Chayei Sarah - Invest Again

you're listening to the weekly Parsha Podcast with Ari goldwag recorded with hashem's never running assistance in romapi chemistry's reality 783 2022. this week's parishes Sarah and the Torah describes the death of Sarah her Muriel and Chevron the Torah talks about the story of how yes would Now find his wife Rebecca Rifka and after this so the Torah tells us before telling us about afromovino's death so it first tells us something important that happened toward the end of his life this is in chapter 25 verse 1. the Torah tells us that avram went and he married another woman named Katura who as our sages say was Hagar he remarried Hagar who he had originally been married to and there are others who explained that rashbam says the pashtus is the simple explanation of the verses is this was when this was not hagari was another woman by the name of Katura foreign goes on to explain who their children were and then in public hey it says who was the main child of avram avinu Abraham it was Isaac it wasn't Ishmael it wasn't any of these other children who were born from ketura with namp election [Music] but to the other wives and to the children of those wives more specifically Abraham gave gifts hi he sent them away from Yitzhak while he was still alive Kate Miller to get them to the east to the land of the East and it tells us that he died so it's very interesting this this concept here this uh the final thing that we find out about avram is this these extra children that he has we do know about one of them Midian the descendants of Midian ultimately would cause great uh pain to the Jewish people they would cause the Jewish people to sin a few hundred years later when they came back from Egypt after 40 years in the desert they came back to the land of Israel so these these names are significant and important but we still need to understand what is the significance of it in this context right before he does also interesting by yasif avraham it means he added on avram did additionally did something additional besides something that he had done previously and he had and he married another wife named Couture and had his children what is this language what does this teach us so let's learn together the madrish the magic teaches us a very profound lesson from avram avinu which has far-reaching implications and it's also interesting to try to understand what it means and what is the depth of the teaching it says a message like this is Ecclesiastes chapter 11 verse 6. in the morning plant your seeds and in the evening don't turn away your hand don't rest your hand in the evening so now what is this verse refer to rabilia of Yeshua foreign having a difference of opinion as to what it refers to release if you plant it in an earlier time of the year so make sure you also plan in a later time of the year there are different seasons for planting different possibilities about when to plant and when you will the crops will grow and you'll you'll bring them in you know it could go either way when are the rain is going to be when is it going to to be a more productive time excuse me both of them could be good okay so that's one example of this concept and we'll need to see in a moment we'll see soon how does it relate to our Parsha but there's a concept that you should you should not have all your eggs in one basket you should spread your you should spread your bets so that in the end in the end you don't know where where the success is going to come from Stanley Yeshua says if a poor man comes in the morning give him Sedaka give him charity the Arvis tanley if another poor man comes in the evening give him Shantae days you don't know you know when it comes to giving Charities so obviously we want to give to a charity that is the most effective person comes to your door you don't know who's really poor and who really needs the money but you know of course the Ghostbuster looks at the effort he looks at the fact that we are trying to give charity we're trying to do what's right we're sharing with others we're sharing our wealth with others but Hashem also wants us to give to someone who's worthy and we don't necessarily know who's Worthy so the message advises us give to the person in the morning give the person the evening because you never know who's the one who's really worthy we're gonna get credit for so to speak when it comes to having actually accomplished what you set out to accomplish it could be even both of them are worthy but spread yourself you know across a few different possibilities now the the message is going to go on and give other examples of this and I do want to read them but what I want to do is I want to bring it back for a moment to offer mavino avram avinu Abraham he had a number of kids right we don't always think about the fact that we know that jacovino had 12 tribes 12 sons we know all of them because they became all tribes of the people of Israel and he had hiakov we come from Jacob but Avro Lavino also had eight kids posing tells us he had eight children he had the Ishmael he had yet and then he had all these other these other children from the from Katura so we need to understand what is the message-wise the tour why is it important why is the third demon important for us to know about this the message is telling us that a person should keep planting person should keep planting when he's Young when he's old avram avinu when he was younger so to speak he lived to be 175 you know when he was younger when he was 80 86 years old he had Ishmael when he was 100 years old he had Yitzhak and towards the end of his life it seems from the pasture toward the end of his life he had another six children you never know who is going to succeed spiritually you never know where it's going to work out right sometimes the family will have a number of children some of them will succeed and some of them will fail when it comes to the rookiness heaven forbid when it comes to their spirituality you never know where to invest says the message spread your Investments spread your Investments this way you make sure that it could be they will all succeed it could be that you'll you'll have it all but it could be that the one that you thought was going to succeed doesn't the one that you thought wouldn't succeed does you never know where it's going to come from every smaller we keep also explaining this verse foreign gives us another point of a way to think about this a person learns Torah and his youth the person also learns Torah when he gets older make sure to do both says Ruby is you don't know which of the Torah learning that you're going to do is going to last for you is going to have permanence maybe both will be good same idea what does it mean it means as the hcsf explains it means you could learn something in your youth you could come to a certain understanding of a sugar you can come to a certain mascara certain you know final understanding when you get older you depend on how you learned it when you were younger but when you if you learn it again when you're older you might come to a new insight you might realize that how you learned it originally was correct but you might see things differently and so therefore it's important to approach it again have a newness around your learning maybe keep it I mean Kiva says right it's very it's very poignant Arabic says this as we'll soon see vikiva had a group of students when he was younger 24 000 students 12 000 pairs they all died in his older age he had another group of students a much smaller group of students and with them he was successful and they were able to spread all of the territory that we have comes from you keep as later students so reikiva says if you have students when you're young make sure that you have students when you're older is you don't know who's going to succeed you don't know which group of students so you have to continue to produce it's not enough to produce students in your in your younger years you have to continue in your older years and I would add that there's a there's a greater wisdom that the teacher has when he's older it could be that the the greater wisdom that he has when he has a deeper understanding of reality a a deeper experience in life a deeper experience in Tira so the effect the net effect of his personal his personal influence will be different when he's older I'll tell you from my experience I listen to my Russian or my pair as often as I can almost every day listen to shoe room he has new shiram now his other zangazon you should be healthy and well he's 87 years old but he's still giving shiram I listened to the new shoe room and there's a certain depth and experience of a man who's 87 I listened to Sheeran from 20 years ago 25 years ago when I was sitting in Yeshiva there and it's also deep and it's also powerful he was in his 60s already but there's a certain deeper depth deeper depth that's there and in the in the newer shoot room there's an excitement there's a there's a there's a deeper experience a life experience so rubikiva tells us we need to have students somewhere young we need to have students when we're old and I would and I would reverse that as well and say if we've learned from our teachers when they were younger we need to continue to learn from them as they get older it makes me think about I know I was in touch I've been doing this podcast you you know you might have heard me mention that I've been doing this for 15 years Hashem over 15 years of producing this podcast every single week and I remember that there were people who contacted would contact me towards the beginning I haven't heard from them per se and then there are people who will reach out to me make a comment give some feedback you know you you have different experiences over the years as a teacher you see who the students are are they still around and then there's even individuals who I've I've been hearing from for all I think nearly 10 years every once in a while a nice uh a few few words is all it takes to send some feedback you know so it's a beautiful thing and there's a different depth there's a different approach I remember the things that I talked about which are actually in my safer perfectly and perfect when I was younger and if I were to create a safer now based on these teachings as I did then there would be a different depth there will be a different understanding so it's important to have that recognition avram avinu when he was younger he had a certain he had a certain influence on his children there was a Ishmael there was a Yitzhak when he got older he had a different influence and you never know who's going to be influenced and how that influence is going to manifest now the message tells us about every week he had 12 000 students according to the government here at 12 000 according I'm sorry the measure according to gamara it's 12 000 pairs so it's 24 000 students tremendous amount of students from AKO all the way to antipers but they all died between between pesach and shoes terrible thing to this day this is almost 2 000 years ago right it was Rebecca was right after the base amigdush or during the khufa of the destruction of the Temple and 70 CE so 1953 years ago and to this day we have a period of mourning between pesach and schwizz we observe many many halachos that have to do with morning should I say name sorry a little bit why did they all die because they didn't have a proper respect for each other right so so we more into that to this day that saddened that sad event twelve thousand or twenty four thousand students incredible students of talmudic students the students of our Messiah they all died Shiva in the end he had seven students to be mayor Arabia news so we had seven students and those students were the ones were the ones who ended up as we'll soon see spreading towards throughout Israel umikiva turned to his new students and he said to them how did my why did my old students die it was because they didn't have proper respect for each other there was a jealousy there was a there was a a competition you could say between them be careful that you don't do as they did so when the terror comes out interestingly comes out of a uh the proper me this the proper respect for our contemporaries when the Torah that we study has a proper attitude when it comes to another between man and his fellow so the result is a different kind of Tyra a tire that fills all of Earth's Israel it wasn't limited to akko and antipers it was throughout the entire land of Israel where we keep his Torah spread through these students because of their respect for each other we could say that that's perhaps the shot bottom line is you can't compare the effect well the influence therapy keep ahead when he was younger to when he he became older and wiser more experienced in life he knew how to give his students not just the information but also the the way that it can be miscayimed the way that it can endure maybe this is with the story tells us the the bottom line as it applies to our partial as we bring it back to our Parsha person has children when he's Young when he gets older marry another wife have more children we learn this from he had a wife when he was young he had a wife when he was older and he had many children added on he went again and he married again because you never know you never know who's going to succeed you never know which seeds that you plant will bear fruit and therefore invest invest further if you've invested now keep investing you never know where it's going to it's where it's going to lead what's going to succeed I'm not going to read this inside because our time is running out but in the next piece maybe I'll read a few lines but in the next piece the message points out something incredible and that is that there's a concept of he added on he he went again and married another woman and Couture and had six more children with her and the message points out that often the thing that doesn't seem to be the main thing the thing that seems to be an additional thing wasn't necessary it wasn't necessary for him to have more kids he's here yeah yeah you smell Hashem had blessed him and promised him that they would go on to become incredible nations of their own the Jewish people yeshmad had 12 princes the Jewish people would have 12 tribes you know he did his thing he had the children already but no says the magic an amazing thing if you look at the the yicef the additional thing often there's a few examples of it but the additional time or the additional investment often the yield of the additional almost secondary a second you know an afterthought but there's a reboy in the yield of the afterthought there's a there's a multiplication that's the word I'm looking for there's a multiplicity in that which is sometimes an afterthought which is a very interesting idea brings a few proofs you see it here look when when he was young he had only two children one with each wife with hugger and with with Sarah in his old age he had six children from one wife it was seems to be by Joseph there's an additional thing that he did he did something additional wasn't necessary it was extra but there was a multiplicity there there was an extra an extra blessing there we see it also when it comes to Joseph and Yaman Yosef when Jose was born Rahul said I would like another child besides for Yosef and what happens Joseph has two two children two sons of framing Menasha binyaman has ten Sons who's the so to speak after Authority the extra that asked for there is a multiplicity there there was ten children a few other examples not going to go through all the examples but so there's like an unexpected there's an unexpected blessing that is that takes place when there's this something that seems like an Azure thought or like an extra thing there's a multiplicity there so it's it's an incredible lesson it's really an incredible lesson the first lesson is you know kind of a a a Rich's Almanac type of lesson that don't put your eggs all in one basket and spread yourself so that there's more opportunities and also don't give up you may have accomplished already but don't give up there's there's always more to accomplish but there's something deeper here with this extra statement that when there's something that's extra when there's something that seems to be additional there's a special blessing in that thing there's a potential for for greater multiplicity and perhaps we could say an explanation of it what is the idea behind it when a person focuses a person tries very hard I want so much to succeed in a certain area I want so much that a particular thing should have success so I put in all of my efforts I try very very hard and I can see his success I can see indeed I put in a lot of evolution Gave Me Sia to the smile God gave me Divine Providence you know he put the idea in my head he directed me to do this thing but there's also a certain grabbiness there's a certain feeling like I must have that thing and the results are going to be in a certainly Limited to my to whatever I've done Hashem says you know you're doing a certain amount of effort you believe also that the effort that that's what's producing the results so the results can be much more limited because I believe that I'm doing it but when it's a secondary thing when it's something that you know I'm just adding on it's like let's see what happens with this let's see what happens I don't know it's going to be I don't know what's going to what the results are going to be I might not invest as much effort as much heart but there's a certain blessing a certain multiplicity a certain success that can come because I'm not trying so hard because I'm just letting it happen a college board who sometimes brings extra blessings in those places where instead of being very grabby we just let it happen we just let it be we just you know say because whatever you have in mind whatever you have in store that's what it's going to be and both approaches are important right sometimes we need to prove to spoke who enter ourselves that this is important to us in order to see success and sometimes we need to let go of the results and we need to also do things in a way which is relaxed and opening opening possibilities for college to bring blessings in a way that's more clearly manifest because we're not the ones who are putting in that same effort we're not the ones who are holding on to results as much so it's a beautiful thing it's an incredible lesson we learned from aframovino we learn from him and you know let's let's finish it off with a blessing I I want to bless you I ask you to bless me ashram should help us that we should indeed be able to see see the places where we've planted see the places where we've invested our efforts see the successes that we've done and continue investing and continue being able to plant more seeds more potential more opportunities for growth and Hashem should help us to recognize that sometimes it's all of the efforts that we put in that cause and bring about the success and sometimes it's just the added the extra thing that we did that we didn't know we didn't expect that it would have the success that it has so it should help us to be able to recognize that and to be able to live in such a way 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.regoldwag.com or search on iTunes Ari goldwag [Music]