Reeh - Preparing for Tishrei

you're listening to the weekly departure podcast with ari goldwag recorded with the show's neverending assistance in ramaphishi mashita 5781 2021. this week's precious parts for a and this podcast is dedicated lilu nishmas sara bass yosef and a special shout out to their daughter elisheva for her contribution to torah this expression begins with the words as follows behold today i place before you a blessing and a curse you're going to choose do you want the blessings or the curses how do you choose yes hashem the blessing comes when you listen to the commandments of god the curse is come upon a person if one does not listen to the commandments of god if a person turns away from the path of god after foreign gods following after idolatry etc that brings about a curse following the ways of the torah brings about a blessing and i'd like to to share with you some thoughts based on the mattress also based on a piece from alba that has to do with the fact that we are about to enter sunday night hashem it's the beginning of the month of el and el anila divided it's about our love for god our relationship with hashem and what we start to do now in preparation for rosh hashanah the parties that we're going to read very much have to do with moshe rabbanu's exhortation of the jewish people to follow in the ways of god to make god our king we spoke not long ago about krishna the idea of saying the shema i'd like to speak a little bit more about that today in consonance with the preparation that we need to have for rosh hashanah rosh hashanah as we'll see is a time that we are hashem we make god to be our king we talk about the future time on rosh hashanah we speak about at length in ishmael we speak about the fact that god is going to be the king over the entire world everyone will join together as one to allah god's will with a full heart so when we get to arab shabbos right when we get to the the day before shabbos we prepare for shabbos we get ready we listen to good torah we have to have something to say at the table we learn we prepare the food is being cooked the house is getting ready every shop as we prepare for shop is the sixth day we prepare for the seventh day the month of elul is the sixth month from nissan nissan er thomas ave the month that we're about to enter it's the sixth month and the seventh month is tishrei so in a certain sense tishrei is like shabbos it's a time of malchus it's called shabbos it's when we relate to god in a very unique and special way god is our king so tishrei is also a month that's full of mitzvahs and it's full of making god our king whether it's through the chauffeur whether it's through fasting on him kipper whether it's through the midst of the special missus of sukkah and lula that we do on sukis but it's a time of special relationship to god it's the seventh month of the year counting from nissan so in the sixth month it's like air of shabbos we gotta get ready we gotta get ready now we're gonna come back to this concept we're gonna see what it means and how we can apply it and how we can start to work on something small but important very deeply important first i'd like to share with you what the measure says on this very verse the beginning of our parasha the verses talk about the fact that we need to do the mitzvos if we want to get blessings we want god to bestow upon us the blessings that we so want why will god give us those blessings he will give us those blessings if we show that we are interested in his will if we show that we are committed to his commandments if we show that we're we're here to serve him so she will give us all of the things all the blessings that we need in order to be able to serve him properly that's what the verses say maksiv of the milo and very interestingly as is the way of the magician we need to understand this because i believe it's related to what it means to prepare for rosh hashanah and the month of but it says like this what does it say before this we we often find that the majoris will point out that when the torah places two concepts next to each other there's some relationship between them it's going to teach us something there's a preparation that the torah is giving us it tells us about something before and then the next topic that it speaks about is somehow related to the previous topic what do we see right before at the end of last week's parsha right before the beginning of this week's part show the torah says maroon the verse says i'd like to read it inside if you shall keep the commandments similar idea it's what we're speaking about here this is in chapter 11 verse 22. four four verses earlier kim sha mortis verse says it will be if you will keep them the mids all of the mitzvah says it's singular all of this mitzvah all of this commandment that i'm that i'm commanding you today to do it to love hashem to go in his ways and to attach yourself to god okay so then great things will happen you don't have to worry everything is going to be great you're going to have the entire land of israel no one's going to to fight with you your fear will be upon all the nations etc now the message wants to know why do we have that as a prelude to what we're about to say about the blessings it talks about the fact that if you keep the commandments you'll have the land of israel you will be protected from your enemies etc why is that a prelude to the fact that we have the the blessings and the curses that come if one keeps the commandments they get the blessings they don't keep the commandments they get curses heaven forbid why is that why do these verses what do these two concepts have to do with each other perhaps even what's the difference between these two concepts i'd like to point out as the maya zoo does that in the first set of verses the verses at the end of last week's parsha it places the commandments into one category it refers to them as mitzvah singular one commandment includes them all in our parsha it speaks about the mitzvos keep the commandments and in so doing you will get the blessings what perhaps we could explain that the message is trying to understand what is the contrast what is the difference what is the one mitzvah that you keep let us say this is how marzu puts it what is the one commandment that you keep that in so doing it to cuddle all of the other commandments it includes all of the other commandments such that it's considered as if you've done all of the mitzvos you've done all of the commandments which is that one mitzvah mao is called mitzvahs what is this one mitzvah armor ability it's the midst of kris it's the midst of saying calling reading the commitment that we make shema is that god is our king that god is all that there is now i could read more but i'm not going to get read more i'm not sure if we will read more at all in this magish but the marzu gives us a reference to a different madrish which i'd like to share with you the madrish is in vaikaraba section 29 section 5 5 out of 29. okay it says like this it's talking about rosh hashanah over there talking about rosh hashanah it's very nice we're getting ready for rosh hashanah and it says the following it's a few different concepts that are brought ashore the the chauffeur is blown on rosh hashanah etc the different things that we do in this in the seventh month seventh month we mentioned this concept of seven we're about to get ready the sixth the sixth month is l we're getting ready for rosh hashanah it says the magician another way of getting ready the way of life is above is before to one who is wise which means if you are wise you prepare before what is the way what is the path of life it is the way of the torah it's the commandments it's a tree of life to those who hold on to it another way of obtaining eternal life is through having difficulties challenges on here is the point that i wanted to bring up you want to know how to have life you want to know how to be signed in the book of life so many things are scary so many things so you know going throughout the world a global pandemic iranians threatening the land of israel war have been on the horizon perhaps how do you get life or how to get life you look above you look above the mistake you look at the commandments of the torah right before the torah speaks about the concept of the seventh month in rosh hashanah it says give true muslims give tzadaka give charity make sure you give the tithes to the levy to the levite make sure you give that which is supposed to be given and one of my fortune here explains that whenever you have this is very important to understand whenever you have two verses two sets of verses one precedes the other it means this is the introduction to this whatever you have first is an introduction to the second group of verses okay so here the introduction is right before it speaks about rosh hashanah it tells us about giving true muslim isis giving charity giving tithes that's the introduction that's how you you want to know how you're going to get a good judgment on rosh hashanah make sure that you are giving charity that's one thing that we see that's this madrish rabb and i understood why is the mara zoo sending me over here to read this major it's to teach me that whenever you have one concept it's an issue that's right before it's an introduction to the next concept in our verses the introduction to how do you get the blessings how do you get the blessings how do you get written to the book of life in adversities in particular a god says like this i'll give you an introduction the way is by keeping the mitzvah the singular commandment what is that singular commandment the singular commandment is kriya declaring unequivocally hashem is our king god is our king why why is that the introduction and and i would like to share with you another part of the madrish goes on to say what is that one mitzvah different possibilities one of them is the tyre itself the commandments learning the torah knowing what god's will is knowing what god's will in order for me to make god my king i need to know what his will is i need to know what he wants me to do he's not my king if i don't follow his instructions and if i don't know what his instructions are so i need to learn the tire now what happens when i learn to sarah says the message it says right if you will keep it there's a double language keep keep it's telling you that if you keep it hashem keeps you if you watch the torah if you guard it hashem guards you what does it mean um it says an amazing thing every single inch of reality we can't see them but they are demons i hate to tell you folks but it's true there are 10 000 demons and every kind of i love him it says here thousands of negative spiritual forces let's call them i don't like the word demons so much negative spiritual forces that want to harm us normally these negative spiritual forces cover their faces with a mask says the madrish when a person sins they lose their protection the mask is taken off and the negative forces have the ability to cause some damage aim aside however when am i protected i am protected when i have many with me what are the many that are with me that protect me from the verse and to him and then hey chapter 55 of psalms verse 19 it says god redeems me in peace because i have a lot with me i have many with me what are those many that are with me these are the angels that protect the person how do you get those angels how do you get those angels you get those angels by knowing what it says in the torah knowing what god's commandments are making god your king and doing god's will that creates angels that protect me listen to the rest of the message of yeshua my lady is cursing the front of a person is walking along and there's negative spiritual forces all around him how is he able to walk through how come the sea splits and he doesn't get damaged so to speak because there is a powerful positive spiritual force that walks in front of the person and says as follows watch out make way passing through here now is a representative of god passing through here now as a representative of god all you negative spiritual forces cannot harm him the person is protected because he is a sar you are a prince you are an officer of god what makes you an officer of god a messiah says the magist when you keep the commandments when you keep the words of torah i give you a choice ends off the measure she could choose blessings or curses do you want the negative forces to get you so to speak that's what happens when a person chooses to do wrong when a person does wrong those negative forces are unleashed upon him but if you do what's right so then you are protected from those forces only good can happen to you because you are representative of god in the world what is the introduction what is the introduction for the brachas for the blessings how do i get those blessings making god my king making god's will my will making what god wants what i want learning the torah and following in its ways i'd like to read to you from alba he says like this the month of l as we spoke spoke about the sixth month of shabbos sixth day getting ready for shabbos the seventh month is tishrei rosh hashanah yom kippur how do we get ready for yom kippur start doing chuba start repenting start looking at my ways recognizing what i'm doing wrong starting to change but now we're going to but perhaps but i'd like to talk to you a little bit about how we get ready for rosh hashanah okay here's how it goes rosh hashanah is a day that god's kingship his kingdom is renewed he is the king over the world we accept that upon ourselves rosh hashanah we're in a brand new world we make god to be our king the creator is our king that's what we say right that's what we say throughout the tv we're speaking about god being our king with the prayers that we say on rosh hashanah kitson is bainan i'm sorry kissing is kindness how do we get ready to make god our king is we speak about god's kingship his kingdom that we are his subjects that he is our king we speak about that on rosh hashanah that's the day but where do we have a miniature acceptance of god upon ourselves when we say we spoke about two weeks ago we say hero israel our god hashem is one we're making god our king god is our king i will do his will. special focus is needed in the month of el to make we're getting ready serve shabbos we're getting ready to make god our king on rosh hashanah we get to do it every day twice a day once in the morning once a night shema this is it let's return let's return to focus on this passage on this verse on accepting god to be our king and accepting his will upon ourselves is he already explained it we're not going to get into it at length over here we should call it so someone who's already worked on it it's time to go over in the month of el salvador okay explain it at length in a different section but i just want to bring out the idea that krishama is the moment in time it's a it's a it's an i don't want to say it's an easy thing to do because you have to get yourself ready to do it you have to remember to do it is remember to think about it it's easy to just blab the words it's easy to say it fast it's easy to get there and space out but what we're asking for here what revolves asking us for and what the magist is asking us for and what is asking us really all the time but it's not something that we can per say do all the time but at least an hour getting ready for rosh hashanah krishna these words shama israel hashem making god a king it's real let's make it real hashem is my king why i'm sorry i want to i want to say a selfish reason because i want the blessings i want as i walk through all of those spiritual forces it's not so hard to imagine today with a virus going around throughout the world all those negative forces that want to get me i need spiritual protection i also might need a vaccine i'm going to need physical protection as well but i need spiritual protection how do i get spiritual protection i want those blessings it all comes out all stams it all is concentrated in one mitzvah the mitzvah of making god my king because if i make god my king and i'm sincere about it and i think about it there are lots of there's lots of ramifications of that i'm going to start doing this we'll start learning what god's will is if he's my king i gotta do his will if he's my king i have to find out what his will is i need to learn the torah and to the extent that i learn the tyrant to the extent that i do do his will that's an expression of how sincere i was when i said that he is my king so i want to ask you to bless me and ask you i'm going to bless you as well hashem should help us someone should help us to be able to get some focus to start l with focus we need protection we need blessings we want those blessings how do we get them should help us to recognize that we get them by making him our king we get them by learning torah we get them by focusing on what's really important in life by focusing whatever we focus on it gets stronger whatever's important to us whatever we're committed to where our heart is that's where our life is hashem should help us that the focus and the commitment should be on making him the king and doing his will thank you so much for listening have a wonderful shamas 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 ahri goldwag you