Noach - Hearing the Intuitive God-Voice

You're listening to the weekly partial podcast with Ari Goldwag recorded with Asham's never ending assistance in Bish Israel 5787 2026. This week we are reading and so the animals Hashem is bringing a flood to destroy mankind and all of the creations in the world. All the creatures Noah and his sons are to be on this boat which will survive along with two of each animal male and female and seven or seven pairs of each kosher animal as the Torah tells us. And there's an a very interesting medish that connects the concept of the animals coming to another time in history which hopefully will be soon which is another time when animals come on their own as we're going to see. Now I'd like to read to you from the sukim themselves. The medish is going to speak about an interesting point. As I just said, the animals come by themselves it seems. But the says, this is in chapter 6 verse 19. At first, when Hashem speaks to Noah, he instructs him to bring the animals to the to the ark. From each animal, every living creature bring two. You shall bring. It says, okay, male and female. That's in chapter 6 verse 19. Then in chapter 7 verse two, it says take seven by seven of each of the pure animals. Again, it says take Take two male and female. Okay, it keeps saying take take. However, in our puzz which is chapter 7 verse 16 it says they came to Noah. They came to the ark. Two of each animal that had living had life in it. Those that came were male and female. says him his hashem closed closed the the ark on his behalf. Okay. So theim seem to indicate on one hand that he's supposed to bring them to the ark. On the other hand they come on their own. So Medish points this out male and female says to God um am I a a trapper? Am I a hunter? Do I know how to collect all these animals to capture them and bring them to the to the ark? He says, "Don't worry about it." It doesn't say they are they were brought there. It just says they came. Says that the indication of the second p, the last p which actually speaks about what happened is that they came on their own. So even though Hashem said he should bring them, they came on their own. That's the majim from from the future time. One is in Isaiah chapter 34. One is the 39th chapter of Ezekiel which is famously speaking about the war of Gumog, the war of Armageddon. And here also there's a reference to the animals coming. Okay. So it's very interesting. We need to understand the concept here. What is being taught when the Torah teaches us when the Torah gives us parallel concepts there's a message. There's something to be learned says in chapter 34 verse 16 of Isaiah seek after the the book of God and read it and uh the before says the in explaining what's going on Here the before speak about the war of Gumog, the Armageddon war and it speaks about the fact that there will be birds who will come and they will land and they will inherit the results it seems of the war. Okay. So the Mish as the understands it is I'm going to read the There's going to be a blood bath, says theim both in and there's going to be all of these nations that come to attack the Jewish people to to attack and to try to conquer Jerusalem, take it away from the Jewish people, try to hand it over to our enemies And the result will be that many many soldiers will die in battle from the enemies of the people of Israel. So much so that the can describe how the animals will come and the birds will come and they will be nourished from the blood and from the bodies of those who have died. Okay, it's pretty graphic here but that's what theim talk about. So the med says that bringing this p explaining the p which it says inshia if you want to understand how it's possible that the animals will all come at this point to to be nourished from the aftermath of the battle. So seek elsewhere in the book of God and you can see that there is a precedent for animals coming on their own for a particular purpose and and it would seem that there's some parallel between what's going on the animals gathering by Noah and the animals gathering in the aftermath of the war of Armageddon. So it says like this says the interestingly if you see that animals will come willingly to be locked up imagine if you decided you want to start a zoo and you put out a call to the animal kingdom and said all animals who would like to join and be part of this zoo please arrive on such and such a date in such and such a place and they would all come right that's not really a natural thing for an animal to be interested in being locked into a zoo So for them to come to be locked into a boat for 12 months, it's an unusual thing. So if they're going to come for that purpose, so certainly they'll come on their own to be nourished from the flesh of the mighty. That's the language of the maj. Okay. So that's something that they would be interested in having endless food. This is what the verse says also. We just quoted now we're going to quote the verse in Ezekiel 39 verses 17 and 18. Oh child of man. This is what God says. Say to the birds all those who have wings. and to all of the animals of the field. He come to gather together and come gather in from all the surrounding areas. come and partake of the of the sacrifice, the the offering that's going to be made on the mountains of Israel. You will come and you will eat the flesh. You will drink the blood of the mighty ones, the flesh of the mighty ones. And the blood of the princes of the land you will drink. Empire Maria Bash and Kulum all these fattened human beings. It's such an interesting concept like we need to clearly understand what is the idea of all of these animals coming after this war to eat the flesh of the mighty ones to eat the flesh of the princes to eat the flesh of the fattened ones. Th those are the verses. Those are the sukim. So in in reading this maj and thinking about this maj the thing that came to mind the concept that came to mind is the idea of the the we just said the ink talks about the mighty ones and their princes and the fattened state of the human being. And I think that it refers to something which very much has to do with us and very much has to do with the challenge perhaps the challenge of our time and it's not what people might think as the challenge of our times which might people might say well it's the internet or it's the relationships of people between each other there's lots of challenges of course of our time but I posit I would like to posit that the great challenge of our time in this moment especially It's the challenge of believing that it is my power, my ability that gives me my existence. And that can be true when it comes to parnos and livelihood. We live in a time of tremendous wealth and tremendous seeking of wealth. And what's that really about if you think about it? It's really about trying to control my destiny, trying to gain control of how things will be. Having having faith in myself, having in myself, that's one issue of it, pursuing wealth, pursuing livelihood. Another issue is, of course, here in Israel, believing that 100 years ago or 80 years ago, there was a holocaust. We were slaughtered 6 million Jews. We didn't have a way to protect ourselves. Now we have a country. Now we have an army. Now we can protect ourselves. I'm not talking about whether I I don't want I'm not getting involved in issues of of army and service and things like that. I'm just talking about conceptually the way that it's being spoken about is in my opinion spiritually unhealthy. We didn't have an army then. We couldn't protect ourselves. Now we have an army. Now we can protect ourselves. There's a there's a fattening that's in the wealth. There's anus the blood. The animals are coming to drink the blood of the of the princes. What are princes? What do we need a king for? What do we need a government for? To protect us to stand up for us. They shouldn't overrun us and drop nuclear bombs on our heads. All right. That's what a nussy is. Someone who's raised up. What's his purpose? Why does someone get honored? Why does someone want to be a prime minister? He feels a certain maybe I hope a certain responsibility to the Jewish people. He wants to protect us. He wants to he wants to make sure that the Jewish people continues to live and exist and thrive. But the animals come and they drink the blood of the mighty. They eat the flesh of the mighty and the and those who are fattened and those who are raised up. What's the message here? Why are the animals coming? What do the animals represent? The animals are coming to the tava. They're coming to survive the flood. They gather on their own. What does it mean they gather on their own? So the marzoo explains at length that in both places, right? And it makes it sound like I want to read again the tell all the animals to come. Well, Hashem says to bring all the animals. It sounds like he's telling them to do it. But that's not what happens. They come on their own. As we said, they came on their own. It was somehow instinctual. And we we see this in, you know, if there's a if there's a uh a huge wave, forget what they're called, a tsunami. There it is. A tsunami that comes in. So, the animals end up on higher ground before the tsunami even comes. There's some instinctual knowledge that the animals have for survival. And that instinctual knowledge is referred to here as Hashem speaking, Hashem sending them. The animals come The animals come because Hashem has spoken. They're meant to survive. So the animals come and the animals come again after the after the loss of power, after all the powers. Think about it. In a war of Gumag, all of the powers, it doesn't take a lot of imagination today to think of what it could look like if Russia and Ukraine gets out of hand. If Iran and Israel gets out of hand, if China and Taiwan gets out of hand, if North Korea, South Korea gets out of hand, it's not too hard to imagine that everyone trying to control and have power can can wreak havoc in the world. Incredible destruction can happen. The animals come on their own and they are nourished after the fall, the destruction that occurs, the death of all of these strivings for power, all of these beliefs that I can make the money myself. All of these beliefs that I can provide sustenance for and protection for myself, the animals come. What are the animals coming? What does that mean? What does that represent? So there's a there's a PK the PK says invite we say this every shamus most every shamus after your righteousness is like the mighty mountains your statutes are like the mighty depths the great depths Hashem, you Hashem save man and beast says Rashi [gasps] says Rashi. And we're going to see it's also a human beings in Adam. What's what's an Adam? If you compare an Adam to a behemoth, what's an Adam? What's a man as opposed to a beast as opposed to an animal? A human being has intelligence. Human being has the ability to we could say control his passions. Maybe want to talk about it on a spiritual level. Human being has the ability to control his control his surroundings. I can create a or human beings can create air conditioning that will if I'm too hot I can get cool. If I'm too cold I can get warm. I can control my situation with my mind with my intelligence. Interesting. Rashi says the human beings who are crafty with their minds like the first man who always crafty about the first man he was also trying to control his situation. We could say last week's para with with eating trying to get wisdom. When a human being makes himself, even though he's so smart, he sees he's he's knows how to do stuff. He's very intelligent. He's figured it out. He's figured out what to do. But he makes himself like an animal. What does it mean to make himself like an animal? Animals don't know what to do. Animals don't have control over their environment. The animal is completely dependent upon its master says Rashi. Person makes themselves humble. I I could figure things out. I could do things myself. But I step back and I make myself I don't want to say helpless but maybe powerless. I I recognize that I don't really know everything. I don't really have full power over my surroundings, over my life. That person who can make himself humble like an animal, interesting language, Hashem saves that person. Now the Gmor says as follows. brings it brings I'm on the wrong page. Obeys brings his Gmorra here is pointing out that interesting Rashi also here on the on the Gmorrah says that they are intelligent they're crafty in their knowledge like Adam Harishon again he says that they make themselves like an animal decay ru also a language of anova of humility so rashi in is quoting to go in the idea here is powerful the idea here is incredible it's there's I would say a simplicity there's a tea an in living a living living with timus with simplicity with with with without complication without complexity The human being, we like complexity. We like to understand things, like to see the depth of things. We like to learn to measure and figure out, well, what's the connection between this and that? What's the depth of it? But there's something else, and that's simplicity. Serving Hashem was simplicity. And I think that that's perhaps the foundation of what the medish is referring to when it says the animals came on their own. The animals came on their own. It looked like they needed to be directed or or Noah needs to to bring them in to hunt them down, but they just come on their own. They don't they don't actually need direction. They don't need human intervention. Things in a natural state. Hashm created the world in a state where things if they're not interfered with by human beings who have who have free will if they're not interfered with by people who have craftiness and are involved in das involved in breaking things down creating complexity things run smoothly the human being gets in the way the animals come on their own they don't need enough to bring them when the animals come when the animals come after the war of gag and they are nourished by the flesh of the of the mighty I think I believe that what it's saying is they come on their own there's it represents the fact that the human being believed with all of his mighty powers and with all of his his strivings for greatness and with all of his belief that he's going to control his destiny that he can that they can grab Jerusalem, that they can take control of their spiritual destiny, that they can take control of mankind's destiny, maybe create a world of peace after we destroy all of our enemies or something. But it doesn't work. It just self-destructs. Then the animals come and they drink the blood, which is the life force. I don't it might be literal but I think that there's a deep teaching here that it's the animals who come on their own instinctively to show to teach mankind to teach us that I just need to be not so thought out sometimes to to live simply to live with simplicity with there's a a story I'd like to read to inn's Michalam and he says like this it's about simplicity story number 21 reading from Arya Kaplan's translation God wins battles merely because of the simple folk who recite psalms with simplicity who sayimus and not through those who use sophisticated means. A king once went hunting and he traveled like a simple man so that he would have freedom of movement. Suddenly a heavy rain fell literally like a flood. Okay. So we see very clearly he's referring to our probably to our med. So the king is hunting the flood falls the the waters flow the minister minister scattered in all direction. The king was in great danger. He didn't have his people to protect him. They ran in every direction because of the rain. To get out of the rain, he searched until he found the house of a villager. Simple man. The villager invited the king in and offered him some gros, simple food. He lit the stove, let the king sleep on the pallet. So, a simple guy. All the ministers with their great strength and their they can't they can't protect the king. He ends up in the house of a simple person. This was very sweet and pleasant for the king. He was so tired and exhausted that it seemed as if he had never had such a pleasurable experience. Meanwhile, the royal minister sought the king till they found him in this house where they saw the king sleeping. "They wanted him to return to the palace with them." "You did not even attempt to rescue me," said the king. "Each one of you ran to save himself, but this man rescued me. Here I had the sweetest experience. Therefore, he will bring bring me back in his wagon in these clothes and he will sit with me on my throne. This simple person, this simple man did more for the king to protect him so to speak than all of the ministers. Nakman concluded by saying that it is said that before Msiah comes there will be a flood. In parenthesis, it says people will be flooded with atheism. And I'm extending it to people will be flooded with a sense of I need to do this myself. If you think about what the enlightenment really meant, what what were Jews seeking there? What what is being sought in the secular in the the secular what is the secular seeking? What is going on in the west and even within the world? is trying to hold on to that stuff ourselves instead of Hashem. It will not be a flood of water but of immorality. It will cover all the high mountains even in the Holy Land where the original flood did not reach. But this time it will come with such strength that the water will splash over the land. This means that it will have an effect even in virtuous hearts. There will be no way to combat this with sophistication. All the royal ministers will be scattered. The entire kingdom will not be firm on its foundation. The only the only ones who will uphold it will be the simple Jews recite psalms with simplicity. It's very moving to me. Very moving to me because I think we all think that we're the only ones that will make it. But this is saying that there's something deep, [snorts] something simple that needs to be done. Therefore, when Messiah comes, they'll be the ones to place the crown on his head. Who will place the crown on Hashem's head? Who will it be? It won't be the ones who are involved in the complication and we can be involved. It's we can make the mistake of being involved in spiritual complication as well, thinking I know how to serve God or I know how to serve God better than anybody else. But there's a deep thing that's going on here. It's the animals who come afterwards. It's the animals who come on their own. They're inspired. The way says that the zuggers, the ones who say psalms, it's the simplicity. It's the simplicity. I got to get out of my complication. I got to get out of my mind. I got to get out of thinking that I know how things are going to be. how I'm going to control everything in my environment. I'm going to get everything that I need. I got to get out of that. I got to just be simple. I got to be like as simple as as an animal that doesn't have any das doesn't have any wisdom. It's not crafty. It's not sophisticated. Is not complex. That's the path that I believe is being is being taught here. They're the ones who come in the end. All the mighty warriors and all of the nim the the the princes they fall they fall down. All that's left in the end is just a simple connection to it's the animals who arrive at on their own just guided by their intuition. Hashem's voice is just guiding them and they don't have anything to block it is a simple straightforward person and that's who Hashem talks to. I want to bless you. I ask you to bless me. Should help us to clear out our sophistication to stop trying to figure everything out to stop thinking that we know it. Should help us to realize that we don't know anything. and then the knowing will just appear. Thank you so much for listening. Have a wonderful Shabamus. This podcast was made possible [music] through the gracious donations of listeners like you. For more podcasts like this, please visit www.argoldwag.com or search [music] on iTunes Arri Goldwag.