Emor - Lag B'omer in Meron - Questions and Silence

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with hari goldwag recorded with hashem's neverending assistance in ramaph israeli 781 2021 this week's partial is parches amor emeralda koyanim and in our parsha i'm not going to speak about the kohanum so much i'm going to speak about a different topic in the parsha and how it relates to what went on last night uh very difficult situation what went on last night in mayron i'd like to share with you a thought based on something i saw in the madrish on the parsha pasik says chapter 23 verse 24 23 and 24. that in the seventh month the month of tishrei so on the first day of the month there's a day of rest we have a yantef and we blow this chauffeur we craft them hashem we don't do any work we don't do any malacha we bring corbin to hashem what is the idea of rosh hashanah i know it's early to talk about rosh hashanah but i felt that there's a certain kind of din there's a certain kind of judgment that's going on it's going on in the whole world it's been going on for a while but when something like what happened last night happens we need to think about it i think in terms of the following major it talks about something very interesting that has to do with the word though the measures points out that the word should be the seventh month the seventh month is the month that we have rosh hashanah we start counting the months and nissan is the first month the month of pesach the month we just left now we're in er the second month tishrei the month of rosh hashanah yom kippur sukis it's all the seventh month the month of tishrei and in trying to understand the word the word we know means seven but also has other connotations says the majorish like this he would call the month of the month the month of the shiva the word is an oath so there's somehow whenever we have words that are have the same root so there's some kind of connection the number seven somehow connotes the idea of an oath because the word shivua also has the same root a she was an oath this is the month of the oath which oath says god's promise is followed shabbat nicholas this was the month that that god promised abraham right after abram avinu finished performing that kedah binding his son yitzchak he was ready to sacrifice his son the mouth tells him to stop allah says don't don't sacrifice your son now i see that you are a god-fearing person you're willing to do it that's enough you don't have to do any more and god makes a promise he makes an oath what's the oath so the verse it's not so clear and it's very interesting matser says the message a very strange thing why we need an oath usually a person makes a schwa because something's wrong something's wrong he feels a challenge in his relationship he's promised somebody that is going to do what's right even though it's hard for him to do what's right he feels challenging in his relationship with god with himself or with another person whatever but this is a moment of triumph avraham avinu fulfilled the the obligation he fulfilled it he he passed the test and why is god making an oath at that time rabbi baraboo there was a conversation that happened there was a reason that hashem made an oath there's a reason that god swore and it was like this because avraham aveeno at that moment he saw an opportunity he saw an opportunity for a prayer the prayer was like this shalom it's very clear to me at the moment that you said to me take your son take your only son bring him as a sacrifice i had i had questions i had responses to what you asked i had a response to this request i could have fought with you so to speak you told me that is going to be my child he's going to the beginning of a new nation he's the one actually earlier now you're telling me to bring him as a sacrifice i i could have asked that question but i didn't ask that question i didn't challenge you it didn't make sense it didn't make sense and i had questions but i didn't foreign like cesaro mavinos just like i had questions to ask but i didn't ask those questions there's going to be a point in the future where that you kind of have questions about us [Music] says in psalms like a like a deaf person who can't hear like a like a mute person who can't speak there's going to be people of the jewish people who are missing their sense of hearing their sense of speech they don't hear what's right they don't speak the right way they don't do what's right you show you bottom shall you sorry i could be i'm mistranslating how this puzzle comes in he was saying i was silent let's get it right i act like i didn't hear anything i didn't have the question i was like i just didn't say anything that's what it means there's gonna be a question on the jewish people in the future they're going to be people who do sins there's going to be people who do wrong there's many people who deny god's existence there's going to be people who turn away from god they sin they masculine he begged god he said just like i didn't ask any questions about something that didn't that wasn't didn't make sense that was seemingly improper god i ask you that you not ask questions when your children do something my children do something which is improper tafka she uh versus myself remember the arcade remember the binding of isaac the the willingness to do something that didn't really make sense that seemed to be a didn't make sense our our quietness are willing to just not ask questions and just do what's right hashem please god you also don't ask questions switch from the throne of judgment over to the throne of compassion this is have compassion on your children have have be full of compassion foreign finishes off and says when is this in the seventh month meaning as something which you know we don't really deserve we don't really deserve that god should not ask questions we don't really deserve it we just we do something wrong i don't even want to say what what we deserve we do something wrong who please says to me just like i didn't ask any questions please god don't ask any questions on your people promise me and that was the schwa that was the schwa that was here the the oath that was here in this in this video in the seventh month the seventh month the is the language of shua which means an oath this is a month where we ask god to remember the oath that he made the oath was forgive us we don't deserve it but our the one who contained all of us the one who who had the soul which contained all of us they were quiet even though it didn't make sense god please be quiet for us even though we don't really deserve it okay that's the that's the first piece of the message i wanted to share with you and the obvious the obvious thing is you know we have questions why why we have questions and it's not just something like this we could ask the question in so many places and avraham aveeno teaches us be quiet you don't understand sometimes the best answer is no answer and if i can be quiet so then i can ask akush to be quiet when i do something wrong now i want to read you the next piece in the magis the plastic says in the in the context of the al-qaeda it's important to understand this we saw about this this oath and now we're seeing in regards to the the seventh month we blow the schaefer right that's what we saw in the verse we blow this the ram's horn why at that point in the arcade though what happens after kurdish work who tells him don't don't bring your son as a sacrifice he saw that there was an aisle he saw a ram and the ram was caught up in the thicket by his horns the the ram was like getting caught up it ran out of one thicket ran out of one forest stuck by its horns and it ran into another thicket just keep kept getting stuck kept getting stuck what's the idea america the subaru in the future the jewish people your children are going to get caught up in the thicket of the world the thicket of darkness the thicket of sin just like this aisle like this ram the siphon the goyle the karma shall isle their redemption is going to come with with the horn with that horn of the ram the verse says that god right before the messiah arrives there's going to be a great horn that that is is sounded the horn of the ram right the kaab is she forgot to look here is saying we refer to this every day in our tv in our prayers we say god blow on that great horn what is the idea what is the message teaching us even though there's a sin even though we're caught up in the thicket of sin but somehow the sound of the chauffeur is going to redeem us it's going to redeem us i was thinking about there's more to really see in this i don't want to get so far into the medrash i was thinking about it you know what happens when we hear that horn on rosh hashanah what about it is so powerful it's so powerful how does it release us from the sin that's what the message is saying the horn that gets caught up releases us from the sin what is it what's the idea and i think that the sound of the chifer it's a it's a you know one of the ways that they used to battle and even today this is done as well there's their weapons like this in a battle if you make a very loud sound it scares the enemy the jewish people as they walked around the city of eureka they blow they blow on the chauffeur that massive sound has it has a profound effect it when a person hears a loud sound it's scary it shakes a person up the chauffeur is meant to to make us pause it's meant to wake us up it's meant to shake us out of our our doldrums it's meant to to we're stuck we're so involved in this dream called life we're so involved in our day-to-day we don't stop and think it's very easy to not stop and think you go from one thicket to another thicket how am i going to pay my mortgage how am i going to pay this i'm going to be oh my gosh one problem to another problem to another problem another challenge let's call it the the scheifer is there to say pause it's a loud noise it's a pause when we get a chance to pause if we can if we can get a chance to pause we have a chance to get out of this thicket the ultimate pause is the pause that we pause forever when meshiach comes when the messiah arrives comes says the says our holy sages it comes with a hesa hadas with a poison thought we're so caught up with like iran and and america and nuclear deals and and we're so caught up and all of a sudden there's a big noise it's called corona all of a sudden there's a big noise like what happened last night in mayron it's a shake-up it's hard it's hard it's so loud but it has to get us to pause has to get us to pause so hard to shake us out of our day-to-day it's so hard to shake us out of running from one thicket to another going from one molhouse to another instead of the magish going from one difficult situation to the next difficult situation says the major share at the end of this piece of israel is the entire year the jewish people are involved in their in their work and then rosh hashanah comes they blow the shaffer they're standing in front of god who i made he said we smiled and god stands up same lesson as we saw in the previous majors he stands up from his c seat of judgment and he moves over to the seat of compassion this is in the seventh month the seventh month the seventh month like the number seven always connotes as the manager goes on to say i'm not gonna read it at all but there's a completion right shabbos it's the seventh day there's a pause we stop have a complete pause and in that pause we find god we blow a scheifer there's a pause it gives us pause a moment to pause you're in israel and you hear the siren it's an opportunity to pause something tragic occurs it's a loud siren it's a chance to pause and it's so easy to ask questions and and and get caught up in the noise one more time and that's what avraham avinu didn't do and that's his huss for us he didn't try to explain it try to blame it try to understand what's the message even that just i was in i walked just now into the mercado the you know the shopping center and and uh guy the guy the food stand said to me you know today's a happy day it's supposed to be a happy day everyone's walking around sad we just marin that's what he said arnold's silent we don't get it we have to pause that's what i take out of this parsha that's what i take out and and and but i think if we can if we can touch that pause a bit that's that's the secret that's what the mentorship is telling us there's a secret to getting to god's mercy it's through that pause i can get to the pause through not asking the questions the questions they're killing me not asking those questions but just silence i can get into that pause i can get into that pause hearing a sound that's just a shock a shocking sound i can get into a pause from listening to music i can get a pause get into a there's so many ways but the point is to pause and when you pause so a kurdish bar who i don't really totally understand it's worth thinking about and invite you all to think about it somehow when i'm paused god gets up from his throne of judgment and he sits on his throne of mercy how much rakhamin do we need we need so so much compassion we need so much mercy from god let's try to be quiet i want to bless you and ask you to bless me hashem should help us we shouldn't hear bad news we should only hear good news the ultimate good news the ultimate pause should be so soon and in the meantime because god should help us to also pause to pause try not to over analyze but just be with it thank you so much for listening have a wonderful show 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 ahri goldwag