Chanukah: The Power of Action זאת חנוכה - שמיני הוא מלכות Kabbalah class by Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz

Welcome to our class on we're going to be learning another beautiful discourse of the Reb the name of the discourse is called by the Reb said this discourse of which was the night of the last day of Kana in the year 38 years ago the went on to certify and edit this discourse in honor of Zo kanuka the last day of Kaneka in the year 34 years ago so again theic discourse is based on the verse that we read on the last day of kanah where it says by on the eth day the prince of the tribe of man is the one that brought the sacrifices and it continues on to say this is the procedure the dedication of the M the altar says it's known the reasons why on Kaneka we read the sacrifices that the princes brought is because in Kana we dedicated the temple and we dedicated the altar just like the way the temple and the alter was dedicated on the first time through through the through the princesses through the naum so therefore so the eight days of Kaneka are connected to the eight days of the inauguration of the Temple and just like the eight days of the inauguration of the temple it was divided into two parts in other words you had the seven days of inauguration and then there was something special about the eth day the same thing also when it comes to the eight days of Kaneka that the eth day of Kaneka based on actually the Jewish custom it has its own name it's called zo khaka so all the eight days of Kaneka is one day two day Etc but the last day besides it being the eight day is calleda this is kanaka and you can say that's why when you read the tah on the eth day of Kaneka it's much bigger quantitatively than the seven days beforehand why because in the SE first seven days of Kaneka we only read um from the Torah about two princes of the Jewish people and on the eighth day we actually read about five princes of the Jewish people and also we read about the verse where it says this is dedication on Temple and we read the beginning of so we see that the fact that there's so much more reading three more princesses zo and the the um so you see there's something very powerful very special about the last day of Kaneka and it's explained theic discourse with the title of the AL with commentaries and footnotes of his grandson that the E day of Kaneka and was the eth day both of Kaneka and both of the inauguration of Temple is is spiritually which sphere is at the sphere of Mal and that's actually why it's called zo why CU zo the word zo is connected to what to the SPH of Mal now says it's known that when you're dealing with number eight whether it's the eight days of Kaneka the eight days of of of the inauguration of Temple but in general the number eight has this two components to it in other words on one hand you have eight it's higher than the seven days beforehand in order to get to eight you have to have seven before so you have 1 2 3 4 5 6 seven and eight is even higher and like you see for example in the word where which says o then so you have the AL which is first and the Z which is seven afterwards in other words the alive rides on top of the seven what what does that mean practically because the seven represents the seven emotions and eight represents the idea of and and and and so that's that's one idea that what that that that be is on top of the seven sweo and the other idea is that the eight is referring to Mal which is on the bottom of the seven of the seven mid so the same thing applies to the eight days of the inauguration of Temple and like it says in um these two idea these two ideas in other words when it came to the inauguration of Temple so the Eighth Day of inauguration is tired in the first seven days why because the first seven days again we talk about the inauguration of Temple was connected to the sphere of Bina and the SEC the eighth day was connected all to Which is higher so that's the higher part where of in the inauguration and the lower part is that the eighth day is Mal now how do the two go how do the two go in hand one hand you're telling me that that the the E is higher than the emotions and then and high and then you're saying that what that is Mal which is lower and and how how do the two go how did the two go together so the re explains powerfully in order to have that the energy should come down all the way down to malus and that means eight which is lower than seven it's going down into Mal has does that happen when it comes from a very very high place which is the eight which is above which is above which comes the highest sphere from K so seeming seemingly you can say so the same thing would apply in reference to KH that you have the two insights in other words that this that on the eth day it comes down into Mal and that's why it's called we just learned referring to Kan which means eight it's lower than the seven why is that because in it s it's actually even higher than the seven now but this discourse that he explains the idea of the eth day of Kaneka he brings in the beginning only the Insight that eight is malus which means the second one that it's low lower and not like they explain in the other discourses of the inauguration that they bring both components um that it's higher and it's slower even though Kaneka has both but he only brings a second one and the reason why he only brings a second one is because the main point of Kaneka is about drawing in the light down here even though Kaneka has both components it comes from the highest to lowest but the reason why he underscores and he speaks at the the Mal part because the purpose and the whole goal of Kan is what to bring the to bring The Godly energy from the highest levels and to focus on bring it down to the lowest levels so says we're going to understand this based on it's known when it comes to the to the superiority and the and the and the quality of action because we know when it comes to the action of a human being which is so to speak the lowest part of us that's connected to the sphere of malas and there there there's several several several points to it what does that mean so we're going to talk out the power of action the power of the lowest one the power of Mal because what happens when you do something you think and you talk but mean if you don't do it when when you go ahead and you do it so you elevate not only the action gets done but you actually Elevate all the powers of before because in order to do an action you think you you talk it goes through intellect and emotions and you do it but when you do it it's not just you're doing something you're actually elevating all the emotions all the intellect Etc say he gives the example with a a tool that's used to pick something up from the bottom it's called a a lever in other words so how do you pick it up you stick it all the way on the bottom and then when you pick up when you stick the thing on the bottom it elevates the whole elevates the whole thing what happens you stick it in the middle so whatever's underneath is not going to be picked up or like for example when you pick up a house in order to pick up the whole house you have to pick it up all way from the bottom and if you pick it up only for the middle so what going to happen anything under underneath there is is is not going to be elevated other words in order to pick up a totality you have to pick up all the way from the bottom and there you can say why is that because since the whole all the walls and the roof and everything in the house is part of one house so what happens is if you leave anything o other than the anything lower than the lowest level if you don't pick it up so even the parts that you're picking up is not complete cuz it's not a complete house a complete house is from the roof and the walls Etc and the bottom the foundation so you pick everything up but the foundation it's not a house that's why you have to pick up the bottom part so the same thing also in in our Parable when it comes to the the different powers that we have that all the all all all all the all the powers that we have intellect emotions action thoughts spe Etc they all Impact one the other and means in order to elevate the higher gifts that we have intellect emotion and you want to be complete the way to do it is you have to pick it up from the bottom you have to do the action you have to do the Mitzvah and that's one component another component when a person does the action so then the elevation of the higher Powers it goes even to a higher level and like gra gives an example if you have a scale and when you on one side you put a weight the other side you put the item so as um any anything that you put on the weight when it goes down low what happens is it picks the other thing up a much higher level like a seesaw the greater the weight the the greater it goes up so D saying two points when it comes to action number one is that in order to pick up the whole thing you have to pick it up from the bottom and through picking up to the bottom elevates everything Point number two is that when you pick it up from the bottom it even elevates the the higher Powers now so the so we see over here the power of action so re say that which is connect to idea of malus now but this that we say that how do you elevate everything you elevate specifically through action because if you elevate just the emotions you don't have everything the action is staying down and if you had a meditation and you didn't Elevate action that the motions and the actions stay down so what's the ultimate power that has the power to elevate everything specifically action and it elevates all the powers why is that if it's the lowest how can it elevate everything and der say because the truth is even though we look at it's an action it's physical but the source of action is higher than all the powers that we have the source of the power of action is higher than emotions intellect speech thought Etc and there's two components to the power and the source of the action number one is that it get that the highest power gets drawn down into action in other words that we see that even intellect and emotions come into the action so in other words a s forces and it's so higher than intellect and emotions why is that because intellect and emotions are limited and the fact is they don't have the power to go down and do an action an intellect just wants to meditate an emotion wants to be share the feelings they don't have the power to to AC accomplish anything now this that they have the power to go ahead and do something so it's not coming from the intellect from the emotion it's coming from the soul because the soul is in all all the limbs of the body all the all the all intellect and emotions Etc so in other words the the the the source of action is sourced in the soul Which is higher higher than intellect and emotions and therefore the source of the action is higher than the source of all the attributes why because this that all the the the powers intellect and emotions is closer to our soul and action is almost like a separate entity why is that because the source of all the of all the powers intellect emotions Etc is connected to the revealed part of the Soul however the source of action is actually connected to the essence of the Soul what is saying here is a very powerful idea when it comes to action a the source of action is much higher B that this all the other intellect emotions is connected to reveal part soul and that's why it looks like it's closer but the action is connecting to the essence of the Soul now just like in our powers that we have intellect emotions and action so the source of action is higher than all the source of all the intellect emotions thought speech Etc the same thing also when it comes to serving Hashem re where is the real quality in action yes you're supposed to learn and you're supposed to meditate and you're supposed to pray supposed to have love hasm Etc but where does it all count when you do the Mitzvah when you go ahead and do it you got the job done in other words so we say one second we all know that talmud is greater than action no because the fact is this that we saying that tal is greater it's only now but when Mah comes when we when all the the the uh uh part of concealment is going to go away we're going to see that actions really greater and even now that we say that talmud is greater what's the reason why tal is greater because talud studying tal will bring you to do the action so therefore if tal is greater because it brings you to action what's really greater the action is greater now this Messiah comes in the future that the action is going be greater because when it comes to action over studying ATM it's greater in in two two levels just like we learned before that just like the the power of of action is greater than the higher Powers the same thing applies in action over learning T Etc why because this that action has the power to awaken and draw down the infinite part Which is higher than being enclosed in intellect in other words and that's why it has the power to bring it down to the lowest level it's connected to the highest never can bring it to the lowest and also because the action reaches I'll say in Hebrew in in the concealed part of the essence of hem which is even higher than infinite so there's something which is called infinite and but then there's the essence and and action reaches that level and every you can say that the quality of action today CU even though even today action is more powerful as we know that talud brings it to action why is that because the action that we do today we have the power to bring in the infinite oal which is basically the highest level of revelation in this world it looks like talman's greater but the fact is action is much greater why because it connects you to the infinite part and and that's why it says that Talman is greater because it brings you to do the action because this power of action that it draws in the infinite is included in the fact that talud gets you to do the action because this talud causes you to do the action and means that it comes down into the lowest level that's the real power of talmud that within the talud you have the power that motivates you to do the action which means it'll bring down the infinite light and therefore it comes down to the lowest level so that's today however msia comes and we say that Mya action is greater and and and you don't need T what to push it that's the quality of action in itself cuz action will take you to the essence of God which is above any Revelation say it's known that in on the holiday of Kaneka after we had unfortunately the the intensity of the darkness of the Greeks where they defile the temple so what happened was after we went back in and we rededicated the temple we were able to draw in a much greater Godly energy greater than the temple had beforehand so you had one type let's say it's great energy in the temple before the Greeks came in and destroyed it then you had the tremendous darkness and then afterwards when rededicated came in a much greater light and compared to the light that was beforehand unfortunately because yeah it was great but it wasn't that strong and that's why unfortunately the Greeks were able to come and defile it however with the the the energy was drawn when we won the miracle of Kaneka comes from a place of yut Which is higher than all the levels and this powerful light can even bring light into the darkness like it says with the we add extra not but with the letter is going to bring tremendous light into the darkness what does that mean not just it's going to be light into the darkness that literally darkness is going to be light just like when Messiah comes today we see light and we see darkness and we need more light to overpower the darkness when mhia comes the darkness will be the light So based on this say he' like to explain the difference between the eth day of Kaneka and the eth day of the inauguration of the temple in other words this at the Eighth Day of the inauguration of Temple which we said is is is is the eighth day which is connected to the sphere of Mal which means it's the eight which is lower than seven the seven mid you have the underneath in other words so this that brings in and so it has the power on the E to bring ination a higher level into malas but it comes to eth day of Kaneka it what does it mean and which connect to malas which means through the drawing in the energy of Kaneka malus itself gets elevated so now is by the inauguration of Temple yes malas the lowest when you bring in a high energy into malas but unfortunately that that level could still be defiled as we see the Greeks came in after Kan The Eighth Day Mal itself gives off light and that's why theic discourses that they speak about the the the the eight days of the inauguration of Temple they bring both insights of eight in other words one on one hand it's higher than seven but it comes down into lower than seven however when it comes to the discourse that explain about Kana they only bring the part of eight which is lower than seven lower than seven why because this that the higher level comes in on a lower level that's because it's coming from a high higher place which is the eight which is above seven however the power that you're able to um transform and refine the lowest level which means the eighth day of kanuka that doesn't come from drawing from a higher level that comes from the cons from the essence the concealment itself Which is higher than any type of Revelation just like when it's be like mashia comes and that's why what we underscore on the 8th day of Kaneka is not so much the higher part because we're not looking to bring in a higher we're looking to reveal the essential connection and that's why it's called referring to the itself that itself is going to give off light just like mashia comes which means that the lowest level is going to be refined on its own now this that we said when Messiah comes that action is going to be greater so that that's that's revealed like like everything in it specifically in our generation we have this power F idea that Mia comes that the that the darkness self is going to give light and the reason that they revealed this powerful insight to us even though right now we know that tal is greater why is that because all the revelations going to happen Mia comes is dependent on our actions now and this where msia comes actions going to be greater it's by doing by us making an effort to do actions in this world and therefore in our generation the generation that we standing on the heels right before messiah's coming and we're going to have the revelation of the future where actions being greater it's to inspire us that we should put a greater effort into action and that will give us the the the the the the gift of mashia will have the real actions be be revealed now since mashia we said God all the actions much greater so therefore everything of the future Redemption and how much more so the Redemption itself we have to focus on action and as long as we do not have the Redemption yet we have to we're missing the main part we want the physical Redemption we want the action and brings a powerful story of the the third and the reash that when the said in reference to there was a uh there was a there was a talk that you know what Mia's coming when in the year so so he said didn't come so told so he says no no it came through the fact that in that year powerful teachings of the altar was revealed oh that that's so to speak a Mah so told the the I'll say inish and I'll translate it's very nice look at the you study you meditate and you connect to the deepest levels we want Messiah literally physically Messiah and said you could say that this that theed said that what does it mean mashia is here what does itan we have the revelations CU was printed what was he trying to say the fact is he want mashia and he was explaining what explains is because through the fact that you have your that you spread the well strings of all over the world and that causes like the said that caused mhia to come and since the internal part of T which is the Wellspring of is high in limitation of time so therefore It's s understood when you have the spreading of all over the world like we're doing right now right here with learning on YouTube on Spotify and apple play all over the world and that is the cause which will bring mhia to coming so you have automatically the byproduct that the Mia's here what causes M so if you do if you if you teach you learn that's GNA bring know and and since with dealing with a power which is infinite because when you're dealing with things are limited in time so you have a cause and effect so you have this comes first this comes afterwards um that the effect comes after the cause however when it comes that um when it comes to cause and effect it could be many levels of cause and effect in other words it could the the the the cause can happen the effect can happen up to the point Come very quickly or it can happen literally right right here right now however so there's different levels in time cause and effect whether it's um quickly right now lit literally right right here right right here right now but when you're dealing with things which are above time so there's no there's no gap between the cause and effect and when you have the cause which will bring mhia so you automatically have right away the coming of Messiah so this idea which is the cause which is spreading and the effect of messia coming and it's above time and you have the completion of spreading mysticism and obviously the effect of Messiah coming with the goal is it should come down in time and in space and it to come down in action literally this world like literally on the ground and a literal level that through the fact that we do our work and our spiritual work and spreading all over the world in the real way that's going to cause Messiah to come in a real way now but since we have to wait for messiah to comeing besides the fact that we have to believe in Messiah we also have to wait this believing okay believe mhia is coming we have to literally wait for him and that's not a philosophy it's a Jewish law that we have to believe we also have to wait for him and and we know when you're dealing with Jewish law it means you have to do it literally and in in action so therefore D say with the with the agreement of the whole Community we we should say is we saying we Mia now we want Mia now and should happen very quickly in our days and in a literal way so here we have another beautiful discourse in Reb on the holiday of more specifically the power of malus as we see mhia comes that malus itself the world itself will be transformed to Godliness and the way we the most important part said was way we make it happen is by learning and spreading and let's hope and pray this will be the last discourse we'll be learning in G the next class will bees have a great and blessed week and happy Kaneka