Acharei-Kedoshim - Fighting the Plague

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with Ari Gold wag recorded with us gems never-ending assistance in Russia Israel 5780 2020 this week's partial partial sacrum us and Kidd Ocean and in our parsha we have an important topic which I would like to discuss we read it every year ahora most we read on Yom Kippur we read about the avodah which is the obvious connection TM Kippur we read about the avodah of the of the Kohen Gadol the high priest on Yom Kippur and we also read about the forbidden sexual relationships that the Torah tells us we are to steer clear of these were things these are various the sins involved in the forbidden relationships were those that were done by the midstream the Egyptians the Canaanites those people and it was for that reason that they were destroyed we'll see soon in the Med ruch that this is an important idea that we need to understand it's especially shy that especially applies to our times an amazing connection to what's going on in the world right now and it's important for us to understand the deep severity of these things and it's important for understand how we can save ourselves from the decadent society that surrounds surrounds us what can we do to overcome Arab personally hate Sahar our personal evil inclination what can we do to face off with this new Sun especially in our times when we're all confined to our homes and certainly in certain ways the it's harder for these things is even stronger I like to address I'd like to talk about I'd like to read from the Meldrick some amazing things that the measure says I would never have said such a thing myself but the measure says it so you know have to take it seriously we have to know that this is this is really an important idea and it's very much connected to what's going on in the world okay measure says like this Tony or Bhishma c'mon serious maternal Kumasi arts Canon Lata sue the plastic tells us very clearly the verse tells us in Perak you trespass of giemo that we are not to do like the nations around us the nations of like we said and the nation of Canaan they were known for their moral decadence their lack of spirituality the lack of self-control in the areas of promiscuity and the Torah tells us we are not to do like them we're not to be like them we are not to behave like them and the plastic finishes off in plastic dollars and says ream Lavanya Shana km I am a Shamir God now whenever the verse tells us Anya show me how much I machine your God the tour is telling us that God is making a statement I am God I know what's going on I know what's going on in your hearts excuse me and there are serious implications for this type of behavior that is telling us important important to know Tony Vecchia Romagna Shem exhibtion Epimetheus says why is it saying the verse twice I am a sham a new shopper at Madaba mr. diamond emits rhyme the Torah is telling us that I am the one there's a statement there's a doubling there's a doubling of the language shams as I'm here I mash em I'm your God why is he saying it twice it's to underscore something I'm the one who paid the Egyptians they were punished the Canaanites were punished and the people of Saddam were punished the sodomites they were well known for their evil behavior in this specific area and I need sleep are my Mushu ice Sakuma sam says a college bar cool I did it them and I'm gonna do it in the future there's gonna be a payment for those who behave in the way of the sodomites those who behave in the way of mitzraim and decadent behavior in this area dermavol implement o'malley - - from business says a major major SH what was the reason why the door hummable the generation of the flood why were they wiped away it was because they were involved in illicit behavior and illicit sexual behavior perhaps employee con Malcolm shot almighty's knows and are lamu Cibola island Vegas Tyrone says the measure something which should give us a shiver it should scare us wherever you find that there is a concept of Zeus wherever you find that people are involved in illicit behavior and incorrect behavior and our on Darla mushiya bola eylem what is on Darla Lucia comes to the world what comes to the world with luscinia Vani Hera guma gave us an ashram says the 8c ISIF plagues come into the world why do plagues come into the world says a Madras because of illicit sexual behavior and the manager says something which gives us path abroad and Vegas Tiberium it comes into the world and it kills those who are good and those who are bad meaning it's something that comes into the world and it's indiscriminate it brings the evil behavior of those who are done wrong is very interesting you know we look at what you know the world has blamed China for not being responsible in regard to the coronavirus we understand that a part that that there's a responsibility that we have in physical manners in health matters that's true that if someone is irresponsible in one part of the world it can have an effect on the entire world something that we're witnessing with our very eyes this is not just true in regards to something physical it's true in regards to something spiritual and therefore we need to know that there's there's a tremendous responsibility that we have at least to protest at least a protest to make a clear protest this is not okay with us to pray that it shouldn't continue and to not live in places where this type of behavior is is out of hand terrible terrible thing the measure says the measure says Rahul Machinery be a CEO murder amiable animal all your dish Kazuko Macias Lazar when I came in listen to this unbelievable statement of the Madras why was the generation of the flood destroyed because they had legalized homosexual marriage that's what it says they used to give out they used to write Zubaz they used to write documents of marriage in in Thai Ava terrible relationships that's what it says in the Madras so you know this might not have to do with all of us and we think does this have to do with me we're gonna get to understanding what this has to do with us because this is not just about that type of quote-unquote marriage it's not just about living in a society where that's okay and it's not just about that idea per se it's also about a general approach a general understanding and general feeling in a journal what do we allow ourselves what's okay for us is our relationship focused as ATAR wants us exclusively on our spouse exclusively on that which is permitted or are we involved in eras which are not permitted that's the question and it has a tremendous ramification for ourselves but not just for ourselves personally but also for all of those around us because it spreads like a plague that's what the meander she's saying Ruby Azaria she may be who the rip semen will be Shubin lady bhishambar corpora sister bizarre you in the name of you who dubs imman and review Shipman LaVey in the name of Barca Parra but see mashaallah calico - Burcu my arugula Koosman as no spell vaad says the Madras a very difficult thing Hashem has patience for everything Hashem has patience for everything every Avera but nuts loose but not when it comes to illicit the area that we're speaking about these illicit relations right this area Hashem doesn't have patience this lakorn segi and shanira of a hickey - ha Adam Yoruba nehru him has been noise Adama Yara Schanke Robb arose autumn a marsh a Memphis autumn the verse refers to in regards to door marble the generation of flood refers to the illicit relations that they were having those times and Hashem said there's too much it's too much evil going on here he didn't have patience and that was the end I'm gonna destroy him Cydonia maybe Shubin LaVey vishakha para amar the people of Saddam who also were known for their illicit relations that was that was the thing that was the thing that caused their destruction amar Kaul I say la ilaha illa I mean with our Alam Sahni Gloria lo is trying to pray on the behalf of the people of tzunami lived there Avram couldn't succeed well lived there he understood the people he was trying to prevent the destruction of Saddam Kevin Chappell Varma yeah an awesome NATO some potage mich what happened the people of Saddam came and they were knocking on the door of load and they said where are those people that you let into your house we're gonna know them what does it mean to know them it means that they wanted to have illicit relations the men with the men mish coves ah her right because they said that that was the end me I know she would like Oh Mila Kapoor at that moment that was the end that's when the Malacca Macedo we got to get out of here Hashem is gonna destroy this place at kanhaiyaa Liholiho piss can pet the llama dilemma Sinan gorya there was an opportunity until this moment to prevent the destruction of Saddam but the moment that they came and they said that this is this is how we're gonna treat the guests that's the end Allah Horsham enough honey circle bring the people your daughters their their husbands maki salmon afternoon we're going to destroy hashem says a shaman shaman who should nip rotten shrimp shiny homonym easy Murray Oh suddenly part of me me show ya sé que mas same alright one more statement here before we get to the tea cone before we get to the resolution how do we face off with this area how do we face off with this area how do we deal with this one more comment of the metric measure says I know one who paid Shem Sean and Alan and Zimmerman these two were three people who were known shrimp Sean had gone after his eyes and he married a woman from the from the police team HT woman unknown had had relations illicit relations with his sister zimri had illicit relations with a midnight princess I'm the one who paid them off they were destroyed they were destroyed as result of their involvement in illicit relations I'm going to in the future says Hashem pay back those who do like they do but on the other side of it says the magician amazing thing this is so important to understand this is such an important tool in combating is heat Sahara how do we face off with the 8th Sahara I knew she she she Lamptey the ice of the yellow party benaiah are no one who paid Joseph Yael and party mallesh these three were known for their stalwart standing up to the 8th Sahara and not giving in being firm in their conviction being firm in their committment talk of the Swart code to do what is right in this area Hashem says I paid them they received their just reward Yosef because of his greatness he became the leader of the tribes through his facing off with this terrible challenge Yael and Paul - each of them received their just reward so I'm also going to pay reward for those who do like they do yo save me 9 I'm army Sherman I'm Lee how do we know that Yossi was paid back for his overcoming as you saw her in this area for we're coming in Sahara Fresnos peeve should I not sure I'm sorry I said me shall I not snow lying the mattress tells us that Yosef he received each of the things that that power did peeve shall I not shocked Bevere his mouth didn't kiss in a way which was forbidden OPH economy so Paris said with your lips all of the nation will kiss based on what you say with your lips that's what the people will do and he goes through the lists a very keen Oliveira by awesome review das level so far each of the different parts of his body that weren't involved in the sin they received their just reward because he held himself back he became the leader and all of those limbs that could have done the sin and didn't they were rewarded through his being appointed as the leader of Egypt and ultimately the leader of the Jewish people the true leaders are of the Jewish people the true leaders we're not just talking about on a on a level of the entire Jewish people but it's true in our families we want to be a leader of our family we want to be an example for our children we want to be example for our community we need to know that this is an essential component of who we are are we committed to what the Torah demands of us are we committed to the purity - I'm expects of us to the degree that we are committed we indeed are going to receive sea otter dish Maya and this isn't a very powerful way of dealing with the Achara number one number one and we're gonna see that they're the two or three things I'm gonna offer you to work on to think about in our time how to face off with the sea it's our heart because you see it Sahara is it decimating it has decimating effects it brings about plagues good and bad people are lost in these plagues why because of a lack of lack of morality in our society that we have to we have to face off with that we have to make sure that we ourselves are pure we move away from those societies to a place where indeed we are safe from this moral decadence Yosef had that we can recognize how critical gives tremendous reward I want to tell you that I know personally of a story of somebody I can't say any details about this story but I can tell you I know the story personally of somebody who indeed had tremendous tremendous sea otter dish much tremendous divine assistance open openly a sham show this person that he was in his life in a way that was unbelievable constantly when this person decided to break from his old ways in this area he got tremendous sea otter dish my miraculous help constantly as a result of breaking from his previous ways in this area and I want to say that that one of the things that we can do we can make a deal so to speak with Akhilesh bar who and I've discussed this with Marisa Shiva but it's possible to make a deal to take something which is very hard and secular Sparkle I am going to - I've spoken about this in the past but I'm going to have selfish straight in this area I'm going to be cut ished to you Rocco - Marco I'm going to be pure and in exchange I want you to grant health to my family I want you to to give part nuts it to my family I want you to give livelihood and we have to be careful with this then I want to qualify what I'm saying we can use such a thing we find that such a thing is mentioned in the Gemara Kumar tells us I'm a seller that stuck-up feel she theab any person who says I want to give this sadaqa he's doing a hard thing it's hard to get sadaqa I want to give this money says the person in order that his son should live I guess the son is sick I raise its attic gummer it's considered a righteousness why sister Kamara if a non Jew does this it doesn't work it's not good why because if a Jew does this and so to speak Russian doesn't fulfill his side of the bargain so the Jew says obviously it's my problem I did something wrong I don't deserve it but someone who is not connected in that way someone who's doesn't have that spiritual background so he'll blame it on God so it's not a good thing but a Jew when we say to our kodesh more Who I am going to do this thing on a condition that you do a certain thing for me so to speak so it's permitted to do such a thing and of course we need to have in mind that I want to do this thing relevant the vehicle - for who indeed gives me that thing that I want but there is such an idea of making a deal with Akhilesh Barco it's also true in other areas I've heard stories about a young woman who was a little bit older and she hadn't yet gotten met her her Causton the person who suppose she was supposed to marry and she made a commitment talk of the spoke what she said I shall I want to have met my cousin within a year and I'm going to take on a certain miss with to always read the benching to say the blessings of the because I'm Muslim from a sitter always read it from a sitter and she was completely committed to that and indeed within a year she found her her her Hassan the one who she would end up marrying so there is such a thing it's a very powerful thing to do and it's it's something that works and I want to read it to you in the measure she says a similar idea on RB I see shall I change to talk up gets around Lanvin issue alone yes he says that there are three people who they are yet Sahara had made inroads into them they work very close to sinning and what did they do they made oh they swore they'd use the power of an oath and of course you'd be very careful I'm not encouraging that person should make an oath but certainly we can make a commitment a powerful commitment to occur tomorrow who and we can perhaps make a commitment with together with somebody else two people working together I'm committed to you and you're committed to me and we compare notes and we discuss things and we're open and we're honest we talk about where we've fallen we've talked about where we've triumphed it's a very powerful thing doesn't have to be a sure but the idea of a shoe of an oath or nether is the powerful commitment that it's possible to make to ourselves to echo - Rocco to God and we can do it with others as well the ice if devudu buyers these three individuals these three great tsadikim were able to make this commitment they made they swore them in a nose and through that oath they were able to overcome Nate Sahara their evil inclination they were able to overcome against tremendous odds Joseph's the way cos I'll explain it the challenge that yosef endured that he had to go through with with Potiphar's wife it was tremendous it wasn't almost impossible he was almost there giving in and yet he was able to overcome it how to an overdose I mean I'm sure never v/h/s Sahara guerilla how can I do such a great thing sinning to God oona Bashar be EDR Akuma make ricotta ricotta solution ink sieve con ella Leila Kim doesn't say and I shall sin to Hashem it says I shall sin to el achim and achim is a language of a shoe and usually gets of I'm really lucky manically there any isurugi Darla he made an oath to his yet Sahara to his evil inclination and he said I shall not do this thing he made a complete absolute commitment a real commitment there is such a thing as making a true and deep commitment to ourselves to our God to our Yeats er to our evil inclination and amazingly the 8th Sahara he steps back he steps back you know you see such a thing you see this thing all the time regular people all the time do such a thing you know what it's called it's called Shabbos Shabbos we have a commitment and there are people who even though they smoked during the whole entire week when it comes to Shabbos the commitment to Shabbos is so strong they don't even have a ate Sahara to smoke a cigarette on Shabbos have a friend I know he smokes neighbor of mine and he told me that when it comes to shops usually during the week when you smoke so you have a good fat meal it makes you want to smoke more you have a you have a coffee makes you want to smoke but on Shabbos even you have a big meal you have a fat coffee doesn't make him want to smoke the commitment the deep commitment to Shabbos is so much stronger than the eight Sahara amazing thing this is what you see in this measure so I want to bring across two points one is creating a deep commitment to ourselves and it can be for certain amount of time let's say for 30 days or a week whatever it is and it can be renewed or even for a day it can be for one day powerful and what does Hashem Hashem says I promise you if you are committed in this area I promise you that you will be raised up you will have a tremendous see out of the shmatte in all areas you'll have to render see out the dish man you will protect yourselves you'll protect yourselves from the plagues that have them forbid can come and they can kill good and bad person has the power and also the person has the power through making sure to be living in a place if you live in a place where where it's two-faced emo the society around you is it's terrible you gotta be going to the muck I'm Tahara really because I'll say have you got Alcantara but I'm saying I'm eagerly welcome Tahara need to come to a place come to Eretz Israel it's the great of course of course there's there's Western civilization around us here as well but it's a different level to a different place it's a different level of kedusha it's a different level of striving for you to count for striving for spirituality striving to come closer coluche baku so those are the ideas and i want to bless you and ask you to bless me ashram should help us that we should be able to recognize the places in our lives that aren't where we want them to be some should help us to be able to make a deep and strong commitment to use the the CLE the vessel the the the the tools whether it's whether it's making a strong commitment or whether it's you that commitment alongside other people whether it's recognizing the great see a tradition whether a person can receive or whether it's making a deal with a college boy who so to speak consciously understanding that I'm I want this I want to do this good thing whether or not I get what I want so to speak but creating a deal using these tools there's so many tools that we can use to strengthen ourselves in this area and it's such an important area such that we read it on your Kippur we read on the holiest day of the year because it's the essential the most essential perhaps idea that we need to connect to especially in dark and difficult times so I want to bless you as we've said Hashem should help us in this area and we should be able to be committed in this area to do what's right to strengthen ourselves to connect to the different tools at our disposal there's also 12-step groups that deal with this type of area there's the guard your eyes website which is a very powerful tool that also includes the 12 steps I encourage you all to think about this topic to focus on this topic to strengthen ourselves in this area because it is so sexual thank you so much for listening and were wonderful Shabbos this 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