Toldos - Finding Our True Voice

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with Ari goldswag recorded with hashem's never running assistance in romantic Israel 5783 2022 this week's parishes parshus told us our Parsha has yakovino asev their interactions the birthright the Brach has the blessings that yaakov comes to take that YouTube wants to give to asav yaakov takes them and when he comes in so YouTube is trying to figure out is this my son ASAP is it is it him I sent him out he came back so fast the voice sounds like it might be him I'm not very sure yes said to Yakov I hear the voice of yaakov perhaps the way you're speaking perhaps the tone of the voice seemed to be yako but the hands the hands were hairy because he had put on the skin of goats so that it would seem hairy so I could only feel he can only listen and yaakov is able to fool his father again so in order to receive the blessings which were really meant for the Jewish people not for Asaf [Music] but in this statement of akul kalyakov Ino says it's the voice the voice of Jacob he says a double language the voice is the voice of yaakov what's this double language the hands are the hands of asaph so I'd like to read to you two different pieces and two different Russian both addressing these so Kim one coming at it from a particular angle another one coming at it from another angle but both of these angles in tandem teaches a very deep lesson about the voice of yaakov the power of Jacob the power of the Jewish people where do we have our power and how does that contrast with the power of Aesop the power of the West the power of the the uh the nations of the world which is included in Asaf let's see so the measure shows like this [Music] so now there's two things in in this verse that which the magic is trying to understand the first is hakal is a double language the voice The Voice but second of all there's also in the in the first word call it says the word call spelled kuf lamid without a verb it's khasar the second call is filled with above so we'll see there's different rushes here the first is that where does yaakov have power Yakov the the power of the Jewish people is in our voice it's in our speech it's in our ability to accomplish through prayer as the ex the commentaries explain it means that that which Ace of accomplishes through his your dime through his hands through action through War through forcing with his hands is only able to have power through his hands but the Jewish people the call of yaakov our power how do we have power is through Torah it's through our study of torahs through spiritual Pursuits it's through our prayers true Jewish people do have to fight Hanukkah is coming up right we all know about the makabim The Maccabees they were able to fight against the mighty Greeks but their name Maccabi stands for me who is like you amongst the powerful ones Hashem you are the powerful one right they they lived with Hashem their power they recognized only came from Hashem the many in the hands of the few miraculous the way to access miraculous power is not by amassing great armies great power but it's by putting our faith in our trust in the sparkling God it's by learning his Torah by having a spiritual connection that's one point in the madrish the power of the voice of yaakov devarakhra Koko Yakov um in the Ace of schultes this is the second kind of Russia because we have here that the posseck refers on one hand to the voice of yaakov on the other hand refers to the diamond Ace of the hands of of asaph of Esau so there's some kind of dynamic between these two powers what is the dynamic the dynamic is like this when the voice of yaakov is weak right the first word call it says it without above it's missing a letter Yakov when there's something weak in the voice of Jacob uh why we're not praying properly we're not turning towards Hashem we're not according to one explanation we're complaining about the lot that we have in life so then the hands of yaakov have power sorry the hands of asaph have power when we are weak with our voice when we don't use our voice properly when we don't pray properly When We complain about the lot we have in life the Jewish people complained about whatever particular complaint it was at that time since shmost and Exodus chapter 15 verse 24. if I ever amalek what was the result a Malik was the great great grandchild of Asaf the people of amalek represent the counter force of the Jewish people in the world who represent all that's evil in the world represent those who say that there is no God or that everything has happened stance they come to have power when we weaken our power [Music] save listen to this beautiful Magic when we are mid safety the women's soft tape is an interesting word but softsafe means to beep in the modern Hebrew leave your message after the beep [Music] we are there's something about mid saf also can mean to whistle or to the the birds the same root they have sipur it's the same root Asif the they're always tweeting the word let's have tape is to tweet but it means to make a sound that's very powerful that's rises above it's soft tough means to float the sound the sound of the Jewish people when we are rising above the sound of our Tyra the sound of artsvilla it rises above it's our attachment it's our connecting to rookness to the spiritual realms right through the Torah through artsvilla when our voice is cutting through the noise like the sound of a bird's chirping asaph so then they have no power any of the Ace of shoulders they don't have they don't have the ability to be successful when we are strengthened we respect strengthened spiritually so The Superficial the physical aspect of the world which is asaph is weakened another message says just the beautiful thing along the same the same concept however kind of says let them do feel us great philosophers in the world one of them his name is we know about him he curses or he tries to curse the Jewish people ends up giving blessings there was another famous philosopher his name is avnimos so niscast so the people at their time were at his time it's not clear if it's talking about one particular one of these two were both of them people came to them and they asked them a question [Music] is that how can we fight with this nation the Jewish people we want to fight them we want to conquer them how can we how can we overcome them that's what the the idolaters wanted to know um so this great philosopher said to them look if you want to know whether you can win a war with them what you need to do is you need to go to their synagogues and to go to their shoes you need to go to their Butte measures to their study halls foreign if you find their children who their voices those beautiful young voices are floating they are floating above the sounds of their voices are floating is you can't win there's no way that you will be successful if the voices of the children of the Jewish people are floating up with words of Torah with words of Prayer you can't win against them that's what their father promised them he said he made a promise it was a navua sometimes a navi a prophet would say things foreign simple understanding was said in the context of being he sounded the voice sounded like yago's voice but it was also a powerful statement of the way things will be in the future for all times promised he said with his statement who threw it promised that when the voice is the voice of yaakov is when the voice of Jacob who is Yakov yaakov is the one who's the ishtamiyoshivay holum he's the he's the spiritual person who sits and he studies the words of Torah when that sound is there when the Jewish people are emulating of Jacob with their with the sounds of Torah so that's the counter Force the power of Aesop is in his hands that power is not is not going to succeed but if you walk into the shoes and only the children the children are lost the children have gone away they've gone to college campuses where they're studying the words of philosophers of of other religions of other ways of life so then the power of Jacob is lost the power of Jacob is only found where our children are studying the Torah where children are praying and obviously if our children are doing it is the sounds that a child you hear a child speaking you know it's the parents right our children are our future our children need to be learning Torah our children need to be their voices need to be floating above into the spiritual Realms that's how we know if we can succeed that's how we know that the power of asaph is subdued amazing majors so that's in contrast to asaph but I'd like to share with you another piece in the Madras which talks about it in an even more exalted way the voices are floating up but where are they going these voices flow up float up to the heavens foreign the voice of yaakov has the ability to quiet the upper and lower realms right the lower Realms we just spoke about we can through our prayers through our through our learning Torah we can prevent the the lower Realms the the Asos of the world the the civilizations that are less spiritual we can prevent them from taking charge but there's another thing it also has the ability to voice our voice our prayers our Torah has the ability to quiet the Heavens to hot to quiet the spiritual Realms what does this mean let's see reproving armor reproving said all right uh XIV pasig says killed the first chapter because speaks about an awesome sight the the awesome Vision that he had the Maison merkava he saw the Throne of Hashem he saw the angels that surround that throne and he saw that when they stand terrapinacon Fame their wings are loosened now what does it mean that their wings are loosened we'll see soon but before that we'll see what does it mean about amdan when they stand it says the the Divine Angels stand they stand there in the in that upper Realm what does it mean that they stand but on them Allah the the magician asks it sounds like they're standing as opposed to sitting do do angels sit that the Angels Do not sit they don't have knees that bend it says that they have a straight legs him they don't have a place for their knees to bend so what does it mean when the plastic says that they stand but on them for a pentagon fam measures continuous Daniel says how he came close to one of those he refers to the to the angel as a Maya what's it called Maya means something that stands something that stands or something that lasts we brought this plastic earlier we mentioned it they stand him what does it mean that they that they are standing what does it mean when they stand they're always standing they're in a constant state of standing their knees don't bend which we're not going to really get into what's the idea behind that but we need to understand that as well what is the idea that Angels needs don't bend but perhaps we'll get some understanding of it from the magic so what does it mean that they stand they always bid on them when they stand they're always standing says the message um they come with dumb what does the word dumb mean in this context usually the word dumb means blood in this context however it means to stand still it means to be silent says when Aaron's two sons died it says he was silent [Music] what does it mean that the malachim are silent means that they are silent they they are stopped they have stopped they've stopped and that doesn't just mean that they're standing or standing still it means that they have stopped what does it means when the people of Israel say the words one foreign are quiet they stop they don't say anything they're just silent yeah they loosened their wings their their wings tell us that there was a great sound there's a great sound that comes out of the Wings it's there it's how they speak or it's how they sing with their wings so when we are singing when we are saying that hashem's praise Shema Israel and we'll see shortly other Praises as well the Angels their wings are silent they don't move [Music] um then when we are done they respond they say what we have said according to how the marzu understands the manjush they repeat what we said we say they say Shima we say they say um so these amazing Praises of Hashem the angels are waiting for us to praise Hashem and then they praise the message is explaining what is this double language how cold called there's a voice and a voice there's our voice and it is echoed by the voices of the Angels now what does it mean that they don't talk when we're talking they don't sing when we're singing they repeat after us what is this like uh uh what they have here in in Israel it's called the kolulam where they have a whole group of people following after the leader and everyone sings they're all singing together we have like a chorus we say they repeat it what's what's going on what's the concept let's read it a little bit more it expresses this idea one more time when the stars of the morning when the stars of the morning supposed to get you when they praise Hashem so the voices of vanilla him the powerful ones the spiritual ones then they come out they they make this great sound masha's areas who are the stars of the morning it's the Jewish people we refer to as the sibling to the Jewish people we are like stars we are like stars we're the ones who bring righteousness into the world so when we sing hashem's praises the Angels sing their praises as well we first praise Hashem they respond one more proof of description you wouldn't have thought that this is but it's a beautiful child describes how he was raised up by the wind he hears after him of an incredible sound the Angels says the manager says what's this plastic saying he's looking at this Vision he sees the angels in front of him why does it say that he hears the voice behind him right hello he's he and his friends yes was saying doesn't mean I heard the voice from behind me it means I heard the voice after me after I praise Hashem the Angels praise Hashem they say it as well blessed is the name of the honor of the Marcus of forever and ever which is very interesting because we find in other places that the special the unique praise that the angels have for God is blessed is the name of the honor of his mouth forever and ever we can't even say that out loud right we only say it out loud one day a year when we are doing we are comparable to the Malachi insurance we don't eat we don't drink we dress in white We Stand we pray right and then we can say work shame out loud but even the angels who are able to say that all the time can't say it until we say it it's incredible thing I call call yaakov there's a voice a voice of Jacob and that voice silences the upper Realms it silences the lower realms the Angels can't say a word when we are praising Hashem there's nothing more powerful in the world in the spiritual Realms in the physical Realms in our prayer then our learning of Torah what an incredible incredible message the message is teaching us such a deep lesson such a beautiful lesson you know we don't really we don't really have a proper appreciation for what Torah is for what prayer is for what it means we have no idea what it means I have to tell you a story a quick story I'm really out of time but there's a my sister and my brother-in-law live around the corner from me here in arts Israel in bitshamesh and their son is I think seven or eight years old his rebby his teacher the teacher of the tinnitus teacher of these children he had nabachi at Corona it was a very bad case and he almost died terrible case everyone was praying for him while the children were praying for him my brother-in-law took upon himself to learn a certain amount of Torah in his closet to be married for him he was touch and go it seemed like it seemed like he wouldn't leave the doctors didn't give him a good prognosis in the end Hashem he's well the doctor said he would never walk properly again he would never be able to teach again he's he's back in school he's teaching he's still weak but he's back and my brother-in-law had a conversation with him then he said to him he was in a coma for a long time maybe a month he said when you were in the comment did you have an experience like a did you see were you did you have an experience Out of Body Experience he said he did he did he was in shamaim he was in the heavens he was in the upper realms he had a whole experience he described the whole experience of my brother-in-law okay so this is my brother-in-law heard it firsthand told it to me and he said that one of the things that he saw in Sherman was they brought him they showed the children all of his students from all the years that he was teaching and the children were glowing and he also spoke about the fact that in the upper Realms in Sherman in the heavens in front of God's Throne of Glory the words that a person says how important the words are the words that we say being careful not to speak Russian hard not to speak negative things about others but he underscored there's there's a lot more to say that I heard about what he said and what he experienced there but the powerful the powerful message of our Med of our majors is it's true it's real these are this is a real thing this is a real deal this is the real deal our children the Torah that they say the Torah that they speak the the learning that they do the prayers that they do our prayers they float up to the heavens they're metsoft safe they give us incredible spiritual power they stop the Angels the angels have to repeat after us what gives the Angels the right to the right to praise God is because we are praising God it's an incredible thing to think about we are the ones who cause the angels to praise God our our power our power is not in our might our power is not in our army our power is not in all these things of course we do have to do this as well but where is our power really it's in our prayers it's in our tevilo it's in our Torah it's in the learning that we do that is the ability to change everything to change to to hold back the power of ASAP to hold back the power of those who are powerful and spiritual in the Physical Realm through our commitment to Torah through our commitment to prayer through our commitment to rookness to connecting to Hashem I want to bless you and ask you to bless me some should help us that we should be able to indeed recognize the power of artilles the power of our words the power of richness of our spiritual Heritage the power that we each have every time we Dive In every time we learn a word of Torah and Hashem should help us to be able to give that over properly to our children so that their voices are floating up that Tower Hashem should help us have that power in order that we should have spiritual success and success in the world in any way that we need in order to continue our own spiritual strivings 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