Essence of Chasidus #4 - Chasidus is for everyone vs. Kabbalah - Besht is Authentic Chasidus

so uh good day we're learning the contest i see this on the essence of siddhis we're on page 23 in the hebrew and 22 on the english side in the heritage series uh edition now the rebbe the the rebbe who wrote this who edited this and this is his uh work he he gave us so far three reasons for the need of hasidis and why the bashantev came at the time when he came and introduced hasidis to recap number one was that during the time of the balchemte that followed the helmanski pogroms of the mid-1600s and there were spiritual and physical devastation in the in in the jewish people in the greater european uh area padalya and that had that whole area and uh it came along with an attitude that um was hovering over the community where if you learned gamora and talmud and you knew how to learn you were a jew and if you didn't you were considered the barely a jew and the have said that this is not going to get us to leave our depressive state uh that we are in and therefore the balsams said let's focus on the neshama which learning focuses on the soul under the shamach siddhis tomorrow focuses on the legalistic rules the legalistic musser focus on the ethical and siddhas focuses on the soul i just gave you a nice short definition of each of the four parts of tata that is good to know again gemara deals with the the legalistic halacha rules the legalistic makes the rulings the gemara is the discussion of the legalistic rulings of the legalistic and then you have then you have um which is the ethical ethics and and kabbalah which is the mystical and then comes siddhis and we're going and this is what the arabic looks to explain throughout this uh essay is that hasidis is the essence of each of the four and how through hasidis specifically not kabbalah not allah [Applause] and musa even though he doesn't talk about muslims really in these countries but those are all absolute uh absolute parts of toyota without them you know you're not you didn't learn all of tata but in order to uh to to get the the person the shama the soul to move you need to focus on the soul focuses on the soul siddis and today we're going to learn a little more about that so that was the first reason the second reason that the that ever brought here is that it does things like nimisha did and i looked into this more over shabbos and spoke to a few people in shul because what was bothering is the following why does the mother say that the pairings of the nails if you bury them you're out sadiq and if you burn them you're a husset so tysonis over there in the settlers need neither explains that the the reason for the concern is that the tradition is that if a pregnant woman walks over pairings of nails she could lose her her pregnancy don't ask me you know how what that's what the commander says okay so for that for that matter take and bur and bury it like you bury any other part of god forbid if you need to amputate the part of a body it's buried in the in the earth it's holy so therefore barrios are the parents so the mother says yes but if you do that the mother says you're only obsessed you're only righteous you want to be a horsey you want to be greater than the law burn them texas asks what's the logic and the answer is because by burning them you're actually damaging yourself and there's no requirement to damage yourself and hurt yourself for another person as long as you protect the other person by bearing the nails the person can't walk over them anymore none of us then you're afraid maybe somehow the the the place you buried will be revealed opened and the pregnant lady will step on them so if you burn them they don't exist anymore when you burn your nails you're burning part of your body and this is important someone gave me an example that he heard once did you ever see someone kick a a dead body a corpse of a human being if you were at a funeral and say or you were at a tahara and you saw the body and someone went and gave a kick and said it's dead there's nothing there you would really uh be very upset okay it's outrageous but why it's a body it's lifeless what's that what's the answer the answer is that the body is holy and every part of the body even that part of the body that's been separated from its source is holy is special so these nails these the pairings of the nails although they were physically removed from the person's body they still have let's use an english word a sentimental value again it's much more the sentimental value but i just even use the word sentimental value so for you to go and burn part of your body is is is is is not right and but why are you doing it you're doing it for one reason because you're afraid that a pregnant woman might step on them so that means you're damaging yourself you're damaging a part of your body for the concern of a second person if you could do that you're a hostage hello you guys get it i i want to make sure you understand what i just said because i spent a lot of time on the shabbos yes yeah you got it okay as long as you understand right if not ask me that that that's the real meaning that's what tyson explains and i and i you know taser doesn't say it's so elaborately but that's the way i put it together okay for one question yes when the morris says a horses hide enough on the side he's not referring to the death of the site he's used in tango i'm sorry what is not referring to the the definition of a sonic in the tanya no no gomorrah is not done yet right that's talking about you know are you completely righteous righteous means you do what the law says hosted according to the governor means he does beyond what the law says that's why it that's why the rebber brings here as the second reason for learning qasidis for the need of citizens for a person to be a husset not just a we don't mean a hustle with a beard and payers that's not what we mean we mean the attitude of the person you could be a lit [ __ ] the question is are you just doing to for yourself or and and you're taking care of all the legalistic things everything that's covered or are you going even against your own self that's a gossip okay mute yourself again whoever is doing okay then on page 23 the first paragraph he brings over here the first uh the third reason that hasidus came to change the quality of the middles not just the ugly character traits what we call me this tvm what's natural get up every day eat learn different work nature and i'm sorry not only to change behavior that's not nice me this tvm but to change also just the idea that something is natural basically says what's natural is clipper and altered alludes to it in the first chapter in tanya what's natural to us is not holy it's clipper and you go tell that you're going to base madrid in between you go tell that to the people there that want to throw you out what are you talking about learning and diving into your day and night we have steep left we have mignon but it's natural for you what you don't know any better you don't have any temptation if not to learn all you know what's that alert i want to learn and learn learn learn great great come see this citizen says that doesn't make you yet holy or better said it doesn't make yet a husset and the same is for hasid if a hussain isn't breaking their own boundary they're not a husset they're a good jew they're even a hasidic jew but they're not a husset of what that ever writes here is the purpose of casitas of the belgento and by the way these things that we're learning is not just for khabad okay so although we're learning a contrast that the rebbe wrote but he's addressing baal shemptov i want to make that very clear from the very beginning so whether you're a sophomore a barbara belzer or vignette sir it applies to you and guess what it applies to a misnomer to a lit [ __ ] to us the question is do you do you want to identify and understand what is the message of baal shem tov okay now we're going to learn ice dalit i want to read it first and then we're going to explain okay come on page 23 the fourth point even someone who doesn't have a very lofty soul and number two the gambler the gun you could say and even if he does have a lofty soul but guess what you're innocent he didn't refine himself you can have the loftiest soul but if you don't work on yourself refine yourself it's worth as we say in good old-fashioned gideon it's a hebrew word kadokis yeah my grandfather used to say that all the time yeah but what is it what does it mean i think it's from last week's passion yeah but yeah it's a new uh the boils or what is it called katakas it's uh uh typhus itself what legions no no no no no not legion very intense heat where your body you know maybe it's typhus i don't know but it was you in the slang in yiddish it means zero it's worth zero it's worth kadukas kadajas it's worth nothing in other words it's only a headache it's only boils it's meaningless so even if you have a holy soul and i want you to listen to discovery even if you have the greatest parents but if you don't refine yourself then garnished one second genius i'll get back to you once give me a second says that even if that's the situation so again either if you don't have a a a holy soul a lofty soul and even if you do have one but you didn't take the time to refine your character yukola hasik every individual can still understand godliness you see cobola mysticism what we call kabbalah there two two elements are required either you should have you should have a lofty souls automatically your soul relates to loftiness and mysticism but it's not that you understand it it's that you gravitate because of the loftiness of your soul or [Applause] you refine yourself so much that the love that the kabbalah that the energy coming from mysticism resonates within you however it doesn't mean you understand godliness trust me most people reading zayar and learning zayer don't understand a half a word they're saying okay and even those that understand the translation you're not going to say that they are massive elokus look at the words here massacre means to comprehend godliness guess what through the study of siddhis the balsamic teaches you can understand godliness mom is godliness you can understand the way hashem operates why how how so he says let's continue next page through this that khasidis took kabbalah capitalistic ideas and explained it next page 25 24 25. those parts of toyota that are relic are called esoteric esoteric part of toyota i.e mysticism capollo vacated and brought them close to the mind to the intellect how bit of show them through analogies and examples of characteristics of the soul and he quotes the verse this is always quoting this verse because it's based on this from my flesh i perceive godliness in other words if i can understand my how i operate my mind my heart my character i will understand how god operates so the better you understand yourself we have rabbit gordon with us today welcome back good to see you i guess you benefit from um from memorial day in america huh anyway so me sorry from my flesh i perceive godliness so if you understand yourself better you'll understand god better and that's a hindus that's a novelty so when you learn kabbalah yo needs abstract so for example you know it's like you got a plumbing system in your house right the plumber comes and you have a leak the question is how do you fit the pipe how do you fit the pipe so there's a to a b to b large to large small right it's the pipeline the pipeline of yiddish kite of judaism is kapala so as i've told you before there are people before they make a bracha they think about which nicot which validation of the shame hashem is appropriate for that bracha based on what it says in kabbalah so if a sphere is amer it's one he could for kiddush it's another nikut and for prismila it's the third negate and that's a lot of knowledge to have stored and know exactly and as i've actually seen with my own eyes people who do this they have to stop and they do it slow because they gotta memorize which knee could and with shame hashem there being miyaka there it's called yehuda unifications yeah it makes you feel lofty and maybe you are lofty but it's not something that you could say i understand that like i understand my five fingers how i understand that they work and when and or the way my mind works and my heart works it's it's not that it's it's it's mechanical okay cabola is a very mechanical approach and yes does it does it work well if you have the right pipes the water will flow through properly and you're going to get great water so if you connect to the right shame hashem the right the right name of hashem with the correct knee code with correct validation certain type of energy is going to flow through you and your house uh that day that day and when the neck and kidneys comes and you try using the same validation it's not going to work and that's why it could quite well be why sometimes a certain bracha mitzvah it flows in a certain one it doesn't flow though you did the mitzvah which is the most important thing but you're missing the right pipes the right connection yes you want to ask something okay yes rabbi i think you'll listen to something first yes all right you're right you're right you're innocent i'm sorry go ahead you wanted to say something i do wanted to say that um there is a thing called refried mathematics and theoretical mathematics so caballer is almost like theoretical mathematics applied mathematics means what what am i gonna do to add one one is equal to two i'm gonna do a second right so the story i think about the mighty kitchen about simple and they are both and he stole it and the the votes don't help the mighty to see what he was learning to experience what he was learning to see them around him so that's the doing between applied and and and theoretical right thank you i would say that that was adding a another nuance to that a different nuance you're talking about applied to theoretical with the representing here to experience be applied you need casitas to experience the the applied in in a way that you come to that determination you need the study the saga velikus you have to understand hashem this is the whole difference between chabad breast lift and all the other citizens the whole emphasis on all these things we've been learning for five years and you all know that we've what we've been learning it gives you a glimpse into how god operates and why is that important because that excites your mind that turns your mind on and when your mind's turned on you're more active you're more excited about it so this is what he said but i do want to finish the paragraph says every individual has the ability to understand even the kabbalah mysticism becomes clearer through siddhas so in other words tilde belcemtov if you were a holy soul if you had a holy soul a lofty soul or you you didn't but you worked on yourself and refined yourself and then you studied kapala you learned kapole it it it it it maybe lifted you up but it you can't you didn't understand it comes along sid is the bell champion and teaches you methods through parables and examples and and and and as your innocence said applied methods applied methods not just one plus one equals two tell me how does one plus one equal two y is one plus one equal to why can't one plus one equal three give me a logical argument and the same is for every issue so when you start understanding this then kabbalah kabbalah means the received tradition from on high will be appreciated even by someone who doesn't have a lofty soul or someone who didn't refine himself but laid out the secret of and he says that this can be understood not only in the you in the intellect of the godly soul which we discussed in the last year or two elegant secrets it can be understood also in the logic of the irrational soul to the extent it can even be understood by sacral shape in the sinkhole of the nephew babies now what we're going to do is uh go back and read notes number uh no number eight but before that uh did you have a question yes yeah i did uh rabbi i mean in my in my limited experience with leonard considers i think when you when you get to a certain stage at least you need you need a background in kabbalah to understand to have a grasp of what you know certain concepts are and i think i think having concepts having a good understanding of kabbalah hope she's opposites it's not that they just separate sins i mean i mean what do you say what's your what's your uh it's not what i'm gonna say it's what that ebb is going to say throughout later in the countries but but briefly of course i agree with you of course you need to have a background if you really want to understand but having the mechanics without the understanding remains that mechanics true so so you know let's say uh hashem it energizes the world in in three ways the pervading energy of god and the and the peripheral energy of god now you go tell that to someone in the street that look at you what are you talking about yeah it says insane and i mean i can show you the page thank you very much what does that mean and if you don't unless you learn the kute toyota of the altareba who starts explaining that and breaking it up in great detail you have no idea what that means sorry and i'm not talking about someone who's just you know ignorant or a novice i'm talking about the scholar and and and and prove me wrong go go over to a scholar in your community who learns cupboard and ask them some basic questions and and give me give me the feedback i mean i i tested it it's not you know i time tested this when i was a teenager in the midfield in borough park so it's friday afternoon and we have a big for that time like one big mikvah on 46th street which in fact they say that ever went to once when he when the bigfoot crown heights was an operative and uh it was like the show of town at three four o'clock friday afternoon everyone came to the mikvah or from all of borough park because there was a large mcfarm a hot mcfar with many showers and you had a soda machine outside it was a production and of course there was the mick for chat who would who would who would give away mick for chat just for the midfield chat you wanted to go to the mix okay so after i come out of the mikvah and i'm washing my hands and i see a hussey who's a teenager like me older younger and i guess you know uh i do have the uh the nature to start up to make a little trouble so i uh i i give him uh i say to him uh you're you're a husted yeah he says yeah yeah with the pay is flying i said can you tell me what the spheros are he looks at me what i said you never heard of the spheres the spheres he says oh yeah yeah yeah i i heard yeah but but we don't learn that i have no idea what that is i said how old are you 18 uh-huh you're 18 and you don't barely know what the word spheros means once you pick up you have no idea that happened in 1977 78 at that time postscript to 2000 2005. i'm here in borough park again this time a very fine husset asks me to learn hasidis with him but he says not tanya i said no problem and he's a friend but if he if he he was going to learn tanya means the laboratory is trying to make him a barbecue he don't want that no problem we're going to learn from the radomsk and we start learning two lines three lines into the the safer some cable cable comes up he says let's skip that okay two three lines later a little more kabbalah let's skip that basically most of the page was skipped because it's kabula words i said i was taught to try to understand what it says and give give it a chance he says well not my yeshiva now yeshiva whenever it came to kabbalah words we just go on so besides the you know the uh sociological issue issue that i that's being identified here there is the idea this is all to answer your question your point baroque that just knowing even just knowing the kabbalistic legal you know mechanics it means nothing let me say this it does mean that if you're a sensitive person or you have a lofty soul you will be inspired with loftiness that's a whole but that's not coming from here that's not coming from the cup from the seiko for the mind of ram that's coming from loftiness that something's in there you know sometimes you see about the shuffle a convert someone who all of a sudden leaves everything and you say what happened to you you had a good life what was your problem the answer is their soul spoke to speak spoke to them and they're so sad i'm not happy i don't want this but yeah but you have you know fame and you have money and you have pleasure and you have this and you have that all of a sudden then the shaman says this is not my food and i don't care that's that's a very lofty feeling a very genuine feeling and by the way it doesn't come to most people most bali trouba are not that way most people are not that way it's the the select individuals who their connection came purely out of a loftiness or someone who refined themselves they fasted they were silent and they they did things to to really break their rough and tough character i see this is a whole different approach because this says we want you to be who you are and we know that you're a man between men and a woman between women and nevertheless because god gave you a mind and you think and learn and understand these concepts it will refine you and when it refines you you'll be able to understand everything that's what we're learning over here and that ever says in the last point not only will it resonate in the nephesh habamis i'm sorry the nephew shall kiss it will resonate in the mind and it'll resonate in the mind of the animal as well and that's a hindus and that's why he will the rebels says in the beginning of chapter 4 on page 23 look at the word created no system of judaism from gemura to halacha to kabbalah to moosa came up with such an innovation because really it it make it it it it's beyond the scope of traditional judaism that's that's the says it's beyond the scope if you look at it in a legalistic way but if you begin if you peer from a different perspective i.e then the sham of the soul it makes a lot of sense so you understand what i want to leave you with today is that the belshantiv is coming to taylor and we're coming to mountain toyota to shop in something shopping something coming to it from the soul perspective that's siddhis so again gemara is the mechanics that you know the mechanics halocha is the the the solidification of the mechanics i.e the the rulings kabbalah's the mystical musser is his ethics see this is soul so and of course one shouldn't walk away saying well the others don't have a soul every night everyone has a soul for what they are but the particular study of siddhis is a soulful study because the study of gemara is about one animal goring another animal or how you write a get and how you make a marriage and halakha gives you the rules and muslim gives you the ethics be a mensch be clean be be efficient and don't procrastinate and kabbalah says there's something mystical okay but the average person is not a capitalist not a television not a hallucis not an ethicist he's an average person balshampton says i'm going to talk to you i'm going to talk to you and that's why only siddhis of the balsams was able to take a devastation that the jews had experienced and lifted up an entire people and you know yesterday and she was talking here you know boro park used to be ashkenazim and svardhan here have closed you can barely find the young israel here and if there is the governing news expired already they're not diverting those ashkenaz and already uh i i still want to say for i've cited in one of my books and robbie sell this on the book on the rav on rabbit salavaichik that i forget mayor barilla you know barilon university so the romero barlow said he wrote and he wrote the hasidim one the hasidim you know we slabotke and vladim for a hundred years we thought you know we were on top but it's going to be that way no he says we lost and it's not about winning or losing because that's silly but the the balchemter's derek has gone into everything but it needs to be belgentif that's another discussion there are groups and philosophies that emulate i don't want to go into this but i heard just last week a clip they're talking about the shia la canister you guys heard about of shia karistina right everyone is crazed about giving money for food because he fed people in hungary and they're running to his cavern they have a clip online of uh i don't know who they are certainly and i'm telling you the way it seems to my friends and i they're like begrudgingly uh agreeing that there's something there to it but of course don't make it into a uh a religion and and by the way i understand that second part that didn't bother me what bothered me is that they really don't believe in the concept of asadik the way hasidim do and it bothers me just as different in other words you have to see it in other words it's like hey the jewish world has become crazy today the fruit world and everyone's running including lit fox and half a flatbush so you know we need their money they don't say this but uh they fund mirror and ponovich and lakewood so therefore we will shake our head and go along but really that's not where it's at see this is a whole different thing so i'm saying this it's a good thing that with visual organizations pm are using hasidis in their teachings it's a good thing but please call a spade a spade it's important not to put anyone down just to understand that what belcentive is about is a whole different a whole different category it's not just a good lit fact with a little spice of hasidis that's not siddhis that's a kumsits and it's a nice thing to have a kum zits but that's not balshemptuv when you learn to see the shalom of the holy son or or uh or more of a shame you if you learn it it's a whole different world it's not a world of just you know legalistic with a little taste a little time unfortunately our world today is such which and that's why these larger shivas were speaking because you know probably in their yeshiva they're buckler and want to go to karastir and here's the look for yeshiva here we learn we don't run to quorum i don't know the background of that video but it seems that's what it's a that's what they're saying so all i'm saying when i saw it is you know let's not sell out pal and again it has nothing to do now what chabad has to when we walk into a steeple a steeple or a tone of steeple or khabaj people it should be noticeable on the people that they are hasidim of this particular rabbi this particular saver it should be noticeable not that just jews who added an adjunct to who they are and that's enough for you and that's why we're alive and that's why we have this week however i have to go zygosode will see everyone tomorrow take care