Behaaloscha - Waking At Midnight

You're listening to the weekly partial podcast with Ari Goldwag recorded with Hashem's never ending assistance in norm Israel 5785 2025. Before I begin speaking about paras I would like to say thank you for the amazing nissim that's going that are going on right now in Israel. We woke up at 3:00 in the morning. That's why this is a little bit late. And um we didn't know what was going to be and we still don't know what's going to be. But we do know that Hashem is protecting us. He's put in the minds of our leaders and so many amazing people the ideas of how to protect AmI. And I'd like to share with you a medish which as I'm reading it just now over again I'm noticing the amazing connection to what what happened last night and is talking about there were these two uh silver trumpets and they were used in the service of the bdish and they were used as far as I understand they were used when Israel needed to pause And uh if there was a time of a time of difficulty, they would blow on the they would be used to bring attention, bring to attention. They would be used to help us pause and like to talk a little bit about that and the way the measure talks about it. And I'd also like to talk about we're going to see that it's connected somehow to the middle of the night. We woke up in the middle of the night, 3:00 a.m. We were awoken from our sleep to a siren. We didn't know what was going on. It became clear that we're attacking Iran. Amazing. And there's a pause that happens in the middle of the night. Let's see what this is talking about. King David like Mosher Raenu was a king. Moshe was like a king to Am Israel. He led them out of Egypt. He became their leader for 40 years in the wilderness. We need to understand what is the concept of a king. We're going to try to understand at depth. Moshe used the he used the trumpets and David used the trumpets as well. These two individuals were unique because they were the king. They were able to use the trumpets. They were able to call attention, call Israel to attention, bring them to a state of submission to Hashem. Pik says, Not sure where this P is because it doesn't give the reference, but it's supposed to be speaking about David of King David that he used the to get them to the the Levites would stand. There's a there's a pause that's going on here. There's a standing still. When they would stand on their place where they stood, they would make music, they would sing, they would blow the would blow the trumpets. The trumpets that were in the temple, they were put into storage. They were put away. Rob understands that the were not used the ones that were used in the Mishkon it seems but rather King David used a kenor so we're going to start to understand here there's something about a in a kenor in modern Hebrew means a violin but classically the word kenor means a is more like a a harp famous idea would use a he do and we're going to read two different midashim one is a in our paral referring to the and we need to come back to the and understand the concept of the trumpets and how they relate to a king but the other concept is a concept which is also brought in the meas I'd like to read that to you as well which speaks of using the kor using a a harp which would play at midnight something happens in the middle of the night and we'll see that there's a few places where the middle of the night plays an important role. It's not a coincidence that last night in the middle of the night we were we were awoken as justice was being brought to the great great grandchildren of Hammon wanted to bring about destruction of Israel. He was hanged on the very thing on the very on the very tree that he built the very hangman's noose that he had made for Mori. But let's come back to this. He would wake up from this harp. He would get up early in the morning. He would be awoken or he would wake up either to play the harp or the harp played by itself. As we'll see, King David had a harp which was hanging above his head. And when midnight would come, the wind would blow through a a northerly wind would blow through. It's a harp. It would play on its own. Immediately, King David, it was his, it was his his nightly wake up. His alarm would ring. They would get up. Him and all of the students who were involved in the study of Torah, gave him, they would work hard and they would not allow themselves to fall asleep. He would learn until the morning. Very interesting. He would say, that's why he would say, "Awaken my honor. Awaken." Usually the morning is what wakes up people. The morning the sun rises, the light shines in through the window, you wake up. But says it's different for me. I wake up the morning. I'm the one who wakes up way before the morning. The the harp wakes me up. The music wakes me up. So we need to understand first of all, what's the concept of music waking him up? What does that mean? It's happening at midnight. And what is it? How does that connect to learning Tyra all night until the morning? What's the idea? Okay. Okay. So, I'd like to skip over here. The there's a similar ink, but it's a little bit sharper in the mag says like this. The middle of the night, I'll get up in order to thank you. It's the two next to each other. I get up in the morning, but I'm going to get up to thank you in regards to the laws, the statutes of your righteousness. Okay? So, until now, we understand that he's getting up to learn in the name of a harp which was above his head. In this version, he would get up in in the middle of the night at midnight. He would get up and he would play the harp. He would actually play. He would sing. He would get up and he would sing about the judgments that were brought upon Pharaoh. And we sing about the judgments that were brought upon the ayatum says interesting he brings up I think this is by saru he wakes up in the middle of the night he had taken s to be his wife and he had these terrible afflictions upon his body he and he realized that he had done an aa he had done a sin by taking au's life. But when did it happen? It happened in the middle of the night. It was righteousness that you did with with Abraham and Sarah. Another thing that happened in the middle of the night also in Egypt, right? What happened at midnight? In the middle of the night in Egypt on the 15th day of Nissan, as the Jewish people were ready to leave Egypt, the firstborns of the Egyptians, they all died. Firstborns of the Jewish people were saved. Right? There were two commandments the Jewish people received. They did at that time on the night of the 14th going into the 15th. And they were saved because of it. The the blood of the blood of the the Pes offering the Pes and the blood of Mila they had that night or a few days earlier I'm not sure which they had received their circumcision so that they'd be able to to bring the Corbin. The blood was mi mixed up. So, King David is saying, I I'm looking back. I'm waking up and I'm singing about something else that happened at this time. I'm learning Tyra or I'm singing, but it's about what happened at midnight, the destruction of my enemies. The justice was served for what they had done wrong. And we did what's right. We served Hashem through our blood as the says. Uh where is it? Says which we quote on on Pes itself. We we bring this verse. Hashem sees us in our blood and Hashem says you will live through your blood. Right? Which is interesting. So is referring to a woman who's having her cycle and what happens in a cycle when a person when a woman menstruates so there's a pause in her ability to have a child. It's the part of the it's the part of the cycle which seems to be like the blood is coming out. It seems to be no life. But the pussing says through that through that cycle you're that's how you live. The cycle is just a cycle. The blood gives way to the potential for life once again. Interesting. He brings here one more thing which I'd like to read. There was another h thing that happened in the middle of the night and that has to do with there were that had to do with right we know that king David his great-g grandandmother was he was born on shis which is why we read the book of rus one of the reasons why we read Russ on shis David was born on Shu was his greatg grandmother. She was somebody who came into the Jewish people and it could have been that she would be forbidden. Pik says that an amii and aavis she was from the Myavi people moabitete woman. So they're not allowed to marry into the Jewish people. But Torah says and we know means a male Moabitete person is not allowed to marry in but a woman is allowed to marry in. So that was a which was revealed at that time. So that's an incredible kindness of Hashem David. Once this hak became known became no longer a problematic person. People thought that he was not able to really be part of Israel. He was he was rejected because of it. But became known that it is permitted. His great-grandmother had married Boaz. It wasn't a problem. And there was a sodaka righteousness that happened with his great-grandmother and his great-grandfather between Russ and Boaz. Because what happens in the p the tells us we're going back to the first because it brings the whole it was the middle of the the night face. Boaz realizes that there's this woman there's a woman sitting or lying there at the end of his bed. He he didn't know how she got there and she was he was stunned. You didn't know if if she was some kind of angel, angel of destruction or if she was a human being. He says, "Who are you?" And she says, "I'm Russin." He says to her, "Sleep here tonight." And of course, he has an amazing. He knows that they're destined for each other. He doesn't he doesn't he he could have told himself look I'm not married she's not married but he didn't tell himself that instead he said let's wait until we have a proper marriage before we consecrate this and amazing va but another amazing vor the message points out is as follows listen to this carefully I'm Sorry. You know, if anyone would suddenly find a stranger at the end of their bed lying there, their automatic reaction would be to curse the person, to say something negative to person. What are you doing here? But Boaz didn't do that. He blessed her. He said, "Blessed are you too, Hashem. my daughter, my dear, my dear woman. He didn't speak to her negatively, which requires a tre. He was shocked. He says in Mishov, very interesting. All these things, it's like a there's like a whole concept that's going on here. We're going to see the the idea, but listen to this. the the the thing that makes a person fear can make a person stumble can be a stumbling block for him. But a person who trusts in Hashem so that person has a growth that happens or has a prosperity in his life. What's the concept? What's the idea here? What's the idea here? Brings another example of this. You see that Jacob when he realized that he had given the blessings I'm sorry when realized he had given the blessings to Jacob instead of asov. So he he shook. He was nervous. He also had this and then when he realized what happens he said instead of cursing Yakov for having stolen the blessings for having tricked him he says he'll be blessed. What's going on here at the middle of the night? Coming back to Russ, coming back to parro. Coming back to the Jewish people as they leave the Exodus, coming back to Hamelik as he plays the kenor as he plays his harp as he learns the Torah from that from that moment and coming back to the trumpets that the Levim would blow and and Meru used and King David used. A king uses these things. What what's the idea? What is the concept that is the string the the string that the concept that goes through them all all of these ideas and I believe that the message is pointing out something very deep to us which has to happen for us as we experience what's going on in the middle of the night at 3:00 a.m. waking up or for some of you it was the middle of the night it was towards the beginning of the night for us 3:00 a.m. East Coast, it's 8:00 p.m. There's a wake up. There's a wake up that happens in the in the in the in the sudden waking up. You wake up and you're like, "What's going on?" And suddenly it's like everything is changing. Something's going on. You don't know what to believe. You don't know what to feel. You don't know what to think. But there's a moment of pause. That's what I want to focus on. There's a moment of pause. There's a shakeup in the in the in midnight. It's the darkest moment of the night. It's the deepest part of your sleep. That's when the bare die. That's when the enemies are destroyed. That's when the the military leaders are killed in the middle of the night. That's when a nuclear reactor is destroyed. Muhammad comes also in the middle of the night to try to get permission from he was what's the I can't remember the exact wording but the the sleep of couldn't sleep in the middle of the night. There's something that happens in the middle of the night. There's a shakeup. There's a shakeup and there's a pause and there's a moment of a switch over. You know pi says kazal say that m there are three things that come with there are three things come that come where our mind is on pause that's whatas means I stop thinking I stop my mind stops evaluating I'm just I'm stunned one of them is Messiah Messiah comes in a stunning moment A stunning turnound. Think of Hmon and now all of a sudden he's leading Mori on the horse instead of putting him up on the gallows and he himself ends up on the gallows. Was a stunning turnaround. Stunning turnaround. Parro is is trying to prevent Amra from going out of Egypt. And there's a stunning turnaround at the at midnight. There's there's a moment of pause as all all of the firstborns die and I'm in that pause is doing mitzvah bringing the blood and realizing that the that which seems like a negative thing the the blood which seems to represent death is actually the beginning of the next cycle of life. It's the beginning of Amish's exodus and leaving Egypt and Roose comes in the middle of the night and it was she was asking for a curse when she when she lied down at the end of Bos's bed. B is this great sadic. But that's not what happens cuz he's shaken and he's in the moment of pause and instead of cursing her, he blesses her. It it switches and David says, "Thank you, Hashem, for what happened at midnight. Thank you for that pause." How do we get that pause? David gives us a little hint how we get the pause. Sometimes it's it's the music when we hear a beautiful spiritual tune. It's a moment for us to pause. It's a moment for us to get out of ourselves, get out of our egos. And here's something else to be out of that state. And hey, what is Hashem telling me? Where is Hashem bringing me? And what is do when the kenor wakes him up? He learns the is what is your will, Hashem, for me in this moment of pause. What is your will for me? at midnight. I remember what happened. You switched things around. You switched it around in the times of of you switched it around in the times of Hmon the from that destruction. Everything switched in that moment. There was a moment of pause and everything changed from there. Hashem comes in there in the moment of pause. How can I switch who I I'm in the deepest darkness of sleep. I'm in the spiritual slumber. How do I get out of it? I wake up. I'm shaken out of my sleep by the music. And the music gives me pause. And then I turn to the Tyra and I try to understand Hashem, what do you want from me? What is your will for me? The Tyra is the place of finding out Hashem's will. And the king he uses the theim moenu the king who is a king who is a true king of Israel as we spoken about previously less he has nothing of his own he's just a servant leader he's just there to facilitate amrael's connection to hashem just wants to build a base of migdash so am can be connected to hashem Moenu is the one who gives the that learns and mo wants to just serve Hashem. They're they're blowing the in the mikdash in the mishkan in the sanctuary in the place of connection to Hashem at the center of which is that box the the the ark of the covenant which has inside of it inside of that or it has the Tyra It's the pause. It's the space with no space. It's the time with no time. It's the thought with no thought. And in that space, that's where Hashem's will comes in. That's where nva comes down through between the kuim through that relationship through that leaving my spiritual slumber and the trumpets they blow and they pause and the does a similar thing it gives us pause and then we say hashem what is your will for mem what do you want me to do we look in the we say what is it that hashem expects from Powerful idea, powerful thought. And in this moment, in this pivotal moment in Jewish history where we are standing, where there's a pause in the middle of the night and everything switches, everything changes. Everything the world will never be the same. Let's be clear. The world will never be the same. I'm Israel is really now in this moment entering a new place. I feel it. I don't know if you feel it. We feel it. I'm walking around and everyone's smiling. Something's going on. But there's a pause that happened in the middle of the night for us. And I'm sure it happened for you, too. I'm sure it happened for you, too. As soon as you found out, maybe you were domining for us. Maybe you were here experiencing it as well. But there was that pause and there's a change and there's a new direction for in that pause. There's a new dedication and we think of we think of what's gone on the last year and a half and and the blood that was spilled and I don't want to minimize that. I don't want to minimize that. But such an incredible turnaround is going on. We're watching it with our own eyes and we got to appreciate it. We got to say and I want to say I don't know this morning came into my head this other which sounds like it's not connected. There's a brotherhood that happens in the turnaround of Purim. We know about it like there is joy and brotherhood and poor became a day of incredible connection between people and there's a joy in this as well of connection between each other wherever you might be you're ding or praying on behalf of am wherever we are and I'm here in Israel praying for us here and praying for you wherever you are and there's a deeper connection action in that pause. In that pause, in that place, we're trying to get to that place of getting out of our egos, getting out of our ourselves, getting out of where our ego naturally leads us. And all of a sudden, boom, there's a moment of a moment of fear of of being stunned and something falls away and something new has potential to come in. I want to bless you and ask you to bless me. Hashem should help us to take this opportunity, this moment. Take the chance to experience a poe and appreciate that Hashem is doing something for Israel. That's really awesome. Hashem should help us to pause in our own lives. Pause in our own thoughts. Pause in our own way of being and say, "Hashem, help me learn your Torah. Help me understand what you expect of me and help me from that pause change from that middle of the night. Change from that music that I hear. Change from that recognize what happened. Gratitude. Thank you, Hashem. Thank you, Hashem. Help me change. Help me be more aligned with what you want from me, Hashem. Thank you so much for listening. Have a wonderful Shabas. This podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you. For more podcasts like this, please visit www.argoldwag.com or search on iTunes Ari Goldwag. [Music]