Ekev - Fragrance of Gan Eden

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with ari goldwag recorded with hashem's neverending assistance in ramappache israel 57 82 2022. this week's project is purchased a kev in our parsha this week mushroom is reminding the jewish people of their journey through the wilderness through the midbar this is he says in chapter eight verse two of zakharthas you should remember the entire path that you traversed during these 40 years in the midburg god wanted to test you would you keep his commandments what's inside of your heart how do you feel god gave you difficulties he made you hungry and he gave you food to still that hunger gave you the miraculous bread the man that you never saw before and your forefathers never saw miraculous bread what is the teaching for all time that we don't live by bread we don't live alone by bread that's not how we live we don't live by providing for ourselves with parnasso with livelihood what is it that gives a person a person life it's that which hashem says the word of god whatever comes out of the mouth of god as it were that's what causes a person to live hashem breathes life into us hashem's word as the as the maforshim explain is a reference to torah the teachings of hashem the teachings the spiritual teachings of yiddishkai are that which gives us life it's not enough to have a physical existence we need to also sustain ourselves spiritually with the word of hashem and last we come lastly we come to the pasuk which i'm going to focus on today allah your clothes did not wear out seiko your feet your feet did not become tired they didn't they didn't become you know when you're walking without shoes or you're walking your feet can become blown up your feet didn't become blown up it's hour-by-sided for 40 years this entire time in the 40 years an amazing thing and i want to read to you an amazing major system the medrash talks about this amazing idea what is the idea behind the fact that the clothes never wore out what other miracles did the jewish people encounter experience in their time in amidbar but also before we even get to the magistrate it's important to point out which is why i read the sukkam before hashem is showing us this is this is the path that we went on this is the miraculous way that we journeyed and he mentions the fact that he gave us the man he gave us the miraculous bread which our sages tell us the the man was completely nib it was completely consumed with the within the innards of the person he didn't have to go to the bathroom but besides that what was the teaching of it what was the teaching of the one it's that hashem is the one who provides for you and maitzapi hashem that which comes out of the mouth of hashem as it were the the word of hashem besides the food there's the word we are sustained by the word of hashem by god's breath as it were or by god's torah by the instructions for life that we have why does that come why does that come immediately before this concept of simlasqua your clothes didn't wear out what is what is the connection between these two concepts and this question is deepened by the passive and shira shirin because the passing and shiro stream which we're going to read the major chapter upon that the passage speaks also about something that has to do with taste and and sweetness in the mouth and then it goes on to talk about clothing so what is the connection between that which we eat or that which comes out of our mouth the words of torah and our clothing this is the this is the puzzle it says in sheer shamans song of songs the awesome love song of hashem for the jewish people nefesti typhna it speaks of the the honey which drips from from the lips of the wife of the bride of hashem who's the bride of hashem it's the jewish people underneath your tongue is honey and and milk delicious tastes all right interesting that honey is one of the references in the pasta to the taste of the mon and the puzzle is off with the fact that the smell of the garments of hashem's beloved which is the jewish people the smell of our garments is like the smell of the lebanon and as the measure talks about there's a smell of ganeden a smell whatever this means we need to understand there's a smell of the garden of eden which accompanies the clothing of the jewish people what is the idea behind the smell what is the idea behind the taste it's very interesting i'm not going to read this completely inside but i want to point out that in the magician explaining the concept of the of the honey that's dripping from the mouth from the lips of the bride which is the jewish people it speaks of two things that are connected to the mouth one is the concept of prophecy the concept of speaking about really the prophets their purpose was to give us a muslim to give us direction to speak what will happen in the future if we don't follow the word of god and the other aspect of honey which is spoken of here is the aspect of different words of torah and so just like we found that harpassock very beautiful parallel the concept of the mon which is that thing which has a taste of of honey it parallels the hashem that which comes out of hashem's mouth the direction for life and we have this concept of wrestlemania which we need to understand let's see it inside because it brings our puzzuk which talks about the clothes of the jewish people that didn't wear out shoulder blades there was the son of shimmer and rebellion as the following question of his father-in-law the jewish people were in the wilderness for 40 years how did they have closed where did their clothes come from did they bring enough clothes with them for the entire 40 years from from egypt did they bring with them as he asks uh [Music] machines with which to to weave clothing i'm really live so he says no they did not um where did they get the clothing where how did they dress themselves for 40 years this is a very important we don't know why it's very important but it's a very important issue so answers his son-in-law he says very interesting idea he says that the jewish people were actually given special clothing this is what the uh one of them a fortune mayor explains the offer coil the jewish people were given clothes special clothing at harcina at mount sinai listen to this you may you may have heard this before but you may have never heard this before incredible measures says in ezekiel and i shall give you clothes woven clothes and the pusic asthma unfortunately explains referring to the clothing at her sinai what's this clothing in her c9 so we might be more familiar with the fact that the jewish people received crowns at har sinai at mount sinai but besides that it's mentioned saying they received incredible spiritual clothing what was the nature of this clothing let's see omar perpiro turtle aquilas ephelicto in explaining this possible which refers to valbar i gave the clothing at har sinai woven garment so one shot is it's actually um dyed big day trailers with special blue garments which indicate their uh the jewish people's the status the fact that they were like the child like princes one explanation is the word means woven garments but in any event they were special spiritual garments what it's okay so they got that at the beginning of the 40 years the clothing never wore out um don't you know pasig says your garments didn't wear out it was a miraculous thing they were given special spiritual garments just like their special spiritual food perhaps we could say the special spiritual food miraculously would go into their body be completely nifla completely absorbed into their bodies they didn't have any extra no refuse so to their clothing it never wore out amazing are you good so he asked him realizability says this foreign law did they grow i'm saying the kids god might have gotten imagine a six month old baby gets a special uh blue garment a special spiritual garment but very interesting he says we can learn from the khilas and was the special animal with which the dye for the trellis the blue garments these special blue garments or the also the trellis the blue string of the tsitsis was made but the gilazon which is a snail that's what it seems the snail should cause one shoe and god oh no take a goddamn you see there's something in the physical realm where a snail it grows and as it grows as it gets larger its shell also grows along with it so the clothing also grew along with the person so he said to his father-in-law did it not require cleaning how was it washed how is it kept clean you know i'm saying a baby eats it gets the food on it's on its clothing maybe i don't know if one had any kind of color but stuff gets dirty and this is actually rashi refers to this i'm gonna let her oh no you're shocked by him a marquis son amazing thing hashem's anania covered his clouds of glory they would um use i don't know exactly how it worked i don't know how you would submit it for dry cleaning at the in the closet glory but the clouds of glory served to clean the garments to press the garments we know that the clouds of glory were fire they were fire didn't wouldn't they burn the garments there's some kind of garment that's made out of small pieces of rock don't know exactly what it's referring to but that's what the force from say that the way that you clean it is with fire so these special spiritual garments were cleaned by the anan by the clouds of glory on my livelihood what what's going on here did the did the um did the people have any kind of keane which means lice did they did they get any worms so he said look and this is what it says i'm just reading the words but this is what he said he said when they died in the 40 years in the midbar they wouldn't rot their bodies wouldn't rot there would be no there would be no talaim there would be no worms eating the bodies so if that's the way it was when they would die it certainly was so when they were alive and he asks the final question such a such an interesting conversation was there any smell from their body from their sweat did they have any body odor armor a miscargina obesity this brings us back to the pasta and shirashi and who speaks about the smell there was an amazing smell the question is did they have a bad smell from the from the from their zaya from their sweat no the answer is no next to the place where the air was where the well was the miraculous well of miriam so there was grass there were herbs that would grow around that area they would take the grass and they would they would uh push it against their body or rub it on their body and it would take away the smell although they have been hashem will cause me to rest in the in the pressure of shannon the positive is referring to causing us to rest in a field of grass but there's a beauty of this grass dasha [Music] so i take that beautiful grass the the measures darkening and i'm rubbing it against myself to take away the smell well night of myself and as a result there was a smell of beautiful smell a beautiful smell perhaps we could say the smell of ganedan as the actually the measure says in a previous explanation of these very same words and that smell would go from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth which is always by the way whenever you see the words one end of the earth to the other end of the earth it's always a reference to a higher spiritual realm which completely encompasses the realm within which we reside king solomon says this explicitly when he says the smell of your garments was like a smell of the lebanon the smell of our garments is like the smell of the lebanon what does this mean what is this concept what is the concept of smell in this context what is the concept how does that relate to clothing how does it relate to the the the honey and the milk that's under the tongue and immediately prior in the pussock and the and the honey that's dripping from the mouth of the kala and i i believe this is my understanding of the major as i share with you the majors first speaks about the concept of prophecy and it speaks about the concept of tire and we need to understand what is this idea of terror and what is this idea of prophecy and how does that lead into the beautiful smell of the garments what is this entire discussion here with they didn't have any smell they didn't have their clothing always lasted what is the idea here what is the depth of the idea and i believe that what it's coming to teach us is that both in prophecy and in diverter in words of torah there is a special connection that we have to a higher realm when we have a prophet it's pretty obvious right the prophet has a vision hashem speaks to him he relays the message of hashem to the jewish people he gives them the mustar the the rebuke that they need to hear to keep them on the straight and narrow to keep them on the right path and the purpose of the terror is exactly the same right where do they receive these garments it's not a coincidence they received these garments at harcina at mount sinai do you know what that means it means that as the torah is being given as the word of god is coming down from above to below as the direction for our lives is being given to us through prophecy through the torah through the laws for life the lessons for life the torah lays in front of us we receive a garment and this garment protects us this garment lasts forever this garment doesn't wear out this garment is is it gives us a beautiful spiritual smell as long as we hold on to the tower we are connected to the higher realm we are connected we are connected to god's will to god's desire to god's speech to god's breathing life into us it's so beautiful such a beautiful expression of the fact that when we keep the torah when we follow the word of hashem when we keep it properly so the tire keeps us the tire protects us the timer the tire is shimmer elaine or pretty right what is the clothing of a person in the most simple in the most simple sense it's to protect us from the elements you know you go outside and it's very hot the sun is shining on you if you don't cover your body you're going to get burned it's raining outside if you don't cover yourself with a raincoat you're going to get wet could get sick the clothing protects us in a physical sense in a physical sense but what we're saying here is even deeper and more beautiful and that is that the torah the terror provides for us a spiritual garment which protects us from the elements of the world and this spiritual garment doesn't wear out it's gone through three thousand three hundred years of bombardment by the world bombardment by all the new ideas the greek ideas the roman ideas the even the christian ideas and the islamic ideas and still the terror protects us the torah is this garment this beautiful blue garment and it's not a coincidence that it's trellis because the trellis as i tell us when we look at the blue string on our titties it reminds us of the sea reminds us of the heaven it reminds us of god's throne of glory which means that it reminds us of hashem and his instructions to us the place that he sits as it were the throne of his glory is that which he rides upon in this world he is the king right his king his kingship is manifest through us when we keep the torah so we get this garment and we look at ourselves and we see the garment and we see what we're wearing which is this protection of torah and it's very interesting because he points out over here that they did lose the crowns that we mentioned which they received at harcina but they didn't lose the garment because the garment the protection never wears out it never wears out as long as we are keeping the tire the torah is keeping us the tyre is protecting us and there's this smell what is the concept of smell right so in the little piece which i didn't read to you immediately before it points out that when yaakov when jacob walked in to get the blessing from yitzhak he should have smelled terrible because he was wearing a garment which was made out of the skin of an ace of a goat and the smell of that kind of garment is disgusting it's a terrible smell and giz leans over me says wow i smell the amazing smell of the reach of the the smell of the field which i'll say is actually the the smell of the s the apple orchard which is a reference to garnet into the garden of eden he smelled on him ganedan and when asap comes in he smells on him get him he smells on him the smell of the fiery the fiery pits of hell the smell of yaakov avinu the smell of his sitkus the concept of smell represents the fact that this is a person who is great who is following in the way of hashem who is following the instructions of the prophetess listening to his mother rifka rebecca had instructed him based on her prophecy to go in and get the brachus to get the blessings when we follow and we are connected to the word of hashem the smell as it were that comes out of us the smell that anyone can see you can see the smell so to speak you can recognize in somebody that they're a person that's listening to the word of hashem you can recognize upon a person you can smell the person right himself it talks about him as somebody who's able to smell the smell of our nose hashem he's the one who has the ability to smell and see who is it that's keeping the word of god who is connected to the reach of ghanaian to the smell i think about smell smell is something which there could be across the entire house i'm downstairs right now in my house and shabbos food is cooking upstairs i can smell it so it's something that connects you to a far away place to a far away item it could be a far away thing but i'm connected to it through smell when i am keeping the torah when i'm listening to the prophecy when i'm listening to the instructions contained within the torah i'm connecting to the smell as it were of ganeden of the garden of eden and i am protected i'm protected i get the the it's so beautiful the maybe air right where does the grass grow that's used to to give them a good smell it's grass that grows around the the well of miriam miriam anivia miriam the prophetess in her merit in her the well came which is the source of life for the entire jewish people for a million and a half people around there grows the the grass which is used to give us a good smell when we connect to the source of life when we connect to the prophecy we connect to the torah the instructions of of the torah that's the true source of life that's where it comes from then what do we have so your clothes don't disintegrate who you are is also represented by your clothes right you can tell from the clothes that i'm wearing what kind of person i am the clothes don't make the man but they do represent what i want to show the world so to speak you can see from the clothes you can see that this person is someone who has a smell the good smell of ghanaian is attached to him i want to bless you and ask you to bless me should help us indeed to connect to the words of torah recognize that these are the words of hashem these are the words of god given to us mishra being brought it down we ourselves heard it at heart cnn mount sinai we received these garments these are this is our protection should help us to recognize that the torah is our protection it's what protects us from the elements and it's what represents to the entire world shrimp should help us to indeed have that good smell the smell of ganeden the smell of the garden of eden should be exuding from us from one end of the earth until the other thank you so much for listening have a wonderful shamas 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 [Music]