Vaeschanan - Having Visions Fulfilled

You're listening to the weekly para podcast with Ari Goldwag recorded with Hashim's never ending assistance in MESH Israel 5785 2025. This week's para is para says and Mosherenu has the that's on all of our lips the prayer to be able to live in Israel to be able to get to Erit Israel to be able to cross over that Jordan River or that Atlantic Ocean or whichever Mediterranean ocean whichever ocean blocks us from Erit Israel from getting in. And Moshe asks the very beginning of our para I supplicated in front of Hashem. I begged Hashem at that time and I said like this listen carefully because this is our prayer and we need to understand how do we get how do we get our prayers answered? How do we get the vision? We have a vision. We want to get to Israel. How do we get that vision to be fulfilled? Before I continue, I just want to mention that this para podcast this week is sponsored and it should be as it should be great merit for the one who has sponsored it and indeed it will be. So he says like this. Now the puk is written the first two words of this puk and I'm going to read the puk with hashem's name because I want you to hear what it says and it's written and read differently. Typically when we have the name yud vke with hashem's the letters of hashem's holy name. So we read it with the name Alfaly and when we have the name which and and then the these different names right al means hashem is my master which has a certain amount of den to it. In fact, the word din is in there. But the name Yud V denotes Hashem's mercy. And the name also denotes Hashem's justice, his den. Now it's written. That's the first name. And the second name is Yud V, which denotes first din and second mercy. But it's it's read differently. It's read which means the first name is the name of Adnos of Hashem's mastery and the second name is the name of we read it which means God's judgment and we don't read it yud and we're going to have the whole discussion as to why that is but Mosher Rabenu addresses Hashem the way that it's expressed the way that it's said is that he He speaks of Hashem's judgment and he says, "You started this. You started showing me. You gave me a vision of your greatness, of your powerful hand. Who is the God in the heavens and the earth who has the power to do what you can do, can do your actions and your powerful deeds? And Moshe says, "Please fulfill my desire. Fulfill what I believe is your will for me. Let me go over and let me see the great good land on the other side of the Jordan River. on and translates I want to see the great good mountain means harabas and the mikash I want to see the place that connects heaven and earth and mosher laments and he says not he was angry at me because of you did not listen to me he says stop I don't want you to continue asking for this anymore more. So Mosher Rabenu he begs Hashem and he uses he invokes the name of Hashem and he says the name Adnos the name Yud V the name of he's trying to get it from all angles he's saying please Hashem help me get into and Hashem says no it's very interesting says he's speaking here with the he says is is a supplication. He's it's begging. He's begging. Not just praying. He's begging. And he says, "You master master of the world who has compassion." Right? The second name is written, "You have compassion. You started off. You gave me a vision of the future when I was 40 years ago when I was standing here in the midbar in the wilderness and I saw that burning bush and you gave me a vision. You showed me what's going to be. I'm going to be the redeemer of Kali Israel. I'm going to be the one who takes out the Jewish people from Egypt. I I saw the vision and I understood that it meant I'm going to take them all the way there. He turned away. He was afraid to look at God. He was afraid to look at the judgment. The Ramban gets into details here, right? The Pix refers to Hashem's which are cabalistic ideas which I'm not going to get into. I understood and this is this is saying I understood God in heaven and earth. I understood the connections. I understood how you manifest in this world. And it's about getting to ar the fulfillment of the promise of taking them out and bringing them to the place they're supposed to be where they serve Hashem on that mountain in the B mikdash. And we see that Hashem gets upset. Hashem gets angry at Moshe because of the sins of Clal Israel. That's theim and it's very difficult. Why is Mosher Rabin denied and we're going to see that the a similar request was made by two other great Sadikim Arau and David and they were granted the request. They requested for some reason there's something different about Moshe's request. Maybe it's the context, maybe it's the approach. I'm I'm just going to offer a possible explanation but but for sure it's clear and the mag says this explicitly and we'll read it together had a request similar request to Moshe and he was answered had this request and he was he was given a no a tough no and we're going to try to understand what's the difference why does one person have a vision and that vision is fulfilled they have a request from Hashem and that request is granted. And why does another one not have that request granted? What's the difference? And it's important for us. We got to pray correctly when we want when we want anything in life. We spoke about this in the buck podcast. I'm giving you a hint if you heard the buck podcast already. But there's a proper approach to the there's a proper approach to asking that our dreams come true. What is this concept of? Why why does it why do we have the name Adnos and the name which is really written? What's this? There's like an outer aspect of judgment and there's an inner aspect, right? because we have the way it's read which is the outer aspect like there's a there's a expression in Hebrew from from the lips and outwards there's the external aspect of it the way that it's said but it's written which we see but it's written with with which denotes so what's the idea points out There are two places that Mosher Rabenu tried to do something similar to and it didn't work for him. Let's see what the two places are. Hashem calls to Abraham. Hashem reveals himself to Abraham and Abraham responds and he says, "Hani, here I am. I'm ready. I'm ready to do whatever you want, Hashem." Hini says the medish here I am. I'm ready to be a cohen. I'm ready to be a priest. I'm ready to be the connector person between Hashem, you and the people of the world. I'm ready to be a king. And understand what a king is. A king is very similar to a cohen. A king is somebody who serves as a representative of Hashem in the world. tells him, "We are a kingdom of priests." That's who the Jewish people are. We represent Hashem in the world. That's what a king does. A king is concerned about his people. A king is guiding his people. Making sure that everything that's that's going on in the kingdom is for the benefit of his people. He's not there for himself to be rich, to have wives, to have every comfort. That's not what a king is about. It's a servant leader. That's what a true king is. And Abrau shows up and says, "I'm here. I'm ready. I'm ready to be your liaison in the world bringing your word to the people of the world. And I'm ready to be there to pray on their behalf. Heavens the most wicked people ready to pray on their behalf. I'm ready to wish good upon them to do to do kindness." What what does it say about him? He got both. He got priesthood and he got kingship, right? Who comes from all the who comes from all of the all the kings says Hashem swore that and he won't relent upon it. made an oath. He promised, "You're going to be kohanim." Malised lost the kahuna and it went to whom to Abraham. He also merited to be a king. King of the world as Mashiach will be. Mashiach is not just going to be the king of the Jewish people. He's going to be the king of the world. Shave Pik says embracious that he came to the Achave the the valley of the king. That's important. It's important he came to the valley the valley of of shave. The word shva means equal. Maybe we'll have a chance to talk about what shave means. I'm not sure if it's going to happen this time, but let's just say that shva means everything is equal. Everything is the same to me. I don't doesn't matter to me if you insult me, if you compliment me. It's all the same. And that's the same place as the Aamelik. The valley of kingship. The valley of kingship is where Abraham reached. Aram was a was a person who was able to get kingship. What is kingship? As we said, it's the servant leader. I'm just here to save my nephew and I'm here to take care spiritually of other people. That's what it's about. Mosha also made this request to that his offspring should be priests and his offspring should be kings. Moshe calls to Moshe. He calls to him twice and Moshe also responds and says he here I am. I'm ready to do your bidding. I'm ready to serve you in any way that you wish. I would like to be the father of kohanim. I would like to be the father of kings which is not what happened right his brother Aaron became the father of the kahim his was it his brother-in-law Non or it was Aaron's brother-in-law would be the great greatgrandfather of the kings so he didn't have that they didn't he didn't have the kuna and he didn't have the But we'll need to see this P and try to understand it. It's a P mit. It says don't make yourself great in front of the king in the place of great ones. Don't stand the wisest of all men. The king David Hamel's son, he said, "If you want to be a king, don't stand up in the place of kings. If you want to be great, don't stand up in the place of the great ones. The path into greatness, you can't get there by making yourself great. The path to greatness is only by making yourself small, the the valley that we spoke about in regards to Abraham. Let's see. Hashem tells Mosh, don't come don't come so close. He said just back off. You're not going to be able to be the one who's the priest. Your brother Aaron is going to bear supposedly says a stranger who comes in will die. Which is interesting because both of these things Moshenu did have he was the first priest the very beginning during the seven days of the muim when they were about to put up the Mishkan. He was the one who served there. He was the priest. But then Aaron takes over and that's it. And he was the mel. He was a king for a time. He was a king during his lifetime, but that ended. His children did not continue his reign. Yeshua took over. You're not going to continue. You're not going to have kingship. It just ends here. Is standing on the precipice. He wants to enter into he wants to complete the job. He wants that it should continue with him just as Abraham wanted. Abraham said I don't want to someone else. And if you look at the context of theim where Abraham is asking, we're going to see in the as we continue here. Maybe we should read further before I explain. So that was the first thing. Let's just get it clear. That was the first instance where Abraham asks for kohuna and maluka for priesthood and kingship. It's granted. Mosherenu asks for the same thing. It is not granted. It doesn't continue. It doesn't move past him. He's got it for a moment and then it's gone. Abra the second context where we see a parallel between Mosha and Abraham is where Abra says Hashem has promised Abraham that he's going to have children and he's going to have a glorious spiritual future and Aram says I don't have any kids maybe Elazar is going to be the one maybe maybe these are going to be my my spiritual heirs and he says it's very interesting the the way that he phrases it is what what's going to be he doesn't say he doesn't make a demand he says what's going to be with my spiritual future it seems like I don't have any kids and there's not going to be any future so gives us a hint says what was he saying cuz he says just like Moshe in our puss refers to Hashem as my master and then yud but he doesn't say yud he says elikim he says god's name of which denotes his attribute of justice so Abram said it Moshe said it and what does it mean says he says I don't know if I can have kids. You know, I know that you have two different ways of manifesting in the world. Sometimes it's through compassion and sometimes it's through din. Sometimes it's it b it's based on do I deserve it or not. So said look, if I deserve it, great. Let me have those kids. If I don't deserve it, have compassion. Let me have them anyway. responds and says, Hashem says, "You know what? I'll tell you, you deserve it. You deserve it." Hashem love and Hashem shows to him and as an aortion explainer and it's a reference to a different magish which we're probably not going to have time to see that Hashem walked in as it were to reveal that he's going to have kids not just himself but he sent three angels to also bring the news to Aram of and to Sah. So there was Hashem himself which is the inner aspect is his rahim revealing to Aram that he's going to have kids he's going to have a future there's going to be a spiritual continuation and the angels also communicated that which is the outer aspect which because angels as we've seen in weeks ago we saw that angels are more bidden they have more they're a lower aspect they're spiritual yes but they have more judgment there's more judgment involved and hashem brought the angels to give over the message to say to Abraham don't worry even the angels agree to this which means to say even amid the attribute of Hashem's divine judgment agrees to this tried to use the same request the same type of request and said look Hashem Hashem who is also the god of justice and he's also the god God of mercy. If I need if if it's possible that I could deserve it, let me get into the land of Israel. But if not, let me get in with compassion. Brings the same. You can't you're not going to have that. You can't make yourself to be someone that someone or somewhere that you're not. You're not going to go over the Jordan. Interestingly, the Jordan is also the word done which means judgment is there. You're not going to get you're not going to pass the judgment. You're not going to get past and on through the judgment. So the measure finishes off and just says that Moshe saw it was it was too hard. It was too impossible. He tried to bust it through but he wasn't able. And so he spoke in a tough way to amrael. But what's the difference? Why is Moshe not answered and why is Abraham answered? And as we'll see David is also answered. King David is in parl on this that we just read where says what's going to be what are you going to give me I'm I'm I'm childless I don't yet have the children who are going to be the future of Amistra I don't yet have that kahuna I don't yet have the the priesthood I don't yet have the malus says the maj two people said the same thing. Abraham and King David. He said this language, Hashem, the God of mercy, God of judgment, what will what will you give me? He says something profound. He says, according to the medish, I don't want kids unless I only want kids, hashem, if those kids are going to be good kids. If it's going to turn out that any of my children are not going to do your will, are not going to lead the Jewish people, not going to lead mankind to you, to a relationship with you. I don't want any kids. I know that it's my destiny to have kids. I know that it's my destiny to have kahuna to have malus but I don't want it unless it's going to be a keshm unless it's going to be a sanctification of your name that's what said king David says unto him in chapter 139 verse 23 check me out and know my heart know what's in my heart portion me many David said a similar thing he I want you to look at I don't want kids unless you're going to I I want you to clarify what's in my heart. What's in the atmus of who I am, what's in the essence of who I am and where do my kids come from? They are an offshoot of my heart of who I am at my core. And then it says, I want you to check out my heart and see if there's anything bad in there. Because if there's anything in there that's not aligned with your will, I'm not interested in those kids that are going to come out that are not going to be aligned with your will. See if there's any sadness in me and and guide me in the way of the world. He's saying, "If I'm going to have any kids that are going to be that are going to make you sad, Hashem, that are going to turn away from you, that are going to cause to turn away from you, and I know the power inside of me. I know the future. I know what the my offspring is supposed to be. They're going to be leaders just as I am. So, I don't want them unless I don't want you to give me anything. I'd rather have nothing. I don't want a future unless the future contains you. Unless the future serves you, Hashem. So, I'm nervous about what I'm about to say, but I'm going to say it anyway. But I think that the medish our medish and our para hints to this when it brings the mish and the mish says what was the response to when he said I'm here I'm ready I want I want kahuna and what was the response to him when he said please let me go into hashem says to him You can't pick yourself up into that place. You don't get into the place of greatness by making yourself great. Abraham and David did the opposite of that. They said, "Don't give me." He said, "Don't give it to me unless it's going to be for you. Unless it's good for you, Hashem. Don't give it to me unless it's good for you. I'd rather have nothing. I'd rather continue childless," Aram said. And David said, "I don't want any future unless it's good for you, Hashem." The says here, "You want to know how to come into the king? You want to know how to get an audience with the king? You want to know how to be a servant of the king who serves everyone else? who guides Clal Israel. That's who a king is. You want to know how to be a kayan? A priest who is the connector between Hashem and Am Israel. You can't walk in there as a king. You can't walk in there thinking you're great. You can't walk in there thinking you deserve it or anything is coming to you. the rob says come in there lowly. I don't want anything for myself. King, how can I serve you? King, how can I how can I make your will manifest in the world? You want to hang out with the winners. You want to hang out with the people, the dignitaries. You can't walk in there as a dignitary. Nobody respects that. They're already great. You want them to pick you up because you have lowered yourself. Who do who do you appreciate? Who do who does, you know, who do I appreciate? Who do we all appreciate? When we see someone who's only there not for themselves, let's say a RV, who's not there because he needs you to be there. He doesn't need you to be in listening to his shear. He doesn't need you to be his congregant. He's not there because he was elected. He's there because he's there to serve you. That's the king. That's the guy who gets lifted up to a position. The one who's there who wants to serve because of no benefit of his own. He doesn't get anything. He doesn't get a paycheck. He doesn't get any honor. He doesn't get any anything. That's a that's David. They said, "I don't want it for myself. If it's about me, I you know, it's only about you, Hashem. I just want kids so that they can serve you. I just want my vision to be fulfilled so that your vision can be fulfilled. Moshe wasn't. He didn't merit that his kids should continue in his way. The mala and the kuna went elsewhere. And obviously it's difficult to understand. It's difficult to to to say anything negative but the measure says it brings us puk. And so what we get from this is we want our visions to be fulfilled. We want a future. We want kids. And what do we want out of our kids? We want them. This is what our prayer has to be. We want our kids to be those who will serve Hashem, who will be those who help Israel serve Hashem. That is our prayer. That is our that's our vision. And it's not about me. It's not about me being great cuz my kid is great. And that's an, you know, that's a natural thing, a natural feeling. But it's not about that. It's only about Hashem. It's only about you, Hashem. How will this help you, my God, to be revealed more in the world? world. I want to bless you and I ask you to bless me. Hashem should help us to have this prayer, to have this goal, to have this vision. And Hashem should bless us that all of our visions and all of our dreams should be fulfilled. Thank you so much for listening. Have a wonderful Shabas. 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