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Ari Goldwag - Chayei Sarah - All the Blessings
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What is the depth of the idea that Hashem blessed Avraham 'bakol' - 'in all?' Why is this the preface to Avraham sending Eliezer to find a wife for his song Yitzchak? What is the concept of 'all,' and how does it relate to the idea of blessing? What is the unique nature of the Jewish people's mission in the world? What is the idea that the Jewish people are first referred to as Hashem's daughter, then sister, then mother? How does this parallel the relationship between a father and son? Find out in this week's parsha podcast.
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podcast with Ari Gold Wegg recorded with
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Ramon fisherman Israel 57 79 2018 this
week's parsha
is precious Kyocera and in our partial
so the Torah describes when sorry a man
who died when sorry men have passed away
yes luck her son was 37 years old
and it was time for him to get married
he was not yet married and the Torah
tells us read for telling us the kinda
introductory puzzle good introductory
verse which speaks about the entire
description of the events it has to do
is Avram Aveeno Abraham sending Eliezer
is serving to find a wife for us hug so
the pasta that starts off the whole
story says like this this is in chapter
24 verse 1 it's right after sorry man
who is buried verse tells about Avraham
so King Bob I am and he was elderly
Abram was elderly but by your name he'd
come of days whatever that means I'm not
gonna get into it
Hashem Barabbas Avraham back home and
God had blessed Abraham with everything
verses go on to save i'ma have Ramallah
half those can be so emotional cultural
assume like our town safely
avril lavigne Abraham has Eliezer his
servants swear to him he's going to go
back to Rama V no Abraham's birthplace
is going back to go back to his family
bring a wife for his son only from his
family he doesn't want anyone who's from
there Kirsten people of Canaan of Kanaan
only from his own family back in the
land of Horan okay and the tour gives us
the whole description of eleazar's
travels and his an interaction and and
how he ended up finding Rifco Rebekah
bringing her back it's like getting
married to her what I'd like to focus in
on and try to understand and I'll share
with you a beautiful run ban on this
verse is the introductory verse the puck
which if we read the passage on a simple
level we can understand basically why
he's trying to say it but we need to
understand on a deeper level what is the
intent of the verse what is the intent
of the Torah when it says is for
knocking Bubba Yaman before telling us
about the fact that he's going to send
off Eliezer to find a way for his son
you suck it tells us he was elderly a
sham beerus a Brownback call and God had
blessed him with everything so on the
passion understanding why does it say
this what's the idea because the Torah
is telling us that he had everything he
had tremendous blessings and in order
it's very nice to have lots of blessings
very nice to have physical and even
spiritual wealth but if there's no one
to bequeath it to if your son has not
yet gotten married and we don't see the
continuation of the family so it doesn't
have so much value so it sparked him in
a certain sense to want to send off his
servant Eliezer to find a wife for his
son you suck hey let's I'd like to read
to you inside the Ramban there's an
amazing deep shock deep idea that he
brings no share with you okay the vs.
Bosch a mere after several home back
home that Hashem had blessed Abraham
with with everything but I share the
Nook awesome recovered he quotes first
from the eben Ezra who says that he had
been blessed with everything what does I
mean with wealth with possessions with
honor or a human boob on him with length
of days he was an old man he was 137
years old at the time and he had
children right yeah you Shmuel he needs
talk he says call kinda saw dominance is
everything that a person desires Sabra
an Abraham had had all that he desires
mr. Acosta is my Marquis Hashanah
Michael like we said this is to teach us
the verse is telling us this to tell us
that he was he had everything life
Costard avez-vous assez Chavira bottom
Lebanon Chien in column a loss a quitter
the only thing missing was that his own
son should have a child who would then
inherit his greatness and his honor
hey miss Eliza and that's why Abraham
desire that his son go and get married
la vecina by xenian if la sister ambani
quotes an amazing concept we'll see how
far into it we can get
but there's just a beautiful beautiful
deep idea which I'd like to share you
the throne ban tells us the good Marvin
Bob Bashara conduct as I know a base on
page 16 B tells us an amazing thing
I'm Rivage champion has a run back all
the verse tells us that a shipment
blessed Abraham with everything what
does it mean everything what does it
mean that he was blessed now with
everything what is the idea of
everything what is the word backhaul all
right that's we're going to it's gonna
be kind of the center of our discussion
for today Romero I marry the mayor says
she'll Hisle a bus that that he didn't
have a daughter we're going to see what
would be the advantage why would that be
considered a blessing Abraham did not
have a daughter so that's the first
opinion that he did not have a daughter
review who died Marin review this is no
bass Hollow high solo indeed he did have
a daughter so the blessing was that he
had a daughter so he had a son and a
daughter whose McCain limits for pre of
Rivia the obligation to be fruitful
multiply which includes having a son and
a daughter
he had that according to her be who the
a care mom room and let's not take this
at face value but a harem says baa-baa
call Shima he had a daughter and her
name was backhaul her name was Beck also
when it says on the Versace me Rasmus
Avraham Bach all the verse is telling us
that Abraham had a blessing and the
blessing was he had a daughter whose
name was Paco literally it means he was
blessed in everything but we're saying
that the word buckle which means in
everything is a reference to the name of
his daughter okay
Dara sure we managed to isolate Vaslav
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Abraham did not have a door Azul Olive
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what would have happened if Abraham had
had a daughter it would have been that
the only person that would have married
her would have been someone from the
surrounding area of Canaan and the the
Canaanite people were accursed it as we
saw in the story of Noah after the flood
with Kenan and calm so that was
something that would have been it would
have had a bad result if he
have had a daughter so so that's the
understanding of the first opinion the
remain said that he didn't have a
daughter Michelle canola heart saying
what happens women they're usually sent
right what what what happen with a sock
was rifka was Rebecca was brought to the
Land of Israel but if he would have had
a daughter he would have had to send her
back to her family because the woman
goes after the after the husband that's
a general principle
Michelle Carroll Arts again can't
average time of a desert to my son if he
would have sent her back to his land so
she would have ended up serving idolatry
just like them
and therefore yki she wishes by law a
woman is in the domain of her husband
she follows after her husband I don't
know yeah yeah squishy it's is our
costumey sorry each the hustlers Abraham
would not have desired that his daughter
who was a kosher person a good person
came from Sarah would have had to leave
Israel after you
yeah void of a desert and certainly if
she would have ended up serving idolatry
of you who the dorosch cubase AI
celebrity who'd understood that know
that he did have a daughter and it was a
blessing I feel a brothel AHA sir
Hoffman teaching I said Abraham wasn't
missing anything he had everything he
even had a daughter he abraca by Cole
and that's the blessing of uh Cole the
Holocaust sure yeah we know I'm not
shameless austere lover because he had
everything that people desire he wasn't
missing anything while chemistry shame
Abbas and a ham came the Rahman is
explaining I'm chemical and mentioned
the name of the daughter
Luba MS says the Ramban the truth is
there's an amazing teaching here she
ain't got coven Allah Karim Allah Islam
in Rebbe who doe idea of sin a shame
about sensors provide they're not just
coming the simple understanding of this
my focus of this argument has to do it
okay well did he have a daughter do you
not have a daughter what was her name
that's the simplest thing but there's
something deeper that's going on here
Kalina lampshades uber huh social Avram
she could either close onions that we
have to understand that they wouldn't
have just said that when the verse tells
us this all inclusive blessing Abraham
was blessed by God in everything it
can't beat at the simple shot
simple understanding is is correct it
has to be a deeper understanding because
it couldn't be that when it says this
amazing blessing that he had it was just
talking about the fact that he had a
daughter she wasn't given I say a Shem
the BAS a caster shmakov that the verse
is just telling us that God blessed him
with a daughter whose name was Paco I
can't be understanding because there's a
much deeper understanding here well I
can teach you the fish are Kosovo's a
union a mcboyd okay i'm is teaching us a
very deep understanding a very deep idea
the dursa was a soybean solicitor and we
will see a few josh's we'll see if we
can get to all of them will probably
only get to one of them there are a few
rushes that we find cos all our sages
teach us amazing things in regards to
what is this idea of bucco
what is the idea of all the blessing of
all we see it elsewhere also Yacouba
vino Jacob says that he actually call I
have everything right if we find this
word call used to refer to a blessing an
all-inclusive blessing ASA on the other
hand a sahaja yogi graph I have a lot
there's a big difference between having
a lot and having everything okay so what
is the idea of having everything was
idea of all our key Buchalter mausoleum
our sages tell us that the word bahcall
hints to a very deep idea very powerful
idea Reuben M are in regards to this the
verse says I know I share my circle I am
God I create everything what is this
everything that God creates Lucien Emmer
the eastern arts but coal who the verse
says in Ecclesiastes chapter 5 verse 8
the advantage of the earth is is in
everything it's in this aspect of
everything what is the aspect of
everything or all your akhirah or its
batavia de la Hache fa a-- so the Ramban
explains to us what is the aspect of
coal what is the idea of all what is the
blessing that Abraham had listen closely
here this is the point and we're going
to expand and try to understand the
depth of it the advantage of the earth
and the great good what is it that we
have here in the physical realm
how does good come into the world
had his God send down his blessings into
the world I'll call boy Island before
Kiba Kali the good that God brings down
the chef at the influx of goodness that
God brings out into the world comes
through the aspect of call through all
we speak about all we think about the
blessing of Abraham that had it all it
means that he was ackley he was a vessel
to receive the blessings through Abraham
all of the blessings of the world would
come into the world that's what it means
God blessed him with everything it means
all blessings that are coming into the
world come through Abraham via Hamidah
hush - minimum United's the eighth the
eighth aspect of the thirteen attributes
the eighth attribute I can explain here
right now we knock Harris the car a bus
and sell us momentum there's two meters
there's two concepts that are connected
to each other one extends out from the
other one is called Combe which means
this aspect of the all-inclusive aspects
which the blessings come through and the
one that receives this which is also
called the earth which we refer to just
now which is all of physical reality is
also called bus which means the daughter
okay don't try to understand it yet I'm
not explaining yet ooh bubble mining
Asarco he based National Coalition for
cloud neros me Milla's via sham Macomb
welcome whenever we find it says here
what is it says it's Baja sham and God
blessed Abraham in everything so never
you have that valve and God and God
means there's something that's coming
that God has created obviously but
there's something that comes along with
God that God uses in order to bring down
the blessings into the world it's
referred to as best Dino it's referred
to as God's court God and his court God
brings down the blessings through this
aspect of his court you should increase
kala we find a reference to the same
idea it's referred to as a bride
interestingly beautifully the word bride
in Hebrew is a kala the root of the word
kala is call which means
everything because the aspect I don't
know if I get I don't know if I want to
get into it right now but but the aspect
of all is the all-inclusive aspects it's
where all the blessings are found
it's where the person when a person gets
married experiences tremendous blessings
when a person has a child blessings come
into his life and that comes through his
wife it comes through the person he
marries through that Union and so she's
referred to as a caller which the route
of which is of is call which means
everything so the aspect of call the
aspect of everything is where the
blessings come where all the blessings
that are as it were floating in the air
come down they get concretize they cut
collected and they come out into the
world or into a person's life but where
she coulomb and I call and the aspect of
call includes everything he shaman
mecanim schmuck in SSE Stroh Ramon tells
us that we find that our sages refer to
a concept of knesset zero which means
the congregation of Israel well this
idea of the congregation of Israel it's
this aspect of all of these aspects
coming together all the blessings coming
together to be distributed out into the
world they have to come to a central
location in order to it for them to be
distributed out into the world it's
referred to as the candy congregation of
Israel the Jewish people and Abraham who
is the root of the Jewish people is
represented by this concept of Knesset
Israel the place where the blessings
gather and are distributed to the world
income is Rama Borgia he canoes us a
call kanessa sees well the congregation
of Israel is a reference to this aspect
now Amina has a Cecil Avram kiba's this
actually this concept was to Abraham
like a daughter kee who Ishaaq acid is
Nagas oh very important idea Abraham is
the hot acid he's the man of kindness
he's the one who represents God's
attribute in in our world he represents
God's attribute excuse me of kindness so
that means that he's the one who
receives
kindness through whom kindness comes
into the world that's why God didn't
want to just have have a judgment on the
people of Saddam without telling Abraham
he turned to Abraham who represents his
media his attribute of kindness in the
world in order to see if Abraham could
somehow balance out and bring things
from the side of judgment to the side of
kindness he wasn't successful but that's
the idea of Abraham being kindness
through him comes the blessings into the
world because of that fact
ham Cana Broca's action his birth but
Paco ramez's South Charlotte bus we saw
each day I should I Highland with our
medicine in cuddle he's a harem says
we're not just talking about we talk
about by call it's not just talking
about a daughter it's not just talking
about whether he had a daughter he
didn't have a daughter it was a blessing
he wasn't a blessing or it was a
blessing because he did or he didn't
know we're talking about the fact that
he was the one who was now it was
becoming clear that he was the one who
is going to be the conduit through whom
the blessings of God come into the world
of all here a message in English apparel
I said by me Toshiba tech Mina Sako came
to Craig um he called showing Kashmiri
care boy so so he there is an aspect
called call which means the
all-inclusive aspect which is all the
blessings come through Abraham now
merited to have that aspect to manifest
that aspect in the world and therefore
that's what the verse means when it says
Russian barajas Arabic all God blessed
Abraham in this aspect of coal but
Indian has said so here's an amazing
thing an amazing mattress which on the
surface is bewildering beyond difficult
to understand but the Rambam teaches us
what it what it means based on what
we're saying we can understand what it
means when ian has a name so they say no
Ramos aha God is in the comments problem
this idea is hinted to in our sages
in in the Midrash many many different
places in Sharma the measures cause this
and we have an imagined she Reshiram
in the song of songs shall I be shamanic
is Ruby Ilias ever of the icy now listen
to the way the story starts because it's
instructive to understand what's going
on
remain your high shimmery high the
author of the Czar asked the following
questions rebellious are the son of a bi
see him separately as there was a great
torah scholar it was a great sage and he
was the son of Rebbe OC who was also a
great sage of the previous generation
see shimon ben york I says to him Esther
schemata Miyavi Hama who by parish I
truly may perhaps you will either have
heard an understanding of the verse from
your father maybe you heard from your
father about this verse interesting that
he says to me he wants an understanding
from his father about the verse the
verse says 'but arsh it's really my the
verse refers to a crown with which he
was crowned by his mother
what is the crown with which she was
crowned by his mother what is the
reference to a crown what is the
reference to a mother
more like hang so really as are the
center of us you said yes I did hear
something from my father a BOC only
highest so remember if I said to him
what was it that you heard I'm a
mushroom a melon
he said an analogy to a king shall I
sleep a thief even he had an only
daughter we have a daughter again
well mahabhava yes to me died and and he
he showed her an awesome amount of
affection where Clara is a beating he
called her his door Liza's macabre
archer currently sarkozy he kept showing
her love to the point where he didn't
call her any longer his daughter he
called her his sister it's an even
deeper level level of love I mean he put
her he said you're not just my daughter
is somebody who's getting who is an
extension of myself but you are on an
equal level to me you are my sister
Louis does Makarova
Chikara Lisa Amy he didn't stop showing
her love until he called her his mother
which means that the king was saying to
his daughter you are like the one who
gave me life you are like the one who
gave me
my mother you're like my mother you're
not even something that's an extension
of me you're not on the same level as me
you are on a higher level than me
cockpit feel TB about college Berkeley
seized from a car bTW in a similar way
Hashem showed this love to the Jewish
people and this is this ISM an amazing
idea and this is gonna expel explain for
us help us understand why this is the
introduction to Avram of in Abraham
going and sending his sermon Elias to
find a wife for his son okay listen
carefully here this is an amazing idea
first God refers to the Jewish people as
his daughter how do we know I don't see
the verse says shimmy Basara II in
Psalms chapter 45 verse 11 refers to the
fact that God calls us his daughter here
o daughter and see boys doesn't have a
carnal I see you continued to show them
love and refer to him to the Jewish
people as his sister on some level the
Jewish people are on our God refers to
us as parallel to him generic shavoo a
lie I'm sorry I skipped Shanna Piske
really see variety disconnects I see Rio
see open for me my sister my beloved God
refers to us as his sister with us
doesn't have a shekharan Amy and God
also refers to Jewish people as his
mother shouldn't mr akibo a lie I mean
Lulu me listen to me the reason Isaiah
chapter 51 verse 4 says listen to me my
nation it refers to us as Lumi which is
another word for nation let me mix if
the way that the verse is written it
says little me without above so could
also he read has lit a me my mother okay
so we see there's Jewish people at first
I referred to as a daughter never
referred as a sister then I referred to
as a mother what is the idea if just
finish off this measurement rebbi shimon
you have in NASH Qureshi he stood up he
kissed him on his head which is also
interesting I'm gonna either Lloyd bussy
unleash my Azad army people die if I had
not come at all and her was this it was
if it was worth it it was this is an
amazing thing that you said
okay so what is the idea here what does
this measure saying it's very difficult
to understand but I believe that the
idea is like this it's a very deep idea
when we see that Abraham is blessed
buckle with everything what we're saying
is that Hashem as we said before Hashem
God manifests in the world through
Abraham that means that if you look in
the world and you want to know where is
God you can't see God right where do you
turn look at Abraham you see God
manifesting in the world through Abraham
okay let's think about it in terms of a
child okay a person has a child and the
child follows in his ways I say person
is dedicated to spirituality to Torah to
learning to spreading word Torah
messengers whatever it is and then his
son continues in his ways he becomes a
Torah scholar he becomes somebody who
also wants to teach spiritual lessons to
people and he carries on the tradition
of his father
so first he's just an extension of his
father right and this that's what's
going on here with you it's cogito ik is
an extension of abraham and at first
he's you know he's just an extension as
the years go on as the son becomes
greater so he becomes on the same level
as his father slowly as things you know
as is the way things are in in history
the father gets older he's no longer as
effective he's no longer as great
perhaps he loses his memory he comes old
whatever he passes on from the world and
now who is the one who represents the
father in the world that son continues
the legacy of the father now that son is
as it were the mother of the father
right you miss from a stage of a child
to a stage of a contemporary to the
stage of the the one who now represents
the father in the world and the one who
is the mother of the father so to speak
because without that child the father is
gone from the world and in the same way
Hashem chooses she chooses to make
Abraham his child first and then his
contemporary as it were and then his
mother as it were and that's what the
Jewish people are that's what we are we
are the ones who represent
godliness in the world God blesses us
with everything
Avraham Avinu is getting old he's
sucking buh-bye Amin he sees that his
son who was an extension of him became a
contemporary of his but now he's moving
into the stage where his son is taking
over for him and that's not going to be
possible without his son having someone
to take over for him to carry over the
message to the next generation because
it has to be something that continues
the the spiritual message can't stop
there then if Hashem blessed Abraham
with everything that means that Abraham
is is the one who everyone's kanessa
cease from the place where the the the
godliness the the blessings of God come
into the world and that has to be God
wants his blessings to manifest in the
world not just in the times of Abraham
four thousand years ago
not just in the times of Yitzhak not in
times of of Yaakov of Jacob but
throughout history so that means that
there has to be a continuation of the
Jewish people and that means that it's
time for Yitzhak to get married and so
that is why the taurah / ephesus the
entire story of Eliezer that he is going
to go and find a wife for his
that's prefaced with the fact that
Abraham was blessed in all he had all of
the blessings he was the one that was to
manifest godliness in the world and now
it was time to give that manifesto over
to his own son to Yitzhak and for him to
be able to give it over to his own
children which could only have him by
him marrying Rebekah by marrying the
next person who was to be the aim you
sir are the mother of the Jewish people
so I want to bless you and I ask you to
bless me sure should help us we should
recognize who we are how we are part of
that chain a sham bear act as cool ANOVA
call we are members of the Jewish people
we are people who have this manifesto we
have this obligation we have this
blessing we have this obligation to be
the source of blessings the source of
spirituality for the entire world
so Shem should help us to recognize that
to understand that to try the best to
try our best
to be an example of that for all those
around us thank you so much for
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