A Mishkan of Devotion | Rabbi Dovid Sharer

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yitzchok Fingerer’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

There's a fascinating Pasuk in the beginning of Parshas Teruma. Hakadosh Baruch Hu tells Klal Yisroel to build a Mishkan. This is what they should donate. Gold, silver and copper. We clearly see there's an order. We're going for more expensive and we're working down. Different colors of wool. That's even cheaper. Oil. Some spices. But strangely enough, the last thing on the list is What's the Pshat? Undoubtably, these were the most expensive things to go into the Mishkan. These were precious gemstones. Shouldn't they be at the beginning? They should be before the gold. When I was learning in Kollel, I had to go, once a year, fundraising. And there was one guy on the list who wasn't a frum man. Very nice, warm and friendly person. So one year, I made an appointment with him and I'm sitting there in his house, I'm schmoozing with him and it's all going very well. And in the middle, he stands up and he walks out of the room. He comes back, a minute later, and I can see he's holding a very heavy bag. And he drops it down in front of me and he says: Here, this is my donation for the Kollel. I look into the bag and I can see hundreds and hundreds of coins. Two-pound coins, one-pound coins, 50-pences, ten-pence, 20 pieces and a wad of notes. So he tells me: You know, last year, when you left my house, I thought to myself: Wouldn't it be a nice idea if I could give every coin, every bit of change in my pocket, every night, I'll set it aside for the Kollel.

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1. 0:06There's a fascinating Pasuk in the beginning of Parshas Teruma. Hakadosh Baruch Hu tells Klal Yisroel…
2. 0:36the last thing on the list is What's the Pshat? Undoubtably, these were the most expensive…
3. 1:07He comes back, a minute later, and I can see he's holding a very heavy bag.…
4. 1:37He says: In that bag over there, is every penny of change from the entire year.…
5. 2:08Now, I ask you, Is there any difference between that Yid and a man who would…
6. 2:39to give up something that was precious to us למען השם. That's what brought the Shechinah.…
7. 3:10Shmiras Einayim is perhaps one of the biggest opportunities we have to show our devotion to…
8. 3:40to show our devotion to the Ribono shel Olam. That's more precious to Him than the…

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