Ari Goldwag - Emor - Of Kings and Kohanim

we're listening to the weekly partial podcast with Ari Gold wag recorded with a sham never-ending assistance in rubbish image Israel 5777 2017 this week's part shows partials m-more I'd like to remind you about my new safer perfectly imperfect breaking out of the ordinary and striving for greatness which is available wherever Jewish books are sold wherever sell time books are sold it's distributed by fel time and it has numerous topics and personal growth and ideas to help us to grow to become greater people to give more to others to be greater ourselves to develop our relationship with Shem I'd like to share with you a thought on our parsha it's Mr it speaks about the obligations the special mitzvahs the special commandments which apply to the Kohanim the priests insofar as they were chosen by a Shem to have a deeper level of connection to be the conduit through which the Jewish people would connect and attach themselves and serve Hashem so it speaks about their specialness and the special laws that apply to them and then after that the Torah describes the special Commandments that apply only to the coin got onto the high priests verse tells us in chapter 21 verse 10 how Godalming akov and the priest who is greater than his brother such are Utah Colorado Shemin hamesha that it was poured upon his head the special oil of anointing meal a Fe ago delicious macadam and he has his hands are full such that he wears he has this obligation he has this responsibility such that he wears special clothing as Rochelle Ephraim we could double owe you from the verse tells us that even if he experiences some kind of loss of a person dear relative and his family nevertheless he's not allowed to allow his hair to become wild and his clothing he remains in his regular clothing he doesn't wear clothing of a valence of mourning the magician Patricof love of test section 26 number nine tells us like this max Eva ha ha Indian what does it say afterwards Cohen hugglemas cough after speaking about the Kohanim - speaking about the regular priest who speaks about the priest who is greater than his longnecker MacLean guzzle why's he referred to as the great or the high priest Shizuka dal makhani shoehorn he is greater than his brothers in five different aspects the kauffman wisdom become us in strength and physical strength Venoy in beauty Rosharon wealth we wish on him and in years so the fact that he has his status that he's greater that he's considered the high priest isn't only reflected in his abode on his service in the base of England temple it's also reflected in his very essence and who he is and how he manifests in the world he's very wise he's very powerful physically he's very beautiful he's very wealthy and he also had years according to this metric he was someone who was an older person with more experience in life measures continuance has been naughty we said that he was beautiful shoe naam a hug is more beautiful and his brothers kokoa with with strength he was powerful shogi bore he was mighty boy array we can see that is true iron when Aaron the high priest Keesha Haney total of him so he did an action to place kedusha on the Levites so he actually picked them up each and every one of them s3 motion I'm Alex Haney p.m. Akkad in one day he raised up physically picked up 22,000 Levites so you see that he was very powerful he had that strength kid said Jaime from how would he do this Mona who may be my little more it he would actually pick them up when wave them just like we wave alula he would wave each of the lithium you should have Levites in all the different directions I wish a good Lacock we see that he was physically powerful no share me nine we see that another aspect is that he has to be someone who is wealthy how does this work exactly measure said something very interesting she lo ha yosher she wasn't actually wealthy if it didn't have money from elsewhere and Hannukah Hannukah ash and i say his brothers all the other priests would donate towards him to make sure that he had money to make sure that he had enough money to be rich masa depan kostas Otto's there was a story with pin cuts he was a priest and his regular job was that he would go and he would Hugh stone out of re shimmy new kind God oh they appointed him he was the priest and he was appointed to be the high priest he had Suzukawa Conover who conceived on him his brothers the priest went out and they saw that he was involved in continuing his work he was hewing the stone room elohim after the fun of Daenerys of and when they saw that so they actually went to the quarry and they filled the quarry with golden coins so we see that has to be one of two things either we have to be rich if he's not rich then his brother is indeed make him rich now the major shafts how do you know this to me 9 Chicago Gatlin Excel Menlo had we know that indeed his brothers do this if he doesn't have the money Shanna about cleaned her girdle mayor Cove the verse refers to him as the high priest who is greater than his brothers but it could also mean he is greater from his brothers meaning the greatness that he has some aspects of it will come from his brothers so it's very interesting because we see there's a Thai economy there's two aspects here on one hand he's someone who's greater than his brothers which means that he's a yoga miracle he's someone who transcends the general populace is the the general population of the priests of the Kohanim and on the other hand where does he get his power from or where does he get his greatness from he gets it from them very interesting so it seems to be that you have two opposite ideas two opposite aspects is he greater than them or is he just one of them that that in a certain sense they have propped up to make great now listen to the next section of the message because it's extremely interesting and it actually if you read the this is section 9 as I mentioned of parsha 26 so if you look back to the previous sections before section 9 it speaks continuously of a different aspect of mushrikeen here about someone who's a messiah the word Messiah or Messiah actually means someone who was anointed with oil and it was the way that someone who is becoming having a great position like a coin a priest or coming out all the high priests or a king King David King Saul each of these people they would be anointed with oil that was the way they were Bheema schewe it will be anointed and that annoying thing will represent the fact that just like oil rises above water so this person is being anointed with the oil in a certain sense rises above others so it speaks about other people's because about show King Saul keeps speaks about King David and over here we get another conversation or another idea that's connected to what we're speaking about that has to do with King David the measure says like this with like angle Avadh ilaha Melek is a bow it's not only a high priest who is this way who has these aspects the the king is also this way the king also has these aspects so what is it referring to so simple and we'll see as a continuous that this is true but simply it means that he has these five things he's greater in wisdom he's more powerful physically he's more beautiful he's more wealthy and clearly a king how does he get his wealth he gets it because he taxes the people so the wealth really comes from all of his subjects okay not time own series of in tamela's we find it to be true by King David came in chocolate locking and gaga's when he went to fight when he went to face off with Goliath armorless show so King Saul said to him no - Halle left until appreciate locking in my kinara to show so that this young man named David wanted to fight with God as he wanted to face off with Goliath and that was a very small person he was a young person and Solomon said to him you're - how do you think you're going to be able to face off with him how will you succeed Galia see this massive physical brute how will you a small person a musician how will you be able to face off with goal yes I'm a load of it so David said to him real hard avi bucks Owen he told him a story you said I was involved in shepherding my sheep the sheep of my father waha Arriva ha Dave and a lion king and a bear came in also send me her either and they took one of the sheep from my flock yes at the Opera I went after him the key thief and I was able to smite that animal with South in EPF I saved it from his mouth by Yoko Milani it tried to attack me that's exactly this Akane I grabbed his beard in Kesey's eye and I struck him vomit Eve and I killed him gamma sorry gamma died he caught a death oh I was able to succeed in fighting against a lion and also against a bear why Aplysia honza Kahana ham and this Goliath this Philistine he'll be no different than those two than the line of a bear I'll be able to overcome him as well so we see here that King David had unusual strength he had unusual power and that power was imbued in him in order that he'd be able to overcome the enemy of the Jewish people we see here that one of the purposes of the King is to stand up for his people and to overcome any enemies who threaten to attack his people and so David was saying King David was saying that I have the power Shem has given me a special power a unique power which is supernatural I'm not physically really able but I shall imbued that in me and therefore I have the ability to now overcome the enemies of the Jewish people so here we see that just like a coin just like a priest and specifically in our context the high priest just like he had the ability is a physical ability which was supernatural to be able to lift up 22,000 people it's impossible but how is he able to do that he was given supernatural powers he was given supernatural strength because of his position so to the king has that ability he's given that ability as well now the continuation of the conversation between between David and Saul is very interesting Olo shah so Saul said to me America lo hago how do you know that you're indeed gonna be able to kill the life yet achieved of it David responded immediately and said Hashem assured solana me on Haryana Gove God who saved me from the hand of the line in the hand of the bear who gets the elenimia depletion yaza he will save me from the hands of this Philistine now the measure says something very interesting me advi-- Yahweh show that stuff in my dog immediately King Saul placed his own clothing his royal clothing upon David will see Vishal now this is something shouldn't have worked if you giving him his clothing which really represents that there's some kind of transfer of power or the fact that David is taking on a certain kingly role so he gives him this clothing now it says about sho look says about King saw me shook my Vimala go by Macola um from the head and above he was taller than all the other people meaning he was physically tall and so his clothing should not have fit King David David it seems was shorter than than sha lamella can saw came in shallow beitia because of russia sue in low e but now what happened was and i don't know if this is literal or this is an analogy but the thick is as literal for now because it's beautiful understand idea he gave him his clothing and his clothing should have been too big on King David but he saw immediately that the clothing fit King David as if it was tailor-made for King David so his own clothes it was clear and now does it King David soon to be King David he wasn't yet a king but David was clearly taking over so to speak there was something spiritual going on some kind of transfer power yet he can swallow in Hara and as a result of this so immediately King Saul began to be jealous he had a negative eye upon David Keyshia rod of a children finish whole now when King David saw that he had embarrassed show as a result of taking his clothing i merlot he said well Halle left has about Ellen I can't go in these meaning I can't wear your clothes killing me see see I have not yet been tried I haven't been tested I haven't gone out and proven myself if I see rain WL love David took those clothes off of himself called omedetou measures finishes often says that we see from your Sheffield hey autumn cut sir even if a person is short then it's mono mela and he's appointed to be the king not sorrow he becomes tall and the idea he is again I'm not sure if this is literal it might be literal but certainly it's it's definitely something which is a spiritual fact that somebody who is appointed to be to be great to have a great position he is somebody who people see at all they see him as great they appreciate him they there's a sir magic it's like when you see a famous person there's a certain magic around that person that's attached and because of the fact that he is someone who everybody gains from benefits from or he's somebody who has been appointed or respected by many people call Cal EMA says the magician what is all this about shiva Shoshana Shoshana Mishra not some Schumer from koulikov at the time when a person is anointed with this special Shemin with a special anointing oil he becomes greater than all of his brothers now I'd like to draw your attention to the previous piece in the mesh which is in letter has section 8 and there's something that's inside of the previous piece which sheds light on going on in our piece that we just read and I think it's it's really a deep idea a deep understanding that we can gain it says like this way amar Hashem emotion or laconian minute our own Val Marta alayhim the verse says twice that Moshe is to speak to the Kohanim to the priests and to say to them what if why does it need to say this language twice so measures tells us a secret tells us a deep idea why the Torah will sometimes repeat the words saying coma come true Omar value Marva yo Marin starkly garish whenever you see that the verse says Vollmer and he said and it says it twice and clearly one of them is unnecessary so you have to know that there's a place for ad Russia you have to know that there's something deeper that's going on that can be understood from the double language it gives us an example from the book of Esther chapter 7 verse 5 a llamar hemella haha gibberish now yo my last remark oh this is at the point in the story where Esther has brought King Ahasuerus and how long together for a party and King Akash very says to her when the verse speaks about what he's about to say it says twice that he said to her now why does it say oh I saw a more value more Lama rather yamanami says I said he kurbashi he you who this before he realized that she was Jewish I am AC akima I used a two argument so he didn't speak to her directly he didn't know who she was she hadn't revealed her identity who she was where she was from he did not yet know that she was a great-granddaughter of royalty at King Saul so wouldn't speak to her directly it would only speak to her through a liaison now Mischa Hakuba as soon as he realizes as soon as she revealed her identity which happened at this point his girl whom is sorry ma he started speaking to her directly instead of speaking to her through a liaison Elle he knew that she was from royalty now he knew that she was from King Saul therefore he spoke to her directly was appropriate and fitting from to speak to her directly so we see over here that when you have a viola are twice it's teaching you that there's a superficial aspect there's an outer aspect of the speaking when someone speaks indirectly to someone else so that's a superficial way of communicating so there's an outer aspect of the speaking there's an inner aspect of the speaking there's the direct communication which results in a deeper revelation of who that person is when you see the deeper aspect of the person then you can communicate more directly to that person so you have whenever you will have a viola mer twice whenever you have is speaking twice so there's an outer aspect there's a superficial aspect of the communication and there's an inner aspect that's being revealed of that communication the measure continues and gives a few different examples of it but I want to come back to the concept of the Kohanim the OPCON the measures finishes off and says that here too and Marla Kohanim Valmont Allium there's a speaking to the Kohanim which is doubled indicating that there's a there's a superficial aspect and there's a more interact Amira Shona what's the first thing that's to be told to the Kohanim to the priests LeMay Smith so Utama that there's an obligation that a coing even though ordinarily the Kohen is not allowed to become impure except for his own seven closest relatives but when it comes to a mace mitzvah when the Kohen when a priest comes across a person who's died on the way he's died on the path and there's an obligation for him even a priest has to become impure ordinarily it's forbidden he's allowed and obligated to become impure in order to bury that person it's called a Mason Mitzvah someone who has died and is an obligation take care of the needs of that maze of that dead person so here we have one aspect we have what I would call this superficial aspect because a KO'ing a priest because of his higher level of condition because of his greater attachment to God so he's not allowed ordinarily to become impure so when we say that he is obligated to become impure in this particular instance so that indicates that there's a disconnect from God that he's not fully connected to his kedusha to his purity and he has to indeed become impure so that indicates a superficial aspect of the coin of the priest but now when it comes to the second vania Locke Hamlet um up that only in this case is he allowed to become impure that indicates that for others he's not allowed to become impure the field of nemr amor Val Marta there's a double speaking here because there's the inner aspect and there's the outer aspect is the fact that it becomes impure for amazing mitzvah and there's the the fact that he does not become impure for anybody else so that indicates the fact that he is deeply connected to Hashem that he can't be disconnected from his service of God he can't become impure lose that kedusha that allows him to enter into the base of English into the temple to perform his duties there now very interestingly in the next piece the NGO Civ uses this idea this double Valmer to teach us that the the piece that we read which was the conversation between King David and King Saul there was stuff that the measures added into the conversation that's not actually in the sodium and the ACO Civ asks how did the meander show or what room was there in the sukham that the measures could add into the conversation and speak about this back and forth because it doesn't say anything about the closing of King Saul being given over to King David so what's the idea and he answers that it says the word Vollmer twice as well in that context thus indicating that there was speech that was said and speech that was not said and that gave us room to speak about the fact that the speech that was not said was the offering of King Saul to give him his clothing now the idea is beautiful because there's a superficial aspect of the speech and there's the deeper aspect of the speech there's a conversation where King Saul is saying you're not somebody who is fit to be able to overcome Galia to be able to overcome Goliath King David is saying no I indeed have received special aid I've had sea otter dish might have had heavenly assistance when it comes to this type of thing and so I do have the power which is supernatural which is only granted to somebody because he is someone who's supposed to be a leader for his people and King Saul you know it's this is the part that's not included this is the deeper aspect which is a viola or viola the thing that's left out which indicates something deeper and that is that King Saul offers King David his clothing which really indicates and again I don't know if it's literal but it indicates that on a deeper level King Saul understood that King David was soon to become the king and that he was taking on the clothing the clothes make the man so to speak the clothing that a person wears represents the inner aspect of who he is it's supposed to be a reflection of how he sees himself so echoing a brief coming got all the high priests have special clothing a king also has special clothing so when King David is able to wear the clothing of King Saul is able to fit into the clothing so to speak that really means on a deeper aspect that he himself is also taking all the aspects of kingship thus we see there's an outer and an inner aspect that I want to say that this really explains the point that we asked earlier we said how could it be that the coen if he's rich so it makes sense he's rich if he rich is he greater than his brothers or is he greater because his brother's because his brothers give him that wealth and the answer is that they're really two sides of the same coin they're really the superficial aspect and the heir aspect a Cohen Ghul high priest or a king is somebody who as we've spoken about in the past he's on whose neshama Cole Ellis he's a soul who includes everybody else and that's the Kohen Gadol acts on behalf of the Jewish people he also acts on behalf of all of the Kohanim the priests that's what we read about last week as he does their vote on the basis of English in the temple so there were different things to be macabre to atone for himself for his family for the Kohanim for the priests and for all of the Jewish people so he is colla he includes each of those aspects all of them are included within himself so that's the so loved the matter that's the deepest aspect of it that he is the soul of all of them and therefore he condemned a copper you can atone for all of them and it's reflected in the fact that he's greater than them but how did he get it where does it really come from it comes from the fact that all of them are pieces and he is the whole of all of their pieces he is greater than them but how is he greater than Y is greater than them it's because of the fact that they are there they are all pieces of him they are all joining together and as a result he now is greater so he really is greater because of them but because of them he is now greater than them in a certain sense he serves as their soul he rises above he's Meshuga he's anointed with the oil which rises above but he's also he comes from them the oil doesn't just stay on top the oil so to speak in the analogy the oil is injected down inside of the water and then it rises above the water oil doesn't rise above oil it only rises above water so the reason the oil is greater the reason the Kohen Gadol is greater is because of his brothers now when thinking about this and how it applies to me and perhaps each one of us can think about how it applies to us but I think that the idea is that each person within the context of his life you know I'm a parent I have children and I have others who I affect perhaps as a result of my music raps as result of retour that I give but there are those around me who what why am i great why am I on a higher level but saved in my family why am I considered the father of my family it's only because of my children I wasn't called a father before I had children and yet I have the responsibility as a result of that my children made me a father and now I responsibilities to them as a result and I need to take that responsibility seriously and on the other hand just beautifully just like King David is giving special sea otter dish my special ability to be able to fight against the enemies of the Jewish people because he's the king because he is that person whose initial makélélé so to each individual I also get special sea after dish my I get extra help because I have children who I need to guide to help who wash em is sending his chef through me to them he sends his influx into the world through me and each person within their lives also has that also has that ability and also has that responsibility so I'd like to bless you please bless me back action should help us to recognize this duality this outer aspect and this inner aspect that should help us to accept that responsibility to tap in to this special Seattle dish method special divine help the divine assistance that comes as we expand those who are helping those who are having influence upon thank you so much for listening have wonderful Shabbos this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners liking for more podcasts like this prince visit WWE gold wacom or search on itunes ari Gold's lakh [Music]