Devarim-Tisha B'av - Return from Exile

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with ari goldwag recorded with hashem's neverending assistance in ramap hmish israel 57 81 2021. this week's parties parties with devarim and on sunday we begin the fast on matsushab saturday night excuse me we start the fast of tish above which commemorates and reminds us that we do not yet have the best we do not yet have the temple in jerusalem we do not yet have all of the jewish people residing in the land of israel we do not yet have hashem's open manifestation in the world so we mourn and i'd like to share with you first some succumb and foreign and then also some sukimana madrish in the next week's version of which relate to the destruction of the base hamikdash to the the temple's destruction the exile of the jewish people and how do we resolve this exile what is the purpose of the exile why are we in gullis why do we not have a temple how can we return to god's arms so to speak if god has sent us away so the first example is in an arapar shamosh rabbeno we're beginning a new book saver devarm deuteronomy it's many words it's the words of moshe roberto that began speaking before his death and his speech lasted a few weeks it's a long speech it's an important speech because it's the final words of moshe albano of moses as he was 120 as he was about to go to his grave his final words to the jewish people after leading them in the desert for 40 years so he goes through the past because in order to understand what to do now and what to do in the future we need to look at the past and that's in our parsha in the forum and we're going to see in next week's version of as well there's talk about the future because the past and the future are very much connected there are parallels and both of these two aspects that i'm going to share with you have to do the exile of the jewish people the golos the first is that we see in our parsha moshi reviews what happened with the spies the spies had gone to to earth to start the land of israel and they had sinned they caused the jewish people to sin and to this day we are suffering the ninth of av is a day of sadness that was the day that the spies returned and the jewish people cried so that's in our parsha and we always read this the shabbos before tishbo because this is our this is the root of it all what happened they came back here's the verse in in vermont chapter 1 verse 26 when they came back and kalivin yeshu had a positive report but the other 10 had a negative report the jewish people did not listen to the to the positive report of khalid yahushua and what was the result the jewish people their hearts were melted it says the verses and god promised them vaishmashiam is called god got very angry because he wanted to bring you in he wanted to help you he wanted to protect you he wanted to stand by your side but instead instead you believed that god would not stand by your side and god's swords follows him isa he swore that nobody of that generation those who left egypt would wander in the in the desert for 40 years there would be an exile instead of them coming together in the land of israel six hundred thousand strong instead of them coming into the land of israel that's just the men one and a half million including the women and children the jewish people would remain in the desert for 40 years so there was a concept of exile the jewish people were not yet worthy because of their inability to believe that hashem would help them i can't believe that hashem will help me there's a sense that i don't deserve it perhaps or this is a sense that i just don't know if god's gonna help me it seems like it's too much for me too much it's obviously not too much for hashem hashem can do anything but the result was because of their disbelief [Music] they cried and we have to this day atish above which commemorates our disbelief and i had a conversation yesterday with somebody who's considering moving to arthur straub and we were talking and he was saying you know i don't know how i'm going to make it how am i going to have parnasso how am i going to have livelihood etc and i said look be careful don't fall into the mistake of the spies the spy said how are we going to make it there we can it's too much we it requires nisim requires miracles you can't depend on a miracle that's what the spies were mutilas they said lash and hara they spoke gossip about god and about the jewish people that we we can't get miracles but the very fact of the terrorist tells us there's an obligation for us to live in the land of israel and they were headed in and we are headed in today i said don't make that mistake of despise don't listen to the mistake of the spies if you if you believe in miracles if you believe in nisim if you have bitaken you can depend on miracles hashem wants us to live in an israel in the land of israel it's an obligation it's a torah obligation how it's going to work out i can't tell you i can't promise you but hashem hashem can make a promise all you need to do is believe it that's what we learn here but the jewish people didn't believe in and as a result they were in gulas they were in exile for 40 more years and moshe arbane was now speaking at the end of those 40 years and he's telling them that they're about to enter but you need to understand the mistakes of the past in order to be able to enter into artistry you need to know what to do now i want to share with you some verses investigating next week's person because they're very much connected to the destruction of the temple and to gullus and the exile and how the exile ends listen carefully these are the verses i'm going to share with you in madrish says the verse invariably verse 4 uh chapter 4 verse 25. when you shall have children and grandchildren and you shall be in the land of israel for a long time in a shantam and ashantim is camacho 852. from the time the jews entered into israel until they were driven out of israel after the destruction of the first temple was 850 years short by two years before she was safe they would have stayed until 852 they would have been driven out forever but divine inspiration that what's going to happen is that after the jews are there a long time in the land of israel they're going to create a peso a an idol [Music] they're going to do the evil in the eyes of god they're going to make god angry avoid god made a promise at that time and the jewish people experienced this promise that they will be destroyed they will be lost from the land they'll be thrown out of the land of sheraton the land that you're going in here now to inherit and you're going to live there for 850 years you should know be warned it's going to come a time they're going to cause god to become angry because you're going to serve other gods other ideologies and the result is going to be you're going to be sent out of land you will not be able to extend your stay because you'll be destroyed now that doesn't sound very good it sounds like claudio is going to be destroyed we're still here it's 3 300 years later so what's what's the verse talking about so the verse continues there's going to be something that happens you're going to be spread out amongst the nations gonna be very small in number there'll be you know 15 million jews in a world where there's a billion christians a billion uh muslims very small in number the jewish people remain i share you now god will guide you there god will still be with you even though you're spread out amongst the nations the results are going to be going to continue to survive idol idolatry idols there you may fall into the trap of the christian idol which is a human being god is not a human being god cannot be a human being god does not manifest in a single person god manifests in us all you will serve idols that do not speak made out of gold and silver etcetera we cash them says the verse an encouragement to the jewish people don't think it's going to be over for you there don't think that you're going to end up in this goddess and there will be no return from that deep gullus from that deep exile from that darkness from the place where you are serving these idols and you're swallowed up by the nations of the world you will search out for god and you will find him khalid for you will search for him with all of your heart and with all of your soul [Music] but the question is and this is what we're going to see in the message is going to i believe come to address and explain the question is here we are in ghosts here we are far away from god caught up in the ideologies of liberalism of the left so far away from god so far away from the torah so far away from yiddushky from judaism spiritual thoughts how will we find god verse promises the verse promises from there you will seek out god how does that happen what is the resolution of the ghost how does the gullet solve the problem we were distant from god we distanced ourselves from god we didn't believe that god was going to help us so god says wait 40 years then let you into the land god says you were distant from you you served idolatry the first temple the first temple the first base of english is going to be destroyed in 70 years you're gonna wait between the first and second temples which is what happened and then another temple will be built the second base amigos will stand for another 420 years i'm not mistaken about the numbers and then it will be destroyed and what happens after that we're waiting now 2000 years almost for our third temple to be rebuilt it should be built soon so what's the resolution how do we come back how does the exile solve the problem we're so far away from hashem and yet somehow we survive but how does it happen someone is so far away from god how does he end up calling out to god again searching for god again where does that come from so i'd like to share with you this measure it says like this key cylinder bottom the verse tells us that you're going to have children and grandchildren and you're going to get old in the land and you're going to sin create a create an idol you're going to be kicked out in proverbs that the righteous so the righteous when he creates something his actions are for life they bring about life connection to god to us that which the russia brings is a sin separates him from god says imagish an amazing thing an amazing amazing thing listen to this carefully who are the righteous ones in the verse who are the ones who were going to have children and grandchildren that were not going to be so righteous we'll soon see who it's a reference to the ones who were great and righteous were david and shalom king david king solomon what did they do as the meforshim explained they built what was their action that brought life into the world they built the basement english temple to us what does it mean in the verse that which the wicked bring in is sin is there was a king his name was menasha he was a great great grandson of king david and king solomon and he brought he himself brought into the temple into the bastard a pestle an idol instead of encouraging the jewish people being a leader who would cause them to serve god excuse me he caused the jewish people to bow down to an idol in the temple itself he did an incredible thing he one-upped all of the other idolatries he made an idol which had four sides four different faces corresponding similar to navi ezekiel the prophet saw in his vision of the kisiah coveted the divine throne he saw these angels that had four faces four sides corresponding to that menasha went to the other extreme and said i want to make an idol like that i want the jews to bow down to an idol that is similar to that so he took the caucus of good he took the power of good and he sent it into the sign of evil and caused the jewish people to sin meaning the verse says okay chapter eight verse five he named himself from the charms in the northern gate of the temple there was this semel this idol which caused god anger because the jewish people instead of serving god they were serving this idol um he brought this terrible thing into the world king menashe brought this terrible thing caused incredible destruction the base amigos would be destroyed because of this great sin what is this comparable to hate me it's like imagine you have your your house owner you have someone who is renting your house and the guy who rents your house kicks you out of your house can you imagine what menasha comes in and kicks as it were kicks god out of god's house and replaces him with an idol what a terrible thing explains as we said before i'm sorry the magistrate explains what he said before that uh why he made this four-faced idol i'm not going to read it inside but what i'd like to share with you is the next section how far away was menasha how distant he was before she explained that he actually saw he he he saw that in the in the holy of holies where the kruvem and the crew of them are these baby-faced angels which hashem told moshe rabbenu indeed it's xerath of course it needs explanation how it was permitted what's the idea behind it what is the what is the moussak what is the concept of the kruven or the cherubs we're not going to get into that but he saw that and he said i'm going to take this further i'm going to make this idol with the four faces not just one face of a groove with the four faces what did hashem do for menasha who caused ultimately the destruction of the temple he undid the actions of the great grandfathers of david and shalom of king david and king solomon hashem gave him over into the hands of his enemies and listen carefully because this is what gullis looks like this is what exile looks like and this is the purpose of exile and this is what we're supposed to understand here sitting in exile and here looking at the story of the jewish people being stuck remember 40 more years and understand what is the point of it and we can think about yosef azadek joseph who also ended up in jail for an extra two years because he tried too hard what is the idea of that extra exile what is it supposed to do to us here here is here's this amazing lesson of the measure listen carefully hashem gave anasha over into the hands of his enemies says quotes the verse individual in chronicles first chronicles chapter 33 verse 11. that god gave him over the the the chief of staffs the chief of the army of the king of us of ashur of the syria came and he put menasha king menasha into chains time says the word magis what is in the khush time means it can mean change chains but it could also because it means metal says an amazing thing they took him they put him actually in a pot made out of bronze they put him in a pod they put fire under the pot and he started to burn inside of that pot king menasha leader of the jewish people would cause them to sin isis was a master of all of the idolatries of the world he called out to every single one of them he had gotten help from them in the past perhaps he had needed parnosa for the jewish people he prayed on behalf of the jewish people to this idol this idol helped the jewish people or pray for himself and it worked but this time he prays to every one of the idols that he had brought he had previously brought all kinds of sacrifices to them and this time nobody answered none of the idols answered he called out to them the verse in isaiah says he called out to them and they didn't help they didn't answer they did not protect him from his tremendous pain that he was in now listen carefully because this is the point of gullus this is why we get sent into god so menasha is an example for us he was so he was such a terrible person he caused such incredible sin upon the jewish people he brought them to do terrible they brought that idol into the basement of the temple it's not working i call out to this idol i'd call that to this government official i've called out to this uh president who's supposed to help me and save me from the arabs i've called out to this it's not working i'm in hot water literally i'm boiling in hot water and all of these idols that i've called out to have not responded his calcarela he says i've called out to all the idols in the world to all the false gods in the world and i see that they have no power revenge you are the one god who is above all of the other false gods you are the highest god if you don't answer me i will know that it's all the same all the gods have no power and not even hashem god says to him what an evil wicked person you are really i should not respond to you elisha leonard else would lift him but i'm going to answer you not because you deserve it i'm gonna answer you i'm gonna answer your prayer so that everybody knows everybody knows that you can always repent you can always come back doesn't matter how far you've gone doesn't matter how many people you've caused to sin you're never going to be as bad as menasha and you can always come back you can always return to hashem they shouldn't say look menasha tried to do chuva jim didn't receive him me i'm going to do truva i'm going to repent it's not going to work people shouldn't say that hashem responded to his prayer he was praying he was he was diving to god and as a result of his sincere prayer he saw that he had nowhere else to turn no other idols would save him as a result of his sincere prayers an amazing thing the measure tells us the angels themselves were saying do not answer his prayer they were trying to stop his prayer from rising up to the kisa cover to the throne of god's glory what did god do he he dug out from under the keys i covered from under the throne of god and he pushed away all that the angels tried to block that prayer from coming up he pushed it away so the prayer could rise as i'm a foreign say because there's a piece of our soul which is connected to god's throne that is never touched by our sins and i would like to say that that piece of that pentaly yid we call it that spark of of of god's of god that's inside of of us of god's throne there's a piece of us that's still there no matter how bad we are matter how far we've gone and even if we've completely covered it with sins and we've caused others to sin like menashe that piece of our soul is still there and god digs it out and says hey i i i hear it even in that prayer i hear the the that piece of of the soul of menasha i can still answer him i might need some other excuses so to speak to answer him but i can still answer him and god receives his prayer by shivering the verse tells us god returned him to jerusalem to his malchus to his kingdom he returned him with a wind he he flew back to jerusalem by the time i shave the verse tells us god makes the wind blow versus means to return him and it also can mean to cause the wind to blow god brought him back voice to show you the menace at that moment man asha knew that there's only one god and that god is hashem one god and that god is hashem what do we see from this madrid what is the message coming to teach us the message is coming to teach us that it's possible that a person's children and grandchildren great grandchildren king david king solomon the greatest sadhikim the greatest righteous individuals prophets of all time built the base they could have someone who's their descendant menasha who so far causes jewish people to sin in the very temple that they built and yet as far as he was in the pot being burned by his enemies he called out to god because there was no other choice there was nowhere else to return to there was no one else to turn to and therefore he returned to hashem and he realized that there is only one god and that is the point of the exile that's what this message i believe is teaching us we get so far away from hashem we get we get sent for another 40 years in the wilderness god why is this happening we've done wrong we gotta we gotta be it seems like but you're just pushing us further away and the answer is that the further away we get the further away we get all the different ideologies idolatries etc all those things at a certain point they stop working they destroy themselves just look at what's going on in the states with the ideologies of liberalism etc look what happens the farther away you get from hashem the more the evil destroys itself and there's nowhere to turn to there's nothing else to do that was part of my conversation yesterday with this person who's considering moving to israel he said america is collapsing there's nowhere else to go there's only one place to go and that's back to hashem in that farthest farthest place unbelievably that's where we find that little pentaly yid that little spark that little spark of of the jew the connection to god's throne which is in each and every one of us no matter how much dirt and grime we have piled up on our souls it's still there god is still there and god is there to be found in the darkness so bringing this back here we are in the gullets in the exile here we are based on make this destroyed here we are even in israel with seven million jews and still they're attempting the government is attempting to take away funding from those who are studying the holy torah who are trying to be committed completely to god and here we are in this dark gulus perhaps at the end of the tunnel i believe we are at the end of the tunnel the light is starting to shine through still they wish to destroy us just as there was a holocaust 75 years ago they wished to do such a thing again to the jewish people heaven forbid so the darkness is still here and the exile is still here but what is it for the purpose of it is to get us to wake up to see that there's nowhere else to turn no one else is going to help us no one else is going to stand by us no one else is going to pull us out of this pot only hashem and the moment that we recognize that god will blow a beautiful wind and and fly all of the jews from all over the world back to the land of israel back to the malchus back to the kingdom of god as far as they are whether they know they're jewish whether they don't know they're jewish as far as they are away from hashem they will be blown back here because they will call to him that's the promise of these verses and that is also the promise of what happens when the jewish people sin and they're told 40 years in the midbar 40 years of wilderness as they're told in this week's parsha why because the farther you are the more you need to rely the more you realize that you you can't depend on anything else only on hashem so i want to bless you and i ask you to bless me hashem should help us that we should take the challenges that he throws our way and the exile that we all are experiencing whether it's corona or whether it's anti-semitism or whether it's the threats to our national security all of these things we should recognize that there's only one place to turn and that is to hashem and the moment that we turn to him may it be soon hashem will take us all back and you should build the space hamiktus the third temple once and for all speedily and in our days 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.ariegoldwag.com or search on itunes ahri goldwag