Maamar Vata Titzave 1981 #9 - Obsessed with Mashiach is Torah instruction - Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

learning learning theat chapter nine which in the text of lessons in my it's on page 379. The last question that the Rebba asked the Mime is that the sequence of theim the way the previous Reba his father-in-law explains seems to be not not in a structured manner because he says that that um the nephesh that that Moshenu and the Mosha each generation instills within a Jew is associated with right and yet the word and it's and and and that's the lam the crush state the state of being crushed of of being downtrodden and broken and that itself is the springboard for the greatest growth. So he says but the problem is that that is written after and only at the end it says that's his technical question which is not just technical because it's going to lead to the following chapter. So let's look inside the verse in the migilla that the yeden accepted what they began what they started way back at mira but at that time it was kofal because hashem put a mountain over them and said if you accept the fine if not I'm dropping the mountain on you so kind of it was forced upon them and now during the time of Mori they willingly accepted the title. to that verse. this verse in the in the it's speaking about simply speaking when it's it's when is that when did when were the Jews the the willingly after the miracle of purif but during the time during the time of of Hmon's decree That's when they needed the nefes and they stood with we might say the explanation given by my father on this verse who during the days of they accepted what they began during when what they began when when the was given who this this explanation follows the simple Simple meaning of the text that the vikel that the Jews accepted upon themselves was after the miracle based on this next page 380 should be there's two aspects to this acceptance this willingly this willing accept acceptance by the by the Eden one the acceptance that they accepted it through snapfish as explained in there was another acceptance you hear this after the miracle pim she that's even greater That's even greater. So there's one acceptance during the time of Purim which was or associated with Msafish self-sacrifice. Then there was another mess which he says is even I'm sorry another acceptance which is even greater that came after the time of and he's going to explain look inside the says we have this similar idea in the in regard to the crushed to the illuminary. in the cipholus through the idea of causes. That was during the time of Golus we reach the illuminary not just the illumination. Here too we find two aspects. One of when yeden are found in a situation of crushed mitzvah because there's a decree for over Jews about mitzvah just as when my father-in-law said his mimer in 1927 Stalin and communism had a decree on Jews that they shouldn't teach children and all of at. So, so too when the the the first aspect of cussis is when you're pressured, when you're crushed, when the enemy when the when the kipas says if you serve Hashem, you're going to be punished or god forbid killed and all of that. That's a that's coming from an outside force. all your day. How many snafes shall I have? And when you withstand that opposition and that threat with Ms because only Musfish will get you through otherwise you will you will uh you know you will um give in and give up. So that leads to a feeling. So in other words the CUSSES MEANS YOU'RE CRUSHED PERSONALLY you're disturbed you're broken and that itself GIVES YOU THE ENERGY NOT TO GIVE UP AND TO GO FURTHER AND TO have snapfish that's one aspect another aspect of that even when yeden are in a SITUATION THINGS ARE GREAT. THINGS ARE DANDY. Everything is going fine. No one's pressuring us. And Reb touches up. Rebunciates both. They have material blessing in abundance. And there is YOU CAN DIVE IN 55 SHOES AND HAVE 25 different and you can WEAR FIVE DIFFERENT TYPES OF TALIS IF NO ONE STOPPING YOU. Choose and pick your hello. So, so seemingly HOW IS THERE A SITUATION OF CRUSHED WHEN WE HAVE IT ALL? Like I always like saying the first time I came to Bameshim Bamesh and I I I my apartment that I rented over there was near these villas. So I asked one of the fellows, you know, he says, "Hey, why do I have to live in Flatbush in a nice beautiful house? I can live in there just roll in a va the best of both worlds. THAT'S WHAT HE'S SAYING HERE. SO WHEN YOU HAVE THE BEST OF both worlds, how is it that you feel crushed? Says, guess what? You're still in g. You are in g. We're in golas in exile. Next page. And this was the situation after the miracle of we had light and happiness and joyfulness and and and preciousness and and dearness and goodness. This means simply speaking it doesn't mean only we had wealth but the yeden after the decree of of of porim of hmon and all that that period we had the says in the brackets more so right what does it say to me know that also the house of Hmon was given to Esther. In other words, the enemy WAS TRANSFORMED AND WAS GIVEN TO ESTHER. WHAT MORE DO YOU NEED? Imagine that we get all the oil FROM IRAN. ERIC SOMEHOW GETS ALL THE OIL. IT'S LIKE THE ENEMY itself is given over to which means then there is also the virtue velvation that the enemy itself and its forces become an aid for the Eden. You take the clip and you USE THE CLIP FOR HASHEM. HELLO. So if so where is where is THE THE CRUSHED STATE is when you have it all says we were still servants to even AFTER THE NEST. WHO WAS THE HEAD HONCHO OF THE WORLD? AKASHES. BUT WE HAD THE NEST OF PURIM. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. You had a nest and you had Purim. Very nice. But the G says that we're still servants to so we are in a situation where we are shattered and broken. C is crushed. In other words, you can live in you can live right next to the over there on the other side. I was there and you could look through the hole and see the the ground of the of the you know the moor and all that. You're still in Golos. We're we're all in Golos and we get brokenhearted from this. was shattered. That itself is the springboard. We we we reach the illuminary. You reach the highest plateau from the lowest bottom. Classical 12 step. Until you're at the 12th step, you're not healed. You got to feel rock bottom. That's what it says here. And so, so therefore, AS FAR AS is concerned, there's no difference between the time of of when we were literally going to be killed for being eaten and on and on. or or the time of freedom because golus is tantamount to a decree. That's that's the nikuda here. Exile an exile mentality slavery and golas mentality is like Hmon's terrible decree and JUST LIKE DURING HMON'S ter whether we liked it or not we were pressed against the war we were cusses so to now if a ye realizes what's going on that he's in Gulos he's cusses next page 383 now the reb is going Explain this. The fact that Eden are brokenhearted from that from the fact that they're in gold because even when they have um affluence in in in material spiritual matters who the true will of every Jew who every Jew really wants godliness should be apparent and revealed. And to the extent that even this not even this to the extent that this this godly revelation it's relevant to who he is to his essence and therefore the fact that during the time of exile godliness is not apparent like it was during the time of the temple. And specifically when you think about the the saying of the sages, the teaching of the sages of any person, every person that the bid has not been built during his lifetime. It's like he has it has been destroyed in his days. That's it. So it could be a ben THIS THAT WHERE'S THE MDISH wasn't built during your time say it's very very powerful. So therefore no one could say hill no one could say hey I have gash I have I my dear FRIEND YOU DON'T HAVE migdash means you don't have gillus you should you know fascinations inspiration it's all nice but gillery kus that was present when we had a ba mikdash do you understand when we had a ba mikdash godliness This was apparent. THAT'S WHAT IT says that the bas mikdash was the muck of guil and it spread throughout the world. We don't have that now. Continue. This itself it says in Yiddish. Now going on to the next page is the word sutra is a YIDDISH WORD MEANS SHOOKEN UP. He's in completely shook it up, shaken up. That's the state of crushed even when he's in a higher level. you here. Let's say he's talking a higher person with a higher soul and HE SENSES THE BIKDASH. HE SENSES THAT. NEVERTHELESS, next page THE FACT THAT THE REVELATION IS NOT OUTSIDE ON the street. Just prove to prove that what you have to your yourself is limited. Famous story with the um with the one of the he told he he he went into his room and he opened the window and he smelled outside. So he said, "Father, what are you smelling?" So he said, "I'm smelling to see if Mashiach has come yet." So he said, "Father, if you're at the level that if you're at the level that you could smell it, why do you have to open the window? Stay in your room and and smell from and he answered him, in my room I smell Msiah. The qu THE ISSUE IS WHETHER OUTSIDE there's Messiah." It's a powerful powerful story. It's it's a deep it's a deep insight that is not YOU KNOW MY PERSONAL PLACE IS ALL GREAT NOW WHAT ABOUT THE WORLD outside and if there's and and the says over here that if THERE ISN'T GILLUS OUTSIDE THAT MEANS BY YOU IT'S ALSO limited and therefore you You could you could be a holy roller you could be tak and everything BUT YOU SHOULD KNOW YOU DON'T HAVE THE ULTIMATE OF GILLUS AND BECAUSE OF THAT YOU FEEL is and I can tell you listening and and being with theb 25 years that is fabans that I I was right he felt this WAY BECAUSE I SAW IT SO MANY times where you know and here here is a person okay Hashem didn't bless him with children and he went through the first world war and then the revolution and the second world war on and on but nevertheless from when he came to America you know things were in a sense all good you know and yet in middle of he starts he becomes so emotional and he talks about the pain of gulos I heard this from so many times over the years in other What what I walked away with and what we walked away with those that paid attention is HE NEVER WAS SATISFIED WITH HIS OWN STATUS of being a lab and learning and dabbing and helping Eden. No, because and and that's what he said in 1991 which we discussed. I've done everything and nothing and and and it hasn't helped. Now you guys make sure to bring Msiah. That was his nuda. That was his nuda. The nuda is it's all very nice. And I've done, you know, so many good things for, you know, for for world yiddish kite and for you guys and everything, but Mashiach is not here. OUTSIDE MASHIACH IS NOT HERE. MAYBE INSIDE 770. Maybe inside my room there's Msiah, BUT OUTSIDE THERE'S NO MESSIAH. So this this you see this says the same nud he's saying the exact same. So therefore don't you know and and if you think about it there is this attitude like I SAVE MYSELF. I CAN'T WORRY ABOUT ANYONE ELSE. NO. OKAY. But that's that's a limited it's it's true. It's important to think about yourself meaning in a sense of your family your community and it's very nice very important but what about the the Gil that we need for collective redemption you haven't touched that at all and uh the attitude of of many in the f world or maybe most is like okay Hashem will worry about that I don't have to worry about it well Leb have a different attitude. We do have to worry about the the entire world. And by the way, IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT THE HIPPIES WITH THE PONYTAILS OF THE 60s and 70s. It's about the fruit people in Williamsburg and Borrow Park and May. It's about yin because no one has mashia. NO ONE HAS GUIL. You got to, you know, you can can convince yourself from today to tomorrow, YOU DON'T HAVE TO LIVE BECAUSE THE WAY you smell the outsider if Mashiah is here. So that's the let's go back to that text. And he says, look at this. when there's even just one place au panas even a a um a deserted corner SOME LITTLE PLACE IN WYOMING a little town THAT HAS ONLY 3,000 PEOPLE THE QUESTION IS HOW ARE WE GOING to bring godliness to that little town to those people that place doesn't have godliness It's because the revelation where where it does shine it's limited. It's limited. We're looking for collective redemption which is limitless all over wherever you go. And I brings a tremendous teaching from the brought into or old sources. If there was even just one sadic next page 386. IF THERE WAS ONE SADIC THAT WOULD REALLY return and do chuva, complete chuva. When I learned this the first time, I I just didn't know where to put myself. Mashiach would come. In other words, IF THERE WAS JUST ONE SADIC THAT WAS REALLY CONCERNED ABOUT the whole world, that means that that's the way he does. Chuva, Mashiach would come. AND SINCE MASHIAH HASN'T COME IS A is proof that there ISN'T EVEN ONE SADDIC THAT'S DONE THAT LEVEL OF CHUVA. in an infinite way all over. And it's all over. And the fact that the world does not have yet the revelation of the infinite who shatters you, it breaks you. So this is the Reb's point here that this the state of mind of kasis is for everyone even the on the contrary because the is even on on a higher level he has to take more responsibility the words ill sick which is its numerical equivalent is 49. Meaning that even when you comprehend the 49 gates of faith, but you're missing the 50th gate, YOU'RE SICK. TELL A PERSON GO INTO and tell them they're sick. Why they're sick? But we have everything. We don't look anywhere. We're all closed up. You're still a even if because Mashiach is not here, but I did everything very nice. You're missing the next page and it's known writes in the name of that he heard he heard from his grandfather. We learned this in the previous ma, but he repeats it here again. I don't want anything. I don't want your paradise. I don't want your world to come. All I want is you. You, you, only you. The fact that we heard there's the name of the writes he we heard. THIS IMPLIES IT WASN'T JUST at select times. This was a regular saying of the that this is the Reb's analysis of his greatgrandfather's statement in that we heard from the alterb and the here explains that and not only here but in other places AS WELL THIS IMPLIES THAT IT WAS ONGOING. IT WASN'T LIKE once in a blue moon. And specifically after this thought of the was publicized in the is the power has been given to every single Jew. next page. That the main will of a JEW SHOULD BE ESSENCE, God's essence, and that we have the ability to draw down the essence to the point so much so that if you if this revelation ofos of essence of God is not apparent, And surely during the time of exile that we don't even have the revelation that was during the time of the temple. One is in the situation of crushed many requests three times a day. May it be that we see with our own eyes the returning of Zion with mercy was then there'll be THE REVELATION OF GODLINESS to the to the to the and even more the revelation of essence and this is the concept of what it means crushed through the idea of crushed from what for the fact that we find ourselves in exile and it bother Because we reach not just the illumination but we reach the illuminary the source of light that the that everyone's will from the position of distress is to have godly revelation that's page until that it's relevant TO HIS ESSENCE. YOU CAN'T LIVE you can't eat. You can't sleep. YOU'RE NOT YOU'RE NOT yourself because godliness is missing in your life. Mashia is not here. Therefore, you're shattered and broken from the fact that there isn't godly revelation. This is not coming from something that's superimposed on you. It is who you are, your essence. We call that the illuminary of the soul. The connection between this level of the soul with Hashem is an essential bond. Tomorrow we will learn uh we're going to have a we're going to make a I hope you come and um we'll talk more. Okay. Byebye.