Likutey Moharan Torah 5 Part 5 with Rav Yoeli Klein - Weekly Breslov Shiur at Scheiner's Shul

Alrighty, >> another we're going to continue theem just to flow us back into the towards the end of Rabbi was speaking about how we have to recognize that we are uh each responsible to fix the world without getting too uh bogged down into the introduction. Sometimes the introduction takes half the share and then you don't get any anywhere um without getting too bogged down. You have to recognize that the world was created for each of us to take full responsibility on what we do and not just what we do personally but to fix the world to try to he says fix the world fill the world from any um deficiencies and to davin for the world and obviously if we're meant to do that that's what we can do and we can do all those things. Um he said that now he goes off on a almost on a side tangent in the last point of davin for the world davin for things is that there's two facets of ding. There's a fast of ding when you have no everything is flowing so to speak with Hashem and then you just dab in the way you normally daven. And then there's a there's a there's a time when there's a zardin where there's some sort of decree against and there there's so to speak um gates around Hashem and therefore you have to kind of get around the gates. So he says that dare you the sadikim really they're malish their inur they hide their in in a story in a mushel something like that um and so the the rest of the bay and gimmel and dal all speak about this this element of knowing where and when there's so in bay we spoke that if you're holding on the level where you do the mitzvah just for the fact that they are mitzvah and that you want just to bring and you just want to be connected to Hashem. If you're able to tap into such a level of doing the mitzvah for that reason, then the mitzvah pulsate themselves with energy so to speak coming into the world. And if and when you feel that that energy is flowing with and you're able to connect to that, then you know there's no everything's good. Just dive and go keep going. But if and when you come to a mitzvah and he said you could even tell which mitzvah which which part of the world the the the is against when that mitzvah represents that idea. Let's say the root of gives an example. So maybe there's something that that the is not flowing with you feel that when you put on the when the is not flowing so you know has some sort of against the maybe the heads the shivas whatever it is that that's where the kilk is. Um so that's how you could tell before or after from the sim. So then in giml he um he went through the whole of how do you get the simka? So the idea was that simka is when the heart is straightened out from its twistedness. How do you straighten that out? Through thunder. And the conceptual idea behind it was that your voice that you speak loudly or powerfully with in so it hits into your brain. It hits into your into your das and it makes an impression and it starts to move things in your head when you speak. Ah so it starts to move things in your head. Then your brain starts dropping droplets of rain or thoughts into your heart and then your heart starts to open up and then you have and that's the sima of the of the heart when the heart is straightened out through the mind and in dal he was speaking till now we're towards the end of dal that that doesn't always work that way meaning when you just speak to your to your to yourself to hashem to daming so even if your words are very powerful both in in loudness. I I I'm just thinking now that it's you know the famous what does it mean to say right what's it mean it means just or right so that's this idea like [snorts] >> meaning the doesn't only mean just screaming on top of your lungs it means also with all your kavana so [clears throat] can mean both um I was once at a brisk and there's a guy there that that says going back in the day in Toba in 20 years ago guy there that screams every like I'm talking about like the top of the top of his lungs and I could tell from being with him for like two hours that he does it by every just wasn't just like a couple of minutes and so the idea that you even if you scream and even if you're not just screaming but you're focusing and you're thinking the words your mom kavana it still might not do anything to your brain it still might not arouse anything in your mind, it might not make an impression. The ra why? Because the rah might not make any impression because because you are stuffed up. Your your brain might be stuffed up with all sorts of impurities and all sorts of he calls it or he calls it all these things that when the voice starts coming and going into your brain it just it's he calls it it's all poofed up with itself and therefore it doesn't have an effect to to chain to move anything in your brain and therefore the move the brain doesn't go anywhere and it doesn't drip down into the heart and it does nothing to your So he says that you have to that sadikim. One of the last things he spoke about was that that's that's an element of of like a puffy thing that's stuffing things up are they do they fight with their they fight with their with these that are always trying to get into their brains and they fight it. They don't just like oh whatever I'm just gonna think I'm gonna look I'm gonna do it. They they they they hold they hold war with it. And because they do that they have the element of matzah which means that their mind is so open and clear that when they speak it creates a ram it creates an impression in their own mind or when they hear words of of kadusha and then those words will drip into their heart and those are people that can then um feel their heart with sim who could see the difference between the gazer before the gazard and after the gazar did. That's what he said so far. Now we're up to the towards the end towards the middle of by me. It doesn't have any beginning in this uh in this thing. It's just in the middle of he says of amuna. So right away that's a very interesting because um in the s you don't see a lot of times he says you just got to believe. A lot of times he says, you know, like one of the major things of even the next you see, but here he says, so just at the getgo it could mean already that this is something that necessarily we're going to understand fully. It's something that that just works. He's telling you this is what's going on. But obviously every every single thing in in the you can learn lessons from and you can apply to yourself. Like we were just speaking about with the doing war with your with with their obviously this applies to every single person as we know that you can't think two thoughts at one time. So when you focus strongly on a thought then that's called you're just focusing on a thought goes so far in this he says somewhere in the that any level of filth or garbage or stupidity that you're that's coming and attacking you to think like think about this think about lashar think about and you take it up a notch and you think about baseball he says that's kaduca why cuz baseball compared to that is kadosh. So he says you do that you're already holding on a level of kaduca from in that that context in that level. So that's the that's what he says until now. Now we're going to try to see what he says. Even though he says every fight battle that you see between he calls them wholesome full is only so that it should expune it should get rid of. So what does he mean? It's going to come more clear. So he twists this whole upside down and he learns it up to literally means to learn to to rest, right? In the in the in the in the insides of that's where the ears that hear the muser of the of life, that's where it rests. But he says could be also which is a a complaint or a fight when you hear of and that's how you he's reading the skip those two words but care if your ears are hearing that amongst there is it's showing you that you have a in your thought process he calls it. So he's saying that is your found in your in your mind where you're massing things. So if you find that you have [snorts] that you're hearing amongst that's nothing to do with them. has to do with you as your mind is messed up and you're thinking all these thoughts because something's wrong in your mind. And not only that, but the whole is there now to show you this that you have something that's messed up in your mind and you could fix it. Because a person that's doing these things that's that's sensing this is connected to the other side of death. Like we said, we said that he has this of of foreign fears and all these bad things slammed foreign slammed into his brain. That's the the stick that was jammed into the foreign knowledges, the foreign ideas that are are kind of stuck in your brain. If you would have never had gotten involved in these thoughts, you would never hear the was coming out between the whole then therefore is for you that you should return from death to life. These are all the the opposing forces that we were speaking about before from the from all these fallen fears from the fallen voices, blemished voices and to the good fears of good voices and good wisdom. I'm just going to finish off the paragraph. And when you do protect yourself from this element of that that it shouldn't be stuffed up like we said last week that that um [clears throat] he quoted above and that was an that basically they don't just defile and dirty the mind but they stuff it up and they stuffed up so that other things cannot go in they won't be able to penetrate into the into the brain waves But when you do get rid of all that and when you do uh have a clear mind. So then the voices that you hear of yourself of the it goes into the mind. It smashes in. It makes it makes this thunderous impression. It straightens out the twistedness of the heart. connects it to another in so the is I wrote it down when you called in secret that's I answered you thunderously no that's that's that's the when you say is a secret I answered you with a with a thunder I tested you and the the waters of we said that of of [snorts] battle through this it makes ramen it makes thunder that goes into the brain into the mind and those thoughts then drop into the heart and that basically straightens out the heart in enough to feel the and then that sim is that which allows you to tap in like we said again to the mitzvah which allows to understand how to in what form to dedic when you when you guard your brain from these things. So obviously he's talking about he's talking about guard your your mind and your brain but tishar has two connotations. It has a connotation of to guard also has a connotation of to observe to to observe to see. So over here it could be speaking also to the the path the path and the method maybe for fixing the thoughts that are already there. Meaning when you filled your mind with all sorts of thoughts. So what are you supposed to do now? Now we're here. We're not uh you know we're not holding hopefully every one of you guys are but we're all not maybe not holding in the places where we want to be in our thoughts right we even just speaking about food you [clears throat] know like we have so much uh so much stuff going on in our brains about food how good it should be where it's going to be when it's going to be where forget about the other stuff. So our minds are all filled with this stuff. So now what are we going to do? So okay we can say we have to be very protective. We have to be very careful about the future and make sure that we don't don't mess it up anymore. And like we said any you can only think one thought at one time. So you have to be make sure to keep your thoughts um very focused and and keep them on good things like I said better things. Um I think the is it the bal that says that you should always have a Mishna in your mind so that whenever you're walking wherever you're walking you could always be justing that one you can start thinking and you have what to think about so you have what to to keep your mind focused and occupied with when you're in any situation. Um but over hereish also to observe also means that you can now go back and start to observe your thoughts that are messed up. You can start to see okay I stop and in the next in the next thing you're going to see that the Reb brings this this again and again which means you are at my right side but it means to sit or to stop to return to but it's also is to stop right in Hebrew a strike I'm not going to work right only in Israel you can get that with the garbage We're not going to take the garbage for a week. We're going to get our way. It usually works that one. But that's a shabas is a lesson of stopping. So over here also when you stop and you turn yourself around and look at the thoughts and say, "Wait, do I what is this thought doing for me? What am I going to do with this? Why do I have this thought? Where did it come from? And do I really need it? And can I get rid of it? And can I replace it with some better thoughts?" So a lot of times that that actually helps. It's interesting to note just as a side point for for for a dining pleasure in he uh in inf was learning this over sukus. So over there it's a different entirely but just to see the lion of used in this context also to bring out a very interesting point over there he speaks about the seven apertures of the head. The apertures of the head are the things that connect you to the world. Your two eyes, your two nostrils, your mouth and your two ears. says there the seven um the seven um how do you call them the sticks of the seven so all when you guard all four all seven of them so you to have like a open flow also to to flow through you and to to understand things from hashem so he says that they're all corresponding to actual ideas of what to work on so he says that the over here Um over here he says the first one is that he says that you should guard yourself from speaking um speaking she so when you when you read that you're like okay so is saying that if you guard your mouth from speaking she so then you're going to be able to um to have this sheiki this divine influx. But the truth is that if you think about it, like it's a little strange. First of all, the mouth has so many other things that it does that that would be, you know, very uh susceptible and and very, you know, make much more sense to speak. Don't speak mouth. Don't eat. Don't eat like a glut, you know, like the mouth. He says, "Don't speak falsehoods." Now, I would imagine that most adult people, if you ask them, how many times did you lie today? I would say that most normal adult people are not psychopathic liars be like I didn't lie today you know how often do we lie you know like sheer me piv [snorts] straight up sheer don't lie like people don't lie so like what is the reb saying of all things like don't lie that's going to bring you so I think of just using the the idea of also can understand not just to guard yourself but to watch yourself. What does it mean to watch yourself? Watch yourself over there. He says, "Watch yourself to make sure that what you're saying is really coming from you." Which means how often do we speak, but we're not speaking. I'm not speaking. I'm just speaking because I'm saying what that person wants to hear, right? Someone says, "Oh, you know this and that." you start speaking and you you notice that your whole posture and your whole way that you're forming the conversation is just because you know that that person you know they don't want to hear what you have to say so you'll speak about some other thing or you know someone slightly attacks you and they say like oh how you learning oh ask me how I'm learning oh so you'll start thinking yeah I have a s here so you're not saying lies you're you're you're saying the truth but you're not speaking yourself you're speaking because you he needs to hear that. That's already a form of lying there. When you when you when you watch yourself and see what do I say? What's my core? Then already you're going to be speaking much more truthful words and you're not going to be bending or twisting things in in any way. That is just a side point. But over here that's uh that's what he says over here between the he says that basically if and when you see between you should know that this is because we we have messed up our and then we're seeing these so I was just thinking a little bit what this means like again the starts off so there's the element always of this is something that was able to be mass that when you see between you should just know that it's your fault it's your thing your issue not them. Um, but obviously there's lessons to be learned. So the push lesson that we can learn from that that the Reb speaks about and that the speaks about and I think the speaks about and I think told to is this idea that a lot of times when you're judged it's really when when you're shown someone else doing something else it's really from you. The BMP has a famous story where he saw someone being shabas and he recognized that he has a kil in chabas and he was like I don't see any kilk in chabas. So he fasted for three days and and and at the end he realized that one time when he was younger years before someone made a comment that was derisive against sadikim and sadikim were compared to shabas and he did not say anything against that person. So that was a chabas he did and he never saw Shabas again. I don't know where he lived. But [laughter] so the idea is though that when you see things in others, it's a reflection of yourself. And who's showing you a video camera um a very kind video camera to see to for you to recognize that a man it's it's not the other person that you're judging. It's actually judging yourself. I had I probably said this. I had a great um living example of this. One time I was I was coming out of a bathroom in the base med. So it was Friday afternoon and people were dabbing early ma there and I was saying and as I'm as I'm there I see that they're starting mka. So I was like okay I'm going to d later like before shabas. I'm watching and there's a guy saying he's like 13 years old. Mom is like, you know, just put on the hat and he's doing with all his might and he's like shuckling and everything. But as he's shuckling, he's going like this and he's like looking in every direction like mish like I was like all over the place. I'm like thinking like it's so cute that you're shuckling but like you know look inside, close your eyes, you know, like what are you doing? And then all of a sudden I heard oh that was me. I was saying actually I was looking at [clears throat] this guy. So you could look at the other guy and say, "Oh, what a nice if he's not focusing on his, you're not focusing on." So has that. So if you see a you see people arguing, so then maybe it's really just and you. So that's a one element of looking at it. But that would be applying to everyone. Meaning if you see anyone having a mus you could say well I'm probably having some sort of what's that what's the aspect over here that when you see it among that's coming to to do something for yourself. So over here, I think it comes down to the mat and the meaning the most of us are filled with. We're filled with this this stuffed up poofy thoughts that that just say just just eat the thing. Just eat it. Just eat it. You don't need to think if you need to eat it. You don't need to think if you're hungry. You don't care if you're hungry. Just eat or whatever it is. Just go after the goal. Go after the thing. Whatever that that ty that desire is. So just just don't think that sadikim. They don't they don't let that happen. They're the matzah. They they they break things down and like he says matsusa they they fight. They fight. They say why do I really need this thing? Right? Do I really need this uh this next, you know, next bite? [laughter] The the there's a famous story of Ramnasan that uh someone came over to him while he was eating a meal. He was eating lunch or something and he asked him a very heavy question about life. Like I don't know it was like some sort of big issue in his life. massive issue and he asked him and Muslim was like like eating and he was like kept speaking and he and so he asked what to do a few times and Muslim was like still like you know contemplating it and at a certain point he just stopped eating and he said he said I don't even know if I'm full or not full in order I should take another piece of bread now or not and you want me to answer this question like on a dime like [laughter] affect your whole life like your marriage and your kids forever like I'm I'm still working on like if if I should really have that next bite or not like but I mean you see that that sadik and you obviously have this understanding when you when you connect to them that they they have these these of of clarity of what they're doing so by them they have matzah simplicity they're they're all their issues are broken down into very simple core issues and when they have a misus it's not the same thing as us having two regular people having a misus means I want to make money. I want to charge you X, Y, and Z. And you're saying that you deserve X and who are you? And why did you get it? And and we we have all of our puffed up desires and his puffed up desires. And those matzah those places are all smashing into each other and making a big uh a big ch. That's our So by us, it has that is that that that element that we're not actually arguing. We're just the the garbage all around us is arguing. by the tadikim when they argue it's cut down to the core which means that it's just the matzah it's the simple the bread you know not even bread it's just flour and water there's nothing there's no ingredients no sugar and there's no yeast and there's no sourdough there's no there's nothing it's just both of them are just flour and water I how can you you know matzah so even over there there's different there's the there's the satir matzah there's the vishniter matzah there's the shatzer matzah right Every matzah has their their zah. Which one is the right matzah? I don't know if there's a right mata or wrong matzah, right? Whatever you like, whatever you prefer. Or certain people need very thin matas because they have issues digesting. Certain people just want the thick, you know, labavich matzah because it gives them full. Everyone has their thing. And the tadik also have that element. I just heard from the vag that he has this big someone was telling me from a cafer that there's this whole like big mus between the hagra that some of them said that the vagun was very much pro that you should learn all the science and mathematics obviously not philosophy and things but science and mathematics you should know the world you should know all the details because it just improves your incredible glory of you appreciate hashem incredible ways and the other campuses the didn't let you learn anything in the right away I said to the guy that was telling me I was like I'll tell you why cuz one is talking about in the bathroom when he's talking about the bathroom he said it's brought down in the safer it's brought down obviously when you're in the bathroom also to learn what are you supposed to do then there space out learn science and math learn these things that'll blow your mind of the creations of outside of the bathroom they're right so you see that that's like it says in the in the Sky, right? So, a lot of mafarim grapple with that like it's going to stay like why would that be a good thing? Should be that it's destroyed. It's not anymore. We all get together. We have a treaty and then then no more. And the answer that they give is that no because they're each speaking about a point of truth and are both correct. Alu means that they're literally both correct. Why? because there's different facets and there's different peoples and there's different times and everyone had has their thing and their time and their moment where they can connect to through through a certain path. So all of these sadikim bring that out. So now the are screaming no you should be learning to all day and then you have this other sadic and he says no you should be spending at least six hours in ding and the three hours is learning is fine no seven hours in learning and two hours and they're arguing and they're throw so if you're are filled with filled with things so what are you going to be hearing these guys they just want to have they're stellar they want to have good fundraising They want to get that big donor and they know that he likes it. You start making up all your stories for him and he also you get the and he wants to make sure that the dings are inspired because likes it. You have a perception of the whole thing and that's how you come out and make this whole and then what do you do? You say oh this this and that and this thing you have a whole whole so the is teaching us here is that you got to get rid of your that's the is is if you see it like that that's coming from your perception your because the like he calls them they're they're they're worked out they're they're over there what he's speaking about and what he's speaking about are both and therefore the second that you start to get rid of your all your thoughts that are are puffed up like that so then you're going to start to see the core of the issue this is talking about learning for seven hours straight And that's something that we have to do. And they said, you know, like the I think one of my said when I was in the mirror and I was getting into he goes, you know, used to be that there was like a big between. But now everyone [laughter] learn 50 hours a day for 15 hours a day. Like everyone everyone's doing everything. Don't worry. which is true because when it's misstick when it's truthful and you see that also when you come to I see higher level but when you see when you come to the the the true in all the camps so then there's no there's never any there's never any thing that this one is right and that one's right or that one's wrong they're all doing the perfect job of a in in a sense but the they have their nikuda that they focus on. They have their nikuda and you have to find where you fit in. But once you get rid of your own and you could recognize and see that that they have their purity and they have their purity and they're both true. So I think that's what he was saying over here. Let's just try to finish up the next paragraph because an interesting paragraph and we'll call it quits for today. They say that hey you have to combine and the left side which is and the right side is the main revelations are going to come through through kindness. Sit and wait at my right hand. The rest of the says while I make your enemies into your foottools. that says if you just sit by my right side which is the so then I'm going to destroy all your enemies the the same idea love is if you want to make these these thunderous impressions into your head that we spoken about till now so you have to have some so until now we were speaking about the ram was a very intense thing it's like a coil that you're speaking and it's making this intense thunderous shaer impression into your brain now he's saying True. But you got to remember that it's got to have mixed in and and blended in with it from the right side. The intellect, the mind is like um white silver that which is an element of the the sea returned by meaning the sea of your mind. your that that's a reference of to its strength. So you have the mind that's being filled but from what from and from from that the the sounds are making an impression like a ram in your head. The main strength is through this through this that when you have the right side you'll be able to destroy with strength your enemies another to um show these ideas that's the um if you learn up you can learn up as being there's a reference to that even though a lot of times is reflected in the because it's or the externals there's different elements of how these are used. So over here he's using as being so over here would be saying basically that the if you have the then you're going to get the he says it straight out and you'll overwhelm your enemies because shave Liamini to my right side you will sit you will stay and if you do that I will destroy your enemies so here just to to to close off this this idea what does he mean that you're bringing in now like the whole seems to be a very strong now all of a sudden he's bringing in this this love so one element is I think that it fits in well with what we said the other last week I think where we spoke about where you have to basically spend spend time each day in the we gave the m of the iceberg 10% on the top that you're conscious of that you're going you're pumping with and the 90% that you're not conscious of you don't want to deal with all the garbage. So every day you have to have you have to turn the mountain upside down and deal with that stuff. And as much as you're dealing with that stuff, you have to make sure to turn it upside down again and make sure that you go back into the so you have to have that dynamic of being of flowing from dealing with all your stuff and also making sure that you're in a very um healthy place in in in dealing with the interactions in the world with another idea of of I think of this is I think also within the words that you're speaking meaning the Reb says over here that you're supposed to speak. So you're dealing with your issues. You're going inside. Either you're dealing with it or for a better m you're dealing with a with a therapist. So when a therapist is dealing with their client when they're with their person that they're helping. So they could just tell them show them or ask questions that bring it about in a very powerful way, in a very intense way, like you see what's going on, you see what you're doing, you see what you're ruining your life. that all in that in that very conversation which couldn't touch very intense things. If and when you're able to splice in their love like the we're going through a very intense thing. This is a very intense question. Take a second just to stop think and to remember that no matter what the answer is you're totally good. You're always going to be good. You always were good. You are totally whole. Right now we're just opening up places that are painful to get to a deeper deeper place of wholesomeness. That right there is ahava that's injecting into gura into ya. And when you do that as the is saying is here that when you when you want this this coil that you're bringing out or like we're touching up these words that you're speaking that should make an impression into your brain. So in addition to this whole thing that we've been seeing about to get rid of the and to make sure that your mind is clear, you also have to make sure that you inject love and kindness into your very words or into the words you're speaking to someone else. Because when you do that, it'll give the gur it's to be able to make that impression into your to have the impression again drip down into your into your heart to bring it to Ah! Oh yeah!