Ari Goldwag - 10 Years of Podcasts - Balak - Getting God's Hint

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast recorded with the shamans never-ending assistance in relation wishes relativity 777 2017 this week's parsha is partials bollock and in a departure from the way that I usually give my partial podcast I usually record it slowly and methodically and then edit it and fix it up I'm actually videoing this podcast so it's going to flow as it flows might not be as smooth as generally it could be and the reason that I'm doing that is because it's in celebration of my 10th anniversary this is the ten-year anniversary podcast of this partial podcast and I'm really excited about it and it's going to be available also as a video on tour anytime on YouTube on Facebook and I'd like to read with you from the safer plan friedlander about this week's parsha I also want to remind you about my safer perfectly imperfect breaking out-of-the-ordinary striving for greatness I think it's a great way to celebrate the 10th anniversary if you want to find you can find that on feldheim comm you can find it in any Farm stories and if you want to purchase it from me you can send $26 to call my website click on the Buy Now page and click donate tell me what it's for I'll send that to you and I'll be happy to inscribe the book itself and I feel like this parsha this this concept this topic that I want to speak about is beautifully connected to the idea of what my podcasts have been about how began now all of my podcasts began and really it's about the depth of what we're trying to do as Jews or we're trying to do in our spiritual progress in our relationship with a Shem how do we climb that ladder how do we recognize or access heaven's will for us and this is amazing idea reclaim Friedlander talks about and the topic that he says is Remsen let me show mine venir MA the topic is when someone is hinted to from the heavens and it's possible that I Shem not possible but it's likely that Hashem gives us hints he shows us what he wants from us God shows us his will for us and he does so in many different ways the question is can we see that we able to recognize the hints and of course the idea of the hints is in our partial partial bilam my partials bollock and story of Balaam and villain was this prophet who was who was hired by bollock the king of Moab because he wanted to be able to defeat the Jewish people who are now coming with a great force with a great power to try to enter into the Land of Israel and they were coming through the land of Moab the people of Mull have had already seen we're gonna happen to other people or tried to stop the Jewish people they were decimated destroyed and so they wanted to hire bill um without amazing powers actually a true prophecy perhaps some I'll guess it's not clear but he certainly had some power he's talking to a sham God spoke to him it wasn't perhaps in the same way as Moshe many wishes why you corrupt the omens by a car something which happened by chance so to speak but the idea is that bill was someone who had this power now when they came to him as we see in the first obvious when they came to him so bilham turns Hashem and he said is it ok can I go with him can I go with my Shem says immediately no don't try to curse the Jewish people you can't curse them because they are intrinsically blessed and even though in the end it seems that a Shem allows him to go but truly there are hints all along the way as he's moving there are hints constantly Shawn does not want you to do this some tries to stop them the angel tries to stop his donkey eventually the donkey's mouth is able to speak unbelievable miracles unbelievable stories and I'm very just amazing stories amazing accounts and as we hear this we're like doesn't this guy get it Hashem doesn't want him to go God does not want him to go and to curse the Jewish people he does end up going he does try he doesn't succeed he's only able to give blessings to the Jewish people and so it's just interesting this whole idea of the remnants of the hint and I'll speak perhaps as we get towards the end of the podcast I'll speak about you know how I feel like it was hinted to me so to speak or I was guided to begin a partial podcast which is something that I should talk about in my book and which I've mentioned in the popular podcast before but Shem shows us some guides us so she wants us to know his will the question is are we willing or are we able to read that to see that and are we able to access that and accept it beautiful idea Reb crime-free lender begins with he talked about the fact that in father a vehicle and Rumsey lehem yasha mind it speaks about the fact that ill for these two great sages of the Gemara of the talmud so they had there was a hint it was a hint to them actually to reveal : this is a good martyr he brings the gomorian tightness enough how follows in phobias not have a guard co-writer these two great sages il'fan rabbi Yochanan so they were learning torah and as he says must be nationally militar they were completely willing to give up everything in order to link Torah the curriculum also Tuva they had a very difficult time they were extremely poor I mean a commune is when you have at least given a common option Angela you have a clever young let us go lilandra vehicle instead both of them said let's go and let's look at our poverty we have a verse in the Torah says shouldn't have a you know you're supposed to take care of yourself is supposed to take care there shouldn't be poverty so they said let's go and take care of ourselves let's go get a partner so let's go be involved in our livelihood we need to stop learning now otherwise we to tegu Duryea okay so they went on their way they went on their way to try to find a livelihood and as they were going so they stopped in a certain place and the wall what they were sitting next to was a wall that was a wasn't such a good wall it was a dangerous wall I don't know if they were aware of it could be they were aware of it it was potential for fall have a good car to craft a rooftop they were sitting down to eat some bread a Sutra melaka sheriff's two angels King shall never be economical a car a the oken unheard that one was saying to his friend shoddy ally oh hi Gouda Luna : Oh jiminy çankaya eylem well I see a high shot so the general principle is that as he explains that when a person puts himself in a place of danger so a person can be judged for that person is supposed to keep himself safe put themself in a place of danger so then from the heavens they look at a person more carefully scrutinize him and they say is this person doing what's right generally speaking and so putting themselves in a place of danger perhaps they should we should judge them in an unfavorable way because they're not taking care of themselves so these two angels if you cannot hurt them one angel said to the other let's throw this wall onto both of them and kill them they should die why because they're leaving Torah they're leaving the world to come they're leaving that which brings a person to the world to come they're getting solely involved in this world by doing caelum they're involved in in part us and livelihood that's not only that's not their place is that what they're supposed to do come our leg so the second angel said to the first I'm gonna dock chef Kino de Cobo who khadak imma lay Shaka don't don't do anything to them leave them because one of the two one of these two great people that were leaving their learning if somebody who Rashi brings Rashi here aussolas God Elaine's Manolo mousse he's going to become great and it's not his time to die I'm here with Sharma and for the Shama Jochen I was able to hear the angel speaking but hillford they're not here valerianova never except alpha Shamar meaty did you hear anything or they like I said no I didn't hear anything on Mars so we haven't set himself me - ami I know Bill fellow Shama from the fact that I was one was able to hear these angels nofa didn't hear Moreno the DD khaimah bachata he was able to deduce that from the fact that he was allowed to hear with angels were saying obviously it was him where was he who is going to be raised to greatness our labor be like any other vehicle none decided to go back to the basics managed go back to learning Torah leukemia up show you know yes tell a viewing the care forits is another plastic the plastic says one party says that a person is obligated or implies the president obligated to figure himself make sure and he has been awesome the other verse implies that no person needs to not be not be worried because there's always going to be someone poor in the world and therefore somehow it will be taken care of the Eklund hard are ill for the holders of the Oakland went back to learning Torah and Ilsa went out for para no sir I had the UH saw pill form between the time the revelation on returned and it also returned which was later he had gone to make money and he came back perhaps with having it having made some money in the meantime Monica bi Center via condom became the Russia she became the head of the Shiva and I'd like to read to you he quotes Rashi my new Russia Shiva layin min ago Misha Russia Shiva you my god when I say they made him into the Russia she's ahead of the Shiva and the custom was that whoever they was making to the Russia Shiva they would raise him up Michela hand my Sheeran I say they would give him money to make him rich kid I mean legaly coin Gogol like we find we actually discussed not long ago now when it comes to a coin go to high priest so if you didn't have money so they would provide him with money and that's what they did for Vietnam because they made him in Russia Shiva this is for all acusó de su propio numa numa numa account involving alcohol good Lumi shakhov so that's what we see happen was ill for went off to try to make money ended up coming back in the meantime miracle none became inertia Shiva and he became rich from being Russia Shiva I'm rely he asked his my regards I have a malcolm are so when Ilsa came back they said to him like this he said to him she brings Rashi Mauricio Shivaji Bottari if you would have stayed and study Torah her unum unleash on a skunk machine via economy we would have done to you we did turbulent the father gummy gummy a mere be excellent it also is actually a greater sage with more learning more knowledgeable than again common assault on watch a be scary the Spinoza so alpha went and he was upset our uniquely the show leave a mess Mesa through the here the ratio of the posh Donnelly must need some filler material not return he went to like this ship and he says if anyone can come here asking a question anywhere in shafts anywhere in the commode and I can't answer it I'll throw myself off of this ship meaning he was confident that he knew everything that's a sob eternally Tallulah and that's basically the end of the story so what do we see we see that reveal a can on her to reminisce when a shaming wasn't explicit wasn't clear but he was able to deduce and understand what it wasn't a sham wanted from them and by deducing that by understanding that by going straight to the core of it so he was able to interest very interesting he was able to first of all fulfill his life's purpose which was to be the great reveal turn on one of the greatest sages of the Talmud and he was able to become that Russia Shiva that great sage and he was able to fulfill his purpose and he was he became rich you came rich which is an amazing thing ok so that's that's what we have here that's what he brings you tomorrow now he brings us four other instances based on a measure the magician in the Akash remaining choice there are four places where people were near Moscow they were hinted to Masha Rubino Yakov govern and Mordecai and two out of the four instances the person was hinted to did not receive the hint did not get the hint so to speak and in other two instances they did indeed receive and did they get the message let's do this together the same at Bosnia yoshua the verse tells us that Hashem instructed mushroom in the commanded Moshe to place information in the ears of Joshua Margot this is Russia Barroso young named Joshua derivative schewe interesting the sage was speaking about Joshua the original Joshua was a rebel sure was a rabbi Joshua many years later but he says that that was the day that yoshua became the leader every lesser imadori over Z and Kanye about Saudi King was de modo he says know the verse that speaks about a sham instructing Moshe to place the Torah in the ears of Joshua was a hint to him and this hint was something with emotional Ben didn't get there were four that were hinted to to listen to didn't motion Itza and lagrimas were like gosh Moses was given this hint that they didn't hear it Yakub Nathan lawrenceville Akash Jacob also received a hint but he didn't listen double Mordechai need to learn remnants of her shoe but King David more high italic that's the story of Esther they were given hints and indeed they listened to the hints motion benign how do we know from where we see that Moses received a hint the symbols knew yoshua because the verse says place it in the ears of Joshua our lawyer Shem was hinting to him no Sherman Carol Haaretz that Joshua would be the one was going to provide the inheritance to the Jewish people I mean he was the one who's going to bring him in to land his little bits off I mean with Commissioner McCollum Hashem so a sham had already basically told him it's not you you're not gonna be able to bring the Jewish people into Israel and nevertheless Moshe Rabbeinu in I don't that word defiance is strong but in spite of the fact that he was told that he was not gonna be the one to bring him in he kept asking a sham please let me have an opportunity to come into Israel to leave in Jewish people into Israel ultimately he did not have that opportunity so it was Moshe Rabbeinu that's Moshe Yakko Nita Lowey Emma's Jacob also received a hint Lokesh and he did not do not get the hint she's 19 and I am coach Martino Holly I Taylor the verse says I am with you I'll protect you and wherever in whatever path you go who is meaning a Sherman says he promises him it's going to be okay everything's gonna be okay you have nothing to fear you've nothing to worry about at any point but so far you're already missed pocket the verse tells us that Jacob when you heard that his brother ISA was coming so he was afraid by euro Yakima he was very afraid awesome she sees her mark on my name is pocket which doesn't make sense of Shem gave him a hint Sharon told him it was yours before but nevertheless he was given a promise by God himself it's nothing to fear I will always be with you nonetheless all my shopping G grow McKay was afraid that as a result of some sin he would lose out that protection but nevertheless it was a mistake he didn't hear the hint that she would always be with him and nothing could cause him to lose that okay so those are the two instances of people who didn't hear the hint didn't receive that hint excuse me turn on the AC okay now King David dogged meat on my remnants Vikash King David had heard a hint and what happened he heard the hint he got the hint she never ever says gamma 3 gamma do if he caught the ha the verse tells us that King David when he came to King Saul and he said I want to battle with the grey gull EOS Goliath so she said what what makes you think that you're going to be able to fight against Goliath King David was a singer he was a musician he was a little guy so to speak and he was a fine person he wasn't a warrior what makes you think that you're going to able to fight against him King David said I'm redundant this humanity suffering chekc hyo's ladies on although he had had experiences in the field when he was shepherding his animals shepherding his sheep and a lion had come and a bear had come and he was able to stave them off and killed him he was able to do that why hello Ashima our acetal era Ciccarelli Nasim Lee Miceli Adi he set himself widen a sham put me in that position why not sham giving that opportunity why did I need to get that special Ciotti dish - special help to be able to destroy those animals would come to fight against me or to steal my sheep he said himself it must be that at some point in the future perhaps at some point in the future Hashem is going to give me an opportunity to fight the fights of the Jewish people and be able to overcome and that's how he was able to come in and indeed he defeated goal yes because he had that see as a dish man that special help from heaven but it was hinted to him and he received that hints he got the hint Mordecai Neitzel Hermes hush also Mordecai in the story of Esther he also received a hint and heard the hint she never ever called yoyoyo and more to Simon sound like the verse tells us every single day he was going over and over again it was very strange trip I believe in ourselves he's very strange Esther her mom Jews it Sudeikis a great woman a righteous woman she should have to marry an RL an uncircumcised man the king was a king but nonetheless he was not not Jewish for something forbidden in Jewish law for her to be placed in such a situation such a great woman she was a prophetess it was weird it was strange there had to be a reason for it so Morris I kept coming back kept returning to the Shire I met to see what was going to be a lot my mother hobbies yet received as a should be not to the Russia or Eliza he said himself could it be that this righteous woman is married to this evil person what could it be and he was able to return as a result of him coming constantly to the char amel to the Kings gate so he end up hearing big Sun and Sara she heard those two people who wanted to assassinate the king and as a result of that it was written in the books etc the whole story was miss goggle it rolled out from there because he heard the hint he saw that something was amiss something was afoot so therefore he was able to to recognize that he was supposed to receive this message so those are the examples that are given by them by the Madras her crime Freelander brings us back to bilham and Hashem gave him numerous hints numerous hints and some of the hints were explicit some of them are very clear that is his comb or not wanting to come forward that there was a mollusk there and that he wasn't able to see but the more that the donkey was able to see he didn't get the hints he didn't get the hint and very interestingly and beautifully bring down that there were also more subtle hints that when the donkey speaks to to bilham so he says to him why did you hit me three times a monkey says a son because it was re the malla the angel said to him why did you hit your doggie - unleash for Golan the way that he refers to the three times the way that the angel refers to it is that says Charlie I forgot these three times so but the word shall assure Gollum as anyone who's familiar with Jewish literature knows and she'll destroy Gollum is referred to the way we refer to the three holidays of the Jewish people and so there was a ramen right she says that there was a ram as there was a hint when is like remotely after my vanish Makaha show agama Shana you are trying to uproot a nation that celebrates three regardless Risa festivals a year so and it's a funny thing because he doesn't get the more obvious hints he's going to get that little subtle hint but the idea is the idea here is countries under explains that a Shem gives each person hints Shem gives each person opportunities to recognize what their destiny is where they're supposed to go villains destiny was not to curse the Jewish people with the blessing Jewish people it rising mighty couldn't defy that destiny but it's possible as we see to hear the hints about our destiny and having forbid to ignore the hints having forbid to ignore those hints and not to see it and so the message of the depth of it is is that hey I need to hear there's a hint here in our parsha many in some gives us so many opportunities for us to see what is his will but certainly as we read the partial we look for that every week and we see the hint that we need to look for the handsome gives us so have to be careful to know what's a hint what's not a hint where is it guiding us but we saw regulation I was able to see that hint Mordecai King David etc and just to finish off I want to share with you what was the hint for me that led me to begin as partial podcast and it was I was learning at the time where Shoshanna tractate Rosh Hashanah and I was going over and over the Gemara stirring it many times I wanted to know it well and there's a Gemara there I think it leaves on the few dollar page eleven I'm a knight it speaks about a hadass speaks about a myrtle branch the myrtle branch is something which is but someone has a beautiful smell and beautiful fragrance and the verse speaks about Hadassah Bamidbar a myrtle branch in the wilderness and and it gives two different explanations of what's this Myrtle Myrtle in the word wilderness possible to be a Hadassah famille or that it's it's possible that a person if they learn by themselves they don't share that tour with anybody else they're just like a Myrtle branch in the wilderness and no one can smell because it's it's completely isolated and then there's another explanation which says that a person who learns Torah and teaches it to others in a place where there's no one else to teach so that person is like Hadassah Midler and whoever passes there that Myrtle branch which is in the wilderness whoever passes by it it's the only one that's there that's the one that they're going to take and they're going to smell from so because it's the only one there it's going to be able to provide for those who are very thirsty for a smell for a beautiful smell and so I kept reading that and at that time I had no podcasts yeah I had nothing and since then as you may know I've done hundreds and hundreds of podcasts and I was aware of the fact that on iTunes there were all of these podcasts that were going up many of which for most of which were not authentic to Torah Judaism many of them were in fact Christianity guides as as Torah which is a sad thing but I said to myself you know here's this this opportunity it's called iTunes it's called podcasts and I'd like to try to do that I began that ten years ago and you can go back and listen to those original podcasts and I'm very excited to say that I took the hint took the hint that ashram sent me from that kumara and ten years now I've been taking or trying to take the hint looking for the hints encourage all of you to look for things in your lives when I shine would have you be and flash um would guide you to which is all of us what we're all looking forward to try to fulfill who we are and what our potential is so I want to bless you I ask you to please bless me attention help us that we should be directed to see the hints to recognize the hints to hear them that's the first step able to have those close temerity here with to hear the hints of my Shem and Shem should help us to recognize and listen to those hints so that we can indeed manifest and be all that a Shem wants us to be 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 WWE were on iTunes Ari Gold black [Music]