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Torah Insights of Rabbi Balkany: Terumah (Video 219)

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Rabbi Yehoshua Balkany

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Good evening. This week uh and tonight we celebrate Simra seems to be the key to so much success in our Hashem success in our Hashem and what we do. The Arizel says even though that it says that the and the for doing a mitzvah in this world cannot be repaid with with everything in this world but simit can be. So simra is a component. We see Yakobainu simra is a component. We see Yakobainu when he was sad about Ysef. He lost his ruesh. All the levels of achievement and and succeeding in that which we do in our daily lives with all the Torah and all the mitzvah and everything we do. When it is cemented together with the base, the backbone of Sima, of Sima, then we know that we have full availability to draw down that which we want to be able to permeate and be part and parcel of our daily lives. That is the driving force and the cementing factor. The inion of [snorts] simha and and ador carries with it that dimension with very little effort. That means the person has to push himself because naturally we tend to dwell and to drool in the realm of that which we're having a problem with or that which bothers us. So we have to So we have to exert ourselves to get into the realm of simha. But the sea and the lake and the ocean of simha a person could drench himself with from morning to night especially in keshor. Now, Truma begins a five sedra series about the Mishkan and about the big day kahuna. That's parasit.

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  1. 0:00Good evening. This week uh and tonight we celebrate Simra seems to be the key to
  2. 5:40full strength is too much. So he is everywhere but very diluted and in the Mishkan
  3. 12:03five sedas it talks about all of this truma kisa vakil pakud and in vakil it
  4. 17:51brought a rom which are cedar trees to Mitzim when he came down because he knew
  5. 24:10Now when a person went into the kaidesh, the koi went into the kaidesh. To his
  6. 30:29our jackets, that brought down the midas hagura to strengthen itself and to empower the hculla,
  7. 36:21items in the construction, the capital building of the actual Mishkan. So really operational was the
  8. 42:33direction in its construction. The architectural format of how to make it was also very hard
  9. 48:15that in the Mishkan we had the Auron and it was the only item in the
  10. 54:36and fortitude like a rich man has that gives him that characteristic hopefully with humility. Unfortunately,

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