Devarim - Og's Piece of Cake

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with Ari goldwag recorded with the show's never-ending assistance in Romania Israel 5783 2023 this week's precious purchase the volume completed the same for about midbar which speaks about the Jewish people's sojourn in the wilderness and then the battles that they fought as they were about to enter the land of Israel and the beginning of Savior divorum which is really moshebenu's speech his closing speech of his life all the things that he wanted to say to the Jewish people as they're about to enter into Israel and as he's about to to pass the mantle of leadership to Yoshua and in this speech he recounts to the Jewish people some of the events that occurred throughout his time leading them and in chapter 2 verse 31 he speaks about their successes he speaks about their battles that they were able to defeat sikhon and [Music] that I have begun to give you foreign in order to inherit his land and the person can go on to describe what it looked like sikhon tried to come out to greet Us in battle they were completely decimated the Jewish people destroyed them down to the very last person took all of their land took all of that that portion they didn't touch however the land of Amon which which bordered that area and then plastic says the beginning of the third chapter we turned we went up through the Bashan area he came out to greet us he and all of his Nation they came out to war [Music] s Hashem said to me don't be afraid of him even before they battled and we'll see what this what this really means we're gonna see in the measures together but it says in the pasok I have given you I have given him I've given OG to you into your hand already you took you took their entire land okay so I'm not sure Robin was going through all of this and he's describing the Jewish people's conquest of these areas even before they entered the land of Israel now the magic tells us something very important message tells us that if if we were to look at the state the emotional state of all of the people who lived in this area and the land the area of the land of Israel and the other side of the Jordan River what's today Jordan if we looked at them and we have examined their emotions we would see that they were they were afraid let's read the measures together there's a lot of measures here but all of it is important and that's I'm going to read it all interesting when Hashem took the Jewish people out of Egypt and he did all of these miracles for them the fear the fear of the Jewish people fell upon all of the nations of the world right there was a tremendous fear we say that in Azure in this song the tremendous fear became a Shabbos now 40 years later there was a there was a period of time 40 years from when the Jewish people had all these Miracles occur for them until they actually battled as we spoke about so they came to do battle how you have um they said buy your life they swore they wanted to understand they wanted to get some information about these Jewish people who are coming to battle them are they stroll are they not strong and there's a there's a word here which I'm going to read according to one of them unfortunate there's two different ways to read it I went to read in the way that I believe is the correct understanding comma amazing how tall are they how homilies are are certain measurement like a foot or a meter how tall are they I mean I'm insane and they said they are three amazi now we find that in regards to what is the average height of human beings so an atom b90 is is three amazi that's this that's this language here three amas there are certain they're they're average height the Jewish people have an average height um so they said they're just average high but we are much taller than them we are much mightier than them we are stronger than them our designers they said to themselves [Music] let's arm ourselves let's bring our weapons let's suit up in full suits of armor we're gonna be stronger than them these Jews are just averaged they're not like above average when it comes to military prowess foreign they had a lot of they had a lot you know why didn't they stay in their City why aren't they stay in a place where they were protected they felt very confident they came out to greet the Jewish people they came out of their comfort zone they came out of their a place where they had a defensive war and they made an offensive where they felt very confident and what was the result the result was that sikhon was decimated see if another the Amari people well must we throw Michelle a Dre then they came as we saw to the place where they would battle Oaks so let's just said we're gonna Camp here and then in the morning we're going to enter we're gonna enter for battle well when they came in it was early in the morning the sun was not yet up at all and you couldn't see tell them who looks up at the wall and he sees this form this massive form he didn't realize what it was but it was OG who was an incredibly tall human being he was a he was a giant sitting on the wall and his it was a wall of a city okay you can imagine the the walls of Jerusalem imagine a human being sitting on the top of the wall but his feet reached all the way down to the ground he didn't know what he's looking at or my channel he says Moshe says I don't know what I'm looking at he said it seems like they built another wall on top of the wall in the middle of the night or like so Hashem says to him he has a prophetic vision and he sees Hashem says to him what you see is actually OG you're seeing a human being he's incredibly massive not a regular human being right says legs alone were 18 almost tall okay now let's think about that a regular human being benoni average height three of us right what's that I will say it's about two of us two feet per almost about six feet tall oh is 18 almonds that means that he's six times the height of a regular human being that's just his legs and so he was a massive Supernatural human right unusually tall human being I heard this he was afraid how will we conquer this guy how will we win well College won't go out to cra Hashem says don't be afraid I'm going to I'm going to knock him down before you you know as we read Hashem said to Moshe I mean this is the possible where it says Hashem it says Hashem said to me because it's much talking don't be afraid of him a Nissan I gave him already into your hands he's already he's finished already he's already he's done the magic says something amazing oh you got your Thailand Israel oh he came out fighting right what did he do he was massive massive person he uprooted a mountain with his bare hands he operated a mountain and he threw it towards the direction of the Jewish people what did Manchester United when she took a rock and he said on the Rock the explicit name of Hashem which has incredible spiritual powers it's not clear to me if this is the name you give up okay it was the 72 letter name if it's the 200 and uh the 72 letter it's really times three so it's 216. he used the powerful name of Hashem and he put it upon a rock and it held back the mountain from coming upon the Jewish people now listen this is incredible the ending of this message was very interesting and we have another measures to read which is also long so bear with me here but it's it's really incredibly beautiful if we understand what's going on here we're going to have an incredible insight foreign the people of Israel said about the hands of OG they said curse it are the hands that are throwing throwing the mountain the Miriam imrim they're Maori people that's the people who the Jews were coming to conquer what was their response they were so impressed so so amazed and when Moshe rabenu did Moshe rabena with a rock think of Goliath similar kind of situation David is this little guy Goliath is this giant Dove comes with a rock and and the name of Hashem he comes with a spirit of Hashem upon him uses hashem's name on a Little Rock and prevents the great mountain of Destruction that OG wants to cause from falling upon the Jewish people unbelievable right but even with more what's more unbelievable is that the Amari people the people who are being conquered they themselves said blessed are the hands of Masha so it comes out what does it mean I say I Hashem says I gave him into your hand these hands what are moisture albino's hands we'll see what it means but I've given him into your hands it's my shirt I've been using the power of Hashem to stop the Brute Force of this Mighty giant OG who wants to destroy the Jewish people now the next that that whole measures is talking about at the point in time where this the Tyra the tire is speaking but now the next measure she's going to speak about Ogen tell us that Oak has a history OG is not just a one-time person who the Jewish people encountered as they came into land of Israel actually oh got a long history with the Jewish people going back to the times of avraham yes some of this you might have heard before but some of this you probably have not heard before about his interactions with avraham yes in certain points in history and we need to understand we need to understand okay let's let's ask a few questions before we continue here who is this guy OG you know the message starts off speaking about the fear that the nations of the world have interestingly when they hear about the Miracles that Hashem did for the Jewish people but then when it comes closer when the Jewish people approach they're ready for battle the the way that they're looking at the Jewish people is very shallow or how tall are they how strong are they like it's almost like they forgot the power that got the Jewish people out of Egypt was the power which they were they were originally impressed with right the power of hashem's Miracles and then when when it when push comes to shove when it comes to the moment of battle the the they recognize the the brute force of OG is no match for the the name of Hashem for the name of Hashem the spiritual Force the emotional represents that's that's clearly what the measure is saying so but we need to understand this on a deeper level and let's see in the next measure which is all about OG you'll learn some things about OG that you never knew I didn't know Maisha well the question I didn't ask the questions the question on the magic is what happened what changed why didn't they have the fear why did they have the fear at the beginning what in the middle why didn't they have the fear in the end they had the fear is OG afraid of the Jewish people are the Nations afraid of the Jewish people what makes the Nations afraid of us and this is important to know it's important to know because here we are reconquering land of Israel is coming soon have you know my friends I have some good news to tell you mashif is on his way and we're living through this process again of reconquering land of Israel and we're facing off with similar kinds of challenges so we need to know what's the power that we have what's the power of the Jewish people is points out that the Posse doesn't say rashem reassures and says that you don't need to worry I've given him into your hands it doesn't say I will give him into your hands doesn't say don't worry I'm going to you're going to win I'm going to give him in advance it says I already gave him into your hands past tense so what's this what's this language why is it excuse me what's the idea here I'm going to college I already passed judgment on OG all the way back from the times of Abraham Kate said what is this so this is a more famous episode [Music] it was at the time that load the brother the nephew the son of the brother of avraham had been captured along with the four the battle of the four and five Kings so o came to let avraham know about this to let him know that he has to go out and fight in battle and want to save his nephew to save loads for success the refugee came who is this Refugee who came to tell avram about this battle um says his name was actually polit that was his name Refugee that was his name but our sages tell us his name was oh we know this is it's the same guy he lived for a few hundred years in those times there were people who lived that long OG lived a very long life he lives from the time actually he's from even before she just tells but in this message let's look at the let's look at what the measure says he lived all the way from the time of avraham Aveeno from Abraham's time all the way until the time the Jewish people came out of Egypt and and into the land of Israel so we're talking 450 years approximately 400 years so but OG it wasn't his real name it was not OG he was cold OG because of this episode listen to this um you know why oh got the name OG it was because when he came to tell avraham about the fact that load his nephew had been captured now there was a war going on that he needed to come and save the day I'm from it was it was pesach avram was fulfilling the midst of matzah he was eating matsus now the word matzah is matzah as we know but it's there's another word for matzo guys which means a cake he was eating matzo cakes on Passage now the word ooga which is a cake it's the same word as OG OG ooga cake OG's name became cake because of what avram was eating at that moment what does this mean what does this mean OG became Oak because of the cake that Adam was eating at this moment what does this mean hold on we're gonna get to what this means famous thing also I believe Rashi quotes it over there he didn't come for altruistic reasons he became he came because of Sarah's Beauty is he said look I have I have this great idea sorry is gorgeous she's beautiful everyone's trying to steal her right the Pyro takes her abime takes her everywhere oh was the next one in line he said look I'll send the Iron Man to battle he'll get killed I'll marry her I'll marry sorrow Hashem said to him at that time as it were that's what you're saying noise look you did something good you did help Ivan to find out Aram indeed goes and he conquers these four and five Kings and brings back his nephew she'll get rewarded for that in this world you'll live a long life sorry now what you thought in your heart I'm gonna kill or cause Ivan to be killed and take Sarah it's not going to come out that way exactly how usually pull you're gonna fall in the hands of her grandchildren her great great grandchildren you're going to be killed by her offspring okay so we need to understand what is this what is this why is he called OG why is he trying to steal Sarah why why does it have to be that ultimately he's going to be killed by the Jewish people what's what's the what's the message what's the depth okay there's more here there's more stick with me okay Focus here we go it's very interesting so that that was the time back 400 years ago I already he's he's destined to fall now in your hands you don't have to worry this is a 400 year old promise that I have that OG is going to fall by the hands of the great great grandchildren of Sorrow okay so the message there was another time that it was decreed upon OG that he would die at the hands of the Jewish people is I already gave like we said in the times of Isaac there was another story with oh okay he made a party he made a party for the bris and called all of the kings of Canaan including made a great feast he brought all of the good Island all of the Great Ness there is a egg had wanted to steal had wanted to steal avram's wife and he had said something which we don't know about until here but they said to him look remember what you said ah from you said I haven't ever gonna have kids you're never gonna have kids so look here's the it's like he's born Kevin She Wrote our Mouse and the climates by any hargoi Oak said something familiar it sounds familiar it sounds like what they what the what they said when Masha came he said he's a little puny nothing he's a little baby he's done nothing the it says it brings down that until yisak was born people never had babies that's that that were inside of of uh of little cribs was extremely small so Alex said he's a little nothing this is nothing I could kill him with my little pinky destroy him he has no power he's no kyomi has no it's not going to be sustained so August very like negative about uh Haram yes that's what you think he has no powers so weak you could destroy him with your little pinky um you're gonna You're Gonna Fall by his great great grandchildren you're gonna see the power foreign from the times of yaakov already we saw around but also Jacob here's another one which I never heard of before maybe you've heard of it but I never heard of it when yaakov came in to Paro to pharaoh to give him a blessing with his son when his son Joseph brought him in Sparrow it says Jacob gave a blessing to Pharaoh I was there he was in that spot caution guy hanging out with the Kings but it's a Sharma like parallel pirate says hey you remember what you said about avram that he has no power pure.com you're not gonna have any kids [Music] hey here's his grandson Yakov and he's got 70 children grandchildren all around him from that moment already started having a eye in horror we need to know what nayanara is but he had a negative eye on the Jewish people Russia you're putting a negative eye on my children your eye will melt usually pull the other one your negative look will not have any effect you're going to fall in their hands say that's what Hashem meant when you said to mushroom I mean I gave him to you already finishes off and says America's broccoli Israel because just like it was in that time the nations of the world were afraid of you they heard about you and they were afraid of you this is important because this is the secret of how ultimately the Jewish people conquer and Vanquish their enemies all the nations of the world will see that the name of Hashem is upon you and they will be afraid of you they'll be afraid of you so that reminds us of what happened with with the with the hand of Maisha with The Rock from the previous message and we need to understand that that's really what's happening throughout the entire measure speaking about OG [Music] this is my thought for you guys okay this is my thought why is Oak called UGA why is he called cake why is he called UGA it's a matzo it's a cake it's a matzah it's a cake well this is what I was thinking there's two aspects of a matzah it's a gishmaker cracker it's a it's a nice you know crunchy cracker it's an ooga it's something it's a treat but the word matzah the word matse is it means the word Matsu is a reference to the fact that the matzah is about the mitzvah it's about the fact that the things that we do it has hashem's name on it so to speak this is a commandment of God why was avrah mavinu eating the matzah on pesach because he in his incredible intuitive fashion was able to understand that this is the will of Hashem at this time on pesach we eat matzah the the forefathers of sages tell us they kept the entire Tyra before it was given they had an intuitive sense of what is the will of Hashem the matzo represents the will of Hashem but the Ugo is the outer aspect of it OG perhaps we could say that OG when he when he wants to steal sorry man what does that really mean he wants avram to be killed and to take saramino he means as I understand it he wants to take over the purpose of the Jewish people he wants to replace avraham as the progenitor of the Jewish people as the father of Chloe's thrill he says look [Music] Jewish people serving God okay let's you need you need strong people like you need any big people you Hefty people that can really eat a good cake he need a good kick get you know nice and strong the outer aspect that's what OG is he's the outer aspect he's constantly looking at the outer aspect and he's saying look you want to have a Jewish people you can't have wimps you can't have weak people the ceremony for his bris this guy this is not going to be the progenerative kaliswell avram is is has no he has no ability to give birth yeah it's like he's a weak small puny child when it gets to yaakov it's starting to look like like OG is wrong but he has an ironhara on it he says it can't be they're weak they're too weak he puts a negative eye on it because he says obe's theory is that if you want to be a powerful nation in the world you need to be powerful you need to be 18 almost tall you need to be so strong and so big that's the only way to be a powerful nation that lasts throughout history that projects hashem's name into the world Maybe maybe OG wanted to be that person who was the the beginning of that and if he's not going to be the one at least he can Vanquish the Jewish people and Destroy them at the onset get rid of avram kill yes have a negative look at the Jewish people bring down negative forces onto the Jewish people but look what the end is what's the result the result is that OG himself is vanquished by the Jewish people why and this is the secretary it's because of the name of Hashem that's imbued upon us that's what causes them to fear that's what causes them to fall it's the the name of Hashem that Moshe have been in places on the Rock A Little Rock he throws it perhaps doesn't say he threw it he throws it perhaps at the Mountain Oak picks up this massive Mountain he says power It's gotta if you want to exist any power you need Brute Force and of course this is not to say that Jews are weak we're not weak we're beneficialishamas we're benign him we're middle of the road kind of people We're Not Too Tall we're not too short middle of the world kind of people but that said OG is not enough and But ultimately he was wrong because it's not about the Brute Force it's not about the size of your legs being 18 almost tall we're average the Jewish people are average people but the thing that makes us different is that the name of Hashem is called upon us is that we mention the name of Hashem we inscribe upon the rock the name of Hashem we inscribe upon the the very missiles that we use to protect ourselves it's called the sling of David we remind ourselves of where the power comes from we remind ourselves of where the power comes from is from Hashem comes from the fact that Hashem is on our side and when we recognize that properly even our enemies the envirium say blessed are the hands that are so supported that are supported through the name of Hashem blessed are moisture abenus hands that throw a rock with hashem's name on it which means that's how we do battle College that's when they are afraid of us when we are properly projecting hashem's name into the world we don't need to be the strongest mightiest tallest heftiest that's not what we need We need regular middle of the road we need to be middle of the road people but with a deep deep sense that it's Hashem it's hashem's name that's called upon us that's called upon anything that we do battle with and when hashem's name is the one that's upon us and upon whatever we're doing battle with [Music] they're afraid of Hashem ultimately and if we properly bring Hashem into our lives into our battles then we will have success because Hashem will be on her side I want to bless you I ask you to bless me should help us that we should be able to take this message to heart and recognize that whatever is going on in our life if we're successful it's not us we're just regular people we're really not that much smarter than everyone else we're just regular people but shim's name is on us so should I also recognize that and to reinforce that within ourselves remind ourselves constantly it's Hashem it's Hashem and then the nations of the world will be afraid and they will bless us they will bless us as they recognize too and it's all just Hashem thank you so much 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