Vayera - Moshiach Comes with Distraction

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with ari goldwag recorded with hashem's never-ending assistance in ramachampshire 57 81 2020. this week's parties parties valera our parsha begins with the story of the angels who arrive to inform avraham avinu and sarah that soon they will have a child a miraculous child in their old age and avraham avinu greets those angels not knowing that they're angels believing them to be men greets them with amazing kindness he asks them to please come let him give him something to eat he ruts it he rushes to the to the cattle he has his wife zara prepare cakes for them etc he has them eat has them blessed god they inform him of the amazing miracle that's about to take place for them and then they go on as avraham is informed about the destruction the impending destruction of siddom and he prays on their behalf those angels head over to sidon where they are greeted also with great hospitality by lot avram's nephew but then with not such great hospitality by the people of sidon who try their best to destroy to kill to maim to sodomize these angels also again not knowing that they're angels of hashem and then in the end the angels take lot and his daughters out they save them and turn over stones to them is destroyed because of its great evil now every year when i read this parsha um i'm blown away blown away by the fact that these events all occur at the same time and i'm not going to get into it so much this time but what i do want to focus in on is something very interesting and it has to do with the angels what they represent and the response of avraham to to the appearance of these angels and this the response of the people of sidon at the appearance of these angels but before we talk about that specifically i want to share with you a mattress that needs explanation of course measures tells us time the main piece the people of sidon and amara that they lived in these cities they were tremendously wealthy to the point the measure speaks about that there was a prohibition in sidon to give any charity to those who are poor if god gave us the wealth the wealth is ours we don't share it that was their shita if you were poor and you tried to get money out of them they would kill you it was against the law that was the foundation of what the dome was they had a very they had a very wealthy place that they lived they benefited from the whole area the jordan river the what's now yamaha malef the salty river at that time was similar to the way it was in egypt where they had unending water supply and thus they had everything that they needed they were disconnected from god so they had 52 years 52 years from the time of the flood from the time that the entire world was spread out they were sent obviously to this location and they had 52 years of calm until this time um amazing thing listen to this it's just amazing there was 25 out of those 52 years the last 25 years and i'm a fortunate try to grapple with why 25 years what is this number perhaps i'm saying i didn't see this in any of them unfortunately perhaps it's the amount of time that avraham avinu was there in arts israel it would fit very nicely with the idea that i hope to share with you all but during the last 25 years from the from the time avraham avina was until the time that avraham avina was to turn a hundred so those 25 years there were opportunities there was shake-up calls there was a shake-up going on there was the the the place was shaking because hashem wanted them to do chuva hada they didn't do chuva they did not repent that's what the verse is hamatakar and valayodo hashem up ends the mountains and they don't know they don't notice they don't see loya they don't know what's the end the end is that he turns them over in his anger they didn't hear the message there was 25 years that they had an opportunity to to do chuva and i would venture to say that look i mean just in the push-up shot abram avinu was there beside them he was near them even sent in an agent so to speak which was load his nephew to try to get them to turn around he was trying to judge them trying to help them be better it didn't work mario shiva points out repair points out they they had this awesome this terrible and awesome war that occurred they were all captured and taken away by the four kings and the five kings this battle and avraham avinu came in single-handedly with his men and saved load his nephew and along with him all the people of sidon what a shame can you imagine they thought that they were going to be slaves for the rest of their lives and they came back and they just continued as it was the shake-up didn't do anything for them being around an avraham avinu a paragon of cassette and kindness nothing nothing so what was the result the result was they didn't do chuva they didn't repent and they were and they were destroyed what's the shot like what's the idea here what's what's the message here and i you know i was thinking about this this magician i'm trying to understand it i was you know my the way that i the way that i develop my partial podcast is that i read a lot of information as much as i can sometimes it's one piece of madrish and i read a lot of them a forshim and i see where it takes me and i try to understand the bigger picture here i read a whole bunch of major russian didn't see so much the connection between them a lot of different ideas the destruction of saddam et cetera avraham avinu having the prayer the prayers that he does on behalf of siddom but something was i was looking for something and suddenly it hit me suddenly it hit me avraham avinu when these angels come he doesn't know that they're angels i mentioned this before what does he do though the the tyre is telling us about his kindness we know that venus was the ishaq has he was the man of kindness but why does tara tell us about his kindness in the context of these angels it's even a strange thing they don't need food they don't need to eat anything they don't need his kindness they came to tell him something why is it tara telling us that avraham avinu did all of his kindness for angels who don't need kindness and then it hit me just an amazing thing when these same angels arrive in saddam what is the reaction of the people of siddom their reaction is kill them maim them sodomize them give them to us lot we will destroy them why are there poor people here why are there people who need something from us and all their evil comes out what's the shot what's the shot so before i explain that i want to share with you something which i'm i don't know if i have a clarity in it i'm working on it and i've thought about this a lot the gemara says it's a gemara tells us that there are three things let's read the more inside actually says that there are three things that come with means to stop one's mind from thinking a pause a pause in the thinking oh i was distracted for a moment there are three things that come with a distraction elohim these are the the messiah arrives this way a person is looking for something he can't find it he's lost his glasses losses can't find his car keys happened to me i don't know not long ago i was looking for a wire to plug in one of my devices couldn't find it i knew that it was in a certain spot i couldn't find it wasn't there but i knew it was there looking everywhere i looked around three four times and one of the things that i try to do work on vitacon someone's going to help me i say the mimer ah [Music] stop trying to look for it i just keep like looking around but with a different attitude everyone is blind into hashem gives light to their eyes and then just get down it hits me oh maybe the wire fell down from the spot where it was under the couch cushion which had been off before and then the couch cushion was put there and that's where i found the wire that's how it works let's see you find something which you're looking for with a hesa hadas because you stopped you stopped trying so hard you have a hezekiah the third thing is an acra of a scorpion scorpion bite happens because you you weren't paying enough attention you're in a place of danger you lost your focus bang that's when the thing happens but i wanted to know what does it mean that mashiach comes with what does it mean that the messiah arrives when we have a we spaced out for a moment or we stop trying for a moment for what we're looking for what does that mean so i want to share with you a thought a deep thought and i want to share with you a story about my great grandfather anyone who follows me on facebook knows that i recently posted a picture of my great grandfather abreast of gets like streisand he was a big sadiq he was a bala bus he was a carpenter but he had a shoe that he he was the life force of that shule in brazian which was the city of the marsh adam the drone but i want to share with you a story okay i actually accidentally misquoted the story i didn't know the story because i hadn't seen it inside but uh i said that on my facebook page i mentioned that he ran into a shul saved the suffragette from a burning shul which is not precisely the story very close it's actually a little bit the story is even better than that i'm going to read to you from this is from the safer called the rajon book but and these are stories that were written out by my my my grandmother's sister yudit kahana wrote about her father my alter zayde rabbi savitz he says she says like this i'm going to read you the story inside okay and this is the story that's the key to what's going on here i think bismuth the times of the first world war so they set fire to this basement my great-grandfather abiacevic was very involved with this particular-based measure of so the russians had come and they had set fire to the basement the synagogue was on fire but khan roy let's sign us up here we need to hear about the amazing rescue that rabbi yosef did my great grandfather he ran up to the roof he came in there and there were these beams these wooden beams that he broke them to prevent i he must have done this in order you know it says he did it to prevent the fire from spreading if those beams would be there then the the wooden beams would spread the fire even further oh yes the enemy saw him he really wrote they started shooting in his direction who is the tear he hid himself but then he went up again again to try to to break these beams so that the fire shouldn't spread he he was the fire the fire got him his clothes were on fire we arrived la mata la nachala catan came down to a little stream show your shazaram with see debate a little stream was right next to the shul to the synagogue he put out the fire his clothes were on fire put it out he ran back to stopping the spread of the fire in the shrub and he was able to succeed in saving the shrub when he came down he was completely black with soot in kyoto it burns all over his body of alma ushar but he was satisfied he was happy i must read the next line even though it's not really part of the story she couldn't speak for two weeks because she was calling out and begging him to come down from the roof it even in the states people from the city there have been a group of the people from beijing that had moved to the states and they spoke about it there was a letter written that's the story so what does it have to do with us and this is what i want to say it's very powerful idea and it's connected to meshiach coming it's connected to the story of avraham avinu to these angels there's a moment of a moment of din a moment there's a fire burning there's a fire burning and different people have different ways of approaching that the fire is burning what do i do i run run for my life that's one way rabiyasi visa streisand was so this was his shule this was the place that he lit up the fire of the shul so to speak he was the soul of the shul he didn't run away didn't run out of direction he ran into the fire to stop the fire from spreading so that the shul shouldn't burn down the angels come understand what is an angel what is this angel what is this malach that comes it's a revelation of a kodesh boroku i love hashem hashem is revealing himself in illinois the angels are part of that revelation as i understand it the angels are part of that revelation he's about to find out an amazing thing is going to happen he's going to have an awesome miracle is going to occur when those angels appear when hashem shows himself when there's a din it's a type of fire it's a type of fire hashem took out the sun from its nartic from its sheath there's a fire and that fire wakes people up when hashem reveals himself it wakes people up what does avraham do it does he does what he always does it wakes up whatever he is in his wine when the wine goes in the secret comes out of bentira who drinks wine what do you hear on purim from the bentara from the from the scholar from the from the from the one who is desiring to come close to hashem what do you hear from him you hear please i just want to come close to you please listen i just want to come close to you that's what you hear when there's a fire that goes in it releases the truth wine is a type of fire it's a it's a revelatory fire we have to use it carefully because of that well we drink on purim it reveals the truth when the angels come it reveals who the person really is he doesn't even know that they're angels and what does it reveal about him it releases from him the essence of hi of his being review is a fire this is my shoe boom gotta stop the fire what is it releasing in sedona it releases in saddam who they really are that evil they see these people ah it releases them the desire to to maim to kill to destroy to sodomize it releases in them the truth of who they are that's what's going on here hashem once for 52 years they had peace the people of sudan their way seemed to be working they had all the money they had all the wealth everything was great everything seemed to be very nice prosperity everything everything for 25 years hashem was knocking on their door here i am here i am here i am wake up i'm going to take you i'm going to there's going to be a war you're going to get captured you're going to be released there's an arm of you next to you what does it do for them nothing they become more and more evil hashem's revelation to them doesn't cause them to do chuva it makes them worse to the point that they need to be destroyed the angels come into sidon the evil comes out the evil that's about to bring about their destruction comes out when hashem reveals himself the true colors come out the true colors come out and i think this is a very deep idea it's so deep i asked what is the concept of hadas i have so much to say and i don't have the time what is the concept of this pause this moment where all of a sudden bang i find what i need bang a person gets uh bitten by a scorpion bang mashiach comes what is that moment what does maybe i'll get into it a little bit is that moment where i let go of my understanding of things he was always in the head state of hadas he was always in communion with god there was no his way he didn't eat yet from the eighth hadas to evira the tree of knowledge of good and evil he didn't have good and evil in him that was mixed up and he had to figure anything out he just knew what was right naturally everything just grew automatically perfectly means a return for a moment to the state of adam the state of adam before the sin before the sin what was it like you didn't have a problem you never lost anything you just knew where it was klaus was in that state in the mid bar that's what it's beyond some it's information that you have from beyond this world it's beyond that this is what we understand our understanding of reality is limited means a pause a pause in our thinking a pause a return for a moment to the way it really is to the real world that pause can can take two paths as the martial explains the good morning sanhedrin on the side design page 97. why is why is it why is it about grouped together mashiach together with the scorpion and the mezia because there's two different things that can do the same two things that we see with abramovino and the people of sudan can either help a person be joyous and find the thing he's looking for or it can cause him to get bitten by a scorpion and the shia does both of those things mashiach is like the arrival of those angels it's that point in time where all of a sudden bang the truth is starting to be revealed we don't even realize it the angels are there we don't even realize they're angels they just look like people we don't realize they're messengers of god but they are and but their presence does something to us it brings out something in us it brings out who we really are so avraham avino brings out his cassette his kindness people of saddam he brings out their evil they're bitten by the scorpion and avraham is the messiah he finds the messiah what's the ultimate media you can't believe it i found it he has a baby at the age of 100 years old why it's the moment of revelation the moment of revelation this my friends this my friends is what i believe is going on in the world today this is what's going on corona the craziness the israeli elections came to a seem to be stuck american elections stuck hadas can't think of it so we're so distracted my wife commented to me wow this whole thing with the american elections it's the first time that i'm not thinking about corona the whole day it's a distraction it's a fire it's a fire burning the basement is on fire what do we do what happens in that fire it brings out who we really are yet society brings out who we really are my person who's trusting in hashem look what that's so amazing what's going on on torah anytime today look what's going on the people are searching for for faith in god people are talking about god in the secular world for the first time i couldn't believe it i saw uh some quote from netanyahu he said he never speaks like that with hashem's help he says god bless america he doesn't say that god bless israel god bless him everybody it doesn't say with hashem's help i haven't heard that from him so much but you can't deny it we need his help it's the wake up it's the wake up it's the wake up the basement is on fire where are we are we running are we running to save the basement are we running back to the gemaras are we running to inspire others are we running to more mitzvos faith in hashem running back into the islands of akkad running back to eretz israel to the place where we really belong where are we running my friends the world is on fire what does it bring out of us i want to bless you and ask you to bless me should help us to recognize to recognize that the angels they are out the angels are out they're guys as people because all of these people are hashem's messengers shut up is to recognize this is the time this is the time hashem should help us to that what comes out of us what's brought up for us is the rest of the kindness the willingness to sacrifice the willingness to get a little burned to be able to save the basement should help us that we should have the good sky the rest of the kindness the torah the bitakan the faith in hashem that's what we should see 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 you