Ari Goldwag - Korach - Finding Good

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with Ari Gold wag recorded with a Shems never-ending assistance and rubbish me she was about 57 78 2018 this week's parshas parshas cora we have the rebellion of Korah against Moshe Rabbeinu he comes he and Astana of Ihram and 250 different members of the tribe of roofing and they come asking for greater positions or equality and the torah describes the scene describes the entire story and the torah tells us that in the end all of those people were swallowed up by the ground now what's interesting is that the torah describes and I like to focus in here not so much on the rebellion and not so much on the negative aspects but rather on a specific point which are probably Friedlander speaks about at length and that has to do with the sons of Korah there were a few people who escaped the great negative act that was going on here with Korra one of them was on Van Palace who escaped completely he didn't get involved in the end his wife protected him from being involved but another group of people who escaped to a certain extent were the sons of Korah even though they followed after their father even though they respected their father and his rebellion nevertheless as will soon see there was an aspect of them respecting Moshe Rabbeinu which earned them an amazing interesting and really requires some understanding but a place that was beyond or above Jahannam instead of burning in hell so they were given a spot which would be above that because of their recognition as they as they came down as they were falling down into the pit of - Osiris I miss Moses is true and his Torah is true and we need to understand what is the significance of that fact what is the significance it sounds pretty bad you know they just got a higher place in hell doesn't sound like such a great accomplishment but as a prime Friedlander is going to speak about they they had an amazing accomplishment and each and every one of us can learn a profound a profound concept of we can take something for ourselves from this idea I'd like to read it to you inside and we'll see how much of it we can get through it's rather lengthy Binet Kirkland may sue our sages tell us that they didn't die here hurry chuva I'm a shear away Ganim they they had thoughts of true but they had thoughts of repentance and therefore they sang songs in your hanim Makonnen spicy lemon Hanna I'm Shira a special place was carved out for them inhale a higher place a place that was transcending the fires of hell and there they spoke or did they sang songs all right let's see what Riptide Freelander says entire coffee fuss with a yellowish lima smack similes the bent are a person who's a somebody who studies torah so he wants to reach the greatest levels of perfection the greatest levels of wholeness only it's a harm astonish Bizet kinetic liege this time fear that there's something very interesting if we strive for spirituality if we strive for Torah so the eight Sahara has got us he's got a stranglehold on us and it from a different direction than other people right we're trying to be perfect we're trying to have a high level of spirituality sheet asticus ashley moser mantle my secrets are simmons-howe Muir Beach as iclone they say our I can use this against us and say look neither you attain perfection either you attain a high spiritual level or you're nothing I'm Nam ya Kadima she foolishly Momo's I were together with this desire for perfection sir Hadassah Lahari the gum era called high status ton of roughness person needs to also appreciate that yes of course we need to strive for greatness we need to strive for perfection however alongside that we need to recognize every small amount of effort when it comes to trying to grow spiritually has awesome value okay coal ash Dallas get down we're looking nice is precaution that it produces a very significant fruit there's produce when expert be curious Madea Goes to Jail Adam and this has a profound effect on the person's place on his level a field of massive Agoura if Charlotte says revoking it on you when a person is in a very lowly place let's say it's not in such a high place I say he's he feels down on himself about his spirituality but it's possible to even from within that place to attain very high levels key cumshaw many tennis shorts olivia has lamotte's off person is given an opportunity which is relative to where he is now feel if Shaun is shown the answer in the first name even there even or low spiritual state as possible to attain awesome spiritual mcawesome possessions a few lollies they hear her SHANY 8 to the pale now even having a thought which doesn't actually come to fruition a person say has a thought I wish that I could do a certain Mitzvah I wish I could learn my septa I wish I could finish shots whatever it is just having that thought having that desire even if it doesn't get fulfilled also has an awesome power ok named Malcolm lyosha Tommy Medina a yellowish nameless person should not give up person there's no room for giving up even if a person hasn't reached perfection now it's very interesting to me just as a student of many different you know different schools of thought within within Jewish thought to just compare this to Remy nachman of wrestle who's Hasidic as opposed to climb Friedlander who is lit fish who is amis nugget so Rebbe Nachman always speaks about the fact no matter where you are no matter how far person is there's always spots there's always points the coudé studies good points that is possible to find and I'll probably Friedlander is telling us the same thing and it's interesting because where we learn now from the we learned a flip in akhirah rather plan Friedlander brings you site sonoma-marin dramatic especially Nakara we can learn this foundational idea from the level of the banana kaaya of the sons of korah omaha's our sages tell us is Gamora son had enough Co few it on page 110 in a caracal I may assume sons of korah did not die what does it mean welcome to spot sulamita hanim yeshuaa love Yamashiro they were there was a place of a carved out for them it seems like above the space of Jahannam the above the space of hell and near they sat and they sang a song Marashi Rashi says he was kinemacolor spoken welcome Guevara God prepared for them a place which was high Shelia my cocoa coffee Gahanna real ma su it wasn't so deep in hell and they didn't die it's very interesting obviously we're talking about here they didn't have a spiritual death they had a physical death but they didn't have a spiritual death Slaven ha right Adam Amer Shira she's your new master shall Shlomo's so if strange hime Freelander usually when we speak about the concept of song what is this when is a person sing a song person sings a song when a person has reached a level of perfection or an awesome attainment Peninsula hideous monster a mockery ensue from Ashera kashiro bagillion a shammy Bria when the Jewish people saw the perfection they came through the amps if they say they attained an awesome level that's when they sang song so of Amish I hit so many corruption in some attack initially annajura Shira how can we speak about the B'nai Cara as being on a high level or how how can we speak of that about them during your hanim Who am I so they're in hell right okay they didn't get go down to the the depths of hell but in hell they are and yet they're singing songs so what is the idea here this is my drink is clemency you what level of perfection did they reach hazael Oh No our sages say the out could show me no magic Lakeisha Holloway Sheela Pisgah shall deceive a veeram now moshe rabbeinu so within a story within a depiction of events that her gives us so Cora and Dustin and a veeram and the whole Heder that whole group of 250 people they came to rebel against Moshe Rabbeinu but Moshe says come back tomorrow well I guess he wants to stall for time to give him a chance to do chuva to give him a chance to repent and he goes to their tents and he wants to speak to them but they they're not interested in speaking to them the fact that most Robina went to their tents he tried to reach out to them they weren't interested in in in peace but because he did that za Holohan salar boat Siddiqui Medina chaga hanim chelation Ankara women palace most Rubino was able to save for I'm sorry here oh sorry yeah for righteous men from hell the four were the three sons of Korah and on man palace we mentioned before must be done from any corruption Natsu now in order for Moshe to save them so they needed to have some merit on their own what was the merit they had to be special you yesterday no Clara havean at the time when they were sitting with their father kora rainiest Marie sure the questions pay macaca when they were sitting by their father so they knew the emotion moses was coming and so they didn't want to disrespect moshe and they also didn't want to disrespect their father so what they did was they hit their heads in such a way that they wouldn't see motion they wouldn't have to stand up for him and honor him I'm Hanuman evening my shrub in hooliganism Vivino they said if we stand up in front of Moses so then we will embarrass her father for in savino cuban of a me already have an obligation of honoring our father and mother family not like far exceed name save a taco we don't say and we have a different problem because of Tori also says with the stand for an elder which was Moshe looted tsunami of name when Rubino palpation I am using Bovina it would be better if we would stand for Moshe even though it would embarrass a father but notice they had this thought they had this thought to hit their head so that they wouldn't have to see but they had this thought mr. Shah your he was leaving bachou ver at that moment so their hearts were involved in repentance Elaine I'm a double Rakesh leave it over toy about whom King David said that my heart thought a good matter it's referring to them I'm Nam Tina Keith sign is near Sheila father so many I saw the shop so if we would look at it from an outer perspective from from a superficial perspective Moses it seems had gone and there was no effect the guy my reign is Basel you a calculation to Ellis and also he was embarrassed through this without it didn't seem to have any effect I was a heavy that's when I currently her chuva but what did happen was that by Moses going there to the to the tent so the result was that the B'nai core of the Sun Sakura had thoughts of repentance has never had some healing Medina sure Gehenna and that itself saved them from going down into the to the depths of hell cameraman Pelisson Marissa each lead cielo say also by omen palace it says our sages say that his wife saved him a coma coma Shahi I should hire you back laughs yeah be God each day that Selig on valium Yosh post Manisha shave either her Jubilee boy Moshe Rabbeinu Moses by showing that he was willing to go to them so that enabled on my palace his wife to save him I don't start beard mikka Makka Moo Erica shall hear a true Versailles we still need to understand what is the the the value of this kind of thoughts just the thought of chuhwa all they did was think in their minds they didn't actually do it iris circle say for you was show him sure look I'm sure they were evil they went you were calling him said he came where it's kind of confusing are they righteous are they are they rashim are they evil they went down into hell rent they fell down into that the while they were alive they fell down into the pits and he came out a parachute hero chuhwa she believed him huh he should see lessons so what does it mean when it says that the thought of repentance which they had was that which saved them so he tells us an amazing thing and I'm gonna skip a little section here and he's speaking about what happens to people after they pass away from the world they haven't done chufa haven't repented so they have to go through the fires of Jahannam in order to purify their souls and then they can come out of there but let's say we're speaking about a person who who had not done chuva he had not repented the person those chuva in this world of a person repents in this world they don't have to experience the fires of hell but let's say a person has has not done chuva actively they haven't actually done Shiva but they thought about jouvert that are her hooray Chava volley a shoe shine shame it's a sermon is calling from the sore there are those people who are considered evil they haven't done Truvada they hadn't repented and yet their float as it were to the top by coming to him they cry because of the pain of Jahannam of hell but I don't mean like a hanim and then I'm able to come out of Jahannam they come out maimry Shia or I'm sure hero Ruby chuva believe on the is referring specifically to people who were wicked in this world they didn't do what was right but they had here hooray Chava they had thoughts of repentance in their heart Mesa Bellagio clue losses chuhwa the pile and they died without having an opportunity to actively do chuva to repent hany dynamic ahead of its acumen by tomorrow me Shawn so they have to experience the pain and the embarrassment of hell however they cry and they they call out to God and they come out of there I'm Nam he McCallum tequila ina shell shell caballo Melo chuva it's true that they receive their there with what's due to them as a result of them not doing Chabot as a result of not repenting Yakov Hassan is a shakeela Russia however afterwards the desire that the Russia had the wicked person had varrock here Allah says chuva in a sermon in Malayalam God never forgets the fact that he thought about jouvert then he wished he could do chuhwa although he didn't have the opportunity and he didn't fulfill his desire nevertheless Hashem doesn't forget that about Kaddish broken masks and I'm welcoming you hood God gives him a specific special place a neck Russia L which is called sure oil the shah mahmud saath sabka chuva we sir here are truly sure here bhai if that's the place where he's able to to experience to have that memory and in the world to come so it's an essential memory because it's it's the true good it's the true good it's where he aligned himself with the truth the thought that he had Corey Burton hugga had a moose kill unwelcome it seemed safe had there there's a place there a spiritual place even though it's a place of lack even though it's a place where he is experiencing certain level of negativity which is in hell retinas Allah says to whom is pitaya bi sir mushara skosh re Ganim and what happens is that the desire that he had to do chuva the desire that had to repent it grows and it grows and it breaks all of the gates of Jahannam the gates of hell Clemmie share is called a thesis Sherlock team too much' it's McGann him it breaks him out he's like a jailbird because of what because of the thought that he had the desire that he had to do chuva the ancient Watson type should never been a marker condition no good desire is lost in front of God am i given my god raga guevara I live near sham it gets to a very high place in front of God in a smash of it official admission of Vedas there's no good thought that a person has which is lost now madam shall you Russia call you maverick here lasses chuva even a person who is wicked all these days he just had a thought to do chuhwa I hope you people are so cheap even though he didn't actively engage in repentance come Akamai here at U of O show us a yacht sorry it's your roughness Jane unevenness it created that thought of true that thought of repentance created an eternal spiritual creation that won't be lost again the mahkum got video service come here - lee lewis course it gets to a very high place and there it stands and the highest reaches of the heavens and it's a merit for him 0f hara Jewish rabbinical corruption spots thermochromic hanim this is the power of the thought of chuhwa which stands for a person in Jahannam even even if she stands for the B'nai Kyra even in a place where they found themselves in a very low place it helped them to break out of that very low place now replying free then their uses this idea I'm not gonna read it too much more inside because I also want to share with you a small piece from the manish which is also incredibly powerful and very much connected to this concept reply Friedlander uses this idea to teach us that the there's such a deep power we're speaking about somebody who's completely wicked whose losses share in the world to come to a certain extent who seems like he has nothing left and yet the very thought just the desire to do true ver the the the wishing inside one's heart the the thought that they had produced for them the ability to break out again and to break out of hell just the thought itself so its first of all it's incredible teaching in the power of it even a small good deed even a small good thought that's that's one aspect of it but bah Hashem you know thank God we are people who you know we're trying to be spiritual we're trying to grow we're trying to be great we're trying to grow in our spirituality in our Torah so so imagine even a person sometimes does the severe as a person does this is how a banana talks about robbing us on his you know sometimes a person doesn't have very does something which he he recognizes his llama team low as we say in Hebrew it's not befitting of him but it's easy to be dragged down by the thoughts about that it's true easy to mark oneself in a negative way as a crime-free lender said at the very beginning but we see over here that there's a shear there's a song there's a completion just from a very small thought a very good small good deed Merson gives a chuckle to charity sadaqah person puts on tefillin in the morning person that happens a person puts on the Tallis a person gives a smile to somebody there's so many good little deeds good little acts that we perform without per se even thinking about it but have incredible value so we see here the value of just the thought of chuva and how many actions do we take that are positive good acts and we don't even think about we're not much of them we don't appreciate the value of them that's what I'm Friedlander is trying to teach us and I think it's an important lesson for each and every one of us in our daily lives to recognize how much good we do how many good things that we do throughout the course of our day now I want to share with you the measure ish imagine says something amazing and it's this is about Cara himself now we think about Cara as somebody who he he did a very terrible thing rebelled against Moshe Rabbeinu and what happens to him in the end he loses does he lose his place in the world to come does he ever does he come back in cleanness amaze him and what happens to somebody like this he made a mistake I mean a terrible mistake he caused he was collecting Immokalee he sinned then he caused others listen but what happens to him in the end so the measures points out who did I miss here China je schlump kala kala ma ba ribi who did I miss iris says and speaking it's in the context of speaking about who do they have a place in the world to come Sohrab you to my Miss Sarah says yes they have a place in the world to come diminish before that also said I became lost not like they are gonna come back how do we know this is true the the vs. timofeyevna me Taha call they were lost from the Kahala what is so it sounds like sound like they're gone right w until ECG said I'll be back ish I've definitely miss my Salah Shakti Maha vey - Nabu David who was in this package it says in regards to King David he speaks about something which is lost and he's asking God to help him he's lost he feels like he's a lost object that God needs to find he's asking him to find him so Cora also they were lost by Y do meet ahah call they're going to be searched after they're gonna be found in the end I've kind of a de Osceola Spanish so here to the the verse refers that they were lost because something that's lost is something that's searched for same column economist Paul Ellis Elena shame is maja merged soil value all hana so the Atheist points out that the kora his children so their children their great great great great grandchildren who came from Chora so it was Shmuel Hanavi Samuel the Prophet and kana before she had before I'm sorry kind of after she had Shmuel Hanavi after samuel was born so she she said a she or she said a beautiful song and in the Shira she mentions I'm aiming some high emerge all bye y'all Hashem causes someone to go down into the deaths into the depths of your hanim brings them up so she in a certain sense is speaking about herself she had had a challenge in having babies and having children and she had this child but it's also referring since measures to Cora that he falls down he seems to have a spiritual drop clearly as a spiritual drop he loses his life and yet there's a great spiritual elevation that Hashem does Hashem saves him so to speak because his offspring his great great grandson he's small and obvious Samuel the Prophet and that's the one who brings the next generation Samuel himself first was referred to as mission iron Wilma Koresh money you see the diverse refers to Shmuel in this in the same breath as motion irons so there was a greatness and Cora himself realized that that was going to come from him that was his mistake but also the very fact that someone who was like Cara could have a great-great grandchild was a was a Redemption a spiritual redemption for him and and this seems to indicate the measure seems to be saying that the fact that he could have a child like that indicates that in the end so he's going to be redeemed in the world to come so even though he has to fall down into Jahannam he has to fall into hell he loses his life he loses his spirituality nevertheless there will be a redemption a Shem does not want anything to be lost completely there's nothing that's lost completely even those aspects of spiritual aspects that seem to be lost some searches for them so to speak of Shem redeems and brings them back and they do rise in the world to come everything is redeemed and I think that this is an incredibly powerful parallel idea to what we said before let me spoke about how even the the little thought that's inside of a person's heart a Shem redeems and gives power to it it can break the gates of hell right and in the same way we think we we've done something wrong and we're lost Hashem says the right word to use here is lost the measure says the right word uses loss because Hashem searches for us Hashem wants to redeem us both in this lifetime and in the eternal lifetime of the world to come so I wanna bless you and ask you to bless me back I should help us that we should all be safe which all merit to recognize the the good parts of ourselves the good points the the here even the thoughts that we have to do good those also have value some should help us to recognize the many thoughts that we have the many actions that we do which are so powerful and so beautiful the power of light ultimately is much more powerful and takes away the darkness ocean should help us to recognize that inside of ourselves inside of our hearts should help us to have that grow thank you so much for listening I'm 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]