Yisro - The Lion's Roar Revisited

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with ari goldwag recording with hashem's neverending assistance in ramachamish israel 57 81 2021. this expiration is parshas yisro our parsha has the acera sadibros the most monumental event the most unbelievable moment in all of history one and a half million people experience the revelation of hashem unparalleled until the final day when we will all experience we want to understand what happened there what was the power of that moment and we'll see in the medrash that that moment is indeed connected profoundly to a future moment to the time when akash baruch who will reveal himself to the world and what did hashem say the first of the ten commandments the first of us hashem your god says the madrish an amazing thing the verse tells us in amos chapter 3 verse 8 says when the lion roars who shall not fear lion's roar is incredibly powerful i read on the internet that the lion's roar is can be up to 114 decibels 25 times louder than a lawnmower that's really loud the lion's roar why does he roar he roars to protect his territory he roars to show his power he roars to protect his family his cubs he also interestingly roars quietly when he plays with his own cubs arya milo yira says the passage when the lion roars who shall not fear i got this when he said i am hashem your god he was roaring to the world he was roaring to the jewish people like a lion and he was saying this is my territory this earth belongs to me you want to exist here you want to be here you should understand from the onset there's only one reason to be here there's only one purpose and this place is mine if you want to exist here you have to be here on my terms and these are the terms the terms of the torah to you appropriate to praise hashem is the one that we fear that hashem is the one that we know we have to have fear yes it's not a popular thing to say we need to have fear of hashem we have to be afraid that we're not doing what's right we have to be afraid that we're not in line with hashem's will because otherwise we're not in his world we're not in his world we need to be in his world the world belongs to him i am hashem your god he's like a lion i'd like to point out to you the second part of the pasta because it's going to be essential to understand the second part of the passage hashem like the first part of the passage says when the lion roars who shall not fear and the second part of this puzzle says when hashem speaks who shall not be minave who shall not prophecy so what we see here is very very interesting this passage applies to us it applies to the giving of the torah to it was given to us as a nation and each and every one of us individual all of our souls were there the measure is telling us that there's a loud roar there's a loud roar and just like when hashem speaks when a person hears god speak he has no choice but to repeat the words of god it's a prophecy he needs to say this is what hashem said each of the prophets jeremiah isaiah navi all these prophets they heard hashem speak they had no choice but to speak yonah navi is the prime example he's trying to run away hashem forced them to speak when you hear hashem's voice you have to speak what is the idea i was thinking about you know a lion's roar lion roars it's the most powerful shaking we're going to see there's a shaking that goes on there's a shaking we're fearful when a person is afraid he shakes when the roar when there's a war there's a shaking of the vocal cords very powerful shaking now what happens if you look at a at a the string of a piano or the string of a guitar when it when it when you play the string when it makes the sound it shakes and there's a concept of resonance so important because i believe it's essential to what's going on here the concept of resonance is if you play if i play a note on my keyboard and it's the same note as is on my guitar which is in the room so then the guitar string will start to shake with the sound of the keyboard the idea is that that's resonance when we hear something when we hear something that causes us to shake we shake when we hear something fearful we shake when we hear the sound of the lion's roar which is the shaking of his voice we shake and we hear hashem speak we speak when we hear that hashem when we hear that hashem is one to be feared his presence evokes fear we speak that we resonate with that we ourselves evoke that what do i mean i was thinking about you know the jewish people we could say are the most feared people in the entire world in all of history the game hate us the nations of the world have always despised us why don't look farther than hitler why did hitler want to destroy the jewish people because we are the conscience of the world we represent god in the world we say no the forces of evil say yes do whatever you want god consciousness says no you can't do whatever you want you can't have homosexuality you can't steal you can't kill you can't do whatever you feel like doing there are limitations when we're allowed to do and that is that is the noise and we evoke that as well the jewish people our very existence evokes the fact that there is a god and god wants us to be a certain way and we are obligated to be that way a hard thing to hear hard thing to understand hard thing to relate to but the nations of the world also have to fear they also have to shake when god said i am hashem your god it wasn't just for the jewish people it was but it was something that would reverberate and and we would all resonate with for the last three thousand three hundred years throughout history throughout time now listen to the continuation of the the magistrates just extremely powerful mashallah dynastus what is this idea that the the nations are going to shake the nations shake the nations are afraid they shook then to the and they will shake in the future time when hashem reveals himself to the world again it says it's it's a muscle it's an analogy to a donaise to s is a certain governmental official was a malver he would lend money shameless he filled his pockets with golden coins he was standing and he was yelling he was in the in this perhaps in the town square and he was yelling out whoever wants to come let them come and borrow whoever wants to come and borrow money come and borrow we think everyone will be running to him no well i called him everyone heard and they ran away everyone ran away why because they recognized that if they borrowed this money they were afraid i'm borrowing this money if i borrow the zoho from the golden coins i'm gonna have to pay them back to this official to the king how will i be able to pay them back i don't know how i'm going to be able to pay them back there's two different gears this year on the madrish i'm going to go with with one of the gears it just makes it simpler not the one that's that's in the safer but the one that they changed it to but the whole world was shaking hashem came down and the whole world was shaking for the entire earth was shaking the heavens were dripping the the mountains were sweating in front of akadesh baruch very interesting the beams that held up the heavens they were weakened israel martian the nation of israel the jewish people we were shaking we were shaking uh hashem was speaking the words of life you're saying this is what life looks like if you want to live in my world i am the source of life [Music] this is what life looks like you got to resonate with me and that resonating with hashem that is a powerful noise it's a powerful roar of a line 114 decibels 25 times louder than a lawnmower that's what it says when a person who's at sadiq walks into the room he speaks so loudly without a word without a word because he's resonating with the roar of the lion of akashiborohu he's resonating with that guy who came in he's saying come borrow money from me and he's yelling out and everyone's running away why why are they running away why are all the nations running away and why is we're going to see in a moment why did they what were they afraid of they won't be able to pay back on the day of judgment what does that mean let's see it inside all right um if when when hashem was giving life to the world he was he was giving the torah as i'm unfortunately saying the terror is the it's shaking up the world but it's also giving the entire the world a foundation the world would be destroyed if not for the torah the terror is what gives the world life it's what gives us the assad a foundation makes us yativ it makes us now we can't fall down from all the shaking so if that's the case if there was shaking when it came to giving the toyota which was something that gives life to the world when hashem comes the end of time before mashiach arrives and also when we move into the following stage which is the world to come in here six thousand so what happens the world shakes there's a noise and perhaps i was thinking i don't know i don't know for sure but perhaps this is the sound of the shafar the shiver is being blown at har sinai we hear the sound it shakes you up shakes us up every l every rosh hashanah shakes us up god is the king there's that sound again the greater scheifer the greater lion's roar perhaps the greater blowing of that shofar which shakes us up it says what the real reality is which if we've been resonating with that reality then we're going to be okay but the nations of the world who deny that reality want to go with their own version of reality we want to deny our kurdish people who do want to deny that there is and that he has a way that he wants us to run our lives specifically it's not about selfishness it's not about me me it's about giving giving out giving out [Music] in front of god's anger who will stand who will be able to sustain themselves the day as it were who will be able to stand there who will not be afraid of the king of the nations reference to hashem what is the idea here i think the idea is extremely powerful and it's inside of this analogy hashem gives us a torah why is it compared to a a government official who's lending money and why someone afraid to take the money take the money you can't build a business if you don't borrow money usually you need capital why don't you take the money what is this muscle saying an amazing thing when you take that money when you borrow that money you have an ahras you have a responsibility you have to pay that money back and that means that between now and when the money is due you got to do something with that money you have to guarantee that you'll still have that money and in the meantime you'll have made money to feed your family who gives us the torah he's lending us money hashem your god he's lending us money saying i want you to take this i'm giving you a secret giving you the secret of success i'm giving you the capital that you can accomplish something real in the world it's called the torah if you follow the dictates of the torah if you fulfill the commandments if you learn the tyranny try to understand my will if you resonate with me you hear the lions roar you too will roar you too through your commitment to the torah you will also produce amazing things and when i come to collect on the day of collection and i say hey who who's got the money still who still has the money in their hands who's used the money to produce income so to speak spiritual income and who squandered it or didn't bother borrowing it because they were too afraid they won't be able to pay at the end that's the question that we're going to face off with when the shia comes when messiah arrives that's the question we're going to face off with in the final year but that's the roar of the lion will i accept that responsibility will i take the cold hard cash as being offered to me right now today to borrow but i'm gonna have to pay it back i'm gonna have to have something to show for having borrowed it i'm gonna have to give back that money the game run away me lawyer they can't hear they can't resonate with that lion's roar hashem says when you hear this roar you're gonna shake too you're gonna shake also when you hear hashem's voice speaking to you have to be misnabe you have to say prophecy it's gonna shake you to your core you're gonna be a different person but with that payment with that amazing gift that hashem gives you the gift of that i'm hashem your god with that gift comes an amazing responsibility you can't drop the ball you have to pay it back you can't you can't lose that money you have to use the money in order to feed your family and at the end of the day you got to pay that money back it's frightening it shakes us to the core it shakes the whole world but it's what keeps the world alive without hashem without the lines were without our resonance with that roar without ourselves roaring without our commitment without our taking that money borrowing that money being ready to be committed to make sure to pay it back at the end without that the world is over it's finished we don't get anywhere the world doesn't get anywhere they fear they're afraid they run away and in the end they're still caught by the lion's roar even the nations will have to pay at the end of the day they'll have to answer why they didn't borrow that money why they didn't take that golden capital why they didn't say i'm going to be committed and i'm going to make sure to have that money at the end of the day that is what i believe is the bashar and this magic it's a touching mentorship beautiful magician it speaks to how important it is if we want to have a real life if we want to have a real life we want to come to the end of our days after 120 we've done something with our time it takes real commitment to be really committed to the torah i need to be roaring this is like hashem is shayig he's roaring he's saying this is my earth this is my world we have to be shaking arsenal who gave us the terrorist he shook up the world he shook us up he shook up our souls he shook up the physical world and said this is what it's about resonate with my roar resonate with my roar louder than any sound perhaps any natural sound in the world resonate with my roar i want to bless you and ask you to bless me hashem should help us that we should be to hear the lines roar excuse me to hear what the words mean your god hashem said it should penetrate into us and should resonate within us so that we indeed roar as well and we share with the world the most powerful commitment and indeed we show up at the end of time with the money to pay back the loan because we were committed all along 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