Shlach - Angels & Messengers

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with ari goldwag recorded with hashem's networking assistance in roma is israel 5781 2021 this week's parachutes partial and before we get into what i'd like to share with you today i just want to ask you once again my crowd funding for my new album is coming to an end in just a few days i'm already at over 68 21 000 almost raised out of 30 000 gold arigoldwegg.com new album if you believe in this message music is one of the most powerful ways to communicate that message so head over there and help me create more great music all right thank you now let's get into this measure mattress i'd like to share with you a beautiful piece in the measures in our parsha the magisk is talking about the miragulim these men that were sent told nostravana to send these people to be the messengers for christopher to look at israel to get a get the lay of the land to understand who's there to know what they're up against so that they would be able to have it's very interesting to the they would be able to have the proper bitarchan you cannot be talking to help you unless you know what you're up against that's what we see here but as we all know the mission was bungled the mission was messed up because of their sign their negative view let's see the magis and there's some amazing amazing things that we can learn from this madrish said to these the word messengers could be ashley's these are all words from messengers so they were sent as messengers and motivated system go up from the south the south of arts israel and i'm going to read this madrish if you look at it inside so you'll see i'm going to read it slightly different than it's written there's different gears in the different uh versions of how it should be read i'm going to go with this version of as they were going up so the first thing that they saw they came up from the south as they were going up they saw these three sons of the giant who is there these three giants measure brings it's also gomorrah why was he called him was a very brazen individual he said my brothers who's going to come up against me he was very prideful he was very powerful he knew that he was strong he said who can who can fight me because he was as strong as marble he was tough talmai shay because whenever he would walk he would create ditches in the earth but tell him is a ditch he was such a heavy person boom every time he would walk make ditches in earth they were the children of the giant they saw him they saw the father the giant that he was so tall that the sun when he would stand in front of the sun the sun looked like an ornament around his neck kishore sonoragon this year when the moroccan saw these these three giants and their father so they became fearful that's why they said they are too strong me menu which we would normally translate as they're too strong for us but the major says the word doesn't mean from us it actually means from him they're stronger than him that they actually spoke heresy over here they were they were shooting arrows so to speak at hashem well i said ava are like serious kashus they were saying that these giants are too great for god god was able to you know overcome the egyptians he was able to overcome pharaoh but these guys are too big for god so because they said that that's why the result was terrible decrees what did god say to jeremiah the prophet go say to them this is a verse in jeremiah chapter 11 verse 16. go say to them you don't know what you just spoke you don't understand what's coming out of your mouth this great confusion that you spoke about this great confusing speech that you made you don't realize what it caused you'd see some aisha and you sparked a fire upon yourselves each day each day that they were there 40 years the jews would be wandering around the desert why because of the 40 days the 40 days that the spies went through the land saw all of the negative things that they saw and brought this negative report back to the jewish people i want to pause here and ask a question which i believe perhaps we can see a very deep answer to it seems unfair if it's me the connected media usually a measure for measure means if i do something wrong i get back what i did they walked around for 40 days why is kaiser el uh doomed to to wander the wilderness for 40 years it doesn't sound like it's measure for measure hard to understand but the measure says this and interestingly as my son should have pointed out he'd see some asia they sparked a fire listen carefully to this because this is an essential point they sparked a fire i think about it when a person starts a fire that's for sheldon having forbidden heaven a forest fire a fire that consumes the olden times all the houses ran out of wood fire could consume all of the houses in a village that little spark has the ability to cause a much bigger damage just a little spark causes a great damage those 40 days caused 40 years of damage to the jewish people okay hold on to that thought but that's what we see in this verse that's what we see the damage was much greater than it looked omro listen carefully this is this is here we get to another very important point an essential point here this because this is the essence of what i want to speak about um they said we felt like we were grasshoppers we felt so small in comparison to these great giants that statement god says that's fine if you felt like grasshoppers in relationship to them no that's all right here was the mistake that they made they said we were grasshoppers in their eyes that was a mistake do you know how i made you appear to them says hashem to the to the miragum you know how you appear to them you know how i made you appear to them hashem was hashem was responsible that these muragan would come through the land and not be noticed or perceived by the inhabitants of the land so hashem says to them you don't know how you look to them who says that you didn't appear like an angel or a messenger this is an important point how do you know that you don't look like angels arts what did you call yourself through this mistaken understanding by your thinking that they see you a certain way the result was that you caused this destruction for christopher to be stuck in the wilderness the gula the redemption was there they were about to walk into the land of israel and it was pushed off by 40 years why because of how they saw themselves not just how they saw themselves how they thought that the nations of israel who lived in israel at the time how they perceived them that resulted in this negative outcome for the jewish people okay so just the the point here that i want to focus on honest they could have been they could have been angels they could have been true messengers of god they hadn't got caught not caught up in their negative view of themselves in their and even the negative view of themselves was okay as long as they didn't make the mistake to think that the giants saw them that way hashem is saying to them you had the opportunity to be my my messengers and if you're my messengers you're protected i have to mention what should have also showed me there's a message to the beginning of the parish i don't want to read it inside i don't want to there's not enough time for that but it says that 40 years later there were two more messengers sent by yahushua yeshua was the leader who was going to bring the jewish people into israel 40 years later he sent kalev who was one of the 10 one of the 12 spies here call even pinchas pinchas he was a cohen he was a priest and the message proves from the verses that he was able to make himself invisible listen to this it's an amazing thing understand this very well because it's essential also he was a messenger of akadesporoku he was someone who was co-cooler completely beholden not just beholden he was completely subservient to hashem he was a true messenger of god such that when rakhov was hiding the two the verse says that she only hid one of them the message understands from that that pink didn't need to be hidden because he became invisible he was not able to be seen by those who were searching for these spies of the jewish people when a person is a true messenger of god he has complete protection he's not even noticed by those who seek out his ill welfare they could have had that they could have had that they could have been invisible or at least not not seem like bugs to be squashed if they understood the true purpose of their mission says as it continues who was and who will be right we mentioned pinchas as the one who can make himself invisible he's the one who's the kind is the priest he's the ultimate like a cohen and we've spoken about the past he's the ultimate shliyak of god the ultimate messenger of god the ultimate one who is subservient to hashem shalom the jewish people were not able to get into the land of israel as a result of this terrible sin they listened to the spies um says god to the jewish people it might be true that in those times there were messengers that were not proper messengers and they prevented the jewish people from getting into excusing from getting into israel oh since these were human human messengers with human foibles who made human mistakes they're not going to get it that's why they didn't get into the land of israel before mashiach comes in the world to come interesting language i'm going to send to you a malach an angel a messenger suddenly if you find us out there he's going to clear out the way so you can walk in the purpose of a messenger is to prepare the way for the jewish people to be able to enter into arts israel to the land of israel who is that messenger shinamar hinini verses in malachi chapter 3 verse 1 i am sending my angel god says and he will clear the path before me at time of action suddenly we'll come to the to the hecal to the divine place talking about hashem is going to appear god is going to come down suddenly but before he comes suddenly this is how the marzu explains this piece of the measure before he comes down suddenly he sends an angel the angel as marzu explains is mentioned later in the verses it's the end of the the chapter there in malachi i'm sending to you elijah the prophet before that awesome day comes that god reveals himself elio anovi which our sages tell us is the same person as pinchas he lived forever he's still around today he's called the malacha bruce he's called the angel of the covenant elio i know he's the ultimate angel the ultimate messenger of god he speaks on behalf of god he's completely subservient to god he's the one who comes at the end of time he is the true messenger that god sends himself he's like an angel the jewish people will receive that messenger will find that mashiach is about to arrive and god will reveal himself for all the world to see what is the major thing here what is the what is the deeper message of this major there's two types of messengers there's a messenger who does it maybe they're paid to do it maybe they have some ulterior motive for doing it but they're not doing it because of me they're doing it for some reason inside of themselves and if something crops up their own motivation is going to take over that's what happened with the miragum they were not true messengers to the one who sent them they weren't com they didn't feel like they were being sent by god they didn't have that focus that hey what we're after is to bring the jewish people into israel we have we are certain that god is going to bring us into israel they have these outside motivations hey when we get into israel we're going to lose our positions of power they just cared about themselves the true messenger of hashem the true malach it's called a malach and i mentioned earlier in the first section over here says that the naviem were called him the prophets were called angels true messengers of god the uh found in the gemara tamil are called two messengers of god the torah scholars the sages are called messengers malachim angels why because they're completely filled with focus on what is god's will for me for others where are we headed that's all they think about their complete focus all they care about is the will of god and how can we bring about greater coverage to mind greater honor to heaven you've seen this madrish where our focus needs to be where we need to be headed what we need to be thinking about and it's very powerful to me and interesting to me that the focus of this whole story the description of these events the focus here is getting to earth israel the the representation i would say of the will of god the redemption is represented by walking into israel wanting to get into israel caring more about getting into artistrel than caring about my own desires and needs for honor for success for wealth that's what it seems to say that's what the story seems to say the torah expects us the torah expects us to put our shifa our desire for arts israel and it might not be possible to get here yet for you or for many others but there should be a ifa this is where i want to be i should be dominating i was saying to my son you know if you can't be or you can't be here you know there's a lot of jews who live outside of israel but the shahifah mushroom he prayed 515 times he couldn't come he couldn't get into arthur on the land of israel and fifty times by skanon he couldn't get in he keep he kept doing that's what that's what we should be desiring the desire for art israel represents the desire to do the will of hashem that's what a true malachi is a true angel a true messenger of god his focus is how can we get into earth israel how can we get in to the land of israel and azekamar says not just because we want to see the beauty of the land because this is our you know we have a jewish nation we have an army nothing to do with that artistral is where i can do the mitzvos i can't do truman's and myself and coastal i don't have a mitzvah and hudson arts is the same level as israel i can't do the mists of shemitah and khutsarts there's so many misses you can't do if you're not here what is our where's our subservience to god and if not indeed at least in shifa at least in desire and i have to share with you something that most of my son said again and that is and if you live in arts israel do you have a ifa to go to you shalom do you have a desire to go to the castle do you wish you could be there maybe you can't maybe your car is broken down which my car was for the last few weeks hashem it's fixed i'm going today to bring my son back to yeshiva he had a orthodontist appointment we're going to bring him back to yeshiva new shalom do we have a shahifah to be in a place of more kedusha of more holiness because that's what separates a true malach a true messenger of god from a person who seems to be doing the will of god but really just cares about themselves where is my shifa where is my belief you know people say i can't get into you know people say it's hard to live in israel parnasso this reason that reason the the marauding also had reasons they felt their they would lose their positions of power you know if i live in israel i can't really accomplish as much as i could accomplish outside of outside of israel that may be true but what do we care about or what's our ifa what's important to us ourselves our own honor our own view vision of the way things are supposed to be the way yiddish guy looks what the torah says the entire terrorist is leave your comfort zone leave your comfort zone and come to israel says the entire story of the jewish people is wandering through the desert on their way to israel and the stumbling blocks on their path which shall be wishing you could get there that's the whole tire do we imbibe this message do we feel this and if we don't we need to recognize who are we identifying with and it's a it's an easy switch i'm not saying move here tomorrow if it doesn't make sense for you but i'm saying i wish i could live there attila hashem make it possible for me to live there because if you look at the marauding their mistake was that they said it's too hard for him these giants are too big for god where was there be talking where was their faith that god can do anything they had just seen unbelievable miracles be taken believe feeling knowing knowing that hashem will do it for me it doesn't really make sense for me to to live in israel you know do you know how many jobs i would have if i lived in new york any singing engagements you know how rich i would be i don't relate to the israeli mindset the music that they like you know how hard it is but this is my place and i'm gonna make it here i'd be talking hashem is gonna hashem's gonna take care of it i know he will that was what was missing in the miragum desire where do i want to be where where do i want to be you know i'm sure i've mentioned this before but my great-grandparents were zionists they lived yosef yosef streisand he lived in a town called bergen he was a zionist my my bubby and zadie they moved to israel to palestine in the 1930s and they didn't live here very long they couldn't make it but my great-grandfather and my great-grandmother and my bubby's sister moved here to israel with their help with my bubby and ladies help and even though my bobbins they moved to new york they always had a shift they sent my father to schools and camps that focused on the importance of arts israel of israel and eventually my parents moved here for a short time didn't make it move back to america but always in my heart i knew i'm going to execute i knew that it was the shifa of my bubbies my bubby and zadie was the chief of my altar my altabob and my altaz it was their desire they didn't my ba my my sabi yosef and and my bubby rahul are buried here in israel they they got here and they stayed here but eventually their great-grandchildren are here is that our shahifah where do we want to be do we believe that we can make it do we believe that our talking is strong enough are we true messengers of hashem that's the choice that we have each and every day which i think is something that can be expressed in our desire where are we headed what do we think is possible what do we know is possible do we desire to be a new shalom do we want that place of greater kedusha do we want bassam mikdash are we wondering how it's possible if we're friends with arabs how can we making peace agreements with them how is it possible that we're going to get a base of english on on our bias is that does that bother us it bothers me what's our shifa what are we hoping for are we still stuck thinking like our children and grandchildren and our great grandchildren are going to live in america or is our ifa that uh that we should live in our city we should live our children should live there our grandchildren should live there where are we headed are we headed for greater kedusha that's what this mattress is demanding of us that was the mistake of the miraglum their personal preferences were more important than a deeper shahifah for kedusha a deeper desire for holiness a deeper desire for connection to god are we to to quote a phrase from my youth are we on the road to ishalayim are we headed towards yerushalayim takadeshwar who's opening open arms are we waiting for elio anovi the true malach the true messenger of god who's completely subservient to god are we waiting for him to announce the gaula that is a question i think we need to ask ourselves and we need to strive for and to be shy of desire and if we don't have that maybe we need to davin that maybe we need to want to want if we don't already want we need to dab and then hashem should help us to want that or maybe we already want that and we need to doubt and that should happen or maybe even deeper we cannot be talking that it will happen might not know how but that it will happen i want to bless you and i ask you to bless me that hashem should help us to understand the importance the beauty the kashivos the kedusha the holiness of the land of israel and when we are focused on that that's important to us we draw more holiness into ourselves some should help us that that should be our hope and our goal and we should be true messengers of hashem of god and in that way we should merit to come back to artistrel to hear the scheifer-blowing helio anovi to see the man himself as he's mastered as he heralds the redemption 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.ariegoldwag.com or search on itunes ari goldwag