Vaera - Seeing Signs of Redemption

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with Ari goldwag recorded with hm's never running assistance in ROM Israel 5785 2025 this week's para is paraa we have the second para in the story of the Jewish people's Exile and Redemption and I'd like to share with you an amazing thought from the Mish beautiful beautiful medish and our topic today is signs him what are signs m a Wonder a sign when moshu comes in to parro and also really when he introduces himself as the go as the Redeemer of the Jewish people so he's given a sign he is given he's asked for an indication of the fact that he is really truly the Redeemer of the Jewish people and moso has different signs he takes his staff and he throws his down and becomes a snake he turns the water into blood even before he actually brings about the plagues well what is the concept of signs what is the idea and as we'll see so par is the one who asks him for a sign give me an indication anybody could walk into parro maybe and say whatever he wants make any request to let a whole nation a slave Nation depart and leave their country that's a pretty y request so if you're going to make such a request you need to give me a sign that you're first of all serious maybe second of all that you have power third of all that there's something valid to your request so Hashem actually informs him hem says to M before he goes into parro he says to him you're going to go to par and Par is gonna speak to you and he's gonna ask you for a sign and here's the sign that you're to do and Par is not goingon to listen to you who gave him a warning and the medish there's two parts of the Mish I'm not going to get so involved in the first part of the med but I would like to mention it because it a in and Isaiah the 46:10 from the beginning tells you knows what's going to be in the end says even before everything all history when God creates the world or at any moment in history God can tell you what's going to be in the future and how things will end up in the end my will Hashem says will be done there might be detours along the way we might have to recalculate the route many times but my will is always going to be done I can tell you from the beginning how it's going to look in the end my that's the and the M says about certain things is is going to do hasem predicts but also in this context Hashem tells you what's going to be with parro that he's going to defy you he going to not let the people out until finally the final soem predicts and tells us from the beginning what's going to be in the end hasem says to you're going to go in there and you're going to be asked for a sign excuse me and Pyro is not going to listen to you now the second part of the m has to do with the fact of the fact that parro asked for a sign was this appropriate like where are you to ask for a sign what you need proof that Mosher Reno is serious so me says like this is for sure going to say it doesn't say if parro will say what's your sign here's the sign that's not what it says it says parro is going to when he says this this is what you should respond it's a foregone conclusion Hashem is telling M what's going to be which is interesting because as this measure speaks about it sounds like even though yes we have we can choose to do wrong but hm knows we're going to do wrong somehow God's forn knowledge of our mistakes is not a contradiction to the fact that we have we have free will another Point not the main point I'd like to get into excuse me says that he's speaking appropriately he says a correct thing he says something appropriate when he asks for a sign now before we get into really why it's appropriate or was what is the purpose of asking for a sign for parro which we did mention before but the Mish gives us a few different examples of sikim of righteous individuals in history who received a sign and the mes understands that if they received a sign it means that they asked for a sign we find by no Noah had an A traumatic experience we can't say anything less the entire world was destroyed except for him and his kids but within that traumatic experience incredible Miracles occurred there was enough food for them all the food didn't rot a whole year side of a Tavo he was taking care of the animals the animals came in a miraculous way and yet and and say and he came off with the t meaning he got out safely says to him there's not going to be the water is not going to be used in a destructive way anymore so Noah says look you say that you're not going to destroy the world anymore you're never going to allow such a thing to happen again but it seems this is my interpretation of what it's saying it seems like when you get angry at k you just bulldoze I mean you didn't say these words explicit explicitly but it seems like when you get angry you could destroy the world maybe this will happen again soem says so gives him a sign we need to understand the concept of a sign what does a sign mean he gives him a sign he says don't worry I will never destroy the world in this way ever again I will never bring an incredible flood to destroy all of mankind and only save one sadic don't worry your children are safe If Ever I become angry enough at your children to do such a thing I have placed the rainbow in this in the heavens as a sign that although I'm upset I have a covenant with you that I'm not going to destroy them if asked for a sign hasm gave him a sign an indication so certainly parro has a right to ask for a sign he didn't do anything wrong by asking for a sign which it's it's just very interesting that the mes wants to make him okay in asking for a sign and we also need to understand what does it mean to ask for a sign they didn't exactly they didn't explicitly ask for a sign hasm gave them a sign maybe there was a doubt in their heart it's not so clear P doesn't say that Noah asked for a sign just that hasm gave him a sign but if hasm is giving a sign so it would seem to mean that a sign is needed what is a sign they just like I can know the future what's the idea of a sign King of the Jewish people he was very sick and he was told that he's going to die was because he didn't marry he had done something wrong he wasn't fulfilling the Mitzvah of hem he had a he didn't want Russia to come out of him he does chuva and hasem says because you did chuva here's the sign you're going to go up to the BD on the third day to the temple and you're going to be cured what is the sign I'm going to go up to the house of Hashem so he also got a sign he also got an indication that he's going to be cured it's like clear exactly why he needs some kind of sign or he doesn't believe the navi he doesn't believe the word of Hashem that he's going to be cured he needs some kind of sign it's not happening immediately he gets the gets the sign and indeed that's what happens was a righteous individual and he asked for a sign certainly has a right to ask for a sign the third example that the brings is and this one to me is the most interesting which speaks of a whole a whole bunch of a whole number of stories or or points of redemption that a similar circumstance occurred they're going to be thrown into the into the pit and uh the going to be thrown into the fire and they come out miraculously there was a similar circumstance where as they were about to go down into the fire so they experienced a Sean there was a sign for them that everything's going to be okay what was the sign as the says all of a sudden he just found himself saying a like this is how the for I'm explain it there's another explanation of it which maybe we'll get to but he finds himself saying AAS that just like all of a sudden it comes out happens to me sometimes I just start singing often the song I'm singing is because I didn't even realize what I saw something a sign or something I saw a PK learning something and then all of a sudden I'm singing something I didn't even realize I saw a PK that's a song but anyway P comes in starts singing singing he's saying the it's not don't do it for meem do it for you we don't have this we don't have the merits to be saved we don't have the Merit for a miracle for your name give honor says it for your kindness for your truth AAR says who was sent down to save them the angel Gabriel is sent down to save them and he says why should the the Nations say where is their God so they're about to experience an incredible salvation they they they don't know they don't know what's going to happen butk is just coming into their head it's just repeating itself in their minds all night long that's explain it and they know it's going to be good it's going to be okay everything's going to be going to be all right once they had that experience they felt confident when they went down into the fire that they're going to be saved there's going to be a miracle is going to show everybody there going to be a the sanctification of God's name as a result of them going down brings another possible source for the fact cuz this isn't beish it's not explicit in the that this happened this we have a Mah that it happened but it's not explicit in the I have a different possible place for you to learn this from listen up Yeshua the great the the high priest you and friends who are sitting before you you are people of signs this is so beautiful people of signs who is sitting there were the students of of yua and thei says to him that you you and your friends are you are people who experience signs somebody who experiences signs has is in a different category an people of the signs unbelievable so much to say about this ends off by saying ifim ask for signs or they receive signs even a Russia is allowed to ask it's not a it's not a problem for parro to ask for a sign what is the idea of a sign we like to ask for signs they didn't really ask for signs it just seems like a gave them a sign but what is the idea of a sign what is a Simon so I think and this is why I started off with the PK which the first part of the Mish brings often when a mish brings two different understandings of something or a new understanding of something it's building off of the previous understanding the P that we brought before wasm tells us what's going to happen Hashem gives an indication he knows the future and his will is going to be done in the end that PK indicates that even from the beginning this is what perhaps we could understand it to be saying this is what a seon is a seon a son sign is where KES tells you what's going to happen Hashem tells you this is how it's going to be in the end and I want you to know now it doesn't seem that way it doesn't seem that way it seems like our enemies are winning they're parading around in the streets Victory it doesn't seem like we're going to win in the end maybe it's not clear I'm Isel the go comes the Redeemer comes comes and things get worse let there near you guys are are trying to get out of here you guys are lazy make it worse we'll see who gets out of here it seems worse is a Simmon it's a sign it means I want you to know what's going to happen in the future it's does that mean oh has is just like giving us a heads up so don't don't worry about it or maybe something even deeper this is what I think is theot in a Simon it's not just calm down relax it's going to be okay it's not just that means AEM brings the future into the present in a moment of doubt it seems like we're never GNA get to the Future maybe we won't forbid maybe we won't get there Yu as he comes back from he comes to is and ASA is coming out to to greet him with 400 armed Warriors he's worried maybe he won't make it maybe his family will be heaven forbid destroyed maybe all of heaven forbid I don't want to even say maybe something bad will happen maybe my sin will cause in the near term a destruction that will prevent the ultimate GH the ultimate Redemption is told that in three days you're going to be better but maybe is worried maybe he the sin in the meantime he'll die and he won't get to the moment of redemption maybe he won't get there how do they know that they're going to get they're going to cross they have to cross a very difficult bridge to get to the miracle where they're Sav from the fire no knows he knows what happens he knows human beings he knows what's going to happen through history maybe the world will be destroyed and there won't be anybody left when isem tells you what's happening in the future it's not just that KES is giving giv you a heads up Hashem is reassuring you and enabling that future he's drawing the future into the present Hashem is making the future possible by giving you a taste of that future now that's what a Simmon is Hashem says I'm not going to destroy the people of the world with a with a flood ever again anytime that I'm angry really they should be destroyed I'm going to make a rainbow which indicates I'm having a mercy now that's the Simmon the Simmon is drawing the future I the the fact CU it could be that the fact that I know that you're going to do chuva let's say you're going to repent you're going to be good in the future it's not enough to save you now maybe it's not enough to save you now maybe should be swallowed up they're in the 49th level of T they're so low they're so bad the Egyptians are serving idolatry and the Jews are serving idolatry maybe that should they should be destroyed because of it maybe they should be lost like the 10 tribes were lost maybe heaven forbid a holocaust should Happ heaven forbid heaven forbid heaven forbid who says we get to the other side but the Simmon draws the future into the present not only does Hashem not destroy he lets us live even though we're not okay it's a the Simon draws and brings about he tells you from the beginning what's going to be in the end my my decision that which I wish to happen is going to happen and I'm not going to let saying I'm not going to let the AAR of the world or the a of the individual I'm not going to let it destroy him now I'm going to hold off I'm going to let him get to that point in that moment of salvation and I want to add something which is says later on in the Mish in par in in section B and it's talking about Amel going out of Egypt and it happened on the 15th of Nissan PES as the Egyptians were being destroyed am Israel was being redeemed and it was called Le shim it was a night of protection through the mitzah we were protected says the why is it called the word shim which means protection can also mean to save to hold on to to hold on to that day hasem saved the night of of pesak for the righteous what does it mean should have died do you know when he was saved it was on the night of PES that he was saved not only that it was the night went down in it was the night of P that they that they were saved miraculously from the fire and Daniel was saved from the from the Lion's Den on that same night and the doesn't mention it here but we know that PM the story of P also happened on PES they were fasting on pesak they were saved on pin and also Mia is going to come they're going to be the the eloh Elijah the prophet who is the one who announces mashia and mhia himself they will become known and made great on P God says this is the sign it's going to be in your hand this is the sign I'm saving this date mark it on your calendar you want to know when msia is going to come mark it on your calendar it's going to be P this is the sign the day in history in the year 2448 3,300 years ago or so when I saved am Israel they went out of Egypt it's a sign for what's going to be in the future I planted I embedded in the past something that's going to help you throughout history it's going to you're going to be able to draw the future Redemption into moments in history when you need it you're going to be saved from the fire you're going to be saved from the sickness you're going to be saved from the Lions [Music] then okay it's not that moment it's not yet that moment so it's not yet that moment that's what the M says there is a time but you can draw the future time into the present that's what a Simmon is that's what a sign is but it comes out an amazing thing saying it doesn't just mean that it was does sayem put it in their mind to say it it was p on p on the night of P every year we say was part of Hal it's not USM it's you and as the says every time there was a Salvation it was we were saying those words which means to say that this is p is a m time it's a special time when is already saying the Praises of God and minimizing ourselves and saying it's not because of us don't say us because of us it's because of you do it for your sake Hashem we don't have enough merits we're minimizing ourselves but you make a Kem you sanctify your name through us made that day the day that we say it that was saying that's how that's the Simmon this is the day of salvation is saved on this day it's not a coincidence it's not it's it's not it's it's pre-planned this is the day p is the day that mhia arrives it's the day that mashiach is lifted up it's today that he's shown to be the one who is going to manifest that in the world the divine presence will come into the world through him that's the Simmon that's the sign that's the Simmon the sign of Salvation the sign of Messiah the sign of mhia is that the future the future Redemption is drawn in to the present time and now what happens when we look for th those moments of Salvation because we experience salvation each and every one of us in our own lives Hashem shows us signs we've talked about this many times in the B podcast that when you start having B when you start trusting AEM when you start believing that God is in your life Hashem shows himself more to you you start seeing it more and more it couldn't have happened by itself you notice it you notice it but it's not just that you notice it puts it in your mind to notice it because you want it when you want to see the signs the signs are there they're already there they're planted there for each and every one of us to see the signs hey how am I going to get the money I need how am I going to get the I need how am I going to get whatever it is that I need but Hashem plants signs for us he shows us something that indicates that he's there with us for y he had the dream when he was 17 years old and he had to hold on to that dream for 22 years until it was fulfilled but gave it to him at the beginning so he'd have it and if you look at the story it's what caused the whole story to happen was mcal started the whole process a long process but the Simon the sign is the drawing from the future into the present who does that for us and if we're looking for we're called were called people of the sign we can be people of the sign all it takes is noticing they were saying lanu every year on PES they were saying this P every single year on but they noticed that the very day that they're about to be thrown into lines then they're saying it's B they're saying it this is the day of their salvation they understood that if this is the day that things are happening this must be this must be a moment of great Kem sanctification of hashem's name and then because they could see it because they recognize it they they they noticed they're saying it notice what they're saying so hard to notice what we're saying we're dominating it's so hard to notice what we're saying but they notice what they were saying and that's why they're called anus they're called people of the sign you got to notice the signs we have to see that is in our life and he's giving us signs and indications of our future salvations and if we do that then we can be like sadik and we can be called on we should be from the that's what we say every single day three times a day we should be like those who trust let us not be embarrassed help us see the signs we trusted in you I want to bless you I ask you to bless me hashm should help us that we should be able to try to see the signs Hashem should show us those signs should help us to be and hasm should help us to experience the ultimate Redemption on a personal level and on a national level of mhia coming thank you so much for listening have a wonderful shabus this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you for more podcasts like this please visit www.wag.com or search on iTunes Ari goldwag [Music]