Nitsavim-Vayelech - Seeking Completion

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with ari goldwag recorded with asham's neverending assistance in ramaphashima israel 57 80 2020. this week's financial supporters need sovereign and vallej and these are the parties that we always read before shashanim kippur they're getting us ready for that rededication that we have every single year it's our commitment to our relationship with hashem and tara tells us chapter 30 verse 11. that i'm commanding you today the torah it's not far away from you it's not beyond you lev it's not in the heavens i have to climb up to the heavens and and who's going to climb up there and teach to us so that that we can do it like anymore it's on the other side of the seas that someone has to go there in order to bring it back to us so we can do it tells us in the name of hashem the terror is very close to you it's in your mouth it's in your heart to do it it's something which you know already it's something which is ingrained into you it's embedded into you it rings true when you hear the truth when you hear the torah you hear the beauty of its ways you know that you're hearing what's true because it's already inside of you it's at every level of your consciousness it's in your mouth it's in your heart it's in your feelings a person emotionally can connect to it something that we speak about la says it's something that we do and i would like to share with you a beautiful madrish a powerful magish that teaches us an amazing thing talks about our obligation to fulfill the commandments but it's not enough to just do them if a person starts in mitzvah but he doesn't complete it the measure tells us something chilling that such a person will bury his wife and children where do we see this from we learned it from judah the son of yaakov avinu of jacob one of the twelve tribes he started but he didn't complete it kate sad says didn't let them he didn't allow them to do it he said why should we kill our brother they listened to him why because he was their king he was the ruler over them so to speak he was the leader of his brothers if he would have said to them let's return him to our father instead of killing him are you shaming like they would have listened what did he do instead he just said to them let's sell him they said why should we kill him let's sell him the result was because he didn't complete the mess he didn't do it all the way the result was that he ended up burying his wife and children tells us his wife died and his two sons aaron island died okay it's very interesting just thinking about this point push simple understanding why would a person be punished with death for not fulfilling the myths not completing it properly he did a good thing he saved his brother so they wouldn't kill him but he didn't do it all the way didn't bring it to its end interestingly it's not that he didn't complete the mitzvah he didn't do it properly right he had it out he he saved his brother but he could have saved him better he could have done a better job of saving him it's not just doing you could do a mitzvah not do it properly so the message is telling us the person doesn't do it properly terrible things result and i was thinking what's the push-up shot like what's the understanding why should it be that somebody that you who'd have lost his wife and children as a result because obviously yehuda was on an exalted awesome level or the 12 shift when he didn't complete something so the completion of a person is his wife and his children that's where he manifests in the world through his wife through his children those are the that's where his legacy is you could have lost the legacy because of the fact that he didn't save yes if he didn't complete the legacy of yasif he could have saved him he could have kept him brought him back to his father but he didn't okay let's hold on to that idea [Music] because that's not the main point that i'd like to speak about let's see the further in the measures okay so the first asset that we spoke about was yehuda who didn't do the mitzvah properly but now we're going to speak about a case where somebody starts the mitzvah but he doesn't he doesn't finish it off somebody else finishes off if a person starts a mitzvah someone else comes along and completes the mitzvah who gets the credit so to speak for having donna mitzvah the person who finishes the mitzvah what what's the idea kate sad says the magic houses so much his brothers that when the jewish people leave the land of egypt he wanted his bones to be taken with them and buried as we'll see in shechem in the place that he was taken away from me who was the one who did that who fulfilled that obligation mushroom moses was the one who fulfilled that obligation decides israel but what happens in the end who didn't complete it he didn't he wasn't the one who actually buried yosef in in the land of israel so why because he didn't bring the jewish people into israel right so who completed it nicaragua should cover i said it was done by the children of israel who did complete it as the verse says that's assassination hello my name is the verse tells us in joshua chapter 24 that indeed they buried him in shechem the children of israel asha hella mushrooms it doesn't say that the bones that were taken out by moshe were buried by the people of israel by the sons of israel it says the bones that were taken out by the children of israel were buried in israel okay one second so what do we see we see that it's called that the children of israel were the ones who took his bones out of out of the land of egypt even though moshe rabin was the one who did it why is it called that they did it because they finished it they finished the job since they finished the job it's considered that they get it they get the job from beginning to end okay we need to understand this idea but let's see the continuation of the measures because the media now says something which seems to be only uh you know subtly related well i'm gonna cover i say it seems to be a uh you know kind of a meandering on the thought on the thought process here why was it why was joseph indeed buried in shrimp says the magish what is this comparable to legendary very interesting measures to thieves who came to steal a barrel of wine here gesh members the owner of the barrel realized that those thieves had come um as they're you know as they're getting away with the barrel that they're stealing so the owner of the barrel says them enjoy enjoy the wine when yosef was sold to shechem i'm sorry when yosef was sold to become a slave and ended up in egypt where did that occur it occurred in in sram in this in that place in that location israel meaning yaakov avinu had sent joseph to find his brothers in shram he said hashem said to the jewish people you sold yosef in shechem put his bones back where you sold him the same place that you had you had sent him out you stole him so to speak uh that was that's that's all right enjoy meaning as an unfortunate so what do we see here the manager comes back to the first point in regards to the children of israel and that is that we see that since they were the ones who completed the burial of yosef they finished the job they brought his bones back to shechem therefore the mitzvah is called on their name how do we see this camera so as it says my fortune explained because it says in your mouth in your heart all the thoughts are involved in doing the mitzvah say you got to do it you got to complete it you got to do it you got to bring it through till its end and when you read this major and i mentioned with the messages is calling out to us explain me explain me what does the mentorship mean what is the idea that yosef has to be returned why do his bones need to be returned to shechem what's the idea because he was sold there therefore his bones need to be returned there what's what's the thing what's the concept and how does that relate it seems to be brought agav just and it happens this way just by the way why did he end up buried in shrimp that can't be the shot there's gotta be more it's gonna be a deeper understanding of what's going on here and i think if we understand this properly we have an incredible lesson that we can take with us in order to understand our lives and the importance of the mitzvos the importance of all the different challenges that we experience in our lives the magic when it tells us something it's it's always you have to look at its depth you need to understand what is behind what is the message behind what the manager is saying when i say that the mitzvah the person who completed the mitzvah it's considered that they did the beginning of the mitzvah what does that mean what is the idea behind that what's the concept i didn't start the mizzou i just finished it why is it called that i completed it my shambanum started it why why is jace's bones sent back to shechem is the same concept this is the concept i believe this is what the magister is saying the bones of a person the atsuma is the atmosphere the bones of joseph are all that's left over person after they die the bones represent the completion of the person it's what's left of the person at the end when we say that the bones the bones of a person had to be buried somewhere when joseph's bones need to be buried in a certain place it signifies that the end of the person where he became what he became where he ended up it's it's it's dependent on it's completely utterly dependent on that place for example many people desire to be buried in arts style they might have lived their entire life outside of the land of israel and yet when it comes to burial we know there's a special indian to be buried in eretz israel the land of israel what's that about the idea is and i believe that this is the essence of what the magister is saying the idea is that when a person is at their end when they've completed their life when they've gone through everything and you what was their essence you bury them when you bury them it defines who they were defines who they were they're a jew is only buried in a jewish cemetery people want to be buried near sadiq near righteous individuals they're buried with their families what's that about it's because it's a statement where a person is buried where they're placed at the end when they when their life has come to completion it represents who they are who they were all that happened in their life the person wants to be buried next with saddam he's saying i was connected to the sonic that's who i was in my essence the word excuse me the word atsamois means means bones it also means means the essence the essence of a person is their bones it's all that remains of a person after they die it represents the mitzvas that a person has accomplished in their life represents all of the spiritual accomplishments that a person has done in their life represents the essence of who they are where they're buried a person wants to be buried in a narcissist why because it represents what was their shift in life what was their desire in life it was eretz israel represents spirituality and israel represents a relationship with hashem eritsa represents the torah the entire torah is a log of the jewish people coming to eretz israel when a person says they want to be burdened so it's a statement my life from beginning to end was about spirituality it was about ruchnes yes he's buried in shechem that's a massive statement return the barrel to the place that you stole it from says kodashi who returned yosef's bones to shechem why why shem why not to to bear shiva where his father yakov lived why not to uh to the palace on the you know bury him under the palace in egypt where he was the ruler of claudius over 71 years why because the the place of shechem was gurali it was the the turning point in his life it was the place where he chose to go even though there was danger there he knew his brothers were out to get him he chose to go there because he knew his destiny was in it was by by saying that his bones need to be buried in that places it's saying at the end everything that he accomplished everything that he became his whole essence his whole life came back to one point one point was the point in history that changed him and made him into who he was and that was shechem that was his journey through which was the place where he was sold to become a slave which was followed by a year of difficulty in potiphar's home 12 years in the bay sasaya in the in the jail and then coming out and becoming the king why did it happen that he became the king which is who he became and was for the rest of his life he led the jewish people he led the egyptian monarchy why was it how did that happen it was because of shechem it was because of his challenges because of his difficulties what began in shechem we see at the end of the story amazing we see at the end of the story that what happened in the beginning was the was the catapult which sent him through all of his ups and downs his trials and tribulations in order to get him to that point in order to get him to the completion of who he was meant to be that i believe is the essence of what the manchester is teaching us yosef became who he was because of that moment the moment in when he was sold by his brothers and he was catapulted into the most unbelievable challenges that he would ever experience in his life for the following 13 years the result was the great person that he became in the following 71 years the rest of his life actually i'm following 80 years 310. it's an amazing lesson now let's look at at the beginning of the major measure tells us that that when the jewish people buried the bones of yosef it's the same teaching it's the same concept what happens in the end shows what happened it's it's it's you see them afraid you see retroactively that what happens in the end tells us what happened in the beginning when maeshrabena took the bones of yosef out of egypt he wasn't doing it on his own behalf he wasn't doing it for himself he was doing it because yosev had commanded his brothers he had commanded the children of israel take my bones out now if mosh had completed it we would have said moshe bennett took him out moshe robinu buried him that's not what happened the children of israel completed it the tire is teaching us an amazing thing here the tires teaching us that when you complete something when you complete it we see that you were there in the beginning too the completion is part is is not just part of the completion shows us what was happening at the beginning when moshe rabbin took those bones out he was doing it on behalf of claudia's throw excuse me he represented khalisrel and in so doing we see in the end we see in the completion of it what was happening at the beginning of it [Music] when yehuda when yehuda didn't complete saving yosef when he didn't complete that mitzvah when he didn't fulfill or he didn't take it to the nth degree when he didn't bring him all the way home to his father so it showed that even in the beginning there was something missing there was something lacking in his commitment to his brother in his mitzvah his willingness to do whatever it took to save his brother didn't go all the way he didn't complete it he didn't do it all the way and thus there's something missing in what he did there was something missing and what he did and there was something missing and who he was and the result was that his wife and his children were lost there was an opportunity for tikkun yehuda is somebody like who despite the things that he's done wrong there's always an opportunity for tikkun he's the one who teaches us the concept of chuva the concept of even if we've done something terrible we learn david is going to come and erase through through uh kurdish boroku's forgiveness through the truth of charleston is gonna erase tavares there's gonna be an erasure hashem is going to do it that was gonna spur that shuffle but there's something missing you see in the end there's something missing in the beginning and that affects everything after it an amazing thing tells us i'm telling you about the the mitzvah today the mitzvah today learning placing it's not too far it's not somewhere far away there's no it's not it's not a distant thing it's right here right now and you're going to see the results you're going to see as you talk about the messages as you talk as you think about the memphis and as you do the mitzvah that's the main thing when you complete that mitzvah when you complete something when you come to a final stage of a project you've been learning you finished 156 staff and you come to that completion you see at the end that you were committed you see that the commitment didn't waver you see you got to the end it shows that what was going on from the beginning till the end was something real you create a project you do something spiritual you do something beautiful the end shows us what was happening at the beginning the one who completes it gets credit for it and we can understand that every time that we do the mitzvah that's the first point of the majority every time i do a mitzvah there's an obligation to do it right do it out of safe to do it properly make sure we do it as best as we can as best as we possibly can we do somebody a favor give someone a ride take him all the way to his house it's only down about i can walk that's okay take him all the way home give it to dhaka do it right do it to the nth degree that's the first point of the majority and the second point of the major is that we need to understand that there are pivotal points in our life challenges in our life times in our life that seem to be so difficult impossible later on we look back and we say that was a pivotal point that catapulted me through trials and tribulations through ups and downs through mountains and valleys to become the person who i needed to become the challenge that i went through strengthened my faith strengthened my amuno strengthen my vitacon that challenge i would never ask for that in the first place but because that happened now i see from my atmos i can see from the essence of who i've become i can look back and like a yes of atari whose bones are buried back in shrima and we understand that that's means that that was the point where he became who he was supposed to be that was the beginning of it we can understand that the challenges that we go through may be so difficult at times so challenging so tough we have you know partners issues health issues so many different things that we have to face off with difficulties with our children difficulties with our spouse all the different challenges that human beings undergo difficulties with ourselves that's where we grow that's where we become who we're meant to become and that is a message i believe of the majorish and i'd like to ask you to bless me and i bless you hashem should help us that we should recognize as we come into rosh hashanah as we come into him kippur we're asking for a new year a better year this year was a tough one we're asking for a better year but let's also remember that it's years like this here that turn us into different people that strengthen our resolve to have a real relationship with our kurdish poor who that take away a little bit of all the here's all of the the superficiality hashem should bless us to recognize the blessings within our challenges and hashem should help us to complete our misfits to do these to do these unbelievable opportunities that hashem gives us all the time every day so many times a day should help us to do them right 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 www.ariegoldwag.com or search on itunes ari goldwag