Likutei Moharan Shiur Torah Beis Part 3 by Rabbi Yoeli Klein at Scheiner's Shul

[Music] Okay, we got up to the rabbakana which is at the end of the uh towards the end of days in the kutamaran but obviously it's good to always bring especially we had a twoe break to bring ourselves back in to the flow of things and in general it was funny I was just uh yesterday we've had rain for like three days in a row I I went to yeshiva and I came in with my umbrella and I threw my umbrella down in the in the area that I usually put my stuff and then when I was going out there's two separate entrances from two sides of the building and it stopped raining and I was about to go out the other entrance and I was like you know what I should go out the the one that I came in you know I was thinking about a mabino that he you know he he went to the same hotels that he went to on the way there and went back so I went there and all of a sudden I realized oh my umbrella I would have totally forgotten it. So the VA I think that I learned from that was that a lot of times when you go back the same hotels okay it's a try to do the same thing they did but the VA is something you learn about and when you things one of the biggest in is that you you burn it into your heart right there's never nothing's ever going to go down into your heart with just like hearing aart or something you have to burn it into your heart again and again and again again But also you end up finding all sorts of things that you forgot or that you lost. So every time you go through a Tyra all of a sudden you you the nuance of this a word from here a word from there all of a sudden you bring you you get tremendously new things and it's amazing. So just to get into the flow of things. So the reb started off and we're speaking about the weapons of Msiah is going to be the sword he calls it that's going to win the battles of Msiah. Another place says that Msiah will he'll he'll capture the entire world without one shot fired. Nowadays we have all the nuclear threats and the red buttons and the said the whole is gonna happen in 16 minutes. How's it now? We understand because nuclear war but the says it's going to be without one shot without one thing. The Reb says another place that you can come to a a da that you can tell a gun not to shoot with and it just won't shoot. in for those that know what we're talking about that was depicted in the matrix but the idea is that is going to be the that brings Msiah and he says to get you have to have to be moral to have proper conduct in the matters of the brisk and to do that you have to have mish he says that you have to have sabris is like the sword but it's a double-edged sword is a double-edged sword that you have to praise hashem and you have to ask hashem for what you need. But in order to do that properly, you have to know how to wield it. Sometimes the guy's like, "No, just thank you, Hashem. Thank you, Hashem. Thank you, Hashem. What? What about you? What about you crying out? Well, that's nothing. No, thank you, Hashem." No. So, then the guy's like just crying and crafting all day. Hashem is no good. That's no good. What about you thinking of Hashem? So, you got to have Mishbah in order to know how to wield that sort of. And he says the way, one of the ways to get to that is through giving to Daka. So, the way we explained that that meant was to understand saddaka. The goddess of giving sudak is not just give sodaka. um the the the deeper element of sudak is to recognize that everything that you have is from a keshu and it's just there as a gift and therefore sudak is the ultimate um expression of that if it's done in the proper way like if I really recognize that what I have is just a gift that gave to my to my hands and I could open my calf and give to another yaka in a very very real way it says in the gimar that you You could give saddaka, but you barely get as much as when you give it and you smile to the guy and you give him like a nice nice feeling that like, "Oh, wow. I'm not just another slapper." You see it all the time. You you you see a guy, you just throw a dollar or tell him to go fly a kite. Or you could just even if you don't give the guy you could just smile and say it's the guy feels like a totally different person when you just say it's instead of or just ignore him like he doesn't exist. He's a person. He's a human who knows why he's collecting why he's collecting for you have 8,000 people collecting here in the morning. It's like you know a reb of mine once said he said for all those collectors that come during ding what do you mean I can't dash going to get up to sh I say why you ding say every 10 seconds there's a collector without them you're like why are you ding I was thinking about uh my bills my sports why you do you have nothing but we have collectors every couple of seconds bothering us ver is that when you come to hakara Ah, and you come to a deep recognition that what you have is not yours. We don't have it. And you'll see this theme running through the Torah even in the part that we're going to learn today. Then it's much obviously easier to give, but it's also a much more beautiful giving that is very genuine giving that you might give of yourself and your money in a very real way. And then by by having that balance, he says that when you own money, so to speak, and you decide to give it, you're exercising your mishb to give it. So you'll have the element of mishbat very strongly in your hand, you'll be able to wield the sword. So technically, if you look at it from a superficial standpoint, it looks very like, okay, it's a almost ziguli. It's a zigula. If you do mishbat, then you'll be able to dive in better. But if you look at it from this standpoint, then you you'll see that no, if you recognize that what is giving you is the most beautiful gifts that Hashem is giving you, then you'll be able to take that and then ask Hashem and say, "Oh, Hashem, you're giving me beautiful gifts. But now I want to give those gifts. I want to I want to be a good I want to know how to learn. I want to know how to dive. I want to know when to give, how to give. I want to do so much with these gifts that you're giving me. Hashem, please help me do it." So, you'll be able to have that that beautiful balance. Um and he says that the clouds that cover our mind sometimes in during ding comes from this and he says that uh what you have to do if you can pour me a fine. Ah fine. So what he says is that um that you have to keep your your tas connected to the saddic and we're going to see this theme coming back today to connect your tas to the which could be the just saying hashem I'm connecting myself to the sadik or it could be um the way that we understand it I think very much in brev is that it means to mish bind yourself to mish bind yourself to means that you're learning his and you're trying to go in his ways you're you're connected in a deeper way than just um you know lip service so to speak. Uh he then he he brought down a very interesting couple of seconds of of a words that I was and it just struck me very much. This is going back a little bit before the just two lines any that a person learns in order to keep it. He's not learning for intellectual pursuits. He's rather learning because he wants to actualize it. All the letters. They're sparks of souls and they get enclosed within and they get renewed like like as if like being held in a womb like now they're like a fresh new being that's being created and is going to give birth to something totally new. So it struck me last time we spoke about it a little bit but it struck me now like what are is the inner life force of what gives us life and are sparks of it. So when you learn to and he's talking about that's learning to he's not just learning Torah because it's a a nice thing. He's learning Torah because he wants to come closer to Hashem. Tyra is Hashem speaking to us. Hashem saying hey this is what I want from you and not just if you like you want me to do this, you want me to do that, why? Why should I do this? Why should I do that? No. Hashem is saying stop. It's not just I want you to do this. It's like, "Hi, I'm speaking to you. Me, the creator of the universe, the master sustainer of the universe is now talking to you." That's a connection. I want you to do something. So, you pop that and you're like, "Okay, that's what you're your mom is like connecting to me in a deepest way when you're talking to me through." So, that's a tremendous level. It's like, "Wow." You have to bring it into reminds me of something before we get started with the part that we're getting into. That's the problem with a lot of breast of shar ends up taking up the whole shar but uh I think it's valuable in and of itself like we said it brings in new things is a v that's brought down in the mus from Amsterdam who's one of the valley and it's sharpened in this idea through valley says the way of the mus movement to bring things from the brain into the heart was through something called spilus where they would onto a and then they would learn they would learn it and say it for hours and have stories of the you know I don't know and they would listen to him in his attic and he would just pace back and forth or whoever the mus people was just saying the same for like three hours till it like burns into hard and becomes part of you brings this down brings it down but he adds You should learn up the the kazal like a must learn it up very deeply but then before doing the aspirus of repeating it a thousand times should see how does it apply to me and I think this is what the reb is saying mish he's saying that you're learning tora tora has ideas has concepts has so many beautiful things that hashem is telling me yes do this do that do this wow guidance from hashem what a what a what what a gift then you have to take that and not just repeat it a thousand times which is valuable which is amazing. You have to take it and say before you repeat it a thousand times how does it apply to me? Where does this thing mean to me? How do how do I yes keep it not keep it? Does it where where does it really make a difference in my life? Then when you do that as a practical thing in your own heart like ohm this is something that I see in my life right over here that I don't do necessarily and now I'm going to repeat this a thousand times Hashem please help me do it that opens it up a lot and brings it to a much much deeper level of absorbing I think that's the idea of are sparks they're they're life forces but they're sparks when you learn sparks when it comes in those sparks that you're making something real within your own self and it becomes much much more in spark. So it starts to become something that pregnant impregnated within you that could come out to something that changes your life. So now we're up to the rabbana. Again, we the Reb brings down these fantastical stories in Brahabas and he speaks them out with the Pajam and he sometimes adds in with the to show how it it reflects back on the he was he was speaking about says there's a time one time that we were going on a ship and we saw this this fish. Now, as of yet, they did not know that it was a fish. Um, so they thought when they saw it, it had on it, settled on its back, agab on its back, which is sand and they and there was not much stuff growing on it. So, you have like this picture of just like an island basically. They saw an island and there was dirt and it had some trees, palm trees growing on it. They were like, "Wow." Oh, you know, they were traveling so long. They hadn't, you know, docked on land. They were so excited. The says it had earth that was gathered on it. It had grass, had herbage growing. So, is explain we thought beautiful dry land. So, we went and we we disembarked from the ship onto it. We started making a barbecue. They started baking and they started doing a barbecue on it right they thought it was an island. Now what happened was that once you can have this island and it's fine but once you start burning a hot fire on it it might wake up this fish because it wasn't an island. The second that it started getting burning hot the fish all of a sudden woke up. Apparently the fish was like hanging out there for like a year or two cuz it was had stuff growing out. But the second it felt firew must have been a huge fish, it started to overturn the carva. If it wasn't that we were so close still to the to the ship, we would have been sunk. So that's the fantastical amazing story of the rabbara. Great story. Now we'll see how the Reb applies it applies it here. Now interesting the Reb holds off from bringing it into each word and he adds in a part right here. And now he like like parenthetical brings in a whole new in our in our exile is so to speak not for real but from our perspective in in covered face turned face you've you've hidden your face you've you've hidden your face from us the face to face someone is kindness But to turn your neck to someone, it's it's harsh. It's harsh, right? You're speaking to someone and they turn their back on you. It's like, ouch. That's not That's the way we feel right now. We're we're like kind of asking for Hashem's countenance, his face. And what would we get? We get nothing. We get his back. All of our prayers and our disping of I'm asking for money. I'm asking for help. I'm asking for kids. I'm asking for kids. I'm asking for everything I'm asking for is just turn your face back to me. Turn to me. These words are so are so beautiful. just turn to me. He says it's just these two words. Turn to me. Illuminate your face to me. Obviously is always actually with us and he's always everywhere. He is everything. But our insides are not seeing it, are not feeling it, are not experiencing it. So it's it's dark. So we say, "Hashem, I don't see you. Where are you? Turn to me. very interesting idea when I was when I was thinking about this is [Music] that everything that we say to we know that we model Hashem just like Hashem is a we're also meant to be. So anytime you see something there's always a flip to it. Hashem dins for us and we d for Hashem. So you can play back and forth both ways. So when we ask turn to me, it's really who's always speaking to us also and saying turn to me, turn to me. So anytime we turn to he's asking us and that's the beauty of our relationship is that he's actually always asking us like going back to in the beginning that every single thing is is the same. So they see this like with a thousand different things. So when we say sometimes and this connects back into we say at the end of asking all we say you are the you listen to. That's a a beautiful way to end off and say Hashem you've listened to my but Hashem also says listen to your own that when we're ding like what we said before if we listen to our own and we'd hear what what we're actually needing or what we're actually lacking then our would be tremendous they' be so powerful because then we'd we'd recognize what we really need and then we would already be connected with that through it. So over here says we we says to Hashem turn to me. Now interesting thing is that when you ask Hashem to turn to you you're not necessarily asking when someone faces you sometimes your wife your kids face you but they're not in a very good happy face. They're in a mad face but that's better than not than nothing. And the kids comes home and they're like how is your day? What hap what happened? How you doing? If that continues your wife, how you doing? That's the worst. I sometimes it feels good. It's like, yeah, whatever. You know, she doesn't want to talk. I don't want to talk. Great. We'll just But it doesn't lead to good places. As everyone knows, eventually things erupt. Eventually things come out. So the harshest thing is just nothingness. If they say, "Oh, I had a terrible day. Oh, this kid made fun of me and that happened." It's it's harsh. But the face is facing you, even if it's harsh. So you don't necessarily have to have pane and it's like ahm sometimes faces and he says I'm angry you know but at least there's a facing. So we asked just face us help us and us to you how are you doing? There was a hostage Omar Shamto that they had a clip going around and he said he was saying how he spent time in captivity for 500 days or whatever. He said every day he would ask how you doing? How are you? How are you? You okay? How's how's the world? How's existence? How's life? Look, ask. And then he would say, now you're asking me how I am. He would always say, I have stuff, but I need a lot. We need a lot of we're in the tunnel in Gaza, you know. But he had this relationship. So when we have that relationship and we ask Hashem, "How are you?" He asked how are we and sometimes it's happy I'm doing great sometimes not but that's the sword that's the beauty of to continue in the continues so we're found in this gulith of the back Hashem's face concealed every day we're asking Hashem please save us we're not answer. There are those from our nation that make a mistake. The I think is every single one of us. Why? Because there are times that when when we also make this mistake in our hearts alling is for asking Hashem turn. Hashem, show me your face. Hashem, where are you? Nothing. So we think what are we doing? We're asking and asking and asking and asking and asking and it's nothing. They lift them up and they they establish them. They place them in the right place. We mentioned before, he takes all of our and he builds it into a puts every single brick, so to speak, into its place. He builds the entire this feeling that we're connected to teeny drop by teeny drop, every prayer until the whole thing will finish. when it's all built then comes and then will be built in the entirety that will be built in completion. I think there's a piece I'm just remembering right now from NASA where he speaks about this idea in a in a kind of I don't know micro macro sense in more protheic a sense from each and every one of us like this is true all the will one day pound through and bring Messiah Msiah is being built it's happening you know I once had the thought of like you know they ask didn't bring Msiah you know they have all these questions I'm happy to bring Msiah So there's all sorts of great answers and answer but the way we we envision it now is like like not doing anything but they are there with all of these tik there are building and I envisioned it cuz I was at that point building a house there's breaking there's digging there's foundations there's so much that goes into building a house and then there's layers and then you finally build a foundation you see wow it's a foundation it's an amazing feeling but is it a house no then you start the panemas the inside then the inside's going to take who knows how many years the whole thing and then you finally you have like each layer each level is like so exciting but it's not there yet. you finally do the uh the theta, you put the uh the the the sheet rock and then you finally plaster it and everything. You're doing it and then you finally do it and it's like almost done but like like the lights are not in, you know, they're like, you know, those those hanging bulbs and like the outlet covers are not in yet. So it's not just laying. So like we're all the generations they build, they dug, they built, they built, they plaster, they did everything. Mashiah's done. But Hashem is like, I'm not gonna bring the base mas like without like those like cheap incandescent bulbs. That's not what I want. My my Mashiah's going to come with gorgeous LEDs. Everything's going to be beautiful. So, Hashem is asking us, so we have to go in and screw the bulbs in now to put in a fixture. We have to take the the the light, you know, the the electric thing and put in the electric socket so that it looks full body. So, that's what we're doing. We're not doing much, but we're doing the last things. So, That's what we're doing with our that's says here the katan when nothing speaks about this a lot the katan every time we come to a place it's our anything that we're going through and we get to this place and please help me and we're diving and diving and diving and diving for a day for an hour for a week for a month and then finally it comes takes all these and like all of a sudden you see it come and you don't just see it come st like oh you know the Torah passed you know I had a stomach ache. Now the stomach ache's gone. No, it comes and it we dive in and not answer. We dive in. We're not answer. Then all of a sudden, Hashem shows his face and it it gets not just taken care of, but taken care of in a way that it's Hashem. I thought, wow, Hashem was here and Hashem was doing. Hashem answered. So that is a little stick of Mashiach. It's a taste of Msiah. for says every time we taste that we have to grab onto it and say ah the mashia just came it's not the but it's something that we built now we're now going to go through this incredible story we saw a fish a fish is obviously sadik everyone knows that on chabas he eats you're eating tik by the gilt fish you're not eating gapilta fish and salmon like the ribb that went to the to the ocean and like says he took like a little you know shoelace from one of the one of them had like a a safety pin holding up his head his pants and he had like a stickle worm that they had some old sardines in a guy's trunk and he he went fishing there shavas here fishy fishy fishy and he found this huge fish and all the fishermen that were there were like we've been here for 3 hours you didn't catch nothing like takes Look at his huge beautiful fish. He goes, "No." Throws it back in. 10 minutes later. These fishermen are like, "This guy must be a professional. He's using a, you know, a stick." But three or four fish he catches. Finally, the fifth fish he catch. He goes, "Ah, just puts it in the trunk." And they drive back fish. Obviously, then fish had earth growing on its back. the back said not showing his face of resting to bring these areas that we're bringing to the we have to bring it to the it had on its back growing on its back grass we said that there's that are coming into the tree. They're called grass things that are growing. These areas are life forces. And we thought, this is saying when they were on this fish that they thought it was an island. We thought it was dry land. We thought that it was dried out. We see that this is all referred to, but it was dry. We thought we were diving and diving and diving that it was nothing. Wasn't doing anything. We're dry. It wasn't all the go up. The more the more the gets built and it's getting ready for the final building, for the final unification. How do you eat? You take the flour, you grind it, and you make it into dough. Sour dough we were speaking about before. And then you bake it. So baking and all these things are getting ready to be able to eat in the context of our that we're not doing much. So that doesn't seem to be doing much which is also a thinly veiled reference but without that he speak that which is the final unification the the peak of unification that's what we were trying to get to in the When this is happens and are all finished there's going to be so much is going to be overcome with and then we going to see when is overcome is is made more when his is is built up and is answered. Then all of a sudden everything turns and it becomes a big answering of saying there he's a new Italy. He's bringing in a new element over here. He's saying that in essence, so we say now that the only way we're going to get to this is if we dive and we dive and we put ourselves into it. A lot of even though we're not being answered, keep diving. And then though we're going to be answered and it's going to come and is going to come and we're going to have our Yeshua and we're going to show we're going to have amazing things happen. But then we could have think that ah you see we did it. It's like you know like uh there was like a counter that we got to that level and we hit the thing. Look at that. We hit the the mark and now we brought the Yeshua. But he's saying that no, we don't have anything to be proud of because in the end of the day brought this all for himself. Which is obviously a paradox that we're sitting here begging for a day, a month, a year, for 2,000 years, and then finally it's going to come and we're going to say no, it was all from Hashem. Still, we have to recognize that it was all from Hashem. And that goes back to the thing that we were mentioning before mishbat to recognize that with all of that we're doing the deepest recognition is that even the words that I have now and the strength that I have we have credit that we're being a channel for Hashem's awesomeness that is helping us to recognize that I am a a conduit of Hashem's goodness in this world. It's not that we can't when we have it and it's truthful. We won't need it. We won't even need to have credit. We're just like, "Wow, Hashem, you did it. You came through me." Evolving, beautiful, Hashem. Awesome. So, that's what he's saying. Maybe that's exactly what he's saying. We don't even have to think to be when and if we do this properly, it'll just flow through. It's going to seem like we did it. reach the d. We learn we just need sailors ships are without that we would have been sunk. We have five more minutes to try to finish the Torah. Now the Rebed in the beginning and he connects all of these ideas to that speech. Obviously in this context is referring back to that within the we release these um inspirations of life forces. are the the teachers of the of the carries the judgment. We have to bring it to here. He's using Rashi to weave into the context of what he was speaking about to warn the great ones um along with the small ones. This illumination illumination. He will he will illuminate which is the aspect of a smaller light. The main of of the generations of of this world really is of aras. Um so He's talking about not to have that meaning when you the covenant look like we said the nostrils in this idea of purity. When there was no more there was no purity gives you the sense of smell said to his said to his son I smell this beautiful scent he said I smell you you smell it he said my son you smell it because you have tahara the the possession of tahara which we spokeen about before meaning the um to empty out which is also of speaking all of your out if and when you have this element of of the the the deep breath and through everything and wield the sword judiciously and be able to then also ask for doing all this we have to empty out your heart to properly and through this we'll come to all of the the being built in all of our lives to be all of what it needs to be foreign. Allah