Gimmul Tamuz: The Power the Rebbe Gives us. והנה פרח מטה אהרן Kabbalah by Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz

Welcome to our class onus. We're going to be learning a beautiful discourse in the Reb. The name of the discourse is called the Reb said this discourse of that year was the second day of the month of Thomas in the year 51 years ago. So again the discourse is based on the verse where it says pakin the staff of blossomed. He's in the tribe of Levi and it gave off um almonds. Alman's groove from the staff and it's explained in from the alterb on on this Torah portion and at length from the mitzvah of the and as well as from so he explains over there that this sign of the staff of Aaron was specifically almonds because almonds are something that grows very very quickly more than any other fruit and any other wheat and that's why it's called that's one of the reason why it's called is called shak the is called Because it comes from the expression of quickly like in the prophet when he prophesied he said mak I see a staff of almonds and he said the reason why I see that is because hashem is going to do what he's going to do very very quickly and the idea of quickly that's a sign for the priests because when the priests give a blessing the energy that comes from the blessing comes very very quick why is that because there are certain blessings and certain energies that has to go through the different levels ofos different worlds different spir until it comes down has to go go through many many levels. But what happens when something goes through levels, it's very possible it can get stopped. It can get stuck somewhere. And uh however when the when the light and the energy comes from from high and comes through Aaron's blessing or any other priest's blessings so then it comes very very quick and there's nothing stopping it like brings the verse. It comes down very very quick and and the and the light and the energy comes from the way it's on high. It comes down to the lowest level. There's two points. One is it comes very quickly and number two it comes to the it comes down to the lowest levels. It doesn't doesn't get stuck anywhere. Now the reason why is that because the source of this energy that the is blessing comes from a place which is called an abundance of kindness which inab a very very high level which is above the level of that's why it has the power to go right through it. And therefore when it comes down it comes in a way where there's no no one's stopping it. No one's blocking it. And like the analogy if you have like a big stream of water that's gushing down it comes so strong and you can't stop it. It'll it will knock over whatever whatever whatever is in the way. And that's the power of the pri priestly blessings. Now says this story of the uh of the sign of the staff of Aaron comes after the argument of Kyak. Why? Because what was the argument of Kaiak? Kyak's argument was that the Levite should also be on a level of a priest. Now what is a Levite spiritually? Gura disciplined. Kak wanted that the flow should come through gura discipline severity. But what happened after the argument with kayak? What was clarified? No that what's the main thing flow of energy comes not through gur comes through the kayenim comes through the priest comes through and the work of the Levite not that the believers don't have a job they have a job their job is to help the so they are basically secondary to the priest but the main flow of energy comes from the comes from the it comes quick and it comes down to the lowest places why is that because the work of the Levites which we said is gur discipline what is that in the spiritual That's called ratsui. That's elevating from below on high. It's like leaving running away from reality. What's the source of that? The source is gur is on the left side. Above that it's the intellect of imo which is mother which is bina and like it says in the z based in the verse who that what what is who is referring to it's referring to atik why because at gets revealed in bina and which is connected to to gura to gura and bina is all about rats is is all about the escape and that's why the levites had they serve in the temple with singing and with with with their mouth and with different instruments what's the idea of a song or a song is also leave leaving this world and like the it says in the all the bal means they go out it's all about leaving it's all about the escape the is just the opposite they're bringing down the energy into this world they're bringing my l and up to the point they bring it down very very quickly and there's nothing in the way and it goes down to the lowest level and this is what was revolutionized over here after the argument kayak came the sign of the staff of Aaron that the iron is the main Because the main thing is that the energy should come down and it should come down very very quickly. Now that's the priest. But here the revolutioniz something beautiful and he says all the Jewish people are called the kingdom of priest and matter of fact's job is to affect all the Jewish people and like it says to elevate the candles which means that Aaron's job was to elevate all the seven types of candles which is all the seven types of the Jewish people. So what do we see practically in our service of God that our service has to be in a way that which come down everything should come down very quickly that we should do what we have to with power and we we with strength and we shouldn't be intimidated by anything that's holding us back and anything's creating concealment or stopping the flow and like the Reb says like the famous expression is when you go to war you go with a march of success and then you'll be sure to be successful. Now this is a very very tall order. Says that in order to be on this level which means practically not to be intimidated from anything that's stopping success you have to you need power from the leader of the generation and says you can say that this is the the idea which the which is discussed in the discourse called minar which the which was said in the tough so and and this discourse it gives us power for this type of serving hem and it explains it. We're going to go into like a cabalistic journey now in thatic discourse he points out and he says you know the verse that says from the depths I call that anony hashem responded to me from yudk in other words says one second when you pray and and you call out to hashem you're calling to awaken compassion upon yourself so there was based on that one second we know which name of god is compassion yudk vk So why does it say only half the name seemingly should said like the verse says what do we call we call so why is it we're going through a struggle it only says which is only the first two letters of of the of God's name also in a verse where it says have trust in Hashem and And that's why it says until why is the power of the world. What is it? What what is it seemingly coming out from the verse that this that you have to have trust in hem forever because y is the power of the world. One second. We're having trust in hashem because of yudk. Obviously there's something very very powerful and idea powerful in the first two letters of Hashem's name and never says we're going to we're going to explain it as follows this that it says we have trust in hemiad so it's explained in the comment in the explanation of the zy of the two different insights and he explains as follows one insight is that ad is everlasting everlasting means it's the concept of time what in concept of time which spir is associated with time because malus is a source for time. So therefore based on based on the fact that is a source of time. So which we said again is is everlasting which is a source of time that why am I having trust ine because from which is connected to time you know from the level of sphere of which we know is connected to the idea of theina and when a person is in the level of what acceptance so then your acceptance makes you a vessel for the like alter explains in Tanya and therefore because you're in the level acceptance and now you become a vessel for the and therefore you can have trust that Hashem is going to fulfill your request and this power that Malus has is because Malus obviously received from and is is strength. So in other words what is the reason why having trust for Hashem is coming from Malus. However, from the spheres of which is Makif compared to the sphere of of the spirit of of the zoom which is the six meters and and and the fact is it's higher than something we we can we we can we we can connect to like for example like it says on on a level of intellect I mean it was a difference if Hashem does this or if they tells you to slaughter from the neck or from the back part of the neck and that's what he said which tech almost like a negative thing. Why? Because K um he's the power of the world. So you you can't have trust. Why? Because that's something we can't reach. So the first insight what what he's saying over here that um that that we we how are we connecting to Hashem is coming from because again not from the level of and based on this insight we'll understand why he says why it's good to have be talking to Hashem and then having faith trust in people because The um the div over there is referring to the level of however when it comes to um the Z which we said again is is is the the small face which is which is the six me connect over there you could have trust ine the level of but not in um is called so that's the first insight that again theem comes from where from the but from there's no that's not where the talking comes from but there's another insight not the odd just the that what is referring to this question is referring to the the sphere of which is above and like like the explain that on the contrary because way things flow had trust in Hashem there's there's reasons calculations things get stuck but when you connect to above yes you could be from and that's why it says God doesn't sleep is in other words the the is the Jewish people that's that's the small face what is the one that hovers over what is doesn't sleep the shame doesn't hover that's the mak which is higher and specifically from that level you can want you can have the trust in hem so what do we learn that this that there's two when you have trust the point to the first insight the trust is coming from acceptance not from the second insight trust is coming from above Reb says he'd like to uh connect these two insights based on the idea that in itself there's two levels like it says means there's two levels in you have one until and and and is included and then you have and it's not included. What does that mean? So there's two levels in Keter. there's the lower part and there's arctic the higher part or in other terms it's called which is and so from the level of things can things can leech out and like the verse says the other and and and and leeches out into into the chamber. So therefore because it leeches out you can't have trust trust. So where is where is trust specifically the level of and from the higher level that's where we that's where the flow of energy comes to the Jewish people like it says connecting you no one is connected there okay now so where's the trust come from now the idea of it flows into and like explained in in the where it says god took out of Egypt with a with a strong hand with an outstretched arm. Why? How is that? But through the fact that that um came were connected to the level of in other words they flow it flows in from the level of of and it comes in an internal level and the level of of and then we God was able to take us out out of Egypt. So based on the second insight when it says from is different. In other words, that we can have the trust in which is in the internal part of why because because that comes down into which is what the letters of. So explains like this before we learned on one hand comes from where from the other hand we learn from never explains what's the ultimate yes we have which comes from but the goal is that it should come into the level of the level of it has to penetrate through and that's what he explains in the discourse over there that this that's possible to be blockages that comes when when when the light fills the world but when you reach over there you can have trust and you can have trust that's going to pierce through anything that's blocking and that's why he says know when a person's going through a struggle and a person's going through a challenge and a person's going through tremendous pain pain up to the point you can't handle anymore so where do you call hey which means you go straight to above because you're going with trust complete trust amazing trust and you're going in the right way and you're not being intimidated from anybody that's scoffing you. Like it says clear in don't be don't be embarrassed from any anybody and you're not embarrassed from the level like like we know Malik is the same the same numerical value as doubt that comes to bring doubt. We're not intimidated on the contrary you break anything that's giving you anything obstacles and not only you break it but you actually transform it to good with the power of Torah because Torah gives us the power to make bring peace in the world and we go ahead and we elevate all the sparks in the world and that's why the verse says Well, what does that mean? The Ain staff gave gave for sprout sprouted off after the argument what came strong the quickness that came through Ain and like the analogy of of a of a water that that comes rushing down. There's nothing that can get in the way and it literally breaks through in a strong way and the and the flow comes very very quickly. There's nothing that's holding it back and it's going to be in a way of when we call out to Hashem from we reach the highest level that specifically from the from the challenges and from the struggles we have we find the power and the strengths to call out and through that when we call that Hashem will answer us from the level of so here we have another beautiful powerful discourse in the rebba the power that we have to reach out from the depths and to reach to the highest place above just like the priest and we bring down quick to the lowest levels and let's hope and pray that we all pray and like says we have the kayak from theb to reach this level and we'll have the coming of Msiah and next class will be inesh have a great and blessed week shabu