Ari Goldwag - Nitsavim-Vayelech - Return to Paradise

you're listening to the weekly parsha podcast with Ari Gold Wegg recorded the shims never-ending assistance in room up each Amish Israel 5777 2017 this week's parsha is partials needs 7 viola and I want to remind you once again my safer perfectly imperfect breaking out of the ordinary and striving for greatness available wherever great Jewish literature is sold in our parsha appropriately for our time right before Rosh Hashanah Rosh Hashanah is gonna be in just a few days the Torah has a whole group of sukham that speak about the concept of chuhwa according to the Ramban the idea of repentance the idea of return cash am returning to God making God our King making God the source of everything in our lives recognizing recognizing that truth but what's interesting is and I'd like to understand this idea then we have a group of sukham before it talks kia mitzvah has a special name itself i you and the verse talks about the specific commandment of chuhwa of repentance and goes on to talk about it's not distant from you it's close to your heart it's not far away it's not over the sea it's not in the heavens it's close to you but before speaking about that the Torah has a group of verses which speak about something that seems to be not connected seems to be far in the future something that we won't experience for a while let's see this is in chapter 30 verse 1 Oh yo Kiev oil F record Varma Allah rock about coal ash Ernest ah telefónica and it will be when all these things will come upon you the blessings and the curse that I've given to you I che vuoi sell of alcohol I go a machete Kawashima Kawashima the Jewish people God promises 3300 years ago the Jewish people are going to go into gullets they're gonna go into exile they're gonna become distant from God they're gonna become distant from their land from the land of Israel and they're going to go through all these amazing difficult challenges but they will do two ver in the end they will repent and the shaft additional care for amazing thing first to you returned to a mere garbage a methodical and you listen to his voice Hamish our nation itself I am like all that I am commanding you today at Alvin acaba welcome ha ha ha ha you and your sons with all your heart with all of your soul verse 3 the shove channel cabbage juice cumin himeko something that we see today is going on right some promises the Jewish people will return and he will have compassion on us you shabba keep s coming column and machine will gather you from all the nations were amidst your exile chef it's caca Shama that God has spread you out there verse for me Anna da haha become I'm if you will be at the edge of the heavens me show me cabeza shamanaka sham in Kakaako no matter how far the Jew has gone a sham promises that he will return the Jew to his land the vehicle cattle are it's a show your show of Esau Vista and God will bring you to the land that your forefathers inherited and you shall inherit it ATV club you're here but coming up myself I you would do good to you and he'll make you greater then your four fives I mean just look at the Jewish people right now online of Israel more than six million Jews I don't believe that there was ever a to Kufa a period in history where there are so many Jews United in Israel learning Torah so many people learning studying ancient traditions of our people verse six mall okay here's the amazing thing okay so the Torah makes a promise we will be returned from our goals from our exile what's gonna happen the Jewish people are going to do to our they're gonna repent even though today we haven't yet seen a complete repentance but this is something that's going to happen it's a promise that says that here in the verse Ramallah shock effects Laval Quebec survives our home the verse tells us a Shem is going to remove the foreskin from our hearts there's a barrier between our hearts and God there's a barrier between us and others lava so channel Akaka and by so doing God will cause us to love Hashem a kolobok kolobok i echo with all your heart with all your soul so that you should live I'm gonna keep reading because these verses number one are so beautiful but I also want to get to a certain important point verse says in verse seven asana America has called Lisa Ella like that Hassan aha sure the fook-la all of the curses that God promised will occur to those who do not keep the commandments those curses will be given to our enemies Tata shoo and you shall return Shamattawa call a sham and you will be and you will listen to the voice of God well ceases comments so I should make myself call you and you will cut fulfil all of the commandments that I am commanding you today ok first goes on and then right after another two three verses later after gives us a whole description which the Ramban clearly says I'm gonna read this soon inside because it's just very interesting and very beautiful the RAM Bank leer Li says that these verses are speaking about the future time talking at the times of Messiah when Messiah arrives the Jewish people are returned and the Jewish people return to God not just physically returning to the Land of Israel we return to God our relationship with God becomes real to us the foreskin of our hearts that which blocks itself from God is removed right after that says it says there's a summer so it's closed which means that there's a separation between what we just read and the following but still whenever you have two concepts that are next to each other in the verses there's always a connection so right after this as ki mitzvahs a so shall I commit some crime line of fleecing them claw learning a clicky heat the commandment that I'm giving you today is not too far it's not too distant and that's the midst of their own bond learns of chuhwa of doing chuva it's very interesting because it's talking to us solving tests today before we've experienced the miracles of the Messiah before you experienced that removal of the oralist Haleiwa the that which separates us from God and separates us even from ourselves and from spirituality before that before we've been Zeta to experience the promises of the Messiah's arrival today right now we have a commandment and that is to do chuva to repent and and the verse tells us later shall Miami amazing beautiful words penton's the the midst of returning to God it's not something which is far away's on the heavens lay more me all alone asha Lima because I wanna show you now so Vanessa who's gonna go up to the heavens and show us what to do bring it down to us but let me let yo me lay more me of autonomous abrahama it's not far away on the other side of the sea who's gonna go their vehicle alone eh me noise when I said bring it back for us that we can do it you call me that ha ha Dharma oh yeah but faecal vocalizes so this matter is so close to you it's in your mouth and in your heart in order to be able to do it so a verse is telling us that despite the arles alive despite the the foreskin of the heart the the barriers that stand between us and God right now today it's so close to us a Shem is so close to us the opportunity for chuhwa an opportunity to repent to change to become greater to become better is right here right now possible for each and every one of us it's already inside of us it's not far away it's already inside of us no needs to go somewhere to bring it back to us no one is go up to the heavens and bring it down to us it's right here right now so that's the supreme the beautiful beautiful versus see those verses in chat in Perak lamina in chapter 30 but I want to understand the Smith close up our shoes the two constants that are placed next to each other one is speaking about mushiya comes when the Messiah arrives and Hashem himself got himself as it were we'll remove our Yetzirah you will remove the evil inclination from us and we're going to automatically do what's right we'll see the RAM bond the beautiful description of what it's going to be like how does that connect to the concept of Tuvalu Kyra it seems that Chu is something I mean we can do it now we can do it now but how do we do that what's the depth of this how do we do chuva how do we get to that space or that place of closeness to God he says it's there it's for its it's available for us even right now we're not at the time some ashiya höwedes understand these two concepts being placed next to each other so I'd like to share with you the run bond I'd like to read it to you inside well monogenic if I slip off of the hearse tells us that a sham will remove the foreskin of our hearts you'll remove the barriers whenever you have you know think about the idea the concept of the foreskin before I'm Irish and sinned huzzah let's say just tell us that he didn't have a foreskin it only came on as a result of his sin without the other foreskin is at that place where there's a connection between man and his wife there's a barrier between them we can think of the emotional barriers between ourselves and others between ourselves and our spouses turn ourselves in our children between ourselves and our friends between ourselves in ourselves that's so that's a foreskin that's a barrier an emotional barriers in our heart and there's also different levels of this barrier but we're gonna speak here about this constant so she was gonna remove that barrier Zeeshan room the RAM bond says that this is what hazael said in the gomorian Shabbos uncuff tal appears at page 104 how about the tire Messiah nice a amazing thing which also seems not to be connected with sometimes mushiya right these verses she was gonna remove the foreskin he's gonna tell us a talk about Messiah but he said that cause I'll tell us that there's an idea that someone who comes someone who comes Lata hair to purify himself who wants to do good who wants to change his ways wants to come come out of his coma you want to come out of the impurity shem helps him lefty huh kasha Tasha we love the Holly welcome who has Orozco God promises that if you want to come back to him if you want to get into a spiritual way of life some promises you will be able to get there Shem will help you venireman exhume onions Esch Amir this seems to be the concept of the verses that says Kimmy's manna Bria from the time of creation high services beyond her Adam lassies cured Sinai Saticoy Russia every single person tells us the Ramban every single person has the ability to choose to do as he wish as he wishes to be its addict to be a Russia to be righteous to be not so righteous to be wicked cause monitor Akane and all the time of the Torah is speaking about all the time the tour itself this is always true g'day she yelled ahem school spirit summit toy varnish spirit Tyson burrow we have free will shams creator a world with free will in order that whenever we choose if we choose to do good so then we get good we get rewarded for it has value because there's a choice if you choose bad heaven forbid so then there can be an honest there's a there can be a punishment hourly my see Michelle's us there I'm bad when it comes the day's the Messiah t Ava's here would save lehem whatever the choice that we're going to make in the future when it comes it's interesting it's still called a choice but it will be natural it'll be the obvious choice Lucia sham if you see spirituality you see that God is there the choice isn't so difficult to choose to do what's right Louis Ovid mi llave the Marcia in Arroyo Valley aquifer cloud something that's inappropriate the heart will not desire that when we shake on the Messiah arrives person will want something that's not his you won't be jealous of others you won't desire another person's thing he won't want something that's not right then that doesn't have to do with him the reality will be so clear that he won't that each person will naturally want to do what's right and not be interested in that which is wrong meeow meeow on his carrots con this is the concept of the circumcision of the heart the removal of the foreskin which is being mentioned in these verses ahem the Vltava or the la llave because the desire the the wanting is like a an aural like a foreskin on the heart o male who shall I ask my release obviously the constant when it comes to the heart a circumcision is that a person does not desire that which is an appropriate for yosh of all diamonds man huh whoo coquettish Olodumare shine amazing thing that a man tells us that the human being will return to being the way that he was before I am Irish on sin before the first man sinned so there was no yetzer Hara the evil inclination was not inside of his heart he didn't have confusion we live in a world of confusion we want things we know we shouldn't want those things but we do want those things we know what's right but we don't want to do what's right or we do want to do what's right we live in a world of confusion world of mixed messages from different parts of ourselves and we live in a world of a split personality but that's not how it was before our marushin sinned before other variations sinned so he just wished to do what's right that was natural it was only the force from outside in the Nakash that came along from outside and said this is what you should do sorry I salute him I should write Lassus well hail a beard son I don't worry off boy does the RAM ban that other my reason did not have inside of himself two conflicting desires you didn't have a desire to do good at the same time a desire to do evil can mine should be rash to be celebrations like I explained in chapter 2 verse 9 of Genesis news Elma Shamrock us of biram you know this is what we find that the verse tells us in Jeremiah chapter 31 verses 30 through 32 Heaney Yaman buy him new hashem days are coming says god karate species realm is bridge as base you who the Brit hadashah there's going to be a new covenant that God is going to make with the Jewish people like a bris Asher karate has a voice and a grammar it's not gonna be like the previous bris a new covenant it's not speaking about anything other than something very simple there's gonna be new people we are going to be new people when that time comes kiss is a breeze sheriff is busy Sarah ray hi yo mama hey my Saudis to receive a Cuba Libre mask Davina it's gonna be a new relationship with Hashem a bris what's a covenant it's a statement of a relationship Shawn's gonna have a new relationship with us because things are gonna come different we're going to have different desires gonna just want to do good we're not gonna have any conflicting desires Zell beetle yet Sahara passe celebrated a mass say you are right this is when the yetzer Hara evil incarnation will be nullified we will naturally want to do that which is appropriate that which is right well the Chimera eat and that's what it says further are you still ahem later Kim may you Lila I'm verses 32 and 33 I shall be for them a god and they shall be my nation well I am I do I'd you she's really she's octave lay moored it was a sham will not be necessary for one person to teach somebody else to remind a person to know God - it won't be necessary for me to do a partial podcast every single person will naturally know that which that's to do with knowing God well no cooling I do I see any makutano yeah good I'll um romances everyone will know about God from the smallest from the least of them to the greatest of them we are do a key a still a Valderrama new Rob it's written a llama do some we know that today the way things are so naturally we're more inclined to do evil naturally were more inclined to do that which we desire we feel like it so to speak that which are Yeats are our evil inclination the lower part of ourselves pushes us to do but in the future it won't be that way Ella she's bottle youths from is mana hooligan ray that when they when Messiah comes excuse me Messiah arrives so that eat Sahara that evil inclination will be completely nullified I'll be this it will disappear okay number of UNESCO this is also what it says in Ezekiel chapter 36 verses 26 and 27 - a to lock em leave Kadosh I will give you a new heart Peru a Hadassah attain break Abraham a new spirit I shall place within you si si si share Buckeye tale a who and I will make it such that you will go in my statutes I'll have a close your mouth notify the new heart that were speaking about what is a hint or or signifies the concept that it will be natural for us Rocklin a vasila ruts and the concept of the spirit Hashem is giving us a new spirit speaks about or represents the concept of desire our desires will be different visa Hammurabi say no this is what our sages tell us may you shine a masher time are only behind a fence they will be a time the years will come the time will come the Messiah will arrive and it will be a time that has no kayfetz and has no desire what is that talking about alien mice and Shia this is a reference to the days of the Messiah shame I am lazy Susa likova our sages tell us that when Messiah arrives at that time there's no idea Sara the evil inclination is bottle it's nullified and so they won't be the same level of Merit there won't be merits it won't be them it won't be such a great deal to somebody to do what's right give him a machete about no offense oh yeah sweetie I have my cell Roy the person will not have a desire to do something wrong you will naturally do that which is appropriate the feel of a mahem leaves close with a clever cover to limit a fence it depends in order for that to be a great reward or a positive thing for doing what's right it has to be our desire to do what's wrong that's not gonna be that way when the Messiah arrives it's a discussion what what's the idea then what's gonna be in that time we see also all of our reach on the first man despite the fact that he was in that state he still did something wrong he gave in to the Naha she gave in to the snake so it's possible that even when a person is in that state but you could still do something wrong so that's the discussion perhaps for another time but but I want to bring out is an amazing thing an amazing thing an amazing depth and and it's to me very clear that it's not a coincidence that these verses speaking about that when the Messiah arrives are immediately preceding the concept of chuva the concept of repentance what do we see in these verses what's the summation here we see that the times of mushiya Thaksin the Messiah are times when we completely return to God all we want to do all our desire is all about he's just nuts inertia just the will of God and it will be natural for us it will be it will just be the way it is now she was going to bring us into that state we're waiting for that can't wait for that day it's higher places I believe entire places once you're up may know Moses when he spoke he placed this rent before Hashem guided him to places in the Torah right before the concept of repentance and the tourists telling us don't think I'm Itza has ice this myths of repentance what is repentance repentance means that the word in Hebrew is chuhwa it's returning it's going back it's going back where where do we go and we do chuhwa fish after a - Emily Catco returning means going back to Hashem going back to who we really are going back to the state of under my region called my fake going back to that place of the human being before he's sinned it's possible even though yates her leave her her marat maneuver of that the human beings nature is to be drawn after evil to be drawn after wickedness that is part of our nature it's mixed up we have we have two different desires but there's a deeper nature there's a deeper concept it's the return the quietness the return to God the return to that place and the tires telling him it's it's a Chardonnay feet of helium this commandment of repentance line of placing them cobbler lucky it sounds like from these verses the only way to get to that space only way to get to that closeness to God is if we're in the times of a shock we're in a tussle Messiah and God removes the or Litella via removes the foreskin of our hearts but the Torah tells us don't think that this is something that you can only get to in the times of Messiah and the times the Messiah don't think that now this is an amazing thing Yom Kippur which is going to be 10 days after Rosh Hashanah Yom Kippur the Day of Atonement is a very special day today when we get a window into what it's going to be like in the times of mushiya and the times of autumn abar in the future world we get a glimpse we don't have to eat to drink we just stand in communion with God it's all just about we're doing God's will or VSO kuma goo da cos we're all involved in serving God making God our King that's what it's gonna be like when the Messiah arrives the focus will just be on serving God Yom Kippur is a day where we are completely focused on serving God we're not distracted by anything physical we're not distracted by the the desires of our lo ourselves we don't have relations with our spouse we don't have food we don't need to drink we don't need to wear all the requirements of the body or put on hold they're put on hold and we commune with God we're in that space Yom Kippur is a special day of chuhwa it's a special day of repentance but the Tyrus is showing us we get to experience it in Kippur and the Torah is showing us that this is something that you can access wherever you are whenever you are whether your honor to stay on the land of Israel whether you're in Gullah so they're in the Exile wherever you are whatever time it's not that these are mushiya it's not the Messiah but you can still access this mitzvah of repentance you can still enter you can enter anywhere into the times of mushiya you can experience the messianic age today today I shall make him it's a becau hey yo I'm Tara tells us today and we say that a lot Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur throughout this time we say hey yo I'm a young time saying how I'm Tamar hey no you have to get Lena high going today today is the day today's the day you can do it today you can access Hashem as well you can enter into that space an amazing place that we described how can I remove Darla's how leave how can I get there it's possible see it's an amazing thing the Rabanne started off his whole discussion by telling us how boy the tire miss ionized so that somebody who comes to purify himself he gets help we're hanging up for it I can do it I can do Trueba no you can't teach you ah you can want to do Coover you can have a desire you can decide and a Shem helps you a ball or tire you come to purify yourself miss ionized say you get help get heavenly aid it's possible to get there only with help it's possible together today only with help so that's the idea that I wanted to share with you I believe that that's the depth what's going on these sukham it's possible to get into the space of mushiya and that's what we talk so much about mushiya on Rosh Hashanah the whole entire davines is talking about mushiya talking about them with tongues of the messiah when everyone is going to serve God with shauna yom kippur this is the time my friends this is the time how I owe him this is the time to get into that space to get into the days of the Messiah and it's possible through repentance so I'll just finish off reminding all of you of the three steps of repentance according to the Rambam according to Maimonides those three steps are number one recognizing mentioning admitting what we've done wrong video number two hirato expressing the fact that we regret that we've done this negative thing and number three as Eavis I hate being committed not to continue leaving the sin even if there's another opportunity to do that sin we prove to God that we don't want that sin when we don't do it again and these three steps of course are essential if we want to do True Vine and be another Mahaveer between ourselves or our friends it's not honest I just say are you mohel me do you forgive me I need to show that I recognize the thing I've done wrong and to show that I feel bad about it and I need to commit to not continuing that behavior anymore so I want to bless you and ask you to bless me that we should recognize that Yuva repentance is an opportunity that we have today right now and Cuba brings us into the place of mushiya of other nation called America we can get back there to that place of connectedness to Hashem to God it's possible for each and every one of us so bless me and I bless you that we should all be able to do chuhwa and Seva back Aseema toeyvah a wonderful new year full of blessings and only good in spirituality thank you so much for listening 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 [Music] you