Breishis - Intuiting our Purpose

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with ari goldwag recorded with hashem's neverending assistance in ramachamish israel 57 81 2020. this week's parasha is partially gracious we begin the torah again and we read the stories the descriptions of sean created the world and how he created the human being and i'd like to share with you an insight a majorish a few insights based on the majors that speaks about the sukken which describe adam harishon's first experiences now we need to understand that whenever we talk about first experiences whenever we talk about firsts gracious is the beginning the beginnings always contain the seeds for everything else the first experiences that we have in our lives the first experiences that we have of others around us are foundational experiences so when we look at the beginning when we begin gracious we begin we need to understand that these are the foundations and we need to understand that whatever is embedded here is something which we need to take with us of course and we need to understand it's foundational for the human experience the tell us that after hashem created adam harishan this is impossible in chapter 2 verse 15. hashem took the human being and he placed them into the garden of eden in order that he worked the garden protect the garden of the moor god commanded the human being and said as follows so the first thing that he says to him is you can eat from all the all of the trees but don't from the tree of knowledge the day that you eat from it you shall surely die so the first thing is he takes and he puts him in the garden he says you're here to work the garden to protect the garden don't eat from the the tree of knowledge you can eat from any other tree now what is the next thing that happens okay listen carefully if i am hashem it's not good that the human being is alone connected i'm going to make him a help me i'm going to make him an azer someone will help him connect they corresponding to him now listen to what happens so hashem says i'm going to create i'm going to give i'm going to create i'm going to create the first woman now how does hashem go about it this is very interesting very difficult to understand so hashem creates out of the earth all of the animals the is called in all of the birds of the heavens you know we have a topic the topic is creation of eve and in the process hashem before he actually creates kava he brings all the animals in front of admiration in front of the man in front of man in order for him to give them names to see what he's going to call him what are you going to call them whatever name adam would give these animals that would be its name very strange difficult to understand what is the idea first of all in the context of the creation of eve what is baklava generally speaking what is the idea the concept of admiration giving names why is it necessary for us to know the names of the animals what is the concept this is one of the first things that he does before even comes out to the scene this seems to be the point adam calls names to all the animals all the different species of birds all the animals of the field and as he's giving the names so he notices that he doesn't have a he doesn't have a there's no female there's no female human being there's it seems like he realized that they were male and female animals but he didn't see any female human beings okay puts him into anesthesia puts them out one of his sides one of his bones maybe one of his ribs patched us it's one of his sides [Music] of the man built it into a woman and he brought the woman to the human being to adam now obviously a lot of what's going on in braces in genesis you know we have in kabbalah they talk about myself the workings of the chariot they also also talk about my sebratious the workings of braces of creation we can't take anything at face value of course there's apostles there's a simple understanding of the verses but a lot of what's going on here is secrets depths that are being taught in a superficial manner because we need to have our maserara tradition teach us what's going on but obviously these verses need explanation so the major tries to tie not tries to the major we try to understand what the majority means as it ties together the different points in this passage brings the fact that hashem in the middle of the story hashem has created from the earth all the different animals why is this story with the animals in the middle of the narration of telling us how hashem created says a very very interesting thing and hear this well hear this very well right when hashem wanted to create the human being he asked the angels yes what they thought he said to them we we will make man okay so pastas and this is in the first chapter of the first chapter of genesis shem says to the malacham he says to those around him in the in the majestic plural we shall make man not sad and we shall make man messes tells us actually it wasn't the statement we shall make man it was a question it was shall we make man not adam shall we make man hashem turned to the angels and said shall we make the human being um so naturally the said you're asking us our opinion if you should make man well what is his nature what is this what exactly are you trying to make so we can heaven you know have an informed opinion god says to the angels the wisdom of the human being is much greater than yours so the magistrate's understanding is about to demonstrate hashem is about to demonstrate the wisdom of the human being he's going to bring the animals in front of adam and adam is going to understand the exact name to call each of these animals and in so doing hashem is demonstrating to the angels what it is that defines the human being what is the essence of a human being the angels say well hashem says to angels shall we shall we create man angels say well what's what does man like what is he what's his what's his thing says he has this amazing ability to understand the essence of an animal understand the essence and call it its name because the name shamai the word which means its name is the same as makur which means the root the the source we understand in its name the same gematria also as razon which means desire which perhaps we'll speak about soon as well the the root the source of everything is its name the name defines who it is what it is what its purpose is and one of the most impressive and important things that a human being is able to do and we find is the very beginning the first one of the first experiences that the human being has is that he is a name-caller he calls names he understands the essence the purpose of every single animal and because of that hashem says to the angels this is what he is this is who he is heavy and it's interesting because hashem says he has more wisdom than you he's smarter than you he can do something that you can't do the angels cannot understand the essence of an animal understand what is its purpose what is its role in in the creation in the world hey the name is hashem brought in front of of adam which interestingly it says lift him in front of them the the animals the wild animals the birds hashem said to adam arishon to them interesting can't get into why it says in that language right now i'm sorry to them he said he brought in front of the angels first i'm sorry i'm explaining it wrong i'm uh getting it mixed up here hashem says here look at these animals what do you say angels what do you call this they so then hashem passed this animal in front of other marisha in front of the man and he said to him said to him what what's his name what's this called and he said sure he said this is an ox zachamore this is a mule this is a horse with zagama and this is a camel but you see as we said the essence of the name the essence of the animal itself is described in its very name or as the force explains which is a mule the word which means physicality the word sus is related to the concept of of rejoicing yasis gamal something which is each thing within its name gama means to be uh the ego male is to be detached from water detach from source of life because the camel can go for many many days it has drank a lot in a certain day it can go for a long time without drinking again but he was able to understand the essence of each thing somehow essence and its purpose in the world okay so hashem demonstrated for the malachim the incredible innate wisdom i mean think about it this is a human being who's never this is his first day of existence he was just brought into existence he's a baby he looks like he's 20 years old or 30 years old he's he's a he's a one day old he's just born he's only a few hours old but innately the human being has a wisdom which is beyond the wisdom of an angel angel can't understand this he was also just created the angels were just created they didn't have this innate wisdom they didn't have this intuitive understanding of the essence of something that's hashem's creation interesting the message goes on and says hashem asks adam he asks the human being what's your name he didn't know his we hadn't hashem hadn't given him a name yet or maybe he didn't call him by his name yet ani nalikari adams very interesting when he speaks about his name and he speaks about his own essence he says i should be called adam adam is from the word means the earth i was created from the earth and therefore i should be called adam hashem says god says to the human being what's my name it's appropriate that you be called that name because why the name of dalai nun represents connotes the fact that god is the master of all of his creations he's in charge of everything okay so now so we have a we have a demonstration of admiration's innate wisdom we also have we need to understand this concept why does he call himself an adam or a fortune try to understand why does he call himself why does he describe himself based on his physical side why doesn't he talk about his spiritual side and try to understand that what's the next thing says the magic that occurs on the front of zugos machem then went after bringing in front of him single animals and having him call their names he went and brought in front of them pairs of animals which reminds me very much of what happened with noah when the animals were brought to the table to the ark that's worth thinking about so yes ben zuglie manzuk so again adam demonstrates his intuit in his intuition first he intuitively understood the names the essence of the animals but now he notices as hashem desired that each animal has a male and a female but he said i don't have i don't have a benzoog i don't have a mate a lot of them say they're connected what's going on hashem wanted him to notice that he's missing something and he wanted him to make a request now the measure says something very interesting with a with a mate originally well i wasn't adamant why weren't they created concurrently why first was adam created and then he had to ask for for his wife he had to notice that he's missing something and then she is created hashem saw that other irish is going to complain because she's going to cause him to sin so he's going to complain and say she caused me to sin specifically wanted that admiration would request requests he wanted that he request a help mate this way when he complains about her perhaps he would think twice before complaining exactly what the message means also needs hezboro i don't know if we're going to get into it but we need to understand what's going on in this mattress we need to understand what's going on this measures because if we understand this we understand the essence of the human being what makes us unique we need to understand how this applies to us because this is the first experience as we said of the human being it's the thing that hashem wants to show the malachim shall we make man this is who he is he wants to he wants to show his wisdom he wants to he wants to show the human being's intuition okay so let's try to understand this just let's look at it just the push-up shot the pasha what's going on the words of the madrish the words of the sukken what's happening here what's happening here and what we see over here i believe is number one the human being the human being is born number one with an intuitive understanding of reality i'm reading a book right now that has to do with the scientific scientific scientifically proving that the world must have been created there are so many laws embedded into reality the quantum physics into into the the nature of the of the world of the universe that it couldn't have been done by chance the laws in order for life to exist had to be set up this way it had to be set up by an intelligence everything was created in a certain specific manner but one of the remarkable things that he mentions here is that the human being many of the things that were discovered many of the discoveries that were made were first there was a theory there was a mathematical theory that said this is how it should be and then a few years later they discovered that indeed it was that way it talks about the biggs hosum i don't even know how i pronounce it i apologize if i'm pronouncing it wrong different different uh [Music] properties of reality that should be there it should have it was supposed that it should be that way based on all that we've seen and indeed it was proven sometimes a few years later sometimes decades later the human being is able to deduce from the reality he's able to intuitively understand what's going on hashem gave an amazing gift to the human being that we can understand reality now what do we do with that what do we do with that understanding that is part of the essence of what the human being is i have an innate sense of who i am i have an eighth sense you know in my yearbook my 12th grade yearbook they wrote who is our gold we're going to be he's going to be a rabbi and a singer there was an innate sense of who this person is we understand we can see it from a young age we see who our kids are we see who they have the potential to become each human being has a certain innate sense of who they are but we also have an innate sense of the way things are supposed to be the way the reality that we're supposed to look around like puts the human being into the reality and he says to him what is this name what is the name of this what is the name of this animal what is its purpose hashem says to us some places each and every one of us in our reality and he asks of us he asks of us based on the reality that we experience what is this about why what are we here for he wants each and every one of us to try to figure it out what's going on why do i have this challenging situation why do i have this person in my life what it what is what is it all about what are my tuna fish what are my unique abilities now why is it that admiration is able to define who the animals are i want you know i was thinking about it why is it that he defines himself as the the earthy one the one who was created from the earth and perhaps he could say in conscious distinction to the angels the angels couldn't understand what's the name of this animal why couldn't they understand the name of the animals because they're just spiritual they don't contain the earthy element they don't contain physicality within them they can understand spiritual things they can't understand physical things they do not have that all-encompassing understanding because that's not who they are admiration in defining himself as adam as the one who comes from the earth is saying as an affordable explain he has an advantage over the just spiritual adam is also physical and because he also has a physical aspect to him he has an understanding of all aspects of reality because i have it within me because i have the physical within me i can understand this is ashore this is a hammer this this animal has a certain purpose this is its essence to be used in the service of akushborhu of course but i need to use the physical that i have for who that's what hashem asks him next what's my name for kadushboku he's the master of all of his creations all the creations are subservient to hashem now we come to the question where's where's my help mate where's my where's my azer kanegdo where's the female side of me within the creation of kava there's a problem there's a problem hashem foresees as it were that there's going to be an issue there's going to be an issue because kava is going to cause her husband to sin and the aspect of hava is also an aspect where where the human being is aspect of adama of physicality so the female aspect the human being in relationship to hashem is the female aspect the female the children in relationship to their mother the mother is the male aspect the giver and the children are the females the receivers and so too in the relationship between the man and his wife there's also the male is the male aspect obviously and the woman is the female aspect but let's let's understand when we speak about female we never we're never speaking just about woman we're speaking about the receiving aspect because the female it's always yahasi it's always relative but the female the female aspect which also is the physical aspect in relationship to the spiritual aspect of the human being the female aspect comes with it in ingrained within it comes within it an aspect of causing a person to be lowered to be to to be brought to sin that's really what's represented here in this idea it's not to say that women are more sinful or cause men to sin it's the female aspect of the human being that brings about lowering and then a person needs to be raised back up into the into the spiritual side that's that's how hashem created it we are adam and the physical aspect and we need to raise it up to the spiritual hashem knew that he's going to he's going to there's going to be a sin there's going to be a tiger there's going to be a complaint it's going to be a complaint admiration to hashem because his wife caused them to sin why did you create this physical aspect the physical brings me down i'm going to be i'm going to i'm going to sin but hashem is showing something an amazing lesson within the very essence of who you who the human being is what his purpose is he there's a desire there's a rud zone he needs to ask just like hashem wants the angels to ask what's the nature of the human being in the creation of the human being there's a there's an asking there's a question there's a right sound a desire to understand we need to understand what is the essence of the human being we need to know what is the names what are the names of the animals there's a question that the human being needs to ask as he looks around himself that's that's the name which begs what is the essence what is the makur the shema the makur the name the the essence the root and there's the razon the desire i i want to have i want i'm looking around there's something missing from me there's a desire that i have i want to be complete i want to be whole i want to have a wife now having another human being in my life means that there's going to be trouble there's going to be challenges i might i might be caused to sin i might get upset at my spouse i might do something that i know is wrong in my relationship but the fact that i have a rudson the fact that i have a desire for it so now hashem hashem wants the human being to have to to hashem wants to be able to say look you asked for this this is what you wanted and even though there's going to be a point in time where you're going to complain about it where there's going to be a lowering of your level because of it but understand that you you wanted this and why did you want this you wanted this because i showed you that you're missing something so by etsam this is what i want hashem is showing him you want this why because i showed it to you yes that's correct you intuited it correctly now you're complaining and now you're saying wait what's going on this isn't the way it's supposed to be which is also correct hashem shows us hashem wants us to intuitively want something that's going to be a challenge for us intuitively i know i'm supposed to be a musician to be a singer to sing songs that's not an easy thing to do it's not so easy to make money through music it's not so easy to put out music you lay your heart bear and people trample on it or people relate to it and they and they and they're inspired by it and there's a song that that you love and they don't love there's a song that you think is not so great and they all love it they're not inspired by what you want them to be inspired by this is what i want this it's painful it's hard it's hard to be a musician it's hard to be an artist hashem puts it in your in your heart to want he makes he makes each person aware of what they of the way it should be for them even though that's going to involve heartache and challenge and difficulty because that is one of the core points of the human condition the human being is meant to ask to desire to want and to get into situations that are difficult and to ask the question again why hashem and to complain maybe maybe complain the right way but to complain that's part of it hey this is not the way it should be but to recognize that it is the way it should be it is the way it should be these are these are the things that i believe we see from the medrush and these are powerful lessons for life some wants us to know that we're supposed to try to get to try to get what's going on this is the essence of what what the human being is and his advantage intuitive capability the wisdom that we are ingrained with the intuitive to be made to understand from what's going on around us the way things are supposed to be to enter into situations that are challenging to recognize that hey we're not there yet i want to bless you i ask you to bless me hashem should help us that we should be able to look around and understand what the messages are that he's trying to give us whether it's big a doll you know in the big picture with what's going on with corona whether it's with the big picture what's going on with in the world with peace processes and and crazy elections and all the things that are going on shall help us to understand what is the personal message for each and every one of us hashem should help us to understand that who we are at our essence is a human being that can because we're human therefore we can understand so much more than the angels shall help us to understand that he is the aldo and he is the master over all and we are meant to be subservient to him hashem should help us have the right zone the desire to accomplish all those things that we're meant to accomplish should help us to be able to cool off when it comes to complaining about the difficulty of the challenges hashem should help us to always remember that we are desiring those things because of the fact that he wants us to want 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