Likutei Moharan Class by Rabbi Yoeli Klein - Continuing Torah Aleph at Scheiner's Shul

All right. So, we were learning Allah from the Maran. We had already two Shir just to catch up basically what the Reb was saying um to go into the ending and to hopefully finish the Tyra tonight. So, was saying that through through learning to all your very interesting way uh of understanding things and he explains that there's something called let's say which is an or which is like the sun and that is very very powerful. It illuminates everything in life. However, in order to get to that you have to have as he explains there's so is just whatever it sees that's what it wants and that's what it takes and that's what is the surface of everything is what is and therefore he's going to lead his life just like that. Whatever he feels like at this particular moment and he sees as being the truth of this second based on the surface of everything that's what he takes that's but is that he wants to see the he wants to see that there is more to what's happening everything that is is just the surface of something that's deeper and he's always always seeking for something deeper he says how do you give to that that that malus of kadusha he says through learning to through learning Torah strongly like we said in the other maybe means just with power with energy it also could mean that you learn it slowly and clearly so that you understand it well but either way he says that these two ideas of learning and the are the and the is the learning it's the as he explains and the the is the is the he says that when you have both of these things together they create and together is so what does that do so he says that that as the missing ingredient for why archist are not necessarily answered sometimes when we talk or when we ask anyone for something. So if his heart is open, so to speak, so then it goes right into his heart and then he's like, "Ah, yes, I'll do whatever you want." If his heart is closed, so then okay, you know, you get faced with plenty of collectors here and shiners every day and some people just say things and you're like, "Ah, I want to give this person money." And then other people are like, and you're like, "No, I don't want to get money." You know, it's it's a matter of when you when your heart opens. So the Reb says that when you have this you learn to and therefore your all of your kingship is connected to then all of a sudden everything opens up and then cuz you have the when you come to then says ah you have you're asking so beautifully everything just opens up in's heart it's like almost engraving a place in Hashem's heart and then is the together with the tv. The t he said was a was like a it was of engraving. So he says that that engraves basically engraves into so to speak and all of your are answered. So let's go to the end of the um there not so many markers here but it's the beginning of a paragraph. It says by me it's like the fourth paragraph in the beginning of the he said that is the which is a very tremendous light therefore he was here now the rabbi is going to seemingly go through some like proof texts and then a gamar from and then back to the in the beginning of the um but we're going to see that there's there's additions and each time the rabbi speaks about these things he he kind tweaks and add certain elements which if you delve more deeply then you could find more and more. Therefore, he was says gave me he was he was he gave me the gift of and this makes sense why would is an element of but he's not just the element of he's the element of that's accessible meaning the rebb said over here that is something that's very powerful it's like a but the or is too bright but the sadikim they take the and they take the they take the Torah and they learn it strong powerfully and therefore they're able to connect to it to connect to the um therefore since Jacob was the aspect of this person that had he was able to bless his kids with that when and this was bas a lot of these now that we speak about are when was coming after Yak and As says where all these these people you have this huge camp you know we left you were just alone and Now couple years later the Jews came. He says these are the the children that was that was graced me. Um and it's not so clear over here because it says that heavu gave the blessing of therefore when he was expressing who these people were to he said these are the ones that I' I've been blessed with and I've blessed them with not there because he was not yet born. Therefore his brother gave him the many many years later and he said give you should give you grace. So it's interesting that that that's what he gave him because that's what he's saying over here that the whole idea is that is the element of because he has both both and he was blessing all his children with this. Now if all of his children got it, so why was the one to give because had more of the strength of this was more inclusive of who was that's not the literal way of tightening up the usually you put the comma over there so to speak so on and so forth. But um the Z and many other explained was the full of the of the giving over of the tradition was given to they were like one in the end of when we hear the which really means like a majestic sh was um how do you touch it like a firstborn sh and his majesty but the Reb is going to take apart the and show how it refers to what he was saying. Is the aspect of we said to gaze of you have to gaze to look at light. What does that have to do with anything? is like a shine of light illuminates for the person in every single way even in a place where it's very very dark or was dark illuminates it to see what it is then to come close to Hashem through that it's interesting that of Reb uses again and again this of to gaze to look. So a lot of times we have the lion of histo and with back bad things. So what is histoloas? Histolas is it means to gaze it almost means to steer like we say don't stare at the at the ladies you know like don't you stackle there. What what is it that someone's steering? Like why would anyone steer? You know, you look at what you want to look at, what you're supposed to look at, but then something catches your eye, an advertisement, a person, this or that. There's something happening there. Wow. You you you all of a sudden you steer at it, you know, like sometimes someone staring at another person because it's something. So the Reb is saying over here is that Hashem is everywhere. Hashem is in every single thing and every single moment that we are in. So therefore, we have to steer steer at the existence that we're going through. stare at everything that you're looking at and and look at it with the eyes of wonder that was right now in a conversation in a in a an embrace with me and whatever is happening right now and to just give that histo like to look and to realize everything that's happening over here is is from and unbelievable the there there's um it just struck me once that we say the earth is filled with it's filled it's filled and it struck me once Maloy is m from not. It has the word not not like no. It sounds interesting that the word to represent who fills all of earth is no. So then I thought about deeper and m is taka exactly how we could we could understand it. We go along life and things flow. The light turns green. We go through it. We got a good parking spot in the front of Sha's not across the street. Everything's going or we park in the rabbi spot. So whatever it is, we go and and things are flowing okay and we say Hashem, thank you. Hashem, thank you. Hashem is beautiful. Amazing. But to the deepest depths, maybe maybe we're not a thousand% sure that Haku is there. Things are rolling, things are good, things are working out. Then all of a sudden, we hit something. I was just now kids. I was like, "Okay, we'll make the first barbecue of the year, you know, nice day." a couple of the kids. So, I got some hot dogs, a little chicken, and we turn on the grill that's been there for 25 years. The same Weber grill. It's been knocking for years and years and years. We turn it on and we're we're grilling away and then we start to see like some flames and it's very strange that we're seeing flames. So, like, okay, you know, barbecue grills sometimes get like a nice up, you know, some oil and all of a sudden the whole thing was on fire. We had a thing of water. reported out like it was like mom was like fire flying everywhere. It wasn't normal. Like basically melted the bottom part that was feeding it gas and everything. So I'm like okay the sader okay plan A doesn't work. We take all the halfcooked food and we put it into the oven my nice digital oven that's been working for for 3 4 years pretty new. And we turn it on to broil. Nothing's going on. It's like like 100°. So I'm like okay. So play with it again and again. The thing is broken. So I'm like okay. I found some pan. I start cooking everything up. I tried to salvage run the show. We made it happen just in the nick of time. That's why I'm a little late. But then the good is that if I was running the show, the grill would have worked. Everything would have been on time. I would have been exactly on time. The kids would have been sleeping already. Everything would have been perfect. But says, "Sometimes you see why ash and then I met this guy and I made a million dollars." But often you don't see the million dollars. You don't see what happened. But you know me from all the nos that says yeah yeah you think that's gonna work no you think that's gonna work then no saying I fill the earth I I don't have any delusions that I feel I didn't do that because if it was up to me I wouldn't do it that says I don't know you know he knows exactly what he's doing and he's telling us and really the deepest love is that he's just telling us I exist take it easy I have everything under control everything's good. You just keep flowing with me and recognizing that I'm in control and that's the greatest goodness that you could possibly get. So that was just a thought from this idea of that we're we're always gazing we're always looking not necessarily we're always going to find that in the sense that we're going to understand every single thing in the world but we're going to find the deepest which is that there's there's now the ends off with one of the uh the bunch of in the beginning of the he's going to go through the which are these extremely esoteric mystical far out um gumaras and babas And uh my kids just got a a kids book with these Rabana stories all written out and it in the book they made it sound like they're all dreams. But I went and said this one of I was eating by Kramer's and someone said that all these things are all just uh you know they're not real. He pulled out a nadim or somewhere and he looked up at a marsha and he just showed him that they're masha holds that you have to learn all these kut. But either way the reb is learning them up as what they mean but then he's expounding upon them and showing you deeper depths of what these gar could be referring to. That's one nuda. Another nikuda is that from what I understood in the impressive is that every single time the reb brings down these stories and these afterwards there's always an addition he's proving the he learned till now from in amazing ways but he's always going to you're always going to find an addition if you look deeper deeply enough and over here it's very very uh very blet it's very very clear what the additions are and we're going to see that now when the rabbi goes through this so raana says like this hi gala then these stories are mamish like Disney. They're they're out of this world. Um, there was a wave. We were going on a ship. Many of these stories aren't ships. And there was this massive tidal wave that was threatening to sink the ship. And it seemed like it was like a spark, the with a fire that was white at its head. Beria on its head. Now, the Reb adds in the rash over here. Rashbam is the pish on this. The Reb is not just adding in pers just to have the pi but he brings this into the whole explanation of the which is quite unbelievable that he's explaining this based on the with the so what did there was this huge wave that was about to you know delu the ship so they took a stick that had engraved on it which is name and they beat the wave and the wave went down and they were saved Wild, great, amazing story. Great, great little clip to do. What does it mean? So now the Reb is going to explain. So he says the gala is this is referring to the PK that he brought down in the beginning where he spoke about the kingship, but it's on it's from the from the side of evil. They explained with the um the fool does not desire wisdom. He doesn't desire to understand things. He just whatever his heart is feeling, whatever his heart is gal, whatever his heart is showing right now, I want to eat. I want to sleep. Everything that's what it is. So the gal is just whatever is revealed the superficial feelings of whatever anyone's feeling without going any deeper. So that's the metabolis threatening to sink the ship. What is the ship? Something that's hidden. Something that's very hidden is something that's right. The um the gold and the silver are in Fort Knox. They're not hanging out in the streets. Hanging out in the streets is less less stuff. So anything that's really hidden hidden is really so here he's saying that it was coming to sink and to throw down the this aspect of like you started off in the of holy that you're looking to see what's deeper what's really going on and not just grabbing whatever you feel like that the is always trying to overwhelm. Now he explains It looks like this white fire that a fire with white a white tip. What does that mean? In the beginning doesn't just come to a guy. He's sitting and learning and he's diving and he's he says what are you doing? Just go have a beer and hang out. What are you sitting in? He comes and he says, "You know, you need a break right now. You've been learning for so long. It's going to be a big big talis if you go out and have few cookies and some coke and hang out with the boys and have a cigarette. It'll refresh you." He comes with mitzvah and he says, "It's a mitzvah to do it." Even though really where you were holding, you could have gone for another five, 10 minutes, even another two minutes. But comes in, he says, "It's a mitzvah to stop. It's a mitzvah to go do something else." He he mislabbish like the famous line on him. speak you know on such a point is that he comes with mitzvah and that's why what does this mean so explain it's a white fire so fireish the thing we always speak about the passion you have to have passion talking it's white white is so he's talking about a fire that's white but ends off and he's reading into every word of the bam it's a white fire so it seems like amazing But it's not. It seems like a mitzvah. It's coming with all the dressings of a mitzvah, but it's the that's obvious addition that the Reb wasn't stressing before that the always starts off with kind of kind of um seducing us in ways that we think that we're doing the right thing and they're messing us up. And in the story took a stick that was engraved. What does this mean? Like he explained it in in this in this mime that the way to subjugate through is what is it? It's just the of this is something you look in the footnotes he brings down from around 20 sources. And the Reb speaks about this a lot in one of the I was learning earlier this year. Um and it's that the toy the the toy is basically one big shame of but when you want to call someone you call him by his name and it's very beautiful because you call someone by the name and they come right away they come to you the whole being comes to you because everything is in encapsulated in the name of someone but being that the the is so large gave us a gift of the has in its totality is one long 600,000 letter name of Hashem but how do we access that we learn. We learn each word, each pik, each letter and it makes sense and we learn we learn morals out of it and we learn out of it and we and we we see all sorts of beautiful things from the and that's the basic way that each time that we're saying this from each time that we say a word in the we learn it. We're basically taking a little microm and we're which is Hashem's name and we're we're calling Hashem. We're just saying Hashem, Hashem, Hashem, Hashem. Every word that you say you're saying, it reminds me of a story that I just once randomly walked into. I thought I was coming for the but apparently I got the wrong night and it was the kabales here. So I didn't understand one word that he was saying and he was going on and on with Sheamus and Sheamus and Zak and Zach and and it was all in the first three words of of he was going this and that and Sheamus and everything. I was just listening and just looking at his face. It's beautiful. It's awesome. It's fire the nephesh and they don't understand anything at the end of the show there's a that's always very like and he's like very and he says okay so you told us that is this when we're saying what do we think what do we say what do we mean so he smiled and he goes has every word that you say it's just hashem What are you speaking about and this everything is just calling out to Hashem. So the Reb says over there in that every single word of just saying Hashem Hashem you're just calling Hashem but it's in ways and that are small enough that you could absorb it and then when you absorb more and more and moreish get the tremendous level of connection through that. So that's why he's saying that the is so that's nice. The Torah is of Hashem but the Torah is also an aspect of why. So the first thing is it says in the Gmorrah was contrary to all of the ten commandments that are these big rectangular rounded were square they were there 6x6 they have this element of that's that's in their sides in the story took ana stick which is sticks so it had engraved in of like we said that it was the is also now again it's all spinning around the same idea there's because the were the is of and this stick the letter VV is like a stick like a little stick you hold on to it the is we said before that this huge wave that was coming to sink the ship was actually the was trying to overcome the of so how do you get rid of that? How do you bite? How do you beat that? Only through the is adding another huge huge um idea. He's saying we have to through the what is trying to do to every this beautiful is coming to make manish crazy just totally mentally when gets into a person famous line that said he said that I never met anyone normal until I met people were like until you met was the least normal human being that anyone ever saw video he's talking about someone you know, fasted from shabas to shabas. when he got older he did this from from you know 4 in the morning till 9 at night straight uh crying and then you know he would sit by kdesh sometimes for 3 hours in the vac like was revealing like is normal and he explained yeah because the rebs says over here that anyone who has mentally insane like he says over here the next line like it says in inra's crazy you have was a huge sadic and he was running after to kill him and then after the whole story and it says you got this crazy to kill and afterwards it says that you have to believe that he's a huge so every single person has this that's sayingb had very very little if not any if anything he was normal didn't have everyone else we're all little Mish a little crazy varying degrees. So he's saying that the makes a person crazy. Mish crazy now. So he's going to explain how that has to do with with uh with what we were saying is a very interesting line just like at least for sure in the 1800s if I I mentioned this line on my breast today and yesterday in the was was a little bit up in arms and they said basically he's talking about genuinely um crazy or criminal psych psychotic people that the only way to deal with psychotic people that are mish that could kill people and things like that you have to put them in straight jackets and lock them way also in those olden days they would have people that you know would be possessed with debbooks and things like that and they had to use all sorts of incantations amulets and stuff like that I don't think you see it as much today but the idea is that they would put them they would beat them to make sure that they recognize that what they're doing is insane wrong and they can't do it and they would put sheamus on them so is an aspect of sticks like we explained it was vav is a and it was all with this we beat and we subjugate and you can get rid of all this insanity that has entered into us into a man right it was basically that the stick had what does that mean it It's meaning it was the stick in the shell is the idea of having um the which is to beat down and to and to uh extricate the from within just to to bring that nuda out maybe in a way that's slightly more palpable for for nowadays um sense of a stick and to put Sheamus and stuff if you want to put it down to more of like today's day and age. So there's um I would understand it that when a person's doing a veroa, when a person feels that desire to do an a vera, so the first thing is you have to you have to beat them with a stick. You have to be strict. You have to have boundaries and you have to say, "Listen, I know that right now you're feeling like you want to do this. Just try not to do it. Just you have to let's say they had a guy with filters on the phone filtering your phone. do everything you can to make sure that you're protected and that you're not going to fall into this thing and you're not going to have the test. And even when you're having the test, just try not to do it. There was a famous story, I think it has a little bit to do with it with the uh with the Turkey prince, the famous story from that the prince of the king became crazy and went naked under the table pecking at the at the crumbs under the table and he said, "He's a turkey." And so everyone came and they had all the psychologists and psychiatrists and the magicians and everyone. No one could heal the the the the turkey prince. He was he was a turkey until one adviser said, "Just listen to what I say. Follow my orders." And it's going to seem crazy, but just listen to me. And he got naked himself and he went on the table pecking away just like the prince. So the guy the prince looks up after a while and goes, "What in the world are you doing here? Are you crazy?" He says, "What are you doing here?" He says, "I'm a turkey." He says, "I'm also a turkey." Okay. So they were turkeys. They were having a great time pecking away. At a certain point he, you know, points that he should get his underwear. So he puts on his underwear. And then Turkey prince goes, "What are you doing?" He goes, "What? I can't be a turkey and wear underwear." Okay. So the turkey prince also put on underwear and so on and so forth. He got dressed. Finally they were dressed. Finally he sat at the table. Each time he would say, "What? Turkey can't sit at the table." The nikuda was that eventually he was totally healed. He was an insane turkey, but he was sitting at the table like a mench acting like a prince. And what's is that there's ways to bring normality even though we might be crazy and know might be doing crazy things and crazy times but there are ways that we can we can bring the stick like I think the bala says that to to to um to tie us with cords of tremendous love. The stick also could be love when a person is filled with and energy and love. So that also has a tremendous kayak. You know they say that the tyra form is corroborated with the ta for learning tra when a person learns a that they really enjoy that they get a from. So that breaks all the so whenever you have all these things always have something that we can hopefully beat with a stick. The other idea is that names that also when a person is faced with often it very much helps just to name it right a person's angry. So they're angry. They're not thinking that they're angry. They're just angry. This guy, I'm gonna kill him. I'm gonna burn. And sometimes when you just sit there and you go into a quiet place and you say, "What? What's going on now? I am angry. Why I'm angry? I'm angry at that guy." And you speak out just what's going on. Name it. I am, you know, do something crazy right now. Why? Ah, sometimes you realize that you're hungry or you're tired or when you speak it out, when you name it, when you when you have Sheamus on it, a lot of times, I mean, part of the whole diagnosis of of psychiatry and psychology is that just find out what it is. When you have a a diagnosis, you see what it is and already you could start to to fix it and heal it or just even sometimes just speaking it out that I'm just filled with this ta right now. I can't do anything about it. It says in which is in one of the tell you my going to say it out. You're going to take it all take it upon yourself. Very often I found that you be filled with something that's that's overwhelming you and you just sit in a quiet place and you say, "Hashem, this thing I have no control over. I can't. It's even one of the 12 steps. I have zero control over it. I'm just giving myself up. Don't but you speak it out you you clarify what it is and you just give it up to he takes off takes it off your shoulders a lot just to finish off the now brings it back to the began he said sure is to gaze to stare to look to gaze at this of the next part of that we're going to speak about the who go in the of through learning with strength like we said it gives strength to the holy so that it can connect with and then when you speak to people your words go in because this brings up the scabel. Just to end off with a quick story with the two minutes that we have. There was a king that was in a forest dressed as a peasant and he got captured by the bandits and the bandits robbed him and they wanted to kill him because now they didn't know who it was but now he knew who they were where they were. So he said I need to think quickly. He said, "I'm going to tell them something." He said, "You don't It's not worth it to kill me. I can make tapestries, tremendously unbelievable tapestries, and you'll gain you'll get profit." So they said, "What do you have to lose? Give me a tapestry." They give it to the king, and he weaves and sews and sews and weaves for like two days. They come back, they see this tapestry. It's like pretty says they're like, "This is what you have." He goes, "You guys are connoissurs. You know anything about tapestries?" He says, "Go to the shook. bring it to. They're also going to say like you fools, you know that that it's nothing. Wait till you get a guy. They're going to say it's $10. $1,000. Don't go under $1,000 for this thing. When a guy gives you $1,000, you know that he's some of the cops how galdi this tapestry is and see maybe he even wants more. They went to the shook and it causing upro. Everyone was like, "What is this mug selling a tapestry that's worth 10 bucks for $1,000?" There was a kid walking by and he said, "Something's going on. What's he said, where'd you get this tapestry from?" They said, "What do you mean you care?" He looked at it and he saw that there was a letter intricately woven inside of it. Like hidden, but you could see it. He says, "I'll take it for a thousand." Ah, you have any more? Yeah, we can bring you. They started to bring him every day, every couple of days. Tapestries, tapestries, tapestries. Finally, after many, many days, he realized Kaka was a message. I am the king. And he went to the palace. They coordinated. Eventually, the king hinted to them exactly where he was. They came and they saved the king. The king said, "What can I repay you with? Anything in the kingdom?" He said, "What what can you repay with? I saved the king's life. What do I need a reward for saving the king's life?" He said, "Okay, I understand. Your reward will be that anytime you need anything, you and all your children have access to the palace. You just walk in, say who you are, and you got it." So that was the story. I think a nimshaw could be very very well very easy to understand and based very much on this that we're learning is that we have the and the we see it's worth more than alim of it's the most expensive thing and yet if you look at it it's very nice it's got laws it's got some nice stories there's a lot of books that have nice stories a lot of law books have nice a lot of laws like what is it and they're selling it for thousands and thousands of dollars lmi there's something hidden if aid caps there's something hidden inside that there's hidden inside that's hinting to him not only that there's laws and rules but he's saying hi I am here and he's showing you where exactly he is eventually you're going to when you learn it in that view you're going to see ah really is there and the whole time he's just saying where he is and eventually you'll find and then he's going to say what do you want for a reward and you say what I want a reward I just I found hashem what reward do I need is going to say ah you got thee The reward is anytime you want you have pure access to me with a connection.