Behar-Bechukosai - Share the Wealth

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with ari goldwag recorded with hashem's neverending assistant in ramachamish israel 5781 2021 this week's parachute we have bahar and kosai and although it's one of my favorite topics that we find in this week parsha about the concept of shemitah i'd like to share with you something that has to do with the sukkam that follow i talk about somebody who became poor it says a few times in the parasha when your brother shall become poor so we're talking about a person as we'll see in the major who was once quite rich and he became poor and the torah obligates us and asks us to have compassion on such a person to recognize his previous status and to help him out so it says in paragraphy um when a person shall become poor and he will come to you and stick out his hand and ask you for help exactly you shall hold on to him hold him up give him whether the person is someone living with you someone even who's not jewish a person who's accepted upon himself the seven no height laws so you have to take care of so him go on talk about things that can be done things that shouldn't be done to him etc the verses okay so now i'd like to share with you the majorish there are two pieces in the magish both of which are connected they do not actually follow each other directly but they're clearly the same concept and let's hear the what the measure should have to say something beautiful and amazing um zera rebecca said a beautiful thing he says even the idle chatter of those who live in the land of israel requires well it doesn't say error requires an understanding it says it's torah it's considered a spiritual teaching okay it's a good war in sukkah that says that the sikh of the idol chatter of the torah scholars is something that requires limu we need to learn from it here it refers to the idol chatter the regular speech of the people of israel as something which is called torah it has a teaching okay so how does this work a person says to his friend a poor person he comes up to his friend who's rich and he says right typically in the language of the match is slightly different but typically a person comes to duck a collector right and you give him some money he says tiscular mitzvos you should merit to have more you should be able to fulfill more commandments just like you gave charity you should merit to continue to give other to give more charity to do other mitzvas the lush of the majority is that people would say a poor person would come and say zachibi you have the opportunity to get a merit through me rakhibi the word rocky says to hcs it means to be with gaddel to become greater through me zaki garmar b you can purify your bones yourself you can purify yourself through me and when a person gives to daca it's a hard thing to do i worked hard for this money i'm gonna give it away to somebody else he didn't work very hard but the poor person says they used to speak a poor inaudible would come and say get a merit through me become purified through me become great through me you have an opportunity says that the language that they would say the special language that the anem the poor people of arts israel would use would be look at me you can see my story look at the picture we'll see what that means look at what i was and look at where what i am now i used to be rich says they'd see i said explaining this i used to be rich but i didn't have compassion on those who were poor and because of that hashem took away my money so i don't want the same thing to happen to you said the poor person to the rich person he used to be rich now he's poor we said when your friend shall become poor it means he was rich this person says how did i become poor look at it don't do what i did don't make my mistake says the poor person to the rich man make sure you give to thaka don't don't sarah saying don't be constricted don't think that if i give away my money it's going to be good for me i'm going to keep my money and that's what i thought didn't work out well for me said the poor man the verse says that he will lose that wealth in a bad way what is the word indian ramen in a bad way the word indian can also be understood in yan means a concept or some i'm translating as in a bad way it says imagine shahi should i say on evening he gave him a bad answer the word in yang can also mean to answer he gave him a bad answer let's listen to what the guy said this is why he lost his money less poor person comes to the rich person the rich person says to him go get a job feed yourself [Music] you're an able-bodied person i see your i see your muscles i see your flesh i see you can do it you can make the money yourself get a job why are you coming to me asking me for money interesting right um respond to this rich person who looked at this poor person in this negative way instead of helping him out loyd not only didn't you give him anything hashem says the rich person not only don't you give him anything you're looking keep saying what did the guy say he said look at your look at your muscles look at your look at your look at you you're somebody he said look look look you're putting him in an iron horror he he said to him you're not using your capabilities which might even be true but by looking at it in that way who says you're having a negative outlook on this person you have a negative outlook on the person what happens this rich person becomes poor he loses his wealth he has a child and he doesn't have anything left by the time he has a child which really means doesn't say this but it means by the time the re the results of my actions what are my children they are the results of my my actions the results of my actions the result of the way i speak right my kids talk the way i talk martin says the way that a child speaks in the street you know he heard it from his parents so what happens the results of this person's negative speech the way he interacts with the poor person you're just not willing to give him any money not only that he's not he looks at him in a negative way he says go get his job the result of that is that he himself loses he loses out on that money it's a very powerful lesson so now what happens the guy becomes poor and he comes listen to this this is really awesome he comes and he says israel the people who were once rich and they became poor but they live in arts israel we're going to talk about what does that mean to be a person who lives in earth israel in the land of israel he comes the poor person and he he says to the to the he's now poor he used to be rich he says not to the rich guy don't make my mistake i learned my lesson i want i want to prevent you from making the same mistake that i made i looked at things negatively i thought i'm trying to hold on to the money i said to him get a job that was a mistake i didn't realize that's the amazing thing i didn't realize the lesson of the partial of shemitah which is where does the money really come from even if i'm great even if i'm rich even if i'm smart even if i'm able-bodied where does it come from the money comes from nowhere else it's not because of how smart i am it's not because of how talented i am it's not because of my amazing pr or my amazing uh talents and abilities and it's none of that it's really simple and i made that mistake and i learned my lesson i don't want you to make that mistake says this poor person and trying to think about why is that the why how it's torah the idol chatter this the way that people talk in the land of israel is tired we need to learn from it why because i think that it's very clear i know this from my experience inherits israel it's a different feeling than outside of israel then outside of the land of israel there's a feeling a sense here we're warming we're more connected i think it's possible to get to be connected outside of israel too you know tara also there's an aspect of tire which is like eric's sister l bass mattress but there's something special about rtr on that is that the people here feel connected those stories you know you may have heard these stories already about hilonian people who are not religious that came to the shiva of those who lost kids in the in this tragedy last week in maron people they they feel connected they can't stand by they need to show up they were coming out of the woodwork donating blood people not religious there's a feeling a sense in anti-strial there's a certain sense of hearing the message hearing the message what is the what is the message sends us a message wants us to feel wants us to think the poor person was once rich and does he does he get the message that he lost his money does he recognize he does that's something unique it's true anywhere but it's something especially true of binet arts israel those who live in the land of israel i think from my experience now i'd like to share with you another point which is also in the madrish which is right before this that was in uh parshalam and dalid section seven this is in section four but it's the same idea but it brings it to another place not just in regards to money so something that can apply to all this you might not be rich i might not be rich but maybe it applies elsewhere as well let's see when a person shall become poor [Music] a poor person and a ish which means uh it's not very wealthy but he's you know middle class they they meet up and the verse says that what happens when they meet up hashem is mayor aines i believe that's the end of the pasuk you can't find it at this god lights up the eyes of the two of them okay so somehow when they meet the person who's more wealthy the person who's poor something awesome happens something amazing happens god is brought in there that's one pasuk that's one verse in michele in proverbs 29 13 and we have another verse in proverbs 22 2 huff base base usher russian if goshu a rich person and a poor person meet i say god made them all one verse says god lights up their eyes and one verse says god made them all what does this mean so we're going to see that there's two different approaches do i help out the guy who doesn't have as much as me or do i say what's mine is mine what's yours is yours you work for it like we saw before so that's the two different verses the oneplus 6 says hashem lights up their eyes when they meet why because the first one that puzzling is talking about where i recognize the need of the other person i don't blame it on the person i recognize this need and i help them out and i recognize that i have enough for for for both of us the second buzzer says god made them all that's a statement of if the two people meet and the person who has more doesn't recognize that he's meant to share it with somebody else hashem says i made you all i mean you all it's all from me and you're gonna have to learn that lesson now listen this doesn't just apply in money rash zel rush batara the is means a poor person but it can also mean a person who is poor spiritually he doesn't know a lot of torah he doesn't know a lot of god's word and the person who's rich the person who's middle of the road a middle class person that could be somebody who knows more knows more tyra now what happens ahmed russian like hashem person who's rich in torah so the person who's poor in torah comes to me and says teach me something i don't know anything i want to know more teach me about god so if the person who knows more indeed teaches him hashem god lights up the eyes of the both of them beautiful such a beautiful thing they acquire this world and the next world because really a person doesn't have this world what do you have in this world if you don't have spirituality infusing your life with meaning if you don't have a connection to god in this world what does a person have so a person recognizes the need of somebody else helps him out wow they both merit this world and the next usher version of kashu ashram rashford second verse says the rich and the poor person meet rich person has a lot of torah poor person doesn't mean he's poor in torah what happens i lost the place um i say russia i say ashley pereira the guy says the poor person the guy doesn't have any torah says please teach me something the rich guy says i don't have time to teach you you're not on my level we're like what happens god made them all what does that mean as we said before can easily take someone who's very smart and make him lose his wisdom the person who is not so smart he can make him smart i'm sure all of you may have seen people who when they were young it seemed like they were up and coming very bright gonna shake the world with their tyra nothing became of them and other people who were not as smart not as bright but they became greater they applied themselves they were committed became great in torah because sparkling could do that in a moment amazing thing amazing thing it goes on to say that the rich person can be a rich person in money in with possessions etc poor person can be literally a literal poor person but the idea here is is foundational so important is how do i look at the world and how do i look at others and how do i look at myself in the areas where i have an advantage and others have less what do i do with that what do i do with that do i say hey you gotta learn the hard knocks of life yourself you gotta bust it through yourself i know how hard i worked i know how hard i busted my chops you gotta learn yourself i'm doing the guy a favor that's a person can think go get a job metro says the words get a job feed yourself says the message that's not the right attitude that's not entire attitude and the result of that attitude that constricted type of thinking the result is that the rich guy doesn't have and the poor guy doesn't a have might have more talent than somebody else a person might have more brains than somebody else person might have more money than somebody else a person there's so many different things be more socially adept than somebody else do i share with others do i have room in my heart for somebody else or do i keep it for myself and say you you find it you find your own way says a madrish there's only one way until one way is including others inclusive sharing with others recognizing that what i have is not just for me when a coach who gives me more than somebody else it means that i'm supposed to share it the person who has less i i might say that it you know it's his problem it's not because if i think that it's his problem it's going to end up being my problem that's what the magisk is teaching us a very powerful idea beautiful idea deep idea and i want to bless you and ask you to bless me hashem should help us recognize the areas that we have so much and recognize that when someone comes up to us or we recognize the need in somebody else perhaps even without them coming to us some should help us to be able to share with others not to be constricted in our thinking not to be constricted in our ability to share not to say hey i earned it you gotta earn it too maybe to teach others maybe to to help others but never to push them away and to say hashem should i was to never push them away and say do it do it by yourself look at you hashem should help us to always say to always say i'm going to help you i'm going to share with you from the bounty that i have and hashem should bless us that in that way by sharing with others the bounty that we have we should be able to continue to have the bounty ourselves 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.ariegoldwag.com or search on itunes ahri goldwag