Parshas Pekudei: Please Come to the Office

Oh, this one's a doozy. Ladies and gentlemen, I guess not all Divertora are created equal for this idea from Rabbi Moses Feinstein, of Moshe Feinstein, the great Daraash Moshe, it's different, this idea. It lands, it hits home, it's sharp, it's short, it's easy and it has a powerful call to action. Let's jump right in, for why waste another moment to live through life without having this idea somewhere in our brains? Now, when this part should ends, we will finish with the Chazak. Chazak and Nis Chazak, for the very goal that we began savor Shmoswith. That was like the Ramban said. It was to be a book of G'ulah. That was savor Shmos. And from the creation of the Jewish people, from just a small Jacob-like family, they returned from a B'nai Israel into a K'al Yisrael. We are now a nation with legions and tribes, but that isn't complete our mission, hasn't it Not? Until Shmos ends with the five Parseos that all give us the details of the Mishkan. For a full G'ulah, savor Shmos, for it to be a true redemption, it can only end after we have a redemption. The redemption isn't brought to its completion until God's presence has been made permanent, living amongst, with the camp, inside the camp of the Jewish people, and only because it's my Bar Mitzvah Parseo, and it's probably the only couple of Sukhum that I know how to lane properly from the Safer Torah. It's normally a double parasha, vajakil-pakude. They are together and since I'm a twin, I only had to read Parashas-Pakude while my brother read Parashas-Vajakil, which got our own parasha. But this year they are separate Parseos. At the very end of Parashas-Pakude we see the G'ul reached. If the cloud wasn't there, moshe could go in. Ki anan ha'shem al hamishkan, for the cloud of God is on the Mishkan. Success. God is living with us. It worked. Yomom ve'esh tiyelaylobo le'aynaykol be'israel be'chol masayhem Chazak, yes, chazak, chazak. We've done it Redemption, the Safer G'ula. Now, every story has a hero, every great team, one leader, and on this team, the Jewish people, this G'ul, the championship of creating a Mishkan and having Hashem sh'china d'wal with us permanently.

Who was the leader? The team captain? His name was Bitzalel Ben Uri, ben Chorlamate, yehuda, a young chap, but a brilliant chap, a brilliant mind, packed with divine inspiration. But he also knew how to distribute the wealth of Chahmah that he had amassed and be able to teach others how to get involved and help build the Mishkan. And when we are told of the decision to select Bitzalel.

This is where things really get interesting Perik Lamid, aleph Pusk, aleph Aida'be, hashem al-Moshe-Laymar. And we move to Pusk, bates, re'a si Korusi. I have called Bishaym in the name Bitzalel. Ben Uri, ben Chorlamate, yehuda, he's the man. He's going to be the team captain. He's the best pick. But the Pusk is a bit ambiguous, for how could you see a selection? And further, where was Bitzalel called? See that, korusi, see that I have called in the past, but there is no mentioning of Bitsala earlier. This is the first time that we meet him.

Where was he selected before this? How was Moshe? How are we supposed to know who's going to be in charge? Just to throw it in. And the next word is also hard Re A Kaurasi Bishaym. He was called by name, in name. So Rashi helps us out there, just to make it make a bit more sense. And she says Laasos Malachi. I've called him to do my Malachi. It would seem like Rashi's telling us that Bitsala has been called in God's name. Not in Bitsala's name, but called from my own honor, meaning come forward and do the work. And we might as well give a couple more answers to these problems before we give you the real knee slapper.

The Ramban says Re A, he uses a medress. Moshe actually did see. Where did he see the selection? Because God opened up the book of Adam Harishon. He has to look up the Ramban here and pointed and showed a spot in the book that it's written yeah, bitsalo is going to be the one that's going to do this, as if there's some sort of book of our heritage, leader to leader, every single person's goal, what they were to bring to the world. And I'll see right there, hey, that Kaurasi has been called the Vanesra. He says be shame. He's called by name, citing a bit more Kabbalah, like in depth, mystical style, torah.

That Bitsalo knew how to synthesize the letters and Hashem's name to connect the upper worlds to the lower worlds. Bitsalo was filled with Ruach Elohim. He was filled with Chachma, tavuna and Das that he had the perfect brain that even the back of the brain used for storing thoughts. It was all packed with the Chachma needed. His mental cavities were brimming. So that's all, some dessert before the meat and potatoes. So the emotion finds, dean brings up here now a fourth question Ru a Kaurashem, basim Bitsalo.

How come Bitsalo got such a nice introduction of motion in his own words? Brilliant author, brilliant writer, my snow. Why is it different me be here as Aaron when Aaron was selected to be the high priest? He doesn't get the whole fancy introduction here. He here. He listen to these great accolades. Bitsalo, please, you're being paged, come down to the office. Our own, god Cah, was Aaron. I was talking to motion, go and take your brother. Our own was bashful and needed to be coax to come, but it was hardly the great introduction and the showering of honorifics. Why Bitsalo? And because when something is so good, such a doozy, such a grand slam, you don't want to change it. I'll read you a Moshe's answer, vanirah and it would seem.

Where has B'tsalil been called and why this introduction of all of his talents? Mishom Shah Hashem, yisbarach, sh'nasan la'odam. God gives gifts to people. Ezekoach different talents, zahrach le'yeda. A person needs to know, jinnitayn lo, that they were given to him.

And before we continue in the answer, it's well known that not only our friends, our parents, colleagues, rabbis, even everyone, you listening to this, you have a talent of some sort. People have weird talents. People have talents that they never even knew that they were talents, things that just come natural to them. But God divvies up the bag of goodies, the gifts of certain skills and talents, weird things that you have a knack for, a certain expertise, aptitude, a power, a gift, a strength, a strong port, a forte, that you can sing, you can speak, you can play sports, you have wealth, you have the ability to dance, act, act, I don't know. There are so many different talents that can be endowed and imbued into one's spirit. You're just a natural at it.

And we continue back in the words of the Dharashmosh and this doozy like piece. A person needs to know that these talents, they were knitain lo, given to you, rock, only just for the purpose kideh shi, ya'aseh, bekoach zeh, that you should have this strength to do r'tzon ha'shem yisbarach, let's say rach Yisrael, to do the will of the Almighty, for the needs of Israel and for the needs, so to speak, the will to fulfill the will of what heaven wants. The talent wasn't given for not, but there's a reason that you are an expert chef. Now, some of these odd talents, odd jobs, are relatively easy to understand why God gives us those talents. Some people are balay givura, balay khakhma, balay asher wealthy people.

Of course, rabbi Reisbind always says God gives the money to certain individuals to protect it. They should be talented at making it and then they should divvy it up properly to give it to the right causes to protect it. It's like a maskone, it's like a collateral that you hold and watch over during your lifespan and make sure that it's given to the right place that you believe God wants that money to go. Rabbi Reisbind would always say and if it's too much of a hassle to give to Dukkah and divvy it up, you can davantashem take it away and someone else can protect the money for now. But of course, that talent, that gift, the capacity to donate at that level, is something that is unique Strength, specifically, strength of character, a will that you're always able to get up and be excited in and you're driven. You're a natural leader. You have been given so much and it's important that one use those co-hosts for pushing forward good initiatives.

Met someone over the project inspire. He runs the daily give platform. I never met a more humble, motivated fellow. Name is Dr Dunath. So humble, so driven, up till two in the morning, so sweet.

It's all Lashem Klawli, israel, and talents that he's been given Lashem Kavochemayim gifts channeled for the right reasons and the right places. People have odd skills, like being able to dance, but rumor has it that females who can dance in camps are part of the plays where they can sing. It makes them more popular, more sought after, more looked up to from the younger campers and that would give them some sort of status or popularity, which would then give someone a bigger platform that they should use and channel towards. Okay, now that people look up to me, I have a job to do and I should, by Yikrubb Hashem, call out in the name of the Almighty, coax the congregation to repentance and good deeds.

Athletic skills, odd talents you believe it? For not that you've been given that talent in the boys world. You can put an old leather ball through a nylon net and you become a celebrity. People want to take pictures with you. It grants you a certain platform and opportunity to be a leader, and with great power comes great responsibility that one should channel that, that leadership role, the following that you have because of certain skills and do it, lashem Hashem will Lashem Klayasro. Skills like this.

There are many different great outcomes, great things that can be accomplished, brilliant projects taken on with a voice, with athletic ability. You can make a Kiddash Hashem in so many different ways. Powerful speakers can encourage you in ways that can work wonders. Balaikriya, balaiktsfila, people that have a good voice. Just imagine if they would close up shop and say, ah, the voice is kind of just a back thing. There's an avaita to do the binae-laivi. They sing songs.

Certain gifts are for us, even for a divine purpose, to fulfill destinies. This is for us to think about, to make a khashbin, to compare notes with what do you have that you have as a gift? It's an extra blessing. God gave it to me. Yeah, I am weirdly better at racquetball than everyone else. Abraha, I know how to color in the lines in the coloring book before anyone else can. I know how to build a Fortune 500 company, coca-cola distribution warehouse. No matter what the talent is, I know how to hit every single key to Remy Faso Latida. That skill is for you To make a kheshtbin about and discover, develop and then use in your avaitis. Hashem Ome meila.

Listen to these words who kipshuto shahare atem roin be'enechem kihashem kara be'sheimel b'tsalel shiyoaseh. And now that the skill, you should come onto these skills. It makes a whole lot of sense. Now it should be seen that Be'ezalel had already been called For. The next couple words, the very next posik ve'amale oso ruachelokhem for sure. Look how talented he is. He's the only one that could possibly get this mishkan done.

Bechochmo ve tzvuna ovedas. Ubechol, melochah, lachshov, machhshovos, lachshovs, bazov, ubeches, vanachoshes. The venetra tells us the brilliant wisdom, the brilliance that Bezalel was filled with. No one else could possibly have been. Kharasi have been called.

It was plain as day to see. You did not need 20-20 vision to know that. Of course it's going to be Bezalel. Of course Bezalel heard the inner voices telling him clearly this is all here for a cause, for a reason, for a point. It was plain as day to see because his talents, they are like being called down to the office. This is clearly something that's a God-given gift that I'm supposed to bring out for Klaudia Yastrel and for Kovac Shemayim.

Everyone has skills, everyone has a talent. It may be mainstream, it may not be, but it takes bechira, our specific discovering of our talents. It isn't going to be kharasi, besheim, bezalel. It isn't going to be proclaimed or even told to Moshe and a prophecy. We have the free will to choose to recognize it and develop it.

If Moshe goes into the not so happy endings of what should happen if a wealthy person should get up to the next world. And God says I gave you all this money to distribute. Why were you in Tahiti or Indonesia or Thailand every other day, when that money could have been used to build schools, build Torah, build Tfila, help poor people? It's not such a happy ending. I gave you such a beautiful voice. You can't be shy. I wanted you to overcome that. I gave you an ability to dance or to speak or to talk or to do or to paint, develop it. It's an idea you've probably heard before.

There is a certain stumbling block that may block this call to action from ever turning into some actual productivity. For we have jobs and we have avidis ashem, and our days are packed. You have to put food on the table, take care of children, take care of parents, take care of yourself, dive in, learn this, talk. The call to action is to start a side hustle. Side hustles are popular these days, for, with the ability to create and do things, with so many different technologies that can speed up things, saves work, lets you work on things slowly when you only have five minutes, lets you create little by little, step by step, in little time. Side hustles are very, very fruitful. They have big potential and they're popular because they work.

Start a side hustle with your talent Up in your free time. This side hustle, let it be coaching about your talent. You may not be able to, and probably should not, take off of work or Co-Lel to develop your voice, unless you, I guess, want to go all in right now. But again, that's only something that you'll know with your own behira. But minimally at least. Take a side hustle.

Begin to speak if you like speaking. Sing if you like singing. If you believe that it's in you somewhere, well then, go, take a course or pay someone to teach you to be better at it. Because that little voice inside of your head, the feeling in the belly we call consciousness, and the subtle reminders of your kind of pull towards something, and you feel like there's a certain destiny that's calling you in that direction. You're skilled in that way. Well, develop it and recognize the calling, for you are being called. Then I shem, will call us up after 120 and say what a beautiful job you did with these gifts. I knew I could count on you.

Everybody's always talking about what's my job in the world, where things begin and swear, things end. What am I supposed to do With the soul that I have and the breath in my lungs, and the answer we subscribe to, the right answer, Is the clarity that we got from the villain, the goan. Whatever it is that you struggle with, that's what you spend your time doing. There's obviously some sort of gilding. You need to come back to this world, deep things, but whatever it is that that main thing that's getting in the way in your life, that's the main job.

But our talents, those are there in the positive, to develop, to be enjoined. Married to the goal of overcoming the negative sides of you, we'll be able to now hypothesize that the job in life is to Work on that one bad thing that keeps getting in the way. And then, on the good side of things, the assay tove Is the development of that specific and unique talent. Those are supposed to book and your avidus. I shem between the keeping of the mitzvos and the doing of your job that goes about through the day and all of the other times sprinkled in. The great theme Is beating that lower self, eradicating it step by step, but developing, with all of your co-host, that one Talent that you possess. Only you know you and only you know your talents.

So take a moment to think. What are your talents, what are your gifts? Get to know yourself and remember the beautiful reading in this Pusk periclamidal of Pusk Bay's Rae Korosi beshe'em betsal al-ben uri, ben-khor lamata Yehuda, see, it's open and Glaring that you have been summoned, you have been called to fulfill the will of God and remember of Moshe, feinstein's Treatise and parishes by a kill. That's a neat and low that you've been given these gifts. You have been summoned to the office of Hashem Racket day. She, yeah, I said be quiet there. Rot in Hashem Yisbarah let's, I write, yisrael. Well, it's a record, shemai, that you've been given this for a reason, for a goal, for you have a mission To do for Kual Yisrael and to do for the honor of Hashem.