Balak - Secret of Redemption

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with ar goldwag recorded with A's net running assistance in Israel 5784 2024 this week's par is parches bolok and as I say every year when we get to pares bolok it's the completion of another cycle another year of the paral podcast we've been doing this every single week for 17 years it's very exciting for me and I'd like to encourage you if you get something from this podcast and you want to help it to continue can any of my projects go to AR gold.com go on to the Donate page can also help out with my new Darkness to Redemption album which also goes to all my projects AR gold.com newalbum and uh thank you so much for listening and here we go we've got a lot to say this week Pas bolock so we have at the end of the par we have the story of after all the curses or the blessings that billum tries to give curses as I'm giving blessings he advises bolock he advises the Mite people to to the M People the Mite people to try to cause the Jewish people to sin by getting them to behave lously and sadly there's success in that 24,000 people die and in the process one of the leaders of the Jewish people his name is to be revealed in next week's para at the beginning Zim Z Salu so he he is sinning with kby Aur princess of the of the moabite people or the Mite people I forget at this moment and the Torah tells us something and it's very interesting mosha ru's reaction versus P's reaction the contrast between them the inability for mosha to figure out exactly what the is in this situation Pinas jumps in and stops the M he stops the play through his action by getting up and killing Zim he he lets go of or CA hasem to let go of his Wrath of all the Jewish people and the and the plague stops now that's the basic story we all know the story but actually we're going to see that there's a contrast between mosha Renu in AR par and moshu in a different point in time and when we understand this contrast it gives us an opportunity to explore something in par the last par of the Torah which often is overlooked you don't spend too much time focusing on it it's at the same time as the end of sukus we read it on on suas Tor so we kind of miss out but I'd like to share with you something from there and also something about the secrets I'm calling this podcast The Secret of redemption because it's also very much connected to somebody named sarak baser who is connected to the Redemption we'll see more about that soon but let's for a moment read the mes together at the end of our par it says like this was a particular man from the people of Israel it's going to be Z and he comes to his brothers and he gathers people together in order to do his sin in a very public way and he causes many people to sin okay the first part of the m is is saying that he did this he didn't give honor to Hashem he didn't give honor to people he did it in a very um egotistical way so about him it said that a a egotistical person is a waron s sinner he's a a scoffer he creates great anger over his intentional sins okay so kby who is a princess says look I'm not interested in you Z I know that you're a prince of the tribe of Shimon but I'm not I I want to I want to do my Deeds with Moshe she says my father's a king she says that I should only uh cause the person to sin who is also the king I'm a princess I should go to mosha he says I'm just as important as them Says Z I'm going to bring you in front of them meaning I have I can easily have an audience with the king so I'm I'm I'm a person too he brought her in front of so he says to to m in a very disrespectful way he says is she am I permitted to to uh be married to her or whatever so he said she's not permitted to you right is that she needs a g she needs a a conversion she wasn't didn't have a conversion so tries to throw back in mush face he says who's your wife Sora she's also she's from midan did like what's the story you're telling me I can't marry a Mite woman or a mile woman whatever um but uh but who did you marry you married a mid night woman so here's it's not clear exactly why but for some reason and we're going to try to understand this point of for some reason Moshe the language of n it means there was a certain means like at the end of this man we're learning yes it's very but at the end as it's about to be vacation so people get weak he was weakened he forgot the everyone was crying interestingly everyone was crying in the situation he challenged Moshe and Moshe was didn't have an answer didn't have a quick response they got weakened at that moment okay gives us a mush and uh I don't want to read the mush right now here's the thing this is very interesting is somebody who came down from the from he's not somebody who's afraid of what people will say he doesn't get knocked over by other people's negative statement so easily comes down from Mount s the Jewish people is worshiping the the the agel the golden calf what does he do he's not afraid to stand off with 600,000 people he took the he took the golden C that they made and he grinds it down into little pieces he burns it destroys it Etc here however for some reason mosh raain was weak didn't have the stamina for some reason maybe I again I'm going to say some things here that are true in concept may not be exactly true in this context we could say he was 120 years old at this point he was 80 when he uh when he took the Jewish people out of Egypt he was in his younger days now he's he's very old he didn't have the stamina he didn't have the ability that's that's not really what it sounds like but for whatever reason the m is going to say that there was an OS a laziness we need to understand what does it mean this laziness so even though he was able to stand off against 600,000 people destroy the AEL but here he couldn't so the first is really could have why was he weakened in this moment it came from a wanted mosha to be weak so that P would step in and do what needed to be done act with spiritual Vengeance in order for Pinas to be to to to get the reward to step in here and become a priest but the but the Mages tells us something very uh I would say shocking calls to task cuz he was he was lazy it's hard to use the word lazy in regards to MH so he turned 120 the tells us theim tell us not the theim say he was strong and vibrant until his very last dayu the M tells it I can't I can't uh I wouldn't say it myself but the M says it he was lazy and what was the result of the fact that he was lazy because he wasn't able to for whatever reason stand up and and do what needed to be done say what needed to be say say what needs to be said in regards to to Zim so he was punished that he wasn't buried by a multitude of people Hashem alone buried him nobody knew where he was buried other words M was buried by himself hasem bues him which on one hand as we're going to see and this is going to be the important point on one hand it's it's a positive thing because hasem himself K is bearing Moshe but on the other hand there would have been a tremendous and a great Merit could have been brought about for the Jewish people if Moshe would have been the one if Moshe I'm sorry if the Jewish people would have been those who buried him if they would have partaken in or partook in his burial it would have been a merit for them that would have destroyed many MRI mu would have destroyed many accusing Angels so Moshe through his inability to stand up at that moment against zimy there was a certain laziness or a certain we're going to see exactly what it is I think possible explanation for it but because of it so he didn't provide a didn't accomplish a greater Kem a greater sanctification of God's name in that moment and therefore a subsequent uh sanctification of hm's name which could have been done by more people being involved in his burial wasn't accomplished we need to understand this this teaches us that the mes doesn't tell us a negative thing about moshu in order to to stom say negative things but the M wants us to learn from this that a person needs to be tough like a leopard and light like an eagle and run like a like a uh like a deer Str like a lion in order to do the will of his creator that's the first in the very beginning of it's brought down that when we get up in the morning we need to steal ourselves strengthen ourselves in order to serve god with alacrity with quickness with strength with brazenness when it's needed finishes off by saying that we see over here that God is very exacting with the righteous down to very hairs breath but what what is the me trying to teach us is trying to teach us that he should have been tough he should have been determined he shouldn't have allowed himself to be blown over knocked over by Zer statement of wow you married a Mite woman what's the problem he shouldn't have he shouldn't have been knocked over now the the Maru tells us an amazing thing he says I want you to look in because it sounds like a negative thing in our that he was buried alone it wasn't a merit for the Jewish people to be able to join in and bury him but the med in in at the end of seems to indicate that it was a positive thing that MOS Ru was was buried by Hashem alone he was taken care of personally as it were by God because of something that mosu had done and he's going to and we're going to see it together and we're going to I'll tell you what the Maru says in explaining the seeming contradiction was it a negative thing or a positive thing that he was buried alone and of course like a good Jewish rabbi he says they're both true but let's read this together at the end of the of which so often we don't get to study together it says that mosu is buried himself personally took care of mos rain's final resting place his burial and nobody knows where he's buried to this day what Merit did Moshe have that Hashem personally took took care of his burial so the m brings us back okay let's let's think about it okay moshu is is being buried right as the Jewish people are about to enter into the land of Israel so for the Jewish people who are continuing on into Israel it's a moment of of G of redemption it's a Messianic moment yesu is going to lead them in he's mhia he's bringing them into the land of Israel to conquer it Etc but there was another point of G of redemption which was 40 years earlier that was when the Jewish people were leaving Egypt when the time came all the Jewish people were involved going to their neighbors asking them for gold and silver that's what they were involved in but what did mosha do at the very last moment actually the me is going to say for three days the last moment what was he involved in he wasn't involved in packing up his house he wasn't involved in even teaching he was involved for 3 Days going around the city for one place to another three days and three nights restlessly he was searching for the coffin for the burial place of Y Joseph they were not able to leave Egypt without Joseph he had he had made them swear he made his brother swear before he died he made them promise that when is when he remembers the Jewish people and he takes him out of Egypt they should take his bones with them when they exit Egypt and that's why Yosef is buried in to this day you can go it's not so easy to get there I've been there you can go to his the place where he's buried his sons are buried in but he made them promise before they leave Egypt that they need to go and take his bones and bring them with him so Moshe is spending 3 days looking searching where three days in three nights where are the bones of Yos we can't leave without them we made a promise we have to keep the promise says the magician here's the contrast over here at this moment at this m was worked very hard he knew that the Redemption of the Jewish people people would be held up so he was working hard he wasn't odel he wasn't lazy as it were he was searching and searching he put in every effort to find the burial place of yose so here he meets as he's working so hard Shem sees his efforts and he bumps into somebody named seula it's a woman her name is seula who is she the say she was saser we're going to see a little bit more about saser the famous Sak baser who lived forever she had been the one who hopefully we get to read it inside who said to yob know that Yos is still alive she played her Kor her harp she played her harp and she's saying my uncle Yos is still alive and he is the the the leader the mo of of Egypt she was still around many years later she had received a blessing from from yob know that she would live forever so she was still alive and she knew where Yosef was buried clearly she was concerned about his whereabouts she knew the secret she's called seula which means the precious one and it can also mean she has the secret of redemption she knows the secret of where Yosef is buried so that they can leave each they need to have his bones otherwise they can't leave took the granddaughter of Yu she meets Moshe right so she's his cousin right first cousin or first cousin once removed and she says what what she notices that he he's very uh Disturbed he's very tired he's he's worn down if he said to him my master M why are you so tired he says I've been searching for three days and three nights I've looked everywhere I looked everywhere in the city I cannot find the coffin of mosha I don't know where he's buried and she says come with me I will show you where he is she knew where he was buried she was there she brings him to the river I'm sorry The Magicians they knew the the parro and his people they knew that the Jewish people would not be able to leave Egypt they said to par if you want this nation to never leave Egypt this is what you have to do you have to make it impossible for them to be able to get the coffin of yoseph out of the out of the water out of out of Egypt has to be a place that no one can get it they made a coffin that was so heavy it sank to the bottom of the river it would be impossible for it to come up they said if they don't find the bones of Joseph they won't be able to get out so now that M knew where it was he had the secret he stood next to the river said you know how you cause the people of Israel to to make an oath to swear that when when they take when Hashem takes Israel out of Egypt you want to go out with them he said give honor to the PE to the god of Israel and don't stop the Jewish people from being redeemed you have good deeds in your hands you are a great righteous person in your lifetime MOS says to Yosef ask God to help you and help us that your coffin should rise out of the depths immediately it started to Bubble up and come out of the water so mosha personally while everyone else was involved in getting money mosha personally took care of raising up the AR of M he put in every effort three days and three nights he didn't stop to bring it up and that's why says you did you think you did a small thing I swear to you by your life this was an incredible kindness that you did you did this interestingly you weren't involved in gold and silver says I will take care of you personally and I will release you yeah I see that there's not enough time to really get into Sak Maser all the way but I want to point out here that mosu in two different circumstances the marzu explains that it's true they're both true in one place mosha put in every effort and he was able to succeed in finding the AR of mosha with with God's help because of sah this woman who knew the secret she suddenly appeared as it were at the right moment so that he could do it he put in every effort and so the marzu points out that or I'm I'm adding a little to what the marzu says but Moshe should have with Pinas he was knocked over and and he was lazy what does it mean he was lazy mosha knew how when push came to shove he knew what to do he knew how to put in every effort and it's an important idea because sometimes we think why should I bother am I going to succeed and think about mosha raain was about to pass away he knows that he's not going into Israel he already hit the rock instead of speaking to the Rock God already told him he's not going in so it's kind of like hopeless you know okay you know the CL needs to be saved but he's he's knocked over the effort is much harder to put in we could say we could say when you feel like you're not going to see the fruits of your efforts you're not going to reap the benefit you're not going to get there to the goal you're not going to get to the Finish Line yourself it's it's hard and I'd like to we'll come back to this idea because it really does apply to each and every one of us putting in the extra effort going for the goal even when it doesn't seem possible Wella comes along and that's the we think we're standing is she holds the key to the Redemption she's the one who says and I'm not going to read it inside but it's in the saer if you can find a copy of it I found it online if you email me I'm happy to send it to you as the brothers come back from Egypt and they're debating how are we going to tell y you know that Yosef is still alive how will we reveal this to him and she's the one who comes out to them as they arrive and she comes to say hello and she was a very talented person she was a very beautiful person M says she was able to play the harp and they said to her you know why don't you sing a song for yo for Yakov telling him that yosf is still alive so that he doesn't get shocked he was 130 years old at the time yuu he doesn't get shocked sing that song and that's what she did she sang the song for him over and over again a few times and he was listening and he heard the song and his and the says and the says how did his Spirit come to life because she was singing the song and as as he heard the song he started to believe maybe yoseph is alive and and the song allowed his Spirit to come and he gotes again for the first time in 22 years he got divine inspiration and he said sing that song again ysep is still alive my uncle ysep she said he's still alive and then finally because he got back his he says there you brought back my life you brought back my spirit y sister I bless you that you should also live you gave me life I bless you you should live forever and that's how she got this blessing and she was there to breathe life and mosha who had worked so hard tried everything in order to find the bones of ysf she held the secret just like she held the secret and knew had to give it over to yobu she held the secret from Moos and so I would like to say that the secret the the the secret of the Redemption for each of us personally and for the Jewish people generally is putting in every effort I know I say this a lot but I'm going to say it again people say oh it's so hard it's so hard to move there there's so many reasons there's thousands of reasons not to live in Earth Israel you grew up in America you grew up in Europe wherever there's so many reasons the culture is different Etc but the Tyra is teaching us that if you wanted to you want to get into Gula Pinas he was the one was able to stop the plague because he put in every effort M sheno got stuck at that moment in the past he was able to he was able to put in every effort and cross the finish line even though it was impossible because hashm gave him the gift the singulo the precious gift of sarak baser who gave yako the precious gift of the knowledge of his son and the knowledge that ysep is still alive for for yobu is the future it's representative of the future of the Redemption of the Jewish people of the mhia that will come and the the message of the bones of yoseph is the message of the Redemption of the Jewish people from Egypt they couldn't leave without those bones and she needed that information and it's in each and every one of our Lives it's a question of being M A sa sometimes and especially in spiritual matters we're used to hearing putting in they say this all the time putting in maximum is which is not true which is not what we're supposed to do when it comes to our physical matters but it is what we're supposed to do when it comes to our spiritual matters Israel is the future of the Jewish people the Redemption is happening it's unfolding right now we are supposed to be part of it just like M put in every effort he did it all it's it's it's hard it is hard it seems impossible you can't you spent three days and three nights searching for the for the coffin of ysph and it's it's in the depths of the sea it's not possible to get out it's it's just not possible humanly but it is possible and if we put in our efforts and we do it at all the way till the end and spiritual matters yes if we do so so then we'll get the key we'll reach the seula we'll find we'll trip over Saker as it were and we'll hear the soothing song of the Redemption ysf is still alive here are his bones the Jewish people they're ready to go we just need to be part of it we can be part of it and if we do so then on one side for mosh raenu he had the Merit of being buried personally by hasem and if he would have mustered up the Incredible strength the spiritual strength to do it at the end as well of his life so then he would have merited to indeed cause other people around him to have that spiritual strength that comes from have they having buried him they would have taken part in it as well and so when we put in every effort when we do it so then indeed we bring along others with us we encourage others to be their spiritual best and in so doing we create the greatest possible K we step over the threshold just like pin did we step over the threshold into a new world into the land of Israel the place where the Jewish people's future is I want to bless you and I ask you to bless me should help us that we should indeed find that strength inside of ourselves that we should indeed be able to find the seula the secret for our personal Redemption and the Redemption of our people thank you so much for listening have a wonderful shamas this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you for more podcasts like this please visit www.wag.com or search on iTunes Ari goldwag [Music]