Vayikra - Ari Goldwag - Heed the Call

you know listening to the weekly partial podcast with already called mag recorded with a chimes never-ending assistance in rubbish muscies RAL 5778 2018 this week's partials purchase a okra and here we begin a new save for a new book of the Torah the 3rd also referred to in English as Leviticus because it speaks about the obligations of the Levites or specifically the Kohanim the priests who were from the family of Lavy and the core bonus the sacrifices that were brought within the temple within the Mishkan the sanctuary and now the safer starts off with via Croatian Elisha God called out to Moses and our hazael tellers to say just say that at the end of last week's parsha at the end of the previous section of the Torah the the end of safer choice Exodus so the Mishkan was assembled the sanctuary was created all the pieces were put together everything was in its correct place and the sanctuary was filled with God's glory the the the cloud of Oshawa's glory filled up the michigan and as our sages say it was so thick and it was so palpable that it was impenetrable it was impossible to walk in there Moshe Rabbeinu was ready to go in to receive the Word of God to receive God's revelations theme he was unable to do so until this point until the point in our parsha as our project begins Micra hashem elisha god called out to moses and he told him all about the sacrifices certainly an apt way of beginning the description the obligations of the sacrifices the sacrifices represent our relationship with God and how we are to approach our relationship with God it's very interesting and then I want to share with you a beautiful mesh which hones in or specifically focuses in on the fact that we couldn't get in there no one could get in there even my shrub a no couldn't get in there now was the port was the concept that he could not enter or that he chose not to enter so I'd like to share with you the mad rush the measure implies it was the second choice it was that he chose actually not to enter let's see what it says he felt it wasn't appropriate enter we sure the sickness a mobility pass Achra Yeshua of safe non in the name of rabbi levy explained the verse it says a Michelin proverbs chapter 25 verse 6 Keith hi I'm Marla ha a Lahaina - cool cool if not Eve it is better that they asked you to come up then that they push you down meaning it's better if a person has a choice between pushing his way into a place of on or pushing his way into a place of leadership it's better that they asked him to be the leader rather than he grab leadership and be pushed down from his leadership that applies pretty sure this opinion is explaining that that applies to our verses of Viagra I shall ensure that God called out to Moses let's see maybe keep'em a steal a shame rebbi shimon ben azzai if you keep it learned in the name of even as a rock my man crush 9 Malaysia mischievous if you have a spot that you think that you belong if you think that you belong in a certain place of honor sit yourself two or three levels down from that location the chef actually ooh look all a sit in a lower spot until they ask you to come up to the higher spot to the more important spot I'll Tala and then don't go Jeremy look arrayed he'll tell you to go down will you ever look la la la let them say come come that's better relay more look arrayed rate that if they will say to you know go down go down meaning let them ask a bunch of times let them really be sure or you be sure that they really want you to come into that place of honor in a place of leadership before you actually go up there because if you go up there and you're not really requested or you're not really worthy you're gonna end up being sent down cocaine Hillel I'm there Hillel says a similar idea hash policy he had Baha see when I lower myself that is the raising of myself maja see yesh policy when I raise myself up the end result or the net result is that I get lowered Matt Tom what is the reason for this and so it's an amazing counterintuitive concept person thing said if I push myself into the place of honor I'm gonna get the honor push myself into a place of leadership I prove myself then I'm gonna get that honor but telling us something which I think intuitively we all understand which is that if I lower myself if I if and it doesn't mean that I say I'm not who I am it just means that I don't I let others acknowledge Who I am rather than me trying to force my way into a place of greatness Matt Tom what's the reason as a verse says in Psalms chapter 113 verse 6 how might be lash of s must be Lee Lee Royce the verse tells us that that God is the one who raises up those who are sitting it was or sitting okay so if a person is sitting he's made himself low he gets picked up but those who are standing up so shim lowers them God lowers them at some might say now let's look at Moshe Rabbeinu Moses was a paragon of this virtue the Shoshanna glencoe - were cool ameesha at the time of God revealed himself to Moses meet a hot snare from the burning bush second I lost the place took us now you must you ponder me many so some Moshe Raveena Moses hid his face he didn't want to look he didn't want to look she never I asked her much upon another verse tells us he covered his face over that Kadesh mark of God said in La Cava schlocko help RA the result was God said I'm going to send you to Pharaoh he turned away he felt he wasn't worthy he was the one re blazer hey be safety voice' Lamarche i'm a notic golem ain't after golem now religious says something amazing which is also significant when the minister is going to save us a few times that that if the the verse adds an extra letter hey look all ash logical para ver says you go going I'm gonna send you to Paro Lacroix is usually spelled it's like the word leg go right but here it's spelled ahah with a hay goes what's this extra letter a so bless your says this is telling you that if you don't do it it's only you who can do it only you can do it if you don't do it no one else is going to do it and it's not clear exactly why that letter indicates that buttocks I believe that the letter hei represents the concept of what in Kabbalah the letter hei represents the concept of malice represents a concept of receiving being able to receive right there's two ways to receive you can either grab something that someone is reaching out to you or you can open your hands to receive it when we step back I believe that this is what the magician is saying when we step back and we just open our hands to receive so that shows that we're not grabbing we're not grabbing the leadership Moshe man did not grab the leadership he just opened himself to receive hey how does how do we see that the letter hey the gamut reah the numerical value it's it's the number 5 it's the 5th letter of the Hebrew alphabet just like a hand as has 5 fingers but hey represents the hand and thus it represents sticking out one's hand to receive look ha if you don't do it no one else will be able to do you have that special meda God is saying to Moses you have the ability to receive you're not a granny person because you have the ability to receive therefore you're the one to do it no one else can do it and by um I mean I'm gonna sad where there are a few occasions where we see that Moses did not grab the leadership he stood on the side no sharavino is that the was at the young he was they were standing at the sea they're standing in Joseph most revealing stands off to the side I'm gonna echo this powerful God system ha ha raimus Mitrovica a you you and you you're the one who's standing there on the side pick up your staff and you're going to break apart the water lime are so the verse again here is teaching us in a not tub like I ain't a car boy boy there's no one else to do besides for you you're the kind of person because you are the person who has the ability but you also have the uh Nevis you have the humility you're the only one who can do it but senile mad lemon outside and Mount Sinai also mush I've been stood on the side he stood back all right lay a Layla Shem verse tells us that God said to Moshe to Moses you go up to God let me show you a not to ila a knock her ila if you don't do it no one is going to do it so there's an indication here that's Moshe Rabbeinu by standing back so he's right he is he's making the move which shows his humility he's making a move which shows that he's open to receiving but he doesn't feel worthy to receive or he recognizes his his lack of worthiness and God says that's why you're the one to do it you are the one to do it if you don't do it you're standing back and in a certain sense when he stands back he's saying I don't want to be the one to do it I don't feel like I'm worthy to do it and God says if there's nobody else besides for you to do it by all my time I'd limit outside the same thing happened when I came to the oil might when it came to the sanctuary Moses stood by the side I'm roulette with Ishmael who I once had to mash be lots mejor interesting but at this point God says him that's enough how long are you going to lower yourself how long you want to lower yourself it's very interesting is it sound like God wants it's the lower selves got once Moses to lower himself but at a certain point God says that's enough of this a neshama tapa an Aloha the moment is only waiting for you the time has come for you to stand up and be who you are Taylor huh shoe cane you should know that this is true shiny cool on la cara de Bourgh Alana Mancha Lucretia upon whom didn't did God call the only one that got called out to when it came to the Mishkan being actuated the activated perhaps is the correct word who is the one who God called out to it was Moses it was Moshe Rabbeinu himself and it was because of the fact my girl my show got calls out to mention why because he stands back he stands back so now we mentioned before it's like why didn't he go in was it because the cloud was so thick he felt like he couldn't come in or was that or physically he was repelled and and the answer I believe is according to this measure that he chose to stand back it was not a new thing this is much Elena's character this is most European had done this numerous times and each of those times because he stood back he was called in because he stood back he was called to action because he stood back God said there's nobody else who can do it except for you and you know this I believe is something which is very powerful something that happens to us all the time we always have opportunities for action we always have opportunities for God to that God is calling to us so to speak and the question is how do we approach those opportunities and the story I want to tell you which happened to me yesterday I really want to show the story to me I see it as a call from God or or a message from God God saying here I'm with you it's not exactly in line with what this mattress is talking about but I want to I will bring it back to what the minister is talking about listen to the story it's a true story it happened to me yesterday one of the things I like to do with my kids is I like to have a day and afternoon that I spend I don't do this all the time once once a week or once every other week and it's been times where haven't done it at all but spend special time with one of my children over the last month and a half I've spent time with four of my kids for my girls and we my older two with my oldest who's 13 and my daughter's 9 so we went out to a park area where there's flowers and rocks and trees and it's just a very nice nature area and we spent time over there and then I went to a second park together with these two girls I met all the girls and next to that Park so there was like a fence and I could track the train tracks are behind there and both times that we were there the train was passing by at the time that we were standing there I don't know how often it passes by I think it's actually not so often it was just a sweet experience to hang out with my daughter and to walk through the nature the nature over there and also see the train passing by anyway so yesterday I took my three-year-old who you know it'll be clear from the story that you couldn't hand this type of this was not a park to her I brought it to the same park and and she said this is not a park she wanted a place to go on slides if she wanted a place to go on a swing and this was just a park to walk around it was a pretty place I brought her to blow on the dandelion scenes that was cool for her for about one minute but then she's like this is not a park said okay let's go to the other part I told you is another Park and there's also happens to be there's like seesaw there and a swing and it was the park where the there was a fence and the train the train tracks behind it then I said maybe we'll see the Train maybe we'll go and we'll see a train so I brought it to this other Park and right away she's like no this is not good I don't want this I don't want this Park and I don't want this train I wanted I want to play train I want to train that I can climb in that's what she said I'm like train and I can climb it I could think of a train like that there were pictures in my in my house of a park in Seattle my wife's from CIO a train park and where am I going to find a trail park with a train in it I died I was not familiar with any such Park and so I thought maybe I put into my phone maybe there's a park I put in Park Beach Emma SH there you know where I live train toy no nothing popped up I called my wife I asked my wife asked my daughter maybe they know of a place with a park with a train in it nobody has any place nobody knows of any place and my daughter is starting to get upset why do I do so just little voice in my head said go to the park go to this particular Park this is a park which I've only been to I think I've been living in Beit Shemesh 12 years I've only been to this park twice years ago a bunch of years ago and it's a park with big slides and it's a park with really a big big set of different all kinds of different slides slides that are tall so I was there a medium sized that are low we had gone there a bunch of years ago it's part of the Hasidic area of Beit Shemesh not a place that we frequent but we had gone there a bunch of years ago on Hanukkah I'm evening as it was getting dark and some voice and some used to go to that Park and I thought maybe you know whatever maybe I'll distract her with the nice slides and then I thought about others possible parks but something inside me said go to that park and so we got out of the car we get to the park and right there in front of me right there in front of me as you walk into the park on on the side not in the center of the park and I definitely I don't remember ever seeing this it could be that it's a new part of the park I don't even know but right there on the side was a train a train a toy whenever something to climb on that was in the shape of a train and it felt just like wow it felt just like wow God put the idea I had to come to this park which I never go to and I did not have any recollection of there being my kids didn't even play with that part of the park even if it was there I didn't have any recollection of there being a train as part of that part but I felt like wow God really brought me there God really called to me so to speak and so I I what's the point of this story the point of the story is like I look at that train took all kinds of pictures of the Train and I was just like I had just texted with my wife emailed her spoken with my wife and I sent her a what's that picture of this train it was like she wrote back oh my god Hashem loves you because it was like how am I gonna status on my three-year-old daughter with how am I gonna find her this thing it was only because God brought me to that place it felt really Wow felt really amazing and I felt like with that story I felt like it's Hashem saying to me Here I am Here I am such I'm saying Here I am in your life and and so many times we feel like this is how I feel very much at times so many times we feel like where is where is a shove in my life it's not clear sometimes God is clearly there something thought is not clearly there I'm working on a new album new songs and working on this crowdfunding which I've mentioned a number of times which I really was expecting to bring in a lot of money and be able to cover the extensive costs of to CD but it's not happening yeah people didn't really respond as much as I as I liked as much as I had wished and I spent a lot of money to create the fact the crowdfunding it really it looks pretty good but it really brought him a minimal amount and it's like I feel like I'm in this rfl I feel like I'm in this darkness I feel like I'm in this place where God is not openly showing himself to me Branca shame I've had a lot of feedback positive feedback and put out a single and put out the someone of Sigler code which has had a tremendous amount of positive feedback but it's still it's like where's the help where is God's help in this I don't see it I feel like I'm in the rfl I'm about to I'd like to get into the Michigan I'd like to get into the sanctuary I'd like to get into that place where God reveals himself but it's not clear it's not there and I feel repelled by it and and suddenly I'm like bursts through this darkness with a little a little kiss a little hug and says hey you love your kids you love your kids and you want what's best for them and you want your three-year-old to have fun and play on the toy that she wants to which is because she got in I read this she wants a trained toy to play on Shep excuse me I'm says here is the trained toy here's the trained toy and he puts it in my head and if I like you know colors for who was saying to me yeah they're things that I want don't worry I love you I'm taking care of you taking care of you I don't know how it work out I don't know what's gonna be but I sense that Akhilesh were always calling to me in a certain sense she was calling to me calling me into the Michigan calling me into the sanctuary it's very dark and I feel like I've had to step back or I feel like I could Oracle I don't know where you are I don't know how to get into the cloud I don't know how to walk into the cloud and the Shem says I a question on Leisha God calls out to Moses and said come in and we stand back we stand back either because of our humility or because we feel were unworthy maybe it's true maybe we are unworthy but a college mom who says come in Shem says come in God calls out to us and you know this is a story these aren't stories that happen to me all the time these are stories that happened to me one you know once in a while but we need to all notice a story that I think that it's easy to pass over it's a little bit hard to pass over it's a little bit hard to miss but we don't always see him we normally see these stories or we don't always pay attention to the stories and I think that each and every one of us has a story like this that goes on in our life pretty often and to the extent that we notice the story to the extent that we notice God is calling to us God is calling us in God is calling us lovingly and asking us not to be afraid God is asking us not to to think that that it's the the the cloud is too thick for us to enter God is calling to us yes it's appropriate for us to stand back it's not sure of you know that it's appropriate for us to have the humility yes it's appropriate for us to say I don't know if God is in my life I don't know that's a normal thing to think and Southey thing but God says okay but don't mistake don't don't like fall into thinking that he's not there God calls out to each and every one of us and we need to respond to that we need to recognize the positive things that are going on in our lives recognize the hand of God in our lives and the call of God to enter into the sanctuary I want to bless you and ask you to bless me now Shem should send us these messages Shem should help us to notice these messages should help us to recognize when he's calling us and yes I should help us to have the humility to know when it's appropriate to stand back now should help us to have the humility and the and the ability to recognize when it's appropriate to come forward and hear the call that Hashem is calling at us thank you so much for listening every 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]