Ari Goldwag - Noach - Of Doves and Olive Branches

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with Ari Gold wag recorded with a Shems never-ending assistance in ramat beit shemesh israel 5777 2016 this week's parsha is part just knock the Torah gives us the description of the events that took place during the time of North his generation was wiped out by a great flood and now Hawk alone survived he created this big tavie its large arc in which he and his wife and his three sons and their wives and many animals came in and they were saved from the Great Flood the Torah tells us that at the end of the flood after many many months of being on this boat the water began to recede I'd like to read to the verses inside it's in chapter 8 verse 5 am I'm hi ujala mikasa radical jasiri the water was getting less and less until the tenth month by see you bahut la hitesh the 10th on the first of the month new Russia harem the tops of the mountains could finally be seen verse 6 vehement caterham after 40 days valuev KO n'ya escalade nutiva ashura saw no opened up the window of the art that he had made 47 by shahe i rave he sent the crow Viet say yachts of a shave it went out back and forth re voices on my email Haaretz until the water had dried up from upon the earth next verse they shall I say you anime toy after sending the crow he sent the Dove Leroy shock Elohim I'm to see if indeed the water had become lessened Meiyappan hadima on the face of the earth verse 9 will a matzo high enema Noah Kulick a frog law the owner the Dove did not find a place for its for its foot to rest for Tosh available at Ava returned back to the ark keep my money clarets because the water was still upon the earth I schlaf EOW caca no I've extended out his hand took it back while you're very salable activa brought it back into the ark verse 10 vehicle oh gee la zelma him he waited another seven days by Yosef jajaja SI o no merit ova he sent out the dub again from the ark attaboy la viola a seraph the iana returned in the evening meanie Ali's i stir up a few and in its mouth it was a broken olive branch valle de Noah Noah new cacao how my mail Haaretz that the water had receded from the earth I'd like to read you two more verses verse 12 are you HOT by yah hell I'd Shiva seemed about him he waited another seven days I shall I say yo novel is watchable abode he sent out the Dove and it didn't return again then it was clear that it was the time to go out verse 13 by hibah Association hashanah and it was in the 600 first year of his life by rachelle mccullough hitesh on the first on the first of the month however my mail hearts that the water had completely dried up from the earth I astronaut has nexera not took off the roof of the of the ark valley Irina company Adama and he was able to then see he wasn't able to see before and so I had to keep sending these birds he was able to then see that the earth had completely dried quick recap the tour is telling us that North was not able to see clearly perhaps if it was yet the time to go out of the ark he sends the Oratory of the the crow then he since the ona a few times he sends the Dove comes back one time finally with an olive branch in its mouth then it doesn't come back to third time and he knows it's time to open everything up then he's able to see by removing the roof of the ark that the earth has indeed dried up now there's a beautiful mattress it's found here it's also financially Russian that speaks about the owner it speaks about the Dove and the significance of the Dove speaks about the parallel between the concept of the Dove and the concert the Jewish people the Jewish people are named Sheila k jana we are compared to a dove and there's a reason for that and it's significant in our parsha in the context of these verses I'd like to share it with you the first part of the men Jewish is not really the central focus of what i want to say but it's very interesting so i'm going to share it as well major says like this via shala has high owner of a gomer that now sent out the the Dove limits I am I not if the verse tells us that the Dove could not find a place to rest Lutheran aqua machinery monomer you who the burnham instead of a number of Chi Minh ela matzah maniacally ho so Hazaras we find that if it would have indeed found a place to rest so it would I have returned with havasu and in a parallel where we find that the verse tells us about the Jewish people this is in a cup lamentations chapter 1 verse 3 he ash from borrowing limits imaanaya the Jewish people dwelt amongst the nations of the world and did not find a resting place didn't find a comfortable place Elam wats imaanaya in the same way the Jewish people would find a comfortable resting place like how you hoist room they would never return to our cheese melted Land of Israel duka Vasa finds similarly another verse in Deuteronomy chapter 28 verse 65 vago lima Hamlet our ghia lo llaman oya amongst those nations you will not become you won't have a place to rest oh you don't matta maniacal ahoy-hoy trim just like the owner just like the Dove the Jewish people they are sent out into the gullets into the Exile never really find a place that's really comfortable and therefore the Jewish people ultimately will return to land the visible return to Earth see strong now the measures continues Valhalla achieve a comm another seven days passed eico mir abs he says schleich women sexually three weeks that had passed by Yosef shalaka say inevitable of iona he sent it a second time in returned the verse tells us terabithia that it had an olive branch that had been broken off that was in its mouth mahu tariffs what is the word broken off the word tariff is an unusual word qatil the word tariffs can also mean that it was killed hey kumada omar and and it's like that which the verse says director off you're safe that one yeah covino and Jacob saw the garment the special garment of Joseph his coat of many colors that it had blood on it so he said turo turo feel safe Joseph must have been killed and this verse is using us the same word I'm Allah Allah Shivaji lon Ralph how I miss avid that branch that you took was clearly a sapling in truth of an olive tree and if you would have let it be it would have become a great tree so it's very interesting we need to understand this point that the yona for some reason when it took a branch didn't just take the top branch of a tree it took a sapling it took it uprooted and killed a tree that could have been and what's the significance of that in this context so what is the concept and I'd like to just lay down a general question what is the idea of the ona it's really the focus of what I want to speak about what is the owner coming to teach us what is the message of this park what is the concept behind the entire description of the story of the Dove and what is the significance and how does it relate to the fact that it brought back specifically an olive branch now let's keep these questions in mind as we continue to read the marish the measures tells us mahagun javea i say where this branch come from rent all the trees destroyed by the marble by the flood avi Ibaka Hana armor Hariyama vacana says bishop shushing shivaji ooh la voi so they had been brought from branches that had been in the Land of Israel as we're going to see the Land of Israel was not affected by the flood in the same way as other countries where the RAM bond explains it is that the rain did not fall in the Land of Israel the water may have come from elsewhere but that destructive rain which was destroying the trees and all the surrounding areas that rain didn't fall in or to throw and so there were many trees and that indeed survived so when the yona went and brought back a branch it came from the Land of Israel where there had been so much destruction reveal a llamar reveal ad says maehara mishka evo is so that the yone actually brought this branch from the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem to look to foss are the estaba Mamula because Land of Israel wasn't affected by the flood who she could have Sparkle harmony as hell this is actually what God spoke about when he spoke to Ezekiel the Prophet it's a verse in Ezekiel chapter 22 verse 24 Eretz limit ahora he is it not a land which is pure villa Guiche mobygames on it wasn't affected by the rain in those days of anger so that's the first understanding that the branch came from Israel another shot the measure says which seems to be a contradiction but we will see that the idea is really the same Rob BB O'Meara BB says nif de culos sharingan Eden va va say that the Jana the devil was able to get into the Garden of Eden and brought this branch back from there Omar Bravo Arabia vogue says 'i let me got in an AVO is saying if it's indeed the case that he brought this branch from the Garden of Eden the hoist navy / mula aqui na mano Paul Simon wouldn't that have been better for to bring some beautiful smelling spicy branch why did it bring something that's mar something that's bitter like the branch of an olive branch why did bring something which is a spice and the remans rum zloy there was actually a hint within the yonas bringing this back there was a message to Noah himself I'm Ali lanaya it was hinting to Noah perhaps God was hinting through the honor through the Dove moot of mar musa lima sigma takasaka it's interesting because the language of the measures here is slightly different than the language the magician shyra sheer might actually like to read the measures there it says allah rammons rums Illinois I'm la mera naya the Dove as it were was saying a message to knock Meyer museum eat a casio g-shock kodesh Miroku relying mostly metallic say that I'd rather have something which is bitter but it's directly from God himself from the Garden of Eden and not something sweet which you have been feeding me on this Ark I'd rather not have to come on to a person I'd rather get my sustenance there directly from God so as we read the message animation realtor Cheney the measures needs to be understood what is it saying here what is the concept of the branch coming from the Garden of Eden or the branch coming from Eric C straw from Land of Israel what is the message here why specifically was it an olive branch why does it have to be something which is bitter and what is the concept that's being taught to know how kind to us of course that we'd rather have something bitter from God rather than something which is sweet from a human being now it's really worth seeing the magician shirish him I'm not going to go through the entire measure so I'm just going to you another little snippet of it there's a beautiful message that talks about the yawn of the Dove and compares the Jewish people to the ona just like it has certain attributes its faithful to its spouse it once it's with one another dove it never goes to a different of and all these different descriptions speaking about the Jewish people comparing them to the Dove it's worth seeing it it's in partiality the beginning of she Reshiram in Section some of gimel 63 but i'd like to share with you one piece of the measures which is in section 64 which is immediately previous to the piece that we just read about insurace um and it seems to be disconnected doesn't seem to have anything to do with our story but we're going to see that it's the essence of what's going on here it's just like this very interesting story Ronnie hi yeshivah darish one time rabbi yehuda an Aussie was saying address she was standing in front of a crowd and he was saying at VAR torah when it's not named at sea bore and people were falling asleep you know as is the way sometimes rabbi speaks people fall asleep be casual attire and he decided he was going to do something to wake them up armor and he said something which was you know surprising amar yonder isha a cemetery machinery vibhuti osaka's there was a woman in Egypt who had six hundred thousand babies at one time not twins not triplets not quadruplets 600,000 at once ye shaam Tommy their contribution number of the I sushma there was one particular student his name is Ruby schmell the son of a bi see I'm really man havas came he said who's that who we talking about who had six hundred thousand babies at once are male so Rebbe said like this Zoe avid this is your heaven she yelled ass masha she gave birth to moses chuckle can nega-chin Reba Shelly throw he corresponded and he had the value of 600,000 jews how do you know how tho deceive the verse tells us versed in Exodus chapter 15 verse 1 oz yah sure Masha leuven srl that there was a song that Moses sang alongside the children of Israel so we see the verse places them together in the same verse we learn out from there that Moshe was chacal he was equal to B'nai Israel to all the children of Israel there were 600,000 of them and then the matrix goes on to bring two different verses that also indicate the same idea that motion was chuckle he was equal to 600,000 jews and so this is what he used to wake them up now the question is what does that have to do with the yona does it have anything to do with the ona it seems to be out of place what is the concept here what is the idea how does it connect and what does it mean that that you'll have it at 600 I was in you know i mean it's it's cute it's surprising but does it have a deeper meaning what is the deeper idea behind this little piece of mesh so to start to get a hint to what's going on here there's a hco safe who tells us how these measures fits in indeed to our discussion about the yona about the tough he sell he tells us that elsewhere and there's this mattress quoted in a few different places and in one of those places it starts off this conversation by telling us that you're not see Thomas E which is the verse in she Reshiram in the song of songs speaks of this beautiful dove who is it a reference to so one understanding is that it's a reference to the Jewish people but another explanation is that it's a reference to Moses to Moshe up in a Shuckle can I get a call that he is wise you refer to the perfect dove because he is equal to all of them that's the introduction so it speaks about the fact that Moses is the perfect of then it goes into the fact that he is equal to all of the Jewish people and then it gives us this story with Rebbe that he surprised everyone with this amazing statement that a one woman had 600,000 babies which is really a reference to Moshe himself so what is the idea what is the dub why does the Dove represent this concept of Moshe being the perfect one and that he is equal to all the other ones what what is the idea what is the concept that our sages are teaching us here also we see that the yona can refer to the Jewish people in the same way that it's referring to Moshe so what is the concept and the teaching needs to apply both to Moshe and to the Jewish people so what is the idea here so to answer this question I want to share with you one more piece from the measures before and we'll be able to see from that what's going on in the entire measures what is the concept of the Dove the message before is going through different comparisons between the Dove and the Jewish people and it says like this my yonas osho Gareth's reglas hi baby quasar solution vaca just like a dove goes out of its nest then it looks around for food gathers the food then returns to its nest he throw in the same way the Jewish people the Jewish people do a parallel thing they go out of their nest so to speak which is Land of Israel they leave their proper place they go out they collect the mid sis they collect the sparks of kedusha the holiness that they need to and they return to land of israel ha deceive that's the verse means when it says in Hosea chapter 11 verse 11 yet hairdo could see poor me mitzrayim zip there amid bore speaks to the fact that the Jewish people had to go into exile and they were in Egypt and then they were in the wilderness collecting on sparks to bring back to Israel just like a bird who keyonna merits are sure and it speaks about the fact that the Jewish people are like a dove from the land of Assyria you know a source of autumn this is a reference to the ten tribes that they've gone out into exile and then in the end what's going to happen elevator boy shaft email bottom no mush em I'll return them to their homes says God Robbie I'm a rabbit tells us something extremely interesting and extremely relevant yesh manana there's a type of double makiling my son that when you feed that dove the cover a summer release or so then all of its friends smell the fact that it's eating they somehow know voice it's all to shave aha they all come to that nest Kochba sha-sha zucchini irish in the same way when an elder sage of the Jewish people is sitting and he's saying Deborah Tori sing spiritual ideas Harvick game is Gary a show at that very moment many proselytes are made many people become drawn to the Jewish people they become part of the Jewish people at that time he going Israel who shamatha us for example Jethro with somebody Moshe robina was teaching Terra Jethro hears about it and he comes rakesh amavasya another famous proselyte was rock of african on Michelle visaria Harvey game is gay boys to show at a time of Canada Michel and Azaria three great prophets there were many proselytes that came at that time my Tom what's the reason so the measures cause diverse American read the whole verse keeper I see a lot of Master Yoda be cubic dish me when my children see and Rashi tells us on that verse that's referring to the Sadiq and the righteous ones when they see the truth of the fact that God is in their midst so the next verse says maxi bus wreck the other tire Rua all those who have made a mistake all those who were unaware of God become aware of God when the Jewish people are aware when the Sadiq him the righteous individuals amongst the Jewish people speak about God so then it attracts gehrman attracts proselytes attracts it's a spiritual message which is hurt and it brings them back I know I said that was the last man i'm going to read but i have to read to you one more piece which is the beginning of the mesh which we read over in our parsha button she Reshiram there's an addition and it's a really important one and it's the essence here and with that we will take and explain everything that we spoken about it says like this Caillou named doug moe dee da da miedo y know the message tells us that you the the if we look at the jewish people we will see that it's the same thing as the Dove my yonas Oh heavier orla olam just like the purpose of the yawn of the Dove was to bring light to the world I fatma via oil eilam the Jewish people also bring light to the world shanira is a verse says a ho ho gaya I read the verse tells us in Isaiah chapter 16 verse 3 that the nations of the world will go they will walk based on your spiritual light now where do we see that the Dove brought light famous IV ayana early oil um when did that occur be may Noah the times the night and our verse hadaba deceive the diverse is about tavo a love ayana lays arab very interesting the Dove returned in a time of the evening viene al easiest harp Afiya and it had an olive branch in its mouth classically olives are that which provides the oil which is needed to light a light and so in the evening when the light was waning the yona the Dove returns with the olive branch so that knoweth can now have light inside of the dark tavie inside of that dark boat even in the evenings even at night and the essence of what this featuring is telling us is that Noah was in a dark place use it in a place where he couldn't see out until he took off the cover of the ark he was not able to tell what was going on outside it was dark for him both literally and figuratively so he needed the yona he needed a bird he needed specifically the dove and the Dove represents this concept of someone that has the ability to go out of a dark place to transcend to fly above that and bring light from a place of light back into the place which is dark the message is telling us that the Jewish people have the same exact ability the Jewish people somehow are able to transcend they're able to get out of the darkness of this world and they're able to transcend to a place where it's all light and they're able to bring that light back into the world so that those who inhabit the lower realm the lower spiritual realm can use the light that's brought by them in order to light up the darkness of this realm now the Jewish people plays that role for the nations of the world the Jewish people are the ones who bring the light from outside bring it down and in the same way Moshe Rabbeinu Moses does the same thing for the Jewish people Moshe is the one who is able to transcend to go up onto the mountain to bring back the light of God to the Jewish people where they are and help them to be able to shine out that light and now whenever he speaks beautifully beautiful whenever he speaks the result is that that light shines out and it calls to those who are spiritual and interested in seeing that light and and they are able to use that light as well and that's the game room the process those who convert to become part of the Jewish people as a result of the teachings of emotion rubino as a result of the teachings of the Jewish people the Jewish people are able to fly away from their nest fly out from that place of darkness from this world and they're able to collect the sparks of light from all over from from the place which is transcendent just like a yarn just like a dove goes around and collects its food brings it back so to the Jewish people go out and find that spiritual sustenance and bring it back and I'd like to bring it home by speaking about it in its really proper term is because this idea is called the concept of the colo which is the all-inclusive aspect which means that you have an aspect really it's 70 and 71 you have 70 nations of the world then you have the Jewish people who are the all-inclusive aspect of the nations of the world you have seven the offspring of Jacob of Yaakov aveeno and he is the all inclusive aspect all of the spirituality of the Jewish people is included in Yaakov Yaakov has all of the spiritual genetics of all of his children all of his 70 offspring so he's the one who gives them the blessings as we spoken about in the past needs the one who draws down that light from above so that they can see a cook clearly for themselves and make use of it inside the darkness now as I was preparing this devar torah so it occurred to me was it was very interesting that the yona the Dove the gamut of the were the owner the numerical value is 71 thus the Dove represents the transcendent aspect to kylo the all-inclusive aspect that's why the Jana is sent in order to see what's going on no I can't see he's inside of the darkness needs to send something that has the ability to transcend the darkness that's the aspect of the kollel that's the concept of 71 the 71st aspect which parallels the Jewish people and parallels that sadak the righteous individual that's also why the measure speaks about Moshe Rabbeinu in this context as being the one who is born who is inside of your head inside of that womb which is also the transcendent aspect which is the soda ybor is connected to the concert of the secret of impregnation but the idea of it is that Moshe is that one who contains the 600,000 he's the one who's that sadak who has the spiritual understands the spiritual abilities of all 600,000 of the members of the Jewish people this is also the concept of the zayas of the olive because when you take the olive and you squeeze that all of you get chemin you get oil and one of the outstanding characteristics of oil is its ability to float above water when you put water and oil together the oil floats to the top because it's the the aspect of transcendence that which is above and surrounding when the message tells us that the yona in order to find that branch went to eretz israel or alternatively it went to gunay then we went to the Garden of Eden what it's really telling us is that ye went to a transcendent place he went to a place which was beyond he had the ability to transcend from the place where Noah's bring back and for mation from another place which was a higher place which was more spiritual place in order to reveal in the darkness what's to be done next what direction Nowak is to take and the message of the Dove to know attend to us is that I'd rather take something which is transcendent and honestly it's hard to swallow so to speak it's hard to bring that spirituality down into this dark place but I'd rather have something which is directly from God tells the owner tells the Dove to us to Noah then having something which is in this dark place which is sweet I'd rather have that direct connection to God then have something which is from a human being from a person so the bottom line of the mesh what it's teaching us and the message that we can take home with us is that if we want to access spirituality from our dark place we need to be like the yona we need to be like the Dove we need to recognize the amazing spiritual power of the Jew because we are compared to the yarn we are compared to the Dove who can transcend and return who can go out and gather those sparks of light and then return whereas ability to be a light unto the nations to shine that light within the dark place who returns that evening and brings back an olive branch so that now there can be light on the darkened tavie so I want to bless you and I ask you to please bless me sure should help us to recognize our amazing spiritual power that we have some should help us to be able to access that transcendent spiritual light I shall help us draw that light down into the darkness that we find ourselves in into this world some should help us to shine that light out so that others can access it and that the whole world can be lit up by the beautiful light of yo no se toma see that beautiful perfect dove which is the Jewish people 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 a calm or search on itunes re gold black you