Simcha (Joy) & Shalom (Peace) can get rid of all challenges & Bring the Greatest Blessings.

welcome to our cities kabandha this week we are learning a very very special considered discourse that the Rebbe said 40 years ago it was republished now because when the Rebbe said it at that point in Crown Heights that week a Jew is murdered on the way going to a mitzvah and when something terrible like that happens we look to the Torah we look for the Rebbe for inspiration and there'll be shared a very very powerful Hasidic discourse which we will be learning today today's lesson is dedicated to a good friend of ours a big supporter of ours we want to thank him for all his help and support for Chabad in our school so this discourse is based on when noah left the ark after God saved him and his family he brought built an altar and brought sacrifices to God and the verse says by yarra Hashem s really high up that God smelled the pleasing fragrance and obviously God was very very happy the meddra says what was it that God smelled that he was very very happy and the Metro says that it wasn't just the odor of the of the meat being burnt but what God smelled was three periods in Jewish history of three people that went on the serious nefesh which means that they had a choice of either giving up God giving up Judaism and they would have had a great life or they were willing to sacrifice their life for God and they went ahead and they practice self-sacrifice and that's what God smelled in this radcliffe and that's what caused God to be so happy and the matricis is specific and he says the first one that what a mysterious nefesh as we know Abraham when he was standing up for God and they threw him up in a fury furnace they were gonna burn him alive and Abraham was willing to go do that why just not to cause any disrespectful car door in the country to bring tremendous respect to God so the mysterious temperature of Rama Deno with the kiss raised this second one the man who says is with Konami Oh Michel Rosario in the times of new who had not said when they were also thrown into a fiery furnace and the third wonder ever says in the time of the shmatte on people were either going to accept God and unfortunately Billy put to death or they're going to denounce God and they all accepted God so that God smelled the mysterious nefesh the self sacrifice of Abraham Kanani Michelle Bazar you and the people and generation of the shmatte and therefore God said Wow now I'm happy life is good so and the mattress continues and he brings out a verse from Psalms and it tells us follows there Derr Derr shove me back shapen Africa Solomon which means this is the generation that is dursa we're beseeching we want to have a relationship with God you want to get them intimately involved with God even though it's not even though it's easier not to because Yaakov they're following the steps of Yaka in one of the patriarchs that Yaakov stood for learning tyre and doing mitzvahs sella forever and because we're willing to be like Yakko Eve that is what causes our son to be very very happy and the Rebbe points out what's interesting is that the Metro says what's the connection specifically to yok leave because Yaakov actually his name is made up of two two words almost via letter yud and the second part Aikens what is the you'd resemble the you'd resembles our son little doubt kasha a calf stands for resembles the heel the lowest part where there's no even life to it Anyanka love the idea of Yaakov is that he's willing then he takes the spiritual godly part of a sham that you're there and he brings it into the lowest parts into this world that is the Midrash so the Rebbe says no off brought a sacrifice to God why do you have to end and say yeah it wasn't just a sacrifice alone that no brother got happy but you know what was pleasing to God self-sacrifice of the Abrahamic anonymous always are you on the darish month what's wrong with saying God was pleased with the regulars with the regular soft with the regular order of the sacrifice that's questionable Daniel B goes on to continue and ask you another question is like this obviously if the mattress is bringing three different cases Abraham then Kanani Michelle bizarre yo then the generation of the smart all a level of mysterious nefesh going and self-sacrifice obviously each one increases the self-sacrifice in other words Abraham was the first one to go and self-sacrifice it wasn't easy and it's a tremendous self-sacrifice commitment Kaname Michelle bizarre you already it was more question like why do we have to struggle we have the line of the base to make there's and so on and so forth but nevertheless they went himself sacrifice because the struggle was even stronger and I was in generation of SHM and it's even more of a question like why are we suffering but nevertheless they committed to God they will be willing to do whatever someone's so the self-sacrifice becomes even stronger and says very here when in too strong he said like why are we still in Gullah if we went through so much self-sacrifice we passed the days of Abraham climbing the Shabbos are your generation of smart like why are we still in Dulles why are we still struggling why are we still suffering and every sense if you look even deeper what does it say in in the bettors quotes the verse from Psalms what same songs Z der der chef knows this generation that's cleaving to God what expressions of the verse used used the word Z and we all know that it says the prophets when they prophesy he said Chloe this is what Hashem said like in a clouded vision moisture I being on he prophesized was Z this like being able to point his finger and this is Hashem so knows that darshan when you go through mysterious nefesh it's in a way we say no no Z I see God I'm committed to God I'm totally connected to God up to the point that moisture of being as we know he was the most humble person that existed and one of the reasons why moisture Manor was humble cuz he said he looked at the generationally former was gonna come and he saw their generation was willing to go self-sacrifice that's where he was so humbled then the Rebbe says we all know there's three different bonds that took place throughout history with a Shem so for example the first bond was the bond of Noah what was the bond that God made a bond with Noah he's not going to destroy the world he's not going to destroy the world that's the first bullet then God made a second bond with Abraham and this bond with Abraham was that the Jewish people are gonna be committed to studying Torah and doing Mitzvahed and then God made a third bond with moisture Abby knew that about the gift of true that when gone through and so on sins we have the power to go ahead and repent which that will allow God obviously to allow the world to keep on running so the question is for the ass think about it there were three balls Noah was so the world should exist Abraham was that talk we're gonna loot or omits vote moisture Benoist Ruvo so what is the as we climb the ladder what is the most harshest and serious nephesh when you finally get to the generation of this round so there are business hack of the generation of smart is connected to the bond of Noah which is only for the for the for the world and it's not necessarily connected to the bond of Abraham which is Torah mitzvahs or the bond of moisture of a know which is idea of chula that's the second question Ruby asks so the driver says if you give a look in impostor sonographer before before Noah left and brought the sacrifices Waldo was in the ark so what does the Torah say right in beginning of chapter 8 by yeast gorilla Kim has snow off did a little Kim remembered Noah what did he hear why do you remember what he do he didn't bring the sacrifice yet because obviously the reason why God remembered Noah wasn't because he did anything it was just pure love that God had for Noah pure love he loved his ass and that's why it's engineering points AB what does the verse a by mr. le kima snow Allah because we know that some as many names there's a name of compassion you'd cave of cave and then there's a name of judgment I like him by Giscard like chemists there who remember Noah the name of hello Kim which is judgment which means that not only did God have law for Noah but he was even willing kasam was willing to transform hello Kim which is normally judgment and that's what you remember Noah that even judgment to have compassion which is very very powerful and that's why actually on Rosh Hashanah we remember this or on Allah why cuz we want to remind God of his love and compassion for the Jewish people and there he brings actually from the akkada one of the books of Kabbalah and he says like this that there's two ways we know our sin one way we know our saying when I showed us miracles for us like for example the month of Nisan with God took us out of Egypt and everything around the month of Nisan so we know God for the miracles then there's another way we know God which is basically through nature and that's more or less the month of Tishri now what would think what's a greater way to know God through the bells and whistles through miracles well we all know that Kabbalah says no how do you know God even stronger I'm better not necessarily from the miracles day-to-day nature the fact that your wake up and the fact of your live and the fact that you're healthy and the fact is were the world is working normal I guess I'm fortunate now we're starting to appreciate nature but now we see how important nature is so how do we know her sin we know our I'm through nature and that's why the promise that her son made to Noah after he took him out of the ark and he was pleased he said he's never going to a life is gonna go normal and he says Lois Basu world is gonna run in a natural way so in other words like this - Carla chemist oh yeah Hashem remembered Noah which means true love true compassion he transformed dello came into rock a minute and what that caused was that we're able to know Hashem not necessarily through the miracles or specifically through nature as God says at the end of at the end of chapter 8 God says very very clearly that why use voice ooh the world is going to run in a regular irregular orderly fashion that means nature's gonna run beautifully then there are we continues our nieces like this what was the question we had before why was it necessary to have the mysterious nefesh in the fragrance what's wrong with God - smelling the fragrance from the sacrifice no abortive sacrifice God should be happy why does he have to smell the scent why is he up to smell the scent mysterious nefesh so there'll be explaining this because it's brought down in Kabbalah and it says like this that generally speaking when we bring to sacrifice what's the purpose of a sacrifice the purpose of a sacrifice is brought down in Kabbalah says like this the truth is that really we would sacrifice ourselves - and we're willing to come close that strand will give ourselves to sin but a shame in His infinite kindness says no no relax you don't have to sacrifice yourself it's enough that you bring a sacrifice stand there while the bringing the sacrifice and meditate that really this should be happening to me and a son is being kind and he's allowing the sacrifice to be in my place when I'm sitting and by the sacrifice of standing by the sacrifice I'm thinking that that brings me closer to Hashem or as the expression is that the rose of the cubano that the secret of the carbon means when we cleave to God through sacrifice we reached a level of arranged life of the infinite shell or actually in Kabbalah it says when you for example they bring couture it I'm not gonna get the whole cabbalistic idea but when they bring couture it which is more the incense so when the instance goes up it says the pens if the instance goes up into the right nostril the sama and the left nostril Sam it creates different effects but the point is that by bringing a sacrifice where do we reach we reach the early range so if the infinite light of a sin however however when a person goes on the Cirrus nefesh when a person goes on self-sacrifice then what happens is we not only reach earrings so if we actually read optimist we reach the essence of a sin and others like this what is my seriousness mysterious nefesh means that I have a choice I can either god forbid give up my relationship or the same with this in a big way or as small whatever the mysterious else we're talking about or no no I'm not changing I am a Jew I am proud to be a Jew and if you ever have to suffer because of it and if it's gonna be it's gonna be hard if it's gonna be painful I'm not giving up my Judaism which means I'm taking a stand what's the stand I'm taking like Chandi see I'm not changing I am committed to our Sam whether it's easy that's wonderful and a universe hard I'm committed to send my relations over the Sun doesn't change so when a person behaves in a way of mysterious deference when a person goes on self-sacrifice when a person says Latian easy then we reach the infinite part of a sim not only earned said we reach the absence of a sham with via Hashem says like he tells no yes no use boy so there's not gonna be a change nature's gonna run the waits poster on life is gonna run the way it's supposed to roll and we're not gonna have challenges we're not gonna have Depa demux gods like and the privacy of anything we will have everything we need so doesn't we behave in a way of leash and ECU that we're not changing then God behaves with us in a way of lawyers play super God obviously doesn't change and there'll be actually quotes the verse that says he Liberty Aeneas emulation ECI a mass M don't James the Optima nice always listen when you don't change and obviously what a sin doesn't change and life is great now and there he continues on he says that look we just now celebrated obviously the disk or with certain partial stone which is right after the High Holidays we celebrate the whole month of ll we know the month of every single definition are you read and the della Sera means we were in the verse and we say we want to cleave to us am calm coming close to him we had the whole experience of Rosh Hashanah we crowned Arthur King we become one with her same tell me as simcha story we're experiencing tremendous joy and never look what happens to us now now we're suffering again but even through all the suffering urbe says we have to remember but we said before from songs that dead dirt during strong men vaccine pinellia chrysella that even with all the challenges even with the struggles right now we're staying strong Yaakov we're staying we're bringing still down the infinite partnership into our lives Celal forever and we're not going to be affected affected by it I never says I so and how how how are we going to overcome it we're gonna overcome it by being the simcha why because what happens is when you go through a struggle the first thing that gets attacked one of the first things that get attacked is our drawing we're now we're lacking joy but lacking active happiness but nervous as we know that when my dear my seriousness is not that you'll be going miss tears never seen any miss rule on it you're going on my serious knavish and you're doing a possum call that means we're going through a struggle now but we're gonna be happy because why is it so important to make sure the happiness stays 100% full and does not drop at all because your business happiness is key to break all the boundaries so if and when you're going through a struggle the last thing you want to do is to affect your simcha that should be God to be diminished in any way you want to make sure simcoe's key and there he brings the famous story with King David in the profits that when he was celebrating what they were doing to them and he got them the ark back he was governor farmer character he was being trend ously happy some people actually looked at her like hello like why you know what you're degrading yourself and he looked know in the country I'm happy for our sin simcha is key or as we know for example we we spoke up in a in one the other class we had recently bought yeah claims that my Yeats of yeah c'mere struggling al qarani he went to Harlan even though he was leading his family but he went to her and he went with simcha and because he went with some car therefore he was able to overcome all his obstacles now what happens when a person's in a state of simcha then God can take away the mysterious nefesh but then the rubber says if God's can take away that mysterious knife as how we're gonna reach the accents on a salmon the herbicides very simple mysterious nefesh Latian EC will reach you the infinite partnership if you're going to be happy and we're not gonna happen so that's gonna break the boundary it's gonna take away all our struggles we're not gonna have the mysterious never ever says no because you can accomplish my serious snappish McCoy yeah in potential which means we can think about the fact we're a solar body and the body is what's causing us to be constrained the soils constrained nevertheless we can have everything we need physically and spiritually and because of all shantou says where persons Lord is that's where he is so when you think about the mysterious nefesh you can accomplish with the spread of thoughts you don't necessarily have to have the mysterious nefesh and the simcoe's key that will allow you to break all the boundaries and you'll be able to connect touch them and the mysterious times you have to accomplish you'll accomplish it by meditating on the fact that we're that there's struggles or your souls in a body and you can accomplish it that way as well now then there are brings that when knoweth left the ark so it says Noah brought the sacrifices and he said why bring sacrifice it's very very simple because why did have some tell me to bring seven of each of the kosher ones obviously because he wanted me to bring sacrifices in other words he didn't look at what God told him to is only for himself he looked at at everything I'm doing there's a reason it's a service show so if God gave me some animals and an abundance of it why do I need it for I have it so I can serve a sham in a meaningful way so the rubber says are there for everything that happened in the ark we have to learn a lesson in a way of serving a shed under verses like this which brought down and so are many many places and caballo that the life in the ark resembled messianic times why because think about it you had no a flipping there's family living there you had all the animals living there and we know which isn't the prophets what's gonna she comes vigorous a from keven's the wolf alarmed lamb so in other words whatever took place the whatever took place in the in the Ark resembles the mischief times what what's mushy of times what does that mean that they all lives together that means idea of peace and as what mushiya comes what's gonna be the life on the sheer comes it's going to be the life of a piece and as the rope rings from the Rambam the Rambam says a very powerful statement that the only reason and the main reason why torah was given was to give to bring peace in the world so in other words the only reason why we have the whole Torah and all the mitzvoth is to bring peace in the world and that's the reason why Hashem when he smelled the self-sacrifice that's what got him excited was the mysterious nefesh wine and whoever explains of this what is the idea of mysterious nefesh what is mysterious a first mean mysterious nefesh means like this on one hand we're struggling and on the other hand we're saying no I'm committed to our sin if you're struggling drop the bag drop us in you have to struggle as much but no mysterious nefesh means there's an opposite here on one hand I'm struggling and when you're struggling the initial reaction should be I should give up I should get the prayers I should be unhappy but no I'm gonna do the opposite I'm gonna be counterintuitive I'm gonna be happy I'm gonna be extra happy that is what peace resembles peace resembles the idea that you can have two opposites and polar opposites but nevertheless this peace in other words service says there's two ways you can accomplish causing God to be happy there's one is when you're going through a struggle and you're committed to God and that's the traditional mysterious nethers but then the rebus says no you want to make God happy God loves opposites he loves opposites so mysterious never she loves that gets him excited but you don't have to do it serious thefts way to cause got to be happy be at peace with yourself be at peace with your family be at peace with a neighbor when I refer a friend their cover whoever it may be be at peace with the world every time you're at peace with the world you are creating the same effect of opposites like mysterious nephesh that you won't have to have mysterious nefesh and here they put some something else so powerful he brings actually from the from the prophets prophet Isaiah and where the tribe of a frien the Prophet tells us was very very unfortunately with sinning and they were in sealing ty dolla tree and the Prophet says that Hanukkah oh yeah even though he's dipped it today don't leave him don't bother him why because since he weren't gonna anyways but he wasn't gonna listen so let it go what does that mean be peaceful with him can think about this someone serving idolatry I mean it's one of the worst sins what is the Prophet saying if you know you can't affect on the person to have any change let it go what if it wasn't mean let it go let it go what and don't like no let it go and still I can be friendly with him why because peace is key to creating the greatest blessings and we're peaceful God is very happy we don't have to come on to my serious nefesh to make God happy unfortunately we're not peaceful we're gonna have to do with service nefesh but what i do mysterious nefesh be at peace it's not easy cuz you're dealing with the opposite so when it doesn't make sense think about the story with a frien they were idolaters what did the Prophet say let it go why because when the person's not ready you have to let it go and then they're recessed when you when you tackle we'll have peace then if you have to go out to war you will be successful why cuz you have the power of Shem hopefully we won't have to go to war we'll experience true peace without even going out to war but again what's the key for the blessing what's the key that will be successful that either if we have to go through all we will win or if we don't have to go work together worked alone because we'll have true peace we'll have to peace that is by being peaceful being peaceful yourself being peaceful with other people that will give you the greatest blessings and the rubber continues and he takes like a little Kabbalistic ID and he says like this that God has many names all the names of a sim whoever says that the names so you have the light and you have the vessel all the names of Hashem the infinite light of a Shem is only in the light in the vessel you don't have the infant name of Shem so you have the light which is in Finnish em and the best of that case is it is not it's not connected in for name of Shem however the same you'd cave of ke the most powerful name emotion that the light and the vessel is all from the infant named Michelle so what's unique about the infinite name of mushroom is that the light and the vessel is all part of the infant named Michelle why is that and you ever explained because that comes from the meat of T Farris T we know Castle is right GU is left and T Farris is in the middle which means it's middle it's a combination it can handle Cosette it can handle Bora and it makes peace it makes peace with everybody and and as we know it says that in the Torah the oxen that some ham : you're all standing where the finish from a location because when you reach the level of anime Hashem you'd cave of K then everybody's equal you can be this and the other will complete that but when you come to youth cave of K when you come to the in finish em to light the vessel everybody everybody's all equal and then then we realize that what that the truth is when we wise at work because we realize like SHINee see that there is no shear between me and someone else very important words leash and easy when there's no difference between me you him and her then what happens and then what happens is we reached the infinite market part of a sham which caused us to bring our light in the in the light and in the vessel and this is the way to come to the idea of like it's not easy you have to have humility through that a person is humble you'll be able to come to the level of lunch and II see where you're gonna see yourself equal with everybody else and this way you'll draw down the greatest lines possible nobody finishes off and he says that peace is the vessel to draw down the greatest blessings you want to have blessings from Leishman ec which is the highest level you need to be in a way you need to act in a way a piece and then you'll bring down as the as the verse says Louis voice ooh where there's not going to be difference you'll have all the blessings 24/7 consistent blessings of all the great things every I never you finish I'll specific and he says you have tremendous güell you'll have trade-off silver you'll have gold and the whole world is going to bless us there's gonna be light in our houses and we're all gonna return to - Eric Eric sarcoid - and there won't be any and we'll don't be anymore concealment and Hashem will be the king over the world and everyone will see that Hashem is the king I will all merit to the great and final and speedy redemption now I think this like this minor is a very very deep and profound Eimer but I think the message is one simple message that Hashem loves opposites have same laws when we go through a challenge we come out as a hero the greatest opposite is when we think that we and something else and someone else is different when we're able to see Leishman 'i see that there's no difference between me and anyone else we're able to be peaceful everybody and therefore we're able to be truly truly happy we will cause revenue - some will smell it and appreciate it and he'll give our Smalley's voice ooh he'll give us all the greatest blessings the blessings practical and real blessing that we each want we each need and let's hope and pray that we can work on ourselves to have peace with ourselves peace with our families and our communities and this way God will bless us with the greatest blessings of all the pain and suffering will go away we'll all merit mushiya will be revealed and we'll have all the greatest happiness and the greatest joy and the greatest some huh thanks so much for joining us for our considers class and let's hope and pray that our next class class will be in your shall I am Iroquois this