Tzav-Pesach - Miraculous Impact

You're listening to the weekly para podcast with Ari Goldwag recorded with Hashem's never ending assistance in Ramad Israel 5785 2025. This week's para is par and tomorrow night shabas we're going to go straight into pes like to share with you a thought from this week's para and try to connect it into something that has to do with pes as well. Our para as last week's parha we're speaking about the concept of carbonus the idea of bringing sacrifices and what is the purpose of the sacrifices so some of them have different purposes we bring a carbon pes we're going to talk about a lot that a little bit bring a carbon pesa because hashem passed over the homes of the Jewish people we bring a carbon to thank Hashem for something some danger we were in he saved us we bring different corbonas for the for the yantiff that we're in and we bring of course corbonus to to show that we recognize we've done something wrong. We've done a we've sinned and we're trying to repent to come back to Hashem and to ask for his forgiveness brings there's aim in Psalms 51:1 19 it says the offering of of Hashem. So today we don't have carbonus but the the concept of the carbonus the idea behind them the feelings it's supposed to arouse within us when we bring a carbon specifically for a sin is one of subservience recognition sadness that's what it's supposed to awaken within us and so the medish brings a p which speaks about what we can do today we don't have carbonus yet hopefully soon. But we can bring a carbon which is our heart. If a person has a broken spirit, a broken heart, God does not doesn't turn away. Says the we have a few different concepts taught by a few different in regards to this. David the first one is David King David wrote this in Psalms and he's he's saying in front of I have a broken heart I want that to be an offering for you he says you know it's not so easy to do chuva it's not easy to repent it's not easy to come back to it's not easy to do what's right but he says I overcame became my ego. My ego says don't admit it. My ego says don't don't admit that I've done something wrong. And yet I overcame that I repented in front of you. He says, "Look, I know that if I do chuva, if I have a broken heart, if I recognize what I've done wrong, so then I know that in the future I'm going to have a child, his name is going to be King Solomon, and he's going to actually build the B. He's going to build a temple. So a result of my of my mistake right put us here in this world to make mistakes. The result of my mistake is the recognition of my mistake and learning the lesson from my mistake and admitting my mistake and talking about it and and saying Hashem forgive me coming back into my relationship with Hashem. that mistake and by the way the quintessential mistake of damel was his marrying bacha when she was married to somebody else right and that produced through his chuva through his repentance through his recognition of the mistake so he's saying I make I made that mistake and I admitted my mistake and I know that my mistake itself will result in there being somebody named Schlommo who's going to build a temple where there's going to be sacrifices which is all about fixing our mistakes. The result is going to be that your will is going to be fulfilled in the end. There's going to be there's going to be sacrifices brought. There's going to be chuva. People are going to admit their mistakes. They're going to come there. They're going to bring the sacrifices that you requested of us that you that you commanded us to bring. You see that from this verse, the offerings of God, the sacrifices, the carbonas come as a result of a broken spirit. When my heart breaks because of the wrongs that I've done, whether it's between myself and Hashem, whether it's between myself and others, when my heart breaks, the result is that I come close. The word carbon also means to come close. I get back into a relationship with Hashem. I get back into my relationship with others when I admit when my heart is broken. Another one of the opinions says, How do you know that if someone does cha if a person repents anybody, not just King David, me and you, if we repent, it's as if we went up to Jerusalem, we built the B of Mikdesh, we built the misbeh considered like same verse teaches us this idea. And this relates to us again right we don't have carbonus today but there are other things that we can do in place of that where where do we see that when we go in front of the ta when we come in front of hashem in the b in the b in the bakesses in the synagogue and we we come to Pray. We mention the we mention bring back the service of the mdash. We mention the bonus the sacrifices and then we are we bow down to Hashem which of course means that we admit that everything that we have is from him and we admit to our mistakes. We admit that we've done wrong. How do we know this? And we say this in our which says Hashem desire us bring to you so that we can serve you. We see from this as well that that we see that how do we get to carbonus? How do we get to sacrifices is through our acquiescence our admission our subservience youem that's part of the says and this is really the main point I want to bring out that when it comes to an animal so and specifically we know this to be true by the carbon pes can't have any broken parts You can't have any broken bones in the carbon pes even while you're eating it. You have to be extremely careful not to break any bones while you're eating it has to be whole. So, but it's interesting the thing that's not good when it comes to a corban a sacrifice is something that we find is good is desirable to Hashem when it comes to the human being. Can't have a broken piece of an animal. You can't have a blind animal. You can't have any kind of blemish. When it comes to human being, Hashem desires, he wants our heart to be broken. He wants us to feel broken. And it doesn't mean so broken that we can't come back to him. But it means that we are broken. We admit and we realize that the things that we've done wrong are wrong. the way that I've been is just not okay. It's not been good. That feeling that feeling is is that which motivates us to change and come back to Hashem. And that feeling is that which Hashem desires and says, "Hey, yeah, come back to me." Alexandria Alexandri says this in a bit of a different way. When a regular person uses a vessel which is broken, you know, you have a broken down car, it's it's it's negative. My car has got a if my car has it doesn't, but if it has a huge dent, if it has, you know, if it's broken, it's it's embarrassing. for him. But Hashem specifically, God wants broken vessels. God is close to those of broken hearts. Heals the brokenhearted says in those are in. But it says God desires those who are broken or lowly of spirit. Shem wants humility. The brokenness is what desires that's the mag I think it's very powerful teaches us an incredible lesson about what it is how do we enter into a relationship with Hashem now I'm going to share with you something else which is a slightly different idea or a different concept but I think it has to do with the heart and that's why I want to connect them. It has to do with the effect and the impact that something has on our heart. This message is saying the one that we just read is saying that when it has an impact on my heart, the wrong that I've done, when my heart is moved, when my emotions are moved, so then I can come back into a relationship with Hashem and I can the impact of the the contemplation, the recognition of my wrong has the ability to open my heart and bring me back in to that relationship with Hashem. I'd like to share with you something that myasha writes in in his recurim by Paris says like this and share with you two small thoughts and connect them back in to the rosham the impact that something can have on my heart and how that impact can express itself in my life in a powerful way. We spoke about it and I highly suggest if you didn't see it yet to go back to my podcast number 203 where I also read from Rabbi Paris a and share with you an amazing thought that has to do with the here. He says a foundational idea. You know, we talk a lot about we talk about exodus from Egypt. We focus on it especially on PES took us out of there. We were slaves. And it's something that we never forget. We never forget the fact that we were slaves. He took us out. And specifically he points out, Rabbi P points out, we talk about Kyamsu, about the splitting of the sea, the miracle where we're being chased by our oppressors. We're trying to get out of there and they're coming after us. It looks like it's the end. We're just going to go back to where we were before, back to being slaves or maybe we'll die. Hashem opens up the sea cre and we we walk through. We walk through on dry land. We never forget down to today 3,300 years later, we haven't forgotten this amazing miracle that Hashem performed for us of the splitting of the sea. He brings here like this right a pair writes like this right the is that a person who goes off the path person who denies God and wants to eat from a carbon pes wants to eat and partake of the festive meal of the carbon pes of the sacrifice the pascal lamb which recognizes the fact that God took us out of Egypt that he saved us. So a person who's, you know, become a mishmud, he's gone off the path and he's no longer connected to God. He doesn't believe in God perhaps. I don't know if he doesn't. It's I think it's more than he just doesn't believe in God. He spites God. So he's not allowed to eat from the carbon. Rashi brings seems very strange. Why should it be that he can't eat from a carbon from this kind of sacrifice? It's known the story with the that he said to a particular person who wasn't wasn't uh keeping the Torah anymore. He said to me, you know that when a person passes away in the next world, so he's going to have to give an accounting why he didn't keep all the mitzvah, even the the finest detail of the mitzvah. So you see that he's accountable and yet we're saying that such a person is not allowed to eat from a carbon pesu. That guy that the spoke to ended up doing ended up repenting. So how can it be that a person who doesn't believe in Hashem or he's spites God so he doesn't have the the ability or the obligation anymore from the carbon what's the idea writes that he saw a letter that was written by was a son-in-law of the alter nardic was Rab Pere's grandfather-in-law And wrote a letter to this from and it had to do with the six- day war in regards to the war of the six days which was an incredible miracle. The six day war you know we've been involved in a war now in Israel for a year and a half. Wars don't end in six days and they don't end with someone trying to attack you and then you take over all kinds of lands that you didn't have before. Incredible miracle. Unbelievable. So he wrote like this a very interesting observation when it comes to a to a miraculous situation. In order to understand the power and the greatness of a of a of a miracle, you need to look at the impact. How powerful was the impact of that miracle? Approximately 1500 years after the miracle of of the splitting of the sea occurred when they want to say that something is difficult when they want to speak about a person's his livelihood it's very hard it's something that requires tremendous unbelievable amount of divine assistance we want to say how difficult it is For a person to find their intended mate requires incredible divine assistance. How do we say? We say it's as difficult as splitting the sea. So you see that the the impression the importance the the the way that the Jewish people sees the incredible miracle of the splitting of the sea is so profound that until today we use this kind of phrasiology. This is an incredible miracle like that kind of miracle. He brings over here that in Yeshua when they come into Israel 40 years later, the first thing that Ra says is that we heard about the incredible miracle of how God turned the water into dry land for you. So it had an impact. It was powerful. And so Ramy was saying if you you want to know about this miracle and what it means, you have to look at what's the impact of it. And I'm not I don't know what he said beyond that, but I'm I'm saying the impact of was that there was an incredible chuva movement that was born at that time. People repented, returned to Hashem, returned to Yiddishkite. People all over the world came to Israel for the first time. Unbelievable. Rashim had an incredible impact to this day. Talk about the six day war is just an incredible miracle. He brings further Ram writes a particular it's a question like how can a a ga a person who's a procelite he's a convert to Judaism how can you say that Hashem took out our forefathers from Egypt this person comes from people who were never Jewish so how can that person say that accurately in relation the Ram writes to him that if you didn't if you ch if you said the same exact words that everyone else says you're fine. Why? Once a person becomes a convert there's no difference between me and them says the Rambam to to this particular g to this convertu the miracles that happened to my great-grandparents happened to you to your great-grandparents it's not different you're you're part of us it's your great-grandparents too so Rabbi Pere points out that even know this was something these miracles happened to the Jewish people to the people of Israel not to this guy's great-grandparents but his great-grandparents weren't there writes it's as if it was done for you and for us there's no difference and we could explain it that it's a similar idea to that which wrote that the main part of the miracle is the effect of the miracle, the impact of the miracle. What does it do to your heart? What does it do to the hearts of the people all around could have skipped that didn't have to bring us through the through through the water and split the sea. Could have skipped that. It could have made another miracle, a different kind of miracle. Or maybe that whole thing didn't even have to happen. The purpose of that miracle was to create an impact. That's should be something that's echoes through the generations down to today. The purpose of this impact is so that it should impact whoever comes along afterwards. It should make that difference. It should have an effect on our hearts. That's what I'd like to I'd like to offer to for contemplation. We have a shabas. We have an extra day to think about pes. It's really nice to have that extra, you know, we're ready early for pes. So I'd like to offer you something to contemplate. The carbonus, as we said at the beginning, the carbonus, the purpose of them was to break our hearts. To break our hearts. I did something wrong. There should be an impact cuz I can go along and do things and be be flippant in my relationships and say things and go along and doesn't affect me. It doesn't change me. It doesn't matter that I did that. And the Tyra is telling us this has to matter to you. It should break your heart. You did something wrong in your relationship with Hashem. It should break your heart. It should have an impact on you. You should feel it. And if you can feel it, if it can have an impact on your heart, then you can enter into relationship with Hashem again. If it can have an impact in my heart, I wronged my spouse. I wronged my neighbor. I wronged my kid. So I could I could come back to the person and say, "Hey, I want to be different. I I recognize that." And and anyone else's heart will melt when they see that my heart is broken. Hashem wants broken calem. He wants to to interact with us when we're broken. When when there's an impact on our hearts, that's that's the that's what I see from this. and ka yams and the miracles that we experience them it has to impact us down till today it has to have an emotional effect on us when we read the hagada it can't just be we have to hear something we have to be moved we have to tell over the story it's a story we love stories stories impact us they move us the potential to break our hearts Hey, we didn't deserve that miracle. We were a slave nation. We were halalu. They served idols and so did we. I was saying to one of my kids, you know, when we were kasha, what was hard about Sam? I had just a thought. No, it was hard. We're walking through the water and the water is crashing down on the Egyptians and who says it's not going to crash down on us? We're in the water at the same time as them. They We're not much better than them. Why should we be saved? Why should the water not crash down on us? Why do I deserve a miracle? Why do I deserve a relationship with Hashem? The the impact of it though is that Hashem says, "I I want you. I want a relationship with you. I want you to get out of Egypt and I want you to come to Arseni and I want you to receive the Torah and I want you to start thinking about me. I want you to have a relationship with me. And each and every one of us in our lives has miracles and our own personally it's the places that we experienced separation from Hashem and then Hashem draw us drew us back to him and we need to find those miracles. That's why she says this is about relating to the miracle of then and looking for the miracles of now. Like I mentioned in the bet podcast looking at who is the one behind the miracles Rab Per says who was the one behind the cre who is the one behind the makus who did this and that's the same God that's in my life today making miracles for me today it's got to have an impact on my heart and you know sometimes it does have an impact on my heart sometimes those things happen in my life and I see Hashem in my life and it impacts me and I forget it and that God is a reminder that we need a reminder. We need to bring it back to our hearts. We need to have just like in the nar in the vera when I recognize it, I I I contemplate it and it breaks my heart. There has to be it has to have an impact on my heart. the way that Hashem has been in my life and the miracles that he's done for me and he does for me and he's always doing for me. And this is the opportunity for that contemplation. I want to bless you. I ask you to bless me. Hashem should help us that we should indeed have this recognition. We should see and it should have an impact on our hearts the miracles that he does for us. Hashem should help us when we've done wrong to have a broken heart and come back to him. Re-enter into that relationship. It should impact our hearts and the impact should serve for me and you to bring us back into that relationship with Hashem and with all of those around us. Thank you so much for listening. Have a wonderful shamus and this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you. For more podcasts like this, please visit www.argoldwag.com argoldwag.com or search on iTunes Ari Goldwag. [Music]