Vayera - Israel's Eternal Promise

you're listening to the weekly paral podcast with Ari goldwag recorded with hm's never running assistance in R Israel 5784 2023 this is our para has the seed of the Jewish people the very moment of conception when sahu ainu Abraham and Sarah they find out that they are miraculously going to conceive at a very Advanced age age s was 90 Abraham was 100 Omar a few chapters later the Torah tells us that Hashem remembered S as he said God kept his promise God promised ab and S that they would have a child they would have this amazing miraculous child named Y and God kept his promise and he remembered Sarah now it's very important to understand this very point this very uh climactic point in the story of the Jewish people the foundational pointu had already been told to go leave as we spoke about hasm wanted him to do his Outreach in Israel Hashem had already instructed him to to do the bris to make this Covenant he had already had a child with hogar his name was yesma but that still didn't guarantee the etern the eternality if there's such a word the Eternal uh the Eternal state of being the Eternal promise of the Jewish people the fact that we would live and be speaking about Abraham 3,700 years later this is only possible because Hashem remembered s and sah had a child Y and this miraculous child Isaac represented the Jewish people represented the essence of the Jewish people that despite all of the negative negative prognostications this despite all of the the predictions that we would be destroyed that we would die every generation they come and they try to destroy us but nevertheless excuse me we are still here remembers SAR and Hashem remembers us us we are never forgotten even when it seems like there's no hope it seems like we're finished it seems like holocausts have come and inquisitions have come and we've been forcibly converted we've been murdered in the millions or in the thousands we never give up and this is the foundation of the Jewish people the birth the birth of Y everyone who sees it will laugh CU we def defy we defy the predictions we defy normative regular reality because there's a supernatural reality that's embedded in us from the very beginning so we need to look at this point we need to understand what the M says about it and understand that this is the story of the Jewish people says the says a in Ezekiel an amazing thing in chapter 17 ver 24 all of the Trees of the field will know that I am Hashem who are these trees of the field we'll soon see who the Trees of the field are it's an analogy they will know that I am hasem I have lowered the tall and mighty trees and I have lifted up the lowly trees the trees that were so high and so great and so mighty they have fallen and the trees that were small the trees that didn't seem to be significant these trees were raised [Music] up says explaining this the first thing he points out is very important we have so many prophecies we have so many predictions in the Tyra we have the tanak is full of the glory of the people of Israel the glory of the Jewish people how we will be a light to the Nations how our BAS Amish will stand our Temple will stand and we will serve Hashem there and all the nations of the world will come and learn from us we will be the the leader of the world the spiritual leader of the world Messianic prophecies just incredible right but there's all these promises we've been waiting a long time we've been waiting if if we're honest since the first temple was destroyed cuz the second temple did not fulfill the promises we've been waiting 2500 years longer but Cesar of uden don't don't think don't think that Hashem is like a human being that when he makes a promise he doesn't keep the promise it's very interesting we could look at this PK and say you know Hashem is going to make a miraculous Birth s was 90 years old she's shriveled up she no longer has the ability to have children she never really had the ability to have children in the first place as our sages say hasem makes a miraculous birth I have a question why does she have to wait nine months in order for this for this birth to take place it's going to be miraculous anyway let's let's do this quick Hashem should say here you going to have a child and the next day she gives birth like adish he got up it says Adam and got into the bed too they came down 4 they had a child right away there was no there's no process why wasn't it that way with s me why does Hashem make a promise and then keep the promise so to speak we don't see right away the miracle Hashem says it's going to be you're going to have a miracle and then a year later nine months later like hasem remembers s he remembers his promise so Ruden says look it's not like human beings who who speak and they don't keep their promises it's hem Hashem says and he keeps his promises hasem keeps his promises and as thefor here explained not only is it true about the promise that Hashem did for that they promised and there was a process you didn't see the answer to the promise right away you didn't see the Promise fulfilled that second or in the following day it took a year it took time you didn't it took it was a process took three months for her to to to be hooker ubra for it to be clear that that she uh she's uh [Music] pregnant so explains in this in this context I am hm I spoke and I did it right the the Mal the angel who is God's representative says toam and Sarah I will return to you at the appointed time and Sarah will have a child and that's what Hashem did so hasem makes promises hasm keeps his promises because I would say this way you know a human being when you're inspired you're in the moment you make a promise and you if you don't do it right away it might not happen right human beings can change their minds God doesn't change his mind he makes a promise and it's a positive promise we do find that uhem says a negative prophecy the Angels the the prophets will say negative prophecy hashm does not need to fulfill that prophecy does not have to keep that promise but any positive prophecy sh must fulfill his promise and there's a certain strength there's a certain strength when you see that somebody makes a promise and keeps the promise it's different than when somebody does it right away when someone does it right away it's not a guarantee that it will always be done maybe he'll change his mind God says a promise it doesn't occur right away it takes its time there's a process and it goes through the process and this strengthens this strengthens our belief and our trust in hasem that the promises will be kept but now the M says something very interesting and very deep and very important to understand and it applies very much to the time that we're living now which is on the cusp of a a transformation of the world into the Messianic age the that we brought at the very beginning the P fromes chapter 17 so it says that all of the the the Trees of the forest will know Hashem will will lower the Tall Tree and raise up the short tree who are these trees the other call says the trees that we're speaking about here are all human kind all mankind all of hashem's Creations everybody needs to know part of this amazing miracle that that Hashem does hasem takes a woman who's 90 years old and she has a miraculous birth part of the miracle is an order and notice that the miracle is done within the confines of of uh regular nature in a certain sense the miracle is that she's 90 but it does happen in a natural way she does take nine months to give birth she does the child is is AB and Sarah together it's their child but everybody hears about it because it's so fantastic it's so awesome the Jewish people return after 2,000 years to the land of Israel it's it's the nation that shouldn't have been couldn't have been the miracle of our return to Earth Isel to the land of Israel now today the country which stands for 75 years which we are still standing up in order to to prove to the world that Hashem will prove to the world that we are supposed to be here it's not something that's natural and the war that we fight the war that we fought are not natural Wars it's not a natural thing that the Jewish people can come back from the dead come back from being a a nation without a without a land for for 1,900 years it's not natural but anybody who hears about it it's it's Sensational it's it's something that everyone must take note of all of the all of the Trees of the field very interesting the P says the verse in Deuteronomy 20: 19 says that the human being is compared to the tree of the field we're a tree we are a tree we grow we are connected to the Earth we are connected to the source which is God excuse me and we grow here all of the trees all of the creatures all the creations of hem all of the human beings in the world they recognize this miracle right it's very interesting a tried to steal SAR who is SAR SAR is this incredibly beautiful woman the PK tells us AR said tell her you know pretend that you're my my my sister if if they know that you're my husb that I'm your husband they'll kill me Sarah is the Paragon of beauty even at the age of 90 she had gone back to her young look she had returned to being fertile and beautiful miraculously but even then she was she was being she was being taken hostage and what that really means conceptually is that the future of the Jewish people is taken hostage at the very moment when she has to she has to now have a child which is going to be AR's child a takes her and there were those who would say that perhaps the child that that she she had with with the child that she finally gave birth to was from a but our s just tell us that y looked exactly like Abraham the the face the facial features were precisely the same as Abram so no one could make a mistake but it's not a coincidence that at this moment AI is the one this king of King in the land of Israel but a king nonetheless King of the nations of the world who tries to take her and tries to subvert all of Jewish history and take her for himself and he tries to be the one who's going to be the future of the chosen The Chosen Nation SAR was the chosen mother of of the Jewish [Music] people but no Hashem says no to a aiik and his wives all of his wives first of all he's not able to he's not able to obviously hasem prevents him from completing the marriage to Sarah and all of his wives are unable to have children until Abraham prays on his behalf meaning you a you represent the nations of the world and you represent all the the the desire to to take over as the Christians have claimed and as the Muslims have claimed to take over the chosenness of the Jewish people you cannot do that you lose all of your power only Abraham can can pray on your behalf all of the power that comes into the world comes through Abraham so in the verse says I am God I've lowered the very tall tree This Tall Tree was a the nations of the world who wish to say that we are the center of cre creation We Are The Chosen Nation he's going to marry the chosen woman sah but hasem takes him down takes down his honor takes down the ability of his wives to Bear children I raised up the tree that was lowered Abraham this is Abraham I have dried out the Supple trees these are the wives of hasem says which the PK says the verse says that God had stopped them from being able to conceive from being able to give [Music] birth those wives which represent the power of the nations of the world a unable to have kids unable to to seed the Next Generation unable to make new saplings that would grow and continue the species SAR on the other hand is given the power in her old age in the Imp The Impossible moment reminds me how they took a a seed from from the seeds that were saved on Mada 2,000-year old seeds from the times of the Romans and they were able to take the seed and replanted 2,000 years later amazing I am God who spoke the verse points out to us that this is how Hashem Works God makes a promise and it seems like this promise will never be fulfilled It seems impossible it seems even in the last moment after the promise is made she's being stolen by AI the the future the the the the future of the Jewish people is at Peril it seems like it won't happen no fear not even in the moment where it seems that All Is Lost even in the moment where it seems that God's promise has been rescinded don't think that God made a promise and Hashem will lower those who would claim the promise as theirs will raise up those who indeed he truly promised to now this is not just a promise for abam and Sarah as we've been saying the whole time this is not just a promise that was made for them to them and the Miracle of a who tried to steal the promise the miracle of him being lowered and the Miracle of ab and Sarah being raised up and the Jewish people rising from the ashes rising from the old age we say after each dayem says even when you are old even when the nation of Israel is old I'm still there God says I created you I'll carry you I will I will hold you on me I will carry you and I will give you salvation in the moment where it seems that All Is Lost in the moment where it seems that the the cards are stacked against us the moment where it seems it's impossible for us to survive everyone is against us that's the moment that hasem says and it even seems even worse in that moment because it seems like there's a promise that will be redeemed and and it's it's it's in Peril no those who those who cause the future the promise that hashm made to the Jewish people to put it in Peril they are lowered they are destroyed they are that aavya think about it think about today think about our times whether it was the British Empire whether it's the the Empire of the United States of America whether it's the Empire of the Islamic world the Persians Iranians they imperil the the truth the future which belongs to the Jewish people the leadership the chosenness which belongs to the Jewish people but Hashem promises us and this is the mes is telling us this it's I'm actually a little further along I'm not going to actually get to it but uh maybe I'll just read it it's a very short section it's very much it's almost exactly the same says in 40:8 will dry out but the word of hem will stand forever says says exactly this idea which is that in regards to AI he dries up he is lowered he's shrunken because Abraham represents the Jewish people and a represents the nations of the world and there's a similar botom there's a representation in the story of something that's going to be in the future just like Abraham saw the downfall of a who caused him pain who stole his wife who tried to to subvert history andem remembered him ab and Sarah together had who would be the progenitor of the Jewish [Music] people he brings from so to it shall be in the times of gum in the Final War the war that began with World War I and World War II and we and continues through what's going on today in our times it's representative of the truth there's there's there's a lowering that has to happen to the nations of the world so that the Jewish people can be raised up hasem can show the entire all of the Creations all of the Trees of the field we'll see how the the the promise of God stands and the promise of God is kept and if the promise of God is kept for the Jewish people the promise for the whole [Music] world the house the which will soon be built on Haria on the Temple Mount it's a place that all will stream to all the nations of the world will come in order to pray to learn from the Jewish people and that promise will be kept it's not just about the Redemption of the Jewish people it's about the Redemption of the entire world when the Jewish people are raised up say there's a there's two parallel things that happen one the honor of the Jewish people is raised up and at the same time the honor of Hashem the reality that there is only one God and all of the isms all of the idolatries of the 20th century and the 21st century they will all fall and crumble and the one true [Music] Goda you Hashem will reign forever the god of Zion the god of the god of Jerusalem The God Who manifests through the Jewish people that's what the future looks like may it be soon in our days I want to ask you to bless me I Will Bless You Hashem should help us that we should be able to recognize that these promises will be fulfilled the promise takes takes time help us to realize the power of the promise that's fulfilled after so long when it seems like there's no hope Hashem should help us to see the Fulfillment of that promise thank you so much for listening have a wonderful shabas this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you for more podcasts like this please visit www arold wag.com or search on iTunes Ari goldwag