Ari Goldwag - Mishpatim - Preparatory Angel

you're listening to the weekly parsha podcast with Ari Gold wag recorded with a gems and never-ending assistance in Roma I miss Israel 5777 2017 this week marshes partial mesh bottom and we have a continuation of what we saw in the previous part sure we had a revelation and at her c9 we had the Jewish people's experience of God not speaking to the Jewish people directing them not just in the Ten Commandments but we find out this week we have the beginning of the teachings of Shem as it were standing as the Rebbe as the teacher as the loving father is the loving parent as the loving teacher teaching the Jewish people the laws that for them will be that would give them a very unique relationship with a Shem and each other and the world as a whole and in the middle of this actually towards the end of our parsha it's in shishi from chapter 23 verse 20 verses Heaney initially akamalik lafawn fo God says I'm going to send an angel in front of you rushmore kaaba dora to protect you on the path of allah vehicle on Malcolm a shark in OC and this angel will bring you to the place that I have prepared and the verse goes on to describe what's going to happen and it speaks about the fact that Hashem is going to bring the Jewish people into Israel he's going to fight their enemies he's going to destroy them he's going to give the Jewish people the Land of Israel to be their eternal inheritance and in trying to understand the nature of this malla of this angel what is the concept of this angel is the angel a good thing is the angel a negative thing so Rashi right away tells us on this plus ik Henan officially Kamala Khan is bathroo here they receive the news shall see the locket oh that they're going to sin in the future machine OMERS Lemke lo Allah Bakr becau surah she gives us the opinion that this Malik is a negative force really Hashem himself should be the one who's going to lead them who's going to protect them who's going to battle for them just as during the entire time that they were inside of the wilderness as long as they were traveling in the mid war in a desert so Hashem was with him completely completely affecting them guiding them giving them everything that they needed but in the future they're going to lose that it seems as Russia explains we're going to lose that direct connection that open revelation of a shaman instead they would have a Moloch an angel which is obviously it's just a Messenger of God so it's a lower level they're gonna lose it how is that going to happen so Rashi says they're going to sin they're going to do something wrong they're going to lose that special and direct relationship with Hashem and as a result are going to experience a Moloch an angel leading them instead of Hashem himself that's how Rashi sets it up for us and it's very interesting many of the Midrash iam seem to see a similar thing seem to say that the malla of the angel is a negative force but let's see together that it's not so simple that the mouth is a negative force and there's too much Rushmore through Madras and I like to share with you that when we read them it's a little bit difficult to understand what's going on it's difficult to understand we're talking about a positive or negative force and when we analyze and try to get to the crux to the center of what's the issue here we will see that the angel could be very well could be a positive force a positive type of situation let's see together we're now in partial Amun bays in the 32nd section of the Med rish in section Zion number seven dollar offer another explanation he nano if he shall lay off my love I'm sending a Moloch I'm sending an angel hada who deceive this is what it says on the mrt elohim attempt with an alien le uncle cam originally this is a verse in psalms chapter 82 verse 7 verse 6 it says Hashem said about the Jewish people that they are powerful that they are mighty that they are godly and they are members of an exalted place when al young cool him all of you what is this referring to because Shalom do you celibacy night when the Jewish people stood at Mount Sinai became Lewis a Torah and they receive the Torah all morocco - mohr-coulomb allah humma vez an amazing thing Hashem said to the Angel of Death delicious for all the idolaters for all of the nations of the world you now have permission you have permission you can take their lives when it's the appropriate time well Amazo when it comes to this nation it comes to the Jewish people and liquorice whispah shahane Kalki you do not have any permission over them anymore the Jewish people at Mount Sinai when they stood there they entered into a state of Adam I reached and called my fate of the first man before the sin he was supposed to live forever the Jews when they received the Torah no longer did the Malcolm of is the Angel of Death have power over them but rather Hashem said they are my portion Kasim Shaniqua Vic I am just like I last forever I live forever Bona Bona kyuman so to my children meaning the Jewish people live forever Shania ever says it's in Deuteronomy chapter 32 verse 8 bank el elyon it speaks of an exalted inheritance of the nations that the Jewish people received will receive Cascadia Hashem amo the portion of a Shem is his nation Yaakov heaven Allah so Jacob is the Rope of his apportionment of his of his inheritance so the Jewish people they took on a certain aspect of godliness which was at Mount Sinai they would no longer experience death they would live forever just like Hashem as it were it lives forever the Lord sees him very interesting the Jewish people were not interested you didn't want LF he ball Tomas AFM you cause a destructive factor in your actions by martin la Hegel and you said of the golden calf la ilaha illa Israel these are your God's o Israel you referred to the Eagle you refer to the golden calf as God with a calf I think Adam to Musa and therefore just like Adam you shall die that's the continuation of that verse in Psalms chapter 82 verse 7 ma a fish of omission be sorry am i fat am king Shanna Mohini initially Ramallah and just as the idol worshipers the nations of the world so they have my love him they have princes who are in charge of the Navy those who are in charge of them I don't deal with them directly God says so - I'm going to have a mullah I'm gonna this verse I'm gonna have a an angel a messenger I'm going to send before you I'm not going to deal with you directly now so there was an amazing level that the Jewish people reached when they got to Mount Sinai when they experience this amazing revelation of a Shem but a sham says to them you need to know what's going to happen is this level is not going to remain here you're gonna lose this a great exalted level and you're gonna fall and I'm not going to openly reveal myself to you but rather there's gonna be am I like an angel who guides you and brings you so there's a few questions I'd like to pose over here the first question is that we see if you'll either verses carefully that there's a switch between the malla the angel it speaks about the angel but also speaks of a shem himself it speaks about the angel going ahead and leading the the angel is a preparation and and then a sham himself as it were comes in and he says that he is going to be the one who oh you have these events it's two verses later in verse 22 well yeah they say welcome it's Satya Soraka I am going to be an enemy to your enemies I'm going to destroy those nations that are there a shannon's self speaks that he is going to come in he sends an angel ahead but he himself comes in so we need to understand what does it mean that the Jewish people are going to lose a level there's going to be an angel but yet if you read the verses themselves it's very clear that eye shadow Himself is going to be directly involved you know what's going on with the Jewish people entering into the Land of Israel so there's not just a mouth there's not just an angel eye shut himself is there as well so why are we speaking about it as if the Jews are losing a level if anything we see that Hashem himself remains connected to the Jewish people perhaps even despite the fact that they've sinned so what is idea here that's that's the first question the second question is it seems strange the Jewish people have not yet sinned the Jewish people have not yet gone down in their level they haven't yet worshipped the golden calf it's not going to be for another forty days after the revelation at Mount Sinai so why is it that here Hashem is telling them that they're going to sin in the future and they're going to lose this connection this level of godliness so let's continue in the magician and there's another question in the magician then we'll see a different Madras which really comes and explains what's going on here measures continues okay not emotes a we find similarly shahira kodesh Merkel Yaakov sorry calm mouth cusamano's I caught a sparkle God showed Jacob the angels of each and every one of the kingdoms that would exist Jenny Myers verse says by a Colombian a Sulha moots of heart saw that Jacob had this amazing dream this awesome dream where he saw a ladder and he saw the angels going up and down each of these angels were representatives of each of the different nations of the world hello comma who knows who come a far can become a shield tonin I'm Dan McCall Malthusian malkos Hashem in showing him the vision of the angels going up and down this ladder was showing Jacob the the angels of each and every one of the different kingdoms simcha Harrell O son owned him and just as he showed that they stood up Carlos enough l'm a sham showed him that they would fall shenana Veena Malik I love Kim only me llamo the verse refers to the fact that they were going up and down so the island going up represented the fact that there was a malkos a certain Kingdom that would rise up represented by its SAR by its angel and that mouth was that Kingdom would fall so Omaha - Bravo Aleya Fattah Hashem said to jacob i want you to go up as well Pomerleau Yaakov Jacob says Monsieur eonni chemin a raid cashing shares of a low Jacob says I'm afraid that I'm going to fall down just like David if I go up if I rise if I ascend I'm gonna fall out like a schmuck who Shem said to him Alta CRA don't worry don't be afraid Hashim Shaina uremic Doulos II just like I never come down for my greatness chocolata for Lebanon yard amygdala so you don't have to worry not you not your children neither of you will ever fall from your greatness shanem Ravenna Hashem need solve Olaf that's what the verse means when her first effect in those verses that Hashem was hovering over him and meant that Hashem was saying you are going to also be standing hovering as it were you're going to be standing up and you will never fall just as I never fall now the measures makes another statement which is very difficult understand a Masai when is that Bechet my son it's a knee when the Jewish people are doing my will Vishakha Martin Ayla Hekla Israel was after my sea but at the time when you the Jewish people said about the golden calf that this is your God o people of Israel and you'd left me Paul after menarche a vehicle of him and you went in the ways of the idolaters Monica come me sorry I'm just like idolaters their access to the spiritual realms their power comes through angels a fat M basurin you also are going to have an angel shin mr in an official f mala as the verse says it's our verse I am sending an angel in front of you so it seems again like the angel is a negative force it seems like when the Jewish people sinned they lose their greatness they lose their lofty level they lose their ability to access Hashem directly and instead have to have an angel direct them but the question here is what was yoke of saying what's the reassurance of Hashem Hashem says the Yaakov I want you to rise up I want you to get on this ladder yakko says me but I'm afraid these angels they're they're going up where they're coming right back down Hashem says they know don't worry you're like me I'm gonna make you like me you're gonna come up and you're never gonna fall but then immediately I say that the measure says the Jewish people did fall they did lose that level they did end up having an angel going up for them instead of them going up so what's the idea what's the measures coming to teach us is it indeed true that the Jewish people forever remain in a place like God on tops as it were you know in a place in a state of going up and never falling or is it possible for the Jewish people to fall it seems like they can fall what is the reassurance that Hashem has given to Yaakov that he will never fall so come and listen to this amazing beautiful Madras which is two pieces later it's and letter task number nine in a likely shellac mala again a quotes our verse I'm well that could work on ameesha God said to Moses you should she Marisa Ava's Jewish Morris upon him the one who protected the forefathers he will protect the children with Canada might say be Haram amazing thing you find when it comes to Abraham get your baby cuz he gets home tonight when he gave the blessing to his son Isaac I'm more like he said a shamela cache of mine the guy mer speaks of the fact that God the God of the heavens who you schlock Malala allophonic Allah he should send his angel in front of you so we see in the blessing of Isaac to Jacob it speaks of an of a Moloch of an angel being sent before him the Yaakov Avena Mohammed Abhinav and Jacob also when he gives a blessing to his sons to Yosef to my national Fridays as homologate I see me cholera he speaks of the angel which protected him from all evil and that protecting forests should protect these children Menashe enough rhyme unreal ahem what's going on here the message explains he was saying to them who go Alana Meowth Asaph the angel protected me from my interaction with Esau who'd seen Lana me I'd love one he saves me from the hands of Laban who tsunami Inferno Sonny Boosh near a vine it protected me in the years of famine Morocco - per coulomb Aisha God says to Moses I thought shove so - now you should show us how our voice the one meaning the angel who protected the forefathers you shmore saponin she named her nicely she left mother that one who protected the forefathers gonna protect the children this verse behold I'm sending him off so it seems from this measure and it was a positive force doesn't seem to be a negative force Hashem seems to be saying just like I had an angel who protected the forefathers and the blessings that they gave included this angel so - you are going to receive that special protection somehow the mouth represents protection from all of the forces of evil it's very interesting we need to understand why this Moloch is included in both of these blessings what is the idea of the angel when it comes to a blessing and the message finishes off become Malcolm Shama Neera a Shekinah near ice and this is by the way the key of what's going on here anywhere where you find that you see this angel the shrine of the Divine Presence is not long in following the divine presence will appear in that place Nima as the verses vyi rama Hashemi lovable abbas Aish when moshe rabbeinu had his experience at the burning bush so it speaks of the fact that there was a mala an angel that appeared him from within the fire Unni odd and immediately why you cry I love elokim God himself calls to Moshe Rabbeinu below Lord not just that elevation should say Kim is telephone of Tamil ahem sure whenever the Jewish people call out to God they're going to receive a salvation pass net this is what was going on at the burning bush in emanates a Costanera by Alya Shem says to Moshe the call the outcry the Jewish people has come to me became megiddo by ABBA mala by year LM efficiency by Gideon as well that first an angel came this is a person shoved him in judges chapter 6 verses 11 and 12 it speaks of the fact that the angel came and then by FNL of a shame a shame himself turned toward him and then the verse says by your liquor haha' my shot I see struggle with this power and save the Jewish people with hain lots of lovely and that's what it's going to be in the future time when mashiac is about to arrive with the Messiah's about to arrive Bichette Galarraga Lula but Alice relish an Emer that at the time when the redemption is about to be revealed this same model of the same angel is going to come cinema as a verse says in Malachi chapter 3 verse 1 initially Malathi afina dark lafawn a very interesting this is the key here that the angel comes and clears the way in front of me Hashem says the mala comes the angel comes first and then Hashem his arena his Divine Presence is openly revealed following the angel so we see here that there are two key core points that the message is saying the first is that whenever there's a cure whenever a salvation is needed whenever there's a trouble that the Jewish people are experiencing heaven forbid Hashem sends a mala the angel is sent and second the angels purpose is to clear the way to prepare that has shown himself should come and reveal himself openly in that place so here we see in this measure that the schita of this manage the opinion of this measure she is that the Moloch the angel is a positive force it's a force that indicates that from here you're going to see that a Shem is about to reveal himself and another example this we say this every week on Friday night we say Shalom Aleichem a la flesche RS on Friday night we welcome we greet the Angels melaka alien and then when we speak immediately after me Melek Malcolm Lachlan who is the king of all kings I call - for who it's God himself so whenever you see and this is you can you can look around you can see that this is true you know also by Avram Aveeno by Abraham when he welcomes in these Moluccan the angels come but here's the voice of Hashem speaking to him sham is also speaking the melaka are just preparing the way you see that whenever there's a mala when it comes to the Jewish people and this is the resolution really of the previous measure because it could be on the surface it seems like this measure is saying it's a positive force it's a good thing and the previous measure sounds like it's a negative force it's a bad thing it's because the Jewish people have sinned but actually I believe we can resolve these tumid Russian by explaining that Hashem is really showing us whenever you see a mile off whenever you see an angel whenever you see a spiritual force that's not openly the revelation of a Shem it's a precursor it's a prelude to the fact that Hashem himself is about to show himself it's a sign it's it's paving the way as a verse says in in Malaki now if we understand this correctly so we can explain that the previous measures which speaks about the fact that the Jewish people have sinned they're going to sin in the future and as a result of the sin they're gonna lose that exalted level that they wrecked connection touch them and they're going to just have an angel so we asked how is it a consolation to Yaakov Yaakov is told that don't worry you're gonna climb up but you never to fall what do you mean they're not gonna fall except when the Jewish people sinned then they do fall so what's going on what's the constellation and I believe that the answer is that for the Jewish people they have a unique way of interacting with a Shem when the constant nations of the world there's a ladder and the angel goes up an angel comes down it's it's you know rising and falling ascending and descending but when it comes to the Jewish people I would venture to say that the ladder is not just the ladder it's actually an escalator it's an escalator and it's a up escalator moving up all of the time and so even when the Jewish people fall down a rung and for the moment it seems that they've lost their connection to Shem the escalator is still moving up I believe that that is the shot that's understanding of what the measure should sing the angel for the Jewish people always represents a paving of the way for them to be able to soon realize their connection tache em while it's true that the angel is less of a connection to a Shem but look at Moshe Rabbeinu look at Moses his experience he first sees an angel the angel is what appears to him first get on as well the first experience is an experience not directly of a Shem it's too much it needs to be gradual for his to experience the angel the angel paves the way and a Shem himself openly manifests shows himself in our lives so there's a promise here an amazing thing there's a promise here hush em in the my man hearts t9 at Mount Sinai God promises the Jewish people I want you to know even when you fall even when you sin I'm letting know right now even though we're in this amazing place we're in this amazing direct connection even when you fall you never fall all the way you're always still on this up escalator and so when you fall you're gonna see an angel that angel might seem like a negative force it seems like a disconnect but the truth is that the angel is always going to be bringing you back up you're going to be climbing the angel you're gonna be on the way up when you experience that angel and so that angel will be the first thing paving the way for you to come back back into a relationship with me you'll first see the angel and then you're gonna see my screen on my Divine Presence whenever the Jewish people are disconnected find themselves in a place distant from God they call out to God in other words their face is always looking up they're always on that up escalator they're always looking higher they're always looking to the top of that spiritual ladder just as Yaakov did Hashem needs savile of Hashem was standing hovering over him the Jewish people are always looking upwards that Saka the call the difficulty causes us to call out to God and say God help us god save us and so whenever we're in that space whenever we're in that place where we seem to be disconnected when the place it's awkwar-- the place of please a sham we don't see you as things seemed so difficult from that place Hashem shows us the mala he shows us the angel which which helps us remember that were on this up escalator and that the Chua the salvation is on its way this mala really represents the opening represents the beginning the paving of the path that Hashem himself is going to walk on as it were in order to save us and that's why if you look in the verses it speaks about our very verses speak about a non-official my local afar neckla the Moloch goes out before us it prepares the way remark about Dora to protect you on the path we're on that path we're constantly moving or moving up or moving up this up escalator but Hashem himself you're off this over I assume says that mouth is paving the path and I'm the one who's directly going to take care of you whenever you see that mala it's a sign to remember that I am not far behind and that's how it's going to be God willing soon when Messiah comes when the Messiah comes a Shem also now hidden II should laugh Matthew FINA Derek Lafon I as Milwaukee the prophet explains Hashem is going to send a mallet he's gonna send an angel will clear the path before me and that angel is going to announce Bhima Vossler give us that amazing news that the ghoul is about to come that the redemption is about to show up and that God is about to viel himself openly to the entire world so I want to bless you and please bless me Shem should help us that we should be able to recognize those my luck and those angels the indicators indeed that we are on our way up that we're on an up escalator then a Shem should help us to be able to receive not just the Angels but the divine presence itself thank you so much for listening have a wonderful Shabbos 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