Basics of Emunah #16: What Is Chassidus? The Real Story by Rabbi YY Jacobson

the yeshiva dotnet Veda there's a common question that many people ask nowadays they received quite a few emails with a similar question that I would like to address this evening with God's help I'm going to read a few emails a few letters that I received all basically on the same topic the same issue I find this person writes that many Jewish communities are becoming more and more radical but they don't teach much about the meaning the depth of youdescribe of Judaism I live in a very conditional community Hasidic community I find from my experience that basically it's mostly about the outside much more than the inside the society is rather than the enemies I see a lot of my friends I'm quoting this whatever badum word for word I see a lot of my friends they are fed up with the system all they do for you this guide is they dress up in the Hasidic style so that they could cover up what's going in what's going on inside inside they do whatever they like they don't believe in anything literally they don't believe in anything they're so cynical about the system but they feel they have no choice but to live a life of a cover-up for the sake of themselves and their families inside they really don't experience themselves Jewish at all they don't keep anything they don't believe in anything besides what they have to show on the outside can the rabbi talk about this topic and explain maybe what Judaism is and what custody this is I know rabbi Jacobsen this topic may be too controversial for you and you may be fearful to address it but I'll be honest I'm a young man I have lots of young friends I always encounter them we speak about this very often and really I don't see anybody talking about it okay another email another letter there's something strange I find happening today a generation is growing up I'm talking about my generation I'm a young married man and have five children we know nothing about Judaism nothing we know a lot of the laws we know a lot of the customs we understand nothing about it see Allah it's philosophy what it represents why we do anything certainly when it comes to the world of cassadee's and Paris on Easter we are completely clueless nobody ever educated us and yet the way I grew up it seemed like in my home and in my show that all of you this guy depended on what type of clothes I wear I have parents they're nice people they know nothing about what's going on in the hearts of their children but if we're dressed the right way then everything is perfect if we dress the wrong way it's a crisis it seems to me that psychologically this is the most meaningful trigger today in much of the Haredi religious and Hasidic world I'm not sure how this happened and why so strongly there are hundreds I think maybe thousands maybe tens of thousands but I don't know abuse who walk the streets who live as Jews very good Jews but they deceive themselves and they deceive everybody around them I know people who actually transgress some very serious biblical sins without a conscience but they're fine because they look from they look Hasidic is this what the baal shem tov thought i thought he wanted to bring in a little emotion a little heart to jews we did we arrived to and how did this happen am i the only crazy one who speaks like this another person i don't have questions on a muna I'm not so smart okay that's good that's good you're probably pretty smart if you could say that dumb people usually think they're smart but I'm very confused about the world of cassadee's I grew up with it but I don't know who needs it what is it is it like a new religion somebody asked me what it is to be Hasidic I said I don't know we wear that we we're different clothes we wish triangles we have traditions customs we're very into shallow shudders I'm sorry I'm sorry that I'm very ignorant I just thought maybe you'll be able to address it mother person writes as follows I come from a good family but I'll tell you what happened to me and many lots of families especially in Muncie and other communities we weren't accepted in the community and in various institutions for our children because we did not fully comply to the traditions and standards that these communities in schools demand now every school is entitled to its own standards I have no issue with it but I feel that there's a tragedy going on because there are really good people and because they would not conform to all the standards they were rejected and they dropped everything of Judaism they don't any don't even know what is Judaism what acid is what is tradition what is culture and the moment they say they're told that because they don't do this they're not part of the community they just drop everything is this really how it should be what does it mean to be accosted if you don't comply with all the custody rules what is left of you are you a Gentile are you a Muslim are you still Jewish if my wife drives is she still Jewish if I change the hat of my father am I still Jewish if I do something a little different than my parents am I still Jewish or I become a God tell me about the Hasidic masters were they all like this Wow look I'm going to read another email even I could read another 30 emails oh I'm going to read one more I live in a very religious community I feel judged all day everybody's looking at me all day whether what do i do what i don't do how i look how i don't look if i come if I don't come sometimes I'll wake up a little late job this morning and you know what I won't come to show because if I come late it's like the posish that's not nice if I stay home I could lie and say I have the flu it seems to me that looking good is much more important than being good the judgmentalism is very very profound wherever I go it's very hard to find honest conversation could you really could you talk about I live in a religious community I live now like we open with is good now I'm not living a Hasidic community they keep on quoting a lot of holy Hasidic masters were they also judgmental as I find all the people around me being I think these emails give a little bit of a glimpse of what is at least on some people's minds and hearts and I would like to address it at least try to address some of it this evening of course to read these emails to read these letters and to hear these sentiments both verbally and in writing from people is very sad it's sad because of how a generation of Jews so talented so creative so good so elevated in many ways towards the end of Jewish history is yet so deprived from treasures that can enrich and enhance so many lives in such a meaningful and noble way when the baal shem tov was five years old he lost both of his parents he was orphaned from his father rebellious a' and his mother's sorrow before his father passed away he called in his son five-year-old boy his name was of course he saw the baal shem tov name was rebus rubbish uncle and he said east ralick he nene highland Buderus colorist i'm going on to the next world before I die I want to share with you two final instructions and he said number one is rollick Zhou Slobodan ya Dunedin Padang Gansa hides libel neshama you should love every Jew with your entire heart flesh and soul number two Satan's so this murder husband from Kings arsonist and from Cain mention estándar belt isida ambushed fear not no person and no thing in the world outside of a shunt he passed on and it's well known that these two final statements that his father shared with him right before he passed away became the two pillars of light that guided instructed to find the Baal Shem Tov's life his contribution his Torah his teachings his influence compare these two statements with these emails all you need to do to appreciate the fact that we have a crisis of ignorance and that crisis of ignorance we will try the HIV virus and the solution of the Baal Shem Tov to atleast rectify only a little bit if only a little bit now when it comes to the practical questions here people really have to be mature and figure out what they need to do for themselves their spouses their children their loved ones to be able to live the best happiest healthiest most meaningful exciting and successful life spiritually materially to live the life that God really wants you to live that people have to figure out on their own as mature adults you have to figure out what you need for your home what you need for your family what you need for your husband for your wife for your children for your well-being for your emotional health and equally important for your relationship with your own soul and with your own gods there are many cultures today in the Jewish world for some people certain cultures are wonderful for other people these cultures are a disaster you really have to figure out what works for you now let's take an example like garments clothes clothes are an important thing clothes are also valuable in many communities clothes are extremely important they represent Messiah they represent culture they represent tradition but we still have to understand that clothes as important and significant as they are are external when clothes become more important than personality creed character soul mind inner happiness inner emotions we have a serious problem clothes are important clothes are wonderful clothes up sometimes very holy but clothes are clothes clothes our garments they say there was a leader there was a Jew of hello Jews of Chelm were known for their stupidity really they were known for their wisdom and people were jealous so they invented all these jokes about Jews of Kellum in Poland I once was in Toronto for Shabbos and I told us to start this health story I'm gonna tell you a story of hello so one old woman she looked like 94 years old she got to this is rabbi Jacobsen way before you begin let me just tell you I was born and raised in Pella in Poland right so I'm like Lowe's was the first time Helen was alive in front of my eyes I said instead of me telling stories of Helen why don't you revetted share with us some stories of heaven and by the way the maher Shah was a Rovin Kalam for nine years she was not a Marcia the great at one of the greatest commentators on the Gemara Bheeshma lovely as a Adel's my show everybody lures in the back of the Gomorrah to do shallow since the dish I got is my show he was a rabbi in heaven for many years they say about a story about a Jew from Kerala he was traveling on a train and he had to get off at a particular stop after a few hours and it was nice so you wanted to go to sleep so he asked the conductor said wake me up four o'clock in the morning 15 minutes before the destination we have to get off of course he takes off his clothes puts it down in the corner and goes to sleep the conductor wakes him up four o'clock in the morning it's pitch dark he didn't know that nearby nearby he saw nearby there was a Russian general earlier and the Russian general also went to sleep and he also took off his clothes so for in the morning it was so dark instead of putting on his own clothes he put on the clothes of the Russian general okay he comes home to tell him he walks into his house and his wife sees sakai mancubs michigan guevara you completely went crazy says what's the problem she says look in the mirror takes a look in the mirror and he says see this beautifully a handsome dressed Russian general and he says I always knew that the conductors are fools she says what do you mean he says he woke up the general instead of me it's a it's an anecdote but when this anecdote defines people's lives it becomes tragic clothes are important and I said clothes are holy in some traditions they're very holy but when they become and more important than who we are as people as individuals how do we have a challenge you see the boy once told me a 19 year old boy he said I was three years in a particularly Shiva every day I would come down with a yarmulke that has you know these little pictures on them what are they called my regime used to call Gamal kismat slummin that was his approach but what do they call it you know Saddam in Noida with a name with a diss every day every morning the Marcia would send me back to the dormitory and say we don't wear this yarmulke every morning we had the same argument he said but the man didn't even know that the three years I didn't put on tefillin he wouldn't even imagine but if I would have put on that yarmulke everything would have been perfect that's what happens when people stop differentiating between premios and kit soleus between the internal and the external I was once at a Bar Mitzvah a few years ago and I was surprised that the father of the Bar Mitzvah boy put on a type of Hasidic garment that he never wears so I said what happened very interesting he says my father called me up today and he said if you want me to come to this bar mitzvah you have to wear this particular garment if not I won't come your mother won't come and I won't let any of your siblings 13 siblings I will not let any of your siblings come because I support them and they all need me I will not let anybody come I said that Wow very interesting so I put it on when I add I want my father to drivel it's a term of a mitzvah so at the bar mitzvah my I get paid for mixing into people's business even when they don't ask me so I went over to this to this to the father and I said there Mazal things have a lot of Marcus I see you some dressed up for this bar mitzva beautifully in the garment must be giving you a lot of pleasure a lot of delight huh he says amazing in fact I made a condition with him if I wanted he was proud of it he wants me to come to the bar mitzvah this is what's needed so I said it's so interesting did you make a condition with him about his internal development about his internal character do you know what's going on in his heart in his mind you know how much spiritual growth this young man experienced over the last two years I know him quite intimately he looked at me like I fell off from Mars he says head of Medina Mirage Gaytan stop speaking nonsense now as I said certain garments in certain places are very very sacred but here there is a challenge this is already a tragedy when what he looks at his children is primarily at the garments not at the heart this I think needs meet some meet some rectification and I would say generally we live in a time where people deserve to be educated the beauty of you disguise is everything is recorded no rabbi rabbits avakov russia shiva has the ability to invent things and just bring them out from his sleeve like in a circus doesn't work that way nobody has the ability to wake up one morning and say you know I decided today a new homra I'm in a bad mood why don't we do a loop home everything is recorded every mimic everything every Allah who we could trace back see its evolution who introduced it when why because we're the people of the book am i safer we take back every single Mitzvah we go back we see our central tomorrow's howard centauri I would say around mum I would send there is how it's in town with Bob Lee how it's in the mission now it's in the Commish all the way how everything developed the tamborim and now my rahim and the guy opponents were undergoing and when they were showing him an acronym the poisk and RNA acronym till today the reason for it Judaism wants everybody to be educated you should know what's our ISIL what's a biblical commandment what's a rabbinic commandment what's a min hearing what's a costume what's a tradition what's culture what's mishegoss what stick which for some people stick around what's a homer what the heat or mean hug him are awesome meaning is Sean Tyson says Minotaur they say no Tyrell a meaning is very precious but just know a person someone doesn't do a mimic and the next thing is no Shabbos no Karis not villain why why now he tells me because I stop this minute he didn't do something they don't you're not Jewish who speaks like this a mimic is great Dominic there's a derisive on it is a Hoover uh you don't have to be Markman hungry by definition is about a romantic relationship or Hindu you can't make it look silver that you have to bring on Friday one hundred and twenty roses not a mix of it's about a relationship that's the definition of a Hindu or homra I want to go the extra mile when that becomes something that's forced it loses its whole beauty it loses all significance so therefore people deserve to understand to understand all of this that's by way of introduction and now I want to answer some of these questions and many more I want to discuss what is this creature called cussedness but I discuss it from its source I know some of the things I say people may have never heard that's normal that's fine that's why we have these classes it was rebuked oh goodness a kernel of raqqa who was a slob Ithaca Talmud the receiver receiver Sabrina's high in Berlin who once pointed out a very interesting anomaly and he said the yard site of the Baal Shem Tov the founder of the Hasidic movement and this um cussedness the yard set up new bistro baal shem tov is anxious mom ma tante is saying who the day the tailor was given the yard site of the Vilna gan is kolomiyets circus the manson casino the time of our joy our Center passed away issue is talk of coughs 1760 the Vilna Gaon passed away silk Escala my etaf ruth nunes s 1797 some decades later the beautiful goodness said the South IOT is a topsy-turvy hit we would expect a ball shouted the founder of sinners his yard site shook his Monson casino the Vilna gone the great loose iranian master his yard site should be trader smoo is mahmoud ventura say no but the harsh caca had it otherwise providence had it the opposite way an interesting observation certainly acute observation and I assume what we was trying to convey is that anybody who just thinks the Baal Shem Tov came to the world to tell Jews start dancing come on abyssal simcha smile dance alaka'i emoticon episod a dybbuk evade him travel here let's let's push together by the topic and enjoy ourselves an immediate middle have a letter with with a toast is completely clueless justifiably to what he was trying he was trying to teach the first thing you have to understand this everybody has to understand this I think our cydnus is a part of Toyota it's part of what we call toyota mr2 Nemea cetera player is divided into many many parts and different parts you got revealed at different points of history there was a time when there was only homage so time to learn the VM and then servant oops a time there was Mathias and a time there was Gamora Tom madeira Shalini and then a time there's comma Bosley there was a time there was no sifri halacha there was a time for safe in a locker there was a time when Kabbalah was completely concealed in a time when it was revealed and the same is true with mustard the same issue philosophy was mascara the same as you would see fromage over books of ash cover the same is true with the sitter's as her coil assay offered the etoy the posix says everything has its time in history when the master of history decides to reveal it and in the 18th century the Baal Shem Tov was born 1698 two years before 1700 hai ll Tufnell s the reminder Shalom revealed through the Baal Shem Tov the teachings of what we call sidess like any part of Toyota it did not invent anything new the Gemara says a megillah' your Xiaomi says a megillah' call Marcia Talmud Vasek offered Lozada chocolate memory machine anything that a student ever innovates in Toyota was all given to my Sean Seiler does this mean that any safer you buy in the store and every addition Toyota motion of Aylan said no it means that moshe rabbeinu conveyed the principles the paradigms upon which all development of theta is based all Toyota is included and can be found in the teachings of measurement Admira says and tightness liquid middle area music by erisa it's always hinted to entire these ciders came from ocean what cussedness did was not create Khalil a new religion for new Tory or new mitzvos what Sidious tried to do was to reveal a deeper more sophisticated more profound dimension of Yiddish guides the Baal Shem Tov revealed at first through his presence second through his teachings and third through the students that he created who then created many more students as the generations continued both students through living communication and students through their writings what did he try to teach I would say to sum it up that the Baal Shem turn really tried to give the Jewish people a new pair of glasses that's what he tried to do simply a new pair of glasses Dylan Mischka fire what type of a new glasses the reality remains the same I'm not wearing glasses everybody in the room remains the same but I just can't see anybody I do see pink shirt I see very blurry stuff I put on glasses and suddenly I could see much I could see things and more with more nuance with more detail with more clarity the boss sent have wanted to give the Jewish people a pair of glasses through which they could see reality from a particular perspective as he once put it we say in Davin in hebei tamesha Mayan or AAA what does that mean look down from heaven and see God is in heaven is not on earth Malloy Hilario debate Misha my amore types of acceptance a bait Misha my amore cook iPhones Makaha militia cook a bait Misha my amines a heavenly look a heavenly gaze there's a gaze that is early there's a gaze that is a shamayim Ditka gaze a heavenly gaze it's a way of looking at things from another perspective at what did he want we should look at a different perspective on everything on terror on God on yourself on your spouse on your children on your friends on another Jew on another human being at an animal even at a frat a frog at a tree at a bush at a rock at a river on the entire world and every phenomenon in the world and every experience in your life he gave a particular set of glasses that's what synthesis it's a set of glasses same reality but it's about perspective what did he try to show people through this glasses to be able to see in everything and in everybody the infinite depth that exists in them the godliness the goodness to show and see the ain't safe the essence of infinity that is in everybody and everything in the ball symptoms world he taught that if the doors of perception were cleansed in other words if we would clean up our glasses everything would appear as is part of infinity part of Ange safe this in a sentence I think at least to a significant degree I'm not going to say completely at all but to a significant degree tells us something about these glasses but I want to now break it down and I I broke it down into eight points a teachings that I want to go through I could discuss seventy teachings a thousand teachings but I try to do general principles they don't exhaust the principles but I think they at least give us a taste of flavor and for everything there's 10 20 30 40 sources which a few I will specify but I try to compress it in order to have a more thematic açaí materially to be able to convey a message and I think this will address many of the sentiments and the questions that were conveyed the first thing that the baal shem tov insisted and I say insisted this doesn't mean he invented it he revealed that he emphasized it he showed how you could see it everywhere interior wherever you look he said there it is there it is there it is he saw it in every tysonis in every Rambam in every Gemara in every pasta commish and that is that God loves you in the most extreme powerful infinite way God loves you unconditionally and there's nothing that can ever alter that love no mistake in the world that you can do that will alter that love as the baal shem tov used to say to a brush to hurt Olivia de Eden Mayer vietato now mama haben liebe been Yahud loss is no mud Isaac Newsome he would speak English of course Hashem loves every Jew more than a father and a mother who suffered their whole life without children and finally when they were old like Avraham and sorry they were blessed with a child who can describe the love of such a mother to her child the love of any mother any child but such a love to such a child the ball symptom set this infinitely is inferior to the love of our Shem to every Jew desire says in partial schmooze that if a Jew would know how much God loves in this ayah says we would run after him faster and with more might than a lioness runs after prey it was so lioness run after pray you don't want to get in between a feeling oh yeah give matura full of a Koosh mellow clunk the clear the young lions are roaring they were hungry and the mother goes out to get some food for herself and of course the king who gets to eat first and and the Cubs the Cubs he says if you would know how much he loves you you would run much much much faster than that with much more greatness as OSs we st. Dominic Ava's only long after know where our rabbit honor the morale says in the city so let me says ivory rubber that Ashkenazim say is what how strong the love is how powerful how I canna crabber endless others Allah means it's eternal it never ever ceases it can stop the last Navi of the Jewish please no the last Navi was the last Nabi of the Jewish people is my lion the last prophet the last safer of Tanaka's Malacca others malaki open up his book this is right before the era of nahua stops what's his final message Malathi opens up Malacca rellenos 1/2 the SMR Asha I love you or as desire puts it up cemented anon baka vamoose Italian Elsa for us Judaism is completely and absolutely about have you Russa about love about affection the baal shem tov felt that this every Jew must know 24 hours a day doesn't mean I don't make mistakes it doesn't mean I don't have to fix my mistakes but it means that the love is absolutely unconditional just like a healthy mother does not alter her laughter a child even if he disappoints her even if he makes mistakes even if you make serious mistakes the love is there there may be disagreements but the love is there a healthy father and mother always love their child I know there are many dysfunctional families and situations of abuse but I'm talking about a healthy and wholesome mother and father Hartmann touch with the natural instincts of parents the love doesn't change the baal shem tov once said it says this across the country are syrian powerful possum meat n Kakaako lee Yonex day me and to Aqaba hoods a shikaka Gamla elusively I wish you would be for me like a brother who nursed together with me from our mother so that when I see you in the street and I kiss you nobody will make fun of me says the Baal Shem Tov a beautiful interpretation he says a brother meets a brother in the street we get that course right you give a good relay kiss he kissed in the street nobody says it but the boss summative says and I quote but this is between siblings what about between spouses usually it's not to be done in the street why not the ball jump themselves and to say what he says his relationship between spouses is born in secrecy the relationship between siblings is born in a revealed way a family is created everybody knows these are the children of the family so the relationship is born in revelation the relationship of spouses develops later in life it develops later it's not a part of the natural family on the contrary you have to create a new relationship that's unnatural with somebody who's a stranger that's what a marriage is all about so he says it's created in concealment and privacy and it's nurtured in privacy but siblings he says it's created in revelation and it's nurtured in revelation so parents with children could be public siblings could be public says what does a Jew tell ahsha he says some Jews they're married to God but they're not siblings so he says me technically I next AME I want you should be like a brother and to a couple quotes I see you outside Chicago I'm able to kiss you and I'm not embarrassed for anybody I want there should be able to experience that these are some Druze only in privacy to have a relationship I want the outside I should be able to have a relationship I shouldn't be embarrassed I should have such an aesthetic relationship that even in the outside meaning even if it's not in my own domain I'm in public I'm in the big world I'm sorry for the hoods outside the relationship is still powerfully intense the baal shem tov taught something else god wants people to be successful he wants you to be happy he wants you to be satisfied he wants your life to be ecstatic wonderful extraordinary he wants you to suck the marrow out of life and to seize every moment and to see yourself as a success story he wants you to have a pleasant life a sweet life an enjoyable life an incredibly successful life materially psychologically emotionally and spiritually and I am sad that when I say this to people they often have a hard time believing this they say not my god not my Judaism no way he wants me to be as repressed as miserable as angry and as crushed as possible a good Shabbos table means the kids and the father are in a bad mood a successful Seder means everybody is in a bad mood a good circus means we all feel tortured this idea by a robot you must say in the world of the ball centers every word of the Baal Shem Tov and his students and the student students says the exact opposite of this in fact is a beautiful period of the Baal Shem Tov and you'll tell me what this Toyota means I can tell you thirty but I'll tell you one to the Mauryan tightness of basil Morales I noted a bat fee there were two comedians you know what bacala Maya but real but con an ox llamas all and real but running they knew real but comas now they get up and say the same three jokes Wilbur comment and Elio or not we said they are Binet Alma da see they have eylem abba versus one of them is running win over the missus what do you guys do for a living they said we're back or never actually says space him on the samsu McCadden we're happy on our own and we make other people happy Raschi says you would think about shouldn't make everybody else happy no no you can make other people happy if you're not happy yourself if you're miserable everybody around you will be miserable they say there was once a Jew who had a horrible voice horrible when the business was going horrible by him he would start singing when the business went well he was quiet they asked him why usually people see when they're excited he says I'll tell you when the business is going well I'm in a good mood I want everybody else to be in a good mood sighs shut up when the business is down the drain I'm misery I want everybody else to be miserable so I start singing a woman once came over to me after she rang she said my children are miserable could you give me advice how to make them happy I told that you can't make your children happy doesn't work you can only make yourself happy and if you're full of happiness and you sued happiness so then the people around you become happy she said to me these words she says I'm already a lost case I want my kids to be happy I said I'll tell you what you will accomplish you will accomplish to instill in your children the feeling that they are lost cases but they want their children to be happy that's what you're going to accomplish it's always we do it for the next generation somebody says when does that stop right we never do it for ourselves but the kid for the INA clock for the élysée when does it stop when does it stop doesn't work that way what is inside of you you could communicate to others so beside this episode I'm fine so - he says made him an assumption interesting Rashi - you want to make other people happy got to be happy there was a big big Jewish let's most of you don't own the pseudo name of Shalom Aleichem Sholem Aleichem was a big biggie vicious that he wrote his own tombstone he's buried in New York he died in 1915 and he wrote on his tombstone the man who made the whole world laugh when in Avantika take a drink and inside he was a depressed man it's on his tombstone so Rashi says many simple the Samsa McCadden my realm was good so Elio ah no he said Binet Olam haba they go to Elam Hama everybody learns why do they go to the lama because they make even the frail that they make Jews happy the Baal Shem Tov says it says there Bonet Olam haba what shot they help people experience eylem hava in this world they helped Jews connect their physical boring life with the spiritual splendor of infinity they brought meaning into everything that people had so they were been a dilemma but they help people at Milam haba here experience godliness here but the Baal Shem Tov says what if they saw a person is sad he says when you're sad you can't lift up your life when you're sad you can't be connected to infinity when you're depressed you're anxious you can't be connected to Hashem or useless head with them claiming this confidence and joy in his face how do you know you're in the space of God two things if you have confidence and you have joy if you feel like a slopper and you feel like an anxious doormat who's supposed to be sad and crushed you're in your own space you're not in God's space you're in trauma you're not a noise of a sense of them climber so the boss sometimes said he couldn't help them elevate the world cuz they have to be the Simca so what did they do I know Bucky they will miss Emmaus people so they can open up to be able to experience God in their life so the Baal Shem Tov taught that Hashem wants everybody to be extremely successful to be extremely happy which means something else included in this and that is I guess the best way to convey it is through a mitzvah and purchase Emmer and purchase Emmett is a mitzvah that you're not allowed to be miss Farish you're not allowed to make an animal or a person infertile you're not allowed to destroy the reproductive power of an animal and as I'll say but I took my Sassoon era to throw and anywhere else kosher animals and non kosher animals a dog a bull a cat which is why in Israel they have such a big problem with cats you know that right if we go to your shall I mean see what's going on with the cats there why is it a problem why can't they just do what they got to do the answer is by access my saucer you now latter eliminate the clay hide Syria the reproductive power of even a dog or an animal a whole Gomorrah how do you go about this what is this teaching us in the Baal Shem to this world this is teaching us you know sometimes you got a wild bull in the farm what does every good farmer do you know what they do right they castrated ethic and he calmed it down he becomes a tackler mom Allah Plato says you know I why not you know wild bull about Oliver Michigan crazy bull on people the answer is God does not ever want you to destroy the creative power of somebody an animal has a creative power don't take away the creative power and yet sometimes we do it with our youngsters so easily we see somebody who's a little - uh-huh let's just eliminate his creativity let's crush them let's put them into the box No kalila never castrate a person never eliminate your creativity when you have creative powers they are divine gifts to bring birth to tremendous light into the world you have to know how to harness it you have to help him find the right outlet you have to help her be able to express it in the right way but don't destroy it I remember it was sad for me I once met but I went to a PTA to meet a teacher of my son it was a little boy and the teacher tells me says you not have a good news field he says your son came in he was very wild he spoke a lot he ran around he was very busy but bark I said now after six months he sits he doesn't say a word a whole day he's so well baby so disciplined it's cooking Mon I'm looking at him and I realized I'm from Venus I'm from one planet from another planet I couldn't even argue with that what for him was success was for me a disaster now I understand the teacher needs a class that behaves I'm not judging a teacher you need discipline in the class but for him this was the peak of success I could silence the boy I could silence the girl I could make the map sink not Co not create not express themselves not actualize themselves and that's perfect NOS for the Baal Shem Tov that's destruction of God's gift your you are a piece of oceans light in this world he wants you to maximize your potential he wants you to self actualize your creativity is divine it's not a curse can it be used in destructive ways everything can be used in destructive ways but when he put on his glasses he looked and he said Wow cherish it embrace it it's wonderful and remember in the Baal Shem Tov's world God is your biggest fan you will never have a fan as great as a sham he is your biggest fan standing behind you in front of you in the middle of you sharing you on yes yes make it a great day make it a great life make it a great night if you're not experiencing that this is completely opposite of the world of the boss shop in his world he's your greatest fan and he never gives up on you you know even the greatest sports fans if the team has one loss and another loss and another loss at some point unless your mama Sh'ma sugar law said that team at some point you say I had enough of this team we're changing Mich matzah but in this case God never gives up a young man once came to me and he said I don't believe in Hashem anymore I don't believe I don't believe in Hashem I said listen we have to talk about it but I just want you to know one thing Hashem still believes in you so don't worry about it it's fine we'll work it out will grow will develop we'll work it out but just remember don't think because you start believing in him he stopped believing in you that never happens which brings us to the next point and that is a direct outgrowth the Baal Shem Tov says when you look at yourself in the mirror what do you have to see you have to see that your relationship with Hashem is who you are everything else is external you are completely one with God always that is who you are that is your identity you're completely one with him no separation you're in a some is a helical economy mile and even the body by the ball sample is seeing a sacred this was very interesting there were those who taught that the body has to be crushed the Baal Shem Tov taught says in Parsons mesh pocket kisi rikimaru sanaka the God rooibos carcass Masaryk adult Amazo other cows live in mine you see the donkey of your enemy crouching under its burden and you don't want to help them you have to help them he said summer comes from the word homer you see your body and it's your enemy and it's crouching under its burden Toyota doesn't want to carry it and you want to say let me neglect and suppress my body lie bazoo I dare ask ish can I return a sense that's not how the light of Toyota will dwell in you Kim other positive you might well have to be a Leroy team in Lusaka cos I go work with your body talk to your body we sometimes Creator you described where the body is seeing as they're pinning me of evil people understand that the laws of sneers are all about crushing the body destroying the body hating the body that's antithetical to Judaism certainly at it the medical to all of Judaism it about some gives world so the body and the soul are one they're the greatest partners the body has the deepest divine potential good for the line producer it says desire the time you says after the car turn with one of the heart that goes on the body the body was chosen Bastian because the soul did enough to be chosen to show the soul does look uphill is something else if you're going to buy a house and there's a car and you say oh I chose the house instead of the car you don't have to choose a house instead of a car if you want a house you buy outs you want to carry out by a car if God wants a Jewish soul he chooses a Jewish soul is nope there's no two to choose from the goofy chose the body chose the cool so that's why the Baal Shem took cities taught don't neglect your body don't harass your body don't despise your body work with the body success in Judaism doesn't only mean the mind although we're taught that way success in Judaism means the mind the soul and the body as equal partners on the wrath of Allah , it says mashiac is going to come riding on a donkey why not a BMW a lot of people who are smaller than mushiya come and BMWs nobody will be able to give Machir for BMW they're going to send them on a donkey most of you won't even go the side of a donkey a nasal it's a nice car but in the teachings of the Baal Shem Tov based on the morale Hummer comes from the word Homer physical material only the race of Allah Kamara the light of machine is going to be revealed on the donkey through the donkey in the body through the body in the physical world in the material world it's not separated it's not be attached everything is part of the divine said over a few days ago right from the box under the Gemara says and Broca's that was on my ruler a memorabilia nun who was selling the name of Revelation and my own Chikara vase I make this email decoded vertical by lamella Dalai Lama so a lockable vat from the database Amex - was destroyed Hashem does not have in his world only four cubits of halakha literally it means after the base hamikdash is destroyed after the base amethyst is destroyed what's left in our shams world is Dollard unless that's where he is guard hat is in dollar domicile a locker in the for amazon halacha that's where he is in the yeshiva in the bottom a Jewish the Baal Shem Tov explained is a deeper interpretation me youngsters horribly McNish how do we know that the base a mixed dish was destroyed what's the symptom of the destruction of the basin victors that we believe a melaka - vertical by la Isla de la mouche la walkable that we believe that Hashem has nothing in his world but four cubits of a locker we believe that you can only find God in dali lama's la loc and the truth is a noite Malvado in every corner in every nook and cranny in every phenomenon of the nuance of your life and of the universe you could find godliness it's an expression of godliness of course you need a dollar domicile halakhah to be able to reveal it everywhere in the world but that horton based on mixes creates in our mind a duality a duality between the spiritual and the physical between the soul and the body between heaven and earth between the yeshiva and the work place that's part of Reuben Bay some exists a consciousness of redemption is all always divine which brings me to the next point and this has to do with rewards and punishments reward and Punishment is a very loaded topic if you look in the Baal Shem Tov's teachings as students teachings all the swaram there's very little about reward and Punishment it's interesting not because they didn't believe in it it's one of the 30 principles of faith but because the perspective that they had often people misunderstand reward and Punishment that God is basically standing and waiting if you do good he'll throw cotton candy at you or sushi or an ice cream or a milkshake whatever that milkshake looks like and if you do bad whoops you'll wrap you up with his electric sword and that's why many people hate God they don't admit it but they hate it they hate you disguise there's constantly in fear and we always have experts when something happens somebody's there to call you to tell you why it happens we have a lot of prophets who know why everything happens to people and it's so insensitive it's so in UMaine first of all God never told you why it happened you don't know that's the first thing and the second thing is your job is to help the person to empathize with the person to lift up the person to guide the person but we like sometimes so detached from what Hashem is what Toyota is what either sky it is the word punishment in fact is a very scary word the Baal Shem Tov explains it in a completely different way the idea of reward and Punishment is not God is trying to get you and he's going to zap you if you do the wrong thing it would be like a mother telling her three-year-old you know I'm going to zap you I can't wait till I get revenge really why would you want to punish somebody you love unconditionally the entire concept of punishment really means something else what it means is it's basically a concept of as I once gave a metaphor of therapy if somebody has a lot of stuff inside of them and they sit down with a therapist the therapist gets them to talk about it it's painful but you know why it's painful because they're spitting out toxicity and poison that's in them then the Shama the soul and the body are so beautiful but when you have to do a cleansing it's painful but the only reason is in order to be able to make you shine the way you are capable of shining there's no punishment outside of absolute relationship and look you don't have to be afraid in state of somebody who hates you ever it's all about the human being and the soul reaching its ultimate and greatest potential in absolute love do we always understand everything no there's much of life we don't understand we're very ignorant we discussed in the basics of a moon I think it was number 9 where is God when it hurts and how we explain pain and suffering that's not for this year it's a whole separate a whole separate subject but the Baal Shem Tov taught it's about a relationship the greatest reward of the mitzvah is the Mitzvah the greatest punishment of the availa is not a punishment it's the sin itself it's the betrayal of the relationship which now brings us to another point and that is in the Baal Shem Tov's world in the world of Exodus every reality and situation a person is in God is speaking to him through that reality in that situation sometimes Hashem speaks to you through light sometimes he speaks to you through darkness sometimes through revelation sometimes through concealment sometimes through an easy day and sometimes through a challenging day but every single moment is a moment of connection and you have to be able to see it that way they tell a story there with the two brothers they debited Mela and inevitably normally Melek rubella Melek of illusion scanned his brother deposition of a Nepali they were brothers and they traveled they would go around and travel from city to city before they became famous they wouldn't stay in one city for more than one night it was called goals they wondered in their own exile and one day somebody informed upon them they ended up in a prison cell the prison cell was packed with people can additions were horrible there was not even a bathroom instead of a bathroom you'll forgive me there was a pail a bucket in the corner and that's what the people used they slept through the night of they could sleep in the morning that evident Mela is crying so the position of on Nepali that hey Luca debited position says why are you crying he says how can I not cry you could smell what's going on here in the cell you can understand what it smelled like with that pale in the corner that everybody used for their physical needs for their evacuation you now let it Davin in such a place so the position says why you're crying he says it's the first day in my life but I will not be able to say breakfast I will not be able to say SH MA I will not be able to dive in because I logically with such a rare crowd with such a smell you can't doubt so I'm crying so the position says so you won't dive and why are you crying you won't he says how can I not doubt for me darling is the moment in the morning when I connect to my inner core when I connect to my inner soul when I connect to the inner core of reality Taschen that's the moment I align myself with my true higher self I'm going to be missing it this day the missing this today and my whole day is going to be fragmented splintered disallowing so they're a bit of position thought every that Malin says he says to him why who says you can't have a kiss and ain't safe today who says you can't connect with truth today there's over a bridge there was a case in dominant occasion is dominant as Madhab at least is Oka mitzvah hudson Asha is the same God who wants you to dive in every day today so phonology says you should have done so today by not darling you're fulfilling God's will when you fulfill ourselves will you connect them today you'll connect to God through not babbling because that's what he wants he wants you not to dominate so somebody wants you connect them through not dominance of art so instead of crying you start singing it's to Siddons on a few minutes they were dancing the prison inmates see to kevrah dancing they join them a token of they doing it within a few minutes yes Poornima Suncoast area in the south the prison warden hears a commotion he runs in and he sees 47 at pal's COS ops cos they're dancing away such joy and jubilation and ecstasy he's astounded and he's furious he calls over one of the Gentiles he says with simcha Mazel why he didn't quote this positon k ellis what's this great joy the man points to the two Jews inside the circle and he says they're guilty as always the Jews instigated this behavior and they're responsible he says why are they dancing what's so exciting about this place the man says I don't know because you tell me right now I'll put you in solitary confinement throwing why are they dancing what's making them happy and the man points to the bucket in the corner the prison warden says could you explain to me how that bucket can make anybody excite us he says it's a good question but I'll just tell you what they told us they explained to us that as a result of that bucket they developed a new type of relationship with their gods there was a pre bucket relationship and opposed bucket relationship and as a result of this bucket a whole new consciousness expansiveness entered into their mind and have a whole different relationship and they're very excited about he says really yep because I will teach these Jews a lesson he picks up the buckets he throws it out of the room returns to Lebanon may listen he says may last yes can stir domina my brother it may look now you could start Dominic could put on Phil and start Gavin bucket is out but the story has a very profound message in the world of the Baal Shem Tov you're always in a relationship sometimes God wants you to dive in and sometimes our sin wants you not mm yeah Shekar kosher schibetta sometimes I want your wholesome Lucas and sometimes I want you broken Lukas but you're always connected you're always in a relationship you never separated the Baal Shem Tov asks a question I just love the question it's of Asura Vash he says if the purpose of life is Vegas with Ainge South one is he says how is it that so much of our life we spend in the basic you see in the bathroom and you can't be one does the question is so rich and what's his answer he says why why do people have to go to a bathroom to a basic of it the answer is because the way God created the body it's always doing avoid asabi rules the body is always separating the good from the bad the nutritious from the from the refuse from the pasola from the sediment that's what our body does you taking a piece of food digestion already begins on the tongue with the saliva and the body breaks it up and the body says those gate Lazos well does gate wash em those gate the basic easy does getting crazy shock adoshem this was going to store fat for the surface refer for whatever because you're gonna starve probably for the next week and this this this will become part of your bloodstream and this is garbage out that's what you do motion this is that's the essence of acres of acres at every moment in life could be able to say this i embrace this i embrace and this is Presonus i don't have to embrace it and make it holy in my life i could still pursue my values even if it's there this i reject so that's what like this if the question that gives perspective he says it's a gomorian a riven non-dollars a be who the tall Shmuel Shanina small dosa buda Shanina hi Alma Cudahy lula da mia hi Alma Gosselin let me make ebay in the Lord omnia Hattori Maquoketa thirsty this world that we live in is like a wedding grab and eat grab and drink so Jews do the second half what's the meaning this world is like a wedding let's like a wedding why don't you tell me this world is like a banana this world is a cabinet sauna there's a comparable wire wedding so the bottom tube says as follows a wedding is a very interesting experience there's a lot going on at a wedding and people come to a wedding you have the music you have the clothes you have the flowers you have the bar you have the sushi bar of the Viennese table yeah the smokers board you have the caterer you have the mass autonomy of the mastaba condition you have the robe you have the ages you have the guy who gets broke-ass Rita you have the guy who doesn't talk to you because he didn't get drunk after it it's all going on at a wedding at the same time and everybody is busy the photographer is a pup set and this one is anxious and this gown didn't work out and this hat didn't work out and this triangle doesn't look at the beca so does it look at the bottom does their stupid jokes etc and the fork is on the left side instead of the right side and the singer is horrible crisis mode and you'll ask somebody how was the wedding who the food was unbelievable the dancing give Volvic the babkin mo today the Mitzvah tantas horrible as can be this was great this was awesome to color discuss loiter dick or something says they weren't at the wedding they worried that the wedding they were at the flower shop they were at the caterers shop they were at the music shop they were at the gallery shop they weren't at the wedding - the wedding is one moment under the chuppah he puts a ring on the collars finger and he says hi ray after makuu - Asst li hi hi Alma cabbie he lugar dunya this world is like a wedding a lot going on and the point of the wedding is don't miss the core don't miss dinner cooter don't get caught up remember what it's about truth goodness your relationship with God at every moment and you being an ambassador of love life and hope to the world are they ethnic identity hi Alma committee loo looks like a wedding what's going on and there's a lot of distractions stay focused cutter back oil guitarist he sees that moment because in his world your reality is oneness your reality is Vegas you're always with you're always part of his life in fact separation is unnatural to you completely unnatural the vapors that is your natural state you don't have to leave you don't have to create oneness that's who you are you have to create separation although we feel separated that feeling is alien to our true essence and your true essence there is always wholesomeness always Vegas always oneness and in fact for the Baal Shem Tov and his teachings revealing what you describe is all of Tyria mitzvahs is really to express this truth we don't create our relationship to tear damages we are essentially one with the aim safe always Tyrel mitzvos is an opportunity to be able to live this relationship to breathe it to experience it to be tuned into it throughout our days and throughout our nights and our mornings and in our evenings all trail mix which is an opportunity to align ourselves with this truth of who we are with this essential truth what is a sin in about sentence world beyond anything else a sin is basically betrayal of yourself betrayal of your true self being in the lap of infinity being completely part of the infinite light an ambassador of love light and hope I'm basically betraying myself which is why he introduced so much the concept of sin official Mitzvah to have a banana passion when you learn tell you know when you darlin when you say oh my gosh miraba when you do am it so when you give stalker when you do a favorite another person the brand the passioned excitement this is not about being a slave being repressed net has to be asleep so I shouldn't burn in hell for the rest of my life for eternity and if I do the right thing then I'll have a nice piece of lava stone and GaN Eden or summative says that's all part of the relationship it's about right here right right here right now there's another major teaching of the Baal Shem Tov his glasses and that is the greatest tragedy in life is when you start believing that you're a victim and you're not a king you're not a prince that's the greatest tragedy in life when you look in the mirror and you say here comes the loser baby here comes the schmata here comes the doormat here comes the victim here comes the carbon he says no you are Ewa Delos mela the servant of the king is the king and the way he expressed it was through a tremendous Tyra it's brought by his grandson great-grandson of nachman of restive on the Kalima here on the name of his great-grandfather I was active Maximus but the Baal Shem Tov said listen to this says in prickly Alvis last Shabbos listen Amy after Austin latane Denver Cashman we're all going to have to give add-in and attachment what's add-in verdict has been calculation what comes first first you make the Cashman then you do the din why does it say did the Cashman first Cashman first you calculate and then you give the verdict it there's another mission in Pirkei avos new frame in our other media visual immediateiy the exact payment from a person consciously and unconsciously which one look at the Hey look about hunters nobody is judged in heaven nobody's ever judged in heaven you know what happens you come up to heaven you come up to heaven yeah and even before you come up they ask you about the life of somebody else they show you other people's lives they say what's your opinion about that yeah candid washer or you say that what's your opinion about him about her about this one that one and you know we have opinions about everybody our whole life every day we get to judge people for mourning tonight our neighbors are we always draw me to judge so we say this this this what's your opinion my thumb tip says you finish so what's your opinion what should be done with this you give opinions then they print out a database of everything you did they said oh it happens to be that everything you spoke about by somebody else we have my you also so whatever you said should be done to them will be done to you that's fabulous husband first is the bin them is the husband first you give the verdict on somebody else then they make the husband with you that's that the frame and other made I think Mitchell I mean I take the exact payment when you consciously and unconsciously it's consciously you say what they should do but you don't know what's about you so the box of themselves every day you get to judge people be careful how you judge them because you're not judging anybody else you're judging yourself be careful how you judge people it may not be exactly the same story but there's something similar in your life be careful how you judge people they say when you point the finger at somebody you're pointing at that moment three fingers at yourself but what is the baal shem tov really saying the obnoxious says beautifully that's why when dove it did destroy with bash ever when he took my shadow from orion he sent earlier to war and he died what happened nothing Hanavi came to visit over time allah you don't want timeout right you know the story the women probably know the story you skip that okay so nothing are now becomes to see dada Melek and what does he say he said i want to tell you a story there was a wealthy man who had everything there was a poor man who had one sheep and a guest came to the wealthy man he needed a meal so the wealthy man stole the sheep from the poor man to give the guests food and the poor man was left with nothing what should happen to this person he says he should die such cruelty so what did nothing on avi say after Harish you're the man or you have he had nothing of he died he had won rubbish every and his wife you're a king everything at the steel is sheep daughter Mellisa towards Tata Steel Usha listened that's what made of it of it sold not survived as a king of it survived as a king why did nothing anomaly have to do this whole story just come over the dominant say look what you did so he says the boss something explains because everybody has to judge themselves he has dove it what should be the verdict and dove it gave the verdict and then he said that's you why is that so important the answer my friends is this open your hearts what the baal shem tov was trying to say is nobody can control the destiny of a jewish soul not even better than so my look not even not like my soul gavrio the whole family so my look at my uncle i said nobody can send you anywhere the only one who can decide where you end up is you know who you know who you yourself why because you're one with a scythe you're one with infinity you're completely one with God's essence and therefore nobody ultimately can control even better than some I'll in heaven you're a sinner you come up you are the one who determines where you end up will you go because in life you are never a victim you are an ambassador you are a messenger you are empowered to create your destiny the circumstances we can't always create but what we do with our circumstances how we view our circumstances how we relate to our circumstances and how we define our circumstances that every individual defines for themselves because of their oneness with God the greatest destruction is when you think you're nothing and you don't realize that should I shall Adam camiseta gomorian conditional malice your Ashley asked of the reminder shillelagh you're like him you represent him this doesn't mean I don't have trauma in life this doesn't mean I wasn't abused some of us have trauma some of us deal with abuse but it means you're always more powerful than your trauma you're always more powerful than your abuse you are more powerful than all of your trauma and then about something taught something else there's no teaching in tighter that is not to be understood on a psychological emotional and spiritual level not in Baba kama an animal ambassador not a Miss Esther Kalyan monotonous essence welcomed not in the sector aided in anonymous activator not a pasta converation sorapus again by Ukraine after a monster chop every hollow carry Mitzvah could be understood concretely physically metaphysically in emotions the whole sugan sucker good christmas it's also good a picnic it's awesome a logically sometimes you can imagine that the wall comes down the wall goes up it's a very strange haka there's no wall but you can imagine that it comes down you can imagine that it goes up you have a sugar that's tenth welcome it doesn't reach the static no problem good a sickness hits us and the baal shem tov said this is essential to the drama of existence where the higher always needs to come down and the lower one always needs to go up a small example every sugar has a spiritual reflection and then the baal shem tov thoughts when you look at a person look at the soul not at the externals of the person it's very easy to see the external my son is in a bad mood my daughter has yes see it but look how beta Misa my and I Hinglish a cook always see the soul in a person see the neshamah see the divine and therefore he taught love every Jew no matter who he or she is with every fiber of your being somebody shared with me there's a Jewish name is about high-end wine shrimp but I am Weintraub lives in Kiryas small in our Chester oh he's very into cured - outreach he's a very special man - Brian he deals a lot with youth who I don't like the name that they give these youth I don't believe in it but youths that have that our child that are struggling with you this guy's struggling with their future and he goes to them he visits them he hangs out with them in their places he's close to them crying - Rob had a three year old son he made an option is for him a few days later the boy was in school and Hayden and it's in key and curious and cool in an artist role and he told his Maury told his teacher that he has a headache so she said you know next door there are cops you lie down a little bit for an hour you'll take a nap and hopefully you'll feel better so she put him in the car she went back to teaching and then she went to check on him after a half an hour or 45 minutes she saw something is wrong she immediately called for help the boy passed away in his sleep a few days after his option - devastating devastating tragedy no words crime is sitting Shiva with his wife and his other children for this little three year olds article and who comes to visit a whole group of these teenagers who are very very far from you disguised some of them piercings and earrings and Intex you know the works I'm not going to get very graphic but they were extremely alienated from Jewish life from Jewish observance from Jewish consciousness but they were close to him and he was close to them and they came to visit and they're sitting last time they sat in such a place was probably a while before and one of them turns to him and says you know we decided to give you a gift to honor your son we know how Shabbos is important to you this Shabbos we're going to keep we're going to keep this job is 24 hours we won't smoke we won't drive we won't put on the lights we won't cook we won't light a fire we won't travel we will observe and celebrate Chavez he thanked them from the bottom of his heart they said I'm welcome you knocked him asked him they offered words of comfort and they left the house the other visitors were sitting there they turned to him and they say disgusting these kids such grubby youngin such horrible kids he says why you do so much for them you go to their clubs and you go to their bowling alleys and you go to their basements and you go to their homes and you hang out with them and you have fun with them and you take them to the restaurants you go for pizza you go for drinks you do so much for these boys I thought such a moment they would tell you we'd keep Shabbos for six months we'd keep shoppers for a year that would be appropriate for two years forever at least six months one Shabbos they're gonna keep one Shabbos please this is what they tell to cry in my shop my friends this is what he told her he said you really don't get it I want to ask you a question a question said what would I do to have my little boy back with me for one Shabbos one more Shabbos what would I give in order to have him back for Shabbos Friday night to watch him near my wife lighting the candles and I'm walking with him next block to show coming home and holding him his hand by Shalom Aleichem aja style and kiddush putting him on my lap and singing songs with him and asking him questions finishing the meal and playing a game with him reading a story having fun with him walking with him shop this morning to show with the bag of nosh to be able to feed him through our governing and then coming home for lunch having a great meal and then throwing him up in the air and playing a little more with them what would I give in order to have this boy for one more Shabbos in my house how much money do you think I would pay they looked at him and he said you know the answer I would give everything I would give every penny I own every shekel I own every Agora I own I would take off my jacket my suit my clothes sell my house sell my car give up everything just to have my boy for one Shabbos for 24 hours again in this world do you understand guys they said of course he said now look at this this Shabbos the Rabbinical eylem is going to have eight of his children with him a whole Shabbos a whole Shabbos he's going to have eight of his children with them celebrating with them observing with them enjoying with them do you think this is a small thing why are you under estimating it why you dismissing it this is a perspective this is a perspective of somebody who understands what a Jew is what a relationship with a Jew is what a soul is what God is so the person who gets it who understands if to be able to see the souls and people you have to be able to judge people in a much deeper way you have to be able to see the panini is the core of people you know there myself ah it was a year it was a year this is a story in Habad I used the Menachem Mohnish Muslim he was a hostage of the Rishabh that fitfully baggage and ever delivered a shop a big diamond merger a big comic awesome and a big / - I'm a serious gossip he would come for Yonkers to the river to the red 5th Habad revered the revered I've stolen Bear passed away 19 20 and Rostov and he would bring him his best diamond once a year the best diamond that he should be able to use for tadaka whatever he wanted to use it he would bring him the most expensive dazzling diamond for the rabbit to sell and give food Sparkle whatever he needed it for one year for Yom Tov and before he went into the red what's called the hitters another Jew and a simple Jew drew goes in and he's there for two hours goes out he goes in and he's there for 10 minutes was very disappointed and after yom tov he went in with his diamonds and the hostel is supposed to be open with her the definition of a relation we did across tonight rabbit is complete openness when it becomes about stick and secret it's not a relationship it's fake he tells their ebony says I have to say I'm I'm hurt that's why you hurt I push it to you this guy's a nice guy but - I was with you I go in face of cautioning evening I'm a prominent guy ten minutes I don't understand there ever didn't answer so about mature ever did not answer okay he moved on his new vice me the monkeys advised me the dimensions show me the Diamonds of this year see clay takes out and he points sees us this is the beauty this is the beauty does give us the rabbit this is the beauty so there ever takes the storm starts looking ahead a man it's vanished I don't see the great beauty I think that one is much nice comparing this goes for twenty five thousand local that goes barely for ten durable what do you compared he's vanished he's explaining once twice as I don't see says it ever can I be honest with you saw harder so ever is like that ever is that Nitschke may even of the mentally where ever you are on diamonds you're not an expert you're not a kind of sort leave it up to me I'm telling you as the best he looks at him and he says enough neshama stuff my design amazed it and when it comes to neshama see also have to be an expert if for a diamond you have to be on that is for a soul you have to be an expert this doesn't mean that the person I'm looking at doesn't they better make mistakes and it's not having challenges and then in for but look at a soul see souls pocket of souls communicator solves believe in Souls to hold different picture when you talk to souls not because you're not because you ignore things because you see what a person truly is what the potential of a human being is boo Othman oh wow okay so I have to cut this a little short I'm going to say three points very swiftly and conclude next point the Baal Shem Tov taught the credible teaching all part of the same glasses and that is challenges skeletons demons anybody knows what these things are all these things are not mistakes in your life that prove to you that you're a failure they're all part of your incredible journey to fulfill your mission in this world and the greatest part of that is the Moyer in I am in of naka mentionable in the name of the Baal Shem Tov the passage says will be costum we shall miss our sham a look at home with salsa you will search from near where you have been sent to you will search them you'll find them what's me some the great mistake of people is what do most people tell themselves tomorrow when I become a man I'll be an error see it'll be a good Jew next year in two years and three years now I'm a mess I'm in love this you know what's happening in my mind tonight you know what I'm doing right after this class you don't want to know you know what I did last job is you know what I did last night will be casting me summers are similar come wherever you are in the world that's where God is waiting for you everybody does Hashem is not about copying another person we spoke last time about individuality it's not about a certain model wherever you are with all of your issues with all of your challenges that's exactly where you are capable of finding the meaning you need in your life the my rhenium says in BIOS lock the camera says in Yuma a bolita may post skin light what does I mean somebody who comes to contaminate himself they opened the doors for him Shem doesn't stop you you know what the Mauryan am says a bully Tom they poison why when you're about to contaminate yourself you're experiencing an addiction a thought of feeling and emotion an urge you're about to contaminate yourself police can lie that's the moment that's the experience through which you can enter into the doors of Ruach Hakodesh you can enter and become one with God really why the answer is this thought that just came into you that wants to derail you from everything holy everything more or leveraging sacred this is an opportunity for you to achieve your mission in life by subduing it confronting it dismissing it transforming it don't get depressed and say I what is my mind up to what is my heart up to poison like this holy SH our exhibit this is your moment some of us have difficult struggles emotionally physically spiritually financially morally psychologically some deep stuff we look at ourselves and we see ourselves as victims as losers as alienated no points can line this is your purse ah this is your opening to greatness this is your path to the reminder Shalom it's not my bed but it's your path because everybody has a different path don't compare to people's paths the richness of it the glory of it nobody is detached nobody is divorced nobody is alienated the death of a sinner from the Granton of the baal shem tov explains in choice what happens moshe is looking at a burning bush right i snapped by a base verse 9 and oil coats are being consumed he wants to know why what does our shem say take your shoes off your feet because you're standing on holy soil says the devil mask enough rhyme with moshe haim a frame of said lead cover was a grandson of the baal shem tov buried near him and measure bush in the ukraine Jacques de Hey look at that oh my from there I'm that what the first vision of Moishe's a Jew is standing and his Dominic and he wants to get on fire he said good shoe he wants to get on fire by Irene asked that boy obeys the man is the tree automates are Saudis on fire last nine and Wilco the tree is not being consumed you know why because there are massive azureus there are alien thoughts in him that don't stop disturbing him they keep on coming in every day Hasnain and woke up he wants to be consumed in a godly fire in a biblical on fire we can't has never woke up there's a part of him that resists the flames I'm not part of this whether its intellectual whether it's emotional and what does he want - this is my doula doesn't this show that my whole dominum is worthless so what does our sham talent take your shoes off your feet Keeaumoku mashallah middle of odd mosque leadership the place upon which you're standing a sacred soil the essence of tourism or something is you don't find holiness somewhere else you know you find holiness I'm okay Masha after all you middle of Atmos going to show everybody in this room or anywhere around the world watching a listening an hour later find themselves in a certain place physically geographically emotionally mentally everyone here is in a different place I know you're in the tent but everybody is in a different place one person is farther cholent another person is not that solvent one person is before the sesame chicken person after the sesame chicken one person is worried who's going to make Shabbos you have eleven guests you didn't even start another person is thinking about this everyone of this another person wants to know what's the excuse you can have tonight for coming home late it's said everything you can always blame rabbi why I don't worry as long as you give cause aura of everything I said you could blame me as long as you give Gazzara they'll forgive you everyone is in a different mental space and that's the small stubborn and there's deep spaces that we're in on so many different levels that's you then there's your spouse or yourself your children your loved ones everyone is in a different space and we always say when am I going to get to that when am I going to be like this person when am I going to do this wet shall me Alaska my hourglass all right now take your shoes off your feet Keeaumoku him a shadow you may the love add mask readership the place upon which you're standing a sacred right here right now you have everything you need to connect to the truth that you need to connect to right now what that truth is is different than mine or because let me show mr. Shibata I have to deal with one issue you have to deal with another issue everyone has a different journey but it because to me some don't run you don't have to run right here don't dismiss yourself are you having the Chavez are in the middle of governing on the hill okay of this Allah care of Ramallah kaede-san melikhaya avi continues you see the sinner it's all me I'm inside of these thoughts all of them are here to create the arena in which your life is supposed to play itself out to be able to bring redemption to yourself and to bring redemption to the world there's an unbelievable worth of the boss sentence as a half mama shaft with a fella we say you Shia on o V on a fast day the Oz of Russia darker yeah right be shovin Marcia voices the wicked person should let go of his fourths kill a master voice a commercial I say my thoughts are not your thoughts so there's a vote on the ball summative quite heavy he says he'll a master race him actually second that's what the Russia thinks Yasser brush the balcony suffer maximize so he has to let go of which thoughts you know which thought he'll a massive I say maximization that my thoughts are not your thoughts the problem of the Russia is that he thinks that his thoughts are not defined he looks at his thoughts and he says I'm a Russia that's what makes you a Russian the greatest mistake of a Russia's that he thinks that he's really disconnected the greatest thing I have to do children is the fact that I think that I really have to do children cuz I'm absolutely separated really max a voice a maximization even those thoughts they're very negative how boldly may bring skin life those thoughts are there to bring you to your own light those thoughts are there to challenge you it doesn't mean I have to go follow those ones not what we're saying don't misconstrue the words here it means the thoughts sometimes are there to be able to create a challenge where I flex my muscles but they're all part of my Vegas with Hashem it's part of my kedusha odd mosque curry - oh and this means this means in the worlds of the baal shem tov people who followed that path we're never afraid of talking about their problems their flaws they were not afraid to be vulnerable because they knew that God does not want perfect people God wants real people God is not looking for holy people to do holy things he's looking for unholy people to do holy things your unholy awesome nice avocados varo holy is lady Rhea beep acronym in the lonely world we wanted to have the sheen of dwelling not in the spiritual Alps of Switzerland in Olam haba there yes trillion sectarian of my walking colors colors Kaddish it's the person down here the imperfect person so that's why never afraid of being vulnerable of being honest of being real of being authentic you don't have to be afraid not of your trauma not of your flaws not of your mistakes I don't have to be afraid there's a core that could never be destroyed nothing will ever destroy it on the contrary he wants people who are real who are authentic that's why in the world of the baal shem - there was such a focus on a concept called the book of aryan Godoy lil Iginla the fabric where people would come together for what purpose hundreds of years before the 12-step program people don't really the 12-step program was invented by the baal shem tov it wasn't a 12-step program the 613 step program but that's what he invented people think today is sit in a group and everybody is open they're like wow we never had this by us it's a tragedy we never had it by us because we are often alienated from our own teachings that's what they did they were open they spoke to each other openly when people didn't judge each other they weren't busy eating up somebody I wasn't living in your throat you weren't living in my throat on the contrary you celebrate people's journeys you help people grow together it's an atmosphere of oneness but for this you have to put on his glasses and you have to learn how to make these glasses and how to put on the glasses and then clean the glasses every day every day you know that boy sighs I grew up my father's eternal love Russia was the editor-in-chief of a Yiddish newspaper which for some of you was the greatest newspaper for some of you was the worst newspaper for some of you was very holy and for some of you was very impure so I grew up with that as well part of my trauma so somebody once sent into the newspaper an article about the Baal Shem tiss that was written by a Jew his name was Eliezer Steinman Eliezer Steinman was not a person you would expect to write an article about the Washington he was a secular Israeli a left-winger a socialist the editor of a newspaper called Navarre and let's put it this way it's quite a less was quite a Westley newspaper member of my extremely left-wing socialist and somewhat anti religious but at some point in his life he discovered the world of Exodus and he delved into it for years and he was a brilliant man and he ended up writing pens for him after this cognition of Exodus one on the baal shem tov two on the ballot Anyanka bob won a breslav polishes today's god with an exodus hungarians did this Prisca cuts but it depends more impendent brilliant books but somebody sent into the paper an article that he wrote English once about the Baal Shem Tov two articles and I I read it years ago when I came to the newspaper to the alga manager now but today I looked it up again because I remember that I left an impression on me and I felt that I have to read to you a few paragraphs from his article people asked me why I do these classes in English when most people who speak Yiddish the answer is because people who speak Yiddish like to feel sophisticated so I speak English that's the reason the Czar's is a few people not everybody understands you there's some people understand English and even the people understand Yiddish their animal soul understands better English and I want to speak not only to their high Lucas's but also their real self their real selves I speak I speak this language but fart I feel a little guilty that I don't speak here dish because for now I speak you this better than I speak English and I speak I actually have you know we have the Russian Yiddish so it's actually a little more authentic so I saw this and it was very very long our dough but I just I want to read to you a few paragraphs that he writes in Yiddish the original and then I'm going to translate for those who don't understand or for those who don't want to understand English okay but listen why do I quote it I quote him because he is a Jew who unlike many people here grew up in the exact opposite environment than many people sitting in this room opposite so he came completely from far remember you see Roy comes and he says after you Dottie Keigo de la jeune école Allah Kim Muhammad linear have a desire shall I of the used to renew everything so sometimes it's very interesting to hear how somebody from a completely different culture and environment very secular very anti religious not only anti-christmas anti-religious speaks about the Baal Shem Tov after his research and teachings I don't know if many of us who grew up in Hasidic homes Hasidic yeshiva somebody Madras can even begin to articulate ourselves like the more something this way maybe after tonight will be a little change I chose mama SH a few for many I'm going to read poked me there free Morgan mask mist Cana her voice to back em pinned in a stone flickin feathered in for the fins finish a moonshine is an ayah begin end the baal shem tov is given via nya tog wine Godiva's father much as MIT bar vision by hidden as I helped a stouter on by frightened a shaman designer and has given fry from slacking from Zorgon for axis for modest trader from Caracas mid head infinite contractions Ibsen Ave need a clock nicked extra finished and moose ignition a hot became a tiny sue Canaan a firm understandable 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across all addresses simcha an underrated Vegas at TV Slava's bout the Baal Shem Tov hot overhead zingin ASA at Unga havens engine she rashidun no say over info fascia types of incentives I hate of this in no se oven I hate off at the head face of the Madre given Ducie sir made over say time ain't up Karen finish last in verse a toy car vandal and election Goods Keynes action developed tarnish gainful Aaron accosted didnít God today arranged sukima ningún Aiden a hosted from Baal Shem Tov did need God g'day to and I'm comin again Aiden a big God and us is showing GaN Eden ever come P an adult of their belt and his a big liquor convoy Elysium Russ's Greek involves as I need to sign is a trick so webinar gods felt City certain legal an insertion of buckles and a magnum yesh Kaiser Harang Goosen in them hasslein yesh in the Miasha Amity in God the mail it's a blitz is either a Ganesh sadly Katamari frog italics a boxes we are capable das exact abortion alle Haitian ruin oil in the Tollan I see a death toll is Himmel height for the skin is Uma tongue Schaben alert if Stefan in the Hastur hasten which is why I hate to go over from this language now which is why when they used to ask why the Baal Shem Tov was born why he was born not when he was born aware why he was born one of the great answers that was given was that when a person is in a comatose state one of the old school is one of the old almonds was to whisper his name into his ear and revive him through his own name because the name connects you to your soul the Baal Shem Tov lived in a time when the Jewish people was in a spirit were in a spiritual comatose state the pogroms of malinovski 1648 1649 decimated poland the shop's III false messiah devastated the jewish world spiritually the division between the groups of Jews was extraordinary the sense of dejection and boredom and monotony and the spear was overwhelming what did God do so he brought the Baal Shem Tov into the world and that was his whisper of the name of the Jewish people our name as you saw his name was he strong he saw that the Exile is so long and so difficult soshim took the light a little bit of the light of mushiya and he sent it down into the world in the life of the Baal Shem Tov a little bit of the light of redemption was given to the Jewish people and thus a new pair of glasses a new set of glasses were turned on were put on were introduced if there is a generation that needs this pair of glasses I think it's ours thank you have a wonderful week [Applause] you could give me a hug like a brother government became a religion to hold my Silla Steinman he came to glitzenstein who was the kebab a writer and he came he says he wants all statistics just enjoy that I think it's all like a physicist so you ought to whether to move on whatever doesn't give them outs out and don't speak a word to him about the other side but the Habad case right away gave it everything two years that is a fresh fart and yelena and good sisters came word came word doctor just give him give him given I was a big fella then he started to produce this book a little fella whatever didn't want he knew that it's so sensitive when the books came out that ever wrote him a letter whole letter very long letter and one of the letters he writes to him that a good safer is not just that is safer yeah reflects the marsh August of the macabre but the safer reflects the macabre and the macabre reflects the safer he hopes that impeccable came much closer to a disco the safer reflect the macabre and the macabre reflect is that the macabre zapman to save this he said he hopes that I was the master I am from a Florence he became close to you decide exactly what services I can Costas and Philip they're all ours Kinsley's zippy Oliphant Asian yeah yeah levar writes to him over the in the letter that's a pail already as a limos all gain something Steinman big I have been glued sustain how much let's sustain a common scale which is in a fax one who writes them if he could tell him if there's some story in the family so source of him or his father his mother somewhere because he's wondering why he was like her to bring Titus about shunted to places that I'll be cover nobody could reach in those places he was a delivery till he wants to know the subside because of cover incision in a place where nobody because he was my mission when I was out link Aaron is given as AVM between this class is brought to you by the yeshiva dotnet please help us continue the classes make even a small contribution at triple w dot a yeshiva net / donate