A Parable About Parables | Derech Mitzvosecha Tiglachas Metzora #3

good morning everybody thank you for joining us welcome just wanted to remind you that uh tomorrow is tuesday we're going to have uh our weekly women's class at 12 45 p.m it's in person 10th gimmel and you can watch the live stream on the yeshiva.net today today two o'clock in the afternoon we're gonna have a special class and lecture for the south african community and the topic is the resurrection of the dead jewish faith what is it about will everybody be part of it it's going to be god willing a fascinating discussion and you can tune in again live 2 o'clock p.m new york time on the yeshiva.net it's a south african zoom for the south african community so that's today monday at two tomorrow tuesday 12 45 we have the women's class wednesday evening 9 30. we have a special class the secret of jewish history we're going to be studying the hadrian of the la bhava laboratory which is connected to this week's parasha tazria lakota sikhs volume 17 tazria that's going to be wednesday 9 30 text-based it's a very powerful siem hadra namasaki's about the birds that a woman who gave birth brings kinim is a nest of bird cane is a nest of birds kingdom are the pairs of birds that she brings the discussion of that is based on this week's parachute azria so that's going to be wednesday 9 30 hashem and then thursday 7 30 in the morning we will be resuming this mimer that we learned monday and thursday morning okay so please tune in busy week maybe a productive week and an inspiring week and a week of blessing and salvation and healing for all of us and all of our people and our brothers and sisters in the holy land and our brothers and sisters in ukraine and our brothers and sisters and all good people in the whole world we began last week a mimer a hasidic discourse by the time known as which literally means the mitzvah of the shaving of the leper of the metside this is of course the discussion of the portions of this week's in the title of these weeks in the tita tazria and then next week with syria and we had two classes last week last monday and thursday and the main focus was the various paradoxes we see in judaism concerning here what's known as cyrus i just want to make sure everybody on zoom could see me and hear me oh yeah perfect okay the various paradoxes of uh of the concept of here within judaism and he went through different scenarios different situations different laws which we all discussed in the first class and then in the second class i'm not going to repeat it you can review it because i want to move on and it's adequate this is a discourse by the rabbit that's which by the way is a foundational one of the foundational works of chabad hasidis explanations of hasidis on many of the mitzvahs of the 630 mistress of the torah explaining the mistress primarily from a spiritual and psychological and an emotional point of view so this mitzvah goes in very much into this particular mitzvah of the messiah of the leper from the angle of the here and he discussed the difference of the lady in the desert who shaves his hair and the nausea who has to let his hair grow and the woman who covers her hair after marriage and the mitsara who when he becomes pure he shaves his hair and the point that samadak made was that here represents a certain restricted form of energy just like the hair on the head which nurtures gets nurtured it's alive nonetheless it has no nerve endings and therefore you can cut it off and it's not painful because it represents a condensed filtered extremely restricted form of energy it's the surplus what he calls maestro so he says it always depends in which space of spir reality you're talking about in a space known as atika kadesh which we explained is a very lofty the lofty is a very lofty level of divinity of godliness then even the restrictive energy is also extremely intense and on the contrary you have to get your energy only from a restricted place because if not it would be overwhelming and that's the idea of the hero of the nazir which he has to grow because that here contains and channels and manifests a very powerful level of holiness and then every person and every male judas is the concept of the peace and the beard where the toyota says do not destroy the peace do not cut your payers do not destroy your beard because they manifest a very profound kedusha very profound holiness however when you're talking about not atikakadisha but nuqva where you're talking about not attack which is the highest of the spheres known as kasir as the crown but nukva the lowest of the sphere is known as malchus which really comes down into the nitty-gritty uh hustling and bustle and anxiety of the universe with all of its vicissitudes and fluctuations here a further symptom of further restriction which is the concept of here could also be used misused what's called yanika sachitsanam that can be a nurture of the external external forces this is basically what we learned in a very very brief summation but without an explanation just the basics now that begins explaining it we are on the second page of the mimer it's page 209 or in the hebrew it's and we are around ten lines from the top let's see one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve twelve lines from the top the line starts unicas in and we are at the last word of the line ubir davar karev the caravan circle to explain what we have said interesting words like to bring it closer to the circle meaning these are concepts these are very potent ideas can i bring them closer to the sexual meaning that we should be able to integrate it in our minds we should be able to understand it better you've on aldehyde so he gives a metaphor but a very the metaphor itself is a very powerful idea in and of itself it will be explained similarly to what our sages say sukadaf his leaf will not decompose will not rot ye boil is rotting decomposing disintegrating the leaf will not rot this is from tehillim aleph gimmel this is the first chapter of psalms the fir the first chapter the third verse so we have a tree so you have the trunk of the tree you have of course the branches of the tree you have the leaves on the branches then you have the flowers then you'll have your fruits that's the ultimate most productive element of the tree but the deposit says even the leaves won't decompose so our sages instructed suka say that even mundane conversation of the talmudic of true authentic toyota personalities even the mundane conversations require learning what does this mean means a a regular mundane conversation you have the talmud the great teacher the great mentor the man the personality of torah the man of god the woman of god communicating ideas feelings of godliness of holiness of terror that's not si has hulen those are the fruits they're not the leaves are philosophers mundane talk simple talk it doesn't seem to be very insightful it's it's what you call you know schmoozing there's nothing to it's not something you feel like you should write down or give over to the next generations you know sometimes we all know you go to a shear you go to to a class to a lecture somebody who's renowned in their field and this is something that that could be transcribed should be transcribed should be passed on uh should be published etc but then there's si has hulen there's just you know mundane conversation almost incidentally matter of fact it was said nonchalantly without much deliberation that's called comes the gemara and says if you're talking about a real talmud even in s even the mundane what seems like very simple conversation there's nothing to discuss further it's to learn it what does this mean whose humility is of such profundity that the person becomes a conduit for divine wisdom this is called so due to the profound divine wisdom that vibrates through this person's brain and soul and psyche even that which he says is an expression in halal when it comes to much and other things that which you do like with the back of your hand in in in a clumsy not regular way but it's an expression when you do something you're not fully there it's almost he did it matter of fact like with the back of the hand even that which he says and it almost seems unintentional there was no deep kavanaugh or preparation it's almost like what we spoke before about here moisture it's the oh it's the overflow it's the surplus it's the residue of his brain it's like you know what's left over you have the smoker's board the smoker's board has all the delicious food and everything is prepared and then you have you know the leftovers so you put it in the garbage where you're going to start taking from every single plate and find it i mean hashem if somebody is starving okay they do that but usually you know the left it goes to the garbage it's not significant enough to put away in the refrigerator you know if you have a meal and you have a little some scraps left over if you have a whole dish left over okay so it's not left over somebody once said in my home we always left we always ate you know the leftovers we're still looking for the original meal that my mother made so you have the original and then you have the maestro the residue the surplus what's what's leftover moisture it's not a reflection of the core wisdom of the talmud on the contrary only it's the external reflection of his wisdom it's like the leftovers from his wisdom it's expressed in just a very regular mundane conversation means a conversation and developer and just there was no there doesn't seem to be any significance comes the gemara and says no you need to study it you need to learn it to the point that this is considered just like today you learn why because it's it's a divine wisdom it's a divine perspective it's not just ideas it's it's the way god thinks that's the difference there's every person is blessed with a gift of wisdom and people develop many ideas some ideas are incredibly powerful but as it says in swarm ain't believe in there's no good without some toxicity mixed into it there's no toxicity without good mixed into it then you have what's called it's the way so to speak god views the world it's god's wisdom that's what it is so the hidden share the novelty is that the sichuan school needs learning from the conversation from the mundane conversation of raman gamlil we learned two things i want to read to you this gemara in sukkah i'll just get a sukkah one second i suck out bass so here's the context in the opening of the second chapter of sukkah of mishnayi sukkah it's the chapter known as hayaos amita somebody who sleeps under a bed in the sukkah you build the sukkah sukkas before sukkah and you go under the bed you sleep under the bed so the mishna says somebody who sleeps under the bed on sukkahs did not fulfill the obligation why because the bed is a partition it's a hefsec that separates the person from the sukkah so therefore i didn't fulfill the application so if i'm sleeping under the sukkah it's like i went to sleep outside of the of the sukkah that's what the mishnah says surabu huda tells a story and he says that we used to sit in a sukkah with older sages with a skeinham and you know what we needed a place to sleep and we used to sleep under the bed and the skein them the elderly sages didn't tell us anything so the behavior says that obviously they didn't agree with this they held that the meat of the bed is not a half sick it's not a separation because the idea is that since it's not something that's permanent the bed is mobile you can move it from place to place it's not a permanent covering over the person so therefore it doesn't create a partition so that's two opinions comes the mission and says amerishiman shimon said i want to tell you a story robin gamlil had a servant his name was tavi he wasn't jewish he was a evidenti he was a servant he was a he was a non-jewish servant who was acquired by the gamblia and like every non-jewish servant who's acquired by a jew at kenaini he becomes semi-jewish in the sense it goes through a bris and is obligated in all the mitzvos that a woman is obligated but not all the time bound mitzvahs until his master emancipates him when he goes free then he's obligated in all the mitzvos like a full-fledged jew so tavi was the servant of him leo and he was very close to him he had a very special liking our sages tell us that when tavi died was devastated and he was macabre he was he was sitting he was receiving condolences like a family member he was so close to him he was a very special person so the shipment says i want to tell you a story the servant of the ram namely was once sleeping under the bed in the sukkah sir gamaliel tells the other sages he says you see my servant is a talmud and he knows that an avid a kanani servant even if he's by a jew and he's part of the jewish family he's exempt from sukkah because just like a woman is exempt from sukkah she created in the sukkah which doesn't have to because it's a mitzvah's essay any mitzvah that's time bound the woman is not obligated to do it unless she wants to so the evid tavi also doesn't have to doesn't have to uh be in the sukkah so he's and he knows that servants are coming from sukkah and that's why he's sleeping under the bed because he doesn't mind right explained explained that his tavis don't think that tavi is just sleeping under the bed because there's no place so he just found that place no this is he knows that he could sleep under the bed because why not this is what sherman said said oh what do we learn from this what do we learn from this we learn from this that if you sleep under the bed you didn't fulfill the obligation now ram gamaliel was praising his servant he was just telling them that my tavi does he know is tough but trip shimon said from this we learn the sheet of the view of ram gamaliel and he knows that an avid doesn't have to sleep in this doesn't have to sleep he doesn't have to eat or sleep in the sukkah and therefore he's sleeping under the bed what do we learn from this even though didn't say it explicitly that that under the bed you wouldn't fulfill the mitzvah sukkah and therefore the justification of tavi to sleep under the bed is because a servant doesn't have to and avid is potter from circle but we from here we learn the status of a bed from the brim leo's perspective this is the mishna later in the gemara khafalif the gemara says abrasive that rep shimon said that from the conversation of ram gamlil in which he was boasting about his servant tavi we learned two things number one we learned that slaves are exempt from sukkah and number learn with number two we learn that somebody who sleeps under the bed in the sukkah does not fulfill the obligation unlike the other opinion from the conversation again the iran gambling was just boasting about his servant he was just you know my tavi ah my tubby he's at home why because he slept under the bed sure but we we learn we learn something from this what do we learn we learn two things and eva doesn't have to be in a sukkah doesn't have to he could but he doesn't have to and number two under a bed you don't fulfill the obligation so the gemara says why does your shimmer say from the conversation he should have said me devoted from the words of the gemara is meticulous rap sherman said from the conversation from the words of not from the conversation so he says sherman wanted to teach us something incidentally what did he want to teach us he wanted to teach us this idea that comes from rav that even the mundane conversations of a talmud has to be studied because [Music] like a tree a tree that's anchored in fresh vibrant water and even the leaves which don't seem essential to the function of the tree they're not the fruits even the leaves are so precious they don't decompose even though a leaf is usually something that you would throw in the garbage you don't it falls off the tree what do you do with it goes to the sewer it stays in the street till it decomposes whatever happens stays on the gutter nonetheless no no no no these leaves you don't throw out there's something to learn so therefore even the sikhs you have to learn that's why the shaman said from the conversation of ram not from the words of rama from the words of ram gamaliel you would think you have to listen to the words but what about when there's just a regular conversation you don't have to listen he says no everything in it everything has told her that's what the tamak sadik is bringing here okay so shaheen hain ratzen ali and baruch but what does this really mean he's saying we're learning two things in we're learning two things about what god wants what god wants that if i under a bed i did not fulfill hashem's will and god says if i'm an evid if i'm a servant i don't have to be in asuka so it's not just we're learning something interesting we're learning about god we're learning about truth we're learning about the rats and hashem wrote an alien baruch from the conversation of ram gamaliel ah this demonstrates to us what a talmud is that even the the things that are said apparently to boast about his evidence no no no if he said it if he said it even that which seems superficial has in it a lot of depth a lot of wisdom study it study it not to insult anybody but he says what if somebody's not a table somebody's not on that level and he says he's just having uh what we would call a regular schmooze the cloud varun it may be considered foreign means idle talk insignificant talk valueless talk it could even go into what we spoke earlier in the previous classes about the soul being dressed up with clothes with garments that are not necessarily clean um and it can actually degrade the divine soul of us you know words are very significant words are the it's like the clothes i put on words are the way i express myself i'm enclosed in my words i'm manifested in my words words have power when you sometimes say if i speak if somebody communicates in vulgar language it brings me down you know sometimes people spay faith things you regret it afterwards it brings you down it schleps you down even dwarven talent dharma tell doesn't mean i didn't defame somebody and i didn't lie and i didn't cheat and i didn't insult yeah and i didn't say vulgar disgusting repulsive abominable things because varna battalion means it's just valueless in yiddish it's called postonvist it's the void of any tychon of anything dwarim battalion these are not words of love or words that connect words that that that are productive words that are meaningful an authentic conversation between two people who are close two friends marriage partners a spouse a husband and a wife parents and children a teacher and students or even to strangers but there's what's called meaningful conversation my soul is there my presence is there my authenticity are in the words vernon bettalim is just idle talk there's nothing there so it degrades my divine soul your soul is divine your soul is sacred you're not the piece of garbage you you and that's this very very power very important idea people don't realize the power of words you say well i didn't it's some it's very talent for the soul it's it's it's degrading case calls it a tumor the soul gets gets affected by it because it's the question is what am i dressing up my soul and you know what am i getting dressed and am i getting dressed in rags or am i getting dressed in in garments that are befitting my inner royalty that's the question and this is not just garments physical garments these are words they are they're deep garments they're called levers so instead of dressing my soul in holy garments in sacred garments in meaningful garments garments of toyota garments of mistress the gemara says in yamada tess human 19 to bomb volleyball somebody who speaks sikha school instead of means just mundane talk mundane conversation without any any meaning any benefit any any depth any truth it actually anything that's that's that's that's necessary for life in one form or another sometimes i can have a conversation about business i can have a conversation about my money situation i can have a conversation about very mundane things you know dinner dinner has to be made somebody has to clean the house i have to take care of something in the bank i got to go get gas we all have these conversations but that's not what we're talking about those are things that are necessary for life the rambam has a whole famous commentary about many different levels of talk what what level of talk what level of conversation but there's a scholar that has no meaning no purpose or even essay you violate the mitzvah says in parasha's vasana with the debate you should speak in them tired of alleviating not idle talk but one second we just said that sir needs learning what's what's the connection what's the how do you say that you're a verb essay that it's not the right thing so he says who knows taylor you can even the person who learns but it's not the level of what we call a talmud the way the shasta describes a unique way it's not just a person who learns a lot it's not just a person who has a good iq and masters a lot and even a person with a good memory that's information is somebody who lives today they breathe they embody tyra their brain their mind their soul their heart their body so even that which comes out and it seems idle it needs learning but another person he says he may learn but to say that just what seems like a foolish conversation is is is is is divreitare you don't say that it's verbatim it's it's always a waste of time because there's a difference between when he's expressing what he thought about what she thought about that's really expressing my authentic inner mind and when it's maestro myself when it's just you know the leftovers there's no consciousness there you see when the person does not engage in mundane talk but engages in terror talk there's a lot to listen to even the overflow even the leftovers even the residue even that which you call mundane talk also like we see in the case of reben gamlia there's another interesting story by the way in gemara in aravind aruvandav samakhdala the arabian page 64. also a story about ram gamaliel it's interesting the same the same ram gamlil obviously our sages understood that every conversation of rama gamaliel had tremendous depth by the way lived in the first century after the common era he lived after the destruction of the second base amigas and he was the famous nasi the the leader of the sanhedrin in yavin in the city of yavina so ram gamlil the gemara says was riding on a donkey he was going from a city called aku to a city called and he had a student rabi loi who was following him on the way ram gamlil saw a a loaf of bread or a cake glue skin a loaf of bread or cake leo says eloy his student eloy take tell golovkin lift up this cake or lift up this loaf from the from the road they were riding he was on the donkey on the road anyway as they're going further they they encounter a gentile suram gamalil turns to this gentile and he says he calls him here take this loaf of bread from eloy because his student deloitte had the bread so rabbi loi gave him the bread and then he asked this gentile where are you from and he tells them where he's from what's your name mafgoy did you have a meat from gam leo before how does he know your name he said i never met him before so the gomorrah says at that moment we learned a few things the first thing is we learned that he knew the name of the person without ever meeting him but then the gemara says we learned three things from the first thing is you don't just pass food food is precious you don't just pass food you don't just pass over food he take the bread it was a halal it wasn't just oh take the bread you know why not no if you see bread if you see food on the road you have to stop and pick it up that's number one second thing we learned is why do they have to give it to a gentile why can't they eat it remember people didn't have a lot of food then this list was like today the food was very very limited why did they have to give it away the answer is because you follow roe v ivory drachen you follow the majority halal follow the majority of people that pass on this road and since this was a place of non-jews from gamaliel assumed that this belonged this is a non this is from non-jews and therefore it shouldn't be eaten by a jew so he gave it to her to ananja the third thing we learned is that comets of a non-jew after pesach is muttabano you're allowed to enjoy it a jew who had comments of a pesach that was his you're not going to have a naw after pesach but then andrew you're allowed i could go into a non-jewish store after pacers and by comments even though it was their whole pacer because this story was after pesach and they were giving a gift to a non-jew which is basically a benefit they're gaining a benefit from it he's going to be grateful to them one second how could you have benefit from comets after pesach this was bread that was probably baked on pesach or went through pesach so we learned from here that the comments of a non-jew i'm allowed to benefit from now regardless didn't say all this just said eloy take the piece of bread give it to the guy but fine leo said it was a real talmud so even uh pick up the piece of bread it is in hashem it's telling you how god thinks that's the be that's that's the concept is saying which now takes us to the next step was one of the great sages mentioned the desire rebecca the elder and desire says that he would communicate purcha destruct how do we translate peer code um literally it means chapters of foolishness of uh of like foolishness before you would communicate mild the secrets of terror ideas of wisdom to the students he would say perkada destruction what does pikachu mean what does it mean she says as follows it doesn't mean that he communicated just stupidity god forbid he says was one of the great spiritual giants of the generation he didn't sit down with his students and say okay we're going to talk about really i'm going to say really stupid things it's the same idea that we spoke earlier about sikhs is the surplus that which is left over from the wisdom it's like the the leaf that falls off from the tree yeah when it comes when it's when it's when it's a tree imagine if the tree is is gold so then even the leaves are also gold so maybe a leaf it's not the fruit but it's gold don't throw it into the garbage prika destusa means he spoke to them about what seemed to be simple things you could say oh he just had the gift of gab he was just schmoozing them was it was non-nonchalantly it was a matter of fact pika destin means it had that that ear it didn't have that ear of of of profundity of of genius of wisdom but this was the introduction of this he would begin every lecture he would begin to share with a joke with an anecdote nilsa did it means something that makes you laugh it's words of a gesture of a jester or bathri rabbanan the rabbis would laugh and then he would begin the shemitah then he would begin the then he would begin it says after that they they went into a space of awe and reverence yasuf sir they would sit with all and he would begin what was this military like what was this joke rabbi was just saying really really foolish things he says no no it was on a light note and it put them into a different mood it opened them up which is the concept of humor why do we use humor what does humor do yeah what what does humor do in life if i'm talking to a crowd yeah i sometimes try to try to use humor why you find that funny okay so that itself was humorous humor is powerful because humor is an equalizer right especially if you're coming to a crowd that doesn't know you and people are a little suspicious and what are you gonna tell me you know do you even know about my world do you even understand me do you even feel me what does humor do humor it breaks down some boundaries it makes people feel that you're in the same world you know we can laugh about the same things and we can cry about the same things we're scared of the same things humor shows it's not just i'm a serious teacher or mentor or a market or preacher or rabbit whatever the person whoever the person is or professor but i'm also a human being it's humor is in a way humor is vulnerable it allows people to be vulnerable it removes defenses because people are laugh you know they open themselves up and they feel a certain emotional kinship so it's not that the person is saying or rabbi is just making you know funny jokes because he became a comedian no it's part of the sheer it's depth in it says if somebody says to sim oh it's going to be a real service says gives you his mundane talk there's something to learn when rabbit tells you a joke there's something to contemplate another person says you know what i'm going to speak some nourish kaiten it's going to be foolish what is this an example for what are we learning from this we're learning from this the concept over here that's said when you're talking about a place called atika kadesha i think is the holy ancient one one of the loftiest levels of divine godliness even the sichuzculin even that which is left over even the energy that is restricted and condensed and goes through many many many filters even the leaves if it's a tree of gold the leaves are also gold it also has tremendous holiness to understand this a little more to go in a little deeper [Music] yes to understand something even more we explained before it's not just that even the here of attic has holiness but we said something more we said that the life of all the worlds comes through the here of attack right we spoke before in their previous year that the posix says in the kneel that atikiyoim in god the ancient one is sitting and his cloak is white snow and his hair is like white wool and kabbalah explains that the flow of energy from hashem to the world comes through something we call cyrus it comes through here because the here itself has so much energy so that somehow says but let's explain something why the flow has to come through here and therefore the primary holiness is in the hear this cannot be understood from the metaphor of the mundane talk of the talmud why because apparently there's something that's incomprehensible it's true that the mundane talk of the talmud needs to be studied but it's obvious that when the talmud speaks torah and wisdom obviously it's much greater than the mundane conversations double triple quadruple many more times vim cain lama so what do you need the mundane conversation just deal with the title imagine a person says i'm not going to the sheer of my teacher i don't want to hear him gamaliel's toyota i'm just going to listen to the jokes after abba finished his joke you leave you say oh the joke itself is deep you missed the point the joke is deep but imagine the depth of the depth the leaves are wonderful but imagine the fruits so if somebody somebody clings on only to the jokes because they say the jokes have deep messages it's true but certainly the messages have messages if the jokes have messages the messages which have messages so so somebody to say oh all the wisdom is in the jokes all the wisdom is the sickest hole that's ridiculous the secrets also have messages but certainly the learning itself is much deeper much deeper i remember my brother by simon jacobson told me once a story i think he told me he was there they were they were doing uh they were doing um construction in 770 eastern parkway the show of the lobby upstairs were here with davin myers every day he would darwin with the minion 3 15 and my live in the evening in a little show upstairs in 770 um it was called the zhao not a big room a small room he would come in that's where the yeshiva boys would be learning and he would daven with them every day but once they were doing some construction there so they had to go downstairs to darwin with the big shoal the big one with the river with david shabas and yamtif and have his fabregan's downstairs of 770's to really the basement the basement but it's a very big place thousands of people could be there in the last years he would dive in there always even the regular days because the crowd was much bigger but in the earlier years he would have an upstairs so uh so my brother told me that was going to shul so he was ready to go into the regular shield but it was under construction so he said that he saw there was a jew named bistritsky they they called him label bistritsky leo bastritsky was a was a husad he was the the head of hatsuna in crown heights he was from the founders of atsola and um the famous bistritsky family he had a grocery store on the the lower east side and uh have rebel bistritsky was there so he tells the rebbe as heint daventman until today we dive in until yiddish means downstairs in the lower level until means on the bottom not on the top you go down to the lower level under under one to under in other words we're going to the basement under so without skipping a beat the rabbit just said in our shoulders you know there's no such a thing it's a lower level you're going under that it's a shul so the shrine is there so wherever it is it's heaven right now i don't know that many labels was just saying a simple thing he was just saying gotta go downstairs can't dive in here it's under construction but a real atomic even how much could you learn from such a response you could learn a lot you could learn a lot what are scholars what are basic necessities what are the base of madras what jews davening is you know this is an example i'll give you another example just what i remember there was uh uh it was once a fabregan i think it was pascha's by your heat option zion winter 1987. and the rebel quoted his father-in-law's father said swan was said that at this point in history we finished everything we got to polish the buttons which means the soldier is ready the uniform is ready the buttons are also there but you have to polish the buttons we have two puts on the knapper you have to power the buttons so they ever said why do you have to polish buttons because sometimes buttons could get some dust and so you have to remove the dust and clean up the button in other words we have to realize we're in a point of history where thousands of years of jews and good non-jews have filled the world with with goodness with kindness it's not wasted it's all here it's all here it's like if somebody khalil in the negative that pours kerosene all over a building yeah all you need is one match and the whole place goes on fire because it's not the match it's everything that happened before you know their album says one one one mitzvah can change the world because there's thousands of years of work so one match can can light up the whole world in a good way in a positive way so he says now the the job is to polish the but now he would speak in yiddish so he said but sometimes in all india there's the knapp sometimes the buttons can have in yiddish you call it but the rebbe said he used the english word dust he used the english word dust even even though he would speak yiddish and would rarely use an english word so i thought it was just maybe because people don't know maybe what the word is it's not such a popular yiddish word so you use the english word dust everybody knows what dust is that's what i thought i was then connected a little bit to writing of the circus so the secret was written up and it was given in for the rabbit to edit so in the parentheses the word was we wrote dust the dalaied al of samar tess dust that's what was written so uh did ever made a made a a star on it and he wrote dust is aldera humorously da citra this is the other side it showed he said does the ke didn't just say dust there was something here yeah the gomorrah says about becoming a military sometimes simple talk of people yeah what you call slangs the gemara says slang has a rude entire gomorrah baba matsuya minana mili damn she just sources for what people say because if people say it comes from a source so that's what becomes slang in humanity but here you see a little expression dust there was something there he wrote now so that's the concept that by atom even what seems insignificant is significant but certainly you're not going to focus in only on that that's just the leaves great but the tyre itself is is much greater is much deeper yeah drew once told me his name is label posner rib label posner so he told me that once he was learning his 1944 and a lot of new books a lot of jewish books educational books came to 770 from the from the from the binder so there was a truck or a car filled with boxes of books so the laboratory who was running america's and the publication arm of lobovic under his father-in-law's tutelage he asked a few boys if they could bring in schlep in the boxes just to help so uh it was during the break time in the yeshiva so the boys were there you know so he asked if a few people can help so rabbi poser told me that uh he went to schlep the boxes but it started to rain so he got wet so the rabbit tells him here my coat is hanging here he showed him where his coat is hanging in in the hallway they called later grenade and take you could borrow my coat so he put on the ebb's coat and he went out and he brought the boxes when he finished it ever showed him where to put the coat and he thanked him and then he says panimi is the light that goes in integrated like in a vessel makif is the peripheral light the light that transcends you levushim coats a coat is a market it's a light that's above food goes in right so he's represented as a market you still have to have your own you would think you have to have your own because it's about you market is the general light still has to be yours again here the concept is that a tamid who who embodies tyra even what would seem like a a non-deliberate superficial even mundane comment needs to be learned but the question is that's not the focus the focus is on the itself but here we're saying something else here we're saying that i think a kadisha yeah the flow comes through the here the flow comes through the hair that's that's the focus that's what he's going to ask this is going to be the question above why does it always say in kabbalah that the flow comes through the hair through the surplus of the brain it's true that they hear coming from a tikka is great in stature it's very lofty it's like the sikh school but it would have been so much better if you can get the flow from the essence of atiku kadisha and yet we're saying that the flow comes precisely through the ear and the main holiness depends on the here the nozzle's focus is on the here he's not going to cut the hair we don't cut the pace the here that's where the holiness is why because that's where the flow is why is that the focus it's also there but why does that become the venue for god's energy into the world precisely through the here and here we come to another point the sisters who doesn't explain this because zika zum just says that couldn't also have profundity but the main profanity is not in the sikh so this says but we already touched on this the answer is because from attic the way it is the worlds cannot receive ubi and let's give a metaphor for this through a metaphor the metaphor is going to be a metaphor king solomon says in proverbs chapter 1 verse 6 lohavin marshall umalitsa to understand the concept to understand marshall umalitsa to understand the metaphor and the parable uk siva yidabra in kings one chapter five malachi mall of parakeet base chapter five verse 12 it says spoke three thousand parables the cambridge umar says about one of the greatest talmudic sages of his day misha meister of mayor butler muslims allah mishnah saitaman test the last mission in sight to page 49 when the mayor passed away we lost those who know how to tell stories those who know how to share parables why dava umar class may and shalom the gemara says in sanhedrin 38 rib mayor would communicate the mayor gave 300 brilliant parables the gemara says we forgot all of them besides three besides three parables left over and rashi there in sanhedrin gives one of those parables of we once did a whole about it the parable about the wolf and the fox on friday i don't know if you remember the wolf was hungry and the fox told the wolf that heir of shabbos friday afternoon jewish homes have wonderful food and if he goes and he helps with the preparations for shabbos he'll be able to eat the meal friday night and the wolf came to the house and he was helping and schlepping and then they threw him out of the house and the wolf wanted to kill the fox because he deceived him and now he's even more hungry so the fox said oh i'll take you to a place where there's wonderful food and he brought him to the well and the well the wellspring the well had a reflection of the moon and the moon was like a sliver so it looked like cheese it looked like a piece of cheese in the water so the fox tells the wolf there's cheese there the wolf says how do we get down the fact says you see the two buckets you see the two buckets you know they were attached with a rope and you go down so he says go down so the wolf goes down and he says i'm sorry i'm sorry the the says this cheese this or the wolf says how do we get it he says i'll show you and the wolf jumps in the wolf fox jumps into one of the buckets and the buckets goes all the way down you know how it is right and now he's in the water and the wolf says no i want i want the cheese i want the cheese the fox says no problem you go into the other bucket so the wolf goes into the other bucket and the fox comes up and the wolf is left in the water and the fact says bye bye and that was the end of the story this was one of the parables of lemay rashid says in sanhedrin he's had 300. this is one of them now because what was the point of all this you may like to tell stories cute stories said three thousand parables lahav and marshall melitza what's the concept ramir passed away no more people who we lost the last people who tell parables what people don't tell parables since remain remar lived in the days again after the destruction of the second basemakers the first century after the common era so since then there's no parables says i'll explain he says something absolutely beautiful his choice of words is just absolutely eloquent because of the depth of their wisdom and the greatest secrets of torah the students did not understand the concepts they didn't understand the words too deep elim k numerology martial so they had to communicate the messages through stories through allegories through metaphors through parables what is a good parable a good parable hides the depth of the wisdom in a metaphor that reflects the idea but reflected through a story you know how when we tell children stories that contain deep ideas why do you tell it through a story why do you tell through a story just give me the idea the answer is the child won't grasp the idea so you do it through a story the story reflects the idea but the story brings down the idea in a tangible way that conceals the intensity of the idea valpie avanas haddogma it's tyre belleva talmud and through understanding the allegory the parable the student will will have access in his heart they will form something of the deep idea of the nimsha that we're trying to convey ubi but what happens if the idea is so profound then even the metaphor is too transcendent so the metaphor needs a metaphor the example needs an example the wisdom of shelima was so profound that he needed three thousand parables in order to convey his profound idea when people read the passage spoke three thousand parables what do the people think that he used to sit and tell stories and he told three thousand stories you know he had three thousand jokes in his repertoire in his google in his document in his google document he had three thousand stories no that's says and this is something he heard from the altar but it comes from the market that the the shlaima malik had an idea the idea was unbelievably profound so he gave a metaphor but nobody understood the metaphor so he gave a second metaphor to understand the first metaphor but nobody understood the second metaphor so he gave a third metaphor and it was still incomprehensible so that zamachadek says he needed three thousand metaphors to bring down the idea to a lower space and a more concrete space and allow it to incarnate to go down to devolve from metaphor to metaphor to metaphor until he reached metaphor 2999 and people still didn't get it so they said well i said okay one more one more and he gave us parable three thousand ah the last example i got it and now i can understand two nine nine nine so i can understand two nine nine eight two nine nine seven two nine nine six i don't know how long this shear took must have taken a while longer longer even than martial and then they understood parable number two which allowed them to understand parable number one ah then they got it now it's even hard for us to understand what he's saying three thousand one two three four three thousand but that was sleima mello's wisdom do we know what wisdom is do we know what khacham is do we know what depth is do we know what alakus is had to speak three thousand michelin in order to explain the original idea which was absolutely infinite and transcendent video it's not he gave 300 different parables that may also be true where the maid had the ability to explain his wisdom to three hundred the gomorrah says in aravinda gimbal that remain really was the deepest sage of his day so why is the not like him because his colleagues didn't understand what he was saying so they couldn't make the like him nobody could agree not because imagine the gemara says this they simply couldn't understand they didn't understand the ultimate depth of what he was saying we understand ideas we live it's an idea okay i'll learn it again ideas can be abstracted and you have to demythologize the abstractions because the same idea can be expressed on three thousand different levels three thousand different levels imagine the same idea if you learn the title of the raga chavers you see this concept he'll take an ex he'll take a an argument in gemara that seems like to be a very practical concrete argument and i'll trace it back to a more philosophical argument which will be traced back to yet even a deeper philosophical which will be traced back to a deeper spiritual argument and so it goes higher and higher and this is called cedar gestulas the order of evolution of energy it's one of the richest parts of learning when you see how a very simple argument between two sages which seems like they seem like to be arguing about a very simple thing really is just the lowest level of incarnation it's really just a mirror of much more profound ideas a few weeks ago parachute we did the hadron of the massachusetts i don't know if you remember so we discussed in many arguments between basham and basil which seemed to be you know simple arguments what bracha do you make on fire shabbos basil says and bishop says how do you dance in front of a bride basically says says every bride you change the text based on her qualities and virtues are you allowed to have cheese and chicken on the same table you know when you eat again on agundi bashami and besimo we went through around around 10 10 arguments a little more perhaps perhaps and there ever shows how these arguments can be traced back to deeper fundamental ideas about how we view reality we once learned about the argument about do you deal with potentiality do you deal with actualization i'm just giving an example how what's simple on one level it's really a metaphor it's really a metaphor yeah so this okay so this begins to explain to us that really deep ideas they need to have garments in order to be able to express them and this is going to be the beginning of the example that is using the concept of a parable to explain to us this whole idea of atika kadesha of the deepest levels of divine energy communicating through here which is going to be the concept of a parable and this will give us an understanding into how judaism views here which is our discussion here and and this we're going to continue bazer hashem next year i hope you can review what we learned review also the previous classes you could prepare the next piece as well and uh and we're going to we're going to take a break here something right away yes feel free to say last night i heard i saw your important vibranium you know poor about busy i was busy yes you have to paint the cost the cup the cost it was unbelievable thank you i have wine every night i love israeli wine thank you so yes we we had a we had a purim fabregan it was a beautiful fabregan very uplifting and ben shimon did an amazing job with the music and it was put up online because it was videoed and it was put up online so you could watch the fabregan the purim fabregan purim has to always purim needs to infuse a whole year so we a lot of a lot of beautiful ideas came out of the fabregan so you can watch it it's on the yeshiva.net yes also i want to announce that today at 2 p.m we're going to have a special class about tris amazing resurrection what does it mean what is the jewish belief about it that's two o'clock p.m it's with the south african community it's going to be here on the yeshiva.net and tomorrow we have our women's class 12 45 in person and also live streamed so the men can also watch if you behave wednesday night 9 30 we're going to be learning the seoum of the rebbe la bache the secret of jewish history is this week's parashat tazria wednesday 9 30 on the yeshiva.net thursday morning we're going to resume this year here in derek mitzvah about the metaphors and the parables and the hair and artika kadesha okay questions beautiful comments beautiful comments here i'm looking at the chat somebody says you mentioned rebel bistritsky my father of blessed memory was very close to him he would work hard to supply poor people with food on a daily basis okay thank you thank you my renaissance vaishev speaks about the sikhs of yosef atsadek which is the mouth speaks yes beautiful all right well actually um the maharanam says that yosef somebody says every story contains a deep idea sometimes not every story many stories in public school we were made to read dickens and many other great authors long novels that contained simple but true ideas i always wondered why they couldn't just give us the idea simply and directly do we do did we have to read thousands of pages of novels it was just overbearing just get straight to the idea let's take tolstoy's war and peace war and peace by vital is a very very long novel it takes us back to the war of napoleon against russia 1812. but war and peace is not just about the war and peace between napoleon and the russian czar it's about war and peace inside the human heart so just tell me the idea that's what i always wondered but we learned about these ideas through the stories so what i'm understanding is that really deep concept concepts need a metaphor einstein had to explain relativity through many metaphors and we still didn't understand it for me this is actually my very first class oh the jewish community where are you from i was uh born in portland oregon and adopted by a family out in sandy oregon and where do you live now reading pennsylvania actually wow so what brings you here how did you know about this i actually uh saw one of your sites online on facebook no okay welcome when i actually found out that 75 of my family heritage my birth heritage is actually jewish oh wow wow so you grew up in a christian home wow you grew up in a christian home yes so your father was catholic or no uh both of my adopted parents were are a christian christian and your biological mother do you know i have no clue when the state found me and my two sisters it had been three days since our birth mother had left oh wow she just abandoned she just abandoned all three of us my birth father was in the military at the time so you were born and three days later your mother was gone and how old were your sisters my one of my siblings is two years older than me i'm the middle child and my younger sister is a year and ten days younger than a wow i was in it found in a uh open dressing drawer surrounded by blankets my younger sister she was found in the bathtub surrounded by blankets and our older sister was searching the apartment for food how did they find you how did they know to come there yeah we were in a one-bedroom apartment in portland oregon and it was the neighbor across the hall who heard us crying and screaming wow so your slice were saved yes but the hospital didn't even think i specifically was going to live a half hour after they got me because of how malnourished i was plus i was considered born two months early how old were you at the time when they found you uh honestly i'm not sure oh my god they said because of my size i was able to fit into a mid-sized tin shoebox oh my god they said that's how small it was wow do you know who she is this criminal mother uh well her name's melba ruth wilford it was benjamin because my father's last name but found out she had faked her own death and created a whole new life for herself wow she's got more kids out there somewhere and i have no idea wow i'm so so so so sorry so you have been through the ringer to put it mildly well that's probably an understatement of the century wow anyway it's a pleasure and honor to have you with us and thank god you're here with us and may god give you all the strength you need to be able to live life to the fullest under the circumstances and if i could be here for you in any way i'm here and welcome to the club thank you so much yeah yeah my uh because this was on like divorce and stuff wow my husband had divorced me because i chose to get clean and sober off of alcohol and marijuana and he chose not to wow wow so as of march 9th i am four years clean and sober wow mazel tov sober for four years congratulations you're a source of inspiration what's your first name christine christine ruth blackberg is my adopted name my birth given name is yolanda elizabeth benjamin wow okay it's a pleasure wow did you understand the class a good portion of it yes okay i know the terminology hilarious really what part was hilarious i don't even remember uh like with the parables of the fox and the wolf oh the fox and the wolf that's from the talmud parable is just like how you know the scorpion was trying to get across the water yeah and the turtle said you know yeah yeah yeah yeah yes yes yes what can i do i'm a scorpion or the other version is this is the middle east okay okay very well so i wish you amazing an amazing day okay and god bless you god bless you and god bless all of us so the next class next class is at two but it's not going to be on this zoom because it's a south african zoo so you can come you can come to the website the yeshiva.net t h e y e s h i v a dot net again t h site your website programmed in on my laptop oh wow okay we're honored and uh it's an inspiring you you are a source of inspiration of of endurance and transformation so may god be with you and as well as with you a man a man and everyone else and all of and all good people yes