Ari Goldwag - Mishpatim - All About Angels

you're listening to the weekly parsha podcast recorded with a gems never-ending assistance in Rome up admission is around 57 76 2016 this week's parshas partial mesh bottom and we really have a continuation of the revelation at Mount Sinai that sham revealed himself to the Jewish people gave laws to them first started there were certain commitments which we had in last week's parsha and then continued with many other laws story continues itself of the revelation the Jewish people saying no sevenish ma you will do and we will hear the end of the parsha chapter 23 verse 20 brings us to a very interesting idea there interesting point that the Torah makes in regards to the leadership the way that God is going to lead the Jewish people and help the Jewish people as they come into the Land of Israel verse says like this he nay innately Shamala fluffinella I behold I am sending in front of you an angel louche mahabad earth to protect you on the way Bellavia column Okuma shocking I see and to bring it to the place which I have prepared for you verse 21 is Shemer me punish my Bakula protectors of guard yourself from him make sure you listen to his voice all time everybody do not go against him kela ye selfish of him will not carry your sins give Shammi be curb Lane because my name is within him verse 22 came shemitish my bacala if you listen to his voice if you listen to his words but see so card a bear and you do all that I speak well yeah obviously Vava I will be the enemy of your enemies but start the Assefa and i will oppress those who oppress you verse 23 Kiana Kamala Fela Finella my angel will go before you my vehicle Emira luckily I preached I cannot even after hockey hockey Viva you see because auditive this angel will go and you will bring it to this place the place where the amorite sliver the Hittites live the presiding zat live in the land of Israel and I will destroy them verse 24 license Tocqueville Elohim with a soft name do not bow down to their false gods do not serve them but I saw a second my same don't do as they do Carrie started saying destroy the macabre Texeira Madhavi Sam and and break down all of their matzo ways their places of worship my vada time is a sham like a fem the final verse that I want to read here 25 and you will serve a sham your God who veer off his lock maja and Hashem will bless your bread that's me Mecca in your waters I see you I see Malcolm make your back oh God promises that if we do what we're supposed to do if we follow in the ways of the Torah we follow the commandments of the Torah God will remove all of the sicknesses from within us from from our midst now the the focus that I want to focus in on is the concept of angels because Hashem is saying over here that he's going to send an angel before us and I want to point out I'm not gonna read these Midrash from inside but I want to point out that I saw that there are three different approaches as to what is this angel who is the angel what is an angel what is the concept of an angel and is an angel a good thing or bad thing it's a good thing that an Angels leading us or is it something which is a negative thing almost across the board the majority may imply that it's not a good thing that we want to sham himself God directly to lead us the only reason our sham is sending an angel to lead us leading us indirectly as opposed to leading us himself is because of the fact that we've done something wrong we've done something to separate ourselves from God so God instead of leading us directly sends an intermediary that's the the general feeling that we get as we read the Madrasi however there are three different approaches as to what is the Moloch what is this angel so to speak that's being sent here when you to understand that we're mouth doesn't always mean an angel it can also mean a messenger the verse tells us that by usually akamalik from the phone of Yaakov sends messengers in front him to ace of etc so there are those who say that indeed there was it was literally angels but the simple understanding of the verses that is talking about messengers so a Moloch an angel is a Messenger of God but there are three different possibilities as to what this messenger is the first explanation which is the poshness which is the major trauma brings down is that it's literally an angel it's an angel of God the second possibility is that the messenger that we're talking about here is actually another prophet of God it's somebody who is bringing the Word of Hashem to the Jewish people it's the Mosher of you know it's Moses or it's yo shoe it's Joshua in any event it's somebody who is bringing that message guiding the Jewish people that a Shem is giving over his word to that person and that person is leading the Jewish people and Hashem is instructing the Jewish people be careful to do what my messenger says to do that's the second shot and interestingly the third shot which I saw in the mesh is that it's actually referring to the Arnab race it's referring to the the Ark of the Covenant which went in front of the Jewish people in battle and it represented the Jewish people's relationship with God inside of that Ark was the Luc Lyssa bris was the tablets which stated upon and the Ten Commandments which represented the relationship that God that God made that God had with the Jewish people and God has with the Jewish people now before we continue I just want to say that what I plan to do here usually I'll bring a lumbermen Russian and try to tie together a central theme central concept what I'm going to do here today is more just giving you some ideas and thoughts about angels I'm calling this podcasts all about angels because I want to understand and think about it and look at the different points we see in the magician to understand what is the concept of an angel is it a is it a good thing is it a bad thing as we mentioned previously so the magician here very interesting beautiful measures I want to share with you one I want to read it inside it says like this W now Nikki Charlotte Malo this is there there are a bunch of different pieces within the mesh in Chapter in them in the parsha lama gimel in the 33rd section here in schmoes that speaks about this idea about this verse so there are nine different sections here I'm going to start in section number seven it says like this that in reference to this verse that God is going to send an angel in front of the Jewish people ha da who did save this is what the verse means when it says into Hillerman in psalms chapter chapter 82 verse 6 he Anya Martella him Atem I say that you are powerful mighty people Venera and cool come here are all people who are spiritually elevated um do you sell bc9 that's the verse it says that's a verse into Helaman Psalms now the measure says that when the Jewish people stood at Mount Sinai vicki lewis at IRA and they receive the Torah the Covenant of God Americo - whoa Flamel harvests God said to the angel of death I'll call of the cocoa music or shoes in regards to all the nations of the world all the idolatrous nations you still have power over them you still have permission you can you can you have power you can cause them to die while lumens in the Horus bah shame Kalki but when it comes to the Jewish people you no longer have power over them the Angel of Death who is by the way an angel he's an emissary of God no longer had power after the Jews accepted the Torah there was no more death there my portion says God King Janak ivic I am just as I live forever Cockburn I can you mean God said so to my children will live forever they will never die shanem are as the verse says in Deuteronomy chapter 32 verse 8 by honk el elyon the inheritance of the Jewish people is the elevated amongst the nations will see hail Akasha mama the verse says also over there the next verse the portion of God is his nation Jakub Femina Hollis a Jacob which is also a French the Jewish people they are God's portion the Lord sees him but you didn't want that and look he bound him and save him what happened to the Jewish people was that they did something negatively did something with their actions which caused the destruction by Marc Tim LaHaye go a little hockey throw and you said about the golden calf that these are your gods o people of Israel aqaq I can cut them to muslin that's why the continuation of the verse in psalms is that you will die like a man or like Adam like the first man magical humming Tom Shean Basara Moffat M Cain and now as a result of what you did just like all of the nations of the world have saw him which means princes but also can be a reference to angels just like they all have angels so - you also have Atem Cain Shanna mean an official have malice you also have an angel to guide you instead of God directly being in charge of you you will have an angel who is appointed over you just as all the nations of the world have angels who are pointed over them so already we see her in this metric that the concept of an angel is that instead of the Jewish people being directly influenced and guided and helped along by God and being the portion of God to the point that they don't have deaths just like God as it were never has that God last forever God is eternal instead of that they have an indirect influence an indirect way of being guided and affected by God and the net result of that is that unfortunately the Jewish people now do pass away will die now in listening to this idea listening to this concept we need to ask ourselves if it was going to be such a short-lived opportunity such a short-lived relationship with Hashem a short-lived time where they were on this great spiritual level why did they have to have it why indeed you know how long how much time was there between the time between Hersey night when the Jewish people receive the Torah they had this relationship there were they recall that hey like I shouldn't a portion of God how much time was there between that and the my sagal and the making of the golden calf it wasn't that long and how much time was it from her Sinai which was on vows even until you die in Bhutan was shavasan retama is the 7th 17th of Tammuz when they indeed made the agel was 40 days so they had this for 40 days that's that's how long they had this relationship and they then they had that spiritual level where they were called the portion of God where they could live forever but why did they even have to have her so what is the idea behind it that they had it for this short time so let's hold on to that question and we're and I would like to show you the next piece of measures because it's so beautiful give such a deep understanding of the idea of the mollify idea of the angel and idea of the relationship that the Jewish people have with God and it says like this Hannah Tom might say and here's what we find shahira Kaddish miroku the Yaakov sorry called mal cusamano's we mentioned before that each of the nations of the world have a different Mollica different angel which is my moon which is appointed over that nation and God sends down as it were his Sheva his in sucks his spiritual the the spiritual thing that he wants to bring to that nation through that mala through that sour through that officer as it were and that is something which Hashem showed Jacob in Jacobs dream the dream with the ladder where he saw the angels going up and down he was seeing the angels of the different nations Shanna is versus vo : the verse says in Genesis chapter 28 verse 12 by Yahoo limini Suleiman tsubasa he had a dream and he saw the ladder which was the bottom of which was on the earth hare Allah , Oh mice become a far from a commercial tiny annoying d'amico Makalu sumac lose the classic explanation of what these angels were we all know that the Angels would go up and they would come down Yaakov Aveeno Jacob was was shown the fact that the Jewish people would would endure and be under the boot as it were of many different nations and some are longer some were shorter but he was seeing the nations represented as angels an idea that the measure is coming to explain here is that the angels represented the nation's because each nation has an angel that's in charge of it so when when Yaakov saw the angel going up an angel coming down so he was seeing the rise and fall of each of these nations as represented by the angel which was the spiritual source of the power of each of these nations the true source of that power of course is Hashem himself who is giving power to that particular nation ashame shahara Leo son joined him just like a sham showed to Yakima vino this vision of the angels that were standing there or climbing up so to speak Harun listen I Flynn he what he showed them that they came down she never been a mouth la Kim oil in the yard and boy you shouldn't they were going up and going down on my leg I could have spoken now here's where it gets really interesting Hashem says to Yaakov into Jacob Aleya Fatah I want you to go up yourself just like those angels are going up I want you to go up I want you to climb this ladder amel Yaakov so Jacob says Missy Ariana scheme' a rakish MCRD whele the other says I'm afraid if I climb this ladder I'm afraid that just like the Angels went up they came down I'm also going to come down I'm gonna echo - Burcu alta CRA God system don't be afraid Hashim Shanie yari do lasse just like I never come down from my greatness cockle a hot tub Lebanon a yard Amiga dual awesome when you get on this ladder this is a Shem to Yaakov unit to Jacob when you climb up this ladder so you will never come down just like I never come down from my ladder my and you and your children will never come down from their greatness should never be Nichelle needs ever loved as the verse says that Hashem was standing over him which the measure is understanding to mean that Yakub Aveeno gained some aspect of godliness in this revelation and the godliness was that he would be the portion of God as we said is the nation of Israel the Jewish people when we're doing what we should be doing of course we become the portion of God we become like ah we never die we become like God that just like God reigns forever the Jewish people reign forever and we're able to climb up that ladder of spirituality and climb up the ladder of greatness of leadership and never fall off that ladder a messiah the measure itself is explicit when is this but Russia my son with Sony when the Jewish people do God's will when they do my will God says ubi Shasha mark - may Allah help you out but when the when the Jewish people said these are your God's o people of Israel in reference to the golden calf as optimized evil Optima directly or they kocoum and you left me says God and they went in the ways of idolaters magical beasts RM f @ mb Sauron and the result of that is that just as the nations of the world are led indirectly through angels and they don't take on the attribute of godliness so - when when the Jewish people are not doing what they're supposed to be doing so they're also led by an angel and they're also lose they lose that godliness shimmering neon nightly show laughs mother behold I'm sending an angel in front of you that's this verse from our verse that we quoted earlier now it's really amazing that we see here and this really parallels the concept of the Navi of the Prophet as the malla Hashem as the angel of God as it were so so think about the whereas I'm saying the next idea think about it in those terms as well what we see over here is that Amala rises and falls Amala is the one who has the versus me back here by Hashem's name is within the mouth within that angel right when we look at the names of the angels so it's refil it's me coil its govern it always ends with a la flama D which is the name of God because the the mala is nothing more than a representative or Ashley AK an agent of God and now what happens is a sham says amazingly theok ov Hashem says you see these angels going up and coming down representing a certain power in the world and representing the power that I'm giving to a particular nation I want you to get on the ladder I want you to rise up because you yourself are going to be an angel you yourself have that Shammi beaker boy when you're doing the rest on a sham when you're doing the will of God says Hashem to Yaakov into Jacob and to all the children of Jacob to all of us Hashem is saying when you are doing my will you are climbing on this spiritual ladder you are connected to me and just like I never fall down off this ladder I never fall off of my my leadership of the world I am always directly ultimately directly leading the entire world so - you have that power you the Jew you Yaakov live in you Jacob you the children of Jacob have that power to lead the world to be greatness to have greatness to be great to be selfless to be spiritual as long as you're attached to me in essence an angel is a manifestation it's a it's a it's a place where we see that God is sending some kind of messenger as it were into the world it's a place where we see that a Shem is doing things in the world and so when we completely make ourselves beholden to God's will we also become an angel and that's the Navi or the Prophet if we think about it who is he he is somebody who's reached this amazing spiritual level he's he fulfills all of the 613 commandments he's mam self completely spiritual he's been ma fish himself he separated himself to a certain extent from the world everything that he does is B kaduche with holiness always directing his actions all his mundane actions his spiritual actions everything is focused on godliness bringing God into the world and so when he comes that prophet and he wants to say something to Jewish people he's guiding the Jewish people he's acting as God's leah has God's messenger in the world guiding the Jewish people if we think about it further we can realize that this is also perhaps the depth of what it means when the you know in the 3rd understanding that what is the sheliak here what is the malla here what is the angel so to speak here it's the are not bris it's the Torah itself the Torah itself represents you know we know our hazael tell us arise of us rob arise to be coachable AHA know that there's an aspect of godliness and Torah and the people of Israel that's one they're unified what is the unification that the tour itself and the Jewish people as you saw when were fulfilling the will of Hashem the Torah the are hub risks the Ark of the Covenant represents God will be manifested in the world and the miraculous nature the miracles that occur as a result of that the measure talks about the fact that the ahran would go in front of the Jewish people and it would level the mountains and it would level the valleys so that everything will be smooth for the Jewish people and what that idea represents the the the analogy or the teaching that the measure is going to teach us is that when we're doing the will of Hashem when when we're doing what's right so everything runs smooth everything is miraculous the art itself didn't take up any space even though it did take up space it was nice it's nice if it carried those who carried them the the depth of the relationship when Hashem is there so everything becomes smooth and easy everything becomes natural there's not death in the world there's nothing there's no there's no mock Allah there's no sickness and we come now to our final point which I'd like to share with you from the measure this is at the end of the piece number nine is a Bahama ku shamanic Neera any place where you see a mala you see an angel Hasina nearest so the divine presence is also there it's able to be discerned shanira as the verse says in Exodus chapter 3 verse 2 valium Allah Hashem elavil Abbas H we find in the first revelation of Moses variants the burning bush so the Moloch of a sham the angel of God appeared to him in that fire me I was a verse a immediately ye cry love Allah Kim immediately after that God calls to Moses so the Moloch always has the angel always has alongside it god himself as it were with Leo 8lb schatz I can mr. elephant of torrid I'm sure and the magic she finishes continues with a with a beautiful ending it's the end of this particular chapter of the measures and it says that when the Jewish people call out to God so always what happens is that some kind of salvation occurs Kochba snack which is something that we see at the burning bush as well she never he needs a husband a bellboy like God says to Moses the call the the cries of the Jewish people have come before me became begin doing and so too when it comes to get on in Gideon and shoved him in judges chapter 6 verses 11 and 12 save I away my lovely refers to the fact that this mala this angel came the hey Ronnie love my flesh M by FNL of a Shem so first it speaks about the angel and then it speaks about the fact that God Himself turns toward him so you see whenever there's a mala God is there as well so the angel of course it resents the the message or the metas shams messenger as it were but God Himself is always there alongside the messenger by a man and it brings another verse this is verse 14 over there by a lake the hahaha go with your strength before facas air with this power by shot de sel and you will save the Jewish people the measure is just showing us that we see this progression we have the mala appears the angel appears then we have a shem himself as it were appearing and then we have the Chua we have the redemption the salvation that occurs if gain loss is lovely and a measure she finishes off by saying that this is how it's going to be in the future time but Shashi Gullah Gullah when God wants to bring the final redemption bolli Cyril that is coming on the people of his ocean a Mohini shall have Maliki in front of Derek Lefou night God refers to thises a verse in my lucky in Malachi chapter 3 verse 1 that God is going to send his Mallika's angel and it will clear the way before me God says first comes the angel which they as a reference tele Owen of Elijah the Prophet who also has a certain a certain aspect of an angelic aspect about him he's going to come he's gonna clear the way before me God says then I myself God says I will appear and then there will be a chew I will be the redemption of final redemption and I think that though if we could sum up the point here of what this man is saying or something that comes out of the measure is that whenever you have a mala you look at the places where the Torah speaks about melaka speaks about angels appearing it talks about it when there's a when Avram Avena is about to have a child it's like a new stage and the Jewish people Yaakov Aveeno experiences the angels going up and down the ladder it's when he's about to start building the Jewish people is about to go to meet his wives out in the house of love him every time there's a Moloch it's always a new stage in the redemption or the the growth of the Jewish people as a nation and that's what it means whenever you have a mala there's God Himself as it were and there's a salvation the concept of salvation is there moving to the to the new stage and that's why the measure she finishes off by speaking about the the greatest movement of the Jewish people into its next stage which is the Google and see the the future Redemption with the coming of Messiah of the Messiah so I want to bless you and please bless me Becca sham should help us to be able to recognize the angels in our lives the places where our Shem is guiding us and bringing us to salvation Hashem should also help us to recognize that we ourselves have the potential to spiritual capacity to be angels to recognize that Hashem is in our lives to manifest the Shem in the world through his spirituality through our commitment to the mitzvahs through our myths of observance I should also help us find those individuals who indeed do that the prophets as it were and in our age that said Deacon the righteous individuals who indeed bring a Shem into the world and a Shem should help us attach ourselves to the iron hat bris that Shelly asked that malo the as the tour itself which is a manifestation of Hashem will in the world thank you so much for listening I have a 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