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Der Rebbe Redt Tzu Kinder — The King Is in the Field
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Text-based study of an original Yiddish talk from the Rebbe to children. The Rebbe revisits the Alter Rebbe's famous parable of "the king in the field" and explains it in terns relatable to the life of a child. Elul is camp and Tishrei is school.
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all right so it's already been shabbos
we are in the saud we're in the field
we're getting ready
for big things um
the the muscle of the malach basade
is from the altar from the cotetera a
very very very well known martial
which the rabbi explained
many many times with different
bringing out different details of the
marshall
at different times in different circles
and my mottom
but what we're going to learn tonight
together
is very very special because that ever
brings out some
details in this classic muscle
that to my knowledge you don't find
anywhere else
these are special protein of the
marshall
of the mel pasode what are negaya to
children in siva's hashem and
even for those who are not children or
children of all ages maybe we'll call it
uh it brings out a certain
another level in the muscle
so let's take a look here
and uh this is entitled owl
men from saudi summer camp
we're returning back from the saga from
the field which is summer camp and we're
going to
the city literally leaving the country
where the summer camps are located
and going back to the city where most of
the campers
live okay let's just jump right in
everything is divine providence
der marshall is
the marshall the martial of the
malaquasada is very appropriate
to what's going on here right now as in
heidi's alol cartman's from the summer
camps
happens to be nothing happens to me
obviously and elo
protest is when we come back from the
camps which are out
in the country generally speaking
in feld and not just there in the
country but they're in
you know areas that are that are field
like literally
a field a real field not a metaphorical
field an actual field
and that was where in camp we've just
spent
consecutive weeks in a jewish
environment
it's visceral yiddish
among jewish people and jewish things
so before we go go forward i just want
to
bring something out here
the alternate explained alo
200 years ago over 200 years ago the
alt-right explained what is
l with a martial
aloe on one hand is a time
of his galaxy that's how it explains it
in
liquid on the other hand ll is the time
of yemen oil
in fact in very stark contrast with the
next month
with tishrei which is full of yamamtavim
allah doesn't have one single yomtif
so on one hand it's a time of special
spiritual energy
these guys you'd give
it's a time of divine favor a divine of
divine compassion
and you would think it would be full of
yemen tavern maybe the whole haiti
should be one big yomtiv
and nevertheless not one single yomtif
and the way the alternative
explains that phenomenon is with a
marshal of you know what it's like
it's like the field outside of the
palace when the king is returning to the
palace and he goes through the field
so faker the fact that it's not a
yamatov
that it's that it's all yamaha that it's
a that's it's milot
it's myla is like a king when he's
passing through
the field everyone has access okay so
that's
the marshall the way the altered brought
it out
200 years later the debit brings out
unpacks decodes more depth
that's in this muscle and like the rebbe
says altza's bachelor protest
the whole idea of
returning to school you're finishing
you're finishing up camp you're winding
up summer camp
you're going back to school that's
something that is very very
you know deeply embedded in the in the
rhythm of
life of a child okay that's like
there are two seasons there's camp and
there's school right
and then or maybe there's camp and
there's getting ready for camp right
that's the rhythm that's the pulse of
life for a child comes the deb
and explains how autism
this same rhythm that takes place
in jewish life that the al-tarab
explains
as this relationship between a
metaphorical field and a metaphorical
palace which is elo and tishrei
that same rhythm is represented
literally
in the life of the jewish child and
what's more it's not just a metaphorical
field
it's a literal field literally at this
time of year
the child is winding up his days in a
sauder
and a literal saga and he's getting
ready to go back to the
palace to the city
other words that ebb is bringing out
here
how the child's life
is so in tune with
the the cycle the pattern the rhythm
of what's happening spiritually and
and just there's a couple things i just
want to you know remark
on here first of all
you see that the rabbit is the rabbit of
children
what do i what do i mean by that
maybe you can say i'm not a historian so
to make such a claim i don't know you'd
have to be a historian but i think that
is the first who not only
the rabbi has children who are
full-fledged
children are not considered in training
they're not a a a
a lesser class or a
second class
the children are the rabbis siddhim
and the rebel is so in tune with his
siddhim
that he's bringing out depth in a muscle
that for 200 years the grown-ups didn't
know about this i mean it was obvious it
was always there
but for 200 years the grown-ups didn't
know about
this aspect of the marshall and now the
because he has children who are siddhim
is bringing out
another whole dimension of malik basade
that was never understood or known or
discovered or maybe even dreamt of
before
so that's the first thing i just want to
point out the second thing is
how comforting it is how reassuring it
is
that the dab is talking to a child right
now
and explaining to the child what's going
on in
your life as a child is so
perfect it's so appropriate it's so
the fact that we're gearing up now for
tishrei
whatever you want to call it the shift
from the summer
to the school year you as a child
are so in tune what's happening in your
life right now is exactly
what's happening spiritually it's what's
happening in the universe right now
in other words it's like telling the
child you are exactly where you ought to
be you're exactly
in the right movement in the right place
exactly how it's supposed to be happened
now i don't know what to tell kids in
australia
where they have tishrei in the middle of
the school year
right but at any rate that's a that's a
myotavamiut
but that ebb is speaking to the to the
children and and
and basically reinforcing it's the word
i would use is it's very reassuring
it's very reassuring to be reminded
that what's happening for you right now
in your life as a child
is really really representative of
what's actually
happening you know in in the highest
planes
and yeah again
this brings me back to the first comment
that i want to make how the rebbe has
see them who are children it's like it's
not even like oh you're the kids you
have the kids version of yiddish kite
no actually what the kids are doing
right now is more in line with
what's happening in the universe right
now at this time of year
than maybe some adults who don't have
that
literal transition from field to city at
this time of year
okay so just wanted to point that out
let's uh let's continue here in the text
jews are compared to a tree in the field
actually this happens to be from this
week's parsha from parishes shaftim
ki audem etzasod so that's another
connection to the
protest from this time of year jews are
compared to a tree in the field so now
that ebb is bringing in another aspect
of the marshall
the malach basade is connected to the
ki audemais asade and how are we
connecting the two things
okay let's see
[Music]
just like a tree is growing
and giving out fruits
and the fruits contain within them seeds
from which will grow
more trees which give out more fruits
and so on and so forth okay that's
that's the marshall
we're going to get to the nim show but
before we go to the nim show just want
to point something out
what's the marshall it's very important
the true meaning of growth
growth is a multi-dimensional
concept in fact
you many of us are aware of the the
theta of the bashamtive
about uh sadiq kitama yifraj
que eres bellavoni
will flourish like a date palm like a
cedar in lebanon he'll grow very tall
so bashantiv explained that this is
talking about two different types of
tzadikim one
is a tsadek who's like an eres
bilavonian a la a lebanese cedar he
grows very very tall
very good wood that's what they made the
basa miktus out of so
his growth is mostly in his growing
his becoming more of a muslim
what's lacking though is he doesn't give
fruits there's no such thing as a cedar
fruit and thomas
then you have the tamar the date palm
the date palm doesn't grow as tall i
mean it's tall but
i mean it's not short it's not a bush
it's a tall tree
but you've seen a date palm yeah it's a
tall tree but it's not tall like a cedar
but it gives fruit and and the reason
that it's not as tall as precisely
because it gives fruit
that much of the energy that it would
have given into growing taller
the cedar spends all of its energy on
itself the the
date palm uses its energy also to
produce fruit
and the fruit gives nourishment to
people and the animals but also the
fruit contains within its seeds
and the seeds grow more date palms which
in turn grow more fruits with more seeds
and that's what growth is growth is not
just
my own personal development can't be
it can't be it can't growth cannot
be one-dimensional cannot just be my
personal
development even for a child and and i
say even for a child because
during childhood that is the time to
focus more on
self than on environment
when we grow up and we become married
and we have responsibilities to a family
and then to a community and ultimately
to the world
the the focus becomes less and less self
and more and more
you know other and for a child it is me
time it is a time that
to work on yourself and to develop
yourself but even for a child
see this is a kiddish even for a child
growth cannot just be
my growth growth has to be two things
like a tree
growth the tree grows but then also
growth means giving fruit
and fruit means the reproductive cycle
where
fruit gives rise to more trees which
give rise to more fruits which give rise
to more trees and so on and so forth and
as i
and and like that ever says here there's
a whole
cycle which never ends so
that's the first thing is that growth
in the rebels worldview growth always is
multi-dimensional it's not just my
personal growth
it's my growth as an influencer and then
my influence
becomes an influence on others because
those who i influenced
then go on to influence still more
people just like the the
the fruit that grows from the tree which
grows a tree which grows fruit there's a
saying
anyone can count the seeds in an apple
but only hashem knows how many apples
are in a seed
so when you talk about a seed
the fruit that's the idea of your
influence
grows exponentially that with with every
every person who you reach out to and
you touch
so then so much more the the influence
magnifies itself in it and it grows and
grows and grows from there okay
so we're in the soda right now the altar
but at the same time we're sort of
morphing together the ultraboost malach
masada with the key of them it's assad
so we're in the saw there what are we
doing we're growing and what does it
mean we're growing
we're not just growing and becoming
better ourselves but we're growing
in being influential on others okay
let's continue here
so just like a tree grows
it grows taller and it gives fruits so
too let's read the nimsho
azaleedon
with a jew there's no such thing as a
time when you're no longer growing in
your yiddish kite
nor
rather he's always growing taller and
giving more fruit both of those
growing taller so the tree itself is
taller giving more fruits
fruits that benefit others and also
which produce another generation of
trees
okay so there's no break just like the
tree
is always growing and always giving
fruit so to there's no break even when
we're in the sod they look about to say
that wasn't a break we weren't taking a
break from growth that was
part of the growth okay so we're about
to see a new level in the muscle of
malachi basade l isn't just a
preparation for tissue
l itself is growth let's read inside de
zelda
the same thing when jewish children are
in the field the literal field in the
summer camp
trots them in
so fast although they're involved in
things to make their bodies healthier
getting fresh air getting exercise it's
a in iron mice of zion in allah
at the very same time they are growing
in their jewish things in learning
terror in
holy things and learning theory and
darwining and doing mitzvos
says gorf in fact to the contrary not
only
are they also doing holy things while
they're taking care of their body
no it's even higher than that from them
soul men cannon
the whole purpose of dealing with the
body making the body healthier
was only to be able to to increase
in in yonum of toyota and mitzvos so the
whole thing was holy
so you think holy starts when you go to
school
i love this i just love this it's like
ellen
is camp tishrei is school that's such a
muscle i mean that's what the
alternative meant how could that
that's what they look that's what the
algebra meant all along
ello is camp tishrei is school
you think that camp is just to get ready
for school
camp is school camp is the same thing
there's no such thing as a break
or you think it's summer it's a break
from school and school is the really is
kite and camp's a break
no it's all part of the growth it's all
one thing there's no break there's no
pause there's no going a different
direction we're always going
one direction growth growth growth okay
let's continue
so this is the special teaching that it
applies to the jewish children
and we grown-ups could also learn from
the jewish children the fact that
in elol protest is that time of shifting
from camp to school
[Applause]
so if the people in the altar original
muscle
the people in the saudi they were in
their overalls you know uh
doing you know gardening or whatever
they they they're not clean
they're dirty they're wearing work
clothes right and yet the king sees them
and he
smiles at them and he receives them with
a happy face
so if that's the case if the people in
the field who are involved in field
things the king receives them so
kindly is the havada
then
the children even when they were in the
field they were doing jewish holy things
is
how much more so hashem for sure it
greets them with joy and fulfills all of
their requests
because the kids are in the field and
even in the field
they're already one step ahead they're
already it's not like they're waiting to
get to the city to the palace to become
holy
in the field they're already holy okay
and marshall is the caballes pondom von
kanegenfeld
the tsugretong afternoon
just like in the marshall that the
greeting the king greeting us
in the field is a preparation to follow
him and go along with him
into the palace so too and then himself
so to what we're talking about with
children
the ala gote ein flossen un basclosin
fundercite in the summer camps
all the good influence and the good
decisions
that happened while we were in camp in
felled
zionist greytong of their site
van it was all
just building up to being able to have a
good tishrei
and the influence of camp has to be
recognizable all year long
how will the influence of camp be
recognizable all year long because the
jewish child will conduct himself
properly as a jewish child must
um
and he'll want to do hashems with a lot
of
exuberance excitement um
and when we make the right resolution
about this and we do so with joy so
um
that we want to make ourselves more
fitting and more worthy
of following along with the king from
the field back to his palace
we immediately immediately you don't
even have to wait till teshrae
you have a good camp and you absorb the
right influence in camp and you make the
right
haklothas during camp and automatically
you get exceeded
already it's already it's already signed
and sealed waiting for you to head into
this day with
me
from hashems full open
holy wide hand so there you go
this is how to have the right
new year this is how to get all the
brachas it's all about the saudi
it's not that we're in asada because
we're in a holding pattern we're waiting
to get to the real place no there's
never such a thing
the saudi itself it's not just
that because it on the way to the palace
you have to go through this so there's
no in that ebb
worldview there's never anything like
there's no such thing as you know that
ebba
brings a latin in the cities for the
grown-ups that the rugged chaver says
even a haksha mitzvah is a mitzvah
there's no such and magdale there's a
whole
lumbers about this but the the nakuda is
there's no such thing as
oh it's only a preparation what are you
talking about the preparation itself
i guess i guess it's what i was saying
earlier you know about letting the child
know that
their the rhythm and the pattern of
their life is totally
in the right flow in the right space
exactly in tune with what's happening in
in reality right now the idea that
wherever you are right now
is exactly the right place there's no
such thing as
you know when when we'll get to the
school year when we'll get to tishrei
when it'll be rosh hashanah
you're exactly where you need to be
right now and when you put yourself
totally into where you need
to be right now then everything
automatically falls into place and you
just
roll into the next you roll with the
momentum
you're already riding the wave and
you're just going strong already
when you come to the next place where
you need to be anyways such a beautiful
muscle i think we need to share with
adults
that elol is camp and tishrei
is school and when you have the right
camp then you're going to have the right
school year
and uh that's it
it's very interesting how i got the
sticker earlier today and i was
looking at it and i saw the same words
that you said but
i saw a very different sister the way
you gave it over in such a way
i plowed so many different points but
the thing that i think that resonated
with me most
is this idea of how the child
their whole life is their decision
i think that for for a child like
i think that the key of a soldier in a
sim's army
is total dedication total commitment
and for a child to be able to see that
their
their their sports in camp
and their or their or what they're doing
in their school environment is all part
of their avedas hashem
is the most fundamental message you can
give a child
and and and their life is more close to
the marshall of malaga than ours they're
they're getting it right
they're really in tune with the way it
ought to be right now
amazing so we can extend this not only
to the soda but
every day when a child comes home and
he's playing or doing whatever he does
at home
that's all part of part of the hino
that's right it's very interesting
because we at our house we listen to
your
famous shirt
thank you that's nice
i wasn't sure and i was speaking so
i was speaking to somebody i was telling
them that before
before the shirems i always knew the
part says
you can't earn one penny more than was
already destined for you
but it was uh it was of art but when you
listen to the showroom
suddenly you become realize that it's
not a part
this is just the reality and all of a
sudden you
lose that if you want to call it drive
that you had
i have to do this so i have to do that
because otherwise it's not going to work
so somebody would show us and so i can
sit and show them dive in a little
longer it's not
not going to hurt because that's not
going to take away from the partnership
that they
should was going to give me and so
somebody in show was saying
but lapel i have to work you can't just
to be about them see
and show all day system you don't get it
what what they're telling us is that you
are working 24 hours a day
your sleep is it your eating is it
yeah and you're dabbing is it right and
20 hours a day you're working
it happens to be that some of that time
you're going to be in business but
you're always working yeah that's right
and it really ties in with what you said
today
that's right right yeah yep
very powerful very powerful we're
changing the world to retail
making you this guy real bad
you know i i i didn't want to mention
this during this year you know
i was hoping to be a little bit of a
fabrian afterwards so i just want to i
mean
i want to point out and to whatever
extent this helps people if it doesn't
help you then forget i said it but
when we hear something like this you
know
either we relate to it as you know
memories of our childhood or
we relate to it as um
as parents or maybe you relate to it
you know as a mechanic but this idea of
the rhythm of the year the summer and
then the
the the autumn and the you know the
school year
is a as a rhythm in your life
you know that's something we relate to
it resonates with us
i i i just want to whatever extent it's
helpful to point out
i don't believe that ever went to summer
camp
and i don't believe you know
that uh you know
we we know that was different than than
a regular hindu so it wasn't like
you know that ed was talking about his
own childhood
but the way that ebb is so in tune
with
you ask a holy person you know
what's aloe aloe's getting ready for
tishrei
he won't even think i'm talking about
regular holy people i'm talking about
you know the
roche alfa israel
they wouldn't even think that this is a
time where children
are getting ready for school unless
you're a parent
unless you're a parent of children then
it's very real to you because you get
the book list
and you got to make sure your kid has
has the uniform and then
and you have to make sure you know all
the stuff that we're doing
but for the rabbit to be that
in tune with the fact
that children what's aloe owl's t-shirt
today you're getting rid of petition
and and that happens well yeah but what
does that mean it means
children are coming from camp and
they're ready to go to school
for for a manager to be in tune with
that
you you would have to believe that the
whoever spoke such as
has small children at home right now to
be in tune
to even think to make to mention that
when when everything that's going on in
owl is going on
who's in tune with the spirituality of
it you would think to be able to say
such a secret to have it even occurred
to to to
to say such a secret that he must have
small children at home
so you see at least to me
what is a neshama claulus
someone that's in tune with every single
jew
and that means that ebb is in tune with
the children
and their life is a real life and their
vedas hashem is a real of it is hashem
and what's going on for them right now
is just as important and just as real
as what's going on in big people's lives
and not only just as real but
in the child's life you can bring out
a whole new appreciation of a 200 year
old muscle from the altar
that nobody appreciated because maybe
nobody
until now you know you didn't have a a
nasty
who who who was speaking a two and
speaking about and being in tune with
with with the lives of of children and
to me it's just absolutely astounding
we take it for granted i i i coined a
term
a few years ago when i was teaching
seminary the term is spiritually spoiled
we know what material is spoiled
materially spoiled is somebody
who has all the comforts and you know
they get a car for their 16th birthday
and they crash the car and then daddy
buys you a new car that's called
materially spoiled
spiritually spoiled is we don't
we we don't realize the ice race
that the rabbit revealed the stuff that
we
know that nobody knew
the altera if you would ask
you know zalman's asthma benjamin
kletzke
they didn't know this about the altar as
marshall
and we know it how do we know it
because we have a rabbit who revealed it
to us
and it's just it's mind-blowing
it's mind-blowing that the level of
connectedness that that ebba has to
every jew
even children especially children
and and and and that therefore a whole
new appreciation
of of of yiddishkeit comes out
when when anasi is sharing with us on
this level it's
it is absolutely unreal and and i think
sometimes
because we're so spoiled because we have
so much of it
we need to stop once in a while and just
say wow
wow this is this is mind-blowing i just
just wanted to put that out there
and then it goes but goes into the
general idea of like when you look
like we were saying last week with the
labex tata
of how he made it
those so this and then how became
i think in a similar sense
talking about veda shri and the haiti of
the mountain
this is what what this is doing is
taking the muscle which was esoteric
which was more
if you want to call it removed and then
has made it
bordered down the amount of artists to
the point that it's so tangible
[Music]
yeah yeah you see a lot of times when
with with
hashem circles when the rabbit will make
this point that i
will say braces because that's that
point
the idea of it's not just in theory
it's not just in theory the abhishem
made the world with this
this is the blueprint right so you know
the the making it tangible making it
relatable
um yeah that's
you see this in all of the devastator
but especially with
with the children just the highest of
the high
is is is right here in in our day-to-day
lives
you know if you just shine the shine the
light on it
it's really yeah it's amazing it's
absolutely amazing
it's absolutely amazing i mean the debit
is giving a child an ability
to connect to this muscle the way the
siddhim of the altar couldn't connect to
it
that that's nuts that's i mean that's
wild
that's that's right
that's right that's right from the
highest of the high is
right here in this world in fact more so
this in this world is more than a nazi
loss
yeah but i do want to say retal but
not everybody is able to
um take the topics and and be
able to get it in the way that you give
it over and which makes it so tangible
so
while it's very true it's unbelievably
appreciated how
you're able to share this with us so
that we can actually
connect and relate to to it i i think
i think what you went on the call last
fabrega when i was saying
how the the you know if you remember
when you went to australia you were
giving shurim and tanya
i remember going to australia and giving
sure yeah
one of those things one of those
children i was able to get a recording
of
oh the three-hour overview of tanya yeah
that one
it was when you when you explained the
muscle of merchant
ollie with a lady getting into the car
yeah yeah
yeah that was a real story that happened
to me yeah
so until that point in my in my life
when
i always knew of the concept of man's
childhood late
i didn't realize how tangible it
actually is
and how yes we in our brain sometimes
suddenly
use our brain and switch off our
emotions and control ourselves in that
kind of
practical way so when you gave that kind
of muscle
it even though the tania was always
there
but the question is do you is it
tangible do you relate to it
and even more so and that i was actually
taking it i'm bringing it down and
making it tangible but we don't get it
then ah convey so thank you for making
attention
thank i thank you for appreciating it
i'm just
i'm just saying it the way i like to
hear it myself
and if you also like it that's that's
wonderful
you all do we really look forward and
thank you still so much
okay pleasure okay
looking forward