Behaaloscha - Songs for Hashem

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with arie goldwag recorded with hashem's neverending assistance in remote ishmael 57 81 2021. this week's precious part of this balloon towards the beginning of our parsha in chapter eight verse five the verse says god spoke to moshe to moses and he said take the levites through i'll take them from the midst of the children of israel with tiharta yes you shall purify them verses go on speaking about how the levites became those who would serve the jewish people those who would serve god on behalf of the jewish people within the mishkan when it came to carrying the different parts of the mishkan when it came to the different avoidance the different service that was done there the kohanim of course were the ones who did the actual avoid the the sacrificial services the levites would open the doors the levites would be involved in the songs that happened inside of the mishkan inside of the tabernacle inside of the temple different jobs that the levites were involved in monster man was commanded to separate them to choose them to take them to god i'd like to share with you an amazing madrish as we usually explore together aloha says the majestic like this how many strings were on the stringed instruments which the levites would play kinora in modern hebrew means a violin but maybe it means a harp many strings were on this and this is also in the gemara in uh chapter eight neraken which is an airhen surprise okay so how many strings were on this this instrument which was used in the base i make this one the template as a mark says there you go that first that original that original instrument had seven strings seven strings the verse says in to him in psalms which was written by king david chapter 16 verse 11 the songs that were sung inside of the temple it speaks of the pleasant the pleasant things that were said in front of god as the jewish people were full of rejoicing nehemiah's which means pleasant things can also refer to songs alto chris silva aldi curry silva ella cheva smachos the verse says which means satiated feeling full with joy feeling full with simcha so the major says don't read it the word saiva which means full can also mean you can also the same letters as shev of the word seven seven is a full amount it's the amount of days in the week it represents the number of fullness that was the number of strings that are on the original instrument that was used by the levites in the mishkan in the basamek as well chapter 119 that's long one verse 164. seven times a day i praise you for the statutes of your righteousness it's a whole whole paragraph of tehran talking about the greatness of torah the greatness of the words of the this teaching that god gave us king david refers to seven there are seven strings representing perhaps we could say seven different types of song seven different ways of praising god that's how many strings there were the muslims when the messiah comes maybe speedily in our days and that's his minor becomes eight instead of only seven strings being on that instrument there's an eighth string maybe there's an eighth type of song says that it denotes the fact that we have joy because we no longer are beholden to the nations of the world there's no longer shibu malchus doesn't matter what everybody else says we do what's right we do what's right chicane david says king david in regards to song in regards to nigun nigun means who's the greatest conductor of all god is the conductor of the entire universe everything works in perfect harmony what's this harmony what's the song a la shmenus on the eight stringed instrument so when the messiah arrives they're gonna have an eight-stringed instrument eight different types of song in the farther future what we call elemental perhaps maybe this is machiavellian this is it's not clear exactly in the future time the future world it's going to become 10 strings they're going to have 10 different types of song 10 strings shanima like says also king david chapter 144 verse 9 in psalms my god i will sing to you a new song what's the new song the new song means in the future time the time of um i share your luck with naval so i'm going to sing to you with a navel a harp with 10 strings seven eight ten there's a progression what is the idea of these strings what is the idea of the stringed instrument why are we singing with string instruments what about trumpets they had trumpets there they had a taif they had drums they had the symbols all different types of instruments but we're talking about specifically the instruments that were played by the levites that had multiple strings what is the idea behind a string instrument as opposed to other instruments okay so that's the first part of the major now we get to the second part umiz who is the one that established this for them for the levites gave them these instruments it was samuel the prophet and king david chinamar his verse says these were established by king david and shmuel who saw bermuda they were able to see if they had a prophetic vision they could see it's not clear exactly to me exactly what this word means but it could mean omanusa which means each person which type which was the correct way that they were going to go which was the correct type of craft that they would perform some people were right for closing the doors of the michigan some people were right for carrying the kalem the the vessels of the mishkan some people were the right ones to be playing the instruments one people were the ones who would be singing different people at different jobs they set it up in a way some that it would be able to last that would continue that would stay consistent they gave out the positions they gave out the instruments to the different players they said you you levite you see the levite you are perfect to play the trumpet you yehoshua the levite you are perfect to be able to play the quinoa or the violin or the the heart and what would they do i think that this is an essential part of it they would sing along they would sing in front of the one who spoke and brought the world into being we're going to come back to that look at the love look at the way that hashem showed his love to to the levites this is what god said to moses these levites are so precious to me they're so beloved to me take them to me for my name and give them so give them an exalted position give them greatness honor them give them a position of leadership meanwhile and where do we see this from massachusetts so as is the way of the major we start off speaking about something that doesn't seem to be connected we talked about these instruments and we talked about the fact that king david and samuel gave out the positions gave out the instruments and then we say that somehow this connects into our verse which is cox eleven bring take the levine bring them to me means take them bring them and we read the the whole verse at the beginning but it's important to read the whole verse we're separating them out we're making them special right that's the lesson of sorara we're making them to be outstanding they're they're they're leaders we talked about taking them out from the rest of the people of israel because they're going to be the leaders within purify them we're making them pure it seems to me that there's three things here take them for my name for me god says the sorrow for greatness there's a hebrew there's a love that god shows to the levites it's not so clear why but that's expressed and then being raised above and then being giving positions and the context of what we're speaking about being given these musical instruments what's the idea what's the music what's these instruments that they're being given why is that an expression of greatness for the levites what is the deeper understanding of the smash so as i tell you a secret over the last few weeks i've been preparing this podcast with my son shadow he's in yeshiva now in shalom in jerusalem and we study we've been studying pretty much every day sometimes we schmooze sometimes we learn but we discuss this magician i'd like to share with you his thoughts mixed up with my own thoughts as well but this is the idea that he that he felt that the magister was saying i believe that he's right the message is talking about an instrument with multiple strings now that's different from from a monotonal instrument a monotonal instrument means you play one note at a time the voice is a monotone instrument if you want to have harmonies you gotta have a few people singing if you're playing the trumpet you gotta have a few trumpets if you want there to be harmonies you want to be a fuller sound when it comes to a violin when it comes to a harp when it comes to a piano these instruments have multiple strings you hear more than one voice from that single instrument that's what we're talking about here we're talking about a seven string instrument an eighth an a stringed instrument a tendency stringed instruments what does that even string the instrument you can play more than one note at the same time you hear harmony within a single unit a single instrument one person can play more than one note at the same time you play the piano you can play more than one note at the same time so what what's the idea i mentioned to you one of the verses that we quoted over here is that god is the orchestrator god is the one who brings all of reality all the parts of of creation it's it's awesome awesome harmony there's there's trees and there's plants and there's animals and there's bugs and there's sea animals and there's people and there's mountains and valleys and water and what an awesome ecosystem that god created unbelievable unbelievable order beauty harmony the instruments that we play represent this that's what the message is saying depending on how many you know like do we see god everywhere do we see god in every aspect of reality so the number seven means that we see him to a certain extent the the nature is represented by the number seven eight is eva represents a higher reality a deeper recognition of god we see even more harmony we see in a deeper way at a deeper level that god is orchestrating everything that's the mashiach we'll know that it's everything everything is god a deeper harmony a deeper music a deeper sense that he's the minister he's the orchestrator when you have ten strings even more of reality is revealed even more harmony is brought out when you have 10 strings more notes are added more types of song these are all represented by these multiple string instruments one instrument with many strings one instrument that can make many sounds that all come together in harmony this is what the levites are singing about this is what as we go through history we get through a deeper and deeper progression seeing more and more the beauty and the harmony in god's creation that's what's represented by the first section but in discussing this i thought that there's something else here that's that's very deep and very important what's the kiba i asked what is this love that god has for them what's special about the living why are they chosen and it says me take them to my name they're going to sing what do they do miss amrim they sing in front of the one who created the world that grand orchestrator of all of reality they sing for hashem they sing for god they have the ability to focus their song you could sing about lots of things you could sing love songs you could sing about nature you could sing about your experiences in life you could sing anything you could sing lots of things but the levite song was unique because their song was just about one thing how everything is one thing how all of those strings combine for one thing for hashem praising hashem look look at the verses that that we quoted is we are full of joy and we're singing in front of you hashem we're singing in front of you seven times a day i am praising you for the awesome statutes for this amazing tour that you've given us that's what the song is about listen to the next one i want to sing to you the orchestrator with an eight string with an eight-stringed instrument eli kim sheer koda shashirala naval god i want to sing to you a new song i want to sing to you a new song with a 10-stringed instrument what's unique about the levites is they're the ones who stand up and say mila shamelai who is for god come with me because they are lashme because they are people who already are speaking about and singing about and thinking about god they're the ones who are the soul of the jewish people they're the ones who can sing this song which is sung at in the mishkan during the aveda during the service of god in the tabernacle because there's only one song all the many different strings all the many different instruments there's only one purpose you know in the michigan we bring together all the different types all the different aspects of reality we have deim we have the inanimate objects you have salt flower you have well flowers actually it's stuff that grows you have chai you have the animals that brought the sacrifices and you have the monday of the human being that brings all these together and for what for what do we bring all of these things together in beautiful perfect harmony to praise god to serve god to recognize that where are we focused what is our life about what do we use all of our means for behold all of our abilities over capabilities all of our songs are focused in one direction there's only one thing that we sing about you sing about hashem david and shmuel know how to say hey you are the guy that plays the saxophone you are the guy that plays the violin you are the guy that plays the katsuzra the trumpet you're the one that plays the drums they were able to identify they were the guy the orchestrators so to speak who could identify the part that each person plays the unique part the unique ability that that person has this person is a strong person he belongs opening and closing the doors of the mishkan what greater honor could there be if the baseline make this of the temple what greater honor could there be to use one's might and strength and power to open the gates to let the jews into the mishkan to close the gates when it's time to close them what greater honor could there be what greater sorora could there be what created purification could there be well greater recognition of someone's greatness and to take him and to to point him out this person is special he's beloved to me why because he has la shme he knows how to do things for my sake he knows how to do things he knows how to sing that song for me god says i want these levites kakis and the shemitah they know how to take all of the different strings they know how to bring more and more harmony show more and more how all that harmony is just the song for god just the song for god whether it's seven strings whether it's eight strings whether it's ten strings whether we're in the natural world where in the supernatural world or in the deepest of all worlds where hashem's light is revealed within every single aspect of reality this song that they sang this instrument that they used the abilities that they had were directed in one way to god i want to bless you i ask you to bless me hashem should help us to sing this song to sing this song of unification of unity of god one god one instrument one song many different types of songs many different types of instruments many different types of strings many different instruments with different levels whoever we are wherever we are whatever is our place in reality focused in one place hashem should help us to keep that focus on him 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 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