Maamar Vkibel 1927 #14 Focus & Concentration and You'll find Truth

coming towards the end of this mimer we'll finish in gym next week before purim and then we'll hopefully learn a minor for pesach so when you come to the cedar you'll have some more things to share with your family and friends and whoever is joining you and then after pesach plenty will start the cuntus the previous rep is tweet us on education that will be the pace of berlinette that's great okay so we are on page two hundred and sixty two hundred and seven 207 and we are in middle of the page the rebbe here mentioned a ve a very special indian a very special idea and that is that that he he speaks about something that's you know it's hard to face but he we have to face it and that is are we really close to hashem so he's talking now about someone who outwardly is close to god the question is whether deep down he's close to god he's really close to god that's the analysis that he's using now and by and by the way it's all meant to explain this idea that we began with um on page 206 the beginning of chapter 14 that there's a concept called a machias ability mathias non-existence which the content of which is existence and and to this he gave us this he's giving us this muscle i think where he's going just to to put it in perspective is here you have someone who outwardly is doing everything that's right he's doing coming to the minion he's learning his kitas and he's learning it i'm bomb and he's giving to dhaka a friend you know says something to him or or looks at him and he's impacted and and all of a sudden he's not committed in the same way because of what someone else says what does that show you that shows you that he on one hand he's non-existent he's he's bottled to god he dolphins he learns he does avoid this hashem but as soon as you touch the right button as soon as you get deep into into himself and the zulus the friend brings out kind of the worst in the person you know so he reverts back to his his self which is yet not refined so that's maybe small the connection he's a built-in macias he's not a machias but nevertheless the content of this built-in cs is macias in other words i am happy to be subdued and nullified us will use the word yesterday to god but but i'm happy about it that itself is the is the mathias that's that's the yes that's the ego that's the entity maybe that's the corollary between the muscle and an initial but talking just about the muscle for another moment this is a very a very hard avoider this is something that spends a lot of time on in various different words and and ideas throughout the modern the altar who in the couture and terrorists speak so much about the molecular message of calamine those three terms and ideas you'll find throughout the counterterror entire er in fact the rabbi's brother-in-law is the rashad the joke in 770 was you know he would say a mimer every shower should this because he had i think i think he had he had instructions from the previous rabbit to do so right so most people were not around they went home after the fabregan or they didn't or if it wasn't for brendan they didn't come back especially to be at his mimer because he wasn't there ever so he took the moment upstairs upstairs thank you that's correct in the small base madrish and to get a minion to wash he wanted he you know was you know you know that we don't watch for sudah for shall i show this uh don't worry if you do it's not it's not a sin okay but um it was a hard thing to get people to wash but he got his minion and he had a few committed people and they would sing the same songs for 10 20 30 years and he would say a mimer so the joke was that he repeated the same mimer each week which he didn't but but he he said many my muram of the altareba and and and you hear the same words so to the average listener who didn't know what's going on he only heard those three words or those three ideas they said oh the rashford repeated the same mimer so the word got around he's repeating the same mimer and of course it was it was a laugh and a joke and he wasn't because i sat just for another moment before we begin i sat next to him in 1983 or so this is after he had a stroke in 81 or 82 he he got a stroke he was a stroke patient but so he couldn't speak clearly but he came down to shop this morning and he learned with shalom haritanov and basically i they were learning derebra schwab's my muram of of uh of 1899 tough freshman test which i beat my mother and he knew them thoroughly and in fact he had he had the ton of re read it and he was like listening a lot of the time he knew him by heart they say that the previous rabbit chosen one of the reasons as a son-in-law because he knew 300 my murmuring by heart of the rabbi him at the time when he was a hustler that's what i heard years ago and i never verified it but that was the talk in yeshiva you know so he he knew much more than just the coup d'etat of my mormon he was a he was a gorari they're very deep thinkers of hasidis um so i i'm saying this because you know when you when you learn hasidis and you get into it then you start confronting issues that are really uh you know the rough edges you start getting to the rough edges of character and personality and that's the difference in people everyone's good calling but then there's cool in place from this pm everyone is holy and everyone is good and everyone has the best choice but then there is those that open their mouths when you open your mouth there can be ego that shows that the inside is not yet one and that's fine so the rebbe is looking at this issue here but and here he tackles it with a very interesting observation you know what the impact of your friend on you i'm usually you don't find that but that's what he uses here as the example to test whether or not your commitment is really truthful so that's what he says we're on page 207 um yes maybe maybe was also hinting given the circumstances there about the um the russian agents and everything not the zulus maybe he's not necessarily the friend but getting pressure from the government okay i i think not maybe but that's also included but but schwall you know we're not living today in betchemis or in brooklyn with russian agents uh looking at us so when we learned the mimer we have to understand that it doesn't mean only russian kgb but you're right of course historically it was not even what you're saying is correct but at the time that was the situation but the mimer you know is is eternal and so when you learn a mimer today you have to take it at face value as it applies to you today okay um well page 297 one two three four five six seven eight nine ten ten lines from the top the last word on the line on 207 is versibe what's the reason [Music] this is so that he kind of is in his own little arrogant world i believe this is because of his virtue no not his ego not his arrogance the reason one is he he's making the comparison whether you are emmaus or you're not embassy says when you reach a place of truth then you're not impacted by the negativity of the zulus of the other debut this is so because initially he was in the category of the other him and his friend him and the other were in one category therefore the other was able to disturb him and confuse him but when he reached through his own afraid of his own service to hashem he reached moisture the amos and the panini is on his far and he's occupied just dealing with himself and and you know in in the sense of not worrying what the other person will say us english trackers he doesn't have a relationship at all with the other well the mailer ain't as much as cloud the other has no value in his eyes or comment marshall takes for a mushroom hazulas he can make an impact on you well what about the friend from the or or emmanuel that you have no idea and he comes into your school and he starts giving opinions and he starts telling you what to do and you're the gabba what's your what's your what's your first reaction sir thank you very much you're a visitor here my friend you don't know the ins and outs so just sit down and dive in and behave and be happy that you're here i mean even if you don't verbalize it that's what a normal person would think that's what he says the elder muscle just like us a zulus someone else shall hear a harris of another city a name of avaloy would not disturb you because hey guy you're not from here i don't know who you are so whatever you say is is you know it doesn't it doesn't go in it's not that it goes in and i reject it it doesn't even go in so he can make so too as a comb to summarize when a person comes to the truth is the emote under earth in yiddish he is then in a different place art means place under means yeah it is indifferent so then he's in a different place los janeiro is a neat revolver and in that place the other person does not disturb him that's what i told you yesterday i remember schmoe that ever said one ah when there was after you know that with a brain he would start by bringing by the ski and go on for three four hours right and the rub represents working you know as soon as it's it says he goes out to buy back the comments from the guy and they never spoke the second secret that you have to be so immersed in learning and dominating that you don't even hear the phone ringing now he he needed to do what he did but the rebel was bringing out a concept so the same thing says here when you're in you're avoiding ms you're in a different place and in that place no one can disturb you they're not there they can only disturb you if you you know so in other words people say this nudge comes into surely he makes me crazy and then his arguments back and forth that's because you allowed yourself to go into his space [Music] but if you were if you were to be in your space then you would not be revolving from from what's from that that's the truth that's what he says here and he says when the other sees that you're elsewhere guess what he is nullified he he realizes you know wait a minute wait a minute i'm dealing with someone of a different quality here and this true bittle of course we have in the my mouth that that was that was a molex one of his features is that although he recognized amalek recognized the greatness of hashem these are the miracles for the jewish people right for the eden he had the chutzpah so doesn't take that into account but then we're not talking here about we're talking about our average person who is who's not acting chutzpahdick when he sees when he feels that this is someone who's in a different plane he's humbled he's this bottle that's what he says as the saying goes beautiful saying so he brings now this muscle back to the moral in this mimer which is talking about the infinity infinite light of god it's totally separate and removed from the created worlds insof is god in a form that's beyond creation the worlds and creates creatures have no value are nato for smoking have no place at all at all in comparison to the infinite energy of hashem by the haim and all the worlds and all creations ki ilu as though eno mamish are not are nothing i mean the fact is we're learning at a table or a chair there's something it says you can come to this feeling in a comprehensible way in other words what the rep is saying here it's like the summary of what he said earlier for this you don't need ammuna this is hasaga if you reflect well enough and on the right content it will be crystal clear to you like you see something and like you relate to it that hashem the we explained in regarding human condition human nature however was carnival of nato those that get close to toyota are misbahashim mashallah but they are embarrassed by their environment so therefore they do things for their environment and that includes sometimes for the wives and sometimes with the husbands and we'll leave it at that regain who are impacted allow themselves to be impacted by the other which disturbs them i will be a sign but at the time when it's called an auspicious time when your heart having a heart-to-heart conversation with that torah or a storm and it's one on one or people in an intimate group and it's between the four or five eyes uz then the other cannot disturb because you are a very supernal spiritual place a nazi type of smoker metzler and over there the the opposition of the other has no place it's not as it's not like there is an opinion and i have to reject the opinion it doesn't exist in this area in this arena it doesn't exist but you have to create that arena you have to be in that arena and he says that and the rabbit says this explains what we spoke about earlier how insignificant the world is in comparison to the infinite god just as the zulus has no place in us in the domain of truth so too the worlds and all of creation are so uh insignificant and worthless in comparison to the ainsof yes moshe what does that mean heather literally means lacking missing but but in in the context in hasidis heather theresa smoking means the the insignificance the insignificance yes yes very uh because when i come to school and i used to go to school before cover and before you do my business and government and then nobody would disturb me all of a sudden when i started dancing then people were better talking and i used to get upset with people to cook because it's not because i talked to them so so i i i do expect that when i was in the beginning when i was doing my my meditation i think it affected me but when i started dancing and i started being involved with dozens of already mentions that and they get us a koi dish when a person gets up to daven and he has the the someone come and disturb him he speaks about it then what does he say that's he brings yeah what he says and and and and totally ignores the the don't get into uh you know uh um a discussion you know an argument and because right there and i'm i'm telling you that this is not what he said earlier what you're talking about joining it's true meaning to say it's it's very workable if you put yourself in a plateau and in a space of of in a different space you'll see that people will will will uh won't disturb you i'll give you this just a silly example in sure i just came for sure right there's never a a a a teenager a young adult i heard he was a yeshiva buckler and he got into drugs and um you know he doesn't have where to sleep he sleeps in shul and and it's it's it's it's a terrible situation and when he's drugged up he doesn't know he can hit someone it's it's anyway so i took the position that i i i try to avoid him and you know i answer his question he asks for tadaka and and the minimal contact i have with him the healthier it is and and i see that when you you know other people like you know that they'll say something they'll make a face or this or that so he starts fighting with them as soon as you as soon as you enter into a you know match you've lost but when you when you're into when you're higher when you're in a different place most times they will they it's like you know they they you know they'll ask and and and for this for that and you give them a one a one word answer and you face the wall and you're under your towers and you do what you have to they don't bother you you know what i'm saying so it it's um and they'll go elsewhere and they'll go elsewhere yeah you're innocent if you're disturbed by noise that's coming from the back of the shoe you know that's a no-win situation then you need to find the shoe where there's no noise at all and you have some shoes like that but hashem our basement i mean if you came in you you wouldn't it's quiet the entire darkening there's no you know and the gaba you know he just stands in his place and you know sometimes some guys are talking a little bit you know quietly and he just makes shh you know he just makes a slight this or that and with a smile and and and we respect it because that's the right thing to do so we know that we we are wrong and and and he's right and and it's flowing and it's years like this so it's when you create a certain environment that's what the rebels talking about here so this is not just more words and that we that would you know that we're talking to waste time this is very important when you when you create an environment people respect you but you have to create the right environment okay if you don't create the right environment then people are going to uh you know ridicule you and then play with you and criticize you and it's a big bargain and uh i'm sure this is a very important for a guy like maisha maisha's agape you know it takes all kinds of characters all kinds of situations i remember when i was in bed chambers were true and and some fellow hope is well you know he he was so upset that uh shmuel and i were was spitting a drop at the heavenly rick by you remember shmuel i don't even remember his name i don't remember his name but you know i was i was standing behind behind someone he had actually attacked shmuel and i was saying to myself well what do you want well like what do you want from this man he's starving he's doing his thing he's not bothering anyone you know but but he became like cuckoo this is before covet you know what i'm saying what smoke what other people to see that so he made a suggestion he said you know take a a a tissue a cloth or something spit into the cloth and then which is why i started doing this yeah yeah fine fine fine but what i'm saying is the way that's right that's my point the way you reacted silenced him that i saw that too he had no one to fight with imagine you would have said who are you to tell me this is my minute well what do you want the rabbi rabbi rabbi the rabbi the shul doesn't criticize me for for for and again you know like you could barely see what what what's wool it was but you know you couldn't even see it it was like so but but he was sitting next to him so he he he and and it seems to me he has he's from brooklyn he if he lived in brooklyn for years so he had an axe to grind that you know he had his issues whatever the case but the because you put yourself in a different space he was silenced and i never i don't think i saw him many other times he didn't say anything and life went on so i think unison you know when you say you get back to sure when the show's open you know you know find yourself a spot you have a talus and just daven and if you need to put ear plugs into your ears or cotton i'm not joking i don't know but you know i'm serious if if noise disturbs you and i can understand then then do that but the thing [Music] shall wear is aids so i can't turn them off but i can't i can take them out okay listen whatever works for you i'm just saying that being a different space of conducion tara and and and hashem will make it easier for you you know i mean okay let's continue paige top of what yes yeah i'm sorry want to answer your questions as i'm listening to this just speaking last couple minutes i'm i'm thinking about how um the idea that seems to be coming up here is the idea that this is a about a person really really focusing about the person being able to um you talk about like a person being in a bringing himself to a particular space right so i'm just wondering which would you say that would you would you share would you characterize that what we're speaking about that the mimer is highlighting the element of a person really really being able to focus to bring himself to another level because he is being able to concentrate and be disciplined focused and disciplined is that is that would you like those words would you associate those words yes yes yes i would yes i would to the absolutely the focus and concentration uh in a disciplinary way where you're in a in your own space of of goodness kindness holiness and and um at that time you know if you stay that way all day and you don't help your wife at home and you don't help the people around you that's not the kavanah but when when there is a time when you're in show when you're learning the davening that's the time that's been allotted to to um for yourself and to become closer to the to talk of this barracuda um and it's you're right it's it it's not it's it's not an easy that's why it's avoider it it takes that it takes that avoider you know um the rebber says what should you do on a birthday this is not yong yang he says it's a day of his buddhidus a time for isolation our laboratory who spoke so much about outreach and did so much for outreach with everything else says that on a birthday it's a time for one to take time for themselves and that's what he says it's written so how do you reconcile the two the answer is there is once a year it's the day when you make a reckoning of your own life what you did in the past and what you want to do in the future and that requires focus and concentration and quiet it's not the time for birthday parties and i'm i'm not saying yeah the rebels spoke about making uh mercedes that that's another time on your birthday but if one were to just party all day and not do the of you uh the instruction of the murals listen whatever he's not following that instruction and it's very very clear and mind you we don't see that in this previous six uh rabbeim the frieza could have been never said to do that it's very interesting because is mainly um instructions from letters and seekers are the previous rebel so i i just thought of this i don't know small do you know if that hyundai nissan has a source from earlier i don't know don't know i i i don't think so i don't think so in fact i'm gonna ask a few of my friends who know that you're well about about that i think it's the rebbe's which is very unique because he didn't put in a lot of his own hiddushim in the hyuin and i think this is one and and so it's very very appropriate based on what we're learning now and based on what you asked this wool about the moisture that uh it there's a time for focus and concentration and the same is true the kashmir nephesh thursday night before shabbos or before us you know there are times and and this this uh creates a uh a respect a respect but it's available it's focus and concentration some will argue you know oh it's really the it's the nature of people it's the nature what we're learning in the mimer is that even if it's the nature whether one person is you know all all out there and you know funny and then all over and talk about and then some person is quiet and reserved it's true we all have different natures but here what we're learning is that even if your nature is you need to understand that if you want to come to a place of of vehicles of connection of ain't self it requires this you know requires this avoid the required survey though now you you get the arguments from some will say you want to get this you want to get to this place go put phil nom with someone on the street you know go find the yid who needs to hear the shay for it needs some seductive you know and again usually you'll see that those people saying that are people that are out there they're not the type that are more reserved and more quiet you know their people by nature they can't sit still and they have to always be active and they have add or adhd like i told you uh someone who raises their several million dollars a year to give hustlin a collar right she's become a um an icon in lubavitch to help in customer callers mamish mamash mamishin with the expenses of weddings and um she was an 88 adhd girl she couldn't sit and you know she couldn't sit still she turned their energy into kadusa the valdic it's beautiful and and i think we have to also look at this with children and grandchildren and everyone's cut out to sit yeshiva not everyone's cut out you know so i told you that whether the rep is genius and making them if sodium outreach saved so many guys that all of you know that are i know them from the inside and i can tell you not many were shocked to learn eight hours of gamora so what did they do they packed packages for purim in morristown we spent hours packing packages thousands of packages and then we got into the cars and we gave them out of nursing homes we gave them out of hospitals they gave them mad at the malls you know you know how many guys are saved because of this your innocence knows he wasn't even with us you know what i'm saying so the rebbe understood that this afflicted that we're speaking about in the mimer here is something that is is not easy and it's not forever and people are just not going to do it so how do you how do you get them involved through them if so through outreach you have a talent and and this is what you're seeing today this is the 1970s and 70s now today 40 50 years later all these organizations that chabad has jli friendship circle uh the janet and the list goes on you know who basically runs all these programs buffering the girls mainly not matt you know then they get married and some of them get hired as a job in my time most you know most bahrain were into learning or not learning but that's and then slowly there's the imperials of pesach purim hanukkah stuff like that but there's been a change there's been a real change and whether it's good or bad i i don't know and like you know it's not my place to but okay but you i feel you were about to say that the the that the fiduciary was saying i feel you were about to say that the critical rebbe is saying that this is not for everybody what we're learning i i could be wrong no no i was not going to say that no not at all a my mercy this is for everybody whatever what i was saying it what i'm saying and what i meant to say is that is that but the poet the poem in actuality you know man on the street it's not everyone does this and it's and not everyone is is into it can do it so you got to find second best you understand what i'm saying yeah but but of course when when you learn when you learn them afterwards yeah two minutes two minutes when you look when you learn when you when you learn a mimer it's for everybody but you know i was just being a little i was being realistic with a situation that where that we deal with and that's why i told you that most of these organizations and most of the great accomplishments that we have today is from singles who are not learning you know and they're basically doing the rappers projects and bringing the hakushem through the internet i mean all these zooms and fabregans you know what i'm saying it's uh okay we spoke a lot today it's avoid this hashem so stick with bring him but uh sunday mitch hashem will will learn more the mimer and they'll continue me we'll have a great job at zucker and i want to conclude to the mice one myself one story um salmon zesmer was a big hustler of the altar ebert and he was in shul and i forget another question klitschko another question i forget who it was who saw who saw him listening to pasha zucker this shabbos zucker and he saw in his eyes a hatred tomok and he said to him where did you learn how to obliterate amalek in such a way so he said to him from my rebel the altered i learned to see this and i understood and i felt what god is and what god doesn't like and that gave me the feeling of eliminating amalek so hashem should help that we should eliminate amalek which is doubts apathy laziness and all of those traits which are out there we should have to get a simcha and good health our main the um main have a great shabbos yes yes six lines up from the next to the last paragraph in the middle the same line is yeah but where is it where is it it's six oh i got it in the middle oh it is is it right i got it i got it is it he is then in the earth [Music] good take care