Ari Goldwag - Vzos Habracha/Breishis - Ending and Beginning

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with Ari Gold Wegg recorded with a showman's never-ending assistance in rubbish Mitch Israel 5778 2017 this week we have partial pressures coming up it's going to be on Shabbos but for those of you who are in fuller it's outside of Israel so you will be still keeping on TIFF on Friday so I decided to put out the podcast today and I want to share with you actually some thoughts about vayzosa braja which is the last part show that we read of the Torah and we're gonna read that from entremets Aris and simplest Torah for those in Eretz you scroll we're gonna read that tomorrow for those outside of Israel are gonna read that on Friday and we're going to start braces we're gonna start the Torah anew from the very beginning and we're going to begin that and then on Shabbos we're gonna read all of partials braces and the thought that I wanted or the concept I want to speak about today has to do with why why is it that on Schmidty and Sarah's the eighth day look it's the last day of the final day of circus that's the day first of all that we complete the Torah read the partial visual Sbrocco and we start again the Torah beginning from the beginning why is it that we do this it's also very interesting vis-a-vis Abraha which is the completion of the Torah is the only partial that we read in its completion in its entirety not on Shabbos it's the only one what is the reason for that of all of the parts of the Torah why is there one indeed that we only read on we read on a day which is not Shabbos and what is the idea that visited Brooke we finished the Torah complete the Torah on a day which is not Shabbos fit rather Shmi neots eres what is the concept of shalini on Sarasota's the idea of this day so we have a whole I've actually made a whole list here of questions and I'd like to address I don't know if we'll get to all of the questions and all of the answers but that that's like the basic thrust of what I want to speak about I want to understand what is the concept of shooting at stars we did speak suus time about the fact the point the which we need to understand here as well which is what is that Sarris what is the difference between at Sarah's where at Sarah's we speak about simcha Torah is the eighth day of Sukkot it's a day when we stop at saris if they stop that's how we speak about it that's how we refer to it it's its own it is connected to Circus it's the eighth day we know what longer sit in the sukkah we no longer take the RV I mean on the 4 species the lool of an answer 8th day everything stops we dance with the Torah very similar to schwas which is the eighth week following 7 times 7 49 days the 50th day is schwas so we have this parallel between choice when we receive the Torah which is also called at saris it's also referred to as a time of stopping so I want to understand what is the difference between between at saris which means to stop and Shabbos the word Shabbos which we do every 7 days also means to stop it also means to stop doing any melaka on Schmidt's Aires we don't do any melaka as well on schwas which is it says we don't do melaka either but what is the difference between Shabbos which is a stopping and at saris which is a stopping and to get you the cut the the cogs in your mind rolling just think about the fact that we count 7 times 7 right Shabbos is every seventh day we count 7 times 7 7 groups of 7 in order to get to the 50th day which is shoe asst that's on shoes which is at Sarah's so it's the 50th day and here on Shmi niet saris we have counted one group of 7 we've gone through gone through the seven days of circus and now we come to at Sarah's we come to a stopping which is the 8th day and the number 50 and the number 8 are clearly connected are related because the 50 is the number that comes after seven sets of seven and eight is the number that comes after one set of seven and they both represent the same idea which is this idea about saris of stopping so what is the idea of stopping and why don't we complete the Torah on this day what is the connection between Torah and that's eras why is the Torah we receive the Torah on on a terrace of Schwartz we danced with the Torah on Schmidty and saris what is the idea of what is the how does the Torah connect to the concept of at saris why do we complete the Torah then what is that you have completion in relationship to a saris and why do we start the Torah anew is there a concept of stopping when we when we are starting what could that possibly mean okay so these are among the numerous questions that I'd like to understand let's see if there's any questions that I may have missed on my list oh yes there are other questions here what is the concept of the brockless we find vayzosa braja the Torah ends with the blessings of Moshe Rabbeinu Moses is about to move on to the next world he's about to move on to a higher place and as he does so just like a Covino did just like Jacob did so he gives blessings to the Jewish people he defines for them what is a blessing in his context he defines for them exactly what their purpose is what their role is in the world each of the tribes finds out what is their role what is their unique capacity what is their unique ability that they can accomplish well shabana gives the blessings how are those blessings related to the idea of sarris the stopping the movement the going are we going are we stopping or continuing we're starting over what's going on here how does it relate to the broth house another interesting question another interesting idea which I'd like to address is that we find that I want to talk about two different names of Shem we speak about the names of God we speak about usually we were related to a Shem with a named olive solid and then no nude and so we even when we look in the cinema see you cave okay we still read it as Aleph $10 banana nude which means God is our master GAR God is the one that we file we are his servants now in in braces and Comus precious and in safer precious we find a specific name which of Shem uses one of them there's actually two names and they're interrelated that God uses in the entire store of creation God uses the name Elohim veracious bara elokim especially miss arts in the beginning hello Kim created heavens and the earth and each time there's an Amir each time God speaks uses the name of Kim what is the name of Kim also related is the name which amuses when he relates to the a voice when he related to the patriarchs it's the name Chuck I shamed a lady hood and that name both that name sha Chi as well as the name of look Kim are interrelated and they both refer to the fact that Hashem is delineating hello Kim is the Linnaean God is taking infinite infinite light and God is defining the world and saying these are the good arm these are the boundaries this is how the world is going to look this is the shape these are the rules by which the world is going to it's going to exist all right so that's Bridges partly Kim now what's interesting is there's another name of Hashem which we don't seem to find in safer braces the name of Hashem which Hashem uses when he wants to redeem the Jewish people when he wants to bring gula to the Jewish people and that's the name Akasha area when Moshe of a naman moses speaks - I'm at the burning bush so he says Shem what what is your name what should I tell the Jewish people how are you relating to the Jewish people right because a name always has to do with our relationship right my name is Ari and you know me as Ari Ari Gold wag and my children do not call me Ari they call me Abba they call me Father my my you know depending on the relationship that we have with someone that will affect how we call them that's how we're going to interact with them now Shems name is how we perceive him when we speak about God manifesting a certain name we're speaking about the fact that Shem is interacting with us in a certain way now the name that Shem tells moshe rabbeinu that he's about to interact with the jewish people when it comes the Google when it comes to redemption is named Akasha a Kia I will be that I will be now that name is unique it is related in Kabbalistic literature to the concept of Kesser now I'm not going to explain too much here it's not important to know too much but Kesser is the crown kresk a ser is above the head right it's the place of the tefillin it's over here okay in the seriously achma being on you have the right side of the left side it's the intellect but casseras beyond intellect Kesser is the crown it's above the head it's beyond what we understand it's beyond the physical plane it's the spiritual realm it's the place where the spiritual interfaces with the physical that's cut the concept of Kesser and so when Hashem is about to manifest gula about to bring redemption into the world he manifests with the name akia the name which represents the transcendence the spiritual realms interfacing with the physical realms now what's interesting and here's where we get to braces is that do we find this name anywhere in safer gracious answer is no it's not found in safer britches buts what we do find is that the name is hinted to where do we see that the name is hinted to so there's Gemara rosh hashanah that tells us that Basara we know it's a famous statement of our hazael I believe it's also empirically obvious I sorry my maurice never item the world was created with ten statements it says I am Erlich Amy or God said let to be liked by in really Kim it says ten times that God said however if you read through Genesis the first chapter so you will see that there's only nine times that it says that God said and so it says of the tenth thought it says that a tenth time it's not referring to creation so the question becomes and Gomorrah asks this question where's the tenth statement where's the tenth statement via Marilyn Kim and the Gemara gives us a very gives us a mystery that we need to solve gives us a statement that the first line of the Torah the first possibly the first verse gracious bara elokim neshama Nazareth's says in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth that is the first statement but it doesn't say biomart doesn't say God said but that is the first time that God said quote unquote that you brought that happens in the earth into reality and to in took into existence so it's a hidden statement it's hidden statement where is that statement it doesn't say that God said it you know why cuz it was well as cuz I'll say in other places all of them are Shaftoe it came up in God's thoughts you know where God's thought is you know where your thought is you think that your thought is in your head why do you think that because your eyes are placed in your head and therefore you look and you see you experience the world from your eyes so you think that you are in your head but I have a secret to tell you you do not exist in your head you actually part of you exists in your head but you are an onus on your soul and your soul exists not just in your head but it actually sticks out of your head only the lowest aspect of your soul is in your head is in your brain the the lowest lowest aspect of your soul which is called the mouth who's the the lowest as we live your soul this is spoken about in the same foreign official time it rests in your head but the neshamah the soul extends out of your head and up into a higher spiritual realm nine-tenths of your soul actually is not in your body now intensive it extends out to a higher realm to a transcendent realm which is beyond so we can speak about the fact that God's thoughts is beyond our is beyond thought certainly God's thought is even our thought is actually beyond our brain our thought exists and we exist we perceive from a different place we perceive we think of ourselves as being here but we're actually not here we are Semih here partially here but really we exist in a higher place and actually we go there when we go to sleep we hang out in our higher realms that's the story and a discussion for a different time go check out the discussion that I went through and our Hashem and daily Kabbalah lesson but anyway so Alma max after God thinks the thought of creation Kasterborous Varla Kim the first thing which is not sad doesn't come out in speech it's only thought it's kessaris beyond its beyond mind Britta's Birla came in social - art sits in the same place it's the will of Hashem to create the thought of a sham to create and that is not a statement that is not valuing mere that's egg here I share a cure that's that same name the the name which is Casa which represents beyond thought which is also used by Google oh and God redeems the world that is the name of the sham uses the first aspect Shammi interact to the world when he creates the world without even speaking just with thought okay now I know I'm giving you a lot of information a lot of different ideas and really I have written here tons more which I'm not going to get to but I want to understand what is the idea here what is the idea and how does this relate to me neots eres how does it relate to the fact that we complete the Torah we start the Torah how does it relate to the fact that Hashem uses the name of Kesser the transcendent name he creates the world initially at the very beginning and also in a time of redemption which is a completion of the world which is of coming to completion the gulab mitzraim was not the complete completion but it was a certain aspect of completion we will experience that same that seeing me Makia sure akia will be used again in the future when Messiah comes when the Messiah arrives that same name will come into play the Guru whenever God redeems the world brings the world to a place of completion God uses the word akia sure Agia there's a return a return here this well there's a return to the beginning we return to that same nameless I'm used when he first thought without even speaking about it about creating the world that same name that same aspect Akashic yeah i will be that i will be that is what's used when a Shem redeems the world brings the world back to the state of creation turning to that place so what is the idea here and this is related very much to something which it doesn't say forget zero it's a Mishnah actually a Mishnah in safety at zero it's in the first chapter of the seventh Mishnah it says and speaking about this Vero's speaking about the first sphere which is caster the last year which is Malthus which again don't worry we don't need to know right now what that means but just understand that the first aspect the very first thought of God as it were the very first time that anything is coming into a manifest reality that aspect that Kesser that first thought it's manifest in the end not right shape is safer just safer by rushing the beginning is embedded in the end the end is embedded in the beginning what does that mean I'll tell you in a very simple way we also mention this concept on Shabbos we say self Massa Massa but Fela the end of the work is in the first thought now Shabbos is in a certain sense the end of the week right it's the end of the week but I'll tell you a secret Shabbos we've been thinking about Shabbos all week long yum-yum reshawna Shabbos first day on Sunday we say today is the first day leading towards Shabbos and I'm che neba Shabbos there's a second day leading toward Shabbos the word Shabbos also means a week so first day of the week the second day of the week but every day of the week is really getting us to Shabbos Shabbos is the completion of the week what does that mean Thomas what do we do we don't do anything we sit back we relax we enjoy all that we've worked on throughout the week that's what Shabbos is Thomas is after we've gone through the six days of our work week after we've gone through the six days of our toiling whether it's toiling for Parnell for livelihood or toiling in Torah in order to understand God's will for us we've gone through all of that and on Shabbos we sit back and we relax with Shabbos and we enjoy we enjoy all that we've done me Chautauqua Erev Shabbos foolish honest whoever works on Arab Chavez and means really throughout the entire six days of the week he can enjoy in Chavez on Shabbos you can't work any more on Shabbos you can't prepare anything any more Shabbos is the end of the week you enjoy all that you have toiled for you enjoy all that you've worked for so that's what Shabbos is about Shabbos is about receiving reflecting enjoying all the work that one has done throughout the week all the movements we've gone in all the different directions right like we move the Lulla of six directions four directions this way back forward up and down that six and the center it's the seventh place where there's no movement and a recess shams name there's no movement we bring it to the center here here's where we are and in time as well there's so much movement there's the six days of the week but the seventh day is non movement it's shove us it's quietude its silence and that by the way is when we read the Torah why don't we read the Torah on Shabbos why do we the parsha on Shabbos because the Torah is that which shows us how to relate to God I'll tell you a secret we think of the myth sews the commandments as movement here we got to do this mitzvah we got it shake the lulav we gotta put on the tefillin we have to wear that it says we have to sit in the sukkah movementmovement' give sadaqa Allah Allah etc etc Baltar you secret the mitzvahs on the Torah are non movement or non movement the eighth sorrow wants to pull us this way the evil inclination wants a thousand take do this action do this do this all of the all other misses of the Torah and this requires some luck and explain us at length but all the myths of the Torah are to help us stop moving stop moving to get centered to get us focused to take us out of that jittery movement no here's what you gotta do there's so many things that I could do but this is what I have to do this is what is going to keep me or bring me back I would say even better this is what its gonna keep me and return me back to the place where I need to be which is godliness which is spirituality which is the place of my soul my soul doesn't move right if you think about when you're moving your body is moving right your head doesn't move your head stays stationary your hands move your legs move even your body moves a bit but your head stays in the same place it stays stationary that's where the soul is the soul is in the head that's the concept of Shabbos the Shabbos is non movement that's the concept of Torah Torah is non movement it's bringing us into a center place a place of spirituality to godliness think about God God doesn't move God doesn't change God is eternal God is beyond time God is beyond space God is non movement the more that we resemble God the more we are not moving the more we are not thinking so much not speaking so much not talking so much not moving so much not doing so much Shabbos is a day when we get to hang out with God to be more like God in the most profound way that's Shabbos now here's how we get to the point and when we get to the point we're gonna stop because that's what it's all about it's about stopping Sweeney at Sarah's you know think about a terrace of shores and also think about at Sarah's after seven sets of seven year cycles we have Yeovil which is also a stopping of movement no more working no more slaves and we're working the land no more no more anything just sit back relax enjoy a fir after seven sets of six years of working seven you're stopped six years working seven you're stop stop the final movement it's the end of the movement right so what is the final idea here the idea here is Shmi neots eros is a deeper kind of stopping it's a deeper kind of recognition that we've reached the end point we've reached that place moshe rabbeinu is about to pass on from the world he's about to complete his mission on earth and that's what we're reading about we've been talking about it already for many many weeks many shop assists and it's in that place of completion specifically the the completion of the Torah which is the completion of moshus mission which is the Jewish people about to enter the Land of Israel and be in the place where they're supposed to be that is read on a deeper place of stopping than Shabbos Thomas we stopped but SH meaning at Sarah's which is su cos Torah is it much deeper stopping and you say how can what are you talking about she answers we're dancing some co-star was dancing there's no greater movement than that but no we're dancing with the Torah the dancing the the movement that we do in community service is the ultimate non-movement think about that it's deep it's the recognition that the tour is about teaching us non-movement work we're walking around the center the center doesn't move right the sensor doesn't move the tourist stays in the middle the the MS bath the center of our service of a Shem remains non moving and that's what you mean yet saris is about it's the time that we complete the Torah but like we spoke about the the first thought which is braziers is embedded in the end right the first time thinks I want to create the world and I want there to be a complete world a perfect world which is non moving that's mushiya Mushaf comes when Messiah arrives we will have reached the final point there won't be the back-and-forth of movement like we have today will be the world will be in a place of completion that's what she is that's the name akia Shariah God will be the Jewish people will be we are one nation we find a place of non movement that's another conversation about why we go into godless which is exile which is movement okay I wrote it can't get to it can't speak about it this time we're running out of time but the wrap up here is that Romanian saris is the time of non movement and it's the point of completion as the point is beginning which are really the same point there's a shun doesn't speak when I speak so my is moving there's movement there's thoughts there's words everything is is motion movement the first thought of a sham is not spoken it's non movement that's braziers and most Charboneau dying is not movement this is it and braavos amazing thing the blessings themselves are not moving this is who you are this is your essence what I have to do is this and when you complete this you are you are you are who you're supposed to be so Shabbos is one type of stopping at Sarah's shamina at Sarah's is a deeper kind of stopping it's coming to the final you you've reached your final destination you've reached that final place this is where we sit down with God God rejoices with us and you can go back to previous podcasts speaking about other other you know and other times we spoke about what is idea for me at Sarah's etc Sarah we spoke about this at length and so the final thought that I want to leave you with is that here we are we're at this point in this place which is shalini and Sarah's were at the point of completing the Torah not on showers but on a deeper time then Shabbos and Hamish met Sarah's that 8th aspect which is a transcendent aspect or returning to non movement returning beyond the seven days of creation beyond that to the eighth aspect to the fiftieth aspect to out saris and that's where we complete the Torah hear about Moshe Raveena's completion you ever met the blessings which tell us who we are and how we move along in the world yes but the center the quietude of who we are and the completion of which brings us back to the beginning which is branches where Shem thought didn't speak but thought in that very simple non movement of the creation of the world so we come back to that perfection was Mauritian called imitate we read about him before the sin before there was all this movement in all this time there was just one day moshe rabbeinu sorry under my Rishon was just there that one day could have been a time of absolute completion but it was pushed off until a future life thank you so much for listening I want to bless you and one of us I'm asking bless me Shamshad help us to recognize this idea to find that quietude to find out at saris which is the opportunity we should recognize that here we complete the Torah you begin the Torah and all of this so that we can receive the Torah we see that relationship which is all about non-movement thank you so much for listening have a wonderful Shabbos wonderful you live be well this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you for more podcasts like this please visit www.carmensognonvi.com/newsletter [Music] you