Nitsavim-Rosh Hashana - The Torah's Awesome Power

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with Ari goldwag recorded with hashem's never running assistance in Irma Beach Israel 5782 2022 this is the last partial podcast for the year of 5782 we are heading into 5783 and we have parcious needs of him and as always it's a powerful message for us as we come into Rosh Hashanah as we're heading in to the the day of judgment and the day that we Proclaim God to be our King which I'm commanding you today it's not too far it's not Beyond you it's not it's not far away from you the tire is so close it's so it's in front of you it's it's inside of your heart it's inside of your mouth all you need to do is start talking and what comes out of the mouth of a yid what comes out of our mouths is Torah says the magic like this amazing thing awesome deep ideas that will help us in our preparation for you you may have din in our preparation for starting the the beginning 5783 is Brand New Year Kim it's Allah so the measure lays down the idea of the birha Terra what is the birchater what is the blessings that we make we make a blessing when we study the Torah we make a blessing when we read from the Torah on Monday and Thursday and on Shabbos we have a rock before after so how do you do this or how do we know about this so when you go up to to read from the Torah there's an obligation to say abraha before actually if you learn the gomoran mcgilla it says the first one who goes up makes the first gets the first Aliyah makes a Baraka before the last one who who completes the the final Aliyah makes the bracha after we actually do before and after for each one so um how do we know that this is true how do we know this idea that indeed we are obligated to make a bracha before and after we read from the Torah let me get an Alia um we have this plastic it's a plastic in to helium in the Psalms chapter 119 verse 12. blessed are you Hashem you teach me your statutes you teach me your laws so before the statues before the laws there's a blessing King David tells us and then after the blessing is the teaching or the studying of Torah Khalifa now so we see from here that there's a blessing that needs to be made before [Music] how do we know that excuse me how do we know that you need to broker afterwards um [Music] says afterwards ah I'm sorry about success like this after it says after it speaks about the song of hazinu which is a reference to the Torah the essence of the Torah where do we know that there's an obligation to write a safe Returns the song of hazino which speaks about the relationship between the Jewish people and God the immutable relationship so immediately after speaking about the Shira hazards which is a reference to the Torah Apostle speaks about visiting these are the blessings that Moshe gave to the Jewish people [Music] after Moshe teaches the Jewish people goes through the many details of the Torah then Moshe blesses the Jewish people so this teaches us that whenever there is any learning that's done a blessing is required after the learning very interesting because it's probably it's much more clear about Hashem that's a blessing to Hashem and we make that blessing you know you make that blessing before we learn the Torah but the blessing afterwards has to do with the blessing to the Jewish people perhaps we could say you know when we say the blessing is a blessing of course it's blessing God saying that he's the source of all blessing but it's also a recognition of the fact that the Jewish people received the Torah the door is given to us and that's the greatest blessing that we could possibly receive is the very Torah itself the directions for life which are contained within the Torah so we see a blessing that Moshe Amino gives to the Jewish people after he instructs them in the words of the Torah and in the case that we need to make a blessing and recognize the gift of the terror to us this is a magician another concept America [Music] says the magic as explained by the mofortion recognize the necessity to bless Hashem before you learn the Torah which means you have such a love for Tera you have such a an appreciation for the Holiness and the specialness of the Torah that you want to bless God and say thank you God for this incredible gift if you indeed do such a thing Hashem says I shall bless you as well as the plastic says wherever my name is mentioned I will come and I will bless you meaning the terror is the embodiment of the word of God the terror is imagining every time we're talking tiger we're we're discussing words of Torah we're reading from the title we're discussing the Parsha we're reading a medrish these are the halika words the holy words of the Torah whenever we mention the words of the Torah we are mentioning the word of Hashem we are mentioning the name of Hashem whenever we mention the name of Hashem God promises there's going to be blessings in that place you're going to call upon yourselves my blessings so so that's an incredible thing of uh the blessing of the terror shows that we give special significance to our study of terrorists not like opening up a textbook studying math studying science these are of course Math and Science are all created by God these are all the wisdom of Hashem however it's not the same as the word of Hashem the instructions of Hashem the relationship that we have with Hashem that is an incredible thing if you respect that then that's where blessings will flow into your life another thing our sages say um you should know that when you bless the Torah when you make a blessing on the Torah you are blessing yourself what does it mean it sounds like a very similar idea as a posix says sorry through me you will have a long life and you will add upon your years of life the Torah the terror is what gives us life the terror is what gives us longevity in this world in the next World it gives us as we spoke about last week when we are committed to tired and we are committed to coming to the to the synagogue to the house of study to study the words of terror when that is our commitment so then we become different people and therefore we will be those people who indeed continue in those spiritual ways in the world to come in the next realm of existence and it's a similar concept right here now the measure says something very interesting which obviously needs explanation and we'll explore the two different approaches of the hcic of the marzu and he says like the Zoom timer maybe it was you know when God gave the tear up he meant it you know it's not it's not for our benefit forbid God did it in order to to cause us pain to cause us anguish to oppress us so the manager says of course we need to understand what this why would I think such a thing heaven forbid Hashem is our heavenly father he loves us he cares about us but if one might think such a thing we'll see exactly what you might think but we'll get to that but let's just read the words first Hashem you should know I gave the terror to you absolutely only for your good the tire is here just for us to benefit foreign the plastic tells us as we'll soon see that the Malachi assures the angels of heaven the Heavenly ministers as the as it were they desired the Torah but they were not excuse me they were not able to attain the Torah it became hidden from them it was hidden from the eyes of all living here is reference it's a reference to the the angels in heaven that are referred to as Hayes hidden from the from the birds of the heavens this is also a reference the birds of the heavens is a reference to the malachim famously the angels are flying they have wings describes their wings different amounts of wings also describes it chapter 6 verse 6. that they would disrupt him which are the fiery angels in heaven they flew towards him but you see that they desired it and they were not able to attain it the marzu points out of the posic before it says that the wisdom from where shall be found meaning there was a desire on their part to find wisdom the Torah is not just a uh an instruction manual keep it of aim which of course the Angels don't have they can't honor their parents they don't have any jealousy Etc but it's also a spiritual manual it's a spiritual uh it's at its essence it's a spiritual work which elevates us and they wanted that but they couldn't attain it they couldn't receive it they couldn't have it um Hashem says the Jewish people born I write your first house as his children right he gives us this gift because he loves us we are his children place it's something that they cannot attain the Angels cannot attain this they cannot use the Torah in order to elevate themselves to a higher spiritual level it's beyond them it's beyond anything that they can do but for you it's not too hard for you it's not Beyond you I've only can't even if it's we said the very beginning that this myth for this this commandment to tell you itself is something which is not Beyond you it's something that anybody can attain we all have the ability to keep the Torah the Torah seems to perhaps be something which is difficult and it is but it's not beyond our grasp it's not beyond our grasp [Music] let's go back to him for a moment to to this the beginning of this section at the end here he asked the question the measure should ask the question if you will think that I did this for for your bad so why would we think that why would we think that what does it mean saysf explains that what it means is that I might think that it's impossible to accomplish you know think about it and let's say I put in front of you a task I would say this is your goal for the next hour I want you to accomplish a certain goal but I know that there's no way that you're gonna get to the end of this goal it's just not possible it's impossible it's an impossible task or I know that you're not capable you're just not able to do it right that would be a terrible situation right imagine the tailor is something that we cannot accomplish that we can't fulfill that we can't keep if you might think such a thing don't think that thing it's not true says Hashem says the terror is absolutely attainable learning it's not too far away it's not impossible it's it's within your spiritual ability to keep the Torah it's within your spiritual ability to make me your king says Hashem that's one shot they want to also share with you an amazing chef from the Mario Zoo he says like this what does it mean that you might think that it's for your bad so this is a few things I actually want to read it inside because he says a few things and we'll see which points we focus in on and and and expand upon so he says like this like I explained earlier right a person does not keep the Torah after he has accepted upon himself to keep it let's say a person who's not Jewish she becomes a gear becomes a righteous convert that person has an obligation that now keep all 613 Commandments of the Torah let's say he doesn't it's better that he not have have converted because he's going to now he's a full-fledged Jew and the punishment for not keeping the Toyota is very great which is one of the reasons why we don't accept uh converts so easily we want to make sure that the person is seriously serious about keeping the Torah Okay so you might think like this since that's the case well it's not to our advantage to have the Toyota because what if I don't keep it well what if I don't fulfill it Tire it's very difficult actually talks about the terrible destruction that occurs when we don't keep the terror heaven forbid is a right there's no greater uh negative result then when the Jewish people does not keep the Torah the base I mean this was destroyed the temple was destroyed we were exiled amongst the Nations we have we have received terrible terrible punishments throughout our time our 2000 years in gullus in Exile pogrom's inquisitions holocausts so maybe it's not worth it maybe it's not such a good idea to keep the term maybe it's not such a good idea this this thing that God says keep the Torah ask him how shall I not need an attorney some um there's another possible way of looking at things that it doesn't look very good to Zamara Zoo Terra expects of us a very lofty demand the tire says I want you not to listen to your Atara I want you not to give into your physical desires I want you to be a refined human being I want you to be higher and greater than that that's that can't be says the marzu that can't be all there is to the Torah that the Torah is giving us a set of rules and if you don't keep them you're going to be destroyed and and uh if you keep them you're going to have to do a very difficult thing with name is from Kasha he brings down one of the reasons that the gemara says that the Jewish people were given the tires because we have a very tough a very difficult uh nature because I wanted to break our difficult Nature by giving us the terror timer [Music] don't say this heaven forbid it can't be said that this is the entire purpose of the Torah certainly it is true certainly part of the purpose of attire is indeed to help us in this area we have a very tough nature and it is true that when we don't keep the Torah negative things we saw but that is not the main essence of what the tire is here for that is not the message of the turret nor is that where Hashem wants us to be what does not want that result to come about shenken I'll prove it to you because why did the Malachi's desire the Torah what is what is they don't need to fix their midos that doesn't have anything to do with them they don't need to fix their character traits they don't have any kind of challenges that will cause them to go into Exile and then be punished Etc be something that's destroyed that doesn't apply to them so why are the Malachi asharis asking for the Torah so the magic is explaining something by bringing this whole concept of the Malachi the measures is saying hey there is obviously something much more to the terror than the dangerous the dangerous side of the tire so to speak so what is the eleven besides for this idea of purifying us which is true the tire does purify us it does make a square it does purify our media is really our bad character traits School there's something extremely special about the Torah that makes the Angels want the Torah as well foreign and this is the essence of what we are coming into Rosh Hashanah thinking about what it's about this is the essence you know you could think about the din the Judgment aspect of it but you can also think and it's important to think about that as well because we're human we need to know that there are repercussions when we don't keep the type properly but besides for that at its Essence there's something incredibly powerful within the Torah an awesome light the terror is the book within which God looked as it were which we need to know what this means but God looked in the Torah and he created the world Adam the fact that it helps us in our negative character traits makes us better people that's not a coincidence that's a byproduct of the fact that the Torah is the essence is the the the most effective description or did I would say even better the DNA of the world is Angels wanted the terror why because the terror has an incredible spiritual power to transform the human being by aligning him or her of course with the the spiritual frequency with which Hashem created the world the malachim desperately wished to have that but it's not for them needs him for eternal life their sages speak about the beauty of the terror the Specialists of the Third King David has a whole lengthy chapter in tell them the longest chapter in Psalms 119. 8 sukim on each of the 22 letters of the alphabet giving us a description of the beauty and specialness of the Torah that was what the Angels wish to have access to that powerful light and it's something that was not attainable to them it was something that was out of their grasp it was something they tried to hold on to and Maisha rabinu brought it down for us it's too far for them it's something that a malach an angel cannot access but it's something that a human being only the human being who has this mixture this terrible awesome mixture of Good and Evil Within him only the human being can purify can raise up his his physicality and become a spiritual being and become one with the creator of the universe resonate on that frequency of creation this is an incredible thing and how do we Merit to have this the magic is telling us something incredible it's telling us we have to understand what is the hashiva subator how important how awesome how significant how powerful the Torah is and one way that we recognize this is through the birchatera as he said before the one who recognizes the beauty of the time wants to bless God he wants to say thank you God for this awesome gifts that you chose us from all of the Nations and you gave us this incredible gift the gift of the Torah where does that blessing come from it comes from this recognition of how awesome and amazing the Torah is how powerful it is spiritually something that we have access to it's something that's not too far away from us it's in our hearts it's in our mouths all we need to do is start talking and that's what that's what comes out the tire is what comes out that's all that there is is the Torah this is the essence if we can if we could pinpoint something which is the essence of what Rosh Hashanah is about what the um about what does it means coming back to this point coming back to this recognition the tire is the spiritual Force the DNA of the entire world and it's the spiritual Force the DNA of of Our Lives of our spiritual lives if we want to live in this world if we want to live in this world and the next World we want to have eternal life higher than the Angels the angels are called standards they stand we want to be mahalakim we don't want to be constantly Rising spiritually if we have taken off so to speak like like a space shuttle takes off into the atmosphere and then in theory it could go on forever once it's taken off we have that opportunity with the Torah we have that opportunity on Rosh Hashanah to say God you are our King we are looking forward to that moment where we have lifted off into space it's called mashiach that's why all that we talk about Hashem being the king and the mashiach's arrival when all of the entire world will join together to serve God as one that's the liftoff we are lifting off here the tire is our liftoff point it's where we take off from if we have the hashiva sweep that proper if we attach the proper significance to the tire that it truly is the essence of what it is then we become blessed ourselves through the Torah we by recognizing this praising Hashem thinking about the Baraka thinking about the gift by doing that we are higher than the angels we are moving we are moving we are moving and they are standing still Angels awesome Spiritual Beings they don't touch the toes of a human being who has activated his spirituality through the entire I want to bless you and ask you to bless me ashram she bless us with an amazing New Year 5783 May Hashem bless us that we should be able to recognize the power the the awesome spiritual power the liftoff power of the Torah this should help us to hold on tight to buckle up inside of that space shuttle called the Torah so that we can lift off into the times of mashiach when we all will see soon the amazing revelation of godliness in the world his kingship revealed God's kingship revealed to everyone thank you so much for listening have a wonderful Shabbos may you all be inscribed for a good and sweet New Year this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you for more podcasts like this please visit www.regoldwag.com or search on iTunes Ari goldwag [Music]