Likutei Moharan Torah Beis Part 2 Lesson By Rav Yoeli Klein at Scheiner's Shul

remember when to hit record. What? Remember when to hit record? I did that one. Right. Here we go. In five minutes. Okay. So, we're continuing the B in the Kutamaran. In the beginning of the Kimaran, we got up to ice. But to give a little recap obviously to get into the swing of things that the Reb spoke about the of Mashiach Mashiach. He was speaking about Mashiach, how Mashiach is going to come through main weapon of Msiah is but he connected that through toem also through the breath the sense of smell and the uh the the breathing. I just wanted to say a few things about that. I kind of glossed over that but very interesting. I mean nowadays people are very into uh what do they call it? Breath work. Breath work. very into breath work. So there's a yid that that's m in the forest of Abdu an older yid that's I don't know I think he's like I'm not exactly sure what he is but he's like a yet he walks around with his white beard and his towel over his so over his hand he's all over and he comes and he gives to people wherever they are in forest or wherever you'll see him walking the streets of very special with the phone on the hand no phone and Um so he once told me a vart he's giving me in the forest he told me a vart from I believe it's the zilla rebba almost everything he says is from the villa or the moonba so it's one of those two that he said to someone they asked him how do you have such such uh suchesh so I think it's he answered them it's not a big deal you could also have it really okay I want it sign me up where do I sign up he said all you have to do is for five years straight. Every breath you take, thank Hashem and you'll get it naturally. It won't you won't have to work for it. So, so he told that to me once. So, for years I just had that little nugget of information in my mind. I'm sure he connected it to some beautiful onion. He he has a way of doing that. But it was just an interesting thing. And then years later I was thinking about this how we say and says with every breath you take you should praise. So there's a certain aspect of what that means that every time you breathe should be praising helping out doing a mitzvah. There's so much that you could do with your breath with your words every single breath to try to do something good with that that breath. Then I realized something deeper and that might explain a lot of things is that every breath that we take that we're taking it for good. We're using it to speak words of encouragement to speak words of and all the things like that. So at a certain point the breath is going out out and it's doing so much. At a certain point it stops. We get to the point where we can't talk anymore. Every single person every couple of seconds get to that gets to that point where I can't go on anymore. It's a it's a a place of internal physical ble that every single person goes through a thousand times a day where we come to the place where our exhalation is finished and we need to inhale to live and we do it. The inhalation though is basically a place of saying I can't live anymore. I can't exist. I I'm finished. Even though I'm a big and I'm I'm saying words of I'm ripping through tom and I'm giving speeches and everything. I can't live anymore. I need to now take a deep breath and the and in a in a inhalation in a breath. What could you do with that? Nothing. Unless you're like Kenny G who figured out a way of exhaling and inhaling at the exact same time to break the world record for blowing a saxophone 35 minutes or something. But other than that, kiput when you're exhale when you're inhaling you have you have no way of doing anything. You're silent. that silence that BL is such a tremendous place where we all have that we all naturally experience that and maybe that's why already half of the of the statement from from the zba is every single time that we get to that place and we inhale we're praising silently we're saying hashem I can't live anymore I need you hashem I need you so that's a little bit of understanding that obviously if we use when we use the exhalation to speak words of of kaduca That's the of the of the um but the rabbi said over there with theem the breathing is to to praise and to to dav into him and he said afterwards that in order to get to the in order to get to this place of dvening it's like a weapon so we have to be able to have sabris he spoke about and he said that it's really a coak of wielding building the sword of tila. Tila is a sword. It's a powerful weapon. But we have to be able to know how to handle this weapon as every weapon needs to be able to have instruction how to use it. Sometimes you can lean too much to the right or too much to the left. And we have to be able to judiciously balance this uh amazing weapon called file. He says because the weapon of file is a two-edged sword. It's it's um praise and prayer so to speak. It's praising and just asking him for what you need. So in order to understand that a little bit how we have this um this this balance of of praise and and prayer of of davening. So you know when you hear this originally so sometimes you think that okay so we have another requirement in our long list of of in Yiddish you know the greatest thing in Yiddish is to be ded and par. So you could eat whatever you want and you can do whatever you want for a couple hours until your next. So we have another oh okay we have to d a lot because that's going to bring mashia but the only way to d is we have to be able to balance our our our thanking hashem and are asking another but there's you know like the famously said that the whole world is a it's a very thin bridge and the main thing is not to be afraid. So it once struck me a few months ago in the in the winter time. Um I was actually walking home from a from a sham zer by myself in the winter here in Muny and it was quiet. It was it was uh you know very silent. The the amazing thing about Muny now on Shabas there's basically no cars. When I grew up in Muny it was not like that but uh then during Greek there was no cars also but the the the um I was thinking about it. I was I just happened to have been having fun with myself cuz I was by myself. It was like 10° so I'm just trying to like keep sane in the freezing cold. So in order to keep sane and fun I was going on the curb and I was walking on college road just walking on the curb balancing myself and it was fun. It was keeping me busy. But I started to think I'm on a gesture right now and you know what I'm not afraid. And it struck me says this. He says that you should not be afraid. one the last thing and the probably worst thing that you could tell a person that's fearful don't be afraid just stop being afraid stop he's like anxiously starts having a hyperventilation you know like what is telling us the world is a crazy scary place but don't be afraid you know like like the mitzvah stick you know you better be happy boom be happy boom you know like what are you telling me obviously there's much more depth is saying that yeah the whole world is a very thin bridge he was saying something different. It's It was brought down once in uh I think in Mile Beerman. I might be mixing it up from some other source, but they said that there was a very very realistic VR headset that was in a mall somewhere and you put on this VR headset and you were mammish in it, you know, like they have nowadays. And what you had to do is you had to walk up on this 6 in little thing stick. You have to walk across this uh you know 25 feet on this six inch thing the six inch beam and people put on the headset and on the headset with wind and everything you know the fans like the whole nine yards you were in on the top of you know the twin towers you know you were like 2,000 ft in the air with crazy heights you know threatening you on both sides. So he uh they said that invariably the people that were wearing this headset and going across would fall off. They would be like ah fall off. Ah fall off. They're on a tight rope. They're not tight rope walkers. They don't know how to do this a and they would fall off and then they would take off the headset and they would look down and everyone would be like laughing like you just fell off of three inches high six inches thick uh beam like not almost anyone could do that. You know it's six inches. You just walk foot in front of foot. It's not the end of the world. Most people can do it. But it was the fear that got them. And the fear was that they're thousand feet in the air. And the reality was that they're 2 inches in the air. And so when says that the whole world is a very thin bridge and he says that you should not be afraid, he's saying not that you should not be afraid because you know just don't be afraid. He's saying that it's just not reality. Obviously there's a bridge. Obviously, we have to walk on a path now between between file that's praising and fel that's that's asking but it's not like there or for it. If you fall this way and that way, you're going to be caught. You're going to be all right. Everything's going to be all right. You're right here. Hashem is right with you. And every single place that you fall this side or that side, you're going to be okay. You're going to be totally fine. So in terms of of of being able to internalize this thing of this balance. So the Reb says that you're able to attain this balance of praising and asking him which is a really what we're saying now is not a external thing like just do it and it's another but rather it's something internal that when you what it is and when you attain it so then it's the most beautiful connection and love with you realize that this is the relationship and now I am part of this relationship and I'm connected to Hashem. So the to do this the Reb says is through a mishb through judgment and he specifically speaks about this with and like we said that is the ultimate judge and Hashem decides who's going to be rich and who's going to be poor and so he shells out so to speak his decision who's rich who's poor and Hashem is the judge like him but if you yourself take your money from your pocket and decide that this poor guy who does not have money he's going to have money, I'm going to make him rich. You just exercised the judgment of also and you just decided not only that that you yourself who had some money is now going to be poor. So you're imitating way of judgment and you're now basically becoming like the judge of in a very altruistic good way of giving. Not obviously I'm taking which would be a perversion of this whole judgment basically saying that the only thing there is is in the world is me. I'm going to take everyone's money to myself. Rather you're say recognizing now that you're not the only thing in the world. others and you're judging in a very realistic real real way by giving it. So he says that that's why we give before ding when we're coming to we the setup of our and the whole setup of is usually praising and begging him and praising him more to um and that way brings down. So what happens is when you do when you give you're actually doing that it once struck me I was it was actually a fast day was a bunch of years ago was It was interesting. It wasn't a real fast day. I was in like a yeshiva. I was in Zilberman's program in the old city and they were making a fast day for I think it was the expulsion of Gushkatif at that point and the government was continuously threatening they were going to do it. They did it. Um but the were up in arms and trying to be and they said we should all fast this particular day. So I said, you know, I'm not like a big faster um but I'm going to try to do it. That was my tinest. So I was trying to do it and I made it to and I made it a little bit further. I remember being in the old city there and I was just fainting. It was the summer and I was very hot, very over, you know, dehydrated. So I went and I got myself finally a a snapple and I sat down in one of the cafes there in the in the old city and I was just going to break my fast and I was just like so so weak. I was like, "Okay, please, you know, accept this partial fast maybe, you know, after all the they say always come back. Now the Gaza is coming back into our handsm in good ways but it should be in good ways. Everyone should be protected and safe. But the um the point is that when I was drinking that drink it struck me that Gamarra speaks about that the um the value of a tinus is sudaka. What does it mean that the value of tinus sudaka is that it's very nice that you're you know withholding food and drink from your from your body but the the great greater thing is if you would give of yourself to give of your money to another person but it struck me that another is that the value the gain that you gain yourself from a tinus is to recognize that everything that you have is like I was drinking that drink and I was thinking here I have I have no energy I can't move I can't walk I can't think I'm I'm just I'm done. Like I have nothing. I was drinking the drink and feeling it like revive me. And I was like all the food and drink that I have all the time. I never appreciate it. I just I got to eat. I'm hungry. Go eating drinking. But it's it's it's what's giving me life. It's what's allowing me now to think. It was allowing me now to move and to go and to do all the things that I'm doing. It's such a it's such a duck. It's such a charity that gives me at all times. So that's the basically the recognition like we spoke before about the the to uh to receive from to recognize that in our in our palms that we're not just giving from our palms but we're also receiving from our palms. Our palms are receiving when they're when they're able to recognize that everything we have is just a gift from and that is the side of so to speak where we are recognizing that there is nothing else other than we start off with praising Hashem and saying hashem I don't have existence everything I have is just you is just from you and then when we come to the next level when we start to give and we start to do things in the world and we start to see that hey this guy really needs money this guy looks like he's starving. This guy is going through a mat. So we start to do things in the world. So we start to act be active in the real world. That's the other side of the sword of where it's basically that we're also asking and begging and the balance of those two um is a very deep with you know this week we were learning in the the rabbi why sometimes and the alterba said that there are many people that they they they dive in very powerful dings whatever it They get to like there's nothing else that exists. They're totally and they get out of they get out of they're full of anger, resentment and getting into fight like what happened there like was was that not real? No, he says it was real. It was totally real. It was not like that faking it, you know, like now they're getting angry. No, they were real. They were totally there. He says that the danger of being there if you just remain there and this is what is speaking about a little bit. balance of being able to be in this place of praising the then getting back right out of it and grounding yourself and the way says the the danger is that when you get there you can't be there forever like says invim there you're going to have to come back and the way to transition back from that place of incredible bet is by he he says learning tyra when you finish your d finish your spiritual high and your bet you sit and learn you learn it grounds you it brings you back into the physicality of the world but with and then ah that infinite light that you just received is grounded in the finite world that is still pulsating with and you're able to bring that out into the world in a balanced healthy way which hopefully won't come out in anger anymore so I've been speaking about this very much this side of the paper the most beautiful side right now the blank side ah so we're going to go v because apparently There's nothing more to say. So, we're going to go invite over here in in ice. So, the Reb brought down over there that you have to have that um mishb and the way to do that is now going to continue. Now, all of a sudden, there's this new topic brought up of foreign thoughts. What are anyone that's dishar you know what are you're sitting there and you uh you don't know all of a sudden you're thinking about every business deal every single thing in your house that you didn't do and everything that you should have done wow it's like whoa like the best most insightful things of the world come the second that you start from the soazar's foreign thoughts and it's coming he says through kilkish through a a messed up sense of judgment. Keybid you're going to bring some rise. We're not going to get too deep into the um mishb is an aspect of the eyes or as he's going to play on words over there is really a um like a a well maybe but the the idea is that the eye and the through messing up judgment. It's a mess up in the eyes. bribery, money, it blinds the eyes of even the wise people. Something about money, something about, you know, invested interest in something. When you have a ulterior motive, it just you don't see things. You can't see things properly. You're you're blinded. These are clouds. This is from I think Alash maybe that we're going to see like the Z speaks about it that there are clouds that descend upon the eyes. cover the eyes over there. It's like covering himself in a cloud so that the the should not come through. And this is a big kilk in ding. Obviously, we want in our file to speak to Hashem. You want to be present. There's a there's a guy once in I remember this is like when we were like 19. I'm not even sure if I was learning at that point. Maybe I was a little bit, but there was a guy there that was just hanging out in the basement all day. like you know he was just one of these guys that's going to be the people that just spend time in the basement mad. Now obviously the Mishna and says that it's better you know just go keep going to the base mad no matter what. But I remember looking at him and it was like so many months that he would just hang out in the base and just smoo and hang out and disturb people and go. I looked at him I said like like do you really want to do this for the next 80 years of your life? Like is this the way you want to do it? guys like like if you're here anyways in the base just open a safer and try to see if there's something that can inspire you so that you'll enjoy learning to for the rest of your life instead of just sitting and cruising or open a sitter and learn the sitter and see if there's something that you can get out of diving instead of like spacing out and mumbling and making believe like you're speaking and and then and going vit it's going to be a torturous life. So the idea over here is that that um that these these thoughts are damaging our we all want to enjoy. We all want to enjoy a good conversation. We want to connect to but these um these clouds are just clouding our judgment. They're not letting us um connect. So he says that there's all from a hamish. He says over here that the fixing of that But and the future world is that when all this mishb is connect is uh is is fixed is rectified then the clouds that are covering over our eyes all these foreign thoughts are going to go are going to pass they're playing the words of and when with able to see properly and also of above the eye that we're going to be able to have proper eyesight in our so it's very interesting over here that the the Reb is bringing up this of now is there's a famous that says that wherever you have that's where there's you could uplift so what does that mean like most people have no idea what does it mean I don't know like I'm not a makobo I don't know what kadusha even look and I don't know how to lift them up and why would they be in my So one of the ideas I think could be is that what areas if we take we look at them we don't just either be unconscious with them we don't just say like oh what are they I don't know like I'm just thinking but at a certain point you know you realize that oh I'm not thinking about I'm thinking about random stuff so we could take it at that point we could say I'm terrible I'm terri terrible. I'm terrible and go rest with feeling remorse and feeling bad and then have about feeling bad and how you feel bad. Go down that whole line until you say or you can stop for a couple of seconds and say, "Well, what was I thinking about?" And then you could start looking at them and say, "Well, why was I thinking about them?" And then you could start saying, "Oh, because I'm actually nervous about this bill that I didn't pay and it's been two weeks and everyone's like kind of asking me and you know and I don't really know how I'm going to pay it." Ah, that's what I'm worried about. Okay, you could either just hold it, give it space and say, "Okay, that's what I'm worried about." Or you could try to think of an ita. This is a real thing. Taka, how am I going to deal with it? Maybe if I ask this and this guy and this dude and this and this, maybe I'll be able to be able to deal with it better. Okay, great. You put it, you figured it out. That's called I think what the is saying is lifting up meaning all these they're not in a vacuum. They're not coming from like it sounds like Zurus like like some sort of random foreign thing you know like some guy you know you read you know but if you scroll through social media they're like throwing at you every you know crazy thought in the video and everything in the whole world. It's like where is it coming from? It's coming from someplace. I mean, even in social media, they have an algorithm that knows exactly who you are, exactly your weaknesses, and they're also leading into those, you know, playing into those things. Amen. So, the the the idea is that we're able to uplift these sparks when and if we look at the at the uh at the thing. That's also a level of mishb meaning you're taking these these these clouds that are covering over your eyes and through mishb you're actually able to destroy them and and to uh be able to uplift them and come close to even with them um which is lifting up their their sparks says now this is another like kind of almost random shift in gears the says that you have to try to focus yourself and feel to connect yourself to bind yourself to in the generation every single is an element of very interestingly in the I think that's a bunch of places in like it says in mo that they would uh Tan and I think would actually call them call each other Mosha. They would say, "Hey, Misha, Mosha, Misha." The guy's name was not his name was Rahun. His name was Ra say what do you think Mosha? So's playing over there. It was just like a kind of an affectionate way. But what is he's saying that every is an element of Mosha is Mashiach aspect of Mashiach the one until comes also. So this is Mashiach says. So Mosha and Mashiah are synonymous so to speak and every sadic they would call each other Mosha. So every sadic has this element of Misha Msiah. So we have to connect ourselves to to this element of each that a person is a is a limb of the indwelling presence of um finite expressions of infinity through the finite world which are the limbs of the mishkan. I don't know if limbs means like arm. It means the the pieces of Mishka or you know I guess maybe it could mean both meaning the Mishkan itself was um beams and tarps and and hides and things like that but obviously inside of it all represents the limbs of man of of a of a of a connection to no one in can lift it up only could have had everything they needed. They could have had gold and silver and and and crimson and all this stuff, but no one could make the Mishka. What they had to do was they had to give it to Mosa and Mosha was able to take all of these parts and all these beautiful like like speaks about in the first thing these these colors. Some people were gold, some people were were were red wool. He took all of these things and knew how to take it and weave it all together. obviously and the whole that was the did this but he was the one that was able to bring it all together all our words are when we're little kids we're taught that every mitzah we do is a brick in the mikdash so that's what is kind of alluding to here is that every word is also a brick a limb a part of the building of the ba mikdash up in shmay and we have to bring it to the in order for him to be able to basically put it in the right spot. Not doing he's not doing anything. He's not able to create felas. He's able to take felas and just kind kind of place it in the right place like a master architect so that it so to speak looks good and is put together properly. They had to bring all the parts of the Mishkan to Mosha and Mosha was able to unify all the distinct parts and put it together into a cohesive Mishkan was the only one that was able to do this. And so too when we'reing we are um also try to we try to we try to do this idea of bringing it all up to um to the tadic. Uh I remember once when I was when I my kids were much more much little much smaller and my daughter must have been three and my son must have been one and they were sitting on the carpet on the floor and my daughter took a sitter. She was already three so she knew how to dab. So she took a sitter upside down and started going yeah bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye. And then my son was one started taking a car eating eat in a corner. So my daughter looked at me and she said, "Daddy, he doesn't know how to do yet." He was laughing. He's eating the corner of the dinner. She knows how to do. Usually they see upside down. They don't read. Yeah, it's true. So that's why you He's gr very smart right now. The other one The other one is steing. Exactly. I don't have any tires against him. What are you doing? Doing good. But the idea, the first thought I was like, "Ah, so sweet." It's the cutest of the cute, the sweetest of the sweet. Like, how sweet can it be? Then I looked at myself. I'm like, "Oh, I'm the guy that's laughing at her." Because I know how to do. And now I go and I place myself next to the amion of a Reb. If anyone's ever beheld the aminoba or any huge reba I'm like sitting there and I'm gonna be diving with all my might all my kavana and the is like you know like they they asked you know how they asked a rich once you know he said that the rebba is in some sort of and when he gets up to there on on I think it was or I think it was the says when he gets up to he sees there So they asked him but is like it's four days ago when you're up there on on so he said he's there the whole year. So you know like it struck me that that here I am and I'm I'm the der you know. So the idea of there is that it's a tremendous humility and when he's ding he recognized that he doesn't know anything either and he's mashing himself to higher and bigger and bigger people. That's the idea of right of wherever we are to try to take our and to have that deep humility to understand that and that's I think the balance again of what the Reb is saying here is to recognize that we are so so so so small. We're so valuable. We're so precious. We're so connected to everything else, but we're very very very connected to a BL that's that's much much bigger than us. And to have that B is is also when expressed through connecting to and in breast if you want to go the route. So then before you d you could say you could say the whole do and um but the idea is to yourself and and they speak about this a lot lately to the to the or if the tadik is alive to mash yourself to him to be there by him so that you're not just um seeing words or you know seeing uh a physical shell of a person but you're you're digging into the to the the kishkas so to speak to insights of what really the saddic is by learning his by trying to internalize it. Um and maybe that's why the next words of the rabbi and this just came to me now next words of the speak again switches gears to that a person's learning to keep to to guard and to keep. So that's the essence of of connecting to it. to connect to means to learn their toys, to try to be at their tish, to try to speak to them, to try to try to gain from them. But not in like, oh, let's see if it's let's see if it's a good tish. Let's see if it's let's, you know, inspirational Torah is, you know, no, you're here to try to listen and gain in a way that you're going to guard it. You're going to work on it. You're going to continuously and a way that it's going to affect you until you you absorb it. you become the of the soy that you're learning to do that all the letters of the terra that you're learning um are souls like we said before again it could be just souls are like these spiritual um like like liveless basically inner consciousness if you want to re re-ransate it now all of these things now if you want to learn Like many say doesn't mean he gave thera means he's the giver of the that every single second of life wherever you are there's being taught who's speaking to us. So if you're learning it like that so every single word that you learn and say for every single conversation or every single interaction you have with the whole world is all it's all it's all inner consciousness that is trying to bring to you trying to connect to you. So now they become all these ideas and these souls and these sparks so to speak become um clothed renewed in the become so to speak [Music] pregnant there's a whole thing of Eber but the idea is that everything follows the same ideas of pregnancy that there's an inception uh conception and then there's a you know a a growing of the of the embryo and then there's a birth. The whole process of birth um is represented also in the birth of our ideas and our connections and our and our let's just finish up until the let's try we have two more minutes is a hybrid of which is We're not going to focus so much on how all these things work out which was the beginning of the says of the of nostrils of breathing and of an aspect of honor respect is so to speak a a clothing for us. Speaks about this call his clothing his honor. the these sparks of souls they illuminate into the and they illuminate into that it's it's renewed. Now you have these ideas that you brought out into that started to gestate started to become something bigger than they were. These are now brought who's now able to take that to the next level where he's able to take all of these um these ideas and these like we said sometimes they come from it comes from beautiful places all of these um these places that you found within that you not didn't necessarily find before now they're they're they're brought up to your conscious and you're trying to start to to deal with them and work with them and they bring them into the words of file. Now, when you bring them into the words of with a connection to he's able to take all of these words, all these workings that you're trying to do and put them in the right place so that they're brought up to a tremendous higher level. defeat up on what is coming.