after
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  we're able to be in their ear even in situations that we
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  cannot guide them and discipline them.
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  Part 1 #2 We say it's all facing inward, which means that the
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  main purpose of lighting and doing them at Spa is for itself
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  and for ourselves and not for God's sake, basically helping
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  us. And thirdly, this idea that it
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  could be 1 brick, 1 block of gold, which means we are all
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  those who are 1 entity with different branches and different
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  makeups. That's a major message from
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  Almond and I as well, just to give you and just jump for
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  another part of the Pasha and another important symbolism.
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  I wanted to tell you, I don't know what it was that's in a
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  different area is that we right after this, we have, like we
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  said, the inauguration of the preparation of the Levine and
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  the way the Levine were prepared to serve in the Mishkan was
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  actually very interesting. They were they were at the
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  shave, all the hair and the body and then they had to be waved.
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  It was a whole process. And the pasuk uses the words
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  right after talking about the Manali, Pasuk uses the words
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  kakheta Levine, Hashem tells Moshe, take the Levine and
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  prepare them for service. What's kakh?
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  What does it mean? Take them physically, take them,
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  write to Rashi Kikam, take them BID de varim, which means you're
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  about to give them a major job of service.
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  Convince them that they should be ready to serve in the
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  Mishkan. What do you mean convince?
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  What about to convince, right. So she a very important concept.
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  Anytime someone is taking on a new role, anytime someone is
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  being elevated to a new status, on the one hand, they're being
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  given a major impressive job and becoming a major leader, it's
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  great. On the other hand, they need
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  convincing. What does that mean?
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  Convincing. Convincing means they're really
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  about to face a lot of challenge and they're about to face
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  something that they really want turned down.
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  And you need to tell them that although it seems like it's a
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  difficult job to be a servant of Hashem, and it seems like a
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  difficult process, convince them that it's worth, Convince them
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  that it's good for them. Convince them that they're
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  having an impact. And I think it's also another
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  message in the same theme, which is people look at our situation.
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  A person could look at a person could look at being a leader and
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  this scenario, Levy can look and say, I don't want this.
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  Why I want the schedule, why I want this job, why I want this,
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  You know, it's it's a dangerous job.
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  If I make a mistake, I'm I'm to blame for it.
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  I don't want it. Kahama dividing means convince
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  them that it's overall better for you and better for our
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  people for you to have this mission.
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  It's it's a flow right into the law of the Manila, the law of
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  Inorgan. The levium is an understanding
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  that this is better for you. I'll read the words of Rashi,
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  then we'll close. But she says take them and
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  convince them with words before you give them their task as
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  becoming Olivia. Tell them you're lucky.
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  School liott Shim Shim le Macron, you're lucky.
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  You're going to be able to serve Hashem.
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  We have a similar thing when Moshe Rabino appointed, you'll
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  show up in noon to replace him. Or she had to also convince him,
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  convince giving him the greatest job of all time.
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  No, no, no, don't allow him to be fooled by being excited at
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  the prominence he realizes. Let him realize that there's
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  difficulty involved in this job. There's challenge, there's time
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  challenges, family challenge, there's different issues of
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  sacrifice. But at the same time, I said at
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  the same time, you're lucky, you're lucky, you're in this
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  position. And that's the same, like we
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  said, the theme connecting from the law of the Minara over to
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  this, which is every person needs to realize and there's
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  service of Hashem. That's a beautiful thing.
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  Same way the minara service of Hashem, it's going inward.
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  It's for our sake. So too, when you're giving
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  Levine the task of serving Hashem, convince them, let them
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  realize that they're lucky in this role.
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  And that's overall our mindset. There has to be the consummates.
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  What is there a sacrifice involved?
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  Yes. Is it a definitely difficult?
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  Of course, it's difficult, but we're lucky.
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  We're lucky to be in the position.
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  We're lucky to have his life. We're lucky to have these
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  mitzvahs, even if they seem like they cost and they take time and
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  they take effort and they in a certain sense, you know, to
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  allow us to do everything we want to do and they hold us
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  back. We're lucky to be in the
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  position. Ashrafen same when it comes to
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  Minara. So when it comes to Levine.
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  And so when I went on to the Korbampa Sarshani and all these
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  different things, and that was the perspective of Amisal
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  originally, and that's what made us grow.
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  Then the perspective changed when they began to complain and
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  that's what made things go downhill.
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  And that mindset has to be clear.
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  I'm lucky to be in this position and I'm thankful to be in this
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  position. That's the idea.