Parshas
Pekudai is Moshe Rabbeinu’s accounting of the gold, silver, and copper that he
took in and where it was used. The idea
of a person showing that he is honest to other people is something that is
mentioned regarding Moshe Rabbeinu’s accounting here.
The
Medrash Rabbah in Parshas Pekudai writes, that Moshe Rabbeinu said when the
Mishkan was finished being constructed I should have a full accounting so that
people shouldn’t say that Moshe Rabbeinu became wealthy from this. Moshe
Rabbeinu had actually become wealthy from the etching of the Luchois. So Moshe
Rabbeinu didn’t want people to suspect him so he made this Cheshbon.
Rav Pam
in one of the Schmuzzin which is printed in Atara L’melech page 76-77 talks
about this idea. Should a person care about what other people say? If a person
is being honest and is doing things straight and there are people who want to
be Choished him, is it important that he be a Naki B’Hashem Uvi’Yisrael. Some
people might take a stand in Hashkafa that it is not important because it is
the other person’s problem. Here we learn that it is not that way. A person
must do what he can to show that he is a Naki Mai’Hashem Umi’Yisrael to be able
to show that he is clearly honest in the eyes of other people.
Rav Pam
brings a Chasam Soifer in Cheilek 6 Teshuva 59. He writes to a Talmid that he
is failing in V’hiyisem Li Nekiyim Mai’Hashem Umi’Yisrael and that he must be
more careful. Then he writes that it easier to be a Tzaddik in the eyes of
Shamayim than to be a Tzaddik in the eyes of people. It is far more important
to avoid a potential Chillul Hashem and to be a Naki B’yisrael as well. He
writes that for that all should be worried. It is interesting that the Chasam
Soifer says over the Posuk that everybody in the world has to sin sometime and
maybe Shlomo Hamelech meant that regarding V’hiyisem Li Nekiyim. It is a Pele
because I would think that the Posuk means that it is impossible to avoid sin
all the time, however, the Chasam Soifer must of held that it is possible to avoid
sin all the time from the standpoint of Shamayim, however, it is in the eyes of
people that it is most challenging to avoid sin all the time. He writes that
this is the reason that Gad and Reuvein went to Galus first, because when they
asked for land Mai’eiver Hayarden, they failed in this area of V’hiyisem Li
Nekiyim and that was the Aveira that caused them to go to Galus first.
Rav Pam
ends this piece with a story of a man who was Chayuv a Shevua (oath) in Beis
Din. After he swore he paid anyways. The question was if he was paying anyways
why did he swear? The person said I want to pay Lifnei Mishuras Hadin. I want
to pay you because you think that I am a Ganuf. Had I paid and not swore you
would have said, look he really is a Ganuf. Therefore, I swore and I will pay
Lifnei Mishuras Hadin because of Vihiyisem Li Nekiyim Mai’Hashem Umi’Yisrael.
This is an important Hanhaga that we can learn from Parshas Pekudai.
If you
pay attention to the Pesukim you see that Moshe Rabbeinu only gives an
accounting of the silver and the copper. Why didn’t he give an accounting of
the gold as well? The Divrei Yoiel says that in general, generous people don’t
accuse other people of being Ganavim, it is the stingy people that do. People
who chose to give the gold were generous people and Moshe Rabbeinu wasn’t
afraid of being accused by them. He gave a Cheshbon of only the silver and the
copper.
What is
troubling with this is that the first Rashi on Parshas Pekudai says that the
accounting is for everything including the gold and we don’t find that in the
Parsha.
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