Ekev - It's All a Miracle

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with hari goldwag recorded with hashem's name running assistance in room update 5781 2021. this week's project is purchased a kev and the word akev is not going to be the main topic of what i'm going to speak about but the word akev means the heel and as our sages tell us it refers we will listen to those things that we are dashboard of the commandments that people easily trample on the heel the heel they use their heel upon i'd like to share with you some thoughts that have to do with the concept of the heel but not the heel as we just described but the majority of them talk about we're not going to see those particular majors but i'd like to i think the what we're going to see together is something that applies to us and it connects to the heel the heel is the bottom it's the achive is the very last part of the body if we go from the top to the bottom and of course in jewish thought we always go from the top to the bottom we always go from the mind which is the most spiritual down to the feet which are the least they're most attached to the ground and since they are the end of the human body since they are the end so akev yaakov avinu is the root of his name jacob yes lord aykev which means the heel he was holding onto asap's heel the end the end is what i'd like to share with you some thoughts about we're coming into the land of israel both in the parsha and in real life so to speak in our times 3 300 years later we're coming into the land of israel it seems like we're always heading back to israel we're always trying to get back to arts israel the land of israel and mushroom tells us he speaks to the jewish people and he says those same words that we spoke about last week shammai israel hear o israel but in this context he wants them to listen and pay attention to the following and i ask you to do as well to do so as well you the jewish people are going over today you're about to traverse the jordan river lava the rush is going you are going to overcome to inherit to take away this land of these nations that are much stronger than you much greater than you are immigration great large cities fortified cities i'm god of arum very powerful nation people who are giants you have heard you know who can stand before these great giants we face off in those times and in our times we face off with a daunting enemy with great challenges to our ability to become sovereign over the land of israel but you don't have to worry says the pasuk you don't have to worry he says moshe abandoned to the people god is going to go before you ish he is a burning fire consuming fire he will destroy them he will make them subdued to you you will inherit them you will destroy them quickly as god has spoken to you now listen up listen here carefully there's still more and these are so important because they're talking to us these and these verses were said 3 300 years ago but they're equally relevant in this very moment says don't worry hashem is going to be with you have no fear don't be afraid of your enemies and also have some awareness about the following don't think that you are going to come into this land because of your great righteousness don't think you're going to inherit the land of israel because you're such a good person because you're such a good nation mauritius because they're so wicked you're not getting this land because you're so righteous it is true that those who are here the canaanite nations they were very evil and you're going to inherit them they're leaving because of their evil but you're coming in because of a promise says god that i made to your forefathers you should know you are a stiff-necked people you are tough people you don't listen if god says do one thing you do the opposite if god says trust me you don't trust if god says keep the torah keep the commandments we run away but the apostle promises us moshe abandoned assures us as we're on the threshold of entering the land of israel and you need not worry number one god is with you and number two even though you don't deserve it hashem made a promise he will never break that promise he promised the jewish people the land of israel i think that's very important and powerful for today you know challenging times challenging times who knows what we'll be nations want to destroy us we want to bring about another holocaust rashem says his voice echoes through the ages shema israel you are crossing over the jordan river [Music] listen here okay here's the magician i'd like to share this with you we'll see there's two pieces here i don't know if we'll get to both of them but both of them are are very important so i encourage you to see it yourself if we don't get to both it says in paragumo in the third parsha i'm sorry parshagimo section 8 and 9. we're gonna start with number eight and we'll see if we get to number nine two reasons as we said to believe to know that god is going to give you this land even though you don't deserve it number one god is going to perform miracles you're not able to to defeat them number two as we said because of the promise let's see listen you guys are going over the jordan river now over the jordan river we're going to talk about water we're going to talk about the river we're going to talk about water and the miracles so many miracles occurred with water what does this signify what does this represent what does this teach us what is the message for the jewish people then and for the jewish people today as we stand so close to inheriting the land of israel hopefully soon the measure starts off telling us something about water other means israel a jewish person shashai matsuma he's thirsty and he wants to drink some water amer baroque he says something very interesting and this is very much connected to what the message is going to speak about all of the miracles with water the blessings that we say before and after generally speaking they have to do with the food if you have a fruit you say represents god created the fruits if you have a vegetable bori priyadama god created the the fruit of the ground the produce of the ground each bracha has something to do with the amazing thing that was created when it comes to water and certain other things other drinks are there certain things that don't that aren't don't come from the ground we say sha akon abitwara let's focus on the water let's think about shah colony and what does it mean we say it every day many times a day sometimes charcoal never every single thing that you created everything came into the world with your word it's a miracle every single thing it's miraculous you look at the incredible design of nature the incredible interconnectedness the plants the animals the water unbelievable world charcoal everything was created with god's word and as the marzu explains or one of them unfortunately i'm maybe misquoting who says it the idea of bueno fascios also we're going to see will be tired from american infectious rabbis because the blessing that we make on water which we actually do as a after blessing but he says to do it before is that god created all these miraculous souls that he puts inside of our bodies and all of the things that they are missing and all of the things that they are lacking god created in order for us to have that which we lack relax to be filled the explanation of this verse the explanation of this blessing i'm sorry is the idea that everything is miraculous you drink a cup of water don't take it for granted the water the hydrogen two hydrogen molecules combined with one oxygen molecule that's miraculous it creates a brand new thing two gases joined together become a liquid unbelievable that liquid is the building block of our entire bodies of all of nature miracle it's a miracle it's a we take it for granted it happens all the time but it's a miracle rabona nominee okay with that introduction understanding the idea behind a i hope you guys are able to to grow from what we're talking about last week we spoke about shema israel i tried to work on shiman israel i hope you also had opportunity to do so now the magisk gives us an opportunity to think about the bracha of shack which we also say so many times think about that it means that what we have is miraculous it's a miracle this is a prelude the jews are about to enter this is the marzu i'm sure of it the marzu explains the jews are about to enter the land of israel hashem tells them through moshe's mouth you're going over the jordan river you're going to have a miracle at the jordan river just like you had a miracle at yamsuf at the sea of reads sages say look see this amazing thing all is the miracles the jews experienced the massive miracles happened at the water keith sad houses when they were still in egypt god made miracles with with the nile river think about it mushroom was saved by the nile river he was the redeemer so the entire gula occurred because of the nile the nile was the first of the ten plagues what was one of the examples of this they would try to drink some water during the first plague they drink some water from the river i mean the egyptian would drink blood the jew would drink water where was the miracle the miracle was at the the grand finale so to speak of the jewish people's [Music] their redemption it occurred at the yams it occurred by the water the sea saw it and it ran away ma ro what did the sea see what was it that it saw that caused it to run away um and saw the holy name of god that was inscribed on the staff of moshe rabbin of moses and the water was torn apart as it were they saw the the waters saw god's hand and the waters were ripped apart the waters saw you and they trembled in bowling okay so that's the first two miracles by the ore with the water the jews drank water the egyptians drank blood second one is the water parted here's another one schnemer i'm sorry bo lemur they came to a place called mara the waters they were bitter they had nothing to drink there was a miracle moshaven took a piece of wood through it into the water became sweet by rayasham eights the glamour etc god showed him the particular tree the particular piece of wood to throw in barcelos when it came to the water that they the jews drank throughout the 40 years in the in the wilderness it was a miracle these mosha abana moses spoke to the rock he hit the rock whatever it was but the rock produced water it was miraculous you know okay we said that we find that after the the well of miriam was taken away because miriam passed away they got the water again the verses tell us about the special song that they were saying as yoshi israel armalan maisha so moshe rabbenu tells the jewish people you see do you see the miracles that you've experienced with water you can see all these miracles that god did for you with the water yeah then that there's going to be miracles when you pass over the jordan river as well explains that this was so important for them to know walking into egypt sorry walking into israel leaving egypt they saw the miracles throughout their time in the wilderness they saw the miracles with water with water with water one of the things that we saw in the previous parties the jewish people were afraid to go to israel they thought they're not going to be able to get there even the nations are too strong for them what shall benin says look look look you've seen miracle after miracle after miracle after miracle shah call me abedivaro unbelievable you have water to drink you are alive you are alive you are living you've gotten sick you've gotten better you may have had corona and you're alive today to tell the tale you may have had all kinds of experiences and here you are miracle after miracle after miracle it's going to continue the only way you're going to get into the land of israel is with these miracles it says moshe abandoned to the jewish people you can depend you can depend on the miracles don't be afraid don't be afraid you might not deserve to go into the land of israel you might not deserve the miracles but god made a promise and because he made that promise and that's going to be the next major which we do have time for it seems so [Music] we said in this puzzle hero israel listen listen up god in our ears with our ears we heard our forefathers heard they told us the miracles that you did for them in their times says what does it mean with our ears what are we referring to our ears we heard about what what mosh rabinu said what you told moshe what you told moses at the burning bush listen to this this is so amazing it's so beautiful do we deserve the land of israel do we deserve this country do we deserve to deliver are we saddikim are we righteous are we alive we should be a little good i must tell you last night i had a very interesting experience i was asked to sing at an event it's gonna sound grand but it was it was nice and i was as i sing at an event which was a coca-cola event they did a a uh mithsa a contest who could do good deeds it was aimed at the kharadi community at the religious community and there was a group of 50 families there this was on masada not on masada but in the parking lot next to masada last night and about nine o'clock at night i arrived there after four or four hours of traveling welcome to banasamani and i sang there a few of the songs it was very nice all these people had done extra good deeds and a guy got up in front of the the this crowd and spoke he was not wearing yama he was not religious on behalf of the coca-cola company and he said i know that you people naturally you're involved in so much question and so much kindness the karate world much more than anybody else but we just wanted to inspire you to a little bit more i thought it was really beautiful but we're not perfect we're not perfect and sometimes we we get god angry says the majority and hashem knows that going in that's the thing hashem says to moshe robino i know they're not always going to be perfect they're not always going to be gone doing good good deeds they're not always going to be perfect god it's suffer the funny shame i see i know that they're going to anger me in the future a girl on here some i still i'm redeeming them how do you know that this is true that hashem said this to moshe romero i have seen i have seen double language he said it twice i've seen i have seen the oppression of my nation the verse says i know about their pain it's not just talking about their pain in that time that they had i know about the pain they're going to cause me says god says i know they're going to pain me israel they're going to refer to the idols as their god i know a pain they're going to cause me i went down to save them from the from the hand of egypt nevertheless despite that they're not perfect they're not always doing kindness they're not always so nice to each other i'm still saving them this is the condition that you made i said i'm redeeming you hashem you said you're redeeming us and you know we're going to mess up you know we're going to cause you pain okay that's the shamaniser listen we here we heard we heard this promise we heard this promise we don't deserve it we don't deserve it we don't we might not be perfect we may be far from perfect we may be forcing each other to to do things wrong as it is going on right now in the israeli government but says boro who you're not going to get the land of israel i'm not gonna save you and help you against your enemies because you're so righteous i'm not gonna i'm not gonna save you you're not gonna be so strong to be able to save yourselves you know it makes me nervous when i hear politicians say you know we have the power we don't have the power maybe hashem gave us some power certainly that's true can read the history of the six day war 1967 you can see some stuff was hashem gave us the power and some stuff was mamish not us it was clearly not us hashem if he wants us to have this land says the pasuk says the madrish you don't have to worry you can look you can see you've seen miracles [Music] 67 you've seen miracles those miracles are not gonna stop [Music] those miracles will continue and you don't deserve it i know that you're gonna cause me pain says god i am i'm redeeming you anyway i'm redeeming you despite that i know that going in says god i found these madrushroom to be inspiring i found them to be reassuring and it brings us back to that bracha that we started with everything is his everything was created by him it's all miraculous every time i take a drink it's a drink of water drink of seltzer i drink of orange juice every time i take a drink it's a miracle i'm still here i'm still able to take that drink i'm still here i want to ask you i want to bless you and ask you to bless me someone should help us to be able to see that every single day every breath everything that's going on in our lives it's a miracle and just as he he's done miracles for us until now may hashem help us to believe and to know that he will continue to do miracles for us and on an individual level that's the bracha that's what we need to think about on a national level [Music] we don't know what's going to happen next we don't know what lies in store for us we don't know how god is going to bring mashiach the messiah to bring back all of the jews to the land of israel from the far-flung four corners of the earth how is he going to do that a mashiach messiah a king a real king a son like a righteous king how is that going to happen we don't know how it will happen but hashem has done miracles for us before and i bless you that we should be able to believe that just as he has done miracles he will continue to do miracles and believe in his promise that even if we're not perfect even if we're far from perfect he's going to do it anyway thank you so much for listening have a wonderful show miss this podcast 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