Likutei Moharan Shiur End of Torah 4 Shiur by Rabbi Yoeli Klein at Scheiner's

So >> we're holding in the and we're all the way at the end the >> like we've said the rebba brings down usually a in the beginning he goes on to give a whole explanation of various ideas in then at the end he kind kind of builds back into that pk weeds back into that pk what he was speaking about but also in the first bunch of tires He brings down these fantastical tales of Rabakana where says all these uh amazing stories. It's all the way at the end. There was one time I was going we were going on a ship and again it's very interwoven with the pir which is kind of like the rashi over there. So we're going to learn it together. I was going in a ship. We saw this kra over here the rash says dug is a fish. It was resting in it. It had sitting in it was anina which is a type of worm on the rash says sher kan. It's uh the uh art scroll of Liut Moran from Barrii translates as a mud eater. I was not able to find out what a mud eater is because it doesn't seem to pop up in any classic literature. But whatever it is, it's some sort of parasitical worm, a teeny worm. And it was in says it went into its nostrils. So here you have he's going he sees this huge fish with a worm in its nostrils. Okay. Now, over here in the bottom, it adds in and you'll see that later on that that he has the gear and the fish died because seemingly because of this this uh worm once it was dead the says he it basically spit him out. The water spit him out. Spit out this fish. Apparently the ocean doesn't uh doesn't is not able to hold dead things and it just washes it up on the shore and it washed it up to the shore. Now this fish was so large as one of the other we had a huge animal that it destroyed 60 cities. Says it was so large that it destroyed 60 cities. So this huge fish got thrown in there. Now again, it was killed by a parasitical worm the size of my uh the edge of my finger and it was so large that it got it destroyed 60 cities. Okay. Now the says now sad it was sad that these 60 cities got killed but now we had this huge fish sitting there. So the 60 cities around it said, "Oh, we have movie of food now." So they came and they and they ate it while it was still fresh. 60 cities were supported by this fish. Not only that, they says 60 other cities salted the fish to preserve it. That's how much how much meat this fish had. So they preserved it in salt and then they were able to take it to their place. Um and from one eye says 300 barrels of oil. The eye I guess is made up of oily substance. 300 barrels worth. We're talking about quite a large fish. Now they came back, whoever they were, they came back 12 months later to check it out. And now they saw that there was nothing left. Remember the old Garfield cartoon? They would always take the fish and eat it and they would just be left with bones. So he had just bones left. But what would they do? These were gargantuan bones. So they were they were um cutting them up into planks. So that from that so from the 60 cities that were destroyed from this fish now from the bones they were rebuilding those 60 cities. So of a story of uh fantastical sizes and proportions and and things. But now let's see what the uh what the reb says how this applies to the Torah that we were speaking about until now. And since this is going to go through the whole thing so we don't have to go through it again. We'll go through the the uh with through the story. was seeing is something that's um and it's therefore representative of kingship of malus which in the beginning of the Torah we were speaking about that in order to get to a certain level of understanding you have to lift up malus now malfus kingship rulership which as we develop the Torah also represents malas p which represents your your articulation of language is basically found by the but he was looking how can we lift it up a fish of course are called by dog should be prosperous we should multiply like fish they lay you know a thousand eggs and have a thousand kids at once so too we should be so so multiplied um should have so many children so much uh so much so Multitudes of yidden dug him always we say you know in chabas they everyone always wants to eat a dog and the famous stories of the rhniter how he would look for a certain certain fish he would throw the fish back and he was trying to find the fish are are are known as dugen also underneath the dugimar ali they're underneath the water where no eye in har could get to them so as long as we stay under the radar so to speak where we're we stay humble so we don't have any uh eyes upon So he was looking and he saw the dog the but it had some problem with it. It had an issue with it that it had this worm. So what does that worm mean? This is the we have this in that represents the nostrils. nostrils is the place of of the that it had a a animal in it. This this little worm meaning it had some sort of impur there's something that coming and messing with the you couldn't you couldn't just speak sometimes you try to speak you start and it's just not going you can't speak you don't know what to say you know when you're speaking it's not going or you're ding the words of the regular and it's just not going so wrong there was there was an impurity here what does he do what does he that this is what the Tory was referring to before that we said if you want to lift up if you want to lift up your mouth you should be able to speak properly and and really the Reb wasn't speaking about he wasn't focusing on that point yet you see this is like a new um twist on the on the idea but that when aid is trying to speak to Hashem so things are going to get all messed up from these impurities how do you lift up malas how do you lift up are words that they can speak and they can flow through these three three things that said which is connecting to giving which he said is giving and to speak out your heart in front of which is interesting to note that already now you see that that first of is already set over in three different ways he said to come close to the he said to see the face of the now he's So these three ideas as much as they're different ideas but they are all interwoven as meaning a similar idea of coming close to the is by seeing him even is already considered uh is coming close and the end of his speaks about these three levels that lift lift up aid from the top down. really we we said that the order was to start with connecting to the saddic and then giving to the saddic and then speaking to the he says in this story it goes from the other way goes from the top mesa we said that that people that are about to die they say voy so mis has this idea this concept of vid so he starts off saying do and the water like shot it out of both of these have a reference to throw your money out to it'll come back. So two over here but the is like throw your water upon the throw your bread upon the water. So that idea of throwing onto the water is refer is is hinted to over here is called a a um a shore or g here. He's saying it's of a fence. He um you know closes in he acts as the ghet for all the breakings and the breaches in that he's coming close to the this is a reference to he's coming close to him through these three things that he just did destroyed 60 cities. He said that once you get to this level of mis again we we we were really working the other way around. We were saying first see the and then we were saying to give and then we were saying get to the place that okay you fixed all your mid but now you have to know what do you do very nice you have no bad mid where do you go just chill out now no you have to have a path that's so he's saying now that you lifted up with the with this brings you to that clarity in This is referring to lowering and destroying the the and guiding the blind people. Like we said before that now he gives you a pathway that is tailor made for you for your 60 cities have to do with this that connects the idea of 60 to now refer now we're going to have to do a little said over there that there's four that come from the four different elements. There's the then you had which is just chilling and doing nothing and then you had which was us people that we have and we have all the good that we are able to to to to do. So he said that you have to fix them through these through these things. So now he's going to go back to those ideas. He said both of and which was he's saying that the upper they were they were um things that brought poverty which really brought death. He said that there's this uh a you know he referencing over there that the didn't actually die but they became poor but that was considered like they died like they and you fix that. So he's saying that they have this of of these two mid of which was and all these ga or fixed through giving sodaka to the like we said before that a person that has this ga doesn't really live in a world where anyone exists other than himself. He's a you know a king at the top of the mountain. He's the only one in the whole entire world that exists. And sudaka the whole idea is to recognize that that's not true that every person and everything in the world around us exists and therefore I'm giving. It's interesting to note that is from you know the idea of righteousness. Now it's interesting because if you look at it that there's that when I give something so then I'm losing it for myself. So it doesn't seem like a righteous thing to do. I don't even know why Hashem tells us to do this. Give something for I have it. Why would I give it to someone? You know, like why am I giving things to other people? It's Is this breaking of that ga? The ga is that it's mine. What what does it have to anyone else? Breaking of the ga is no not exists by you. You're part of a whole structure of the whole world. And just because you have it right now doesn't mean anything. It means who is flowing it through to you to to to to be a conduit for others. So you see another yin and you give it to them. That's the greatest that's the greatest righteousness that you're recognizing that taka you're you're you're in the you're in the the right place that you're doing the right thing. So here he says >> okay nice and so here he says that sedaka does this. It fixes those two things of of um of of that's the first level and they they salted 60 more that the 60 cities salted fish from this huge fish in the story. Um and they had food for for 60 cities. He's going down now. That was Dak which was just being down like D like a rock blah just and which was the exact opposite which was ty and all the desireous things that like weeds that keep growing and growing and never stop and we said over there that how does that make any sense that you can destroy them both with one thing of care seeing the okay had a mush over there that you know you could be very very tired and very blah but when a little kid sees his mother, he jumps up. Okay, nice. And then when he's all in his tyus and he's all excited about it, when he sees his mother, he jumps up. Very nice. But still, they seem to be total opposites. You know, Tyus and the guy that's sitting on the couch all day are different people, different different is that they're both coming from the same void inside. A person feels as sh. And uh just this morning it struck me today that the to the visualization could possibly be that Hashem throws us into this world and we're like flying. We're falling. And sometimes you just feel like that. You're just falling. Where am I going? Like I'm just falling through life. And then all of a sudden as you're falling flying through the air, you see like there's a stickle branch and it looks enticing and it looks like it's going to save you. So you grab onto that branch and the taco like holds you for a second. You know that's the type of food. And then you eat it a little you feel good and then all of a sudden it's like and it like breaks and you find another branch, another branch and the whole time you're like grappling to find these branches and they keep breaking and they keep and you keep falling and you keep you're in torture and so like what is the guy to do? That's what the tyas do. So some people find it in tya and some people find that I just give up. I don't care. I'm fall I'm not even going to look at the fall. I'm not even going to care about anything. It's most the same thing that I just give up from the whole fall. And the pa recognizes that there are certain people that actually pay money to do that. They pay money to fall. What are they called? Skydivers. You go up 20,000 ft in the air and they just jump. Now they're falling for a minute, two minutes like I mean okay maybe they are but the idea like so you see that falling stom through the air is not a bad thing. It's actually an awesome thing. It's actually a fun thing to do. LMI what? >> You have a parachute. >> They're good. They know what do you mean falling? Not I'm not I'm not falling to the ground. I'm fine. Don't worry about it. I'm good. So he that just recognize that he just lets go. All of a sudden he's flying. He's sky he's skydiving forever his whole life. He's just flying. He recognizes I'm with Hashem. I don't need to grab onto that branch and this branch and this thing and that ledge and everything. No, he just lets go and he flies. That's the idea of uh of these these tas that they come from this place of just grabbing onto things that won't ever will never never hold a person. So here he says that when you see the face of the when you come close to him so tak you fly you don't need you don't need to hold on to anything. You're there you just you fly you you get you get fixed from all these tus and and deadenings everything is fixed when you when you taste the face of the when you see it when you when you do it obviously as we as we always know in brev I don't know if we've said the story maybe numerous times that one of the was crying to his reb to and he said oh I would be such a if I only saw the face of that you were to see so many times and said to him what who saw the face of y saw the water carrier that used to bring him in water every day he saw he didn't seem he didn't know anything about you seem why you sit and you learn the toy shows you core of who was ah you seem it's not a face that's why they say there's no picture of because it's not a face it's something that's right here as a face when you take these dias and you bring it into your heart ah you're not only seeing your that's why it's you see but it's more than seeing it's connecting it's it's it's becoming one it's coming close to so over here doing all that thing do all those things they help the person to break those two mid which is after the story is known as the salt. It comes from impure blood, dirty blood. You know, salt meat to get rid of the bad blood. 60 letters of this and in the story they filled from one eyeball from this massive fish 300 barrels of oil. We always speak about as referring to referring to now the 300 what is this idea this this number represent like we've said we said in the beginning of the if you're going to speak in front of this he better be better in the level that he could hear all of the praises all of the obviously all of the derogatory statements nothing changes him he is totally he's just now he's going to describe that a little bit more. It says, "Don't be in your wisdom, in your strength, and in your wealth." Abenu in order, we know from other that he had all three of these. Um, I think in order to be a king, you had to have all three of these. And even though the king andu have all three of them, it doesn't do anything to them. And they they just they just give him all gave all of it back up to he all physicality like we said we spoken about that everything has that all represent different ideas of I represent I speak and I express what I want and what I'm speaking about but that's all but when you get back to the core the ra the raven it's just one ratan one alf One eyeball. What does it mean? One eyeball. It means that you see things sometimes from your right eye where you're looking at the guy in a good eye and sometimes you see from the left eye you're looking at him in the in a bad eye you know and I I always say that the reason why give us two eyes >> it's very interesting right they have those minions they have one big eyeball it seems to work fine for them you know and you have one eyeball and you see what's the big deal I could have made a wide angle eyeball and we'd have one eyeball z made us two eyeballs and yet we see for us to see all the time that if you go like this, all of a sudden you're missing a whole part of the picture over there. And if you go like that, all of a sudden you realize you're missing a whole part of the picture. So your two eyeballs are to remind you always that you're seeing something, but there's always other sides to the picture. And over here, he's saying one eye means just the eye of good, just to see a pure goodness in every single. So he's saying that what we want to see us as just goodness. when the makes himself nothing. He connects himself to this place of which is just pure. There is no bad. Everything that he sees and everything that he perceives, everything is just and therefore pure goodness. Now he said that in order to get to there, no one ever reaches there until they're in the next world. But you have to continuously reach this place. Let's say you have a moment like he said where you just you're and you flow and it's just and you fall right back. You come back down to the ground. You have to draw that like what he said the imprint of what you saw what you experience beyond beyond knowledge. You experience just unity and oneness. You have to try to bring that down. He's saying that now from the has and it says don't say something is right I'm not sure if sorry it speaks about so over here he's saying is that you have to basically draw these three levels of ma that you have to be able to be humble with your wealth humble with your knowledge humble with your strength all three of them are ma which is which is 100 which is 300. So now we get to the 300 barrels of oil of that this person gets from the question from the 300 barrels come from the three he draws this into his knowledge the barrels meaning these barrels are like vessels that could hold knowledge. That's says you now begin to show us your bringing this you experience that you saw into your dash is one reading what like in the future they're going to say about every single thing once we recognize that every single thing is coming from And now when after 12 months they came back and they saw that they were making from the bones of this fish the the cities that they destroyed behind here he introduces a new idea. He says over here from the back side of you have 12 those are holy but in the backside of them so to speak there's unholiness behind them introduces that there are people that sadly exit from the fold of holiness Yes, this 12 months represent the 12 tribes. 12 tribes represent holiness. What does he mean after 12 months? He says it's behind the so he's basically going now and looking into the people. They're they're they're out. They're not religious. They're doing things wrong. Whatever it is, >> he's going to look into that. He said that they were cutting from the bones. Like we said in the beginning of the Tory that when a person does that written in the let's say said get all jumbled and now they get engraved in yes to steal which is wrong and it got engraved in the person's bones. It goes through the person's bones and a ver itself the itself take nama by breaking the person's bones whether it means breaking his core and being making him a sugar and falling into more aes or it just means like the story from the we spoke about in the beginning that the person's just mish broken his bones are breaking whatever it is that's what happens with the aad has this problem is like a like a breaking a smashing a cut right now. We go return to this person that's dinging and he feels that something in his in his from this little worm is destroy is is damaging his he feels that something's wrong. He's not regulated. He's not focused. He's not with Hashem. Now he does chuva. He starts to do all these three things that we spoke about coming close to the speaking. It helps not only for him but even for these people that are that are lost. And he rebuilds those 60 cities. it helps that it seems like he's saying basically he's saying that I think that that they're they're going to help the people that are not holding in there. They're going to not only fix their own bones but they help the whole world. um it produces tremendous results for the whole world. Now we're going to get back to the beginning beginning of the Reb that he started off which is very nice. It's the now what I took you out of time. Let's see how it fits in this mean both of these are both of these are by the good things that we understand as good we praise and by the bad things we also praise we don't just say well not you know dynamis it's terrible but no we praise with them. You have to reach out all exiles, all issues, all problems are called like Egypt because it's from constricting. It's it's pressure on through the it gets rid of this lifts up like we said through all these three levels of giving. It lifts it all up that fixes that was constricted and it releases it. What does it mean from the house of servitude from all the a person that is captured by the it says in these are things that take a person out of the world is like a person is removed from life has I was just learning recently that a person has a he lives life a person without a he's not alive because when things are going well okay but whenever anything happens not his way so he's he's broken a person with the he has life cuz whenever something happens good he's he's thanking Hashem and whenever things happen bad he also is taking strength and fact from hem so here a person that's that's caught up in the se his whole life is is is like servitude all of these four um elements these four core ideas of the world are under the rulership of the Moon he's talking about the moon moon is is known and the the idea of slave of slavery the king I guess would be the sun and the moon would be the slave the so we don't want to be found in that place of being in servitude to these perish but through doing all these these three levels that he's talking about yeah a person comes close to the gets rid of these the stress through that like started to [Music] [Applause] through doing that through again like we broke it open in the in the previous through recognizing if you want to take it into our own lives we each have a part inside of us that's good that's pure are we each have parts that are not. And when we come to a recognition and we get to see the face of the when we see that we have the tadic within ourselves like the famous story of the treasure under the bridge from that you know the guy had a dream that there was a treasure under the bridge in Vienna. So he traveled very far and he was standing there looking around and the cops said what are you doing here? He said what do I got to lose? I had a dream there's a treasure under this bridge. He said you Jewish fool. I had a dream there was a treasure under, you know, in the backyard of my from LJ. My name is Misha. I'm from LJ between two big oak trees in his backyard. I got two big oak trees. Goes back home and he finds those treasure in his own backyard said sometimes you have to travel very far to the only to find for him to show you that you have the within yourself. I was once in a shir and we were learning from a very uh muser standpoint and the baler was saying that the tlas of is to come close to the of is to become the nice stuff you know. So I was sat down at Amal Mala with loser K bunch of years ago and it was just me and two other people. I'm very shy. It wasn't like one of these rambunctious person always speaking and asking. It was quiet but this this question was burning inside of me and I wanted to ask it. It wasn't the right time, right moment. Finally, it was like quiet and I was like that's it. I'm asking the question. Took a deep breath in and I open my mouth and as I opening my mouth he goes Am he told to say amisa. So said okay there was once a dream that had a dream that there was a treasure under a bridge and he said that mess and he said that sometimes you have to travel very far to the to find that you have the tadik within and I was like oh here's the answer the d of mus is to become the tadic but the only way to come to the tadik is if you travel to the talik not that oh now you travel to the tadik you're good you're by the no the is going to be able to then show you how to you are for you to to uncover and to become your own saddic. So when we have that idea, so we're speaking about that first level is to just find the sic within yourself. And when you find him, you can be like, "Wow." And then all of a sudden the ty and the laziness, all that stuff is kind of not so much burning anymore. And then when you when you have the sodaka, you have this recognition that you're both in this together and that you're going to be in this lifetime together and you have to learn how to deal with each other. That's the level of sodaka of a of a very big humility. It breaks all of the ga. Now you you humbly recognize when you're in your body space that you have a soul that really needs to to exist. Then when you're in your soul space, recognize that your body also needs to live. And then when you have that connection, now you can start to speak from one to the other, from the body to the soul and say, "What are we doing?" Like the way Greek said that the Reb gave advice to one of his to speak to his body, speak to your body, speak to your soul to have this beautiful conversation. And like we said, very very simple conversation like we said is B always to start from the beginning just speak out the simplest things. And it fits very well with this that the comes back when you get rid of all these things in your heart. Your heart has these things and like what we said it's in the bones. It's in the deepest parts of inside of you. When you start to speak out to your own self and however you want to visualize this idea of breaking open all those parts and just taking them out one after another, one after another, simple simple things, one second, a couple seconds, 10 seconds, you can start breaking something open and feel a release. When you do that, then reigns free. And then when you have that touch of the recognize that everything is good, to bring it back down and to taste it here in this world. Freed is going to be here for the next month or two giving she started off with the introduction. Yeah, I'm going to be in art sol and he's going to be in my so it works out great. >> You're not going to be here. >> We're going to be I'm going to be in solo. >> Yeah. >> No, no. I'm just going now for the summer. >> It's a show. Thank you so much. >> War permitting. >> Yeah. already. >> So, what's the orig >> that's it? What we just said? You want to break it down to one sentence? That's it. >> One sentence. >> Some of the tours are like wild to >> Right. Right. like >> I think five or six. Yeah, I think five or six. I'm not sure. >> Yeah, it was long. It's longer than the other ones. >> It's a long one. Yeah. >> So, come up with >> I came up with for myself in is that is that when you we have so much stuff inside of us that's just not good. Call it a, call it tyus, call it this, call it whatever you want. And the Reb says that the first idea is just to see that you have a soul. See the face of a sadic. Um see the face of your like we said with the story of the treasure under the bridge but come into contact with it. And when you come into contact the lickness test is that when you come into contact it will you won't be lazy anymore. You won't be filled with desires anymore. You'll just be awake. When you learn a toy sometimes you feel like that. When you have a ding sometimes you feel so so taste it. But then when you taste it, then you have to recognize that that part is a real part of you. And it's it's here. And then that part also has to be recognized that your body is a real part of you. I'm physical. I need food. No, you don't need food. You don't need food. No, I'm hungry. So when you when you start to have that conversation, that's called giving one to another. And then that's what I think the Reb is saying over here is that when you take that conversation and bring it out, okay, in a very simplistic level, I'm hungry now. The kids are screaming at me. There's pressure in the hospital, whatever it is, but I'm hungry. Okay, you're already in a better space than just why is this person doing that? Why, you know, cuz now you're you're with knowledge. I'm hungry. Things are going to annoy me. Okay, cool. That knowledge already helps change the whole situation. you know higher dark when you're doing your so when you're in the car whatever when whenever whenever you're able to dominate whatever you're able to have a quiet moment and and speak so then you just start to do that with everything in life like okay why do I get triggered by this why does this happen why does happen you know and just speak it out maybe it's because of that maybe it's because of this maybe you know and just just throw yourself back and forth and not not from like a spinning circle of therapy just like like with with you ask yourself questions like is that really true? You know, like basically be your own therapist. But by by doing that, I think you you you take out the you know, you get it get rid of it from being engraved on your bones where it's damaging your bones. And then you have which is health, which is freedom of the bones where your your marrow your inner core feels free. And then like like we say, you know, the greatest the greatest um healing is is joy, is freedom, that feeling of of uh Down to low.