Journey to Ukraine: Uman - Rav Nachman M'Breslov on the Role of Shevet Dan

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com hello everyone uh general shabbos so now we're leaving uman and if we could just say over one essay another very thought-provoking concept from rabb nachman very interesting concept i think it's a teaching that certainly captures the essence of who rabb nachman was and what he stood for and we're going to discuss a great enigma a dilemma regarding a personality in the tanakh that we have various contradicting uh streams when we learn about this particular individual and we're going to it's going to be on this week's parachute and the individual that we encounter was a descendant of dun it's not an individual that we're very familiar with in the zayar hakado desire describes the capture of osama bin laden no just joking of bilaam abdullah and basically the zarya tells us billam flew up on his broomstick and he went up into the heavens and an individual went after him and flew after him who is this individual his name is sally sally i never heard of sal who's sally the czar color says sally was the son of dun sally brayed the shift of the dun so it doesn't necessarily mean exactly the son of dun but a descendant of don he flew after billam and he used also the certain supernatural powers to fly after bilum and billam rises through the various levels of the heaven and sally's after him on his broomstick and they're trying to capture bilaam and finally pinchas gives sally aitsa how to how to knock off um bilum and ultimately with the help of pinchas they get bilham out of the heavens they get billam down to earth and shayta says at that time pinchas tells sally kill him so both pinchos and sally are involved in killing bilam so interesting who kills bilam sally together with pinchas who's sally a descendant of shay vedan okay so here it is somebody from shavette dunn has a distinction of killing billam it's very interesting if you look at the ancestry of people who accomplish great things for kali israel often the individuals come from sheba yehuda but there's some kind of sort of odd combination of shaved yehudah and shiva dhan so for example we're all familiar that when it comes to the construction of the mishkan prashas kisisav hinesata we have this odd couple so to say this unusual combination of shaived yehudah and shayvet dhan and the metro shrabba tells us why would the ribangsham combine together the greatest of all the swatim with so to speak the lowest of all the destruction is considered as we're going to see in certain ways the lowest of all the swatin so the matters tells us hashem is showing that whether you come from or whether you come from shayvatan or swatim are equal all individuals are equal in the eyes of hakalis brachle but it's of note that who constructed the mishkan that's come from his father is from yehuda and his mother is from shaived dhan so again we have this unusual combination and this unusual furthermore it's interesting that so so the alcohol is telling us that his father is from yehudah and his mother is from shayved dhan by the way shimsha nagibar who we know is also compared to the meshiach because the pasik says in ray someone will emerge from dawn who will be like one of the shvatim and rashi says shimsha nagibar is compared to mashiach what's the comparison just like mashiach who does mushy come from mashiach's father is from yehuda his mother is from dhan shimsha nagibar his father was from dawn and his mother was so that's the comparison between sheila yehuda and shayvet dhan so here we have the mishkan who is the mishkan made by combination yehuda and who does who builds the me who does shimshan come from yehuda and let's talk about for a moment who kills asap remember the story of when asav adapted tells us that the swat them were going to vary and they come to maharashtra and who rears his ugly head asap is there asap says over my dead body i'm the bachar i own the burial spot so they said what are you talking about your brother yaakov bought it from you so asap said he only bought my regular portion he didn't buy the portion of the bakar so they said no he bought both portions so they said asap says show me the star they said we left the star in mitzrayim so they send naftali to run back to mitzrayim naftali is is a swift uh deer a swift gazelle and after he runs back to naphtali runs back to mitsrayim in the meantime there's an individual by the name of khrushchev and standing there and khusham is very disturbed that their their grandfather was laying the visayan so don and they said well asap is not allowing us to bury yaakov and we had to go back to mizrahim to get the star so khusham said in the meantime yaakov is going to label the zion so hushem picks up the sword he chops off asav's head and effectively ending the dispute yeah so according to the gemara by the way the gemara doesn't tell us the typical account that we learned in yeshiva in yeshiva we learned that khusham came along and chopped off asap's head the cloud of the gemara doesn't say that the gemara's account is he smacked him on the head and asap's head did not fall off his eyes popped out and his eyes went rolling into the mahasana bayla so it's interesting even though we typically think asap's head is buried in marasana that's not what the gemara says says the eyes came out and the eyes were went into the maharashtra okay so you learned the gemara and you say to yourself who killed a sub what's the answer who killed asaf asa was killed by khrushchev frank tysos that's not true listen to the stoicist toistrus and gittin not on the page the gemaras and that when yehuda killed asav so tyson's ass is the stira because the gemara says hushem killed asap and the safri says yehuda killed asap and for twice this dove you're getting a little too comfortable and advertisers yeah but we don't know which one are there a few people in there yeah and for twice this you know who killed asav khusham and yahudah together it's a big kiddush they both killed you um asap together cestos smacked him but he didn't die yet and yehudah came and he sealed the deal so throughout history we have this odd couple of yehuda and dun who builds the mishkan yehuda who killed billam sally and pinchas so it's very interesting that we have this combination of the greatest of the shwater and the lowest of the swatim done what's the shot in this combination because after all throughout tanach dun seems to be considered the lowest of all the schwatten for example we say is are done they were all idol worshippers in fact there's a concept that shaived done brought avoid to zara already into the yamsev of our bayam sarah that she had done already constructed shivatan already constructed the pesa miha in the yamsaf so what's going on over here on the one hand there's a concept done is always involved in the greatest achievements of kali israel they build the mishkan they kill bilaam they kill asav meshiach comes from is on his father's side from yehudah on his mother's side from dan shemshine on his father's side is from dunn on his mother says so there's this dichotomy and shiva done that on the one hand they're always involved in the greatest achievements of khalifa and on the other hand they're called in fact says the gematria of kalani so how do we reconcile this what is the status of done dun is always involved in the greatest achievements of israel and on the other hand they're considered the lowest of the swatter comes from nachman of breslav and he opens up a new interpretation and a new understanding of the role of shaytan in israel there's apostate the pastor says they gathered in all the camps so rashi explains that sheila dunn had the greatest population they are maruba balchulosan and they traveled last and anybody who lost the law an object shave had done would return it to you you know so you had people they can't find their passport moisture said just go viktor go viktor dunn will find it for you and you had people who they left their jacket so shave it done would say don't worry we'll get your jacket for you and you had people who couldn't find their hat and they said don't worry we'll find your head we'll ship you your hand that was the job of shavit done if you lost the lost object shavadan would return it to you this is a very odd job for that shavadan what what were they they were they avoided dazara and if you lost an object shiva dun would return to you your lost object surveillance says like this this man is quoted in the drosha's basis has an amazing thought we know everything in the physical world is a parallel of the spiritual world but khazal said that shaibadan would return the lost objects of anybody who was in a veda this is symbolic it's allegorical they were lost souls in the jewish people there were people who didn't fit in with the regular yeshiva system there were people who didn't fit in with the regular program they were lost they are draying orin they had no connection to this kite they were sort of standing in the backs of the shulls in the hallways in the coffee room and who's going to return them who's going to find these lost souls and bring them back to the fold it was the job of shay vet was to identify those jews who had no connection who had were lost who were reeling who did not have a feeling of the vegas to claudia israel and shivatan would bring in these lost items these lost souls and bring them back to the fold that's why when amalek would attack claude israel who would amalek attack amalek understood they're always going to be yiddin who were invincible they were davak taka on natara there's no way they could ever harm them amulek realized that their vantage point of being able to be successful to attack the jewish people were those lost souls who lost their connection to either sky but when amalek saw that because that means there's always hope that means no matter how far lost the jew is shave it done could always save the day can always reel them in could always gather them in when we say they were safe it means they were able to restore all the lost souls this past summer in our israel so we were in ramadpay chemist and we went to the cover of dun and we saw characters by the the shape by the cover of dun that there's no question that they they were they felt something by the cover of done there was a connection they had by the camera have done you didn't see these khabra anywhere else in arts israel and the rab nachman is magallah that when khazal say that shivatan was ma they have the ability to gather in these lost souls bring them back to the fold so on the one hand says a very interesting idea that when you see people involved in kirov they're always under suspicion people always are suspicious of them that they're up to no good that they have ulterior motives that they're involved in something bad they're they always raise the suspicion of the jewish people the reason why sheila dunn were considered the necha challenger is they were always suspect but for good reason because this is an interesting reptile with silica coin writes in the tit and when somebody is involved in bringing back the lost souls of israel when somebody is involved in kira brachaikim salika kaine writes someone who's involved in bringing back the guilty so they can have a positive effect but it's inevitable that those who are guilty those who are reeling those who are far from hashem will influence will influence those who are involved in the kirov so so to speak kirov is a two-way street there are the makarovim armakari of the kim and the rakhoikem at the same time are marachik the croibin it's a duality in other words someone who's involved in kirov israel being moister nephesh literally giving up of their rukhniyas because at the same time they're bringing closer those who are far those who are far are drawing far those who are close but that was the avoid of shaytan they were so at the same time that they were then and they so to speak were always under suspicion that there are they have a desire and perhaps on some remote level they were involved in certain things that were not proper on the other hand they were the most beloved members of claude israel because they were the maas and whenever there was a great achievement in claudius whether it was building the mishkan whether it was killing billam whether it was killing asav shiva dun had the distinction that they were given the ability to be involved in the highest achievements of claudius i think this interpretation is very appropriate for the lifetime of ramachan because i think many people until until today feel that rabbi nachman was the me for that he was the one who recognized that even if a jew doesn't feel the connection in the in the classic traditional way we've not been taught there's no yosh there's no giving up hope there's always a connection there's always a devecos to claudius and there's always a possibility for a jew no matter what level they're on even we could identify that we could identify that part in the jew that is still good and we could say in russia we could say no matter what level a person is we could identify something good about them that they're no longer an a a russia rav nachman's interpretation of the avoida of shaytan is very much appropriate for the the mission and the life work of ramachan abrasive himself so may we be zoha to appreciate this and each one of us in our way always has the opportunity to be ma nice thank you for listening enjoy the rest of your ride you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com