Kabbalah of Jewish Travel אלה מסעי בני ישראל A New Kabbalah class by Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz

Welcome to our class onto this we're going to be learning a beautiful acidic discourse in the river the name of the acidic discourse is called Ayla Maasai the rebel said this this course in Shabba is Maasai that year was the 26th day of the month of tamas which was also the the Shabbos that blessed the month of binachemov in the year tough scene nem Bob 37 years ago so again the Civic discourse is based on the verse where it says in the opening of the of the second Torah portion of this week partial Maasai so it says as follows Israel this is the traveling of the Jewish people people ashay yatsumi Arabs been surrounded that they left the land of Egypt and it says wrote down they're going out to my saying for the traveling Hashem the alen these are my same the traveling from the left and then it continues on to say that the last journey they did was to our voicemail of the Plains by the Jordan Trevor said it's known the Civic discourses um uh on the on this verse in the interior which we know is the powerful kabbalistic teachings of the author Reba and as well as the clinic teachings afterwards and there was as many of them already printed and over there they explain with the with the language of the Holy language of the of the rebi that that said those words and as we know when you have the words and you look inside the words itself make you smart and the general idea in general is that these travelings that the Jewish people took applies not only physical traveling but replies in our spiritual journey in our in our spiritual work that we have to do a in general about the Jewish people and then literally every one of us in our lives what's the idea there are general idea of the traveling and the elevation that we're supposed to do to it to from one place to the next but going higher the ideas to go higher in life and go from one level to a higher level up to a point like it says in the prophets we have to go from one level to the next level in other words even though that the previous traveling was an elevation compared to who you started from but nevertheless you can't stop you have to keep on going higher and higher up to the point that the the compared to the level before this is called hail you're even going higher and higher in other words and just like it was literally when the Jewish people left to Egypt that when they traveled from the land of Egypt to go to yard in Eureka till they reached the Heritage the the land of Israel and the same thing also in in in in all the details in every single travel and it was every single journey in every single destination has to be an elevation compared to before the ultimate goal was when they left Egypt the goal was to get to the land of Israel the same thing also our journey is to keep on going higher until we go to the ultimate land of Israel not only that even the and this is a powerful idea if you haven't you never learned to see it even this idea that the Jewish people that when they were in the land of Egypt there's also a high level if you ever says why like it's brought down in many midrashim which are accepted and as it's accepted amongst the the Jewish people that according to one opinion Eric's Glacier the the the land of Geisha when the Jewish people lives in the in Egypt in mitraim that air is going according to one opinion is part of the land of Israel and from there from that part of the land of Israel education which was in Egypt there was there was they traveled to go from one level to the next level up to the point that when they traveled it's like in a level of insight there's no limit to the levels without any limits and like it says clearly Scholars and we know Europe says it's referring to all the Jewish people because it says clearly because all your children learn Torah and it says in reference the Taurus cows again with Old party Torah Scholars they have no rest there's no rest as it says you have to constantly go from one level to the next in other words so we can keep on growing on on an infinite level and let's explain Elsewhere based on what the the says in his uh classic work called safer the book of um philosophy and he says like this that even an infinite this levels in findings are one to the next but let me go to infinite that's it there's one one level there's no even an infinite there's those levels and he and he explains and explains elsewhere an example and he says like this if you have a line so it's one line but guess what the line is made up of a bunch of dots how many dots infinite amounts of dots why because let's say you counted the dots but every one of those dots can be broken up further so again so a line is made up of infinite amount of dots those dots more dots so you can go infinite you can break it down to the smallest level now that's aligned whether you have an area so then you have multiple lines and then if you have a square so you have the length and you have the width and the depth of it so you have and you have this multiple infinite levels of areas so therefore you see that it comes to infinite there's there's in infinite there's multiple levels you have the infinite of the line the infinite of the area the infinite of the of this of the square the the length the width and the breath Etc and they're so important also in Jewish law as well there's a concept of infinite like for example there's many levels like for example it says that suddenly someone fell into uh uh a body of water so if it's an area you can see all the sides and they fell in and they didn't come out so you know obviously the person drowned but obviously they fell into an area where the water you can't see the end so you never know maybe the person came out from the other side so you see that my locker perspective there's a concert infinite maybe he came out from the other side etcetera so what do you see from here that the spiritual work of the traveling of the Jewish people this ultimate there's infinite levels of growth into intimate levels of growth from one level to next till you reach the level of what called yarn and like it's brought down in the city discourses what is it so physically it's referring to our space but we know it's an according to Kabbalah it says referring to the to the to the to the messiah messiah is going to be a Moira he's going to judge based on smell and the same thing also in reference to the yarding the George again constantly which is again connect the Messiah because he's going to emerge he's going to smell and the same thing also in reference to the idea of the yard and the Jordan what is that what is the idea of the Jordan golf you take from one side to the other and ultimately when is that going to happen comes and it's just like it applies to generally Jewish people applies to every individual that every one of us have the the our spiritual work of growing from one level to the next nav level in an infinite way now when it comes to the elevation the infinite elevations that we can do in the traveling this two there's two ways the way it's explained in the Civic discourses one way to explain the acidic disorders as follows what is the purpose why we're traveling from here to there what's the purpose of traveling so one wage is brought down into this we're here to transform the world what does that mean to make a dwelling place for God every place we go we make our bloodstream we learn from Torah we do our Mitzvah the purpose is to elevate the world that's that's one that's one thing that's explaining the Civic discourses and just like when the Jewish people left Egypt on a literal level as we know when they were in the desert so they had the Clouds Of Glory that would basically smoothen out all the uh bumps in the road and basically they would also nullify all the snakes and the Scorpions that were in the desert not only that when the Jewish people travel in the desert they literally even changed the halachic qualification of the of the of the desert why because before the Jewish people came to the desert so the Allah qualification of what was called was called the Carmelite we know when there's different properties according to Jewish law there's a private domain it's a public domain there's a caramelism about communism between so the desert was called the caramelis but after the Jewish people came there and they set up camp so became the camp became a private domain and outside it became a public domain so they transformed it even from a local perspective but even in there you have to have what you have to keep on growing from one level to the next level and the same thing also applies to our spiritual work that our our spiritual work and transforming the world which basically is is a desert is we have to keep on transforming of one level to the next level now so the first point they're explaining so far is that the purpose of the journey is for transformation and he gives the example though even when we were in the desert but never goes on to say even a step deeper that even in the in when when we traveled in the desert there was two types of traveling in other words you had the traveling that took place before we received the Toyota in the desert and what does that mean before we assuming because we didn't have a tour yet we didn't have the arkit and then you had to travel and took place after we see the trailer and we had the ark and that created them a transformation in the desert like it says clearly that the Ark of Hashem was going in front of them now what's the difference if what before we have before we had the Torah and the Ark and afterwards and the represent the difference is very simple before we received the toy room and yes we had the Clouds Of Glory that straightened out the the plane or they walked and like it says clearly that because when we were in the desert Hashem put us in Sukkot in Boots when we left Egypt and what was those Blues those those are the the Clouds Of Glory in other words right when we left Egypt we already had the Clouds Of Glory to straighten out the place but the fact is everything that was transformed before we see the Torah wasn't in a way where it was transformed from the bottom up it was coming from the top down it was it was it was heavy on the top it was a heavy revelation of godliness why why has been the topic because everyone received the turret and because you're going to see the terror there was also we know where there was there was decree before we see the term that the spirituality spirituality physicality is physicality and there's really no connection so if there's no connection how can you transform the world so that was till we received the terror what happens after we see the terror what happens and then the decree got broken that the godliness could permeate in the physical world the physical worlds could be elevated so then what happened was we had the power to transform the physical world and we can transform the lowest places so what happened from there was from there on the Ark of Hashem which is referring to the Torah went in front of them especially when when it came in through the the revealing the the presence of Hashem and the Jewish people and like it says in the Torah clearly when we we stopped when we say Hashem return Hashem the the myriads and the multiple people the Jewish people and the same thing also we had we had the Mana then as we had the the food from heaven and we had the water from The Well of Miriam and we had the the clouds that would basically you know smoothen out our garments that was the that was the the press that we used um and you know the garments you know grew on the Jewish people so no so that ultimately created an ability for us to transform the world now so what does that mean practically so in other words the main point where Jordan was saying here is that the first idea is the reason why we're the reason why we're traveling is to transform the world and he says in the desert there's a difference before we receive the October after we see the term before we see the terror it will start to speak an inspiration from a high but after I was able to literally transform the world so the same but now we'll understand in our spiritual work that we have to do things from one level to the next in other words what does it mean practically how do we transform the world so the beginning we got the first thing in the morning what do we do we pray to our term and that is similar our prayers let's know what you're doing you're praying that's similar to The Clouds Of Glory that cover us over when you pray like you're sitting in a basket of Cloud of Glory and you're bringing a beautiful light into the world but afterwards after you finish praying then you go into the to to study Torah and we know that Torah has the power to transform the world Torah has the power to transfer to transform the lowest places and that's why after you learn Tory then you're able to go and do Commerce you go into business I mean by the introduction of learning Terror we have the power to transform and Elevate the world which is called Minag Derek Eric okay so it's the recap before we go to the next level so derivative of explaining is the first purpose of what we're traveling is to elevate the world and just like in the desert it was about to elevating the desert and would change but ultimately it was full transformation the same thing applies today our job is to transform the world how do we do that so the first thing is the Clouds Of Glory which is basically praying the second thing is learning Torah that transformed the world and then we go and get involved in the world and we use the turret to transform and Elevate the world that is point number one another reason that's brought down discourses that the purpose of the traveling is not the transform in the world but the effect that it has in the soul itself on the nashama why is that because the soul came down away from a very very high place from the expression is from a very very high place a very very low place in other words the soul the nashama is higher than all the garments of thought speech and action it's also higher than the seven emotions it's also higher than the three intellects and even on the intellect and high and like it says clearly in reference to the soul the shall mushrooms it's pure not only that it's on the level of what to hear a law very very high level of purity and that's its source the soul comes from a very high place but then it comes down where to this physical world and like it says in reference to the it's all coming down it's it's a a terrible uh um decree on the Jewish people which is a tremendous downgrade up to the point it's an alila it's like a terrible that the soul has to come down here think about the souls connect to God and comes down to this world so the same thing also when it comes when we left Egypt when we were in the land of Egypt so it says we were sitting in the in the best part of the line of Egypt the highest part of the land of Egypt and unfortunately from there we left the comfortable we have even though we were slaves but we had we had nice houses in line of Egypt and just like we learned before Earth's creation was part of the land of Israel but we went down weird we went down to the desert a place of snakes and scorpions Etc but why did the soul why did we leave Egypt and go into the desert we went for the elevation the ultimate purpose is to elevate the soul and as we want to go to a higher level than before and that's why it says their Journeys what does that mean that moisture might say means where they came from moisture Albano draw in we came from this high place which is basically the source of the Soul into my same into our journey down here and how does it happen it happens in a way of like wrote it in other words that we're drawing it down in a way of writing it what does that mean he wrote it and he sealed it with obviously with God's seal and by by moisturing them bringing in our source of our national into this world then we can go ahead be in the Messiah and we can be in the journeys of the world but we can be much so I am we can be connected to our source we can connect to our source and not only that we can even reach a place Which is higher than moisturbanon wrote it and that's why the the travelings and the Jewish people traveled was exactly 4 42 travels why is that because hashem's holy name which is connected to elevations it's connected to number 42 42 letters and therefore we traveled 42 Journeys so in other words like this what durban's saying the second journey is for the soul why because originally came out from high place it comes down to this place so moisturing keeps us connected to our source and when you're in this world you're connected to the source and the Soul gets elevated to even walk to the place before and that's why he says it's used the term we traveled 42 travelings So based on this River explains we'll understand the the difference the the difference between that's explained in these two uh different type of purposes whether it's to elevate the world or to the elevation of the Soul it's the same difference between the the spiritual work of the two tribes that had the partnership you saw because we know you saw her your soccer was the one that sat and learned zvulon was the one out and did Commerce and they made a partnership what was the partnership what they're going to support each other it means Torah of the soccer is going to go to learn the the the support where they create profit and business they're going to support yourself so that's the difference well just like you have these two which is basically for this elevation of the Soul or transforming the world it's like the difference between what you sucker and swollen what does that mean and they're explaining this what is the the essence of the work of isaka it's work on yourself in other words you're learning Torah so you want when you learn turkey elevating your soul we all see it when you learn your soul your soul feels great and therefore you sucker where did your soccer sit you sat in the land of Israel because he wanted to basically protect that Soul he wanted to make sure the soul is protected and the Soul gets elevated however it's vulun on the other hand he went out on business he went even outside the land of Israel to do for Commerce which basically means he was there to transform the world so you see the same way they applies to your Socrates are all about the elevation of the soul and his volume is all about what transforming the world So based on this Robert explains now we'll understand why these two um ideas and the discourses they explain both ideas of the traveling which basically is referring to the elevation of the soul and transforming the world and the the the idea of what we see them which is the soul and the elevation of the world why is that why do you explain both because you really need the the uh a fusion of these two times have service both of you soccer and you can't just be just your soccer or just Rule and why because in reference which is all about learning Torah which is all about again elevating the soul so what does it say in the talmud whoever says my old occupation is learning Torah so it says you don't even have Torah why because you need to learn to elevate the soul but you also need to transfer in the world and the same thing and how much more so when it comes to zulon which basically the onesville and he's all about transforming the world he also has to learn Taro he has to set aside time to learn Terror by day and by night as much as he as much as he's able to like the like the doctor like Dr writes and the laws of Tom Ontario and the way he brings down and Tanya as well now so you see both need to do both now this is underscore that basically how do we see that because both Hasidic discourses that explain the verse and what does that mean the lesson is and it's it's even stronger when you learn this teaching in the Potter Shabbos which is uh which is called Riven the rivens the most powerful Potter Shabbos and like it's explained that the Blends and the acidic discourse from the river is and explains this part of Shabbos which is basically Shabbos afternoon arrive in the Riven it's that's it's a taste of what is and then you have total rest in other words you don't need to have the ebb and the flow the running the coming back Etc true peace the most peaceful part of Shabbos when Shabbos afternoon between and those you have the level of rest totally off the charts in other words from that space you can reach the highest places and since we know terror is Everlasting so the just like it's Everlasting based on the past in other words everything of the past we also have in the present and the future so the same thing also applies to anything of the future anything of the future in Torah is also Everlasting it means we have it now as well and those even the terror of the future we have it now because it says that we're gonna we have a fourteen what's going to be like so just like the past is in the present the same thing also the future isn't that you've just like the past is in the present and in the future the future is in the past and the president as well have you ever finish up and he says powerful and he says like this when we do our spiritual work and transforming the world we're gonna bring the revelation of the future and especially by spreading the teachings of truths like we're doing right now we're learning to this all over the Internet and that's the idea which means our source into the present which means drawing in the internal part of the Jewish people which is connected to the internal part of the Torah which is kabbalangxidas and that's the internal part on high and we know the Jewish people and Terror and Hashem is all one opt we reached the point of we come to the land the good land the Abundant land and when is that going to happen Bim hero mama so here we have another beautiful discourse which are the river shows us our clear path that we need to have the balance on one hand of protecting our soul by learning terrible on the other hand being involved in the world and ultimately we do that we're going to come to the ultimate good land which is going to happen very very soon and God's willing our next class will be in your shalayim have a great and blessed