Ki Savo - Rain, Livelihood, Resurrection

you're listening to the weekly para podcast with Ari goldwag recorded with H's never running assistance in R Israel 5783 2023 this week's and in our we have the blessings if we listen to [Music] if this is the beginning of chapter 28 if you listen to the voice of your God com to keep and to do all of his Commandments if we do the will of hasem hasem will place us top we're going to be above everybody else we're going to we're going to be winners now the PK says later on no yeah you'll have success you will have success it's going to be good for you you're going to have kids you're going to have your animals will have babies your Earth will be successful on the land you will succeed this is how you know the Jewish people are blessed and we're doing hashem's will is when we're in the land of Israel the land that Hashem promised to to our forefathers then the P says and this is the verse we're going to focus onm will open up for you his Treasure House his good Treasure House as in the Heavens to give the rain of your land in its time to bless all of your the work of your hands you will lend money to other nations but you will not need to borrow from anybody else you will have absolute Financial Security where will it come from it will come from Hashem will make you on top not not on the bottom if the guarantee of the Torah is if we do what we're supposed to do if we keep the Torah properly everything's going to be good for us then the Torah goes on we're not going to get into it I like to focus on the positive what happens if we don't but let's focus on what happens when we [Music] do the points out what is this language of means to open sounds like is opening up a door or something he's opening it up something that that he needs to open that we can't access without him says there are three openers is a key it opens the door there are three keys three openers that are in the hand of he personally is in charge of them no Creations not a not an angel not a higher level angel of Elohim these are they the key of the key of bringing the dead to life the second is the key of those who are not able to have children these are keys that Hashem has in his hands the third one is the key of rain now we're going to address something which if we focus and notice what's going on in our doing this question should should come up for us and the question is that in the second BR the Second Blessing of the of the of the we say we talk about the of the power of God we talk about and we also talk about the rain we talk about that is in the rainy season and the question is why what's the connection what is the connection between rain and hashem's his power to m that in the future we believe that God will bring the dead to life so the m points out that these are two of the three things that Hashem maintains power over himself it doesn't mean that he doesn't give that power to somebody else right we find in tanak were able to do we find in the G they were able to bring the de to life we find that ELO held the power over the rain but it's something as my son pointed out MH when I learned it with him he said that it means that no person can have all three at the same time but I would say perhaps slightly differently that the idea is that it's something that you have to have you have to get the key from Hashem as it were you have to be somebody who is who is a sadic a righteous individual in order to get this key so but what is the idea of these keys so the me brings how do you know that there is a key how do you know there is a door that has to be opened in order to get to the Revival of the Dead 37:3 it says that you shall know that I am hasem your God meaning it's only me it is only Hashem that the p that can open up the graves and bring the dead to life so it uses the word to open it's something that requires an opener we find the says in regards to somebody who wasn't able to have children I don't know if this is sah or ra maybe Leia it says Hashem opened up her womb so there's an opening that needs to happen there's an opener Hashem has the opens it up where do we find that rain is something that needs to be opened up says hem will open for you our and our par his good his good Treasure House which is a reference to the rain so what is the idea here what is the idea of something that is closed and needs to be opened what is the concept of the rain and the concept of the concept of bringing the dead to life so let's keep reading and hopefully the M will give us another or a deeper understanding of the rabis say that the rain when it comes down the the bringing down of R brings down the rain it's something that has equal value or in some way it's on the same level maybe it's the same difficulty or maybe it's the same Revelation asem bringing the dead to life how do we know because the says it will come to us like rain it will come down the the the the rain comes down right this a in 6:3 in talking about the fact that hem will bring us back to life that there will be a in the future time it also in that context speaks about the fact that hasm brings down the rain so this is the the root the source for what we what we do explicitly this is why we say in the the second which speaks about the the Revival of the Dead we also talk about the fact that Hashem brings down the rain why because the rain the rain and the the concept of have a parallel they have a parallel so what is the idea [Music] here he the Maru I like to read to you it says like this right like we said that the P clearly is comparing the concept of hashm bringing the rain to that which he's going to do in the future which which is to bring the dead to life the explanation of this is that when it comes to the concept of rain which we're used to we're used to it raining we don't think of it as such a Wonder it's not so amazing especially if you live in New York where rains a lot right Earth St is different it doesn't rain so much so here it's more of a Pella it's more of a a wonder when it rains but it's it's still it feels like a natural thing but nevertheless we need to know that as crazy as the idea of the Dead coming to life is that's how wondrous is the concept of Hashem bringing the rain so we need to understand what this means what does it mean okay we could say on a p level simple level that it means that all of the incredible uh the systems that hasem set up in the in Thea in in nature to bring rain is it's a it's a whole it's a complicated effort on aem's part to bring the rain it's it's as complicated as bringing the dead to life but let's see there's going to be a there's going to be more the mag is going to give us more than this explains to us a mystery he explains something to us which again if we if we are saying and we have a little bit of his b a little contemplation about what we're saying there's a question that could come up there's a br one of the blessings that speaks about parasa livelihood we askem oh make us rich no we don't say that we say Hashem give us all the money we need no we don't say that we say we say bless our year how make sure we have enough grain bless the Earth I'm not a farmer I don't know about you most of us are not Farmers most of us get paid for doing other services for our for our for our peers our fellows so what are we talking about in and I want to mention again that this the the ideas that we're learning together today uh were clarified by myself and my son mov so some of things that I'm saying especially this is actually my my son's idea the Mish tells us that whenever it rains listen it's amazing this is really so cool whenever it rains when the rain comes down when the Earth gives forth its blessings when the when the grain comes forth in a par away at the same [Music] moment the the the business World it it does well there's blessings that come into the business world says that hm is going to bring you rain in its time and he's going to bless all of your works all of that which you do so it's an amazing thing because what it's saying is an incredible idea that the to the to the extent that we serve Hashem properly hasem is he brings about he pulls all of the natural uh systems he he he aligns everything so that it rains and he aligns everything so that we're successful in our businesses and we have the money that we need so even though we're praying for the the Earth even though we're praying that Thea should come that the rains should come but the mes tells us that really that's really the same thing the the PK is telling us that there's a parallel between rain the rain coming and our our parasa our livelihood coming to us now listen to this there was a story where one time they caught a fish in AKO and it was before the main rain had fallen they thought by looking at the fish that it was going to weigh 300 liters but it turned out that it only weighed 200 did I skip something here oh I did I missed the line the fish even are blessed because of the rain the fish who live in the water so what's the what do we care if there's more water the fish grow bigger and I don't think it means because of the rain but it means in tandem when when the rains come it it brings the it's a symbol of that hasm is bringing blessings upon the entire world in many different aspects in our in our business aspects but also in the Physical Realm the food that a person is supposed to eat this fish it gets bigger it gets it has more meat because of the blessings that hashm is bringing into the [Music] world this elderly person was a particular maybe was a sadic or maybe he say it say says he was a he was an experienced fisherman he knew from experience he's an older person and he said that it would be bigger if the rains had already fallen indeed this is what happened once the rains fell they they caught a fish they thought it was going to be 200 lers it turned out to be 300 so see that even the fish are blessed okay so we see that the par of a person which by the way we also speak about in that second right sustains life with kindness they go together these ideas go together that Hashem brings life to the dead that Hashem gives rain that Hashem sustains us and gives us our lives gives us parosa livelihood says the another thing see how awesome is is the concept of the rain when he would see the the rain coming he would see the rain falling he would make a special blessing he said let the name of Hashem be greater and blessed the one who created he spoke and the world came into existence the incredible Miracle he wanted to recognize the fact that the rain is falling the rain is coming down upon the Earth it's awesome the one who created the world world who gave existence think about think about how in the future is going to give life and existence to all those who have died which is The Impossible thing right as far as we're concerned impossible that anyone should live again that's already died but hasem brought everything into existence and he does this amazing thing there's thousands and tens of thousands of angels Spiritual Beings that bring every single droplet of water down to [Music] earth the the the rain has to fall from a very high height and really it's also it's talking about certain spiritual Concepts which have to do with the shefa itself which have to do with the actual uh Divine influx that's represented by the rain but it has to go on the physical level each droplet how come they don't all combine and just rush down like a river right but each and every single droplet doesn't mix up get mixed up with with the other droplets so you see that there's individual attention to each droplet Hashem is in a certain sense perhaps we could say the Hashem is making sure that each person receives his own special livelihood the exact amount that he needs hasem is sending parosa down to the world but it's individualized it comes out to each and every one of us exactly excuse me exactly how much we need so we still haven't completed the answer of what what does it mean why why is the rain connected to the bringing bringing the dead to life ends off like this they're on the same level bringing the dead to life and bringing down the rain on the same level it says the word opening will open the graves bring the dead to life Hashem opens the heavens and brings down the rain each of them it refers to the the hand of Hashem the hand of hasem which is his full open Revelation there's an open revelation of hasem when it Reigns hasm sends us our parasa there's an open revelation of hasm when hasem brings the dead to life that's can't be more obvious than that [Music] by each of these Concepts it says the word song There's a song when the Dead come back to life there's it's just amazing everyone's bursts out in song and there's a song when it rains like we said saw before it says the opening opens the graves we and by the rain it says hm will open for you by the by bringing the dead to life the says in that in his in his I believe it's in the context of the of the dry bones the dry bones being brought to life but he uses the word the hand of hem was upon him in regards to Hashem giving us livelihood through the rain it says Hashem opens his hand gives us our needs says Isaiah that those who who live who dwell in the Rocks they dwell in their graves so they will sing says there's there's a concept of song what's the concept of song the idea of song is is that when we appreciate the incredible kindness of hem just like what we read about his his amazing statement when he recognized how hem gives us each our individual needs which is represented by the droplets of the rain he he had this incredible BR this blessing he wanted to say expressing his his appreciation to Hashem and that's the song So What do we see here what we see is an incredible thing and this we can take with us every single day three times a day in our the second bra is talking about the recognition that we need to have for hashem's rain the droplets of rain it's at the same level says the M it's at the same level as is giving us life is bringing us back to life if we didn't have livelihood if we didn't have the money we need for food if we didn't have the grains growing in the fields we wouldn't have any sustenance we wouldn't be able to remain alive is bringing us back to life each day Hashem is giving us rain and really hashm is giving us sustenance Hashem is providing us with livelihood and parnasa each in our own individual special unique circumstances in life each one of us is getting what we need and and being given and and and being given life but but it happens in tandem that's it's an important point it happens in tandem when we see that rain it should remind us Hashem is giving us what we need hm is constantly providing for us what we need and we need to pray for that and we need to recognize that we need to appreciate it need to appreciate the incredible has incredible Divine Providence hasm places on each and every one of us in our lives all the time every day and we say it and we recognize it in that second when we speak about sustains us with kindness just in the same way in just the same way as he's going to bring the dead to life he's bringing us to life each and every day I want to bless you I ask to bless meem should help us that we should be able to indeed recognize the incredible kindness that hasm does for us all the time he keeps us alive he gives us sustenance he brings down the rain he brings down spiritual and physical sustenance thank you so much for listening have a wonderful shabas this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you for more podcasts like this please visit www that arold wag.com or search on iTunes Ari goldwag