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It must be that kak had some special virtue because I mean the para is called after his name. Terra tells us that the name of the wicked rot. So we have to understand why is the parha called by his name? What what was Claral's virtue? The answer in short is that Kirak wanted more spirituality. He wanted to go above and beyond his duty as a Jew and as a Levite who already works on behalf of the rest of the Jewish people doing something very special. But he wanted to do something even more unique and special and lofty. And that is he wanted to be able to do the service of the high priest, the Cohen God. We know that Messiah will be revealed sooner than we think. And in this um in the prophecies about Mashiach, it says that Haleim that the Levim those Levites just like was will in fact become will become priests. So was living in Msiah mode. He already was beginning to live in the way that he knew it's going to be with Mashiach. But he went a little bit too far with this in case you're wondering. So what's the problem? The problem was that he went against the leader of the generation, the Moses of the generation who was the goish and the go. He is the Messiah of the generation and Kak was attempting to hasten the revelation of Msiach by going against Mashiach basically and that's not a good plan even more. And I I really want to learn this mimer again and then edited and gave it out in Hi Lesie. Um cuz I find that mimer to be so clearly relevant at least to my life. All of Tyra is relevant is pertinent not just relevant um to to us at all times but of course when we're able to see in any particular dimension of Tyra uh a particular relevance to our life then uh it's worth zooming into and and and applying even more. So anyways in this mime it explains how basically the search for truth or the desire to be more spiritual. um the desire to not only be more spiritual but even holy, even to literally connect with God. Such a holy thing still can become corrupted. It really depends where it's coming from. And the point is that so long as the desire is your desire, then it's still about you and it's not about God. So you desire to love God. That's very nice. But God desires that you love him, that you learn the Tyra, that you do a mitzvah with passion and enthusiasm. So, it's not about how it makes us feel, but it's a I'm sharing this with you just because, but you know, it's something that I'm still in the process of learning because it's so uh I I feel this very powerfully and it's very it's very difficult, at least in my opinion, but it's a it's a life-changing thing to uh to recognize. is that even your holiest aspirations can be still all about you. And it's not true union with God when it's all about me and when there's some expectation of how I should feel, what this should do for me. But yeah, again, like I said, it's a it's a hard thing. Okay, I have here um a book that is part of a set actually that I sponsored here in seems to be a a pretty good translation of the talks of the Reba from 1991 and '92. Try to find something that we can learn together. I don't know if we'll finish, but I'll start from the beginning. Okay. Gimmel Thomas which is this Sunday is the day when the Reb was freed. The freed was freed in the year 1927 from imprisonment in the prison in Lenengrad on condition that he travel immediately into exile to the city of his refuge Krama for a period of 3 years. So, Kasama was basically where he was exiled to uh for three years. And at the time, it was not yet known if this was a good thing and how it would turn out because it's called the city of refuge, but it's really a labor camp. It's really um an exile with still tremendous uh persecution. Also, of course, there's being that it's still some form of imprisonment, there's um the potential for the sentence to suddenly change, you know, for the communist regime to be like, "Okay, um actually, we're going to do this with you now." However, after this, just a few days later on Yud Bay in Kama, he received information that they would be freeing him and the certificate of freedom was given to him on the following day. And then when he was entirely freed it became respectively known that Gimlama's is in other words that the his ultimate full complete redemption from prison actually began on kimos when he was sentenced to exile in addition to having left prison and being sent to exile. It later became known that this exile was instead of the death penalty even by Hashem through uh international pressure and of course truthfully through miracles of miracles by God Almighty whose plan always stands. The freed was spared. Now the question we can ask about this story, but it's also a question we can ask about our story. Every single one of us right now is hopefully experiencing a redemption in some sense. There's a part of our life at least that we're fixing and that we're we're happy that it's it's how it's progressing. Excuse me. But we can ask the question about this story and also about our life. Why don't we just like get it? Why can't we just solve everything? Why doesn't God Why did God Let's ask it in the Excuse me. Why did God unroll this uh redemption in stages? Thank you. Still weep if I pronounced your name correctly. Why does that happen? And um yeah, and I'm choosing to ask it about me also. Like come on, God. Just uh make it all happen at once. Oh, you're sending your blessing. You're showing us a miracle. You're making things work out. Make it all work out. Why? It's like, okay, I'll give you this and like what are we playing chess? More than this, even after the 12th and 13th of Tamas, which is when he discovered that the sentence was being completely um uh commuted and he was he was uh going free um and then was given his his papers of freedom, there still remained tremendous danger within the communist regime in Russia itself and he had to So once again our question is like why not Hashem why not just like fix the problem. It's most certain says the Reb that the ga coming in stages which is not only something that happened to the Reb's father-in-law the not only something that happens in the microcosm of each of our lives but it's also something happening right now with the unfolding of the ultimate redemption the ultimate manifestation of godliness in all and in everyone. And it's certain that that's how Hashem wants it and that there's a reason behind it. And the writes actually about this miracle that he was freed that he was spared that it was not only for myself that that God performed the redemption on the 12th of Thomas but also for all who hold our holy dear those who observe the mitzvah and even for those whom are known only by the name Israel. In other words, they may not even being they may they may not even be living up to their Jewish identity, but they still are Jewish nonetheless. that person too. You too were freed together with the freeb. So clearly this is about you. It's about us. It's about Msiah. It's about world events. It's about right now. Why is there such a slow roll out? What's the point of things happening in different stages? So since we're asking this based on the historical record of the Frib's imprisonment and freedom, let's let's go many years prior to then on the same day, the third of Thomas, Kimmel Thomas, there was a great miracle. It says in Yahushua, who is Moses's primary student and he became the leader of the Jewish people after Moses. Thank you. Someone who cares. Oh, it's automated. Okay. What does it say in Yahushua? What happened on Gimmel Thomas? Yeshua kept the sun still. Hashem performed a miracle that the sun stood still until the Jewish nation had completed fighting their enemies. Excuse me, I'm going to go grab a tissue. Need some water. says that's uh it's not the full verse but basically Hashem made a miracle that the sun stood still and didn't set until the Jewish nation emerged victorious from the battle that they were fighting. Since everything which takes place is by divine individual guidance and each year these same events are repeated as they took place on the first occasion. We are bound to say that there is a relationship between the two miracles which took place on the third of tamos. The son standing still at Kvine in the time of Yeshua and many years later the beginning of the redemption of the rebikb as we will explain the connection and upon the same lines as the question mentioned above with regard to the third of tamos. Why was there not an instant uh you know a full miracle of a complete kahula? We also need to understand this miracle of the sun standing still since there took place a miracle a huge miracle of the sun being stopped in its tracks and in fact it says it's a it was a very great miracle. Never has there ever been such a day neither before nor since. So that this miracle took place so that Yeshua and the Jewish people be able to continue to the war the war by visually being able to see the enemies and pursue them. For at that time the sun stood before given and Yeshua feared that if it sets we won't be able to pursue the enemy. So to this he ordered the son not to continue on in his path but to remain over gi. And of course the leader of the generation the man of God basically tells God what to do. That's how God wants it. The miracle could already have been to completion. In other words, you you probably already understand this that our question here is is now what in the world is the point of making the sun stand still in order to be able to keep waging the war. Just make the war end. You know, like if you have that power, you tell God what to do, then tell God, hey, uh let the war be over. Let's uh let's stop fighting. Let's not need to continue biting. Also, this miracle is one that we can uh really explore and it would be quite fun to do that because the fact that the sun stood in the sky over Ga is that relevant only to the sun and not to the rest of the universe for the purpose of the miracle that the light of the sun of day continued to shine that all that was needed was that the orbit of the sun itself be stopped and continue to illuminate the earth. And similarly, the Y or was the miracle also continued to the rest of the universe halting the movements of the entire star system of which the orbit of the sun is part? It's a good question. Like if the sun is standing still anywhere that kind of affects the whole solar system. No. So if it's relevant only to the sun for the purpose of the miracle, in other words, the light of the sun continued to shine. All that was needed was that the orbit of the sun itself be stopped. That's one level. But maybe the miracle was also connected to the rest of the universe. halting the movements of the entire solar system, halting the first causes, the outermost moving daily sphere of the universe carrying within it all the inner spheres due to the sphere which encompasses and orbits halting all orbits and the minor orbits of the sun itself. Yeah. In the In the beginning of the Mishna Torah Rambom's Magnum Opus of 14 volumes in the first volume, the laws of Isaira, the foundations, the basics of the Torah, excuse me, the Rambam discusses this uh astronom on me, but not getting into it right now. Mostly because I I don't feel qualified to do so. But the difference between the two approaches, we're asking if if the miracle just affected the sun by itself or also the rest of the solar system is did the miracle break the cohesive natural order of the entire universe by only halting the sun and the moon. In other words, that's not even how the solar system works. So, it's it's breaking the solar system. Or did the miracle reach the innermost nature of the sun? as part of bringing a halt to the entire universe. It sounds much more dramatic and perhaps it is, but the point is then it's not it's not one element of the solar system completely uh breaking from the solar system. It's the whole system is being bypassed so to speak. And this parallels two sorts of miracles. You have uh for example the plague of blood. A miracle which did not alter the innermost nature of the thing as was the miracle of the plague of blood that when the waters returned to blood they still remained in essence water. When the miracle ended, they automatically went, you know, reverted to being water. In our instance, when the sun stopped, was this only a miracle regarding the body of the sun, not affecting the essential nature of the sun. And after this, they returned the essential order of the sun returning into the movements of the of the universe. In other words, it broke out of the regular solar system and then we could it was placed back in or another mira uh the the the second level the parallel would be um saras which is often translated as leprosy. It's not leprosy because it's not a physical skin condition but it's a spiritual skin condition. Now if it's a skin condition that means it's obviously physical but the point is that it was completely um while there were physical symptoms it was completely um spiritually uh caused. So like that was this was the sun standing in a place a miracle which altered the innermost nature and being of the thing. In other words, when when Moses got leprosy when by the burning bush, again, it's not really leprosy, but Saras, then the miracle was that the Saras suddenly appeared. But then there needed to be another miracle for the Saras to disappear because naturally speaking, when there's Taras that appears, it stays until it until it goes away. So the first level is where nature is breaking and the second level is where there's a miracle superimposed upon nature. or where nature is bypassed. I'll end here because uh a second Okay, I'm going to stop overexplaining. When the ark was hidden away, there was hidden with it the staff of iron with its almonds and its blossoms indicating that priesthood remained the natural eternal superiority for Aaron and his sons. There is a similar query in our parha with regard to the miracle of the staff of Aaron sprouted. Continuing forth from the protest against the priesthood by Karak and his assembly, God commanded Moshe to take a staff from each of the tribes. 12 staves inscribe each one's name on his staff. Oh, 12 stabs. Yeah. Inscribe each one each one's name. Also inscribes Aaron's name on the staff of Ley. And it shall be the man whom I select. his staff shall sprout. And this is what took place. Misha placed all of the staffs, the staves before Hashem in the tent of meeting. And on the following day, Misha entered the tent of meeting. And behold, the staff of Ain of the house of Ley had blossomed. It had brought forth a blossom, sprouted a bud, and developed almonds. And Misha brought out all of the staffs so that all the Jewish people could see this. And Hashem said, "Return the staff of Aaron before the tent of meeting to be kept as a sign as a remembrance that I have selected." We need to understand since the staff of iron sprouting was a miracle to show the choice of bar for the priesthood of it would have been sufficient had there been born almonds on the staff and this would have been the sign to the Jewish people. Meaning in the first instance it should have been sufficient that the miracle be only the detail with regard to the purpose of the miracle that I have selected iron the client. Why did the miracle of the almonds also have to be with the natural stages of sprouting and growth? That it had sprouted, brought forth sprouts, produced blossoms, and borne almonds. And all of this did Moses show it to the Jewish people. And more than this, to be kept as a sign, they remain not only the staff of iron and the almonds, but also the blossoms. As it says in in the Talmud in Yuma page 52 second folio when the ark was hidden away there was hidden with it the staff of iron with its almonds and its blossoms. So once again we have another miracle that we're just asking like what's the point of these details? Do the miracle and get what you're trying to get done done. What's the point of like the state of like it goes through Each stage obviously it's significant. We want to know why. We want to know what's up. The purpose and innovation of this miracle is as follows. Even though a stick of its own cannot by its nature blossom or grow fruits, this can take place only by the power of God. Yet this miracle miracle which is kind of cool. So maybe it's a miracle. This miracle affected the staff of Ain that this did not remain entirely above the natural but bonded with the nature of the staff. And this is why the way of sprouting was within nature but not within the limits of that time in the growth of fruits. It had blossomed is understood quite simply sprouted a bud. the emergence of the developing fruit when the blossom falls and developed almonds when the fruit became apparent it was seen that they are almonds and this is the instruction for the Jewish people that the choice by God for a to be the ken is that the kahuna the priesthood became his natural superiority similar also was the miracle of the son standing at gvine and the miraculous school of gimlas as we will explain. But now the Reb is already introducing us to the answer to the question that we asked before. We're not we're not yet understanding why it happens like this, but like why essentially it happens like this. But because it happens like this, we see that the type of miracle Hashem is going for is one is not one where it breaks nature. It's a miracle that can happen within nature. While nature still exists, there can be something that bypasses it. It says in trackctate of chapter 6 meaning everything in the world even though the word world comes from the expression of hell and behester which means hidden and concealed. Everything in the world was created in order to reveal the splendor, the presence of Hashem achieved by the of the Jew who makes use of worldly matters for the splendor of God. The reason and why this is indicated in the wording of the Mishna all that Hashem created is because since it was Hashem who made it known in this that it was he who created it and made known how he created it whereby he took as if to say of his powers and his time to create each by a specific power something from nothingness being exclusively the power of Hashem and especially Especially according to the teaching of the bos that the creation is being recreated every moment from absolute nothingness. This is proof that God wishes that created beings have a relationship with the power of their creator even able to add as if to say to the splendor of God's presence. Should this not be the case? question begs to be asked. Why did Hashem not create the world by he being separated that the creation not know that it was by God nor how it was created namely by the 10 utterances and similar insights made known to us but rather God invested the power of his essence and his 10 utterances into the creation and more. Why did Hashem create the world in such a way that he recreated at every moment a new? Certainly, he could have initially created it with a powerful energy for it to exist for 6,000 years or more, whatever it is. You know, we're talking about God beyond time. God could just make the world and let the world go. Why the need that every moment there should be a new creation from God's word? Why is it that God needs to be invested in your life right now? Maybe God just says, "Okay, you exist. Good luck." Since what God wants to that every created being should sense how one is able to be active, to innovate, to participate in creation. The nature of man is that a man prefers a small measure of which he himself has accomplished than being gifted nine measures from a friend. People like to work hard. People also like gifts. But a person doesn't appreciate a gift as much as they appreciate something that they themselves worked hard for. Meaning in addition to fulfilling what Hashem has commanded, you're participating, you're accomplishing, you're innovating in creation. True innovation is when this is connected with Hashem. That one is revealing Hashem. And it was for this purpose that Hashem invested his strength into the world whereby he is creating each moment a new creating a bond for each created being at each moment with Hashem. At each detail of creation and at every moment one has strength to reveal the magnificent presence of Hashem which brings it into existence at this very moment. Now I know [Music] a m [Music] had the creation been invested with the power of God, a powerful energy remaining continuously or for an extended period of time, but not as it is renewed every moment. Then the revelation of God would be of a general nature as a oneoff event. It wouldn't be a part of the system. However, since at each given moment there is a new creation by the word of God. So we are gifted each moment the ability to work, the ability to reveal within the moment the splendor of God. For example, by drinking water, when drinking water, we say that all is by the word of Hashem. And when saying the blessing, there is the word of Hashem emanating at that time within the one saying the blessing and throughout the world. And the same is true when one recites an individual blessing. For example, individual blessing meaning like a particular one because shak means everything all is by God's word. Um maybe I'll I'll turn this into a shorter clip and I'll link uh a relevant video here or here wherever it goes. Watch it. It's good. Um but even a blessing like hagafen which is on a particular thing still okay I think we'll stop here. Um, may we see Mashiach right now?