Matos-Masei - Israel the Desired Land

you're listening to the weekly departure podcast with Harry goldwag recorded with hashem's never running assistance in Roma Beach Israel 5783 2023. this week's precious purchase matase and Marseille we have two parishes together and one of the central themes as we come to the close of ramir is the the fact that the cloud that the people of Israel call Israel is standing at the cusp they're standing on the threshold of walking into Earth's Israel they're about to be manjil about to be to inherit the land the buzzik tells us Shem says to Moshe as follows command the people of Israel and say to them you are coming to the land of Canaan zaissa aretz this is the land that shall be yours to inherit that shall fall to you for inheritance the land of Canaan in its boundaries I'd like to share with you beautiful thought actually it's interesting because I was thinking about this recently you know we're in the time we're in the time of the three weeks we mourn the temple the loss of the basement the loss of our national sovereignty the laws of usual loss of Jerusalem the loss of are intimate relationship with Hashem and the laws of our ability to do so many Mitzvahs so many Commandments which we can only do in our cisrael which we can only do in the base of mikitash 613 Commandments of the Torah we only have maybe 200 that were able to do today we're missing half more than half of the tiger is missing trumans and Meister we could do today meter rabbonan we we have an opportunity of course we're gonna of course talk about the importance of living in Earth's Israel but it's the three weeks so we're talking about we're thinking about what we're missing what we're missing we're mourning if we don't mourn properly then we don't appreciate what we're missing and we don't properly try to get back what we're missing we don't move forward towards geola we don't move and and open our eyes and hear the Schaefer is already sounding hear the sound of the show for already we don't see the Hashem has already raised that flag of Amy Israel we can't recognize that even though we're deeply into the process perhaps 100 years into the process but we need to know what we're missing in order to understand what we have now and where we're headed [Music] major says like this cannot and we're going to see Muslim such an interesting thing which I noticed recently and I want to bring to your attention because we can we're we're benching all the time we eat bread we bench we see grace after meals and it includes a very important topic that we're constantly saying but we may not have noticed that we're saying we may not have appreciated it but we say it every day whenever we eat whenever we recognize that Hashem has given us the food that we're eating Allah says and if you think about it the first broadcast is just about the food thank you Hashem for the food [Music] the second bracha doesn't just thank Hashem for the food we bring in the pasta halter with you will eat you'll be satisfying you will bless foreign God for the land that he's given to you right so there is an intimate connection between parnas and Earth Israel it's very interesting to me that perhaps the um there are other reasons why people feel that they're not ready to move the Earth's Israel to the land of Israel but one of the main things that people are concerned about is parnassa but it's very clear from benching that the parnosa that we have is linked to the land of Israel but what did they say before they got to the land of Israel they were in the wilderness for 40 years they had to bench they had to think of some for the food they only said one bracha the first bracha which is thank you Hashem for the food Israel once the Jewish people enter the land of Israel so now we can thank Hashem not just for the food but for the the place the the physical land through which Hashem sends us the food foreign for the land and the food that's produced by the land and as we'll see soon it's not just about it's not just about the food it's interesting that we say it with the food once they made some English was destroyed once the Jewish people were sent into gallus into Exile after the first temple hociful so they added the third which is on on the Jewish people and on Jerusalem bring us back rebuild Jerusalem which doesn't just mean it does mean what's already happened as I said we're far along in the in the tahalik footsteps of far along we have Jerusalem but what are we missing we're missing the temple in Jerusalem we're missing we're missing carbonus we have many mitts that we can do shemitah through my smizers these these the sabbatical year the special tides we can do them already but we're still missing all of the carbonus so we said which is interesting and you also need to understand I'm not going to get into it this time but you need to understand the connection between the Haruki betar Batar is a city in in Israel today after the second temple was destroyed paytar was the last holdout of many Jews people lived there tens of thousands of Jews lived there the Romans came and slaughtered them all and miraculously their bodies for months were not buried and the bodies remained intact they didn't decay and the sages in in reverence of this amazing miracle they made they want to suck in the fourth brother Hashem does good and continues to do good he hasn't just because he sent us into Exile doesn't mean that he's no longer with us heaven forbid because Allah right the entire Torah and the parishes that we're reading which were on the as we said were on the cusp of entering the land of Israel speaks about the beauty of verses for the land of Israel from avina was on his way there mushroom loves the land of Israel he wishes he could go Claudia Israel is on their way their ex they leave the The Exodus they they exit from Egypt and they're on their way to Earth's out to the land of Israel for 40 years of the brachis that we say interesting what what's the most if I would ask you what is the most uh beautiful most beloved blessing of the four blessings that we say after we eat bread what would you say so the measure tells us the most beloved one is the bracha the second Muslim which praises the land of Israel the food that's produced by the land of Israel is so delicious The Grapes of Arts Israel the tomatoes of vertices real the oranges Japanese oranges foreign if you didn't mention these things you're not going to fulfill your obligation you have to mention that the land the food Eres hamda what a desired land a land that everybody wishes they could have as we'll see it's not only Jews that would like Eric's Israel we're going to see that the nations of the world also their their kalashing Israel it's a desired land ubris we mention the fact that how did avram avinu Merit to have the land of Israel it was through the bris the circumcision Victoria and through the Torah we have to mention the Tyra the tire is not completely fulfilled as the before she explained right when you're in Hutzel Arts when you live outside of Israel you can't properly fulfill a Toyota missing so many Commandments missing hundreds of Commandments and life interesting right we mentioned all of these Concepts in that bracha if you didn't say all of these Concepts now you're not going to be itsu without saying these ideas so why is Eric what's this idea that that the land of Israel is a desired land so the eight seism explains that because Yeshua was the one who wrote The Second Blessing the blessing of thinking Hashem for the land the land of Israel why did he write this because Yeshua saw that Moshe wished in such a such a Love artist so such a desire for the land of Israel he saw his hand or his desire for the land he wanted to get in there right the the other issuf made the brothers promise to bring his bones to the land of Israel all of the tribes the the 12 uh progenitors of Claud Israel 12 sons of yaakov they all had their bones brought to the land of Israel or buried in the land of Israel you can go to their graves today they all had a desire for the land of Israel when Yeshua perceived this when he took this to heart he established the second bracha he wanted us to remember this is this is something that we always whenever we eat whenever we have food whenever we get sustenance from God reminder is so that's the place where we belong we love this land I gotta get there we have to go there we have to be there we have to live there we have to wish that we could be there with the wish that we could be in the land of Israel there it's him though I'd like to also read it for Nancy Ace if he says ubris we also have to mention bris as I explained this already whenever mavino had his circumcision that was when Hashem made a covenant with him that he's going to receive the land of Israel so the bris itself is another reminder heretz Israel is Where We Belong you need to mention in the second brother utilize we need to mention Tara because in order to fulfill the terror properly we can't do it in Hutzel Arts we cannot fulfill the terror properly outside the land of Israel this is the Russian safer and whenever it's coming tomorrow Israel we also find while we mention the bris the circumcision because as soon as they came into Israel Yeshua had to make sure that all the Jews were circumcised they weren't circumcised the entire time in the wilderness they didn't know when they were going to move it was dangerous but the circumcision is that which entitles Us the land of Israel and there are those who say that that's what entitles in the time that we were not present in the land of Israel it entitled The Ishmael to the land of Israel okay so we need to have bris we need to talk about errats and then we talk about terrorists Israel the third is not complete except for inert Israel as long as we're in qatars as long as we remain outside of the land of Israel and people have said to me what it's not the golus in the Exile in Israel of course it's still right we are not in the um but we are missing there are misses that we cannot do outside of Israel we can only do in the land of Israel and I saw that someone is trying to sell pieces of you can own a piece of land even though you live in somewhere in America or in Europe you can own a piece of land in Israel and thereby get the missus that's not in my opinion but the tire's intent is to cheat and to own a piece of land in Israel living in Earth's Israel we're not properly keeping the terror without it okay that's what it says says Hashem the land of Israel is more precious to me than any other place I saw I was the one who checked it out I went as the unfortunately explained I passed over the entire land from one end to the other to make sure that every single square inch square meter excuse me of the lands is good and that it produces good fruits who says to us this is the land this is the land that I went over it's a land flowing with milk and honey it's the best land in the entire world [Music] Hashem wants this land Hashem desires this land and we as the manager says are supposed to desire this land and we say it every day in our benching Hashem wanted this land it's the desired land you gave it to our forefathers it's here for us it's here for us [Music] now that's the the main part of the madrish speaking about benching but the message also says something amazing besides for the fact that it's a land that akadesh bark who wants and therefore we are to want we are to desire we are to feel This Is Where We Belong foreign [Music] the 31 Kings 61 kings that were in the land of Israel that had to be vanquished in order for us to to return to land of Israel now the measure says that years later years later sisra in the times of sisra right this is this is a long time after the Jewish people the conquest of the Jewish people into the land of Israel the Israelites whom are they were our forebears rights so what happened the 61 Kings the 31 and the 31 I'm not getting into that but there is 31 two sets of 31 that were killed in the time of Yoshua they were vanquished they were conquered but they came back they were killed again there were 31 that there were that they that they it seems I'm not sure exactly what this is saying it seems like there was 31 that were killed in 31 that didn't get killed until the time the sister they came back and they fought again and then they were killed in the second round second round a few hundred years later llama why they come why did they fight why do they think that they would what do they want to sell for just you know the Jews conquered it why do you want her to Israel why are the Arabs want air to throw why didn't what is Iran care what do they care why do they want why do the Arabs want to stay claim to this land so imagine says something very interesting and very uh hard to understand llama Israel they wanted to drink water from the land of Israel means 31 King said to Sister we'd like to come with you we want to fight we want to capture the land of Israel because we want the Waters of the land of Israel what happened comma they hired all kinds of kings and armies to help them they said look we don't we don't want to be paid we're not interested in being paid we're coming for free we're going to fight this battle um we want to fill our bellies with the water of the land of Israel we want the water is chapter 5 verse 19. of judges it says that they came for the waters they were not interested in money Israel there's nothing more beloved the nations of the world want the Waters of Earth's Israel again we need to understand what that means but let's just read it till the end of the magic all right Hashem says to Moses yes the land is beloved to me this is the land that Hashem is constantly seeking the Jewish people the people of Israel they're beloved to me for success and speaks about the love of Hashem for us I want to bring my beloved people into the land that's so beloved to me generic and this is you are coming to the land of Canaan this Beloved Country this beloved place that not only do I love Hashem says but the nations of the world desire it to Okay so so I gave you a few reasons you know Hashem loves Arts Israel Hashem promises us that there's so much good in this land endless endless good Hashem there's a protest and I think that's really the the side and it's interesting there's no more Fortune here on this section to talk about the waters what's this Waters that they want what are these Waters that they want but I think that the reason there's no explanations because it's so pushed so simple so obvious the waters the the list Israel what is the waters water is that which gives life water is the most fundamental need of a human being in order to remain alive in order to have sustenance and the sustenance of the Jewish people is our relationship with Hashem and it and it comes I want to point that out we said that it has to be you have to talk about the food you have to talk about the desired nation of the the breasts you have to talk about the circumcision which means control of our our physical tivism are our desires but it also talks about Tyra and it talks about life right the Torah of life the Torah is the water it's the thing that gives us life it's the connection to our God who that's unique we can't fulfill it what does it mean that when we say the tire is not complete when we're not a nurse Israel it means that our relationship with Hashem is not complete we can't do all of his dictates we can't fulfill his will completely when we're not in land of Israel yeah we might be able to pull stick and do some kind of trick no tricks no schtick you want to know how you have a a relationship with Hashem you wonder how you keep the player properly there's only one place it's only here it's only an artist Israel Truman Isis shmita you can't do it outside of Israel which Hashem will be soon where we're headed in that trajectory we're on our way we can't do the tire we can't have that complete relationship and even a guy even the Arab says hey this belongs to me I have a bris I have a circumcision I fulfill the word of God they have a little bit of a different version of what the word of God is just a little I have I believe that I'm the one who has access to the Hara bias to the Holy Temple they call it al-kudz which means they recognize where's the water kimizio intense is the source is the source Jerusalem Israel is the source of relationship with Hashem it's the source of waters that's what they wanted Erin why is this the land of Canaan they also recognized they perverted it but they recognize that the source of Life the source of parnassa real paranas it doesn't just mean being able to live doesn't just mean paying my bills the real source of bar NASA is having a relationship with Hashem having a spiritual life the source of that is yerushalayim Jerusalem it's Temple it's the temple it's the land of Israel it's the relationship that we have with Hashem through the land of Israel it's very I shouldn't say very it's easier it seems easier to get money but the truth is that it's a disconnect it's a disconnect from when it's easier the land of Israel these are the places that remind us every single day we say this in our benching Allah through the land is through the connection to God it's through the tides it's through the shemitah that we connect to Hashem we connect to the waters that even the um the 31 Kings they desire they don't want any money they just want that water they just want that at a deep deep level their soul is wishing for that water the unending water Israel which is the truly the connection with a college book with Hashem which is the source of our sustenance I want to bless you I ask you to bless me Hashem should help us to remember every single time we bench every single time that we say these words some should help us to remind ourselves Where Do We Belong what is the place of Desire what is where's the land that Hashem loves who is the people that he loves and he's trying to bring us back that shiver is blowing to kavish the sun is there's a sound the sound is hey my children come back here that's the show for come back to hear that sound we need to hear it we need to realize that it's already blowing the Schaefer so nice raise up the flag the banner is waving this is where the Jew belongs do we hear that do we recognize how beloved we are to Hashem how beloved Eric and how much how important it is for us to be here should help us to recognize how much he loves us and how he's calling us back to the land that he loves 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]