Derech Mitzvosecha Minu Melech #4 - Creativity also requires humility, how to get it - RC Dalfin

So we're at the point where on page kufas in the mitzvah of mil and theic is now discussing uh a gamura and a and I believe a medish about and a zy about because king as I said yesterday he is the Davidic dynasty kingdom kingship melik in in in kazal is not melik not even I explained that at length yesterday. So one place it says that Melik everyone you probably all know this Melik wasn't supposed to live. He was he's called a barnafl where naful naful means falling to fall. It also means a um a miscarriage a baraf he is a son of a of a or he is a nafla meaning he wasn't supposed to live at all when other who saw every single nish and every single for the future that's come that's going to come to the world he saw this and he saw that is supposed to be the mel he said how are we going to rec how are we going to accomplish THAT HE'S A MEL BUT yet he's not supposed to come into the world. So he g he took 70 years of his own life. He was supposed to live in a thousand years and he gave away 70 to to David Melik. That's a known concept and there there verses and about this and a lot of sermons. It's it's a very interesting idea. That's one thing. Then we have a piece of zish which says that the same thing who wasn't supposed to be here came along a and gave him five years of his life. Abra was supposed to live 180 years. How the Torah says how long did a live when did he pass away at age 175. What happened to those other five years? He donate he donated them to melik. Then it says Yakov was supposed to live um 147 years. a he a minus uh 8 years 28 years and he gave him over to and so was supposed to live 110 years and he g and um and he and he and he gave away seven years to if you add up all those numbers you get I might be mixing up the years cuz you know anyway you get you add them up you 70. So said this question is if Adam gave him 70, why did Abra, Yakov, and Yseph have to give him another 70? Obviously, he needed another 70. If he needed another 70, he should have lived not 70 years, but 140 years. There are other questions here that some doesn't mention that you could ask, but I'm going to just stay to the text. That's where we're at. So on page Kes we're six lines from the top the last word on the line which says because first manus is what we call he's at the level of superal wisdom of the world of which is the first of the four worlds the highest world let me let me read the cabal and then we'll explain it try to explain it more down to earth. You know brings and others Hashem is aim he's smart but you cannot know God with if someone will say I'm only GOING TO APPLY and if I use my my wisdom I'm going to understand God. This saying says you got it all wrong. He also has the virtue of but Hashem is not don't limit God to what you should say is that whatever the virtue of is as well as other virtues he has that as well this means to say there is the world of is the highest world. What does that mean? It means it's the plateau of godly consciousness. You hear that? It's where we're where consciousness of God rules not conscious not conscious consciousness of humanity. When you go to the world of Bria and the three lower worlds that's where humanity begins its consciousness begins. So when we say that isma we mean that was the personification of God consciousness. Okay. Is that clear? God consciousness means you don't you're not thinking about you know what your bodily needs are and how to survive. You're you're you're you're all about Hashem. In other words, everything is God. That's your orientation. Yes. Misha, >> sorry. I'm sorry. Sorry. Which is where are we? Cuz I I I can't find us. I don't >> um are you using the the the the safer the big safer? >> The the just all all Hebrew. >> Yeah. Okay. So, you're on page cook test? >> Yeah. >> Count now about eight lines down. 1 2 3 four five six seven eight. eight line down in middle of the line first. You see the line begins with the word. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Go go go now to to the word after the word. It's an acronym. That's where we're at. You got the word. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Got it. >> Thank you. >> Good. Welcome. The consciousness of Bria of those worlds is how I HOW GOD HASHEM IS saying Hashem is thinking how should I conduct creation but but the consciousness of of where is from that's God consciousness and he's not thinking about practically Moshe should be in Bish and and I should be in Brooklyn. That's that's already lower. That's that it's got it's still Hashem. No question about it. But it's the way Hashem already takes into consideration the world. The interest is the world. The interest is A CONSCIOUSNESS THAT'S ALSO OUTSIDE OF GOD. IF YOU IF you can use those terms again, it sounds like a oxymoron. If you're God, how can it be outside of God? We mean to say it's the way Hashem thinks about things outside in the world that he wants as well. But then there is divine consciousness that whatever my my entire perspective is one thing or one thing only. Is this godly or not? Is is God here or not? That's the motus. That's the way you think. It's very practical. One person two people are working and two people are people making money and two people are are are doing whatever they're doing. But by one the interest is Hashem and by other one the interest is the the money that comes from Hashem. The story that I told you was with with the famous alovich there is a mashp I think in one of the yeshivas or mdal one of the yeshiva moa maybe his son learned by the yeshiva there his name is alovich rabbi zusha alovich he's a very knowledgeable whatever so he had a grandfather named kaosha uh learned in lab in the city of Labavit. So he's considered a anyone that studied in the in the lab we call them a because the name of the lab yes is toim the plural of tim is tim. So he learned but but the original the original ones the ones who studied inab they they were the kind of authentic tumim they were they they WERE THE REAL MCCOY BECAUSE THEY STUDIED IN the original Labavage. Okay. When he came to Israel in 1935 and and then into the 40s the the country was or maybe later even after the state was founded sometime in that period money was scarce, poverty was rampant and everything else and to make panosa at that time I think he lived in uh I believe he went down to the Yamelik area. They were they were building they were they were you know with sand and dunes and and I don't know exactly what but there was that that was one of the areas I understand that they used to start building the country and his job was to shle to sllept the sacks into the truck something like that the other yeeden around they saw this yeided they didn't know who he is but they saw he had a full beard and he had a long reckle along, you know, Kapot and they saw that and they asked him and they told him he comes he's come from the yeshiva and they and they said to themselves this is so disrespectful that he has to do this we are worksmen you know what I'm saying we're not yeshiva you know we're not Torah who knows if they were religious but even they were they were simple people but he comes from you know this pedigree and so I heard this several times from different people. They came down I guess the owners the managers came down from Yamaik. They came into the Balatan in in in Me right in the shook over there that whole area. And they said does stop in here? They said, "Yeah." And they pointed it and he saw them. He They saw him and they went over to him and they said to, "We have good news for you. The good news is that no longer will you have to shle the packages and the boxes. You we're appointing you as a manager. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS TELL OTHERS WHAT TO DO AND WHERE TO PUT THEM. But you yourself don't have to do that. It's backbreaking. It's not for you. It's a demenial job, you know, on and on. And he told them, "Thank you very much, but I don't want that job. I want to keep my job." I I heard that when they told him this, the two, three people that came to give him this news, they were devastated. Devastated senses. What like, "Are you normal? We're giving you a job, a managerial job where you don't have to shle anymore, and you turn us down." It's like they they were beside himself but there was no negotiating here. That's what he said. They left and he continued doing his job when during the week of so somehow someone asked him who heard about this and said why did you turn them down? It it it's not logical. He said it is logical. I'll tell you why. Because when I slept the boxes and this I think by heart to I have the the the calmness I'm by myself and I'm able to do that. If I have to manage other people I won't be able to do that because I'm I'm going to constantly be in their world not on my world. It's a great story. I believe it's a great story my sh but it brings out I believe this nuda here there is god consciousness and there's human consciousness both are good but it's it the the difference between the two is night and day it's not only a matter of of gradation it's a complete different category his entire conscious wasraidis SAYING REVIEWING AS HE WORKS WHICH IS BY the way in the says it in several places I believe in the importance of saying words of as you walk in the street on and on in this street wherever you live to say words of think words of if you don't you know right so that was his orientation BUT HE WORKED IN SCHLEING boxes in the sand in the dunes with all the and everything else. He did that. But what would HE THINK? WHERE WAS HE? WHAT was he all about? Reviewing Mishnayas, reviewing Tanya. That might be uh an example for the is making the difference between the consciousness of versus the consciousness of let's continue next line and therefore going back to the statement that David was a barnafla he shouldn't be here he was a nel is not like soul and or and and his and his orientation and consciousness is a mel the world. In other words, IN MY EXAMPLE, DAVID MALIK WOULD WOULD TAKE THE JOB AS A MANAGER VERSUS SHLEING THE BOXES. Because in order to build, you need a good manager. You need good workers, too. But if you don't have a manager who tells you go here, go there, do this, do that, there's going to be chaos. And boy, do we know about that. So that's why he wasn't supposed to be here, right? We'll see in a second. Since we say that is the level of which is also the idea of speech speech is incorporated in when we use when we access wisdom but in our brain in our intelligence what happens to the words that later articulate that where where do words come from the words to articulate An idea begin in the idea. The nash it begins in the idea. But the WAY THE WORDS ARE IN THE IDEA, THEY'RE SUBSERVIENT to the idea. THEY'RE SUBMERGED BY THE IDEA. SO the words are not felt. Since David was a barnafla, since he sorry, since he was malus, which is deeper speech, he was submerged in IN THE HIGHER POWER. So therefore he he wouldn't exist if not for ADAM IF NOT FOR ADAM GIVING 70 years he wouldn't come out into the world because his level of of deep is submerged in and hashem created the world to be with region which is so FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF deep it's not that it's insignificant but it's submerged so there's no if there's no deeper if there's no walking which that's the level of David Mal's kingship do this do that if that doesn't exist you don't exist hence you're a nal you're a miscarriage that's what he's saying over here let's continue he gives now when a person is immersed in the depth of of of of an idea He can't speak at a time and to impact someone else. Let's take your your your field art one of your fields. Let's take art. When you're when you're doing art, drawing, painting, and you're immersed in the idea, every everything else should be non-existent. You you you're so it's as though you DON'T HEAR THE PHONE. MAYBE PHYSICALLY you hear it. I mean, there would be a level where you don't even hear it, but that's or the famous story. How about the famous story with the maj which the Reb said at this was I think in Europe in the 30s he needed a serious operation and they wanted to give him whoever the equivalent of anesthesia is or he said I don't need it I'm going to sing a niggan I'm going to compose a niggan and he composed you know majun with many stanzas AND HE DIDN'T FEEL THE PAIN I I I can't understand it how that's possible. Although I must tell you that having my cataract operation just a few weeks ago, they did it without anesthesia. And I say differently, say, sorry, they didn't do it with the conventional anesthesia they normally do, which is you, you know, you're like alert, not alert. They didn't do it for whatever reason. I don't want to say why now, but uh but they didn't do it. What they did is as I'm laying there, he's he's working on me. The nurse was dropping anesthetic drops into my eyes. So, it's not I didn't have any anesthet I'm just thinking out loud that when we when a person is in in verse in other words, I didn't compose a niggan. I'm not at that level. But the maj composed the niggan and he was in the niggan so he didn't feel the pain. So at our level it is possible that when we're truly immersed whether it be in the in the fields that we that we do you could reach a a experience where the the phone your wife speaking to you. You're not there. You're simply not there. That's what he says that WHEN A PERSON IS look at the words when a person is occupied with the depth of his wisdom it's totally is totally engrossed in idea he cannot you CAN'T SPEAK THEN SOMETIMES SOMEONE SAYS LIKE why aren't you speaking you know why I'm not speaking because I'm elsewhere there unfortunately today. In other words, a distraction. I would say that this is a virtue to distractions, but you have to have the right distractions. If you're distracted by the right idea and the right topic and then so we say distractions in a in a sense, it's like a negative. Why are you distracted? But there's a positivity to the distraction too. and that is THAT YOU'RE DISTRACTED BECAUSE YOU'RE TOTALLY immersed in in in in an intellectual idea that you're thinking about be it in or even otherwise. So when someone talks to you, you're not there. You know it happens. I'm sure it happens to each and every one of us. Your wife, your kids, or something that's talking to you and you're elsewhere like a space cadet. Where are you? I'm talking to you. Oh, you're not here. Where are you? I'm thinking about something else says this is the mushel the analogy for which is David who was submerged in and hence there was no room for David hence he would have not been born let's continue since the source of soul is from supernal speech each. He was a he was he wouldn't be born or still born or or miscarriage because he was incorporated and included in the first man which is superal wisdom and for emerge from his concealed state his concealed state and It required this emanation, the illumination of the crown, the which is higher than to impact. When adds additional energy, illumination, it can't tolerate it anymore. AND IT MUST SPURT OUT. IT MUST COME OUT in a speech that he uses the analogy for this as well. A person who all of a sudden is bombarded in his mind with other intellectual ideas that he didn't think about before. Whether they come through divine prophecy or similar He can't control himself to hold it all in. And he must reveal to his friends a little bit. He'll benefit and I'll have peace and calmness. What a mush. What a mush. You know this mash is if if you're studying something and all of a sudden for whatever reason whether it's divine prophecy or whatever reason ideas enter your mind about this that are overwhelming. You're forced to speak it out to your wife, TO YOUR CLIENT, TO YOUR FRIEND, even to yourself. You can't hold it anymore. You can't be it. You can't tolerate it. SAYS THAT'S WHAT KESSER IS. Keser's impact on is because Kesser is the crown that it it it throws into you this fantastic overwhelming energy causing you to HAVE TO SPEAK I.E. CAUSING TO BE BORN. What an interpretation to this hazal that govern wasn't supposed to live in and gave him 70 years. Says that you know what he means he gave him seven years. Hashem bestowed into Adam something that Adam didn't have on his own which is forcing Adam to spit it out through who? Through David. Hence is born years later. You won't find this explanation anywhere. It's a very very unique explanation. And if you if you break it down, which is important to break it down as well. What does that mean practically? Like Mosha always wants to know practically what do I do with all this, you know? And he's right because the Reb said everything has to have a So Mosha, you're on the tracks of the Reb because you're I'm serious. every and then he said what's the what's the bottom line? So what's the bottom line here? We're not we're not done with it. The bottom line is that when you at times and there are times in our lives when we get a flash of intuition or a flash of something greater and it's like so powerful don't seek to hold it in share it with others and says here look at his words toward you will benefit fit and you have peacefulness and calmness in other words before you don't have that peaceful and calm calmness. I assume it's a euro too but in my work in writing when I have ideas if I don't I have to I put them in writing right so for me writing would be like the flash that makes it come out because I have it here in my in my brain IT COMES INTO MY BRAIN ideas here there right I'm not at peace until it comes into writing it just happened a few days ago someone sent I think I sent you the article about this woman Ethel um Dubin, Ethel Papenheim, who married Schneer Zman, Zman Dubin Dubin, who was the Latvian parliament who was the one who really was behind the previous reb getting out of Russia. That's not that too, but his life being spared. He was a very powerful man. Morai Dubin, you can look him up online. His son marries this Ethel Papenheim. I sent you this article. If you didn't read it, I think I did. If not, I'm going to send it to you. You have to read it. It was written by Leia Scholler. Um I I believe I spoke to her and uh fast fascinating and correspondence between the previous reba girl in the 1930s 33 34 35 and she turns into becomes a lab marries. She's a yaka. He's the son of a labid lab himself. AND THEN SHE STARTS TEACHING DOING WHAT THE wants in Germany about and mish like you could say the first really. So why am I saying that? So I I I've had someone proof read a book I'm I'm coming out with called Kabadis. So but today it it was finished and went to the printer. It's going to the printer after right when I read the I got this article two weeks a week ago from a friend. I'm blown away. You see, I'm still I'm still like so a new thing came to my head that didn't come from me. Right? So I'm saying now I have to get this into this book, but my manuscript is finished. And I so I said to the proof reader, PUT IT IN WHEN YOU FIND you know as a reference. So he writes back he says I you do it you know I can't take that responsibility. So I found a place I added it to a certain footnote. What I'm saying is and now I feel much calmer. I feel that the document, the manuscript is more. It's more holy. You understand? This is a similar idea to what we're learning. But here is teaching. If you break it down, you know, Misha, you're you're drawing, you have ideas and and there are times, you know, it's only when you you put those final touches out on the painting and Exactly. And those are from things that maybe you didn't plan on DOING WHEN YOU SAT DOWN to make this beautiful piece of art. You had an idea, but all OF A SUDDEN OTHER IDEAS came to you and you say, "I got to get it in there." But how? You know the creative mind creative mind is what it's created to this particular idea. Now another idea comes to me that I see realize is unbeliev. So that's where you get the peace when you're able to culminate the painting including the new idea that they had which only enhances the painting and that's why he says you're going to make profit. steps profit meaning literally you're going to have a better products you'll make better sales right a better book a better piece of art and more importantly you will come to tranquility so it's true not just for art and writing it's every field I remember as a bak yeshiva with learning you know talmud and the mafim lot a lot of work, a lot of effort. But when you when you get get it clear, you incorporate new ideas that you as they come to you and then you're able to put them in the right setting both in your mind and on and and how you express it and you express it to a okay. The Reb told my father, I think I told you this by repeating it. This was already in the 1980s. My father wrote to the Reb and he said he makes likel this resolutions to learn this more than to make this year and try and he doesn't it doesn't last. He starts a week two and whatever month whatever the rabbi answered him three or four words starting with a um will add in the sustaining of that Torah subject that you decided to learn and and and made about We underestimate, myself included, the value of a is a balancing board. And many times keeps you honest. When you start with your when you start with our a real kusa, a real friend says, "Hey guy, come on, get over it." You know, and you talk about it. So all you take a m like this and you bring it down to your life. It is so practical, so real. Everyone should have a good rest of the fast like I wrote to you. And more importantly, Mashia still can come today. Should come today and we'll have the Bikdashem. Um have a great Shabas and we'll see everyone on Monday. Thank you. Enjoy. Take care. Bye bye. Bye bye.