Nasso-Shavuos - Torah Cures All Ills

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with Ari goldwag recorded with hashem's never running assistance in Roma Mitch Israel 5783 2023 Alex America everybody we're going into the holiday of schwasenu the time of receiving the Torah it's very exciting time we've spent the last 49 days counting down from pesach to schuess and finally we have this very special day inert Israel will be reading on Shabbos parches not so in Kutz Lords it will still beyondiff so you will not be reading this part show I'd like to share with you a piece on the madrish from Project not so which also relates to schmooz how appropriate posix says this is a very interesting idea it's an important parallel which can be explained and understood [Music] as follows that we have the right is the celebration of the time when we received the Torah seven weeks after we had the Exodus from Egypt seven weeks later we had the Miami arsinai we all stood at Mount Sinai together we received the Torah had a divine revelation to over a million people unbelievable experience and the Jewish people received the Torah at that time and we find our sages tell us that there was a mishkan the Michigan concept of the Tabernacle what is the idea behind it it is a recreation of maimon harcinai of the very experience that we had where we heard Hashem speak we heard God's voice over a million people heard God's voice and then we proceeded to get the rest of the tour through Moshe himself through Moses the mishk on the Tabernacle and subsequently the Michigan and Shiloh and then ultimately the based some English the temple the first temple the second temple hopefully it's in the Third Temple they reenact that place that is that experience of Heart cni of Mount Sinai of receiving the Torah what's in the center of the mishkan of the Tabernacle you have is the is the box that contained the golden box that contains within it the aceresadilla is the Ten Lucas The Ten Commandments upon the upon the tablets so and that's the place where Hashem speaks from right Hashem speaks from between the proven between the angels that are atop that box so the purpose of the Michigan and the base I make Dash until this very day that Holiness rests the whole the Holiness of that experience rests upon Jara Maria the harabis the where the base of English will be rebuilt hopefully soon that experience is there for all of us to access and re-experience so there's a powerful connection and parallel between the mishkan and the experience of the mishkan and Miami the experience that we had receiving the Torah at Mount Sinai and now the measures points out that we find in our Parish impressions called sarua there's an obligation when it comes to the encampment of the Levites which is this topic of preciousnesso so the Levites the levim they were encamped around the Michigan itself you know the Michigan itself which was the tabernacle the holy of holies so to speak of the encampment of the Jewish people around them was surrounded the the levite camps The Three Families of the Levites their job was to serve in the mishkan to carry the vessels of the Michigan when they were traveling and then the encampments around that was the 12 tribes of the Jewish people now each of these encampments had different laws which required that a certain person who had a certain level of impurity had to leave the encampment so for example a person who had Saras a person who had uh leprosy spiritual leprosy or he was a zov which means that for a man it meant some kind of seminal emission came out of him or for a woman it meant that some kind of unusual blood came out of her so they were obligated to leave certain areas they weren't allowed to be in the in the area of the Levites right it's a special that anyone who is impure at certain level is not allowed to be in the area of the Levites and this parallel is something that has to do with as we'll see in the message that's to do with madantara when it came to Matan Torah when it came to the receiving of the Torah the Jewish people experienced so there were certain blemishes in this case by the Levites we're talking about uh spiritual blemishes something to do with a physical emission but there were physical blemishes that were expelled or expunged really removed from the human beings from all of the Jewish people at the time of harcina was paralleled those blemishes that needed to be removed at a later time so let's see this together inside the medrish very beautiful idea very powerful idea and I think that there's a deep lesson for us to take home with this magic this is what it means in the verse it says in Michelin in Proverbs chapter 25 verse 4. [Music] there are impurities in silver silver is a very precious commodity something has a lot of value right we see that it was used in the cons in the construction of the Mishka and there were certain vessels that had to be specifically made from Silver down to today we use silver for our our leichter for our letting the candles Shabbos of chanukkah Etc but if you want pure silver if you want pure silver so you need to remove the draws foreign [Music] as long as there are impurities in silver it doesn't have that same Sheen it doesn't have that same glow it's not as beautiful what happens when you remove the draws from the silver so the result is that the silver is more beautiful it shines it's it's something that everyone will praise after you remove the draws from the soul rest with the verse means in Michel'le then it can go out and be made into a beautiful vessel now how does that apply what does this verse have to do with us Kate said when the Jewish people left Egypt so physically many of the Jewish people had blemishes that we're we're permanent serious blemishes llama why I'm going to show you a game but they were slaves they would be involved in brickwork they'd go to the top of a building so it's very easy a person could lose his hand right construction work is not the uh most safe type of work it's not the best line of work they could lose their hand because a a a rock would fall in their hand oh yeah or the cement could get in his eye and he could become blind or your body movement so that was just the way it was you know so there's a human cost for these constructions that were done by the Egyptians for being slaves to the Egyptians now they come to the desert of Sinai they're there to receive the Torah so what does Hashem say um is it appropriate that I should give the terror this beautiful incredible thing to and to a generation of people who are they're so blemished this is redditor is a very bad thing it's the word of God it's very powerful it's very honorable right those who worked in the Mishka and the kohana to have they needed to be beautiful they need to be upright they couldn't have any blemishes physical blemishes why because it's an honor for God to that there are more perfect human beings that are serving him so Hashem says if I will wait let's say until these people all have children and all the children are not blemished as the parents are already to these people at that time what did God do um God spoke to the angels and he said to the angels go down to the people and I want you to to cure them anyone who's blind make them able to see anyone who's missing a hand give them a new hand says the message shall prove to you that this is correct foreign there was nobody who is lame whoever had been lame was cured shine in Exodus chapter 19 verse 17. they all stood at the bottom of the mountain Venice it's only possible to stand if you're standing on your feet so if they all stood on their feet clearly all those who were lame have been cured meaning how do you know that there was nobody was missing a limb Cinema says all that the Jewish people as one all of them together said whatever God says I shall do right how can they say they're going to do whatever God says they don't have if they're missing limbs they can't do everything that God says foreign the nation see they were able to see the sounds they saw the the lightning simple understanding they saw the lightning but they saw the sounds as well there was synesthesia there is how do you know that there was no one who was mute the entire nation responded they all spoke there was nobody was unable to speak nimses if you want to learn from elsewhere I can prove this to you from another another source is verse says all of that which I brought as the measure understands it upon you in Egypt all of the all of the blemishes that were brought upon you in Egypt I shall cure you cure you of them I'm God who has cured you we see that they were cured okay so let's pause for a moment because this is an incredible magic and I want to understand the depth of what this manager is saying because you know it's a beautiful idea they're very nice they're all cured maybe it will be that way in the future when the future Redemption all the people will be cured as well but I wanna I wanna try to garnish something from here that I can take home with me and perhaps you can also take home with you as far as a lesson of the depth of what is this measure teaching us what is the when imagine it says such awesome things it's I believe that measure Shear is literal I I totally believe that we find that we they return to other movies they return to a state of the first man before the sin so everything was cured everything was back to a state of perfection but on a deeper level there's another there's another deeper lesson that the magician is teaching us here and we are focusing that for the moment on arsenae we're going to get back to the concept of departure of partials NASA which has to do the with the Levites we're going to get back to that in a moment but I'd like to just focus on this point what is the message teaching me by by telling me that in order to receive the Torah they were all cured Hashem doesn't want to give the Torah to someone who's blemished right so that sounds like a little should he or superficial but if we understand this on a deeper level I think that we could we could we could say it's possible to say that the measures means to say something very deep and that is that when a human being when a human being receives the Torah the net effect of the Torah if learned properly right they're they're standing there on our Sinai they're standing there not on you know at the foot of the mountain they're they're doing all these different things and interestingly all of the cures have to do with the way that they are acting they're able to hear why are they able to hear the ones who are unable to are now able to hear why because they're submitting themselves to Hashem they're submitting themselves to God's will there's all standing by see that's ah we know it says so Rashid there says that when they when they encanted the bottom of the mountain they were there is one right singular so the message is teaching us a very powerful thing when we make ourselves subservient to the Torah when we are hate our hearts and we come together in service of Hashem so the net result is that we are cured now in those times it looked like a physical cure it looked like they were literally cured and we'll see that there's a spiritual sickness that also needs to be cured in the next section let's do the levium but before we get there the concept is very clear and and straightforward for us when we come with the right attitude to to learning Torah when we come with the right attitude towards serving God the net result is that we are transformed we are transformed think about mushrooms Hashem don't send me I can't I can't speak I'm not a good I'm not a good talker I'm not a good speaker I'm not a I'm not an eloquent speaker and yet was the the greatest speaker of all time this book is called teres Maisha it's called The Five Books of Moses right so he went from being somebody who couldn't speak to somebody who for all times the Bible is the the most uh most printed book in of all time so his words he was transformed through the Torah from being someone who couldn't speak we can understand to mean he didn't feel like he was a good speaker was an eloquent speaker maybe he stumbled over his words maybe he had a speech impediment but he became transformed by the Torah the terror transforms the person the human being who approaches the Torah with subservience with willingness to learn with willingness to be taught with willingness to be teachable but all these things that's super tackles are they're ready they're right there at the base of the mountain because whatever God says we will do it was the result their limbs were fixed the missing limb returned why because they're ready to use that limb in service of Hashem they're ready to hear whatever Hashem says I wanna if I'm ready to use my ears correctly that it it enhances their ability I become much more by becoming teachable by becoming subservient willing to serve Hashem my hearing changes those who were blind become able to see so I understand this for me what it's what it says to me is that on a very deep level the Torah transforms me it transforms what I see I see with the world differently I see it through different lenses I hear the world differently I have a different my limbs behave differently I walk differently because I'm walking in a Tyro way as I become subservient to the Torah now let's look at the end of the medrish where it turns back to the Levites and says to us we find that just like when it came to harcina we came to Mount Sinai that all of the physical blemishes were removed so too as time continued and we had a continuousinai which was represented by the mishkan by the Tabernacle which was represented by the Levi Camp which surrounded it and which was represented by the three machines the encampments of the Jewish people and which today by the way is represented by the yushalayim Jerusalem itself the the mountain itself has these aspects in it there's different locations even anhara bias right of course there's the holy section the holy of holies which is forbidden to go there right because you have the you we're all impure but there are other areas even within the harabayas which technically are the area of Machina La Villa which if a person would purify themselves technically it's it's physically possible to go up there according to certain uh play scheme it's permitted to go up there so this is who is sent out of there who has to who has to go out of the area which is the secondary Holiness the area of the Levites the vocation interesting thing the fact that there were people who had to be removed why because they were azov because they had a certain kind of emission that came out of them or because they were sarua they had leprosy they had a certain spiritual disease this was as a result of the fact that they worshiped the egal they they reneged so to speak on their commitment to Hashem what they had said NASA vanishment before now they said Israel they said about the eagle this is your god who took you out of Egypt they took back their subservience to Hashem and what was the result so they became blemished and unable to remain in the place of Revelation in a place which paralleled harcina which paralleled receiving notorious which was the mishkan which was the encampment of the Levites foreign means they were they were Unchained they were wild excuse me so the concept of parua is related to the concept of someone who has leprosy in Leviticus chapter 13 verse 45 that a person who is sarua he has leprosy so he has to be he has to uncover his head his hair is to become unruly from his head has to be uncovered it's just a reference to somebody who has leprosy um so until I made the mishkan until it was this Holiness which parallels our Sinai the mountain you know the experience of Miami arsinai which is the Mishka on the Tabernacle so you could have zoven and misaram you could have these people who are impure mixed up amongst you actions but now that you have a mishkan so you are restored you are restored back to the state of what it was like in our Sinai you are living in an experience of Hashem you're living in an experience of godliness and that requires that those who have a blemish they have to be removed they have to go through a process in order to have that blemish for them to be restored spiritually right a person who has Saras for example it's cause I'll teach us they say it's caused because speaking negatively of others gossip it's caused by different aspects of gaiva of of lack of humility of egoism foreign so these people have to be sent out you want to receive the Torah you want to have a revelation of godliness in your life so you have to be removed if they could be sent out you have to think about your life you have to go through a process of atonement of capara for the sins that caused it sarasa caused the leprosy only once the leprosy has gone away only once you've been cured of your spiritual ailments then you can return back into the camp then you can return to have an experience of godliness of spirituality so there's a very powerful lesson here and it's an ongoing lesson and the measure indicates that by not just talking about arsena but also talking about the Michigan Tabernacle and it's something that applies to all of us as we said and that is that keeping the Torah standing at arsena is tonight we have an incredible opportunity why do we stay up all night some people do some people don't but no matter what we spend extra time studying Toro y to to rededicate ourselves and show our extreme willingness our extreme subservience to Hashem we are reenacting what it means nasiven ishma whatever you say I'm willing to do I'm going to show that I'm going to to give up my way of doing things so that I can do it your way and by doing so we have an incredible experience and that experience is that we are transformed our hearing has changed we hear life differently we hear what goes on in the world differently we see differently we see the world through a Torah lens we see the world through a more Godly lens my actions are different I'm doing perhaps what it looks like on the surface is the same thing as everybody else but it's infused with a different level of spirituality it's infused with godliness because I'm always turning my ear to here that which is God's will so I want to bless you and I ask you to bless me Hashem should help us that we should indeed turn ourselves towards hashem's will we should try our best to remove the guy for the the ego that's within us we should try our best to make ourselves subservient to Hashem into his Torah and to his will and by doing so we should be transformed our hearing our seeing our experience of the world and all of our actions thank you so much for listening have a wonderful hug beautiful shoes and a beautiful 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 foreign