Chasidus and Moshiach

welcome to class three and we're on chapter four because uh last week we did two chapters uh the first week we did chapter one last week we did chapters two and three tonight we're on chapter four just to review this is controversy it's all about what is the essence of the teachings of siddhis so we started off and we offered four possible explanations of what this might be we won't go through that again you could review the previous two classes and we talk about that at length uh we said those are all nice uh aspects of see this but they're not the essence of this the essence has to be some core idea that is beyond any protem beyond any uh details right it's not any one of those things and it's not even the combination of all of those things it is something beyond all of those things it's the essence whatever that means um and then we and we spoke about the fact that toyota is infinity and as being infinity uh it can't be limited to take on uh a form that makes it one thing and not another thing because that that itself is a is a concealment of its limitation so therefore uh we're searching for the underlying essence that is uh that transcends all limitations or all all form and uh we haven't found it yet but that's that's what we're looking for okay so now we're on chapter four an explanation of what the essence of siddhis really is will be clarified by explaining what is the real inner idea of mashiach okay why what does that have to do with the price of tea in china we were talking about the essence of siddhis and now you said you want to understand the essence of this you have to understand the inner idea of not just the idea of mashiach with the token panimi the inner idea of how did you get to meshiach where's that coming from there's a principle it's actually from from the altareba in tanya parikh 39 that from the mitzvah you can know its essence basically the idea of if you want to know what something really is look at the outcome look at what it accomplishes so when we look at the scar of a mitzvah and by the way i i we don't have time to get into this discussion because there's two different because we have a lot to cover but there are two different ways of looking at scar at reward uh one of them is not gonna would not be helpful uh in a in this context that's arbitrary reward like the kindergarten teacher tells the children coloring the coloring sheets and if you draw within the lines we'll give we'll give everyone a piece of candy you know drawing in the lines does not generate a piece of candy there's actually no cause and effect relationship it's an arbitrary um consequence not even really a consequence of pseudo-consequence that the teacher superimposed into the situation we're talking about here about organic uh reward so you do something that makes the world godlier and the scar the reward is you live in a godlier world right okay so by looking at the reward that something generates you can actually understand better what that thing itself really is all right fine so what does that have to do with with meshiach since we know that through disseminating the wellsprings of siddhis it brings the coming of meshia how do we know that it's famous letter that the valshamtv wrote about his alias rosh hashanah experienced an out of body experience where he went into ghanaian and he met the shama of meshiach and he wellsprings meaning your teachings are disseminated outward okay so we know that the spreading of the teachings of siddhis results in the coming of haremnan therefore from mashiach which is the result of disseminating say this we can understand better the essence of siddhis you understand here the approach understand the formulation we're trying to understand the essence of exit it's not just different um details of citizens we know we want to know what this really is so we have this approach that if you want to know what something really is look at the scar the real sky the organic scar the result that it generates and then you'll be able to understand it better well the scar the the the result of siddhis is it brings meshiach so if i understand better then i will understand sid this better follow yeah make sense okay all right so let's endeavor to understand better yes comes many new wondrous sublime events will be innovated for instance israel has the redemption of the jewish people as well as the divine presence from their exile so the first thing is the jewish people will be redeemed from exile that means the socio-political exile the subjugation of the nations that's the first thing and also there's a metaphysical version of that which is the redemption of the shrine hashem's nurturing or maternal presence in the world is in a state of golis what does that mean it's in a state of gullus it's a very complicated concept obviously when you're speaking about hashem in gulas that's a very complicated concept but uh it gets some people nervous by the way you have to say kavyakov to calm them down it's a gemara in megillah by the way the fact that hashem's presence is in galas is a german people get nervous oh there's an acidic concept it's no it's actually it's it's a gemara but anyways basically means the this nurturing maternal energy of hashem is forced to nurture and mother stuff that it doesn't want to nurture and mother you know it is forced to be a source of sustenance for klippa for negativity so that's shinto bugaloosa anyways so the first thing that will happen when mashiach comes is the jews and the shrine will go out of gulas lamaylem is that but greater than that yiu yisra and here he's quoting from the rambam for the very end of mishna toyota yeo yes the jewish people will be great sages they will understand the mind of their creator wow and the whole world will be full of knowledge of god so that's even greater than just a socio-political change this is actually created beings having uh godly knowledge lamin is and even greater than that i'll tell you even more there will actually be a change in the nature of the world now a little bit of a parenthesis answering a question um what about the fact that the gemmata says there's no difference between the world now and the way the world will be in the messianic era except for the socio socio-political change except for the end of subjugation by the nations how do you explain that because we just said that there will be a supernatural change when sheikh comes so the rebel explains who iraq betrayed yeah we're talking about the beginning of the era of meshiach so at the beginning it will only be a socio-political change uh freedom from exile and later the miraculous stuff will happen especially according to what it says in raymohem now which is a section of desire this idea that there will be we know supernatural change right away when the sheikh first comes the supernatural changes will come later this this applies to the amiha audits the the ignorant folk they will not experience a change in miracles but the talmudic those who are cleaving to hashem they will experience miracles even uh earlier on at any rate so uh we're talking about different things that will happen when we share comes there will be an end to the exile both for the jewish people and for the shrine the jewish people will become great sages because they will have knowledge of of god uh and then that that the second thing is greater than the first and then the third thing even greater than that there will ultimately there will be uh supernatural changes changing in in nature changing the natural order okay what will happen is that the godliness that is higher than nature will then be revealed right now godliness that's higher than nature is not revealed it's hidden within nature that's why when she comes we're going to read hashem's name as it's written right now we hide it by not pronouncing it the way it's spelled it's spelled yud kevov k we don't pronounce it that way we pronounce it as if it were spelled but we will be able to pronounce it not just we'll be able to pronounce it oh no we'll know how to pronounce it don't think you know how to pronounce it no it's not like those witnesses you know the witnesses i'm talking about who think they know how to pronounce it no it's not it's not pronounced that way okay because there will be a revelation of hashem's true name of yud kevke in the world what is whoever is ye will be that is the transcendent god who cannot be nailed down to past present future because he's all those things at once hashem as he transcends time and space similar to the revelation that was in the basa amigdas there was a revelation of godliness in the base of english that also transcended time and space for instance the ark did not take up space but it did take up space but it will even be greater when meshiach comes because the transcendence the transcendence of time and space that existed in the times of the base of english was only in the base of magdesh when comes the transcendence of time and space will occur in the entire world okay so we just said a bunch of things that will happen when we shirk comes uh the end of the sociopolitical exile the end of the metaphysical exile meaning the the the golos of the china the the fact that the jewish people will understand the mind of god to the extent that they're capable of it's pretty wild and then ultimately a change in the natural order and the change in the natural order another way of describing that is that uh hashem as he transcends space and time will be revealed within space and time i like that paradox hashem as he is is and will be will be revealed within time and space but let's continue so what we just described will not only take place in this world it'll take place in all worlds all systems of reality why how do you know because the way the upper worlds operate is all based on the way the lower world operates so if there's going to be this massive change when misha comes there's going to be this massive change in this world it really means there's going to be a massive change in all worlds even the higher worlds even the highest heavens will experience this massive revelation that they've never had before wow while derek viewers for instance you know an example of how something that happens in this world affects all worlds they establish reshredish which there therefore affects the dates of the yomim tavim they establish it in the in the human court now we don't do it every month like they used to do it but nevertheless the calendar we use is a human calendar it's a calendar that was made up down here by human beings and yet when when the calendar is set by humans down in this world that creates a reality even in the heavens because in heaven it's different than reshadish in heaven it's different on yomtif and yet the date that they have to follow in heaven even in the highest heavens for one israelis and one is one is they have to look what we're doing down here because we establish it down here in the lowest world sheches that when there is a yam there's an extra added light in the spiritual worlds and that happens because of a decision that's made down here you some la mata the yamtif takes place on the day that is established down here in the physical world um and since when comes the world this world and all of its details will change there will be a concomitant change in all of the worlds okay so we just said something pretty wild we said um comes the end of the socio-political exile they'll be end of the metaphysical exile all the jews will have knowledge of god and the world be full of the knowledge of god there will be a change a miraculous change in the order of nature and a revelation of hayah in time and space and that that will affect all worlds even the highest heavens wow all that stuff's gonna happen comes you wanna know something um however ah now after all that calling yanamelu they're all just symptoms of the real essence of meshia none of those are the essence of mashiach they are just symptoms see this is a theme maybe the theme of cuntus trying to get down to essence and the essence is when you can't get any deeper when you get behind every cause of every cause and you go to the core that is essence so all of these incredible things we just described they are things that will happen when mashiach comes but they are not the essence of mashiach they are reflections of the essence they are manifestations of the essence but they're not the essence just like we were talking before at the very beginning of the mimer we said that there are the different qualities of siddhis so we said well those are all symptoms of siddhis but none of them are the essence of siddhis okay so what is the essence of mashiach pray tell because remember why we're trying to find out the essence of because we said if we can pinpoint the essence of mashiach it'll help us pinpoint the essence of siddhis why because from the scar of something you could know what it is the scar of siddhis is when you spread out the teachings of the bashem of siddhis then comes so then for therefore if i can understand okay fine all right with me yeah all right chapter five trying to get down to the essence of meshiach so that we can get down to the essence of siddhis but it's not a level okay fine so that helps all right we're going to have to learn about yukida if we can properly understand yukida everything's going to fall into place let's continue different personalities throughout history are related to these different levels so that you have david malik is related to nephesh and the perfection of the nephesh elio navi elijah the prophet is ruach will be the manifestation of yeshida okay what we've established here is that there's a relationship between and by the way this idea is a kabbalistic idea it is from kabbalah and brought in in civis okay so let's talk about yukida the advantage of the ekita over the other four levels of the soul is what is the first four levels which we call nephesh are specific levels however is the essence of the soul atsa nashama which is above any specific categories as its name indicates the name which we'll talk about in a little bit so there's really not five levels because only four of the levels are levels the fifth is not a level it is the essence of the soul the imi says yet you cannot think of yakida as the source of the four in other words don't think of yukida is like the the aggregate or the conglomerate of all of these things and then you pick off of it different aspects and then here's the nephesh and here's a ruach and here's a shaman here's that's not how it works you do not find parts although all the parts or levels come from it it is not the sum total of the parts or even the source of the parts in the sense of being a um like a super level like those are the four levels and it is the super level from what for that all the levels are taken from it's not how it works and we said its name implies that let's talk a little bit about its name itself indicates that it does not lend itself to detailed categorization gamma gather macular protein it's not even a source of details not only does it not have details in it it is not a source for details as is known the difference between yohid and ahrad we refer to hashem as both yacht and akhod they're both true they both describe certain realities about hashem when we say that you know in the heavens and the earth it's all hashem hashem is right so it doesn't matter if it's spiritual or it's material hashem but you're still referring to the fact that there are heavens and there are earth and there and there is earth you're still talking about the fact that there is creation when we refer to hashem's yachid as the sole existence there's no heavens there's no earth there's no nothing there's just hashem so yehidas from that word are related to that word there's it's not that well is bigger than and encompasses all the other four parts no no when you're talking there are no parts there's no parts parts don't exist is not one of the four parts it's not the source of the parts it is the nukuda atmos the essential point of the soul is the other four parts come from it now i understand it sounds like we're like contradicting ourselves because we're saying like they don't come from it but they do come from it so what are we saying here what we're saying is well we're going to have a metaphor for this later on and i i don't want to spoil it so let's you know we got to allow there to be some suspense but let's just suffice it to say right now we're grappling with perhaps you call it a paradigm a paradox something that is seems to be a contradiction but this paradox is indicative of the very nature of essences something that's an essence uh has no details it's not even the source of details and yet all details can be traced to it now if you're thinking a step ahead you're probably remembering what we said last week about toyota that like you could take all the isms and the allergies in the world and put them together and you don't have taita and yet all the truth in all the isms and all the ologies can ultimately be traced to torah so if you're thinking like that you're thinking in the right direction but let's let's leave this paradox for now and and we will come back to it at length okay let's try to wrap up for tonight now just like every individual soul individual soul meaning of each person the yakida is the essence of that soul cain who by highest valencia michelle claus is touchless same in all of the worlds just like each person has a neshama and the yekida is the core of that neshama the world or worlds have a neshama there is a vitality that runs through all of the worlds and the core of that vitality is what should i say it is the essence of vitality of all the worlds which is the kid of all the worlds which is related to the idea of mashiach in all of the worlds which is the essence of the vitality which is above being limited to any particular form um the from that essential vitality of all of the worlds come forth all the different we call them we're using the names we use for the soul but now we're talking about say they're established we're talking about the worlds those are the four worlds and we'll talk about that at length a little bit uh the four worlds a little bit later later actually we'll talk about that at length but at any rate there are four levels of the soul and then there's the core of the soul which is called so to in his douseless in in the worlds there are levels which we call worlds and then there is the core essence of reality which is the of the world and that's related to the idea of mashiach how is it related to the idea of we didn't say yet but we're about to okay the essence of the vitality of the worlds is unlimited it's unlimited that unlimited nature of the vitality the core vitality of of reality is not only manifested in the fact that um it is eternal of course it's eternal because if it's an essence it doesn't change an essence does not lend itself to details or to be categorized and one of the biggest categorizations of something is past present future and essence is what it is it's a constant it never changes so the essence of the vitality of the worlds is eternal non-changing that's obvious after you say it it's obvious don't worry i didn't figure it out on my own either i'm reading it from here but that's not the only thing we can say about it let me just continue here there's a parenthetical statement about this um but we're we're gonna we're gonna come back and we're going to say that's true that's one thing the essence of the vitality of the worlds is eternal okay and that that's that's true but that's that's not that itself isn't what we're trying to bring out here all right but let's continue the the parentheses talking about the eternality of the essential uh vitality of the worlds in the brackets this is actually why when misha comes people will live forever right now what we're living off of is just the spreading forth of vitality not the actual core of life yes and therefore there's the interruption of life which we call death. when you're talking about the espacies with the spreading forth not the real thing itself so then there can be change and there can even be interruption but in the future comes then the essence of vitality will be revealed in the world and therefore everyone will live forever because essence doesn't change and the essence of life will not be interrupted but but that's not even the point we're making here that's not even the point we're making here ella rather when we say that the essence of life of all the worlds is infinite we're not just talking about it it it the fact that it can't be interrupted and therefore people will live forever we're saying something more than that we're saying qualitatively i guess opposed to quantitatively quantitatively talking about like it's duration it doesn't stop right but also qualitative you know there's quantitative infinity and there's qualitative infinity quantitative infinity is it it never ends qualitative infinity is it can't be broken into parts it's an interesting definition for infinity that we don't think of often but it's important to this idea elegant the infinite nature of the core vitality which will be revealed comes you'll you'll see there's a certain qualitative infiniti but another way of saying that is it is the ultimate form of perfection therefore when this the essence of vitality will will be revealed in the worlds which will happen when she comes and all the worlds will live not from the hispastus the spreading forth of vitality but from the essence of vitality itself then automatically everything will be as perfect as it is it is infinity it is the absolute ultimate of perfection when it is revealed in the world there will be ultimate perfection in everything so what we're saying is this we describe different things will happen comes there will be the end of the socio-political gullis there will be the end of the metaphysical goddess all the jews will be great sages and ultimately even there will be a change in the natural order and it'll affect not only the physical world but all the spiritual worlds but those are just manifestations those are just revelations reflections those are not the essence okay what's the essence pray tell where's the essence so we say like this the essence is just like in a person you have never no but none of that's the essence the essence of you is your yehida which cannot be divided into any uh details so too there's an essence of the vitality if you say what is the world what is life what is making reality be now what are the various forms of reality as we know it no what is the essence behind all reality that makes reality be that is the so to speak of the macrocosm when comes that will be revealed and that's why we'll live forever but more so that's a quantitative manifestation uh the qualitative aspect of of perfection that will be revealed so what is meshiach is the revelation of in all of the worlds or another way of saying that is meshiach is when reality as it truly is the essence of reality whatever it is not how it shows itself not how it manifests itself but the essence of reality as it is which is another way of saying god obviously will be revealed and therefore all perfection will also be revealed and now we're starting to zero in on the essence of siddhis because we're at we're zeroing in the essence of mashiach which is so if yahedah is really connected the mashiach so how do we understand siddhis through understanding so far so good okay god willing we'll continue next week thank you very much