Ari Goldwag - Emor - When the Righteous Err

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast recorded with ashrams never-ending assistance in ramat beit shemesh israel 5770 6 2016 this week if you're in hood solarz if you're outside of Israel so the pressure that will be read is partial zemmour I'd like to share with you a thought which is based on profound mad rush very deep concept at the very very beginning of this week's parsha actually quotes a puck a verse from the from last week's parsha from the end of Kadosh IAM and the verse at the beginning of this week's parsha points out that there's a connection between these two verses so i'd like to read that to you and i'd like to share with you this thought the end of last week's parsha last verse says like this visha isha whether a man or woman key here by hem I are you dining mais uma so if they go to a certain type of person who is called an 0 for you Donny which as the mo forum explained is somebody who is able to see the future he does certain acts in order to find out the future so such a person who's trying to find out the future in a way which is employing the caucus atoma the powers of evil so such a person has to be killed it's against the Torah to try to find out the future in a way which isn't in consonance with the Torah that doesn't use coconut Ihara that doesn't use the powers of good but Evan Jurgen why some demand bone possibly tells us that such a person has to be stoned to death their blood is on their own head it's something that they've caused to themselves they've done something wrong with your turtle prohibits and therefore they must die now the worse the very beginning of our partial says IM hashem amisha the verses Hashem God said to Moses and I laconia mini I ruined speak to the priests the children of Aaron marked allium Lynette Ashley Tama but I'm off that they're not permitted to become impure by coming in contact with the dead so what is the connection every time you up suck them that are next to each other when you have concepts that are next to each other there's always some connection between them nothing has happened stance natur everything is done the Havana is done with intent sham ordered everything with a certain order everything is written in a very specific way why are these tubes hooking the puck which talks about not using divination not using prohibited means of finding out the future that verse why is that placed right next to the verse which speaks about the beginning of the commandments to the Kohanim to the priests so the main church offers a very interesting explanation which I'd like to share with you it's based on the explanation of the eight cos a phone number for shin on the measure the message points out that there was a time in the future and the reason that this pasta kissed is saying it putting these two verses next to each other is because it was actually foreshadowing something was that was going to happen many many years later after the tour was given there would be some event that would occur that would involve both the concept of kohanim the priests and also the concept of asking about the future asking for a prophecy from someone who's using cohasset uma he's using the powers of evil now the message brings the whole story and gives us a whole explanation I'm not gonna get into every single detail but I will share with you a few of the details but first it's important to understand the story that the measure she's referring to hundreds of years after tour was given right before the base some English before the temple was built so there was a great prophet his name is Samuel Shmuel Hanavi and she wanna be appointed first as the king over the Jewish people for two and a half years was King Saul show lamela he was the one who is first appointed he was from the tribe of Benjamin of Benjamin and as a result of his not following the command of a Shem as a result of his not completely killing the nation of amalek who represent evil in the world because of that he lost his maluca he lost his kingship and although his children should have continued his kingship in the end both he and all this children died and instead of him King David mm Aleph became the king over the Jewish people he was from the tribe of Judah of from Yehuda and indeed he and his children and all the way down till today hopefully soon mushiya will come from King David now the Navi tells us that King David was already anointed by small hanafi by Samuel to be the next king even though Shah amela King Saul was already was still the king at that time so you went anointed king david and show King Saul was aware of the fact that stuff was happening that things were changing that he lost his Luka that he lost his kingship however he didn't accept it he wasn't willing to accept that and so the the sukham the verses describe the fact that he was chasing after King David after double how my life in order to kill him because he felt that he was a murdered by malice which means that he was rebelling against the king and a person who rebelled against the king is liable for death so Sean mouth was running after King David now in the process so not only does he run after King David but there's a story with the noise Iroquois on him and let this ring a bell over here that it has to do with the priests has to do with the Cohanim which is the subject of our parsha that naive Iroquois hanuman was a city of priests of kohanim and they helped out double homologue in the process of King David running away from king Saul so he stopped at the the city of know the city of kohanim and because they helped him so show Lamela King Saul wiped out the entire city because he felt that they were all murdered in my mouth was that they were all rebelling against the king or huzzah Litella sir sages say that as a result of this great sin as a result of him having abused his power and killing these many innocent people these Kohana knees priests that sealed his fate and the fate of his children that they would go into battle and they would die in battle now at this point in the story so she wanna be Samuel who had anointed king Saul and then also anointed king david he had passed away he was no longer on the scene immediately before sha Lamela King Saul was about to go out to his final battle he was looking at the battlefield he was looking at what was going on he was used to being able to ask she one of you Samuel what to do and how to proceed and what was going to be small enough he had raha Kota she had divine inspiration was a prophet he was able to guide him properly in what was the will of a sham and what what he should do but she was no longer alive so what King Saul did was he searched out throughout the kingdom for a woman or person who is able to be an IV dining exactly the first verse that we quoted at the beginning of our podcast somebody who is able to use divination use the contest Toma use the powers of evil in order to find out the future in order to find out what was going to be with this particular battle how he was to go about it what was going to be the results of this battle now wasn't very easy or house I'll tell us to find somebody like this because show lamela King Saul because the Torah says it's such a person is forbidden forbidden to behave in this way to use divination to find out the future using cohasset omen using the powers of evil because that's forbidden mediterra so he made sure to eliminate any such people you couldn't find it was very difficult to find a person who is able to use the customer to use the powers of evil in order to find out the future but for whatever reason at this point King Saul decided that he needed to find a person like this in order to find out the future in order to know how to proceed in battle and he did indeed find a woman that was able to use her powers her co-host automa in order to call up spirits to find out the future when Shah amela came to this woman he was accompanied by two of his generals but they dressed themselves down not everybody knows there was no media in those times not everybody even knew what the King looked like so he dressed himself down he dressed in very simple clothing he came with these two generals to accompany him and he came to this woman and asked her to contact the spirits and specifically asked that she bring back bring up the Spirit of Shmuel Hanavi of Samuel the Prophet in order for him to be able to ask she wanna be what was going to be what was going to happen in this in this upcoming battle what he was to do how he was to proceed now the silk and the verses tell us that when the Spirit came up when she wanna know became up so naturally you come up from the ground because his body had been buried in the ground and there are certain aspects of the soul which are still connected to the physical body so when that song came up from the ground usually when a spirit would come up it would come up feet first however she wanna be Samuel spirit came up head first in honor of King Saul in honor of shalom ella when the woman saw that this is what happened she was able to see as our house I'll say she was able to actually see the spirit whereas show lamela who was the one that was asking for the spirit be brought up he was able to hear the words of Shmuel Hanavi of samuel when she saw Shmuel Hanavi that his soul came up from the earth he so she saw this vision of Shmuel Hanavi samuel so he came up at first she immediately recognized that the reason that he came up headfirst was in honor of shalom in honor of saul and she was really upset by this whole thing and she knew that sean her mouth was sending out schlucken messengers in order to destroy anybody who is doing these kind of things in order to uproot this practice which involved a customer the powers of evil Sean amela reassured this woman that nothing would happen to her as a result of her helping him but he had a conversation then with Shmuel Hanavi with Samuel smullen of e the soul of small and ugly was very upset that he had been disturbed and brought back from the from the world of the Spirit and when he was asked by Sean lamella what's going to be with this battle what's going to be the outcome of the battle Shmuel Hanavi tells him that tomorrow mahara teii me tomorrow you're going to be with me interesting very interesting way of phrasing it tomorrow is going to be with me simple understanding means that shmuel was telling him that tomorrow you're going to die in battle and you're going to join me in the realm of the Spirit going to move past the physical realm you're going to pass on from this world and enter into the realm of the Dead where all of those who have lived all of their inner shamans the spirits reside and not only with Shalom Alex all pass on from the world in this battle but also his sons all his children his boys who would have been the heirs to the throne they would also die in battle and despite the fact that show was shocked and disturbed by this information he still went out to lead the Jewish people amazing soukous amazing righteousness of Shaw amela that he went out to lead the Jewish people in battle stood up for the Jewish people even though he knew that he was going to lose his life that's the outline of the story and I wanted to share with you first the outline before we get into a few of the details which the meddra SH brings out which which it expands upon and and these details when we read them it seems very difficult to understand but there's the Assad an amazing fundamental idea that we see here which is very powerful and we need to understand that shoham Ella King Saul was the first of the Kings other Jewish people which means that we're talking about somebody who is an amazingly righteous individual he was somebody who despite all of his faults despite the things that he did wrong despite the mistakes and he made he was an amazing person he was amazing righteous person was amazing spiritual giant so when we read what the measure says about him and we'll read the story about him we need to take that into account and try to understand what was going on here why was he doing this and why is the description of him despite all of it that he is somebody who is indeed a great righteous person who's a great sadak so keep that in mind as we learned together as we look together at these different points of the measures the first point i want to share is that the measures tells us that when he went to the IV adani when looking for this woman really he made a mistake he shouldn't have done this of course so forbidden by the Torah and he should have instead gone to the one of the two men that was a special Oracle which was on the breastplate of the coin gotta love the high priest and enabled a person to be able to ask questions of God the person who had raha kodesh they had divine inspiration they were able to look at the stones on the breastplate and the stones for them they would see them lighting up and they would form letters that would form the answer she wanted to give to whatever question was affecting the king or the nation of the Jewish people specific questions were permitted to be asked of the world to him and so the measured points out that really shall I Melek made a mistake that he shouldn't have gone of course the IV udhayam he rather should have asked the or of the tomb you should have asked that which was permitted that which was working with the calculus of tahara the powers of purity not with the powers of evil another very interesting thing that we see is that it says as we described he took off his royal clothing and he put on simple clothing so that he not be recognized message tells us that they actually signified the fact that he was about to lose his royalty now this is very interesting because in a certain sense when a person does an action the things that they do the things that I do the clothes that I wear the different things that surround me that are involved with me that are happening in my life they are a manifestation of something that's going on in a spiritual level so Sean Ella in a certain sense he was acting with a certain raw Hakodesh he was doing something which represented something that was about to happen to him which was that he was about to lose the Maluku because he was going to pass on from the world and it was going to go to double amela it's very interesting that even though he was doing something wrong still the very actions that he did had a certain level of Rococo de should a certain level of divine inspiration and represented something that was going to happen in his life and in a very strong way so this is the first example that we see that he's making him a cig he's doing something wrong but at the same time there is something that he because he's a spiritual giant because he's such a great person the actions that he does involve a certain level of raha kodesh of divine inspiration another point of mesh makes is that when Shah Alam LF we said that he went with his two generals this was something that he did which he had learned actually from a verme avena from Abraham when Abram went to her Maria to memory in order to sacrifice his son Isaac Isaac the Torah tells us that he took two people with him he took two of his servants one was his smile and moan as a lahzar took these two people with him so we see that a great person when he goes to do something which is important which is significant so he brings with him two people Sean milk also did this so interesting again even though he's going to do something which is a nevaeh which is a mistake which is wrong nevertheless the the measures is pointing out that he's doing something good at the same time he's doing something appropriate he's an example that we are to follow and we're going to do something which is has great significance sha Allah milk is going to ask something which is going to affect the nation what's going to be with this battle when we're doing something of great significance so we need to take people with us would you think people along with us just like Abraham so shoal is an example for us despite the fact that he's doing something wrong he's still an example in the good things that he's doing in the right things that he's doing another amazing example of his paradox where Shaw amela is this amazing individual spiritually but he's making a mistake just like this contrast the measures tells us that when shall I melica went to ask this woman so clearly he was doing something wrong but at the same time when he assures her when he reassures her that nothing is going happen to her he says hi a shame you crave over madalasa he says I swear to God that nothing will happen to you because of this matter that nothing bad is going to happen to you will not be damaged as a result of your helping me so he uses her shams name even though he's doing something which is against the Torah which is against a sham still he has such a great person he still the way that he was used to speaking no the way that he spoke to her was consistently involving a Shems name the measures compares us to a woman who is being mehsana hospice shum heaven forbid a woman who is being unfaithful to her husband but nevertheless you when she's unfaithful to her husband and she's with another man she's she really loves her own husband and she's thinking about her husband at the same time and she's with a different man so in the same way sha allah mouth was being unfaithful to God and yet he still mentions God even in that place where he's being unfaithful measures tells us another point which is also amazing very interesting it says that and this is based on the hco safes explanation it says that Shmuel Hanavi sandal the prophet this woman brought up his spirit it Joseph explains that ordinarily when a woman like this would do her divinations when she would do her magic so to speak so the spirit that would come up would not be the actual person spirit certainly not the spirit of someone who says greater Shmuel Hanavi of samuel but rather would be some kind of intermediary spirit who would communicate with the higher realms bring back information to whichever person was asking for the information but it wouldn't be a direct communication between a great spirit and this world however hashem himself intervened here and actually allowed and brought down the spirit of Shmuel Hanavi from this very high place and told schmal to come down and facilitated the schmool would actually be the one communicating with Shalom ella wicking soul and it wouldn't be an intermediary spirit that would be bringing the information back and forth now this is something amazing if you think about it because shana metal King Saul is doing something very wrong he's rebelling against God and yet even in that rebellion Hashem is saying you know what you're going to ask for something I'm going make sure that you get what you really need and you really need the truth because intermediary spirits and all these kinds of things they can lie they can say things that are really true they can change the facts but a sham cared about Shawn well he wanted him to hear the actual truth and even though short did something wrong he asked the readin asset river to him he came and tried to use casa toma bash em organized things such that despite that he would be able to access to information and you'll be able to speak directly to Shmuel Hanavi to samuel a prophet and find out what was going to happen so that's a remarkable thing it's an unbelievable thing need to understand what is going on what is the teaching here of this message what is what is the reason indeed why she would facilitate such a thing if indeed shall I mouth is is going so he's doing such a an app which isn't correct in fact the measures later on says that there were five different mistakes sins that shawl did that caused him to have to die the main mistake was neither a Cohanim as you mentioned it was a mistake of killing the city of priests but 106a cause his death was indeed the fact that he came against the Torah he came to this woman to ask her advice ask her help but despite the fact that this was a mistake in it was something wrong a Shem still facilitated and responded to show him out to King Saul so he's understand what's the shot in that why is that indeed now there's another point that the measures tells us two more points I'm going to share the first of those two is that when Shah amela didn't kill a guy he didn't kill Adam I like you didn't complete the act of destroying evil in the world Shmuel Hanavi told him Samuel told him that because you didn't fulfill the word of Hashem your have lost the Maloo clave lost your kingship and Hashem is going to give it to somebody else your friend who is better than you and he was referring to King David to double him Ella and he referred to him as someone who is better than him in this conversation however in the conversation where shoal is speaking to shmuel spirit and Schmalz in the oil my ms so to speak he's in that place the realm of the spirits were they only see the truth so small didn't say to him your friend who is better than you but rather he's just said to him by youth Nala a holiday of it he said that a sham has given the maluca the king shipped to your contemporary which is David and he did not refer to him as someone who is better than him so the measure she explains as the acac explains the marish now in Shmuel Hanavi when Samuel the Prophet was alive so he said a hug Zuma he said an exaggeration when he said that King David was greater than show because the actual truth is an actual truth was that show Lamela was on a greater level of cisco's on a greater level of righteousness then King David was even though of course David was an amazing righteous individual Shah was on a higher level so when Shmuel Hanavi when samuel originally said that it's going to go to somebody was greater than you it wasn't really true but when Shmuel Hanavi was in the oil my ms already when he was just a spirit he was it was dwelling in that realm of the Spirit where everything is clear and true he said it very straight that Hashem has given your kingship to your contemporary which is David and he didn't say anything about that David was greater than him so it's very interesting within the conversation which is happening which has been facilitated in a way which involves cofee SE toma the powers of evil he's doing something wrong he's doing in a verra nevertheless Sean mallet is still told and and specifically now was told that he is actually greater than King David not like he was originally told to him remarkable last point the men church tells us when we mentioned this before is that Sholem LF is told King Saul is told that this is to be his final battle and he's going to go out there and he and his sons will all die in this battle because of there are various because of the fact that he killed out the city of Nauvoo Kohanim of the priests despite the fact that he knew that he and his sons would all go out to Balon they will all die he didn't even tell his two generals who had come with him who weren't privy to the conversation that he was having with Samuel a prophet he didn't tell them I was going on he just told him that we're going out to battle everything's going to be great he didn't tell him he didn't want to weaken their resolve week in their hearts he went out into battle bravely he brought his sons along with him even though he knew this was to be his final battle and that's a king of the Jewish people that's a righteous king of the Jewish people that despite the fact that he knew that he was going to die because of his sins his righteousness demanded of him his greatness demanded of him that he lead his people he lead them out to battle you've known as a losing battle he lead them out he stand in front of them and he stand as a great person as a great righteous person to lead his people the measures points out that it could have ran away he could have escaped the verdict of heaven by not going out to battle the following day but nevertheless he did the right thing he did what was incumbent upon him as a leader of the Jewish people because of his greatness because of his righteousness the measures finishes off in explanation of these two verses that we started off with and in fact of the Torah placed them next to each other America sure the sickening machine rebel AV Yeshua of sickening said unable to believe he Mele amateur all cutter sparkle dementia door dervish I've tough this teaches us that Hashem when Moshe Rabbeinu had some kind of vision from a Shem Moshe was shown each generation and its judges and its kings and it's wise people and its leaders he was able to see it to the future see all that would happen to the Jewish people they're all shallow bottom left on the sheriff Hashem showed him that there was going to be a king the first king in the Jewish people he he and his sons we're going to fall and they were going to die in battle I'm all the fun of so mosher beynon says to Hashem Moses says to God mella harish neshama Obama of you doc have a health can it be that the first king of the Jewish people the first aspect is always the the the most powerful aspect that first king is going to fall on his sword he's going to die as a result of going out to battle how could it be I manakish bahu God responded him in civilian imer your you're saying is to me ameralik layin him don't talk to me speak to the priest shahara chahe makati a game I saw the King Saul killed that they are accusing him they are bringing out an accusation against King soul and as a result of the fact that he spilled their blood so his blood will also be spilled so these two verses are placed next to each other the measure she's saying the verse which has do the OVO doning she has to do with asking of these powers of evil in order to file the future that is a reference a veiled reference to King Saul to the mistake that he was going to make in the future and it's a result that mistake and his death was going to be a result of this pasta this is the beginning of our parsha which speaks of a moral economy which speaks of the priests who he would kill now in reading this message I would like to offer an explanation which really is an amazing and deep idea if we think about it and that is that this pasuk that the way the metric paints the picture is that we have a person a human being was an amazing spiritual individual and he makes mistakes he does things which are wrong and in fact I'm a fortune explained that the Mesa the death that he was going to go through he and his sons would go through would be a capara there would be an atonement for his mistake of killing the city of neraka yanam of the priests so in a certain sense because of his righteousness because he was held to a great standard so he would have to die but that death would be a tekin would be a rectification for his mistakes we see that throughout this metric that the things that he's done wrong the things that he's making mistakes in despite the fact that they are mistakes the overarching theme is that Sean melt King Saul was a great individual he was at sadak he was a wretched individual and because of that his righteousness was what caused him to be anointed to be appointed as the first king of the Jewish people and he was it was not a mistake that he was appointed it was appropriate that he be such a king but his mistakes were too great and because of those mistakes he would die but within those mistakes despite those mistakes his overarching theme of who he was was Sitka's was righteousness that's expressed in each of these different concepts that we see he was somebody who was bringing he was going colicky who's bringing two people with him to do something which would affect the Jewish people he was somebody who even though he was doing in a very was doing something wrong he's still thinking about God he was still mentioned God and even though he's doing something wrong hashem was still making sure that he should have a real revelation and see the truth in a certain way he was even greater than double imela that was attested to by Schmeling avi himself by Samuel himself he took back his original statement and we see his greatness that he's willing to go out to battle even though he knows he's going to lose his life and I think that the teaching here is what this says to me is that when you have somebody who's a great person and it is our job to strive to be that great person when somebody is great when someone's focus and their drive in life is to be a good person to do what's right to do God's will that's their focus that's their desire Hashem takes the things that are not as good the mistakes that he makes Anna Shem in those mistakes makes a rectification for the mistakes that are being made even as they're being made and I would like to explain that when most sha'ban when Moses says to God is this what happens to the first king of the Jewish people is this his end how could it be and I xem system will listen it's because he killed the the Kohanim because he killed the priests I would like to say that there's an even deeper thing that I sham is responding to Moshe a shaman saying to him look who is the first king of the Jewish people he is somebody who's willing to give up his life he's willing to walk into battle he's willing to recognize his mistakes and recognize that there are consequences for his mistakes and those consequences are rectification for him see the greatness of the first king of the Jewish people even see that he's going to an idea dainese going to find out from the caucus atoma the powers of impurity but see that I am still there I am still responding to him through she will Hanavi I'm still making things turn making the wheels turn so that despite his mistakes the fact that he is a great person he's excited that he's righteous that stands for him in a much greater way throughout the story Sean was showing him this whole story the wrap-up of this idea is that we need to understand that the king of the Jewish people represents the entire Jewish people and so each of us in our way and at our level also are like Sean Sean lamela like King Saul we are trying to serve Hashem we are striving to be greater people we are trying to live a spiritual life and sometimes we make mistakes but if ash MCS that the overarching theme of our lives is goodness is greatness is spirituality so then we can receive something just like show them off just like King Saul we can also a Shem can take the mistakes that we've made and you can help us to rectify those mistakes if our focus is indeed like show Lamela on greatness on serving a show and I want to bless you and please bless me back the show should help us to to see the imperfection of a control and recognize that that's true of ourselves a Shem should help us to be able to despite those imperfections such them should help us to be great people to strive to be great such that whenever we have done things wrong and ever we've made mistakes shrim should turn around our mistakes and allow even the mistakes to be a rectification for us and for all the Jewish people thank you so much for listening of a wonderful shabbos this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you for more podcasts like this please visit www calm or search on itunes ari gold wag you