Ari Goldwag - Vayechi - War of Armageddon

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with Ari Gold wek recorded with a shims never-ending assistance in Rome operation which Israel 5777 2017 this week's partials partials of IFE and in our parsha we get the bra host the blessings that jacob gives the 12 tribes his twelve sons and the blessings are prefaced with the following statement of the verse this is in chapter 49 verse 1 I cry Yakov a bun of Jacob called to his sons by yo Marigny said hey us who gathered together buggy to lock em and I will tell you I assure you Christ came out heresy omen that which will occur to you in the end of days verse 2 he cuffed Sue gathered together another language of gathering the Shenmue bene Yaakov come listen o sons of Jacob the Shenmue Elias relevee them listen to your father Israel there's very interesting questions that we can ask and we can try to understand about these verses I'd like to share with you some beautiful Majer awesome to begin to open up for us if we try to understand their depth what's going on in the cooking what's going on at verses after he finishes with this introduction seems like he's gonna speak about the awkward say I was going to speak about the end of days doesn't really speak about the end of days he speaks about each of the tribes talks about their me dice talks about their character traits talks about the things that are special about them the things that they've done wrong the things that they need to correct the things that are unique about each of the tribes and the push-up shot question is simple understanding that we need to have first of all has to do with what is the connection between this introduction which has to do with the aquas I am in the end of days how does that connect to what's going on with Yaakov Aveeno is speaking about the meters the character traits what's special and unique about each of Yaakov eNOS sons who would be the beginning of each of the tribes so I'd like to show you the measure share there are a few things of the measure says it's a lengthy measure so I'm going to read pieces of it but there are many things that are going on here are different aspects different elements of what's going on here and we'll see that there's a beautiful tapestry that comes together as we begin to understand what the measure she's talking about the measure starts off by pointing up us akin to Helens Psalms chapter 57 verse 3 says acrylic in million I will call out to God the most exalted one says the measures to differ understandings as to what this plastic is talking about what the verse is speaking about in Psalms and one of them has to do with us another one seems to not have to do with us but we're going to see what it's teaching us by by drawing a parallel by giving us two different understandings two different explanations of the verse equi of the king Elyan what does it mean when the verse says when King David says I'm going to call out to the uppermost god Rosh Hashana it's referring to what happens on Rosh Hashanah the first day of the year on the day that we crown God our King then the next part of the verse says lequel Gamera lie as they do save understand the verse it means that God teaches me something what does God teach me acacia gum aural IBM Icky Poo rim there's something that happens on Rosh Hashanah we crown God our King but I'm Kippur we are taught something what is God teaching us an innkeeper lay died a Zola shame there is a lecturer very interesting that there are two serum there are two goats one is to be offered as a sacrifice to God in Kippur and one is sent out to an heir it's gojira to a barren place where it's thrown off of a cliff it's destroyed and it carries on it the sins of the Jewish people so these two see here and these two goats are identical you look at them you can't tell them apart but there is a Corral there's a lottery that's that's done on Yom Kippur one of them is chosen to be a sacrifice to God and one of them is chosen to be sent to carry the sins of the Jewish people as it were and to be sent out to this barren place and thrown off of a cliff and in so doing represent the fact that the sins of the Jewish people are destroyed are sent away and God forgives us but what we see here is Rosh Hashanah is God's kingship but on Yom Kippur there's an aspect of delineation who is who what's what who represents God so to speak and who represents goodness and kindness and all that God represents and who represents the opposite of that represents sin who represents those things that are destroyed and sent away now in a parallel way which we need to understand even though the measure says Dvorak here which means another explanation it's really saying that something that parallels that echoed Akeem is a Yaakov Aveeno the fact that I'm gonna call out to God is a reference to Jacob and specifically here in our context that as he was going to give blessings to his sons he called out to God he asked God for help laquelle Gamera lie and what his the idea of the teaching that's going on here which parallels what went on on Yom Kippur J's schema Kaddish for who in luton local eco vehicle of Omashu who that God agreed with him or really we could say God directed his thinking some showed him exactly what to say which blessings in which direction to give to each of his sons and thus he was able to give the brockless he was able to give blessings he was able to say this particular tribe is going to be like Oh fie on him he's going to live on the coast and he's gonna be involved in business and this tribe is going to have a certain location next to him which is referring to his ruling on you sucker and each of the things that he said about each of the tribes were divinely guided so here - there's an element of delineation there's an element of different characteristics different character traits some things may seem even more spiritual than others some tribes the tribe of you Sarkar is a tribe that's involved in learning Torah the tribe azulon is involved in earning money in supporting the tour of you saw her each one seems to have a different aspect a different idea that's associated with them that was also guided and chosen by Nichelle himself by God now when we read on in the verses it's very interesting it speaks about it not sefa Yaakov in who says I want you to gather together hey us food so the measure she explains like this very interesting remarkable by Omar hey us who would go Mara what is this idea of gathering together hey us who may air its myths rhyme so it speaks about hey Oscar which is a language of gathering and he also uses the word he Cod - which also means to gather it's a different type of gathering so there's a hey Oslo which is all of the Jews that are throughout the land of Egypt all of the disparage Jews that are spread out the red line of Egypt needs to gather together come together he cuffed to the roms ace but there's a location where they were all gathered to which is Rameses which was the place through which when it came time for gula when I was time for the Jewish people to leave the land of Egypt they all left through Rameses now what's amazing is there's a parallel type of gathering there's the Google s mitzraim the redemption of the Jewish people from Egypt and there's the future redemption the gula cedar which is going to take a parallel form to the original Google of the gula Smith's ryeom so we have this gathering that took place then the Jewish people gathered to Rama say sin estates a sieve explains they went out be a drama they they went out with an outstretched hand Hey as soon as Suresh what to me cut to the Shiva you who the Mahnomen there's another gathering is going to take place in the future time and it's gonna be the ten shots and the ten tribes are going to gather together to the place of you who they am Benjamin to Judah and Benjamin which is the area very strong and these steps of explains because that's where the final war is going to take place which involves the offspring of you who de which is going to be mushy Ben David the Messiah who's going to come from King David who originally came from you who don't come from Judah now what's very interesting and nice explanation is the following statements avoid son says the measure ish that when Jacob said this he was commanding them Leon I gimme shave at you who the Benjamin dicovered to show the proper respect for the tribe of Yehuda the tribe of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin there was an instruction by saying all you need to gather together from your respective places the tent and they each these other 10 tribes they each have their own special place in the Land of Israel but they need to disregard their regular place they need to gather together to Jerusalem really because that's the place where you who they never meet the place where Judah and Benjamin meets is at the base I'm English at the the temple on the Temple Mount that's the place where everyone needs to gather to and show deference to show respect to yahood and Benjamin what is the idea of this respect what does it mean that they need to come to you shall I'm Jerusalem why is Jerusalem the center of all of these aspects why is it the center the place where Messiah has to arrive from what is the idea of that what is the significance of the fact that they are showing honor to Yehuda and Benjamin to these tribes what is the depth of this teaching what is the depth of what the magistrate is trying to bring across and also significantly how does this connect to what we said about Yom Kippur and about Yaakov that he was giving blessings and showing each one of them who they were how does this connect as well because the verses are going from one to another there's a flow here what is the flow of these verses what is the connection now what's interesting also is as a magic continues it says that there's an Asifa has this Asifa take place how does this gathering take place there abundant army the sages say Siva in Sana'a McLucas that there was a command that Jacob was guiding his children that they shouldn't be involved in any kind of arguments the shrimpie arguments are my line is said to them to hind : Asifa office I want you to all be one gathering in order to be one gathering to be to be a group so it's necessary that everyone respect each other there can't be any arguments I've wanted to respect the unique qualities of the others I know this save this is what we find the verse says we actually read it in this past weeks parsha the verse in Ezekiel chapter 37 verse 16 Tommy no no ha ha it's a thought of several of the grammar the nature of grammar the the verse refers to fact that Hashem instructed your Haskell on of the Ezekiel to take two branches one of them represented the kingdom of Yehuda of Judah and the tribes that were associated with him one of them represented the kingdom of a frame the kingdom of Joseph and the tribes that were connected to him and he was commanded to bring them together until they became one the verse refers to the fact that they need to be connected Javie rocks if you could read the word which means to be connected also as becoming friends not soobin a Telugu daka's his keen watzmann a Google or what is the prerequisite says the Madras for redemption the prerequisite is when the children of Israel joined together as one when they become friends when they lose their mugs when they lose their arguments that's when they become ready for redemption for gula and here too we need to understand what is the idea of losing the arguments becoming friends has it accomplished and also in light of what we spoke about right before this in regards to the idea of giving proper honor to Yehuda and Benjamin how is that accomplished how do we give honor how do we lose to Michael Oh Cass how do we lose the arguments how do we become friends how do we prepare for redemption for gula now there's one last point which I'd like to share with you in the measures and it speaks of a nice I'll show you Christ came out as a young man Jacob wanted to reveal to them or he revealed to them that which is going to occur to them in the end of days so Rashi tells us on the posted on the verse the classic explanation which many people know which is that he wanted to reveal when Messiah was gonna come when the Messiah was gonna come when the end of days was going to occur but he wasn't able to remember that information as he was about to tell the information to his sons that's the classical understanding which actually this measures brings down but there are two different explanations as to what he revealed to his sons or that which you wish to reveal to his sons and the first two explanations actually he was able to reveal to them because it wasn't about a specific time the measure says like this ruby Suman on my rebus min says my palace go girl ahem here come a democracy um Tia that that which she showed them what did he teach them what was he telling her at the end of days it wasn't about the specific time at the end of days but it was about one of the occurrences that was going to take place in the end of days which is the milk Emma's goggle mother like the war of Armageddon that were where all the nations come upon Jerusalem to try to fight against the Jewish people where there's a war that surrounds Jerusalem that was described by Yaakov Aveeno to his sons and we need to understand what is the connection between this idea the concept of the war of gog and magog how does it relate to what was just being spoken of in regards to the coming together the losing of argumentativeness between the tribes the honor that they're showing each other the honor that they're showing to you who them in Yemen how does that connect what does that have to do with the war of gog and magog and then the second point here review the AMA review that says that what was he revealing to them about the end of days Binion base HaMikdash Cheryl ahem he was showing them the temple that's going to be built in all its glory the final temple hikmah that amar it's that which we find it says in the verse and Mikko chapter 4 verse 1 Valhalla is a young'n yahar base hashem knowing he will be in the end of days that the Huayra bias the temple mount shall be in its proper way there's going to be a temple there it's gonna be the Jewish temple the base HaMikdash the third temple the final temple so the verse refers to the accuracy mm in the end of days so this teaches us that that was well Yaakov was speaking about with his sons he was speaking about the base some English the temple now we need to understand we need to see that the war of Gog and Magog they're coming on Jerusalem why is it specifically Jerusalem clearly Jerusalem is the place where the base how make the shades it's where the temple is going to be built it's the place where as we mentioned before the shame it you who dam Benjamin the tribes of Judah and Benjamin they connect at that place all of the tribes gathered together to Jerusalem to Yerushalayim in order to fight against the war of Gog and Magog in order to win that war and in order to bring in the age of Messiah the times of the Messiah so all of this is well Yaakov you know Jacob was speaking about what is the depth of this idea or what was he coming to teach them and how does it connect again how does this all connect to the concept of the me dice the different attributes that Yaakov Avena was teaching each of his sons that Hashem was maaske Molly other that God guided him to give them a correct description of their unique capabilities so in order to understand this I want to share with you a metric which is found it's on the Purusha naman the souq human in Malacca which speak about Elio bahara Carmel Elijah the Prophet and his challenge to the new VA how about the prophets of the idolatrous practice the ball they're on Hara carmella Solio directed these 250 the VA have all these false prophets to bring a sacrifice to their God and Elio would bring a sacrifice to Hashem to the true God and there would be a public display of who would be answering what Hashem answered it's Fela Valeo or would the idolatry answer the prayers of these false prophets this story is chronicled in first kings and malacca Malik chapter 18 and this particular verse that we're speaking about is verse 26 verses by Youkilis a partial nothing ahem I assume I could be sure my bow they took the power they took the cow which elijah the prophet gave to them and then they called out in the name of their God and no fire came down for them it only came down for Elijah when he called out in the name of Hashem but them a fortune point out that it says that they took the animal from elio what was the idea why did they need to take the animal from Elijah the Prophet and the Purusha explained that there was something that went on there some idiotic type explanation that Leo took these two cows one of which was going to be offered up to the idolatrous practice and the cow that was chosen to go through the idolatrous practice said I'm not interested I don't want to be offered for the idolatrous practice I want to be offered to God both I and the other cow came from the same stomach of the same mother why do I have to be offered to this false God and so he refused to move he didn't want to budge and Elio took him carefully and he said to him look I promise you that there's gonna be a kid oh sure there's gonna be a sanctification of God's name that's gonna be made by you going in and being offered because they're idolatrous practices not going to respond to them so don't have to worry and the cow said okay if that's the case fine but I don't agree to do it unless you actually take me and give me over to them so that's where the verse says that the false prophets took the animal he took the power from Elohim so Elijah now what I want to illustrate here and this is also true about this year Lazos oh the two goats that that they were decided which one is going to be to God which one is going to go off and represent the sins of the Jewish people you see over here that every meadow that every aspect of reality that everything that goes on even a thing that seemed to be not for God they seem to not have God in them every single aspect of reality has God in them everything is meant to reveal godliness in the world even the things that seemed to be the opposite of that everything has its place there's light and there's darkness but even the darkness if we didn't have the darkness we wouldn't appreciate the lights now when we look at the tribes and we look at their individual characteristics it seems that there are some tribes that have a greater level that have a greater closeness to God you know we look at you sakaar they're the ones who are involved in spirituality and learning Torah all of their days that you mentioned and zulan is only involved in earning a livelihood yes supporting you soccer but still it seems like they have a different type of job it seems like they have a darker job there they're not as spiritual and yet we understand that they work hand in hand that you Sahar is able to learn because of Wulin is supporting them we see that both are essential and it's also true of all of the tribes we look at you who dam Benjamin and we see that they are the place they have the location the base some exertion self is located in their portion so that means that somehow there's a higher connection that they have they are an access point for spirituality they are the ones that have the ability to access a share more in a certain sense and everyone else has to come to them in order to access you align to access Jerusalem to access God but Yaakov is telling them Jacob is instructing the Jewish people he's instructing the tribes that if you want to know how to truly access God which is what the Google is about which is what Redemption is about and the author is telling the end of days is about you know how to get there the way to get there is to recognize and respect the unique role that each of the tribes plays that each of the personalities within the Jew people plays in their service of God when I can come as a regular Israelite and I can respect yahuda and the fact that he's the king and I can respect that Yahoo dhanbin Yemen they have the location which is the place to access a code - welcome to have a relationship with God when I can gather myself in from all over the world really but even all over Eretz Israel all over the Land of Israel and I can come to that place and show respect for that place and bow as it were and show respect and not be involved in my locusts my focus when does the argument come the argument comes when I try to be who you are and you try to be who I am and we confuse the roles that we're supposed to play but when I respect the unique role that you have in coming close to God even if I can respect that if I can let go of my hook is if I stop trying to claim being somebody who I'm not that's when gula comes that's when true relationship with Hashem occurs do you know what the idea of go-go-go gives what is the this war why is everyone coming to Jerusalem what are they fighting about you know what the idea is and I think this is absolutely true is it truly the death of what's going on there and why it's smack in the middle of our discussion and how it relates to you shall I'm - Jerusalem the war of Gog and Magog is about a claim who rightfully is the one who has access to Jerusalem who has access to God who is the one who brings godliness into the world whoever claims Jerusalem is claiming that they are the heirs they are the ones who are the focal point they are the ones who receive the light of God and transmit it to the world who are the ones that were chosen by God to do this job the Jewish people and within the Jewish people who were the ones that were chosen yoohoo Dan Binyam and they were the ones that were chosen that the place of the temple should be in their portions so we see that just like when it comes to the tribes there needs to be a Haida there needs to be a covered an honor given to the ones who were chosen so - when to the Jewish people and the nations of the world there needs to be an admission and an honoring of who are the ones who are given this special role in the war of Gog and Magog other nations lay claim to Jerusalem other nations lay claim to the fact that they're the ones who are the access point the focal point of godliness in the world when an amazing thing happens the Jewish people all the ten tribes they come together they acknowledge and give honor to Yehuda in Yemen and acknowledge the fact that they within the Jewish people are the focal point they are the ones who receive godliness bring it into the world and bring it to the other tribes they acknowledged that it's mushiya pandava the Messiah who comes from the house of David who comes from the house of Yehuda of Judah that he is the one who brings that spirituality into the world that he is the one who are Shem has chosen just like Yacouba Vino is able to recognize and nail exactly what is the spiritual Koko's of spiritual abilities of each individual mushiya also has that ability and so when they come and they gather into Jerusalem and give honor to you who I am in Yemen they're really giving honor and getting power to mashiac himself to the Messiah and in so doing they are saying that those who wish to lay claim to that power they are wrong no one else has that power even within the Jewish people no one else has that power except for those who are some chose to have that power when there's that acknowledgment when there's that lack of my cloak is that lack of arguing about who has which role when the roles become clear when everything is defined that's when we have a GU docas we have that one group everyone joins together we speak about that budahas that joining together when do we speak about that on Rosh Hashanah and on Yom Kippur bringing it back to the first idea that we spoke about Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur also have this aspect of making clear who's who in the service of a Shem when the false gods they fall when the fall assumptions as to who are the heirs of godliness in the world who are the ones who are the ambassadors of godliness into the world when all those false assumptions fall away and are destroyed in the my palace good is what the measure speaks about the fall of Gog the fall of those lies what happens is we have access to the opinion based on English what Yaakov showed them what Jacob wanted to show them which was the temple being built that place which is in the portion of Yehuda am Benjamin in the place of mashiach ben david in that place of jerusalem that's what happens the result of everything being in its right place everyone being in their right place the result is having access to the base some english having access to that temple having access to the ghoulish leymah the complete redemption i want to bless you please bless me back Shemp should help us to recognize what is our individual role in life what is our special and unique mission some should help us see it and not be jealous of anybody else and not try even when it comes to spiritual matters not try to be someone who are not a chef should help us to have to cover the honor to respect those who have perhaps greater missions than us but by us recognizing that Hashem should help us to strengthen our unique role our unique goal and in that way we should be able to experience the peace the lack of McLucas the lack of arguments and I should help us to experience that oneness that coming together the hey Yasu she will help us to all be zoko to merit to see the ghoulish Alima the complete redemption speedily and in our days thank you so much for listening have a wonderful Shabbos this podcast was made possible through 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