Tetzaveh - Israel's Secret Weapon

you're listening to the weekly paral podcast with Ari goldwag recorded with hhm's never ending assistance in R Israel 5784 2024 this week's para is par at the beginning of our par hasem gives the command to Moshe Renu to create the special garments that his brother Aon and his sons will wear in their service of Hashem in the Mish and the Tabernacle and I'm going to read to you I'm going to share with you a piece from the Mish which today is PM Katan which means we have an extra month this year and so we have two PMS we have PM Katan and we have the full porm which is in a month from now but I'd like to read you a mish that actually talks a bit about the story of porm as well as talking about our topic which has to do with with Aon and his sons and the issue that's raised and which is addressed in our paraa in the Mish is something connected really to next week's paraa and Par K the Jewish people sin with theel with the sin of the golden calf and iron is the one who trying to buy time allows them to create the golden calf but that being the case he is the he's the one that's held responsible to a certain extent for the Jewish people's sin of the golden calf and so the question becomes Aron Aaron the priest how is he able to atone for the great sin which he allowed the Jewish people to do and so our Mish is going to address that point and the Mish is going on the p in chapter 29 verse one the Torah tells us that when the high priest and his children are to be anointed and to be brought into the service of Hashem into their positions as those who bring the carbonis the sacrifices so this is what's supposed to to be done to sanctify them to be to me to be priests there's going to be a whole set of corbas of sacrifices that are are to be brought now the mag hones in on the the language of the P the P says which means this is the thing or the matter the word d which means matter can also mean a word right are words and we're going to talk about words and the Power of Words independent of the power of sacrifices and this is an important idea we'll see what words means because there are different ways that we use our words and they have incredible power to atone for us to help us to act in lie of the carbonous of sacrifices in times like our times when we don't yet have sacrifices so let's see what the M teach teaches us and how also it relates to the story of porm says the Mish why does it use the language of this is the matter this is how Aon and his sons are to be Anointed The says it's a inosa 14:3 it says take for yourselves or take with you words the end of the P which is not quoted here is and come back to God right so part of the Chua process or we think classically of the corbas as an opportunity for chuva as an opportunity for us to atone for the mistakes that we've made indeed AR as we'll see by the end of the Mish there's a lot of mish here we'll see if we even read the entire piece but AR requires an atonement he causes Jewish people to sin so we'll see that one of the main ways of atoning is not just by bringing corbus bringing sacrifices but through our words the says in chapter 26 verses 6- 7 D King David tells us I want to I want to wash off my hands I want there to be cleanliness I want myself I want to to be cleaned off of sins that I've Done Right the hands are are the clay H right our hands our feet our feet bring us to do something and our hands are the ones that we use the the vessels through which we accomplish things in life so when I want to clean off my hands from the sins that I've done with my hands so the P finishes off by saying King David tells us that the way that I do this is by making Heard a Voice of thanks the word can mean thanks it can also mean which means admission King David leaves out the fact that in order to atone for himself he might need to bring any sacrifices he just talks about the fact that he's going to make Heard a Voice of admission or a voice of thanks the people of Israel say look when you read the the the about carbon we find that the princes of the Jewish people if they do a sin they bring a sacrifice and it atones for them if there's an anointed Coen the high priest is called a Mia because he's Anointed with oil the word m means anointed so if he causes sins to others or he himself sins so he brings a carbon a sacrifice and he's atoned for interesting I'm saying the Mish says could be it's going on the entire seore could be it's going on individuals but let's just take the Mish for face value here what do we do to get a kapara what do we do to get an atonement so we do find we do find that there are caronus that the can bring that the the general populace can bring in order to atone I'm sorry so members of the Jewish people say look we we we don't have the wear with all carbonis are expensive animals are expensive we're poor how are we going to bring these carbon the M tells us that one of the the ways of atoning for someone who doesn't have the wherewith all the money to pay it off pay off pay the corbon pay for the sacrifice M says and we who are too poor because we don't have the spiritual uh fortitude to to have this the Merit that that a b should be built in our days yet so we have to use the we have to use words we still haven't defined what are words the the way to atone is through words says I will forgive you for all of your sins says the M what are these words hear this not what you thought what are the words and we'll see it's not just words of T it's also words of prayer but the first thing the M says such an important thing right now now we are speaking we are trying to understand the will of Hashem we are saying Torah we are saying words of God's command and when we say words of hashem's command when we trying to understand God's will for us by doing so it's like we've brought carbonis it's like we've brought sacrifices because what we're saying is hasem we want to come close to you right the word corbon means to come close we're saying hasm we want to come close to you we want to do your will we want to serve you properly we like to know what your will is for us we're studying the words of your Tor The Words which indicate to us that which is your will right so it uses the word the first of safer Deuteronomy it says uh these are the words that mosu spoke and it's all and it's all the words the will The Words which indicate the will of God okay so we can't bring carbon today right so what do we do how do we atone for ourselves through words through learning [Music] Torah so some people said look we're not so intelligent we're not so brilliant we're not so smart we don't know the words of Torah maybe there are people who can't read maybe there are people who are illiterate here's something that anybody could do cry and pray in front of me Hashem says you want to know how to get an atonement here's the here's the key cry and pray in front of me and I will accept your prayers when the Jewish people were in Egypt did they bring any sacrifices did they have any de Tor to learn in order to get out of there in order to to Merit to to be released from bondage no what did they have they had prayer they prayed they D they cried they called out to hem and I and I redeemed them the Jewish people groaned from the difficulty of their labor and they called out to Hashem now the meas brings numerous examples of the power of prayer to to affect an atonement right because if there are negative situations where we find ourselves in it's always because of something that we are not on the spiritual level to receive the goodness that hashm wants to give us so there's something blocking that it has to be removed right right so but prayer is the thing that removes that the Jewish people they experience that prayer they they prayed says in Joshua 7:6 that they were Miracles that came about the Jewish people had salvations how because Yeshua tore he rent his garments the idea is that through prayer again Miracles were brought about salvation [Music] came in the times of the judges this is iner judges the Book of Judges chapter 6 ver7 and it was when the Jewish people called out to God right is not just calling out it's a it's a heartfelt um heaven rening call scream as the Jewish people when when we call out from the depths of our hearts Hashem answers our prayers the days of Samuel did I not answer their prayers says explicitly cried out he screamed to God on behalf of the people of Israel and hasem answered him says that the people of Jerusalem even though they caused God to be angry they sinned against God but nevertheless when they cried in front of Hashem God had mercy upon them in 31:6 this is what hasem says let the people of Jacob Rejoice why as a result of their prayers El that's why the PK that we quoted froma chapter 14 teaches us that what is God ask of us of course if we have an opportunity to bring corbon to bring sacrifices that's ideal but here we are in Gus we're still in Exile we still don't have a b mikash yet so what do we do how do we get atonement how do we how do we remove the blocks to God's salvation and the answer is is take for yourself words pray either if you don't have so then call out to God cry and scream to God come back to God that's what King David says I will wash my hands in cleanliness I'll clean off the sins of my hands he doesn't say in order to be able how am I going to get rid of my sins by bringing you sacrifices he talks about making heard the voice of thanks or the voice of admission interesting I I thank you or I admit to you through and says when I when I thank you or I admit to you that's that's my prayer I admit done wrong I admit God your will is more important than my own will besides for besides for trying to understand God's will for us beyond that we also have to dve we also have to pray the word says the word is to make heard the voice of thanks or the voice of admission so means to make her it's talking about that which we make hurt to ourselves we try to understand right we're trying to understand the the will of Hashem we're trying to hear what God wants us to do right that's what we the Jewish people said in reference to accepting the Torah we will do and we will listen we will hear so means to be to make heard which means to make heard for myself what is the will of Hashem and is the aspect of prayer so we have these two aspects our words have incredible power what we use we our our mouths we think of a mouth we think of our words and our speech it's very mundane we talk all the time we talk to our families we talk to our our uh Social Circles we talk to all those around us talk about food we talk about parosa we talk about mundane matters but the the power of speech the power of speech like the P says how do we how how does Aon and and his sons how do they become they become Sanctified through words through words through prayer through [Music] Torah listen to this okay here's where we get to porm it's pm gotot today we got to hear about [Music] pm if you look in the there in in which we quoted in chapter 26 it references the concept of which means the place where God manifests so the tells us what is the place where God manifests the god the god of who is before all that exist [Music] says this language the place where God manifests is the world God manifests through his creation God is beyond all creation but he fills all creation he manifests through creation you can understand how great God Is by understanding the incredible galaxies that he that he created 13.8 billion light years across the incredible vastness the incredible uh complication within creation the the ecosystem here on Earth Etc all of these things Express and manifest we can see God's greatness but in whose in whose Merit does God have a place in this world so to speak who recognizes God in this world it's in the Merit of those the the people of Israel the people of Israel are the ones who cause God be recognized in the world the second half of this p in in dorim it's inor Deuteronomy 33:27 which speaks of God having place a manifest second half says right it's the end of this P it says you caus the the enemy of the Jewish people to be pushed away right it's a similar concept we we spoke about before that we want salvation we we want to be saved from our sins so that you know needs to be saved from his sin he caused the Jewish people to S with agel through words through Torah Etc he can be saved from the sin and now he can walk into the Mish and he can enter back into a relationship with God that's called salvation what about the Jewish people who are here our purpose in the world is to bring about an awareness of God in the world right what stops that from manifesting what stops the Jewish people from from being who we're supposed to be so we have an enemy we have an enemy which wants to destroy us whether it's spiritually whether it's physically we have an enemy that wants to stop us they're called a Malik says the M hasem pushes away in order to bring about salvation in order to bring about his recognition in the world that the world should be a place where he is Manifest he has to get rid of the enemy and who's the enemy hon the O the enemy we're going to read in a month's time the Milla and there refers to H as this oppressive enemy man on why is he called an oppressor in an enemy what's this double language it says he's an oppressor and an enemy why because he's an oppressor in regards to God's will he's stopping God's Will from manifesting in the world and he is our enemy here down on Earth he was somebody who oppressed our forefathers as the Jews came out of Egypt the people of amalik the nation of amalik came to try to stop that to cool off the world from the incredible spiritual power that was about to manifest excuse me in har before they got to Mount Si before they received the Torah before God's will was manifest in the world amalik tried to stop it so they were there before before they were the SAR they were the oppressor back when way back when by by by The Exodus and he is our enemy now trying to stop us from rebuilding our B mikdash from building our Temple if you want to identify who is a mik today you can understand it very clearly by who is claiming that the Temple Mount belongs to them that's the character of amik he tries to stop the Jewish people from manifesting who they're supposed to be PK says that he said the the enemy who Hashem is pushing away said to destroy elov right he's trying to so who gets destroyed Hashem says he gets destroyed and his children get destroyed ham and his sons says the people of Israel they dwell in confidence they they dwell with assuredness they're not worried they're alone what's which means the eye of Jacob the word a only means prophecy okay so what does that mean let's see the Jewish people we have a tremendous we have a tremendous blessing there's a naua there's a prophecy that the Jewish people will have incredible physical success parasa success in our livelihood we're going to have and it brings here I'm going to actually not read it inside but it brings here K sends down the man and the T he God sends us the the miraculous Mana in the desert he provides for us and it represents that Hashem throughout all times throughout all generations Hashem is concerned with our livelihood with our [Music] welfare but that's a promise okay the continue the continuation of the verse is that hasm that I'm sorry mosu says that I see I see that there's an incredible reward for the righteous praiseworthy are you oh people of Israel you you don't even know you don't even realize yet incredible reward that's awaiting you for you are you are saved by hem you you are going to experience an awesome salvation uh and as we said salvation means a manifestation of in the world right as it were when when we fight a war when we are fighting against hamik when we when the Jewish people are manifesting properly in the world when we are doing hashem's will so then God is Hashem is is there with us we are so to speak I don't this is the language of the mes I don't want to I don't really want to say it this way but that's how the mes says it we use Hashem Hashem is is in our lives the way himself provides us with our needs with our lives with our livelihood he's the one who who gives us the strength to overcome our enemies M God is our Shield who helps us P says about Abraham that God protected us it goes through a few different things the P says I'm sorry this is what I wanted to get to we're almost we're almost at the end of the Mish you will trample upon their bu aama is a is a place where when we used it we were bringing carbon sacrifices to hasem when the go used it when the nations of the world the idolators use that they brought they brought uh sacrifices to their Idols we will trample their B their place of [Music] worship when is this talking about this is talking about in the times of right what happened came with a request for a to hang up morai on this huge Gallows that he had built for him 50 am high 50 cubits high and 75 ft High okay huge right but instead what was he instructed to do Hashem turned things around and H had to bring M the Regal clothes of the king dress him up in the Regal clothes of the of the king and have him ride on a horse which Belong To The King all of this representing the fact that the Jewish people are rising what was it that allowed Mor to trample hon to trample his enemies to trample those who wish to destroy us to to be able to now walk into a moment of G of manifestation of godliness in the world what gave him this Redemption y the P tell tells us that what did Mor do says we spoke about prayer we spoke about the the mes also tells us not in this location but in another in another place in the mes it's in the gamar it's also in the Mes in in estaba that when he found M was sitting and learning in the B Med you have the power of Torah and you have the power of prayer the the but not just prayer like an intense prayer it's the intense prayer that brings G it's the intense prayer that brings about a turnaround from being downtrodden being under the boot of a mik of our enemies to be to become the one on top how through what is hashem's Will how through prayer intense prayer now listen to this and this is amazing Point sleep Bo when he saw that he he won he saw that Hashem was picking him up it didn't make him get full of himself he didn't become egotistical as a result it says after took him and put him onto the horse and lifted him up made him someone made him important he didn't get egotistic get full of himself right after he got off the horse he took off the clothes went back to sitting in a way which was was his ESS he was in he was mourning he was he was fasting he was praying unbelievable okay so Mor continues his prayer until there's a full G until there's a full Redemption he doesn't stop the finishes off over here as well you want to know how Aon gets out of the the sin that he caused the Jewish people how does he repent it's not just with the carbonis yes we're going to talk about carbonis and yes there going to be a whole uh Tass a whole uh you know order of events that he's going to have to go through but that's not what does it it says this is the matter this is the word because what was it that caused or allowed Aon to to repent to be forgiven by Hashem it was through his prayer it's the power of prayer and it doesn't say this explicitly at this point in the in the Maes but it's the power of prayer and the power of the Torah as we've seen throughout the Mish the power of trying to understand the will of God let's remember Aon was the one who went into the the holy of holies which was where the Ain was the which the box which had the the Torah itself that's iron represents that the one who seeks into the deepest place and tries to understand the will of God I want to bless you I ask you to bless me Hashem should help us that we should be able to experience incredible salvation incredible manifestation of hashem's will in this world should be but until we actually can bring those sacrifices should help us to be Andra to be involved in understanding his will and to help us to have real deep heartfelt prayer thank you so much for listening have a wonderful shamas this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you for more podcasts like this please visit www.wag.com or search on iTunes Ari goldwag