Don't Cut Off Your Source of Blessing | Letter #29 of Thirty Letters in Thirty Days 5786

Okay. I've got the watch. Welcome to the 29th letter. Baruch Hashem. What a journey it's been. Time flies. It's Yud Aleph Nissan, or Yud Aleph. Rebbe's birthday. A birthday which is a birthday for all of us. Happy birthday. Okay, we're going to give tzedakah as is our custom. Colel Chabad [snorts] pushka app. I have a 25-weekday streak. weekday streak. And if you haven't downloaded the Colel Chabad pushka app yet for your phone, please do, cuz tomorrow night's the last night I can remind you about it. Completing the Pavlovian routine. >> [snorts] >> Going to make a bracha. Baruch atah Adonai Eloheinu Melech ha'olam shehakol nihyeh bidvaro. This letter is long. I think half the length of the letter is a P.S. Um Well, about a third of the letter is a P.S., a long P.S. The uh link to the letter should be should find it in the YouTube description. Yeah, do we have the right link there? I know in the past sometimes I don't always have the right I don't always have the right link. Right link there? No, it's not there. Guys, how could I do this again? All right, go to soulwords.org/letters 5786. Bam. >> [snorts] >> Get the link for the PDF. Never too late. Nishlokin farfallen, right? Okay. Edit video. Here's the PDF link. Bam. Save. Okay, refresh. Refresh your uh What do you call your browser. Refresh your browser. And then go look in the uh YouTube description. Baker Coffee Maker says in the chat, "I don't see the link." Okay, refresh your browser. And then you should see it there, and please let me know that you found it. Baruch Hashem Chof Zayin Nissan Tashlag Tazai in Brooklyn Shalom Uvracha. This is the 27th of Nissan. Uh greetings and blessings. Remember I told you the other night we had a very harsh letter. I don't remember how many nights ago it was, maybe two or three nights ago. We had a harsh letter. Um Which number was that? Oh, it was 27. It was one of the two letters that we learned on Thursday night. We called it too busy for your purpose. Right. Where No, no, no. No, that wasn't even the the super harsh letter. Super harsh letter was 24. Working for the Rebbe is a privilege. Yeah. That's what the Rebbe [clears throat] said. It's come time [snorts] already that we have to just say things as they are and be completely open. And the truth is, it's a privilege to work for the Rebbe. We're not begging people anymore. We're not asking you to do a favor for for the Rebbe, because ultimately, anyone who does the Rebbe's work, he's the one who's benefiting. >> [cough and clears throat] >> And we shouldn't have to beg people anymore. Yeah, remember that really like um severe tone from episode number 24, and I told you, "Trigger warning, this is like the harshest letter by far from all the letters." Okay, so here's a trigger warning. Tonight's letter, letter number 29, is the second harshest letter. Uh it's it's not as harsh as the one we learned um for letter number 24. Definitely not as harsh, but it's close. It's a close second. Or how about this? You judge, and you tell me in the comments, in the chat, what you think. Okay. Ready? Let's do it. B'acharei havsakah aruchah niskabel michtavcha im tzu schein al absurd a teiva matoves matzav briusai. After a long break, I received a letter from you, and thank you for the update on the improvement in your health. I remark on this every time, cuz it just blows me away, that not only the Rebbe is answering the voluminous mail that he receives, but he actually wants more. So, like when you tell someone, "Hey, I didn't hear from you for for a long time." Right? And then you're like, "And thank you, by the way, for the update on your health." And I'm sitting here and thinking to myself, the Lubavitcher Rebbe is he's running a global operation. I'm not even talking about all the Rebbe stuff that I can't even imagine, you know, the spiritual stuff. I'm saying just like the things that a normal human being like me can relate to, just the Rebbe's schedule, the Rebbe's responsibilities, the size of the organization that the the Rebbe is is running, and he's asking for this guy to update him about his health. And like write to me more often. I want more updates. Always blows me away. Okay. Umasha kasev aidus hisvaduyos. Regarding what you write about the fabrengens. So, it seems like this guy wrote to the Rebbe that he is making fabrengens. I don't know who goes to these fabrengens. I don't know if it's You know, we had interesting we had a letter. I think just glancing through it. Um It was Yeah, number 25. Letter 25, don't lower standards for students. Remember the letter to the person who was involved in the vocational school, in Colel Chabad, where the boys were not necessarily from chassidic backgrounds. And the Rebbe told that letter writer how important it is to fabreng with the boys, and tell them stories at these fabrengens, and sing niggunim with these boys at the at the fabrengens, and even dance with them at the fabrengens. So, you know, I don't have to tell you that fabrengens are like a foundation of chassidic life, but you see here what the Rebbe is about to say to this letter writer about the fabrengens. He says, "You you wrote to me about the fabrengens." Plural. Shegambe in a bus and yet in peiros, that even with fleshly eyes you see peiros, you see fruits. You mean you meaning to see you see results. Apparently the guy wrote to the Rebbe and said, "I'm making these fabrengens, and baruch Hashem I'm seeing results." Meaning people were actually moved by the fabrengens to to do something practical. There were tangible improvements in people's spiritual lives because of these fabrengens. So, the Rebbe says, "The You tell me even with einei basa, even with fleshly eyes you see improvements based on the fabrengens. Af sheha yeitzer me'avol u'val bitachbulos meshunos, Now, I'm sorry. I I I skipped a line. Hinei einam be'erech legabei apeiros be'emes. But that's nothing compared to the real results. Meaning you're reporting to me that you're seeing results, and I want to tell you, "Yes, and there are even greater results, incomparably greater results, that you don't even see. Af sheha yeitzer me'avol bitachbulos meshunos, even though the yeitzer hara comes in and tries to confuse us with different tactics. U'mehem hatolas safek im yesh te'ales bisvados. One of those tactics of the yeitzer hara is he tries to make you doubt whether the fabrengens are productive. >> [snorts] >> And I'm telling you they definitely are productive, and whatever you've seen as far as results of these fabrengens, that ain't the half of it. That's the tip of the iceberg. There's even much more. Okay. K'mo vu'ar d'racha b'zeh b'ma'amarei dacha bisichos. And this, like the way the yeitzer hara messes with you, is explained in chassidus. Okay. Now, there's a redacted part. Dot dot dot. Not sure what it was about. Umasha kasev aidus. Now, this is a different section, different topic. Okay. Umasha kasev aidus divrei ha'reifeh hametapel bach. What you write about the doctor who's been treating you. Remember the guy reported to the Rebbe that he had an improvement in his in his health situation. Okay. Regarding what you write about the doctor who's been treating you. Binagai'a lematzav briuscha, regarding your health. >> [snorts] >> Ve'eich shemelaches ha dot dot dot. Okay. What is redacted here is the type of job that this guy was doing. Apparently, it was I mean I'm assuming it was deemed an identifying detail that if you would know enough from the letter. Remember, there's no name here. Right? If you would know enough from the letter, from the other information, and then it would also say what kind of specific work this guy was doing to make a living, I guess it would be too identifying. So, it's redacted. But he was doing a a certain type of job. So, the doctor who's treating him, according to this letter writer's own report to the Rebbe, the doctor who is treating him told him that this work, whatever it was, I have no idea what kind of work it was. Kasha all of this difficult for him. Meaning the doctors treating him and he's, you know, not 100% yet. He's on the mend, but he's not 100% and the doctor told him, "This work that you're doing is hard for you." Especially if you're also doing Chabad work. So it sounds like this person was doing two things. And the Chabad work, as you'll see later from the from the letter, is a Yeshiva. So it sounds like that this uh letter writer had sort of like a job on the side. And I'm and I'm and I'm not even sure like if the Chabad Yeshiva work was the main job and the other job was like the more like or for money or if it was like no, he had a main job. He had a like uh some type of business or or maybe it was employment and then the Yeshiva stuff was on the side. I'm not sure exactly how um how it worked. But the point is he was involved in both. He was involved in some type of regular job type job and he was and he was involved in chinuch of some level for a Chabad Yeshiva or or school. Okay. And at any rate, the doctor told the guy "This work is very demanding for you especially if you're also doing Chabad work." Okay. Valochain, therefore >> [snorts] >> Therefore um he he's concerned that he should minimize these activities. Okay. So you you understand what's happening. The letter writer is writing to the Rebbe and saying "Look the doctor told me I kind of got to cut back." >> [laughter] >> Ladies and gentlemen, um again I'm not asking you to know what the Rebbe is going to say. I'm asking you to predict based on maybe you'll be surprised. Maybe it'll be completely unexpected. Based on your learning with me and any other letters of the Rebbe that you have learned. A guy writes to the Rebbe and says "Listen, the doctor himself says for my health I got to cut back. Can't do all this work." You don't have to figure out how the Rebbe is going to answer. Just tell me, is the Rebbe going to tell him yes or no? Cut back or not cut back? You're right. The Rebbe is not going to tell him to cut back. Now >> [snorts] >> how is the Rebbe going to manage to practically guide this person to not cut back, especially if there is a legitimate health concern? And we know the Rebbe I mean I don't know if you know, but if you learn Igros enough, you'll see the Rebbe usually takes pretty seriously doctor's orders. Sometimes the Rebbe will say second opinion or even third opinion. But the Rebbe takes doctor's orders seriously. So it's definitely not going to be like ignore the doctor. Well, probably not going to be ignore the doctor. Now I'm a full disclosure. I I I learned the letter already, but I'm just saying this makes sense to you, right? Cuz you know, this is my second to last letter that we're learning this year. So kind of want to get into some of my commentary that I hold myself back from. You see that I struggle with how much commentary should I give, less or more. Just from my heart to yours. Like the Rebbe says, "Dvar dvarim yeitz'im min halev." I want nothing more than this shiur should help you to think like a chossid thinks. And that means that the patterns the style, the approach that are repeated letter after letter after letter should become second nature to us. That's what I really hope. That's what I want. That when you go through life and you have your own dilemmas to deal with you will naturally react in an Igros type way. You understand what I'm saying? Okay. Ah, hinei. >> [laughter] >> I love this next word. Lapela. Lapela Lapela means it's a wonder like I am totally shocked, right? Lapela. It is remarkable. It is wondrous. Astounding. Apparently you don't sense the dark, the doubled and redoubled dark of golus that we're in. Even when it's pointed out to you directly, you know, pointed with the finger. Like this is it, right? Like >> [laughter] >> I am so surprised that you don't see the obvious like darkness here. And that not not only that, you come to you come to a conclusion or conclusions that are antithetical to what you ought to be coming to. You're making the exact opposite conclusions. And in fact, these conclusions are the opposite conclusions that a healthy mind would make. Whoa. Told you this is the second harshest letter. >> [laughter] >> Maybe it's the harshest. I don't know. I think it's second harshest. Wow. And you're not meditating on what I wrote to you in my letter. Dot dot dot. Something's redacted. Again, it may have been too identifiable as far as the specificity of it. But the Rebbe says, "I've written to you about this. And and you didn't I don't I don't want to translate meditate, but you know, think deeply. It's the same word we use for chassidic meditation, hisbonenus. But you didn't think you didn't reflect upon what I wrote. I've written to you about this. I've been telling you this. And you didn't read it in time before your own will came and bribed you. Such an interesting term. You didn't get you didn't >> [snorts] >> you didn't read it and think about it quickly enough. What happened instead is I guess maybe you read it and then you like put it aside and then you came back to thinking about it, but by that time your own will had bribed you. Meaning to say your mind had time already to rationalize. You know what you know what I mean? It's to rationalize rational lies. Your [laughter] your brain kicked in and already prepared all the excuses. If you would have reflected promptly on the letter, you know what would have happened? You would have seen that this matter dot dot dot redacted, this this side job or this other job is not appropriate for you. It's not appropriate for you. I already told you that. I told you that before that that other job is not appropriate. Now you're telling me the doctor is telling you that this job is too much for you, especially if you're also doing Chabad work. Well, why are we even talking about that job anymore? I told you before and I don't know how long ago that letter was, but the Rebbe was saying, "I told you before that that job wasn't appropriate for you. If you would have reflected sincerely on my letter promptly when you received it, you would have quit that job immediately. But instead, what did you do? You put it off, put off thinking about it until your defenses had all been lined up and you all your excuses were prepared. And and and you and you read I wrote to you, don't do that job anymore, but you're still doing it. You're still doing it and you're writing to me, 'Oh, and now the doctor's telling me that I can't do it.' She's kabolas This is so powerful. The Rebbe says, "I didn't merit that you should receive my words." Understand what the Rebbe is saying? The Rebbe is saying, "I didn't merit." The Rebbe is saying on himself, "I did not merit. I guess I did not have the merit that you should receive my words." Understand when the Rebbe tells us to do something and we don't do it. Okay, I don't want to finish that, but because I did not merit that my words should be listened to, that you should that you should listen to me. So I guess a doctor had to come and tell you the same thing. Meaning to say, I told you previously that this wasn't good for you. Cut it out. You you you didn't listen to me. I didn't merit that you should listen to me. And now you're coming back to me later and saying, "Oh, by the way, the doctor just told me I'm I'm not able to do it anymore." >> [gasps] >> The Rebbe is saying, "I wish I would have merited that you could have received it from me in a nice way. Much more pleasant to get it as loving advice from your Rebbe. But instead, you had to get it from a doctor." >> [snorts] >> You had to get it in in much harsher terms. You understand what I'm saying by harsher terms? Like the doctor has to sit you down and say to you this is dangerous for you, this is not healthy. That's that's that's that's much scarier than getting a loving letter from your rebbe telling you what's good for your soul. A moving and and also another difference the doctor, I'm sure you know, he attributed it to physical things rather than spiritual things. So the rebbe is saying like this I told you a long time ago that that job's not good for you. For your soul. It's not good for your soul. Meaning that's not where your neshama belongs. And you you could have reflected on it immediately and acted and you would have been moved to act on it. You didn't. You put it aside until you were you know, ready to dismiss it. And now instead of getting it as spiritual guidance, loving spiritual guidance from someone who loves you you had to hear it from some doctor some doctor's office telling you about it as physical uh advice. Material, physical, bodily advice. Same [snorts] same conclusion. The conclusion is that that job is too much for you. But you could have had it in a loving way from your rebbe giving you spiritual advice. Instead you're getting it in the doctor's office. The letter of the rebbe And not only did that not work. Meaning even now the doctor told you you have to cut that work out. But apparently it's still not working because you came to the exact opposite conclusion. The doctor just told you stop doing that work. But what conclusion did you come to? You came to the conclusion that the Chabad work that they're they're mutually exclusive. You can't do both. Your conclusion is you got to cut out the Chabad stuff as long as you'll have enough energy to do the old stuff the the the job the the what you're calling the source of your parnassah your livelihood. Meaning let's say let's again spell it out. The rebbe says I told you long ago to cut out that job. I wish I knew what it what it was I could refer to it but we don't know. I told you long ago that's not for you. It's not for your neshama. Not for you. But you kept doing it. Okay. Then you came to a point where the doctor also told you you can't do both. You can't do this job and Chabad work. So now unfortunately same message I had told you as spiritual advice now you're getting it from a doctor. Lot scarier. Okay. You had a second opportunity to to to let go of that job and to just focus on the Chabad work. And instead what was your conclusion? You write to me and say well, I guess I got to stop doing Chabad work cuz I can't do both. Okay. You still with me? All right. >> [snorts] >> I don't know if additional words are going to add anything. Cuz it's already been shown to you pointed out directly to you what you should be doing. Meaning how you should be occupied. So God willing very soon in a kind compassionate way purpose. The mocking by Nimitz who are to in the place where you currently are. You understand what the rebbe is saying? Should happen in a kind compassionate way. It's like you're not responding. I'm trying to give you advice. You're not responding to it. Okay, so now already the message has come to you in a less pleasant way. Meaning a doctor is telling you. The message isn't going to stop coming. This is not where you need to be. Your neshama didn't come to this world for that for that side job which maybe even calls his main job. You're going to continue getting the message to get you away from it. And I the rebbe is saying like I'm just hoping that it's going to come to you in a kind way. It's not going to be a harsh awakening. But eventually you're going to have to get the point. That your purpose is in in the Chabad work that that you're supposed to be doing in the place where you are right now. Now we're going to see from the letter the context what does it [clears throat] mean the place where you are right now? This person's an immigrant. He came from [snorts] Russia. He's not in Russia. Where is he now? I don't know. I really don't know. He could be anywhere in the world. Um that was your job immediately when you arrived there. Meaning as soon as you arrived wherever it was that was your purpose. That's what you were supposed to be doing. And everything else is secondary of secondary. Like really really unimportant. So you should do the thing that is your real job. You should do it with joy and in a glad heart. Until finally you'll understand what I was talking about all along. Portion She got me many loyal Indian the parnassah gashmis. Now obviously I'm not oblivious. That's how I'll translate it. To the need for a livelihood. Right? In other words the rebbe is anticipating the argument. But but but but but I need a I need a I need a parnassah. I need to make a livelihood. The rebbe is saying I'm fully aware of that. I'm fully aware of the fact that you need to make a livelihood. Yes, I know that. But the Yeshiva again we don't know the name of it. We don't know the location. The Yeshiva has the capacity to sustain you and your family. I don't know why you're running after things that are secondary of secondary that have nothing to do with your soul's mission because you need to make a living? And I See this is the rebbe. The rebbe doesn't say to you you have a mission and even if you're going to starve you have to do your mission. The rebbe doesn't speak that way. The rebbe says to you you have a mission and please I don't want you to starve. I want you to have parnassah. Of course I want you to have parnassah. You will have parnassah from doing your mission. See in the rebbe's world everything gashmis and ruchnis it's all one thing. Berish borei Elokim es hashamaim ve'es ha'aretz. The Aibishter created this world. You know, talk about the 12 pesukim which the anniversary of the 12 pesukim is coming up 50th anniversary. It's coming up uh alef uh year. Well, two two sichos alef year and and um actually was it alef year? It was alef the rosh chodesh year. It was the last day of Nissan. And then Lag B'Omer. And then the possuk Bereishis Bereishis borei Elokim which is from the second set of pesukim Lag B'Omer pesukim. The the the rebbe said what does it mean? It means that the child has to know that the same Aibishter gave us the Torah to created the world. Nothing in the world can be antithetical to Torah. To the contrary Torah mitzvos open up pathways for success in this world. And that that's like a theme over and over and over and over again in the rebbe's Torah. It's not go be mesiras nefesh and and and and do the right thing and lose out even though you'll lose out but at least you did the right thing. No, it's not in the rebbe's world success in the most practical sense is only through aligning yourself with what your neshama needs to do. So the rebbe is saying to him why are you you keep coming back to this this side job that you need to do cuz you need to make a living? I'm telling you forget about the side job. Now your doctor's telling you you can't do both. I told you already long ago you can't do both. Just focus on the Yeshiva and from [clears throat] the Yeshiva you will have an honorable living. How we doing in the chat? How are my people? Let me know if you're following. Tell me in the chat if you're following this letter. Yeah. That uh my skirt is Chicago. Furthermore, this will bring a lot more benefit than any salary that you'll receive. Meaning you won't lose out financially and you'll be doing something way more meaningful and productive. If only you would have taken this advice two or three years ago. I guess the guy's been involved in this other job for a couple years two or three years. If you would have followed this path in the first place the past two three years you would be physically healthier and your environment would be spiritually healthier. I mean that that's I don't want to call it harsh but that's like that's a real >> [sighs] >> that's that's that's a powerful thought to reflect on imagine you receiving this. You would be physically healthy remember this guy's dealing with health issues and he's saying the doctor told him that he's overworked. You would have been physically healthier if you would have just focused on the Chabad work that you have and don't worry about that other stuff. And the spiritual and the surroundings would have been spiritually healthier cuz you would have been benefiting the environment so much. The matter only depends on your will meaning just make a decision. With blessings for success or that you should report good news in all of the above that's the end of the letter but then there's a non-base. A PS postscript. Okay. >> [cough and clears throat] >> Someone wrote in the comments oh yeah this one seems harsher to me. Yeah go back and read uh the other letter what do we say 24 was the the first harsh letter? Is it 24? No it was 20 yeah it's 24 letter 24. Um you know what though probably the reason that you think this one is harsher is it I mean I'm just sharing personally is that I remember it letter 24 was harsh. But after you sleep on it a few nights you don't remember the harshness you only you only remember the love. Cuz the Rebbe was writing with love and I bet you the same thing with this like right now we're reading it and it's like oh yeah that's that's that's a harsh you know like if you would have followed my advice two three years ago you'd be healthier you know why why do you have to hear I'm trying to tell you this and then and and you're not listening and then the doctor tells you and okay. Sounds very harsh right now. You sleep on it a few nights and you're not going to remember the harshness you're going to remember the love. At least that's my personal opinion. Okay, you want to do the PS should we do the PS? Let's do the PS. A mushlo. She had not seen the hospital in school I see I'm worried need a slam. Whoa it wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility that because the advice I'm giving you is in the realm of material matters. In other words spiritual matters be that Rebbe is telling you how to daven how to learn Torah how to do mitzvahs here the Rebbe is giving advice that has to do with work how you make a living. So the Rebbe says it wouldn't be completely outside of the realm of possibility that because I'm giving you what some would classify as practical advice there may be some this is this is a harsh truth bomb right here. Some anash anash means Chassidim Chabad guys fellow Chabad guys who are who are businessmen and they will tell you that my reasoning doesn't seem correct to them. You you hear you hear what the Rebbe is saying? The Rebbe is saying you're going to get my letter you're going to talk it over with some anash with other Chabad Chassidim and they are going to try to talk you out of listening to me cuz they're going to say well you know if it were spiritual advice that's one thing but this is really practical stuff maybe you know uh maybe the Rebbe doesn't whatever you know God forbid but uh I guess the Rebbe is saying >> [sighs] >> that's I mean the Rebbe doesn't say it's going to happen but the Rebbe says definitely not outside of the realm of possibility that it will happen and some Chassidic guys are going to come and try to throw cold water on this whole thing and confuse you. Uh yeah. On as this is neat this is neat chain of fire fire lightning they're going to try to convince you that this is not the you know this is is not a an approach. Over a shoe say the hospital to him will be schmee gamkey. So you have permission to tell them the following in my name. Interesting that the Rebbe is saying you have permission to say it in my name. The Rebbe doesn't give permission to say in his name not necessarily can you assume that but the Rebbe is saying I give you permission that when they tell you this if they if they should tell you this you can tell them the following in my name. You can tell them also in my name. Oh my gosh okay. So just imagine the scene. This guy gets the letter that he should stop with the other job he should focus on Chabad work he should do full-time work in the Yeshiva. He's going to tell some other Chabad guys and they're going to say to him you think really that that's really yeah yeah yeah you think that's really the right advice? Um so the Rebbe says I want you to tell them and you can tell them in my name if if you please that you want to know my full idea my full stance on this diet team my my my opinion on the matter? Shikola nasha boya moros ya dot dot dot srichim la cable parna sosum by even yash all your day is ask us me Yeshiva's dot dot dot. My opinion is not only you should make your full-time occupation exclusively in the Yeshiva but I THINK ALL THE CHABAD REBBE should do the same thing. I told you before by the way and I got a little bit of a uh backlash I have I. Letter 24 I told you I said I know these characters I know who the Rebbe was writing to it's 1956 he's writing to these Russians and somebody commented on the YouTube I very Rebbe you're usually so sensitive and then you said this thing about the Rebbe is writing harsh cuz they're Russians and I'm a Russian and I don't want anyone to be harsh to me. >> [laughter] >> And I felt so bad cuz you have to understand when I say the word Russian I'm not using the word Russian to describe like your nice uncle who plays chess and drinks tea and listens to symphonies. Russian I'm talking about okay please all the gadget people like forgive me for two seconds but I have to just say this. There's a certain culture associated historically with Lubavitch. A very harsh headstrong stubborn people. Okay? Now today you wouldn't know that because Lubavitch is so big so it kind of got like mellowed a little bit especially you know the the feeder Rebbe was in Poland for a while and they you know he got the the influx of those those Chassidim who are culturally different. Today the whole distinction is lost on people they don't understand and then especially with the Rebbe in America getting you know the American Chassidim the American boys like that's a whole different style but there's a certain culture I'm talking about a very specific culture it hardly exists today in the greater world. It's a very specific demographic of guys who come from illustrious Chabad lineage you got to give them that okay? Yejos. But it's a very specific type of culture of like I don't want to tell you other than headstrong and stubborn okay? And the Rebbe was dealing with these guys and when the Rebbe dealt with these guys he would speak to them accordingly. You wouldn't see the Rebbe write to a to an American with these with this kind of language or or you know some somebody who who who who who grew up in a different milieu he would the Rebbe wouldn't speak that way. The Rebbe knew who he was speaking to. So the Rebbe is saying to this letter writer I don't know where he was. You're in this place there's a Yeshiva you should be there full-time that should be your only occupation. You're going to tell the other Lubavitchers there and they're going to sort of like minimize it. I want you to turn around and I want you to tell them not only does the Rebbe want me to exclusively make my living only in Yeshiva the Rebbe told me that I can say in his name he wants all of you to do the same thing. All the guys that came from Russia the Rebbe says very clearly the guys who came from Russia should mean the the the the the the the Chassidim you know the Chassidim the the Chabad Chassidim the guys who not became Chabad when Chabad came to a to a place but the guys from you know Chabad lineage. You came to this place wherever it was France Australia America I don't know where it was. You at least in this town, I'm not saying that I've said this about all of the city of that time, but in that town, wherever the letter writer was, he was supposed to tell all of these Russian city, these about city, that ever don't don't tell me that I shouldn't do this. That ever told me that you should all be doing the same thing. Enough with the side jobs. Enough with it already. Okay. So they should receive that also but directly. I'll you day he's asked This is powerful. I got to read this slowly. This could be a Shiva. Follow this. Explain to them this. Say it my name. The they make whatever jobs they're having whatever side jobs they have. They only get that also. In the merit of the issue. Whether they work for the issue or not. The that's coming to a notch in that place is only in the mirror of the issue. Meaning that the merit that the issue of creates spiritually is what brings down the blessings of livelihood material livelihood for the in that place. So you tell them if you don't work for the issue, you're still working for the issue. I mean meaning to say that you're getting credit for working for the issue and the issue is not benefiting from you working for the issue, but you're benefiting from the issue of existence cuz the you receive whatever conduit you're using is only being filled that kind of would only be filled by that are coming from the issue. So powerful. I'll show you day But you're insisting the guy supposed to tell his friends to take the that's coming in the of the issue and you're insisting that you want to be that you want to invest that into crash course vessels of of business being out in the marketplace and in the streets in a way that distracts you that that it's a piece of and scattering of the soul it causes profound distraction. Alarming my feeling is alarming distraction like I don't get it. You're torturing yourself to have these jobs that don't let you have a have a settled focused life. You're dealing with all this this crashness out in the streets out in the doing who knows what. Not saying it's they're doing anything prohibited not forbid. I'm just saying that I've been saying it's alarming that you guys are grinding away at these mundane jobs when the you're receiving is anyways in the merit of the issue. Go work for the issue. Go work for the issue. The issue of can can be a source of for everyone. The whole community. Work for the issue. And as a result what's happening is you're adding all these extra unnecessary layers of concealment. At the end of the day, you're grinding away doing these jobs these mundane jobs and at the end of the day whatever you make is only because of that come to this town because of the issue of being there. So why are you adding the concealment the layers of concealment? Just go work for the issue of direct. Come and drag us you're forcing that this flow of blessing has to come down further level after level until it takes form as as the livelihood that you're working for. Work for the issue of the flow of blessing can come direct through that. And furthermore, not only are you adding layers of unnecessary concealment but it also adds means waste product. When [snorts] the energy the divine sustaining energy comes through the the pipeline so to speak. So the lower that it comes the more waste product there is. The higher that it is the pure it is. That I've been saying you could have access to the pure level or pure levels. And instead you want it to come down through different light layers of concealment until it picks up waste product. And that I've been saying what that means not just like a a concept here. You end up having to spend some of that money on undesirable things. Like doctors bills may the merciful protect us and ouch that hits home because the letter writer himself has been spending money on doctors bills. You hear me? I've said similar things by the way >> [snorts] >> about like working on jobs. I've said even if you'll argue that you're making more money because you're working on jobs, you're not going to keep that money. It's not blessed money. You're going to end up spending it on undesirable things unhappy things like doctors bills. So that I've been saying you could be making a straight from the issue. You're insisting for some irrational reason you meaning the whole community of you're insisting for some irrational reason not to receive your directly from the issue but forcing that flow to go lower and lower and lower into these crash jobs that really are not befitting. And and not only are you forcing it to to go into these layers of concealment but they're picking up waste product meaning to say that you don't even get to keep all the money for your legitimate needs you end up having to I don't want to call it wasting but in a way it is. In theory it's called wasting because >> [sighs] >> if you would do it right you wouldn't have to spend this money this way. So you end up losing that money from your bottom line spending it on things that are not happy things not desirable things doctors bills and the like. >> [snorts] >> after brief him the most So how about if only they would choose meaning the whole community of that least from now on they should have the aforementioned livelihood meaning direct with the issue with fewer concealments. Then their own needs and the needs of their households of their households yeah of their their families would be would be sustained would be enough would be enough for them. Even their their material needs will be taken care of. And plus they would have lots of us. You'd have definitely have less means of I don't know what that means scattering of the soul distraction. Just focus on the issue of instead of whatever jobs they were doing I don't know. I've said buying and selling you know like dealing with merchandise and making sales and inventory like what do you what do you need that for? Like go work for the issue of and just focus. So you have less of us. And you know the best thing about it? You would be putting your knowledge and your power and your electricity into real things. Things that really matter. I don't want to elaborate on something that's so obvious. Hello. This is the problem that everyone understands these things when they read it in a in a in a in a safer. Okay? Like that I've been saying to the letter writer you and your friends you're guys you know you learn if you would learn this concept that I'm saying right now if you learn in a safer you would understand it meaning it's not a letter to you that you would have to take personally therefore figure out a way to make it not apply to you. You'd learn in a safer as a general concept about people in general you would have no problem understanding of a fellow. And in fact you would even be able to explain it about somebody else. Not just understanding in a general way understand it a specific way provided it's a specific someone else someone else you would tell him oh no no no it's a very important you should work directly for the issue. Why do you have to put your through different layers of concealment. But when it gets personal when it starts talking about you the whole back and forth the whole explanation becomes irrelevant to you you just lose it. Forget it. Wow. >> [sighs] >> Moving a portion shame Indian show pay the >> It is understood that there's absolutely no paid off. We have to translate that word. I see even in the English here they didn't translate that word. Paid off means to be like particular about something, but it's more than that. It means like a grudge almost. So the Rebbi's saying if I can translate into very very vernacular English, like there are no hard feelings. That's basically what he's saying. Like you should know, God forbid there's no hard feelings here. Like the Rebbi's telling him a pretty harsh truth. But the Rebbi's also letting him know, like I'm not mad at you. It's like when your father says, "I'm not mad at you, I'm just disappointed." >> [laughter] >> Right? Okay, so the Rebbi's saying, "I'm not mad, I'm just like bewildered, I'm disappointed, I'm I'm I'm trying to work with you guys. I'm trying to help you here. I'm trying to help you." Not mad at you. I don't want anything bad. God forbid. No, to the contrary, I only want good for you. I'm trying to help you here. So there's no paid off. Unless you're safe safe. You're showing sight the hacker to MS. But you know what? Comes a time you got to recognize the truth. >> [sighs] >> That in a monarch of Shogun literally means it's set on the table, but like something that's obvious. And especially something that's emphasized and highlighted, meaning it's not just on the table. It's like on the table and there's like spotlights on it, arrows pointing to it. The whole and now as was elaborated above. Like I really really hope you get the point. I really hope that you don't need more explanation on this. It's like pretty should be pretty clear, okay? All right. We have a raffle for the stairs with a blessing for being able to report good news. Well, Hashem. Powerful powerful powerful stuff. Okay. Tomorrow night is our 30th letter. 8:00 p.m. A little bit earlier. Why? Cuz 10:00 p.m. is okay for live stream only, but I feel like it's a little bit late for an in-person event. We're going to have an in-person event tomorrow night. Ladies only. Sorry to the men, but you can watch online. Um why ladies only? Cuz SoulWords House is only big enough for either ladies or men for a big event like this. And there are by Hashem plenty of events for men. And we figured it'd be nice to have a space for women to go to and to be able to to to connect to Yud-Aleph Nissan. >> [snorts] >> And I'll just add you know, the Rebbi's saying here in this letter that you can connect directly to the source and it'll all work out practically. So don't think I'm overlooking the practical. You're going to have the material and the spiritual together. So I don't know if I should take liberties to say this, but I'll just say like this. I am not aware of anyone who ever took time out to celebrate Yud-Aleph Nissan and to connect to the Rebbi that ever actually because of that was less ready than they needed to be for Pesach. And to the contrary, if you take time to celebrate Yud-Aleph Nissan I'm sure that you'll be ready even sooner and more calmly and with greater success. So tomorrow night 8:00 p.m. at the SoulWords House. Just have a block from the aisle. Look for the blue door. Um women's event. We're going to learn the 30th letter of 30 letters in 30 days. God willing we will see you there.