Pesach - Mouth Speaks Sweet Prayer & Not Filled with Food & Drink Before - Likutei Halachos 3:5

Okay, welcome again to the relationship flow of Shimon the vid. We have a beautiful opportunity to learn Torah from Rebbe Nachman's I could tell me nothing to learn both of them to be married for a massage especially with pace coming up. Pesach is a time for the mouth to speak to say Shira to feel and Shacharit and this is what he's talking about and Rebbe Nachman as a time of Rebbe Nachman he's he's bringing a very powerful cloud Rebbe was very much hold by I've seen it with my own eyes cuz I had the many years to be davening in Mashhad or minyanim throughout as well and they're very strict not to even have a coffee or anything before davening. So we see that they they live up to the Rebbe Nachman and it's not just learning it's something that's applicable. So now Rebbe Nachman is because we're learning about Boca and the whole mix was waking up early and davening in the morning. So Rebbe Nachman teaches us how can I call them to feel that was forbidden to eat before prayer in order to pray Shacharit with devotion. It's based on the Shulchan Aruch later on in in 89 that's the 89th siman and the safe is number three. It's it's actually an issue to eat before prayer in order to pray and and it's based on as well we'll we'll see later on. And the Zohar he straight jumps from the Shulchan Aruch to the Zohar and other Kabbalistic texts are extremely strict on this and we know that Rebbe Nachman is not into his ways. So if they're still bringing something like this bringing the Zohar then we know that it's something Rebbe Nachman felt very strongly. I'll give you one other thing for example and it actually says in the first section of the second section of the Nina it says there that a year should be marked on Shabbos. It's another example of something. So I think that the connection would be as we said at the beginning Pesach opening a mouth to sing to Hashem praising Hashem. This is something Rebbe Nachman is very strong about the of the prayer singing of how and how we prepare for that. If we eating it seems to be there's some and drinking before davening especially Shacharit there's some sort of stir that is going to block up the we'll see. So much so that they say that even when rises from sleep at midnight which everything will be learning till now he's forbidden to eat or drink until after praying Shacharit. It could be a while yeah. So far as to say that whoever does eat and drink at that time is considered like one who practice sorcery. Yeah, it's pretty strong language. May Hashem save us study there. It's a whole Torah in the Zohar in the time of Hashem we have the Rebbe Rebbe Shmuel. Let's say Rebbe Shmuel yeah. No, that's your son-in-law or son. son-in-law Yeah, I saw the name I was like Shmuel that's a good name. I have a son as well Shmuel. But alas this is not the case at present when many are those among the who breach the safeguard established by the Rebbe and make it their practice to drink before to feel it. Yeah, I'm guilty as charged. I'll take a I'll go up to Shimon. I've even seen my Rebbe he gives out chocolate before Shacharit. So my Rebbe I mean he's not a time of Rebbe Nachman he's he's from the Chernobyl lines he has a different there I'm doing like my Rebbe in terms of this onion because as I said he gives out chocolate. Not that I see any chocolate every Shacharit but but the the onion is he's not on this I mean a chocolate chocolate it's not a pseudo it's not this I would go even further remember Charles used to say the whole before davening in in in Kabbalist davening sometimes I'll be at least learning with my kids before going to Sadiq Rebbe Rebbe or the Rebbe and they would give out to everyone before davening. So but it was a few hours before but he saying that doesn't make a difference few hours like you don't eat and drink it's like you doing you doing something not good and it also so the idea that even though the he said brings out that many people don't do it like I'm saying I just and until it becomes what permitted to them. That and that's what I'm saying you know about for example this is something they will eat for davening and my Rebbe himself will drink and have a chocolate not a chocolate. And to justify their behavior they base themselves on great authority having found a few who themselves in this way. However those were very ill and weak so they drank before praying because they need to do something to have strength to pray. So that was the whole idea I remember reading that he used to say to his daughters and you should eat before davening cuz better that you daven and then eat I'm sorry eat and then daven so that you're not davening to then eat. Meaning your the whole focus on davening is just to get to breakfast. So he said get it out of the way a little bit and now you have coffee and focus on properly. That was like the the so whatever helps you and I even had a Rebbe in say you want to get up at 8:00 use the idea of a chocolate or a nice coffee get you out of bed to motivate you. You have to use tools yeah. Rebbe no. These tools are he's saying he's saying it's all from from where they found a few that were weak or sick he says strong language here. But these impotent individuals for something like themselves to those like an ape to a man. They imitate the actions in order to justify filling their base of drinking coffee before prayer. I'm guilty as charged. This practice becomes so widespread to the point there are now also some who eat before praying. Woe to them and woe to their souls But this is a very serious prohibition as explained in the teaching of mentioned it would be in and it is in it's a mentioned it would be in and it is in it's a you'd I'm in base in this. You can learn over there and it's brings strong language about it. It's you know it's like you have it's all kinds of you can go look up in especially in the holy and other Kabbalistic writings as we just said before the Zohar and in brings a bunch of the condition that woe to them woe to their souls very strong very clear in this is a no no and then we're not drink or or eat before davening and I'm the kind of when I read something like this doesn't make doesn't make me feel like I'm a trade for years doesn't make me feel like I'm off the road because one of the I'm not saying Rebbe Nachman says do if you're able to if you live up to Rebbe Nachman Rebbe Nachman do what he says become become a like like this is the Rebbe is all about but for me like I'm not on that level I'll be honest and I can live with myself and I'll have a coffee tomorrow morning even more why not because going against the Rebbe I want to become the way of the but I know who I am and and I know where I'm at and I know I'm in the day days before comes that's not my that's not my problem my main problem is other things more serious problems than having a coffee before davening so I have to be real with where the battleground is and if I start making new battlegrounds even though it's truth what it's it's it's Rebbe Nachman I'm not holding there so you know so if you want to have time give it I'm not giving you a I'm not going to give you a but I as I said I have I have that I'm connected with who who Rebbe Nachman has seen them I've seen them give out chocolate to this see them many times and even the Rebbe was given chocolate by the Rebbe to give out to the before davening especially when it's a very long davening even on Shana I saw everyone have a little bit of chocolate. You know one time I was I was came to my Rebbe the one of the first by him and I came and I've been by big Rebbe big who would get up at 4:00 in the morning and learn mountain of before davening and and they come to with and daven all day here and the wife had just about seen him for a minute while they washed for a second and and you know have a very quick out again for like I've been by like big and I come to the Rebbe and he comes up to me before davening and he's holding a Torah his Torah all the way back from from the original who was a son of the who was a son of you know the and I can try to I don't know best as might be upset I'm saying all these names cuz these are supposedly them but I'm to their but he all the way back to his and he's standing there on morning early in the morning. Remember these are the time of the as well just there's different paths Rebbe So he came he said to me Rebbe are you happy? That's what he said before davening. My my previous Rebbe Rebbe wouldn't talk he'd be like you know no talking before on you know you know you're a you know all the year and and the time the comes up to me and starts nudging me. You happy? And he's holding a safe of Torah from his side. Simcha. And he saw me long davening in shacharis, so he was shani pushed me out of the davening. And it was a big statement to me cuz what it made me realize is I need to come down. I need to come down. I'm too high. I'm too with these big tzadikim and bris of tzadikim, other kind of tzadikim, Ram Shaul of tzadikim, other tzadikim are high, but I wasn't able to be a good husband. I wasn't able to be a good person to my to people cuz I was so like for bris, so fired up for Yiddishkeit. So that's that's about chuva. I had to learn how to, thanks to my Rebbe and other tzadikim, how to come down a bit more into the to reality and deal with the fact that I'm a basar v'dam, I'm a human being and I have to work on my middos, be more happy, more smiley, more and not so intense. So that was my personal thing. I'm not s- giving it as I had to tell you else, but that was my journey. Any line of the divrei mussar tzadikim with all of my shvuchim and all of them, I wish you not compare ourselves to those of great tzadikim who possess a different higher spirit, but pratyush cholim gedolim, since they only died because they were very ill. Gam rove tzadikim lo nahagu kach. Furthermore, we should not permit this to ourselves since most tzadikim do not engage in this practice. Rabbeinu Kodesh Z'l Safe Shmuel Lo shasa filu mayim kodem t'fila. He didn't even drink water, forget about coffee, before davening. Af al pi she mamdin Shulchan Aruch, shamin din Shulchan Aruch mutar lishtos mayim af al pi ken hu lo shasa filu mayim kodem t'fila. This was despite the fact that in Shulchan Aruch drinking of water is permitted. He even didn't drink water before davening. He'd wake up in the middle of the night and wouldn't even have water all the way through his his tzit katzos and his his spodedus and his learning seder and then davening. Davening he probably started davening at 8:00 every day. Nachshol and Yinyanei Lashem tzarchei as subject. So all p and out mevo'ar k'tzas inyan issur achila sheyesh kodem t'fila. Basically what was said above, now he's going to make a bit and and you shouldn't drink before davening or eat. We're going to pre- make before prayer. We're going to make clarify this. K'mevo'ar ba'Torah she'tikkun ha'emunah hu ayin d'Shimon u'tzitz ha'dibbur kulo. This is the part which I can connect with cuz I as I said I don't hold the the whole bit before was too high for me. For it's explained in the Rebbe's lesson that tikkun ha'emunah is achieved by elevating the sparks of speech and restoring them to holiness. Okay. That we can do. Okay. Now we're at point Pesach. I said now speak. We're a time we've got to fix up our speech and we've got to elevate the sparks. Is zeh az oken ayin d'tainus v'chulu. Ayin d'tainus v'chulu. Zeh sh'tiyah as ayin is gabba meklipus. How do you merit this by fasting? Since it's all reducing indulging one's desire for food and drink, the klipus constantly become stronger. Shem b'chinas sarei Paroh. Eh, listen to this. This is this is perfect for erev Pesach. These are the forces of the Paroh's officials. Umshichin es ha'dibbur l'toch b'chinas Mitzrayim d'Goyim. They draw the faculty of speech into the Mitzrayim, the Mitzrayim d'Goyim. Meiny yochli davar shem dibbur lifnei Hashem yisbarach kulo. So now this is a whole deep Torah. We just say it very b'kitzur because our friend here has to go. But the Arizal explains that the the these klipus, they they they they are correspond when holiness is lacking. So there's a kind of concept in the throat of a person, the trachea, the esophagus, the jugular. These are the three sarei of Paroh. And we know that Paroh was peh ra or oref, evil mouth or back of the neck, which is all connected to klipah of dust, like this this alternative kind of show. And it has these three sarei which are the three windpipes, the trachea which windpipes contain body fluids became air to lungs. And then there's the food pipe, the esophagus, and that carries from mouth to the stomach. That's the chief baker. So the the air is the cupbearer, Paroh's cupbearer. And by the way, we learn that from the cupbearer the dotted coses of Pesach night cuz it's four times cos in that whole story with Yosef HaTzaddik. So we learn out from the cupbearer that's the the dotted coses and that's the the where the the liquids go. And then there's the and air, excuse me, the air. So not not not the liquids, the air, the windpipe. Then then the food pipe is the is esophagus and the jugular veins that pass and that corresponds with draining blood. It's corresponding to Paroh's chief butcher. So we again, you have the windpipe which is the the the cupbearer from the story with Paroh with Yosef HaTzaddik and Paroh and the whole the whole with the cholomos with the dreams. That's the the the windpipe and that's the cupbearer. Then you have the food pipe, that's the the excuse [clears throat] me, the the the cup there is the chief baker, right? Yeah, that's the chief baker. And the jugular veins, that's the the the ba- the butcher. And this is all connected to with Paroh Paroh himself. He is himself oref, back of the neck or peh ra. And this is talked about many sefarim. Mitzrayim is a narrowing. Now I don't know if you any of you caught corona or any of those kind of throat flus kind of experiences, you feel like your whole being you can't like it's all constricted. I don't know if you've ever gone through it. I had it during Chanukah, it was a nightmare. Had it for a few weeks. It must it was like worse than corona. It was like three weeks of just just craziness of and my my wife also went through it. It was so intense. And I managed to function and I went to mikvah and davening. I still managed to do avodas Hashem, but it was hard. And it's like this mitzrayim like restricts everything becomes narrow and straight. Men of Mitzrayim from the Mitzrayim from Mitzrayim is lashon narrow streets, restrictions. So by indulging in eating and and speaking or praying improperly, like where he's not really present, there's no there's no mindfulness, this strengthens the other side, the klipus, and the human body organs of speech lie adjacent to the trachea, esophagus, esophagus, and the jugular veins. This proximity enables Paroh's three officials that are associated with the throat to trap the letters of speech in the narrows of the throat. Then Paroh, the klipah of the back of the neck, draws us from some of the holy sparks. And so this is what we're trying to undo, obviously. Pesach is the whole avodah, eating matzah b'kedushah, the dotted coses. And remember the one the cupbearer was the one that Yosef had the yeshuah cuz he remembered Yosef. He was the one who wasn't killed, yeah? So we have to understand that there's a big tikkun going on Pesach night. Yosef HaTzaddik was was was was able to become the mishneh l'melech and elevate speech in Mitzrayim through the lashon kodesh. And Moshe Rabbeinu was all about bringing Hashem's name even the osios of Moshe's Hashem, which is bringing the name of Hashem more. And we have the we have the Pesach night, it's all about saying shvach and praising Hashem. And the whole avodah of achilas matzah is eating with holiness and the the cos dotted coses drinking with holiness. Everything gets fixed on on the Pesach night in these these this aspect. And that's why it's very important this time of year to really work on your speech and to make sure you're elevating everything. So he says over here that the um just to end off that we have to Jews have to be able to open our mouths to talk to Hashem. That's one of the big that you can see why Rebbe Nachman is so strict and Rebbe Nachman and his talmid with this halacha because he wanted you to be opening your mouth fully and not being caught up with these God forbid any form that would take away from your avodah to t'fila. So because he was so sensitive with the kedushas ha'peh and the holiness of t'fila, so he wants to I'll tell you something else and that would be a very good answer. In shalom bayis, where he's like to bring this relationship flow. The the most powerful part of connection between husband and wife is dibbur, is speech. Even even the note. Nine tenths of of the connection in in marriage is to do with emotional connection. A lot of 10% maybe physical and we can add in spiritual and and you know, intellectual, whatever, but the real place of avodah is how you speak to your wife and how you speak. That's that relationship. That's where all the kribus comes, the the connection point, the chibbur comes through speech. So we have to really work on how we eat and drink, how we daven, daven for our for our shalom bayis, and elevate our speech and Pesach to praise Hashem, to open up our mouth and speech should come out to praise our wife, to praise our family, to bring out the good in everyone, the re'ach tov. And that in itself and that's that would be more for me personally on my level, the avodah is taking the eitzos of the pnimius of trying to become more more more present in davening. And for me a coffee at my level, my low level at the end of days is my my justification that it gives me koach to daven. So I have a tea or I have a coffee before davening, it gives me koach to be able to open my I don't sit there and have a whole seudah Hashem, but just to be able to just not feel the body is in the way, it it takes off a certain level for me. Rebbe Nachman, no, he's on such a high level sensitivity and he's and he's holding by Shulchan Aruch and Chazal and Zohar, don't don't touch food, drink if you can't, and just be able to come to davening and open your mouth to Hashem in the most deepest way and to be able to have no blockage in your throat, no connection to the Mitzrayim or the Paroh or any of his his servants, to be able to have a a flow, a true complete flow towards Hashem. That's open. All the tzinorim, all the pipes are open and that and that's very important to understand that connection between the mo'ach and the lev is that point in the neck. That's why that's very important that we we were called we were called stiff-necked nation. We're very stiff-necked. But that's also our strength cuz we have chutzpah, we have azus d'kedushah to come to daven and serve Hashem no matter what. And that with Shimshon Pinchas who just passed who whose yahrtzeit was, he used to say that the main reason we end off with this that the Holocaust happened and all the problems Yisrael took place was all because of an not proper t'fila. And you see in parshas Shmini that the the idea that davening having kavanas Hashem and the Shechinah and how we the kashrus and how we what we eat and how we eat this whole partial you'll see and then we'll be learning it after Pesach is all connected and it's why it comes out always this time of year. So do with what we eating and what we speaking and the schmoozing of partial and so coming soon during Sefirah and the whole Sefirah time speaking giving over the spirit this has the Shimon says by us the same as all the the four ways of speaking by us praising and singing singing with bringing into our home bringing into our hearts bringing into our relationships and that gives us wake up as a shaman to govern and not need to fill ourselves with to feel elevated to feel uplifted and that I hope we should all be to become and what he's saying and and hope Pesach of and and toda and we're going to have to have bias from that and because our kids will see us filled with and we'll be to all the in the and so we're going to have to have a lot of amen.