Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz: Month of Av when Joy is never fully diminished

[Music] everybody if you're small groups make that vehicle is a quality rather than quantity and with the continuing there the three weeks and this Friday is going to be very less ready chef and so I mentioned last week to thoughts from the public about the three weeks and I'm gonna mention a third one let me just review the two thoughts very very quickly the first thoughts about our mics is that the three have tariffs that we meet before tisha both corresponds to a certain progression in Nevada the first Octavia that novice talks about the needs of um Yahoo that have tell you to going through this Shabbos talks about hearing the rate of God and I have to tell you at the Shabbos report issued by his friend the never Isaiah the never yo-yo and that is causing the vision so we look at these three steps speech hearing and vision and with Cedric says that is kind of the spiritual progression we need to live in in order to rectify the the interpersonal as well knows and inadequacies and sins that we have the first is that even if you're filled with negativity you don't have to talk about it you don't got to say Latoya control your mouth shamea limit the negative inputs that you are getting in your hearing but the ultimate step has to be not just controlling your speech and controlling their conversations but changing your perception learning visioning the reality that you live in because if a person is filled with anger and negative thoughts he will not be able to control his speech forever eventually is going to explode and consequently the military towards Russia Hara is not so much controlling the speech but changing the realm of your people you see them in a timely way to see the whole picture to understand where they're coming from and period this gives us the break you I was in this career tell you that they even come out do not judge your friends do not sit in judgment on another people another prison until you are in their situation and of course you will never be in their situation and as a result we don't go around judging obviously a Jew has standards obviously we have things that we believe in we have truths that we hold dear but at least on a personal level when does not sit in judgment I am the goodness where lack of goodness of another person because you never know the totality of the experiences that they have been through in fact there are bad notes in his celebrated he does remember that he went to his family when we came to Eretz Israel that no matter who you meet you should basically try to identify some way in which they might be better than you then even if on some level they are far below your spiritual attainments perhaps if you have gone through that they went three of their life they did not have emerged as good as they came for so that is thought number one and which we looked at the first waves of the Hetalia speech hearing vision and that is how we try to rectify the synopsis in them the hatred and colonization which caused the coordination McNish the second point of rep said there is that the thing which that began with the 17th of thomas actually should have been a happy time because after their initial a baby came down with delicious after forty days at night so night that was the 17th of Tammuz it turned into a tragedy because of the sin of the golden calf where you have been invoked a new host but seen in this way that said it looks that the three weeks and the ninth of mouths as kind of the negative of the four cups of wine we know that we have four cups of wine at the Seder because that represents four stages of the redemption which bring us closer and closer to God the three weeks and tesha both represent four movements away from God as we experience progressively more and more severe ways that we are estranged from our cutter Sparkle so essentially it is the negative mirror image we are fair the show note of now for terms of redemption now we have three weeks and Tish above in which each stage of redemption is being undone as we experience godless and distancing and estrangement and isolation but the good news is that just as if you're walking in a circle Douglas is a circular path and as you get further and further from any points you get closer to the point on the other side so - Louis is actually the process that brings us closer to God by creating named by creating desire by creating an awareness of how much we need our cottage burger that builds within our personalities a love and a desire to get close and that itself brings the gorilla this is the meaning of the famous statement of gizelle that Michelle will be burned by the length of us it does not mean literally necessarily that the birthday of the person in the initial customer demands of us the weather it means that the day of the redemption that the person admission it represents has been in the room in the sadness of tisha buff because the novel reading exists the man has shown once to the Dumas I shed Cubs I said I'm ancestor cuts be ready where does God live and the cuts grab you answered as a child God lives wherever he is welcomed to live then welcome him and want him chose their their don't want him japes is not there this is the time of year when we try to feel the mounting and the yearning and the desire and it's paradoxically as we grow the depth of how distance we are from a Shem we actually achieve a remarkable closeness that is the saying of course absence makes the heart grow fonder I think it's Shakespeare and indeed that is the reality of what Bayless represents what is wrong the darkest Dulles the rich Dulles is when the person doesn't even realize they're in Dulles when we think everything's fine that indeed is a very very serious problem that's why they never ever used to say it was easier to be Jewish in Siberia when in suburbia in Siberia the Russians never let you forget that you're a Jew I was difficult as life was an identity those I forgot to observe the Jewish religion but the one thing Jewish and we were to get out of there as opposed to suburbia where we could be loathed by material comforts and prosperity and even no Glatt Kosher cruises and and all sorts of even within religious life one can certainly enjoy the best of both worlds so to speak but the problem is you can't really enjoy the best of both ways because if you're enjoying the best of one world you're kind of going to lose out a little bit in the next to it so you can't have it out in that sense and this is the time of year in which we try to realize what it is that we are lacking and we know that learning comes true Redemption again think about the circular path the further you go away from the points on one sided circle the closer you're getting on the other side so that was point number two the three weeks and tisha birth has kind of the negatives of the four steps of redemption but and that negative they're actually knows the positive at the same time the red oak is the finally he makes the point that a purple Everest tells us if there are three pillars that the rail stands upon I have an anti sense to actually represents these derivatives this is shimon hatzadik the great color of the body shaming showing us how to talk our oceans away I am eight various things and through Peters a vittoria understudy of Thalia I'm a Veda I'm a divine service by prayer and penance and the third pillar is comunist a sudden acts of love Antonius it's a well-known thing that that Israeli of three others are bearing represents the serving of our own to live in holiness a respect that was a Corbin and the miss Vera the pillar of divine service and that girl who spent 14 years a very interrupted study in the Shiva of shaming over whatever exactly they've studied there there's not to convention anyway achieve obviously we've got represents the pivot of Torah and there are stairs on these three pillars told you I very can you discuss at it but there's another issue that says just as the rail stands on three pillars of holiness the world is destroyed by three negative factors they may be lesser the type of emerged sympathy others Archana brought a dog on October 8th night soon as our demeanor only kena jealousy envy taiga excessive arrests for hedonistic pleasures carve out a desire for glory ego gratification self aggrandizement when it's shown as a diamond olam they take a person out of the weight and the belly initially explaining the desert diamond moon you don't yet either infidel that's what that's obvious but it makes your life in this world's miserable if a person is consumed with jealousy under view desire for cognate incessant desire for marrying their pleasures they may never be happy then I'll never see a simpler in the life that issue is giving them because they always but other people have had the glory they're not getting that additional Tiger they could imagine and they're from the chair this I've been emailing them does not only refer to be ready to come they prefer to the misery of this world but those are the great factors that destroy life that destroy joy that suck out the enthusiasm of a person that instance a person from Bad China tiger covered soon this way with Southwark says this is why we have civilian reach to prepare the tissue birth because tissue birth which on one hand is the day that being commemorate the destruction disaster the day that we're getting ourselves ready to experience the building of the base of English but in order to experience the building of the base of exhaustion we have to eradicate within ourselves there's negative factors that created the destruction of the base on Mukesh and that is Kenya tibetian covered in fact that Southwark even connects King a type of recovered to the three cardinal of eros which caused the fed and bias region of evaders aura are they worship Giving Alliance sexuality morality and she was a stunning murder what's the connection so he says the family says jealousy is actually camp the traitor in fact if you actually look at the crime statistics other than terrorism and acts of war most murders that are committed are because of various family rivalries that are connected to jettison United States at least kids teenagers kill each other over shows over Snickers over jackets mr. infamous oj simpson may be trying among remember than twenty years ago again all the evidence indicates that this was a telling you due to some jealousy that she was with somebody else absolutely diverse there wasn't a problem but and and right so jealousy in its extreme culminates in order that's kuna and schrieffer stunning then of course we have taiga west in its extreme match to do any array us now are there other than a goat is early this is this is a bit more subtle how about a person is seeks honor a person seeks query that leads to idolatry in that way is that the case a few things our cut out basically is an attitude that says i will look at myself and my needs as the center of the universe looking after number one but what's good for you I want honor I want more me so as a result will be placed at the focus of your life is no longer the service and submission to a college broker it becomes self worship self organization I've made myself a God and then I look for a religion and I although that will save me and nine needs instead of submitting us at the old days of the person that had a barn I never shoot another us and every li was directly on a baseline so somebody walked by and said how do you always manage to get your arrows during the days I he says well it's really simple I shoot the arrow and the other it hits the bone I paint the birds are around to the other you need to say I don't hit the bullseye rather I'll make the bills out there where the arrow goes and our religion is often that way a person wants to do what they want to do so they kind of invent or seek out the religion that we let them do whatever they want to do so in reality they're not worshiping that reality they worship in themselves so carbide turns into a [Applause] theology of hybrid learning about how the taxes are then there Protestant theologian the sociology of religion in America is not about you David in particular and he pointed out that many people don't like organized religion - like the building Doug they like to make up their own relationship to God so there was a nurse whose name is Sheena and she was into future just appreciating the book and she said today I'll just doing that but I don't know it's any type of organized so I got my own private religion but I called sure that ISM so yeah body when I mentioned this and he said it's lucky her name wasn't cheating because then her private religion would have been guilty is them but in many cases that's exactly what you hear it all the time people are saying are Jewish and that's not what I believe and you know I don't believe in all of this stuff so when I believe is also Judaism so to speak even if their name isn't isn't GD percent so very very often instead of understanding religion as submission to a higher authority people reject religion exclusively in terms of self actualization and ways in which they can be judgmental every judgment and therefore there is a design there is a catch air between covet where I put myself in a subject my reality and double dessert so I'm sorry kid there for the three weeks there's a period of introspection it's a period of sugar it's a period really focus I'm looking at China Tyler covered which in turn corresponds to Kenya is as I said shortest onion reader Tiger is giving a notice and preventative I don't manifest my behaviors in extremities of Vedas Iraqi relations are stunning just because I don't have the extreme manifestations of these sickness I want to have the symptoms that does not mean a fear of the underlying causes if they know heart there is kena there is Tiber that is correct then there's a spiritual sickness within us but we have to try to work on it again Baruch Hashem many people have less of an illness some people like my bananas but all of us are afflicted by this reverse rose to a degree another and in order to build the base of each dish we have to try to eradicate and improve in these areas an example would be when we're building a physical building the first thing you have to do is clean up the bathing site you have to remove the garbage and at the end of debris because you can't construct a building until the junk is out of the way Kim at either the carbide is the junk it is the distraction it is the burrata cheese so before we build remove and improve in these areas now obviously the practicalities of how one improves depends on each person in many many ways sometimes there's a general idea in Judaism that actions influence the emotions that if I have negative emotions just simply tell the person stop feeling jealous stop lusting stop seeking coverage how do you tell a person to change emotions we can't automatically flip back and forth that way but Judaism has a very interesting teaching then instead of looking at actions as the outgrowth of emotional states we actually take the position that actions can educate the emotions are they famous statements of the sacred I feel I've done wrong to feel pretty no sense and a person is influenced according to his action so let's imagine for example husband and wife you're not getting them so then spouse complaints oh the other person doesn't show me affection not afeared affection towards that person so one of the things that a night saying is act rather than if you don't feel hailed as a kind person to behave matter if you have feel about kindness behave as a loving person would behave now if you don't feel the love now initially that is very very hard it's like telling a person to smile an account if you have such a good mood you know the smell of itself Illustrated may even look a little fake all right but there is at which our actions can actually change us in positive ways they tell a famous story not gonna dress tough mister tell the story by very prince who may be under a delusion that huh there's a chicken so it took up all of his grace and a child under the table and they ate the scraps that fell out the table and nobody could convince him that investment the chicken so finally a wise man came in a wise man said I would hear the prince so if the lines move the dresses have got this clothes he cried mommy to the table with the prince and the prince who apparently could still talk said to him what is it under the table so the wise man said I'm the chicken just like you okay so for a while better then you're eating scraps and crawling into the table after a while that icon puts on a pair of pants the Prince says what are you doing so the Sun comes in who says chickens can't wear pants okay talking for that pants - maybe that's up the Prince says what do you do this how come says who says chickens don't get up the upshot is an investment stretches out the story allows for a lot of details but after six months the prince was walking talking sitting at the table doing everything every meeting does now once he shirt well a second analyst would say he's not cured because he was still a being under the same delusion when he's a chicken didn't make a difference because even though he was a chicken inside was a chicken he was doing everything in the media so it doesn't really make a difference but you think you are if your behavior is exactly that it should be this might be enough locus between a psychoanalyst and a behavior therapist the psychoanalyst that focuses on mental perceptions would say it is crazy the guy is crazy a behavioral therapist would say his fine his behavior is exactly with a normal human being yes no but that one as you know who taught my stories detective story he did not explain the meaning of the story he left it to his audience back with somebody else with Nachman Gladys you teach by story mrs. Ellison if I teach my Torah some people will get it some people won't get it so a lot of the audience will just not get it if I teach my story it's a no news proposition those who understand the only meaning got a very important message and those who don't understand being in uni they heard a good story so everybody there benefit from the story whether you get it the meaning you don't get the meaning tell if you don't get the meaning perhaps you're not going to benefit so if nothing doesn't give us the meaning of the story but I think the meaning is fairly obvious if nothing is referring to the fact that very often we have blockages in our personality that convince us that were incapable of being a certain type of person and I think for example I'm not capable there being a living person I'm not capable of being a person in a store every day I'm not capable of going over to a stranger and we welcome you into the shade insane how you doing That's not me that's against my personality on the turkey on the chicken and I'm not that person but reflection says I have the power to act as if you know even if you know and in the course of acting that way you have the color that person Navin if you might not even feel that you have and if nothing is basically saying don't your picture ever sense the person definitely capable of becoming one of us have a mental picture of ourselves sometimes that there's a picture very other that's from childhood there's been a bit of picture back when we have gotten from parents from teachers 13 years now that mental image of ourselves can change to occupy our mind in our consciousness we have throughout our lives it's quite quite quite amazing that many to think that when you're a grown-up and a pen perhaps a parent of your own godparents wherever it would be you figure that you can discard all of those images all of those recordings all of those pictures there are no longer relevant in your life and we have like a computer virus they continue to infiltrate they continue to influence they continue to restrict and limit there is nothing says sometimes instead of working under the images what can be externalized behaviors and the views themselves chase away the images as opposed to some direct psychoanalytic focus on those negative fake features that could take 50 years or whatever it is but people may be able to get out get out of psychoanalysis they can just stay in there their whole lives so this is an aspect of the three weeks to be rid of the idea that this is a time for preparing the baby of the basin type dish you're getting rid of the garbage and the debris that prevents God's presence within us so kind of eventually our understanding that the images are not reality they're simply that image we have the reality and that age could actually be in an imaginary image it's not real it doesn't have substance and it's not an arrogant statement because once again it's arrogance if I say I'm greater than that but if we understand that all of us have this greatness within us that is not arrogance that's your recognition of being the image of Hashem God is infinite and in each and every one of us there is a neshama that it comes from the image of Hashem so we have said it goes further and he says very interesting point we've said it points out that metaphorically this could be the meaning of the three categories of the impure people that I expelled in various parts of the Jewish camp it is available it is a few weeks ago but I bring it up because it's connected to the three weeks how does the Torah says there are three types of Torah three types of impurity that are expelled from different areas of the Jewish camp there is the Messiah the leper who is exposed and when there's the discharge and then there's the tummy Mets there was the person who came in contact with a dead body so until these three people undergo purification rituals they are expelled from the Jewish camp that's it gets a little more complicated because the Jewish camp in the desert was itself divided into three sections there is the Michigan the tabernacle and the courtyard around the tabernacle that is called Mussina Shekinah the chant of the Divine Presence the camp of the Divine Presence was surrounded by the rhodium and that is called Montaigne Livia and then surrounding Martinez V on their foreheads where the regular Israelites and what is called machina misra L know the three - those are sent away from - fidelia's that so yeah the leopard is exploded from well three attempts and is essentially quantity his expression Safina the villa and even Israel and he's the dumb way boots mama honey that's not Sarah the sloth is expelled from Shekinah Michigan and levira if he's already he's expelled but who is permitted to dwell on the middie Israelites so if you're using Israelite interstage what is that's dissolve determine that's the one that is to marry because he's in contact with a dead body is the most imminent here is expelled from not finishing that the Michigan but it was permitted in welcome and cartography is permitted in not Ernestina in fact not only is a coming nice permitted in knocking Olivia but even a dead body with shellfish familiar because Moshe Albania kept in this tent the balance of your safe that we are being taken to a rich Israel to be buried now today in contemporary terms this is the main high replication of the most religious people most rare exceptions do not go on the Temple Mount the Temple Mount has the status this part of it I'll talk about that has the status of knocking a scene at the camp of the divine presence and tunnel nets cannot go in not in Austria and since the only way you can be purified from telling that is by the ashes of the polar Duma and they do not have those ashes today ergo I cannot go into how about it no those people who do go in the hora by it they do have a heretic justification their claim and actually they are correct but the question is how confident we are in terms of measurement that the outer perimeter of the Temple Mount the outer perimeter does not correspond to the temple and the courtyard of the temple it corresponds to where the ravine or nothing Olivia and because it is not native via a tub a maze is allowed to go there nothing Olivia so their argument is that as long as you can find yourself to certain designated areas we are permitted to go on the Temple Mount even in a state of tunnel net because they tell me no it is permitted Livia and I knew failure in Word is not initially now in point of fact they are 100% correct that is absolutely clear that there is a portion of the temperament that is not Cinelli Latvia and not my Finnish Athena the reason why most of the total world does not go at all is simply because we are not confident enough in our identification of the configuration of the temple that we're willing to take a chance it's like a minefield imagine if there be a minefield and somebody tells you oh you can go through this minefield as long as you stay six inches away from that Bush but if you defend successors of the bush even isn't it well I don't know we often you know seven inches away from the dish because whether if I lose my balance benefit trip etc so as a result when that legacy is not really a month locust in principle in principle the that's really a new post can we finish going to the holidays or actually 100 percent correct that's the more reasonable approach on the other side is why take a chance and agenda because if you're young if you and I took one step in the wrong area inside of course it's a very very seriously that said only apply enough machinima show every day of mentions how about it's unfortunate part of the holidays it's about relationship Trina okay so so now lifted back to dialectic structure here then with Sarah is expelled from all three camps resolved is expelled from two camps and he's allowed in this room though the timeliness is only expelled from Shekinah and is allowed in Livia and Israel so here is rep sucks brilliant brilliant insight he says that the trueness of service of Messiah Zev and tummy net are actually physical and spiritual manifestations of these underlying wealth of Kino Tiger recovered as he connects the three forms of tumor to these three negative factors she connects with Sarah to jealousy to connect deserve to tell them the next only nice to cover so let's see the association the connection of met Sarah to jealousy is a fairly straightforward when you know that so yes it is a physical manifestation of a skin disease but it's not a contagious disease it is not a medical condition although it manifests itself in the skin that it is a longing so to speak from the Commish broken that there are various that need to be corrected and the primary Rivera village so a scaling the time of the base Armitage was of course the sin of Lashon Hara solo comes from Nate's eval he brings out bad about people now if we understand that so less is a punishment and an atonement for Russian Iraq well then go further and understands that the needs of Russian Iraq is Arthur jealousy the designer we have to disparage other people the dish muck that we get by telling people down exactly because we have a sense of jealousy I see somebody was successful smarter than me richer than me more successful in life you know I feel uncomfortable why you see up there and I'm down here now there are two things I could do either try to raise myself to their limit I have to try to pull him down to my level well gravity is an easier forced to work with and therefore mission higher is the idea of I want to tear somebody down because I am envious I am jealous of their accomplishments so therefore spiritually so that corresponds to jealousy he is connected to Jameson because jealousy is all through the root of Russia ha so jealousy is treated as something totally destructive totally negative and therefore the myth so yeah that represents jealousy is expelled not only from nothing and Shekinah and knocking Olivia but there's even an explosion from nothing in Israel because jealousy is simply an unproductive and their destructive emotion that has no place maybe that should emit well in the Jewish society it's hard to get rid of we all have it but there's nothing good about it now you may ask me a question how can I say there's nothing weird about jealousy is there not a feeling very much myself that says jealousy mate older students increases wisdom can ask Sophie Nagahama because your real name is I don't know anymore etc isn't that positive but the answer is there are two forms of jealousy and jealousy that says they're achieving so I also want to achieve that can be a motivator the sense of highest motivation but that can be a motivator competition within limits can be an appropriate motivator but a jealousy that says not that I want to succeed but I want you to fail I'm going to tear you down that has no legitimate place again we have it I'm not suggesting that it's easier to get rid of even in your oculus ways you'll often find if you have a group of people and they decide to go on a diet or a win-win but as I was going to daddy this happens especially in a minute and then is succeeding by a power the it often finds in said a race the other members will try to undermine the achievement they'll say oh used to be such a friendly push and if anyone on that diet and I like you you're healthy or whatever it is and there's only psychological dynamic in which if somebody is succeeding and as you know this really loves company meaning if you're all failing ok there are other people fail give us the tiger it makes us feel okay but if somebody is succeeding they're the kind of threat so the connection between Russian hara and jealousy there's a fairly strong connection you may not explain every case of what Nora but it does explain to kill down ideas our politicians unfortunately we like to tear down even at the Dovan oh you know if you really need this person you're not to tell you something about him and the like and since jealousy that manifests itself by destroying is total evil it gets banished from all stages of Jewish life Shekinah Naevia Israel now we then come to the second category of the tuna this is the tuna I've observed the exact does not mean a simulation as long as I said the thought means a man that essentially has no gonorrhea he has a puss discharges of person infected paths that are connected to gonorrhea without the connection of a sexually transmitted disease to Tyga is a fairly clear connection an abundance of Tyre can you get a person precisely those diseases if you have an interesting anomaly our relationship to jealousy in our relationship to physical pleasure is not the same in fact I relationship the physical pleasure is much more complicated than our relationship to jealousy these are the jealousy as hard as it is to overcome jealousy and of course it's very difficult but at least in theory I can say jealousy no good when it comes to physical pleasure I can't really say that member and a certain amount of physical pleasure is necessary to do if you have to eat but that's why they say food addictions are the hardest addictions to break because you cannot go cold turkey on a food addiction yeah I can stop smoking I could stop drugs or to stop alcohol I can't stop eating I have to eat so remember on my definition some physical pleasure was necessary but memory isn't necessary it's even desirable the Talmud you saw me actions 120 years God is going to call us to account for every pleasure in this world we could have had that would be permitted they didn't have because I shouldn't create with a real field of pleasures because he wants us to enjoy life whether it's color whether it's music whether it's taste because that enhances our leather pleasure my gratitude to Russia it's validates as it were the fact that I showed of certified that this wave can be a good world that's in Australia but it can be a good world and that's what you feel about her shoes to say even if the Germany maybe apps where the Swiss the newest residents that God is going to ask every person did you see the apps and Navi at them I put them there for your pleasure and astonishment and enjoyment so unlike jealousy which I can enable as totally bad I can't play that either as totally bad part of it is necessary and part of it is beneficial to enhance your spiritual appreciation of the enemy there's a very familiar if there whether the deliverer knows that he often went and talked about when you pick up a fruit an apple a banana you go through a hole and meditation about color and text I can't really do it justice but just to appreciate the bearing and the kindness of God in giving in light of these different things my dad could have made feared to be mesh they're giving the nutrition when I created taste and color and smell there's a pleasure enhancing things so they reminisce to the idea the tithe welcome in life is a family deserve days admission in Massillon is from nothingness roads will be plain ordinary Jewish life in ordinary Jewish life some connection to tell you the some connection to that IVA has a Malcolm as a place has a legitimacy Judaism friends on excessive asceticism the measure is a sinner because he was the quality of this version anything he is depriving himself of a legitimate pleasure that here's the thing as you grow in your status as evolution as you graduate from ordinary life to assume the status of the Navy that is the totem servant of dad and come running in there actually with Hashem is in a spiritual that one knows it and it's the the geographic areas are symbolic of spiritual levels of ascendancy then your connection to the material area becomes less importance not because it's a self conscious realization but simply because the same way a child I said there's other steps playing with certain toys automatically so the physical aspects of the world have less interest to me because I'm more connected to a higher level now this is an important distinction this is not the distinction that says oh I would love to have that cake when I'm gonna flush myself not to have it this is simply a natural no longer than interested indicator because you're so connected to higher spiritual ideas so as a result therefore Reserve gains admission international Israel but there may be in the shekinah you know that automatically turns away now we then come to the tummy net now they tell me metrics of excels is connected to covered now this is not not such an obvious Association but who says the family and I show original planet my German father we're supposed to live forever death came into the world as a result of the fate of the way to death but how did the nut flesh entice harder to reach from the exodus push the advance between at the Napa etc so upsetting since now that the key entrapment where's their own domicile fundamental the day that you each fitted a tree plant a fruit for how you said can you Kim they would be about that knowing good and evil now however you understand this very difficult passage the inside else is being marketed as a bad pill that this fruit and we will have knowledge of the divine that is an appeal to the later an ego trip they will be God and what's other challenge therefore death came into the world as a consequence of rounds ago that was seeking to become everywhere godlike well in reality we are godlike in many ways first we are made in the image of God what does it mean to be made in an image of God God does not have a physical image but it means have the attributes of God we have autonomy we are three where we have intelligence we have abstraction we have the ability to control nature we can create life or they're not from nothing and we can destroy life we have tremendous power but with that power comes the risk of elitism and libris and therefore God put death into the world not so much as a punishment there was an ultimate reminder that as godly and as godly like as we are there is an invisible chasm I mean bridge a big gap between create or and created that is manifest in immortality so it turns out that death and the impurity of death is connected with ego and a diver and arrogance that is why very literally that terrifies us from death is the ritual connected with the ashes of Pyla edema now without getting into all of the details of parodying obviously that itself is a mystery but to stress ms rents that's the concept of ashes in the symbol of humility and submission meaning to say if death comes into the world because of arrogance and vigor I become liberated for the impurity of death by connecting to ashes and melody as you know the greatness of the Phoenix spirit which is the bird that is banking to ashes and which rises from the ashes in truth azam have a very similar dish for some reason the program is less known know the Greek mythology but the concept of life in generated finances is a very very profound idea remember that this does not have to be literal it's conveying an idea one idea might pertain to the Jewish people as a whole but no matter how much will be destroyed out of the ashes will come life and that's certainly an appropriate message for this period of year that in an individualistic spiritual sense it's making a different point and that is it is by the process of ability nigo they were actually achieve nice as long as I'm filled with elitism and over I'm not really living because I'm watching the divine light from entering me when I obliterate my ego I've made room for dad in my art and therefore out of the ashes comes life death comes into the world because of arrogance and Garvie will become liberated from death by humility and submission but now here's the web we note that the tumbling race is fairly lenient the tumbling mace is expelled from the China from the niklesh the Temple Mount but is allowed in knocking Olivia and if you certainly allowing nothing in this room why is that so so here is the interesting subtlety Unwin hands have out in though gather arrogance evil another hand there are aspects of it that are absolutely necessary because if a person truly regarded themselves as nothing if I regarded myself as just ashes we could say that achieves of liberation of the self in a sense that would destroy this connection with God because a person had been conclude rather magnets this matter that is my life matter whether such don't care if I'm Davin and they're in a discussing in a sense in order to serve God you have to have a sense that you matter that you make a difference but your life is significant but you can't you have to be a person there is a sense of covert not arrogance visibly other people in a sense of significance of gravitas of readiness so how about which terminus represents it is not only necessary in all the area Jewish life which is not gonna Israel but covered is a very necessary for the wavy that has graduated to a later session because the other nation has to feel that what they do makes a difference whether intimate meaning used to say that the person who is not aware of his France is a stupid person a foolish person I think I'm perfect I'm just a fool and a person who is not aware of their greatness is a tragic person because they may never become the person that they were capable of becoming and that's a very very sad tragedy you know janeshia died in 1955 so at the very end when a black lab Nestle the families resisted was the mestizos part of it you'd said you had come for millions and there is a boy at the medallion that was sobbing and their destiny never to the boy and said why are you crying over the lab the drain and it said it that's buried here pointing to the grave the one pointer to why don't you cry and we've evolved the gun and it's a dick that's belly because there are the garment that subject it's buried in the ground became the law of the gun and it's attic then he was supposed to become the one about all of us who don't become so therefore pay is actually what subject says the terminus represents covered the covered is necessary in the ordinary life and it's necessary in spirit the only thing is when you finally reach a level of total unity with that whatever that means a certain objectives then you can throw away all of the artificial pushes that you needed to get you there it's like a rocket a rocket needs a very strong to jet propulsion to get out of the Earth's orbit and once it's in space you can let their event about the patient because without gravity then keep on going whatever whatever it would be so therefore up Cedric says the three forms of tuna represent three negative factors but the three negative factors themselves have a different type of balance and intensity jealousy totally bent Tiger legitimate in ordinary life but spiritually we should graduate away from it event you know non oregon's way we actually needed not only an ordinary life but even in spiritual life until they reach a state of total to Vegas with no longer matters and that is reflected in the myths area deserves and the terminus and now they are expect from the difference different can see it's a very really beautiful because it takes a technical how about the construct and it shows us the spirit real behind him a be as it may be are approaching that the native else that's interesting as I'll describe the universe they should miss miss eyes attended sometime the length of half comes where they do surgery and conversely it says machine business out there when the length of out there comes no bimba Simpa will increase our joy love shrug and makes an interesting observation you never shut offs and crate entirely when ass comes reduce the simpler when other comes increase the simpler that simply never goes away everything else they're simpler because we have a really have be talkin that there's gonna be redemption there's going to be there's gotta be my chef there's gotta be a base of McNish they're very very wealthy of simple effect this is reflected with the interesting paradox and then the ninth of out itself we don't recite Tuckerman because it's considered to be a highly inventive disobey machetes is is going to be burned as I said earlier in fact there's an old meaning the Venetian lion I don't know how many of them do this but to load the old new Chinese last the afternoon of tisha buff eight they clean their house and they sweep the floors in preparation for the coming of Messiah and they do that Pacifica and teach above itself of filling the arena the BS BS Agora now I'm sorry maybe not this family they were my family and neither definite fortunately webos in Memphis was near a few years ago but they were legendary and they still are legendary they're continuing the practice where they have nice assault on their hospitality they have unknown we have a hundred people you know for Shabbos and whatever it is and they are in their apartment they have part of the name painted where they left by the Ellen panting which is called a they say the horrible but right next to it they have a can of paint and a paintbrush that they leave they're expressing the idea that this home is going to come that we're going to paint it and so side by side with the morning is the Amina in the BSI bill or so and then we be social to this gala the main a few Manor so thanks to the nectar this year the father too polite they're not sure [Music]