Yom Kippur - Haazinu - Creating a Legacy

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with ari goldwag recorded with hashem's neverending assistance in 5781 2020. this week's partnership is partial zino and we have yom kippur coming up and i'd like to show you a thought connected to our parsha and connected to yom kippur at the beginning of our parachute we have the song moshe rabbenu says listen o heavens and i will speak says and the land shall hear the words of my mouth the heavens and the earth are called the heavens and the earth gracious brother it's the very first pastor in the torah tells us that hashem created the heavens and the earth and these very heavens and the earth the first characters in the story of the torah perhaps the most powerful characters those that we say in koalas king solomon says the earth shall last forever human beings fleeting as we say in the dhavaning kippur where like its sail over like a fleeting shadow but the heavens and the earth they stand forever as far as man's experiences you know and most sharpino calls these witnesses the witnesses of the heavens and the earth now what is the idea of this shiro what is idea of this song how does it relate to yom kippur because we read this during that series on shabbos and the end of last week's parachute says you are to write this song is to teach it to the jewish people seem of him and place it in the mouth this is this song is a testimony this song shall testify about our relationship one of the themes on rosh hashanah with the themes on yom kippur but more specifically rosh hashanah is the concept of zechariah's hashem remembers the covenant that he has with the jewish people the promise that no matter how far we go no matter where we find ourselves hashem is committed to us and therefore the song reminds us that we are to be committed to him kippur is a time of rededication of our relationship to hashem he's our king and it's a time of rededication when it comes to the idea of asking him for forgiveness because we want to be back in that relationship we don't just want to be takers we want to be givers we want to be part of that story so we're going to come back to this asino shimaeva arts and i'd like to relate it specifically to a story in the gemara numa on daf and it's very interesting thing the gemara numa is speaking about yom kippur the veda of the kipper the high priest which we read about ourselves during mussof the only day in the entire year 365 day year one day one man went to that unique place left him inside but there's a whole avaidha he did all of the different aspects of the service in the base hamikdash the in godel a high priest and very interestingly we know as the mishnah tells us in uma that the the entrance the ancients way into the base hamikdash was called shar nickenur very interesting name shar nickenur it was a gate two massive doors if you wanted to get into the basement she had to go through those doors wanted to get into the holy temple doors of bronze sharniken or the gate of nicken or who is nickenor why did he have why do you have the gate the entranceway of the base some english named after him and we're going to see in the story they changed all of the doors and all the gates of the base hamikdash at some point as the jews became more and more rich to golden doors but the gates the door the gate of nicanor the two doors were made out of bronze they didn't change those bronze doors to be to become gold the question is why we need to understand this because sharon or this is the way you walk into the base of maintenance it's the way you walk into your relationship with a kurdish barracuda so we need to understand why is it called sharnikanor who is nikhinor you ever hear of nickinor well the gemara is going to tell us a very interesting story about nikkor but before we read that story i want to point out something and this is very important to understand i want you guys to think about it as we're reading about nikken or trying to understand this point the gemara tells us that as the tsukim tell us in us which we read also on yom kippur part of the avodah part of the service of the kangaroo was that there were two iran two goats identical goats twin goats one of them was to come to be brought in as an offering to hashem and one was sent over a cliff la zazo and when it was sent over the cliff the red the the tailas shawnee the red piece of scarlet wool would change from red miraculously from red to white representing the forgiveness that hashem is going to give the jewish people hashem is going to forgive claudius sorel when did that happen when they took that syrah that special goat threw it over the cliff to its destruction and it represented and carried upon it the sins of the jewish people hashem forgive the jewish people but what's interesting is the gemara says them shall i say in yuma that they would take those two sierra they would take those two goats and they would stand them at the entrance of the base hamikdash the right there and they would take the lots one of them said one one lot said on it hashem for god one allah said on it to be sent off to carry the sins of the jewish people over the cliff but it was at shar nike it was at the entrance of the base of ignition i want to understand why and i think that as we hear this amazing story about nikinor we hear the reason why it was called sharnika or we hear the story about these bronze doors we're going to understand an amazing thing an incredible depth not only in how you get into obesity how do you get into a relationship with hashem but how do you use yom kippur in the right way how does one indeed walk into that relationship because yom kippur is really about our relationship with hashem it says like this tan rabbon nick there was a miracle that happened with the doors the nikken or nicki noor we're going to see what happened what's the story with the doors what were the miracles that happened with the doors of nickinor that happened in the gate of nike or those doors and in the gateway we'll see getting to the gate um allah went to alexandria in egypt the capital of egypt it was obviously a place where there were great craftsmen tomorrow brings other other different things that there were craftsmen that were brought from alexandria in order to try to accomplish certain things with the tires other things in the basement he went to alexandria to purchase these awesome doors doors that would be the entrance way doors of the basement now he purchased the doors these awesome bronze doors these special bronze doors that mark says later on they were made out of a special purified bronze so he brought them on a ship an amazing thing happened they got on the ship the ship was traveling it's not that far from alexandria to deport nyafo but during that during that trip there was a terrible storm and the ship was capsized it would look like they were going to drown they had no choice the the ship's too heavy have these heavy bronze doors you got to throw them off the off the ship otherwise we're going to drown so he took the first door and threw it over the side of the ship the the the storm raged on it didn't stop big shulajit so the gemaran says they wanted to take the other door the second door they wanted to throw it into the sea as well in order to get these doors for the basement nikhinar said no he tied himself to the door he tied himself to the door umlahemiti you said to them if you're going to throw this door into the sea you're going to throw me into the sea along with the door miat mars is an amazing thing the moment that nicki norris said these words the the storm ended it stopped as abruptly as it came volume he felt terrible about the first door kevin she give him when he got to the port at ako so an amazing thing happened this was the miracle the door the door the first door that they had thrown out on into the sea they thought it was gone no somehow it was sticking up from underneath the the boat miraculously it had got caught onto the bottom of the boat and it was saved they were able to bring it in the eight shimmering another explanation that there was some kind of sea creature that swallowed it and when they got to the land spit it back out well um and about this king solomon said karis beteno eraza moritano bruting refers to the fact that the the the walls of the house which is a reference to the base hamikdash king salman built the base that which opens quickly and closes quickly the the pesa make this doors so brew team uses for breutin which the kumar dashens to mean that there was some kind of covenant brisiam there was a covenant that was signed with the sea that the sea would not swallow up this door okay that's the gemara says at some point as we mentioned earlier all of the doors of the basement were changed to become gold except for the doors in nicor gates because miracles occurred with those doors here's something amazing here's something amazing before she mask why did this happen why did hashem send this terrible storm so that the the don't give me a storm and don't give me a miracle why why was it necessary for there to be a storm why was it necessary for one of the doors to be thrown off and what's what's going on here in this story so before she say an amazing thing they say that hashem specifically wanted nickenar representing kalisro you want a door a bronze door a beautiful bronze door this is the this this is the opening of the bassamek dash this is the way into it you want this beautiful bronze door you're gonna pay for it you have to show me sirius nefesh you have to show your willingness to sacrifice everything in order to get that door to eretz israel and to bring that door to be the opening of the temple of god so nikken or an amazing thing the first door got thrown off and nicki noir said i will not give up on the second door and think about it you just have one door now are you gonna do it on the other side it's not even a match no the unit says i will not give up on this door he got it and the maforshim explained he was inspired about the first door why was he even star not just that he lost the door he was mister he felt bad because he hopped he realized he could have had batman seriousness and save the first door too if he would have just tied himself to the first door and said no don't throw down the first door if you throw down that door you're throwing me with the door and it would have ended it would have ended the the storm now hear this because this is unbelievable what is it saying what is the message of the story what is it saying it's saying that you want to know how to get in to the base hamikdash you want to know how to get into the temple you want to know how to get into an a relationship with that there's only one way there's only one way mr snefesh you gotta it's gotta be hard it's gonna be hard shawn's gonna test you someone say do you really mean it all you're saying you know asham no bagano gozalnu do you really mean it do you really feel bad have you taken some time to think about the things that you've done wrong this year do you want to change do you want a relationship with me are you willing to give up the things that you think you want to have some self-control some self-sacrifice and and think about it this is the gate that goes you will go into the base of english for all time it's recorded in the mishnah this story is recording the gemara but it's always called char nikon or oh he's called char nickenur we don't forget nikonor why because of his mysterious nephesh the miracle occurred occurred the fact that the door was still there underneath the boat proved so many things it proved that his mysterious nephesh mattered that his willingness to sacrifice it mattered he saved the second door and he saved the first door because he cared he felt bad that he didn't didn't he wasn't messed that fish the first time another thing it showed was that you think by throwing away that door it's gonna it's gonna lighten the load of the boat it was still attached to the boat miraculously it was still attached to the boat it didn't matter you can't with rookiness you can't throw away rookies because it's it will make your life easier or or so you know uh i got to do other things i have to be my finance my family i have to i have to have a livelihood so i don't have time if you throw it away if you're not if you don't have you're not willing to sacrifice for your weakness something else is going to burden you down you're going to end up wasting your time on something else amazing thing but this point this point a legacy a legacy our nickname for all time it's called the gate of nicanor unbelievable why because he was maeser nephesh he was ready to sacrifice you want to know how to get into the base of magnus you want to know how to walk in through the gate of nicanor it's only through sacrifices only by being willing to give up something to do something hard for our kurdish borough who the easy things we do them already we do them already but now what's on the other side of that shower you walk through the gate on yom kippur you walk through sharon nicholar you realize oh my gosh i gotta make a commitment i gotta be willing to sacrifice racosport i gotta be willing to do something real what's on the other side of that gate two sierim two goats they stand right there by shar nicholar one is leshem one is lazazel one's for god one is thrown off the cliff they're exactly identical they look exactly the same what's the difference the difference is one is for hashem and one is for azazo one is brought as a corbin inside the base of english one is thrown off the cliff it's our choice it's our choice it's our choice who are we what are we who do we want to be he had a choice it was gor ali like we say the goral it was a choice it was it was an awesome choice that he made and he's remembered for all time why because he chose to be moist or nefesh the things that we are willing to give up for those are the things that are real we give up something but that's where we really have we just feel like we're giving up for the torah we feel like we're sacrificing for our families think about it whatever wherever you give up that's where you really get something that's where you really have it is asking us the torah is teaching us it's about commitment let's go back to azino the song what is this song as we said at the beginning it's about a bris it's about a relationship it's about a covenant what's a covenant we ask hashem to remember the covenant a covenant is agreement between two sides i remember the kindness you followed after me you were in a wilderness there was enough no food there nothing to eat nothing to drink and chloe so followed after hashem what love what love love is blind you just follow you just go she says i don't forget that i don't forget that fresh love that you had for me and i keep that in my heart even when our relationship is a little rocky even when it's a little rocky there's a promise the heavens and the earth bear witness the very first characters in the story of the torah they bear witness to the fact that there's a there's a commitment there's a mysterious nefesh hashem is committed to kala israel god is committed to the jewish people and he says to us you need to be committed to me wherever you have my serious nephesh come back israel return to hashem your god come back come back how do you come back i'm so far i can't how can i do it no it's not true when there's a hara when there's whirlwinds when there's craziness there's corona there's the whole world is going mad elections this one that one this political party that political party protests lockdowns the world has gone mad people dying people on respirators what is it for it's a wake up it's a wake up why did nickinor wake up when did he wake up he saw the first one go over he said oh my god well this is my whole purpose in life this is what i this is my mission i was sent by the jewish people to get these bronze doors even if i only have one i'm not gonna take take me with the door don't throw it over it's a wake up the the storm hashem sends a storm to wake us up and the moment that we get some commitment the moment we get some mysterious nephesh some sacrifice some self-sacrifice that's when the storm abates young kipper it's it's a whirlwind think about it just think about your year think about all the things all the challenges we faced think about all of the the difficulties think about all the things that we've done wrong in our relationship with hashem how many times how many times are we ready to make a commitment are we ready to change are we ready to say you know what this is hard it's hard for me to do what's right this particular area is hard for me but this is where my legacy is this is where just like the shaman the heavens and the earth which last forever i want to be like the heavens and the earth which lasts forever i want to be like a nickener we still remember him today and his name was sitting there on the the the entrance of the base i make dash i want my name on the entrance to the base i'm english i want my name connected god is forever i want my name connected to god how do i do it where it hurts where it's hard where it requires sacrifice mysterious nephesh it's not easy to watch what's going on some of us are having a hard time with life with our livelihoods some of us having a hard time with our health some of us know people who are very sick some of us there's so many difficulties it's hard to say hashem it's easy to say actually what are you doing it's hard to just say hashem is good everything is good everything is for the good but this is where the pedal it's the metal my friends this is where this is where this is where it hurts where it hurts is where the mysterious nefishes were the sacrifices and that's where we have our legacy that's where we attach ourselves to the shaman arts to the bris the burst of the covenant think about it from hashem's perspective israel uh so far so far away from him not doing his will it hurts him hashem says these are my people these are my people it's one person there we go out to god we give greatness to god but there's a lot of supreme in there to talk about what happens when we when we don't do what we're supposed to but hashem says i'm looking at the wrist i'm looking at what you were i'm looking at the the the joy and the love at the beginning i want you to look at that too so i want to bless you i ask you to bless me hashem should help us to be willing to sacrifice to be willing to give up the things that are really not that important so many things that are not that important even helps to give up those things that we're upset at him about then maybe just maybe or i'm willing to say i'm sure if i can give up the things that i'm upset about hashem will give up the things that he does he's upset about because that's what a bris is that's what a covenant is that's what a relationship is so hashem should help us to be willing and able to sacrifice to give up the things that are hard which should help us indeed to be able to walk through the door the sharingan to be able to experience miracles because of our willingness to be sacked to sacrifice shall was walk through that shah nicken or and see those two goats on yum kippur and choose the one that's la shem choose the one that's for god she should bless us that all of the red our sins should be turned to white thank you so much for listening have a wonderful shabbos and marcus a wonderful yom kippur 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 ari goldwag