Emor - Stepping Out and Looking In

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with Harry goldwag recorded with hashem's never running assistance in Irma Beach Michigan's route 5783 2023. this week's flash is precious emore and although most of the Parsha speaks about the kohanim the priests I'd like to take us to the end of the Parsha and the Torah gives us a story that happened particular man who was the son of a Jewish woman however he was the son also of an Egyptian man and he was the product of a extramarital affair and he had been conceived and born in Egypt and at this point in time so he was upset I'm unfortunately explain exactly what he was upset about but what ended up happening was that there was an argument between him and another person a regular Jewish person a full-fledged Jewish person both from the mother and the father and he ended up cursing Hashem he ended up directing his ire and his anger about his situation exactly what the story is is not so relevant to me at this moment but because he was upset and Hashem he was upset at God perhaps for his because of his situation his spiritual situation he cursed Hashem and the Torah describes how he was instructed by Hashem was instructed to take this individual and because he had cursed Hashem which is a terrible terrible travesty so he was killed he was brought out and killed now the magic focuses in on the concept of being brought out because it says this particular person the son of an extramarital affair he was he went out and then in the end the posix says that moshebenu brings him out in order to meet out the punishment upon him and so our measure speaks about the concept of going out in a very interesting context and then brings it back to our story and teaches us a very fundamental lesson and we will see that there's a lot of things that we can derive and understand and apply for ourselves in this madrish is about an understanding in a verse into Hillary in Psalms it says like this Allah there's a concept of going out we're going to see what is the essence of going out what does it mean that the this guy went out and what does it mean in other contexts and how will it apply to us says it's not so clear exactly what it's saying it says around the wicked is shall go now who's going here are the wicked going around or are there others that are going around the wicked so that's what is and let's see it's very interesting that the positive is saying that the wicked they remain in their place and the righteous walk around them what does this means there's a moment in time where the righteous are sitting in gunned and they're sitting in Paradise they're sitting in the Garden of Eden and they leave they leave that location we could say maybe Hashem brings them it's not exactly clear but they leave Canada in paradise and they go to the area of gehanam of hell and there they look at the wicked and they see the wicked being judged foreign and when the righteous see this they are joyous for themselves they appreciate more we could say they appreciate the paradise that they're experiencing even more because they realize that they could also have ended up in gehanam in hell if they had followed a path of yet Sahara of evil inclination of following their desires in this world they could have ended up in the same place so they appreciate by leaving Paradise to go to to witness what's going on in the opposite of paradise they appreciate more that which they have but Isis a [Music] so at that moment that sadikim gave appreciation expressed their appreciation to God because they had troubles in this world their difficulties instead of experiencing the Troubles of the next World the spiritual Troubles of gehanum of hell they experience difficulties in the Physical Realm which compared to the spiritual Realm are negligible enough to be posix says in Isaiah when it speaks about the fact that in the future world so there'll be a going out a a leaving of one's place for the righteous in order to witness the state of those who didn't act righteously in their life so in those verses it's in Isaiah chapter 66 verse 24 . so there's another person can you shy in Isaiah in chapter 12 verse 1. it says that on that day which is a reference to the Day of Reckoning the day of full awareness of reality the day of the of mashiach on the time the times of the Messiah or the times of the next world there's a thanking the righteous thank Hashem because of their usurin because of their difficulties in this world they thank Hashem that they didn't have to experience any difficulties in the spiritual Realm so yeah is also there in that verse in Isaiah chapter 12 verse 1. Yeshiva so there's a there's a recognition of the difficulties that the righteous went through and there's a recognition that now at the moment of judgment there's going to be anger but um asylum on the nations of the world which represent those who followed their evil inclination who followed the ways of the world which are the ways of wickedness and I will be I'll be consoled meaning when a person experiences difficulties in this world it's very easy to be sad maybe Hashem doesn't love me maybe maybe why is my lot why doesn't it look good in this world why are we singled out for hatred and animosity from the um from the nations of the world but there's a recognition at the at the end point that all of our difficulties were for are good as Hashem means our judgment on on that great Judgment Day when is this time when does this happen when is it that there's a recognition when is there a going out of the righteous from their place in Paradise to recognize the good that they received in having received difficulties in this world and the negative consequences of the wicked of their actions when is this when does this contemplation take place so when we go back to the verse and tell him in Psalms chapter 12 verse 9 it says which is an interesting phrase which we're going to darshan imagine is going to explain a few times a few different ways but it's all going to come down to the same idea kirum Zulus the word means it's going to be darshan in two different ways one way is raising up when there's a raising up kid room means to raise up [Music] there is a kurum which means raising up but there's also a krm the same word if we take out the vowels we can read it as Karam which means a Vineyard so we we darshan it in both ways when Hashem raises up the embarrassed the lowly Vineyard I mean so the Jewish people is referred to as God's Vineyard and God planted and cultivated us for thousands of years there's a there's a raising up of the Jewish people which happens with the Advent of the Messiah with mashiach's arrival and there's a bringing into reality there's a bringing into reality of a recognition that the Jewish people are Gods embarrassed embarrassed Vineyard vain we find the Jewish people referred to as the vineyard as the verse says in Isaiah Israel Isaiah 5 or 7. the The Vineyard of God the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel the man of Judah perhaps another reference to the Jewish people or perhaps a reference to mashiach is the one who he has planted as his play thing right we are we are that which is planted we are that which is rooted we are that which is God's Joshua he works through us we could say okay so in this version review who this version which we was everything that we said until now the the Jewish people the righteous they leave their place they re leave their exalted sense of spirituality let's say and they they take a tour of what it looks like for those who didn't and they appreciate the good that they have which is a result of the difficulties they recognize that the difficulties themselves produce this state of bliss that they're in now it's the other opinion I don't agree with your interpretation of this verse you said so your explanation is that the righteous go around the wicked but it should have said then salviv lirishime around the wicked so it sounds from the simple understanding of the verse says that who is going around it's not the it's not the righteous going around the wicked but it's the wicked going around the righteous what does this mean s not that the righteous go around to see the wicked but the wicked go around to see the righteous okay son how does this work because there's an opposite action that takes place the action that takes place is that the wicked leave their place in Gahanna in order to properly appreciate and in order to properly I would say fully fully understand the results of their actions so the wicked they get to see the result of the the sadikim the the righteous people's actions they see them sitting the wicked see the righteous sitting in Paradise nationalism and they have tremendous pain although they see Russia excuse me this is what it means in the verse and tell him chapter 112 verse 10 the the wicked one he will see and he will be he will be angry ultimately everyone will truly see I mean it could be that this is they're both true it could be that both are correct that each one goes out of his place but we need to understand what it means to go out of his place what does it mean that the righteous goes out of his place does it mean that the wicked one goes out of his place why are they leaving where they are what does that mean clearly what we do see very clearly is that there's a certain recognition a deeper recognition the the individual needs to experience by leaving where they are and experiencing where somebody else is when does this take place same same verse kerum Zulus another explanation of this is an uh an exaltation a raising up of a certain aspect called Zulus Zulus is the language of Zol which means something that's that's seems to be insignificant what is it that seems to be insignificant that the resham the wicked the wicked recognized they didn't recognize in this world but there's a recognition in the world to come whether it's in the times of times in the Messiah or whether it's in the the state of the future world there's a recognition that something that they put down the wicked put down that's what's truly raised and truly important what is that what's it referring to is referring to the Mitzvahs the Commandments the wicked nations of the world who decreed upon the Jewish people they lowered they said you can't do circumcision in our European countries it's barbarism you can't Slaughter its barbarism all of the things that we hold dear that the tiger commands us that God says are valuable the nations of the world forbade us from doing they tortured us for doing let's see there's another going out over here there's an individual going out why are you going out to be stoned by the by the nations of the world as many it was forbidden for me to circumcise my child why are you going out to be burned at the stake uh because I kept the Sabbath why are you going out to be killed because I I followed the Commandments of the Torah and the nations of the world they decreed upon me that I shouldn't do that they made it forbidden for me to do that they took it out because I took the film because I put on because I fulfilled the will of my Father in heaven the verse in zacharya in Zechariah Chapter 13 Verse 6 speaks about the the nations of the world will see interestingly sadly the nations of the world use this verse to prove there uh something about their voice false idolatry which we won't get into but what the verse is actually talking about is the nations of the world looking at the Jew and seeing the the the pain that we've gone through the fact that we were burnt at the stake that the fact that we were killed for what the end of the verse says the end of this verse says what is what are these wounds on your hands I'm not sure Casey based I was struck in the house of those who love me what does it mean it means that I was struck out of love so to speak I was struck out of hatred by the um by the nations of the world because they didn't respect and understand the value of the tire in the Mitzvahs if anything they were jealous of the fact that I was fulfilling the word of God and they they were denying that I was the chosen Nation but the very the very getting struck the very fact that we were struck because of the Mitzvahs was in a certain sense of raising up of the value of the mitzvah by the fact that we were struck and killed and endured terrible hardships and inquisitions because of our commitment to Tyra that itself was something this is what brought about my sacrifice for God my commitment to Hashem to his Commandments to fulfilling those Commandments no matter what was what brought about my beloved status in front of Hashem the very difficulties and challenges that I went through the very the very fact that I was tortured maimed and murdered by the nations of the world for the mitzvahs is that was that was punishments in this world that was difficulties in this world which took away the difficulties and the sadness and the Darkness in the world to come and finally the message comes back to to the story of this of this person who is the product of this illicit relationship whose mother was a Jewish woman whose father was an Egyptian who had complained and cursed God Emma said kurum Zulus here we come back and we say look there's a raising up there's a taking out right when something is raised up it's taken out of where it is and it's the attention is drawn to that thing rooms Lewis is a reference to the fact that there's a raising up of this individual of this person who complains who he's called a mom's or in a certain sense he is a product of an illicit relationship and we see there's a Karma Shalom serum there's a caram there's a Vineyard we see in a Vineyard what's a Vineyard it's something that's planted and developed and we taste the fruits we enjoy the The Grapes we enjoy the grape juice we enjoy the the wine we see by the product what was at the the root what was planted what is being taken out what is the product of this illicit relationship it's it's a human being it's a person who ultimately denies Hashem right because in an illicit relationship what happens is that there's a denial of my circumstances and who God placed me with and a desire for someone to be with somebody else that that's not appropriate for them so what's planted in that denial is a child who also denies that the reality that that Hashem is the reality that everything that's in their lives is from God foreign and the result is that moshebenu says take out this person who cursed God take him out raise him up Let everyone see what is the result of an illicit relationship what is the result of a person whose Foundation is is founded in denial of Hashem the result is destruction so this is very interesting and deep and what is the message here of this madrush and from what I can understand here in this measure is that there's a taking out there's a going out what is the concept of going out there's a uh sometimes we don't see when we're inside when we're inside of something we don't see things properly we don't have the full perspective the message is telling us can room when something is raised up it's the same word as Karam when something when we look at the product when we when we step back and we have a broader perspective of something we can see where things started and what the root of things are when we're inside let's say of a culture if we live in the western world it's very easy to to get caught up in what's important to the Western world Fame Fortune money you can even read Jewish magazines from magazines and have confusion about what's really important is the toe of the center of our lives are the missus center of our lives is business the center of our lives his popularity food the center of our lives it's easy to get confused when we're inside but you see God gave us an incredible netia he planted in US eternal life was planted in in our midst we are the planting of akadeshwar who of God which is synonymous as this measure says with Tyra with mitsus and the nations of the world try to take it out and say look this is not valuable hey look let's have a broader picture this is not valuable they tries to they try to use the concept of taking out of raising up punishing us taking us out and punishing us for being committed to Torah being committed to the true nitya the true plant the true connection planted in the field of God as it were the broader perspective doesn't doesn't when we're inside when we're stuck in implanted in the in the wrong perspective the broader perspective seems to try to force us to believe that what's really important is not important and this magic is teaching us that in the last moment which we have access to right now we always have access to the last moment because God gave us the secret of what happens in the end in the very beginning Hashem gave us the Torah voracious right we have the secret that what is the truth what is the real broader perspective what is going out what is raised up what do we see truly raised up even the thing that looks like when it's raised up is we get punished even that itself is really raised up ultimately to show that that was just so that we would have a clean slate and have pure Paradise in the world to come and the righteous have that perspective they they leave where they are they are able to get the full perspective and even the wicked ultimately see the truth that they were wrong and what they valued wasn't valuable and what they punished the Jews that were punished by the nations of the world would they punish the Jews for was really ultimately what was truly valuable so ultimately we will see and we have an opportunity even today to have this broader perspective to go out in the punishment of the resignment of the wicked when we see that there's a punishment for doing wrong when we recognize that we see the Judgment of Hashem we see ultimately what the truth is and it's so important to recognize that we're in a very unique time we're in a very special time where we have a very Broad View of the results of let's say the enlightenment movements the the reform and conservative movements of quote movements of Judaism we see what resulted what resulted was nothing it was destruction was liberal ideals that are bringing the world to a very sorry state and what's the truth the true power is entire look at the entire world blossoming look at the karate World blossoming look at the world which is created by tire and mitsus look how it continues to grow and Blossom because the truth comes out in the end and that's the message that's the message of this particular story I want to bless you I ask you to bless me that Hashem should help us to have an incredible recognition to be able to see the end to be able to remove ourselves to step out of what's going on in the culture around us that deems so many things important that are not really important Hashem should help us to have their perspective to be able to stand back and indeed align ourselves with what the Torah tells us the secret of what's really important thank you so much for listening have a wonderful Shabbos this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you for more podcasts like this please visit www.regoldwag.com or search on iTunes Ari goldwag foreign