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Maamar Vkibel 1927 #13 Find Truth - Avoid Your Friend
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um no actually
we're on page 206
in the mime of akiba 1927 that was set
in moscow
on purim cotton
206 is where we're at yes
we're at the kit sir we're at the
kitchener
just briefly the rebbe yesterday brought
a muscle of a goddale
someone who's very very wise
how how does
how does he look at cotton
versus an ish how does he look at
someone who
is bright but not as bright as he is
and how does he look at someone who is
very simple and the rapper used this
example the frida krabi used this
example
to explain the difference between two
types of bittle
two types of subservience
to hakodesh baruch one is
the what we call the uh bitter hayes
and one's what we call bitter bamitzius
these are very too familiar
uh and regular used terms in chabad
hasidis
bit i'm not saying it you don't find it
in other
you do but in khabar it's they go to
gather many times and the concepts are
very
um very uh regular
and also in chabad hasidis they have a
different meaning than
the way it's discussed in other
swarm muslims foreign
is here the mathias is here
that the person is here the world is
here
it's a given it's not as though
it's not an accepted reality it's an
accepted reality nevertheless
in order for there to be avoid this
hashem
in order to do what hashem wants you
have to be movatel the ish
you have to be obliterate the self
i use these words because years ago i
read
rabbi dr mr mendel's translation
of one of the contraissum of the
previous rebbe
or another pet another pamphlet maybe
the mitzvahs menissa mendel
translated various countries
and of the previous represent to english
and uh he used the word obliteration of
self i
i remember it that it stuck out of my
mind because
i never used those words in yeshiva
bitlysh
obliteration of self and i really i
really liked the translation
and besides liking it the fact that mr
mandel translated that way that ebber
checked
his work um so
we could say again i can't tell you for
sure if this particular translation
in this particular cipher that i
betrayed but overall
that ever checked his work a philosophy
of chabad
the book philosophy of khabad which has
two volumes
the first volume was his uh phd
dissertation
at columbia university and
that i know that that ebber looked over
and made
remarks and uh on the english as well
you know
so i'm taking the the liberty of saying
that the
his wording and other writings is also
uh with what we call uh gush banker de
malta
it's a term brought what is gush banker
means the stamp
of the king it has the rebels approval
so
i therefore what i'm saying is the
translation obliteration of self comes
from nissan mendel
and i would think that that episode and
he approved it yes
i'm just curious on that note
obliteration
is a pretty hefty word
and it sounds very music and
but but but but putting that what i just
said the muslims are putting that
outside
we know that we know that a person
needs to maximize
his skills he needs to maximize the
gifts that gorju has given him
for her to make a dura
with her tone
obliteration sounds on the one hand
i mean i i think i understand
what it's saying what he's saying it
sounds a little um
it sounds a little uh it is what it is i
i i'm not the originator of the term i'm
telling you it's coming from
listen adele and and and probably the
rebbe proved it
i don't think the rabbit shows those
words nissan mendel chose those words
but that one second shamu the fact is
the yesh is
excuse me disgusting and bothersome and
we have to deal with it and the first
step of dealing with it is
obliterating the the haksha ma
the the coarse part of the yesh we're
not talking about
not using and transforming the ash we're
talking about
that animal like tendencies of indulges
and typhus
that you have to get rid of that's a
basic teaching in in khasid is called
iscafia
you know anyone that you know doesn't
want to recognize that i mean to say
is is not in the chabad ethos okay
is not about clapping your hands and
eating more chocolate it's just not it's
not
and this is frankly i'm glad you brought
it up because this day
is uh a misnomer and a big mistake it's
it's a total mistake
and is working on yourself and dealing
with the hardcore
issues and including um getting rid of
it
suramar which said
is in the chabad lexington and it begins
with sur mera
now what the rabbit taught us is that
when there's a person who doesn't know
an elephant a base and doesn't know
what's going on you're going to go tell
him you're going to burn
you're going to burn for your alvarez
you know the person won't want to look
at you and you won't even get to be able
to put on twitter with him and teach him
so the episode you start with assaytov
and at the same time you tell him
there's 630
mitzvahs including mitchuslow's essay
and yeah and you know
you don't hide that from it and and you
should know the early schluchem of the
rebbe
you know the like robert gorelick who
passed away this week and although
him you know by then this was um
a matter of fact but again you know when
i talk about robert cunanan you know
bringing in the hippies in the 60s into
into into the shul and to being a car of
them because
that's all they understood but but at
the end you know they
he he wanted them to to clean up and
and groom themselves and and be
presentable so that um the hungarians
and fairfax won't throw them out of the
shoe
because the normal way is to to live
that way
you wanted to say something yeah i
relate to what moshe said the word
obliterate almost sounds like warfare
like one army will obliterate another
army
maybe i i what the word that comes to
mind for me is um
nullification to nullify
this violence look i i you know it's not
again i i understand i understand what
you both are saying and i i understand i
knew i
i knew that myself i'm just but but
since nissan mendel uses it in the
any and he gives if you look it up
you'll see he gives this as the
definition of bitter yes
okay so my the way i reconciled shimula
is that he's talking about the hakshama
daksam is called the materialism not the
physicality there's
the physicality we learned about this in
my modern there's gas mias and hundreas
and homerus needs to be obliterated yes
it needs to be destroyed
the home ruse is the grub kite the gosh
me so yes
you're right uh in the english language
it sounds you know
harsh and uh especially coming from the
you know i understand but i'm just
sharing with you
what what he what he uses and and he
uses it
you know the best thing is for you to
find that language i i would have to
i'm going to try to find it maybe over
shabbos if i have to say for here the
english
and then give you the reference and
maybe you know this is years ago
maybe the context there is a different
one could be you're right but i
i don't think so which which safer is it
again
i think it's i think i read it either in
philosophy of chabad
i think it might be in philosophy or the
commandments
he translated another another a
book a little safer a little say for a
little booklet called the commandments
i believe it's in one of the two and and
both are very important to read
anyway let's go back to that let's go
back to our discussion here in the mind
so we have the the the the bit layers
and then we have brittle benecias bitter
macias
is not only to get rid of the yeshut
the the the grub guide the coarseness
the materiality
that's that's um so indulging etc
but also the concept and idea
and notion of existence should be
nullified
to hashem and that's a much harder
avoider
i gave you the muscle of the king of the
minister standing before the king
versus the ministers as they are go
outside of the king's room after
abiding to what the king wants and then
they start fighting outside the room
why because they didn't the bittle be
the bitter
their nullification when they were
standing before the king
was only cretanius it only touched their
outer core
it didn't touch their inner core so as
soon as they're not in front of the
great king
they're back to themselves so i use that
as an emotion because it's used at times
and
see this from the mushroom i've heard
that much muscle
that that this is the difference between
bitter bamitzius and bitter yes
bitter but macias means your entire core
your essence
is nullified to god so the concept the
idea doesn't even exist as an
independent
entity whereas yes the idea exists as an
independent entity
it's just that the group kite of course
this immateriality
is nullified so the river says
that that the difference between
the the the bitter of the
cotton to is
i'm sorry the bit the way the god looks
at the
cut he says is he says is that
he has some but he has some wisdom but
it's
you know small change then he says
what about an ish portion what about a
simple person who doesn't have any
husband at all
so over here he says not on one hand
he's not even in the category of
right we have three things we have haha
very wise
a little wisdom each pass no wisdom at
all
just pushing so on one hand
the cotton still makes it to the
category of ghost
of wisdom not as much as the chocolate
but he has wisdom
so he's in the ballpark he's in the
realm you know there's a comparison that
could be made
on some level but the each posture is
not even in that category
says that but conversely there's a
virtue
of the of the ich boshod that the ish
porsche
knows he knows that he is
insignificant in in the area of wisdom
so but he realizes that the that the
that the king the goddel is so awesome
he just knows he's awesome he doesn't
know how he's awesome when he's awesome
what makes him awesome
but he knows that he's very special he
says i want to
follow this king i want to be an aide to
this king i want to be a mushers to this
king
so um that ever points out that from the
perspective
of the ish pashut
there is a uh a yearning
to the goddale more so than the
cotton
he says to himself listen i have a
little
god is much more but i'm something
so the battle of the cotton to the god
is not complete
whereas the picture of the ish partial
to the goddess is complete
that was one point that was said and
that was said
with this we can explain the difference
in the battle between the oil masala
and the island
and he said that look this is on page
206 the second line
because he has some understanding turtle
masala
in them so they look at that and they
look at ainsoft
and they say that ainsoft is infinite
and we're not infinite true
but nevertheless we're still loyola
so that's compared to the battle of the
cotton
whereas
the level of battle of the island is
similar to the battle of a simple person
these are very special words at the end
on one hand
he is totally what is his metius he said
he's possible so he's
he's like on his own right he he he
he he doesn't understand but at the same
time what's the content
he he nothing i'm a nothing i'm
not but i'm a mess i'm a mercedes over
nothing
because i compare myself to the nothing
but i
but that itself is who i am and that's
why i want to be close to him
kitser ivaya
we explained
when the infinite light of hashem shines
the world is considered at that time
in other words it has no mathias it has
no existence
the the upper worlds
to hashem to the ain't south is similar
to the bittle of the small
hakum to the whose
in the essence
not only his outer exterior nullified
but his very deep core and who he is and
his essence is nullified
whereas in the battle of this physical
of the lower world
while there are
mathias so this is this is an oxymoron
it's it's like
you understand what's happening here
that ebb is saying
that on one hand the the level of
subservience
of the upper worlds to god is greater
but the very fact that is greater is
is in itself a hindrance
why because there's recognition
whereas whereas the simple person has no
recognition
so his bittle to the to the who's really
what's the content of that that beetle
i'm a nothing and what am i
i'm all king
it's not it's not so clear because
before he uses the word bitter
yes you have to go back in the
taikanamer
um i thought of that and
we have to find it earlier
he used before the lesson sub oh it's on
page 2
he used the word yes
we'll see this there isn't
that generally we don't make a
distinction of bitter bitsias
itself i mean but generally speaking
so whether he or he's making that
distinction i
i don't think so but it's always
possible but i don't think so
let's continue maybe we'll maybe get
clearer
okay page 206 next paragraph you
download it
in your head we need more clarification
for what is this idea of head that
amazing
lack of existence motion
i know as mathias is kane
need on one hand the mitsuyut
is no existence um
claim and nevertheless nishiba matsias
he still remains in existence
and in other words how can you have both
together
moshe the the simple person he's
right he says this hawk of this wise man
i am nothing compared to him at the same
time he says i want to be
close to him that notion of i want to be
close to him means that you do exist
right so how avi avi are you with me
so how could you say that on one hand
he's awesome and i'm all his
and then you tell me that all his means
that
you are all his that's what he says in
this line hainu
as matthias is kane and see isn't it
you like that this is the previous
rabbit has these little shininess
he has these terms and expressions that
they
they make you really they throw you for
a loop
this is one of them okay but isn't this
like
maybe you could say you can quickly come
in and say this basically it's the
concept of being the merkava
in other words that the person basically
doesn't have any ruts
so to speak ruth's own will of his own
and he uses all those faculties physical
mental emotional
creative simply to serve the quran to do
whatever
whatever kurdish wants him to do so he
is using his medcias
but he's been completely bitter to the
right right well said excellent
um again generally speaking
when we talk about the bitter merkava
we're not talking about this
what you described when we talk about
bitly mccover
means that i'm totally butlered bitter
by maxius
the the bittle of the mercover by the
way is
uh is an example in most
by marim of bitter matsias now beethoven
doesn't mean you stand and so therefore
sit on your couch and do nothing
it means that god goes through you like
you just said the merkava
right but here he here is
it seems like he's saying something
different motion
call mockham nisha bemitsius it doesn't
mean he still remains the mathias in the
way of amer cover
in the way of mercover he doesn't remain
amazing
i'm not talking about him being
physically alive we're talking about the
content of man
what is the position and the content of
man when he's
in the in the mode of mercover the
answer is non-existent
at all completely
here here the language at least and
that's why she was saying it's confusing
he says on one hand there's no mercy
like the merkava like you said
only call marcum but right away he
bounces back and he says nevertheless
nisha messi is nishar he remains the
matzus
so i know the way you're thinking
nishirobamis means what he's physically
here it's not what we mean
so that's not merkova merkava means he's
not nisha bemezius
his merciless is lost
what does that mean
we practice before we get to practically
let's try to understand the concept
we're having a hard time understanding
the idea that once we get the idea we'll
find practicality to it
let's continue let's continue and see if
we come up with something
teaches us
we see in service of hashem
and they'd like to see their children
and grandchildren
learning toyota
and these people are drawn after people
that study title or miscarriage
and they become close to those people
okay
beyond them and these people stand
because say to this tava with a good
arousal
will hold overshadow to anything that's
of holiness
they always cleave and yearn
and are attracted by holiness
they have what we see they would say
they have a good hush hare
they have a good sense of smell only
says that ever nevertheless and here he
goes
under the skin aina muscative and
because of amity
their kirov is not a true
deep sincere kirov
the tamadover why not
it's because of the other person
what's my neighbor going to say
what's the community and the rabbi going
to say the people of shul over
because of their environment
of amity sorry sorry sorry sorry
yeah right no because of their
environment they can't get close truly
in other words it's their environment
that's driving their key roof
their attraction you hear that
past is mean befitting it's not
befitting for him
because of the environment that he's in
the new earth
sorry what he's saying here is that the
environment
discourages him from from this so
and he's fathomed by it so
it's proof that he's not really there
let me let's continue that episode and
then i'll get clear
for hainu he says
those people that he's friendly with
past in it
it's not the it's not like befitting for
him
shall yield who beshear kavula robin
that he should learn
in a sheer that that others attend but
now you understand why the rep is saying
this is 1927
moscow and stalin is clamping and
closing everything
so you know the the rapper's main thrust
at the time was to send your children
to haider my father-in-law
all of a sudden told me a story that no
no foot of us told me but my father knew
this person there was a jew
in humu gum muhammad his name was
i don't know his last name and the
freedom
that in the 20s after stalin came out
with his
edict he said he's looking for shamoshim
ashamish what does that ever mean shall
mushroom
mean people who go around telling others
about the shoe
right there are shamans in the shoe come
to our shoe
you'll have a nice kid that you'll have
a nice rabbi you'll have nice friends
if any graham said i'm looking for
hasidim
to go around and encourage people in the
other shoes
to send their children to haider
and you have to understand that that
this was
risking your life death this wasn't
and was such a hostage any
any and he took upon himself the frida
kahreb is
directive and and and request
and he and he and he went to a school
and he got up on the bhima and he gave a
patch of the beam at the end of
my rival between milhomirev and he said
you know and she said please listen we
have a hater and we need you to send
your children
knowing very well that they were
probably kgb agents there etc etc
and then this and above rum years later
he ended up sleeping in a room where
that mental foster fa slept
and a mendel said he heard him at night
making noises
so he realized he asked what are you
making noises he realized he was saying
and he was crying so he said what are
you crying about
you risked your life
he says i was crying because i had to
get up on the bhima make myself
prominent
and show off my yesh
they understand that's a lubavitcher
husset
you understand he's about to be
shot and sent away to siberia risking
his life not for himself for the freedom
of
and what bothers him years later that he
had to get up on the pima like he's this
big macho
but anyway going back here so when i
read this over here and i remind myself
that the mind was set in moscow 27
this is what they ever wanted and this
is what the rap is saying
so ended up saying in the mimer your
friends
aren't sending their kids to haither to
yeshiva so you say
me too let's continue
this is kind of because and it
and and and it does it doesn't sit right
within that he should really
get close but truly close
like is to be a true god-fearing person
over goloi i mean look look heaven
that look what the rebels writing and
and saying in 27
openly i'm demanding of you opening
either skype
it's not enough to do it in your house
and to hide all the goalie
that's what it says
he says so too there are those that
serve hashem through learning tata now
he's taking a good
uh zets i think get the banay torah
uber avoid the ship left zootreela and
here he gives it to those the hasidim
that are into davening
they don't die them properly and they
don't learn properly why because the
zulus the friend the other
person they are impacted by what they
will say and what they will think and
therefore
they do not engage completely and
wholeheartedly
what we have from this is that their
avodah
in davening and learning the zulus the
other the other person
is a disturbance to them okay moving
says this idea depends on the
personalities
issue muck on the place of his mother
the time every situation
has its um its uh
reasons why one doesn't
really internalize the kirov takadeshwar
you have to actually fight against it
it's not enough just to work on yourself
but you have to exclude
those that seek to disturb
and diminish your interest
in title mistress this
is when a person is not the kero vamiti
conversely
when he is at a level of ms
you know when you'll be amongst when you
do the following when you re
when you meditate when you reflect
why did hashem bring me on earth in
yiddish
sleep voice and is bashafinder
and why was i created and
there's a purpose why i'm here well the
tach let's call his
and what's the purpose of all of my
involvement
and business and work until
versus allah
and why why do i have
all of my businesses and business
involvement
it's for a higher purpose of attack they
basically
and then he thinks about why do i have a
family
sleep first is born named named mother
and why do i have children
and grandchildren
[Music]
after thinking about this he comes to
the truth
as in top of 207 as i
tackle is that his purpose is
the tactless asaka and the purpose of
his business
and the purpose of his family um
it's to do the will and intent of
acquiring
of god
so not only so the first the first group
of people is talking to the business
people now he says so too regarding
those that are
learning all day and davening all day
you know i'm saying life the hashem
potato trilo
it should be with a ms shepard nephesh
with the truth in their nephesh
not because your wife wants you out of
the house or you have no other job
and therefore you're sitting in cradle
or diving into it for three hours
notice that you really your nephesh your
soul
needs this activity because without it
you're hungry
and you feel not to sit not yourself
because you're not connected
then when you serve when you when you
come to the recognition while you're
here you serve hashem
in your study of taita and in your
dominic with the heart
without meetings with truth
[Music]
then your friend the other
cannot disturb you at all
well that if marshall he gives a martial
bismarck
[Applause]
the zulus doesn't disturb you on those
days
at all
the fact that you're the friend doesn't
disturb you on those
at all
[Music]
okay he says it's not the shot it
doesn't mean
that that
that that that you that you that the
zulus
there is a zulus there is a friend there
is another
who has a different opinion and is
laughing at you
et cetera et cetera and you pay no
attention to him
says that that's not what i mean was
serving god with emmaus
cavanaugh that my intent the kavona the
purposes
is not true my vodka lois said that he
pays no attention to him and says
you know him
at the time of regeneration prison
crusader those times
of revelation any zulus
that has a different opinion to what's
going on
doesn't exist doesn't exist
you understand the difference between
you exist and i don't
take your opinion i don't follow your
opinion or
you don't exist
yes and those days
that ever says there is nothing that
disturbs you
as the world said saying of the world
on those days he's not thinking at all
about the zulus the zulus
who has a different opinion
throughout the year you take him into
consideration
and if the advice and is no good you say
sorry chap i'm not listening to you but
on the days of rosh hashanah yom kippur
sinclair using them as
examples that ever says on those days
there's no zulus but there is he's
sitting next to you in
shoes he's sitting next to you moshe
isn't sure
he's crying and you don't like the way
he's crying
so what do you mean there's no zoolos
the answer is because you're supposed to
be in a place
where you don't hear him crying you're
supposed to be with hashem you're you're
shunning keepers of this tyrant there is
no zulus that's the level you understand
so when you learn this mimer here and
you talk about these issues
the truth is i'm not there now we're not
there
so we hear one guy screaming loud one
guy crying one guy laughing one guy
making noise
and that was saying it's about you about
us
because
he says it's as though there is nothing
that's disturbing you
okay
the saying is he doesn't think about him
it's not that he thinks about him takes
his
opinion he says i don't want that
opinion i disagree he doesn't think
about it
behind the scenes he doesn't think about
the zulus the other person at
all
all right we'll stop here in the shame
and we'll continue tomorrow
the hampshire had voted so we're still
in the middle of a a very
shamaki indian and we'll see how
hopefully how it all
explains what we what the rebel began in
the beginning of this
chapter to understand this concept which
is so
uh enigmatic that there's a mathias
there's no mancius who's a mathias we'll
see how he he deals with it
have a great day everyone be my slayer
bye bye thank you