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Vayimaen — Parshas Pekudei - Building Again and Again | Rabbi Shay Schachter. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
We read about Moshe Rabbenu and Hakamas Amishkan. And at the very end of the Hakamas Amishkan, we are told that the culmination of all this hard work, finally, Hukam Amishkan. Rashi there, quoting Hazal, tells us that this was something that was not a one-time event, but every day, Hayamoshama Mido Umifarco, every day Moshe Rabbenu would construct the Amishkan, and then Moshe Rabbenu would take it down once again. And of course, that's something that needs a lot of explanation. What was it necessary for Moshe Rabbenu to be involved in building the Amishkan every day and taking it down after all, he had many other important things to be busy with? The Naseeva Shalom has a beautiful shot, and he says the truth is, it's not only about Moshe Rabbenu, it's really about all of us who live our own journey of our own lives, trying to build and construct our own personal Amishkan. He says as we all know, people unfortunately sometimes face adversity and sometimes they even fail. They have Naseeanus in the way, that is the journey of life, that's what it is for all of
us. The greatest of people, even, says the Naseeva Shalom like Moshe Rabbenu, can be faced with great Naseeanus, but he builds again, and he knows that he can build again over and over again every single day to bring himself to the point of Hukam Amishkan. And he knows that ultimately it will be successful, and I'm going to overcome all of those hurdles, all of those struggles, all the difficulties that come my way, and I'm going to be successful in the end to get to where I need to be to build that beautiful Mishkan that is the journey of my life. And perhaps sometimes the reason why this is so difficult for us is because we may lack that sense of understanding of self-confidence to know that we have it in ourselves, within ourselves, to be able to overcome and to be able to do. We all say on Rosh Hashanayom Kippur, Bechalma Aminem Shahoo, Kael Emuna. In fact, it's borrowed from the Pussing in Parshash Hazinu, Kael Emuna, Avel, Sadig Viyashahoo, and the Medrish there in Parshash Hazinu wanders. What does it mean that the Rebonus Shalom is a Kael Emuna? It should be that we are the ones who believe in him, says the Medrish on that Pussing that
Hakrishborah who was Hemin, Baalamo, Ubaro, Hakrishborah who believed in his world, and that is why he created it. He believes in us. He took a great risk in creating us because he knew we all have Bechirah and we can make choices that perhaps are against everything that the Rebonus Shalom stands for, but he believed in us. And if the Rebonus Shalom believed in us, it means we need to believe in ourselves. And it's what we say every morning, Rabah and Munasechah. It's a gratitude to the Rebonus Shalom that he has a tremendous amount of belief in us, in our capacity to overcome and to be successful. That is what we all try to do in this Vayimayin campaign, to look adversity in the face, to look at a challenged world, and to see what everybody else is doing, and yet to say to ourselves, I believe in myself that I do have the ability, I do have the strength, and I do have the capacity to say Rabah and Munasechah. I have it inside of myself to build that Mishkan that is going to be the journey of my own life.
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