Rebbe Nachman's Hidden Prophecy About Money & Power: The Master of Prayer Part 4 - Rabbi Lazer Brody

[music] with Hashem's loving grace. This is Laser Brody with part four of the master of prayer, Rabbi Nakman's tale. As we usually do, we're going to review. So, in case someone's new tonight, you get to get the first three parts and encapsulated. As we go more parts, it's more difficult to review and they come a little bit shorter. So, if you have missed a previous part, they're all up on laserbeams.com and on amunabeams.com and you're welcome to to see them. If you have trouble finding the link, come into our group, either the liquid group or the amunabeams group and we'll be happy to send you the link. Okay. Freddy, sure that you missed. Okay, this we're going to learn about the hand. The master of prayer, he reveals the source of his uncanny powers and he derived them from the king's hand. What's it mean the king's hand? We'll find out. And the king on his hand, all the creases and crevices on his hand, they form a detailed map, both geographical and historical. And you can see on that map not only every place in the world but every event that happened in the world and will happen in the world from the beginning of time to the end of time. Okay. So let's review part one. The master of prayer was a righteous man who devoted his life to serving the almighty. He spent his days in seclusion in the wilderness and he prayed with songs of praise and gratitude to the Almighty engaged constantly in spiritual growth. But more than his concern for himself and his own spiritual gain was his concern for other people to help them too. He wanted everyone to get close to Hashem. So such he would make excursions into the towns and into cities and he would influence people to develop their souls and to get close to Hashem. So in time the master of prayer made a huge impact on the world. Not only he but his leading students as he created more students his leading students went they began influ they began influencing people even more so it was geometrically more and more people were becoming influenced to the extent that the master of prayer was upsetting the balance the balance of power in society that's what he want to bring people close to Hashem all the tyrants and the leaders they want the people subservient to them they don't want to subservient to anyone else this is like uh Abraham and Nimrod. Nimrod wanted to be the the dictator of the world. He didn't want Abraham to get in his way. So, Master of Prayer became the number one on the wanted list and that all the nations uh were looking for because these are the nations that denied Hashem, heaven forbid. So, they tried to catch him, but they couldn't because he was very crafty and he appeared to every person in a different disguise. Nevertheless, he fearlessly continued with his dedicated mission. He was undaunted. Nothing nothing scared him. And now we learned about the land of money. Meanwhile, there was a country where the value of everyone and everything was based on financial worth. Money was not only a lust for them, but a religion and a way of life. And the richest people were considered gods while the poor people considered subhuman animals or or or fish or even plants. And the master of prayer he heard about this he was deeply disturbed that a country should be so wrong live such a lie. So his closest students they saw how their teacher the master of prayer was so upset. So they decided that they do a sorty there and try and convince the people and open their eyes and as a as a gift they say that they helped rectify this country the master prayer and give him gratification and this tells us that we bring other people close to Hashem that Hashem has tremendous gratification. This Rebi Nakman in a lot of ways the master prayer is so autobiographical not only about Rebi Nakman but Rabbi Nakman's students and his students and that are spreading the word of Hashem today but in the word with Rebi Nakman's inroad that showed the person can have his or her own relationship with the Almighty that you don't need an establishment you don't need a religious establishment and the Almighty your father in heaven you don't need to go between right to this And this is a a lot of people even quote religious unquote. This is why Rebi Nakman had so much opposition because it didn't fit their agenda. They wanted people to serve to them. Governments wanted people to serve to them. Organized religions wanted people to serve to them. No, it's not the way of Rabbi Nakma nor of the way his great-grandfather BMT. So the closest students made a excursion to the country of wealth and nothing helped because they were so entrenched in their idolatry in their belief that money was God that no they wouldn't think of anything they wouldn't be convinced by anything that wasn't money. So the money worshippers they decided that they didn't want to be contaminated by the rest of the world but they were better than the rest of the world. the rest of the world was below. They were not even not even animals. They were reptiles or insects. So they didn't even want to breathe the same air that the rest of the world breathes. So the country of wealth, they decided that they would build a commonwealth on the highest chain of mountains they could find. And they would go up to these high chain of mountains. They would build fortifications all around the mountains that no one could come to them, no one could reach them, and no one could steal their wealth. And they would breathe their own separate air. They'd be at a higher altitude than anyone else. And they'd have their own oxygen that would be uncontaminated by their people. Rabbi Nakman is showing us tongue and cheek about the disdain that people with money have for the rest of the world. They think the rest of the world is subhuman. They think they're they're great. This is the aristocrats. And so the country of wealth appointed guards to stand guards. That brings us to the end of part one. We go to part two. In part two, we learned more about the efforts of the country of wealth to protect their money. They imported more money from other countries. They would send traders to other countries to bring in more money because they'd never have enough, no matter how many millions and billions they have. And they send traders and attempt to earn high profits and bring even more money into their country. Well, the major crime that was in their book of laws was charity. Charity was a terrible crime. You couldn't take away money. It's like giving away your god, giving away your money. You can't give away your money. And they were always afraid that someone would steal their money. But despite their defenses and their fears, there were all the times murder and robbery within the country of wealth because since for them it was a mitzvah. It was a a great commandment to amass more wealth that if you killed someone, heaven forbid and and took their wealth doing it, you're doing a mitzvah. This shows how that all this idolatry is skews any concept of justice, any concept of fairness where it comes that in the search and their yearning for wealth that charity is a a a sin, the worst sin that could be. But yet murder when you're murdering for money, that's a mitzvah. That's a this is how how skewed they were. So master of pre prayer he had so much pity on them especially when his students came back and they told them they told them they they said master we we had no inroad with them at all couldn't convince them at all not even the lowest in the totem pole so the master prayer said this is not this has to be corrected you can't sit back and and and sit leave such a place like this on earth so he decided to visit them themselves and he went and he spoke to the guards he didn't make any inroads to the guard So he decided to go up to the to the city, not just the entrance. And undaunted, nothing stopped him. None of the borders and none of their trenches and none of their obstacles stopped him. And he walked right into the city. Well, everyone in the city was amazed how the master of prayer succeeded in getting by the guards and circumventing all the defenses and all the obstacles while succeeding to enter the heart of the country of wealth. So he didn't have any success with them either, but he saw they were terrified. Something got them really scared and they were they were terrified. So he saw about their fear. Now he could speak to them. That ended part two. So we began part three and we meet the bold warrior. So this is what they're afraid of. They're afraid of the bold warrior because the reason that the country of wealth was so terrified was there was this invincible mighty warrior, the bold warrior. And he was a leader whom other strong and heroic leaders they joined. He became their leader and they formed an army. They were going around the world and they were taking over countries. But the warrior, he didn't want anything but submission. He wasn't looking for spoils. He wasn't looking for money. He wasn't even looking for power. He just wanted people to submit to him. So once the people of a given country surrendered to him and accepted his rule, then fine. He'd let them go. He'd release them. But if not, he would ruin them, destroy them. So he subjugated many countries. And he had no desire for money whatsoever. Only submission. Not only he had no desire for money, he disliked money because he knew how much money corrupted society. And he wanted a just society. He wanted justice. This is what all he wanted was justice. So the warrior could always send what he would do. He wouldn't go himself into a country in a city. He would send a task force, an advanced force, a vanguard. Well, he would wait 50 miles outside the country. He would send men to the city and demand their surrender. Well, people feared him and nothing stood in his way there. No army in the world could defeat him. So the merchants who from the country of wealth that used to conduct trade with the other countries they returned to the mountain stronghold of the country of wealth and they told everyone about the warrior that the people were terrified. Why? Because the warrior and his army were headed their direction. So even though they were willing to surrender to him, they didn't want to go to war. They want to fight a battle. When they heard that he hates money and he doesn't want any money at all and he doesn't believe in money, they were shocked. How could they surrender to him? This would be like heresy for them to give up their god, to give up their faith, to give up their religion and because all was money. So they were on an enclave on this mountain and but there was one mountain that was richer than them and higher than them. This was the mountain of money gods. This is the mountain of the millionaires and the billionaires and the trillionaires. So the country of wealth thought well since these are people who are more richer than they are they certainly have to be gods. But why why god what was their logic? Their logic that since money is god and if a person has money a person has godliness. The more a person has money the more godliness the more he's a god. So they thought that they would enlist the help of the city of wealth, the vast city of wealth, the city of wealth gods. And they what they started to do was to send them human sacrifices. They would take their their low people that they were not even less. They were animals and animal sacrifices, but they were human sacrifices. And they tried to get them to help to pray for them. And they did this idol idolatrous worship worshiping the worshiping the the money gods. So the master of prayer saw that the country of wealth that their fear this was his opportunity to make an inroad with him. So he asked some of the people said what do you plan to do to defend yourselves against the warrior? And they said we're going to appeal to the gods of wealth. We're going to pray to them and make sacrifice to them. the master of prayer. He made so much fun of them and explained to them that the people up on the mountain, they're mere humans. There's only one God in the world. That's Hashem. He's the one that created everything and he alone should be served and we pray only to him and this is the main purpose of the world to serve him and to pray to him. So rather than resisting as before, so one person there's a little crack in his resistance. So he shrugged his shoulder. He said to the master prayer, "What what can I do? I'm one person. What can I do? So still most of the people refused to listen at all. And they didn't listen. They kept on adamant not listening to him because they were so rooted in money for such a long time. But they told the master of war about the warrior. Everyone was talking about the warrior. And every time he heard about the warrior, he laughed. He said, "Could this be the warrior?" Did you understand what he's saying? Could this be the warrior? And emphasize the warrior. And this seemed peculiar to them. Why this all the time? He says, "Could this be the warrior? Isn't that the warrior?" And no one understood what the master prayer meant. Well, meanwhile, a big commotion broke out in the city. For it was discovered now of common knowledge that this stranger breached all the defenses, got past all the defenses, and went around talking against the religion and uh trying to convince people to leave the religion. They thought he was insane because anyone who believed contrary to them to their in their eyes it was foolishness. It was an absolute madman. So they finally caught him despite his desire that the whole the whole city look for him and they would couldn't catch him up to now because he would all the time change his disguises. But somehow or another they caught him. They caught him. Why they caught him? Because they don't want to get caught. But now he has even more influence. Now he's caught. He's talking to their leaders. So they asked him how come you always ask about the warrior. So master prayer said that he used to be with a king and the king had a warrior who was lost. And he said if that's the warrior then I know him very well. And furthermore by you relying on this country of false gods that's such nonsense and they're not going to be able to help you. Not only will they not be able to help you but this will be your downfall if you rely on them. So they asked them how do you know this? because they were they're threatened. A person is threatened with his life is willing to listen in order to be saved. He then told them, "I know this because of the king's hand." That's the end of part three. That brings us now to part four tonight. The hand. Well, the king had an object resembling a hand. Rabbi doesn't tell what this object is, whe something a hand. And there was a hand, an image of a hand with five fingers and all the creases and lines and crevices that are on the hand. But the hand was magical. It was a map of all the worlds. It was both a geographical map and a historical map. And it showed everything that occurred since the creation of heaven and earth and all then beyond all the way into the end of time. Everything was depicted on the hand and the scratches and the folds that were etched on the hand. It was also a diagram not only of the earthly world of the upper worlds also spiritual worlds how every world stands and world what happens up there and and in detail and depicted on a topographical map. Not only that, it showed all the roads, all the paths from place to place, from country to country. It showed mountains, rivers, woods, all topography. And what more, the magic about the crevices and the lines in the hand, they came together just as letterscribed on a map identifying each detail. What's Rabbi Aman alluding to? Rabbi was a master of the entire Torah. Not only the revealed Torah but the esoteric Torah. Where do we learn palm reading and face reading? We learn this from the zorbish know this. This is ancient ancient esoteric knowledge. Ancient Hebrew esoteric knowledge. Rabbi Nakman knew it. Rabbi Nakman could read a person's face could read a person's palm. And when reading a person's palm, you could see exactly what's in that person's life, where they've been. And not only that, when you look at the left hand, the palm palm reads, you read the right, the right, why the right shows that what a person has done in this life. The left shows how he was born with his native. If you look at your left palm and look at your right palm, you'll see that there are very different lines. You'll probably see that there are many more lines in your right palm than there are in your left palm because your right palm shows what you've done. So Rabbi Nakman is told he's giving us the knowledge of palm reading all the way back there. is along this palm where you can see everything. Now this is the palm he's talking about the divine palm. The divine palm. What is he alluding to? It's got five fingers. How many in the pent penta in Greek is five pentto? That's the five books of Moses. There's five. He's alluding to the Torah that in the Torah there is everything from the beginning of time to the end of time. The secrets in the Torah that revealed by letters but some put a combination of letters. You skip every other letter and you could see with in the Torah if someone knows how to do they can who the next president of the United States is going to be who the next prime minister in UK is going to be when the next war is going to be it's all in Torah everything is in the Torah okay so this reb explained this also that when you take the lines and put them together in certain patterns then letters shine and the letters shine the letters tell these stories and it's the same for every separate city not only that you put that together you can see the name of a city the name of a mountain and it's really gripping what BB is telling you about this. So whatever is found in the world in all the worlds from the beginning of time the end of the time in the spiritual world in the material world it's all in the palm all in the palm. Now there's another indication the palm it's a deep cobalistic indication the word for hand in Hebrew is yad yad. The letter 10 is signified by the letter Yud in Hebrew. Yud has a numerical value of 10. So not only is Reban alluding to the hand in the five books of Moses with the Torah, but he's alluding to the 10 spheres of godliness. And we'll see as we meet the king and the queen and their eight adviserss. This is indicative of the 10 spheres of godliness. Once again, we want to stick to boy, we can't don't want to go into the coupistic interpretation of the master of prayer, but see how we could see today's events in the end of story that Rabbi Nakman had a far look at the future just like couldn't have hand see the future and he could see describing we see that the the land the land of God the the land of money the land of wealth and even the bigger land of all the millionaires and the people worship and that you could see if you look close enough you could see uh uh Zuckerberg and Bezos and all these multi multi-billionaires. So everything was depicted on that hand even the history of a place and the experiences of a people. So the master of people told the master of prayer told the country of wealth. He said even the paths from one country to another, one town to another. They're written on the hand and that's how I knew to come here and that's how I passed through all your defenses. It's exactly a way to inroad come past your defenses. And they were amazed. That's how he got there without being detected. That's something they couldn't stop him. And he says, "If you wanted me to send me somewhere else, I'll know how to get there by virtue of the hand." Okay, wherever you want. It's also imprinted on the hand and from the way to go from one world to another world. What's he showing us? In every sentence, he's alluding to a different prophet, the different part of Torah. He's talking about Elijah the prophet. Elijah the prophet knew the path from this world to the upper worlds. Remember when Elijah he did Elijah did not die a physical death. When he left, he told Alicia, he says, "I'm I'm departing. I'm departing this world." And a chariot, a fiery chariot came up from heaven to pick him up. And he directed the horses, knew how to get them back up. These are angels. This is Elijah the prophet. This in the in Kings 2, we sees in the book of Kings 2. And uh the path and a chorus where one can send from earth to heaven at the earth that uh this is Rebi Nakman wrote a separate story about this and and that the ascension of prayers and he talks about this in Moran uh how we our prayers ascend that you have to know the path the path to get your prayers uplifted if you don't know the path that's why we need to be connected to sadikim that the sadikim the true the true righteous this is the master of prayer is the classic example. They help direct us our prayers to where they need to go and the way to go up to heaven and the big the path that all exists. And again from Elijah the prophet he existed he he went up to the upper world with a path. Moses he went up to Mount Si and the path took him up Mount Si took him to heaven. That's another path. Uh likewise we see in Genesis Enoch Enoch ascended to heaven with even a different path and all those paths were written on the hand as I said the to were written on the hand from one world to another a higher world and the higher the the but all were could be seen in the folds of the hand also what represented on the hand was at the time that the world was created as it is now and as it will be afterwards. For example, it showed Sodom near the Dead Sea, the wicked people of Sodom. It showed them where they had a flourishing society and they were very wicked. They had this beautiful Las Vegas or Monte Carlo society and they were very rich but very wicked. And it showed the destruction of Seldom, the hellfire and brimstone. And then it showed how was a barren wasteland after it was destroyed. So it said it would show that the beginning, the middle, and the end. uh for the hand what you could see everything you wanted to see in history you could see it right there and the master of prayer he's still talking master of prayer speaking to the interrogators they're interrogating him how how could how did he get in here and he's telling and he said I could see your country and I could see how to get in here and I could see your false gods and I see that uh you're about to be obliterated so you should know that you keep on this you are about to be destroyed well the people of the country of wealth. They were frozen with fear because they saw that everything that the master of prayer would said was true. Their defenses were impregnable. They had guards all over the place. No one else ever succeeded in getting into their kingdom and he's right there. Walks around freely. Nobody could catch him. So such things cannot be invented. And a person could see for himself that uh if you would put two roots of a in a hand, two creases in a hand that they would come together make a letter. So they understood he showed them on their own hand. Look at your own hand. He showed them on their own hand. Now their own hand formed a letter formed here. And this was a novelty. They never never knew anything like this. So they saw it was so extraordinary. It was too extraordinary not to be true. So they believed him. So they asked him, "Where's the king? We want to know where the king is. Maybe he'll show us how to find more money here. [laughter] They're about to be destroyed. They're about to be it's it's it's doomsday that all the all the weapons are directed at them. They want to know the king because to the king not can save their lives, but to get them more money." This shows how deep they were. And Rebi Nakman is laughing at the lust of money. He's laughing and he's crying together because Rebi Nakman said one thing. He said that he could uplift anyone from lust. See a person was a person was in lust for uh lust for debauchery or a person with a lust for any any kind of lust. He could pull them out of that. But there's one lust that the most difficult lust in the world is a lust for money, greed for money. Okay. So Rebi Nakman laughed at them. Reban the master of prayer that was 40. The master prayer laughed at them and he said with a mixed reaction of amazement and disgust, "You still want money? You've got a sword on your throat and you still want money?" They asked him, "Well, tell us anyway where the king is. They still go back. This how deeply entrenched they were." So he said, "I don't know where the king is, but this is how the story happened." So now we go into our second stage of lesson four and the master of prayer is going to tell about the capital city of the king and the king and the queen and the royal adviserss the king and the queen royal advisers once again kopa we're talking about the 10 spheres but here with has these talking about characters that that we could see uh the king a queen that we're talking about the king and the queen we're talking about hashem that uh hashem is both we learn in the zor and the hem is both male and female. So why he sometimes you see the Torah speaks in feminine tense sometime male that there there's two sides the divine is he and she they're both it's everything okay that's the divine image right all right that the king and the queen and the king and queen had only one daughter we talk about the daughter the king and queen we're talking about theina the divine presence this is what is bestowed down here the divine presence this is what we would see in the holy temple The manifestation of the divine presence that is what we call the shina divine presence. Okay back to regular story right on the king and the queen and they had an only daughter and it came time for the to marry their daughter. So they asked their adviserss to suggest who they should marry. And I too, this is the master of prayer telling his interrogators in first person. I too, this is the master of prayer speaking and he's still relating in front of his interrogators. I too was among the adviserss because the king liked me. And my advice was that the princess, the king and queen's daughter, she should marry the warrior. And everybody loved that advice. Why? They said because the warrior brought many benefits to the kingdom. He conquered the enemies. There were no more enemies. He conquered many countries. So he should be given. He's the one that's deserving to have the king and queen's daughter for a wife. So the other advisers, other advisers and the royal advisers in the royal court and the king and queen unanimously accepted the advice of the master of prayer. And they had a big celebration because they now found a groom for the queen's daughter. The groom for the queen's daughter. And they wed the king and queen's daughter with a warrior. And the warrior gave birth to a child. We will see how this child is the birth of Messiah, the birth of Msiah. And the warrior we'll soon talk about him. We'll soon talk about him. So what what's this child that was born? This child was born was extraordinarily beautiful and intelligent and angelic and he had surpassed any form of human beauty and not only that surpassed normal intellect. He was unbelievably intellectual. His hair was golden and if we take the child out in his stroller in the sunlight his son would reflect this hair would reflect the different colors of the sun different what's a telling us remember whenever we spoke about Mashiach when we learned the book of psalms and we spoke about the messiah the anointed king of Israel the messiah that having an allincclusive soul it's a kaleidoscope of all our souls he has a that's how way We all can associate with ss with the helm. So the fact that the the child's hair changes colors, it reflects different souls. That soul is light and reflects different lights. What are colors? Colors are like different lights on the spectrum. So if you have a spectrum of humanity and Messiah's soul contains all of them because that's how Mashiach understands every single one of us and every single one of us identifies with Messiah. Then this is this is the imagery and in the fact that the hair the child's hair it reflects all the colors in the sunlight and his face illuminated like the sun and his eyes shone like the moon and stars. The child was born with mature wisdom. Even though he he was is the size of a baby and a baby cannot yet speak. He could not yet speak. But they saw that already when he was born he's a great sage. If there would be a conversation going on in front of the child and there was a reason to be happy, he would smile. There were happy things said. And if there were sad things said, they would see they would frown, have tears in his eyes. And they saw they saw emphatically that the child understood everything that was said, everything was going on, had deep understanding. So even though the baby could not yet speak, his genius was was apparent. Well, with the king was an orator or a speaker was master of language and rhetoric and he was able to talk very fine talk and he made beautiful speeches and he composed songs and praises for the king. So even though the orator was extremely eloquent uh the king showed the orator his hidden path to even greater greatness. See who the orator or king David's nickname is naim is the the the sweet singer of Israel. This is the one that composed the sweet songs. So here we beat the image of King David. Now you're probably wondering who the master of prayer is. Okay, master of prayer teaches prayer accomplishes everything with his prayer. Remember how Elijah the prophet on Mount Carmel with his prayer he defeated 400 false idols? He defeated an entire army. I'm sorry. They tried to catch everyone. Nobody could catch him. And this is nobody could catch him. Nobody to catch master of prayer. Master of prayer is probably Rabbi Nak referring to Elijah the prophet. Elio and Elijah the prophet and we'll see and the warrior the warrior we have the warrior Abraham was a great warrior but even more than that with Joshua Joshua knocked down they said that uh Jericho was invincible knocked down the seven walls of Jericho captured the land of Israel from the seven Canaanite nations they were all mightier than the children of Israel fought fought wars from Moses this is we're talking about we see we can see different characters and different character types We see throughout Torah represent and these are the kings the king's court. So the king had an ortor where next one the master of prayer that's one of the king's royal court. The orator won the king's royal court. The warrior at king's royal court. Marina continues, "The king had a sage, and the sage was also a sage on his own account, but the king showed him a way to go up and get wisdom and therefore became an ordinarily wise sage who was the wisest man never walked the face of the earth, King Solomon. And he he got more knowledge because Hashem gave it to him." Again, the hand, the path that we receive our perfection, each one of us, Hashem gives us our tools. But what is Rabbi Ahmed telling us? That we achieve our path to perfection by going up the path that we see on the hand. If you've read our book now get a secret, never revealed this but now revealed for tonight. The path to your peak, that's the book that Hashem gave us the privilege of writing about seeking your own personal potential. Path Peak shows that the average person what they quotes the the the industrial psychologist industrial psychologists say that the normal person hasn't fulfilled 10% of his or her potential. So isn't that a shame that you've got 90% of your potential you never fulfilled. That scratched the surface. Why? Because they don't go up the path. And what's the path? We see the path. We talk about the path. The path of peak your peak. because your path is not the same as anyone else's path. So if you haven't read the path to your peak, I strongly suggest you read the path to your peak. And now that we've learned the master prayer, it'll be a lot more meaningful. Okay. So the warrior, he was mighty on his own. He was a Rambo. He's a mighty warrior known. But the king also showed him the way up his path, his own path to get even super strength and super leadership and become an extraordinary warrior invincible. And now he talks about something else. The master prayer says, well, there's another tool that the warrior, the king gave the warrior by way that the warrior can conquer the whole world and that's the sword. And the sword has three powers. The first power of the sword. When the sword is lifted, all the officers of the opposing army flee. So as soon as a matter of course they fall. when the officers said because when they flee then the army falls apart. We know when Moses fought a Malach and Moses raised his hands in prayer then a Malik was overcome. But when Moses became tired and his hands fell then Amalik would regain and begin to overcome the Israelites. That's why Aaron and Hur they put a boulder under Moses' arm to hold his arm up keep him up. So what's his the lift the arm when he lift up? lift up the sword. What's our sword? Rabbi talks in moran the second part that our sword is prayer. This our weapon and this the sword of Msiah. So when a person lifts up this sword that's the day he lifts up his mouth in prayer. So we try to accomplish things by running to the doctor and running to the lawyer and running. We see it and then and things just don't work. Lift up our mouths in prayer. Lift up our mouths in prayer. This is this is real. This is real amuna. So we learned last night, we lift up our mouths in prayer and this is lifting up our sword. So this is the the imagery and lifting up the sword. When we lift up the sword, the enemy flees evil, he can't do anything against our prayers if they're sincere and in front of their heart. Okay? So they fall and once they fall, this is Rashi tells about this. Rashi says the as soon as the army begins to to retreat, then they fall. They're finished. So now this horde has two other pray two other uh powers. It has two sharp edges. through one edge as it to one edge it subdues the soldiers as they fall down and to the other edge toward the other edge it doesn't do anything that they get plagued and they become sick and they become sick and weak and become sick and weak then all you have to do is just blow on them like you're blowing a dandelion and they disperse. So the enemies they're stricken with this inexplicable plague and and they lose the south the master of the warrior he subdues his his enemies. So the king showed the warrior the path and he showed him how to use the sword properly. What does it mean when the king showed the warrior how to use his sword properly where the king showed the warrior how to pray properly? Now understand all the members of the court they're all masters of prayer but the master of prayer he is the headmaster of prayer they all rely on prayer they all rely on amuna they all have this this is to be in the court they're all they're all godly the the 10 spheres but most so that now the master of prayer talks about himself he says the king also showed me how to get my attribute I got there from what I needed what he's sewing that the king showed the master prayer had to move entire worlds, move universes with his prayers. He could he could make the sun stop. Well, the warrior could do that, too. Joshua was in the middle of battle and Joshua needed more daylight to defeat the enemy. So, he said she do he was in then in the valley of Givon Gibon and out this is uh slightly west of Jerusalem and in one of the valleys in the in the mountains of Jerusalem. And he said, "Son, stop still." Son, listen to him. His son, he gave the order who could go around giving orders to the sun, the sun, moon, and stars. That Joshua could do that. But even the master prayer, what what Elijah the prophet could do this, it was amazing. Elijah prophet could go from heaven and earth could go for to to within with his prayers. And it's Elijah the prophet is still doing that. Every time a person makes a brit for a child, there's Elijah. Elijah the prophet comes down here. He's down there. That's why it's worthwhile to attend a breed celebration. When you attend the breed celebration, Elijah the prophet is there. So the master prayer says that the king also showed me my path to get but for this is for my particular attribute. Likewise the king had a faithful friend. Faithful friend who loved the king dearly with an extraordinary love. He said, "Wait, all these uh members of the royal court, they're all the king. They all love the king. They all love the king. Everybody, but this faithful friend was more." This faithful friend, he would no problem throw himself into a fiery furnace. This faithful friend risked his life going around the world bringing people close to the like the master of prayer. Did that too. They all did outreach. the faithful friend. We're probably talking about Abraham, the first monotheist that Abraham, why is he called I the Hebrew in Hebrew is called is I means Hebrew. But where does the word come from? It's the other side of the river that Abraham was on one side of the river and all the rest of humanity were idolattors. They were on the other side. Okay. So this talking about that the king and the faithful friend they loved each other so much that was impossible for to be separated. They had to be together all the time. Let's tell you how we have to cling to Hashem. But nonetheless there are necessarily times where person could be apart. Rabbi Nakman says what we call in Hebrew. V is the highest level serving to Hashem clinging to Hashem. When all my thoughts, all my faculties have nothing but concentrated on Hashem. I have nothing on my mind but Hashem. That's called I'm clinging to Hashem like glue. Uh but you can't do that 24 hours a day. It's different. The times you have to eat breakfast. Okay, we try to try remember eating holiness, but the times you go to the bathroom, time to take a shower. And we're not supposed to think about godliness in the the wash closet they're in and the shower. Okay. So the times that necessarily a person can't think about Hashem. So they had images of each other, the faithful friend and the king. And they would delight themselves by looking at each other's images when they couldn't see each other. So the images depicted how the king and his faithful friend how they loved each other and they walked hand in hand and they caressed and had great great love. Well, these portraits had the special ability that whoever looked at these images also felt the great love. Felt the great love. And the faithful friend, he also received his special love because he received his special path up his mountain where the king showed him how to tain even more and more and more love. We haven't yet met the entire royal court. We still have uh one of two to meet. We're going to meet next week. God willing. And next week we're to see what happened, how the royal court was dispersed. The royal court was dispersed with the storm wind. The storm wind is the name of next week's lesson, lesson number five, part five. And we hold up now. That's a complete different lesson. Digest what we had. I strongly suggest that uh go back and review the previous lesson, master of prayer despite we because our review it's a quick review. So do we have to make quick review otherwise we can't make a forward progress and since there's so much to digest so much here it's like eating uh this there's this pastry in is this Arabic pastry that we eat in is called baklava and it's so rich and so full of honey and so full of nuts they can only eat a little bit right this is like rabi stories are like baklava like eat this rich thing so we look forward to seeing everyone next week and you should have a Lovely Shabbat, lovely weekend, and all your heart's wishes for the best. >> [music]