Ari Goldwag - Ki Sisa - Spiritual Contrasts

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with our Eagle drag recorded with a gems never-ending assistance in relation which Israel 5778 2018 this week's partials Pasha's kiss Issa and we have a description of the events that took place when motion are being went up on to heart Cena forty days passed and the Jewish people were expecting Moshe to return already who did not return on the day that they expected him fortieth day they counted they miscounted and so the Jews made a tragic mistake which was to create the eggl the golden calf which was an idolatrous practice and the result was disastrous now the men - I would like to share the Oh beautiful mesh but once again before I do I want to remind you about my crowdfunding or Hashem we have over a hundred and twenty backers and over eighteen thousand dollars have come in is right to shine with Hashem help I want to encourage you to go now if you haven't had a chance yet go now our ego like calm slash new album and let us together inspire many many people thanks all right let's get into the parsha i you ten on malaysia Kahala the verse tells us that Hakadosh barukh who God gave to Moses as they were finishing up the forty days Shannon gave him to Lucas he gave him the Ten Commandments were inscribed onto the tablets of two tablets now at that very moment that Hashem was giving him to Luke ice so the Jewish people were creating the egg of the golden calf the Midrash wants to understand what is this dichotomy it's an amazing contrast between what Hashem was doing which was giving the Lulu hice which represented the relationship of God with the Jewish people and at that very moment the Jewish people were throwing away their relationship with God as it were they were serving an idol so that contrast is what we're going to get to at the end of the magic but the measure she first gives us a few other ideas faith unless you call a sliver says chapter 31 verse 18 Shem gave him the tablets when they finished kept in Houma bar-abba after kuma started off and said as follows the verse says in Daniel in Daniel chapter 9 verse 7 oh gosh I'm at stock of Olano bushes upon him to you Hashem is the charity and to us we just have embarrassment we're embarrassed when we look at our relationship with God we see how God treats us we see the way that we treat God as it were so it's such a great contrast that we're embarrassed my okhane what's the idea of this summer of anemia I feel of a shot shot so the first idea before we speak about it in the top in the context of it in terms of the golden calf the metric as is its way is going to teach us some other ideas that are connected I feel the rush or noise on a sadhaka even when we do charity my be tomorrow my special innovation I blush is fun we look at our the way that we do charity we look at the way that we are giving and we still have embarrassment a lot of Shosh and Obama's Raya elevation oh mighty masters saying very interesting when do we have power what gives us power so it's the opposite when it comes to spiritual matters it's the opposite of what it seems it seems like who has power somebody who was mighty was a strong army and there's truth to that as well but where does the power come from where is the spiritual power come from so the measures tells us that when we give our Meister's when we give to duck when we give charity so the result is that we have power that's where we get the power from Shamima as the verse tells us in the forum in Deuteronomy chapter 26 verse 12 key sakala laaser where it says when you finish giving your tithes max if beside if what does it say at the end how cheeky from uncommon a show mine the result is when we give our my sir when we give our tithes we make a declaration a part of the declaration is that we ask God to look out from his high abode upon the Jewish people and bless the people so how do we get the blessings how do we get the power where does it come from it comes from the fact that we've given charity we've connected to spiritual ideals we've connected to godliness God gives when we give we become godly result is we receive blessings counterintuitive when I give way I guess I'm Alexandra Alexandra says good old - shall meet cm Isis June - icicle brocco along the same lines he says that there's a tremendous power to somebody who takes off a tithe the result is that they transform a curse into a blessing how do we know autumn might succumb welcome to Kosovo to Recife the Torah whenever it uses the word hashkee foam which means to look down from God's heavenly abode so it usually denotes lush and sorrow it's a it's a negative it has a negative connotation and just in the push-up shot trying to understand why is it have a negative connotation because if we're asking God to look down from his high abode so that means that he's far away from us right there's two ways of perceiving or interacting with God one is that he's lofty he's great he's he's beyond us which is true but there's also another way which is that God is inside of us God is connected to us God loves us okay so when we speak about God is in a high and lofty place so it's it's connected to the concept of Dean of judgment so even though the tour uses the word hashkee foe which means look down from your high place nevertheless the fact that we're giving sadaqa transforms the negativity of the fact that he's far away so to speak it transforms that negativity into a positive thing because the blessings are going to come from that high place God is going to come down as it were from his high place and connect to us where we are in this world that matters brings a few proofs that we see that the word vile gave means a sham looked in a negative way I'm gonna skip that for now all right be like Sandri good old : shall meet CA my sister my friend of rr-really Bravo the rewrite they're able to transform by giving tides a curse to blessing should I Marsh give him coaching ahsha might move away if his arm call the result is look down and bless so that's the concept of anemia Nehemia says a field of azure Shama be Tamar say no you shouldn't wish this upon him he says that even when we look at our actions even we look at our good deeds we still are embarrassed kids Eduardo bur how is that I love an extra boil I'm an amazing thing very interesting idea Rakesh boho God asks us to give a tie a tenth and it's for me give up to 20% okay someone he was extremely extremely wealthy there's a certain amount that they're supposed to give ask your local Orthodox rabbi about that one and a benign shovel I'm other nice in Sedalia resis the way of the world is that if you have a partner if you have someone working for you ooh nice and Zehra so you have someone working for you and he is the one who goes in and plants the nice simple or does the work I like him I be shava they split it evenly 50/50 well the Kurdish Berkeley stop of Shenmue II when it comes to God however God was blessed he's a Lazaro and when we mention him it's in a lofty way Enoch King God is not that way and how Ireland Mahasabha shallow the whole entire world is his everything in the world it belongs to God my heart like the verse says Shamar smell oh yeah the verse in Psalm chapter 24 verse 1 - God is all of the earth and all that fills it art shallow a pair of Shiller who married a shaman God owns the earth the fruits are his he's the one that causes a terrain or a column he brings about the do could a Lagavulin so that everything grows with my shamrock boys are called up or God is one doing everything what we do is minimal yeah we plant yes we know we till the soil etc but God really does let's say 95% of the work so to speak I'm gonna go smoke Lou Larry Marty the closure didn't let me I'm sorry my so God says an amazing thing I don't need you to give me 50% no all you have to give is 10% coming from you some trauma and shroom eyes one one out of 52 percent to give to trauma heavy Lacroix she let's talk of a lot of bushes upon him so this is another way where we see that God it has you know is the one who gives charity God does everything and yet all he expects in return is a very small amount and amazingly just giving that small amount has the power to Bing bring awesome blessings into our lives so this is a it's an embarrassing thing God is giving us something beyond what we deserve amazing of you who don't learn emotions upon Oshawott stall computer says we are embarrassed and to you is the charity Cheryl Ivan Byam an amazing thing the Jewish people were passing through the sea Vikas official pestle Michael everybody um and the silver that they had with them eventually many generations later would be used the very money that they just got because God promised the Jewish people that they would leave with an awesome amount of wealth the very silver that they had receive from the Egyptians that they were walking through the sea with eventually many generations later would be taken by Mikah evil despicable human being who would cause the Jewish people to sin he created a pestle it created an idol out of that very silver shenana verb I am Sarah and the ACF also points out that not only another another way of looking at it that that there was a moisture of a new Moses so when he wanted to bring up the orange the casket of Yosef at Sadiq of Joseph in order to bring the bones as was promised of Joseph to the resting place in sham so he was able to bring it up by taking the name of God and throwing it into the water he said I'll a sure and come up box because Yossi was referred to as an ox so that very name of God which Moshe used most is used so Myka also used that in creating the pestle of mitla the the idol why a young Nick relief Nahum so they went through probably Emser biome so ever says in Zechariah chapter 10 verse 11 that they came through with the very silver which was going to be that Sarah so to speak the co wife of God that one that got it he expresses his jealousy so to speak that we shouldn't make idols so nevertheless God allowed this seat to split that the Jewish people would be able to go through there with that very kesef so we see this concert Allah Hashem and stokka that God does righteousness even when we're doing something wrong God still loves us amazing thing God is doing good for us Irishman bar Nachman no high-elevation acabo cetera voluma commercial not even eeschema amazing contrast the the Jewish people said when it came to receiving the Torah's they said not seven eeschema we will do when we will listen chemin know how you'll ahem leemarie little heaviest relic tomorrow is it is it right for them look at the contrast they said about the Golden Calf these are your God who took you out of Egypt these are your God what a statement was a terrible statement I used to show how you might see a mental model and very interesting the turret the mesh gives us a description of what's going on in the Torah Moshe was coming down from above Aurelio's Oklahoma muffin and Yahshua so he was he was there he wasn't the leader yet he was going to become the leader Joshua only at the end of the 40 years he was sitting and studying Torah in the tenth he didn't know what's going on but they heard a loud sound and and my sure man who said what's this great sound he know what it was a sham I told him it was because they were doing they're involved in the service of the idol of the golden calf Yeshua says comecomecome it must be maybe there's a war there's something going on it's not what you think when I mention colonies cavora my she said - no you're mistaken it's not it's not a good sound it's the sound of them doing idolatry my gosh oh you are my shindig are you throw right the Jewish people when when Moshe obey know when when Moshe was leading you know sure was leading them in the battle against the Moloch so whenever he would raise his hands they would focus whenever emotion would raise his hands they would focus their eyes upwards and they would remember I could have swore they'd remember God and they would succeed in the battle when she was telling you oh sure I know that's not that's not you're not hearing the Jewish people facing God you're not hearing the Jewish people listening and doing God's will well hello Joshua Joshua was weak in my colonies initially phenomenon you shamea but she says the sound that you hear is the sound of a rebellion the Jewish people are rebelling against God I'm shaken necessary that all new pure joy so we find that the men of the great assembly explain this is in the Cameo chapter 9 verse 18 off-key a Sulha Hegel Macedo mozella half these row they said when they made the golden calf this is your God sure he'll come you miss Ryan I'll be asking at whiskey doilies okay roofing we could even show you Sean the whole idea is that they were rebelling against God Takamatsu la jolla himand circle a raid an amazing thing the measures points out again this amazing contrast just like when it came to the water the the water splitting despite that that silver was eventually gonna be used for an idol to repel against God here at Hsu the Jewish people were rebelling against God they were they were serving an idol did the month fall that morning did the month for the next morning do they still have food from God directly both days even as they were sinning the measures tells us absolutely shouldn't have it shouldn't have fallen God should have said hey you're rebelling against me you should all die maximum on column own Anthony p.m. the verse says in Nehemia the the continuation is that God did not prevent the month from falling and feeding them having the question let's talk about how much of a lot of much as a point here we see that - God is the righteousness is the charity and we have embarrassment already who'd rip Shalom who'd rip some said whaddaya ad con Laredo show unite them and I'm on my cream lifts never describe him an amazing thing he says that not only not only did they they serve the idol he took them on which came from God and they gave it as a sacrifice to the idol shanira's the verse says in Ezekiel chapter 16 verse 19 velasca sureness attila loss sillas of Shemin advisor called Tico and said to you the phenomena ethnic oh yeah you took the bread which I gave you and you placed it in front of them in front of the idol to be a to be an offering with high severe biermaier it still came down the next day heavy the classrooms the hot stalker despite the fact that we we had rebelled against God in such an awful way we took the very money that he gave us to live and we gave it to the idol and the next day the man still fell - you are Emma's charity - uhm as the charity all we have his embarrassment cover-up here another aspect here the harsh I must occur to you God is the righteousness or the charity I'm weary ladies throw under the mountain honey nobody's cook oven maracas lyrics from the Jewish people are below at the bottom of the of the heart at the bottom of the mountain and they are getting involved in this idolatries which is going to cause their creator to be angry can you see why you got me Adam BIOS are some apparent he took it from them Mishra Bey know afterwards he took it he destroyed it at that very moment avocado appropriation of Milan Hogan omluke Iceland system claim the same exact time that they were doing as we said at the very beginning this is the wrap up here this is the end of the mad rush at the very moment that they were serving idolatry moshe ravana was receiving the lucas an amazing contrast generally tina mushy Kahala say this verse says in our verse that hashem had given him when they finished the 40 days to Luke Weiss maybe the clash I'm in stucco but not ambitious upon him here we see Nana Shem is is the one who gives righteousness who gives charity and we are the ones who are embarrassed we are the ones when we look at the contrast between God's ways and the way that we interact with God so all we can be as embarrassed and for me the take home there's a few take homes here but you know one thing that we see is that that the power the power of goodness that's when we started with the power of sadaqa is to turn around the din to turn around the negativity to change the aura the curse of hashkee foe of God being separate far away looking down on us transform it into Braja to blessings okay and that's the that's the really the the thread that we need to take as we read the other parts in the Magister what do you think about them though the next part of the message talks about the fact that look at the contrast between how we give you know and the way the way that when it comes to partners partners get 5050 I'll go there's more home asks for 10% so we can be embarrassed about that but still as long as we attach ourselves to the tyre to my sir to mr. charity we still have it's it's where we are being mrs. dama we are making ourselves like Hashem the more that we're like a Shem more blessings come into our lives and we see the amazing kindness of God that God did not look at the fact that we came through with the with the silver that's going to be used for for an idol God did not look at the fact that as we were doing this negative behavior as we were serving idolatry he was giving us mom God looks past that God looks past that he gives us the money he sustains us he sustains people who don't believe in him why because he loves everyone he still believes in them and the last point that at the very moment that we're doing something wrong the very moment that we're serving idolatry Hashem is carving out the Luke house which represented his relationship with us which represented how we can have life how we can have spiritual reality how we can connect to that spiritual reality and I think that the depth of the teaching here is that a college for who understands who we are Hashem understands that we're human beings Shem understands that we do things wrong Shem understands that we are often far from him nevertheless Hashem his relationship with us is always the same it's always from his perspective I want to be close to you from his perspective I want to sustain you I want to give you life I want to give you a relationship with me even when you turn away from me Shem is always there for us he's always waiting for us to come back to him and all we need to do is grab on to the tyro grab on to the mitzvahs grab on to opportunities for charity grab on to opportunities for spirituality they're always there they're waiting for us they're available for us and even when we take the opportunities and we ruin them we take them on and we sacrifice it heaven forbid to the golden calf God still continues to give us another opportunity another chance God is always waiting God is always there God is always loving caring he never gives up on us I want to bless you and ask you to bless me some should help us to recognize the depth of his love how much God wants us have a relationship with him Jim should help us to learn the lesson of the fact that a sham is always giving to us even when we rebel against him Jim should help us to incorporate that message into ourselves and to remind ourselves that it's the time it's the time to return to Him Jim should help us to see the power of charity and how it infuses our lives with goodness and how it transforms the curses into blessings may we only experience blessings thank you so much for listening I have 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]