Ari Goldwag - Ekev - Pieces of Completion

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast recorded with a shemin's never-ending assistance in Roma RAL 5778 2018 this exposures parsha say keV and in our part show this week so we have the famous reference to the Torah via a cave Tishman and it will be if you will listen to the word eight keV which starts off the parsha the word a keV means if but it also has another meaning the word a keV as we find my Yacouba vino jacob came into the world and he was holding on to a subs heel he was holding on to a subs foot and that's referred to as an a calf it means the foot and that's why it was called Yaakov via Cove is milosz own eggs a calf the heel and the Jewish people are in a certain way the heel we are the connection right just like a human being walks upon the earth and he walks with his feet and the feet connect to the earth it's the human being also walks upon the earth and and the spiritual elements of the human being are up here by the head and the feet are by the grounds with the point connection between heaven and earth so to speak and so Yaakov Aveeno Jacob represented that and the Jewish people also represent this ability to transfer or to to exist within both worlds the world of the Spirit and the world of the physical ok so the word a keV refers to the feet it refers to the point of connection it also refers to other things we see that Rashi refers to their their certain myths is that on Russian Russian behave um there are services that people trample with their feet the mitzvahs that are not as significant and those they also need to be careful with clearly we need to make sure to appreciate them and commit to doing them they're also important as I heard recently there's no such thing when it comes to mitzvahs when it comes to you know when you when you're dealing with raw materials so if you're peeling away or you're dealing with the heat that you deal with wheat so there's such a thing as the chaff there's the part that's unwanted and unnecessary but there's also the main stuff it's the wheat itself you throw away the chaff you keep the wheat when it comes to diamonds so there's no such thing as something which is unnecessary even the little pieces of diamonds that are cut away they can still be used in jewelry they're still important they're still significant and that's how it is with mitzvos when it comes to the commandments of the Torah so we appreciate in value every aspect okay but when I'd like to share with you today is am a Jewish as I am as I commonly do well I can share with you a beautiful mesh a very interesting piece it's the first piece and imagine srirama and purchase a cave and it says like this it starts off with a hollow claw and that at first glance seemed doesn't seem as connected to the rest of the mattress but as always the mesh always includes a concept though most most of the time it's very as one digs a little bit deeper so it's possible to see the connection between the different parts of the matter is different in the piece so the very beginning here is partially emo the first section of partial gamma halakhah the halacha is the law is a dummy association of inertia sweep rock and program let's see a person has a candelabra which is made out of pieces so today generally speaking you have a candelabra on your menorah which is made out of one piece of metal okay it doesn't come apart but let's say you have a manner which is made of the pieces so there's an issue on Shabbos melt a little bit Shabbos are you allowed to move it on Shabbos and the issue is like this kahshanna ha ha mama market can a Minerva shava skycat us the sages saying and this by the way is not it's not clear if this is true Liholiho but meaning if we passing if we hold this way but the sages say that a person who puts together a menorah on Shabbos there's an insert there's enough there is a transgression of by now of building on Shabbos you've completed hey you've taken the pieces of something and you put it together and you've completed an object that now has a purpose now as a use so therefore the hum say your hive AHA to us if you did it unintentionally you have to you have to bring a sacrifice for a sin we show ma Makai why does the person have an obligation here what is the trend rushon so America volition Buchanan Rubio senator Markey miss Minerva Shabbos Adam should blame a Shabbos it's just like somebody who builds on Shabbos and therefore there's a transgression Michou Blaine to be shava skive so many who builds on the Sabbath so the prohibitions on Shabbos have nothing to do or generally don't have to do with anything that's per se difficult we to speak about my luck on Shabbos at 39 malakas the 39 forbidden acts but and there are many subdivisions and subcategories of that but when it comes to these malakas so they're not things that are per se difficult it's not difficult to light a match but it's a conscious creative act it's it's something that's creating something completing something creation completion those are for the six days of the week when it comes to Shabbos however the Sabbath we stop creating okay we stop doing creative acts because on Shabbos everything is already completed everything is already ready for us all the food is cooked it's just sitting there on the warmer everything is ready we don't need to add anything Shabbos when we get to Shabbos everything is complete there's no checking our emails there's no checking our facebook there's no everything is ready we don't need anything we have everything we need that's what schepis is so the person puts together a menorah the person takes the pieces and puts them together so that would be a prohibition now that's the halacha that that the measures brings down and again as far as if it's actually transgression if we pass in this way you can ask your local Orthodox rabbi but let's see what the measure continues incest because it seems like the next section doesn't seem as connected as as what we're speaking about here okay so let's see maybe a Seaver pnina obviously repent even says a messiah show me salsa Shabbos when was it that the Jewish people kept Shabbos it's very interesting okay so we have here a concept that Shabbos was kept perhaps one time the Jewish people all the entire nation of the Jewish people kept the entire Shabbos correctly when was that time so BAC were pinion holds that this it did indeed there was such a time it didn't occur he locution in Lillehammer autosh the first time I was given to them in a place called a lush so they they kept the entire termination mi how do we know this because the verse says each piece one by Amaury the entire nation kept the Sabbath on the seventh day that's our shaman arroz con in satya Shabbos No so now this the message goes on to the next one which is very interesting the first point is that the Jewish people kept Chavez they all kept the Shabbos the first time it was given the first shot missed the entire people kept the Chavez's the verse says now you might think looked ciamis is a hard thing to do there are so many laws there's so many details it seems like it's impossible how can we possibly keep the whole Shabbos maybe it's something which isn't to our benefit to that Hashem gave us this we call it a gift of Shabbos as a gift Sharon our us when I study the class of Shabbos if you would think that it was given to you for an egg ative thing Lena thought it look like let's have Oscar no the measure says you shouldn't think that was given to you for your benefit it's only a positive thing Kate said how is this already Kira Baba he Barabbas says I look at this shop it's a mouthful of a mission of assisting the Kia Orana snapshot you honor and you sanctify the Shabbos how do you do so you do it by eating good foods by drinking good drinks by wearing nice clothes clean clothes and you enjoy yourself on Shabbos take a good nap on Shabbos afternoon hang out with your children you sing songs you say the retarder you study Torah so you do this amazing enjoyable thing right Shabbos is the best day you're free you're free from all the technology as well I need nice and hot soccer so a Shem says you do all of these nice things you do with all these enjoyable things and I'm gonna reward you for it when you get to the world to come it's going to be something you're gonna not only enjoy it in this well you enjoyed in the next world me 9 so how do we know that this is true the verse says in Isaiah chapter 58 verse 13 like this the Karussell Shabbos I neg every says that you're gonna call the Shabbos an enjoyable time maxie baccarat what does the verse say afterwards oh is this sounding a lecture then you will enjoy God meaning in the future then what's then then it's talking about in the world to come the person reaches as you know after this life so life doesn't end with death our soul continues on we get to a world where we are recognized for me we receive reward for all the things that we did in in our lives all the good deeds that we've done okay so the Torah tells us the verse in Isaiah says then you will enjoy God you will receive the reward because the ultimate reward is the experience of godliness of spirituality itself so we see that a person who keeps Shabbos a person who enjoys the Shabbos who invests in sanctifying the Shabbos so in the end not only does he enjoy Shabbos and this world he enjoys in the next world as well was it something I chef Ethan Lacombe inshallah the believer says I shall give you all of the desires of your heart okay so we get we get there's two things going on here let's see rmally you throw famous ad nice and low mascara magician icing so the jewish people say when when do we get the reward for the commandments that we're doing I'm gonna cut the schmuck who God says to them missus schott the mycenaean paris a mile from our shop there's two levels here and you see this in this verse there's two levels of receiving reward and will soon discuss to try to understand what is the concept of reward and Judaism is it there there's amazing feast waiting for us in the world to come is there like what's the reward as we mentioned we said we said already the answer which is it has to do with the enjoyment of experiencing godliness but we'll see more about that so Hashem says I don't look at the sparkle message at the most me Paris about the Malcolm a shop you receive fruits the fruits you receive now I've asked are a bit a key of any nice and ahem but when will you receive the full reward for them you will receive the full reward for them to a cave in the end me 9 Masha Karina ban your name about you have a gift issue 1 how do we know that this is true that in the end we get the reward based on the source oh yeah a Kurdish moon you will in the end as a result of hearing you will see something happening in the end you will receive reward for that in the end okay so it's near man's attempt to in our verse that indeed every person no good at goes unrewarded every time we do a good deed we receive reward for it at some point and we're not talking about you know like we we come to the world to come and there's like piles and piles of gold we're talking about a spiritual reward okay but the idea is that there is a two-fold reward the way that we refer to it as we say a Karen Camus we say Paris MLM isaiah i can't can't i said that my bob that we enjoy the fruits in this world and there is there's something waiting for us in the world to come it's like you have an investment the money itself lets you have a million dollars invested into the right stocks so two million dollars is sitting in the Karen the the principle is staying there and then you're able to reap the rewards even now even though you're not at you don't have the million dollars you're not using it it's invested somewhere it's not touchable but you're receiving dividends the fruits you receive now and that's the way it is with the commandments the the midst is that a person does when person invests in fulfilling the time a person invests in good deeds in Hesed in charity in kindness so the the the investment is waiting for him in the world to come but a person reaps the benefits our dividends in this world there are fruits that he receives in this world so what is the idea here and how does hello how do we connect this to Shabbos it's very interesting because we're talking about Shabbos and we're saying we speak about the value there was a Shabbos that everybody kept which was the first Shabbos where his idea of Shabbos what is the essence of Shabbos and how does it relate to the fact that we will get reward in the world to come we get the fruits in this world what is the idea also it's it's hinted to that idea you know we bring in a behavior a kept issue but it's also said really the first before said Oh Susanna gosh I'm you 10 local Michalis tobacco there are two things us is something Osho means in the future time you will enjoy the the spiritual you will enjoy coming close to God right so there's that aspect of it there's also vital mashaallah sabaha Sharon's gonna give you in this world all of those things that you all the desires of your heart all of your physical desires person wants to have all kinds of things personal one step are not sequence of livelihood he wants to have Simcoe inception he wants to have nos there's so many things that a person wants person needs in order to be able to do a shuns role in this world what is the idea here how does this connect to Shabbos is there any interest in class I'll tell us or say just tell us at Shabbos it's called me in Olam haba it's called an inkling an aspect of the world to come because as we said Shabbos is a time just like you know I'm above there's no more action we get to the end of our lives after 120 years we live on this earth you know there's no more action we're done we've done what we can do we get to the world to come and what is the spiritual reward what is the reward that we experience when we get to the world to come the reward is that we experience how significant right when we're in this world so we don't appreciate the significance of the acts that we do when you don't see the spiritual ramifications of our acts all the time sometimes we do see that sometimes we do have that opportunity to be able to see that but often we don't so the the reward is waiting for us in the world to come because in the world to come it's the world is called the world of truth all my buzz the world of truth it's that moment when we we actually everything becomes clear we actually see in the full context the full picture of creation the significance of our acts the significance of our deeds person is involved you know it's a muscle shops is called may anal my boss so in some way Shabbos is like that you know the we we spend six days of the week and we're working hard and we're doing the things that we need to do in order to bring in livelihood for our families and then on Shabbos we sit back and we don't have to work it's a break we don't do anything everything is prepared all the food is already made there's no cooking on Shabbos the lights are set you don't touch the light you don't do anything creative you just sit back and you appreciate all that you've done all its been accomplished all we do on Shabbos we focus on our families we appreciate what we have we've totally this lovscheim is the song of Shabbos the the thank you we give thanks to God it's good to give thanks so that's what shaman says shamans is my analemma bah we get to the world to come in so also we've we finished all the work all we do is we experience the results of our actions all of the good deeds that we've done we've spent our entire lifetime doing we sit back and we relax and we experience that now the six days of the week are all the pieces right you have day one and roshani I'm shiny I'm Shelley she I'm Ravi I'm coming she day one day two called Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday those are the six days of the week those are the pieces those are the pieces now when they all come together they're completed you get to day six Friday yummy she is the end it's called the the Yabba shop if me I am mr. Torre a flair shop is the mushaf whoever has worked hard on air of Shabbos will be able to eat all shopping so I mean air Shabbos what about all the other days of the week no the answer is because Friday is the conclusion of the six days of the week it's the Kyllo that includes all of that all that we've done throughout the week is completed on the sixth day Shabbos Shama I'm sorry Hashem completed also in the six days of creation sham completed all of his creation on the sixth day it was a coil of all creation man was created on the sixth day and he was the the climax of creation everything was created for him so Friday is a day you have all the pieces coming together to completion that's day six okay as if he says come together they're completed and then we have Shabbos when we sit back and we appreciate all of the work that we've done we appreciate all the pieces they've come together already okay that's the concept of the six days of the week and that's the concept of Shabbos now what happens now now let's look at this very interesting because the the magic one is starting off it gave us a certain halakhah what was the halacha that it brought it brought us a ilaha that on Shabbos you can't take the pieces of a menorah you can't take the pieces of a candelabra and assemble them on Shabbos if you assemble them on Shabbos you have transgressed Shabbos you have lost you Mista Playa Shabbos there's thing missing from your Shabbos if you're taking pieces and putting them together on Shabbos why because IDF Shabbos is no creation we are sitting back and we are receiving all that we've done until now all the pieces have already come together those are the six days of creative creation six days of the week we've already spent those six days we finished those six days we've finished our time of creation and now we come to Shabbos and we just receive it there's no more putting the pieces together there's no more responding to messages no more emails no more Facebook no more anything it's just Shabbos we sit back or quiet we relax we enjoy we receive that's what Shabbos is so we can't put those pieces together and and that's really I believe why the measure starts off with that ilaha and and I don't think it's a coincidence either that we're talking about a menorah menorah is something which which shines light we can't shine light on Shabbos it has to already be shining no represents light represents and light represents spirituality you had to have gotten it together by the time you get to Shabbos that's what the measure she's telling us Shabbos you can't put it together anymore you can't put together the pieces anymore only beforehand when you get two of them how boom when you get to the world to come there is no more putting the pieces together right well mushiya comes when the sigh arrives so we're getting closer and closer to the world to come there's no more receiving convert it's why because that's it the game is over you already see what's happening you can't there's no we're putting the pieces together we're already a Chaves okay so that's what happens there with the halacha and that's the idea of Shama sand it's also the idea of the there's really we're still in this world so we still are putting the pieces together yes during the week Shabbos we get that that that reminder of what's going to be in the future we can't put the pieces together anymore right but here we are still waiting for that Shabbos so we still are I call Peter Sam and hozhet we still get to eat the fruits in this world because really everything that we experience in this world gives us a hint to what's going on in the next world right we can always you know everything I've shown gives us in our lives for example a shine gives us a we have parents so we learn from cubed of a name the way that we're supposed to respect our parents teaches us how we're supposed to respect God uses the same language in the Torah and speaking about keyboard of aim also being Mahavira Shem honoring a Shem there's a aspect of fear of our parents were supposed to have yearís URIs I've aim aim I've actually were supposed to fear our mother and a father we're supposed to show them respect and the same way we're supposed to do that with our parents and so everything that we have in this world is a dogma as an example of the way that we're supposed to be able to understand the spiritual realm that's what it means Shabbos is main ALM how about Shabbos is an aspect of the world to come we learn from Shabbos what the world to come is like the aspect of Shabbos and that's the fruits that we reap in this world we're in this world and we're doing these acts so if we keep Shabbos perfectly we get to understand what it's going to be like in the world to come and that's a reminder for us every single week every single week we had this reminder hey you're gonna have to stop there's gonna be a stop make sure you focus on putting the pieces the right pieces together make sure you're focusing during the week I'm putting together a menorah I'm putting together a candelabra which creates light which creates spirituality make sure that that's the focus of the week make sure that's the focus of what you're doing throughout the week no you can't do it on Shabbos can only do it the six days of the week okay and so therefore a person who recognizes this keeps Shabbos correctly so that person is the one is going to be able to have us do some English am ultimately the reward that we experience is this the experience of God it's experience of true of the true reality what was really important what was really true what was the the spiritual reality but we get to experience that every week butane Liholiho Becca and Shamu also give us the the desires of our heart the things that we need even in this world in order to support our physical reality so that we can imbue this the physical reality with spirituality so I want to bless you and I ask you to bless me ashram should help us that we should be szekely we should merit to understand the true power and beauty of Thomas should merit to keep it correctly learning the challah is the laws of Shabbos would you be Zach we should merit to have that recognition of what the world to come looks like of what mushiya what it's like when Mushaf comes when the Messiah arrives she'll help us to have that recognition and to be able to put the pieces together throughout our weeks all the time throughout our lives in the correct way thank you so much for listening have wonderful Shabbos this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you for more podcasts like this please visit www.carmensognonvi.com/newsletter [Music]