Likutei Moharan Lesson 5 Part 2 by Reb Yoeli Klein at Scheiner's Shul

We're just going to begin. Okay. Is the second share and you guys are welcome to pass through or sit down or do both. Um second share in the So last week we spoke about how the Reb says that we're here to basically fix the world. The world is created for each and every one of us and therefore each and every one of us can and have to fix the world. We spoke last week that it has more to do with fixing [music] yourself obviously has to do with working on yourself and putting yourself together than um than going out and starting another campaign or another um program or something like that which are also very good. But he said they have to uh fix the world and fill the world. a person has to see three things fix the world fill the world and pray for the world. So he said that uh that the is one of the is in the beginning of we're justing from last week is that to fill the world maybe is the beginning of the process of to fix the world. What does that mean? That a lot of times we feel we find and we feel that in our own selves we're we're empty. We're empty or the gas tank is empty. don't have something that's inspiring us, something that we're excited about that from within. We don't we just don't feel it. So, you fill yourself with some toy. You learn a piece of that inspires you. You find something that you grab onto a mitzvah or something that in a certain place in a certain time and you get this this jolt of like that yes, I have something within me. So you start to fill yourself up and that filling yourself up gives you the chance now to fix fix yourself to fix yourself because after you get filled with Tyra with fela with all sorts of beautiful things a lot of times that becomes it it sits as inspiration as one of my used to always say he's British it sounds much better in a British accent inspiration is like aspiration it's just like breathing it's [snorts] in out like we were speaking about before you know like some easy come easy go. Things that go come quick, they go very quickly. I I remember my son last year was going through a kufa of like, you know, just being sick with viruses and this and all of a sudden he broke out in like this rash and it went all over his hand. I was like, "Ah, hashem." He's like, "What are you saying? It's crazy." I was like, "It came in like 20 minutes. Going to be gone in 20 minutes and it went like went, you know, spread his whole body, but it went through. It was like very very quick in out." So that's what happens a lot of times with Toya with inspiration with these things. So then the Reb says is to take that inspiration that we have and bring it into ourselves into specifically into the parts and the places where we we can see that it reflects these in these these ideas like we find an idea of let's say just off the top of my head like anger like a very interesting toyra says about this about anger and we're like inspired by it but then the next step is to say oh okay so when do I get angry what triggers me why is it triggering me how can I take this to and apply it to to this idea and to work on it and to make it like that that fixes yourself. That takes it from being just something that fills yourself with inspiration and and becomes something that you're now working to fix yourself. So we said that those two things are the the pieces of the puzzle that help a person to fix himself which is a reflection that definitely fixes the world. Um now the Reb continues and he said in the in the first paragraph he said that there's two elements of the last thing they said was to dav that you have to daven for the world. So okay for the world means pray that the whole world should be fixed and everyone everyone should be come come back to and should be and the whole world should come and so we said that there's two there's two elements of this he says there's an element of is before anything was passed so then you could just dive in straight what said after the is that once and specifically we said he was speaking about the cantonistic decrees of the 1800s where the Russians were drafting young Jewish children for 25 years and basically just destroying their lives. It's not only destroying their Yiddish but like destroying everything. And so is working very hard to to be mak to to be m these and he says that after is passed already like those like those those you have to be malish you have to hide the in he says a mime could mean a story a m could mean a mush something that that um basically there's mal that are upstairs that are like well this is already signed and sealed this you know the person's going to prison so now you have to have a whole story and a whole mush and then Maybe it'll be it'll get through those mal and it'll come up to and do and do what needs to be done. Now B reb goes off on a whole like it's like a a journey this um a whole journey of very nice. So there's a tila that's regular straight tila and there's tila that's after the you have to hide in the story but how do you know the difference and obviously in general like he he said in the last few words on the first paragraph val that he's talking about sadikim that are able to tell these things that are able to like uh as we're going to see it's a pretty to be able to see what the difference is but however and all the invok on on a high level of sadic that's able do these things is all reflected inside of us. We have the within us that we can also um take the lessons from these things and apply it for for us on our own levels. So B starts of how would anyone in their right mind know whether there's talking about in heaven whether something was passed that this is going to happen and it's not going to happen through the through things that we do the Hashem we can know. So how do you how does that work out? So he's going to explain it's when you do the mitzvah with utter joy. You don't want any of who who writes you just want more mitzvah the says the reward of a mitzvah is a mitzvah meaning you get another mitzvah because he is so happy he's so um he's getting such pleasure from the mitzvah itself so All he wants is another mitzvah. Right? And obviously it's very high level in itself. How many of us can say that when we do a mitzvah we're like so joyous that we don't want any we just want to do the mitzvah sometimes sometimes we get to those places but it's h it's rare but as he's saying and he's going to go into the the Indian of what's the difference between someone that does mitzvah like that or not. Um this is the difference between he reflects it in the difference between different types of says this is the thing that hashem command was able to point and say specifically specifically this is what said every other in the whole history of the world said hashem said like didn't say that. He was clearly this assh. It's something that's a reflective lens or a mirror that's unclear. It's murky. So we say I I was uh I was thinking a few weeks ago like the most uh probably repeated word in the English language besides from the you know like certain types of words like that is like like like like every single like sentence is like has like the word like thousand times right because we're not clear. Someone that's crystal clear never uses that word. Everything this is recorder that's safer you know everything's clear. You don't need to say well it's like this is like a it's like a type of recorder. It's not really that's because we're not super clear and we have to make comparisons which is good. It helps us. But was not like he was razor sharp. That's a clear lens, a clear mirror. Everything that you see in it is crystal. Now that reflects back into some people they do because they're going to get like Jacobs and he says they're going to get the 70 sushi and pizza pies in the next world. Oh, we have the plug. So they're going to get a lot of gald sushi in the next world. So they do a mitzvah. It's going to be gishmaka in an enemy mitzvah. So he has no interest in putting on fillain. Why would I put on fillin? Ah, you're going to give me sushi. Okay, I'll put on filling. You know, like uh kids in high school, whatever. They have incentive programs. You're going to learn a tough. It's going to be so amazing. You're going to get the trip to here. You get to go. Wow. Amazing. I'll do it. If you didn't give me the incentive, you don't have to do it. It's something that's unclear. It's like seeing something from very far. It's actually a person could say, "You know what? I'm going to put in the effort here because I'm going to get a in 120 years." It's amazing. Now, the Reb is going to go off and bring a little idea from a from aim showing how these this connects. Now, payment of rewarding someone is called how is a profit. in the right that we say after um so we say he comes in joy and he carries his his sheav talking about payment he goes and he's going and he's he's crying and he's sleing and he's carrying I had to look this word up I probably said it a thousand times I pa didn't know what mesh means mesh mean in this context he the article tites it as measure a mesh is a measure of his seeds of his plantings so basically painting the image of a person that's planting a field and when he's planting his field it's he's sitting there toiling and tilling and throwing and watering it's it's hard it's hard work and what do you see you see a barren field see nothing he knows you got to put in the effort you're going to reap the benefits and the same thing is with you're going to put in the effort now you're going to get in the end of the day. Now, what does that have to do with over here? It's the end. When you're going to get the when you put in the effort, you're going to get the it's the sees the but it's very distant. He doesn't want any future rewards. When he does a mitzvah, he's enjoying doing the will of he's so happy doing it. It sickens him. It disgusts him. If you'd say, "Here, you know, here's here's $100 for what you did." He's like, "Gh, what are you giving me money for what I did? You going to give me suicide?" Like, what if I'm doing it for you? I have tremendous enjoyment and love doing it for you, connecting to you. Why would it would it would disgust him? There's a famous um let me just finish the sentence that comes out that his is right here in the mitzvah. So he's not waiting for any he's right here. Let's just see a few lines more payment. It's it's illuminated. He's seeing it right here right now. He is in the right here. >> So it sounds like he still does like the but he he has it clearly in front of him. So that's >> it's a different >> So on one hand he's saying that he's bow but in that line he's saying that he sees it right in front of him. So it's not even my just right there. Therefore he's >> I hear he's saying that this car is just quicker. It's right here. Right. That's what it sounds. >> I I think I think it's a different um quality also meaning it's coming from a different spot. That's what I was going to say. The story from the Bent of It's not a story. It's a it's a um a Mishna Mishna. I think it's the second Mishna, third Mishna, something like that. It says that you should try to serve the master. So, you should try to serve him. There's another. It's not the one that we have in our thing, but if you look in the Mishna, it's on the side there, another gear. So, the vent grabbed onto that and he gave the marshall of we'll say it like the way the vent, but you can add in um Donald Trump or any famous person in the world nowadays. He says the king finally this sweet little simpleton gets the chance to meet the king and have one, you know, one minute with a request for the king. So when he finally gets there, he says, "King, uh, you know, I want X, Y, and Z." So one level is that the king says, "Ah, you want a new house and and and $150,000 is a pocket change. Seems like a reasonable request. You seem like a great guy. Here it is." Fine. So he gets his. The other level is that the person comes and the only thing he wants is the king. He's asking the request cuz he has the minute to request from the king. But what does he really want the king to say? He wants the king to say, "Hm." Ah, you want that? No. I don't think that that's not what I want from you and me. You know what? Come back every day and we're going to sit down. I want you I want you to be inside my circle. I want to talk with you every day. I see you're an intelligent, authentic person. I want you to be right here with me every day. Half hour. We're going to spend we're going to smoo and take a stroll in the garden together. Ah, okay. That's something that I want. So, the Bent says that there's one level that you should serve Hashem. I don't want Oh, if it comes like amazing. I got $100,000. I'm so thankful. Thank you. Not doing it for that, but if it comes, great. Other level is I don't want any I don't want any numbers like that's why he says pr is like um like a slice of bread. It's just a little piece. I don't want peace. I want you. I want the whole thing. I want Hashem. So that's I think the difference over here that the mitzvah or it mean getting from obviously there are mitzvah that you get a gishmak from eating chlant is like it's a mitzvah there is like you know putting on and you do it every morning you're tired necessarily you get aar from the mitzvah it's a mitzvah to tie your hands I don't know but if all you want is hashem so then when you're tying yourself you're just you're just binding yourself to hashem so that's the itself that you're that's that's right here. And so it's not just like you're getting a later versus a earlier. It's a totally different there. It's just like I want something from you. It's transactional. It's like listen, I'm going to give you today and give me you know like people make those deals. I'm going to do you give me parasa. But it's like I don't I don't want parasa. I don't want fillain. I just want you Hashem. The alterb used to say that I don't want your angels. I don't want your mahaba. I don't want your I just want you Hashem. Just you. So that's what he's saying. >> I think it's to reach to come to a level where we feel really love with Hashem. It's like when we love someone, right? And that guy will ask us for a favor and then like he's going to offer us money, right? Right. >> We're not going to want to take it from >> such a mad to love like that in a way. >> Right. Right. >> The question is how how can we really get to that level? >> Right. Right. That that's what I was saying before that is you know sadik and you see them they're just like ah they're so in ecstasy just doing a mid care about the >> it's like they feel they really feel the love >> right? It's like who's talking of the earth scar. It's like >> right that famous story of the balm on the the night of Pes in Istanbul when he was trying to get to Israel and and he all of a sudden he went into devas and he was like turning white and then he came back and he started singing and dancing and they said like what happened? So he said I went up and they told me that because of what I just did you know some miracle lost all all my mahaba. So in the beginning I was just lost all my other mahaba and then all of a sudden I realized no I don't have any reason to serve hashem just for hashem to start to dance and then then the from kachim you know the angels are like now he's going to serve you with no give to him back give him all the scars like I got back those I'm also still happy you know so but yeah but it's a da of of love right so that's the the nakuda right I remember my wife was in a shear a bunch of years back and the revitson was and American Israeli and she was giving it to American girls in Israel and she goes you Americans like everything is about like oh my gosh you help me out with my kid here's here's $50 here's I'm going to give you a bouquet of flowers it's like in Israel we don't don't want that we help you we love you like don't pay me back for my love that I gave to you like why do we need to pay me like we're we're together we're yum yala you know so it's a it's a it's a cultural thing but that's that's the that's the you have to get to that dar of love it's like what you Good. That's the, you know, avoid to work on. >> What's the >> What's the secret? >> What's the secret to get there? >> Yeah, we're going to learn the Torah. Maybe we'll glean some secrets. So far, I don't I didn't think of it in that context, but we'll we'll we'll work on it together. Let's see where he goes from here. So, but that's the nudes, right? To to come to that level of love that you just you're happy just doing his will. So that's the two das and that's the he says how you going to tell but you didn't explain that yet because how do I know what what does that have to do with anything? So he's going to go with I think we're at the end of over here. This is where Freed was here last week. He mentioned he touched on this Because the structure and the the construct of the world is mitzvah. It gives the whole framework of the whole world. This is the human structure, the the uh space and time, right? We're the human being. We're our consciousness and space and time. So he says everything, all of this reality that we live in just draws from the all of his actions, all of the all of the world is based in rooted in all of my are. So if you put those two together comes out that the physical reality of the world is based on the is a total of unity with his. So when is his misa meaning the mitzvah as they reflect in this world are straight when they're put in order is super happy with the physical reality of the world which is the mitzvah. A person that makes something he makes a beautiful table, a beautiful chair. It's beautiful. He sits there looking at it, touching it, feeling it. Ah, what a gorgeous clay that I made. So made a beautiful world and the world structure is based around on the mitzvah. mitzvah is that which internally gives it um and Hashem when things are going well, he has this joy within the mitzvah, within the world um coming from the the beauty of things working out of going the way it's supposed to. It's all basically one unified piece. Someone who does the mitzvah with pure like we said before this person is doing the mitzvah just for Hashem. Hashem in the world has the mitzvah and in the world that's how he reflects his joy with the mitzvah. So a person the us all that we do a mitzvah with joy just for Hashem when he feels that joy he's feeling Hashem's in the world that's when things are going when there's something going wrong when there's a when there's pain going on in this structure now so this defle this reflects a lack that we see that himself has these obviously anthropomorphisms these you know ways that we describe of being sad of being depressed there's a there's a kill there's a sadness there so this person that's going to the mitzvah and all he wants is the joy of Hashem he's so connected to the joy of hem and to the reality of hem that he'll feel if Hashem is there or not cuz Hashem is in the mitzvah also and when things are going well he's pulsating joy in the mitzvah this person's going into the mitzvah now it's like entering into the of Hashem and feeling the pulse of Hashem's heart and I'll feel ah it's pulsing it's going well it's joy Hashem is joyous there's no he feels that there's something ah there's like like a depression in the mitzvah not from us like when we do a mitzah like I'm just sad no he's like always so connected He'll feel that he'll recognize this is depression in Hashem. Hashem is sad some reason. Some reason we don't know why something's going wrong over here with our relationship. So that's he's going to be able to see what happened, what's going on. He's even going to be able to pinpoint what where this is coming from. If he can't do a when he does a let's say he puts it on and as he's putting on he feels a there's something that's against um on let's say the beginning of the year or the the peak of the world or the peak of the something like the the highest init feels in the foot. It's something in the end of the year. Whatever it is, we should begin the week on Sunday already thinking about Shabas, right? You buy things, buy some flowers. Have another plug here. So, you have to get the going for Shabas. Whatever each day of the week, you have to go and prepare for Shabb Sunday. >> Yeah. If you have flowers that could last from Sunday to shabas, you should start selling on [laughter] Sunday. Usually it's like around 25 seconds before. We didn't do the flowers. Ah, cotton flower. I know we have flowers. It shouldn't be like this. It's supposed to be like that. But it's nice anyways. Okay. Yeah. So, you're supposed to start preparing on on Sunday. I'm sure you if you're in the flower business, you're already thinking about it on Sunday for sure. I have another guy that makes delicious sourdough here. Ah, and he's said he, you know, he's making the starters on Monday and he's hundling with it already the whole week. Yeah. Once a week, we're hundling in Shabas. The joy of Shabas is the is the uh is the goal. It's the end line, the end zone. We're trying to get to Shabas. You already feel it in Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday in the in the meaning the mitzvah that the whole world was created. The whole time, space and consciousness was created using the using the mitzvah through the mitzvah through this in in um imploring us to try to get to this place of having the joy from the mitzvah itself. You shouldn't have to wait till the shamish comes. Wait till Shabas comes. You should already now in the mitzvah in the week start to bring the shabas already here. You don't have to wait till the person we shouldn't have to wait till we die after 120 years. But we shouldn't have to wait that long to get the the joy of mitzvah. I remember uh speaking uh we were in the base medish a bunch of years ago and there was some guys there were 18 years old a whole bunch of interesting guys and there were some guys there were just like hanging out wasting time just like you know like let's just get through a year or two in yeshiva and then we'll move on in life and I remember looking to the guy I wasn't this big learner or anything I was just starting out my journey but I looked at him and I go like is this what you want to do for the next 80 years you want to like basically space out and mumble for for domining for an an hour a day and then you want to just sit around bottling for the next 3 years until you can get out of it and then all you have to do is bottle for for the hour share that you have to go through and like this is what you want to do this is what you want to spend 80 years doing like just mumbling and bottling it's like I was like if you're going to do it anyways cuz I see you're a good guy you want to stay religious so just fill it open up something that'll inspire fela get going find something that that inspires your learning find a learning that inspires you that you connect with that you're not just Okay, I'll learn the gamar. Okay, there's question the answer. Find something that lights your fire. You're going to do it anyways. If you're going to go off to Thailand, okay, I understand. Like, go off to Thailand, do your thing, have your fun time, and see if you come back. But if you're going to be one of these guys that's sitting here for next 80 years, just make it worthwhile. And it's for all of us. If we're sitting here, we're doing the mitzvah and we're coming to Davening. So, help us. You know, we have to work on ourselves like we were saying, what's what's going to be like what's going to what's going to get us to this place? So it goes back to the first year. Try to find the Tyra that's going to inspire you. Try to find something that inspires you. Try to make it real inside your heart. That's why we said last week that this is a connection of that speaks about like so much about connecting to why because he says you know you have you have you have the on the he said that each person should make a out of all the you learn you learn today come back. How can I keep this? How can I do this? Right? That's what the Aram the son of the Rambam he says that that's what the Yan did for 40 years in the desert. That's all they did. They would hear like one or two or from and it would go through a whole list how they heard it a few times and then he says they would go out into the desert and they would just speak to Hashem about the mitzvah. What what does this mitzvah mean? How do I do it? I don't know exactly where I remember years ago like hearing about it says that and they would go out and they would just >> I don't know if he uses this they would just speak to Hashem and they would just speak and speak and speak what does it mean how do I keep it what does it mean to me how what what does it apply to me what it what does it matter to me you know like who cares to fill in a few months ago I was like each week I should try to think of something interesting a question that I have on fill in and think of answers to the filling. So it'll inspire me to fill like one I was just like why is it black like everything black black you know like so morbid like filling has to be so dark like white filling would be so pretty and beautiful you know fill in this or so yeah I came up with some shots of his things you know but like whatever you do that's that's what they would do in the desert and that's how they would do it struck me also a bunch of years back that that's maybe a shot in Gar says right they these certain they would spend an hour before davening every is an hour getting readyed then they would spend an hour the garra says and then an hour afterwards debriefing coming back so it's like the garra says that's n hours a day of when would they work how they make money so it says they they whatever work they did was misbar and it says how' they learn says whatever learning they did they never forgot So you could learn it up. The shot that I always understood stam is that a guy divins nine hours a day. He better be, you know, hashem better hook him up. Hashem you got memory. It's perfect. Never going to forget a thing. So that's you know that's kind of the you know transactional like I gave you nine hours of my day to Hashem and I only have two hours to learn though. You better make those that two hours really worthwhile. Or you learn it up that imagine you learned one in the moran and you spent three hours in davening about that you're probably not going to forget that very quickly [laughter] and fraud if you spent nine hours in one day. So all you have to do is take every every every that you learn and make it into and like we said last week that that's the nikuda is to find the things that inspire you to find the things that light your fire deting and in in in learning and everything and then to bring it into your life bring it into your life through gives us the gift that even if we don't have this to do this every single day for an hour or for 9 hours or for 5 minutes or for 2 minutes whatever we do let's say we dive instrument we could try to find a place like we said last week try to find a place I find that this is one of the most powerful ways of doing this try to find a relationship that you could find between the tire that you're learning whatever it is and a word in tavi it could be a word in ashri it could be a word in that word you just stop and spend five to 10 seconds thinking about it if you want according to some you could even speak about it like the rebas would always speak from but whatever you want to and just just use it as a as a platform to say, "Oh, this is an amazing Torah. I have it now. Hashem, please help me keep it. I know I struggle with this part of it. So, Hashem, please help me to get over it and to to work on it. Maybe if I do like this and then the is illuminated and it comes into comes into your private life into your where where you're going to make it real and then if you have those those things maybe maybe we're getting on to an answer of how we get to this level of serving with the mitzvah in the of just that Hashem's is in the mitzvah the reality of everything is within the mitzvah and we get that joy from the mitzvah because once you start doing these things you recognize and you realize that the scar of what you're getting has nothing to do with pizza and with sushi and with people's recognition or anything. It's just that you found something beautiful and you brought it inside into the deepest recesses of your heart and into your life and it changed you. Ah, Hashem, wow. And it changed you to recognize that Hashem is within you was in you. Hashem is doing this whole thing, bringing this whole thing. And so anytime we feel that it's a tremendous level of and that hopefully will bring us to that of that we get just from being there with the mitzvah with and then we'll be able to also a little bit taste this idea of whether is happy in the mitzvah at this moment or if he's not and where the might be and we'll be able to see the and then next week we'll see what to do with that like how does that how how do we take uh how do we go from here. >> How did I respond to you? You didn't even mention that part. >> Which part? Which the story? >> M to He said, "If you're going to do it, you might as well do it." >> Oh, he he laughed and kept doing it. [laughter] >> He's like, >> "No, he just laughed and just like kept kept up doing his thing." >> Not doing. >> Yeah. Good to see you. >> He'll he'll edit it. I'll deal with it afterwards. >> Where are we connecting? >> What do you mean? >> Got to connect it. Every piece you got to get so quick. >> Yeah. So, you put tape around it. That's smart. >> I was spray. Yeah.