Ari Goldwag - Vayeshev - Free Will Spectrum

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast recorded with a gems never-ending assistance in remote vision which is about fifty seven seventy six this week's participation of a chef it's really interesting this week we talked about we begin the story of Joseph at Sadiq Joseph and his brothers and this is a topic you know safe the story is one of the most fascinating stories to me in the entire Torah and it's a topic which I've actually written about had a blog which I was writing about yo se finish really no safe for many years and I stopped out about five years ago but the idea is here are so fundamental very much connected to the entire concept of what what we as Jews what we understand what we believe as far as mushiya the Messiah the Mushaf Bend of admire from David he comes from yahuda from Judah and there's a connection between him between the story of you who Daniel who to the the whole story with you who Dan Tamar which is the beginnings the seeds of the story Mushaf Bend of it comes from parrots who comes from those twins and there's a deep connection between an Amishman Yosef the Messiah comes from Joseph not everyone knows about the idea of Mashiach Ben Yossef the Messiah comes from Joseph but these two ideas are very much connected and they're the rooted then the seeds for these ideas are in our partial so it's an idea that I've spoken about at length and it was interesting as I was doing some research looking around I made Russian so Kim a fortune of different commentaries of this week's parsha you know I try always to find something new to find something interesting something interests in me and I hope that it will interest my listeners as well and I was finding it very challenging these are precious that I've gone through and I've seen so much about and to find something new something that interests me is challenging and what I did find what I want to share with you and I'm gonna read it inside and I'm gonna translate it it's a very beautiful piece from the edge Bitzer the mashallah and it's it's the schita you know in the past I've gone into different form different places different commentaries I've gotten into measures of late I've been talking a lot about the magic and sometimes I quote from from MAS and Breslin from Luca de Lucas and there was a goof it was time where I was talking a lot reading reading from the issue it sir and I just had to find something fresh so this is where I went this is where I found before we start just important to understand that the issue bit sir his pieces can be opaque difficult to understand and with a himself will try to understand and explore the depths of what he's saying begins Vasia of Yaakov Jacob dwelled in the lands of his father's dwelling is Esha Kozlov and this is what it says in the verse this is a reference to what it says in the verse in Jeremiah chapter 30 verse 10 the Shah of Yakov a shock 8 Hashanah and vemma hurried that Jacob will sit he will dwell he'll have quiet and he won't be afraid oh yeah hurricane and it will be after this the the Jupiter refers to a different posture which is going to which is speaking about the fact that Jacob which is reference to the Jewish people when they have calmness and quieted in their land so afterwards the result will be even a hurricane Bertha sruthi who like the verse says that God will pour out his Spirit upon all of mankind Zook Nathan columnist Yahoo Lyman your elders will have dreams but horican has Yanis you and your young men will also see visions so the issue sir is using this posture which speaks about the elders who have dreams and the young ones the the young men who have visions as a reference to Jacob and Joseph Yaakov and Yosef the two of them Yaakov the Torah tells us in previous parts we spoke about the fact that he had a dream Jacob had the dream of the latter as he was going out to hustlers out of Israel he had the dream of the the angels and you know all the ideas that that represented and Joseph also he's the young man he's not the other he's the young man and he also has a vision and his vision also is one which is a prophetic vision now he continues to explain how you call him master minasan Balaam all of the things that we see in the world all the actions that are done in the world near in um I suppose ever done if we look at them in a superficial way so the things that I do or the things that you do look to be they seem to be things that are done by human beings by flesh-and-blood ACME I hear of a merkava and now if we were to look at the thoughts and the the inspiration behind it Niram Seamus a chemise bark it would seem that the thoughts and inspiration come from God booberella parshas says deja produced an amazing thing profound idea to explain what's going on here and really bring it home for us we need to understand this so much in these parishes in in the context of what we're speaking with the stories that the Torah is telling us the events that it's recounting malama discern wash Emmys were God teaches us I share her my Samia jammies boa now when it comes to the actions the things that are being done those things the actions the events that occur belong to God those God is there in them profoundly Masha voice hey Messiah Adam now when it comes to the thinking the thoughts that are there those thoughts are actually what remain in the domain of the human being I mean if we look at the events on the world stage if we were to you know expand this idea but look at the events on the world stage it seems like you know Putin is doing something Obama is doing something Isis is doing something Israel you know all of the things that we look at we see it it looks like there are individuals who are taking action but in fact the actions themselves belong to God Hashem big a doll on a broader scale is in charge God is in charge of all of the actions that we see the thoughts that go on inside of a person's mind perhaps impress us of what he means as those actions are being taken those belonged to the person who is taking the action the thoughts that are involved the initial desires of what the person hopes to accomplish that might be in the domain of the human being but the results do not belong to the human being Hamas tsim-sha-tsui Adam the virus shows and all the things that a person will do that seem to be within his domain within his permission so to speak so as we said they don't really belong to him I was in mr.kia Colby - um I'm in regards to this or say just tell us that everything is in the hands of heaven my son Mitzvah heifer Haim be out of Shem Apsara even the myths themselves and we see this in this story you know we have we have the brothers as our sages tell us they were trying to kill Yosef and they had adjust the vacay from a holic standpoint they felt that he was high of misa that he was liable for death but the mitzvahs the the and and the opposite when a person doesn't a very heaven forbid so these things are really in the hands of a shamrock Lapham utilized samba Adam only on occasion only on occasion this is a sheath of the dish pizza which is an unbelievable profound concept but the the level of our freewill and how much involvement that we have according to the age Bitzer is very limited and it's important to hear this and understand there's a spectrum within Jewish thought as to what is the idea of free will how much we will do we really have have what level to what death is Hashem controlling all of reality where is our freewill hat as our thoughts and actions play into that so the HP tier is all the way on the extreme of the spectrum saying that our freewill is there of course because that's why we're in this world to choose but there's a limitation on that and what's amazing is that he's going to go into an enroll we'll have time to read the entire piece but he's going to go into in depth that air there's actually an argument a disagreement between yahuda and Yosef between the shipment of it I'm a Shia Ben Yossef which he doesn't speak about explicitly but that's also true there's a disagreement as to how much responsibility we have and how much belongs to God and in fact the way that a sham manifests in the lives of each of them is differently in the life of Yehuda as well soon see in the life of Judah so he had less bashira he had less free will but he also is willing to give up his free will in a certain sense he was willing to completely make himself subservient to God and so we'll see that his free will in a certain sense was less Yosef was held more accountable because he took upon himself instead of giving himself up completely even his free will so instead he chose to have free will which is of course connected to other my regional in the faith in the sin of Adam and and he is choosing to enter into a place of free will which is a whole other discussion I'm not going to get into but for our discussion we see that there are two different levels of which to speak so now commotion was seen while my C Hooda the continues and says that we find in regards to the actions of Judah hey Hashem nice Bora South come here many God says in regards to the action that you who took which was to be with Tamar unbeknownst to him so me many Hashem says this was from me this a very or the seeming sin that Judah did was something that I orchestrated God says as our sages explain the verse aah-ha-ha la maestra Yosef italic number shame me here who are di ma interestingly when it comes to the dreams of Joseph so there's a different explanation for it there's an explanation that it's because of the thoughts that he had during the day meaning was it because of something that God had given to him was it because of something that he had chosen he thought about being emotional he's thought about leading the Jewish people leading his brothers is that why he had those dreams or was it because Hashem planted it in him so when it came to Joseph as opposed to Yuda there was a different thing that was going on there was more of a bethere a more of a choice that Joseph was making as opposed to Yehuda whose actions themselves even the actions themselves were something which was a result of a Shems will directly playing in his life now Yosef also even though yes he's choosing things and yes he's thinking about things and that's affecting the dreams but still it's important to understand that Shem is within that as well a shaman is always within everything a sham is always guiding and touching everything but to what level is it masked to what level does ashen give us Valera so that we feel like we are part of we've earned the good that he's giving us so in yo safe there's more of a level of it seems like he's doing it uni Hooda there's less of a level and it's clear that Hashem is doing it more kiba m/s the Jupiter continues and says that the truth is Cana she voice ah hush bottom this was the response of his brother's theme catcher CLA Mahalo I'm when he told them his dream Jia Covino lava column because Jacob kasha Colin Lee haha lame by the hosel 11 when he had his dream and he was on the way to Levin's house his ski line Bible ominous American in Sabich the harsh waton he was able to look in dream and to learn and understand the depth of what the references were what the implications were for all of his children for all his sons hey mom do I say and they also studied that dream that revelation in the Scottish Lambo becau Panthera Tara had awesome and they were able to learn new things about God's will from that dream as they studied it , Uncas to retire him sabaha la maza because there's so much depth and wisdom and ideas of Torah which are found in the dream of Jacob because sure I'll run ahem yes about Sonic now when Joseph said to them Keegan like homopolymers ka Leah Karim he also had dreams he was saying that the dreams also were spiritual and had a spiritual message and they had did retire they were there was a message for them has she Willa what was their response to him imma let him like Elena do you think that you're going to rule over us he did me lovino the brother said how could it be that you think that you are similar to our father that he had dreams which were spiritually powerful you think that your dreams are also spiritually powerful Holly Aveeno who call a mbu of a dog Buscemi's para our Father Jacob he's always involved in in awe he's attached - am la cámara la chemise for holiness and that's why Hashem shows him these dreams half-machine even when he's sleeping he Gamez who drove up Buscemi's Berg because even in the dark even when he's sleeping even when he's not fully in control of his mind even then he's connected to Shem Hashem shows him things not only that I shall reveal some amazing things in his dreams of a lot top but the brothers said to Joseph - Joseph but you ain't comin my dragon's eyes Gernot on the level of our father a Hulk a moussaka a man here who are the imma the dreams that you have are just a result of what you're thinking about during the day chata writes a big duel Oh businesses they wanted to say to him that you you Joseph you just want to be greater than us you want to be raised above us look on the halima scale that's why you're having these dreams gala doula me me this year of innova because the greatness which you're speaking of the grain is that you are going to be a leader so to speak which is what your James seemed to imply that type of dream doesn't come out when a person is focused on aw and his has humility so they were saying that the oh and humility of Jacob is what gave him a dream that was a spiritual dream and had spiritual content and that things could be learned from but they were saying to Joseph that he wasn't on that level and his yireh his his awe and his humility was lacking and therefore the dreams couldn't have that depth of spirituality Yakub Aveeno here tell me I have a dust was it Jacob was somebody who was constantly working on this idea Yura the idea of aw hiya sashimi smart maashjay'eh Alec oh that's the concept that Hashem his divine providence is to be seen and then Hashem looks down on everything is involved directly in all that occurs on earth could sit like the verse says me Mahesh kiya from the place of God's place he looks down below y'know and the verse also says that he doesn't slumber asleep Vanover what's the aspect of humility I knew Shana miss Gao embryo that Yakko Aveeno his me there was his attribute was that he didn't see himself as greater than anyone Kim my solemn and I'm a Himalayan like the verse says in reference to the concept of humility that what is man really greater than even an animal lush and iron which says he my stardom in a Bahama I'm its insignificant the where I mean means in its null it's nothing the the greatness or the advantage of a person over an animal what is that language of nothingness hi no off Sheba MSMEs out of shame is Mara yes he'll look that even though it's true as far as the Shem is concerned there's a difference between man and beast I think how to automate lovara but when it comes to the person the way that a person needs to think about it is that there are no differences there's really no differences as far as I'm concerned and so the anomaly humility that Jacob had was that he didn't see himself as greater than anyone else he was able to to have that idea within him and the brothers felt that Joseph did not have that and therefore because he didn't have these two meadows in their eyes you know these two attributes so his dreams didn't have that spiritual depth and I'm skipping a piece of it and I'm going straight to the taina the complaint of bottom of the brothers to Joseph is a Hyatt is a schwa to my use of exotic this was their complaint to Joseph kick am Who I am is nyog as a dominance a gyro that yes he was somebody who was involved with having this he was trying to inculcate in himself the attribute of awe miles nmmm a Trish and this is what it says in the message this is a reference this is what the measures is referencing shall I use if economy law it says that the the luck if you would look at Joseph he looks similar to Jacob behind Shahan may God smile it a meters hallelu with what does it really mean the depth of what it means that he looked like him it means that he tried to take on his attributes just like Jacob year of innova Kadesh a Alif betta he tried to have all he tried to have humility so that he would indeed be able to trust God and the way that the verse refers to the fact that Jacob trusts God so he also tried to develop that inside of himself listen Emeril of cabins hakuna Malloy that's why it says that he was somebody who was a Benza kunam this child is special child to Jacob Heine commercial Yaakov eNOS now I gots my b---minus Yutaka vino just like Jacob took on the attribute of Isaac I new hero which was this aspect of aw gum who is now got some about Mira has ice so he also tried to take on this attribute uber Nova to Maya via Jacob imitated Isaac so to speak Joseph imitated Jacob so to speak vosdek the Kumarasamy spora and as a result of this that's why I Shem was so exacting with Joseph Kiev Shami that's a little toy of him even though these are good attributes to inculcate into oneself comic America Ottoman Turkish em damn cane a person also needs to trust Hashem and another level he had NASA meets at autumn an opinion on the odd that even the things that I accomplished even though me toes the the attributes that I in Coke into myself are not something that lasts forever Jia Jie save publish mera Samoyed even though Joseph was indeed able to accomplish a lot through his carefulness in his areas our me many got to call my his role the result of which was that all of the kings of Israel would come out honey crocodile Amal the great kings of Israel would come from him okay the use of a mesh like the measure says nevertheless it's not something that's permanent I know to be known are they odd you want to have something that you have forever in a shackle how come Rocco hey like a hula by trying to earn it the way that Joseph was trying to do it inculcating forcing himself to be spiritual to be deep to be to be humble to have all those are amazing me those whose amazing attributes but the moment I think that I am doing it says the edge but Sir if I'm believing that I'm doing and I'm establishing this for myself that's a very deep mistake the only one who lasts forever whose attributes indeed are our deep and last forever our yahuda Judah because Judah has that recognition he has the depth to understand South call me many that the things that are happening even the righteousness that happens is from God even the good things that we accomplished ultimately it's because Hashem has allowed us to accomplish them whereas our Bahia where's our free choice perhaps it's in the thinking of it in the desire the rut zone that's the issue but sri suta his idea is that really comes down to what do I want if I really want goodness that's the but here that's what I have a choice around that's where my freewill revolves is the wanting the desire for goodness the result can I accomplish can I actually do the mitzvot can I can I be successful in fulfilling God's will the answer is it depends if God wants me to or not the results always belong to a Shem and depending on which schita which way a person goes the the gisha the approach of a person if a person goes with you're safe so he has to accomplish it himself but that doesn't last forever because Hashem wants us to know that ultimately all that we have even the mitzvahs even the accomplishments even the good deeds they ultimately belong to God there are an a manifestation of God in the world now I just want to share one last idea I'm not gonna read it inside but he talks about the dreams that Joseph interpreted one was a sorrow femme which was the baker and he had done something wrong he had had a there was a stone in the bread of Pharaoh and as a result of that he was put he was incarcerated and he ended up being killed because he was eros sponsible he was he should have been more responsible thus I am asking the wine Bearer he brought this cup of wine to the king to Pharaoh and there was a fly now the fly is something which has its own mind so to speak it's something that he couldn't possibly possibly be careful about it could have just flown in at the very last second it was completely not his fault but Pharaoh got upset at him but ultimately Pharaoh took him out of jail now these two people actually says the issue Bitzer are a muscle or an analogy for Yosef which he was to learn and understand the the sorrow of him the the one who's baking the bread so he's trying to be perfect but he makes a mistake what's the result of that approach of Joseph's approach which corresponds to the sorrow open to the Brit to Baker the result is that back that accomplishment is lost just like the Baker ends up being killed so the accomplishment when one tries to do it all himself without letting God in also to the results acknowledging that God's in charge of the results as well even within mitzvahs the results the result is a loss but when it comes to you who is approached you who does approach is that no I recognize that everything is God if something comes not something negative occurs if a fly falls into the into the cup of the King that's also something which is out of my control that negative thing even though Avera can sometimes not be my fault yes I've that doesn't mean that I don't have that I don't have to take responsibility for it but but ultimately everything that happens comes down to Shem have to be so careful when I say this idea because it's important to understand yes I have to be responsible for myself but my responsibility is at the level of ruts on to the level of will according to the issue but sir kurta he understands things and this the Ritzer finishes off by saying is you know when yo safe when Yosef was looking at what was going on between the difference between him and yahuda when when he was looking at it so he said it's not fair how come I am being held to such a high level to such a high very very fine why am I being held so finally why not getting punished why am I going through all these difficulties how can you who does things which seems to be weird seem to be wrong and yet he doesn't get held to such a high standard so so he was able to understand this lesson from what was taught to him through the sorrow from the sour mash them through the baker and the cupbearer the wine bearer and that's ultimately what the verse refers to as an interpreter that in Isaiah it says in chapter 11 verse 13 that ultimately and finally Connie asks you who to believe yo Garissa frame these two different approaches approach of the h Pitzer which understands that everything ultimately comes down to Shem as opposed to the approach of others which is most of the mainstream thought of Judaism which is that no I have to be responsible and so so like the one side looks at the other and says how could you be right I you're wrong and each side says it's wrong ultimately there will be a harmony a recognition of the validity that that a frame will no longer be upset so to speak a friend was the son of Joseph well no longer be upset Joseph won't be upset he'll recognize the validity and the greatness of that ultimate way or that ultimate gift sha the ultimate approach to reality which is that a Shem is really in charge of everything and that's the idea of the concept of Mushaf and of it everything happens miraculously former chef ben Yosef everything is within Teva it's within the natural or you don't openly see the supernatural something that it lies beneath the surface it's itching to get out so to speak but it doesn't actually come out he seems to be earning everything himself but the deeper the the the reality as it's meant to be when we return to other my reach from Kodama hey - adam afford the sin so to speak that deep reality is that everything is from a Shem the good and the bad all of that is from a Shem and our job is to acknowledge that and to receive the the gifts - Emma wants to give us and let go of even needing to earn it it's a deeper level of receiving the goodness that Hashem wants to give us Shem should bless us to have an understanding a depth of what it means to serve Hashem at these two different levels Shem should help us to always deepen our relationship with him give ourselves up more and more to him thank you so much for listening have 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