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Ari Goldwag - Yisro - Hearing Hashem's Voice
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What is the difference between Moshe's experience of the revelation at Sinai as opposed to the entire Jewish people's experience? Why is his experience described as 'seeing' as opposed to the Jewish people's which is described as 'hearing the voice?' Why does the Torah use the name of Hashem in the interactions with Moshe, as opposed to Elokim, which is used for the Jewish people? What are the 'seven voices' that were heard at Sinai? What is the idea that Sinai is the source of all prophecy and wisdom? Find out in this week's parsha podcast.
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you're listening to the weekly partial
podcast with our Eagle lag recorded with
a shell never ending assistance in ramat
beit shemesh israel 5777 2017 this
week's parsha is precious you throw and
we have the climax of the exodus we
experience the Jewish people's leaving
Egypt going through the Red Sea and
experiencing the most amazing miracles
of the exodus itself leaving Egypt but
it was all leading up to receiving the
Torah to serving a Shem on this mountain
on heart ce9 Mount Sinai and there was
an amazing experience 600,000 Jewish
people that's just the man you had
another 600,000 women children million
and a half two million people all had
amazing experience God spoke clearly to
the Jewish people they all experienced
an amazing revelation God speaking the
Ten Commandments the Jewish people each
one able to hear God's voice openly
plainly clearly and i'd like to share
with you a ram bond and a mesh which
indicate or give us the clarity you know
we hear the story we hear the amazing
experience of the Jewish people and we
think to ourselves wow that was a long
time ago and I have no idea what that
means I don't know what to put the note
it's beautiful it's awesome but I can't
really relate to it but the mattress and
the ramen bun indicates something
amazing and that is that we were all
there our souls were there we all
actually experienced the revelation at
heart c9 the revelation of God's
presence in the world individually each
and every one of us experienced it
Kurdish m's voice and it's something
that until today as we'll see something
that until today is manifesting that
original sound of God's voice that we
all heard then so when we listen to the
partial when we hear it in shul in the
synagogue or as we speak about it here
we need to know that this is not just
ancient history or or ancient teachings
this is something that's relevant to
right now to me and new today and it
manifests today that ancient voice that
voice which is although it seems ancient
that that voice of a Shem God's voice
speaks to us through our time spoke one
but it speaks to us all the time so I'd
like to share with you this beautiful
lamp on the rambun is explaining the
pasta the verse says that it's speaking
of this description I'm going to start a
few took him earlier a few verses
earlier chapter 19 verse 18 Iceni ocean
culo Mount Sinai was full of smoke with
nasha are a lot of Shambo ish God had
come down upon the mountain as it were
in fire viola Chanel a Chanel keyshawn
and the smoke was going up like a smoke
of his stove the Quran collage Lloyd the
entire mountain shook very much verse 19
by E coli show for holy focusing mode
the sound of the chauffeur was getting
stronger and stronger very strong when
she is out there Moses would speak that
ik me on end of a call and God would
respond with sound or with a voice and
we'll see about this voice that's going
to be the central topic Maggie read
Hashem the next verse says my ADA
Channahon il shahar God came down on
Mount Sinai to the top of the mountain
bike rush of emotion and Rochelle Harley
al moshe and a Shem called out to Moses
and he directed him it seems to come to
the top of the mountain la jolla Moshe
Moshe went up as very interesting Moshe
is going back and forth speaking to God
speaking to the people and the Jewish
people are not allowed to go up on the
mountain moshe is the only one who's
allowed to go up on the mountain itself
and yet although Moshe here are certain
things and the Jewish people here are
certain things the Jewish people hear
the voice of God they hear a direct voy
a sham says a nokia Asha melaka I Amish
em your God singular I'm a Shamir God
each individual Russian speaking
directly to them and Moshe here are
certain things that there are
individuals who can hear we're going to
see exactly what's going on
the run but i'd like to read it to you
inside beautiful run bond he said like
this my year National Hockey Night in
Pascal apart you're talking if you try
to understand the depth of what's going
on over here you'll see you'll
understand keisha mojado yarder heart
scene I chaklala beige that God's great
name came down onto Mount Sinai and
dwelled upon it in the fire the houma da
Baron Moshe and that's what spoke to
Moses but Deaver and most of the Kalasha
mishima mucoid the nun bun points out
that whenever we see in this posture
that I chemin speaking to Moses it uses
the name you'd cave of cake which is
specific specifically the name you'd
cave of gay which has a certain
connotation which will see exactly what
that is here soon while leo lion CL
across maka maka vote the Ramon tells us
that emotion would come in and go out to
the place where God's honor was
commotion pierotti as I explained
earlier the huge your opinion hurts to
Allah shimla rose so the Jewish people
have to be careful they weren't allowed
to go past a certain point that's
actually the next verse asharam says
instruct the Jewish people make sure
that they don't enter into a place to
try to see if they try to see to try to
get access to God in a way which is not
appropriate for them things will get
destroyed people will die somos has the
capacity is the spiritual capacity to
receive a sight so to speak of God will
see what that means but the Jewish
people themselves they are able to hear
god they're able to hear God's voice or
the sounds of God or the sound of what
God wants to impart to each and every
individual so there was an instruction
to make sure that they don't try to come
and see she got my tea lemonade salt
lake house website because even the
highest of the people of Israel the
children of Israel even the greatest
scholars and sages the 70 righteous ones
who were just the level below motion
arum they were not able to see God holy
self shomal call hashemi tohe ish all of
the people of Israel heard the voice of
God coming from the fire
and when we need to understand so
reading this what is the idea of the
fire what is the idea of God's great
name that's coming is welling on the
fire what is the difference between the
way most remain oh here is that he sees
it he sees the the name of God which is
used as good cave of K but that's will
soon see the name is used for the Jewish
people is a different name the
experience of the Jewish people is
different than most revealing the Moses
so we need to understand what is the
difference bhushan mr so this that we're
saying now that God's voice is being
heard to the Jewish people from within
the fire who shun emma is what we
thought we've seen the verse it says in
chapter 20 verse 15 Bariloche in Ascot
Varma Allah God spoke all these manners
and it doesn't use the name your cave of
cake uses the name hello Kim which
denotes judgment commercial emma roberts
say no herim bond says it's explicitly I
could like I say should say anal okay
melody on canaima low Kim always denotes
a judge for our Merle and our causal our
sages when describing the event in
describing the experience of the Jewish
people they said nepean vohra shimano we
heard these Commandments we heard the
sarah said arose from the mouth of power
guevara means power but it denotes the
aspect of judgment denotes the aspect
shall soon see how that manifests here
what is the idea of judgment what does
it mean judgment in this context /
Mishnah Torah and in the varmint says in
chapter 5 verse 19 casa y ahora ella
debe Hashem alcohol cam it speaks to the
fact that God spoke to the entire
congregation by worship Irish me toca h
an unbonded scenes is trying to explain
that dairy uses in a nude cave of cake
uses the name of rock I mean not of
Guevara not of judgment but rather of
mercy in speaking of how God spoke to
the entire congregation but there it
says me toca Asia God spoke from inside
of the fire meaning it's a description
of the voice of a Shem which is inside
of the fire which we'll see what that
means soon is that time pranab upon him
and this is the explanation of what it
also says in Deuteronomy in the
description
says now sham spoke to the Jewish people
face-to-face well this idea that God
speaks up face-to-face especially if as
we're saying we're not seeing God we
don't see God only Moshe has an
experience of seeing God as it were
doesn't mean literally that he saw God
God doesn't have a form but most she
does have an experience of seeing of
some sort whereas the Jewish people have
an experience of hearing so what does it
mean when it says punting the punting
that God spoke to us face-to-face what
is that idea we're going to understand
soon with a cast member on nokia xem LOL
kappa that's why also it says i am
ashaming your God because somehow when
God speaks us face to face it becomes
individual it becomes individualized and
we'll see what that means like I keep
saying what's clearly means in Nuremberg
continues I'll dick shala huh don't ask
a question what you could ask a question
you could ask Masha Allah hey mimosa in
the next verse in Deuteronomy the Jewish
people say to Moses came me call buzzer
sure Sean McColl a lil kim crime madhavi
mcComish that who is of all flesh who
heard the voice of God Living God
speaking from inside of the fire we just
said that I could coming from inside of
the fire so the experience is of Hashem
himself of not no voice but rather the
rock coming the the UK vodka aspect
which is really included in the concept
of mercy and the concept of seeing as
well soon see but what is the idea here
why they referring to the voice of God
speaking from inside of the fire kilo
ohm Raja mother Kim McDonough meet up I
didn't say that they heard God speaking
but rather the voice of god awful
Americo looking shaman sheissziegel
because they only spoke about what they
had themselves can see what they had
themselves experienced the talk armor
and that's how they said corrado Tahu
shmeh as colostrum are hoshan ok no so
they said to him you go and you hear all
that Hashem your God is going to say
they don't refer in speaking of motions
experience to the voice of God whether
they just said go here Hashem your God
okay no maneje Moshe and motion also in
speaking of their experiences kshama I'm
Colin okay madaba me toca ish has any
nation heard the voice of God speaking
from inside of the fire so we need to
understand what is the idea of hearing
versus the idea of seeing motion of
amc's has an experience of seeing when
it comes to understanding of God whereas
the Jewish people has an experience of
hearing so I want to read see one more
section of the storm bond and I think
it's very important to understand that
means the Italian the lancets from this
you can understand much I'm aerobics and
tahmid the Midrash I go to see fine but
house i'll refer constantly to a certain
idea Kiba Shino Carlos Nick Notaro the
color was given with seven voices what
is idea that the fact of the fact that
the total is given with seven voices the
hain jiske r w ms more hollow
disseminating them we see that King
David in the 29 chapter of Psalms refers
to the voice of God a number of
different voices caller macaw off
caution bahadar we say when we return a
tour to the arc boo hoo I mean in high
near mazda par shadows this number is
hinted to in our partial give I heat
colors of rockin cause they're each time
it says the word voices it's written in
a singular form if you look inside of
the tour it's missing above it's missing
the the letter that makes it into plural
so if you count them up begin the echo
to each one each time in several colors
you counted as one the same column rally
McCoy list yes i'm going to robin each
time it's missing the letter that
although we read it as floral but it
could be read as singular hina hey Misha
if you count them up there are six cry
never basura should buy your daughter
look am it also says one time explicitly
that God spoke so there are six times it
says the word voices the seventh is
where God Himself actually speaks so we
see that there are seven voices what is
the idea of the seven voices what is the
idea of the experience of the Jewish
people at Mount Sinai and how does it
relate to us today so like to share with
you the mesh
which their online references and it
speaks to this idea of the number seven
which is really the number 70 which has
to do with the concept of speech versus
the concept of seeing now if you
remember I said at the beginning that
our experience of God today our
experience of the Torah today our
service of a Shem our experience of how
we understand the Torah and the
tradition the novel ideas that we might
say in our understanding of Torah they
are all rooted in that time 3,300 years
ago when the Jewish people receive the
Torah this is an explicit teaching of
our sages and says like this duffer
acaba de Bariloche him as cod Varma a
lowly more God spoke all of these
matters and he said over the sarasota
bros the Ten Commandments other than you
suck this looks as an amazing thing what
does it mean it's cause Varma Allah God
spoke all of these matters what is all
of these matters mush on a vm a city
mcnabb boy so called David or Caitlin
MacCarthy night all the prophets who
will ever speak throughout all the
generations their prophecy was received
at Mount Sinai chicane Moshe Omaha metro
most who speaks and he said to the
Jewish people chiesa sure yes John Paul
II Manoa Oh made a young and so sharing
an appointment Ohio all those who are
standing with us today and all those who
are not with us today the second half it
skips the word standing Iman oh man how
Yom in Sitka doesn't say those who are
not standing here with us today le monde
Ohio it just says those who are not with
us today so what's you're referring to
Johanna shamans how seriously Boris
these are the souls that are going to be
created in the future Shane b'ham Amish
they don't have any substance chillin
memorable hmmm either it doesn't speak
about them as standing you can say that
they're not standing here today because
they don't exist yet official oh hi
bharosa shock or lack of accountability
low amazing thing even though they
weren't there at the time they didn't
exist
they still received what was theirs at
the time this came to Omer and this is
what we see the measure springs to
different sources to this idea in an of
itself mazda wash em le SEL de yada
milwaukee the first refers to the
prophecy of malachi it refers to the
fact that there was the word of god in
the hands of milwaukee beam a molecule
alone mr doesn't say in a time of allah
ki ll be on milwaukee this is in the
hand of Allah I should fire holy son of
will be other my heart Enoch he had that
prophecy and his hand already and it
went back he had received it already so
to speak at Mount Sinai be a dose of
shock lo meno deliciousness navos but
until that time he didn't have
permission to say the new voyage didn't
have permission to say the prophecy
became meshia is there as well armor he
said neethu Yosef some money from then
there I was I mean you Shia MIOSHA Nina
Torah Isaiah was saying that's a verse
by the way in chapter 48 / 16 me
emotionally Thomasina shamla ec from the
date of the tour was given a Mount Sinai
there I was Ricky Bell theater nevados I
received this prophecy as it were ello
the optional Kim struck honey Baruch oh
it's now that I sham set me with the
spirit adoption Loney fellowships
Gustavo's he didn't have permission yet
to give over the new war and the
measures does an amazing thing local
enviable vodka Mussina never awesome not
only did the prophets or received their
prophecy at Mount Sinai Alaska haha no
mom did a hold of a door all the wise
people of all generations kala kala kala
kala Mussina every kiddush every novel
idea in Torah that's ever going to be
said throughout all the generations who
is all received there at Mount Sinai hey
Nomar this is what it means in the first
one it says in Deuteronomy chapter five
verse 19 s at the bottom how a lady vrml
Cole kalkan Cole good / vo-- Yosef never
says that God spoke in a great voice a
never ending that that didn't stop so
the idea is there was a voice that was
her then that would be heard throughout
the generations a voice of prophecy a
voice of wisdom or voice of Torah
every single thing every kiddush
distribution that we're saying right
here right now the partial podcast that
you've heard that we've been staying
here for almost 10 years every word here
if I was behaving to the truth if I said
something which is truly the intent of
what's going on in the mesh so it was
set at Mount Sinai all of these words in
the words of every Torah scholar of
every stage of every prophet all of this
was given at Mount Sinai now here's
where we get to the quote of the rambam
from the mesh and I believe that it's
really saying the same exact idea as
what we've been speaking to speaking
about until now in this mesh the 800 on
our vehicle and says call at cod there
was one voice of God neck luckless even
the Shiva Corliss that was split into
seven voices the Heyman o'clock in LA I
in Russian and it was further split into
70 different languages so when it says
that God spoke all of these manners it
means that he spoke seven voices the
seven voices the Rabanne talked about 70
languages what is the idea of seven
voices was the idea of 70 languages so
their measures continues America Schmoe
broccolini our vienes and Mount Kailash
in backlog who wants to understand what
does it mean we mentioned King David is
also speaking about these voices into
Hillerman chapter 29 of Psalms he says
the voice of a chef is in power what
does I mean I showing voices in power
why doesn't it say but cocoa and God's
power where's mean buck co-op in power
it sounds like there's some limitation
to the power meaning as the message
continues I'm not going to read it
completely inside but the message
continues and says God's power you know
amala when you hear an angel speaking
it's too powerful for a person to be
able to disable to receive to accept
it's too powerful certainly God's voice
is too powerful so what does it mean
that God's voice is in power it sounds
like it's limited a la calma cost
measures finishes often says the cost
call out colors God has the power of all
voices while I todavia konam and it's
based on the opinion of reveal con on
hot dog promise I'll a shin ever I shall
retain o Muhammad Asif summer of God is
able to speak
in a way that anyone can hear it God is
able to speak even though his voice is
so powerful it should blow everybody
away but God can limit his voice so that
each person each individual hears only
the amount that's necessary as atheists
have explained if a person was too weak
then the voice would be soft serve a
person was stronger the voice would be
louder imagine you came to a wedding and
you know I play at weddings I sing at
weddings and inevitably there are people
who complain as the music is too loud or
the younger people complain the music is
too soft but imagine if you can walk
into a wedding and if you're young the
music is loud for you and if you're old
or if you don't like to hear loud music
the music is softer for you that will be
pretty cool right that's exactly how it
was rush em spoke the voice was
precisely tailored the volume was
precisely tailored to the individual who
is hearing it and this idea that the
voice was tailored specifically to the
individual is the foundation of what it
means the Jewish people heard the voice
of God as opposed to moshe overheard who
heard who saw in a certain sense the
voice of God and the idea is that when a
person see something when you see a
picture of picture is worth a thousand
words you see a picture you see it in
the broadest sense you look at the
picture you can see many things at once
you can see a whole picture at once but
when it comes to words when it comes to
hearing sounds we're going to come to a
song you hear note and then another note
and then another note you're a word and
another word and another word and then
the pieces come together and your mind
puts all of those pieces together and
you hear a concept you hear an idea each
and every individual within the Jewish
people is a piece of a greater whole and
so when a shell speaks on the Jewish
people hear the voice of God it means
that each individual here's specifically
who they are in a larger picture of what
God wants for the Jewish people as a
whole and for each individual moshe
rubino he sees the whole picture he sees
the voice of God because he can see the
entire picture of the Jewish people and
was each individual person
owes his individual strengths and
talents are he sees the whole picture
here is the whole voice here's all of
the voices and all of the different
things that are going on but when a sham
speaks he speaks to you so nothing a
shaman alcohol I am a Shem your God and
it's Panama punim what does it mean that
God speaks face-to-face though the idea
of a pun in each the way Hans I'll speak
about the face is that each and every
individual has their own specific face
nobody had no two faces are alike even
twins my sister has a set of identical
twins even twins you can see that
there's a difference an idea is that the
face reflects who that individual is you
can see from the space with that person
is what a personality is and when I
shall speak face to face it means that
each individual receives their specific
instructions as it were they hear God's
voice and how God's voice manifests
through them individually and that's the
pieces that's the call that's the sound
of God they don't see God's face as it
were they speak to God face to face God
speaks to them but it means that they
here openly absolutely clearly exactly
who they are and how they manifest God
in the world and that's the idea of the
70 languages each one here is their own
language each one here is what they need
to hear as they understand it the seven
voices also indicates the different ways
that each individual here is God and
manifests God in the world now that's
the idea the difference between the name
you'd cave love k and the name of low
Kim it's not just about mercy and
judgment but the idea of mercy of your
cave of K is the all-inclusive aspect
that's most sure of his experience at
Mount Sinai is UK vodka he experiences
the whole picture he sees the Word of
God as opposed to the Jewish people
their experiences ello Kim which means
judgment which means specific you know
when you comment when a person comes in
front of a judge the judge says
specifically for that case he looks at
all of the details he looks at it
specifically and
and he gives a sock the word fat means
cuts he cuts he gives you something
specific to you that's the name of
okemos specificity God is speaking to
you and indie and interestingly the name
of Lil Kim is plural because it
indicates the fact that there are many
different ways of hearing God many
different individuals here God
differently they have a different
experience of God and a manifest gone
differently in the world so most rubino
here is the schmohawk goggle here's the
great name the only clusive name and
that name is the truth is that voice
that moshe hears it includes all of the
voices that each of the individual
Jewish people will hear but they hear
from the fire they hear the the
different voices the fire indicates the
aspect of Laura the aspect of strength
of withholding of not showing everything
if the Jewish people were trying to see
it's too much for them each individual
can only handle who they are they can't
I can't be somebody else and you can't
be Who I am each person has to be who
they are Moshe Arab Dana was able to see
who everyone is he's a leader he's one
less to guide each person to be Li they
are so he can see everything so to speak
he can hear that voice completely and he
doesn't get destroyed by it but each
individual has to only hear what they're
supposed to hear otherwise they could
get destroyed so I want to bless you and
please bless me a Shem should help us to
each hear that voice recognize who we
are individually and remember that voice
it's not just hearing that voice because
this voice we heard we heard the voice
at Mount Sinai we were all their souls
somehow even though we weren't yet
created ourselves are not yet in the
world but somehow we all heard it and
we're holding it in our hands like
malaki withholding that in the void that
prophecy until it was time for it to
manifest you Shia Isaiah held that
prophecy until wisconsin-madison session
should help us to be able to see what's
in our hand to see what our purposes in
the world to see how we can manifest and
hear the voice of a Shem and bring that
voice out into reality thank you so much
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