Parsha: Vayakhel Pekudei - Golden Talents

0:00This partial podcast is dedicated in honor of, and for the success of, no, I'm Yitzhak Manchlomi, may you succeed and flourish in all that he does. I also want to dedicate this partial podcast for the protection of our brethren in the Holy Land, and of course for the protection of the U.S. service men and women that are in harm's way in war, in a most justified of wars, and we hope and pray that that success in all of their efforts, and they succeed in, please God, toppling, hopefully, this terrible horrific barbaric terrorist regime, and we hope to witness a peace in our times. I'm planning to get into some trouble in this edition of the partial podcast. Yes, I'm going to stir the pot. I can feel it already, but I think I'm safe, because I have this theory that,

1:00a large percentage of the listenership, they listen for 30 minutes, 35, 40 minutes. So I'm going to put the controversy all the way at the end, and most of y'all won't hear it, and you won't even know where we're going with this partial podcast. The majority of y'all will have tuned out by then. We'll be safe. A few weeks ago, I told you that, please stop. We're going to be running our annual campaign soon. It's scheduled to start, please God, next week. And I asked for some help with the naming steam. Should we do wave the torch? Should we do tindle the torch? Should we do spark the torch? I got a lot of feedback. RabbiWolfHima.com. And a few of the listeners suggested a new name. And when my colleagues heard this, they loved it. They fell in love. To fuel the torch.

2:00So please God, we will have an opportunity to fuel the torch, next week, stay tuned. You'll have the opportunity to partner with us, to support us, and to ensure that the great work of torch is well-fueled and will continue strong in 2026. It's a double-parsha, vajakel, and percude. This is the first double-parsha in this year's cycle. Next year's, we have more parsha's than we have shoppuses that are eligible to read from the Torah. Of course, we don't read from the weekly parsha schedule during festivals. And most years, we don't have an extra month, we don't have a leap year. And therefore, the maximum number of parsha eligible shoppuses in a given year is 54. And that's why the number of parshaos that we have is 54 as well. And it's extremely rare to have zero double parshaos, because even when there is a leap

3:00year, yet for its sweets, still there's always a festival of a Rosh Hashanar, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Pesach, Passover, Shavuot, and so on, that eliminates some shoppuses from reading the Torah, meaning we read the torch, not from the regular cycle. So most years, we have multiple double parshaos. This year's not a leap year, so we're going to have five or six of them. Stay tuned. This is the first one, Viyakil and Patrudai, the final two parsha installments of the book of Exodus. And in this week's parshaos, we read about the implementation phase of the Tabernacle. The Tabernacle has been the dominant subject of the latter part of the book of Exodus. And up until this point, Moshe has been receiving instruction from God. And now Moshe is communicating to the nation what God told him.

4:03Viyakil Moshe and Moshe gathered the entire congregation of the Israelites and he instructed them about the Tabernacle and what they can contribute towards this effort. And he prefaces his words by saying, the work can only be done during the six days of the week on Shabbos. None of the work of the Tabernacle can be done. The Tabernacle is the epitome of man's creative capacity. I say this to tell us that the Tabernacle is like a mini replica miniature world. And not just any world, a world in which God can dwell as it were. This symbolizes the absolute apogee of human creativity. And therefore it's important to surrender to God and to note that ultimately we have no creative capacity. And therefore once a week we cease doing any creative work.

5:07And everything that seems to be done for the Tabernacle is a definition of creative work and it is forbidden on the Shabbos. Moshe, after telling us about the Shabbos, lists the fifteen different items needed for the Tabernacle, for its vessels, for its vestiments. This is an identical list found in the beginning of Parshasturuma, God told Moshe, now Moshe is telling the nation, we have three metals and five fabrics. And two skins, the Tachastins and the reddened ram skins, a wood, an oil, a spices, and two types of stones, the Avne Showham, the Showham stones, and the Avne Milouim stones. And Moshe talks about who's going to build it. You will have Bitsallo and Ahali Av. These are the two leaders of the effort. Bitsallo is the leader, Ahali Av is his lieutenant, and all the wise-hearted volunteers.

6:13People who have wisdom in their heart, they can join the effort in helping Bitsallo and Ahali Av build the Tabernacle and all that goes in it. Why are they described the volunteers as those who have wisdom in their heart? We think of wisdom in the mind, right? You're wise, you're intelligent, you're a brainiac, why is it called wisdom of the heart? So I saw a very interesting comment in Rabaynabakhaya. He cites a very short book called Safer Yitzira, the book of formation or the book of creation. This book tells you how to create Genesis. Like if you wanted to do it, how would you do it? It's attributed to Abraham, Abraham's the author, at least according to some of our sages. The book is very short and wholly entirely impenetrable to us.

7:18But the book talks about the 32 pathways of wondrous wisdom. In Hebrew, the word for heart is lave or leve, which is the Lamid, 30, a bet, two. So when it says wise-hearted, they have wisdom in their heart, in their 32, it's a way of saying. They are filled with all of the 32 pathways of wisdom. They knew how to create the world. Indeed, the creation of the tabernacle mirrors and mimits the creation of the world at large. It is a miniature world. Tama tells us, but Sallal knew how to combine the letters through which God created the world. If you're going to create a miniature world, you need to know how to create the world at large. And all these volunteers, they also had some degree of wisdom in their heart.

8:18Moshe releases the people and they get to work. They respond to Moshe's fundraising call with great vigor. The men brought gold, the women brought gold, their vessels, their jewelry, who have had wool, various types of wool, various types of fabrics and stints. They brought it silver, copper, wood, all the things that are needed for the tabernacle. The princes, the heads of the tribes, they brought those precious stones, the maloom stones and the shoham stones and the oil. If you take a look at the list, we have identical lists at the beginning of Parshastrumah, Ghatalimosha, at the beginning of Parshastvayakra, Moshe Talindanesha. And now we see the nations actually doing it. There's one of the fifteen items that the nation does not bring. The spices, apparently no one brought the spices.

9:23Now it's interesting, in Lassi's Parshastrum, Moshe was told, chapter 30, verse 23, Moshe on what you to bring the spices for the anointing oil. And then in chapter 30, verse 34, Ghatalimosha, I want you to bring the spices for the Ktauras for the incense. And it's a question the cometaries wrestle with. If Moshe is going to bring the spices, why are they included in the original list? The fifteen items that are solicited from the public when it gets it soon. Moshe introduces the leaders of this operation to the nation, Bitsala, son of Uri, son of Khurt, the tribe of Judah, Ahaliyah, Benachisamach, tribe of Dan, and in chapter 36, they begin to build. But Salah's leader, Ahaliyah is his lieutenant, and all these wise-hearted people, whose

10:27hearts are filled with wisdom, they begin to do the work. They make the covers of the tabonactual, the cover cold-mished and the cover cold-ohel, the other cover or other covers, different opinions. The reddened ramstins, the tachashstins, they make the beams, exactly as God instructed Moshe. With the bottom of the beams, they have the two prongs that went to the silver sockets, and they made the horizontal bars that go on the side of the beams. And the Breachatichon, the middle beam that snates through the middle part of the vertical beams. Chapter 37, they make the ark, exactly how God command the Moshe. This wood is played with gold, three nested boxes, they make the caporas, the cover, the cherubs, the table, the shulkhun, with all its accurments, the menorah, with all its embellishments, the golden altar upon which they burned the incense, the anointing oil,

11:32and the incense itself, Chapter 38, they make the outer altar, the one that they offer sacrifices upon. They make the tea or the laver, the courtyard, the curtains. All the plans laid out to Moshe in Parshastrumah, Parshastatsava, half of Parshastisah, are now being implemented. Parshast Pakuday, this is the second half of our double-header. It starts off with the grand accounting. This is the accounting, the audit of the Mishtun, of the Tabernacle, Mishtan Haidus, the Tabernacle of Testimony, and all the commentaries observe. It says, A. Leppit Kuday, that's the name of the Parshastrumah, this is the accounting, Ha Mishtun of the Mishtun of the Tabernacle, Mishtun, it says Mishtun twice. So Rashi asked the question, Mishtun asked the question, why does it say Mishtun, Mishtun,

12:34Tabernacle, Tabernacle? You know why, it says the Mishtrush, because there are actually two Tabernacles. Yes, there's one here below, and there's one Tabernacle in heaven. And I recently saw in the writings of Ramchal that the Tabernacle or the temple in heaven does not function properly, so long as the Tabernacle, the temple below does not function. If our temple is defunct, the temple in heaven also does not operate properly. We're hoping for redemption. We're hoping for the day where the temple is rebuilt, and Jerusalem. And that's going to be liberation day for us. Our souls are going to be liberated from all its inhibitors.

13:36Our ability to serve God and connect with Him directly is going to be unlocked. And it's not only us who benefit from that. There are angels, legions of angels, whose entire existence is to serve God and there withheld from serving God, so long as we're not serving God down below. So we look forward to Messiah, and that's actually going to enable all the heavens to function properly. We hold the levers, very interesting, mishtun, to Tabernacles. Now, the partial begins with the accounting. This is the second partial. Parts of the Pekude, the detailed audit of the gold, of the silver, of all the different items that were donated. Comprehensive audit. Why did Moshe do this audit? Why do we have to have the tabulations? How many talents of gold and any talents of silver, any checkles of gold and checkles

14:39of silver, and so on? So we just tell us that there were some scoffers, and the staffers were joking. Oh, Moshe, he's in charge, we're all giving the money. I'm sure he's coming and taking a little cut, a little slice of the action. He's taking a big, a big off the top. He's pocketing some of the money. That's what the staffers said. And Moshe said, okay, when we're done this, I promise, we're going to do a full reckoning, a full accounting, a full audit, just so you know, Moshe is not stimming off the top. And the minister tells us as well that Moshe, whenever he walked in, he brought someone with him. He never went in unattended. And he had a special garment devised for entering the storage houses of all the items donated. He wore a special garment that had no pockets to remove even a possible claim of embezzlement.

15:47But nevertheless, our parasha starts off with an audit. It's only because of the cynics that we have to do this accounting. You've got to silence those cynics, those credits, those staffers. Now, to ask the case, Moshe had to do it. We opened up the commentaries, we find something very frightening. This audit had enormous consequences. It's not just an innocuous audit. We know there's a big difference between the first set of tablets and the second set of tablets. The first set of tablets were shattered. Yes, we still have them in the ark, but they were shattered. The second set of tablets endured. Why? Why did one set of tablets get destroyed and the other one survived? So the minister tells us, the first set of tablets were given with the sign I

16:52revelation, millions of people participated in this very grand public spectacle. Whenever there's publicity, there's a susceptibility to the evil eye. And when the evil eye is assigned to something, it's going to be destroyed. The second set of tablets, Moshe went up there out to buy himself. It was given with total modesty, no one saw it. And something is not seen, it's modest. It's not susceptible to the evil eye, and it's not going to be destroyed. Says the maharal. We have a tabulation here, an audit of the tab and actor, all the gold, how many talents, how many checkers, how many talents, how many checkers of silver, of copper and so on. There was a very public auditing of all the items that went into the

17:52mist gun, all the silver, all the copper, all the gold, all the materials. And it was all publicly spelled out. And that publicity created the ability for it to be subjected to the evil eye. And it gave it the capacity to be destroyed. We see just how destructive stoppers are, synopses are, in effect, these snickering stoppers, they created the grounds for the temple to be destroyed. We start off with the tabulations, all the gold used in the tabernacle, 29 talents, and 730 holy checkers of gold. There are 3,000 checkers of gold in a talent. So 29 talents and 730 checkers of gold. And I did some math for you. How does this translate to troy ounces?

18:54Well, a simple way of thinking it. A simple way of thinking about it is that every talent is about 48 kilos of gold. So much on almost 100 pounds of gold. Actually, it might be more than 100 pounds. 48 times 2.2. All told at today's gold price, it's about $240 million worth of gold, which I thought was pretty cheap for the tabernacle. This is nothing compared to Solomon's temple, of course, but the tabernacles, to at less than a quarter of a billion dollars, that's not so much money. That's what I thought. But still, the impressive amount of gold. And the silver was 100 talents, plus 1775 holy checkers. And 70 talents and 2400 checkers of copper. And then we read about some of the other items that were collected. And following the tabulation, we read the description of the construction of the vestiments

19:58of the high priest. They made the aphod, the apelike garment. And they devised a new system for how to create golden thread. They invented thread made of gold. Of course, gold is metal. You can't make it into a thread. It's not pliable. It's not a yarn. But they made a way. They made a way to do it. They would hammer a golden to very, very thin sheets. And they would cut it and make a thread out of it. And they used that, they wove that into the aphod, into the kosher and so on. They placed the shoham stones on the shoulder pads of the aphod. And they etched upon that the names of the sons of Jacob. And they made the kosher in the breastplate. And they inserted into those gold sockets, those 12 miloam stones with the names of the 12 tribes. And they connected the aphod and the kosher. And they made the robe with the golden ringdors and woolen pomegranates on the bottom.

20:59And they made the tunic and the sash and the sits on the farhead. They finished everything. Chapter 39, verse 32, the tabernacles all finished. And they presented it to kosher. And kosher saw it. And it was exactly how God had instructed him and kosher blessed the people. The final chapter of the book, chapter 40, Gattal's Moshe, erect the tabernacle on the first of the first month, meaning the first of the month of Nissan. So two weeks before the anniversary of the Exodus, the Exodus on the 15th day of Nissan, the following year on the first day of Nissan, that's the day to erect, to build the tabernacle. And he gives them all the instructions, place the ark with the cover and the partition, holy of holies, position the table and the menorah and the golden altar outside the holy

22:03of holies in the sanctuary. Out to the sanctuary, you place the tea or the labor between the sanctuary and between the outer altar and the courtyard surrounding the entire complex. And you take the anointing oil and you anoint the tabernacle and everything inside of it. The altar, its vessels, the labor, its base, wash, dress and anoint and sanctify Aaron and his sons. And Moshe did everything as he was instructed by God on the first day of Nissan. On the second year after the Exodus, two weeks before the anniversary of the Exodus, Moshe erected the tabernacle. He placed the beams and he placed the bases and the horizontal bars and he put the covers upon the tabernacle structure, three or four covers and he placed the tablets, both sets of tablets in the ark and he inserted the poles, the staves into the rings to the

23:06side of the ark and he placed the cover with the cherubs on top of the ark and he placed the ark in the holy of holies and he placed the partition separating the holy of holies from the sanctuary and he anointed it and he placed the table on the recite and the menorah on the south side and on the table he placed the showbreds and he tumbled the menorah and he placed the golden altar between the two but a little further away and he burned upon it the incense and he placed the cover at the entrance of the sanctuary and he placed the outer altar outside of the sanctuary and he brought sacrifices upon the outer altar and he placed the laver, the kear, between the sanctuary and the altar and he erected the courtyard around the entire tabernacle, complex and the book ends when Moshe did it. On the first day of Nisim, by the way, did that will be revisited and the book of Livinicus

24:08Parshashmini and Parshash Akhremos and in the book of Numbers, the book of Bhamidbar in Parshash Nasal. So this is the day we're going to meet multiple times. Moshe did as he was told and the cloud descended upon the tabernacle, the honor of God filled the tabernacle and it verse tells us that when the cloud removed itself from upon the tabernacle it assigned us at the travel and the final verse of the Parshash and of the book the cloud of Hashem was upon the tabernacle by day and a pillar of fire at night in front of the eyes of the entire house of Israel in all of their encampments. At the five Parshashos, fisteriously, meticulously following the instruction of God to a tea, indeed the tabernacle is in place and the presence of God is in our midst.

25:13It's time, ladies and gentlemen, to go back to date and we're going to ease in to the controversy before we start to tell you what happened last week. As you know, I've been trying to write newsletters every week and some weights are better than others. And this week I thought it was it was a good essay but it was kind of plain. It was good but it wasn't like phenomenal. Like I try to make it every week and even my wife who looks it over made five than any typos and once I finish typing I can't look at it. So I said you have to read it make sure it makes sense and my friend David as well looks it over very kindly. She said yeah it's good but it's a comp plane. As soon as I wrote it sent it out. I got the following email as feedback wow this is a quote. This one was incredible.

26:15I will reread it as needed. Thank you Rabbi, exclamation point, after this is like a pattern for me. If I do like a podcast then it's okay, it's serviceable. It's a solid B plus but it's not going to be enshrined in the podcast hall of fame. I'm found the Torch Center Hall of Fame, the podcast of excellence, 2020 sits, it's good you know. But in whatever the happens in Verbelega I get an email or some sort of comment wow that was amazing. It really hit the spot. I had to hear this right now you have no idea what it meant to me. I would say that the Almighty weanestay you know you work really hard try to produce something every week and sometimes better than others that's just the way it is. There's a distribution, something's are really great, something's are good and the medical weanestay you even when you're even when you're doing something you don't know who needs to hear what and you don't know what message is the one that you need to be the one to deliver that particular time.

27:17This is the introduction to what I'm going to tell you right now. You see this week, this past week Friday night, I was in shul and I thought of a Tora I thought of an idea to say in the parasha and relate to last week's parasha it's this week's parasha so you know what I'm going to share by shop is dinner. So I start shop is dinner we're having a great delightful dinner and I say to the participants I need everyone's help because I thought of a Tora and I want you to evaluate how good it is. I need to listen very carefully which is a fancy way to make sure I get their attention right. Otherwise I'll just keep on chitchatting right. So I like to talk to microphone microphone never ever interrupts me with some chitchat. So I had to have their attention. So I said I said the Vartoro and after I said okay I need the reviews. I need a rating how good was this and it did not get rave reviews.

28:22We got some mediator middleing reviews on a scale one to ten we got one seven point two one seven point four and one eight point four a charitable eight point four. I said you know what I'm going to say in the podcast and I'm going to ask the podcast listeners to give me their rating of this part Tora and who knows maybe this will hit the spot for someone. So here it is we're we're easing into the backstage here. Gata's Moshe tell the people we have fifteen different items gold and silver and copper and this type of wool and that type of wool and the third type of wool and the linen and the goats here and so on a whole list. And Moshe tells the nation this is parasha a whole list of fifteen different items. And there's one item that no one brings the spices for the anointing oil no one brings. And the last is parasha were told that Moshe himself he brought it and the question is

29:29I understand if Moshe has to bring it then just tell Moshe about it. Why is he telling the people God tells them will ask the people to give the spices and Moshe asked people to give the spices and no one gives it Moshe ends up giving it. So either don't ask the people or they should give it we see the people are responding to Moshe's call that they're very generous. So evidently they were solicited to give the spices and Moshe gave it and no one else did. So what's going on over here? How come Moshe himself had to bring it? Question number one. Question number two the midrush tells us this is actually sourced in the halachic literature as well. They were miracles, not just ordinary miracles, miracles of miracles, doubly miraculous miracles with the anointing oil. They made like a small flask of oil and every part of the tabernacle was anointing with

30:32the same oil and Aaron and his four sons were anointed for seven consecutive days. Every part of the tabernacle with a small flask. The midrush says that whenever you poured it, it didn't get depleted. Moreover, after the tabernacle was finished and the ancient ones weren't visually still had this flask of oil and every high priest and every king was anointed with this same flask of oil and it was never replenished. Moreover, the original flask of oil made by Moshe from spices that Moshe donated. It's still around somewhere and it will be used for the anointing of Timisaya, a miracle of miracles. No, what's the point of this miracle?

31:34Why can't you just replicate it? Why is there need to have this one flask that just lasts forever? What's the purpose of the miracle? It sounds like a lifetime edition of the Hanukkah miracle. It's one miracle, but Hanukkah, we know they needed, didn't have the oil, they only had one flask. They would take them eight days to get new oil. So you need the miracle. What's the point of this miracle? So here's what I suggested. Moshe asked the people for fifty items, including the items as the materials needed for the anointing oil. This is partial. Moshe asked the nation. Fifteen items included in that list are the ingredients of the anointing oil. But who donated it? It was Moshe. Seres the theory, it's a new theory, I speculated. Maybe no one wanted to give it.

32:36Think about it. You have an opportunity to donate. I could give something that will last forever. It'll be like one of the bases of the tabernacle or the courierd, or it could be a fabric that's part of the high priest's garments forever, or it could be part of the gold on the arch or on the table forever, or to give a consumable that just gets poured out. I'll choose the one that has the eternal legacy. It will forever exist in God's home. I'm going to give some wishes to plead it, which is a consumable. I want to give something that lasts. You have a choice. You could sponsor a permanent fixture or a consumable that's gone by the weekend. Everyone would choose to sponsor the thing that lasts. So, I haven't preferred to give some metal or some fabric or some stands or some wood.

33:39There were no donations for the anointing oil. Some Moshe gave it. And the Almighty says, I'm going to teach everyone a lesson. The anointing oil is going to be the most permanent of all the donations. There's no way to deplete it. Forever and ever and ever. This one little flask, the flask that keeps on giving. The people made a calculation. You see, listen, I want something that's going to be around forever. My grandkids, my great-grandkids, in a thousand years, my gold and I'm going to give towards them anora will be in God's home. I'm not going to give something that's begun by the weekend. The people viewed their donations on some level as being a gift of something physical. And the spiritual, of course, it's real, but it's less tangible. And God taught them a lesson.

34:40The thing that's the most tangible, that's the spiritual. When someone does a mitzvah, they spawn an angel. You do a mitzvah, you may feel good about it. The next thing you've forgotten about it, a year later, you've forgotten about it. But what lasts longer than an angel? Nothing. The angel's more powerful and more longer lasting than any physical being. And that's what the nation was told. Moshat, you'll do it. No, you'll do it. And I'll show them just how long this lasts. That was the Vartaur. I said, I thought of Friday night, I said it. I got very low ratings, a 7.4, a 7 was just an charitable 8.6. And the next thing I spoke to one of my, I was 8.4. And then that's I spoke to one of my friends in Shul. And he also said, Charlie, we're in 8.6. And the following day for Shabbos lunch, we had a different set of guests. And I said, you know what? I'm going to try the new audience. I'm going to say it again. But my son was sitting next to me, he's like, I said to him, you want me to say the

35:40same Vartars last night? You remember the one about the anointing oil? Or that'd be two anointing. That's what I said. That'd be two anointing to hear it again. And he said, no, I don't want to hear it again. I don't want to hear it again. But anyhow, that's okay. Because we just have this tradition. When you do something when it's pretty mediocre, you think it's mediocre. Even the people are giving you a charitable 8.4.6. You say to the podcast, and you never know who needs to hear it. You never know to whom it just hits the spot and makes an impact. And who knows who knows who knows. Maybe this idea will land for some of y'all. Now before we get too spicy and too schmaltzy, one more quick idea. Moshe asks for 15 different items. And the people deliver. They give their role. They give their jewelry. They give their vessels. There were certain things that were given exclusively by the princes. The shoham stones and the malooam stones, the 14 precious stones for the breastplate,

36:4112th of the breastplate, and two for the shoulder pads of the effod. That was given, or those were given by the niseum, by the princes. Now in the past, we talked about how this was a slight miscalculation. The prince made a slight miscalculation. They said, we'll let everyone else give and we'll cover what they don't cover. They expected the nation to not be so generous. But nation, indeed, responded with great, resounding generosity. And the only thing that was left are those 14 precious stones. And because they were lazy in their generosity, the word vahana seam and the princes, it's written with a letter missing. A letter is deducted from their name as a form of criticism that they acted improperly. We spoke about that in the past. Rashi says that. But another idea. Why did the princes specifically give the precious stones?

37:42We see Moshe makes a fundraising call and people give very generously. Why didn't they give the precious stones? How come no one else gave the precious stones? So one of the commentaries, Ibn Ezra says something unbelievable. Love this idea. Only the princes had these stones. These are very rare stones. So gold is a more common commodity, silver and so on. But these stones only the princes had it. Why did only the princes have these stones? Listen to what he says. Where did the nation get all their wealth from? There were just a few months ago slaves in Egypt. How did they have any gold to give? Silver, precious wools, hides. When they left the Egypt, they borrowed.

38:43They borrowed some stuff from Egypt. They were told, Moshe, I was told, they got begged Moshe, you have to do it. Go borrowed and you might replace the grace and the favor and the eyes of the Egyptians, whatever they asked for they got. And they plundered Egypt, they exploited Egypt. But they only got what they asked for. And every person went to their neighbor and asked for something that they viewed as being worthy on their level. So if you were a small person, you would ask for small things. Well, I need to think about a slave with some tatter clothing. I need a patch for my elbow. That's what you would get, that's what you ask for. A big person asked for big things. The princes were the most noble and elevated of the Israelites. They had the biggest aspirations and ambitions. So they asked for the most ambitious things.

39:43They went to the palace and they said, we want the crown jewels of Egypt. That's what that's for and that's what they got. So they had those stones. No one else had those stones. I love this idea. It's an amazing lesson. You could have asked for whatever you want. And the reason why the princes entered for those stones is only because they aspired for it. They were ambitious and crazy and bold enough to go for something really big. And I come and say to someone yesterday, I said to them, you're a special person. And I said, I'm not special. I'm ordinary. I said, are you arguing with the Talmud? Are you arguing with the Talmud? The Talmud says, Book of Shabbos page 138. Every Jew is a prince. Every Jew is a princess. Are you dealing with our sages? Of course, I want that argument. But it's an amazing idea that we're being told. We have to have big aspirations.

40:44If you're going to ask for something, if you're going to aspire for something, you might as well aspire for something big, bold, and audacious. Have some grand ambitions, some grand aspirations. One of the most influential, consequential, and transformative sages of the last century was the Hazonish. Hazonish was like the founder of the modern Torah world in Israel. A mechanic figure. I will say that my father, he should live me well. My father was two weeks old when the Hazonish passed away. But Hazonish was actually my father's son, Dick. He was a son, Dick, by the brisk. And he traveled from Benabrock, where he lived, to Beriakr, where my father was born, to serve as the son, Dick. He was one of the last ones to have the great merit. And whenever my grandfather, the bus of memory, used to revel in the successes of us grandchildren.

41:51Not me, usually wasn't me, but my brother's, let's say. He would say, oh, it was all the merit of the Hazonish. Hazonish was your father's son, Dick. And that's why. But before he was born, his mother was told by a physician, you will never have children. You'll never have children. And she said, listen, this is what the physician says. I don't care what the physician says. They'll be almighty to decide if I have children or not. Not the physician. So she prayed. We have a documentation of her prayer. She told God, God, give me a child. Please give me a child. But once you give me a child, give me so really, really special. Once you're doing it, give me the incredibly special soul. She ended up having nine living children. Torer giants, old Torer giants. And of course, one that's powered above the mall, the Hazonish. If you're going to ask for something, you're going to starve as well. Go big. Go big. If you're going to go at all. Okay, it's time for controversy.

42:52That's spicy. That's cool. It's spicy. That's controversy. The second part of our double header. Parts is per coup d'et. And it starts off, a la per coup d'et. These are the per coup d'et. These are the tabulations or enumerations. How mistron of the mistron of the tabernacle? Mistron haidus. The tabernacle of testimony. Mistron mistron. So we already saw the mistras. Well, there's two mistrons. If there's two temples, a temple below a temple, above. And they're aligned. They parallel each other. One of the commentaries that have been a bachayo. Here's a different way to answer this question. How many temples did our nation have? So we had the tabernacle. And then we had the first temple built by Solomon, second temple, by the man of the Grand Assembly, Ezra and Co. The tabernacle was put away, was archived.

43:54Solomon's temple was destroyed by the Babylonians. And of course, the second temple was destroyed by the Romans. The first temple, how long did it stand for? Tomatelsus. The first temple stood for 410 years. And the second temple, this is an easy number for some people to remember. It stood for 420 years. Okay. What is the numerical value of the word mistron? Well, the mem is 40. The shin is 300. So that's 340. The cuff is 20. So that's 460. And the nun, that's 50. So it stands for 410. The gammacher, the miracle of the word mistron, is 410. So when it says in this verse, mistron, it's 410. It's a reference to the first temple.

44:55When it says ha mistron, well, then it's 410 plus 5. So that's 415. Now there is a gammacherous system where you have the letters, the number of letters are added to the total of the value of the letters. So ha mistron is 5 letters. So the gammacherous 415, but you add 5 letters one for every letter. You get 420. So Brimichai says, we have ha mistron and mistron, 420, 410. That's reference to the second temple and to the first temple. And then it continues. The verse says a le pitudet. These are the enumerations or the counting or the audits. Ha mistron, 420, mistron, 410, ha edus. Ha edus means of testimony or of the testimonies.

45:55What's the gammacheria of the word ha edus, the testimonies? Well, the hay is 5. We know that. And the ion is 70, that's 75. And the Dalid, that's 479. And this is spelled without a vove. So you just have the suff at the end, which is 479. Is that a significant number? Well, it says Brimichai. Solomon built the second temple. 480 years after the Exodus. So how long did the tabernacle last for? If the tabernacle was built, a year following the Exodus. And it was put away when it was upgraded to the temple. So the tabernacle lasted for 479 years. So we have verse ha mistron, mistron, ha edus, three words.

46:59The verse hints to the exact duration of the second temple, ha mistron, 420. The first temple, mistron, 410. And the tabernacle, ha edus, 479. In ascending order, the first word is the last most recent temple. And the ends of his piece by saying, motion knew all this ahead of time. Motion was a prophet. He knew it all. All these calculations he saw, and he understood all these hints. That's what the Brimichai says on this first verse of the second partial of our double header. Here's where I get into some trouble. Brimichai is telling us that Moshe or the Torah, the motion of the stutter, of course. The Torah is foreshadowing the exact durations of the tabernacle, 479. And the first temple, 410. And the second temple, 420.

48:04But we know there's going to be another temple, a third temple. If this verse is foreshadowing the exact duration as Brimichai is telling us of the tabernacle, first and second temple, why would it not hint also at these at length of the third temple? Of course, as of this afternoon, when I started recording, the temple has not been built. But if Moshe saw prophetically, the Torah is prophetically foretelling the exact length of the tabernacle, 479. And the first temple, 410. And the second temple, 420. Surely Moshe and the Torah, of course, they would know the exact length of the third temple as well. Now, if you look at the verse, it's Ha-Mish-Tun, that's the second temple. The next word is Mish-Tun. That's the first temple. So it's going in ascending order. Or, yeah, it gets in ascending order. And Haidus, which is the next word, that's going back to the tabernacle.

49:08I want to propose, maybe it is hinted to in our verse. There's a word before Ha-Mish-Tun. A-L-A-P-Q-D-E. These are the P-Q-D-E. Ha-Mish-Tun, Mish-Tun, Haidus. According to the system, if the, if one word is the second temple and the next word is the first temple and the next word is the tabernacle, going back in order, the word before the second temple will be the third temple. The word P-Q-D-E. What's the numerical value of the word P-Q-D-E? Well, the P-Q-D-E. Kuf is 100. That's 180. Vav-Dalat is 6 and 4. That's 10, 190. You it is another 10, 200. The word P-Q-D-E is the numerical value of 200. Now, if you count the letters as well, use that system. It's 205.

50:09So I was thinking to propose, got myself into some trouble here. Maybe this is a reference to how many years the third temple will stand before the year 6,000, which is the end, the end cap of this world. Now, the time it tells us you are forbidden to try to calculate when Mish-Tun, when it tells you where you're both forbidden. But I'm just asking a question. According to what I saw in the commentaries telling us that this versus foreshadowing first temple, second temple end, is that length of the tabernacle? Is it possible that it's telling us that 200 years before the year 6,000, that's when the third temple will be rebuilt? I'm not prognosticating or forecasting. I have no clairvoyance. I'm not a prophet. I'm not claiming to prophesy. I work for a non-profit. I'm not doing that. But we know the year 2040 of the Gregorian calendar is the year 5800 in the Jewish calendar. And the year 2035 is the year 5795 in our calendar.

51:15So this is really not far away. And it may be even closer, much, much closer. Here's what I'm going to tell you. According to our calendar, the year 5786, there's a major assumption built into that number. None of us claim that this is a precise number. In fact, traditionally, we say it's the year 5786, Lafay couple center contact tradition. We don't know for sure. Why? How do we know we're in the year 5786? Like, what system are we using? Doesn't say that in the Torah? Or at least doesn't say it explicitly? Well, there's a system. We're counting years since Adam. What happened before Adam? What existed the world that is before Adam and so on? In the six days of creation prior to Adam, that's not part of our calculus. But since Adam, it's the year 5786. And 575786, how do we know that? We use a simple calculus. Chapter five of Genesis tells us that Adam was 130 years old when his son, Seth, was born.

52:23So the world, when, or the world, these are the hour counting, when Seth was born was 130 years old, because the verse tells us. And in verse six of chapter five, so only three verses later, it tells us that Seth was 105 when his son, Enoch, was born. So what year would that be? You would add 130 and 105. So you get to the year two, 35. That's when Enoch was born. And so on. Enoch was 90 when his son came and was born and came and was 70 when his son was born. Apollo was 65 when Jared was born. Yeah, red. And he was 162 when his son, Enoch was born. And he was 65 when Mrs. Shaikh, Mithuzlo was born. And he was 187 and lemon is born. And he was 182 when Noah was born. You just add the years, right? And you go all the way from Adam to Moshe. You tabulate the years, and you know how many years this from Adam to Noah, from Noah to Abram, and so on, and all the way to Moshe.

53:23And once you get to Moshe, we keep track of the Book of Kings. That's 480 years. After the Exodus, that's when Solomon built the temple. And temples built for 400 and 10 years, plus 70 years of the destruction, plus 420 years, and so on. We have the ability. It's kind of on, you know, we just keep track of how many years it was since that was destroyed and so on, just add it to our tabulation. But here's the imprecision. What's the likelihood that Adam had his son Seth on his birthday? Was he born on Adam was created on Mr. Shauna? What's the odds that exactly was that when Seth was born? Was it exactly on his 130th birthday? It could have happened. It happens. We know people share birthdays with their parents. It happens on occasion. But it's not likely we would say. And certainly we would say it's not likely that all of these 10 had their next generation exactly on their birthday.

54:23So it's quite likely that it's not a perfectly round number. The year 130, 105, and so on, 90, 62, and so on. It's not a perfectly round number. So our major assumptions in the year is now 5786 is based upon ignoring the months or the weeks or the days for 20th-century generations from Adam to Moshe. Now here's the way I would process this just as a lay person. What is the average amount of months that a person is at an end of your own time? Some people, they often have a child and it's nearly their birthday. It's almost a following year. Some people have it a day after the birthday and so on. But you would say on average it's six months. Some will be more, some of the last will be on average will be half. So accordingly, over the course of 20th-century generations, if we're assuming just based upon the averages that it's a half a year, six months on top of the number of years, we have to add an additional 13 years by accumulating for all those months that want to account for in the tabulation.

55:39So by that system, we're not in the year 5786. We're in the year 5799. Again, I'm not making any predictions. I hereby disclaim any ability to prophesize. I categorically denied, yes, we're a non-profit organization. I'm not making predictions. I'm just saying, I don't want to stress. It's a bad idea to try to calculate when the size is coming. We're told not to do it. It's not a good idea. We're not doing it. But we have a comment here. It's tall. We've got to study it. He's telling us that motion is prophetically forecasting the length of the temples, the length of the tabernacle, 479. The length of the first temple, 410. The length of the second temple, 420. It seems strange to me that it would not include a reference to the third temple. And according to his system, that will be into the world for two days. And that's Gamachra 200. And according to our calculation, we're almost there. We're on the doorstep. We're within striking distance. We could feel it. We could touch it. And who knows, we're seeing a lot of things that happen in the world that do give off a very biblical feel to it.

57:01I want to end off with another idea. We read a lot about the tabernacle. And the commentaries tell us that studying the tabernacle and his vessels trying to stand the shape and the size of the dimensions, the makeup. It's a very valuable exercise. A lot of people feel like, wake me up with a little bit of kiss and I don't understand what the value here is. Even though the temple is not excellent, it's a great mitzvah. The commentaries tell us. A quote, the reward for studying about the tabernacle goes all the way up to the heavens. Just like sacrifices. Today we can bring sacrifices. But if you study the laws of the sacrifice, you get the reward and the spiritual benefit as if you brought sad sacrifices, started laws of an Ola. It's as if you brought the Ola. You started laws of a sin offering to Vajatas. It's as if you brought a sin offering and you've accumulated and gained and garnered the spiritual credit as if you did. Similarly, when it comes to the matters of the tabernacle and of the temple, there is tremendous merit and benefit. If we talk about it, try to understand it.

58:07The simple interpretations, the more hidden secrets that concealed the revealed parts. And as they just tell us, that in the merit of studying about the tabernacle, what is the reward? In that merit, the Almighty will indeed return to dwell amongst us. And who knows, maybe we're about to experience what that's all about. It should happen very soon, speedily in our days. I appreciate you listening to this edition of the Parshaparkest. Sort of in the Torch Center because you know my rules. Wherever I am, wherever the microphone of the Parshaparkest is, that is considered the Torch Center. Have a great day. Have a splendid rest of your week. Have a magnificent and powerful and meaningful and uplifting. And supercharged. Shabbos of coming. And please, God, with the help of the money, we'll talk again next week.

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