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Vayeitze - Ascendent With Moshiach

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you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with our goldweight recorded with hashem's never-ending assistance in the ramaphism israel 57 81 2020. this week's pressure is precious the beginning of our parsha yaakov avinu is leaving beersheva he's leaving his father's home it's the akami where shiva kharani heads towards koran to find his destiny to find his wives with whom he would begin the 12 tribes the jewish people and he stops in a certain location by haloim he goes to sleep there he has a dream a famous dream vine sulum muts of artsa there was a ladder was placed on the ground the top of the ladder was reaching up to the heavens and he saw the angels were going up and down on this ladder hashem stood over him and god said and this was his prophetic vision i am hashem the god of abraham your forefather your grandfather the god of isaac the land that you are sleeping upon right now i shall give it to you and to your offspring this is chapter 28 verse 14. this is the verse i'd like to focus on god says to yaakov aveeno to jacob your offspring shall be like the dust of the earth ufarat's the young of the kebab it's a fine of an egg and you shall explode for us that means you'll spread out to the west to the east to the north and to the south and all of the families of the earth will be blessed through you and through your offspring that's the pasuk that's the verses it's very interesting thing and we're going to read the medrash we need to understand what is the idea that the jewish people are blessed to be called like the like the dust of the earth like the like the ground what's the idea we do find adam harishan is made from the earth he's called adam because he came from the word adama which means the earth interesting but what is the idea here of earth afar means dust why is the jew the jewish people the blessing of the jewish people is that they shall be like dust what is the idea behind that so the message tells us as follows this is in section 69 uh piece number five the question that the manager wants to understand is why why are we referred to as dust why don't we refer to we find other places you'll be numerous like the sand on the sea why afar afar it's the dust of the earth the the dirt so the matrix tells us a number of different meshalam a number of different comparisons things that we understand from the word afar ma afar like the earth enum is boris what is it that causes the earth to bring forth living things what is it that causes growth to come up from the earth it's water when the water hits the earth it's the dust of the earth the dust by itself is dead not long ago i was in a certain spot out in nature and it was before the rains for hashem we've had some rain in earth's israel the land of israel so it was before the rains and the earth was as brown as could be a few weeks later the rains have come the earth starts to turn green but the earth doesn't produce before we have that water so in the same way it's an analogy the torah god in revealing to yaakov to jacob that his offspring shall be like dust like earth he is teaching him that they require water as well what is the water of the jewish people the water of the jewish people is the torah because the torah is compared it's analogous to water so um i'm sorry before we get to that so the idea is that the jewish people also require watering we're like the earth we're malleable we can produce all kinds of things but we need that water we need that life-giving force which is the torah when we have when we are inundated so to speak by the torah when we fill ourselves with tara like the water fills the earth and therefore causes the growth to come so too that's how we grow that's how the jewish people grow that's the first analogy of the majors now we come to the the main point that i'd like to discuss says an amazing thing the earth if you take a piece of metal if you take a knife a metal knife and you put it in the earth so what happens it uh it rusts so now um verizon valley is called clay materials just like when you take a metal object and you put it into the earth it rusts it gets worn out but the earth itself remains it doesn't get worn out so to speak so there's an aspect here very important that when the jewish people the jewish people we remain when we go through our gullus yaakov vino is now on his way out of eretz israel and he's heading into gullis into a 22-year sojourn in the house of levan will take him 20 years to return another two years to return to his father's house in the meantime he'll have all the 12 tribes of the jewish people it's a tough time it's a time of challenge he faces off with love on tries to cheat him so many times so many tricks but don't worry hashem is telling yaakov and in turn telling the clock to telling us israel don't worry the jewish people undergoes difficulties and challenges but ultimately the nations of the world they rust so to speak and the jewish people remain forever they're like the earth like the earth that remains forever [Music] furthermore um just like the earth is something that everybody steps upon everybody tramples upon the earth so too your children will be trampled upon by the nations of the world until a certain point we'll see what that point is this is what it says in the verse in isaiah 51 ushaya no no aleph speaking about the jewish people the suffering servant the jewish people are the suffering servant of isaiah 51 who has been trampled and who has been treated so poorly and who died for the sins of the nations of the world the verse says chapter 51 verse 23 the samtia bead i shall place her i shall place it i'm sorry into the hands of those who oppressed you it's speaking about the casa tarela there's a there's a cup of retribution that god has waiting for the enemies of the jewish people for the enemies of good for those who have oppressed the jewish people throughout the millennia there is a cup of retribution hashem says i shall place that cup of retribution into the hands of your oppressors says what does the word mean is oppressors but what is the word is these are your oppressors those who cause you pain those who weaken you those who trample you [Music] so they're going to get that which is coming to them says the madrish says the pasuk affilo kane you should still know who does this for our good the challenges that we experience the oppression the terrible hatred the anti-semitism the jewish people have undergone the the forced conversions the the take the cross or die all these kinds of things that have gone on for last two thousand years the difficulties of the jewish people in egypt for two hundred and ten years these things clean us off of our sins when a person experiences the oppression the us the the result is there's going to be a blessing upon one's growth the challenges bring about growth the oppression the anti-semitism the hatred for the jewish people for israel for the people of israel that ultimately spurns us to growth the the message continues in that pus again in isaiah 51 and it says what would the nations do to us how would they oppress us viran carmel they would they would bring us to the to the squares of the towns to the great to the great streets and they would beat us up they would lie us down and they would they would bring their their animals and and their plows and plow over us that's what it means in the passage they told us lie down and we're going to pass over you so what so what's the idea arabia zarya bishop he's it sounds bad right it sounds terrible they're knocking us down they're putting us on the floor they're walking over us where they're trampling us with their animals with their plows ripping through us it's a good sign because where are they doing it they're doing it on the on the rehava on these massive streets of allah is the streets that the that they are bringing us to those streets wear down the people who are walking upon them the people who walk on those streets they get tired from walking on the streets but the street itself remains despite the fact that it's worn out the people so too the the your children will wear out the nations there are nations they're busy they're busy knocking us down they're busy beating us up they're busy with their anti-semitic hatred they're busy trying to knock down the jewish people in the u.n the israel the the israel the israeli people the jewish people in the u.n in all of the courts of of decisions in your in the european union in in the in all these different places trying to knock us down but ultimately ultimately we're the ones who remain forever for us the yamaha kevin it's a fight of an egg where the finishes off and i'm not going to get into this next part of the madrish but it brings the end of the passage and you shall spread out to the north to the east sorry to the to the west to the east to the north to the south now what's interesting is that this is not the only place that this manager is brought this matrix is also brought by other people this is we're talking here about jacob hashem says to avraham same exact kind of blessing hashem gives to aram even to abraham he says you're going to get this land all the land that you see and i'm going to make your your offspring to be like the dust of the earth brings us all this exact mattress wherever you walk it's going to be yours now what is the difference between the statement that wherever you walk it's going to be yours already was told wherever you walk is going to be yours to yaakov is being told for us to follow you you're going to have this entire land north east west south this whole land is going to be yours what's the difference between these two statements so i'd like to share with you a gemara in shabbos and of course this gemara brings this pasuk and it tells us something awesome about shabbos and i believe that it's a hint a really amazing depth to this this what this major is trying to say about the fact that the jewish people are trampled and the jewish people ultimately remain forever and the jewish people ultimately merit to have this amazing blessing of yaakov what's the blessing the difference between the blessing of avraham versus yaakov now listen up carefully first the message talks about the fact that if you want to be saved from the challenges the difficulties of the mashiach the time before mashiach is a terrible time we already experienced two out of those three goegu muggle wars world war one and world war ii the jewish people had a terrible time there's gonna be a third one what does a person do if he wants to be to survive the the birth pangs of the messiah what do you do says the madrish it says the magistration of impossible should believe me need something whoever fulfills the three meals one is obligated to eat on shabbos he is protected from the three challenges that come in times of mashiach etc somehow shabbos protects a person from the transition time that's what we're talking about here there's a transition time where you go yakovino is about to go out into gulas but he's being told that there's a transition the jewish people transition from being trampled upon to being the ones who last forever and ever there's a transition point in time which is going to magic where we go from klausov's state is being downtrodden to klauso state as being uplifted a leader amongst the nations which is what we're witnessing right now in the middle east amazing thing this is this is part of it shabbos is somehow what is the idea of shabbos special ocean it's a special covenant a brisk between god and the jewish people only the jewish people keep shabbos on saturday because it's something unique and special to the jewish people we need to understand what is shabbos how does it connect to mashiach to the messianic age and how does it what is the idea that if you keep shabbos you're protected you're able to get through the birth pangs the difficulties the challenges to the other side why is shabbos that special aspect and here's the point whoever enjoys the shabbos you eat on shabbos you you you enjoy physical pleasures on shabbos nicely a person receives an inheritance which has no borders an inheritance has no borders if you want to know what mashiach looks like what the messiah the messianic age looks like here's the verse isaiah 58 it says then you shall enjoy god and you the jewish people will be ascendant upon all of the nations of the world and the verse refers to it as the fact that you are going to receive the inheritance of jacob what's the inheritance of jacob not the the inheritance of abraham shikosa boy right we brought that pasta it says go walk upon the land it's it's length and it's breadth but that's limited it's you only get whatever you walk on it was defined i'm going to give you and your children all of these lands for us something unique in our parachute in these verses an amazing description what is what is it that yaakov is being promised if you keep the shabbos if you keep your shabbos we'll have to understand what his idea of shabbos if you keep your connection to me the connection which has to do with the ink the enjoyment of god the memory the awareness of that future time shabbos is it's a it's 1 60th of the world to come if you keep that if you are waiting for that you get the ultimate expansion there's no limit to how big your borders are there's no limit to the borders of earth israel the land of israel when the shia comes when the messiah arrives the jewish people are ascendant expanded why somehow because of shabbos and somehow as we saw in the first part of the madrid because of the fact that they've been trampled they've been trampled they've been stepped upon but they outlived all of their oppressors they lived all of their enemies there's a beautiful story the magist i'm sorry the the gemara the cuff your test very much a major style story which i don't know if it's a literal story but i actually believe it could be literal but it could also be a muscle an analogy for the jewish people the ma the measure says the isis of there was a man his name was yosef and he was somebody who who would spend whatever money needed to be when he wasn't a rich man but he would spend whatever money he needed to be spent in order to honor the shabbos there was a certain gentile who lived in his town was very rich a particular necromancer said to this gentile all of your money is going to end up in the hands of yosef mo kershabus this yosef who who values the shabbos he didn't want it to happen his gentiles so what he did was he took all his property all of his money sold everything he bought a gem he put it inside of his hat and he wanted to have it all of his wealth on him at all times he bought this precious gem which had the value of all his wealth as he was passing over a bridge a wind came and blew his hat into the water bole cavra he was swallowed by a fish escua meaning that the precious gem was followed by a fish a school i sewed a pani de monde shabbat one one friday that fish was caught by some fishermen army man zavin hashta but it was late on friday afternoon they said who's going to buy this now army luhozilo i'm to you oligarchy my kashabi the rug of this oven go just so someone told the guy who caught the fish there's a big beautiful fish bring it to yosef mokashabus this yosef who values the sabbath honors the sabbath he's the only guy who would buy it at this time until the alley they brought him he bought it khari he opened up the fish to prepare for shabbos ash babe he found this precious gem zavni bitte lacer he lighted the dinner in the darva he was able to sell this for 13 sacks full of golden dinarium certain elderly person which usually means elijah the prophet not him yosev whoever gives money whoever pays their money to honor the shabbos shabbos pays back beautiful story interesting story because he honored the shabbos therefore he was paid back i would like to say that this story besides for perhaps being a literal story is a muscleton analogy to the jewish people khalifa is sometimes referred to as ephraim the the one who's the son of yosef yosef makashabi what is the the identity of cloud israel we are the ones who keep the shabbos we appreciate the shamas there's a wealth there's an amazing wealth it seems like we're giving up keep shamans you can't work on shamans it's a day that you give completely to god are you giving up your wealth no we gotta do what's right we keep shabbos shabbos is powerful shabbos is a day of spirituality shabbos is a day without gulen without it seems like we're constricted by all the rules and allah's but it's really a day of spiritual growth of such awesome greatness what happens when we keep in charge so because kaiser keeps shamas there's a promise in the future time all the wealth of the world just like yosef azadek collected all of the wealth of the world because of the fact that there was a great famine jewish people excuse me he collected it all for egypt the jewish people left mizrahim and left egypt with all of that wealth that yosef had collected so too the world is collecting all of its wealth so to speak but ultimately who are the ones who will receive that wealth the opposite who it would seem it's the jewish people that's what i believe the message is saying and i believe that what is the idea there's a flip around there's a turn around those who keep shabbos are those are the jewish people we are the ones who are trampled the nations say oh we've got the sabbath some of them say it's on their friday it's friday's their sabbath some of them say sunday is their sabbath they've replaced us they think they've taken the wealth the spiritual wealth which rightfully belongs to us and ironically they quote the very verse in isaiah 53 which is talking about the jewish people as if it's talking about their idol but it's talking about us and the messenger is telling us and again martin shamus is telling us that the very thing that seems the very thing that seems like we're giving something up we're being trampled we're giving up perhaps our parnassa for not working on shabbos there's a there's a bittle there's a bittle self-nullification perhaps not even by our choice what did i do wrong that the nations of the world hate me what did i do wrong to deserve the anti-semitic bias what did israel do wrong but there's a point in time where it all switches and that's what the message is telling us and and to me the message is the message is first of all we have challenges we have difficulties those challenges and difficulties that trampling ultimately we will survive it and we'll see an awesome expansion as a nation as individuals because of the challenges that we've gone through and also when i believe in mashiach when i believe in the messianic age when we will all it will be revealed to the entire world we will all experience that question god's presence in the world when i live with that when what that's because that's what shabbos is shabbos is a taste of that the tiny gun shabbos is not just a physical tainough of course we express it with the food that we eat but it's an expression of a belief that there's a future time where the truth will be revealed god's presence will be revealed and the people who represented him throughout the ages over the last 3 300 years 3 700 years the jewish people who represented him throughout the ages we are the ones who become ascendant why because we are dedicated committed to we hold on to our belief that that time is coming time is so close the time is so close close we believe it and we know it we express that with our observance of shamas we express that with our the oink that we do the enjoyments that we eat on shabbos that we believe that there's going to be enjoyments despite like we spoke about last week despite all of the proofs to the contrary all of those all of the things that are going on in the world that seem to be that great mountain it's gonna all turn around it's gonna all turn around the very fact that we were trampled we are fired just a blessing the fact that yaakov is going out into into regalis into exile no it's because he's gonna expand into the 12 tribes he's going to return back to israel with an awesome blessing and his blessing is the awesomeness of expansion expansion without any limitations and that is the idea of shabbos this is an expansion an opportunity for expansion without limitations and when we keep it the shabbos keeps us whatever we give away for shabbos shabbos pays back i want to bless you please bless me hashem should help us to be to merit to see that point in history where it all turns around where all of the challenges all of the difficulties help us see that moment in time where we experience the nakhla bulimitsarim the inheritance which has no limitations thank you so much for listening have a 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