Eating as the Union of Soul and Body ואכלתם אכול ושבוע Kabbalah class by Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz

Welcome to this week's class in we're going to be learning a beautiful discourse from the Reb. The name of the discourse is called the Reb said this discourse that year was the 16th day of the second in the year 48 years ago. So again the verse theic discourse is based on the verse in the prophets where it says you're going to eat and you're going to be satiated you're going to praise God your God he did for you for tremendous wonders. Now this verse is the beginning of aidic discourse in from the alter based on the way the the the thirdb set up theic discourses to now the connection with this verse and our Torah portion and our Torah portion. So it's like the way the explains in that based on the explanation of what it says in the verse that you're going to you're going to eat well understand what it says in the med this is the sacrifice of the day he was anointed and that's what the verse says in the prophets and he told them from the person eating food came out of. So says to understand what the verse says you're going to eat and you're going to be satiated seemingly we need to have a big explanation. What's the big wonder that in the future when Msiah comes you can eat and you're going to be satiated until you say it's going to be wow this wonder you're going to eat it and you're going to be satiated a tremendous wonder but the fact is in the times of the temple we already had it and not only that it says in the Torah if you go into my statutes you follow what Hashem wants and you keep the mitzvot and you'll do them I'll give rain in its time and then you can eat your bread and you're going to be satiated. In other words, any time that you follow Hashem's commandments, you're going to have what you're going to eat, you're going to be satiated. So, what's the tremendous revolutionary idea and the tremendous wonder that then the future Msiah comes is going to be you're going to eat and you're going to be satiated and until it says the verse says it's going to be a wonder. So Reb says we'll understand this based on the explanation of the alter that he starts off an introduction he says what's the whole idea of eating why do we eat food it's to transform and elevate the sparks in the physical food to elevate it to the level of and based on this he explains this and the verses what does that mean a double expression of eating in other words that the thing already was eaten. A means it was already eaten, but you're going to eat it again. In other words, even though in in in in our in in in in in in our world that we're in, you already did a full transformation. And that's why he says, you ate it. Because what is eating? What does eating mean? Transforming. It was transformed. But in the future, you're gonna have in this thing that was already transformed, you're gonna have a second transformation. And that's why he says what was transformed in this world, you're going to eat it again. You're going to transform transform it again. And since the completion of transformation that gets transformed that in the in the this 6,000 worlds of the thousand years of the creation of the world. So we're going to have to again in the future go ahead and transform it again. So obviously it's going to be a high a higher level. It's not the same level and even to the highest level that took place in this world and in order to create the highest level you're going to have to have a second transformation. So there's one transformation that we do in this world and then once we go through the process of transforming in this world Msiah comes we'll have a second transformation. So in order to understand this and explain this what does that mean? a person's eating. When a person eats, what are you doing? You're unifying the soul with the body. When a person eats, you're bringing in energy into the body. And not only that, more than that, you bring in even from a higher level than the soul. And like the author explains in the Toro and he says how is it possible that food should have the power to give energy to the human being and to create the unification between the soul and the body because we know food comes from either inanimate things that grow or animals which is lower than madabber. We're in the level of madabra, the highest level. And it's lower than the even the physical the body which would because the body is part of the the the the species that speaks and how much more so it's lower than the level of the soul. So how is it that that that that gives us energy? Now we know the explanation that teaches us based on the verse in the Torah where it says that we don't live just on the bread but we live on the mashem. We live on the the word of Hashem that's in the bread. That is the devour of Hashem, the word of God that's in the bread. That's what sustains us. Not the physical food that you're eating, but the the word of Hashem that's in the bread. So we have to understand the fact is even in us whereab we also have the word of Hashem in within us. And how much more so in which is referring to the Jewish people that we're compared to on high. So why do we need to receive our energy from which is lower than us? So the altar explains in that the mere fact that the godly energy fell down to the level of it means it went down to a lower level obviously because the spark is much higher. In other words, that the spark in the is higher than the spark of the the spark of inanim is higher in the things that grows. And the spark in something that grows is higher than the spark of of of living being. And generally speaking, the sparks of as a group its source is higher than the spark of us, the people that speak. So therefore even though in the human being you do have hashem is within us but in order to have we have to in order for us to live we need to have the holy spark that's in the bread itself and bread is calling any type of thing that we eat. Why? Because the source of that that godly spark is much higher than the source that's that that that's in us. And the same thing also want to understand when it comes to serving Hashem that when we go ahead and we use the physical world to serve Hashem because world in Hebrew comes from the expression of concealment and in the world itself you use which is lower than our level of madab and specifically through there you reach a much higher level and higher than the level of the soul and like the famous expression question is when you go deal with lower things that's the purpose of elevation that when a person goes down to the lowest level that's how you elevate and what does that mean literally that in order for there to be a profit and there should be a benefit by the downgrade you have to reach to a much higher level than you originally started from if you going back the same you started from what's the elevation so how much more so when the soul cames down to this world which obviously is a tremendous downgrade because it was the soul was part of Hashem and it came down it's dealing with inanimate things the physical world the materialistic world so it's a tremendous downgrade it came from the highest level to the lowest level obviously the purpose is there is a for sure that the downgrade is to go to the higher level even higher than where it started from and this level is obviously much higher than the level of other human being and that's why the person has to be involved in eating and in business, physical things which is not befitting for the human being because when you deal with this stuff, these low-level stuff, you reach a very very high level. And that's the whole idea of eating which is basically transforming the world and like it's explained in many many places that everything that person needs is goes in the level of eating know through that a person lives. You go the goal is to elevate to to a much to much to a much higher level. Now the uh completion is based on the level in this world. What does that mean? Based on the level of the way the way things flow in this world. So that's that's where you can reach. However, when Msiah comes, we're even going to reach a higher level. And that's why it says so this that we go ahead and eat in this world. We're transforming or we reach a level. When Mashia comes, when we do the second transformation, we're going to we can even reach a higher level from the expression of a wonder total separation. And as what's going to get revealed is the level of total a whole different level higher than the level of sedals which basically practically speaking what level we're going to reach. We're going to reach the level which is called we know in there's and is a lower one is a higher one. you're going to reach the higher level but even the internal part and like the author explains in the from the zor that all the things that come down all the revelation in this world comes from where the external part of and the future all the revelation is going to come from the internal part of atik even though when we do our work of transformation we reach atic no question the higher level of kaser but it's only the external part of atik and you can't compare you can't compare the external to the internal part of atik which can be revealed in the future when mashia comes why because the internal part of atik which means the higher level of keta the internal part that's a wonder and that's where it says hashem that made it for a wonder like we know in keter there's two levels two halves of kesser there's one level which is called connected to the idea of olive like and olive comes from the word of and limud which is the level of and And that's basically called aric aen which is basically external part of now even though it's right it's a very high level but nevertheless it's called ampen it's a small face so you see there has some kind of connection to the world but then you have the higher level kessa which is pella alf and the expression of a wonder which is totally disconnected from the pia and that's what we're going to receive and that's we're going to connect to what in the future mashia comes so based on we just learned we'll understand why it says in the future when Mashiah comes, you're going to eat and you're going to be satiated and you're going to praise God that he made wonder because it's referring to the high level which going to be like Mashia comes which comes after all the transformations because we ate yes was complete with all the intention that we have and that's the completion of transformation. We do our work in in the this s 6,000 world year year thousand years of the of the of this world and but what's going to until we get to the ultimate level what's going to be revealed in the future and know this that's going to be revealed in the future is a proof that we yeah we did our part we transformed this world but after we do our part in this world we come to a higher level we're going to reach the level of pella wonder but in order to reach this level you need you need to have a second transformation to make transformation complete to go to the higher level. In other words, just like in this world we ate, we reach a very very high level. We transformed the that we go reach the the high the high source spark that's in the food. But the same thing also the future of Msiah comes when we're going to eat then we're going to reach another level off the charts. But the fact is the offthecharts level of the future you can't compare to the off thecharts level in this world. like it's explained many many places that in in itself which is the higher part of piaatic is off the charts compared to and that's the difference between the upgrade of off the charts of this world to off the charts in the future of Mashiach comes and like it's exp understood based on what it says in creatim that all the drawing down all the energy that's going to be exist in this world come from whereatic the external part part of. However, in the future, everything is going to come from where? From the internal part of and he continues on to explain that from all this we understand what it says in the medish in par um which is and he says he says over there as follows that it says this is the sacrifice of Aaron and his sons the day he was anointed and he bring his sacrifice. So this verse is referring to the sacrifice of of of the high priest even though it says Aaron and his sons. So what do we learn from there that the that the different um sacrifices that the that the the regular cen would bring but neverthe and we learned the laws from that verse but the the main verse is referring to the sacrifice that the Aaron the high priest bought. Why? because that's what Khazal taught us and is also obviously in from the simple understanding of the verse that this says he brings a carbon min every single day he's referring to the high priest because he would bring um the his sacrifice every single day however the only would bring it on the day he was anointed and that's why the verse says from the from the per from the person eating the food came out and we know this is referring to what the the riddle what chimshin wondered that if a lion goes ahead and eats and from him comes out sweet honey. So the same thing also a he's the one that is bringing the sacrifice and from him a sacrifice is coming out and what is the sacrifice? So so the seemingly what like what's what's the question? And so he explains in the Torah that kazal tell us that the cyan goes does the cen goes ahead and eats it and the and the people bringing it get atoned. What is the idea of atonement? Because atonement comes from above because if you did something wrong how can you got to be atoned that comes off the charts. It's a gift from Hashem. So from this level to go ahead and create an atonement and to fulfill what's lacking because when you sin you're lacking something just like when a person repents you reach a level of what above the whole idea of repentance is not logical and from there that's where atonement comes from atonement does not come from a plag of logic the same thing also when you have a transformation and the priest eats where you reach a level of above logic and that's where atonement comes comes from. So based on this, we'll understand the wonder that even though iron is eating, I know that he's transforming the sacrifice. So what do we see from here? That iron was totally transformed and like it says in the Torah that this that he's transforming. So obviously he's transformed and that's why it says but what are we know he's in the level of ma total humility total total acceptance. So the question is how from him can come out a s a sacrifice that he becomes a level that he gets transformed. In other words why is that because bringing a sacrifice is is a is is showing us that the person bringing the the sacrifice needs transformation and needs to be elevated and through the sacrifice you get elevated and like the like the zora says by bringing a sacrifice roen the kabono reaches the levels of infinite. So the alter explains that's why he says this is the sacrifice of Aaron because in order to reach the high level off the charts even as great as your levels to reach off the charts and that's why the verse says the day he was anointed. So here he's explaining the real effect of a sacrifice. As we know the high priest they would anoint him with anointing oil and it was called shem and mishkesh anointing oil. What does that mean? That it anoints holiness. It comes from a very high place higher than holiness. You know he says kesh on its own it's a very very high place and since the completion of this level is not enough for anointing. So you have to bring a sacrifice that this level should come down. So based on that we'll understand literally why the high priest brings his sacrifice every single day versus a regular kay doesn't bring it. He only brings it when he's anointed. Even though the the regular k also brings sacrifice. So why is he different that he doesn't bring a a sacrifice every single day? Because since the sacrifice that he brings is to elevate the highest level of the the secret of of infinite part of hem like it's called she misesh and that is only connected to the high priest the one that's anointed and that's specifically associated the high priest and that's why he would bring a sacrifice every single day and author explains inra that's the whole that's the whole riddle of shimshin because kazal tell us that shimsh was called in the name And this level means say the name Hashem is a wonder and it's a riddle even compared to the other levels of of godliness up to the level of the highest level of holiness. You could say possibly even in reference to the the beauty of of of the the the lower the the lower part of kether like we will explain in the previous discourse before this one. It was was a tremendous wonder and that's why from the person eating the food came out because this that was first eaten and was transformed for someone else now food comes out. So should the idea as well that it should go to the next level. So bas explains now we'll understand why it says z carbonar this is the sacrifice of iron and the verse says z this is the carbon of iron specifically zion why even though the sacrifice beforehand and afterward says zo it says Zion olive and here it says Z for example. This is the sacrifice of the of the of the the the sacrifice that gets totally consumed. Zo again Z of the the the the sacrifice terram and all of them it says Z but only by Aaron it says Z. Why? Because when Aaron brought a sacrifice, which is the high priest, what got drawn down when he brought it, it got drawn down the essence of the infinite part of Hashem. And only on the essence of Hashem can you say this because that's the only real existence. And that's when the day he was anointed, which is the highest level. And that's why the verse says be on the day that he was anointed because even though the sacrifice of the high priest comes every single day and only on the first day but since through what gets drawn down in through the essence of Hashem the part of Hashem which is not affected by change level doesn't change and that's why he would bring it every single day. Now from what's explained in the Torah comes out that this says you're going to eat you're going to be satiated and then you're going to praise Hashem in the future we're going to reach the level of a whole different level because you're going to have the second transformation. It's similar to the sacrifice of Aaron that through the sacrifice you reach the highest level. So we have to understand the fact is in in the discourse of he explains at length that the second transformation of is going to be when the future mashia comes because then we're going to reach the level a tremendous wonder we have the second transformation. So how does he explain that's that's a sacrifice of iron that that took place when when they when they when they when they established the Mishkan and after and every single day when they had the the tabernacle in the first temple and the second temple which basically that took place in this world we're saying this whole thing is going to be in the future now we're saying that Aaron accomplished it so to explain this he he liked to connect this with idea of purum we find the same idea when it comes to the holiday purum because kazal tell us that the prophets and the writings things is going to be nullified in the future. However, the the book of Esther and the laws is not going to be nullified and like it says clearly the days of Purim is never going to stop. The memory is never going to be erased and also the Rama brings in in in Jewish law and the end of the laws of of migillah that the days of Purim, the migill of Esther and these laws will never be nullified and the and the prophet and writer is going to be nullified. So it's explained that this time in the future the holiday is going to be totally nullified even though we know the Torah is not going to change. What it means is because there's going to be such a revelation in the future when Msiah comes and the revelation that's going to be shining in the future Messiah comes is going to be such a powerful like revelation that yeah the the the light of the holidays are are going to have no no significance. they're going to be there. But like like for example, if you light if you're outside and the sun is shining, you light a candle. What what what does the candle help you? However, the holiday of Purim because Purim is what it is is and it's such a powerful light then that's not going to be nullified even compared to the powerful light that's going to be in the future when Mashia comes. Why? because it's brought down discourses that why are the laws not going to be nullified however know the laws aren't going to be nullified however the discussion back and forth that obviously will be nullified that's because the tremendous power in these laws because it's brought down the explains in the gares based on what tell us whoever learns which basically means the mishna the all the laws every single day you're guaranteed a place in the world to come because when it comes to you have two extremes. On one hand boom you have a very very clear law and that transformed the physical world because specifically when you when you know what to do you know what you know you know how to how to observe the mitzv including also whatever you do should be for the sake of hem or everything you know you should know hashem. However, when it comes to discussion back and forth, which is before you have the that doesn't come down in a in a physical reality, doesn't change anything. You're not doing anything. It's just a lot of conversation, a lot of talk because what's the purpose of alah the purpose of al is to transform transform physical space where you where God is concealed and that's the whole idea of the physical world that the world is created from which God like it says in the beginning of the Torah but brings godliness into the darkest places. Now even though it says the day that you have and he made heaven and the earth so you see it's mentioned so like we explain many times that's the way is concealed with shame elohim like you have the sun and the and the shield which is buff is connected to the sun and the shield is elohim but the shame elohim conceals and what do you see in a revealed way you see the concealment and even the multiplicity of elohim like it saysim him plural like it's explained in many discourses starting with the and that's the whole purpose of to bring in in the most concealed places to reveal the internal part of which is really on the other hand this that the Jewish law comes down and transform the lowest places where God is concealed why is that because the source is higher than even Yudk because Yudk is connected to the way the world flows from one level to the next starting from and and and and lower as well because Kar is also hidden in the in the of however the source of the comes in the level of which is higher than like the explains in Tanya that is revealing the will of Hashem which is higher than the level And this also explains the real power of the migillos of Esther because if you look in the mgilla it doesn't say the name in there and any other names of Hashem in a revealed way. Yeah, it's mentioned in Russia it's in and the letters at the end or numerical value like explained at length in in in many places etc. But why? Because you have two opposites on one hand because you have yudk is concealed. It's not you don't see any names. is concealed but on the other hand it comes from the highest places even high and that's why the names aren't mentioned over there and the same thing also with the name so looks like it's a king but actually means the end the beginning is his which means it's coming from a a place higher than the beginning and the end and that's the reason why it comes into the level of the beginning and the end because it comes from so high and now we'll understand why in the future the mcgillis Esther and Purim that the McGill speaks about and also the Jewish law is not going to be nullified. Why? Because in the future what's going to be revealed the essence of the infinite part of Hashem up to the point that is going to be just like the Elohim today conceals. So the same thing also in the future you're going to have the level of yutk is going to be on that level which basically is the level of the migilla and the purim and the law that the the source is from the essence of the infinite part of which is higher than yudk and from based on the explanation we just learned we understand that purim we have also both components similar to to to the two components we just discussed which it says on one hand it's it's the sacrifice of iron today and the other hand in the future you're going to have eat it and eat it again to a higher level on one hand the days of Purim we have today and the contrary every single year the days of Purim we go to a higher level and like explained at len in alderman in Tanya in reference to rash shana every year that every single year there's a new light that comes down that didn't shine before so the same thing also applies to purim on so one hand every year it's a new light but on the other hand the real quality of pur is the rea the re revealing the light which is going to shine in the future And that's why in the future it's not going to be nullified. Now even though the level of purin and the migill is very very high and we know it's not going to be nullified in the future because it's going to have the same revelation of the light of the future but obviously it's self understood you can't compare the quality of purim today to going to be a future even though we have it now we have it then but you can't compare the two why because even today there's different levels Like we say every single year you go to the next level and the purum gets elevated every single year and how much more the future there's going to be on a whole different level and not like from one year to next off the charts even though today purim is connected to the infinite but in the future purim is going to be on a whole different level. So how does that work? So will understand it based on what we explained before from the discourse of that we have something which is called where God gets enclosed in the world we comprehend it then you have so hovers over which is basically the idea of faith but in the future so today it's impossible to grasp soybe yeah we know we have faith we can't comprehend it in the future so you can internalize and therefore you're not going to need faith because we're going to have an understanding in the level of like it says clearly the whole world will be filled with the knowledge of and then faith will be obviously in a higher level which is going to be higher than even comprehending. So the same thing also understand the difference between pur today the way it's going to be in the future even though yes today pur is a very very high level it's above and it's above comprehension and like it says we have to get intoxicated on purim till we don't understand we have to reach a very very high level but this level of we don't understand you can't compare to way it's not we don't understand the future of msiah comes like in like different levels of faith because even though faith today yeah it comes from but you can't compare the faith that's going be like when when the future msiah comes. So based on this we understand what it says to that in the beginning he explains a tremendous wonder of the future up to the point we're going to praise Hashem it's going to be a tremendous one wonder because we're going to eat we're going to be satiated like like the prophet in Joel says but afterwards he goes on to say we also have it today also in reference like the example of the sacrifice of Aaron the that that Aaron brought and from Aaron it comes down to every all the priests and from there to all the Jews and because the the the high priest is connected. He's a he's the messenger of all the Jewish people on Yum Kipper and Yum Kipper we know is connected to Purim because the fact is that the the the sacrifice brings connect to the future. So even though the tremendous power of the sacrifice of the high priest and that through that you can reach today a very very high levels but the fact is in the future Mashia comes it's going to be a much higher level and and up to the point we're going to have to have a second transformation and the same thing also applies to purim that even though today in purim is a very very high level we we don't we reach level we don't know but the fact is it's only a taste what's going to be like what in the future mashia comes. However, when it comes to the sacrifice that were brought today, which is basically a taste of what's going to be like in the future when Mashia comes, it says which basically it's a preparation for the future. And like we know that everything of the future is dependent on our action and our work um in in this 6,000 years of gullis and especially in the times of exile. And just like the days of Purim, like we know the days of Purim today, it's a preparation for what's going to be like in the future in this physical world down here and what we do now is preparation for the for the future pur like it says clearly the days of pur these which which does mean these they revealed up to the point you can say these are the days of pur but that's going to bring inspiration for the pumm which going to be like a future mashia comes and where pumm is not going to go away and just like in the days of purm that when we do our work in times of exile and and and a situation that unfortunately we're still under the opices of because we still don't have full thorough freedom we're going to reach we reach the level of off the charts we have to basically get intoxicated not doesn't necessarily mean by the way an alcohol you can do it by learning to you reach a level of off the charts the same thing also when it comes to the the the Jewish law of today which is a preparation for the for the for the revelation of of of the future because through learning hala We make a dwelling place for Hashem down here in the lowest places because specifically in Jewish law that's the will of Hashem in a revealed way. And even though yes the way to come to you have to go have a discussion back and forth with all the powers we have with intellect and the same thing also applies to all the others but the will of Hashem in a revealed way is specifically by the by the by Jewish law and this will gets revealed in the doing the mitzvah. Just like for example a beam that connects the highest level to the lowest level this physical world and by doing that we actually make a dwelling place for Hashem down here and that comes a preparation for the coming of of Msiah in the future. Now even though that the preparation for all the revelation that's going to be in the future comes through our spiritual work and you can say it's on a spiritual level but when a person meditates on everything that we learned in this discourse and all throughout mysticism and the way it's revealed in the world of and especially in the teaching of because it's brought down in a way that we can comprehend it and we understand it full comprehension not only with this with the intellect of our godly soul but with the intellect of our animal soul and even though you're still lacking the emotional feeling but you understand it and by doing that preparation today for the future when Msiah comes even that the way the sacrifices of Aaron took place in the Mishkan and the B mikdash in the when times of the temple and the spiritual level what takes place by every single Jewish person like explained explained many places that in the times of the basos that that that existed. So in order to bring a daily sacrifice, you have to have the priests doing the work. You have to have the Levites doing their part and you have to have the Israelites doing their part. But now with when with every single Jewish person, even if you're not a priest, a high priest, and you're not a regular priest, you're not a Levite, and you're just a regular Israelite. But today, when anyone goes ahead and you pray, you pray the morning prayer services, you're literally bringing the morning sacrifice. And the same thing also you you bring up when you pray the afternoon service, you bring in the afternoon sacrifice. Like it says clearly, the prayers were in place of the sacrifices. So this applies to all the sacrifices. The two sacrifices that brought one in the morning, one at night. And the same thing also anything that brings the the the power of the infinite just like the sacrifices and that will bring a cause of there's going to be one eating transformation in this world and a second translation the future mashia comes and the same thing also these days of purim is going to be a preparation for the future purim and when a person thinks about it and comprehends it you feel it in your soul and the power to do This comes actually from Purim because the days of Purim are the days of which means you reach a level of off the charts just like the sacrifices is to bring the the energy to the infinite part of Hashem and the days of Purim the the idea of of off the charts is revealed because it comes from a place of above and from here comes down that we not only on Purim but the whole year we operate and we connect Hashem off the charts when we do whatever we need to do on a spiritual level and finish it off powerfully. He says like this when we do our actions and our work today that becomes a preparation and a cause what's going to be in the future. We're gonna have a double transformation and we're going to praise Hashem and that's one of the verses that we say actually on on Shabbat which is connected to the future because that's the time we eat the feast of Messiah like it says specifically in in the sid of that Rizel. Um and it says specifically the the the the feast of Messiah, not just King David. and he's going to come and he's going to redeem us and he's going to take us standing upright to the land of Israel and we're going to praise Hashem that Hashem is going to do tremendous wonders and like the finishes off so beautifully vu should happen very very quickly in our days on a literal level. So let's hope and pray we have the coming of Messiah and we all go to and next class will be in have a great and blessed week. Shabua to.