Rabbi Yirmiyahu Ullman - Tomer Devorah: Chapter 2 - He Must Be Humble - Part 1

thank you so we're up to page La made Olive we're up to Parrot Cheney that's the second chapter of the book so the first whole the full first chapter was dedicated to um emulating God's ways and specifically the meters of rakami based on the youth media and we discussed in the context of the you you've given me this meme on different occasions the idea of the spheros and the from this point on the book is going to go into into much into more depth the idea of the spheros so this first uh meaning the second chapter is really dedicated to the sphere of kesser that's the all-inclusive sphera that's the first that yeah that's the first fewer and so the whole chapter chapter two is um somewhat lengthy dealing with the different aspects of of kesser and then from then on the different chapters are going to be dedicated to different of the of the spheroes the third chapter being Hawkman IV being Bina and so forth and so on and the um emphasis is going to be unexplaining a bit about the sphere itself using more of the kabbalistic meanings or explanations of what the sphere is about and then again following suit with what we've seen so far with the midos the author is going to try and show how the deeper teachings of the spheros can be integrated by us for better more torah-like practical beneficial living so that's what um peroxini does okay so he says ode lios Odom domain furthermore insofar as a person is created in the image of his of God through the sephira of kesser there should be found in a person several spheres of activity which are dedicated primarily to this kind of attribute although it's it's really a faculty I mean it's it's really both but uh but but emulating the sphere of of casser so he's going to explain in this second chapter I think six different aspects of kesser which we should incorporate into our living so let's see them harishina the first aspect of kesser which we should know and then try nebulate is that it's a call that the sphere of Kessler as we mentioned contains within everything kesser is the first sphera it's the all-inclusive sphera kesser means crown and like a crown around the head so Kessa includes within it everything and just like the head the mind is the seat of all the faculties and all the forces and all the powers of our being so to the cancer in circles and it encompasses all of that everything is entained within that I mean if you think for a minute about how a person might have an idea that idea becomes like a spark in his mind it's like a germinal spark and you can think in an instant and included within that spark of an idea might afterwards be hours and hours of thought in terms of Translating that germinal idea into let's say the details required to execute that thought and then many many more hours might be involved in actually executing the thought but everything is all in that germinal one spark right you might think I mean for example yep thinks instantaneously that he's going to go somewhere in that thought of going somewhere includes who he's going to go with when he's going to go how he's going to get there what he's going to take with when he's going to arrive what he's going to do there how is he going to do it how is he going to afford it right it's all there in that one germ that one germ that's kesser Kester is that point within which the divine plan for creation is seated or ignited and from there everything proceeds according to the plan the details are worked out from Kessler and so forth and so on right so that's a call it includes within it everything so it is in scientific terms could be I mean I don't know if it would be the ultimate cancer because uh but it might be a kind of a manifestation of the casser it might be like a physical manifestation of the casa you know I can see that we need to speak about how therefore basically for Alamos of the one fits into the kesser of the one below it so that you know you know if there was a big bang and if that big bang was you know the cause for the proliferation of the physical universe so that could be you know according to what you're the way you're viewing it the kesser of the of the of the realm of the of the world of asea sorry the other worlds non-physical yeah yeah asea is the physical world the world of of actually making the you know the physical making of the plant um but the question that we're talking about would be the case the question which is the highest sphere of kesser in the highest which is below what we call insof and self meaning the Infinity of God so that if you think about God's kind of plan to create Kessler would be that spark of an idea in which all of the Myriad details of creation are included and it's from kesser that they proceed he meet us on Nova and he says what seems to be a contradiction that this kesser which includes everything is really an expression an expression of another humility which is kind of counter-intuitive because something as all-inclusive as casser would seem to have every reason to be something which is elevated and arrogant and Hardy but he says that's not the case quezer has the quality of being related to the middle of another of humility because there and this is because humility is connected to kesser why because the attribute of humility is elevated above all other good attributes the enam is Alice he means to say not what it means to say is that he called he calls Kessler here amida but he's referring to Casa Shari he meaning kesser is a media alcolomidos is a meter that's why he's saying a faculty or an attribute it's a sphere which is above all other spheroes and it has within it everything is but the cancer which is above everything else is not haughty an arrogant separating itself severing itself from those below it on the contrary um cancer is always looking down below right speaking I guess analogy uh what do I think for analogously yeah yeah because there's not looking but the point is Kester includes within everything it's also above everything and you'd think that therefore would be as it were an expression of arrogance and uh and uh um what's it called when somebody kind of not super serious is not the words the other way around um when a person is um condescending that's what I was looking for you need to be condescending but that's not the case we find that cancer is very humble rather than elegant of itself raising its head as it were cancer lowers its head and looks downward acting as a conduit through which the Divine will is expressed into the lower spheros so it shares everything that it's given not only does it share it it actually passes it on and that's an act of humility and this happens for two reasons however the one is because cancer itself is embarrassed as it were to look at its cause what's the cause of cancer ends of so cancer despite the fact that it's being extremely elevated including everything nevertheless is not haughty it's it's humble why because it's constantly aware of the presence of God above it Kessler receives all of its influence from God so rather than arrogantly raising his head against God as it were Kester humbles its head before God and this is one reason why as a result of that cancer is looking below in order to benefit and share with those who are below it the stress which are below it so so the spirits each have like personalities like like they have choice on how whether or not they're happy it's just described it's just how God I don't know I don't understand like what they're yeah what their motivation for not acting as that function would be you know yeah I think that speaking as an analogy he's speaking as analogy we have God and we have these attributes of God we're to emulate the attributes of God one of the parallel to the you'd give themidos the 13 attributes of Mercy there's also the ten spheros so what he's saying is we can emulate the qualities of God by looking at the Quality and the relationships of the spheros and learn how to emulate God through them doing so he's describing the spheroes like I said um metaphorically cancer doesn't have feeling because it doesn't have free will right but the point is what's the relationship of cancer what does it behave what's the quality and the behavior of cancer as it were and he said what he's saying is despite the fact that Kester has is elevated above all and includes within it all it is not haughty as a result of that right on the contrary it's used to share or acts as a venue through which the Divine will is expressed so rather than raising as it were it's head to be haughty it's aware of being subservient to God above and therefore lowers its head as it were below and that's one reason why Kessler acts with humility towards those below it Allah is embarrassed to look at its source rather the martial that's coming from God who's bringing this emanation into the realm of atsilus looks on to the casser Tommy the hativo to do good for it this goodness from God which is bestowed upon it to those below it so there's an issue here about another which is humility and also yours your Gira which is fear and what we're being told here is that the quality of kesser is another not Gira another not your humility and not fear what's the difference between humility and fear a person who is humble fears meaning person who's humble expresses fear towards others towards the people that he humbles himself before and somebody who who fears somebody humbles himself before him so they would seem to be the same thing humbling in fear but in truth there are two different things humbling excuse me that's another a novel is an issue of Bittle Bittle means nullifying negating nothingness that's another another is the person doesn't feel anything of importance before this other person for example and that's that's why the person acts with humility the result of that might be era but the source is another okay a person might have fear even though he's not an own of however a person might be very well aware of himself yet fear someone else and there the person is not necessarily an unov on the contrary he might be he might be somebody who's arrogant but he's forced to act in a way of fear because he fears what this person might do to him right so they're really two different things they might be related but really the higher level is another after that you have fear another is a Bittle of yesh meaning a nullification of is and it's what we call Ain so Kessler has the quality of being ain't non-existent cancer doesn't view itself as what it really is even though it's above everything else and including within it everything else the relationship of Kester to einsof the sphera of cancer to God is like a bit of yesh doesn't exist and therefore it's purely a conduit or a Channel or an instrument through which the Divine influence flows because it empties itself of self which is underneath kesser that corresponds to Europe why because Kessler already has a quality excuse me has a quality of yesh it's something which comes into being through casa right once Kester which is all inclusive and it has within it a fluid existence of everything which becomes crystallized stage by stage through the spheros the first realization of creation is actually in hokuma and that's Gira so hokma feels Gira towards kesser but that's because hakma has a substance of yesh Yes means you know existence something yes right comes from kesser or we say for the public which says through another humility comes the first step is humility that's a higher level if a person has humility then they'll feel Gira but it's not necessarily true the other way around that a person who feels Gira has the quality of another that's what he spelled out earlier so ekev another first comes means a heel the heel of the body is an echev so Nova Euro if que Ser is another the heel of kesser the place in creation to which kesser first puts his foot down is in hogma and we said because the feeling of being and therefore give another yachimain the heel meaning the place to which Anova that's keser reaches down and puts its foot down into the world as it were is where your Tremaine that's yesh but but another there's another reason why Kessler is called Ein and is called yesh because we don't really understand kesser kesser is above our comprehension once it starts to become differentiated into then we can start to have more of a concept of of what these things are on its own on its own Das on its own and the interrelationship between them but above above in the realm of kesser that's a realm of fluid Oneness including which is elevated above and including everything that it's really beyond our comparison of really what it what it is so so it's almost like God anyway it's like God although it's a God is above that God is is like ainsel for even above himself but but but there are two different reasons why we call for example uh Kessler Ein because kesser itself views itself as being nothing vis-a-vis God right but we also call it but it's also called iron because it's something which is incomprehensible incomprehensible to us it is nothing that we can quantify is yesh we can quantify something to understand so we call that yesh so it's called the first filter yeah what question it's like filter Kester is yes yes and there's another verse which says Hashem a at the beginning of hogma that's where you have year as Hashem that yours Hashem starts where it's reishis it's it's its Inception is in above that's another so that's the quality that's the quality of kesser another so when we want to emulate God's ways we want to emulate the spheroes the first to emulate is that of kesser and the first aspect of of innovating cancer is this quality of humility so to a person must be embarrassed to look above to raise his head high in order to be arrogant and haughty even though a person is elevated very very high in the hierarchy of creation and there is included within a human being a great many things still like Kessler which is also elevated and all-inclusive but is nevertheless humble we too despite we're being elevated and all and including very many things also must act with the attribute of humility rather person should be regularly looking downward s in order to diminish his sense of self-worth as much as possible maybe it's not self-worth but to diminish his sense of self as much as possible there's very deep ideas here I mean this is not to be understood on several levels first of all it means in one's Mind's Eye one should view himself as being um as empty of self as possible he should lower his head meaning his thoughts which could tend to arrogance he should lower those thoughts his lower his head lower those thoughts of his head towards humility but I think also he means physically a person should assume a posture of humility as well right rather than you know lifting himself up and acting inflated and arrogant he should physically have a demeanor and a posture of humility the head should literally be lowered and we find that that's the case right different you know Muslim Works talk about how a person should have a a physically humble demeanor as well but the truth is when the person said well I don't want to make a nothing of myself that's actually not true because the more nothing of a person makes of himself vis-a-vis Hashem the more he's actually emulating cancer and gaining grandeur because of being closer to Hashem so we don't say that kesser is low and unimportant because it's nothing on the contrary to the extent to which Kessler Hollows itself of itself empties itself of its sense of self it actually that's actually what elevates it higher and makes it enables it to include within it more than anything all of the all of the other spheroes as well so when a person truly enzies himself of self he's not degrading himself is actually being elevated by becoming closer to God hollowing himself himself so that he can become more fully full of godliness what are we going to say well I was going to say is a it's humble even though it does have all this superiority over that other spirit so if you're kind of take that attitude before you develop some sort of status in the world then it's not really uh you're not really demonstrating like this act of humbleness no one's going to recognize if you walk around with your head down all the time I think if it's more like once you kind of gain some some kind of status and then show that you're humble that's more of like a a leadership role or like an example for for other people if you're relating uh casser to to I guess human interaction then you should relate all the other Spiros as well right as other people yeah because you're saying that what that um um that Kester didn't gain that elevation through humility it gained the elevation and then it and then accident away which is humble more or less yeah yeah I think so because I was saying more than that I was extending it even further and saying that that you know what actually makes cancer elevated is its humility that's why it was yeah I know so I don't know which one came from I mean once it's there it is humble or because it's humbled there or by virtual fact that it's there it's humble you know I'm not I'm not exactly sure I think you're raising an interesting point but um still uh Kessler maintains that elevator cancer certainly maintains that elevated status precisely because of its humility true but but also you said that the spirits below it feels the fear of kesser no uh I didn't mean to say that I didn't mean to say that they fear cassia um but um what I meant to say is that um they are humbled to Hashem through the concept of existence through yesh whereas Kester is humbled through to before Hashem through the concept of Ein yeah so that right and that's another that's another another is the another the the the it's what appears to be fear but it's really humility because of the negation of oneself before God um but if someone if somebody has a sense of self so then that's not humility that would be fear and fear is not necessarily a negative thing when we're talking about fear as in awe right I recognize the greatness of that thing vis-a-vis myself but but that's still based on right the focal point is a sense of self another Orchestra would be right there is no I right they're simply God and that and that's why Kessler is such a very vital point in the system that everything that comes through God is basically passed on into this fearless and not crystallized and not kept for itself it's passed on and that's what he says here Kessler is constantly is not kind of despite everything that's despite its elevated position and despite everything that's passing through it it doesn't keep anything for itself it humbly passes it on constantly to others because it could become full if it were to retain for itself it would become full of itself and therefore become haughty and arrogant but it doesn't it's constantly looking to empty itself and this quality of humility is generally expressed or dependent on the position of the head and of course we know the relationship we've discussed the relationship of head to kesser yeah yeah and also we said this is Kessa is a person does not become arrogant until he comes full of himself and he raises his head upward the on of but the humble person he lowers his head below so he did hear what I was suggesting earlier as well not only is this to be understood kind of in the mental level of arrogance and humility but in the physical level including the position of the head and so as the head corresponds to the the Kaza okay the kesser of his body that's his head should be below unhumbled so we should physically walk yeah you know ideally if we really did um empty ourselves of self then we would naturally be deflated but if we were created we like should have a feeling of ourselves right like I don't know yeah yeah so that's why I say he says here to the great to the extent possible because we can't because there but we can try and emulate cassette and a person um might become debilitated through humility yeah and uh that certainly shouldn't be the case for example God appeared to Moses in the burning bush and uh he you know he called Moshe for this very important mission this very important mitzvah and it says Moshe wouldn't look Moshe wouldn't look he feared he feared and Hashem said if you fear that's because you have a sense of yesh and I want you to become an honor of like it says about Moshe later on take your foot excuse me take your shoe off of your body right remove what do you see what he was saying is take your shoe off yourself take your take your shoe off your leg right if you have a concept of if you have fear that's because you have a concept of yesh and that's a sense of self I want you to disrobe yourself of your sense of self take your shoe off meaning remove your your body from yourself and come close and then Moshe was able to do so he divested he took his shoe off which means is symbolic of his leaving his body right shelling his body divesting his body of himself so that he had a much lower sense of self and then he was able to come close and he saw this wondrous thing he gazed upon the glory of God when Moshe himself became like the burning bush where the fire of God was burning within him but he wasn't consumed by that fire and that was a portend for the future when Moshe would be glowing with the glory of God so much so that people who saw him would be Blinded By the Light and no she had to cover himself with a veil because he was like that burning bush what's the idea of the burning bush the snay it's the low insignificant not important remnant of life living in a Barren place and emotion was telling Moshe is this as well that you know if you fear me it's because you have a sense of yes get out of yourself take yourself off that shoe which is connecting you like a shoe to the Earth take that shell of earthliness off then you'll be able to come close to me and see me and eventually you'll actually be able to be like this lowly Bush itself which has no sense of self and for that reason is able to contain within it the glory of God without being consumed by it and so Moshe himself became that that very became that very snake and every person has within his cancer right he's got this spark of divine thought that we spoke about including it you know which has within included within everything we spoke about how you have questions in the Left Right hemisphere in the central stem of the brain and we also spoke about how the spheros then come your soul to the different parts of the body there are seven but there's also seven apertures in the head so when a person has that spark of the Divine coming through the cancer it radiates light out through his eyes his ears his nostrils in his mouth the seven apertures of his head also become like spheros which emanate Divine energy we usually think about them in receiving right receiving eyesight receiving smell receiving taste receiving sound but if a person is really burning spirituality inside those apertures become like holes through which the light of Hashem which is kindled by the Das which is part of his own cancer emanates the light of God into the world and therefore a person can literally use his eyes his ears his nose and his mouth to convey Holiness light and energy of the world in a spiritual sense when a person's operating physically so they become apertures to take in the world when a person's operating spiritually they become apertures through which one can bring light the spark of of hakma which is inside kesse because the person's humbly connecting himself to God okay let's stop here and continue visit next time we meet thank you