Matos-Masei - Remember Where We've Been

listening to the weekly partial podcast with Ari Gold wag recorded with a gems never-ending assistance in remission which is all 57 79 2019 this week's parsha is parshas Matos and Messina states and mas a in Eretz Israel we finally have caught up hurts Easter all and I'd like to share with you a Voort concept an idea from the parsha which is common to us which is partials mas a and before I do I was just thinking like isn't it interesting that it took so long for us to online and there are all kinds of reasons behind it I'm not familiar with them but I think it's not a coincidence that we catch up now we're all reading the same parsha right when it gets to partials must say right before tisha Bob right before the destruction of the base hamikdash right before we're saddened and we're all in the morning we all mourn together and we all take stock together and that's gonna be a bit of what we're gonna speak about but I think it's very beautiful that to base something this is destroyed in this time the base I'm ENGLISH we hope will soon be rebuilt and the only way that that's going to happen it was destroyed because of Sinha Cena it was destroyed because of baseless hatred it will be returned because of love for no reason because of us join together coming together what better time to come together be learning the same tire the same parsha and parshas montes ma se partials mas a as we come into tissue of the week of tissue love so I'd like to share with you a thought at the beginning of mas a so the Torah gives us a whole list of all of the different locations where the Jewish people traveled throughout the 40 years that they were in the mid bar and it goes through each individual location reminds us of different things that occurred in those locations the different sins that the Jewish people had the different ways that I should protect it us and took care of us in those different locations and I was thinking about you know last week we spoke about gratitude and I was thinking about how important it is to take stock and to recognize each of the places that we personally have been throughout our line and we learn this from what the tour's description of the Jewish people's travels and of course because there's Baro who always helps me each and every week over 12 years now more Hashem to find something that's meaningful something that's touching something that inspires me there's a peaceful kind Friedlander at the very end of safer by mid bar brings over here the the reason is to page for it okay so we're gonna have it and I and I'm gonna share with you some thoughts some some of my own experiences some of my own recollections from my own life of Seattle dish might have special divine assistance that I don't think that I've ever shared with anybody ever my except maybe my family I'm gonna share with you because I want to I want to encourage you and inspire you perhaps to think about your past think about your lives okay so the rep I'm free then it says five different reasons five different purposes for the Torah giving us this list of locations let's see what they are Haram Bonnie first he brings the Rambam Hades to be a Rashi he brings the words of rushing to nos and I deliver my voice the Tyra paid attention or made it important to mention each of the different places that they visited Nazca desert locust oddish oddish Morricone map team I am the purpose of it was in order to mention the kindness of a Shem with the Jewish people Chablis she goes are lame very interesting okay Yahya Shem had the Queen upon the Jewish people the total of a linear momentum are that he would take them and you have to go through travails and difficulties in the mid burn the wilderness for forty years my takshashiia una minuta Tony Malcolm Malcolm Thomas no no no Co don't think that they were constantly constantly on the move constantly traveling don't think that a college bar who did it in a way which was cruel and that they had no opportunity to rest alcohol has mana girdle like also Ella are buying fish Naima sauce the entire forty years they only had forty two different locations that they stopped when she Kosovo Rav Rashi me dementia dharshan like Rashi says so the first point is to recognize within the punishment of Allah - for who the negative thing that the Jewish people had to undergo which was the four years in the wilderness there was as I said I implanted inside of the punishment a kindness that there were long periods of time where they stayed in each location they weren't constantly on the move that's point number one point number two Rashi Haiti Minton Houma something very interesting Rashi brings from the measures Marshall amela it's an analogy to a king sure he had been a kyla whose son was sick really on a Makarov under Lewis a and he had to bring him on a very long journey in order for him to get better Keaveney Shahi you Khoisan came to show you - he's still above my Nokomis ice on the way back after the Sun was already better they followed through and they went back over they reviewed it could be that they actually stopped again in each of those locations that they had traveled on the way there Oh Marlo he said to him can you shine anew this is where we slept connect Arnhem this is where we were cold conical Shosh Marussia this is the place where you had that big headache I know calm welcome mascara Assam welcome Charlie they said you scare my Russian rouble mahkum the purpose of it was the king the king took his son the prince through each of those places in order to remind him of all the things that went on all the negative things that had occurred on their way to get well Vanita logic or Almaguer brought us to the negative time it says recline Friedlander the purpose of this was in order to remind the Jewish people of their sins it's important for a person to always remember their sins not to dwell on the negative but actually as the majority of sodomy I've recently read the alternative verdict says that the there has to be an honesty it has to be a recognition of the things that I've done wrong in the past I need to be honest not to dwell on it not to be depressed but all the way around in order to build a better future for myself I need to be able to be honest and recognize the things that have gone on in my past in order to be better in the future and in the same way the Jewish people were reminded of the things that they had done wrong not in order to lambast them and make them feel sad and depressed and and worried that perhaps a sham hates them or something like that no in order for them to know the real score so they could correct those things Cain did arrive a new yoyo like the Robin and Jana says is in charge of I became Riley called Bally chuva lifted a megillah' safer it's appropriate for a person who is done chuhwa who has already changed his ways the negative ways the negative things that he's done he's become greater and better still write down the things that I've done wrong how do our machine itch Allah mohamet mrs. asscher-cut Subic human those things that person has stumbled in and the midst of study hasn't performed properly perhaps they look over savers a crown of some volume and to remind them of that every day and perhaps we could even say that the idea is you know just like the king was saying WOW look for Hashem thank God we you're better look at the contrast between the way things were and the way things are now the Jewish people also are about to enter into entities throughout the land of Israel they're about to experience an amazing spiritual high God is going to be with them in all of their battles but don't forget where we were don't forget where we had challenges where we defied God we need to remember in order to to remain healthy the the Prince needs to remember the way it was and the things that he's done wrong needs to change those things and continue to listen to the advice of the doctor and Moshe Ravana was the greatest doctor they were in his spiritual doctor of all time for the Jewish people and he said to them remember the things that you've done wrong so in the future we don't repeat those mistakes and about Shuvo the person who has repented you should every one of us who has become strong in our relationship with Hashem you to remember the mistakes that we've made so we don't repeat those mistakes very important unusual statement in today's times we like to hear how good we are but it's important to be honest and recognize the mistakes that we made as a tool not to be depressed not to be sad but to be honest and recognize what we need to do to be better that's the second point third point Hazael Anwar say just say call Ison ma'am Shona all of those 40 years shall see some bemidbar lo hee nasty-ass come live rare hashem did not allow the jewish people to run away you know you seem apple-cinnamon ahem first of all I shan't kept them together in case there was a certain level of unity second of all I could borrow who made sure that any enemies that came to fight with the Jewish people they were not now I'm not sure you see my can because I was with you Lloyd I like common the question becomes Ruffin come out on your show there were so many dangerous animals there there were snakes and scorpions and all manner of wild beasts right you never know how sorrowful awkward the verse says in Deuteronomy chapter 8 refers to the snakes and the scorpions blowing knock the ice on the house he gets can I do not allow them to hurt you - for who says I was with you throughout your time in the wilderness I protected you I took care of you the calf miraculous Proclamation that's why I'm said to Moses save us a Masai sternness use from a mid bar write down all of the travels that the Jewish people went through in the wilderness Kadesh you you you I didn't mind nice and shall see soon ahem they must be reminded of all of the miracles that I did for them me not mean I am a magic arena in Geneva as how do we know this because we see that it was written all of these different details all the places that they visited so reclaim says to us alia has curse a McComas the maskers kala have a choice over my name is Raja I mentioned Ethan each of the locations it reminds us of all of the different experiences the Jewish people had in each of those locations Valle de campaña de azúcar Hashem so this helps the Jewish people and us to remember the kindnesses the amazing kindnesses rush em commercial cousin Romania like Romania no rights give leased cars - em we need to remember we need to write down remember for ourselves I will share with you that I have a personal blog that I write only for myself different little logic AHA practice the moment secular schmuck who has shown himself in my life the different coincidences so to speak that have happened the numerous too numerous to count write it down write it down write for yourselves this way we remember the cornices Russian winter cost of revenue yana shakila's cajas - M - C Corinth Kassala Wiesbaden ma'am the person needs that to remind himself of those kindnesses of Hashem and think about them contemplate them shanem are as it also says in Deuteronomy chapter 8 verse 2 visa heart is called Raja Huli kanakas e are born Shona person needs to remember all of the paths that a sham sham brought us on for 4 years sir classic see Monica daily scars color jean-jacques a sham I need to make little hints for myself oh the miracle of dor Dandi - our darkness to redemption i just what a miracle what a miracle I created this album so many people supported it and helped me get it through D 2 R 1 R 2 D 2 D 2 R okay number 4 okay so we have so far what we have we have a collision broke ludos tested with us even though he's punishing us that was number one number two was remember the mistakes that we've made so that we don't repeat them and number three is remember the kindnesses of Hashem so that we always keep that in mind we can we contemplate that Karsa Tov thanking God I'm a for harem ban heavy media Haram bomb the RAM ban Marni's brings from Maimonides from the Rambam relation then my man kick sivasamy soichiro kuzuki Munna an amazing thing that mentioning all of these travels and travails of the Jewish people is to strengthen one of the purposes is to strengthen our belief in Hashem Chicana got some amazing variety with their nieces all TVs to remind us that there were amazing miracles that Hashem was doing for us not just the simple hasad him day-to-day daily life things taking us from the question but they were outright miracles that occurred a cost of he says like this toy Alice be the awesome what is the purpose of knowing about all of these different masses these travels let's err lajas Camus uncle my idea it's a great it's greatly important to remember all of these different muscles the travels ki nice analysis analysis how you a meteors the color I am they were absolutely clear absolutely true to ever saw them Akbar sand what happens with the passage of time in the future use varnish more it's going to be you know second-hand information you know where it sits here say you have Ziva mushroom a meal right we have is even much a man the person who hears they won't believe it how could it be wash and provide forty years every single day for the Jewish people all the food that they needed the mud miraculous bread how could it be it's something that could be denied because we didn't see it I mean Isis hot Arvin if life's a hot sois immediately shall be made about our bomb shot I mean CSI McCauley I'm this is one of the most awesome miracles of the Torah testifies to the Jewish people were there 40 years in them in the wilderness and every single day the manna fell for them Amos was like it's been an issue they were in a place which was far away from where people dwelt and in civvy a Slovenian like Malcolm Zarate a given rear my man wasn't a natural location for a human being to live there was no date trees there were no grapes there were no pomegranate so I'm right Tyra let him know how to me I miss Shelly she sees him the verse tells us in doing around in chapter 29 verse 5 that the Jewish people did not eat bread they didn't drink any wine didn't drink any beer how did they manage without wine and beer you know I'm saying the call Allah is the same but they did because a college boy who took care of them amazing miracles called Eila Isis Haim the mice and nays all of these were signs that occurred all of these mentions of the Messiah furred to these miracles nearest lion they were seen by people by the people who motion Elena was talking to cash a corroboree Sparky a ver la illaha Isis mushy overall derailment and action knew that time would pass and this would just be a description of times that that happened long ago 30 you know 30 300 years ago as of today low you mean our shine by hem it could be something that people would not believe in he actually came he doesn't remember has a occurred when I you should mock ownership an anthem some people could think that was really close to where people lived remember so sure you should be no Sean Bonet are over you know him for example like you know where the ABS live today which there are many better ones who live in in wildernesses but they're not that far away from where people live my kid Macomb is assured yes from harsh MacArthur might be a place a wilderness where there was places to to be involved in plowing and planting a yes on a 7 with some economical many autumn or could be a place where there's different herbs or different things that could be eaten she had him come as I embarrassed my him maybe there's pits of water there I can't hear me Lee Brisbane in autumn I shot a sailor the tourist specifies makes it clear that was not the case the Jewish people pass through a place that was impossible to live it was impossible to live in those locations if not for the miracle at kelabra who did every single day for them but music a la Isis Coulomb is economist ace the purpose of mentioning each and every one of the locations of the pass-through was so that we know exactly where they were in all these different locations far far away from inhabited areas condition Roy somewhat there's a bomb VA devices a catalyst I'm the minute other member kamsani my bro I'm shown us that we should have the ability to be aware of the fact that the Jewish people were completely provided for by God so that's point number four physic and I'm wound of strengthening our belief in Hashem and recognizing that there are amazing miracles that Kailash for who is doing for us all over the time just like he did then he's constantly doing miracles for us number five last point hazael arm very interesting very interesting a Lamaze a it's a magician by member mr c louis de julio saboteur economist also hello why did each of these places merit to be placed in the torah and to be mentioned to be remembered for all time why is it that indeed each of these places was mentioned lamas aku because matter comma so say el Chiquito se Stroh because each of the locations the Jewish people were received by that place so to speak we're speaking about an inanimate object a place right but each place receive the Jewish people vasa Dakota Sparkle eatin scorin Hashem is going to give a reward to each of those locations in the future time when Messiah arrives and Messiah arrives the civvie isuzu minbar with SIA pataga Arava right that that there's going to be a rejoicing in the wilderness and the tea frak to have it tell us the whole location is going to to blossom blue para flowers thief Rafa together rather we're gonna etc it's going to rejoice okay so we see that each of those places that provided a place for the Jewish people to stay a respite for the Jewish people from their travels they will be rewarded in the future when Messiah comes they will no longer be a wilderness there will be a place Sinai desert will turn into an exotic and blooming lush place Kaka cars ative says crime-free landed at the power of recognizing the good who is a member as a Shem is the foundation of serving God but Sarah Ricola fired as amis ice the Torah extends its discussion of the travels Nevada is a curse attempt shall shake evil ki blue s Israel to express thanks to the locations that they received Klaus or the Jewish people let's like see liturgical Makka Moo Makka Moo Ashbaugh mishima Carson type and the very fact that I wrote about each location expresses that cars at of the thanks Shem has on behalf of the Jewish people and that we have for each of those locations and places that we've gone and you know I think back I was I was recently thinking back to something that happen in my life 30 years ago 30 years ago I have an anniversary coming up of my first solo I was in a choir as a child called a Miami Boys Choir I came in when I was 9 years old and that was just a member of the choir for the first year I didn't have any solos my first solo was a song called mahira hero Hashemi like a new show my show ma belle right yeah who da you'll actually find me singing it on YouTube as a child in now and so that was my first solo and I had that solo not much to Shabbos not mo but the following matzah Shabbos there was a concert and it was originally supposed to be mostly Shabbos not moon it was outdoors it rained it was rescheduled for the following week with a tent and I had got my first solo I was chosen but there was such a Chicago practice the I was able to get that first solo act the confidence for it because at the beginning of that summer at the beginning of that summer there was a man his name was Easter Landsman of blessed memory he's no longer with us but he had created a he had rented a theatre there was a theater in Woodburn and he had all kinds of games and he put on shows he had he would do magic shows himself and he had a keyboardist to play some music and he hired me as a child is the first time I was ever hired I think to to do a job to sing somewhere and he hired me at the beginning of this summer I saying I don't know if I did it once or twice I remember exactly but it was enough that I had a lot of confidence in singing that song and I sang that song mahira now the wid things worked in the summer was that many of the kids the regular soloists were often camp so we had a we had a concert on original mustard shops not more than the following week and many of those kids weren't around and when it came to the song mahira this is this particular song and you did a soloist for the low part the kid who was usually doing wasn't around and he turned to me I don't remember exactly why he turned to me he said or he's I think he may have said who knows this song well and I raised my hand and I sang the song and I had so much confidence because the beginning of the summer I had been doing that song with with freestyle Landsman and I got the solo now another part of the of the chicago practice of it was that my parents didn't know I was gonna get the solo and they were of course excited and happy but I had a friend in the choir who also lived in my neighborhood who also got a solo in that song I believe it was his first solo as well as names Adam is an Englishman and his parents were there with a video camera so even though my parents didn't have their video camera there they had no idea that it would be a concert of note we were able to get the film from this friend who lives in our neighborhood in West Hempstead and so that's a myself from 30 years ago and I still remember and I still appreciate to see after the schmeyer the help from heaven tell your story from this week a little story that happened within the working on the this album darkness to redemption so I promise people 5 bonus tracks and one of the tracks one of the the fourth bonus track that I did was a song called me on my feet so very nice song davon and it's called very nice to me meaning he shares Kelly his paw so it's a song that that was recommended to me that I should know the song and I learned the song and I produced the song for this album and that day I sent it out as soon as I sent it out one of the people who were my crowdfunders writes back to me immediately and said I was just thinking yesterday I promised I was just thinking yesterday that I wish that Ari Gold leg would do this song for for one of the bonus tracks and I wrote back well I laughed of course and I said oh she loves you know when a show does a little thing but even the fact that he put in this person's head too to think of that song and wish for that song and then I did the song like those are little coincidences that I could or who giving us a kiss and we need to write those things down we need to remember those things we need to recognize those things and that's and that's what the partials teaching us remember the past remember all the stops along the way you know I bahama have the 19 albums in the last 19 years which is an amazing amazing thing so much the other dish mine so much help there was lead she was cocky we knew there was some couple leave me there was pure soul there was Shabbos get ready there was Sheva Saqlain volumes one in two Chevy's confirm one and two I'm a clod the English album acapella saw one two three four five six the new one life Sickler code these are all stops along my journey in music I can also go through wow so many things I've learned so many people I've met my Russia Shiva repair so much in learning so many myths actors I don't in first year business I learn in Dharam and second year of a Spanish I learned kaduche in repeated that my sector in the mirror now I'm learning Bates uh I finished Broca's sucker eleventh grade was suka Baba kama was twelfth grade all of these addresses all of these points significant travelling points difference for him that I was inspired by the beginning I was for 12 years ago I was quoting from Irving the Miller and then I was quoting I know has always been quoting from a Russia Shiva and then I got into Rome Kyle I got into ribbon a common rep Nelson and the issue bits are now very much I've been quoting from I'm Friedlander there was a coup for I was very strong in the majors creating my own ideas you know all of these are paths all of these are stops along the way how much of cars are safe how much gratitude we can have how much recognition of the miracles Iran has done for us and also it's important not to forget because it's easy not to think about this part but also it's important to think about the mistakes that we've made and how we've corrected them and appreciate the fact that we've moved on and moved higher I want to bless you and ask you to bless me ashram should help us that each and every one of us should recognize all the amazing things Shem is doing for us on a constant basis write it down remind ourselves ashram should help us to recognize that he's constantly in our lives doing miracles for us whether it's many many years ago or whether it's today throughout all of that time Hashem is always with us thank you so much for listening I have wonderful Shabbos this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you for more podcasts like this please visit www.carmensognonvi.com/newsletter [Music]