Ari Goldwag - Miketz - Real Peace

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with Ari Gold wag recorded with our most never-ending assistance in Rome operation which Israel 5777 2016 this week's parsha is partially kate's the Torah continues to give us the details of the story of yosef and his brothers the Torah tells us Yosef was raised to great prominence became the ruler of Egypt and eventually the brothers as a result of the famine came down and they came before yo say if they didn't recognize him Yosef recognize them tor tells us the whole description of events and how eventually they had no choice but to bring Benjamin yo saves full brother bring binyomin down despite the concern of Yaakov aveeno of Jacob they brought him down and Yosef was rejoin with all of his brothers and he places that special gávea the special goblet into the into the bag of binyomin of benjamin and our parsha ends off with the accusation that Benjamin stole it the brother is coming in and saying what can we do we will all be slaves to you to yosef to Joseph and Yosef said to them no no no you're not all going to be slaves I'm only interested in the one with whom this goblet was found he shall be my slave and all of you shall go up to your father in peace now I'd like to read the verses to you it says this is the very last two verses of the parsha chapter 44 verse 16 and 17 I am are you who the unit said mano Marla dhoni what can we say to our master man and a bear what can we speak managed a duck how can we come out righteous hello Kim matzo Havana vadhaka God found the sin of your servants hindi nuevo de Medina we are servants to you gamma not know both we gamma Shannon saga viado also the one with whom the Goblet was found Valmer and Yosef responded khalili heaven forbid me I saw those to do this I'm not interested in making you all my slaves Zeus aisha-chan in segovia by odo one with whom the Goblin was found who y le added he shall be for me a slave I tamil shahana vfm and you go up in peace to your father so I'd like to share with you the mad rush on this piece and at the very end of the message will see that there's a versus which seems out of place and yet I believe there's a very deep idea which is being taught by the end of this mattress but like to share with you the whole thing is very interesting why am I ahuda magic quotes the fact that Judith said what was the conversation here what was he trying to say he said man Omar he said what can I say what can I speak how can I be found to be righteous the facts speak for themselves you would admitted it and yet we haven't done anything wrong that's what he was saying mono Marla don't even kiss of reach on what can I say about the first money they had found the first time they had come this is already the second time the first time they had come they found money in their bags that wasn't that that they had already given to pay for the things that they took to pay for the food what could I speak about that that didn't that didn't really make sense I wasn't we didn't take that money minded of every case of shany what can I say about the second money we found the money again in our bags it wasn't us we didn't take in Monaco gavea how can I explain anything I gotta come out righteous in regards to the goblet it was there but we didn't take it so on one hand we haven't done anything wrong but on the other hand manimala don't even my said tomorrow there were other mistakes that we have made since that we have committed for example you dimensions the story of what happened with him in tomorrow monitor every bila rue vain he had a sin that he the verse refers to the fact that it was as if he had slept with his with his father's wife with Billa but in fact he had done something else he had moved around the bed since our house I'll tell us but nevertheless we did do something wrong minus the doc Medina you also did something wrong when it came to how we took revenge on the people of SRAM as a result of their abduction of Dina so we've done things wrong we can't say even though over here it doesn't seem like you've done anything wrong we can't see that we've never done anything wrong measures tells us there's another thing implicit in what you who was saying monomer la bouche merits keen on Bo safe what can we say about the sooner we committed to our Father who's the land of Canaan in regards to our selling of Joseph monitor that would be shimon what can we say our Father about the fact that Shimon was taken as well Mahmoud steadily binyomin how can we come clean I can become righteous and come out innocent in regards to Benjamin if we return without Benjamin in Omaha hatano if we would say to you that we have sinned girl of your du'aa Sheila katana we know that we didn't sin we know that we didn't do anything wrong we didn't steal this money we didn't steal this goblet even number lock Hollow katana but if we would say that we haven't seen that all hell okay much less ivanova def Oh God certainly has things that we've done wrong he knows we've done wrong so he can't say that we have done no sins and that we don't deserve any kind of punishment I'm Rebbe Itzhak nervioso he explains what's about how if Malcolm liquid story sometimes when a person is coming to collect the money that's owed to him he collects it from a different place than where one would have thought so sometimes the money's got to come the money's got to come the payment has been made so as we read this man should we see that yehuda was trying to come to terms with an impossible situation he didn't understand what was going on it seemed from one hand it seem like they've done nothing wrong they were completely innocent but on the other hand they saw that they had done things wrong and they did deserve to receive some kind of punishment so he was struggling with the reality was expressing that to yosef he was expressing it to the one who he perceived as the one who's bringing him this difficult situation but here's the main part of what i wanted to share with you that's the end of the magician i ever khalili leave a gamer yo she said heaven forbid he said I'm not going to take all of you not interested in all of you being my slaves I just want binyomin I just want Benjamin I am saga via viedo really evered the one who has that goblet in his hands he shall be my slave I time I Lucia llama la vita and all of you go up in peace to your father so what was their response he said you go up in peace to their father that's obviously not going to happen it's not going to be peaceful if they return home without Benjamin I'm inlay so they said how shalom the cooling nishma what kind of piece is that you're wishing us peace we're going to go up in peace it's all darkness this is not piece pieces where there's lights but the piece that we're going to find will not be any pieces will just be darkness and difficulties when we return to our Father and we don't have this boy with us we don't have Benjamin with us we'll just be darkness and it will be fighting and trouble that's not peace the majors finishes off roja career save Ava's and the Divine Presence called out at that moment Shalom rob lowe ave saraha abundant peace to those who love your Tyra so there's a concept of peace the peace goes to those who love the Torah what does this mean what is the ending of this mattress that's question number one what does it mean why why are we bringing this verse what does this verse teach us it's interesting the 80 safe when he tries to explain as Rosie says we just wanted to end on a positive note because this is the last piece of the measure Charlotte partial but I'd like to see something deeper I'd like to understand perhaps what is the intent how does this verse make sense at the very end of the partial also I want to understand you know this is a question we asked last week in a different context but here we are in the middle of the story and the Torah gives us a cliffhanger we're stuck over here at this point where you who'd is about to step up and plea and and Yosef is about to reveal himself but we don't move on in the story we leave off with this story right here at this point oreos who says go up to your father and peace and I'm understand what is the message because I decided to create that the purchase would be that things would stop here we would read this amount this week and we will continue with the story next week why did they cause us to stop here most interesting is that there's a summit here some of summer sabbath which means that this is the close of the pressure there's a certain closure that's occurring here even though it's right in the middle of the conversation it's right in the middle of you who de talkin to yo safe so what is the message what what are we supposed to learn from the full stop that occurs right here on the story so this hint this verse of sean rob lowe ave saraca abundant peace to those who love your Torah so i wanted to try to do some research to try to understand what exactly is this verse doing here what does it mean that the ruach ha kodesh serve vacas which usually means that a heavenly voice comes out or that if one looks at it from a heavenly perspective there's something else to see there's some other way of understanding things what is the depth of this so we're going to see soon in the tehillim and we're gonna look at the verses together but the idea is you know you have these two opposite things Yosef is saying go up and peace your father I have what I want I'm not interested in all of you I'm gonna keep Benjamin you guys go up and have your peace and of course that's not real peace as you decide there's no peace here I can't go up in a peaceful way to my father I did just darkness there's no light here but it's hard not to draw a parallel to what's going on in current events i'm not going to go into it you can draw your own parallel and see that this is exactly the conversation that's going on right now about artists rel about the UN resolution whether what's called piece pieces of peace or is it darkness kool aid etc etc and of course Yosef he represents the side because as he appears his brothers he's the side of evil he represents the ones who say oh go up in peace even though it's really darkness it's not really peace and the side of the light the side of you who to the side of the Jewish people is what are you calling piece that's not piece that's just darkness that's just destruction that's just argumentative but there's another perspective it's a much higher perspective that's the perspective of rock a dish two vodkas which means that the heavenly voice is calling out shell and relevé saariselka halo Mitchell there's abundant peace to those who love the Torah the end of the verse says and there's no Mitchell there's no stumbling block for those who love the Torah what is the idea how does it apply to our story so there's one more point which I want to bring up which this verse and the context of the verse explains and it's essential to understand within the context of the story we we spoke about it last week and we're seeing it again and it seems that the only way that we can come to a place of greatness of spirituality of revelation of Hashem is through darkness you're safe through all of his time through all these challenges he always knew that a sham was with him and eventually as a result of his challenges he came to a place of greatness he came to a place of leadership became the king over Egypt he became the king over the Jewish people and the brothers as well they had done a great sin they had sold yosef exotic and they had to endure a certain challenges certain difficulty in order to clean off the results of that Center noted for them to come to a place of rejoining back with their brother rejoining bringing all of the Jewish people together and beginning the nation of the Jewish people where needed to be begun which was in Egypt so there's a certain aspect in a way that Akhilesh broker that God has a person go through challenges and difficulties in order for them to be able to see good things at the end of those challenges and difficulties but my question in reading all of this is is that the only way is it only possible to receive good things by going through challenges and difficulties or is there perhaps another way is there another way to approach life such that things are good things are okay not just okay but a person can reach a certain spiritual attainment without that perhaps and I think that that is the message of this metamagic actually is telling us that in this conversation between Josephine Yehuda Joseph's saying oh there is peace even though this really darkness you good at saying no there's just darkness this is in peace and the Ruach eightish is coming in saying Sean relevance or Soho in the Mitchell there's another way to bypass the Mitchell to bypass the darkness to bypass the difficulties that's all peace completely piece from beginning to end venlo Mitchell without any hindrances without any stumbling blocks what is the shot in this verse so I looked at this person I was looking around to try to see if there was some hint to to why this message might be bringing this verse and I started a benezra and explaining this verse tells us like this genre Levasseur Asafa Tarasco a hefty I love your Torah fellow Mitchell came oh sorry there are no stumbling blocks like this arm like the princes so what are these Prince's that they've been Ezra's referring to so if we look a few per second bag of your versus before this is in chapter 119 verse 161 and this is a whole series of verses 8 verses with each letter of the 22 letters of the alphabet of the aleph bais and here we are on the letter shin or sin verse says sorry more the phone Athena the princes ran after me for nothing with wahab hardly Butley be king david says that it was from your word that my heart was afraid that what is there to be afraid of when things are going rough when things are challenging when things are tough only thing to be afraid of is God's Word so first king david says that when there are challenges when there are difficulties i need to connect to spiritual teachings and you connect to the Tyra I mean to connect to the mid sis I need to connect with my relationship with Hashem and that can take me out all those challenges but the M&S Ryan referencing that verse is telling us that there's something even deeper there's an even deeper way where it doesn't even come to that place does it even come to a place of Mitchell to a place of challenge to a place a stumbling blocks and that is Sean rob lowe ave sarasota hello Mitchell someone who is completely in love with Tyra was completely in love with God who completely completely gives themselves over to their relationship with a Shem that person Shalom rob has abundant peace and that peace is not the piece of yosef which is a false peace and it's not the piece of you who does saying what kind of pieces there it's just darkness it's not that piece that's a result of some kind of negative situation that comes around eventually to being peace it's an absolute peace that doesn't involve any negativity any even even any challenge and it's the piece of the one who's completely connected absolutely connected to a Kurdish broker to God to the Terra to those teachings and his relationship with Hashem and I think that this is why the Tory has a pause here there's a summit here there is a certain closure here because the tar wants us to see look there is peace and there is peace there is peace which is a result of challenges like we said if challenges overcome and there's a different kind of peace that's also possible which is actually not what this story is talking about this story is not talking about that kind of peace but we need to know that that kind of peace is possible we need to know that there's a contrast and that's what the measure is teaching us that both types of peace are possible and if we could look back if we could go back in time and we could try to undo this story and we could bring it back to the beginning somehow the Jewish people would have ended up in Egypt yes and it would have happened in a positive way but if there was a true love for the Tyra if there was a true love for spiritual teachings there was a true appreciation for the cash evos for the significance that Jacob as a representative of a college borough of God himself the significance that he gave to yosef if the brothers would have understood they would have acted out of love if they would have recognized that there's love there's a love of Tyra there's a love of spirituality if they would have engendered that love instead of focusing on hate instead of focusing on jealousy and seeing the negative if they would have gone in that direction then the story wouldn't have begun Shauna Lee Roth light law have a source of a llama mix all this whole story could have been prevented if there was a focus and Aggie Shah a way of going in life which had to do with love love for the Torah love for spirituality love for those who represent the Torah summer the funi phenom has king david says when those princes are running after me for nothing I haven't done anything wrong with our capo Hadley be what is my obligation at that moment to turn back to the word of a Shem to remember it's not about those sarem it's not about the princess of other nations who are making decrees about what's considered part of Israel what's not considered part of Israel it's not about those who say peace and they don't mean peace and what piece are you talking about it's not about that it's about going back to the Tyra it's about going back to the Word of Hashem it's about returning and remembering that it's it's my relationship with ash and that's what I'm here for I am in this world I am here in order to have a relationship with God to have relationship with his Tyra to try my best to do his bidding to do his will and so if my focus is on that day in la mammoth shawl there won't be any kind of stumbling blocks everything will go smoothly the troubles begin the stumbling blocks begin when I step out of that relationship with a Shem added that relationship with God and so that really two paths there's a path of challenge there's a path of difficulty and there's the path of prosperity and greatness and goodness because I'm completely connected to a Shem and ultimately my choice is not really between coming into and embracing a relationship with a Shem or not ultimately I end up in that relationship with a Shem the question is according to how much i align myself with a Shems will according to how much I'm aligned with God and godliness that's how much suffering i'm going to endure how much pain i'm going to have to receive in order to come back into that relationship with a gem in order to return to that place of peace and so the tire which is referred to as it Darrell Kyle dark a new Yamaha nice us are showing the ways the Torah are pleasant ways and all of its paths are peace Torah is peace when I'm in line in sync aligned with the Torah so I'm aligned with peace I'm aligned with goodness I don't have to go through the challenges that will realign me and bring me back so I want to bless you and please bless me back shrimp should help us to see to recognize that it's all about connecting to the Tyra it's all about connecting to God God's Word it's all about doing what's right and recognizing that should help us to not have to experience those difficulties to not have to go through those challenges but rather to keep ourselves in a place where we are connected to him and in that way maintain that piece stay in that place where those who love the Sarah they don't have any kind of stumbling blocks they don't have to go through difficulties but rather they always remain in a prosperous and loving place thank you so much for 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