Vayishlach - Never Fear

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with ari goldwag recorded with hashem's neverending assistance in roman bishop israel 57 82 2021. this week's parties purchased and our parsha begins with the messengers that yaakov sends jacob sends his brother asaf in order to appease him in order to if there's any blood and fans there's any bad blood still going on between them 20 years have passed since he stole the blessings and he's married and had many children he sends these messengers and the measure tells us and i'm going to actually skip to the end of the match and then come back the measure says over and over again a few different ways of saying it we'll see how many of them will read but um god says to yaakov as it were is was minding his own business and as one of them before explains yaakov had already received word that that ace of no longer is angry so it wasn't necessary for him to send anything to send any messengers to send any kind of appeasement offers yaakov avinu he should have just left it she should have just left things as they were perhaps arrived and not been worried hashem says to him if you would have just left it you wouldn't nothing would have happened but now because of the fact that you so to speak woke up the devil things are going to look bad things are going to look troublesome so that's the language of the madrish and leading up to this piece leading up to the statement of the measure the message goes through very interesting and deep david says and this is a verse in tehillim in psalms it brings five different verses where where david hamill says kuma hashem karmaphon of god asks sorry asks of god to act to get up to to start moving instead of being in a state where we don't clearly see that hashem is acting out is asking for action asking for help that hashem help him that he take care of the wicked person who's trying to hurt him and make him laugh says that there are five times in the book of psalms or as the some of the forces explained in the first book of psalms that king david says to god to get up [Music] he says please get up hashem save me my god kuma hashem get up in your anger hashem god raise up your hand don't forget get up hashem don't allow man to have brazenness and we have this verse that we already quoted get up hashem and come before so first it's interesting because the the measure says the same verse twice which indicates that first we're applying it to yaakov avinu there's an aspect of karma fun of that there is an aspect of jacob avino himself somehow perhaps it's referenced to later in the past where he says please save me from my brother asaph but there's a request is requesting yaakov is requesting that god help him let god take action so now back to king david hashem says false duffy benny i feel like may come in and come upon him and come david my dear son even if you ask me to act if you ask me to get up so to speak many times many more than five times i won't get up that's not what motivates me so to speak hashem says to take action the messianic when do i take action when do i get up when do i appear so to speak to save the day for whoever is calling out to me [Music] when you see that there are poor people who are being stolen from great injustice when hashem sees great injustice god acts you see poor people who are crying out for help that's when you know i'm going to act that's what the verse means when it says verse continues it speaks to the fact that god is going to get up from the fact that he hears that a poor person is being stolen from the poor person is calling out for help omar riv says a slightly different idea god said to king david you want me to get up now i i'm covered with dust as it were god is saying to king dave you want me to get up but right now i'm covered in dust we obviously need to know what it means that god is covered in dust when the verse which is in isaiah chapter 52 verse 2 when that day comes that's when i'll get up it said he says it says get up from the dust or shake off the dust kumi it uses the language of getting up kumi shiv shalam get up oh those who were captured in jerusalem right the jewish people were sent out into exile but oyster has called us when does hashem get up when does hashem get up and what it means when hashem gets up is it means that he shows himself means that he he shows himself he saves somebody who's asking for help he's he's going to save the jewish people but at which point and speaking about the mashiach when the messiah arrives all of the world all the flesh will be silent why because hashem has woken up so to speak where he's shaken off the dust from the place of his holiness and this is a shaking off of dust the dust covers and i've been going out you might have been you might have seen you might have been watching i've been talking podcasts i've gone out to the field and i've gone out to the wooded areas near my home in beijamesh and we've been in a dust storm over the last few days and the dust and the dirt covers things you want to see this ancient ruins or an ancient building or or old caves or whatever but it's covered in dust it's covered the dust covers things it makes it hard to see is there he's doing everything but he's covered in dust you don't see or it could also indicate that something is very old right dust collects on old things it seems like as it were give you ah hashem is very old he's not taking action but we have to shake off the dust and when does the shaking off of the dust occur when does god get up as it were when does he show himself when does he prove that he's there two different opinions one is that he does it he's aroused he's awakened when there's a poor person who desperately needs help who's been stolen from who's crying out for help second opinion is there's a set time there's a moment in history that hashem reveals himself and shakes off the dust but it's not before that it's like a chicken that it gets up from the from the dust of the earth and it shakes itself off [Music] not exactly sure what that was that's going to add kind of funny we said that the verse tells us hashem and come in front of him what does it mean come in front of him [Music] the person is wicked the person has done things wrong the person that we're speaking about here he's referring to ace of hirosha he's going to be someone who throughout his life and throughout the history of his people is going to cause great destruction great evil will be brought about by him don't wait until he's wrought all that evil care of him now take him out now sorry push him over to the side of khaiba he might not yet be guilty but he's going to be guilty might not yet be guilty enough send them over the edge of rayo hey mata omar himachal follow break him so this is all words in this verse break him or is another explanation of break him the verse says hey makarov and a follow they will fall they will trip [Music] him humble him humble asaf palta nafshami rashford paltana reflected that prayer he was saying hashem destroy him destroy that wicked person who comes with the power of a sword ah the verse says you shall live by your sword what is the sword it's the sword that's a reference to asa because he's the one who lives by the sword destroy him it's the prayer pal another possible explanation is destroy the one who is the sword asap is somebody that hashem he uses in order to punish the jewish people and we've done something wrong destroy that sword reminds me of the gemara and sukkah which refers to the fact that the sahara ultimately the evil inclination is going to be destroyed when the messiah arrives bring that time bring that end save me from that wicked person who is going to fall by your sword in the end it's a reference reference also in isaiah chapter 34 to the fact that there's a sword which is waiting to destroy a spiritual sword that's waiting to destroy asa and his cohorts all of the wicked ones so yaakov avinu is praying and praying and it's so important i know i read a lot and sometimes when you read inside it's it may not be as interesting but there's so much there's such a lengthy prayer and reflects that prayer and jacob himself is praying for the destruction of his brother asaf and here's where we come back to what i read to you in the beginning says to him yaakov is praying and praying and praying save me save me save me hashem says to him hold on a second he was just going on his way he was just minding his own business why did you even let him know that you're there why did you say anything you aroused him you aroused his anger you didn't have to do that you didn't have to say anything and you wouldn't have to be praying now so in essence hashem is saying to yaakov you should have been quiet you shouldn't have said anything and you would have been fine that's the first piece in the dish and the second piece in the magic actually really really brings this out really clearly it says like this on the front of the hood excuse me he brings the plastic in michele that talks about a mayan which is a spring near pass we'll see what that means shortly a source a water source which is which also we'll see if you have a a water a waterfall you have the the niagara falls okay you have the banyas whatever it is you have a source of water and the water is coming and it's coming you can't it can't get ruined you can't ruin it it's something that's coming from the from the depths of the earth it's very powerful it can't get ruined says the majestic name russia a person who is righteous has automatic protection nothing can touch him a wicked person has power but that power is false power he's grabbed the power but it's perhaps momentary think about hitler he was somebody who had power he had grabbed the power but of course evil destroys itself so the the sadiq and of course we have to know how this applies there are many caches many questions we could ask but the in the natural order the way that god created the world the way that things are set up a person who is righteous cannot be touched by someone who is wicked it's not possible if she'll talk just like something that's the source of water can't be destroyed it can't be ruined so too that sadly who is attached to the source of life to the source of goodness to the source of all power which is hashem can't be touched by somebody who's trying to grab that power near us when can it happen when candid sadiq be affected by a russia by a wicked person the manchester answers the question as we saw before when he bows down when he's himself when he when he shows that he is subservient to the russia he gives up his power instead of standing strong in his belief and his faith and his knowledge of doing what's right when sadiq bows himself to the russia to the wicked one it's a recipe for disaster um points out and this is actually in the previous piece where we said this exact line the line again was which was recorded at the very beginning god says to him he was going on his way why did you interrupt him he was good you were good don't mess you're you have power you're protected you don't need to say anything was going on his way he had no plans to start up with yakov at all what happens at the shiakov said hey hey asap hey asev [Music] he's sending him messengers in a subservient way lemma this is what your servant jacob says that's the language this is what your servant jacob says in this area of let's say oh you you're subservient to me i'm gonna get you that's how asaf thinks it's also very common way of thinking here in the middle east in our world you know if you show any kind of subservience if you show any kind of giving in so then you're weak that's how the that's how they see you didn't answer on his prayer until he had no choice but to make himself very subservient he had to really bow down all the way to asov because he bowed down to begin with and he was punished physically and in his wealth as i will say later on here's the sad sad result it was for this reason that he and his children were obligated to end up in exile and we today are still in exile why are there jews in america why am i speaking to you in english because yaakov avinu was himself he made himself subservient to adam to the west i'm speaking in their language i'm subservient to the west because he accepted upon himself the admis the the master the fact that asa would be his master such an important lesson here such an important lesson here to the degree that we allow ourselves to be subservient to the culture around us to asa to the degree that a jewish leader the leader of the land of israel makes himself subservient to an american leader european leader whoever it is this is the result the result is exile the result is disconnect from akhole who are we naturally where are we naturally we are the children of yaakov yaakov naturally was somebody who was connected to the mayan to the source to the to the source of life to hashem to god there was no need to be afraid of ace of he he had he was the master of itanyako but here he he missed it he wasn't able to hold up the in this particular instance if he couldn't hold on to that faith he couldn't hold on to the faith the result was that he had to pray and hashem responds and says i'm not going to get up i can't get up and help you it's this is how it's going to be a later time it's going to be when the ship when the messiah arrives somebody who's able indeed to stand up to the nations of the world for answer question who has that real sitkus that righteousness which yaakov himself had but he didn't he didn't recognize that not having self-confidence in a certain sense not having the confidence in hashem and in himself keeping himself connected to hashem keeping himself subservient to only one to take to god that was the only way that he could be saved that was the only way that he could be protected he would have been fine if he didn't say a word and this is a big class a big a very deep and important principle when it comes to be talking when it comes to having faith in god because it's very possible that because i'm afraid because i let go of my ironclad faith because of that it can cause and they speak about this and this foreign if i'm afraid if i allow my heart to be fearful it can cause the thing the very thing that i fear to occur yaakov avinu is being told here by kodeshwark by hashem you need not fear you don't want to fear in the first place you don't have to pray to me you don't have to ask for anything if you're not afraid in the first place it's a very powerful idea we've been speaking about it in the talking podcast as well but the foundational idea here is that atsadik a person who's attached to god as the source of his life is a source of all that he needs need not be afraid need not be afraid there's nothing to be afraid of there's no reason to have fear and to the extent that we can develop this ability so then the the need to call out in prayer is not as much of course we want to call out on prayer we want to call out in prayer why because we realize we've become detached from god so we need to reattach ourselves to god but if we're attached all along then it becomes less necessary and that's the idea of what the message is saying and i want to bless you i ask you to bless me hashem should help us that we should indeed be able to recognize the goodness that we have we are doing the sitkas that we have we should try to develop more siddiques more righteousness which really means more subservience to god's will and to the extent that we make ourselves subservient to hashem we stay strong in our subservience to him and don't allow ourselves to be subservient to anyone else to any kind of other culture except for the terrorist culture to that extent we can be assured that all will be well and that there's nothing to fear thank you so much for listening have a 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