Haazinu-Yom Kippur - Lend Your Ear

you're listening to the weekly Parsha Podcast with Ari goldwag recorded with a Show's never-ending assistance in 5784 2023 this week's furniture sazino and I'd like to share with you a thought based on the medrus and hopefully we can connect it also to the Yom Kippur which is coming up they have a tournament or else we can have a little bit of an idea how to approach the day so the measures tells us the plastic says is going to sing the song it's going to speak out this poem which represents the relationship of the Jewish people with a shout if we give the Torah everything is going to be also if we don't class Michelle if heaven forbid we Veer away from hashem's Will so then things like going to be so good but he places the shamaim and the orits the heavens and the Earth which constantly accompany us and as a unfortunately explain the the human being the Jewish person is composed of a soul which is Heavenly and a physical body which is Earthly and these two the Heaven and the Earth the heavens and the Earth these two beings let us call them or or components of reality they stay the course with the Jewish people they're here for us reminding us where we come from and reminding us of this deal that we have with Hashem this commitment that we have this Covenant that we need to stick to Hashem we need to be his people but now what I'd like to share with you here is the majors that speaks about how Mosher avenu asks the heavens and the Earth to listen to to be quiet and to listen to his words first thing I'd like to share with you that the major says Hashem says if you've turned your ears to the Torah Israel foreign a powerful important deep foundational idea as to what is going on in our Parsha what is going on in our relationship with Hashem and what is really going on Adam Kippur as well we need to be quiet and hear that which Hashem is commanding us through his Torah we need to be open to the instruction we need to be listening right we say listen right it's easy to talk it's easy to State my opinion it's easy to pass judgment on the way things are the way they should be I listened and here what is it that Hashem is saying to me what is it that what is the message Hashem wants meeting gets it says if you listen to words of Torah if you are able to to hear that which the Torah says honestly not place your own beliefs your own thoughts your own experiences onto what the Torah says but rather actually hear and listen to that which the Torah says the result will be that when you start to say words of Torah when you start to share these ideas with others when you start to speak the wisdom will be the type of wisdom that people will be quiet and they will hear if I can be quiet and listen others will be quiet and listen to what I have to say where do we learn this from being we learned this from Moses he spends his whole life listening to the words of Torah 40 days and 40 nights up on Mount Sinai but really throughout the 40 years the Jews were in the mid bar he was constantly listening trying to hear what is God's will for me for the people around me how can I guide them properly because up to speak not only are the people listening quiet because they're so you know interested in what he has to say but even the heavens and the Earth they are also quiet there's absolute silence everywhere we'll see what that silence means but there's absolute silence and they listen mean when Moshe comes to speak and tell the Jewish people and tell the heavens and the Earth and call it out from every rooftop what is hashem's Will what does the Covenant look like what does it look like to to become a servant of Hashem what does it look like what is the purpose of reality everything is silent everyone is sung there's not a sound the heavens and the Earth even though they all they usually make sounds we'll find out what those sounds are they're silent and what that really means is that the spiritual realms because that's the heavens as we said the physical Realms that's the Earth everything is silent what does silence mean I'm talking to you and you're silent it means that in a certain sense you're subservient again means that we're not talking in our relationship with him just listening so that which God says listen o people of Israel Hashem Our God Hashem is one whatever his Willis is what we're supposed to seek to do everyone is silent the spiritual Realms of physical realms okay so that's what the measure says and the next part of the measures is extremely important but I want to preface it with a question when you say the word Torah you know you're saying a spiritual truth you're saying something deep you're saying God's will but we could ask ill for example and the Torah it says trust in Hashem things are going to be good we speak about it every week translation things are going to be good but the Physical Realm is not so quiet in that regard the physical Realms says well you got to wish status you got to put in efforts you gotta do pr you gotta put out advertisements if you want to succeed you got to make yourself look good the people who are brilliant smart good looking etc those are the ones who succeed so the Physical Realm is not so quiet when it comes to the Torah speaking it seems it seems right so so to some of my question what does it mean that the Physical Realm is quiet what does it mean it would seem the other way around the Physical Realm argues with the Torah seems to argue that Tyra says that there's a spiritual reality the Physical Realm says look there's Rules of Nature we want to succeed you gotta knock over the other guy it's a dog eat dog world called or whoever is the strongest succeeds natural selection the toast says otherwise so what does it mean that theory says otherwise the terror says there are rules there are there's a way of interacting with others you can't just trample other people because you want to succeed it it doesn't go that way our spiritual rules right so what does it mean that the Physical Realm listens it's quiet if we're not saying perhaps a spiritual realm but how does it apply to the Physical Realm so listen to this amazing magic which teaches us something which maybe you didn't know maybe we didn't know the plus six says the verse says in Coalition Ecclesiastes chapter 3 verse 14. Hashem says I know or maybe King King Solomon more accurately says I know all that God made it will be forever you can't change the rules there are physical rules to reality and those rules remain no matter what but the person ends off and I don't have the end of the puzzle here but the positions of but Hashem made it in a way that human beings should fear Him they should have fear in front of him that have them here I don't see it but the magic is going to use that part of the possible we'll see Hashem created rules in reality the message is going to go through and I like to read them because it's quite beautiful Shem has created rules in reality and these rules Define their physical Realms their physical boundaries foreign tells us that what Hashem created the water he created the Earth so he brought the water into one location he's he spread back the water so that the Earth should appear there are boundaries right look at the globe look at a look at a map see there are places where the water most of the Earth is covered with water to our places where the land the land is that which is dominant and each place has its boundary sometimes the boundaries are pushed there's a typhoon there's a tornado there are all kinds of things that push the boundaries but for the most part 99.9 of the time the boundaries are clear-cut now yeah sometimes makes an exception when it comes to his to the boundaries as we just said sometimes Hashem pours out the water of the ocean onto the Earth ask anyone who lives in the Far Rockaway area of Long Island Hurricane Sandy had had a terrible impact on many people people lost their homes many places in the world Japan typhoons so many so many times the boundaries are pushed but what what is the purpose of that system why does it happen that Hashem changes the boundaries the regular boundaries and causes hurricanes and causes typhoons and causes other call them natural destructive forces to be Unleashed this is an order that we fear Him it's a wake up it's a moment for us to think about what's going on in the world why is this happening I need to be fearful of Hashem and recognize that when boundaries are broken if I break boundaries it causes destruction so in the first sense when boundaries are broken destruction is the result and that's true on a physical level and just like most European when he says there's a there's a parallel between the heavens and the Earth so too when it comes to physical things that are fit they're physical realities that are paralleled in spiritual realities so there are spiritual boundaries when we break the spiritual boundaries which are defined by the Torah what what are the Mitzvahs what are the Commandments if we break those spiritual boundaries just like we understand in the Physical Realm where the boundaries are broken and can cause destruction and Mayhem so too that's true when it comes to spiritual realities so these things these destructive forces that are Unleashed are there for us to be Miss abundant to contemplate and recognize something that has gone awry and why is it going to arrive because we have done something wrong when things go wrong in the world when let's say even Nations start to war with each other Russia invades Ukraine it means it's not respecting another boundary but that's a physical reality reflecting a spiritual reality that we don't have good boundaries we don't respect each other's boundaries we don't respect the Taurus boundaries and the physical reality is a manifestation of the spiritual reality but now the magic says something deeper deeper and and incredible actually before the deeper incredible thing but um this idea that you can have a typhoon or a hurricane or something that can come and push the boundaries I was recently walking along the shore of uh of the Sea The Seashore and they had built up a massive amount of sand on the side a sandbar in order to stop the water if there is a hurricane from entering into the inhabited areas excuse me what's the purpose of this it's it's a muscle Medina you have a an analogy to a particular part of the country that is rebelled against its king left what does the king do the king takes a legion of his army the toughest Legion of his army the Russians take the Wagner group the most bloodthirsty evil um they have no fear and the King takes that group and he surrounds the Medina he says it surrounds this Wayward part of the country with these people so that they're they're afraid they're afraid for their lives and they get a a wake-up call the other day I got a ticket parked in an illegal spot should I park in the legal spot without paying for the for the parking you know you got to pay for that it gives you a shake-up hey I got a tick I got I got a car so it reminds a person that when you break the law when you break the boundary the boundary the boundaries when you break boundaries so then the response is a Breaking of boundaries in response so here's here's the deeper idea Casper I could just work with Hashem created the world such a day's day and night is night the boundaries are clear also Lila yaakov came Jacob came and he caused the day to become night meaning it became night before it was supposed to be night so she could like passing tells us caused the sun to set for yaakov before its appointed time it's regular time he got to a certain place and he rested there because the Shemesh the sun had set or sages tell us it said earlier she wanted him specifically to rest in that location that's where he had his dream of the of the latter with the angels the idea is that sometimes Hashem changes the order of nature for its sadik for a righteous individual father Joshua turn the night and today was supposed to become dark he was fighting says he was in the middle of a battle it was right before Shamus if Shabbos would come they would have to stop the battle some caused the Earth to stop spinning so that the sun wouldn't set he could complete his battle and only then he became Shamus when he then did the sunset the boundaries of nature the order of Nature has changed for its static for a righteous individual for Yeshua Deacon government the measure says something amazing what is the purpose of the fact that Sadiq has the ability to this day there are great individuals or the ability to change nature because of their sitkas because of their righteousness why why does Hashem allow that someone is sick someone is about to pass away they go to itsadiq they go to wretch is individual and sadly give them a blessing things change things turn around how could it be that person was really destined not to make it but they went to its Sadiq and things changed because of that how could it be what's the shot how does that happen look in the stories we'll bring here I'm not going to read all of them brings the story of Alicia now they brought the dead back to life Elijah the prophet brought the dead back to life how can you do that how can you make a miracle like that the answer is that Hashem wants you to know that it's Sadiq somehow if you know that it's Sadiq can change the laws of nature it causes us to fear Hashem just like when when the when the docks overflow and the dot breaks and the water comes in people are afraid they're running for their lives they're they're scared for their lives it wakes a person up so too when we see it Sonic perform a miracle Yeshua causes he prays he asks Hashem I need to finish this this battle the sun stands excuse me the sun stands still doesn't set it causes us to fear what does this mean and how does it relate to our passion how does it relate to Yom Kippur so I'm not gonna again I can read through all of these but it finishes off by telling us that Bob Maisha foreign did a similar thing he caused the the natural boundaries he broke those boundaries sometimes the boundaries are broken in a negative way right when we don't do a shuttle's will but what we see with that Sadiq is that he breaks them in a positive way he bends the boundaries to prove that when you do what's right when you do hashem's will so then you have Supernatural power and it's this is really important to understand but I'd like to read this inside what does that mean and why is that so important the heavens became became there was a boundary about the heavens human beings are not supposed to go up to them and now they're alive and Hashem God his spiritual Essence exists in Upper Realms it doesn't come down to the Earth except in certain circumstances but moisture Ramen was able to reverse this it says that when Moshe received the Torah right that's the context important to understand when it comes to Tyra when it comes to hearing the Torah it it reverses everything in order to hear the tire went up went up to the heavens he rose up for 40 days and 40 nights he didn't even didn't drink became like a mug he became like an angel he broke all the rules he broke all the boundaries and Hashem came down Hashem came down altar silai says even though the Physical Realm doesn't ordinarily reveal Hashem of course Hashem the life force of reality is Hashem but it's not evident she revealed himself he was evident in the world through whom who is the messenger Hashem used to allow this to bring it about it was Mo Sherman it was Moses so we see that it's sadik and what is it Sadiq we heard about it before we heard about it before foreign what is it that the Torah demands of me expects of me knows that I can accomplish that I can rise to the occasion to do that was who Moshe rabena was he was the one turning his ear and therefore the heavens and the Earth were quiet even the Earth was quiet even the Earth was quiet what does it mean it means that we think we think that there are certain rules as we said before the Earth asks a question this is my question before Aaron says what do you mean I don't have to be nice to people this is business I have to I gotta do what I got to do I gotta feed my family gotta stay alive the title says no don't do that the daughter says there are rules of business There Are Spiritual rules if someone speaks negatively of your business says don't speak negatively of them keep it quiet if you contain yourself and do the time it says which is do not speak latinar don't speak negatively of others you cannot be talking you can be assured be confident Hashem will take care of you you won't lose anything by doing what's right what does that mean hey that Sadiq he's not a big strong guy he's not a he's not a well no he doesn't run through and smash everyone around him and and win the game of life all the way around that sadly kisses he sits and he studies turns his ear to listen he doesn't he doesn't act like a bull coming through with his opinion and winning the game so he should lose and Sadiq should lose the game of life the terror tells us that who wrote The Game of Life who made the boundaries it seems like there are certain boundaries and certain ways of winning the terrorist says that Sadiq wins that Sadiq wins why because who created reality created the boundaries created the rules and a show is the very same one who commanded the Tyrant says whoever plays by these rules when you play by the spiritual rules so then the physical reality bends to the spiritual reality the boundaries of physical of the physical world are are pushed when you act like when you act in a way which is spiritual something which is you give up to somebody else you apologize even though the other person did what's wrong and you find something that you did wrong yourself when you do that so you've pushed the boundaries in a good way you've become that Sadiq and when you become decided so you you learn to fear Hashem when we see that at Sadiq does what's right and things work out better for him because of it it reminds us to fear Hashem it reminds us just like the the devastating situation that occurs somewhere in the world can remind us to fear Hashem when when someone does what's right and they they succeed because of it it reminds us that the truth of what the truth is that the truth is that the terror is the truth the way of God is the truth and we need to fear Hashem we need to try to do what's right and if we do what's right ultimately things are going to be good for us it may not happen we may not get as famous or seemingly we may not get as famous as the guy who did the great PR but it's going to happen somehow else it's gonna happen in a supernatural way we won't we won't even understand it but it's going to happen it's going we're going to be successful just like that Sonic has special help Yom Kippur we talk about mashiach this is the Saint Patrick give your fear place your fear upon all that you have created bring your recognition to the whole world that you as shall have created them what is what is it let's talk about a future era what does that have to do with us the answer is that has everything to do with us because we need to listen comes there won't be such a yes or people will not have an evil inclination they'll be able to hear shows will naturally but it's possible to enter that stage that state now it's possible we can say Hashem and that's what the shepherd as a Shepherd brings brings us up in front of the case of Covenant from the holy throne but it transports the future time to us we can access a time when Hashem is came all it requires is a little bit of Silence be quiet I mean he takes if you turned your ear to listen to that which the tire has to say what's the result going to be others around will listen and it's not so natural because people don't listen to The Quiet guy but they will listen because it will be Supernatural it will be in an unnatural way that everyone around will want to listen just like that Sonic Supernatural things happen for him the laws of nature are broken for him that's what it's going to be in the future the Messianic age and we want to draw that into our presence is about and how do we do that by listening hey did I keep the Torah as well as I could have this year what can I do better how can I change how can I listen better how can I limit my ego a little more how can I be a little quieter and a little more receptive to God's will how can I be a little bit more of a Sonic and how can I let hashem's voice into my life and hey comes along with it that things change in a good way in a supernatural way how can I access that that's what I'd like I'd like to think about I offer for you to think about I want to bless you and ask you to bless me should help us that we should be able to listen and hear and see miracles have a great Shabbos a beautiful Yom Kippur this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you for more podcasts like this please visit www.regoldwag.com or search on iTunes Ari goldwag foreign