Shmini - Balancing Vessels and Light

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with ari goldwag recorded with hashem's neverending assistance in ramaphishmi israel 5781 2021. this week's parsha is precious shmini and our parsha is the eighth day of the establishment of the tabernacle that place where the jewish people will connect hashem and it's the completion it's a completion of all of the work which we've spoken about previously of the creation of the parts of the mishkan the putting up of the mishkan and finally nissan which is the eighth day the mishkan is indeed who come it is put up and in our parsha we have the story of nathan avihu those two great sadikim who came they were drunk they had drink they drank wine and they came into the shop in the holy of holies with a czar with a foreign fire and their lives were lost immediately after the third tells us that there's an there's a there's a prohibition it's prohibited for kohanum for priests to drink when they are coming to serve hashem in the mishkan and about this the mejis brings something very interesting and i'd like to share with you it's extremely deep so hold on to your seats here it talks about what happened when the the base hamiktus king solomon when he completed the base amigdas the construction of the temple so there too there was something with wine so we're going to see we're going to see together that there's something with wine that happened he drank wine which he hadn't done for seven years but not only that he married the daughter of paro he you know which as our ghazal tell us was going to be the downfall of shalom elect of king salman but we see in the madrish that there's something that happens a specific thing that happens with wine at the completion of the mishkan with another view something that happens at the completion of the best as the temple is completed put up something also happens with wine and we're going to see that these two ideas are clearly connected we need to understand what is the idea what happens at the completion of a mishkan what happens at the completion of a base hamikdash i'd like to share with you the magish it says as follows i'm going to have buden and i'm going to actually read this this is in two different places one is here in vaikra and one is in bamidbar the same major slightly different versions for the seven years the king solomon was working on on the temple on building the temple he was leading the construction he did not drink any wine kevin should know even what happened that day that day so he completed the base of mikdash and he married the daughter of paro and that night he drank wine there was a tremendous party king solomon made a big party one party was for the fact that he had completed the besamekdush and one party was for the fact that he now married the daughter of paro okay and obviously the question is clear well first i'm talking about the fact that really shalom seems had married her previously but it sounds like he didn't make this party he didn't celebrate the marriage to vasparo until the base of english was completed we need to understand what is the idea and this is the core this is really important it's the core of what i like to say and it's a very deep lesson why did celebrate his marriage to the daughter of paro on the night of the bin bash when the base of english was built and how does that relate also to the drinking of the wine why did he do that then was it seven years he didn't drink wine why not and how come now he did now listen to what happened because of this party makes two parties one party is for the base i make the success of building a base in english and one is for marrying the daughter of power america let's remember the daughter of power was not jewish right jew is not allowed to marry a guy interesting whose shall i accept who shall i re receive when we party so who is there that's what it sounds like we're making an offering to hashem we make a party we we we're so excited about the bin bash we're making a party he's so excited about marrying the door of paro which one shall i accept he saw that which party was greater that's what the other measure says we'll see it inside shortly he saw at the party of baspar muhammad was more excited about marrying the daughter of paro than he was about building the base hamikdash if that's the case says god i'm going to destroy you my anger caused me to pour out my wrath upon this city about you shalom recruiting the daughter of paro danced 80 different types of dances that night the next morning what happens king solomon doesn't get up he gets up late they were partying all night long and he gets up late and the tamisha shaka which is supposed to be brought by the third hour was brought by the fourth hour he had the keys under his pillow they didn't want to wake up how could they wake up king solomon ended up waking him up his mother ended up waking him up you're robin benavar ended up waking him up very interesting things very deep things remember these kinds of ideas bringing over there's something that they're trying to bring over there's a deep lesson okay his mother came in to wake him up his european benevole came to wake him up etcetera that's the first major in the other measures there's slightly different slight different things which which are very significant here it says doesn't mention the wine obviously argument is talking about our mentors the first measures talking about the wine because we're talking about wine in regards to the the consume of the mishkan the completion of the mishkan being built another view sin but here it talks it's in uh it's in bamidbar it's talking about a different topic brings this idea why is chancellors sometimes it's a magnificent power that night and they have a tremendous sim card of completion of the basement the joy of marrying baspar was higher it went up higher it was greater than the joy of the base we say the verse refers to king solomon as lemuel which means lamalike what do i need god for he threw off the yoke of heaven why is the show also like we saw hashem decided he's going to destroy the best at that moment and here's something interesting that it's not another madrid you mentioned over there 80 dances that she danced here it says that she brought in 1 000 types of music one thousand types of music she commanded that these musicians play that night all these different types of music and she said this is what this music sounds like in a particular idolatry this is what the music sounds like in that church this is what it sounds like in that home of idolatry it's a whole thing i'm not going to get into the the continuation but basically it says the same thing this went on all night long and as a result he got up late and the corbin thomas was brought late and uh shane we need to understand what's the idea we don't understand why is he marrying the daughter of power as we said before why is he marrying her at this moment of all times he's marrying the daughter of paro it's forbidden for a jew to marry a guy can't marry pop the daughter of paro what is the number thousand what was the thousand different types of song why didn't she protest when she's singing these songs when she has this music being played idolatrous music one of these 80 different types of dances what is the idea and i'm not going to get into we need to understand as well why what does it mean he got up late in the morning the following morning what is these ideas what is this concept what is the depth of what this magic is coming to teach us and how does it apply as well to the mishkan and how does it apply to us what does it mean to us so i'd like to share with you something very deep something very powerful something amazing the deeper sources they sell they tell us that god wants to reveal a beautiful light the light the orient safe the light of hashem god's awesome the most awesome thing that you can experience is the light of hashem that realization that revelation hashem is all that there is but the problem is we live in a physical world we can't receive that light it's just too awesome it's too great it would destroy us we'd be battle we have no we would lose ourselves we would just disappear in god's oneness so what does hashem do he wants to share that light with us he does something in order to cover up the light he does something to cover up the light it's called caleb vessels in order to hold the light just like if you have some water and you want you know you want to hold the water if you if i try to give you the water in your hands you're gonna it's gonna slip through your hands it's gonna fall out so what i do i give you a cup the cup holds the water we only can access hashem's light in this world through kalin through some kind of physical way that we experience hashem which protects us from being destroyed by his light an example an example spiritual idea i want to share with you a beautiful spiritual idea i got to tell you a story gaza are telling us this amazing story about the bus that he marries basparo a thousand a thousand types of dances etc there's a very deep spiritual message here but they teach it to us in a story because we're interested in stories our mind is interested in stories we want to hear a story wow it's intriguing why did he marry her on that night what does it mean mary's best part how could he do such a thing a thousand dances what's a thousand i'm sorry a thousand songs and 80 dance what are these numbers what is this idea it's the the spiritual concept is enclosed in something that we relate to because if we try to access the spiritual concept in its raw form it's too bright the light is too awesome it's too intense and we become lost that's that that's a very deep idea a very powerful idea and the jewish people the jewish people have the ability to bring down this light this is what the swarma kadasham say we bring down the light through the mitzvos when we fulfill the commandments of god when we learn the torah we bring the light of hashem into the world hashem for example think about it hashem wants to give hashem wants to to do you a favor he wants to give you money he wants to provide for your needs now if the money would just magically appear on your doorstep it would be too awesome it would be it would be embarrassing i'm getting a free gift someone's dropping money on me it'll be too much hashem created us that we're separate from him that we need to earn that money we need to do certain things so what does he do he puts it in our mind he puts it in our mind hold on a second here he puts it in our minds to do a certain thing to make money this way we feel like we've done it ourselves and our ego we're human we're separate from hashem our ego is maintained to the degree that a person is on a higher level you need that less and less it's not so necessary it's not so necessary for aku to to hide himself if a person has the ability to receive that light but ordinarily it's necessary to be for it to be included hashem wants us to do it why because he wants to bring hassan into the world he wants to bring kindness into the world when i do a favor for somebody else i give to dhaka hashem is really giving that money to that person it's not me but hashem asks me to be involved and he wants to give that question that's my opportunity to be a klee to be a vessel to bring that kindness of god into the world and to the degree that i do that i become more godly a foundational idea in order for something to be accessed in this world in order for a very great light to be accessed in this world it needs the right cli it needs the right outer garment that outer garment is what we perceive in this world and if we look at it at its essence it's always going to be the light of hashem okay it's deep i told you at the beginning this is a deep idea there's no greater light there's no greater revelation of akaddish borohu than the best being built the temple being built the mishkan being completed these things both of them represent hashem in this world hashem manifested in this world we see his divine presence there's a cloud when you walk into the cloud you feel you're you feel god is there in the base of english there were 10 miracles that happened every single day above nature you walk into the mishkan you walk into the base of midash instant access to hashem god his manifest there the more light there is the better you need a clea do you need a cli you need a vessel in order to hold that light i'm not i don't want to get so much into the into the wine issue because the wine issue really does have more to do with our parsha has to do with another than a view but i'm going to leave it to you guys to think about based on about to say how it applies to the wine is a unique thing it's something that allows a person to get into a sp you know a different higher level of consciousness when it's used correctly maybe we'll touch on it again at the very end i'm not gonna get so much into the wine what i do want to talk about is marrying baspar because that's the key to we need to understand why he did that and why he did that now so first of all it's brought down in certain form that knew he was supposed to be he's mashiach he's the son of king david he's the king of the jewish people he is building the base in english that is the purpose of the messiah's job is to build the holy temple to bring down god's manifestation into the world that's what mashiach is supposed to do he is the man the messiah son of david shalom allah king solomon now what happens when hashem's throne is revealed in the world is that it's meant to go everywhere it's meant meshiach is not just the messiah for the jewish people he's the king of the entire world the jewish people are the princes we are the leaders that's why it says when messiah arrives ten non-jews will grab the four corner garments of a jew and they'll say take us with us for take us with you for god is with you the jewish people is meant to be the leader to guide to be the light unto the nations that's this light that we're talking about was the one he was he was mashiach he had the potential to be the one so he was married when he was marrying basparo and the other thousand wives numbers a thousand always king solomon is always the number one thousand because one thousand represents a complete thing lf aleph is a thousand aleph is one the letter aleph is the first letter of the hebrew alphabet so same letters as the word pelle which means awesome thing the aleph is the or the light that's being manifest in a thousand different ways a circle of a thousand that's what shalom is supposed to do he's supposed to bring down that light and create vessels for the entire world to receive that light not just the jewish people but even the um the nations of the world and that's why he knew he knew that he was mashiach he knew that he was the messiah and it was his job indeed to bring that light down to all of the nations of the world that they should receive that there should be vessels indeed to be able to receive that light now here's the issue he was right but there was a mistake and this is a fundamental mistake that we all make we all make this mistake and it's important to be aware of it because it's possible to correct it it wasn't possible for salome because he had to do it perfectly right because that was it there was only one chance for it the mistake what was the mistake that he made he made this vessel he was ready to spread this light out to all the nations of the world he marries bas power representing this idea there's a thousand wives representing this idea boss power comes and he plays she plays him all this different music why is she doing that a thousand different you know a thousand wives he had a thousand different songs what is the idea because we're going to bring back the sparks of holiness back into the side of kedusha back in the sight of holiness the sparks that are trapped in the nations of the world we're going to bring them back avoid the zara we're going to get rid of the availas we're going to take the good parts that are there within them we're going to raise them up not available but the kadusha that's trapped there there's holiness that's trapped there there's a song think about what a song is i can communicate with a song in in three minutes or in one minute with a song i can say adva torah that takes about 20 minutes a half an hour an hour to say with a song i can impart a deep lesson or a deep feeling of kedush of holiness in a very short amount of time why is that because your barriers are down when you hear a song your barriers come down it's a cli it's a vessel just like a story it can hold a tremendous amount of light what's the problem with this with this song the problem with the song is when it's used for the wrong thing if it's a love song it's about a man and a woman that's a misuse of the song if it's a love song between the jewish people and god that's the proper use of the song the song is a cli it has a possibility to be used for holiness or it can be misused and when it's misused when the balance is off that's where the problems begin that's where the problems begin the thousand songs that she sang to him the point of that was trying to bring those songs back in to be used in the best in the temple to be used for kedusha as a clea as a vessel to be able to bring the holiness down to everywhere to everyone sing them their song but infuse it take away the the desire take away the idolatry of it and infuse it with spirituality take that love song re-channel it to be talking about the love between us and god that's the proper use of it it's a very deep thing and it's a very dangerous thing was supposed to do it correctly that was his job that's the job of of mashiach to be able to figure out how to use these vessels correctly because when they're not used correctly they're destruction think about the relationship between a man and a woman the kedusha it's called kedushin when it's used right think about what happens when khashoggi heaven forbid it's used wrong when that desire is used out of place then the cleaves it breaks the holiness which can bring down an awesome soul from the highest heavens from the highest place create a human being when that's misused it breaks the kali the vessel is destroyed [Music] hashem looks at this simcha he's bisimka what's the simcha is such awesome joy here we are we are accessing this light and we're bringing it down to for everyone to access what a joy even the nations of the world will be able to access the light of hashem keep basically my house will be a house of prayer for everyone based on make the third temple when it's built everyone will come here to pray they will all have access to god everyone all the nations the jewish people will facilitate that what's the mistake the mistake is what was what was the simcha what was the simcha who says right in the first message we saw he said it's very interesting he says which one shall i receive there was an offering there was something that was being offered to god in the fact that show my mouth king solomon was marrying paro the daughter of paro and she was called basia before she struggled to try to understand why she called basia we don't see where her name was basi was the daughter of paro in in uh in the torah she was the one who who took in moshe robeno where do you see what is basically doing here it doesn't say that it's strange no bassio because she was basker she was supposed to be the the daughter who receives bas is someone who receives it's my child she receives from me she's supposed to be the one who receives the godliness she's supposed to be a clique to receive godliness but the problem was the balance the problem was in order for the klee in order for my story which i tell you to be to be able to give over that message properly i need to have the right balance of story and message in order for my song to communicate what i wanted to communicate i need to have the right balance of musicality and message if the balance is off it breaks in order for the light of the base i'm english to come into the world and to be spread out to the nations of the world through that those thousand channels of music a thousand musical channels eighty different dances i'm not explaining the number eighty i'm not sure what the idea of the 80 is we could think about it maybe let's do it be nice to do with i'm not going to get into that in order to extend to all these different channels it has to be properly balanced when things are not balanced it destroys it destroys when there's an imbalance between the spiritual side and the physical side between the or and the cleave between the light and the vessel it's called sugar calam it breaks it breaks and that's why it says at that moment hashem said i'm going to break i'm going to destroy the best this temple this holy temple which is a place which is supposed to hold the light of god so that it can be revealed in this world without swallowing us up that vessel broke in the first moment because of an imbalance he was too happy he was too excited about the baspar part about marrying the daughter of paro about bringing the light to the nations it was too exciting for him he forgot that first he he's got to have that life for himself his relationship with hashem is what's the essential relationship only then once he has that relation with hashem can he bring that relationship to others the moment there's an imbalance in the relationship the moment that it's more about the others than about hashem bang destruction we lose the base of ming dush we lose the connection we lose the nations of the world we lose our leadership we lose king solomon he's destroyed there he's called lemuel lamalikel he lost it he lost god he ended up too far in and then and he sleeps all he sleeps too late and the times are lost he can't bring that mitchell shaka in the right time the tamid the the constant offering to god which is brought at a certain time when we lose when we lose our balance and we lose our perspective and we lose our proper proportions so time is also lost because everything is about everything in its right place that's what time is about everything is in its right place and it's right time and it's right moment and it's right balance if we don't use things in the correct balance if we lose focus on the message on the light which is contained in the vessel and the vessel is destroyed so the message for me the message for you i think hold on actually before we get to the message which is clear let's bring it back to another view there was a completion of the base hamikdos there was a completion of the tabernacle they felt this is an opportunity wine is something which is requires very very careful kaolin if you use it in the wrong way a person becomes an alcoholic if a person uses it in the right way it can be a very spiritual thing it can be very powerful can bring a person to higher consciousness you can bring a pr in there just the right way in the kiddush we use it in kiddush and many different places within you describe but just right it has to be just right the moment that it's misused they thought hey it's an opportunity it's an opportunity to to use this right they were wrong they weren't they they used it wrong they didn't know how to use it properly they didn't they didn't get get feedback they didn't ask much they didn't ask iron et cetera whatever the idea was but this is an opera there's an opportunity when the light comes in there's an opportunity to find the balance and that's true for us you know you've heard from this from me as well when something like corona happens something it's it's a revelation it's a light hashem is bringing a light into our world he's waking us up it's an opportunity to find better balance if we don't find a better balance if we end up putting second things first and first things last if we don't we can if we don't have the proper balance between light and vessel we can lose out it's an opportunity as we get closer to mashiach and i believe in shiite is very close as we get closer the light is bigger and bigger we need to find better and better balance better and better balance i want to bless you and ask you to bless me hashem should help us that we should be able to have this clarity to be able to receive the light that hashem wants to give us to create the proper vessels and have the proper balance between this world and the higher world thank you so much for listening i have an amazing show 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 ahri goldwag