Lech Lecha - Two Halves of a Whole

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with Ari goldwag recorded with hashem's never-ending assistance in or my position Israel 5783 2022. this week's parish is partials and our parsha's chock full of interesting Concepts ideas stories about avramovino Abraham the beginning the patriarch of the Jewish people and his wife Sarah Sarah himenu who together would have a child named yitzroc next week's Parsha would be also patriarch of the Jewish people the beginning of the Jewish people so this is in a certain way the essence right whenever we have the beginning of something we always have its Essence its root and from the essence of the idea we can understand all of the many offshoots of the concept and when we look at avram avinu and we look at Sarah so we see a team we think of I think of many different teams in in Torah writings we have teams of our own Miriam we have other teams of Google Mordechai and Esther and on through history so here we have avraham and Sarah and as the Torah tells us as Rashi tells us as The Avengers tells us avram with McGuire the man he would teach the men about God and Sarah would teach the women about God so they were an incredible team and they came together to the land of Israel at the behest of God and they came here to inspire people to to belief in in one God now in our Impressions so the Torah tells us that very interestingly we need to understand the concept of this that avram avinu started off with the name avrum and his name was changed to avraham Sarah was originally named Sarai and her name was changed to Sora what is the concept of the name change and it's also very interesting because it's clearly related and connected to them being able to have children together plus it says like this it's in Parachute design project as well chapter 17 verse 15 El avraham God said to Abraham sorry your wife her name will no longer be Sarai it will be changed to Sarah instead of the year at the end of her name it will be replaced with a hay um says the next verse I will bless her I will give her from you a child a son um I will bless her and there will be Nations that will come from her foreign falls on his face and he laughs but remember so he says can it be he's he can't believe it he can't believe it of course he does believe it right he doesn't he rejoiced as the uncle it says he rejoices and he says in his heart wow it's unbelievable 100 year old man is going to give birth a 90 year old woman is going to give birth foreign says don't worry you're going to have a child who will be named yet which means laughter interestingly he he will be the one who will continue the Covenant between myself and you says Hashem to avraham is also going to be a great nation he's going to have 12 princes who come from him but your main progeny is going to come from I'm sorry from Yitzhak your son that you're going to have with sir so that's the conversation that abramovino has with God and it's a very interesting conversation like what's this back and forth what's the idea what is it where does there need to be a name change why is that seem to be the prerequisite for them to be about to have children together why is there talk about you smile what is the distinction between USA versus Ishmael why is it that Yitzhak indeed Carries On the spiritual Legacy of avra mavino while Ishmael doesn't seem to be the one who's going to carry on that spiritual Legacy in the same way as Yitzhak would so what's the understanding of this so I'd like to share with you a beautiful majors and and uh you know as we read the measures so we're going to ask questions we're going to try to understand what the mentorship is saying what's the what's the foundation of the mentorish foreign so God said to avram avinu that your your wife her name will be changed and will no longer be Sarai it will be Sora taking out the yield we're putting in a hay so now the measure says something which is at first a little bit hard to understand chapter 12 verse 4 a woman of Valor is the crown of her husband what is the idea that a wife is the crown of her husband so this is not true of all wives so say them a fortune right this is a unique Praise of the tsadequest of the righteous wife of the one who is on a very high level someone who's an outstanding wife for example Sarah emmanu Arabia has something which is hard to understand a little bit opaque the statement but he says that the husband is crowned by the wife and the wife is not crowned by the husband and the verse says that she's the crown of her husband so she if we can imagine a crown let's think of a crown you put the crown on the head right so she is the crown on the head of her husband but he is not her crown what does this mean it's hard to understand but it seems that the Hampshire the continuation which is the other another statement of the Sages she is the she is the one in charge of her husband okay so so this is very challenging we could say right because it makes it sound like there's a great Milo great Advantage where the wife is the one in charge let's see the words there generally speaking the man is the one who makes the decree the wife follows the decree of her husband however here [Music] when it came to sending away Ishmael Ishmael was having a negative effect on YouTube so Sarah instructed Abram that we have to send away this child you smile along with hugger the the shifra the maidservant so Hashem says even though he was loathed to do so it's his son it's his it's his offspring it's his flesh and blood nevertheless Hashem says whatever sorry says to you should do so Hashem clearly states that Sarah emmanu in a certain sense is the one who is to be listened to and who is going to inform the decisions let us say that avram avinu is to do in the deeper sources when they speak about the concept of a crown which is kesser kesser and Atara is the crown and speaking about the crown so it always refers to the concept of rats on always generally refers to the concept of rudson of of desire which is the root of a decision a decision is made from where does it come from our intellect that's the hakma and nabina the wisdom the Intuition or does it come from a higher place the actual decision itself is from a place called kesser which is the Quran which is placed above the head So based on that we understand that Sarah is the one who's the crown of avraham she's the one who is to inform his decisions she has a certain asthma Fortune explained as is perhaps well known sorry Emmanuel on a certain level has a greater level of ruach hakadish of divine inspiration than avraham himself and therefore he he listens to her he used to listen to her when she says that you have to send away your smile she has a deeper understanding in a certain sense that needs to be taken into account needs to be reckoned with and decision into based on her statement okay that's the managers which of course needs explanation because is that a general principle that a husband should always listen to the wife is do we say do we say that certainly it does say that generally speaking the husband is the one who makes the command then the wife is the one who follows so if that's the case then what does it mean over here it seems to be a Milo it seems to be a greater a greater type of wife a more exalted type of wife who's able to guide her husband who has a deeper level of understanding than her husband how are we to understand this is that an ideal I might be shooting so now the rest of the magic seems to be as is often the case with imag says something which seems to be cute and I'm loath to use the word cute but it says something which seems to be you know like something that they teach in kindergarten and clearly Hazel when they taught these ideas they didn't mean something cutesy they didn't mean something you know on the level of kindergarten they meant something very deep and very holy and we need to understand what they meant and not take it for simply face value um Sarai the yud that Hashem took from Sarai her name was Sarai and now her name became Sarah right so what happened to that yood the value of the letter U the gamatria is 10. if you take the 10 you split it in half you have five and five right the value of the letter hey which is replacing the U in Sarah's name is five so there's two fives that get you to that U that letter u one of them went to Sarah and one of them went to avraham that's what the measure says so the Youth of Sorrow is split between them what does this mean it's very cute yo it is 10 divided by two five two fives one goes the third one goes to avraham what is the magician's what is the measures teaching us what is the message of the madrish is another idea with this Sarai hayata foreign it flew up and it was hovering in front of the Throne of God's glory excuse me I'm really fond of ribanish salon Hashem because I'm the smallest letter therefore I should be removed from the great righteous woman sorrow doesn't seem fair well I'm so little because I'm not a Crusher bladder I'm not such a an important letter I'm such a small letter therefore I should be removed from her great name from this righteous woman's name says to him says in the past you are in the name of a female with seven chalices and you were the last letter of her name is I'm going to take you and I'm going to put you into the name of a male of of a man whereas in shall atheists and you're going to be the first letter of his name is yahushua was to be the next leader of the Jewish people he changes his name from Hosea adds a yield at the beginning of his name to become yehoshua so the letter yud [Music] was transferred from Sarai to yahushua that was the answer to the youths complaint again we need to understand the depth of what the measure is saying what does it mean that a letter flies up in front of Hashem and complains and says what's the fairness of taking me out what does it mean that a letter is part of the name of it's what does it mean that it moves over to yahushua and then the the measures the final piece in the measure is three lines it says something which is pretty famous perhaps we can have a deeper understanding about the Shah of our house is Sorella atsama after that what happens with this change of sarai's name from Sarai to Sara Sarai means my princess means a personal princess is a princess Sarah means my princess she was a princess to herself she was a personal princess maybe to avra mavino or maybe as I'm a fortunate say only to the people of Quran to our own people where she grew up she was makarif she she brought many people within her original hometown to the awareness of Hashem but now her mission was changing and she was going to be somebody who would bring who would bring this awareness who would be a princess in relationship to the entire world because now perhaps you could say now she's going to have a child who through him she would become her message of spirituality of the one God of Abraham and Sarah would be transmitted to the entire world everyone in the world would know about the one God why because of this child she was about to have so she would become a princess to the entire world so we need to understand the depth is also it's very interesting they they there's a different gears over here there's two different possibilities of what it's supposed to say Asma versus she was just a a princess for her own people originally but the version of our the r version of the Manchester herself which sounds like it's only her by herself so let's try to understand what's going on here you know every time we study something together every time as I'm preparing I learned with my son and I try to understand what's going on and a person by asking the right questions can be led to an insight as to what is going on as to what the intent of the magic is and trying to understand this measures trying to understand the depth of the measures the the line that I honed in on I noticed is that it says that the yield was split in half and became hey and hey two letter Haze and one was given to Sarah and one was given to avraham what is the idea what is the depth of that statement of our sages in this measures and the feeling that I had was that Hashem dropped this idea into my mind and I think that this is really what the Manchester is saying it's very clear to me the magic is saying something powerful the message is saying that Sarai when she was latima when she was to herself so to speak when she was alone even though she was married to avramovino there needed to be a deeper connection between them there needs to be something more than just the fact that they were married there needed to be a melding of their intellect of their minds a melding of their decision-making process that it wasn't just avraham making decisions it wasn't just avram having a child alone with another woman named hugger a child named Ishmael who wanted specifically that these two people government Sarah their powerful Union their powerful spiritual union intellectual Union emotional Union would create a child named yitzrook they were a certain they were they each of them had a certain power spiritual power she came to learn from Sir she came to to be part of the family of these incredible spiritual Giants but she was not on a level of who sorrow was sorrow was she was a princess she was someone who could lead others she was someone who could bring people to the truth and so I couldn't support who wanted that avram and Sarah as a team should be able to bring a human being into the world named Yitzhak who would indeed be the forefather of the entire Jewish Nation would bring the message of God to the entire world but it needed to come through the two of them together and interestingly and I don't know if I have a clear full clear explanation of it but it needed to be a combination of their co-hosts of avraham and Sarah they needed to come together the Youth of Sorrow was specifically split into two and each half was given one to Sarah and one to avram because each of them separately could not create the nation that was the people of Israel cannot create this incredible powerful Nation by themselves sirai couldn't do it by herself and the avraham couldn't do it by himself they had to do it by coming together they had to create this nation through the combination of their minds right avram listened to Sarah Don't Do Your Own Thing you guys need to work together in order to bring about this nation if Surah says that this child Ishmael is not the one who's going to is not the one who's going to be your spiritual heir as Hashem tells him right now in this Parsha starts to send him away because he's not the he's he's having a negative effect on my son on YouTube acknowledge that and recognize that that his spiritual power alone which is represented by Ishmael only has the spiritual power from his father not from his mother succeeded explicitly by Marsha in San Jose base check it out page 12a he only has the spiritual power from his father but yes to have the spiritual power from his father and his mother and it's from them coming together which is represented by the hey and the hey Sarai loses out right she loses her yield right the letter Yoda saying I've lost I've been removed I've been removed from the story and that you'd always represents the spiritual right that's the spiritual power the hay represents the Physical Realm but the but the incredible thing is the incredible thing is that as avram and Sarah come together spiritually physically and intellectually right she becomes the the one who directs his decisions but that really means he is he's recognizing her importance in his decision-making process so they become one they they draw their ruts on together they become one they're they're she becomes the a terrorist vial she becomes the crown she's not separate she is his crown she's the one who directs and guides him but they're coming together the hey plus the hay is still good right as long as avraham and Sarah are together you still have the yield you still have the full ten because five plus five is ten as long as they're together so so there that Yoda is still there theita's still there it's not lost and that I believe is expressed in the fact that the youth complains and says hey where did I go and Hashem says don't worry there's going to be later on a great great grandson his name is going to be yahushua I was going to be a product of this Union just as yes is a product of this Union interestingly it's also starts with the youth but yahushua who is going to be the leader of the Jewish people who's going to bring the Jewish people into the land of Israel who's going to to lead them in vanquishing the Nations there who serve idolatry that Offspring yahushua who represents the the power of the Jewish people as a nation who represents that you are not just for yourself as long as the youth was just by Sorrows the one who had the youth had the spiritual connection but at the moment that she shared it with avraham she became someone who was going to have an impact on the entire world through a nation that would be born from her Surah yahushua would eventually be born from her Offspring who would lead the Jewish people into a destruction a destruction of the Nations who were there which represented idolatry and illicit Behavior that was her spiritual Legacy which she offered by losing the yood by giving up or sharing I would say her spiritual power was her husband avraham so it's an incredible idea and it it underscores something which actually I've been listening recently Hashem or shishiro repairs and kazuni should be healthy and well he gave he's giving and he's explaining based on the altar of the varic the importance of a khaburra the importance of having others to share ideas of spirituality with to encourage each other to be able to have a spiritual outlook on life to be able to be mechaic ourselves to strengthen ourselves with our spiritual Outlook I couldn't help but notice that this is very much the message of this metric the message is telling us that Sarah on her own could not to have that spiritual effect on the world she was just a surreala Atma she was just a princess to herself perhaps a princess to our nation to her original environs but in order to have an impact globally she needed to combine forces with avraham and he needed to have a child together which was would combine his spiritual power with her spiritual power when we connect with others whether it's our spouse we need to you know sometimes we think differently than oftentimes right we think differently than our spouses we think differently than our children we think differently than the people around us who are all trying in our own way to have a spiritual connection the message of this message is I need to listen to those around me I need to hear the spiritual Direction now my wife has that my children have that my friends have that my teachers have I may have developed I may have developed a spiritual path but I also need to be open to others who also are alongside me on this journey and I lift up you and you lift up me we lift up each other and we stay we grow and we become much more effective when we're able to include others in our decision-making process and I believe that's the the teaching of this message a woman of Valor becomes the becomes the crown of her husband we recognize the spirituality the greatness the the intuition of those around us and we incorporate other people's opinions into our own Geisha into our own approach to life obviously the positive opinions the spiritual opinions we become greater that person becomes the crown of who we are we involve others and we can't do it by ourselves the yud that that person has or the you that I have until we start listening to each other until we start forming a group until we start forming a consensus of opinion based on true spiritual goals until we become to do that so we're just by ourselves we're just the prince for ourselves we haven't yet become a prince with a message that communicates to others so I want to bless you and I ask you to bless me Hashem should help us that we should indeed be able to be open to those around to be open to this spiritual message of others it sure should help us that we should be able to share our own spiritual message with others as well and together we should be able to form a singular a singular group whose goal is to develop in our service of Hashem and his goal is to communicate the importance of that service of Hashem to the entire world around this thank you so much for listening have a wonderful shot Miss this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you for more podcasts like this please visit www.regoldwag.com or search on iTunes Ari goldwag [Music]