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i finally learned
by seven
rabbi zevin was a giant
rabbi schlemmer
okay i finally learned
i can't hear you iron i'm mute yourself
did you ever meet that rabbi no
rabbis evan passed away in 1978 i was a
little kid
and he he has he lived in jerusalem he
did not come to america
he he wanted to come many times to visit
the lava
churro but the rebel always told him to
remain
in the holy land and that's what he did
he was a hazard
he was actually what's called the
coppest hazard
he was a cousin of a man named rabbi
shmayoh nayak schneiderson
who was a grandson of the tamartzadek
but then he became very close to the
friday
rabbi and uh
and then in later years very close to
the lubavitcher
he passed away in 78 he was the editor
of the talmudic encyclopedia
it's like a set with yellow jackets it's
very noticeable in the bookstores
yes the stories of hasidim that says
that's him
so i finally learned how to put the
source sheets in the chat of the zoom so
i'm very proud of that
accomplishment so i put it i always tell
you to go look at the source sheets
but today i finally put it into the chat
so if you look in the chat
you could see oh i didn't do it for
everybody oh
you see that okay schmuck
i did it for only
okay now if you look in the chat from me
to everyone
so you'll see a link that takes you
right to the source sheets
so you can follow inside okay
so that's a new discovery columbus
discovered america in 1492
and i discovered how to put a link to
source sheets in the chats
for the people our wonderful people
joining us in the zoo
my discovery for today will probably be
another few
with god's grace every day we have to
learn new things
you got to teach the old dog new tricks
yeah
i recommend very strongly to anyone that
can to make a copy
a hard copy of the mimer or the secret
and then you have it every week and it's
yes you don't have to find it every week
and it's a lot easier
right in front of
do you see chat you see chat in in the
zoom
she doesn't she probably doesn't have
hebrew
in her keyboard if she doesn't have no
she doesn't
she doesn't need hebrew it's a pdf she
doesn't need help
the text itself is in hebrews
it's fine if it's a pdf it's like a
picture
okay
uh if you go to chat you see chat
who just said she doesn't see it
i know that's me yeah rabbit significa
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i'm looking okay i wouldn't
i'm not such a computer you know how to
go to the yeshiva.net do you know how to
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or else or not no
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you
so you'll be able to follow inside thank
you
no problem that will make it much better
i'll be able to remember more
yeah thank you of the amazing show okay
no problem so please turn in your source
sheets to page 149
chapter eight this is the last paragraph
of the mimer
it begins while pisa yuvan you see val
pisa yuvan
indian tinusa miragulum in this
paragraph we have the summation of the
entire mimer
based on everything
of alpina yuvon based on everything that
we learned
now we'll finally understand indian tiny
steeper meaning
in the taina in the complaint in the
lamentation
in the revolt of the spies
they said
that eretz israel the nations the tribes
living
in the land of canaan are more powerful
than he there is no way
the spies said that we can enter the
land and defeat
our enemies and conquer this set the
region and settle there it's impossible
the spies as we remember came down
they came back from their visit and they
alarmed the nation and they inculcated
into their hearts
profound panic hysteria and terror
and they made them so emotionally
traumatized by the prospects of entering
into the land telling them
that everybody will die by the sword
their wives and their children
so even if the adult men were ready to
fight
but who wants to see their families be
killed be slain
and they said everybody will be slain in
battle there will be no mercy
you are dealing with giants you're
dealing with
fortified cities muscular
men powerful mighty ferocious
warriors who will simply
late waste the entire nation of israel
we simply don't have the ability we
don't have the capacity to enter into
the land
as they put it it's a land that eats up
its inhabitants it will consume all of
us
so now we're going to understand after
this whole long moment we're going to
understand
this conversation but we're not
discussing it from a physical
point of view in terms of conquering the
physical land
which is a particular geographical
region in the middle east we have a
principle in shabbos
umar says no pasta should be extricated
from its literal meaning so there's
always the basic literal story
of the spies going to the land and
coming back and dissuading the people
from entering everybody's overtaken by
fear they say we're not going and they
weep the whole night etcetera
but there's also in turn as we discussed
so many times there's many layers
of interpretation and they're all
interconnected they all evolve
from each other just like tears evolve
from deeper emotions and the tears are
very physical
the emotions are not necessarily
tangible with your hand but they are the
cause of the tears
so every story in terror operates on
different layers there's the layer of
the story that is very tangible and
concrete and physical and practical
and then there are the deeper layers of
the story the emotional layers the
spiritual layers the metaphysical layers
and they're all interconnected and
they're all true that's why we say
interred is
shot and remembers and russians paradise
in other words there's different
dimensions and different perspectives
there's different lenses
through which you can capture each story
just as when you tell me a story
i can hear the story and experience it
from different perspectives
depending on which glasses i'm wearing
depending on which lenses i'm employing
in order to look at that story right the
same person could tell two people a
story but the two people heard
different stories somebody maybe who has
more sensitive lenses
or who has deeper lenses or more
penetrating lenses
hears in that same story a deeper
dynamic or momentum
that is unfolding which the other person
would not hear they just take the story
at face value
so the zohar says in parachute woe on to
the person
who strips
tighter from its inner meanings and only
sees the external layer
the physical layer that the soyuz says
woe is
somebody who's only sees a body and
doesn't see the soul inside of it
and he calls it dessert calls it goofy
rice and the shmasa dairy
the body of tyler and the soul of tyre
so this is a very important fundamental
intro
for all the maimaru that we learn
because basically
siddhis is what's called pineamia sativa
nishmasa
rice this goofy rice it is the body of
tyre like the physical body of tyre
and that's the way the divine wisdom
assumes a physical concrete incarnation
and then there is nishmasa there the
soul of torah which vivifies the body
so here is a classic example for this we
have the story of the spies
the story of the spice on a literal
level is about ten spies versus two
spies who had this great debate
if the jews can ever enter into this
land and the tent prevailed
and there was a national hysteria and
the jewish people decided we're not
going into the land let's go back to
egypt better to have died
in egypt and live there as slaves than
just
and then die a natural death as slaves
then go into the land of israel
try to be free and get killed
but now here after this whole mind we're
going to explore
and find the meaning of the story from a
deeper spiritual point of view
so he says now we'll understand what the
miragulum said
that the people in israel the nations
the tribes and canaan
are more powerful than he and our sages
say
to look at their words they don't say
they don't say that the people there
are more powerful than us they say
they're more powerful than he who's he
so our sages say it's talking about
this is an expression from the gemara
insight that he born in the beginning of
the miami
even the master doesn't have the power
to take out his
own vessels from the house even he has
no access
it's like you'll say this house was
taken by thugs
the squatters have overtaken the house
and even the owner balabayas can go in
and take out his furniture
he can't take out his couch he can't
take out his safe
he can't take out his utensils
himself can take out the kale which is
an incredible
accusation that the spies say that even
god himself so to speak
lost control he lose he can't do it
it's too powerful even for him what does
what does all of this mean
so again we have the explanations on a
literal love but this my mirrors now
says
that they're also talking about a deeper
layer of existence
there's a famous expression of one of
the great kabbalists
is which means the stories of turn are
really talking about
spiritual realities they intimate
to physical realities the ramban put it
a little differently he said the torah
is talking about physical realities but
alluding to spiritual realities what
this means is that all of the stories in
the title really
can be read as an internal dialogue
between different parts of your own
brain
yes the stories employ people and names
and regions but essentially those are
metaphors
those are physical illustrations of an
inner story of an inner
dialogue of an inner conversation that's
happening in you so the conflict
so that the conflicts between
and hevel or joseph and his brothers or
yitzhak and ishmael
or yakov and asaph
they're all conflicts that happened in
history but
really says the ramen these are really
internal spiritual conflicts
the physical people are just a physical
manifestation of those stories of those
dialogues of those struggles of those
challenges
in a very tangible world which also
explains what the matter says that two
thousand years before the world there
was a terror
what do you mean it was a terror most of
the terrorists talking about stories
post creation how could it be a terror
the khazal al payment
two millennia pre-creation
was there a terrorist the whole torah is
about creation and post-creation
the patriarchs and the matriarchs and
the tribes and the descent into egypt
and the egyptian exile and the egyptian
bondage and emancipation and
the sinai and the journeys in the desert
and the building of the sanctuary
and moshe's passing all the way at the
end well what do you mean it was the
2000 years before creation
and i thought that creation also created
time
so it was not two thousand years before
creation time itself is a creation
the answer one of the answers to this is
that when we're learning about torah
we see terror as physical stories of
physical characters that happen at a
particular
moment in time and then a particular
location in space which is all true
but there is a higher dimension of
terraria where all of it is essentially
a spiritual reflection on some of the
most important truths
of existence and beyond existence
this is a fundamental understanding as a
prelude to the entire
perspectives to the perspectives of
kabbalistic and hasidic teachings
into almost all the stories of the
terror and here is a classic example
the rebbe sees the debate between the
spies the ten spies and the two spies
as a struggle happening between the mind
and the heart
between our primal drives and the other
things going
on in our psyche and we now go back to
all of the pieces of the puzzle
that we spoke about in earlier classes
and this has been a long stretch
so we now come to the eighth chapter
it's really the ninth inning but it's
the eighth chapter
the grand finale
do you see me we don't either i don't
you
rabbi litzman you see me
you don't see me okay
you hear me but you don't see me okay
okay
so um let me go out of the zoom and i'm
gonna come back in and hopefully it'll
work this time okay
i'm sorry for everybody on the
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sometimes when something gets stuck in
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you can't fix it from within you have to
go out
and then you have to come back in okay
you probably understand the nimsho so
now says the rebbe listen to his words
shitannosamhois
the time the complaint
the fear of the spies
was authentic you're not talking about
lies falsehood
so now you're going to tell me what do
you mean it says that the miragum was
chakra
they were liars the fact that the nation
accepted what they said
and the fact that moshe sent 10 12 of
the greatest
leaders of israel kulam rashid binay
israel hema they were all
leaders they were qualified people
maisha
chose them he picked them he hand
picked them and he sent them rashid says
oyster
sharing they were great people when they
were sent he says this means that they
were saying something profound they were
saying something authentic
because if one understands how intense
and how primal the midos of a person are
especially the medius of toyo the
middles
of that our most primal state of being
known as toyu the world of chaos
you cannot introduce any influence of
moisture
any influence of the intellectual
faculties
of cognition of
reckoning of discernment of analysis of
perspective of values
they will not work in other words
the raglan are touching on some a very
fundamental truth in a person's life
and that is that the seven nations
living in kanan
are a metaphor for seven midais so when
we speak about
going to the land and conquering and
defeating the seven nations it's really
metaphoric language for dealing with my
own
seven medici with my own primal drives
and those primal drives are so intense
are so powerful that nothing
in my system can possibly even negotiate
with them
never mind suppress them never mind
defeat them never mind change them
that's not happening
that's how we open the mimer
and from this the mimer went in to
discuss what midos are
and the power of me does and this is
true even in middle east of tikkun
never mind in middles of toyo and as he
said right in the second chapter of the
miami that the middles of a person
are so primal and so intense they're
pre-verbal
they're prima shava they're pre-shackle
and therefore they cannot be altered
they cannot be changed
and that's how we went into the whole
explanation that motion there's always
change
in middle midos there's no change
my is based on change it's based on
growth it's based on exploring another
angle another perspective
reversing my position of yesterday it's
the openness to constantly change
and that's what a real abomination is
real intellectualism is the openness to
constantly discover
new things to expand my horizons to
reverse my positions from yesterday
the worst thing for an intellectual for
a scientist is to remain
stuck in a position based on biases and
blind spots
it's the greatest danger to any science
to any intellectual discovery in
any branch of wisdom in any field of
wisdom whether it's mathematics
or medicine whether it's psychology or
cosmology astrophysics whatever it is
and the
certainly in turner that way
it's always the openness for new things
did i miss a detail
that i miss uh angle did i miss a layer
did i not understand the question well
did i miss this proof there's always
that growth and that change
me does he says
the middle is steven midday he said in
these are your innate primal
drives and proclivities says they
capture who i am it's not what i have
what i possess
it's who i am and i have to respect that
in me
after respected of my spouse i have to
respect it in my children
and i have to respect that in other
people
and all of that void in the middle is
that we speak about the rebel says all
of that
that we speak about changing your
middles
he went through in chapter two what that
all means
i could change how they're harnessed how
they're channeled
how they're expressed
but the core of the media he says is not
changeable
and the reason is because the media is a
mirror
media is a primal drive it's a mirror
of characteristics that are embedded in
the essence of my soul
and he gave an example that is the
difference between rotsen and sechel
seikel is something the soul has it
possesses it cultivates but it's
independent of the soul and even when
there is no eye
that my ideas can still remain for
posterity rot sign by definition is
i want when there's no i there's no want
the value of ratzing is that i want it
as we explained this at length the value
of druts and the value of cecil is not
that i
said it it's that there's an idea
there's an idea outside of me it's in me
i cultivated it i developed it i believe
it
i think about it i wrote it down i
publicized it
but it's not me the definition of an
idea is not me if the definition of an
idea is me it's not a real idea
the definition of desire is i i want
i want if there's no eye the whole point
of rutsen is gone
and that's why he said with the
rothschild there's no big ruts and small
rocks anyone say
oh this doesn't really have value this
rats and get rid of it
because the value of wrought side is not
the thing
i want it's that i want it
and if i want it that is what gives it
the value
it's very important in relationships
this is so important
we did a marriage workshop a few nights
ago
here in muncie so i opened it up and
masha zev lam who's a marriage therapist
here at muncie did the workshop
we had a very nice crowd here for muncie
people drove in from cincinnati
10 hours from manhattan which is not
which is an hour
but it was really nice so we're
continuing it next tuesday
next tuesday night about how to
communicate with your spouse
but he shared a story of of a person who
came to him for therapy
it was so meaningful and very emotional
story
there was this boy there was this father
i guess he went on a trip anyway i don't
know exactly the circumstances but he
bought
gifts for his children so for the older
children
he bought a pen a nice pen a parker pen
or another fancy pen
and for the little ones there were two
little ones i think a three-year-old and
an eight-year-old
and he gave them he bought them a little
fire fire engine truck
okay so the three-year-old got the fire
engine truck and i think the eight maybe
the six-year-old or the eight-year-old a
little bit older got the
got the fire and drunk and the older
kids got the pen
the problem is that the three-year-old's
fire truck broke
i don't know the battery died or it
broke it broke so he was hysterical
he was crying and crying and he was
hysterical no vas-tutman
the six-year-old didn't want to give up
his fire truck his fire engine
right so the older boy there's an older
boy i guess
the teenager and he says i have an idea
let's give the six-year-old a pen
i'll give him my pen because he's a big
boy
and he'll give the fire engine truck to
the three-year-old
because our six-year-old is already a
very big boy
so lovingly the father took away the
fire truck from the six-year-old and
gave him a pen because he's a big boy
and he gave the fire truck to the
three-year-old and everybody kept on
telling him what a big
boy he is and therefore he gives the
fire truck to his brother and he ends up
with a pen
seems like a nice story right and
everybody was of course very thankful to
the older boy who gave up his pen
to calm down the three-year-old and mr
lam says
20 years later 30 years later this
person is sitting in his office and
crying
and he says that all night he cried that
big boy
who lost his fire truck that
six-year-old cried all night that he
lost his fire truck
he didn't want the pen
he didn't want the pen he didn't want to
be the big boy he was
forced to be the big boy but for him the
fire truck was so much more important
because this is what he wanted in terms
of objective value
we know what is more important but
my desire is not about objective value
it's about what i want and that's such
an important idea so for 20
20 years he carried this and he had to
cry it out years later he said all night
he was crying in his room he couldn't
show it
why couldn't he show it because he was
the big boy he didn't want to be
humiliated even more
but 20 years later he was having a
difficulty expressing emotions to his
spouse
and to his children because he shut down
many of his emotions that night because
the feeling was too painful
now you could say oh that's part of
growing up somebody in the crowd said oh
that's life
that's just growing up that's how life
works it's true
it's exactly how life works but we have
to acknowledge
these little stories which seem
insignificant but they're very
significant
because these emotional memories in a
child's life when you're an adult
can impact you so significantly and
they're paralyzing me and they're
suppressing or destroying or eliminating
or holding back a certain part of me
that is so
authentic and is so important for life
and for the joys of life and experience
of life but i can't have it because i
shut down them
so one has to be extremely sensitive to
the difference of rotsen and seiko
so he says meadows is the way rat sign
comes down
in a lower space in those drives and
then
emotions that i have but it's a
manifestation of razan which is
the desire of the soul and in a way he
said it's even
deeper than rutson
as he explains
so when the miragulum say
the seven midos are untouchable
kihazakumi do not try
to change them do not try to silence
them do not try to repress them
my primal drives are non-negotiable
immutable they are ferocious
they are primal they are innate they are
essential
and because of that they are untouchable
there's no way we can go in territory we
the jewish people go and take this all
again this is a metaphor for the seven
midos of tahu whose intensity is
incredibly powerful
so therefore the miraculous say the
whole concept of
mushroom has no role to play
you're going to introduce intellect
you're going to introduce
ideas you're going to introduce values
they have
absolutely no role to play and their
ebba says
this is a taina amites this is real
stuff
because if you don't understand that
this is real there's no getting to step
two
you have to understand how real
the statement of the miraculous you have
to understand
that it's a tiny mythicist this is not a
fake thing
people want to ignore their primal job
say
it's nothing grow up be a man
very often
when we grow up we understand or we're
made to understand the concept of bitter
or the concept of morality or the
concept of values
or the concept of avada's hashem as a
path in which
you have to disregard
your pettiness
disregard your emotions because
come on just be a person be a man
be a woman be a mensch there's truth
this is what god wants
you say yeah but i experienced this and
this is what i'm dealing with
i don't care just grow up
what do they tell you grow up don't be a
baby
don't be a crybaby fire engine
that's what you're looking for a fire
engine truck i'm giving you a pen
i can give you a check for ten thousand
dollars you'll say no give me a lollipop
lollipop cost uh 25 cents
okay today maybe 90 cents a lollipop i'm
giving you a check for 10 000 bucks
makes a lot of sense right so we often
understand or we could understand
that the idea of serving god of
of being a good person of living a moral
life living a life based on torah
and mitzvos what does that mean
that means that i disregard i have to
disregard a certain part of me
the part of me that is that is petty
that is babyish that is childlike
that may have all these types of
emotions like forget it get out of it
this mimer is telling us something very
shocking
the way to transcendence
travels through
my middles and
maybe take this with a grain of salt the
way to transcendence
travels through my pettiness
because what you're calling petty what
i'm calling petty
is just the concrete manifestation of a
deeper drive
my primal drive that ebb says in this
moment that the midis
are not created by seiko
they're they're affected by seiko but
they're not created
by seiko the midos is who i am
and you cannot serve god if you don't
know who you are
you certainly could you could serve god
but it's not going to be so wholesome
and you cannot be in a relationship if
you don't know who you are
you can't be in a relationship that is
real if your eye
is not present in that relationship and
if my middays
are mirrors of my eye i have to be able
to respect them to embrace them
to give them a voice so that they can be
present in this relationship
with my wife with my husband with my
child with god with myself and with
anybody else in the world
did you understand what i just said
we have mikhail from sydney you're with
us
you understand you're trying to
understand
i don't know if you can understand this
you have to feel this
now as i said that we spoke in previous
europe
this middle is in their source there's
the way media has come
down as visceral emotions that i'm
feeling in my body whatever that is
i'm feeling angry i'm feeling
sad i'm feeling lonely
i'm feeling anxious i'm stressed
i'm feeling anxiety i'm feeling
frustrated
misunderstood resentful right
negative i'm feeling animosity i'm
feeling a lot of
fear those are very visceral emotional
reactions
and you could say just ignore them
they're they're nothing they're they're
stupid they're immoral they're coming
from yet sahara he says wait
you have to understand that these are
simply the way your primal drives
your deep deepest medicine which is
pre-verbal
prima prix higher than
they're being manifested
now sale does play a significant role
because as he says
segal serves as a marimoka it labels and
categorizes people
and experiences and things to be able to
show the primal drives
where to be expressed and how to be
expressed
this is dangerous zone this is a
positive zone
so let's say my spouse tells me
something
or your spouse tells you something and
you're feeling
misunderstood or you're feeling rejected
and therefore you're feeling very lonely
and that's painful
and it creates a distance that may be a
very physical tangible emotion that you
push to feel you could feel it in your
body
it's not just an idea it's not just an
idea it's not a piece of gemara
it's a feeling it's an emotion it's an
emotion you may be exploding with it you
may be imploding it may be benign it may
be very intense
what was the role of seikel here seijo
took the words that your spouse said and
labeled them
as being a message that
undermines your connection to each other
those words were processed by your mind
as words that represent the fact that
you are lonely that you're misunderstood
in this marriage
listen carefully but why does loneliness
make you feel rejected why does
loneliness make you feel bad
why doesn't it make you feel good that
is because you have a primal
drive that you want to be attached you
want to be connected
you don't want to be lonely loy taiva
saddam levanta
so the way this primal drive was
channeled and the way it came out
was that right now you are very upset
and you feel
so misunderstood by your spouse and you
go into your own world and you may space
out
you may tune out you may detach or you
may get angry you may get passive
aggressive whatever it is
your sacral played a role in how a
channel was channeled and how it emerged
how it was
birthed as he said are the mothers and
the fathers who birth a child
they birth the medics into being that's
why we have a mommy but the mommy
doesn't create the soul of the child
sacha doesn't create the media the media
is pre-verbal priesthood
everything the media comes from the
ataman effect the essence of the song
come to miraglum and say
just let it go don't go into your primal
drive just let it go
and that would mean that if my primal
drives are wounded
if my primal drives have been hijacked
by toxicity by trauma just let them go
there's nothing you can do
and this is where the miraculous say we
cannot conquer that space
and the rebbe says their time is ms
why because maiten cannot have a say
into the world of midas midness are two
ferocious they're too real they're too
primal they're too innate
they transcend your seiko cannot have an
impact
we cannot conquer the seven meters
oh they are too ferocious they are
too powerful they are too intense leave
it alone
leave it alone wow
you understand the seriousness of this
so if my primal drives have been wounded
their expression has been wounded which
is what real trauma does
it's just too powerful segal has no
say because sahel is not a balabas they
come before me they come before sekha
they're like don't tell me what to do
don't tell me how to feel don't tell me
how to experience
i was here before you i'm bigger than
you i'm stronger than you
you want to fight i'll kill you
and the more sacral tries the more
middles prevail
and as he said before in the miami not
only does sachel not have ownership over
the middles
seika doesn't even show up in their
world secret doesn't even show up cycles
on erp
a neoprene can only affect others by
going into their world
and these middles are untouchable now
comes the other side
after you understand this or you feel
this you get this um
silences the whole people to my
says
foreign
silences the whole nation to moisha what
does it mean to maisha
so rashi says he starts speaking about
maisha
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he starts speaking about moshe he says
this is the only thing that marsha did
he took us
and everyone thought he was going to
start slandering marsh and then he spoke
about the greatness of my
says there's another interpretation of
shah
he directs the attention of the nation
he silences them
through maisha what's my masha
tells the jewish people
more than once in humish and pashas
bashal and he says
are we that you're attacking us
what is no matter says ma
represents two words
the kayak of what
what is bittel bittle is the ability to
say
ma what it's the ability to wonder to be
inquisitive to be curious
it's the ability not to be fixed in any
type of comfort zone intellectual or
emotional
it's the ability to say the strength the
power the faculty the capacity to say
my what that's why
is always responsible for discovery
is the seminal point that shows up in
your brain
in your mind it's the epiphany aha if
the light bulb goes off it's the
lightning and the thicket of darkness is
a lightening and suddenly
you see it and you say i got it
always comes from a place of deep deep
humility deep intellectual humility when
i suspend my intellectual ego
and i open myself up to a new truth that
has transcended me and eluded me until
this very moment and
opens me up to this because my ability
to say ma
i don't know i am not the master i am
not the expert
it's like in a relationship the greatest
relationships aren't the relationships
in which i know you when i put you in a
box
it's the relationships where i
continuously
open myself up to learn more about you
with humility and respect and compassion
and you do the same for me
and then you we help each other do the
same for ourselves
do i really know me do i know me how can
i know you if i don't even know me
and have spent a lot of time with myself
do you know you but when i realized that
i don't know you
and i'm open to that discovery so then i
help you
realize that you don't know you and you
yourself are open to that discovery
that's all part of
also means something else it's the kayak
of mah
it's the kayak of bittel ma means what
i don't have a fixed model ego is the
antithesis of ma
mursh rabbeinu said about himself
i am a channel this is not about
nepotism
it's not about dictatorship it's not
about me owning your life
and that's what khaku represents in a
person it's the kayak to say math the
quest to say what
and it's the kayak that allows
itself to become a channel for something
larger than it
because it's not based on identity it's
the ability to go
beyond identity vayas kalivasam
al-maisha
silence is the nation to maisha in
response to mariagalam
kalav says we have to understand why
shemosh is
and the bittle of khakha creates a
and then the mind and the heart can make
peace
then the middles can be affected
in the most positive sense by the
machine
through the bittle of my and this is
what we remember the whole last piece of
the mime
when he discussed how can my can have
any impact on meters
the primal drive is untouchable that's
what the miragum are saying and it's
true
and the fact is that mayhem do impact
middles
in more than one way first of all
as i said before they're the mire moccam
they label things they categorize things
even deeper than that the motion are
responsible for the development of midis
from the amygdala to the limbic brain to
the prefrontal cortex
from the middles of an infant and a
toddler and a child
growing up to more developed middays
to the middles that are more mature
and this is constantly happening in
people's lives but how does that even
happen how does sacho love any say into
that world of medes
and the answer is because real sacral is
not about seiko it's not about i
understand it's about introducing me to
bittel
introducing me to the ainscife opening
me up
to the infinity that encompasses
everything and is the source of
everything including the source of all
the primal drives
this is the reason why god sent us an
experience sometimes
very painful experience with children
or like with the wife or divorce
they take your children is the reason
so we can
yeah yeah
experience and experience come up to
prevail not
not middle not pride not right
you're right when we have we have
difficult experiences that shock us
and it's hard for us to make peace with
them they don't assimilate easily into
our system
we have to really embrace them with
silence
we have to really pay tribute
to all of the emotions that are coming
up and to all of the experiences that
are coming up to all of our visceral
reactions
and that will open us up to the primal
drives that we have
and you don't get rid of those primal
drives
but you can open up the primal drives to
the silence
of moisture
moisture couldn't speak maisha was a
power quad lushen
he told god i'm not a man of words i am
pre-verbal
don't defeat and change your primal
drives through
arguments through rationalizations
through justifications
through external pressure or internal
pressure surpassed
i got to be a person i got to be a
mensch
oh yeah yeah your primal tribes will
will win that war but only if you can
introduce real bitter what's real bitter
real bittle means the space where
my eye meets god's eye
the space where i can recognize the
ain't safe
the infinite
the ability to be able not to label
things not to categorize things you see
sale has two aspects to it
one is the intellectual need
to label to categorize to define
which is amazing but that's the external
part of cycle
the real internal part of segal is to
open myself up to the source
to allow everything to be traced back to
its original core and the original core
of everything is
insafe my primal drives also come from
there
so when seikel especially which the
nikuda of
opens me up to that space
now my primal drives
themselves open themselves up to growth
they themselves don't become uptight
they open up i'll give you an
interesting example
you know every fruit has
seeds that allow for the procreation of
the fruit
every plant comes with a method it's
brilliant how this was made
that it should be able to generate
regenerate
and if you study fruits you'll see that
every fruit
based on the quality and the nature and
the climate and the region where it
grows
has seeds that are most conducive to
guarantee
it's procreation
it's incredible the wisdom here and
there's always a method
how is this seed going to get replanted
sometimes
it needs the wind to scatter it to blow
it away
sometimes the water sometimes it has its
own wings
its own airplanes its own parachutes you
know the dandelion
its own parachute that goes
there are seeds that naturally people
swallow and then they come out with the
excrement
which traditionally was done in the
earth and then it gets planted again
same is true animals who eat these
vegetables or fruits
these fruits an interesting thing is
about the peach the peach
you know the pit inside the peach it
contains the seeds that's why it's so
hard
because they didn't want you just to
destroy the pit
because then the seeds get destroyed so
those that pit in the middle of the
peach
is so powerful because it contains the
treasure
it contains the seed
now try cracking open that pit you can't
it is so tough you can't crack it open
but here's the miracle of nature you
take the see
this the pit of the peach and you put it
into the earth
and the earth has those elements those
nutrients that the pit
just opens up and the seeds emerge
and they're replanted and a new peach
tree can grow
so you take a hammer huh it's amazing
it has to get wet it needs water it's
vitality
yeah yeah you take a hammer
say i'm going to beat this pit up i'm
going to crush it
good luck you can be a mighty guy take
the pit
it's going to win you you put it in the
earth
it opens up i'm going to she says you're
going to fight the middles
you're missing the point but you put the
middles into
you put into the middles
of this
then the middays become flexible they
become open
they're not threatened you didn't beat
the primal drives
by negating their authenticity
no you introduced ain't siphoned to them
and that's the power of my sin to affect
middles
that's why mayhem could be a mara makhan
for midas that's why mayhem can develop
midas into ibor into unique into mayhem
everything he discussed earlier in the
mind
why because mike and real
the panemias of my especially
and this is where healing comes from
because this takes the primal drives
back to their own source it takes them
deeper into themselves
it takes them back to their own iron and
whenever anything goes back to its own
eye into its own source
gives you access to that ion
then it can be it can be healed
it can be recreated it could become
vulnerable and let go
and be reprogrammed so to speak
so my primal media is i'm not going to
change
this is my eye creates a link
between your primal media is between the
midis and the source of midas
because our middles come from hashems
but
himself don't define his own infinity
they're just a channel for his infinity
so when i can align the middays with the
source of ainscife
what now happens is
that my primal drives can have all the
comfort that they need
the validation that they need and
therefore the healing that they need
and the interplay between michigan and
middle east is not one in which mayhem
tries
to suppress or repress or undermine or
mitigate or compromise or crush
midas but rather it creates
alignment between the midis and the
ainsaith
and therefore peace can reign and that's
the real function
of seikel in a person's life
vezel
and that's why kalev said three things
to the people of israel
we can go up into the land we
can you say we can't i say we can
second other nila we will ascend third
we are rashnu
we will inherit the land
it's that realization that you should
never ever be afraid of your primal
drives
because as long as you can introduce
moisture
and you have which is essentially
paneemia's attic
panemius aberpanemius attic as he said
earlier in the mime
midos down here are a mirror of rats and
down and a lower space is a mirror of
tainog
that's attic that's the pythagorean
is the bitter clawly don't be afraid of
your primal drives
you don't have to battle it the miraglum
said we're going to
battle it and we'll be killed in the
process he said no yo
you're not paralyzed people feel all
their emotions and they get so scared of
what they're feeling and therefore
either i have to
suppress them or repress them
unconsciously or run away from them or
space out
where i become overwhelmed where i
become desperate or i become depressed i
feel like a loser
don't worry your primal drives are not
here to kill you
we just need that taste of bittel we
need that taste of ain't scythe
we need to bring in the flavor of real
real infinity real one is where my
eye is not locked up in any form it's
really a channel of pure infinity
preverbal pre-sale even premiere is
pre-creation
this is where my eye is not stuck in
anything
it's really open to the full grandeur of
infinite oneness
so don't be afraid of any emotion you
could contain it because the real you
is bittel which means it's a channel for
the ain't surf which transcends
any form and any definition and any
label and any category and any
description
that's yahoo and then he says
i love your rash noise first you have to
know that i can
stop saying stop saying i can't start
saying
i can as somebody once said whether you
believe you can
or you believe you can't you're probably
right
so the first thing you have to say stop
being terrified by your emotions
there's no emotion inside of you that
should terrify you
that should overwhelm you it's not
comfortable i have to deal with it i
have to work it through
but don't don't surrender to this
attitude to this mentality of defeat
i can because the eye
is not an ego if the eye is comes from
ego or the eye just comes from
rationalizations of course you will lose
that's what the miragum said and they're
right but vayas khalaves amal moisha
if you haven't ah
if my eye is ready to embrace i am
you're good you'll be great
you'll rediscover yourself and the
middles will find their ultimate
infinity and then they're going to
become channels for infinity
all your primal drives really want is
to channel infinity into their in this
into this world
that's what they really want so when you
can align them with their own source
there's recovery there's real recovery
this is deep stuff
iris allen island means we're going to
be able to go
up which represents accessing the
infinite light
avalar dynamics illumina slops but it's
still
ethereal it's still above
noise so then comes the third step we're
going to inherit the lights
shabbat says slapshoes when you yarsh in
something you inherit something it
becomes
mine it becomes now manifested in me
tell you that the lights of toyo which
are infinitely intense
can ultimately be integrated into the
world of tikkun
or is the toyo becale of the tickle so
that the lights of chaos are
integrated into the vessels of
integration
into the vessels of tikkun tikun means
the world of healing the world of
correction
the world of integration the world of
balance
this is the toyo arizona represents my
primal midais
where there's i could be toyo absolute
chaos absolute apocalypse absolute
intensity
caleb of tikkun are the structures
can they ever make peace the miraculous
said they're never going to make peace
there's no way if you want to live in
the world of caleb
you're going to live in a compromised
mitigated fake
false world and if you want to live in
the world of iris to tell you
you're going to live in a very intense
and primal world
but it's not a world that can be
integrated
and kalaev and yahushua are saying
islam we can go up don't be afraid of
though going up
don't be afraid of those lights and then
we irrationalize
we can make those lights ours so now my
primal drives of tikkun i'll tell you
instead of
making my life chaotic it becomes mine
i integrate it i know how to use it i
know how to allow it to
propel my life forward not overwhelm me
shizui takla sakhavana this is the
ultimate purpose
shanislam
the purpose of creation was that hashem
wanted
to have a dear beth a dwelling place
in the lowest elements of reality
so the ultimate raise on the etra of
creation was
that hashem says i want to live among
you i want to have adira a home
a resident and in your home you're there
with your entire essence that's what a
home is a home is what do they say a
home is the place
that when you come there they have to
let you in and a home is hopefully the
place where you're not camouflaged you
don't have to wear masks in your home
pun intended the home is the place where
you are you
you're not there as a worker as an
employee as a professional
who's at home i am at home a home is a
place where a husband and a wife and
children want to be able to be fully
themselves
so when we say hashem wanted a deer
bitter in them
used to say adira means that the atmos
is there
hashem in his pure so to speak infinite
state
so the ultimate purpose was the
synthesis the integration between the
infinite and the finite
derived
that's on the macrocosm how does that
begin in the microcosm that i should be
able to create that link that unity that
fusion
between the iris of toyo and the caleb
of tikkun the iris of toyo represents
the middles the seven meters of tayo
which are ferocious
which are primal pre-verbal prima chava
pre-cycle
even primitives of tikkun these are the
midnighters in their full intensity
and when you go into that place inside
of yourself
there's no structure there's no
organization there's no filters
whatsoever
it's very very powerful and it's very
very scary
and that's why the jews said okay we
can't go there let's just not go there
let's create a a life let's create a
judaism that is much more contained
even if it's much more superficial
let's be more superficial and more
contained you know we'll smile to each
other
and we'll just get rid of that by that
space on a deeper level what it means is
once your prime primal drives are
damaged
once there is trauma there that's it
and this is what the miragulum said no
allah
we can go up all the way we don't have
to be afraid and then furthermore
we can make them ours your orders of
toyo are not your enemies
they're not the enemies of caleb of
tikkun but the
but the prerequisite for that is
when you understand that the caleb of
tikkun are here not to structure
and kill the energy and the creativity
but rather to allow the bittle to shine
because that's what
really is that's what seiko really is
it's to be able to introduce you to the
pure infinity
which is not afraid of anything and can
allow infinity to dwell in the finite
because bittel
is not fixed even in what looks like
infinity that's also
not bitter so now you can have the
fusion of the two and then you fulfill
the ultimate purpose of existence
which is that hashem in his essence
should dwell in this world in the lowest
elements of reality
this is this is the real machia
this is ghoula consciousness
question you spoke about intellectualism
being open-minded
does that mean i should be open-minded
about the foundations of torah
well the foundations of terror are true
if you're struggling with
questions and you're sincerely trying to
understand
then you should ask those questions
judaism is not afraid of questions
because it has answers
there's no midst of it to introduce
questions into somebody who doesn't have
questions there's no commandment to do
that
because the foundations of terror are
true but if you're really struggling
with something
it doesn't help to silence your mind
and say oh i'm not allowed to ask i'm
not what i ask
means i have no answers
so are you saying that we have to
respect and acknowledge
our core wants yes
that's what we're learning that's part
of what we're saying yes
is the ego created by hashem with the
soul
or does it come naturally oh that's a
complex question
but generally speaking the ego that we
were talking about
is the ego that comes from brokenness
from insecurity from the fact
that i'm not a channel of infinity and
therefore i have to replace that void
by becoming stuck in a particular image
that will give me validation
next question if my eye is really a
channel for infinity
then what's left of it who is the one
who is transcending himself great
question well when your eye is a channel
of infinity what's left of it is
the divine your eye
is a channel for hashem like the gemara
says
of somebody represents the one who sent
him
so when i'm your i am like you that's
the
i can do things as though you did them
the power of agency in halal is that i
become like you i become your
representative
so when i redefine myself as a sleek of
hashem
i am the manifestation of god in this
world and that's the truest eye that's
the deepest die and that's the eye
that's infinite and it's invincible
and it's destructible it's the
helicopter
and that's where individuals so we learn
in the beginning of the mind when
somebody said
individuality is so powerful where's the
place where individuality becomes one
with everything
and that's the real truth that we're
learning here that midais
are very much about individuation
and do not try to destroy that and do
not try to call that immature
but if i can trace back my individuation
to my own source which is ain't safe so
then
i don't have to be threatened by my
individual my individuation
on the contrary my individuation can
become extremely
extremely power it can become an
extremely powerful channel for infinity
which part of the eye is the one that
receives reward in heaven
so the gemara in sanhedrin in chapter 11
discusses that it's basically the soul
and the body together
question from texas is it ever possible
to have an emotional reaction that comes
from stuff
we have accumulated like unhealthy
thinking
a reaction to a negative experience and
be completely disconnected from our
primal middles
or is it always connected in other words
is it possible that sometimes our
emotional reactions
are really not coming from our middles
they're coming from
stuff that are toxic stuff that we
accumulated
unhealthy thoughts that we have
developed from ourselves or from other
people
reactions to negative experiences and
they're really disconnected from us
completely or is it always connected or
is the mimer saying
that if i am having a strong reaction
because of a previous negative
experience
it's actually not the experience i'm
reacting to but the experience is just a
trigger
for my primal drives wow
this is such a good question i have to
compliment you for your question
rebecca what do you say about our
students here we have the best and the
brightest of america
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beautiful question and the answer to
your question is
i think what we're learning is
the second option that you introduced
if i'm having a strong reaction because
of a previous negative experience
or certain ways of thinking that you can
call toxic
destructive negative
it's not only the experience i'm
reacting to but the experience
is triggering my primal drives but
what's important to understand is
that my primal drives here have been
painted
or traumatized or channeled
or manipulated or went through a very
intense experience
because so let's say this kid
who was bullied or got forbid abused or
molested or neglected
trauma with a capital t trauma with not
a capital t you speak about negative
experiences we go through in life
what that causes me is that yeah i'm in
a particular mode and because i'm in a
particular mode i'm reacting to
something that happens
and we call it an emotional memory
right i may be aware of what happened i
may not be aware of what happened i'm
just
experiencing a very intense emotion that
was triggered because of all of these
negative experiences that occurred in my
life
that caused me to think certain ways and
process things certainly so that's all
true and you have to acknowledge that
but i have to acknowledge something
deeper it's not detached from my middles
it's ultimately my primal drives
have been affected in a very powerful
way
in other words i my seiko
may be playing here a destructive role
because as a result of my negative
thinking i label
you as a lion imagine imagine
somebody tells me a lion just came in
to your house i'm not going to continue
giving this class right
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i'm going to be pretty terrified i'm
laughing because it's a little you know
outlandish but i'm just
you know a lion is in the room but let's
say you see a lion in the room
if you see a lion in the room you have
to scream and you gotta run away
and you gotta i don't know what to do
if you have a gun use it
if you see a lion in the room but one
second
why are you so afraid of lions why are
you so afraid of lions
why don't you just say oh it's a lion
that's great there's a cat there's a
lion there's a puppy
and the answer is because lions
kill so what i want to live
i want to live so now listen to me
the idea that there's a lion in the room
is coming from the fact that
unfortunately
my mind is traumatized
my brain is traumatized and therefore
even when there's no lion in the room
i am screaming lying why and why am i
it's like the fire alarm
i once heard a therapist a psychiatrist
a neuroscientist explain
what trauma what trauma does to the
brain they said you remain stuck in your
amygdala the amygdala
is the reptilian brain the most basic
part of the brain
that basically is responsible for
survival
fight or flight and it's extremely alert
to danger
now when there's real danger it's
amazing but what happens if the fire
alarm in your house
never goes off so even when there's no
fire
it's still sounding so 2 o'clock in the
morning every single night
you hear a fire alarm and you're running
out of the house
the fire alarm is not a bad thing when
there's a lion in the room
it's so important to have that alarm but
when there's no lion in the room
the amygdala is still screaming lying
lying fire
fire fire fire wall like the story wolf
wolf wolf
do you get what i'm saying so the idea
that i'm afraid of a lion and i'm
screaming is because of my meatness it's
because of my primal drive that's not
bad
that's good thank god
the challenge is that there has been a
disruption in the flow
and because of my experiences in life
these primal drives are being triggered
in such a powerful way but in the wrong
context
in the wrong situations because of wrong
information
because there's no seamlessness there's
no flow there's been an interruption
question if the ultimate goal is for
hashem to dwell in the lower worlds
how does personal reward in heaven come
into the picture
it's a good question but it's beyond
today's sheer
i don't understand if the purpose is for
god to be in the lower world how does
that connect to the mimer
great question and the answer is because
that's really what it's about
having god in the lower worlds means
allowing the full connection and
alignment
between my own self
into my most basic lowest elements
back into my pettiness in other words my
emotions
my visceral reactions right
all of those which are coming
post-seychel postmarkshava
can they all be aligned with aidsife
that's the work to allow that flow that
seamless flow
where the divine which means the core of
all
could find a home in my brain
and in my heart that's dirib in a very
personal way
very good questions i didn't even get to
the website questions because i was
doing the
the the zoom questions
the website we have another six
questions anybody could look at them
and i thank you very very much so this
this concludes the mimer it's hard for
me to say
concluding the mimer because i don't
know that such a minor you could easily
conclude but uh this concludes at least
one version one rendition or one attempt
of going through this incredible mimer
of the rabbit schlock 1955
thompson test love
1914 of the rubber rashaba fifth khabad
reb a few weeks before the
world war one broke out parishes by
leicester
1914 on that mimer this mimer is based
i wish you all a beautiful day a
meaningful day
a wonderful shabbos and
i just want to alert to you two things
yesterday
we had a beautiful lecture with south
africa it's called the secret
of resilience or the jewish secret
of resilience and you can watch it on
the yeshiva.net that was very meaningful
a lot of beautiful questions and the
second thing i want to say
is that god willing next tuesday
we're going to have our second workshop
on marriage it's live and interactive
here in muncie
the topic is going to be how to
communicate with your spouse do you find
that your communication with your spouse
sometimes can use
a little help you misunderstand her she
misunderstands you
you're talking on different frequencies
that's going to be it's going to be very
practical
presentation everybody is invited if you
want more information you can email us
at info at the yeshiva.net
it's next tuesday for couples or if
people can come with couples you can
come alone as well
i wish you all a beautiful day a
meaningful day and hotslacha
to all
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