Mitzvot? The Power to internalize the infinite. A new Kabbalah class by Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz

welcome to our class onto this this week we're going to be learning a beautiful hasidic discourse from the rebel based on the verse and this week's torah portion dabber albania israel speak to the jewish people they are martha lame you should tell them that they should make titties for their gar for their four corner garments the rabbit said this to the discourse and shabbos pasha which was that year the 28th day of the month of sivan which was blessed the month of tammuz like just like this year were blessing the mountain thomas and it was in the year of tough shin lament base exactly 49 years ago so again the opening of the hasidic discourse is based on the verse israel speak to the jewish people via marital lamb you should tell them and what should you tell them the salaam teachers they should make senses so the rabbi asks a simple question why does it say da bear to speak and then again via marta one is enough either dhabi or via marta so the rubber brings in urbana bakayo a classic commentary in the homestead says that da bear is the cloud telling you the general idea of the mitzvot and via martha allahim is telling you the specifics all the details in a mitzvah and they're bringing some different places of mysticism and they ask a simple question what are we saying da bear is a general component of the mitzvah and the market has the specific details so why is da bear connected to the general and and amira to the specifics maybe a mirror is a general and diabetes specifics how what's the relationship with diabetes to the general idea and amira to the specifics trevor explains what he says because da bear is an expression of speaking strong and never gives an example when the brothers went back to yakuli to tell them about their interaction in egypt so the verse says clearly they said you see the word diber and he spoke to us the verse says khashog strongly so you see when there's a word debur it's an association with a strong type of speech on the other hand amira is warmth refined soft where do we see that that when um light when he had the the angels came to him and they were trying to break down the door of the house so he went out and he said like he speaks to his to to his community and he calls them brothers and who do you call a brother someone that you're friendly with and over there he uses the expression of so you see clearly that dabber is associated with a strong type of speech and by urinary is more of a soft type of speech now so therefore so once we know that dabri is strong and amira is soft it never explains like this so when it comes to the cloud when you talk about something in general what does that mean you're talking about something in general you're not telling the details where's all the details it's concealed in other words so when you're telling someone general ideas that's strong talk give me details understanding comprehension explain it to me that's soft so when you say that da bear and dabba we know is strong that's associated with giving the general guidelines which means basically it's above being enclosed into the relationship it's not making it personalized when you just give someone commands and you tell them general terms that's the idea of kosher heart on the other hand when you say details when you explain things that's associated with amira which is basically soft and that's basically because you're enclosing into the person you should understand it it's revealed it's explainable etc so in other words when it comes to the um the the deburr so it's it's har it's it's harsh it's general when it comes to me right soft and it has all the details and rubber explains because what happens like this um when you have a mitzvah so there's the global mitzvah you have to do this but then there's a details of the mitzvot what the details limits are the details of mitzvah is that when you understand it on all three levels of the garments which three level levels makshava thought speech and action in other words when you go ahead to do a mitzvah and you stop and first you use your makshava your thought what does that mean think of what's the purpose of a mitzvah what is the spiritual idea of the mitzvah and you meditate on the mitzvah now you're personalizing it in your thought what is the deeper mitzvah so before you do the mitzvah you stop and you realize it's a commandment you make a blessing with your mouth so you're drawing down the energy the mitzvah um in in into the speech by saying the blessing on it and then you have the action of doing the mitzvah which is the body of the mitzvah so you see that every mitzvah is the more you go down and internalize it in thought meditation speech verbal and action that's the details on the mitzvah and we know when you do a mitzvah deeper myself it's much more enjoyable it's much more meaningful and you can relate to it much better it creates a better it creates a certain deeper relationship with hashem however so that's the details of the mitzvah what is the general idea of a mitzvah the general of its idea is hashem commanded us and by doing the command of hashem we connect to hashem we know the word mitzvos and the expression of safsa the hebrew it's a command that creates a connection like for example we say when we do it when we make a blessing by a mitzvah we say our sheriff john will be mislease of you sank divide us with the commandments with sivana when you commanded us what does that mean what doesn't mean you commanded us so when you hear that the reason why you're doing the mitzvah because hashem commanded us what is that called in kabbalah it's called kabbalah you're accepting hashem commanded hinani i'm ready to do it and obviously once i accept and and you accept hashem's commandments and by doing the commandment you're connecting literally with the atsumos or inside boroku with the essence of the infant of light so in other words what happens to me i don't exist i totally become humbled to the fact that it's a commandment from hashem and i'm ready to do it up to the point that the rubber explains like the altar writes in the torah that let's say for example hashem commanded us to chop wood to stand all day and chop wood or for an hour a day two hours a day and that would be a mitzvah and even though it doesn't make sense and there's no effect of chopping the wood the wood stays there guess what we do it why because our son commanded us now so that component of the mitzvah that we're just doing it because hashem said kabbalah soil it means i would even just chop wood if that's the commandment of hashem so that's the general idea of a mitzvah which is basically it's harsh it's cold which basically practically what does that mean kabbalah i'm accepting not accepting for a reason i'm accepting beyond logic hashem commanded me i'm ready to do it however when it comes to the details in the midst like we mentioned before mark shovel you meditate on the reason for the mitzvah and you make a blessing and you actually do the physical mitzvah so that's something we can relate to that's meaningful that's enjoyable and that's why the details is associated with raqqa with softness now so again to be clear there's two components to every mitzvah there's the component of the mitzvah is we have to do it because hashem commanded us that's the general mitzvah and those every mitzvah has the general ideas and commanded us why are we doing it kabbalah i'm ready to accept but what type of relationship does that create between us and hashem it's kosher it's hard because i'm just accepting i don't know the reason for it it's okay i'm still happy to do it but on the other hand you have the component of the mitzvah where you can meditate on it with your thoughts you make the blessing so you personalize it you do the physical mitzvah two different components of the mitzvah so there's a component which is kasha which is hard which is associated with with with dab air which we said gabriel is associated with harshness and then there's the component of the mitzvah which is associated with amira which is soft the reasons the details the part that we meditate the part that we connect to now so that's on a practical level we all know that everything is connected to the spheroid the tensory route so the sphero it knows when it comes talks about the spheres in the sphere so the mix is connected to the spheroid so da bear which we said is harsh which is the idea where you're accepting upon yourself the yoke of hashem which sphere is that connected to to actually connect to a very high sphere it's connected to which one kesar in casa we know there's taino of the highest part in what's in the lower part so these the idea that we're just doing kabbalah soil it's actually connected to a higher sphere it's connected to the sphere of kesar and watson hashem which means he nani rats and hashem i'm ready to do it so even though it's not as enjoyable but you're connected much higher so it's interesting in other words the the deeper of the mitzvah the harsh part of the midsole it's kabala soil maybe it's not personal it's not warm but when you do it from that perspective you connect to a higher sphere you connect to the sphere of casting connections for your rotary in other words so from rothsawing this is what hashem wants this is the will of hashem so when you're doing the mitzvah it doesn't make a difference dismissed for that much so there really isn't a difference between any one of the 613 commandments if it's about doing ratso in hashem whatever rats and hashem is i'll do whether it's the positive commandment the negative commandment it's irrelevant what the mitzvah is it's the same feeling i'm doing what's in hashem or like for example like doctor ever said before that even if hashem asked us this is chopped wood with swats in hashem there really is no difference but from that perspective you're reaching a very very high sphero and not only that there was a step further what happens if you have to do a mitzvah and there's multiple components to a mitzvah and you did let's say nine out of ten did you fulfill hashem's will absolutely not because hashem's will is let's say for example one mitzvah has ten details and you did nine out of ten you didn't do rats and hashem you did your will you were close but it wasn't watching hashem so you see when it comes to wrought sign when it comes to kabbalah soil it's either all or nothing now when it's all you hit home run you hit casa you hit rats in hashem it's amazing it's kosha 100 so there's pros and cons with it on the other hand when it comes to the idea of the details of the mitzvah m or all the details the meditation the verbal and the action what's the source in sv wrote for for the details on the mitzvah so it doesn't hit that high it only he reached the level of the details the reason the of the mitzvah is kahma and we all know that when it comes to bina perspective logical perspective you're even able to do part of the mitzvot so a mitzvah has ten components and you did even five so from this perspective intellect guess what you got a 50. you didn't fail if someone went ahead and did 50 you got a 50 that's 70 you got a 70 70. you did 20 you got a 20. but when it comes to wrought sign it's either pass or fail you either did it or you didn't do it so again to recap before we go further so what you're ever saying is like this there's two components in every mitzvah there's the component where it's ratsa and hashem the will of hashem and that inspires us kabbalah i'm ready to accept and if you accept and you do it all so you got it and where do you reach you reach the level of wrestling on the other hand the details in the mitzvah whatever you do is great and as much as you accomplish that's percent of the bits that you accomplished but on the other hand how far you're going to reach in the level of spheroid you're going to reach the level because you can go 50 and it's also fine so that's why wrought sawing when you're doing the will of them it's the general mix so it's it's kosher because it's not it's not personalized it's not warm on the other hand the details in the mitzvah it's enjoyable because whatever i do i do you can get a mark whatever you do you're still gonna pass you'll still get points for it so obviously that's what that's the idea of the warmth of the mitzvah so they'll be asked a very very simple question this idea of the general ideas of the mid-choice and the specific of the mitzvot in the details and the way it connects to the spheros watson enjoyable or not enjoyable why is that specifically in reference to the admits of synthesis seemingly these two ideas of the general idea and the details which practically means kabbalah willing to accept the yoke or the the details of the mitzvot which is connected to raza and that applies to all the mitzvahs for example whoever gives an example let's take the mitzvoth villain so you have the physical action of the mitzvah putting on villain but you also have you're willing to basically put your heart and mind aside you're willing to connect to hashem which is the level of kabbalah cell so again so feeling you have the physical component you have the saying the blessing and the the the physical opponent of the mitzvah but then you have you're accepting whatever some wants you willing to put your heart and mind away uh the dedicated hashem and we know that the whole terror is compared to twilight so if you haven't liked villain you have by all the mitchells of the torah and there was one step further the fact is all the mitzvos the source of every mitzvah has its source in khakma which is the details of the mitzvot and all the mixtures have its source in kessa so if that's the case so this da bear and amira which represents dhaba represents the kabbalah soil and represents the general idea of the mitzvah and amir represents the specific of the mitzvah and one is rothschilding and one is one is so why does it say specifically right by titus if it's in theory it applies to all the mitzvahs so there are explains and he says something very powerful and he says as follows because in the mitzvah of titus besides the fact that it's like all the other mitzvahs but when you look at the physical component of the mitzvah of titus it's literally spelled out and it's laid out in a revealed way these two components in other words that in the beginning you have the idea the way mitzvah of synthesis in general and it's the will of hashem connected to rothschild and then you see the way the mitzvah of citrus goes out into the detail and into the level of so where do we see that never explains like this and he says this follows so when it comes to the physical component of the mitzvah of tissues so we all know there's the tallest is the garment whether it's a towel katan that people wear underneath their shirts some people wear on top of their shirts or it's the talika doll so there's two components to the talus you have the you have you have the four corner garment and then you have the strings that are in each one of the four corners two physical components that's the structure of a talus the garment and then you have the four corners where the strings come out so what is that now technically it looks like a garment and strings but we know it's not so on a spiritual level what does the garment represent and what does its strings represent should ever explains like this the talus the garment part is called in the zohar prisu the malka what is priest of the malcolm mean it's the garment of the king what does that mean it's the garment of the king what does a garment mean a gar a garment you don't internalize it covers you from the outside and hebrews called it's a lavush it's a garment in kabbalah it's called it's makif it it it encloses you from without and clothes you totally so the the talis represents the idea of a la bush where it's a garment that clothes you from the outside covers you from the outside and it mocketh it covers over you all from the outside in other words practically speaking you look at the you look at the talus and you put on a big talus so why don't you do it it wraps you around your whole body it's supposed to be actually matter of fact there's actually specific requirements to have a proper size of a talus so that it actually covers most of your body which basically means all the details of your body should be totally covered and should be covered equal so in other words the talus just like physically it covers you and when you see someone wrapped in a towel you don't see anything you don't see someone wrapped in a talus so the same idea is that talus represents spiritually it's not about details it's all about the global idea so again so let's let's take a moment before we before we wrap it up so what do you see no pun intended wrapping it up right when you take a talus and you're wrapped up so you don't see any more the head you don't see the hands you don't see the body you don't see something wrapped up in the sheet you can't differentiate the details so in other words the towers physically represents that it covers and it's all it's all one it's all equal and that represents spiritually in terms of the mitzvah where it's what rottain hashem so the talus represents it's all equal which means every mitzvah and every detail of the mitzvah it's one thing master key it's rotten hashem the will of hashem so you literally see the first component in the talus the talus represents hashem the will of hashem and that's why we know that the talus the first component when you're doing watching hashem is connected to its sphero the city of rotsen which is in kessa now let's look at the strings when you look at the strings formitalis so now you have a lot of details you have the knots you have the strings and you have multiple strings a lot of details and thereby actually quotes from a verse that says that he grabbed me by the strings of my head so you see that already strings is details and through strings you can already separate you can grab things etcetera also there it says not only is it something which has details that you're able to grab because a mark market you can't grab how do you grab a market something that happens you can't grab it it's one big sheet versus once you have strings then you can grab hold on to it so there's details the second component of titus is besides the fact that it has details also the citrus is all about idea is comes from the expression of riya to see why do we know we say that what's the connection with seeing so it says in the prophets mates it's able to see from the crack so you see that sits which is the the word of titsus is about seeing now what does seeing mean practically when you look at something you look and you see details and when you see all the details that what when you look at something which is a beautiful picture a beautiful painting so you see the details then you actually internalize the details and actually you enjoy the details and that's how we know that when someone sees something you become totally connected and one with it and it really becomes part of you like for example once someone sees something which works unfortunately for the good and for the bad it's hard to get it out of your system and it's hard to deny it once you see it that's why it's very important to be careful what you watch is holy and godly because god for you season which are not holy and godly up comes comes inside and it is hard to take it's possibly even sometimes even possible to take out you can maybe replace it actively that's another whole discussion for itself but the point is back to the point when you see something it's internalized with you and that's the power of seeing overhearing like for example we know talmud says you can't compare someone that heard something someone saw it hearing his hearsay when you saw it wow it's real all the details are alive what does that mean practically in in in our spiritual cohort which means in the sphero so the details of the mitzvah the these the street the details the seeing it internalizing all the details that's the level of so again you see clearly that the the garment of the the talent of the talis is referring to the idea of rotson the global and its strings which is the details and internalization that's connected to which which sphere are the sphere of now so now we have a clear spiritual image of a talus a talus represents makif it represents rothschildin and it represents a internalization and represents the idea of karma so now and here's where it says spiritually so what's the essence of the midst of tissues you know that makef which is extremely powerful it's connected to rhotsine the goal is that to internalize through the texas the market in other words like this the market is much more powerful it's connected to rot sign it's lots in hashem the panimi is not as powerful it's only connected to but it's more enjoyable it's more meaningful so what do you want in life you want everything we all know we want everything you want your cake and you want to eat it so the mix of titus is to teach us and to inspire us yeah we should go for the highest we should go for the mac if we should go for rothsana but we should internalize it within us just like the strings internalize and then we have both so we want the market but we want it internalized the market for loan is great but if it's not internalized it's not enjoyable on the other hand the premiums the enjoyable and if you don't go for the market you're going to have low level stuff so you want to have high level market but you want the high level to be internalized within you and that's why even according to jewish law that when you make the the corner of the garment so it says clearly the the the the corner of the garment has to be maybe even the same material as the garment why because the goal is we don't want a disconnect between the garment and the corner of the garment we want the garment which represents market for some rotten should be the same idea as the corner which is represents going into the detail going into kahma and they should be totally connected which means the market should be able to be internalized so that in general but now there was gonna explain what does it mean practically you know as we all know it's all about serving hashem avoid this other we are trying to serve hashem so what has been practically serving hashem so what is market practically machiave is basically kabbalah's oil accepting whatever hashem wants us i'm willing and ready to do whatever hashem wants without questioning understanding i'm ready now when you say that you're connecting to literally the the most powerful energy the most powerful light you want to accept whatever hashem wants but the goal is to draw that in and to be personalized in your life and ever says this is the whole idea of nasa venisma what happened but when and we just learned about this uh in unschwart in other words nasa we said nasa i'm ready to do what is that referring to nasa i'm going to nasa i'm going to do which means i'm going to do all the mitzvot nishma means i want to learn i want to learn torah now we all know that generally speaking generally mid's voice is what level kabbalah i am ready to do whatever hashem tells me to do and what type of way kabbalah soil i'm willing to accept makif if someone shows up they want to put on filling they want to keep kosher they want to keep shabbos that's great what are you connecting to when you do a mitzvah hashem the most powerful place in hashem you're connecting kabbalah soil market you're connecting to the most powerful lights on the other hand we've got to bring it down to earth we've got to be we have to be enjoyable let's be appreciative so then you learn torah what happens nishma you're learning torah by learning torah you internalize the powerful light why because we all know that torah gives us insight into the misplace the mitzvos creates the relationship the deep and powerful relation of the mark of the rothsawing but on the other hand the torah draws it in and makes it personal and where do we see that terror makes it personal because it says that your toyota the goal of turret should become internalized become part of me so when a person says and specifically nasa first i'm doing the mitzvahs first and then i'm going to go ahead and learn torah which i practically means i want to draw down nasa which i'm willing to accept whatever hashem says that this which is nasa it should be drawn down into the level of israel which means learning torah which means it becomes in a way a premium comes very very practical so this is really the whole essence of all the mitzvos but we see it clearly by mitsubstitus and implies all over we want to have the highest level ratsay hashem how do we do that kabbalah soil the mitzvos how do we internalize it we learn and then it becomes internalized so that's the difference between mitsvoice and toyoro but even in mixes you have two components you have the accepting to do the mitzvah market for the mitzvah and then you have the the details on the mitzvot which internalize and whoever says based on this he explains beautifully the major war that koira had with moisture brain which actually comes right after the parachute of titties what was the essence of the war between kairaka moisture no karyoka is very simple if you have a talus which is totally full of trailers guess what you don't need strings you don't need tensors that was one argument he had another argument if you have a house that's full of books a library full of holy books you don't need a mezuzah why what was his argument what do you mean a house full of books is great mozzarella two separated shoes italians are the talos and the strings are strings why why are you cutting off the strings why are you not putting on the mezuzah because koi rook was arguing that makkah was enough let's connect to the hashem i'm doing what's in hashem it's the most it's much more powerful which is true watson is much higher in other words have a tallis i have makif i have the rats in hashem i have a house full of books i have rats and hashem and therefore there's no reason to draw you know his argument was there's no reason to internalize it if you're connected to rats and hashem why internalize it by putting up uh mezuzah by wearing tissues and that's basically what his argument again was against musha and aaron now we know that arrowing what's aaron all about i worked in the temple served hashem you couldn't get higher than that but aaron was all about taking that powerful energy that mark of energy that wrote saying hashem and drawing it down it should be preemius it should be internalized like for example the famous verse that's brought that many places mysticism where it says khan aaron the beard of aaron shay red alpine deutsche which goes down over um honestly those of so so what is one of the things says what is the scan iron the beard of iron it's referring to what the cyrus the here's what does the hair resemble what does the beard resemble what does the hair resemble that it's internalized it's khan aaron is so take all those high things but you got to internalize it it has to be personable it has to be something you appreciate something that you understand something that you meditate on in other words the cyrus of aaron are just like the titties the tissues are the strings where it becomes internalized but unfortunately kairak was from those levites that basically they totally shaved their beard in other words they didn't have this the side race they didn't have the idea of internalizing it and that's basically the essence of of the argument in kyra kenarin korek felt listen you have the makkah if you have the rats in hashem why internalize it aaron says that's great that's wonderful but you got to internalize it and based on this river says something very very powerful you give a look at the end of the parasha of titties so what does it say annie hashem i am god your god and then it says again aniya malakai i am god your god twice why twice anias i say twice why twice and the rubber explains very simple you know why he says it twice because we just learned by tits is da bear and bayoner which is the general and the internal machief and preemie the first one is for the makif for the ratsoin and the second in the hashem of is for the premius for the the makif and the and and internalizing it the da bear and the yamata and that's why druva says when it's in in the midst of titus it says us hashem you should remember all the mitzvahs of utk that's one and then it says vasesam you'll do call me say all my mitzvahs so first it says hashem and then it says it's voice what is my mitzvoice so the rubber explains mitzvos is referring to my commandments which is even higher than mitzvos hashem this mitzvah is hashem where there's mitzvahs of hashem but then this voice say my command which is much deeper it's mine it does it's it's it's mine which means it's much deeper than where it's connected to utk now what is that level that's the level of kabbalah soil accepting the yoke which is higher and but the goal afterwards it should be drawn down into mrs hashem so that's when it says voice sites referring to kabbalah soil market hashem but mitzvahs hashem is when you bring down the mitzvos hashem into your life where it becomes a premius and it comes down into the level of so based on this representing something profoundly says like this when it gives us the commandment to about about about sentences it says da bear speak abney israel to the to benegas role not every mitzvah says double up when you struggle over here all of a sudden dabber speak open a stroll why is it re grouping and saying banega stroll so the evidence is like this because what is da bear da bear is makif dabe is rats in hashem so make it from russian hashem is specifically connected to bene israel why because he's the jewish people yestraw what are we connected to on our source our source were connected to atmospheric to the essence of hashem which the knows we're connected to the essen hashem which is the level of mitzvos my commandments the the the the the commandments of hashem so that's why it says specifically because these straw are connected to the deepest level they connect connected with suicide and we all know how do we know the jewish people are so connected so deep because the fact is that the jewish people existed before everything even before the torah and because we existed even before the torah so because we existed before therefore we have the power to draw down the most highest level the banega straw that we existed in mitzvot into the essence of hashem until hashem we have the power to draw down the most powerful lights down into the physical world and down into our physical body and into every one of our fish every one of our 10 spheres that we have up until the point that we're this high spiritual people and we make literally titsus from wool physical materialistic wool but guess what in the wool we bring in the power of hashem how do we do that and the answer is very simple because you stroll the kuchobriko kulakhad the jewish people in hashem we're one so if we're one it's no problem to bring the highest down to the lowest level up until the point that we make for hashem i'll say it in hebrew i'll translate it a dwelling place for lawyers work for the infinite sham that means we have the power to go ahead and make a dwelling place for the infinite hashem down into this world so here you see powerful the powerful insight of every single mitzvah that we have the power by doing every single mess for just like the mitsubishi to reach the highest on one hand rata in hashem and it's very very powerful and very meaningful to reach russian hashem but it's abstract but the goal is through learning torah and through meditating on each mitzvah we have the power to draw down the most infinite power of hashem the premium is internalized and we connect the razor and the shem and this way the mitzvah comes solid and it comes complete so as you see clearly hashem wants the best for us on one hand he wants us to be able to connect to him hashem but on the other hand he wants us to draw down the light into this world and the fact is we have the power to do it because it's not like we're we are like so to be guests in this world the truth is that our nostalgias are rooted in to the essence of hashem and because we're rooted in the yes of hashem we have the power to bring hashem the most powerful energies makif rotson down here into this world thanks so much for joining us for our beautiful hasidic discourse and let's hope our next discourse will be in your shalayim ir hakoidesh have a great and blessed week shavua tov