Devarim & Tisha B'av - Torah Cures

you're listening to the weekly parsha podcast with ari goldwag recorded with hashem's never-ending assistance in roma behind israel 57 82 2022. this week's precious parties devorem and shabbos this shabbos is tish above we will not be fasting on tissue of this year above hashem it's the fifth time in eight years that tisha falls on shabbos and tishaw is cancelled and pushed off to mutsy shabbos to sunday and we always read the parasha of duvarim in the entire world hashem in arts israel and quits lars we're all reading the same parsha we are all on the same page this week we are all mourning the destruction of the vasa mikdash and the prelude to the destruction the prelude to tisha b'av is always partially divorm and there's a very powerful measure to the very beginning of parties of which i would like to share with you which teaches us something about torah which teaches us something about the power of the torah the spiritual power of torah and i think it's especially appropriate you know we know that next to the base hamikdash was the sagazis the temple immediately next to it was the place where the kimitsi and tatsay saira from zion out of jerusalem comes the torah the torah comes out of the holiest place the aran haqqadesh the holy ark which was the center of the base of english of the temple which we are missing the holy ark contained the torah that's the center of what the bishop english is that's the center of our relationship with hashem when we have a destruction of the best when we are missing our holy temple we are missing our relationship to torah we're missing our relationship to understanding what is hashem's will for us the arena kurdish which contained the terror was the place that the navy would focus on in order to gain their prophecy so in the best destruction is a destruction of our torah of our relationship with hashem and we mourn that we mourn that every day we mourn that every year especially during this this time during the three weeks during these three weeks so we need to understand what is the concept of torah which is right here at the devarim are the words of moshe rabbenu the madrish points out as we'll see inside the incredible contrast between moshe albeno before mushroom after moshe says i'm not a man of words when hashem wants to send him off to be the leader of the jewish people you need to be a man of words you need to be able to speak you need to be able to communicate god's will to the jewish people asaras had ibrahees the ten words the ten commandments that debris is the same word mushroom becomes the entire fifth book of the torah is the words of maisha banner the greatest speech of all time moshe albino the one who is unable to speak becomes the one who's able to speak through the torah as we'll see in the majest so through through the torah we learn the will of hashem and we are able to infuse the world that we that we exist within with spirituality and we are unable to do that properly as long as we lack some english as long as we lack the temple which is supposed to be built on the harabayas hara maria the temple mount we have a physical body we have an unbelievable return to arts israel 100 years ago 30 000 jews in the land of israel today nearly 7 million jews but we're missing the soul we're missing the spirit we have you shalom last on the other side of the castle we're missing that temple we're missing the holy miktash the place where god's divine presence is supposed to reside how do we get that back how do we get it back if we have a sense of loss if we have a sense of what we're missing if we can relate to the fact that we don't have er to surreal we're not so many jews don't even live in arts israel we don't yet have that true longing for goula which should spur us to want to live in earth's israel we should spurs to want a base hamikdash a temple why aren't we banging down the doors of the harabayas in order to get in there in order that we should be able to build the base of english you know that we should be able to show this is our holy place so let's learn a little bit together the majority and have a little bit of a concept of what is the torah what is that spiritual location about the holy the best the temple it's about torah can we see until let's see what is the power of these are the words so the measure starts off with something which is very interesting it talks about what is that what is what is the halal in regards to somebody who would like to write the safer tara instead of writing it in hebrew they want to write it in a different language look i don't speak hebrew i don't understand it let me write it in english so that i can understand it so i can relate to it so i can so i can receive the instructions of what hashem would like me to do with my life so what's the allah there's a difference between a severe torah as opposed to tulan and moses twilight moses have to be written in hebrew however a safer terror according to is allowed to be written in any language it can be written in any language and have caduceus say for terror amazing thing is a very interesting idea he says that you can only write a secret torah the only other language you can write it in besides for hebrew is greek you're allowed to write it in yavannas greek has a special ability a special power and the magisk explains what is that special power why why can you why is it permitted to write it in greek my time is showing him little sh why did he say this is gave them a special blessing to yephs and to shem the blessing was that god you have to look himalayas god should give beauty to the fs and god should dwell in the tents of shem who is from shep excuse me who's from shame we are of course we know it from the fact that we can refer to someone who doesn't like jews as an anti-semite someone who hates jews let's say it's an anti-semite or sem semite the root of that word is from shem the jewish people our lineage goes back to hashem the son of noah so the tents of shem the tents are the the place where we study the holy torah of hashem the place where we serve hashem the oil the tabernacle the place where we come in service of god to relate hashem to understand his will for us the place where the torah is the center of that inside of the holy ark but in the same verse it refers to the beauty of yephs what is the beauty of jeff as the brother of shem verbs that which is studied in the holy tent of shem the torah can be written with the beauty of the kakiti shikasa vanes now this discussion is very interesting what is the concept behind this why should or should not the terror be allowed to be written in a different language what is the idea why greek is a better language to write it in what's the concept and i believe that the depth of this major is that a language right there are certain languages that are not holy languages what does it mean that that the entire's language is called the holy tongue why is it special what's unique about it it's the language that hashem used to create heaven and earth so that means that there is an essence the the torah's language describes something at its essence the word devarim that we're speaking about it parses the varm words what are words so they're a description of something but in hebrew the word dover means a word but it also means a thing it means an object because a word in hebrew describes the object and is the essence of the object if i tell you that here i have a say fair it's a book right the word in hebrew safer has incredible descriptive value but not just descriptive value but creative value it describes the thing at its essence the word safer these three letters when they come together they have a certain connotation they have a certain gematria numerical value they co they describe the thing in its essence so when hashem says god says let there be light the word or is a concretization of the essence of the word of what the concept of light is hashem says or and that becomes the light the light is or that's the spiritual value of the of the words of hebrew of the holy tongue every other language is just an external expression of base it's uh there's a there's an agreement between the nations that this word denotes this concept but it's not the word itself is not the essence of the concept it doesn't contain the essence in hebrew it does so in a certain sense we could say that every word in another language besides is an external aspect of it it's how i see it it's you know when you look at me so you see a certain thing you see the flesh you see my face you see my eyes you see my mouth etc you're seeing me in an external way it's just a description every every other language is just an external version of the essence of it it's not the essence itself only lashana kurdish denotes essence everything that we have in the physical world is only an externalization you see a human being you see my face you see my body that's just the external of the essence of who i am which is my my spirit my my soul the soul is what gives life the soul is what gives meaning the soul is what gives a spiritual dimension to physicality because physicality has nothing on its own it has no value right wealth has no value beauty has no value music which is a beautiful thing it's a spiritual thing it's still an external spiritual value it's not in essence something spiritual what gives it value what makes wealth significant what makes beauty significant hashem if a woman is beautiful and she is infused with a spirit of of godliness she's fears heaven she has a spiritual side to her not just a spiritual side but the spirituality is her essence that gives value to the beauty if someone is wealthy and gives his money to torah institutions that gives value his money has value then his money is not just an external thing so i can have food so i can have a house so i can have a car the wealth becomes something valuable because it's infused with spirituality when we talk about language when we talk about words what what gives this language any value it's just the description of things it's uh it's a an agreement between the nations of how we can communicate and how we can say things you know i can get what i want i can tell you look i want i want to buy this particular item from you i can talk to you i can communicate with you i can have we can have a dc club we can have a conversation in in any language if the language doesn't have intrinsic value it's just an externalization when does it have value this is how i understand this matrix when does it have value it has value when what we're talking about is torah right now you're listening to the words that i'm saying we're having a conversation what is our conversation about it's about the torah what language are we speaking we're speaking for the most part in english we are infusing english with value we are infusing english with spirituality by using the english language to talk about a concept of torah the conversation about can you write a safer torah in any languages can i infuse any language with the spiritual value of torah will it now have kedusha will a sephirah torah written in any language have holiness will it be something that now is intrinsically a holy thing but it's english it's uh it's just an extrinsic type of languages and that doesn't have any intrinsic value can it be infused with intrinsic value says the mccann and ramgamil says there's only one language that has that because there was a special blessing that was given to it and that's greek and greek you know the greeks they had all kinds of wisdom they had all kinds of beauty there was so much beauty in the greek culture however there's only one way that the greek culture has the more fortune actually explained over here as we'll see in the continuation of the magish there's only one way that it can have any value and that's only if it's infused with tyra only if it's infused with the hashkafa satya with the outlook the proper clear guidelines of the terror which were given at her sinai by hashem by god himself the creator of the universe 13.8 billion light years across god came down as it were spoke to the jewish people infused them with direction with spirituality that infusion can extend according to only to yvonne's has the possibility for that because of the blessing and according to it can extend to any language says the majestic god says the amazing thing about the torah's language mahaviva it's so it's so endeared it's so beloved shimmer appears it cures the language or we could say cures the tongue as we'll soon see what that means it cures language the language is something which is it's it has no value it's it's external extrinsic it's not but when you speak words of time with that language that language is cured it's cured it now has value and now is spiritual value unbelievable thing me nayan how do we know that this is the case how do we know that terror can purify a language posix says in michele in proverbs excuse me posix says in mishlai mar and we're going to see soon what is this concept of the tree the tire is a tree of life it has the ability as king solomon writes to to cure the tongue to cure a language it has the ability to infuse a foreign language with spirituality that's the power of torah it's important to know we're missing this power we have torah we have this amazing we can read from svarim we have we have the tire we have the hamish eternal we have the tereshabic sab the territory about we have mid-russian we have gemaras we have we have zayar we have the secrets of the torah but something's missing because the root of it as we're going to see the root of it where does it come from it comes from the baseline the water flows out the water which is the essence of spirituality flows out from the basement english and we don't have that the terror is supposed to come out to the entire world from the base i make this from the temple it's supposed to come out from the kadasha dashing from the holy of holies from the iron it's come supposed to come out through spiritual prophecy through a revelation of to each person in each generation we don't have that we don't have that connection we have like a we have this disconnected all that we have today is the the external aspect of it we have the we have the other languages but how do we connect in to the essence of the language to that the lashon marpe the it's kind the tree of life you know you think about a tree what is a tree what is the idea of a tree the tree is connected to the ground it's connected to the to the earth it's connected to the essence and the branches reach out and they create fruits and and the the branches reach out from the earth the the life the life source the earth is the life source representing ikodu representing god himself as it were bringing forth the the water from the earth drawing it out towards the branches bringing it to the fruits we don't have that connection we're like a disconnected piece of a branch of a tree last lovely in the future says the measures hashem is going to bring out from the garden of eden awesome trees powerful trees if you look at the tsukume means about the quote ezekiel talks about mashiach talks about the times of mashiach the water is going to come out and that's what this is referring to the water is going to come out of the basement of the temple is going to be there's going to be rivers of water unbelievable amounts of water pouring out describes parag memzine 47 chapter of ezekiel unbelievable amounts of water pouring out from the base of english from the temple and its spiritual waters are going to give life to the entire earth the entire world um what is their power what is their shavach what is their praise how does the pasik describe them what is that a mirapia solution they cure the tongue they cure language refers to the fact that this powerful river that's flowing out from the base of english on either side of the banks [Music] the waters overflowing onto the banks and growing on the banks is these incredibly powerful trees i mean shay roof will shall lash on how do we know these trees and the water that's coming out is going to provide a refuel a cure for language and we're talking about the torah which is the essence of our relationship with hashem that it cures language its fruits will be for eating and its and its leaves the leaves will be a trufa they will be a cure [Music] and as we'll see the word trufa which means a cure is there's a few you know we have words in hebrew that that are hebrew is a language where you have compacted you have roots and you have concepts you can have one word that that it describes an entire binyan an entire structure spiritual structure the word trufa according to one explanation is which means to untie the mouth to free the mouth to free our expression the mouth is how we communicate the mouth is how we show love we kiss our child with our mouth the mouth is something which is about relationship what is it that allows us to have relationships with others what is it that allows us to have relationships with akush borhu what is it that permits it we're tied up in our relationships we're unable to have relationships what is it that permits it that we can communicate now with others it's the torah the terror gives us the ability to have me this tives have good character traits the tires that which gives us the ability without the tire we would just be animals only concerned about ourselves completely selfish the player is what gives us the ability to think about another person paleo the trufa the tire is what gives us a a cure for our mouth mushroom as the end of the magic says mishra benu says i can't speak how can you expect me to be a girl to redeem the jewish people to to bring them into a relationship with you hashem i can't talk i can't i stumble over my words you have to be an incredible orator in order to be able to be someone who bridges the gap between the jewish people and god you have to have that ability to speak to communicate to bring them together to bring people together says i could've spoke to myself i'm skipping a little section of the magic because i'm running out of time and we leave our lit ruby levy on our mala no i believe he says we don't have to bring these haskell to teach us this concept we can learn it from here number nine let's learn from the tired self from our very best from served as the liaison between god and the jewish people and bringing the torah down into the world before that he says i'm not able to speak i'm not a person i'm not a man of words kevin shazam once he merited to have torah once he was filled with that spiritual power once the waters of terror poured upon him this rapidly shining his tongue was was figuratively and physically cured with his habit he started to talk and talk and talk mushroom and started speaking on rashford and he didn't stop for five weeks until zion other when he passed away he just was pouring forth this river of torah of spirituality of what it means to have a relationship with god these are the words that moshe spoke what were the words how did he become able to speak he became able to speak through the torah because the terror infused him with this amazing spiritual essence why couldn't he speak what was missing because there was an external aspect to his his speech i'm not i'm not good at talking i should said but once he had tara once he was infused with the message of god for the jewish people he was able to talk and he was able to talk he was able to talk and communicate he was transformed by the torah this is what we're missing we have no idea what we're missing we have no idea we're missing this spiritual fountain we're missing a base hamikdash we're missing the message we're missing the kruven we're missing the the love which is represented by the crew of him on our when we are looking for god's word the terror of course is coming forth from jerusalem in an unprecedented way like never before perhaps in history well for sure in the last two thousand years since the base of village was destroyed but we're missing the essence it's disconnected the river is not yet flowing it's it's perhaps starting to to flow figuratively we don't have a baseline through another temple but we do have torah we do have torah and to the extent that we are makshift that we give importance to tara we appreciate her we understand that what we're missing when we don't have a baseline when we don't have a temple it means that we don't have a relationship with god we say we don't know what he wants we don't know god is not talking to us directly without the torah with the torah we start to we start to understand what it means to have a relationship with hashem the terrorists should if the terror when we learn it should infuse us with a longing in longing for hashem and longing for a relationship with hashem a longing for the ability to live in arts israel we can't keep the tiger properly outside of our city there are so many myths that we can't even perform perhaps we can buy our way in by owning a piece of land and energy so it's not the same as living here you know i have a backyard hashem i have a beautiful backyard and it has grapes growing and it has lemons growing and there's there's there's i have a branch that fell from my olive tree we need to find out what to do with it because the olives are schmidt olives it's a very simple thing you live in arts israel it's just different it's not it's not like there's a kashivos i'm trying to say this significance of torah that when we understand what it means we want more of that it infuses the external aspects of ourselves with a new light with a new essence and we're missing that we have to mourn we have to mourn our disconnect if the more i disconnect from tyrael if the mourn our disconnect from base hamikdash if the more our loss of this relationship with our kurdish we have to mourn the fact that all the things that we do are so much more external because we don't have that connection if we start to mourn if we are mourning about our disconnect if we are mourning about jerusalem's destruction if we are mourning if we appreciate what we don't have we will see we will see so soon the rebuilding of the baseline english i want to bless you i ask you to bless me hashem should help us that we should merit to be able to have a little sense of what we're missing should be able to have a little taste of what it does mean to infuse our lives with torah with spirituality with essence and we should be able to be zeke we should merit to be able to taste the waters of spirituality which hopefully so soon are going to burst forth from the temple mount from the base i make this from the essence of who we are and infuse us and all of the external aspects of ourselves with so much spirituality and connection touchdown thank you so much for listening a wonderful shot miss 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]