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>> Good morning again. Good morning
everybody. Good morning.
Good morning. Welcome.
Okay. Good morning. Good morning.
Good morning again.
Honor to have you. My teacher comes back
the second time in a row. Wow. Okay. You
want to get feedback to all everything
you taught, huh?
It's called
okay when the titl
page 94 the last piece of the mime
again on top it should say page 94 in
the Hebrew it's me Zion column 3 me Zion
column 3 it's the second
so today's class is dedicated by Rabbi
Abraham
and Sarah Lipkar and family alunishmas
in loving memory of
David not Vikna
in honor of his yard site on Tamos the
26th of Tamos. Rabbi Viknan was the
RV of the Tamakadik Schul in Muny and
Rashiva of Teresa Bakur in Morristown
for many many years created here an
amazing community
and many many students
and may his memory and soul continue to
be a source of blessing and inspiration
and purity and holiness. Amen.
The class is also dedicated by Elanora
Shandel Kogan in memory of her beloved
father Haken Bramaka
Baltuva who dedicated his life to Tyra
and Mitzvite and
from Melbourne Australia to
May his soul be a source of blessing and
inspiration to you the entire family and
all of the community and our people.
Amen. Okay.
So, I want to I want to review the few
last lines that we learned and then
continue cuz to be able to see the flow.
So, I told you we're page 94, right?
So, the
this is the end of the third. The mimer
has three chapters and then there's a
beer an explanation on the mimer. The
alterba would often say a mimer and then
a few days later or a week later say a
sequel a sequence a sequel to the mimer
which is usually more complex and more
nuanced referencing the sources. So that
this mime also you see on the next says
this is a a little bit of an explanation
on the on the mimer. So that's the next
piece but the mimer itself finishes
after the third chapter piml. So if you
take a look at the line starts
that's 94 I know like 10 lines from the
top.
Yeah I just want to read those words
again even though we read those few
lines.
The first thing before he gets to the
next step
He puts in a warning. Do not suru. The
word suru is actually have in the
beginning of also the miraagum were
given a mission vasuruanuru
means to survey to scout
to uh look at to take a tour through
something and examine it. That's what
the word suru means.
They came back from pouring from
surveying the land. That's the beginning
of the end of finishes with the same
words. It's very interesting. Now, she
says over there that the eyes are
what the spies were for the Jewish
people. The eyes are for every
individual. They see things and they
trigger the heart
because the heart and the eyes they
scout, you know, they they they sift,
they sniff out the world and they give
you information like spies and you could
become you can go astray
says that's the first step here. Why?
This was the last point we learned and
one of the key points of this m
love.
Whenever you crave something, you long
for something means longing, right? Is
longing, pining, yearning,
craving for something in a in a in a
very real way. So, whenever there's
something that you crave for it,
that is the definition of femininity.
The definition of femininity is feminine
energy is I'm longing. I'm craving. I'm
yearning. I'm yearning for some form of
attachment. That's the definition of
it's being in a receptive mode. I want
to receive. I need to receive. I crave
to receive.
So he says be careful.
But then you can also become a z.
Because the question is what are you
mabo from? What are you opening your
heart to? I'm longing. We're all longing
for attachment, but where am I look?
Where am I looking for it? Where am I
finding it?
You plug off the the pipe, the channel.
You plug the channel that puts you into
flow to receive authentic bliss and you
substitute it for pseudo. You know, it's
counterfeit money. I can get a real $100
bill, but I get a fake $100 bill. You
know why? It doesn't cost anything. To
get a $100 bill, I have to pay $100. To
get a fake dollar bill, I don't have to
pay anything. Because always opening
yourself up to something authentic, it
comes with the price of authenticity.
Authenticity, truth, dealing with
reality. It's it's staying in reality.
Staying in reality, as you know, can be
very painful. But that pain is worth
every moment of it because going away
from reality is much more painful. Maybe
not in the short term, but in the long
term. So that's the choice a person
needs to make because I will never be
able to receive. I will never be able to
be a nukva to be feminine in the sense
of attachment that will allow me to
channel to to receive and if I
substitute it for tanugum means aug
which he explained earlier in the m this
was the whole theme of the if I go for
the if I go for the for the drags for
the residue even though there's
something there I'm going to get
something it's not like you're not going
to get anything there's
I don't mean to say it this Butus has
virt not virtues it has there's a reason
that people go to right there's a reason
for it to cultivate that real deep
relationship that is lifelong that is
that is profound that is authentic I
don't have to tell you it takes a lot a
lot of work there's disappointment
there's alias there's right
harlotry prostitution promiscuity is
like a microwave oven it's fast and it's
hot
you don't want to bake the potato. Your
grandmother used to bake a potato for an
hour and 25 minutes. You remember
anybody had a grandmother who would bake
potatoes in an oven? Huh?
>> Too young, huh? You don't go back that
far. I had a grandmother. A potato took
an hour, but she wanted it to be better.
So, it was an hour and 25 minutes. A m
an hour and 45 minutes. By that time,
you by that time you expired from
starvation. Yeah. Today, you tell that
to somebody. If it takes more than 2
minutes, 3 minutes, you sue the company
and you get a new microwave. That's
true. I had to sit there for an hour and
a half. That's true. Cuz I wanted a
potato.
Yeah. So the concept of is there's a
tinuk there because as we said earlier
in the m in every thing in the world
there is tanuk. The question is if it's
the if it's the excrement which also has
something in it or it's
the pimious.
So if I hijack, if I grab the external
tanuk, it's going to fill me externally.
But what happens is I block myself off
from being in flow with the tuggal, with
the divine tanuk. So all forms of
femininity is really the openness to the
fact that I long for something. That is
what femininity means.
And it's a very vulnerable posture.
That's why people are not so comfortable
with it. It's a very vulnerable posture.
One of the great tragedies that happened
in our generation is that even women
stopped appreciating what femininity is.
Men also but women too.
And really femininity is the source of
all attachment. It's of course I'm
longing for something. It means I have a
void. Having a void is vulnerable. Yeah.
Having a void is vulnerable.
The gmorrah says in p test is going to
quote this gamorra soon in the m. So I
looked it up this morning. So the
Gmorrah says over there that says
we're going to create in our image. So
the students ask was one of the great
this is this is seems like heresy knew
in our image how many gods are there in
my image?
That's what they ask. It's a long a long
sug. go through all the that seem to
contradict you know the monotheistic
faith of Yiddish of Hashem but this is
one of them so he tells the Talmidim so
he gave an answer that's an answer for
heretics but now tell us the real answer
so he says that Adam was created from
from earth was created from Adam but
those are the only two he says from that
day on
There's no man without a woman. There's
no woman without a man. And both of them
can't be without the So
it's a what they call it takes a village
to raise a child. Of course, you need a
male seed to fertilize. You need a
female egg, the mother. And it's But
it's also emotionally. Emotionally,
there's no child. It's not a combination
of masculinity and femininity. And both
are receptive of the divine of the
Shina. So this experience I have a void.
Of course I have a void. Thank God I
have a void.
The only thing worse than having a void
is what's the is believing that you
don't have a void. When you know you
have a void, you can fill it. I seek
attachment. I seek attachment.
And woe to the person who says I don't
need attachment. I don't have a void. I
am perfect.
That's it. I am.
>> I don't have a flat tire.
>> Very good. I don't have a flat tire.
Exactly. And I continue driving.
Right.
Very good. I like your visceral
mashalam. Right. That's the mile of
being a plumber.
Brian, this. And he's like flat tire.
Everybody has a flat tire. Right. That's
the only worst thing. Having a flat tire
is not the best thing in the world, but
denying that you have a flat tire is
much worse.
And then there's the oppos the opposite
thing. A person goes out, they see they
have a flat tire and they're like, "H,
my tire is flat. What's the worth of
this?" So what do they do? They go and
they slash all the other three tires.
You understand? That's the opposite
approach.
>> Huh?
>> Or it's just a lost case, right? That's
the opposite. I have a void. So now let
me slash every other tire. No, your your
tires are good. One tire has to be
fixed. So femininity is this
acknowledgement of the longing, right?
Is he says
you crave you crave your fire, you crave
your husband, you crave your
counterpart. And each one of us has that
femininity
because we are all feminine. We are all
we're all as it always says that we are
the isha of the ish. So the says be
careful because when you're in that
vulnerable state, you want to know what
is filling the void. Where are you going
to to fill the void? A lot of things
could fill the void. And if you fill it
with something that itself is basically
fueled by its own void. So it's just
using you and manipulating you. So the
void only becomes much more um dramatic,
much more intense. So this is always the
clal that the moment I immerse myself in
tanugim that are not aligned with hashem
it could be a very fast fix and we all
know it could be also very very
enjoyable but essentially it's a form of
detachment which means it's not filling
the real void because I'm not attaching
my true self with anything true in
reality and that's the choice everybody
always has to make
that's the first thing he says then adds
But certainly you will never be able to
discover your masculinity. Right?
Because these two lines are
the first is
be careful with your femininity where
it's going to is it going to or is it
going to a real relationship?
And as we explained in last year at
length because there's a about this
that the definition of a is that I'm in
a marriage
that I'm in a marriage and I betray the
marriage for another relationship and
says what does that mean spiritually
means you're in a marriage. What does it
mean spiritually? Because if not you're
not an asious ish you're auya. It's not
a definition of za. What does it mean
spiritually? You can't be a Zena if
you're not first in a relationship that
you're betraying. Right? And that's why
said somebody who never tasted the
experience. This is literally what he
says in the m somebody who never
experienced the bliss of divine is never
called a what are you betraying? What
are you betraying?
If there's a deep connection and I say
no to this connection that's hurtful
that's called but somebody as he puts it
If for me the highest definition of
light is darkness
that's the only definition of light
that's the only light I know so of
course I go to dark places to find light
I don't know of any other definition of
light right now just that obs
observation in life is a priceless
observation first of all it teaches us
not to judge it also teaches us the
mechanisms of things right if my entire
life I never tasted authentic divine
light and only substitutes fake
substitutes. So of course I go to those
places for light. I don't even know
anything else until you don't have once
in your life a reference point of
authentic a you cannot blame yourself or
others for going elsewhere. It's not
you you never had a relationship with
anything else. This is the only
reference point for for experiencing
something that at least will give you I
don't know 20 minutes of satisfaction.
>> How does one know if they had it?
>> That's a good question. That's a good
question. I didn't know if you're
>> That's a very good question.
>> I was just going to say the experience
of living life will always give you
flashes just by being
always going to feel like at some point
might not be easy.
>> You don't know what real trauma is, do
you? Huh?
>> If that's your source of knowing about
trauma, it's
>> what I'm saying.
para you know about trauma for my I like
that. Okay.
No, what I'm really saying is bas what
he was saying is that you're saying if
you never in a in something deep, you
can't can't, you know, betray it. But
just going through life, we're always
going to get flashes
>> through with people and with deep
intensity just might not let it.
>> Some of us will, some of us won't. Some
of us create so many powerful coping
mechanisms not consciously unconsciously
that we live in a very very uh
delusional world even if we're not
trying to
>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
>> Even as kids don't
>> it starts usually as kids. It depends. I
mean there's no I don't think there's a
rule here you know it's so it's so
individuated. That's number one. And
number two, it's also important to
understand that
um there was a time in my life, for
example, I'll just give you an example.
I spoke about this with Russell in the
famous interview that uh I used to think
and it wasn't it wasn't it wasn't a
conscious choice. I used to think that
understanding the gishmach of something
is experience. I used to think so.
You don't understand that? I'll explain
it to you.
I used to think understanding something
and understanding it obviously to the
best of my ability with the full depth
that I could that is the meaning of the
experience of it. I I really thought so
and I didn't I wouldn't be able to
articulate it that way because this was
this was it. I'm just giving you one
example and there's so many diverse you
know manifestations of this. That's
number one. Number two, as Dr. Reba says
in the
he says he actually asks your question.
He says really
And uh he asked this question. He says,
"Why are you making this distinction?"
And um
I remember there was something else.
Every Jew says, "My soul craves you." He
says
there's which means I can have a
relationship that is nice, but it's
external. and I can have a relationship
that really fills my nervous system with
with with comfort. And he says, I'm just
going to quote the words in in it's page
106.
We learned this on Shabas. Somebody the
person who absorbed more
internally, more authentically
the experience of intimacy with Hashem.
This person ought to be careful not to
be a Z which can be even the most subtle
way which for somebody else actually
doesn't mean anything. There was nothing
wrong here. For example,
right means permissible cravings which
one person doing it like you're at like
this is your you know this is your aeta
something permissible. But somebody who
tasted real kvasikim knows that was a
betrayal.
Like in a marriage, I said on Shabas,
you have marriages that when the husband
is flirting with another woman or a
woman is flirting with another man, the
couple doesn't even take note of it.
It's like, what happened? What happened?
What? I sent a text. What happened?
Really? Like in 2026, a text became the
issue?
So, it's not because they're so
open-minded and they're so loving. It's
because the relationship is much more
superficial.
>> Bar is low.
>> The bar is very very low.
>> Yeah. And they sometimes they deceive
themselves and sometimes it's good for
the kids and sometimes it's also good
for them, you know, keeps them out of
bigger trouble and sometimes it's all
that is available at the moment and and
it's fine. In other words, it's workable
and relative to other situations, you
know, it's it's pretty good. It's like
relative. But somebody who knows the
experience of having the deepest form of
relationship, you know that even a
subtle thing which for somebody else is
insignificant,
it this is called not for somebody else,
somebody else it's not. It may even be
holiness.
What do you want? Right? And that that
that's really what it's about. That's
what he says. Ty what's tyet is a
classic example for this
and and you can and it's unfair to call
somebody a za for tyet
if they never experienced what it means
to feel anoid mulvado in every bone of
your body and in your nervous system
it's not fear it's just not fear like
you know once said the
once said he was talking to hashem and
he said this whole system doesn't make
sense this whole system is not fair. He
said like this in Yiddish.
In other words, if you would have
created all the distractions of this
world, you would have put that in a
book. If you wanted to read about the
distractions of this world, you have to
go by
which is one of the big mus
was his name and read up over there and
then you'll find out what was and would
be in front of everybody's eyes.
Everybody say I promise you not one
person would sit
you put into a book. Yeah. All the other
distractions are visceral. They're right
here. So what do you want? Yeah.
It's very powerful because what he's
saying is you have to know what you're
up against.
So how can you call this person a zena?
Because he's just following the
distractions that he's been used to for
50 years.
Wasn't trying to justify but he was
trying to to to to everybody should
appreciate what is involved. So says you
can't call this person. They were never
married. They were never married. Right?
to be amazed to be amazed you have to be
a madrega
it's very hard to find today I still
have not found a Jew you could say he's
sinning willingly it's not so simple
he's not sinning willingly
he's not sinning willingly he's a he's
desperate and he's wretched and he's
despondent and he has anxiety and he's
depressed and he's bored out of his
living daylights and he's numb and he's
disassoci iated and he's fragmented,
right?
And this is like his five minutes of of
Six Flags, you know, great adventures.
This is pin colada. It says slush. You
know, when you go to 7-Eleven and you
get your slush and you're excited about
it. This is a slush to be amazed. It
means you actually had to experience a
relationship with a in an emotional,
experiential, embodied way. And now
you're saying, you know what? I'm done
with you and I'm going to another woman.
I'm going to another man. Okay. But for
that you have to be a Madre.
>> Has to be a real abandonment.
>> It's abandonment. Exactly. I'm
abandoning you.
And that means we were really connected.
We were really really connected. I felt
you. I know what it is. I didn't I feel
you as a B. I didn't feel you as a
burden. I felt you as light. He says I
felt I felt the
and that was I told you last time this
was the limit on the whole generation.
That's why he changed you know everybody
wants to know why how do why why the
position changed of how you deal with
secular Jews and how you deal with
children who left Yiddish guy like what
happened people used to sit sha
your kid left there were people finet
you sat sha for your child you tore your
clothes
there were even misnag when their
children became they sat sha Isaac yeah
Isaac had a father Isaac was one of the
big
of the alterb. He was the R of H. It was
a big community. He was a gone.
His father sat Shiva on him when he
became a of
the Reb once told this story and he said
used to have a meaning that Pes he would
make a on the whole sh was a soap pes he
made a se on the whole sh. So after he
became a he came home and his father saw
that he was pes he made a se on the
whole sh he relaxed.
He still went through the whole sh.
Okay. No, it's not the worst thing that
ever happened to him, right?
Huh? Say he he relaxed. I don't know if
he was excited, but but it's
so what like what what what what
everybody was wrong until the liberals
of this generation came along and said
love love love.
But the truth is, so there's a lot to
say about this, but one is this nikuda.
In order to be able to be called a Zena,
you have had to be in a very deep
authentic relationship that filled you
emotionally, not just intellectually.
You had to feel the bliss of connection.
And this is what you're betraying. And
that's a whole different.
>> Yeah. Exactly. Exactly.
The Reb once told a story that there was
a Jew by his father in the Rebayatz and
he was talking to him about Yiddish. So
the rebay said
so the the person tells the previous he
says you don't know who you're talking
to
I'm a heretic I'm an atheist so the reb
quoted his father-in-law the reb I'll
say it in Yiddish from
you know what kaken samkis means
cracking open sunflower seeds you know
people who sit a whole shambas afternoon
with sunflower seeds
that's called you take a and you knock
it. You you like bang it, you open it
up, it takes like 10 minutes, you're
busy. Yeah. Huh.
>> Gimm. Yeah. Yeah. So writes in the that
on Shabas for he was he didn't want
people to do it because of but those who
don't follow that. So by the very mak
not to open nuts on chabas only if it
was open before chabas. That's what
writes in because of he says it's a very
very complex most people once because
the that the peel becomes so you can't
move it afterwards and right you may
remove a little bit of the shock because
it's blocking so he says it's so many
problems so you shouldn't crack nuts on
shabas okay parenthesis but uh
what am I saying this ah so the said
from
like
you know do you like calling self an
apicitis. But trust me, this is not an
apicitis.
There was an Israeli politician who was
pretty secular. So she once said, "I
want the Jews, Israelis to have a Jewish
education." Why? You're not religious.
She said, "I want them to know what they
don't believe in."
So that's knowledge. But here we're not
talking about knowledge here. We're
talking about experience. That's already
a different level. the experience of it
that could make a person
that that could that can allow for says.
So this is the
anything you crave for craving longing
seeking attachment that is the
definition of femininity which means
acknowledging that I have a void and I
want I need attachment. I crave
attachment. You're an attachment. That
is the definition of being a human being
because we are all mablin. We're all
nukva. We didn't come out just uh even
if you were hatched from an egg, you
crave attachment. I just had I thank you
so much. I just had a chicken that uh
hatched eight sat on on on on 11 or 12
eggs. Eight eight chicks came out and
they came out of an egg. You remember
you ever had a teacher who said what
were you hatched? Anybody ever told you
what we hatched? Yeah. So I actually saw
the process and even they are craving
attachment. It's been now a few months
later, a sure the first few weeks, they
won't budge without their mother. And
that's those who were hatched.
They didn't even come out straight from
the womb. Right? This is this is the the
feeling of the yearning for veas. So you
want to know make sure that it's not
from it's from the real tuk.
And this is because as we all search for
attachment and bliss in life, you want
to know where you're getting it from.
What am what am I going into
literally was told to that you crave
your husband but like every every
there's a level of niggling there's a
level of pimius on a plyica level it's
said to every single human being woman
and men because even in in when we speak
about when we speak about masculinity
and femininity it's not only women and
men it's true a woman generally embodies
femininity and a man generally embodies
masculinity let's hope that we're
working on It's not so simple today. But
generally femininity is an energy. It's
a divine energy that exists in man and
exists in woman. And masculinity is an
energy that exists in a man exist. The
question is what is more emphasized?
What you cultivate and so on and so
forth. But everybody has this
experience. That's why we say Hashem is
the man and we are the woman. Even the
men are the women because we're talking
here the energy of femininity which is
the of being a mabo. We're all
receptive.
And the only thing that's worse than not
having what I want in attachment is
thinking that I don't need attachment
because that creates a fake reality. A
horrible fake reality. That's where the
ego takes over. I don't need attachment.
Of course, I need attachment. Now, the
question is, what do I want attachment
for? And that's always the beginning.
The beginning is to know that I need
attachment. I want it. I crave it. I I
need it. It's it's part of my chemistry.
And now I want to know what will
actually fill that void. What type of
attachment will fill that void? If it's
going to be a fake experience, somebody
who doesn't really care about me and I
don't really care about them. It's just
transactional. That's what is. That's
the definition of I don't really care
about you. You don't really care about
me. So why are we together?
Transactional. That's what it is.
There's some benefit.
It could be money or it could be
something even more subtle, but it's
some benefit there.
>> Yeah. And alb says if you go to this
you're not going to be able to eat from
because that's the I'm blocking myself
off. You know if I stuffed myself up
with with with poisonous food and now
somebody wants to give you healthy
nutritious food the system is not there.
It's I'm not there anymore.
I was overwhelmed by the distractions.
So it's actually being present and not
allowing leaks to come out to be able to
receive from taggel from a real re from
real relationships.
And this is true even in our marriages.
It's true in all of our relationships.
It's very easy to get nurture from fake
relationships, right? Whenever you're
whenever you're looking for for
validation,
right? If I'm looking for validation, so
it's my ego trying to get fed for a few
minutes from something that's not real
and it's not going to work. It's it's
later I'm going to be miserable. And the
same is true in every one of us. And
adds this line, but for sure you'll
never be able to discover your
masculinity
because the path
the path to masculinity travels through
femininity.
So really strong masculine men always
respect their femininity. That's how I
titled last class. Strong men, masculine
men always respect their feminine core.
When you're like, I'm not feminine. I'm
just masculine.
You're not you're not a man. If you're a
man, you know how to how to respect your
femininity. You also know how to be a
man
because femininity means respecting the
fact that I need attachment. And there's
no man or woman who was ever created
that didn't need attachment. Adam needed
attachment. Needed attachment. This is
what the of the
in that sense they're both feminine.
It's important to understand this
because one of the great coping
mechanisms that we have is the feeling
that if I get betrayed long enough, it's
much better to say, "I don't need
anybody in the world." And some of us
are so skilled at that that we create a
facade that really doesn't need anybody.
And we stay isolated because it's safe.
Because if I don't need anybody, you
know what? You know, nobody could ever
hurt me. And if nobody could ever hurt
me, it's a much safer place to be. And I
don't mean necessarily physically that I
don't speak to anybody, but emotionally
emotionally I I live in my ivory tower
and never nobody can get really close to
me. They can get close enough that I'm
safe, but that's it. Because real
attachment is always vulnerable. That
infant in the arms of its mother, that
one week old baby, that one-month old
baby is purely vulnerable. That baby can
say, "I don't need mommy. Of course I
need mommy." But with that baby two
years later still feels a lack of
attunement. At some point I like figure
out what to do to get my needs. But it's
like a very manipulative way in a very
very innocent child soul. And that's
where I live sometimes for the rest of
my life. And if you're talented, it gets
worse because you actually are skilled
to build a life in which you don't need
anybody.
You're good at it because you can
actually become a person where people
need you and you don't need them. And
when you come into a room, they're all
looking to you. So this is sometimes
such a psychologically wounded space
where you have a person you think he has
confidence. He inspires respect. People
are looking to be close to this person.
Little do some people know that under
that is a frightened, frightened,
wounded child who's frightened to be in
a vulnerable, authentic relationship.
Anybody relates to this? This is very
important.
People could live their entire life this
way and it's all unconscious. They don't
even know it.
And that's why their kids don't like
them because their kids feel all of
this. The people in Shul don't know
this. It's a good guy,
smart, good business advice, great van,
the parisha always.
But the kids and his wife are miserable
because they feel this. They feel that
there is a bulletproof vest that you
can't penetrate. There's a barrier, a
mum. It's called a mum. You can't
penetrate. And he doesn't even know why.
He push doesn't know why. He will not
let his guard down.
Of course, his psyche exactly knows why.
I'm not going to be a mabel ever in my
life. I'm not going to be a mabo. But
you can never become a mashpa if you're
not a macab. There's no such a thing.
There was no reba in the world who was
not first aalmed and remained forever a
talmet. You can't beat it's impossible
any other way. The alterba the alterb
till the last breath remained at of the
mag always.
In fact I think I told you once the
story
said it I think it was purim. I think
it's an incredible incredible story. He
just shows you it shows you literally
this in the mimer. It just it just
popped into my head and it's probably
the one of the best illustrations for
what he's saying here. Whenever became
aba
he didn't want to he wanted to go to the
first of
America is now celebrating 250 years. So
the alterb founded I don't know if you
know the same year that the United
States of America came into existence
and it's probably not a coincidence.
So uh
in those years the 1770s
so a year later made with and wanted to
go but the prior told him no. So he
listened to him and he stayed he stayed
behind and that's when he became the you
know the white Russia Bellarus Russia
became the the the reb the rebba of
those of of those cities
and uh so one of the early years
was standing or sitting in his house by
the said bam laden which means by the
window and out of the window he saw a
whole group of coming towards his house
and they were obviously coming to him
they to the
so uh the alterba was standing there
with his wife. His wife's name was
Sterna. So he turned to her and with a
profound sigh he said villain
what do they want from me like a very uh
with a sadness with a melancholy like
what do they think I can give them?
And the Rebba said that Rebbitson
understood that this was a fateful
moment because there was a part of the
alterba that was telling him to, you
know, to quit this. This is not for me.
Like what do they want from me? So she
understood that. So she said to him, she
said, "Do
you think they're coming to hear
SOMETHING FROM YOU? NO, THEY'RE NOT
INTERESTED.
They're coming to hear what you heard
from your Reb. So's face lit up and he
said a he said in these words
a if that's the case I will speak and I
will speak and he opened the door and he
actually said a mime for them. And we
know the mime that he said. It was
written down. We know the mime that he
said.
Yeah. What happened? What did she tell
him?
She told him this.
If you they're not coming to hear you.
You know why the Reb said the story? The
Reb said the story because he started
off he said in the he says it's a
strange thing that thousands of people
or hundreds of people thousands of
people come to listen to one person
sitting and speaking. At this time
everybody could learn they could dav
they can go to sleep. they can do other
things that they need to do. What's he
says it's arrogant one person is sitting
here and thousands of people come to
hear this person. So on this he told the
story he told the story and then he
finished the story and he added he said
like this he said it he said it humility
because of course they came to hear what
he has to say he says but in this case
it's not humility in this case it's the
truth but because I was to hear from my
father-in-law and I was to hear from my
father and I was from so that's what I'm
saying over
that's why he said the story
said by
Nova of course he had what to say but
here it's not the so that's what I'm
saying that I'm saying over with us
that's why he told the story so what's
the what's the
right it says in
should be called no no you're always
called
always why he's not a anymore he's 95
years old his reb passed away years ago
and he's actually teaching the whole
world he's called a
and if he's not aim he's not
to be aim you need to be a the moment
you graduate from being a
you're not maybe you're brilliant but
you're not you don't have because you'll
never be a mash if you're not a and the
greater a much deeper mab
there was nobody who was a tal to the
mid like
it can't be that way it's not it's not
like why well he he doesn't know his
stuff he doesn't know his stuff. Why?
Why? I understand. If you don't know
anything, you have to be a talmet. If
you know, YOU ALREADY KNOW ENOUGH. It's
not that's not the truth. It's the other
way around. Cuz the moment you lose
touch with that that nukva, that macab,
the moment you're not a mabel, you you
you're you're you'll never become in
touch with your true power.
It's like unplugging. That becomes your
power. When you become a mab, something
happens in the process. What is it? you
become which means you discover that all
the truth is inside of your soul and
therefore the bliss that you're looking
everywhere you have to look into
yourself you're you're not a recipient
you're the source but the only way you
will find source in yourself is when you
surrender everything to receptivity so
it's a little bit of a paradox if I
start off I have everything I have
nothing
when I have nothing and I'm open then
suddenly you realize you have
everything. It's like I told you from
another she from the poet who once said,
"You're not a drop in the ocean. You're
the entire ocean in a drop.
That's thear. But if I go to the if I go
to the junky,
so he says first of all, you won't be
able to be from and certainly you will
never find your true power. You are the
divine. You're the BEST THING THAT EVER
HAPPENED to God." And here says
once
you'll be a you'll find your leadership.
You'll find the in you and to who
is this is earthshattering. You're the
one who's going to create the mitzvah
not fulfill create make the mitzvah
because since you are because of your so
the mitzvah are from you you become now
masculine
channel of like it says connected the
with so the wasab from that's what the
garra says
we're the and the is the often we say
hashem is the groom We're the bride. And
here we say is the bride and we're the
groom
says the isha betrothed to you. That
means you're in the mash in the it's
God's
because when you discover the deepest
truth of your own infinity you are a
piece of hem. So all the tiger you're
looking for you are the source of it
because of your b because you're a mab
so you become a mash. So now you give
something to what do you give to you
give to is structure mitzvah are
structure you give it the you give it
the relationship
it's a fascinating thing because usually
we always talk about and it's true you
receive from right is divine and you sit
and you you ble to tra and that's the
truth and here says there's another nuda
in that process suddenly the is
receiving from you the is the feminine
and you're the masculine,
but only if you got rid of your You
can't be a doesn't work that way.
You got to plug every hole.
You can't be a Z and a I'm because
what's the definition of it's like who
could fill me? Who could fill me? Oh,
you could fill me. Okay, you could give
me something. I'm like I'm just looking
for people to fill me, things to fill
me. You're you're you're you're not even
in a posture of a macab. You're a zoa.
Even to be a macab, right? You have to
plug all the holes like know what you're
receiving from who you're receiving.
And then in that process, you discover
your own leadership. You discover your
ability to be present and to become the
source of what everybody is looking for.
>> Regulated flow.
>> Yeah. You become regulated flow. Yeah.
What do they say? You're you're looking
for miracles. You're the miracle you're
looking for. You want to fix the world,
you you you you become the solution.
Don't look for sol. You are the
solution. That that's the deepest form
of a mashia. Mashia is you are the
solution. Take charge.
Not because you're arrogant,
but because God put himself into you.
But the only way you'll discover that
part of you rather than your anxiety and
your insecurity is if you let go of all
the other parts. You have to surrender
all the other parts.
>> That's where we're holding.
No, no, no. In Aramaic, and Zion are
interchangeable. Soar is like
>> Yeah. So what is
notar is
he
should be able to discover your
masculinity visav the divine.
You should discover your your like
right is is
inving
a hole because that's what the idea of
nukva means I'm open. I'm a cavity. I'm
an empty vessel. That's what nukva
means. That means I have a void. I'm
empty and I want you to fill it. That's
the vulnerability of femininity and it's
one of the hardest things in our
generation for women and for men in
their own way to be able to open
themselves up because there's always a
chance of
nobody's going to come to fill it or
maybe they're going to fill it with the
wrong things and I don't want to get
hurt. So, it's much better to say I
don't need you. I don't need you. I'm a
powerful woman.
I don't need you. The most powerful
women, right, and men know how to be
feminine. They could trust. It comes
with a lot of trust. But if your trust
was betrayed, so then you don't go
there. You just close off. I don't have
any holes. I don't have any neckv.
>> Like the language these days that people
you ask somebody say, "No, I'm good."
>> Right.
>> Right. Right.
>> Right.
Yeah.
>> Yeah. I don't need anybody. I don't need
anything.
We're embarrassed with need. We're
almost embarrassed with need. We're
embarrassed with craving. We're
embarrassed. There's also a form of
self-confidence in this. Self-confidence
means that I have a desire and it's
very, very deep and I want it to be met
and it's not a bad thing. It's a good
thing.
That's the source of dus. That's the
source of duvas. I have a need. I have a
desire. I want attachment. I really want
it and I'm hurt without it.
>> Is typically filled with
>> right
>> is typically
>> right. So that's true.
>> When I he's right. When I filled my
whole life with Nus, I stopped realizing
that the need is not is not evil. Just
the way I filled it may have been
problematic. Well, what happens is we
start shaming the need. There's a stigma
that we we learned in a previous
muhammed about rats. The ability to say
I want is is is is a divine quality. I
want
but we're like a freak. Oh, I want Oh.
OH, YOU WANT? WHAT ELSE DO YOU WANT? OH,
I GOT DISORDER. HE WANTS HE WANTS WHO
DIED AND MADE YOU KING. SO, we
stigmatize to ourselves. I don't want
anything. No, no, no. Really, we all
want. It's a joke that you don't want.
What a joke. Of course you want. But
you know I don't need I don't want and
suddenly I become the
greater the sadic the less you want.
Just choose the opposite said I don't
want ganed. HE DIDN'T
HE WANTED MORE THAN EVERYBODY ELSE. I
JUST KNOW WHAT I WANT. That's the
difference.
Of course I want.
No I want
to say we want Msiah now.
I don't want. I WANT. OF COURSE I WANT.
We want
the I mentioned earlier brings a medish.
It says
just like a date is the sweetest fruit
and everybody has ta for it. That's the
cotton candy of God. So
don't think is not a balty. He's the
worst.
HE JUST KNOWS WHAT HE WANTS. THAT'S WHAT
MAKES HIM A SADIC. You know, we think
he's amputated. He's castrated
half dead, half deaf, half blind. So
he's a sadic. What else should he do?
What else should you do? Become a sadic,
right? What other career is available
for you?
A lawyer accounted and in stocks and
real estate. So, become a sadic.
So, he says, "No, they're the biggest
ballet.
They just know they know they know who's
craving, what he's craving for, and they
won't go away from it. they have more
self-respect.
So that's the So now continues
this will be enough for the one who
understands.
Now he starts answering all the
questions in the beginning of the mime.
What's the next step after the titsus?
Remember the whole bin here in the mime
is that sitsus is the one mitzvah that
has two parts. The talis and the fringes
the talis represents
the lush the mak that is not granular.
You know what granular means? It doesn't
become individuated in a particular
strand. It's a talis. It's a cloak that
covers you. The titus is like the Cyrus
that individuates the flow. Lammed bay
32 strands is lammed bay.
It's the flow of Hashem's into which
could be contained because there's a the
talis itself represents the
so titus represents the two elements of
mitzvah
that was the based on everything he
spoke before about that there's the two
elements there's the tug in its core the
bliss itself
which is beyond any definition or
description because hashem is not
getting bliss from something he is bliss
And then there's the way the bliss is
defined. It flows through something and
that's the experience of that everybody
has. And the source of that is and
that's what the gill of the gill of.
So he says now after all of this we'll
now understand
it said twice only by no other mitzvah.
says now we'll understand the whole
system is called
now the first has a whole Russia
together with it
who took you out of Egypt in order to be
a god for you and then he said and
that's how the para ends
explains now we'll understand it
the first thing you have to remember is
whenever you see the word ani. It's the
same letters like ani.
Now, it's interesting because they're
opposite. Ani means what? I What's
uh what's ayion? Nothing, right?
So,
this is the this is the issue of our
self-confidence. Who am I? Am I or am I
an or and why is you would think the
point of an is that you're not, right?
You're not a nothing. You're
So he says, "No,
ani." When you reconfigurate the
letters, what is it? What does that
really mean? It means that the energy of
ani is only. There's no other energy to
ani.
This is what it means. Ego death. The
only ego that's worth holding up, the
only ani that's going to withstand all
of life is the ani that's plugged into
iron.
The ani that's not plugged into iron
is not an it's a fake ani that's going
to crumble in a moment's notice. The
first crisis, the first issue, the ani
is going to crumble and now you need a
new ani. The only ani that will endure
is the ani that's ay. What does this
mean?
For who?
It's similar to what says in parl also
in this week in this par when sent what
did he ask them? He said I want you to
go to the land and I want you to see one
thing.
Is there a tree in
or not? And the question is you ever saw
a country without a tree which
all the maf say
certainly in the Middle East what does
it mean does a tree or no tree what's
so gives up a lot of different
explanations but doesn't doesn't seem to
make sense
says listen
was saying something very very intense
and deep
the word comes from the word which means
counsel advice.
This is what we call wisdom which is
also often called you have it in
is counsel and is help advice that you
give to people to help them who is
what is any what he say I'm looking for
an what are you really looking for
you're looking form you're looking for
some clever insight perspective strategy
to be able to to be masic something
something to be able to attain something
right you're looking to attain something
I need ana how to deal with this person.
I need an whether to go into this
business. I need an whether to date this
girl. Whatever. I need an how to deal
with this situation. I'm looking to on
to something. So, I need your
professional advice. That's what is.
So, that's
does have this type of ability. What's
who doesn't want an? He says,
isma. What's is it also rooted in the
source of comes from? The PK says in
Mishma
literally it means where you gonna find
you're not gonna find in the street but
is based on positive
all emerges from iron because like the
first epiphany the lightning you know
the lightning bulb goes off in your
brain. Where did it come from? You don't
have access to that place. It's the
subconscious. That's called ayen. Ayin
doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Ayin
means it's not contained and grasped by
your intellectual ego. That's why we
translate ay not as nothing but as no
thing.
In fact, ayin is much more yesh than
yes. Yesesh is that which you can grasp
in your hand. You could look at it. You
could define it. You can measure it.
Ayin means you have no control over it
because it has control over you. I means
it's transcendent reality. So it's we
call it nothing. That's where kma comes
from. Where did you get this insight
from? Nowhere. Of course, somewhere. It
came from a place in your side of you
that you don't have regular access to
it. And there was a little flow. And
suddenly, ah, wow, I got this.
That's
how do you send spies to figure this
out? We have to understand what this
means. He sends spies to figure out if
only has access to the of or it also has
access to the source of that's going to
be the key.
And in this lay the entire mistake of
the
sob says
this is what's called in the concealment
beyond all concealment which means it's
concealed.
Even in the concealed worlds
there's no way that it allows itself to
be in the realm of grasping and
comprehension. It's not be.
That's why we call it. We call it
because in our mode of existence where
we like to control things, this doesn't
exist. Since I can't grasp it, what's my
best way of dealing with it? You say it
doesn't exist. You call it, not because
it's, but because I I I don't know what
to do with you. I don't know what to do
with you. So, if I don't know what to do
with you, you don't exist. And by the
way, that's what our brain does.
There's a brilliant experiment I once
own a book from Rabbi Professor Yakob.
It's called something from nothing. He
does a brilliant experiment how the
brain there's a blind spot. So sometimes
your brain looks at a piece of paper and
there's a part that you don't see. Okay?
You actually don't see it. But the brain
doesn't like to admit that you don't
know. So what does it do? It compares
and it says, "What do you see in the
rest of the circle?" And it borrows that
image and it fills up the blind spot. So
you actually are dis deceived by your
own brain to tell you that it's seeing
something that you really don't see
because your brain does not want you to
sit with the discomfort of like this is
insanity. So better lie and this is
literally like pure neurological facts
that constantly happen in life. Our
brain does the job to take us away from
ay
>> always
>> always does it blatantly and then this
here and and the brain is not trying to
lie to you but your brain is trying to
keep you safe and comfortable I can deal
with what am I supposed to do with it
it's not so what do you say you say it
doesn't exist
once you start tuning into reality you
realize it's the opposite
and this is this is really one of
this in in in cultivating whatus is
teaching us. You start experiencing that
the more iron, the more reality.
You understand? The more yesh, the less
reality. That's the shift that starts
happening when you get in touch with
deeper reality. If it's more yes, it's
actually less real. If it's more, it's
more real. The less tangible,
right? You start knowing that you
experience when you start learning a
deeper level of bal and you're like,
"Wow, bring it on.
more iron, bring it on more because you
realize that is where reality is. The
fact that I don't grasp item
thank god I'm not I'm not I'm not
reducing it to existence. We even have
it in in in all everyday reality. It
used to be uh 150 years ago, 200 years
ago, if you didn't see something, it
didn't exist.
Today, we know that whatever you don't
see probably has a much deeper impact on
all of the world than anything you see.
For example, electricity,
right? Atoms, cells, subatomic
particles, germs, viruses,
bacteria, infections. Nobody sees any of
this. Till 150 years ago, nobody knew
there such a thing called germs.
Bacteria didn't exist.
Today, you know, it could close down a
whole world. Ask the Chinese.
So, it's not it's not you don't see it.
It doesn't exist. It's a joke. What what
has a bigger impact in your life? Your
genes, your invisible genes or the parts
of you that you see? What do you think?
Your unconscious emotions or everything
that you see physically? Anybody who
knows anything about themselves knows
the more invisible it is. The more ION
IT IS, THE MORE YESH IT IS. THE MORE
YESH, THE MORE.
Do they only have access to the or do
they have access to the
to the reality? Do they have access to
that?
Why are we scared? Because you have to.
The only way I can access it is through
surrender, through ble. So I need trust.
It's not a place of safety. I would
rather remain small, safe, and in
control than large,
surrendered,
and open to infinity.
>> Huh?
>> Fear of the unknown experientially.
The body doesn't want to recognize it.
So, so deep down everything is ayen. The
whole world is yayme. But we try to make
we try to formulate things, right? If
the doors of our perception were
cleansed, we would see ion as the only
reality. Everything we see is just a a a
condensed version of reality that goes
through millions and millions of cons
concealments so that it could become
categorized in a way that our eyes COULD
SAY, "AH, I got this. You're a tissue
box. I'm safe. I know who you are. You
understand the fact that I call this a
tissue box. This is not a tissue box.
It's a joke. You think I'm crazy now,
right? Take a microscope. This is not a
tissue box. You know why I CALL IT A
TISSUE BOX? For my own safety. I could
deal with him. I could sell him for $2.
You understand? I want to sell the I
want to sell you stuff. I want to know
who you are. We put everything in a box,
including ourselves, so we could be
safe. Ain is
what do I do with ayen? Ayin requires
complete surrender. But all comes from
that's the source of everything. The
aniph is not definable.
So our whole world you see what what
happens the moment we leave for a moment
the consciousness of this world. It says
in
chapter 3 says if our eyes would be
given permission to see
Those are his words and he wrote this in
the 1700s.
You would look at the world and you
wouldn't see physicality. You would see
Hashem everywhere.
But my retina doesn't deal with Hashem.
My retina says this is a cup of coffee.
This is a pen. This is a person. Is it
true? Yeah, it's true. Based on the eyes
capability, God allowed the world to be
translated as a physical thing. That's
what creates. But the moment your vision
expands, the moment our soul goes one
step higher into consciousness, it's the
same world, but it's all divine energy.
Everything is divine energy.
>> And it's hidden.
>> Huh?
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
>> If our doors of perception were
cleansed, everything would appear as is
infinite.
Not that the table is not a table, but
the version of table as table that's a
product of billions of and it's this is
even true in science. What's what
anybody who's even basic physics you
know that one of the great paradoxes of
the world today is that whatever you
look at it's such a dumbed down version
of reality
not that it's not true we're not lying
but it's it's true based on what the Max
plank said you know we used to think
that consciousness is a derivative of
matter today we know matter is a
derivative of consciousness just think
of those words matter is a derivative of
consciousness the moment your
consciousness goes up a step. The whole
matter is one big
consciousness
AND YET
IT'S THE OPPOSITE.
HUH?
NO. NO. You look at it as a table. It's
a table. The moment you look at it, does
a tree make noise if it falls in the
forest?
>> Huh?
>> I was there. I was there. I saw it.
>> The answer is the answer is the noise
that the tree makes is not a reality.
It's the way I perceive reality when I'm
in the forest based on the chemistry of
my ears. Or is the other question, are
you are you are you if you state an
opinion when your wife is not there, are
you still wrong?
That's an updated version.
That's English. In Yiddish, it doesn't
happen. In Yiddish, you're always wrong.
When your wife is there, when your wife
is not there.
>> Ah.
>> Yeah. Yeah. And here this is the vert.
So there's no
but the truth is that only in do you
find all safety you can't find safety in
yesesh the only safety is in the only
safety the only real is in soenu says
you're going to go into this land out of
the midbar
is there also the over there
>> it's very hard there's no land without
trees. What is he asking? Rashi says it
means sadikim. Eight is a metaphor for
sadikim. There's other explanations.
>> Is there safety in or you realize you
don't need?
>> Huh? No, you need safety. But the only
real safety is in because that's the
source of everything. That's the source
of love. That's a and that's where
everything comes from. Everything is
just a manifestation of ay.
So the the kson in life is to live in
but to be plugged into ayah. to always
be plugged into not to detach the from
the ayah. We learned in also
also in this par what was the sin of
right he uprooted the plants
says everything is rooted in something
don't uproot it on shabas you're not
allowed to do that I'll cop on them okay
so that's the now
you understand what it means now the
only ani that is the only ani
the only ani that is real is the that's
plugged into iron
The moment your self is detached from
iron, it's a self that is forcing itself
to exist and you have to keep it alive
through inauthentic mechanisms,
>> life support. It's literally like a
corpse and we know it's dead but the
person still is not ready to accept it.
So we do everything we can brilliantly
to make believe to the world that it's
alive, but inside you know you're dead,
but you're not ready to call the because
you don't want anybody else to know. So
just think about that.
Imagine the chick died inside the egg,
but the chick doesn't want to admit it.
So it does everything it can to keep it
on life support AND IT LOOKS ALIVE to
everybody. And people will even say,
"Wow, you're so alive." And that's why
the person will buy the most beautiful
house in the neighborhood because he
needs more evidence that he's alive
because he's so dead. Did you hear what
I just said? Yeah. Some of us are so
dead that we need more evidence than
anybody else that we're alive. And
therefore, we will do things in such
dramatic ways because we need tremendous
proof to say that we're alive. Cuz when
you're really really alive, you don't
have to prove it.
>> Believe myself.
>> If I don't believe it, yeah, I need the
whole world to say it. And I will fight
for that. And sometimes that is what's
driving so much of what I do to build
the ani that never existed and never
will exist because it doesn't exist.
It's a ponzi scheme and I always have to
invest more and more. And that's why
it's torturous because to keep a corpse
alive when it's not really alive is an
impossible task. Do you know how much
mental energy and bandwidth you have to
invest in that? And do you know how busy
you have to be with avoiding reality?
>> Ain't exactly a mental stress.
Understand my dear friends,
unending unending stress. Because the
what's the greatest stress in life? When
you're invested constantly in avoiding
reality. There's nothing as torturous
as constantly having to avoid reality.
Imagine if 24/7 I had to lie to myself
about whether it's light outside or dark
outside cuz I decided day is night and
night is day. Right? my whole day I have
to be shutting Venetian blinds, building
walls and that's what so many of us do.
I will avoid reality and therefore I
will take this ani and make him bigger
and stronger and I need the whole world
to tell me that I'm I'm I exist. And
that's the tragedy of so many
celebrities, for example, and why they
go into depression. Because with every
new follower that they have, it's
another statement that I'm really dead.
Which is why you following me is so
important because it's my only evidence
that I'm alive.
Do you know how hard it is to avoid
reality? The only for this is when you
realize you're
the moment you're OKAY NOW YOU COULD BE
ON ME NOW YOU CAN BE ON A malench of
course I'm
>> sometimes excelling
could be the biggest cover
>> that's true that's true sometimes
excelling in spirituality could be the
biggest cover up because at the surface
it looks so real
Right? That's the tragedy of religion
and being used as the great cover up for
my sense of inadequacy.
So now I use God who is the ultimate
figure of reality to say to everybody
and to myself, I'm doing well. I exist.
It's a painful It's a painful stuff what
you say. Anybody relates to this?
>> You're not that religious, huh?
cover up.
>> When do we know if it's a cover up?
>> Ask your wife.
>> That's usually the simmon. If and if
your wife didn't do the work, so your
kids will tell it to you at some point.
How do you know the the we spoke about
this a lot of times, but there's always
this the very deep. You can't fool them.
The nervous system when it's having real
tinug is in a different space. It's it's
it's open. There's humility. There's
there's joy. There's there's deep
serenity. There's trust.
You're not you're not torturing
yourself. You're not in anxiety.
Now, we have anxiety because we have
different parts. But in ayan, there's no
anxiety because it's surrender. The
frequency of surrender is the frequency
of bliss, trust, faith, and love.
That's the same. It's the same similar
frequencies.
Serenity, trust, bliss, faith, love.
So that's
the only real ani is if it's channeling
says
what's the next word.
is why is he is
the takes the whole and condenses it
into a seinal point. From there you have
he which is expansiveness. From there
you have VV which is downward flow and
then you have the last and that's
basically which is not
is the structure of existence that comes
from the
always THROUGH
and yet he says which is the ultimate
paradox is
which is
where there's a even a spiritual yes and
he's saying
Why?
Because the whole system and
differentiation between
is part of our perspective living down
here
by him.
It's the same thing.
The ion doesn't get destroyed because it
came into Yesesh. It's a pure channel.
So, this whole distinction we're making,
you grasp, you don't grasp. That's a
product of being and therefore this we
call and this we call this I can hold on
to. I think I can hold on to it. But
really, it's all the whole symptom
doesn't exist from his perspective. It's
all part of him.
Give a simple example to what he's
saying. I once saw this example. You
know, you have a bottle of water and the
bottle of water, right? The bottle of
water falls into the ocean.
Now, imagine the bottle is empty. It was
an empty plastic bottle. Falls into the
ocean. And what happens? The cap is off.
So, the bottle gets filled up. Now
you're the guy inside the bottle. Okay.
So this is exactly what happens. You are
a you're the ocean. You're the ocean.
But then the soul comes into the body
which is a bottle, a container. And you
know what? The body suddenly gets water.
Oh, I like this water. What's the
biggest mistake you can do? Take the
cap,
close the bottle, and say, "Nobody gets
my water."
Why?
You're in the ocean.
You understand?
What do you have to do? You got to open
up the cap. Even if you're not getting
rid of your water. Getting rid of your
water is histoal. You go back to the
source. Even if you're supposed to be in
a bottle, but don't put the cap, be in
flow. That's yan. You understand? Huh?
Like a mikvah. That's the secret of a
mikvah. Hashaka. What's hash? Shak is we
have nice mikvah and warm mikvah but
don't create a separation between the
natural water and the forcet water
because then it's a mikvah
the power of a mikvah is the ble hashaka
means there's a flow the bottle keep the
bottle connected to the ocean of course
you're not an ocean I'm a bottle I feel
only a bottle BUT YOU'RE THE ENTIRE
OCEAN IN A BOTTLE YOU'RE NOT A BOTTLE IN
THE OCEAN YOU'RE AN OCEAN IN THE BOTTLE
You see the difference? So
it's all it's not a difference. It's not
like with
it's all one. But from our perspective,
there's two separate
is the same.
>> Yes. Ani and that's why
that's why and is the same thing.
The great mistake is I take the bottle
and I tell the ocean I'm tell nobody
gets my water and I make it tight tight
tight tight tight tight and then I go
around dancing look at my bottle navasa
you were once part of an ocean and I you
became a little bottle for a $150 you're
walking you think I could charge $1.75
$1.75$1.75
LOOK AT MY bottle
and I walk around with my bottle and
that's it I'm all invested in my bottle
AND THAT'S WHAT THAT'S WHAT IT MEANS.
That's literally what it means. I'm
walking around building my bottle. I
don't want everybody to see my beautiful
bottle.
The last thing I want, the last thing I
realize is you're the ocean.
We don't want to take away your water.
We want to give you your water. Don't
hijack the energy because you're
literally the ocean.
But it's very hard to see that in this
world because the bottle I could
control. The bottle I can hold on to.
What do you do with an ocean?
Huh?
>> Huh? Yeah. And that's the secret of a
mikvah. That's the whole secret of a
mikvah. That's why mikvah cleanses
because the idea of mikvah is the and
then you emerge from that space
with a new consciousness or hopefully
with a new consciousness.
So what's the next line?
The whole world is called why
means confinement limitations.
Our universe is finite. The Gmorrah says
from earth to heaven takes 500 years but
it takes 500 years. It's a number
by ex by your exodus by leaving these
confinements
like we said before.
This comes back to everything he
explained before about when you get
stuck in the
create
you want to go out of that's with more
vigor.
So now the becomes
the even the part that is
usually we the godm
should be a god to you is even the part
that you call yours is also there's no
separation anymore right we all have in
life
and the isim YOU UNDERSTAND
EVEN THE isim the yesh is also
similar. Yeah. So
it comes to means you're your own
identity
and the so this is
and that is because it's one wall one
that's how I could take you out of which
means you're not stuck in the
confinement
of disassociation and fragmentation
because you're always in flow.
It becomes yours. And the isim
represents the name of restriction of
concealment.
This is what we spoke about the bliss
flowing into
individual strands of hair
where they sit and enjoy theash. This is
the way the comes into
in other words it could be contained.
That is what ganaden is.
When Yeshua before Yeshua passed away in
chapter 24, the end of Yeshua, he speaks
to the Jewish people and he says it's
not easy to serve Hashem. Why?
because holy
sh
so the first the beginning of chapter n
of I quoted earlier the garra says over
there they askedim how can you sayim
kadoshim kadoshim is plural there's one
god soim said it says kadoshim who not
they said that's a for the but tell us
soim said
because he's
He's holy with all types of holiness. So
says Gmorra says over there like this
he's holy in every type of holiness.
That's why every form of holiness.
What's the idea?
>> Yeah. So he explains like this.
So it's fascinating
all the
andesh
is the noun
holiness itself
is when there's a vav av looks like a
strand of here. So when the kaides flows
through into the here which means it's
more condensed and filtered so you could
contain it thenes becomes
it becomes
that's what it says by by a by a that he
grows his here
again that the here becomes
because it's channeling the flow of
is the
That's in its essence which is bliss in
its core. The way that bliss is
contained in
that's called
soim
everything is because is the flow of the
tug into a way that it's contained which
is ganed which is cyrus
and that's why it's
it can become yours. It could become
yours meaning you could contain it. It's
that and that's what needs and that's
that's the first.
Now you'll see how everything now comes
together. There's a here from the go a
few lines later to the line starts
like five lines later
the first one we said that's the
which is Cyrus which is then you have a
second that's referring to
Then you're going to have gill atmos the
revelation of the core of tanuk itself.
Remember the whole ma was based on the
fact Hashem is tanuk but it's a tanuk
that's pure ah when you get to the core
of tenuk it's beyond any imagination or
description because it's not contained
it's not something giving you tenuk it's
tuk in its pristine core what is tanug
it's not this the food is gishmak the
niggan is GISHMAK THE EMOTION IS THE
IDEA IS THE ismak
it is tuk that gil that's there's no
symptom there's
Notes with which is like the but
that's not the here that's the garment
it's beyond the that gets in it's
internalized through the here
the first is connected to which is the
second is connects
these two
is the contain mitzvah is the bliss
itself and that's why it's intangible.
So this is the two is
one is the here one is the
saying
sit and their crowns are on their head.
What does that mean? They all wearing
crowns.
What's a crown? Crown is above the mind.
It's above the brain. And it's above
that
certainly it's above the here. So what's
the idea of atra they're going to be
accessing not the tuk that can be
contained in your brain in your psyche
it's the it's the it's the tanuk itself
which is beyond the mind there's no way
to contain it with the mind the mind
that contains the is the experience of
the way allowed the to flow down through
but then it's going to be they're going
to experience the mak itself which means
the pure the pure itself
And that's the ray that comes into every
mitzvah.
That's the two
since is the only mitzvah that has both.
So that's why only by mitzv by DOES HE
SAY TWICE. IT'S TWO DIFFERENTS. ONE IS
REFERRING to the way it comes into
and one IS REFERRING TO THE WAY IT IS in
I'm trustworthy to pay that's so here
also he changes he gives a whole deeper
doesn't only mean I'm faithful I'm
trustworthy I'm not going to I'm not
going treat you means that today you
grasp it through the
is not something that you can do with
you have to surrender every last faculty
to it because any faculty is limiting it
so for Cyrus it's good foresh it's good
but notes there's
so
this type of
This is why it says
twice
and then a second time you just said you
think I forgot that you're God. He says
there's two different one is and one is
one is referring to the garment one is
referring to the hair of the head
says
not by any other mitzvah
because has both dimensions the cyus the
fringes
and the talis itself which is like the
of the mitzvah one represents one
represents mitzvah
And this is the reason that this bliss
happens precisely when the dead come
back to life. You remember asked in the
beginning of the how does it make sense
that souls that were thousands of years
in gaden the ultimate is to come back to
this dark world like really like that's
a punishment. It's not a big scar. I
understand when we're here, we want to
stay here. But once you've been in Ganad
for 3,300 years, what this is the
ultimate better than Ganed
what's now asked also why is it that Gan
every soul has a different is everybody
together. On the contrary, the bigger
the sky, the more differences there
should be. A SMALLER SKY GIVE EVERYBODY
TOGETHER. But the ultimate prize, right,
should be only it should be different
levels. You say now it all become clear.
Why
is with the goof?
The goof is not there. The goof is in
the earth. What's that? Everything is
embodied. Pun intended. It's with the
body. The goof is going to stand up and
HAVE THE SAME
how is the lowest. The answer is
see this is where literally transforms
because this which comes from the
essence of tanug not the way tanuk is
experienced it's tuk itself it's
remember hashem is tenuk tanuk is hashem
god is bliss bliss is god what does that
mean what what what what's giving me the
bliss he is the source of all bliss any
bliss in the world is just a poor or
rich reflection of that. So that which
is
this is accessed through the mitzvah the
mitzvah that you did with me explained
earlier in the mime that the lowest
levels are rooted in the highest levels
like the carbonas that come from a behem
why the mitzvah comes into action
because it's precisely the lowest action
that doesn't have the richness of
experience it seems very physical and
yet that's rooted in the highest
because the end is rooted in the
beginning and therefore it's done with
the body
So where is it going to be revealed in
the
highest you can experience in the body
not only in the soul? So it's worth for
them to come from Ganed into here
because
the Ganed is a big
it's the
you can internalize.
Why can you internalize it? Because it's
what is it's
the flow of the way it can be
experienced.
So that's namas without gam the gof is a
but when you go to the deeper level of
tyog the over here there's no symptom
there's no you would think oh my god if
there's no symptoms and there's no
iskalus it can only be the but the truth
is he says it's the opposite here it
includes everything
there's nothing that's a contradiction
to it you can't say it's the soul and
not the body
you can't say the body is not a kali for
If it's that which comes through its so
the higher you are the more you could
receive that's why has so many different
levels when it comes to it's
so on one hand it's
suddenly there's no division there's no
differentiation what do you mean but you
have a higher soul and you did more
that's all true and that's true
comprehension of
everything is the same put on and you
put on Mosha's understanding
over there there's big differences in
the of but in the it's why it's
identical and that's why every Jew is
going to come back to
and that's the
that in where you have the you create
the the falls here down into the lowest
place from here you create the deepest
craving for truth so here you can go
back
which is expressed primarily init
and that is what creates the of and
that's the second
so the first is of which is
because all is which takes you out of
over there there's
and that's the first one and then he
finishes off that's the second one
that's the that's the Second element of
titsus not the titus but the talis which
is
which this can only happen with the go
this can't happen without the gf because
it was created in the go it was created
through the go it was created through
mitzvah in the body and here the body is
not a contradiction to it because in the
it includes all of reality so that's why
they're going to come back to be with
the body
>> yeah so of course like like everything
of Msiah we the foretaste of it is now
right you start tasting it and that's
what he's saying yeah that's the so
there there is these two elements there
is the tug the way it's experienced in
life the way is experienced through life
that's what represents and then there's
touching the of itself now that's so
that's so intangible like he says you
can only take it through a moment you
want to like grasp it you lose it
because This tinug has no words. It's
just tiny.
When we speak about tinuk, you'll say it
was a gishmakimemer. Yet you had two
words. Gishmak, right? It was a gishmak
experience. It was a gishmak
conversation. It's all a tanuk. That's a
murkov. It's it's tenuk with something
from something.
Tanuk itself is tanuk. Where did all
tanuk come from? It came from the
source. And that source is not tenuk
from something. He is tanuk. So when you
touch that, what does that feel like?
You're not touching from something.
You're touching there's no anybody has
any words for this.
>> Huh?
>> Huh? You're touching the ultimate truth.
In other words,
>> take away the word touching.
>> Take away the word touching. Exactly.
Because when you touch it, you can't
touch it. You're there or you're not
there. And when you're there, you're all
there. And there's no words anymore.
We also learned from this that what does
it mean a relationship with Hashem? A
relationship with Hashem means that
Hashem is a source of the source of all
bliss. So relationship with Hashem is
blissful.
It doesn't mean there's no pain because
God sometimes puts us through pain and
being human means experiencing that
pain. But the relationship with Hashem
is wherever I am there's an element of
bliss. And if the word Hashem doesn't
trigger the word bliss, we're worshiping
idols.
I'm not blaming anybody. It's not
anybody's fault. It's without judgment.
But we created a different type of God.
>> Yeah. Now, we have to we have to be
sensitive because people sometimes go
through so much through life and like
what are you talking about? Like no, no,
no, no, no. My God is not associated
with bliss. There's a lot of anger and
resentment and and pain and it has to be
worked through. No question. But deep
down the soul, a relationship with
Hashem is a relation with the mucker of
all tugg
and and as he says here, it's beyond any
it's not just life has tenug you see the
bliss. I'm breathing and we learned in a
before remember that the biggest is life
itself because if you tell somebody I'll
give you every pleasure in the world but
right after that you die
right every pleasure whatever you always
dreamt for you want to believe whatever
get write it down right your bucket list
and and and be great think the biggest
everything you have but right after that
you get a bullet you're like a sugar
right why why and the answer is because
we all know there's nothing Like the tuk
of itself, all the tanugim, it's all for
everything is for life. So if you could
just get in touch with that, it's so
powerful, right? Feeling your energy,
just feeling the energy of life. There's
a bliss over there. We don't do it
because we're so distracted because
always something missing, right? But
just breathing, just presence, just
appreciating life itself. The reason I'm
so distracted is cuz I'm alive. Can you
appreciate that? I have a hundred things
to do. The reason you have 100 things to
do is cuz YOU'RE ALIVE. BUT MY CAR IS
BROKEN. I HAVE A FLAT TIRE, RIGHT? I'm
in the red. I the mortgage. I got it.
And you got to deal with the mortgage.
No question. But it's because you're
alive. The Bakas is no mortgage besides
the people who are have to pay for it.
But so that so even that it's a
tremendous tremendous ten that's the
connected to life to the experience of
life in it's tenog itself. The word is
tanog.
So over there a person touches the
frequency if you call the frequency of
of of of raw tug in its deepest core
it's a complete complete tug that he
says there's no way of being masut
and when you experience even so to speak
a glimmer of it you just know that this
is the ultimate truth of reality and
it's all love and bliss and that's the
gill of and it's going to be dka in the
g and mitzvius
are the fore that that's what's mik
that's generates it.
Well, but the of went with the Ramb I
said in the first year the Ramban held
that the ultimate is the Rambam held
that after they're going to go back to
Gan but the Ramban and
took the of most most of the of the of
the went like the Ramb that the ultim
it's a very famous mimer that's based on
this mimer
It's a very famous
when people learn it's one of the first
they learn
yeah a lot of
and with that I'm going to wish you all
an amazing and meaningful and inspiring
day.
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