Ari Goldwag - Chayei Sarah - Surrender and Sacrifice

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with our Eagle drag recorded by Shems never-ending assistance in room operation shows rail 5778 2017 this week's parsha is partial sighisoara and at the very beginning of our parsha we have the death of Sarah I may know of our matriarch Sarah and I'm from Aveeno Abraham his involvement in purchasing the Marisa pilla the Cave of the patriarchs and which he himself would be buried later in our parsha and autumn harish on the first man in his wife kaaba they were buried there his hook and Rifco would be buried there Yaakov and Leia would be buried there Torah also continues and tells us the story the description of the events of Yitzhak's wife being found rifka you may know and it also tells us how rifka I may know in a certain sense she took over she she was brought into the Isle of Sarah Sarah had passed away she was brought into her tent rifki Rebecca was brought into the tent and she in a certain sense took the mantle of the matriarch Sarah and she was the continuation of M shape just like it stuck with the death of Abraham would be the continuation of the Jewish people so to rifka was a continuation on the female side and what's very interesting and I want to speak around try to understand a bit is the fact that the Torah tells us that immediately before immediately before the death of Sarah so there are two things that the tour describes one is the arcade associates hook The Binding of Isaac shenmue had commanded Abraham to bring Yitzhak to bring his son Isaac as a sacrifice on Mount Moriah which indeed he was ready to do God told him to stop at the last moment so that's that's one concept which is immediately before the death of Sarah and our sages tell us that indeed there's a great connection because the eight Sahara as it were the evil inclination or is Satan whatever you want to call it so showed Sarah what was going on there and Sarah saw that and she died so we need to understand what is that connection what is the idea that Sarah dies perhaps as a result of it's clearly connected right it's clearly not a coincidence that these two events are happening at the same time so what's the idea behind that but also in between before we we read about you know before we read about sorry manners death but after that kata so we hear about the birth of rifka so Rivka's birth is smack in the middle there as some a fortune says the Madras him speak about bizarre Hashemi Subash shemesh when one sunsets the next sunrises riff camino as we said was going to be the one who is going to continue the legacy of sorrow so once our passes away rifki is born but what is the what is the idea here what's the depth of what's going on here and that's you know what's the connections what are these things what are all the stories you're going on together there's no coincidence coincidence is in the torah the fact that two things occur simultaneously or the fact of the tour even puts them juxtaposes them together it's not a coincidence we always need to look at and try to understand what is the connection there's something really interesting I saw in a Madras and ROM bond the ROM bond says it in a slightly different way than the Madras but I like to share with you and I and I think it's really crucial to understanding the whole story here what's going on here with the death of Sarah her loss arm Aveeno purchasing the MRSA Michaela the rifka you may know taking over as it were replacing her and you can obviously you can't replace a person but was certainly coming in to that role as the matriarch of the Jewish people what is going on here what see what's the concept here so the the ROM bond says something very interesting let's see if I can read it inside here this is really at the end of the parsha at the end of last week's parsha when it came to the akkada so what was the result of the akkada what was the result so the verse says like this is in chapter 22 verse 15 I cry my flesh am an author machine isn't a sham I'm the mala calls out a second time from the heavens and he says like this every niche party this is after a Burma had been ready do it mother tells him to stop and the mouth system volume are Benish mati Numa Shem I swear to you in the name of God keyonna sure ceaseless lover has a lettuce after spoon hussy feeder huh since you have done this and you haven't held back your child your son keiVarae have a replica next verse I will bless you by Harbaugh our bests are a colorful fish of mine I will make your seed to be many like this like the stars the heavens ah ha ha ha response a young Yashiro cuchara above your seed your children will inherit the gates of their enemies ok the problem here when you read these verses immediately there strikes strikes us is a sham already promised the beginning of laughs aha that Avram is going to be great he's going to be blessed as a sir come here continue to say so so what is the passive mean why is the Pacific saying why is a sham saying because you did this because you were ready to give up your son for me so therefore I'm going to bless you you're going to have many children we already know he was already promised that it was it was a dependent on the fact that he's going to do the akkada it didn't sound like that previously so what is the torah' mean what is such I'm saying to everybody no so the Ramban explains this point very succinctly Jana sure see so to the bar has a egami tequila 5000 asked the question originally I shall already promised him Chiara bez archivematica Farzana she was going to make his C 3 many like the stars of the sky and like the dust of the earth well ah da hai Savoy but he's adding something else here there's something new that's being said here as a result of the fact that he was was prepared to make this great sacrifice jana sure seizes a micelle Goodell has Esch a nation babish me a girdle Hashem swore by his great name a year as our ishara evolved that his children are going to inherit the gates of their enemies what is idea in a hoof doc the promises is the Ramban shall know you grew a mushroom cake Shaikh al-azhar a there will never be a sin that will cause the complete destruction of Aruna V news offspring the Jewish people here we're talking about his spiritual offspring his main offspring because he also had Ishmael also had there was a civic um we're talking about the main offspring his spiritual offspring the Jewish people they would never even have two Jewish people will sin even if they will do things that caused them to deserve to be destroyed and perhaps even will have inquisitions and we'll have Holocaust 7 forbid but we will never be completely destroyed well sure you put me out I go below yoke y'all coming will seem like you'll fall into the hands of our enemies and we won't be able to get up in days off top of Salima big let's eat alone this is a promise that the Jewish people no matter what will make it to the end of the story which is the final Google of the final redemption the Jewish people will be returned to the Land of Israel there will always be a remnant and just kind of by the way something I heard from Russia Sheva recently I listened to his shoe room constantly he said that the Jewish people are unique yeah I think it's quoting somebody but the Jewish people are unique that we consider it that we have survived even though a small percentage of us survives in other words in the in the face of great destruction even if a little bit of us is left we're still here that's that's unique that that we have that characteristic that we appreciate the fact that even a small amount of us are still around right there's 1.6 billion Muslims in the world 1.4 billion Christians in the world only about 15 or 16 million Jews and of those how many are actually faithful to the to the legacy of our forefathers keeping the Torah in its entirety as its laid out in torsion if Kitab to touch off pass the written and the oral torah very few so but that's still amazing an amazing thing and that's promised to Avram Aveeno because of the Ikeda now what was special about that kada that brought about this promise so I found a Magister which which really says a similar idea to to what this ROM bond is saying but it says it from the perspective of Adam Levine here the ROM bond was talking about the promise that a sham made the mana expressed to Abraham that you can be guaranteed that because you did this your children will never be the show because of sin now the measure sets it up as a request of our Lavina the Abraham asks Hashem okay he says like this see thought I had it here here are the fun of here it is Hashem Aravena said in front of God you said like this read by 911 be Shasha Martha Lee when you said to me master of the world when you said to me has been kazuhiko take your your only Son meaning you talk of me no I really wanna ha I had a response for you I didn't you know I could have said something that's not a mark to keep you sweet Carla called Zahra yesterday you said to me previously you said to me that Yitzhak is going to be your main seed your main children yeah Chicago has been fun are you telling me to come and sacrifice him class we shall not cease he came I didn't say anything I didn't I didn't defy or will I didn't challenge your wisdom ELCA Vashti Raqqa - Ezra tanco I overcame my own mercy which by the way is a Verma V news media his inborn character trait was kindness Aravena / k means in more character trait of kindness in order to do a shams will yo arsenalfan a fashion like a know it should be your will Hashem the Shashi one of shall he gets knocked barley they are very soon my son rhyme then when the children of Isaac heaven forbid at some point in the future they will come they will do sins they will deserve to be destroyed they will deserve neither can I give me the measure for measure technically my stockade of smelly alam raha MIM that you wash em just like I overcame my it's a heart so even though I overcame just as I overcame my ate Sahara and I did not I did not even question when you were saying I became my my mercy my meda so in the future your media is dim judgment neither can I give me the measure for measure so now there's a deeper measure for measure which is that since I overcame my inborn way of being you need to overcome what's the way that you would ordinarily act which is mean to connect Amida and so this is a request of our Lavina - M should allow the Jewish people to never be destroyed to get to a gula to get to redemption because of the fact that he had indeed behaving this way he'd overcome his own way of being so we asked such them to do the same now it's very interesting because if you look at if you look at what affirm Aveeno is asking there's a it's really a paradox or it's really a counterintuitive because he's saying I wasn't merav came I didn't have mercy on my son but I did your will so he's asking a Shem - indeed have rockem him so a ver Aveeno is asking Hashem to do the opposite he's asking him to have mercy on my vena didn't have mercy was asked a sham have mercy however my V no it's an amazing thing needs understand what is the idea here what is the concept what is the depth what's going on here it's also very interesting because it on vino is doing something which looks like he's about to destroy the Jewish people he's about to destroy at its inception the Jewish people but the result is that he has the ability now to ask Hashem the Jewish people never be destroyed never and that they would be able to reach ultimately the gula as the Ramban says now he got that promise it's an amazing thing what is the idea what is the concept so so in thinking about this and thinking about this what we see we see many different things you see many different things you know each whenever I whenever I sit down to try to put together this podcast so inevitably I come to a point these come out on Friday it's the end of the week comes you know down to the wire has to be you have to say something it has to be I you know I like to say something new I don't like to say the same thing I've said in previous years I don't like to say you know I'd like to bring a new twist or a new idea a new concept and sometimes I need to ask myself and I do and I did today what did I sham teach me this week what what lesson that I learned personally and can I find that same lesson in the parsha can I find it in something that's being brought across in this week's portion I want to say that for me this week the lesson that I learned or that I saw is that I'm working on a CD and I'm working on some really amazing music which I hope to put out very soon God willing with a gems help and making music is something which requires a tremendous amount of sacrifice it's really true you know you never know which song is going to be successful you never know what message people want to hear you never know exactly which kind of music it should sound like how it should be produced you never know if you're gonna you're gonna spend so much money costs tens of thousands of dollars to produce an album and to create these videos right so you never know at the onset it's kind of like a leap of faith to invest a tremendous amount of money into something like this to in many different ways many different aspects of it are are leap of faith and I brush em you know I've taken that leap of faith and I'm starting to see you know some really amazing results which God willing I'll be sharing with the world soon but um there's a leap of faith that's required and and at certain times you get to the very end and and in this case I got to the very end financially it came to a certain precipice and then beat down and this is occurring yesterday this morning today pizza um the exact exact amount almost down to the dollar five dollars okay we're talking about thousands of dollars here the amount precisely that I needed came and it arrived and I wasn't expecting it and the idea here is the the lesson that I learned and I think that we see in this parsha is that to bring something amazing into the world to to accomplish something and I and I view my music is something spiritual to accomplish something and and even you know every week with the parsha podcast this is an amazing I've been doing this over ten years every single week and it's a commitment that I have and each week it comes to the comes down to the wire and xem sends me something which I believe is meaningful to say and which I hope inspires people and more flesh um you know hundreds of people are listening to this DVAR Torah or watching this DVAR Torah so but it's like this the willingness and coming down to the wire or coming down to that final point Shah wants us to be to exhibit or to inculcate into ourselves a certain level of humility of surrender really surrender I was thinking about it in terms of of Fila hold on a second hold feel it for a second but the surrender that we get to the recognizing that it's not ours that we can't do it then it's only a Shems that's what allows it's like we create a space a hollow within ourselves and then a shim fills that hollow yeah yes of Covino ivanov II knew they were ready to give that give out give it all up and that created the potential a possibility for a Shem to turn everything around so our Shem comes in Hashem wanted to give Avram a chance to truly humble himself and the death of Sarah is you know an amazing representation of that hollowing of that humility and the purchasing the the challenge of purchasing are some acapella which our own experience going through that difficulty going through that challenge on an interpersonal level with Efron why do you have to pay for why do you have to spend so much money because I'll say that was it was an ordinate amount of money probably on our scale today we mean millions millions of dollars for the Marisa Michaela why was that necessary for him to to spend that much money why was it necessary for Eliezer to go to all of these lengths to find RIF could to go far out back to offer his family to bring her back to have these um you know all these things what's the idea the idea is that there's a spiritual vacuum or a spiritual space I would say better that's created when when we reach that end point when we reach that spot which requires true sacrifice a deep sacrifice it feels like it's the end but the end is really the beginning the depth of Sarah is really the beginning of Rifco stepping in the end of one one you know she fulfilled what she was supposed to fulfill in this life and that's represented by the Ikeda and here's Huck who is for progenies who she is he fulfills and moves on in the stage and that's that's the end for her for Sarah she has done her job in this world and now there's a continuation of the next stage there's space for the new the new level now back to Tefila Fela you know we think of the Fela we think of darvany we think of praying as we're asking God to do our will sham any partners I need livelihood I need health I need forgiveness all the different things we need mushy off the Messiah to come well things that we asked for an art feel in our prayer but actually what prayer is it's an opportunity for us to to recognize how beholden we are to wash em we're not forcing a Shems hand by praying we don't force a Shem through our prayer that he must do what we say it's the other way around through our prayer we recognize that we can't do it we can't do anything without a shams help that's the point the point is to reach a place of surrender point is to reach a place you know the best would be if we could reach your place of surrender without having to have a challenge or without having to have a difficulty without having to show so much sacrifice and that is possible that's part of what we accomplished through the Torah this part will be accomplished through the mitzvahs we we engender a certain level of surrender but sometimes a deeper or many times the deeper level of surrender is engendered when we go through a challenge or a difficulty or we show true sacrifice or willingness to sacrifice like Avril Lavigne who did with us or like you know like really Eliezer did or Avril Lavigne who did in his interaction purchasing marce Micaela the spiritual Hashem is light Shems manifestation comes in to us into the world when we exhibit our willingness to sacrifice to give up to that that sensation of feeling of giving up of surrendering is where Hashem comes and manifests in the world and so we experience people who are humble as being godly as being spiritual because that's that's the definition almost or that's the depth of the definition of humility so I want to bless you and I ask you to bless me back ashram should help us to indeed develop humility to be able to reach that humility through the many different paths that he's given us whether it's the path of mitzvahs or whether it's the path of self-sacrifice willingness to give up fresh air and willingness to give up for what we know is correct what we know is right and Hashem will help us that we will see om should help us that we should see his spiritual light coming into our lives as a result the sacrifices that we're willing and we do make and as a result of the Torah and the fulfillment of the commandments that we do thank you so much for listening I 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.rkphotomagictrix.com you