Change your Thoughts & Change your World to be Great. A Kabbalah class by Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz

welcome to our class honks - this today we are going to be learning a very special Hasidic discourse the Rebbe said this Civic discourse on Shabbos Pontius lock on Kafka Steve on the 28th day of the month of Sivan which was also Shabbos that blesses a month of commas in the year Tufts in LA made love 46 years ago through every then 12 years later and Tufts in men has certified and edited a specific discourse and in three years later in tough she known Alice 29 years ago there are be actually handed this civic discourse when a booklet would have other considered discourses and a history of Kafka's ivona to thousands of Siddim together than dollar for charity so you can tell this so that this course is a very very powerful and meaningful civic discourse by the remedy that he certified and edited and he gave it out to all the students so we're gonna be learning this discourse the discourse is based on a verse in the opening of the after for the Shabbos where the tourist begins and it says by yesh lach Yeshua that Joshua sent spies her land of Israel now the Torah portion is partial Slav a reference to what the spies that moisture are being sent to the Land of Israel so the alter rebbe and the quitting Torah he asks a very very simple question two questions that you see there's two major differences between the spies that moisture urbane who said in the Torah portion and the spies that Joshua sent which is in the after what is the difference so first of all in the Torah when moisture Boehner sends the spy so our Shem says schlock Lacock send to you what I mean sent to you so the commentary says schläfli means I really I'm not commanding you to send these spies I'm not against if I'm not for it look how you want it lad I know you want to send this boys so despise that moisture being a center some wasn't against but ocean didn't command us and his boys however when it came to Joshua Shem command the Joshua send the spies so altima asked a simple question why is it when it came to the spies of moisture of a new her son didn't command versus you he was okay with it as long as money she wanted to do it and the versus the spies of Joshua where her son commanded Joshua to send spies to scout out the Land of Israel the second question is that you see that when they did send the spies moisture Boehner spies scattered out the whole Land of Israel versus Joshua only went to Jericho and from Jericho they were able to see the Land of Israel but they did not walk the whole land just like Moshe later spies and the question is what's the difference what's the world winning what's the question what's the difference since they were both trying to accomplish the same thing scan at the Land of Israel so why in one case was it a command but it was limited to Eureka and the other Keysha ratio Boehner was not a command but it was when to the whole Land of Israel so the outer explains that the idea of scouting out the Land of Israel there was the physical as this story tells us in the Bible and in the prophets but then there's a spiritual scouting out the Land of Israel which means that we all have a body and we all have an animal soul in Ephesus Bahamas and we have an obligation to scout out our body to scatter an animal soul and to make sure that our animal soul just like our godly soul is dedicated to Hashem now how do you go about doing it so that's we take a special pair of glasses we'll see that but just like moisture of a new scent spies and it's unique differences and Joshua has to do when it guides us how we should scatter our animal soul and our body so that it could be a real area too strong a whole body and a whole animal soul could be every soul which means we're ready to serve our Sam and doing the will of Hashem so what is the difference between you really spiritually and what is the difference between the whole line of Israel spiritually so the author explains as follows you really comes from the word of rail fragrance it's not the thing itself it's a fragrance in other words so the optimist says what does you rely spiritually you realize spiritually is like a garment a garment you put on and you take off it's not you it's not your body it's not your intellect which is with a new part of you or your emotions which is part of you it's like a garment you put it on you take it off what is the spiritual garments of every single one of us are thought why is thought a garment because thought you're thinking it's not you you can you can think about you you're constantly thinking that's correct but you can change your thoughts and you can think about things that you don't believe in or you do believe in it's thoughts it's it's not necessarily who you are speech again you can talk things which you agree you disagree you can read things and don't make sense to you because speech is not you it's a garment the same thing with action you can do things you believe in you can do things you don't believe in why cuz again it's a garment so the garments of the soul is much Chava Debora my soul and that's represented by yury clay on the other hand what is the whole of a Land of Israel so we know in the Land of Israel when they went to conquered land of Israel there were seven nations they have to get rid of what is the seven nations we all known Kabbalah this ten spirit is three intellect is seven emotions so the seven nations resembles our emotions so the spiritual job of scouting out the line of Israel and scouting out the seven nations with moisture of a new scent the spices to check out all the seven nations the whole land is to transform all our emotions that all their emotions from our animal soul and from our physical body should be dedicated to Hashem so therefore based on the stouter explains when it comes to the avoider the service of you really are much of a deeper am i saw so veneer what do we see that Joshua was command commanded every single were commanded by God to send the spies which means that we're commanded that we have to take full control of our thoughts speech in action and we know if our seven give us a because this is expression he will ain't him a vodka shall live equation Hashem is not gonna ask you to do something you can do so they're fresh I'm commands us you refine conquer you read Chloe you have to scout it you rehire you we have the power to take full control of our thoughts speech in action what does that mean practically let's say you're not in a great mood and you're not in a good place you can still think you can still think good thoughts you can still think happy thoughts even though you're not in a happy place obviously you can do it the other way as well but we're trying to want focus on the positive that means you can think about a sermon you can be grateful to a shine even if you don't feel awesome right now is there for you right now you're going through a tough time you don't feel like a sham is there for you you don't think has some relates to you but your mock shava you could at any moment think about a shell positive things even if you're not holding there emotionally and intellectually mashallah you can do it speech let's see you not in the mood to speaking nice you can still speak nice let's see somebody you don't like and you had you want to say something negative you can still be positive you can still say nice things to the person about the person why because it's a garment MYSA action the same thing also you can still good good things you're in the mood you're not in the mood and that's why doctor who says that Joshua commanded that yes you should go to you really everybody has to go and engage their thoughts speech and action and everyone could engage their thoughts speech in action so that's what you really that's what much of a deeper my son however when it comes to your me toys your emotions Hashem cannot command us feel great always sometimes you don't feel great sometimes you just not in a good mood session can't command you and that's why he did not command us to check out the whole Land of Israel however moisture obey no nevertheless did completely inspire us in command the die talked mushroom did tell us to go to land amid Israel why because when you have moisture it's very easy to transform your emotions even though you're not in a good mood why is that so that's from our shrimp as a command to feel great you just don't feel it so there are some that in command but moisture obey no could command why and Derby explains very very very beautifully nice is like this there's a big difference between a feeling when it comes to something physical if you see something physical if you have something physical physical things you can love it you can hate there's something to touch I love it I don't like it I'm afraid of it take for example you see something that you were like ah you love it let's say Godfrey you see something you're afraid of you're afraid could you control it not necessarily it's hard to however we know moisture obey know what is moisture mean he's the leader of the Jewish people what is the moisture vino teach us and inspire us to activate which sphere are the Serie of das das we don't in intellect as hokhmah bina and das wisdom intellect understanding dance is the ability to meditate and when you meditate you can take something which is not tangible and you can bring it into real life that's the power of meditation that's the power of das so moisture obey know as a real leader helps us and inspires us to meditate to use our dots and through our dots we can connect to our sin and we through our dance we can connect to our Sun we can create real love for us in real or for our sin you want to become in love with our son you want to come in love with the Torah and mitzvot voice you have to learn from maestro of a new to activate your dance meditate about the greatness of a cinema that's when we pray we talk about all the great things about us and to activate our dust and - to be real and when the dance is real then you can be on fire and then you can actually change an emotion so but to command someone to do it it's not a command you can't so either I love where I hate I have it I don't have it Moisture being to constrain us he constrain us that even there's something which is called in Kabul at every showing our first nature and it's something that is called to have a Saini which means sometimes your natural instinct is not to have a love version or maybe not to have or for our sin okay so our son can't command you love us in being over sin and that's why he did not instruct them and the spies to go through the whole Land of Israel reference their emotions moisture Bane as a trainer moisture beta trains us to have emotions how to use heard us so if you connect to a moisture mania of your generation of the river through learning siddhis you'll learn how to use your das and that will fuel love we don't necessarily have it in an active way or all for our self you don't have it there and that's why moisture obey who inspired us and trained us yes we have to use our gas so that we can transform myself and have true love Russia now that's from the altar of Allah so now there ever comes along nervous says one second what are we saying when it comes to thought speech and action are some commands us yet you gotta get take control your thoughts speech in action and you can do it so therefore he commands you when it comes to it more emotions some doesn't command you because you can do it fine might remain who inspires you to do it but the fact is it says in the Torah to go ahead and go check out the whole Land of Israel and got some commands us to conquer the Land of Israel which means that we can conquer our motions how can you conquer the emotions how can we do it so the altar to the river brings from from from Tonya with the outer explains we all look as we learnt on you already marks from in our class but we're gonna do a refresher course the altar explains in tonya there's two personalities there's something which is called it's Sadiq and there's something which is called the Boehner knee what's the difference between the SAVAK and the Boehner knee so the sound ik basically somebody that is in full control of his intellect and his emotions and his intellect and his emotion is totally dedicated to him that means his only desire he wants is to be with us and the only love he has is for our sin anything that's not a sham doesn't even register does not register the only thing that registered is love for our sin or for our sin that's what sounding a baning on the other hand he has other desires that pop up he has other inclinations that pop off however a Beynon e'en which is different than a Rasha Rasha unfortunately we'll jump ahead a roaster unfortunately acts on those impulses and never unfortunately does things he shouldn't be doing says things he shouldn't be doing things things he shouldn't be with thinking obsesses on it that's the world of a difference here at Sonic and a Russia at Sonic basically anything it's not a sham doesn't register doling their registers is assemble a Russia on the other hand has impulses but acts on it so what's the Boehner need the baton is somewhat unfortunate does have impulses where he's human he has an impulse for not necessary to listen to a sham not necessarily always to be in love with a sham not always do the right thing but the difference there Beynon he is as follows a Beynon 'i will take full control of his thought speech and action meaning to say is he has an impulse to do something not right the impulse he has but will he do that no he has an impulse to say something inappropriate nasty will he do it no he has the impulse he's not exotic he does have the impulses but in the other hand is not a Russia he doesn't say it the same thing also distort he takes full control of his thought mean to say is he has an impulse he's not gonna press on it you thought it's harder because you thought is always working but I'll switch a sport right away to something else the minute he starts thinking about something negative he'll ride away switch to something positive that's why this is a side note it's important always to to learn Torah it's an awesome Tory by heart why because you get a bad bad thought what are you replacing with you need something to replace to it but if you know Torah by hard you can really start reading open your mind the submission of some Talmud some Kabbalah some mysticism etc now so 8 Tania says a Beynon II at any moment could take full control of his life in we're in three areas mashallah deburr and my son at Saavik on the other hand not only much trouble you might say his whole emotions is totally dedicated to him now could so what could every person be atomic no not every person could have full control over his emotions that is very very hard it's a lifelong challenge King David a whole life try to get there eventually then it was life he got there but it's not something we can do now so even though you might say that abating yet can be fine I'm gonna take on a commitment I'm gonna make sure that my actions my speech my thoughts I could take it on and I will take it on it will succeed 100% as you see there's a commandment you really conquer you really make sure you have full control you thought speech and actions everyone can be amazing but could everyone be at Sadiq No so even though everyone can be at Sonic but what does time you say Danya says that before a person is born it's brought down the Talmud that every single person is given off guess what two heats addict you should be at Sadiq what I mean how could you be at Sonic either I'm gonna have the impulse I won't so if I'm gonna have the impulse how you tell me to be at Sonic nevertheless before you're born what is it what is it what are you what offers administered to you you should be it sounding but I can't be it Sonic and the answer is the oath is given to you you should strive to be it Sonic by mush of a deeper micelle Urbania you can snellie strive you could be and you will be why because your thoughts speech and actually you can control when it comes to being at Sonic no one's guarantee you're going to be at Sonic always but you have to strive to be exotic that means you have to work on yourself you have to work on your emotions and again maybe it won't be the first impulse but you can maybe control the second impulse or the third but two teats and Iggy could be atomic you could work on yourself it's not that because you can't be it's not thinking said I'm not even gonna try the command is heat sonic try try somehow you'll succeed whatever percentages but we have a command to be taught to beat Sonic and that's why if you give a look in the territorial sense very very clearly there's a command to eradicate the seven nations from the Land of Israel on a physical level on a spiritual level means that we have been commanded by a Shem to conquer our land we have within our power to get rid of anything that's what's within us how do we do it again to eat sonic so the heat Sonic means it's very very simple there's two components one is sir Mira and the other one is hace toys what does that mean in order to be at Sabich you have to work in two areas and again it's work it's constant work one is I'll use the language of Tania you have to be learn to be Moya sporadic you have to create in yourself a mindset and a feeling that if it's wrong if it's evil it's disgusting and that's something you have to consciously work on yourself because the more you come to a realization intellectually and emotionally that RIE is something which is disgusting wrong you want something disgusting the problem is you might you don't think it's aren't I'm disgusting you think there's a certain good goodness to it and that's what the evil inclination that's what the age of horror tries to tell you look how good it is it's like for example telling someone to take eat a candy look how sweet it is ah the Candy's gonna cause you to hurt your teeth and eventually have to go to the dentist so you're gonna ruin your teeth but why you take the candy because you thought it's gonna break your teeth you thought it's gonna cause you pain later when you have to go to dentist no you took the candy because right now it's sweet the same thing also when it comes to a sin the reason why people unfortunately said that because they think later how disgusting it is at this moment a taste sweet so when we train ourselves that the minute it's a sin it's disgusting who wants it so the first I void of to eat sonic there boy that's work is to constantly meditate use our dance to realize that if it's a sin if it's going against Hashem guess what it's disgusting you have to be more useful rod and you have to train yourself so the heat sonic means you have to train yourself in ways for up that's one part the second part is you have to train yourself to love Hashem truthfully and the more person trains themselves to love us them so a you're gonna have rah anything which is not a chef is disgusting and be a sham you're gonna love him that's the way you're gonna come on Sonic now is it are you gonna become automatically it sounded are you gonna stay that way no it's a vulgar it's work in other words we have constantly an avoider to do two things one is you really mark shava deeper mine so that's not negotiable I have full control and it's very easy for me that even though I don't feel a certain way myself I'm gonna think the right way I'm gonna speak the right way I'm gonna do everything I have to the right way life is gonna be great thought speech and action and my garments but then I also have to eats a big I have to train myself that anything that's right it's a scarce thing it's not it's not it's not for me I don't want it I don't deal with disgusting things and the same thing also I want to have I want to have a lot for our show so therefore even though could every person be atomic no but could every person work on being Sonic 100% so therefore like this when it comes to the command to go to check out Yuri Hawaii Hashem commanded us every single one of us have a commandment that means we are commanded and we have the ability to go ahead and conquer you really to make sure our thoughts speech our action are aligned when it comes to taking over the whole line of Israel there are emotion should always be clicking exactly what are some ones and not God forbid to have a negative impulses um can't command a step because that's not realistic but on the other hand through moisture obey no we can be inspired to work on re-mose are our emotions their emotion should be not necessary may be the first nature but second nature we should want to be at Sonic we should not agree that we should have any involvement any negative anything which is abhorrent to God and we should only want to have love for our son and that's the void of teach Sonic it's not a guarantee you're gonna be successful but it's a guarantee that you can try and it's a grantee that you can train yourself and as you try and as you train yourself you will eventually hopefully in one day we all hope to beat tsadikim to be righteous people we're avoiding him that's not the desire to begin with maybe not everything in certain things it's a work in progress now so now there ever is going to explain why is it why is it that it's really so much easier to control our thoughts speech in action our garments and it's not as easy to control our emotions itself and derbe explains as follows because the fact is that when it comes to thought speech and action it's a it's a garment what does that mean very very simple take for example we wear clothing why do we wear clothing we wear clothing for one or two reasons one is for modesty so you have to wear clothing to be modest another reason why you wear clothing if it's cold for its hats you need the right clothing to protect you from the elements now the fact is the clothing you're wearing you know you don't live in the clothing there's times you take them off this time as you put them on this Hani's away this garment there's times where the other garment and so on and so forth garments it's not you so because it's not you it's very easy to take them off put them on and to switch so the same thing I'll just like with physical clothing it's easy the same thing also spiritual clothing thought is not really you you're thinking about certain things yeah your thoughts are constantly working but you can change I can easily switch from one minutes from the way from one seconds the other I can switch around thinking about speech I can say things which I don't agree with I do agree with and the same thing also with action however when it comes to our intellect and our emotions that's already part of our soul in other words when we have certain natural tendencies to things that we like or things that we don't like or certain ways of thinking it's very hard to change that why because it's it's more connected to our soul so when it comes to Levu shim garments much sovereignty by myself it's much easier much easier to change however when it comes to intellect and emotion so we exploit we naturally react it's much harder again it's true to make a disclaimer even though it's harder remember we said before you still have to work on it so much over deeper mics because it's easier to change the first gem says guess what you have an obligation to make sure you're much others align your deepers in law and you're my centerline make sure those thoughts are good positive upbeat happy inspiring you're motivated enthusiastic about life your speech is kind generous gentle all the beautiful stuff about life action only great actions positive actions fine I get it you your impulses are not necessarily with the way they should be but guess what you can even train yourself if it's not one that's good you shouldn't you shouldn't he's trying not to to act to bring it upon yourself if you do to get rid of it right away you should train yourself to have more love for our son that's the avoid oh now so that is why it's easier to work on your garments verses on the actual emotions itself it's much harder but here there says a step further not only is our garments macabre Debora MYSA something easy to change but the truth is it's actually more important it's more important than your emotions in other words what we say what we what we dis explain our thoughts our action the reason why it's easy to change because it's not really you the emotions is you here that I was saying no no the truth is your thought speech and action your garments is actually more important than your emotions and and because it's more important it's more powerful that's why our son commands us to take control of our thoughts speech in action because it is actually more important why is it more important because we all know in the world of Kabbalah there's something that we see it and there's something in the source so in other words the expression is like this if you have a tall building first floor second floor hundred floors and when them in the building God for it collapses so the first floor stays more or less where it is and the highest floor goes much further away so we look at it our emotions much more powerful it's who we are garments are thought speech and action is not really with who we are but the truth is in its Irish in the source much of a deeper are my sir is much more powerful and their big is a simple example the example is something which is we can relate to obviously we can relate to it why because we could relate to it and if we're able to relate to it the light is not that strong something that's harder for us to relate to and I'll use the words of Kabbalah something which is mock if let me just mark and you can internalize it's too powerful so the same thing also because we cannot internalize thought speech and action it's a proof that's much much stronger not only that take for example where we get a practical example take us human beings we put on clothing why are you put on clothing a as you mentioned before to protect yourself own from the elements called hat you you were clothing to beautify yourself people were calling to look beautiful and we all know that the Talmud says ovulation and a famous rabbi in the Talmud said he caught you already called his garments he didn't called garments he said these are art they honor me why because garments actually honor you take for example when a person speaks when you speak beautiful words people say ah a nice person or for example when you do certain actions that are very very nice a nice person they don't know who you are they don't know how you feel but how do people judge you they judge you based on your actions how do people judge you based on your speech they'll judge you based on your thoughts and you share it with them obviously they need to know what you're thinking so this just like garments physically make us more beautiful the same thing also our love awesome are much Chava deburr oh my sir make us more beautiful not only that our son gave us a body and in the body he we gave us under Samba which is part of a center when the neshamah came down from heaven down to this why didn't come down here so it came down to elevate like for example think about when you go into business you go into business you go into business to make money or lose money you're going to make money the same thing else when summer came down to this world the reason why came down to this world is to be elevated that even in this world with all the challenges it's still when you connect touch them so becomes much stronger how does the neshamah doom its face no stronger the Smith's voice doesn't do much noise you doom its voice with what by doing actions through the garment you doom its voice by speech you do submit slicer meditation the way to doom its voice is by thought speech and action how do you learn Torah would you thought your thoughts and when your speech so your thoughts and your speech actually elevates you who it elevates the soul so knows the Rebbe is saying is not only is it easy to change your thought speech in action it's crucial this is really where the power is because the thought speech and action has the power to elevate the soul now what happens on the opposite when a person uses a thought speech and action in negative or in neutral stuff you know the thought speech and action of your animal soul you actually downgrade your animals soul the animal soul just wants to live you know live and let live don't bother me feed me give me the drink give me a house give me shelter take me on a vacation once in a while the animal Souls good but what happens when we obsess god forbid with our thoughts and our speech and our action and negative stuff in nonsense and silly stuff and anger and jealousy hate and all the other negative things it actually downgrades the animal soul this animal still is sitting there quietly just let it let me live to take care of me feed me and pay my bills life is good but when you activate your thoughts speech in action and negative stuff in mundane physical pursuits and you're just pursuing and running after negativity you actually downgrade the animals soul so you see from here that thought speech and action it's not only the fact that we can change it and therefore we should change it but it's actually more important because it actually can elevate the godly soul or actually downgrade the gut in the animal soul and when you downgrade your animal so you're actually downgrading your godly soul as well and that's why our main avoid Oh our main spiritual work in this world is two things surah marij stay away from anything negative stay away from anything evil stay away from anything which is not good and the second avoid is asset or Eve do good learn pray do mitzvahs help people be happy be positive sir mayor I'll be a Satori that's you to-do list should have two things for the day sir me Ron say we from negative stay away from evil but I'll say to even do good but where does it play out how do you survive a certain from your NEFAs from your community some are from your intellect from your emotions No it all plays out the playing field of life is in thought speech and action so if you can keep your thought your speech and your action away from negativity and good stuff you'll have a great life and now you have a great life you'll elevate the soul that you have and what does it what does it is these garments so you see that the garments are key the garments are key because you could take control of it and not only that it it's key to allow you to live a life of Serbia I'm not getting involved in anything negative and it allow you to live a life and I'll say toys and through that you elevate the animal the godly soul you elevate the animal soul and God fit you don't downgrade it so they based on this driver says that's why you really Jericho which resembles micawber and Ibrahim I saw that was the entryway into the Land of Israel because if you want to go in and have a successful land of Israel which means that you're doing or sewing out shame you're doing what a sham ones it's very simple start off with sewer main round the asset or Eve stay away from negative do positive and again with which three tools with the garments knocks over Deborah my so which 108 you can control and not only that but if you send the spies and you check out constantly you double check and you will fact check that your mother is always busy with god forbid it's not doing negative stuff it's positive your deeper your speech is only saying positive thing it's none of the junky talk and actions done on the negative action it's only positive actions you make sure that everything is connected to water you cave of Kate's and doing there are some ones when a person does that which that you have full control over through that you are full control over you'll actually be able to reach subconsciously and consciously to transform your emotions you bet which the emotions we know is the seven nations of the world and we know a messiah comes tremens gonna expand the borders and not only we take over the seven nations which represent the emotions we'll be able to expand the borders to take over another three nations and that is that represents our intellect so by literally starting off with with three baby steps and that we could all accomplish in other words sir my Rabb is a toy that's the mission that's the vision stay away from negativity do only positive we're and things that you have control over we're shrunk commanded you and gave you the strength you can do it we're much sava deborah my son thought speech in action if you take control of your life and thought speech and action that's the only part you have to be busy with proactively and that you could do proactively take full control of thought speech and action you know will happen you will not only conquer your thoughts speech in action that will be totally dedicated to him but through that it will affect your emotions and will affect your intellect and it will affect you it will elevate your godly soul and elevate your animal soul you'll be living on a whole different plane by doing things that you have control over our struggles not asking you to do things you aren't control over yes the avoid effects on day we have to work on meditation through the power of Malaysia with us to train ourselves to be moles per hour we should be a warrant of negativity negativity and something which is not with not relying with Hashem and to try to love us um absolutely we have to work on that we have to try and trying is very very important there voytovitch sonic is for us to try but avoid that we could do devoid of Albanian e is sir McGraw the athlete are you stay away from negative do good much sovereignty be myself which will not only affect your mock shove it Deborah my sir it will actually seep into your emotions it will seep into your intellect and will be able to conquer our full being every part of our being which will ultimately have ultimately happy ultimately happen Mitchell Cheryl mushiya comes the courage moments I think this is such a beautiful and important considered discuss to learn and to relearn because it's really really so easy to take control over things we could contract a control over our thoughts speech in action it should be dedicated first and we could do it there are some commands let's do it and if we could do it and once we do it will not only have full control our thoughts speech in action which will affect us do we live our life it will affect our neshama it will affect our emotions affect our intellect I'll be able to live a most amazing beautiful life again thanks so much for joining us products in this class and let's hope that we actually transform ourselves transform the world and a son reveals himself with mushy octet Kano thank you thank you