Parshas Eikev: What Feeds the Neshama? - The Holy Chiddush of My Grandfather

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay i'm gonna have uh shabbat shabbat as we prepare for parashat's achev uh you know that over the years we uh take the research very seriously we go to long lengths to be able to uncover whatever we need to for uh the mara makaimu so this past week i drove 350 miles to uncover some numero mccoy mice for the shurim so this is the first time we're featuring um my grandfather's olga sunshine he was uh he relinquished to us his some of his kiswayad some of his manuscripts so we're going to feature that for the first mahamakam on today's share and um he writes over here in the original handwriting very beautiful handwriting he writes yes we can investigate and think in hanoi does the neshama get any benefit when you eat or not yeah when you eat a sandwich when you eat lunch when you eat supper when you eat breakfast does the soul get pleasure from that or not right are you giving sustenance to your soul or not in taiwan is if you're going to say that you get pleasure what do you mean you get pleasure then inshallah gets pleasure how are you spirituality how does shaman get pleasure from a salami sandwich has neshama get pleasure from lunch me how could it get pleasure from a physical thing so what are you going to say i'm cain and adam so if a person doesn't eat hary anima it will not he will not be sustained various then i'll die then it comes out that the neshama could only exist with food but wait wait a second a pharaoh marinus we just said that the spiritual vein and that is me so it's like a philosophical question it's like a catch-22 we know if you don't eat you die why why should a person die why why can't the shaman stay there their shum doesn't get benefit from the food elements and show me gets benefit from the food and the shame of the dover rookley how could it be nana from a dover gosh me this is a question i found in uh my grandfather's manuscripts in his notebook okay so i was thinking what am i going to do with that well in kedusha he brings down the exact same question almost even word for word says the philosophers have already investigated leda sibas bhagav to know the combination of the soul with the body the philosophers have not been able to plummet to the depths of this matter how does eating work how does food how does physical food give sustenance to the spiritual shaman okay that is the question of the islam that the food gives gives sustenance to the body yeah but will only exist in the body but when a person dies and the shaman is still there so there's some is still in the body no i'm just saying exactly still exists in the body as long as the body but why would the neshama only exist in the body when the body eats food because if it doesn't why would the body why would they what then says if you don't eat salami then i'm leaving and if you eat salami dam's thing in other words in the shama likes when you eat salami why would the neshoba like it right why okay that's a question of the saviad of of zikani and the kadash okay so we come to apostolic in this week's parasha the pastor is talking about the man and it says about the man god afflicted you he starved he fed you the man on bread alone what does men live on everything that emanates from the word of god a person lives that is a very mysterious passage you hear that what the puzzle is saying god gave you the month so you should know that you don't live on bread alone but you also live on what comes out of the word of god what comes out of the word of god what does it have to do with your food what your food has in it like the word of god in it yeah i don't want to but look the uh can't live without if torah is the word of hashem yeah and that's what the shaman is when you learn torah sign blood and the food is for the gok not for the neshama so they both require something to stay out if you don't learn torah you're still gonna symbiotic relationship so while you look if you don't eat food you're not gonna live if you don't learn torah you will physically live here it's saying here it's saying that the goof the being needs more than lechem but it needs moiza so what exactly does this mean let's see the arizon ariza writes the life of the soul it's through that which emanates from the word of god you know what you live on the blessing you make on the food hammock that you say with your mouth might see need soy say it removes sparks of holiness from tomah viniveras hashem and it is selected through the mouth of god by you chewing halal bashing with the 32 teeth shame and basil which correspond to the 32 times la kim is mentioned in boracious laminbiz and the sevis the 32 pathways what does this mean a result saying something very important that if you look and say for beratious impact aleph until it says the word ali kim how many times 32 times if you look in sephirah in the very beginning it says there are 32 nisiva is 32 paths of wisdom corresponding to the 32 times it says ala kim and veracious until vallejo these are the 32 pathways of how many teeth do you have 32 teeth by by chewing by chewing people say they lost their marbles really they lost their teeth right but with my chewing with the 32 teeth by making a bracha a bracha is the word of god the bracha extracts from the food a certain spiritual quality with which it gives life to the neshama so but that that's how a jew lives a jews in the summer requires not just physical food but requires it requires the mouth of god how do you gain the piacem this is the bracha the bracha that a person says with his mouth extracts kedusha from the food and while you're eating your lunch while you're eating your sandwich your tuna fish sandwich the body gets nurtured by the food then hashama gets nurtured when you make the bracha the bracha extracts kedusha from the food now what kadusha is in your tuna fish exactly what does it mean the barakah extracts kedusha from the food but that's what the arizona says again it's a pasta in this week's parasha allah okay let's explore this concept there are five places in the shlock the for the star cutters writes in five places first in the shareholders in that brings kadushantara onto the food and the nephesh is nana from the kedusha of the food but again the food only has kedusha when what when you eat with shame shamayim to satisfy his soul what does that mean says ashla that sadiq eats to satisfy his soul the answer is the eating has some kedusha and from that kedusha the nephesh is satisfied says this is a concept that is elaborated on by the arizona looking ice members that he explains and he brings down the philosophers that what exactly is this confluence what is this fusion of the soul with the body by eating could an ashama eat and says the nobody knows the answer to this question how could the soul benefit from food says but the arizona arabs there is nothing that doesn't have like hazal say there is no blade of grass that does not have a mazel from above that hits it and says grow what is the meaning of this the meaning is there is an upper source that gives a hashbah and gives a certain kedusha to the food nimsa called every food in the world also has an fs your tuna fish has a net fish the food is the guth and the kedusha that's being nishba from above that the mazo says gadel that's the nephesh when you eat it the nephesh is from the nephesh of the food and the goof is nana from the good for the food you hear this every food you eat has a physical form and a spiritual nephesh where does the food where does tuna fish get a spiritual nephesh from hazal say there's no blade of grass down here that does not have a kayak from above that says gadal what does that mean that there's a malef that says bang bang bro no it means there's a celestial source that infuses it with kedusha it's that kedusha of the food that is the nephesh of the food when you eat your body is none from the physical food your nephesh is nana from the nephesh of the food so whether you're blessing or not it's there's no seducer in order to extract it seems like the kadusa from the food that's triggered that's triggered from the bracha like mentioned by that resale number four but this is the meaning of the pasik that we mentioned which means it's not just the physical because otherwise what net benefit does the nephesh get from the physical it's means like this hashem there is in the physical form the word of god which is the spiritual sustenance that is gained by the celestial source okay that's what the shah khan's writes he takes a little further does the belief that the nephesh survives after a person died of course it survives and what is the what but it can't survive in the guth it can't survive in the gulf the only way that this does really have you you've said before that the nephesh gets life from the kedusha of the food when you ingest it yeah but is the memphis really have life it exists after a person oh in order to exist in the gulf it has to consume in other words in order for the body and soul to have this union and you need to feed it something that also has a union what is that food food has in it the physical form and the spiritual core which comes from the celestial force that that is in shamayim and and says it hits it and says gadal the food which has in it both qualities is what provides for the body and soul to have a union by the way rabbi he says it's not for nothing that the torah writes by achilla the words of them which indicates what that indicates that the the food has a degree of kadusa now the schlock colors points out something amazing that is by the it's hadas hashem doesn't just say that um god doesn't just say don't even hashem says no me coil ates hagon from all the food in the garden you could eat but don't eat from your tadas why doesn't god just say don't eat family it's it sounds like there's a mitzvah to eat the other fruits and there's not very that fruit there's a mitzvah to eat the other fruits it's just one thing you can't eat for the tadas says the slaw we see from this pasta sometimes eating is a mitzvah and sometimes not eating is a mitzvah and not eating the hainua tinus they're both the same when you fast and you diminish your fat and your blood that's like a carbon that's a mitzvah but sometimes eating is a carbon in other words there are two ways of bringing carbonace one way is not eating when you don't eat you diminish your kelev you diminish your dam that's the way of being macro of a karma hashem and sometimes when you eat it's a carbon like i'll say that when the masa make those was destroyed what does this mean how could eating being it's a look in the bottom paragraph number six he quotes the arizona on the passage [Applause] there becomes a union a fusion of body and soul the spirituality of the food sustains the nephesh turnover and the physical food sustains the goof and they're both therefore attached just like the nephesh is hidden in the goof and that is how your mikadesh the guff and you attach it to the neshama however says the this is provided that you're eating kosher food and you're eating the shame what does it mean to eat the shame says you're eating to live you're not eating just to enjoy if somebody just consumes because it tastes good even though it's harmful so then that does not sustain the neshama but if a person eats what gives him kriyos what gives him life that type of eating is like eating a carbon that's like being microbic carbon what is not why is it that non-kosher food doesn't have the condition that's that's the way it was programmed it was programmed that way the the um provided that's that if it's trey food it's not it's not considered achilles carbon it's not given kedusha but the it's hadas what was the it's hadas it's adas it was it looked good when you just eat let's say sweets or you eat things that are unhealthy but don't actually nourish your body that type of achiva does not give us it does not give kayak to your but when you eat to be able to exist that doesn't mean doesn't mean everything you eat you exactly you know measure the exact nutritional value but it means in general in general the person's achilles it's to give him to give the life that type of eating not only gives the goof life it gives the neshama life but someone who eats merely for pleasure that type of achilles it does not give hanoi to the neshama take a look then slow writes further he writes in number seven person should sanctify himself on his table don't be a glutton a swallower in other words don't eat like uh coney island exactly when you eat when you eat at your table imagine you're sitting in front of a king imagine you say imagine if you know the god of hadar was sitting at your table you know there's a there it was in the news that there were some arab women overheard saying that i don't know how these uh jews are protected they have two things right they have the iron doom dome and they have the kanievsky and these two things are protecting them the iron dome and the kanievsky protection right but she doesn't know exactly what the kanyevsky is right of course you know him the guadalajara right but imagine if robham kanyevsky was sitting at the table so would a person you know sit there um you know loosen their belt you know pile up the the food of course not you dignify you eat because you eat with with respect right if and if god almighty is sitting at your table how would you eat you eat a little bit differently your food selection your choice might be a little differently right so so too says the s imagine when you're eating you're sitting before god we know when we dive in dallas that we know we know when we're learning it's like you're in the kadasha kardashian but there's another concept dallas know who you're eating in front of yeah maybe we should make a song right no before when you're eating i think there's something we all know yeah davening don't talk by davening decorum by davening decorum by learning how that know before who you're eating there is no have sick there's no interruption between you and god this type of thought will bring a person great holiness and then your your eating won't be to fulfill your taiva raka sir whatever what is not providing the the need of sustaining your body physically that remove says the person has tuna fascias the living soul and the nephesh the living soul is in the sky aim by eating food and drink but the nephesh hamas skeletos does not get hanov from eating but his nisparen is from thought from seikel that's how mushroom was in the spanish for 40 days without food and drink and therefore says if your mashable at your sudha to the mitzvos that will not only sustain your gup that will sustain your nashamah if you make your suit su that's mitzvah the mitzvah is what does this mean how do you make your sudo sudas mitzvah says the next paragraph number one making sure your food is kosher making sure you don't have any dvr surim number two to have the machaven to save the broccolis properly number three to have kabana to sustain your boat your goof and to give it health to be able to serve hashem says that is what sustains your your neshama but the mitzvos that are talibas in other words and the says again in his conclusion look at number nine i spoke very long about the table so that you should know allah which means that the torah that you speak at yasuda or the kavanaugh that you have at the sudha or the anem that you feed out your sudah all of those things that's what gives sustenance to your neshama so in other words what we're learning is this is aposic you want to survive you want to live bread alone doesn't do it so we saw a number of ideas says it's the broccoli you make on the food that's what gives sustenance to the summer number two the colors tells us it's the kavana means that you have nourishment that your body has eating washing shamania means diverter at the table it means feeding the less fortunate all of these things are the kia commits that's what gives sustenance to that's what gives sustenance to the neshama so i'll tell you i had the privilege this week to uh visit my grandfather hashem to watch over him and i saw in a lot of his of him he's very fascinated with the topic of akhila what i mean by not fascinating with the topic of food but with the spiritual aspect of that and you have people who are lamdanim and tamir khamen and marbitsay torah but i'll tell you the way my grandfather eats it's mamish like kakrava's carbon it's like watching somebody be macro it's an avoider the dignity and the kavod and the the manor and the twilights and the bracha is it's it's a living embodiment of uh this idea of him okay by the way we can't have a share without the right so the hideous says this exact thing look at number 10 what does this mean the soul does not benefit from physicality like the philosophers have investigated we see the person eats he lives [Applause] is being sustained by your shabbos meal the answer is the soul is sustained from the spirituality which is through the broadcast sustained this not on bread alone does a person live [Applause] and he says he's paraphrasing the words of the arizona the sub state sadiq writes as well in the name of that result that this tells this is gives us a little bit of a clue this gives us a little bit of a hint while the gemaran coolant says that of all availas we know god protects sadiq from aveiros but specifically the gemara says says in many places in shas that's only in food that it's possible for a saddik to sin it's even possible for sadiq to eat on a tinus or to eat before abdullah but not to eat a davar asar why of all things in this world does god protect sadiq him from eating dwarf surim it's because what gives in the sham where does the shama come from then a shama gets here from the spiritual element of food and therefore of all things god protects that saddiq from from devarum okay let's end with the following so so far what we learned is what does aposic mean that says it means what through the bracha that we make that brings out the spiritual aspect the spiritual nugget of the food by the shovel hashem that is a certain that brings out a certain nephesh in the food when you eat the food your body is nana from the body of the food your soul is nana from the solar phone but again it's a little bit difficult to read the words hashem is that the pi hashem it's your pet your brah is what gives you life why do we say i'll call myself hashem torah the torah and the food is there torah in your food you can't live without there's no life in october okay but for the body to live in the soul what torah is there in the food is there torah in the food welcome knowing that it's a cutted sparkle that provided the food and now we've got our cocoa runs the program so we mentioned the madrish that there's no blade of grass down here that doesn't have a mala or mazo standing up hitting it and saying grow grow are you kidding me i mean for real but every blade of grass has an angel what does the angel's stick look like is it a whip is it a stick does it have like a a nail on top doesn't it what the mouth is what does it mean the mouth is hitting the blades of grass how do we understand that is that literal is that allegorical what does it mean look at number fourteen um there is no blade of grass that does not have a muzzle in the heavens shamako you say that hits it the oil like gadal and tells it to grow what does it mean that there's a malloch that hits the blade of grass so look at number 16. so in uh i found in my grandfather's writings um a brilliant idea it says like this here's the answer here is how the neshama is what does it mean that it hits it the indian haha what does it mean it said kalimar like it says in yoina mayor boy hitting means to shine what hitting means to shine we're in tanaka's hitting mean to shine come on look at number 15. remember when yona the ki when yona was um by the kikayon and the the sun hit the head of yonah hashem the sun hit the head of jonah but you saw off and he flanked it what does it mean the sun came down and then clapped him ibber and cuff what does it mean that the sun hit the hereyone it means it shined on him so when we say there is a mallach in heaven that hits the blade of grass doesn't mean it hits it it shines on it it's mere by it and that blade and that illumination that the malek illuminates remains in the grass is included in it via dua now where do malokum come then shines to the next item nin says you know where the neshama gets benefit from the mouth of god creates the malach the mala hits the grass doesn't mean hits it shines on the grass so the illumination that's in the mallet from god is now in the blade of grass when you eat it you are now ingesting not only the starch of the grass you're ingesting the illumination of the malach which originated with god this all began from the original cause and the original stars which means from god himself that sustains everything um and gives life to everything this is the secret of the pastor we see in davaning you give life to everything and this is what the python says everything belongs to you in you is everything and with and upon everything is your kindness so in other words this is another way to understand how is the soul nana from well if you're eating something that grows from the ground well that thing that grows on the ground has a masala has a malwa that strikes it which we said means is mayor in it illuminates where does it get its illumination from from god so now we could suggest based on this this explanation of this manuscript over here that this is very beautiful into the passage man does not live on bread alone but what does he live in hashem he lives on the word of god what is the word of god gotta do with my food ah we learned in dallas hashem is the angel the angel illuminates to the food the food enters your body and has two parts so let's just add one thing you get rebba the name and akam brings down that the letters by the way um my grandfather's father was the secretary of the gereva so pranay malcolm writes like this the letters by eating properly you could ascend to the level of amala but alpina arcano based on what we're saying we could explain very simple why do maho and malak have the same oysters because where do you have where does food have its sustenance from it's from the malachan high that's makaboy that's mere but that shines on it it gives it the hara from hashem that horror from hashem then is what sustains the neshama and if you eat your makha properly you are really ingesting the kedusha of the malachi ashores which originated from the pia shem rabbi you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com