Beshalach - Yearning for Completion

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with Ari goldwag recorded with hashem's never running assistance in Roma Bishop Mr Israel 5783 2023 this week's partials partials for shalach and before I begin I just want to apologize my voice is very weak today I have a cold and Mark Hashem I feel fine but my voice is not as clear as it usually is so when things like this happen we come to appreciate the everyday back and forth week week by week the fact that our voices work that our bodies work all that Hashem does for us all the time so please bear with me and let's read together some ideas from the mentors the Jewish people are on their way out of Egypt after a sojourn in Egypt for 210 years now it's time for them to be released and for them to go by departure starts off by telling us that it was when Paro sent out the Jewish people so I'd like to read you three different midras from three different pieces that speak about this language of the Manchester speak about the Shiloh the sending out of the Jewish people in regards to the Jewish people themselves first second in regards to how pyro felt about their release and third a certain sense of what Moshe felt like in the Jewish people's Exodus in that moment of Exodus of them leaving it's very interesting to try to understand from each of their perspectives and and to see the the kind of once again as we always try to do to see you have different majoration but you can still sense and you can still see that there's an underlying theme which runs through all three of them says the magic like this if and it was when Paro sent out the Jews people had that would accept since the magician this is what it means in the past looking to heal him it says him to plus again Psalms chapter 124 verse 7. our soul was like a bird escaping from the from the trap that it was entrapped in the Jewish people is like a bird escaping from the trap escaping you know you can Envision the picture of a bird that's been trapped and it somehow is able to release itself Freedom that's Freedom bikini this is an analogy to a dove that was inside of its nestra a particular uh poisonous snake saw the bird and it tried to get up to where the bird was to get up to the nest Amaker the bird was able to escape to another place what happens after that so the nagash the snake goes up and climbs up into the nest that the bird had vacated and a fire comes down and it burns the original uh nest of the bird and it burns the snake that's inside of that nest so now the bird does not have anywhere to go it doesn't have a home so it flies up and it sits on the roof Nissan himself so once the once the snake was burned and the nest was burnt so they said to this bird why are you uh why are you going from one place to another why are you just flying around on the roof so what the bird did was it flew to another Nest it found another beautiful Nest a more beautiful Nest we could say and it sat there and it lived there in that nest this is how the Jewish people were in Egypt the Jewish people found a place to rest so to speak they found a nest they found a place to develop their young to to have to to lay their eggs so to speak and to develop as a nation but there was a snake that wanted to destroy them and that was Pyro SS as the verse says Pharaoh said to his people let us be wise in regards to the Jewish people and Pharaoh is compared to the snake as opposed to says in Ezekiel God says to Ezekiel say a prophecy about Pharaoh the Great Snake in fact we know that one of the symbols of Egypt was the snake the snake represents all that's evil in creation so Pharaoh is like that snake that wants to climb up and capture or kill or consume the bird foreign so just like the bird flies out of the out of the Ken out of the nest the Jewish people runs away the Jewish people they were afraid like a bird of Egypt because once the Jewish people left Egypt Pharaoh was consumed by fire right he was the one who climbed so to speak into the into the nest the place of the Jewish people the Jewish people vacated the nest foul is destroyed his people were destroyed the plus again we say every day God sent out his anger and they were consumed Like Straw yes the people of Israel went to another place right they went to a place which was neither here nor there they were on the roof like a bird on the roof right a bird doesn't live on a roof birds fly on the roof I actually have a building across from me there's a number of of apartment buildings across from me on on my street and for some reason they love the building which is ran across from my window and they sit there they're beautiful birds wonderful to see them but they sit there but that's not where they sleep that's not their permanent dwelling place right the Jewish people they they went into another place where did they go they uh they went from they went like a bird from one place to another she never could see born and did this mikina the Jewish people were wandering in the wilderness from one station to another question when they came to Israel when they came to land of Israel so they found a beautiful nest she never comes to bias also that sipur found its home but still there's something missing as the message is about to say even though they found their home they found the land of Israel there's still something missing the end of the public is as the marzu quotes what were they searching for that it wasn't just a house a place for them to live but it's also the very the very altar of Hashem that they were searching for and this is the end which which coincides with the idea of the marzu King David says I can't rest says King David wanted to build me something that she wanted to build a temple he wanted a permanent dwelling place for God and he said I won't allow myself to sleep I want to allow myself to stop I want my I'm going to keep going until I find the place he was searching he was searching and searching until he found the location of the base which it would be for all time which is yushalayim Jerusalem the holy city the harabayas the Temple mount Adam until I find the place where Hashem the place where the the mighty one of Jacob the Jew the the Jewish people's God until I find that place my job is not done enough so we are like we are like the Jewish people are compared to a bird which is flying from place to place until it finally finds its nest and when when is it called it found its home it's not even when we get to Etsy when we get to land of Israel and so we have a base hammock Dash and we have the Holy Temple rebuilt rebuilt on the harabison on the Holy Mountain of Hashem that's when we know we've reached the the Apex of History right the Jewish people and we mentioned this we say this in each year we say that we don't have the you know what was the obviously right every year we say at the end of our savior next year in Jerusalem we can't suffice ourselves wherever we are even if we have so much Torah so much relationship with Hashem it's still not complete until we have Besame which means open revelation of hashem's hand in the world we also mentioned in the dayenu in the song of dayenu where we mentioned if Hashem had done this for us that would have been enough if I shouldn't have done this for us if it were taken us out of Egypt all the different things that Hashem did for the Jewish people in The Exodus but what's the culmination of that what's the final stage of Diana it's basabihira he's building for us the chosen house the house of God the best the Holy Temple so this magic is clearly saying a beautiful thing and saying an awesome thing and that is that we are compared to we are we are being sent out we are being released like a bird which is coming out of its bondage flying from place to place until it finally like we sing on Shabbos till we finally find a place to rest and where is that place to rest it's not even Arts Israel we can't suffice ourselves it's a beautiful thing the Jewish people now have the land of Israel but until we have a base hamiktas until he had the temple it's not complete we are not at Google yet we are not at the full Redemption until we have a base of English built Mr sham soon okay so Foundation concept number number one Foundation number one is where are we headed what's the purpose of Google what's the purpose of the Exodus where is it to get to ultimately it's not just to be released from our bondage it's not just to be released from the knockash from the snake who wants to kill us but it's for us to get to Earth's surrounds for us to get the land of Israel and for us to have a base on Magnus to have a holy Temple which we can use to serve Hashem where God is Manifest in the world [Music] that's that's the first piece in the magic now the next two pieces are slightly different angle talking not so much on the bishalach para not So Much from the fact that the Jewish people were sent out released from their bondage but the language of and it was when Paro sent them out so the word about points out our message points out the word he and it was so it's made up of two two halves why he the word vi we always say right that's Hebrew that's not Yiddish right they or Vai means woe woe unto us w-o-e woe unto us whenever you have the word there's always an aspect of Something's Wrong something sad something's not right something is not as it should be so what we're going to see two different as as to what was the sadness when pyro sends out the Jewish people why what what what could what could be the sadness in sending out the Jewish people hurray there's only joy when we are released from our bondage finally after 210 years of enslavement well released from our bondage in Egypt what's the sadness so the first shot it seems like something kind of obvious and that the sad one was power he was losing his slaves that's the simple thing but there's a deeper thing pyro was losing something much greater than just his slaves hear this it's amazing it's such an interesting message who is the one that called out who's the one that said woe is me it was Pharaoh um the magic gives us a muscle an analogy to a King that was going to a particular country I'm sorry not the king the son of the king the prince went to a particular country excuse me he went and he stayed this this Prince he went and he stayed by a particular rich man and the King I'm sorry the rich man received this Prince with a with an eye in tiger with a good eye meaning he brought him in he gave him a place to sleep he gave him luscious Foods Etc foreign how this uh this particular rich man welcomed in his son took care of him and which country he lives right and the malfunction explained of course uh you know when we think about the Egyptians they didn't really uh treat us so nicely but at the beginning they did greet us and they took us in and they took care of us and they provided for us so the king at some point says back to the analogy the king of some point says he sends letters to this rich man he says I want you to send my son home is so the King was sending messages to the switch man saying send out my son I want you to send them home second time a third time constantly you're sending these messages at some at a certain point the king himself went down to the rich man's house and he pulled his son out of the rich man's house that rich man started to scream what are you doing Agony took my stuff the prince how come he attacked how come the king took him out all right so his neighbor said that what are you yelling about I'm a lamb so the rich man said it was a great honor for me when the prince was in my house I was receiving all of these letters from the King he needed me you see someone with fun of I was there in front of him that was something I was on his mind but now that the prince is gone the King has stopped sending me letters the King has stopped interacting with me and that's why I'm yelling that's why I'm upset pirate can show you thrill Italy this is what Pharaoh said when the Jewish people were in my country so God needed me but you see something in front of God was constantly sending me these messages I was getting messages from God all the time America Hashem was saying this is what the god of the Hebrews has said send out my nation Pharaoh heard from Moshe shalak has been evil you heard from Moshe himself the message of God which which was said that my nation he didn't want to he enjoyed the attention so to speak he enjoyed the master of the universe is speaking to me the all-powerful pharaoh sure himself as it were the king of the world came down into Egypt and and and removed the Jewish people from Egypt I have come down to save them from the hand of Egypt his kill Pirates Pharaoh started to yell at this Israel woe is me that I sent out the people of Israel that's what the sadness is the sadness is Pharaoh sentence which is such an interesting message because I mean as an unfortunate point now powerful is getting smacked upside the head I'm saying Shapiro is getting the Marcus were coming every time Hashem said send out my nation he got an he got a he got a letter bomb each time he got a message a letter from the King very beautiful very deep seems to me there's a there's a few different ways to think about it but you know let's talk it out one idea is that it's worth it for someone to get the attention of God even if it's negative attention it's worth it it's kadai it's kid night to be in the center of hashem's attention even if it's negative attention that's one aspect of it there's another aspect of it which is wherever the Jewish people are a color spoke who is because I'll say I call this book who specifically places us in a place we're going to be beholden we're going to be slaves to whom to a great nation we'll never be slaves to a Pocus Nation to a lowly Nation will be will be subjugated by the greatest of Nations by the Romans by the Greeks by the you know those who Western Civilization looks back on and says these are the foundations of our civilization the Jewish people are subjugated to great people so by the very fact that God is speaking to Pharaoh it shows the greatness of pharaoh right we have to understand we think of pharaoh as the great villain and he was but he was great he was a great person he his civilization was a great and powerful civilization that lasted many centuries so but coming back to the first point even within that Civilization even within that Darkness Pharaoh still wants he still appreciates the connection that intense negative connection but a connection nonetheless to God and I think that that really parallels what we spoke about in the previous message which is that we had this the Jewish people as a as a nation which is flying like a bird from one place to another and it doesn't yet reach its final destination until we have base hamidash which is the representation of the ultimate connection on the other side of what Pharaoh experienced which is in the positive way open Miracles things that show that to Jewish people is the chosen people those types of interactions what are we going for we're looking for full we're looking for the full picture we're looking for the ultimate destination for Pharaoh he says woe is me because I lost that connection for the Jewish people we are sent out and I would say we are sent out from the Valley from the sadness we are sent out on a mission and we're headed towards a destination and that destination is based hamidush open Revelation about the sparkle of God and here's where you come to a very small piece which is the final piece says the message who said who said woe is me in this measure it's not power who says it it's mosheben who says Moshe is writing with Torah there was a sadness in Maisha as the Jewish people left Egypt what was the sadness or maybe as he wrote right we don't know exactly the differences of opinion as to exactly when the Torah was written down the beginning of the 40 years at the end of the 40 years in the wilderness but perhaps you could say my shopping was he writes about the fact that the Jewish people are being sent out of Egypt but there's a sadness in my um final small analogy this is comparable to a person Who was appointed by the king to to be malaved to accompany the princess the daughter of the king or yeah he was appointed to to accompany the bride the the princess who is about to get married but he was able to see through the stars that he's going to take her out of the palace but he's not going to bring her to the hope he's not going to actually foreign excuse me bring her to the point of marriage [Music] so as he takes her out of the palace he starts to cry because they asked this particular messenger this accompaniment this accompanist why are you crying he said I'm crying because I put in so much effort to get her all ready to bring her out of the palace in her wedding dress all be decked everything but I'm not gonna actually be at the hopper I know I'm not going to be at the wedding ceremony sha this is what Moshe said this is why he cried this is why he was said I am calling out I'm crying I'm saying woe is me because I worked so hard to get the Jewish people out of Egypt and I am not going to Merit to to bring them into the khoppa so to speak to bring them to under the wedding Academy to finish the job to bring them into the land of Israel foreign there's a sadness that he's not going to complete he's not going to bring the Jewish people into the completion to the relationship with which was represented by coming to the land of Israel he was sad he was bringing them out but he wasn't going to bring them in and I think that this too this message also points to to the desire the desire that we need to have that we must have the desire for the completion for the mashiach for the Messiah the times of mashiach whether it's the aspect of of Base which is the the revelation of God's divine presence in the world or whether it's just the simple aspect of coming under the khoppa right coming under it's just a ceremony it's just now they're married right the the consummation of the marriage is that night after the marriage when the two when the couple comes together right which is represented by the Jewish people coming together with Hashem in the holy of holies right but still there's a stage of coming Terrace Israel which is part of getting to the final relationship as we saw in the first part of the measures flying we have to first fly out of the original nest in order to to to fly around and then catch the final Nest to the to the real nests which is Artsy thrill and even the deeper aspect of the nest which is the base time English the temple bottom line the message of this message is we have to warn it we have to say the Jewish people are experiencing unparalleled success whether it's material success whether it's spiritual success the times that we live in are unique and special but we have to be saying oh if I I wish that I could be an artist Israel I wish that I could be in base hamiktas I wish I wish I have so much but I'm missing the main thing I'm I'm inside of this this this Nest or I'm in transit territory so what but I'm not but I'm not there yet I wish I could be there oh if I am not there yet things are good but I don't have Earth Israel I'm not an earth Israel or if I'm an artist so I don't have base hamiktash I don't yet have the the end of it all and even apparel recognizes that when when the Jewish people leave this shrina leaves with them and he doesn't have that access to the revention to the mess of the world I want to bless you and I ask you to bless me Hashem should help us then we should have this we should have these desires we should have these wishes these the the inner burning of our soul should come forth like a flame like a bonfire of Desire foreign of desire for base time English of Desire not just for the success of the Jewish people which is important and essential but for us to get to the place which is the ultimate success which is erti thrill which is based on English 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 [Music]