Ox & Donkey according to Kabbalah לא תחרוש A New Kabbalah class by Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz

Welcome to our class. We're going to be learning a beautiful discourse in the Reb. The name of the discourse is called Rebidic Shabas that year was 11th day in the month of in the year 58 years ago. So again discourse is based in the verse in this week's Torah portion where it says you shouldn't plow with an axe and a donkey together. So brings from the rebar the fourthb in aidic discourse with this title in the year and he brings several insights into this verse. So first he brings the insight based on what says in the medish a beautiful medish when came to au because he wanted to have dino. So he told him, I know that your grandfather Abramavinu was a was a was a president. He was a nussi. He was a president. I'm also the president of my community. So he told and he told him like this not no um he wasn't called he told him like this. No, no, he wasn't a nuss. He wasn't a president, but he was actually called a and like it says ran ran to ran to the to the cattle and it says so so so Yakov tells no no no my grandfather wasn't a nussy he wasn't a president he was an ax and you're a donkey and you can't combine an axe and a donkey together in other words what does that mean because axe is holiness What's what what is the level of holiness? It's basically called in it's and is the the shell that opposes which is basically the waste of and that's why the son of want to come to Dina but the negative priest of you cannot plow an ox and a donkey together is to take away and to keep the the the shell of kamaya away from from holiness. That's what he responded to him and he explains in the discourse that's why the the the the children the sons of Jacob told circumcise yourself why because by doing a circum you'll take away the foreskin which is basically the kipah and then they'll be able to connect to the and later on theic discourse he explains that the truth is that yaka's children they they they tricked them why because it's known because the way to the way to transform the kipot is through trickery and because they they promised him on the idea itself, but they put a condition and but they didn't know that when he's going to go ahead and circumcise by taking away the foreskin um then he they're not going to be he's not he's not going to be able to connect the Dina at all. Okay. So that's the first insight that what is and is is is and the two of them can connect then and and that's why you can't put a together then next insight he brings that and they're both kipot in other words is also kipo and just like in holiness you have from from the left side. So the same thing also you have which is which is kipo which is called which is which is called the gav of kipo and is of like we said before and which basically it is connected idea of love and of of the source is and therefore the command is you connect plow or together you can't have the union of these two type of kipot because when you unify the the these two kleo you're going to have you're going to have the negative energy is going to come out of it and like which is basically called a malik and we know that when when a malik comes out you have to totally get eradicated it and that's why since they're both if you live a look the the the the middle letters of what's the middle letter is spelled v so the middle letter is what and the middle letter of is spelled shin v and the middle letter is v six so you take me which is 40 which is 46 and you take six. So now you have 52 and 52 numerically is the same numerical value as as a kev a dog is spelled is 20 l is 30 and b is two. So the middle of the and the middle of the mev equals a dog. Now the Russ if you take the three the three the three words of and you take the you take the so you take the the first letter of is the first letter from is and the first letter from so you have you have you have which is the opposite of light which basically resembles idea what of and he explains in the discourse that because before the the circumstance decision au gave birth to Ishel which basically he's the kipah of the and that's why this the sons of the and son they should go ahead and circumcise and this way they ought to transform the kipa of the kamur and that's why they said no no no you can't go ahead and have a together but if you go ahead and circumcise when you take off the the foreskin then you could take away the kipa of the kamur now that's the two insights there was to to explain explain this on a practical level because you know it says the Kazal teaches and it says in the Talmud that I the rabbi said I never called my axe my axe but I called my axe a different name my field and why you calling it a field because what's the main part of a field you need an axe if you have a field and you have no axe what's what's your field worth so he called his his ax he called his field what does that mean because the axe is referring to the animal soul And the source is from the the the face of the axe on the left side. And it's also called like we said it's called a field. Why? Because through that you go ahead and through the axe you you you um the the the and godly soul plows through it. And like for example like you have a seed that you plant in the in the field and it's through that you you you you create you create um a growth. But in order to have to be able to plant and it should grow. So you need to first plow the plow the land. And that's basically the main work that the ox does. It plows the land which basically spiritually is referring to plowing the animal soul. And like kazal tell us that a person should always incite his godly soul his good side over his negative side. And that's what do you do the plan plowing with? You do it with the axe which is the the the on left side. And from over there what do you have what's the idea from the left side you push away all the negative stuff a person has to humble himself like it says the left is under my head which is basically the idea of plowing which is basically to to break um the hard part of the earth to different to small pieces and to to to break the body and the animal soul which basically is the field. Now besides that so that's the first idea which we we said is about an animal soul breaking the animal soul then there's also the the field which is associated with the godly soul and like we know that the Jewish people are called it's a land desires that in there you also have the level of acceptance and this is all the level of what of an axe which is basically um on on the on the holy side for that in terms of the ax. So you see the axam on the holy side either dealing with or dealing with but when it comes to the donkey no that's totally kipo that's the other side that's not holy why because the fact is a kamo a donkey is is an impure animal not like an axe which is basically a pure animal and we know the kamo is always cold and like the kazal tell us that a kamo a donkey even tamas when it's hot it's cold not like an ax which always has tremendous energy and the fact as we Oh, cold is the opposite of holiness cuz because holiness is all about good energy. And this is all according to the first insight that you shouldn't plow an axe with a donkey is to keep away the the negative energy that shouldn't receive from the positive energy. Why? Because the axe is working spiritually with the godly soul and the animal soul and and then you can go ahead and and trans that transform it. So you want to keep the sh which is positive energy of transformation away from the negative energy. That's according to the first insight. But according to the second insight, what does it mean? You shouldn't plow with an oxen and donkey together because the fact is that according to second insight, they're both kipo because the idea is you don't want to have the union of both of these negative kipot. You don't want to have and kipa together. Why? Because sh is kipa which is basically what is what is spiritually? It's an axe which is basically a mood. is constantly always um always doing damage and you want to stay away from it because since basically it's constantly doing damage and then wants to and all it wants to do is do damage and there's no benefit from the damage know you're not doing it for for for pleasure or anything but it's basically someone that does destruction that you have to stay away from and the point that the says that this is also it's not really connected to the nature of the Jewish people on on their own because who who who does destruction but it's possible you can train yourself a person get into a habit and you You become you become habitually you come into a habit of of an accident that does damage and therefore you have to go ahead and try to transform yourself and that's also connected idea of a malik or basically the door that comes out from the union of the like we learned before you know the gur of kipah and even in the in the the shell of a malik you have these two components because even though we said that a mullik is all about making cold right he he made us cold on the way but the fact is the the job of a mullik that's what it does to to affect negativity and up to the point from all the nations of the world no one want to sovereign Jewish besides a Malik why is that because it has the tremendous power not to be not to be not to be intimidated which obviously so it uses the warmth of it of of it of its energy to go against the Jewish people and that's the whole idea of Abra that Abra was called a sh why not only that he did the work on a holy level but even more that but he also was able to elevate and transform the acts of the on the negative side up until he's able to to transform the donkey on the negative side and up to the point you're able to create that he's able to transform the dunkey as well. How did he do that? That happens to circumcision and that's why before he was circumcised he was called a we know numerically is only 243 like the like like um like it says goram but when they added the the the once he was circumcised they added the letter hey to Abraham's name now he's 248 till then he was goram and then he became a without a v 248 those through the through the circumcision he was able to transform the 248 just that level of without the love and that's why Jacob said why how does he have accident donkey because he was born circumcised and therefore he was able to go ahead and transform both both of those levels say he like to connect this with the whole idea of the month of ele because we explained before what is the idea of of plowing it happens through the ox the ox is one that plows and the the face of the the ox on the left side and from there we have the power to go ahead and push away negativity you know to to humble self like it says and we know there says that onash that that's when you start the avoid of taxation you put away all the negative stuff why because from is called the left and because then because what what's what what happens that's all about it's all which is the left side and it's also connected idea of the the month of like we know in the in the uh the abbreviation for the month of El that the lammed is um is is connected to the the the 30 days of the month of And is connected to what to and the same thing also in the second verse it's where it says smiley. So says what l is for l and is what for and then if you have smiley ti without the lammed so the so the um ri so it's lammed is the 30 days of ra is what then you have r and yud. So is referring to rash and the yud is a 10 days of chuva. So the and it comes down from how does that happen? How do we have it comes through are doing our work and that's why um is is part of part of is all about I'm doing my work. So why is because the fact is the end is because through doing our work in month the month of that's where we receive the blessing and that's why the last four letters of each one has a yud which is four yuds which is basically 40 days from and not only that says that the same this idea of circumcision that through circumcision you transform both kipo of the ax and donkey is also connected to the mount of why because one of In the month of God is going to circumcise you, your heart and your children, which basically is is also the the the take the first letter of which spells out L, which is basically referring to the idea of circumcision and not only taking off the thick skin like it says you have to take off the the thicken you have to do yourself through through repentance, but even the the refiner skin. Um, and that's why it says Hashem is going to do that part and that's which which is hard for us to do that we have that as well and the general idea of circumcision which takes place in the month of what is that that's revealing and mas come from the level of of of revealing that comes from unhyd like it says in in in the beginning of the par and hashem is going to give you which basically hashem gives us the power to do whatever we have to do for the to for the work of the of whoever we have to do from hashem gives the power to do it and then when we do our work then we have and that comes in all the blessings for the whole year until we have the physical blessings with children life and sustenance everything that we need. So there's a beautiful discourse with insight into their level of ax and a donkey but more importantly that we have the power through circumcision through chuva to refine and elevate everything in this world. Let's hope and pray we do full refinement. The next class will be have a great and blessed week. Shabu to