Lech Lecha - Victory Song

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with ari goldwag recorded with hashem's neverending assistance in roman bishop michigan 57 81 2020. this week's parsha is like to share with you a few midrashim as we come to explore them as we try to understand their depth you'll see an amazing thing an amazing lesson for us the torah tells us in our parsha how lot had been in sedona he had been with the people of sidon who were very evil and he was captured along with them in a war between four and five kings and as a result of this war as a result of him being captured avraham avinu abraham runs after them with his own soldiers he runs straight into the middle of the war he defeats the kings who had taken all these people who had kidnapped all the people and he returns with lot and all the people of sidon and all of their all of their belongings brings them back to their native land to their native home and the torah tells us about an encounter that avraham avinu has immediately after this battle he meets with the king of saddam and he meets with a very interesting character named malkit sadek who is the king of shalim king of yerushalayim yerushalayim and there's an interaction between in chapter 14 verse 19. he blesses him monkey said he says blessed is avraham to the most high god the one who is queen of shamans who owns the heavens and the earth next verse and blessed is the most high god who was me gain we'll have to see exactly what this word means he was me gain your enemies in your hands somehow it means he gave them over into your hands word me gain we would have thought it means something to do with them again as a shield but that's not the shot says the major what does the word me gain mean what does it mean that he he gave over your hands into your enemy i'm sorry you gave your enemies over into your hands me gain sarah he turned over the menagenin the madrish adds in a letter to the rush the word me gain it adds in an extra known men turned over the monogamy your managing onto your enemies what is a monogamy so very interesting the maforshim have different explanations of what does this mean rashi tells us that the first shot he gives is that their thoughts the makshavas that they had menagenin can mean their tahboolois their plans their negative destructive plans they had tried to lure according to one explanation rafael was nimrod nimrod had tried to kill avraham avinu before ava mavina was sent by hashem to artistral amraphel was the same person with nimrod he tried to lure avram by kidnapping lot to be able to possibly destroy avraham avinu and nimrod was not successful this plan is takabula hashem flipped it over he flipped over his plan so that so that you would indeed win over your enemies that's one shot in rashi rashi says a second shot high gal go the word menagenin can mean a circle they wanted to kill you the circle was was turned upside down you were able to kill them so those are the two shot them in the words so according to the first shot hashem was able to take their plan and turn it upside down take their negative plans to destroy avraham this and and they were destroyed second shot sir me gain means he turned he he flipped over the circle they were trying to be on top you were on bottom that's how they wanted it to be he took the circle flipped it over avraham avin was on top they were on the bottom and they were destroyed so the reason that this interests me of course is because the word mangina the same exact shoresh the word nigina means melody means a tun mangina is saying here that there's and as the adam aforeshim explain and as other there's other major that bring a similar kind of kind of concept pasik says says king david says i will remember my tomb the melody that i sang in the middle of the night we know king david would wake up in the middle of the night as zamar tells us his harp would be playing he would sing praises to hashem he would learn the torah in the middle of the night he would remember the nigina siwalaila says the medrish says there's a memory of the the word mangina besides her meaning a melody also is a reference to the destruction of one's enemies the egyptians were destroyed in the middle of the night the firstborns died in the middle of the night at hatzos same time interestingly as davaramelah was playing his harp the there was many destructions to the enemies of the jewish people that occurred in the middle of the night his woke up in the morning and he saw that hashem had killed all of the enemies in the middle of the night i remember how hashem caused destruction to my enemies in the middle of the night same word for destruction of one's enemies is the word for a melody this needs explanation what is the concept what is the idea why is mangina have this connotation of a of a circle of we start off on the bottom armavino starts off on the bottom ends up on top destroying his enemies it means they're takabula they're plan their complicated plan that they wanted to cause destruction hashem turned it out turned it upside down how does that relate to a melody that's sung in the middle of the night why is it indeed that it's the middle of the night that the enemies of the jewish people are destroyed what is the concept here so i'd like to share with you two other pieces in the madrish which are very interesting there's a message at the beginning of the parsha the very very first mention of the parsha which tells us rather famous a famous idea famous it's actually a martial the message tells us you have to go you have to leave where you are hashem spoke to him and he said to him you have to go it's comparable to a person who was going from one place to another and he saw that there was a great building a beautiful building a beautiful house it was on fire [Music] omar tamar shabir zayabalemanik so the person said where's the owner of this house where's the person who built this house where's the person who's in charge of this house how come it's on fire it doesn't seem like anybody's here hates it to love the owner of the house said to him he saw him he saw him asking this question he said i'm the owner of the house. in a similar way why did hashem speak to abram of tell him to go why did hashem tell him go explains because he looked around he saw that it seemed like there's no where where's the owner of this house the house is on fire the world is on fire we'll see what it means in a moment so hashem looked at him and he said i'm the owner of the world i'm in charge of the world i'm the balabira i'm the owner of this place what is the majority saying that's just saying a very powerful thing as i'm unfortunate explain the measure is saying avraham aveeno when he saw the world you said you know it seemed to him the world was created just like a person caesar has a beautiful house there must be an owner of this beautiful house and yet the world is on fire there's so many people that are over here at sinai they're not doing the will of god people are you know they're running amok there's no godliness they're busy serving idolatry they're trying to fight against god trying to build a tower in order to to come and battle god everyone even said where is the balabira if there's a house a beautiful house how come they didn't install the sprinkler system to put out the fire in this beautiful house where's the owner of the house why isn't he taking care of his house why isn't he calling the fire department the response was what what was the response it was hashem says to him i'm the owner of this house because you're the one who noticed this problem you're the one who's now going to go and deal with the problem you're going to fix the problem there is a problem here you're right the house is on fire and i need people like you who notice this problem and you're going to go and you're going to put out this fire you're going to go that's hashem revealed himself to arumavinu now look there's another matrix in the kanashima arts we quoted the beginning of the verses of malcolm said giving a blessing to abramovino he said to him blessed is avraham of in he gave him a blessing blessed is avraham to the to the most high god kani shaman barts who owns the heavens and the earth now the measure shasta an important question what's going on who what what is this the word kani shaman varus doesn't just mean he owns the heavens and the earth it means that he acquired he acquired the heavens and the earth now who did he who did god acquire the heavens and the earth from doesn't make sense god doesn't acquire he owns the heavens and the earth say that he's the balabayet he's the owner of the heavens and the earth cleaner my voice we say this every day hashem owns everything hashem this means lesson of kenyan it means to acquire what does it mean that hashem acquires the heavens and the earth so it gives a different future from shotim but the shot i want to focus in on here is he says to him like this what would he do the measure tells us right here that he would give people food and he would say to them give a blessing before you eat the food bless the one who created this food bless the almighty god created the heavens and the earth hashem said to him you know before you came nobody they had forgotten about me the world had forgotten about me nobody recognized me now that you have come you've changed the reality you've infused a recognition of me into the world i consider you that you are a partner with me in this world the subconscious that's what it means and i'd like to say on this madrish i'd like to save shot and the message just follows that what it's saying is that before avraham avinu came along hashem had lost his kinion in the world he had lost the fact that he owned the world in a certain sense yes he owns the world but when human beings are running amuck when people are not properly serving god when the fire is burning in the beera in this building so we need somebody to come along and give the world back to hashem as it were the statement that makes educate has gone dark the world is in a state of confusion the world is on fire you as a and as a result of that as a result of the fact the world is on fire hashem doesn't seem to own the world doesn't seem to belong to him it seems like the the building's on fire but you are from avinu through your efforts and this is the story is happening quite a while after after hashem told him to go to arts israel through your efforts you have revealed hashem in the world now this world belongs to hashem again because of you malkit zedek was saying to him there was a fire burning but you're putting out the fire you're putting out the fire when these people i'm raphael these kings nimrod when they want to trap and ensnare avraham avinu to come and fight with them they want to destroy him they want to kill him so there's this gal gal there's this like we said there's this there's a circle this wheel that's turning they want to be on top it looks like they're on top avraham avinu comes and has before she explained because he came because he came to fight against the evil that they perpetrated because he came to fight in order to save his his nephew lot hashem gave himself they were trying to cause him destruction to take away hashem from the world they were trying to take away the messenger of god from the world the one who represented hashem the one who was trying his best to bring god's awareness into the world they were trying to stop him what did hashem do instead hashem showed no as long as there's somebody in the world who's trying to bring awareness of me into the world i shall stand beside him he might be thrown in the fire he won't burn he might have to fight a war against an against powerful kings who want to destroy him i will stand by his side and he will miraculously win it might seem like the beer is burning it might seem like hashem is saying it might seem like i have lost my power my dominion over the world but as long as there's an avraham as long as there's a jewish people as long as there are those who try their best to bring my reality into the world so then indeed indeed i do own the world i'm a kine i have to acquire the world through whom do i acquire the world i acquire the world through an avramavinu now that's that's the ideas that i wanted to share with you but i want to come back to the question that i asked hatch to do with this song what is the idea of a song how does it relate to this gal gal this this circle this wheel that turns how does it relate to to the the plans the tahboolies of those who wanted to destroy avraham and how does it relate to the salvation of hashem where he destroys our enemies and i think perhaps we can say that what is the idea of a song a song is something we say in hebrew it's a song playing in my head it's going over and over again the song is a group of notes we sing the verse we repeat the verse we have a chorus we repeat the chorus then we repeat the whole song it's a gal gal and it has ups and it has downs there's the boolea in the song there's movement in the song there's a depth in the song we are moved emotionally when we hear a song song is incredible power and the song expresses the ups and downs especially an emotional song a slow song a powerful song like that has the ability to move us ezra and genesee malala the song is that gaga we spoke last week about the cycles the cycles of life we spoke about the fact that we can't have things just can't be the same all the time it can't be that we plant and in 40 years we have the the abundance of those crops no hashem wants us to he wants a cycle he wants that circle he wants that goggle he wants the ups and the downs he wants it sometimes to seem like the resham have power because he wants there to be an album who's going to ask what's going on there's a fire in the bria and he wants avraham avina to step up and become that light shining godliness into the world and the music represents that the music the song the mangina the tune the nagina that playing represents that movement that up and down that tune that brings us somewhere gets us higher brings us higher then we come back down to the low part to the verse and it brings us somewhere and it moves us this way it moves us that way and it brings us back and then we come higher and higher but ultimately the song the song is something which is complicated it's a plan it's a it's something you know that expresses some emotion in a in a in a very complicated way perhaps set of notes different notes broken up into pieces coming together in a certain way expresses that emotion brings us around brings us through this circle goes up and it goes down that's the mangina and that's what a melody is and there's the melodies that we've experienced which the melodies which represent this up and down that we have in the golus and it seems like our enemies are on top and it seems like the the enemies of the jewish people throughout history they seem to plan our destruction is there's a tune there's a recurring theme a recurring melody in the reality of the world and it repeats itself they try they get up and they try to destroy us and code who saves us from them they try to get up and they destroy us there's haman's who try and they build the gallows and muhammad ends up hanging on the very gallows that he prepared for mordechai and there are those who wish to destroy us and there's the hitlers who ends up hanging on the very gallows he tries to destroy the jewish people he loses the war because he tries to destroy the jewish people and there are the iranians who try to destroy the jewish people develop nuclear weapons and as a result of that the jewish people will not allow that to happen and they team up with with the countries around them or the enemies of the iranians and the iranians will end up hanging on their very the very gallows that they wanted to hang the jewish people upon but that's the melody that's the theme the rising and the falling and it's through the night that these songs are sung it's in the middle of the darkness that we hear the melodies of redemption it's in the melodies these melodies this mangina this this up and down this turning around around and around of the circle this this cycle that that we go through we see it can't how can it be that hashem heaven forbid us forsaking his people and then we see unbelievable growth the jewish people went through over the last 70 years after the holocaust the from world the religious world the shiva world unbelievable reconstruction it seems like utter destruction and then we have reconstruction it seems like they're going to destroy us and then we get stronger as a result of it as a result of it we don't understand that of course we can't understand or explain the terrible disasters and and tragedies that have befallen our people but we need to see just like there's a theme a melody that runs through jewish history there's a theme there's a cycle there's an up and there's a down and avarma venue myself is similarly lebanon he also experienced that he also saw it and through it all what was what was the tune that he was singing what was the the melody that he kept repeating this food is god's food bless god and what was the result those around him saw that malcolm said it says you are the one who is blessed because you are bringing about an awareness of god you are returning the world to the to its rightful owner to hashem i want to bless you i ask you to bless me hashem should help us that we should be we should be able to sing this tune this melody we should be able to understand the theme the complication and how this cycle turns around and now the melody in the middle of the night we hear that melody and hashem should help us to hear the ultimate melody the song of the the v and the levites in the bass thank you so 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