Behar & Bechukosai - Make the Right Choice

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with hari goldwag recorded with hashem's neverending assistance in roman bishops israel 57 82 2022. this week's parsha if you are hustlers is parshas bahar and insider it's israel it's because and i'd like to share with you a piece in the mandarin from bahar and a piece in the medrash from baku kosai and the first piece that we have which is in parish bahar is actually in the context of the severity if a person becomes poor if your brother becomes poor so there's an obligation to help him to strengthen him to help him out give to dhaka and interestingly the mentorship actually quotes in this context of possible in practice and it's speaking about the concept of anime as well speaking about poor people not directly but interestingly as we'll see in the medrash it is indeed speaking about poor people this is talking about the fact that the jewish people will have been sent out of their land as a result of our sins and during that time so because of the fact that we didn't keep shmita properly for many many years so the the land will have its rest during our time outside of the land of israel and the measure says like this i'm sorry the puzzle says parts this is in chapter 26 verse 23 the lamb will be left of them when they're not not there so the the land will receive its shabbos it's shemitah's its rest the him here to us this will be a kapara for us this will atone the fact that the jewish people did not keep shemitah in the times that we were inside of the land says it was because because double language because the jewish people sadly but it's true we were we despised this the the obligations of the torah vasquez they were disgusted the jewish people were disgusted by the laws of hashem the result of that kind of feeling of that kind of interaction with the torah with god's law is one which results in us being exiled and the land not the land not being worked for almost all that time but as we said it also serves as a kaphara as an atonement for the jewish people now the message points out the word it's a double language but the word which means because of the fact that we didn't we didn't have proper respect for the torah the word yan which means because also has the same letters as the word ani which means a poor person because when we didn't keep so the measure we'll see it inside the moment but when we didn't keep the midst of shemitah who benefits from shemitah the rich people they have enough the farmer he got triple blessings the main person who benefits from shemitah is the poor people who have the ability to walk into any field to any orchard and take any fruits during that year so when a person doesn't keep shemitah when the farmer doesn't keep shemitah when the when a person me i have a grapevine in my backyard if i wouldn't let people into my house so then those who are not able to have the wherewithal to provide for themselves i'm preventing them from being able to provide for themselves with a gift that's a direct gift from hashem um that the same word yan is the word oni it's the same letters which means because it's the same letters as the word for a poor person by the way the word ani doesn't mean a poor person it means someone who is someone who has pain someone who is in pain interesting shiva by pair talks about the difference between the word in hebrew and the word in english in english it's a beggar someone is bothering me but in hebrew it's someone who's he's he's in pain um another word for a poor person what is the word evian mean he says it's a notre con which means an abbreviation for other words kena have me this person who in a certain sense in a certain sense is pathetic that's what mesquain means this person who is worthy of our empathy let's say it even better give up your wealth for him so give up your wealth for him means that give him tadaka give him charity if a person doesn't give charities will soon see so then he could lose his wealth he could lose the very wealth that he has says an amazing thing such an important thing such an important way of thinking about seducka a way of thinking about charity it's hard to give hey i worked for this money hey you're not working right it's very hard to give but he says listen the poor person is standing at your door and god is standing to his right meaning god is right next to him plus he says into element psalms and we're directioning the pastor because it's not the part of the pastor it's not the simple understanding but the verse says that god refers to the fact that god stands to the right side of a poor person so the simple understanding is that it means that god is with that person as well hashem is going to take care of that person as well but the is understanding that as the as the oni knocks on your door and says please give hashem is standing there right next to him god is there and it's a language about which is an aspect of god's judgment the one who stands to his right which is god himself he is going to give you your reward you're not going to lose the money if you don't give it give him the money you should know that the person who's the the being hashem who is to his right he's going to collect from you you think you're saving money by not giving it to the to the poor person akashboku is right there with the poor person right by the side of the poor person which means that there's an obligation here there's a spiritual pull your money is being pulled the question is how do you go how do you let that money go do you let it go begrudgingly or willingly do you give it to the poor person or does a person heaven forbid have it taken away from them because they weren't willing to give to you know this spiritual paradox when i give to dhaka i get it back actually this this actually happened to me recently there was someone collecting sadly for the families of the two people in a lot who were killed by arab terrorists and each family had fi has five you simon five children and there was somebody there collecting in my shule in this initial where i was praying and uh didn't know what to do if i should give or not and i decided i watched somebody else give away this is an important thing you know you see someone else give we can inspire other people i saw someone pull out his credit card and give gets the duca to the to these families i decide i'm going to give as well i'll give 20 shekels it's about a little six and a half dollars and later that day i uh i gave a ride to the airport the particular person and that person is letting me you whatever it's a family member so they're letting us use the car and um their car and they gave me money for for the gas to fill up the to fill up the gas gas tank and the person said to me you can keep the change and the change was 50 shackles which was more than i gave to tsudaku but i felt like you see when you give it's mama's this mantrish i learned the message the next day it's very madrish you give dhaka you give to somebody hashem is right there hashem is giving it back so i'm going to give it back and perhaps even more okay the verse tells us it's a it's a passage in davarim in deuteronomy says you shall certainly give umri what does it mean that you will certainly give as we in other words that's the word that we're saying we're seeing this idea that hashem is going to collect it you know we're not going to really have a choice the only choice that you have is about whether you give it up willingly and you fulfill the mitzvah and you gain eternity through that giving or whether it's gonna be taken away you can't get something that's not yours you can't keep something that's not yours so when that poor person comes knocking at your door it means it's a sign it's a sad sign you're not meant to have this money anymore but it's also a good sign that you have an opportunity to connect to connect to god connect to eternity with that with that money that you're giving and the measure says that there's there's a muscle to a goggle kaiser a a wheel that's turning around the multimister regular striking miss mali imagine like a wheel that has inside of a sand and as the wheel turns so the this part which is on the bottom had sand in it and then as the wheel turns it goes up to the top the sand falls down to the next part right it's the same thing when it comes to ashira san anis when it comes to wealth and when it comes to wherewithal sometimes one person is rich the other person is poor and then the the wheel turns the wheels of fortune turn and and uh the situations can switch the measure says something very interesting last point says that the trouble for the jewish people muslim really means the the revenge but it's referring to the fact that kaiser can sometimes have difficulties and those difficulties says the madrish of course are earned we've done things wrong and when we do something wrong we have to have to pay we have to pay with suffering with difficulty but sometimes the difficulties brought about because of dhaneem because of the poor people we don't give sadaqa and because the poor person comes to collect and then he's embarrassed he's disrespected etc and as a result that he called out to god he said god please help me god please save me from these people who are embarrassing me and then heaven forbid there can be a negative result it can be a punishment that comes upon the jewish people interesting idea but listen to where the message brings in sorrows the nations of the world here specifically referring to the western nations those who are the spiritual heirs of isa russia so they also we the jewish people because they don't show any rahmanis to us they don't show any kindness to us they have no compassion they have no problem to send out u.n resolutions and and condemnations of us for having done something that we didn't do and etcetera etcetera trying to control our education new york state think about that the thing that they do that causes us pain israel the very same way that if a poor person has caused pain so he will pray to god and that will cause a certain punishment to come upon those who disrespected the poor person the same thing is true the nations of the world we look at them we say why are they why are they doing it to us why are they hurting us why why are they killing us why are they what's going on but hashem says to us israel i will give vengeance to adam the the din the judgment will come upon those nations as a result of the fact that they themselves brought upon the jewish people embarrassment death destruction u.n resolutions embarrassment these things so the result is going to be that they that they are punished of course because of their own sins of course because of the things that they've done wrong but also because of the way that they treated us so when we see these kinds of things going on in the world and we see the injustice it's so important to remember that hashem is the god of justice and justice will be served and we need to know that as well when it comes to anime when it comes to poor people we need to think about it we need to be willing to open our pockets and give to others we need to be willing to recognize the nissan the challenge in front of us which is to give and to to have rahmanis on somebody else and in this way we arouse hashem's mercy upon ourselves right if it's saying that if we don't have rachel hashem's anger is aroused heaven forbid so if we do certainly hashem's compassion is aroused upon us so that's the idea from behind i'd like to connect it to kosai beginning with is a really cool thing i'm so excited when we read this i was learning this from my son if you shall go in my ways right so we know there's a famous thing around she says it doesn't just mean to keep the misses it already said that you have to keep the mistress so what's talking about it's talking about should be involved in tire you should be called a toyra you're thinking about tire trying to get back to the torah and learning it in the morning wherever you go when you get up when you go to sleep that's the topic it's the entire topic beautiful thing this is what it means in the verse when it says i thought about my ways let's translate it that way and i and i sent my feet [Music] to your aids to your torah to your testimonies king david is saying i can't all i care about is tyra this isn't chapter kofi with test 119 which is all about the awesomeness the greatness of tyra eight verses for each letter of the of the alphabet of the hebrew alphabet all talking about the greatness of torah how beautiful the terror is how awesome it is to study the holy word of god almighty king david said like this master of the world we are rejectioning the prostate he says he shafted i thought about my past but what happens in the end his feet end up his feet end up by the torah this is a mattress i'm thinking to go to a certain place so based here applying in sunny high like i'm going to a certain location a certain place i'm going to i'm going to stay the night uh vscc the buttock necessities of the vitamin drushes i was so mural i was so accustomed to going to the basement you know you get in your car you start driving you have to go somewhere but you find yourself turning in the way that you usually turn even though you need to turn the other way so king david he was so used to being in the basement in the place of torah of learning that wherever you would go you thought i'm going there he would end up there he would end up in the basement just beautiful think about it the habit that we need to establish for ourselves of torah of learning to of doing mitzvos well connected back to giving tsudaka to habit it's a good habit i need to develop so i don't even think about it anymore i still get scar of course i still get reward because i'm doing the mitzvah but it's got to be something that's in me it's so in me it's so in my guts that i don't even think about it meant to do something else but i ended up giving to dhaka i didn't even think about it i meant to be somewhere else but i ended up in the basement unbelievable another understanding of this verse the greatness of terror the specialness of terror he shocked him how do i get myself to keep them the torah it's hard it's hard it's a challenge and i get myself to do what's right the positive is telling us a hint king david is i thought about my ways i made a hajj man i made a calculation what's the what's the reward of living a good life what is the reward in the next world but even in the past shot in this world what's the reward of being a good person and what do i lose this is the calculation we got to make what do i lose when i do an aveira it's not worth it i made that i made a calculation and i said i got to keep going in the path of the torah because even though it might be hard but it's good and in the end i feel satisfied i feel happy i did what's right i gave that to duck i feel good i feel good i pulled that two shekels out of my pocket this morning and i gave the guy to dhaka and i did it again i gotta get in that habit i gotta remember hey if i don't do that what happens right like we saw in the other mattress what happens if i don't do hashem is there to his right i could lose that money in a second hashem has lots of ways of giving money of taking money i got to think about it get myself on the path so we have getting into the habit and we have how do we get into the habit it's by thinking about it by making it important to ourselves by being committed to it recognizing the truth of goodness says i thought about king david is saying i thought about what it says in the torah what does it say in the term if you shall go in the way of the torah areas what's the result you want to know what protects the jewish people what is it that protects us wherever we are when we keep the torah magnum the torah protects and saves us says if i keep the torah if i go in the way of the terror if i'm on melbourne i make the terror important i'm habituated to using the torah to to learning the terror and fulfilling its laws it's going to be great there's going to be peace not going to be any war but if you're not listening to me what does it say heaven forbid is going to be a continuous difficulty a continuous pain all right because i could spoke who is the father he loves us he wants us to do what's right he wants us to wake up [Music] another reason to keep the torah to keep the tire wide to follow the tire of course because it's good of course because it's true but also on a simple level [Music] so that we can have it good in this world he says i looked this is another thing that king david is saying i looked at the blessings that come if i keep the torah i looked at the curses that come if i don't keep the torah brochures very interesting thing right you read the parsha practice for you in america it's going to be next week for us in israel it's going to be this week but if you read the the brackets are very small there's only a few brachas that the claw is there's a lot of clothes there's a lot of curses but the message points out something really awesome really important if you look at the first letter of the broncos or the blessings it's with an aleph if you look at the last letter of the blessings it ends with the letter tough aleph is the first letter in the alphabet tough is the last letter in the alphabet so the blessings are from aleph even though those two letters are very far apart they include between them as all of the entire alphabet and it includes the blessings they might seem small but they include everything all the good that could possibly be in the world beyond description you don't have to go on and on about the brachus all you have to do is say aleph hashem says i promise you i'm going to give you everything aleph tough from a to z the curses so the two letters that are used the first letter is above the last letter of the clause of the curses is the letter hey which are two letters that are right next to each other and of course there's a deeper reason why it was specifically those letters which were chosen i can't get into it it's not even talked about so much in the fortune here but mosquito vienna what's the letter of what's the letter hey what's the concept but it's from vove to hey it's from vaught hey these two letters that are close to each other that means that they're out of order above and the hay is later in the alphabet it comes first and hey it's begrudging hashem doesn't want to give us the clause it doesn't it's it's just it's it looks like a lot but it's really it's like not so it's not the focus it's like a person a parent gives a punishment to the child is he always giving am i always giving punishments to my kid no i don't ever give a punishment to my child but it has to be you gotta you gotta know they gotta know that such a thing is possible if they don't listen they're not gonna have their shabbos treat all the other children are going to have the shabbos treat watch out right it's got to be very clear it's a serious it's a serious thing it's a big anish it's a big punishment but it's not so big and we're not so interested in that at all but the broadcast that's what i want to give blessings i want to give you tons of shabbos treats i want to give you everything you want i want to give you everything you want to college who is saying tough why is there above first in the hay when it comes to the colors if you did shuver even if you deserve the clothes heaven forbid you if the kalisto deserves the curses you can turn it around we're going to change all the curses to blessings it's when you keep the torah you got to get back to the title you got to get back to the commitment you got to get back to that habit you got to get back to giving to the to the anem you got to get back to what's really right that's what it means in the first one it says if you shall go in my paths we need to have that habit like king dave we have to be like without even thinking we end up in the shoe without even thinking we're in the synagogue we're studying the torah we didn't even think about it we turned on the torah anytime app we didn't even think about it and we ended up learning something special hearing a sheer on you know wherever it is it just happens why because we thought about it we thought about how important it is and we erased the other apps from our phones and we left only to our anytime map and we got rid of all the things that were the distractions and we focused only on the torah and we made sure to learn immediately after davening so that we would go straight from diving into learning there's nothing to separate us and we didn't bring our phone to the shul we got into the habit of leaving it at home why because we realize how destructive it is for us it doesn't help us to pray better if we have a phone ringing next to us or a phone that we could pick up and look at our whatsapp again again again so that's the idea here it's very important it's very powerful the oni presents himself the poor person presents himself and it's standing in front of us because because this is you know what can happen if we don't take care of the poor person if we don't keep the shemitah if we don't keep the tire what will happen it's right there in front of us it's clear we see what happens when people get sucked into their mishigas the crazy ideas the crazy things we can see and we got to step back and think as we saw and we need to recognize that this is true if we recognize it and we habituate ourselves to making sure getting used to keeping the torah to walk into the place of torah to listening to torah to studying the terror to imbibing to for it to become part of our guts to the extent that we do that indeed we will be saying we'll be the ones who answer the call of the people who are there they're poor [Music] we'll be able to go to sleep at night feeling like hey i'm okay i did good today i did well i did what's right i walked in hashem's path i followed the path of king david follow the path of god's laws and statutes i want to bless you and ask you to bless me hashem should help us that we should be able indeed to keep the torah to go in its ways to get ourselves used to it to get ourselves so used to it that we wouldn't even think of doing anything else should help us to be able to make the calculations should help us to see the opportunity that stands in front of us the danger if we don't take that opportunity and the fortitude to indeed take the opportunity and to become so close to hashem thank you so much for listening have a wonderful shot 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 [Music]