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good morning uh we're learning
page 34 and felix olive of this my
modern milo cotton
it's a moment that the frida kareva
in brownsville
this
second night of reisha shona
and we're
in middle
of
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has been talking about details of the
court case
the judgment the madin
and one of the
more important the kudus that he put a
lot of time
in talking about is the limous huss
and that a person shouldn't be bashful
and shameful
to be malamates hosts and himself in
front of the melech
because that's what we do
anyway
in the prayers
he doesn't say that directly in the mind
but
he refers to it
to
to who who are our ancestors
to talk well about us
and help us in judgment so we too
should bring hussom to the table
and this also brings to mind the idea
that a yid needs to have
for a moment i want to talk about this
because it's an important overall issue
for
yiddish kite for toyota of siddishkait
there were people always
who did things to
gather in their storage box
i'll give you an example as a famous
individual
i don't know if we know his name who was
a jester
he used to go around making jokes and
making people laugh during the
bellshentos time
so there were those who looked at him as
a lightweight
and a buckland
and someone who wasted time his own time
in other people's time
and the story is that the balshemptev
said about him
this
the merits that he has
few others have
because he brought happiness to many
jews
and let's go now 200 years later
there was
an individual maybe some of his
relatives are here in the school or
definitely miami
um
nelson
fellaing was his name from montreal
i don't know if there's a family named
felix right the fellas
two brothers so one was nusselt
nelson was an individual who outwardly
you know would make people laugh a lot
that he would make
sometimes things that seem to be silly
but he really got the job done
so he could
you know on rosh hashanah he can go to a
store owner he lived in canada montreal
and
somehow
make
a light
and get the store owner who was jewish
who had a shop opened on
rosh hashanah to close the store because
he felt comfortable with him
so
a person like that you know has a lot of
sim
because not only do you have your own
merit of what you do that's good
you get others
to do good and feel good
and you get part of that
credit and the same as with let's say a
writer myself shalom we've written maybe
some of you written
when someone reads your work and is
inspired in whatever way
you get part of that credit and it's not
i want to i want to
make it clear it's not like you should
be seeking that that's not that's not a
jewish thing forget about hasidis you
know someone who's
i'm trying to gather all these credits
these brownie points so that after 120
you know god will look at me favorably
that's not a it's not a yiddish way to
to go about title mitzvahs but
nevertheless
when you do things that are legit and
sincere
and
and they and they come
and they and as a result
many others
do good things it's a great host for you
so when it comes to yay madin when it
comes the day of judgment
all that comes
with you and what we're learning is in a
way you have a right to
you know to mention it you know
to think about it
you know it's a very this is very uh i'm
i'm i'm spending some time on it because
it's very unhabard to talk this way
right what do we talk about in the in
most my moral bitter and bitter and
bitter and this level of bitter means
nullification how you're nothing and
you're a bigger nothing
that's all you know you hear khabad you
go into other circles you hear how great
you are
i told you you know what rabbi told me
about the difference between rabbi kai
and musatos and myself and others for
him and then
is the difference between schlemos
building man
orbital
nullification of man so bad you you hear
bitterly and also
when our rabbit became rebbe in 1950 51
there was really the bittle
the bittle to the rebel was never seen
before to a rebel to a chabad
you always had individuals in every
by every rebel who had great humility
but this level of humility with the
commoner the commoner not the big husset
the common husset
is so
dedicated to his rabbit to sadik to his
leader
that uh
it was a kiddush
and and and the proof is
that there are people who had a problem
with it
the old folk the older generation the
ones from the rabbi rashad and the
previous rapper
they weren't used to it because by the
previous rabbi him
the elder hasidim had more standing
in a sense like that ever consulted with
them spoke to them they spoke to him
by hour but that in a sense in a sense
stopped
it
it's too it's it's a
whole clinton it'll be a whole class to
discuss this it's an important point
so i'm just leaving it for food for
thought
but this idea of of bitter became so
prominent
and the last 70 years we're living with
that bitter so every masjid every
teacher of kabbalah
you can hear it from them over and over
and over and some
truly live it others don't
but some do
so here in the mimer when the rabbit
talks about
okay it's the previous river said in
to uh to to you know to to jews who were
not you know not used to kind of chabad
lingo and and then concepts
but nevertheless when you learn it today
70 80 years later 80 plus years later
it tells you here about being
using the sim using your merits
to go to back for you on the yay madin
so how do you reconcile the two
if you tell this to
if you say this to your average
bad talmud guaranteed they'll say oh
this is not this is uh they what they
call the snap the shame isis you know
stuff of the lit fox
this is not her bad way of thinking
that's what it says in the moment
you're stressing the positives here
what do you mean
well you could get caught up from rosh
hashanah with the negative
yeah i did or you could go on the
positive part
focusing on the positives
yeah but still but but still uh
do you do you recall before learning
this my mirror like the way we're
learning it
that this idea that i should i should
kind of bring up all the good points
that i did in my life on rosh hashanah
that's what i should think about i was
like you know when you get someone start
a child off you give them candy you give
them these type of things so this is a
positive way okay okay okay okay i'm
going to do more good deeds right i
understand but i'm saying that if it's
in a mercedes it's part of siddhas
it's not an
end it's not
against
it's part of habad and as you say
there's a perspective
and but but i'm saying even more i'm
saying that not only is when you start a
kid off
i'm saying you're not a kid you're an
adult you're a husset you're 60 70 80
years
and you learn such a mimer
it it it tells you that
you know when he give a maya magnufish
when the water is up to here when the
water is up to here
hey use anything that will get you
to continue by the way there ever the
freedom
is famous
well there he says also phenomenal thing
he says there
that when it comes to sur mera
when it comes to holding yourself back
from something that is no good
the frida kahre says that you should use
even gaiver
conceit
to get you
to stop doing that
it's very very rare that he says he says
it there when it comes to our saito
when it comes to doing good over there
he says hello you shouldn't use guyva
you shouldn't use conceit
you know you know who i am
when it comes to doing things that are
wrong
you should
you should employ even gyver to hold
your back
and that's not us in a muslim that's not
a muslim that's in a mercedes
so what i'm saying is that like you said
you have to have the perspective because
but if someone will if you say this to
someone who who you know they'll say
this is a snapdish of isis this is a
coming out of muslims for him you know
what i hear that when he
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yeah was right i know i know yeah so
here is more contemporaries younger of
rebel you know yeah so it's like what do
you hear it's the coronation of the king
or the way robbie salvatrix of yahshua
salvation used to say the karnataki he
used to say he spoke either
superb real universe
heint is that caller
from them kenneth nazis coronation
the coronation of the king
so i've
and that's what you see in most my
mother i'm just saying that
you know it's important to know that
there's a time and place for everything
and you could be a big cousin and
sometimes you need to use your sim it's
all right
it's all right that's all i'm saying i'm
just saying
that it's important to focus in on what
the rep is saying
as a
as a way of serving hashem and it's also
important character wise and mental
health and all that
sometimes we you know
talking about
the correlation of the king and the
people and all that hey
not everyone's
there and you need to work with the
people including students in the yeshiva
you need to build them and make them
feel good
and when you do that
then they can appreciate the bitter and
the
you understand
sometimes they we go right for the top
right for the top
you know
relax relax i think the crowding of the
king makes you feel better than judgment
day
i i'm not suggesting that you dwell on
judgment day i'm not suggesting but
first of all this is the mind that we're
learning
so what you're gonna you're gonna shove
it under the rug
what are you saying you're
i could hear you saying sure a little
louder please i was just i was gonna say
like it's like enumerating your good
qualities so in a way technically
speaking that's
that's that's much more uh guidance so
to speak than being like oh i'm not
being the king and just come in the
restaurant like that there's a little
bit of an idea to
enumerate your qualities and enumerate
your whatever right
i just heard something this week that
you just triggered my mind i want to
share with you it's
this has not been public so this is a
new story with rebuild
as you can see i'm very you know
interested in
in sharing things that i learned from
him and heard about him so here someone
told me this week
there was a very famous philosopher a
woman named rand anyone know who i'm
talking about i forget her first name
uh
probably the last hundred years anyway
what was her philosophy
that think about yourself it's all about
yourself how do you get to be more of a
better eye
this this is her and but you know she
argues her point philosophically okay
so
you know for a bachelor in yeshiva for
haba student to to to read these type of
books is uh
you know the eq
the heresy the equivalent of what they
call in what they called a hundred years
ago haskallah you know
you you
humanitarianism you
know which was not acceptable that you
in in the hasidic world in the in the
torah world it was it was a big problem
because everyone was into that the isms
were very powerful and one of them was
humanitarianism through haskala the
enlightenment movement anyway so she
came up with this philosophy
so this this the barbecue buffer in 770
had a great desire to read very bright
and he always had a struggle you know
what to read what is what is acceptable
what's not
he was close to the oil and he was
invited home to his house for a meal he
comes in
and he sees on the kitchen table the
same book that he's reading from this
lady rant
i can't believe it now that y'all didn't
read english you know
so obviously it was his wife's his wife
leia khan
khan his wife was reading it i don't ask
me why
but he that was an eye-opener and
so when he at the meal
he said to rabbi you know i want to i
want to share something personally
that i'm reading the book that i saw on
on the table that your wife's reading
so
says i i know nothing about it i've
never read it i don't i you know like
tell me what's what's it about
so he tells him what her philosophy is
does not tell him not to stop reading it
he didn't do that
he says let's let's talk out
her philosophy
and let me show you
how habakkuk
has those good parts of our philosophy
and those parts that are heresy and
ridiculous and contrary to god's
desire of a yid
i'll show you why
it's not for a jew
and he and he with his genius mind
explained to this very curious bright
student
what i just told you
for the next 30 years he stopped reading
non-jewish books
of such nature
without rabiel saying don't read it
this is terrible
this is heresy you're a nice foreign
fighter this means like you're a bum
you're an outcast
didn't say a word he said tell me about
the philosophy and let's talk about it
and i'll show you with which things are
the philosophy hasidis does support and
which things it doesn't and then you
know and you decide
so
you you know you mentioned this this
thing it just triggered this to me that
there's a positive each and a good
teacher
and a good parent
is able to assess
in their child and in their students
when they need positive reinforcement
and when they need a pat on the back and
all of that
mark and i were talking about this in
the car
people
people need
compliments
yeah that's the way human nature is
and
huh no no and no but and the certain
people that needed more than others
and khabar siddhas gives room
for both i mean i've had you know
disagreement or with with some hasidic
jews
about to see them
you know that that they're too much
putting
you know kind of when someone does
something they don't recognize it and
they put it down
it's not it's not it's not it's not
healthy it's not healthy
you know
privately you call someone aside and you
discuss it and you say you know
maybe pushing the envelope and and
yourself so much is is not necessary and
really doesn't make you
look better
you know and you're really greater than
that so the same thing is you mentioned
that i've ever mentioned the idea of
coronation of the king yeah
incarnation of the king
no what am i doing with this coronation
of the king
what am i doing with it
you need to you need to
it has to come down to a bottom line
where i i improve and i change and i
okay let's continue now
what dogma page 39.
yes i'm just saying so nationally
comes from bitter i suppose
comes from thinking about
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what i'm saying is what that ever is
saying is that you can even think about
yo mardin and all that it also comes
from bitter it depends what
it depends how you think about the day
of judgment that you did but yes
traditionally i would agree with you
traditionally i agree with you the
person thinks about your mother it's
he's thinking about ego and what's going
to be with my my my hide you know what
i'm saying
but
it's not saying that
i just want a point i i go back to this
and say whatever
whatever issue we're tackling if you're
coming from a chabad perspective you
have to remember it's a chabad
perspective and therefore what are the
talents the foundational teachings of
khabad it cannot be outside of khabar
and yet
and frankly i don't want to go into this
right now i say you want to be modern be
modern no problem but it's not bad
if you can find in chabad room for
modernity no problem but you got to
prove it you got to prove it in these in
these books these four
in these 200 years if you can document
in the altar
no problem if not
no problem you're the best you're great
but don't tell me that's khabad
there is a system that that bayern
shared yes elio
sorry i would like to offer a different
way of thinking of what you said until
now okay
please
we're looking at in terms of black and
white
according to the way not according to
the way but here's the thing
let's think about it differently when
you're running a business
and you look on your balance sheet
there's not just earnings there's not
just income there's income is expenses
right and both of them are vital for the
business
expenses sometimes are good even to grow
to grow the business
when you're investing in
okay so instead of like looking at it as
good and bad and judgment day it's not
judgment day like oh my god he's going
to kill me today no it's not that way
it's like
you auditing yourself to see where
you're standing and when you know where
you're standing you know where to go
from this point on
are you
where you
think you are are you where you want to
be
or not
that is the idea of uh doing a little
bit booking
so
and if you find that you are not in
where you're supposed to be or where you
want to be it's not a bad thing
it's just a course correction okay i
found out that i'm not in the right
place now i know where to progress if
you don't have a goal how you gonna
reach it
so i'm thinking it's more like of a
self-contemplation
about where i'm at where i'm going where
i've been
it's not positive or negative it's just
what it is
okay so why is that why is that
different than what i said because
it's not different it's different than
the perception of like oh this is bad
this is not good this is good this is we
we are labeling things too much
and once we label these things we are
empty
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it's not all egotistical it's not at all
uh for the benefit of oneself
it's just that a person's actually
taking numbers
and making adding up the numbers right i
i i i agree with both of you all what i
was saying is that what abram said
before is the way people in the world
think about these issues that's all so
it's it's we're all really saying the
same thing but but you know he echoed
the way you know you hear oh yo madin
one thing comes into mind
another thing comes to mind that's all
and uh
and what you're saying is the way we
reconcile it and the way i see this
teaches us how to look at it let's
continue
so we're 39 three lines
we'll understand this
is
and there are issues that you never
considered they were wrong because of
justifications hasibo the first cause
the first reason is
simply you don't know the facts you
don't have the information you don't
have the data called ignorance
they're people that don't do certain
mitzvos because they're not
knowledgeable they're ignorant they send
a starkville
they became they became very coarse
my face need the grace guide from legend
film now you see the rebels addressing
the people who don't even
don't know the greatness of putting on a
parent film when the hard cut from
hillary shoppers and the seriousness of
desecrating shabbat so my call is the
suit is eating forbidden foods
family purity a woman before having
relations goes to a mikveh
that was very sharp and that ebb is
talking to a certain crowd in
brownsville he's saying
um there are difficulties and there's
troubles with kids and you know and all
that um check out your family purity
vapes the second issue is hakrido's
apathy
the cow kite
the cold is the kapathi that's caused by
being uh involved in work work work the
whole they will see but
that's why you forget about even great
transgressions you did earlier in the
year
when
that are forbidden and you let it go by
and and because you don't know that this
is forbidden and this is muther and this
is permissible
you have a little or a sense of war for
god you don't have much of that they had
a single slave and you don't make your
heart pay attention
abraham
but the prosecutors
oven they add
salt and pepper to the transgressions
and they they they heighten them and
they say you know what he did on this
day oh they the time is the fear shyness
and they have all kinds of arguments but
take for example someone calls the court
to the judgment right they take a little
thing i remember when we were from
california 1980s we had a cabaret house
in a residential area and there was a
court case so this this lawyer is
non-jewish irish you know tall
handsome
hair slicked back he gets up in a high
san francisco high riser and he's going
to say why khabar has no right to the
parking and why khaba should not be
giving up permission to have a cabanas
and he says they have a hundred people
coming to synagogue friday nights and
the cars you can't imagine they stuff up
all the streets
trust me if i got a minion friday night
i was a happy camper
and most of my chevrolet lived in the
areas they didn't drive on shabbos so
maybe i had one or two people who came
by car and they knew they came from a
time and place where they parked three
blocks away because they didn't want
anyone to see that he came by car right
but we barely had a minion
and he said straight lie out lie with a
straight face now my lawyer made
made make minced meat out of him by ship
by you know and everyone saw that he's
lying but that's what he did he took uh
he took what was possibly a
transgression you know
via
a violation of the parking places which
the judge said
that they belong more to chabad because
the constitution protects religion than
to then the swim than the the soccer
moms and the swim meets we have more
access according to the united states
constitution to those parking places but
regardless and we won the case but
hashem three to zero was returned over
and we won we had it
and all that but the point i'm saying is
you take a little lie and you blow it up
oh you think right that's what it says
here they come along these prosecutors
and they take
something we did on this and this
thursday you know
seven months ago and they said you know
what this guy did it's outrageous that's
what we're saying over here let's
continue
yeah and they say
even if you're gonna find merit i will
get the godless
they say you know you want to let this
guy get away with it because he has
other merits
but listen the sin that he did not only
impacted him personally so maybe for him
you can find merit why why we should
give him a pass
but his transgression caused other
people
to transgress that's called mahdi sarab
because
when a person thinks about all this the
situation in all honesty it's between
him and hashem and he looks at myself in
the mirror
everyone knows
who knows the situation
is
all the arguments that are going to be
brought against you
the titan is it for yourself
and you you bring to mind all the issues
that they will say why you're guilty of
a divinity i'm alarming scores and then
you bring to mind all the issues that
are meritorious for your side
and within the depth of your heart
you you you think about the truth as
though you're standing before a judge
and when you realize that the judgment
will probably be that i'm guilty and the
only thing is my pleading my request
well we know mulcain who which we say
that our our father our king is but if
he is blessed and elevated exalted
he opens his hands to accept those that
return that want to return the zellw
of shatteredness of broken heart at this
point
the screaming of a deep inside
screaming coming from the depth of your
heart
little boy you realize it's up to me
my lip
is the illuminati is close to the spark
so
every single year needs to arouse as the
kurdish level the point of his heart the
essence of assad allah
and will is
to plead to hashem have mercy on my soul
and the souls of my family
through the great trilogy top of page
41.
he's repeating them at the same point
but now
in front of a judge and you know it's
relevant to yourself to your what's
going to be with you
you return to hashem
um through complete
repentance and i'll call it verbally
table show them over and everything that
you did that was no good in the past
you accept upon yourself the yoke of
hashem for the future so we'll stop here
but the last point over here is a very
nageya that's an ace in la milo remember
that it's a time an auspicious time okay
heaven continue learning on your own