In the Tabernacle - Who is Speaking to Who? - Jeremy Gimpel: The Land of Israel Fellowship

here we are um thank you all right that was really a beautiful tv i really really that really touched my heart and i just um just so happy i in my wildest dreams i never thought that we would somehow be able to lead with people from germany and south africa and all across the united states in canada and it's just a one moment where we're all sort of together it's just so beautiful in the last two weeks now i've been just obsessively thinking it's out of my control just the thoughts about prayer and what we should be doing and what we should be praying for and where our prayers are leading us and what got to me was the last verse right before this torah portion the last verse of last week's torah portion and if we could just get it up on the screen i'm what i'm going to do now is this english translation is not a perfect translation it's from the king james translation but they do something interesting here which is actually a reflection of something in the hebrew and here's what it says and when moses was gone into the tabernacle of the congregation to speak with him with god then he heard a voice of one speaking unto him from off the cover that was upon the ark of testimony from between the two cherubs and he spoke unto him now keep the slide up there please if you look at the hebrew now um i underlined the word medaber but it doesn't say middah bear medabara means to speak moses went there to go speak and then god spoke to him but the word there is and there is a special point in the dalid and the word is just not the regular word for speaking and the king james noted this and that's why he said he heard the voice of one speaking unto him they wanted to recognize that that word was a little bit off in in english they added the word the voice of one because the word meda bear is peculiar it doesn't really make grammatical sense it's pointing to something and so there are two schools of thought that explained us what this is and it's so important for these times so one is brought by rashi which is in the midrash and rashi said me da bear actually means meet da bear and the reason why it's like that is that one letter was removed and that's why there's a point in that dalit and meet da bear means speaking unto himself and so there's two ways to understand what what's happening here the first is what rashji says and he says that actually moses didn't go in and have a conversation with god hashem is constantly meet da bear he's constantly speaking to himself he's constantly transmitting in broadcasting a message you know we had the same idea when abraham heard the calling go toward yourself it says that that broad that was broadcast all across the world but only abraham was really listening and the same happens you can see it even in the book of the prophets you can see in the second chapter of isaiah in the fourth chapter of the book of micah they have the same language almost verbatim it's like and the torah shall go forth from zion and the word of god from jerusalem nation shall not lift up sword against other nation and it's almost it's almost an identical prophecy because there was a message that was coming out at the same time micah and isaiah lived in the same time there was a message that was being broadcast and both both of them with their antennas picked it up and broadcast that message onto the nation and so it was teaching us that really there's a constant message that's going out unto the world and that moses when he walked in to the tent of meeting he was able to pick up the frequency and listen to that message but there's another way of understanding that verse and the other way of understanding that verse is that who was speaking unto himself what was this conversation that was happening here it was actually that moses wanted to speak he went into a sacred space and what moses did was he engaged in the dialogue with himself and in that dialogue with himself he was able to emerge and understand and decipher what god was speaking to him it was as if guidance for all of us in these times how do we not only open our hearts to god and speak to god in just a very simple way but how do we actually hear back and so moses had a sacred space that's the tent of meeting that's what that means for us he went to a separate space now for a lot of people maybe that synagogue maybe that's a place of study maybe it's a library a place of worship corona sort of knocked us all out of those places for a year and so it's good to dedicate a place in your house a room in your study outside in the mountains find a place and then just begin to have a conversation it's as if you're having a conversation with yourself because you're only one there and then thoughts emerge and arise in your head and so i don't talk about things that i'm doing unless i feel like i really own it now but i've taken it upon myself now for probably well over a half a year that i just sit in the study hall of silence i just sit quietly and then i let my thoughts arise in my mind and when a thought really hits me i just write it down maybe it's something that's like oh i gotta take care of that thing oh don't forget about that write that down ooh this thing is really bothering me all of a sudden a really interesting like insight will just appear out of my mind after who knows where these thoughts are emerging from now moses was like the clearest of all prophets like hit it's as if you know that the window was totally clean he could just see right through or the mirror was without any smudges on it and so in his own internal voice he was really able to decipher clearly who was speaking to him and what was being spoken but really that last verse in last week's parsha is giving us an insight into like those jews that they they they felt like ah god's not really listening to me oh can you really hear me either they were complaining because they felt like i'm calling out to god in this vast universe of the cosmos and the stars and god might be so busy out there and is he really listening to me and the medicine for that is to listen because if you ask questions answers arrive and so the second way of understanding that is a real not only medicine for that question is god listening to us because if someone's answering our questions if answers are arriving well something some sort of communication is going on there but more than that i feel like right now more than ever a message is going out to the world a message is being broadcast now the universe is speaking to us and it is incumbent upon all of us to take time in the study hall of silence and just listen and learn learn what is being transmitted to us it'll come from within in different types of thoughts and it could be that this fellowship 500 some odd people were all listening and the messages that are coming some of them might be the same it might be to the jewish people get out come to israel fast time is running out that might be a message that's going out to everyone right now but it also could be that each and every individual has questions that they're asking and they need answers or they need answers to questions they're not even asking it and messages need to i need to kind of emerge from within them and that last verse has just stuck with me so much that moses was either tapping into a broadcast that's being sent out or he himself is going through an internal process in an internal dialogue and then some thoughts are not necessarily that important most thoughts are even stupid but every once in a while there'll be an inspired thought that was made just for you and so i would just give us all a blessing that with all the chaos around us and all the stress in everyone's life and the fast pace of this world and there's whatsapps and social medias and notifications and emails and there's just it's so quick to take a little bit of time to just quiet the mind to quiet yourself to just sit down in the study hall of silence to really learn because in that place there's an encounter and that's really what i think the people of israel were missing and that's where that that fire came from it just consumes them because without a relationship is a give-and-take it's a question and an answer and without ever taking the time to get the answer without ever feeling like wow i really am being guided in this world i'm not just drifting through the universe but i can tune into a message that's directly for me that's just the biggest blessing that we can have and the way to achieve it is right there encoded in the torah find a sacred space attentive meeting it could be out in nature it could be in your home and then just to be in a moment of silence and then the very last end of the verse it ends and he spoke to him just in case you're wondering this wasn't moses's just own intellectual exercise the verse sort of doubles down on it and it says in the end and just in case no hashem was truly speaking to him through this manner and so i give us all a blessing that we have the time to be in silence to listen to the answers of the questions that we have and the guidance that we need and um please god if all of us tune in together who knows maybe there's a message for all of us that would bring us all together so thank you ari for giving me the chance to share the tour that's really been with me this last week and it just it is what we need for this time guidance from above hi my name is jeremy gimpel a lot of people want to know exactly what the land of israel fellowship is and what members receive when they join so let me explain the land of israel fellowship is a global online community with hundreds of members from over 40 countries around the world they're live sessions and gatherings that create a direct personal connection to the land of israel and the lovers of israel from around the world there's no online gathering that i'm familiar with that is connected to the land of israel that 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