Shiur in Likutei Moharan Lesson #4 by Rav Yoeli Klein at Scheiner's Shiur

Okay, new to new life after the fourth term should be everything should be should go. So this is lashenu which means that you can make extreme but it happens to be that this terra it's a lot a lot longer than the the first three. So we're going to go a little bit quicker but try to tie it in. It was it was said I read some of the background. It was said in 1801 which is before came close to the Reba but apparently it was written down and it was in Zlatipa and it had stories behind it. The story behind it was that the Reb I think before right after I think before he said this tora sent over a story from the BMP where there was some sort of his that was young and was dying. And so he called over the Reb and he said he had this crazy bone disease. his bones were basically like failing. And so he said, "What could I do, Reb? Please save me." You know, and the Reb said, "To make the long story short, you know what you did. Shem knows what you did. I know what you did. So just speak it out what you did, you know, cuz you're a really, really good person and it'll go away." He says, "No, I can't. I don't want to." And so he ended up dying of the rot of bones. I don't even know what that medical condition might be called nowadays, but his bones rotted. It was a tremendously painful death. So after that the Rebu the Reb said the story of the BMP and he said over this which has a lot to do with bones and with speaking out your your failings. So we'll start with that and um we'll go through from there. So starts off and anyone who uh listens to Yardun I think I probably spent more time this week listening to the song that he has on this versus learning the Torah. But there's a beautiful That's that's the first first line, the main line here. When a person knows that all of his which is in and of itself a unique lion that the Reb uses. Usually you'd say everything that happens is really good. We have plenty of that in kazal. The rabbi uses which I I'm not a expert linguistic person in Hebrew but how would you say it's a like an event happening something like that right? Anything happened to right anything that happens anything that goes on in your life it's for his good. this this this idea this understanding is that's that's the future world like he says uses the same of I praise Hashem from which is always known as and which is known as the constrictions and the and the concealments of both of them he he praises so that's how you see that you should always praise for all of the good for for everything that happens even the bad. But over here it's famous. We say this in that in the future is going to be one and his name is going to be one. The ask what all of a sudden we're not monotheistic. Now all of a sudden there's two gods. Hashem is one now. So what do you mean he's going to be one? So answers, you're right. When good stuff happens to us, we say, "Wow, Hashem, you're good and you're bestowing good upon me." But when bad stuff happens, we don't say, "Thank you, Hashem." We obviously try to say, "Thank you, Hashem." But we the is supposed to make is dynam. But you're the the perfect judge. But in the future world, everything is going to be Hashem, you're good and you're being good. Hashem, it's all going to be unified as one. So, just to to to pause a little bit for this paragraph. So, we know, oh yeah, I heard a nice from means like it says it's a tremendous connection. So in the world of physicality we can connect with many things. Oh here's this here's that we can connect we could do whatever we want. We can connect with almost anything but in the world of pmio inside so the things that you connect with are things that you are conceptually connected with. You understand you connect with understanding. Um like uh Feldman has a famous book uh the river the cattle and the bird. There he says that like zeug itself is just like the signature of a document. So you have a document that's signed. What does that mean? It means nothing. But if you have a whole to you have a whole document that says this and says that and says this and then the signature on the bottom. Ah so then it means something. So unification is only something when there's what behind it. So here when the reba that everything is good, he's speaking about a very deep knowledge. He's speaking about something that your mom is connected to and you understand to the to your core that everything is happening for the good and he but the Reb doesn't use everything is happening for the good. He changes he tweaks the a little bit. He says all his happenings are for his good. He could have said like the says everything's for the good everything's for the good. He says that you have to know everything is good for your good. Everything's tailor made. That's he uses I think the Russian of every event every situation you say yeah everything is for the good very nice but for me it's not you know no right now what you're going through right now every person what they're going through is for his good is tailor making the entire world for the good I remember learning from many years ago with the says that we could mess up and we do mess up and we mess up again and again and again. So you know what happens the second you mess up you sin you fall everything says wow that that hurt that was that was damaging okay recreating the entire world that everything could come back right now and that's that's what happens after every second everything is recreated reformulated that it could come right back to so that is basically what's happening that when a person recognizes this that every single minute every single second everything that's happening both the good and the bad is for his good so then he's already living in a in He's living in I was just uh here where the reb uses this lion from Hashem from Kim from from the good and the bad is 272 which is could mean night time is the same as sweetness. So we say even in the darkness of sweetness. I think that's a little bit alluded to invar when we say every night in my hopefully will say it soon that like comes it was day and now it's night and we start going crazy. Wow it's night like what's the big deal? Like it was day now it's night. Okaym big deal. You know like we're so excited it's night now. Whoa. So I think one of the if you if you learn up that you sweet in the night it's saying that what did we just say that all the daytime all the good that we just had it was you ah now we're going through a time of darkness now it's dark it's you ah that sweetens the whole thing it's not like just pure darkness I don't know where I'm going it's it's sweet I always used to think of this mushel of now Ra school is becoming more popular so there's be called Piran and that's where I was for many years. I was a piran guy. So there's Yish, there's the supermarket on one side, there's the Makola, there's Sam's Bagels, there's Waffle Bar, there's a whole street, a long strip, there's Banks, there's what to do, you know. So it was at a time that there was like this virus going on. It wasn't Corona. It was a virus before Corona that they thought was going to end the world. And this struck me and then somebody but you could translate it into Corona. You can translate it into any virus. The virus is going around and it's decimating the world. Not like corona. It actually is decimating the world and it's mish destroying the world and they're only able to make and synthesize a certain amount of a antidote and there's very limited amount and people are dying all over the place. They give it to like very important people and then they have a raffle random for the people that are going to get it from the regular community maybe 10 out of a thousand because they just don't have enough. This guy Shiman gets called to come down to the clinic over there. He's one out of a thousand that's gonna get this shot. It's gonna save his life in the in the Armageddon epidemic. And so he's walking down Pan for there and the same time it's a hot summer day. Ruvane's walking from the other side by Ruain's walking and he's not in such a great mood. It's hot, it's sticky and he's going by Pan and he's going by that supermarket and boom, he hits his leg. He looks down. Some guy left a wagon sitting there. And so he like he like grasps his knee. It's like in pain. And he he hobbles over to a bench. And as he's hobbling over to a bench, he sits down. He's like nursing his knee. He's hot. All of a sudden just he gets bitten by a bee. And he's like, "Oh, this is horrible." So he goes and makes his way to the pizza shop and he finally gets he's like, "I'll just buy something cold, like a soda or a juice to like calm me down." Forgot his wallet and he realized no one knows him here. and no one's going to give him a free drink. The other side, Shiman's coming down the block. He goes into the clinic and the guy looks up all the papers, checks it very carefully. He says, "Yeah, you're the guy. You're going to get the shot." So, he says, "Listen, we just need to do a regular checkup." Boom. He does his uh reflexes on his knee. He says, "I'm sorry. I hurt you a little bit. Really a little too hard. You know, really doctor's bone. You got good reflexes." So, he says, "Okay, sorry." He's he's nursing his knee, opens up his arm. He says, "This is quite a shot. It's going to hurt a little bit." He's in the shot and he says, "Just don't eat or drink for half an hour." So Shiman comes, he says, "I'll hang out on Pan a little bit." And he comes to uh to the pizza shop. And Ruvane's sitting there crying because he just got hit in the knee, poked in the arm, and he's thirsty, and it's the worst day of his life. And Shim just got hit in the knee, poked in the arm, and he's thirsty, and he's crying from the deepest tears of joy. That's what's called they're both experiencing the exact same pains. But one is just in pure bliss. He just sees everything is kindness and one doesn't see anything. It's just random pain need you know senseless harshness. So that is the idea that when we're able to transfer ourselves and we don't always see it but the das to know there's a loving bay that's always doing everything and it's all like that. When you connect that on your even if you don't understand it yet your living says the I think the fourth that theb says the exact same idea of that the only way you could do this is to understand this if you lift up malus holy malus holy kingship which we're going to see is reference to the masia to the physical the world to the coverings of this world that is Hashem but it seems like coverings to Malus which is speech which are words that are by definition constricting infinite God into into containers. So all of these ideas of have to come out and if we lift it up because now in the exile all this power all this speech all this this grand is by the elim right in the sometimes you see that the word is used for reference to how could you do that it's name sometimes you say like because it's such a holy name and then when you're learning you say you say like that what's going on because Maybe that's I'm not sure. Sorry, I skipped the line. Sorry. So that is Hashem and are synonymous and the the idols all the they worship they draw they nourish from the kadusha from. So when you when we lift up that is he is the the he's God. So how do you do this? So how in the world we want to get to this place where we're like and that we understand everything is just pure goodness. We need to lift up. So how do we lift up malas from? So he says right away this is this means to admit your sins before and without getting into all to the confession part of it yet but we're just going to go v we're going to read it. We're going to absorb it. We're going to speak about it. We're going to see a little bit what it means possibly. Speak out your sins in front of this lifts up. A few proof texts which in this year we kind of run through um to get to the to the main points without getting too bogged down in the proof text. So this is a to admit is a ruler a ruler. So grab onto this which is a constriction like we said is a conrictive perspective of going to be able to know to connect deeply to the idea that every single thing that happens is for his good. Even in this world, even in this lifetime, he'll be able to say, "Hashem, you're just good and just being giving me good." So now let's see how and what this all means. When a person does know this, he knows that everything's for the good. This is called complete. His knowledge is complete. What does it mean to know? It means that you recognize that both kindness and strictness is all one. Everything is just like we said. So now he's going to he's going to weave it into the words himself. What does that mean? This is the constricted conricted ideas of of it's all both. They're all just for his good. Why? Because loves you. Hashem, he whom Hashem loves, he gives to he tells him, "What are you doing? Do better." Right? When you go into a train and some guy sitting next to you, he's not going to tell you that your lapel's up. He's just going to let you sit there. Your friend comes, you go, "Hey man, your lapel's up. Put it down." He loves you. He's not telling you off. He's just he's he's there to help you. People that don't love you, they don't really look at you. They're not really They might not even notice. another that reference being love that loves a person he's going to give him the he needs. Now then the next chap the next paragraph he's going to pull this together in in a more understandable way. So let's just go and try to try to So basically what we said until now was that we want to come to a place of deep understanding that everything's for our good. We need to lift up. We need to lift up the uh constricted understandings of these constrictions. We do that through speaking out our sins to a So now what does that mean? What what does this do? What does this confession do? You know, like in in some places like absolve, you're good. Give another $100 and you're even better, you know? But I don't think that's what's going on. Yeah. The only difference that he's not good point. He's Yeah. Yeah, exactly. A bachelor and the uh I think it's uh brought down that like didn't even like talk to the people that weren't married so much because he said get married and we'll start the we'll start the para. Let's go start the uh the real action. So now what is this? A person's sins are on his bones. That's interesting. It's a sins are engraved on our bones. So now each is not the same. It's different different permutations of letters person does whatever. So that gazilla is engraved somewhere microscopically in a spiritual level on his core on his on his bones. And like the Benta story sometimes obviously the spiritual reflects and and and plays out onto the physical. The words of this love they go into like we said a dab or deboard connected to mal these words and now he's he's saying that that's referring to the word of the that you did the you did it goes into the idol worship gives them strength. So these words of the sin that you did give strength to the of evil and then they go into your bones. A guy he some reason or another he decides that he fall he's falling into the sin of of idol worship of you know worshiping idols which I think uh in nowadays can basically be reflected on almost anything. In our days they used to say it's television. Nowadays, if you have a television, wow, what a tonic. You don't have a smartphone. What the biggest tonic in the world? But that's the idea. The idea is anything that's avod that's we worship and it's totally foreign. It's not who we are. It's not complete. It's totally disconnected. So when he does that, this beautiful you should not serve other gods. It gets distorted and messed up and it starts to permeate and gets engraved and in itself these this goes ahead and engraves on his bones and it causes and it takes vengeance upon him sins tilt towards him meaning the sins themselves it's not like oh you sin no the sin itself is engraved and it it damages to the death of the Russia is the ra that he did that's what kills him not some retribution so now if that's the case so now when you speak out the sins that you did all of a sudden these letters that are have been engraved inside so they should have been a good deb but instead they were engraved all wrong messed up like, you know, like you should serve us a voidar or something. It's all confused. It's all messed up and it's engraved. Ah, now the guy says, "You know what? I did I served the void. I got caught up in this thing and I was just glued to it. I couldn't get away from it. I did this wrong." Now all of a sudden the debra that was all messed up, it's coming out in the right way. I shouldn't have done that. It releases from his bones. My bones they speak it destroys this evil and evil permutation and it builds now a new a holy malus. Now he brings a whole story with Yehuda. When Yehuda sinned, his bones were rattling for I don't know how many hundreds of years in Mit until very many many years later was able to free him from that rattling. So that's the story. His bones were rattling. Listen to the voice of now. is the when he said do you hear what the what said was it was like the in front of the and that's what happened his bones settled and why was these bones were rattling because the bones it was engraved on the bones it was like the bones were disjointed and just rattling around with all these bad permutations or maybe one bad permutation from one thing that he did And then it was fixed and they all came together and he got obviously was the Malik and through this it came about the so he couldn't go to because he was dead but we learn he learned he's learning from here right because he because heard right so over here it worked differently that that I don't know exactly why or where it would definitely be worthy to to think about it for the next week that when Yehuda did the vid but for some reason it didn't work cuz it wasn't in front of the so now like rewinded and replayed the voy and it was as if Yehuda is saying it in front of boom it's it's fixed that's what it sounds like here he's going to speak about this mention You need this. It has to be in front of every aspect of like we've seen that they would call each other. It wasn't the guy that wasn't the name. He call mention as if he was saying the front fixes and it fixes the of his that point that you brought up just struck me. This is the point where stop and try to try to think a little bit about what's going on in this whole in this whole story. And so getting back to the vidoy. So the vidoy it sounds odd. It's like here we are telling people to start doing confession you know. So first of all there's a lot of things I heard this from Rabbi many years ago that he says that in Judaism we're extremely um pushed aside after the whole debacle of that no one wanted to you know speak about or think about it. He doesn't say shabetsi actually he says from yashka from the whole creation of Christianity there are so many um skewings of yiddishkite because it all came from Judaism that that yishkite veered away from those things so anytime that you see these things resurging now it's like what what are you talking about but really these are ancient practices that were done for thousands of years inkite but we had to stay clear of it for a long time but over here just to to also instead of just also seeing it as purely like okay so Now of practicality when the rebra some of his students that were there closest ones are like confused like the reb means that we should do this practically and it came out that yes they should and they did this and then at a certain point that was in 1801 at a certain point in 1808 someone came to the rabbi and started doing it said no no no don't do it anymore finished he said go to rabnas but don't do voy just speak to him so reb stopped the practice nowadays wrestlers, they do it still in Oman, but I guess it doesn't have the same um I guess scariness of doing it in front of a kever, you know, you're in front of a kever, you're speaking to a tadik that's upstairs in Sham, but even so, what's going on? So, I think just to understand it a little bit is that I heard this word that that I felt was very powerful uh this week this week. It was integration. Now, integration means that you're taking two distinct parts and you're bringing them together. They're still distinct. They're still different, but they're integrated. They're wholesome. So now when we look at ourselves, so often we need to see ourselves in a very positive light in order to save our dignity and what we think is who we are. We create uh invincible persona so that we are perfect. And if we make a mistake, we have 18,000 excuses and blame 13,000 people and it's all good. There's no mistakes. It's fine. And if we do admit a mistake, it's just because it's and we're supposed to do chuva. So we say, "Oh, I did such a mistake." But the idea is a very it's a very um it's very fractured. It's basically saying that in order for us to be good yidden and good people, we have to be perfect. And it's taking our whole struggle and our whole goof and saying that's like it's like dark bad stuff. It's, you know, we should fight it, keep it away. Maybe it happens, maybe it doesn't. I don't know. But I'm going to be an ashama. I'm going to be a good and I'm going to be an isama. Now, there's beauty to that because we are nishas. But to say that those things that we fall into and our struggles and our and our disasters that we are part of and our tyrus and our things that we're dealing with now is nothing is destructive and that only leads to a and a sometimes real things that we do and what the Reb says is that when these a happen so where do they go? So they go deep. They go deep. They go into our core. We might not even feel it. It's not on our It's not a tattoo. It's we can't see, you know, like the saying it's it's engraved like, "Oh yeah, you just did the Ara that imagine it with a tattoo. It' be like that's embarrassing. I see like on this guy's forehead. Terrible." No, it's deep. It's in our bones. We don't even see it. We don't even feel it. And what is it? It's a tear of It's like Hashem. And we ourselves went there to do something, but we messed it up. And now it's deep. It's deep. It's hidden. It's in our bones. So what the Reb tells us to do is open your lips. Lips [Music] is the edge. It's avat. The two lips are so is telling us open up your lips. Not just open up your lips. Open up your boundaries inside. You have boundaries. I'm a good guy. That's wrong because of that and that. Open it up. Melt it away. You're a goof. You have failings. You do things wrong. You're an part of you. They're both beautiful. You're struggling. Beautiful. Speak out your struggles. You failed. Speak out your failures. Speak it out clearly. Hashem, I can't handle this. Right? The 12 steps, one of the first steps is to admit that you did something wrong. And it takes a big big level. And they do it in many different ways to get a person to admit in a way that it's real. And then just to say, I don't have any power. I I really don't have give up to a higher power. Hashem, please help me. When a person does this, it removes the permutations of bad and it begins to create them and formulate them in the way they are, the way they're supposed to be. I messed up. They come out. They're demolished, freed. We say in every month we say, so the article translates it as health. means freedom is the the bones. These sins are trapping us. They're their is keeping us trapped. So is telling us that when we do this and when we do it in front of the idea of is someone why didn't he say speaks about the all the time is someone the the connotation of is like this perfect amazing is someone who's constantly working through. That's what the connotation is. So when we take our parts and we work through he said aasha is accasha a problem in our life is a problem but we work it we speak it out never comes to says kasha terrible I'm leaving it work through it when we come to that and we work through all these things and we speak it out to it releases us and gives us tremendous tremendous freedom from the from these from these permutations and it brings us back like he said to to free the mus to free the the speech and when a person does that we said last week when you exercise you're ripping muscles Once you rip open the the lips, once you rip open these muscles, then does the healing himself. All the healing comes afterwards. So help us to speak out everything that we have in front of the however we're going to speak about that we think about what that means nowadays practically. The idea is to do this in a way that opens up the deepest places of our ourselves and brings us together. So that then we could realize that all the parts, all of the darkness and all the light is all just Hashem. Everything goes after the ending. You're like sitting there waiting for me. David, I didn't want to interrupt the She spelled them out. Oh, we like that. Yeah, we got a little kid with 200. Wow. Nice. Beautiful. Wow, that fits in well. I wouldn't have thought of that myself. A [Music] That's it. probably getting there. You know, no 46 nicely. Don't just know what's the [Music] I've been happy.