Metzora - G-d Brings Justice and Redeems

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with Ari goldwag recorded with hm's never running assistance in Israel 5784 2024 this week para pars and in our para we have the following P the Torah tells us in chapter 15 verse 25 there's a that if a woman has blood coming out of her flowing out of her for for a number of days it's says the language is many days and we're going to see what the idea of many days is but if she has it's it seems to be non-menstrual blood some kind of unusual blood that comes out but it it comes out in a way which is unusual and it comes out for a number of days so the is that she needs to get to a point where the the blood stops and then she needs to do Aika she needs to check herself to make sure that the blood has stopped then she needs to sit Seven Days Seven Clean Days anyone who's married should be familiar familiar with this idea of the seven clean days which we do till this very day this is what it says in the T so there's a whole amazing beautiful mag which I'm going to share with you but I'd like to explain before we get into the Mish which seems to be unconnected I'd like to explain what is the idea here the concept of Y the m is going to explain this but it takes till the end of the mes to explain it but I'd like to give us a heads up on it Y what is the idea of many days what is the idea that when it comes to this impurity that the woman experiences that it has an aspect of many days so the Mish is going to tell us we're going to see how it applies to a woman but also how it applies to the Jewish people as we wait many days in our gulus and our EX the idea of many days is that when a woman has this experience so she is separated from her husband she's not allowed to be together with him they're not allowed to touch there are manyas that surround this concept and when a person is unable to be in that relationship the most important relationship that a person has between themselves and their spouse when that relationship is in a state of distance which is what the word need means Nida means that she's at a distance so when that's the case there's a tremendous amount of pain there's a pain of Separation there's a pain of distance and that's called Yim so even though if you count the days it ends up being just about 11 days or 10 or 11 days so but the fact that there is this pain of Separation it's called yum him it's called many days even a few days are many days when we don't have the relationship or we don't have the connection that we'd like to have now let's see how this applies in a number of different instances the measure is just so beautiful so touching I was so moved by it I hope that you will be as well so stay with me till the end says in 15 verse3 says there will be many days that the Jewish people the people of Israel will be disconnected from the god of Truth they will be disconnected from a teacher a Cohen a priest who guides them and they will be without to they will be without their their connection to Torah will be will be very uh disconnected it will be not connected so the PK says about this y many days so we can look in hindsight and see that indeed it's been many days it's been 2,000 years since we had a b since we had a temple since we had a Coen a priest since we had the right the Torah comes out of the Holy Temple out of harabas out of the B mikdash so we don't have that full connection we have been connected the Torah has kept us alive throughout the gas but still the conne ction is not the same so but besides for the fact that indeed it's been many literal days we're going to see that many days doesn't just indicate as we said it doesn't just indicate a lot of days a long time but it indicates the depth of the pain that's experienced during that time of Separation who was the prophet who said this verse it was AAR the son of OD the [Music] prophet what does it mean when it says that the Jewish people will be disconnected from the god of Truth why is Hashem referred to as the god of Truth the god of Truth indicates hashem's his Divine Justice there will be a long time and this is painful right let's understand each of these descriptions are descriptions of something which is painful there's going to be a long time where we don't see hashem's Divine Justice the Jewish people we're trying to serve God the Jewish people we have come back to our land there are aggressors that surround us and why are we being singled out for defending ourselves right but there's a lack of Justice in the world God is not showing his Divine Justice be will will we will be the Nai was telling us and this is in the time of the first temple or before that perhaps not exactly sure when aari was but it's in B it's probably during the first temple so there'll be a time when we don't have a high priest the Jewish people had high priests throughout the first temple throughout the second temple but there'll be a time when we don't have that there'll be a time that the Sun hedin the greatest body 70 plus one great sages of the Torah who guide the entire Jewish people who Pas in who give us tell us what the will of Hashem is we'll be missing that guidance that that [Music] leadership came when that generation heard this R they they felt weak the a voice from Heaven came out and said strengthen your weak hands right that's the PK it's a PK in yesah in Isaiah 35:3 which we're going to now expand on those hands that seem to be very [Music] weak and the and the thighs right the knees that feel like they're tripping strengthen them here explain that we are the ones who give power to Hashem when we use our hands to do a Mitzvah you wrapped filling right or you light candles shabas candles when you when we do a Mitzvah use our hands we are giving power to hasem toim it's brought here and when we bow to Hashem and we dive and we pray we're we're admitting Hashem is in our lives Hashem is the one who we wish to honor the one who we understand everything comes from him but when our hands are weak when our knees are weak our knees are buckling it means that we as the Jewish people are not fulfilling our purpose completely and the result is that Hashem is not manifesting in the world as much as he would like to the first understanding is that we've weakened God as it were the second understanding is that we became weak because we have sinned it's really two sides of the same coin but Hashem says don't be fearful there will come a time where you will be separated from me where you will go into G you'll go into Exile you'll you'll you'll be weakened in your connection to me and in your connection to Tyra your connection to but don't worry strengthen yourself be strong you're going to get through this the PK in Isaiah continues and says speak to those who are which could meantion of here who are thinking those who are thinking in their hearts it could also mean Aion of Mah of being quick in their hearts what does it mean it means not just those who are quick in their thoughts or it could mean quick but quick and they trip they're brokenhearted they are brokenhearted when we realize that we're separate from hasem We're far from God when we realize that we're not serving God properly that we're not doing the MST this as we should we become brokenhearted who else is brokenhearted says Le another understanding there's a there are people out there I'm proud to include myself in this that wish they're waiting they're pushing for mhia to come the Messiah to arrive whenever you see a sign it's like oh there's mashiah oh there's Messiah it's it's about to happen God God's salvation is about to occur that's how they think that's how they feel and and as they're pushing for it they you know they sometimes trip it doesn't work out that way the thing they thought it was going to be Messiah they thought in 2005 Mia they thought in 2009 2012 2016 2024 and so many times they were disappointed say don't be disappointed where do we see that it can mean that the says by when she saw elazar and she wanted to she was AO she did it too fast she took her her Cod her jug she took it down but she did it quickly hastily the P says in 35 of Isaiah verse 4 strengthen yourselves don't be afraid because the people of Israel said my tears I had tears that was my bread my tears were coming down my face day and night that they said to me my enemy said to me where's your God right what what do the Iranians care why are they shooting at us why do they have all these proxies to try to destroy us why do they have a day called Al's day Jerusalem day it's not Al means which is based on mikd why do they care because they say that they replaced us the Muslims say that they replaced us being the chosen people the Christians why did they for thousands of years try to kill us and destroy us because they say that they replaced us and and in doing so they say God doesn't care about you anymore God has forsaken you don't be afraid the the voice comes out from heaven and says here is your god the Vengeance will come right remember we said that God is the god of Truth we're going to be disconnected from the god of Truth the God of Justice we won't see God we won't see the the the truth until the end that Vengeance that Justice will come The God Who is going to meet out Vengeance to the nations of the world that very same God who is going to give that which is deserved to those who deserve it to the nations of the world who for so long said that they replaced us and they and because of that they hurt us they killed us they murdered us they gassed us Hashem says when I bring out my judgment on them I'm going to bring I'm going to save you part of it I'm going to save you now we come back and we say look so we have this we have this amazing statement by the navi we have this sense of loss you have the sense of of distance we have this sense of disconnection from a from God but nevertheless the T tells us don't worry Don't Be Afraid the the prophet promises Us in the end there will be Justice and in the end there will be good and by the way and I didn't start off saying this but we're right before PES right we're right before Passover it's the time of G it's the time of redemption so this is very important for us to know why are we always talking about Redemption every single year PES comes really every single day we talk about it right we mention in The Exodus from Egypt is to remind us never give up strengthen yourself there was an exodus there was a Gula Redemption 3,300 years ago there was another Redemption with the porm story there's going to be a Final Redemption have no fear the Jewish people in the land of Israel need not fear we are where we're supposed to be we don't have to be afraid of our enemies God 99% of those of those drones and ballistic missiles were shot out of the sky destroyed it's an incredible Miracle it's not statistically possible huge Miracle Hashem promises us you can expect miracles when now we're coming back to the point which I made earlier it says it will be many days was it so long was it really so long I think about it between the first Bas of English and the second Bas of English certainly wasn't so it was 70 years compared to our 2,000 year gas to this this uh this exile for 2,000 years but why does it say this language of so long the point of so long since it was a time of difficulty of pain of Separation y we're about to prove that y raim doesn't have to literally mean a lot of days it feels like a long time the woman is is forbidden from her husband for 11 days I mean 12 days how long it's such a long time it's painful it's a painful time it's a difficult time it feels like a long time and one of the mfor points out that the P says it's here in the the P says in the 90th chapter of Psalms it says cause us to Rejoice like the amount of days or or at least the amount of days that we had pain the years that we saw so much so much difficulty so much bad when when we see this separation the separation it feels like such a long time it is it is a literal long time but not only for us has it been a long time it's been a painful difficult terrible time and Hashem will reverse this there will be according to how much pain there was and how difficult and how far and how separated there's going to be a a huge renewal of connection with the Gula with the Redemption we find this to be true refers to many days that passed and God revealed himself to Elijah the prophet it was a year and a half this this long time these many days it was a time that I'm not exactly sure I didn't look in inside of the murus in the original Source here but I'm assuming that there was a time of Separation there was a time of disconnection from Hashem and after 18 months the connection was brought back reconnected revealed himself too to Elijah the prophet a year and a half is that called a long time when you're in pain it's a long time when you're disconnected from God it's a long time P says in refers to the fact that the Jewish people here we are about to experience the Exodus again it was so many days we were in Gus we were in exile for so long was it really so long we see again when we are in G when we are in Exile which really means we don't see God in our lives it's unfair why are we becoming slaves why are we in slave to Egypt what did we do wrong how do you take a whole nation and make them into slaves million and a half people it was a difficult time what a terrible time it was such a disconnect from God such a disconnect from who we're supposed to be we came into Egypt with great honor yadik was was second in command the brothers par wanted to honor them as well we find we just read in in Mester that there was 180 day party it was yam ra there it says as well was it's so so many days 180 days is not a long time it's half a year it's a long time same thing it was painful because takes out the holy the the vessels from theik the Jewish people see are vessels on display being used for for the for the most disgusting party C over us every forbidden things is going on there and the Cale of are being used what a terrible what a terrible party it just represented the fact that thought that God had forsaken the Jewish people was y was a terrible time so now the mes finally says explicitly what we said at the beginning and that is that when it comes to a woman who has a flow so we're not talking about a regular menstrual flow but some kind of other flow so it happens for many days what does it mean it means two three days so that's a long long time says that this woman has a great experience of pain besides for the simple physical pain of of this kind of [Music] flow right what happens she has to she she ends up counting not just those three days she has to count seven clean days she has to she has to go through a whole process which the Jewish people keeps until this time so there's a whole process and and she's separated and she has to she's called a Nida what does the word Nida mean it means a language of nidu she's like off on her own she's separated she's impure she's distant from her husband here's the kicker here's the bottom line he says like this that if a woman who's distance from her husband two to three days and then seven clean days she's called a she's called someone who's in you know in quarantine we have been separated from the house of our life from the B mikd from the house the holy B the temple the house of our Splendor so many days so many years so many end times have passed so many I so many I years which we spoke about in the mhia 17 podcast so many Iber years so many the Iber moves forward every time we have a leap year it's moving forward it's moving forward but we haven't gotten there yet we're so distant we're so far we're so [Music] it's calling out we say plant us in our boundaries the boundaries of our country and let us be able to bring our carbonis or sacrifices we we have is but we don't have the Pinnacle the the highest point of is so how much pain is there how difficult is it how much pain is there amazing says the POs to us and reminds us don't worry strengthen yourselves the G is coming the Redemption is about to happen the the Justice the ultimate Hashem is going to reveal himself as the god of Truth all of the lies will fall all of the lies of the nations of the world will end and as the lies of the world end Hashem promises the one who brings God the God of Justice who brings out the just payment will also come and save us I want to bless you I I ask you to bless me Hashem should help us that we should Merit to see the G described here we should Merit to feel the end of this incredible pain of separation from God and separation from truth and separation from true leaders and separation from Torah should help us that we should experience with our own eyes the coming of Messiah of the the complete Redemption of the Jewish people the revelation of the truth the revelation of who is indeed the chosen of Hashem which should be Merit to see that and to feel that and experience that and have a wonderful p p thank you so much for listening have a wonderful chabas this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you for more podcasts like this please visit www.wag.com or search on iTunes Ari goldwag [Music]