Vayera - Cataclysmic World Events

listening to the weekly partial podcast with Ari goldwag recorded with hm's never ending assistance in rabish Israel 5785 2024 this week's partial is parti V and this week's partial podcast is dedicated anonymously and our sponsor has asked that I make a certain request the the request is anyone who listens to the podcasts and benefits from the Torah should that we share here should also consider sponsoring a podcast and reach out to me you can reach me at AR goldwag gmail.com so I'd like to share with you something and before we look at some some stuff inside we're look at a med we're look at the but before we do so I just like to point out that our paraa is a an incredible moment in time and I've spoken about this in previous years it's also my safer aru is being told that he's about to haveu is going find it out as well as a team they together will have a child who's going to be the beginning of the Jewish people they're going to laugh woman who no longer was able to have kids According to some opinions in kazal she didn't even have a womb she has a child the Jewish people begin but what's amazing about it is that there are cataclysmic events that that occur at the same exact moment the same angels that come to inform Aram and Sarah about the child that will be born to them a year henceforth those same Angels go down to sedom and Amora and they destroy sedom and Amora transform an area which was Lush and beautiful and blessed into an area that till today is salty and destroyed and really uninhabitable and at the same exact moment as well Lo takes his two daughters and conceived at that same time so if you think about it y Amon and moav all have the same same conception day perhaps the same birth day they all happened at the same time the same moment Aman and mo have two Nations that ultimately had certain characteristics of stone themselves they were unwilling to give any bread and water to the Jewish people as they passed through coming back to land of Israel the Amon was constantly as the m points out conly there at the side of the Jewish people to cause us pain when we weren't doing what's right but Amon and moav am Israel and ultimately Moab would have a child named Russ from from Moab would come Russ And Russ would be the great-grandmother of the King David so all kinds of interesting things were starting at the very moment the very same moment destruction of sedom at the same moment as well and a new Epoch in the animals of mankind was beginning so with that introduction I'd like to share with you a medish but the medish is based onim in yes in chapter 33 quotesk in verse 14 and just a little context here before I want to read to you the inside it's really quite remarkable what's going on here has a he was surrounded by the Mel the Syrian King had sent his his Legions to destroy Jerusalem to to to besiege Jerusalem sounds very much like today the Iranians today are surrounding Israel fighting for alaka for alaka by the way means or Al means kados the holy Place KS kados alaka means the farthest and so there was this kind of Siege just as we have today and was about to do an incredible n an incredible miracle and basically as K would be sleeping at night all of the legions of Ash of Assyria they suddenly I don't remember I'm I'm not holding in this well well enough I don't remember if they were destroyed or they ran away but there was an intense turnaround at that moment kiso had the potential to be mhia to be the king the Messiah it wasn't to be for whatever reasons but in the midst of this yes an noi tells us an amazing thing he talks about the contrast the contrast between the fear of those who sin of those who do not do the will of hem who defy Hashem as opposed to the Hope different kind of fear as we'll see in the Mish of those who do the will of Hashem the hope of those who do the will of hem for reward in that moment so just think about this as we're reading it you know in a time of din in a time of judgment times like we live in today in times where there are cataclysmic events about to happen right crazy things are going on everywhere who knows where things will go who knows Trump reelected who knows what's going to happen with Putin and China and North Korea Iran all these places all these things Jews everywhere Under Siege not just in n Israel in Amsterdam and in France and even in college campuses in America what's what's going to be right what happens in a time of den how do we approach a time of den how do we approach a time of judgment and what's the difference between those who are afraid of Destruction versus those who are afraid because they don't know what the reward will look like as we'll see so I'm going to read to you here from yesaiah a bit and then we're going to read the medish a beautiful medish and interestingly we'll see that what happened in the time of of and that occurrence repeats itself in the future time when mhia arrives and there's this dual fear we're going to see let's let's let's examine This Together those who are distant and those who are near I want you to hear I want you to understand my power says Hashem and this is our main verse okay so focusing on this verse in in Jerusalem in Israel those who sinned were afraid those who are which we'll see in the means that they were Deni they denied God's existence they they served idolatry they shook they were worried they were scared who can protect us from the the fire the consuming fire who will save us from those who wish to burn down the world sounds very much like what's going on today those who are ready to in order to have their will met to perhaps take over Ukraine or perhaps to take over Taiwan or perhaps South Korea or perhaps those wish to overrun Israel they all want and are willing to burn down the world but those who wish to burn down the world they're afraid who is protected who is Not Afraid says the those who go in righteous ways those who speak straightly they're not interested in stealing they're not interested unearned unearned booty they shake off their hands they're not interested in receiving any kind of any kind of bribe closing their ears to hear anyone who might require being killed who's this righteous individual the p is talking about who goes in the straight way the so the is it's talking about he was a straight person he was a great person he was a sadic he wasn't interested if there was someone who had done wrong and maybe he was even liable for death he avoided hearing it he was Michael he forgave them perhaps that they had they had uh enmed they weren't sufficiently reverent of his kingship he didn't want to hear about it they closed their eyes to see from seeing anything bad so and the Mish is going to say that not only is it true of of K it's amazing how the Mish will often give us a moment talk about a time we spoke about this previously when it came to suas and in the times of the of the midbar and we remember that and it's going to be in the future too so here also there's like a moment in time with just had the potential to be mashiah and we throw back we're going to throw back the talking about AB to be talking about Abraham and we're going to throw forward to be talking about mhia because all these ideas all these points in time are connected but this is the difference between who's afraid and who's not afraid who's afraid of being destroyed those who are doing wrong who's afraid wondering trembling what's going to be the reward as the mes will say that's those who are doing what's right this King and as we'll see Abraham also and perhaps even we this king is able to rise up above the heavens he's protected by the the great mountains his bread is given he has everything he needs there's water and it's it's always there for him right in Earth Israel especially you don't have rain all year round so you need to either have gathered the rain and keep it in storehouses or you need to be able to you need to to find a water source perhaps not the ground but this person will have their water they'll have their bread says we're almost done here reading in the beautiful King you will see you'll see an amazing King so two which king we're talking about in the it seems to be talking about if you compare him to to the king of Asher the king of Asher had a mighty Army he was great he was powerful he seemed Invincible but the me of is the Jewish King really the me of Yehuda you could be accurate didn't seem to be as powerful he didn't have as strong of an army even from far off you'll be able to see it your heart might be fearful because you see the contrast between the Kings look at the look at the power of the king of ashure the Assyrian King he has books in upon books counting out all of his soldiers and all of his money and all of the many towers that he has to protect himo don't you don't have to worry you don't have to look at the Fearsome King from afar who's who seems to be more powerful and have endless Legions at disposal look at look at Z look at Jerusalem look at the king who resides in Jerusalem look at the bik look at the temple look at the king who backing is a spiritual backing you will see Jerusalem and this is a powerful prophecy for then it's a powerful prophecy for now your eyes will see a cal relaxed city of Jerusalem it's it's going to be a tent and a tent is an impermanent structure but it's going to be permanent it's going to be something that the the that which holds down the tent the stakes that are driven into the ground and the ropes that hold it up it will never break because there the mighty one hasem is ours it's a place of rivers flowing there'll be Rivers flowing through Jerusalem you won't even be able to walk there there'll be boats flowing and of course in the pasus it's a mush everyone will be coming to Jerusalem rivers of people will be flowing there boats will be bringing people to Jerusalem planes will be flying there everyone will want to come to the center to the roote to the place where you can access is our judge Hashem is the one who who stamped us he made us Hashem is our King he will save us okay I'm not going to read till the end of the chapter there's a bit more here but it's it's incredibly beautiful and it's a the the navi is painting for us a picture of the fear and the challenge and the and the contrast between a king that looks so powerful hundreds of thousands of ballistic missiles aimed at so powerful he looks AR also had to fight with the Four Kings and the five Kings to retrieve his nephew Lo and really to become the power the powerful King in s Canan at the time the land of Canaan which is really Israel of course as We Know because that's theim describing the contrast between those who fear their sins they're afraid of their sins and those who fear meaning they they they're trembling in waight for their reward and there's a fear and a trembling at a time of judgment there's a fear and a trembling in a time when destruction is is looming is imminent as in ven time he's he's praying on behalf of s andar he doesn't want the destruction he doesn't want Revelation then to cause such utter destruction to these cities he cared about them he's the one who went to save them he was trying to influence them maybe perhaps you could say that L was his mole going into sadan Amur trying to have a positive influence on them he wasn't successful he was influenced he wasn't he wasn't the influencer let's see together the med says those who sinned in in they were afraid his it says we have a you have two kids who ran away from the from the from school two little kids ran away from school one gets caught the two or the two of them get caught and one of them is getting spanked and the other one perhaps is not as bad of a boy and he's not going to get spank maybe the the father is the principal we could say I don't know one is shaking he's afraid of what it's going to be his judgment and the other one is getting spanked and that's true we have to be aware that when there's a time of judgment who's to say that we're not going to be judged negatively who's to say refers to the people here as Sinners and refers to them as mean Min means I'm sorry a means someone who flatters a flatterer but in this context it doesn't mean just a flatterer someone who just like flatters people but it means someone who is a me he he worships idolatry our teaches us this idea it's not just talking about a flatterer but it's talking about somebody who who serves idolatry who denies God's existence so they're afraid as they see the the danger arriving as they see the danger coming in they're afraid he gives us a different mus not just to two little kids who ran away from school one of them get spanked and the other one's afraid what's going to be his punishment a different idea you have an arch villain an arch alysus is a is a thief he's The Mastermind he's the mob boss and he and he rebelled against the king whoever will grab whoever will NAB this arch villain the mob boss I'm going to give them an incredible amount of honor and and a great reward okay so somebody went and grabbed him somebody was able to to catch this Arch mob boss so they came to the king they brought they brought the mobster to the king and and the the guy who called him also came in and the King says look it's night time uh we don't do judgments in the night time we'll wait till the morning and we're going to tell you the mob boss what his punishment is going to be and I'll tell you what exactly the reward is going to be for the one who caught him so each of them was afraid overnight right they couldn't sleep all night the one who who was in The King's favor obviously so he was nervous what's going to be the reward and the other one was afraid because what's going to be My Punishment it's going to be the same thing in the future as the day of judgment comes as the moment when it becomes clear what's going on and where things are headed so there's going to be two different people two sets of people those who are on the side of Hashem those who have done what's right the Jewish people and and the idol worshippers those who are on the side of evil both of them will be afraid both of them will be shaking the BK refers to this another describes how the Jewish people will be afraid but but the fear will have to do with what's going to be the amazing good that Hashem wants to give us which refers to the fear of those who do sins is referring to the to the those who deny so the the non-jews will be afraid what's you know what's going to be their punishment and the Jews will be shaking as far as what's going to be our reward we referred to these evil people as the the ones who burn down the world as we said before why are they refer to in that way because these people in a moment if they could if they could get away with it if Hashem would allow it to happen they could destroy the world in a moment which is very interesting language actually find there's a gor I forget where it is is but I remember seeing it and being very uh Blown Away by it it refers to Gia which is Germania the Germans and says in a they come from Adam they come from from ASA and they in a moment could destroy the world if they were given permission so that's why they referred to as mik as those who burn down the world okay so that's the the picture of the future it's kind of it's coming like let's be aware of it let's be aware of it we need to make sure that our our pad our fear will be one of what's the reward we need to be like these people and we're going to see now this is who abah was and who we need to emulate this is who was excuse me it says that who is the one who gets rewarded who is the one who is good and who and who is raised up the one who goes with righteousness this is he was somebody the verse tells us would keep the way of hasem to doed and M to do righteousness and judgments talks about the fact that he speaks straight in reference to AB to Abraham is refer to have someone who is straight who is loved or or it could be that it's saying those who are straight love you Hashem he suppos to refers to those who hate stealing hate something hate getting something that's not theirs was like this when when he won the war King said take the r take all of the all of the booty and I'll take the people and I said I'm not interested not in one drop of the booty not even not even a shoelace so he was somebody who wasn't interesting and take taking something that he didn't he didn't want that wasn't his here in talks about the fact that who's the one who's not afraid who's the one who is raised up who is the king somebody who was not interested in taking any bribery this is he said I raise up my hand I'm not interested I only want not interested in anything but hem the says this person this King in the and our it's talking about ab and also we can see the implication is that it's talking about us in the future this person is raised up to the highest Heavens it says about know that he was raised up above the highest point in the heaven which means that he was raised above nature right the constellations classically refer to the fact that there's a certain order that Hashem created he guides the world through the constellations but he was raised up above that he ma when we do what's right the Jewish people don't have Mas we are not affected by the the astrology by the constellations by the forces of nature and was like that he was raised up above so said look down towards the heavens word which means to look the word look the word Hab means look down so he was above the heavens amazing thinging refers to the great mountains that protect him say the m is referring to the the Clouds Of hashem's Glory that protect the Jewish people protected us then as we saw you're talking about sukus Hashem is going to protect us in the future with these clouds perhaps they're manifesting as the Iron Dome system we said the bread is given he has all the water he needs V was this kind of person that he had plentiful water he says that Angels take some water there's there's there's plenty for you to drink and the last Point here in the is you will see this beautiful King so we said in the it means the the beautiful King he's a he's really we can say a reflection of Hashem he's imbued with spirituality with with divine protection because he's just a reflection of God in the world but he sees one another is that he sees Hashem the king he sees him he looks at Hashem which means that he he's divinely inspired think of MOS was shining out his face was shining with the light of spirituality after being up there for 40 days and 40 nights on says about AB appeared to him appeared to him in all of these ways we see that and we potentially when we're looking at hm when hem appears to us hm appears to us when we're doing all of these things we're Seeking Justice and we're seeking to do what's right when we're seeking hashem's will when we're recognizing that we only have exactly what we need everything we have is what we need I don't need to take anything from anybody else I don't need a I don't need any bribes not interested in bribes I'm not interested in in anyone telling me to earn my livelihood better I wanted I want it to come directly from Hashem I'm raised up we stand above we stand above all the constellations all the natural all of the natural world we all have that potential we learn it from AR we see that he was like that in that moment of incredible cataclysmic World Earth shattering world changing events the destruction of sadom happens they had to fear they had to fear didn't have to fear didn't have the fear the only fear was what's going to be the reward what's it going to look like what is the what is it going to look like as the as the coming months proceed as has finally given permission to do what we need to do to push back and destroy our enemies what's it going to look like and those who sin they need to be afraid and even we we need to be afraid and say are we living up are we being the kind of people who Hashem is going to redeem that in a time of judgment will be judged for good that's the question we need to ask ourselves and that's what I take out of this med it's an incredible lesson who's afraid in you sh who's afraid in the people of Israel only those who are sinning who's afraid amongst the nations of the world only those who are defying hashem's will or defying hashem's will those who are seeking to do hashem's will those who are seeking honestly to do that which is right and that which is correct the only thing we need to be afraid of is what's the reward going to look like what's how will the bdes be built what's it going to look like how is it going to happen how will it come down in fire or maybe how will we ourselves build it how will we start to build it and hasem perhaps sends it down from above as well what's it going to look like that's the thing that we have to fear I want to bless you and ask you to bless me should help us to take this message to heart to have the right kind of fear to have the right kind of you should be to see the fall of in our times we should be we should Merit to see that we should Merit to see the rising of Abraham Y and yob the people who remember their forefathers and strive to go in their ways thank you so much for listening have a wonderful Shamus this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you for more podcasts like this please visit www.wag.com or search on iTunes Ari goldwag [Music]