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this is our weekly class where we study
a MIM AIC
discourse from the original text word by
word from the
Reb this week we're starting a new mimer
a new
discourse called bosil
lagani there are many many mym from the
rebit with the same name bosil
lagani and the way that we differentiate
between one bosani and another bosani is
by naming the year so we're going to
learn b t
mid
5744 but uh let me just explain a little
bit of background now I could use the
entire class just giving background but
I don't want to do that I want to try to
do this in less than five minutes the
background
part the sixth Reb of
kabad who was known as the Reb
Rats the only child of his father the
fifth rebbi the Reb
rashab came to America in
1940 and for the last 10 years of his
life in this physical world he lived in
Brooklyn in
770 and brought luich to
America and started basically the the
movement that we know of as uh laich in
the modern world with all the Outreach
and the network of schlim that all
began in those 10
years and during the majority of those
years his son-in-law who was called the
rash who later became his successor the
seventh rebba was his secretary and um
was involved in all of the groundwork of
all the institutions that were
established during those 10
years and after the passing of theat or
who we call the freed the previous rebba
in
1950 there was a year period where there
was not yet an official re and after
that exactly onee period on the first y
site of the
accepted the nus the
leadership the date is yat the 10th day
of the Hebrew month of shat so
yat 1950 is the hisus the passing of
the 1951 exactly one year later same
date is when the reab accepted
leadership and the way the reab signaled
that he was accepting leaders ership was
at the faan he was faan the whole year
he was leading faans the whole year but
at not as an an official rebbit the way
that everyone knew that he had
officially accepted leadership is he
said a mimer a mimer is only said by a
rabit and the first MIM that AB said
began
bosani bosani is uh from Shir from Song
of Songs it means I've come into my
garden uh and more significantly
bosani is a mimer from the F now I
should explain something in the later
years of the F's life he was not
speaking my modem he was not speaking so
much in general because of health issues
but he continued to write and he wrote
many many my modm to the extent that
even after his passing they were still
coming out with cidic discourses that he
had
written so it happen happened to be
nothing happens to be but this is how it
happened
um the freba wrote a discourse called
basil
lagani that
was scheduled to be distributed on the
date of yudat which turned out to become
the day of his own
passing okay so basically that's in a
certain way like uh
an ethical will a last will in
Testament and so you understand the the
mimer that the F wrote which was dated
the date of his own passing the RAB then
used that same mimer and repeated it a
year later at the faan to signal that he
was now RAB and was saying my modm and
what he did was he took the mimer of his
father-in-law he basically at the
beginning he's repeating it almost
verbatim
and then diverges into his own
commentary which by the way became uh
the Reb style throughout all the years
most of theb mym the Reb will take a m
from one of his predecessors one of the
previous rebas and give more uh detailed
explanation a lot of the rebba style is
commentary on the the my modem of the
previous
rebis so that's what theb did the first
faan first official I'm sorry first
official faan
and then every year
yat there would be a an anniversary
fa uh and and the rebba would continue
to say
bosani but it wasn't the same BOS
lagani what was the Reb
doing um so I should explain the concept
of a h a h means a continuation or a
Serial you know like in the magazine
when they have like a story and you have
to it says to be continued serial okay
so some my modem are Standalone other
mym are serials BOS lagani was part of a
serial of 20
chapters and what the rebba did was each
year the rebba would repeat the bosan
mimer but focus in on another one of the
chapters of the 20 chapter of the
previous rebis seral so in other words
just to make sure this is very clear to
you T Alf which was the first year that
e did his own basil lagani uh not that
anyone realized it at the time it was
focused on the first chapter of the
previous Reb bagani and B 5712
1952 the ab said his own bagani and it
was primarily focused on the second
chapter of the fbis Busan
and then in t gimmel 5713 1953 that said
another BOS BOS lagani was primarily
focused on chapter three very good
until the debba got to the 20th chapter
and I told you there's only 20 chapters
and then what did the de do the next
year H started again very good went back
to chapter one went back to chapter
one so we pick up from this that there's
this concept of cycling through the 20
chapters in a 20y year
cycle and as such we continue that cycle
we continue that cycle so this year is
toughen no one knows the year pay doid T
and payid
5784 as
such we are well uh you're
close
14th 14th 14th we're on the 14th chapter
so the same chapter that theb studied in
depth in
t that's
5724 or
1964 is the same chapter that I've
studied in depth in tan meala that's
5744 or
and that would have also corresponded to
2004 as well as to
2024 which it's about a couple weeks
away but 2024 okay so you understand
this
year correspond this year of yudat which
is coming up in a few weeks and what we
want to do is use this class as our
opportunity to prepare for yudat the
10th day of the Hebrew month of shat
which is as I mentioned the yard site of
the previous Reb and the day that the
rebit officially accepted leadership and
the way we're going to prepare for it is
to study the Reb's explanation of the
14th chapter of the 20 chapter bosani
serial and um so I had to make a choice
okay so that I think I did it I said I
want to do a five minute background I
think that was five minutes okay just a
quick question yes when we're talking
about the re we're talking about ra the
rash rash yeah stands for his name yeah
yes his first name his last name yeah he
the seventh re okay just one to me
correct okay
now I had to make a
decision we couldn't learn
both
and because we don't have enough time I
think we have about four classes until
yat and I knew we could only cover one
of the two my
modem um I have this you I sent you a
PDF on the class WhatsApp people
watching on YouTube are like I didn't
get a WhatsApp well you're not it's a
local thing okay but if you're watching
online I will post a link to the PDF in
the description of this video this is a
little pamphlet put out by
Kos and uh I actually picked this up at
the Ole I was at the O for chabis the
chabas before he Tavis and I picked this
up from the Ole I brought this all the
way
home four miles away yes okay so
um um I looked it
over
and it's I'm not going to count how many
pages it is because that's too much math
but
uh it's nine chapters and it goes from
page 14 to 31 it's like 17 pages okay so
then in compare I know this sounds
terrible this is how I decided it but um
bin
mid is from page 33 in this pamphlet to
41 it's it's it's much shorter okay uh
so I figured we could actually finish it
that's why I chose so you're gonna say
to me why did you choose not because I
felt we could finish it that's why that
that was the basis of the decision okay
so here we go
uh in the PDF it's on page lamed gimmel
which I believe in the PDF does
correspond to page 33 because I think
the cover page is page one of the
PDF um should work out that way yeah it
does okay and you see there which
says this was on shabas so there's no
recording of it it was memorized and
transcribed after the fact
uh says me instead of mealid because
mealid has a negative
connotation Shin mealid yeah it means
destruction so we don't yeah so we don't
write that we write Tad right
okaya means it was not edited by the
Reb um that means it's to the best
recollection of the team of Scholars
this is what the rebba said but the Reb
did not edit it and go over it and um
there the original bosani is is edited
but this is not
okay so here are the famous opening
words I've come into my garden my sister
my bride this is again I told you this
is a verse from
where who's speaking in this
verse Hashem is speaking he's speaking
to his beloved bride who's his
bride us the Jewish people and when did
this happen when did he say I I came
honey I'm home when did he say say that
when they built the mishad when they
built the physical sanctuary in the
wilderness he said ah I'm back I'm back
to the physical
world may create now what's going to
happen is the Deb is going to
review
the first 13 chapters of the
mimer um and then we'll get up to a
point where we're we're ready to delve
into a more focused analysis of chapter
14 I don't think today we'll get up to
the part that focuses on 14 I think
today mostly will be
the the review where theb is reminding
us of some of the main points of the
mimer
okay and says and my father-in-law the
who your tit is today says in his mimer
that starts with these
words
and this m that mentions was given out
on the day of his
passing so the the previous Reb says in
his mimer that was released for the day
of his
passing it says in on this verse
legani legani lii little word play
legani to my gardeni to my Bridal
canopy to the place that was my Main
Place
at the beginning what does that
mean that the
main and what is the main as opposed to
the other Shas um that is something that
is explained at
length
in where theb focuses on the first
chapter of the 20 chapters but basically
it means there are levels of you guys
who learned Tanya with me remember
levels of so when we say the main we
mean the main not just levels of it but
the essence the most essential where was
it it was on the physical
Earth in ganeden when Hashem created the
world so in the Garden of Eden there was
the highest level of Godly
Revelation down here on the lowest level
of Creation in the physical world
okay but what so what
happened
through seven negative
events the laugh it was repelled all the
way to the seventh
heaven and the doesn't enumerate
specifically here but in the original
arm It quotes the medish more fully and
it mentions each generation first was
the sin of Adam with the tree of
knowledge and then was Cain's murderer
of Abel and then the generation of enes
worshiping idols and basically the was
repelled level after level away from the
world and then afterward seven righteous
people stood
up starting
from who was the one and only he was the
only person in the world like
him and began drawing the back down from
above to below
until who was the seventh Seventh
Generation
from and like the med says and all
sevenths are precious pause for a
second in the M that the F released to
be the F wrote to be released on the day
of his
passing one of the things that that
mimer talks about is a concept from the
med that all sevenths are
precious it's a bit
uncanny that with his passing freed Reb
is passing he was the sixth rebba from
the alter Reb so that began the Seventh
Generation so the rebba in his mimer
focuses on this idea of the Seventh
Generation from the
alter
and basically draws upon the text of his
father-in-law's mimer which was released
on that very date that emphasizes this
concept of K all seventh are precious
and the says there basically that look
it's not because we're so great it's not
because we're so talented but hey we're
the seventh generation and we're
precious and that means we have a
special Mission okay so this concept all
sevenths are precious it comes from the
fact
Moses was the seventh generation from
Abraham and
therefore um he was the one who made
that
the the difference the was being brought
down incrementally by and then then Yan
but the one that made the real
difference who brought it from the
Heavens to the Earth was the seventh was
mha who brought the down to the physical
world when where in the wilderness in
the in the mishan in the physical
Sanctuary was the one who brought the
down to the
Earth
to the physical
world and there is no plane of existence
lower than
it now the main way in which this
drawing down of the was expressed was in
the
Mish like Hashem says says in the make
for me a mikdash make for me a physical
sanctuary and I will dwell within them
within
them the dwelling within the physical
structure the the Mish that was made
from 13 or 15 depending on the the
opinion you follow
physical um it's not ingredients not
baking a cake uh materials materials
materials building
materials and Hashem says I will dwell
within them within them literally within
the Jewish
people and by dwelling in the Mish this
causes the hasham is dwelling within
each and every individual Jew as the mes
explains
okay so all of
this is still
reviewing the original bani and in fact
it's reviewing the first chapter of the
original
bosani this is the meaning of the verse
from from chapter 37 of Psalms that
sadik the righteous will inherit the
earth and dwell forever upon
it
what does it mean they will dwell
actually means they will cause hashem's
presence to dwell on the
earth they'll take who
is the one who dwells Forever on high
and bring him down here to dwell on
Earth that hashem's presence should
eternally dwell down here on the
physical
plane in an eternal way
and why will it be Eternal because the
mechanism through which we drawm down to
the world is through T and T is
[Applause]
eternal then will rule
forever and this process began the
process of drawing Hashem down to the
the physical world which obviously we're
talking about Messiah but the process
began withu making the mishon and as we
know like our sages tell us all the
works of the hands of mha are Eternal
anything that mha built still exists
it's still intact
yes so okay that's the end of chapter
one just to review very quickly so in
this chapter the re starts us off as the
the custom
bosani uh then the reviews some of the
main points from the
beginning of his father-in-law's mimer
and the main points like we said are
that basa Hashem is saying when the
mishan was built I've come home this is
my place I've come back I've returned
that when he created the world he was
here he was here in the physical world
through different sins the Shina was
repelled to incrementally further and
further away and then through a process
a seven generation process the was
incrementally brought back until finally
M who was the
seventh was the one who brought
the back to the Earth which means that
there was a revelation of godliness here
on the physical plane specifically in
the mishkon in the sanctuary but that
also caused that that there to be a
revelation say within them within the
individual Jews okay that's chapter one
that what I missed that Mia at the end
well we're trying to finish this process
the the process began where do mia
figure into this the process began when
built the Mish and brought the into the
physical Sanctuary okay so that's the
beginning of bringing hashem's presence
into the physical world the ultimate
meaning the completion of that process
is Messiah when the whole world will be
a place where God's presence is
revealed so we're using this
concept of the mishon where Hashem said
bosani I'm back I've returned um as sort
of the precedent for what we're driving
at what our goal is this is our purpose
and and when theb says you know I
mentioned the idea of of where the the
Seventh Generation we have to be like
Moses's generation who was the seventh
generation from Abraham um that's really
what how the rebba applies it he's
saying what does it mean that we're the
seventh it means we're the ones who
finished the job meaning if starting
from the AL starting from the Tanya
Hashem became a little bit more revealed
in the world it's our job as the Seventh
Generation to make Hashem completely
revealed in the world and another way of
describing that shorthand is Messiah
okay
chapter 2 and if you're following the
PDF it's on page
ladal yeah we're good all right
fine chapter
two now there's a
verse from from
Psalms chapter 66 verse 5 you can look
it up the words
a terrible Lial or
slander
against the children of man
Humanity so sidus
explains
that it is speaking about literally bam
the children of adish the descendants of
the first man meaning all of
us that the first man was set
up it was a setup it was
entrapment that the the sin of the tree
of knowledge was
unavoidable and
although certainly there was free choice
involved and certainly therefore there
is human accountability involved at the
same
time it could not have been avoided it
was a setup that's why we
say it's a terrible Lial that was
brought against humanity because really
there was no way this was not going to
happen it's
understood these seven negative
occurrences that we mentioned in the
first seven generations of
humanity and how the was being
repelled
it was on purpose it was part of the
plan it was part of the
plan apparently Hashem set things up
that the should start off being here but
then it should be pushed
away one level after another that was
all part of the
plan that is to
say this descent was for the sake of a
subsequent greater Ascent don't get
confused by if you're a spatial person
and you're like how is it a desent the
sh is Going Up and Away what we mean is
a qualitative descent meaning the the
further away the sh is getting from the
world then the lower the world is
descending into
physicality but every descent is for the
sake of a subsequent greater Ascent like
you crouch down in order to be able to
LEAP up higher than if you just jump
from a standing position and this is an
axiom within Tyra especially in
especially in the Rebus teachings a
descent is only for the sake of a
greater Ascent so the fact that the was
here and then we lost it in fact we we
we we lost it more and more every
generation until it started coming
back that's not a bug it's a feature it
was
planned and it's part of the process
indispensably part of the process
okay this descent was for the sake of an
assent in
order follow that very important
concept that the being in the physical
world should be through the work of the
Jewish people in other words the was
here to begin with but how did it get
here just Hashem put it
here after we bring it
back that's a big difference it's not
just the was here then it was gone now
it's back Zero Sum game nothing changed
no no no no it's very
different a million dollars that was
given to you is totally different than a
million dollars that you
earned so why do you have the here to
begin with if it's a descent for the
asset real
he said that's a great question meaning
if it had to be earned so start from
zero yeah why give it to you make you
lose it and then make you earn it back
right I I love that question let's savor
it okay not going to answer it but
that's a great that's a great place to
be with that question
okay why does it have to be a return why
does it have to be a reinstatement if
we're going to lose it just don't give
it to us to begin with yeah that's great
I'm not going to answer that okay all
right so it has to come about through
the my sister my bride right in that
verse is speaking to his beloved he's
using pet names to describe us Terms of
Endearment you know about the guy went
on his honeymoon to Niagara Falls you
can tell this is an old joke and he
checks into the hotel to the honeymoon
suite and there's this old couple there
in front of them checking in
and he this young groom over here is
this elderly gentleman speaking to his
wife and he says honey um do you want me
to check us in Deer which room would you
like sweetie could I get your bags and
when the older wife is out of earshot
the young man says to the older man he
says I notice you use these such these
wonderful terms of endearment Honey
Sweetie Dolly
baby I mean how do you keep the spark
alive he says I can't remember her
name okay okay so Hashem
says Kal my sister my bride these are
terms of
endearment
so I've come back to my place this is my
place hasem says I love the physical
world this is my home I've come back I'm
back to my place and why am I back here
cuz you my dear you made it possible you
br it's not a bachelor pad that I went
and I bought some $20 million condo and
Tribeca and no way it's my wife made a
home for me you understand the
difference okay
[Applause]
finey just take this as atic that the
dwelling place in the lower realms for
the that exist through Jewish people
bringing it about is qualitatively
greater incomparably so than how it was
when Hashem just put it here in the
first
place and the
reason when the gets brought back after
it's
departed it comes about through the
transformation of Darkness to
light
the only way to bring the sh back once
it's been lost is through transforming
Darkness to
light when the darkness turns into
light this is the only
way to make an advantage in the
light I should explain this concept
because there's a verse
fromis of
the advantage of light over
dark so there are a few different ways
of understanding that concept one is
light is better than dark it take
Solomon to tell me that yeah I know I
don't want to bump into things light is
better than
dark then there's another way of
explaining it well that you appreciate
light because of dark that if there
wouldn't be dark there wouldn't be light
oh that's a little
deeper still not the deepest
explanation the advantage of light not
better than dark this this preposition
mean can mean than it can also mean from
the advantage of light that comes from
dark light that's made out of dark the
transformation of dark into light
meaning to say you start off with a
certain quantity of
light and that's what it is whatever it
is assign the value
X and that's the totality of light you
can't have any more than that now
imagine not only do you have that but
also all the darkness becomes a new type
of light that used to be Darkness now
you have even more light is it like the
AAS that become Mitzvah the AAS that
become mitzvas yeah from chapter eight
of Tanya the zus kazus is a great
personal example of that correct great
that's a great that's an example of that
concept we're speaking about it um here
probably more in the
macrocosm about the world lost something
and became darkened but it's not just
reinstating the light that was lost it's
then taking that Darkness itself and
turning it into new
light if you can follow that concept a
little bit mind mind
bendy
what doeses that look like isn't that
from like what we just learn from kanah
yeah we did learn that in the kekah
mimer we can't assume that everybody was
at that class or even people who were
there remember it but yes we did speak
about the transformation of Darkness
into light turning Darkness itself not
just replacing Darkness with light but
turning the darkness itself into light
correct and we keep turning talking
about seven here but it's really we want
to get eight
yeah that's that's a good point I have
to make maybe I have to make a chart
over
here that's a good point okay but I am a
little bit confused so okay the was here
sh was here the was here yeah it went
back up yeah and then it came back with
the mishan well it came back step by
step avam brought it down from the
seventh heaven to the sixth and Y from
the sixth to the fifth and so on and so
forth until it was poised to return to
the world it was in it was hovering in
that most approx most Pro in the closest
what do you call proximate proximate
yeah I think the word is proximate not
approximate proximate uh the closest uh
the heaven Which is closest to Earth
meaning the first one R
Alo brought it from there down to the
physical world through building the
mishkon the physical structure okay
where did
leave the sin of the golden calf yeah
that's when it left before I'm sorry no
the the mishkon was actually a tikun
after the but from the destruction of
the
BD I'm a little confused so it came it's
been back and forth a bunch of times
yeah where is it now where's well that's
a great question where is it now that's
my and and it would seem if we're to
follow these parallels that it's right
behind the door it's like cuz we're
entering history with all the previous
generation work and we just have to just
you know Tipping Point just the just
it's almost ready to come back to the
physical world okay so we got to be the
seventh generation yeah we have to be
the seventh generation we are the
Seventh Generation right we have to live
like it yeah which means to to accept
that our job is to finish the job how
can we finish the job we're not so great
well we're just finishing it it's like
when the the pickle jar is on too tight
and I try to open it I can't open it and
then after an hour of trying to open I
give it to my wife and she opens it but
she could only open open it because I
loosened it
up okay so
transformation of Darkness into light
we're actually gaining the Y the
advantage actually more light new
light a special type of light that's not
just light from light but light from
dark and you gave a great example of
what it means on on a personal level
like taking your spirit ual failures and
turning them into a springboard to gain
even greater spiritual
sensitivity that's that's a great
example of what it's like in the in a
person's experience okay so that's the
advantage that needed to be gained
that's the ascent that is gained through
The Descent all right so we call that
isap remember that word is
transformation
parenthesis for instance an example of
this would be the superiority of chuva
over the AA of aad the sadic never has
any relationship to Darkness not even
internally not not even as a potential
not even as a
Temptation which is
beautiful he's so pure but because he
has no connection to Darkness then he
can't elevate the darkness the balcha
unfortunately did have a connection to
Darkness but now is capable of not just
getting rid of it but re repurposing it
turning it into an asset that was the
whole point
of that's also yeah you're connecting
all the my mod we learned
okay yeah okay yeah by the way
um has very consistent themes so when
you learn more and more my modm you be
like oh this we learned that in this m
we learned that in that M and it's true
because there are certain consistent
themes yes and this is one of the big
ones transformation of Darkness into
light is that part of the code the code
you mean toyra being a code we spoke
about like the world is created through
through the code the world itself is
toyra DNA yeah the DNA
the the yeah yeah yeah it is and that's
why you see it so much it's part it's
it's the it's part of the code of T and
that's why it occurs in the world okay
Kamer like the
saying when one subjugates the
negativity it causes the glory of hem to
rise up to be elevated in all
worlds through the a
of that subjugation and is
transformation you know the difference
between subjugation and
transformation no well let's figure it
out subjugation transformation of what
the dark the dark okay so subjugation to
the dark what's what's subjugation of
the dark put yourself in subjugation of
it is to not let it get to you to push
it down to push it away so you have a
desire that's not for God you ignore it
and you say no that's not going to
express itself not today that's called
isaf is is transformation where you
actually take the negative and turn it
into a positive you rechannel it what
does that
mean we yeah we did though we spoke
about his at length what's just we three
minutes ago think about three minutes
ago what did we say well it's the
classic ask practice IAL I we did say
practical remember three minutes yeah no
but okay so what's an example of that an
example you mean you want me to give you
a suggestion of an evader that you could
do and then do chuva on I won't suggest
evaders does that I don't do that day so
isaia is when you don't let the darkness
get to you okay is is when you're it's a
much it's a higher level and it's a more
difficult level where you actually do
the the Judo move
and you take the energy and you flip it
into something good so instead of
getting sucked into the news and all the
negativity and what's going on right
turn take that itself and turn it into
purpose
right versus just saying I'm not of
feeling
not so you're just using the energy to
do something you're not transforming
like your depression you just don't want
to feel that so you're busying yourself
with doing something positive you're not
like really living the darkness no you
don't delve into the darkness no no no
it's that's okay so I'm glad that you're
bringing this up when we talk about is
we're not talking about purposely
visiting the darkness and and and
embracing the darkness that's that's
very
dangerous and
damaging what we're talking about is we
already have a certain amount of
Darkness that's just part of our lives
and part of the fabric of the universe
it's embedded in reality like we said
hasem set up the world in such a way
where this darkness is already part of
our Collective history and it's already
part of our individual lives so we're
not like reveling in this Darkness what
we're saying is we know it's there we
know that it could God forbid ruin us
esaia is I'm not going to let it ruin
me isap
is can I Can I take take the potential
for it to ruin me and to rechannel it
towards something
positive okay let's keep going let's
keep
going
through we draw down a greater
light he calls it which means an exalted
light a higher
light that's why uses the term isic
which means to elevate or to go up a
higher grade of
Revelation this is also why they made
the Mish out of what are
Kim
K Shin ksh what is a ksh what who said
that plank who where plank that is the
best translation I don't think I would
have thought of that yes they were
planks vertical planks you ever seen the
mishun I mean not in real life but you
seen pictures of it
okay so the mishkin was made the primary
structure of the I mean there were a lot
of different materials but the primary
structure the walls were made out of
these things called crusham planks great
translation okay the
Kish KES plank yeah is K
Shin you take the letters and rearrange
them a little anagram here and you get
shin
K which is Sher Sher is falsehood or a
lie what's the biggest lie the biggest
lie is you live in a world and you don't
see God the lack of revelation of God is
the LIE what's the truth Godly
Revelation is the truth so what are we
going to create the revelation of God
from meaning the truth from a KES which
is Shak which is the lie in other words
we're going to take a world that makes
it look
like it is ontologically independent
it's just here it just exists creation
without a Creator you know the big lie
that the predictability of nature seems
to help uh
reinforce and from the physicality from
the place of divine concealment that
itself
becomes fertile ground to express the
greatest revelation of Hashem even more
than Hashem is revealed in the
heavens is the rearrangement of the
letters ofes with another rearrangement
and he says another that itself is a
deep concept as opposed
to means Oneness overt Oneness a means
anything other than the Oneness and what
we're saying is even the otherness this
is an example of Darkness that turns
into light there is no real otherness so
the appearance of otherness actually
only serves to ultimately reinforce the
Oneness because when you have Oneness
that's all unchecked Oneness it's not as
clearly one as when you have Oneness
that appears to also coexist with
otherness and then you find out even the
otherness was only the Oneness wow
that's an even greater degree of Oneness
what the world yeah the the world the
world is the seeming apparent otherness
which is actually
Oneness now these Crush these
planks
were standing planks of AA
wood I don't really know botanically if
that's accurate I just know that many
years ago when I was a young man and the
first time I learned this mimer they
told me that at shittim is AA wood
that's sometimes I also heard it was
Cedar Wood I think maybe AA wood is a
species of cedar wood I don't know you
can come back next week and let me know
and you can bring pictures at any rate I
know that there were these really
tall trees these super tall trees that
are really great for building and that's
what the mishan was made out of but
that's not the point the I mean
Maybe not maybe for sure there is
something to be learned if we would
delve into the the the actual physical
species of wood but right now we're
going to talk about the the name of this
wood they are called
attim shittim is the
name and um what does that allude to
to
transform the falseness of the world
into a plank a building material for a
house for
God see that
word is folly that's also how I was
taught to translate but you know what
I've never used the word Folly in real
life yeah um foolishness
yeah nonsense is like foolish nonsense
but also it means
deviation really what it means is yeah
deviation to go off to bend off path so
to
take Lum means of the other side the
negative
side and turn it into
holy say and that's why the kades is
made
from because it alludes to this the idea
of taking the negative deviation and
turning it into a positive deviation
what does that mean it means you're not
going to be normal so you could be worse
than normal or you can be better than
normal your deviation could be that you
are deviated below what is the good way
to be or you could be deviated in a way
where you are above the normal way to be
in other
means you're not going to be normal
anyway
so be weird in a way that serves
God but if everything is God and there
is no there because it's then there is
no
deviation
okay
so the thing is like this
you're asking a very deep
question the original mimer that the Reb
is reviewing here by the way theb is
still reviewing the first chapter of
bosani it speaks about the idea that and
and the f is speaking in 1950 and and
Living in America and he's talking about
how people are very locked into their
ways into their what they think is
normal and what they think is proper
and if you really think about like 1950s
America you know who the f was speaking
to at that time you really understand
why that was like an
issue and
um he's saying look we all from time to
time have these deviations where we go
off the normal path so anyways you're
you're you're
deviating so turn that into something
where you're doing something
unconventional
for the sake of yish kite for the sake
of Hashem in other words go out of the
box be a little unconventional take a
risk do something bold in a way that
makes God's presence more appreciated in
this world so you're talking about a
deviation yeah what what what we're
talking about is from the perspective of
the world in the world people are
looking at you and um there is something
called the norm
and even according to Toyo there's
something called a norm and in fact he's
decrying that as well when a person says
look I'll just be Jewish following the
letter of the law I don't have to be too
intense I don't have to get carried away
so he saying no you do have to be
intense and carried away you do have to
go above and beyond and the point here
is the transformation of Shaker into KES
taking the LIE of the world and turning
it into into a home for hem is
through through through going above and
beyond and doing something
unconventional and crazy what's an
example of that something unconventional
and crazy um standing at the train
station with Manas and saying excuse me
are you Jewish do you have a manur
that's embarrassing and cringey and
weird and no normal person wants to do
that and it's an incredible example of
2023 that's normative because
of oh you're right we made it normal so
now we have to yeah we now we have to
find a new boundary to push okay you're
right all
right I'm gonna finish up
here that through this what we just
described we draw down the main into the
physical
world in a manner greater than it was at
first so we're not just just putting
things back you broke it you fix it no
no no we're not just putting things back
to the way it was what would be the
point of that we're making things better
than it's ever been so that means that
when we through going out of our comfort
zone bring the back to the world it will
be in a greater manner of Godly
Revelation here in the physical world
than it even was in ganaden when Hashem
first was at home in this physical world
okay now that's the end of his base of
chapter 2 if you look at the beginning
of chapter
3 it starts with the
words he continues in the
discourse um and that's where the rebba
will start to Summarize chapter 10 now
remember which chapter are we going to
focus on for this year 14 14 so
basically what the Reb does in this m is
summarizes chapter one just to sort of
get its back into into the general flow
of things then summarizes chapter 10 or
10 11 and 12 and 13 to like get us into
the chapters that ramp up into 14 and
then focuses on 14 so what have we
covered so
far just one we reviewed chapter one
next week God willing we'll review what
happens in chapters 10 11 12 13 and
maybe even get into the analysis of
chapter 14 yeah so now we're all going
to leave from here yeah any suggestion
on how to take whatever we just learned
and make it tangible you want some
homework I want homework yeah Comfort
Zone I want to be told and spoonfed like
this is what you need to do okay well
person yeah exactly exactly yeah cuz I
don't like to spoon feed but what was
this what was the suggestion for
homework just get out of your comfort
zone
little you could get out of your comfort
zone spiritual comfort yeah yeah yeah
yeah that's
uh I think that's that's good homework a
little do something that's out of your
comfort zone out of the norm that you're
doing for AEM