Ari Goldwag - Mishpatim - Giving out Giving in

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with Ari Gold wag recorded with uh shams never-ending assistance in Rome up in which Israel 5778 2018 this week's parshas partials mesh bottom and the tour begins to tell us some of the laws some of those things that apply especially be another lobby between man and his fellow these laws were given at Mount Sinai now we had the beginning of the description of the awesome experience of the Jewish people over a million Jews experience an open revelation of God in the mid bar at Mount Sinai in the wilderness and these were some of the laws that were given then we see that the Torah continues with a description at the end of our partion so these laws are sandwiched in between because all of these laws were given at Mount Sinai I'd like to show you some thoughts about the medrash which speaks about some concepts we have many laws here been a little Javiera between man and his fellow but then Lamont come into a man and Hashem between man and God specifically I'd like to focus in on two pieces in the Madras in case of Thomas I mean which speaks about lending money there's an obligation when we lend money not to charge interest we cannot charge interest to our fellow Jew we lend money and we trust in God that the money that we're lending first of course will be pay back but second that it's not something that we charge for very interesting okay in the second concept they were gonna speak about has to do with giving charity and both of these concepts are intertwined right because if I don't have the money right I've if I have money in my hand so I can use it to to invest in things and to make money I don't have that money so then if I give it to you or lend it to you so then I don't have that money I lose money so money having the money for time has value that's why a bank charges interest or that's how I have you take a loan pay interest but in Jewish law we're not supposed to do that it has value it's an aspect of charity okay before I get into this I want to speak about something which is it's not charity but what it is is an opportunity and that is it's not connected to the parsha we're gonna get back to the partial in just a minute but I'm putting out a new CD right I don't just put out the rhetoric I put up music and through the music I inspire through the guitar we inspire we get closer to touch them it gives us thoughts gives us inspiration and through the music also many songs more Hashem I'm a hard I have a video the song I'm a high which is about Jewish unity 5 million views over 5 million views a sham loves you almost a million views Chanukah light a beautiful song of inspiration around Konica time has over 800,000 views and then whereas other videos and songs that I incorporate amazing messages spiritual messages and I have a new album brand new album Ari Gold Beck calm / new album you can check it out there and there's some previews of the album and there's an opportunity for everyone to be involved in the album at different levels get different prizes and a part of what I'm going to say well part of what we're going to see here is that giving sadaqa giving charity or giving lending money without interest as through the recognition of the fact that we're all part of one whole we're not just by ourselves the money that I the money that I make is not just for me there's a meisner need to give 10% of my income to the poor what is the idea because we're all interconnected sometimes a sham gives money to one person but it's really meant for somebody else that's what we're going to see and sometimes a sham gives like a sham blessed me with talent I have amazing songs more Hashem I don't I don't take the credit for it I just happened to be rich so to speak in in music so shouldn't gave me that talent and I need to share that with all of you and it's only possible if those who are listening to the music are also sharing and recognizing that there's a tremendous expense make an album is 70 to 80 thousand dollars so just want to give you guys a heads up about that now back to the debate aura okay so dollar akka number out her major shows like this in kiss of tall Venice on me if you shall lend money to my nation don't deceive maar behind a Benicia for service is if somebody gets rich and the way that he gets rich is by collecting interest he takes a lot of interest and he makes a lot of money that way laconian down a pizza no so Hashem will gather it up Hashem is referred to as the one who has compassion upon the poor she will gather the money what does that mean yes Adam sure washer the the measures gives us an analogy that this puck is referring to somebody like this somebody who's rich will mouth apparatus he lends money with interest maja nice woman har Bay and he makes a lot of money that way who mace believe on him this guy dies and he doesn't have any children what happens to his money we call her mom and chi'lan if not a team yet the money that he had all goes to the government the government collects the money what is the money then use for Mama is my salmon what is it can do with that money boy abeam saw you somewhere hot size fits the boys he builds bath houses and public places and platforms about two key sites and bathrooms give the shallots are on him and it ends up being of service to those who are poor Irina and Dominique Pizza no in the end the person thinks that they're going to make a lot of money and they're gonna they're going to charge interest to those who are poor and in the end what does he get the money ends up in the hands of those who he didn't give his dacha you didn't give his charity to or he took interest from double fare the measure says another thing Marv behind even a chef is a niece of a Russia this is a reference to Esau the evil one shoe mama Nashua service that he would lend money with interest well the moon madness como mine right so he charges a Severus I believe a reference not just to ASA to Esau himself but a reference to Ed I'm the the the oom asylum the nations of the world and the nations of the world so there's no prohibition from collecting interest but despite that there still is an aspect in the tires view of richness of negativity and such a thing okay Lamine watkins commonly Sorrell just a magician amazing thing to whom is he taking all of this money for whom is he actually going to end up taking this money lease ralph for the people of Israel Shanna Merlin and Alan the verse says for the one any savea's referred to in this verse as the rush evil one who's who's making lots of money with interest honey and allan sherman's referred to as a guy named alum as the one who has compassion on the poor so it means it's going to who's who this god have compassion on where that's the money going to go to the people of israel the jewish people the damned are vishal alicia the lamb was a zoo as moses am the verse in ezekiel chapter 39 which I believe is speaking about the times of Messiah and the Messiah arrives so what's gonna happen is those who had taken the booty had taken all of the money from Klaus all the Romans when they destroyed the temple they took all of the vessels of the temple the gold in the silver etc so all that stuff that was looted from the Jews the the Nazis they took all of the valuables of the Jewish people right all that stuff will be returned we will loot those who looted us so to speak it will come to a point where there will be a you know a repayment taking back of what's rightfully theirs similar to what happened in Egypt where the Jews walked out of Egypt with tons of gold and silver which was rightfully theirs they had worked for many many years without getting paid for hundreds of years levena is your coat is worthless he's throw and therefore God warned the Jewish people or exhorted the Jewish people shallow Yahoo boobies they should not go and lend money with ribbons with interests conditional oh yeah i'ma say I'm interesting so that others should not end up getting the Jewish people's in the custom their their property okay so really what the what the message is telling us here is an amazing thing what is that what does that mean Shem says don't take interest so that others don't end up taking your stuff what what's the idea here so the idea clearly is that if I take interest basically what I'm doing is I'm taking something that's not mine I'm taking his money he borrows money from me him paying me back more money is me stealing it's a type of stealing I'm taking something that belongs to him and ultimately that thing will be taken away from me it goes back to where I was taken from just like there rich man who took interest from all of the poor people he dies without children the money ends up being used on behalf of those who are poor so college bar Hashem has a specific address for this money for some reason it comes through this person and ends up in that and it's supposed to end up in the hands of somebody else it looks like he earned it but really it's not meant for him it's meant for somebody else it's meant for the poor person very interesting Madras so the Jewish people are exhorted don't take interest don't take the money that's not yours cuz you're gonna lose it anyway it's not worth it it's not good I okay that's the first piece in the mesh that I wanted to share with you other pieces over here nothing and this was this piece was in you Dolloff of partial Amidala and this one is at the end of partial I'm at Aleph and yours I am Number 17 okay now it says like this my seldom a question you might see my stress of Kuro there was a story of a person we used to take off the his time he would take about ten percent of his income as his supposed to be done 10% of his we'd of his crops actually talking about here oh you like so da Haas and he had one field I saw I saw LF me dice and it would it would produce a thousand times meaning he would plant as they see us if explains he would plant a hundred seeds let's say or 100 something that was that was meant to to produce a hundred and it would instead produce a thousand very interesting why would it produce so much why would it produce more ten times more so what was the reason why it's also the momentum may I mean it's the my service the magic hints to it at the beginning we're gonna see that this is the bottom line of it but because he was giving it doesn't say this explicitly if I'm saying shaatnez because he was giving Meister because he was giving 10% of his crops to the poor to sadaqa to charity so therefore a blessing came upon his field and instead of only producing 102 produced a thousand when am i sorry miss Barney souvenir a say and from the other nine hundred measures so he and his family got par no so they got the money they got that which they needed they would sell it or they would eat it whatever it was the shots patear uh say when it was the he was about to pass on to die Carlin IV I'm early he called out to his son and he said to him I mean he called his son in and he said to him then he turned a house others oh is it then my son pay attention to this field cough cough cough music a photometer slow my sir this is how much it makes it produces a thousand measures give a hundred of those measures to my sir to the tithe me man oh I see you some his parents called yah my and he also he's not explicit here he just says this this is the field that gave me in my pronoun gave me my livelihood for all of all of my life but he's hinting not sure that the field was that which gave him a partner so buddy that the my sir the my sir was what caused him to have partners to have that livelihood okay the guy didn't his son didn't really hear this kitchen if time in our the money passed on from the world Shauna Raisch I necessarily saw been on since I left me today so it's me minimize feel of myself sorry may Allah my sir so the first year everything went smoothly it produced a thousand measures just as it did the previous year before the father had died the son took off the my serie took off ten percent Shana shaneoh Nicholas buying in raw police I saw uh what happened in the second year is that the guy the Sun set himself why I'm giving so much tobacco so much money it's crazy am i doing because so you may so he took off instead of giving a hundred portions 100 measures he gave ninety it says it as a explanation why he gave ninety peanuts on email as a result of the fact that he gave only 92 sadaqa the following year it only produced 900 Finchley Shizuka nervous each year he gave 10 Kamisha I'm not myself in the end he was giving one or maybe I'm sorry give 10 less sorry the first dream a hundred the 90 then 80 until he got two giving ten he didn't notice the pattern this guy didn't cop he didn't get it that because he was giving less sadaqa less charity his field was producing less Kevin Shiro cries of cough when his relatives saw this undeveloped Shilov on him they got up and they wore white clothes which was actually fancy clothes they got into their shop is closed and it's not with LaVon even if in sweats like they came in to speak to him I'm gonna handle a bust him in Toulouse Mahalo he said to them you must have come to make fun of me you guys are all dressed up like it's a party Here I am I used to be making it I used to have a thousand measures now only have a hundred you guys are coming in to make fun of me your shop is closed you're making a party I'm really fast Michelle I said him now have him forbid the butter my little Smurfs info they said no we have come to rejoice with you so ever I used sabaha bias and colours for who coin very interesting what they say to him it used to be that you were the balla bias that you were the one who was collecting the money the the the big money and Hashem was the one who's the kind the kind is the priest he's the person that you need to give your tithe to so you used to give him a hundred and used to keep nine hundred like our father did the app should NASA sky and look at the sparkle Bala bias but now what happens is things were reversed Hashem is now the Bala buys who has the thousand and you're the one with a hundred have you really a turkey festival so this is what it means in the verse the verse says he won't realize that through his his miser leanness that will cause him to have less he won't realize it it's very interesting he says you're making fun of me and they say no we're not making fun of you we're rejoicing with you because you've become a priest now is that a sarcastic cynical statement I don't think it is I think that what it's coming to say I think that they're coming to say look you you can decide to learn your lesson or not this is the lesson the lesson is that you think that you're the one who has all the money you think that you're this guy thought that he was this thousand was his and that he could give less or give more and you didn't realize that the money that he has like we said before the money that he has is given to him for others it's given to him to give to the next person and to the degree interestingly to the degree this is really deep so listen carefully to this part to the degree that I acknowledge and recognize that I am NOT alone then I am not just somebody doing things on my own making money for myself to the degree that I recognize that I need to share what I have I become connected to others I become connected to everyone around me I think I'm connected to the greater whole to the degree that I that I sequester myself that isolate and I don't connect to others so I lose something there's a blessing there's a blessing that comes when all of the pieces of the puzzle are together and all the pieces of the Jewish people are by Octus they have unity that special blessing comes and a coda Jabbar who steps aside from being the balla bias Hashem lets us be the balla bias so to speak Shem lets us have the blessing or Shem I would say differently obviously actually a Shem is Shia the shame of the divine presence dwells there and there's extra blessings when you have a whole picture when you have that Claudius when you have the whole all of us - Shalom we have peace we have many pieces coming together we have peace so then the blessings come in that place all of the pieces come together it's like you know we have this has to do the concept of the of the of the Carlo so the concept of when you have like a face right so you have eyes and your nose and your mouth now if you take these apart and just look at you know if you cut up a picture and just look at the eyes or just look at the nose or just look at the mouth doesn't know it doesn't look like a person it looks like those pieces individually but when you bring them together each person a specific look each person has a specific face that's the combination of all these features the mouth for me a beard ears hair all of these features come together and you look at this face and there's a total picture the total picture is the pain of a person person you know has their look has the you know when you look at the person you feel a certain thing you you associated with it there's that whole picture and you have the whole picture there's something magical that happens when all the pieces come together that's when when a person gives sadaqa when a person gives charity when a person does not charge rebus when he doesn't charge interest he recognizes that it's not him it's not just me I'm not by myself I'm not all alone I'm connected to all of you and when I'm connected to all of you so then blessings come in to all of us more blessings come upon me and upon my family because I recognize that I'm connected all of you and I was thinking that this is really perfectly appropriate for what I mentioned before which is the fact that I'm putting on a new album amazing music really special music and I'm just gonna share with you I haven't really shared this so much I've been doing a whole bunch of promotion on my Facebook etc and haven't really spoken about this but what's unique about this project is something that I've never done before is that I've involved a lot of other people a lot of other people and it's actually been much more expensive than anything I've done in the past and among the people that I involved are some of the people who are at the top of my business yes he brisk minuet C Walden or play master studio among others and why am i sharing this on the Devourer tour why am i sharing this in the middle of a of my partial podcast and the answer is because like I said before this is both of these things that my Torah that I share the music that I share these are who I am these are my sleepless in the world this is what I'm here to do and I'm connected to you I'm connected to you I'm sharing with you and so because I'm connected to you I Shem sends me I get more blessings I get more blessings I get more songs I get more things to inspire myself and inspire you and it's important that the people who are receiving also acknowledge that they are connected to the person who's giving it's important that those who listen to the music also step up and join in to the music and that's what the opportunity of my my crowdfunding is to be part of it and to show that you know it cost a lot of money let's cover this together so I encourage you go now Ari Gold wag comm / new album and choose from the different packages there there's lots of different rewards you get secret bonus tracks all kinds of cool things get your name in the thank-yous you can dedicate a song I'll compose a song for you go there and choose a reward and take part listen to the grade there's samples of the new album and there's some fun videos there thank you so much so I want to bless you and Hashem should bless me and all of us that we should be zactly we should merit to recognize the opportunity that we have when it comes to giving sadaqa when it comes to giving charity when it comes to lending money shall I be rebus with interests the recognition should help us to have that recognition that we are all intertwined we're all interrelated we are all connected some should help us to receive those blessings that come when we indeed recognize that fact thank you so much for listening have a wonderful Shabbos this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you for more podcasts like this please visit www.gfi.com/webmonitor [Music]