KABBALISTIC DIET | Torat HaChassidut (22)

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Hashem, we have all of that uh going on and anyone that wants to uh uh order some of the books to distribute in their community can go to kutore.org. Uh that's uh that's back on as well. So, with that being said, we have a lot to learn. We have uh some catching up to do on of holy where he's in essence teaching us the diet of theim the mubaleim. Uh lots of people ask me questions uh about different things. They want to know about kabala. They want to know about different gulot. They want to know the future. They want to do a lot of different things. But the truth is that uh to uh to delve into the world of Cabala, it's not just about reading a book. I mean, there are plenty of books out there that a person can read uh and simply waste their time completely because they won't understand a single thing. Uh and in fact, if you delve into Cabala without having uh the knowhow and the necessary tools, you could easily become a heretic as a result of the confusion. Uh this is the reason at least one of uh several reasons uh of why the said that a person should not study the z which includes cabala in it until the age of 40 because that's usually the amount of time that a typical person would require to study all of the other foundational teachings uh from the from the from the from msar all the other things that are necessary to learn before a person delves into it. But tonight we're going to continue what has already started, which is really the diet of the diet really of the mubaleim. What how do they eat different uh than uh than the average person out there? And uh we'll review since it's been a long time since we've had this sh almost a couple of months. We'll briefly review uh some of what it started with and then obviously continue this uh section 15 uh together. Uh so obviously is not your typical uh teacher out there. This is one of the foundational teachings of the world ofut. And uh if a person wants to at the very least understand uh the difference between them and the holy sages they read about whether it be from or needless to say from the time of the or the uh then this diet of diet of the kabalists uh should give us a certain perspective uh to show the difference the world of difference because to measure intellect. A person is not able to do unless they possess intellect. Meaning you cannot evaluate what the Talmud uh really has until you study the Talmud and actually understand what it says, which takes years to do. Uh so of course the criticizers and the fools will uh will always pretend like they know what they're talking about. uh whether it's a uh trying to uh pretend like they understand the inner workings of it or trying to manipulate certain text that's in there and they do this with the Torah on a regular basis. Uh and uh unfortunately there are many people that are ignorant and uh do not realize that they're being fed lies. So they listen to these heretics. They listen to these fools that have never actually studied the Talmud. So in order to judge something, a person really has to know it. The same thing if you want to judge a doctor, you have to know medicine. If you want to judge a scientist, you have to know science. If you want to judge a mathematician, you have to know math. Not just, you know, 1 plus 1 equals 2, but a whole lot more. You have to be at the level of someone to judge uh in order for you to really have a uh understanding. But we don't have enough time to get everyone up to speed uh in order to uh to to get everyone to understand what everything is. So we're spoon feeding everything to you so you can have a better understanding uh really the separation between a person that's living today versus the people that we read about, the people that we quote in the Torah. And with something that is as simple as their diet, how did they eat? We're not just talking about what do they eat. We're talking about how do they eat. A person can measure themselves and you know and and uh deceive themselves to think that uh they are better than others until push comes to shove and there's problems in front of them and then you get to see how a person reacts. Just like the says a person is judged based on how do they behave when they get angry, how do they behave when they have some alcohol in them and how do they behave when there's money issues. you know the the so how do they behave under these circumstances you see who a person really is and how uh he really thinks once he's angry and he says certain things or she's angry and she says certain things sometimes people can become uh very vindictive or uh very uh uh evil in their speech and you say whoa how could she say such a thing listen this is her deeper thought no she was angry you're right she was angry when she said it but that didn't that those angry Angry words did not come from nothing. They were in there and she only allowed herself to say them once she's angry, but you should know that's what she thinks. Certainly, it's a uh uh something to work on. The same concept when it comes to somebody that has an alcohol in them. If they uh drink and they get tipsy, you start hearing them say all types of nonsense. It's like, "Oh, how could they say such a thing?" No, don't be surprised. This is what they think. Yes, they don't say this normally when they're not drunk, but they said it now because that's actually what's within them. They just have more control typically. And last but not least, when it comes to money, you get to see who a person is when it comes to money. Do they appreciate it? Do they are they grateful for it? Are they a thief? Are they a liar? Do they try to get over on people? Do they think that everyone is stupid except them? You know there are a lot of people like that that assume that everyone is stupid. No one knows math. No one knows calculations except them and they happen to forget the price. They happen to forget they paid or they didn't pay. And this is unfortunately a standard in the world. But a person that wants to learn the ways of the of the righteous people wants to first and foremost evaluate themselves not because they are going to become one of these overnight because that's just simply not going to happen despite how much a person may try but rather because if I'm going to listen to someone in order to change my life I want to know they are greater than me. I want to know they are smarter than me. I want to know they are simply better and therefore I will listen to them. And of course if a person hears a certain that a rabbi said whether it be Raady or these or be wherever it would be. If a person is going to share their opinion about this, first for and foremost, they should know who they're dealing with before they decide to disagree. Now, if you're just simply going to say, "Okay, that's what the rabbi said. That's what I'm going to do." then fine. You don't need to know how great the rabbi is because your actions show you know that whatever the rabbi said, whatever the sage has said certainly is better than what you can possibly evaluate on your own. But if you're going to say, well, I'm not really sure if the rabbi was right about this. You know, the rabbi did this. Before a person does such a thing, they have to evaluate, is this rabbi greater than me? Do I have the wherewithal to debate this rabbi that dedicated decades and decades upon his life to serving Hashem and learning and I'm only learning for a few months or a few years? Do I have the tools? The more a person knows, the more a person can evaluate and come up to the right conclusion. Now, unfortunately, most people think that the Torah scholars are just like them and they just because they put their pants on one leg at a time just like you do, therefore they're just like you. Just because they're human, you're human and human make mistake. A lot of heretics have come out of the woodworks in the last few years since the whole Corona virus scandal of the Satan came out that fooled literally the uh the the majority of the world and needless to say many religious Jews into thinking that uh they know better than the rabbis uh regardless of whether they agreed with the uh with the uh vaccine or disagreed. Many people lost their respect to Torah sages during the last few years because they forgot they never had respect for them and once push came to shove and they needed to respect the Torah scholars. They simply didn't have it. So they debated against Torah giants. So the easiest way I can think of of evaluating where we stand versus where these Torah sages stand is simply by seeing how they behaved in something that we all do since we cannot compare our Torah scholarship. And even if we did the competition would be over in a second. We could all compare our eating habits to theirs. Rab is telling you instructions of what he and other do some until this day which I'll give you some examples later and you compare it to what you do. So the segment started where says that before you start eating before even washing your hands you make a special prayer. That's the prayer of Raben called. We went over that prayer in the previous shu. You can go to that shu and and listen to it. See what that actual prayer says. In so many words, a person does similar chuva before eating than they do or are supposed to do on yum kipu. And this is every meal. Then after that, after eating some bread, another prayer. a prayer that you're pleading with Hashem, telling him the only reason why you're eating in the first place is in order to have the ability to serve him. Not because you're trying to feel healthy so you could have a uh six-pack and muscles. Not because you like the taste. Not because you uh you uh worked really hard on making this food. No, no, no. For the sake of the union of the holy one and the I do not eat in order to have physical enjoyment. God forbid, but only to keep my body healthy and strong to serve God. Let no sin, transgression, evil thought, and physical pre pleasure prevent the unification of the holy one, which results from the uplifting of the sparks of holiness in this food and drink. See here we already see that the purpose behind eating is very different. That cababalist if he's a real cababalist and he's able to do things that are beyond the norm whether it be supernatural things or blessings that come true or whatever it is. You could be sure when he eats it's not like when you eat. And that makes a lot of difference. Why? Because eating is a big part of everybody's day. I mean, there are people that literally make their entire careers off of food. Whether it's selling food, making food, you know, publicizing food. There are people that have channels. I have a couple of students that uh that uh do this. They're in the food business. One of them has like a channel on social media of how he shows people how to make food in a healthy way. And he has people that follow him. and you know and that's in essence how I guess how he makes a living. So food is a huge part of everybody's day. I mean sometimes people spend a little bit too much time on it but nonetheless when a person spends their time eating because of taste because of pleasure they could already see from the first second that they are as far from the mubal from the sadik and even from a elevated Torah scholar than you can possibly imagine. In fact, one of the that commented on this, the Rabish Vis in the Midrash Pinas writes that even during the meal, you should continue praying two to three times. Look at your get a seph, maybe a maybe a mousar book, whatever it is during the meal and think about Torah. Think about some that you heard your rabbi say. The average person when he has food in front of him, the only thing he wants to think about, where's the ketchup? I can't believe there's no salt. Can you get me a drink? I finished mine. That's what they think about. They're not thinking about praying another time. They're thinking about, "Oh, she didn't make that salad. I really like that salad. I don't understand. Why did she make that salad? I really like the salad. She knows I like the salad." He's angry about the fact that his wife didn't make a salad. That's the what's on his mind. That elevated another prayer. Even if he did a prayer beforehand, it's already a big deal. So here already tell us look we treat food differently. We treat food as an opportunity to connect to Hashem. We spoke about this in the series of Jewish intimacy. This was one of the things that the Rambanades already discussed over 700 years ago how it pertains to intimacy. But needless to say here on the day-to-day life is saying you want to be a it starts with your day-to-day life. You eat no problem. No one is telling you not to eat. Many people think you need to fast 50 million times in order to be a sadik. No you don't. You can eat. Question is why you eating. How much are you eating? What are you eating? What's the purpose behind your eating? What do you do when you're eating? What do you do after you eat? Because the Torah tells us many times that the table that a person has his food on is like a misbeh. It's like an altar where you can elevate that food as if it's a sacrifice to Hashem. And of course this is not simple by any stretch of the imagination and it's not something that we expect everyone or anyone to do right the second watching this lecture but it certainly will give us a perspective of where we stand. Furthermore, says whenever you eat and drink, remember that the taste in your mouth when you chew and swallow is the inner holiness and the holy sparks of that food. And that by eating, chewing, and digesting, you're extracting the food's holiness so that it does not become waste and nourish the externalities, the e the forces of evil. Wow. What is he talking about here? Is looking at things from his holy eyes and a perspective that the average person is not even aware exists. And he's telling us that that food that you eat, that drink that you're drinking, it gives you a certain taste. that taste. Even though you, your wife, your husband, your the the uh the chef in the kitchen, whoever made that food put certain ingredients in order for it to taste that way. Those taste buds in your mouth enjoy it or reject it as a result of Hashem's will. And in fact, when you have that taste in your mouth, instead of thinking about, wow, this is a good restaurant. I'm going to come back here again. I'm going to press like on on on a internet and tell people to come here. I'm going to take a picture of it and put it on Facebook, pretend like life is great, and I always go to these restaurants even though it's the first and last time they ever get came to that place. That taste that's in your mouth is something that comes from kaduca. There are holy sparks of kadusha in everything. In order for it to exist, there has to be holy sparks in it. And in fact, when you chew and digest it, you're extracting those sparks of holiness from within it in order for those holy sparks not to be wasted. Why wasted? Where are they going to be wasted? If you're eating them, we're not talking about eat the whole table. We're talking about if it stays as food or it just simply goes to the garbage then these sparks continue to remain lost in the world. One of the jobs as the mubaleim teach the jobs of mankind jobs of am is to collect sparks of kadusha that are in the world. This is one of the reasons of why we were sent to Egypt because there were sparks of kadusha in Egypt that Amish is had to collect. And there are different sparks in different parts of the world all over the place and they come in different forms and sizes and there's an opportunity to collect them if a person knows how to sanctify themsel. But is in essence saying that in everything that's created, whether it be food or anything else, there is holiness. And our job is to make sure that we get the nourishment from that and not allow it to go to the not allow it to go to the externalities, the evil forces. To explain that a person has to understand that there are two powers that can influence a person's behavior, influence a person's mindset, thought process, things they like, things they don't like, things they're attracted to, things that they are disgusted by. There's holiness and there's evil. If a person is constantly consuming holiness, as a result, they will think holy, they will speak holy. They will want holy. They'll be attracted to holy. And they'll be disgusted by anything unholy. Whether it be immorality or or or all types of perversions in the world, all types of heresy, all types of bad things. This is what is the answer for anyone who saw the film we made a few years ago, a world of lies where it talks about the story of Rabaka and how he was disgusted by these beautiful prostitutes. They were beautiful physically but they were immoral, disgusting women and he was disgusted by them to the point where he vomited over and over again the whole night when they tried to approach him after the king sent them to him. How could somebody get disgusted to that point where they're vomiting over and over again by something that the average person finds beautiful? This is it. When a person sanctifies themsel to such a level, they are attracted to holiness and disgusted by anything that's unholy. And the most unholy thing is immodesty and immorality. That's the most unholy. So when a person consumes holiness, whether it be by learning Torah, doing good deeds, and so on, they're attracted naturally to the good. When a person is constantly consumed by immorality, by immodesty, by all types of filth, they're attracted to things that are unholy. They want more of it. They become addicted to it. They want to do things that are unholy. This is why you see many times that uh people that uh get exposed where they were are found to be uh you know they did something bad to somebody or or things like that. You get to see that this was not a one-time thing. This was a lifestyle, a lifestyle of filth, a lifestyle of evil. It's not a one-time thing. And is in essence saying that there are certain powers of evil that are trying to steal that holiness that you're trying to consume from that food. How could they do it? If a person over eats, if a person is eating things that they don't need to eat, if they're eating for base reasons, then certainly they're not eating for the sake of learning Tawra, they're not eating for the sake of Hashem, then that those holy sparks are still in it. But instead of those holy sparks nourishing your soul, they nourish the externalities. They nourish the the the forces of evil. Then continues and says as follows. Then your soul will derive benefit from the inner holiness of the food while remaining while the remaining waste will be expelled to the externalities. Meaning that whether you like it or not, the food is not going to be consumed completely by your body, by your soul. Some of it has to leave their body. And the goal is for a person to elevate themselves and their cause of eating to such a point that they most of the holiness that's in the food is consumed and retained by you. Well, anything that's left that's more than what you need to eat that's being ex defecated that a person has to go to the bathroom and remove from their body is done. That's to the ex that's to the evil forces. So from here you see wait a minute. So either way they get something. Yes. But see this, this is why we have the next segment where it says at that moment meaning that you've eaten food, not all of it is going to be consumed. It's not man where all of it asal teaches us that the man was so holy that is did not have to go to the bathroom. It was all consumed by Islc blood. But we're not living in such a world today. person eats and seems like sometimes they spend more time in the bathroom than they eat. So, a person knows that they're going to have to go to the bathroom. Says, "Yes. Yes. But even there, you need to know that there is a purpose. In fact, it's a very important purpose to go to the bathroom." as soon as possible. As soon as you need. Why would a person need to go to the bathroom as soon as possible? After the soul derive benefit from the inner holiness of the food and the remaining waste is expelled, that remaining waste goes to the evil forces. So you want it out of your body as soon as possible so they don't benefit from it. And at that moment, says, you should resolve to relieve yourself as soon as you feel the need and not allow feces or urine to remain inside your body for even an instant as they pollute your thoughts and defile your soul. In so many words, what is saying, what the cabalists are saying, what theim are saying is that the moment you eat, there's a certain amount of elevation that happens. Some of it is consumed by your body, stays, turns into blood, turns into you. Some of it will not. That part that's not will benefit the externalities. The so long as it's within you. So your goal should be to get it out of your body as soon as possible. Obviously a person can't just go on demand. It cannot certainly go right after they eat. Usually usually it takes some time. What is saying is that the moment you feel the need get it out of your body as soon as possible. Why? Because the longer it stays in your body, the more are damaging your mind, damaging your soul. In fact, it is forbidden for a Jew to hold their body and not go to the bathroom. So much so that the writes there's a whole section in the about going to the bathroom in the in chapter 3 number 17 which is the last in that section in that it is absolutely forbidden for you to withhold going to the bathroom as it is a violation of the Torah, you shall not make yourself disgusting or loathome. Meaning, whoever delays their elimination of waste from their body is the is going against the Torah. Why? You're making yourself disgusting. Yeah, but it's in the body. You can't smell it. You can't see it. How is it disgusting? You'll see in a second. But to give you a little bit of understanding, we spoke about this some years ago where I told people most people want to criticize Torah sages, but they don't even know how the the laws of how to go to the bathroom. These are some of them to show you how modest and beautiful the Torah sages are where everything has particular ways about it to have a significant difference between a man and an animal. The first says how to conduct in yourself in the bathroom. Again this is three and beginning of the when a person enters the bathroom he should say the the ones is not a custom today anymore but he should be modest in the bathroom not reveal himself until sitting down meaning when a person is removing their clothes they shouldn't just start walking around with like they were just born only remove one when they're about to sit. Two men shall not go together. A person should not talk in the bathroom. Many people have these conversations in the bathroom. Hey, what's going on? You're not allowed to talk in the bathroom. Why? It's not a place to talk. It's a place to do your business and leave and should lock the door for himself for the sake of modesty. And if one wishes to work in order to help himself remove in those times it had to be done in different ways. It has to be done before he goes not after he goes. Why? Because if you touch yourself in that area when after you've defecated it's not just filthy disgusting and so on because you could say oh yeah I'll clean it. No, no. It's also has tumi in it that could lead to effect danger of witchcraft. Person should not expose themselves beyond a meaning that a person has to sit when they're going to the bathroom and not stand there like uh a statue. But there are certain times that if the person is in the middle of the woods, he's in the middle of the desert, he's in a place where there's no bathroom, obviously there's certain exceptions made, but even then there are laws of how to be modest in those places. He shouldn't force himself exceedingly because that might cause him to rupture the uh the sphincter. Even that is an shouldn't use his right hand. That's the hand that he puts on fine. Why with the left? Should not urinate while standing up lest he sprinkle on his legs. All these different things that a person thinks, why would this be in? Yes. Tells you how to live. You should not grab his organ. because that may lead to sins. There's only an exception if someone is married. And lastly, as I said before, he should not delay his cavities for elimination because that is transgressing the Torah commandment of you should not make yourself loathome. Further, the sephidim from 600 years ago in section 818 says that a person has to treat his inards the same way that they would treat the outside. If a person found some filth on their clothes, certainly they would do whatever is possible to remove that filth from themselves, remove the clothes from them as soon as possible. So why are you holding it in your body thinking, "No, no, I just got to finish this call. I just got to finish this appointment." The second a person has to go to the bathroom, they should relieve themselves as soon as possible. Why? Just like the filth on the outside, you would remove as soon as possible. You should remove the whatever filth is inside as soon as possible. One of the great sages of in says that someone who does not excrete meaning go to the bathroom does not realize that the vape the longer they don't go the vapors from the waste that's inside their body go to their brain and the says This these in essence these vapors that are affecting the brain end up leading the person to make many sins. Why? Because now he's thinking things that are not proper. He has corrupt thoughts. Thoughts that are impacted by waste by the by the evil forces. So now his mind is clouded. Her mind is clouded. All of a sudden they're more attracted to evil than they are to holiness. Yes. This comes from what you view as something physical but really has a spiritual impact to such an extent that says everyone knows that's brother the forefathers of he says he had a divine message come to him that says that this a person holding themselves from going to the ends up getting many foreign thoughts that are evil and from this come the false prophets. Meaning it's not just evil thoughts leads a person to sin. No, it's could be to such a point where these evil thoughts could influence a person to become one of the heretics of the world, one of the false prophets of the world. meaning permanent impact on the person. The inut page 55A has a story of that had to go see a matronita. Matonita is a like a rich important non-Jewish woman and uh she was one of the Roman uh uh leaders over there that when they called the sages had no option. They had to go see them. It's like just imagine somebody from the White House in America. And when she saw, the moment she saw him, she she saw the beauty in his face and how it was shiny and how happy he was despite the circumstances that are happening in the world. Obviously, they're under Roman uh uh rule, which is evil and horrible and full of idolatry and and immorality. But she sees one of the Jewish sages happy and shiny and beautiful. So she says to him, "You must either be a shepherd of pigs, meaning you raise pigs, or you work in a merchant cash advance business." Well, she didn't say merchant cash advance business. She said you lend money with interest, which is merchants cash advance business, just in today's language. Why? Why raise pigs or lend money with interest? Why? Because these are two jobs that do not require work in order to make a lot of money. Nobody has to strain. Merchant cash advance. All you got to do lend people money with high interest. You don't have to do anything. Now they're your prisoners. Everything they get in, you're charging them 50, 60, 80, 100, 200%. All the money they got that they that's profit from the deal they did goes to you. Why? Because there's no way in the world they can ever pay back the money with such interest. What about someone that uh raises pigs? Same thing. You don't have to do anything. You don't have to feed them special food like you do with the cows and the chickens and anything else. Simple. You just throw the garbage. Whatever garbage you have in your house, you throw it in the pig pen and that's it. They eat everything. They eat diapers, they eat people, they eat kids, they eat uh uh live, dead, they eat anything. They eat anything. So you don't have to work. All you got to do just that's your garbage disposal. So this mita says that one of our holy sages must be one of these. And the says to her, I swear to you that both of those professions are forbidden for you're not allowed to raise pigs and you're also not allowed to lend money with interest. And any Jew that's in that profession of lending money with interest today is going against the Torah. He's not representing Judaism. Even if he has a keepa, even if he has a beard, even if he pretends to be religious, even if he has a letter from some fake rabbi that told him he's allowed to do it, he's a rash and he's going against the Torah, says, "We're not allowed to lend money with interest. Certainly not as a profession." So she says to him, "How could you have such a face? The mata is asking how how could you have? Look at you so happy. You're so healthy." He says to her, "There are 24 bathrooms on the way from my house to the bet midrash and I make sure to use every single one of them on the way." Meaning, I relieve my body from all of the filth, both physical and spiritual filth. Every day as I go to the bet midash, every bathroom. Oh, a little bit more. A little bit more. gets rid of everything. Hence the physical, hence the spiritual look of beauty that has now a fool like some podcasters that had the misfortune of seeing their foolishness thinks that when somebody spends time in the bathroom automatically either either it's lack of health or some other and there was some podcaster that talked about what they think they knew about of Satalom of Sat just so you know the Babali said about him he was one of the 36ikim the whole world stood on was kuresim and this fool says oh y know it was known that he spent a lot of time in the bathroom he probably had digestive problems no you He was aid following the the the rules of the rules of removing any type of filth from his body to the utmost extreme in order to leave his body completely pure and holy. But for of course a fool does not understand the difference because they judge with their eyes not with their brain. already told one of the other when he was in a young in yeshiva that already when he was a young student in yeshiva and they would get food at the yeshiva what would they get titi maybe a little pasta nothing nothing fancy. In order to eliminate any enjoyment out of food and only to eat for the sake of learning Torah and eliminate any joy from material in this world, he would pour vinegar on any food that he got and just eat for the sake of survival. Now, of course, no one is expected to do that. We're not recommending it, but it shows you there's a difference between the great Torah scholars and your average person out there that may be even learning uh dafomi. So when someone came to him for a blessing and so on and he saw this he asked the rabbi if he wants coffee and he says to the person what do you what's your kavana when you drink coffee the guy naively said my kavana is put two sugars with the coffee and a little bit of milk. What kavana should I have when drink coffee? So cook says no you're missing out coffee in Hebrew is cafe cafe gamatria is numerical value of the word is 185 2 * 185 is 370 370 is the number of lights that come down from heaven to bring the blessings to the world that's why When you drink coffee, drink it two sips at a time. Why? Cafe cafe 185 185 370. So you have 370 of the lights of kaduca that come down to the world. Now of course again in his holiness I don't know how many other people in the world every time they drink coffee they drink two sips because of this. But it shows you there's a difference. There's a difference even in the way they drink coffee. There was one time a tish where of had and one of [Music] the in there wasn't exactly uh a righteous let's just say that he was a student. He was a little bit of balava, a little bit arrogant. Thought that he was better than everybody else. And of course, when a person is a balava, a person has arrogance, there's no limit of who he thinks he's better, who she thinks he's better than, little by little, it gets, you know, if without uh controlling uh yourself, that arrogance will make you think you're better even than God. That's uh what happened with uh that's what happened with that's h what happened with happened with many throughout history that the moment the hour played for them and the uh the they had you know good fortune what seemed like good fortune they were winning in whatever venture they were doing before that in essence gave them justification for their arrogance to the point where they not only thought they're better than all people because no one everyone who else was below them, they in essence started thinking they're better than God. And that was the root of their destruction. And unfortunately this happens regularly where a person can start thinking that they're better than even their teacher and uh before you know it become a wayward student meaning a person that causes suffering to the people that helped him. So this was a little arrogant and uh but nonetheless he did what all the other were doing. He came to the tish while the are sitting on the table and the rebi gives him some uh gives him some of his food. It's a whole beautiful custom that they have. Anyway, of saw that this student was looking at him as was eating an apple and he already knew what's in the mind of the student. The student was looking at the Rebi and says, "Look, the Rebi eats apples. I eat apples. What's the difference between us after all? We both eat apples. Why is he the Rebi and I'm the and I'm the student. There's no difference between us. That's what's going in the mind of the student. And the Rebi knew what's in his mind. And the Rebi said to the student, "Do you know what the difference is between you and me?" Of course, the the little student is shocked that the Rebi knew what's in his mind. Says, "You know what the difference between you and me and this apple? You want to eat the apple and therefore you need to make a blessing because in order for you to enjoy the apple that you want, there's a blessing that's in your way. So you make the blessing in order to eat the apple. I want to make a blessing, but I need to find something so I could bless Hashem because I'm thinking about Hashem. And I can't believe I haven't blessed Hashem for all the greatness that he's given me every single day. I haven't blessed him in a few minutes already. What can I do to bless him? The morning blessings I already did. Can't do them again. The prayer, we already did the prayer and next prayer is not up time yet. Uh what what could I do blessing from him? I can't I can't eat a piece of metal cuz that's not food. Can't bless it. Okay. Oh, look an apple. I can make a blessing in order to eat the apple. In so many words, I want to bless Hashem. And my way to bless him is through this apple. So therefore, when I eat the apple, before I eat the apple, I bless Hashem with all my heart so much that sometimes I forget I need to eat the apple. That's the difference. When a person looks at Torah scholars from the outside, from far away, it's impossible for a person to truly evaluate what sacrifices they made and continue to make every single day in order to absorb that holiness they get from the Torah. There are some people that can read countless books but still remain still remain fools, still remain heretics. There are some that literally elevate themselves with every word. The difference between the two is the behavior, how they run their life, what's the purpose behind everything that they do, including eating. the one that wrote one of the fundamental teachings of he also wrote another book that's called and this he literally talked about food and how a person could literally sanctify themselves to the same level that the kohanim sanctified themselves when they were eating the cobut because a person that learns orim or different parts of of the sees that the amount of sacrifices and food that the kanim had to eat was absolutely enormous. But yet you don't hear that every one of them was huge, 500, 600 lb. That's because the food impacted them in a different way. in Rab Fry's Sephil that's actually in our Kiru store. You can get copies of this to distribute in your community. This is called aash. It's in Hebrew in parad brings a story of the mikot was a is fire of Torah and he was known to hold no no uh you know no qualms about rebuking and telling the truth his own students anyone he just could not tolerate any sheil And there was another Adul Sadik that uh he heard about and he respected him that he invited to the community that this Admo was known as someone that fasts one week at a time. Each week he fast from Shabbat to Shabbat. But on Shabbat he eats incomprehensible amount of food and this was all part of his servitude of Hashem in a very unique way and the Admo because invited him to the community in the beginning this other Admo rejected said no no no it's not going to be enough food says says, "Don't worry, we're going to get the whole community involved. You you'll be fine. There'll be plenty of food. I promise you, okay, he agreed to come and mut told all the to get involved, bring food, and don't touch any food until our guest is finished." So they came after the prayer. They had kush and the guest admo does the kush and drinks the wine. Then he makes the blessing on the kalot and he starts eating the kala. Little by little he finishes the entire kala. He takes the second kala and little by little he finishes the entire second kala. Then there were other kalot on the table. These were that the other was supposed to eat again. No one is allowed to eat until he finishes. He starts eating another kala and another kala one after another until he finishes all of the as soon as he finishes he starts looking around and maybe there's out of food. No, no, no. Quickly, they brought the pot that had the fish in it. And everyone everyone's waiting for the guest to finish. He starts eating from the pot of fish and before everyone's eyes, he finishes the entire pot. They thought maybe they're going to have a little bit. Talk about a lot of people here. He completes the entire pot. Then after that they bring him some of the chicken they made. He starts eating the pot of chicken. Little by little he finishes all of the chicken. Everything. And he says to them, "What is finished? That's it." No, no, no, no. Of course, of course. Immediately they bring the kam the kam the chulent that's supposed to be in the next day on Shabbat afternoon Shabbat morning they bring the pot and in front of everybody's eyes he eats and eats and eats and finishes the entire pot and then they bring him this the food that was supposed to be for sudashit and he finishes all of that and he says to them there's more food. So that mikosk says to him, "No, we we finished everything. I knew that was a malik, but I didn't know that you were." The Rambam writes in a uh in his about different types of malim different types. is hem and his glory has endless amount of servants and the in chapter two number seven says there are different types of angels that hashem has there's the holy who are above all those malim elohim sons of elohim many different types each one has different roles. So one of them is called these are angels of fire that uh are mentioned in the Torah the prophet Isaiah chapter 6 verse two talks about who are literally uh from their burning love of Hashem they're consumed by their own fire. So the mikosk says to this I knew that you are a mala I just didn't know that you are meaning that from his holiness he was literally able to consume a completely incomprehensible amount of food and it not take any place in his body. person overeats immediately. They they're going to get into stomach ache and even if they continue eventually they're gonna have to go to the bathroom. Something you have to make room. This sadik and certain sadikim were literally able to turn their body into like the kuresh that did not take up any space in the world. Anyone that learns about the kodes, you'll learn it from the Torah. It talks about the description of the keshim where the measurements of it and the measurements from the kodes to the end from each side did not make any sense. Why? Because the it also has gives you the size of the kadesh. And you see that with or without the kodesh it's the same exact measurement. Why? Because did not take any space in the world. People could literally sanctify themselves. These sadikim sanctified themselves that they were able to consume food in such a fashion that it did not occupy space. In fact, says in his that a person can sanctify themselves to the point when they're eating that even if they're eating bad food, food that's harmful, it will not harm them. And one of the examples of it story I told you some time ago but it's always worth repeating isuenuh shalom was known that he would come back each night from the shim and he would sit down with the but sometimes he would come very late so the rabbanit always told him please I made you food I'm going to leave the pot eat when you come home. So one night he comes home, sees there's a pot, starts eating. The next day the rabbanit comes to the rabbi and says to him, "How come you didn't eat?" He says, "No, Raban eat. I ate. Of course I ate." He says, "You ate?" "Yes, of course I ate. You had a pot over there. I ate it." She says, "But the pot is full." What do you mean you ate? Goes, "No, I'm going to lie to you." "No, I ate." She knows the rabbi doesn't lie. She goes back to the kitchen and then she finds out what happened. What happened in those days? If somebody wanted to make starch in order to make the colors of dress shirts uh hard, you know, today everything is done in mats and dry cleaners, but in those days somebody wants to make starch, they had to cook it cook it in a pot and then next day they would uh once it's finished they would uh put it on the collar and that would make the colors hard. So the rabbi was cooking starch, but didn't pay attention to what he's eating. He was thinking about Torah. He saw a pot, he started eating. He figured that's the food. He didn't realize there's another pot right next to it. That's the actual food. So he started eating it. Put some bread in it. Start eating, dipping the bread like it's soup. So to make the rabbi laugh, he told her, "Yeah, I tasted that it was a little bit salty." You usually don't make your food salty. The point being is it's somebody eats starch, it's it's certainly not going to be good for you. But when someone sanctifies themselves to such a point where literally they do not even realize what they're eating because their only purpose of eating is to serve Hashem. That's a person that's not going to get hurt even if they eat something bad. Now, the point of all of this, I said already in the beginning, it's not for you to go and start fasting every day or changing your lifestyle in such a way that you're going to bite off more than you can chew. The point of all this is for a person to understand the right perspective. When you think about sadikim, we're not just talking about sadikim that lived 2, three, four, 500 years ago. We're talking about people that live today, some of which I know and have the privilege of knowing and learn with and socialize with and and and and ask questions from that literally take their life in the same fashion, do all types of things that to the average person are completely unacceptable, completely not in the realm of thinking. When a person gets the privilege of meeting Torah scholars, they get to meet different species because they might as well be. The average Torah scholar may not do any of what I just said, but those that elevate themselves to become big certainly do a lot of things in order for that Torah to nourish their soul in a way that's beyond anyone else around them, which include all types of sacrifices, whether it's in their eating habits, their diet, their way of life. Every aspect of their life is reviewed and is in essence altered in order for them to dedicate every part of their being to Hashem. Some more, some less. But I can tell you one thing in common for all Torah scholars that you hear about that are Torah giants big. All of them have a very very different life than your average person out there. Not because of how many books they read, but rather because of what they take from those books and apply to their lives. what they consume out of these books and how it affects their soul, how it affects their behavior. So when a fool says that something negative about a Torah scholar or needless to say about the Talmud or the Zoro or something else, you can't help yourself but become really upset at how foolish these comments are because these people that they're insulting literally they might as well be a different species. They're they're angels among men and there's nothing in common between them and the fools that insult them. But the average person doesn't know that because the average person thinks it's just books. It's just knowledge. So now they think they have some, you know, chat GPT and all types of AI. So they figure they have the knowledge even though it's the computer that has the knowledge, not them. The reality is the more we understand the sacrifices needed in order to elevate ourselves as people, as servants of Hashem, as Torah scholars, or simply just as individuals. The more a person understands the sacrifices needed, the more they'll be able to understand those that have already made the sacrifices. And may it be his will that we be able to understand it to learn from them and beem follow in their footsteps to each of our abilities and beem succeed in following their footsteps and serving Hashem to our maximum capacity. Thank you very much for learning with me. It's glad to be back. We'll learn again later this week. Anyone that wants to support and help these and our kals, whether it's the inim or ina and a couple of other ones that were involved in. You could donate on the website.org. You could obviously help all the other wonderful things that the organization is doing. 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