Ari Goldwag - Vaeschanan - Hashem Answers Prayers

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with Ari Gold wag recorded with Hashem is never ending assistance in remove each image is real 5778 2018 this week's parshas partials s kannan and moshe remain and moses is speaking to us he's speaking to all the generations he's speaking obviously to his own generation and he's also speaking to us and he tells us so many beautiful things so many beautiful statements and before i get into reading the exact plastic i want to talk about it just it's important to understand that we just came out of the three weeks leading up to tisha buff and we had three weeks of tough tough tyrus of reading from the prophets things that were challenging speaking to the jewish people about you for speaking about the the depths to which the Jewish people have may have fallen or have fallen then we have the Shiva done FM - we have seven weeks of nahama of consolation leading up to Rosh Hashanah when we enter back into a relationship with Hashem with God and in our parsha so I want to point out last week we spoke about the challenges of Asaph who are the people of ASA of those who destroyed the temple and now we're going to speak about more positive consoling loving things that has that have to do with our relationship with Hashem with God and how much he loves us and how much he's interested in our prayers the verse says like this I'm gonna start reading from chapters chapter 4 verse 6 which Martha may see some key he must come o Venus to millennia Amun you should keep the Torah you need to safeguard and keep the Torah because it is that which is considered wisdom and understanding in the eyes of the nation's when the nations see the Jewish people only see the wisdom that we have which is contained within our Torah they have tremendous respect for us are sure yesh moon s kohaku kima Ella you should listen to all of these laws all these statutes well I'm Iraq I'm Navajo how I'm gonna vine how good a good dollarsá and the nations of the world will see the great wisdom of the Jewish people verse 7 tells us it's not just about the wisdom it's not just about the gift of the the laws and the statutes that God has for us hidden away in this Torah which we have to try to understand and see its death Kimiko goodell verse 7 says who is this great nation which other great nations should Loyola Kim Craig me love who else has God so close to them gosh another Cana Mohawk really love like Hashem our God is close to us whenever we call him you mean verse a meager God Allah shall lay leukemia mesh bottom Sadiq antara sister shown a connection of nekima yang and who else as we said has such amazing and righteous and wise laws which guide that nation like all of the Torah that I'm placing before you today well sure Ben who gives us two points I'm gonna focus in really only on one of the points but you guys there's two points that Express the greatness of the Jewish people the greatness of Chloe's throughout the greatness of Hashem his relationship with us one is the Torah itself the law that God gave us the rules for life that Hashem has given us and the second is the fact that Hashem is so close to us you saw we are so dear to him whenever we call out him whenever we pray whenever we ask for help Hashem is always there for us he's always ready to respond sometimes immediately sometimes a little bit later as we'll see so I'd like to share with you a few pieces in the measure should we speak about the concept of or try to understand what is the idea of a son being close to us but call Kirino a love in all of our callings out to him there's God answer every prayer does God does God hear every prayer what is the idea of these so committees verses ok so here we are in the second chapter of manjushri Abba on the forum section number 12 Deborah Kerr Karen okay no so the first section I wanna share with you says as follows who else is close to who else has a nation like a shaman who who else which other nation has a god like Hashem our God a shamrock Asif inside the plastic says I need fuel seal Akash I misread some very interesting in King David speaks about the fact that he prays to God and God answers to answers him so he says I send out my prayer to God at a time when it is wanted it sounds like there are times when God answers prayers and our times when God does not be Ken about part of Schuller be Shmuel barn Osman the Canaan of our proper Asif on question a rabbi Shimon bar Nachman modest even in Sevilla silver hi Hashem in stone so what is the first me when it says that I pour out my prayer or I pray when it's a time which God wants it I'm really shy read Fela Palma sukham sorry the the gates of prayer sometimes are open upon the Ullom okay so remember knock means understanding is that sometimes the verse is telling us that there are times on a sham does not hear prayers are times when we pray and God does not listen about Shari chuhwa litem sukham however even according to this opinion which says that God does not always your prayer but there is a gate that is never locked the gates of chief of the gates of repentance are always open always available her person is ready to recognize the wrong that he's done recognize how he's broken his relationship with God he's ready to turn back to God and he's ready to say to God I've sinned and I want to change my ways those gates are always open he can always return our lying me9 so with honey my Papa said to him where he notice from the sea because verse says no rise pathetic Toninho like a shame the awesome things you will respond to us with righteousness the god of our salvation miffed at Sarat so yeah mark like him the one who is trusted in by those who are in the far reaches of the land and those who are on the far the far away oceans okay so the verse in this verse seems to say that those who are far away can reach out to God and they'll be answered the marzo explains that the verses before which are speaking about prayer seem to indicate that one is not always answered so the measure continues my McFly Zeppelin posts waka paama not well I'm sorry Philip I'm sukham Paula Newlin so the concept of prayer is sometimes referred to as a mikvah as a gat a place where the waters have gathered which a person goes to to purify himself okay so the the marzo explains us at length how how how and why that's true but I'm not going to get into it right now when it comes to prayer when it comes to tequila so the verses indicate in Psalms that that a person may or may not be answered at all times of a high Yama's II when it comes to a person who's far away from God as it were who's referred to as somebody who's the Far Away reaches of the earth or the faraway oceans when why is it that widely referred to as the ocean because the ocean is always open when it comes to a mikvah you want to go to a pool so the pool is not accessible to everybody but when it comes to an ocean the ocean is very wide and open Kathy initial couldn't pursue Kula Cobell shot him so to the hand of God when it comes to receiving those who wanted to chuva want to come back from that far away place God is always ready and willing to receive them so that's the opinion of her shmooper not coming that when it comes to prayer prayer does not always work it depends on a person's merits if a person is doing the right thing God will answer his prayers chuhwa I shall always receive a Ravana Ravana says after I eat Fela in and out a nun and in aluminum van and says that the gates of prayer are never locked they're never closed to receive cash emilich a no mahal korean oil of and he brings our verse who is like Hashem our God in all of our callings to him so even though the verse in psalms indicates that King David was only able to pray to God and be answered at a time when God was willing when there was a rut saying when God was when he was on so to speak good terms with God the verse here our verse tells us that it's not it's not the correct approach but rather God is always interested in our prayers whether or not we are worthy of an creel of Ulysses McCall car I know I love and all of our calling out to him and whenever we have the word kriya we can be certain that it refers to the concept of Prayer Keenan MRC verses in Isaiah Bahia tara mee krob on Yana the verse says in Isaiah chapter 65 verse 24 and only before they call I will answer so we see is speaking about prayer over here raba safe Kia Robin said the verse says kavaalen Kazak game is the graphic evolution hope to a sham strengthen your heart and hope to a show having his father Huysmans Pagliacci muha he says that one of the keys to being answered in our prayers is to pray to strengthen ourselves to pray again to keep on praying when we pray tosh em when we ask God for things over and over again eventually as sham answers us Deborah Kerr another possible explanation so according to Rev Annan this is true of anybody anybody can pray and always will be answered but another explanation is that Bashar youth helium race was saying why was King David not able to be answered at all times why did he seem to indicate that there were times when it was his prayer would be accepted there were times it wouldn't be accepted so he answers that because he's an individual praying on his own so there are times will it be answered in other times now multi lesson she'll see Bohr in a phase Ursula may come if a person is part of a public a group of people who are praying to God so then they can't be denied their prayer will always be answered I think I shall like a number called car a new halo that's why I says a plural who is like a shaman our God in all of our callings thing when we call out as a group when we come to the basic in essence when we come to the synagogue and we pray together so there's nothing more powerful than a prayer sham must answer our prayer okay so we have here a difference of opinion going to one opinion some answers every prayer even of a Yahud of an individual regardless what we see is that there is an amazing power of prayer and there's amazing special closeness that God has to the Jewish people which is unique of all of the nations of the world I'd like to share with you another piece this is in section 15 Kimmie Geiger doll who else is like this great nation one of the great nation has there got close to them I'm a common Barbie Hanina a solution get la la cara kumo i what other nation was made great by its god like this nation the nitrile eylem generally speaking the way of the world is Ohama mean and mean nice screen the main nice screen if a nation wants to wage war they don't know if they're going to win it's rob vada night's king but the jewish people are assured that they will win the jewish people will win in war Shannon rock amiga good ol gamer this verse shows us that that there is no other nation that has a god that's close to them and which is war with them on their behalf so the Jewish people have a unique a unique promise interesting that this measure teaches us in this idea that that we are helped by God in the war the Jewish people have a special heavenly aid heavenly assistance in war so I find it interesting here that there's the concept of prayer which we spoke about which is that God answers you know maybe an individual maybe us as a public as a group but here we have another concept that Hashem is close to us without us saying anything just the fact that we're going out to worship commands to go out to war to fight marzo says we find many times in the torah and then a vm in exhume that we have wars we wage wars we have a special you have a special relationship with Hashem Hashem helps us in these wars ok next point citizens in Section number 16 double hit another point I'm Tom Akuma my soup is FINA has very interesting story there was one time a story that there was a group of people on a boat choice the coolish electical of him all of them are Idol worshipers biobus fa who da ha there was one Jew amongst them he Yulin a saccade they reached a particular island only see Buddha plenty tall moist felonies a survey commissioned Mumma they asked the Jew they said you go onto the island and you get us here's some money go get us what we need go get us some provisions laughs an irony like any lake on a lift if you said to them how am I supposed to know where to go what am i I'm not somebody who I'm just like you I'm not somebody who knows this island I'm not familiar with the terrain I'll rule the air shafts an IUD oh my gosh dr. Hynek had a car in car they said to him is there such a thing as a Jew who is just a visitor there's no such thing as a Jew who's a visitor they said to him because wherever you go your God is with you are you sure loyal Hakeem crave you may love and this is the meaning of this verse that God is close to us God is close to the Jewish people how did they know this lamar's Oh explains that there's another place where this magicians quoted and there there's a little bit more to the story that the this group of people were on this ship and the ship encountered terrible weather it was the weather was threatening to capsize the boat and they were all calling out to their gods nothing was happening similar to the story of Jonah of Jonah and the Whale they called out they said to this Jew pray call out to your God and as soon as he prayed everything calmed down so they were able to recognize that there was something special about the relationship of this particular Jew with with God so based on that because of that so they said to him where ever you go God is with you they recognize that God is in a unique and special way God is by the side of and comes to the aid of the Jew and after they understood that if you go onto the island he would be able to procure for them the provisions they would need because God is uniquely with the Jew so here you see and very interesting we have two aspects you have the fact that he answered his prayer was answered God answered his prayer so that's one aspect and they had the other aspect which we mentioned when it came to war which is the God is uniquely on the side of the Jew guys uniquely there to help a Jewish person - as we saw before succeeded more but beyond that even in a simple thing like being able to procure provisions there is a special Seattle dish - special help from heaven that the Jew receives okay so those are the aspects that we've seen so far and I'd like to show you one more piece in section 17 from this metric that speaks about when are we answered in our prayers when does God respond to our prayers does God respond immediately does God take his time what what are the different ways that God responds to us does God always answer our prayers so we say over here mat like this mile the whole Quran I love what does it mean when it says in all of our callings out to him I'm Rob Bowden the sages said you should feel option on a slab I'm young there is a prayer that a person receives the answer to receives a response from God takes 40 days meet me at La made from whom do we learn that this is true Nehemiah from Moses device Nepal of National Monument verse tells us that he called out he he fell in front of God he was praying to God for 40 days to ask for forgiveness for the Jewish people so sometimes it takes 40 days of consistent prayer like we said before copulation Kazak famously Becca quad - God hope to God pray to God strengthen yourself quad again sometimes a person is enjoying a person needs to keep praying over and over again we need to try to understand also why is it that a certain prayer needs more time why is it take 40 days for that prayer to be answered you should feel lotion on this last night sometimes you have a prayer which is answered within 20 days meet me at LeMay me Daniel who do we learn it from from Daniel the verse says in Daniel chapter 10 verse 8 verse 3 let him camus disloyalty I didn't eat the bread of desire add Malaysia shoo shoo him young till three weeks of days past 21 days yeah - Hashem Hashem Slava a gunner and afterwards Hashem said that he had heard and he had forgiven so we see that there's a prayer very interesting about these prayers and we're speaking about here have to do it a request to be to be forgiven so there's an aspect of chuhwa here some perhaps that connects back with the first point which we spoke about so the Aged feel I should 9s legislation so we had a prayer which is answered in 40 days of prayer answered in 20 or 21 days now we have its prayer which was answered in three days made me Allah made me I know so we mentioned before Jonah the Prophet we can learn from him to see the verse says why he got a hot dog of a governor he was inside of the innards of the fish he had been swallowed yeah pathways Paul Janish anakov he was there for three days and as the fortune explained he was praying throughout those three days to be saved by God and it took three days though for him to be answered we aged feelin honestly a mecca and there's there are prayers which are answered immediately on the same day he made love me Emilio you see if we can learn this from a Lodge of the Prophet as the verse says maluca mala first Kings chapter 18 verse 36 but you got Shelly oh I know believe I am of a gardener the first cell is how tells us how Elijah the Prophet came forward and he prayed and he was answered the aged feel of Shanina slow I know and there's a prayer which is answered within not just the same day but within the same 12 hours of the day meet me at la mia mia David we learned this from King David Venise Villa Cielo Hashem ace rut sign so there are times that an ayah the word a successively explains the word ace the eighth's the time of desire so the word ace doesn't just mean a 24-hour period means a 12-hour period they the aged Fila there's times when a person was about to pressure actually follow a semi peeve goes broke Liana even before he lets the words out of his mouth God already answered him she know about her tell me a crow Bonnie Anna and will be before you called out I will answer and it's interesting because the rest of the puzzle is that even as you're speaking it's a verse in Isaiah chapter 65 or 24 even as you're speaking I will be answering you already your saying Assembly's help me and then the salvation arrives so we see that there's different levels it's 40 days there's 20 days there's three weeks I'm sorry that was the three weeks is 20 days there's three days there's one day there's twelve hours and there's even before the prayer is uttered this is an amazing thing so we see that ashram is so close um so wants our prayer so just like to try to get a little bit of an understanding here what is what is difference why is this prayer require 40 days why this 20 days why three days why one day what's the difference between these prayers and there's different ways to try to understand different possible take-homes and we can get from it but one way of looking at it is you know when they came to mention our band the Jews had sinned with the golden cat it took 40 days and that was such a grave sin such a grievous sin it required a more lengthy process in order for the sin to be lifted for the promotion I'm going to be able to procure for the Jewish people forgiveness that's that's one possibility but another possibility is that it depends on the person it depends on the person's level of what is the purpose of the prayer where is the prayer accomplished so he saw that the first three instances and even when y'all not nothing there was something that he had done wrong and he was swatted by the fish he had to undo that wrong how does one undo the wrong with prayer what is prayer accomplished and the answer is that or perhaps one of the answers is that what prayer accomplishes is that it shows our subservience to God it shows well you know when we have done something wrong when we have done a sin we've turned away from that we've disconnected from God we have expressed the fact that we want to be our own selves we want to be who we want to be I want to do my well God you do my will instead of I should instead of me asking to do God's will so I want God to do my will right so there's a disconnect we are not God and I are not in in resonance we're not on the same page that's that's the problem with sin soon disconnects me from God and I lose a certain aspect of my existence because God is existence what happens with prayer when I come to God with prayer independent of chuhwa and we're not talking here yet about chuhwa moshe of maintenance prank on behalf of the jewish people right they haven't done anything different but what mashallah banal accomplishes and and what a what an individual accomplishes with prayer is that he recognizes with the prayer that I am NOT my I'm not myself I am not I can't I can't cause myself to exist I can't exist without God's grace I can't exist without Hashem giving me constant life and I recognize that I have disconnected myself from God when I pray when I come back to God and I say look I've done something wrong I recognize that I see that I'm I see that I'm flailing without you my god so even if I haven't said that I'm willing to take back what I've done wrong even if I haven't repented but what I have said is that I'm interested in relationship with God when I'm praying I'm becoming subservient and sometimes it takes another prayer to show my subservience because I haven't really convinced myself you know we're we're talking about the heart here I haven't yet convinced myself that I'm really subservient to God and so I don't even know if it's a mock leg is here we talked about earlier does a prayer is a prayer answered maybe it's only in a in a Sieber when you have a whole group of people praying together maybe it's maybe it's only true ver that's responded to with not prayer and I think that it has to do with the different types of prayer or the level the depth of the prayer how much have I given myself back to God how much have I brought myself back to get sometimes when I pray as part of a group and we're all returning to God together that has tremendous power I become you know that's makinia myself I humble myself more because I'm part of a group that's humbling themselves we we feed off of each other's power and sometimes my prayer is just not enough when I'm by myself it's not enough to cause my hearts to give in and to say okay I want God to be my god I want God's will not my will so that I believe perhaps could be the understanding of what's going on here but the bottom line of the whole thing the bottom line what we see here is that Hashem has a special relationship with the Jewish people such that no matter where they are even if they're on the faraway seas the forest reaches of the they still can come back they still can repent they still can pray from wherever they are and they can say god I admit I can't do it by myself I can't I can't do by myself so I want to bless you and I asked you to bless me hm should give us opportunities help us to take the opportunities that are intrinsic to prayer the opportunity to return to him whether it's through Trouville repentance or whether it's just simply the fact that we're standing in front of God praying with all of our hearts should help us that we should be willing to take the longer time if that's what it takes for us ora Shem should help us that the prayer should be answered quickly but no matter what action should help us to have that true relationship with him such that our prayers are always answered thank you so much for listening have wonderful Shabbos this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you for more podcasts like this please visit www.gfi.com/webmonitor [Music] you