Vayikra - Living Like Angels

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with ari goldberg recorded with hashem's never earning assistance in ramacham israel 57 82. this week's parish is part of we have the beginning of a brand new safer a brand new book of the torah and we have hashem calling to moshe now that we've created this mishkan now that the shechina the divine presence has come down upon a mishkan hashem calls to moshe and he commands him in the avodah service that's going to take place inside of the mishkan and the manchester gives us some very important ideas at the very beginning of our parish began to explain the concept of our parsha what is idea that hashem calls to moshe we're going to have a few different important interesting ideas that are explained before we get back to what it means that hashem specifically calls tomosyrabeno as is the way of the magish the message will bring up which in the end is going to relate to our parsha and it will see a few different ideas that seem to be unrelated but of course all of these ideas are also related the verse says in tehillim in psalms chapter 2 103 verse 20. bless o you hashem i'm sorry hashem will be blessed by his malachim we usually refer to as angels but it also can mean god's messengers and we'll see that it's not referring to angels but rather somebody else the ones who are very powerful those who do his will those who do his word there says the says the mantra who is it talking about who's this who are these who are these messengers right usually amalgas as we said an angel because an angel is a messenger of god doing the will of god in belgium says keep saying the message says i like hashem called it can't be that this verse is referring to angels to heavenly messengers because we already have the passage the verse tells us that all of his hosts calls of right when we refer to the malachi when we refer to the angels themselves they refer to as the hosts of god the army of hashem why because cults love all of them do god's will they don't have any bachelor they don't have free will they don't have their own sense of self and desire to do things their way so therefore it says cults of all of them but this passage only says which in the case it doesn't say all of god's messengers it indicates that only some of them are involved in blessing god right this must be speaking about the the creations who are here in this world and as they say explains we are all created and put on this earth in order to serve god in order to do god's will so we are also referred to as god's messengers but it's not all of us because even though you could be a messenger and not fulfill your uh the that which you were sent to do right so we are all messengers of god but we are not all per se blessing god with our actions so it's only referring to those who do indeed do god's will or that's him we'll see who they are since the upper ones they are able to stand up to be able to do all of that which god commands therefore hashem that's why it says bless god all of his hosts all of his army doesn't say all of his angels all of his messengers why why because we can't we have it sahara we have a we have so our ship is as the acid says we have the the hubris which is inside of us that which makes us feel like we are our own person separate from god and therefore therefore it says the human being can be referred to as an angel and as we'll see in a continuation it's going to be prophets are considered angels moshe bane was considered an angel we're going to see even the farmers who during the shemitah year keep god's will and don't farm their land they're considered angels as you might have noticed from the many different organizations the ads from the organization that helps out the farmers to be able to continuously do god's will not so simple not such an easy thing to do another way of looking at this verse or another a deeper explanation of it the prophets are referred to as malakam as angels or as messengers of god verse says god sent an angel who took us out from egypt right who was the one that took took us out was it an angel it was moshe i mean moses was the one who was sent by god to take us out the we see from here that prophets can be referred to as an angel and it's a very simple idea because the prophet is somebody who as the atheist explains he's misbehaving he meditates he removes from himself all of his physical aspect and he becomes completely aligned with his soul with god's will so he's very much like a male his focus is completely on doing god's will he's just a messenger becomes through his choices through his attitudes through his commitment to god he becomes somebody who is completely focused on god's will just like a malach who only does god's will like an angel uh say we find a similar idea we find another prophet is referred to as malach as an angel hashem in gilgal passage in judges second chapter verse one says that a male hashem an angel of god or a messenger of god came up from gilgo to this particular location so he says why is he referred to him as an angel we see that it was actually pinchas because an angel wouldn't travel from one place to another it would just show up and it wouldn't appear to many people as the htc explains but rather clearly it's it's an individual human being it was pinchas why does he call him an angel i love how you're part of bayern amazing thing just so we find by much a very similar idea that when pinchas would have ruach when he would have divine inspiration his face would shine like he was on fire because god would be shining through him so therefore he's referred to as amal as an angel of god and again as we said it's because the the navi the prophet is somebody who completely exudes god's light why because all he cares about is doing god's will another is place where we see a similar idea it's actually in the opposite direction was that the wife of man of manoak who would end up having a child named shimshon right samson the prophet so they saw amalekh he and his wife and they didn't realize they thought it was actually a human being they thought it was a prophet [Music] they didn't realize that he was actually an angel so you see that it's something that can be confused because you can see a human being who's on fire with godliness and you can see a malek an angel and they have the same look because they are both truly the the messengers of god um says from the time that they are young the navy the prophets are called they're called they're called angels that from the time that they were very young they are referred to as malachim okay now we continue so moshe rabino also is called he's the one who took the jews out of egypt he's called god's angel god's messenger so another aspect of this besides the fact that we spoke about their questions their prophecy their communion with god their alignment with their spiritual aspect another aspect is the same verse and tell them in psalms chapter 103 verse 20. it says that they are mighty they do god's will but matt kosovant what's the talking about here um says the verse is talking about those who keep shemitah generally speaking as the way the world works so it's possible to do a mitzvah one time once a week or week long one a month to continuously do it shema le sharimes hashanah to do it for a whole year to do something which requires tremendous self-restraint not to work the fields not to not to have any paranasta not to have any livelihood to give that all up because the torah says through within byron the farmer so his field is is not going to be worked his vineyard is not going to be worked do they are known about shasik and he has to pay taxes and he's quiet he doesn't say anything is there somebody who's greater has a greater power than that damn time with our bishop says maybe the verse is not talking about someone who keeps shemitah so the measure says we actually find the same word used in two places here it says the one who does his word who does his will uses the word word in the context of shemitah uses the word this is the matter this is the word tavara hashmita of shmita of the seventh year so is the measure says that we see clearly from here that the word dover is used in both places why i see the vari before we read the next section why because the power of the chemistry is similar to the power of the prophet the one who keeps the who doesn't who doesn't work his fields for that full year to keep doing god's will despite your yetzara despite the the or should be the hubris inside of us that says hi i need i need to have a partner that's the livelihood i need to be my own person i need to provide for myself right that thing that's inside of the person very much like the prophet who also gives up his own will gives up his own desires to do god's will he becomes a messenger of god so to the one who keeps shmita also becomes a certain sense a messenger of god he's completely representing god in this world through his actions another explanation of oyster what does it mean that they do his word it's a reference to the jewish people at mount sinai the entire jewish people reached an incredible level just like like angels at mount sinai they said they became one with god's word so to speak how by saying not seven ishmael we will do and we will hear we are willing to do whatever you say god we're not even we don't even need to to hear what the conditions are yet we completely are interested only in your will by saying that they became like angels they became like the prophet they became like the shame shemitah the one who keeps the sabbatical year so it's an amazing thing so the message is saying at first i'm saying oh this is something for prophets and i'm saying for regular people like farmers then it's saying it's for everyone it's for each and every one of us we can all be like an angel of god we can all we all have a shyness we all have a connection to to godliness to being like angels those who are mighty and strong and require self restraint it requires greatness says like this but now now at the very end of the magistrate we are at the end of the matrix and the measure is going to teach us why is it we're coming back now to our parsha we want to understand why does god call specifically to moshe what is unique and special about moshe and by this point perhaps you might have figured it out what's special about moshe rabbenu that it's specifically to him that hashem calls when when the mishkan when the mishkan [Music] if you have a heavy burden so one person can't carry it but sometimes two people can carry it if they carry together i'm sorry right like we said village night brother could be something which is too heavy for two people to hold but four people can hold it is it possible that something which is too hard for 600 000 people to hold together can be held by one person meaning what was the masa covey that was too difficult for six hundred thousand people to hold israel six hundred thousand people six hundred thousand jewish people stood by mount sinai and they were not able to receive the prophecy it was too heavy for them even though they said nasa ishmael they wanted to hear they heard god's voice but they all died hashem brought them back to life second time same thing happened they said it's too much for us to carry the burden of hearing god's voice and as the magi perhaps we could say understands it or as maybe as i understand it they couldn't handle the the complete self notification that was necessary in order to hear god's voice because to really hear god's voice means that i have nothing of my own i'm just a reflection of god in this world so for a moment they could hear it for two statements they could hear her they could hear it but more than that they wouldn't be able to do um but moishe was someone who had was at such a deep level of self-nullification that he could hear god's voice and he could live and he could continue to hear god's voice and continue to live because he was on this level of continuous continuous self nullification continuous giving up of his own ego continuous acting like a true angel of god so you see that even though they couldn't carry the burden of of all submitting themselves completely to the will of god mushroom could moses had that ability that six hundred thousand people together didn't have te de la crosse should know that this is so sha to whom did they call to whom did hashem call hashem right hashem only called to moshe right to moses because good is god called to god calls to his angels god commands his angels because they are the ones who are going to listen they are the ones who are going to be able to fulfill as well will because they don't have any self they don't have any self will my however was also like an angel and therefore he was the one to whom god called he was the one who would be able to listen to god's command and fulfill it no matter what amazing amazing deep idea that our mentorship is teaching us and what we see from this as we said is that maisha abano was on an incredible level clearly this is the toy it was written by maisha abano he didn't have anything of his own he had nothing he said nothing on his own he had no self will anything that god said he would do for that reason god would call out to him but this is something that's also as we saw can can apply to it can expand and be applied to a broader audience so to speak it applies to the prophets it applies to the sherman shmita to those who keep the shemitah it can apply to the entire jewish people on a limited level right they couldn't hold up that level but i'll add they did reach that level they were called they were like adam before the sin they had the ability to all of them uphold that level they chose not to it was too great of a level they felt to continue but we all will reach this level that the entire jewish nation will be able to be like malachan to be like angels when meshiach comes when the messiah arrives we will return to that level of admiration the first man before the sin it's something that really is shaykh it does pertain to every single one of us but certainly on an individual level each one of us just like moshe like the prophets like the gibberish meta the farmers who overcome such a difficult design for a full year to hold off that level of negating self-will it's an incredible thing but it's something that we see pertains to all of us to each and every individual as well besides for all of these people who demonstrate greatness in their submission to hashem's will so i want to bless you i ask you to bless me hashem shall help us that we should be able indeed to recognize that we have the potential to be like angels we have the potential to hear hashem's call by iqra and hashem calls out to moses he also calls out to each and every one of us but when does he call to each and every one of us when can we hear his voice to the degree that we limit ourself that we limit our physical aspect our gosh means our desires to the degree that we do that we become like angels to whom god calls thank you so much for listening have a wonderful shamus this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you for more podcasts like this please visit www or search on itunes ari goldwag [Music]