Ki Savo - Affirming Hashem's Reality

listening to the weekly partial podcast with ari goldwag recorded with hashem's never-ending assistance in rama bitchin israel 5781 2021. this week's parasha is part of kisavo and in our parsha we have two concepts that are placed next to each other we're going to see the measures talks about one of them is the concept the jewish people are to accept the laws of hashem the laws of god and in so doing they need to go there's two mountains hagrism our evil the jewish people go upon the mountains there's a whole ceremony when they came into the land of israel and they would announce whoever keeps the torah will be blessed whoever whoever does not kill the torah will be cursed and everyone will say amen the entire jewish people says the word amen we're going to speak about the word amen what is idea of the word amen it means i agree i confirm i affirm that what was said is true and then the torah continues after speaking of these 12 curses that will come upon us heaven forbid if we don't keep the torah so the torah says another passage this is in chapter 28 verse 1 and it will be if you will listen to the words to the voice of hashem your god and many blessings will come upon you as a result of listening to him and although there's a chapter break here the chapter breaks it's important to know or not from our masara not from our tradition but rather the chapter breaks were placed there by the christians so it's important to know that the the chapter breaks are not natural and in fact here it's inappropriate uh because indeed these two so him so come before chapter the big the end of chapter 27 and the beginning of chapter are indeed related and that's what our magister is going to speak about the connection between the concept of the word amen and the concept of shamanism if you shall listen to the voice of hashem shall heed god heed god's commandments keep his laws so then great blessings will come upon us okay let's read the meditation side let's let's try to understand what the measure is saying there's a great depth here which i think every single one of us can can garner and receive something from israel the message talks about the concept of the word amen the word amen we say it after a blessing when the quran and the priests every single day in in israel the priests get up in front of the jewish people in the shul in the synagogue and they give a blessing to the jewish people and at the end of each may god protect you and bless you so after each of the sections the threefold blessing we say amen we say may it be so may it be so we agree we would like to receive these blessings now there's a problem there's a problem that can come about this is a halachic issue and indeed there are ramifications for this especially if you are a shliya or if you're the one leading the prayers if you say a main it could confuse you right it used to be today we we read the prayers from our sedum from our prayer books however it used to be that we would pray by heart we would say that fellows by heart and as a result if someone interrupted in the middle of the prayers to say amen to the blessings of the priests it could confuse a person and they could lose their place in the prayer and it could ruin their prayer so allah means ever looking at eva somebody's leading the prayer mao sheikh mutter s even if we're using a prayer book if when it comes to the blessings first they say a blessing on the blessing right they say savannah to bless the jewish people with love so on that bracha indeed if you are the active you do not say amen to that blessing however since you have the the verses right in front of you in your prayer book you're allowed to say amen after each of the blessings of the priests so what's the halal is it going to confuse the person is it going to confuse the one who's leading the prayers so if you don't have a prayer book you're not allowed to see our main after the blessings because it will confuse you you will lose your place you won't get back to the prayers properly the villain is if it's possible to answer without getting confused without losing your place in the prayers so then you are permitted to say amen why is that gonna live now yes understand the importance of the word amen the word amen is so powerful so important so deep such an important affirmation as we'll soon see that it's so great in front of god that uh we allow you to say our main i'm reviewed that the word amen has three different connotations and if we look at them carefully we see that they're different shades of the same idea let's see the word domain can be an oath the kabbalah it can be a a commitment [Music] and it can be an affirmation and the message brings three different verses where we see each of these uses of the word i mean in regards to the wayward wife we find that she needs to swear that she hasn't done anything wrong she says amen amen that's how she swears that's how she takes the oath so the word i mean can be an oath it's a deep statement a deep affirmation of the truth or statement of the truth kabbalah how do we know that it means that they accept upon themselves they commit to something should never come amen as we have in our verses the torah says to us that there are curses upon a person if they do not give the torah the whole nation says amen we accept it we affirm that we accept this upon ourselves how do we know that it means [Music] something that is a commitment a show of trustworthiness an affirmation i'm sorry not trustworthiness an affirmation that this is what i want to be who was the general of the king i believe of king david if i'm not mistaken it was king solomon excuse my uh excuse my lack of knowledge here it's the beginning of kamalas so i think it's king david so he said so may it be true may it be true a main means let it be so okay so that's the concept of the word domain now what does that have to do with us or what is the depth of this how does this apply to us let's listen carefully to the following statement of the message you may have heard this it's a pretty famous statement of our sages whoever says amen the word amen whoever affirms something spiritual who says i mean to a blessing in this world he's going to merit to say amen in the world to come in that spiritual realm in the world to come though the which is really in this world honestly it's after the messiah arrives there's the kufa time period of mashiach and then in the year six thousand which is in about 220 years from now so we have um the world is changing to a new reality a brand new reality comes into the world that's called a spiritual reality our physical selves lose their strength the spiritual self becomes much more dominant see the ram khal talks about that in hashem and in other places in that reality if we say our main in this reality we're going to say i'm in in that reality what does that mean we need to understand what this means it's very important let's see whoever goes into the house of prayer the house of study whoever is davening to god praying to god studying the torah in this world so he will merit to do so as well in the future world as well are those who sit in your home in your house the basement the basaneses the temple the synagogue the place of prayer the place of study they will again praise you if we are involved in seeking spiritual pursuits in this world we will continue in our spiritual pursuits in the deeper spiritual world again we need to understand what this means same idea though say i mean in this world you're going to say i'm in the next world if you pray and study in this world you're going to dive in and learn in the next world [Music] you didn't call me because whoever listens to the voice of god the voice of the torah the voice of conscience of conscience as guided by the torah whoever listens to that voice you will merit to hear the voice the sounds of joy of hassan and kala of a of a bride and a groom which is how the torah describes in jeremiah chapter 33 verse 11. how the torah describes what it's going to look like when mashiach when the messiah arrives a new world a world of joy that joy of qasan and kala of bride and groom that sense of newness of excitement that's the experience that we're going to have when shia comes when the messiah arrives holy temple that's that awesome feeling of relationship the relationship that newness of relationship is what we're going to experience if we listen to the torah if we keep the torah that's the puzzle as i'm a fortunate explain it's going on this verse that that we caught at the beginning if you listen you will hear if you listen to the to the voice of the torah now you're going to hear that newness that amazing excitement of the messiah's arrival of god's revelation in the world i finishes off and tells us that moshe moses said to the people of israel since it is so that whoever listens to the words of torah they will be raised up in this world and in the next world heaven here in the shema torah be so careful make sure you are listening to words of torah make sure you are learning every single day listening all the time words of torah more words of torah repeating and repeating and repeating and it will be if you will listen you will hear the voice of hashem your god the marriage is clearly making a connection between the word amen and the concept of listening to the torah and it's saying that if we say amen in this world we're going to say a man in the next world if we learn the torah in this world we're going to learn the torah in the next world if we use our voices our capacity to speak and to hear for prayer and for study of god's will it's not going to stop here it's going to continue forever what is the depth of what this mentorship is coming to teach us and how can we apply it to ourselves how can we think about this we have opportunities to say i mean all the time we have opportunities to learn torah all the time so it's really important to understand the depth and the message of this madrish and i believe that it's saying something very powerful think about it it says here the word means it's an oath it's an acceptance it's a confirmation what happens when a person makes an oath think about it you know a guy comes into court and he says i don't owe him money bob says to ruvin says the shimon let's use nice jewish names reuven says to shimon shimmer owes me money schmidt says i don't owe money so if shimon makes an oath so then he doesn't have to pay what's the difference between shimon saying i don't owe him money and saying by god you know making an oath with god's name swearing that now he doesn't owe the money why is that why do we believe him now what is the power of an oath what does a person do when they say such a statement the answer is that a person when they say an oath when they say the word amen listen carefully it's so important we have to think about the things that we do all the time when a person says an oath they are affirming that this is as true as god is true they are bringing god into the picture and it is as if they are saying as it were if what i'm saying is not true if what they are saying i'm going to say it not about myself if what they are saying is not true let god strike them down it's a very powerful statement when a person brings god into the picture affirms something by god makes an oath with god's name what they're doing is they're taking it seriously this is real this is really real what i'm saying is really real when i hear abraham someone gives me a blessing and i say oh man from your mouth to god's ears when i say amen i am saying it's real i want to i affirm this is real this is really real that's what amane means it's an oath the woman swears she did not do anything wrong it's a different statement than her saying i didn't do anything wrong she swears oh man oh man i didn't do anything wrong by god the jewish people are told if a person doesn't keep the torah they shall be cursed heaven forbid they shall be yours oh man i affirm by god someone says a blessing someone says something i mean by god it should happen that's why we believe him that's the power of the word amen it means i i mean it i'm bringing hashem into this i'm bringing god into this this is real for me and god is real to me god is real to me when a person says a man in this world if god is real to you in this world then of course a person when they get to the real world where god is openly apparent god will be even more deeply real to that person a person who's fighting god their entire lives or fighting to say that god doesn't exist heaven forbid their entire lives so when they get to the reality of god all they'll be is embarrassed it won't be enjoyable it won't be a happy place for such a person so can tell us that a person who said a man in this world a person who listened to the words of torah who is praying who god was real to them spirituality was real to them god's will was real to them they affirmed god's will if i listen that prospect that talks about how important and how deep we need to listen to the words of the torah how important it is and how deep it needs to be to us how really it needs to be to us it's right after the curses and the word amen that was responded by the jewish people that was the response of the jewish people it's it's not a coincidence that placement of these two concepts next to each other it's teaching us that how do we take it real how do we take it seriously how do we make it real how does it become something which makes a mark on us the way is we listen to the words of the torah we hear divrei torah we're in the study hall we're studying the words of torah this is what's important to us this is what we talk about we talk about the chauffeur we talk about rosh hashanah is coming up diamandin we talk about this we talk about this is what we're listening to this is what we have this is what's this is what our conversations are about this is what's real to us this is what's important to us that's what's important to us so it's going to be it's not just in this world it's going to be it's going to be real for us in the world to come as well this is something which we're acquiring for all eternity to the extent to the to in proportion to how much we make this real amen means this is real to me a person swears oh man person confirms i mean person says it should be so oh man this is real that's what amane is and that's what the pasik is telling us about shamaya if you listen to the words of torah if the torah is real to you if that's what you're listening to if that's the if those are the messages that you're trying to incorporate into yourself those who are sitting in this in this home in this place in this house house of worship the house of god those who are sitting here will continue to sit there because that's where they belong they'll be in that place for all eternity they'll be in that place of closeness to god they will have that joy called sassafra you heard the voice of god until now you're going to hear the voice of god when it's revealed it's going to be joyous for you it's not going to be a bush it's not going to be embarrassing think about all of those people who have been denying god denying god's reality denying the pro the the fact that the jewish people are the prime nation of god the chosen people how embarrassing will it be in that moment when god reveals himself to the world and says i am god and these are my people it won't be a joyous time it's only joyous for those who hear the voice of god those who hear hashem's voice if you hear hear you will hear there if you hear now you will hear later call will be a great joy that's why my shirabin was telling us and this is the end of the madrish this is why moisha is telling us this is it this is the way this is the path you want to know how to be happy in this world and be happy in the next world there's only one way it's by listening to the word of god it's by saying oh man confirming affirming making it real for yourselves the torah the will of hashem the will of god listening here and you're going to listen there i want to bless you and ask you to bless me hashem should help us that we should be able to understand the the meaning of what we're saying all the time the word amen should help us to be able to hear the words of torah hear the depth of what's going on the will of hashem so so much so that soon we will hear the satsuma costume called the voices of joy with the advent of meshiach and we will hear and we will see god's presence for all time thank you so much for listening have a wonderful shabbos this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you for more podcasts like this please visit www.ariegoldwag.com or search on itunes ahri goldwag [Music] you