Shmini - Why Israel is Despised

you're listening to the weekly paral podcast with Ari goldwag recorded with hashem's NeverEnding assistance in R Israel 5784 2024 this week's para is para shmini and at the end of our para the Torah talks about the special foods that Jews are allowed and not allowed to eat and in the conversation of what is the concept behind these special Foods the me speaks about the uniqueness the specialness of the Jewish people and we're going to have here an amazing discussion which relates to what's going on today in the entire world and specifically in Israel and we're going to talk about yes we're going to talk about asov we're going to talk about the West we're going to talk about the AR world and we're going to talk about why do the Jewish people why is Israel so despised why are we hated what is the spiritual root of this hatred and it has very much to do with the food that we eat what is the fact that the nations of the world hate the Jewish people want to see us destroyed what does that have to do with the food that we eat so let's see I'd like to read to you a mish and I also want to read to you an amazing malbim please stay with me till the end because the malum talks about what's going on today the Malin was written in the 1800s but he talks about the world of of yes the Arab world in the world of Edom the west and he talks about what's going to happen at the end of days what the G what the Redemption will look like so stay with me till the end and let's hear some Amazing Ideas together in the Mish the tells the author of the Z he brings a in the is inar and the 12 prophets it says like this and I'd like actually read to you the entire P the the entire verse the PK says that Hashem stood up it's talking about we'll see more about this it's talking about what the G looks like what the Redemption what the Jewish people's Redemption after being for almost 2,000 years in galus in Exile amongst the nations of the world what does redemption look like so the P tells us Hashem stood up and he measured the Earth God saw and we'll see what means but he did something with the Nations means he permitted something in regards to the Nations and the the huge mountains were they exploded they were flattened the way of the world belongs he's in charge of how things play out in the world now let's see what the med says about this P it says like this so the Mish understands as often the medish does that it's not just speaking about the future Redemption but it's also speaking about a previous Redemption right we're coming into the of pesak of Passover where we celebrate the Redemption of the Jewish people from Egypt the initial Exile the Jewish people went through but it echoes through through history and so things that happen in the past also happen in the future we can see throughout history history repeats itself but there's a spiritual reason for it there's a depth to it but let's look back for a moment to the original Redemption the Jews came out of Egypt they received the Torah hasem looked at and evaluated the Nations when Hashem wanted to decide who is he going to give the Torah to to whom can he give this Torah who is going to be able to receive it fulfill it 63 Commandments have a real relationship with God Express and manifest God in the world he saw it was the Jewish people and specifically the the Jewish people who left Egypt and they lived in the wilderness for 40 years every single day the miraculous Mana fell and they ate it that's why hasem was able to determine and measure and see that this is the the right nation and this is the right generation to receive the Torah says the interestingly hasem evaluated and looked at all of the mountains and he when he decided it was for whatever reason it's a discussion in of itself for whatever reason hasm wanted to give the Torah on a mountain and and he looked at all of the the mountains in the world and he decided it's going to be har Mount Si something special about Mount Si something special about a midbar okay that's another draw shots to do with the humility the Tor is received through humility also evaluated at that time or perhaps generally speaking evaluated all of the cities in the entire world and he said where is my B mdash where's the Holy Temple going to be built and he decided Jerusalem is the right place Isel it's interesting that this comes after that but hasem measured and looked at and determined of all of the lands of all of the countries of all of the Prime real estate in the entire world which land is the one that's going to be given specifically to the Jewish people not New York not California not Europe ER Isel the land of Israel that is the land of the Jewish people and that is where we belong that's what the verse means when it says that Hashem that's what it means when the PK says that Hashem stood up and he evaluated the Earth he evaluated where is it that I want to be manifest who are the people that I want to be manifest through what is the Holy Mountain upon which I'm going to place my Bas of English where I'm going to be the most clearly manifested in the entire world it's the Jewish people it's AR Isel it's the harab har it's Jerusalem right so why is everyone fighting about Israel why are they all trying to take Israel why are they all trying to take harabas why are they all trying to what are they fighting [Music] about so the says like this so it starts off speaking about the fact that Hashem evaluated and figured out the these are my people this is my land this is where it's going to be but it ends with talking about he saw and he V means to be m means to make something untied or permitted to let go of something says that what does it mean that they became permitted it means that the Torah tells us that when the Jewish people are to enter the land of Israel we have an obligation to kill all of the people who live in the land of Israel all the idol worshippers the Canaanites and the seven amim The Seven Nations who lived in Israel so their blood was permitted it was permitted to kill and Not only was it permitted it was we were obligated to do [Music] soer not only that when it came to taking their valuables their money their possessions that was also permitted D says the says Mish based on a that we're allowed to kill them not just allowed but we're obligated says do not let a single soul live you're allowed to take their possessions as the verse says right there you will take all of the plunder of your enemies points out not only that but you can take their you can take their their battle weapons you can take their very battle weapons and use them these were weapons that were used by Idol worshippers rash Wicked people in order to to try to kill us we can take those very weapons and use them against them so now here's where we get to to really the depth of why is it that they hate us why do they hate us what did we take from them that they had and they hate us because of that it gives us an analogy gives us an analogy to a guy who goes out and he has a he has a dog and he has a donkey with him to do the work so he takes his his donkey and he puts on it five measures of of stuff to to carry and on the dog he also wants to give the dog something it's a little smaller animal so he gives it just two two measures the donkey was carrying this heavy load but the dog couldn't even handle the small load it was it was like getting crushed under the load it was crawling along so what did he do do he said look let me try to I'll take off one of the measures of the load off of the dog and put it onto the donkey and still the dog couldn't handle it he says look if I put on you a bit too much for you you you crawl and if I put on the right amount for you you still crawl you can't handle anything a since since because of the fact that Hashem saw that the nations of the world couldn't even handle seven mitzvos seven Commandments don't kill don't steal don't be jealous of another man's wife create for yourselves but create for yourselves law law houses places to enforce law the nations of the world couldn't even handle these seven Mitzvah hasem says look I'm taking it away from them they have no more AAS they have no more responsibility I'm placing the aaras onto the Jewish people the Jewish people have their seven they have altogether Commandments they're the heavy the heavy uh the heavyweight champion the Jewish people are the donkey who can carry the load look throughout history the Christians say we can't carry the load therefore the the the world is freed from the burden of the law heaven forbid right it's true they can't carry it look at the isim the Arab world they try to carry a very heavy load doesn't really work out so well for them the Jewish people we've been carrying the Lo for 3,000 years 3,300 years and the ones who throw off the Yoke we see what happens to them they disappear only those who stay strong to the commitment to's mitzvah remain says another mus which is a little bit more famous because Rashi brings it there's an analogy to a a doctor who comes in to check on two patients and he sees that one of the patients is going to live he's going to be well he's going to get better but he sees that one of them is terminal so the one who he sees is going to live he says make sure you eat these items and don't eat those items they're going to they're going to have a negative effect a negative impact on your [Music] health the one who we saw was terminal he's not going to make it he said whatever you want to eat you could eat it's not it doesn't matter anyway this this patient is going to die so too when it comes to the nations of the world since Hashem saw they're not going to make it to the next world they're not going to end up healthy they're not going to get better so to speak so Hashem said to them eat whatever you want you can eat whatever you want the sensitivity of the of the non-jews physical system and spiritual system is different than the Jewish system the Jew we are going to end up in we're going to end up in the world to come so therefore so we have very specific foods that we can eat because our systems are very Rish they're very sensitive we can't eat bugs we can't eat pig we can't eat non- kosher animals we can't eat shellfish and and lobster these foods have a negative spiritual impact on us and because we are so sensitive therefore we have to be careful about what we eat and the Torah has many many details all of these details are for us but the nations of the world because they were unable to hold the responsibility of even seven Mitzvah of seven Commandments that that was taken away from them and the result was that the nations of the world hate us why do they hate us I think about it when a person when a person does wrong naturally they feel guilt when they realize that they can't control themselves why why is it that let's say in you know you see someone who's more I if I see somebody who's more religious than me who DAV a little better who learns a little bit more gor it's a natural feeling to feel jealous to feel anger to feel hey why is he doing that what does he think he's better than me it's a natural feeling why it comes out of my own guilt it comes out of my own sense that I'm not living up to who I should be and and when the nations of the world see the Jewish people and they see that that we are able to hold up a greater standard we are able that makes them angry makes them jealous it makes them hate themselves but they take out their anger on us I'd like to read to you from the malum the Mal is there on theim inak chapter 3 which we just read from a few Pim earlier thek is talking about how Hashem is going to send us into GIS and even though it's going to be hard times and there's going to be anger hasm please remember remember even when you're angry remember your compassion even when we've done wrong even when we're in Exile we're sent away we're not able to come back to the land of Israel don't forget about your don't let us be completely destroyed and the P says something amazing this is in chapter 3:3 it says God will come from Taman Taman literally means Yemen but we'll see Taman doesn't mean Yemen KES and the Holy One God will come from the mount mountain of Pon when it comes time for when it comes time for Redemption this is right before the to talk about how Hashem measured the Earth measured the land measured and saw who can handle who's going to get to the world to come who's going to get to the point of gula it's going to be the Jewish people but Hashem comes out and he reveals himself in these two places Tam and Har what are these two places says the Mal an amazing thing the way that hasem interacts with the world where he brings negative consequences or negative situations to the Jewish people this will continue until the time of the G of the Final Redemption God is going to come from tamon which means from Yemen but we'll see what it actually means he's going to come from there to redeem us the is telling us there's two places there's ton and there's the Jewish people are going to be in two under two different great Mal two different great powers in the world when Hashem comes to redeem us the first of the the first of the of the powers that we're going to be subjugated to is Edam the West which is referred to as Tam Yen we find says the Mal that Tam is in the land of Edom so even though we know today that Taman Yemen the physical place of Taman Yemen is certainly obviously under is Iran is the one controlling Yemen but classically when the Torah refers to is referring to Edom says the Mal we find that the power of of the Arab world is referred to as the says about himself that he lived in a place called The Wilderness of Pon Hashem is going to come from there to redeem us is going to come from the from the West to redeem us is going to come from the world of ish to redeem we find it also we also find that in the Torah itself we find that it refers to these nations har and harar refers to the the West refers to Edom refers to understand something what are they trying to do what does yal do what does Edom do what does the Christian world do what does the Muslim world do they tried to imitate in a certain way they create they created a religion which replicates or tries to copy the true religion which is which is the which is our the Jewish religion our our sages in in giving us this idea they said that hasem took the Torah to to the is to the Arabs he offered it to them he offered it to to were teaching us that that's this very idea the actual religions that they accepted upon themselves were not the religion that hasm offered to them on Mount Si when hasm was giving the Torah to the Jewish people they didn't want to receive that will come from these places Shem will come from the world of isma hasem will manifest there and and reveal himself there in such a way that it becomes clear that you're not doing my will you're not doing things correctly everyone will recognize the true law the true way the true what it really means a relationship with hem as Manifest in the Torah which was given 3,300 years ago and then everyone will have a clarity about what it means to serve Hashem properly and how in the Western World in the Christian World they covered up the true understanding of God there's no there's no physical human manifestation of a God that's that's that's that's AAR it's idolatry they'll recognize that they did they they they said that inappropriate things about God that's why the says will come from Hashem is going to come and and show the true what what it truly means what God really means what his true Unity looks like what the spiritual world really looks looks like and also when it comes to the world the Arab world there won't be there will no longer be when we get to G to Redemption that we no longer be this fictional version of God a God that's an Angry God that controls people that you have to kill others in his name uh so the same idea this same idea that there will be until the Final Redemption there will be a false manifestation of what is God's will in the world and it will manifest through the Christian world and it will manifest through the Arab world the Muslim world and then Hashem will show the truth to all of these worlds and andak is saying I am asking that hasem that you make sure to watch over your children in their Gus in their Exile right whether it's in a hidden way or whether it's an open manifestation you need to hold on you need to help your children hold on Amazing okay that's the end of this section that I'd like to share with you but the idea here is as follows it's it's very simple and it's very straightforward let's look at let's look at the Nations why do they why do they despise Israel why do they despise the Jewish people why do they hate us they hate us because we are the true manifestation of God's will in the world we have a Tyra we have a gamarra we have a medish we have a tanak we have something that says the truth we will we were never and will never be replaced because there's only one correct way of approaching God it's not that God is like the version of the Christian it's not like God is the version of the is of the of the Muslim world there's a there's a God which is that the Jewish people understand which is a god of balance a god of judgment sometimes a god of love and it's not a contradiction the Nations hate us for it because we bring balance they hate us for it they want to see us destroyed why because they want to be proven right but hasem will not allow this hasem evaluated the whole world and chose the Jewish people because he saw that we were the ones who could be civil could carry the heavy load of the Tyra the truth of what a relationship with Hashem actually really looks like he saw that we could handle this and the nations of the world could not handle this and so that's as say si the same word in Hebrew is sin the same Roots which means hatred that there's a hatred of the Nations for us because of their jealousy of the spiritual potential that we have but it's not only for us ultimately we will teach every one obviously we need to learn it ourselves first we will teach them all Hashem will reveal to the entire world as we saw in tanak in will reveal to the entire world the truth of what a relationship with him looks like I want to bless you and I ask you to bless me should help us that we should be able to understand that Hashem loves us and Hashem wants the best for us and for the entire world and we're living through unique and special times and these times are bringing to the ultimate Revelation hasem should help us be able to see his that which he measured so long ago the beautifulness of the Jewish people the specialness of the Jewish people the specialness of AR the land of Israel and the specialness of Y May that b the temple be built back in Jerusalem very soon speedily and in our days thank you so much for listening have a wonderful shabas this podcast was made possible through the gracious donation of listeners like you for more podcasts like this please visit www.wag.com or search on iTunes Ari goldwag