Ari Goldwag - Toldos - Chamber of Exchanges

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with Ari Gold wag recorded with us gems never-ending assistance in Muppets image Israel 5778 2017 this week's partial partial stole dose and in our party this week we have the beginnings of the story of the tours description of the events that occurred in the life of Yaakov Aveeno of Jacob and his brother ace of Esau and the tour tells us a few different things a number of different stories but the gist or the main topic that we have is how ASA is born is born first he was the firstborn he was very physical he was very you know even when he was born he was very hairy it was very his name was ASA which means Mila Sean a soui he was made he was already an assert to a certain extent complete when he was born so he was physically very much complete Yaakov Avena was to each Tom he was the whole or simple person eurasia valhallen he sat in the tents and it's very interesting art you know the description in our parsha is about how Yaakov Aveeno first buys the bahala the firstborn rights the spiritual rights to be the one who brings the car bonus the sacrifices those things that anyway ace it was not so interested in he was more McGoohan he was more physical so Yakko purchases that for a bowl of a de xin a bowl of lentils and as the parsha continues so we find that Yaakov Aveeno is forced almost by his mother by rifka who who knew that yahoo was supposed to be greater who was the greater one because she had had that neva she had had that divine inspiration when she was pregnant with them so she encouraged and and and almost forced the hand of Yaakov to steal the blessings their firstborn blessings of a sub and then he was forced as a result a sister hated him he was angry at him he was forced to run off at which is what we find and we know there will be this discussion next week's parsha but in looking at this in in evaluating the store trying to understand what's going on so it strikes me as very difficult in his explanation why is it indeed why did I sham set it up in such a way that ASA will be born first there would be the one who has the firstborn rights if he was not gonna be somebody who indeed would be approached then it would be appropriate friend to have them that he would be someone who we meet yes who would have a relationship with those firstborn rights with the kedusha with the holiness with the spirituality that's not a waste of why's why was a sub indeed born first forcing the hand of Yaakov to have to come and steal or trick as Asaph says mcenany's a pemain yaku forced his hand twice so but why did i sham set it up in such a way that Yaakov would have to steal the broca's that he would have to catch a sub when he was very hungry force him to give him the firstborn rights in a certain sense as a result of him buying them for a bowl of soup for a bowl of lentils why was it set up this way well I didn't know Shem just make it really simple now Yaakov avene will be born first Yaakov is the one who is more spiritual Jakub is the one who naturally is connected to spirituality let him be born first there used to be more second and we'll skip all of these difficulties all these challenges all of the the the mishaps that occur as a result of this exchange why was it exchanged and and furthermore to make the question even in a little bit more difficult a little bit more challenging Yaakov is he doing the right thing Yaakov is tricking him right that's what Asaph says he tricked me twice Yaakov has to trick in with the bowl of soup with the bowl of lentils Iago has to run in and steal the breakfast blessings seems like he's doing something wrong Djokovic Tom Yaakov is the epitome of the concept of a mess of truth why is it or what's the shot how could ya Cove take something which isn't is doesn't seem to be his is it his is it not his is he taking something that really belongs to him now what's very interesting is this concept is discussed there's a story from Rebbe Nachman I mean I've been has a whole story which I can't there's not enough time for me to get into and great depth or in great detail but this story is basically about a king who has a son was a prince the his wife the Queen gives birth to a child and at the same time they have a slave there's a slave who lives in the in the area and she also has a child at the very same time the babies are switched at birth and so the slave the son of the slave ends up becoming the prince he's raised as a prince and the the true prince is raised as the son of a slave but all along throughout the story the son of the the king and the truth the true prince is drawn towards world to run towards greatness and the the son of the slave is drawn towards things in a more crass he's not he learns the ways of royalty but it's never natural for him and the story progresses and by the end of the story they end up being returned to their rightful place the son of the son of the Prince the this the true Prince I'm sorry the son of the king and the Queen ends up becoming the king and the slave boy ends up becoming the slave to the king but the the story represents this switching this switching that we see in our parsha and soon we'll see that it's not just in our partial but truly it's a theme and you find throughout the entire Torah throughout the entire history of the Jewish people but in the story so so you see it very clearly that there is a switch Gina has happened and it represents the switching of the physical and the spiritual right we look at each other we look in the at the physical worlds we look at ourselves and we see the physical that's what we see the spiritual aspects of ourselves a spiritual aspect of the world is much more difficult to see so the spiritual which is the true Prince so to speak the true reality so that's been switched Adamo reached on cut him I hate Adam before his sin if you would have looked at him what would you have seen you would have seen as as our the deeper sources explain his skin his are the word for skin and Hebrew is or with an lion his skin was or with an Aleph originally it was with with with an olive which means lights so you would look at him and you would only see spiritual light you would have to squint your eyes to make out the fact that he has a physical body but it was reverse of the way it is now today our physical aspect the physical aspect of ourselves is that which is dominant is that which we see is that which seems to be the King seems to be the Prince but things are reversed the truth is that the spiritual aspect is what's supposed to be the Prince what's supposed to be dominant what's supposed to be in charge but things have been reversed things have been switched as a result of the sin of Adam are we shown and this as women often explains nothing explains his student this is the concept of why it says about other my research on that after he's sinned he was thrown out of the gun he was sent away from the Garden of Eden and there was a Clara miss Apophis which means ordinarily translated as a sword which is spinning a spinning sword but actually it actually means meta Peck means the switch it's switched there was a sword that's switched something was switched things were switched up switched around that which was originally primary became secondary that which was originally secondary became primary so we got as a result of other my research on sin week amen to the predicament the situation that we're in now which is where the physical aspect is dominant comes into this world dominant a spiritual aspect seems to be secondary now that is what's going on here in the story of Yaakov Aveeno with a coven Asaph a sub is the physical aspect a sieve is the one who comes out fully complete he comes out looking like an adult even though he's a baby so he's that complete aspect of physical aspect and Yaakov Aveeno is a spiritual aspect he's the weaker aspect he's the Meeker you know it seems on the surface to be the weaker aspect and so the result of this idea is say Yaakov is not stealing so to speak the bras of Asaph he's not stealing that which belongs to a sub he is taking back that which is rightfully his because he is the prince who has lost his status as a result of admiration since everything is upside down everything is turned over Yaakov Aveeno is born second really should have been born first he really should have but because of the world the predicament that we find ourselves in now everything is reversed so the the megamouth the aspiration or the Mitaka the goal is to bring things back to their original state which is that the spiritual is ascendant the Yakama vino a jacob is the one who's on top but it's something that has to be done in a sly way it has to be done in an unusual way to reverse the results of the same amount of are we shown to get us back to that original state and if you think about it this theme and this concept runs throughout the Torah I mean you look at Joseph's ecstatic and his brothers this is talked about again in the commentaries on the story which reference the different statements that ready not when this dinner nothing but you look at Yosef and his brothers really love on who's the father of Richland and Leia so lovin switched his two daughters raha was supposed to be the main wife of Yakov Aveeno she was the one we're supposed to have Yosef first if he Oh save would have been first so Yosef would not have been his brothers wouldn't have been jealous of him he won't have been the object of their jealousy because he would have been the natural leader being the firstborn but because of the switching around of things Yosef is born as a younger child as a younger brother and so he earns the scorn and the jealousy of his brothers and that results in him being sold and sent out to Egypt but it really should have been he should have led them and he should have been the firstborn things were reverse things were changed or even the fact that you find that an avro mommy who is born to a Tara who's an idol worshiper who's he sells idols that's the this idea of things being reversed or you look at rifka she is more - basu L was in Russia her brother was lovin Rahul and Leia they were born to a love on who is this Russia he was a an evil person and yet they were to be the forebears the matriarchs of the Jewish people so you see this theme consistently and not only that but you see throughout history you see in the very essence of the Jewish people and our interaction with the nations of the world you see it even down till today but you look at the Jewish people you know you you it's very strange why is it why did I shouldn't set up history so that it would look like when the Jewish people returned to Israel that we have stolen the land which is our land it looks like we stole this land from the Arab populations who lived here which we can discuss the the truth of that statement is it a myth is it not true you know you read you read what Mark Twain wrote about in the 1800s about what was going on here in Palestine in the Land of Israel was called Palestine right the Land of Israel in in 1800 there was nobody here it was empty there was no agriculture there was no there was nothing right there was very few people here there were Jews here in Jerusalem also people of other other types of people who were here as well but but it was very limited there was almost nobody here and so but why did a sham set up the history so that it would look like an accord that could be a claim that the Jewish people have stolen the land away from the indigenous people why - I'm set up this way and even when you go back to when the Jewish people came in after mid-stride after he did their sojourn in Egypt and in the wilderness there were Canaanite nations that they had to overcome to conquer so why did I sham set it up in such a way why couldn't it just have been empty let Kleist I'll come in but the Jewish people come in why is it that the world is set up in such a way that the Jewish people who are really supposed to be the leaders of the world a light unto the nations why is it that we have gone into exile that are we haven't been able to establish until very recently a country of our own if we are supposed to be the leaders of the world as is our mission as that's the whole essence of the our purpose in life so why is it set up the opposite and the answer is this very same concept which is what romina refers to as the hey-ho to erase the chamber of exchanges and the idea is that the king the true king the true prince loses his crown it's switched to somebody else the nations of the world seem to be in charge the nation of Edom which today manifests basis of today manifests as Western culture the United States Europe that aspect they they have the crown right now but the Jewish people are supposed to have the crown right the Jewish people are supposed to lead the world spiritually but currently that's not the state of affairs it seems to be the opposite there's only at best sixteen million Jews or something like that of them maybe a few million of them are actually connected to the to the traditions of our forefathers there are 1.6 billion Arabs Muslims the 1.4 million billion billion Christians right so we look at the world doesn't seem like the Jewish people are it seems like we have lost our crown we have lost our kingship we have lost our of who were supposed to be and instead Asaph he's the one who has it he's the one who has that crowd but this is the setup this is the way it's meant to be it's meant to be reversed it's meant to to have this inverse way of reality being and part of what we're going for part of what all of history is about is bringing back the King bringing back the true Prince to to become back to his rightful place to become the Prince that he truly is but in the meantime we watch and we wonder and we say everything seems to be reversed everything seems to be the opposite everything you know you smile it's the same thing in the story be small and and Yitzhak small is born first as well and he seems to be the one who's going to be the Rhett the heir of Abraham of Abraham and to this day it seems like who has spiritual ascendancy it seems to be Ishmael but the true Prince which is the Jewish people which is Yeats Huckabee no Isaac so sorry I may know who her name is princess or I means my princess Sara means the princess so she is the true matriarch she's the true princess yes Hagar who gave birth to Schmo she was the maidservant and she had been a princess in Egypt but she was not the true princess she was not Sarah and so there's that chamber of exchanges again where it seems to be that Yeshua is the one who's going to be the era of Avram and he's fighting for that until this day they're fighting for that they're fighting for the fight over you shall I'm the fight over over our trophy land of Israel is this fight who is the true Prince who is the true chosen one of God who is the actual true Prince and there's been an exchange and we're waiting for the exchange to be returned and we know and we find this theme throughout the Torah that the Jewish people what are we going for we're going for the time the Messiah of the Messiah and the idea of the Messiah of the Messiah is where the where the crown is returned to its proper place and and the Jewish people become the people who they're supposed to be we become the leaders of the world spiritually we become recognized and in the story of Rebbe Nachman so ultimately the the slave son admits and he allows himself to become the slave of the true Prince so there's an admission and that's paralleled in a tour itself we find that when get stuck in his mulberry avraham when aram dies you smile we also find we mentioned the fact that he dies which signifies the fact that at the end of each man's life he repented and in fact when you look at the order when it comes to the the burial ah of Avraham it places Yitzhak before you Shmuel whereas by Asaph interestingly by a 7 Yaakov when they bury his he serves name comes first and the reason is as cos all our sages explain because your small hub was Heiser petrova yesh mile who's the aspect of the Muslim nation so so at the end so he admits to the truth that Yaakov I'm sorry that Yitzhak is the main progeny is the main spiritual heir of Avraham Avinu of Abraham and so the result is that you shmeil turns around at the end there's an admission by the slave that he is indeed a slave and the true Prince gains back his crown becomes the true king and so that's what we're waiting for and and and I want to say that the the lesson for us we if we think about it we think about on a personal level on this is true on a global level and it's interesting but how does it apply to me lesson for us is that in our lives also the the main drive that we have is a physical drive because we you know there's a switching the switching the spiritual drives that we have the spiritual aspirations that we have often can take a back burner we can take the back seat and that's because of this switch because of the of the hey Claude Maurice the chamber of switches of things being exchanged so in our lives naturally it seems it seems that the physical things the physical desires they take the front seat but there are the things that we feel we sense them and we're drawn towards but the truth is and this is what happens in the story and the story bourbon Ocwen like you pointing over here because you're a verb you document stories in this story rebbe nachman so at a certain point the king the true son of the prince and the slave son they are they feel inside of themselves that they have to admit the truth they have to they have to go after who they really are the slave some realizes that he needs to admit that the king's son is the true king and the king's son the prince realizes that he can't he can't live a lie anymore he can't continue to live as a slave son he needs to be who he really is and so each one of us inside of ourselves has the voice of the true Prince and has the voice of the slave son we have the physical voice the voice of our desires of our physical desires and each one of them both of them know the truth and one of the things that I've share with you in the past which I heard from the Shiva is that you you know you can always tell which is a good thing which is not such a good thing because when it comes to the physical desires often so when we're on the way to doing those physical desires or we hit we're in the middle of doing them so we feel nice but afterwards often the feeling is I can't believe that I did that especially in regards to nivara but even regards to regular things like well it's eating a lot or whatever it is when when when the person gives in to his physical desires so it feels good before and during but it feels bad afterwards as opposed to a spiritual thing something that's spiritual before and during it doesn't necessarily feel good it's challenging it's difficult but afterwards a person who's always feels a or generally feels a deep satisfaction I know I did the right thing I know I went against my heart I went against my natural inclination I did what I knew is right that's always a deeper satisfaction so what you see in that by the way is you see that even the physical aspect of ourselves that pushes us to do the things that we that may be wrong or that are more physical afterwards we know even within that part of ourselves we know that that's not our true desire the true desire is the spiritual aspects of ourselves and so we have an opportunity always to to follow in the ways of Yaakov Aveeno of grabbing back so to speak the crown which is rightfully ours which is the spiritual aspect of ourselves and that's not an easy thing to do and requires talk Beulah's requires tricks and we have to do things that trick ourselves so to speak we have to do things that seem underhanded almost in order to get back what's rightfully ours the spiritual aspect of ourselves and so this is the challenge and I want to bless you and I bless I want ask you to bless me a shrimp should help us to be able to tap into the voice of the Prince which is inside of us the voice of spirituality should help us to be able to recognize the truth because that's the beginning of it is a Shum shop was to recognize the truth who's the real Prince the spiritual aspect of ourselves and who is the real slave Sun seems to have ascendancy but some should help us to recognize who is truly supposed to be ascendant the spiritual aspect of ourselves and who's supposed to truly be a slave who's supposed to be subservient and that's the physical aspect of ourselves 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 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