Ekev - Of Horns and Heels

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with ari goldwag recorded with hashem's never earning assistance in rama bishop israel 57 80 2020. the six precious parties a cave in the very beginning of our parish we have the pasuk and it will be if you shall listen to the mistress of hashem the word a kev is a very interesting word what does the word akev mean it means if you shall listen but we're going to see that there's a deeper understanding of it as well because the word ake besides for meaning if it can also mean to heal so what's the idea of a heal in relationship to listening and performing the commandments of hashem so to read to you from the first madrid in our parsha it speaks about something that seems unrelated to a person let's say it's very interesting a concept on shabbos let's say you have a menorah a menorah is a lamp but actually it's the the kind of lamp that we use on hanukkah which has branches etc and let's say it's made made out of pieces you have to assemble and put the pieces together in order for it to function properly what's the in regards to carrying such a menorah on shabbos is one permitted to move it around a market that if someone were to assemble to take such a menorah such a candelabra and assemble it take all the pieces put the pieces together on shabbos so then they're hive they have transgressed the prohibition on shabbos and the prohibitions on shabbos the isuru and the the malacca don't have to do with work even though the word malacca usually means work but actually the word here is and it means that it has to be something which is a conscious creative act to assemble a menorah on shabbos is prohibited why because one is bringing something to completion on shabbos shabbos is a day when everything is already completed you can't work on shabbos you can't create projects on shops you can't complete things on chambers why because the concept of shabbos as we'll see the concept the idea of shabbos is that everything is already completed and it parallels another shabbos another aspect of shabbos we know shabbos is the world to come it is a semblance of the world to come and when you get to the world to come there's no more work there's no more completion there's no more actions when we get to the times of mashiach there's some aspect of completion but a deeper aspect of completion is in the year 6000 we're in the year now 57 80. we get to the year 6000 there's a full completion we enter into a new world from the year 6000 to 7000 is the great shabbos it's the time of completion where you can't work anymore and this leads us to a concept which is misha talked about if shabbat is not here in the majors but it's a famous idea that we have six days to work and the seventh day is shabbos we have six days we have the time of creation we have the time of reality for the first six thousand years that's the time to work to accomplish to be partners with god and creation in in bringing new spiritual realities into the world physical realities into the world accomplishing for god when we get to al haba we get to the world to come so the work is over just like during the six days of the week we work and seventh day on shabbos we stop working we stop the conscious creative acts so if one were to take a menorah as we said someone were to take a candelabra put together the pieces it's us it's forbidden because one is completing something on chavez and that is prohibited why is a person indeed obligated why have they transgressed on shabbos if one has done this the problem here is that one is building one is not allowed to build on chavis one is not allowed to complete a a building a structure we're going to get back to the idea of a cave what is the idea of the achieve it's that completion it's the foot the foot is the bottom of the body and we'll see that there are different parts of the body which represent interestingly the same thing but we'll see a kev is the is the heel the heel is the completion it's the end of the body the part of the body that interacts with the earth the heel the completion well your akif tishma we'll see what that means soon but let's hold in our minds for a moment the fact that if you come to completion of shabbat shabbas is a time of completion but you have to have completed before shabbos you come to that completion there's no completing anymore on shabbos we don't complete anything we don't uh complete structures on shabbos and the message tells us something different when was there a complete observance of shabbos you know the jewish people as a whole so unfortunately today many people do not observe the shabbos many people do not keep shabbos but there was one time in history when the entire jewish people as a whole did keep shabbos and of course shabbos observance is getting stronger and stronger every year every month every day as the jewish people become closer to hashem but there was one time in history that the entire jewish people did indeed keep shabbat nist this measure holds that the minister of shabbos was given in a place called alush and the first time it was given when shabbos was given the first time the entire jewish people kept the laws of shabbos properly benign so there was a completion there was a complete keeping of the shabbos and it's interesting and perhaps i hope that we'll get back to this point by the end but it's very interesting because the metric doesn't really explain why it's mentioning this point that there was one shabbos that there's going to that there was a complete observance of shabbos and also interestingly the mesh does not mention that there's going to be a second i mean another shabbos when the entire jewish people keep that shabbos asagamura in shabbos says i believe that if the cl israel the entire jewish people would keep a second shabbos then indeed would come the messiah would arrive now what is the idea behind that hopefully soon we'll see but savor says the madrish what is the thing with shabbos what is the idea of shabbos what is the concept of shabbos we keep shabbos there's so many restrictions there's so many difficult things to do it seems on the surface you know you can't turn on the lights you can't rip toilet paper you can't uh you can't work on shabbos you can't you can't turn on your computer you can't answer your phone so many things on shabbos that we can't do so many prohibitions now maybe this is just something hashem wants us to suffer maybe that's what shabbos is about it says that's not true hashem says i gave you the shabbos because i wanted to do you a favor i wanted you to have a day that you can literally sit and enjoy you can relax chill out enjoy the fruits of your labors kate said how's this how do we celebrate shabbos how do we fulfill the mixes of shabbos how do we indeed do this so it's uh he tells us says you sanctify shabbos by you would say oh by learning torah by uh thinking spiritual thoughts by meditating no says the says the magist you observe shabbos you make the shop as holy through eating drinking wearing clean clothes and enjoying yourself enjoying yourself and you nice in the khaskar says hashem i want you to know i'm going to give you a mitzvah to do something you want to do anyway and i'm going to give you sky i'm going to give you a reward for it when you come to the world to come when you come up to shamayim to the oil man of shamans you're going to have a reward for that amazing 9. how do we know this is true passing in shaya in isaiah chapter 58 pasuk you gimmel 13. to be an egg in enjoyment when we enjoy the shabbos when we have good foods good drinks etc so indeed the shop we we have a connection we develop our connection talk to this parkour it's an amazing thing so if you want to think about this just for a moment just as i'm speaking it it occurs to me that if you want to know a little bit a taste of what is look like what does it look like the the world to come the times of do we think of it as a time where where everyone is meditating spiritual learning the torah which of course it is it's all about connection dr sparkle but it also involves just like on shabbos we eat and we drink and we dedicate ourselves we use the capacity to the the physical things our physical needs we direct them towards the will of hashem wants us to enjoy these things enjoy them because of showers for shops for the sake of shamans so too that's how it's going to be in the world to come on some level early israel so now hear this this is very interesting claisto says when will we receive the reward that you're talking about why we see the reward for the commandments that we're fulfilling hashem says look you're going to enjoy the fruits the fruits right the produce you're going to enjoy the offspring of your work now that's going to be now but the true reward for it is going to come at the end there's there's an idea of receiving reward that's what the pasek is talking about the beginning of our parsha that if we do that which hashem commands us if we fulfill the commandments of so then we will receive the reward whenever we receive the reward so there's an aspect the fruits we get them here but as our khazal say elsewhere back caring about the principle is waiting for us right we have the tree and we have the fruits we have the tree which is the essence of what we've done with the fruits the results of it now i want to read to you from the acif and i want to also teach you an even deeper understanding than what the acs says but it's so beautiful what he says that we have to see it in paris he wants to explain what is the idea of the principle which we receive in the world to come what is the concept of the fruits who's that the idea is as follows the the mitzvah itself the action and that which it's part of that which it accomplishes it's called the care and the principle yanshui ikari samitsu because that's the main part of the mitzvot about such a thing so you can't really be rewarded for something so awesome and so spiritual you can't have a reward for it in this world but remember like we see that it says in psalms chapter 31 how great is the good that you have that you have hidden away for those who fear you what is the concept of the paris what is the concept of the fruits that we receive in this world there's things that are mahada there are things that beautify the mitzvah there are things that are kishou tim they are the the decorations of the mitzvah ritsoini tahara zakusa there are other aspects of the mitzvah which we benefit from in this world for example there is a purification of the heart that comes and we try to do good things we try to do the will of hashem there is a purification of the thoughts there is uh there are kavanas that we're doing this the shame in order to unify the upper worlds the lower worlds the different aspects of how hashem interacts with us there are all these cavanas a person is quick to do the missus person is involved in the missus in a in a way of alacrity so this changes a person this the the mitsubis give a person a benefit a secondary benefit which she experiences in this world which we refer to as the paris paris these things they affect a person they advance a person a person grows a person develops in his in his personal growth as a result of fulfilling the commandments with reasons with alacrity with the right covenants with the right intentions they purify his heart they make him a greater person but those are secondary things those are the pairs of the fruits but the karen the principle of the mitzvah what a person has actually accomplished through the myth or through the fulfilling the word of god that's not something that we per se see in this world and it's not something that we want to see in this world because this world is is finite and we want an infinite reward for an action which has infinite implications right so that's that's the power of what this measure is saying but i was thinking about you know the karen the word karen we translate the word principle but that's not what the word karen means the word karen means a horn it means a horn the karne karnov the horns of joseph he's going to be he's going to go through the nations a karen is a horn what does it mean the karen of the mitzvah now karen came to what does it mean that it's the the horns that remain for a person in the world to come what does that mean furthermore our message doesn't use the word karen it uses the word a kev you're going to get it in the end you're going to get it in the end just like an achev is a heel the heel is the father's thing from the the karen the feet are on the bottom of the body the karen is sticking up from the head so how can we use the same word a karen which is a horn and we use that same word as an akev which armament just uses to mean the same thing it's it doesn't it needs a hasbro it needs to be understood doesn't at first glance seem to make sense but here's an amazing thing it's such a cool idea it's such an awesome concept and this will also understand what it means that they kept that shabbos that first time and there's going to be a another time that we're going to all keep the shabbos there's going to be a karen there's going to be something at the head there's me something at the foot at the akiv we mentioned that the word akev means a foot and by the way of course yaakov avinu jacob who was the the first he was the beginning he was really the karen he was the horn he was the beginning of claudia sorel he was the head he was on top of the head of claude israel he was from him came all the generations all the tribes yaakov was called an akev and that's his name yaakov he was his hand was called yaakov why because yaakov remains in the end jacob talks about the kates he talks about the end of days but he's the beginning and he's also connected to the end what is the idea what is the concept here the a kev the foot as we mentioned earlier is that part of the body which a person walks a person walks with it's the part of the body that hits the ground with which we interact with the ground so to speak that we are spiritual the human being unlike all other animals stands up straight feet on the ground connected to the ground walking along we work in this world with our head in the clouds so to speak with our head connected to spirituality and our feet connected to the earth because it's about raising up our physical and rising to the spiritual now the word karen no very interesting karen is a horn it also means a corner we have the carne james bach we had on the altar we had these four corners where they stuck up it didn't look like a shape of horn it was actually just a like more like a a block of one i'm i believe by one hour maybe one tapa i forget right now on each corner there was a cairn which means a corner sticking up in the four corners of the mistback of the altar what's the idea of the karen the idea of the karen is this is awesome this is amazing it's also connected to the chauffeur i'm not going to get so deeply into that right now but the karen is that which sticks up above the head and we mentioned not long ago perhaps it was last week we mentioned the concept of a shaifar of a cairn the spirituality the the soul of a person it rests inside of the brain but it sticks up much higher it sticks up into the higher realms the canon represents the the point of connection between the spiritual world and the physical world between the soul and the body that's what the karen is and that's what the film represents as well they see our horns the jews have horns right like they say the jews have where are your horns jews have horns mushroom had had these carne yeah they had horns they weren't they weren't horns of course they were they were carne shamish they were like light rays why is the same word for a light ray also the same word as a as a karen a horn the idea is because the horns stick up above the head the ka the karnayam it's the spiritual power yosef's spiritual power he's able to destroy the nations not because he's such a mighty person not because he's such a strong army not because he's such a so such a gibber he's able to destroy them because of his spiritual power because of the kane or because of the horns of light that come out of him and the nations of the world recognize the jewish people have that why because that's who we are we are yaakov we have the heel what's the heel in this context the heel is always something which is which is uh yakasi it depends what we're talking about it depends what the relationship is we talk about the human being standing on the earth so then the akev his heel is the bottom of his foot but when we talk about the soul what's the achev what is the uh the soul s-o-l-e of the soul s-o-u-l that is the karen the karen is a place which connects the spiritual right here is the the the heel of my soul is right here in my brain corresponding to the location of the villain there's a beginning and an end there's a top and there's a bottom there's a completion chavis is a completion shabbos surrounds our weak right we have a shabbos then we have a week and we have shabbos we have a karen the the shabbos is that point in time where we are hooked into higher reality where our eating and our drinking and our sleeping everything is spiritual everything is spiritual we're hooked into that higher place we're using the physical and it's connected it's conjoined into the physical the spiritual they're together that's the karen that's the achive is the point of connection between the physical body and the the the body i'm sorry the spirit the physical body which is spiritual and the earth which is more physical it's the best it's the point of connection it's the temple many many other points that we could talk about but that's that's what i believe is the idea here that's the concept that we're coming to say we talk about you can't put together the pieces right when we put together the pieces i don't have time to get into this as well but putting together all the pieces of the manure the manure is is there are seven branches of a menorah generally speaking the manure and the base hamikdash putting together the pieces brings us to shabbos putting together the six branches and the one in the center the one in the center is the seventh which is shabbos when we put those pieces together when when all of our work comes together that's when we complete the picture that's when we have a complete picture but that has to be done in the six days when we get to the seventh day it's already done and we said that before that was the idea that we said before but the idea here is that you have this completion aspect yaakov is a complete part of his complete person who contains all the 12 tribes all the pieces 12 12 by the way is really six times two right you have these six from leia six from the other emis you have the six and the six each of those six is completed by the seventh which is sixth seventh which is you have the seventy nations which also has to do with the number seven and seven times ten claudius trail is the upper aspect of that the joining aspect again not for now but the idea here is that there's a completion at the beginning there's an inspiration there's a chavez which is complete cloudy surrounding year 2448 3 300 years ago received the torah they have that completion at that moment of completion they recognize what it's got to look like just like yaakov was at the beginning and yaakov is at the end we have the karen we have the completion we have the akev the the completion which is the top which is the spiritual aspect which is at the beginning and then we have the akif at the bottom at the beginning of time at the beginning of claudius we have that first shamans there's going to be another shabbos which we all complete that's going to be the akave which is really the karen it's all relative the the second chance that we're going to fulfill is going to have that aspect it's going to have that completion which will be the doorway into the world to come so i want to bless you and ask you to bless me hashem should help us that we should be able to understand the power of shambas the shabbos that we get a taste of the world to come every single week where the the eating and the drinking and the involvement that we have in the physical are all able to be raised up to the spiritual it's the spiritual and the physical are connected are completed on shabbos hashem should help us to enjoy the shabbos to recognize the power of shabbos and hashem should help us to be zaika to to live in that time when indeed it's the time when we indeed are all experiencing the world in its state of completion thank you so much for listening have a wonderful this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you for more podcasts like this 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