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When Everything Fits

"The Mishkan, its tent, and its cover." (Sh’mos 35:11)

When you love someone in proportion, you are constantly measuring if you are good or bad. When I love someone beyond proportion, I blow my mind over every little thing you do. 

You might think you’re a bad Jew, but if you tell me that one time in your life you fasted on Yom Kippur…I can't believe it, I blow my mind over it. 

When you hear your child making a b’racha (blessing), is it in proportion or beyond proportion? It blows your mind.

The Holy Temple was destroyed because we only loved each other in proportion. Nothing blew our minds. Do you know why? We forgot how we built the Mishkan - our Tabernacle - in the desert. 

Why is it that when they built the Mishkan everything fit? Hundreds of people were working on the Mishkan and suddenly it all got together. 

How so? So the Ishbitzer says that the Yiddele who was building the Kodesh Kodashim, (the Holy of Holies), was thinking “Gevalt, I wish I would be as holy as the Yiddele who was putting nails in the chatzer, (the courtyard).”

The Yiddele who was putting nails in the chatzer was saying “Ribbono shel Olam, I know I don't even deserve the chatzer, but gevalt, I wish I was as holy as the Yiddele who is building the Kodesh Kodashim.” Every Yiddele was blowing his mind over what the other Yiddele was doing.

I want you to open your hearts in the deepest way.
Everyone has something very holy about them, but it's covered. It's hidden. Reb Nosson teaches that when it came to the building of the Mishkan, every Yiddele brought this one nekudah tovah – good point - that they had. Moshe Rabbeinu had all the nekudos tovos - good points - and built the Mishkan with it.

So you see, the Mishkan was built from those little points, those little things. 

So here comes the story. The Rebbe Reb Elimelech dreamt that the Third Temple was being built, and he saw millions of people running around like crazy. So he stopped one of his angels, and said, “You are wasting so much time. If you had fewer people then you wouldn't fall over each other and finish the job faster.” So the angel looked at him and said, “You don't understand Reb Elimelech, G-d wants everybody to take part in rebuilding the Beis haMikdash.”

May we all merit to take part in the rebuilding of the Holy Temple, and May it be now!

Good Shabbos!