Breishis - World Foundations

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with hari goldwag recorded with hashem's neverending assistance in roma behind israel 57 82 2021 this week's parasha is partials gracious we begin with genesis back to the beginning each year we come around and we have a newer deeper understanding of the torah and of course before we begin gracious we need to always remember the most foundational concept which is the beginning the beginning is the foundation the beginning is the basis it's the it's the upon which all rests if we want to understand everything else we need to understand the beginning if we understand the beginning we have the foundation for everything we can apply so many ideas once we have the foundational idea we can use that and apply it in so many ways so when we look at the beginning of voracious and we look at the beginning of the major braces we need to look carefully we need to try to understand what the magisk is teaching us teaching us what is the foundation of the world what is the foundation of genesis of creation and what does it teach us in our personal genesis and our personal creation because each and every day as hashem says let us make man god says nasa adam let us make man together we are partners in creation with god in creating ourselves trying to become better trying to become more wholesome individuals jews etc so let's look at the beginning of the majority and try to understand what it's teaching us and how it applies to us the beginning of the measure says on the plastic gracious borough kim message arts in the beginning god created the heavens and the earth the manchester wants to understand the word boracious is very strange we could because gracious in the beginning we should have said barishon at first beratious the word racist means the first of [Music] like for example as the muforsham explained racism the first of your doggone of your grains there's an obligation to take off myself racist the gonha to take off bikurim the word is possessive racist means the beginning of so there are those who explain beaureish's border that came in the beginning of god's creation of heavens and earth etc but the measure says something different the measure teaches us that beratious means the word racist doesn't mean beginning of but rather it means with the first thing with the first thing right we're speaking about the first thing as the foundational thing what is the first thing says the madrish the first thing is something which came before creation what came before creation says the madras the torah came before creation we have this word like because we're we're here at the beginning with the beginning of the measure so there's a lot of meforshim here explaining a lot of different points the word pasak which we read often when we read the majority means he opened up and he said but it also means to open it means to open up an understanding a deeper understanding of what's written by shayaraba who is this rib hoshaya rabbah interestingly rabbi hoshaya asim of forsham explain was the author of the madrish or the compiler of the madrish or be a shy rabba in his name and has mejis rabba rabba means the great one the great madrish and the great rabbi haishaya who compiled a measure he started off in explaining what these words mean in the torah what is the racist the beginning that the torah is teaching us it's a reference says to the torah the torah preceded creation the torah which are all the teachings of the torah the essence of what it means to be a good person the essence of what it means to serve god all of these ideas that the torah teaches us because torah means teaching the teachings of the way of god preceded the world and this is based on the verse in michele chapter yes chapter 8 verse it says i it's the torah speaking i was by him meaning i was by god the torah was by god oman hidden oman means taken care of protected and i was his toy i was that which god played with so to speak day after day and the magister understands them before she explained day after day refers to two days what are these two days each day is two is a thousand years right the verse tells us that for god a thousand years is like a day each day is a thousand years two days two thousand years before the world was created so the torah pre-existed the world the concepts of the world the concepts of human interaction all pre-existed and our interactions with god all pre-existed the world says the magic something even more interesting and deep it says that the word amon the word ami which means that god hid it or god took care of it protected the torah he had it by him for two thousand years what does the word online mean so there's four different explanations and as the hcasif explains it refers to the four levels of torah we have paradise the word paradise means an orchard but also the letters of paradise of orchard refer to the orchard of torah the different fruits different way we access the terror different way we approach the torah there's dalit shot remis we have the shah which is a simple understanding we have the remis which is the tyre hints to certain things we have the jirash which is madras and all these deeper honest things and we have the side which is the secret aspect of the tire the my summer cover my subracious important to point out here at the beginning that my separations although it's a description of what happened at the beginning of time it's a description of god's creation of reality but of course we need to approach it properly and understand that the words there's they're hidden it sounds like a certain thing on the surface but of course there's a tremendous amount of death and in the cobalam those who know about the situs the secrets of the torah they explain at depth what's going on here it's certainly not as simple as it seems it's important to know that but you have these four different levels in torah you have shot remembers drosh soy oman these are hidden these are hinted to in the word hidden amon pedagog pedagog is somebody who it's a it's a hebrew word pedagogue and it means somebody who teaches someone who takes care of them um the word can also mean to hide online mutsuna can mean to hi to to make something which means modesty modesty doesn't necessarily have to be just to hide something it can mean something which people see but you you you don't show it so much like if you have a candy and your friend wants a candy you don't you have to beat sneeze with your candy so that the other person doesn't become jealous this dumber it means the word amen can also mean very great so these are four aspects of the torah corresponding as eighth jesus says to the four levels of torah the torah is shot remiss soyud these four levels now they go the majestic goes into the explanation of this the first level which we said is the teacher it's the simple understanding is the one who has taken care of the child hashem as it were was it was it was taken care of on a simple level the torah for those two thousand years kashir yi saha amina and stay with me because i know it's a little bit uh obscure exactly what we're speaking about here but we're going to see a depth it's very important as we continue the verse says that god took care of us in the midbar in the wilderness just as the oi main the mother the the one who takes care of the child takes care of the one nursing from her so hashem took care of the jewish people so the word means the teacher or the protector hashem protected the torah the second explanation is that the torah was covered up the gamer the verse in refers to those people who were covered who were they became uncovered as a result of the base of english destruction etc but you see a word means to cover something which is supposed to be covered so the tire is something which at a certain level the understanding of which is a simple understanding just like a parent teaches and protects the child that's the surface level then there's the covering of something the torah has a remez has a deeper understanding the first level of understanding underneath the surface then there's an even deeper level as we said modesty there's some aspect of the toy which is drash when we learn these mudrasham together when we first read them we don't understand them clearly because they're covered up the torah the when they taught these matters they covered it up [Music] as the verse says so the verse refers to mordechai in the story of esther that he was oimen hadassah esther her other name was hadassah mordechai protected her covered her up that she shouldn't be found so it's an even deeper level of the torah not being found so easily she wasn't supposed to be found by the the messengers of the king amen also refers to a tremendous thing a great thing which is the greatest secrets of the torah dover goddale said them a fortune refers to the maison merkava my separations these are the deepest deepest secrets of the torah that are included again in the word aymen means something that is hidden something that is protected something the terror is something which is protected and pre-existed the world by two thousand years as we said alexandria the verse refers to something which is very great the great city of alexandria etc okay so so what so we have this whole thing these four different levels of torah here's where we get to the so what listen carefully this very verse which refers to torah as something which is which is protected it's also the word omoin which means protected and hidden also can be read which means a craftsman and this is a very famous idea but listen to how we're going to apply it the taurus says excuse me notario says i was the cle i was the artist artisans craft vessel i was the one which was used by god for what it was we'll soon see to create the world okay the torah is used to create the world it's a famous idea tyra is the blueprint of the world and hopefully we'll see soon what that means the way that the world goes is that when a king of flesh and blood wants to build his palace the king knows he's not an architect that's not his that's not his expertise he doesn't do it on his own i'm sorry he doesn't do it by himself but rather he hires an architect he hires a professional who knows how to create a beautiful palace the architect doesn't do it on his own either he doesn't do it based on his current whatever comes to his mind al diphthy relates a big assay rather he has different documents different kinds of notebooks he has records of perhaps buildings that he's built in the past and how he did it and what worked and perhaps what didn't work how to build this kind of room how to build that kind of room god also when he created the world hashem looked inside of the torah is the blueprint for what it means what what world the world's supposed to look like what you know says honor your mother and your father well clearly we have to have mothers and fathers we have to have children there has to be some element of resistance perhaps to honoring our parents it has to be a command to do so to indeed honor them the tire itself lays the groundwork the framework for what human interactions are supposed to look like what the challenges are and how those interactions ideally are supposed to be atari amara veracious barely came vain racist so here the major as is its way when we get to the end of the message we finally understand the beginning of the madrish the tyrus is beratious barolo kim doesn't just mean in the beginning it means bear racist with racists the first thing what's the first thing what came before braces what we came before the creation of the physical realm what came before was the torah the terror was the first thing with which hashem created the entire world as we know it has tarkett this is what the verse says initially that god acquired the torah at the beginning of his way meaning the torah existed god manifested through the torah god put his wisdom into the torah at the very beginning of the path at the very beginning of creation and just as an aside and i want to share with you something before we get back to the content of the madrish very important idea which i read in in uh sift higher prime friedlander over uh rejoicing with the torah what is the essence of the turk god placed his spiritual essence into the torah says the torah represents the essence of god whatever that means we don't know what that means we can't possibly understand what that means but republican freelancer says that when we learn torah just as it says here hashem kanani racist darkrai the first thing that god did was place his essence as it were into the torah the kindness of the terror when we study the torah when we are mesdavic we attach ourselves we learn the terror and we try to understand and we try to put it upon our hearts we are attaching ourselves to the rothschild to the will of god and to god himself as it were how that works i don't know but it's a fact okay but now let's back up and look at the measures and say an amazing thing because the second part of the message i think really explains the first part of the madrish the second part of the measure says that god looked in the torah and created the world as it were the tyre is the blueprint of the world but we also pointed out in the first part that there are four different aspects of the torah itself there's the shot the symbol understanding the stories of the torah the commandments of the torah there's the remnants that which is being hinted to there's the jurash that which we can understand at a deeper level and then there's this side the secrets of the torah are there in the torah now what that means what we see if we connect these two pieces is that the physical realm itself the world that we inhabit it has these four levels as well we have the shall we the simple understanding you look around the world it's an amazing beautiful world but there's a simple understanding of it there's just the physical world the beautiful trees the animals the human beings the streams the mountains there's the push-up shot then there's remis within the world itself there's also because everything parallels right if it if you have it in the torah you also have it in the physical reality you have the deeper depths you have what you see the pushup shot we see many stars but if you look through a telescope you see that there are millions and billions more stars farther and farther away from us 13.8 billion light years across the entire universe unbelievable deeper things remnants you don't see it on the surface you have to look for it deeper and deeper and still deeper and of course on the deepest level is this side is the secret aspect which is the neshama which is the soul it's the spiritual realms all these things are contained in a parallel way just like an entire you have all of these different aspects in the physical realm you also have all of these different aspects and i would say that if we think about it within ourselves as well we all have these four aspects as well we have the push-up shot the simple who we are we have the physical aspect of ourselves and we have a deeper and deeper and deeper levels of ourselves going down to the spiritual to the to the highest level of our soul and even within our soul there are many levels of course there's neshama there's ruach there's nephesh there's the highest aspects of the souls are also contained within so what what is the message here what is the tire coming to teach us and i think that if we think about it deeply i want to connect it to the first point the first point that we mentioned was shaya rabo raboshaya was the author of the magish and i want to share with you something that's really cool it says the puzzle that he brings a if you look at the letters of a ishashu and this is pointed out by the miforce on the page it has the letters of the name hoshaya hoshai who is the author of the majestraba he chose this verse to speak about at the beginning and to speak about how the torah is the essence of reality how it predates reality and as we saw how it's the first expression of who in the world is how the world is manifest it's from this blueprint but hoshaya chose this verse because it has his name in it so the author the author of this book of the manja shrabba at the very beginning we find out his name we find out the name of the author we find out that his name is embedded in the torah itself in michelle in proverbs chapter 8 verse 30. that means that he's real that means that he's really there and he's manifest how does rabbi shaya get here because he's he's part of this he's written an entire so to speak and there's also one of them before explains that if you take the gematria or the words i think i'm correcting this so then it's the exact kamacho of the word reby hoshaya raba check it out see if it works out but we see here in the name in the name of the author of this book we see here that this is the expression of who he is the essence of who this great person or behavior was the essence of who he was was somebody who wanted to communicate words of torah wanted to communicate that god is the essence through his torah of the entire physical reality that we have and in that expression we get to think about the fact that there's an author of the world that there's a creator of the world and he authored a book and that book is called the torah and it starts with genesis and god as we said put his essence into the torah and through that we get to communicate we get to understand what is god's will what is it that the world is all about and how much depth there is within the entire torah so many different levels from the simple down to the deepest deepest secrets of the torah but all of this is just an expression of god himself the author the author of the torah and the author of creation the one who's created this entire beautiful death and now when we look at ourselves and i know i've said this before but when we look at ourselves and we realize that we are creations of god we have within ourselves all these aspects we have the entire torah we learned it inside of our mother's womb we're the malek with an angel who is a messenger of god and now just like the torah is the blueprint for the world and the world is just an expression of bringing from the kayak from the potential to the actual so too we ourselves we look in the torah and we find out who we're supposed to be we look and we realize that there are so many levels of who we are supposed to be on the simple level we are in our simple interactions with others we are at a deeper level we are at a deeper level and on a deeper level in our spiritual interactions with others with god with ourselves so it's a beautiful beautiful lesson and that is that here we are at the beginning of the torah recognizing that the entire torah is only about god and it's about his expression in the world and how it manifests in the physical realm and how it manifests in our personal lives so i want to bless you and i ask you to bless me that hashem should help us now this should be the beginning of a wonderful year a year full of searching for god you're full of coming close to god trying to understand his will trying to understand where his will is written in the torah how it applies in the world at large and how it applies to our individual lives as well thank you so much for listening have a wonderful shabbos 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]