Ki Sisa - Faith over Fear

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with Ari Gold Wegg recorded with a chums never-ending assistance in Roma Hamish Israel 5780 2020 this week's parsha is parties kiss ISA and in our part should we have perhaps one of the most fundamental challenging difficult events the Jewish people has ever undergone or the most challenging misenus tests of our faith and that is the sin of the golden calf the kata eagle and we need to understand what is the idea behind it what is the idea of the theta angle of the sin why did it happen why specifically at this time did it happen and we need to understand also what is the message for us this DVAR Torah is entitled faith over fear and one of the ideas of course is it's on everybody's mind what's going on in the world with the coronavirus and I want to address with this DVAR Torah perhaps an approach that we can understand what is the idea behind when there's challenges like this in the world challenges that affect all of us and and bring fear to us bring fear and what is the approach so I want to share with you two things one is a vort from the my dragisa Adam from the altar of Navarre Tech and he's in the lesson that he learns from the kata eagle and and and what is what is the approach to this kind of fear and another is just the general thought that has to do with mushiya I'm sure it's on everyone's minds maybe mashiac is coming I believe it to be true and what happens before Messiah comes and how does it connect to the fact that why did the Haida Eagle happen at this very point in time why did this happen why was this Pandora's Box opened as Moshe Rabbeinu was about to come down with the Taira why did it was why was it at that moment what why do challenges occur and big challenges like this kind of challenge whether we're talking about kata a goal or whether we're talking about the challenge which is a world challenge right now that we're facing off with what is the approach what is the idea behind it and how are we to face off with it faith over fear with faith as opposed to fear all right so I'd like to share with you what the my Drago's autumn says and he wants to understand the Jewish people were on a tremendously high level when they were at her c9 they had been there that said NASA finish MA they had reached an exalted state the state of other my reach and cut of my hate Adam before the sin they had become they had law you know they had all died and they had come back to life with a brand new body one that could last and live forever in fact as a result of the hata ego they all became again prone to the curse of automation of death how could they indeed if they had were on such an exalted level how could they have fallen so greatly how could they have made such a tremendous mistake to worship the golden calf they just seen a coalition work who take him out of Egypt they had seen Hashem himself take them out of Egypt and yet here they were okay we could say it's the heir of Rob perhaps most of the Jewish people didn't do it perhaps they even stood you know they were they weren't okay with it but they didn't protest when the era of Rob did it so how could it be that such a great sin could occur and he says like this now at my age 'soul ahem ago Messiah hurrah hurrah huzzah Kubrick as I let's try and understand it'sit's not so crazy that the Jewish people after reaching such an exalted level at her scene I they made this mistake key idea Hilaire do a shia ear robin and first of all we we know that the air of rob was there i mean i am a daughter named sue schenken maki-moteh maya determent you this Rocha bush my shoe shoe pressure huzzah we find that the plastic tells us that Moshe was late and we know that that our sage is explaining Bosh a table you mean y'know youngin they knew that he was supposed to come back on day 40 and it was de minimis take on when day 40 was he was really day 39 they thought it was the time for him to return and well Shamu Aki's my aha ish shoroma Shamu table means mamita the Gemara Shabbos on that Peter says that they saw Moshe Rabbeinu they saw him dead they saw that he was on his not on his death but they saw him in a coffin so he was dead that's what they were shown by the it's a heart by the evil inclination my new Halle Halle lame a Schmo so we can't give him too much guilty Mahalo him lastly is Mara shoot oh so he flips it around and says you know the mistake was such they they didn't there wasn't really so much room to - for the side of good well XML a go Gong canonical arrived on the actual Golden Calf itself we can't say that they were that they have done anything wrong sure also it's a Rockland mnemonic they didn't intend if you read the past Sookie really carefully they did not intend for it to be an idle rock they meant for him to be in place of motion motion was their leader they wanted the Agel as well to be somehow I'm sure yell COO the funny of the plastic says it shall go before us the person Exodus chapter 32 verse 23 o Barabbas hey I'll have Malcolm little toys Thank You Misha may say add certainly there was room to make a mistake because they thought the Moshe was dead me oh damn oh how you talk Adina who knows where he is who knows what's happened to him they hadn't seen him in a month and a half almost but he says like this an amazing thing foundational idea when it comes to understanding how to deal with the ate Sahara how do we face off with the evil inclination oh no Paco sovereign bonds el shac here in the Reg line the humanities rights ROM ban writes that checker has no feet what is the idea hi no she in Lara basically Soraka Jesus a name whenever you have a stable which is false it's our show them something it wasn't true that most remain who is dead right whenever you have something that's false there's a trick there's a there's a sleight of hand is the correct translation here Hanikra pocus it's a type of hocus pocus Shakur might ship by Murong Bao I would like for me hmmm I know there's a whole trick that magicians are able to do and such a way they're able to trick people out of their money none of the people who have those those the shell game where you have three cups and underneath the cup there's a there's a some item that you need to figure out which one it's under the hand is faster than the eye right coquettish Allah Jesus and I'm an eleven here ooh such murmur I'm Koka class this is a pocus they have the ability with sleight of hand the way that it works is the hand is faster than the eye and therefore the person can be fooled even though he thinks that he sees that it's one way truly is a different way Adam Youkilis taco boy Kuro a person can't properly understand what's going on will he be pure a ekkada person looks very carefully with a sharp eye a secret valise a shaker bazooka boy so then he certainly will recognize the falsehood the the fakeness iraq coming here Santa flora miss Lana this is a Koosh it's only the extreme speed that fools the eye that fools the person it fools the senses so the way it is the way it is is that a person can become fooled when things are quick if he managed in dark I hate sir this is how it is with the path of the 8th Sahara the evil inclination Kia Sutton Antioch Allah Harrison severe but Suez number type the Satan cannot present Anna Vera a sin as something which is really good call curtly Lamar Valley hosted call what is his power his power is in his speed I should be shot shot of mescal AHA laughs shall we die so when a person thinks about it intellectually our government's already past the point where he's already done it he's the ace of heart gets a person do this quick this quick don't think about don't think about it quickly quick do it do it do it it the end Fargo Marisela automates issue I mean a harm I smash after the person is already sitting after the action after the sin he's already done it he's like how did that happen why did I do that so the intellect is a little bit slow you know the intellect can can indeed be muffling can recognize that the thing that was done was not okay or the thing that's being done is not okay but the the trick the it's a horizon its speed its sleight of hand Lehane Hersh I mean him push me dark on a key item him Kirov amaru so the eighth Sahara I'm sorry they were Shyam who indeed give in to their youth Sora even though they know that the thing that they're doing is not good they feel terrible still Yankee I assume a marble the costume is not a fetus no mas a person is not you know the ATR works quick the evil inclination says quickly do the aver do the sim the person does not indeed have that full measure of commitment to make sure that he doesn't do he doesn't have his own he's just heavy rain who might suit ominous that's when Manute sauce so the Russia the addict we could even say we don't want to call an addict the Russia but somebody who's used to sinning and is habituated to sinning so he's always finding himself to be conquered gamma might say a go so he says an amazing thing and this is the shot in the mind's eye a go it's a deep deep lesson for us like I see her see they are suddenly hearts but sewer by lettuce Commission made someone awful nice in this way we need to understand that when they ate Sahara showed when the Satan showed the Moshe was dead so he couldn't show them in a way that was absolutely clear right yeah in commune sees in a dark in it wasn't really true Moshe was not really dead all right say hi Soraka Jesus a night was a sleight of hand it was a trick it was chimney Allah had to I smell are my stomach quickly tricked them and cause them to do something wrong we loose taco B stock Escada are you running my Shero if they would have looked carefully they would have looked with a sharp eye they wouldn't have seen it that way rile a diver and the proof is should shave it lady named Shauna she's even moisture mother Sheila chamois lying we founded the tribe of Lavy they didn't give in to the sin when Moshe says who is for a sham come to me the entire shape and lady came to him obviously they didn't fall they didn't fall down they didn't fall in the trap of the a Sahara my Omar an acrylic wobbly shimizu if it was so obvious and there was no you know there wasn't anything fishy about it Hashem Chevy lady love how come lady and fall into it ahaha Jesus and I my second clearly there was a trick there was a slight of hand there was a hand moves faster than the eye and in the case they Sahara the picture that he showed them move faster than him Misha Russell it's a star who ever wanted to make a mistake made a mistake that was there but here a point that was their behavior their free will their ship it ladies shall rot so little ice later the tribe of Levi so they had made a decision not to make a mistake and they didn't lose I see ash Muslim this was the problem this was the guilt of the Jewish people shall he be - karai they didn't look carefully but Cyril is a toe such a choice and they also had this mistake of the sixth hour right oh my gosh the six hours calm oh she's not here shave it Lavy leaf usually Taba my show mace but the tribe of lady didn't make this mistake they didn't believe that Moshe died they didn't they didn't believe the picture leads to heart showed them talk about some gamma she's choiceless I say go Kiku show me over they weren't concerned about the fact that much I hadn't come yet they said maybe he'll come tomorrow maybe will come soon they weren't like they weren't pushed by the 8th Sahara to fall in to this trap we might say go new kala doing so we can learn we can understand from the my sagal TRADOC yeah yet same I keep saying I'm this is the way of the it's hard this is his trick this is how he works quickly quickly sleight of hand fools us and we fall for it all the time there is a Makita saying I'm Allah called crab fisherman mama say all this power is that he says do it quick well I'm a bit here bi Daniel but we have a choice me free will share it late mchavez the time and shave it live is the the one who shows us the way it's supposed to be you got me a new photo Havana hey la hey apasher coca like gamma Karim I say go la yarda new address ok he talks about the fact that they didn't fall completely I understand that even the sin itself wasn't a you know it was a sin of course was a tremendous sin but he explains how they they didn't fall completely from their level okay I'm not gonna get into that but the idea that we see your is very powerful and and it's that we need to understand whenever we look at what's going on in the world and this I believe is a big mistake of many of the Jewish magazines and and and being too involved in reading the media there's a certain they their whole trick is quickness oh my gosh here's something exciting here's something scary here think that we should be afraid of that's the way of the media that's the way even of our own media of the for media is to say something that's exciting and scary because it sells papers people like to be afraid but that's at sauce I ate sir and I'm not Casa Shawn saying that we shouldn't be cautious and the saying that we shouldn't be careful but we need to know that the way of the it Sahara is to make us fearful and the way of the Taira is that we need to have faith in another example of this another example of this the Jewish people when the Moraga ylim came back from from searching out the land and they said that we can't possibly overcome we can't possibly overcome the nation's those strong nations that are in the land of Canaan and Land of Israel and the Jewish people became fearful perhaps a sham is not with us it's easy to become fearful and to think sham Casa Shan is not with us look what's going on people are dying people are getting sick it's something that seems like it's going to spread throughout the world it's and it may be true may be true but to give in to the fear this is the time all the way around Shiva says rabbi pair right now he's saying this is the time to work on our be talkin this is the time to work on our faith in Hashem to work on our trust in Hashem that he's going to protect us that he's doing this for a reason I've Shem as a reason for every single thing that goes on in the world the good things the bad things everything is for a reason and I want to share with you a thought which is connected to mushiya and which is I believe connected to this virus and it's just an important thing to understand when when things like this go on when it seems to be that there's a din in the world there's a judgement going on there's something challenging difficult many people the entire world is is shaking the entire world is shaking under our feet what is the approach how are we to think about this I want to show you guimard sin suka nothing on base it's only gamar in Shas as far as I know that speaks about the casa loma chef ben Yosef she had been yo saviors up in Yosemite happened David two different mushy ass and she who comes from the tribe of frying from Yosef there's a mushiya from david from the tribe of Yehuda we all know about my chef Mondavi that's Emma W out the club we all know about tougher but there's also machinery no safe and the Gomera tells us that we're mushy you know the times right before mashiac there's a Great War a work called Google Magog and mushiya we know safe it's much like is in the Gemara more like it still today whether or not my shift mean Yosef has to die but there's an schita an opinion that my chef Ben Yoseph dies and I want to try to understand why it is the when y'all see this leader of the Jewish people why does he have to die what is the idea behind his death also very interesting the Gemara says here in sook on that moon base that after it happens aftermath but no Steve dies there's a conversation that mushy happened of it has with Hashem it goes like this tundra bottom is she have been dusted he goes from here be I'm a no chef when David is going to reveal himself speedily in our days I really so much I only many government a look on Hashem says to him I want you to ask me anything I'll give it to you she's never a Sabra like Annie I am elated Tico I'm a man of it or not going in a class at the pastor can tell him second chapter tell him Shannon says ask ask me anything I'll give you I'll give you whatever you want the game is sure Amish she happiness of SHINee rock and when she opened up it sees that Michelle Phan Yosef was killed I'm really fun of rebuttal and I'm anyway package from Kayla hiam machine when David says I just want one thing I just don't wanna I want to live I don't want to die okay so that's what he asks for armor LOL oh hi I'll relay I am actually I'm I took first not be like a double of Akash and responds and says don't worry you're not the worry you you're gonna live mm I left King David your great-great-grandfather he already prophesied about you and he said I'm Shamim Kaunas at alloy the life that you requested Hashem is given to him I'm Shamim claw or the life that you are going to ask for he will give you okay so a Shem promises mashup and of it that he's gonna be fine he's not gonna die like my ship and you're safe question is what is going on here why doesn't a ship we know safe enough to die and what is the conversation she opened a binocular who asked him for life what is a shimmery Hashem's response and this is my understanding of the Gemara and I fought a lot about these things I had a blog for many years talking about mushiya and I stopped the blog about 10 years ago where I still think about it all the time I have many addition many ideas one of the ideas that I want to share with you is that who is Mishima no safe what is his job and why does he have to die machete knows if his job is to lead the Jewish people in the war of Gog and Magog to protect the Jewish people against an existential threat which faces us from the nations of the world that want to destroy us the shipping of sieve dies in that war why I believe that the shot is the reason is because Klaus rail needs to know that no person no one person no army can protect us not no people who say I'm standing up in protecting the people of Israel as certain people have been saying of late nobody protects us only one but protects us Hakodesh BA flew himself protects us and as long as there's a person named Mashiach Ben Yossef who seems to be protecting the Jewish people there's a problem because we need to be completely dependent on a coalition for Hashem we need to know that he is the only one he is the only one that protects us and for that reason I believe that mushy if ben Yosef has to die and it could be that mushy happiness Abe won't die and it might be because he's somebody who's a tremendous Sadiq tremendous righteous individual it takes no credit for himself and therefore the Jewish people through his leadership are indeed drawn into a relationship with Hashem instead of believing that he's the one protecting them we will see what happens when the ship we know save himself arrives but the idea here is that what is the tire telling us what is this Gomorrah telling us what happens there's a point in time there's a moment in time where there's a challenge there's a Google mugging why does that have to happen before Messiah comes why does it have to be a great war why does it have to be such a challenge an existential threat to the Jewish people why is it that for Hashem is about to give the Taira to the Jewish people it has to be a moment of difficulty the Jewish people fall and there's a like gahafer there's a plague 3,000 Jews die they have to be killed and there are other points in the tire where we see that when we lose our relationship with Hashem there's on my gay fur there's a plague as far as I understand it the idea is that when there's about to be a new level a new level in relationship with a college park or whether it's because a chef is about to come whether it's because the Jewish people are about to receive the Taira and and be you know jettisoned into how much higher at spiritual realm in any case there's always a moment where there's a judgement add-in and the only way to get through the judgement is by being maja zyc strengthening our baton strengthening our faith and I could Sparkle our connection to Hashem that is what I call - for who wants from us in the moment when there's a challenge it's because we are about to step over a hurdle into a new place a new spiritual level and in order to get there we have to get past a final test and the test is are we going to be in a relationship with a co - for who are we going to have be tahun are we going to have faith we're going to have faith are we gonna buy into the fear are we going to be tricked by that he's insane I am the quickness of the media the quickness of the eighth Sahara which tells us to be afraid and to take every precaution which of course we have to take normal precautions but the question is are we going to strengthen our Emunah we're gonna strengthen our B tahun strengthen our faith strengthen our prayer arts Fela that is what is called for at a time like this and that's like mushy a friend of it says Hashem when he sees my ship when you'll see if his died he says I have nothing as long as I think that I have that I can protect myself as long as I think that the government is gonna protect me as long as I think that things are gonna be okay because something I'm gonna I'm gonna save myself that that's not that's not it the ship and avi says I only no if my life I don't even know if I can depend on the fact that I can stay I'm gonna stay alive Shem says don't worry you got it you got it if you if you understand that if your ethnical Roku for life you're fine you're fine it's gonna be good because you got the message the message of this Gomorrah and the message I believe of the parsha is you wanna you wanna have a real relationship with a coach beaucoup you want to reach the next level you want to walk into the days of Messiah you want to walk into a relation with a coach broker where you receive the Taira you have to remember don't make the mistake don't fall into the trap of the eighth Sahara don't fall into the fear that maybe I Shem is not with me don't fall into that fear this is the moment of test this is the moment where we need to be my classic RB talking when to be mikasa can strengthen our faith in a coalition for honey I want to offer to you again well Hashem we have a wonderful group of men on Sunday meeting a group of women on Tuesday's meeting working on be talking together every single week well chums help I want to offer that to you if you are interested in please email me Ari Gold wag at gmail.com you can join us from Hashem we have beautiful discussions centered around the safer of my Russia Shiva my pair about be talking about faith and based on my tragus Adam altar of Navarre Tech and we can work on this together this is the time to work on it to face off with the challenge and to strengthen ourselves and strengthen those around us with be talking on a Shem and I am so sure I'm so sure that we all will join together and I ask you to bless me and please bless me back a Shem should help us to recognize the the while eNOS Soviet Sahara the sleight-of-hand should help us not to give in to the fear Shem should help us yes to take necessary precautions and to be careful but at the same time to work on our betoken work on our connection with our kodesh broker because that's what this is all about 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.gfi.com/webmonitor [Music]