Make Every Day Count!!! ואברהם זקן בא בימים A New Kabbalah class by Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz

Welcome to our class onus. We're going to be learning a beautiful discourse in the Reb. The name of the discourse is called Z. The Reb said this discourse. It was Shabas of which is also the Shabas that blessed the month of and the Reb said this discourse in his room in the year 48 years ago. whoever went on to certify and edit this discourse that in the year. So again the discourse is based on the verse in this week's Torah portion where it says was old coming in his days and there it brings from the alterb who brings in the in his classical works on the para with theic discourse that starts where it says to understand what it says in kazalas it's better one hour with chuva repentance returning to hashem and doing in this world then more than the whole life in the world to come. And before that discourse which is connected to to the verse of he brings them and the zor says that on the verse in because of those very powerful elevated days what are those days? Zora explains it's the garments of learning and doing mitzvot which is called and through learning tora doing mitzvah returning to hashem and doing and and doing good deeds the the soul can be elevated and enjoy the ray of the in the world to come. So in other words by going ahead and learning to and doing mitzvah and doing truva now um a we said that it's greater than the world to come and then also that prepares us like this says that we can enjoy the the holiness the power of hashem in the world to come. Now this is also connected to lit y lit l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l literal days in other words what does that mean that every single day has to be complete that means every single day we have to make sure we're filled with doing mitzvot and which is doing mitzvot that's these elevated days and elevated day a day that you do learning to learn mitzvah like the says we know the teaching of that says that a person should not leave one day where you didn't do a mitzvah every day you have to of what special mitzvah am I doing today and that's why the verse says was coming with his days which means that he served hem every single day you can say this day I did this mitzvah and that day that mitzvah every day there was a mitzvah counted counted for all his days were complete and it wasn't a day that he didn't do a mitzvah and that's why it says that means every day was full in terms of every day he did it And because of the the elevated day. So there's two components. One is that every day he did a mitzvah and b that the days were elevated by doing a mitzvah the day becomes elevated. Now we know what what's what the what they what they point down is as follows. The fact is we know the main garment of mitzvah of doing a mitzvah. That's why it's called an elevator day. So that's the main thing. The main thing is he did the mitzvah. So who why is it so important to say that every single day that also literally on the daily on every day that you should shouldn't leave a day without doing a mitzvah? The fact is let's say today you don't do a mitzvah but tomorrow you can do two mitzvah. So technically if it's if you did one today and one tomorrow or if you don't do anything today you do tomorrow you still have two mitzvah for these two days. So why is it important that every day has its own mitzvah? In other words, like if you do the calculation again, if you do multiple mitzvah in one day and then you skip for a few days, you you're left with the same number. So if that's but nevertheless, it says every single day like the taught us why is it important every single day we do mitzvah. And matter of fact, if you're missing your it says you're missing a garment, why are you missing if you have the total amount of mitzvah from the total collective days? Now this that we say that the quality of was baba. Now when it says baba it comes after different qualities that mentions before then matter of fact even in this verse it says zuk he was old whatever old means and then it says baba is also coming in days. So obviously if it lists multiple things qualities of Ramino and list the fact that Zim whatever that means as a quality and then it says so obviously is even higher than the quality of Zim being old. Now even though when it says Abram Zuck what does that mean that he was zaking he wasn't just old and age-wise he reached a very very high level like kazal tell us that hashem says tou that a came dressed in my garments and we know hashem is called in a very high cabalistic level and it's and a zaki means that a reached the level that he was wearing the garments of the hashem which is what's the garments of hashem and he and so then when it says after this baba yam means he reached even a higher level. So if that's the case, we have to understand what's this powerful level of Baba Yam which we said as a garment of the mitzvo and especially when when he he does a mitzvah every single day but even though you're not adding in the mitz doing two mitz a day he's doing the one mitzvah a day and then also to say that's even higher than the idea of zak which we said is zak is referring to the garment of first will understand this with an introduction [snorts] based on what it's known that The soul needs the garments of learning tora and doing mitzvah. Why does it need it? Because it needs the mitzvah in order to be able to benefit from the ray of the why. Because since a soul is a creation of Hashem and it's explained in many many places that what's a soul? A soul's like God comes into a creation up to the point that the the yearning of the soul in God is not noticeable cuz it's a creation and the fact is in order for the soul to connect and want to and want to have a comprehension in the infinite infinite part of Hashem. So it it and and it wants to enjoy the ray of the which is a ray of the infinite part of or especially like the verse to appreciate and and and to dwell in the sweetness of you need garments and like for example let's say you're going outside and the sun is shining very very strong and really really strong and we know the real strong the strength of the sun because it's shashm you can't look in the sun. So what happens if you have some kind of a a protection an umbrella curtains anything to block it then you're able to benefit a little from the sun. So in other same thing, same ideas as follows. The soul wants to connect to Hashem. How does a soul connect to Hashem? Even though it's a soul, it needs a garment. It needs some kind of protection. And the tool that's used is learning prayer and doing mitzvah. Now we we know the rule is that anytime you have something which is an intermediary [snorts] which connects two things. So it has to be has to have a connection on both sides. So therefore, what did we just learn? What is the garment of the soul? The soul connect to Hashem. The garment is learning Tory and doing mitzvah. You know this basically it's an intermediary that connects between the ray of the which is a a ray of the infinite part of the of of Hashem with the soul which is obviously a creation and it's finite. So obviously the toyra mitzvah have to have both both components. Why is that? Because the source of mitzvah it comes from the the will of Hashem and the intellect of Hashem and we know the will and the intellect is one with Hashem as we know it says Hashem and his intellect and his will is all one. So that's on one hand the source of mitzvo which is basically connected to infinite up to the point that the will of hashem and the intellect of hashem which is the source of is even higher than the ray of that's on one extreme but then the we know comes come down into this world. So for example, you're wearing tits. So literally it's it's it's a it's physical strings made out of wool. Or for example, fillin is made out of hide of an animal. And the same thing with all the mitzvo. And the same thing also in in tora which is enclo in human intellect up to the point there false arguments. And you have the the the Torah is written on on on ink on parchment. And that is finite up to the point where it's so finite of this materialistic world which you can't get loaded in this world. And because you have these two components in ter mitzvah on one hand it's infinite in its source and the other hand it's finite the way it comes down to the world. So that's how it's able to become a garment and a intermediary that connects the soul which is finite and limited and especially where it's in the body with the ray of the up to the point of no the sweetness of which is higher than any any any limit any any any any limitations. Now, so because the mitzvah gets involved and we said on one hand it's coming from the infinite but it gets involved in the physical world and this world that it gets involved in as we know sadly I'm going to say it but that's what it says in the reality most of this world and most like almost all of it is evil is bad. So because got got got in involved in this world. So you have to clean it from the residue and from the dirt and from the evil from this world and like for example when you learn Tyra because Tyra gets encloded in human intellect and in physical reality. So it's very possible that when you're learning you're not learning for the right reasons and up to the lowest level of not the right reasons. The same thing also with mitzvah. You could be you're doing it for not the right reasons. So therefore, because the mitzvah and the Torah getting involved, getting engrossed in the physical evil world. So therefore, the even the Tyra and the mitzv has to be washed and has to be scrubbed so that the garments can be clean. Do you want to wear clean mitzvah? It has to be clean. [clears throat] Even if if if it's not a garment that that uh that is totally soiled like for example if you take for example a a physical garment so in order for it to be clean and to be pure you have to wash it once in a while and you have to scrub it once in a while while even after a person cleans the garments of the mitzv that should be clean from any negativity so that it should be obviously be able to connect on high but they have to be so that's after we do it. Then they need to go through another purification process which goes which who does that? The angels and they go ahead and they and and they they they press it and they they they steam it and they kiss it and they purify it. In other words, what does that mean? Explains like this because we know it says there's no such thing as even a righteous person in this world that's going to do good and not going to sin. Why? Because since the human being is in this physical world. So therefore sadly we sin. And sin in cabala is called it it creates a blemish. It creates something which is lacking at least. Now even though you're going to say what do you want? I'm not guilty. What do you have? I have an animal soul. Mistakes happen etc. And especially the fact that we know it says we're righteous people and we we obviously are looking to praise etc. But the fact is, Hashem wants us to be in this world. And like for example, the the the uh analogy I give of a king that sends his his child away to a far away land that he wants to show how wise his son is that even if he goes away in a far away place, disconnected from the king, he's still going to know the truth. Like it says the Hashem, we're always going to recognize the the truth of Hashem. And yes, even though we're sadikim, we still connect to Hashem, but the fact that since literally we're in a materialistic world and we do sin and a sin that creates a a void and even the mitzvoice is not complete sadly and like it says like we quoted before the saddic that lives in this world doesn't sin and the the lacking part and the void is in the mitzvah both not doing the positive that we should be doing. So therefore, in order for it to go up on high, we need to have the help of the angels and they could go ahead and help us fix what's wrong. And that's why in this world, you need to have the help of the angels. Not only from the first thing we learned because this world is all full with evil and bad, but even because of the materialistic part of the world. What does that mean? Because since the materialistic part of the world is you can't compare it to the infinite and to the spirituality and like it's known in reference to the souls of human beings that even a holy sadic when he goes up to the garden of Eden so he has to go through an immersion process in in in cabala it's called he has to emerge in a place called naharin and in this in this immersion process that you go through is to be able forget everything that took place in this physical world. Why? For it was so good. Why are you forgetting it? Because since this world, you can't compare to the revelation that takes place in the Garden of Eden and even a partial image and memory of this world will will will block you from going and elevating to the Garden of Eden. and and similar to the elevation that takes place in the garden of Eden from the lower part of the garden of Eden to the higher part of the garden of Eden. Why is that? Because every level is you can't compare one level to the next. So when you go from one level to the next, you have to totally forget about the first level. And like the analogy they give is when it comes to comprehending intellect in order to reach a higher level which is by far greater than the first one even though it's in the same level in in the materialistic world but the first if you want to comprehend something and go to the next level you have to forget what you what you study before and like the example they give of when he basically wanted to travel to the land of Israel and he wanted to experience the energy the godly energy of the land of Israel He went ahead and he fasted a 100 fasts or another opinion he fasted 40 fasts to forget what the Babylonian Talmud so that he can learn the Jerusalem Talm which is much clearer and much holier and the same thing also applies when it comes to learning mitzvah because mitzvah are involved in the materialistic world. So you first need to refine and pull them out from the materialistic world. And in order to do that, we need the help of the angels to do that process of purifying it. And there is you can say possibly that that even though the refinement of terror mitzvah and elevating it to the higher level we said like we it comes through the angels but nevertheless since we know that the ultimate completion of any any anything is is when we do it when we put our work into it and like we know the expression is a person rather have one measure that you worked on yourself versus nine as a So therefore also the refinement and the purification of the mitzvah the beginning starts by our work. So yes the angels have one part of it and one piece of it but we still need to start the process. And that's why it says in that the washing and the purification of learning to and doing how does how do we how do we create that washing process? What's the washing machine that cleans up the ter of this world? It's called it's called the the work of prayer. What does that mean? Not only that by praying you clean the mitz from anything dirty that's on it and it shouldn't be done in the way of not for the proper intention etc. But more importantly when a person prays that starts the process which means you refine it from the materialistic part and you create the termit and as as a spiritual experience and as we know that when it comes to prayer it says that it says in the Bible the latter is standing on the floor and you see it says floor but adds a we'll soon see why the head Shamayim is heaven but it puts a hey in the front of the word and hey in the end in other words because prayer connects the two extremes and shayim the lowest and and the highest and based on we know that ars when you're adding a hay is even a lower level of gland and know eritz is the land the earth is even lower the hay makes it more anchored lower on the other hand means shay you're adding the h is obviously even a higher level like the higher level of heaven the shima double hey because you have a hey in the beginning hey h at the end is obviously even higher than that's why it says that latter is it's in the lowest level and the head is sham because through prayer you're able to elevate know the human being elevates something which is on the lowest level and it brings it up to the highest level all the way off the charts. Now, just like prayer affects by the human being that even when he's in the lowest level, he can go to the highest level. But again, we need obviously the help of a of a of an angel that that helps us out. But the same thing also applies to everything of the human being and especially in his learning term doing mitzvah by by going through the process the four rungs of prayer. And we know in prayer there's four rungs of prayer which correspond to the four worlds um bri and as we go we go from one level to the next until you we obviously start from toss to briot and then you even go to to the heaven which is higher in the worlds and then you reach the essence of hashem and this is one of the explan this is one of the explanations in reference to the garments of the mitzv idea of yum days literally because we said I And we said what does the mitzvah mitzvah that the mitzvah creates the experience the holy day but it's also connected to the day itself. Why? Because how does mitzvah get elevated? So again through the angels but then through our work which is through prayer. Now the fact is prayer is called that is our daily work. Just like you have to go work to earn a living. Every single day you have to work in prayer. Whether it's shakra the morning the afternoon every day we work in prayer. And like it says in Kazal that the prayers were were instituted corresponding to the sacrifices that were brought in the temple. And we know in the temple there was they used to bring a daily sacrifice twice once in the morning once in the evening. So you see that the prayer of the day elevates and refineses the sparks that were created in that day. So therefore the mitzvah which get elevated through prayer you need the work of the day which we said the work of the day is prayer is one second. So this explains why. So you need the angels to transform it. We need a human being to transform it. We transform it through prayer which is the work of the day. But this only explains why the what connected idea of day. But the big question was why do you have to do a mitzvah every day? That was the initial question we asked in the beginning even if you're missing one day but tomorrow you do two mitzvah. So the the mitzvah will be refined through the prayer of that day. And you can say that the prayer only refineses the mitzvah of that that day. Well, why? If a prayer refineses can bring you mitzvah, the prayer will refine it. And not only that, because we know there's a concept which is called tashlash is you can make things you can you can you can catch up a day after or prayer afterwards and you don't say once the once you that's it, the time has passed you can't you can't go ahead and make no makeup. And matter of fact, we know the explains in Tanya a very very revolutionary idea that when it comes to the intention of prayer that one prayer random prayer of all the prayers of the whole year elevates all that prayer of the whole year. So let's say whatever let's pick you pray and the whole year you didn't have the proper intention and one day you have the proper intention boom it elevates it all. So in other words, so the same thing also when you're trying to elevate the mitzvah through prayer that the mitzvah can elevate all the prayers and like we see when it comes to the prayers of Shabbat that it elevates [clears throat] all the prayers of the whole week with all the Tory and and mitzvah that that are included with it. So you see there's something which is called like a group a a group a group transformation. Why do you still have to do it every single day? explains as follows. We know that the ultimate purpose of learning terra and doing mitzvah is to create a transformation and refinement in this world. T mitz is all about refining the world and that's why terror is not in heaven and terror was given the reason why terror was given was to create peace in this world and how much more so that the mitzvah that were given to to refine us and up to the point that we know when it comes to the mitzvah of charity which is compared to all the mitzvah and matter of fact charity is called a reg it's called it's like a neutral mitzvah that's something which could goes with every mitzvah why is that because What's the ultimate purpose of doing a mitzvah? And also the reason why we came down to this world. We didn't come down to this world for the soul, but we came down to this world to to fix the body and animal soul and the physical world. And that gets accomplished by giving charity more than any mitzvah. Like the altar explains the power the power of charity that creates the greatest refinement. And that's why you need to have yman complete days. It means every single day you need to do a mitzvah. Why? Because since what is world? What is the definition of world? What makes something world finite is space. It's here and it's not there. It's there. It's not here. And time this past, it's present and future. So world is defined by space and time. So therefore when it comes to learning mitzv and what's the ultimate reason why we're learning to fix the world? So you have to fix not only the space of the world, you have to fix the time of the world. So therefore since every day is its own body of time. So you need today a mitzvah today to transform today. Now even though yes technically if you miss the midst of today if you do two tomorrow that works true but if you want to go ahead and fix the days appra appropriately so you need to like the expression is call every single day we need to do our work and that's why it says all his great qualities of zak butay what was his real quality after a reached the level of zukin he also was baba yam which is a very very powerful quality higher than zak. Why is that? Because the true intent why Hashem decided to create the world. It was the essence of the infant part of Hashem. Because Hashem wanted I'll say it in Hebrew. Hashem wanted to have a dwelling place down in this physical world. And how is this intent completed? When we do our work and we're called Adam, what does that mean? We have the power to complete this intent and that's one of the reasons why we're called Adam for the two again two extremes. On one hand, Adam and we're compared to Hasham on high. On the other hand, we're called Adam because we're created from Adam from the earth because our body was created from the earth [snorts] and initially we were we were d we were inanimate. There was no energy in in the earth and and like the verse says clearly we were created the stat of bones not like when things that grow and things that are alive because this idea of Adam because we come from earth which had no life that's shows our real power that we have power to to transform and elevate even the inanimate which is on the lowest levels and how does how do we create this transformation in a reality it's the the real transformation happens when we come We do it every single day. And when we do the work of zak on its own, even though you're transforming the world, the physical world, the space, but you didn't elevate this the time. So you didn't fulfill the ultimate making for a dwelling place for Hashem in the time. And therefore, even though transforming the world, you reach which is very very high, which is obviously it's higher than than days, but that's not the ultimate. However, when you do the work above yim in time and you working to elevate every single day up to the point like the verse says every single day is accounted for and not only accounted for in days but misper counting from heaven sapper a shining stone and like the author explains in earth that misper is referring to the heaven says and the the zoya says that you're creating holy powerful sparks knows that The human being brings light into the days which again in time not space space you accomplish. You can accomplish one day for so much but time this is the day and the author explains you do it by learning bringing the light of and mitzvah into every single day and by doing that by doing it every every single day you fulfill the intent of making a dwelling place for Hashem down in the lowest level in lowest level of space and level of of levels of time and fulfilling this this intent. That is the ultimate creation and the ultimate completion of the quality that we have as humans. So thanks so much for joining us for our weekly class onus. Let's hope let's hope and pray that we actually take the lesson we fill our days with learning to and doing mitzvot. And let's hope and pray that we'll have the coming of Msiah. The next class will be have a great and blessed week. Shabua to.