Likutei Moharan Torah 4 Part 3 Breslov Shiur by Rav Yoeli Klein at Scheiner's Shul

So we're holding still in the or till now the Reb was speaking about how could a person recognize that every single thing that happens to him is for the good is if you lift up malus how do you lift up malus from being captured is through he said just speaking out basically speaking out your insides in front of the in front of a sadic when you speak out He explained that it was the the sins and all the problems that we have are etched in our bones and bad premutations. But when you speak it out clearly what you did, it comes out from the bones and it frees your bones and it gives you a tremendous level of freedom. This person that it has to be done in front of has to be a level of a tremendous level of that he has nothing at all like we what the Reb was speaking about last week was that like was able to hear his praises and to see his praises even to write his own praises and still have absolutely no godless at all total. So over here he's going to bring down a garra in Saita. Uh interesting gam. But the basics of the garra is that it's like a mush of someone that's going in the night and he's afraid of all these different things. And when once the morning comes everything is clear and he's saved from all these different things. But now in this keta it's not just going to be a lot of times the reb brings down or stories or things like that to to bring proof texts what he's saying. But like we said before, often there's subtle layers of more understanding that are being that are being brought in with the proof text with all that that are beyond what he said before. That's sometimes subtly over here. It's not subtly. Here it's the a whole new inion that he's bringing in of different levels and different layers of how to to do this thing that he was discussing before. So let's go through the the the words of the Garra first. He was going on a very very dark night. I heard someone say that the Americans who just uh did the bunker bombers on all the Iranian nuclear um production peaceful production plants. They uh they did it also specifically in in a dark night cuz I was like every every muda helps. So here's a guy going around in the darkness. It's a dark night. It's not like a a bright night. It's a dark night. He was afraid from all these things. Imagine going around in the in the darkness in those days. Mama's darkness meant absolute darkness. And he was afraid of thorns and thistles, holes in the ground that he could fall into, wild animals list him, you know, bandits. He also has no idea where he's going. It's pitch dark. Where's he going to go? So as the gar is going to go on until the until it starts to dawn starts to arise it starts to get light and as the light comes on more light comes in he's less and less afraid of all these different things. Now we're going to see what has to say about this. This is understood some sort of that bring down that there's four basic elements of life of creation which in this context are which is inanimate objects like rocks and metals and things like that. Then there's organic ve vegetation things that grow like trees which have a aspect of life more than more than the dime. And then there's kai which are animals which generally have a much higher level of life than vegetation. But then there's mab which is human beings which are able to commun who are able to communicate. These four levels are representative of four um mid rice, bad mid which usually are bad attributes, things like that. But mid also are are uh are levels midot are are are measures. So everything in the midas almost everything are all not inherently evil but they have places where if they're too much you know out of whack out of measure then it becomes bad. It's very good thing to eat. It's nice thing to eat healthy and good food but then person that overeats and stuffs his face with garbage all day is obviously in a in a doing it in a bad measure. Um so now he's goes through these four these four uh these four midas. He says depression draws from the energy so to speak of inanimate objects of rocks. In the end of the day a rock is just blah. It's just a rock. It doesn't move. It doesn't go. Doesn't do. And as you can say right there it's also like laziness depression laziness heaviness comes from the inanimate objects of the world. Ty is really still the same. Now you have the opposite almost which are guys that are filled with desires for food, women, money, all the power everything all of that stuff comes from say he says from vegetation which you see it in vegetation itself is that vegetation is the core of life you know it's the earth gives forth to to everything good and yet go around I mean go around in certain yards over here and you see weeds and vines if you don't take care of the vegetation if you don't properly cultivate it and keep it in a balance, it just grows and it becomes disgusting and and you know go to the Amazon rains forest, you have poisonous plants, all these crazy stuff all because it's not taken care of. It has to be within a proper measure. That is the the tyus which are all these things that could fuel a person to do great things and to make a family and to to provide for them and to keep the human race going in a beautiful way. But if they're unmeasured, if they're unchecked, so then they turn into a bada. Then they have the third one. Now from animals come verbatim which are just you know just hanging out with the boys doing nothing which seems to be not such a bad thing but in the end of the day also h it leads to to worse things and it's a it's a bad me obviously also sometimes it's good to just just chill to clear the mind but again when they're not in the proper measure they're not good. Now you get to the level of human beings who have the ability to communicate and speak. So here comes in this beautiful thing called ga me the ego all of these hubris horniness that comes into us someone who wants to go in the path of holiness you have to break all these and speak them out in front of the like what we said to speak it out is able to explain to according to your soul, according to your root soul, how to fix everything that you need to deal with. Now, but now he's going to go back and rewind a little bit. Before we were just being about the whole time this one thing, just speak out your problems to the now. He's going to go and be a little more clear in different aspects um for the levels of coming close to the through these three things. You can fix everything. The first aspect of what we're speaking about is simply seeing the face of you know on these posters that you have in your and they have all the pictures of so they'll inevitably put this this on the bottom of it that there's a value just to see the face of it gets rid of these bad. So we said that there were there were two different types of things that are coming out from those two um elements of inanimate and vegetation and wipes them all out. A guy that's depressed and a guy that's filled with desire which is very funny because they seem to be total opposites. How could you possibly heal the guy that's sitting all day and watching Netflix and doesn't want to move for the guy that's running around and not stopping? They're they're like two opposite worlds. Nope. It's one antidote. Just see the face of the And both of them are done. He's going to explain a little bit more in a beautiful mush. He's gonna say that is called the mother that he he literally nourishes with the light with the illumination of his um compared to milk to milk to like the the milk the nourishing milk of a mother. So the Tyra is compared to that and the is the one who who channels the Tory into the world. So he is like the mother that's bringing forth the milk of the Okay. So the is the mother. So what? Who cares? We see this everyone. This is a clear example. You're coming to pick up your two or threeyear-old from from Ghan. They've been there for 3, four, five, 6 hours and they're just lying around the floor hot, overheated, bored, and out of it. When he sees his mother, he's just a couple of seconds before he was just totally vepped out. And he jumps up and runs like where did he get all that energy from? All of a sudden, they see their mother. Boom. They're alive. They're awake. They run. Ah, that's when you see your source. The mother is a source. They know intuitively a child knows this is where it all comes from. They run. So that's the first layer. The first layer is you could be at you could be lazy and depressed but when you see your mother when you see your source you jump to see straight up the the child is going and he's bothering another kid and or he's playing in the mudband and he's doing all these little childish things to sit there and play and build and all all that stuff. again sees his mother obviously that he hasn't seen in a while because when the kids are at home they don't do this very often but when he hasn't seen his mother for a while he sees his mother takes all of his ties all of his desires and throws it over his shoulder runs to his mother comes out that just from seeing the face of the He you we've healed ourselves from these two ideas. So what is it that first of all he's saying how could it be that these two elements which are so opposing to each other two opposites and the the the mid as the reb calls it are so seemingly the opposite that they can be healed by the so explain it with the mush we understand the mush but still where where's it drawing from so again just my own is that a person that's filled with tya and we're not talking about a guy that Tom likes to have a hamburger sometimes. You're talking about a some so to speak an addict, a food addict, you know, drug addict, all these things. Addicts when have you unhealthy desires for things that they're destroying him. So this comes generally from trying to fill a hole, trying to fill a void. They feel and as the Rabbi Wi speaks out all the time, they feel their soul even more than most people and they can't handle just just keep on going and diving and keep on tying your left shoe and then your right shoe and everything is going to be all right. Don't think about anything. Just keep on going. They they desire something more. They're they're searching for something more and they haven't found it yet and they seem to find it from the pleasures of whatever the pleasure is. fill in the blank and they run after that and they get absorbed with it and keep going and going and going trying to find it more and more and trying to fill that void and it destroys them. But that's the ty rice that they're speaking about. The same thing as the guy that's sitting all day and doesn't want to move and doesn't want to get off off of his off of his couch. That person is also he he just tried doing fun things. He tried reaching up to the places of his soul that would give him satisfaction. And he was destroyed and broken and shattered and traumatized. And his reaction to it wasn't, "Let me find another thing. Let me find something else." Reaction was like, "That's it. I'm not I'm done. I'm closed. I'm closing my emotions. I'm closing my my excitement. I'm closing everything up to anything. Closing my energy levels. I'm going to be low energy dude that does nothing on the couch all day." And he just sits and does nothing. That is coming from the same place. the same places that they've tried to get to their soul but they're not finding it. Either they just give up or they keep finding it but in the wrong places. The second they see their mother, the second they see their sh, the second they see the sadic, just the face of the sadic, they realize that these things are not the answer. There is an answer, right? They don't know it yet. They they they can't access it yet, right? But when they see the sadic and they see him living and he's connected and he's like absorbed with Hashem and he's illuminated and alive, they say drugs are not the answer. Food is not the answer. Women is not the answer. And sitting on the couch is not the answer. That's not going to help me. There's something there that that is the answer. I see it. I've seen it. I might not even have tasted it. I don't know what it is, but it's there. I saw it. And that's it. They're done. They throw everything over their shoulder. a couple of minutes later when they don't see the tadic they could run right back for to look for it in the garbage. But that's the idea is that they they get that from the tadic. I remember a couple years back on on sukus. I wasn't having a good sukus. I was getting the classic uh post um depression on sukus trying to figure everything out and I think it was rabbi who decided that's it. I ded early. And I was like, I'm going to go to the raich just just to see like if I could get some. So I got there and he was in the middle of doing I knew him at like I don't know 3:00 in the afternoon or something whatever it was and he was just in his talas and as he turned he just like opened his eyes at me and just looked at me with like his shining countenance and I was just like just like healed. I was like okay no more depression no more you like just seeing the faces that sadic does that it's just like you see there you see it. So this is the first level and it gets rid of these two issues. The Reb ties it back into that story. The things that this person in the darkness that was going in the mush of the darkness was afraid of which are thistles which are thorns which are vegetation are holes in the ground inanimate just earth. Now when there's a a light that starts to comes who's illuminated with the torch of the that's the first layer. The second level is a charity that they give that you give to the now again two get fixed with this one thing of giving anyone who wants to do a fundraiser next time for their yeshiva or anything if you go here and give it over. So what are the things which is which is clearly an animal people. So that's how it's reflected in the story which are just smoothing about nothing and their out outcomes. Why? Because speaking nothingness and speaking, bad words, gossip, slander, it comes to bring a person to poverty. It says that they die. They didn't die. We know that they were around for many years later. But it says that they fell into poverty and it was considered like they died. I guess that's in relation to the people that spoke against the sign for hiness is poverty. So over here we see that and ga and all these things of just smooing about nothing or smoozing bad words or having um ga it all brings to this thing called poverty which is a form of death. So he's saying so how are you going to fix this? How are you going to fix this? We have to fix this is the distortion of these mid and through charity you get rich. Everyone knows how do you get rich? Through giving money, giving to now interesting that the Reb is not going to use the classic example of how do you prove this right? There's a famous that you know give me that you're going to become right. So you're going to become rich if you give me go doesn't skips over that goes to a totally random which obviously reflects something deeper. So it's a gor that's bringing down where are they in in the basic idea is that you have a sheep that wants to go across I think a river so it gets very heavy cuz it's wool is so rich it's so thick wool so it can't go through so what do you do you shear it get rid of the wool and then it goes straight through so when you take you have so much money you can't get through life shear a little bit off give a little bit to sedaka and you get you get through it takes care of the adas Um so over here very interesting that he's using this idea also and I think again it reflects something that's going on with these things of lash first of all and har and ga all come from seemingly a place of the person feeling that well tyus I'm not I'm not going into the tyus I'm not an addict I'm not a mishuga And he's not uh he's not going into the first thing of dead. I'm not a dead guy, a guy that sits on the couch all day. I'm not I'm not addicted to my phone. I'm not I'm not I'm one of these low lives. I'm an upright citizen. I do things. I go I'm a vald guy, right? But deep inside what's what's inside is that he's dead cuz he's not finding the the source, right? The guy that sometimes I was listening to a podcast. He's saying that sometimes you need that desperation that drug addicts get that they get to the rock bottom and then they find and they they they reveal lights that you know people can't can't reveal in 100 lifetimes. Why? Because they've reached that place. So this person is a person that reaches all these places but he doesn't reach desperation. So he carries on and somehow he's able to weave into his inner world that he's great. And what is the whole narrative is that he is king, right? Even though I mean he's humble and he's he's he's he's self aacing and he says he's no one and he's nothing and he's just a just another guy and shul but inside the whole world view is just how am I better than that guy? How is that guy worse than me? How am I greater than this person? It's all a big ga trip. Everything is just a big world of I'm in control. I'm good. I got it under control. I'm like says later on in different terms I'm the king. But it comes from that same place that you have a soul that wants something but you're not feeding it. You're not connecting you're not in contact with it. So that's coming from the and if you look into so when guys sit around and smoo about nothing you know like they say is an amazing country has six million prime ministers. Every single person like countries have a president one president we have six million presidents. Every guy sits and smoozes over his shesh some guy in him and he says this is what he should have done ah you know so there's smoozing about nothing why is it but because the guy in the taxi mis at the end of the day does nothing he's not coming to prime minister and he's not convincing the world to vote for Natano or against him so what is he doing throwing bail but in his world he's not battal the view Every every conversation is about nothing is my is about what I believe it's nothing okay the point but it's me and Ga that guy to know what he did obviously is like the easiest one like it's the best way to like make yourself a little bigger that guy's a little down on here up oh wow my gra so all these things they're all spinning around this person that's trying to fill himself with something but that thing now is Ga. And this Giva is is in a certain way worse than those other two because Giva gets everywhere. Tya, the guy runs, he does this thing. He's going crazy for money. Okay. Absorbs him and everything, but he's able to still have some sort of But Giva, it infects quietly everything you do. Every single interaction and thought is just me me. So that's what the the the danger is. So he says that leads to anos. And anos is like it's brought down in many that is called from means to be needy and a a poor person is needy. He needs some money to get bread. He needs somebody to get water. He needs some money for shelter. He's always sitting there needing things. So this human being who is the head of the the VA of his town and runs two yeshivas and making millions of dollars a year is the neediest person in the entire town because of his ga he needs to feel bigger and greater and better all day long. So it's an it's and it's a form of death. The Reb says here it's a death sentence. So this this person is filled with all these these needy things. So now the rebik give money to the sodaka money is it's me right means blood it means it means you it means your your um your money so your money is very we're very attached to our money we made it we worked I gave my life for this this is my sweat blood and tears so it's very hard to give so he says I think that's why he didn't use the the plastic from meer right because I' I've seen from says that there was a I don't remember very well that you should give sodaka with all your heart. He says that's a godless of Hashem making meer and you made $100. You know that right away as you're getting it from the ATM machine. You take that $10 and you fold it up and you put it into your meister pocket. It's not yours. Then when you come to Shiners and there's there's collectors coming. It's not a big deal, you know. Oh, I got that $10 right now. Oh, I'll take it out. got change of a 10. Okay, great. And then the next 10 guys you're like, you're giving out singles. You're like, you're like happy. You're like selling out singles. Why? Because it's not mine. The other 90 that's hard. Once you hit that 10 and they come for that other you're like, "Ah, I'm sorry. I'm all out. I gave my I'm done. I did my halafa. I did it with a full heart." But that's where the hard part is to give of yourself. And that's what the the Reb is saying over here is that that's the part that's me. I am the king of the world. my money is mine. And now when you're able to say and take that and you say I'm giving up of that. I'm saying and what is what is what is the truest poverty that this person the poverty that he has is that with his world view he has everything in the world that he needs. He doesn't need anyone. I'm the king of the universe and therefore I need no one. So I'm I'm up there and I need no one. Now when he says he breaks that and he says I'm not the only human being in the world. There's a whole world around me. Look at these people. They need money. And it doesn't just mean money like we said in the other showroom. It means to give a person a smile. It means to give a person a couple of seconds of your time to listen to them. Right? My my kids, two of my kids were staying over a story. I must have sat over this story 10 times in the last 10 years. And my kid obviously forgot that I had told him the story. So he was singing over the story and my other kid was like, "Oh yeah, yeah, we know this story." I was like, and he was like getting all upset. What are you told? He's like, "Stop. You're ruining my story. I'm trying to say over the story." I was like, "No, I want to hear the story. Please, I really want to hear the story." You know, and just giving him the space to like express and say over a story that I know and I've actually said over 10 times, but it it helps him. He feels good and he feels like he's giving over something he knows and it and it's beautiful. So all these things are where you take from yourself and you say there are others and that by doing that you're breaking those those all those things and that's he says the dawn is when you give back the things to the poor person and it it illuminates like the light of the sun. Let's just try to finish up the last chapter, the last paragraph of this. Now that you've seen the you're not lazy, you're not filled with desire. And now that you've given and you're you're not filled with yourself, so now you can now you can start speaking to him said that now they get to the crossroads. What does this mean? And the day of death. Now without getting to the for his saying this is obviously A person before they die is meant to say over what they did wrong. What does he mean? The crossroads. He is explaining to him a pathway. Every person person has his specific pathways to return to Hashem and the helps him do that. Fixed from everything. He was there. He saw him and he gave him very good. I don't want tyus anymore and I'm not lazy and now I'm not filled with myself. There's a whole world around me. But what do I do? What do I go? What do I do? Ah, now he says, "Okay, there's many pathways. Some of them lead to good, some of them lead to death." Now that he comes to this place of vidoy, now he comes to the place of understanding and knowing where to go. And like we said in the other sharim that if you want to take it on a very practical level that the vidoy of the sadic is basically your body and all of your lower parts of your of your being which are very real and part of you speaking so to speak to the pure of your own self and just speaking out what you're feeling and what you're going through. So now it's beautiful. The same thing over here. You have to see your soul. See the part the place of your soul. Come in contact with that place that's mamish soul. And the litmus test would be if you see that all of a sudden when you touch that place, you don't even feel like you want the desires anymore. Right? Some days you wake up and you're so inspired that you have no desire to look at any social media, anything. You're like, but I need this garbage, but I don't need to look at the news. And when you when you that's a litmus test that you found the part inside of you that's alive, that's real. That's your nishama. And when you see that and then when you when you give to it, you recognize that it's an active partner with you. So then all of a sudden you you also realize that you're part of an integrated being of a body and a soul. And now now that you come to that level now that you're ready now you're ready to speak. Now you're ready to say the body to the soul inside of yourself and speak out and say this is what I'm going through. This is what's happening in a very simplistic way. I I I think often it says end on this we say what does it mean our advisers like we had in the beginning is this 22 letters of the alf and is which means start the alf again the greatest advice of all is that whatever you're doing start from the alf base just start alf B gimmel you know famous song of b gimmel just start from the alf b you're starting to speak about what I don't know let's start from the olive b what's going on how do I feel what's what's what's feeling not so good to me what feels great today what what happened today that I feel great about speak it out just say it out by doing this you have this beautiful through connection with your body and your soul and this obviously with with meaning the talic and singing the talic through this it lifts up as we're going to see in the The Torah lifts up all the malas and everything back to the source to be able to see that there are no places within your body and all the struggles that you're going through. That's bad. It's actually all part of unified integrated unity and from seeing the different parts all coming together. Now you're able to see the mas of the greatest greatest levels. So,