Hoshana Rabbah: The Esoteric Dimension of Torah - Rabbi Mordechai Becher

[Music] okay good my advice endless simcha I am mortified bevor i'm not robbed I got Lee I'm sorry for the disappointment I'll be happy if you want to leave that's fine but I will be speaking about the same subject the esoteric dimension of the Torah so we'll try to give you a little bit of a first of all and I hope it's not too elementary first of all some of the a little bit of the history of the Kabbalah there so tarik dimension of the Torah some of the great foreign of the Kabbalah some of the personalities and obviously also I will give you some ideas from the esoteric dimension of the Torah as well and hopefully we'll be able to explain to you the purpose of life the meaning of life and everything else it's not 42 we'll all speak that okay I see there are some literate people here that's excellent okay all right so first of all the word Kabbalah which means the Cobell to receive that which is received the Rambam Nath mannalie is one of the great kabbalist from from Spain was says in the very first sentence in the Torah veracious bara elokim in the beginning of shem created the heaven and the earth the Rambam there tells us that it's not possible to understand the secrets the meaning the true meaning of the verses in the creation story the verses embraces unless unless you have Kabbalah ish ish atmosphere a banal I love hush along unless you have a tradition person-to-person back to Moses of blessed memory for your table have him AHA steerer and those who know it should conceal it so it's not very helpful for us but what he does say is and this is very important that the word Kabbalah doesn't mean mysticism per se it means received wisdom it's not necessarily the type of wisdom that you can figure out from first principles it's not necessarily the type of understood thing that you can figure out from observation or scientific experimentation it's a type of thing that you need a and this is because it is referring to a dimension which is beyond the real of the human senses this is one of the reasons that one of the other names for Kabbalah is soit iris has side what a sod means side it means secrets that secrets that which is hidden but it's interesting if I tell ten people a secret it's not longer a secret so how many people have studied Kabbalah over the course of history certainly in the tens of thousands so if so how does it why is it still called Taurus hasad why is it still called secret so my teacher of Moshe Shapiro's I love a solemn explained in the following way he says it's called secret because it always is only speaking in allusions or hints because it's always referring to things a little beyond our experience it's referring to things a little beyond our senses which means I can I can only ever talked about it as a Remy's as a hint I can only ever talk about it as a as a using a muscle a metaphor I've never metaphor I didn't like and these mussalam are what we call sod it's a secret in the sense that I'm always only hinting to it I'm always only using metaphors similes and allegories etc and hence it has a name Kabbalah which means as we said that which receive because has received tradition and secondly it's called sight Tyra's Hassad because it's intrinsically referring to things which are beyond our understanding to a great to a great degree and for example the Rambam Nath maladies also says in another place in his parish his commentary on Hamas where he's distinguishing between the way the Jews look at the world and the way Aristotle and his students look to where he doesn't refer to him by name he refers to him as I saw how Avani was the Greek right we know it's not Jimmy the Greek but so he's referring to Aristotle almost certainly but in any case he says I saw Yvonne Eva tell me does that Greek and his students he says he typifies their view I'm not going to get into a discussion if this is an accurate a summary of Aristotelian philosophy but the Ramban wants to draw the distinction between what is what is Tyra and what is the view of of that world and and he says the following he says I am mighty they only admit lomasa I am rise to that which the eye sees and they only accept is true that which the mind comprehends in other words he says there's a certain arrogance to their worldview which is an arrogance that is found today also in some of the Western world which is the arrogance of saying that if I don't see it it's not there if I don't understand it it's not true if it's not part of my experience doesn't exist I remember emotions appear as one suckers actually told us a joke wasn't a very good joke but it's not yeah from ottoman era Turkey that a Turkish captain and he was he won't he said this joke as a means of explaining this Rambam a captain in the Turkish Ottoman Navy was sent from his base somewhere in the Mediterranean for got where it was to the Isle of Malta it's an island in the Mediterranean it used to be the center of the slave trade now it's where they make Playmobil I think in any case he is on his way to Malta and it is a foggy night a thick fog he doesn't have radar obviously and he gets lost and he does not get to Malta he makes his way back to port and he says I'm sorry to report sir but Malta does not exist so grant I told you it was an ottoman era Turkish joke they're not known for their sense of humor so but in any case any Turks here I apologize but basically what remotion was saying is that the attitude of this Greek of this this this Turkish captain was the attitude of much of the Western world which is I didn't find it therefore doesn't exist and the Ramban tells us that what the Torah is about is a world that is can be we can experience but it's not directly part of our necessarily part of our normal natural experience and he says and so I think according to the Rambam one of the other ways in which we could I think named or or described Kabbalah and the esoteric dimension of the Torah is that it is the total reality versus what we see which is the partial reality and there are some analogies to this which I think we can understand astronomy we look at the night sky I live in New Jersey so we see maybe three stars through the pollution that's it right but if you live in a if you live in a in a relatively normal place like Australia where I came from you see thousands of stars thousands of them however and if you go hiking in the Canadian Rockies on the skyline trail-- near banff right did it for five days with some friends then you see even more stars but the amount of stars and the extent of the visible universe that we can see with the naked eye is such a tiny percentage of the universe as a whole that it is nothing if I were to believe that what I see of the stars in New Jersey or even in Banff is the totality of reality I would be under a huge disillusionment I maybe it's a major what it's not true simply simply ridiculous right when you look through a telescope you'll see that it's even further you go to look through the Hubble telescope you'll see even further so it goes approximately fourteen billion light years distance I mean to give you an idea of what that means light travels 186,000 550 miles in a second so multiply that by 64 a minute multiply that by another 64 an hour by 24 for a day by 365 and a quarter for a year by 14 billion anyone do the math here I know No okay a little disappointed but okay so what that means is that what we see even in terms of the physical universe is a powerful reality what there is is a much vast greater reality the same is true that's true on a macro level so it's through on a micro level meaning when I look at the surface of this lectern it is smooth obviously if I would look at it with the magnifying glass I would see all types of scratches and all types that you'd see a whole bunch of be a different reality if you're look at this with a microscope it would be a completely different you'd see the Grand Canyon you would see craters you would see all types of things here if you would observe this with an electron microscope it would be completely different reality and remote is a pure used to say that that's actually the idea one of the ideas of navarre of who where is prophecy he says people think the prophecy is I can now see things with yet one more sense it's the same reality but I'm sensing it with one more sense ie the sense of prophecy says it's not so is let's imagine for the moment someone who didn't have a didn't have the dimension of three-dimensional vision or the sense of touch so as far as they're concerned the world is flat the world is two-dimensional that's it now let's say they are given there's actually a book about this called flatlands anyway it's relevant excellent right so so it's if it let's imagine this person is granted somehow bestowed upon this person the sense of three-dimensional vision and the sense of touch is he's now seeing the same reality before just with more sensors or is he now seeing things as a completely different reality what he thought before was real was not what he sees now that is real might make you sense you so the idea of before is not just a perception of our current reality with one more sense it's an understanding our current reality is just not not it there's much more to it than meets the eye or the ear or the nose so that would be therefore we have now three really terms that we could use for the Kabbalah one is hokhmah so Kabbalah referring to the fact that it is a tradition handed down and can only really be accessed through that Kabbalah through that tradition secondly Titus Assad in that it refers to things beyond human senses and experience and always can only be talked about in illusions room as him allegories metaphors and third a total reality picture versus only a partial reality picture the partial reality being only the physical world and the total reality being the spiritual in fact the Rambam on that very first possum very first sentence of the Torah and I'm sorry to elementary but he says when it says that Hashem created a shaman for Eretz heaven and earth he says it does not mean heaven does not mean the sky and Eretz does not mean Earth is it that's incorrect although the Rambam understands it that way but the Ramban says what it means is that that the shaman means the spiritual sphere aretz means the physical that means alpha centauri and the various other galaxies that we see and don't say that's all called orous full physical shaman is the spiritual world so shaman Barretts means the spiritual and the physical world just just in parentheses I would like to just mention that relationship ero explain the terms shamayim forits and this actually relates to what rabbi brighter which was talking about at the end of his preview of his sheer is that oriT is related to the word rats what does rats mean to run Eretz the physical world is the place of pursuit the place of rats on the place where I have desire and I run I move to pursue that desire as he mentioned human is called the Mahalo ambulatory whereas angels are on dim step stationary creatures sha maíam he says is the plural of a Hebrew word somewhat a something there anyone who's going anywhere if there's one there's one word which can answer anyone who ever asked where are you going there's one work which could cover every single event which is some there the end of all shuns the ultimate there's is shamayim the place of everything we're running here we're pursuing our desires here we are working here we're exercising our freewill here we're making progress here hopefully etc in order to ultimately get some every single sum of every single person here and in the entire world some I'm so that is again the Rambam on that first posture hopefully we'll get back a little bit to that first posture because that's an important point to talk about in that posture setters that is something now it does the history when according to our tradition when the Torah was given a CNA as you probably know the commission from Sato five books of Moses is really only the tip of the Goldbergs sorry iceberg of Judaism and the vast bulk of it is actually beneath the surface and is what we call Torah ballpen the oral tradition the touch of our pair was what the Jews were doing think about it they're in the desert for forty years all the major events happened in the first and last year what are they doing for thirty-eight years walking out our beautiful sand June night yeah right out of my mind right so the answer is Orihime and other commentary site earlier than that as well but he says very explicitly they were like they were absorbing the tourists about pip the oral tradition they're absorbing from the best teachers ever Moshe are on Miriam the selenium your Sharia law sir etc than they are yeah it's unbelievable so this without doing 38 years they have to worry about food enough to worry about about AC then after about anything that was it they were absorbing the time part of that oral tradition part of that Torah bellperre is Kabbalah meaning that the bulk of our restrain him and I've heard him understand that a section of the turfs of our pet the transmitter tradition from house in a is what we call what we call loosely Kabbalah Taurus Assad total reality that did not get him down for a long time might like the rest of the tersh bellperre the the halacha part of the tersh bob hair didn't get written down to about 170 to 200 of the Common Era by review de nasi in the form of the Mishnah that's the halassi part the ethical the narrative part of rajeshwar pair did not get rid of town until around the same time in the form of various collections of madras ce'nedra shrub of medicine humor etc etc some of it didn't get written down till the time of the gaya him later on in bubble in the academies of Sauron Pompidou sir the the central text of the Kabbalah known as the Zohar didn't get written down till around approximately the same time as the Mishnah rubbish Shimon bar Yohai as we are told sent or running away from Roman persecution hidden a cave with his son learned Torah taught his son he had a late and elite when he got out he had an elite group of Talmud him an assembly aedra Robert and Rizzuto and and he taught these people sitting in a circle this circle of of Talmud him and he taught them the torus a Kabbalah torus has sod and it was eventually written down in the form of what's called the Zohar which is really a combination of a number of different type of works there is the Zohar the body of the Zohar itself which is a vast commentary on commission from Satara five books of Moses and the five Scrolls one of which we read this morning coelus so it's a commentary but it's also has stories it also has questions and answers it has discussions it has it's it's a very far it in Aramaic it's a vast tetiz poetry there's it's amazing amazing text in there there's also what's called tikkun eight saw her tikkun eyes are our seventy essays on the first word of the Taira mauritius seventy essays on the first word of the Torah later on in history in the 18th century one of the great kabbalist RAV moshe haim Lazar from Padua in Italy he wrote his own version of tacones aha 70 essays on the last word of the time so we have 70 essays on the first word 70s s on the last tacones AHA that's and that's part that's that's inside desire there's another section called Ryoma Hema the faithful Shepherd that deals with the reasons for mitzvos why what is the rationale behind various mitzvos but not in the sociological or historical or psychological manner which the Rambam deals with in the third section of miranda whooping guide for the perplexed but in the sense of the Kabbalistic understanding of these mitzvos hooked him to that reality which as we said a little beyond our senses and our experience so that's the ryomo Hamer so you have a number of different sections of the Zohar and that became the central text first came to light to the world not until the 1300s and Rob Moshe de Leon in Spain but studied there was the there were schools of mokuba loom in Catalonia in castelia in Provence and in the Land of Israel some of them you've heard of some of you have not there was the rebuke the blind there was roof abulafia there was the Rambam roughness maladies review talk of a court and other great people so if you've heard of some of not doesn't doesn't really matter there was that if you if you have heard of them or not but there was the one with the coolest name always I think was a a provençale Kabbalist who his name Shem Tov been Shem Tov eben Shem Tov I mean you couldn't get better imagine getting called up to the Torah like that was seriously all right anyway so now the the Zohar studied by many people and there were others foreign by the way before the Zaha of couple of there with the hey Kalos hey how is a palace the divine palaces the palaces of so to speak the Divine Presence etc existed before the Tsar there is a book attributed to much earlier sources safer yet Syria the book of formation which starts with the idea of the world being really a smokescreen talks about the world as some late-night what is a sham mean a sham means smoke that the physical world to a certain degree the safety it serious says like a smoke screen and a shun it points out is actually an acronym for three Hebrew words I am Chien noon our son smoke that means I cannot see reality what is the smoke a son alarm shanna nefesh alum means space Shanna time nefesh self basically space time himself are the three aspects of our world that actually distort our vision a little bit so so to speak the truth is infinite beyond space and beyond time and certainly beyond ego and so to a certain degree the world is an assembly a nice smoke to the eyes which we have the Taira to help us see through the smoke so that is what the that is what the tro is there so there's one of the sparring and of course it was studied throughout history by people following its publication following its publicizing and some of the most famous in the Kabbalah and I'm sure you've heard of there was a review stuck Lauria who was born in Israel when his mother his father passed away he and his mother went to Egypt Cairo where his father lived his uncle lived sorry after his father passed away he his uncle lived there we actually had in the Cairo Genizah which is currently in most of it is in Cambridge University in England I saw there a letter of the iris on a business letter from Rob Isaac Luria who was working for his uncles there's a letter there signed Yitzchak Lauria business letter nothing to do with anything Kabbalistic you know people have to make a living so while he was working for his uncle he studied Zohar he meditated on the Zohar and he came out with the system described by one his secular historian as the single most complex system of human thought ever created that's why some who didn't understand it and didn't appreciate it so that's that's not yeah and now during that time so he's in he's a young man he's two-thirty he decides to move to the center of kabbalah which was at the times fuss in the north of israel robbed many of you been there where the great mokuba rob moshe cordovero lived where why should cordovero of course he wrote a vast safer a history and structure of all of kabbalah from from the earliest time until his time and and it's unbelievable book and a section of that book is known as Tomer Devorah which some of you may have studied it in preparation for Rosh Hashanah Yom Kippur and and it's called the a Lamar Abbate the great a llamar Abbate right and and he said to see some of his students he says there is going someone's going to take over from me as the great teacher and you'll know who it is when he sees a pillar of fire at my at my funeral anyway the arezzo comes to this fuss and they the the great sages there figure a great bright young man who's come to learn cup all out within a very short period of time bright young man who's come to teach us Kabbalah he was there for maybe three and a half years till he passed away that during that time one of his great students remained Vittal managed to write down a fraction of what he learned from the arezzo and he took him about 20 years or so to organize all of that into a into a vast work called aids came about twenty volumes so that's what he what he learned a fraction already learnt from the IRA selling like two and a half years so just to give you an idea of the hopelessness of after knowing all of it but okay but no just an idea of the vastness of this literature that was there is a later on people like where Moshe fellows Otto who I mentioned I'm going to mention something from him as well who of course had the first campus outreach program in history he was living in Padua there are only two universities in medieval Europe that allowed Jews to enter them without converting to Christianity one of them was Padua so Jewish students came from different parts of Europe to study medicine in the University Padua even then Jews study medicine and the the ROM cow who you know was already according to some of his students was already a new the most of tourist ship if that most of the the revealed Torah and most of the concealed tour by the time he was brought to me 18 but Tommy's 20 is teaching Kabbalah and he has a group of students surrounding him you was persecuted for this obviously and he was eventually had head revelations of a mullah family would reveal Torah yet was a low level of prophecy but a mullah like Rob Yosef Cairo or through the shortener of Adam Allah who used to speak to him give him Deborah Tyra so also the RAM Hal had someone who used to one of his students who was at the University Medical School in Padua Ruth Gordon from from Eastern Europe who can they actually did graduate I don't know how because he became a great work rubble and Thomas Hoffman during that time and did medical school so so there's a little bit of a challenge folks but in any case he writes about his Rebbe Ram Karl having revelations of Malakand angels and so on and there on how was so persecuted that he was not allowed to write Kabbalah he had to leave Italy he went to am salmon and Sammy wrote us for him which are his cabbalistic understanding of the world in disguise one describes the path of the human to Hashem the other is the path of a Shem to the human being and I'm sure you've heard of these books one is called Mozilla's you saw him the path of the just that describes the path that the human takes to get from where he is or she is to Hashem and the other is called Derek Hashem the path of a shame that is the path that I am talking creation in the in the structure of the world to get to the human being so so there are two parallel books Derek Hashem by the way is structured on that idea of Allah Shanna nefesh space time self and that's how he structures the book describing a cop squad was creation the world describing chorus boy whose divine providence over the world and describing the role of the human being in all of that and the mitzvos etc one short idea from him which is again I said I'd get back to BER ASIS and we always have to get back to Brosius though right so to get back to bur asus is and the first letter is interesting you look at the hummus and it starts with what letter thanks symbolically if I was writing the foolish something which I've thought of alright if I was writing the hummus I would have started with an Aleph I would have I would think that would be symbolically a much better place to start Aleph one no I mean the graphics would not I mean to start with Aleph and they go to base instead the Torah starts with the second letter base very interesting very interesting so why is that so there are a number of number of many explanations for this let me give you one the correct one but I'll tell you one know is that this series there are quite a few but this is one which is the following well of course Baal who when God created the world the act of creation was already an act of the obscured the true oneness of ashen because once this creation that means there's a boyer the creator and there is a Brya creation there is the borea and there is the nefra the creator and the created that's already a bit of separation it's already separation that's already not oneness anymore and not only that but you may have physical and spiritual shaman and orit's you may have mafia and Mushka the influence of the one who is influenced and so on and so forth so the creation of the world the physical world is the creation of what i call of what's called tunis not Tunis in North Africa but Tunis with the W Tunis let us say more than one there is at least there is the appearance of plurality there is the appearance of Malta multiple beings multiple reality now in truth there is only one I love the oneness of Hashem so creation the reason the torus acid base is because creation is base it is - it's now so to speak Hashem and the creature what is our job ultimately the answer I think is if you look in the mission of Brugha where he talks about how to write the letters there's a specific way we have to write the letters for safe iturra to fill in la susa's it's called the font is called acerous some word right acerous actually probably is anyway but but there's a phone call assurance and there are specific Halawa laws of how to write them in the mr. Brewer he tells me that the base has to be written with a point at the top look it's pointing up and the bottom and hookers pointing back a little thing pointing back and outside like a line pointing back and he quotes a US Army in hagigah that says why does the base have two points one pointing up one pointing bet if you ask the base who created you it points up to a shim if you ask what's his name it points back to the elephant says his name is one very beautiful Kimora alright the base is creation and creation speaks to us creation speaks to us it points up to a Shem that there is another reality beyond the physical reality as I gave you some examples from astronomy and from from I guess carpentry but etc right and in addition it points to his name to the oneness of Hashem so if you ask the base who created your points up if you ask that what's his name points back to the olive so what is the job of all of Krait what is the purpose of the entire Torah what is the purpose of every single Mitzvah was the purpose of all of it is to get from the base to the Aleph whether it is through unity of my thought speech and action one way that's accomplishes through to fuel our through prayer which were obtained vulajin are students of the gone of Vilna one of the great catalysts one of the greatest catalysts later times the God until now his student reclaim vulajin ur wrote a book called nefesh a hime and there he says that one that fill our prayer is the ultimate in unification of the soul the nephesh the Ruhr and the neshamah the thought the actions and speech but that's what you're doing every time you do a mitzvah Mitzvah is an act of this of finding a shame in this world of finding a shelter you have just to mention something from the tacones aho tacones RSS interesting the word Mitzvah maimed sorry love hey actually is the name of God the last two letters of the word mitzvah valve hey are the last two letters of Hashem's name you'd and hey van hey so the last two letters of mitzvah spell out the last two letters of God's name sup hey but you know there's a system which our sages use in the Camorra and also in desire and the Madras which is called a bus in which the Aleph the first letter of the Torah of the outer space equals the last letter substitute our substitutes for tough baitfish in bash etc right you get it you get it figure it out the idea behind it and in parentheses are heard from remotion Shapiro is basically that the first thought equals the last action Soph MRSA the end of action the Mushaf are to fill out is the beginning of thought because you see if I'm an architect so I wanted to be when I was a little kid so we accent the first thing you think of is the complete house that's Aleph that's the first thought when do you get to the complete house the last action right we make you sense you follow me so the Aleph equals the tough the last thought is the most practical thought which is get a permit from the local council what's the first action get a permit from the local council so thought the last board meets the first action the first thought meets the last action Alif tough bet she and so on and so forth very beautiful close parenthesis you can continue listening now so now the idea if you look the letter mem the letter mem is the tenth last letter at the olive base so what is a parallel correct you'd gryffindor 10 points and is the fifth last letter of the olive base at parallels sorry Sonny is the fifth last letter of the alphabet so parallels hey so ma'am in that bus is you'd and Sonny is hey and so you have the name of a sham concealed mem sorry and revealed love hey and so when we do a mitzvah we're revealing Hashem either in time in space in self in every situation and we are getting a little closer from the base back to the Aleph the obscuring of reality of ayan alarm son and if a space time ego erased so to speak by the by the smokescreen by by the toilet by the mitzvos and we are decoding them as we go on getting from the base back to the others and the truth is to achieve when wet when are we happiest usually when we have a level when we've experienced tasted some of the olive some of the unity we spend much of the Earth's population spends a lot of time and money and effort and emotional investment trying to have unity with one other person many people are not successful but that unity if a person doesn't treat that oneness with your wife bears source of shame if you don't have and there's a shimmy will and those are right that oneness right that is unbelievable unbelievable simcard believable pleasure and beloit that because the person is experiencing a little taste of a lot of the oneness of a shame when you're in a group of friends you might be dancing together or singing together or learning together or governing together there's a taste of that oneness that unity I was at the Cosell there first Cohanim you know beautiful but they were probably they may have been a hundred thousand maybe more all together listening to the blessings of the Cohanim that's a taste of the Aleph that's really a taste of the olive the oneness and and we experience it in other ways sociologically you're all familiar I'm sure with the phenomenon of Begley right when you meet another Jew somewhere and the juror you look Jewish the other person doesn't necessarily look Jewish so when they come within approximately 5 feet of you they'll have an overwhelming urge to identify themselves to you as Jewish using some initial hebrew term or like happy you're excite or something like that if it had that experience yeah bad experience i've happened to be all the time you get bagel it's called being bagel a jew can see I was in Harrods in London there's a couple next to me upper crust English couple he's got a cravat they're looking at some object art glancing in my direction occasionally I thought to myself feel a bagel coming on and the guy says his wife says it says this is Harriet dear just yes George he says I've a this is quite expensive are you fact that was a bagel that was his way of saying I am too but you can't I was leading I lead Taurus in the summer so I was leading a tour to China number of years we just got back from India this summer unbelievable so in China and with a group of Jews primarily from Flatbush Borough Park in Chicago all religious Jews we stood that a little bit in Shanghai we're in the Imperial tea gardens we're walking through making more noise than probably the entire city of Shanghai and and and towards us there is a group of people it's slightly middle-eastern in appearance in appearance now yarmulkes amongst them not dressed in accordance with Jewish tradition and as they approach us they see us and they start singing the worst Jewish song in history Hava Nagila that was a group bagel there were Israelis that was their way of saying screaming we're dreamers - right and was very beautiful despite the horrible song right but it was amazing some believe I was in the subway in New York actually and there was a busker who was playing Mozart I decline enough music on his violin which I was enjoying and he was type of like and I was I was facing this way and he was there I turned around to see if the train was coming he sees my yarmulke he switches to Hava Nagila I said yeah it is semi I'm not going to give you a set now you know but you see but begging is a manifestation of the desire of the soul to find oneness I want to be united with other Jews even if I'm very distant even if I'm like totally secular Here I am in China whatever is or India Goa right at a party on the beach post army look at Internet but but basically you see another - Wow and it's an amazing thing wherever you go in the world is like I always find Israelis even if they're completely at they apparently look secular are hanging out who wear with other Israelis they're singing Hebrew songs they got a kebab for Shabbos unbelievable that's part of the that's part that's the the soul getting from the base back to the Elif what is a mitzvah the revelation of a Shem in space and in time etc and himself and that is ultimately what Kabbalah a much of much of Kabbalah is actually about this idea the revealing of the hidden esoteric dimension that dimension of Aleph that is found in everything that the urine and the hay which is found in the mem and that study the the the new kudus the the mid socks are Kadosh the Holy spark that is found in every Jew that's all part of that revelation of this incredible oneness and that's why ultimately the Torah starts with that up with the base not with the Aleph but what does start with an Aleph is interesting is the thing that introduces all of the mitzvahs to humanity what introduces what is the encapsulation the table of contents of the Torah a the RAM ban wrote a book called Terry admits voice hi young choice Mar Sara say Debra's not the catchiest title but what it means is the 613 commandments derived from the ten are noisy starts with earth because you see that is the means to get to the Aleph veracious is the challenge the world space time ego etc and our no-fee that those are Sara subdue price which really encapsulate and contain within them all 630 mitzvahs see the Rambam coca sfera Rambam Charlie's Chevelle has a beautiful as translated right said so so he shows how it all comes from there so that's what the other fizz that's our path to our correspondent and so again I just want to give you a little bit and it's interesting we actually achieve that through our actions and and and there's very interesting the runs how points this out yeah Yakov has a has a dream and the in which he sees a ladder connecting heaven and earth and there are angels Malakand or leaving for your team war they got up and down the ladder and many before Shem not all but some version say or many probably summer for she asked the question if you dream of angels and a letter which direction should there be going first well down and then that that makes sense down and then up there a number of just mention parenthetically the Maharajah's explanation is very beautiful it actually ties in to what were brought up it was talking about before which is that the merit the morale says the Russian first of all Russia who from France in France 1042 11:05 she one of my kids came home from school asked him what you do today he said nothing which is usually accurate and but I said not seriously you said we learned about Russia said what'd you learn about Russia he said Rebbe said that Russia lived during recess I said what what a trippy actually say he said rush you live from 1042 11:05 so anyway no no Nobel Prizes there okay so I actually asked my tuition check back that month but but anyway so Russia comments that the Angels going dead get angels going up at the Angels of Erichs his royal leaving Yakov and now he's a company got the angels of hood slow rates are coming down the ladder to accompany him morale asks not on that place but later on the fuller I'll asked what do you mean he hasn't left this rail yet he had the dream in urusai he's not left Israel so why are the Angels of Israel leaving him and interesting later onit oh he's coming back from hood slowest diaspora to Israel and he crosses a river and it says he meets some angels well you could say my Makka Moo who Maher name he called that place too cuz he meant two camps of angels rushy there says angels of the desperate we're leaving him anchors of Israel were accompanying him fascinating he wasn't yet in Israel so the morale says beautiful idea he says you're religious your spiritual status is not determined by where you are now but why were you heading in physics but not by the not by the scalar but by the vector right in other words right Yakov has decided to go to hood slacks the Angels of Israel leave him angels and could slow its copy is gone right copy doodle they've left right now he's got you know Craig and Bradley you know whatever right so but basically that's okay Tyson but I didn't run at that close parenthesis I don't were really talk about Merrill I just I like that shot so I want to mention the Rams house is an amazing thing he says the angels going up the ladder are the Angels that we create through our actions and the angels that come down the ladder are the angels of our Sims reaction to our actions so really the human is at the center of creation and as we who create that energy and those angels that we send up the ladder to Sherman and the things that come down the ladder from Charmaine so to speak there whatever the energy is that is a reflection of what we created and so that we are at the center of creation actions actually connect we are connect havin a nurse sham I am the spiritual as there are man says in that first posture and the physical connected by the ladder the slum which is like say nice the same numerical value of Sanae the mount Mount Sinai was like the ladder collecting help connecting heaven and earth and those and we sent messages up and I sham responds in turn so that's ultimately that's another idea of from some of the one of the great capitals their arm how and just to give you a list to end with this I do so I think now it climbers out there are Mulder's says another are interesting idea we know that there is a Gomorrah that says that the human will be one of the principles of Jewish belief according to the Rambam principle number thirteen is belief in the resurrection of the dead it's explicit in the Book of Daniel but the ascend will bring to life those who have died resurrection of the Dead if has Kelsie's a valley of dry bones so the Gomorrah says there's a bone in the human being from which everything will come from so to speak but in addition the Zohar says there's also something called Custer that who you saw the the moisture of life that has to be here so there's a bone and there's a moisture of life meaning there's a like a physical component from which things will be recreated and then there is the moisture of life that's like a spiritual component which everything will be recreated the RAM Cal says that's paralleled in the Jewish people as well he says the case I'll have my Rafi which you are here so close to costal Navi says that's the bone in the Jewish people from which the temple in which the basically darshan was due to be revived from he says the Custer the who you saw the moisture is the Sheena the Divine Presence that rests in the holy city of your aslam and at the closer Marathi especially so you have a tremendous Husa merit to be here in uracil I mean in the place where the Skinner what we mean by Skinner divine presence God permeates all of time in all of place as the Zohar says lace a Sardar Ponemah nay there is no place devoid of uh Shem what do we mean when we say sheena the divine presence is here or there so thus for no famous italian Paris on the hummus of Appius far knows a doctor as well so thus far no says he says in the same way as we have ever saw but you could not perceive the soul equally in every part of the human body my elbow you look my elbow you can't say hard in a shaman right you can't see you look at someone's face you can perceive the the presence of the soul so the spoiler says that is similar URIs lines like the face where you can perceive of course our sense of presence permeates all of time and all space equally there is no that if it didn't they wouldn't exist but yet there are places where our sim allows us a greater level of perception of that hidden reality the torus has sod the hidden the total reality the reality beyond space-time and ego the reality beyond the sense is reality that Aristotle couldn't see the reality that the Rambam says is the reality that we can access through only through Kabbalah through tradition person to person you are here in the place where the the curtain has been ripped to side a little bit the smoke is little less dense you have a very much a little of a clearer vision and we have what we need for the ultimate the the completion of the gula the completion of the redemption which is really started I mean we are here at Israel it's unbelievable and gathering in gathering the x-files and here we are in a basement in yerushalaim Iroquois desh learning Torah together is historically ludicrous it's beyond beyond imagination to our presence here learning Torah our presence here in Yerushalayim our presence here hoshanah Rabbah your slime is is miraculous we have to appreciate that and and take advantage of the tremendous gift that Hashem has given us the cast of the few so the moisture of life the sting of the divine presence the physical components of that like the Khosla Marathi and the ability to perceive so much more clearly what we cannot see anywhere else and we have a hard time seeing even here but which with the effort we can find and through this we should be safer that next year we'll celebrate simcha space of shave of Shannara in the base of meat - compare be our main army [Music] you [Applause]