Likkutei Sichos Vayechi: Why the Rebbe Rarely Spoke of Nostalgia -- The Paths of Menaseh & Ephraim

Okay. So, good morning. Welcome everybody. [snorts] Today we're going to learn something ext very very special. This is a uh classic and it's always special but today is special. This is a classic sika of the of the said on Shabas. It's the beginning of 1970 and uh it's published in the par as you see on the top. Thank you for making the copies at such short notice. Besides everything else, I know some of you grew up speaking Yiddish, but here you'll be introduced to authentic Yiddish. Yeah, this is uh the yiddish here is really [snorts] classic powerful yiddish, but the main finger is the theme, the hashkaf that the sika brings out is extremely um powerful and very relevant today as you'll see. Okay, today's class is dedicated by my dear mother, Mrs. Jacobson in honor of her son's birthday, Rabbi Simmon Jacobson, my brother, my special mother and special brother whose birthday is on Hey Tavis on the fifth Tavis dedicated by his mother Vashan and may he continue to light up the world with good health, happiness, prosperity and all the blessings. Amen. Maz. Yeah. Hey Davis and I also want to dedicate the class to our very dear own Mosa. Thank you. Who's going through a procedure today? You sent his name right. Amen. Okay. Bashem on Thursday we're going to start the basil of this year. We do always the basilani this year's basili an incredible mimer. So we're going to start that Thursday morning. I just want to see if I missed anything and we'll be yeah a couple of weeks I have they sent the contra Okay. Thank you so much. It's a very interesting thing that in as he says have heard that Yakov is is sick. So he brings his two children Manash and Afraim to to to Yakov he wants them to be blessed. Rashi says so Yakov tells him that the two your two children who were born to you initim before I came to Mitsim because and were born in Egypt much before Yakov came. Remember that Ysef became a king when he was 30 and Yakov came only nine years later because there was seven years of there was seven years of plenty and after two years of famine two years of famine that's when Yakov came and and and so so and were born already in Mit before Yakov came. So he says these two boys who were these two children were born before I came they're mine. They're like and shim. They're not like considered like my grandchildren. They're considered like my own children. Everybody else that would be born afterwards are considered your children, but they're considered my children. Rashi says they therefore they're like one of the we do the 12vatim, right? We do aim as though you do. This is what Yakov told Ysef's didn't have more children before Yakov came. These were the only two children. He says we know who they are. He didn't have other children. It's not like he had six or 10 children or even three. It's clear. It says in that he had two boys and so why does he have to say so we know who that is. But then he gave he says it over again with the names. You know what means exclusive? So you have to say it's much deeper. The is not repeating itself don't only mean the two specific children because we know who they were already. When he says your two children who were born are mine like and Shim, we know their names. He wants to say something more and that is he's referring to two types of Jewish children. prototype. It's a it's a category. It represents something. It's not just to tell us the names of the two children. Or to put it this way, every Jew all the Jews have a connection to the proof is when you want to bless your children when fathers or mothers bless their children. What's the those who do it Friday night? before what's the you say Hashem should make you like and the reason is as he brings from Rashi says that when he blessed what was the blessing means with you too Israel will be blessed. Israel is the Jewish people. So it actually writes over there, whoever will bless his children is going to bless them with their blessing and is going to sayim that. That's very interesting. Yakov had 12 sons before you had why not like why not like all the way to they were also and were great but before you go to fram and you have three generations and then four generations of the so they skip all of them yakov skips all of them so whoever ever wants to bless their children the right person to refer them to is the reference point is they should be like a frame That means there's something in that is unique that you want every child to have. Not only that, more than anything else. In other words, when you want to bless, this is the blessing. In we say that Hashem leads the sheep. He leads this Jewish people like sheep, like flock. And the Jewish people are called Yseph. So that means that every Jew is connected to Ysef. Every Jew is connected to we compare every child to. So when when Yakov says the two children that that were born before it's not just the those names, those specific people, it represents two dimensions that exist in every Jew. And that's why we bless every Jew with it. The Reb is focusing here on details but really it's bringing out this is what we have to understand what what is that grandchildren become children and says they were born before I came to Egypt it sounds like that's the whole if they were born after I came to Mits sorry he says clearly those who were born afterwards don't have this what's the is that they were born when Jacob wasn't there it's better if Yakov was there then he has a closer relationship with them he was at the he was at He was at the mitzvah. He he was there with them. He says those that were born before and and and what even does even this did that they become mine? What's wrong with their grandchildren? If they're not children like they're not mine, they're yours. Like they could still have a connection. It's a special thing that they have to be like and that brings to the second question. What was the uniqueness that every Jew should be blessed by these by these children? and the answer is represent two two categories again two archetypes two unique features among the Jewish people and they were born in it also represents two paths two distinct veg vegan are paths ways of when you're in their symbol say is the symbol of all exile. All exiles are called by the name of mit because mit comes from the word m which means distress. So it's the representing the path of Jews in gulos. And it's not just in geographical or political terms where you're exiled. You're exiled from your country. You're exiled from your independence. That's of course one level of gulus. also gulos in terms of when a person finds themselves in a dark situation in a dark world a situation or an environment it makes you badric bad means um oppressed oppression ang means you feel tight you feel narrow you're constrained ang is like I'm I'm very ang is like I'm stressed out right it's a very anxious place >> narrow >> narrow very narrow like you're you're in tight straits So when somebody is in that situation that's called anything that oppresses the gist. The gist is the spirit of the Jew and of Yiddish that's and here you have the only two children who were born in that space. So all other children that were born earlier including the grandchildren were all born in Israel. But the two that are born in Mitz before Yakov comes the only two cuz the other ones who were born in Mitsim were born after Yakov came. But the two Jewish children that are born Yseph is not born in Mitram. Ysef is also born with Yakov Aenu. Everybody's born with Yakov. Either they're born by Lavan in Mesopotamia with Yakov or they're born in Israel later. The only two who are born in Egypt in the which represents gulos, physical gulos, spiritual gulos before Yakov came. So it's not just two names, it's also two pathways. But where where do you get this from? So for this the says let's go back to the names why ysef named him manash remember back in paras mik when ysef was liberated from prison he became a king py gave him a wife it says py gave him a wife he changed yph's name to toughness paneak and before the hunger began yv had two children the first one was manasha the second one was a fry the first one he named manasha and And it's very interesting. Why did they name him Manasha? So this is now going to be it's always the names capture the essence. So mik par he puts it there in footnote six mikal. That's where it says that he had two children before the hunger came. So the first one is called what's so the says literally it means hashem made me forget all my toil and the house of my father the word nashani the word manasha is associated with the word gidhanosha what's ganosha a dislocated nerve the dislocated sciatica of yakavina when he fought in the middle of the night his sciatica was dislocated he was wounded he was limping That's nsha ga nasha. When something is forgotten, it's removed from you. It's like removed from your consciousness. You don't remember it anymore. It's like dislocated from your memory. So the word nashani means hashem made me forget. In other words, I got out of he's going to explain. He's going to explain. It's a very funny interesting name. The second name was a was was aim. What's from the word from the word pi? He made me hashem made me uh he multiplied me he made me successfully in the land of my poverty. So the first name is Hashem made me forget is my toil, my effort, my suffering. The house of my father and is he made me fruitful. That's the word. He made me fruitful in the land of my property. for me means effort in in Yiddish and is my father's house. What does this mean? What what is he naming here? His son Hashem made me forget everything I went through as what what what does he want with this name? You're saying you're giving a name because you want something to be immortalized. You want something to be remembered in the name of this child. That's the concept of a name, right? Is named because of laughter. Jacob is named Yakov because he's holding on to the heel of Asov. Ysef is named because I wanted God will give me another child. What's the name? So he says a very interesting thing. [snorts] Ysef knows Manasha is representing a Jew where there's a deep danger. The danger is he's going to forget everything about Bi about Jacobu and his house. He's going to forget the the light the brightness of BI of his father and his father's home. The divine providence put this child into an exile or this type of Jew into an exile. And when we say exile, it could be from outside or not in innovic internal could be the same thing could be sometimes much more difficult. And it's a place that seeks to make him forget his own shish your own roots. You become disconnected from your own roots. He calls it the luminescent holy roots like a tree that becomes disconnected from its roots from its roots. You know what means, >> neglect, abandon. And also to forget and abandon the the work that it takes to be able to be connected to Bi. In other words, the name is describing what we have to be careful of. This is a place where naturally God is making it very easy to forget the whole that's necessary to stay connected because it's not simple. It takes a lot of work. It's not your environment. It's not your natural organic setup. Everything around you and inside of you is designated to completely uproot you from this connection. The people around you, the geography around you, the ambiance, the environment, what's considered good, what's considered successful. This is a place where naturally in a few days in a few years you forget everything about Bi and that it takes and it's not your fault. It's you were literally you were transplanted. You know the heart was taken out from its natural place. It was transplanted. The tree grows in a certain place. It was literally transplanted in a new place. New roots, new a new body, a new earth spiritually speaking. And now grow. You're going to find a new method. You're going to find a new identity. So why is he naming his son this way? Because means the same time he's trying to help create a consciousness not to forget. Why would you name your child forgetting? It's a very interesting name. Actually means forgetfulness. Oh, forgetfulness. Hi, forgetfulness. Yeah. What's this name? Ephraim is a nice name. Fruitful Gishmak multiplying. What's mana? Ysef means to add, to increase, galdic. What's mana? Forgetting. That's a very interesting what you what you're giving him a void. He's going to have amnesia. Yeah. Thehat is when you look at this boy and you keep on saying forgetting, forgetting, forgetting. What are you trying to do? >> Reminds you. >> Remind you not to forget. In other words, the natural thing is we're going to forget. You have to realize that we're in a path of forgetting. That's the path. That's the trajectory. Trajectory is we're going to forget. And it's normal. It's normal. It's in other words, if you're normal, you're going to forget. So that name itself is trying to tell you and remind you not to forget, not to forget. Is you know what means? Conscious. Huh? You're the greatest the greatest hope against forgetting something and becoming detached and becoming apathetic is to be conscious of it. I can't change the reality, but I could be conscious of the reality. I could be conscious of the vulnerabilities. Right? That's that that's the key. You recognize what is going on. And when you're conscious of it, that's the greatest antidote not to fall into it because you could respond from a different place. Right? We always say when you when you're conscious when you're aware of something, it doesn't hold you hostage. At least you have choices. The only thing that's worse than having a problem. Yeah. [clears throat] Is when you're not aware of it. You if I have an enemy and I'm aware of it, at least I know there's an enemy. At least I could choose to fight. I could also choose not to fight. But there's agency. When you're not and you're living in denial, you're living in repression or you're living without awareness. Now I'm just influenced in a way that I don't even realize I'm influenced. >> Yeah. Yeah. You could be careful. You could protect yourself. What's [snorts] means up? When you're up, when you're aware, you're alert. Vakamite is alertness. It's alertness. You're not caught in sleep. You understand? You weren't caught in your sleep. Vakam kite means there's the consistent awareness of a soul. The soul is very aware. It's a self-awareness of what's happening, right? Just like emotionally, you know, I I may have all these issues, but I know I know, wow, just came in. The thought just came in. It it's it's an awareness of what's happening. And the awareness is that forgetfulness is the name of the game in Egypt. If you want to be successful, you need to forget everything of your past. The message is two things. Don't forget the house of your father. Don't forget what represents. And remember that you need a toil. That's what you need to remember because if you don't, it's not coming natural. You're going against the flow. You're not going with the flow. [clears throat] In Hilfus, I heard this from Rabbi Hishbrung once, the chief rabbi of Mach. In Hila Strafus, you have the simmon of a fish. If it goes with the stream, then you don't know its nature. If it's sick, if it's terminally ill, when it goes against the stream, now you know it's healthy. Now you know that it has power. So, in other words, here other places you could just go with the stream. Here, you can't. If you're going with the flow, you're going to forget everything. It needs a mlly. It needs conscious effort and toil to be able to go contrary to the stream. And that's very comforting because just the weirdness of it, it just puts you into a category of those who are awake and know what's happening. So that's the first name of Ysef's child. He's here in Egypt. He's the king. He's the prime minister. He's the viceroy. The entire culture, the entire zeitgeist, the showing, the perspective, the energy, the atmosphere is it's a depraved country. So his first boy who's going to be growing up without Jacob, without a family, without a connection. This is what he names. Hashem put us in a place where we naturally will forget Bi, the light of our roots of B of and it requires we're going to forget that you have to work for it. And this name is going to remind you and me and all of us what we need to be alert about to be able to maintain an identity apart from the Egyptian culture and environment. That's very powerful. This is like wow. He comes to a foreign country and not only does he not lose his identity, he's reminding his child that he's constantly in danger of losing his true identity, ending up in a gullos internal or external. Because by the way, it's important to understand it's not just the outside. We're talking also as he said before emotionally inside. In other words, sometimes the environment could be a perfect environment so to speak or not. But that's it's not the only issue. Sometimes it's the internal darkness. So it's simply the awareness and the alertness of that that sets this child on a path towards emotional and spiritual success of aim is represents a whole different category because manasha is not just an individual. We said manasha is a category. It's a way. It's a way of living in gullis. What's this way of living in galis? Manasha knowing how it's different. This is different. I was uprooted. I will forget. Forget forget forget. And that way we don't forget. So many ways I would call this nostalgia. It's like reminding you what something was lost. What's nostalgia? Somebody once said, "Ah, nostalgia today is not what it used to be like." What's the idea of nostalgia? Nostalgia >> kosh ice cream. Station wagons. Ringling brothers and kamay. Yeah. [snorts] >> Huh. The only the only food on pes is macaroons. >> But they have also pizza and bagels and bread and sushi. Only macaroons. If you wanted to be a you ate macaroons on pes. today. If you're only eating macaroons, you're like, "Wow." You're like, "You only eat macaroons." Yeah. Nostalgia is when you live in a place of memory, like you remember the the Yeah. How it was in the how it was on the other side of the ocean. Fat. Yeah. It's a Jew who lived in a different world, in a different culture. Why do you do it? So, the real point is not to make people miserable. It's to be able to help them, remind them what things could be like, so to speak, or at least to see a contrast. So, to be able, the contrast itself, it keeps you connected. Even the contrast, even the negative contrast, right? Even the fact that yeah, I've been uprooted and it's not the same. That itself makes some similarity, some connection because the only thing that's worse than that is that there's no nostalgia. This is the only reality. We don't even know of another reality. At least you should know of another reality. So there's aim, there's a thirst, there's a yearning, there's some it's constantly the contrast, the contrast. So it's not to make the person miserable. It may make them a little miserable, but that's not the objective. The objective hopefully is that they should at least retain some of that in their life, continue [snorts] it to some degree, knowing how unnatural it is and how difficult and challenging it is. is a whole different opposite pattern in mine pine in mine painand painland in in in Yiddish you also say pain or pine pine pine hashem made me f means fruitful successful ful abundant prosperous in the land of my pain in the land of my of my poverty. That's so interesting. The first child is contrast. I was made to forget something was uprooted. In the second child, it's look how successful I am. This child is a story of success, not a story of forgetfulness. Interesting. What happened? What happened? What did happen in aim that didn't exist in? And why didn't he do it with the first child? It's not was born in he was also born in he was born in the land of my poverty. The land of gullus. It's also a situation of pain. and garnish the gist from sometimes is more engul because as years go by they don't even remember the you know what gite is the spiritual richness the luster the beauty the glory of bi they don't have the language anymore they don't even have the reference of that we forgot they don't speak that language they don't know the songs they don't know the stories anymore there's nothing to forget If you never knew it, you didn't forget it. You didn't grow up with it to forget it. Galos, their entire Yiddishkite was formed in the structure of Gulos. Manasha who was born earlier. So Ysef was still closer to the Alahim, right? So the house was still molded in that path. They could be Nashani. Then you have that Jew that would grew up here. This is the whole environment. There was nothing to forget. He didn't cross the ocean and forget things and there's a challenge. This is what he knows. This is the reality. So in many ways the gullus is much deeper. But here comes a revolutionary approach. And if you'll understand this, you'll understand one of the biggest revolutions of the But in somehow what gets reflected is Hashem's purpose in how do you see the purpose of is purpose You know what means? Means shadow from the word is shadow eclipses. Ephim represents the purp the ultimate purpose of gullus. You're put into a place of darkness. You're put into a place where there's realness. There's real challenges, spiritual ones. And he says, "Oh, so physical ones. It's not just spiritual. It's also physical. It's on every level. And it it's so dark that it can eclipse even the glory, the shine. The shine is the halo, the radiance of the past. You don't even have that. Mina at least represents the fact that there's something to forget. And therefore we don't we shouldn't forget it because you're gonna forget it. But you have nothing to forget. This is my reality. [snorts] And nonetheless finds a secret. Ephraim finds Hashem right here. He finds this place as an opportunity to find Hashem and to spread godliness da in this place of darkness. It's not a curse anymore. It becomes a catalyst for tremendous awareness and growth from this place itself. And this is a great revolution because this represents the divine purpose that Jews were sent into gullis. You could look at it in two ways. You were sent there just to fight it, just to say how bad it is and how evil it is and how cursed it is, which is a madrega because at least you're you're not surrendering. But that's what it is. It's basically to sigh and it's of gullis. You were sent there just to know how miserable it is and hold on to something of the past. But to say that that's the whole purpose is pretty depressing. It's almost your your real history was in the past. And we're the neb cases that were sent into a crazy situation just to be able to tell us every day how crazy we are and how low we are and you this is and it's never the same. And somehow that itself maybe gives you a little taste. But it's pretty depressing that that's the whole story. That's the end of the story. >> Yeah, we're left back at class. But a whole year you have to say but I was left back at class and I'm not like my older brother. I'm not like my zade. I'm not like my and maybe that itself I'll become a little kosher. That's not the purpose. It it may be a a step not to be able to to be able not to assimilate. He says the real purpose is Shine in there. You didn't believe me that you're going to learn Yiddish today, huh? Isaac thought he knows Yiddish. He thought he knows Yiddish already. [laughter] Nostalgic. Yeah. [laughter] The words here are are just glorious words I have to translate. He says this is the accomplishment that happens and this is the ultimate purpose of Hashem sending the Jew in gulus because the light that emerges from the sinish the light that emerges from the thickness from the thicket of darkness is so much more herik it's so much more bright it's so much deeper and it's so much more glorious than the light that does not have the backdrop of darkness you can't compare in other words there's a quality to light that comes from transformation that could never ever be found in light that is organically and naturally light and that's the depth it says in Ecclesiastes chapter 2 that there's an advantage to wisdom over stupidity like the advantage of darkness of light over darkness so desire asks a question it's brought in Tanya perid bay Melik says I have seen this you need to tell you that wisdom is better than stupidity like light is better than darkness. This is like's big invention in life that it's better to be wise than stupid. What's the So the way the alterit is based on the z is he doesn't mean light is greater than darkness from the darkness. The greatest light is the light that comes from the darkness. This is already a different type of wisdom. The greatest wisdom is the WISDOM THAT COMES FROM FOLLY. There's wisdom because you were blessed with wisdom. And then there's a wisdom that comes from your stupidity. There's the wisdom that comes from your failure, from your from your stumbling blocks, from your setbacks. There's the wisdom that comes from all of your dysfunction. It's the that is born from darkness. Not not min in Hebrew could mean two things. Then like light is greater than darkness. It's greater from darkness. Like it's a contrast and one is greater than the other. Or min means from. It's a whole different vert. That's the kavana of gullis. The kavana of gullis is not just to be in gullus and say, "Oh, it's so bad. It's so bad. It's so bad. It's horrible. It used to be good. Now it's horrible." That's not the kavana. That's a step. That's a step. It's an important step. The ultimate of gulos is on you to be able to reveal right here that there's an opportunity that didn't even exist in the old space because the that comes from the is a whole different it's a different relationship. It's a different depth. It's a different shine. It's there's a different authenticity to it and there's a different energy to it because whenever you take darkness and you harness it and you metamorphosize it and it becomes a catalyst and a springboard for light, it's a different type of light. Yeah. Yeah. It's is garbage and it penetrates into the deepest places. It's just how it is. Like we know it experientially and anything that you own that you came to own from working through the exact opposite, it's a different you have a different relationship with it. In many ways, you can never be removed from it. It's truly truly yours. And it's also it's a it's just a different relationship with it. This is a To put it in other words, that's you work part that the in the circumstances of the vermic means unworthy the the the the the despicable verdict is something that's unworthy it's not it's impure the circumstances of an impure world and your own grakite again we're going outside and inside a whole time we're talking about gullus on the outside but also internally so he says the unworthiness of the aenkite everybody has their own grakite their own darkness their own density their brutess. So manasha is the person who works hard that all of this should not uproot you from your holy path. In other words, what's the idea? You protect yourself. He says, he puts in italic. You're basically protecting yourself from the negativity, from the darkness. You don't want to be damaged by the surrounding. So you make sure that you are in a protective place. Your immune system is powerful. I around you there's diseases everywhere. You're right. You put up good walls and you put up good boundaries and you protect yourself. And that's the idea of surah means there's evil everywhere inside outside and what do I do? I make sure that I'm protected and that's how that's work. That takes work. You need consciousness. You need alertness. You need awareness. You need honesty and you need internal discipline and consistency and work. We all understand that's galdic. So what's mana? In contrast is to is something much deeper. It's to take the darkness and the grubkite inside and work it through. This says means you penetrate that and you find the light there. So his is not just I'm protecting myself. So every time I dig in more and more and more mine I build a bigger wall and a bigger wall and a bigger wall. That's very that's gavaldic. That's protecting yourself. So essentially it's a negative approach. It's an important approach, but it's essentially at its core, there's something very pessimistic about it because it's a very irredeemable situation, but I'm doing the best because that's what wants. So is no, there's something here. There's a secret here. It's not just the secret is just to make me dig in more and and and and f and distance myself more from what's from what's around me. The secret is that there's some there's some opportunity here that is historic. And what does that mean? That means that is the work is transformational. So the person works through as he says the grubkite is the brutess and the darkness of the gullless world itself I became I became a success story here there's a success that happened only like y like ysef looked at himself and he said there's something that happened there I could save the whole world from hunger only because I ended up in this misha place only because I ended up in these crazy circumstances including my family one day he would save his entire family from hunger which means the entire Jewish people only because of so this is a unique opportunity that happened only if he would have remained in Israel in a beautiful holy environment learning with his father which was glorious he loved his father his father loved him this would have never happened so it's that happens as he says to bring in the world where it's evil where it's dark it should become divine and holy that's to stay way protect yourself. A is he's touching here not only not doing bad things and doing good things is a different approach. The approach is find the good, cultivate the good, transform it into good. That's much deeper. And now we come. This explains the whole next part of the story. What's the next part of the story? When Yakov wants to bless them. So Ysef expects Manasha to be placed on Yakov's right side. Ephraim to be placed on Y on Yakov's left side because Ephraim is the oldest. So Yakov would bless Ephraim and Manasha first. Manasha with his right hand and Ephraim with his left hand which is the system that Hashem made biologically he's the gets double. What does Yakov do? He crosses his hands and he places his right hand and he places his left hand on and Ysef gets upset. He says that's not the way to do it. Manash is and Jacob says I know but still I'm doing it this way. And the says to when he explains why he's doing it this way, he says is going to be great but there's something great greater in even greater and therefore he gets the right hand and that's when he says and he said before so what's the here and if is greater so he should the why does it have to be this way? Minasha is the first. So if he's the first born, he should get the right hand blessing, right? The usually gets it. And then Yakov says, "Nope, we're going to cross. I'm going to cross men." So Ysef gets upset and we all understand why gets upset. It's not stam because he knows what happened in the past when the youngest was placed before the oldest, right? It's not uh you've been there. We've been we've been we've been down that route. Yakov and if anybody suffered from it, it was Yakov. and so you're talking about two people who know and afra before Manasha and still Manasha is not is the so on one hand manasha comes before Ephraim that's not a mistake on the other hand has a deeper so here yeah here is going to explain you can only get to if you first have manasha but la mana is the to you. If you jump to aim before mana, it's not going to be authentic. It's not going to work. Manasha comes before but is the ultimate purpose. We're talking about not just as two individuals as he said as two arched archetypes in the he so he says his right arm the left why it's not an issue of why didn't he get jealous. It's interesting. Manasha didn't get jealous. We look at it as almost you're better, you're worse. But that's not a way the way to look at it. Abra doesn't mean you're getting the right because you're better and he's worse. It's really what Hashem needs you to channel in this world. >> Your purpose, not better or worse. The heart and the brain and the everyone has a purpose, right? It's everyone is indispensable in their way. It's not a competition. There's no competition here. It's like we spoke about the rocks with and the right why the when the rocks were fighting what was their mistake and when they became one it's a whole different consciousness. So it's not oh I got a bigger one. His avoid needs a deeper blessing. You need it. It's almost like what you are what you need to face you must have a deeper braha. Not you're better, you're worse. I want to give you more. I want to spoil you. You push need much more help from above. >> Yeah, you're going where nash is not doesn't have to go. Man is going into dark places, but what's his approach? His approach, I'm going in, but I'm not really going in because I'm building a wall. I know it's dark and therefore I'm not fully stepping in. is going into dark places because you can't transform something if you don't go into it. You need a lot of help here. You need a special help for this. There's no mistakes. Everything in the world of is very intentional. its presence. You're just telling me you're contradicting yourself. You're saying needs a much deeper. He needs the right hand. So let him let him have the of being first. But the truth is there's no contradiction here. Both ideas are completely consistent. Needs to be the first and in that sense he's more prominent and needs a much deeper blessing from the right hand. Fore! Foreign! Foreign! from when you're talking about the ultimate purpose of gulosph is higher. Ephraim represents the goal. Ephraim represents the ultimate end. What we want to strive for to be able to reveal and disseminate and spread the divine light in its thank you for coming. So when you're talking about the ultimate goal, the ultimate objective, you need to know what the end goal is. The end goal is to transform gulos to transform the world. So and and that requires tremendous help and assistance and you need a lot of real energy and clarity because you're going into that place and transforming it. So therefore fry means the greater but now when you're talking about actually getting there there's always what's your goal? What's your purpose? But that goal may happen after a long how do I get there? Oh for this you have to start with manash. You can't bypass a fry. I'm sorry. You can't bypass manasha. >> You need to know where you stand. >> Yeah. Why? Because if you start off with a fry before manasha instead of transforming, you could become actually submerged and you get lost. You have to have the right techniques how to go to these places. If you're not fortified internally, you know, a doctor says, "I'm going to go to these places filled with disease and infections. I'm going to heal the world." The problem is if your immune system is not very very powerful and you don't know how to protect yourself, instead of you healing the world, you become as sick as everybody else or much worse. Not only did you not help, now you become part of the problem, not part of the solution. When you're going into very deep, intense places, you need to have the technique and identity to be able to handle it. And then it becomes a tremendous blessing. If would have not had the inner fortification of Manasha, he could never get to Ephraim. He first needed to go through manasha. So the archetype OF MANASHA MUST COME BEFORE a fra. The goal is to go much deeper than that. But you're not going to get to that goal without this. That's why the sur means you're protected. You know who you are. You're fortified. Yes. You know the contrast. This is light. This is dark. You don't confuse the two. If you started with a you could become so comfortable. You're not transforming them. they're transforming you. You just become you just become submerged. You become assimilated in the process. The same is true in a person's own life. To be able to really transform my darkness, I have to connect to a place of light that is beyond the darkness. I have to be able to contrast the two. >> See where I'm going. Then I could take that light and go into a much deeper place and transform it. But if I'm not first fortified, then what happens is the darkness can become almost romantic. It's like, oh, I'm here to transform THE DARKNESS. SUDDENLY I BECOME the darkness and that becomes the beautiful thing here and it's a joke becomes much worse problem. If you don't see the darkness as darkness you're not going to transform it. You're going to become part of it. So first I have to see the darkness as darkness and I have to be able to have that and the lament and the cry and the the thirst and then from here I have to say and why was I sent here and why was I put through this and why do I have to go through this and why did God uproot me from a glorious place in my essence and throw me in to this abyss which I know is an abyss and the answer is but if I don't see it as an abyss if I'm completely comfortable here then I'm not going to see it as an I'm not going to transform it either I'm just going to end up there so it's a very subtle it's a very subtle duality here must come before and yet the fraim is the ultimate end goal so it's not like there's a contradiction there and there's a war between manasha and aim I'm better you're better it's like two opposite theb is now showing that essentially they're both one they're stages in the development and in fulfilling the gullus manasha comes first and aim is the ultimate purpose and therefore it's not a competition everyone is fulfilling a an indispensable when you talk about both in terms terms of categories of Jews. Manasha is an archetype. Ephraim is an archetype and in every Jew itself you have both. Man always comes first in the in the open path of he comes first because he's closer to the house to the old house to the alim the alim therefore is incremental means he doesn't leap there's no leap there's no jump it's slow and what's the first thing. Make sure that you stay connected by protecting yourself from anything that's negative. You hear represents a later stage. And he says when I mean later I don't only mean in time also in concept. Ephraim often is the child who's less connected. Minasha as he said earlier there's still memories. you know what you're forgetting and therefore you could say I don't want to forget it sometimes you can't even do that why because there's nothing to hold on to there's no past this is your reality so in many ways it's not just later in the sense that it comes after manasha it's also later that the connection to bi is not there anymore so on one hand it's a but on the other hand this allows you a different leap to get to the ultimate purpose which is the higher step in the latter of and that's the and here the end and the beginning come together the end of it says in no like he says in number 14 the end and the beginning are etched comes withi what's the first mitzvah in the whole purvu the first commandment hashem gives a person in the first mitzvah is purvu he tells Adam even before anything when he creates them before they sad what's the first commandment the first divine message of a man of hashem to is I want you to multiply fill the world conquer the world excuse They once asked why is the first mitzvah? So he said that's what said that's you're a Jew create another one. That's the first mitzvah just uh oh I think that's he quotes over there [snorts] that in the in the godly nation you should have another he says mean a Jewish Jew meaning full consciousness full consciousness is you are you remember who your father was. Wow. And me I'm a grayong but that itself okay at least I know who my father was at least I know my za was at least and that's sometimes the whole right you come into yeshiva your brother when he was here your father your z did this he already finished sh six times by your age and you I'm the loser of the family I'm the black sheep in the family >> yeah so you remember who your father was you remember the alim you remember and you remember the dangers that you were presenting in being torn away from this but he says but it can't stay there the next step is aim what's a is reminding you who your father is a fraim is I create a person and he says in that gull that's that drowned fashank means it like it uh is uh washed away washed away so many Jewish children so you can't remind them of anything they're completely detached So now you have to make somebody you have to find it inside of them because I don't have a reference point. This is my reality. So now the question is are you going to just tell me how bad it is cuz I'm not going to listen to that cuz I don't know what you're talking about. Or you going to let me find Hashem right here right now. This is ultimate place and they'll also know who their father is. Yeah, it's He promised them as aim both of these types of Jews and Simona. the now now we'll come back to the beginning these two children who were born in mit before I came so now it has a whole new gishmak all the other children and grandchildren grew up in an atmosphere of yakavinu so organic ally they were connected. This was it. There were the including Ysef. Ysef had a very good education. Later he was thrown into Gulas. He was sold. But that wasn't his foundation. Who are the only two children who were formed in this new reality. They were born here. They were raised there. Right? They they didn't have they didn't have a so to speak. There was nobody. The Akov wasn't at their he wasn't at their he wasn't at the nothing. The only Jew in their entire world was their father Ysef and their mother. That's it. The boss was parro. The friends were Egyptian. It was completely all internal. So now Yakov comes to Egypt and he looks at these two children. So he understands this is the revolution of Ysef. So he blesses them. Because Jacob understands that if Jews are going to survive through gulas and not just survive but thrive and transform it, they're going to need the power of two kids. So that becomes the eternal blessing. What's the greatest blessing you can give your children to be able to have this fortitude of and this transformational power of that's the greatest blessing that every child needs because everyone needs it in their own life. The first is manasha which is to be able to know who you really are and not get confused with your darkness inside or outside. That's the great blessing the first thing. And then the greater blessing is to be able to step in to your challenges and darkness and transform that into divine light on a collective level. It's the blessing of never losing identity in any place or any condition under any circumstances and deeper yet not just not assimilating and not losing it but ultimately living in this sigh and this contrast but ultimately revolutionizing the whole world transforming gulus into gula transforming into make the world a godly place that very world that you're afraid of and that's the ultimate antidote to fear one antidote to fear is I build a wall. Amazing. But the real antidote to but the moment you step out of the wall, you're dangerous. And the kid who was born outside of the wall doesn't know what you're talking about. The greatest antidote is you transform the environment and now everything is changes. And sometimes it comes with a challenge because you have that person who lived with memories and at least there's some nostalgia and there's some memories. So you could contrast it and you say, "Ah, wasn't the gishmach? The chicken soup. There was a whole generation of American Jews, if you would sing this, they would start crying. But at some point in America, you could stand up and sing this song. What's this guy? What what's his issue? What language is he talking in? >> Yeah. So suddenly here that very language doesn't talk to me anymore. I don't even know what you're talking about. There's no memory. If there's a memory, I can build on that memory. I can make you feel guilty. I can get a nice whatever. [laughter] It's a new generation. So you could say, "Oh, it's all over." No. Now you have to really find God. Now you have to find it right here. Right here. It's true inside the darkness. It's a whole different avoid and this is the blessing that Yakov promises. This is the revolution of because THEY WERE BORN BEFORE I CAME. THAT'S HIS BEFORE I CAME. ONCE I CAME, IT'S already [laughter] it's already THE IS HERE BEFORE I came. same Ruven and Enim who grew up in Yakov's house in the as he said in the tents of the where the heavenly light was shining become the archetypes that that can be created in every situation through But even more than because there's the gishmak and the great of a frame amash whose light shines da in the gulus. >> Yeah. >> The darkness is always the coldest in the darkness. Yeah. Unless you're Miami or Los Angeles. But yeah. >> Yeah. The longest night then. This is the gift that you bless. Every father or mother blesses every single child. This is what you should have. And here the order is because as we explained in terms of the of the ultimate goal, it's a and you need to know the ultimate goal. But to get to the ultimate goal, you need a I just want to add one point here. I think helps bring it together. the lammed which was basically the holocaust finished in 1945. So this is this is 25 years later. So you still you still had a whole world of Jews who lived on the other side of the ocean whether it was Poland or Galitzia or Hungary or Russia or whatever it was Eastern Europe that were saved. And of course the deba himself came from that world. And generally the way that the contrast was dealt with even by the greatest of people really great people. What was the what was the nature of of the of the what was the the language? The language was a language of nostalgia of how much was lost. And it made a lot of sense. And it wasn't to make people miserable and guilty, but on the contrary to hold on to something. You can only hold on to something that's lost if you talk about how much was lost. If you don't talk about how much was lost, nobody's going to know about how much was lost. So yeah, you want to tell the children stories and memories. And that was the nature of a conversation. A good a good was Yeah. What looked like in the month of L. If you look at Russia, what did Ella look like? They'll describe to you what did the Shashana look like? And then the American kid says, "Yeah, and where, you know, where the Yankees, you know, we go to the Yankee games or go for pizza mitabasoya trips to Six Flags." That contrast. Now, of course, part of it is a little drama and exaggeration. The old days weren't perfect, and on the other side of the ocean, not everybody was perfect. Whatever. We're not going to go there at the moment. Okay. But that's uh the good old days were not always gold and they whatever. It's not like it's just naturally when things are not here anymore, they become perfect. But that [laughter] that that's besides that's that's a different discussion, a different conversation. But even in those situations that it's absolutely authentic ultimately what that did was it created something very powerful and that is don't lose it right don't assimilate when the Aayat when the previous came to America the first words he said was America is not different so somebody once told me that there was somebody else who came to America. And his message was not going to be different. We're not going to take off our garments. We're not going to get rid of the beard. We're not going to get rid of other things. We're not going to be different. That's a big thing over here. Everybody is different. Everybody changes. Either you throw your fillin into the Atlantic. And even if you don't throw your fillin into the Atlantic, but you accommodate a new country. We're not going to accommodate a new country. We're not going to be different. That's a big thing. The rabbi said America is [laughter] not only we're not going to be different. Okay, that's galdic. America is not different. The same God who existed on the other side of the ocean exists here and ferret. If we were sent here, it means that history is going forward. It's not going backwards. And that's ultimately why a fry becomes so essential. And here is in this generation you see it because in this generation the memories already faded away because most people were born into a new reality. Most people unless you grew up in certain certain situations like they don't even relate to a lot of it. And that's what people don't understand. That's why the is so relevant today because ultimately in the if you stop with manasha ultimately it's a pessimistic reality. History is not going forward. It's going backwards. So it goes amal. I once heard from the reb is amalik. Am used to be good. Now everybody's WRAPPING A BUNCH OF spoiled narcissistic brats into their stuff. So whether it's true or not true, the o the only when the only focus is how it used to be good and the best you can do is realize how much you lost. It's ultimately a depressing message. The whole Yiddishkite is not based on sur. There's evil and stay away. Stay away. Stay away. Stay away. That's not the language of gula. That's the language of gullos. You need to have that. You must have sur you have to know yes there's evil and there's darkness and you need to stay away because if not if you romanticize gulos without understanding the pain it becomes dysfunctional. It's very that's why you know by the there were no shortcuts. It wasn't like he went here he went there. He explains everything. There's manaches of sight. It's the beginning. But if you stay stuck with Manasha, history also gets frozen. All Ysef could say is our family was cursed. I don't know why. But you know what? We'll do the best we can. But at the core of it, there's a negative energy. There's a sigh. There's a always ends off with a sigh. Oh yeah. So says, "Huh? >> Homesick from the bottom." >> Homesick. Yeah. Homesick. And that's a to the whole of the whole creation of the world. So it's it's so people mean well and not only they mean well the says you're not going to get to a fry without that. It's not only they mean well there's something very holy about that. We know that in a person's life if you're not very fortified internally you're not going to transform anything. You're going to become part of you're going to assimilate. You're going to lose it. get stuck in it. >> But if you stay there, you're ultimately not fulfilling the purpose, then ultimately gullus wins and you do the best you can to protect you and your family. And some people do an amazing job. But then when it comes a generation that doesn't have that deep connection to the past, the past doesn't make them feel guilty anymore. Thebis said this 1970 1970 that's when the old generation either became very old or started to pass away and their kids I'm talking in the general world grew up in public schools I'm not talking about inha communities and they stopped speaking Yiddish anymore how do I know [laughter] my father had a job as the front page editor of the tug margin journal which was a daily yedish newspaper just like the New York Times and the New York Post and the Daily News come out every single day. There were Yiddish papers that were published every single day and this is before there was internet and computers. It was with typewriters. It was hard work. You had the farvitz, you had the tug marginal, you had the tug, you had the marginal and they came together. >> These were daily and they they made a good living. The farvitz at one point had a quarter of a million readers because this was their vista. This was their their visit to the new world. They all spoke Yiddish. They didn't know English. But suddenly in 1970, you don't need Yiddish to survive in America. You're good. You can read other newspapers. So one after the other one started to close down. >> The Taban was a daily newspaper and it closed down 1971. And so my father opened up his weekly, the Algame, but it had to be a weekly. Couldn't be a daily anymore. I'm just bringing out the whole culture of the past world. It was fading away in a new generation grew up in a in in a different generation. So to sit and say, you know, it used to be, it used to be. It didn't speak to them. Talk to me now. Talk to me now. So this is where comes in. And it's much harder because if you can't use the guilt of the past and the shame of the past and you're going to abandon and you're going to give Hitler a victory and because of you, your Z is turning over in the grave in Awitz. Like it didn't work anymore. What What about me here today? Like do you have a message for me? I I don't know what to tell you. I don't I don't have anything to tell you. I could guilt you into what Yuza used to look like. Thank you. Now, I don't mean to associate manasha with guilt because that's not what the Reb is doing. I'm just applying it to different conversations that we have. Manasha is not guilt. Manasha is actually real connection. It's connection to a past, to a very deep past. It's a connection to the stuck. But yeah, it could become that when you don't understand that it's leading to aim, that's when it could become and all there is is you got to protect the name of your grandmother and the of the family and because of you, you will single-handedly undermine our entire legacy. Then there comes a generation, right, where if you don't have the language of aim, you're not really reaching people. And that's where on one end you could say it's so bad. It's so negative. It's so backwards. It's so disconnected. And the Reb says, "No, this is where it's this is where it's at. Don't talk about how homesick we are. Make make it here. Make it here. If anoid mulvad is real, it means here now. It means mat is now >> this is it. Not this is it because gullis is the this is it because gullis needs to be transformed into I don't mean this is it because the is the because in the you have the opportunity to transform everything and that's the uniqueness of another interesting thing is when I saw the years ago I had a feeling it was interesting to me those who are familiar in you had the freed The rebay he passed away in 1950 and then theb succeeded his son his father-in-law a year later. So if you study the of theat and the of thebah you see a fascinating contrast theat were filled and saturated with sharing what life used to look like with >> Yeah. And it was very intentional. He literally transported you back to a world that didn't exist that didn't exist in the present. And he would talk about it. He grew up in labavich with his father the as a kid with his the first few years marsh with the was the was and it was tak was a little it's a little you could check it out and it was 150 years there of infinite light and uh in his youth he encountered you know I'm sure some people that weren't that worthy but also amazing amazing people and he he was very sensitive and he was full of heart and soul and the rabbi had also saw an ultimate that was incredible. If you read his like you're there, you're alive. And he would constantly talk about filled with stories and experiences. And it wasn't just cuz he was trying to tell stories because he wanted to give people an experience of what it was to live with to live with to live with your soul. What a doning is. I saw the other day. He says he says he says when a Jew gave shalom to another person there was actually you felt that it was there was a connection. >> Yeah. Like he was he was trying to he was trying to give people what it means to be genuine to be authentic what it means to to to be a hashem. What do we There was a we just learned Oh, the olive that we learned. >> The oil. Yeah. So, it was it was now that was not a person who lived in the past. He revolutionized a all that Eb's work in America was based on his work. He was a revolutionary. He was a visionary. He single-handedly stood up to Stalin. People don't even don't know who he was. He was an incredible incredible leader. He the most the most difficult circumstance. He was not a person who was stuck in sadness of the past was extremely extremely visionary, proactive, incredible. But his sik is he wanted Davka to transport people to a past because he knew how different reality has become because of the war and because of all of the changes of modernity. Then you look at the There's almost not a word of nostalgia there. Once in a while, once in a while, maybe once a year that would talk about it and it was very, very emotional, but that was it. And it's the contrast is unbelievable. When I learned this, I knew right away the are the of and the are 99% in the of Apha. And it's a fascinating contrast like the we learned last week about crying is a classic example says crying is a beautiful thing. There's nothing to do and God made that we release things through tears. Beautiful. But if it's your bdash stop crying and go build it. If it's your friend's bdate you did what you can now cry. Unless he when describes when the crying is part of chuva through the crying itself is constructive. What what is he really trying to say? It wasn't just talking about there was a culture of people that their relationship with Yiddish was one of crying and it made sense. So much was lost. It made sense. It wasn't just the B mik that was destroyed. It was 6 million lives that were destroyed. It was a whole world that was destroyed. So you cry. And what was the eb's message? you finish doing everything you can. This was this was that was that was uh what was it? There was the end of 64. A few weeks later it was which we learned last year the bosani and then made and in the he said he told the story the end of maka and his friends went to and they came to mount scopus and they tore their clothes and then they came to and a fox came out of kadesha so everybody started to cry and started to laugh so they asked why are you laughing he said why are you crying and they said the place that even a Jew who walks in here dies foxes said that's why I'm crying that's why I'm laughing because there's two prophecies and I didn't know if the second one will be fulfilled now that I see the first one was fulfilled I know the second one will be fulfilled that's the end of the whole made it was incredible but there's one part I want to tell The Reb explained then why a fox. So [clears throat] you'll say well that's what happened. But why does have to say it was a fox? So he explains that the is connected to the fox that spoke about when he was in prison and somebody said what do you have to have nishes for? And he told the story with the fox and the fish fox told the fish come out of the water and let's fang together and the fish said you're going to eat us and he said no come out and they said even in this water we're in danger. If we come out of the water we'll for sure be in danger. So the Gar says that said they say that the sh is the the wisest of animals. He says you're really a tip. So he explained that represents wisdom but it's animal wisdom. And what they saw was that the deepest wisdom of the Jewish people was leaving Kaideshakadashim. Instead of the of a Jew being in Kaideshakadashim, it was the being used for leaving Kaideshakadashim. So he said they all started to cry. They started to cry because it represented the idea that a whole generation of Jews were taken out of. So the Reb said in the middle of the when he said it, he said, "So turned to them and he said, "Why are you crying? BRING THEM BACK TO SHAKADASHIM. Don't start crying." He just expressed himself that way. And that was the whole mikuda. Of course you could cry. They left Kadeshakashim. You could cry and cry and cry and cry. And you're right. You're not going to bring anybody back through crying. They don't want to be associated with depression. People want to be associated with laughter, with joy, with success. Nobody wants to build their life based on sadness, based on guilt. You want to build your life based on laughter, on joy, on success. Is there room for tears? Of course there's room for tears. AND RABAKA KNEW better than anybody that is that you can cry. But his he wanted to rebuild NOT SAY HOW HORRIBLE it is that they left said for this you guys need to learn how to laugh not cry. So this is M is the same. So y will cry for binyam and will cry for but for your own mikdash don't cry in many ways that's the right says of course I can cry these kids know nothing they're ignorant they don't even know the language they don't know the culture THEY DON'T KNOW THEIR EVERYTHING WAS FORGOTTEN HOW horrible I could do that and then go into my room and write a diary of how depressed I am and how this is the worst generation ever and it's despicable and it's a bunch of spoiled brats and the [snorts] internet and everything is horrible and and the glory of is over. You can do that and many people do that. The whole of this is that itself is a clip. That itself is losing the whole purpose of everything. >> Yeah. The real purpose is no. You have to go to a much deeper place and the deeper place is can you teach people how to laugh? Can you teach people how to celebrate? Let them find let them find their shakadashim here. But for this, it needs to be internalized. I can't just rely on memories of the past. I can't be homesick for something that used to be. [laughter] That's not elus. That is a form of clipper. Why? Because it's basically saying that, you know, God is dead and all we have is memories. That's not true. That's not what God says. That's the whole that's the opposite of everything. That's not true. The whole revolution of the bos was it's right here now every this is it this is it may be hard it may be difficult you have to know the challenges you have to know the challenges that's you have to know the challenge you can't just say it's glorious it's perfect it's you have to know the challenges and then realize that these challenges this is where the whole is and through this you're going to reach the greatest heights and you're going to transform the darkness and you're going to reach an essence and a truth that's unprecedented even in previous generations And that's the of the and it builds on mana. It builds amanasha and people used to wonder like the changed the language so drastically from his father-in-law mama drastically okay so obviously he's a different person a different personality no question and are also long and it's a whole different style but it was just the contrast is very very fascinating and when I read this I like it's just my own herish [laughter] the reb's name was y the reb's name But the Indian is one builds on the other and one has to come before the other because if one doesn't come before the other then the second doesn't it's it's not real. It's not authentic. A fra must have the kayak of manasha must follow manasha. He must is missing manasha it's it's it's it's missing it. You're jumping ahead of the game before you're fortified. You tak have to jump but before you jump you need to make sure you're grounded you have a very very powerful foundation and that's once you have sur now go into now go to transform the darkness if you look in every person's life these two stages are critical everybody is dealing with stuff right we always talk about that how do you deal with your darkness the first thing is not to define yourself by your darkness that's the first thing but that's not enough now you have to go into your darkness I don't have to be afraid of it. But if I just jump into my darkness, literally somebody says, "Okay, you went through this and this and this. Oh, it's perfect. It's you're going to transform it. You're going to be the most powerful person in the world. You're going to be the healer OF THE GENERATION. THANK [screaming] GOD YOU WERE ABUSED." NO, NO, NO. It's not going to work. It's been tried by people. Doesn't work. It's called bypassing. You can't bypass. You have to realize what you forgot. You have to realize what you lost. You lost a lot. You lost your innocence. You lost your self-confidence. You lost your joy. You lost attachment. You lost a lot. You lost your God. It wasn't your fault, but you lost it. And you there's grief over there. There's And that's what sur means there's an element of grief. There's darkness. And however, but there's something you could connect to. Yes, you have been severed from your roots, but knowing that will allow you to go back to the roots that can't be severed because ultimately nobody could sever you from your roots. And that's a very very deep developmental stage. That's manasha. And Ysef had to do that himself because this is what happened to him. He was literally uprooted. He lost everything. And he had to know that yeah, I almost lost everything and that's what I'm holding on to and I'm not going to I'm not going to in other words what my father put into me as a child till I was 17 years old I don't have to forget a mitz and he didn't and you see when he was in the house of pifar and at that moment he almost fell prey what happened it says of he saw the image of yak of his father and it saved him that's the he didn't forget. He almost forgot and he didn't forget. Once you cultivate that, now you go to a much deeper place and that's his the transformation of the now suddenly you go back and you say, "Wow, thank you for sending me to Egypt. Thank you for putting me through this. Everything that has everything that I became, I became only because I was sentime." He didn't start with that. He didn't start with that, but he ended with that because that's the ultimate taklas. The ultimate is that God wasn't trying to torture you and put you into darkness just that you should fight and hold on to some lifeboat. That's not the purpose. That's the first stage. The purpose is ultimately the transformation of gullis into gula. Have a beautiful day. Ah yeah in every person's life also. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Yeah. Oh thank you. >> In every person's life it's also in every person's day when a person starts over their day if they're jumping to a they're not going to have the tools. You need to start off with manasha then say person jumps into the world but you can't stay stuck but manasha is the foundation right a person wakes up in the morning they first need to fortify themselves >> so you learn you d and then you wake up and you learn >> thank you thank you where's your son thank you for coming. >> He's the one who took you to that's >> how are you? Thank you for coming. It's to have you. >> Yeah. Okay. >> Was able to follow. >> He followed. He followed. Yeah. He followed better than >> better than the mag. Yeah. >> Bosani is a few weeks. It's usually eight num this a hard m so it's going to be a little which one would it end up being >> huh usually the sponsored give five cuz it's like a few weeks. >> This whatever. >> Right. >> You could do it individual. What do you Whatever works. Whatever. Whatever works. Amen. >> Amen. Amen. >> From her letters. >> Yeah. >> Wow. >> Wow. That's what he said. The brisket of >> after the Holocaust he sent us >> after three weeks he didn't get a letter from >> he told it to his children of David. >> So the briskov told his children and that's how he could survive anymore. >> Wow. every single week. >> Wow. >> That's how he survived, huh? >> He had to forget everything. >> with Gib. >> Oh, books. Wow. Amazing. >> You have any words you can share in the video with for the Wils? >> They're the best of the best. We love you all and a lot of and everything. >> Amen. Amen. >> What's your name? >> Lurman. >> Lurman. Beautiful. Thank you very much. >> Yeah, I have it. They mailed it to me. I I asked them. I got copies. >> No, no, we don't need copies. I got like I asked Shaw Brook and he uh sent