Jacob's Best Years were in Egypt. How so? A New Kabbalah class by Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz

welcome to our class on siddhis we're going to be learning this week a beautiful hasidic discourse on the rubber the name of the civic discourse is called yakov the rebbe said this crosstalk discourse in shabbos passes by it was the 16th day of the month of tavis in the year tough shin memzayin 35 years ago so again the acidic discourse is based on the verse the opening verse in this week's torah portion where it says his total life span was shiva shot in for seven years where i bought him in my ass shauna 140 years trevor said it's known the question that's asked what is the idea that the torah is telling did yaakov us where was he alive and sorry i am in the land of egypt in other words what the term is really saying is that the main life the most important part of yakiv's life where he lived was in egypt but there ever says one second we know that before he came down to the land of egypt he also lived a great life up until the point we know the torah says lived in the land of of his of his ancestors in other words and the expression that's used is by yeshiva so the yeash literally means he's sad but the yeshiva also comes the word vishwas he was calm he was peaceful where was he coming peaceful where was he by yeshev where was he most relaxed in the in the in the in the land of his ancestors where his parents lived so if that's the case what does it mean that yaka is best life for the land of egypt and especially especially that we know the the ghazal t translate and explain that that the verse by yeshiva that yaakov said which means he me shalva he was totally at peace and as we know the chest jaka because he wanted to be calm and relax and be at peace and because of him trying to totally over relax that's why he had all the challenges with joshua sadiq so you see that he was relaxed barrett's maguriya in the land of his ancestors not necessarily the land of egypt so the question is how come over here specifically when it talks about the land of in other words that specifically in the land of egypt he lived beforehand he didn't live now seemingly you can say that this is why the reason why it says that yaakov lived in the land of egypt it's referring to not his total life he lived in the land of egypt for 17 years these 17 years while he was in the land of egypt he lived sure says besides the fact we know that the altar writes in the torah and he says that the best years of yak ever won when he was in the land of egypt but even more seriously we can't say that it's just referring to these 17 years i never gives two reasons reason one is because it's brought down in many many places that 17 numerically is the same numerical value as 12 good total spelt of three letters tess above these nine six and two which equals seventeen so seventeen represents good in its core so in other words obviously if it's if it says seventeen years it's not just talking in a miracle numerical number of seventeen then he says good years his best years were in egypt and it's brought down kabbalah in many places the 17 years that yaakov lived in egypt is to atone and to fix so to speak and elevate where it says about yo sadiq when it says yo he was 17 years old so to fix up what went on with joseph's childhood when he wasn't getting along with his with siblings so yuck of those 17 years in egypt not only were they great years but they actually fixed years of the past so that's one reason why you can't say it's only referring to the 17 years of land of the beach because those years were great years another reason because what does it say afterwards by he may afraid this was the days of jacob and it gives a total years of yaakov in other words so these 17 years that he lived in egypt those were his that's what his life was even though technically you can say it's going on later but you see that there is a connection to the 17 years of egypt so again the question is what is this about of 17 years in line in the future was saying this is this is where he lived i never asked another question we know that um when if you give a look when it counts the years of yaakov so it starts off um it starts off with the lower number and then it goes to the heart to the higher number so for example what does it say in the verse it says in the verse um uh the days of yaakov are shavasana it goes from the number seven it goes up to 40 and it goes to 100. versus all throughout the term when it mentions the lifespan of people so it starts on the bigger number the hundredth number to the lower number and to the lower number so how come over here but yakir does it start with a lower number from seven going up to forty going up to a hundred so java says the point the essence of the explanation is as follows and here's a powerful insight and a concept of this do you ever say this we know that the and i'll say it in hebrew i'll translate it means the ultimate intention the reason why hashem created this world is as brought in kabbalah and zoa and a desire we know is coming from deep within the soul the highest sphere of tanuk so god had a desire what was his desire to have a dwelling place and a which is called what does it mean doesn't mean physically lower it means a place where god is concealed so god had this desire he wanted to create a world a world where god is not concealed it's going to be called i mean there's no there's no revelation of god and specifically where there's no revelation of god where god is concealed that's where god's presence should be felt where is that practically right here in this physical world there's no physical world there's no coarse world there's no materialistic world there's no world but god is as concealed as in this world so god wanted specifically in this world where the default setting is not god not godliness not spirituality we should make this world a godly world a spiritual world a holy world and that's god's desire that's what god wanted that's his dream that's his wish like there are brings from tanya the alpha writes that there's many worlds there's the world about what's the difference in the world in nature's god is more mainly revealed and the concealment is very little brie already is more of a concealment yet syria more of a concealment in the world garcia is the greatest concealment so the higher worlds alter rights attila's brief that's like a downgrade for god why because in the highest world insulin for god is the infinite light god is totally revealed so not since he's concealed but it's not his dream yet brie is more concealed but still not his dream you'd see her god's concealed so it's not his dream so it's like a downgrade for him this world god is totally concealed ah that's what god wants because god wants to be felt and his presence should be available and real in this specific world however in this world even though god's totally considered you can say so why is it considered an elevation the answer is because in this world but god is concealed and it's a hundred percent that you read that so to speak are downgraded but the purpose of the ground grade is for an elevation or hebrew you read that sarah khalia so you read this world's urea it's the greatest you read it's the greatest downgrade but the purpose is for the elevations the higher worlds it's a downgrade there's no elevation in this world it's a huge downgrade but since there could be an elevation so that's why this is the world that god wanted and that's why based on cerebric science that's why yaakov avinu went went down to egypt why did he go down to egypt so you read the simple story he went there was an issue they had no food and so on and so forth that's not the real reason why the real reason why yaakov went down to egypt was to make a dwelling face for god in egypt where god is mainly concealed and down there to to learn and to pray and to do mitzvos and god should be revealed in other words what does mitsch trying represents represent besides the fact that it refers to the concealments and the constraints from on a spiritual level but it actually refers to with these constraints and concealments of literally in this physical world up until this concealments and constraints even in simple things basic things god has concealed and obviously in literally in the land of egypt which is called airbasarets it's the most lowest place in the world with the greatest unfortunate sins and rebellion against god exists but the reason why yaakov went down to egypt what was his intent for going down to egypt to make a dwelling place for god down there we're in the land of egypt so in other words like this just to recap what the herb is saying is the main reason why god created the world is dear with we should make a dwelling place for god down in this world once that vision is clear so now it's very clear yaakov went down to egypt for one reason one reason only that god should be revealed in a place where god's concealed and based on this to be explained so beautifully that's why it says if you know where yaakov really lived in the land of egypt why because the main life of yaakov and his best good life good years were was specifically in the land of egypt what do you mean but egypt such a low place for god is concealed that there's such corruption and such a rebellion against god yes exactly in the place where it's corrupt and the place where god is concealed but what was yaakov doing there yaakov was fulfilling god's dream and god's desire to make a dwelling place down in that place of egypt so that's the true life of yaakov since yaakov is all about making a dwelling place for god so any place where god's concealed and where god is really concealed or deeply concealed but the darkest hole is and jakob can make a place for for a dwelling place for god that's that's the greatest enjoyment that's the great life you can live life is about bringing light into darkness so if you're living in a bright place what kind of life is it but you're living in a dark place and you're living in a place that struggles and challenges and you bring godliness that's called real life in other words why is that because we know it's brought down in zlatan and it says that the obvious abram their whole essence and their whole being was and i'll say it in hebrew they were bottle le la cost they were totally um humbled and connected to god they didn't exist the only thing that existed was it was hashem and as we know it says clearly how obvious the others the the patriarchs the matriarchs they are the charity for god in other words they were just dear just to serve god and bring god and godliness to the world so therefore what is their life what is the life of the obvious nemo is what is the life of the patriarchs in the matriarch matriarchs is fulfill the intention of hashem that in dark places and in the darkest of places god should be revealed now since the ultimate intent is to make a dwelling for place for god down in this world and where was that in the land of egypt so therefore that's where many main years of yakubu are that's why because where was he alive he was alive in the dark place and he was busy bringing light there in places where it's light okay he lived there very nice but when he went down to egypt and he had the opportunity to bring light to darkness that's when he started to live that was his best life the other was going to make it practical because that's obviously awkward in the past with egypt but the fact is we know that every single day we have the same spiritual work the work is what to bring god and godliness and light into dark places what is our spiritual work every single day so we all know we're spiritually made up of ten spheres we have three intellectual spirits we have the seven emotional spirits our spiritual work is to transform our seven emotions that they should be aware they should be conscious and god should be revealed in every one of our emotions and like it's brought down in tanya and also in their quotes a accelerated discourse from the mithral river called al tatsar and different catholic discourses and they they explain over their sins what are we saying our main avoid is what with the seven emotions and that's why when the jewish people conquered the land of israel so we know there were ten nations in the land of israel but when they conquered the lands of israel there was only seven nations they were able to uproot from the land of israel why why would they only approve seven nations and the optimal explains in tanya and mitchell explains and many other places explain because what is our avoidance now our vote is transforming the seven emotions and the seven nations that were able to conquer out of the land of israel represent these seven emotions however the three intellectual capacities that we have that we we cannot totally transform today that's going to happen when mashiach comes and that's why specifically when mashiach comes we're going to the borders of israel going to expand and we're going to be able to conquer the last three nations that we didn't conquer until now keny krishna because the intellectual transformation cannot fully happen until masjid comes now and they're explaining as follows what is the reason in other words even though generally speaking in the whole say their houses was referring to all the steroids the intellect and emotions that what's our holiness what's the whole content the intent is to make a dear better you know that god should be felt and revealed in the lowest places in other words what does god want what's god's desire what's what causes god the greatest pleasure it causes the greatest pleasure he can be revealed not on a high level in the intellect but no in the animalistic soul in the emotions so that's why our spiritual work which brings god the greatest pleasure and the greatest enjoyment is not by elevating the three intellectual components that's higher that's higher level obviously the the intellect knows what's right you don't really there's not much transformation there just different struggles however where's the real struggle the real struggles and the emotions which is lower than the intellect so our spiritual avoidance is until mashiach comes in to transform our emotions just like we're able to transform the the seven nations out of the land of israel and when it comes to the three intellectual components of sacramento comes so obviously we have to try to elevate our intellect but true transformation ultimate transformation the intellect is not gonna happen until mashiach comes so based on this rubber explains why when it speaks about the years of yaakov it starts from the lower number and it goes to the higher number you know it starts first from seven years and then it goes to 40 years and then it goes to a hundred years why what was yaakov's spiritual avoidance what was yaakov's spiritual work his spiritual work what we said was to make a deer with him that god should be felt we're in the lowest places so therefore since it's all about starting transforming the lowest places what's the lowest places we learned the seven emotions so where was yaakov doing his spiritual work that's what you're saying all the seven emotions which is represented by the seven years now the set the seven emotions represented by the seven years that's right listen first the source of that is in the seven lower emotions of all the way up in attic the seven emotions right there on the highest level and which obviously it's the hot the hot the highest that it's in the sitting in the highest spot because i think is the highest esphera because kessler is the highest i think this is the higher the level in act in case you have attack and yaakov avinu transformed the seven emotions weird sources up until the world of optics in the seven emotions of attic this course is about the seven emotional attacks so if you give a look in in um from the out from the set of the third kabaddra so he explains something fascinating it sounds like this that jaka davino his his name numerically if you take the ud which is 10 the i in which is 70 and the copper is 100 and base is 2 so you have 182. that's the numerical value of yaakov you take the name utkevke which is the most powerful name of hashem it's 26. and you take 26 which is the idea of bringing the infinite line of shunt down to this world and we said you have to transform what the seven lower emotions so if you take 26 and you times it by seven you get the same numerical value as jonker's name 182. in other words what was yaakov busy doing he was bringing yut ke bufke the infinite name of hashem into every one of the seven emotions and that's why if you take 26 times seven you'll have yaakov yaakov accomplished through his name to bringing down the infinite name hashem and transforming every one of the seven emotions even on high even in the level of artic once he did the avoid of transforming the seven emotions that affected the 40 years now what is 40 years ever since 40 years there's four intellect so you're right we're going to say one second we all know this there's three intellect so the same civic discourse over there from eriter from the from the summit said that the southern explains as follows this even though generally there's but if you look at the chart of the syrup on the right bino is on the left and das is the center because das is a center so da splits off the chasse and also splits off the guro so das has this this component that's which connect the hasset and is the component that's which you connect to guburo so is one b knows two and das gets split into two ways connect the chassis so if you have dashes too then you have a bina and two different types of da so you have so there really is four intellect now if you take every one of the four intellect and we know that every one of the spheres is is intertwined with all the series so then you have 40. so he went from seven which we said is the seven emotions to 40 which is the four intellect which is a intertwined potency of 40 and then you get to the level of a hundred years and that's referring to we know it's kessler the way all the hundreds of spheres was all 10 in 2010 to eight sitting in kessel so yaakov was he started from seven to seven emotions then the intellect and then after kessler and whoever says that's one that's one way it's explained next to this the other way is he did the seven emotions and from the seven emotions rather than dividing it um 40 which is the four intellect and the uh 10 which is in kessler you look at the total number of 140 years you know besides after the 70 he went to 140 140 means 2 times 70. 2 times 70 140 what's 2 times 70 so first of all you have the seven emotions the way they're interconnected with all the spheres which is the letter ud it's that 70. but if you take the letter you'd and you spell it out you're just you're just one letter but you'd if you spell it out it's you advocate so if you take the letter you'd so it's you which is ten and the spell out which is above and a dollar above the six and down this force you have another ten so each one the same seven steroids within the uh that's 70 and with the bobbin down which is another 10 so it makes 140 that's one inside the uh that someone explains in our torah another insight he says is like this that 70 if you take the word the secret the secrets of the torah so the soy which is the secrets of the torah samakha 60 valve is six and dalit is four so sixty and six and four is seventy we know in in the in the world of the spheroid so sight is connected to the sphere of your side so this side your side of the of the seven emotions and then there's the saree that comes from it's connected to abba from from from from intellect so you have the 70 ways connect to the emotions and the way 70 raise connected influx that's how you have the idea of the number of number 140. i mean deep stuff explained after if you want to look it up you can look up an urature from the uh some of sadek on this partial passage anyway but then they could do this what you're saying is that you start off just to recap you start from seven transform your seven emotions and then you go to the intellect and then you go to kessler or you go from the emotions to the sight of all the emotions inside of intellect and everything this is the same idea where it's explained that we learned in practice that desire explains what is sorry the sorrow lived and obviously the opposite doesn't start from the lower to the heart it actually starts in the higher to the lowest she doesn't may have shown no 100 years which you know is kessler s from shannon which we know is what the uh it weighed there to the power of 20. and shabbat shot him against the emotions you know 100 is kessler 20 is the intellect and seven is what the emotions so knows it's the same idea but it's the opposites so rabbit says what's the reason why by sarah it starts from the top it goes down to the bottom from 100 to 27 versus jakoba ghost in the the other way it starts from seven to forty to a hundred sure explains very very simple sorrow was the first of the matriarchs so she started the process of transforming the world so therefore you social she was the first she started she started my little amateur from higher down to low in other words she started connected right away to kessler she was uh the first in the matrix actually connected right away to to the infinite light of kessler she brought it into the esther windows into the intellect and then she brought it down into the seven which is the lowest level of the emotions that's what sarah however we know that yaakov avinu is called she's the chosen one of all the patriarchs avraham's to the right guitar and jacob is a chosen one from the middle but since he was the middle and he went down to the land of egypt to transform the world he went down to the to the low place the lowest literally the lowest place in the world and his main avoiding was what his main spiritual work was in the seven emotions um to transforming the emotions so once he transformed the emotions in the lowest places that actually caused an elevation in intellect and in kessa and whoever finishes off and he says we know that might say obvious we learn about the others and the images the reason is because it's a sign for the children for us so therefore just like this was by yaakov that he started from the lower and he went higher and we know jake was the chosen of the others especially with the altar explains in the garrison that in the soul of yaakov every single one of us our souls is connected to yakov so therefore if that was yaakov that's what jacob did that's all our work as well we have to do our spiritual work on all the levels starting from in from from our emotions to intellect up to kesser and and this interesting river says this is also possible where it speaks that the void of yaakov is the last torah portion in the in the book of gracious in the book of the book of genesis and there's another name for the book of variations besides it's called brazen it's called safer hayashir the the book of the people that are straight upright why because it's the book of the of the of the patriarchs and the patriarchs are called you sharing them they're straight they serve hashem in a clear manner and another another place that's brought down the reason why it's called safari usher because also the book of the tribes and they're also called yasharam they're also called straight and what's the main spiritual service of the office and the schweiten that they were basically considered straight in other words and the fact is it's not only them that they will assure them the fact that everyone says every single jewish person is considered ashamed the obvious where you saw him they were straight the the uh the the the the shabbat was straight but also every single jew well how do we know that because it says clearly king david says in psalms what does it say in psalms only right righteous people will acknowledge you praise you yeshua that people that are straight are going to see you face to face and like derby says it's brought down the desire in this parasha and literally every one of us say this ah every single day in our prayers we say during the week we say don't shabbas we say we say roshana young kipper so obviously we say it every single day of the year so obviously that void of yasharim applies to every one of us and when we do our actions and our spiritual work doing galas during exile and what's our working goalless to make a deer production to make a dwelling place for hashem down here and specifically in everything the land of egypt it was the land with all the constraints and limitations so we come to the ultimate promise that hashem promises us that righteous people are going to have to praise him but yeshua sharim that we're going to sit right literally in your face in other words we're going to have the level of face to face when is that going to happen we're going to have the the base of ignacili the third temple and just like we know we come to see the skrina we come to be seen by hashem upon him upon him and on the contrary of he says it's going to happen very very very very soon very very quick very quickly we're going to have the ultimate revelation of mashiach which is going to happen by the true and complete redemption through mashiach to keno so obviously this is a very very powerful hasidic discourse an important catholic discourse which really really shows us what our purpose and what our mission in this world is and it really shows you that wherever you are and sometimes the darkest places you can live your best years if you focus on or avoid our spiritual void it is to make this place endearing and the obviously the greatest place to start was with our own emotions making sure our emotions are connected to god and once we transform our emotions we'll transform our intellect and we'll be connected and we come face to face with with hashem as rubber says with the coming of mashiach to keno and hopefully our next class will be in your shalom have a great and blessed week