Likutei Moharan Torah 3 Part 2 Shiur by Rabbi Yoeli Klein at Scheiner's Shul

So we were learning last week the Torah oft. Yes. Unbelievable. I was getting a lot of from it. I learned it like three or four times already with different people throughout the week as a very very uh amazing amazing. So we'll just give a recap for those that weren't here and always to get into the swing of things. So Rebu was speaking about and in addition I saw some more nuances inside the the words that bring out even more of it. I think basic idea was Reb was speaking about was song and seemingly it's a nice uh mish from your mash. Don't listen to music. you listen to music from evil people, from bad people, it's going to hurt your if you listen to music from good people, it'll give it'll help your um but if you look at it much more much more carefully, obviously there's much more than just a uh a dry blanket statement that is giving us. But that's the words that he starts off with. But then as he goes on to explain, we're going to see what what a little bit it means. And like we explained over here, he doesn't say first of all, he doesn't say that the music per se is bad. He says that the person singing the music is is a Russia. That's number one. So last week I was saying that the person that's singing the music could be singing a very nice song, but he is he is something wrong with him and it's going to come out in a bad way. But over here looking at it deeper um you see that the Reb is not even speaking about maybe even the words and you and I was looking it up over here in the uh Kramer books that give a lot of background to the to the whole background story to this Torah and the background story was to be very that was in a certain town and when he came there it was some sort of shakar And the people there were kind of on the brink because he had a lot of uh misnag at that point in his life. There was tufas that he got persecuted very much. And so there was people at the at the on Friday night in this town and they were they were having a good time you know and the kazin of the town in those days it was very important for the to come. Every town had like a paid hired specific kazin nowadays you know just you know send up whoever has a nice voice like he paid him he was he was the of the town and he was at he didn't want to speak he didn't want to sing like you know come on so he said no and it was very apparent that he was on the side against heel like you know he was kind of uh disrespecting so said some some lines about how he doesn't want to sing. We'll give him something to sing about. And he said some lines that were very uh basically shadow casting a shadow on this guy's kautus. And it turns out that to make a long story short, he gave the terror that Shabas this terror about two two birds and singing and all this stuff. And the next week this guy was caught hanging out with someone else's wife. Had to flee the town in embarrassment and all that. So this tyra came out from Kazin who would be sitting there and singing kadesh. He was singing you know the the treeless and he would be singing in the nigunim of yet he was such a rush of the guy that even singing those holy words with the holy nigim damaging damaging and like we were explaining last week this what the rabbi says is that comes comes from the place where nim comes from and we were trying to say is that no is channeling the word of hashem into this word it's communicating hashem's word into this word what Does Hashem say ah you it gives it through gives it over and a niggan does the exact same thing. It's just that with words our conscious mind could say wow that doesn't make sense I don't accept this you have your your all your barriers but with the subconscious mind with the heart a goes in and it does something to you you don't know how where it it moves you and so the saying is that if you have from a kasher and the interesting thing this is a extra dick that I I saw recently that he doesn't say the opposite of a Russia I would call a sadic right he doesn't say that he says the guy that's singing could be a Russia the other end and that that makes it difficult to serve Hashem the other guy the other side is a kosher kash is like kosher guy keeps he comes dominion okay guy doesn't sound like a big sadic he doesn't sound you know when you think about maybe the the singers sometimes when I when I used to learn this story I used to like feel terrible that I was listening to this Jewish music, Jewish singers, but like the guy such a big sadic. Is he really singing for pure motives or is he singing because he wants to be famous and he wants to make money and you have you have like your thoughts and I like try to steer away from most Jewish singers and just stay with like Ysef Kaduna and Ysef Kaduna and that's it, you know, that's it. Like but the Reb says kosher. He just has to be a kosher Jew. Why? Because this is what we were learning out last week is that says that kosher this this guy draws nigim from the side of malus that's the kadusha mus is like bringing hashem's revelation and strength and power into this world the side of kadusha and the other people are drawing it from the other side from the kip and like we were explaining the kip it could mean like kipus another mush don't get involved with the kipus cut your nails and uh shave your hair. It's too long of a chup is kipus. Okay, so we can get involved in the fun things of kipus. Or you can understand that a kipa is just a shell. It's a shell. It's a shell protecting a fruit. It's valuable. It's valuable in when you recognize that it's just a shell and you need the shell and then you need to peel the shell and throw it away. So to a kipa when you recognize that it's just a shell and you throw it away in the right time galdic you get to the pri if you worship the kipa you kill off the pre and look how shiny it is and beautiful start eating it and everything okay you're mug but that's what most of the world is running after look at the house look at the status posts look at all the things on the outside and we say ah this is what it is it's a kipa it's a pre it's a it's a kipa it's a shell of stuff it's just an external shell of advertising. It's nothing to do with reality. It's nothing to do with premius, nothing to do with what's going on inside. So this guy that's just going after that, just going after this Russia, is just going after the kipus, just going after the the uh the advertising of the world. So when he sings, he could be singing about holy things supposedly. He could be singing. All he's feeling, all he's thinking, all he's doing is thinking about thinking about women and houses and money and power and greed and everything bad. That's what he's singing about. And so those words go deep into the person's heart. Those those messages, those communications go deep into a person's heart without him ever knowing. All of a sudden, you're you're listening to a guy Davin and Schulen. You're filled with Ta. What's going on? That's what the guy was singing. And that's what you were picking up in your subconscious. So the Reb said that to for this the way to fix this is through learning at night, learning Gmorra at night. even speaks about there was a town where the Reb gave over this Tyra and like from that day on they decided they're making like learning and Gamarra at night and they had this this is going for many years but specifically the Reb says to learn Gamarra at night why because nighttime is gamarra and and he says that this will give rise and allow you that any gayish or we're really what we're really seeing is tumika music that comes from Russia will now be it will be fixed. And the way we were trying to explain it last week was was that on a very without getting into okay learn at night and obviously it means just that but it also means means in oral terra means to speak things out and that's what the whole which specifically he was talking about. If you learn your shi, it's like dot dot dot dot dot dot like statement statement. It's like, okay, learn it, memorize it. The Bible is like question and answer and proof and going back and forth and back and grinding it and crushing it and going back. It's a it's an as. That's what you're supposed to do at night. Nighttime is darkness. And when you're faced with darkness, which is kipa, which is covering a pri, you want to get to pmas, you want to get to something deeper. All you see is is shells and you don't know what's going on. Work it through. Speak it through. MP could mean speak it out. Speak it through. Grind it up. What's going on? What's bothering me? What's What's going on? Is this really what I want? Why am I chasing after this? Is this thing triggering me? Why is it triggering me all of a sudden that I want this thing? What's going on in my life? Just yesterday, I think I woke up and I was like in a in a bad mood and I was like sitting in the car. I had like 13 seconds before I was doing the next carpool. I was like, "Why are you in such a bad walk?" "Cuz I'm tired." Cuz I was like, "No, it's not just tiredness." said, "What is it?" Thought for like five seconds like, "Oh, cuz I had my whole entire morning scheduled out from the night before. I had to do this, I had to do that, and running and going." And I carved out for myself 35 minutes that I would have for myself. Do some exercise, go to the mikvah. Amazing. And now in the morning, my kids calls up and says they have a different schedule. Now this kid's getting up late. All of a sudden, everything's upside down. And now my whole morning is upside down. And I have maybe like 10 minutes for myself. It's like, h, that's why you're upset. Yeah, you could say you're tired. Yeah, you could blame someone or blame something or you could just work it out a little bit. Table, speak it out a little bit. And you'll find a lot of time a lot of times that you're like, "Oh, that's what's going on. Something going on." And the second you work it out already, it's already not so much even bothering you anymore. It's like, "Okay, I got it." No, they say that uh exercise, what's the godless of doing exercise, right, is when you rip your muscles. That's what you do when you exercise or you work out. You're ripping your muscles. So when you exercise to try to get strong and bigger and healthier, you're not doing anything. Only thing you're doing is destroying. But that destroying if it's done, if it's done in the right way, it destroys and then your body itself heals itself. That's the whole thing of exercise that heals itself and it becomes a little stronger and better and bigger. So you realize that the whole thing is sometimes we just have to break ourselves a little bit and we don't need to heal. Healing will come. Healing happens. Everything gets gets comes back together. You find that the reason why you're angry and upset already things start to get better. You're like, "Oh, okay. Now I can deal with it a little better." So that's the night. He adds in one. He says that when you learn which he says to be called a rebi or any other reason that you're learning so it's not such a but at night and specifically I I think from the context of breast love is that this is talking about the second half of the night past when you learn at night in those hours and it protects you from having any of these damaging thoughts. So now we get up to the which is going to be amazing because how see how it all fits in where by the how the is going to explain this amazing fantastical story of and and how it applies to each and every point that he was speaking about. So to me I saw so is not such a famous word even though now it's famous from this So the rabbi weaves into the the Rashban's the explanations here says he lets us know what in the world is it which is a frog but the original says it's varda is actually aa a wise bird obviously conceptually but over here that fits in perfectly with our over here before which you didn't mention in the khazar is that This neios/ song comes from these two kosher birds. You either draw from good birds or from bad birds. Birds are the chirpers. They they sing so to speak. And our song comes from those two birds. So he says that and what is it giving over? It's giving over song is giving over information communication. So that's saying I saw these these these birds the havoc says right there that it was as large as the city of calling out with your throat means to call out is the throat. So it's supposed I call out my throat that's almost the words song is drawn from these two birds from these. Now these two birds that song that brings the viterin they were 60 houses large. So obviously a very large um very large frog. Now according to how we've learned is the throat. So how do you fix this throat? Through 60 houses there's 60 m in the gar. And so through the 60 of learn the at night you fix it. Now he's gonna weave in rabinho gives like a running commentary who's speaking in the story now is the is the student speaking but according to the according to the rabbi this mom is perfect right is known as so he says that the meaning the 60 cities which is 60 represented of the 60 is meaning learn at Now a in the story a serpent a huge fish of some sort came and swallowed this this frog explains now now the narrative is going back to the meaning speaking now so he says if you look back to the to the part right before where he was speaking about that if you Rebi, what does mean? It means that you want to just be called a Rebi. You want to be a guy. So that's ah so if you're learning, this serpent, this evil, this evil intention gets swallowed up. So now you had this beautiful Talmud, you had song, the tear, the das all being through learning Talmud, but now he's learning just like the says. So now it's swallowed up. So what happens? So now comes what in the world is. So the explains It's a raven is a raven. So he says through learning night specifically. Ah then you're saved from now the is going to weave in the marsh explains that the it sat on this tree. What tree are we referring to? So symbolically explains it's Abraham because Abraham had a tree after trees. So he planted in which we're taught is meaning he had a whole in where he would help people and give them their physical needs and then he would do care of through that through meeting their physical needs. He was ask them you know I didn't give this to you who gave it to you and you try to bring them back to Hashem which all an aspect of that fits in what the was saying the the thread of kindness that the says is spread over a person that learns at night helps to protect a person from having these ulterior thoughts these these ex external thoughts when you're learning like we were explaining last week that It's not like a terrible thing, but it's it's gonna anytime a person's learning, the learning itself is going to be damaged because he's having all these thoughts called the Rebi. It's for this reason, for that reason. So, his learning is just not focused. It's not it's not getting it's not getting it. I I was once in a we were speaking about the idea anyone who has ga so his goes away from him. So most people understand that that God gives punishments. If you're going to be [Music] agista, here go ahead. I'm leaving. That's the vindicative god um narrative. But when we were learning this, we we recognized that the story came up like this. I said, "Wait a minute. I'm uh I was in a sh and We came in to Dav Ma. There were two guys sitting there and they were learning. They were involved in a sug. And we said, you know, we have 10, 15 men want to just dive in a quick ma. You mind going in the back or, you know, just moving a little bit? There's tons of space, tons of room. Look, we were here. It's we're going to stay learning here. Maybe you could just move. You know, this is we so he said they they they sat there and they dive in. And as they're doing the whole, these two are screaming. They're screaming on top of their lungs. So he was saying, you know what's going on. He said what? And you think when they were learning, they had more than a second that they were actually learning. You think that they're screaming. They were actually learning. And they're barely holding cup enough that they could just make sense of the words that they're saying but in order to stare you when you have ga it's not that Hashem's punishing you. You're thinking of yourself now you're not going to be able to be with me. No, you're thinking about yourself. You're not be able to think of Hashem. You'd only think one thing at one time. So when you're thinking of I want to be I want to have I want to have I want to have all these things. So you're not learning the not able to learn. Theb says here from the is that when you do this at night even with all these ulterior motives spreads a threat of like the says over here is that's going to save you that you won't have these thoughts. I mean, anyone that is to do this, I've only done it a few times in my life that you like mamish, you know, do like the the whole of going to sleep like six o'clock at night and waking up at 12 o'clock and just spending the whole night. It's like it's it's it's ethereal is like a an incredible um calm and focus and and and clarity that you get in those hours if you do it if you're able to do it. It's says he's saying that you get protected. And the Reb ends off the story. And he said in the in the in the side of the story, see how wondrously powerful this this tree was. It's to hold such a big Zach. We're here in the in the symbolic understanding. He's saying that see how incredible is the power of learning at night that it's able to protect a guy even from all his thoughts that he wants to be with all of the shells of the world. Nope. He's just going to be able to get to the pri. Now the is going to explain the from of this week's per we're resetting the this week and the says like this. All right. And is make for yourself a rabbi. Get a rabbi. It's also important to have friends. Purchase for yourself a friend, which if you read the the is extremely puzzling says means buy friends, throw money at them. you have a good guy. You want to be close to them. I want to go out to, you know, fireside. Let's go. Let's go out for dinner. My my tree like what what in the world does that mean? So a couple years back I was thinking like a friend that I have to buy is a friend. What is what is barton saying? What is the mission saying according to that? So it struck me that any anytime something inal is so foreign to us that it's doesn't make any sense. It's because we're our perspectives are totally warped and really their perspectives are aligned in it that when we think of friends, we think of a friend as being makes me feel good. I hang out with him. I have a good time. We joke. We get each other and I feel great. I come out of it like ah I had such a great time. That's a friend buddy. What's up? thinks of a friend as someone that together you come closer to and we know that taking is not exactly the path to get to is the ultimate giver. Giving is the path that comes close to so what I think is saying over here and is that if you have a friend someone that you think needs help whatever it is that you can give to him that will purchase for you a friend because giving to another makes friends and that's what a friend really is. You are able to give to another not just take. So if he needs money you give to him money. You've purchased for yourself a friend because you've given to him and he's a friend. if he needs a a listening ear and you just spend like an hour just listening to him. So you might not have felt so great and so free and everything like okay I just like wasted my hour listening to some guy's woes when you lightened him up and helped him. You just purchase for yourself a friend that's a parenthetical statement. So the the hands off and you should judge every person favorably. There's many you could say has a very very famous line on the first two things I think he says try always to have a from a quill. So he says that if you can't find a rebi at this moment then look into the and find a safer that's a rebi is a quill where they wrote down find writings that will be a rebi and that will be a rebi until you find a living rebi it's very important to have a living rebi but that there's so many that you can gain from now the is going to explain this um this we were learning that through hearing good song like we said from a kash from a good person a person that's trying at least and that knows that there's something called aa and a pre and he wants to get to the pre he's really trying to get to the pre so you're going to hear that inside of you and it's going to fix your malfas your your power that you have your power the greatest in kabala malfaso Yeah. And what we're speaking about here is mus's power is in your mouth. We have a tremendous power in our words in it that we can affect and influence things, right? Animals don't have such amazing communication skills. They have some communication skills. I think slam heard the the language of the animals, but like because of that, they're very limited. I was just in the zoo a couple of days ago and I seen these monkeys and everything and some of them are quite impressive. you know, they got hands and able to do all sorts of amazing things with their limbs and bodies and like I was like, if this guy had a little bit more brains, he'd take over the world. We can't do that stuff like like nimble. He's like, "All they need a little more brains, we'd be like they're slaves." They don't. They have like, you know, fused gangli. They almost nothing there. And because of that, they're just like we have the ability, as we're talking kazal, of communication. That communication is is power. It's able to be abused through lash and har and making fun of people nad all the worst things in the world. But it's able to communicate and pull together people and their ideas and bring them together in family and community and friends and jobs and building jobs and building everything. The whole world is able to be brought together through communication. So our p our mouth our words are extremely powerful. It's malas. It's it's power. So he's saying through listening to good niggon which goes into your heart and fixes your mus it brings you to a place where all you want to do is get to the pre all you want to do is dig a little deeper and get to a a deeper place inside of you and spread that deepness and that depth and into the world and to all those around you. So then he says that is that how do you fix your how do you make your good how do you become a ra how do you become a ra how do you become a master over your own power he says through acquiring for yourself a friend over here he he uses the lion of k to refer to k which the k and the are the wind pipe and is the is that which produces your voice. Like he said before that the wind pipe has six levels which the fixes it that how do you get to fix your is through that's fixed through like what he said listening learning at night that it connects the two kuim the kuim were by the way they they were in the form kind of of birds they look like angels young children but also birds and when they were doing the will of Hashem they face each other like like man and wife they would face each other. This is the birds and the word of Hashem actually nava came through them. So this was when it was mak it all happened when it came together like that that it produced the the nva and it produced this of mus that you're now in control and have tremendous power. So now the person is fixed all of his mouth as his mom is drawing and connecting to that he has this power of of now speech he has this power of now with this fixed power of speech you can ruleb says powerfulness here I don't know I I mean he means he says you can you can kill that person and give life to that person I'll take it for for for you know face value a person but the with your words you could kill a person destroy a person you say one bad word to a person you destroy his life whether it means lash behind his back or just say a nasty word to him he's destroyed he's broken and you could give him life you you could you could fix a person with a couple of nice words so when you have the power of speech this power of you can do that. So the Reb says, so it comes out that if you're not going to take this power and use it for good, if you're going to allow it to kind of flow into wherever you want it to flow, it might be like when Shiman came out of the cav the cave the first time, he was burning people up. He was burning people up. He was so hic. How could he burn people up? Because when you're so hay like you just see people doing very regular stuff it's just like boom like fire like what what are you doing says that's the next words make sure that you're judging favorably go back into the cave you have to judge favorably doesn't want destruction doesn't want you now to be so holy that you destroy everyone with your holiness the world was created to inhabit to be inhabited by humans to fill it with with inhabitants with humans also like if you learn like we were speaking about the other weekb says through looking at people in a good light and now over here speaking it out to them speaking it out to yourself looking at yourself in a good light you can bring people back to chuva you can give them life you have the power now when this is like your words have power and you can bring people back to life. So with that you have through doing all these things to fix your then just make sure that you use we'll run through the next few paragraphs nowadays people say that the the caners are kind of fools they don't have in general is in exile the holy comes from the same place of holiness. The song is they can't draw it from holiness. We said the king drew it from holy the holy side of the future. The future means that of holiness is going to be brought up. Hashem is going to king over all earth also soon will be brought back up to its knowledge. is the we say right before is the king over everything is going to be brought up mean sounds strange sing wise one these people that are singing anyways in front of the sh now all of a sudden they'll have because brought back up and they're going to automatically have this could be representative of the coil sound words like we said through learning to now you get this this this this drawn over you. It fixes the shay, the coil of we said these two birds that draw. This comes from holiness. Therefore, whenever they had to make a mel a Jewish king had to come through all came from it comes from the it came through those two. That all comes from before in the earlier in the we said that the other side draws from like the back side of mouth. It nurses from there. What does this mean? It nurses from behind. was able to fix even song that was coming from these people that are not and to bring it the song back to the back side of it's coming from the wrong side it's nourishing from the evil side holy song draws from whereas comes from comes from the other side from the back side of he and all of us that grab on to the ways that the Reb described over here are learning night and specifically in the night second half of the night where it has a even bad intentions will be will be purified raises up the holy mafas the backside. He brought the nursing from the backside and all of us that are to do this we'll draw from the and what will we draw? will draw that even all the songs which is was a hashlam I think that I came ac over was that even all the songs why is it he's saying that you can fix mala's that comes from the bad side these guys are singing the singing about evil so how can he fix it they're singing about evil is that what are they singing about singing about khipa they're singing that all there is in this world is kipa all there is in this world is the appearances the the the bling blang the the power the prestige so when you hear that through the even if you hear those words you what you really hear then when you break it apart is that every single person even the deepest Russia all he wants is hem all he wants is and therefore when you work through the in your own self all of those songs and all those subconscious things that we're singing oh yeah all we want is you hear that even there all we really want and everyone wants is the pre to do all these work through ourselves. Oh yeah.