Compassion & Repentance leads to Balance & Stability A Kabbalah class by Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz

welcome to our class on this we're going to be learning today a very special hasidic discourse of the rebbe the rebels said the specific discourse on shabbos pasha's azinu like this week's torah portion that year was you'd give me tishrei the 13th day of the month of tishrei which is the anniversary of the passing of the rabbi maharash the fourth chabad rebbe and it was said in the year tough shin khaftez 51 years ago the acidic discourse is based on the verse and the torah portion where it says kanesha yori kinoi like an eagle that hovers over its nest you say hey you all love russell you carried it carries it's on its back so the rubber brings from the rash who this anniversary was nachobot that when the torah says nesha are an eagle so we know there's the physical eagle but then there's a spiritual eagle what is the spirit what's the spiritual component of an eagle so in qasidis it says that an eagle is compassion when the verse says kanesha your ear so it's referring to the idea of rachmin rabbim not just compassion but tremendous compassion you so then the rebel asks a simple question so again we're dealing with a a an eagle which spiritually it's referring to compassion and again in this case your ear so it's heavy compassion but then it says he said hey you will carry them on all of rasay on his back we know it's if it's referring to hashem spiritually the compassion of hashem what does it mean hashem's back hashem doesn't have a body hashem is not in the image of a body so what does it mean that hashem is carrying on on on his back so the the rash explains based on a verse it says this is the torah of mankind which means when we learn torah when we do the mitzvot and we know the 613 mitzvot 248 positive commandments 365 negative commandments so when we observe the mitzvahs every single time we do a mitzvah we create on a spiritual level a another limb to hashem spiritual body every time we avoid transgression one of the 360 are negative commandments we create another part of hashem's body so in other words hashem says that when you and when all of us do the voice it's as if you're creating me so we create a spiritual image of hashem by us doing the mitzvos so that's in general when we do the mid-choice however over here it says evra we're on top of that body that's created which so the mirage explains very simple when we do the mitzvos the 613 commandments we create the spiritual image of hashem the spiritual body however when there is when there's the level of anesthesia which is obviously much more much stronger much more powerful then we create the ability to be above the body what does that mean practically what does it mean rachmanin robin explains when we do chuva when we repent and we're willing to go ahead and look at the things we've done wrong and rectify them by doing chuva we actually elevate it and we go above the 613 commandments we go above the 248 positive mid-south and 360 65 negative midsoles and we're able to go above the idea of the spiritual structure that was created through the mitzvos and the rabbit says this actually is online what it says in the kabbalah it says like this that we know in the uh there's a physical chariot and it's a spiritual chariot and the spiritual chariot in heaven what is over there so that we know there's something which is called jude gimmel kunidikna 13 points of light so in kabbalah it says that the the animals in the chariot knows the eagle the lion the axe all the four animals that are in the chariot so then they get their light from the thirteen points of light you'd give them to kony dick no however above that there's something which is called the national the eagle which is goes in the spiritual level of attic which is above the series in other words it's disconnected from the say the historical it's much stronger much higher and because it's much higher there's no limitations there's no constraints there's no concealments even in a level of hardened style source where there is some kind of a level of limitations it's totally above it not only that but the nasher which is chuva repentance you actually go even above the limitations of terror missus you know by learning torah and doing mitzvot you reach very very high but through truva you can even reach a much greater higher a higher level and because a person does truva and a person reaches above any limits and based on that you have the idea of what where the verse says yes you're able to go above and beyond everything that exists out there and based on the service says it's possible to say that's one of the reasons why we learn and we we read practice our zeno in these 10 days of truth right now we're in the 10 days of true between russian and kippur and the reason is because the top because the time of truva is is meant for a person that sinned now there ever says there's two types of sins there's one type of sin a real sin someone did something wrong knows either you missed an opportunity to do a positive commandment or god forbid you transgress the negative commandment that's one type of sin but then there's another type of sin a sin from allah that something is lacking what does that mean that means you're doing everything you're supposed to you're doing all the mitzvos you're not transgressing but it's not complete what does that mean you can beautify the midfielders you can do it better you can do it more enthusiasm um every single mitzvah you can do you can do it with more alacrity with more excitement every minute so there's many levels to it so you're doing the basics so if you're only able to do the basics fine that's all you're able to do but if you're able to do more than the basics and you only stick to the basics so that's also a type of a sin not in a sin where you where you god forbid you're missing something but you're not you're not you're fulfilling your potential so if someone lives their life and doesn't fulfill the potential it's also a type of a sin however when a person goes ahead and does truva again so trouba could be either you're lacking something you missed a mitzvah or you transgressed or true you say you know what oh my gosh these things i could have done better and you actually work on being better and doing things complete so then you're able to reach to a very very high level the spiritual level which is called you say you all of russia which refers to in the verse so that's so far the rubber brings from the mirage now the rubbish asks a very very simple question the verse says kanesha it singles out one of the four animals on the chariot so why specifically dinosaur why is the verse specifically referred to nesha the idea of what's the question because we know in the chariot there's four or four animals there's the the face of a lion there's the face of an axe so if there's other type of animals there why specifically the the idea of the nature of the eagle now even though we just learned that naturals are very is much higher because nasa goes to arctic arctic means it's above the series but the fact is that's when nesher is disconnected but the fact is there is on some level nashua's on the same level as all the other animals of the of the chariot so if that's the case since they are they they the nesha does have a quality which is as as all the other animals of the um cover so why is it singled out specifically the nesha and specifically when it refers to nash it's referring to a national which is connected to this world walk is already saying is compassion which we know compassion that an eagle has is out for example we know what oyriv is a vulture that's not compassionate when someone's a vulture the attribute of vulture is not compassion but when we talk about compassion we're talking about literal compassion down in this world and abundance of compassion in this world so the question then is why specifically the idea of an usher versus the other animals so there everybody explains very powerful the spiritual structure of the mercover how it works and he says as follows in the recover there's four animals we're talking specifically about three because these are the main ones and he says like this play aries the face of a lion is to the right the place sure the face of the axis to the left and plain nasher is in the middle so in the chariot you have the line on the right the ox on the left and the nasher in the middle what's the whole idea of the natural that's in the middle because we know that the others are also the spiritual chariot of hashem now we know that avraham avinu is kava yamin is the right like the arya yitzhak is the middle one like the nasher so when we're talking about yaakov and we know yaakov is midasari the attribute of the yakov is the middle one so that's so that that's the connection with nasher and the other so the ah voice right left and center and this is beautiful there ever says if you give a look in the torah portion it says like this right after right before it says that the um the part of hashem is this nation means a part of hashem it speaks specifically at which one of the patriarchs specifically of yaakov and then it says kanesha you are kino why because kanesha yuri kimura is coming as a continuation of yaakov why since yaakov is the center of the others yaakov is a kava and soy and the nasher is the kavansai so that's why he specifically singles out nasher so the reason why he chooses nature because it's coming in relation to yaakov and yakov is the middle sphero is and that's why it only mentions nasher and we all know that yaakov is the complete of the others avraham was on the right yitzuk's on the left the one that's centered specifically yaakov so here we see that again the nester why is it what's so impactful about the national because it's the middle one just like yaakov which is the middle one so the question is what does that mean spiritually why is the middle so powerful and why is the middle so important trevor is going to explain here two powerful ideas on a spiritual level why the middle is so important and he explains like this we know that the middle one is something that goes from the beginning to the end in other words for example you know in the temple when temple was built so they had walls and the michigan there was walls how did the walls work so the walls they worked was for example they had the lower they had the higher rod the middle rod and they had the lower rod the way the higher and the lower rods were they had rods and then on each wall they had two rods two rods two rods and there was no there was technically a disconnect between all the rods that went around the michigan however the the middle rod went into the wall and miraculously made a turn went to the end made another turn came all the way back so in in the in in the hummus it's basically called the middle pillar that went through all the world walls mavriach me now kotzel cuts that went from beginning to the end so that's on a physical level what does that mean spiritually that the middle one goes from the beginning to the end so spiritually means like this when we say from one end to the other so we're referring to not only physical we're talking to obviously spiritual so one end to the other is usually referring to from the highest to the lowest that means the middle is connected from the highest to the lowest and matter of fact what's interesting is that when you measure the the middle bar in the mishkan it actually was 72 ammot which is actually one of the 72 names of hashem so in other words like this it goes from the highest to the lowest which means very simple and it goes both ways because it comes from the highest place spiritually it's able to penetrate down to the lowest place or just the opposite when something is so low you want to get out of it and you have the power you find the power to go so high for example practically speaking in kabbalah we call practically we call it in our spiritual work so when we just celebrate rosh hashanah we know why do we blow the shaffer because we when you blow from the small end of the strafer you get the big the big sound so when a person reaches out from the depths from the spiritual low that allows you like it says in the zoyar to reach the highest levels you're able to reach the highest levels in hashem up into the point where we know in russian indian kipper when a person calls out from the depths of their heart me from the depth of your heart from pain from anguish from challenges you're going through you're able to reach the highest place and when you reach the highest place within hashem you're able to affect that hashem should forgive us and hashem should give us atonement and you should totally wipe away all our sins but how's that come from because we reached lefnay hashem literally to the face and the essence one we're totally connected face to face with the essence of hashem has that happened by coming from the depth or as the verse says the level of aruach toshuvalla kemashinasana we our spirit goes back to literally darshan that shaman gave us the original spirit that explains at length tremendously in the terror so the first idea that i was explaining is that what's the idea of the middle the idea of the middle is it goes from the lowest to the highest and therefore it goes from the highest to the lowest and that's very very powerful because if it's high or low it doesn't go doesn't go the whole way through but when you're reaching out from the bottom and when you're reaching from the place of challenges you're able to reach the highest places hashem and the same thing also vice versa from the highest places you have the power to bring down the energy you are to the lowest places that's one idea of the power of the middle the middle goes from the top to the bottom from the bottom to the top and life is great then there explains another idea that the idea of the middle one the middle of the road is that the top and the bottom the bottom and the top is totally equal totally equal in other words why because normally if you think about something flowing from top to bottom or from the bottom to the top there's usually difference difference in the beginning and the end the flow in the beginning is stronger after it gets weaker or in the beginning it's slower and then it speeds up and so on and so forth the middle one means that there's no differentiation between the beginning and the end from the top to the bottom it's all equal all equal now what's the reason what's the reason because since it goes from the beginning to the end so in the beginning it's going the idea is it's going from the beginning to the end so if it's going from the beginning to the end means the beginning and the end have the same thing and never explains like this when you're dealing with the right and with the left it's not the essence think about it it's right and it's left the middle is the essence so in the middle it's the essence so it's the essence so the top and the bottom it's all the same thing on the right it's already right which means in kabbalah it's called a ahara it's called array so it's not the essence in a ray you have a difference of the light in the beginning and the end in the middle it goes to the right it goes to the left it's not necessarily the same thing and so therefore it actually gets gets weakened and it actually changes however in the essence there's no difference now why is that so so ever explains very simple even though if you looked at a chart of the srirad what's the highest sphero the highest fear is called kesser and from there branches out bina das crested word ferrous and we know we have rights we wrote and you have centros all the spheroed start wherein kesser and it goes to the right khachma no das but they all connected to kessler but the truth is rubber says that the right spheroids and the left sphero is connected to kessler which podcasts are only concerning a successor however the middle sphero actually connect gets connected to premise accessor so because the right spheroids are from kitsune from the external part of the crown so therefore there's different levels this is higher this is lower this is more and it's different when it comes to the pneumos the essence of kessar there's really no difference and whoever says that if you give a look at the a human being so we also have a right and we have a left and we have a center service is very very simple you know it says which means that our we are built also from the sphero so for example we also have right left and center what's the difference look on your right side you have a hand and you have a foot in the hand you have different parts of the hand you have fingers you have nails on you all different levels of energy in the center it's all one level straight from your head your heart and your center part of your body it's all one there's no there's no difference the difference you see is on the up versus right hand left hand right foot left foot in the center it's all one so you see the same idea that when it comes to right and left there's different levels however when it comes to center it's all one and there gives a simple example let's say you have an idea you want to do something so automatically your body feels it and it acts on it why because it's all connected versus on the on the right and the left sometimes it's a slow down in the process the same thing also explains that um you have in in on the spiritual level you have um right and you have left so what is it saying kabbalah says it says there's different levels of energy it changes and so on and so forth however when it comes to the middle the kava and psy what does it say it's one straight line it may be shorter but it's going to be a straight it's going to be the same from the top to the bottom so based on this derby explains that is the quality of yaakov what was yaakov avinu he was the center that means by him it was balanced and that's why when referenced the yakov it says mitose schlema his bed was complete why because we all know the torah tells us that avraham had two children who is two children yitzhak ishmael we know yitzhak followed avram's path and you spoil the torah takes yatsume menu he left him he went on his own journey yitzchak we know had two children yaakov and asov yaakov followed his path and asa of yatsumenu he went on his own journey why is that because since avraham and yitzchak avraham was from the right and you talks on the left so they produce different type of children not bad and good it's different you have yitzchak and yeah you're small you have jakov and asov how however when it comes to yaakov if he was centered so there's no difference all his kids obviously everyone was unique but they were all centered they all followed his path so even the way the children came down they became dependent the independent human beings nevertheless they all follow this path because again the right will produce different levels of energy and different types of energy the left will produce different types of energy and different levels of energy when it comes to the middle it's all one one type of energy one level of energy and you see it in reality in reference to the example the rubber gauge is now from avraham in reference to his children yitzhak and his children and yak visions children and um based on this job explaining something very very fascinating what the arizona um bring explains a verse in proverbs where king solomon says like this king solomon we know is the one of the wisest people that existed king solomon says as follows there are three things which are wow wondrous to me the arbor on the four four things i don't know i don't even know how it works and what does he give an example in that verse and he says i don't know how it works that you have the eagle flying in heaven so the there's a simple meaning to it but what the arizona says spiritually what was what was what was slightly males wonder how eagles fly in the heavens plenty of birds are flying heaven what was he wondering so much so their result says like this what schleimer hamelik was wondering was anesha an eagle we know is not a pure bird it's an impure bird so the question is an impure bird how come it's in heaven and how come it's one part of the chariot there should have been a pure bird a kosher bird a holy bird a nester which is an impure bird should be part of the chariot that's what they are reason explains so we know there ever says we know the question is why was slain muhammad so concerned about the nesha only the nesha what we mentioned before the ari the the lion the ari the lion is also part of the chariot and we know the lion is not a kosher animal it's impure it's an impure animal nevertheless it's one of the the animals of the of the of the holy chariot so how come he wasn't bewildered about the arya only about the nesha so there everybody explains because we know that nessur is is an eagle nester also comes from the word of noisher of a neutral which means it falls down in other words the difference between the nasher spiritually and the arya that when the nester falls down into the low places that's also considered heaven by him and that's why he was wondering so much about the nester another like this this that we say that the lion is part of the chariots in heaven it's referring to the source of the lion not the lion itself the source of the lion but not the way god forbid it came down as an impure animal so in other words what he's saying is follow us we have the lying down in this world which is impure they're lying the way it's impure is not in heaven the shrewish the source of the lion where it's totally pure in heaven that's part of the chariot in other words even though down here it's in pure but that's okay down here it's in pure but the source is pure like there ever brings us like this because the arya is so powerful on a holy level matter of fact in heaven it's very very powerful so therefore when it fell down to this world it became impure because since it was so so spiritually high when it came down to this world couldn't handle this physical world and therefore became impure so therefore once it became down this in this in this world and became impure it's disconnected it it disconnected with the with the spiritual side it disconnected from its source so by an area by a lion the source is holy and very very holy and in this world it's impure but there's really no there's a disconnect there's no connection between weights in this world and it's source however when it comes to an eagle an eagle in heaven it's holy it's rakhanim but when it comes down noise even rightful in this world it's also on a spiritual level and that's why king solomon was going was wondering the lion i'm not concerned about because in the heaven i see this holy image is holy line i'm very holy but down here i see a a a impure animal and they're disconnected almost as if they're two different entities however when the nester inhabits rahman but down here it's also an esser it's also holy and nevertheless it's impure has it go together it has to go together and the answer is like we learned before that's the power of the kaava empty the middle line the middle source of energy over the right and the left why because we know the famous line that says you mean the right mecharedus brings in and smile pushes it away in other words when you're dealing with something so the right always takes and elevates and upgrades things it transforms however things which are forbidden and are connected to um areas we don't have the power to elevate so that we use small daika to push it away however when it comes to kava and soyii the middle one which basically what's the middle one the middle one is the compassion the compassion of the of the eagle so even things that fall down and they come down to this world they can also be on the level of what of shamayim of heaven so again when it comes to you mean smile so there's your min makareva small there's definitely differences however when it comes to the middle of the road heaven down here it's all equal it's all connected that's when the lion when it's in heaven it could be holy and godly and down here it's not because it's coming from the right or if it was coming from the left in this case coming from the right however when it comes to the nester even when it comes down in this world it could still be holy why because it's using the middle source of energy and there ever says this is the power of truva this is the power of repentance because we know chuva has the power that it could take something which is a zodian something which is forbidden and you did something wrong or you missed an opportunity but when a person decides they want to do chuva taste you want to return to hashem you totally can transform it to totally something which is 100 holy in other words there's different levels of chuva one level is the first level of true where you're returning to hashem so you can take something which is forbidden zaldon which is forbidden and you can make it a shay gig you can make it you know neutral territory you did it not necessarily intentionally but the ultimate of truva the ultimate of real open repentance is that when a person does something wrong which is a zadine it's something wrong you miss the mitzvah or you transgress the mitzvah you can literally when a person does real true you return to hashem you can take something that was wrong and you can actually transform it to something which is totally positive meritorious holy on all levels and that's the real power of truva zerba says it says in the verse bake a stollen when a person is backache when a person is looking and yearning to return you could make peace out of anything things that were negative things that you couldn't that you weren't able to deal with before through truva you can you can turn it into peace however when it comes to that void of surmountable toy we know that no certain things you have to stay away from not everything you can elevate but through truly able to elevate anything and everything so based on this job explains beautifully the ver the verses in this week's torah portion where it says like this kanesha what did we say before what's the idea because the tremendous compassion robin what is that referring to what the verse said before that that it comes from the idea of which is the middle of the road and when you have the middle of the road energy you have the power to bring compassion into everything and the verse says midbar so what once you have yake which is the middle of the road we said you can go from the top to the bottom all over you can permeate it with with holiness like yaakov what does that mean you have a string so a string the idea of a string is wherever you hold on to it from the bottom from the top you're connected anywhere you hold on to it it shakes the whole string why because since yak wave is the middle of the road and the middle of the road it's all equal so wherever you pick up you're able to elevate and basically says something very very powerful what does the verse say who shall be found the eretz midbar in the desert and we all know spiritually there's a city there's a field and there's a desert so a city spiritually is a place which is inhabited with torah and mitzvot and all the great things uh the the the field is already neutral territory a desert we all know according to kabbalah it's deserted what is it spiritually it doesn't mean that you cannot elevate it desert is not a place to elevate but nevertheless when you have yaki when you have the middle of the road when you have chuva you can even you can say you barrett smith that even in it's in even in the mid where you can elevate it even over there you can say you can find hashem like again the rubber quotes in the terry where he says be cast to me some that wherever you are you can return to hashem and you can receive reach out to hashem and the verse said what does the verse say it's so we know that in the eye we have the white part and you have the dark part so which means that the dark part of the eye the light comes out from where rashi says from the dark not from the white part what is the question the light comes from the dark part it should come from the light part and the answer is because we know in kabbalah it says the goal is or the greatest light comes when it's that when the dark sees that's real light when you take something which is dark when you take dynamics when you take a sin when you take something you did wrong and you're able to do truva that's when you have the greatest light and as we know this explains to this many many places yes that the great light comes where specifically you want to have real light that's great you want to have great light min specifically from the from the darkness and then based on this the verse says connection you are a kino and you say you where is he going to carry allah on top of him which we said before that's the level of attic the highest level of kessar because through the fact that you have the kaveh and sorry the middle path you're able to go even above avrosai which means even above normal procedure of learning terror and doing mitzvos you're able to reach the place of slicha and kapara where hashem forgives and hashem atones for every for all the sins until we we're able to reach a level which is higher than terrorists and as the verse says hashem that there will be a place that no stranger is going to be there and the only thing that's going to exist is the jewish people and hashem so here you see the tremendous power that shruva has shuva has the power to reach the highest places and the reason why chuva has the power to reach the highest place is because chuva's from the middle of the road it takes right from the middle and because it takes right in the middle as rubber explained there's two ideas one is that when you when you call me mamakim from the depth you reach the highest and the other idea is that what the highest and from the top and the bottom it's all equal so wherever you latch on wherever you hook on wherever you get involved you're connected to the source and i think this is a beautiful discourse to learn now on a serious matuva because we're all trying to do truva while trying to turn to hashem we have to realize it's very very easy all we need to do is connect to the middle of the road connect to yaakov connect to the idea of the emes the truth of toro and do true truva we're about to reach tremendous and great places so let's hope the compassion of hashem and the month of uh the month of el we just experienced and now in the serious meetup as the verse says dear srashmi matsuya karuba yosef hashem is now close to us hashem is available to us all we need to do is do a little chuva and we'll reach the greatest hashem and we'll be zoe to have a great yom kippur where hashem will forgive us and we'll have true simcha afterwards on circus and so much for joining us for our to this class and let's hope next class will be your metro samuel your salaam iraqi dish