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Maamar B'Yom Ashtei Asar 5731 #1 "Ana Nasiv Malka I Want the King" | Rabbi YY Jacobson, 5782
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good morning everybody
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so welcome everybody this is the first
class of a series of four classes by
ezra hashem
today is the first class
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a.m
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p.m
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this series
was initiated and is dedicated
by the pearson family
in honor and loving memory
of
an extraordinary jew who had the who i
had the privilege of knowing many years
david
ben rabiaq of joseph raskin
of blessed memory
whose 95th birthday will be on the 12th
of nissan
and his yard site is next month on the
seventh of ear zion ear
this is dedicated by his grandchildren
the pearson family and especially his
grandson vincent pearson who initiated
this project in memory of his beloved
and special grandfather abdav draskin
who was a true hasid a true yerey
shamayam a true god fearing jew a very
dedicated person
he was for many many years the manager
uh the dean of uh the central of
shiva temple
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and
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khabad which is
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organization of hasidim all over the
world
and a person who personified
many of the ideas many of the
experiences that we're going to learn
in this class so tahini says
may his light and his presence his soul
continue to be a source of inspiration
to many of us to all of us
and especially a source of blessing
to all of his children and his
grandchildren his entire family for
everything that they need materially and
spiritually in a revealed way
and
thank you thank you so so very much for
this sponsorship and dedication and
initiation
so next week
next week tuesday is yura of nissan the
11th day of nissin
which is the birthday of the la bhava
chereba
this year commemorates the hundred and
twentieth birthday
of the rebbe of blessed memory
was born alofa nissan tough res the 11th
of nissan 1902 we're in a country that
is very very famous today it's called
ukraine
in the city nikolayev that's where the
rebbe was born to his parents yitzhak
and his mother ebbitzen khanna later his
father was appointed as chief rabbi of
the nepa petrovsk in ukraine then it was
called yakatrislav because it was still
before the bolshevik revolution before
the communists took over so it was
called yakatrinislav
which was named after catherine the
great but then after the bolsheviks took
over all the names had to change of
course petersburg peter the great had to
become lenin grad and yakatrina's love
went through the same fate and it became
the nepa petrovsk
at the coast of the nepal close to the
dnapur river
and um
that's where the lobavich rabbi grew up
so yidalif
he was born 1902 2022 mark's 120th
anniversary of his birthday
i was just in florida there was a big
event in honor of commemorating the
rebbe's birthday
when was it wednesday night
so many thousands of jews was a
beautiful event in south florida and i
spoke there i think some of you
were there or tuned in online
and on the way back on the plane
so i was sitting near somebody i wasn't
sure he's jewish or not but then i heard
him express himself on the phone with a
hebrew word
so we got into a conversation stuck up a
conversation and
he asked me now what he's doing in
florida i said i came to speak at an
event in honor of the of the rebbe's
birthday he said you know of nissan 11th
of nissan i said yeah he says how do i
know he said it's my birthday too i was
also born 11th of nissan and i was told
as a child is a very secular jew i was
taught as a secular israeli i was told a
child that's a very special birthday
of course it's also a few days before
the birthday of claudia israel the
birthday of the jewish people so it's
all of our birthdays this season because
as the navier haskell says in chapter 16
all of the jewish people were born by
itis mitsura it's the yom her letters
it's the birthday of
claudius collectively and individually
because we became a people we were
slaves
like
hashem extracted one nation from among
another nation he took slaves and he
turned them into an independent free
nation under the direct tutelage and
leadership of hashem so it's really the
birthday of the udall so this is the
season of the birthday of the jewish
people now
the
the only time we find in homage to
celebration of a birthday is para para
made a birthday party at the end of
parshas mccates right that's when he
emancipated the butler and he executed
the baker
you were xiaomi however tamadura
rosh hashanah says
that
the malachites had a custom that they
would send to the front lines of a
battlefield a person who had a birthday
that day because they said he won't be
defeated easily because masoli gave you
his muscle is very powerful
and this is a basis
of the power of the energy of a birthday
that a person's contribution a person's
life
the gift of birth the gift of existence
is repeated once again it's the day that
god decided to send down your shaman to
the world and rip sadiq of lublin the
great hasidic master passed away in 1900
in the blind in poland in the seifer div
is one of his fascinating works
emphasizes this that the leader is the
birthday is a day of celebration because
the person's mazel person's spiritual
energy is very powerful that day the
baneshkai the great rabbi of baghdad
rabbi savchem also passed away in the
early 1900s also writes therefore that a
birthday is to be celebrated even though
others had different opinions
in the hasidic world the balshemptiv who
was born on the 18th of ello celebrated
his birthday even though it was
clandestine as well as the al-tarab
tanya now in terms of the rebbe the la
bhava
on his 50th birthday which was a year
after he became a rebbe 1952
he set a mimer in his room on the
capitol to hillen
um
but he wouldn't hold any public events
at his birthday
when he became 60 which was 1962 he held
the fabregan in honor of the gemara
discusses
the celebration of reaching the age of
60. um it's a whole discussion that made
then a famous see by massachusetts
we're going to learn today is
a
a historic and incredibly profound
and life-changing
discourse that was presented by the
laboratory
the date is yur alef nisantov
that's the 11th of nissan 1971
and
that's the birthday the river became 69
his big beginning of the 70th year
and so so it's 1952 he set a mimer in
1962 and he became 16 in 1971
nine years later
he went that day to pray at the resting
place of his father-in-law the previous
the sixth laboratory
of blessed memory who passed away in
nineteen fifty
and when the river came nobody expected
it would be any gathering but when it
ever came back from the resting place of
his father it was tuesday at all of
nissan of
the rest in place of his family
and then
notified there's going to be a fabric he
notified there's going to be a fabrega
and he died he came down to fabring it
was a great great surprise
and the rabbit began right away with
this mimer
and the mimer opens up with aposic from
parishes
there's a custom in many communities
that during the first 12 days of the
month of nissan we say every day the
nasi which means the michigan was
inaugurated the tabernacle was
inaugurated on the first day of nissan
and for the next 12 days those first 12
days of nissan every day one liter of
one shavet brought a special offering a
contribution for the new mishkan for the
new tabernacle happens to be each leader
brought exactly the same thing and the
toyota repeats again and again 12 times
what each leader brought 11 times what
each leader brought it was 11 to see him
that brought because levy was a
different category it was the tribe of
aaron
so
so there's a custom by many that every
day of nissan we read the offering of
that leader of that nasi what he brought
that day which is really a repetition
and the eleventh day of nissan is usher
it was the gift of the leader of usher
and that pasuk is the mighty deposit
that ever began that mimer with known as
the miner of the eleventh day of
salamanal of 1971
it was a
extremely extremely profound profound
discourse and i would describe it as a
mimer that really
captures
what is the jew
who is this creature this creation we
call the jew the ultimate jew the
ultimate quest of judaism what the jew
personifies individually and and
collectively as we will see
truly
understanding and appreciating what is a
jew versus
the jews choices the jews relationship
with hashem the jew
in all of his or her manifestations what
is this ultimate jew
and as we will see the ultimate core is
going to be
going beyond spiritual self-centeredness
i want only you i want nothing but the
truth
as this mimer will develop in great
nuance
and profound intricacy there's a
build-up here
it's uh it gets a little complex it gets
detailed it gets intricate we'll try to
explain with the best of our ability but
the best but the i'll try to explain to
the best of my ability base hashem
the next year was tough shin lament base
that's when the little baby should have
been turned seventy then he made a
fabregan again he sent a miami the same
with the same beginning but yeah
even though it was a different theme
and from then he would hold the public
for bringing every year on his birthday
your olive
nissan
for the remaining years
excuse me so let's begin let's go right
into it
and uh please open your source sheets if
you're joining us on zoom
i put into the chat the source sheet so
you can you can open it up and follow
inside
if you're on the yeshiva.net you have
the source sheet there
and i think that other places as well
have the source sheet
org
has the source sheet so you can get it
over there and open it up and please let
me tell you about the source sheet it's
a long source sheet
it has 121 pages
but we're not going to be reading 121
pages
we have here the whole mimer translated
in in a beautiful english so those of
you who struggle with hebrew you have
the whole thing in english word for word
translation like art scroll style and
you could follow that in english
i'm going to use the text in hebrew and
translate so if you open up your source
sheets and you go to page three of the
source sheets we begin but if you
continue scrolling down you'll see after
a few pages
you have the whole thing in
english beginning from page 21 in your
source sheets you have the entire
discourse with hebrew and english
translation all the way till the end so
that may be very useful and certainly
useful for to review
says the maya may you all of nissan
shalom i should say that the rebbe said
it in 71 and then he edited it it was
prepared by the writers and then the
rebel edited it in 1989 top shin mem
tess
this was his 87th birthday
beginning 88 that ever edited this
moment that's when it was published
and that i remember 71 is
a little before my days but 89 when it
came out i still remember the joy and
the festivity and the ecstasy that
gripped so many of us
upon learning these powerful gems
giving us very profound insight into
yiddishkait and to terror and to mitzvos
into
a relationship with hashem and into the
ultimate calling of a jew
and especially in the days before pesach
when we became when we became a nation
when we became a people
what is this unique people call the
jewish people
the 11th day
of the month of nissan nasi living
was the time that the leader of the
tribe of usher offered his contribution
is
you see there's something strange about
this portion entire hawaii usually the
toyota is written in a very brief and
concise fashion
here the toyota for some reason
goes into such detail which seems
superfluous and unnecessary because it
repeats as i said 11 times exactly the
same words for each one of the leaders
and it doesn't seem necessary
the title could have just said the first
leader nakshan who brought for your hood
and then everybody did the same thing
why do we have to repeat the same
carbonus again and again when they were
all
doing exactly the same thing so the
madras explains that every one of the
leaders had a different kavanaugh he had
a different meditation a different
mindset in other words externally it
looked like they brought exactly the
same types of animals and the same type
of
same types of cutlery and utensils for
the michigan that was external but
internally each one of them gave the
gift with a different mindset with a
different intention and therefore the
turtle repeats it it's a fascinating
idea the marriage goes through each
tribe showing the different kavana that
they had
including usher usher is a very long one
all of them are very long it's one of
the longest madrashim you have going
through the whole every single carbon
had a different kavanagh
what about usher so this is what we're
going to learn of isabella maduro so the
madrid says
all the tribes all the children of
yaakov
their names represent the redemption of
the jewish people and the praise of the
jewish people
including usher asher nikrish
also his name is connected to the
redemption of the jewish people
commander
like the pasik says the navi says
the last one of the prophets the last
one is malachi and he describes the time
of gullah the retention he says
all of the nations of the world will
acknowledge you will praise you will
extort you
because you will become eretz
a land full of desire a desired land
says hashem so the word usher which
comes from the word ashrae fortune or
to acknowledge to praise to extol to
elevate represents the time of goula
when the true nature of the jew will
emerge in its full glory and the whole
world will acknowledge it
and the name also represents the praise
of the jewish people come on the tama
like it says in tehillim and we say it
every day
this is to hillam 144. ashrae fortunate
is the nation that this is his faith
fortunate is the nation that hashem is
his god a shooter and shall israel says
the madrish the great praise of the
jewish people the great fortune of the
jewish people is allah al-shabab
islam
the true greatness of the jewish people
you could say the jewish people are
great why because
i don't know they're smart they're
ambitious they're creative
they have good families many of them
have good families they're successful
they made a lot of good contributions to
society they survived through thick and
thin they're stubborn they're tenacious
they're strong they know how to
persevere those are all good stuff
but the marriage here says you want to
know what the real praise of the jewish
people ain't assuring you all the usher
usher comes from the word
the fortune the praise of the jewish
people is one thing that they chose
hashem
they chose hashem to be their god
and hashem chose them to be his unique
people
says the madrid this is all a quote from
the madras wrap so when the leader of
the leader the prince of the tribe of
russia came to offer his contribution
he offered his offering to commemorate
the choice that hashem chose the jewish
people from all the nations commander
as the passage says
where
hashem chose you to be his special
treasured nation
and the madrid goes on to explain how
every detail of the offering of usher
is connected to this point connected to
the choice that the jewish people made
in hashem
because this is the praise of the jewish
people that they chose hashem and that
hashem chose them and he literally goes
through
us
it all represents the various nations of
the world
who appreciate the destiny and the
uniqueness and the gift of the jewish
people and they all become ultimately
connected to the jewish people and
inspired by the jewish people it's a
fascinating message and he goes through
how the choice of the jewish people in
god and god's choice in them and every
offering of usher represents this point
and this madrid becomes the foundation
of this discourse of the laboratory
on the 11th day of nisan when usher
brought his tribe which is
nissan laid him so many years later the
day that the rebel was born
there's something amiss in this madrid
is
of gemara in other words every word is
precise it's meticulous
sometimes people read madrashim you know
they think it's just
some charming insights every piece of
toyota has
profound structure and meaning so he
says there's something in the structure
that seems strange in the beginning the
madrid says
that
ashley usher comes from the word ashrae
ashley
ashley i am
fortunate as the nation
that this is his fate what is it sha
hashem elikov that this is the people
that chose hashem as his god
you shouldn't show us well the only real
authentic praise for the jewish people
is
that they chose god and the madrid ads
as something else and god chose them
right in other words sometimes we call
the jewish people the chosen people and
the message is saying it's not only the
chosen people it's the choosing people
it's the people that chose it's the
people that chose god and in response
god chooses them that's the beginning of
the matter but later when the message
summarizes and culminates the point the
metric says when usher came to offer his
contribution he offered it because of
the choice of hashem in the jewish
people
what's the focus here first he begins
that the praise of the jewish people is
that they chose hashem at the end of it
he says that usher which is the praise
of the jewish people offered it because
hashem chose the jewish people suddenly
the focus shifts
kamsariklahavan but we have to also
understand something more fundamental
not just in the structure of the madrid
but the very concept
the word choice
is applicable when you have two things
that are similar or even if they're not
similar each one has an advantage that
the other one doesn't have
so then you can choose
this is really going back to the basics
when you're talking about hashem versus
pagan gods pagan false deities
how do you even use the word
that the jewish people chose god over
these other gods
let me give a very simple example when
you say choice
you have to choose between two things
you need to have two things to choose
from
if i only have one thing this is the
only option there's no choice right in
the olden stores when you came in to buy
pants there was only one pair of pants
so there's no choice either you wanted
it you don't want it if you want it this
is it today you have diversity
you want pants and there's so many
different types you want shoes there's
so many different types so many
different types of shirts so many
different types of companies and designs
and labels etc now you have to choose a
person wants to buy a house right so
there may be two houses
two houses on the same block or two
houses in the same neighborhood or two
houses in the same city so now you have
to choose between this house and this
house
right but what happens if there's only
one house there's only one house tub
available no so somebody will say oh
you could choose between the house or
you can also buy a car i also sell cars
i don't need a car i have a car i need a
house there's only one house so there's
no choice choice means you have two
things that are similar and now i have
to choose between this dish and the
restaurant or this dish in the
restaurant between this car or this car
this computer or that computer this
phone or that phone right
you're choosing a relationship right
there's two people
you can go people can go out with
different people right each one has
certain miles advantages now you have to
choose which one i understand but when
something is completely not in the same
league not in the same realm it's almost
embarrassing to say
by the way i
i chose you over what over something
that's completely completely not in the
same realm
so
means things that are similar to each
other or even if they're not similar but
each one has something unique something
special so you say do you want to live
in new york or do you want to live in
miami
there's milos in new york i know some
people don't think that and there's my
list in miami do you want to live here
do you want to i understand it's a
different category and these pros and
cons and everything
you have two jobs they're both
interesting jobs this has pros and this
says pro so now you have to choose
but if you have
one thing want a job that's going to pay
you and a job that's going to press you
that what what's the choice if you're a
normal person so the reb asks a
fundamental question
we're praising the jewish people that
they chose god what exactly was the
choice for
what were the options the options was to
choose what to choose a fake deity is
that really called a choice now you
might say
well
the paganism was a major thing in the
world they had to choose it
but the mentors really described
describes the word
actually means you're making a choice
between two things is it really a choice
i mean once you know the reality there's
no choice here
conversely the measure says hashem chose
the jewish people
israel what does it really mean hashem
chose the jewish people the jewish soul
is a completely different type of soul
than any other soul every creature has
its unique identity it's unique so the
jewish soul it's called a heiler
it's a different thing so what do you
mean you chose the jews from other
people it's not the same thing again i
have to live i'm buying two houses if i
want to buy a house there's two houses i
choose one house from another house
somebody will tell me here you can buy
the house and here's an apple
so i choose the house over there i don't
want an apple i ate apples already i
want a house there's only one house what
do you mean hashem chose the jewish
people from the nations of the world if
he wants the soul of the jewish people
there's only one such type of soul
there's nothing to choose from if you
want a house this is the only house
available i'm sorry if you're not
looking for the jewish soul fine but if
you're looking for the jewish soul it's
not a choice
it's not two things that are equal and
now you have to choose so what do you
mean god chose the jew if you want this
you want this it's not a choice
so you might say oh the answer is maybe
he didn't choose the song
it says in tanya chapter eighty fourteen
chapter forty nine
that when we say you wanna
shows us it's referring to the body
to the physical organism
the physical brewed body hanidma which
is similar but
in its materialism lagoof asylum to the
bodies of the nations of the world ah
maybe that's the explanation because
that is a choice
the soul of the jew is
initially of a different category it's
just it is what it is every person has a
soul a jew has a soul a non-jew has a
soul
in fact every creature has a soul every
existence of a soul that reason writes
that even rocks even inanimate matter is
compr is made as a song today in science
we know that within the smallest
physical matter even though it looks
lifeless it's completely alive there's a
dynamic universe and a very very active
atomic
structure that is ha that is comprises
all matter
and there's this constant movement and
motion incredibly swiftly with the
nucleus of the atom you have the
electrons evolving the nucleus of the
atom which allows matter to exist so
this only explains to us a little bit
better what thyrizel says that
everything has a soul but the question
is what type of soul
you can't compare
the soul of an animal to the soul of a
human being a human being a jew or non
jews but selam elekim is in the image of
god like it says in
of adam shannon
every human being every person is
cherished as beloved because he or she
was
carved in the visage of god
which is why human life is sacred
especially but the jewish soul is a
different type of soul so if you want
that type of soul there's nothing to
choose from so you might say the choice
is the body the goof because this the
body is also sacred the body keeps the
divine score as we often discuss in our
classes the body is sacred it says
the goof is sacred judaism doesn't
ultimately acknowledge that there is
this essential split between the soul
and the body
there was once a fabric and just
parented parenthetically but very
important idea purim shalom and hey put
in 1975.
so the rebecca that's dedicated then to
explain the gemara megillah
so the tomorrow says
torah
and simha is yamtif and sasin is miller
circumcision and yakar is filling and he
explains why hazal connected these words
to to this explanation but one of the
points he made then was
that there are religions there are ideas
that believe that there is an essential
duality between the body and the soul
the soul is lofty sublime holy sacred
the body
the body ultimately should be disgraced
the body is is negative the body should
be scorned it's just brute materialism
and that's a philosophy that has taken
root
in in many cultures and even within
judaism you have certain streams that
emphasize that but the representing the
ultimate that's that's more of a there's
a truth to it but it's a superficial
truth there's a much deeper truth the
truth is
hashem is one and what hashem is one is
that the oneness permeates the physical
and the spiritual the soul and the body
and as he said the soul expresses
hashem's oneness through spirituality
and the body expresses hashem's one is
through physicality
so we look at the body in a completely
different way and here the al-taraba
says in tanya that hashem chose the body
so maybe this answers the question
because the body indeed is similar
sarika beard this still needs
explanations
the balatanya's words are the body is
it appears
similar to the bodies of the nations of
the world appears but it's not
for hashem appearance is not deceptive
for people appearance can be deceptive
so you could say ah you chose this over
this because they look the same but for
hashem
appearances don't matter they may matter
but they're not a determining factor so
if he knows that the body is a different
quality it's a different caliber because
today we know that the genes that make
up a body
are completely connected to the
personality of the person especially in
epigenetics so the body of the jewish
people is really a different type of
body because of the genes and the body
is a reflection of the soul etc so
what's the choice
if you want this so you have this it's
not a choice it's not similar the fact
that it's similar externally doesn't
answer by hashem so therefore we're left
here at the end of this paragraph with
two big questions
or three big questions first of all the
structure of the medras seems strange
first you emphasize that the praise of
the jewish people is that they chose god
but then you say the praise of the
jewish people is that god chose them
which one is it the second thing is what
does it even mean that the jewish people
choose hashem sounding like almost do we
were real options and we have to choose
one from the other when the whole world
the word choice seems insulting and
ridiculous and also what does it mean
hashem chose the jewish people if you're
looking for a jewish soul and a jewish
body there's no choice if you're not
looking for it so then don't choose it
second paragraph base you've answered
all of this will be understood
by introducing one of those very
incredibly powerful sukim
in the book of echa
echo is the book of lamentations we read
it on tish above it was written by
yermia navi jeremiah the prophet
and it of course describes
the horrific destruction
of yerushalayim and of the base amigurus
the first base amiktas during the milieu
during the era of jeremiah navi by the
babylonian
emperor
who was the king the monarch of
babylonia and the babylonian empire and
at the end of chapter three yamiya navi
expresses himself and he says
hashem
my soul declares
hashem is mine hashem is my helic hashem
is my lot my part like we say ashrae
numatov
amranavshi my soul says god is my lot my
helic therefore al qaida therefore i
wait for him i anticipate him
on this verse of echa there's an
incredible madrish
i think who quotes
and this is a madrid known as
verse and here's the message
there's a metaphor parable of a king who
went into the country he entered into
the grand country for haywood
are military commanders
and the madrid continues
and the great people of the country the
locals were sitting there in middle of
the country as the king entered with
this impressive entourage and we have
here three
three uh types of people that the king
came with
duchenne are dukes
ifrit are
muslim
governors of different regions and
israel
are military great generals and
commanders
so the medra says a conversation emerges
one of the people in the country one of
the great people in the country says
i'm going to choose a relationship with
the dukes
i'm going to choose the dukes one of the
dukes for to be my patron to be my
protector
the other one said
i'm going to choose one of the governors
for me to be my patron
the third one said
oh what are you guys going to choose the
dukes you're going to choose the the
governors you got to go to the army
they got the power you got to go to
israel
these are the military commanders the
military generals you know they they
have the power if i need a relationship
i am going to cultivate a relationship
with the military commander this is a
conversation that madrid is describing
as a parable
there was also one man who was wise
he was a pikachu means a perceptive wise
deep profound soul
um he said
i am going to choose the king
the word nasiv means i'm going to take
i'm going to choose
i'm going to choose the king why
the hulu is
because all of them
are exchangeable
all of them
are replaceable the king is not
replaceable
what's the parable says the madrish kane
um
the same is true
throughout history various nations of
the world mayhem
there were those who worshipped the son
of mayhem than the levana there were
those who worshipped the moon and the
marriage continues and those who
worshipped wood and there were those who
worshipped statues and rocks
ava is
the jewish people chose to serve hashem
this is the meaning of the words of
yermia jeremiah the prophet
hashem amranakshi
my soul says
my phallic my patron is god
this is how rib
explains the words of
hashem
my soul says
i
want the king i'm choosing the king
and that's why parenthetically this
mimer this discourse of the laboratory
of this option
came to be known by hasidim if you just
say three words everybody knows what
you're talking about this is
part of the chabad lexicon
anonymous
is a madrid
but when you say no no somebody knows
what are you referring to you're
referring to this mimer because this is
the my mirror with the rebbe
dedicated the whole mimer to explain to
us to
to bring out to accentuate to suck the
marrow out of these three words of malk
i'm taking the king
now let's understand this story whenever
the madrid tells a story it's to bring
out a point
without the story without the parable we
learned last week in the derek's
foreign had three thousand parables that
mayor the gamer in sanhedrin says had
300 parables a parable an analogy uh a
muscle a metaphor an allegory is there
to bring out the point what's the point
the measure is trying to bring out
the king comes in with an entourage now
there's an argument right so schmedel
says i know she metal one person's not
just metal she
one person says i want the duke
i'm choosing to do the other guy says
i'm choosing the governor i'm choosing
the military commander and then the
pikachu there's one smart guy he says oh
kevin
they're all they're all exchangeable
they're all in
they're here today they're gone tomorrow
not tomorrow after tomorrow not after
tomorrow next year next decade i'm
staying with the king
this is what a jew is this is what
jeremiah says
and you have to understand when you're
me you said this you mean you didn't say
this during easy times here may have
said this
as the flames were consuming the
spiritual epicenter of the world
and the epicenter of the jewish people
didn't look like there's going to be a
future
and i say this because this is important
to understand the whole continuation of
the discussion
the question is well known this is a
question that's been raised among the
hasidic masters of previous generations
as he puts puts out as he points out in
footnote number twelve there's a minor
from the semart zedek the grandson of
the bellatanya about us
there's a miami from his son
shmuel about this and other discourses
here's the question
of
if you're reading a children's book a
child's book to your child and the king
comes in with a whole entourage and you
ask your child
if you have to develop a relationship
with who should you go to what would the
child say
you have to be a picker you have to be a
brilliant brilliant mind a really
profound person he said i feel a tinnit
cotton it's a beautiful expression even
a baby knows that the king is greater
than everybody else i mean they're all
under the king they were all appointed
by the king they all work for the king
they're his employees
you should have to be
like really really wise and then the
matters are saying this is the
uniqueness of year me on naviance of the
jewish people
began another question
the the the wise man the pka says you
know i am choosing the king because
nobody is firing him tomorrow the duke
may be fired the military governor may
be fired
the military commander
he may be demoted the king
he has a secure position
let's say the king gives the governor
tenure life life tenure let's say
the reasoning seems off
the reason is because the king is not
being fired
let's say the duke is there for life
he's not being fired everybody still
understands that the king is greater why
do you need this reason so first of all
why do you need a pikachu what's the
brilliance and second of all the reason
seems strange and he adds a parenthesis
it says about shawl hamelech the first
king of israel in small aleph that from
his shoulder and up
he was higher taller than the whole
nation what does it mean
it does not just talk about physical
stature it's talking about spiritual
stature a true king a true we're talking
about a true king a true true spiritual
leader
appointed by god even his shoulder
is higher than the tallest part than the
head of the people the shoulder
represents the beginning of midos of the
emotions that come from the brain in the
head
so even the midos of the king are higher
than the sacral than the cognitive
elements of the entire nation including
the greatest ministers so how do you
compare them to the king we're talking
about a real malach a true king what
makes him a king is something unique
about him so the only reason i'm going
to choose him is because he'll be here
tomorrow in the job as well
gemma
so this is the madrish the first chapter
discussed the madrid the first oyster
first segment on this custom message
about usher now we discuss the madrish
about
the dukes the governors the military
commanders versus
with the questions
and now we begins
perhaps all of this can be explained
based on a premise
and this premise
is going to be based on the famous
rambam in the beginning of the laws of
idolatry
desire
and i'm going to tell you what the
rambam says
in
zora it's unfascinating the first
chapter of rambam it's a chapter of
history the laws of idolatry and
explained at length in derek
by the time in the beginning as he puts
as he points out in footnote 17. the
rambam asks a question how did idolatry
develop throughout history what happened
how did our desire happen and the ramen
said something very interesting it
started actually in a very benign way he
says in the early generations
people said you know
god has all these intermediary forces
that run the world they should be
honored
they should be given dignity
the stars
the galaxies the planets the sun
the moon
the winds the clouds lightning rain
these are all this is what allows life
on the planet to be sustained
god chose all of these
entities
to run the universe to run the cosmos
all of them deserve respect
in fact it's part of respecting hashem
part of respecting hashem is you respect
those who work for him you respect his
employees
you respect the instruments he uses you
respect all those creatures that he uses
especially the rambam says in hil
that the the heavenly creatures have
consciousness
he says that all of them have dei of a
haskell they have very deep perception
we say shabbos and adonai what do we say
um
the luminaries that hashem created he
created with das with perception with
understanding with awareness now it
doesn't mean he created them with his
own awareness with his own understanding
he created everything with his da's so
this is what the rama is saying that
they have das so this idea was
that they have to be respected because
this is part of hashem's respect after
the generations continued there was
already a new idea
that god actually wants us to show
respect and god wants us to worship them
and show appreciation to them
and by that appreciation we're going to
get much more and then it evolved
ultimately that they were responsible
for everything and god was forgotten and
paganism took over this is what the
ramen describes
so the rabbi here summarizes
this evolution of idolatry
in the early generations elusive
those who worshipped stars
constellations other forces of nature
polytheism yadu they knew shepherds
is
base it's a very interesting gemara
rava asked rabbi mari what's the source
for different slangs of people one of
them is khamri lamar tavus
the wine belongs to the owner
but the thank you belongs to the waiter
to the one who comes to the butler to
the one who pours the wine he doesn't
own the wine but he's a waiter you say
thank you you don't go to the kitchen
and you look for the owner and say hey
thank you for the wine unless he's your
friend or he comes out for a visit to
see you to see you but who do you say
thank you to if you're sitting at a
restaurant you order a cup of wine the
waiter doesn't own the wine it's not his
wine he's hired he's just delivering the
wine but he brings the wine he makes a
presentation
he's dressed beautifully he pours the
wine into your glass so you say thank
you thank you so much right make sense
hamra the martyrdom
and the gemara there brings a proof from
the torah for this that this is the
right way with my you're sure you can
look up this
92. so the rabbit says as follows in the
early generations the people who
worshipped
forces of nature they knew
that the flow that comes into our world
through all of the forces of nature
whether it's the sun whether it's the
moon whether it's the planets whether
it's the galaxies whether it's all the
dynamics within the universe and within
the planet it's not independent hashem
is sending the flow through them but
they thought
that all of these creatures all of these
entities are choosing to do the job
and if they're too choosing to do the
job you say thank you why don't you
thank a waiter it's not his food not his
wine why should i thank him i'm thanking
him because he could have taken another
job maybe an easier job right he's
standing here on his feet all day in
this restaurant he's serving me so what
do you do you say thank you thank you
doesn't mean you're the boss thank you
doesn't mean you're the owner thank you
doesn't mean you can fire the owner
thank you doesn't mean you're going to
be here tomorrow thank you means you
chose to do this i'm benefiting through
your choices i say thank you that was
the beginning of a desire
that's what the tsa
do you know where this is that what
these creatures chose on some level to
do this work so you say thank you
what was the mistake
they didn't know the truth they don't
have choice they're like an axe in the
hand of the chopper the nova yeshaya
calls it
but y'all
10 isaiah 10. like garzan is an axe
in the hand of the chopper do you say
thank you to the acts
they thought
that if the waiter
these are all waiters you choose
and if they choose like the waiter you
say thank you
something else
what happens when you're nice to the
waiter what happens when you're nice to
the waiter he's going to bring it out
faster
right and maybe he'll fill up the cup a
little more
when you're nice to the waiter you gain
so they thought
sins the stars and sins the
constellations have choice so if you
worship them you thank them
you offer them offerings you show
gratitude you'll get more so there's two
mistakes number one they have a choice
so you say thank you
right you say thank you somebody did
something for you you say thank you
number two the thank you is also very
beneficial if the waiter likes you know
if you're a hotel for a week and you
have a waiter and you're nice to your
waiter and you give a nice tip to your
way to what happens he's gonna go to the
kitchen he's going to be first online
you're going to get your food first
you're going to get your wine first
you're going to get your spare ribs
first you're going to get all of your
delicious desserts first
if you don't tip the waiter
you'll get it an hour later
tip the waiter right
so the rebel says this was their mindset
their mindset was god
chose all of these waiters they're doing
amazing work
we should thank them and if we thank
them we'll also get the job done this
was their perception
um
now it evolved they came to a greater
error
masala
now comes
mistake number two
at some point hashem abandoned the earth
the stars run the show the
constellations were on the show the
planets run the show the various forces
of nature run the show
they are the ones who run the world god
is is is even if he exists
but he's removed
it's like a regular government
melaka king chaminade
you can't have a president of a country
or a king of a country doing everything
he appoints
a government and the government includes
ministers and the minister and
appoints others and they run the show
ah you'll say the king could fire all of
them the king appointed them that's true
but he doesn't make sin
he's out of it
maybe if there's a unique urgent
situation he's going to mix it but
usually he's out of it so this was the
next stage the next stage of desire was
based on the fact that god is on
vacation god is not running our world
god is not running our planet there's
other forces that you have to appease
that you have to reach out to to run the
planet so there's two stages you
understand stage number one is
hashem is the boss
and hashem is running it hashem is
running the restaurant but he has
waiters and you have to thank them
because they chose
stage and also by thanking them and
worshipping them you'll get more stage
number two is hashem was removed from
the picture completely
yes he's still the boss he could fire
them but as long as you know you have
people who start companies they appoint
capable people and they're gone
they come back once a year to pick up a
check or maybe to sit at a board meeting
they don't mix in and if you have a
problem you don't go to them they're not
going to answer you
this is too small for me i'm busy with
other things i'm on vacation i'm in
southern france don't bother me who do
you go to you go to the people who were
chosen to work as ceo
managers these are
so of course avoiding zara makes sense
now
we don't have today the issue with
people worshiping stars or galaxies or
planets or the clouds or the wind or the
rain
right of trees or cows or fish
right the egyptians worshiped sheep and
others worshiped holy cows the hindus
etc we don't have that
but as we will see the concept
exists in every person's life
the question is
how much is hashem connected
to the details of life
so here we're explaining the evolution
of how avoid desire idolatry develops
via schleimer
noises
the gemara says at the end of
massachusetts
page 110
that the nations of the world some of
them called god the god of gods eloika
the elekaya that was their name hashem
is the god over gods
he says this term includes two
categories
either the focus is he's the god of gods
or the focus is he's the god of gods but
it includes both
of us
there is
it includes two different types of
errors
error number one
is those
who
felt
hashem gave over control
he may still be the god of gods but
ultimately the gods run the show why
first of all he's the ultimate boss he's
still the god he can fire them he hired
them
he's above them
he's the boss and the fact that they can
run the show is because he appointed
them just like a president or just like
an owner of a company or investor who
appoints somebody to run the show
so they can still call god the god of
gods
we're gods but he's the god over the
gods that's mistake number one
there's another mistake it's much more
subtle
they said no god runs the world but he
does it through the waiters
through his employees he's still on the
top he's still running the show but it's
through them and they choose
and that's why we have to thank them and
that's why we have to worship them and
that's why we want to be nice to them
and that's what we want to extol them
because it's appropriate to say thank
you to the waiter hamlet
and also we're going to get more
they too call god the god of gods
because he's of course the god
but the fact is that they have a choice
and because they have a choice they're
also somewhat of a god
the jewish people
appreciated the pristine truth what's
the pristine truth so this is the point
we can make peace i have shalom
now we can appreciate the wisdom of the
person who said
i am choosing the king
you remember the debate
the son
the moon the governor the military
commander the duke
if so
we now may have an understanding at
least on one level of the madrish
you do need wisdom
the jewish people became aware of the
truth
that everything in the world outside of
hashem is kigaires and biyat
it's like an axe in the hand of a chop
when you finish building a sukkah if
somebody companies somebody comes to
build my sukkah
and he finishes building what do i say
i say thank you so much for building my
sukkah he says
wait don't thank me
thank the hammer thank the hammer thank
the nails thank the axe thank the drill
i never saw anybody going over to the
drill and saying thank you drill thank
you ham why not why not without the
drill there would be no sucker you know
that
somebody finishes the house go thank the
bricks
go thank the instruments that were used
to build the house the answer is
they don't deserve a thank you not
because we don't appreciate hammers and
drills and instruments we appreciate
them very very much
but because they really had no say in
the matter
so thanking them is they don't have a
choice you talk about a lifeless hammer
you don't thank a lifeless hammer you
thank the chopper you thank the one who
ployed the hammer to build your house
that yeah
he had a choice he has to get paid he
wants to get paid the hammer you don't
thank him and by thanking the hammer
you're not going to get better you're
not going to get better
better support you're not going to be
treated better by thanking the hammer
the contractor is not going to finish
the house faster
the jewish people understood that every
force in the world every force i'm not
just talking about the sun and the moon
and the stars and the winds and the
clouds
every atom every neuron every cell every
person it's
of
every force in the world
is kigaris and
so all the instruments that hashem uses
and he uses incredible instruments
because everything the flow of hashem is
manifested it flows through everything
but it flows through everything
it's just an expression of hashem there
is absolute oneness in the universe
everything is ain't mulvaney it's an
expression of hashem
the light of the sun the way judaism
looks at it it's hashem's light but
hashem's light is not going to be able
to do photosynthesis because it's
infinite so hashem's light is filtered
through the light of the sun the rain
it's hashem's hashem it's hashem's
energy but hashem's energy is not going
to make my crop grow or allow me to
drink water it's infinity so hashem is
samsung he condenses and he limits the
energy that it flows and it it assumes a
physical incarnation of water and the
same is true with a cloud and the same
is true with a worm what is a worm
you look at a worm you know worms are
very important there's nothing on our
earth that doesn't contribute to the
ecosystem to the balance of the
ecosystem to the food chain to the food
web it's unbelievable people used to be
a question why you need lightening today
we know that without lightening there's
no way that the nitrogen will be able to
synthesize be sensitized with the oxygen
which is important for amino acids so
that we can create new cells in our body
so everything is part of the divine flow
of energy the worm
sits in the earth all day and it toils
it toils but it plows the earth it makes
the earth fertile to the growth
there's no such a thing a wasted worm
everything is
part of a singular unity
and everything is essentially divine
energy but in order to be able to affect
the existence of a physical planet and a
physical cosmos the divine energy
assumes
infinite different incarnations and
expressions and manifestations but it's
all kigaris
it's all the hammer that he's using
and for this you need to see the
penemius you have to be able to perceive
the inner core of the universe when you
look at the outside
it can look like there's many different
entities
and everything has a say and as he says
everyone has their own personality and
their own contribution and therefore
they have to be the intermediaries the
jewish people understand no there's no
intermediary it's all oneness all mamish
one is a direct intimate relationship
only with hashem
and this takes das this takes awareness
this takes perception to be able to look
through the external facades and to be
able to see the pneumous there's no
other bella bus in the world there's
nobody else that calls the shots it's
not the waiter in the restaurant who can
be in a bad mood and say
i'm not giving these gape kids anything
it's not the manager in your company
who's having a bad day and decides to
fire you or decides to
make your life crazy
it's
obviously hashem is is giving you the
money through this manager and through
this company and you're building the
house through this hammer and the wine
is coming through this waiter but it's
not like the waiter and it's not like
the contract and it's not like your
father and mother who you have to
respect because they indeed have choices
and they brought you into the world when
you're talking about the big picture
is the concept that ultimately hashem is
not just running the world but every
detail everything that comes through all
the moments i am it's all from one
direct intimate source without any
khatsitsa without any hefsight without
any any interruption whatsoever
this was the perception of the jew
this is perhaps what the madrid means
that
they all say i want the duke i want the
military commander because look at this
military commander right there's
something special about him he has
charisma he has power
so you'll say well that's available
no the king hired him the king hired him
for a reason he's a good guy he's
talented he's a good waiter
thank him worship him and you're going
to get better protection this other one
says no the duke the governor everyone
chooses their god to worship
we all worship something everybody
worships something
everybody believes in something the
question is only what you believe in
everybody is afraid of somebody
everybody i'm not afraid of anything
really really we're all afraid of
something we're all afraid i have to
please somebody there's somebody right
somebody who's paying the bills
somebody else
is somebody i want to impress
psychologically financially i need him
psychologically emotionally spiritually
consciously subconsciously they say look
at these guys i know the king appointed
them and even if the king is still
running the show he owns the restaurant
but these are the waiters they're gonna
get the job done you better be nice to
them you better worship them the sun the
moon the stars
i hear what they're saying
says
there was a picaya he didn't look at the
kids
the panemia obviously the military
commander has talent and creativity
that's also hashem
that talent and creativity is also god
physical creativity is also divine i
said before we don't believe in a
partition between heaven and earth
between soul and body the governor and
the military commander and the duke and
nature it's all a conduit
and if it's
it's not that there's something there
outside of hashem it's all one thing the
bread that you eat the bread that you
eat
i can't live without food i can't live
without what is it
so what does that reason say loyal
divine energy
should i be nice to the bread well bread
is lifeless right so i don't think i
should be nice to the bread but what's
the concept do i take the bread
seriously of course without it i can't
live it's divine energy that's
manifested through bread it's manifested
through fruits through vegetables
through legumes through plants
through nutrients
the nutrients the protein you're eating
it's divine energy
hashem
says this
is
one that we once learned before pesa
explains this at length everything is
divine energy
so this is the perception
of the pikayak and therefore he says i'm
not going to the duke i'm not going to
the governor i'm not going to the
military commander ah no no
i'm going to the king
it seems like it's settled but allah
says we have to go one step deeper
one step deeper i'm going to learn here
one more paragraph till see if hey
however
maybe alzheimer's
oh by the way that's why the balsamic's
father when the balsham to his father
was on his deathbed
was five years old and he called him
over and he said yes relic
two things i want to tell you before i
leave this world number one don't fear
anybody or anything in the world outside
of hashem
number two love every jew with every
fiber of your being his father passed
away his name was eliezer
and little yisraeli grew up an orphan
because his mother died soon afterwards
but those two
final statements of his father
when he was five years old became the
two pillars of light
that accompanied the balshemptiv and his
entire contribution to the jewish world
don't fear anything in anybody in the
world outside of hashem now what does
that mean it means as follows
if you don't fear hashem then you're
going to fear somebody or something in
the world because there's always
something to fear from
there's always a boss even if i have 100
million dollars in the bank there's
somebody who has two billion dollars in
the bank and i want his money and i want
to impress him and even if i have 50
billion dollars in the bank there's
somebody else has 80 billion dollars in
the bank
and i have to impress him there's always
somebody above me that basham this
father said the only way you're not
going to fear anybody or anything is if
you have real real your shamaya if you
have real real your shamayim then you
don't have to fear anybody or anything
then you really don't have to fear
anybody if not of course you should fear
people if not you're talking crazy why
shouldn't you be afraid you should be
afraid
you should be afraid
but here we go one step further amnam
however
of the messages as we explained in
chapter three of the mimer
there's something that's amiss
what's the parable the madrid gave
to explain why jews chose god
a king with dukes
governors and military commanders now i
want to ask you a question
do they have choices of course they have
choices
in fact throughout history military
commanders revolted against the king
they often assassinated the king read a
little bit about roman history or other
other monarchs how the king was always
in danger
because his closest people could destroy
military commanders even in our own in
our own times have made decisions in
contrast to the commander-in-chief of
course they have choice they were hired
by the king
they were hired by the president but
ultimately at some point they could say
you know what i'm not interested in this
job maybe i'm going to quit maybe i'm
going to do exactly the opposite of what
you want me to do
and this happens in the united states of
america it happens in israel
it happens
in many many other countries so why
would the madrid bring this as a parable
it's the wrong parable
here the parable is wrong because in the
parable
right
by choosing the dukes
the duke you're actually going to get
better you he he has choice he is the
waiter in the restaurant he may not own
the food he may not own the kitchen he
may have been brought in but he has a
lot of input
he has a lot of input the duke the
governor the military commander of
course they have tremendous input and
they have choice
and they could give you more they can
make your life much better
so one second you're telling me that the
reason that the jewish people chose
hashem is why because they realized
everything else is baba myself
it's like thanking the hammer it's just
hashem
but the metaphor then is off because the
metaphor the parable is people who do
have choice
and by choosing them and worshiping them
and being close to them and taking them
and and being and having a relationship
with them you're actually going to get
much
more
in the nimshal in the message
worshipping stars and constellations and
galaxies and forces of nature is
completely ineffective because they
don't have choices they're just robots
it's like you'll thank your computer for
doing something right your computer was
just programmed it's you'll thank the
robot you ever thank the robot the robot
was just programmed yes the robot is
very talented when i take my car
somewhere and you come to a destination
do you start offering
an offering to your car for bringing you
here
maybe but there's nothing the car is a
wonderful instrument i couldn't do it
without the car but the car is just the
geyser behind the heistef so why is the
medrage bringing this metaphor which
seems inconsistent so that says you have
to say that there's something much
deeper here
the reason the wise man or woman says
i'm choosing the king
is
not because
the ministers are ineffective they're
worthless they may have a lot of power
but in the muscle it's because
he wants to be with the king
and being with the king is more
important than all the benefits he's
going to get from the duke
from the governor and from the military
commander that's the muscle in the
marshall they do have a point
these guys are good to be connected to
they have power
they make choices
so the reason you're choosing the king
is not because they're nothing they
don't really exist they're robots no
that's not true
you're choosing the king why because
being with the king
is more important than the benefits
you're going to get from these people
ah if this is the case the nimshil is
telling us something deeper
the nations the pagans used to worship
the sun and the moon or people who still
worship we all sometimes worship
different things
versus the jew who worships god it's not
just because they're making a mistake
they think the stars have choices we
know the truth it's just an axe in the
hand of the chopper
it's much deeper than that
it's because the question is what's my
priority in life
is my priority in life
i want the benefit that's going to come
from the duke
from the governor from the military
commander
the um he says the main thing is i want
the flow i want the ashba
they said
by the jew the main thing is
i want the truth and nothing but the
truth
i want to have a relationship with the
ultimate emis
which means this is the metaphor of the
king what does this mean
the main reason
that they worshipped
stars and masalas it's not just because
they made a mistake and they thought
they have power it's something deeper
even if you know they don't have power
to receive hashbar from kedusha you need
bitly
for the ratso
lava you need real bitter i have to be
able to transcend every element of
egotism and narcissism
and i need to be able to become
an open vessel transparent translucent
extricating every last vestige
of
narcissism of any form or fashion
abdullah
masala daily
to get the flow through other forces
which is also all an instrument of god
but to go through them you don't need
bitter
you don't need to open yourself up to
infinity i could remain stuck in my
comfort zone
says
unbelievable words and desire
the spirit of impurity will always be
available for free
even if you come empty-handed
the jews complained the parishes
we remember the fish that we ate in
egypt for free
egypt will feed you for free
um
it's always for free you don't need
bitter
what is that ever teaching us here
he's saying there's two types of
relationships there's a relationship
that you need
deep work
you need to work on yourself i need to
transform myself i need to open myself
because it's truth
and then there's a relationship
there is gratification without work and
the zoyar says how do you know what's
the litmus test
if you're involved in something that's
going to really fill your soul
truthfully or you're involved in
something that's superficial
it's fake and tomorrow you're going to
need more and more and you're still
going to remain with a void and the
answer is how easy it is
do you ever notice
that relationships that are fake are
very easy to cultivate promiscuity
promiscuity
nus giliarayas
things like prostitution
war
getting high through drugs getting high
through alcohol
escaping your misery through gambling
escaping your misery through binging
escaping your misery through certain
websites
it's always free it's always free it's
easy it's a fast quick fix
it's always there the temptation is
right there it's available it's inviting
it's tempting and it looks beautiful
the food from its rayon is always for
free
desire says tumma is always available
magana means for free
no money no money we're here you know
why because that's its power
i wanna i wanna explain this to you this
we have to understand as well
what's the power of holiness over
unholiness one answer truth
holiness means truth
it's a reflection of god god means truth
reality oneness
the word god is not really the right
word because god sounds like a being
here we're talking about god as the
being the word for hashem is hawaii
he was he is and he will be mother's god
is the essence of reality god is not a
being in reality god is reality that's
truth that's the power of holiness
what's the power of unholiness nothing
it's a lie
so how can it compete one answer it's
free
kedusha is not free tuma is free and
within kudush itself there's many levels
the deeper the gedusa
the more you have to pay a price
the more it's the more the kedusha the
more you have to pay a price
why why i don't want to pay a price
because if it's real if it's infinite it
permeates me in the deepest place if it
permeates me in the deepest place it
challenges me in the deepest place if i
want to be stuck in my trauma and my
wounds and my ego my fear my insecurity
then i can only have a relationship with
superficial things that don't demand for
me truth authenticity
take the difference between
marriage okay you'll forgive me
i just did this uh this big uh
podcast you may have seen it be too i
did with ellie nash
about addiction
to immodesty
to websites to people to clubs where
people engage in relationships
that defy
the moral structure of families and
marriages what's the difference the
difference is those places
you pay a couple of dollars maybe it's
not free but you pay a couple of dollars
and you have fun
you're excited what does it take to have
a good marriage a couple of dollars
a couple of dollars can help
but it's not what it takes takes life
long loyalty work commitment what's the
difference the difference is one gives
you a relationship that's real that's
authentic that's gonna fill your soul
and one gives you a fake relationship
that in a week from now you're gonna be
desperate again or if you're lucky in a
day from now and you need more it's just
like a drug it's a it's a distraction
it's not a fulfillment
why is it not a fulfillment because it's
not true it doesn't really fill your
soul
that's the litmus test desire says if
it's real kedusha it needs avoider
it needs to be real it needs to permeate
me to penetrate me i have to open myself
up to infinity a real relationship means
i'm really connected with you if i'm
really connected with you i gotta work
i gotta work on my ego i gotta work on
my traumas i gotta work on my vegas
nerves i gotta work on my ptsd
i gotta work on my fear
i gotta work on my knee to isolate to
freeze to fight to flight i need to work
on my limbic brain on my amygdala brain
i hope all of you know what i'm talking
about
if not come more often to the classes i
have to work on these things
because a real relationship means i'm
connected to you a fake relationship
means i'm not connected to you you're
not connected to me
it's just a superficial facade a
camouflage a veneer that looks exciting
it feels exciting i'm in a bad mood i go
to the pantry i take out food anybody
knows about this i take out a danish i
take out potato chips and i feel good
for around seven minutes
and then after seven minutes
you look for another bag of potato chips
and you understand here that i'm using
potato chips also as a metaphor
[Laughter]
i'm not just about potato chips
i'm thinking about different types of
potato chips some of them are more
expensive
but it's the same concept free here
doesn't mean it doesn't cost money
free here means you're not really paying
the real price
there's stuck in the citizen efforts
and you have it in holiness itself you
have two types of teachers you have two
types of classes you have two types of
erebus
you have a rabbi you have a rashishima
you have a class you come you don't have
to change anything
you could sit and remain stuck in the
comfort zone
i could stay stuck in my comfort zone
and listen to beautiful toyota and say
ah
now past the kishke pass the kishka pass
the jalapeno herring
and sometimes you sit by a rabbit
and you have to become a new person
why
because he wants to give you a scythe he
wants to give you infinity and in order
to absorb infinity
i have to let go of all my fears i have
to be able to be subsumed
which one do you want which one do you
want which one do you want in life so
that is i understand them i understand
it's not just clear and up here it's not
just they made a mistake that they could
cover my robots no it's much deeper
i want a relationship with something
that doesn't challenge my core
i don't need to avoid the i don't need
bitter i don't need to surrender
garnished
not only is it for free
you're also going to get much more
why does it feel
so much more gratifying when you run
into addiction
than when you go back to work on your
relationship why
so he says because all sitra
gets its energy from makif
makif means
from the higher light of god that's not
integrated because if it would be
integrated
it wouldn't be able to be divorced from
hashem the reason something could live
off hashem without being aware that it's
hashem is because it comes from a light
that's called maketh
it doesn't get doesn't infuse the
structure of the clipper of the
situation
it could still have an identity of
situation and still live off god because
the godly energy is not integrated it's
not real it's not authentic it's mock if
it's subconscious it's superficial
because of that he's saying something
unbelievable
the flow that comes from satra is more
powerful
because it comes from a place that's
makif it's not matsumtsum you understand
what we're saying here so sitra is not
only available for free it's also going
to be faster and stronger and deeper and
more potent and more promising at the
surface at least
we'll see later everything changes as
you get a little more mature in life but
at the surface it's going to be so
powerful kedusha everything has to be
integrated he's it's with a heisman
because
it's it it's becoming one with me so i
need to earn it i need to deserve it oh
so now it's limited
that's very very intense
so that's why they go to kehavam masalas
number one
i don't want the bittle number two
i just i want the quick fix and number
two
i want that intense intense high i want
the high
um
so
in addition to what we said before that
is
which is true but there's something even
deeper
de la cabo magdalena
it's very deep
he says to receive from real kadusha you
have to work
you need toil you need effort and even
then
initially the flow is going to be
limited based on your avoid initially
later we'll see
it becomes topsy-turvy
the relationship with authentic kedusha
allows for an infinite flow but
initially
you open yourself up and you get what
you could get where you get what you
deserve you get based on your avoider
it's real it's authentic
there's no shortcuts
the jewish people say i don't want the
dukes i don't want the governors i don't
want the military commanders i don't
want this intense flow even though we
can also get shepherd from umaza we can
also get at least temporarily it's not
going to last forever no high lasts
forever nothing fake lasts forever but
at least temporarily you could get a
flow from that place and not only that
you're going to get more than everybody
else they're going to put you on top you
know why
because clipper like bees they go to
honey clipping knows that the greatest
holiness is in a jewish soul so if i can
get a jewish soul to me i will give him
much more than anybody else it's like
when thieves they hire somebody who's
really talented they're going to give
him a bigger share of the gold a jewish
soul is going to get more than anybody
else from sitra
that's why addiction for the jewish
people is very dangerous because you're
going to get more because the jewish
soul has much more potential
so initially it's so promising it's so
gratifying but the pique says
i want truth
i malka you want a relationship with ms
oh yeah relationship with ms needs a
void it needs beetle you pay the
ultimate price the balsamic
hashem is fire why do you call hashem
fire why not water
so you know the basement said water you
could sit
at the bank of the sea or the ocean or
the river and enjoy
you could dip your feet in you could put
your hands and you can go swimming you
can go in you can go out right you're
going to the beach you come out you swim
he says fire
either you go in i'm a vet for brent or
you stay far away
with fire either you stay far away and
you don't have a connection to it
if you put your hand into the fire
it's done
ms is not compartmentalized there's no
compromises either i stay far away and i
watch it
or he says if you want a relationship i
have to be ready to be subsumed in the
relationship i have to become one
because that's what infinity means
infinity means it encompasses everything
everything is part of infinity
so the pique says
malka
even though if i go through the garrison
if i go through god's axes in the world
i will get much more much faster much
more distractions a much greater high
it's going to feel better
and i don't have to leave my comfort
zone i don't have to challenge my fears
i don't need bitter i don't need it i'm
a sia
i want the truth
that takes pictures that takes deep
wisdom takes deep wisdom
why
because it seems like i'm substituting
something so promising for something
that's much less
here i need to work and i'm getting less
it's like taking a job where you get
less money you can get another job when
you get more money you have to work so
hard why in the world are you taking an
inferior job with less money and the
answer is because of will demelo
because i want the ms
which now
brings us
to step f to chapter five
which brings up a huge question
and that is
is this a choice that is rational
or is this a choice that is not rational
what makes one person choose this and
another person not choose this
we will see
the continuation of this mimer sunday
morning eight o'clock am i hope to see
you all there
and we will also see how this applies to
each of our lives
in each of our lives we make these
choices constantly
as we will be hashem learn in the next
installment again sunday at 8 00 am and
then sunday 7 p.m and then monday 8 a.m
at a viewed alif nissen see you you
could join us sunday on the zoom on the
yeshiva.net chabad.org on col and on
youtube wishing you all a beautiful
beautiful day
and an amazing shabbos haggadah for
those who live in my neck of the woods
we're going to have a shabbos haggadah
drasha
5 30 p.m shabbos afternoon that's for
men and for women
with a majitsa special section for men
women children are invited that's
shabbos afternoon 5 30 p.m followed by
minha
at the urkayam shoal in muncie 24 shea
road muncie new york tent gimmel
5 30 p.m and then i'll see you again
sunday morning we also did a class on
tuesday for the women on pesach
how the three names of pesach represent
three stages of emancipation
self-surrender self-abnegation
self-actualization and
self-transcendence you can look up the
class on the yeshiva.net
wishing you all a beautiful shabbos
we'll take a couple of questions
yeah you're too holy to get that debaran
how are you supposed to get that
you're a piece of kedusha how are you
gonna get that
no we all are that's what you're saying
let me ask you a question right
i'm gonna give a very simple example
yeah i'm going to give a very simple
example if i'm sitting one night in my
house
and i'm down
i can do one of two things
i can actually
work through what's bothering me
right
that takes vulnerability
self-control awareness or
i can go on to my phone
i could start binging i could start
drinking i can go here i can go there
you get it sitra akhir always means the
fast quick route to distract you from
your void
kedusha fills the void
citra
distracts you from the void
distractions could be fast and powerful
and potent
and the power of situation always comes
from macheth
makif means it comes from infinite
energy
that doesn't get integrated in caleb
because if it would be integrated in
caleb it wouldn't be situated means my i
is not a is not a conduit for the divine
in other words there is dissonance so
how do i live i live from god but i live
from god in a subconscious way the
subconscious is more powerful than the
conscious so the flow that comes from
citra akhira is always more potent
because it comes from the super
conscious forces kedusha gets filtered
and condensed in a way that it's
integrated it's like two types of
classes you can go to a sheer the
teacher blows your mind away but you
don't really understand anything but you
go away and say wow that was great that
was awesome that was powerful and then
there's a share that the person actually
wants to change you so what do they do
they bring it down afkle natalerla
they bring down the information you
filter it you condense it right kedusha
is always integrated
doesn't have to be integrated so here is
the issue the rebbe says number one with
citra you don't have to pay a big price
you get it there for free and number two
you're going to get more
superficially it's going to look like
and it's true right now you're going to
get more it's going to be more
satisfying it's going to be intense it's
going to be you know when people um
betray their relationships and they go
to somebody else
and they come back to say wow with so
much passion so much passion of course
there was so much passion you didn't
have to pay a real price for it it
didn't have to be worked out it didn't
have to be integrated you don't have to
live with this person you have to raise
kids together you don't have to run a
house together of course
there's a therapist who told me once
that
most people who leave their marriages to
go to somebody else with whom they had a
connection to before
so three percent of them stay married 97
of them get divorced so i asked him why
he said something very deep he says
because the relationship between these
two people was based on three percent of
their lives
three percent of the last he leaves his
house she leaves their house they go out
and three percent of them bond they're
not connected to the bills to the
mortgage to raising a family to the
daily it's a fake relationship it's
three percent of my life three percent
of yours when they get married three
percent of them stay married
so it's always there's always an
intensity this passion there's an
expression
alex says
the sweetest water is stolen water
when water is stolen it's sweet when you
buy water that's legal it's not sweet
when you steal why is it so sweet it's
sweet because it's stolen on a deeper
level it's sweet because it has that
element of market
so kedusha needs a different type of
relationship a relationship with gurush
is always with avoid it's not for free
it's not for free
whenever people would give the rebbe by
people would come to the chair by
dollars and give him a safer
or give him something he would always
say
for a good thing you have to pay and he
would give them one dollar two dollars
he said it's symbolic but you have to
pay because it says in zojar that only
mitsurayam gives you things for free if
it's a good thing you have to pay
payment here means you have to give up
something it's real it's challenging me
it's triggering me it's stimulating me
it's penetrating me something has to
give
this work avoid avoid
right they say the only type of work
that you uh
you're initially right in the beginning
already on the top is when you're
digging a hole everything else you start
on the bottom
you understand about it makes a little
sense
it's a good question
you're right if somebody is having a
night and you're feeling very down and
very low what do you do
right
so one option is the yeshiva.net
listen to a class another option is do
some exercise
get involved in a project call somebody
up
a friend and talk to them be open be
vulnerable
and sometimes even a greater idea call
somebody up who needs help and offer
them love tell them i'm thinking about
you send them a text send them a
whatsapp send them an email become a
giver
become a leader become a source of light
open up a gemara learn about gemara
learn a mishna
learn uh learn the parasha of khumash
learn learn learn learn something
entirely whatever part of target it is
whatever it is
learn something
and have a support system it's very very
important and sometimes we don't have
anything available i'm not in the mood
of anything and then the sitra the
impurity lures me says come come come
i'll take care of you i'll take care you
come and opens up the net and it's for
free it's always for free on this little
guy everything is for free you know this
guy everything is for free
yeah maybe 60 maybe you know i have to
pay
150. everything is for free exactly oh
your guy not you
beautiful you look at your child
so uh so this attack says just come here
it lures you into the trap
and then an hour later my void is filled
but it's not filled it's just it was
just i escaped it
i escaped it i distracted myself from it
and that's always the key you have to
ask yourself
did you do something to help you fill
the void
then tomorrow you're going to be a
changed person and after tomorrow you'll
do more work and in 60 days there'll be
major changes in your life and in a year
you may not recognize yourself or i just
ran away from my void
i didn't really do anything
but it was much more promising initially
much more tempting much easier so that's
the key so at the beginning of the
explanation what the picchu says are no
nos of malka i'm not going to the axes
i'm not going to the instruments i'm not
going to all the intermediaries in the
world which are not really
intermediaries
but if i go there
i may be able to get that flow it's also
coming from hashem but it's coming
through a way in which
i can deceive myself that
i am happy
but really
i'm just having fun for a few moments
but i'm busy dying i'm not busy living
and you want to be busy living
have a beautiful shabbos
yeah you're right
sometimes you don't have to feel
pressure sometimes gardening is
wonderful these are all things that can
be used in very beautiful ways
taking a walk taking a walk with your
spouse taking a walk with yourself
listening to something
you know maybe you need a little dancing
maybe a little dancing
maybe some physical work is great
you know maybe playing with somebody you
appreciate
i think
the message of kedusha is always
to be curious about what triggered it
i'm looking for the penemius i'm looking
for the authenticity when i'm feeling
down i want to ask myself not how to run
away from it
means god is here right now there's a
message of goo right now i want to know
what triggered this pain what triggered
this mood
and then i can get the help to work it
through and understand where it's coming
from
that's the exact opposite of situation
doesn't want you to do that it doesn't
want you to go to the ms it doesn't want
you to redeem yourself it just wants you
to eclipse yourself
so if it takes you away and distracts
you great you don't deal with it kadusha
is ms it's plenteous so i have to go
into it and that's painful that's what
the rebbe says here you're not gonna get
a quick fast beautiful fix you're gonna
have to work through the israelis in an
internalized fashion
but when you do that
you're going to become a different
person so you always want to be curious
what is happening inside of you
and find out sometimes you will find out
sometimes you won't find out but that's
the focus the focus is to work it
through
and then to become transformed from
within but that's a slower process
it's an exact surprise it takes a void
it takes humility bitter it takes
vulnerability and it's not a quick swift
fix
because you have to work with your own
issues with your fears and with your
traumas and with your wounds and within
the language of time you have to work
through my animal soul i have to work it
through and i have to elevate it and
transform it and refine it and align it
with its own truth
and see ultimately how there is oneness
in my life
so that's the idea that it's it's much
more matsumtsum it's not this flow
infinite hashpa that just comes easy it
doesn't work that way because because if
you have to work it through you gotta
so to speak get down to the nitty gritty
and when you get down to the nitty
gritty
it's detailed nuanced work it's not this
overwhelming ecstatic feeling that
overtakes me and watches everything away
[Music]
of course of course
when you're in the presence of a tsadik
you see somebody who embodies bittle
somebody whose life
is to be a conduit for hashem
it becomes such a powerful source of
inspiration for each of us
to be able to find that ability within
ourselves
that's why
you know the privilege of being in the
presence of the rebbe
for many years
for me personally
it shaped my life in such a profound way
because
you see somebody
with toyota so real
and your shamayim is so real and ava's
hashem
israel is so real that a person a flesh
and blood becomes an embodiment
where hashem's
hashem's oneness becomes embodied in a
person's life so it inspires every
person
who can see it or hear it or be part of
it in some form or fashion physically or
spiritually to be able to find that
within ourselves and that's the function
of a real sadhaka the function of a real
sadak of a real teacher of a real rebel
is to be able to help people find that
oneness within themselves
that's what you're saying yeah it's very
true
and every one of us in our own way
can be that little rapper for somebody
else
and for ourselves you know
the mendel first taste
okay the first days of the defilst
we'll get to the next next next is
going to be about
understanding versus feeling do we
understand this or do we feel this
do we know this or do we believe it okay
we'll get we'll get to the next one but
hashem
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