Succos - Pesach, Lulav and Hallel

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with ari goldwag recorded with hashem's neverending assistance in urban mission 1257 82 2021. this week we do not have a parsha it's the holiday of sukkas and i'd like to share with you a thought on circus however i will share with you this thought which i came across in massachusetts about the ideas of pasa those related to passover however as the gemara in sukkah says we have a very deep connection between pesach and sukis both of which occur on the 15th of the month sukkas occurs on the 15th of the month of tishrei pesach occurs on the 15th of the month of nisan but on a deeper level as we'll soon see there's a very deep connection between pesach and sukis and we're going to find that there's a connection between the corbin pesach the special sacrifice which was brought on on passover and which was also initially brought when the jewish people were about to leave egypt there's a connection between that and the lula of an asteroid the palm branch the citron the four meaning the iron medium that we take and we shake on circus we need to understand what is this connection we also need to understand the special joy the special happiness that we experience as we fulfill these commandments and what is the idea the idea behind them so to understand this i'd like to share with you something and bear with me for a moment the gemara talks about the fact that we have a carbon pesach we have a sacrifice which is we're not only brought it's sakura it's slaughtered i'm sorry on the 14th of nisan and then it's eaten at the seder we don't have this in our cedar because we don't yet have the base of the temple therefore we don't yet bring the kramen pesach but the carbon pesac was brought and eaten on the 14th and 15th of nisan so mr next year base amigdas will be rebuilt before passover hopefully between now and then we'll all be sitting and eating the carbon pesach okay on the 15th of er 14th and 15th of er so if a person was not able for some reason to bring the carbon pesach in nissan on the scheduled day pass over so we have something called pesacheny we have pat the second passover which is a makeup which is an opportunity for someone who was not able to bring it to bring the carbon pesach a month later negomar wants to know we have a very interesting idea when it comes to the carbon pesach there's songs we sing hollow we sing a special praise of god and when we shake the lulla the gemara says as well as we if you've been in shul over the last few days you might be aware that as we shake the lulav and the asterisk so we are involved with hollow we would make the bracha right before hollow and during how we shake our little venestering in six directions to the right to the left up down et cetera all the directions and we say halal we praise god as we shake the lulav now the quran wants to know how do you know that when you check the carbon pesach if you have to do a makeup piece of pesacheni you you weren't able to do it by the regular pesach how do you know that there's hollow there's this song that we sing in the base of english in the temple as we do the slaughtering of the pesacheni as well and the gemara says a very interesting statement which is what i want to understand the gemara says listen carefully that a person who brings a carbon face like shiny could it be that you're slaughtering the pisa shaney slaughtering a carbon face the passover sacrifice and could it be that you are shaking your lulov and you're not going to say hallow you're not going to praise god you're not going to sing to god could that be it must be that a person who's slaughtering their coming pesach it's a smart it makes sense it's not even something that requires much thought doesn't even need a source from a verse which ordinarily the gemara tries to find you don't need a source it's a swara it makes sense if you're slaughtering your carbon pesach your sacrifice for passover even if it's basic shaney if you are shaking your lulov you gotta sing you gotta say hollow you gotta praise god and the question of course is why is it what's the idea what is the connection first of all between the carbon pesach and the lula of an asterisk the shaking of the armamina the four species what is the connection between them and why is it that they require a person to say hollow why is it that it automatically must be that there is hollow that's going to be said in this case so in order to understand this so you know i was thinking about this and we all know a very famous thing about the lulav and essex what is the idea behind these four different species the four different meenum you have the lulav which is the palm branch which is closed it's not opened you have the hadassim you have the aravas you have the esterg these four species these four different types of plants one fruit three three branches one fruit right what is the idea behind them so we know the classic idea which is that each one represents a different part of the jewish people we bring them all together we bring all the different types of juice together that's very nice but the mattress offers many different explanations for what these four items represent what they correspond to what they're referencing the one opinion is that it references the three forebears of the jewish people plus yosef another explanation is that it corresponds to the emojis sarah rifka rahul and leia there's many explanations on magic it's not just that only it's not only that explanation of the different types of jews so what i want to understand is what is really at the core what is really represented by these four meaning why why did hashem choose these four meaning why a palm branch a willow branch a dasim esrig why these items russian could have chosen anything it could have been a leaf from a maple tree it could have been the cedar of lebanon there i mean there's so many things it could be a branch from a cedar tree there's so many things that could sparkle could have chosen why did he choose these four we're used to them because this is what we do we've been doing this for 3 300 years or more but i want to know what is the idea behind it and so as i was thinking about this i realized you know i really don't understand this myth i really don't know what's going on all these years i thought i knew what was going on i don't know what's going on so i said look let's look in the matrix that's the first place to look you want to understand something the message is going to talk [Music] the verse tells us it's in vayikra chapter 23 verse 40 that you shall take on the first day of the cocktail you shall take on the first day of sukkis priest you're going to take the pre et which means the fruit of a beautiful tree which our sages tell us is the esrog the citron ka place the willow branches so what is the idea behind them there's a lot of different thoughts here in the magis i'm not gonna be able to obviously really talk about all of them or even some of them many of them however i'd like to focus in on a particular aspect of it which we have spoken about in the past i know because i've marked often in my measures that i i read this however i'm gonna add some other things that we didn't see in the past and i'm gonna i'm gonna connect it with a very powerful and deep idea okay before we get into the madrish one of the things that i that i thought about as i'm pondering this idea we have a connection between nissan and tishrei that's what we said before we have a connection between these two months nissan is the spring so when we celebrate pesach passover tishrei is the beginning of the winter when we celebrate sukis we go into our booths we shake our lulula of an asteroid we have some castera we celebrate with the completion of the torah so we're familiar with we're familiar with these two months we're familiar with shashana yom kippur which we just passed through the high holidays but they're connected nigeria expresses this by saying hamish that there's xerishava connection between the two verses that they both use the word khamishasar which means the 15th of the month now the gemara in rosh hashanah we believe it's on david alef on page 11. it talks about these two months and tells us something very interesting nissan the month of pesach the month of passover that is the month that the jewish people were redeemed from egypt we have been slaves there for 210 years we were redeemed in the month of nisa the march to discuss is when was the world created was the world created in nisan was the world created in tishrei two different opinions texas gives us a resolution explaining tieshrae is the month of potential when god allah god thought about created the plan so to speak the blueprint for creation was in tishrei the actualization of that blueprint was in nissan six months later what does this mean obviously we're talking about a time before time god created time don't know what the idea here is what is the concept but certainly we see that tishrei is a time of preparation tishrei is the beginning of the winter months when everything is in hibernation when the rain is coming the rain comes and it nourishes the earth and we see the produce we see the the results of that the potential coming to actuality in nissan is the spring when all the green comes out we see all of the fruits of the winter nissan is when hashem thought about creation i'm sorry tisha has some thought about creation and nissan is when it was brought into actualization says the gemara there in rosh hashanah as well nisan is when the jewish people were redeemed completely redeemed they were brought out pesach six months earlier there was something that set the stage for that redemption and that was that the shiva malhis the shiva mitsuram the backbreaking labor the fact that the jews were slaves to the egyptians that stopped it ended six months earlier so they weren't free yet they couldn't leave yet but they were no longer enslaved already for six months prior to it's just trying to the exodus this this important to understand because i was saying when i was thinking about this so you have these two items the carbon pesach the passover sacrifice which of course represents the the first act that the jewish people do as a nation the first commandment that they all have to perform and really separates them from the um islam from the nations of the world the nephilim talks about the fact that when i quoted who commanded the jewish people to take a lamb and set it aside on the 10th of the month of nisan and then they're going to sacrifice it on the 14th they're going to slaughter it sacrifice it eat it what they were really doing was saying there was a time on the jewish people there was something that that there was a kitchen there was a negative statement about the jewish people which was david how can god save the jewish people they serve idolatry just like the egyptians they had been completely engulfed swallowed up by the egyptian culture what would separate them and allow them to be redeemed it was the carbon pesach because the egyptians worshipped the ram a lamb is a as a baby ram so the jewish people taking their idol sacrificing the idol for god because god said so they were expressing the fact that they were no longer going to be slaves to the egyptians and to the egyptian culture but rather now they're going to be slaves to god exclusively they are sacrificing the god of egypt and they are becoming in that way slaves of god the one and only hashem okay so the carbon pesach if you think about it as opposing says hallelu this is something actually that was pointed out to me by my cousin shalom goldwag rabbi shawn goldberg of jerusalem when i discussed this idea with him hallelujah hallelujah the first line of the hallow is hallelujah hallelujah hashem we will praise god who will praise god those who are servants of god the halal speaks about but says the jewish people leaving egypt it speaks about the fact that who are the ones who are able to praise god who are the ones who are able to say that halal it's those who serve god those who are the hashem those who show we are not interested in being servants to any other gods we're not interested in being servants to any other cultures we're not a shubit anymore we are no longer subservient to the other cultures we are only subservient to god we do god's will the end okay so it makes sense if we want to talk about something an act which should inspire me automatically to sing hollow to sing about to sing about god's praises and how he redeemed us it makes sense the carbon pays off but the question is why lulav and esrig why the armament why do they require this hollow if we if we take this thought to its ultimate end it's not really clear how what does the lulav and the ester represent and how how does it how is it something that should automatically require as the gemara says is it possible that you shake the lululemon you don't say hello why is it so natural that they will go together so i was thinking you know it would be nice if i could find something that says that the carbon pesach represents the common pesach just like it it's the the end of the ghost of israel that's when the jewish people are about to leave egypt and it's their ticket to freedom so too somehow the louvre and esrik represent the jewish people's freedom their the six months earlier right like we said in tishrei that was when the she would ended their subservience to pharaoh and the egyptians ended it would be nice if the lulav and the asterisk represented that because if it corresponds to that so then it's very beautiful the little vanessa just like the carbon pacer is your ticket to freedom love and estimate also represent our ticket to freedom now in looking around at the medrash i didn't find exactly this statement however i did find something which seems to imply that this idea is correct what does the measure should say it says like this and here's where we come to the measures [Music] okay we have a mushroom you have two people who come into a judge if two people come into the judge one claims his side of the argument another one claims his side of the argument and then they walk out we're watching from the outside we weren't inside we don't know who won says the madrid we don't know who was the victor the guy who has in his hands it's some kind of uh it's something in his hands that represents his victory maybe it's a document that says that he won it's not clear to me exactly what it means but he has something in his hands that indicates that he won that's how you know who the victor is the jewish people and the nations of the world come in front of god on rosh hashanah and each one says that they are the ones that god should find to be correct that god should find to be victorious as allah explains the nations of the world say about the jews they serve idolatry they're not servants of god they're servants of idolatry just like us they shouldn't win so we don't know who won we don't know how do you know if the jewish people came out victorious in this argument or if they lost israel what is the indication of the jewish people's victory over the nations of the world what indicates that they are not servants of of idolatry that indeed the um are incorrect it's the lull of an escort it's the fact that they're holding these special instruments somehow lulav hadas holding these four items together somehow represents the fact that we are the victors that we the we are the ones who won the court case in front of god on rosh hashanah jewish people i want you to take this uh this lulu of an essay because it represents the fact that you are the winners you are indeed servants of god and not servants of idolatry i want to read a little bit in the next piece in the madrid also brings the verse the governess of israel you shall we find that the word netzach we just spoke about the victory of the jewish people nasa means victory so the word nets is used the verse says i believe it's in tehran base 100 the 102nd chapter of psalms verse 18 around there the pleasant things are in your right hand for victory what are the pleasant things what's something that's pleasant something that's pleasant is the lulav and the esrik it's pleasant it's beautiful when you see something in the right hand of the jewish people something that's pleasant when you see the lulav and the aesthetic you know that the jewish people have been victorious against the nations of the world what's the what does it mean what does lulu vanessa get to do with pleasantness what is the idea so in the image the word explains there's different explanations here but the word not im can come from the lesson no which means to shake which means to move which we spoke about not long ago means shaking something that's pleasant interestingly i don't know exactly what the connection between pleasantness and shaking is but when we take a lula we shake the lulav in the different directions right left up and down et cetera right we shake it when there's a shaking the magician's understanding in your right hand you know that you're victorious still we need to understand what does this mean or what is the idea what is the depth also important i'm not going to read it inside but there's another measure that says that these four items of araminum correspond to the arbegalius the four exiles let's hear what that means let's hear what that means that means that when we bring these things together the jewish people go through challenges they're mashup to the umass so i was thinking like what is halal what is the concept of halo halal means that we are praising god for things being the way they're supposed to be when the jewish people are in a state of gulas when we are meshuva to do muslim when we are taught we're stuck in the in the culture which is not our culture a culture that pulls us down a culture that makes us serve idolatry heaven forbid instead of serving god so when we're in that culture things are in the wrong place we're in that culture who's on top the nations of the world but we are supposed to be the light unto the nations we are the ones who are supposed to guide the nations to not just be involved in physical pursuits and not even to be involved in in spiritual pursuits the way that they might see fit but rather the jewish people are supposed to lead the world in spiritual pursuits in the proper use of the physical world within that in the spiritual pursuits as well to use spiritual the spiritual to direct the physical pursuits the jewish people are supposed to be the leaders of the world that's what what it means to be a light unto the nations that's what it means that the shibu malchus ends the the shiva marquis ends means the subservience to the nations of the world to their culture and to them being in charge that ends that's one stage there's another stage though and that's where we are not following them but when do we get to the point where they start to follow us they follow what we suggest based on what god told us in the torah and guided us when does that happen so those are the two stages that we could talk about in yes yes trying it's not as openly obvious there but in the future time when the messiah arrives so that is exactly what it's going to be the nations of the world will come to us and ask us for guidance and ask us to lead them in their spiritual pursuits so those are the two stages sheba machis we need to get rid of the shiva mafia so following their ways and we need to then lead them in a certain sense okay so what is where where am i bringing this what am i trying to say what i'm trying to say is that the lulav and the aesthetic based on what the message you're saying i understand it to mean the live and the estimate represent the first stage the stage where we are no longer subservient just like when i bring that carbon basically i am not interested in the the gods of the idolatries i'm only interested in god's will i sacrifice the idol of the egyptians when i take the lulu in the asteroid i might not understand it that's why i kept saying like i don't know what's going on exactly in the little vanessa and there's lots of explanations but the truth is i don't need to know what's going on i don't need to understand exactly why i had kudos why god chose these specific four items a palm branch a myrtle branch a willow branch and a and a citron why did each i don't need to know you know why because whatever god says i'm going to do it why because that's what god says god wants me to do something this is what's right it represents the fact that i'm not mishubba to the culture i'm not mashup i'm not it doesn't matter i'm not subservient to the culture around me i'm not even subservient to logic in a certain sense i do what hashem says whether i understand it or not and that is essential you know in my service of god that's what defines perhaps on a fundamental level what it means to serve hashem properly so i think that what we see here is certainly that the lulu and the ester as the measure says explicitly represent our nietzsche our success our victory over the nations of the world who said that we serve god that we're not serving god we're serving idols no we serve god we might not even understand this mitzvah but we do it anyway this is the proof this is the victory uh wreath you know like the la haveda the romans had there were victory wreath that they would make out of different branches these branches represent our victory over the culture that surrounds us we're still here after 3 300 years through all of the gullies all of the exiles that we've gone through we're still here with our powerful culture which represents the will of hashem as expressed in the torah received on mount sinai in front of him over a million people experienced this awesome revelation the the lulav and the essex represent that they represent this as well just like the carbon pesac does and there are what greater joy what greater simcha says when you take these the the the lulu of the asterisk it represents the fact that we are just servants of god it's really simple walk outside cut down this branch cut down that branch get this fruit put them together and shake them that is how you show simply that you are interested in hashem's will doing god's will that's it i just want to do god's will there's no greater joy it's not greater joy what a simcha it's hashem praise god those who serve god israel tie on tie on keep connecting bring yourself more into into the service of god bringing sacrifices on the altar that's the one who can praise god that's the one who can praise god the one who is truly a servant of god who is willing to do god's will that's the automatic hollow the automatic praise that just pours forth from the awesome joy of just being ava hashem just doing god's will because it's god's will even if we don't understand it so i'd like to bless you and i ask you to bless me shall help us that we should be able to indeed have this intense joy we should be able to shake the lulav bring these together shaking that lulav understand it or not we're shaking it and we are bringing it together because it's god's will hashem should allow us to do his will and hashem help us this joy that we experience now should very very soon be thank you so much for listening a wonderful shabbos and a wonderful circus 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 [Music]