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and he goes to the field
and here's the question my show what do
you mean we are
city people
if we feel comfortable
meeting the king
only in
the field
when the king was in the palace
throughout the year we felt we have no
relationship with him
just let's picture it this way you have
a rabbi you have a teacher you have a
professor
you
had when they come into the classroom
dressed with their you know tie or
formal clothing or cup butter
or tie and shabbos and suit and all that
there's a little distance that's created
between the
macabre
and the teacher
and guess what it needs to be that way
if we don't have that we have chaos
the teacher
if the teacher is the proper teacher is
on a different level meaning to say that
the person is involved in in the more
scholarly things and and hopefully more
nicer medos and on and on
nevertheless
this great teacher and genius
decides i i i really i'm not i'm really
not bonding
i've told you many times
the way to
the way to have more success
with teenagers is you got to bond with
them
and bonding
means
you know eating pizza together bowling
together strolling together losing
together
hanging out together becoming friends
and that's what we need there's not
enough of this today in the school
system in the yeshiva system the girls
school
friends there's rabbis there's teachers
the disciplinarians but we don't have
friends i don't need friends between
each other that there should be
a mashpia
a madrich
a supervisor who acts as
a friend to
the student and by doing that
it breaks the
the seriousness the stereotype
so what happened when the king went out
to the field he broke the stereotype
because
we were used to thinking of a king
with horns
a king
you know in a palace
a king that's totally removed from us we
have no association to the king
and here we see that the king can have a
good time he can go into the field
he can keep it he can schmooze and guess
what he really is like one of us
in a way in a way he's really one of us
but then
so we from our perspective we also feel
good
but when he goes back meaning when he
goes to rosh hashanah yom kippur and
he's back to being a king
if we
ex received him properly in the field
then we can also have a relationship
with hip with him now
in his palace
why
because the truth is that we are also
city people we are also neshama people
we are not driven
by our bodily needs we are driven by our
soul needs
however
during the year it was difficult to
materialize our soul needs
because of the
who
the who
of the world all the
issues
disturbances
and now we have peace
so now after this cleansing
coming not with
conditions it's weak days
it's not shabbos it's not yamtiv
and hashem says i'm going to give you
during these days something very special
and it's called the gimbal
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the 13 attributes of mercy
not as they are during the day
today in the morning we said
the 13 attributes no no no no
that's a daily request
for material matter and important but
we're talking here about the neshama
the month of ello is about focusing on
the shaman you have to knock this
through your head
this month it's not about
asking for more gosh miss even of course
we need gosh means to live but the focus
is
this is the month of luchnius
ask working
like i told you it says espaneka
i'm gonna he's gonna say it soon
you say twice a day now
i search
i want your anemias
if you really want something do you just
make a phone call or a whatsapp or an
email and uh
and you just go to sleep or you pursue
it you pursue it
it has to be a bikush
a real because a real bikush
is
since i'm coming from i'm looking for
the panini is
the inner aspect of yiddish guide of
torah of hasidis i'm going to
pursue it
and then
oh and
what gives me that kayak so i need a
kayak i mean i've been i've been in a
daze
for all these months
hashem says i'm going to reveal to the
world and to you
13 attributes of mercy that are special
for elo
and they will help you
focus on
us
and that is why
we say anila deity vidi lee
the deity league and goddess to me
is also part of the acronym the russia
davis anila deity daily equaling uh
acronym ello
because in l as much as we say the it it
it begins with us the initiation is
through us
arousal from us from below
nevertheless we need help
we need help in other words
you have to go out to the field to greet
the king right but what gives you the
intelligence to go out to the field
sometimes if it's your wife saying go go
there make
you know make an attempt go there
sometimes it's a lead
sometimes it's um a friend
but there's always a trigger
here there's always a trigger
that is there to aid you that trigger we
call is
we call that you'd give me the sarah
so let's now begin looking at this on
page 14 you dialed
the second paragraph as he has it here
and also the torah
hashem
illuminates
his face illuminates subs to elecha to
you you know this is part of the
birkhaus kohanim that we say in yamcov
and there's israel some say it every day
this is the emanation the revelation of
what we call the 13 attributes of god
right here yoni the al-taraba teaches
what is the purpose of these thirteen
in ello it's not
for my health and my wealth
etc the gas mias but she upon him upon
them you see that's why dr rebbe adds
those words here upon him upon it
the focus of the you give me this
during ello is different than the focus
that give me
on every day
the focus is she upon him upon him we
should have a face-to-face relationship
which means pneumonias
this means there should be a revelation
of god's inner will
the mockery shall must israel to the
source of jewish souls to jews
by us making our inner drive
only for god let us get by to cleave to
him believe in nephesh with heart and
soul may um cut the libra from the
depths of the soul be messed up
with self-sacrifice
so in other words
when will the you give me this
if we show paninius
you know moshe the arizona writes
that if a yi dedicates himself to what
sadiq
and does it with musira's nephesh
that sadik's soul would be will be
impregnated into that jew's soul and
they'll be able to do things they never
were able to do before
and if you wonder why this 25 year old
lucha coming out of crown heights he
didn't go to harvard and yale and oxford
and he's able to rally around people and
to put up the buildings and and all of a
sudden he's you know and he's a and he's
a a young kid
because if he's dedicated to hashem
vis-a-vis in this case that's
you know to do the abrasive work of
sliches
that sardic soul is impregnated in him
that's what it says in the arizona i
didn't make that up
so when we're talking about
having the paneemias of hashem
illuminate us
we have to
be
paneers towards hashem if we are
superficial
is an external
don't expect a previous response
it's tit for that
the the rule you get
you get what you pay for you get what
you invest in how much you invest that's
what you get
that's same as your children
and with business and with every issue
in life there's no quick fixes if you
know anyone that thinks there's quick
fixes it's only temporary because it's
going to fade away
but what you invest with kayak and
anemias
will come back to you in epidemio's dick
away and that's what he says yeah
continuing
the horozoo
and this emanation of godliness
kale
it comes
from the name of god kale right
which is the first of the 13 attributes
um
their source and their generality
now there are different cheetos they're
different opinions which is the first
the 13 needles
some say it's a shem hashem but the
altarebe here is is is following the
opinion that the first of the 13 meadows
is kale
this means that god himself the infinite
god ain't suff
he himself
should illuminate us
take for example
a ray of the sun
that comes from the sun ball itself
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generally speaking
is there a difference between the ray of
the sun
and the sun
no
so anthropomorphically speaking
the the the emanation coming from god's
face metaphorically speaking to the
jewish people
comes from kale
so velvet what are we saying over here
in simple english
that although kale
here
is amiga right it's one of the 13 meters
so you would think that the meter
is limited
right because a meter means what does
the word meter mean a measurement yoni
mida is a measurement
meaning it's measured to a specific
aspect of godliness
so what does it mean that it's if if
that's the case this is what the altered
is responding to without
question setting out the question which
i'm which i'm sharing with you
so why don't we say
that that kale represents premiums if
kale is only
a meter
a measured a measurement limited
that's why dalton ebbit gives us the
muscle here of the ray of the sun from
the sun
is the ray of the sun joining us in a
ray yes
but we have the famous rule which
i'm sure you'll remember you're innocent
or main humble or
the sun the ray is
similar
to the source of the of of of the of the
sun of the light
or
more
please write that down or and knock it
into your head
the r the reflection
is main is similar
to the mar and how is that
bevel how is our main amor
the sun ball is so powerful and that's
why we can't handle it we need a r
we need a nomination a reflection that's
true
but the
that's the how do we say that's the
commons the quantity
that the quantity of light
is much less than the quantity from
where the light comes from
but as far as the quality is concerned
the ingredients of the light
has the exact same ingredients as the
source from where it comes which is what
to make light
there's no difference in its objective
the only difference is
how powerful it is
this amount of that amount
but as far as the token the content or
in other words
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what it is in its objective and ideology
is the same
or mayenham
and that's without ever saying here
although it's kale
it's the it's already measured
but the token of kale is paneemius
so therefore when we when we ask hashem
and hashem gives us
the 13 attributes beginning with kale
we know that in this scale there is the
same quality
as god's essence
and that's why
kale
is able to connect to the paninis of god
which is what we're looking for the
pneumous
yes you're innocent
you're just
the scale what
oh so again that depends
on if you begin with hashem hashem
being the first
of the meters
if hashem hashem is the first and the
second of the middles then kale is
rasamin
but if here dr eva says kale is the
first of the 13 meters so it would be
and look he's going to talk about that
soon i'm glad you asked that but wait a
few minutes okay
let's continue
moshe israel
what's his royal mean
israel
milotian
sarcal
sarkal means the master of kale so the
word for for a jew yoni israel
the word itself is sarcale the master of
kale
what about the youth of the word israel
this is a beautiful interpretation
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the youth denotes
the constant activity
it's not
he was once sarcale he is in the present
sense in the present tense
sarkeel the master of kale kamoi
there's a verse
so job does and that's a positive there
right so in other words it's not that it
happened was it's happening now so the
youth the hebrew letter you denotes
present
state
and and harris and and and and this as
it applies to our discussion of east of
kale
scale
whose sorrow most shall be cured by
what is israel
one second unit that the kale
is a sari only is the master
that dominates and rules the jew
the real essence of the jew is
the high news yes what
we continuously being
the mentor
of god
correct
that's what we just said thank you
the hindu
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where do you where do you find the sar
kale
i mean is this like you know kabbalah
show me says the altar i'll show you
yes
every single year it has
a locus
a ma an actual spark of hashem
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that sustains and enlivens
his godly soul
um
and it
naturally um gravitates the milo above
to the light of life limbs
why is it that a jew
is willing
to give up his life for god
because the jew has a neshama an
efficient kiss
and that nephew shallow kiss
is animated by israel sarcasm
and it's continuous
and that's why the previously ever yes
velvet yes
go ahead
i'll go to trump so uh
tail
is
the essence of the jew
he's talking about that
the kale is the knit suits of the nephew
of the midsole the spark the jewish
spark
which we call the nephili kiss yes in
this in this discussion
he's associating kale with nepheshello
kiss
yeah that that's the yeah
in other my murray it doesn't it doesn't
use this term of kale you understand but
because he's discussing here
okay
so
what's gonna could that i want to make
you know you know when we learn these
words you have to
understand that how
that every year
has an ashama we all that's something we
always we always hear and understand
but this language is is unusual and and
and however
since we're talking about
avoid of elo and when i when ayden
looks at himself and he says how can i
do this how can i do truva
it's i i i have so many issues going on
and you know and all that
says the altar
you have kale kayla shem the first this
month hashem gives you access to access
your kale your your your spark
and your spark is you yes
you'd
saw kale
the kale controls and dominates you
in a constant way as represented by the
youth
and therefore
the fact that
you gathered lots of dust and issues all
these months makes no difference
because the true essence of a yid
didn't change just like the sunlight the
ray of the sun
didn't change in its quality and
objective
from the sun bowl from the source of the
sun
it's only a quantitative difference not
a qualitative difference
and therefore
says defeat the crabber he was standing
and the bombs were flying
in warsaw where he was
in 1939 when the war broke out and he
was next to eden he says who didn't put
filling on and didn't keep shabbos they
were far from religious observance and
they said shmaya sro
where did they who told them no one told
them to say my israel
they automatically said shmaya's role
that says the
them this is because
they have a neetsu cello key every year
it has an it's still a key and when
triggered
it wakes up
that's proof that it is huge sar sarcasm
not that it's
god forbid
not there
you know in in in certain communities
they talk about a non-religious jew as a
they call them guyan
and it is so foreign to
to to basic judaism forget about hasidic
judaism
but every ye there's a year
even if that yield is is far from it
someone asked me yesterday a question
um
what's
what do i say about
the um the uh the situation where
jews are are are are
are
mamish doing things knowingly
against judaism
against torah
are you to have obviously thrown to them
so i said the altar everybody addressed
it in chapter 32 and tanya and he says
you love your soul and you hate their
their the the the the act the act is
wrong
but then the summer is pure
oh this is a big job how do you separate
the person
from the behavior aha but why don't you
look at yourself
and when you do something when we do
something wrong we are able to somehow
say that's not the real me
the real me is good the real me is whole
he's connected i just did
so about yourself you're able to
separate but about the other one you
can't
that's hypocrisy
and what's the answer the answer is
just as it's true for you it's true for
them
is there din yes there's then there's
law and order
but that doesn't take away from the
essence
so this all is part of israel says the
altar here let's continue inside
second line
the
this sensation of gravitating to hashem
with self-sacrifice
transcends
knowledge and rationality
because if you approach god with wisdom
and and knowledge and that's all and
that's all you use you cannot comprehend
this experience
here
to completely be subservient and kind of
make yourself ownerless to god mccall
the call before you as well from
everything for god no
i
can't i'm limited
i'm not ready to jump into the fire
so if you use logic and say who
you will come to a dead end
and you won't be able to overcome you
want to overcome you've got to come from
the summer
from soul that goes beyond sachel
say who can go only so far and we need
to pursue logic and say home but we have
to pursue it in a way hillel that sacral
itself said that sacral itself says
i am limited and what i need to do to to
to accomplish what needs to be
accomplished is faith
the leap of faith
and that's another thing that we're
missing today i see you know what you do
and everything the leap of faith
yeah you're not going to figure it all
out anyone that thinks that they can
figure it all out as a i'm sorry to say
a big fool
you're not going to figure it all out
because
cycle is limited you need to go beyonce
yes yes halo
no i was i was waiting for the next line
oh next line
a child is the foot of the father
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which who is incorporated in the will of
the father without any rationale
just like a foot
shabbat
and the foot doesn't have any
independent will
it goes wherever the head tells it to go
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in order for a person to be illuminated
with god's inner
essence
you need to unknow all of your own wills
you should have no other will except god
and this is very very hard my friends
who
who is willing
to be a vatel
it's
it's a life's journey
but the altered is saying like this
that the first thing before you think
about implementation is you have to
understand it
and once you have done and once you
understand it then you have to make a
resolution a decision i want this
so the first thing he does is explain he
bill he he explains the the build up the
sarcas
you have it within you
then the next thing he says is okay if
you have it within you
so
get give yourself over to god completely
completely without conditions
oh that's very hard
i told you why right why do we have two
days rosh hashanah and one day yom
kippur rosh hashanah is about submitting
yom kippur is about forgiveness
forgiveness is easier than submission
the hardest thing is to submit
it's so hard to do it someone else's way
right your wife's way
your employer's way
your rabbi's way no
i have my own way of understanding i'm
not willing to give up myself
right
that takes two days
it takes a lot of 48 hours
once you've done that
your keeper is smooth sailing
it's worth sailing because
if a person can submit to hashem and
truly submit
then basically you know you're going to
do what god wants so a bank here another
a bank i won't bank i will ban a bank
five times ten times twenty ten it's all
semantics
because the core essence has been
created
you are my boss
the avinu volcano
the avino volcano in london
is
is where it's at
and that's why when we when we're going
to say if you don't volcano focus on
that you don't need to you know people
are rushing i was telling someone all
the shoes went rushing and rushing and
happening and happening say one line and
say it with kavanagh
i promise you it'll be like your davent
for four hours but really say it with
kavanagh and think about it as it's in
your life
and this is what al tadab is saying here
so of course
if you only read hillel the last three
four lines over here
of giving battle returns
um
you know you say wait i can't do that
that's why doubt that ever preceded in
the paragraph to tell us
that we have
something inside that makes it possible
to experience this because it naturally
gravitates dr ebba's language earlier on
um where is it over here he says
lim
the first line the last two words on on
on on page tests
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the necessary kids its natural habitat
naturally is like the mushroom the the
the fire that jumps upward do we have to
tell the fire you're in a sin i want you
now to jump upward and now jump to the
left and now jump to the right
it's automatic
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then the summer has an automatic
desire to be with god
you don't have to tell it anything
what you have to do is take away the
blockages
and this is the message that we conclude
with today is
the blockages is what we have to get rid
of this month ello's about getting the
stuff out of the way
get the stuff out of the way
and you'll see that the summer will flow
hasidim would always say
they would say
that sadiq
will already know what he needs to do
and your connection to the tsadik will
be great if you just don't get in the
way
don't get in the way
that's the avoid of heidi's elo to get
out of the way and let hashem who put an
shama into us
do it's
tough
it's job which his job is
i'm ready to give myself over to hashem
you know and and when we we learn about
these things and we think about and we
reflect miss buenan
you gotta reflect this is not
again this doesn't come from couch
potato reading and and pizza and falafel
and and ice cream and frankfurters it
doesn't happen it comes from lots of
work and it's hard work
it's hard work
but that's why we're here we're here to
work hard otherwise take a trip to the
angels go there but if you want to live
you want to live on earth and you want
to make a home for hashem here you have
to know it's hard work
and even the successful person
is always trying to make this deal and
that deal everything is is complicated
everything is is hard
but that's that's what hashem wants
hashem says i really like that
so embrace
work
embrace
the the struggle
that's that's that's one of the main
kudus in the tanya the altareb is
embrace the struggle
now you ask a regular person you say
i want to learn freely
no bothers just let me learn my
air-conditioned room and
my friend
if you don't learn
where it you don't understand the shot
in the toastmas and you can't go to
sleep because you don't understand that
that and you know
then in your world of learning
you're not committed fully you're not
battle retrained color at sinai because
you could go to sleep with not
understanding what those says and for
you that's your work
i just they had a clip this past uh uh
mata shabbos 1973 purim hai and potak
shows up at the fabregan
his wife was from crown heights
high import i interviewed
wife was a crown heights girl
and i think an orthodox from an orthodox
home and hayen himself came from an
orthodox i think he was
he came i don't know if he was late
maybe lit he was i don't know later at
the end if he was fully orthodox but but
he definitely came from orthodox
orthodoxy i mean he definitely belonged
to jts to the conservative movement um
whether he was a bashabis in all life i
don't know anyway let's say let's give
him discourse that's how he was for his
neshama
so
the rather you gotta you gotta see this
clip it's online now the red is talking
about a writer
and the rapper is talking about books i
i i really identified with him the
rapper says
that even if you write a good book
and a person or two or three enjoy it
and you feel i've made my mark says that
rapid's not enough
and they and then they zoom the camera
in on potec and you see he's like this
he takes his glasses off and he's
looking at the red and he's listening
and he he understood yiddish you know
and and the rapper is like demanding
and the represents not enough because if
god gave you a talent you have to use
the talent to inspire so many more
people and therefore is like chopping
away
at everyone but of course he was
probably the main reason why the rebels
spoke about it because the rebel knew
that he was at the fabrega
and what does that say
it's the same idea here's a man who has
booked the chosen was was put into every
public school and in so many like i
remember when i went to his house in
marion station pennsylvania that's where
he lived and i interviewed him there
it's an interesting story one day i'll
tell you how i got that interview was it
was not simple
i had to use a little karma
because it was right after the river
passed away in gimel thomas
and in khabar there was this whole
controversy about mashiach the rep and
all that and he was aware of it he was
no he was no fool
so he said to me initially uh
i i just i i just leave me out of it
this is like nuts just leave me out of
it
and i told them i don't think this way i
don't believe this way and and you know
and i'm writing a book about the revenue
it's after his passing and it would be
for his neshama and a person like you is
a universal jewish leader and on and on
so he says to me
let me think about it you know and
usually you know what that means no
and so i'm saying and he says call me in
a week
so i'm during the week of saying how am
i going to get him to change his mind
because i know the answer would be no
somehow someone told me that a brother
of his name shimon was very ill
or i mean he told me he actually told me
he can't think about it now because he
has to he's dealing with his brother
who's like dying and was very ill
and when i heard that i said to myself
during the week i'm going to tell him
that i i will be master him at the ohio
i'll get his name to the
and
and on the other hand is does he really
care i have
well as soon as i told him that not only
did he answer my call within minutes
i left a message
that i would like to mention his brother
at the oil for a forshalema he answered
his phone he sent me his name right away
and after that he said i'll i'll give
you the interview
nice yeah nice story nice story nice
things about both of you
you have to you know you have to use
your cycle a little bit you know
sometimes to understand the person and
and and to me this other but but what
what about why am i telling you what the
rebels spoke about you know it occurs to
me if you were at that talk of the if
you were at that talk of the rabbi uh he
was talking to you too
i wasn't at the talk that year
but he i heard it uh
much of shabbos and i know about the
sikh of course no question about it no
question about it
and the point is it's a it's a talk what
i want to bring out is the idea of
avoider
working here is a man who's accomplished
so much and his books already all over
and and you know people are becoming
aware of the jewish people
and then as i said when i went this
house i saw maybe 20 25
translations of all kinds of languages
of of his of his book
and comes to the barbecue
1973 and gives them a sense and says
it's not enough
that was our river
that was our rebel
you understand so heaven it's quite the
shallow it's quite the shallow when we
learn these things that animates us it
gives us more hires to to go and today
is the eighth available to help everyone
should have
simultaneously
and we'll see everyone tomorrow
bye
i'm going bye north a few days okay
enjoy enjoy your tribe and drive safely
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