Maamar Vkibel 1927 #10 Practical Faith in Business

from 1925 in baltimore and he learned in the babbage he was from hasidim that learned by the rebel shot still and came over and although you know some of the cardigans were children or grandchildren of the barbecue see them and that's why it was called ancil like many shoes in chicago in new york and philly i mean you had you had maybe you could say hundreds of them from the turn of the century until the 1950s mamish you had they had five in new york and five in baltimore and you had them all over anyway so he was the rev of the newly built they built a new building actually where john hopkins is today and you know and it's being gentrified the area was a very very rough area for years so but it used to be that was the the main place where the from eden were the yakuz baltimore was a very strong yekis community and and russians of all sorts both litvax and hasidan and the qasidam were pretty much you know but these were already children and grandchildren so so the ones who came from the babaji khabad you know line they they that's they wanted a laboratory of you know and i don't know how they they heard about this rabbi axelrod whose father was at the time ashamed in a school in mariada ohio he came over i think in 1914 as a as a what they call the reverend in those days you know yeah anyway so somehow they found out about this accelerate that he came finally you know to america and they grabbed him you know as a rov you know and he was he was a rough he was not just a rob he was a big year of shamanian and a very nice person and many stories that i heard about it which to me it's very different than the average custard even the others will bother you he spoke edition and speak english so the congregants complained with the feed it could have became to baltimore 1930 they complained against the rabbi he does not speak entire kids the kids were american and the primary thing in those days was to keep the kids through and we know that many kids that were not from you know it was it was the melting pot so they felt they had a rove who could instill in the kids and then the teenagers you know and here he can't speak the language but they hired him because you know because they're comfortable with such a person that's where they come from so it was it was a you know dichotomy so the bottom line is that they they they complained to the previous inaudib forget his first name and no not david was the father so his father david was the one who hosted the previous rapper he was mr lubavitch in addition to the rabbi he was the head of a buddhist for baltimore so this i interviewed the son this about 20 years ago and he told me that his father told me the story that i'm telling you and they went to complain to the previous rebel and rebel said you don't know what kind of diamond you have as your rabbi and basically be quiet you know like his yiddish will have an impact on those kids more than another english-speaking rabbi's impact again paraphrasing but that was the idea and he made an impact so so there's an introduction to the story the story is as the years went on you know i don't have to tell you all we all know in schools you know some people like to talk and they gab and they talk and they talk and they talk and if they don't talk during dive i didn't get talked before davening you know and you know before dabbing you just get up you're tired still you come in you know you're right you want some quiet and peace and you want to get the davening started so he wrote a letter rabbi axelrod to his friend rabbi posner who at the time i forget where he was maybe he was i'm not sure he will anyway he wrote a letter to him no no this is nashville's father rabbit shell imposed later he later he came to pittsburgh he was in pittsburgh from the mid 40s from 23 44 the rest of his life anyway i think that he was nerds his role also so maybe he wrote him and urged his throat they knew each other from the babbage so he wrote to him oh so so rabbi axelrod wanted to kind of put an end to the talking before davening so he wrote he he wrote to pose that asking posner what his opinion is i think it was posed anyway he wrote and he wrote back a letter in a letter he told them a story a story with a costume of the rebel marash that during the time there was a similar situation and alabama to steeple someone in russia but he they possibly eaten they came to show they were talking and then you know the spirit oh and then he said oh that they were learning hasidis before davenink but they were drinking tea now in in real old chabad you didn't drink tea when you learned it's not like i was taking taking some water or a drink you know this is a different you know it was very very tense it was a different time so so the love of that shul in the statue wrote to the rebel marash that he wants to stop serving tea or having them have tea while they're learning and the rabbit marash answered answered do not do it because if you do it they won't come not only not the hasidic oven this is once a week these need to work so hard during the week they schlep and everything else and they get to a show on shabbos to daven together and they and and they and they want some tea during the cities it's fine i talked about in the 1870s a story from the 1870s okay a hundred more years so he wrote this story to rabbi axelrod oh i forgot another point robbie axelrod said like this that he implemented no talking like before davening and what he saw was less and less people were coming to darwinink so that's when he wrote to his friend what should he do should he and his friend wrote them back you should stop your decree and let them come and talk before davenink this way they'll come to show so he he right he listened and you know thing and people started to come again so um i take away from this story you know the importance of camaraderie in in shul now of course i'm not suggesting middle of davening but it's acceptable if they speak a little before davening especially after davening that's that's an echo it's an icker i think there might even be some letters of the rabbit to rap on him about the importance of of serving a kid she doesn't have to be anything that's elaborate you know but the key so you mentioned the kidneys for some people it is the highlight of the week and that's when people bond and that's where people help each other with camilla's acids you know it's it's a very very important thing so uh keep it up i just wanted to say thank you yeah ready i wanted to tell you something interesting so it was a guy i used to dabble with in at the young israel bedford bay in brooklyn and as a guy he wasn't a froome guy but he would come always for the kiddush that was his thing he lived with a dog he had a little dog and he used to work for i think it was empire no meow he worked for me omar and he would donate stuff for the kid edition for the charlotte shoot us in the show like the egg salad the tuna fish all that and i remember walking home from a show once with him and he said to me he goes the only connection i have to yiddish is this kiddush it's like just being part of this that's exactly what we're saying you know and sometimes that person leaves over that two million dollar check and his inheritance for the show but that's that's that's not you know that's just the brownie point the extra credit you know he does it doesn't i mean rabbi uh i don't know if the rabbi yeah naftali is still in los angeles had such a story where a man came in to say a kaddish he said a kaddish he never saw him again or something and he left him over a tremendous amount which was the money to build his new shule uh you know which is like a multi-million dollar building he got it from that person's and yerusha so i'm just saying that's but the exams think itself that a jew has a a a possibility to express like you just said the story that's very important that's what it's about okay let's learn something this i'm not uh moshe and i were talking about uh i asked him whether he he and others understood what i was saying the you know the last year which i thought was actually a very good year he said it was there was very deep stuff yeah it was deep stuff but i gave some concrete michelin it's online you can listen to it again and i i'd rather go further than than than revisit it so when you're in the mood to learn some deep considers turn on that uh that youtube of me and you you'll hear it if you like it you know use it but let's continue now we're on page um we're on page 202. chapter your dollars i think that can you rub a dolphin do you mind if we do the kit sir before we go to you we'll do the kitchen yeah okay kitchen [Music] we explained in the previous chapter that having faith in hashem's energy which we call the molecule the pervading energy the one that deals with nature etc the slave of calamine and then there's the energy of hashem known as it encompasses it's the supernatural haim bay is a funny bittle they are two different types of subservience to hashem habitual and here one is called the subservience the of the lower now opinion the lower knowledge which is bitter the acceptance that there is in existence yes and that this yes this existence this this this entity is subservient beetle where hawaii to the level of god known as nothing because it's so far and this from us we don't understand what it is so this is the perspective that we call tas so this level of godly energy is the reflection and emanation of god that creates all the worlds that's one measure number two for habitual then there's a second type of beetle of subservience the das elio of the upper the the higher level of knowledge in other words from god's perspective who bethel bemidsius this is the subservience not only of form but also of idea and again briefly before you can deal with form it need the the form needs to exist somehow in an idea and concept if the idea doesn't exist in concept then the form is is of air it's nothing so before hashem created the actual physical world the yesh write the yes something avi something that's tangible the idea of a world existed in god in the godhead hashem in himself said to himself i'm going to make i want to have a world was there a world yet no okay so this is what we call the bitter bemezias now in other words imagine an idea here let's try to say this an idea the idea as the idea is in your head what place what room what significance that's the better word what significance is there to the idea as the idea exists in your head very little because it's still only in your head it has nothing to do with reality but the flip side is if it doesn't begin in your head it never comes to reality right so you know in a sense where is the idea most prominent in the head not in reality reality is already an afterthought reality is the expression of what you had in your head uh here's another example unless you maybe you could relate to it in your way your art i'll talk about it from from as a writer the way i write is and i would sue most writers the way i write is i i first try to formulate the idea in my head and once i have the idea in my head what i want to say what i understand then i put in writing right speaking is this way too organized speaking requires knowing the thought you want to communicate granted during the time of speech it says and considers if it's true there is a flow from the source of speech which comes at times during speaking which you didn't prepare you didn't prepare and all of a sudden words come to you and ideas come to you that we're not in the script so this explains that's because the power of speech touches something deep in the soul which transcends preparation right but i'm not talking here about speech talking about the ideas that's what he says here think about the bitter the bitter the das elio one second the idea of god creating a world as the world stands in idea in god is so much less of an entity from our perspective as as as reality is an entity yes moshe yeah just i was just gonna say that many times i find myself when i'm speaking with people you know sometimes i have to get up and speak in public yeah and so usually when usually when that's the case i you know most i prepare in advance to say what i'm going to say yeah but i find many times i'm having you know off-the-cuff candid conversations with people and i find sometimes that that's when some of the most introspective and thoughtful um okay but it's two sec yeah but that's two separate things that's two separate things that's true but giving a formal talk when you're announcing the times of shul or this or that or whatever that's a whole different type of a talk you're not you're not looking to be intimate and and informal at that time you're looking to be formal is that correct yes uh you could say that in that type of talk yet i mean i guess i'm speaking about let's say in terms of my work you know i'm giving a presentation about a particular piece or ideas or yes yeah um but okay yeah i could see maybe what you're saying the two different things like no no i i said to myself i said while a person speaks the at time many times something unprepared comes that's very profound and very special that was that's coming from a deeper place so that happens also when in in everyone's present thinking but i'm saying the comparison you made to you know intimate conversation and i'm saying you know very impactful conversation one-on-one that's a whole different scenario okay let's continue the picture we know what are you supposed to what where do we experience these two levels of subservience avi in the two is the reality not a reality the idea is not a reality because it's subservient to hashem shame is the lower level of where the idea is paramount it's an idea it's not buttle only the reality of it its existence the is bottle to the eye and munna makif we also learned in the chapter that a munna can be very and munna is but inherently superficial and that's why ghanva pumakhtar the the the thief at the threshold of the tunnel where he's about to steal rahmanic he calls to god help me steal and we said how could how can you have okay so now we're going down going down the mountain we were on a mountain and now we're going down everyone can and should find this in themselves in the gases whether it's these issues are in a very coarse way by the individual or a but be that what we're asking of god is an extra an indulgence you don't really you don't really need this you know you're you're asking hashem god give me six cars two yachts and five homes okay lamar is top of 203 the only reason for this is the mother's type of snapshot because you have a tiger you're a glutton like the thief standing on the threshold of the tunnel of the entrance to the door right he he needs money and he doesn't recognize that it's a contradiction to trusting god and belief in god well you do the same thing you're not stealing but you're indulging we're indulging um how is it that we could make such a gross mistake says that happens because we make we because we're misled we mislead ourselves shantae and be asking we mistakenly think the high stream is oxbomb and we consider ourselves limits we are god's gift to humanity you know who i am you know my mother was my father was my rabbi was here wow wow behind those he's precious in his own eyes it appears to him it appears to him i deserve to be wealthy if i have this money i'll give out so much to dunker you know what he really wants it he likes gosmius ramallah's time is not sure he has a taivor to fresh to eat to show off to boast the bread to be in the papers to be the big mocker that's really why he wants it it's baloney helloni that he wants to give sadaka and this is not hashem's will hashem is not looking for you to be a schwitzer in a mocker in a big shot and so this is this is you know like the other side is laughing this is the rabbit laying around you know like heavy this is augustus a big shot right now he goes to someone who's more refined let's look at the character here he describes the yester zebidakus the same idea we find in a refined way look at my basic master martin let's talk about business the asic mason who clearly prognosis right you need you have to work you have to do business but sorry we know that business needs to be a pure caylee rainey believe she'll need no issue without an iota forbidden the shekel of fallacy and lies of nathan feverish your business should be faithful the david edmonds to the point not only your practicality should be truthful but in your heart it should be endless maybe later i'll elaborate a little bit what that means you know truthful in the heart well someone takes a loan i'll give you that i just give an example are they 100 truthful that they they're taking the loan and they're really planning on paying it back and they're not going to make shenanigans a stick okay unfortunately a lot of people take loans with katrina with the cavanagh i'm gonna drain a cup i'm not gonna pay back i'm gonna you know make stick you have no business taking the law well you ask tell the person you're taking the loan from i'm gonna make you crazy when it's time to pay you back i'm going to try to peter and paul and you know and all that and then see if the person wants to give it to you because he wants to give it to you he wants to put up with your naras guy no problem and i'm and i'm talking about even in moisture in institutions okay i've seen this in jewish institutions unfortunately you know in the name of the institution you can go and take a loan and and really not be truthful in your heart of hearts because the person who's giving you the loan most times here i'm giving you a loan for this time i expect it back on this time and at least if you can't pay it back at that time some people will say come and let's discuss it you know the honesty but not like you know many times we play around that that's that's not that's not dave emma's belvolve that's what i'm i'm focusing on the words but david emma's billboard are you talking truth in your heart when you take the loan when you make the deal or are you thinking you know what i'm saying well that man's a very wealthy man anyway that's why he's giving me a loan he can give me the loan the other person getting it so big deal followed well you know excuse the expression screw screw him and mess them up and and and let them you know fly a kite that's that that tell him that tell him when you take the little tell him are you going to be upset if i act this way and if he says i might be upset but it's all right in other words basically he's departing with the money like i've said in the past in a way saying if i'd ever get paid it's a duck okay if that's what if if he's on that level kodak you know but many people aren't so but david evans build lovely be honest inside your heart come on there should be a godly thought associated with the prognosis the truth is hashem gave a person permission to work and do business commercial cause of changes your metabolism six days a week you shall we work with of the action this is not the ultimate purpose why ram was created is to work like my my father's mashpier told him when he was 15 and a half years old and he his father my grandfather wanted to stop working like they did in romania and go work and help the family my mother said to my father an animal works we're not in romania we're never just throw we built the country through learning at 15 16 70 years old i behemoth that's what the mashpier told my father my father was repeated let's continue now of course you know today we have a situation where some some boys girls you know are not shy for that so that needs to be looked at carefully but i'm just saying the idea is that structure and and you know okay why was ma'am created primarily on the cc audience i've made the earth via the malaria but also that created men upon it what is the purpose of the work there should be a godly experience through it the refinement of the sparks that are done through the through the business in kane custom of action she here but cletada that it's pure it's not good it's not shtick and we have to put a lot of effort into the fact that the asic that we do should be a pure vessel and sometimes you have to go away from something it should be according to the kavanagh hashem the purpose of god's purpose so what's the issue since the con the the category of faith is superficial moshe's the the item of faith is a superficial item it doesn't permeate you i believe you don't understand it you don't feel it you believe so faith is on its own a superficial island so since let's look what he says since faith is makif so he doesn't pay so much attention he says i have faith i believe in other words when you have to ill when you have to explain something logically you pay much more attention to it when you have to feel something emotionally you pay much attention to it when it comes to faith you don't pay so much attention faith faith faith i have faith in it goes back to what he said earlier in the mimer and this is connection to my shirabay no to purim and all that that is why and munna needs to be fed and munda we have belief i believe i believe what do you believe you believe when you go to sleep or you do nothing you believe that's why anima needs paranosa you have to sustain it you have to feed it you have to energize it look what he says you have to make the faith that on its own is superficial it should shine inside bitnemius and this was the the service of his job was to feed faith to jews it should become internalized with his faith highest not like the way the polish hungarian hasidus and hasidim believe you rely on that sadiq in the chabad ethos and system it's about that sadiq making the the face by you permeate your inner being just coming towards sadiq and having a piece of google going into yahidis and and writing to him and then holding his exotic is not good enough it's not good enough according to khabar khabad demands that it become the topic become in your discus and your kiss is in a way that you relate to it ah that's a whole that's a different ball game for that you need a motion albanel to teach you and help you make that a moon opening so listen it's a mistake to think a rabbit sadiq is there for for you to believe in him no he's there to make your belief in god previous you hear that there's an answer to the lit taina the lit argument of of old what kind of business is believing in a red but a human being and the answer is no you have it wrong it's not believing in the rabbits believing that this individual has the ability to help me believe better in god understand have a deeper belief in god and that's acceptable what's the difference between a russia shiva giving you a a shearing gemura and making that you know a reality or a rap but doing it through a through a story through a movement of a hand the whole idea is to make your munna in hashem more let's continue it doesn't literally mean grass for animals it means for the souls that are considered animal souls moshe gave them food das who hergish moshe made behemoths like us feel some real godliness we don't feel godliness we feel gaspies major albanian took such behemoths that we are and he said let me help you feel some luckness that's why moshe is called the faithful shepherd israel sustains and feeds jewish souls in the matter of faith should be in a deep feet way and and felt deep inside my shoulder does that and that's why we need them they should have been okay tomorrow we'll learn to kiss them and talk a little more about this meanwhile's against everyone have a great day only that's luck on everything bye-bye