Re'eh - Greater Expansion

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with ari goldwag recorded with hashem's neverending assistance in 5782 2022. this expression is partially super a and i'd like to read to you chapter 12 verses 19 and twenty the sikkim are talking about the idea of bringing carbonates bringing sacrifices bringing animals to the base of english eating them there and the pasta tells us two different sukkim that don't seem to be related don't seem to be connected and nevertheless the magistrate explains that they are very much connected and there's a very deep lesson in this connection says he shall it mentions the fact that when you come to shalom you're supposed to eat there your carbonas the sacrifices etc and there's an obligation to give certain tithes truman's mistress to the levites to the kohanum to the priests be careful not to forget the levites don't forget the people who are serving you the levites are the singers in the vasa mikdash of your life on your land and as well as the madrashim explain allegation to give to dhaka is not just of course when the jewish people are in the land of israel it extends beyond that but there's a special mitzvot to get to the levites that obligation is for the times of the best they're included if they're poor in the future time when we're not on our land but there's an obligation to come to the basement temple give to the levites don't forget the levites don't forget those who need it don't forget those who serve hashem serve you give them their needs that's the first pasuk talking about tzedakah trumas meisters next passage says something very interesting will expand your borders as he promised you meaning you're going to come into arts israel you're going to come into the land and you're going to have now the holy land of israel a marta interesting what are we going to say it's the moment we've all been waiting for meshiach has arrived what are you going to say says supposedly something that we wouldn't have expected i'd like to eat meat right that there's no joy without meat it usually refers to a basar of corbin of a sacrifice but in this case you're far away as opposed to says you're not near the base i make dash and you want to eat meat without bringing in a corbin so you're allowed to eat meat so what is this plastic coming to say so the the measure says that in the times when the jewish people were in the wilderness the only way that it was permitted to eat meat was if you brought a carbon those sacrifices that also involved eating were allowed to eat it but otherwise if it was a if it was not a carbon if you just wanted to eat meat not in that context it was not permitted when they came into arts israel however when it came time for the jewish people to enter the land of israel when hashem will expand your borders jewish people are now living in earth israel and then you can eat meat that's what the measure says let's read this first meditation side it's it's of course it needs explanation why should it be why should it matter or what's this i concept like first we're talking about the livium talking about giving them the ties talking about based on mikdash and about eating sacrifices then all of a sudden we're talking about an expansion inaudible and asking for meat i wanna eat meat i gotta have meat it's it's a little bit strange the the sequence of the sukim doesn't seem to be connected in fact the tube sulkim indeed there's a space between them there's a sama which would seem to imply that they're not connected but the measures connects them let's see what the measure says there are many things that on one hand they seem to be forbidden and on the other hand they're permitted as we said christopher was forbidden to eat meat unless they brought a sacrifice so that's actually talking about sacrificing you know to slaughter an animal for sacrifice outside the other plastic box if you want to eat the meat you have to bring a corbin that's how it was originally so to speak set down however now says it's mutter you're allowed to begin to land if it's be loud right you can you can do it also an artistry of course you can bring a corbin you can eat the meat of that core bone of the sacrifice then they're going to be allowed to eat meat even if they're not bringing carbon if they're not bringing a sacrifice so what is the idea what this concept here of of being in an expanded place and all of a sudden needing to eat meat what is this concept what is the teaching of the depth of this concept and now there's a there's a few midrashim on this passage of kira that hashem is expanding and the madrashim from here on have a single theme i'm not sure if we're going to read all of them inside certainly not enough time to do so but it would seem like the majority were also not connected we'll soon see but two pieces three pieces later we the magic comes back to our concept of the meat of that you're going to be allowed to eat meat when you get into artsy sorel and it goes through the concepts that we're about to understand together so there's clearly a connection between these concepts so we need to understand what is the connection let's see this next piece of i will rejoice and i will be awesomely happy in your kindness you saw my difficulties you saw my challenges you saw how i was oppressed how i had troubles you didn't put me into the hands of my enemies this is why we bring this basic you gave my feet a place to stand in a wide open an expansive place okay so it speaks about the tsar the constricted place and then it speaks about the expanded place rabon same rabbis they said like this apostle this positive is talking about joseph right he went through all these trials and travails he went through the difficult story with his brothers they sold him to egypt he was challenged with potiphar's wife they sent him into jail went through all of these difficulties let's see of the world i want to rejoice because of all the kindness that you did for me if you would have just saved me from being caught in the clutches of the wife of potiphar and you wouldn't have made me a king i would have been quite happy i would have been quite joyous but now i have the kingship now i became a leader now i have power over people and i have the ability to help them you saw my challenges you saw my pain so yes he was oppressed he was in pain he was in difficulty oh yeah if he didn't hashem did not allow him to be captured by the enemy is it fair this is the wife of potiphar she tried to ensnare him in her grip you stood me up in an expansive wish usually i see all callers ryan you made me to be the king over all of egypt etc he talked tough with them it's very interesting brings the whole position the whole concept he was given dominion over his brothers right so the magister is clearly saying in order to get to point c you have to go through points a and b in order to get to that point of rejoicing interestingly he's already rejoicing at the beginning and he's rejoicing perhaps you can say with his dreams in order to get to the from a to b to c you have to pass through all those points you have to pass through the difficulty the challenge and then you get to a place of expansiveness measures continues and says it's also talking about israel the jewish people the people of israel we it is speaking of us jewish people say we also are going to rejoice in the good things that you've done for us if you would have just paid the egyptians their due payment giving them the punishment for all the oppression they caused us we would have been happy we're so happy that you also gave us tremendous wealth you saw our difficulty you saw our challenge so before we explain this talking about you safe measure says it's also talking about the people of israel you saw our pain you saw how we were oppressed we called that to hashem our god god heard us god answered our prayers the doctor snapshot you saw how we were constricted ali associated with such a difficult time it was such a bitter life as we all know from the hagoda relays but you didn't leave me in the clutches of my enemy said paro harasso this is referring to pharaoh the evil pharaoh should do not allow us to be stuck in the clutches of paro and martha america when do we get expanded we come to arts israel when we come to the land of israel there's an expansion expanded borders israel is going to when the shia comes expand through from the mediterranean all the way past the other side of the jordan through the area which is now called jordan that's all part of arts israel up down for rats is going to be an explosion it's going to be an expansion here too the magistrate is clearly saying just like yosef had to go through difficulties and challenges in order to get to the place of leadership the place of expansion jewish people also have to go through difficulties and challenges in order to get to the place of expansion so this point this concept seems to have nothing to do with the previous concept which said talking about a guy who wants to eat meat he wants the artsy sorel smuther now permitted to eat meat what is the connection here what is the concept here and how does it connect also to the concept of giving to the levites giving to the livium their tithes their trueness and meisters so in order to understand we really need to look at the next section of the madrish the next section of the majors talks about a story very perhaps perhaps a famous story a certain great great person a wealthy person his name was abba yudhin his name was abba yudun and abiutin every time the sages would come i'm sorry am i saying this name wrong let me see make sure i got this right yes whenever the rabbis would come to collect money for the yeshiva he would give a tremendous amount of money was very rich his fortunes changed he became very poor he only had a small amount of land left he used to have many many acres of land a small piece of property was left rabbis came and abuden didn't go to shul he was afraid the rabbis would find him they would ask him for money he had nothing to give he was embarrassed he was just so embarrassed his wife says to him look why are you not going to shul why are you not going and he explains because the rabbis are there he's embarrassed he's not going to give she says i have an idea why don't you take the piece of land that we have left sell the piece of land take part of the money give it to the rabbis it's a great idea that's what he did he took the money didn't really have the money but he gave the money to the rabbis and the rabbis realized what happened and they prayed for him he said they said that you should become wealthy again. and abiutin not long after that and the piece of the small piece of land that he had saved for himself that he didn't sell he was digging there and he found a treasure and this treasure made him even wealthier than he fabulously wealthy more wealthy than he was before and we came back again the rabbis came back after he became even more wealthy he gave them even more and he said your blessing came true that's the magist now what's the idea it's based on the paso there's an expansion here the gift of a person will expand him he will stand in front of great people so abby youtube he lost everything but except for a little bit he gave that to the rabbis and then wow explosion of wealth what is the measures teaching us how does it connect to our posting so in the posture of the positive version of talking about asking for me when you get there to australia you're in the expanded land of eretz israel you ask for meat what does that have to do with aviation story so clearly this lobuten story is connected to the previous pasta because the previous puzzling says make sure to give to the levium to the levites make sure to give to those who are serving the jewish people in this case the rabbis the rabbis collecting for the yeshiva collecting so that people can be completely filled with torah they can generate that spiritual energy inside of themselves through the torah abu was giving to them and he lost his money but what what's the story here like what okay it was a sacrifice but why did he lose his money why did he all of a sudden become even more rich so this is what i believe that manchester is coming to teach us and this is the shot in the story with the isiv it's a shadow story with the jewish people going through challenges and ultimately we're waiting for that time when the jewish people will be the leaders of the world right we'll be the leaders of the world ten gentiles will grab the four corner garments of each jew and say take us with you for god is with you so that's going to be an incredible expansion yosef had the expansion being the leader over egypt and over the jewish people but how do you get to that place of expansion the matrix is very clear and this is the understanding of these sukim the sukhim are saying look there's not it's not just two separate ideas giving tsudaka giving charity to those who are poor giving to the levite who serves and coming into the land and asking for meat we need to still understand what is the idea of asking for meat these are connected concepts these concepts are teaching us a very deep idea you know one of the things that i mentioned this recently one of the things that people say when it's about why do people not move to arts israel there's many reasons people have families people have parents who are older and need their help they can't just it's not easy it's not an easy thing to pick up and move towards israel many people are but it's not an easy thing the idea here is an amazing amazing idea that is in order to get to a place of expansion and eretz israel is the place of expansion the place is it's a place where god gives us a special divine providence a special he's he's especially involved in our lives in order to get to that place you have to go through a b c in order to get to the place of expansion in order to get for yosef to the place of leadership in order for the jewish people to get to the place of eretz israel in order for abba yudun to get to a place where he's fabulously wealthy where he can give as much money as he wants tons and tons of tzedakah to the rabbis in order to get through either have to pass through this place of constriction you have to pass through that place now one way of thinking about it you know it's not easy to get sudoku it's not easy to give charity it's it's a hard thing to do you know it's my money i worked hard for this money i constricted myself in order to be able to get to that place where i would be able to receive this money i didn't want to work i didn't want to put in all the effort that it takes to receive the money that i need to support my family but i have no choice i got to do it right and that's one aspect of it but then for me to take that money that i've worked so hard for and give it to somebody else that's even harder it's even harder think about the trueness and mice this person is has a field think about the farmers this year in shemitah what a what a difficult what a difficult nissan which what a challenge so you spend six years working your fields that's your partners for your family you have loans you have you know your whole land that's the life fallow how will you make it how you live the money that they give you from the karanashi is not enough how you gonna make it but here's the thing okay and this is it's it's a little bit deeper it's a little bit deeper because you start off on a certain level abby youtube is the perfect example he started he was rich he had money he was giving to dukkha but he wasn't all the way there he wasn't fabulously wealthy now one way to get fabulously wealthy is to keep working and losing and that might even work but the message is telling us and the supreme are telling us there's another way to get fabulously wealthy do you know what that way is you're rich you lose it all and you sacrifice further when abhiyan says you know i'm going to take my land and i'm going to sell it so that i can give that money to the rabbonum what an incredible sacrifice and think about it i have nothing left for myself what am i leaving for myself but what a wise wife he had she saw that there was something inside of him something inside of his heart that said no i have to give this money i can't look them in the face and not give it to them so she said to him do whatever it takes do whatever it takes when you do whatever it takes when you face off with that challenge and do whatever it takes that's how you get through to the other side of which is expansion person who gives sadaka to the to the lady that's very hard my hard-earned money my harder produce my hard-earned produce the money the produce that i worked so hard to create squish it bring it to a different level that's what the story of albion teaches and that's the story of yosef yosef said i am the leader over you guys look at this dream right and it was true it was a true dream and he really was supposed to be the leader without them you know without their resistance but the oppression the difficulty brought into a different place think about it he was supposed to be lead over the jewish people where did he end up being the leader over egypt over the the greatest empire of the known world at that time he became a leader over egypt and over the jewish people so his world was expanded out by going through this very narrow place this very difficult time interesting it mentioned specifically potiphar's wife going through that difficult moment you know it's hard for me to give this a duck up i'm going to give it and on the other side is expansion on the other side is the and in trying to understand the concept of what now i'm asking for meat it's a difficult thing to say i'm not sure i have my my grasp on it completely but perhaps you could talk about it and think about it in this way beforehand when they were in there in the mid bar before they got to artistrel so the only way to eat meat was in a very specific way in a very limited way and when ghazal and sinclair means that somehow and i don't know what this means but on a spiritual level there's a joy right is an expansion right when you when you smile your face expands right it's it's uh when you're smiling you're in a state of expansion when you're laughing or a different consciousness an expanded consciousness somehow meat brings us to a place of simcho but when i say that you can only meet in the basement that means that there's a limited way that you can experience that joy i don't want to talk about meat as bas or taiva this meat that i must have i'm you know i just i love food so i have to have this food let's not think about it that way let's think about it at least at the core essence of what the teaching here is the meat represents a certain simcha that i have a spiritual simcha now is that simcha limited to only being possible inside of the basal magdash or can i have that simka anywhere can i talk to hashem only inside of the shul only inside of the synagogue can i learn torah only there or can i speak to hashem wherever i am can i learn torah wherever i'm going the idea the concept here at its essence is that there's one state one state of being which is a state it's cool i can have me in the base limitation i get through from one side to the other i come from the wilderness and i get all the way into earth's israel there's a hercova in order to get there it's israel do you know how many trials and travails three thousand three hundred years since that time until hopefully soon we'll make meshiach and we'll have that experience of the true expansion so much difficulty so much trouble so many pain so many painful experiences but all of that is to bring us to a place of true expansion just like yes and just like what happened with abba uden there's one place that we were at hey would have been really nice you know moisture would have been we would have come in here but you know what the fact that we've gone through all these thousands of years of history and troubles and pain and oppression means that we're going to get to a different place which is so much better so much more expensive so much more awesome that's what we're waiting for and that's what's represented by the concept of the buster of the of the meat somehow this represents this great idea of spiritual expansion we go from making sure to give to the lady which means i have to give what i can to the lady from my stuff i have to suppress my ego i have to suppress my gut reaction which is hey this is my money i need to give it to him get to the other side of that what's the next pasuk you have to go through that summit you have to go through that space there's it's hard to get from one side to the other then you find the other side of that is indeed expansion going through that challenge going through that difficulty walking through and saying you know this is the right thing to do this is the right thing to do i'm going to get to the other side and i'm going to find expansion moving to eretz israel i've said it i'm going to say it again it's a hard decision i'm just speaking to somebody who just the first time in arts israel it's past shabbos unbelievable he moved with his family from baltimore i think it was and they came to eretz israel and i said to him you know you're going to go through the ringer it's going to be a challenge i'm not wishing it on you but that's the nature of it in order to get from that place to this place in order to get from one type of expansion to a deeper spiritual expansion you have to pass through the fire you have to pass through a place of constriction in place of challenge yes it's true all the things that people say yes it's true it's it's there's challenges there's a partner the challenges in the areas of our children but it's possible to get through it it's possible to get to the other side it's the only way to get to the other side to that point of ki so i want to bless you and ask you to bless me hashem to help us and we should be able to be willing to to recognize and to be willing to face off with the challenges and know that these challenges are for our best these challenges are what make us into greater people these challenges are what get us to the other side of true archive the way that it was before you know we were coasting but now hashem should help us find that place of great expansion of great spiritual wealth thank you so much for listening 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]