Tetzaveh - Shining Our Light

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with our golden egg recorded with hashem's never earning assistance in rama bishop israel 57 82 2022. this week's precious parashat titsava at the very beginning of our parsha the torah gives us the command saber hashem speaks to moshe and says to command the jewish people to bring or create the shaman zayas the special oil which was used in the menorah of the base of english in the temple in the candelabra the madrid teaches us some really beautiful ideas connected to the oil to the concept of the shemenzai zach the pure olive oil that was used there and the comparison to the jewish people let us see together what the beautiful measure says i thought it's this is the idea behind the verse we want to understand when we have certain concepts in the mishkan we have certain concepts we spoke about previously talked about the aura and has to do with the torah here we're going to see that the light of the menorah the zios the the olive oil which was used is also representative of the jewish people the verse in jeremiah and yermia chapter 11 verse 16 says like this zayas ra god called the name of the jewish people a refreshing olive or olive tree a beautiful beautiful fruit now the measures points out so we have here in our sukkim and we have the reference in your meal to the jewish people as an olive tree or an olive but we find that the jewish people is referred to as other fruits as well other fruit trees as well israel is that the only reference that we find to the jewish people is as a a an olive tree israel the jewish people are referred to as all different types of beautiful and praiseworthy trees begeth excuse me with a grapevine we find that the jewish people are referred to with the fig tree definitely means tremendous the verse tells us in tahil and talem in uh psalms chapter 80 verse 9 god caused the grapevine which is the reference to the jewish people to travel from out of egypt to aina we find that the jewish people is referred to as the fig tree kivikura bethany verishisa the passage in hashea 9 verse 10 refers to jewish people as a as the first of the of the fig trees at the beginning jewish people are like a fig tree kitamar we find the jewish people referred to as a date tree as a palm tree shannon this is your high your height the one who is similar to a date tree okay as we see the jewish people is referred to as a cedar shenanigal like a cedar you shall become great you shall shall multiply que ego as we see referred to as a nut tree schnemer the jewish people as you saw last week in last week's message also it's the jewish people are referred to as all kinds of different fields fertile fields the jewish people are these trees these fields we produce fruit we are a place where god can be manifested in the world but what's special about the fact that in our parsha we see the jewish people are represented by the olive oil by the olive tree well you're my loymer zayas your favorite why is it that year me or jeremiah refers to jewish people specifically as an olive tree so the first concept that the message teaches us is extremely important and very powerful the first idea is that the olive is very different from other fruits most of the fruits you can take them off of the tree you can enjoy them immediately right it doesn't require a tremendous amount of processing think of a grape take a grip off the tree you can eat it right away orange even nuts you have to take it out of a shell maybe it doesn't require tremendous amount of processing but the olive is different if you want to benefit from the olive it requires an extended process when it comes to an olive what you do you take it off of the tree then you you're taking it off in order to beat to beat it up so to speak to beat the olives after you beat them i see the gas you bring them into the olive press olive area you nice nice and you put them into the grinder then you grind them and you surround them with ropes with enough volume and you bring rocks after this whole process you put them through the grinder you press them you have an olive press then the oil comes out the fruit is released the oil the oil itself is the fruit so to speak is what we're after the jewish people are also like an olive we need to produce our oil we need to produce this product this good thing that comes out into the world now how does it get produced so the jewish people come amongst the nations of the world they are pushed from one place to another and then they are captured and they're placed in chains and they're surrounded by soldiers by enemy soldiers what is the purpose of all this what is the product of all of the difficulties that the jewish people endures just like the olive endures difficulties so to speak the result is that the jewish people do chuva we repent and god responds to them hashem answers our prayers we do chuva we call out hashem and he responds to us that in the end of time there'll be tremendous difficulties for the jewish people we'll be pressed in an unbelievable way in a way that's beyond description and what's the result but in the end hashem will show his compassion upon us and the result will be that we'll do chuva so the product the product of all of these difficulties and challenges just like it is with the olive plant with the olives with olive tree so too the jewish people have to go through all these things in order to produce that pure olive oil which is what is the product of the jewish people it's the relationship that we now have with hashem it's the fact that we've called out to hashem it's the fact that we've done true we've repented from our sins we've come back into the arms of akushboku of god so that's the first beautiful idea very powerful idea such an important idea because the jewish people have faced throughout our history to this very day challenges throughout the world amongst the nations of the world where they push us and they press us but the result is that is connected to us and is manifest through us says the magister another understanding another important point why the jewish people are compared to olives there's something unusual there's an unusual attribute of oil all other liquids can combine with each other and when you combine them if you want to have a grapefruit orange juice so you mix them together and you have a new thing it's not it's not orange juice it's not grapefruit juice it's some kind of combination of both hashem and animus ayurveda but oil does not get mixed in you can't really create if you know your your you have your olive oil inside of your uh salad dressing you mix it up it stays together for a moment and it comes right back out as the message continues when we keep the tire properly so we don't get mixed up no matter what when we are true to the torah to our the essence of who we are as jews so then we can't we can't get mixed up with the with the non-jews here another aspect of this alien when you mix up two kinds of liquids you don't know which one's on top and which one's on bottom oil no matter how many times you mix it up not only does it separate but where does it go who knows it goes above average so to our forefathers and i'm not sure exactly why the measure says it specifically in reference to them but it's true of us as well when we are doing the will of god so then god places us higher than the nations of the world and the idol worshipers as the verse says that it's indivariam chapter 28 verse 1 places above the nations of the world having surrounded so this is why the jewish people is compared to a beautiful olive tree and on the olive oil because number one as we saw we go through trials and tribulations but it produces an amazing result a positive result the jewish people through our trials and tribulations we are redeemed and we become closer to god and second of all we remain separate from all of the nations of the world unlike all of the other fruits and vegetables and and and fields that exist oil is unique and it's represented in the mishkan again back to the mishkan because that's the parsha it's represented by the oil in the michigan that we light and we light that light that we have as we'll soon see in the in the third section shines out into the world let's see the third section of the majestic ran on another aspect zayas or unknown we are referred to as a refreshing or uh olive although the sieve you think is called arts the pasta into him refers to the beautiful if you faint knife this beautiful place the one that is praised by the entire land maui fei knife what is the concept of your faint knife the shiny of any karnakala nymphy in greek so we call a kala a bride a nymphy the word knife is connected to nymphy who's the beautiful bride that is the jewish people we are the bride of god as it were we are the one that god manifests through that's the concept of a bride message the joy of the entire earth what's the joy so here we're talking about the base hamikdash we're talking about the temple we're talking about the mishkan there was this specific joy something special about the bassamindas that when a jewish person would enter into the basement he would he would lose all of his sadness why would he lose all of his sadness a person would go into the temple he would be full of sins or your mark of carbon was copperly he would bring a court maybe bring a sacrifice and his sins will be forgiven there's no greater you know we go through yom kippur every year but we don't know if god forgives us we don't know if we did a proper juva if we repented properly and god forgave us you go to the base of god prescribes this is the this is what you need to do this is the order of things that need to be done in order to be forgiven and you are going to be outside they can be righteous so there's an amazing promise you walk into the base of english and you come out you know you're righteous you know you've been forgiven have you fainted mistakes called arts that's the power of the best the power of the mishkan the power of this temple is that the jewish people walks out incredible joy what an awesome experience now what does this joy lead us to and that's the the final section of the mandarin interestingly when it comes to the city of tsur sword says you the city of source say that you are so beautiful now the measures you'd source say this the puzzle you're saying it's something that you yourself say but nobody else says it no one else views you as you view yourself of course every city thinks that they're beautiful every country thinks that their way is the right way the western culture things are their ways right the islamic culture thinks that their way is right you know but who's the one that ultimately everyone praises you shalom jerusalem which represents the jewish people which represents the torah which represents the the muhammad heart sinai the revelation that god gave through the torah at sinai at the mountain of sinai which is eternalized in the mountain of haram rio new shalema called shiva everyone says how beautiful jerusalem is how jerusalem was destroyed and says is this the city that everybody said how beautiful she is right but everybody says when jerusalem when you shallam is kitikuna temple you have a sanhedrin you have the jewish people the kimitsi and torah out of jerusalem is coming the words of eternal the instructions of god to the world right when that's going on how beautiful it is all of the nations acknowledge that all the nations will acknowledge that in the very near future when the messiah arrives so before we get to the second half of the passage the first that the puzzle is saying we're understanding that jerusalem the the harabayas the base hamikdash the temple is something which all of the nations messiah scholar are it's everybody praises everyone sees the beauty of jerusalem everyone sees the beauty of the jewish people as we'll soon see everyone understands that this is the place this is where it's at what is that place the mount of of of zion yaki say something what does it mean by carbonus it's a place where the the sacrifices are brought as we just said when a person brings a sacrifice he's cleansed of his sins and he becomes a pure person and now he shines out into the world that's what we're going to see what's the concept of a thigh it's bayak we refer to the the the corbonas the sacrifices that are brought on the altar on the back the thigh as it were of the of the mizbayach of the altar the kach never zeiss this beautiful beautiful analogy and says like this zayas ran on your feet pre-toyar we referred to the beautiful the sweet the refreshing olive tree the olive oil kishimsha sheman mayer just like the olive oil brings light into the world the temple spiritual sense brings light to the entire world why because we walk in there sad and we walk out joyful we walk out cleansed there's an awesome spiritual light that is emitted from us when we purify ourselves in the basement in the temple the nations will go they will be they will be led they will follow the light they will look for that light the spiritual light that is shining out from the base hamikdash that is shining out from the jewish people israel that's how the jewish people anime dash are referred to the temple the mishkan the jewish people are in this respect one aspect which is the shining light the beautiful shining light of the pure shaman of the pure olive oil that is shining out into the entire world some with their faith with our faith with our reflection of god in the world that's why god says to moshe they should bring to you this extremely pure so special such a special thing this shaman zai zach this pure olive oil because the pure olive oil is that which represents the light that shines from the basement shines from the jewish people that shines from us because we have purified ourselves and i'd like to say that there's this wrap above the measure connects back to the first part of the mattress as well because there's a purity that comes about as a result of our submitting ourselves of admitting that we've done wrong that we've that we've sinned that we've steer ourselves away from akudishbaraku and there's a purity that we gain through that and there's a purity that we gain also through the trials and tribulations that we go through as a nation the chuva comes about it can come about in different ways it can come about by our own volition by us actively seeking to do that which is right to change ourselves to bring corbonas to bring sacrifices that we show our remorse through them but it can also be in a certain sense forced upon us the chuva through the challenges through the difficulties through the nations of the world sending us around like the olive oil like the olive which produces its oil but ultimately it's the same point that beautiful light is produced that greatness that shine comes out from the base amigos from the jewish people that shine which all of the nations see and wish to follow and to emulate as well i want to bless you and ask you to bless me hashem should help us to be able to recognize this awesome concept to be able to recognize that our challenges are ultimately for our good to become greater people and to be able to recognize that there are other past past to become great to become connected to through our chuva through our active seeking seeking that which is correct and good and represents our relationships with hashem thank you so much for listening have a wonderful show miss this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you for more podcasts like this please visit www.ariegoldwag.com or search on itunes ari goldwag [Music] you