Vzos Habracha-Shmini Atzeres - Alone with Hashem

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with hari goldwag recording with hashem's never-ending assistance in iran bishop israel 57 81 2020 this weekend in arts israel on shabbos and hutzler's on sunday we will be completing the torah we will read the last part of the torah parties of ezekiel we're going to read about the blessing that moshe al-bainu blessed the jewish people we're also going to celebrate the completion of the torah with sinclastera and perhaps i don't know about where you are but where i am in arts israel it's going to be a subdued synchronous terror a much quieter sympostera and for me personally i'm currently unable to leave my home because i came back from the states and i'm in quarantine so it's a time of simcha it's a time of completion it's a time of renewed beginnings brand new we're gonna start gracious we're gonna start genesis and at the same time there's a loneliness there's a simcha and there's a bedud there's a quarantine and i'd like to talk about the contrast i like to talk about the the fact that the jewish people are known as the omlivada they're the unique lonely nation hashem as it were god himself as it were is alone he's alone he's one and how does that relate to us and the situation we find ourselves in i always like to share with you something that inspires me i'd like to share with you something from the mesh and also from the gemaran sukkah two different concepts hopefully we'll be able to tie them together tells us like this is this is the blessing that moshe bless the jewish people before he passed away before he died before he passed on from this world and the measure says the the passage refers to him as isha elekim the man of god the godly man he was somebody who clearly throughout his life but most clearly at the end of his life he was an isha ali kim he was about to bless the jewish people because he had this attribute of being a godly person jesus putting these two words together points out the major it's a very strange thing if he's a man ish denotes the fact that he's human human beings have their frailties human beings have those things that they can't do they can't accomplish they have their vulnerabilities alike man of god godliness denotes superpowers having hashem with a person means that you can do anything so how do you put these two words together and ishalakim allah besha yo says the madrish that we see the two contrasts between the two different aspects of moshe albano when moshe was a baby when he was thrown into the nile river he was placed in the basket so he was an ish he was a vulnerable human being but when he took the nile river with god's instruction he struck the water or his brother struck the water through his uh he was the messenger in order to turn the nile into blood so there he was godly he had the power he wasn't vulnerable anymore the viratha says another uh place where we see this name in the beginning of the story of moshe robbing when he he was young he ran away from pharaoh when he killed egyptian he ran away and he was vulnerable he was just a man [Music] when he came when he came back to egypt when he was 80 years old in order to redeem the jewish people and he brought all the plagues upon pharaoh so he was godly he had the power the word of kim doesn't just mean godly it also means powerful another thing that we see another place we see this is that went up to the to the heavens when he went on to harcina to mount sun in order to receive the torah so there he was a man what way is he called a man why is he only human there is a man it's the same word the same letters aleph and shin which means fire but he was just a man in contrast to the malaquin they were all fire as we spoke about previously the angels tried to knock him down but he was godly when he came down from that exalted place when he came down from the mountain so he was godly in what we mean we see this because apostle says vayirumi gesha say love they were afraid they were afraid to come near him right his face was shining there was a there were beams coming out of his face mistranslated horns jews don't have horns mistranslated the word quran or upon can mean the word quran means beams but it can also mean horns he didn't have horns he had beams coming out of his face he was shining he was godly another explanation i'm not going to get into that explanation actually but i do want to read the last line of the message that he was a combination from the from from his middle and on down he was a human being from his middle and on up his intellect his actions that was spiritual he was godly it's very interesting this contrast the contrast of maisha abbey and we're speaking about the greatest person that ever lived the one who spoke face to face with akadeshwar with god as it were mushroom is called the isha lake he had that human aspect and he had that spiritual aspect he had them both i want to understand what is the idea here what is the depth of what this manager is teaching us on a on a simple level what is the understanding i'd like to point out because again the topic here for me is b dude the topic here is loneliness the topic here is being alone manchester ubana was on har sinai he went up there it was a very lonely place to be for a human being just simple pasha shot he went on tarzine was alone there he was separate from the jewish people i just realized i'm sorry i didn't say this previously but it's an important thing to understand what is this message saying in light of the fact that this is a prerequisite mushroom is about to give a blessing because this is the blessing that moses gave he's the israeli king he's a human being and he's godly so we need to understand what does it mean in this context the concepts of of blessing what shall be giving a blessing to the jewish people why is it important for us to understand that he's an isha like him he's got this ish aspect this humanity aspect and he has the aspect of elokim of the godly aspect how we understand that in light of the fact that he's about to give blessings so as i was saying masha was there all alone he was on harsinai he was impeded he was in quarantine for 40 days it's a much longer quarantine i only had to be in quarantine for 14 14 days my show was in quarantine for 40 days he was alone by himself he was an ish he was vulnerable he was facing off with spiritual beings in order to bring the torah down to amisura i think that we see there's a certain vulnerability and that's the human condition the human condition is being vulnerable being somebody is thrown down into the river he was put down in a basket there's nothing more vulnerable vulnerable than that a baby a child can't fend for itself can't do anything on its own being placed in the water for all intents and purposes that's the end of that child heaven forbid but that wasn't he was protected where did we see that he was given power he was given godly power and godliness and this is so important to understand godliness is the opposite in a certain sense of loneliness of vulnerability we think of loneliness as vulnerable we need to understand what it means in light of the fact that hashem is he's one he's alone right israel is alone so it sounds like we're very vulnerable but there's something else that's going on here and that is that when hashem is with the person when he's an isha elokim even though he's alone he's placed into that basket he's all alone despite that he's elokim he's godly he has power and i want to say that it's because because of the fact that he was alone that's how he got the power how did he have power over the ur how do you power over the nile river because he was all alone left by himself with hashem with hashem really and that's why he had the power when he runs away from paro he's running by himself he leaves his people he leaves his comfortable his comfort zone he leaves everything behind and he runs to midjan and he's by himself he's the only he's the only jew there he's the only person who looks like an egyptian there he's all by himself he's in quarantine but he comes back and he has the power he has the power to be able to withstand not just to withstand but to bring paro the very pharaoh who he feared who sent him into quarantine who sent him running by himself he came back with the power of hashem which was he was able to bring the plagues upon egypt and it's the same thing when mushroom went up by himself onto harsina into mount sinai he was also by himself he was also fearful he was also these malacha are aish they're fire he's just human but he comes back down his face is shining with spirituality because it's the quarantine it's the be dude it's the being alone being stuck [Music] that's where we find hashem that's where we find the shaman i think that that's the shot perhaps a noob shot or another angle in the in the very special and beautiful gemara in sukkah that tells us that each of the days you might be familiar with this but it's so beautiful and it's worth repeating hearing again each of the days of sukis so in the basement they would bring and they will bring when mashiach arrives they would bring carbonates they bring sacrifices there were different animals that were brought specifically the parem the bulls that were brought there were 70 bulls that were brought the first day 13 were brought then 12 11 10 night descending down until day seven seven were brought total of 70. what's the idea says the gemara there are 70 nations corresponding to the 70 nations these bulls are brought the atone for the nations on the eighth day on schminier series which is the day when we complete the torah with visualizable we need to answer the question we'll come back and explain why moshe urban was giving that blessing if he's the isha allah kim let's make sure we don't forget that but on the day that we read vizai sabrah the blessing of maisha rabbenu we complete the torah we complete this amazing book we have a simcast tire it's serious it's the last day of on that day only one power was brought only one only one bull was brought this is the gemara why we said what the 70 were the 70 corresponded to 70 nations why was there only one brought us mining at ceres [Music] it corresponds to one nation the jewish people hinam lavada yeshua in that unique singular nation that quarantined nation no matter what we do it seems and perhaps things are changing as we come into the period of mashiach as we're getting closer and closer to the mashiach perhaps things are changing seems that way but throughout our quarantined for the last two millennia and even further back we've been alone we've been all by ourselves now that sounds like a bad thing the nations they hate us they look at us as backwards people they look at us as a negative force as those bringing corona spreading it etc whatever you know blood libel it will be today says the major says the gemara mushroom it's an analogy it's analogous to a king a human king who he wanted to have a big feast big lots of big uh lots of food a great feast seven-day feast he had all of his courtiers there all of his subjects there everyone came to this party for seven days finally on the last day doesn't just mean on the last day of success which it is doesn't just mean on the last day of this party which it is it means ultimately who remains at the end throws forever the jewish people is forever but in the passion hashem says to his beloved one the king i'm sorry says to his beloved one and so i'm speaking to klaus i want you to make me a special a small a small meal so that i can enjoy you just me and you just me and you and i have to say that that i shared this gemara recently not long ago a few months ago a young many many young people many bar mitzvah bakram have had to have their meals alone they haven't been able to have their family and be able to have their friends some some have now been able to do it some haven't back and forth i share with him this gemara there's something about having a meal something about having a special time it's just you and akash barco it's just you and god it's just us it's just us hashem is alone and he tells his special beloved one who's also alone that's he says i want something from you no i don't want 13 bulls i don't want 12 i don't want 10 9 8 11. i don't i don't want so much i just want one one bull one small sudo one small meal just me and you akashboku turns to us and he says i want to be alone with you can you be alone with me think about it khasana a wedding what's the moment that the cousin and kala are waiting for the dancing is great the the music is beautiful they're waiting for it to be finished so they can just be alone just being alone with the one that you love that's the best thing in the world there's nothing better than that goddess park who loves us so much he wants us to be alone with him he wants us to be alone with him and that's what simcaster is about there's a completion and there's a blessing there's a completion and a blessing mushroom is as alone as he can be he's as alone as he can be there were points in his history where he was alone there was points where he was given the power of hashem as we said but lefnay might say he's before his death when a person dies there's nothing more alone than that he passes on from the world and he's alone no one's with him his family doesn't follow with him no one follows with him he's all alone but it's in the moment of loneliness it's in the moment of loneliness when we're all alone it's just us hashem no one else can help us there's nobody else that can help us it's just me and you hashem there i am alone in the basket i'm a baby crying it's just me and you hashem there i am running away from paro wants to destroy and kill me it's just me and you hashem there i am facing off with all of these angels just me alone on the mountain iron is behind me yeshua's behind me the shivams the kane and the 70 elders are all behind me they're not here with me it's just me all alone the only one that's there that speaks a mushroom on his behalf he's in shamayim it's professor gemara we've quoted it previous weeks the only one who speaks on his behalf as he holds on to that throne it's just him alone and then we understand what's going on in the other stories too it was hashem who was there with him in that bat when he was alone in the basket it was hashem with him when he's running away from parole and it's hashem who's with us in our quarantine in our loneliness in that moment when it seems like there's nobody to help us and when a person realizes that when a person realizes he's never really alone he's never really alone when a person is in that space sometimes the realization is forced upon us sometimes we really are alone and akadeshwar is there with us because there's no such thing as really being alone there's always that's uda kitana that small thing we bring something small we bring that one power that one bow and we bring that one little sauda and we bring that completion of the torah we complete the tire we have one thing one whole tire we can see the whole picture now and that's where the blessing is you see my sharabanu is all alone and when my shrapnel is all alone he's about to die that's when he's the most empowered that's when he's the isha ali kim he's the human being with all of his vulnerabilities he's all alone but that's where hashem is that's where he's the man of god and that's where the blessing comes you know we think and we see and we've gone through this whole year 5780 and now we're beginning 57-81 and i don't know about you i don't know about me even but certainly what i would like to take out of it is that hashem is behind everything we're not alone we're not alone you know what this you know what joy ecstatic joy is you know the joy of the tires the joy of the blessings are the joy of the blessings is the joy is that we're not alone the joy is that it's just me and hashem and there's nothing better than that all the quiet of the hasanah is over it's all done all the guests have left all of the nations the 70 nations they're finished and now it's the last day seven days of shovel brachus it's the eighth day the partying is over it's just me and hashem it's just me and god we're just alone is there any greater joy than that is there any greater joy than that and that's where the blessings come from when it's just me and hashem when i realize that there's nobody else there's no one else who can help me not this person who pays my bills it's not my boss who pays my bills it's not anybody else it's not my wife who's bringing in the parnassa it's not me it's not my music it's not anything else it's just me at this little sudah this little meal alone with a kadashbarahu along with god there's nothing else there's no greater simcha and that's where the blessings come from blessings it's such an interesting thing the word bracha the word blessing the root of it is bais reshchaf base the second letter of the alphabet is to commantry of two raish is two hundred huff is twenty each of these letters connote doubling where's the doubling it's in the first born the bijour also has the same letters based off he's doubled but he's only one he gets a double portion the doubling is in the place of oneness the blessings come when we realize that we're alone with hashem that's when the blessings come when shawna is about to die he realizes he's alone with hashem he's the ish he's so vulnerable but he's the isha i like him that's where he gets the power in the vulnerability in the dude in the aloneness hey the jewish people are so alone but we're not we're alone with hashem that's where the blessings come in that's where the brah has come that's the visayas so i want to bless you and i ask you to bless me and hashem should help us to recognize in our loneliness in our bedud in our omnivada discount he is there with us he is the one who's there we're never alone hashem should help us to know that and to see that and to understand that and to be able to receive these blessings the blessings that moses bless the jewish people hashem should give us those blessings and we should be able to complete the terror and start the torah again now that we've seen the whole picture was one picture now we started again the second time another time now we're gonna see it in a new light now we're going to get so many more blessings thank you so much for listening have a wonderful shabbos a wonderful yantef and a good convention you're a blessed year thank you so much 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