Bamidbar - Never Ending Love

you're listening to the weekly Parsha Podcast with Ari goldwag recorded with hashem's never ending assistance in Irma picture is reality 783 2023. this week's parishes purchase by mid bar we begin a brand new safer a brand new book of the Torah and at the beginning of our book so the Torah describes the counting of the Jewish people the number right this the safer in English is called numbers and the measure speaks at length on the concept of numbers on the concept of counting I'd like to share with you a very beautiful madrish which brings a posse in Hosea and this these Sacramento share are incredibly beautiful and they speak about something which has to do with the duality of the counting if we look and we see them a fortune what is the concept of counting why does God count the Jewish people so often the counting is because something bad happens some of the Jewish people died and Hashem as it were is counting to see how many are left the counting somehow denotes a negative aspect of hashem's relationship with the Jewish people but at the same time it denotes hashem's great love for the Jewish people he counts us he wants to see how many we are each one is precious each individual Jew has a special power a special a unique ability that's That's essential for the Jewish people as a whole so there's this duality and the magic brings the sukem as I said in Hosea the first first and second chapters of Hosea have a very interesting and deep conversation that Hashem has with the prophet Hosea Hosea Navi he had indicated to God that the Jewish people are not worthy and perhaps perhaps Hashem should move on from his special relationship with the Jewish people and find a different Nation to call his his special Nation and Hashem in teaching Hosea the mistake that he made Hashem instructor to do something very strange and unusual and that is to marry a woman who is not a is not a woman of good repute she's a woman of ill repute and this woman he can't know whose children she's having because of that relationship that he has that she has with people [Music] and Hashem instructor to marry this woman and they have three kids or she has three kids it's not clear whose kids they are the first one that says that the first child was indeed hosea's child the children that came after it's not so clear any Shaman struck so share to give each of them a name that's related to the fact that Hashem has a relationship with the Jewish people that even though they are unfaithful to him they are like this wife this woman of ill repute despite their unfaithfulness still Hashem has a love for them and has a love for the children of Israel the children of the Jewish people just as Jose indeed has a special love for the children of this wife of his who who knows if she's even faithful to him it would seem she's not and the children may or may not be his but still he feels a love towards them Hashem uses this as a teaching tool for O'Shea the prophet to understand for us to understand The Power of hashem's Love for the Jewish people whether we are faithful to him or whether we are unfaithful to him his love is so powerful and in this beautiful deep touching and almost tragic teaching and the story so Hashem instructs him he instructs hoshea to give names to his children as I mentioned one of them is called Israel one of them is called lairuhama which means the one who we will not have mercy upon and one child is to be named not my nation and here at the end of chapter one of Hosea Hashem promises foreign [Music] they have a child a daughter Hashem says call this girl which means not we will not have mercy upon her him so Hashem wants him to call her that because it represents the fact that Hashem is not going to have rahmanas on the Jewish people at first well on the house of Israel he's not going to have Rahman has been on the house of Judah he will right the Jewish people were split into two kingdoms the house of Israel the house of Judah impression CES Hashem I will save them but not because of their military prowess their ability to save themselves I will save them personally been after having this girl was the second child they had they had a third child me God says call him not my nation this is your nomination and I will not be yours then the next post again this is the amazing contrast after saying these negative things about the Jewish people uh you know instructing OSHA to give names to his children which imply hashem's disconnect from them from the Jewish people the next posix says the exact opposite the number of the children of Israel will be like the like the sand of this of the of the beach or the sand of the sea should can't measure you can't count it and in place of calling them you are not my nation yeah says I will call them the children of the Living God you think that you're going to not be my nation I'm going to even tell you that you're not my nation but you should know that you're still my nation you will be my nation [Music] that the Jewish people the two aspects of the Jewish people who were still faithful to Hashem Israel were not faithful they will gather together with some of him they'll have one leader for aluminum artists and they will rise up from the land Israel now the reason that our Majors brings these sukim is because over here it says the number of the Jewish people will be so great that you can't count it the Ohio the number will be like the sand of the sea and so we're talking about numbers over here we're talking about the counting of the Jewish people and as I understand it clearly there's this dual aspect of love and anger anger when the Jewish people don't fulfill God's will that come together when Hashem counts the Jewish people when there's accounting when there's a concept of counting so let's look now after seeing that it's worth seeing them took him inside is worth seeing these verses in host Shea Hosea chapter 1 and 2 worth reading a whole entire those two chapters foreign ER foreign like we said he called his child like Ami because the Jewish people in a certain sense were not behaving as God's Nation [Music] right and then the last thing that we said is that instead of being called nomination they're going to be called the nation of the Living God so there's this contrast at the same exact time that Hashem is speaking about his anger with us well he because it's not his Nation at the same time Hashem is saying how it's it's going to change It's Gonna Change that's so beautiful this matter if when Hashem is angry at the Jewish people he shows them his love he shows them that even though they're misbehaving they're turning away from him he doesn't give up on them he shows them his love when we do hashem's will when we're connected to him certainly Hashem shows us his love what is this like foreign a king this is comparable an analogy to a King who got angry at his wife oh my gosh on he says I'm divorcing her then I don't care about her children I'm not she's not my wife I'm not her husband [Music] immediately after making this bold statement the King goes down to the shook he goes down to the market and he finds a Goldsmith says make my wife the most beautiful adornments of gold I want you to make her bracelets and and necklaces foreign so the king's good friend sees that the king is is by the by this gold seller this Goldsmith ordering beautiful ornaments for his wife [Music] so now the king his friend goes and Spills the beans he goes back to the neighbors of the of his of the queen [Music] you probably heard the news that that the king got angry at his wife and he says I'm divorcing you I want to tell you a juicier bit of news I just saw him he was by the Goldsmith and he said make golden ornaments for my wife is foreign in the same way Hashem speaking to Hosea he says I want you to know how much I'm angry at the Jewish people and how the Jewish people are Wayward turning away from me going after other gods I'm not interested in these people they're not my nation I have no mercy on them day what does he say what does Hashem say then Hashem immediately afterwards says the opposite he says that they're my precious ones La Michelle um who's the beloved one the friend the good friend of the king he turns to the nations of the world which parallel the the neighbors of the queen and they and he says to them you think you think that Hashem is turned away from the Jewish people you think that Hashem has rejected the Jewish people you think that his special relationship with them is not as strong as ever that's what it sounds like look what he's saying what is saying we're going there what does it say afterwards it says that in place of the Jewish people being referred to as Leia mean not my nation they will return to be called my nation so it's an incredible incredible lesson incredible deep lesson and we'll read more about this shortly but it's very touching it's very touching clay Israel the Jewish people undergoes inquisitions and smell Nikki's and ex you know being being sent out of the country's expulsions from Spain expulsions from England expulsions From Here There and Everywhere holocausts and it seems like Hashem is so angry at us he doesn't want us and he's willing to destroy us and the nations of the world say hey I'm hashem's not interested in them they don't keep the law they don't keep his their Covenant with God we're the new Jews we the Christians we the Muslims we're the new chosen people and O'Shea tells them listen up it might look that way but in the same in the same breath in the same sentence Hashem finishes off the king finishes off his statement about how angry he is at his wife and ready to divorce him and throw out her children the same sentence he says I forgive them they're not going anywhere they're not going anywhere that's the counting Israel count the the number of the Jewish people will be like the sand of the sea the sand of the sea interesting right the sea is a place where nothing can live the sand is at the bottom sand is trampled Jewish people are trampled we have talked about this idea previously maybe a year ago maybe two years ago now let's read on and see another aspect of this because in this mattress we we find that there's a relationship that Hashem has with us and at the very end of the magician mentions the the speech that Jose gives the Musser the the the words that he says to the nations of the world that they shouldn't think they shouldn't think that the Jewish people have lost their special statuses their special relationship with Hashem great amounts of water cannot extinguish my love refers twice to the fact that nothing can put out the love that the that this man has for this woman and it's referring to God in his relationship with the Jewish people that he has the love that he has for us it can't be extinguished there's two loves that this verse is speaking about the first love is speaking about the love that Hashem has for the people of Israel um the nations of the world they come and they say look we are more faithful to you God look we are we are willing to sacrifice our lives for you God we want to uh we want to walk into Israel and and save the holy holy places from the hands of the infidels Crusaders the Muslims even till today the Iranians want to take away Jerusalem want to say that the is the people of Israel do not have a right to the holy sites of of Jerusalem they can make all of their claims they can try all that they want to extinguish the love the Hashem has for us they'll convince us to worship idols their convinced us to become Christians they'll be convinced us to become Muslims they'll convince us to take the idol of money money worship they'll convince us to take the idols of liberal liberalism we find out what is the Great Waters a reference to it's the nations of the world she never as opposite says in Isaiah chapter 17 verse 12 to The Many Many Nations reference to them see that verse over there as water is that the the rivers can't extinguish it can't uh Deluge I don't know if they'll use a as a verb can't bring about a deluge these are the Kings and the princes who try their best to convert US to take us away from our relationship with Hashem to converse to their ideals their religions Etc commissioner located so nothing can extinguish hashem's love for us the nations of the world can't take that away and there's also a love that we the Jewish people have for the Torah Hashem hands for the Torah the nations of the world say we're interested in the ministers we want to do the Torah we want to keep the Torah we want to fulfill the mitzvahs the Commandments even if you give away all of your money in order to to acquire the Torah because it's just an embarrassment for you initi is called if a person will give away and it's a reference to the nations of the world all of his money because he wants to show that he loves the Torah it's an embarrassment how much do we love the Tyra right what is the thing that's beloved it's the Tyra El so the nations of the world say why do you not receive us why can't we also have access to your Torah all right God says to them because you are sinners what about the Jewish people but they don't sin the verse says afterwards the Jewish people are referred to as a younger sister what is this younger sister um Hashem is responding to the nations of the world in saying the Jewish people is like a a young sister like a little girl when a baby is Young baby grabs at my Pace my baby the other day grabbed at my Pace as I was lying down next to him on his play mat he was grabbing my piss child pulls on the on the hair of my my daughters as well pulls on the hair of somebody and hurts them is but the but the parents and the siblings they don't get upset of the baby they understand the baby is small ER the Jewish people when we sin Hashem doesn't doesn't hold it against us the proof of this is the verses that we saw in Hosea you know share that say that God was angry at the Jewish people they they angered him his calculus Hashem started to scare them you're not my wife your children who are going off in and uh and worshiping Idols Hashem refers to them as not my Nations say it why you got getting rid of the Jewish people why did he say things that indicated that he hates us and he wants to get rid of us it wasn't it wasn't that he really meant it it was that he wanted us to do chuva he wants us to realize where did our negative actions bring us to how long can Hashem how long can Hashem uh endure having said something negative about us not even a moment as soon as he slept the words as it were out of his mouth as soon as he said they're not my nation their nomination I can't the next words were but they're they're going to be so amazing they're going to be my nation again instead of being called nomination they're going to be my nation again Hashem loves the Jewish people such a deep love for us he counts us when when we when we sin he counts as when we do wrong to show his love for us to show that and he expresses an accounting that look at all the people that died in a plague let's say but look at all the people that are left this nation is so precious and so special to me all the nations of the world cannot ever replace her and they cannot ever take her away from me God promises so that is the beautiful deep lesson of this safer called numbers the numbers remind us how precious we are to Hashem how much he loves us even when we make mistakes even when we turn away from him even when we say Hashem where are you there are moments where we say where are you God and then we notice that he was there all along but in that moment we say hey I turned away from Hashem maybe God Hates Me Maybe God's angry with me but Hashem says the opposite don't don't you worry even when I'm angry with you I Still Know You're Gonna Come Back to Me and you the nations of the world shouldn't ever think you should never ever think that it's going to be anything different the end of this story is always going to be clear that the end of the story is that they will remain my precious Nation the one to whom I am wed the one to whom I remain connected through thick and thin no matter what no matter how far they go no matter how much I need to punish them there will always be my nation and ultimately they will return and they will come back and they will repopulate this Holy Land of Israel and they will greet the holy age of mashiach and be the leaders of the world that all will know and all will follow in order to find the word of Hashem I want to bless you and I ask you to bless me Hashem should help us that we should indeed be able to keep in mind how precious we are to Hashem how important we are even as we anger him that's human even we do it wrong even as we turn away Hashem always loves us he's always Counting he's always counting on us that we will return that we will have a relationship with 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.regoldwag.com or search on iTunes Ari goldwag foreign