Each Week's Parshat Has proof that Torah is divine. (5 minutes)
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0:30The Chazal say, you know, in this week's Parashat Terumah, we get instructions from Hashem about different keilim, different tools, that we're going to use for the Beit HaMikdash, and that we used in the desert, and obviously for the Beit HaMikdash later on. The Menorah, the Aron HaKodesh, and so on. The Chazal say the Menorah was 2,400 ounces of pure gold, and it was made from one solid gold nugget.
1:30in their house for Yom HaShishi, what are you learning from it, really? The Menorah had a few more details that we don't usually pay attention to, from which I learn a lot. Maybe you can too. If you notice the picture of the Menorah, the Torah gives a few descriptions. First off, it has a base. The base, again, as we said, the whole thing is one piece of gold. This represents how Am Yisrael, whether they're religious or not religious, whether they love God or they don't, are all connected as one. where they fear God as they should, or they think they actually love Him. Whatever level they are on, whether they play with a laser, or they sit down and listen to a shiur at 10 o'clock at night, we're all part of the same nation. That's why there's one piece. Whether we like it or not, we're part of the same soul, the same original soul. But what about the rest of the pieces? There are four other pieces that are very interesting. First off is the base. Then, there's something called the branch, which in Hebrew is a kaneh. There's something called the branch, which in Hebrew is a kaneh. If you look at a picture of a menorah, the kaneh is like the loop, that piece, stiff like a branch. Then, at the top of the menorah, there are essentially two things. One is called a knop, or kaphtor.
2:59And then there's the last piece which holds the oil, which is called Perach, or flower. So, I thought of something interesting about this. The base is like this world. All of us are a product of this world. Someone's religious, not religious, Baal Teshuva, from birth, Chassidic, Ashkenazi, Sephardic, Yemenite, all byproducts of the world, just like you have all of these kaneh, all these branches coming out of this base. The branch that comes out of it, for the most part, is am k'she oref, a stubborn nation. We're stubborn, we're stiff, just like the branch. The nab, What else has a knob? A door. The knob is the kiruv people. The knob is the rabbis. The knob is the people that actually care to help others do teshuva, help people stay close to Hashem. They're trying to open the door of Torah to people that don't know better. People like me. And the flower is the byproduct. It's the outcome.
4:24It's what happens to the branch. A branch, strong, but it's useless. The point of the branch is ultimately the flower. Every one of us is a byproduct of this world. Every one of us is going to have our own life, have our own decisions, have our own ambitions. The only thing I can suggest for any one of you is that if you are ever in need, to get closer to Hashem, He's going to send you someone. He's going to send you a nisayon (test or challenge). And if you listen, you're going to turn into a tzaddik (righteous person) or a ba'al teshuva (a person who returns to Jewish observance). Baruch Adonai le'olam.
