Tazria - Israel Balances the Stormy Winds

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with Ari goldwag recorded with hm's never ending assistance in Rat Israel 5784 2024 this Taz and this week and next week we're going to be speaking about the concept of taras the spiritual leprosy that comes Upon A person who in the times of the temple in times of the bash would speak negatively of others speak lanara gossip or a person who was had uar had GA a certain level of GAA the PK tells us in Chapter 13 Verse when a person will have on the Flesh of his skin the skin of his flesh a certain kind of sickness a certain kind of uh skin uh skin disease so then they have to go through this entire process to determine the Coen has to look at it and determine if it's leprosy do they need to be quarantines taken out of the camp and go through this entire process bring carbonis sacrifices Etc separate themselves so the medish I'd like to share with you a beautiful very deep very interesting medish a little bit of an extensive medish and I'd like to actually start with the end of the medish which relates directly to our and then go back and explore some very deep ideas that have to do with this idea the says what is the concept of why does it say why doesn't it say why doesn't it say is why does it say the word Adam Adam indicates a certain aspect of the human being the word Adam indicates a certain aspect of the human being it has to do with the word Dum which means blood so the human being is made up of equal parts of blood and water okay and understand that this is a spiritual concept this doesn't necessarily mean that literally human beings are made up of half water Half Blood we do know that most of the human body is made out of water but spiritually whatever the concept of blood is and whatever the concept of water is the human being is made up of a perfect balance between these two aspects we see right away this is a spiritual you know a spiritual idea a spiritual concept when when a person is when he merits that means when a person has spiritual balance so it's reflected in a balance between the water in his in his system and the blood in his system or the language of the Mages the water is not more than the blood meaning the the water the water aspect doesn't control or overwhelm the blood aspect and the blood aspect doesn't overwhelm the water when a person sins what happens when a person sins when a person turns away from Hashem they lose their spiritual balance so then the water aspect can become more can overwhelm the blood aspect and when that happens VRI Focus so the result is that the person becomes adri Focus it's a certain kind of disease or over here he brings that the rashash brings that a person can become an istus come over sensitive to certain things there are times when the blood becomes more than the water the the blood overwhelms the water aspect and then so if we understand this correctly one second the person becomes lepos he gets leprosy he gets the spiritual disease called leprosy that's why he uses the word because it's representing the fact that the blood here is is more dominant in the person that's why it uses the word aam which indicates talking about a human being which is made out of blood okay so we could say that when a person becomes more GIC when a person becomes more self-centered when a person is busy saying negative things about others the result is that the blood aspect of themselves which perhaps represents the atmus of the person the the the fact that a person cares so much about himself that becomes overwhelming and he gets Tas and it and it manifests as a skin uh a skin disease and the opposite is true when a person becomes over sensitive interestingly okay that's that's the mes why uses the word Adam but you see what do we see this is the foundation of everything that we're going to speak about from now on we see that there's a spiritual balance we need to maintain the Torah gives us gives us laws around how we are to interact with our friends how the what the social contract looks like based on the we don't speak negatively of others we except in cases where it's it's sanctioned by the Tyra of course there are instances where constructive criticism is called for but generally we don't speak negatively we don't focus on the negative we love our friends like ourselves when we don't do that when we are too selfish we're too involved with self-interest so then the result is we are out of spiritual balance when we are out of spiritual balance it manifests in a physical way let's talk more about balance let's talk about what does it mean to be balanced and let's see some very interesting examples the brings a in right we understand that when it comes now we understand that when it comes to a person getting becoming a getting so it's because of a lack of balance the says in that it's important to to bring balance to the to the ru the ru means the soul or it can mean the wind and also when it comes to mind when it comes to water it was prepared with a certain measure everything that Hashem creates is with a certain measure we talk about mid we talk about a person's character traits we talk about the fact that everything needs to really be in a proper measure right sometimes it's appropriate to be angry right if a child runs into the street the parent needs to get angry show that this is not okay the anger will reinforce for the child that this is an act that should never be done right so sometimes anger is okay but let out out of the proper measure anger can be dangerous anger can be destructive right it's called a Mida it's called a Mida which means that it has to be used a character trate has to be used in the proper balance rauna says amazing thing run says that there were three places that we find in the T that the wind came out in a way which was out of proportion which was out of its normal proper boundaries proper amount and as a result it could have destroyed the [Music] world one time was in the times of job know one time was in the times of Jonah the prophet one time in the in the Days of Elijah interesting all three of them have a j job Jonah and Elijah okay we find that the B says that in the times of of job Indeed the wind threatened to destroy interestingly the Mages starts off saying it threaten to destroy the world but as we see each case individually it sounds like it's just threatening to destroy that person but as we'll see it's it's not just that person it's really the the person doesn't just the the wind doesn't just threaten to destroy that person it threatens to destroy all those around him as well which has a very deep lesson for us says that there was a great wind that came from the other side of the midbar from the other side of the Wilderness yah Jonah the prophet was running away hasem had told him that needs to go to nve and to tell the people of nve that they've done wrong that they need to do Chu they need to repent and he didn't want to do that cuz he knew that the people of nve ultimately would cause damage to the Jewish people so he was running away from his mission but he was denying he was defying the word of Hashem and as a result he was on a boat hasem sent a massive wind to throw up the Waters of the sea and threaten the ship that Yona was on and all those around him Hashem sent a message to Elijah Lei he had said he had gotten frustrated with the Jewish people he thought that they would never do chuva that they would be destroyed that they would not follow in the path of Hashem hm wanted him to know that coming at them with anger coming at the Jewish people with demands was not going to work it needed to be done in the right way giving muser giving rebuke to the Jewish people has to be done in a in a way that builds them not destroys them soem brought out a wind to represent this idea to Alo and this wind came out this huge wind it was a wind that was so powerful that it was destroying mountains says the very wind the same wind that was in the times of was the same wind in the times of yon it was the same wind in the times of Elo each one that wind this powerful wind came out individually for them interesting and to me the message is K who sends each individual a personal message a Wind that Shakes him up each one of them got a message but that Wind that Shakes him up it has it has ramifications on those around him the greatest of these winds was the wind of okay so there's a there is a mishall there's a certain balance that Hashem has in the world but when the person is not doing what they're supposed to do in the example of Yoni he was not doing what he was supposed to do Hashem had sent him on a mission he was supposed to go to nve and ask them to repent encourage them to repent was not doing his mission he gave up on the Jewish people Hashem sent him a wind a personal wind because they were out of balance spiritually so the wind went out of balance as a result and threatened to cause destruction to them personally but also to all those around them it's a powerful message when the Jewish people is not doing what we're supposed to do Hashem sends a powerful wind when we as individuals are not in Balance spiritually hasem sends us a powerful wind to shake us up in order to get us back on track remind us what the balance looks like and what we're supposed to do now me says something which seems unrelated but clearly it's a message to us says those who say that it was said by the the rabbis Messiah cannot arrive we're talking here about mhia bavid the ultimate the final mhia cannot arrive until all of the souls all of the r we need a full balance we need all of the souls that God intended to create they need to all manifest and come down into the world the told we find that adish had a book and in that book was written all of the souls that would come out of him all of the souls that would be his Ultimate Off spring every single human being that was ever to live the names their purposes everything about them all of that which would happen in their lives is written down in this book so every single human being the souls have to come into the world before msia comes the Messiah arrives which means that you got to do your job I got to do my job the winds have to be the winds which are also Souls have to be Bish they have to have a proper balance everything needs to be done in balance and of course Hashem when we don't do it when we are not in Balance Shem will bring us into balance he will cause a great wind to to shake up the world to shake us all up to shake us up in Israel to shake us up in Russia and Ukraine to shake up who knows where else China Taiwan America the world has to be the world when we're not in balance and all the souls are here ready for mashia to arrive there's a big shakeup that's what it seems to me to be saying but says to the wind at the time when the wind comes out to cause damage to cause destruction Shem says be careful be careful Not to cause the ultimate destruction does not want the world to be destroyed when allows this wind this wind which is meant to bring us back into balance when hasem allows that wind to come out he doesn't allow it to come out and just flatten everything the point is that it should bring everything back into balance and I would say bringing us back for a moment to Saras to leprosy the point of the of the the leprosy is just like we're out of balance our our GAA our our hubris has gotten out of hand our egos have gotten out of hand in our relationship with others the way we're speaking about others and the way we think about ourselves so something has to come and it's a it's a whirlwind Saras is a whirlwind of activity that needs to happen in our lives because of it we have to be quarantined we have to bring coronus we have to be separated for a certain amount of time to call out t t but it's a whirlwind that comes into our life to bring us back into balance it's not to destroy us this this wind will come out from before me hasem says and and it will encase everything and the souls that I created it's for my Souls it's not to destroy them there are souls that need to come into the world they need to find their balance and when things are out of balance need to be brought back into their place the end of the talks about the water was established with a measure as well not just the wind but with the water interesting when the water comes down from heaven the rain comes down it's brought down with a certain amount of everything is brought down in a certain amount it's brought down with a it's brought down with a perfect calculation so this could be referring to the simple understanding is it's talking about hm is sending our sustenance Everything is midak Everything is precise but it's also spiritual sustenance it's hasem sends the winds and the rain which have to do with what we need to grow what we need to grow hasm brings down the souls from Heaven this is really amazing listen to this carefully what does it mean to bring balance to the wind this really underscores the idea that each and every person has their individual and special purpose in life that manifests in a unique way and it talks about it the talks about in terms of the divine inspiration of the Nim of the prophets everything comes down exactly in in the precise amount that it's supposed to there are those amongst the prophets that we have books from Jeremiah the prophet the prophet shui Samuel the prophet some of them had one book that was ascribed to them and some of them had multiple booksi wrote the book of Jeremiah but he also wrote the book of Lamentations wrote the book of Samuel wrot the book of MIM so there are people who have multiples for and some who have less there was a Nai named and he hadn't said enough n enough prophecies to have his own book but it's mentioned in in Isaiah chapter 8 Etc so we find that some people have an entire book some people only have a few lines but it's a similar idea everyone is written in that book every Prophet what was what's the idea that a prophet has a prophecy and it's written down it's something that remains it's something that remains from that person for all generations that we need to learn from I like to think about personally I like to think about you know I have a song It's a song called [Music] kib which I composed number of years ago 20 20 something years ago and uh it's the kind of song that has a chance to make it for 100 years from now they still be singing it but there are certain songs other songs that I wrote that were popular for a moment and then you know may not have been quote written down but everyone has a legacy each individual has something and we're written in that book says the says the when it comes to words of Torah not just prophecy of course prophecy is awesome but each and every one of us has a each and every one of us has a portion in the of hem and every everything is given in a precise measure to each individual you have the you have the you have the you have the you have the there are those who Merit and they love to they they relate to they feel like their portion of Torah is some people light up from some people love gar some people love medish medish is one of the things that I'm especially fond of and there are those who have it all kki he could he would complete the entire Torah every year one before I get to the final Point here so this is an important thing each and every one of us has a certain place in that we relate to that we it's predetermined it's predetermined that's okay there's this it's our job to bring it out to develop our potential in that area but each and every one of us has something that we will give to the Tyra a vert an idea a Torah concept that we might relate to and and and say over to our family we might be inspired by each and every one of us it's set it's it's waiting for us to grab our Legacy is waiting for us to grab it and lay it out for the world the M finishes off with One More Concept before it gets to the thing that we started with and it says like this the the r the wind needs to be balanced R can besides for meaning a wind and besides for mean meaning a soul it can also mean a person's temperament some people have a a wider a wider Spirit they are more loving they are more inclusive they're more patient and some people have a short Spirit some people are get angry easily they're more of a Bala they have you know each person has a certain measure that they were measured out that's the midus that we mentioned earlier the character traits of the human being right the mag finishes off with what we started with I'm not going to read it again but I'll just restate it to bring this idea to its completion the human being has is made out of water made out of blood we have aspects of ourselves that naturally have a certain balance naturally have a certain measure it's our job to keep things in balance balance or to bring things into balance if they're not naturally balanced it's our job to make sure that we're living a life of balance the leprosy comes the winds come the the difficulties and the challenges come to the world when there's a lack of balance when things have have gotten out of hand when the when the when the Western and liberal values have pulled humankind too far in the world of Edom and the Muslim valy have pulled the world too far to a different direction and the t is the wind the wind of balance there's a wind of balance that blows in the world which begs us which begs us to find balance in our personal lives to seek what is our individual purpose in life what is our individual place in Tyra what is our individual prophecy which really is a manifestation of hashem's will in my life personally and what does that how does it affect those around me if if that wind blows in my life to shake me up and it affects those around me in a negative way so if I bring myself into balance properly it affects those around me in a positive way the the Tyra and teaching us about the concept of SAS is telling us look what happens when we're out of balance there's a shakeup there's a wake up we need to recognize that the things that are going on in the world today are a personal wakeup call to each and every one of us to seek more balance to seek more what is hashem's Will for me what is my place in Tyra what is hashem's personal message for me and what is my legacy supposed to look like for my kids for all those around me I want to bless you and ask you to bless me sh should help us to be able to take the message the powerful winds are blowing should help us to use the opportunity to allow ourselves to to receive the message and to come into that balance and find indeed what is our personal purpose and what is our Legacy in life thank you so much for listening have a wonderful chabas this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you 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