0515 - Learning About the Building of the Beis Hamikdosh is Part of the Mitzvah

00:00 The Likud that came out for Shabbos Parshas Matas and Masei Tov Shimem for Likud HaSichas was the Sicha that the Rebbe said the year before, Tov Shim Lamates Matas and Masei. And in that Sicha, the Rebbe brings the Tanchume, where it says that when the Eibishter told Yechezkel the Tzurah Sabayis, the shape and the way the Beis Hamikdash is supposed to look and the way the Beis Hamikdash is supposed to be built. So Yechezkel answered the Eibishter, Ad Achshav Ananu Nesunim B'geilo Ve'eretz Eneinu, we're in Galus now, and you're telling me to tell them the Tzurah Sabayis, the shape of the Bayis, V'chi Yicheilun Hain Lasais? Can they do it now? They're in Galus. Haniach Lamat She'alam Anaha Geilah. Leave it till they go out to Galus, and then you'll tell them. The Eibishter answered him, V'chi Bishvil She'bonai Nesunim B'geili Yeibinien Beisi Botel, that because my children are in Galus, so the building of the Beis Hamikdash should be Botel, should not be done. And therefore he told him that therefore you should teach them the Tzurah Sabayis, the looks of the Bayis and the shape and everything how it's supposed to be. So from here the Rebbe learns out that when you learn about the Tzurah Sabayis, you learn about the way the Beis Hamikdash looked, you are actually building the Beis Hamikdash. Because that's what the Eibishter said to Yechezkel. Because they're in Galus, they shouldn't build the Beis Hamikdash. That's why I'm telling you the Tzurah Sabayis, so this building Beis

01:18 Hamikdash. So the Rebbe brings out from here that when you learn Hilchas Beis Hapchiri, when you learn the Halachas of the building of the Beis Hamikdash, you are actually Mekayam the Mitzvah of building the Beis Hamikdash. This came out for, as I said, for Shabbos Parshas Matas and Masei Tov Shimem. After the Sicha came out, I wrote in the Ha'aros HaBiyurim of New York of 770, Eshaila, what does that mean? What do you mean that when we're learning about the Tzurah, the shape of the Bayis and what the Bayis is supposed to look, that's called building the Bayis? Why is it called building the Bayis? So I wrote that the Chura de Pshat is like this. Just like when a person builds a building, there are many stages in the building. One of the stages is that you make blueprints, and you study the blueprints, and you make, you write down, and you learn how the shape should be, and then you actually start building. So the MS, the physical building of the Bayis starts when you actually start building, and you bring the builders, and they start building. But in a broader sense, when you start learning, writing and learning, studying the blueprints, it's already the beginning of the building. That's how the process of the building starts, and that's probably what the Rebbe means. That's what I wrote. My brother, Nochem, was the Mareches, the Eirach of the Ha'aros HaTmimim in 770. So he put it in into the Ha'aros HaBiyurim of Ha'aros

02:39 HaTmimim of 770. He just, what he did was, when I wrote the lotion that this is like the blueprints, he changed it from the word blueprints to the lotion Tiftirois or Pinkisois, which are the Hebrew word for blueprints. But this is a lotion taken from the Midrash, where it says, B'negei the Torah, that the Eibishter used the Torah as the blueprints of the creation. So there it says the lotion, Tiftirois or Pinkisois. So he changed it for that lotion. And he printed it, came to Shabbos Parshas Re'ei Tov Shimem. The Rebbe spoke about it. The Rebbe said that I explained that when you learn about the Beis Hamikdash, you are actually building the Beis Hamikdash. So he said somebody asked, which means in the Ha'aros HaTmimim, someone asked that what is the Psat? And he explained, and the Rebbe brought what I explained there, that it's like the Tiftirois or Pinkisois. And the Rebbe used the lotion, if I remember correctly, this is similar to the lotion of the Midrash B'negei the creation of the world, that the Torah was the blueprints. It says Tiftirois or Pinkisois. So here too, if you learn the Halachas of what the Beis Hamikdash looked like and how it's supposed to be built, you're learning the blueprints, and the blueprints is the beginning of the building. But the Rebbe said that's not what he really meant. It's deeper than that. And the Rebbe explained what it means is like this. What is the Psat that by learning about it,

04:00 it is as if you're building, that you are actually building the Beis Hamikdash? So the Rebbe says like this, in the Beis Hamikdash, there are two Inyonim. There is the Beis Hamikdash HaGashmi, there's the physical Beis Hamikdash, which is made of Eitzim V'avonim, stones and wood, et cetera, et cetera. And then you have the Machshove and the Kavona that's there in the building of the Beis Hamikdash. Like you had the Chachmei Lev, the Chachomim who were involved in the building of the Beis Hamikdash. And we find this in many Mitzvahs that there are two parts. Like the Bach says that in Mitzvas Film, the Mitzvah, the physical Mitzvah is actually putting on film, but part of the Mitzvah is the Kavona that you have, Shebuda Me'ech V'alev, that you're giving over your brain, your intellect, and your Midis, and your emotions, giving over to Hashem. So it's not the Kavona of the Mitzvah. This is part of the Mitzvah. And the same thing with Mitzvah Tzitzis, L'maan Tizkura, that you wear Tzitzis in order to remember all the Mitzvahs. This is Kavona is part of the Mitzvah. The same thing with Sukkah, the Kavona that you have to remember that the Lan, that the Eibishter had eaten the Sukkahs in the Midbar. This is part of the Mitzvah. So the same thing here, B'negei the Beis Hamikdash. The physical Beis Hamikdash is one part of the Beis Hamikdash, and then you have the Machshove in the building of the Beis Hamikdash. That's another part of

05:06 the Beis Hamikdash. That's the Chachmei Lev of the Beis Hamikdash, like it was by the Mishkan. So you have the Kavona of it, and the Kavona, even before you actually start building, but when you have the Kavona in the Mishkan, the Machshove about the Mishkan, that is part of the building of the Mishkan. And he gave example, just like when you build the physical part of the Beis Hamikdash. So even though it takes a long time, so the person who starts off the building, there's no Beis Hamikdash yet, he just put on the first brick, but that is part of building the Beis Hamikdash. And when the Beis Hamikdash is finished, like the Beis Hamikdash by Shlomo HaMelech took seven years, when the Beis Hamikdash is finished, the person who started it, and when he did it, there was no Beis Hamikdash yet, he is part of the building of the Beis Hamikdash. The same in the Kavona, the Kavona that's there in the building of the Beis Hamikdash. So when we have the Kavona now, even though there's not finished yet because there is no Beis Hamikdash yet, but since this is the Kavona of the Beis Hamikdash, so from the Kavona aspect of the Beis Hamikdash, we are doing the building of the Beis Hamikdash because the Kavona of the Beis Hamikdash is part of the Mitzvah of the Beis Hamikdash itself, Mitzvah of the building. In other words, because there are two parts of the building, the physical part and the Kavona

06:16 part, and when we learn now and understand the Tzurah Sabayis, the way it's supposed to be built, we are actually having the Kavona of the building of the Beis Hamikdash, which is part of the Mitzvah building of the Beis Hamikdash. So the Rebbe was Mechadesh a big Inyon here that it's deeper than what we think that it's just the beginning of the Beis Hamikdash because it's a blueprint of the Beis Hamikdash. The blueprint, Lav Davka, that comes out from the Sicha, he didn't say it, that as a blueprint, Lav Davka is the beginning of the building. But the Kavona of the Beis Hamikdash is part of the spiritual part of the building of the Beis Hamikdash, which is part of the Mitzvah, and therefore by learning the Halachas of how to build the Beis Hamikdash, we are basically Mekayam the Mitzvah of building the Beis Hamikdash.