Tzav - Offering of the Broken Hearted

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with ari goldwag recorded with hashem's neverending assistance in roma pacific 782 2022. this week's position is partial i'd like to share with you a beautiful thought from the madrish speaking about this vaccine speaking about the carbonates the sacrifices that we bring speaking about them in terms of which means that the sacrifices of hashem what is the true sacrifice it's a broken spirit it's a sense of humility it's a sense of brokenness and let's see together the the madrish which as i'm a fortunate explain come comes to explain the pasuk the posix says which means the completely burnt offering the pasta says which literally means it is the completely burnt sacrifice and the question is what does it mean why does it repeat this language so to explain this gives us a very beautiful idea we have three opinions as to what is the explanation of this verse chad umar so if you look at the verses inside it's kadaita see it's worth seeing in tehillim in psalms chapter 51 verses 19 through the end of the paragraph it speaks about the fact that hashem wants the brokenness hashem wants us to come to him contrite we've done something wrong we're bringing sacrifices in order to atone for our sins and by doing so so the verses continue we speak about the fact that the best is to be rebuilt the temple is to be built let's see what the measure says one explains as follows that the verse is speaking about king david king david says in front of hashem did something wrong he sinned whatever the context is and you know a person does something wrong they don't want to admit they've done something wrong but king david admits that he's done something wrong he overcomes his eight sahara his his his uh negative inclination so why is it connect the idea of broken spirit to the building of the temple which is what the verses say in the continuation because king david was saying that if you accept my true if you accept my brokenness my admission that i've done something wrong i know that the what is the result of that the result of admission the result of an awareness of having done wrong admitting i've done wrong being ready to change my ways the result is that his son he knew that his son would be the one who was going to build the holy temple he's going to build the altar he's going to bring the sacrifices that are commanded in the torah and i didn't cry like we see this reference to broken spirit another explanation of these verses is as follows how do we know that if a person that any person it's not specifically per se speaking about king david but any person who's done something wrong but he does chuva he recognizes that he's done something wrong he regrets it he accepts upon himself to change how do we know that such a person who has done this it's as if he's built the temple he's built the altar and it's as if he's brought a sacrifice upon the altar so it's not only referring to king david although it is of course because it was speaking but it's really an example for all of us that each and every one of us can be assured that when we do such a thing when we do chuva we do something wrong but we regret our actions we repent so the result is that it says if hashem considers it as if we have come and built the temple we've brought sacrifices the third explanation of this verse should circle avoid the carbon how do we know every day we pray three times a day we say the amir the prayer we get to it says we speak about that hashem should bring back the temple and then what do we do we bow down we bow down we say thank you god so how do you know that this is what we do that this is the order that we mentioned the avoid that we mentioned the fact that god should accept our service in the temple and bring back the car bonuses sacrifices and then we bow down for those who want to explain from this very verse it says which means there's a broken spirit when a person bows so the person shows his he shows his humility his subservience so when can a person ask that hashem will bring the temple back will bring back the avoid of the service the carbonus the sacrifices if they show subservience those two things come together when we recognize the great things that hashem does write a good example of this we just celebrated purim some people today are still celebrating in yerushalayim in jerusalem so we say alanis and where do we say we say in right what is im it's a recognition of the miracles that hashem has performed for us there's a recognition when i say when i say thank you so i'm bowing my head i'm showing my subservience to the one who has provided me with some good what is the aftermath or the positive thing that comes out of the story of the megillah and that child is darius and he's the one who allows the building of the temple so the result of us saying thank you the result of this recognition is called the the one who yahudah is of thanks mordechai is the one who shows thanks and recognition from whom all the blessings arrive and therefore the result is redemption the result is a return to the best of the beautiful idea that whatever we find that hashem says that i don't want this type of animal for a sacrifice but hashem does want that type of thing in the human being let's see bellas if you want to bring a sacrifice you cannot bring the sacrifice from an animal which is blind which is which has a broken limb which has other kinds of blemishes you know a broken animal physically broken is not acceptable as a corbin but a human being who breaks himself who makes himself subservient that is the most acceptable the most beautiful sacrifice that a person can make america alexandri alexandria says to us with which hashem uses that hashem uses we bring a few different a few verses in line in in the vein of this verse that we quoted god is close to those who are brokenhearted god heals those who have a broken heart the one who is broken who is lowly of spirit and the sacrifice of hashem is the one who has a broken heart leave nishbar says the madrish what is the concept of the laid nishbar and we're going to get back we have to remember there was a question at the beginning what is this why does it say it is an isla which is an extra language so here we come to the explanation of that he says a martial he says an analogy to a king who is going in the wilderness and his beloved one comes so obviously in the wilderness there's not very much there's not very much but a friend of the king as the king was going he didn't have anything so the friend came and he gave him a basket full of to ainum am i right it's the enemy yes of figs and one barrel of wine now that's not very much certainly not very much for a king king has as much as he wants he has a very plentiful amount of supplies but he didn't have anything there and his friend came and gave him that um isaac he would god so the king said that's all you brought me only brought me a small amount it's a very small amount so this friend of the king says my master the king. this is what i have for now but don't worry when you come to your palace you will see how much i will honor you i will give you so much more when you come home hashem tells us you know we are in a spiritual wilderness it's called the world it's called this world that we currently inhabit hashem says this bring an oila all i want is a small sacrifice a small sacrifice but but is that all that you're going to give me right so the language of the passage is doubled it says bring me anoila is that the oila we're reading it the magician is understanding it as a question that god is saying to us is that all that you're going to bring me even though i'm asking for a small amount obviously i'm in a place we only have a small amount to offer [Music] i'm on the front of riband so the jewish people say in front of hashem this is a small amount indeed that's how much we're bringing at this time at the current time and here we come back to the verses in the end of tehillim nun alef at the end of the 51st chapter of the psalms so when you do good when you bring back your your divine presence to jerusalem to see into zion and you rebuild the walls of jerusalem then you will desire the many many sacrifices the many many offerings that we bring which which are complete and the idea behind this madrish is incredible is so deep and so important you know we think about the story of purim and we think about what the measures is saying here and we learn an awesome thing you know there's something in the important story which bothers me we read about mordechai we have this incredible salvation we have this awesome you know hashem saves the jewish people here is the the these two people plotting to kill haman wants to hang him up and instead hashem to ask him about how to show honor to the one who saved his his life which was mordecai muhammad ends up hanging on the very gallows that he built for mordechai but the fundamental question is you know it's very nice it's unbelievable that esther came in she was inside of the palace in order to save the jewish people but you know if vashti hadn't died and if esther hadn't come in murica wouldn't have been sitting in the charamel in the entrance of the king and if martha wasn't sitting in the shell human wouldn't have gotten angry at the jewish people he wouldn't have wanted to destroy them so the whole story begins because of the fact in other words you have the whole problem is created by the very ones who solve the problem so what is the understanding of this story it's very difficult to understand but you see there's an incredible message in the story of purim and it's also the message of this mantra and that is that it's the very problem it's the very problem itself which is necessary in order to bring to bring about a salvation because really the truth is that the jewish people were in a very lonely state they were in a very low place spiritually they had eaten from the suede they thought that they were rejected by hashem they were not yet ready for salvation they weren't yet ready to be brought back to eretz israel to the land of israel they were not yet ready to have the base amigos rebuilt they had to have something that would shake them up we look at our challenges and we think why is god doing this to me wouldn't it be better not to have the challenge not to have difficulty not to be saved just i want to live a quiet life but hashem shakes us up hashem shakes up our lives gives us challenges hashem gives us problems hashem puts us in a situation which will create a challenge which will create a problem in order for the very problem itself to be resolved in order for us to end up on a higher level a greater and deeper level than we were before now the king is going in the measure the king is going in a wilderness he's going in a place where there's nothing for him to eat and he says and and he says to this this friend of his you only gave me a small amount but the idea is that the very wilderness itself hashem as it were is going with us in this dark place in this wilderness and we have to offer him whatever we have hashem likes broken things and doesn't matter he says hashem wants broken things what is the idea because that's really all that we have what do we have to offer hashem do we have a great amount of accomplishments do we have a great amount of spirituality do we have a great amount of connectedness to hashem to offer him as it were we don't have that much but what we can offer is a small thing which is a great thing at least we can offer him our contriteness our recognition of our brokenness our recognition we've done stuff wrong what does that mean we're bringing a carbon here because we've done stuff wrong we want it we want an atonement what we're saying is we're in this darkness we're in this wilderness but at least i can offer you a small thing a small carbon a small sacrifice a small brokenness of spirit of recognition that i've done something wrong a regret i feel bad about it at least that i can offer him in the end i say to hashem i'm going to bring you so much when you come back to your palace and you have a base of mikdash i'm going to bring you endless amounts of recognition of the things that i've perhaps done wrong or the the thanks that i want to show you for all the good things that you've done to me but i i live in a wilderness i live in the darkness and in the wilderness i can't bring you the king that much i can't bring you so much i can only bring you a little thing a little isla a little carbon a little basket of figs a little bottle of wine that's all i have here but at least that i can offer and when i offer that so what is the result the result is ultimately i become on a new level that brokenness i can either it can be forced on me through the challenges of life or i can choose the brokenness myself by breaking myself admitting i've done wrong and choosing a higher pass choosing to become a greater person at least that and ultimately what happens is that when mashiach comes the messiah arrives rebuild the temple reveal yourself in the world and then i'm going to do great things i'm going to be much more faithful to hashem well obviously vishnu reveals himself we see god it's much easier to be faithful to him it's much easier to do what's right but the fact that in the darkness in the wilderness i brought something that shows that when i bring something later it's not just because oh wow everyone's doing it it's not just because oh wow god god's revealed in the world i did it even when it was not so easy i even broke myself i broke my spirit even at the time when it wasn't so easy to break my spirit because i was in a spiritual wilderness i didn't see hashem so openly it wasn't so clear that he was there with me if i can break myself there if i can be subservient there in our current state so then when i get to the real place the place where hashem reveals himself where the base of english is built then when i bring all of those corporates all those sacrifices they're so much more powerful there's so much more real they're so much more meaningful if the jewish people wouldn't have gone through that darkness that that channel had difficulty it wouldn't have meant too much that they would have a base on english why because okay yeah we have it they would take it they would have taken it for granted and really they wouldn't have been on the level to receive it because they had dropped so far they had fallen so far they could eat from the sudah of celebrating their downfall they needed to have a situation which would break them in order to lift them up and to bring them to the level that they needed to be on in order to receive the incredible good that hashem wanted to bring to them i want to bless you and i ask you to bless me hashem should help us to recognize that our challenges are therefore are good hashem should help us to not necessarily need those challenges to be forced upon us but rather some should help us to recognize where we need to repent where we need to change where we need to break ourselves and have a broken heart over the things that we've done wrong the regret that we need to have hashem should help us to be able to bring that little carbon oiler is that all yeah that's all for now was to be able to be to be zaika to merit to be able to reach that time when the base of english is rebuilt the temple is rebuilt and we bring all those sacrifices the many many sacrifices which are so much more meaningful because of the fact that we brought those sacrifices the small sacrifices even now even in our time thank you so much for listening have a great shot miss we'll see you again next time 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 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