Live From Yam Kinneret: Mystical Adventures of Rav Chaim Vital {Journey to the Galilee 2026}

Okay, this is your captain speaking. Welcome everyone to Yam Kineras. The garra says, "Why is this yam called the kinerys?" Because its water is sweet like a kenar. The water of the keras is sweet like a harp. So you may ask, sweet like a harp. A harp is not a taste. A harp is a sound. Why would you compare water and say it's sweet like a sound? says, "From here we see all senses are connected." So when something sounds good, it also tastes good. You could say it's sweet like a harp. But I want to share with you the historical importance of the Yamares. We're going to talk about one of the greatest personalities who lived in this area. says now was a student of the but then began to learn the cabala. Now before studied from the Arizal already wrote an entire commentary on the zaral was in Damascus and don't try this at home but the Arizal wanted so every night the Arizal all the way from went to Damascus he didn't actually go he remained inas he took out the nama of vital and he started to beckon him. Come to come to come tovas and actually this is brought in the that every night was in Damascus and the Arizal would come to him would say why don't you come to learn from me inas come to thought it was a joke I should learn from you I'm already a great god in cabala until finally he had a question on the z he couldn't answered another question, another question. He said, "Let me see for myself. Let me go to and see what this is all about." And the Arizal answered his first question. And the reason answered his second question. When he got to his third question, the Arizal said, "I can't answer you anymore. You know, enough." And he he pushed him away. And Vital was so upset that the Arizal did not accept him and teach him more that Raal did Shouba and he fasted and then he went back to the andal said you know what really I should have cast you away because it took you 3 months until you came to me but because you did chuva last night I will accept you as my student and Vital became the primary disciple of the Arizal to the extent that the Arizal uh said and gave gave an admonition that no one else is allowed to record and transmit his teachings except for now actually just as an aside there was a branch of the Arizal's cabala that was given over to Talidim who preceded namely Rabis Saruk so you may have heard of Rami Pano Rami Pano was a student of Rabis Saruk and Rabis Suk was so to speak grandfathered in to be able to give over the teachings of the before the gave his admonition that no one is allowed to transmit his teaching other than Vital. Now as we mentioned the al-sh was the rebi of and the al-shik wanted to go to the Arizal and would not teach him and alik was put in a very awkward position cuz here he is he's butal and are not allowing him the to go learn from the Arizal until finally the al goes to the Arizal and he says this is so inongruous this I'm rebi and I shouldn't be able to learn from you or and would say if you want to learn this material you have to learn it from and al said to learn from I'm his finally said you don't need to learn from me you came to this world to master the discipline of in your last gilgal you learned so you don't need to learn so in this gal you already did that last time around. This time around, you only need to learn shot. And here's the proof. The proof is that you'll see if you come to my shir, you're going to fall asleep immediately. And I have people like that by my shir that not only do they fall asleep when I start, I had somebody who as I was going up to the podium to speak, they were already sleeping. And I turned to them. I said, "How could you do such a thing?" And they said, "Rabbi, I trust you." Okay. So anyway, it's because in the last gilgal they heard the shim. So this gil goal, they have other things to work on. Anyway given a specific program from the Arizal to reach high madrego and I'm going to share with you what that program is. It's brought in the pri excuse me it's brought in the shahogim and the program is like this to be careful to the greatest possible extent not to get angry not to be maked not to be sad not to be arrogant not to speak not to have late sonus not to speak linhara not to have idle conversation, not to embarrass anyone, not to kill any living creature and that should act with that every day he should learn Mishna Kabala and his learning should be the Z. So is progressing progressing progressing the only thing is as he's learning everything he learns he forgets. Everything he learns he forgets. Everything he learns he forgets. And the Ariza would encourage the Ariza would say your m your soul is on such a high mga even greater than and said what are you talking about? Sometimes you tell me that I'm on a very very low level and other times you tell me my is on a higher level even than the tano. So said you should know that the way Hashem judges a person is not objectively but subjectively relative to the generation that you're in. You know in Svas in the 1500s the kayak was out of control. Could imagine all the all the you know what the what the media and was like in the 1500s and all the the billboards invas in the 1500s. So the tumo was out of control. The Arizal said therefore relative to your generation you are considered even greater than the tanom. Just if we digress for a moment, if the relative to his times because of the great his esteem in Shamay was so great, imagine how great our esteem is in Shmayim. Because if in Vital's times it was considered like the was rampant, what would that say about the today? In any event was progressing and progressing but he could not remember anything he was learning. So it's reported in the safar I want to tell you exactly where it's brought in the shar and it is also in the priim that the said come with me get onto this little raft and they went out opposite the old shul where there are a lot of date palms And they they went out to the kinet somewhere over there. Now I can't tell you I can't be mala exactly where although somebody just came to me last night and he told me that there's a safer from a makobel. It's called mearim maged. Not to be confused with magarim that he knows exactly where it is but it's beyond the scope of this boat ride. Okay. We we came too late. If we would have had more time on the boat, maybe we could have been Mala. Where exactly? So the Arizal took out to the kinet and he scooped up a cup. He said, "Drink [clears throat] it. I'm giving you to drink from the beer." And he drank it and his memory was enhanced. And that was the beginning of the great ascent of Vital. Now, beer Miriam, how did the Beer Shel Miriam get into the Yamys? How did that happen? So, a few things to know about the Yaminer and then I'm going to tell you of the Razina and we'll end off with a great mystery. In paras, Miriam spoke. Do you remember what the hashar was? Miriam said to Aaron, "My brother, who does he think he is?" He separated from his wife. Aramu didn't have to separate from his from S. Yitzk didn't have to separate from Rifka. Who does Misha think he is that he separated from Syra? And all of a sudden, what happened? The reb comes to Miriam and they cry out may meaning Hashem was showing that needed to be on call 24/7. So he couldn't he had to be because he always had to be in a state of purity and Hashem suddenly suddenly appeared to Miriam. So she cried out may what do you mean? If somebody needs a mikvah, you call out may what's the mikvah supposed to do? The mikvah is going to come to you. Why would you call for water? So says, "What mikvah did use in the midbar?" They had a mikvah where they had a the sat mikvah in the in the midbar. The mikvah they used in the midbar was beer shelim. The Gamaran Shabas says the era of Sha Miriam was a Mayan Hamal. It was a movable mikvah. It was a transporting mikvah. So therefore Miriam called out may bring the mikvah at the mikvah. So we see it moved. It moved. So maybe it went to the Yamineras. It must have gone there if the Arizal took out to the Yamas and the gave to drink from Mariam. But I'll share with you something interesting. There's a very big contradiction in Kazal. Where is the found? Is the found in the Yaminaras or is it the I believe the Zak says the is found in the Yamas. However, in the Medish and in the Gmorra it says the is the Yamatik and in the Mediterranean Sea. So where is it? So the question is is the what kind of animal is it? What kind of creature is it? What kind of water is conducive for the So the Razinereba in his journeys to try to discover what he thought was the he came up with the following theory. He says that originally the beer shel was in the keras when the bikar stood it was in the kinat when it was in the kinat then the kerat was conducive for the kilazin and the lived in the yam and that's why the z which was written during that time says the is found in the yam but the same way say all the animals migrated of Israel in the times of the so if the animals left then maybe the left where did the go the went to the how could the live in salt water so the razorba says because the shelium also migrated out of the yam and it went to the yamat and it used to be when the bikar stood the yamat was conducive for the but in the times of the gulos the is conducive for the why cuz the bearer shall miriam left the yamas and it came to the yam that's the theory of it's a very interesting theory by the way I mentioned the makubel who says he knows where the shariam is this same he wrote the safar Mishar Mag he happens to have a very interesting revelation that he wrote in the year 1947. Okay he wrote this before it happened. He says does anybody know for how many years was desolate even from animals in the times of the 52 years. But wasn't it supposed to be 70 years? So what happened to those 18 years? So this Makob wrote in 1947 and by the way this Makub has many discoveries of Makad is he said the 18 missing years of Corbin were fulfilled from 1948 to 1967 where you saw were not able to go to the Kais. Now if he would have wrote that in 1967 I would have called that creative. He wrote that in toughen Zion that after the war of independence the Jewish people won't be able to go to the kaisami and those 18 years will be mashlin the 52 years of in any event this theory of thebah does not seem to fit with the story of the and because they lived when the bdish was destroyed and according to the razina rebba The beer which is left the yam and went to the so where exactly was taking unless it means you know it mostly left but was able to identify a small little bubbling you know when you're riding on the canal you never know where you might get the shel the kai I believe the b calls the kali that there was a particular individual who had a terrible skin irritation and he asked his wife to get him a certain drink and the wife was a little bit late and she comes with the drink and he got furious at her and he spilled the whole drink and a little bit of the water hit him on the foot and where it hit him on the foot it cured his irritation. But his skin irritation remained for good because he got angry cuz it turned out she was late but she discovered the shall. So we see even in our time you could access the shel. I believe the shar says there's certain times at the end of shabas where either you do or you don't drink water based on times of the of the week where is accessible. So I don't know if it helps to ride over it. I'm sure good things happen when you ride over the beer, but we're somewhere in the vicinity at least in the times of we're riding on the yamas. Its waters are very sweet and somewhere in this general area are some remnant of beer shel. Okay, everyone enjoy the rest of your boat ride and later on tonight we'll go to the kev of Mayor Balines which by the way is one of the landmarks to find you go directly opposite the dull that are in front of the cavern of Mayor Balines somewhere in that area you could find the Shel Mariamkaya