Ari Goldwag - Vayetzei - Drawing God into the Darkness

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with Ari Gold wag recorded with a showman's never-ending assistance in remission which is around 5777 2016 this week sparsh has partially I'd say the Torah tells us about Yaakov e-news journey from his hometown all the way to Horan to where his uncle lived loved one and his meeting of his future wives Raquel and Leia and on his way there he has his famous dream and he sees the famous Jacob's Ladder with angels going up and coming down the Torah tells us that hashem spoke to Yaakov Aveeno God revealed himself to Jacob as he was going on this journey and God made him promises that he would be with him throughout his time in Koontz Lords outside of Israel and throughout all time really through all of history and it's very interesting as Yaakov Aveeno as Jacob wakes up so the Torah tells us that when he woke up he made a vow and this is what the verse says suppose a pair of cloth S Plus a cuff it's in chapter 28 verse 20 Valley dare Yaakov knit early morn take Abhay following vowel immediately him Ahmadi if God will be with me which Mirani but there has it and he will protect me on this path I Sharon I feel a leaf that I'm going but not suddenly left I'm like halt who beggin the bush he will give me bread to eat and clothes to wear verse 21 the shotty be shown a base of e and I will return in peace to my father's house while Yash M Lila the Kim and God will be my god God will protect me verse 22 by Evan Isaiah sure something might say about this stone that I have placed here as a remembrance yeah basically Cameron will be the house of God this will be the place the future temple clasher t Tinley austere eternal love and all that you will give me God I will give you 10% I will give a time so when we read this we need to understand what is the concept of a vow in general and what's the concept of this specific vow of Yaakov II know of Jacob what was he trying to accomplish a shaman already promised him that all would be well with him that he would protect him while I was he making a seeming condition with God i'ma forcement say it wasn't really a condition but why does it seem he's making a condition with God that if God is going to give him all the things that he's promised then Jacob is going to make this vow he's going to promise him as well that he's going to give him 10% of whatever he receives of whatever income he has what is the idea generally behind a vow what's the idea behind this vow and it's especially intriguing that as we read them in Russian that speak about this puzzle about this verse mean Russian tell us that this vow of Jakub Aveeno is actually the foundation of all future vows of the Jewish people whenever a Jew in the future would make a vow it would somehow connect to the vow of Yaakov it's something that we find in tehilim in the Psalms King David wrote in chapter 132 verse 2 a SHINee viola shaman Darla viriato via major Springs that when dubba dubba hemella when King David speaks about an oath that he's made to God the valid he's made to God he refers to the fact that God is the God of Jacob measures points out LaVere Avraham will hear you talking soupcon it doesn't refer to Isaac or to Abraham in this verse when it speaks about a vow l another live ear Yaakov he refers when when King David refers to his nether the the vow that he's making he's making a vow to the God of Jacob Tolleson adam Amisha pasa with Fela David homologue refers to the one who made that first night of the first vow which was Yaakov in which was Jacob what is the idea here what does it mean that whenever we have a nether whenever we have a vow somehow is connected to you above you know - Jacob and his nether his original vow and I want to read you the next piece in the measures which also makes reference to other places where we see the vow is connected somehow to Yaakov you know - Jacob ravu not ashamed of edr marks eve ruining the name of ET said that there's a verse in different elements in chronicles 1st chronicles chapter 29 verse 9 is Know Who am I listen Adam the nation was rejoicing because of the nether because of the new dava because of the valley they made he believes Shalom is not wash em with a full heart they made their vow to God become mm Ellefson oxen koga Delilah King David also was rejoicing what tremendous joy as a result of this we see interesting very interesting there's a concept of simcha a concept of joy which is somehow related to vows the message continues with official u.s. sukham insisted over all of the other if you have some who since they were involved in the Mitzvah of making a vow and they were able to fulfill that vow that was why they were rejoicing the feel of mahu I mer therefore what does it say by Evonik Douglas assembling a law called King David blessed God in front of all of the congregation and are referring in King David's blessing he refers to God as the God of Israel locator again a major point said look here Hiram eat so visceral a timer come doesn't say the God of Abraham Isaac and Israel Israel by the way he throws a reference to Yaakov of Eden to Jacob it doesn't refer to all three of the boys it just refers to you Sorrell and allocator lovino refers to the God of Israel are far our forefather Tallis another would be chapeau sock white fella here to the measure she says that they are nether than editor of the Jewish people the valide maid was connected somehow to - yeah Covino also another place it's in by midburn in numbers chapter 21 verse 2 it says ye dare you throw which means that the people of Israel made another metric points out by ye drawing soupcon doesn't say it plural doesn't say that they the people of Israel they made another they made a vow rather by either you throw it's it's a reference in singular - yes well who is it referring to you sir also though it's a reference to the great-grandfather to the Jewish people which was Israel which was Jacob Yaakov avi knew that he made another and so in the future whenever our nether will be made by the Jewish people whether it's on an individual level by the king Navarro Malik or whether it's the Jewish people as a whole it will always refer back somehow to the nether of Yaakov Aveeno and still we need to understand why what's the understanding what's the depth of his teaching of the meddra Sh another interesting point that we see in this in this positive universe in his nether is that when he makes this matter when he makes his vow so he says to God like this if you provide me with bread and clothing and I return home to my family I return home to my father's house so that's where the nether is that's where this vow is going to take effect and the Midrash um and the before shem they discuss and they address the fact that jakob Aveeno asked for something very simple he said I just want bread and clothing which is really the basic necessities of a human being that's all he asked for you and ask for too much more and yet despite that he made just a simple request the Rubino bhai points out that what he received because of his request as a result of another as a result of this vow was much deeper much greater and and was really amplified let's look at the Rubino bhai together it says like this it's in verse 21 the shaft debisch Allah know based on V he said and I will return to my father's house in peace the Robina bhai says you talk in lima it could be explained call national it's a yakima pivot now there's a I call this kind boy that every single thing that Jacob said when he made this vow it was all fulfilled in him which Mirani but there Hazare he asked that God protect him when he went on his way he now chamise paurav Shah Mardan who we know that indeed Hashem protected him on his way and as I'm afraid sure honorable bhai explains we know Yaakov himself says about himself devil okay avi hi y'all Ahmadi that the God of my father was with me it's a verse in chapter 31 verse 5 so you see that Shem was with him indeed as he asked the second thing he asked for waha left him so it refers to bread so the literal explanation of the word left hem is literally bread it means food but there's a deeper explanation of the world lehem who had a notion Shalaka we see that there was an amplification of what he requested and what he received was he received these wives that he ended up marrying rahul and leia billah and Zilpah Milosz and we find that the the word lakum can also refer to women two wives from the verse Kiran Lohia 11 it's a verse in Exodus it refers to a man's wife as bread became key mhmm ROFL also in regards to Joseph when he was when it refers to the fact that he had dominion over Potiphar's house so the only thing that he didn't have dominion over was the bread that Poti fire 8 which is a reference a veiled reference its Nia's way immodest way referring to his wife so this was fulfilled Yaakov Aveeno received the bread so to speak which was the family that he was going to begin building the Jewish people Baja beget the clothing wooshin is Asher deceiveth sign LaVon so this expanded to include the wealth that he obtained as a result of watching the Sheep of loved one which was the the sheep themselves that's what he received shall be glad I may not simmer name because clothes are made out of wool so the clothing could refer also to the wealth that he received the shaft debisch on line and he returned in peace he should cost of I of a Yaakov shawl in the verse refers to that in fact after this whole story that Jacob returns in PC returns completely and the last point that he made Jacob made when he made this nether it was Valhalla Shamli little Kim and God will be for me a God who shook us off this is what we find this fulfilled later by Ecole a Catholic a Israel God is referred to as the God of Israel the God of Jacob who was renamed Israel Israel so we see that all of these aspects were fulfilled now what I want to bring out is that it's an amazing thing and we're gonna see this soon I'm gonna share this with you as well in another Meldrick which is really interesting a beautiful story about a certain gear but you see over here that the idea is that he made a nether he asked for something he asked her a simple thing but he received it not just in the simple sense of it but in a deeper sense in a much more broad sense he received those blessings careful could fly me many many more times and he originally intended now the message I want to share is a story about a keyless high gear he was a particular proselyte became a Jew it was originally not Jewish and the story is told about him in the message here on this verse was not something left him the hollow bigoted little bush refers to the fact that he asks for bread and for clothing so Achilles I guarantee so rebellious her Achilles the price I came in to rapidly as there any asking the following question we're like I recall sugar sugar we find that God praises the Gershon Emmer but I have Gare God loves the Gary loves the proselyte what's the praise what's the great love that God shows us this lifetime is similar to give him bread and to give him clothing it doesn't sound like such a great thing you would think that perhaps he gets prosperity but God loves him and the way that he expresses that love is just by giving him his bare necessities what's the understanding he didn't understand the gare was asking is that how God shows his love so interestingly rebut the Ezra was not was not so happy about this question he felt that this question was asked in the wrong way and so his response was quite negative I'm are low ecology vain AHA darkness Kavita knocking what do you think that it's just the subsistence level thing that he asked for is insignificant we find the yaku of you know Jacob that's what he asked for he has God for clothing and for bread and you think that that's not a way of God showing you love who buzz if I cheated of ikana so he pushed him away and he didn't respond to him in a favorable way now the gare went on also look I better be sure the game went the proselyte went through Yeshua his schema fights with the forum and review sure I answered him in completely different way in a completely different manner and he started to explain to him like this left him Zotero you should know that when God says that he loves the Gary's gonna give him bread and he's gonna give him clothing it doesn't mean just the simple understanding doesn't mean just bread and clothing the bare necessities but laugh hem the bread is a reference to Torah it's referring to the teachings of ATAR difficile ahool aha mobile acme the verse omission in proverbs chapter 9 verse 5 refers to the torah first the teachings of a shem to spirituality to the great depths that we have here refers to it as bread go out and and receive my bread so be sure told him don't worry that's the first thing Simla now what is the concept of the clothing that God is promising you is a Tally's it's not just any clothing that we're talking about is talking about the clothing so to speak that a person wears in his eternal life when a person gets up to remind when he gets up to heaven so the deepest form they speak about the fact that a person gets up to that place has a certain clothing a certain garment that he wears which is made out of the mitzvos which is made of the commandment which was made out of the tower that he's learned in this world so they form from a garment which protects him in the world to come so review sure was telling the air that Hashem loves you and he's gonna take care of you and make sure that you have Torah and that you have this amazing spiritual garment to protect you in the world to come for all time and the measure she goes on to show that we find that by the Kohanim by the priests who would serve in the base some English in the temple they had special clothing there's special garments and the idea of these special garments was to represent the fact that the Kohanim the priests had a special relationship with God because of their service of God and when they were serving God they would wear these special garments representing the abode of the service of God that they doing so Reba schewe was telling he was Mathias him he appeased him and he explained to him that the Torah doesn't mean just a simple thing it means a much deeper thing when it refers to the bread into the clothing that you're going to receive as a result of God's love for you now bringing it back to our Plus it's an amazing thing so it means that when Yaakov Ino asks for a simple thing which is bread and clothing he's not just referring to a simple thing of bread and clothing he's really referring based on the met the way the measure is explaining it with the story he's referring to spiritual bread spiritual clothing is referring to the Torah and to the clothing that a person receives in the world to come as a result of the mitzvot that he fulfills so it's an amazing thing is a beautiful explanation a beautiful way of understanding the verses in the nether the promise that Jacob is making and the requests that he's asking of God that he'd be provided for with these things with these essentials not just physical essentials but even deeper spiritual essentials but the point that I'd like to understand here that needs explanation that needs that we need to understand the depth of is why is this teaching this aspect this concept of the depth of the left home of the bread the depth of the concept of clothing why is that being taught here in the context of the nether in the context of the vow that Yaakov Avena that Jacob is making now there's one more metric that that when we understand the concept here we're gonna understand the depth of this measure as well so I'd like to share with you and the message tells us the next piece of the measures would be sure to see Flemish a mere LaVey Rebbe schewe of sit and said in the name of rebel av not a lot college world who seek essential advice God took the the speech of the forefathers our son must act like with us and shall burn him and he used them to be a key to the redemption of the great-grandchildren oh my lack of the sparkle God said I Tom Martin of oh my gosh I'm Lila Liu Kim you Jacob you said that God will be for me as a God heck I swear by your life called Titus ooh breakfast and hummus all of the good things all the blessings all the constellations which means the Google of the redemption shine a noise and of an echo that I'm going to give to your children your grandchildren any nuts none Ella blush and Isaiah you will find that I'm gonna use the same language that you used shenana the verse in sakai and Zechariah chapter 14 verse 8 says mahalia by Emma who Yeats my mission line it will be in those days the waters of life will come out of Jerusalem mahalia by tomorrow yes washing machine is yellow the crisis Shama it will be in those days that God will add on a second time to be kind to bring in the rest of his nation first in Java hi-yah by now it will be in those days it will harm us is another verse it's talking about the redemption well how you talk about Chef Ricardo it will be in those days I will blow on a great show for a Redemption so we see because Yakov Aveeno used the hollow of the word it will be God will be for me a god Hashem says God says I will be for you a god and in the future I will be redeeming the Jewish people and I will be bringing them back bringing them back from their distance from me and I will be blowing that great show for redemption so we see here an amazing thing a beautiful thing Shem uses this word in the middle of this nether in the middle of this vow that he says it will be shown says it will be you said this and it will be I will show my relationship with you I will show my relationship with your children and grandchildren so again I want to understand what is the depth of this teaching and why is it here in the middle of this nether in the middle of this vow that Yaakov of you know that Jacob mix to Hashem to God and I believe that the depth of what's going on here the answer to the question here is hinted to in just a few words in the RAM bond in the humanities he says the age being inside he says in this concept here this is his explanation of verse 21 in this concept here it's a deep secret me Masha Amuro based on what our sages said in sugus DAF CUFI you know a base page 110 be call it a broken soul or it's diamond Kamisha anally laka that whoever lives outside of israel it's considered that they don't have a god that's what victim artist says in in suus person lives outside of the land of israel he doesn't have the same level of relationship with Hashem it's not the same there are certain mitzvahs that can only be kept that can only be fulfilled in the Land of Israel those that are related to the land my search rumah shmita Yeovil a whole section of the Torah can only be kept here but besides for that the the deeper understanding is that the relationship that a person hands with God outside of Israel Pasha shot this is what the Gemara says it's not the same as somebody who lives inside of Israel and what's amazing here as I was thinking about what is the room band talking about what is he trying to tell us he said there's a secret here whenever there's a secret of course it means that there's something hidden here that we need to uncover we need to understand because that's what a secret is there's no secrets when it comes to the tire everything is open for us to discover and try to understand but when it says that it's a secret it means try to understand this point otherwise the Rabanne didn't need to write this at all and so what's the idea here what's the depth of it and why is this being taught here also and the idea I believe is that yak of a veena knows he's leaving the Land of Israel and it means that he knows he's going to a place where his connection to Shem is different it's a place where it's much harder to connect to God and the very fact that there are less mitzvahs and hustlers them there are less Commandments represented show us that indeed cuts arts is not the same place when it comes to our relationship with Hashem it's not like Eretz Israel it's not like living in the Land of Israel Yaakov knows that he's leaving now from that place where the connection is openly clear and that's also what's represented in this dream he has a dream he sees the Malik I'm going up coming down there's different sets of Melaka and there are different types of angels there are the angels of the Land of Israel are the angels who accompany him as he goes out not the same angels not the same level of connection not the same level of protection and Hashem has told him I'm gonna take care of you don't worry no matter where you go I'm gonna take care of you but Yaakov knows in an order for him to be able to hold on to what he's had a nurse's role in order to hold on to his connection with God he needs to make another he needs to connect himself completely it's not just the commitment the vow is not just a commitment but it's an it's a commitment that comes with no matter what whatever comes my way whatever difficulties whatever challenges I'm completely and utterly committed to my god I will do whatever it takes to stay connected that's his nether that's the power of the nether and the result of the nether is the result of this vow is that no matter where Jakov goes an amazing thing happened even though it goes to the hood slurs he goes outside of the Land of Israel which naturally is a place where God doesn't seem to be there as much it's not openly obvious nevertheless yakko's nether gives them an amazing power his vow says I will always be connected to my god I will always be connected to that level of Revelation which I experienced in Israel I will always have that I'm drawing that with me outside to foots Lords to the place where I'm going right into the fire right into the challenge right into the difficulties I'm drawing God with my vow along with me to that place where it seems that God is not and I'm going to make sure that no matter what I will be connected and I will experience God in that place as well now the result is an amazing thing the result is that a simple thing something which seems to be physical something which seems to be just bread and clothing you know when we look at that at this on the surface you know talk about bread talk about clothing yeah we thank God for our bread we thank God for our clothing we make blessings on these things we recognize that it's from a Shem but it's something that we need to think about it's not something that you naturally look at your bread and you say oh this is from God you look at your clothing you don't think naturally this is this is from God it's something that God seems to not be in that place just like boots Lord seems to be a place outside of Israel seems to a place where God doesn't really seem to be there so much his chakra is not openly apparent but the amazing thing is that the power of a neder is that it takes the place where it looks like God is not and draws God into that place as well so the lack of the bread is what he asks for the clothing is what he asks for what does he receive he receives a much deeper definition of bread he receives wives he receives the Jewish people who are result of those relationships he receives clothing he receives wealth which is a magnification of what he spoke about which is a magnification of what he asked for it's where God reveals himself in those things in those places where it seems he's not whenever you have blessing whenever you have a reboot wherever you have something which is more than just the posh the simple understanding that's always representative of the fact that God has come into that place that God has revealed himself in that place so a neder the vow what it does is it connects the person it connects Jakub Aveeno all the way back into the place of godliness which is the place where he seems to be leaving and it draws that godliness and that reboot that transformation into many fold making things even greater than this simple understanding it draws it along with him and it helps him return back to that place where he originally left from in peace and that's what he asked us worn as that Robina bhai says that's what he receives and it's beautiful because that's the depth of what Rubio shoe was telling the gare he said you look at the words of left him and similarly look at those things and say is that that wall is that all I get and the answer is look at Yacouba vino look at the depth through his nether through his commitment what did he get as a result of that commitment he received much more than he asked for when it came to bread and clothing and and yet Rubio is saying you also you're a gear you're a convert you have chosen to have a relationship with God you've chosen to commit yourself to God in a way that's completely different than all of the other people all of the other non-jews in the world as a result of that what do you see don't just get clothing and and and bread that's not what it means it means you get Tyrel you get the depth you get the the God infused version of bread which is Torah you get the God infused version of clothing which is a life that lasts forever clothes in the midst vus the beauty of the commandments that you will have fulfilled as a result of the depth of your commitment the Jewish people for all time as a result of Yacouba Vino's nether we will see the consolation we will see the blessings what does that mean it means that he connected into the deepest place through his commitment through his unswerving commitment through that valve and Netta that he made the Jewish people also for all time the constellation that we will experience the Google the redemption when God reveals himself in the world through the Jewish people and specifically to the Jewish people that will be a result of that original Nedim that Jakob Aveeno made it's connected that's the Valhalla it will be because of the connection in that time it comes back in the end just like Jakov experienced as a result of his manner he came back there too strongly experienced the full results of his the great manifestation of his original request because of the nether the Jewish people also will receive that many many fold in an amazing revelation that Shem will will reveal to the Jewish people enter the world and in a similar way whenever a person makes another whenever a person makes that commitment which is inviolable where the Jew says no matter what I will keep this commitment so he connects back to Yaakov and in turn he connects back to God in the deepest way possible and that's why the Jews whenever they make another in that you look at the context whenever they make that nether it's about connecting to God and the deepest way possible the nodosa the promise that they made to God and King David he makes his nether he refers to the God of Israel because Jacob was also called Israel was the one who initially made that amazing connection through the vow I want to bless you and please bless me back of shem should help us to be able to recognize the amazing power of another to use our commitments our ability to commit to god an unswerving commitment to be able to make those commitments in the places where it seems like you know I can does this Nissan is too hard for me I'm going out at the foot starts I'm going to a place of Darkness the spiritual darkness Yaakov teaches us that it's possible to connect to God and to be in the presence of God no matter where we are and to be able to return back to that place of holiness of greatness which is represented by art Zeus relish um should help us to be able to tap into that power to see to learn from a Yaakov unit to see what he did and be able to connect in and also ultimately to connect into the ultimate promise which is God's promise to the Jewish people of nahama of consolation of Guell of redemption 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]