Likutey Moharan Shiur at Scheiner's Shul with Rav Yoeli Klein - Finishing Torah 5

Okay. So, we're holding in it's called we're holding at the end of the hopefully we'll finish the today where it says Omar. So, without getting too much into introductions, but we're going to give a little introduction. The end of the toy over here, the the Reb quotes a very interesting and um unique kumar. There's a whole bunch of inabasa there's a whole bunch of rabbaras where he speaks about ships and angels flying and cups of wine like all these like weird very very very far out and and and brings them at the end of a long explanation that he's giving and he weaves into the words of the garra what he was speaking about but not only that in the pish instead of rashi is the rashbam he I put I put is safer here. >> I got to Okay, >> no problem. He uh he weaves into the kirish of the rash bomb also to explain how um the terra makes sense and how it's it's alluded to in these gamaras which is very very unique. Um what was the the idea and the topic that we were speaking about for the last bunch of weeks is the beginning of the says that every person has to look at the whole world, right? lean the whole world is created for me and therefore instead of looking at it as a privileged life now everyone's working for me you have to recognize that therefore all the responsibility to fix the world and to fill the world and to pray for the world is on your shoulders meaning that you have to give to the world so he said though that one of the ways to give to the world is to davin for the world and the dening is split into two he says there's doning before and after exardin there's doning when everything's kind of flowing doing well and there's dabing when things are already stamped and sealed as something bad's going to happen. So how do you know when is coming? You know these are things in heaven. How would I know if there's a against something or against me or not? So he gives a whole long explanation for like two or three pages about how to know this. And the explanation uh it pivots around he says basic to to make very you know intricate simple he says that so to speak the pulse of Hashem's heartbeat so to speak is found in the mitzvah of hem and the mitzvah of hashem specifically in the of the mitzvah of hashem so hashem gets joy in this world when he gives the mitzvah and do the mitzvah does the mitzvah that's where he enters his joy into the Now a Yiddi says that he does the mitzvah also but on a level not to receive reward like oh I'm going to do 16 mitzvah and I'm going to get you know sushi today we're going to get this I'm going to get that he doesn't do the mitzvah or that he what the real what the idea of the mitzvah are the mitzvah are just because wants me and if he wants me I want him and he has mitzvah just from the mitzvah itself you could you could noar whatsoever like the alterb used to say I don't want anyar I don't want any angels. I don't want anything. >> Only you. I just How do you say it in? >> No. >> No. Just you. I just want you. So, a person that serves a Christian. So what's the idea is that he he understands that that there's no there's no any any not he uses the of he's he's disgusted by any because you're dealing with a relationship with the greatest thing that you could get is to be close to Hashem is to be one with Hashem. So a person that does the mitzvah like that that he doesn't want any he just wants Hashem. So he is basically tapping into the simka of Hashem, how Hashem's is flowing into this world and he's connecting to that. So therefore such a person when he feels that is flowing through a mitzvah, he's putting on fill and he's putting on and talis, he's giving sodak and he feels joy. So he knows how's joy is flowing into the world and things are good. The second he feels like a a big kilk in the simka. He feels like something's not flowing. He knows that such a person can know that Hashem's not flowing and there's some gazard against something. So he says but in order to do that you have to have a straight heart. You have to straighten out your heart. And he says to do that you have to have what he calls the ram is a thunder. Says in the gumar that thunder straightens out the heart. He says the heart gets twisted and messed up and it falls into all sorts of depression and sadness and and it can't it's it's it's uh it's not flowing. So how do you get to this? Through which he says is a person dins with loud voice or he davins with a loud voice that that's making an impression which he describes as basically being words that go into your brain. Right? when you speak words sometimes or when you hear words being spoken. So sometimes just like oh whatever you know and sometimes it makes an impression like boom it like hits your brain and starts to move and your brain starts to click and you like feel all like these uh your brain becomes alive you start to understand things. Those understandings those thoughts then drip into your heart and your heart becomes aroused right your heart becomes moved and you open up your heart and that he says isha that's when your heart gets straightened out in simha. So a person again we said he wants to be in this truest form of simple he has to do this thing of straightening out the the heart through coil through speaking loudly or speaking forcefully into into his own self or hearing it from others. He says that in he spoke that things certain things like they uh they stuff up the the the brain. So when you're speaking or when you hear other people speak all of a sudden it just doesn't go right. I used to have a friend that used to say used to tell him all sorts of things and life and everything. He goes, "Okay, but you know, killing yourself, you know, like all this lifestyle, you're basically killing yourself. You're going to die." Okay, I don't care. >> You know, like, but we just showed you that this lifestyle will kill you in a few months. I don't care. Like, you could tell things to person, but it just doesn't go into the brain and move those brain thoughts to to go flow into the heart. So once you have that that that dissonance so all of a sudden it just doesn't do anything. So he says which are like foreign knowledges or all sorts of strange thoughts all of these type of things are like they poof up in your brain and cause all of these um protective measures to to to to puff up around in your brain so that you don't hear anything. >> Clippus >> clippus you want to call it clippus. We like to call it clipus. I was actually just uh learning about it from uh reading something that you have to peel back layer and layer. >> Right. Right. In that in that context it would be a good muscle. The kipus are layers. You have to peel the layers and peel the layers and peel the layers. Like honestly when when I hear the word kipus in in a very dry generic sense it's just like okay and you know like they don't mean much until you learn a little bit like >> it's the negative it's the negative aspects of of us. >> Right. Right. Or the or the the >> coverups >> coverups that your brain creates so that you're protected or your heart creates because it doesn't want to hurt and it doesn't want to feel pain. I have a long road to go. >> We all have a long road to go. We have tons and tons of layers. That's the the avoid of life is to peel like you said to peel away the kipus like each time you get to a a little bit of a of a >> you know gave it to every step by step >> every step every moment. So he says that these are that's the kind of um builds around the person and you gota take care of the in order for your words or the words of other people to have that powerful impression like a thunder when it has an impression so it moves something but if it's all stuffed up it won't move anything. So he says that that's from matzah. Mata is the uh the make a war with their with their evil side with their with their bad thoughts with all these foreign thoughts that coming to just derail a person from being focused. So they wage war with that in order to stay focused. He spoke a little bit about and we're not going to get into that the sadikim that when and if you see a between sadikim. So that the fact that you're seeing it and being bothered by it is indicative that you have a problem in your in your brain. Your brain is stuffed up. If you wouldn't have problems in your brain, you wouldn't see the mus and it wouldn't bother you. It wouldn't affect you. Because when real sadikim, you're not talking about less than very real sadikim that are arguing because they're fighting over money or something like that. We're talking about emis a huge sadikim but they have and the imam is fighting and big fight and this is the right way that's the right way what is the right way what's going on here this is when real big sadikim fight it's just a totally different engine you have no idea what's really going on so if you're perceiving it as cuz he wants the he wants more followers than him and he's taking away his follow you think that's what it's about is because your brain is all filled up with that garbage and that's how you're interpreting it but it has nothing to do with them. What they're doing is something else. So he says when you see that that's a sign you should fix your own brain and then the will fall away from your own head. Um and the last thing that he spoke about before getting to was that you have to be the that this whole thing of gur of call of ram of thunder making a thunderous impression into your brain also has to be coupled with love and with with um with love and with um so now we're going to get to the let's read one time I was going on a ship Um the and the ship was going between let's see the rash bam I like doing it together with the rashita he says is snappier which is a fin so it was going between the fin of the fins of the fish thera of the fish um just the ra said between the fins. Again, the image is a huge fish, talking about miles and miles long, and it has a fin by its head. It has a fin by its tail. And this fish, this ship is traveling in that distance between the tail and the head of this fish of this fish. And they were going for three days and three nights. That's how long this this fish was of. Now, to make it even more pronounced the difference, the fish was traveling upstream. So he was going against the current of water which takes a lot of effort and we were going with the stream like flying you know like when the stream is going we're like flying. So we're flying he's pushing against the stream and it took three days and three nights for us to get from so it's like miles and miles and miles hundreds of miles. This this fish is long. So whatever you know to understand this sorry let's read the we were going against the wind and he was going he was going against the wind we were going with the wind those days they went with sales they didn't have motors so they went with the wind they were going with the You want to say maybe we were just going really slowly with all the wind and everything. We were just chilling the you know the ship was going slow. 60 par which is a tremendous amount just in a few minutes. So you're talking about the ship was flying. And now another imagery to see how fast this ship was going when a par would shoot a guy would shoot arrow from the the the edge of the ship. I think he means to the to the earth. So like if the imagery is the fish is go not the fish the ship was flying towards the shore and someone would shoot an arrow towards the shore the ship would get there first. That's how fast faster than faster than what is shooting arrow. >> Speeding arrow >> speeding arrow faster than a lightning or um of this is called the famous gild of the sea and it has two fins. So let's see over here the the Reb is going to go through just quickly to kind of set up um what each word is reflecting in the Tory and then afterwards we're going to read through it. He's going to go and explain it in a at more at depth. So this ship is a lion of importance prominence an element of fear of the fear of hem is hashem's treasure house right what's I just saw this week from he has a whole I forget who he brings it from from one of the maybe the about this he is like a you know a billionaire a regular guy he gets a $100 bill. Your kid gets a $100 bill from Kaneka. So he puts it in his safe like it's like $100. Wow. You got a guy that's making a couple hundred thousand. He stuffs it in his pocket. You know, you got a billionaire. So he takes, you know, even $10,000. He stuffs in his pocket. He puts it in his drawer. Like it everyone has a kashivas that that goes according to the scale of what's really important to him. So he says, "Hashem has everything. So you're going to give him this, you're going to give him that. What are you going to give Hashem? So what does he keep in his storage house? What's so precious for him that he keeps it tucked away in his safe deposit box? Why? Because everything Hashem has except for that. So he's like, "Oh, he sees a doing." He's like, "Wow, I got that's like so valuable." He puts it in his. So it's a it's a thing. is a lion of is of so he says that's interpreting to be says let just leave them and I'll destroy them says and I will destroy them in a second so is of a of a of a distress so what is it three days and three nights is he says that there's three types of mitzv in the bottom over here on the footnotes I see he brings this down from and the which is very interesting that is bringing down something from them you don't see it that often over here he says there's which are understood with ethical mitzvah like murder and honoring your parents these are things that even any average human being would would come up with. These are things that are more traditional. they're accepted like Shabas and Khagim where it's something that's a little difficult to do but because like not necessarily that makes sense but once you get involved in it you see like wow you know now we have Charlie Kirk telling the whole world postumously about Chabas like Chavez the most amazing that many people are getting music from Chabas from this guy that was killed you know so what what's the sha because yeah it's it's a strange thing like why would I turn off my phone for 25 hours it's really like I need to know what's going on in in the world and yet if you do it you're like wow how could I not turn off my phone for 25 hours this is amazing like how can I live without it so these are our makubal state and then you have is like you know we're still scratching our heads what does it do what what does it mean like why not you know so those are the three levels of that's the you have to work on the key. You can explain that a little bit more later. This is the brains. The imagery that he gave earlier was that the voice, the words hit the brain and they formulate into droplets of water so to speak, droplets of m that drip into the heart. 60 miles or we know that there's a that speaks about the 60 which which reflect what the Reb was saying earlier about the the thunderous impression that your car could have when a person would shoot an arrow which is usually like a soldier. He said that The the kindness brings illuminates everything that we need to get to. It it opens things up. That's why he's playing on the word of para right a para to explain to he says that whatever we have let's say in a in a in a place of so it might be strong it might be powerful but when you mix in it opens it up and it reveals it to see what it really is which the I think explained that that from there is arrows but also is referring to thunder will be confounded which he said before was When you mix in then it it opens up the to actualize it much better. First thing you have to have so this is a this is basically just setting up a lot of and explanations. Now he's going to open up the explanation a little bit deeper. Was saying he was he was going so much in the element of fear. He saw how powerful this is. Like he said the beginning of the Torah that if you're holding on this place of and you're holding that you straighten out your heart through these thunderous impressions that you make into your mind then you're able to see whether Hashem has or not. That's a tremendous level between the fins. How could you know this between the how could you know what's going on? That's what the next line of the rabbana is between three days which reflected mitzvah you could understand when you feel the pulse of beating in the mitzvah well ah everything's good when you feel there's a kil in the in the in the mitzvah in the of in the mitzvah then something's not good but how could you possibly be feeling that maybe you're just having a bad day only if you always do the mitzvah just forem is is happy which is the we don't want any he explains this in the words of the the upstream and the downstream that according to his upstream upstairs so is our down here if you're able to tap into such idea what's going on if there's ex now how do you get to very nice it's very good thing to be and to feel the how do you get there through the thunder He explained before that the voice that we were speaking about which creates this thunderous impression in your brain gal is like the gal is the skull that it creates a thunder into your brain. So he's you're working off of that of the like the I think he's he's using the of the the brain like we said before once the brain starts to hear the words that you're speaking the words the voice the strength creates creates focus creates this uh intentionality of what's happening It straightens out the heart because now it drips into the heart and it straightens it out. Only way you could do this is through mixing in a bit of love in there to the left and the right and to have them connected. You always have to have fear of hem always first fear of hem. He's going to explain why. So he says cuz why? Cuz if you lose your watch, you got to search for your watch. No one's going to come and find you and give you back your watch. Okay, we have a mit of that's true. And therefore, you're supposed to, you know, announce it, but if you're not searching for your watch, you're not going to find your watch. So he says that over here also he's going to explain it. This is very interesting. Nassan brings this little parenthesis that the Reb explained this to him, which he does not do very often. And there's not very little peish that we're knocking on the so he says over here, right? A man goes after a woman even though nowadays with the crisis the girls are all seemingly chasing after the guys and they have lists of girls and seems upside down but it's a sign of Msiah that everything's upside down. So over here the the normal way is that man searches after a wife. of the le because the wife is the missing part. It's the part that he's missing. He's he lost uh you know is two parts of a soul. He lost a part of his soul. So he's searching for his soulmate. Um love is the element of is manala. That's the way it's reflected. First you have to have a once you have the woman the love the man will chase after explain to me says that there's an element that if you start off you speak like we we explained when we were speaking about the coil the ram that you could say that it's just like doening loud Or you could say that it means that your speech is powerful. It's making a powerful impression because you're speaking words that are breaking you open. They're they're asking questions, the right questions that are moving your insides and they're moving your brain and opening it up. Why am I doing this? Why am I caught in this? Why what is this reaction that I have that that that's caused by the by this, you know, this uh stimulus? So, when you start to ask those questions, you break open your brain and your coal makes an impression in your brain. You're like, Taka, like what's going on? What's really happening inside here? So when you do that he says it's it's a powerful thing but you have to mix in a he says don't worry will come the nature of love is that what we spoke about also that said that we were speaking about you know the that the imagery was of a iceberg that we live in the 10% of the iceberg that's above the water line and we always like dancing and singing and making believe like everything's okay and there's 90% of our subconscious that's just like stuffed up and we don't want to deal with it and who knows what's going on there. So is that you that we're supposed to turn over the mountain sometimes. We're supposed to take time to contemplate to do to do cha to do whatever you want to call it, turn it upside down and see what's going on underneath the surface of our own selves. But when we do that, we're always to turn it back right side up again and to go along with life just normally like going with the normal standard not standard but the of just going v and vit and keep going and do it do it in a in a in a good way. I was just learning with my daughter some random a random homework para and she came up with the rashi that she had to memorize famous you know understanding in when there's you know they can't make any historical chronological orders because I thought is your past is your future there's no such thing only place where you are is right here right now your past is gone your future doesn't exist you're standing right here this is the only thing what you can affect but the idea is that turn back over the mountain, take the moment where you are now with everything that you can muster up and everything and go. But the the says, "How do you know if when you were looking into your darker places and you were deal digging into yourself? You were doing this contemplative thing. How do you know if it was truthfully good or if it was just depression? You know, melancholy. You just like to, you know, be all uh counting crows. cuz you like to be just down and all sad. How do you know? Cuz afterwards, if you're mallea after you dug into there and you just feel like I feel so good, so relieved, so much healthier, then you know you did something good. If not, you just come out, you're like, Tak, I'm terrible. I'm such a bad person. I don't do anything right. I'm just What are you doing? You were just just throwing up dirt and you weren't you weren't getting anywhere. You weren't doing anything proper. He says when you dig in and you mamish open things up and you feel that pain a little bit but it's in the right way you'll feel sim that's the I think the o of comes after the just it comes after it and it and it naturally comes after it it naturally connects to it just to finish up let's try to finish the this week about the arrow of this is I'm going to leave it up to look into Those first letters of which is which is the is of and if you want to go into the you're welcome to do that. Now at the end in the beginning of the Torah we said that there was a masco has no shorel until all the way at the end of the goes back and speaks about the the the idea which by the way just quickly like we said before the fact that he brings that out in a p gives you a very very powerful thing which means that it gives you a whole in a couple of seconds you learn through a whole of this and that now he's explain how it all fits into 10 words in. So if you get the well and you get how it fits into the words of you could just go when you're walking down the street you can go and there you got the whole and that might be another reason why he brings down these rabbanas the rabbakana seem to be like a cute thing like you know it's nice wow it fits into the garamar it's really a pellet it's unbelievable it's incredible how it fits in so well with the gamar with the rash it's it's wow but it's also of of kazor and the the kabal that I've received from is that every time brings out a pik or a gar or something and he's thing there's something new that he brings into it. You have to like sometimes dig it out to find that he brings out that he didn't bring out yet before and you see that in the which reflects also whenever we do at all the right you went through the okay you go through the d again one more time you're just reading it again you're ting it again all of a sudden you're like oh now I get that I didn't you always have that every time that's why is such a hard thing and that's why the so just to to give that from Now he's going to explain it in the voice that we were speaking about the whole time which is exactly what he was speaking about. That's through the you create a ram. talking about the heart and the the arteries that come out of it. We said to in we said that thunder was to straighten out the heart. So now how is that reflecting of the heart in the word is heart with a what's it says that these engraved in the foreheads of certain people av letter. So it's a it's a it's an engraving. It's a um impressional belief that the coil these words that you're speaking have an impression. It straightens out the heart. How goes into the brain drips into the heart and straightens it out. This is the element of usually is like a joyous um dance or clapping like he finishes it off like we hear in don't worry we're in now you got a couple of months don't have pressure no trauma are a few months away don't worry Um but we have a little taste over here are the the heights. These are the that are above and beyond said that you have in the heart because he said before that are able to do this. How do you see the the the he said that if there is the only way to den is through hiding your words in a story or a mush. How do you do that? You have to know if there is how do you see that reflected in these words that they hide in their in their hide which is very interesting. I would love to hear what everyone has to say about this. It's just like he's saying that basically the words of Sadikim within their words are hiding within their stories are hiding which is super interesting because I know you know we speak in the Gumar it says you should listen to the words of even when they're just shooting you know shooting the breeze with you not shooting the breeze they're speaking things my father has a not not such a famous story but he told me so it's famous in my world that he was with the rimnitzer he was very close to the rim minister for 5 years around 5 years and he used to give him his haircut and the Rebi used to take his haircut in the mikvah right before going to the mikvah it was rash shana and my father was a businessman and the rebba loved him and they had a very connected very open relationship and but when the reb has yamak off getting a haircut he couldn't speak in couldn't think in so my father was giving him a haircut and the ribb starts telling him he says I can't handle it he says after I'm not a reb anymore. My father was like amused. He's like, "The revenant here is not a Reb." He's like, "Reba, you're not going to be a Reb." He's like, "Done. I'm done." So is here 90 years old. He says, "Too much sus. All I hear all day Saras the worst parts of people's lives. I can't I can't hold him anymore. I'm done being a rabbi." Father's like, "Really? Rabbi, you're a little old." He said, "Rabbi, what are you going to do?" Be a chef in business. What do you know about business? My father used to tell me at the rebbit you hold a $100 bill and $1 bill. He had no idea what money was even. He didn't know what they were. He had no clue what money was. So he was once in LA with my father and they said that the sopra reba passed away when he found out. He says we're going to go to the kev. He was okay so we'll book a flight tomorrow. He goes now but we're in LA. Ke is in New York. He goes this tater now. You know he's like smile money distance. He didn't those things didn't register. So he said after I'm going into business what do you know about business? says, "What do I I'm going to do the Yiddisha business in those days, textiles. I'll buy you know and I'll sell them." Says, "But how do you know? You're not going to know. How do you make money?" He goes, "You buy low. You sell high. It's very simple. There's nothing to it to make money. You buy things low and you sell them high." The father's like, "Really? Okay." And he says, "You're a businessman. You have some money. You'll help me get started off." So my father's laughing. The Reb is very serious. Afterwards, the Reb goes into the mikvah. The Reb's mikvah was legendary. It was like 2 hours. He did 310 felas of like each one you thought he was dead. He was under the water for like two and a half minutes like sometimes like you just like sitting there like is he alive and then you come up another one. So he's like two and a he was like 90 years old two hours later something like that he comes out and my father sees he's like fire like his eyes are like burning not just from chlorine you know like and they he was old so they wrapped him in towels and as they're wrapping him my father is still jovial and he's like we're gonna go into business with you. It's so exciting. He just looks at him like from like a different world and he goes, >> we have no idea what we were speaking about till this day has no idea what what he was speaking about. >> But when he can speak, >> we think it's fun. It's we're speaking about different inyanadim. I think that's what the Reb is saying here. And not only is it to that they're teaching, they're teaching. They're giving us lessons. is they're teaching us um they're giving us so or they're telling us things and I think when also when it reflects inside of ourselves because we always try to bring this back to to wrap up the Torah is that when we do this Carl in our own self and it has an effect and it moves us and it has this whole of the of what is speaking about here in the end of the day if there's some harsh thing that's going on in our life the words themselves will move us to recognize that we're all together our body and our soul and all the parts that are not working together that seem to be messed up and dissonant are all part of a whole. And the words themselves will create a prayer within ourselves that will bring us all together. Hey, go the