Beshalach | Likkutei Sichos Vol. 1

David's here. I was stalling. I didn't want to start without you. >> Stalling on the road. >> Oh, you're driving on the road slow. Like I was just saying or you heard me saying about driving on the road slowly. You got to take it a little bit slower, but everything is fine. And that's a hero in Latin. That's right. Rule for life. Don't stop. You got to keep moving, but also go at a safe pace. Don't stop. You cannot stop. If you stop when it's icy, you might not start again. When you get stuck behind the garbage truck full of garbage, say hi and go around. >> When you get Dov said it, I'm going to repeat it because he's not in the mic. When you get stuck behind the garbage truck full of garbage, go around. Very good. Excellent. Lesson in life. Lesson in driving, lesson in life. Okay. Who did you bring with you this time? >> Niss. >> Oh, wait. This is Y Nissen. >> Your birthday's Y Niss. Oh, you have a bar mitzvah coming up. Amazing. I'm gonna make a Okay. [sighs] Let's get into it. Page 139. Why do you think that's a year? By the way, it's 1938. Why do you think the Reb writes in that order? I mean, sadic tough. Normally, we would say tough sad. You know why? Because it would be tuck, which is uh don't you should you shouldn't do that. It's one of the things you shouldn't do anyway. So we changed the letters to make it more benign. It's a common thing. Okay. At any rate, 20 years previously, meaning the said was [snorts] 1958 was actually um so 20 years previously spoke about the ha of this shabas. By the way, why would the be speaking about the of Shabas if the was want to guess what's the connection between and and more specifically >> very good okay actually took place on same. So um but is when we read it as a para. Okay. So the speaking said that his great-grandfather said in the name of his grandfather the a question from why is the shabash is also called shabas because we read the sh that the yidden sang at why is the ha The song of Deborah. You know the always has to be similar in theme to the para. So song. All right. But there are other songs. Why is it a song of a woman and not the song of David? like you know that is the song of David. So we should do the same thing on man. You have a song of men which is and the men singing also have a song from women the prophetess. She took the tambourine in her hand and she went outim all the women with timbers. I don't even know what timberalss are. I just know it from this pic. I I I thought they were tambourines, but they always say timber. What is Can you Google image search a timber? Okay. Miriam and Miriam led them in a responsive chant where they said to Hashem is most exalted. So why is the a woman's song? In other words, in the para you have Misha and the men singing. You have Miriam and the women singing. So you have the men and the women separately but both. And then why do you have the so excellent very good people who are watching from home they can't tell but what you just did is he turned on the little side screen in the kheni which is the cool place to hang out when we designed the soulward's house we designed it for maximum comfort. We opened up the whole first floor to be like for events for shim. But then we made this little side room for people. We need to take it easy a little bit. Comfortable chairs, a little bit uh different lighting system so it can like take the lighting down a little bit. And that's like where I would hang out if I didn't have to sit behind this desk. Oh, by the way, since let me let me just wrap up the question and I want to I want to just talk about something for a second. Um the question was in paral we have Mosha and the men singing. We have uh Miriam and the women singing. The ha could have been either men or women. Why specifically is the ha uh the song of dra a woman singing? Why specifically the women? Could have been men or women equally. All right. I just want to tell you something. So today, this morning, I get in my car and I see ice on my uh dashboard, like in the vents and the air vents and on the control panel, like globs of ice. And I'm like, what the heck is going on? Did something happen? Like, I don't know, inside the car and something backed up and oozed out and froze. like where's liquid coming from inside my car? And then I looked around a little bit more and I remember that I always keep a spare can of seltzer in my cup holder in case I get thirsty. I want to show you this. Look at this. I did not do this. Nature did this. >> Oh, like last good call back. Dovavid says, "Last week we learned about the difference between the and the hay. That the hay has a little release valve on the top, a little window on the top. This did not have a window on the top and it exploded. This is just blew clean off the top." And if you're listening to this on Spotify or something, you're not really getting the full excitement of this year. You got to come over to YouTube or go to soulwords.org and watch the video. But look at this. This just exploded because of the it froze. Okay. Oh, I hear the ding. That's the bagels toasting. You guys don't know what you're missing over here. Soulward's house. 10:30 Sundays, toasted bagels, locks, cream cheese, purple onion slices, purple specifically. We're Jewish, aren't we? Uh tomatoes, cucumbers. You don't know what you're missing. Cookies. Oh my goodness. All right. I don't get to eat all this stuff cuz I have to teach, but I get good Kurrig coffee. I use the Kirkland. I'll tell you sometime. We'll do a whole consumer tips class one time. I'll tell you why Kirkland is actually the best. >> Yeah. What >> sponsorships are available if you want to sponsor the um the shar sponsor the gashmas or the rnas or the gashm and the okay so you hear the question >> why is the ha of shabas bashalah what we call shabas why is it a women's she when it could have been a men or women shear of No, we're still in the same first ice of them. We're on the top of the second column of in their sober continues and this isn't deburin by the way and he says that they have that that that that that alterb concluded the reason the ha is because in parish of men singing and women singing they both sang but the women sang with a certain advantage over the men which is that they had instruments and they were more festive they were more joyous and that's why the women get the haftra and uh that line at the end that everything is from the dust or from the dirt that is actually in the original in um when when I was looking at this earlier I was like seems like it needs more explanation just busts out that that puko but if you look in the original deburim it's exactly how it says it doesn't explain it so you have to already know ho offer which is um a pos from kahalis from the wisdom of Solomon and um there are many meanings to it. One is that all life on earth comes from the the the the soil because if you think think about the food chain whether you're carnivore an omnivore a vegetarian herbivore um ultimately the food chain comes from vegetation. You know, you're eating something, they ate something, they ate something that ate vegetables and the vegetation comes from the earth. So all the nutrition, all the energy on earth comes from the from from the earth itself. Now earth is the lowest thing, you know, it's like the bottom and that's like the spir the 10 spheres. Malus is considered earth. Malus is often compared to the the ground and malus is a feminine sphere. Malus is receptive of all the other spheres like femininity is is a receptive function. Doesn't mean it's passive. God forbid actually takes what it's given and it expands upon it and upgrades it and delivers it. Turns around and delivers it in a incomparably upgraded fashion. Just like you put a seed in the earth and the earth produces uh a whole uh fruit tree. Let's say like they say anyone can count the seeds in an apple but only hashem can count the apples in a seed. But all those infinite apples in each seed are only released through the earth. So that's what it means which means the advantage of malus which means the advantage of femininity that essentially all life comes through femininity in in every way spiritually biologically [snorts] emotionally everything originates from the feminine energy which is called afar which is called the the earth and it's not denigrating to call it dirt. It's um it's actually letting us understand the greatness of the dirt. Okay. So everything's from the earth and uh the songs of the women were greater than the songs of the men because they were they brought instruments and they uh you know did it with greater sum. [snorts] Okay. Bass So now we have a new question which is okay but why didn't the men sing with as much sim as the women? In other words, our first question was why is the ha the haftra uh depicting a woman's song when it could have been a man or a woman? And we answered because the women at the Yamsu sang with greater joy. Okay. Tas. So, but why did the women sing with greater joy at the Yamsu at the splitting of the sea? Okay. Simple answer is when you achieve something without pain. No pain, no gain. So you don't have the same level of joy as compared to when you have exerted yourself greatly and had to battle like we say in accordance with the pain is the gain. So however great [snorts] or the greater the pain was before the greater the celebration will be after. Interesting statement. At the time when par and the mitzv were drowned in the sea and the yidden were freed from from exile and the yidden sang. Misha and the men could not sing with the same level of joy that Miriam and the women could sing. Why not? Now, we set a general rule that the greater the pain, the greater the ensuing joy after the resolution of the painful experience. So, that's our hint. But why did the women sing with greater joy than the men? is because the most egregious part of the worst of the decrees was we spoke about this a couple weeks ago paris okay it was more than a couple weeks ago but um oh yeah schmise was the para that I had to make up after my mother's is Shiva. Right? So we spoke about then the zero of Kolaid. Every son who's born throw him into the Nile. Uh and actually we're going to revisit that whole thing. There's a lot of the stuff that we learn in Pares that we're going to revisit here in this sa but uh the worst of the the the decrees of the Egyptian exile was the infanticide, the killing of the babies. all of the previous work they did with the building, you know, with the bricks and the mortar, mortar and bricks and toil in the field and all of the backbreaking effort. None of that came close to as far as you know how awful it was the decree of throwing newborn babies into the river. Then after that was this gruesome decree where would bathe in the blood of infants Jewish infants. And I'm sorry if this is sexist and if it offends anybody out there, but a woman um experienced this is experiences this more than a father. Just a fact. is therefore when we were finally freed from par meaning when the Egyptian army was drowned at the Yamsu the women's joy was far greater than the men's okay that's the simple answer so we asked why is the ha a song of a woman when in the parha you have men singing and women singing could have gone either way and we said because the women had greater joy they brought the tambourines Why do the women have greater joy? Why? Because they had greater pain. Because the worst decree was against the babies. And it's just a fact. The women were the ones. Obviously, it affected the men as well. But the but the point is that a decree against children was something that was even more painful for the women than for the men. And therefore the relief and the joy they experienced at when when we were removed from that situation so was was proportionately greater as well. Okay. Um yeah top of second column of page 140 the [snorts] of all of now this is a general rule we see this all the time in that always insists that every story and has eternal application it is relevant to us it's relevant in all times in all generations including our generation >> [snorts] >> And this is what's hinted to in the verse when it says all of the women answered after Miriam. All of the women for all generations. What do you think? It just means the women who were there physically present. No, all of the Jewish women forever who will ever live answer after Miriam is what does that mean? What did they sing? They said which means godliness and holiness which means exceedingly exalted higher you so high you can't get any higher and things that are antagonistic to holiness meaning this the symbolized by the Egyptian Horse and rider is Rama thrown in the sea. Tiff Nidri and Yam deep in the sea. Nitam not regular deep norm cast into the sea. Thrown harshly hard strong into the sea. So low that you can't get any lower. So get unhelite godliness and holiness are higher than high can be and sus the the horse and the rider which symbolize anything antag antagonistic to holiness is lower than lower can be. All right [snorts] we're almost uh you got to get your finger on the trigger you throw. Okay. Medina, we already said, and I told you this before, from if you didn't see it, I know we put it out a little bit late because I wasn't able to record it until I got up from Shiva. So not everyone is able to see it but uh you should definitely check it out and over there it speaks at length parish about what the decree of casting the boys in the Nile really meant. I'm going to give you a very very super brief synopsis right now and then we're going to learn further and you'll sort of pick it up from context what it spoke about over there. But basically it said that the Nile was the Azora of the Mitim. They worshiped it as an idol. Why? Because their parnosa, their sustenance came from the Nile. Because um Egypt had no precipitation. So everything was irrigated from u canals that came from the overflow of the Nile River. So since their whole sustenance came from the Nile, that was what they worshiped. So throwing the Jewish boys into the Nile means the voice of par in our generation, meaning the voice of trying to make Jews assimilate because of the pressures of Parnosa, economic pressures. Throw your boy into the Nile means cast him into being acculturated so that he'll be able to um make a living. In other words, the we're going to speak about this at length here, but that's what it means. Casting him into the Nile means instead of raising him with the morals and the values and the eternal uh beliefs that have stood by our people for millennia, you uh you get scared and you think that you need to turn him into a little cog in the machine for him to be able to make a living. And uh that's called casting a boy, god forbid, into the Nile. Okay. Mashas. Uh yes. You ready? When a Jewish boy is born, Jewish child is born and the sader in life, the order in life is immediately when he's born, you start to educate him in mitzvah. So the king of Egypt pharaoh comes and he says and what is pharaoh in our generation means there's two ways to translate balabat kite here literally means a homeowner but kite funand could mean the authority of the land meaning the cultural dominance that the society around you has. But also, balabatesk has another connotation in Yiddish that's hard to bring across in English. Abalabos is like a swear word. Not a real swear word, but kind of because what's so what's so terrible about owning a home? It's good to know [laughter] doesn't mean a homeowner. It means Yeah, literally it does mean a homeowner, but it means somebody who That's like how you describe him. He's like he's into his home. That's what he's, hey, pick up your uh pick up your leaves from your lawn. You're lowering the property value in the neighborhood. That guy, you know, homeowners association. Anyway, so balabateskite means someone who's like really into like very mundane material comforts and that what for the wrong reason. Yeah, he's very into it. Well, you shouldn't be really into it at all. I guess you're saying if you have the right reasons like Yeah. for spirituality, right? But this like has to be dressed nicely and he should have Yeah. clean nice house and clean nice car, not exploding salt cans in his car. Um, >> not the sauce on the chicken wings. That's another call back. What? How many weeks ago was that? That was two weeks ago. Yeah. Yeah. Two weeks ago. Very good. >> Yeah. He's apathetic towards it. Meaning it's okay if it's on there. He'll still eat it. He doesn't wipe it off, but okay. He won't send it back if they don't include it. You guys have to go back to Parius um Vera to find out about the sauce and the chicken wings. I think that was when we were learning about the frogs. Yeah, it was about the frogs. Kite. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. [snorts] Very good. All right. So, [sighs] what were we talking about here? Oh, balabatish kite. So the balabkite funand it means the authority like the cultural authority of the society around you but it also means like very like mundane um materialistic consumerism. It implies all that. Okay. Okay. So the balaban that's the par that's the modernday pharaoh [snorts] is that sort of um attitude and what happens um he he argues with you. This little Jewish boy is born now. He's going to grow up and he's going to have to be the bread winner for his family. So from his youth already you have to throw him into the river which is the source of a livelihood. Remember reminds us that the whole sustenance of the Egyptian economy came from the Nile that he should be immersed and even drowned in the river. So the modern day par is the voice that says when you have a child instead of immediately educating him in Jewish ways, no no you'll get to that later. First priority is you have to make sure you're setting him up to be able to make money, money, money, money. He's going to have pressures. He's gonna have to support his family. You got to put him on the right path to make money. What's going to be with mitzvah of them party answers and says is on Sunday Sunday zontik. By the way, I just want to give you a heads up. This Sikh has a ton of English and the English that the Reb uses is hilarious because the Reb is like in this channeling the voice of the modernday par which turns out by the way is usually like your neighbors and people who Yeah. people who you trust, people in your like immediate sphere, and they're coming to you with bad ideas about how to raise your children. [clears throat] And so when the Reb is sort of like I don't want to say mocking, but it is sort of mocking. It's funny. It is funny if you when the Reb is sort of imitating the voice of these arguments. So there's a lot of English sprinkled in and it's pretty funny. Anyways, you'll see. So you're going to say you got to raise your kid to make a living. What about Judaism? Ah for that their Sunday the Sunday is is their is their bank gishen the clayton because on Sunday the banks are closed the stores are closed I'm sorry in movie the night before you have to take the kid to the movies and and similar meaning Saturday night you got to you normal American how's he going to be normal American it's a weekend you got to bring him to the movies Saturday night but then the next morning Sunday morning because the parents want to sleep till 12 p.m. in Sunday school. It doesn't bother the parents if the kid goes to Sunday school and learns over there. To the contrary, they like it. The kid will go to Sunday school. The parents can sleep till noon. And in Sunday school, what is he going to learn? Not just singing and dancing. He'll even learn some Hebrew and somehen. Wow. Poetic. The parents can sleep soundly and spiritually sleep as well. Meaning they're literally sleeping. They're sleeping all Sunday morning while their kid is at Sunday school. And spiritually they're sleeping. meaning they're completely checked out of their child's education. [clears throat] Okay. Then at 1 p.m. we're describing this American Jewish household. Then at 100 p.m. after half of the day is gone. television. Then you're going to raise the child with television. Movie with movies. Look at this. What is this? Baseball. Baseball. Baseball. Baseball. Which is all >> this is all. This is all the Nile Riverosa because according to the way the parents are thinking to the mentality they've adopted this will give parnosa. In other words, even baseball is like that's part of giving the kid an edge that he'll be a normal American. He'll be able to work and he'll be able to make a living. It's all part of the whole fear. Instead of connecting the child immediately from his youth to Hashem which Hashem is the one actually like we say in Hashem sustains us. Hashem is the one who sustains the whole world uh gracefully and kindly and mercifully and with honor and with uh tranquility. So instead of connect if you really cared about his parnosa you would connect him to hem because he hashem is the source of parnosa. But instead of doing that is the which the reality is the only way to really make is to be connected to but they don't do that. He's saying if he didn't explicitly mention football. Okay. All right. >> Uhhuh. [clears throat] Yeah. Yeah. Where? Okay. Okay, I just want to back up here. Even if it were to be argued, I think this is a very important line to unpack, especially because we're learning in a public forum. And I think although this particular uh class, you know, we're reading Yiddish text and it's pretty advanced learning, but we have all types of people who come and listen, including non-Jews. So, I just want to point something out that EBA says here, even if it were to be argued that for a non-Jew that his livelihood was determined by the Nile River. For a Jew, we have the clear statement, you who cleave to the Lord your God are alive today. So, if you want livelihood, it's not through the natural means. It's actually through spiritual connection. I think it's interesting because this phrasing leaves open an interpretation which I think is actually something that could be very well received in today's day and age. Even if it were to be argued that a non-Jew will find their sustenance through natural means. A Jew surely finds their sustenance through supernatural means. And what that means or the implication is even a non-Jew really there sustenance really comes through supernatural means with a Jew it's even more overtly true look Jewish survival on the macro level just talking about the Jewish people is clearly a miracle there's no natural explanation for how we're still here if if if persecution didn't get rid of us at least, you know, some some type of natural event. I mean, I you can't have a tiny minority, especially displaced from their homeland for centuries, millennia, and then to be the object of persecution. Statistically, you cannot maintain that for millennia. It's just not possible. The whole thing is miraculous. So clearly for Jewish people our survival is not through natural means it's through supernatural means but and and you might argue well for the rest of the world pnosa livelihood comes through natural means okay fine you could argue that but the truth is I mean at le phrases it leaves room for this argument for non-Jews also their sustenance has not come through natural means and by the way I've seen that time and again non-Jews who are spirit spiritually minded and who prioritized their relationship with God before what was would normally be considered the rules of the game, what you have to do to make a living. I've seen how it works very very well for them spiritually and materially that they retain their principles and in the end they do very well materially. I've seen it time and time again. So again, even if the non-Jewish world were to argue that this is how it has to be done, you have to think about practical stuff before spirituality. For the Jews, for sure we think about spirituality before practicality. And the truth is the whole world should really operate this way. Okay. All right. So um we connect to Hashem. That's the source of that's how we live. That's how we get because he who gives life will give sustenance. The same Hashem who gives life, right? We can't create life. Life is a miracle. Okay? The same Hashem who creates life also creates the sustenance to maintain that life. your life and the life of your family is on them. But instead of so these parents who have been brainwashed [clears throat] instead of following the real path of connection to Hashem and understanding that that is the source of livelihood. Instead of that they take the kids and throw them in the river. They tear this kid away not only from spiritual life but also from material sustenance as well because as we just explained our path to material sustenance is through our spiritual connection. So they end up undermining him in both senses. Okay. Hey, nice. Hey, you throw you have your finger on the trigger. >> Okay. Hey just like in that the worst of all the decrees, none of the decrees even came close. The worst of all the decrees was throw the boys in the river. So to in our current exile, this is a very strong statement if you actually think about the implications of it. I'm going to say it slowly. Alexion. None of the decrees that the evil incarnation makes against adults come close to the severity of the what the evil evil incarnation tries to do with children. Okay. Okay. So, we're saying in this gullis, this current gulus, you think about how messed up the plans of the Yates are. How he tries to undermine and mess up people's lives. And you know what? All that he does with adults doesn't even come close to what he tries to do to children by undermining their education. That's like the worst of the worst as far as the severity of Gullis. Bishas. Oh, you flipped it already. Good. Oh, you didn't. Oh, yeah. Okay, we're very the very bottom. Okay, let's do it. Let's try to time it perfectly. Bishas. But by the people watching the video, they wonder why are you looking that direction? Because that's where my monitor is where I can see the giant thing. I have my book right here, but I have the text on the screen right there. Okay. nitp and pin. Very good. When you're not intimidated, however, by now I got to flip my real page, which means you're not intimidated by the good friends. You know who the good friends are? Good friends are other Jewish people who are trying to give you advice. Ah, today they are mommy groups and WhatsApp chats and Facebook groups and people say I heard a podcast. I don't want to tell you what it said. Right? And they're trying to give you advice. So the good friends >> [cough] [clears throat] >> Um, so you shouldn't be nispo par which means the good friends call them good good friends par they're not actual pares but they're acting parrol like they're channeling parro sh for next door. Yeah. The Reb says here, "Next door." Next door. The next door neighbor vet and she tinus she argues. So you're not supposed to be in a spoiled from par. No. Don't be intimidated. Don't listen. Don't don't pay any mind to par which means when the next door neighbor comes over and she starts arguing How can you take your child and send him in a Jewish school in yeshiva in a advanced Jewish school where they learn a Tyra that's three and a half thousand years old desert a tra that was given in a barren wilderness this desert in a desert. [laughter] You got to go and learn. You got to take your precious child and educate him with bunch of stuff that's from three and a half thousand years old from people living in a in a desert in a time when they didn't yet have internet. I'm sorry, radio [clears throat] can telephone, not a telephone. a paper in is and they didn't even have the morning paper that you're supposed to read at maidani time. Now it's called reach for your phone at maidani time. But you guys don't know how much of a cultural strangle hold the n the the the newspaper had. They used to have [cough] paper boys. I don't think this exists anymore, but it was a very common job for like teenagers or even younger than teenagers. You go at like 4 in the morning, you pick up the the newspaper, hot off the presses, literally, it would still be warm from the printing press. And then they would ride around on their bike and deliver the paper before dawn. So the guys going to work, you know, commuting from the suburbs, they're backing out of their driveway at uh 6:00 a.m. So the paper would be there in the driveway. And that was like a big thing. This the the the morning paper cuz remember there's this is like before the internet. So you had to it wasn't what we have now, the 24-hour news cycle. It was you had to wait a day to get the news. So that was like a big thing. You got to get the morning paper. How are you going to be a normal person if you didn't read the nor the morning paper? And then it, you know, really, I'm telling you guys, you don't even relate to this, but which paper you got was also like kind of like an affiliation type of thing. It was a very like there was a feeling of like tribalism. Like I know growing up in Chicago, the Chicago Tribune of the Chicago Sun Times, [snorts] like which paper you got. And then the comic section would have different comics syndicated. So like if you wanted a certain if you wanted like peanuts then he had to be the tribune but Ziggy was in the Sun Times. I'm just telling you what Bruce told you a story. Bruce Bachman the most interesting person on earth. He's always full of information. What did Bruce tell you? Yeah. >> Yeah. In Europe at the height of the war. Oh, I shouldn't repeat it. Is it Well, I'm on We're live right now. So I Oh, you're gonna say it and I shouldn't. >> But if it's there's too much silence, people will click away. >> Right. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Yeah. I'm only going to show where >> basically told a story that Bruce Bachman told him where a guy was traumatized from the Holocaust and when he came to America he stayed religious but he had a condition that he'll only do in a schul where the rabbi read the newspaper every morning right because he figured that that was like considered okay whatever would have known yeah yeah I got it okay [cough] all All right. So, at any rate, this next door neighbor is harassing you and saying, "How can you send your kid to Yeshiva and he's going to [cough] learn this old Toyota from the desert?" And the Tyra was given before they had the radio and they didn't even have the Sunday the not the Sunday paper, but the morning paper, you know, there was the Okay, the Sunday paper was like the big edition and they had the daily paper every day. All right. [snorts] Demo then in those times before they had all the modern conveniences that we have. Okay, you could get away with it. [snorts] But now in 20th century 20th century, you know what that is? 20th century. The 20th century. The 1900s is the 20th century. >> [cough] [clears throat] >> progress and we've merited progress culture and culture. I told you the English words here are really rich oldfashioned. So now you can't be old-fashioned in a in a clay. Now sometimes Pare dresses up in holy robes. See this is where Pare is coming to you in a clearly antagonistic attitude toward religion. Sometimes he comes to you seeming like he's pro- religion. And he says like this. Yeah. You want your child to be able to give a lot of in general and especially to the yeshivas. So you have to make sure he'll grow up and become a he'll be rich. So throw him into the river of livelihood. Allah [laughter] John's Michaels [laughter] make them like all the John's and Michaels who are not devoted to Hashem of Yeshiva's then you're going to have a hope that maybe he'll give money to the yeshiva's and the so you got to you do it for the sec it for the yeshivas you got to make sure your kid is secularized so he can become rich and support the yeshivas it's all for the yeshivasman now in actuality you see only par is making money on this scam the yen have nothing from this diss you have to know the truth It's the same par. It's just the par changes strategy because you know if he's going to come and tell you to sin, you're not going to listen. So he puts on a silk frock. the grace of yeshiva and he says I have a big yeshiva and the yeshiva needs money in public school and that's why you got to put your kid in public school in Sunday school and he'll learned on Sunday you know when the parents are sleeping till 12 and then we'll build a big yeshiva for whom for angels It's a joke. Why are we building the school for angels? Cuz if all the kids are going to public school to be able to pay for the yeshiva, then who's going to the yeshiva? I guess the yeshiva's for angels. What? [laughter] Admiral is when you realize that this whole argument is coming from Pare which is the clever one. The is called the clever one who says par literally said let's act cleverly with the Jews lest they multiply and then the says in parenthesis that the rebba when he said which is par's like fear the Jews lest they multiply the rebba said the next words of uh the verse which is despite par's trying to act cleverly to gave off Jewish growth. Nevertheless, nevertheless, they grew and they spread out. So the basically said, you know, he inserted that that positive part like in spite of their attempt to stifle our growth, nevertheless, we'll grow. [cough] So Pare wants to stave off the growth of the Jews that there should be no remnant of Yiddish or Yidden, not of Jewish souls and not Jewish bodies. But you you try to nullify this decree with Jewish strength. stop looking for means here like worrying about what's going to be in the end. Meaning like we said worrying about what kind of a job is he going to have. You don't do that when a kid is 5 years old at 7 years old 13 years old. Not even when he's 18. Not even when he's 18. Leave him alone. Leave him alone. You have faith and you have trust in Hashem because there are many thoughts in the heart of man. They don't bring any utility. Okay, I got to stop and explain this. [cough] Is from King Solomon's proverbs, there are many thoughts in the heart of man, which basically means people have a lot of big ideas. Like we say in man thinks and God laughs. [cough] People have a lot of plans. Rabbi, rabbis means a lot. many they have a lot of plans but in the end it's Hashem's plan that prevails. So the Reb also then brings out a double meaning here. Rais many means multiplicity as opposed to what y oneness unity in we speak a lot about the idea of y and y the oneness the unity means the real true absolute existence of that there's nothing but hem not just that there's one god but there's one existence. There's only one true reality. And rabi means the appearance of other things that you look around, you see all the people, places, and things, and you start to attribute ontological independence to them. It's a fancy philosophical term for you think that they have some type of autonomy. They exist on their own, which is not re it's not real. So rabbis means not just many thoughts but thoughts that stem from a mentality that gives credence to all the multiplicity in the world and doesn't realize that it's all really just oneness. It's all anade milvad. There's nothing but Hashem. >> You could ask. Okay. So now you getting into the the granular question of how much you know how much do you need? And uh you know the Reb had schools that did teach and uh you know you can get into a practical discussion okay how much of it and how little. Um clearly the reba's ideal was you don't need it at all but in practice you don't see that the completely shut it down there was there was some level of lum that was allowed in certain moist so you know I think it's one of those classic things is a relative thing and depends on the person depends on the situation depends on their expectations depends on how much they're able to have you can't fake It's got to be real. But clearly the preference, the ideal is don't worry about it at all. Okay. So person has thoughts that stem from this belief in giving too much credence to the multiplicity of creation. I said that. Yeah, we said that. Um he in the end Hashem's um Hashem's plan will prevail which is again oneness is boss of him. Hashem is the boss not just of heaven but of earth in the place where she now we're going back to the woman is with her husband and her children. Okay, we're going to finish up this uh this this ice and I see you guys uh getting dressed for the you're going to go make snowmen I'm assuming. Okay. But what this Jewish woman is going to know the truth about what really works in life. She's not going to be intimidated by the arguments of the next door neighbor lady. In fact, this Jewish mother is not only not going to listen to the the neighbor, she's going to influence her neighbor. that the neighbor lady should also save her children from Par's hands and we're going to raise tens of thousands of Jewish children who who will go out to greet Msiach. So you hear we're going back to the beginning of the sikh where we said why were the women more uh joyous celebrating because they had more of the brunt of the difficulties. So too in this gulus the women the main target of the atahara against Jewish continuity is to undermine Jewish education of children that affects women more. So women proportionately experience greater joy in uh overcoming that. Okay, we're on Icev, which is um on this first column of page 143. Fore. So like I just said just like when Eden were freed from Pare in the times of Mosh and Miriam the women had greater joy than the men because they had to endure more the cruelty of the zeta. So too in the present the par decrees of the present the women have a greater feeling of joy than the men. Practically speaking listen most of the the day in the man is not home is in. And even the time when he is home, he's not as actively involved in the children's upbringing as the woman. Just a reality. Sorry. I know there's an exception. Don't you don't have to comment. Actually, comment. It's good for the algorithm, but you don't have to com you don't have to comment. Say, "My husband's a stay-at-home father." I know. I know that's the exception. Okay. But the woman, she in contrast is the one who she's on the front line fighting parel, even if it's a really hidden parite. Like we said before, your Jewish neighbor lady who's trying to give you good advice, which is really bad advice. Forum notwithstanding the form that this par takes which is he takes the form of a good friend and she makes sure thanks for coming have fun and drive safely And don't get caught behind any garbage trucks. Just go right by it. She the Jewish woman makes sure that that Hashem meaningite are highly exalted. And the horse and its rider meaning that which is antagonistic gets thrown in the sea. She does this with joy. with tambourines and dancing and then from the para from Kabal is a what's the para where we receive the because then we can truly say our children will be our guarantors remember the tra was only given with a guarantor like when you're given a loan you have to have a guarantor and we offer heard uh as guarantors our our forefathers and our prophets and our elders and finally Hashem only accepted our children will be our guarantors that we will keep the Tyra and maintain it. So when the Jewish woman stands up against the the the par in any form that it may manifest itself, then we're ready for the next week's par which is to receive the Tyra because we're ready to say our children will be our guarantors. [cough] Okay Zmit that Now we're going to understand what says [cough] [clears throat] about the verse with a melium. We said before ret means she led them in a responsive chant. Lohen means masculine. It should have said loen feminine because she was leading the women in a responsive chant. But it says lhem which means masculine. Like she was leading a woman's choir, not a men's choir. So why does it use the masculine pronoun? Um that's the question that the medum asks. says about this when Eden crossed the sea and they wanted to sing the angels came and said we also want to sing told the angels first let the Jews sing then you can sing. for and that's how the message explains why they say will sing and he did sing past tense because the future tense can also be imperative a command it was a command hey you guys first you sing ma and the men sing. Do it now cuz the are waiting. They're going to sing next. Now, after that, the women, Miriam and the women, we're going to sing. So, hold on. Huh? Can we get in here? Let's squeeze in. The men sang already. Now, we would like to sing. different came to the men. So we deferred but now we want to get in here before the women sing. Hutman. Now according to one opinion in medish they uh they were granted their request but in another opinion in the medish it continues and it says that the women also sang before the angels. But even according to the initial opinion of the mush that the angels did not wait for the women, the angels couldn't sing until Miriam at least gave permission. She had to first give permission. That's why it says vatim the masculine cuz Miriam allowed the angels to sing. So it was as if she was like leading them in singing sort of that means the permission that Miriam gave. as from this we see that the Jewish women's song had an effect not only on the lower worlds the physical world but also in the in the highest worlds in the spiritual plains that the women's song comes before and is even higher than the song of the angels Okay, this is the last last chapter of the [snorts] This is all a teaching for every Jew. There's nothing to fear from Pharaoh and the Nile and the decrees. If you go with true Jewish strength, you may be in Egypt and there may be a Pharaoh Alexus and he may be making laws. Yeah, could happen. God forbid. But nevertheless, it has nothing to do with your kids. Ignore it. Ignore it. You will you will continue to lead your children in the Torah way. That's the way to actually give them a real life. Not just a spiritual life, but even like we said before, material life that not only they should have life in the world to come, but also life in this world. That's the formula. You're going to raise your children in such a way that they will say like the children at the splitting of the sea, this is my God and I will exalt him or glorify him, the God of my father and I will exalt him. Meaning God of my father meaning the parents raised the child the proper way. [snorts] They're going to go in the same way that the parents went. In other words, Jewish continuity. The children will not be an end to the links in the chain. They will continue. And that is the true nakus that there can be with children with children as the children follow and continue in the path of the parents. Then like we say further in the song that you Hashem will bring them and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance. which means that we will merit the building of the third temple speedily in our days. And furthermore, this teaches us the preciousness of the Jewish people before Hashem. Hashem did not wait for the you will bring them and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance. He did not wait until the mikdash could be built in already. While they were still in the desert, Hashem said, "Make me a sanctuary and I'll dwell within it." He could have waited until they settled into the land and then they would build a bas. No, no, no. Even when they were traveling in the desert, they were nomads for those 40 years, they had the Mishkan as similarly now when we're in this liinal state. I ever spoke about limonality here this year. I speak about it in other places and people are listening on um or watching on YouTube, I'm sure you'll check out my other videos. I had a whole thing about nostalgia and memories and why we idealize the past and I spoke about limonality about intermediate phases in life where we feel unstable. So the midbar is the archetypical liinal space liinal means an in between phase. So even now when we're in this liinal space as the tag in these few days remaining until comes we're going to not be intimidated by any of the decrees and we're going to raise children who are blessed byem. So even though we're still in Galis, we're going to build a mikdash. We're going to build a sanctuary for Hashem, which means Hashem will dwell in every Jewish home. Yes. And since Hashem dwells there in every Jewish home, it is understood self understood that you're going to also have ample sustenance. If Hashem is dwelling there, then there's going to be all the good stuff also health ample health and real true from your children and your children's children for uh length of days and good years. Okay, that was from Hey, let's take a breath. How you doing, Isro? You have a question yet. Do I want to run the screen while you go get salt? Where are you going to get salt? You're going to go Home Depot. Um, so we have a paved sidewalk. Yeah. So we don't get sued. Okay. So, how do I run the screen? You'll bring that laptop up here. Okay. So, Yrell is going to go get salt. Rock salt for Yeah. Hold on. So, I got two laptops here. People can't even see my laptops here. >> Yeah. Show them. I want them to see. What are you doing back? What? >> Oh, the side camera. Okay. Look at this incredible setup that we have over here. This is what all of your all the people who are donors to soulwards should know this is what you funded. This is this incredible operation. This is like NASA. This basically like we could launch a space shuttle over here. Okay. So, and by the way, you look at this infinity endless loop we got over here. Can you look at the camera? Look at that endless. Yeah, let's both look at the camera at the same time. That is trippy. Okay. Anyways, look, I got two laptops. This is for the live stream. This is going into the YouTube. This is for the um Okay. Yeah. All right. Put it back at the regular camera. All right. Fine. So, yeah, I will advance the pages. Oh, it's not the up and down. It's the right and left. >> Okay. All right. All right. You're going to go get salt. Okay. Great. Go get salt. Thank you. NaCCl sodium chloride and I want to say I'm very proud that my son doesn't know what sodium chloride is. It must mean that I educated you only in pure terra that's called tatakaides naaccl sodium chloride. See you soon. Okay. What >> text >> test >> test? Oh test nine. Yes. Okay. I'm not even sure that the stuff that we put out on the uh driveway is NaCCl. Table salt is NaCCl. By the way, you know about the two chemists walk into a bar and uh the bartender says, "What what would you like?" So, the first chemist says, "Um, H2O." The second chemist says, "I'll have H2O, too." And bartender served them. And the second chemist died. You get it? H2O is um water. H2O comma 2 also is what the second chemist meant, but the bartender thought he meant H2O2. And that extra oxygen there is not water. It's um uh what is it? Hydraulic acid. Somebody Google it and write it in the chat. H2O2. I think it's hydraulic acid. One second. H2. Oh, it's hydrogen peroxide. Why do I think it's hydraulic? What's hydrogen peroxide? What's hydraulic acid? Um, there's no I don't know. H2O2. It's hydrogen peroxide, but it's not like the hydrogen peroxide in your in those brown bottles in your uh medicine cabinet, which is like watered down to like 1%. It's uh pure 100% hydrogen peroxide. You don't want to drink it. [cough] Why did I think the punch line was H2SO4? Why did I think H2S04 [snorts] is um sulfuric acid? Um yeah I don't know okay anywh [snorts] who should we continue let's continue this is a new okay and um this is from Zion. It's also okay. When the Eden left Mit to go to receive the Tyra, they had two wars. The war with Pare, king of Egypt, and the war with Amik, the uh arch nemesis of the Jewish people. And in this week's para tells us how Hashem told the Eden how to conduct themselves in both of these wars. regarding the war with Hashem says, "Hashem will fight your battles and you shall be silent." However, whereas when it comes to the war with it says, "Go out and fight with a moch," which means literally physically fighting. Okay, hold on. Let me see. I'm going to have to turn the page myself. Let me see if I get this right. Yeah, I did. Amazing. Proud of myself. Okay. You saw getting salt right now. That's why I'm advancing the pages. Is what's the difference between these two wars? Okay, these two wars both took place when the yen were coming out of Mitim before they received the Torah. But with Pare, Hashem said, "You guys sit there and watch. I'll take care of it." With a Mullik, Hashem said, "You guys get in there and fight." So, what's the difference between these two wars? We're on the top of page 145. was behind the Jews. He was chasing them. Art P was not standing between the Jews and Mount Si. He was standing between them and where they came from which is we the Reb is invoking here the verses the fish which we ate in Egypt when the Yidden later on were nostalgizing about Mitim. Oh, it wasn't so bad. Remember we had all that fish um and they ate from the fat of the land. So uh you know geish was uh ample had ample sustenance anyway. So Pare was not standing between the Jews and Mount Si. Pare was standing between them and Egypt which and like the from the verses that Abbe is quoting here we're we're we're invoking the idea that there was still God forbid a uh romanticization of slavery that the Eden had just left Mitim and they still sort of even though it was horrific they were sort of drawn to it. [snorts] is par declared that the yeden could only enjoy the abundance of mitim if they remained his slaves. But he wasn't getting between them and therefore the response to that was you the Jews sit this one out and I Hashem will fight for you. Okay, you understand? Pare's danger was he was between the Jews and reverting back to the comforts of slavery. He was not standing between them and their destiny of receiving Torah at Hari in contrast is a Malik was standing between the Jews and Mount Si [snorts] and then we're not talking about a an ample land of sustenance like Egypt but rather we're talking about a wilderness where nothing grows. as but like the the sages say in that was specifically given in of all places was specifically given in a wilderness and a malik was not allowing the Jews to go advance further in the wilderness and receive the tra and therefore the response was quite different was the opposite in fact to when there is an obstacle or something that is preventing our progress toward receiving the even though normally we say this is what said when Yanke came to get as he said interesting as the voice is Jacob's voice but the hands he felt felt his hands and he felt the fur, you know, he tied the goat skins on his forearms like his mother if advised him. But the hands are the hands of of Esau. So we usually say hail yank that the weapon of the Jewish people is the voice, the voice of Torah, the voice of prayer. and Asov [snorts] which represents uh western civilization their main tool is uh aggression is uh militarism. So even though we say normally that the Jewish weapon is prayer and Torah study and not actual fighting wars. We say that hands meaning physical fighting is more of an as of thing not a yank of thing like that belongs to him to like it also says you will live by the sword as will live by the sword. However, here's the exception. There's something that's preventing our way to get to receiving the So then we set aside all calculations. We go any direction we do any manner of of whatever we have to do by any means necessary. whatever it takes in order that we should go be able to receive the and unite ourselves with it is and this is the reason we're at the very bottom of the column. Seem that's why we fought literally physically. Bizet as up. This was not a concept of of feeling like our human efforts are all that matters. God forbid. That's not the that's not that's not what it was. It was actually the opposite. Our going out to war was because this is Hashem's war. This is for Hashem's sake. And like it says that Hashem's name and his throne will not be complete until the descendants of Amalik are obliterated. So we had a very different response to Pare than to Amalik. P was getting in between us reverting to what we considered to be physical comfort. Even though it was horrific, but you know, relatively, I guess, when you're in distress, you start to idealize those types of situations. People always want to go back to their the place where they were traumatized. I mean, not I don't want to say they always constantly want it. I'm saying inevitably at some point, you know, that's the comfort zone. You feel like you want to go back there and they were in this mode where like they wanted to go back there. So, anything that's between you and that, Hashem says, you know what? You guys sit this one out. I'll take care of it. You don't have to fight this. But if there's something that that was pare, but if there's something like a mullik that's between you and your spiritual destiny going and receiving the tit and becoming one with it, guys, you're going to have to fight this one as well. come along and lend a hand and be involved. Okay. Uh in the middle of the second column on page 145 because the purpose of the battle with the Malik was for the sake of receiving. So therefore the war was connected with Mosa because Mosha was the one who received Tyra at Sinai rights. It's the beginning of Pave. Misha received the Tyra at Mount Si. So the purpose of fighting Amalik was in order to get to Mount Si to receive the Torah. So Misha who was the one who received the Torah at Mount Si had to be involved in the war. The battle actually came from was the one. What's going on here? What the heck was that? Shoot. You all, if you're listening, somebody just called your WhatsApp on your laptop and it knocked Okay, it knocked everything out. Please, nobody calls you laptop. Please, if you're listening this, please do not call yourself WhatsApp. You How do I Did you get the salt? You saw get the salt and come back. Thank you. Okay. [sighs] I was in the middle of saying [clears throat] that when it came to the war with the Malik, Mosa was the one who was in charge and he was the one where Hashem told him, "Choose men and go out and fight. The war started with Mosa praying. It was then carried out through Mosha's men. of like explains choose men for us meaning these were Mosha's men people who are identified with Moshe and the victory came about through Yeshua who certainly identified with Moshe Yeshua was the faithful servant of Moshe so the whole war with a Malik has to with with Misha. Okay, [sighs] we're on uh ice base. See where we are? Second column 145 toward the bottom. I'm managing a lot of things right now. I'm going to take a little sip of coffee right now and just calm myself down. Okay. The victory the Eden had over a mollik was supernatural. Naturally a malik should have won the inali as a malikash like it says in shalomi in the Jerusalem Talmud that a malik was a sorcerer meaning they were a nation that was skilled in sorcery. mentioned and they knew through their sorcery how to pick men to fight who were likely to survive. They they sent those men into war. Not going to get into the system that they used. It's very interesting, but I feel like it would be a distraction to get into it right now. And nevertheless, the Jews won because when you're going out to fight war with the power with the power of the and especially in the situation where we're talking about the men who were fighting for the Eden were Mosha's men and they knew they were going out as emissaries of representatives as representatives of Moshe with Mosha's which means who synonymous with means they were going out as of and with the with the power of his men then they were able Hold on, I should have advanced the page. Yeah, then they were able to win in a way that transcends nature. Sorry, I forgot to advance the page. We're on page 146 now. The mitzvah to remember is every day. It's one of the one of the six things that we remember every day. So what we just learned is also applicable to our current war against a mullik. You think a mullik is just something that happened historically. No, it's something that happens every day. We don't just remember it every day, but we have to live it to a certain extent every day. So what does it mean to fight a mullik in our day and age? A lot of people ask that nowadays. I'm not going to get into it. If you know, you know. But a lot of people wonder what does it mean in the modern day. I'm going to tell you right now what it means. says about a malik aha can mean a lot of things but one of the things is it's from the word car which mean no not like a driving a car car in kadesh means cold not hot that a malik cooled us off he cooled our excitement when we came out of mit we were all excited we just saw the miracles of the 10 plagues and the miracles at the splitting of the sea and we knew we were going to receive the Torah we're all excited and a mullet came to rain on our parade just at that moment to cool off our excitement. Yidden were at the height of their excitement and the excitement was contagious. So even the non-Jewish nations were also feeling it. Like the med says, a mush, a parable, an allegory about a boiling hot bath. Picture a bath that was boiling hoten as a flam. Everyone saw that it's flaming hot. Demol is gum of a upkilling yeden who gainab. So a malik comes to cool off the Jews from their excitement about going to receive the to. The medish says that there was a hot bath. It was so hot nobody could get into it. And some wacko came and jumped in the hot bath and even though he got scalded, he cooled it off for everybody else. What does it mean he cooled it off for everyone else? Physically? No. Psychologically, it's like in a bad way they say like when Sir Edmund Hillary climbed [clears throat] Everest, scaled Everest, like it was said, "No human being can do this. No one can do it. You'll die. No one can do it." He did it. It was considered like a like this supernatural feat. And then next year 10 people did it. You'll Google the number. Or like Roger Banister ran the first four-minute mile. They said, "You can't do it. If you'll do it, you'll die." And he did it. And then the next year like 10 people did it. You'll Google the numbers and you let me know. in the chat. The point is [snorts] there's something that seems impossible and then someone does it and it breaks the psychological barrier and then other people do it. Okay, that's in a good way. But in a bad way, a mullik did this. The yeden were at the height of their glory. They're coming out of Mitim after all the miracles. They themselves are at the height of their excitement. Morale is high. They're they're they're excited to receive the Tyra. And a mullik says, "Ha, let me reign on this parade. Let me [snorts] just ruin it." And they fought a war just for the sake. I mean, it really is the definition of terrorism. It's terrorism is terror, right? It's the point of it. It's not military strategy. It's psychological strategy to make people demoralized. Okay? So, they said yen are riding high. Everyone says that they're so uh they're so hot, I'll make them cold. meaning psychologically I'll cool it off that you can't attack them I'll attack them and show that you can okay now when you have something that cools you off from so we have the above mentioned teaching in other words let me spell it out what is a mullik in our day anything that cools your excitement about to it's a psychological phenomenon. It's an internal phenomenon. It's a voice in your own mind that discourages and demoralizes you when you're riding high and excited about Yiddish kite. That's a malik. So how do you handle that? How do you respond to that? We have our teachings how to respond to it. Olive as men of first of all by any means necessary. Yeah, I know I'm quoting Malcolm X. I'm doing it on purpose. Whatever means at your disposal have to be utilized. Don't refrain from any. Don't say, "Well, we're only no. when it comes to listen, if we're fighting a par who's standing between us and the physicality that behind us that we might revert to in a in a in a moment of weakness, then let Hashem fight that. But if we're fighting a Mullik who's coming specifically to discourage us about excitement over Yiddish kite, then we got to use everything at our disposal to fight base. We have to know that we're doing this. We're fighting this war not with our own power. No, we're doing it with Misha's power, which means the toy power bottom of 146 first column of the verse and Israel. Our sages say, "What did Isra hear? What news did he hear?" And he came a malik. Specifically, Isra, not the splitting of the sea, not the 10 plagues. No, no, no. The news of the war against a Malik. That's what got his attention. And he showed up. The news reached Midion. And this that said, "And now I know actually was a preparation for mira's personal awakening, the completion of his personal awakening was actually a necessary forerunner to the revelation at Hari. It's explained more at length in many places in why that was a necessary preparation for mountain too. Now in our present day, we're fighting a spiritual, meaning the internal voices of discouraging and demoralizing apathy. And we're fighting you. We're fighting that voice. were fighting it with the with the power of that that midun that will have an effect that will even reach Midian. They'll hear about it in Midian. The ripple effect will reach Midun and then just like the Yen received at Hari, we'll receive now Matra will never happen again. It was a one-time event, but we'll have a new level of revelation of the revelation of which will happen which Mashiach will reveal the inner teachings of the part of it's all there. It was all included encoded in the original revelation but it has to be unpacked and Mashiah will come and unpack hidden layers within Tyra. So just to sum it up, we have to understand that our arch nemesis and our greatest danger today, and I want to say this to you very clearly today in 2026, January 2026, the greatest threat to the Jewish people today is get ready because you're not going to see this on Twitter on X. The greatest threat to the Jewish people today is apathy, ignorance, a lack of excitement and passion about Judaism. That's that's the greatest danger and it comes as an internal voice that discourages us and that's what we have to fight by any means necessary and we have to fight it with the kayak of Misha which is the of and we have to know that we'll be victorious and we have to fight it in such a way that they hear about it in mid that the non-Jewish world realizes that the Jewish people are fighting the good fight. We're fighting an internal battle to overcome anything that would discourage us from adherence [snorts] to our holy Tory. And then just like the Eden went from Malik to mountain, we will go from our victory over our own internal amalik to the revelation of Panmia which Mashiach will reveal um speedily in our day. Okay. Is are you back? Is Hey buddy, do you know that while I was in the middle of teaching, your WhatsApp rang on your computer and it knocked off the screen. I got it back, but it was out for like 30 seconds. Can you make sure nobody calls again? We have We have just a little bit left. Okay, we're on uh the tubish. You see? >> Okay. Oh, you're back with me. got the salt. Okay. Okay. But if I feel rushed, then it's going to take me longer because I get nervous and make mistakes. Okay. I need a little breather here. Just a second. All right. We're on page 146, second column. [snorts] Tezv tubishvat. See theus? You see the little subtitle on top. It says tubishvat. Okay. So, we're going to learn a little tubishvat is included in the bashalas. Give me a minute to breathe over here. [sighs and gasps] This is from Shabasal and Zion. Okay. Apparently the snow is piling up because you said if he doesn't start driving soon back to Crown Heights, he's going to have a hard time getting home and I don't want to keep him from home. All right, you ready? Here we go. [snorts] Third of today, right? We had two sikas from Bashalak. First one about why the ha is the song of dra because we spoke about how women suffer more from the decrees of par and therefore they rejoice more in the redemption. And then the second sika was is that right? We had um yeah the two wars. Yeah, we just had the about the two wars. Two different approaches to do two different types of war. And now we have a third which is a tubishvat. Okay. Is Tubisha is the trees. I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree. A tree that may in summer wear a nest of robins in her hair. A tree that looks at God all day and lifts her leafy arms to pray. Poems are made by fools like me, but only God can make a tree. You know who wrote that poem? A rest stop in New Jersey. You'll know what I mean if you ever drive New Jersey. There's a rest stop. Joyce Kilmer rest stop in New Jersey. Yeah. Please leave a comment if you understand the references and enjoy them. Oh, it is a matter of dispute. When is the new year for trees? B says it's the 15th of B. Shami says it is the 1st of Shvat. But when there is a dispute between the house of Shamai and the house of Hil, the hala follows the house of Hillel. And in fact, anyone who teaches the opposite as the hala, it is considered um like he completely got it wrong. We could explain it like this. of lam we find many places in shas meaning throughout the talmud that you can really reduce bhill's approach to or first is bama b shama's approach to coyak potential and basill's approach you could reduce it to um p actuality potential and actuality for instance honeycomb. When do they become considered able to contract or to cause something to contract? Ritual impurity mash because of liquid something has to become um um wet to become susceptible to the spreading of ritual impurity. So when does this happen? Says from the very moment that you even think about it. Meaning you look at the honeycomb and you say, "Uh, I'm going to squeeze the honey out of there." Okay, that's it. Now it's You understand? All right. I don't want to get a whole thing about uh tummatara but something has to be useful in order to contract let's like like utensils so something that's just like ornamental it doesn't contract impurity something that's functional contracts impurity so the [clears throat] honeycomb is like just part of nature right but if you look at it but if it becomes like a a food item then it can contract impurity So when does it become a functional food item and not just like a part of nature? So BAM says the minute you look at it and decide that you're going to use it that way, boom, even though you didn't do it yet, it's already considered uh susceptible to impurity. So that's the concept of potential and latency, hiddenness. Hill says basill says only when you actually crush it and you start to extract the honey that's piggilo that which is actual and real and revealed. Okay. So that's one example where you see base another example [snorts] this is a famous one says you light eight candles the first night and then you do one less every night. Conve says you light one candle the first night and then one more each night till you have eight at the end. Why does say that? He says because you're counting off the potential days. On the first night you have the most potential. You didn't use up any days yet. The time says, "No, no, no. You're only counting the actual days, the days you've actually had. Z is and ple and ple to hate. B shame always looks at the way things could be potentially. Basel looks at what we have actual in a revealed sense. Right? So we have two examples. The honeycomb and the Kaneka candles. In both cases, B Shami is looking at what will be or could be the potential has yet to be realized. Ble says no no no we look at what is actually happening. Now you can break this down to the difference between and sh is because is ascent elevation. It wants to leave this world and go up high. which comes down. coming down meaning revelation which hill is also related etmologically to the phrase beho nero his lamp shone forth that's a uh phrase in the book of job you understand so shami is potential or hiddenness which is gur because vur is like the flame that goes up and departs leaves is this physical plane and hl is about actuality what's expressed down here which is like is like water which flows downward spreads out on the lowest levels yeah says so what's the concept of Roshan. New year for trees is the up. What happens on the new year for trees in the middle of the winter? You don't really see any activity. Trees aren't sprouting uh new leaves yet. I can tell you our trees in the backyard of the Thworth's house. They are completely leafless right now. I pruned them right after the winter solstice because that's a time to we'll give a tree class sometime another time. Um but they are very very leafless. They're dormant right now. Very dormant. Um but what's happening is on the tree new year whether you follow Bashame Bello what are they saying happens on their respective roshon what they're saying is that's the turning point where the tree stops deriving nurture from last year's water and starts receiving nurture from this year's water. You're going to say why doesn't that happen on Roshashana? Okay. Takes a while. It takes a while to use up the old water and to be removed from that and to start using the new water. Now the time when the new waters begin to give nurture to the trees is four months after they are judged. That's how long it takes. takes four months of turnover for the old waters to stop giving nurture and for the new waters to start giving nurture. That's how long it takes. Not a botonist. Can't tell you why. It takes four months. Now the question is when are the waters judged? Because you got to count four months from when the water is judged and then you'll get the new year for trees. By the way, new year for trees I used to, you know, think like, oh this cute little thing. We were going to eat some pomegranates and make a party. But then I planted these fruit trees in the backyard of the Soulwards house and it became a real thing to me. For instance, when counting the years for the first three years of the fruit bearing tree, you're not allowed to eat the fruits. So when do you count the years? Well, that's when the year is. So that's a that's an important hikic date. No pun intended. And I don't have date trees. I have two different types of apple because they need crosspollinization. I have one type of plum which is self-pollinating. I have a cherry tree and I have a patio peach which is in a pot on the patio. Come check it out. At any rate, four months after the water is judged, that's when the trees start to get nurture from new water, not the old water. Okay, so let's trace it back when uh the water's judged. Well, that's a good question. The waters are judged on sukus which is the 15th of so you count four months after that and you'll get the 15th of and that's what basel says the new year for trees is the 15th of now Nothing could be so simple if you're talking about waters being judged on sukus. Yeah, that's the revealed judgment but in potential in a concealed way is it actually happens on the first of because there's a general judgment of the entire world in potential at least the actual judgment of water is on sukus and then we have the water libation ceremony but The potential judgment for from for water is when the the judgment of the entire world in a general way is given which is the day of judgment which is so when the entire world is judged. So in potential at least is included everything including water but in actuality the water judgment happens on sukus on the 15th of So according to Bi since the new waters start to give nurture four months after they're judged and he says you count from when they are potentially judged meaning on the first of so you come out with the rashan Finally is being on the first of says therefore you have that shi he looks at everything in potential. So he's counting four months from and he gets the rash leonus on the first of and hill who goes after actuality. He says, "No, no, you look at when the waters are actually judged, the 15th of which is count four months and you get the on the 15th of now you know. You didn't know. Now you know and according to that actually there's no disagreement about what happens onvat the 15th day of bame will also say that's the actual turnover for the new uh water but that the potential turns over uh four months from Roshashana which is on the first of Yeah. No. Um yeah. So, how do you say it? >> The eighth day. >> Can you sing it? What? You're busy with the salt. Okay. Is busy salting the steps so we don't get sued. Eighth day is Oh, so we just said a person is a tree. A person is compared to a tree. tree is compared to a person then from >> I found this on the web is a bit of so we just said a person >> why why are you saying that I don't want that why did [snorts] you know who just come on that is completely crazy and I thought I was asking about Elon Musk and salt get the heck out of here my goodness Okay. [sighs] Person is compared to a tree. A tree gives fruits and from those fruits will grow further trees. We said it earlier. We're talking about in our first that anyone can count the seeds in an apple but only God can count the apples in a seed. So what's a fruit? A fruit is something that gives fruits. What's a tree? A tree is something that gives fruits and you plant the fruit and then the fruit grows more trees. Add infin item lather rinse repeat. So what does that mean to be a tree that gives fruits that that creates trees that give fruits that creates trees that give fruits? It means to be a mashia to be an influencer in your environment in shul in your synagogue in yeshiva in your rabbitic school and wherever of the any any yed that you meet. You have to influence that more Jews should come from it. You understand? You have to influence someone else so much that they influence the next guy. That's what it means to be treelike. sight vain ismos and the bra the blessing you give to a tree is that all the trees that grow from its seeds should be like it its panmius its potential was not just what it actually accomplished but what it could have accomplished your children your students should not just be whatever you've actualized but they should have access to all of your potential thus is the That is the greatest blessing you can give a tree. Like the sages say the story tree, oh tree, with what shall I bless you? That your offshoots should be like you. Not really offshoots, but trees that grow from your seed trio tree. What should I bless you with? That the trees that grow from you should be like you. Famous story in the Gora. One sage says to the other, "Give me a blessing." And he says, "Before I bless you, let me tell you a story. Guy hung out by a tree and after he left the tree, said tree, I want to bless you. Should I bless you that you give good shade? You already give good shade. Should I bless you that a stream runs by you? It already runs by you. I I should I bless you, you give good fruit, you give good fruit. what I'm going to bless you is that all the trees that grow from your seed should have all of the virtues that you possess. So what it meant, it was a parable. He said, "Listen, you already have all of the qualities that a person could have. I can't bless you with anything more, but what I can bless you is all of your students, your children, everyone you influence should possess all of those qualities as well." Okay? is. And when we have that fulfillment of the blessing that all of the trees that grow from you should be like you, then we have like what the GA in Sanhedrin concludes that after it lists many different signs that are precursors to Msiah coming. It quotes a PK from Yazkill which says sprout your branches and bear your fruit. And it says that there's no clearer sign than this of the end of the exile. It's the most definitive sign of Msiah's arrival. Meaning when we are fully active influencers who are causing others to have all of their potentials actualized. Last paragraph. We're almost done. See, when we hold fast to the tree of life, hold fast to it. Hold on tight to the tree of life. What is Elana deaya? the tree of life. Well, in this sense, it means the rabbis and their teachings, theiridic teachings. That's called the tree of life. Sadic is called the tree of life. One of the reasons that saddic is called a tree, I mean, everyone's called a tree, but one of the reasons that saddic is called a tree is because the root system of a tree is as complex as what you what grows above the ground, but nobody sees it. So every sadic really there there's what we know about the saddic and then there's the greatness of the sadic which is far beyond our comprehension. That's one of the reasons the sadics are compared to a tree. At any rate we have to hold on tight to the tree the tree of life. That means to the rebba and the rebba's teachings and then you take the rebba's influence that the rebba gave to you. The rebba's teachings that the rebba gave to you and you transmit that to the next Jew. is until his plantings become like him. I guess you could read that in two ways that the plantings meaning you or means your plantings. Yeah. And then you could just [snorts] keep repeating that scale it over and over and over. So you can say look at what I raised in a good way and like the says that when we can say that that is the shest sign of the end of our exile and that's like I mentioned from Zion and that is the end of our sikas for today. We want to thank all those who braved the storm, drove through the snow. We want to thank you for getting the salt, for doing the shoveling. Also, a reminder to buy more hot cocoa. Did we use up the hot cocoa today? Okay, so I will get some more hot cocoa. We, by the way, at the soulward's house, we have coffee, we have tea, we have hot cocoa. Always. We always have stocked always. But we have to weem we used up the hot cocoa today which makes sense. A day with big snowfall record snowfall. Of course we got to use up the hot cocoa. We will get more hot cocoa. I'll go order that right away online as soon as we sign off. Happy new year trees. And uh yat. Please remember by the way this year at least Tuesday night Wednesday is yudvat. And uh please mark the day accordingly with Fabangans. And uh wish everybody a good week. A week of song Shabashi, a week of Yamsu, week of his ofat, a week of uh kamisha. Smam. Smam's coming up. I have exciting news about that. We're going to be in Pomona for Sim Rambam. And uh thank you one and all for joining us in person and online. I'm going to end the stream in one second. You good You? Yeah. Okay, we're going to end the stream.