Ki Sisa - Planting the Future

you're listening to the weekly departure podcast with our gold wag recorded with hashem's neverending assistance in ramappache israel 5782 2022. this week's parachute is partially sisa the beginning of our parsha hashem gives the command to moshe abbaynu to collect half shekel coins from each of the jewish people on representing each of the jewish people and count the jewish people in this way in a way which is not a direct count jewish people are not to be counted directly but rather it's being done in an indirect way but still hashem would like to know the amount of jews that there are or he would like to count them out which represents his great love for the jewish people i'd like to share with you a madrish which is actually uh mentioned not brought in full we'll see the full madrish it's mentioned at the beginning of the magistenar parish it says like this i'm not going to translate that because i don't know exactly what it means but i will share with you the madrish it doesn't bring the whole magistrate just says et cetera so we're going to read the etc inside which is in the magazines shirim and it's a it's a pasuk in song of songs by shalom muhammad king solomon it's chapter seven verse three it refers to the it refers to the sanhedrin refers to those who guide the jewish people refers to the balance that is brought to the jewish people through the leadership of those who understand the torah which we've spoken about in previous weeks we speak spoken about the importance of torah and how it guides us in our lives and it gives us that balance and it gives us that direction now the second half of the possibility says and that's the main part which refers back as we'll see to our parsha to the counting of the jewish people literally means we need to understand that the song of songs is an allegory between a man and a woman and it's a description of the love of akush barku of god who as it were is the male in the relationship the giver and we are the female in the relationship the receiver and the one who develops through the torah through our kabbalist omitsus accepting upon ourselves to fulfill the commandments etc we receive that so we are described the jewish people is described bitne are this is when i saw this magic show i was like wow this is one of the most beautiful major show that i've ever seen it refers to the to the stomach it's speaking about the beauty of the jewish people its stomach is like a great vat or a great container of wheat what is the idea of a stomach what is the idea of a container of wheat so in discussing this with my son shadow we learned this together the betten is the place the pre-betten is the place the stomach is the place on a female which receives and develops the seed of her husband develops the children comes to the betten so this aspect is described as a great vat a great container of wheat wheat is also a seed as we'll see wheat is the essential component of man's diet it represents something very special very important something unique about the jewish people something incredible and it's important to to think about and recognize and remember that in previous weeks we spoke about the jewish people as compared to fruits to a date tree the jewish people is compared to ze sim to olives we spoke about that and here we're going to see that the jewish people are compared to wheat and we need to understand why are the jewish people compared to fruits and compared to to different types of fruits and to wheat so we had different things that are represented we saw the the olives are are pressed and they have to go through uh difficult times so to speak in order to produce their fruit that was what we saw in regards to this in regards to the to the olives but now we're going to see something very important and deep in regards to the gita why is the jewish people referred to as wheat so let's see we're not going to read everything here is a very long piece but we will read the essential components here we go we find that when it comes to heat this is the first kind of a side point but it's an important point so i'm reading it he says that when it comes to hita when it comes to wheat so when a person is weighing the wheat so there's there's a halacha that if you weigh wheat and inside of the barrel of wheat or whatever the arema the vat the container of wheat or the sack of wheat whatever it is there are particles in there that are not wheat so the particles that are not wheat are weighed alongside it it's not considered that the seller has given something that he that the person is paying for something that he's not you know that he's not getting part of the weight of the wheat is the things that come along with it the dirt the psyllis the secondary items kakistra says resha this is a mushroom for the jewish people the jewish people also have ikarim we have the main types of people so to speak those who are the lambday torah those who study the torah those who devote themselves completely to avaya hashem to the service of god we have the people who are also ice cream at mitzvos they're also involved we refer to as malaya mrs can remind him they're full of mitzvos like a like a pomegranate they're not perhaps as exalted as spiritual as as high on on as high of a level but nevertheless they're all so important we have even people who are not they don't have anything they may be completely secular but they are jewish they have a jewish soul they have a pentalaid and that itself is important and powerful just like when it comes to the the heat of the weed itself so the secondary things the dirt the other things that are in the sack are also included you will pay for that as well down to the the simple manual laborers those who chop the wood those who draw the water the water carriers these are all included in the jewish people okay so that's an important thing every single jew is important whether they're on a high spiritual level on a low spiritual level every jew is important and essential and valued so that's concept number one success here's where we come to our parsha our pressure speaks about the fact that there's a accounting there's a counting so what does that have to do with wheat scissor beer suck like this when it comes to wheat when when you when you're planting the wheat when you take the wheat and you plant it in your field so you know exactly how much wheat you planted because you want to know what the yield is going to be how much you're going to get back because when you plant wheat so it produces this massive field of of wheat stalks and much more wheat is produced so you want to see when you put effort into something you want to see the you want to see the numbers you want to know how much you get back right question your dominion in the same way says review an amazing thing the jewish people when they go down to egypt there's a count we know how many seeds of the jewish people so to speak were planted as the verse tells us stresses it and it says it a few times in the torah 70 people went down to egypt 70 is the number those were the seeds those were the foundation stones of the people of israel so hashem has the words like the farmer so to speak the farmer he wants to know how much he put in and what the yield was how much came out he wants to know okay i put in a certain amount but look at this amazing exponential growth that came out of it look how many look how much more wheat was produced right so to hashem takes us out he wants to look at the yield the jewish people were planted in egypt they had to go through all that they went through we spoke about previously with the zasim with the with the olives but here the concept of weed is the amazing growth of the jewish people we are planted we are called plantlings as we're going to see we are planted by god we have that amazing potential for growth as we see how many came out it started with 70 what was the yield it was 600 uh 600 000 men between asia 20 and 60. and if we add in the women which is double that 1.2 million and the children and the older people we have an amazing number of jews that started as only 70. what an amazing exponential growth rabbi umar al haddad in explaining this statement of rebuttal spoke about the amazing growth the amazing potential of the jewish people awesome exponential potential he says another thing she is now let's look at another another parallel when we speak about wheat when we speak about the plants that are being planted we speak about the seeds that are being planted in a field so what's the growth what's the yield we can look at the plant and we see that there are different parts of the plant that's that's produced the main yield is the fruit the main yield is the the grains of wheat that are produced but there's also other things there's also the chaff there's stuff that's covering the wheat the wheat kernels which is blown away by the wind there's also the the pieces of straw that hold up the heat the the [Music] the wheat but they're not significant they're not important they're not the main thing so just like when it comes to to bala bites the person who the farmer who's planting these things he doesn't pay attention so much he's not interested so much in the other parts of the wheat he's interested in the wheat itself that's what he counts they're not significant so too when it comes to the nations of the world god of course god has a whole a whole plan there's a whole mankind and mankind all of mankind is part of god's plan but when we speak about we want to understand who is the the the pinnacle who is the wheat who is the the main the main part of mankind we see that it goes by who hashem counts it goes by who is the main pro produce the main product of this whole wheat field of the world so too hashem does not pay attention to the nations of the world lamash and um in relationship to the jewish people they are insignificant isaiah chapter 40 verse 17 all of the nations are like nothing in comparison to whom does hashem pay attention who does hashem count al-israel god pays attention to the jewish people when you raise up the heads meaning you count the jewish people who raise up the leaders of the of the of the nation of the jewish people congregation of the jewish people the idea is that the jewish people are the pinnacle we are the the main fruit we are the main seed that is planted now what does this mean what is the concept of a seed what is the concept that the jewish people are that which is counted before we go into egypt when we come out of egypt that we are like the gita like the wheat which is counted before it's planted after the yield comes what is this concept let's continue and see inside of the magnesium it's an amazing majorish says his father subbing says in the name of the difference if you want to understand what is the difference between the jewish people and the nations of the world the nations of the world are not referred to with the language of planting within a language of of of placing a tia is a is a a plant ling a sapling into the ground they don't have roots and we need to understand these words what is the concept of a plantling what is the concept of a of a seed what is the concept of something that has roots roots this is also another verse a little bit further up in isaiah chapter 40 verse 24. it refers to the nation of the world they don't have this aspect of being a sapling of being a seed of being something that has roots of israel yes we find verses in the in the prophets which tell us that the jewish people does have these aspects again in jeremiah 32 41. god says he's going to plant us plant the sapling of the jewish people in this land the jewish people are going to be planted in israel verse says in amos chapter 9 verse 15 um i will plant them in their land we have a planting of seeds says i'm going to plant them this is referring to where moshiach comes when the messiah arrives jewish excuse me the jewish people are planted in this land in islam so are full of the importance clearly of living in arts israel as we're going to see it's such an important idea to live in austin as well why because this is the place where we are planted this is the place we are planted where we have a future where we have a future says in isaiah chapter 27 verse 6 there is a root there is something that we are rooted the jewish people have a future i think i mentioned this but i'm not sure but rasha shiva said look around the secular world they don't have kids where there's no children there's no future they have a dog there's no kids they're not replacing themselves you look around in jewish communities you look in lakewood you're looking in the quranic communities of eretz israel bursting at the seams so many children some people have have six some people have tens maybe have 12 some people have 17 18 kids that's a future where there's plantlings that's the arema bitnerem your stomach your ability to procreate is like a vat full so full of seeds so full of gita [Music] marshall the the straw and the chaff and the different parts of the wheat of the wheat stalk of the of the wheat plant they were disgusting with each other this one says you know why why was everything planted it's for me you got to have straw you got to have chaff i saw that so it says this is why i was planted it was for this it was for me so the wheat says the wheat says to the other parts of the wheat plant this is the seeds say um just wait let's see when we get to the threshing floor let's see when we get to the final product so we'll see what the human beings take out and why this is all done time comes threshing floor guard so the farmer comes and he is involved in in removing the parts that aren't important the chaff is blown away by the wind he takes the the tavin nakalakashu takes certain parts of the of the straw and he throws it on the earth just takes other parts of the straw and he uses it for kindling but he takes the gita he takes the seeds and he puts them into a container says the measures to wrap up the analogy people are passing by and they see this big container of wheat and they kiss it they kiss it this is what it means when it says in apostle nash gufar which is mistranslated by by the christian world ironically ironically as we'll see in the next section as meaning something else to plus again to him in in psalms chapter 2 verse 12. it means kiss it doesn't mean kiss the sun it means kiss the food kiss the that which provides for you your sustenance they kiss they kiss it they value this thing what do they value it's tahita [Music] islam says the majest so too the nations of the world halal army israel this nation says we have replaced the people of israel the christian world says they replace the jewish people allah will be sri lanka it was it was for us that the world was created israel the arab world says the muslim world says we have replaced god god's chosen people we have replaced them and we have become god's chosen people israel never allowed them this is why the world was created israel so jewish people say because we are the wheat we are the the the seed we are the pinnacle i mean just wait until the final day comes just wait until that final day you will see the day will come burning like a stove [Music] where it says in isaiah chapter 41 16 the the wind will blow away all of the other elements all of the other parts of the wheat stalk but about the people of israel it says you will rejoice in god you the jewish people will rejoice in god and the holy one of israel you will be praised and i must say that there's a song on my upcoming album which i hope to release very soon which speaks about the the sukkah which speaks about the meal that hashem makes the king makes for all of his servants he asks them to make a meal and then on the final day all the servants leave except for that one beloved friend of hashem the final day hashem sits along with the jewish people it's a muscle for some caster the last day of the when we dance along with hashem as it were and it's a muscle for this very concept that on the final day we will the whole world will see the jewish people all along were the chosen of hashem and for them the world was created amazing thing but what is the foundational concept here why are we referred to as hita why are we referred to as the zerah as the seeds that are moosh rush they are they have roots they are planted they have they have they are rooted in the earth they are plantlings what is the concept why are the um why the nations of the world not referred to in this way and the answer is the concept is that we the jewish people have a future we have a past and we have a future we are planted we are rooted seeds are rooted in the earth the earth is the foundation of life right we were drawn human beings are adam and we're human beings why because we were crafted from the earth because just like the earth supports life just like all of all of life you know comes out of the earth the water comes out of the earth the the plants come out of the earth the jewish people our souls are rooted in in a way like no other nation like no other not like no other nation israel means yashar direct to god we are rooted our souls are in the throne of god's glory they are rooted in hashem himself we have a kami mao we have a unique purpose in the world because we are god's as it were we have god's soul hashem has given us a unique purpose we are the seeds we are planted in god as it were we are rooted in hashem that's why in khazal when it talks about someone who is an apocalypse who removes himself from god it's called qatar's nativist he has cut his plantlings he has cut himself off from god that's the concept person whoever forbids does certain naveris uh transgresses certain prohibitions of the torah he's referred to he has his soul is nikras it's cut off he gets curious heaven forbid he gets spiritual excision means he is disconnected from hashem which is the worst possible punishment that a person can receive [Music] but that's the idea here we have a soul which is planted which is mushroom which is rooted in god and because of that we have a past and we have a future hashem counts us just like the farmer counts how many came in and how many how much went into the field and how much came out of the field it represents hashem's love for us represents the fact that we are a manifestation we have the opportunity when we keep the torah to be a manifestation of god in this very world in the physical realm and the physical reality what a beautiful muscle what an awesome analogy to to seed seeds that represent life it represents the future we are the ones who in this world have the ability to bring god into the world and to the degree that we attach ourselves to hashem we are rooted in the earth so to speak kalishwar is referred to as hamako in the place we are rooted in the place we are rooted in god we have a future we have children and they have a future because they have a have roots in us we have roots in god and they they continue that chain they continue that idea and in the end of time all all the other nations all of the others who didn't have those roots who weren't connected they're blown away they are blown away by the wind they burn vaguely base yaakov asap is referred to as straw that burns and is lost destroyed because they're not mushrach they don't have any foundation the secular world the liberal world the western civilization has no foundation it has nothing and so ultimately it will be blown away we say in the yom kippur and rosh hashanah all of evil will be blown away like smoke it will just be gone because it has no foundation everyone is going to join together as one to do god's will because that is how we are mash that's how we are we are rooted in the world that's how we have a true foundation our foundation is only real if we are connected to hashem connected to the jewish people connected to that which is eternal that which is real hashem who is the source of all life when we are connected in that way so then we have a past we have a present and we have a future so i want to bless you and ask you to bless me hashem should help us to be able to recognize this awesome responsibility that we as jews have we are the seeds we have a past and a present and a future but only if we attach ourselves to god's will to godliness the spirituality to the midst to the torah when we do so so then we have indeed we will have hashem should bless us to be able to have this connection ah we should be able to see in ourselves this amazing blossoming and in our children as well we should be able to see this awesome connection expression production of so much beautiful fruit thank you so much for listening have a beautiful show miss this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of 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