Bamidbar - Of Mountains and Valleys

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with ari goldwag recorded with hashem's never ending assistance in ramachandra 5781 2021 this week's parsha is partially midbar whenever we get to the beginning of the new safer the new book of bamidbar i'm always reminded that it's another year with hashem's help that we have been creating these partial podcasts coming on to 14 years now every single week with hashem's help a new idea hopefully a new idea on the parsha and i'd like to invite you at this moment as i often do around this time to head over to my website alright goldberg.com slash new album or you can just go into our goldlight.com and you'll see the button for the new album working on a new album and i'm working on a crowdfunding and it's a great way to help me spread my message music is extremely powerful and it's something that people relate to and i always try to include in my music something positive something uplifting something that connects us to aka to god to our avoiders hashem the way that we serve him spirituality so i encourage you all go to our golag.com slash new album and take part in my new crowd funding tells us that at the very beginning of our parsha god spoke to moses in the wilderness of sinai and he spoke to him in the mishkan in the oil moyad the tent of meeting now when did god speak to him interestingly the first day of the second month which is the month of er which we just finished hashemis in the second year let's say sometimes with trying from when they went out of egypt lay more this is what hashem said is i would like you to lift up the heads of all of the people of israel based on their families levesa voisom based on on their father's house miss parshamus called their names every male i want a head count 20 years old enough those who go out to war etc you shall count them you and our own that's the verse tells us so it's interesting and we're going to see together the medrush that points out the fact that when god is coming to count the jewish people in this context god is coming to enumerate every single jew how important it is to him every single one of these the jewish people what an awesome nation i have god is saying as it were what a wonderful group of people i have six hundred thousand strong just the men another six hundred thousand women children million and a half people at least maybe more and the way that the torah talks about this request about this mitzvah about this commandment to to moshe robbins of moses to count the jewish people speaks of where it was if barcenae the wilderness and the old muid was an important place an important day the first day of the month of er gives us a whole list of when this occurred when hashem asked the jewish people to be counted so in trying to understand this idea the major shares with us an amazing beautiful idea deep idea which i would like to share with you as is its way in order to get to a point which we'll see at the end of the piece in order to get to this point it gives us a few hakudamas a few introductions and it says something powerful listen to this the verse tells us to your righteousness god says is like awesome mighty mountains and your judgment is like the deepest depths so we have mountains and we have depths [Music] um says like this masala we have here the highest mountains in the lowest depths we have the sitkus we have the righteousness and we have the judgment we have the righteous people and we have those who are evil the wicked and each of them has a place and this is the description of their place mashallah says the first description the righteousness on the highest mountain is referred to in the verse in ezekiel in the historical chapter 34 verse 14. the verse tells us that god says in regards to the righteous that he will give them an amazing grazing place a good place to graze a good place to get all of their needs met with israel ye and their place the place of the righteous will be in the mountains of israel the high mountains of israel so the the sadhikim the righteous ones they're referred to as those who dwell in a great place in a high place in a place which is seen the harem the mountains as we'll soon explore at length and marshalls the marshall what is the what is the place where the the evil ones dwell the wicked dwell where where is their ultimate place and this is true number one in this world but it's also true in the world to come it's also true when it comes to the reward a person receives it reflects who we are let's see god says that when the wicked person goes down to the deaths right a person goes down into the darkness down to hell as a result of his wicked deeds so god says i was in mourning over this person have alti ki si la vista time i covered him says hashem with the depths with the darkness very interesting says the majority but mary should i miss casting time they go down into this depth the sha all the darkness the pit and what are they covered with they're covered with time the word time the the word time means something that we can't understand that's the the root of the word time but it's something that's dark it's something that's deep they're covered they go down into the depths and they're covered with the depths covered with darkness says a very interesting thing listen to this carefully when you have a barrel and we're going to see soon it's a barrel that's made out of earthenware how do you cover it what's the cover made out of of an earthenware barrel you use an earthenware cover what is it since it's an earthenware vessel it's an earthenware barrel it's covered with an earthenware cover you use the same material to make generally speaking to make the cover of a barrel i think about a cask of wine it's covered it's made out of wood it's covered with wood the wicked also they are covered so to speak when they go down into the depths there are people who have who have done questionable deeds let's say they have done things that were dark they've done dark deeds max ibrahim what does it say about them from the verse in ishaiah in isaiah chapter 29 verse 15. in the darkness they do their deeds right a person who's doing something wicked they don't want anyone to see them they do it in the darkness nobody knows about it they're alone nobody sees the evil deeds and they say to themselves who sees it who knows who knows what we're doing they don't they feel like they're they're alone since they're so dark they're so alone in their evil deeds and their wickedness so the jabar who does what does god do who are eating he brings him down to this this pit which is dark just like their deeds were dark and he covers them up with with this pit which is dark refers to this in the beginning of genesis chapter 1 verse 2 there was darkness on the on the face of the deaths there was darkness the wicked receive what the wicked did the righteous receive the goodness the brightness the the mira type the the pastures full of goodness for themselves they're out in the light they bask in the in the light of hashem because what they did was bring light into the world they brought god into their lives the wicked are the opposite as we said it says another idea which seems not completely connected but clearly it is connected and it's also based on the same verse the verse says that your righteousness is like the mountains of the mighty mountains siddhaka shaytan may be allah for semester the righteousness that you bring upon the that you bring upon the world is something that's seen clearly like mountains are seen you go outside if you go in a mountainous area the mountains surround you if you've ever been to seattle my wife's from seattle i visit there every year have you ever been to seattle mount rainier it's it's massive you can see it from everywhere it's and it's beautiful it's unbelievable mounts are something else that you see clearly it's right in front of you when hashem does something good he does it clearly but when it comes to the judgments hashem covers it up [Music] something that you don't see as clearly telling about just like time the depths are something which you have a valley you don't see it there someone's walking along they could fall into a manhole they might not notice it because it's doesn't stick out it's it's a depression in the earth so too and hashem brings about judgments he does it in a covered way what does that mean he's going to explain the mattress she's going to explain kate said kevin shachar you shall never of harvard when jerusalem was destroyed it was destroyed in tishbov on the ninth day of but when finds out about it this is actually this language here is a little bit strange the beforeshim try to explain that it wasn't the 20th of the of the month exactly it was the fifth of the month it was different possibilities but when i revealed the fact to ezekiel the prophet that that the that this day this day of destruction when he revealed the day of destruction it wasn't clear what day it was was it the ninth of the month the fifth month the 20th of the month it's something that wasn't clear it's pal it is cloudy lama shallow fire we don't want we don't want to it's not something that requires a great amount of pr we're not uh we're not so we don't want to we don't want to publicize this so much by the goddess throw when god comes to see the greatness of the jewish people he wants to count them and here's where we come back to our our verses when god wants to count them when he commands mushroom to do so so it's done the first team is a yo we see which day of the month is where did it happen what month is what year is that which occasion did it follow let's say some americans try and follow the fact that they went out of egypt hashem counted the jewish people on the first day of the month hashem counted them the second month of the year the second year after they left egypt et cetera what is the idea of suicide israel raise up bring up the heads of the jewish people but god wants to show the greatness of his people he does it in a way which is clearly shown and he describes it in detail negative events sakura doesn't want we'll know it's sound tissue above that it happened we'll know we'll know about it but he's going to cover it up it's going to be something that we don't want to bring out the date of very interesting you know the jewish people we are god's people each one of us has a special place in hashem's plan and god's plan each one of us has an obligation to stand on the mountain of righteousness and to broadcast to the world to publicize to the world the fact that god exists in the world and that we are his people we have been there throughout the millennia staying true to his one name to the one god of the jewish people when we do that when we do that properly so then the result is as we saw in the first section of the mandate the result is that it's something that's publicized it's something that's revealed and it's something that the reward corresponds to what was done because we bring out we express that god is in the world we bring that out to the world we express that clearly to the world that there is goodness that there is right that there is morality that there's a torah that the five books that were given on mount sinai to moshav and to moses and we have kept it steadfastly over three millennia 3 33 years ago we received the torah on our cna on mount sinai unbelievable we're still talking about it 3 33 years later it's an awesome thing to the extent that we do that to the extent that we bring out god bring our god bring out god into the world so then god rewards us with light with his presence with his with his we're there we are standing on top of the mountain to the extent that we don't do that heaven forbid and you can see the darkness all around you can see the darkness those who love death those who love hatred those who love negativity those who love the opposite of god's word what is the result of those people what is the result of their actions the result is darkness the result is darkness and deeper and deeper darkness more and more death more and more destruction but you know when mashiach comes and this is not described you know when describing the the destruction of the temple it's covered up in describing the counting of the jewish people the greatness of the jewish people it's revealed the jewish the greatness of the jewish people will ultimately be revealed when the messiah arrives mashiach comes and the truth becomes clear to everyone that's the moment that it's going to be ash god will be the king over the entire world on that day god will be one and his name will be one and the jewish people it will become clear there was no other replacement for the jewish people no one else became the chosen people no other religion replaced judaism no other people replaced the jewish people of course god loves every single human being but there's only one chosen people there's only one people who who have stood as a light to the nations for 3 33 years that reality will be revealed on a certain day sometime hopefully in the near future and of course we hope for that and we know that that's going to come but the thing that i'd like to bring out is that it's something that we're guaranteed that it will come it will become clear and that clarity is going to be gained and it will be gained in a way which is open there will be no denial see today there could be a denial hey you guys are squatters stealing land all those kinds of ridiculous untruths they're not based on fact that deny the real history of the jewish people that's only in this world when the when we're in the darkness of the wicked the shadow of the wicked but in the real world when the world is revealed as it's supposed to be we will see the truth and the truth will be revealed for all to see and there will be someone will be ashamed many will be ashamed and there will be some who stood by the jewish people throughout this time and they will also rise up on the mountain and it says all the nations of the world will see that the name of god is called upon you the only mecca they will be afraid of you they'll be afraid of us and it also says that mountain which unfortunately today houses a contentious mosque built on the foundations of our holy temple which was destroyed almost 2 000 years ago we're waiting for it to be rebuilt for that mosque to be removed that place it's the darkness but it's a place where soon there will be light and all will rise up to the top of that mountain and come to serve god as one the holy amen says the that place of prayer won't be an exclusive place for only one type of people for only only not for only for jews not for only christians not for only muslims buddhists whatever you want it's going to be a place for everyone every single person could come and access god and part of that truth part of the truth of how it becomes that place is through the jewish people and the righteousness that we have striven to fulfill and to have to bring god into the world to reveal god's light to the world every single day as best as we can through the midst of the commandments given three thousand three hundred and thirty three years ago at mount sinai so i wanna bless you as you bless me hashem should help us that we should be able to be from those who receive the light and all those who have created darkness that darkness should fade away that darkness should fade away into the dark depths where it belongs so that all who wish to bask in god's light we'll indeed do so thank you so much for listening have a wonderful show miss this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you for more podcasts like this please visit www.ariegoldwag.com or search on itunes ari goldwag