Terumah - Entering the Inner Sanctum

1:55 So that's our first question. The second question seems to be unrelated. This is a Torah from Rav Moshe Weinberger. Very beautiful Torah. It's a Gemara in Brachos. I'm going to read the Brach. I'm going to read the Gemara inside. You can see on the bottom. I brought the English translation, but I'll read it inside for you. Abaye and Rava, Haviyas v'Kamei deraba. Girls have heard of Abaye and Rava. Abaye and Rava were Talmidim of Raba. And they were sitting in front of him. So Amar l'hu Raba. So Raba disse ad Abaye e a Rava. Lemimavarchim Who do you bless? Who do you bless? Amar Leila Rachmana, we bless Hashem. What do you mean? Who do we bless? We bless Hashem. Verachmana heche Yosef Raba says to his two Talmidim Abaya and Rava, and where can Hakadosh Baruch Hu be found? So Raba Achvei l'Shmei Tlala.

2:47 So Rava pointed to the ceiling. He said, "This is where Hashem can be found." Abaya Nafik Lebara. And Abaye went outside and he pointed towards the heavens. Amr luhu Raba, so Raba said, Tarveichu Rabban and havei havesu. I see that you two, even though you're both very young, I see that great rabbis will come from you. Obviously, there's a deeper significance to this Gemara, the fact that Raba pointed to the ceiling and that Abaye went outside and pointed towards Shamayim. Obviously, these mean very deep things. And Rava was able to perceive, even at a young age, that Abayah and Rava would become great rabbis because of this answer. And the Gemara says, I don't exactly know what the Gemara means over here, but "heinu daam b'rienshi." This is like what people say: "butzin, mikitzvei edia. A cucumber can be recognized from the very beginning that it's a cucumber. You can already tell from the time a cucumber is small that it's going to become a cucumber. So too, even though Abayah and Rava are young, I see that they'll become great. What's the reference to a cucumber?

3:58 So we have a machlokas between Abaye and Rava. Some deep significance to this Gemara. Where can Hashem be found? Abaye points to the Make sure I get this right. Rava pointed to the ceiling, and Abaye goes outside and points to Shamayim. Obviously, they have some sort of machlokas here. What's the depth of this machlokas? So in order to understand this, we're going to learn a Gemara in Chagiga. This is a very deep Gemara, and we're going to try to understand it very, very intensely. There's a pasuk in Yirmiyah. The pasuk says, "V'Emlo Tishma'uah b'Mistarim Tivcheh Nafshim M'Negeva." not hear it My soul will be crying in secret for your pride. Who is crying? This is Hashem. Hashem is crying. Why? Because you see what he says: 'I gave a because your pride has been taken away.' He's crying over who? Who is Hashem crying over? He's crying over us. The Gemara offers as one possibility that Hashem is crying over the fact that our gaiva, that our pride, has been taken away.

5:14 And the Gemara has a question on this. The Amr of Papa. How could you possibly say that Hashem cries? Hashem doesn't get sad. How do we know that Hashem doesn't get sad? Because there is another pasuk. How could you say that Hashem Baruch Hu cries when we know that the pasuk in Devarim says that Hashem Baruch Hu is eyes and head, his honor and majesty? Honor and majesty. And not only is he honor and majesty But he's also strength and gladness. So we have a contradiction in psukim. The Gemara points out: Does Hakadosh Baruch Hu cry for Klal Yisrael? Is he sad for us, or is Hakadosh Baruch Hu happy? So listen to what the Gemara says. These words are going to be critical. See if you can make sure to get this. The Gemara says, "Lo kasha. It's not a contradiction. We're talking about two different cases.

6:12 Ha bevate gavoi, ha bevate barai. It depends what you're referring to. If you're referring to Hashem's crying, giving you the pashat of the Gemara now Where does Hashem cry? In the innermost chambers. In the innermost chambers, Hashem cries. Why in the innermost chambers? Because that's where a person can cry in secret. But outside, Hakadosh Baruch Hu is happy. That's the simple explanation of the Gemara. Simple explanation of the Gemara is where Hashem is happy. Outside, Hashem is happy, but secretly inside Hashem is sad. Why is Hashem sad? Why is Hashem crying? Because the pride of the Jewish people in exile has been diminished. This is what the Gemara says. But in the Svarim Akdoshim, in the Hasidic Svarim, in the Kabbalistic Svarim. A different explanation is given for this Gemara. The exact opposite. That on the outside, Hakadosh Baruch Hu is sad. But on the inside, Hakadosh Baruch Hu is crying.

7:22 You realize again, make sure everyone gets it. The simple explanation of the Gemara is that whereas Hashem is happy on the outside, He's really sad on the inside because of the destruction of the Jewish people and because we've lost our pride. But the Sfarim Hakadoshim say it's the opposite. On the outside, Hashem is sad because Klal Yisrael lost its pride. But on the inside, Hakadosh Baruch Hu is happy. So let's understand what this means. This is a deep idea here. It needs to be understood as follows. There's something called raisus chachma yiras Hashem. Before we talk about acquiring wisdom. There is a baseline called Yiras Hashem. A lot of times you see in yeshiva that a guy comes to yeshiva and he wants to know how come the learning that I'm doing isn't having an impact on me. How come it's not having an impact? I'm sitting and learning, I'm going to seder, I'm working hard, I'm chazaring shir.

8:25 But it's not having an impact on me. So the pasuk says, 'Rachis Chachma.' What's the beginning of wisdom? Yiras Hashem. Before you can acquire taira, there has to be a baseline level of yiras shamayim, a baseline level of religious observance. There's a kid. I don't know if he's going to come to mivaseret next year, but I hope he does. And a couple of months ago, I had a conversation with him. This kid, I know for sure, this guy is going to come to yeshiva. Whatever yeshiva he goes to, he's going to fly. He has a big, big, big neshama. You could tell. You see him. I'm telling you, this kid, he's special. He has something about him. You know what I'm saying? Like you meet somebody, something. He's got that it factor. I met him right away when I met him in December. I was like, this guy's got it.

9:15 So he came to me and he goes, Rabbi, I really am interested in coming to Mevaseret I wanna I'll be sneias over here. I wanna get, I wanna chill a little bit in the beginning. We all understand what chill means. I wanna chill a little bit in the beginning. So I said to him, "Look, you have a problem." Forget mevaseret for a second. You have a problem. It's something called tovel the sheretz biyado. You go to mikvah, but you're holding on to something impure. If you want to go to mikvah and be purified, you have to be willing to let go of the thing that's making you impure. Otherwise, it's not going to have an impact. Rishis chachma yiras Hashem means. A girl could be coming to seminary and she could be going to all of her classes. She could be taking notes. She could be locked in. The phones could be in the box. She doesn't even have an AirPod in her ear. Unbelievable level. But why isn't the Torah having an impact on her? What's the answer?

10:13 Because in order for the Torah to have an impact, there's a first step. We'll call it an outside step, called Raisus Chachma Yiras Hashem. There has to be a baseline level of religious observance. If you don't have that, the Torah is not going to impact on you. On this level We're not experiencing joy. We're still on the outside. When a person is on the outside, what are they experiencing? They're experiencing the pain of exile. It's like I'm trying to give a good example of this, just to try to make it concrete. Imagine somebody who's in a relationship. And they're on the outside, so to speak, of the relationship. They're not feeling the warmth of the inside of the relationship. They want to get to the inside, but first, what do they need to do before they get to the inside? They have to participate in the basic things in the relationship.

11:07 It's like if the husband wants to get close to the wife, he's not feeling right now like he's on the inside. He's feeling distant. He's feeling pushed away. The first thing he needs to do is he needs to do the basic things in the relationship. What would be the basic things in the relationship? He needs to take out the garbage. He needs to put his socks in the laundry. He needs to make a parnasa. He needs to wake up in the morning. He needs to be an attentive father. He needs to go out on a date with his wife. These are called outside things. When a person is on the outside and they're trying to get on the inside. The first thing they have to do is behave nicely. But on the outside, do you feel joy? On the outside, you feel the pain of the pride that you don't have. The fact that you're not able to get to the innermost sanctum of the relationship. Every one of us in this room wants what?

12:00 We want to get to a state of union. We want to get to a state of oneness of dvekas with Hashem. We all want to get to that innermost section. But right now, when you're on the outside and you're just behaving, you're doing the right thing. Raisus chach meirus Hashem. So you could show up in the morning. You could daven. But are you really feeling connected? You're feeling the pain. Perhaps I'm pushing myself to do something, even when I don't feel that inner level of connection. What does it mean to be inside? To be inside the innermost chambers of the king? Listen, what the Pasuk in Shir Hashirim says. I wrote it down over here. When the king brings me into his inner Into the innermost chambers, that's when we experience joy. That's the joy of Torah. The joy of Torah is not the joy of behaving.

12:58 It's not the joy of a basic level of observance. The joy of Torah is the union that you get to have with Hashem. That's a big deal. Imagine for a moment. That the Torah, a good way of thinking about it, is Hashem's diary. That's a beautiful way of thinking about it. If you invite somebody in And you say to them, "I'd like to share with you my innermost thoughts and feelings," what do you feel when someone gives you that gift? I had a Talmud once who told me he got married. And he and his wife were in a really strong place. With great vulnerability, she wanted to tell him about a part of herself that she had back in the day. And the way that she said it to him, she said, "I can't adequately give it over, but I have my diary from that time, where I used to journal" And I'd like you to read it.

13:56 And he did And he shared with me not any of the details of what she said, but he shared with me what it was like. To receive that diary from her Could you imagine the level of intimacy, the level of vulnerability, the level of connection? He's not just saying to her, she's not. I'm sorry, she's not just saying to him Here, read something about me. She's saying, this is me. I want you to learn this part of me. To be brought into the inside is the greatest joy in the world. So there's two levels. Level number one is what we call the outside. That's the pain of exile. It's the pain of lost pride. I'm willing to behave because I want to get deeper. I'm willing to pay the price to enter into this relationship. But it's not joyous yet. It's not joy. Joy is when you're invited into the innermost sanctum of the King, and He gives you His diary. What is the first word that Hashem says to Klal Yisrael? He says Anochi. What does Anochi stand for? Ana nafshi ksaves Yehovas, which means I wrote my essence into the Torah. When a person is learning Torah, the reason why Torah is a joyous experience is because you're learning about Hashem's will and wisdom.

15:15 If Torah is not a joyous experience for you, it's not because Torah is not joyful. Anybody who's thinking about it, even just for a second, would realize that to be given the greatest gift in the history of the world, to be told by God Himself, this is what I want from you. That's an unbelievable gift. That's to be brought into the innermost sanctum of the King. Why is it not joyous? Because what are we missing? Reshus Chachma Yiras Hashem. The Torah will have an impact if you're prepared for the Torah to have an impact upon you. And if the Torah is not having an impact upon you, it's not Chas V'Shalom because the Torah doesn't have an impact. It's because you're not yet a vessel to receive the Torah. Yet, a quick question. Like what that like you went back to? You have to be. You have to have like a basic level of Torah observance. What's basic level? Basic level of Torah observance means that I'm like I'm learning Torah But learning Torah by itself doesn't necessarily mean that you're going to be joyous If you're in the relationship.

16:15 And now someone comes and shares with you their innermost feelings. That's joyful. For example, if you're sitting next to a guy, I'm going to be just silly about it for a second. If you're sitting next to a guy on a bus in Jerusalem And he turns to you and he goes "Can I share with you what my life was like when I was 16?" What's your natural reaction to that? Do not continue talking. You need to move to a different seat, or I need to move to a different seat. You start texting your friends. If I'm not back tonight, I want you to know it was this guy. You take that selfie move where you're taking a picture of somebody else, but it looks like you're taking a picture of you. This is the guy that killed me. Why is that? Isn't he sharing with you something beautiful about himself? But I'm not in your relationship, so don't tell me about yourself. That's weird.

17:05 But if you're invested in the relationship, define where. Remember, the relationship is always defined by the other person. I have to participate in the relationship on their terms. If I'm married to my wife, she says this is what it looks like to be in a relationship with me. I don't get to go. This is what it looks like to be in a relationship with you. If I want to be married to her Exactly. So there's a basic level of yerushamayim, keeping Shabbos. I'm davening. I'm keeping kosher. I'm invested. Even if you like forget the nitty gritty detail for a second, I'm invested in this relationship. Now that I'm invested in the relationship, the Torah is exciting to me. It's a joyous thing because I'm brought into the inner sanctum of this relationship, and that's where I want to be. Does that make sense?

17:53 But isn't the first part still working on the outside? Exactly. There's rachis chach meyeres Hashem. The beginning is the outside. It's not necessarily a joyous experience. But if you want to be able to go into the inside, the first thing you need is to go into the outside. But I feel like there are a lot of people who do that every single day and just don't enjoy it. They just do it because they have to. So that's a separate question. It's a good question of what happens when I have that rachis chach mirus Hashem and I'm learning Torah, but still it's not having an impact. It's a great question. Rav Olba in Alei Shor alludes to a question like that, and he says in Alei Shor again, we're not going to get into it right now. If something that's naturally joyful is not joyful for you, that means that there's a problem on the inside. Because it's like Let's say for a second, just to be silly about it, steak is delicious.

18:44 We don't have to argue if steak is delicious. Steak is delicious. If you go to Pats and you get that 36 inch porterhouse, and you go, eh, something is wrong with you. It's not something wrong with the steak. The steak is delicious. Pyre is delicious. Pyre is joyful. Sometimes, for whatever reason, we're not calibrated inside. So here, we're not talking about such a person. We're talking about a basic thing. First, you have to have the rachis chachmios Hashem, and if you have that, Torah now is a naturally joyful experience. And if it's not, it means something is off. With this in mind, let's learn a Gemara in Shabbos that basically says this. Beferish, Amar Rabba Baravuna. You see the Gemara inside. Amar Rabba Baravuna. Rabba Baravuna says. Let's say you have a person. He's a big tamuachim. He sits and learns in Kailo all day long. He's a guy who lives here in Ramat Shkol. He's an unbelievable guy sitting and learning all day long. But he's not a yarei Shamayim.

19:45 He's not a God-fearing Jew. So what does the Gemara compare it to? Domel gizbar. This is compared to a treasurer. She masr lo maftechos ha pnimius. He's been given the keys to the inner safe. But he wasn't given the keys to the outside safe. Imagine you're standing on the outside of two safes and you have the key to the inner safe. But you don't have the key to the outer safe. The Gemara says, 'B'ha'ayil, how is he going to get to the inner safe?' Sometimes a person is standing there with the keys to the kingdom. The Torah is in that inner safe. The Torah is internal, and this guy has the keys. He's a tremendous Talmud Achim. But you know why it's not having any impact on him? You know why he's not joyous with the Torah? Because he's still standing on the outside without the keys. He has no Yerusha Mayim. It's possible that a person could be a professor of Rashi. They could know all the Rashi's. They can know all the Rashi's better than anybody else. But what are they missing? They're missing the outside.

20:52 They're living in a state without any year of Shamayim. So now, listen to this. Let's go back to our machlokus between Abaye and Rava. Was it? Let me finish this and I get to your question. Let's go back to the machlokus between Abaye and Rava. Remember, girls, what happened? Rava asked, "Where is Hashem?" Rava pointed to the ceiling in the beis medrash And Abaye went outside and pointed to Shamayim. So now it's very obvious what the answer is. What was Rava asking? Rava wasn't asking a stupid question. He was saying, "Where do you find Hashem?" Like, how does that work? Like, really, how does that work? How do you find Hashem? Rava pointed to the ceiling of the beis medrash. They were sitting in a beis medrash, just like we are. And he said, "Right here" In our beis medrash, when we sit and learn Torah in the inner sanctum of the king.

21:51 That's how we connect to Hashem, and Abaya said? Abaya said you're right But we have to go outside and point to what? Point to Shamayim, because if you don't have Yira Shamayim Then the Torah is not going to have an impact on you. And what did Rabbah say about Abaya and Rava? He said you're both right. And that's how I know that you're going to become great rabbanim, because you Rava, you're saying how do we get close to Hashem? Through learning Torah, that's the main point here. The main point is to learn Torah to connect to Hashem. But Rava added something that Abayah didn't say. He said, "And if you want to get to the inside, first you have to be on the outside. If you want to walk into a hotel, you can't just walk up to your room. What do you have to do? You have to stop at the front desk. You have to get the keys."

22:41 The outside, you have to pay the piper. Is it joyous to be on the outside? But you got to do the work. Once you put in the work, what naturally happens? Now you have the keys to the inside, and this is what the Mishnah and Avos says. Let's learn the Mishnah and Avos together, and then I'll get to your question. Rav Chanina ben Daisa says, Kol sheyirascheto kodemis lachamaso. If your yiras Shamayim, if your yiraschet comes before your Torah wisdom, chachmaso miskayemis, then your Torah will have an impact. It will last. The kol shechachmaso kodemis liyirascheto ein chachmaso miskayemis. But it's possible, says Rav Chanina Ben Dosa, that you have someone who's a massive tamu chacham, and they could quote to you chapter and verse every single pasuk in Tanakh, and they could quote to you from all of Shas and Piskei. But they have no yiras Shamayim. You know what's going to happen to their taira? Their taira will be lost. Their taira will not be sustained.

23:39 We've seen people Big talmidei chachamim Who had no yiras Shamayim, and we've seen what happens to them. Their Torah ultimately has no staying power because it's not held in an appropriate vessel. It just flitters away. Sometimes even great rabbis who appear to be great rabbis because they have a massive wealth of Torah knowledge are not people we should be learning Torah from. Because just because you know a lot doesn't mean that you're a teacher of Torah. It doesn't mean that Torah is mekuyam by you. It doesn't mean that Torah is sustained by you. There was a guy in my neighborhood. There was a guy in my neighborhood many years ago who was probably one of the biggest talmidei chachamim in the world. Guy knew everything But he was a despicable person, and he was doing terrible things in secret until it came to light. And then when it came to light, he was basically excommunicated from the community.

24:40 And you should know that there were people in my community who sensed something about him, the rabbonim, and they told people quietly because they didn't have any evidence at that point. But they told people quietly, not a guy to hang out with, not a guy to learn Torah from. Said why he knows a tremendous amount of Torah Just because you know a tremendous amount of Torah doesn't mean that Torah is mekulim by you. It doesn't mean that the Torah is sustainable. Why you have to have the keys to the outer safe before you have the keys to the inner safe. Answer the question. Beautiful. Let's learn one last thing to bring it home. Last question. You're saying to become closer to Hashem, we need Yiras Shamayim. You need Taira for sure. But if you want to get to the inside, you have to pay the price on the outside. If you want to know your husband's inside, you have to have Yiras Shamayim on the outside first. You have to be participating in the relationship. You have to value the relationship, cherish the relationship, and be moving towards that relationship.

25:44 Yerushalmiim is really fear. We don't mean Yerushalmiim like that. We don't mean Yerushalmiim in the childish sense of I'm afraid of Hashem. When we say Yerushalmiim, we mean I stand in awe of the majesty of Hashem. And I would never want to do anything that would interrupt my relationship with Hashem because of how infinite Hashem is, and because I'm standing in awe of Hashem's infinitude. You're speaking about a very low level that we all learned as children, which is to stand in fear of something that's greater than us. We're not speaking about that here. We're speaking about something much more adult. Does that make sense? Not the childish thing that we grew up with. Again, it's not childish to be afraid of Hashem. It's childish to just stop there. I'm not afraid of my wife. I'm a little afraid of my wife, but I'm not afraid of my wife. I'd be afraid of what would happen if I did things that would impact the relationship in a way that significantly deteriorated it because of the value and the esteem that I have for her.

26:39 I think that's a different way of expressing it. Let's learn one last medrash together because this medrash is an unbelievable medrash. The medrash we don't have so much time, so I'm going to read it a little bit fast. The medrash says, 'Yesh l'chamekach shemisha machro nimkarima.' There are certain types of sales that when you buy the thing, you buy the seller with the object. Amar Hakadosh Baruch Hu Yisrael, Hashem says to Klal Yisrael, 'Macharti l'chem torasi.' I sold you my Torah. Kaviyachel nimacharti ima. And kaviyachol, you know what that means? It means that when we bought the Torah, who did we buy with it? We bought Hashem Himself. Shenemar, as it says in this week's parsha Va'yikchuli truma, take for me truma. Moshul a melech shahayil o bas yechida. This is like a king who had one daughter, one princess. Ba echad menamalach umunatla, and one of the other kings came and he married this princess. And he wanted to take this married princess home to his home country. So Amar Lo, so the king says, 'Biti shanasati l'cha yechidasi.' This daughter that I gave you to marry She's my only daughter. I can't possibly separate from her. You want to take her home? I can't leave my daughter.

28:01 On the other hand, I can't tell you not to take her home because, after all, now she is your wife. Ella zutayva asali says the Medrash. Hashem says, "Do me a favor." The king says to the other king, the one who married his daughter, "Do me one favor." Shakol makom shataholeich any place that you go, keton echad asali shadar etzlechem. Make for me a small room. So that I can live with you. Wherever you go in your new house, make a small room for me so that I can always come and visit my daughter. She'eni yachal ahaniach es b'ti. I can't just leave my daughter. I can't just leave her be and not have a place in her life. Kach amr Hakadosh Baruch Hu liYisrael. This is what Hashem says to Klal Yisrael in this week's parsha. Nasati lachem es a Torah. I gave you the Torah. Lif rosh heymana eni yachal. Hashem says, I can't separate from the Torah. This my daughter. This my princess. I gave it to you. You marry the Torah. Hashem says, but I can't separate from the Torah. Lo mer lachem altitlu eni yachal. But I can't tell you not to take the Torah with you because she's your wife.

29:14 Ella b'chol makam shata holchim. Any place that you go, bias echad asali sh'adar besochah. Make for me a place where I can dwell. And what is that place? Shenemar, as it says in the pasuk, v'asulim mikdash v'shachanti besocham, build for me a mikdash so that I can dwell within it. So that I can dwell with you and my daughter in the Torah. So we see that in the base of mikdash In the base of mikdash and in the Mishkan, it wasn't just a place. Where can we find that kadosh baruch hu? Everywhere. The entire world is filled with Hashem's presence. So what is the Beis Hamikdash? What is the Mishkan? It's a room. It's one room in the house. It's one room where Hashem says "Can I come visit? And not just be everywhere, but can this be a place that's just for me, you, and the Torah to hang out together?

30:15 That's what Hashem wants. I have a married daughter now, and Baruch Hashem, we had a Bris this week. She named her son Eliyahu Nasan, one of the most beautiful names I've ever heard in my life. And I see my child, my daughter. She's not my only daughter, Baruch Hashem, but she is my oldest daughter. I see she's growing up, and soon she's going to have a place of her own. And she'll buy an apartment somewhere. I hope somewhere close, but maybe not. Hopefully somewhere in Eretz Yisrael, and I'm going to have to come visit. I'm going to be the father-in-law that comes to visit, and maybe I'm going to want to come for Shabbos. And I'll be honest with you. I hope that when they buy a place And I hope that when I do go for Shabbos, they don't put me at a neighbor's house. I hope I'm not that. I don't want to be that shvare. I don't want to be that father-in-law.

31:02 I want that they should be machshiv my wife and I. That when we come to visit There's a room for us. And maybe it'll be Eliyahu Nasano's room. Maybe Eliyahu Nasano will complain. Why do I have to sleep in the guest room? Why can't Sabah and Saffor? I'm not Sabah. I'm Pops. I'm Pops, and my wife is going to be Bobby. Bobby and Pops. I'm still getting used to it. How cool is Pops? Pops is the coolest name ever. Let's be honest. So I'm excited. I want to come. I want to stay in their house. I want to have a special room where we can all hang out together. I want there to be a place for me. Don't just move to Haifa and forget about me. I want there to be a place. This is what Hakadosh Baruch Hu says to us. But what about today? Is there a place where we can hang out with our Kadosh Baruch Hu today? Have we lost the Beis Hamikdash to such an extent that there's no place in the world that we get to hang out with Hashem? One place that's just for us.

31:56 So let's look at one last thing. The pasuk, beautiful pasuk Pasuk in Yecheskel says as follows: Lachen emor ko amar Hashem lo kim ki er chaktim ba goyim vchi afitzosim ba aratzos. Listen what the Navi Yeheskel says. The Navi Yeheskel was in Galus, and he says, 'God said to me: This is what Hashem said to me. I sent them to a faraway land, and now they live among the goyim, and I scattered them all over the lands.' He said, "But I made for them a mikdash maat." There is still, even after the destruction of the Beis Hamikdash, there is still a small mikdash, a miniature Beis Hamikdash. Says the Gemara in Megillah, last one, the Haila and Mikdash Maat. What is this small Mikdash? Amr of Yitzchak. These are our shuls and these are our batim medrash. Girls, there's a secret to Klal Yisrael's continued survival. The secret is wherever we go, what do we build?

33:02 We build shuls and yeshivas and seminaries. Why do we build shuls and yeshivas and seminaries? Because we build the innermost chamber, we build that special room, we build a place where Torah is being learned, where we're davening to Hakadosh Baruch Hu. Sometimes I hear girls say and guys say, "Does it really matter if he learns? Am I not a good Jew if I don't learn?" So I don't know. I don't know what's called a good Jew. Everybody's a good Jew. Everybody's beautiful. But if we're in a relationship and we don't learn anything about the other person, isn't that sad? The secret to the survival of a Jew in Galus is when we went to Bavel after the destruction of the Beis Hamikdash. We set up Shuls and yeshivas. Shuls and yeshivas. Somebody said to me recently, "Don't we have enough shuls and yeshivas?" The answer is, we can never have enough shuls and yeshivas. Baruch Hashem, Klal Yisrael is growing. What do we want to give to our children? A Torah education. What do we want to have a place of? We want to have a place where we can connect to Hashem. That's the purpose of a shul. That's the purpose of a yeshiva. That's the purpose of a seminary.

34:10 Yerakotish for the year, just to attend another class? You came to participate in the innermost sanctum of the King. You came to the place of joy. You want the key? You want the key? You have the internal key. You want the external key? You're a Shamayim. You have to be willing to be focused in building the relationship. If you have the outermost key, if you have the yerushalmayim, you'll have the innermost key. And even though today the beis hamikdash was destroyed, Baruch Hashem, Hakadosh Baruch Hu gave us the opportunity to build schools and yeshivas, so that we don't have the big beis hamikdash, which God willing we'll have soon. But in the meantime, we have to keep building our little beis hamikdash. Girls, have a wonderful shabbat.