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Ari Goldwag - Shemos - Voices of Redemption
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What was special about the brotherly relationship between Moshe and Aharon? How did that parallel that of Binyomin and Yosef? Why does the midrash stress that Binyomin and Yosef 'suckled from the same milk?' What is the significance of the kiss of Moshe and Aharon? What is the idea behind the 'voice of Hashem' that is one voice, and yet is heard by different people in different ways? How does one prepare oneself to 'hear the voice?' Why does Hashem's voice come from many different directions? Why does the voice come from a different direction each time the Jewish people run to receive it in the place they've heard it? Find out in this week's parsha podcast.
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ramat beit shemesh israel 5777 2017 this
week's parsha is partial shamone the
beginning of the book of Exodus we has a
story of Moshe rubino of Moses the Torah
description the life and times of the
Jewish people in their time in Egypt as
they were slaves and how a sham
instructed Moshe a note to come and to
redeem the Jewish people now I'd like to
focus in on a very specific point in the
parsha very interesting point beautiful
magician that speak about the
relationship of Moshe and our own two
brothers Moses and Aaron God speaks to
motion says go and speak to path to
power of the Pharaoh emotions as I can't
do it I can't speak I have a speech
impediment Hashem says don't worry I'm
going to send you along side your
brother our own and it's very
interesting to observe their
relationship throughout the Torah but
very specifically in our car chantels
motion you have to worry I want to send
you to be the leader to be the Redeemer
of the Jewish people to be mushy ask the
Messiah of that generation and Iran is
not going to be jealous of you aren't is
going to be happy for you and we see a
remarkable thing that besides the
Russian telling Moshe to go back to
Egypt in order to redeem the Jewish
people we also see vibration mrs. in
chapter 4 verse 27 my number has shown
our own God spoke to Aaron Aaron was
also prophet and he said lake lacrosse
Muhammad bar I want you to go out to the
wilderness where Moses is as he's coming
in I want you to go out to greet him the
verse finishes off viola my Cherie
guajardo Kim are you chuckling he went
he met him at the mountain of God
meaning he went to hearts United to
Mount Sinai where in the future God
would give the Torah to the Jewish
people and he kissed him very very
interesting the Torah tells us about
this interaction between motion aaron
speaks about their love speaks to us a
command of god who are and to go out to
the wilderness where moshe was he speaks
about the kiss now listen to these
amazing adduction hidden within yzma
josh from our amazing beautiful deep
ideas
that I'd like to share with you it says
like this FML our lake lacrosse
measurement water measures quotes the
verse that we just said although this is
measured says like this this is what the
verse means insertion in A Song of Songs
chapter eight verse 1 it says me ten
clock ockley would that you would be
like a brother to me speaking about the
love of Hashem to the Jewish people and
halle by Hal of I we wish that we could
have that that brotherly relationship
and the measure she wants understand not
every brotherly relationship is
necessarily a good relationship made it
acha khasa my daughter what kind of
brother are we speaking about in terms
of a kind you find a brotherly
relationship which wasn't so good Cain
and Abel box if I up in carmell have an
occupier gay we find that brothers can
kill each other integrity schmolli is
cook what about you smile and Isaac
Hayden has such a good relationship as
well they were brothers so garcinia
schmoll son Elias we find that our house
i'll explain the stories were going on
between you and yourself as being
stories of negative interactions in
comer que celiac I've speaking about a
sub in jakeb Hoke see if I used to may
serve as the awkward we see that their
relationship wasn't good either int
America aki is safe what about the
Brothers of Joseph voxxi values move
away so the verse tells us but they
hated him as well looks like our new
black off first furthermore says that
they were jealous of him ello so if you
want to know what kind of relationship
are we requesting the Jewish people are
asking if God be like a brother to us
it's referring to the relationship of
brotherhood between someone like Joseph
and Benjamin their relationship was pure
love yonex should they e me as a verse
refers to these brothers as two people
who suckled at the same breath they had
the same mother and therefore their
relationship was a unique and special
relationship now we need to understand
as they say Jose points out that
binyomin never actually suckled from his
mother's milk because Benjamin as he was
born his mother Rachel passed away so
but we refer to them in this way because
the fact that they were both from the
same
as the exploit now it's important to
understand that what is the idea behind
us that they suckles from the same
breast what is that idea what is the
depth of that idea we'll see soon but
it's very connected to the following
that we see the metro systems besides
for Benjamin and Joseph besides for
their relationship being an ideal
brotherly relationship we also have
another relationship commercial Irene we
have the relationship between Moses and
Aaron shamima the verse tells us how
Yale applies cachet behar like him by Yi
Xiao Qi he went out the mountain of God
and he kissed him so he see that there
was a special relationship between them
but what's interesting here is that when
it comes to Moses and Aaron what is the
thing that binds them it's not the fact
although it's true it's not the fact
that they both chuckle from the same
milk but rather it's the fact that they
kissed each other the measures goes on
to speak about different kisses and what
are the real kisses which instances
within tanas refer to proper types of
kisses motion are are an example of a
proper type of kiss type of kids which
represents a true relationship which
represents something real the end of the
message says something amazing about
this kiss the verse also says in she
Reshiram in the song of songs em taka
buckets as chakra which literally means
I will find you outside I will kiss you
so the measures directions the aether
core which outside are we speaking about
by mid bar we're speaking about the
place which is outside of the regular
inhabitation which is a reference to the
wilderness mawkish Anushka octane is
Alyssa moisture Erin the place where God
finds us or the place where we find God
so to speak is out there in the
wilderness in a place where Moses and
Aaron kissed now I want to understand
what is the idea of this kiss what is
the idea of the measures that says that
if you want to meet God if you want to
find God or you want God to find you you
need to go to that place where Moses and
Aaron kissed what is the idea of that
and also how did the connect to yo
satyam in yemen that brotherhood that
they experience which is described as
yay make sure they e me that they had
the same common place where they suckled
and receive
milk how do these two ideas connect so
before we answer these questions I'd
like to direct your attention to another
mojesh which is a little bit farther on
but it's also based on this path look
we're in parsha hey and we were just
reading from the first section now we're
going to skip to the ninth section where
it also quotes the same verse so
emotional are in lake lacrosse money
shot with Laura God spoke to Aaron and
said go out scream OSHA in the
wilderness now the measure success here
something amazing and I'm going to share
it with you out of order because the
mesh well oftentimes quote a verse which
the magic wants to use for us teach you
something different in regards with
something else that's along the same
lines that has a similar idea and then
come back up but I'd like to first start
with the teaching that has to do an hour
verse and then bring it back to the
other teaching with the minute which the
measures brought along the way how
though they say the major says this is
what it says in a verse in job chapter
37 verse 5 yaron killed the Calina Floyd
God with his voice shall Thunder out
wondrous things what are these wondrous
things that God thunders out what's the
wondrous about God's voice so to speak
so the end of the measure she says like
this I'm removing removing said shush I
mahakaleshwar coulomb I should be Midian
when God spoke to Moses when he was
still in Midian and he said let's show
mr. imma I want you to go back to Egypt
necklace a devilish Nicholas this
statement of God broke down into two
separate voices vanassa do partisan and
has two different phases where my shoe
show me abou Midian Moses was back in
Midian and he heard let's shoot mr. i'ma
hear the words go back to Egypt at the
same moment the iron Shania Aaron heard
the same voice but it says something
different it said lake lacrosse Muhammad
borrow go out to Moses into the
wilderness has a yahren killed the color
in the floyds this is the meaning of the
verse which speaks to the thunderous
voice of God which does wonders the
Wonder is the amazing thing is that God
can say one thing and clearly we need to
understand what this means but God can
say one thing one undifferentiated
statement and two different people
well here at the same time that
statement and understand how that
statement affects them and what they are
meant to do moshe will hear go to Egypt
Arnel here go meet Moshe in the
wilderness now here an amazing thing the
measure says that this is not the only
place where we see that Shem spoke in a
way which was undifferentiated and
different people heard different things
we find this out there over a vehicle
nervy evidence said oh yeah how Cully
I'd say this is speaking about in
regards to another giving of the Torah
at Mount Sinai when God gives a Torah so
it wasn't just received by the Jewish
people the Jewish people were not the
only ones who had a spiritual revelation
at that time to the vehicle and I akali
I'd say the voice came out the netflix
assuring comics it was split into 70
voices machine love shine 70 languages
today sheesh Mahal Agra mice so that all
the nations were here we call it uma uma
Hamas convolutional uma each of the
different nations would hear in their
own language what was going on in
spiritual revelation now the Jewish
people received the Torah received a
spiritual revelation in a different way
in the nations of the world and after
she sang Yates's when it came to the
nations of the world when they heard
this revelation their souls went out of
them they were unable to withstand it of
all you throttle you shouldn't know how
your new zeichen the Jewish people could
hear it and they weren't damaged by it
Kate said how you call us a very similar
language to what we saw before in
regards to motion our houses voice come
out i'll grab akuma akuma said do park
soon honey I'd say would come out in two
different ways two different phases are
you yet leave a hard like the of
him it would come out and kill the idol
worshippers those who didn't have the
ability to receive it should like get
blue huh they had not received at all
right like we know the famous meh Jewish
that God went around to the nations of
the world and ask each one of them will
you receive the Torah they asked them
what's written in it etc they weren't
willing to receive it they weren't able
to receive it so the tour itself its
spiritual force caused them to die it's
not clear if this is literal maybe it's
referring to the Egyptians the death of
the Egyptians or maybe it's because they
feel it explains it's not literal as
perhaps
virtual death but the idea is they were
not able to receive it the knows him
kindly throw but the same voice which
destroyed the nations which destroyed
the idolaters the Jewish people heard it
and it gave them life shiki Lewis attire
because they received the Torah and the
message goes on to say that each person
received the Torah whether it was an
adult where there was a child whether it
was an elderly person whether it was a
man whether it was a woman whether it
was Moshe Robin himself each person
received that voice they heard that
voice they heard that sound that
spiritual message it was tailored to
them a heard it according to their very
own way according to their car according
to their spiritual ability so Hashem
spoke with a certain voice a Shem said a
certain all-inclusive type of statements
and each person heard that which applied
to them and each person received that
which they could receive also very
interesting and I don't want to get into
the set length but it's very interesting
that the measure says that the manna had
the same characteristic the month also
it was a food that it had an
all-inclusive taste and depending on the
individual depending on their status
depending if they were exotic where they
were young or where they were old the
the Torres a few different descriptions
of the taste of the month and each of
these different descriptions it depended
on the person who is eating it in the
same way as this voice comes out and is
heard differently so to the food of the
manor could be tasted differently
depending on the individual and their
ability to receive and as we read this
when you understand what is the idea of
this voice what is the idea that there's
one sound there's one voice that it's
heard by two different people
differently what is that idea what is
the message coming to teachers also how
does it connect why is it being common
saying worse as we learn all the ideas
that we spoke about in regards to the
cast in regards to the Brotherhood of
motion our own what is the idea what is
the connection so I just want to read
one more piece from the same address
which also has you read it it's
difficult to understand at first but
there's an amazing depth to what's being
taught here by our house all it says
like this mahu yarning what is the idea
that
God thunders with his voice he's
wondrous thing because should not call
this Brooklyn satire vecina when God
gave the Torah at Mount Sinai Harry the
coil is really flowing with God's voice
he expressed the Jewish people
unbelievable things Kate's out what does
this mean or how to dis occur oh yeah
I'll kodesh more comic da bere God would
speak I'll call you sir the voice would
come out Omaha cervical Harlem and it
went around the entire world you saw
showing us a cobol a man died during at
first the Jewish people heard this voice
coming from the south so you Rustin
ledermann they ran through the south the
Kabbalistic oil in order to receive in
to accept this voice we done meth off
limits offline but then instead of
coming from the south when they got
there it starts to come from the north
while you rot too much suffering so then
the Jewish people was so anxious to
receive to hear the voice of God they
ran to the north I mean softly in that
Papa misra but then when I got to the
north so it starts to companies well you
wrote on the middle the Jewish people
rancid East we missed an epic line Lamar
of again after they got to the east it
switched and it started coming from the
west or you Ruxin tomorrow's they ran to
the west I mean I'm arithmetic lemon
ostrom I'm all of a sudden is switched
from being in the in the West to coming
from the heavens or you plainly name and
then I looked up to the heavens or never
but all rights then it came from the
earth when you have eaten RS and they
look down on the earth shanna Mars the
verse says this is environment
Deuteronomy chapter 4 verse 36 when I
show mine ish miyako is colorless
wrecker God sends out his voice to be
heard by you from the heavens in order
to test you or you still alive until
Isaiah and so after this whole entire
situation after running here running
they're trying to hear God's voice so
the Jewish people were saying to each
other rockland my int muttering which
literally means from where will we be
able to find wisdom but it also means
may I am the word may I in which means
from where can also be translated as
from nothingness hold on to that thought
well you sell I on a hike on a college
bar coolbaugh and so the Jewish people
were saying where is God coming from in
a miss Rockham you nadaram is different
is it from the south Chanel show me see
tybo the verse refers the fact that God
came from scene I the Zurich may say
you're a long way but then it speaks of
the fact that God he shines his light
from failure so it's coming from
different directions with silica means a
minus avoid the verse lacava Cook says
that God comes from tame on which is
south so it seems the Jewish people were
confused you know trying to hear God's
voice through running this way they were
running that way they couldn't figure
out how they could hear God's voice we
couldn't figure out where I was coming
from where is the source of God sound
very perplexing meddra Sh what is it
teaching us what is the idea what is
this depth of this that God's voice
comes from one direction person from a
different direction from the four
directions from the heavens from the
earth what is the measure saying what's
the depth of what this measure is trying
to teach us so in looking at the whole
picture here of what the mesh is going
to teach us I believe that what we're
seeing here is that there's a spiritual
revelation God is about to redeem the
Jewish people God is about to reveal
himself not just in the redemption but
also in the giving of the Torah the
purpose of the redemption from Egypt was
really that they should come to Mount
Sinai and should receive God's
revelation received the Torah which
would serve them for all time as a
bridge between the Jewish people and God
it would make that connection so the
subject here is God's revelation God's
Redemption relationship with God how
does one enter into a relationship with
God how does one access the redemption
has one access the revelation both on a
personal level and on a national level
so let's look carefully at the Midrash
them and go through it and see an
amazing amazing depth that the measure
she's teaching us first thing that we
spoke about was the Brotherhood we spoke
about ye o Satan binyomin we spoke about
the fact that they nurse from the same
milk and we spoke about motion are and
their kiss and the depth of what's going
on here is that two children were born
from the same womb to children who
suckled on the same breast means that
these two people been Yellin and yo
or motion Erin share a common destiny
share a common root and that route is so
deep that route is so special and it
binds them so tightly that they're true
brothers that can never be hatred or
animosity between them there's only love
that love is expressed by the second big
both suckled from the same milk and
interestingly the same act of suckling
that same motion that same movement of
the mouse is what we see when we mate
when we have a kiss the kiss represents
the fact that i want to receive i want
to receive i want to show the
unconnected to you so I get my child of
kids that shows I am connected to my
child two brothers kiss that the message
of the measure she is that when the
brothers kiss it shows that they are
both receiving milk sustenance spiritual
guidance from the same source they're
both connected to the same purpose
motion are and our brothers they serve
God they serve the Jewish people as the
team also with Miriam which I'm not
getting into now but they are the team
which brings about Redemption a sham
works through them to bring about
redemption now notice as the measure
said that where does God connect to the
Jewish people where do we find daughter
where does God find out outside bahu
what is the idea of outside that's the
place of kissing it's a place where
motion hour and kiss important to
understand why did I xem have to send
iron outside to the mid were to the
wilderness to meet Moshe there why
couldn't he have just received him
greeted him in Egypt there's something
amazing here and that is that in order
to access this place this route this
this place where I'm kissing I'm
receiving God's light I'm receiving
God's message I'm hearing God's voice
speak to me hearing my personal role in
God's plan where does it happen it
happens when I step out when I move out
of my regular place when I move out of
the inhabitation when I remove out of
all of the things that distract me
from the truth I need to step out and
and just like motion Aaron in a certain
sense they were born in the same womb
which was a place where they were
separated from the world yo SI manana
also has that aspect stepping out is the
place where it's possible to kiss
kissing represents the receiving the
willingness to receive like the baby
suckling that's possible when we step
out now let's look back at the second
marish where we see that there's an
undifferentiated voice the same voice
which God really says God's really
saying I want Redemption to happen now
so now moshe here's go to Egypt iron
years go greet your brother in the mid
bar to the same voice it's the same
transcendent voice to voice which is
outside which is which is the voice is
Kyle Lohse the voice that includes many
different statements and many different
people will hear different statements
depending on who they are but it depends
on their readiness to receive and as
though we see from the difference
between the Jewish people and uma solemn
and the ugly kahan the idolaters they
were not able to receive they were not
willing to receive they hadn't puckered
up so to speak to receive that milk so
the milk spilled all over their faces it
ended up destroying them they weren't
able to receive it the Jewish people had
prepared themselves to receive it but
the question is how does one prepare
themselves to receive the amazing voice
of God the awesome thundering voice of
God and I believe that the first part of
the measures which is the last one that
I shared with you is the secret to
receiving to preparing to receive and
that is Hashem speaks to us from many
different places that's what the major
should sing first day here in the north
and you're in the south and the yearning
the east in the west from the heavens
and earth what is this confusion what is
this God is just sending them on a wild
goose chase no that's not what this
legend should saying much is the thing
that God speaks up from many different
directions God sometimes pieces from
here sometimes God speaks us through a
good old I Tyra through a great tour a
giant sometimes II speaks up to a
regular person
sometimes he speaks to us through nature
through our experiences but God's voice
comes from many different places and the
Jewish people were willing to run
wherever they believed they heard God's
voice from now it seems like God is so
this beginning them the runaround quite
literally but that's not true the fact
that they're running to receive is what
makes them open to receive it wherever
it's going to come from sometimes it
will come from this direction sometimes
it will come from that direction and
ultimately they say about my main int
mot say that the wisdom can come from
nothing it doesn't just have to come
from any direction I can also be static
I can be sitting in my place and God
will direct me as well but that's only
possible after I've run in every
direction and by the way if you think
about it this is the idea of the lulav
I'm not going to get into it at all but
the Lula we also put we move it in each
of the different directions always
bringing it back to the center this idea
as well being willing to do God's will
running in any direction in order to try
to receive what God wants to give to us
the act of moving that little back and
forth is receiving opening myself to
receive the Jewish people were open to
receiving and that's why each one was
going to hear what God wanted to say to
them God said a general statement I want
a relationship with you and each
individual heard a different thing what
is my special relationship with God look
like what is my special Mitzvah that's
precious to me what is my elegant are my
portion in the Torah that's special to
me what miss Esther can I learn that I
relate to that's going to be when I come
after 120 i'm going to say god this is
the most secular this is attracted at a
comrade that was special to me this is
what my relationship looks like with you
what is that voice are we ready to hear
it are we ready to run in any direction
in order to hear god's voice are we open
to receive if we are we will receive and
we will get exactly the message we're
supposed to get god's voice will come
down in an undifferentiated form but
will be differentiated for us as
individuals and we will know if we are
seeking we will know
what are individual purposes and what
our relationship with God looks like but
only if we're willing to receive and how
is the difference between the Jewish
people and the idolaters who are not
willing to receive we're not willing to
be open who are not willing to change
that's Moshe rubino that's Aaron they
kiss each other there's no animosity
between them they don't they don't see
anything but their own purpose they
don't look at the other person and say
oh I wish I had what he has they're
brothers they come from the same mother
from the same woman they suckled from
the same milk they recognized that each
one of them had a special role to play
had a special taste to bring into the
world had a special role in the divine
plan in his plan of redemption and there
was no room there was no necessity so
there's a any anger or jealousy there
was no place for that that's the true
Brotherhood and that's the brotherhood
that we ask of God we ask please God
kiss me please God show me what you want
for me I'm ready to kiss you my god I am
ready to receive I've puckered up we're
ready to receive the milk I'm ready to
receive the guidance i'm ready to hear
your voice I'm ready to eat that manner
and taste whatever taste I'm supposed to
taste to have my relationship with you
God which is unique to me and to have my
relationship with the world to manifest
in the world something which is unique
to me and I don't need to look at
anybody else some should blessa such
them should help us to understand the
depth of this teaching assumption help
us to have that kiss have that love have
that recognition had that willingness to
receive has that willingness to run in
any direction in order to hear God's
voice shrim should help us to indeed
hear exactly what it is that he wants
from us every day thank you so much for
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