Emotions Transformed. 8 Above Nature. ויהי ביום השמיני A Kabbalah class by Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz

welcome to our class on siddhis we're going to be learning a beautiful hasidic discourse in the rebbe the name of the this course is called by yehi by yoimashimini it was on the eighth day the rebels said this has the discourse in shabboshashmini that year was in the 26th day of the month of nisan which is also the shabbat that blessed the month of year in the year tough shin mem gimmel exactly 39 years ago so again the sydney discourse is based on the opening verse of the torah portion where it says by by yoimashimini it was the eighth day shreva says it's known the questions that are asked in the hasidic uh different khasi discourses from the kassadin rebellion and the question is why is it called the the eighth day and like um the clay yucker says the reason why it's called the eighth day because it's the yoimashimini it's the eighth day of the installation of the priests in the temple sribaba is a simple question the fact is we know that the installation of the priests in the temple took only seven days like the verse says clearly in the previous torah portion shiva's yatrim for seven days the installation process is going to take place so what's this whole idea of the seventh the eighth day of installation there's only seven days what what's eight what what where where did the eighth day of installation come into play here so the clay yucker a commentary explains that the reason why it's called by mashmini that was not so powerful about the eighth day because on the eighth day was the gili hashina that's when hashem revealed himself and as the verse says clearly in reference to that day that the year allah that on this eighth day hashem is going to reveal himself and like rashi says by ivara khali salma ishmael blessed them and he said ye he wrote me the will of hashem that the divine presence should rest in the work of your hands and he blessed him that the the the presence and the sweetness of hashem should be over you and and matter of fact this word says in the verse clearly that in that day was by ye rak voice the honor of hashem was revealed to the whole people of a fire came out from hashem so you see those very very powerful revelations that took place on the eighth day so robert takes the question even deeper and he says if that's the case what was unique about that day that god revealed himself it was why in that day on the eighth day that god revealed himself the fact is with seven days of installation of the priest it could have been on the first day the second day the third day the fourth day find the seventh day the last day but what does the eight day have to do with it so the clay yucker says because you know why it wasn't that day because the that was the eighth day it was getting marshmallow and shmini is a very very holy number so in other words to recap what what's wrong with explaining based on the kayaker that what was the special thing about the eight day it wasn't technically the day of installation because the day there was only seven days but the eighth was a holy day and because it was a holy day therefore hashem revealed himself and he gave a lot a lot of blessings on that day so so now the real question is what's this powerful eight day so everyone's gonna explain it based what it's um what it's explained in a uh response of a great rabbi called the rajva and it's a famous teaching of his and he says as follows that there are holidays there are seven days and then there are ones that are eight days what why there are some there are seven and one that there are eight because seven represents a complete circle and eight represents a uh um something which is which goes around the complete circle so seven is the complete circle and seven and eight is the one the number that goes around the circle now even though seven is a complete number it's a complete circle and it's you know it takes it it totally accomplishes it like it's called srivas humay opinion the seven days of building just like for example we had the seven days dedication in the temple but nevertheless even though it's complete you need something to watch it and that's what eight does eight watches the complete circle so you have seven which is the complete circle 100 complete nothing lacking you don't need anything more to make complete but then you need the eight that watches over it now since the eight that's watching over the seven so it brings out two points about eight number one is obviously it's higher than the completion how can i watch it if it's not higher so point number one is that it's higher but on the other hand point number two is it's not aloof and disconnected but it has a connection that's why you can watch it so 7 again is the complete circle 8 watches a circle which means it's higher than it but still connected to it in other words what does that mean practically so the number seven represents world and world which is complete because we know the world was created in the seven days of of of of a building the hashem created the world in six days he rested in the seven so it was a full process of seven days of creation and it happened specifically with the number seven because the number seven is a complete number and this number seven that started from creation sunday monday tuesday wednesday 31st shabbat it repeats itself every single week over and over again the complete number of seven and because it's complete so everything you finish the seven you don't say okay it's the eighth day of creation no you finished the completion cycle now we start again and that's why every week we have a sunday and we have a monday because every single week we finish the process on shabbat and we start again on sunday and and but also to remember that seven is a complete number and because we know the world is complete created complete as expression as the world was created complete with with a cycle of seven so what's the profound day of the of the idea of eight because eight represents it's already above above nature it's above the level of the world and it's above the level that we're saying that the world was created complete so seven is complete eight is above the world above the level of completion but nevertheless even though it's above it as we mentioned before and that's one one component but nevertheless it's still connected to it in other words what i mean it's connected to it it has an impact on the seven days of creation so that the seven days will have more of a completion you know you can be complete and you can have more of completion like the expression is a good is good better is not better so seven is good it's great it's a full circle eight is above nature and eight on one hand it's above nature but it also completes and allows nature to become stronger so because again we just learned based on the raj bar that says that seven is a complete number eight is above nature but connected to nature so that's why an eight which is above nature that's when hashem reveals himself why because this that hashem is revealing the self it's revealing himself to a higher level of the shrimmer as hecketh the part that encircles and and hovers over the the creation which creates more of a completion in the world in others you have the world you have nature you have the regular process and the revelation on the eighth day builds and adds another whole dimension to the regular seven days of creation so that is based on the rajbos the raj was saying is that seven is nature eight is above nature and based on this term explains that's why your relation took place on the eighth day that's that's one insight now the ripper says we're going to understand it even deeper um that the quality of eight based on what rashi says rashi says a in in the rashi impossibility she like this what was so unique about the eighth day so rashi says that on that day there were there was there were ten crowns that were taken on by yamashimi on this special day not necessarily that day but throughout history and and rashi says all the different ones are listed in the commentary called say the islam and it's brought down the commentaries all the different things that happened on bayern mush meaning so in other words what happened by yemi shmini what's a special there's something in the energy of yamashimi that 10 crowns were given on that day and it's not just something happened it was actually a crown in other words something very very special and something very very unique that's what rashi says so again so we have the rajba that says that's that's eight which is above nature and we have rashi that brings down not a contradiction two different points that it's that that ten crowns were take that were given on that day now so since what happened on this day you have the idea of the ten which represents the ten grounds within that day and when did it happen on the yoyo the eighth day of completion of of of the finishing the installation process of the temple so in other words so this day in itself has also the energy of the ten crowns so that's why we understand based on actually why the gila screener was in this thing so we have two reasons for the gila guillermo one is because it's a it's eight is above nature srimar is a hectic and the second reason is because on that day there were ten crowns okay so basically that is the reason why it's connected to to that to the idea of meaning so now they're going to go into it and explain it more cabalistically more more deeper in other words he's going to explain these three components what are the three components one is the seven days of installation which is the seventh day which represents the seven days of completion of the world the eighth day of installation when hashem um revealed himself and also the component that on that day there were ten crowns so we have seven eight nine three powerful numbers the seven days of installation seven days of creation in the world the eighth day where shawn revealed himself above nature and then the idea of the ten crowns so trevor says we're gonna understand this based on what is brought down and it says in reference to the um the key the keener the violin of the temple so so it says over there that you also have three components to the violin of the temple you have the violin the way the way it's so to speak in this in this world um as we talk when times in the temple existed so then the the the it had seven strands seven seven strings that had to it that's so that's in terms of in this world seven when in the days of mashiach it's gonna have eight strings and the the the um the keanu of when mashiach comes it's gonna have ten as the verse says in the prophets allah also is gonna have ten so you see that there's three components to the to the violin of the temple one of seven strands one of eight and one of ten and all associated with the temple with the base of mikdash what is the base amigdas in its completion so it's not something which is the basis it wasn't out in the mountains and uh disconnected from the world the basin magnus had a real connection to the physical world and the world that's that was built complete com completely and that's why drupal explained something very powerful what's what's the violinist hebrew called it's called the keener keener comes from the word is made up of four letters what are the four letters so you have in those four letters you have the the word near candle and you also have the two letters huff and bob which numerically equal 26. so you have and then you also have near a candle now we know that is the numerical value for the infinite name of hashem yet kev is ten hey is five valve is six and hey is five so you have 26. so 26 is the numerical value for you so one hand we're talking about you'd keep up k the infinite name of hashem but it's not out there it's in a way that never brings light to our lives i know that that's that's what presented we say the world was created in a complete state in other words on one hand we know if you look at the beginning of creation so it says how many times shame elokim it says 32 times shame of kim because the world was created with shay malachim but on the other hand we know that the world was also created from yutake from a higher part of hashem as it says it says in the verse this this is the the elah turtles this is the uh the the the the birth of the heaven and the earth be he borrow when it was created and it says hashem used the name of ereto so you see that the world even though it was created from shaymalakim was also created from youth it has the energy of kevin in the world's world as well and in the base of mikdash itself so over here we had the revelation of gift k in a way of a candle what does that mean that the utk valve cave that was used to create the world in the base amygdales it's giving off light to the whole world the utk buff came through the candle which is which which represents this idea that that the basement gives offline to the whole world as we know that from the basement light went out to the whole world and therefore the the base amigdas the keener the violin was made up of seven strands y7 because that that represents completion in the physical world so again what the rub is saying is like this the number seven is associated with nature and in the basement mignog is also associated with nature and kina means that the hand the utk vapcay the infinite part of hashem which is used to create the complete world was in the basement and from there the light went out to the whole world and that's the complete that's the completion of the number connected number seven but what's going to happen mashiach then you're going to have the soimura hakkaf you can have the number eight and that's what we're going to have and these machine is going to have eight strands and afterwards even higher than that when lost lava it's going to have 10 strands now this is all heavy kabbalistic stuff but it's always important to say practically what does this mean and in kabbalah it's called by voyager saw them what does it mean practically me serving hashem seven strands eight strands ten strands in nature above nature even super above nature what does it mean practically sherbet explains it's follows and he brings based on what it says in tanya and the altar writes in tanya that in every single nephesh every single soul there's ten spheroids and um with the 10 series that we all have come from obviously the 10 spheres on high that's where it comes from everything comes from around high comes down to this world and they're divided up the 10 spheres that we have is divided up into two parts the three which we call uh uh parents the intellect and then you have the seven emotions so every single soul has ten steroids the uh the three intellect and the seven emotions what's the seven emotions the seven days of of of of creation now why is what now and it's called seven seven days of binyan building why is that because our main spiritual work in this world is the seven days of creation which is referring to our main spiritual work is working on our middle east our character traits a character transforming our character and that's our work transforming us into being a better people from an emotional perspective and like it's explained many many places that the connection of why our avoided today is only and specifically in our emotions that says when hashem gave us the line of israel so the obligation was to chase out only seven other nations and when do we have to do it even now before mashiach comes why is that because now our main spiritual work is our migos that's how we work on our seven emotions and in a global level we have to chase out the seven nations from the land of israel which means transforming the seven emotions however it says we're going to even able to tr to to eradicate um the other three lands which is represented by the three intellectual components and as the verse says clearly is going to expand the boundaries of israel which is referring to we're going to conquer the three nations of kanye knees which represents the idea of chabad so in other words so you see the connection that just like in this world they avoid just the seven days of the week that void is to bring the light into the physical world it's referring to our emotions and just like we see that reference the land of israel the avoid was to take out the seven nations represented are transforming every one of our emotions and says we know it's brought down and it's explained based on the verse that it says in the torah so it's just like this the things that are concealed is for hashem allah keno the hanigla is the things that are revealed islamic that's what simple verse what says which says in the torah so there is going to explain it on a spiritual level so it said the verse says vehemence now the the sirius of the word is what's revealed but it says neglige the two letters in the beginning of reveal this valve and a hey what does the han niglas mean on a spiritual level so we know that valve is re referring to the six meadows casa guardi ferrez and that's a hoyt and yes that's the valve the hay is representing what malchus so vav hay represents the the seven emotions six medicine mountains you have the seven emotions so the above hey global is referring to the medicinal emotions so the rubber explains what is vegan nicholas vav hey is again the midos that's niglois that's revealed to every single person that's revealed to everyone of us what does that mean it's revealed to us because every single person has the power and the ability to work on their emotions everyone has their power to transform our emotions that's our emotions based on igloos on the other hand honey story is the things that are hidden what is what is the things that are hidden which is our intellect in other words meditating and knowing hashem and that's unique to every single person because when it comes to emotions we all have to behave appropriately and we could behave appropriately when it comes to intellectual capabilities true we have to meditate and study but everyone thinks differently everyone understands things differently everyone comprehends them differently it takes some people longer shorter et cetera so the story is the secret part of our self which is referring to our intellect that's la shmelo keno it means every single person has their unique avoidable to transform their intellect which is which obviously is not necessarily so easy so now this is one second what does it say in the verse it says in the verse hanni starroys again which is referring to our intellect that's the molecule which means la shmoo it's not our voice that's not our work what's our work our emotions but the verse says clearly that what the history is for hashem but the fact is what do we just explain that the honey star is which means the the ones that are the ones that are the the secret which is referring to our intellect that we're we're all different so we're saying is that we have to do that spiritual work but everyone is unique so what is it i wanted was saying how neglect we all agree the emotions that's long invented we have to transform ourselves honey star voice our intellect our one hand was saying is everyone's unique but on the other hand what does the verse say no it's not our voice hashem so what which one is correct says as follows even though it's true honey story slash transforming our intellect that's not for us that is something which we you know whatever the brains hashem gave us wherever we're able to comprehend that's that's a gift from hashem and when is that going to happen like we learned before that's going to happen comes when hashem is going to expand the boundaries and he's going to allow us the ability to transform our intellect and today that's our voice take to work on our emotions so on the other hand what we're saying is that everyone is unique everyone's different so we know the article writes in tanya and he says like this all the great revelations that's going to happen comes is dependent on our actions and work in this world so even though yes ultimately transformation of our intellect is not gonna happen until mashiach comes that's when hashem is gonna expound the bound the boundaries physically atlanta israel the three which is referring to our intellect but when it's not going to happen so but on the other hand in order for the atmosphere we have to do our avoidance so therefore even the conquering of the three nations of kaini knishiver kaduni which is basically going to happen but it's still dependent on our work today so knows we do have to have some kind of working to try to transform our intellect just like when it comes to uh expanding the borders of borders the land of israel of canaanites community literally even though technically it's the conquering is going to be mashiach comes but the fact is even though it's not going to happen until later when hashem made the bond of rama vino in the uh brisbane absarom so the fact is he gave him the bond on the whole land of israel not only the seven nations on the on all ten technically we didn't conquer it now those three but we do have some kind of connection to it so the same thing also in reference our spiritual work we do have some kind of responsibility to work on trying to transform our intellect even though we're not going to totally fully transform it until mashiach comes now so in other words to recap whatever saying is like this the avoider today is to transform our emotions and that we could do what we should do the avoiding of transforming the intellect that's going to comes but we still have to do some part because everything in the future depends on our avoider today now even though the full trans transformation of our intellect is not really something for today the only part is because the preparation for mashiach but rabbi said the truth is there isn't a void there is some spiritual work to work with intellect today as well what does that mean it explains as follows what we just learned what's the main avoided today the main spiritual work today is our emotions transform our emotions the behavior we are supposed to emotionally now as it says is referring to vote as the sixth medicine hey the emotions that's what we have to do today but in order for our emotions to be complete today to transform our emotions the fact is we're intellectual human beings the biggest gift we have is our brains so even though we cannot transform our intellect but the intellect has to have agree and has to have a commitment and has to make a decision that the we want to transform our emotions in other words in reality it happens through the emotions that's what we're transforming but the but the but the intellect has to be on board as well in other words just like when it comes to transforming our emotions everyone's equal everyone could behave everyone could be nice everyone could be kind everyone can be gentle generous etc um but the same thing also when it comes to the resolution the intellectual resolution hebrew is called the mask the intellectual resolution everyone's equal as well we can all agree to disagree which means even though you're not holding intellectually you don't see why you should be nice to be kind etc but you can still intellectually you know i'm agreeing to be nice in other words when it comes to meditating on depths and reason understanding and standing hashem etc everyone is different everyone according to their level but when it comes to the mascana coming up with a saying hey you know what i'm going to behave i'm going to go ahead and do all the mitzvos and now i'm going to do the mitsu i'm going to do hashem's commandments but we're not going to do it by wrote just checking off the list but i'm going to do it with tremendous energy and tremendous excitement that everyone that everyone could be on the same page to agree that we're going to transform ourselves 100 that everyone could do so in other words what you see from here so far there's three levels in these three levels on one hand ultimately transforming the intellect in order for that to happen yeah we can do things today because that will ultimately give it to us but more important number says no there is a part of our intellect that we all could establish and that is the intellectual resolution that we train to transform ourselves now these three numbers of seven and eight and ten on a practical level what does it what what does that mean practically number four is like this the seven is referring to the seven days of creation of the world which is which is the full circle that's working on our emotions the eight which we said that that hovers over that watches the completion that is the that is the part of our intellect that we come to the resolution that we're going to that we're going to transform ourselves emotionally and just like the even though the seven is complete but what is the ultimate completion of the seven is when you have the eight that protects it so the same thing also with the emotions that if you want the emotions to behave and do what it's supposed to that's when you have the eight that protects it which means the intellect is agreeing that this is something we should do and the number 10 represents the ultimate transformation of our intellect and that's going to happen when mashiach comes just like the arab world we're going to have kamuni when mashiach comes now the these these these three components in terms of our in terms of this in the steroids so the seven represents the seven days full days of completion of creation in the world and so the seven represents the the emotions has good pharisees number eight represents which syrah it represents the idea of beena as um and beta we know it's called bonum the the mother so to speak of the meadows that because the b with the dino is the one that produces the middles and so what is it what what what's the what's the idea of number ten so number ten river says this is that when bina has within it the three together so again just to recap seven is the seven emotions eight represents represented by bino and number ten is when being a has within it all the three all the three intellect obviously and that creates the the emotions and that's what the rubber says that's why this is number 10 is what you have in the co the creative secretary the holy of holies why because in the holy of holies you have all three sphero is the way that's with the way it's within bina and like there is based on the the the the known uh ruling uh which is brought down to this that you have a general principle that has within it multiple components so for example if being a has within it so obviously because it's one that it has within it others it's much better it's higher than being does put together in other words so you see that one hand bean is one the serious 100 but on the other hand has something which is higher than everything because it has within it the other ones it's in the holy of holies and as compared to the other ones because it has all three levels of intellect now this powerful revelation that took place by yamashimi again the the intellect um that we that that agrees to transform ourselves and also the as you mentioned before the rajma the the the uh shamers shrimpers and also the asar ataris who was the one that that brought to us the revelation of the eighth day it happened through moisture as a terrorist says clearly and as much rainer said it should be the will of hashem you are saying in other words besides the fact we know that in the seven days of installation moisture urban acted as a priest mushroom wasn't a priest but he acted as a preacher in the seven days of installation and there was moisture man himself was the one that acted as a priest but even on the eighth day what the the the one that did the work came from moisture no because he's the one that affected an aaron akain and he taught him how to bring up the victorious the incense like it's brought down to many many acidic places so we see again clearly that what the moisture may know is the one that worked in the seven days of installation but more importantly in reference to our conversation moishe is the one that with through him we have the powerful gift of the eight day and all the blessings asked a simple question we know that moisture of a new is known he's connected to number seven and like it says in the madras that all the seven are beloved by hashem and who was the seventh most truman is the seventh so what does motion have to do with eight why shaman is connected to seven what does he do with eight and like especially we learned in the discourse from the from the from youtube um where where it tells me that shamosha is the seventh as seventh generation and we know that the seventh is all beloved and he is the one that brought the screening down to this world and he brought the screener down into the world by by uh by building the mishkan which was made from 13 or 15 items materialistic islands to make it a vessel for godliness and literally up to the point where he made the mishkan from from the crush room from the planks which we know the same letters as shekar it means he transformed the full sort of the world for carrots from the mishkan in other words he was able to transform through playing with the words the falsehood of the world so it should be actually a beam for the mishkan for the dwelling place for hashem and as his whole purpose was to make a deer with well down here and that's connected to what idea seven and moishe was the seventh so so on but on the other hand we're saying he was eight and the urban explaining is very simple and the truth is even though moisture man is very very strongly connected to seven and that's how he brought down the shaman's dwelling place into the world but he also has the quality of eight and that's why it says uh in the zohar in reference to moisture i mean it says or something says moisture moisture so there's there's no gap between moist and ricer there's no there's no there's no no gap it's one after the other why is that because the ultimate in creation of the world beyond hashem when yud kevke made the world so when hashem made the world so we know the youth cave of kate is a high level of uk volcano there's a lower level and hashem made the world with your cave of k of of a lower level of your k above k which is connected to what the idea of the number seven which is basically the completion of the world and there's actually there is a gap and there's a gap between you'd give up cave down here and you keep off keep up there so when it comes to youth came off k1 creation in the world this youth came back on high youth came off came below and there's a gap in between however when it comes to moisture moisture there's no gap in between in other words moisture banana down in this world he was connected to the same way he was on on the higher worlds and matter of fact that's why moisture is called moisture why is it called moisture the torah tells us he is drawn out from water and mine we know is referring to the idea of each other was able to bring down into this world and to take it a step further it says like it's known the the the explanation um which is brought down and says that moisture was drawn from the water so what was it so one reason we explained is because that's represented by motion but there's another insight that says because the the he was drawn from the water because mayan the word water is referring to a very very high spiritual world and the name of that world is called mayan so moisture remains connected to the highest levels and that's the real quality and the power of moisture beneath that even though he was seven but he was also connected to the higher seven there was no there was no gap and he was connected at a level of of mayan you know he's connected to the seven and also the part above nature which is which watches over nature and up until we know that cesar fazal that moisture was called had ten names ten names he had but what's the name that the terry calls i mean they're called moisture no why kimi ramayana mishi see you because he was drawn out from what from which is either or the level the level of mayam because moisture mana's main quality was that he was drawn from my information he was able to bring that down to this world and so in other words be qui but it wasn't disconnected because the fact is he even though he was on one hand he was the seventh which means he was a continuation of all the generations he had he become seven you need to have first generation second thirds he was a continuation of everything and up until it's remember with the mattress we know it says that uh they told moisture i know um i don't stand in the place of you know avromovino you have to remember ifram came first and he's mysterious etc so one hand he's connected to all seven and he comes after the seven but nevertheless besides that he also had the component that he was above it and because he was above it therefore he was able to impact iron and he was able to impact to bringing down the shrina the dwelling of hashem into this world on the eighth day of millennium so you see moisture being knew on one hand again he was he was seven and he was connected to the first seven but he was also the idea of eight and he was able to bring down the screener down to this world by learning these components in torah about above nature and about transforming our emotions and the intellectual agreed to it and we're learning it in the in the in the torah of the rabbis it will be it will be that what it says as it says in the prophets the shalom of paran how do we bring the sacrifice to say we don't sacrifice today but by by by praying by learning torah and literally when we're going we're gonna with our mouths we're gonna we're gonna it's gonna bring to the revelation of literally the temple we're male 2 bring back sacrifices on the temple when we build the third temple and then we're going to have the violin the keener of eight strands and then of ten strands it's going to happen behara of the amenu mamas very very soon and very very quickly and very very literally in our times anyway thanks so much for joining us for our scissors class and let's hope as rebecca says our next class will be in your shalayim iraqi dish with the base of migda have a great and blessed week