Chayei Sarah - Seeds of Blessing

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with ari goldwag recorded with hashem's neverending assistance in ramaphishura 5781 2020. this week's parasha isara this week's partial podcast is dedicated by the sykes family on her yard site in our parties with the death of sarah we have the marriage of yitzhakovinu to rifka the discovery of rivka by eliezer and subsequent marriage and then the terror tells us in perak cafe alef that after avraham avinu saw yitzhak was safely married so to speak so he also remarried to a woman named katura because i'll say was hagar she rema he remarried um hagar [Music] but the major says and i think this is the idea i'd like to talk about that by bikers brings the prosecution kahellas which is in the morning plant your plant your seeds and in the evening don't stop planting every lesser be sure so we have two different tanaya who speak about this pasta like this verse says that if you planted earlier in the year make sure you also plant at a later time of the years you don't know which of the two times the planting is going to be more successful so you want to make sure that you don't have all your eggs in one basket if this one succeeds great if the other one succeeds great and if they would succeed even better okay so he takes the pasuk to mean the push up shot that has to do with literal planting but it's not a steroid it's not a contradiction to that which yeshua says he says something interesting he says if a poor person comes to you in the morning and asks for tadaka asks for charity you should give him life another poor person comes in the evening you don't know who really needs the money meaning the obligation of charity is not just to give to whoever we give to but is to make sure to give to somebody who's suitable to give to the right charity to give to torah institutions to give to people who are poor and they need the money but if someone is rich and he dresses up and comes to your door and you don't check him out and you give him money even though he doesn't need it so the measure seems to be saying that one has not fulfilled his obligation of charity and therefore when it comes to the shamayim it's not going to be such great credit for him so make sure to give says rebbe yoshua make sure to give to the poor person in the morning the poor person in the evening because this way you'll make sure that you have at least gotten somebody who really needs the money and if they both really need it how wonderful we also have explanations from rabbi small and rabia kiva reviews if you study the torah in your youth the mighty of zika new skull continue to study the torah in your old age a person studies in a different way when he's young you might find a new path a new method or a new limited a new uh type of learning which you'd like to study in his older age so make sure you do both says because this way you'll make sure either this one will work out or this one will work out you never know requirement says similar idea different context if you had students when you were young if you taught torah while you were young also make sure to make students for yourself when you're old you never know what's going to succeed for you what's going to last they might both be good they might both work out and the message brings us an example of this you'd base had 12 000 students from ako all the way to antipres some kind of location they all died in one period of time they all died between they didn't have the proper respect for each other they had an oppressive eye for each other but safe having shiva says the magician in the end he had seven students seven main students that indeed later in his life remained reviewed different explanations who they are one opinion is these particular seven rabbis that we we mentioned omar alaihim sir bikiifa said to his later students bonai arishana that means should i say name my students improving the previous group of students to 12 000 students they died because they didn't have the proper respect for each other they didn't have the the generosity of spirit with each other make sure that you don't do the same i'm going to call it these seven of his students got up and they filled the entire line of israel with torah so it's an amazing thing so you would think 12 000 students massive amount of students that's going to have a much greater impact on kaiser on the jewish people but no we see that those twelve thousand students died because alcohol who judged them that indeed they didn't have the proper attitude their character traits were improper jewish leaders can't have negative character traits they'll imbibe into the jewish people those very character traits who took them away instead afterwards we keep had seven new students who gave them the proper perspective when it came to another very between man and his fellow that was the result these seven students filled the entire arts israel they obviously created more students of their own and their these names are famous names in the mishnah these were the seven of the great scholars of the tanayaki period so we see that rebbi akiva is a prime example of this concept that sometimes a person can have students when he's young sometimes a person has students when he's old and who knows who knows who's going to succeed another example of this concept which is that when a person is young you may have a wife and have have children and he should in his older age also take another wife and have more children because you don't know you don't know which children it doesn't say this here but in a similar vein you don't know who's going to succeed and maybe when you're younger you have the proper outlook of the proper uh approach to raising children maybe then when a person is older has more experience could be that he could become permissive in his old age so therefore he says have kids have two sets of kids who do we see this from from abraham he had children in his youth when he was younger and he had another wife when he got older and this is the idea of the puzzle this is what it's coming to teach us finally brings it back to the point which is when he was younger he had ishmael but then later on according to push up shot the katura was not hagar push up shot she was an another woman and he had more kids from her from this other woman you never know who's going to succeed and therefore spread it out spread it out very interesting and beautiful madrish there's another mattress here which brings down i like to actually read this one inside as well it's just very beautiful very powerful and soon i'm going to give you some thoughts how comply to us it brings down it brings down back up omar this is in uh section 61 of the madrish number four says we find if you look at the pasek in this verse that talks about the fact that avraham avinu married keturah supposedly says as we said avraham went again means to add on he added on and he went and he married another wife whose name was katura so we saw that we saw the first idea the first foundational concept is that a person should make efforts when he's young make up for 20s older don't give up give to dhaka to different people plant in different times now what's interesting is that the language is why yosef abram he added on and the message tells us whenever we have a tysephism adding on so in a certain sense the first thing as we've discussed previously the first thing the first concept the first time we see a concept of the torah the bihur the firstborn is the one who is the most cautious most important so to speak those who come later don't have that same spiritual energy they don't have the same excitement generally speaking so but with akadeshwar who there's an advantage of not being the first one there's an advantage to being a ticefest to being something that comes later indeed there's an aspect of reboot there's an aspect of multiplication in those that come later in the tocephis the adding on cayenne acres of interesting kind was the firstborn kane his brother havel he was the second one he was not the main the main one so to speak nevertheless there was a ticefest that he was born with two twins havel had two twins born with him two twin girls were born with him nominality yosef was the the first child he was the beholder of rochalime nevertheless what do we find by benjamin who's second the apostle refers him as yoseville right rakhini menu said please add on hashem please god she prayed she should have another child add on another child we see that he had 10 tribes 10 tribes 10 sons came from binyamin so to speak 10 tribes yosef attack only two sons so you see that the addition there's a safa within the addition there's something more even though it doesn't seem to be the main thing erica we see that air was the main one with sheila in him that yehuda's sons so who was the firstborn it was heir but we see that shayla was the third son he was the one who threw him his children his grandchildren i believe yeah from divre young we see in the verses that he was the one his grandchildren were the one great great grandchildren were the ones who established bhattayana established courts so they had a great power interestingly it brings that the that eof job of the book of yeov so he lived 210 years the first 70 years of his life were the years when everything was smooth everything was good after all the difficulties and the travails that he went through he lived another and forty years so there was a ticefest in in that which happened afterwards that which was added on because of the challenges that he went through very interesting brings another example of this and brings the ishmael and katura here we have the ishmael was the firstborn of avraham avinu and the binektura were born later in his life however there's an aspect of that there was an adding on there was many many children from the benektura from the sons of keturah so it's very interesting what is the concept here what is the idea of the teisephis and i want to say that this is something that i've experienced myself often often you see that uh the second thing not the first initial thought that's not what we thought the thing that we thought was going to be this successful thing that's not what turns out to be the successful thing for example yesterday which i composed for benny friedman it was almost an afterthought the song came at the end of their production of that album uh ifranohi was a similar thing and on my own album america was the last song that that uh came into the album raku also came in aft after that but there's an idea that the ticephus is very interesting to tycefest the last the last possible thing that you would think will be the success is where the success specifically happens recently another example for me initially i called the album that i just released there are 15 songs in the album and there are a number of tracks which i did with other people and interestingly many of those tracks are doing just as well if not better than some of the tracks which are the tracks that i did songs that were composed by others it's very interesting it's very beautiful it's very beautiful when there's a you know a person puts their main focus into something because their main heart into something what's their main their soul into something they think that that's where the success is going to come and the measure tells us that's not the case that's not the case ako gives a special blessing in a certain sense to the underdog the second thing to the thing that was done almost as an afterthought not necessarily the main thing you look throughout tanakh you look throughout the the stories of the torah he's of his firstborn yaakov is second throughout throughout the entire entire torah the stories are mushroom etc but you see there's a special blessing that hashem gives to that which was added on it's very interesting so so this second part of the major could be an explanation we could say of the first part of the mattress the first part of the mattress speaks about the fact that the the in this in a similar way ruby akiva his original set of students 12 000 students unbelievable spiritual power they didn't quite make it the seven the seven students that he had later only seven students those were the ones through whom the terror came those were the ones person never knows which is going to be the success if you plants earlier plants later it doesn't know you don't know which seductive that you give is going to be successful it's a very powerful idea and i think it has very much to do with what we've spoken about in the past few weeks which has to do with a certain level of humility a certain level of recognition that it's not me that it's not me there's a hadas we spoke about last week there's a distraction a moment of distraction what happens in that moment of distraction we can't depend on ourselves on our own uh on our own machinations we can't just fit this depend on the trumps and the netanyahus and the governments they're gonna save us all of these things i've spoken about a lot over the last kufa but i think it's so important and it's very powerful who wants us to see he wants us to see a thread hashem likes to remain unseen he likes remain unseen and he wants us to figure out on our own that he's there and that he's guiding things we never know where the success is going to come come from we might think we might have a hergish we might have a feeling we might have an intuition and our intuition may even be right but the message is telling us that you never know where to put your focus and your efforts you never know where and you should know that the thing that seems to be the strongest the thing that seems to be the most powerful the first song on my album yes i call that song i thought was going to be the head of the album and it is a hit hashem people like the song but it's not the most powerful one in the meantime zeke lee second song on the album hashem the duet with david perlman which i'm now doing a video with the songs that you don't expect to be the hit those turn out to be the hit and in our lives it's true not just with songs of course it can be true in the business world a person has an idea of a few different ideas my father has a storm kosher socks in south fallsburg and they've taken a few different items for the summer new items and you never know which one is going to be the hit of the summer and that's the idea and that's the powerful foundation and stuff go this way hashem wants it to be that he wants us to know that he's the one doing things he's behind everything we think we know who's the winner we think we know who's going to win we think we know who is going to be the one who's going to get us to where we want to get to who's going to save us who's going to help us is going to bring us success but it teaches us the medrish that you never know where to plant you never know who's the one who's going to help you you never know who's the one who's going to succeed and it's stuff got the underdog it's dakota the second one it's after the binyamins and those who are number two joseph is the youngest of the brothers and yet he becomes the leader of the brothers the youngest of the brothers and yet whose comes from a mordecai and esther the salvation of claudius through the one who was leaked least likely to succeed it's a very powerful lesson for us because we never know i get people call me all the time people will have songs people email me people wanna wanna hear my advice about music what to do with their music how to get their music out and you never know you never know which song five years ago i recorded with a young man who goes by the name nisanolife he came to me with a song beautiful song halala and we recorded it just for really for himself he wasn't planning really to put it out and then five years later i said to him look it's a beautiful song let's do this song together and indeed it worked out very well we have a video coming out soon against hashem with that song but it's like you never know you never know you would never expect you could never expect you could never know where that inspiration is going to come from where that success is going to come from you never know so you gotta spread it out that's what you're just telling us you got to spread it out it might be let's say in learning a person they think that the the thing that they love the most is you know this is what's in to learn a certain way this type of learning to learn gemara to learn and for me personally i found great success in learning english every day and i love the madrish it's not the typical thing that any yeshiva's people are learning but you got to find what's right for you you never know what it's going to be plant your seeds in different places and as you live your life and this is something that i receive from my rash yeshiva people will ask him questions buckle will ask him questions about certain topics and and what's the answer and he says you know i can't answer that question it's something that you need to figure out on your own it's something you need to get an intuitive feel for you plant and you see which things plant well which things grow well which times are better which limu which learning that i do is more successful for me which song that i compose which style which which message is the message that people attach themselves to and are inspired by and so we go on through life planting our seeds planting early planting late having students when we're young having students when we're old and we learned this lesson of rabbi akiva and his students the 12 000 students didn't make it those seven students did i want to bless you i ask you to bless me back hashem should help us to be able to plant these plant lings to be able to plant these seeds to be able to spread ourselves out in a good healthy way so that we can come close to him that we can learn his torah and we can have success in all that we do 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