Kabbala & Mystical insights of Simchat Torah: A New Kabbalah class by Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz

welcome to our class on this we're going to be learning today a very special hasidic discourse from the rebbe the name of the acidic discourse is called lahavin indian simchas torah to understand the idea the spiritual idea the kabbalistic idea behind the celebration that we're having this week coming up which is called simcha's torah the celebration of the torah this acidic discourse is unique because the rabbit said this discourse in the rebbe's room in the year tough shin lametras 42 years ago it's rabbit begins to discourse by with the statement lahavin indian simcha story we have to understand what's this whole celebration of sim kasturi now what's the question what does it mean what's this idea of sim castoria because if you give a look how is simchas toyota celebrated simcaster celebrates as follows you come to the shul we say special blessings then we open the ark we take out the torah and we know the torah is a parchment which has a band around it he has a has a mantra around and a cover around it normally we open the toner we read it and everyone listens you follow along in the hummus here we don't read the torah we just take it out we dance with the torah with its cover on so the question is like this we all know what is the torah spiritually so it says this is the intellect this is the wisdom that we have so intellect and wisdom how do you connect to something which is intellectual or wise you read it you discuss it you meditate on it but so if that's the case a celebration of it should have been you should have been great speakers great talmudic educators and give tremendous lectures about the torah that should have been the sumkas torah and it would have been very enjoyable from an intellectual perspective nevertheless how do we do that no we don't have any classes there's no dissociations there's no meditations it's specifically through dancing with the torah and the question is why is that but what's unique is you see that what happens when you dance with the torah what happens is like this who dances with the torah everybody there's no differentiation how wise you are how learned you are or the opposite when it comes to celebrating the torah anyone can walk over hold the torah and dance with the torah even let's see someone that's simple hasn't really spent time so much studying or someone doesn't have the intellectual abilities to to meditate on the torah he celebrates the same way and not only that people that aren't necessarily so involved in learning torah throughout the year you don't see necessarily their connection with learning torah but on simca's torah everybody's connected everyone is able to celebrate sankasura and we find another major idea when it comes to the fact that everyone can celebrate islam torah because what do we dance with so we know the torah this torah shabbat the written law which is the five books of moses which is in the torah that we dance with but then you have tereshvalper you have mishna you have talmud you have kabbalah you have mysticism you have midrashim there's so much more to torah the whole tourism which quantitatively might be even bigger we don't find some kastura anyone dancing with a talmud with a mishnah with with a madrish even with a book of mysticism now why is that because what's unique about toriyama the written law the torah that's in the five books of mosul tori that we dent with that in order to fulfill your obligation of learning torah anything other than the five books of moses you have to understand what you're saying you have to understand it you have to comprehend it you have to meditate on it you have to analyze it you have to discuss it that's the way to learn torah perishable however when it comes to toyota is you're reading hummus the prophets the writings anything goes under the category even if you don't know what you're saying you have fulfilled your mitzvah so in other words what's so what that makes everyone equal why because when it comes to terrorism if you don't understand you haven't learned and the deeper you understand that's the deeper the connection when it comes to teresh bhaksav since you've fulfilled your obligation whether you understand that you don't understand anyone that opens to read or any of the other five books of moses or the prophets and the writings which is part of teresa braksav you fulfill your obligation so there shows there's no difference between one person another that's another powerful component that terrorist works have and that's why we specifically dance from the torah to show that our connection to hashem through torah there's no hierarchy everyone has the same connection a matter of fact when anyone gets an aliyah you make a blessing what's the blessing you make you make the blessing and god chose us and gave us a torah which underscores that everybody is connected to hashem through torah even if you don't know what you're saying another idea we have to understand in reference to some custodia when do we celebrate samkhya torah so we celebrate symbols torah in america or outside of israel anywhere outside of israel the day after shemini at saras has its own holiday of sun in israel we celebrate ansh mini at miniatures the same day but the question is when did we receive the torah we received the torah on vote so seemingly simcha story where the celebration of torah should be when on schwarz not on which is connected more to sukkot what's the connection with terror and the holiday of sukkot so therma brings a famous madras that says as follows that um reality is that the yantiv of shminiatseras should have been 50 days after the under the circus why because we see pasak when do we celebrate pesach on in the 15th day of the month of nissan when ishmael is celebrated 50 days later so just like svuis is 50 days after passage so when it comes to it should have been the same 50 days after the holiday of sukkot so why do we celebrate it right afterwards and the metro says as follows the metro says like this that when are we celebrating sukkot we're celebrating sukkot at the end of the summer and the beginning of the winter now what happens at the end of the summer and the beginning of the winter so people are people are are uh are leaving and there's no time to come and go walk is in the winter it's hard to travel however in the summer pesach it's summer it's much easier to travel it's longer days so it's not a problem come back in 50 days it's an enjoyable time to travel everyone vacations in the summer after pesach time um the surest time in fact the most people go territorial why cause it's good weather so because it's good weather then so it makes sense all right you had a beautiful pesach and guess what we'll have uh a next holiday we'll be in shrews 50 days later however when it comes to sukkas it's the winter starting we didn't tell one go and come back it's hard to travel in the winter the days are shorter and cetera and the mattress gives an example like this manchester is an example that was a king and he had many children daughters actually that they were somewhere living closer some were living further away and one day they all came to visit the king so um after the uh they all came to visit the king and they had a great time so he says like this that the ones that are living close can come and go anytime they want if they're closer the ones that are living further away it's very hard for them to come so since you already came now let's make a celebration right now so based on this the mattress uses it as a mashallah an example to say as follows on pesach we come to visit hashem to celebrate pesach so guess what the king says go come back we'll have another celebration of 50 days later however when it comes now to the young suckers if you're going to come back it's going to be it's going to be hard to come back so therefore let's celebrate some sorry right now and so based on this the metro actually finishes off and says as follows this is the reason why simcha's toy we celebrate when she's miniatures so and again israel's the same day in america outside of israel two separate days why because the day like in the muscle that the children came the daughters came to visit their king what is that day that day when they came was the one day what's the famous one day the canyon kipper and they wanted to make a celebration a continued celebration so therefore this continued celebration is when is sim crosstail which is which is the one day which we celebrate like the day of yum kippur so based on the madras it's a practical reason why shmini at sarasota simcasture is celebrated now because we came to celebrate the one day of human kipper and afterwards we need a few days to get ready for sukkot so we're ready to leave so the king says guess what i would love for you to have another party but to bother you to come back and forth stay now let's do now sim caster that's what the measure says so the rev is now going to explain kabbalistically this whole idea on this on a very very much deeper and spiritual level the reason why we celebrate schmidty at sarasota connected to the one day of yum kippur um on a very very spiritual kabbalistic level never says his followers trevor says if you give a look all the yom taivum in the month of tishrei are connected to access to one and it's just like they came that one day to the king and the king says fine celebrate one more day so the rabbit says that all the yom tavern of the whole month of tishrei is connected to one so he never starts as follows what's the first cyan that we have in terms of rosh hashanah on rosh hashanah what's the mitzvah the mitzvah of the day for rosh hashanah the mitzvah the day for rosh hashanah we know mitsubishi is bashover the mitzvah is to blow the chauffeur you know that's how rosh hashanah is unique and different than every other mitzvah not only that the rambam writes that in reference to the mitzvah blowing the shaffer it's actually xeris a kosov it's a commandment in the torah which technically doesn't even have a reason which is the above reason so it's connected to the oneness of hashem so hashanah again is connected to oneness blowing the shaffer which connects us without reason without lodging to the infinite hashem that's rosh hashanah let's go with the next next yomtiv the next jantip is what yom kippur so we know in kippur's mashana it's one day in the year but the rebel says it's not only one day in the year but it's one on three levels what three levels level of i'll say it in hebrew i'll translate it which refers to the world which refers to space shanna which refers to year at your first a time and nephes refers to seoul and their is going to show us the way yom kippur is connected to oneness in in time in in space and in the soul why so for example the avoid of yom kippur the spiritual service in your keeper where did it take place we celebrate today we don't know the temple but where did the where did yom kippur take place it took place in the temple but specifically in the holy of holies when the korean god or the holy highest priest would go in there and he bring the torahs so what place was it it was the one place unique place of the whole world the kurdish which resembles the idea of so you see with inyoung kippur itself in maklam had a uniqueness there was one set place we celebrated yom kippur which was in the holy of holies also we know that yum kippur is called it's the only holiday that's one day of the year it's the one day of the year and no in other words so it's connected to oneness in time the oneness and time who is the avoid the don who does the avoid daniel kipper the cayenne goddess does the avodah now the truth that he's a messenger for um from all of us it's not his avoido but the fact is it is being done by the klangel and we know the torah says that aaron was separated to serve hashem in the holy of holies which since it's done by one person it's an on a level of nephesh of soul it's one soul so again so you see him kipper is oneness both in space creatures kardashian both in time one one one day of the year and both in nephesh and the soul which is the kind god that's yum kippur so we did rosh hashanah we did yum kippur what is sukkas so we know sukkah for example right when sukkah starts what's the first myth of the moment sukkah starts because all of vanessa you don't take till the morning but the minute circus starts you have the mitzvah going into the sukkah now we know the sukkah resembles unity because the whole claudius roll could be in one sukkah as the verse says it's possible for all of us to get along and we should be able to sit in one sukkah that's in terms of the mitzvah of sukkah is connected to one it's the one it's only one it's oneness it unites everybody then you have the mitzvah of the four species the little of esrig and hadassah and arables so we know for example the whole idea of the rule of an estrogen is to draw down which we learned in the previous kabbalah kabbalah class the oneness of sukkah the powerful oneness of the sacrament premiums internally within us but specifically in every one of the four species does you have the unity and specifically where do we see that in the esrig which is uh which torah tells us that you have the greatest oneness and matter of fact that when the torah speaks of the four species the first one it says the first one the torah speaks about is the esrig and the reason why it's first is because it represents unity on the greatest level because we know the esrig is one that that lives on the tree all throughout the year which means a it tolerates all four seasons but more importantly and we discussed already at length in the previous kabbalah class that the estrich actually grows from each one of the seasons every one of the different seasons makes the estrik the beauty that it is and the goal of the esther the unity in the asteroid that draws down actually into every one of the other four species that they should have the unity and we know the lula we already discussed last time um it's one even though it's multiple branch but it's one the same thing the hadassim they go three together they are rubbish they grow together in a patch um so you see that what they all have the level of unity now what's the what's our goal with with the lull of an s rig we take all four different ones we put them all together which represents we know four different types of jewish people and the goal is as the verse says the yasu kulam a good acha so you become really really one and the purpose of one is that we should do la says with sanchez believe shalom to do the will of hashem all together with one heart now so again so what do we see clearly that when it comes to all the young taivor in the month of tishrei it's all about oneness starting from scheifer one mitzvah below the shaffer yum kipper on all three levels of space in the temple time once a year in the soul the unclean goddale and in circus both the sukkah is unity and the four species is to unify all the physical components but more importantly to or unify all cloud israel but then the rubber says so the goal is unity the goal is we should be unified we should all really be one not only one externally or some kind of like a banner that we're one but really really to be one so the rabbit says in order in order to accomplish to have true oneness and not only one is just for the moment but that it should last of all different types of jews that everyone should get along everyone should get along whether you agree disagree whatever your opinion is we all love each other we're all one that happens through and here's the key the key that creates that unity is something which is called in hebrew shuva when we are when we're tasha when we turn to hashem when our focus is on what hashem wants and we're willing to do whatever hashem wants that will give us the power to do truva so again we're going to go into the idea of trouba because you see chuva is key unity is the goal and that's that's the real beauty of army stroll when we're unified but in order to have unity not only at the moment or at these unique festivals which lasts a whole whole year and should last and should be strong we need to have they avoid the word of truth now why is truva so powerful that truva can give us unity not only while we're experiencing truva but throughout our year it never explains like this because chuva has a certain magic ingredients the magic ingredient is as follows the sign language is called me you him her yesterday tomorrow before after these are all the dividing terms but then there's something which is called it's all one not only it's all one there's no room for division chuva in order for truth to happen which means think about it you did something wrong and you're saying that i'm sorry or to another person i'm sorry and you want to create forgiveness but whatever you did something wrong shuva has the power to take you to a place to a higher place in that place there is no differentiation between one person and the other between past present and future and he was called shuva reaches a place la maila means calcus in that level on high which we hopefully elevate ourselves to there's no divisions me you him her we want to do rats in hashem it's all about what hashem wants and because shuva takes us to a place which is above differentiation of different past present future me you him and her et cetera there's no division in that place therefore when a person decides they want to do truva there's no process it's beside it happens at that moment that second which is amazing i mean you see people whether yourself other people i mean and you see yourself sometimes you go how did it happen all of a sudden i decide that's it i'm transforming my life i'm making turning over a new leaf in my life where did it happen which way is all the meditation all the planning so there's times when you need that but when a person decides they want to do tuva when a person decides they want to come home whether they want to come home physically spiritually even if there was a disconnect even if there was major conflict chuva there's no limits true and shiva happens in a split second and that's the power and the magic and the gift of chuva chuva again reaches a place there's no differences and because of that it happens besides that's the tremendous gift of chuva now what does that mean practically and the rubber explains we all know that when when moisture remains went to heaven hashem gave him the first commandments and then unfortunately we sinned and we did shuver we said that oh my gosh i'm sorry we want to have our connection back alive again and moisture they knew got went back to heaven and brought us down on the second set of commandments now let's think about this rubber analyzes so we have the lucha harishonas the first commandments one is the first commandments hashem gave us a torah hashem decided to give us the gift of torah the second commandments represents the torah but how did we get that wasn't a gift that came through truva so the first commandment represents torah as a gift from hashem the second commandments is is is a gift throughout do do are doing shiva now when did we receive the first commandments amateur when do we receive the second commandments yum kippur now let's look at the difference between these two processes when moisture banana went to receive the first set of commandments he went up to heaven he went up the mountain how many days was he there for we all know 40 days 40 days and 40 nights besides the fact that before that we counted seven weeks shiva so before he even went up he counted we counted seven weeks 49 days then moisture rainer went up for another 40 days so there was a process of seven weeks there was a process of 40 days and so on and so forth now with the second commandments to be clear moisture banana went up and he was there for 40 days but however why was he there for 40 days he was there to present to hashem our sincere truva for 40 days he was beseeching hashem that we have said i'm sorry we want to return to hashem we want to return to our relationship and we want to do shiva and hashem said great i'm accepting the trival and this is powerful hashem accepted our trooper with happiness we'll leave your solomon with a complete heart which is important anytime you forgive you have to forgive with happiness and with a complete heart what happens after hashem forgave the jewish people the ten commandments the lucha schneiders were given in a split second there was no preparation of seven weeks there was no preparation of forty days the second commandment she received bashar khadr why isn't there a process meditation prayers 40 days seven weeks counting mikvah spirituality meditation avina volcano chauffeur anything no because when it comes to chuva it's prashant why is that why is it that shuva happens in a second because chuva reaches a place and i'll say it in hebrew i'll translate it it reaches a place which is above any measurements and limitations and calculations now why is that why is that this is very important point the arabic explains because true shiva reaches and i'll say it in hebrew and i'll translate it benemius the atmasa nephesh when a person does truma it's not all and from you coming from your mind or from your heart it's coming from the internal and the essence of your soul and that's key to truva see if you're thinking out oh i'll do truva not gonna work if you feel like oh i'm inspired i'm gonna do trouba it's not gonna work if you even you think you meditate on it it's not gonna work it's not gonna be as strong it's not gonna last shuver has to come from a soul-searching from the essence and from the internal part of your soul when a person decides from their essence and the eternal part of the soul of doing true but guess what there's nothing that will get in your way you'll do whatever it takes that's that in the past you said it's impossible you know why it's impossible in the past because you aren't doing it from the essence of your soul when you're willing to do from the essence of your soul you'll reach above any nature any any limits why because the premiums the atmos and efficient the internal and the internal and the essence of your soul is above any division's any limitations it's on the level of achas it's the level of true oneness and that's why besides with one second virgo one moment and one second because it's coming from the essence of your nephesh because you reached achas the oneness in your nephesh you were able to reach the highest places and that's the reason the river says that's why that's why because it comes from the essence of your soul the oneness of your soul so therefore you're able to unify all jewish people because you're coming from your oneness you connect to the other person's oneness from the elders from the youngsters from the sophisticated from the simple people however you want to call them any profession as the torah says the wood choppers the water carriers everybody is standing unified when it comes when you're when you're coming from your etzema nephesh everyone is everyone's everyone is unique everyone is unique but everyone's together and knows as the verse says need sovereign we're standing and the ultimate of standing is what it's needs of melak we're standing like a king what does that mean we're becoming a king and rubber explains that jewish people become kings and owners on the darkness of the world and their everything and makes it practical once we become unified and we become owners of the world you know what happens then we're entitled to get what tremendous blessings of hashem and what the blessings that we get we're written and we're sealed for a good year and for a sweet year a revealed good year but not just out there in dreamland but in real practical ways and why is that because once you reach such a deep place there's no difference between physicality and spirituality the top and the bottom it affects all worlds and all levels and it's able to draw down the greatest blessings from the highest places to the to the lowest places and based on the stripper explains very simple but it says what the madras said now he's tying up explaining the measures what does the matter say that one day they all came to see how the king is doing and king said ah let's make a yanthiv let's make a holiday and let's make it a one holiday now what day did they come we came in yum kippur because what's yum kipray him kept him kippers today that we do truva which is the one day of the year when we reach the the oneness in space quite sakura in time once a year in our soul so because we came that one day a year and we came from the essence of our soul that caused to bring down the oneness this tremendous celebration of sumkas torah which is also in a level of one it's also one it's the only one sinclastery of the year but what brought about that oneness of the simcast torah by us coming with our etzema nephrash and yom kippuring doing chuva so here you see the power the tremendous power of truva the power of the lucha sasha it's the second tablets that we received on yom kippur that place when you go to the place of truva that allows us to go to the essence of our soul and that allows us to reach the greatest places possible and draw down the greatest blessings now obviously we come to a place of access to oneness and over there there's no division everybody's one everybody's equal there's no past there's no present there's no future it's all one it's all one it's all great it's amazing it's beautiful it's exciting it's all full of blessing and only great powerful beautiful things in your life so there's that's a tremendous inspiration that's amazing to reach such a place but the goal is you have to take that oneness and we have to bring it down into the division of the world and here comes the fusion it's not just it's great from kipper we've reached the one place wow it comes from kastariya with the oneness one is with hashem shuva from simcha that's great it's wonderful but we have to draw down into the into the physical world like for example we all know what happens after yom kippur we make a physical sukkah we take a lull of an asterisk the four species physical things we dance with our feet why because like we have to draw down the powerful oneness into the physical world all four walls of the sukkah should feel it the all the four species should feel it the oneness dancing our feet our body the street should feel the oneness and like the rabbit says it says in the torah that's all there together but nevertheless after all there's one the torah says 10 different types of jewish people because we have to draw down the oneness into the the wood chopper the water carrier that every single one who you are has to be all unified on on one level of nephesh now that is in terms of nephesh that means all the falsehoods even though they're different they look different they feel different have to be united as one but then travis says also not only in memphis we have to create the bring down the oneness into nephesh but we also have to bring the the oneness into space and to into into time in other words the oneness of yum kippur where we reach the level of truva the oneness of simcha's torah we have to bring it into the world that everything that we do as derby always quotes every single action we do everywhere we go we it should be noticeable in our actions in our oneness that the unkipper oneness the true oneness the simcasterial oneness is in every single action in every single space that we are throughout time throughout the year and there is this has to have this has to go through the whole year and it has to become stronger and stronger every day as we know ani havaya doesn't change and the oneness has to be every part of us but every and all throughout the year and by doing that what we do is we actually create the revelation of the true oneness that just like we said before the esrig is pre-asadar not only does it tolerate alpha seeds and actually grows from it so what happens when we take that oneness and we bring it down into our life into everything that we do so the echoed of hashem actually becomes greater because it's not just a echad out there but it's an echo that you feel and experience in everything every part of your life and ruby finishes off and he says that it should be the will of hashem that it should be fulfilled and every single one of us amongst all the jewish people that we should have a beautiful good year and we should be blessed with blessings that should come down down to this physical world with family children abundance in sustenance and physical sustenance spiritual sustenance and we should do it with with simcha with joy and gladness of heart and it start right away from after simchas toyra yaakov went on his way and we go not only in the way of mitzvahs but also whatever we have to do in the world anything that we need to do because the fact is after yom kippur were busy with mitzvahs building the sukkah the four species the shaniraba dancing and so on and so forth but afterwards after simcoe toyota we have to get ready to bring this powerful energy into the world and we should penetrate every general thing that we have to go through any specific thing we have to go through with the with the original oneness that came from where from the premius and the etsonva nashama which as we know that are internal essence of our soul is connected with the preemies which the internal and the essence of the infinite life of hashem and as we bring that out the goal is to bring that into the world and ever finish off with a very powerful blessing and he says like this since we're coming from and we know simcha joy has the power to break any boundary that means anything that you're stuck with physically spiritually emotionally simcha can break anything because why because simcha reaches a place where there's no limits there's no boundaries so because we're coming from simkastera we have that gift of the power to break through any obstacles that's holding us back from living an amazing great life this will hopefully break thereby says anything that's limiting us from our the first purpose is our goalless preemie our internal gullus because before you can deal with the goddess of the world you have to deal with your own gullus every one of us have certain internal things that's blocking us from living a truly happy life we have to be willing to break it somehow can break it mitchum simkaster you'll dance from the essence of your soul and you'll take that simcha and you'll get out of your gollus premier whatever is holding you back from serving hashem learning praying studying doing mitzvot being happy whatever is holding you back we should break that gollus preemie and then there is obviously for sure to break the gul the physical goddess the literal gullahs and we'll all merit hopefully very very soon that will be no we inaudible the the return of sion yerushalayim with the compassion of hashem with the gula hamitas with the redemption the the the true on and the complete one through mashiach taken who's going to come and take us out of gulos and he's going to bring us to your slime era coindes and he'll build the base amigdas and he's going to gather all the jewish people from all over the world and then what's going to happen is we're all going to speak one language not only physically one language but spiritually we're going to have one message it's all going to be we want to be hashem we love this we're going to serve islam all together hashem will be the ultimate cleaning of each and every one of us and that will be the ultimate unity so as you can see this is a very very powerful discourse we're getting ready to celebrate sumkas torah and whoever teaches us the most powerful ideas from kasturis silica story is really all about oneness and the way we get to the oneness is going into our etsuma summer and we go to our attitude on the shaman we do real chuva we get to the estimate the oneness of hashem and we draw down that oneness of hashem it will give us the greatest and we have the greatest we'll be able to get through anything we have to get through and we'll all merit as the rubber says the greatest gifts of the gula gula preemies our internal redemption and then hopefully god willing the gula clause right afterwards and we'll all merit to celebrate maybe even simkas terra in your shallow iroquois dish i want to wish you all a good yantef you should have a great sunrise torah lots of simha lots of happiness and be connected with hashem in a beautiful meaningful in a oneness fashion good jantiv and happy sumkastero