Yisro - Joining in Others' Joy

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with ari goldwag recorded with hashem's never running assistance in ramaphish israel 5782 2022 this week's parachute is partially israel and our parsha begins with yisro the father-in-law of moshe albano of moses coming to visit the jewish people he has heard amazing things and he wants to join them he becomes a gayer he becomes perhaps the first convert to judaism after the jewish people become the first converts to judaism and i'd like to share with you what the measure says very interesting madrish let's learn this together israel says he heard about the amazing things that had occurred to the jewish people the posix says something very interesting the matrix is going to give us a comparison between isro and asov we'll see the many differences between them and we're going to try to understand a little bit about it but before it gives us this this comparison it gives us a little bit of background reach tells us don't leave your friend and the friend of your father this is the plus again michelle in proverbs chapter 27 verse 10. god is referred to as our friend don't leave our friend hashem is our friend how do we know that hashem is our friend um the measure says we find that the puzzle says it's in psalms chapter 122 verse 8 very famous very so even though the pashab shot is at its king david speaking the magist as is his way which is explained by the bayer maharif the majorish understands that it's hashem speaking the man on behalf of my brothers and my friends hashem is speaking of the jewish people as his friends so we are hashem's friends so king solomon is exhorting us don't leave your friend that's hashem veray refers to to abraham prosecuting isaiah in usha chapter 41 verse as the seed of abraham my beloved one so we see avraham is someone who is beloved don't leave your friend and the friend of your father that's avraham don't leave hashem don't leave avraham if you do leave don't go to your brother's house on the day of your joy okay there's a contrast between the one who is your friend which is hashem the one who's your father's friend which is avraham avinu versus your brothers who are these brothers say ishmael the asaf says the madrish this is a reference to ishmael ishmael which of course we can say refers to the arab world asa refers to the western world but on a simple level it's referring to ishmael and asaf those people of course they are the foundation of those who come after them just like avraham and yakov the the our forefathers are the foundation for all that we are so too ishmael is the foundation for the people of ishmael for the arab world isab is the foundation of the people of asa which is the western world i'm ready yeshua and levy beshuman levy says we'll see what this means very soon human lady says sent the jewish people out into into gulus into the exile of babylonia so they were they were they had their arms behind them they were they were in chains the madrid describes not this magician the major describes gives us a reference to another magist which describes how the jewish people came to a certain location and there were children of yeshua who were there and the ishmaelites gave them empty bottles to drink and they died of of thirst and being parched when the hot air came out of the empty bottles [Music] when he was in the midbar when he was in the wilderness so hashem provided for him a bear a well but his great-great-grandchildren when it came to the jewish people so they had nothing they had nothing and ishmael the people from ishmael that the the offspring of israel did not provide the jewish people with anything okay so the majesty ends off with better to have a good neighbor a neighbor who one is close with than a brother who is far brother who is distant so what is the idea ishmael and asap represent our brothers they are our brothers however there are brothers who have animosity towards us they have a natural animosity and we're going to see what that looks like but it's better to have a good neighbor who's the good neighbor so this is israel isro is somebody who let's see let's see who he is if isro originally was farther from the jewish people than asaph was to yaakov but here's the the message giving us the the um comparison between israel and asaf maksiv what does it say about israel remember like regards to the offspring of israel himself so the verse tells us that when shall hammer came so he separated out all the people who were the kanye people kanye people were from israel so they weren't allowed to be killed they were the jewish people were obligated to kill the maliki people but not the kanye people a molecule came from a sub of course amalek were the ones who attacked the jewish people they have a an evil evil they're the source of evil in the world is the maliki people russia wanted to destroy the jewish people in times of esther and probably we could safely say that those who perpetrated the holocaust were also descended from the malaiki people [Music] so they there was an obligation to kill them the kanye people who were from israel were removed so we see that that's how that's how we treat the offspring of israel when in regards to ace of the torah tells us never forget what they did to you never forget we find many instances where the torah writes something negative about asa and it writes a positive thing in contrast about israel it says it describes the fact that the the the people of asaf the romans the they caused well in echo it's talking about the first base some english but the measure should understand that it's referring to perhaps anyone who destroyed the base of mikdash i'm not sure exactly how it darshens it but notions the the the women in xian they were they were afflicted by a serve with yesterday we also find that our ghazal tell us that that ace of himself besides for his offspring but ace of himself was someone who was involved in us he was says that he gave over his daughter sipura to moshe to for a wife so you see that they had a different attitude when it came to the way women are treated and the way things should be based if it says that they ate up our nation made of my nation ate for they ate bread or they ate for their bread i'm not sure exactly what it means israel said call him asap is busy eating meals as he destroys the jewish people isro he calls moshe rabbenu to to eat with him also israel ate a meal with the jewish people with with the great sages it says that they were not fearful of hashem they came to attack the jewish people as the jewish people left the land of mitsuram headed towards the land of israel comes amelia attacks them because of their lack of fear of heaven in regards to israel it says and i think again i believe that this is referring to the fact that isro instructed mashraben if hashem told you to go back to egypt to redeem the jewish people then you should follow the instructions of hashem so israel was aware of and and had respect for the word of god isa asaf he was the one who caused the carbonates to be in his bottle to be nullified right who destroyed the temple who destroyed the base but the second base of english it was the offspring of ace of the romans they destroyed the base of english they erected the the arch of titus right [Music] the verse says that he he brought carbonus he came to the jewish people he brought harmonies he heard about the fact that the jewish people left egypt what does he do but the people of amalia come and they fight with the jewish people they battle with the jewish people on their exit from egypt yesterday israel benitez hears about the praise of the jewish people he hears he sees the amazing things that have occurred amazing miracles and he attaches himself to them ishmael yesterday once read in a uh i'm sure i've mentioned it to you guys before i read in a safer written by he says that you know how can you tell if somebody's really a friend you can tell if somebody's really your friend if you can tell them good news about yourself if you could share with them something happy that's going on in your life you just won the lottery you just want a million dollars who can you tell it to that's your real friend that's a hot much higher level of a friend because to be happy for somebody else to hear the good news about the jewish people and and be excited and want to join them that's just a completely different approach that's the chandelier it is better to have a close neighbor than to have a distant brother a distant relative you know we read this and we hear about amalek we hear about asaf we try we it's it's a difficult thing to understand it's also difficult to understand we look at our relationships we look at the relationships between brothers and sisters sometimes they can be a relationship of jealousy and we need to look at this and and try to understand it because it's so important in such a it's such a big myla yisrael had such a big myla he had such a great advantage it's such a great attribute which was his ability to hear something good for that that's that someone else has and instead of being jealous of it instead of it being something that repels him it draws him in he wants to come he wants to attach himself to the jewish people he he sees that moshe albino is being sent to be the girl to be the redeemer and he says go if hashem says to do it do it asap is somebody who rejects he rejects he's not interested he doesn't have that fear of hashem interestingly what does it mean he was mavato de carbonas we said before he was mobile the carbons he nullified the sacrifices so one understanding is as we said which was that he destroyed the base amidash but another understanding of it is second explanation the acosafe is that when yaakov and jacob he belittled the spiritual the firstborn rights which involved the spiritual pursuits of the jewish people he said i can i'm not i can't hack it i can't be the guy who brings the car bonus brings the sacrifices now how interesting is that that the very person who threw away his firstborn rights who threw away spirituality who gave who sold it for a bowl of lentils how interesting is it that his great-grandchildren the muliki the romans they were the ones who came to attack the jewish people who came to they came to bite like a dog comes to bite the jewish people as they're leaving egypt about to head towards their spiritual destiny they they they're the ones who come and destroy the base something that's the temple destroy the ability for the jewish people to be able to bring those carbonates and sacrifices which bring the jewish people close and all the nations of the world as well close to god how how what a terrible irony but it's not just an irony it's as we said before that mice are obviously on the bottom the the root of who these nations are for all time is rooted in who their great great grandfather was who asa was who ishmael was and here's where we get to something very interesting and it's pretty amazing who keeps sending me gemaras that i'm learning currently that are related to the midrussian that we're learning it's is going to happen in the future mashiach is going to come the messiah will arrive and of course when the messiah arrives mashiach comes so there's a recognition of the jewish people as the leaders of mankind spiritual leaders of mankind specifically spiritual leaders of mankind not just technological leaders what happens the people of mitsuram which if they don't know who that's referring to but in the past of of the gemara which is the madrashi kind of gemara it sounds like it's speaking about the original egyptians it's ryan says i want to send a dirty i want to send a gift to mashiach which really means i want to i want to do something that shows that i'm connected to the jewish people to the messiah to god i want to have access to hashem as well they but they say to themselves you know how can we how can it be received hurray we we caused painted jewish people we were mashable then we we we tortured them we enslaved them during their during the 210 years in israel in egypt but hashem says to moshiach i want you to accept their gift i do want you to accept their gift why why should i accept their gifts says hashem says to them accept the gift because la maisa they gave them a place to stay they might not have been so nice part of the time they were nice part of the time they enslaved them but they provided them provided them with food and shelter they provided them with a home and i want you to accept their i want to accept their their own their gift measure says the gemara says the midrash of gomorrah says the people of kush they say hey if hashem accepted their their gift maybe they'll accept it you know maybe hashem will accept a gift from us so they also offer gifts and hashem says accept their gift then the harish the evil romans which obviously if we're talking about in our times hopefully soon it's going to be referring to the western world so the western world who hated us who killed six million of us who the the the world today that rejects us rejects our claims in poland rejects us hates us ben and jerry's etc the liberal world today sadly offers a doron they want to give a gift they want to give a gift to mashiach hashem says no no gifts not interested in this gift from edom from those who are descended from aesop why says the gemara why is the gemara a few reasons one reason is you can't have both simple you can't i can't accept a their own not not so much of an explanation i can't accept the gift from asev it's cloudy sorel's time now it's cloudy cell's time and discussing this with my son moshido he said maybe it means that like the bracha of of yaakov when klysol rises up [Music] is is down when he said is up close throws down i'm forbid that's one thing another thing is that throughout the generations how did the people of asia treat the jewish people they always judged us negatively always judged us negatively look at the un always judged us negatively last two thousand years they never had anything nice to say about us all they could do is trample us destroy us kill us pillage murder etc we cannot accept there's nothing good to see there's nothing good to see we cannot accept the gift of asaf now this is very interesting what is the idea or what is the depth of this what can we learn from this what can we see from this because you know well there's a type of a so there's a good evasive but the gemara there doesn't really mention anything good about a so it just says do not accept it do not accept it and i think that if we connect it back to the message that we just read it teaches us a very important and powerful lesson who is rejected for all time who is rejected for all time now ishmael tells us truth at the end of his life so we can be assured that the offspring of ishmael will also do chufa they will also repent at the end of time but asav does not do chuva at the end of his days so it seems you know i know that there are conflicting opinions about this but it seems at least from this madrish and from the from the gemara and suffolk base that asev is rejected in the end of time now why is asa rejected in the end of time and the answer is because asaph rejected and asap rejected yaakov and asap and his offspring amalek we rejected the jewish people and asaph and rome his offspring rejected spirituality true spirituality as is represented by the torah as is represented by claustro and artistrel they sent us into gullus into exile they sent us into gullus and exile when somebody rejects when somebody rejects spirituality when someone rejects his brother might be jealousy or it might be just the feeling as we spoke about a few weeks ago it could be just the feeling that asap has that he can't do it he can't accomplish it he's not good enough whatever the reason is that a person rejects in the end mida can i get me the measure for measure he's rejected now let's look back at easter i don't want to end on a negative note let's look back at yisro and we can also look at kush and we can also look at mitsuram back in the gemara but let's look at israel because he's he's our he's our dogma our example from the parsha of the kind of person that we want to be ishmael yesterday he's somebody who listens he has he's has the ira selekim he's someone who's generous he's someone who eats together with he's someone who breaks bread together with he's somebody who wants to be part of carbonus what are carbonus what are the sacrifices it's about coming close to god he sees something positive he sees something good he wants to be part of it we gotta look around we gotta look around at the good that's in front of us and if let's say we have a sibling or a friend who's successful it's so important it's hard it can be very hard but it's so important to be able to be joyful for the other person if you can't beat them join them right it's so important to be joyful for another person to see another person's joy as their as our own to realize that that we're part of that you know a parent naturally sees as a parent naturally feels this my child comes into the house and she has new shoes new dress a new coat whatever a child comes over to me and wants to show it to me because they know i'm going to be excited for them same child might be afraid that the their sibling they don't want their sibling to see because the sibling will be jealous hey i didn't get new shoes i didn't get a new coat i i didn't get the key is to be like a parent a ishmael you say someone who's like a parent he's the father-in-law of course of maisha abano it's his son-in-law who's who's the leader of the jewish people now that's doesn't get better than that right that's that's the approach that we have to have is like a parent the parent who sees somebody and and rejoices in their joy shiva tells a story about a young girl i believe it was the daughter of a byron cutler who was playing with her friend a little girl sometimes is obviously a very old story 50 60 years ago playing with a playing with a little girl a little girl playing with a friend and the other the other child won won the game and my rush shiva heard this girl say you won hooray for you hooray for you you won it's hard it's hard to be the isro who says hooray for you hooray for you you won hooray for you you succeeded hooray for you you uh you you made money you won the lottery hooray for you [Music] that's who yisro is hooray for you and who is who is ace of asif is the one who says i don't want you to have it i won't have it i don't want you to have it isro is included at the end of time in fact to this very day there are people who live in this country the druze i heard this from my parents who heard it directly from my drew's i'm pretty sure that's correct who said that they believe that they're descended from israel when they get to a certain age their custom is i don't know 40 or 50 years old custom is to have an opportunity to convert to judaism hooray for you i want to be part of your success we can look around at the world and see who wants to be part of the jewish people's success and who is just not willing because they feel too threatened by it and we can all look around in our own personal lives and find the same thing but i'm not looking for the negative i want to look for the positive i want to look for how can i be like a parent and enjoy the good that someone else has enjoy the good that someone else has achieved enjoy the good that someone else has received even though i haven't received that how can i enjoy that so i want to bless you when i ask you to bless me hashem should help us that we should be able indeed to be like israel to be able to listen to hear to rejoice in other people's joys to rejoice in the joy of the jewish people to rejoice to be part of to to marry each other yisrael marries his daughter to masha to be part of the carbonis to be part of the sacrifices may we all be merit to see the time when hashem returns undoes the destruction of so many thousands of years returns the base hamikdash the temple to its place returns the carbonis to sacrifices but we all merit to see that day thank you so much for listening have a very good shot miss 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]