Shemos - Zeh Keili - He Believes In Me

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with hari goldwag recorded with hashem's never-ending assistance in rama because israel 5781 2021 this week's priority is part of shamos we begin this week the safer of shamos the book of exodus the sephirah geulah the book of redemption which represents something that we remember every single day at cs mitsuram the exodus from egypt and it's the core of who we are as jews it's the core of who we are as a nation and also we are as individuals and there's some amazing and powerful concepts here that are so important to understand and i think speak to us right now where we are i don't know about exactly where you are but i'm an earth israel i'm in the land of israel and the jewish people once again are under a tremendous segue lock down can't leave our homes can't go very far if we do and so we find ourselves in a time of challenge a time of difficulty a challenge with our children a challenge to maintain our sanity a challenge with our parnosa with our livelihood and we need to face off with this and we need to understand what is the lesson and i think in our partial we have a very powerful explanation a powerful understanding of how to think about and to face off with challenges to understand that everything of course everything that hashem does is for our good but not just the good things are for our good the things that our challenges are not just okay we got to get through them get to the other side but rather the very challenges themselves represent some the opportunity for growth something greater than they seem on the surface this is a you know this is something which is expressed very succinctly succinctly and clearly by hazal you know the torah describes the fact that the jewish people after all of those of the generation who came down to egypt after they all passed on so the jewish people were made to become slaves they became slaves to paro to pharaoh and the egyptians possibly say something amazing to the degree that they would be subjected to difficult times to the to the pain that they to the pain to the degree that they were subjected to great pain and difficulty in a corresponding way they would become great and they would become and they would expand so it's very interesting imagine she says something which just has to do with us kane and rubble became part so the nemer doesn't say according to how much they were subjected to pain so too that's how much they grew great and they expanded and had many children and they came here virginia froze in the future it's future tense they shall become great they shall become expanded um in the times of the talmud [Music] fruits there was a prediction there was a prophetic prediction which stated at the onset of the jewish people when the jewish people first came into existence and went through their first gospel first exile hashem promised something that just as it was then that the difficulties and the challenges of the jewish people experienced unmatched unparalleled difficulties and challenges and it caused them to become greater it caused them to become stronger it caused them to be to become many so too it shall be throughout history all the times that the jewish people continue to to see and to experience challenges and difficulties those challenges will result in an expansion in a becoming great it wasn't just in the past so that's a powerful foundation you know we think about why is it that the jewish people throughout history or specifically the story of the exodus why was it that the jewish people had to experience this tremendous difficulty why did they have to go through this slavery why were they subjected to such dire conditions and somehow the answer is that the jewish people because not despite but because of the challenges that they experienced because of the slavery because of their being degraded and and under the heels of the egyptians because of that they grew to greatness they grew to prominence this was true of yosef sadiq and this is true of the jewish people in general and this is also presented it's not in this week's pressure i believe it's the next week's parasha torah says what represents the jewish people is the moon the moon represents us why so there are other nations that also they the the islamic nations they follow them they have a lunar calendar but what it represents for us besides the fact that we also follow our lunar calendar what it represents for us is just as the moon has phases it goes it gets brighter and gets darker the jewish people also have phases and it's because of the darkness that we end up being full of light it's not it's not just like the sun that's always shining but rather we go through the darkness and we must go through the darkness in order to have the light we have to have that so now i'd like to share with you just an amazing and beautiful such a beautiful myra hazal a madrish that talks about this challenge this difficulty and how it resulted in an awesome revelation you may or may not be familiar i have a song it's called zekely the song hashem has been heard many times over a hundred thousand times or 150 000 times it's a beautiful song a touching song zeke lee he believes in me hashem believes in me uttamiriti is always with me he's always with me that's the the concept of the song but you may ask zeke lee we think of zek lee we think of zeke levan veyro this is my god i shall glorify him usually zeke haley means that i'm going to i'm doing i'm going to do a mitzvah i'm going to do it in the right way i'm going to have a beautiful talus i'm gonna have a beautiful lulu of an esrig i'm gonna have a beautiful mezuzah all the myths that we do we beautify them but there's a deeper shot in zekely which has to do with the fact that he believes in me i'd like to share with you the makur the source for this idea that i based the song on it's based on this matrices i'm about to teach you i'm about to share with you arabic series goes our para based on this verse the message tells us that in what way did they afflict us in what way did they cause this anguish and pain so there were four different gazers four different decrees the paro the pharaoh placed on the jewish people has made a decree that they should the the jewish people should be in a very difficult situation they should have a very difficult quota to fill of bricks of whatever it might be that they had to that they had to produce below you you shamed what was the purpose of this why did they make such a such a difficult quota so that they shouldn't sleep in their homes he wanted them not to sleep at home he wants them to to sleep out on the earth in the field where they were where they were working in order that they shouldn't be able to return home and continue to produce more and more jews they're not sleeping in their homes so then they'll let kids they won't have kids highly kim so god i promised abraham their forefather that there's going to be so many jews is going to be as great as the stars as many as the stars in genesis chapter 22 verse 17 hashem promises to abraham i'm going to make your children as great as the stars as they were speaking to the egyptians saying you are going to prevent my children from having kids this reminds me of the brothers with yosef trying to sell him in order that he shouldn't rule over them you think you guys are going to get rid of him you think you guys are going to cause the jewish people not to have children near azad we'll see whose matter is going to win out in the end your your version of reality you the egyptians trying to prevent them from having children or my version of reality okay so what happens i'm about to i'm about to share with you but before i share with you understand that the entire description that we're about to read of how indeed it was that even though the egyptians tried to prevent them from having children trying to prevent them from going home being with their family despite that hashem had another plan and he and he was able to execute the plan through the jewish women listen to this beautiful beautiful measure such a beautiful measure so touching and as we read it understand and remember what i told you at the very beginning which is that this concept whatever happened in egypt was a prototype for what happened to the jewish people throughout history every single thing that happened there the reason that we went into ghosts into exile to have these difficult times was so that we would become great so we would grow and become great so listen to this listen to this beautiful magic and the message i have to warn you where i have to give you the heads up is going to end with the word zeke levan zekely that this is my god so so watch as we see how hashem believes in us how hashem takes care of us i'm make sure that the plants of the egyptians do not come to fruition says of the righteous women of that generation the jewish people were redeemed from egypt what did they do now picture the scene the jewish people the women are home alone with their kids the husbands are out in the field don't come home they never come home they never come home they're busy working they sleep out in the fields there's not a moment for them to have breathing space there's nothing there's no thought in their mind of going home a terrible terrible situation what do these women do male 1 listen to hashem guided and helped them so beautiful when they would go out to to draw water from a well to drinking water because they would have hashem took care of them amazing seattle deshmaya divine providence in as they as their buckets came up with the water inside of those buckets the buckets were not just filled with water they were filled with small fish as they would draw the water half of it would be water half of it would be fish island now understand this understand this it's so beautiful we need to understand what it means they would take two pots they would take two parts one pot filled with hot water with water one pot filled with fish and they would heat up these two massive pots um each woman would do this for her husband she would come out to the field where they were all alone there sleeping on the floor she would warm up the water and she would use that water to massage her husband to to to calm him down from the backbreaking difficult work that he was involved in and she would give him food she would give him the fish these two great big pots would serve as cover for the woman and the man to be together so that they could be able to conceive with children as apostles says if you shall sleep between the father and the worship time as the major understands it is a reference to the fact that they would they would be together between these two massive pots the one of my fortune explains that this word the root of shiva time the word refers to the fact that when you place a pot on a on a stove it's called this word time so the women through their care for their husbands through their encouragement of their husbands they will be able to keep the jewish people alive to thwart the plan of paro pharaoh this decreed that these men shouldn't be with their in their homes shouldn't be with their wives who put in the mines and within the pots and the the the the barrels that they were using to to pull out the water they put inside he put there the water and the and the fish for them to be able to eat so they could survive and help their husbands we came in they would get pregnant they would return home now listen to this because this is where we get to zeke he believes in me he's helping me he's always with me these women would would give birth now what would happen when they give birth they couldn't they couldn't take care of their children at home because if if the egyptians would find out that they have kids those children will be thrown into the sea they would throw them sorry into the river so what would they do they would go back out to the field and that's where they would give birth okay now i'm going to share with you the second the the second part of the madrish there's two different versions of it and i'd like to share with you the second version which is actually on the possibility of this plastic where the the jewish people said this is my god and i shall glorify him okay so then she would go out to the field and she would give birth there but kevin shall i see your leaders this is this amazing thing difficult to understand but listen to the beauty of it it's such a touching such a touching scene she would go out and she would give birth she would leave it she would leave the baby there and she would say hashem this child is yours out in the field well eimeiros rebino she would say master the world ani assist i've done my part now you do your part so she would give the child over to ako and says the other one was lucky this is two friends himself would come down in his in his honor as it were he would cut off the the what's left over the belly button left over the umbilical cord you would wash them take care of them very interesting same lush same language as what the wife did for her husband he washed her she washed him and she and she would rub oil on and massage him shen did that for these babies he would have two bottles in his hand as it were hashem would take care of these children and place in their mouths two bottles one which was oil and one which was honey well you get a masada they would grow in the field it caused you to grow and become great out in the field they would grow up they would go back at a certain point to their homes and the parents would be amazed they couldn't believe it this is their child where who who how did you survive how did you come back who took care of you well your ireland they would say it was a young man very beautiful he would come down to the field and give us all everything we needed that's how they saw this would appear to them as a as a young man a strapping young man the chemistry about you early um now listen to this so beautiful when they got to the sea when they got to when they experienced that awesomeness the the sea split they had the most awesome revelation of the highest realms the highest realms they saw as they were they were able to say zekely van gaal this is my god they pointed they came in shabbos those children had grown up they were there they were at the sea they saw hashem as it were he saw a vision they said to their parents daddy daddy mommy mommy that's the one that's the one who took care of us that's the one that took care of us when we were out in the fields when we were in egypt general zekely they pointed and said this is my god so beautiful this is my god i'll glorify him think about it there's this back and forth between the house and the field power says i don't want you to be in your homes i don't want you i don't want your children to i don't want you to have children i don't want them to grow despite the fact that they're out in the field despite the fact that the field represents the exile the exile from our home it represents the jewish people also we have a home it's called arts israel we've been exiled from our own jews throughout europe throughout america australia africa everywhere in the world that represents the field and when we go out into the field it's impossible for us to have kids it's impossible for us to continue we're so far away from our home we're so far away from our connection here's israel land of israel is the place for a connection to hashem but hashem sends out the women sends out the women the women represent the spiritual ones among us who have the ability to remind us don't give up don't get destroyed by the exile don't get destroyed by being out here in the field by the eno by the by the unparalleled difficulties that you're going through out here in the field and they would bring just just like the woman would go out to the husband hashem as they were sends the binay torah those who are learning the torah hashem sends the the godailam the great sages the great leaders of the jewish people to remind us to wash us to give us food the water is the torah the fish just like a fish out of water we're with the jewish people if we're out if we don't have the tire if we don't have these spiritual teachings we're like a fish out of water that's what's represented there in that muscle in that analogy the jewish people there we are that's where we continue with the with the water of torah with the fish the aspect of sneeze the fish represents not gonna get into that right now there we are and there we grow out in the field seems like we're not gonna make it we're all alone we're left here alone back to the house back to we get back to our citadel we're kicked out again back out to the field and there we are out in the field and hashem is saying i will take care of you i will help you grow your mother and father don't seem to be here you don't have those leaders perhaps you've lost your connection to your roots but even out here in the field even out here in the gullets even out here in the exile i'm here to take care of you and help you grow i believe in you i believe in you i'm always with you i'm always taking care of you and it's here that you grow like we saw to the extent that they sent us out into the field to the extent that it caused us to have so much pain in a corresponding way we became greater and greater not just then in the times of egypt throughout our history up to today up to our very times until this very challenge that we face right now that has been with us for almost a year [Music] this challenge seems to be getting more difficult but no understand take to heart the greater the challenge the greater the difficulty side by side with that is a revolver it's not a coincidence that just as the whole corona business was starting the coveted business was starting in february of last year there was an there was the beginnings of of a new way that the middle east is going to look that the arab world is going to look at the jewish people and as we get into another stage of challenge and difficulty things seem to be getting better with the vaccines and things seem to be an another version of it another something else getting harder better harder same time know and understand the harder it is the more we grow hashem is bringing us through an amazing time an unbelievable time a challenging time but we need to know that just as it was in egypt those challenges we never forget yesterday we never forget the exodus from egypt we never forget the slavery of the main of the parliament's right we never forget that because we need to know we need to remember that it's not just then but it's also now the challenges the difficulties the times when we feel we can't go on those are the times that we grow from those are the times that something awesome is waiting on the other end it's called the gula is called the redemption it's called an exodus so i want to bless you and ask you to bless me that hashem should help us to see to know that he believes in us that he is there helping us grow that the challenges themselves are the root and the source of the greatness that we can achieve thank you so much thank you so much for listening have a wonderful shot miss 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 ari goldwag