Grabbing EVERY opportunity to connect | Letter #15 of 30 Letters in 30 Days

okay barem welcome to letter number 15 of 30 letters in 30 days we'll start our learning with a little Sedaka I got the kabad pushka app and let's give a dollar oh did I not turn off the silencer hold on you can't hear it what's the fun in that how do you do this let's see ah there you go and we'll shake it up fun fun fun okay let me resilence this ah silenced okay letter number 15 without further Ado we'll pull up the PDF PDF should be in the if you're watching on YouTube the PDF should be in a link in the description below you're watching on souls. org there's a little thing you click underneath the video um that says study guide I think if you're listening on podcast platforms like Spotify or apple podcast I can't help you I don't know how to put a document up there sorry okay bov it says n but that's who it isov shalom so the is writing toov who was a Masia of uh not just in the Yesa in buo but meaning a a mentor to the Yeshiva students but also to the community that's really where the main focus of this letter is in sn's role as a as as a mentor and a leader within the community of anash of of in in Paris in France okay um and and just to note the the date I said was uh so we're talking about like after pesak right okay just keep that in the back of your mind that this letter is written a few weeks after I hereby acknowledge your letter from the date of B year thank you for the good tidings thank you for the tests I think actually sent the uh the marks the marked up tests maybe even the test themselves to the but indicating that the B had learned their subject matter well and theba says that and certainly they're learning also in matters of but should give them success that by opening up even the eye of a needle then it should be reciprocated disproportionately from on high that a an open the width of the entrance Corridor of the base I this should open for them um this is a classic saying if Hashem says if you'll open for me like the eye of a needle meaning a tiny amount I'll open for you like the opening of the and the adds here something I don't think I've seen before I'll open for you from above like the opening to the B mikdash the says even in context relative to what Lila meaning from spiritual uh from the spiritual Realms is considered a big opening meaning not just what's considered a big opening from our perspective but even from the perspective of Mila from from the spiritual Realms which would obviously be an even bigger opening than what we would consider a big opening okay so first first all that is happy about the the B learning and seeing that that they're they're progressing and they're learning well and testing taking their tests okay it was a lot but let me just translate that theb is referring to students who are learning in laich during their vacation from what I understand these are students who are not learning in Jewish schools during the regular year I guess their parents wanted something for them to do during vacation maybe they were also motivated by a desire that their children should receive some type of Jewish Education but the main thing is these are like sort of like public school kids who are in the laage system but only for like times when they're regular school isn't going on so that deba says that it's very important to start early on the efforts what I imagine what it means early on meaning it's year like may I don't know when the vacation started for these kids in France but let's say June you know summer vacation so like don't wait till the last minute start working on it now to get these kids to come learn a laich uh this the de says this also applies to bifa not just for the boy school but also for the girl school and the says although I wrote to them directly I guess to the people who are involved in B Rifka but the re was telling Reb Nissen you know it it wouldn't be so bad if also you would also uh remind them and then theb invokes the F the famous saying of the bam that nshama comes to the world for 7080 years just to do a favor for another um so um yeah and then theba adds a concept from Tanya chapter 25 of Tanya which is that when you do a good thing it lasts forever so in other words this is the way I'm taking it even if it's like one kid from public school coming to learn for one summer but the effect of that could be first of all a worth an entire person's Nish coming to this world just to accomplish getting that kid to learn for one summer um and B uh the effect really is eternal because it's a good thing so it it lasts in the spiritual worlds it lasts forever so thatb is just motivating obn to make sure that they um are involved in that recruitment effort uh now also remember that if you put forth the proper effort a lot of these kids who will come learn with you during vacation will then be influenced to continue leading a Torah observant life afterwards then a lot of them some of them will even remain in Yeshiva so some of them won't remain in Yeshiva but they'll be more observant because of their experience in Yeshiva some of them will actually stay in Yesa not go back to wherever they were I'm waiting for good news and all of the above especially this matter okay now here's really the reason why I wanted to learn this letter with you and a little background um there was a whole discussion in the committee you know we have a committee of illustrious um Scholars who choose these letters I made a br earlier um so it was a whole discussion about this matter I'll give you a little uh confession here I said I'm not sure I'm going to be able to adequately explain this concept so you'll see if I was right moving uh I'm sorry the uh now this is a shocking sentence I cannot withhold I cannot hold myself back from expressing my shock and my confusion my confusion and my shock my surprise my excessive surprise but yes sir I'm exceedingly confused baffled okay it's not really a sentence that you want to hear from the rebit the Reb is writing you and saying like I cannot hold myself back from expressing my being absolutely baffled Gob smacked okay what is it what is it all right let's hear what it is I'm gonna here's a spoiler I'm going to tell you what it is because it abnis I'm sure knew exactly what it was referring to right when that I was started but it takes a bunch of lines to actually say what the actual ual thing is so I'm just going to tell you I when was this letter you remember from 10 minutes ago when I read the date of the letter right it was from ear you remember the date was it ear so and I mentioned I made a point it's a few yes it's ear it's a few weeks after PES it has to do with matah has to do with where they got their matah from okay there was an option to get their mat from Del lishka that's the official office that was set up to administrate laich outreach activities in France and other areas as well um and apparently mium did not Avail themselves of that opportunity to get their matah from that distributor or from that Bakery which was under the aices of the official organization that the FED had established that's all I'll say okay so theba says I'm absolutely like befuddled by this it's understood from what's brought in in many places especially um regarding mha being perplexed where am I supposed to get meat from the people in the wilderness were complaining we need meat and Misha says my only B where am I supposed to get meat from um meaning to say is this my job is this my job I'm I I I receive the toyra I teach toyra what am I a caterer I'm I'm a Riva not a not a I'm not running a restaurant over here so Misha was perplexed by this nevertheless as explains even though his argument was a very strong one and and what's the proof that it was a good argument where he says gather me 70 men the 70 elders meaning to Sayo had to assemble around him like people of a lower level in other words this is sound such a low level for me how can I deal with such a thing like this okay so you'll get delegates you get Representatives nevertheless in the end the people even though it was sort of like a crass thing for them to ask bothering about meat you're going to the you're going to that sadic you're going to the to to the teacher and you're saying you want meat like why is that his job and nevertheless we see that it was his job okay so he had to delegate responsibility to the Shivam zakum in order to pull this one off um in order to come down to that level um but it did come through him and says in the parentheses okay yeah there was an inter medor that was required for that but what's the point what what's the upshot of this story the way it's interpreted in that everything that those who are connected to and those who are the of everything they receive it has to be connected somehow to their n meaning to say you would think that when it comes to baser okay maybe even you shouldn't be crying for meat but if you are going to cry for meat don't bother Misha but why do you have to talk to Misha about it and yeah what's the conclusion no if you're going to cry for meat then then you then you better get Misha's meat get the meat that Misha will arrange for you and even if he has to get shakim to act as intermediaries to arrange it but it needs to come from Misha I remember one time I was sitting at a faan many years ago at the aisle on chabas and someone was saying you know when I go into the oil what am I supposed to write to the Deb am I supposed to say everything like do I tell the Deb I lost 10B and another guy says to him if you wouldn't tell the Deb you lost 10 pounds why did you do it if it wasn't something you would tell the why did you do it he wasn't telling him that he shouldn't lose 10 pounds he was saying if you did it then obviously has to have some connection like that yeah you say that also when you go into the at any rate the point is even something really really arguably crass mundane but if you have the option of getting it generic or getting it from Misha you get it from Misha even if it doesn't seem like AA type thing to be involved in okay so we are forced to say that a generation that merited that the should be its leader and Shepherd everything has to be connected to him everything everything in some manner even crash things everyday things mundane things that you wouldn't even think to connect to the de yeah that also has to be connected to the so therefore how much more so when you're talking about the the the people who are supposed to be connected to the and and their children their families and how much more so when you're talking about not mundane things like just I want meat but something that's a mitzvah remember I I told you the spoiler that it's talking about the mat for for p didn't say yet the mat but that's what that's what it's talking about especially something that's not just a Mitzvah but it's one of like the foundational and especially something that's connected to the concept of Faith right mat is called in food of faith like it says the people believed in Hashem and in m so meat may not be mha's department and yet even meat you go get from so how much more so is definitely M's department and you're G to get a from somewhere else other than doesn't make sense like it says in the which is m anybody who believes in the faithful shepher it's as if he believes in the one who spoke and brought the world into being meaning the two are equivalent therefore based on this God OSI my my my perplex is that a word perplex my bafflement is uh really big I'm like I'm totally sh when I found out that specifically of all things when it came to the food of Faith which means mat were they chose they didn't choose it it was O it happened to them no no no they chose they took their matah they bought they procured mat from some other source [Music] at the same moment when they had the ability they could have procured it from the office established by my father-in-law the the acts of aad are forever and therefore even now this lka this office continues to be his office in other words I mean theb doesn't say this explicitly but maybe there were people who said well you know before youat yeah I I I I would get it from the lishka but now who says the connection is so you know direct and and and the rebba saying if the rebba set something up it's his forever and it shocks me that anyone who considers himself Aid would not Avail himself self of the opportunity to connect to the debba by getting even something like the original example was meat which means something totally optional and not holy and mundane even that you would want to get it from a from a from a source connected to the de if possible so how much more so something like matah which is the whole concept of Faith why wouldn't you get that from the Reb okay now I'm sure they have reasons they have reasons why they didn't get it from the lka maybe they had strong reasons maybe it was expensive maybe it cost more maybe it wasn't so well baked maybe the other stuff was baked better maybe they didn't like the guy who sells it maybe you know I don't like the guy I don't why do why do I have to deal with him why does he have to be my gatekeeper right all [Music] right or like some people say it's for the Kinder I got the kids the other mat for me I'm a makush of course I I got the mat from theka that's what I eat and the says in parenthesis really when it comes to AA you could distinguish like that that an adult needs one type of am and a child needs another type of and it's even weirder when you make that distinction when it comes to the whole concept cabalistic of is that when you're in the the the is in a state of katos and it's like a little child who needs to eat wheat he needs to eat dogon in order for his brain to develop and he can start speaking and becoming verbal and so too in in order for the intelligence the the understanding of godliness to be able to integrate itself into our Consciousness we need to eat wheat in this case the wheat of of theur mat so specifically PES which is all about children and not just children biologically but spiritually the concept of being spiritually immature and then the matah triggers the spiritual maturation process so like now you're going to say the children shouldn't have it that's the weirdest thing of course the children should have it that's what inspires their spiritual growth is or why would you set aside an opportunity for a possible connection to the re it just doesn't make sense in other words even if it's a remote possibility that where you get your matah from will connect you to the debba or but you're you're giving that up for something where the benefits that you're supposedly getting from the other place that's that's also a suff who says that's any better to go and receive your food of Faith from another place who says you're benefiting so what what did you gain You could argue I'm not sure I will gain by getting from the from the the matah that's connected to theb I'm not sure if that will really really work or really have a benefit so the say let's say it's a fake fer let's say maybe maybe it's it's not so certain that that it'll benefit you but then why did you choose the other thing that has certain benefits that has certain benefits what that it's cheaper that you what you can avoid the the salesman who you don't like now that says I don't want to name names I don't want to say who did this that's why I'm writing to you toiss because I know you and your guys bought from the official Bakery from the lishka so I'm writing to you I wouldn't write to the guys who I know didn't get their matah from delisha because then it's like sort of outing them I'm not trying to out anybody I'm writing to you because I know you're not directly involved and you can work this into a all the time so that saying you know the next opportunity when you're foring this is something that you should speak about uh as surely in France they also know the saying the saying that all uh Z buddhis our lowgrade quality is better than their Prime quality meaning to say something that you have that's connected to to the even if you'll tell me that it's from the lowest grade of that stuff that's still better than the highest grade of other stuff and uh you know you can mention that at a Hashem should give you success to take all of the spiritual energy of PES and draw it into your day-to-day life in a revealed way throughout the year B with a black in um that's our letter for tonight okay amazing we will see you tomorrow