Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz - Isru Chag - Thesis, Antithesis and Synthesis 5778

[Music] at a wonderful young DIF I just came back from London today I was in London for short the fact do I have to keep two days so though I job in which is fill in privately but I was not allowed to be melaka so i had to stay over Monday and I didn't leave until Tuesday and I got around 5:30 so so I am a little a little about tippet so hopefully I'll be a whatever hey sure well yeah the way it works is if you are in Israeli meaning you live in internet with George foot Suarez so you essentially treated like a weekday for Dominique and for its filling but you're still not allowed to do Malacca and most Postum say even privately some people are Michael privately but the mr. word says even privately you know to Malacca so I didn't do any Malacca but I haven't in fillin prata be fetus and then I went to show to hear kedusha and other things the interesting question could it could it could have been Arijit so I'll get me called to the Torah and the second day I be up there so it really depends as a normal rule he could not be but if it's a Monday or Thursday which has a Korea cetera anyway he could be called up for one of the first three Elias showing LaVey or Silesia he cannot be called up for a V but Committee because he has to treat it like a weekday Torre right so that was the and when I had that when I was divided to a fancy young chief meal Sunday night in the middle I had to service Lee make Abdullah value and remember not to say y'all have yellowing bench finger there okay so anyway because this is at least the way I observed this year this is we're just leaving the issue kaga Bruce and I heard that some of you said you were asking what if you're nobody without time somebody's right so I want to talk a little bit about kind of leftover some luck there were thoughts about schools that are gonna be very very relevant at first all of us know that when we make up dull emotes a Shabbos we have spices and when we make Abdullah when we leave yump if we don't have to summon we don't have spices now the question is why is there that difference now we know that when I leave Shabbos since Shabbos I get an extra neshama in enhanced capacity for spirituality when that neshama leaves me I'm weak and I'm faint and I need the smelling salts to revive me so son before should say you only get the extra soul on Shabbos you don't get the extra salt on your chest and if that's the case therefore you don't need the busan man when you leave yup today but there's a difficulty with that because when you go from Shabbos to youngters as we did this year right there with Shabbos and then Saturday night we go into show us we we combined condition of Zola and we have a candle and in kiddush yeah keno hasn't called but we don't have to summon now if you're gonna tell me Shabbos has an extra soul and Young Turks doesn't have an extra soul then you should have the summon when you go from Shabbos - yup just because you're losing your extra salt so because of this the sauce ms says the following idea it is pleasured you having to show me you say round Shabbos and you have initially you say Randy empty but the difference is the neshamah sarah young chief doesn't have to leave you it can stay with you always so Shabbos had leaves you inevitably say you need them to summon young tough there was at least the potential to hold on to that chumby savers that's quite an amazing gift that the enhanced spirituality of the MAS can actually stay with you every single day of your life okay and particularly when we talk about sports in which we commemorate and celebrate and rejoice in ma tante oberon to have that sense of being connected to her Sina thereby do i shed every single day as a tremendous tremendous gifting gives a person enthusiasm it gives a person joy and that is really the aura and the afterglow that can come in the aftermath of us and that is why the Ron bond actually says every single day of the year there is a mitzvah to re-experience the revelation and our scene I just as there's a mitzvah to remember the Exodus every single year there's all around every single day there is a mitzvah to experience mindless rc9 every single day and Rashi also brings the statement but how young beyond you be nothing does him every single day the Torah should be as if it's a new thing that you're getting you know it's interesting that we say in the definition over which is mizmor 26 that is recited twice a day from Rosh Hodesh L o till Sweeney and Sarah's so a doubler Melek says these are the famous words al kasha LD me a session there is one thing I asked for my sham Osaka this is what I request shifty pervasive sham call you may fire I want to dwell in the house of God all the days of my life forever lots o spinel emotion to see the pleasantness of God Lavar care behind hello and to visit his sanctuary so the MuRF are some say there's a contradiction here he starts off saying I want to be in the house of God all the days of my life and then he ends it by saying well Lavaca Bay Co I also want to visit if you're there all the days of your life how is there visiting so the one of the answer is that the receiverships farm give is they give a muscle if you ever see a pre bar mitzvah boy putting on tefillin for the first time or that the month before the Bat Mitzvah what an excitement to this now he's been looking forward to it certainly for months maybe even for years and when he first does it there's so much excitement and enthusiasm even if the the rings collapse on him because he doesn't yet have the hang of how to get them to stick to his arm some reason that's a difficulty like almost every bar mitzvah boy has I mean I had it - I don't know in retrospect I can't figure out why it was so difficult but it was difficult you're afraid to wrap it so tightly okay they're still wrapped too tight enough okay cut off the circulation and yet what happens is as you get older and older and a man a man wears to fill in six days a week and it's no 10 years 20 years 30 years 40 years 50 years at some point you know you lose the enthusiasm for it because you're no longer doing it for the first time it becomes they have it and the problem of habituation is that it often takes away our enthusiasm so double another is asking for two things may I dwell in the house of God and be connected to the mitzvahs all of my life but may I always have the enthusiasm of a first-time visitor right laughs all right right shifty babe a session oh you may hire but I want to be like a visitor at the same time no there's a whole bunch of you we talked about this I think before she was a whole bunch of jokes they make about balle children and their kind of how do you know when a ball Shuba has been well integrated each other from school right so all of the jokes basically say when he's not that religious anymore meaning to say when he's not stirring governing when he benches in five minutes you know when he doesn't sing some eros at the Shabbos meal and when he doesn't care about it of our Torah in other words it's expressed essence it's not really a joke at the expense of the ball true it's really a criticism of the ffb or they then they're the people who are regularly Orthodox and it basically highlights the idea that sometimes the newcomer has so much enthusiasm and yet when things become habit we take it for granted so doubled emeritus miss Paula that he should always be connected to the Torah but he should always have the enthusiasm of a person that's visiting for the first time and really that's what does not mean when they say every single day the Torah has to be something new and exciting and that that takes a certain amount of work you know it's a view because if you're just gonna do the same old same old then it's gonna be very hard to bring a sense of renewal so somehow the person has to kinda find within the framework of their electric observances new ideas new insights new perspectives that they can bring to bear and that keeps it fresh and exciting so I just want to share with you a thought from of my route the Gemara and you know the whole kumara the whole discussion of mattandsarah are several blocks in my second Shabbos right that is the Gomorrah of Matan Turin and it mainly deals with some difficult chronological problems was the Tober given on the sixth of Seba or the seventh of Seba and it goes to very intricate discussions and all sorts of problems there because it actually emerges from the sugah that we seem to pass Caen the Torah was given on the seventh of Sipan and yet we observe on the sixth of ceylon inputs alerts they get it right to the second day of service is the actual day of monitory but the chronological issues we lead actually did address last week but the Gemara then mentions a statement from a certain person from Gullah Gullah lillian and he said but rock amana blessed is god that gave a three-fold torah torah prophets writings tonight three photos - a three-fold nation Kohanim the vm Israeli in the third month counting from the Sun the Sun he or she bud after three days of preparation now the Gemara has no comment on that statement whatsoever so basically what the statement seems to be saying is that the number 3 plays a very important role in math on Tobin just as the number 4 is very important in the Pesach Seder right we have four cups of wine we have four sons we have four questions etc so somehow the role that four plays on Pesach three plays and not on children but what is the significance of 3y is three an important number so the morale very much is into the symbolic meaning of numbers says the following idea three geometrically is represented as a triangle so if you look at the base of a triangle the two points at the base they are in opposite directions one point is here one point is here but then when you draw lines from those points to the apex of the triangle then the lines that are drawn from those two opposite points meet at the apex in the middle so Marel says therefore three is symbolic of the synthesis and integration of opposite forces to use sigilian terminology you have the thesis the antithesis and the synthesis so three is that which since of synthesizes and brings together opposite forces that is why for example with Yaakov Aveeno now of Rama we know represented the epitome of the Mesa of loving-kindness cussin yet scott represented the opposite manner now the opposite is not cruelty god forbid using without cruel but yet scott focused on justice and introspection and self-mastery as well as to our drama be know whose life was devoted to giving to others the in scott was devoted to self-development so i bremen gets caught our opposites but opposites that are not synthesized or harmonized will have deficits through our rama v no that is culo casa has a ishmael that is kind of the negative side of too much respect yet spark that represents a preoccupation with self mastery as an ASA which is the solace the negative of cavora now what is Yaakov Yaakov represents these synthesis of of Roman it's like the balance and the harmony that is why Yaakov is connected to Torah as we will see because Torah is that synthesis and that is why all of your curves children belong to I'm Israel because only when there's the harmonization of opposites can you have what is called shall Amos perfection because perfection will never be by going to an extreme in one media and ignoring the other media shall Amos is only when all of these different meadows are blended together so since the morale in this way the Torah itself is connected to the number three because the tourist synthesizes APIs tendencies within the human personality because we really are at a minimum a bifurcated creature perhaps we have even more split personalities as a creature of the body we crave comforts decadence hedonism ease right that's the goal that has its demands but we also have a godly soul that seeks communion with the divine and connection with the Almighty and these two forces are in opposition because the body says sleep and eat and enjoy eat drink and be merry for tomorrow you will die the soul yearns for a transcendental connection to God without the Torah these two forces would be a perpetual contradiction and that is why in movements outside of the Torah such as least Catholicism which is the original Christianity and many Eastern religions the only way you achieve communion with God is to the extent you can disengage from materialism thus the priest is supposed to be celibate because sexual relations would drag him away there is supposed to be a vow of poverty because basically holiness is obtained to the extent you disengage from the body but by definition that's going to be temporary because eventually everybody has to eat everybody has to sleep there's no way you'll ever achieve a complete holiness what the Torah in novated and that's why the morale says the Torah is three is the Torah says you can achieve holiness not by escaping the body but by taking the very animal drives that are within you and concentrating and dedicating them to our cottage border so we have many mitzvahs that involve eating and drinking but we eat and drink air to express gratitude to a Shem to celebrate the happy days of a sham to have strength and her health to be able to serve Hashem and do mitzvahs procreational marriage appropriation rather than something to be avoided are actually mitzvahs Moshe Ravana was a single exception of someone who decided to be celibate simply because he has to be on call for prophecy 24/7 so he had to be in a state of readiness but the one thing that we can definitively say is that Moshe Rubino's behavior is absolutely not held up as anything that any other mortal is supposed to emulate in any possible way we can try to emulate his modesty we're not going to succeed that but you know we emulate Moshe Ravana to the best that we can but not in this way so my role says the Torah is connected to the number three because it teaches us that holiness is obtained not by escaping the material world but by elevating it and transforming it this is a very very important rule because a you know there's an old fable it's not a mattress it's one of those world's fables that each religion has just changed the words to fit its religion so it's hard to know what the origin is I've heard versions using the Taj Mahal I four versions using the base of make - I feel using the church so now I suspect given the fact that it's not a mattress I suspect that it probably is not originally Jewish but we can use the story anyway because it illustrates a beautiful point it involves three people who spend all of their time from morning to night cutting stones they are stone cutters and all they do is cut stones from morning tonight and then they schlep them and then they come home totally exhausted they drop into bed they wake up the next morning and they do the same thing and each one was asked to describe the meaning of their life what is it that you do what is your life about and each one gave a different response what person said my life is the unending drudgery of cutting up rocks day after day hour after hour until I am so exhausted all I can do is go home and collapse into bed and then the next day the same thing happens again and again that's one way of describing your life the other person said it a little differently he says I worked very very hard to create an environment where my children will not have to suffer as I suffer and will be able to have income where they could be educated and they can go on to something better now that already elevates what the person is doing it's no longer the mechanical you know for a cracking rocks all day the person is has a goal the person is accomplishing something he's creating a life for his children the third person the answer is apparently these were rocks that were being cut for Taj Mahal mosque Church synagogue base of mikdash although it's basically just a lovely problem you're not supposed to use metal metal tools and that is the person said my life is devoted to bringing glory to my Creator and every rock that I cut is my song of praise to Russia so you have three people who are doing exactly the same thing physically you observe them they're doing the same thing and yet the nature of what they're really doing is totally different one guy is just cutting rocks the other person is showing his love for his family and the third person is glorifying God with every movement and that's the way it is in everything we do in taking our kids to God in taking clothes to the cleaning and doing housework and getting going to the office there are different ways that you look at it we sometimes think oh I'm only serving a sham when I'm dominating when I'm learning then I have all of these other things all of this other stuff I have to do and all of that is just a distraction and it doesn't really count but that's not at all the case with just the power of your mind you can transform the most mediocre insignificant task into something of nobility and goodness and holiness that is really the tremendous gift of the Torah in fact the Rambam rights even the recreation let's say you're going on vacation going on vacation let's see if you're a teenager you'll go to an amusement park and ride a roller coaster right if you're in itself you're probably more sedate now we tend to define the vacation as a break but the ramp-up says if a person has a mind that I'm going to going on this vacation to renew my energy to get rid of some of my anxiety assuming a vacation will do that open it this does not in order that I can come back for French and sir fashion the Rambam writes it's not just the mitzvahs you do later that are serving a show the vacation becomes a lotus a shadow I playing basketball jogging all I thought of the show if you define it as such in your thoughts so the Morrell says the Torah is symbolized by the number three because on one hand there is this conflict between body soul that really should not be reconcilable and yet the Torah gives us the mocktail Torah gives us the game where we can sanctified even the physical and material know the Marel makes another points and that's not in this place but in another place that women as a general matter are naturally more gifted in this synthesis that women can see the ability to spiritualize the physical any many makes a very very beautiful point there's a very famous Gomorrah that I'm sure if you've ever been a teachable breakfast whether it's your sugar bra house or your children shower breakfast or you've been invited to somebody else's shadow breakfast you have absolutely heard this Gomorrah this is probably the number one tomorrow that is quoted in a sugar breakfast that is the words for man and wife for men and women is ish and Isha and they share two common letters olive Shin which means fire and the yard and the hay spells one of the names of Hashem call we pronounce it well but it's unity so the Gemara makes the following point when God is in their marriage men will be doing what matters supposed to be doing and women will be doing what women's be doing everything's gonna work out well but if you take em out of their marriage then they become an all-consuming selfish fire in which each one will destroy the other with egotism and demands webinar Shem is in the marriage you have HPV shot when our chef is not in the marriage you have h which is very destructive Thank You famous Gemara everybody has heard this tomorrow but then Morel wants to take it one step further than the Gemara itself takes it you did hey is a name of God but why just a man get the letter yud and the woman get the letter hey is a woman only half as good after all you distend in hates life so he was about morale says he shows us that God created the world to come the spiritual universe God created through the force of the letter yud because your is the most spiritual of all letters of the alphabet why is it the most spiritual because it's the least material as you it is the smallest letter so you'd has the least physical substance in the letter so you and represents pure spirituality hey my Rao says is a composite letter dalet visualize hey darling and then the left leg I would have thought it's about but the morale says we can look at the left leg as a Hewett now if you'd represents pure spirituality Dow it for represents the material world because matter exists in basically four dimensions you have like the length the width the height or the thickness and then you have time right there Einstein didn't invent the idea that time and space are one one variable affected my Rollins first one even the morrow didn't invented it goes back to much earlier philosophy that time is an attribute of matter which means it's hard for us to visualize anything about time is hard to understand it's a very abstract thing but until there is matter there is no time that is why you know that my bar there was no concept of time it's like a Las Vegas casino where there are no clocks on be on the wall so Dalek represents the material world and you'd represents the spiritual world so what is hey the ability to bring the goods into the talent so the morale says a woman's special gift is that intuitively she grasps how physical details give rise can give rise to spiritual connections to God and thus for example if a woman is meticulous about the way things are in a home or the way a table is sets or any of these details that may simply look like aesthetics or physicality they are actually reflective of a deep sense that these are ways of cementing relationships with God and as I say if the Merrill said in its fullest point that is why the Torah has the number three because three is that synthesis so in this connection I said well tell you something to the barbecue Rebbe that are very very interesting the report pointed out you know the minoc that many people stay up all night it's a very very common minim today many people stay up all night the first night of short so everybody was up Saturday night and missing even women do it as well it's not as prevalent as men but many many women stay up and after urine and cabooses and and delight now this is not an old Minogue after this minoc started in the 1600s and it spread and one scholar actually wrote a monograph showing that the spreading of the minim correlated to the introduction of coffee in that particular country but coffee came from the Americas my coffee did not was not in Europe until the sixteenth century and it was shown that the minute of staying all nights staying up all night got more prevalence whenever coffee reached a certain place of people then understood that coffee kept them up and they're like so you can give a host share on coffee and sugar it's an interesting interesting correlations but ok now why is there a minik stay up all night so the reason that's given is because of the day of my Torah the Jewish people were sleeping at the break of dawn when a sham came to give them the Torah they were still sleeping and I shall have to wait for them so to make up to our College Board for the fact that we were sleeping the morning of monitory we are there when God comes in other words we are up and Hashem comes in the dawn and we're here it's saying T good for our sleep so the Rebbe asked a very obvious question I mean what's going on the night before my October people can just sleep and even if they sleep they're not gonna get up on time I mean if you had some big job interview you know you're gonna get up early just naturally you know you might not be able to sleep even so the Rebbe wants to say they're asleep was a deeply spiritual sleep they thought that's my doctora would have so much holiness they would not be able to accept the Torah in their physical bodies they wanted their nationals to be separated from the bodies and somehow the neshamah would be Maccabi of authority that was their freshman but the mistake was that's not what God wanted God did not want any spiritual authority God wanted a month October that can bring spirituality even into the even into the physical now in this connection there's an interesting rule Monday in average Israel and Tuesday in difference Lawrence is a day that's called issue rock its root and this root 5 is a general name for the day after every am different the day after Pesach the day after service it's always called the is roots are and literally is Rashad means tying it to the young there's a notion that the day after he humped if is still connected to the object and we tie it to the object and the primary way we tie it is we don't say Tata Newton we still treat it as festive now l'm i said many people have dominican this isn't like the most common Milliken usual I am that we don't say tough enough for a whole week after school that's true and similarly for Pesach we don't say it for the rest of the month of Nisan which is essentially the next week and for suckers as well some people don't say talk to them for the rest of the month of Tishrei but those aren't men hugging those are men hug you in terms of the din it is on me the day after the object that has this however that how logically you're not allowed to say talkin on an issue but it's a little more complicated it is only is through hug of shavoo that has this 11 the issue side of Pesa according to the strict in you're allowed to say taffeta and the end although our customers we don't obviously and the inside of circus you're allowed to satanic it is only the issue of Santa Rosa which means of all of the Israel Cox the Israel kind of show vuo's is the most important now how logically why should that be so so listen to the explanation of the bugging of ROM it's a little technical we know that for the show Ashford of them for the three pilgrimage festivals every Jew that tenth year shall I am had to bring a burnt offering and Ola called an Ola Surya that they would come to the base of Mukesh and they would have the Cohen bring an Ola Surya now the Ola Surya for Pesach and circus would be brought during home oh wait did you have seven days to bring but Shavuos doesn't have a cola movie so when would they have to bring the olestra of sugarless is too high so yes your side jump si they what they didn't bring the olive tree they already brought it is Ricardo circus they didn't bring the others real but Shabazz by definition the earliest time they could bring the Ola Surya the pilgrimage Ola was this Rahad so issue Han has the status of a young now this is what the bug in a rug well the other days well well the you have seven you have seven days in other words the Gemara says you have six days after suppose to bring the other three a total of seven days so those who don't say tacconelli's because you have potentially those other things but most people brought in as soon as they could so it's Rashad was the beach day the thing that the term that the Gemara uses for Israel track of spoils is Yom Tov on the day of slaughter this is what the mugging of rum says the shelter dollars are out which is actually the the Pisgah show Vanara written by the alter rebbe the by Latanya and this is an authoritative safer of felucca that is widely used even by knots about other words it's not just about safer the Mishnah bra it's called show Senora Haram around me the alter rebbe children are s when the Bob Rogers call this Dutch oven arts in Manila Bobby Orr says the children are they actually mean show Canaris Arab and not the shortened RF of Rev Joseph kerim when we say show Canaris we mean the shortened Aris of regulative Cairo and when we refer to the other one we call it show sonorous our wrath but the shotgun or a Quran asks a tremendous kasha I'm the machina from the magnetron seems to say that the old mastery of Shiva was had to be brought and it's resort because you couldn't bring it on Yosef itself but in reality that is a much Locust base Shanghai and base hello in the Mishnah in other words let's take even pacer can you bring the old Australia on young sis on yom tov or must you wait until column OE they shall i argues you always have to wait to haul them away and therefore schoolís you'd have to wait disregarding because Bashar bhai's argument is you're only allowed to kill animals - for your man consumption so you could bring a peace offering because you can eat some of the meat but a burnt offering which is totally under miss baya there is no human consumption if there's no human consumption they shall I said you cannot bring you know la sri onion tip therefore for pay certain circuits it would have to be holy moly and she laws would have to be it's true sorry but first ears almond says that's only true according to base shot line they say no actually says he makes a comment if you can chefs animals for your consumption you can certainly chef or but us for them is bad and therefore according to base a well the old Astraea of Shiva did not have to be brought down its roots on the oldest tree of Shiva was could be brought on Shavuos itself you could bring the district's on but that's true that's equally true for the other holiday still so the question is why does the history side of Shabazz have any special validity because it's Yom Tov Allah it is young Tavo us only according to Beit Shean and we passed him like they said well my guess is always the case most of the giddy overwhelming majority of cases including this one if there's Michael obvious by Xiaomi and they say well we followed by self so this is what the bhava Tanya writes he writes it is true that the halacha is like vase hello that the hola Surya could be brought on youngters but the meaning of Kali Israel was to bring in a day later in history rock and not to bring it on your chest and that's why the issue rock is called the day of slaughter so the question is why right this is all the shuffle around Arab says what why why would there be a not to follow basil--oh and to follow Beit Shean I why would it be such a minute so this is what Allah bamaca really says laughter every says like this he says there are two types of holiness there's the holiness that separates from the world and there's the holiness that integrates physicality into spirituality as we were saying the olla represents the holiness of renunciation because what is it Allah you give it totally to God you get no physical pleasure so consequently the olla is the divine service that separates itself from physicality and pleasure and enjoyment to dedicate something totally the ocean so the Rebbe says since the key lesson of Shahrukh's is how you integrate the physical and the material the role of the Ola is de-emphasized we don't want to emphasize the bringing of the Ola so we push it off so when the children are Arab says the minute was they followed by Chennai he doesn't mean they followed by Shama up a second service but I was roasting it which means how logically could you break the Ola Sri Yantra for injunctive absolutely yes that love is like a syllable but spiritually the collective consciousness about Israel wanted to de-emphasize the role of the Ola because Shavuos is about integrating the physical and the spirit and you know that's that's that's a big lesson the glory in fact says that there is a general mark locus in the Gemara do you have to have a meal on your chest because one plus ik says young dip is totally forgot and the other plus ik says young tip is for you so how do you reconcile two sukham 1 + ik that says it's for God and one says it's for you so Rebbe Eliezer gives the following answer you have a choice you can make yom tov totally forgot meaning you learn and you dove in and you don't eat your drink or sleep or you can decide to mainly make it for your physical enjoyment within a relatively minimal learning identity now there is a corrector of the Eliezer the way he reconciles the two verses is you can either do it totally fresh and or you can do it totally for you that's rabbi eliezer Rebbe yoshua reconciles the verses differently instead of saying all for God or all for you he said you got to split it half fresh em half doesn't mean 50% but part of its fresh m-learning and domine and part of it for you you must eat and drink a me have a meal and we passing like Romeo show the Gibara then goes on and says the whole month low gas is by Pesach and circuits but when it comes to shove loose even rabbi eliezer who normally says you don't have to have a meal and she Lewis you have to have a meal because it was the day that the Torah was given now at first glance this kumara is a non sequitur I would have expected it to say the following even Rebbe oh sure that says you have to have a meal and Shavuos he gives you the ability to learn on all the time that's the day of the tone but the course is the other way around even the one that says for every up to if you can just learn and don't eat and sugarless you have to eat you have to eat so you see this this idea almost the favor to me tomorrow that Shavuos and Maddon Torah is about sanctifying the physical and therefore it would not be proper to make it a totally spiritual day because to make it a totally spiritual day in the sense that it's been new tuck it is removed from physicality would be a contradiction to what Matt Santoro represents and let me just end with a final thought that brings us out in a very beautiful way this is from rhapsodic of lublin with Sutter points out that when a sham gave us the Torah so before he actually meant and articulated the commandments so it mentions that they were colos there were there were there were sounds of thunder Ubah Rock Brook him and flashes of lightning callosum Brook him and then we have the service of the abruption and after the in Saracen dubrow's it says they saw the colos again they saw the coast they actually saw the Thunder that's another thing the s a lot P did and the torches so there's a subtle distinction the visualization before the Ten Commandments were Bruck him flashes of lightning the visualization after the Ten Commandments were torches in the sky not be dim why the change and of course in the Israeli political system we have suffered both from the became the barracks and the lobbies so we do have barracks my peon but presumably the tiger is not referring to that particular phenomenon so here is what drugs Southwark centre of Southwark says even before the Torah was given mankind yearned for holiness we are transcendental beings certainly Jews are but even even non-jews everybody is that we want to have a sense of a meaning of life that goes beyond ourselves but without a Torah you can only achieve that by disengagement with the material world so you become a monk you become you go closer etc that type of holiness is analogized to a lightning flash because what is a lightning flash it's a brilliant flash of light that then plunges you into total darkness because if my holiness depends on disengagement with real life then what can happen is I'm gonna have my moments of ecstasy but then I'm gonna have to eat I'm gonna have to sleep I'm gonna have to go to the bathroom so what is holiness like brilliant light followed by total darkness and that is a premonitory idea of holiness the Taira which gave us the way to navigate physicality through the prism of holiness that becomes a torch now in one hand it's true that a torch is less intense than a lightning flash because it's true when you go through the details of everyday life you don't always have that high ecstasy of sitting on the flagpole for 50 years but the torch although it's flickers is permanent it doesn't go out it doesn't plunge you into darkness it gives you warmth and light and guides you where you need to go and therefore the difference between lightning and torch represents the difference between the holiness of disengagement from the world which by definition is sporadic ephemeral and temporary and the holiness of involvement in the world which can be permanent you know what I think about lightning and the torch you think about the times when now the roads are much better but they used to be when you went to spots and there was not like it's a wreckage roads it just went up you had to round the mountain over and over and over and over and over again and you know people in very very cars again these were Harris Harris Harris in the turns and that's like you know you was very scary that a great Rosh Yeshiva and a negative us driver died on the same day and they both went up to Shania and the egged bus driver went straight to all of a block and there she had to wait a little bit so the receiver complained he said you know I spent my whole life learning Torah teaching Torah doing mitzvot and the young adverse driver is not even an issue of Shabbos necessarily why does he go in right away so the mama said how many tell them that you get people to say in your lifetime so the Yankee bus driver is as more serious than that so imagine just imagine if those terms has to be navigated let's say there were no headlights and it was dark and there were no lights at all at a MOOC is that way right at Buca that's crazy Lucas where every other submitters Eolas the Barry well I think I was better but I haven't I haven't been there recently but when I was there like 15 years ago it was totally totally dark the headlights were the only illumination in a mocha which was the place to go to get a of no it's you know there's no tradition that Yanis embezzle never married but somehow he is made with closure for people who want to get married so people go there 2004 she drove him and many people accidentally leave their sidor him there with name address and pharmacist so we've had more than one shooter very young man calling up a young woman to be metallian with the mitzvah of a Shabbos Aveda and you know she due to have happened from you know that might be one of the ways that this happens but imagine that's totally dark but but so imagine you had in the spot the same thing total darkness and you have to navigate the terms with sporadic lightning flashes that would be scary scary scary if you had a torch you'd be able to do it so this is what you might you might say is almost maybe tragic is to to another dramatic determine but there's almost kind of a tragic compromise in Torah because in a sense living in the world can diminish some of the depth of spirituality that one could have if you could simply meditate and get away from everything but it's a shadows rustle that we create kedusha in this lowly world again the by the time has a famous expression which is actually from a mattress but but for bad quotes that you know tens of thousands of times a day that it's the ruts on a sham to have a deer uh but October I'm sure do you know anyone about you have heard this expression and strum the mattress gods deepest desire is savage Welling place in the lowliness of this earth because if he wanted pure spirituality he could have kept the Torah with the Angels because they're better than us in that but what we have is we struggle with the Horm we struggle with the ghosts and it's precisely that is what occurs partner ones and that is why we go from the on off brilliant lightning flash to total darkness to the flickering torch that gives a person warmth and guidance as they try to navigate all of the perplexities of of life so again it's just a sham I hope that all of us should be so glad to take these messages of montoya and to accept a sham story every single day with a tremendous joy and gratitude for the gifts that he has that he has given us [Music]