Likutei Moharan Shiur by Rabbi Yoeli Klein Torah 3 at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim

Okay, we're starting we're starting a new toyra. We're starting a toy gimmel, famously known as a krua, as we're going to see, which is a frog. So, it's yeah, it's known as the smaller of the frog, but it has has a lot of stuff in it. Sometimes people say that it's uh breast has probably one of the most misconceptions of every that you could just twist and distort everything. So this would be the Torah that you'd say, "Oh, you can listen to Gish music and it's okay." So that's that's the twisting the story. We'll get the distortion out of the way right away. And now we'll get to what the Reb actually says. So this actually starts off with and then he goes on to explain it a little bit later, but it's a short story. These are again these wild stories inabasiml. So what he has is he has all these stories. This story appeared to so now we're going to go to the rashbam. We're going to learn it back and forth. The rashbam is is his pir is spun into the whole explanation of the as you're going to see. The rash explains what's a strange word. It's a frog was a city and it was explains. It was as big as that city. How large was a was this place of it was 60 60 houses. Now the rash says the the Talmud said this word. You see how all these words play out in the um and a serpent a huge fish whatever it is came and swallowed this this um this frogina. Now a pusha the theatina pusha says is a female raven and it swallowed this humongous um frog this humongous fish or or serpent that swallowed the humongous frog that swallowed all this basically 60 houses a bird was a raven a bird type of bird. or slick and now this bird who must have been the size of like half a forch sat down on a tree and he was hanging out on this tree. So finishes see how huge and strong this tree must have been to hold a bird that swallowed a serpent that swallowed a a a frog that swallowed 60 houses. What in the world is going on? Let's see in Russia he who hears song from a Russia a singer that's a Russian this makes serving difficult for him when you hear a song from a really guy. So then it's easier. It just goes smoothly to to serve Hashem. So first of all, the toy is all about this. This is the the next whole thing is about song. So what is song in general? Aena is obviously a very beautiful, very powerful thing. Song everyone knows. But what is it really? It's really communication, right? We're going to see soon that the Rebes and connects the ideas of of song to Nva. that it's basically a form of communication, but it's a form of communication that doesn't say, "Hey, go do this or I want you to do that or this is what's happening." It's a form of communication that doesn't go into your mind and tell you details. It goes straight and passes your mind. Goes straight into your heart and your heart gets moved. You're like, "Ah, you don't know what chabas is." You have guys that come to the first time to a chabas table. They don't know what chabas is. They don't know this guy. They're inspired. songs like just move them and sometimes you find yourself in a terrible mood and you listen to a gishmaka niggan and it like uplifts you. What do you do? Like okay like what is it? It's communication. There's communication. There's there's ideas and words that are going in but it it's not a conscious thought processing type of a communication. It's a one that goes straight into the heart straight to the emotions but it is a form of commission. It's the sort of to speak a language of the heart. It speaks straight to the heart. So now the rabbi starts off and he says so it sounds like all all the terrors in the this is what I I've learned many many times from my they all apply to us you can always say that applies to that guy that guy's listening to music he really needs this I don't listen to music I only listen to music I listen to the best music he says Nagginina Russia. Every one of us are this Misha. We all hear Nagginina from Managen Russia. We have sometimes it's intentional if a kid or a guy is wanting to just splice it in afterwards. All right, we'll see. So, the the idea is that we all end up hearing Neina from who knows what and from from who knows where. Doesn't matter who you are, where you are, you're gonna end up hearing stuff from other sources from Russian. Remember there was uh a few years back this start like officially or no? We started we started like 3 minutes ago. You want me to start again? I could give a quick recap and start again. Yeah. Yeah. I'll I'll carry on though. Um yeah. Okay. So the um what story story? No one forgets a story. It was must have been like 10 years ago. We were going to Oman and we landed in Kiev. In those days we thought that it was a big trip to go from Kiev to Oman. Nowadays we we praise Hashem if we're able to go to Kiev to Oman. Such a joke. But um so we were it was like 2:00 in the morning and these taxi drivers they go back and forth back and forth. They don't sleep for like days cuz they're parnas for the entire year. The kids are so we get into a taxi and as we're going it was three random guys me some random rest and you know long pace and and some guy. What phone is his iPhone or iPhone? Yeah it's a lightning. Okay then. Awesome. You think it's picking up? Yeah. Okay. So, good. All right. We'll see you at the end. Um, so this guy, this and then the third guy or the fourth guy, there was another guy and then the fourth guy sat in the front was this like seemingly not religious Israeli. So, we're driving and we're having a good time. We're all snoozing. We're all trying to get to know each other. The taxi driver we noticed after like 20 minutes is just like like mom is falling asleep. Not like dozing like falling asleep at the wheel. So we start talking to him and start pushing him and he doesn't know a word of English. Yes. No. He doesn't know anything. We're like what in the world? So we start like just screaming at him and like singing out. We were just trying to do anything to keep him up. And then this guy in the front seat starts talking to the guy in Ukrainian Ukrainian. And he's like talking nothing tremendous but he's speaking to the guy. So we're like wow. like how do you know Ukrainian? So he says he says my friend that I was going out with for many years, we broke up but she was Ukrainian. For 5 years I was speaking half Ukrainian half the time. So I know here and there. So he was like making at a certain point the guy like didn't want to talk anymore. So he just blasted this horrifying Ukrainian music. You know the worst of the monogen Russia. That's the epitome of Managan Russia. Whatever that was Managan Russia. So you go to an Uber, you go into a Target, you go anywhere soul or a single. Ah, so that's the that's the good deal. So it sounds like the Reba is saying is in Russia. It doesn't make it different what the niggan is. We're going to see maybe that that makes a lot of sense in what he's saying. Doesn't make it different what the niggan is. The niggan could be if the guy is a Russia. This is not going to lead to goodness in this. And the niggan could be, you know, from a guy, but it's like, you know, like jazz and reggae beat. That's awesome. Amazing because he's so going on. So we'll see how the Reb develops this now to see what to do about this. So I think all of us, we all hear from one way or another and it's going to damage our so we're going to see what he says. So just as a preface to the it's going to get very soon pre- cababalistic and if you open up the black book and try to get the pirish of this in from the from many of the stuff they're going to go deep into and how is feeding off of yan from the I'm not going to touch any of that s because I don't know it and also because I feel like if you learn it on a much more simplistic level you can gain a lot of lessons and understand a lot from the text. So we're going to go on that very simplistic level says the song come from birds the birds have to bring two pure birds kosher birds famous line from the from the from the medus the the chirper the birds should go and be and this chirper the I was speaking. So first of all, why do we why do we say this? I was bothering me a few weeks ago. Um you know, we were discussing these par why why are we shing a bird to do that? So some people offered the suggestion that we're bringing something that we wish we were. You hear it's they have to be pure, perfect, kosher birds. So we're saying that Hashem, I use my power of speech of chirping for the bad. Hashem, I want to be good. This is what I can do. This is where I want to be. So I bring these two zya says that these two birds this chirping comes and nourishes its their their its power so to speak from the same place where nourish their their their energies from. So this is very interesting. Never. No one's ever thinks about this. Really? Why in the world do we call the guy that's going up to the to the Beimma the Oh, you want to be the Yeah, I'll be the you should be the manag or the leader. So he says because from sight, right? I know to see from were the ones that got sight so to speak. They saw things from Hashem. So he says that the draw the the uh birds draw from the place where the draw from. They nourish from the same place. What does that mean? What is what is a na'vi? A na'vi is someone that says the word of God. Okay. Hashem spoke to him and he speaks. But over here the the nim everyone has the word of God. We all experience Hashem. Hashem is talking to us all the time. But there's a lot of blockages, a lot of confusion, a lot of uh things that are going to cloud our judgment. We're not going to hear the word of Hashem clearly. The VM are people that take away all those blockages, take away all of their take away everything, all their tus, and then they just they just hear Hashem's word. But that's not enough. That's not what they are. They're not just sears. They speak from they create the utterances of my lips that we speak is the opposite. said if a Na'vi doesn't say his nas he gets is you see you hear but then you have to speak you have to give it it's Hashem you're acting as a channel for Hashem's communication in this world so now that makes a lot of sense you said before that nagina is communication nginina drew us from the exact same place as nva and it's very very connected because we said that nva is something I mean we said that nagina is something that just goes straight and it it's very powerful nva nas was also very powerful nav would come and say I heard the word of hashem you better listen. Okay, there's always people that didn't listen. There's always issues. But the idea is that it's a very powerful form of communication. So he's saying that it's drawing from the same idea of drawing down communication and channeling it into the world. That's why it's called. So now it gets back to the Russia. So now when this singer is a Russia, this Russia draws his from other birds. Birds of kipa. So kipa is one of those classic awesome cababalistic words that everyone will use. The kipus the kipus the kipus cut their nails. Everything is kipus kipas. But kipa is literally translated as a shell. Kipa is not even bad. It's just a protection. Everything needs to be protected. You wear clothing because you want to protect your body. If it's cold outside, you put on a coat. It's a kipa. It's a shell. Now, obviously, if you become your coat, so that's terrible. You're not a coat and you're not your clothes either. You're something inside. And even your skin and even all that is something deeper. You're you're a nama. So, the kipa is just a shell. But if and when we just take it as a shell, so then it's taka. It's nothing like you have an apple. You have the peel. So, an apple peel is beautiful. It's protecting the apple. If you just take an apple peel and you just, you know, peel it off and worship the apple peel, obviously you're going to mess up and you're going to just be foolish. The point is to get to the pre to get into the whole of everything. So over here he's saying is that the neg of these are drawing from are drawing from the shells. So to explain that a little bit more I think is that the um the this is where I think it answers the question that we were speaking about before that I would say if I were teaching this to thank God I'm not I would say that when you listen to bad go style music it's bad but when you listen to good Jewish style music it's good is not saying that he's saying that when you listen to music it doesn't make any difference what it is from a Russia it's bad from a sadic from a kasher it's good so what's shot is that what is Russia Russia is obviously someone that's going against a karoku but if you just want to write him off like that you can write him off or he's someone that's just caught up in the kipa he can't see past the kipa all he sees is these shells so his whole world is shells people are shells tyus are shells everything is shells food is shells money everything is It's a shell. Now inside the shell is give money is you know everything has tons of alus but the are guys that don't they're not interested in it like we saw in olive and they don't ever even pursue that place of going deeper than the sha and so therefore they end up worshiping the shell. They end up ah the shell. So now you have a guy of Russia and he's trying to make music. Now he said that music comes from a place of neuse. It comes from like a very connected place. He is connected to Kipa. What does that mean? He's connected to the externals of everything. To him, when he sees a beautiful house, he could start singing about the house and how beautiful it is, how the shingles and how everything. And start thinking about well women and about money and how money is so awesome and amazing and makes me feel so powerful. You know, the rappers and I got power and I got this and who and they're like, well, why? Because they're drawing a taka, a very powerful energy from what? From kipa. They just worshiping the shell. They're just seeing the shell and they're channeling their music at the shell. So now it could be a very holy song. Could be like the most beautiful complex composition. You know, sometimes listen to classical music and it's [Music] tak. But then you know that the Nazis were sitting there playing it when they were killing Jews because they felt energy from that. Some of the place people play place the people that wrote it were horrible and despicable human beings. So even though the music is classic and incredible and textured and everything but what they were communicating from where they were drawing from was kipa was just all the things of this world and that's what they were worshiping and that's what they were drawing in their communication that goes straight into our heart. So now all of a sudden we're hearing these music coming from these people. So it doesn't make any difference what the music sounds like. their mom is drawing almost nus which we say is really communication but it's communication of song that goes straight into the heart so we don't even hear the words and we'd hear the words we like oh my gosh is this guy serious he's rap and he's going to kill that guy cuz he killed him you know like they go crazy about all this crazy stuff my ears instead we hear like a guy going yeah it's so beautiful or even he's just singing la but he's a Russian he's drawing from the worst worst worst places he's drawing from just not even worse. He's driving from the shell, the externals of everything. He's bringing it into our hearts and saying this is what you want. This is what you need. This is all there is. Shells, externals. Look at that beautiful person. That's all you want. That's all you need. You know, that's the problem. And that's where we get messed up. I do like or I don't think it makes I would think like when I talk to you I send your energies through my my it does obviously live like a live shear there's nothing like it you know for all the YouTube people you know it's beautiful it's amazing everyone should watch it but it there's nothing like a live share but live music is much more powerful but the music itself the nigun holds within it the communication it's basically like the same thing like a speech and when you look at a speech you hear the speech it goes in it has an effect if you were alive it would be much more but definitely has an effect and so recorded music I think has a powerful effect because it's a it's a communication that goes straight into the heart and so this managa is going to be communicating terrible things and it's gonna be going straight into our hearts. So now let's see a little bit. So he's going to bring in he's saying that they they they nurse they nourish from the chest of the says when it comes night and all of a sudden really is half then there's a man is is trapped there's a that when night comes all of a sudden the is like yes I got that nighttime darkness let's let's get that so over here also he's saying that malus is is a idea of the masia. It's the world that tak is very dark. It it has a lot of confusion in it. So over there though it's heart comes and says when I get the hidden in darkness then give I got them. Now they're going to just think that darkness is all there is and the shells and the externals of everything is all there is and they're going to start worshiping me and start worshiping the the the shells. So he says over here that's what happens at night. That's what they're nourishing from. Mafus of he's going to say later on like a a skewed mafus, a messed up mus that's covering over things. Now he's going to get to the How do you fix this? Like we said before, every whether he's unless maybe I don't know that never ever will pass by a passing bus and hear a negan from an in Russia. That's a unique thing. But every person is usually subjugated sometime somewhere to to bad people's music. And how do you fix it? Says, "How can you talk here from everyone?" And still it should not affect you. You should learn at night. Sounds like a nice relish to sit and learn. Sid learn everything was going to be all right. They're not going to give that other part that you can listen to music. But the the idea is he's saying that not to listen to it. But everyone that does hear it this is the taken for it. Learn specifically at night. Why [Music] gar night is is a reflective of night time was receiving the he didn't eat or drink for 40 days. sleep. He was upstairs receiving the Torah for 40 days and 40 nights. He didn't know when was day, when was night. When he was learning and stuff, he knew it was day when he was taught. He knew it was night time, like it says in the in the says this darkness. So he's connecting darkness and night to so he's saying that just a couple of seconds ago he said that when you get caught in this p of bad of music from a bad person from a Russia it's a of nighttime it's a of night time of of darkness of covering over and how do you get out of it now is through the tik of night which is to learn gamarra at night which which a lot of people are doing right now So what is the what is the just to to to speak about this a little bit. What is the idea of the the idea of obviously is the written to and before it was written was not like that. It was an oral tradition. It was passed down word word you know mouth to mouth that was oral. So over here when you have being that it was written down there's a beauty to it. It's clear. You open it up. It's like there's no two ways about it. Okay. What's you have to have in order to explain the many times but it's clear. It's words. You can see it. Was a totally different Indian. It was an Indian of darkness. It was an Indian of nighttime of like we didn't see the words. It was like a conversation. That's why it's called P is speaking out. And I think if you want to just reflect that back to panas to to understand the T a little more he's saying that it might even be the difference between and were they were when they spoke it was words. So words have a clarity to it and it's a beauty to it. It's amazing and hopefully we listen to the Nim's words and it and it led us in good places. But then there was negina. Nagginina wasn't words. Nagginina is communication, but it goes straight into the heart. And the same thing with it was a more of a of a darkness like we're saying more of a darkness of a place where you have to you have to work a little bit to get it. And once you get it, it goes deep deep into the heart and it takes work of speaking a lot. That was the why why it wasn't written down. I mean obviously there's reasons but it was also it was it's just much more large and if you reflect it now in today's day and age there's still as much as everything's written down and they have the arts girl on now. So then the next thing is not known and when you go to a they still coming up with tons of and tons of everything there's more there's more is endless is endless because it's the lifeline of the that we're living right now. So we hear also the Reb is saying that is this is this thing that fixes it. It's that when we start to open ourselves up and and kind of pour out our own song and speak to and say Hashem what's going on and I take a lot of words to get out our own or when we start to find that then it's counterintuitive but it's like when we start to speak to Hashem and bring out our words then we find our own niggan. We find the song in ourselves that's like oh yeah this is who I am. This is what I am. This is what's going on inside. And we come to to the pre. We come to notice that not everything is just, oh, you see a beautiful house, you think beautiful house, beautiful wife, beautiful children. Everything's perfect in that house. You don't see the insides. Same thing with your own self. I'm a good guy. And with Taka, we are a good guy. We have a lot to to be amazing from, amazed from. But then when we dig a little deeper, we find that there's so much more inside of us that we can work on and that we can build that it's amazing. So that's the idea of that fixes this managen Russia because the manag rusher again all he's singing about and singing from is the is the coverings and now when you get to you're you're uncovering everything you're revealing everything and that you're revealing in the night the light of Hashem this is what the Reb [Music] continues great famous song from from the breast lovers that song should rise up. She said that is the night time lifts up the song. Now the Reb kind of switches gears. Middle of paragraph, middle of everything. He says when a guy is learning Tory in general and he explains what does mean? It means that he wants to be a Rebi. He wants to be called a Rebi. He wants to be a guy. That's why he's learning. So the Lima every word of the Reb is unbelievable. is it's good like we are taught in the text just learned you want to be a you want to be a rebi you know what keep doing mitzvah beautiful you want to be win the raffle keep doing mitzvah what else are you going to do don't do mitzvah you know do a and then and then you're going to cut the so just use all the wrong reasons obviously one of the over there says that if your only ends is just to be like no never close to Hashem. So then taka it's not a good thing. He says if you recognize that you want to come close to Hashem but I'm not really interested in learning. Oh learning is the way to get there but I I don't want to learn. Okay so I want to be a or win the raft or whatever. So you use that it's a great thing. He says it's not interesting to note that he says I think you can make a dick from there. He's not saying that a guy that's learning is a guy that wants to be a Rebi. That's actually a good thing to be a Rebi, but he wants to be called a Rebi. He wants to have the name of a Rebi. He wants to be the Reb like in the pictures and like with the and the people that are pushing people away and the kissing his hand and getting money and he wants to be called a Reb. Does he want to be a Reb? No, he doesn't want to be a Reb. He doesn't want to deal with all the garbage and deal with all the people's problems and never sleep and then have issues all over the place. No, he wants all the good stuff. He just wants the name of a reb. A lot of times we're a lot of these things we we don't actually want to sing. We just want to be called I want to be called I'm a good I'm a good I want to be called. Are you really are you doing anything to be I don't I don't want to do that. I just want to be called it. So that's and that causes all sorts of things as the next words of the Reb. We'll see in a couple of seconds. He says over here when you learn at night where he's saying from also a different a thread of is drawn upon him protects him. Listen to the next word that such thoughts should not damage him. So here you have the idea that when the guy's learning so it's not good and what happens what's the not good part of it it's not so good says it's good because he's learning to it's not so good and part of the not so good that he wants to be whatever he wants to be that he's trying to get a from you know just a a position or a name or a title is that it damages him. the thoughts are always sitting there thinking, "Wait a minute. I just I just want to be like called a Reb. I just want to get like covered. I don't want to sit and work hard here." Every time he sits and learns and it's hard, he's like, "Oh gosh, do I have to do this to get a to become a Reba? Do I have to do this to become I just want the good. I don't want to work hard." So those thoughts are constantly assailing him and damaging him and and it's making the whole thing harder. He wants to learn to become a Reb. And then every time he learns that it's difficult. He's like, "What is this? It's not supposed to be difficult. It's supposed to be easy and I'm supposed to get tons of people following me. What is this?" He says, "No." See, now that's what happens. That's what the damaging thoughts of of are. But he says over here, if you learn to of night, so all of a sudden you have a protection from this. All of a sudden, this power of at night spreads over him and it protects him that those thoughts don't come anymore. It's almost like he gets a reprieve all of a sudden he's learning and he's just ah even he's learning even he's learning normally at night if he's learning it won't bother him as much it won't the thoughts won't get into his head and everything he'll just be like ah learning ah he'll just enjoy it he'll just get a from it what you all want that is the is the um is the is the gamar at night it's Now he's going to get a little cabalistic, but let's just get up to the rabbi. So we start from the hopefully next week. It's very that these these birds these really these that draw music are drawing from so to speak the world its coverings and its thoughts so to speak. like we said that he's drawing powerful feelings in his music but from what just from people that are thinking about sheer and sheer meaning the surface of everything you know like the scrolling through the statuses and seeing the guy and his family and everyone's perfect but he's like ah wish I had that family and that wife and that everything oh so that's that's exactly when a guy sings about that and you hear a song like that oh everything's so beautiful and amazing that gets into you that's from all these These ideas of it builds holy recognition that everything inside of it is Hashem and therefore the kingship is of Hashem was called was praised as the he who knows how to sing builds mouth. Either it builds it in an evil way or it builds it in a good way. He was ready to get the kingship. Is nursing sheep from behind nursing sheep. They brought him from behind the nourishing the the nursing which is that which is which the draw and they build the world is the world in a way that it fills the world with the god with godly light with the internal penius of everything just to give it in a more palpable way. Um, now we're in the spirit could mean I think we even mentioned this in the months is to win. Like I said of fighting that you never win like it says he who's holding the sword of of the he wins. Meaning you're holding the sword. Why would you be the one that win? One that wins usually puts down his weapons and celebrates. No, if you're still holding the sword, you're still in the fight. That's called winning in the there is no winning. As long as you're as long as you're alive, if you're fighting, you're winning because that's the only winning there is. So this is the idea of of always fighting. Is the idea of praising and recognizing also it's idea of obviously is as the fifth sphere as is the also trying to find the beauty and the the goodness in every single person which is going to tie in with a paragraph later on. over here what he's saying is is that the and the kings draw from these kas of strongly always fighting to recognize that to recognize that is good and that everything inside has in it. If and when you draw your music like David did from those places, then you're right to be the mel. Why? Because you're the one that's drawing the communication of Hashem. Like we spoke out in that everything is just really a communication of Hashem. It's just that it has a shell and it has a inner communication. So the nim are able to draw take away the shell that the are singing about the shell and they're able to sing about from the underneath from the pies of it and there they're able to bring people back to