Vaeschanan - Making Him King

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with ari goldwag recorded with hashem's neverending assistance in roma bishop mississippi 57 81 2021. this week's pressure is partisan and in our parsha we have shima israel here o israel hashem our god hashem is one the famous verse that we say every single day an obligation to say it twice a day when we go to sleep when we get up what is the idea behind shamayi's thrall what is this pasuk what does the verse mean what are we saying kris we call it the kriya every every day we need to read to say kris the word kris shama itself needs understanding kriya means to call or could also mean to read the reading of shema or the calling of shema what is the idea that we call out shama when we say shema israel hero israel who are we talking to who is israel we're talking to ourselves it's hashem talking to us let's see the beautiful mantris which i think if we understand it correctly perhaps we can have a deeper understanding of what's going on what we do every single day infuse infuse that which we are already doing with deeper meaning every single day we read these special verses these special paragraphs which speak about our obligation to love god it's in this week's parashavi with all of your heart with all your soul with all your ability with a bomb there's an obligation to speak about the words of torah wherever we are wherever we're going on the path with our with our children this reminder this constant reminder the torah as represented by shema israel it seems to me reminds us over and over again we have to repeat it to ourselves what are we here for what is our mission hashem is our god hashem is one everything flows out of that declaration so when we say this declaration says the madrish how careful do we need to be as we say the words is it okay to just say it quickly is it okay to rattle it off so to speak and allow the words to kind of slur into each other or do we need to be very precise and careful as we say it is this is what our sages say if a person was not careful about the letters and we'll see soon what that means to be careful about the letters rabbi yaisi says a person can nevertheless fulfill his obligation this says a person has not fulfilled his obligation if they were not careful to say the words properly they say says the major what does it mean to be careful about the letters our sages tell us that the verse says with all of your heart need to separate between when you have a lamin at the end of a word and allow it at the beginning of the word the same letter so it's easy to slur the words together it says with all of your heart so the llama okay so that's the first thing we need to read it carefully according to one opinion if you don't read it carefully you're not yoshi you'd haven't fulfilled your obligation i want to understand what is the idea behind this why is it so important to say clearly what's the concept you know the way that i asked the question to my son when we studied this together was you know if i'm speaking to you if i talk very fast then i throw all my words together and but but you get what i'm saying in a communication it's not per se so so important exactly if i enunciate every single letter and make it very clear in a communication between me and you as long as you understand what i'm saying i've communicated perhaps there's something more than a communication going on or we need to understand what is krishna what are we doing with krishna what is the the point what is the goal and why would that require that we say the words very carefully i'm going to shame you this says the name of raf [Music] if a person let's say is traveling any and the time comes perhaps the end of korea is a certain time a person needs to say shema so if that moment comes he needs to stop what he's doing stop traveling stand still and say shema and language is to accept upon oneself the yoke of heaven you need to stand still when are we stating that god is the king hashem when we say that hashem our god hashem is one in that line the second part of shama that is a statement that god is the king since god is the king if since we're making such a statement we need to stand still okay so as i'm reading this i'm saying okay israel what's shema israel then you just told me hashem that is where we are uh making hashem our god our king right but what has shema israel what is that statement shamanism hero israel it's like are we speaking to again we i asked the question already but i'm repeating it here what is the idea if hashem is part making god our king israel hear o israel who is speaking are we speaking to ourselves are we speaking to the jewish people generally to the people of israel uh is hashem speaking to us perhaps let's see listen to this because i think the next section of the madrish starts to get more midrashic and less halachic i think it reveals it on it unlocks the mystery here is the the literal way to read it here is what was the merit that the jewish people had that they were able to say krishma they were able to have this special mitzvah but perhaps we could read it actually differently this is based on the questions at the moment for mass perhaps we could read it differently and then the question won't be a question i'm not going to get into that question that we're not going to ask but from when from means from where at what point did the jewish people begin to have the idea of krishna of something amazing something that you would never have known if you didn't read this from the time of mantora the time that god gave the ten commandments to the jewish people at that moment there was a conversation that occurred that was the first inkling of this concept of shema even though we're in dvaram we're in deuteronomy so deuteronomy is the speech that moshe albanu gave [Music] in the last year of the jewish people that the jewish people were in the wilderness 38 years before 39 years before maybe 40 full years before the jewish people received the torah at mount sinai they received asera sadivas the ten commandments in that conversation hashem spoke to the jewish people we could call it a conversation perhaps as we'll see hashem started off the assassin race with an unbelievable thing kate sad listen to this this is important listen to this we find that when god began speaking to the jewish people he started off with this thing with these words before god said the first of the ten commandments i am hashem your god who took you out of egypt he said as follows israel god said to the jewish people to the israelites hero israel listen up jewish people and with that introduction he jumped into the fact that i am hashem your god you don't know this because it doesn't say in the verse but the message tells us the the judicial responded and said hashem our god hashem is one they accepted upon themselves as we said those four words hashem our god hashem is one is making god our king they responded jewish people heard god say hero israel listen up here's the first of the ten commandments i am hashem your god and they responded and said you are hashem you are one you are our king they accepted upon themselves the first of the ten obligations the first of the ten commandments and so on the marzu says that actually this was something that happened with each and every one of the ten commandments god said listen they said they responded hashem and said hashem you are our god now listen up um moses then proceeded to say blessed is the name of the honor of god's kingdom forever and ever which is so we have here what we say every single day hashem is one and then we say we say quietly blessed is the name of god's honor forever and ever so moshe said that in response to the the jewish people's statement of hashem what is the message saying why does moshe say barak shame why the jewish people say hashem why is god saying israel and i think that the message is clearly saying that when i say the words shema israel hear o israel who am i talking to it's god talking to me shaman israel i'm speaking out the words that god said to the jewish people israel and then i am responding to hashem's request of listen up hashem hashem our god hashem is one now hold on a second with what is the idea of what is moshe's response blessed is the name of the honor of his kingdom forever and ever i want to i want to discuss that but i want to point something else out kris what is the idea of krishna krishna means reading of shema but i think it means more than i think it means calling the calling there's a concept of korah in the morning and the base of magician in the holy temple the kohanim would bring in the morning in the afternoon a special carbon a daily corbona the carbon tumid the daily oil twice a day chakras in the morning in the afternoon but it could only be brought once it was daytime so they had a watchman looking out towards the east waiting to see when the day begins kara hager he would call out kara he would call out hey mizrah that the east has started to light up conversation how far how far east is it even until yes kara hager what is korea a korea is a an announcement it's calling out an announcement it's god's announcement you know the way that i again asked it to my son is when when god gave the ten commandments the jewish people were already god was ready to give the ten commandments did he just like launch into it or do you say okay everybody listen up number one i am hashem your god number two don't have any idols number three etc did you say listen up the message here is saying that god said listen up [Music] when we say to ourselves listen up we are calling attention to this we are calling our attention to what's about to be said and we need a confirmation and the jewish people said it was a confirmation yes i accept upon myself to do your will god it's not enough to hear it it's not enough to hear my israel means listen up and confirm confirm confirm here's what your instructions are confirmation yes check number one love hashem your god with all your heart we'll let you check number two speak about speak about them with all of your heart don't watch out if you don't do it this is what's going to happen keep all of them it's just check it's a checklist so to speak it's a proclamation kriya shema is a proclamation that here is what it means to be a jew shema israel god says to us listen up jews this is what it means to be my servant hashem we respond and say yes you are our king we acknowledge it and here's the list love hashem your god speak about the words of torah learn constantly every single day teach it to your children go over it and go over it and go over it and go over it don't stop clarity what is my job here i am god's servant what are the details here are the details check check check that is what kriya shema is kriya shema is a proclamation a statement of intent and that's why it's so important to say the words clearly it's not just the communication that i'm speaking to you it's in a certain sense hashem speaking to us and our confirmation and when you confirm something when you confirm your commitment it's got to be really clear when you have a contract with somebody the details of the contract are important and everything needs to be clear so we know what's my job what am i being paid for what are my obligations where's my job and clarity that's what krishna is hashem says listen up and we say we're listening check check check that i believe is the channel now is an awesome thing it's so beautiful especially in light of what we're seeing and he heard the angels saying blessed his name in the honor of god's mouth of his of his kingship forever and ever now we say it quietly why what does that mean that we say quietly why do the angels say this out loud i believe that the idea in thinking about it one intro we find that we say this in another place every single year on yom kippur we recount that which happened in the holy temple every year on yom kippur and which will happen again became shamsoon in the basement in the holy temple on the temple mount in jerusalem every single year on yom kippur the cohen would be involved in confessing his own sins the sins of his family the sins of the kohanim the sins of the jewish people and in so doing he would mention god's name three times in each of these particular confessions he would mention god's name and in mentioning god's name the entire jewish people whoever was there in the in the heko witnessing the event would fall down prostrate themselves bow down to god and say barak shame blessed is the name of the honor of god's kingdom forever and ever i think there's a hint in there and also from the angels what is the concept of the second verse that we say quietly [Music] and we have an idea that it's not when on yom kippur we say it out loud right yum kipper we say it out loud what is the idea behind this verse and i think that if we think about it properly if we think about it we will recognize and realize that this verse is saying wherever you see god manifest right blessed is the name of the honor of god's kingship his kingship when how do you see that there's a king in this place because his his stamp is everywhere you see the people are taken care of you see that whenever the people the people have respect for the king they are interested in doing his will he takes care of them and they are interested in doing the king's will wherever you see god's will being done wow look god is manifest right here unbelievable you can see god right here when you see a godly person when you see somebody do something very high very godly person is my father he gives up he gives up on his honor he gives him to somebody else he does something godly something high something spiritual you see god there the angels can say because they openly see god manifest on yom kippur when the jewish people are forgiven for their sins now they are completely once again aligned with god's will the sins represent all the times that they've done wrong god forgives us of our sins we can hear his name what is his name yud kevke it's the name that we don't pronounce today it's only pronounced in the temple we pronounced in the future we will use god's name in the future but we don't use it today it represents the fact that he is manifest he's the one who gives reality to all that there is he was he is he always will be he's me he brings everything into being when we see that when we hear that name fall down unbelievable we fall down when we when we lie down on the floor we appreciate ourselves to god we are showing that we are completely subservient to him he is our king we are just here to serve him we are just here to bring god into the world that's when we say barak's blessed is the name of god's honor i can see it oh my gosh i can see god's honor that's that declaration the jewish people hear god speaking he says he says listen i have a declaration to make and i want you to confirm it i am hashem your god who took you out of egypt jewish people say hashem hashem our god hashem is one he is our king yes we confirm he is our king he is the only god that there is he is the one who took us out of egypt moshe robin responds wow in that subservience in the falling down of the jewish people in front of god god is manifest god is manifest in that moment that is the idea to wrap it up what are we doing what are we calling out we're calling out israel is god calling to us we're we're repeating what god said to the jewish people at mount sinai we're repeating that statement listen up listen up and we are responding god you are our king then we say quietly because every single time we say it's unbelievable it requires thought it requires a pause every single time we say shema we are saying that god is our king and we have made a kid of hashem we've brought god into the world every time i say god you are my king god i'll do your will i will love you i will serve you with all my heart and with all of my soul i will learn i will study these words i will study try to understand your will i will talk about it with my children i will learn every single day when i get up when i go to sleep when i'm walking when i'm whatever i'm involved in the torah is what i'm going to be talking about when i say that and i say that clearly and i confirm that that is the ultimate kid of hashem the ultimate revelation of hashem it's possible every single day to do it revealing hashem in every single day in every single moment in all of my actions and then we say berkshire kevin wow i just revealed hashem i can see hashem right here right now in my subservience to him in my submission to him my absolute and total submission to him that he is my god i want to bless you and ask you to bless me should help us that we should be able to take an opportunity to recognize what it means that krishna is a calling a calling to ourselves we should be able to use it we should be able to make a shamar king should be able to hear and pause and recognize and use the opportunity that hashem has given us thank you so much for listening have a wonderful show miss this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you for more podcasts like this please visit www.ariegoldwag.com or search on itunes ari goldwag