Ari Goldwag - Toldos - Simplicity and Trickery

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with our you'll drag recorded with the shims never-ending assistance or mapache Mission Israel 57 79 2018 this week's parsha his parshas toll dos and in our parsha the torah describes the story with Yaakov Avena with Jacob as he steals the blessings ace of his older brother who was Russia who is evil and was tricked his father into believing that he's a righteous person so he comes to get the blessings from youths club from his father isaac ya'qub Aveeno is told by rifki who knew she had the prophecy which stated that Yaakov was the greater one she sent him to get the blessings and at her behest he listened and he tricked his father into believing that he was a SUP and in that in that way he received the blessings of a sub not only in his own behalf but on behalf of the entire Jewish people to this day we thank Yakima Vino for his trickery now I'd like to share with you a piece from behind Freelander which addresses the obvious question that we need to understand Yakima V know each Tom Torah tells us that Jacob was someone who was a simple person he wasn't a trick trickery person he wasn't person who's involved in trickery he wasn't somebody we did anything other than sit and study the Torah what does it mean to be a Tom to be simple to be a Tom him to be perfect he just was interested in spirituality and avoidance of Shem in serving God and yet the Torah tells us when it came time to do trickery he did it quite freely Anna wants to understand parts that were gonna read inside parts we'll say outside but I free land once on the Santiago is the each time Yaakov is the simple one he's the one who doesn't resort to trickery why is it indeed that he is forced in this case to steal the Brazos to steal the blessings from Asaph from Esau with trickery what is the idea why does he need to step out of his natural state of simplicity of goodness in order to trick a sub out of the blessings the tricky it's cooked to give him the blessings why is it indeed that the blessings needs to come in this way another point that he makes is besides for this is a Kailash em there's a desecration of God's name the Jewish people receive the blessings through a crime through a deceit through a deception it seems bad what's the idea also why was it specifically said to rifki but it's like didn't know about it what's the idea why did it have to come in this way clearly was set up by God clearly was set up by a Shemin this way why indeed was it set up in this way so he lays down an amazing you said an amazing idea and we need to understand the depth of this idea what what is the concept here and what what is it coming to teach us how does it apply to us because it's very important the sight is very important in the idea that he lays down is based on the Czar Zara says as far as I'm gonna read the translation the Czar's written in Aramaic and difficult to Aramaic I'm gonna read the translation in Hebrew the Glaucon is Domini Aqaba haha back mimos why was it that Jacob was forced to receive the blessings with trickery can you shave Oh have brought us all up in order that the blessings come upon him the Yaakov who could Doug must utter Mary Jean he says an amazing thing the source is amazing finger be Shimon bar Yohai that Yaakov Aveeno whose kid Doug Masada Mauritian he was a parallel in a certain sense of the first man of Adam the first man the Oz Nilka who brought us Mahan oshkosh she was fast checker Yaakov Avena what Jacob was doing was he was taking the blessings back he was bringing it to the Jewish people to the side of good back from the nach Hause from the snake the snake had caused curses to come into the world it caused the curse of death to come into the world by causing Adam to sin and who is his representative the time of Yaakov Aveeno in time Jacob it was a sub ASA was the representative of the Nautilus he was somebody was involved in sin he was someone who listened to his it Sahara and in in a in a very deep way so so yeah Calvin Jacob is taking back that which belongs to the Jewish people that which belongs to mankind to the suti Qin to the rectification of mankind so just like the snake as well soon see just like the snake it was his MO it was his craftiness that caused man to sin in the first place Yaakov needed to rectify that by using craftiness in order to to remove the curses and get back the blessings commish Karim amar become a diverse checker Hummer how many lies how many words of falsehood through the snake cerca de la hot dice la vie Claire asylum in order to bring about a mistake and to bring curses upon the world but Glock it was because of this booyaka of the hokhmah that Jacob had to come with wisdom hit as obvious and trick his own father cannula javi Avraham in order to bring the blessings upon the world a caucus nian a fish is a bravas shimano male element to take back the blessings that the snake had prevented from the world economy tokine egged me though it's it's measure for measure had to be done this way had to be done through craftiness to get it back to get the blessings back from the novice from the snake who stole the blessings from the world what does this mean what is the depth here will take a little bit of time to understand but he says be reservoir Yaakov Aveeno but here Shabazz Jacob who was the highest the most choice of the obvious he was the pinnacle he had certain sake misguided Mauritian he was coming to rectify the sin of the first man could he sue me sire like it says in his are sure freely act of Shuford the autumn hammer hava the beauty of jacob but the look of jacob he looked like adam looked like the first man who must say ace of how you can I got enough hey that's an Irishman corresponding to this Asaph was like the snake who fooled the first men and he fooled his own father as well and the blessings needed to be brought back to the side of good okay now he gives us a little bit more of a depth and understanding what was the sin about Mary Jean brings the morale that the idea is that other Mary Jean had originally been simple I am Irish on had been somebody originally who didn't get involved in in figuring out making hush - trying to make all kinds of calculations the way things ought to be the way things are everything should be all the most simple shun said do this by Mary shown simply listened and get involved in trying to figure out maybe I can do bad maybe I can do God's will better than God commanded me that wasn't part of the deal but the the hate of other marechal involved the craftiness of the snake the snake injected craftiness injected complication into the thinking of other Mary Shaw quotes tomorrow Lafitte la Isla de Mary Jean Qaeda Checotah before he sinned first man oh yeah I'm a chemise Barak La Jolla by taboos Kaahumanu Sarah other nation didn't have any kind of calculations any kind of complications everything was simple anatta sure you're all room of the Torah tells us that the knowledge the snake was crafty he was complicated he had all kinds of tricks up his sleeve so what happened hey Maru Hashem is Bora this is very far away from Hashem well yeah but I'm sorry over Ormus and ash he sees gunk inna Sodom it was through this craftiness that he tricked other Mauritian shinai Magnifico who a nation a time he says to them your eyes will open ah Houston Kelly came your date over ah you will be like God and you will know good from evil the darzee you did Sara quits math special autumn this thing that he was telling them was something which was beyond our rhys-jones the simple way that mr ihsan approached reality shun said something you do it now the knowledge is saying oh I have a trick for you that you can be like God you can be more like God if you just listen to me Mahatma Zeiss hey serious are diminish Emmys bara through this craftiness the the snake took on the Mauritian away from God away from the closeness of God God is a simple reality God is all there is the room Kyle talks about the fact that I Shimon simple right God doesn't change the many things about God that he's he is simple we obviously talk for us to understand what that means God created the world but to the extent that a person is simple he emulates God and to the extent that a person goes but to me must with a Shem with simplicity God says I do to that extent a person is close to God okay but the Natha infused man with a new thing which wasn't his natural state which was complication okay a conglomeration of good and evil that made man distant from God keep Avada yet subscribe say they certainly lost out as a result of this k hamas ice we scott Mashiyach some Anatomy Musburger milanesa because as a result of this wisdom so to speak he's listening to the knavish so he left his simple state and as a result now he became prone to death well yes well I see belladonna is there a knavish olive this was something that was brought upon him by the snake should all of namur might not show you are me call that it's verse tells us that then the snake was more crafty than any other creature alien a flesh bone Isla Island as a result of the na hush that's how how death came into the world she me satiric iike my shots memo's well hime from this we see an amazing foundational idea that Timmy knows simplicity going with God in a simple way that's life that's in synonymous with like God is a source of life because I'm sure my recently itami me as long as the first man was simple oh yeah highly Mokelumne so you would have lived and never never incurred death you would never have experienced death oh yeah not sure autumn key Bellamy some easy because of the fact that he was involved with he listened to the snake that's where death came from okay so now what who is Yaakov Aveeno and he explains it's an amazing thing the main sin of Adam is the fact that he got involved in complication who is Jakob Jakob is one who's not shocking that he fixes that how does he do that so interesting because other cos Yaakov is the each time he is the simple one and yet he needs to inject the into the craftiness he needs to inject an aspect of simplicity and that's what he explains that Yaakov avinu he has to listen to his mother his mother who has the prophecy the prophecy which says the yahko is the one who needs to receive the blessings Iago has to go boots me moose it doesn't make sense I'm the I'm the guy who doesn't do trickery I'm the guy who sits and learns to around the guy who's honest I think I'm Yakko is is the meat of a mess of honesty but there's a deeper aspect of Tamim it's an amazing thing that you can take the craftiness it's possible to flip around the trickery and make it into simplicity how by simply listening to the words of his mother the prophetess Rebekah she says you need to trick your father by simply listening he transforms the trickery that he does into simplicity this is God's will I'm not gonna ask I'm gonna do as I'm supposed to do I'm going to do as Hashem wills without me asking and sometimes for Iago Aveeno it was the case that it involved trickery involved that he needed to to trick his father but he prays and her kind of redundant brings in I'm not gonna read her inside but he prayed as he went into this nice ila - as he went into this amazing challenging experience he prays God please help me that even when I say alive when I tricked my father it should be true somehow it should be true somehow what I say should be should be true he prayed that he shouldn't get tainted by the trickery that the trickery shouldn't shouldn't take away from his team emos but rather the trickery should be transformed by his to me muscle should be transformed into to Mimas into simplicity into truth into what's correct amazing thing and he says like this he says that's the difference between this world in the next world in this world so we live in a world in our mother's chakra a world of lies that's who ASA was Issa was the one who was involved in tricking his own father pretending to be someone he wasn't pretending to be so who is righteous when in truth he wasn't so righteous that's yeah ASA represents this world the world of lies Yaakov Aveeno represents the world of truth and so he's injecting the truth even into the world of Lies the world has been brought down because of the cinema the Mauritian because of our mean was the trickery of the knavish and it's Yaakov e-news job to swish things back he also points out that this is something that we see by eye from Aveeno avril lavigne was given a command bash M which doesn't make sense Shem says name I want you to shack your son youths cook when you take Isaac and I want you to slaughter him bring him up and bring him up on the mountain and just stood that that meant bringing him up as an oilless of Corbin as a sacrifice how could it be a Shem Hashem promised me she who said that this is going to be the beginning of the Jewish people how could it be that he's telling me to sacrifice my son neither to me a lake I go in my simplicity I go in my tenemos in my in my perfect trust in God I do what God says that's the way of Avraham Avinu and that's what Yaakov Aveeno also had but he had to come and infuse even the trickery with that Tamim us with that simplicity now I want to understand I won't understand this I want anything what does it mean what is the idea here that we need to is that does that open an open invitation to trick people if we're doing in the change in life we're doing it for the right reasons of course that that's not what this is coming to teach us that's not this is going to teach us at all what's coming to teach us is that in this case it's very clear Yaakov Aveeno was told by a prophet this is what we have to do when it's very clear if the Torah tells us to behave in a certain way we go with the way that the Torah says but I'd like to read to you from the end of the piece some stuff in here I'm not going to get into I want to read to you from the end of the piece where we're reclined freedom there gives us examples of places where this applies to us where we can use the idea of trickery so to speak in our - Hashem in our service of God and we can infuse it with to me mess with perfection with simplicity about a say Allah secondly Locke I made Sahara let's remember the ace Asaph was the one who represented the 8th Sahara the evil inclination right and with the evil inclination was appropriate to come in with trickery Zelo must have to get back the blessings to undo to take away that which the knavish brought into the world that which the snake brought into the world so now when we're coming to fight against a Sahara so we need to use begin a show me the connect a medium we need to use this measure for measure Obama Ramos he comes to us with tricks right the heart has no qualms tricking us into doing evil can Augusta in my barometer bear among so we need to deal with him also sometimes with certain aspect of trickery for example could going number one potentially lachemann bullish more there's an idea sometimes we need to do things for the wrong reasons sometimes we need to do the right thing for the wrong reason sha-la-la-la not for its own sake not because we're doing it because it's the right thing to do per se because there's an idea me talk show leadership a bullish mo then when we do something for the wrong reason if we have the intent to get to the right reason so our sages tell us that that will indeed lead us to do the thing for the right reason eventually so it's like a type of trick on the 8th Sahara the evil inclination wants us to do things for the bad reasons for egotistical reasons we can actually use that to our benefit by starting that way giving Nate saris do so to speak and then working our way towards doing it for the right reasons with pure intent I it's a hard ball if a faceless shame Malo muy loco my psyche with Varma carry the Elijah Sarah tells us what are you learning so much why are you trying to study God's Torah I try to be spiritual why listen to a sheer go do things make money go do things take care of other important things I chew my gum believe military-issue I should have covered we can answer you know what it's possible to make money learning Torah it's possible to get great honor from studying the Torah which is la the schwa eyelashes a lot of Sh'ma you know that's of course not the the reason a person's supposed to do it lahat Aquila it's not the best reason however by starting off with that and telling you Sarah don't don't try to pull me away from the Torah but with that kind of trick I'm gonna trick you I'm gonna show you I'm going to do I can do the right thing for the wrong reason to and end up doing it for the right reasons in the end number two tynus a star shane lastly my son feed Simon on McCain Miss Diane Imam gamma penny Mia's amazing thing sir says listen you can't do that action you're doing a mitzvah you're showing yourself to be a wretched for your dominate you look like you have so much confound and you've so much intent as you pray Sarah says don't do that come on no you fooling you don't have that on your insides yeah you're doing these actions on you know an external action but who are you kidding right that's how the ESR tries to trick us Kayla reckon I summon come to Auntie is out of serving God Gulam but the truth is newest I varvakis sign my dresses up anemia many many times we find that the outer actions that we take awakened something inside of us she much petite seinem Alpesh a nap anemias mrs. diamond I'd say tiniest even though we don't feel that way on the inside but but sometimes when we do something externally smile even I don't feel happy or or I feel very lazy right now get up and start moving right that can awaken inside of us a true feeling of happiness a true feeling of movement Arabia my sin you have you got any Mustafa but by doing this consistently eventually it will penetrate it's something that we know to be true it Sonja is my recipe Nene is that outer actions awaken the inner self I'm how talks about it Basilica sharm another trick number three the hakka on a CNS become meaning armless that when we have challenges we have difficulties we've got we gotta use all the means that our disposal to face off with those challenges to trick day to her all you did the King say Sarla smoker you sir yes ara bother me later ask me ask me to do that a Vera tomorrow I can't do it today it's it's just not a good time pushing off the it's alright so these are the ideas and I want to bless you I ask you to bless me ashram should help us that we should understand the depth of what it means to serve Hashem but to me must of course to serve Hashem with simplicity to go in God's ways to try our best to do things in a simple way and also to be able to use in the appropriate place that our me most the craftiness the tricks in order to serve God properly and infuse even those tricks with the simplicity of serving God thank you so much for listening I have wonderful Shabbos this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you for more podcasts like this please visit www.carmensognonvi.com/newsletter [Music]