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Shavuos - Finding Hidden Treasures
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What is the idea behind the Midrash's statement that every prophet's prophecy was given to him at Har Sinai? How does this apply to the words of wisdom that would be said by Torah scholars down to our times? What is the 'great Voice that did not end' that echoes through the generations? What is meant by R' Yochanan who says that the single voice splits into seven and then into seventy? What is the 'mighty voice of Hashem?' Find out in this week's Parsha Podcast.
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you're listening to a special edition of
the weekly partial podcast with Ari
goldwag recorded with hash's never
ending assistance in R Shish Israel 5784
2024 we are getting ready for the Shu
holiday 49 days we've counted tonight is
the 50th from pesak until
Shas we leave
Egypt count seven weeks we receive the
Tor at Mount Si at har SI I'd like to
share with
you a medish and the medish teaches us
something
foundational you know when we celebrate
a holiday in Judaism it's not a
celebration of something that happened
3,300 years ago it's a celebration of
something that happened and has an
impact and rates throughout history down
to our very time I'd like to share you
aish that very much expresses this idea
it says like
this
called God spoke all of these matters
and he said
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every single thing every single
statement of a prophet that's going to
be
spoken Generations later hundreds of
years later thousands of years later
after Mount Si was something that was
already said was already received on
Mount
Si MOS says to the Jewish people this is
in Deuteronomy 29:
14 there are those who stand with us
today and there are those who don't
stand us with us today we not here at
this time but all of us receive the
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Torah it doesn't
say uh standing with us here today it
says rather who is with us today
we're not just talking about people who
are standing there or not we're talking
about the souls that in the
future they can't you can't talk about
them having stood there or not because
they didn't have any uh physical
presence right it doesn't say that they
stood here it just says that they are
not with us where they are with us
even though that Soul was not there at
that time the soul was not present at
that time but it received that which
belonged to it which is interesting just
in so far as when we talk about what a
prophet says when we talk about what a
navi says which is a statement for the
Jewish people that they need to receive
in that moment word of muser a word of
Hope right that's something that is
waiting that's his Divine Purpose that's
his the the essence of his
soul but that statement that word the
teaching that he had to teach it was
already there and waiting for him until
he would come into the
world the says in Mal the first chapter
the first verse the the that which is
the word of
God which was spoken to the people of
Israel through
Mali in the hand of it
says doesn't say in the time
of why does it say in his
hand that soul soul had in its
hand the the very na the very prophecy
that he was going to speak hundreds of
years
later it was in his hand from before
just wasn't given permission to say
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the the prophet also says from the time
that I was there I am what does this
mean from the day that the Torah was
given at Mount Si I was
there my soul received the
NAA received this prophecy El
but he didn't have permission he had it
already in his hand his soul the mission
was imbued into him into his soul all
the way back in time 3,300 years ago but
it took a few hundred years or a
thousand years for it to be the time for
it to be
said I'm sorry okay I read that
already and here's the part that
is the most relevant to me and
you not only was this true is this true
of the prophets who received their NAA
the prophecy that they would say was
already said to them was already given
over into their hand entrusted to them
all the way back to Mount Si but it's
also
true the wise people of each and every
generation
and I'll be more precise in the
translation the wise people who stand up
in each and every
generation each and every one of them
received his portion at Mount Si so if
we're speaking right now if your Rabbi
is talking if I'm talking if you're
saying over your own Torah thoughts
don't think that you made it up says the
medish we receive it at Mount Sarai we
received
it
says an amazing thing all of these words
Hashem spoke to the entire Congregation
of the Jewish people a great sound a
great voice that never ends gets louder
and
louder tells us a
you know it's a secret because of the
numbers that he used he says there's one
voice one sound which is split into
seven which further splits into 70
languages when you have one voice the
concept of one as it splits into seven
or
70 right we know the number 70 relates
to the fact that there are sh there are
70 facets 70 different ways of looking
at the but really what it means is that
each and every one of us has our
own the the the the Tyra speaks but we
each hear the T in our language we each
hear the T as it applies to us we're
obligated to to try our best to
understand what does the T say to me
what is God's message for me what is
hashem's Will for me
personally seems to be saying but it's a
voice that we all heard at Mount sin we
heard the same voice but we all heard it
individually the speaks to us
individually
interesting were the two they they would
often argue in the
G brought him into the fold brought him
back
into learning Torah so Rish says
says the indication of the is that
Hashem spoke then and that voice as we
said in the beginning of the M that
voice speaks through all the
generations is saying it's manifest to
each individual in their own language in
their own understanding and says it's
manifest throughout
time the Rabon say that the indication
of this PK is that it wasn't an echo of
God's voice
but it's actually The Voice itself we
heard the voice itself of
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Hashem let's see the continuation of
the what does it mean in the verse when
it says that the voice of is in
power if you have one Mal one angel of
God nobody can withstand the power power
of that angel if it would
speak if hasem
speaks right let's see let's see what it
says over
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here why does hasm need to speak
loudly or is there's two different ways
I could understand this either it means
that hem speaks so loudly that you can't
possibly withstand that type of Voice or
Hashem speaks in a way that you don't
doesn't need any effort so what does it
mean when it
says so the
says what does this mean explains
Hashem speaks to us when we hear the
voice the amazing thing about hashem's
voice is that when it speaks to us it
speaks to us where we are if I'm an old
person it speaks to me in the voice then
an old person needs to
hear person has life experience so
here's a different thing here's there's
something that's going to inspire you
depending on where you are in your
station in
life and you might hear the same voice
you might hear the same div Tor you
might listen to this tor and come out of
it with one one idea and you might
listen to it and come out with a
different idea then that's the power of
Torah that it's en that it's all
encompassing and that's the power of the
original Terah that was given the voice
of Hashem that spoke at Mount
Si I'm going to read to you a little bit
more the indication here is that the
voice was louder or softer according to
what a person could
handle according to there was one voice
the only difference was that it split
down into 70 different
languages he says
that the last thing that's brought in
the mes is coming according to okay I'm
not going to get into this I'm not going
to get into this but what I would like
to bring down and
uh try to understand for ourselves what
we can take out of
this is that we think of we think of man
Torah as as perhaps a celebration of
something that happened in the past or
or we think of it as something which
it's a night of learning Torah it's a
night of receiving the Torah a
new but
the mag is saying something much deeper
than that the mag is
saying that the
voice The Voice
ofes the sound of his voice as he gave
the Torah to the Jewish people it never
stopped it never stopped it it speaks
through the
generations and even when we speak today
it's just it's like it's like a we're
being transported in a time machine to
the year
2448 when God spoke and God gave the
Torah to the Jewish people at Mount sa
there was there's nothing new that we're
saying even though it's very new even
though it's the biggest KES you can say
an unbelievable idea in the Torah that
nobody ever thought of no one ever heard
of but it's not new because it's and at
the same time it's so
new because everything that happened on
the sixth of Sion in the year 2448 that
voice that was heard was the newest
voice it was the the foundation of
creation so it was the
newness the tah is the
blueprint of creation the Torah is the
foundation of
creation and so if we're speaking now
we're saying something it's because we
heard it then a prophet said something
you know uh you know Hashem promises in
the Torah that the Jewish people are
going to enter the land of Israel we're
going to make mistakes we're going to
need to be chastised we're going to be
need to it's going to be necessary to
tell us off and to put us back in our
place and the N had that n the
foundation for that n it was there it
was something that they received all the
way back in the year 2448 and it took
time for it to be expressed but
really what this Mage seems to be saying
there's
a which means that the voice the sound
that we're still hearing today attaches
us it's a time
machine as we go into we're entering
into a time machine my friends we're
entering into a a
Vortex a Time Vortex we are Beyond time
and space we
are
back in the year
2448 what we received
then we received it then and now it's
manifest and what is Manifest in the
year
5784 what is the ti that we're supposed
to hear
today so amazingly as we read a medish
together which was written 1500 2,000
years ago I don't know exactly when it
was written down but what we're really
doing as we read a medish together as we
read thees which was written 3,300 years
ago as we study the T the gar the
talud as we even study the newer it's
the r or whether it's the whether it's
the any of the that are written today or
in the last 500 years
whatever we need to understand that we
are in the time
machine and we're in the time machine
and who sees all of time as one there's
a of it's not just that that voice of
hasem extends to us where we are in time
but it's really us being drawn back to
that moment and also in in implicit in
that is that God who spoke at that
moment sees all of time and extends his
voice out into all of time because all
of the time for him he's y he was he is
he will be for all for him for God time
is all the same there's no past present
future God is omnipresent he's Beyond
Time and so he knows what needs to be
said and when it needs to be said how it
will unravel and how it will manifest
but it's all there at the beginning
because the
beginning as it says in the end is
embedded in the beginning and the
beginning is embedded in the
end all that unravels
is all that unravels in time is really
expressed in thought in the original
thought of
a so here we are 3,300 years later
trying trying to to figure out what
indeed is it that's in our hand Mali in
his hand he had a he had a prophecy that
was for his time but it was in his hand
since the time of har yesi he had a
prophecy that was in his hand and each
one of
us we can grab on we can access we can
look at we can try to understand what is
it that is the message for me in this
moment which the T
put in the bottle we F it's you know
it's like it's we we're on the beach and
we we find a bottle and inside of the
bottle we open it up and there's a
message from thousands of years ago can
you imagine that the excitement what is
the message we have that little
bottle we have that little lost treasure
chest and it's called a Tyra and it
speaks to me right here right now it's
it's a message that was placed here in
the bottle with forethought with the
vision with the
awareness God himself knows where all of
history will will go where it will head
and you knew there's going to be a Jew
in the land of Israel in a place called
raes who's going to be saying over D
Torah that's going to be listened to in
all kinds of different locations in the
world in Israel in in Europe in
America and he planted this very Torah
right here for us to hear so that we can
know that that the t is relevant it's
it's as new as new can be it's always
relevant it's always new it always has
to do with us because it was given then
but it was really given today it was
really given now the tah the the
amazing the amazing thing that this mag
is saying is that although the Torah was
given 3,300 years ago it was given
today and so I want to bless you and I
ask you to bless me should help us that
we should be able to here to look for to
unearth the amazing hidden message the
amazing hidden
treasure that's contained within the
Torah that each and every one of us has
an opportunity to learn we should be
able to recognize and resonate with a
message that's for each and every one of
us individually we should be able to
hear in our
language in our in the in the very way
that we are lit up in the very way that
we are inspired hm should help us to
hear what we need to hear
from the Torah thank you so much for
listening have a wonderful sh we'll see
you again another
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