Ari Goldwag - Re'eh - Constriction from Expansion

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with Ari Gold wag recorded with Russians never-ending assistance in remote vision which Israel 5777 2017 this week's precious partials for a and I'd like to remind you I'm reminded you in a while about my safer perfectly imperfect available right now in farm stores throughout the world breaking out of the ordinary and striving for greatness great addition to your Jewish library and in this week's parsha like to share with you a thought on the pus Leggett POSIX says in the Moshe Rabbeinu like we spoke about last week where we're entering into the Land of Israel Jewish people are about to get there they're about to reach that amazing milestone in their history and the verse tells us in verse 20 PRT emotional calf has gaveled cook it actually speaks about a future time when a Shem will expand the borders of the land of Israel Kyle shared Eberle of has God has spoken to you ok so that soon we'll see was exactly the pasta verse is talking about what's going to happen when we get there but it's just interesting that we speak about this expansion and the verse tells us like this vol Martha and you will say all of us are I would like to eat some meat I enjoy eating meat cassava natural called a hobo sir because your soul will desire to eat meat call have a special culture how bizarre its permitted the Torah says that it's permitted to eat meat verse 21 career clock McCollum welcome I show you our Michalka assumption which from the verse tells us that lets say you're distant from Jerusalem let's hear this one from the place that I shall will choose to place his name there that the the core button start to be brought there right ordinarily what the Jewish people eyes will soon see the magician speak about the fact that the Jewish people when they were in the mid more when they were in the wilderness so they were accustomed to eating meat only in the context of the components of the sacrifices if they wanted to have meat otherwise they were not permitted to eat meat if they just desire to have meat you can only have it if they brought a sacrifice to our Shem to God by doing so permitted the meat to be eaten otherwise they weren't allowed to but the verse is telling us when they get into the Land of Israel when they enter into Israel so then it will indeed be permitted for them to eat meat even without bringing a carbon is the vast amoeba car from its nfo so then it will be permitted to to slaughter from your cattle from your sheep assure not a national aquatic god has given to you sure to be sick as he has commanded to you the house of Ashura bahala vast nacho and she'll eat it in your gate in order to go all the way to jerusalem in order to bring a carbon to bring a sacrifice in order to eat meat but rather wherever you are as long as you go through the proper slaughtering procedure in order that it should be kosher and fulfills all the requirements so it's permitted to eat meat a very interesting idea but with most interesting we need to understand the connection between these two ideas the the verse starts off in that first verse we read verse 20 it speaks about the expansion keahi hashem elokenu volca when i shem when god will expand your borders what is the idea of expansion and what is the idea of expansion in relationship to this concept of now being able to eat meat something which was not permitted before will see that the verse talks about much fear assume that God permits certain things that previously were not permitted this is an example of one of those things that was not permitted it was not permitted to eat meat unless one was bringing a sacrifice now it's going to be permitted what is the idea of expansion of the Land of Israel what is the idea of expansion in this context of eating meat and something being permitted which was not permitted before I like to read you this in the measures table AHA you should know Ostara Kaddish properly is religiously the level Hashem originally had made it forbidden to slaughter and to eat achieve an opacifier mind unless a person brought it to the opening to the doorway of the tent of meeting to the temple mean I anatomy no addition that reversed else is the pacify my labia no I said to sell a sham first and shall not bring it to the doorway of the OL mode attentive meeting and bring it for God but if let's say you show me I'm all the verse tells us that a person heaven forbid will experience spiritual excision they'll be cut off from their nation heaven forbid if they eat meat in the wrong context mucks if some so the versatile pedophile mullet have you and I people covering us showing us an admission of sham dummy akashi deshou dumb Shafak so a person does not bring it there to to be to to be brought as a sacrifice we consider like spilled blood new translation we can remind like we said such a person will be cut off it can cause our material ahem but the verse here tells us that at this point when the huge people get into the Land of Israel sometimes another Tsar Harkavy there's an expansion and now it's going to be committed for the Jewish people to eat meat janae Meraz baklava snapshot is vasa well how the bus or career consider military nuts on the saw butthole shirahama burger mur the verse tells us that now at this point whenever you want it whenever you desire to have meat not just because you're bringing your sacrifice it's permitted I mean how do we know this we wash your Kareena Bernanke our solution of Catholic school club from the fact that verse tells us that sham will expand your borders so the first example that the measures gives us of an expansion is this expansion that something which was previously forbidden now becomes permitted so you need to understand was the idea of expansion now the measures tells us the the next piece of the mesh which is in parsha we're in partial dollar the fourth section of the measures in measure sharaba of sacred volume and the next section which is section seven speaks about a different expansion I'm not going to read it inside but just to give you an idea the measure speaks about the expansion brings the park in Tanana Maggie Levesque Makabe has that color verse tells us the King David said I will rejoice double-action I will rejoice Aguila that's Marco and I will rejoice Russian simcha in your kindness I'm sure ISA is on you you saw my challenge my difficulty your data bits arias not sure you knew the oppression a constriction of my soul but it's got enemy or you didn't leave me in the hands of my enemies tomorrow's of America fraud lie the verse tells us that mm Ellis says you stood me up in an expanded way you stood my legs up in an expanded way so the sages tell us that what is its verse referring to it was King David speaking about he wasn't just thinking about himself but he was speaking about the other semi static Joseph and he had a tremendous amount of difficulties the tremendous amount of service there's no place of constriction he was challenged with a wife of Poti fire that she tried to seduce him try to get him to do in a very to be sins and there are other challenges that he went through but in the end I Shem paid him off he not paid in ball he paid him back for the challenges for the difficulties and he ended up in a place of expansion he was freed from his many years of being in jail and ultimately became the king the second and second only to Pharaoh in the land of Egypt as we know the story so what's very interesting is that we see the Torah is saying a lustrum of ger fees which is an expansion and we're saying that it parallels a different expansion which is the expansion of Yosef italic that somehow Joseph went through difficulties went through challenges and ultimately he came out of those challenges and he became greater for those challenges and he was expanded it became the king over Egypt so we have a constant fear of expansion and what's interesting to me is that in our verse it just speaks about the expansion doesn't speak about the constriction which is before the expansion this verse speaks about sorry snap cheese these were the construction a challenge and then amount of America frog-leg but I think that what we see here is that when the Torah uses the word tiara t'v that there's an expansion of the ghulam there's an expansion of the boundaries of the Land of Israel that implies that at first there was a constriction that's what the marriage is coming to teach us just like by us a Masonic he lived in a place of difficulty of challenge the result was ultimately he came out of those challenges and he was expanded he became a king so too when it comes to the verse here there's something which is an expansion there is an expanding of the borders and interestingly there's something which we see is which is parallel clearly which we spoke about previously which is something which was not permitted which was the eating of meat whenever person wanted to eat meat that was constricted it wasn't permitted was only permitted under certain circumstances that became expanded and became permitted okay so we have already two concepts two places we see original constriction and an expansion which parallels somehow the expansion of the Land of Israel which it seems will be in the future now the third example that the mesh gives us is of a pretty famous story with a bow udin avi udin had been an extremely wealthy person and whenever the sages would come to his town he would give a tremendous amount of money for tadaka a tremendous amount of charity so that the sages should be able to study tour to learn Torah and what happened avi you'd and unfortunately lost all of his money became extremely poor but he didn't know what to do he wanted to still get stood up he felt very bad thus he just came to his town they were collecting again for the achiever so I'll be using hid in his attic he didn't want to come out he didn't want to come down his wife said to him what are you doing my dear husband why are you hiding why do you why are you staying in the in the attic why don't you come down won't you go out to work can you explain to her that he felt very bad the sages had come to collect money but he didn't have the money to give you felt really really horrible so his wife was a great Sudeikis is Amanda Sh she was very righteous and she also wanted to be involved in the midst of Sadako so she says her husband listen we have one field left that one field let's take that field let's split that field in half let's sell half the field and then we'll take that money we'll give it to tadaka and at least for now we'll be able to fulfill the obligation of charity we can't do it we can't give as much perhaps as we could have enough pretty good didn't cook I feel he's sold it for five golden coins and he took the five golden coins and in an embarrassing said to the rabbis you said to them in the past I was able excuse me I was able to give more and this is how much I can give right now and he said to them I'd like you to pray for me pray that I should have an expansion ok pray for me that I should have success in my business because I have lost all of my money the sages saw what had happened and they prayed for him and an amazing thing happened not long after that in the part of the field that he retained the second part of the field that he had not sold so he was digging there and he was tilling the soil and came across a treasure that was buried underneath his field and he was able as a result of that treasure not only was he as rich as he was before I knew he can't even richer so the sages said to him they they had prayed for him and they and they were and they saw that indeed this verse that we were speaking about chaos /ms kavula that shine will expand your rule and interestingly the the verse right before our verse says this is a verse in chapter in chapter 12 verse 19 he showed up and tossed a missile a b.call yarmulke a loud moussaka that the verse speaks about the obligation to give charity the Levites are those who serve God in the temple they don't have so much money they don't have so much wherewithal and nevertheless they serve Hashem so there's an obligation the Torah gives us to give charity to them and right after that the verse says key after my share like a calf is Google so that there will be an expansion as a result of a person being willing to give charity it seems like he's constricting himself he's taking away from himself and not valuing certainly he gave up half of his of his property and he gave all that money to the sages be able to study Torah it seems like he was constrict himself but as a result of that as a result of the prayers of the sages on his behalf as a result of his great self-sacrifice on behalf of the sages so he merited to find a great treasure and there was an expansion that resulted so we see a third place and as very interesting why not just give him he always gave to the sages he always gave money he always gave charity to them so why I shouldn't take away his money and then he had to give half of his property to the sages and then all the sudden found even more money became even richer what's the idea here we see again this concept that there's a constriction that occurs by we saw it with the the isser not being able to eat it the meat wherever you want it that's one level and then becomes permitted the second level we saw was in regards to Yossi of asada he had difficulties he had challenges ultimately became the king the most one of the most expanded human beings with so much power over the the greatest power at that time which was blind of Egypt because of his constriction because of his difficulty because of a challenge as it were seeing and finally IWD that he lost all his money as a result of that he constricted himself he was willing still to give sadaqa still to give charity the result was he came out with an amazing wealth so those are the three examples that we see here and ultimately ultimately the the last piece of the measure speaks about is the fact that in the future time a mushy outcomes when a messiah comes so there's going to be an incredible expansion of the Land of Israel and it gives us many different verses but what's very interesting is a quote a verse which we saw in last week's partial believe it was aired Israel is a land which is full of mountains it's a mountainous area and a Shemin the future is going to flatten all of the mountains and all of the valleys what is the idea of a shrimp flattening this land so measures tells us an amazing thing other abuse all you like to read it inside this is in section 11 early it's so calm Agulhas ice and other media come or cover come Arakawa when a person has a megillah' which is a scroll you have a Torah scroll so it's all wrapped up it's all rolled up and you don't know how long it is you can't really see because it's rolled up and is going to come or cover cover up well you know how tall it is you'll know short it is and how long it is kushina's cos you might ask uh money but when it's opened up when a person opens isn't extended then you can see the expansion through the expansion you can see what was constricted into that space katharsis well it's amazing amazing thing measure sense in the same way the line of israel call rubra harmik voice most of israel has mountains and it has valleys me 9 chin mr how do we know the verse tells us parts of Shechem I remember Isla Eretz harem of a case manager going there is a land of mountains and valleys the Mitaka Montes de Maya mr. Shimokawa there is a combination like a Saba God's eyes are constantly looking at it like this Americana Hashanah so it has mountains and valleys de Acho sucker - Burcu in the future we find that the verse tells us that God is going to straighten out all the marathon's and all of the values mean ionomer how do I know this verse tells us in Isaiah chapter 40 verse 4 called gay you know say go Harvey giver you follow all of those that are low wash em is going to raise up all of those that are high off the mountains of Shem is going to flatten well y'all hail Chloe let me shore or cutting the vicar everything will be flattened out okay so show me more dust money will see an expansion now it's very interesting you would think that what the verse is saying is that all the mountains are gonna be flattened and and so they'll be less surface area right if you take a mountain and you knock it out and flatten it so you have less surface area right no mentions telling us an amazing thing that when a sham flattens the mountain the land will expand around the mountain and so in so doing Hashem will expand the Land of Israel meaning the surface area of Israel will stay the same but it will be spread over a greater amount of area physical area because it will be flattened and straightened out amazing thing very interesting idea just so just like you have a scroll which you can see because it's constricted how big is it how large is it really you can't see when you have mountains how much surface you have to do many calculations to figure out the surface area so - when it comes to artists rally are going to you're going to have this flattening you're going to have this expansion that occurs now the idea that you see here is that the constriction itself gets opened up that which we can't figure out how tall the mountain is what's the space of them how much surface areas of the mountain have requires great calculations it's something which means unraveling you need to figure it out right that's going to be figured out it's going to be straightened out and clarified it'll be clear and air to saw will be expanded and enlarged and it will make room for the many many Jews will be returning to Israel the many many Jews who will come back to life in Casas Mason and the revival of the dead and the verses are many beautiful verses the measured quotes we're seeing at the end of our parsha right here speaking about the future time was going to be mushiya when Messiah arrives but the idea is an amazing idea the idea is you know think of that a rope you have a long string or rope and there are many many knots in that rope you have many many constrictions Shem is mottier assumed right we said that Shem permits that which was forbidden the forbidden meat we weren't allowed to eat the meat unless it was with a sacrifice now it's permitted there's an untying of the bound what happens when you untie a string that has many knots in it so the string seems small at first but then as you aren't tie it the string gets larger and larger and larger as you want tie one knot to another knot and another knot and another knot and ultimately you see the full length of the string just like the Megillah just like that scroll which was rolled up you unroll it and you can see how amazingly long it is the idea is that the constriction itself the verse it's a key active a Shem look at the Google Chrome means there's no such thing as an expansion without a constriction there's no such thing as experiencing in our realm in our world there's no such thing as experiencing an expansion in one's life without going through a challenge without going through a constriction and it's not just that the constriction or the challenge of the difficulty is something that you need to get through in order to get to the other side and then once you to the other side you experienced a wonderful you know you see wonderful light no the darkness itself is the life the constriction that very string is tied up and you untied and now you have that beautiful long string that very scroll is rolled up you can't see what's there until you unroll until you unravel it the challenge is subtly get difficulty Oh see if italic is the ultimate example of this he's somebody who had to go through all these challenges all these difficulties he proved himself by getting through those challenges and the result was he became a great person became a king because of his challenges he rejoiced because of his challenges the verse tells us in the fourth chapter of tehilim but sire hastily in the constriction you expanded me the verse tells us the result of the constriction of the challenge is an expansion Geass devotional gatha's give Allah when do we get to that expansion at the end of time after the Jewish people has gone through all the different trials and tribulations and travails that we have indeed gone through throughout the Inquisition's and the and the touch attack and the and the marauding and all of the challenges and difficulties and holocausts which we don't understand we don't see it yeah we haven't unraveled that scroll completely we haven't we begun to start to see some returning us to the Land of Israel the beginning of the expansion of our borders the beginning why the beginning where we have seen already and more is yet to come but the idea is that the challenge the willingness to be constricted I'm not going to eat meat unless it's in the context of a sacrifice originally now when I get to that place which is there to throw where things are expanded now I can experience I can enjoy that meat whenever I want to I've gone through that challenge I've gone through that wilderness I've traveled 40 years to the desert now I've gotten to Arizona I got into the Land of Israel I've been willing to have that constriction that difficulty USD Vitalik went through 12 years of challenge until he became the king over over the land of Egypt he was will knew that that was what was building him obvi udin he was poor he lost everything but he was wanted to constrict himself further I'm going to give up half of my mile and I'm going to sell it in order to give it to Sadako when a person gives charity it's very difficult to give charity it's very hard to take from my money my hard-earned money and give it to somebody else you didn't earn it why should I give it to him by by constricting oneself it brings in amazing blessings it brings in amazing expansion that's what the measure she's teaching us to the tire is teaching us that's the message of this beautiful partial G octave eyeshadow that calf has give Allah where I shine we'll expand our boundaries I want to bless you and I want to ask you to bless me back hm should help us that we should be able to face our challenges be able to recognize the desire the place of constriction is just a tight knot which when we open up that constriction we experience the Harkavy the expansion Shem should help us to recognize that and to be able to face the challenges and know that there is a light at the end of the tunnel there's a heart solver there's an expansion which a Shem should help us to be able to see 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.un.org/webcast [Music]