Ari Goldwag - Acharei Mos - Biding the Time

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast recorded with ashrams never-ending assistance in ramat beit shemesh Israel 57 76 this week's parsha if you live in klutz Lords the live outside of Israel is partial soccer a mouse and you live in Israel as partial skadoosh in we're going to focus on parshas aha ramos when we look at the structure of the partial we see that the purchase starts off with a description of the fact that we had the death of our own sons not of a na'vi who died in their service of God at the beginning of the of the Mishkan at the beginning of the inauguration of the michigan and immediately after that erina can receive the command of his obligation to go into the Koyukuk addition to the Holy of Holies on Yom Kippur and what the avodah of Yom Kippur what the special service of Yom Kippur looked like now if we look afterwards and this is also read on Yom Kippur very interestingly and it's not a coincidence but when we look at the parsha after it speaks of the avodah other yom kippur the Yom Kippur service it speaks about the forbidden sexual relationships the I rious about which we are warned to steer away from those relationships so one of the things that I want to understand is why indeed is it that the Torah places the concept of the arias right next to the aveda of Yom Kippur which is the holiest day of the year why is this the concept which is spoken of immediately after natori and also clearly we read it on Yom Kippur as well so why is it indeed that it's red on Yom Kippur what is the teaching what is the message now what I also want understand is why is it that the preface to the avodah on Yom Kippur is the story of the death of the sons of arnica and why is that the lead in it almost looks like a sandwich you look at the avodah on a top or at the beginning is the death of iron sons of not event of you and then afterwards we have that forbidden arias all those relationships which are forbidden why is it indeed that the avodah of Yom Kippur is placed between these two concepts so to begin to understand I'd like to share with you too much Russian and the two in Russian one magician speaking about another one of you there are verra what was the cause of their death and he uses a very specific language where interestingly parallels the language of the major uses in regards to era in regards to that I Reyes the forbidden relationships that were speaking about so this major issues at the beginning of our parsha and partial cough in letter yud and the major issues trying to understand what was the Avera what did they do wrong what did done not the vanity you do to deserve to die as they went in to the base some English to the to the temple and it says like this boy been hot though so there's a few explanations i want to share with you a few of them and come to a climax with a certain one of them which is the one that parallel so we're going to see by air flow it says like this well moisture amar la la shem the verse says that God said to Moses go up to God mallamma shall you Moishe iron Hulk and Fila this teaches us that Moses and Aaron were walking first they were walking in front in other than of you mahal kandahar am not even a view we're walking behind them the whole us relajar a hen and then all of the Israelites were behind them well I am rim another one of you were saying massage nazar ke naam a little amazed him on an item sir ouellette zebra when are these two old men going to die so then we can take over the leadership of the public review the Machine reveai become our review then said in the name of her bi boy the fiom emrooz Alyssa they actually spoke this out to each other they actually said this to each other that when are we going to take over early p.m. class I'm I believe I'm here are you repent that says that no they didn't actually speak this out they just thought this in their hearts on my reverb raffia rebellious says I'm gonna have my cutters borrow who God said to them altus a lo VI mock our God says is it worth do not rejoice and suddenly I was going to happen tomorrow you think something's going to happen tomorrow but you have no idea har basic and may sue many young horses died the natsu are a cinch to kill now gallium SM and their hide was used as a saddle on their mothers you think that you're young and they're old but the truth is that that's not how it's going to be so it in the first explanation the reason that they lost their lives was because they thought that they were going to be next leader so they were trying to push away motion irons that they could take over immediately so they were a little bit anxious and because of that they lost their lives well I even had aa another explanation of the reason why they passed on is because of this first Israel at sea Lebanese rel the verse speaks about the fact that a heart ce9 Mount Sinai there were those who were greater amongst the people of Israel and they were able to see the Sheena they were looking at the Divine Presence they were seeing that spiritual experience in a way which was inappropriate and really they should have died i'm rap in cosmic contrarian las locas yaad the verse indicates that they should have died at that time at Mount Sinai dumb review shua hickey layer in all I seem on me c9 America's suicide like came the verse speaks of the fact that they ate they saw God they saw a vision of God and they ate them they drank now do you think that they brought cakes with them onto Mount Sinai to be able to eat at that time element la made what it means is that what word what does it mean when it says that they were eating and drinking it means o Muhammad rosano in a min hoshino and here's the language which is very interesting which parallels something we're going to see in regards to arise in regards to the forbidden relationships it teaches us that they did something which was sustaining just like food sustains them they did something else which sustained them zono enemy nishana they sustained their eyes that's the language they sustain their eyes by looking at the Divine Presence by a kazoo SI la kim they saw God Adam gemili behave eremitic Mahal amisha just like a person who looks at his friend while he's eating and drinking so we have a very interesting teaching here from our hazael from the mesh and that is that there is a looking there is a sustenance that happens when one looks if a person looks at the divine presence of a person has a spiritual experience and he sees God as it were so there's a looking that sustains but interestingly for another than of you they're looking that sustains they did it in an inappropriate way it was an incorrect thing to do they should have died then however I Shem waited and they ended up dying when they came in they did this avoid of this incorrect to the service that was inappropriate at the beginning of the Michigan into inauguration of the Michigan then they passed away but it was really as a result of them looking at the Divine Presence earlier now the mesh points out in contrasts the behavior of not even of you with moshe rabbeinu review sure the seasoning bashira believe you amar moisture lays on in a manner Shekinah Moses when we contrast and compare him to another one of you he did something completely different he had a vision at the burning bush what does he do he turns his eyes away he doesn't want to look at the sheena he doesn't want to look at the Divine Presence what happens in the end venom in ashina because of the fact that he was careful not to look in the end he does benefit and has the ability to see the Divine Presence lies on enemy no Shana where do we see that he didn't look at the Divine Presence an MRI a skirmish upon of the verse says that Moses covered his face menomena Shekinah me 9 how do we know that he indeed benefited from the divine presence later on she never mashallah da ki karna open up the verse describes the fact that Moses was not aware of the fact that his face was shining with a spiritual glow and that spiritual glow as a result of the fact that Moshe had not looked originally but in the end he was able to speak to God directly the sky by a stair in the merit of the fact that he covered his face Zaha he merited with d vaginal mesh upon upon him that God spoke to him face-to-face bisque archaea rang in the merit of the fact that he was afraid to come up and see that that wondrous thing that spiritual glimpse of Hashem which was there in the burning bush zaca by you or me i should say love as a result of the fact that he was afraid so also those who saw the spiritual light that was coming out of motions face also were afraid to come up to him this car may have beat in the merit of the fact that he didn't look at the Divine Presence Socceroos massage amia beat in the end he merited that he was able to indeed see a vision of God another valve you however when it came to another van of you za aneema national a nano me man they indeed at an inappropriate time at a time when they should have closed their eyes when they should have turned away they looked at the Divine Presence they allow their eyes to be sustained by the Divine Presence Blaine enema man ultimately they weren't able to derive benefit from it huh from this verse but you almost not have a view of the flesh em another not even a view passed away in front of God now what's really amazing and interesting is that at the end of the parsha when the Torah speaks about the content of the arrives it speaks about the forbidden sexual relationships so it also the message also uses the very same language in speaking about a person who's careful not to look at ever not to look at those things that are forbidden to him here's the measures at the end of the partial partial of game o.o seed gimel number 13 Robin Asha Barbrady you should navy Omar Robin Asha the Sun the grandson Ruby Shubin Navy said Messina should call me Sharia devar Aviva that we find that whoever is in a location where there's something immodest where is something that's not sneeze where there's a devourer of some nakedness vahina is inane of me mana but a person is careful that he doesn't sustain his eyes he doesn't steer he doesn't look at it he turns his eyes away zoella hockey open arena ultimately a person who is careful in that way who has that level of modesty who has that carefulness not to look at those things which are inappropriate ultimately he merits to be able to receive the Divine Presence my time' how do we know that this is true we have a verse in Isaiah chapter 33 verse 15 but I'd same a namira person who closes his eyes from seeing things that are inappropriate maximus ray what is the verse say afterwards mella Biagio da fazenda aneta your eyes will see the king in his beauty person is careful to watch his eyes to not look at those things that are inappropriate he will see the Divine Presence he will have the ultimate beauty which is the beauty of godliness tirana aired smear Hakeem you will see faraway lands and this is a reference to a spiritual reality which is far away as it were but a person can access by being careful not to look at things that are inappropriate now it's really interesting I use the same exact language that a person needs to be careful just like none of an of you they were not careful they allowed their eyes to be sustained by looking at the Divine Presence same language over here that a person has to be careful not to sustain his eyes not to give his I sustenance from a ver ver from something which is inappropriate to look at something which is forbidden to look at and just like the measure she had said that motion was careful not to look at the inappropriate time but in the end he merited to be able to see the divine presence at the right time so to this measure she's saying this almost the same exact language that a person who is careful not to look at something which is inappropriate ultimately he merits to see the divine presence as well now I want to repeat a question that we asked before which was that we have to avoid though we have the service of the kind got all the high priest on Yom Kippur on that highest and holiest day of the year and that's described in our part ship between these two ideas the idea of the death of another one of you which were saying was caused as a result of them looking at something looking at the divine presence in an inappropriate time and it's on the other side you have the concept of the arias of looking at things that are inappropriate looking at forbidden things also in a place which is inappropriate the wrong person in the wrong time what is the reason why they avoid ax is placed here in between these two ideas and I think that we can begin to understand it by looking at the first part of the magician which we spoke about before we said that there were two different reasons actually there are more when we talked about those two different reasons why not of an Ave you were not safe I didn't merit to become leaders of colleagues fell even though they had the potential the great potential to become those leaders the first reason that we said was because they said when are these old people aren't in motion going to pass away so that we can take over meaning they weren't willing to take the time they didn't recognize that there's an appropriate time for everything it's like if you try to pick a fruit that's not yet ripe that fruit is not going to taste very good they didn't understand that they looked at motion our and said these old guys there times done it's our time here we are where the new generation we're the ones that are supposed to be the leaders now they weren't yet ripe and they try to take over they they went in without asking permission of motion on without asking advice emotion iron they came in and they served a Shem in an inappropriate time they tried to grab something before its time and that was the mistake that was the same mistake that they made in the second part of the Madras where they looked at the Divine Presence instead of looking away and recognizing that it wasn't the right time for them to look they lost it they looked at a time when it was inappropriate as opposed to Moshe are being emotion who had to wait he knew how to say look there's this amazing spiritual experience that I'm having wow the brush is burning it's not it's not being consumed it's a spiritual it's a spiritual vision he knew to look away not to take it yet not to not to grab it it's not for him yet he recognized that intuitively he had that understanding and as a result of that as a result of turning away of not taking it at the wrong time not grabbing that spiritual experience ultimately when it was the right time to receive it he was able to receive it he recognized that there were boundaries he recognized that there were boundaries in time and in space there was something beckoning him calling look at me see this beautiful mayra see this amazing spiritual experience and he chose to look away and ultimately because he looked away he merited that he would be able to see it in the end at the right time in the right place it's the same idea the concept of not looking at airville not looking and inappropriate things not looking at the wrong people not uncovering the nakedness of somebody who's a relative not uncovering the nakedness even of one's wife when she's menstruating this type of description this type of command is teaching us an amazing thing and it parallels precisely what was happening with not even of you the tour is teaching us that there are boundaries that there is a right place there's the right time and there's a right person when a person is in a correct relationship then it's appropriate and not only is it appropriate but it's beautiful and it's spiritual and when a person is careful not to try to take something at the wrong time with the wrong person the ultimate result is shayna and it could be that this is even a reference to the concept that we find that has I'll say that issue ishizuka that when a man and his wife merit Gina been a.m. when they do things in the right way when they have the right relationship in the right time the right place so then the Sheena is there the divine presence comes into that place they bring a soul leaving a human being into the world they have an amazing creative energy that is brought because it's the right time in the right place but when it's not the right time cause I'll tell us when it's not the right place when it's not the right person so the result is destruction Liza who what do you have you take out the unit in the hay of the names of Asia and Asia and all you're left with is H you're not just left with fire destruction when it's not done appropriately when it's not done in the right time we write boundaries so then all that's left is fire destruction the aveda of yom kippur the service of the high priest on yom kippur was an amazing spiritual experience he would come into the Kazakh during the Holy of Holies which was the bridge between this world and the upper transcendent realms it was a place where you could experience God literally our descriptions of it in the Gamorrean bracha speaks about rebel Isha cuddle who came in there and I shamisen to give him a blessing amazing spiritual experience was possible there but when is it possible for a person to go in there it's the right person in the right time in the right place everything depends upon the person's preparation and and making sure to come in only at the right time in the right place and with the right preparation the magician our precious speaks about the fact that during the first base image in the first temple so there were many Kohanim gidelim that they came in and they went in and they came out in peace everything was well they were able to access that space walk into that transcendence space and be able to access forgiveness for the Jewish people from that space because of the fact that they had prepared themselves properly that they had done the spiritual work to be able to enter into their they merited because of their spiritual greatness to be the Kohanga Dolan to be the high priest but in this Second Temple the message tells us that there were many more high priests because the people who were becoming the high priests were buying it out they were paying for the privilege the honor of being a high priest but not only did they pay with their money they paid with their lives many of them died because even though perhaps they were coming at the right time and perhaps they were coming into the right place but they were not coming in with the right preparation they were not the right person they were not the right one to be coming in there and that was the problem of none event of you and that's the lesson of the concept of the forbidden sexual relationships that it's all about the right time in the right place and the right person you want to have a spiritual experience connecting to God serving God it needs to be with the right preparation in the right time and it needs to be with a recognition that if I'm not ready I look away and it's the same thing with the forbidden relationships and that's what this measure is teaching us if it's not the right person it's not the right place if it's inappropriate the eyes need to be turned away a nice done in of me manner I don't allow my eyes to be sustained to enjoy something which is inappropriate in the wrong time in the wrong place and if I'm careful about that if I'm careful to make sure that it's only done in the right place in the right time and it's the right persons the right type of person it's not one of the forbidden relationships so then I am Zach I merit to have the divine presence in my life I married to have something which is real which is solid which feels spiritually correct and is indeed ken has a potential to be a powerful spiritual experience but it's amazingly beautiful how all three of these ideas fit in so nicely so beautifully into the same idea the concept of the death of none of an of you where they were looking at things spiritually out of the time in the inappropriate place and the idea of that value of Yom Kippur is indeed doing things in the right place in the right time and the idea of the arias of the forbidden relationships which is all about knowing who it is appropriate with and when it's appropriate to have a relationship between a man and a woman I want to bless you and please bless me back a sham should help us to be able to recognize when indeed the relationships whether it's with God or whether it's with others our appropriation should help us to see indeed when it's appropriate and to look away when it's inappropriate a shrimp should help us to merit to be able to logically open ashina to receive the Divine Presence through our willingness to wait and not take things before their time thank 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