Kedoshim & Emor - Pure Words

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with ari goldwag recorded with hashem's neverending assistance in romap hmis israel 57 82 2022. this week's parsha if you're in khutsallar it's part of the kadoshim in the land of israel it's partial amor and once again i'd like to share with you a thought that connects the two parties together precious kadoshan practices amor the end of practice kedoshan so the beginning of parts of the nation speaks about whose command to the jewish people condition to you to be holy what does it mean to be holy as we find ourselves means moved all it means separated it means different means special just like who god himself as it were is mufrush and moved all he's completely separate and different from all of his reality that he created so too the jewish people are enjoined to be special and holy and different as the famous ramban says we need to be even within the conference of the torah we even within the aoshita commands us there's an obligation to be mu frustration it's possible to keep the terror and still to be a novel vishu satyara to be somebody who does things that are wrong within the letter of the law so to speak i'd like to speak about something that we see at the end of practice kedosham and something that we we see at the beginning of purchase mr at the beginning of emor talks about the kedusha of the kehanim the holiness of the quran and the special nature their muhubadim the ramban says they're people who have to have special self-respect we have to honor them one of the ways that they are they're honored or the the the self-respect is the way it's expressed is that they are not to become tamiya to become impure they're not allowed to become impure from coming in contact with with a dead body except in circums certain circumstances there's a kedusha a special kadush of the kohanim i'd like to talk about what does it mean kedusha in regards to us what does it mean condition regards to the kohanam how does it apply to us here in our age our day and age so the end of partial condition i'd like to read to you in the beginning of the process i would like to read to you it's speaking about the obligation which we spoke about last week the importance of being frush dulham from arias from prohibited relationships between man and a woman and the third tells us that we need to protect and keep these laws so that we don't get kicked out of the land of israel let the land propel you out the main reason for gullis exile the jewish people is because we don't keep the torah we don't we're not special the holy land the land of israel is a special place and so in order to be able to stay here we need to [Music] the ways of the the non-jews that that i'm kicking out and kicking out of the land right when the jewish people came into land of israel so there were seven nations ten nations here and they were chucked out why were they why were they kicked out of the land why were they was there an obligation to destroy them because they were immoral they were morally reprehensible hashem they've done all of these reprehensible acts and i found them to be disgusting so we have an obligation to be holy when it comes to our relationships marital relationships etc god says to jewish people you are going to receive their land yet say so i will give it to you and you will inherit it will give it over as you rush it to your children it's a very special land it's a land flowing with milk and honey it's a prosperous land and yeah i am principle number one that we see over here incredible thing you want to know who has the right to live in the land of israel who has the right to live in arts israel in this holy land it's those who are holy the holy nation the jewish people who keep the torah who said we separate ourselves we are distinct from the other nations we're an i'm a special nation a unique nation what other things do we see besides of course for these uh the relate the marital relations which it's it's we're thinking about not going to discuss it really so much here but it's worth considering this is perhaps the essence of what makes the jewish people special is our commitment our commitment to keeping ourselves holy in this area like we spoke about last week but there's another thing of course there's many things the whole 613 commandments of the torah revolve around this specialness of the jewish people but the torah also singles [Music] just like the jewish people are a unique nation and we emulate and represent god who is unique is unique and special compared to his creation the jewish people are unique and special in comparison to the nations of the world so too we represent that by what we eat the types of animals that we are permitted to eat there are many animals and there are some that are considered tar and some that are considered taming there's a havdula there's a separation between pure animals and impure animals very interesting you know if atomizer also regards the birds there are certain birds that are considered pure and some that are impure and we could say that has to do with perhaps the very essence of the character excuse me each of these animals chili's birds well i say don't uh don't do something which is disgusting by eating animals and birds all that crawls on the earth anything that's impure the islamic says god says to the jewish people you shall be holy to me hashem because i am holy all right bobby let's come in on yesterday and i've separated you from amongst the nations to be for me you're mine you know the jewish people represent god in the world and therefore we are different we are separate and i think it's you know it keeps coming up in my mind to mention it's important thing to know that the jewish people who live in the land of israel today currently of course there are certain movements which developed in europe and in the united jews of course st are jewish even if they don't keep the torah but these movements so they separated from the torah they separated from they separated themselves there are many of them who are unfortunately atheistic and the result is that neither children are not jewish grandchildren are not jewish but those movements they do not exist in the land of israel almost at all they try to gain a foothold every once in a while we hear about them making some noise at the hotel but for the most part they didn't make their way in and it's a very beautiful sign that coach brooke gave us currently that those who keep the terror those who are committed to the torah of course not everyone in israel is from not everyone here keeps the torah but for the most part those that um on a on a large scale deny the the torah the significance and importance of the torah those people don't really have a place they don't have a foothold really in israel because that's what the essence of israel is it's a holy place those who keep the terror of course today as we see if we look over the history the last 75 years we see that the the those who are committed to the torah are getting stronger projections are that in 50 years those who are completely committed etc will represent a majority of this country so it's important to think about that but that's that's conditioned to you those who make themselves holy that's who has a right to be in the land of israel and of course we represent godliness in the world the ish interesting i don't want to get into this either but it's worth reading the ish you know it's worth hearing you say even if we don't get into the depth of it a person can find out information can get access seances other kinds of ways of accessing and speaking to the dead don't do that the third you want to know what's permitted to find out you want to know what god wants you to know you want to know information about the future you want to know where there's a lost object even you go to the you go to the naveem you go to the prophets we don't go we don't find out information from those who are forbidden who are accessing the information in a dark way using dark magic etc but evidence someday embalm they have to die somebody who's involved in that it's a death penalty okay so we have to be holy we have to access holiness we have to fulfill the torah we have to be chaste we need to use our creative powers the ability to create children we have to use it in the correct way with the correct is to correct boundaries let's stay in the particulation and we need to we need to access spiritual information only in a holy way and we need to eat foods that are special and to the degree that we are able to do this we get to live in this special land called earth's israel the holy land another aspect of kadush is the beginning of archer samurai marshmallows so there's an obligation to say ah mosh rabbin was told to tell the kohanim speak to them and say it don't become impure i'm not even only to those who are close to him the seven kraven the seven relationships that are the closest his brother his sister his mother's father his sister who's not married et cetera so these seven he's allowed to become impure but generally speaking about [Music] to etch anything into their skin or not to scratch themselves there's a special kedusha there's a special holiness the gohan represents the jewish people they serve inside of the miktash they serve inside of the temple they act as the teachers of the jewish people somebody who's on a higher level has to have a higher level of kadusha to be more moved or more special they can't certain women they can't marry ishas we can't marry someone who's been uh who's been with a person who's inappropriate for her who's been married to somebody inappropriately we should share me a cohen cannot marry a divorcee because of there's an even greater level of kadush and holiness and have dolla a separation that shaykh to the kohanan now i don't want to get so much into the specialness of the gohan and that's not what i'd like to discuss today because let's speak in a general way of course many people that are calhoun today and they need to know about this specialness they need to know that they are move dullum even today even though we're ultimate amaze we are are all impure to the dead nevertheless guam are not allowed to come in contact with the dead even today except for the seven the shiva craving the seven uh closest relationships but what i would like to read to you is a majestic at the beginning of our parsha prasha's amor beginning of the parasha for arts israel and i think it's connected to what we spoke about at the end of kadosham and it's connected to each and every one of us something that we can take home understand and know the what does it mean kedusha as we've been saying the whole time kedusha means mufrush holy separated special just like hashem is special who does things on a higher plane god does things on a higher plane than humankind right god is on a much higher level than all of us he is infinitely greater than all of us see beyond anything that we can conceive but we do find things out about god and from the things that we see we can emulate those things and we can be we can we can be mukdasham um as well and here's the the message brings two simple examples two important things which i think we can all take home with us and think about and contemplate how we can incorporate this idea these ideas into our lives says as we just quoted beginning of partial zamor say to the quran and the sons of khan explained he brought up in his introduction to parches amor pasik says it's a pus again to him in psalm chapter 12 verse 7. imran's hashem rise to high rise the words of hashem it says here emory different languages for amira of speaking what is the concept of emor what is the concept of speaking with this word amira what does it mean so the prosecution uses the same word and speaks about that which god spoke imran's hashem imran tahiris they are pure words these are pure statements so the magisk is now going to darshan the message later on i'm not going to read it inside but dimension section gimmel as they say explains uh you know the continuity here because we're going to it's not so connected to the concept of quran which is the subject of our parsha of parshazam or but the it does connect there's a right to hire us as a purity right and that's how we're going to relate it to us there's a purity in regards to the quran and god spoke of pure things in regards to the khanam that there's a specialness of the quran the fact that they can't become tamimi's the fact that they can only marry certain kinds of people that's the purity in regards to the quran but there's another purity in regards to the speech of hashem which we can relate to you must have shown me higher saharas what does it mean points out points out the major tank explains it says hashem the words of hashem are pure so that implies that the words of hashem are pure but not the words of human beings there's something much more pure and we need to learn from this of course there's something much more pure about the words of hashem what's pure night shiva islam so the message comes to explain by giving us an example from the world a king a flesh and blood king comes into his you know into sections of his country wants to explore and see what's going on in his country he wants to see what the people need he wants to come and help them kabanema dinama carlson i say into a place everyone comes out to greet the king they praise the king they sing you know welcome to the king so the king is praised and he enjoys the praise so in response in response to the praise that the people give to the king so the king promises them that tomorrow you know in the coming days he's going to build for them different types of bath houses different amenities that they need i'm going to bring in water i'm going to bring in the pipes for the water that you need okay so he makes promises because they have praised him yoshin villain now a human being makes a promise a king makes a promise so he means it he's serious about it he plans to do it he's going he's ready to go but what happens he goes to sleep and he doesn't wake up the next morning a king can die a human being can die so you can make a promise won't necessarily be able to keep the promise there's no guarantees but god is not like that clearly god is absolute truth passage says in year me chapter 10 verse 10. what is it what is the idea that god is absolute truth hashem is truth um the end of the verse says god is a living god he lives forever god when he says hashem says something his promise is gold he's forever god doesn't disappear god remains he's outside of time he exists without changing god makes a promise god keeps the promise as opposed to a human being so hashem the word of hashem is gold it's absolutely pure because when god says something god means his god means it and there's nothing to stop hashem from fulfilling his word god makes a promise god keeps the promise so when we talk about purity we're talking about kedusha the magisk is telling us that you want to know what it means to be godly it means you make a promise and you keep the promise obviously to the best of your ability but hashem's promises are absolute we want to be taller we want to be pure we want to be kaladesh we want to be holy like god we keep our promises we make a commitment we keep our commitments we find that when hashem speaks god has an option in his torah of how he expresses things and we find that every single extra word in the torah if there's an extra word it's the joshua it comes to be explained we have madrushim going into the finest minutia of the verse sometimes it's an extra letter sometimes it's an extra word sometimes it's an extra phrase every single thing is carefully chosen by hashem when he when he wrote this in his torah but we find that there are eight extra letters that hashem uses because he didn't want to say something negative he only wants to say it in a positive way says from it's opposing embraces in genesis chapter 7 verse from the animals that are pure and from the animals that are not pure plus they could have said from the animals that are impure god didn't want to use the word tame he didn't want to say the word tommy instead he said that are not pure so hashem used eight extra letters that were unnecessary by saying the word tahira not pure to two words not pure as opposed to the one word impuritame if you find that sometimes the verse says an extra two or three words in order to say something positive instead of saying something negative another verse it says and for the animals they are not pure suretime to maya it doesn't say that are impure unless when it wants to speak about no no i'm sorry it's not it's uh earlier a few parties it's it's since a few parties ago right precious meaning so it talks about the the kosher animals the non-kosher animals right and when it speaks about the animals that are not kosher so it tells us that there are certain animals that have one kosher sign but don't have the other kosher sign and it first talks about the kosher sign that it does have and then tells about us about the sign that it doesn't have it goes to the positive first before speaking about the negative essay it doesn't say the gamal is not kosher because it doesn't have split hooves ella ki malaguera first it tells us that it does shoot its cut and it doesn't have split hooves so shoveling killing off as parts of whoever when it talks about the shuffle on a certain kind of animal it doesn't say that it doesn't have split hooves when it comes to each of the different animals the turtle tells us about their they have one's kosher summer they don't have the other it first tells us the kosher sign then it tells us what they're lacking we see that the terror goes out of its way to be optimistic and positive that's hashem estaris the words of hashem are pure okay so this is very important this is foundational we spoke about the end of participle and here we have the beginning of practice m or the amira the way that we speak the way that god speaks and the way that we need to emulate his speech god speaks optimistically even when he's talking about something negative he still speaks optimistically either he changes it around the way that it's said to to not say the negative word or he speaks first about the positive before speaking about the negative such an important thing you know i'm i've told the story many times but but i want to repeat it uh as a buck or 20 more than 20 years ago when i was learning in yeshua smear i remember a story that happened i was sitting in and machiaves had gone to use the facilities and i was sitting there and and i was singing singing in the basement let people sing it can be distracting for others and i was singing out loud i wasn't exactly learning i must admit and the guy next to me says you know you have such a beautiful voice i'm like oh thank you very much i was very complimented i said but it's distracting me from my learning do you mind to be a little bit more quiet and i said to them you know that's the nicest way anybody ever told me to be quiet i really appreciated it but when you start off with the positive it changes the whole thing it changes the whole thing you can say the same thing to someone i was telling my daughter last night somebody was saying something nice to her i said you know you can tell a person that that this this thing that you said hurts your feelings and you can preface it by first saying i know you didn't mean to hurt my feelings but when you say that my feelings are hurt when you first say to a person something positive and then you say to something that you know they need to hear it can change the whole tone of it it can change the whole way the whole shot so again kiddosham to you condition to you has to do with purity in our relationships has to do with the purity and what we eat has to do with how we enter into the land of israel what it means to be spiritual spiritual the way the torah asks us to be spiritual and we talk about the kohanim and their purity and their specialness and finally we have these last two points which is we want to emulate ako the shibaraku we want to emulate hashem's purity and when it comes to immigrants hashem here is the way that we speak the way that god speaks when he makes a commitment it's for real when we make commandments it also needs to be for real and finally when it comes to the way that we speak we need to speak like the torah speaks to hashem speaks with optimism even if we have to say something negative we need to figure out a positive spin on it a positive way to say when we do that so we are emulating his purity and we become kedation we become holy just like god is holy i want to bless you and ask you to bless me hashem should help us to be able to have this holiness to be able to have this specialness to be able to do the things that are challenging but that make us different that make us special and this way hashem should help us that indeed we should become kadesham pure to hire him pure in every single way 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 ari goldwag [Music]