Reveal your Inner Soul. לך לך, אל הארץ אשר אראך A New Kabbalah class by Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz

Welcome to our class on this. We're going to be learning a beautiful discourse in the Reb. The name of the discourse is called the Reb said this discourse on Shab that year was the 10th day the month of in the year 44 years ago. So again, the discourse is based in the verse in this week's Torah portion where it says where God comes to Abraham and he tells him to go and to leave from his land from the place that he was born from his parents' home etc. Reb says at the alterba in his classical works in terror in the beginning of the para and he says that there's two types of going over here and and like and like the verse says he went mass mas doesn't say masa one travel mas is plural in other words what's the what's the double travels so in kabal it explains alter says that's ma you're leaving from down here going on high and then mil going from high down below. Now when you're traveling from on high down to low. So he explains what does that mean practically? So initially a was called a he didn't have a hey his name. So his name was spelled al if v re which is divided into two words a what is a referring to? So it's explained it's referring to a very very very deep level of intellect and from this level where Abraham was holding on. So he had to leave from this high lofty level he was and he had to come down to earth into reality to the land that Hashem says I will show you. What does that mean practically on the spiritual levels referring to lands we know is referring to the sphere of malus up to the land literally. So in other words, Abraham is leaving the highest level of intellect and coming down to what to the sphere of malus. Now even though this is a downgrade because if you're living in the level of intellect on the highest level you're coming down to malus is a downgrade but the fact is no no there's no such thing. It's ultimate downgrade. Yes, it's a temporary downgrade. But through the downgrade when Abraham leaves the intellect and he goes into mal Abraham gets elevated. Why? because he goes from Ara from this powerful intellectual place where he was and he becomes a Ram and as they add the letter H into his name in other words like and the verse says because up until now he was Ara and by adding hey he now he's the father of a multitude of nations in other words because he was able to go down and leave his intellectual world and come into the world of Malus therefore he was able to acquire ire the Hay which represents a whole new level of leadership of all the nations. Why [clears throat] is that? Why does he need a Hay? Because in order to go ahead and fulfill his n mission on the lowest level, he needs to have more blessings, more energy. So the Hay is the gift that he receives to to to to for his new mission in the world. And like for example, there's a beautiful example. If you have a wise person who has to go deal with a child and there's a child could be both on two could be one of two options either quantitatively in age level so the the teacher is much older the t the child is much younger age- wise or it could be the teacher could be younger than the child might be older we're talking intellect or it could be both a combination of both so but the point is when a teacher again either older or wiser needs to to to relate to a younger a child again either both in years or in intellect. So you have to have an extra level of beina of understanding in order to to to to reach the lower level. And explains there are some wise people very very wise people that they don't have the capacity they don't have the tools they don't have the gift to reach a lower level but specifically we know king king Solomon who was the wisest person that existed and he was able to reach the lowest level and that's why when he would explain things he would use 3,000 parables in other words he was able to bring down his deep intellect 3,000 levels And every single level when you brought it down to the next level, you need another parable because obviously it's that know the level you're bringing it down to that level is amazing. But now in order to go to the next level, you need another parable. And like it's um many many times in in in in Kazal, they bring different uh maj and they use a par in order to explain the king, hashem, you use a a parable of a king with flesh and blood. And obviously you can't compare but the point is by by using the analogy you're able to relate and how did how is king Solomon able to do this because he had the gift which is called an extra level of beina that he can bring it down to the lowest level. So the same thing also in our our conversation in order to go down from the level that Abraham was at to go down to the land which is Malus to the land that Hashem is going to show show you and then he's going to come the father of the mult nations what he needed was the extra he which the extra he represents the idea of Vina and that gave him the power that he was able to go reach the lowest level. Now [clears throat] the that is coming down from the highest to the lowest level. Now going from the lowest to the highest level. So it's explained in in the in theidic discourses also in obviously in parl and obviously since it's broad in parl so obviously you can tell that that it's necessary to understand it over here reference idea of and the same thing also in the literal translation of because what does it mean and we and you know we always know that even though there's different ways to understand the verse the simple way cabalistic way mystical way emotional whatever way you want to learn it, but you have to always take the the verse the way way it's literally meant to be. And what what is the literal level? Abraham left his land. He left his birthplace. He left his parents' home and he left and we know is called because it's the wrath of the world and and he and he left and where did he go? He went to the land that's going God showing him. So on a literal level, Abraham left Matilda. He was leaving from the lowest part of the world. He's going to the holy place Hashem was showing him. Now one second you're going to say but where's he going? He going to the land of Israel. But the fact is at that time wasan and like it says clearly in the verse that he wasn't the land. So first of all says that Rashi says that the Canaanites was going ahead and he was conquering it and at that time it was still it was still the land of shame. But even when it was the land of Kanan but obviously you can't compare the land of Cananan to the place where Abraham left of norm and like it says clearly in the verse on the other then the other side of the river our ancestors lived and besides the fact it's explained on a spiritual high level which is referring to he said the highest level of of an intellect but we know the the negative understanding is like the verse says that they served other other idols and as we know the ter Abraham's father was an idoltor and Abraham went ahead and he had to break all the idolatry so he so the point is that he was leaving a place of full idolatry and that's why it says to go from the lowest place to the highest pl place in other words even though Abraham was able to affect to break the idols in the house of his father when he was brought up but nevertheless that's a low level he has to go to land that I'm going to show you what's which land is that that's called Israel the land of Israel and over there he's going to call he's going to call in the name of Hashem the god of the world and like Rashi explains because when he when Abraham was in his father's home hashem was only the god of the heaven in other words why because the world the physical world was had its own existence and go and god was the god of the world but it wasn't his world what did Abraham affect he affect expected that God should be revealed in the world. That what does that mean? That God and world is one thing and like the like the Ram explains in the beginning of of of the laws of idolatry in the way Abraham operating the world that he made that the world should realize that God is the one that runs the world. Now these two insights of first bringing down the highest level into Malus and he got the the letter hey as a bonus and the other one where he left the lowest places to go to the highest level. Obviously the two the two even though the top the two opposite insights they're both connected to each other. Why is that? And the explains like this because in order that you should be able to go from the highest places down to the lowest places and know from the from the highest level of intellect down to the level of you need to have power to take on this journey. And so where do you get the power from the journey? the the power from the journey is when you work first. When you do your work and when you leave the the idolatry and when you go to the house of Hashem and when you when you do your work by doing your part, ripping yourself away and going ahead and and elevating the physical world, then you have the power to bring down the highest level down into this world. And when you bring down the highest level into world, then you reach a place that God's going to show you. What does that mean? that God is going to show and reveal who you are and as he's going to reveal Abraham and where does Abraham get revealed specifically in this world. So the saying is like this it's it's a it's a two part process on one hand you have to start doing your work you have to go ahead and leave leave the physical reality leave the idolatry and you want to cleave to Hashem that once you get there but then what happens then you don't stay there then you bring that powerful energy down into this world but what happens then the your your real your real self gets revealed and that's when things are really really amazing now says just like this happened by learnu And it says there's one Abraham and he was called why was why was he called Abraham? He was called Abra Ara the the Hebrew what does that mean I so literally transformation to the Hebrew but every all comes from a from aside what does that mean that the whole world was on one side and Abraham stood alone on one side. Think about that. Abrai, why is he called Abraham the Hebrew? Comes from a side the whole world was on one side and he stood strong on one side. And the same thing also says it applies to every single Jewish person that we have an inheritance from au and we have to work on both levels. What does that mean practically? That every single morning when we get up, you have to leave the physical world and you have to go make it a spiritual world. You have to elevate the world. How do you do that? by the first thing we start praying and we say and we do the because the idea is to elevate to leave the the physical world [snorts] and that's why it says you have to go from your land the place you were born from your parents home what does that mean a spiritual level comes from your wants even though you want to say sleep in no time to get up and go pray you want to sleep in time to go study Torah and and the place you're born which means that's your your your habits your your routine etc. your parents homes referring to your the way you comprehend things and your emotions and you go higher and higher. You leave yourself and afterwards when you do your part we then we bring bring it back into the world after prayers and we have to deal with the physical world. You have a job, you have errands to do, and you bring all the powerful ideas down into this world. And when you do that, again, first you leave through prayer. And then you bring back the godliness into the world. Then what gets revealed, the true self, the what gets revealed is the real quality every single Jew has. And what God is going to show us that the the godly spark within us and the godliness in the world. Why is that? Because when a person brings the godliness into the world, you actually go to your source. And not only that, you even go higher than your source. And you go higher than the source of things that were created. And you go into the source, the true source. And like the verse says that the spirit goes back to God that God gave us. And that's the ultimate idea of chuva to returning to the highest level. Now when we do our spiritual work on these on these both levels then what happens is we come to the revelation of the future like it says I'm going to walk amongst you and it says plural two types of walking and God is going to take us standing upright is double double standing upright how is that going to happen it's going to happen when we do our work and our effort during gulus and like the explains at length and tanya that our effort in gulus is what creates the rallying future and especially before Mashiach comes and then we will come to the land that I will show you which means the God is going to be revealed in a real way and like it says in the prophets like we're not going to have to hide anymore we're not there's not going to have any garments God is going to be totally revealed and the fact is one second don't be you know think it's like this is something which is like never happened before already happened before when God gave the Torah because when God gave the ter everyone was able to see it but that was only a taste of what it's going to Mashia comes when Mashiach comes everything's going to be revealed and like it's explained at length in shortra that basically the learning of the Torah Mashia coming is going to be at the level of seeing and how do we how do we affect this revelation that happens when we do our work today our traveling today which is generally speaking what's the what's what what what's how do we create that comes from the two ways we connect to Hashem one through learning which brings down godliness into the world and one through mitzvah is elevating the world because what's the whole idea of you're bringing godliness into the world like it says clearly when God spoke his voice came from heaven down to earth and mitzvah is elevating the physical world like he explains in in earth from the alter in the beginning and by by doing our part again of learning terra bringing godliness to the world doing mitzvah elevating the world we're going to come to fulfill the promise that God promised us that God's going to take us standing upright and God's going to be our king and the finishes off. It should happen very very quickly in our days on a literal level. Here we have a beautiful discourse and and Jeb shows us what our work is to do to go ahead and elevate the world, bring down godliness into the world. We will reveal oursel and ultimately we'll have the revelation of the coming msiach and next class will be in your have a great and blessed week. Shabua to.