Eternally Bound Marriage to G-D via Torah & Mitzvot גן נעול אחותי כלה Kabbalah Rabbi Y. Minkowicz

Welcome to our class on we're going to be learning a beautiful discourse in the the name of the discourse is called the said this discourse that year was the third day of the month of in the year 38 years ago went on to certify and edit this discourse in honor of the second day of the month of in the year 35 years ago so again the disc is based on a verse in Song of Songs From King Solomon where it says which basically means the garden is totally closed off my sister my bride the uh stream of water is totally locked and the the reservoir of water that's flowing is totally sealed off again there's a lot of commentaries as as as as natural in all the prophets and the writings but we're going to stay focus on the way the explains this verse so the re brings that the the Rend maharash which is the fourth kabad Reb who was celebrating his birthday on the second day of of of in a discourse of which is a continuation of a discourse of famous discour of the year he brings the translation of the tarum again there's a lot of translations so the tarum says as follows just like in the Garden of Eden is totally closed off and you can't just come in there who comes into the Garden of Eden sadik and righteous people so the same thing also in the parable is that the Jewish people they close off their doors to Hashem and it's exclusively for Hashem our relationship is only with Hashem that's what he brings from the the brings the tarum and he explains over there that what is a gun so Gan literally is a garden but what does it mean spiritually Gan is a level of pleasure and what does it mean that g that the garden which we saying now where he's translating as pleasure is closed off that the pleasure that we have is only with Hashem un like the expression is the only one that I want is HEM and it was to point out that in before that he also brings G with another Insight what do G is closed off it's referring to Sur not doing anything negative so says when you're not doing anything negative that's factual you're not doing anything negative here he's talking a whole different level it's referring to the idea of pleasure but the Revolutionary idea in this based on tar is that when it says G not like he explains differently where just s not doing EV V but even the deepest Pleasures we have is only in hasem and with hem now in the there's another commentary on this verse in the prophets called the MS which is one of the classical commentaries on on on the prophets so on this verse he explains that the Jewish people are like a closed off Garden because the only one that can come in is the owner of the garden that's what he gives it that's the of explanation so we have to understand this idea that the garden is pleasure also is also on on a physical level so therefore in the parable that the garden is closed off and and we're saying that basically that they they're closing off their relationship and the only relationship we have is a pleasure relationship with so that's obvious because Garden is pleasure so what what is what is the speak adding by saying that they close it off and the garden and and the garden is closed off he connects it to the idea of what of the garden of and especially that when he say that the garden is closed off literally like the like the simple translation of or the explanation of the is seemingly more it flows more with with the parable he's trying to bring out why because since the garden is closed off is referring to the pleasure that Jewish people have and we what does it mean it's closed off that we're closing off our pleasure we're not having any pleasure from the physical world so seemingly the parable is it applies to a regular Garden so why is the tarum specifically say that g no is referring to the Garden of Eden which obviously referring to a deep level of of of of pleasure inm but that's a natural pleasure ofm here the the point is that even though we're in this world and there's there's places to get lost with our pleasure but no no no we're being focused on Hashem so again back to the question why is you bring the the concept of the Garden of Eden that's exclusively referring to the pleasure of hasem there's well stand is basic on to explain the discourse that when he says the garden is closed off it's just like the concept of when when someone gets married the idea of kin where you become Sanctified to somebody and he explains over there based on what it's known where it says we say in the say we say sanctify us what with your but then when it comes the Torah it says give us a part in the Torah so he explains what is we should be Sanctified that's the expression of kushan of mar of of of of marriage in other words what's the what's the first stage in a marriage the first stage in the marriage is kushin what does kushin mean something that's set aside and something that's that's dedicated in other words that the basically the woman is saying that she's becoming M she's she's mean she's getting ready and she's she's unifying herself to her husband and by making that commitment now no one else can take her that's that's the first concept the first concept the first level of marriages where basically you're committed to this person and therefore obviously no one else then when it says and that's the connection through the become then it says that's already the deeper level that's the next level in the marriage which is basically the actual the actual marriage and know what does that mean that's when you connect on an internal level up to the point the person um draws within him the the the relationship and it becomes it becomes one and that's why it says when it comes to MIT it says K which is the the first phase and when it comes to it says because the when when a person does a mitah the energy you bring down is Mak it hovers over every Mitzvah brings in a Mak energy and the the the the effect that it has in the person is is that that does the Mitzvah is that basically by by by bringing that energy you're disconnecting from any pleasure and in the world and any B and any bad attribute just like for example the first phase of a marriage and know when when a woman Sly gets to her husband what's the main point in the first phase of of of the relationship of the engagement is now you're you're you're not available to anyone else and afterwards you're able to go ahead and internalize the the like the T after you do the MIT part where you basically you're disconnecting from the world you disconnect from pleasure in the world now you can connect to hasm through Torah like it says that the Torah is in my inners which that's the next level of the marriage we have two phases we have and which means so to speak where you're you're committing to this person and obviously no one else and that's like the Mitzvah which brings in the mar of energy and then you have the which the actual relationship and that is where becomes becomes internalized he'd like to add that the comparison of mitz and to engagement and marriage is in two areas two areas one is in the way it flows the energy flows down in other words the energy that flows by doing a Mitzvah in the person that doing Mitzvah so we said before when you do a Mitzvah basically the energy comes down in a Mak way it HS over which is called the engagement and then by learning to becomes internalized so that's the first the fir the first the first the first difference but also in the energy itself that flows down why is that because when the energy that flows through learning T is done more in an internal way much more than mitv up to the point that in Caba it's called the mitz is a level of so to speak it's from the back versus to it's a face Toof face relationship so therefore that's why toy is compared to the to the Real Marriage where basically there's there's a physical connection between the husband and the wife it's literally a physical connection and and the say you can say this is also hinted into the the verse in the expression where it says by saying we should have a part in the T and know when it says aart there's two components one is that the Torah becomes our part we learn T becomes our part and also it's the part of hem and and we know when you touch a part of something you have the whole thing so the the tah takes literally a part of hem comes so to speak part one with us and says he'd like to add this that what what what comes first becomes Sanctified to the Mitzvah which is basically the mark of energy and that comes as an introduction to afterwards internalized so you can say and that's the reason why that before the Jewish people left Egypt so what was the first principle we received in Egypt establishing the calender which what's the idea of establishing the calendar there's a lot of mitz that are associated with it which applies for generations and actually considered one of the one of the mits of why is that because when Jewish people left Egypt even though we didn't re we didn't reach mount mount siia to receive the Tera but the process of receiving the Tera started as soon as we left Egypt so therefore for before we left Egypt we had to be we commanded with many mitz and as that was an introduction from Mountain T that started when we left Egypt and afterwards when we when we left Egypt God gave us the Ten Commandments that we received in Mar on the way which was was basically a preparation for rece receiving the teror literally and generally there was you can say that this what the tah starts with Bas in the beginning God created heaven the world why does it start with that why does it start with the First with first Mitzvah because wanted to tell us that hasem created the world and Hashem basically chose who he wants to give it to and and and and by making that as an introduction to the whole Torah because basically all the most of the Mitzvah are dependent on the land which obviously we received as inheritance from Hashem and you can say this is also the reason that before before the holiday what's howay what how they receive the Torah there's certain mitzvos that that come beforehand for example you have the Mitzvah Passover that comes before and the mid of camping every day and it's just like every single day a person comes a new person but when do you when do you learn T only after you do the MIT every single day it starts over again but you don't just get up and start learning to there's MIT that happen first first you sayma you put Onin if it's during the week you pray Etc and that's every single day the same thing go in the times of the year that the holiday PES every year which that's when the Jewish people are born it come would comes after certain Mitzvah that apply in that time for examp the Mitzvah of a Passover and then you come to the level what of receiving the Tor and he continues on to explain just like when literally when there's a marriage between a man and a woman in a literal level so what happens is in order for the marriage to take place the man has to give her something whether it's uh something worth a penny or something worth a penny Etc and what's the idea the money that he gives her for the marriage it has to be something that she can buy to to to give herself energy in Hebrew it's called something that she can sustain herself so the same thing also with hem theem says that when a person goes ahead and does a Mitzvah literally energy comes within us for the person that does the Mitzvah and like it says clearly in the a person should do the Mitzvah why you should live in them the purpose of every Mitzvah is that we should literally receive life force energy now even though we know mitzah is the will of hem and mitzah we know what's what's the will will is Mak it's from the high levels that's Mak and Mak we know is totally like in a level of Kad it's it's it's Holier and it's disconnected from the world but the fact is even though that's true but from there comes in energy into the human being that does the mitz in a way of a p and internal energy and like like it's understood that the light that comes into human being but by by doing a Mitzvah not only in thought or in speech or in action but literally into the emotions and into our will and into the pleasure will and pleasure referring to obviously K and like we explained before from the from theic discourse that when a person does a Mitzvah you become literally disconnected from all the pleasures in the world and from all the negative behaviors and what we want is we want to be totally connected to Hashem and the only pleasure we want is from Hashem himself but this is only a preparation in the external part of a heart but it's not internalized and that's why we're considered just engaged that's the first level and based on this he explains he like to explain the what why the tarum says that g we saw the G explaining is referring to the Garden of Eden and the only one can come in there is what is the is the souls of the righteous people and because the idea of that we we close off our any our any connection to anything in the world and we want to be connected exclusiv to hasem it means all our pleasure should be just in godliness how do we do that that's by initially bringing in the energy that comes through doing a Mitzvah and that's why he gives the parable of Garden of Eden which is basically referring to the the the deep uh Godly pleasure on high that comes in and through that we're basically dedicated um to to internalize that and everything you can say this is why he brings in in in the discourse in the beginning the the explanation of the tum because this this explanation is a foundation um what what he explains in the discourse that they basically are um connecting specifically to hasem which is connected to the idea of we Sanctified mitzvah and that's the connection between the two and to go even deeper says you're going to say based on with an introduction of the explanation that he they they goes at length and he explains in the discourse where it says give us a part in your Tor which Tor we said already that's already the marriage so he says seemingly um he's explaining that discourse that is really he's focusing more on the part of stif the first level so why is he explaining the second part of which is already the marriage this is on a simple level you can say that this that he explains over here the second part of it it affects the whole idea of g no of of the of the of in the continuation of the word of the verse why because the med says G that the garden is closed off what is that referring to a woman that never had intimacy she's totally a virgin G no is referring to those that already had and the the re explains that the G what does it mean that woman never had intimacy that's someone that's basically engaged and G is is what someone that's already married so he' like to connect this this inside of the that g is together with a verse that it says that I'm going to look at the wonders of why because the main marriage is going to be when in the future mhia comes because why is that we have Tera now because then we're going to have the real Revelation the revelation of of the of the cabala and mysticism we have it now but it's not totally fully revealed now but nevertheless since in this discourse which is basically continuation of the discourse before of M he speaks only about the level of and the explanation of G that he starts afterwards so therefore you can say that this what he explains in theic discourse because through that we're going to the Reas we'll understand deeper that of G and what does that mean he explains like this through the fact that we're going to do the work of G which basically is the first part we're engaged to which basically through the MIT are drawing down the energy and basically we're disconnecting from anything from the world and we committed holy hasem through doing our first part you come to the second part of say which means we internalize and we get internally connected because what happens is the what what the energy that's drawn down through doing a mitah and through that we become Sanctified hasem it's in a way that gives us internal energy and and and and the this internal energy gets revealed in in and through the marriage of so explains based this we can say what does it mean and because is basically the first part referring to the the work of doing the MIT and G is referring to learning T and especially more important not only learning T learning the internal part mysticism Etc and and and these two different avidas of one of doing the MIT which basically creates the Mak of energy and then and that's the K the sanctification and then afterward learning to her which creates the P energy which is basically sanctification the the culmination of the marriage both of these have to be done in the way of of since we're dealing with with his birthday is the second day the year means where to begin with you have to go over the top and like that's the that's the instruction of the of the of the of the and the same thing also in the idea of to go from one level to the next um the level of of of Engagement which is G the first level to and to this NE to the next level of of of of marriage G that when you go from one one level to the next it should be done not just in one step after St should be done over the top and and when a person does the level of a top means you do your part then with great blessings so what happen is when you do your part in a way of the energy that will flow down and the Revelation by doing this work in a way of over the top um even in reference to the even in in in in reference to the of of the person's work that besides the fact that when a person goes ahead and does his part in a way that you put your effort in then you will find tremendous results because the fact is the reward you get is much greater than the effort you put in because because the fact that we know when someone finds something it comes automatic you just you just find it and and and the finding should also be done in the way of should be also over the top finished off and he says should be the will of hem that as we speak about these ideas and especially about this type of work of of do Bringing Down the energy and then internalizing but doing it in the way of off the charts we're going to Merit very very soon for the ultimate Redemption and then we're going to have the completion of we're going to be sanctified and we're going to be have our part through to and we're going to have what does that mean we're going to have the completion of the MIT and over there we're going to do not just like wants us to dovah and we're have the completion of because it says we're have new T is going to come out from hasem and all this is going to happen hasm is not going to hold back even like the blink of an eye and all this is going to happen in a way of over the top that is not going to hold us back even for the blink of an eye and it's going to happen literally um right here right now so here's another beautiful discourse in the rebba let's hope and pray like finishes off that is going to bring the the G and next class will be Ines have a great and blessed week sh