Ari Goldwag - Nasso - Maintaining Inspiration

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with Ari Gold Wegg recorded with a shelf never-ending assistance and our Muppet Ramesh's rel 5777 2017 this week's par shows partials not so I want to remind you once again but my new book perfectly imperfect breaking out of the ordinary and striving for greatness available now in all Judaica bookstores were feldheim distributes their books so we stand right now after shows we've completed our whole counting from Pesach Passover all the way till shores into the receiving of the Torah and now we stand post receiving the Torah having stayed up all night having had that Kabbalah cetera that amazing reliving of mom and heart CNI of the of the great event at Mount Sinai and here we are and we begin this summer and we wonder how do we take that inspiration how do we take what we've gained from shoe is how do we take all that we've worked on all that we have developed from the Passover holiday all the way till now through these fifty days culminating in show us how do we take that further how do we take that to the next level where do we go from here and I believe that this question this issue is something which is addressed in our partial partials not so we have the core bonus of the Newseum the special sacrifices which were bought brought by each of the twelve princes of the tribes of the Jewish people and before the tour actually describes those kerberos those sacrifices which interestingly are almost it seems almost all identical exactly the same car bonus brought on twelve different days before the Torah describes that the Torah tells us as follows this is in chapter 7 verse 1 he Bianca a special Hakim as how Myshkin it was on a day that Moses completed putting up the Mishkan I am shocked you saw he anointed it like hadisha so he made it holy as kök' love and all of its vessels that some as deaf as coal calif and the altar and all of its vessels I'm sure came back addition some he anointed them and he made them holy what happens the the Torah is describing to us that there was a seven-day process moshe rabbeinu began Moses began to put up the mission to put up the tabernacle for seven days at the end of the month of Adar he put it up he pulled it back down put it up he pulled it back down and then on the eighth day and he got your much Meany which is referred to back in Leviticus on the eighth day which was the first day of Nisan so he completes that putting up he completes the putting up of the mission and then what happens next very interesting thing by acrimony Cael this is the next verse verse two the Newseum the princes of the tribes of Israel Russia based a voice on the heads of that tribe came to see a Hamad days they are the princes of their tribe interesting how it says it in three different ways hey mamela bokuden these are the ones who stand were in charge of all of the counting's verse 3 by a view s carbonyl of nation' they brought a special offering now here although the word Corbin usually means an offering that's brought on his behalf on an altar here doesn't mean that it means they brought an offering what was the offering Shh eggless solution else Ibaka they brought six covered wagons and twelve cattle twelve oxen a galosh name is Ashley honest iam every two of these princes brought one wagon the schürrle echoed and each one of them brought their own ox microbiome of now Michigan Michigan they brought it in front of the tabernacle verse four if I am rational Marshall a more cosmic time God says to Moses you can receive this how you'll avoid this avoid a soil mind and these will be used in the service of the tabernacle and a satellite some another vm you shall give them to the Levites each cafee i've i does so each person according to his work according to his load so they took these wagons that were donated and they used them in the carrying of the Mishkan the Levites would use them when they travel with the parts of the tabernacle now in explaining this offering that special gift that then it seemed the princes gave the commentaries points out the Nassim at the beginning when when Moshe may know when Moses asked the Jewish people to bring all of the different parts all of the different aspects their gold or silver etcetera that was going to be made into the parts of the Michigan the parts of the tabernacle so the Nasima first said let's wait till the end let's wait and see what the Jewish people have not yet brought and then we'll fill in the gaps now what happened was that in fact the Jewish people were so eager so excited to be part of the Michigan part of the building of the tabernacle to be part of the process of creating all the different parts of the tabernacle so the Jewish people brought everything that was needed and even extra and it was to the point where than aciem were upset because they wanted to give something they wanted to fill in the gaps so to speak but in the end they had nothing to give because the Jewish people had already given everything so now it was at this point when there is nothing to give there was no more opportunities left to give to the Mishkan that the Nassim said we will offer something that will enable the Levites to fulfill their purpose their job which is to carry the Mishkan to carry the tabernacle now this is very interesting this is a remarkable story but what is the depth of this why did it happen this way why indeed didn't assume want to give didn't have the opportunity to give and we're only able to give a special offering a special donation to the Mishkan which was something that would carry the parts of the mission on what does this represent what is the depth of this idea now another point that I would like to understand is that if you look at the parsha we look immediately previous to what we're speaking about now we're reading from the beginning of chapter 7 verses 1 etc but what about the end of chapter 6 usually when the Torah places to ideas next to each other there's always a reason for it there's always a connection at the end of the previous section of the Torah so we find that as Sherman says and this is chapter 6 verse 22 by a bear Hashem emotionally more God spoke to Moses and said verse 23 now bear our own gonna blame or speak to Aaron and his sons and say Kosovars Lewis Minister L this is the blessed thing that you are to give the children of Israel a more lehem sales follows verse 24 famous verses in Valletta hashem Bheeshma may God bless you and keep you verse 25 era Shampoo novelette avec une echo hashem shine its face upon you and show you grace verse 26 Asajj sham upon availability natasha Lyonne a sham turn his face towards you and place peace upon you verse 27 the final verse of the chapter with similar shimmy abandon Israel any of our time they will place my name on the children of Israel and I will bless them so I want to understand why is it that immediately previous to the tourist discussion of the Nassim of the special offering that they brought the fact that Moshe Rabbeinu completes the Mishkan and then they commonly they bring an offering then we had the 12 days the 12 carbon is the identical car bonus the sacrifices that they brought why is that immediately preceding why do we have this concept of the beer cuts going on and the special blessing that Aaron and his sons would give to the Jewish people what is the connection between these two concepts so before we answer all of these questions for our party I'd like to share with you a few thoughts which were the content of a shear I gave on Schwartz itself about rules about the idea that we see Torah mentions that we're to count forty-nine days which is what we do we count forty-nine days from paisa and L choise and the 50th day is sure that day where we receive the Torah the Jewish people counted down from the exodus from the time that they left Egypt until they arrived at Mount Sinai and they receive the Torah there was at seven week period culminating in shorts itself on the 6th of c1 when we receive the Torah but what is the idea of 49 and 50 also very interesting when the Torah refers to this concept it speaks about counting seven weeks which is 49 days but it also speaks about counting 50 days and we don't count 50 days you only count 49 days what is the idea of counting 49 days versus counting or not counting the fiftieth what is that concept what is that idea so to explain this I shared an idea which I believe it's very much connected to what's going on in our parsha what's going on with the bureau's Kohanim with the blessings of the priests the stopping of motion banal from building the Michigan the offering of tennessean let's see the idea is that the number 50 the number 50 Darko's altas I think it's the Gemara Rosh Hashanah that speaks about the fact that there were fifty gates of wisdom or understanding or intuition fifty gates of wisdom Commission sorry been innumerable eylem there were fifty of these gates there's a number fifty that's connected to the concept of veena veena is intuition and it's very important to understand the Gemara says the cool name in dementia cluster echoed maschera been received only 49 of those gates he did not receive the fiftieth gate I don't want to get into the understanding of what the Gemara specifically is speaking about but what we see is that there's a number 49 and there's an untouchable number which is 50 we spoke last week about the idea of the Jewish people being countable being uncountable again I don't want to get back into that concept I don't want to get back into that discussion but I do want to point out that we see here a parallel concept which is that there are 49 we count the 49 we can receive the 49 but the 50th the 50th aspect the fifth 50th shards if this gate of being of intuition is something that we don't we can't put our fingers on we can't receive it in the same way as we can count those 49 we can't count the 50th now what is the idea behind that so when it comes to intuition beam eyes intuition we think about the capacity of intuition the way that intuition works on a subconscious level is that a person sees all the different pieces of the puzzle doesn't really even notice it doesn't really even you can't even put his finger on it precisely but after all the pieces of the puzzle have come together his intuition says this is what's going on the example I gave is child walks in this doesn't require a great amount of intuition a child walks into the house his mouth is all red his tongue is all red and he has a seam scuffing a wrapper into his pocket and you know that that child you just said before he left the house he said do not eat any kind of candy do not eat any kind of ices I don't want you eating anything unhealthy when he came in all the pieces were very clear that the child had not listened to his parent but that's intuition intuition no how do you know you never saw me in anything but you can you can deduce from the situation intuitively you know what's going on you know what's happening and that's the same thing with veña veña is intuition is you put all the pieces together you see this piece you see that piece and at the end an idea comes together and you understand the concepts in a parallel way the idea of schmear which is connected the idea of hearing when it comes to sight so when you look at it you see a picture of pictures worth a thousand words you see everything at once when it comes to hearing when it comes to words when it comes to reading which is also an aspect of hearing so you see one letter you see one word and then another word and when someone is explaining a concept but I'm saying idea to you so you're being macabre you're receiving the idea that I'm giving over one word after another after another in your mind your brain takes in all the different ideas and at the end after all the words have been said you're able to understand the concept all the pieces of the puzzle come together and that's a Faculty of vino it's the intuition which is engaged at this point when it comes to understanding the tour asks that's the count of 49 car also says you're going to count to 50 now which number are we counting to the answer is we only count to 49 but in counting to 49 it's like the person saying a sentence it's like the person sharing an idea it's like all of the pieces of the puzzle are coming together and then once we get we have completed 49 so then we see the whole picture the sentence ends and the understanding comes about and that's the number 50 that's the final stage and at that moment at that time we receive the Torah let's only receive that transcendent that which connects us to a higher reality to a higher realm now what's interesting here is that really the number 50 it comes after what it comes out through seven sets of seven okay so we have really the number seven and we have the number eight then 50 is the number that comes after seven six or seven the number eight is the number that comes after seven just seven simply so the number eight and the number fifty are parallel they come together and in fact we find a choice the holiday of choice is called at saris which means stopping ensures we stop we just receive we stop counting and we receive we hear and we said not seven eeschema we will do and we will hear after all the action we stop and we hear we listen we receive another place or the other place where we find we have a holiday which is referred to as at saris which means to stop is shalini at saris the eighth day of circus at the seven days of circus after all the action and for all the mixes after all of the commandment that were fulfilling with the lulav and with the sukkah and all the other things that are involved in circus so after seven days we stop we no longer have any obligations we complete the Torah this is receiving of the Torah there as well on schmeared saris you dance with the Torah but the idea is that there's a receiving a stopping a non movement which we see occurs when we get to that completion after seven is done we get to eight or after seven weeks are done we get to day fifty but either way there's a stopping that occurs to receive to process to hear because we've come to a place of completion but now that we've gotten to that place of completion like we asked the very beginning of the podcast what do we do next where we take it from here we've had this amazing experience we've stayed up all night we've received the Torah we've had a beautiful young Tov we've had delicious cheesecake we've enjoyed the spiritual side we've enjoyed the physical side where do we go from here what happens next so we need to turn back and think in the time of the receiving Latour what happened next Moshe revena went up on Mount Sinai he went up on rc9 for forty days and forty nights in order to not just have the skeleton of that relationship between our chemin the Jewish people which is represented by the saris our differences and Commandments but rather to develop and understand all the different things that are asked of the Jewish people in their relationship with Hashem so first we have established the relationship we've heard that first message we've put together all of the pieces and now it's time to start building and start carrying that's what I want to point out where we're now to start carrying what we have received we've received the beginning of the relationship now we have to carry that and move on to the next point in our relationship let's turn for a moment to something incredible that the Ramban points out the ROM bond says in speaking about the bracha the blessings that Aaron was enjoying to give the Jewish people when indeed was it then that Moshe Rabbeinu asked our and to give this blessing fire his car keys has their own bonuses on chapter 6 verse 23 he explains his false cars controversy / machinee I already explained this in partial screaming keep Sivas are unless Asus yellow L omnivores like Samba Yama who was on that day on the eighth day that the Jewish people were to receive this blessing so this statement this story this description of events that occurred in regards to the specific command that Moshe Ravana was giving to our own the Blessed Jewish people that occurred on the eighth day and also on that same eighth day is when the Nassim came with their offering of the UH gullies of the wagons which we carry the parts of the Mishkan so let's see how beautiful this is and how much it connects to what we've been speaking about in regards to shores the idea here is that for seven days Moshe abandon for seven days was putting up the Mishkan pulling it back down going through that process going through those actions going through those motions on the eighth day he was finally able to put up the Mishkan he was finally able to erect it in such a way that it would stay and it would be usable and the Jewish people would now be able to enter into a relationship with Hashem and Aaron and his sons the priests would act on their behalf it was on the eighth day when the Jewish people would receive that blessing and it's such a beautiful thing the blessing is a speaking it's Hashem asking our near sons to say something such that there would be a connection between our seminar Jewish people they would now be the place that bears the place that carries the message of God as the verse completes the blessing this is the summer extra Melbourne srl Vani Authority indeed shall place my name on the children of Israel what is the idea of placing God's name on the children of Israel it means that the Jewish people now carry God's name through this process viewed them through the actions the seven days of that command submission which is really the culmination of all of the work that the Jewish people had been involved in now they're going to receive that relationship just like on shores they received that relationship it's completed and it's completed through words through speaking and at the end of the bracha the same across shoreline after they complete saying the words God should bless you with peace there's that completion and the blessing is upon them now they can go and build from there now they can go and carry a Shems name upon them and what happens as well in a parallel way the parallel is beautiful with an SEM as they come and they offer something they say hey we weren't able to be involved in actual construction of all the parts of the mission we missed our chance we missed our opportunity we wanted to fill in no their job is not to fill in and anything their job as leaders is to carry is to help the Jewish people carry the name of Hashem which is now upon them their job is directed useful so that they can continue to carry to continue to maintain the level which they have already developed which they've already received and that's represented by the Uglies by these wagons which carry the parts of the mission which carried that which is the vehicle for the relationship of the Jewish people with Hashem and how do they spend the next 12 days what do they do for the next 12 days they do the same exact thing each one of them does the same exact thing as the other they bring the exact same car bonus exact same sacrifices the exact same offering the exact same gifts to the mission was represented by this what I believe is represented is that when it comes so having a relationship with Hashem when it comes to understanding what it means once we've already developed that once we've come to that place where we had that revelation what now the answer is here's what you do and you do it again and you do it again and you do it again you do the same exact thing this is what a relationship looks like with a Shem and this is how we continue to perpetuate that relationship to continue it such that we don't fall out of that relationship we do the same thing over and over again and it might seem boring it might seem unexcited look at a mother you know she takes her children every single day makes the same food makes for them a lunch and then she gets them out of the house and she does what she does she washes the same clothing she did you know it looks very boring but this is what a relationship looks like this is how a home is built so now we take a look at what happened with us from Shoeless what happened we had this amazing revelation and this amazing God says Here I am here's what you need to do the Jewish people start doing that Hashem says here's a mission here it is here's the motion through the actions that you need to do huge people start doing them and each of us need to say to ourselves what is it that I need to do every day in order to continue this relationship how can I continue to have that relationship with Hashem I've developed I've received something I've come up to a new level how can I continue this how can i what are the actions I need to take every single day what do I need to dedicate myself to how can I continue this relationship with Hashem such that what I have received remains I want to bless you and please bless me the Shem should help us to indeed recognize what we have received see all the developing that we've done all of the steps we've taken all the climbing we've done some should help us to find where we're up to to see where we are and to indeed have those actions that we know will maintain our relationship with him some should help us to recognize that and to do it thank you so much for listening have a wonderful Shabbos this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you for more podcasts like this please visit wway comm or search on itunes ari gold like [Music]