Ekev - Meriting to Live in Israel

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with Ari goldwag according with's running assistance in ra Israel 5784 2024 this and the end of chapter eight beginning of chapter nine of says this is chapter 8 verse 19 if you heav forbid forget hasem your God and you go after all gods you serve them you bow to them promises tells us that the Jewish people will be lost follow other ideals other ways of being just like the Nations that hm is destroying so heaven forbid if we don't do hm's will we could also be lost this is if we don't listen the voice of and this is the we're going to talk about is but here oh Israel we're about to go over the Jordan River right the Jews were sitting on the Eastern side of the Jordan River ready to cross the Jordan River miraculously walk through on dry land just as they had 40 years earlier you're coming to inherit the land of these nations these nations are powerful they're much more powerful than you fortified cities they're really very difficult to overcome powerful Nations you heard about them you know about them who can stand before these Mighty Giants says the you shall know today that God is going in front of you he is a consuming fire he will destroy them and he will subdue them in front of you and you will inherit them you will inherit the land you'll do it quickly as God has spoken so Torah promises us Hashem promises us that even though as the if you look in the continuation beginning of chapter 9 so Hashem says you don't really deserve it I made a promise to your forefathers and they need to be destroyed the Nations that are there they're Sinners they're Wicked don't be like them listen to me listen hereo Israel listen to me don't be like them and M goes on and the reason I'm sharing this is because it has to do with our M that we're going to learn together M goes on to speak about how we made mistakes in the past we sinned with the golden calf sh was on Mount Si he was ready to bring down the L the tablets which hi upon them the entire Torah written inscribed by the hand of God Jewish people sinned mhu stood up for us asked God to forgive us M continues and speaks about it that at that level but he wants us to know as we go into the land of Israel listen this is what it takes if you want to get into the land you want to stay in the land and you want to be able to conquer your enemies sh Israel here Israel listen to what it means to be Israel Israel Israel means yasharel as we mentioned numerous times Ying straight to God which means that we have a direct relationship with hem how do we have that relationship by listening we're going to speak about listening what it means to listen because in order to get Israel in order to move into the next stage of our people's existence today which is the culmination of Jewish history the return to the land of Israel the Conquering of our enemies the rebuilding of the B of English the temple which will be soon God willing so all of these things in order to do them is telling us what we need to do what's the prerequisite for this coming into the land of Israel fulfilling our national Destiny the prere prerequisite is sh is listen here oh Israel what is the concept of listening what is the concept of hearing let's discuss this together with let's try to understand it and we'll do it based on the mag it says like this there's a few M I'd like to share with you some of them are longer some of them are shorter we're not going to see all of it but we will study a good piece of it together he says says here o Israel today you are going over the Jordan River you're entering into the land you are at the threshold of a brand new destiny speaks about hearing what is the idea of hearing so the P says in Psalms 4 44:2 god with our ears we heard our forefathers told us that which you did in their days what does it mean with our ear we heard what you said to at at the burning bush here's an amazing thing hasem says I am certain and I know that you the Jewish people are going to anger me you're going to make mistakes you're going to defy my will but I don't care Hashem says I don't care that you're going to make mistakes and I don't care that you're going to anger me I'm still going to redeem you I know you I know the future hasem says and we say we know what you said God we know about this conversation how do we know that said this at the at the at the burning bush says ver says I have seen I have seen double language the difficulties the pain of my nation the end of the verse says I know it's pain what does it mean when it says I know it's pain so in the ver is talking about the pain that the Jewish people are enduring that they're in they're in this terrible Exile they are slaves understands it differently understand that was saying to M I know the pain that they are going to do to me they're going to cause me when they say about the golden calf this is this is the god of the people of Israel they're going to say about the golden calf who took them out of Egypt such a such audacity the verse ends and says I'm coming down to save them from the hands of Egypt so even though they're going to cause me pain by referring to an idol as the one who saves them and redeems them I will still save them and redeem them myself meaning what is the m saying what is the mes saying an amazing thing even though we're going to sin hasm knows that and he loves us anyway he's a father he's our parent and he takes us on despite the pain we're going to cause these are the conditions this is the condition that that mosha was told Moses was told by God we know that mosha was told this condition that you're going to take us even though despite our sins so we can go on as we go through the as we go through time knowing that hem is going to forgive us doesn't mean we can take advantage of this of course we need to change our ways we need to do chuva we need to return to God but the point is that there is a relationship which is established which God knows that we're going to make mistakes just like when a person gets married you know no one ever thinks I I mean we we maybe we dream that our spouses are perfect when we get married but realistically no human is perfect we all make mistakes when my wife married me she knew that I might on occasion do something wrong so there's that understanding that goes in as we start a relationship and hasm says I know that too what does it mean the verse when it says in 44 that our forefathers told us this is Moses he's called the father our forefathers is the father all of the prophets the end of the verse says it's the next verse there you your hand hasem is upon the Nations you gave us power to inherit them right and you planted Us in the land so MOS was telling us and he's saying that also in our verse that you need to hear something as you go into the land of Israel as you face off with your enemies in the land of Israel you need to know something and that is you to remember what happened in the past and you to hear what happened in the past and you to hear that hem made a a deal with you went into a relationship with all eyes open knowing exactly the mistakes we're going to make and yet Hashem destroyed our enemies this is mosu speaking Hashem destroyed our enemies Sone and O all of these nations that are on the Eastern side of the Jordan and he's going to continue to do that for you as you go into the land of Israel in other words for us today if you see that Hashem has given you success in 1948 1967 Etc on Through The Years against your enemies you can be assured will continue to give you success as the years progress It's not going to get less it's only going to get stronger why because you hear you recognize that's the idea of hearing the first idea that we're laying down is that hearing means to to remember in a certain sense or to put the pieces together that's what it's going to really be as we'll see soon when when you hear words so when you hear a sentence so you have one word and another word and another word and another word and at the end your brain puts together your mind puts together all of the words and produces a full sentence and a full idea and you have the concept this as opposed to seeing when you're looking at a picture so if you're looking at this video so you see on one side there's a plaria tree on the other side there's a grape vine you see the wall behind me you see the fence between my property and the property of the personal iming you see the grass Etc you see but you see it all at once you see an entire picture with words that's the idea of seeing is you see a whole picture at once with words you put the pieces together and you deduce sometimes if also read between the lines but you deduce or you hear hearing up when you hear something you can hear I can't see a picture right now of something that happened a thousand years ago or 2,000 years ago I could see a picture of something that happened 150 years ago when they start to be pictures but I can't hear something I can hear something that happened a thousand years ago or 2,000 years ago or 3,000 years ago hearing is a capacity that is in a certain sense more powerful than seeing because I can hear something that happened long ago that's when MH was instructing us here what happened here that or I can figure out that if Hashem hasem why did he even if I didn't know what moshu was told at the burning bush I could deduce it what God doesn't know what's going to be in the future of course he does and God entered into a relationship with me despite the fact that he knew that and God continues that relationship he forgave us with the golden calf which is why I mentioned to you that M mentions all of that here at the beginning of chapter nine of D of Deuteronomy okay bottom line Hashem knows our mistakes he knows our potential for mistakes despite that he has a relationship with us and God promises that as long as we stay true and as long as we return to him he will continue to have that relationship with us he will continue to help us defeat our foes he will continue to help us to be able to get into the land of Israel to succeed to to rebuild to inherit this amazing land okay so that's the first idea that's the connection of hearing hereo Israel you're going into the land you're crossing over the Jordan you're at the threshold all right next idea connected idea why did he say here you're going to land of Israel hero Israel go our sages say you know what this is comparable to this is like a king who married a princess or a queen and he gave her two precious gems these are the ones that represent our love that represent these are the gems that represent our relationship yeah a ring two rings with precious gems she lost one of them King says to her look you lost one but make sure you don't lose the second one this is representative of our love beautiful idea he so to speak he he Sanctified us he wed us he married us and we said we said we will do and we will listen we said we will do and we will hear we're interested in doing whatever you say God and we're interested in hearing whatever you say if when they created the the golden calf so they lost NASA they weren't doing God's will right they they defied God's will in their actions so we had two precious gems that hasm married us with as it were NASA and nishma we lost NASA but we still had nishma which means even when I make mistakes in my actions it's a similar idea have ising were saying I'm going to hear I'm going to I'm going to listen I'm going to even when I make a mistake in my actions I'm still going to know in my heart Shia hearing has to do was something that's in my heart right the next words in the isra your God your God with all your heart right inside of my heart I might have taken an action which is aist mistake might have done something wrong but still inside of my heart I'm still connected to God and I can always return and be the person I'm supposed to be have that relationship I'm supposed to have show that this was a mistake I regret it hold on to that amazing gift that amazing margolus that amazing Gem of nishma of sh is of here oh Israel and that again doesn't say that at the end of this minute but that is a prerequisite for getting into the land of Israel sh means that if I hear if I have the capacity to hear I can always return to God says another explanation another idea says there's going to be a change when you go over the Jordan River into the land of Israel there's going to be a change from the way things were until now it's not going to continue the way it's been until now until now when the Jewish people sinned they left Egypt for 40 years they wandered in the wilderness when they made mistakes what happened when they sin with a golden calf what happened mosh describes at length right here in our verses that the Jewish people made this mistake and he prayed to hasem he daved he asked hashm to forgive us and he was there for 40 days and then another 40 days until he procured our forgiveness he came down on y Kipper with that forgiveness but it was not an easy task but mosha Ra was up for the task he stood he stood up for the Jewish people he represented us he was our our uh attorney but he said I'm going to I'm going to leave you guys unfortunately his time was up and he knew that the Jewish people people are about to enter into the land of Israel they won't have moshu to stand up so he says them two things as we're going to see he says to them first of all there's an implication he wants them to hear something which we'll get to but he says to them in the second point the Mish is going to make he says to them don't make these mistakes avoid these mistakes I'm not going to be there to save you I'm not going to be there to pray for you so don't sin avoid sin try your best to avoid sin right until now we've spoken about the possibility of course of repentance says to us I'm not going to be there to save you so steer away from the problems don't get yourself in trouble so that you won't need somebody to pray on your behalf the M goes through the entire story of the and prayed on our behalf and the M says like this as they about to go over the Jordan River about to enter the land of Israel so reminds them of how he spoke on their behalf how he was their attorney their their defending Angel here's where I didn't tell you yet but this is really cool sh is says listen oh people of Israel I want you to read between the lines of what I'm saying he says I have stood up for you 40 years I've been your defending angel please and he didn't say it explicitly for whatever reason he couldn't say it explicitly he wanted to them to hear to to read between the lines to notice something that he didn't say explicitly he wanted them to pray on his behalf that he should be able to enter the land of Israel he was saying I have stood up for you I have helped you dot dot dot pray for me that I should be able to come into the land of Israel with you so I can continue to fulfill that role I can continue to pray on your behalf if you make mistakes and the implication was from the words you are going over into the land of Israel why he was saying to them you're going butm is not permitting me to go you are going and not me not I he was hoping that they would understand the implication that they're going and he's not that they would pray for him that he should also be able to go but they didn't get it they didn't read between the lines they didn't hear the implication of what he was trying to say me brings us an analogy but before the analogy I just want to point out Soo was saying that there's really two ways for us to deal with the problem of our sins one way is that as we said before we repent one way okay we got three here one way is that we don't do sins at all as we'll see in the continuation of the M but one way is that we recognize and we hear we read between the lines he understand the implication of those who have the power to speak on our behalf the sikim the righteous individuals we need to hear the implications we made a mistake here we didn't hear the implications we didn't pray for mosh to be able to let to to get into the land of Israel which means that we could have prayed he could have entered with us he could have continued to be our protector our spiritual protector but we made a mistake it's very important idea read between the lines understand the impli that's is here Israel you're going into the land of Israel You're crossing over the Jordan River here hear the implications the brings an analogy I'm just going to say it quickly outside the analogy is that there was a queen and she understood she figured out that her husband wants to divorce her so she says to the king you're going to divorce me with who are you going to marry in my place and the King tells her it's going to be a different woman and the queen goes to her kids and she says to them you know you're you're about to lose me as your mother your father's about to marry another woman and she says okay I'm sorry I'm just going to read a little bit inside us your father wants to divorce me marry another woman you don't have to you don't have to be subservient to her would you want to be subservient to her so they said look really we we're happy to be subservient to whoever our father marries but she says do you know what he's going to do do you know what she's going to do to you and she was only saying this she was saying all the things that this future wife is going to do because she wanted the kids to beg their father not to divorce her she wanted to remain the queen she was that she wasn't saying it just to to get you know to get this woman in trouble and that they should her kids shouldn't listen to the Future Queen they didn't get it they didn't get the implication that that they should ask their father not to divorce their mother so subsequently the queen says to her kids do whatever you can not to be in fights with your father do your father's will listen to your father that's how she continues the conversation even if she even if your father divorces me should always listen to him should always listen to to the your father the king so in a similar way said to the Jewish people you're getting a new Queen so to speak hasem is taking yua Yeshua is going to be the next leader so he was trying to imply to them pray for me that I should be able to come over with you they didn't get it they didn't read between the lines so he says look here's the instructions if you're not gonna you know get the implication of what I'm saying here's what you need to do to to succeed in Earth Israel to succeed in land of Israel to succeed in your relationship with God be careful about the honor of your father in Heaven and this is the foundation of what it means to come into the land of Israel and the mag finishes off with something which sounds a little unrelated but I think it's if we understand it well we understand the the connection in this world so everybody wants Israel we want Israel the Nations claim Israel as their own everyone wants a piece of the the land of Israel and we become exiled from the land we were sent out of the land for 2,000 years we have returned 7 million strong rest of you are on the way but you should know in the future when messia arrives and we no longer have sin we no longer have we no longer have an evil inclination and we all turn towards God and serve God properly we are going to be able to live in the land of Israel in great Serenity our enemies won't want to destroy us they won't want to take away our land they won't claim the Holy Mountain of hem as their own that eventually will never be removed from our land we will be planted properly inside of the land right like a like a plaria tree like a grape vine which is planted in such a way that it doesn't get removed it doesn't get taken away it doesn't get planted somewhere else when the roots go down deep it stays there and it remains there forever how does that happen the men is telling us an amazing thing how does it happen by hearing what gives us the right to come into the land of Israel as we said from the very beginning what gives us the right why are the nations of the world thrown out because they were Wicked they defied the will of God they acted in an overly physical way the Jewish people come into the land of Israel because of the Merit of our forefathers which means our for fathers were the ones who sought to serve God and so when we come in with that Merit when we are also resonating with that service of Hashem when we are striving to serve God properly when we are hearing the implications of what moshu is saying that we need to serve him we need to serve hasem we need to go back to our hearts go back to the truth of who we are which is those who have a true relation we are the queen of God as it were we have Mar we have the we might be missing the nas but we have the nishma we still have the hearing we heard it we continue to have to listen and we got to hear another div Torah and we got to hear another reminder of what it means to serve God properly we got to hear another reminder of where we belong which is in the land of Israel when the hearing steps over into from being just in our heart to bring in our actions as well when we have both of those margolus when we have both of those precious gems when we live with that when we hear that when we don't make the mistakes of sinning in our land we get it back we come back here we return to being in in consonant on the path of our Eternal destiny the destiny of the Jewish people is to be in this land without that anyone trying to take it away from us that's our destiny and God willing that's going to be soon I want to bless you and ask you to bless me we should be able to hear should be able to feel we should be able to do we should be able to have a real relationship with God we should be able to hear read between the lines understand what is the message that our leaders are telling us and that Hashem is telling us where we're supposed to be and where our destiny lies where our destiny lies thank you so much for listening have a wonderful shabas this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you for more podcasts like this please visit www.wag.com or search on iTunes Ari goldwag [Music]