Ari Goldwag - Breishis - Aligning Six and Seven

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast recorded with a Shems never-ending assistance in ramat beit shemesh israel 2016 this week's parsha is partially sheís we begin at the beginning of the Torah and we have the story of Adam and hava Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden famous story and I like to focus in a particular point within the story that is essential it's something that if we understand it properly it really can apply to our specific times are a specific challenge that we face in our times Torah tells us since this is at the end of chapter 2 of branches of Genesis value you should name our room in valhalla me each table a special show Adam and Eve in their original state in the garden before they had sinned before they fell from their exalted spiritual state that they began with when they were first created so they were not closed they didn't need any clothing because they weren't embarrassed the verse tells us they weren't embarrassed and as thus were no explains asthma fortune explain that in their original state just like for us when a person looks at the eyes or the nose of the mouth it has a function it has a normal function you can eat you can smell you can see etc there's no energy around it's it's simple straightforward and there's nothing selfish about it it's just used for whatever purpose it's used so to the parts of the body that are covered parts of the human body which are involved in reproduction in marital relations those parts of the body we were at that time just as simple and the use of them had no negative energy around them there was no embarrassment about them they were just simple parts of the body and they didn't need to be covered now I want to share with you a mesh and actually don't want to share it for the measure should self sake meaning I don't want to explain the measures I want to give some thoughts I want to show you a few of my own thoughts based on the connection that the mesh makes usually I'll share with you imagine shall explain the mojesh here we're going to just look at the mesh notice the connection that it makes to other places and we're going to explain that connection in a way which is different than the Madras so let's look at the measure shirts as like this a huge name our room it says that they were both unclothed I'm hablas Ashley Shahenshah la gente no Michelle visage a choice there were three people that were not able to maintain their serenity maintain their peace for six hours the a la Haine autumn you solve a sister the three were the first man or the Mary Jean the people of Israel and sister who was one of the enemies of the Jewish people who was killed by a woman in yo Adam Shalimar the verse tells us about Adam the luckiest boy russian worth thousands they were not embarrassed the word for embarrassed in Hebrew is by Shh or comes from the root of Busia which means embarrassment so that word by Shh the way it's used here with two shins so we can actually split down the word further in tuba Shh which means six hours cane or in this case the light special shoe six hours didn't come Lobo a choice boo hoo boo Shalvis so he didn't reach six hours and remain in his serenity in his peace the measure is saying as the easiest of explains that if you look at the calculation the gemara tells us exactly what happened and when it happened on that sixth day of creation he was created at a certain time he was in a state of joy when he when he got married to his wife and that occurred in the seventh hour of the day and then if you calculate its only a few hours later that he sinned and he ate from the tree which I shaman told him not to eat from so he was in a state of serenity was a state of peace he was a state of perfection for under six hours the measure she was telling us he didn't he wasn't able to maintain that serenity beyond six hours now the measure she tells us that there's another place where we see the same word by Shh which here means that they weren't embarrassed but elsewhere it seems to mean something else the assertion mr in regards to people of Israel diverse tell us by Yara I'm ki boyish moisha the nation saw this is right before the similar Golden Calf Moses had been on Mount sign for 40 days and 40 nights they miscalculated the 40 days they thought I was supposed to come back a day earlier Jewish people saw keep blush Masha that Moshe had not yet come he was late the word in this context of bow shesh doesn't mean embarrassed it means that he was late kibo che cosa y by moisture I just tells us that what does it mean boy Shh that also there were six hours had passed the sixth hour had come and Moshe Rabbeinu had told him he was going to come at noon he was going to come down from the mountain he didn't come so the Jewish people as a result of that they sinned with the sin of the golden calf in actuality Moshe came down the following day at noon instead of the previous data did if they thought he was supposed to come down Moshe abenaa saw that they had sinned he broke the Lukos he broke the Ten Commandments we all know the story so the second place where we see the word boy Shh which were separating into towards of ba Shh which means that there are six hours that came and in this context they weren't able to maintain their fidelity to God through the sixth hour because of the fact that he had not come by the sixth hour so therefore we see that the concept of boss Shh applies there as well to the Jewish people when they send with a golden calf sis rush remember we have a third place where the Torah uses the word by Shh nets in regards to one of the enemies of the Jewish people his name was cisRA and he had been killed by yael through an amazing series of events this man was felled by yael and the verse tells us medulla bushwick by Lavoie sister had not yet come home he had not returned from battle why because he had been killed and sisters mother was upset where is my son cisRA she was crying she was worried and she said why why is his chariot late from coming why is it boy Shh what does it mean in this context but all young ha Olam would love officially shows every day would come back in the third hour of the day by nine in the morning but our best shows by ten in the morning you come back from battle he would make quick work of it he'd return home raja bhoj choice of labor it's already the six hours early noon time and he has not yet returned his mother was upset and was worried so we see as the 80s it explains that sisters downfall occurred in the sixth hour at this very time when the Jewish people had their downfall with the golden calf when Adam Irish on had his own issue with the sixth hour idea with the six-hour concept he couldn't get up to the sixth hour so to speak so we see that there's some kind of parallel between these three different events with Adam with the Jewish people and with sister the enemy of the Jewish people now I'd like to look at these three different places and I want understand a few different points the first point that I want to understand is the word bow Shh which we are translating to meet bah Shh both Shh means two different things in two different contexts when it comes to motion of an oncoming late and sister coming late the word but Shh bossier means he came late six hour past however when it comes to other Maori shown when it comes to Adam and Eve it says that they were naked and they were not embarrassed were both Shh in this context means that they were not embarrassed so what's the connection what's the idea or perhaps the parallel between a concept of boyish Moshe Moshe coming late concept of boyish as coming late as opposed to bow Shh meaning to be embarrassed what is the idea why in one place doesn't mean one thing it's the same exact word means something different in a different place also it's important to know that despite the fact that the meddra SH places these three different verses in the same context and creates a parallel between them seems to say that they're saying the same thing if you look at the verses carefully the verse in regards to other mankatha is saying really the opposite of what it's saying regards to motion cisRA Moshe was late keep boyish Masha he didn't come by the sixth hour bah Shh the six hour came and he didn't come so but in regards to other merkava it's saying lies by shoe shoe they didn't experience whatever boyish means they weren't embarrassed they didn't if we could we could you know kind of change it a little bit up and say you spy let's say that that means they didn't experience the boss Shh the sixth hour coming whatever it means the six hour comes they didn't come late so to speak that's what that's what it sounds like with light special show Adam akava are doing something that's the opposite of Moshe and Cicero so what is the idea what is the concept what is the what is the verse in using the same word what is it trying to teach us so before i get into answering this I want to try to focus a little bit on a concept of a you should name a room mville a special show what does it mean that they were unclothed but they weren't embarrassed what is the idea of the embarrassment around the concept of being unclothed why does that happen what is the concept of embarrassment what is the concept of Busia what is the cause of Busia in this area and really generally what is the concept of embarrassment what does the idea that someone is embarrassed so obviously when we speak about this area it's a very sensitive place to speak about so I'm going to speak about it in a different context I'm going to leave it to you to draw it back and think about it in this context in the context of the area of sexuality I'm going to speak about it in a different context something that I've experienced personally and I'm sure that many of you have also experienced it perhaps in a slightly different way but you've experienced it nonetheless and that is in regards to a person's connection to another person meaning what do I mean we find that there's an idea that when it comes to a famous person let's say you would see some extremely famous in the street you would be walking along and you would meet Barack Obama so you would be awestruck I would be awestruck we would all be starstruck as we say the connection that we feel towards that person because they're a famous person is much stronger obviously than the connection that they feel towards us millions and millions or even billions of people can know recognize and feel connected to a particular individual without them being able to feel connected to everyone else that person is famous then that you know that's what's going to happen now besides for this being true in regards to a famous person this is also true in regards to a very talented person that you might have met for the first time or very beautiful person that you might be meeting for the first time a person will feel more connected then the other person will feel one part the person meeting that person will feel more fected and the person who's receiving that and so in that case the experience can be one of Busia when somebody meets somebody else in that way if I would meet you and I would feel more connected to you then you feel towards me it's embarrassing a different way of saying is that when there's a connection which is not fully in place which is not fully reflecting which is not where you you have both sides feeling the same about each other so that connection is out of place to a certain extent the relationship hasn't been developed in a two way in two directions so that experience is one of embarrassment embarrassment is when things are not precisely aligned when when something is out of place another example of this is let's say I meet somebody and this actually happened to me recently let's say I would meet somebody and they would say 20 Do You Know Who I am and I would be like oh I think that you're Reuben Reuben Goldstein they say no no I'm Shimon silverstein so when when a person makes that mistake and and relates to somebody in the wrong way real life relates to something as if there's somebody else that's embarrassing when things are out of place when they're not aligned that's called Busia that's called embarrassment and so Adam and kava they were not embarrass there was no lack of alignment their relationship was perfect there was nothing there that was that was inappropriate now where does Busia begin where is where does it begin the concept that things are out of place that things are inappropriate it begins with a sin of other math Hoffa as a result of them eating from the fruit which was inappropriate they desired something which was not for them Hashem said this is not for you so instead of saying oh it's not for me I'm not going to eat it they chose to take something which wasn't really shy of to them which wasn't really appropriate for them as a result of that they came into a world where it could be possible that things are not aligned where I want something let's say which isn't mine where the relationship could be out of alignment let's say it's possible for me to love somebody and they don't love me back that's only possible in a world after the hate it's only possible after this sin before the sin there could only be perfect alignment everything was completely aligned there was no embarrassment after the sin they became embarrassed they saw they realized that their naked they realized they don't have any clothes on they realized that things now can it's possible now for there to be a person desiring somebody else even though it's inappropriate there can be an imbalance in the relationship and that wasn't possible before and so afterwards they become embarrassed because it's embarrassing when I'm not aligned with reality as somebody said it to me i once heard that humility when a person is humble so it means that they live with the truth they're honest about themselves humility doesn't mean that i make myself smaller than i am and but it does mean that i don't make myself bigger than i am it means i'm just right size and exactly the size i'm supposed to be that's humility now what is humiliation humiliation is where I'm caught not living with the truth where I'm caught doing something which is not truthful which is not aligned with who I should be with who I am that's called humiliation that's Busia that's embarrassment now let's look for a moment at the concept of motion of an oncoming late bozhe Schmo show the same word which means embarrassed also means to come late in their eyes a Jewish people looked and they were waiting for moshe he hadn't come he came late he was late he had not yet come that means what his idea of coming late it means that there's an appointed time means that there's an appropriate time where they're supposed to be a relationship that's going to be formed in this case moshe rabbeinu was going to bring down the Lukos he was going to bring down the Torah the Jewish people were to receive that there was it was an appointed time for that relationship to happen for there to be as evoke for there to be not just a relationship but a coupling between God and the Jewish people bush means that the time had come the time had come they were ready to receive it but God was not ready to give it it means that it's really the same idea that there's a relationship and it's it's imbalanced one person is ready is in love is ready to receive the love the other person is not yet to give the love by sheesh Misha he was late meaning it wasn't yet the time so for moshe and the Jewish people it wasn't a time it was late it was off there was something off there was a busia there was an embarrassment there was a lack of alignment but for other men kava in that perfect spiritual state that they were in that in GaN Eden in the Garden of Eden they were aligned things were correct things were as they were meant to be now something that's important that we need to understand is why is this concept broken down from the word boy Shh which means to come later to me embarrassed to the words boss Shh which means that the sixth hour came what is the concept of the sixth hour what is the idea of the number six how does it relate to the idea that we're speaking about of embarrassment or lack of embarrassment also important to understand is that we see that it's not just the sixth hour that we're speaking about here as the measure she tells us in schmoes in regards to the verses that speak about the fact that motion was late so that means that the six hour had passed moshe didn't come immediately after that is when the jewish people sin with the Golden Cap they sinned in the seventh hour and in fact we start off a conversation about Ottoman cava Adam and Eve that when were they coupled when were they brought into a union I don't mean a physical union but when when did they become unified as man and wife or close I'll tell us it was also it happened the seventh hour having after the sixth hour it happened in the seventh hour so the the concept of six and seven are clearly connected because most should income in the sixth hour that's when they sinned in the seventh hour and it's important to note the following day when he does come he would have come at the end of the sixth hour and they would have received the Torah in the seventh hour as well they would have received that relationship in the seventh hour so what is idea of six and seven as we've explained in the past the concept of the number six always corresponds really the first six of six days of the week let's say correspond to the male aspect and the seventh aspect is that the female aspect and so the point where six and seven join which for example in the days of the week is is Friday night it's Friday going into shabbos so that is the that's the time where the two concepts meet male and female meet and indeed there's as evoke there is a coupling you know the coming together and it's what we talked about shabbos Sholem that there's a special greeting on shabbos of peace that's why we have the candles on friday night which denote the that are meant to bring about peace in the home so that they can see the man and his wife there's one can negi the man one can negate the woman the idea of six and at the point where connects to seven is that place of peace it's that place where relationship is possible and it's the place where relationship is manifest so now when we speak of a boss Shh when we speak about the sixth hour coming we're really speaking about the completion of the six hour into the seventh hour the potential for relationship the potential for alignment between two different people or two different parties in the case of motion arabe no God and the Jewish people and i wish i could get into sister i don't think i'm going to have time to do that but certainly we also see in regards to other men kava that they were non embarrassed it was the time had come there was perfect alignment the boss Shh the sixth hour had come and they were able because there was no problem of dis alignment they were able to come into that relationship the end of the six hour into the seventh hour so six denotes the male 7 denotes the female that point of connection that point of realization of the relationship is the sixth hour the end of the six hour and into the seventh hour similarly correspondingly end of the sixth day of the week into the seventh day of the week now it's also a time the sixth and seventh hour are also a time if there's a lack of alignment if there's a lack of proper connection if things are boyish if things are late if things are off there's embarrassment there's not proper connection so it's a time of danger it's a time if it's not properly done if it's not done in the right time so it's a time where we could end up in a lack of relationship but it could be there could be embarrassment it could be a lateness so to speak now how does this apply to us why am I talking about this and I said at the very beginning there's something amazing and powerful that applies to us and this idea is something which I shared a number of years ago but it's so important so powerful and comes up right here right at Brosius that I wanted to share with you once again and the idea has to do with the hours of the day of the celestial dick what do I mean a celestial day I mean that each thousand years since creation every single thousand years where in the year 5777 that means that we've had five full days a thousand years is a day we've had five full days we are now in the sixth day when the sixth day of reality because each thousand years is a full day is a full 24-hour period in God's eyes as it were now if you take the 24-hour period of the sixth day we are now on your mushy sheer on that sixth day of creation on that day when man was created so to speak we follow the hours based on what's going on in our partial what we've been speaking about so the year 5,000 to 5,500 that is the night time by everybody volker the evening comes before the day so that's the first half of the day now if you take a thousand years and divide it by 24 hours which correspond to 24 hours of the day you will find that 41 years and two thirds years every 41 and two-thirds years is considered an hour now if you take the the time period that we're in now you will find that we are actually in the seventh hour of the day from 1948 interestingly until nineteen ninety was the sixth hour of the day that was the getting ray that was a time when we were getting ready for our relationship with Hashem as it were the seventh hour of the day which is the time that we're now is from 1990 until 2030 one this is the time that these that this measure is speaking about so this is the time that we have an opportunity amazingly to either be in alignment in a state like other man cave academic late where everything was perfect and appropriate and the relationship there was no embarrassment there was no lack of alignment or we could be in a state of moisture coming late so to speak where the Jewish people misperceived were off if there's a lack of alignment so if we're not properly ready to receive the relationship she wants to give us more than we're ready to receive or we want to receive more than God is ready to give in either of these cases heaven forbid we end up with humiliation end up with busia we end up with boyish we end up with that embarrassment but we have an opportunity specifically at this important juncture in history in time in celestial time in the big picture we have an incredible opportunity to focus on and try to get into the place where there's an appropriate relationship and I want to make mention and again delicately of the fact that we know that when it comes to relationship between a man and his wife so there's an appropriate place where value should name i remove lays by shoe shoe that when when things are done correctly when they don opa locka they're done based on the director of our hazael based in the Torah so there is a place where indeed they come into that relationship and there's no embarrassment then the other way around is the most holy of all of the relationships that we have and it brings a shaman into the world soul comes out from the highest spheres and human being can be created at that time at that point so we see it's important to understand that when things are aligned properly we return to a state of utter man cave academic hate you return to that state when things are done properly based on the Torah when things are done incorrectly so that creates a state of Busia of embarrassment and that's the embarrassment that we feel the humiliation that one feels heaven forbid when they do a sin when someone's involved in something that's inappropriate so that's the humiliation the humiliation is when I'm doing something which is not aligned when I when it becomes clear that I'm not aligned but the times that we are living in now are these times that are being spoken of in this verse and so there's an amazing opportunity and I want to bless you and I ask you to please bless me back ashram should help us that we should be able to recognize the opportunity to to get into a place of Elias by shoe shoe of not being embarrassed to get into a place where we align properly with our relationship with those around us with our relationship with Hashem with God and in our relationships with ourselves if we can understand that there's an appropriate time this is an appropriate place for every relationship for every aspect of our different relationships so then we'll be able to start off this new year with a different appreciation for the time that we have the time that we're living in thank you so much for listening of a wonderful shabbos this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners 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