Messianic Process - Part 2: The Divine Plan - Rabbi Mendel Kessin

[Music] history the two types of history one history is called descriptive history what we learned when we were in high school you know names dates places this kind of stuff it's simple but history really the Scholastic history is interpretive it doesn't merely look at what happened when and how and so on but it looks into why why what causes human events what causes history the events of history and that's called interpretive was classic history obviously that's what historians trying to do it's much more than just naming events we need to understand why for whatever reason to understand history to prove to prevent a repetition of calamities and catastrophes look there's a lot of great stuff that can come out of obviously learning history but there are two to two types of history now the mistake that historians make which is fine is that they think that they understand the ultimate causes of history what are the ultimate cause of is that they think is the reason is the following this economic reasons why events occur military reasons cultural reason scientific reasons and so on political reasons right and accounted and this is why in style events occur and this is what they obviously labor to figure out but when you ask the Tarot why does history occur it has nothing to do with this it has everything to do with the divine plan everything except what God does is he conceals his actions and what he does is he allows political events or military events or scientific or cultural events and so on to be what's called the intermediate causes and that allows him to be concealed you see so we as Jewish scholars right that's where all now right we're now we become scholars now we're gonna bypass these intermediate reasons right which is what historians do and we are going to go into nature the divine plan and it's gonna have to build up the concepts but once you understand them you will be incredibly rewarded because you will no longer read you dear doctor or not or whatever these papers are right the New York Times as far as their history is concerned you will understand it at a whole different level so that's what I want to do I wanna I want to try to understand history from the from the standpoint of a divine plan okay now what is a divine plan okay I'd like to summarize it I hope God forgives me but I want to summarize in six points what exactly is the divine plan what does he want why are we here okay obviously it's an enormous amount of speaking each of these points is easily a whole lecture in itself but I'm going to you know just briefly mention each point which is very important and I'll try to briefly describe them one why did God create this universe altogether it's me this we know that he's completely independent of anything outside of me God has no limit he's independent right and there's nothing that we could do for him nothing it's no why do it and the answer that had that the has all give is hot tava God created the universe to bestow an infinite state of goodness on a human being period it's a simple answer now we can ask ourselves why would he want to do that you know I know it's what's the motive of the motive and the answer is unknown we don't know why God does that we just know the immediate motive which is called hot lava to bestow a state of incredible well-being or goodness or whatever you want to call it benefit and so on on a human being but we don't know why that's fine doesn't give us a reason why but it does tell tell us they hate to be a creature how to do good in your end that we do know fine so if that's the case the next question is well what is a toughie what is the greatest form of goodness because we know God doesn't renege if you want to do something is that she if I want to give you guys the best thing you could ever Seve which means that the greatest thing that existence allows what is that and the answer is a divine experience what God wants is that we should be attached to him it's called the divine hug trying to look at it that way that's it there is nothing greater than that it's called Vegas attachment now we have no idea what that is or we can suspect what it means but we don't really know what it is but we do know that the reward or rather the the benefit that he wants to give us ultimately it's called hatov ashley MO the greatest or perfect good which is Vegas to be attached to him totally in the way which we cannot even comprehend and I'm talking about God you know which obviously is is a B now we have no comprehension about in any case that's what he wants but God has to make an incredible decision what do I do should I give it to them for free Madonna or do they have to work for it this is a very way decision to imagine the repercussions of this so God decides without going into why like I said each one of these ideas all all cheering itself God decides that has it would be a veto you have to work for this he's not gonna give it to you for free sounds strange but that would the decision as enormous obviously consequences therefore what it means is that if we have to work for it right then obviously which means that it's Nana Madonna it's scar its reward because if you have to expend efforts then you are rewarded for the effort you see so that's what Kant decides however if that's the case if we have to work for it then God has to create a task so what God has to do is create a task for man obviously because he wants you to work so it's interesting what he does I tell you what he does very really very fascinating what he does is that he sends forth incredible divine energies now in Kabbalah the called spheres we don't know what they really are but they're they're clearly spiritual but they're divine forces or divine energies which he sends forth okay and these energies or forces can create realities and they create different realities in Cibola there are five of them and finally what happens is that these sphere is sort of like diminished it's like taking a thousand watt bulb and diminishing its wattage you know 800 700 600 and so on as a result of that the reality is that they create is different its diminished or degraded its inferior finally they create a physical universe same spheres same divine energies and they create a physical universe okay why because what God wants is that we who are really the soul of man he will insert a nice Shama into a physical body that's what he does and the problem then is automatically that the physical body in the physical world now becomes a barrier to feeling spirituality that's what he does so it's interesting god conceals the spiritual universes and himself through the physical medium called the body and the entire physical universe that's how he does it so we are now spiritual entities it's almost like an angel where he puts an angel into a physical body so what he does is he puts us which is a soul into a physical body and we now have a physical barrier where we cannot experience real spirituality and what God wants is the following he wants us to remove the barrier that's our job you see when we remove the barrier what does that mean removing a barrier what it means is is is the concept called zico zico means to purify to remove the contaminant from the world that we're in what is the contaminant the contaminant is the physical body itself what we have to do is dematerialize the physical body try that means if we do that over suddenly the physical body becomes transparent and then a Shama the soul immediately becomes obvious you see so that's called Zico very important concept where we re transform the physical world back into its previous day it's called that's called Zico into a spiritual universe that's right so therefore he asked itself where is the future world and the interested here I know a lot of people say excuse me it's here you call this world the what the future world of course not but what we have to do is we transform this world into the future world in through a series of steps which is very interesting and therefore that is ultimately up to us we need to create or trend we transform a physical universe into a spiritual universe and ultimately becomes a loom Hubble which is the future world and that's the world we will exist in for eternity yes that's what it is it's interesting so that's the task of man okay it's concept called tikkun which means to rectify but to rectify means to do what to restore the way it used to be the neshamah that used to be in the world of spirit we need to restore that so it's literally like removing a barrier except the barrier is physic physical substance and we got to remove that and that's the concept called Zika got that so that's the purpose of man to remove the physical barrier in order to make this universe spiritual okay now how do we do it wait wait a minute I have to have an instrument to do this you know how do I begin to do this and the answer is the following and I have to be very brief about this one the first way to do this and this is a secret without going into why is mitzvos God decided that he's going to give us a commandment and when you observe that commandment you will therefore dematerialize the universe doesn't happen right away forget about why but it's like a it's like a bank account where you store up a certain amount of cash that you can spend later on what happens when you do a mitzvah you store up a credit many mitzvahs many credits and eventually those credits will be ascribed to you and you continue to rise the universe when the appropriate time arrives which we'll talk about later okay therefore Michos is the first way to do it but God knew that many Jews are not going to do mistress big problem here you see they're not just like a dual interest so that's the only tipping device that could work so what God did is he initiated the second peeking device you see and I call them the peeking device because they ultimately be materialized the universe the second device is called chuva repentance that if you sin right and with sinning actually increases physicality and so on without getting into that you can actually undo the sin by doing Trouville pens so Tuva which is a mitzvah but it's different than all Mitch's because it can actually undo anything that you did that's what you were does repentance does so therefore the second peaking device is called true for repentance but God knew that people are not going to do to ver right with Davern yom kippur right and mire of it takes less than mire of FDM Kippur qualifies to the Guinness world record of the fastest mire of you ever doubt me so so the question that is wait wait a minute whatever happened to the chief oh right okay you know and so obviously we don't do toover we do have chuva or whatever so God said I need to give a third teaching device okay to make sure that if they don't emitters no to chuva they can do the third teaching device what is that that device is called assuming or suffering that's fine suffering isn't so much a retribution for something you did know what suffering really is is the third tipping device without getting to how it works it actually enables you when you have suffering and enables you again to do zico now there are many forms of suffering right pannotia bankruptcy divorce sickness all kinds of you know of medical problems and so on okay yeah not only that that's on an individual level on a national level what do you have you have goalless exam your persecutions have all kinds of difficulties anti-semitism all of that is taken into account as the concept called Eucerin and the Jews which I will talk about because obviously they're the main actors what happens is is that a person who does mitzvahs chuva me and Shirin ultimately he will do the people that's it those are the three peaking devices and this is obviously a great deal I'm missing out but that's fine okay we have now an understanding of the basic elements of the Divine Plan purpose the reward that has to be work we know the task is a physical barrier we know is zico that you have to undo the physical barrier and it's done through the instrumentation or instrumentality cool mitzvahs shuva means ruin more sigh that's what it spells out okay there you are that in a nutshell is a divine plan now how does it apply to us