Likutei Moharan Torah 6 Part 1 - Shiur by Rabbi Yoeli Klein at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim

So we're starting a new toy to which is another which means it's very every single word. Um as a matter of fact this is one of the first to that heard from it was on Shabasha 1802. that was given over that uh like I don't know a few days or a week or so after first came close to the Reb and it speaks about a lot about the Rebi Talmud and that relationship and so felt that this was very much of um giving over uh that would be his main Talmet and the one that would uh carry on this tradition more than anyone else. Um, it's a famous toyo. Like if you learn the kutaran, this is up there in the definitely in the top 10 of famous toyos that you know the amm is is excited about. Dav just to have a little um appetizer before you start the vav is and it connects two things. This and that. What? >> It's like >> it's like imm. >> Yeah. Yeah. Imm with right. It's it connects two. It connects this and that. So it connects two things. VV if you spell it out. There's many ways to spell it out. Vivv is 13 which is so it's basically VV is this idea and this concept of being of taking two and bring them making them into one bring them together. Sov if and when to learn through it. Immish takes the whole the whole corpus of life and brings it together which I think every terra kind of does in a certain way but this is a very powerful Torah. So jump right in which we said always you're going to have to wait till the end to see how this reflects what what teaches in the Torah. It's now gonna start key. >> Every person has to be has to diminish his own personal cover, his own personal honor and to increase in bringing Hashem's honor into the world. Well, let's just read the first paragraph and I'll go back and maybe get a little deeper and explain a little bit more. Because someone who chases after chases after honor He's not to get godly honor. He gets kingly honor. He gets, you know, the honor of royalty of the rich and famous speaks about the honor that kings get. It's always uh people are always looking into it. They're always investigating it. So he explains about everyone always is is looking in and and seeing and saying and asking who is this guy? He deserves to be the king. He deserves to be the the he deserves to be the why why why him that that they're giving him such that he gets such honor and they argue on him and they they they make and they say why should he get the money and the riches and the fame why why that's if a person's running after person that's running after his own personal covet will have all these people coming up against him and asking why is he A person that runs away from honor, he diminishes his own and he increases in the cover of Hashem. He's to the godly honor basically to the honor of Hashem. No one could argue, no one could investigate his honor. If he's if he's really worthy to have it or not also from another that says the honor of Hashem hides things so that if anything that that you might think to ask questions about, it's done. It's covered to investigate such cover. That's the first paragraph. Simply the Rebba seems to be setting us up for a situation of honor basically right all the all the stories and all the kazals that all the Bakov girls memor memorized that you know don't run after kav go running run away from kav and like the famous story you know reb you know I'm always running away from kav so why isn't it chasing me so he says because you're always looking backwards to see if it's chasing after you so you're not really running after you're actually running towards it but in a way of doing it like that that's the famous but the the is that to diminish in your own in the of again every you can dissect every single word which we'll we'll go a little bit now into the first paragraph. So the Reb started off and we noticed this by a bunch of different by a bunch of different that we've spoke about that he says the like a person needs and in the last we learned in hey he used that even though the gar says so we spoke then what's the difference why is the changing from a you're obligated to do something you have to do it so the same idea I think applies here is that in place of looking at things as being of like ah I have to do this I have to do this this is something I I have to do it my parents are telling me God's telling me whatever it is is that you need to do it it's something that's built into the the the fabric of creation and if you want to be alive and you want to live you need to do this it's not something that you have to do it's something that you in essence everything that you have to do is something that you really need to do I think the Reb is stressing that to show that this is something that we need so why do we need to do this um why do we need to do that the question goes also says every single person he's basically saying that every single human being from greatest to smallest from Jewish maybe not even to Jewish needs to do this needs to have this idea of running away from and coming to and uh the next question we'll just set it up in the form of a bunch of questions next question is the Reb says right he says that you have to diminish in your so sounds like he's saying like you know take it down a notch she should she should destroy you should wipe out cover like to diminish that's another question and um so the idea really comes boils down to cover what is cover where are we getting what what do we what how do we understand covet so in general we understand cover as being honor you know staltz ga guy has cover he feels like he's an honorable guy but coveted we know for those that know is that is gimatri is gimatria the heart. So what is it that the heart is something that's so pimi the heart that represents when you speak about the inner workings of people their emotions that's like the most deepest you know sacred place in their in their insides. So that's what does have to do with that. So the the idea is that right the famous Garra that says that used to call his clothing his cover. Ah this is my cover. My clothing is my cover. What clothing is covered? Why is that? Because clothing is your honor. Why? And we see that in the world of fashion. This fashionable guy here. Sure. >> Thank you. So the the idea is that the cover that your your clothing speaks says I am I am you know mis I am cover is basically projecting to everyone I am very old I am very young I am you know it's telling the world what and who you are it's telling the world what's inside it's basically you speaking and saying this is what's inside of me and you're explaining that when you when you wear things or when you act in a certain way those things are basically describing what you're what you're feeling and what you're what you have inside of you. So that's the covet that's what really is. So the reb is saying over here is that there's two covets. There's a cover of there's a cover of when we try to go and basically take things for ourselves and there's a covet of of what does it mean for another idea to to uh to contrast is that I can understand how is you know it sounds like it's a very bad thing and yet we see that he's saying and it's in the last it says that the whole world was created for the of give to a wait a your telling me my whole life go away from covet go away from covet is a bad thing you should son shun covet and now hashem everything is about covet so what's going on here so there must be some uh distinction to be made over here and what understanding what covet is and that that that boils down to covet being a reflection of something that is saying something about yourself about your insides so when a human being comes and says I am rich he wears the clothing And he's basically saying, "I'm wealthy nowadays. I think everyone wears rich clothing basically, so you can't even tell who's rich anymore." But, you know, a person wearing very, very sharp clothing. Although my wife grew up in Manhattan, she said that you could always tell the billionaires because they're wearing from like Walmart. You know, they wear like very pushet clothing. It's like the millionaires that are wearing like those very crisp clothing. Not they're not there yet, but they're getting there. But the billionaires are just like whatever. I don't have to prove anything. But that that's the nuda. And is that when you wear something, you're showing what's inside. So this guy is showing inside that what? That he's rich or that he's very good-looking. He's saying that this is what's going on inside. He's basically creating a a a image really of saying that this is what I am or this is my protection. Meaning this is what I feel like I am and therefore I feel like I'm someone because I just looked at my thing in my app in Capital One and it said $8.3 million. So I feel like okay I'm someone I'm something I have this is what I am I'm protected I'm good that's cover of the cover of is basically just the poofs of life that we keep creating around ourselves inside to make our insides feel like we're something we're someone we're good we're safe we're protected and then that is basically saying lies because in the end of the day right he says Every single human being in the end of the day with all the billions of dollars, with all the good looks, with all the accomplishments, with everything is going to be sitting in the same quiet quiet place underground just hearing the the ants and the bugs coming, you know, like there's no escaping that reality. the richest guy is sitting there even though there was a guy that was buried with his convertible and everything but he's still in the ground you know Lenin I think is still in faldahhide in in Stalenrad there and you know Moscow okay he's still he's sitting there quiet nothing's helping him he's not getting anywhere if not he's experiencing more pain than we can imagine but the idea is that we all get to that place where all of the coven all of the things that we're projecting as being something that we are that we're saying that this is protecting me and this is who I am are going going to fade away and it's going to be either then or even before they're going to come to a place where they they're not working anymore. Even in life, every time you come to those places, you know, someone somewhere wipes it out and it damages it and and and bashes at that protective garb. The famous story in Brev is that Rabbn had a Talmud or associate or colleague that was named I think Mishahis or something like that. He was close to the Reba and then he was close to Abnas and he was the gir of of breast. He was the rich guy of Russ. rent and he made the billion millions of dollars and you know he was the rich guy and he used to always be very close to Abnas at least in the beginning in the early years and one time he came back from a uh aid you know like a marketplace where he probably there for like a month or two and he came back with his profits of like you know just just this he made a couple million dollars and he felt so good so big about himself and he came to Abnen before even going home and he went to Abnen and he was going to give a good donation and a pigeon and a this and a that and he was like so pumped And Robbn just looked at him and he was like Nussen was holding very real place and he just was like started to like tell him about life about about where we're all going to end up what we're doing in life and he was going on and on and on and the guy was like starting to feel like what are you talking about? I didn't know, you know, you're like, what are you trying to bring me down? You know, I'm on such a high. And then he just said one line and he said, you know, you could get your wife a beautiful golden ring, momish 20, $50,000. You spend that golden ring and you can come home. She could take it and throw it at your face. And like this line stuck to him. It struck him. And especially because he actually bought a gold ring. And he went home and came back 2 hours later crying. >> She threw out. He was like, "It's exactly the way you said it was. What happened?" Came home, the fights began, gave her the ring, threw it at my face. He said, "You know, wherever you go, you have all of the protection of the all of the strength of what we build up from ourselves that this is who I am and this is what's going to protect me for who I am." And then invariably, you don't even have to wait too long. Someone's going to throw it back. Whether it's your wife, your kid, your your colleague, the guy in front of you, someone in shoe, whatever it is, there's going to be someone that knocks you knocks into your gut. Not just a little kid that's, you know, that says that, oh, you're like someone that that gets into you and and hits you in the spot that hurts. And that point you're going to be like, oh. So that's the the and the Reb uses the because it's not going to be something that you're going to expune in one day and it's not something that you should break in one day. It's something that each day and each time each moment that you experience this, you take it down a notch and you say, "Oh, wait. Okay. If it's hurting, it's because I have something that I'm holding on to and they're breaking and they're smashing on that protective place and and that that's the cover that I'm projecting that I have this that that's me and they're hurting that thing. Okay. So, maybe this is not something that that is actually real that's protecting me. Maybe it's just a big smoke screen of whatever you want to label it as that I'm hiding behind in order not to deal with myself. And you take that smoke screen and you break it and you take the covering and you break it open. You start to take that cover and you start to say, "Okay, what is it really doing? What does it really mean? What is it really reflecting inside of myself?" And you come to a place that's a little deeper. You come to a place that's that's inside. And that's the when you start to come to the it covers over things. Not that it covers over things. It's just that when you come to that place inside that's not affected by by all these parts that you're trying to build. So then what is it? It's Hashem. It's a piece of the infinity of everything that that everyone has. And so when you have that part and when you touch that place inside so when you reach there all of a sudden that's a that's a that's a cover that doesn't need any protection and no one can start asking why do you talk I have that what do you mean I have that you have it also every single this table has infinity inside of it awesome unity the every single human being every single second of life and every single part of life every single thing in the universe is pulsating with this energy of hakaros broke of and now when I've broken a little part and I've I'm able to touch that place and feel it a little bit. So now all of a sudden now I'm like ahim no one can take that away. That's something that's infinite. And when you touch that place no one can take it away. And of of is to basically take this and to work on it every single day to try to bring it down and try to bring it to that place of of truth. >> Um okay. >> Are you understanding the the the cover when you're supposed to be my covet for for yourself and be be mar like like cover you're saying is that it's not to beem but that that it's it's it's to have a cover for yourself your sense of meaning because of your is that >> I would imagine the pip is like what you're saying meaning >> to to do things more for the honor of hashem instead Instead of doing things for your honor, say that it's for Hashem. You know, like >> instead of saying when you're eating the you know, >> is it really is it really like that? Okay, that's that's the that's the next level. Meaning every time that person says no, it's for Hashem. It's for Hashem. I'm doing this for Hashem. Is it really for Hashem or is it just uh covering over something? So the the way that I'm learning it up, not so not so is that it's a it's an in of of digging inside yourself and finding inside of you. And when you find inside of you and you you raise that up. Why? Because because it's true. When you so to speak break yourself. These are protective things that you've built that you have that are there for a reason. They're there to make you feel good, make you feel like you're someone and something in this crazy world where people are always coming at you and things are always happening. I have to feel like something. What what should I feel like? I think that's exactly why the say take it down a notch. You're able to break open one little part of yourself that you think is so good. It's so amazing and find that it's not so good. It's not so amazing. It's not it's not so pure. It has this and that. When you find that, make sure make sure right away to replace it and to to tap into the place. So then what am I? >> So what am I tak I'm I'm I'm nothing. I'm such a look at this thing that I found inside myself. I'm such a terrible person. Say no, I broke a a layer of something that I didn't really even know. I thought it was, you know, me. I'm this. I'm I'm doing this for this reason. Now I broke it open and I saw no I'm not doing it for that reason. I'm doing it for for for co for for my honor to protect myself. Oh, so now I broke it open. So now I you taste if if you're conscious of it now you could taste. So what am I now that I don't have that protection? I'm raw but I'm raw with what what's inside what now is just my insight. I'm connected to my my value is not going to be measured and safe with that thing that I had. It's going to be measured and safe now because I am a part of I'm safe with Hashem because Hashem is infinite. Hashem's infinity will always be here with me. No one can ever take it away. No one can damage and no one can break it. Now the the beautiful thing is the the intense thing as we're going to see as the Torah develops is that this never ends because the second that you break it and you find this beautiful part of infinity that's inside. So you feel like ah this release and this connection and this this vic to everything in such a beautiful way. And a couple minutes later you're like, "Oh yeah, I'm a part of >> or I figured it out. >> I figured it out. Now I'm part of and then the the layers start to build around that." And then you have to beame. So what's the value of meaning what you're learning is that for me to be more connected to be a more truthful growthful person it seems to be putting a strong value that is that no one can go after this like cool let's say they can't >> right right so I I I think it means in in a sense when let's say you have a guy that's quite mal he has 500 $100 million. So he walks around, he walks into the room, he walks with schultz and with within and a nugget and people give him respect and everything. So when he feels hurt or something or when someone comes up against him and says that guy, you know how many how many games he's played in his business, it's only a matter of time. You know what I'm talking about. >> I know I know what how he made his money. >> Who we talking names? I'm not going to say that. It's only a matter of time before they catch up with him and he's sitting with the rest of the inville having but the the so he protects himself and he says no and he and he and he could really feel it sometimes he don't care don't care he says it I don't care let him let him argue let him say those things you know and he sounds like he you know he's the same like the or this person hasim but the difference is that every time They argue on him. It's real. And it and it hits him and it hurts him cuz he's they're they're they're battering at his at his protective layer. Mashadic that's holding. And again like what we just said, maybe this place of being maybe only exists in a couple of seconds or a couple of minutes when you're really holding there. Um but when you're in that place when you're in that space of being totally with infinite thing infinite light so then there's no meaning anyone that comes won't even see anything won't even won't even be able to argue and if they do there's no one to argue with you're you're connected to them just as much as you're connected to yourself and connected to everything I don't know but the user >> oh that's the second you say >> right Right. User right no >> but and and okay and also I'm saying what's so what's what's the what's the what's the value that what's the >> right meaning >> the value should be that I'm now more emic I now more truthful I have now attain something which is real >> right >> I guess unless you're going to say that if someone has ability to be on something that's bring that it's >> that it's not of substance the way he's saying that if you attain this since no one can ever go after that then it's like it's I guess it's showing that what you what you have >> I think that is the very pos. Yeah, for sure. Meaning that's the is like when a person's holding on on quite so then yeah there won't be anyone that comes up against him and if and you could learn it up also that that it's on your feelings meaning if you're holding in the place of a like Kim so people could say things but it'll be like a little child that's making fun of you. >> It doesn't doesn't do anything like oh my gosh you're so stupid. Okay amazing cute sweet >> right? But then when you know when your wife says it, it's it's a little bit different. Just doesn't feel the same as when a little kid says it. And that's hitting the quite. So maybe let's see a few more lines if we have a couple more minutes. Let's see the dip into ice bays where it's uh there's a lot in this bay. a little jump into the world of uh of it's impossible to get this cover of honor of Hashem unless you do chuva. Here's the bumper sticker. Chuva. The core of chuva is when you hear someone embarrassing you and you're still and you're silent. This is a I'm not saying bumper sticker lightly. What it is is a bumper sticker in Israel. I remember I was learning in a base mish for for a year and outside the bathroom like all the someone stuck this up there. Every day when I was going through hard times I was like this is beautiful. So the idea is what he's saying is that shuva means that you are broken that someone's embarrassing you and putting you down in a way that hurts and you're able to hold yourself. Now in Brussel they always say that the right is stillness and is to be quiet. So there's two levels. Number one is to be quiet. Don't answer back when someone's embarrassing you and hurting you. So don't you mean you you know you get that into the tit tit and tat and you it doesn't lead to good places almost ever. That's number one. But then even if you're able to keep your mouth shut, someone's embarrassing you and it hurts but you're raging inside. You know you're going to kill the guy. If you had a chance, you kill the person, you know. So that's the next level is to be still in your heart where something inside is also not raging. It's like okay, it's calm. It's quiet. still that's a whole another level. To be quiet is high. To be still in your heart is a whole another level. And doesn't mean to be emotionally cut off and just stoic where you don't feel anything. It means to be hearing it to be feeling it and still to be still somewhere in the heart. We'll try to understand what that means. Um >> you're saying Edom was a higher level or >> yes that's the way of I think brings it down in why wouldn't you? So why would it be aha why if you're writing you should write first be quiet that's a dagger number one and is another >> I can't do either >> so for me it's not okay at the moment >> so okay so we're we're starting from square one but but uh I I don't know the answer what what people say but one answer that came to me is that kind of like what we were speaking about before is that when you reach a level of when you reach a level when you really get to that place where you're like like the Reb describes I think in B we had where you're diving let's say and all of a sudden you just can't stop you're crying and you're screaming or you're singing or you're like something just opens like a geyser and you're just like everywhere and every like nothing exists you people could be smashing you in the head you wouldn't notice you're he says because Reb says like the an just opened up in you for a few seconds or for a minute or whatever when you're experienc ing that it's it's powerful beyond anything and it's and it's an experience and it's awesome. But that's that's an experience of ye of dima of stillness where like they say like you know the the world of you know the vorer the world of the vorer where everything's silent. The only way you're going to get to this a ciph is if it's silent. There's not going to be once the second there's words the words are constrictions of letters and ideas and and subjects in your mind. It's already not the ancip. it's already descriptions of the so I think one of the ideas I had a thought is that even when you get to and you come to a place of reaching a very high level of like experiencing however you do that you like be quiet the second that you start having that experience you know like when you're at the Alps you're like getting out your phone you're at the Alps man you made it you're at the height of Everest like breathe exper experiencing it. No, take a picture. I call someone like text. This is awesome. It's amazing. Wow. You know, whoa, whoa, whoa. This is it. Why are you recording it? So, like when you get to that place, right after you're going to have this like this feeling like, wow, I want to share this with my best friend and tell them all about this experience. It's like, sh don't don't talk. Don't don't start describing your experience and start to record. Just just be in the experience. Just stay in the experience. That's just an answer that I thought of. The question is still strong in the in the piphat like why is he saying but another thought that came to me which we're if we're stopping we'll we'll share that that nikuda is the idea of this idea is very uh prominently displayed in breast of be silent in the face of opposition have had rocks thrown at their houses and had curses and had you know plenty of of you know redifas throughout the years and their their whole thing was to be to be silent in the face of that um I could be getting the wrong press of that said that it's such a that we don't know when we're going to get because it's such a high level of chuva that we'd go in a mikvah >> say and then we come and we'd accept it but you never know when you're going to get it you know like where you like unless you're whatever with the come to the he just like curses you out but then it loses its flavor you know you Can't get an expected biz biz like okay now give me a bizern you're an idiot doesn't work you know you have to be like walking down the street or somewhere you're walking through your house all happy and wife's like >> oh yeah >> take the trash out >> you know Germaine from Kesher >> no long catcher he learned a big talent because his was actually today so he had told me years ago that like private conversation he just mentioned to me one one time he dabbing for for for for bushes >> ding for bushes And then then it came. >> So I I was >> so I had a story that I was learning. This is going back I think like 14 years or no probably 20. And I was in har and I was learning the dafar. The dafra said speaking about the mikdash and going to the mikah for the b mikdash. So you have to go for the specific thing that you're going into mikdash for. If you go because you think you're going to bring a carbas and all of a sudden you have a carbon, you can't can't use that mikvah. So as what are you going to do? So says or maybe the state say so you dunk with an intention to go for anything and that works. So I was in the mik for that shabus morning and I was like dunking in there and I was like thinking about that I was like right now I'm dunking for everything. Wherever my day goes this is this is covering it. I'm dunking for everything. I come out >> you know and I come out and then they're like oh I was like okay we'll do it no problem. I get up there and I'm like doing all of a sudden I get to and like I stumble and I'm like I'm like I can't say the words and I'm like fumbling and going back and starting again and saying that and then like I'm like purple in my face and I'm like wow I just went through the mik of this is the nicest beautiful most beautiful biz ever. So but the idea is a very prominent idea in Brussel that they do this. But one of the words that I think struck me once is that they people often focus on when you hear you have to be silent and still try not to answer back. Try to feel still in your heart. Do all those things. But the words before that, the word before that is I think that holds like a huge key to it is that the first layer and level of dealing with a biz is to hear the biz. Right? So that's why I was saying not to be like, "Oh, here they go again." Okay. Oh, yeah. Okay. Okay. Very good. Throw it at me. You know, boom. Knock it at me. To >> accept it, to internalize it. >> No. to hear where it's coming from. Like they say, when someone's angry. So, what's behind the anger is pain and what's behind the pain is love. Is that they love you, but that love and that connection has been broken and smashed and hurt. And so, it comes into pain and the pain is not being understood and cared for. So, it comes out in anger. And so, they're throwing the ring at you, you know. So before you start to like even work on your or concurrently with the hear what's going on meaning the first reaction is like who are you? I'm good. I'm a good guy. Everyone likes me. I go to shul. Everyone gives me sham and loves me. Who are you? You what are you what are you saying? You're wrong. And not only that, why are you giving me this? I'm such a good guy. I'm a real good respectable person. Why are you giving this to me? Why? So instead of looking at it like that with your, you know, guards, take the guards down and start listening within the words of anger. Listen for the pain and within the pain, hear where the the the um the love has been broken. And if you can hear those words, hear where that's coming from, then all of a sudden all of that is all that silence and that quietness that you're that you're doing that you're practicing is going to look totally different. It's not going to look like it's going to look empathetic. It's going to be empathy. It's going to be a person that's really caring about someone else and is not answering back and is not getting into the he said she said thing because he's hearing that there's something more going on. So I think just to to wrap it up that that's a >> how would you translate that to yours to your particular Zuma story? >> How would you translate that? What do you mean to the Zuma story? >> You didn't do anything wrong. Bets you don't have to empath like >> Oh yeah. This is talking about between people. Yeah, you're right. You're right. In that context, unless you're dealing with Hashem, why'd you do this to me, God? Like why are you doing this to me? And that happens a lot. I'm sure different places and different situations like why am I getting this? Why is this happening? So one of the says in the first be patient patient with when you have coming at you be patient there's a reason there's something going on judge everyone favorably includes Hashem you're judging everyone else favorably judge Hashem favorably also that there's a reason for it so that context it could uh it could play out like that okay I think we're going to hold here because the next part is a whole new world Guys, thanks for starting Tire Love Sh for