Parshas Hashavua - Ari Goldwag - Lech Lecha - The Land I Will Show You

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with Ari Gold Wegg recorded with a gems never-ending assistance in rubbish measures around 57 79 2018 this week's Porsche is partial / Lahab and I'd like to a little bit continue along the lines of what we spoke about last week and give you some thoughts about our movie know as he starts his journey let go that's our partial international Avram our partial starts off chapter 12 verse 1 God says to Abraham left look let me arts at home with a logical go from your land from the place of your birth movie so Vika from the house of your father L hearts a share or echo to the place that I will show you it's called a guy God obamawreck about God lachemann I will make you into a great nation I will bless you I will make your name great hey Bravo and there will be a blessing wherever you go you will experience blessings of our common Veronica I will bless those who bless you kilala or those who curse you I shall curse me never go back Amish bhai Adama and through you all of the nations of the world all the families of the earth shall be blessed okay but hey look Avram Kishida barrel of a shank Abraham went as God spoke well Yael Akito lo lo went with him for a vermin Hashanah Kashiram Shana Abraham was 75 years old when this happened it's a song Aharon when he left her on which was the place of his birth now I'd like to focus in on this week it's a specific very fine point that the Ramban mentions and I want to illustrate it with some with a few different experiences that I've heard about perhaps one of my own experiences in speaking about this direction of a couple who God spoke to Abram he told him to go so the Rambam tells us something very interesting very very poignant very important for us to understand a larger share I reckon ban says now humanity says how United Mahila me girl goody mahalo not here when when Abraham was told to go so there are a few things that that went on here okay I'm actually gonna back up for a second because they're on bond says immediately before this from bond says but Tom lahaska arts coma humming be savvy ho God mentions the fact that he wants him to go from his land from the land of his father from the house of his father from from the place where he was born kia kaha adam lanza arts sir the first point is that God is pointing out that there's a test here it's a challenge and we think about it we listen we listen to the simulations of the verses and we see ourselves if God would speak to me and he was safe to go somewhere you know I would listen what was the big deal why was it such a hard thing since counted as one of the sirness Uranus the ten challenges that Abraham was given in his life what was the big deal so first of all it's hard for a person to leave the place of his birth it's it's hard for me to leave his family hard to leave the place where he's living the place that he's used to be shall I above array of his friends are there his beloved ones because she came to eres molarity Shoshanna hello certainly if he's living if he's growing up in a place where if he's living in a place where he grew up so it's certainly difficult for him to just get up and leave that place the culture came creation called base of 'iv certainly it's his entire family his whole his father's house everybody who was there where his entire family was there and the shamans asking him to leave so that's a big deal look how it's really Marilee she has of a collabo specialist broke loose our shaman says to him I want you to leave everything out of your love for God I want you to leave and I want you to be on her way okay so that's the first point is that sometimes it's imperative a shaman is Hashem is showing us we need to understand when we read the story of Abraham it's not just a nice story it's not just the foundation of Kleiser which it is the foundation of the Jewish people it's a message for each and every one of us individually as part of the Jewish people and not just a national message which it is but also an individual message for each and every one of us that first point is that we need to be willing to give up everything to do what we know is right to do that which is God's will for us which we believe which we believe to be God's will for us unless - Arika so now I'm continuing here in the Rambam and he says another important point are you noted whoa hey let me go I'll go mom la jolla ma here so he was going from Hashem told him to go right so he went now it's an amazing thing Hashem just says him go to the land that I will tell you hello it's a shark the place I'm going to show you he says leave your house he knows where he's leaving from but where is he going - it's not so clear Asham just says I'm going to show you did he did he know right away that he know he was going to Israel it's not so clear what he knew so there are bad points out that he was going and he was and he was from one nation to another as the verse tells us mom lauhala math I'm out here he was going to a place which was strange to him spoke a different language of him at she bothers Keenan till he got to the land of Canaan just land of Israel why my ladies are quiet eNOS arts a choice then God says to him this is the place that I'm going to give to your children I was crying LRS of Chaka and at that point when Hashem says this is the land and I'm going to give to you and your children so that's when he realized that this is the place that God was showing him this is the place that he's meant to get to wasn't a sake ocean the ocean blue and then Abraham stops there and he lives there Marcia I'm afraid Yasuda Lucas arts of Canaan Louis Yash a bug so it says in the verse that he went toward the land of Canaan but he didn't know he knew that he was going in that direction perhaps but he didn't know that that was the ultimate destination he didn't know that that was where he was going to live Cade I know you're da Qiao ha art Sahin it's tava he still didn't know that that was the land that Hashem was commanding him to go to Allah Shah Akash sadiq darker darker it's Kanaan an amazing thing in an amazing lesson Abraham got up and went without knowing where his ultimate destination was why because Hashem said go keikain ha I'm a DJ but that's Aviv commit kilobits a sin or cos him as their own battle is last week as we saw together Abraham when he left when he left or cosden he was on his way to the land of Israel but he didn't that was something which he chose and his father chose that's where they were planning to go but they got stuck they stopped off in Karan and they ended up staying there for a while parasha I'm explicitly told him to move on and head towards as Canaan ok he came home a title but that's it's a summer cousin that was their intention intention from before you know Xiomara Heka share hit - I seola him the base of universe sells us later on in chapter 20 verse 13 that that God sent him away from the house of his father how you thought I could survive it the language that it uses is that he was like a like a lost sheep right because the way that he was sent the way that sham guided him towards line of Israel was in such a way that he did not know where he was going Utah calamity I remember reshawna Yoda Garrett's Canaan high analysis Shem oh boy you turn a sham how could and it makes sense to say that from the beginning he he believed he didn't perhaps know but he believed that the Land of Israel was the place that he was headed towards and that was the line that ashen was going to give him right then was gonna give him that as a portion I mean key l heart Sasha Rekha your Meszaros Kanaan by al Kula Oaxaca's michael RSSI al perhaps it was visceral perhaps it was one of the land's along the way some part of a cloud scan on Kshama arts a show you ran over a mess that was the place that indeed he was going to find so there are two interesting and deep points here one is that he didn't know for sure that that's what he was go where he was going but the second point is that he believed that it was meaning he felt inside of his heart which we spoke about last week he felt that that was probably the place that God was going to give him but he didn't know for sure and he went nevertheless Hashem instructed him to go and that was part of the challenge he went towards that place he didn't know for sure that it was a place he believed it was he knew in his heart we felt in his heart that that was the place and indeed it turned out that he was correct that he was right so I think it's an amazing thing is an amazing depth many times in our lives I could borrow who sends us on a path Hashem brings us on path how do we know that it's us I'm sending us because we're there and it seems like that's the right place to be for me let's say I'm very involved in music I'm very involved in creating music and putting out music right so it seems very clear that desto ashram wants me to go that that's the path that God wants me to take but it's not always for sure it's like if you haven't yet reached your destination if you're on your way as Abraham was so you don't know if it's the right place yet until you get there until a shaman says this is your place so when you're on the path when you're on the way you don't know for sure that you're going to the right place Abraham didn't know and yet there's a certain sense Asham gives us a certain sense inside of us that that's the correct place that that's the correct direction and so we we have an opportunity to go after our hearts I wanted to share with you a story which I heard today which I listened almost daily to to the Sheeran the lectures of Irish receiver my pair of Yeshua Far Rockaway in New York and you just told her story I listen to today he spoke about it yesterday I get the recordings and his father of a Paris father was a rabbi in in the in Queens of a synagogue where the people were on their way out of Judaism many of them unfortunately they it was the last vestiges at that time this is in the 60s in the more than 50s in the 60s when people were the the you know they were driving to the synagogue which in Orthodox Jewish law was not okay and and they you know they were on their way out of judaism and rabbi pare senior my Russia she was father so one of the things that he always it was a question at the end of his life he was he was asking himself the verse tells us a boy smash always be La Vie Sh there are many thoughts and the hearts of a person box a Sasha misako verse says the thoughts of God are that which ultimately stand those are the God's desire God's will is what ultimately wins out in the end so his question was does that mean that I chose correctly does that mean that I did what I was meant to do in this world and that that's an intense question I was the person at the end of his life asks that kind of question or perhaps while having a midlife crisis ask that question are we doing what's right are we heading in the right direction that we made the right choices in our lives and so he asked that question and you know when I heard the question I always thought about the fact that you know he produced such amazing children Asha Shiva was one of his children had other great great children and of course that's a that's just a litmus test perhaps to indicate did he choose the right thing was he doing the right thing was he was he what happened with his children did the children continue in his way and they certainly did and they certainly had an incredible impact on the Jewish people generally but many stories there are my parents told over about the amazing impact of rabbi his father of i'ma now compare and specifically this amazing story which I want to share with you which really shows a person doesn't realize it could you know I from Aveeno he didn't know where he was going and rabbi pear perhaps or my Perriman and I compared it didn't know if he was headed in the right direction even till the end of his life did he make the right choices but you can see from the results that he was that he did make the right choices and he did do something amazing and awesome my parents told his story marshal Shiva the story went like this that there was there was a family in the shul of Rabbi Menachem pear in Queens and this family wasn't religious they didn't keep Shabbos but rabbi pare encouraged all of his congregants to take on an extra thing to do something more in their yet to do something more energy ism for example he would say to people if you can't keep Shabbos at least don't smoke on Shabbos don't light a fire on Shabbos if you know at least keep cash was there were two brothers and these two brothers Howie and and Edward Schwartz these two brothers rabbi pare instructed them that they should keep cut rows they should keep it they should keep kosher and now I believe I don't know about both of them but Howie one of the brothers his name is Howie and rabbi pare told him when it came time to go out to war he was called to he was conscripted to the army the American army so he said what should I do about Costas will should do about keeping kosher or the pair told him if you're out in the middle of a battle so you're obligated to eat whatever you have in order to stay alive but if you're not in the middle of a battle if you're not in the middle of a life-threatening situation what you should do is you should at least if it's something which could be kosher that's what you should stick to yes that was what he told Howie so when he was on the base in Texas so how he made sure to eat only vegetables and then when he got to wherever it was wherever the war was I believe it was a Korean War when he got out to Korea so he when he had no choice he ate whatever was there but when he had a choice so he made sure to only eat he wouldn't he would trade away the stuff that was made out of pigs meat for something that was made out of beef at least to eat something which is a kosher animal even if it wasn't shefte properly which by the way important to note is my research even noted that HA logically there's really no difference but the point is that he asked him to to make a conscious choice to do his best to be committed to you - had to be committed to Judaism and that's what he did and now as a result of that an amazing thing happened and rabbi pear didn't know this until very recently the amazing thing that happened was that these two brothers decided subsequently to keep kosher completely when they when he returned from war the two brothers kept kosher completely they started a kosher home recently rabbi pear received a check from one of them one of the brothers and for his yeshiva and he called up this brother and he said how are you what's going on this is where my parent said thank you for the for this for this check and he told him that the there was an amazing impact that as a result of in keeping kosher there were other things that happened and he called ended up speaking to both brothers and one of them has two children who are two daughters who are completely religious and keeping who became became completely Orthodox they live in in New Jersey in a very religious community and what happened how did it happen sort of a pair spoke to one of the brothers wife and she said that both she and her sister-in-law when they got married to the two brothers the brothers said we want to keep a kosher home they didn't do too much else but they wanted to keep the kosher home and they both agreed to keep a kosher home and the result was that since they were already keeping a kosher home and they said let's send their daughters to a Jewish school a Jewish school for after school and that was what happened and it ended up being that because they sent their two children to a Jewish school in the afternoons the two girls ended up becoming religious and ended up not just keeping kosher but embracing a completely religious Orthodox lifestyle and today these two women have beautiful families and are completely Orthodox in every way and how did it start it started because Rabbi Menachem pairs said these two brought these two boys these two brothers keep kosher and and the effect was that it changed their entire lives their entire lives were changed and effective for the good as a result and I think that it's a prime example we don't even know we have no idea the where our actions lead we don't realize where we're headed we don't realize the net effect of the positive impact that we have on those around us personally I was recently in the New York area I can't give too much details about the story because the person may actually be listening to this or watching this partial podcast but somebody told me about a relative who listens to this DVAR Torah and I don't know if it was the impact of this part or perhaps others arts orator as well but as a result of their listening to to the debate or that are contained here they became they increase their religious observance that they increase their commitment to their relationship with God and that's an amazing thing and I think it really parallels what's going in our partial whereas Shem instructs Avraham Avinu he says to him go to the land that I'm going to show you in Abraham doesn't even know where he's going he thinks he knows where he's going you know rather may not compare he he was going toward encouraging people to committing to a greater level of observance he knew that he didn't know if he would get to that land he believed he would but he didn't know Abraham didn't know and when I'm putting out these de tratar I don't know what the impact is that I'm having all I see is a little bit of the numbers of how many people are watching it I don't even know how many people watch it to the end but the point is that we don't know the net results of our actions and it could be an entire lifetime that we don't realize what an impact we have but the point is and I believe this isn't a deep lesson from our parsha that if we are going on the correct path if we are trying to follow God's will if we are trying to do that which a Shem which is from us if we are trying to get to that promised land the land on a shaman wants to show us we're listening to that voice inside of ourselves which is God's voice so the net result will be a share I reckon that I'm going to show you we will be shown in the end that we have accomplished something that we have effected those around us and that we have reached that promised land that we wish to get to in and the place where Shem wants to lead us so I want to bless you and I ask you to bless me a chef should help us to listen to his voice to hear the laughs aah-ha this go go in the way that I'm telling you shimshi help is to hear that and to recognize that we are on that way and even if perhaps we don't see it at the time even perhaps we don't realize that we are on that path Hashem should help us to realize that we are indeed on that path now Shem should give us the clarity the share I record that we hear that voice which recognizes that we've gotten there so that we can continue to try to get to that place of Shem desires for us thank you so much for listening wonderful Shabbos this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you for more podcasts like this please visit www.opm.gov/life [Music]