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Last year we began basilani the basilani
that was said by the rebba 60 years ago
so today we'll continue baser hashem
which you also can download on the
yeshiva.net that we're up to pageion.
Page Tian, the second paragraph of Mam.
The year is dedicated by
Rifki Versashanski in loving memory of
Ben.
Thank you very very much.
So let me give a
literally a few paragraph summation of
what we learned last time and then we'll
continue from there.
He began the mime with the bosani.
Hashem says I came to my garden to be
with my sister and my kala my bride.
And on this the med says medani
means lii my garden. It's not just a
garden. The world is a garden. It's
legi. It's my personal my personal
canopy. Ka canopy. What they call the
bridal canopy
where the and kala would
be together after the wedding. And this
was exclusive. It was intimate. It was
very special and unique. And the medish
explains because
when the world was created, the primary
place of the where the wanted to be was
where in this world? In the lowest place
of reality.
And then there were the seven stories
that caused the to depart as he
discussed. And then the seven sadikim
that brought it back until the seventh
Mosha
who brings it back down to the earth
after
and then is number seven. So in this is
the seventh
the med says all the seventh are beloved
like you see in the days the seventh day
is shabas. You see in the months the
seventh month is
is
and in the years the seventh year is
a whole year of shabas. So the med says
med of that kalashvi and all the seventh
have a special unique quality
interesting there's a maharal
somebody sent me this week mal of prague
I think it's inicashem
it says in parmise in this week's para
well midian bonus
the priest of midion is had seven
daughters
seven daughters you have
Is there
any
justice? Yeah. Yeah.
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This is
Mosha runs away. This the has seven
daughters and the shepherds came and
they they they persecuted them. They
expelled them from the well. So Mosha
stood up and he saved them and then
ultimately he gets married to uh to so
the says
bonus
doesn't marry the seven doesn't marry
seven girls
the number seven. And why is that so
nega?
If it was two, if it was three, if it
was 10, it was eight. You say you had
daughters, it might just save them in
everything is it's not st happened to be
it was seven. Why do we have to know
about it? We don't know their names. So
tell me their names also. What were
their name? We only know one name. Tell
me their names. Answer is not what their
names are. So the maral says
he says that was the seventh the seven
daughters and was the seventh and
just like so wasn't it was of
the seventh generation to the seventh
generation
I'll brings
so brings the down down to the earth
and the main avoid is through the Mishk
which the whole of the Mishk was to
bring the into the world especially
through the carbonus from the word. The
Mishkim was built through shittim comes
from the word
which means folly stupidity insanity and
avoid is to take the the insanity of the
darkness of the world the lie of the
world the sheer and turn it into keresh
sheer becomes keresh which are the beams
kushim of the mishkan which are made
from shittim. So they transform the sheh
the into kesher into a a knot into a
connection and into krushment to the
foundations of the mishk
like dam says that when you one extreme
you have to go to the other extreme. So
in order to repair the the insanity of
darkness, it's not enough just to go
with logic. A person has to find the the
insanity of holiness like the Gmorra
says in
like we explained last time and that's
why the Jewish people are called Hashem
because the definition of a soldier is
when a soldier goes to war the only way
that victory can happen is if there's a
complete dedication that's unequivocal
and absolute and an unwavering
commitment without the calculations of
logic a deeper part a deeper core of the
soldier comes out a complete dedication
and unwavering that touches the soldier
at the core only that way you can be
victorious and every single Jew has that
in him like it says in Tanya and that's
why all the Jewish people are called
so now he continues
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in order to achieve victory in the war.
And here we're talking about the battle
for the world, the battle for history,
the battle for reality.
What type of reality do we live in? What
type of reality do we live in in
ourselves and in the entire world? So
for this victory, there's an there's a a
treasure
that's given from above.
An example for this is by a person by a
mortal king, a king of flesh and blood
engaged in a battle.
the the basili the original basilani.
spoke last year about the history of the
basi of the rebayats that he gave out
for the day of his
gives an example. He says that kings
have treasures. They have treasures
and there areas that the king may have
not touched till that point. Not only
his own treasures, but treasures that he
has amassed from his parents and
forefathers and from the dynasty of
monarchs and royals, maybe for
generations. They're so precious
sometimes that he doesn't even show them
to other people.
Not only doesn't use them or give them
away or sell them, they're so precious,
they're so intimate, they like represent
the royalty itself. It's hard for us to
understand today because we don't live
in a you know in a world of kings and
queens. If you go to uh if you go to
Russia, you go to Petersburg,
you see the palaces over there, the
hermitage,
you get a haga
of generations,
hundreds and hundreds of years, which
are priceless in terms of jewelry and
gold and silver and artwork, paintings.
So the king doesn't even show them to
anybody. But when it comes to the war,
when it comes for winning the war, so he
puts himself in danger and mazbis, he'll
squander, he'll utilize all the of him
and his fathers and his forefathers to
be victorious in the war. No holds by,
he holds nothing back.
Even though
it's so precious, but there's something
even more precious and that is the
victory.
And therefore, for this, he's going to
give away things that he would have
never even he would never even think of
giving away because something is
touching him in a place that is beyond
the regular rational structure in which
he lives in. So he gives everything up.
The word comes from it comes from the
mid of in a person's soul there's
different midas different
characteristics generally we have to
fetus
is the seven emotions one of them is the
mid of victory
victory is the ability of a person to be
victorious despite all odds when there's
no obstacles when there's no adversity
there's no net I don't have to win just
like in a regular nit
there's
people are playing a game right even
it's a fake but that concept is a
competition the question is who's going
to win so I have to bring out within me
there's a there's a quality in the soul
that person wants to win I want to
overcome and then when there's a person
faces obstacles in life adversity in
life darkness in life so what gets
triggered what gets aroused is the mid
in the soul that's called midas
our ability not to surrender and just
say yeah and duck and just let me drown
but rather to fight and to be
victorious. So the says
it touches very very deeply in the soul.
The cord of runs deeper than other
midas.
And because of that, the more you're in
touch with your soul, the more you're in
touch with your a greater person, he
says, who's more in touch with his soul,
the is also deeper. You have two types
of there's what's called in they call in
slang
petty means I'll do anything to win the
argument. I'll do anything to win the
game. I'll cheat. I'll lie. I'll
deceive. I'll manipulate. I'll exploit.
That often comes from insecurity. That's
the opposite. Like in every mid you have
it in kadusha and you have it in clipper
you have the real thing and then you
have the fake thing that uses the real
thing in order to give itself support.
It feeds off it like a virus.
So you have that's petty basically you
have a very fragile ego and if I win the
if I if I lose the argument I'm not
going to exist. So therefore I have to
be confrontational. I have to argue. I
can't admit. I can't apologize. I can't
say I'm sorry. I can't back down. that
people who do crazy crazy things because
of their I'll do anything to win
that
I once read in or sort of or some I
don't remember years ago in there was
and the person who was running it he
initiated it and he was very involved he
was one of the balabatim he was a Jew
who lived in Raden and he he got
consumed in the makus and he was
fighting and fighting it somebody in his
family got sick
one of the children they said called him
came to him and said you know you never
know but it could be but this is because
the
mas brings terrible things
why don't you back down they say the
person told the
I don't even want to repeat it but just
it shows you what a what a crazy ego can
be he says all my kids can die I'm going
to win the war.
So this is this is a classic example. He
completely lost his mind, lost his
sanity. This is in the most extreme
reality. That's net
right in a very toxic way. But like
everything there's a kadusha. So is
actually a very deep and rich quality in
the soul.
It's the ability of a person who's been
knocked down again and again and again
and again. And you would think that at
some point they should just surrender,
but there's a spark in the soul that
doesn't get defeated.
And not only that, it comes back. And it
comes back with all its power. That net
is rooted very deeply in the soul. The
more you're in touch with your soul, the
more you experience that nuts
because it's not the victory of the ego.
It's the victory of the soul. It's the
victory of truth. It's the victory of
light. It's the victory of love. It's
the victory of authenticity over lies.
The other type of nat that I described
is the victory of stupidity. So you want
an argument. Fine. So you know how to
argue with your wife until the point she
says you're right. Okay. You're a
genius. Or the other way around. I don't
want to discriminate against men.
Sometimes it works the other way around.
Those like somebody once said with my
wife I always have the last two words.
Yes, dear.
I always have the final words.
So that's a relationship where there's
actually no connection. It's either I
win or you win. And if you win, I lost.
And if I if I win, you lost. And we're
busy with. So that's that's again that's
the of but the in holiness is actually
the
it's the concept of victory in the most
powerful sense. the ability of the soul
to shine even in impossible
circumstances and even if it looks like
it was defeated right like the garamar
says in your vas I'll stay with that uh
Gaml once said he was in the base medish
and he said that yesterday he was at the
ocean he was coming in the boat and he
saw another boat there was a shipwreck
and he said he's he's mourning because
Akiva was on the boat
was on the ship
That was it was a shipwreck.
The ship the ship uh
the ship broke. Whatever happened there
was a storm and the people drowned
was talking walked into the basement.
Walked in.
So that was a shock you know he thought
he was already in. So he asked what
happened. So Mak said
he was about to drown but then in the
ocean he found a daf a plank one of the
boards a daf a tablet of the do and I
held on to it gali
and every wave that came I gave him
I bent down my head I didn't fight it
I'll call galvagal every wave that came
right get person gets swept away.
I I surrendered my head. In other words,
I wasn't going to fight. You don't fight
the wave cuz it's stronger. He bowed
down like he greeted him. He welcomed
him. In other words, he surfers know
this, right? You have to follow.
I'm not an expert in this, but I've been
told you have to follow the the rhythm
of the wave. You don't fight it. You use
it for your moment. I'll call God. So,
it looked like Rebea is losing. No.
Fight the wave. Go fight the wave.
The way he fought it was through his own
his own his own power. Sometimes is I'm
not I'm not fighting you
but within I'm not going to be defeated.
You can also crawl on the bottom to
avoid
right crawl on the bottom. Yeah.
Yeah.
Right. So how expresses itself could be
in many many different ways. It looked
like is just surrendering to the wave.
He wasn't surrendering. He made sure
that he's going to come out on top. It's
a different type of mid. Sometimes we do
that, but it's not because you're a
loser. It's because you're actually a
winner. You have that courage to be able
to know what should be done at this
moment in order to survive. You have
sometimes, I'm not going to get into it
now, but sometimes as people's people
develop, they had to as children, they
had to bend their head not to fight the
wave. So they look at themselves as
losers, but really that's what allowed
them to survive.
And now they come out and there's a
person there. Now you'd have to realize
that actually it was your power. It
wasn't your weakness. In other words, in
that moment in life, this was the most
powerful thing you can do in order to be
able to emerge on top. And now you can
celebrate it. You understand what I'm
saying? People look back at themselves.
Why didn't I fight? Why didn't I do
this? You were four years old for
heaven's sake.
You were brilliant enough to say you
nodded with your head, but you know
what? There's a person. You're here. You
got what you needed in crazy
circumstances and now you could be
mallet. So is that ability of the soul
not to surrender to evil, not to
surrender to darkness. When the that's
what he says when the mel feels
he'll squander everything. The deepest
don't come close because is deeper than
that. You understand? That's what he's
saying.
And a person is more in touch with the
soul, they have more net, not less.
Because it's not a of ego. I'm going to
win the argument. I'll defeat you. I'll
prove you wrong. It's a doesn't come
from weakness. It's a that comes on the
contrary from confidence.
I once asked a a big healer why he
doesn't get cynical from all the pain
that he saw. He saw so much pain in
this. So he told me how could I get
cynical?
You've been a doctor I don't know for 50
60 years a lot of years and he dealt
with a lot of difficult situations. So
he told me, "How can I get cynical when
I see the power of people's souls that
for decades they have been crushed and
destroyed?" And you would think at some
point they would just die emotionally or
physically and yet there's something in
them that doesn't die. It always remains
intact and it comes back. So he says,
"You can't get cynical." So all the pain
didn't make him cynical. that actually
turned him
into a person who realized
the power that's beneath all that pain.
That's
and this is similar to what says an
interesting
you have to understand what this means.
The Gmorra says
literally is not
doesn't take vengeance and doesn't bear
a grudge like a snake like a serpent.
Some people misunderstand this what's
because you don't take revenge because
you're not
You're not let to take revenge. You're
not supposed to take revenge.
We're talking here the way it's
discussed in like he says in
over there.
So why is that negated?
The definition of a kim is a talmid of a
student of in other words somebody who's
truly truly in a state of b truly in a
state of no ego that's a true
not just he learns and know his IQ is
great and he am masters information but
he becomes
when he's
not personal never personal you offended
me now you're on my blacklist I'll spend
my life destroying you then has nothing
to do with then it has to do with a war
of a big ego
that needs help that needs healing that
has its own issues that's why he uses
the word
why
a snake literally a snake is he like
becomes like a snake says in it's also
from the says theor says in Hashem tells
the you know you're interesting all
animals when they kill it's a lion is
doesn't kill a gazelle. Stop. Let's go
kill. She needs a meal. She needs to
feed her cubs. All animals when they
kill, they do it because they're hungry.
That's the way they get food. We They
can't go to the store. So that's how
they do it in the jungle. He says,
"Besides the
you don't even have any
the venom that the does, there's no
benefits." He said, "That's why it's if
the has even the slightest,
then it's not aim." then he has a lot of
issues that he has to work on. Means
there's absolutely no personal feeling
in the sense that I'm getting I'm
getting a benefit or or or or enjoyment
from it. Elm the idea is that somebody
who's really connected with the truth
sometimes they feel that this is injust
unjust
and the the victory light must defeat
darkness love must defeat hate. Truth
has to defeat evil. That's the
is that's rooted in the soul. It's
rooted that love needs to defeat hate.
Truth needs to defeat lies.
Somebody was more in touch with their
soul. It's much stronger. It's much more
powerful. First of all, because they
care much more and because they see the
reality much more and because they have
less fear.
So that's the
This is even certainly
the says
from his shoulder and higher he's taller
than the nation. Meaning he was chosen
as a king like it says bylah because of
his his grander his magnitude his
greatness. So the mid is even stronger.
The more adidal you are, the more
niistic you are, the more pimistic you
are, the more the mid is also developed
because it's not my ego defeating your
ego.
It's that the truth authenticity should
reign supreme. That's what's
nea.
Yeah. Yeah. Similar. Yeah. So that's why
certainly a
So when it comes to a moment of victory,
everything is put on the line. The melik
puts himself on the line because what is
it a victory for? Not a victory I should
get another territory of yours. I should
get your money. We're not talking about
that.
This is a victory to be able
to defeat evil
like in the second world war,
right? The sense
of many you what were you fighting? You
were fighting in order to conquer
Germany because they have
they happen to have that they stole from
the Jews. That's true. that a lot of
they have they had a lot of
it was it was much we'll have a bigger
country it's a fight about oil it's a
fight about banks about resources
you're talking about an evil force that
literally wanted to destroy the world
it's a different type of
so the more somebody is in touch with
their the more the is there because the
more you're sensitive
to goodness and its power and the need
that it should be defeat it should it
should it should defeat evil. So the
greater somebody is, the more the is
just like in in your personal life. The
more you're in touch with your soul, the
more is you realize this is not for me.
This can't win in my life.
This is the most beautiful sense of the
word. This dirt in a person's life
out
of out of here.
Sometimes you need it's not easy. You
have to fight. This is not fight
necessarily with a fist. Sometimes the
deepest fights is is with is internally
not a big person. Sometimes you're not
in touch with it. Yeah, you let it be.
But somebody who's sensitive, I'm not
going to deal with this infection, with
this dirt, with this filth out. Why?
Because he has more light in his life.
He's more allergic to stupidity, to
toxicity, to darkness.
And then you have it on a global scale.
Like sometimes you're fighting literally
like today what the Jewish people are
fighting. It's an example of that. I'm
saying this second world war. The reason
I'm saying that because by the second
world war, yeah, even the shaitim
understood it and today not everybody
understands it. But that's what you're
dealing with.
What's the nephish that you see by the
Jewish people today, especially by the
soldiers? What is it? It's this. It's
beyond.
You have a father who has six kids and
he's going with and he knows where he's
going. He's going into the lion's den.
worse than a lion's. Lions kill when
they're hungry. These guys kill and
mutilate just for joy. Allah abar much
worse than it's an insult to the animals
to call them animals. Animals have a
animals are trying to survive.
But what do the Jewish people feel? The
Jewish people feel what are they
fighting for?
You're fighting for money. You're
fighting for territory. You're fighting
for the beaches of Gaza. He fighted to
be able to eat faful by gaz in Gaza.
It's a fight for the soul of the world.
It's a fight for for the Jewish people.
It's a fight for goodness. It's a fight
to defeat darkness and evil. That's the
for that all the melik squanders.
It's a different it touches the nephesh
beyond. That's what we call
It's not against logic. It's beyond
logic. It's not against it's beyond
logic.
You understand what I'm saying? Yeah.
Not against logic
of is lower than logic. It's in this is
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it touches a place that it's not it's
not calculated with logic. I'm making an
investment so I should have a return.
It's something for the the person gives
everything up
because it touches the what you really
really really care about at the core.
We're talking now here a real mel again
itself most of them were despots and or
tyrants or dictators. So then they were
you know I didn't like your nose so I
behead you.
So that's a we're going to talk to you
about the Roman emperors how they
behaved with the subjects they didn't
like. and cruelty and mish and sadism
like in everything there's right there's
even
our kings
we had our kings too yeah we had our
share of crazy kings too yeah they
weren't always crazy too which is
sometimes worse
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so that's what the melik for the melik
gives all the even the he never used and
he never even showed to anybody and now
not only he shows it Vasb, which means
he spends it. Means like the Gomorra
says
he spends it
like squanders it not squanders it to
waste it. Spends it to win the war. And
part of that is himself, his own life.
My he puts his life on the line. Why?
Because there's something that's deeper
even than life. Even than physical life.
There's something deeper even than than
my life, my identity, my reputation, my
my my existence.
Something touches the person that's
deeper than everything
and he distributes it through the
means through the various ministers the
commanders who are in charge of the
army.
The objective is interestingly that the
treasure should go to the soldiers to
the foot soldiers. They're the ones who
do the work. meaning you have in every
army you have the the commanders the
strategists
the generals those who plan those who
understand that what's called
how do you say in English um
are
uh all the the maneuvers of warhite
so you have the elite minds that
orchestrate
choreograph and plan the movements and
they can't be on the front line. If they
in the front line, they endanger the
whole war. Their job is they have to be
in the back. They have to be in the
bunkers. They have to be in the command
center, whatever it is. Says the are not
for them. They may distribute it, but
the go to the foot soldiers to the
people on the line. Why? Because they're
the ones who make the
So the Reb is saying the nimaloso by
Jews also, you know, you have those
they're their big big mind so to speak.
They could plan the war but the go to
who to the
so this is all a marshall that in the
great battle of history
the battle of transforming the into
the king gives the deepest.
So this is an that the Jewish people
should be able to win the war. Which
war? To transform the sheh, the lie of
the world in all of its forms. But the
common denominator is that there is a
lie to transform this lie and turn the
sheer into kadesh
because remember we explained we don't
only want to defeat the lie. You want to
transform the lie that's much deeper. So
that there should be a place of
for
there is a that's given to the to the
soldiers to theem
and this is not only things that are
usually revealed like we explained in
the martial the melik goes to the secret
treasures that nobody ever saw
But even those things that are an
example for the for the hidden treasure
which has been concealed from the eye of
anyone besides the king himself. No one
had access to it. Spiritually we're
talking about something that's beyond
what's called gili revelation. What's
manifested
even the highest form of gilli that's
still not the
is something that's even deeper than
that which is usually manifested and
revealed. In other words, at this stage
of the war, you access something
on a core level core core that till that
point has been completely concealed with
no access to it. In the language of it's
beyond gil, it's beyond gilluium. It's
beyond that which is usually revealed
and manifested.
And this is the point that he's now
going to begin developing
that as history develops and you get
closer to and the needs to be finished.
So there are and this is fascinating
theat gave out this message literally
the day he was nostalic and the day that
ofidis went over from the sixth
generation to the seventh generation
literally from the sixth generation to
the seventh and this was his message so
that's why every year would say he would
bring out this but this year like it's
chapter 14 so this is all an
introduction to pedal
So this is an er that things that were
never revealed throughout all of history
are revealed in order to win the war.
And this is a marshall for the whole
that what the Reb is saying is that in
this generation in order to win the war
you have that were never accessible
and the melik hashem reveals them gives
them to the Jewish people gives them
especially to the soldiers.
In other words, people who are in the
trenches who are in the front lines
facing the darkness
gives them this because it's the only
way they could win the war.
This is one of the reasons that's
explained the whole for the whole is
being revealed in the last generations.
It's a part of it should have been
revealed earlier. But the is there comes
times in history that the melik gives
and reveals
that in previous times were not
necessarily so essential in order to
live. But then there comes a time this
becomes oxygen and it becomes the most
powerful resource. It's very hard to win
the war without it or maybe impossible
accessible.
So it was always there but it wasn't
always accessible and it's in this this
itself it could be something that's
beyond even the highest level of Giloy
the highest level of divine revelation
even that itself is so sublime and the
is deeper than that too.
This is all based on the he's still
explaining the
he says
that's why you see in every generation
on one level we say the generations get
lower on another level the get higher
the get deeper and deeper why
our generation we always say you know
all the drusses that you'll is you know
we're this and we're this we're this
you're not like your father your father
wasn't like wasn't like your el
but this m brings out the opposite
you have that your father didn't have
didn't have your z didn't have so it's
not a contradictional
when you have to deal with certain
realities you need to be given resources
that are much much deeper to the point
of levels that were never discussed
before.
That's why started to articulate
elements of Yiddish that were always
there. It's it's essential to but it's
never been articulated like this. It's
never been discussed so freely. That's
it's the wellsp springsings. They're
usually under the earth. But there comes
a time where they're squandered. Not
squandered. They're they're disseminated
the
why because of the because of the
because of the
you have to be able to get in touch with
a different part of yourself. You have
to get in touch and everybody knows when
you're facing crisis.
No, nobody should ever face crisis, but
we do face crisis. The Jewish people and
people individually and it's always
connected. The old self doesn't always
work. You know, sometimes you develop
tools for life, right? And it's fine.
You're functional guy, you're a good
guy, but then boom, you know, something
flies in your face and the old self is
just not working.
Huh?
I'm not surviving
mentally, physically, emotionally,
spiritually. What happens? So either the
person could break or
or you have to learn parts of yourself
that you never knew about. And
ultimately you have to learn about your
and what's the
is that which nobody saw. You know who
also didn't see it? You didn't see it.
You didn't even know about it.
The only one who knew about it was the
king himself. The creator in you knew
about it. That Yeah. And it was kept
secret. And the reason is because it's
too precious. You can't can't just It's
not a museum. Come come see it. It's not
a museum. Some things you bring people
to a museum. You pay $9, $30, we'll show
you the beautiful museum.
You go to the Metropolitan Museum. You
can go to the Guggenheim Museum. You can
see very expensive pieces of art. But
then there's the parts. There's no
museum for it.
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I have a friend he once told me a new he
was a New York baka today is a r in a
community a real New Yorker grew up in
New York culture so you know New Yorkers
have a certain way of talking and
relating.
So he once went to visit London in
London. He went to the uh they huh
not the change of guards. He went to
what? To I guess it's a tower of London
where you go to see the crown jewels.
I don't know where it is but somewhere
in London.
Huh? Where?
No.
Big Ben.
If it's I think the Tower of London if
I'm not mistaken.
The Big Ben.
You heard about it? Okay.
So he went there and they show you over
there the crown jewels. They now took
them out for to for the coronation of uh
of king of of King Charles III after his
mother Queen Elizabeth II died. So you
have there crown jewels more than a
thousand years.
more than a thousand years like he says
here from
all the way to the earliest kings and
monarchs of England 12th century 11th
century it's mishuned
and so they give a tour of the crown
jewels so this yeshiva bak there was a
woman a historian who was giving the
tour to the tourists
so he's a New York he's a New Yorker and
a yeshiva bak from New York so when she
finishes extoalling the greatness of the
crown Jews. What's his question? What do
you think his question was? What's a New
York question? Who has a business mind?
His question is, how much would it cost
if I wanted to buy it? You know, he's
already building a business. So, he told
me that she almost had a heart attack
and died on the spot. He almost had to
call the Kadesha from aggravation and
disbelief that he can ask such a
question.
like she looked at him like a who just
fell down from Mars to ask the question
like
to ask how much it cost.
So she's like there's no price. They're
never going to be sold. So what's his
next question? Next question is how much
do you pay for insurance?
How much do insure when you have to
insure something you have to see a
price? Yeah. It's a house, it's a
garage. It's a car.
So this was even worse. The first
question you could say is a tinika. He's
an American. What do Americans
understand about monarchy?
Right?
But this was already worse. So he told
me she g she gives a scream. The crown
jewels can't be insured because they're
priceless.
They can't they're not insured. You're
right. They're not insured. They're
priceless.
So I just thought of it as I was
learning. So he told me that he learned
from that a big lesson in life.
Some things you can't ensure because
they're not bead their money. It's not
bead money. You say, "Yeah, but a
billion, it's not a billion. It's not
10. It's not something that relates to
money. It's a different level." That's
what he's talking about.
The is something it's not even it can't
it can't be articulated that comes out
for the of the
and this is what he's going to start
explaining the rest of the m this is
going to be the
[Music]
You remember
the highest level of giloy is a giloy
which has no has no end and has no tas
has no finitness has no limit. This is
what the brings from the says
literally the energy the light of the of
goes upward to no end and downward to no
end. That's the expression of
and the last few years of basili
which was based
which by the
are focused on this explanation of
and he explains for
the fact that desire calls it light.
Light is a metaphor. Light is what
allows us to see things.
Light is the ability that Hashem created
that any object in the world should be
revealed
to somebody else or something else. If
there was no concept of light, there was
no ability for me to see you, for you to
see me, for us to see anything. Just
like literally when you put on the light
in the room doesn't create everything
that's in the room, but if it's dark,
you can't see. Light allows us to see.
In a more general abstract way, the
concept of is that everything emits what
we call today, you know, electro
electromagnetic energy forces. It really
emits frequencies of light that our
eyes, the retina and our eyes have the
sensors that absorb it and the brain
interprets it and it says, "Oh, this is
a this is a person. This is this is this
is this is this is a tissue box. This is
a table." That's the concept of OD. Oid
is gil. That's what Oid is. Oid is
revelation.
And everything has O. That's what O is.
You have the light of the sun. You have
the light of the moon. You have the
light of a candle. And then you have
everything gives off light. That's what
allows us to see it. So is gil. But here
desire says what are we talking about?
It's the is called and that's like he we
learned in previous years the itself is
infinite. And on this desire says it's
now this is important to understand when
it says
it seems superfluous like he said in
previous my in previous years of he
could have just said if it's infinite it
goes up all the way and it goes down all
the way in zar every word is precise
it's
if you're saying something is what does
it mean it's infinite it's limitless
So you have to tell me, oh it goes up
all the way and it goes down all the
way. Maybe you're supposed to talk about
and
so the is saying three separate things.
First he's saying
now he's saying something more. It's
now he's saying something more.
It's not repeating himself three times.
If you say something is infinite. So
it's in America and it's in Israel and
it's in Russia and it's in Asia and it's
in Africa and it's in South America too.
It's in the entire planet. Okay. Yeah.
For example, you'll say the sun shines
everywhere on the planet. So now you're
going to go through every single
country. I mean you could but yeah if
it's in every if it's so yeah it's if
it's limit unlimited it's unlimited.
Every word in the Z is it's not stop. So
there's of
but it seems like you're saying the same
thing. So this is what he starts
explaining. There's the concept of
is going to be explained
which is going to be next year.
Here's the focus.
The leadership is
there's a big difference between saying
the
is soon we're going to see the
difference in the but we'll see the the
the profound profoundity of it the of it
and the way it's expressed in
so he starts explaining what's
the
Don't think that
only reaches certain spaces
means it goes till the mad which is the
lowest level in
the lowest means the entire order of
creation. The lowest level of
there too
ina itself there's kaduca in our world
or there's at least voluntary things
trees oceans nature even clippus which
are in maria over there is also
reaches
even things that are lower than clipper.
What does that mean?
explained in
a person who transgresses Hashem's will
in a way is lower than like the says we
tell even the mosquito was created
before you meaning is even higher than
you
at least the clip is fulfilling its
purpose. Its purpose is to be a clipper.
It doesn't deviate from its purpose.
And not only clipper that protects the
fruit like a shell of a fruit
even the entices or persuades the person
to transgress will
say
like the example in that the king hires
a zena a promiscuous woman to entice the
prince. So she's a zena. That's clipper
that's trying to entice you. But she's
working for the king.
She's doing her job. The king actually
wants that she shouldn't succeed and
that the prince shouldn't listen to her.
And that's how she's going to get a much
better wage. She doesn't want you to
listen. She can't tell it to you cuz if
she tells you she doesn't want you to
listen, then she lost the whole game.
The whole game is lost. So she has to
make believe she's a za. She's not a za.
She's working for the king. Nebak the
person. He's the only one who's fooled.
He thinks he thinks she's the real
thing.
He thinks she's a Zer. She's working for
the Melik.
Okay, she's working. She's the lowest.
If he says yes, she he makes her a Zena
by saying yeah, he turns her into a
Zena. You understand?
And then she starts thinking she is.
Is that
the lowest level?
Yeah. So that's that's clip on the
lowest level. He says
But the person who actually sins, he's
lower than that. He's already not. He's
the only one not fulfilling his purpose.
Sometimes a person gets sin working with
things in the world that are negative or
voluntary things.
There's something even lower.
You use holiness to go against
doesn't want to say the words, but
that's what it says in somebody takes
the head of the king and brings it down
and puts it in a puts it in a sewage
system. This is already different. Now
you're taking the king himself and
putting him through the mud.
This is where a person uses against
he's a great scholar. So he uses
he says a in the name of using against
itself. If he wouldn't be nobody would
believe him. Nobody would trust him. He
uses the itself. He uses. So this is
even a worst case.
What is he saying here? The Reb is going
through different levels of
when you say what does till where what's
the he says the first thing is the comes
down all the way into this world.
Don't think that
you only have access to in higher places
of reality. Even in this world is
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what does it mean?
The is accessible and reaches and
permeates the lowest reality even the
lowest of the low. But what do we mean
the lowest of the low? So you guys first
of all you have this world. This world
the divine is completely concealed.
It's counterintuitive. You don't see the
It's not like even it's a world of the
lowest world. That's number one. Number
two, but what part of this world? You
have vegetation, you have produce, you
have oceans, you have sunrise, you have
sunset, you have animals, you have
reptile, you have a gun,
you have also things that are voluntary.
Whether you have food, you have drink,
you have so many parts of the world.
So he says even the clipus
clipus means those forces in this world
that are not just neutral like clipus no
for example clipus means their shells
they're husks they conceal they actively
conceal godliness there's a darkness
there that's also the is there
but he says then there's something
that's lower than kipa what's lower than
kipa kipa means hashem created a world
with forces and realities that cover up
kadusha. That's their job.
That's their job.
Clipper fulfills its job. It does its
job. And clipper itself, he says, two
levels.
Clipper is a shell. A banana peel is not
a bad thing. A banana peel protects the
banana. If a banana would grow without a
banana peel, it wouldn't survive on the
tree. Why? You can open a banana on your
counter, come back a few hours later,
it's already brown. Come back two days
later, it's not edible.
Every fruit has a clipper. Why? Because
the clipper protects it from the rain,
from the scorching heat, from the cold,
from the heat, from the different
climates. A fruit that develops without
a clipper can survive.
Different fruits have different levels
of clipper, but everyone has a clip.
That's not a bad thing. It's a sh it's a
protection. In a person in the world,
you also have that type of clipper.
It says before they ate sadas you had
all the clippers but they were seen as
protectors.
What does it mean protectors? A person
needs a prote. You need protectors.
Those are not clippers. Those are
clippers but they're good clippers.
Says we learned it once in
he says if a fruit doesn't have a
clipper too much heat will destroy it.
Too much rain or coldness will destroy
it. The clipper protects it by a person.
And it's also that way. He says that's
what healthy ga is. Healthy ga healthy
ego means. Yeah. There's too much heat.
There's a lot of passion of tyus. You
need a clipper that's going to protect
you from it. You have to be able to
protect yourself from it. So you need
that dignity.
You need that self-respect.
There's too much coldness, apathy,
indifference. You need to protect
yourself from it. But then what can
happen in life is that the clipper goes
wild. Instead of realizing it's supposed
to be a protector, it takes over the
fruit.
That doesn't happen in trees usually,
but it happens in us. We all have parts
in us that are there to protect our
soul. What often happens is for whatever
reason the clipper doesn't trust his
soul or the clipper is scared and it
becomes a substitute for the soul.
So now it's a now it becomes a
substitute. Now it's calling all the
shots.
So this is where my self-respect and
self-love are not protecting my soul.
They become a substitute for the poor
soul and therefore they have to turn
into crazy egos or to crazy insecure
egos. Why? Because the clipper lost its
you can have a clipper that starts
enticing a person to be on Hashem. But
the Reb says on every level of clipper,
the clippers that do this in the world,
they're fulfilling their purpose. Even
the zen who was hired to entice the
person to challenge the person is also
hired by the king. Then you have
something lower and that's the person
who falls prey. The only one who doesn't
fulfill the purpose. When a person is
what does it mean? I missed the point
means you missed the point. I misalign
myself with who I am. This even clipper
doesn't do clip is doing its job.
Whatever its job is to be a shr to
entice you
even that that's that
is there too in that itself he says two
levels there's a person who sins with
things from the world
money is neutral I take money and I do
the wrong thing with it fine and then
there's somebody who takes kadusha and
sins with kadusha you take itself like
my like he says you take to itself and
use it against that's the most
why cuz here you're taking the head of
the king and you're putting it through
the mud. You want to go into the mud, go
to the mud. But now you're taking the
king himself and putting him through the
mud. That's a whole different level. You
understand? That's a different
that's the most painful. Sometimes you
have people who say stupid things.
That's normal. Then you have people who
use the to say stupid things. You
understand?
You use the to say stupid things. Some
people hate Jews,
right? But then there's people that use
the to hate Jews.
That's much more painful. You're a
hater. You're a hater. You're an
egoomaniac. You're an egoomania. You're
a tipish. You're a tipish. You're mumm.
You're mumm. Fine. So we can have
ramanus and heal. But now no, it's not
me. It's the it's not my ego. It's not
my mishagas. It's not my trauma. It's
not my arrogance. It's not myus. It's
not my stupidity. It's not my
brainwashing. It's not my
indoctrination. It's my now I can't even
heal because it's not it's not me. It's
not me. I don't have problems. Go to the
TA. In a way, that could be the worst.
You understand? It's toxic. It's
poisonous. Why? Because you're using
holiness to turn it into poison. Like
the Gomorrah says in that
if a person is not becomes for him it's
it's medicine to save but for me it
becomes poison
certain people this medicine it could
save somebody else's life I turn it into
poison
then it's very dangerous that's he says
it's worse than a sin I take something
from the world and I sit with it or I
take
Now you're taking and using it against
itself. This is
that's
so you have you went through many levels
clip itself can protect the fruit. It's
still clipper but it protects the fruit.
And then this clip that when you look at
it it doesn't say I'm protecting the
fruit. On the contrary I want to take
over the fruit. The example in Zoya is
the Zena who was hired by the king to
create this challenge
but she's doing her job even though
she's speaking against the melik but
she's doing her job in other words every
moment she could look in the mirror and
say I'm an honest person I'm doing what
the king wants even the zer because she
was hired by him and then there's the
person who's duped nebak by the zer the
prince he's the only one I'm not doing
my job anymore and that's only a person
can do that an animal can't do that a
malik can't do that a tree can't do that
they follow their DNA the only ones who
know how not to follow their DNA are
people
your DNA is to be aligned to be
connected to be in a space of light love
and empowerment and then I could lose
the plot in that itself I could do it
because of thousands of reasons millions
of reasons and with many different
things I could do with my heart with my
mouth I could do it with my head and
then I could do it with the tra And
that's he says is the lowest
and the is
and that's why healing is always
possible because
and here we're going to be introduced to
the difference between the saying and
means that the light is infinite. So the
light is everywhere. So what does have
to say
is the light is not only everywhere
because the light is infinite. The light
is expressed in the
in a very very fascinating way. That's
going to be the continuation of the
mime. The light is expressed in the
even though it's perverted. It's
misunderstood. It's misconstrued. If not
we wouldn't call it. In other words,
there's no in which you can't see a cyh
even in the ultimate dysfunctionality
the an is present and that means that at
the core everything could be
transformed. That's the vert
and he's going to he's going to show and
explain it in every in every nikuda as
we went through all these all these
explanations.
In other words, there's never a moment
that gave up on you.
There's never a moment that you were
detached from infinity
even in the of a person which means in
my lowest lowest space
and it's not that the is everywhere like
you say poor God he went to exile with
you and now he's a victim too the
remains
so in the
there's still the purity of the that is
always present and therefore there can
always be sublimation and
transformation.
There's some things that are very
serious, but there's always truam says
invo
stands in the path of
it sometimes may be a very difficult
journey because it's really
but doesn't require music at some point
or
sometimes there's different kapara.
Yeah.
You say about that.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Point is here is that there's
nothing.
Right. Right. The reaches and is
manifested and permeates
below to no end. Meaning go lower lower.
So a person looks at themselves. I fell
lower and then lower and then lower and
then lower and then lower.
Yeah.
I can't even get lower. Oh,
huh? Tomorrow you can get lower.
Right. That's the of that. And over
there we say
is there too. And what is there? It's
there as it's not there as a wounded
victim that became part of the problem.
It's always part of the solution.
But it was there. What do you mean it
was there? The whole thing is said
no.
It's filthy. It's dirty. It's it's it's
it's not a nice place. But
it's not just the light is infinite.
It's accessible in the That's the
infinity could be infinite in its own
realm. It's infinite. It's accessible in
the ladas. Is that connected to that?
You want to know if it's connected to he
doesn't say clearly but it could be that
midas
helps a person access that in other
words the net is the part that's not
defeatable which is the
and that so it could be it's connected I
mean it doesn't make clearly that
connection but
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a fast story I'll finish with there was
the rebba the actually told the story.
The first busy theba was the son of the
alterb's
yard is tonight
the 24th of tavis the balata.
So uh the mitba was once
came into him and he discussed issues
what what what's known as
in other words mistakes that he made in
terms of you know intimate issues
intimate issues
connected to the ice kesh
and he needed a tick he wanted uh he
wanted a tick.
So the Rebba said that the Rebba uh
he uh
he exposed his hand. He rolled up this
his sleeves and he showed him he used
the word that used
the the skin was
was tough. It was um shriveled you know
shriveled up. Theba said
is
this is because of what's what's
happening to you.
The rebba said over the story
the person is coming for help. So you
want to help him what are you saying now
feel even worse right? You see this is
because of you. So now how is he
supposed to feel? He came for help. He
came for a so what do you usually do?
you want to say you could do chu I'll
help you fix it. So now what does he do?
He puts more blame on him. You're guilty
not only for yourself.
So the rebba said a few words in the
mime that really clarifies the story.
Theb was actually giving him the
ultimate
theb was telling him don't think for a
moment that I was not with you.
Don't think for a moment that you went
so low and I detached.
I was with you. A real reb is with aid
always.
Don't think you ran away to you know you
ran away to
and I said I'm not going there. I was
with you said
he was so connected to his people. Where
you go I'm also going to go. But you
know what that means? That means that
you can always come back cuz I'm not
staying there.
I went there because I'm going to be
with you, but I'm not there. I'm not
stuck there.
I'm on a journey with you. So, he was
saying,
"I stayed with you. I'm with you. You
could see it. You could see it on me.
You could see the scars. You could see
the scars on me. That means I I did not
disconnect. If I would have disconnected
from you, I don't have to have scars.
It's your problem. It's not my problem.
I didn't do it."
So, like the Gmorra says,
Maggalin
a student who goes into exile or a
mikla.
So I went with you
that was the big that was the biggest
tick.
You understand why that's the biggest
tick for two things. First of all he
realized where he took the
and that's the deep deepest truva. And
number two, he realized if the rebba was
always with him, so then we're not
stuck. This is a marshall, I think, for
this.
Even this person who's
he uses the the is in the in other
words, he uses the the
putting somewhere else. He put a Salem
in the HL. He used the heel for the
Salem.
He could have put a Salem in on in his
house. No, in the he puts a Salem.
That's what he says in footnote. In
other words, the T is you're using the
for the using the for your for your
and over there you also say.
So, but is always the way up.
Is it Typhus? Huh?
Okay, we'll take a break here. Hashem,
the next shar will continue B on Monday
morning
8:00 a.m. Same place.
If you want to take these concentr
Oh, one more thing. Tonight is
so we'll have a faban cover. The reb
once said that
is the way that you write opinion to the
alterb.
And uh
it's not going to it's not going to be
with videos and live stream. It'll be
more
more uh more intimate. So based
all the you can tell the other from the
those who come shabas or come middle of
the week and 9:00 9 court we'll learn
something from also
everybody have a beautiful day. going to
I'll call you and we should have the
complete victory and the ghoulish take
it from me.
Oh,
cynical sinish.
Cynical means um you become like
huh
you make believe it doesn't like huh
You'll have a lot of people in martial
uh
ask you'll ask people about their
leaders or their rabbis. They're
cynical. Cynical means like you don't
trust anything
because you don't trust it.
You become cynical like you just you
make fun of everything because you don't
want to get hurt, you know, if you trust
too much.
So cynical you just You dismiss
everything as
it is a fact.
It's corrupt. It's a joke. It's a
so much become.
You become cynical. Not that it's
nothing. There's so much pain. You
already don't believe in uh you just see
how much corruption there is. So there's
nothing outside of darkness. So what are
you going to start believing in? You're
going to believe and you'll get hurt
again. It's like a relationship.
Somebody who hurts you. Yeah. So once,
twice, three times at some point you say
there's no hope. They ask you
forgiveness. It's a joke. they don't
mean it. Cynical means you're just
dismissive of any uh any positivity
because there's too much too much
disappointment.
People who are more sensitive often
become more cynical because they get
hurt much faster. So
So that's what I asked him why he's not
cynical. She told us to be