Ari Goldwag - Shlach - Learning to Wait

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with our Eagle drag recorded with the Shems never-ending assistance in rubbish Mitch Israel 5778 2018 this week's parshas partial schwa and in our partial this week so we have the story of the Moraga l'm of the spies god instructs moshe albedo to send the spice of the land of israel to check out the land the spies for for the reason as Cazalas our sages tell us that they had a certain aghia they had a certain bias so they ended up making the mistake of saying negative things about the Land of Israel the Jewish people as a result of that cried on the night of tissue buff and the decree came down from God that they should be in the land I'm sorry in the wilderness not be able to enter into the Land of Israel for forty years and so at the end of this story so god hashem says that he makes a promise makes an oath that those who are of age who are of the correct age so they will not be able to enter into the land of israel they will die during their sojourn during their wandering in the desert and the measure speaks about this concept he the measure speaks about what happened there what went on and i'd like to share with you the the zero what was the what was the decree on on whom or to whom did this decree apply so the measures tells us something extremely interesting and there's an amazing lesson in this mesh which i'd like to share with you the measure says like a slum kyani but Germer mu God promises God makes an oath that those who are from the age of 20 and up so they will die in the mid where they will die in the wilderness now there's a very interesting thing what about the people who are less than the age of 20 so we find that anyone who was under the age of 20 so they merited to enter into the Land of Israel because there's a concept that a person who's under the age of 20 is not yet - uhm can't be called to court and found guilty in something that would involve a liability for death so now it says like it's me Ben as some shun of a ma from 20 and up man is from Shauna somebody who was 20 years old let's say they were exactly 20 or 20 years old Bing or 20 years old enough Bing shahe in my base I mentioned Ohama in manba ASA so the decree was that whether that person was involved in the access log and whether they actually fell into the sin of the spies or whether they didn't fall in whether they were righteous so there's a concept that both that when there's eggs and when there's a decree so it falls upon the righteous and those who are not righteous as well why as explaining them a fortune because they should have been mindful they should have protested now so so whether they were in voluntour not if they were over 20 there was a decree on the entire Jewish people from the age of twenty to sixty that they would have to pass away bajas Nev an assumption are the heaviest a Cyrus let's say a person was under the age of 20 but he had not yet hit puberty ben-shahar human bait submission la jolla and manba itza so then he's not kind of he's not high if he's not liable for death therefore it wasn't going to be part of this exist decree and maybe today Cyrus who Papa's miss room let's say he had hit puberty but he was less than 20 years old hiya my mates a lawyer Nicholas so the original decree was that if he was involved if he indeed had taken part in if he taken part in the sin of the spies he wouldn't go into the Land of Israel okay maybe we should say Cyrus who focus me a sermon sorry rhythm now for peaking line Mesa command post magician Shana and the mentor she says an amazing thing that despite that despite the fact that there was a decree that they shouldn't those who were involved in the sin would not go into the line of Israel if the even if they were under 20 nevertheless when it came down to it when they got to the age of 60 these people did not die they didn't die they actually if they were under 20 they went into the land of Israel even if they had done the sin or they end volved in the sin of the spies as long as they were less than 20 years old now it's very interesting what's the idea here what is the constant what is the measures teaching us how is it that somebody could do such a great sin that all those who were over 20 would would lose out from that they would die from and not only that even if the people if they were over 20 they would die from it even if they weren't actually involved in the sin right but if they were under 20 so then it didn't it didn't occur that way it didn't work out that way what's the idea amazing thing the the way that is explained in the NCIC if he explains that the reason is because since originally they were righteous since even though they sinned at this time so somehow with the passage of time since they got through the 40 years so they were forgiven for their sin what is the idea we're gonna speak about what is the concept mind I'd like to share with you more of the mesh because it gives us more information that we can work with and try to understand what's going on okay buddy hooray coming here my being Sadiq Russia being able okay Michelle a body what is the difference between someone who is a righteous person versus someone who's evil someone's not good and what is the difference between a person who serves God and someone who doesn't serve God okay very interesting muscle very interesting analogy the measure she gives us as follows much of a much venice' it's an analogy to a princess or a queen really a queen so I saw a ship like ooh she's she had a slave a maidservant who was not very beautiful was we could say ugly baila Medina say YUM now the the king the king who was married to this queen who had this ship car this maidservant who was not beautiful so the king went off to a faraway land : isla now that entire night when the king was gone my marriage my sociology symmetry know the the shift off the maidservant says to the Queen terrible thing such insolence she said I need Namie make it's dark now it was dark you know you couldn't really see it couldn't really tell and she said I am more beautiful than you medical I hate my comm if the King loves me more than the King loves you I'm allowing so much from my trainer and the Queen well what do you say to a foolish maidservant right the the Queen said to her y'all by a biker the morning will come the king will return we need that me know Misha I owe you every sawmill and then we will know once the king comes back we'll know who is beautiful who is truly beautiful you ought to see you'll be clear in the morning now it's dark and we'll see who is the one whom the King loves I've cattlemen solemn I mean the Israel this is exactly what the nations of the world throughout the last 2,000 years of grellus throughout the last 2000 years of Exile have said to the Jewish people and nothing my sailing often look at us our actions are very beautiful look how good we are Bunnel coffee stucco - Babu God wants us right so many years the Jewish people have suffered from persecution nations of the world want to convert us through their understanding of God their understanding of what God wants and they say to us look how beautiful our ways are and Makaha a Shia sorry Isaiah the prophet says you're my book I'm on the other made me coffee it's the morning will come and we'll know who the king wants who God wants who is the true queen of God and who is just a maidservant shanem are as the verse says in Isaiah chapter 21 verse 12 our Marsh I'm aero-sub by Kevin I'm Lila Schumer which is somebody who waits try Merritt like it says by Aquafina by Jacob by beef shamar's olive are that Jacob was waiting after the after you heard all the dreams of Joseph he was waiting to see what's going to be with those dreams Amish Shimer the one who waits says osso bucco Ben I'm Lila the morning will come and also night I mean the night will pass the morning will come never LOL m hi Bo she Nick rebuked biker the world to come is going to come meaning the Mishnah times of the Messiah are going to arrive only I know many huh fates we'll see who God wants it'll be very clear the shaft are--some it's a tequila Russia the verse says in Malacca in Malachi chapter 3 verse 18 that we're going to see who is the truth Sally who is the true righteous one and who is the one that's not righteous who's the one who's evil okay and there's one last piece of the measure which I'm going to get to in a moment but what we see here is an amazing thing and that is that the Jewish people throughout the generations it's very similar it's it's a parallel that when you read the mesh at first glance it doesn't seem to flow one piece into the other but but it's really saying the same exact idea the there was a 40-year period during that 40 year period so there were people who were high of misa that they had exam there was a decree pond and that they should die however as the four year period passed somehow we need to understand how it's gonna be part of our discussion but somehow those who were originally righteous as long as they were under the age of 20 those who were originally righteous and had sinned were returned to the righteous place they were returned to who they really were they were forgiven and they didn't have to die amazing thing similar parallel the Jewish people go through gallows we go through an exile and many times the Jewish people have lost their faith or they've gone after their they've lost their that path the tire is telling us the message is telling us here that even as the nations of the world say God chose us God rejected you you didn't keep the Torah you didn't keep the commandments God doesn't want you anymore even as the nations of the world say that we say back what I say the Prophet says which is you Shia says wait till the morning let's see what is the truth who is the true Queen who is the true maidservant okay so even though we may have lost it so to speak we may have veered from the path of God ultimately because of the passage of time and that's the fun that's important idea here because of the Fen of the passage of time so we get back articles we get back our righteousness and God acknowledges in the end who is the true Queen you know it seemed differently in the darkness okay last point in the measure also very much connected Seve the verse says I've handled many autumn Kosovan English person in tehilim in Psalms chapter 62 verse 10 says that human beings so we make mistakes we do things that are wrong we do things that are have all that are empty all right behave a shammy believing call of elam she saw Ison Kali must have shown amazing thing there are all kinds of things that we do the entire year all kinds of negative things that we do for the end of the verse says the most 9la noise they are raised up when it comes to the Muslim when it comes to the scales what is the idea of the scales Monica - Burcu when Muslim was Lima finished history God forgives the Jewish people for their sins for their foolishness that they did throughout the year when it comes to the month of Tishrei when it comes to yarmulke point when it comes to the holidays in Kippur Rosh Hashanah as the verse says keep my you might say you have a leaflet rs10 on this day God will atone for you and he will purify you what is the idea why I mean you think about it you know we can understand if you know we're saying that the Jewish a Jewish person does air a person there's a sin and then he does chuva he repents so then colors brocco forgives him but there's an amazing finish when it comes to in Kippur it's much like this it's not so simple about about to say but there is a concept that Yom Kippur is my hopper that Yom Kippur atones just the Jew reaching the day of Yom Kippur somehow atones for the Jew for the sins that he's done why why is that true and I think that it's very much connected to what we're talking about here there's a passage of time in the first section we have a passage of 40 years and somehow as a result of the passage of those 40 years the person was able to live through those 40 years was forgiven didn't have to die in the second section as well there's a passage of time there's a passage of Exile of Gulley's the Jewish people undergo this 2,000 years were outside of our country where we have to go amongst the nations of the world we have to be scorned and made fun of and unforced conversions and everything like that right there's a passage of time from the time that a person sins until Yom Kippur there's a passage of time what happens in that passage of time why is it can we try to understand believe that this is the very deep idea we try to understand how is it that with the passage of time some other zakah para there's an atonement for a great sin for I have a foolishness that a person has done how does that work what is the idea what is the concept what is the measure teaching us and I was thinking about you know we live in a world where we want everything instantly want everything now I have to know I got to know what time is the bus come jump into Google find out what time the bus comes I got to know whatever information news or I haven't I've I have a desire I must have it now Mary it's a very childish thing I have six kids I'm a child you know I'm a child myself I've siblings I'm my parents thank God you should live in me well 220 and you know a child the way their child thinks is I must have this now I myself what I want now you know mommy mommy come mommy I'm in the middle of something come now no no I'm the middle of something I can't come right now child doesn't understand that child doesn't relate to that child doesn't know how to wait Shar doesn't allow to wait and in our generation while it's wonderful that we have so many things that we can do instantly well we can use a microwave and heat up the water instantly wow we can there's so many things either is fast food there's kinds of things that are you walk into them into the grocery store in an instant you can have a plethora of unbelievable foods that are there for you right now can get whatever you want now there's some we understand intuitively we understand that there's a milah there's an advantage to waiting for something the things that we get right away the things that we get in a moment cuz I want it now don't always work out to be so enjoyable or there's something missing in it because I got it now right fast food is not that healthy right if I drink if I eat a candy try to explain to my kids it's not healthy what does idea I mean I want that intense sweetness now right I can't wait or okay you know any kind of addiction is I want an intense feeling of happiness or enjoyment right now I can't wait and but there's something in waiting there's something that happens when I wait something that happens when I'm willing to wait for something you know for example you know well I put out a put out a CD I put out music right so the those who listened to the music so they get it right away for them it's right away but I've been working on it for two and a half years you know that's a long time and I've been waiting and then I have to wait to see are people going to receive the music how are people going to receive the music and then I wait you know someone suggested it to me you know maybe you could make move the move the video you put out a video maybe you can move it along a little faster by buying views which is done in certain places but I don't do that Cabaye views you can get more people to and then YouTube will show it to more people yet you could I don't want it right away I don't want to cheat the system I don't want to cheat the system right I want to wait I wanted to be natural I want it to be real right somehow when we wait for something somehow when we wait for something it's more real right in in Jewish law innallaha so a man and his wife there are periods of time that they can't be together when she's menstruating they're not allowed to be together there's something powerful that happens when they wait they can't have it right now they can't have what they want right now they have to wait and then when they come back together as Cazalas the sages tell us so it's like the call of the Hoopoe so it's like somebody they just come it's like they just got married it's a renewal right something happens because they waited because they waited and they honored the natural process the natural cycle there's something else that happens while we wait and I think that that's also involved in what's going on here because it's a big cache it's very hard to understand there's a schita as I mentioned there's an opinion that says that just living through the day of Yom Kippur it's enough for a person to get an atonement just living through that day now why should that be I did that I did I repent did I show my kid that I did something that I recognized it is something wrong did I say I'm gonna change maybe not but still somehow Yom Kippur changes that I want to show you from the original Yom Kippur how that works okay because it's mentioned over here the marzu says only very interesting he says that that the previous year before this son of the spies the previous year was the hata angle was the sin of the golden calf the Jewish people sinned on Shabbat Sabbath Tamas which is coming up in about three weeks two and a half weeks or so the Jewish people sinned they they were God said I'm gonna destroy them and Moshe I've been diving and prayed on behalf of the Jewish people that they shouldn't be destroyed God said God relented but God didn't take take it back so quickly I actually took motion are banal another 80 days to get atonement well Charbonneau came down on Shabbat Sabbath ammos he went back up another forty days he came back down another forty days he came back down the last time after 120 days of being on that mountain on Yom Kippur came down on the day of atonement on Yom Kippur and he received atonement for the Jewish people now why did he need so long what do you need so much time for he already asked that she already said I forgive them what do you need to be there so long for it's very difficult to understand and and to not not really to compound it but just to point out something interesting is that the same thing happened here the marzo says he says that the sin I was on Tisha buff of the Marah gloom of despise the Jews cried became a day of mourning for all generations but the sin was on Tisha buff when were they forgiven mushrooming asks for forgiveness it sounds like it happened right away he says no didn't happen till Yom Kippur same exact thing the jewish people were forgiven on Yom Kippur what's that about what is the idea what why did I have to wait why can they be forgiven right away so at the simplest level we understand that you know if someone says some of there's something wrong someone hurts my feelings and then he rarely apologizes we all get that you know it's not if there's something lacking in the sincerity perhaps wait a moment you know wait a moment or waited day and then come back and apologize I need to see that you really mean it or I need to perhaps simmer down for my feelings you know you hurt my feelings right so you Anna we can understand on a simple level that by waiting so you know it's it's more sincere apology on another level and this is I think the death this is really deep and this is really beautiful when a person sins when a person does something wrong and then there's a time period that passes and then because it gets the M Kippur and so forgives them what is the idea I think that part of the idea is that as a person lives the more that a person lives the more difficulties he encounters that's that's the way I call this Brock who set up the world the way m set up the world is that a person lives a person has challenges a person has difficulties those difficulties the purpose of those difficulties is to give a person in Atonement to give a person a Caparo when a person lives through challenges that atones for him he gets the yom kippur you know why why is he get a cup are even if you didn't do chuhwa because he encountered challenges in his life and the challenges just the passage of time gives him an opportunity to have a cup ara to have a an atonement and I think that that's true about the 40 years that the Jews were in the mid bar originally I shouldn't had decided that these people had examined that they were going to they were not gonna make it under 20 doesn't matter you're not gonna make it but with the passage of time so many things had had occurred so many difficulties so many challenges had passed was a Khepera it atoned for them they didn't have to die in the end the Jewish people have gone through exile you know we haven't all done such a good job perhaps you haven't all made it to the end to the finish line so well but still we've gone through the difficulties we've gone through the challenges and our Shem says us a biker began Lyla you are restored back to yours it goes like the 80s who said we are restored back to our original state of righteousness why what did i do I did in a very I didn't I didn't repent no the fact that have gone through challenges the fact that I've lived my life the fact that I've experienced the difficulties of life that affords for me a Khepera an atonement for the sins that I've done and I believe that that's the understanding of this piece in the magic and I think that it's very deep and it's very beautiful it teaches us something awesome because you know we we all go through difficulties in in life every single one of us and you know sometimes we say God why doing this to me like what did I do wrong what did I do wrong and and and there's there's a place where we see us actually where somebody didn't do anything wrong yes if it's Alec he's in 12 years in jail 12 years he's in jail somehow that challenge that difficulty made it possible made it possible for him to become the leader over first the people of Egypt and then over the Jews themselves somehow the difficulties and the challenges that we experienced the passage of time affords us something amazing an amazing opportunity to receive something beyond what we really deserve and sometimes that means a cut part and atonement for sin that we didn't even repent on and sometimes that means that we're going to be lifted up and and be able to be in Yosef case the leader over the over the entire world over the Egyptians and over the Jewish people it's that passage of time it's an experience of challenge an experience of difficulty that affords that for us so we need to think about that Hashem should bless you and ask you to bless me Shem should help us all that we should be able to recognize that the challenges and the passage of time is an awesome opportunity for us to be able to to experience those difficulties and challenges accept them with love recognize that everything is from a Shem even the challenges even the difficulties remember that that is true some should help us to recognize that and Toyota to reap the rewards be able to see how with the passage of time so much good we are able to receive so much good so much good shall be our experience thank you so much for listening I 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.carmensognonvi.com/newsletter [Music]