How to Be Moshiach — Parshas Balak

there was a Polish born American psychologist named Milton ruqaiya and he was a professor at Michigan State University it was mostly was famous because he wrote a book about the epsilon T I don't know if I'm saying it right the State Hospital in Michigan where he was studying these three people he worked there and they were there were three guys there that all had delusional fantasies so anyways he he was in group therapy he thought they would could cure each other they didn't in the end by the way but he thought maybe they could cure each other so he made this group therapy with these three guys and there were Leon Clyde and Joseph and so one of them Leon says I'm the Messiah and so the the doctor doctor burk ayah says how do you know you're the Messiah and Leon says because God told me and Clyde says no I didn't okay every truth has a little joke this week's parsha you're gonna see where I'm going this week's Pasha well look it was called Butler Moloch hires belém belém is supposed to curse the Jews it doesn't happen that way he ends a blessing the Jews and in those blessings are all types of prophecies and one it's one theme in the prophecies of Balaam our prophecies of mushiya have the Messianic Redemption and one of the things it says over there is the yard me yankov the heavy thudded may yet Rashi says what does that mean a ruler will come forth from Jacob that means the Jewish people actually says well o year marshal Akram Yankees there will be another Jewish ruler another in addition to whom in addition to Dava Tamela King David who Gilliam had prophecy if prophesied about earlier and then he prophesies about about Velvets descendant Messiah and Rashi continues and says that this is a reference to mushiya why because this is the same wording that we find in capital I in base of tell'em Psalms chapter 72 where it says Chanel everybody it says they're about mushiya the year that Mohammad yaman who will rule from sea to sea so the year the me yankov the he will rule a ruler well it will arise from the Jacob from Jacob from the Jewish people the year there's the same word the Yad Muhammad YUM he will rule from sea to sea which is talking about mushiya in in that chapter of psalms so I just want to talk a little bit about that description of mushiya that's in the 72nd chapter of psalms and just we'll start maybe asking a couple of very many technical questions but one of them is why is that the description it's basically saying mashiac Skinner rule the world so just say he's gonna rule the world why does it say he'll rule from sea to sea it seems like a very laborious way of saying it and in fact it goes on I mean no hard adapts the audits and from the river until the ends of the earth just say you'll rule the whole world but also what's me yam odd yeah from sea to sea like what are you talking about a sea is a machine can be the Admiral of the Navy it means he'll rule the world that means all the lands of the world other countries country is technically no our land most people tend to most people tend to live on on land so why don't we talk my water at all four okay and maybe like I said maybe these are technical questions but if we can have some insight about this language that it uses what it describes mushiya what it's gonna help us do is understand our own role in bringing mushiya and what we need to do in order to bring about perfection in the world which obviously is very important so let me start off with a story story I just heard recently actually there was a guy in 770 walking around telling everybody that he's mushiya now interesting characters always came to 770 in fact you can ask people who know 770 what the magnet is okay it seems to be a magnetic attraction to interesting characters anyway so this guy was going on saying as Michelle a guy from France a French guy this was in The Times when the rabbit was seeing people for you hit this and anyone could see that before you hit this it wasn't like you had to be a special person rich or famous or powerful anyone couldn't you know just sign up and you have to wait your turn but anyone could get in so this guy signed up for you did this and they let him in but the secretaries were very worried about it because the guy wasn't he well he obviously wasn't a stable person so the problem was this rabid groaner all of us shot him he wanted to stand by the door the whole time and watch just to make sure the guy didn't do anything out of line but the guy only spoke French now that ever spoke French so that wasn't a problem for the rabbit to communicate with him in French but a groaner couldn't understand what they were saying to each other he wanted to make sure that this guy was behaving himself what they're a bit so rabid groaner went he started looking around for a buckler in 770 who speaks French so he starts looking around the yeshiva Buffum you know they're the full-time with students there and he found one guy who spoke French and he says listen I need your help come so he says I need you to stand here where I normally stand right probably going over come to the door like let people know their time is coming to an end so their time and you did this so he's like you got to stand here you got to stand by the door and I need you to listen to everything that's going on and just make sure the guy doesn't get out of line so this buffer had this totally unique experience of watching a whole Youkilis and then probably even more unique you kid this like this with with a person like this anyways he comes out everyone mobs him tell us what happened what happened they all want to hear tell us but you hit us so he says I'll tell you it's very interesting first thing is the guy tells that a bit sweet mushiya I don't even know if I'm saying that right now don't speak French no come on survive that's the sappy beer that's my extent of my French you know I'm a Shia so the lever says to him tell me something do you put on tefillin every day guy says no whatever says well how can we share not put on filling every day you should start putting on tefillin every day then there never asks the guy do you would you keep Shabbos I says no I don't keep Shabbos that I'm just how could she not keep Shabbos you got to start keeping Shabbos then they never ask some do you eat kosher it's just know how to make oh sure sis come on how can we shift not even cost you have to start keeping kosher and that was basically the whole interaction there's so much is such a wealth of lessons that can be taken from this little story but just one thing I mean there's so much get for bragging on this fair for a whole evening but just one thing I think is remarkable is the guy says I mishear that didn't abate with him you are you aren't they never asked him about his tail you know mrs. Shabbos consciousness tefillin and although obviously this is just theory and who can analyze the actual thought process we don't know we have no idea but I'm just saying to try to take from this story a lesson for ourselves it does make sense according to say this that there is such an idea of everybody being a little bit mushy what do I mean by that that ever quoted this very often this actually teach teaching from the Millennium which is the holy rabbi menachem Nahum Ginobili the Ginobili rabbit and the Chernobyl or writes that the kiddush of a nephesh the sole root the core of the soul of every Jews they need to show mushiya that's in him that each one of us has a spark of mushiya every one of us every Jew is a spark of mushiya within us and what's what's relevant about this spark of my share within us well you know the whole world is run me the connect in me the measure for measure where do you think Shakespeare got it from and especially when it comes to mushiya it's very very much measure for measure what do I mean petting llama design of Tanja chapter 37 of Tanja the alto never tells us everything that's gonna happen when Michele comes and is a Mason the resurrection of the dead all this this amazing spiritual revelation that's gonna happen in this world when when when the world is perfected that's not just something that comes at the end of history following all the work we did during the time of exile it's not just comes this point and then this point one is an outgrowth of the other so that it's literally cause and effect the work that we do in exile trying to serve a time as best we can under the conditions of Exile literally engenders produces yields as a result the the world the way it will be like when Messiah comes so what we do here now in exile creates the reality what it'll be like wouldn't one machinist here measure for measure so what does that mean it means that there's machine up in the macro and machine in the micro and the macro that means the the true and complete final redemption for the entire world but on the micro level that means each one of us has a mushiya like potential and each one of us has a potential mushiya revelation in our lives that with it with that we're living our lives toward in other words a personal Redemption and then when each one of us individually has our personal Redemption that means we bring out all of our latent potentials and we really live up to the the abilities that we were given if we all do that as individuals and collectively there's this critical mass or this tipping point where it becomes mashiac on the macro level for the entire universe so now we can understand what does it mean the yard the Miya mad YUM I mean no hard obviously audits this is all describing things that have to happen within each individual in order for each one of us to bring out our mushiya potential which then accumulates or cumulatively becomes mushiya for the entire world this is this is the formula this is the this is the process first thing is the Yad Mohammed young you have to rule from sea to sea what is the sea within each one of us we have dry land and sea what's dry land and what's sea dry land means that which is revealed the sea means that which is hidden you see the dry land you don't see the sea bed to see beds covered with the sea so there's the me that you can observe the outside observer looks and you see who you think I am but then there's the me that nobody could see because it's it's internal the sea means all the stuff that nobody else knows about me because it's its potential it's inside of me I didn't bring it out yet and I have to rule that by aligning all of that to a shams will but there's not just one see there to sees me aired me your odd young from one sea to the other see what are the two seas the province of hiya says that when Michelle comes a spring of water is going to come out from you - shall I am and it's going to go from the Yamaha cod money to the Yamaha herring now usually that's translated as the East Sea to the west sea but also the cod mining and a crane can mean the first and the last the first sea in the last see if a sea is the hidden potential the potential within me that's covered up like the water covers the ocean bed then there are two major potentials that I have to really be cognizant of the first sea in the last see my first potential and my final potential a circus inefficient attend sole powers talked about them in cities but the the usually the sources chapter three of Tanya the Asarco has an average of course today's video is the first of them is hokhmah invention inspiration that's the young Academy knee the first see the first hidden potential within me my ideas then there's the last one the final one the amalaka ring the last hidden potential that's malice or my said the potential of the capacity for action for behavior so the yin man yo man yo man a personal micro level means to become a mashiac like ruler within myself from one c to the last see from the first C to the lessee from my Hawkman to my mouth closed from my mind to my actions to align at all in one straight shot with integrity integrity means to be integrated so there's from my from my mind to my actions it's all consistently aligned to a Shems will that's the first step but that's not enough you know why because to rule from sea to sea just means I'm mastering myself maybe it's just totally insular I mastered myself and it's just for myself it's not affecting the world so then it has to be will mean no hard a dive say others then know her what's the know her so the even as it says on the chapter 72 of Psalms over there that the river is the river that comes out from GaN Eden an Eden was where Adam the first man was placed law abdullah chambre to to work it into garden what that means is each one of us has a responsibility to work in the guard the garden the whole world is a garden a shams garden so it's not just enough to take personal responsibility over myself as an individual but then I he'll also have to see to it that my sphere of influence is expanded from the north that comes out from Eden the Garden of Eden that I was given the garden to protect and to work within that's the audits to the end of the world to have global influence you know back in the shtetl if you told an individual that they could have global influence so it's a fantasy it's a dream even twenty years ago you would tell it somebody you could have global influence today just a person pushes a button and puts a post on social media and then the whole world can see it so we know what it means to have global influence and that's what it is they had me oh man y'all to rule from your hokhmah to your mouth cause from your ideas to your action then no hard this the river coming out from from from Garden of Eden meaning to treat the world like like a garden and take responsibility to it I've asked the audits to the ends of the world that means to have global influence and if each one of us will do that in a mushiya like way on our own personal level then cumulatively they'll be mushiya in the whole world for all of us [Music] [Applause] [Music]