Lech Lecha - The Final War

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with Ari goldwag recorded with asm's never running assistance in ra Israel 5784 2023 this week's para is par there's a lot of interesting things in this para the topic that we're going to speak about I'm sure has been spoken about a lot this week and it has to do with the battle between the Four Kings and the five Kings and Abraham Abraham being drawn into the battle in order to save his nephew Lo who had been captured and brought into the battlefield or brought somewhere not clear exactly where I'd like to share with you the medish that speaks about this topic and the medish clearly connects this battle so many years ago 3,700 years ago the Battle of 3700 years ago was the final battle that the Jewish people will face before the times of Messiah the Advent of the mess Messianic age which I believe we may be looking at right now so the says like this the brings a into I'd like to read it to you inside the sword was brought out by the evil ones and they shot their arrows in order to knock down the poor person to to slaughter those who go on a straight path this is in chapter 37:14 of Psalms their very own sword will come into their own hearts and their their keset their their bow and arrow will be broken so right away what we see in in the mes quoting this PK is we see and as we'll see as we as we read the Mish that the purpose why were they fighting it seems like it was an a war between the Four Kings and the five Kings what was the fight about what was the Battle about says the PUK inim the battle is about destroying abamu they weren't just fighting with each other in order to fight with each other or it wasn't just a territorial uh dispute as it seems from the pasas the similar understanding of the P but rather there was a deeper thing that was going on they were trying to destroy Abraham they were trying to draw AB by capturing LS by capturing Abraham's nephew L they were trying to draw Abraham into battle as they did but their plan was thwarted because Abraham was supported spiritually and physically by God and therefore their own sword which they hoped to use to kill Aram to kill Abraham that sword would go into their very own hearts and and their bow and arrow would be destroyed their desire to destroy us to destroy the Jewish people at its Inception would be thwarted and they would be destroyed and it would be as we'll see it would be repres representative imbued in our DNA is this very Battle of AR of you know of Abraham which throughout the generations has been fought and ultimately at the end of time would be fought again with a similar result the Jewish people will be drawn into a battle will be drawn into a battle maybe is being drawn into a battle that's about their destruction but who gets destroyed those who drew them into the battle not the Jewish people with God's help so that's theuk and let's see inside what the med says and now the medish tells us that rebbi Lear Ben hunus who was a sage in the same time as Reb AA the in the period at the end of the second temple when the temple was destroyed almost 2,000 years ago 1,953 years ago to be exact Elizabeth hinis he grew up in a family that valued work hard work they had Fields they had wealth but rein henus himself as the M describes I'm not going to read this part inside but he himself went and became about Chua he went to learning Yeshiva he became one of the greatest sages of all times at the age of 28 29 I'm not remembering exactly it doesn't say that in the mes but at a but at a you know usually people go to learn when they're young these days 16 17 18 a person goes to learn Yeshiva but he started at an older age but he became one of the greatest sages of all time and he said the following statement the sword that was used by the wicked right that they started in battle this is and his friends those are the Kings the Four Kings and the five Kings were involved in this battle they came why did they what did they accomplish with their battle they threw down they caused the downfall of a poor person that's a reference to L Lo the nephew of Abraham wasn't as righteous as Abraham he was he separated from aam he went off to live in in Sid and Amur the most decadent location in all of all time you know they were terrible terrible people they were involved in all kinds of aus terrible sins they kept their wealth for themselves they weren't interested in any charity it was forbidden to do charity in their place L went there he was poor he didn't have Mitzvah he didn't have the level of righteousness that Abraham had now what was the purpose in order to to slaughter those who are straight on the path who did they want to get who did these Kings want to draw into battle as we said it was Abraham and here it says says why did they kidnap Lo why did they take him hostage it was in order that Abraham his uncle would come and battle and try to retrieve him to get back the hostage and fall in his hands fall in their hands fall in the hands of these four Kings and five Kings so they wanted to destroy and the medish later on in in this is the the beginning of the 42nd uh section of of the Mish andraus in the fourth the fourth section it says that one of these Kings was actually nimr Nimrod although this isn't an explicit story in the Torah sages tell us that Nimrod was a great king who unified the world against God and ab aino Abraham in orasm which was the center of nimrod's Kingdom Abraham preached about the one God of Israel the one God of Abraham and there was an awesome battle Nimrod brought Abraham to be burned alive inside of inside of a fiery furnace Abraham miraculously was saved but nimro didn't forget his mission nimrod's mission as was his name Nimrod means liod means to Rebel because he wanted to rebel against God he wanted everyone to be United in the service of idolatry which really means in the service of Self in their own egotistical unwillingness to serve God but rather to try to p take power for themselves Nero never forgot about Abraham and Abraham's single-minded desire to bring people to service of God to selflessness to kindness instead of selfishness and so Nimrod was one of these Kings as the Mish tells us later one of these the Four Kings and the five Kings and he was trying to draw Abraham there again to to destroy him first he tried to throw him in the fire now he tries to destroy him with a war so the me says their s will come into their heart that which they decided that they tried to do which was to bring him into battle in order to destroy Abraham they themselves would be destroyed says that Abraham came in a night attack and he was able to destroy them okay so that's the medish that's the medish and it's an amazing medish because it tells us something about about Abraham and the battle that he fought but we didn't yet see this is really the battle of the future that that's going to be in the next mention let's see the next piece this is in ch in section 42 subsection 2 Bas says in chter 5 verse1 15 it says that this is also a great uh evil anything that comes so shall it go what does it mean anything that comes so shall It Go just like just like here I want to read the theive to [Music] you right everyone's talking about the word today because the word Kamas is what the uh the Gaza terrorist population call calls themselves uh the word Kamas in Hebrew means to steal to kidnap to [Music] grab so the word here the is saying that when a person grabs money when a person grabs something so if you take something that's not yours someone else is going to end up taking it who doesn't belong to them either excuse me right that's what it means when a person takes something when something comes to a person in an illicit way it will be taken away from him in an illicit way says the like this an amazing thing that the battle that he had with these Four Kings and five Kings it wasn't just the battle in that moment everything that occurred in abu's life was representative of something that would occur to his children in the future that which occurs and that which uh the the great great grandparents the the matriarchs and Patriarchs of the Jewish people that which occurred to them was the blueprint the DNA for all that would happen later and just like abam had to face off with these Four Kings and five Kings the Jewish people in the future would also have to endure the shib malus being under the boot of Four Kings Four Kingdoms and the Jewish people in in order to come just like Abraham had a experienced a Gula he experienced a Redemption by going there and saving lot he himself was redeemed exactly what that means it's not so clear here but I would say that in order for him he he had to conquer this is how I always say he had to conquer Sodom Amora said Amur were the evil forces that existed in Israel for and and these Four Kings and five kings were the evil forces of the world ABR had to in order for him to accomplish his mission in order for Abraham to bring the reality of one God of the truth of reality that there is one God he created the heavens and the Earth and he's involved in every one of our lives in order for him to bring that reality down to earth and to create a Perpetual move movement that would last for 3,700 years till today he had to First destroy the forces of evil he had to destroy the Four Kings and the five Kings who were trying to fight against God and he had to take sidom and Amor he had to save them tried to pray on their behalf as we see later that he tries to pray on their behalf that's the next week's para show and this this is how he brings about the next stage of his purpose and really the Jewish people in a parallel way have to go through the sh why do we have to endure the the challenging and difficult situations of being under the boot of Egypt of Babylonia of yavon of Greece of Rome on through today we're still under the Buddha of Rome and under the Buddha of yesal who is really the fifth Exile which doesn't speak about here but why why do we have to be under the Christians and under the Muslims that's that's our job here in order for us to get to the core truth which is the revelation of Hashem in the world so first we have to be under the boot of all of these negative societal influences imperfect you know Christianity Islam are have certain aspects of Truth they took it from Judaism but there's it's not a crystal truth there's there's in Christianity they worship a human being which is idolatry and Islam they believe that God is a a is a taunting horrific Angry God and that's not the truth these are distorted versions of what God really is of what of what what spiritual the spiritual Realms really look like and so the Jewish people have to go through all of these malas and outlive them live to see their destruction perhaps even be involved in causing their destruction in order for the light ultimately to shine which is the light that they need to bring we need to bring into the world so explicitly just like there was these Four Kings there so too there'll be Four Kings for kingdoms the Jewish people will need to break out of the shackles of those Kingdoms in order to ultimately bring the light to the world just likeah was able to do that as well in in his introduction to this section of the Torah he brought the p in says they didn't know the thoughts of God they didn't know God's plan that God gathered them together like a a a gan is a is a a place where you take the wheat you bring the wheat to you you smash it you make it into flour it's the place where you create the bread you make the bread make the flow and the bread Hashem brings right just like when you if you want to make flour you have to gather in all of the have to gather in all of the grains to the threshing floor in order to be able to to do the job Hashem without their knowledge and this I believe is what we see is going on right now this is what's going on right now Hashem is bringing through the agency of the Jewish people the people of Israel the country of Israel is bringing about a a a gathering towards the Middle East towards Israel of the of the European American powers and on the other side the Chinese and Iranians and the the Russians but the center of of attention the center of the world's attention is on Israel and it's a coming together it's a gathering on Jerusalem says the that the Four Kings and the five Kings according to this understanding they they weren't just coming they were coming to battle each other they didn't know I want to read to you what the the says Hashem brought them together specifically for the purpose of bringing them down in the hands of ab and I don't think this is a contradiction to what we said before words they in this understanding the the Four Kings and the five Kings were battling each other the battle was between them why so that Abraham would come in and he would destroy them all says this is a hint what happened to is what's going to happen in the future he says they don't they didn't understand what was going on at the time of they didn't realize that they were being brought together in order to be destroyed by Abraham AB needed to destroy the forces of evil that were represented by these Four Kings and these five Kings they didn't know that they were coming in there to be to be destroyed for their spiritual power and physical power to be decimated in this amazing spiritual attack of Abraham and so too in the future they're going to come together they're not going to know that they're the reason they're coming together right now is to be destroyed through spiritual power of the people of Israel of the Jewish people that's the understanding of this PUK now what what am I supposed to take out of this how am I supposed to understand this so I want to say something which actually said most clearly in the Hebrew version of Mia podcast but I want to say very clearly here as well hasem has a plan Hashem is guiding the entire world all of history we can look over the last 100 years we can look over the last 5,000 years Hashem is guiding all of history AB just like aru guided took all of the put put all the pieces in their place maybe they thought they were going to destroy a or maybe they just thought they were going to destroy each other it doesn't matter but all of the pieces were in place so that Aram can come in destroy the forces of evil and and and his mission can can explode in the same way who brings every single brings every single action every single event he's moving it all he's moving the entire world history towards a single goal which is the destruction of evil the destruction of all the false gods whether it's the version of God which is the Christian version or the version of God which is the Islamic version or whether it's the false ideologies of Atheism in China or or uh Global Jad or or global domination of Russia Etc or of liberalism all of these isms and false gods are going to be destroyed in the end of time because there's only one God there's only one people that represents Hashem in the daving of rash we say give honor to your nation and hope to your to your people we want the time of Messiah to come we say in that in the daving we want an honor to be brought to the people why it's not it's not about us it's really not about us it's about the ultimate revelation of Hashem Hashem revealed to the Jewish people 33 300 years ago through the Tyra what is the truth what does spirituality look like what do a relationship with Hashem look like we have carried we have carried that message for 3,300 years really it extended from before that to the time of Abraham 400 years before that but we have been bearing this torch and the light has gotten distorted by the Christians has gotten distorted by Islam and it's been distorted Beyond imagination by liberalism Etc the light has to be returned to its source and God is lining up events everything tick tick tick tick tick like they say in Hebrew one after another everything is all the check boxes are being checked off as we come to the final time where hashem's light will be revealed and it will be a difficult time it is a difficult time already and it will intensify as we get closer and it's something that's going to affect the entire world it's not going to be limited to Israel to the land of Israel but we will see ultimately as the M tells us in about the war between Paras and arav between the Persians and the other Arabs or maybe it's thear all that I did for you all that I did I did for you everything that I did I did for you the Jewish people and there's no more sh after this one the Mish tells us there there's no more subservience to the nations of the world after the Persian War why because we will have reached a place where the the that which prevents Humanity from seeing the truth which is the light of Hashem as reflected through the Jewish people that which prevents that life from being seen will have been destroyed and we will have reached this place where abam got to where he destroyed the Four Kings and the five Kings and then ultimately sidom and Amor are also destroyed because they can't handle the light that Abraham is bringing down into the world I want to bless you and ask you to bless me Hashem should help us that we should be able to face these times with courage we should be able to face these times with the knowledge of what the truth really is and with the understanding that Hashem is behind every single thing that happens every single moment every single day in everyone's lives Hashem is in charge and he's bringing mhia the Messianic age may it be speedily and in our days and may it be with great r with great Mercy thank you so much for listening have a wonderful shabas this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you for more podcasts like this please visit 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