Hachana L'Shabbos

בספר חסד לחיינו, נועם בשמחה לציון ברחמים. בספר חסד לחיינו, נועם בשמחה לציון ברחמים. בשם נעבדך ביראה, כימי עולם וכשנים קדמוניות. בשם נעבדך ביראה, כימי עולם וכשנים קדמוניות.

בספר חסד לחיינו, נועם בשמחה לציון ברחמים. בספר חסד לחיינו, נועם בשמחה לציון ברחמים. בשם נעבדך ביראה, כימי עולם וכשנים קדמוניות. בשם נעבדך ביראה, כימי עולם וכשנים קדמוניות.חודש טוב everyone, חודש טוב.

חודש טוב, מלאכה, גמר חתימה טובה, יום כיפור. We're gonna go right into it, we'll learn for a few minutes. I have some pages here for whoever needs on the page, on the ספר, דף רל"ח. רל"ח.

We come now to the end of קרבן. We've been doing קרבן now for a few months. Very, very special. Very special.

And this last stanza is one of my favorites. I think ר' שלמה has four different למקדשך תובs. It's so גוואלד, it's so beautiful. And the words are very, it's כדאי to learn these words.

למקדשך תוב ולקדש קדשים, אתר די יחדון רוחין ונפשין. We're gonna decipher what that means. הפשט is come back to your מקדש ולקדש קדשים and to the Holy of Holies. אתר די ויחדון, a place where there's, so here there's a שאלה if it means it's a place where there's שמחה, די ויחדון, from לשון חדוה or coming together.

אתר די ויחדון, רוחין ונפשין. Heart and soul. רוח, soul and soul, רוח and soul, spirit and soul. וזמרו לך שירים ורחשין בירושלים קרתא דשופריא.

And we'll sing to you, רבונו של עולם, like we, like we know we could sing. Like we know we could sing. למקדשך תוב ולקדש קדשים. I'm going to go right and say it's already very late and we'll learn for a few minutes.

Hopefully we'll get something strong.יש שאמרו להעמיס בכונת הפייטן על פי מה שכתב אור החיים הקדוש על הפסוק. Let's let's try to understand למקדשך תוב based on a פירוש of the אור החיים in פרשת בחוקותי, I think, or בהר. על הפסוק, ונתתי משכני בתוככם. I put my משכן in your midst.

בזה לשונו, what does the אור החיים say? פירוש על דרך אמרי, אהל שכן באדם. שעיקר משכנו יתברך הוא תוך נשמת עם קדשו. I know everyone would love to see a בית המקדש, I think. We're all into that.

But the עיקר of השם's dwelling is not in a building, it's not in a fixed, you know, structure. It's in the, it's in our נשמות. Like someone this week was giving me a little bit of a שטאָך and he was saying, \"You know, if you spoke more about the need for every person to build their own בית המקדש, you wouldn't have to speak so strongly about the need of having a בית המקדש." No, I took it. It's actually, it's true.

No? Sasha, you buy that? If they're, if we, right? That's what he's saying over here. עיקר, the אור החיים is saying, עיקר משכנו יתברך הוא תוך נשמת עם קדשו. that השם's dwelling place is inside the נשמות of his people. וכן איתא במסילת ישרים, על האיש המתקדש ביותר.

What does the רמח"ל say? Who is the most sanctified person? הוא עצמו נחשב כמשכן, כמקדש, וכמזבח. The most sanctified type of person is a person who's considered to be three different things: a משכן, a מקדש, and a מזבח, and an altar. Next page. ומעתה, and therefore, the רמח"ל says, המאכל שהם אוכלים, therefore, when a person is like that, they're a מקדש, משכן, and a מזבח, then what they end up eating, המאכל שהם אוכלים, הוא כקרבן שעולה על גבי האישים.

Then your your actual סעודה, what you're eating, whatever that dish is, is literally like, you like ממש bringing a קרבן on a מזבח, נכון? ועל כך אנו מבקשים. So this is what we're asking. למקדשך תוב, למקדשך תוב, למקדשך תוב ולקדש קדשים. We're asking you השם, שנזכה להיטהר, we should be merit, we should merit to purify ourselves, ולהתקדש בקדושתך העליונה, עד שישוב הקדוש ברוך הוא למקדשו שבקרבנו.So according to רב בנימין, what we're דאווענען for here is not necessarily השם, bring down a מקדש מן השמים.

It's הקדוש ברוך הוא, give me a chance, give me a fighting chance to feel that this flesh, this בשר ודם, that throughout the week I go through so much self-persecution, give me a few seconds on שבת that I could I could feel that this this person that you chose to be in this world has a chance, has a fighting chance to be a בית המקדש, just for a few seconds. Just give me a few minutes of of letting go of noticing all that's wrong with me and give me a few minutes of just letting me take in an image of me as a מקדש, as a משכן, as a מזבח. Until what? עד שישוב הקדוש ברוך הוא למקדשו שבקרבנו. Only for one reason.

So that I finally make space for you to come inside. That's what we're saying over here. בענין זה ביאר העקידה. We learned the עקידה, בעל העקידה, רב יצחק עראמה, was a ספרדישע גאון in the 16th or 15th century, I don't remember right now.

דבריו הובאו בספר חתם סופר. So he he explains, a בעל העקידה explains שלמה המלך, את בקשתו של שלמה המלך כשחינך את בית המקדש. יהי ה' אלקינו עמנו כאשר היה עם אבותינו. A little plug in right now for a very good friend of mine, Naftali Kalfa, soon to be one of ours.

He's moving here in a few weeks to the community. He has a beautiful, beautiful new album coming out now, like ממש right now, that I had the privilege to produce. It was very cool to be on that side of things, and he said, and there's one ניגון there that he has, יהי ה' אלקינו עמנו כאשר היה עם אבותינו, אל יעזבנו ואל יטשנו. So שלמה המלך says when we building when we're dedicating the בית המקדש, השם should be with us like he was with our fathers.

So listen to the עקידה's קשיא. He says, לכאורה יפלא מהי בקשתו. What's שלמה המלך asking? השם be with us like you were with our fathers? שישרה הקדוש ברוך הוא את שכינתו כפי ששכן שמו אצל האבות הקדושים? God's שכינה should reside, hover upon us like it dwelled by the אבות הקדושים, we have a problem. I don't want it like the אבות הקדושים because as גוואלד as it was, what didn't they have? They didn't have a בית המקדש.

So the בעל העקידה is saying, why would I ask השם to dwell on me like he would, like he did by אברהם יצחק ויעקב? Back then, there was there was no בית המקדש. הרי להם לא היה כלל משכן ומקדש השם. They didn't have a משכן ומקדש. It's a great, it's a good שאלה.

אלא ביאורו, but we can understand, we could see where he's going already. שאכן, מאחר שלא היה לאבות בית המקדש, it's true, they didn't have a בית המקדש. But you know what they did? עשו הם משכן בלבבם. בלבבי משכן אבנה.

They built a בית המקדש in their hearts. בזה שטיהרו לבם להשם. והקרבנות, what were the sacrifices if they didn't have a בית המקדש? היה מה שהקריבו לו יתברך את נפשם היחידה. ולקרבן אקריב לו את נפשי, את נפשי היחידה.

So all they had was that. That was the קרבן they brought, את נפשם היחידה. לכך, כשבנה שלמה המלך את הבית, when שלמה המלך built the בית המקדש, you know what he was scared of? Look at this, this is a a a חזק חידוש ברב בנימין. חשש שמאותו היום, כבר לא ישאפו ישראל להקים מקדש בלבבם.

גוואלד. What was he scared of? What was שלמה המלך nervous about? That they'd say, it doesn't really, look, I'll try to be a someone good, but bottom line, it doesn't really matter. Why? Because there's a בית המקדש. שלמה המלך's thinking that would be the saddest מציאות in the world.

What does this sound like, חבר'ה? I'm sorry, I keep on, yes, I keep on going here, but I ain't my last thought, it's, this is the same זאך. This is the same, you hear the סאטמאר רבי crying in these words. You hear the מנחת אלעזר crying, you hear the רבי רש"ב crying in these words. This is the same exact חשש.

The same exact thing. I remember one of the first times I noticed this was when some guy, someone came, someone, I'm not, don't ask locations, whatever, but I overheard a conversation about a minyan that ended at 11:00 on שבת morning. And some guy walked out of shul and said, I didn't leave so-and-so to get out of shul one second after 10:15. That's what they told me, it's like here.

Right? That's what they told me it's like here. I didn't, you know, I, and this, it's just calling out to me, this is calling out to me so strong. שלמה המלך was nervous that once there would be something that you could, you could say this is a permanent fixture or structure, I, me... so שלמה המלך is saying no no no no no, יהי ה' אלקינו עמנו כאשר היה עם אבותינו.

אל יעזבנו ואל יטשנו. Just like אברהם יצחק ויעקב, they made a מקדש in their... that's what I want us to be. We shouldn't rely on the fact that there's a בית המקדש for nothing.

We shouldn't rely on it for nothing. We shouldn't rely on the fact that we could live in ארץ ישראל, rely, you understand what I mean by rely? Rely to mean exempt, it means to patter ourselves, to sit back, to זה, ממש ממש לא. So he, therefore, לכך, כשבנה שלמה המלך את הבית, חשש שמאותו היום כבר לא ישאפו ישראל להקים מקדש בלבבם. They won't have שאיפה, that you'll stop having aspirations.

Why? I got that quick fix. I'll go to the כהן, he's waiting anyway and he's getting paid to basically make sure that I'm off the hook. I'll bring him a גוואלד קרבן, whatever it is, and it'll be fine. שלמה המלך is saying that's the worst reality in the world.

That can't be what בית המקדש is about. Yes. כביכול has to like Christianity, that's exactly they fell into this trap and they're still there till today. I think is complete...

ספר רפואה. The ספר רפואה, the the חזקיהו... חזקיהו המלך, yes. נכון.

Yeah, because then, כביכול, it's a good thing that we don't have בית המקדש so we should build our... I wanted to say like this. When you learn תורות like this, this is going to sound so blasphemous, okay? But but hear me out. When you learn תורות like this, you you almost say thank you so much, הקדוש ברוך הוא, that the בית המקדש isn't rebuilt yet.

But I can only say that till this second. I can't say it about the second later. A second later from now, I can't say it. אסור.

But but until this moment, I can say it. שהרי כבר בית, שהרי כבר, third line from the bottom, שהרי כבר יש בית להשראת השכינה בקרתא דשופריא. You know what קרתא דשופריא means? The beautiful city. קרתא דשופריא.

לכן שפך שלמה המלך את שיחו, שלמה המלך is pouring out his heart, שיהיה השם עמנו כאשר היה עם אבותינו. So therefore, השם, be with us the same way you were with us by by by by our mamas and papas, whereby there, it wasn't about a building, it was about a a משכן בלב. You were there. You resided in there.

שלמה המלך is saying, please let us never fall into the trap of not having a מקדש in our hearts. שימשיכו בני ישראל להקים את המשכן והמקדש כל אחד ואחד בתוך עצמו, that no Jew should ever stop attempting to draw the ענין of מקדש and משכן in their heart, regardless of whatever structure is there. So we could say that that was שלמה המלך's תפילה. That was שלמה המלך's תפילה by the by the בנין בית המקדש.

Right? That was שלמה המלך's תפילה by the by the חנוכת הבית. באמת לאמיתו, we have the same exact בחינה today with us as well. But it's getting clearer and clearer to us that those words of שלמה המלך, as much as it was שייך for Yidden back then, we're going through a same thing right now. We're all see all the things that we thought were קדש קדשים about ארץ ישראל, they're being transformed into something much deeper.

We're living it. We're we're living in it right now. And it's not scary, it's actually very inviting and calming to the heart because the נפש, the רוח and the נפש, אתר די יחדון רוחין ונפשין. This is the place where the רוח and נפש come together and rejoice when it doesn't try to cop out, when it doesn't try to exempt itself from going weiter.

You know, as the צדיקים say, if you have a good חוש שמיעה, if you have a good sense of hearing, you could hear your נשמה all day long whisper to you, \"You know you want to make room for me. Make room for me. You know you want to make room for me. Make room for me.\" שלמה המלך was scared that that would be not, that wouldn't exist when the בית המקדש was there.

And a lot of the צדיקים were scared that we would feel the same way coming back home today. So we have to be the flagship of Yidden that are very aware and conscious of it that we're back here, but we're working on ourselves every day in order to hear our נשמות say to us all day long, \"make space for me, make space for me, you know you want it.\" Aye, when does a איד get a little bit of an easier access to hear that and to do that? Friday night. The whole בנין of קרבן leads us to למקדשך תוב ולקדש קדשים. The whole building of what we did for the last few months.

He has more here about, and we'll continue, בעזרת השם, on this ענין of למקדשך תוב, but for today, I just, you know what, give me one minute, I got to sing you this ניגון, okay? It's such a beautiful, and if you know anything about about music, it goes from minor to major, which is very, very strange. The first part is pretty somber, and the second part gets a little bit הייליג. אוי יוי יוי. היי היי היי.

That's the difference, right? יהי ה' אלקינו עמנו כאשר היה עם אבותינו, אל יעזבנו ואל יטשנו. אל יעזבנו ואל יטשנו. יהי ה' אלקינו עמנו כאשר היה עם אבותינו, אל יעזבנו ואל יטשנו. אל יעזבנו ואל יטשנו.

יהי ה' אלקינו עמנו כאשר היה עם אבותינו, אל יעזבנו ואל יטשנו, ואל יטשנו, ואל יטשנו. יהי ה' אלקינו עמנו כאשר היה עם אבותינו, אל יעזבנו ואל יטשנו, ואל יטשנו.אמן. יש כח, everyone. חודש, good שבת.

for everything.