How can we fix the Spies Mistake? להבין ענין הנסכים A New Kabbalah class by Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz

welcome to this week's class in we're going to be learning a beautiful discourse in theb the name of the discourse is called the Reb said this discourse on that year was the 23rd day in the month of it was also Shabbat that blessed the month of Tam in the year which was 37 years ago begins and he says to to understand the IDE of the the Libations that speaks about the end of this week's Torah portion again the Torah portion of of so it says over there as follows when you're going to come into the land of your dwelling so it speaks about the the Mitzvah of the Libations that were brought on the altar says we have to understand what's the connection of the the Torah the Torah portion that deals and speaks about Libations with the story of the decree of the the the uh the spies not going into the land of Israel right before that what's the connection between do now D says in the med it says that this Torah portion is coming to take away the Brokenness that unfortunately the Jewish people could have had after the the the the the the issue with the spies because what happened was we were broken we was the spies and we cried so therefore it comes along now and it tells us guess what what relax you're going into the land of Israel you're going to come even though they sinned and even though they brought back a bad report even though you cried and you wind but nevertheless you're still going to go into the land of Israel that's what the med say one second we have to understand the fact is going into the land of Israel that's mentioned this tah Portion by the by by the lia it's obviously talking about in order to bring the Libations you have to be in Israel and when the time were in Israel but it's not really talking about going into the land of Israel it's talking specifically more about Libations so then back so therefore brings back to the question what's the connection with the Libations and despies also since we know the to is considered it's the the wisdom and understanding in front of the Nations so obviously you have to say that there is a reason that that the two parti of the Libations and the the the the the the spies um there's a connection because the fact is the liation didn't happen till 39 years later and why is it since didn't happen so many years later why is it why is it talking about right next to the Moraga okay so say is explain this idea is explained in theic discourses and he starts off with from the Al and the discourses from from the and from the and they start off with an introduction about the whole idea of the Libations in other words that we're going to understand the idea of elevations based on what it says in kazal that whoever whoever recites shma without putting Onin is as if you brought a carbon o a sacrifice that was totally burned to Hashem um without the Libations and um and and or a different type of sacrifice without without without without Libations in other words there with two Mitzvah the Mitzvah to sayma and Mitzvah to where filling so if you just go ahead and sayma and you don't you don't put on filling that's like bringing a sacrifice without the without the Libations in other words this that he Compares saying to a carbon o a sacrifice and and andin he Compares it to a car Libations so it's self-understood that the Revolutionary idea of the Libations compared to the sacrifices is like the Revolutionary idea of filling over shma and then if that's the case that so now we have already a hint that what do you have sacrifices and you have Libations you have shma and you have the in so if you want to know what the Libations are let's learn about kishma shma which that will tell us about the sacrifices we'll learn about filling spiritually and that will teach us what the Libations are every explains as follows we know that what's the whole idea of shma when someone said shma spiritually it's called elevating and I'll say it in Hebrew I'll translate it you're elevating the physical world on high which as we know when you say when person say one God and you're willing to give over your life to to the one God it means you're willing elevating the physical world the materialistic world the coarse world to hasem however what's the idea ofin is bringing back godliness into the world why because what's the Mitzvah of putting on is that we have to dedicate our mind and our heart Hebrew it's called in other words the whole essence of is to bring down godliness in our mind and our heart so you see it's polar opposite shma is all about I want to leave the world elevating the world to hem filling is no no let's bring godliness into the world bring godliness into my mind into my heart not only that when we find but it comes to Fillin so you have the you put on your hand and filling you put on the head what's the main Fillin the one you put on the head and like we see clearly the ramom writes when it comes to the when he when he discusses the obligation of putting on fill on the hand and the head he discusses first the one on the head because that's the that's the that's the mvah now even though in the verse it says about putting the one on the hand first and actually you put on the one in the hand first but nevertheless the Rah talks about the the head first why because the main MIT is the head and not only that when it comes to putting on Fillin so you have the straps that come from the head we know it goes down it goes down it goes down it hangs down in front of you and the the scraps go like this so basically you have the box on the head in the Box you have the parot and then you have the straps which are connect which which go through the box which is connected to parot and they they come down and they hang in front of you when when when on the other hand when you the the T that you put on your hand you wrap it around your hand it stays on your head no so basically it's really connected to the hand but however when it comes to the one on the head it actually comes down to a lower level what does what does that mean it's coming down to low lower level physically so physically it's coming down to a physical lower level but spiritually is the goal is to bring it down to the lowest places Bringing Down the energy down to the lowest physical places and like like kazal tell us that for example you shouldn't put your hand underneath underneath your stomach or like for example the famous part of the tal where it says that from the from half of your body and up that's connected to Herm which is a which is on the which is a positive energy and from the from the half on the bottom is like a which is which is a negative energy and and and and and and so so you see what do you see that the idea of the which the main one is the goal is to bring it down what to the lowest level and here in and in in that itself you have what there there's two there's two um um straps that come down which one is corresponds to surra going away from Evil and the other one is doing good which basically is right and left and it's all about bringing God down into going away from Evil and to doing good in the world so in other words what do you see what's the whole idea of Fillin Fillin is to Bringing Down God and godliness into this physical materialistic world now the truth is that shma when you say shma and you wein technically it's two different mitz why because it's possible to say without like for example we see every Shabbat in every y we don't wear we still sayma on the other hand it's possible to put on without saying shma like for example there a Jewish law that if somebody's going outside in Shabbat and you see Fillin so you can you can you can you put on one pier and you bring it inside you take the other one you bring it inside so the purpose of putting on thein is not to say shma the purpose is to bring it inside so you see that is one Mitzvah andma is another Mitzvah so that's the Revolutionary idea where it says that when you have to have shma within in other words what's the idea why shma with if you can sayma sayma I put on I'm bringing on godliness because the goal is to have the unification of both and as you're unifying both both different spiritual activities on the other hand you want to leave thrilling you want to bring it down and you're unifying two opposite forces at one time and like we know that's when a person serves hem you have to serve hem not just in one way or not just in another way you serve Hashem in both one hand you want to leave this world you want to connect to Hashem and the other hand you want to bring God into the world like in the cabalistic term it's called right you want to leave and you want to bring godliness in the world and that's kishma you want to leave and filling you want to bring it back in and like we find when when God gave the Torah to the Jewish people that in the beginning when God gave it it was so powerful that our souls left our body but then Hashem brought us back in So on one hand Hashem gave a powerful energy we wanted to leave on the other hand said no you got to stay into this world and that's the Revolutionary idea that you have to have the unification of two opposites and like we find in t where it says that that on the from the right there's in other words that you have the right and on the other hand you have fire right is more and fire is more is more leaving so you have basically the r and the leaving and coming back together because T is really what it's all one leaving and coming back and drawing in the energy in the world it's all the same thing and that's why it says God says I'm gonna go amongst you so it says plural there's two types of going on one hand we're going we're bringing godliness into the world on the other hand what we're elevating the world and they're both in the same world God's going both ways he's leaving and coming in our job is to leave and go in so when we put on kishma when we say we put Onin at one moment we're trying to leave the world but then again we're trying to bring God and his back into the world and that's the power of saying shma and putting Onan it's like two opposites either we want to leave ecstasy or we want to bring godliness here and the answer is yes we want to do both at the same time how do we do it and that's the power of saying shma while you're waiting to fill in So based on this we'll understand the connection of a carbon and which we said it's two opposites and we said it's connected idea ofish why because a carbon o a sacrifice and a elation is also the same two ideas of trying to leave and bringing in like krishma andin why is that because when it comes to the difference between a sacrifice and Libations well how does that work when you take a sacrifice you brought on the altar with fire so the everything gets burnt and it gets burnt to Hashem a carbon all gets burnt to Hashem on the other hand so that's you're taking the physical world and you're taking it out of this world on the the other what's a liation is to bring down into this world they would pour um on the Altar and it would go down go go down into the trough and from there it go down to the lowest level to literally to the lowest level so just like krishma is trying to leave the world and is coming back to the world the same thing also carb is leaving and is bringing it back in So based on this we'll understand the the connection of the of the of of the Torah portion that speaks about the Libations um is because the purpose of Libations as we said is to bring it down into this world and it's not enough trying to to leave the world and as you want to take all the highest levels and like explain theic discourse is that what what when when they when you brought a liation what was the ingredients there was oil and what's the spiritual significance of oil oil we know is connected to the sphere of they would bring wine and wine is connect to the sphere of Bina and then they would bring flour which is connect to the sphere of Das so between the oil the wine and the flow is and like we know what it says that a child doesn't know how to call his father until he tastes tastes the grain which is which it says no which is connect that sphere of and the Libations is high levels and you bring it down till the lowest level into the Earth okay so what we learned so far that just like krishma is about leaving the world f is bringing it in a sacrifice is about leaving elevating the world and liation is bringing it in but what are you bringing you're bring in the highest levels so now we're going to understand the connection between the Libations and the Torah portion that speaks about the miragul the spies what's the connection because this that the morim wanted to stay in the desert and they didn't want to go into the land of Israel why was that because they were very very high level and like it's explained theic discourses the the powerful high level the the the Des spies were in other words when they were in the desert they were on a very very spiritual level and they didn't want to go into the land of Israel over there you have to work the land for six years you have to work the vineyard for six years and like literally there's there's an expression from who says and this was his expression I'll say it in Hebrew I'll translate you're going to sit you're going to work in the field you're going to plant in the field what's going to be with T so they in the desert they just they loved it they didn't have to work they just were able to learn Terra to connect to Hashem they were they were totally cleaving to Hashem not only that even the materialism they had in the desert was also on a very high level because we know the bread they had was from Heaven and the water was from where from the from from The Well of Miriam and even the Clouds Of Glory they weren't just to protect them but they actually added added dignity to the Jewish people and these clouds were always there they they they was it was always there to protect them so they were very very high level he liked to add even because it says when they were they when they were in the desert it says they traveled based on what hem told them to travel and they they they stop when hasm told them to stop in other words they were always fulfilling the Mitzvah of hm whatever they were doing they were doing hem they Camp they were camped they with Hashem they were traveling with Hashem not only that when the it says in the tal since it says that they camped based on um what hasem told them and they traveled based on the way hasm told them so when they were there they were fully there even though they were there for a short time because hm was with them and say we know the the the the saying of the previous rebba the reference to the spiritual work um today that even though messiah's coming so it's just like the the way the Jewish people did the spiritual work in the in the Tabernacle cuz sometimes they were they only in in a place for one day and like the verse says that there were times that there was the literally the cloud was there from the evening till the morning and then they would travel and then when they but even if they were there for one day they established a full Tabernacle and the full with all the bells and whistles um and ju just like they they when they camp for example in kardes B they did for 19 years so it was a full encampment when they did it for one day they did it also fully for one day so if it was one day or 19 years Hashem was fully present with them always so in other words whenever they when they were in the desert they were totally connected Alem they were totally with hem so the a the the the the Jewish people in the desert the the generation of the spies they were totally connected to in the most powerful ways not only that it wasn't only in a way that they were established in in one place but and and boom they they weren't growing no but they were like says they were going they were continuing growing in their relation with hem because we know there's a commandment in Torah to you have to constantly Elevate so therefore the Ang the the the spies the generation of the desert they wanted to stay in the desert why would they want to go into Israel into the land of Israel but they have to work for six years and then only at the seventh year you have shabas but in in the desert the whole time it was shabas for and therefore they said like like like just like said a person's going to plow a person's going to work what's going to be they just wanted to cleave to hasem and that's why the midur called a place a person didn't dwell there what does that mean it means it was it's not in the level of Adam of man but it was even higher cuz Adam is is spelled with three letters Al and it's the same letters of very which means with all your might which is without any without without any without any limits so therefore the the the Des spies um they don't want to stay over there and and they they they um and that's why they wanted to stay in the desert and to serve Hashem on that level and could grow in the serving hem and they don't want to go into the land of Israel so now because we realize how powerful and how entrenched were in the avoid of what they just wanted to cleave to hem in the desert they were cleaving to hem and cleaving higher and they getting higher and higher to hasem and that's why Hashem put the Torah portion of the Libations right after the spies why because in order to fix what the mirlin were doing you have to do just the opposite and what was the opposite no we have to go into the land of Israel and over there to deal with the Libations which basically means bringing down godliness physically into this world so that's the first the first idea that what the goal of go the reason whym put the two together the spies and the Libations because the spies was all about they wanted to leave and that was a big mistake because you need to come down and that's what we have the S is to bring you down and to create the fusion of the two every goes on step further says this you could also say that the connection between the Torah portion of the and the Torah portion of the spies it's not only that when they went into the land of Israel and they did the the spiritual work of the Libations is to fix the the the sin of the spies but it's even more that it's even deeper which is actually a continuation that what the Jewish people were in the in in in in the desert like like like the spies that wanted and he explains like this this that the Jewish people were in the desert for 40 years on this very very high level cleaving to Hashem no physical work no distractions of cleaving their sh know what does that mean that was actually a preparation of going into the land of Israel and the spiritual work in the land of Israel because specifically when they went ahead and they they did their work of they were totally dedicated to Cle to hasem and as they want to do the will of hem in the desert so through by doing that work in a very very strong way you could have afterwards the the work the the the opposite work of work with the world and bringing the bringing godl to the world in a complete level and say you can say this is like this is like um like the explanation what it says um in many many places that the expression is that the the decree of these spies was that they were they were 40 years in the desert so the question is one second the fact is they were only 39 years in the desert because one was the one was the one was the the decree against the spies that was the second year when they left Egypt and now only yet in the second year wasn't the first month it wasn't in in in the month of Nissan it was it was the months afterwards so why is it called it 40 years if it wasn't full 40 it was only 39 and less than 39 why is it called 40 years because when we say 40 we're not talking about only the physical counting of 40 years we're talking to the spiritual component of 40 which we know 40 is connected to what to the idea of the sphere of as it says clearly in ethics of our fathers When You Reach 40 you reach level of of of being understanding in other words cuz the Revelation that took place in the desert what what Revelation was in the desert what was shining in the desert the was shining the sphere ofina and when they came into the land what's the are to show what which sphere is the land of Israel connect to it's connected to the sphere of malas so the desert was Bina in the land of Israel's malus and and as we know erat is come from the expression of malas so therefore you have to have in order to go into the land of Israel and to go into malus you have to go through the other spheres first and therefore you have to have beina first like the verse says first you have to go from the mother which is represented by Thea and then you go into to the which is Mal but so even though be is on a higher level and you have to go first into the desert beina and then you can come into so Mal but we all know it says afterwards the which is Mal is going to be much stronger and what is it referring to Mal is going to be stronger and know that even though again beina is higher nor go to you have to go first through beina but the fact is when in order to reach the great Revelation the great accomplishment what's going be like in the future you specifically have to go through malus as we know that it says clearly when Mia comes strangers are going to come and they're going to take they're going to take care of our pasture like he's going to explain soon what that means but the point he's bringing out is that even though again Bina comes first that's why we went to the desert and then we have to go to the land of Israel which is malos but the ultimate goal is through malos you go you go to even a higher level and that so based on this he explains that's the connection between bringing the story of the the Libations and the story The of the spies because after you have the the the introduction that was the Creed upon they're going to be in the desert because of the spies which means you had the introduction of the spiritual work in the desert which means working on the spir on on the spear abina then you come to the land that you're going to dwell in which means to go into the land and you have to deal with physical things and not only physical things specifically the Libations because what's the Revolutionary idea again of Libations compared the sacrifice which means bringing it down to the lowest level because when they were in the desert they were elevating and that's why they in the desert they they they were instruct to bring sacrifices which that's about you know burning burning the the flesh elevating on high but when they came into the land of Israel over there they had to deal with the physical world that's why they were commanded to go ahead and to bring the Libations there one second we have to understand what did we just learn before that the the the spies was a huge mistake why cuz even though it's being and you're connecting to God but that's a big mistake because the ultimate is to come down into the physical world and transform the physical world Elevate the world and like it's brought down in in the discourses based on what it says in the talud in reference to what the talud speaks about what the rash says a person Works a person plans what's going to be with so it says that many people did like that they were busy just in learning T they didn't deal with the physical world but it says also they weren't successful but many did like which means they worked the land they were involved in materialism and they were successful why cuz ultimately hasem wants us to deal with the world say one second but the fact is what does it say later on in in the same piece of tal it speaks about the difference between the first Parma and the second Parma and what does it say it says the G you're going to gather the the corn so the question is one second are we supposed to be busy elevating the world and the answer is that the first speaks about when the Jewish people do do the will of hem so then um The Strangers will come and they'll they'll gather it all in for you however um in in the future Messiah comes when that promise is going to be fulfilled so then we're going to behave like rash and like literally like that's what the that's what the spies want to do that they're not going have to do they're not going to have to deal with it and as who's going to deal with it the nations of the world are going to deal with it so one second so we are we supposed to be elevating the world if that's the case how come mashia comes we're not going to be elevating the world the The Strangers are going to deal with elevating the world if we just learned the whole idea the mistake was they they wanted to cleave to hm they didn't want to elevate the world so that's the case what's this holy mhia comes we're not going to have to elevate the world and explains beautifully he say like this he'd like say and he says it's possible explanation that this that we have to go ahead and Elevate the physical world that the reason why we have to elevate the world is to reveal the power that the Nish has the power that the soul has what does that mean youever say like this just like on high when Hashem decided he wanted to create the world and create a world that that God has concealed so he had when he decided he wanted to create the world was all the it was all there he saw the whole vision of planning so why do you have to Plate the world hasm wanted to create the world fine in his mind he create the world why do you have to physically create the world but nevertheless even though in theory he he saw he could he couldn't visualize what he wanted to create but he had to go ahead and create all the different levels of of concealment and contraction and light why to show that hasem to reveal the his his powers that he that he's not limited just to um but literally he can go ahead and create a world with God Is concealed and and not just conceptually but in reality it should be revealed so the same thing also when it comes to our spiritual work that we have a soul which is a part of God so we have to reveal the soul that the soul has tremendous power that's not only a soul that can learn to and do mitz and meditate and pray but no the soul comes down to the physical world it comes from the highest places to the lowest places and especially Al explains in T and that the the when the soul comes down here it's not only it's so low that it's actually an exile and I explained that many places the the power and the the depth of The Descent that it goes down to so why do why is the soul come down here to show the power the soul has and in order to show the power the soul has it has to come down lower and lower into the material world to show the real power of the Soul it's not limited only to high to Great Things So based on this explains beautifully say says since the whole idea of this of coming down into this physical world and with all the challenges and all the struggles Etc is to show the power of the soul the soul wherever it is it's connected to hashm and the Soul can be there but after we went ahead and we did our vo the soul came down and we know the Soul's strong we know it not conceptually it could do it we know it did it so you don't have to do it anymore and therefore the the the what's going to happen with Messiah comes the real gift is not about coming down into this world but that we're going to have that the nations of the world are going to go ahead and take care of everything physical that we need sh explains beautifully and he says ultimately yes right now the reason why we have to come down to this world to elevate the world is to show the power of the Soul that's not limited only to great things it can even deal with the materialistic World once we know and we proved it's battle tested the sh can do it done job done then M comes we get us busy with holy things I never finish off and he said should be the will of hem that by learning about these ideas and as we know that just like when somebody learns about the about the the laws of a carbon oil law it's if you brought that sacrifice so the same thing also when you learn about the laws of the Libations if you brought the Libations and but when you when you bring the the the carbon and the the carbon so you're literally elevating all four domains the like explained at length in the TR and so therefore we fill the we should fill the promise that hasem is going to take us standing upright and over there going do the wit of hem andm is not going to hold us back even like literally like the blink of eye with the coming of mhia and it's going to happen very very soon and very very quickly in a real way so here we have another beautiful discourse how we have the power to go ahead and fix what the spies try to do to stay away from the world and really get involved in the world but remember that we're involved in the world just to show the real power of the but ultim comes we're all going to be we're only going to deal with elevating the world and connecting to God in the most greatest ways and like said should happen very very soon and God willing our next class will be your shes have a great and blessed week sh