Ari Goldwag - Pesach - Rose of the Valley

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with Ari Gold whack recorded with a Jones never-ending assistance in ramat beit shemesh Israel 5777 2017 this is a special edition of the podcast for pesach for Passover and before we begin I just want to mention my safer my book which has already come out in the farm stores in Israel and it's going to be out in the farm stores and the Judaica stores in the states throughout the world right after pesach right after Passover the book is called perfectly imperfect breaking out of the ordinary and striving for greatness encourage you to go out and get the book it's an inspiring book on topics in personal growth now because this week is pace off its Passover so we don't have a parsha that we read this week that's in the consecutive parshas of the Torah that we're reading but what I'd like to do today is I like to share with you a thought on she Reshiram the song of songs which is a special book that was written by King Solomon it's a love story and it's an analogy for the relationship between our Shem between God and the Jewish people the love that God has for us love that we have for God it's a book that we read on the shabbos of Pesach every year we read it in a synagogue every year on Passover and the reason for this is because Pesach represents the love that I xem has for the Jewish people God is beginning a relationship with the Jewish people they're going to become an um honey cardigan they're going to become the chosen nation as a result of the exodus from Egypt we're going to spend forty nine days counting down to show us to receive the Torah which represents the actual forging of the relationship the agreement the conditions of the relationship but piece-of- itself is this love it's the love that a sham shows for us and so low that we feel fresh em knowing that we are his beloved people his chosen people now there's a potluck is a verse and she Reshiram in the second chapter the first person says I need have I tell us around shoshanna ceramic in which means it's very interesting this language but the Jewish people here are speaking and we refer to ourselves as a hobbit Ellis which means a rose of the sharone of the Sharon area Shoshanna atomic him a rose of the valleys and as is the way of the Torah when it speaks in prose when it speaks in poems and poetry so it uses a similar language or a parallel language at the beginning of the verse and the end of the verse that has some nuance of difference so Hobbit Ellis is arroz de machaut Shauna's arose what is the difference between a kava telus Anna Shoshanna the difference is that a comet Ellis is a rose of flour when it hasn't yet bloomed it's in its state of its closed up moulage on the word is kava tell us the root in the middle of it is cell which means shade so it's in a place which is closed up which is shaded so it starts after the verse starts off speaking about the rose when it's a bud when it's not yet opened up and then it speaks about the rose as having opened up Shoshanna ceramic in the rows of the valley the magician speaking about this puss OCH gives us a few different parallels a few different ideas that describe or go through the stages of the verse starting off in a stage of being enclosure of being not yet developed not yet opened up to a state of opening up pit-pat hood coming to a place of blossoming and blooming let's see this together I'm rockin s if you saw the people of Israel series follows we say I need Hobbit else acheron the Jewish people are saying I am this Rose of the Sharon area Aniki haviv on me so the word Hobbit Ellis has two parts to it it has the work the letters have and sell us so we have the cell which we spoke about before we have the shaded aspect of it there's also the word cob which means javeed which means beloved I am beloved anisha he Bhavani hakodesh burcu me shave them boys I'm the one who hashem drew closed himself who showed that was beloved more than all of the seventy nations cavatelli Sasha our own what is this idea Cece like sale all you David sell the first Russia that we find is that the Jewish people created a place of shade through batalla but Saleh was the one we've spoken about who was involved in the construction of the tabernacle so the Jewish people created a place of shade created a place for the Divine Presence to be able to enclose us so to speak now in some curb its Alex if I asked to tell it to our own but Sal created our own created the ark hasharon what is the idea of char on here Shamar cielo fun of Shiro so Sharon which we're transmitting as Sharon which is kind of a location but the word the root of the word sharone is char which means to sing and so the verses referring to the fact that the Jewish people sang with Moshe a vein with Moses just sit at the verses ugly assure muy joven a thrill when the Jewish people came to create the am Civ when they came through the sea of reeds they pass through that on dry land the Jewish people came to the side and the midterm around so the Jewish people sang this song Moshe Rabbeinu Moses led them in song navarasa another explanation Annie Cabbot else acheron Annie he'd have avani I am she and I am beloved an initial you see have we obeyed salon shamans rhyme and the register is going to go through different situations that the Jewish people found themselves in challenging situations which are represented by the hobbit Ellis by the the row is when it's in a state of closure when it's not yet opened up we went through the dargah to enter the shade of Egypt the shock collar and in just a moment concern yakata SH boricua Ramesses after all the plagues after all the destruction that was wrought upon the Egyptians God brought us to Ramses veritas team I some type in castro shanna and i started to smell like a rose i started to give off a good fragrance like a rose with my good deeds el Martillo phenomena and in front of God I said songshan mr.a shuyi lfm kaleil his Scottish this is a really interesting verse in Isaiah chapter 30 verse 29 which refers to the song and the Jewish people sang on the first night of Pesach of Passover but it was much later as many years later when the Jews experienced a salvation by God from the hands of the Assyrians the Assyrians were destroyed and that happened on the first night of pace off of Passover and as a result the Jewish people sang as a result of them being saved by God from their oppressors from their difficult situation the Jewish people sang this song and as I'm unfortunately over there as the commentary say on the verses in Isaiah the Jewish people sang on that night and it occurred on that night and it paralleled the song of the Jewish people saying at the beginning of Pesach the original pass over when the Jewish people were saved from the Egyptians and they left Egypt as free men so the first place that we see this idea of starting off in a state of closure in a state of a flower which is closed which is bit cell it's in the shade hasn't yet opened up we start off in Egypt and then we are released by God we open up the flower blossoms we give off this beautiful smell when our mice and tighten with our good deeds very interestingly and we start to sing this song where the char on we are that flower of the valley and we're giving off this beautiful songs beautiful smell when does that happen it happens on Passover it happens on Pesach we come out of that dangerous situation come out of that place of of constriction and we open up to a place where we can do good deeds or we can reflect godliness into the world where we can sing a song of salvation so it's important to understand when that flower is closed let flower is waiting to open when the flower closes at night as flowers do so it comes to a state where it's in a place of potential it's in a place of readiness to flower and to give off a good smell but it's not yet ready it's there it's ready but it's not yet right the potential hasn't been reached yet so that's represented by the kava tell us by this close flour and then comes that point it comes that moment in time where flower opens up where the blossoming occurs where the smell comes out and where the song is sung so that's the first place that we see it sir I am Google dismiss ryan being in that place of difficulty but but the idea is that the difficulty itself as we swirl around so many times the difficulty itself produces the possibility or is the is that beauty in constriction we we couldn't get to the place of becoming a Shems nation if we hadn't gone through the constriction and the difficulty of midstream of Egypt cover after another parallel Anita Matos a Sharon Anini the Cavani I am she and I am beloved I mean he shall ye seek have uyo bitsy lisha young I was the one who was hidden in the shade of the sea the Jewish people went through the yam soup they went through the sea of reeds will shock collar here top team I sometime castresana and in just a moment as a result of that I was in a place of danger I was in a place of death the human being cannot exist in the middle of the sea under the water but I was in a place of danger in order for what to happen here a seabed some annoying auguri I was first of all as we said I started to have a good smell from the good deeds interestingly again there's good these we need to understand what these good deeds are but that's the first one the second thing is that as a result of going through the young going through the sea and I pointed with my finger and I testified shin mr z k leavin value as the verse says the juve will said this is my god and i will glorify Him the Jewish people as a result of the danger they went through as a result of the great Yeshua the salvation that they experienced as a result of that they were able to point and say this is my god I see my god i have experienced God completely double oxer another parallel and Cavazos ashura nanny he have evanni I am she and I am beloved Anisha isa cabrillo it cielo shall Cena I'm the one who is hidden in the shadow of Mount Sinai and I believe that this is a reference to the fact that Hashem as a Cazalas the sages hellas the Jewish people there was an aspect of the Tauri that they weren't willing to receive they weren't willing to accept upon themselves and a Shem held the mountain over them so the Jewish people stood under that shade of Mount Sinai so they were in a place of difficulty they were in a place of challenge it seemed like they could lose their lives God said if you don't accept the Torah this is where you're going to die they accepted the Tauri they said lots of an issue on the end they said we will listen we will do and we will listen but they were on a place of danger they were the place of closure there in the place where they were in the shade the shot caller here top team I seen Kevin cash hashanah be odd evilly be and in just a moment the Jewish people started to smell in a good way they had a fragrance as a result of their good deeds in their hands and in their hearts the marque love fun of and I the Jewish people said in front of God Kashia direction now seven ish ma all that God has says I will do and I will hear so there was a state of constriction of difficulty of challenge and there was a blossoming in the Jewish people entering into a relationship with God Deborah Kerr another parallel ani ohevet otach our own Anna neva haviv ani I am she and I am beloved hanisha you see avaya removes substantial mafia and here's where we get to the parallel which applies to us which is really about our experience today that I the Jewish people I am hidden and i'm i am trampled in the shade of the mafiasss of the loom asylum of the nations of the world the Jewish people can't do what we can't do whatever we want we'll be holding to the nation's we are beholden to their opinion we are beholden to their laws we are beholden to the challenges that they represent whether we're in the Land of Israel or whether were anywhere in the world lamah car and how does that open up how does how do we get out of this place of being a closed flower to blossom when does that happen LaMarcus chicolini Hakodesh boricua meet ceylon Sean Mathias tomorrow when God is going to redeem me from the shade of these nations a new art a viscacha Shanna then i will give off a fragrance like the like the flower and like the rose by Marisa show Kadosh I'm going to sing a new song shin mr the verse says sheila shamsher Kadosh the verse in Psalms chapter 98 first one cinco hashem a new song kino flo I Sosa for he has done wonders so this is a song King David was telling us we're going to sing in a future where mushiya comes when the Messiah arrives when we were redeemed from the nations of the world a Shia La Mina is record show when God saves us with his right hand and with his holy arm so the final state that we're going to be and we come in our lifetime in our times in our experience we're in a state of sale or in state of the shadows where we're close up where this Rose that's waiting to blossom we're in a place where we're in a challenge where it's not easy to be who we are it's not easy to be a Jew we're challenge from every side whether it's societal pressure or whether it's national pressure on the Jewish people whether it's individuals we are pressured we're in a place of challenge of difficulty we can't blossom fully the blossoming will occur when Messiah comes in the Messiah arrives so that's the final parallel that we see here in this piece and I think it's particularly beautiful that we speak about mushiya the Messiah's arrival as a parallel to the idea of what happened the song that we sang when we when we experience that first Google when we experience the first redemption of the Jewish people when Hashem took us out of Egypt and it's not a coincidence because we find in our house I'll tell us sukumaran rosh hashanah i'm dr. dallas on page 11 our puzzle or say just say that just like in the past when the Jewish people were redeemed it was in this month of of me son in the spring the final redemption the final lawson is going to occur also in the month of nissan at the same exact time this is a time of redemption it's a time when the physical world itself expresses the blossoming that's going on and it's true on a spiritual level as well there's a blossoming that occurs that occurred and will occur it's true in the past and the exodus as we saw it was true in the times of assure the Jewish people when we were oppressed by the nation of Assyria and it's true in our current oppression and our current state where we are challenged by the nations of the world and that's going to be redeemed the redemption is going to come also in this parallel time and we will sing just as we sang then we will sing again in the future and the idea that i want to bring out that i see over here the beauty of it is that we look at the challenges that we have the situations that we find ourselves in both on a national level and a personal level we look at them as something that we need to get past and we wish would be over course we don't ask for challenges and difficulties we ask ashamed africa that he shouldn't send us challenges and difficulties but what we see from this message is that the challenge itself the difficulty the fact that it is jewish people were in Egypt the fact that we find ourselves in a place where it's not easy to be spiritual it's not easy to have a relationship with God this seems to be negative but the measure she's telling us that it's actually the state of the flower before it blossoms it's a state of the flower as it's about to blossom the flower would not be able to blossom it if it didn't originally come into a state of closure of being in a place of sale of being in a place of this shadow and it's very interesting because the first parallel that we spoke about was that what was the sale what was the shadow it was the mishkan itself was the shadow of God so to speak it was the place where we are underneath God's shadow but sale kel but saleh was the one who created the michigan the tabernacle and his name represents what the tabernacle is it's that place where we are in the shade of God now when you're in the shade you can't see the line you can't see odd when you're in God's shades so to speak but the idea is that the tabernacle is that place it's the place where we recognize that the place where it's dark is actually just a place where that flower is closed but we're in the flower we're wrapped up inside of God's love I mean he vaca Viva honey I am the one that is beloved to god that's what we see we're wrapped up in this place it seems so dark but it's actually an amazing rose that's about to open and it's going to give off it's beautiful smell and it's going to be an opportunity for us to sing so pace after that time of opening it's a time of recognition but the darkness and the light are only pot you can't have light without darkness it's a recognition that the challenges that we experience the mitzrayim the the place we Egypt's the the gully is the Exiles that we experience nationally personally these are all opportunities these are all the things that build us help us grow to be the great people that we are God is with us fahisha on the lava Santa villano like we said in the Haggadah that God stands with us and helmet sounds like it's a great thing that we go through these challenges throughout every generation they try to destroy us and the reason or the idea is the same idea that the very difficulties and challenges that we experience God shows us that he's there with us through all those things we're in it's a lure in the shadow of God so to speak we're in that place where God is wrapped up with us and we get a chance as we as it opens up as we blossom to see that we get to see that the challenges that we experience or indeed those things that helped us to grow the most to be able to become the great people that we have the potential to become so I want to bless you please bless me a Shem should help us to be able to see our challenges for what they are Shem should help us to be able to go through the Yom to be able to get to the other side of that sea to be so dark so difficult to be able to get to the other side so we can assure so that we can then sing the praises of our chemin recognition all of the difficulties and all the challenges were really only for our best and should help us be able to sing about the fact that now we've gotten into a new place now we have reached a new spiritual level and a new relationship with Hashem thank you so much for listening have a wonderful shabbos and a wonderful young toughs this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you for more podcasts like this please visit www Ari Gold wag.com or search on itunes re go black [Music]