Ari Goldwag - Vayechi - Angels and Youthfulness

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with Ari Gold wag recorded with Hashem is never ending assistance in Ramallah sheemish Israel 5778 2017 this week's harshest part is via tea and I'd like to learn with you am a Jewish and we're going to learn it together there's a bunch of different thoughts that I have on the Midrash I'm actually flying to the state's this evening so I'm not going to have as much time this week to prepare as I usually do but did spend a significant amount of time working on this and I haven't come to complete my scone us to complete conclusions so we're gonna learn it together and we'll see if anything new comes up if not I'll leave you with some things to think about and one thing I can assure you is that it will be interesting so let's learn together in in our precious so euro safe at Sadiq is given the first of the blessings the first of the broca's separately for himself and for his two sons and Yaakov Aveeno calls in Yosef italic calls him in with his sons and they approach and the blessing the bracha that he gives is a mahogany see me Cara you're a Hasan arm the angel that protected me from all evil he should bless the young men Pocari by him should me call my name upon them shame of a sovereign me it's hawk and the names of my father's Abraham and Isaac the youth could already be carrots they should be like fish and multiply in the midst of the land so now what's interesting is that we have a few different elements here a few different concepts we have the blessing which has to do with an angel who is this angel what is this angel what is the concept of an angel we'll see you soon it's one aspect of it there's another aspect of it which is that God that that he's asking God to bless his grandchildren that they be like fish what is the concept of the fish how does it relate to yo safe so I'd like to share with you a mesh and that speaks about these different points it's in partial Saudi Zion 97 section 3 section um oh well huh Galaxy me korabik gamer etc our VA c VAR Halawa vs Ibaka laughter says the following statement which is also brought in a message earlier in safer braces it says like this Kashyap renessa ki flame khalida the concept of par NASA of earning a livelihood of trying to sustain oneself sustain one's family is doubly difficult as opposed to the curse of hava the curse of hava and adam first man first woman Adam and Eve so autumns curse is that he would have to work by the sweat of his brow one of his nose and the curse of Eve was that she would have to have great difficulty in giving birth so the language in the verse it says met sev tell D Bunning when it comes to Eve's curse so it says that she will give birth with sadness but in the language of the curse of Adam of atoms so it says beats of own that it'sit's a like a double language it's also an added sadness that's involved in effect that he has to undergo sadness when it comes to earning a livelihood there's a challenge it's a greater challenge the measure says and as i'm unfortunately explained that when it comes to the difficulty of giving birth so that's something which is a challenge and it's difficult but it comes from time to time it's not something that's consistently difficult and challenging as opposed to the curse of man so that's something which every day he needs to contend with he needs to have he needs to face off with the challenge of earning a livelihood that's something which is a daily issue poletik save the measure said this inside my lyrics when it comes to birth it says the XF tell deboned him that in sadness you will give birth to children the pronoun successive beats of own to Hellenic Aly Michalka in sadness it so uses that extra language eat cell phone instead of XF shall you eat your bread all of the days of your life so it's it's a consistent and constant issue Rab allows every burn often what does it have to do with us or does this have to do with our verse a blemish warmer Nachman bless her I'm Irish Google Aparna so pronounce Telugu hula we find this verse is speaking about Parnassus speaking about livelihood our verse is speaking about gula redemption Amala Haga loa mikata the angel that redeems me from all evil so he could school aparna smartly bloom at gulab icky fly mouth / NASA chief lime my partner said Holly I'm a little bit Collier interestingly that we have this connection between between what's the what's the connection here so we have the connection between gula and Parana saw between redemption and livelihood both of them have a double aspect ok I'm not exactly sure how we see that I apologize here for this let's see if we understand it in the ham shift in the continuation ritual burner phone number Goodell Amina gula so there's two aspects here one is that they both have a double language they both have a dual aspect both gula and partner saw and another thing is that they both are something which happen every day when a person needs that pronounced he needs to have livelihood he needs to feed his family every single day when it comes to Google oh there's also a Google or a redemption that occurs every single day personal Redemption also a a Redemption on a national level so remember Nachman says good Dominic Googler shakadou Charlie Ramallah there is an aspect of gula which is not as great as far enough so when it comes to paraná so when it comes to livelihood so we find that a Shem himself God Himself is directly involved in helping a person obtain his livelihood if some man occurs every single day person looks and he see you can see that God is helping him daily when it comes his livelihood now that as opposed to when it comes to gula we find in our verse the verse tells us that there's a mala that's going there's a there's a angel that's involved in the redemption process as Yaakov says to his grandchildren okay try Google I like that my local pronoun say of the chocolate beaucoup Google I lead a Molokai mouth good let's see how do we know that Redemption occurs through a mala through an angel because of our verse the angel that redeems me Yaakov speaks about are not sorry their collision Buraku Parnas however is directly through iShare as the verse says or Shem does it himself as the verse says by say fancy that must be local high rod sewing you open your hand and you provide for every living creatures need and desire okay so that's the idea here maybe Sherman lady our customers in a social autumn cake we SEM Soph measures continues and says that when it comes to the partners of the livelihood the food of a person so it's something which is as challenging as Korea's Sampson as breaking through the the sea the sea was torn apart so that the Jewish people could pass through as they left Egypt so as the different different people explain this measure she's a famous measures that that you know Hashem has to show himself when it comes to par NASA when it comes to livelihood just like when God had to break his own laws so to speak God doesn't want to reveal himself God wants to remain hidden so that we have the hero when it comes to Chris Young so he he broke the rules he allowed himself to be seen in a very clear way soon when it comes to the Parana someone comes to livelihood it's possible to see ashram very clearly that he's involved in our lives he's involved in providing for us okay I'm gonna go use your youngsters legs are in the verses and tell them in Psalms that God split up the sea into sections receive time on the verse also says they're nice and alcohol busts are the verse immediately following it says what once verse 13 was verse 25 but it refers to the fact that God gives bread for to every single individual so we see that these are two things that parallel each other that are that are equally as important or equally as difficult as it were okay so we find we had this parallel also thought it was interesting as I was reading this that we find that yoseef exotic himself is the one who's the mass where he's the one who provides sustenance it's through him that God brings sustenance to the world to the Egyptian people to the Jewish people to the entire area to the land of Canaan so so it's interesting that he is receiving this blessing which has to do with redemption and redemption is clearly intimately connected to partner Caesar saying to livelihood and both of them both redemption and livelihood are two things that God shows himself clearly in them so it's it's it's interesting that it's that sadek it's the righteous individual who really is known who's green that pronouncing the predecessors coming into the world through him it's through his act of faith it's through his his news an interesting word his innocence his narrows we're gonna see that that there's an aspect of NARAS NARAS means youngness it means youth it means innocence inaros if is referred to as an r we'll see that there are others who referred to as an r there's a great-grandson of Yosef his name is yahushua been known there's another one named get on there referred to as an r as as a youth pena man himself is also referred to as a youth Benjamin there's a certain youthful innocence we'll try to understand perhaps what is the aspect of this youthful innocence but you know just at a very simple level the the youthful innocence you know a child they they're completely dependent upon their parents they don't they don't make any claim to being the ones in charge they might try to feed themselves when they might assert in a certain sense their own personalities but they know that they're not the ones providing for themselves they know that their parents are providing for them so there's a youthful innocence in that sadiq and Yosef italic he says bill I die it's not me I'm not gonna be the one to explain the dreams to you Pharaoh and there's an innocence around Benjamin that's why he's called the youth or gnar and and so on through through these other examples the measure is going to bring but the idea is that that youthful innocence that recognition that I'm not the one doing it is or brings godliness into the world and ultimately is what brings to a recognition that God is Kant's only involved in our livelihood giving us the food that we need but also involved in our Google and our redemption and those challenges that we face bringing about a a resolution to those challenges God is there and to the extent that we have that narrows to the extent that we have that youthfulness that innocence and I recognition that it's not us it's God so that's to that to that extent in manifests in our lives I believe that that's what's going on this part of what's going on here in the majors okay so the message continues and says like this if are at his son ORM so Jakub Avena was giving a blessing that these children these youths referring to the National frame by the way we give our bravas every Friday night to our children that they should be like National Front Education maintain that youthfulness you should have that innocence they should have that simple faith okay so the manager says that then they are in the blessing to the children to the youths is not just the Menashe enough ryeom they Yahshua Vega don't like I mentioned it's also referring to great-great grandchildren of Yosef at Sadiq Joshua would lead the Jewish people into the Land of Israel eggy dom and also give them that would receive my Ebac oh sure be really and it was when Joshua was in Jericho are you sayin of a Armenia shyamalan egg timer like he's a nice arts fashion at of Aussie so the measures describes the verse brings the verse that describes the interaction that Joshua had when he came into the Land of Israel and he saw a fearsome angel facing off with him and he didn't know who it was he didn't realize that it was an angel and he said who are you and he said I'm not a man I am one of the hosts of God I'm an angel and in fact as well see this was a special angel this was an angel who is meant to lead the Jewish people God sends an angel in front of the Jewish people and it's related to the gula that we've we've been speaking about the redemption that we were speaking about God sends this angel and the angels name we don't say the angel we only say names of angels like we're file new coil that are mentioned in Tana there are other angels like this angel which they have a name we won't actually pronounce the full name I'll say Matata is the first part and the end of it is wrong I won't say the two parts together because we don't say those names there there are certain angels that we don't say their names or many angels we don't say their names because they're very high aspects and mentioning the name explicitly so it calls them into play we have to be on a very high level to to mention these names also as well soon see the the name of this angel Matata mikesh makishima Robbo who we find that mitat was a very special angel he was an angel that his name was the same as the name of his master which is God so somehow the this particular angel was a very high manifestation of Shem in the world an angel is really just like the way that the way that I've read about in the surah Mac Edition is that there's two different types of angels one angel is it's like a glove it's like God has to manifest in the world God is in corporate and I don't even know how to pronounce the word doesn't have any physical doesn't have any physical reality God is beyond the physical God is manifest in the physical but he's beyond a physical right so so God as it were wears a glove and it's called an angel the angel just is is moving as God is moving them the angel has no mind of its own so to speak a and then there's other types of angels like me call Gavriel etc that they do have separate existence so to speak from God they're like servants they're like a volume and they do God's will they don't have they don't have true but Kira they're not true free will but they're they're not like a glove soma Todd is one of the angels who's like a glove so now so I was just also thinking about so what does that mean what does that really represent when we speak about this angel who is appearing and who's coming to help and who's coming to bring redemption and who's coming to interact with Yahshua who's Denar who's the one who is youthful who has that innocence who has that that pure trust the pure trust in God that the idea is that who comes to help emits this special angel who doesn't even have anything of his own he's just like a glove and when a person is innocent when a person fully trusts and doesn't believe that it's there it's their power so then God works through them God speaks through them God acts through that human being to the extent that a person limits his ego becomes more youthful becomes more dependent on God so God acts through that person and the same and ends and and that's how God acts through these angels like Amma taught that type of angel God acts through that angel because they have nothing of their own they're just like a glove so to the extent that human being acts youthful and young and doesn't depend on his own Koya of his own powers on strength so he's atha to experience Redemption he's actually a merits to experience livelihood he merits to experience these ain't this angel that helps him but the angel is really just God manifesting and to the extent that the human being recognizes that with youthful innocence so he receives that aspect in his life okay I'm gonna skip a little bit here okay here's a whole conversation between the angel and and yoshua I don't want to get into that point you can see that yourself if you're interested in that you need to build over the care of arts but I do want to speak about is the fish it's very interesting the blessing that Yoko gives to his grandsons is that they should be like fish they should multiply and be many like fish what is special about a fish measure speaks about it my hot doggy Mahalo aina I am sure lettuce bun when it comes to fish so the fish are underwater you can't see them so there's a concept of ioan that what we look at the things that we look at the things that we see we affect them with our vision what does that mean what his idea was the concept behind that we speak about I in Hara expedient OVA right if I look at something and I and I think not good things about the thing it actually affects it it actually has a positive effect the way that I think it's the power of our thoughts the power of our speech the power of our thoughts is that I can affect things with the way that I think about them all right we have to know how much and today to you know what what extent that power exists within a person but it's possible to look at something with a negative I and effect it in a negative way and that's the concept that's Gnaeus the concept of modesty is I don't want I don't want other people to be jealous of me I don't want to cause other people to think negatively about me I don't want to bring negative emotion and negative feelings into reality I want to keep that I want to keep it pretty I want keep myself protected that's the aspect of modesty right you know it can speak of modesty when it comes to me a person dresses now dressing in ways that are attracting modesty and when it comes to wealth a person has a lot of money not being overly flamboyant not not showing that off not attracting negative emotion okay there is such a thing so but there's something amazing about a yosef at Sonic and about his children minashi enough Ryan and that's the blessing of Yaakov Aveeno is that he gets my blessing that they should be like fish because fish they have a unique aspect as opposed to other animals fish live underneath the water and because of the fact that they live underneath the water that they are not visible they're not as visible to human beings and therefore the eye is not sure that for him the eye does not have power over them my dog my Halloween I am sure I am Konoha and I am sure that is behind there's a certain deflection that Joseph and his children have they deflect in our they deflect negative negative views negative thoughts that are going on because of them though they seve see that's what it means in the first value that were been in yahushua so the verse speaks about the sons of joseph speaking to joshua expressing certain things aren't hanging on to miss german Heian and he said to them are you not afraid of what people will say what people will will think about it because they spoke about the fact that they have many many children they were they were they were a lot of people and that's I believe it's in the context of them speaking about their desire to go back to the section of the and inherited on the other side of the Jordan River but no they weren't afraid why they weren't afraid to mention that they had a lot of people with them that people would be jealous of that no they weren't afraid of that because they had a special blessing to ward or to protect them against ihara okay now what the reason I wanted to speak about this and we're coming to the end of our time here but the reason I wanted to speak about this is because I found to be interesting that the aspect of iron the aspect of of first what we have here there's a few different things one is that the metric points out at the very end I'll just read you the last line here mama care for arts La Mesa avec bulldogging LeMay Sumi Sushma I'm sorry reading quickly mish-mosh a mad dog Ben no I'm a kinesin arts matter says one last thing at the end that that the one whose name is the name of a fish he's the one who's gonna bring them into the Land of Israel part of the blessing of Yaakov Aveeno to his sons whose grandsons Manoj and a friend was that their grandson their great-great grandchild yoshua Joshua who would come from the tribe of Ephraim he was going to bring the Jewish people into the land of Israel what was his name Yahshua Ben moon you sure the son of nun and the word known that name means a fish so the very name of yahushua he was the son of a fish what does that mean and often we find that that the names abend this or Ben that reflect the fact that these people had that aspect imbued into them when a person is named after a certain animal so it means that they have that aspect a mutant he's named after a fish he's the son of a fish that means that he has a fish aspect what is the fish aspect of Yahshua the fish aspect of Yahshua is that which is protected can't be seen that allows them to come into the Land of Israel which I believe is very much connected to what we spoke about at the beginning which is the Google or the Jewish people coming to the Land of Israel is the aspect of gula of redemption where does that come how does it come it comes because of the fact that he is fish like what is fish like mean it means there's no jealousy there's no jealousy on on the part of a Yahoo schewe what does that mean why is there no jealousy here what does that I mean I think that it's connected as we said to what the aspect of Yoshio see was an R Yosef was a youth and that was something that when the saramakan when the when the servant of Pharaoh was saying you know we had this guy this young man he said we had there was a youth with us so he was saying in a negative way that there was youth with us in jail and he interpreted the dreams but the truth is that the youthfulness of Yosef the fact that he wasn't like this Guevara he wasn't like this didn't walk in like with airs about him he didn't walk in with with ego he walked in as a youth like it's not me like we said before it's not me so it took down everyone's guard it allowed Pharaoh to say you're the man who I want to lead this country even yoshua and the Jewish people are able to walk into the Land of Israel in what's close and what merit because they aren't seeing when a person acts with naira so a person acts with youthfulness without that guy that that you are without that ego so it takes down anyone's guard it allows us to walk in to Google to redemption receive what does it come from it comes from the nearest comes from the youthfulness and I was noticing that the letters of na are known ayan raysh so you have the nun which we said is the same word as fish we had that fish aspect and we have the lion yeah the eye which is the eye which is also game Atria's 70 which also has to do with the the whole picture here I can't get into that at all and we have the race which means the race means a head because it allows us to get up to the top allows us to to get to a place which is above to get to a place which is the route really a race means the root so the known the fish the eye and the place where we're outside of the eye or beyond the eye we get up above the eye the race we get up to the top and how does that happen that that's that spellsword an hour it's the youthfulness it's the innocence and it's the humility which is displayed by IO safe and that's the Braja the Yaakov Aveeno gave to his grandchildren and that's the Braja we give to our children that they they should be able to maintain that youthfulness and thereby receive redemption receive that angel who he himself that angel himself is just a glove as it are on a Shems hand as it were they have the ability the ability to receive that and that's also true not just when it comes to gula when it comes to redemption but also when it comes to parnassia to lovely and a shrimp should help us please bless me and I ask you I'm gonna bless you as well I ask you to bless mean that we should be Zak we should marry to have that youthful innocence to recognize that it's not us and it's not our understanding it's not our car it's not our wisdom our ability it's him it's God it's all God it's just God helping us succeed if we have success it comes because of that recognition just like Yosef had that recognition and just like minashi enough Ryan had that recognition and we're blessed with that youthfulness and that aspect of the fish of being invisible of being modest so tuition should help us that we should have that and we should be able to impart that message and that blessing to our children as we try to every Friday night thank you so much for listening a 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]