Ekev - Hashem Keeps His Promises

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with Ari goldwag recorded with hashem's never running assistance in Rama Beach israel5783 2023 this week's fire just purchase akev and I'd like to share with you a mantrish which actually actually quotes from sukum at the end of practice lesson on a few took him earlier from air pressure and really what the magician is teaching us is at the beginning of our Parsha is a continuation of the end of the previous Parsha let's read the verses together and we'll see the promise of Hashem and Hashem is faithful to his promise and how we can receive those promises how we can line up our own selves with the will of Hashem and so receive the promises of Hashem posix says in chapter 7 verse 9. it's the very very last few years you shall know that Hashem your God he is the god he's The God Who is trustworthy he keeps the Covenant said he does kindness to those who love him and those who keep his Commandments for a thousand Generations meaning when we do what's right when we do what we're supposed to do the plastic promises us that Hashem will do kinds with us with our children and with our children's children on through a thousand Generations but he pays those who hate him in uh to their face or to his face to destroy them foreign so whereas a person who is righteous says the verse person who does what's right receives reward from any Generations Hashem makes a promise and he will keep that reward sometimes it may not get paid right away well perhaps talk about why that is when it comes to his enemies they get destroyed and paid right away you shall keep the Commandments the laws the statutes that I'm commanding you today you shall do them beginning operation right it flows right into the beginning of our parisha and it will be when you shall keep and you shall listen to my statues foreign Hashem will keep his Covenant and his kindness that he swore to your forefathers now what does that look like what does it look like that Hashem keeps his Covenant with us when we do what's right says chapter 7 verse 13 will love you he will bless you he will make you many we rock people he will bless your children you'll have kids you'll have fruits of the earth you'll have produce you'll have grain you'll have wine you'll have oil you will be able to live in prosperity upon the land that Hashem is promised to you endless blessings that we Merit when we keep the terror Hashem promises us that we will receive blessings that he will reserve and save those blessings for us and ultimately he will give them to us says the message like this foreign he is the one who is a trustworthy God um a very interesting thing you know we could look at Jewish history and we could say you know it doesn't look so good holocausts inquisitions be some English destruction a million Jews would kill at that time so many so many tragedies the Jewish people have befallen coming right off of tishov we were sitting on the ground lamenting all of the sad things that went went on throughout Jewish history just this past Thursday a week ago and here we are and we're saying Hashem is nam on Hashem is trustworthy right so what's going on what's the shot how do we understand what does it mean that Hashem is trustworthy in light of the fact that things don't seem to be perfect or if they seem far from perfect what is this comparable to I'd like to give you an analogy about Abba lawyers um there was a particular good friend of a king and his friend left in the charge of the king left in his in his Royal coffers a particular item that he asked the king to watch for him and then this beloved person passed away now the Sun comes the son of the friend of the king comes and he says I'd like to have back the item which my father entrusted to you um the king recognized that this sun wasn't interested in having it back in order to to use it but rather he was going to give it to somebody else to watch so he said so the king says to this young man he says did you find somebody who will watch it better than me foreign did I not take care of it properly did I not take out the clothing and open them up shake them out so that the moths wouldn't eat it did I not take care of it properly online the Jewish people also did a similar thing the times of Jeremiah the prophet so the Jewish people took their goods out of hashem's bank as it were they took out their investment and they put it in to another investment they put it into idle idol worship at the time and today many Jews have put their investments into liberal values instead of Torah values oh my God Hashem says to Jeremiah the prophet go to the Jewish people and say to them what did I do wrong why did you take your money while you take your investment out of my stock out of my business did I not fulfill all the promises that I made to your forefathers right says in our verses I promised that I would bless them right but he said Hashem promised abramovino actually it's a reference to the fact that Hashem promised to Abraham that he would bless his children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren down to us 400 years 440 years before I made a promise to mosharabino to the Jewish people as they're about to enter into the land of Israel Hashem has made you great a Marty Lee Shani um sorry Marty Loy I said I'm gonna take them out with uh with great wealth from Egypt says I did so Hashem goes on and on to ex to show how he makes a promise and he keeps his promise so why are the Jewish people removing their money from the Bank of America when putting it into the Bank of America into the bank of liberalism into the bank into this to the bank said don't guarantee your money pass a certain amount of time these Banks go bankrupt ion is this is why moshrabino is saying over here was telling us that if you want to know what's the right investment where should you place your money don't take your money out of the the place where the returns are high and where there's a stable positive business that's been around for Generations keep your money in a stable place don't take it out and put it into something new that may or may not succeed that's what Hashem is saying was telling us God is trustworthy we know we we have a promise Hashem tells us that he's going to take care of us that he's going to give us blessings that he's going to give us paranos is going to give us physical welfare everything that we need is going to come our way all we need to do is keep our money invested in the right place to keep our focus and our values in the Toyota okay so that's the promise of Hashem now the message brings some interesting stories and I think with these stories we can start to understand how is it that we Merit these blessings okay we understand on a very simple level we understand if we keep the Torah Hashem promises us we're going to get the blessings that's very simple I'd like to share with you a few stories that the Magic Springs and these stories really underscore a bit of a deeper understanding of what it means to get the blessings of Hashem and how to Merit Miracles how to Merit miracles was a well-known Sage I believe he was in the times of the Gemar of the mishnah Pilgrim who was very famous he had a donkey and his donkey wouldn't even eat something that wasn't PR any uh grains that weren't properly taken off the tithes foreign had a special relationship with the world around him he was very careful to be excited to be righteous to do that which was was that which was correct and we'll see that repent has been earlier actually changed all of reality because of his sitkus because of his righteousness and because of his requests or his statements of the way things are and the way things should be let's see there's a story with European he was living in a certain southerly city in the southern part of the land of Israel welcome some people came to where he was and they came to try to make some paranasa to make some livelihood interesting and we talked about the fact that there's something called investing in the stock of the stock of God as it were here's some people who invested in the stock of at sadik neighbor they had a bag of that a bag of barley barley grains in the S ready to watch these barley grains they forgot that they left the barley in the hands of reply here and they left they went on their way they left the city listen to this amazing story took those grains and he planted them each year oh it's icing garden with kind Sun he planted the greens and then the grains created a large crop he gathered all of the grains that were created from that entire season and he put them into the storehouse and he kept doing that each year seven years later those guys those same guys who gave the original bag of grain to replicas Vineyard they came back and they said we want our green back do you have those those bags of grain that we left with you seven years ago did they get ruined are they still around me out here whereas when you are and I didn't forget he's he's been taking care of their grains for seven years right he didn't forget them but then he said to them come and take your treasure house or come and take the The Granary take all of the grain from the ground every seven years worth of grain multiplied multiplication upon multiplication hooray may I mean an incredible statement you can understand from the way that replica acted he didn't say them pay me for all my time and all my efforts taking care of your grains making the grains more you just said take it all it's all yours the grains that you gave me they produced more and more grains it's all yours incredible thing it says Imaging did it and it shows us how Hashem is it shows us the way that Hashem thinks about our actions it's an incredible thing look at listen to this you know we think we do a little thing we don't we don't know what it does we don't know what it does I shared it might be talking podcast how this week I was I was in your shalim I was in Jerusalem I was at the kotel and this guy sees me he's so excited to see me his name is gilad and he's there with his family and he tells me that my song he watched it over and over again he lives in America he lives in New York and it it gave him such a desire to come there he saw you didn't have the wherewithal to come to RC Israel but he had been talking he had trust in Hashem and really you know Providence helped him to be able to afford very cheap tickets the place where he's staying it worked out in unbelievable ways you know I planted a song I planted I planted and how many times as I saw you know I have songs that have been hurt 10 million times this song happens to have been heard like 70 000 times which is okay it's nice it's beautiful but you don't know the impact of his song don't know the impact of a message I put out a device you're listening to this device you hear it it plants something in your heart you might go and share with somebody else or it might it might not produce uh fruits right away it might be something but Russia always says he says I'm going to tell you something I'm going to tell you an idea and one day 50 years from now you're gonna think that you thought of it yourself we plant ideas we plant messages we plant in our hearts in other people's hearts we never know where it's going to go we never know the effect that it's going to have we never know the how it's Ninjago how it adds up person you can have a good effect on a person you can give a smile to a person that person can have a great day but they end up smiling to other people and they have a great day you can have this this exponential wave of goodness Hashem says I promise you I'm the Carolina Hashem is going to a thousand Generations later a thousand Generations later Hashem is going to give us a reward we're going to see that the good actions that we did we planted actions we we left our actions in this world but but we dropped seeds in this world and they had an effect on those around us they had more of an effect on those around them and so on and so on and Hashem promises us just like repel has been here said to these people who left them a few grains but he gave him back a storehouse full of grains he said to them here's your grains so to Hashem we can see from the actions of its addict you can see from the actions of a righteous individual the way that Hashem acts because that sadik is always striving to act in the way that Hashem Acts the righteous individual is constantly trying to be like Hashem is Hashem gives anonymously she doesn't claim any credit Hashem wants us to figure it out for ourselves that he's the one doing it that Sadiq imitates that something says that doesn't say pay me for all of my seven years of working on your stuff you're not interested in that he did what he felt was right and he gave back an incredible amount of grain from the little amount of grain that he was given that's how that Sadiq thinks another story I'm going to skip here because we're running out of time but it's worth seeing if you want to see the messages at the very beginning of our pressure it's in uh Parsha Gamo gimmel if you want to see it yourself but there's another story here there's a particular individual who is who he would dig he would dig pits you know you find water at the bottom you're looking for a bay area looking in the olden days they didn't have water that came into their houses and and faucets but they had what they did have what you find in the hills around bayshamesh come visit and I'll show them to you they would dig Wells they would dig deep down into the ground they would find water there's water under the ground they would find water just two days ago I went with my son to a particular location in the Hills over here where there's a cave and in the cave on the bottom of the cave there's water flowing water from a from an underground spring showed it to a few other people I'm happy to show it to you if you come and visit so so there was an individual who used to go and he would dig to find water and he did this for the robin he would do this in order to provide water for the general populace now one day his daughter this man's daughter was walking along the way she wanted to cross over a river there was no Bridge there she got into the river she was trying to get across and the river swept her away they came to repair and they said to him look what happened look what happened to her the daughter of the man who digs the wells so everyone thought that she had died she had been swept away and repentance said it's not possible it can't be that she died since he was doing a public service he was doing hashem's will with water will not allow his daughter to be lost to die in the water exactly at that moment as Japan said this they heard a commotion outside in the city bus up Peter chaplini she came back the girl came back she survived she survived the water washing her away foreign what happened in the story was that the moment that really princess said these words that it can't be that something bad will happen to him that his daughter will get hurt through water that shall die from water when he's the one who is giving water life-giving water to hashem's children at that moment Amala came a miracle occurred [Music] an angel came and took her out of the water saved her life she shouldn't have survived she should have died but when repe said this [Music] it created I don't want to say the word demand but it created a reality which meant that it can't be that somebody who does something good gets hurt through that good act or gets hurt in any way connected to that good act this man he he was involved in providing water for Claud Israel giving water quenching The Thirst of hashem's children it can't be that anything negative would happen because of it statement he was called there he established that this is how it is this is how it is and I'd like to give an explanation here based on the maharzoo he says something amazing actually I'll read I'll read to you tomorrow Hashem is a rule the rule is like this at static we need to understand this rule because we can we can beat Sadiq we can choose to be righteous today it's very hard to to think about it and we don't want to think that maybe I'm inside the community I should be exotic it's a very big so it's a responsibility but listen to this hear what it means to be exotic when it's Sadiq says something Hashem listens to that person when it's addict prays when he when he's misspelled Hashem is going to do whatever he says all right so there's an idea that Hashem places his feet on a footstool who's the footstool the food stool is the person who makes himself humble a person who dedicates themselves to doing hashem's will to making himself humble to being the the place upon which Hashem stands as it were what does it mean Hashem stands there it means you can see Hashem in the world through the Sadiq like we saw before gave back the storehouse of green that's only aside that could do such a thing only someone who is truly emulating a shank could do such a thing but Hashem says when that person prays I do what he says he establishes the rules if he wouldn't have prayed for she would have drowned obviously even though Hashem knew that this person did his will the father of this girl was the one digging these Wells right we need to dive in an Hashem should we we say in Allah right every single day three times a day I shouldn't give good reward to those who trust in you in truth it's the broadcast by the way we say this let us be amongst them we pray that we should beat him especially and carefully to the prayers of those who are completely movable themselves completely nullify themselves to him gives over the way that he interacts with the world to the righteous because of the way that they act confortial avram if you find explicitly about Abraham Hashem said can I cover up from Abram what I'm doing Hashem wants Aram to pray on behalf of Saddam even though it's true that he was was praying on behalf of any righteous individuals that might be in Sudan but we see that the power was given over to avram to determine who's going to be saved we give us some um we find that Noah it was a negative thing that he didn't pray on behalf of the people of his generation the generation of the flood Ed wouldn't have prayed on behalf of that girl it would have been a it would have been a China on him he would have been punished amazing thing it's the pen Hashem wants to do to be righteous wants that if somebody who served his people with water then nothing bad should happen to that person's child with water but it depends Hashem is in order to do that he made a stipulation a righteous person has to Daven a righteous individual who has made themselves to be holy and special and and subdued their will in front of hashem's will that's the person who has to pray his foreign think about the amazing thoughts the amazing ways that Hashem ordered the world that he made it dependent upon upon the righteous now I want to tell you that this sounds like a very high and lofty idea lofty goal but we have to hear it we have to seek it and we have to wish for it and we have to have it as a goal foreign we want to know how can we have Hashem answer our prayers we want to know how can we have Hashem give us the blessings to us our children to our grandkids our great grandchildren for a thousand Generations and the tire is clear the tire is clear and fairy says it explicitly which is what we started off with oh yeah it will be if you keep these laws in these statutes and you do them will keep the Covenant with you and the kindness that he swore he swore to your grandparents 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 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