Likutei Moharan Lesson 5 Part 3 with Rav Yoeli Klein at Scheiner's

people last week now. >> Okay. Yeah, we're getting to the crux of the third chair in to bring us into the swing of things. Reb said every person has to say the whole world is created for me and therefore I have the responsibility to fix the world and to fill the world and to dav for the world. That's what he said. And he said though this last part of it which is it gets split into two two aspects. There's that's orardin and after you have to know if there's already a that was already passed. So then you have to dive in with a mimer. You have to basically hide it in some sort of story or muscle something like that. And if it's not then you can go just you know speak straight. But the Reb said how do you know this? How in the world can anyone know if there's like in if something something was passed or not? So over here he says that the way to know it is through doing mitzvah. So he says that through um basically the way he set it up is that the whole structure of time, space and human consciousness is all split into different uh is split into in is injected within the mitzvah. The mitzvah are the the is found in the mitzvah themselves. So when you person goes into a mitzvah and he does it the he just does it for the mitzvah itself. He doesn't have any uh need or want or desire. As a matter of fact, he doesn't want anything else other than Hashem through the mitzvah. So he taps into like the pulse of when he taps into the pulse of Hashem. So then he can now feel how Hashem is feeling. So if he feels that there's flowing and he always has that, he knows that everything's good. Hashem is is like so to speak going smoothly into the world. If he feels that there's something wrong with it and you could tell exactly where that that that kilk is and you could tell exactly what it is if it's let's say he's not feeling something to do with the head of the year or the head of the the people of the head of and he can see that there's some some kil in some against something and that's how you could tell. So last week we were speaking about how do you get to the sob is going to speak about it straight up. You don't need all my from last week. How do you get to the we're up to in the main place of is in the heart in the heart is the seat of the emotions. So you feel you feel joy in your heart. you put joy into my heart. [laughter] So if that's the place, okay, so we all have we all have this because it's in our heart. He says it's impossible to feel that until you straighten out until you remove the twistedness, the crookedness that's within the heart, you should have a straight heart. Then you says in the say tomorrow night, those who have a straight heart have this joy. So we're going to go into a little bit. We'll read a few more lines and we'll go back to to maybe get a little bit more amus in this over here. He says, so saying the only way you could get it is if you have straight heart. So where does this um how do you get this if you have a twisted heart? and you straighten the heart through thunder means thunder. When the person hears thunder, there's a loud bang and he gets all startled. So it some somehow the garra says that it straightens out the heart. Like the heart was a little twisted and now it's straightened out. That's what the Garra says. So obviously we're not going to, you know, now move to the Midwest where they have a lot of thunderstorms in order to get the straight in our heart. That's not what the Reb is saying. Says that that that applies to he says that your voice specifically when you're ding and you ding with a coil with a strong and powerful voice this makesh this makes thunder so to speak. a sound. When the voice goes out and it hits the clouds, the rain clouds, it makes a loud sound to all of creation. This is um this is Rah. This is thunder. So, we're going to stop here. Pause for for a minute or two. >> It comes with rain. I mean, the the imagery is that there's a sound that smacks into the rain clouds and makes a loud sound. I don't know necessarily if that's the way um the physical manifestation of thunder happens. When I was a kid, they said it was two big clouds that are smashing into each other. I don't know if that's necessarily of how it works. Is speaking something deeper. And is going to say that this means to take your voice to bring out your voice kala and smash it into your m which he's going to explain is your brain is your your thoughts and then that'll be heard and that's so far he's saying that the are something that you have to get um you have to get out. So now first of all the rabbi was speaking about he says that a heart cannot feel joy when it's twisted when it's crooked. Now what is that? First just want to compare it to a famous line. I don't know the source. Maybe someone else knows the source of it. If it has a source, but it's definitely one of the things that sounds like it has a source which they say that the nothing more whole than a broken Jewish heart. You've heard this saying probably it's probably from some >> rabb they say that that right that that there's something beautiful about a broken heart. A broken Jewish heart. The question is, so why is a broken Jewish heart something amazing and a twisted Jewish heart something terrible over here? That's and what's really the difference between a broken heart and a twisted heart? Sounds like both of them are pretty uh not functioning. A broken heart, twisted heart, what >> a twisted going bent. No >> bent. Yeah. >> Bent. >> Twisted. Bent. Yeah. So, so what's the what's the nikuda? So, the you could see it from from what a broken heart is. You know, when we say that a broken Jewish heart is so whole, is so beautiful. What does that mean, you know, like a a y that's sitting there and he's all depressed and it's all sad. That's that's a beauty of a y. That's not the beauty of that's not what that line means. A broken Jewish heart means that it's broken open. It means that the heart generally the emotions don't want to deal with stuff. So, we close our emotions. We seal it off. We tighten it up and we say, "Everything's [snorts] good. I'm good. Everything's good. I'm on top of the my game. I'm on top of the world. Everything's fine." And that's nice. It works sometimes. But at a certain point, you have to come and you will come to a place where things ain't working. And you have a choice when things aren't working, not going my way. Things are not happening the way I want it. It could be massive things in life. be you didn't get the parking spot in front of shiners and uh you know and some other guy sitting there an arrived taxi is blocking you for 4 minutes you know whatever it is so you have a choice just in the beginning of gimmel you have a choice of how to take that you can you could close off your heart and say everything's good I'm in charge or you can get angry or you could open up your heart and start to to open it up and see what's inside and see why am I getting angry what's what's happening inside when you open your heart and you break it open a little bit and you start to to open it and and let it out Let out whatever is inside of it. So then you come to see all the parts of what makes you up. It says you should serve with all your heart. So means that try to do good. Try to be with the and if comes you smash it and you go run away from it and you don't let it have any over you. But over here it means something else. means with the you take the you take all those places that are stuffed up and that are bad and that are uncomfortable and you open them up and you you speak to it says says that you know we should purify should purify our hearts to serve him normally to serve him with truth so the first gam first d I think it's the first gamarra says means to cleanse to empty out like the day is empty the day is passed so it could mean that doesn't just mean purify like how do I purify my emotions? I I I wash my emotions in something. What do I where's the shampoo for my emotions for my heart? It means to empty, to open it up and to express it. That is the way that you purify your emotions. Before it's like this scary, dirty, weird, you know, covered over thing and now you just say, "Hashem, I'm afraid of X, Y, and Z. I don't like this, Y." and you open it up and then it doesn't become it opens itself up and it becomes something um normal and healthy. And so that's like the opening of the heart. That's the the the saying that here that the the um the the broken heart that's a beautiful thing is when you're able to do this when you're able to open it up. You know we say so is the is also the um is the border. So, open up our borders. Open up the borders. All these barriers that I'm holding back from you from expressing everything that's going on. And that's going to be your praise. I it's going to be sad sometimes. I It's going to be angry sometimes. I Yeah. But when it's open and you're opening it all to in a healthy way, that's the biggest praise. And then you're with all your heart, you're being able to serve. You're giving over to everything you have. That's the beauty of a broken heart. A twisted heart is kipshuta is also is twisted to one side right. So, it's basically saying when I'm happy, when things are going great, amazing, and I'm going to pump and I'm going to say, "Hey, I'm in the top of the world." And then when it's other other way, nothing exists. I'm the worst. Everything's bad. World is pure darkness, depression, anger, and then all of the other stuff that comes in after depression and anger and all that stuff. Why? Because you're twisted to one side. You're not able to open up your heart. So I think that's the Reb is saying is here and it comes out from that that he's describing here is not necessarily the joy that we see as always being I'm always upbeat right I remember Ysef Kardud he has on one of his CDs a live show and he says it is a great mitzvah to always be upbeat I love that [laughter] happy joyous upbeat and it's true that's the do everything you try to get everything you try to get always upbeat. But there's places and times for always also opening ourselves up and to recognizing it's not always going to be like that. And there there are those places that are genuinely meant to be there. They're dark. They're dirty and they're ugly and they're not comfortable. But when you bring them out to you open them up in a healthy normal way, just speaking them to to him, then they don't they don't have that that that negativity to it. Says it's from some sort of you have to look him up if you don't know him. is a teacher of Torah in very special we spendash usually together in Oman. So he says that could be at a shiva house. You could person could be sitting shiva and he's why is that you're totally open to where you are. You're totally aligned with where how you're feeling. A person could be crying crying crying crying. He's because that's called he's totally aligned with who he is and he's with it. >> You release you release what it means. Okay. >> It's right. It's being right. It's being being with being present. Open with emotions, >> right? Open with your emotions and being there. >> Mindfulness, >> being mindful, being present, right? All those ideas are are >> accepting. Accepting. >> Yeah. Yeah. Being totally present with what you're feeling and whatever it comes out and being being open with it. So that that's the that's the I think the type of over here that the Reb is saying is is that when you open your heart to being present for everything and you don't let it just twist to one side and say that's the only side that's then that brings the slay that brings a straightness of the heart. Straightness meaning that you're you're straight with everything that's going on. It it gets a gets a straightness. Now he says over here after this what we read already that are the thing that does this right? How do you straighten out the heart is through ramen. So we said that it doesn't mean to uh you know to try to hear thunder or lightning. It means that you should he says the the when you release when you express yourself in with a loud voice. So this is like a it's a thunderous voice and it and it straightens out the heart. Soaput and again every from is meant I remember once I was house Kramer and some guy was saying all these stories and they're not and he says blow me out and forever and he opened it up and he says that that that Marsha says that every story is also so every is also and that's probably the deepest and highest way of understanding it says to to dab in loudly And you see in that was a big thing. One of the first things that said when he came to brea was where's the where's the you know where's the the ding with with loud power you know where's the kalina ding. So that is and he says when you do that when you scream the ding when you say it loudly it it hits hits your brain and we're going to see that in a couple of seconds. It makes a roim on your m it it moves your your intellect and that then drips down we're going to see into the heart. Um but I think the you know another way of of understanding that and I you know I still I saw this once when I was uh I was by once and there was a very you know special I'm sure he is very special and he was and he was like mom is like like not just like with like and everything like you know and like I came a couple of days and like I see that he does this every day the whole off for an hour. He's like like doing like crazy movements and everything. And it struck me after a certain, you know, couple months of seeing him do this. I was like, "Wow, it's amazing. You could be going on top of your lungs, ah, and you're thinking about breakfast and eggs and you could be making like motions like this and like that and like is it going to be hard-boiled today? What's my wife making?" You know, like cuz once you get into a seder of things, everything's becomes ro. There's nothing that doesn't become total and utter wrote and then you're just thinking about random stuff, right? Unless you work. >> Yeah. Everything, right? Uh so to scream and is galdig, but the curl that is speaking about probably is speaking more >> a voice meaning the voice of the words meaning the words matter more than the strength of the words. It could be totally in a quiet spin whispering and those words have more power than that you know kiner ashray why because that's what makes a ram and we'll read a few more lines and we'll see how that makes sense in what the Reb is saying let's read a few more lines um because it it flows much better that way uh so right after the it says thunder comes from power of me is my name. That's the we make thunder strength power that when you're domining, say it powerfully. So now he's going to get to the crux of it. This loud voice smashes into the rainclouds. What are the rainclouds? This is your intellect, your brain. from your brain. It rains. That's why they're called rain clouds because your brain rains, not ei from the whiteness of your brain. What does this mean? That's what he's going to say. Basically, the the imagery is that your brain is thoughts, right? The emotions are probably a bunch of bundles of thoughts, right? That's why they are motion. Like you see a picture, right? Picture says a thousand words. That's why advertisements are so powerful because you get a thousand words in a in in a third of a second. You see beautiful picture of pizza, hot, fresh, and you're like, "Ah, I need pizza." You know what happened? Like you you weren't even hungry a minute ago. No, I need pizza. Why? Because it's just like the whole thing just overwhelms your emotions. You're like, "Yes, that's what I want. And that's a that's that's but it's it's that's that's an emotion. But thoughts are much more calculated. Thoughts as long as as as far as we know when they're they're organized, they're going to drop. That's the only way they can have a conscious, you know, effect on you. If you want to control them, it has to be very very controlled controlled substance, your thoughts. You know, you have to have one thought after another, right? Like Roario Kaplan says in his book on meditation he says sit in a room quiet do like you know whole your whole setup you're not tired I've tried to meditate when I'm tired whenever I do that out for a good hour you know that's my meditation but if you not tired the room is quiet no one's bothering you you're comfortable and just close your eyes what do you see for the first 10 minutes psychotic stuff see flashes and flashes and thoughts and screams and noises and then everything is just flashing through your mind like thousand thoughts a minute. That's what happens. And then after 10 minutes all of a sudden they slow down and you start to see one thought, two thoughts, three thoughts and it slows down, slows down, slows down, slows down until it comes you could just hold the thought and just think one thought after another thought or you can use a mantra whatever the the the avoid of of meditation is. But that's the idea um of your thoughts. Your thoughts are they're they're chaotic. That's because there's tons of thoughts happening at the same time. But if you want to have an intelligible conversation, the only way to do it is you have to constrict your thoughts and bring them out one word, one letter at a time and speak them out. That's what's beautiful about learning Tyra is that it it organizes your thoughts. It's like, you know, Gomorrah, they say like, why are we learning Gomorra? So, a lot of people say to train you how to think. Now, there's truth to it cuz by breaking yourself and trying to read the words, understand what they mean, and then touch them and then see what's the question and what's the answer, it trains your mind how to break yourself and to have your thoughts organized. And this is the idea of the thoughts being organized. Now when the when the um when the co or he's saying now hits the a hits the which are this organized place of thoughts. So those thoughts now when they get organized and when they have a roim that's not just uh you know like we said random things that are jumping into your head when you have when you're able to make a rum into the thoughts through the coil when you're able to speak and scream let's say and it has a rum right that's what the the the comparison to the voice of ramen when you have you're just sitting around like like you know sometimes it happens and like a thunder just comes like it shocks you awake it like you're you're all of a sudden you're you're awake So too when you when you you scream the ding or when you when you say like you're when you speak intelligently into your brain. So then all of a sudden it makes a on your brain your brain is like moved when it's gura when it's done properly with strength your brain is moved it starts to think it starts to be like oh wow I got to I got to wake up something's got to change something's got to move I got to start thinking things through and coming out with something new. When that happens, these thoughts that now are beginning to come together in normal fashion, in a healthy fashion from the call that you're speaking, you're so they start to drip. That's the the imagery of the rain clouds, right? When the coal hits the rain clouds, so it it a um what does he say? It's it's right and now the tip and drop down and a voice a sound is heard in the in the creation, which means in our own self that the voice is heard in our own heart. It drips down from the which all the you know psychology says that emotions are just a bunch of tangles of thoughts but now you're actually focusing and trying to get your emotion like how you supposed to love Hashem how can I have an emotion so the is saying you you focus yourself you you uh have the curl that breaks into your brain and that brain drops thoughts into your heart ah now those thoughts are healthy thoughts that's now you're starting to get the straightening of the heart where you're able to now um tap into that joy. So that's the idea of what we said that it's dripping into your heart. So let's see how how how it continues. So when it hits the rain clouds a voice is heard now is going to the is going to connect us to a different the voice is heard in the in the gal. So literally the gagal is the you know the earth to the I think the I'm not sure if this is a quote from or if this is the in in the in the is also the the skull the skull where the brain is resides that's where the is heard when it's heard in the brain the co that you brought out creates a thunder in your head and it's heard the speech The the mouth speaks out wisdom which means the when you speak words it breaks into your into your brain and then it brings down into your heart a deep level of understanding. He has a little footnote here. I think that's an important uh you know I'm I'm amending that when the Ram comes when this um when this coil this voice has an effect on the brain and it comes down to the heart it affects the heartavana that the coil arouses which basically what he's getting to that this brings the person to kavana If you have then your words are hurt. If you have your is a power is a strength. So then your voice creates this thunder. Thunder comes from mean your voice is heard. Your voice is heard in your own heart. That fear is that which allows us to hear things. This is referring to the I believe. Praiseworthy. Lucky is he who to hear the voices from above from from through the through these powerful voices that are hitting into yourself and creating the heart. A heart that is listening. That the voice is heard through the voice. It is heard into the heart. This is the element. They're just going to finish up the caller. The sound of the rash the it's known as the of this is the of that was you know in the it's the ale that was prepared of creation this is connected to the that we say from what does it mean praiseworthy is the nation who know the chua. I've never, you know, I've never think of chua as knowing. You hear a chua? It's a sound like what is there to know about a chua? What what can I know about a true? Now he's saying no the is the is the ram is the voice. It's saying something. Okay, it's harder when it's the actual to to really hear that voice. But that's the idea. The idea is the guru the power of of the is that you're hearing the call and the call is breaking into your brain and it's going to bring down into your into your heart. That's the coil of the is pounding into your brain, the rain clouds, which by the way fits very well the way we were describing before that when you start to settle your mind, all you see is craziness because that's the clouds of the brain. That's why it's davka that when you when you start to speak and you start to have this call, it's going to hit rain clouds. Ah, your mind is such a beautiful thing. Yeah, but your mind in its natural state is sakotic. It's like all over the place. Unless you're, you know, one of these big Tik that are you know the the alter from Kelm I believe used to make a ne when he went to sleep of all his thoughts of the day thought that maybe I shouldn't have thought that I how many people can do that at the end of [laughter] the day we're lucky to make on our actions our words that's already too hard our thoughts forget about like not even not even in our da but he was able to do that thoughts but most people's thoughts are of are clouds are rainclouds they're filled with great things, but they're just cloudy. So when you hit it hits it, it breaks it. It it it pounds into the rain clouds and it starts to drip down. Now the Reb gives a little interesting thing. Now if you take and you hear the from a person who is a god-fearing Jew and you hear from him, You should not be afraid. You're not going to be worried. You have no reason to worry the whole year from these from I was I'm revealed to them and I also I appear to them. Someone mentioned to me as a side point I give it's good to have homework every week um how this fits in with I did not uh I did not on this but it would be definitely interesting idea to think about that there's lightning and thunder thunder and lightning are always synonymous and you could even know how far away the storm is by the lightning and counting thousand 1 thousand two each second is a mile you can know how far you the distance between uh the time distance between the lightning which is light which travels at 180,000 m [clears throat] per second versus sound which travels at around 600 miles an hour. So it's like you know very very slow comparatively. So the light's traveling it hits you right away and then the carl takes a couple of seconds. You see how far away it is over here the reb is specifically focusing on this idea of the rahim the thunder the brook I don't know how it fits in with this whole thing but he definitely mentions here at the end be interesting. Why is he saying you should not be worried of ramen if ramen was a good thing? >> Right. Right. So he says not to be worried. So >> ramen >> from the ramen. So >> more conversation before was how we should be creating ramen but with the voice of pillow. >> Right. Right. Exactly. So that's that we want the ramen. The ramen are vur that are good. Um but I think just when I was reading it now it just struck me that and I'm gonna look back it is a raisin you could be madak in every single word. So he said leag wasn't just a a typo. It was a specific you shouldn't be worried. Meaning when a person encounters this call and again we were describing the call as being loud or like incisive words that you yourself are bringing out that are like we said the broken heart that are breaking open your heart breaking open all your insides and bringing up stuff that is uncomfortable that's like oh I don't have any problems with that. No you bring it up bring it out speak it. When you do that, it's like it's like a it's like a a it's like it's like what's going on here? I have this I don't have any anger issues. I don't have any issues of this type or that type. I'm totally fine with this thing. Right? But when you bring it up, I once heard um from Rabiki he said we have these gumaras that the sadikim and the garra says that said if this z would have passed the base I would have run out like a come on like kany like the big sadikim they run like doesn't make sense even now. We don't even think of it like that. Like it doesn't, you know, like some Reba is going to have a tya. He said, "No, they have the same tyasu. They have even bigger tas, but they're so open with their tya. They're so in contact in touch with it that they they know what it is and therefore they protect themselves from it. Right? But we I don't have such a ta guy. I'm not so I'm going to hang out and we go and do we put ourselves in situations psychologically and physically that we get tested and don't always don't always pass because of that you know so the idea is that when we when we have these ramen when these raim are the coil that's bounding into our our head and they're going in there so it could be a scary thing could be something that's like I don't want to do this like why would I want to do this I'm good like just leave me alone I don't need to have thunder in my head. [laughter] My head's fine. Just leave me alone. But what he's saying is that when you tap into the the when you when you when you hear it from someone, it's a different sound. You begin to hear it in a way that you're like, "Oh, this is something powerful that's kind of shaking. Wakes me up, but it's a good wake up. It's something that like as uncomfortable as it is, it's so healing. It's so opening and so healing that I'm like I'll go back for more. You know, it's like in the beginning of learning Gamarra like mish in the beginning beginning I don't know sometimes people don't remember the beginnings um because they're in eighth grade or whatever sixth grade fifth grade and they you know just flow into the gamarra. But for some people that don't take that beginning and they have to begin much later in their lives. So the beginning of learning beginning of learning gamarra you're like this is torturous. This is pure torture. I don't understand the words. And even when I crack my head, I don't understand the words. I don't understand the question. But what is really asking? And then answer and then puzza just it's and then you break and you crack and you break and then you get a question, you get an answer and you get a sug. And then you're like, ah, there's something here. There's something here. It's hard. It's annoying. It's like it's it's it's a ram. It's it's it's a gura. But you begin to taste it. The sweetness of it, you're like, there's something here. There's something good. And you'll go back. I think that's maybe what the leag is is that you're right it's a it's a guru and we want that but it it could be something that just causes us anxiety like another thing I have to do another avoid that I need to do another thing that's going to bring me closer to Hashem what else you want me to do put on for fill in my head you know like I already put on to fill it's like what do you want no he's saying just when you taste this and this is this is something that you know loud fela when you get into a gooding also it could be like the quietest whisper that when you whisper these things into yourself when you're driving in the you know on the throughway you start whispering to yourself what's going on what's happening what's happening in my life why am I triggered with this what does it mean how can I deal with it where's it coming from and you start to do these things and the ramen start to hit your brain you're like oh all of a sudden it just opens up and you're like that's what's going on so it's it's at the same time intense but it's also beautiful I think that's what he says that when you when you have the from a when you have the few when you hear the tea. Something about that tea awakens this um this beauty of the beauty of the and then it allows you [clears throat] to be able to accept it without worry. you'll be able to go into that space without worry the rest of the day like say in different places he says you know should be most of the day just upbeat just try to be upbeat try to be happy try to be pleasant with people but always to take time to make sure that you have space to do this that's why he says is a it's an oil we have to dive in three times a day no it's a gift of like quietness separation, you know, nowadays with Charlie Kirk and all the getting all pumped up, Omar, everyone Shabbat, Shabas, you know, day of just like turn off everything and just you could just you could just tap back into yourself, tap back into your family, be a person. So, Hashem gives us that gift three times a day. And if we do this, we have some car rides, we have even more time just to tap into this place of of just allowing ourselves to open up to what's going on in our life. And then it should bring a tremendous gur of that bring into our brain proper thoughts and open ourselves up to drip down into our heart like always said to to open our heart to all of the emotions so that the heart then be so open that it can feel everything. And generally that's what I think we learned this in says the lititness test if you're doing this properly is how do you feel afterwards? If afterwards you feel depressed, you weren't doing in spite of this. You were aim this is bad and that's bad and why did this happen? Why is that guy doing this? Just scratching. Okay, something keep doing in spite of this. But over here the relig says that if afterwards you feel like ah such like peacefulness and joyh then you're getting to and you're doing that what we're discussing here is to take all the opportunities of open our heart and thank you for joining everybody. Zaku.