God Sees What Youre Doing With Your Money

0:01whatever your free choice when it comes to money, give whatever your heart desires, but don't think that I'm not watching. Who tells us here that, yes, He gave you money? As the Gemara both tell us that He decides on Rosh Hashanah how much money each and every single one of us is going to get for that year. So, He gave you money this year and last year and the year before, and all the years that you've lived, He gave you different amounts of money. But you now need to know how to manage it. You can't just decide to go against the God that gave you the money. therefore we need to understand who is the god of money. Hashem told us don't go after the money to the point where you turn it into a god. Hashem told us don't go and use that money that He gave you and turn it into a god by violating the Torah.

1:27tells us about the Mishkan. How is that going to help us about money? The first starts where Hashem says, "Take for me a donation." How is this going to help me? Look at what happens after Hashem says we got some donors. We got some donors from Am Yisrael; each one gives whatever his heart desires. give whatever your free choice when it comes to money, give whatever your heart desires, but don't think that I'm not watching. When we get them in a lot—oh, we have some technical difficulties here—when we get to the menorah, after we've gotten this money, we got the donations.

2:29can go out there and get some gold, start putting some things together. Who told them we have to do the menorah? It is one of them, and the details of the menorah are extraordinary. Who says, "Make me a menorah like a..." world expert designer, it has to have these flowers and these buttons, kaftorim, and these specific knobs and decorative cups and branches, and it has to have designs on them. Oh, and by the way, it's about three and a half tons of gold. and all of the gold has to be a single piece, meaning you have to take a huge amount of gold, melt it all together into one big piece, and now mold it, like people do with clay, into this menorah

3:49Hammer it out and make this giant piece of three tons worth of gold into the most beautiful menorah the world has ever seen from a single piece. Moshe Rabbeinu wants to do the will of Hashem; that's why he's there. But he tells Hashem, "I can't do it." have no idea. I don't even know how to do what You want me to do. I don't even know what it will look like. Hashem says, "No problem, I'll show you," and He shows him an image of the menorah. Now, Moshe is even more scared. He says to Hashem, "That for sure I can't do. I don't have the skills to make these knobs and these flowers and these cups. I have no idea how to do this." Hashem says, "No worries, Moshe." you got the gold, get the gold, put it all together, throw it in the fire. I'll take care of the rest. Moshe gets the gold that people donated, puts it into the fire, and lo and behold, Hashem shows him how this gold transformed into the most beautiful Menorah you could possibly imagine.

5:16But he says, Moshe, you did it. Now between you and I, Moshe didn't do it. The Torah itself says Moshe didn't do it. But HaKadosh Baruch Hu doesn't lie. He says, Moshe, you did it. Why is Hashem saying this? says don't turn money into God. Don't go into businesses that take the money that I gave you and make you look like you've turned money into God. Even if you say you have it, you want to know how to treat money? Look at my dear Moshe Rabbeinu. What did Moshe Rabbeinu do? He put the gold in there. Who gave him the gold? Am Yisrael gave him the gold. He had some gold. Everybody put some gold together. But who gave them the gold? I gave them the gold. And then they took part of the gold that I gave them and they said, okay, we're going to give a piece. We're going to give a piece for the sake of the mitzvot. Then Moshe Rabbeinu just pushes this giant piece of gold into the fire.

6:45What a fire it was. Then I made it into a menorah, but since Moshe Rabbeinu was the messenger that desired to do the will of Hashem, you know what? I said he did it. And that's how you know that Moshe Rabbeinu was the ultimate leader in every aspect, even in teaching us how to manage money. When Moshe Rabbeinu is teaching us here, if you understand what HaKadosh Baruch Hu is trying to tell us, you'll understand how to manage money. If you think that your idea, your talent, your job, your customer, your fortune, your... simply good deeds are what made you money. You, my dear friend, have turned different things into the god of money. But if you understand that HaKadosh Baruch Hu tells us:

8:03We call it to mind that the Chachamim are very careful to specify. Bikurim, to my understanding, is in essence HaKadosh Baruch Hu telling us He is the God of money. He is the God of money. There is no other God. He is the God of money, and the Chachamim teach us very carefully and precisely that HaKadosh Baruch Hu cannot ever be. cannot ever be described as one who is receiving anything from us because everything is His. The entire world belongs to HaKadosh Baruch Hu. And therefore, the Chachamim say, in essence, you're bringing an offering, you're bringing a donation in front of Me, not to Me

9:04So why does this matter to Me? Because when you are using the gift that I gave you, the money that I gave you, the salvation that I gave you, in order to make more mitzvot, in order to sanctify My name, in order to publicize My name and My Torah, that means that you believe in Me, not only as the God that created the heaven and the earth, not only as the God that can help you when you have no other choice, but you also believe in Me to the point where you know that I am the God of money, where you know that Moshe Rabbeinu, he did is show that he wants to do the will of Hashem, and therefore Hashem says, "You showed that you want to do the will of Hashem; I'll do everything." You show that you want to do something in business. You want to go make a sale. You want to go build a company. You want to go make money. HaKadosh Baruch Hu says, no problem. I'll make the money. I'll send you the customer. I'll make the idea that you had work out. I'll give you the idea. I'll give you the money that will transfer into your account. I'll do everything.

10:30You just show that you want to do something, and I'll actually do it. Now, how do you know that a person believes that HaKadosh Baruch Hu is the one and only God, including the God of money? When you take the money that HaKadosh Baruch Hu gave you and you realize HaKadosh Baruch Hu gave me 100% of my money. HaKadosh Baruch Hu gave me 100% of my house. HaKadosh Baruch Hu gave me 100% of my life. who gave me 100% of my wife, who gave me 100% of my kids, who gave me 100% of everything that I have. When I’m giving 10% of the money that I have, the income that I’m getting, to publicize His name, I’m not giving Him anything. Everything is His. He's the one that gave me. All I'm doing is taking 10% of the 100% that He gave me and showing Him, I know You gave it to me. And I want other people to know that You gave it to me. And, in fact, I want other people to know that You give it to them too.

11:52I want other people to know that You are the God of money. I want other people to know that You are the God that gives us everything. So I'm going to take the money that You gave me and use it to go and publicize Your name so more people can know the same beautiful lesson that I learned from Moshe Rabbeinu. Trying. to do the will of Hashem by putting this menorah together, but admitting that he simply cannot. And then HaKadosh Baruch Hu says, I know you can't, but I wanted to teach you a lesson that everything you do in reality, I did it, but I'm going to put it in your name. Why? You had the willpower to do it. You wanted to do it. So I'll put your name on it. The question is, what do you want to do? Is your will the will of Hashem, or is your will the will of a different god? Perhaps you've turned yourself into a god.

13:11You know what you did to him? What did you do to him? What did you do to him? Everyone, do what you can for yourself. Give us the name to do all our rights. Give us the name of our God. Good for us all the days. Oh, oh.