Ari Goldwag - Va'eschanan - Balancing Inclinations

you're listening to the weekly parsha podcast with Ari Gold lag recorded without shadows never-ending assistance in Rome efficient machines rail 5777 this week's partial consciousness condom and in looking through the parsha starting off with moshe Raveena's request of a sham to allow them to go into her to throw which was not granted continuing on with moisture abandon speaking about the history of the Jewish people and their experience of moment rc9 Mount Sinai hearing the ten commandments from a Shems mouth I came upon the soaking which we say every day she might tell Sherlock a notion Mahad Moshe Rabbeinu speaks to the obligation which we repeat twice a day to love Hashem our God all of our heart with all of our soul and it goes on the Superman we know so well speaking about our obligation to God and I was looking for a thought something to share with you about these specific aim about these verses and I found in main base to show Ava the safer option Schwab or a beautiful idea I'd like to share with you I like to read a few inside the authors have shown the capital Hope Club a glimmer the first tells us you should love I'm your God with all of your heart call eval Calvo hazael I'm Shimon Schwab quotes our sages who say tomorrow breakfast got no knowledge page 54 we call a local person should love Hashem with all of his heart in other words the vodka in Hebrew so it could be written Lika to mean your heart but live vodka ads in an extra-base and implication of that extra letter is that there's a Dublin the doubling of the heart so what does it mean here that a person is to love Hashem with a doubling of the heart call eval kobish net Soraka 'has Allah say to tell us the implication is that a person is to love Hashem with the two aspects of the heart one aspect is a heart is a sort of what aspect of the heart is in Sahara there's the good inclination within a person and there is the evil inclination within a person we hate to tell via to are up so fear we need to understand what does it mean what is the concept of serving our Shem with our two inclinations or the aspect of ourselves which is that which pushes us to do good things as well as the assets within ourselves which pushes pushes us to do negative things how does one serve a Shem with both of these aspects so if Schwab says an amazing addition amazing novelty a new idea very interesting very deep beautiful something I think that we can think about every time we read these words we read it twice a day it's an amazing opportunity to think about this idea the near LPT brain marinera resumption Rafael Hirsch Zuko Sourav Schwab quotes from of jump shimmer fold her she was one of the leaders of torah jury in germany 100 years ago the partial duration sell puzzle the peso Coty's radix the other shoe cost about cutting Shabbat verse tells us that Shem says the kind before he goes and kills heaven he's upset and angry and Shem says same be careful at the doorway the sin is crouched crouched which we usually understand Tamim crouched and waiting it's ready to get you but you can rule over it I talked to Michelle well you can rule over it the margin level put me two inches of Irish the regular way of understanding is the people are accustomed to saying that she is our little Audemars pissed Caleb ugly that the ASA heart or the evil inclination of a person is standing there at the at the gateway of his heart okay we meet supremacy over the day the og luckily and the in Sahara is waiting when I get a chance to knock this person down why would I get a chance to cause him to sin romero's out like gazelle our sages helots come on suka nothing days are efficient even luggage - luggage says he's social Adam is God relevant move Akash Lamesa the evil inclination or person waits from every single day gets is strength in the part of every single day trying to destroy him trying to kill him Lamar's verse says so I rush realistic mouthwash Lamesa that the evil one looks is looking out for the righteous one and he's trying to destroy them but refreshment fellers gives a different twist beautiful idea a different twist on what this verse means well the ms2 himakajima Tina Turner of Itza presumption follow her she points out that whenever we find the word revita the word of Itza it says it's crouched it sounds like it's crouched in wait waiting there ready to pounce but that's not what it means actually Indian revita Mara Alma new club Hashanah Shalva actually the word revita which means crouching doesn't mean crouching in wait it means it means relaxed in a state of relaxation because it seems like the verse tells us be nice - I retaining Hashem will cause me to be in a relaxed State amongst the grass will combine the verse invitee Parham tests prosecuted Allah robots robits minimis / time we refer to the fact that there's this state of relaxation which is implicit in the words robots shochet I believe shimmed Agha that the person is resting without any worry the inverter Shiprock airman across like and the implication of the word is that he's relaxed and he doesn't want anyone to interrupt his Manuka is relaxation another verse of this we find in part / bottom really a stock of my facility that it's it's resting underneath it's its burden perish any acolo coming out so I can't get up on its own it's not like lying in wait rather it's just lying it can't move it's not it doesn't want to move will fees that is an amazing thing comes out visa car bonus episode the intense of the verses show Yates arrived it's my Manuka Aria pesos not as we think that it's lying in wait waiting to get you but rather it's lying there in a state that it doesn't want to be disturbed laconic Tobias Adam Chema's mana so you've talked adam carolla but we also knew how sorry the eighth Sahara the evil inclination of the person is not waiting there to get you but rather in this explanation it's all right waiting there quietly doesn't really want to be disturbed but the human being through his action can awaken the giant a dorado he left a Chuco so amazingly explains that the the Yanks Ihara actually its desire is for you Chamorro hey Shakthi Ahava were chuka it designs it's a hard the evil inclination of the person the lower part of the person doesn't want to not the person down truly but rather amazing thing the 8th Sahara the lower part of the person abates our instincts of the human being want to be bridled want to want to be given limits and boundaries shamira he should be Alva there's an aspect here of love of desire molester nearly died evil I'd to shoot caught sight the verson share human song live songs speak to the fact the users were chuka which means desire to speak of the love of a person speak of Hashem love for the Jewish people or the Jewish people's love for God she returned a shots attentively patottie shadow the desire of the base part of the human being yet Sahara is that it be guided velocity on our tightest our theatre goofiness Sheva resolution get nervous young and not that the desires of the human being be allowed to run you know run a course run ramp run rampant hello in such a way that there's no boundaries commotion era it's Elijah like we find in regards to Kailash walk when he speaks of the nature of a woman value shape to shoot kasi with who you Michelle box which sounds pretty bad it sounds like the man is one is going to rule over the woman and the woman is going to be like waiting for the man to rule over Shane rats and Aisha Liz got a lot by Allah the verse is actually indicating an amazing thing that the desire of a woman is not to be in control of her husband that's not what it means a lot of residential binary a racial bias the natural state is that a woman wants her husband to be in charge of the home for you know how love and he should be in charge of who yeah maybe Terrace I'm knockin somebody he's the one who will bring in the food and go in and out that's his job his job to bring in the partner saw Comeau keen resonator similarly that's the desire of the a Tahara of the evil inclination of the human being should I tell Tim shall boy that you shall rule over it these are hard evil inclination wants to be guided wants to be given boundaries amazing thing well Emma was in my early middle cause sorry but if a person awakens it from its from its rest as I not say I ate too harsh a lead so then what happens is instead of the gates of Harad evil and connection being the one who is guided in city it's a Harada evil inclinations the one who starts doing the guiding things to become backwards and not so signing and esri which really wants to be given its guidance instead becomes in charge and now becomes one's enemy are you loyal hoddan luckily my faction I'm inside and then it causes a person to fall it causes the preeminent because it wants to kill the person so when things come out of balance I mean Sahara is not given the proper guidance the proper boundaries so then it becomes a destructive force instead of positive force amazing thing amazing idea very deep idea Renea charcoal - morkul it's awesome and so now if Sherman Schwab explains that Hashem created the human being and the nuts and legacy of caucus and he gave the human being free will the Samba cubish need some help him in place within him two opposite inclinations yes sir I got a modular assertion one inclination is that which draws him to love God but call me may not share with all of the aspects of his soul the aides are f RM f @a o mustard our session and then there's the evil inclination which tries to seduce him to trick him to turn away from the wave of shem lava i'll return is Barak and to turn away and to transgress the shams will okay so that these are the two acids that are within the human being now the a Shahi see the bureau union of the hero Andrew Sherman Schwab wants to add on to our understanding here in regards to the concept of free will so now could this work abroad call me Ishmael the Hashem created all of his all of reality something from nothing Lehane linked to our dimension conscious negative and as a result we have two opposite powers within the human being an emotional eh-eh wanted to bring him which which draws him to become something to have to have reality to him as an emotional shoreline Aloha and something pulling him back towards his route which is nothingness yes right side root sunniest alacazam opposition more oh cool his good inclination the good part of the human being is drawing him towards Hashem sure everything cool sale of his broth he's kind of an SF the by attaching oneself to God his Easter Hara is drawing him to to God who is the ultimate existence you sure yes man I love it all may I love him and by attaching myself to a God who is the ultimate eh the ultimate there is so then the person becomes real as a result of that the a column said it via by ultimate Sahara and together with that a person was within his nature was placed and you also have an evil inclination which Thomas Avila sugar Hawaiian which draws him towards nothingness to where he came from the header and from becoming from disappearance Sherri's the McCleary that is his route miss alacazam affair Sahara when a person is drawn after his evil inclination Carl Marsh Lima King Solomon said haha corel pizza Kishore LT McAvoy the verse says initially in proverbs chapter 7 first the fact that someone who is drawn after that so he's like a short it's like an ox who's being drawn suddenly to be to be shafted he slaughtered commodity pearl possibly other King beneficial you doesn't realize that it's like a like the quickness of a bird flying doesn't realize that it's about to lose its life Chekov annickap Sciuto chicoy still ahead a lion rellenos Shamim engage as a result of following after one date Sahara following after one's evil inclination he ends up within nothing missing ends up with nothing though he matzo whites I'm at the time and so the worst means initially also in Proverbs when it says and whoever has found me whoever it's from the Torah whoever has found godliness has found life but that so that's referring to eternal life home asana vimala's all those who hate me hate death insurance a Volusia Birla insurance a memento which is that the evil inclination draws a person to the nothing which is death which was created from when we first time APIs come up Shane had says Atma vera of Akasha demon Calaveras it's very well known this this fit gum is saying that even though sadness or depression is not something which in itself is an of area which is in itself is explicitly forbidden by the Torah however it's worse than all of that various weather that Kanan move on and based on what we're saying it becomes understood shots machetes till after the high that sadness depression draws a person back towards nothingness maybe I seldom live or I'll call out various and it causes the person to transgress all the sins how could they eat without some the dots are from the Sun so a person heaven forbid to be willing to give up his own life okay so we're going to continue here just it's just beautiful the peace I want to keep reading it inside of the sofrito opposition like a ho the verse tells us that we have an obligation to love Hashem our God so he points out that there's an obligation according to this a free one of the understandings of the fact that we're supposed to love God is that we're supposed to cause God to be loved by people through our actions through all of those things that we do when we do good actions when we are people who represent the Torah who represent godliness in the world and people see that we're doing good things and see that we behave nicely and that we have we are respectful we respect the law we respect each other we behave in that way so it causes people to love God they recognize this is a godly person this is how a godly person behaves they're also interested in godliness and he says an amazing thing he says based on what we're saying so it's far able to explain the measures to mean that not only are we to cause other people to love God but work to cause I hate Sahara the base part of ourselves to love God as well okay now the last part over here which I also like I have my own thought I'd like to add on to what he says the last part over here that he tries to understand he says that you know it was something that that's bothered him for many years that da Sahara we see very clear the evil inclination within a person the part that part of a person which draws them to do affairs to do base things instinctual things to eat you know to eat food or to eat a lot of food or to be involved in tyfa to be involved in desire so that's a very clear part of the person we see how it's an inclination a yeats there are up it's an evil inclination I want something drawing a person person towards doing things that are in line with or in consonance with his base yourself but where do we see within the person this a chart I've the age to tell the good inclination which we're speaking about here that there's two inclinations right but where is that part of us it's kind of hard to see the part of us which draws us to goodness which wants us to godliness which draws us to do what's right what's what's what's really right what we really know to be right the HOA is very loud very powerful very strong he pulls up so you really pull this in that direction but do we see or do we find that within ourselves there's a piece of us that draws us and pulls us and wants us to do good we don't it's not something that we see so clearly and he says an amazing thing he says that in fact the way that it works is like this and he brings examples of this I'm not going to get into it but he brings examples of it and proves to the idea that when a person is involved in in gosh yes so the person is involved indeed unbounded listening to the data Hara listening to the evil inclination doing those things being pulled along by these are indeed what happens is the voice of the a to tell the voice of good inclination becomes muted the pull of goodness becomes less than becomes not as strong but to the degree that a person denies himself and we're not talking here about becoming ascetic that's not the Torres way the tour doesn't ask us to disconnect from the world but to the degree that a person does not allow these Aurra his evil inclination to pull in him strongly in the direction of his base desires to that degree so the result is that the Yahara the evil inclination is limited is bounded as we said before he wants boundaries that part of our self wants boundaries to the degree that we provide those boundaries and limit ourselves even conditions that smoke of a motor look like result Ellis there's an obligation to sanctify ourselves even within those things that are permitted to us so if we can limit within those things that are permitted to us and to the degree that we do that so then it gives power to the age of 12 it gives power to our good inclination and allows that part of ourselves to become stronger and stronger now I was thinking about this in terms of the two different ways that we can operate in the world which really one corresponds to get Sahara and one corresponds to a Cheeto here in Sahara the evil inclination the base part of the person wants instant gratification we're used to this today especially with all of our devices or the internet we want it we want to know we want to understand we want to know what's going on we want it all now I need to know right now I want to have instant gratification I'm hungry I want to I want my mind foods to be heated up immediately I need a microwave right now you know that's that's the age that we live in we need to know everything and we need to know it now we need to have everything we need to have it now and that's that's a function of the HR up it's a function of our baser desire that we need to have things now but a function of the eight sort of a function of the good inclination amazingly the spiritual aspect of ourselves is lit up when we have patience when we wait if you've been listening to me for 20 minutes now in order to understand what I'm trying to get to so you have strengthened your Yates are your gates at oh you have strengthened the good size of the spiritual side of yourself when we wait for things when we're involved in process and we don't need to have things immediately but rather we're ready to wait for them so that process enforces reinforces our spiritual side or eh sort of and so to the degree that we're able to limit the boundary to create boundaries to create limits around all the things that we do that we're involved in which give us immediate gratification I need what I need and I want what I want and I want it now so the degree that we can limit that aspect of ourselves so we are serving Hashem is Rho ha no answer Tov and it doesn't mean that I can't have those things it doesn't mean I shouldn't want me to be ascetic like we said a Shem does want me to to create boundaries for myself to limit things to be able to weight to be able to hold off and every parent knows every parent in experiences with their child so I want something once and now sometimes the challenge the weight or sometimes it's not possible to get that thing and to the degree that we give ourselves and our children boundaries to the degree that we create limits for ourselves we are in reinforcing against the tope we are bringing the eight Sahara over to the side of good and to that degree we also create a kinship Shem we sanctify God's name people who see us see that we have the ability to wait see that we don't get angry immediately when things don't go our way see that indeed we are godly people other people see that and they also want to be like that it's a kiddush Hashem so sanctification of God's name and by doing so we fulfill the hasta Chemeketa the call of alcohol we'll call them applicable America should love us share with all your heart with all your soul with all of your ability with all of your riches so this is an idea perhaps we can take without every day we see a man twice a day we can think about the holidays Oh Shane sir after how can I serve God with my a Tahara is to creating limits which the 1/3 Hara also wishes as presumption for all Hersh says as Rahab quotes him it's all rather the lower aspect of ourselves and our children to want those boundaries we if we provide those boundaries we are raising up our children we are raising up our lower cells and by doing so we are reinforcing the HR tove the good inclination within us I want to bless you and please bless me Hashem should help us we should be able to recognize the power within ourselves the two absolute inclinations within ourselves that are so powerful and by doing so a sham should help us that we should sense that we are being drawn more and more towards him are you insert over our good inclination will get stronger our evil inclination will get weaker less will have less of a pull on us a year to toe we'll have more of a class or good inclination will be drives ever higher ever closer touch them thank you so much for listening at wonderful Shabbos this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you for more podcasts like this please visit www.flexsim.com [Music]