Return, O Israel, to G-D The Superpower of Teshuva. שובה ישראל Kabbalah by Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz

Welcome to our class on we're going to be learning a powerful discourse in the rebba the name of the discourse is called sh is the rebba said this disc this discourse in shabas and that year was shab in the year that's 48 years ago never went on to certify and edit this discourse in honor of shabas Sha in the year 35 years ago so again the discourse is based on the verse from the prophets which results in the beginning of the T shab where it says is return Jewish people your God take with yourself words elem and return to hem says we have to understand when it says Isel return Jewish people so what does that mean we're doing truva the way he's supposed to and we know when you do truva there's a Biblical commandment positive Commandments when you do Chua you have to do confession and up to the point that confession is part of the integral part of chuva so in other words when it says shua is obviously you're confessing so why does the verse say also take words it's part of chuva question number one also we have to understand what the verse continues on it says return to and other words after is after you return there's another chv what does that mean stand this introduction which was explained before this discourse is a continuation of previous discourse said which we also have online also called from that year so this where it says you know seemingly should say to God not until so it's like the the the explanation of the teaching of the Alba that the Chua has to be until the infinite part of should be your God that's one Insight another Insight of that is going on a level a very high level which the name of the level is called OD so the first Insight is you have to do until the second one is you have to reach the level of OD and even and in this level of OD there two levels the you have to reach level of OD and including the level of OD or the other one is you have to reach level of OD and you don't have to include the actual level of OD and know what does that mean the means you reach it and you're including the level it's referring to the levels of levels that we can reach in other words that because we know in the the waym used to create the world every level is connected one with the other so therefore if you you you're you're you're you're on on the lower level so even though it's a lower level you can reach already the higher level up until the highest level that's why he says it's all the level of what is is referring to off the charts even when he's on the on the on the highest level of his he reach very very high but you're not going to reach to the infinite levels that's why it says okay so basically says he'd like to explain the connection of returning to the level of because cha there's two levels in cha in other words this that when a person does chuva you're able to fix and you're able to uh uh refill that what what you were supposed to do before now till till now and that is referring to in general the levels of because basically a person is made up of intellect and emotions and that's something which we we could grasp and we can tackle and we can form and that's why it says because it's talking about levels that we can reach intellect and emotions and this the idea that in order to fix these ideas you have have to reach the level of above and that's that's where it says Etc you could say this is also what he continues on the verse to say after he says like we said the one inside is that's level intellect emotions or which is above so it says afterward why because and elim is referring to the one that power is over and and when a person does it means your CH is in a way that you awaken the level of which means the higher level and you bring it in to yourself so when you do that then then the becomes your energy that would practically speaking which is above should shine within you in a Eternal way say we explained before and again referring to the previous discourse on the same verse he explains what does it mean Jewish people should return until that the TR the returning has to be in a way that should be your God and he explains with two ideas one is that yut should become your God which means that should be your energy and the second is that the utk v k should should be just like the level of Alim a lower level in relation to the infinite part of hasem so one is one Insight is that what should be your energy and the second is that should that should be like like the level of compared to the infinite part of hem you can say that these two ideas in which means the which means you're you're able to reach the higher level of the you can't reach it go together with these two insights whether Hashem becomes your God or that level is is is is like the level of compared to the higher level and he explains as follows this that we explain before that the two levels of is referring to levels of that you can reach or you can't reach that's in general but specifically even in in higher than St there's also there's two levels in ad and like he explains in that these two levels in ad is referring to the levels in K because we know K in general is above so the which mean you could reach is the lower level which is and that's the source of everything that's created and the is an optic which is basically the lower level of the Creator we understand this based on what it's known that when a person comprehends in the which means the part of hem the light that fills the world into the world which basically is not the essence of the light it's only array that's why it fills the world and it can only fill the world of its array so when we when we meditate on the which means the part of hem that fills the world we come to understanding that that that there's a light which is much greater yes maybe this light we know but we come to as a light which is greater and from there from that infinite light that's how you have the and since when a person comprehends and you think about the light that's in the world you come to the knowledge understanding in in the higher level of a light now even though you don't know that light we know the light that fills the world but we know that there's a light that's above the world so in cabalistic terminology it's called Yas we don't know what it is but we know based on not being able to know it and as you know there's a light which is much greater than the world and a light which is much greater than it comes into the world but nevertheless it's a level of understanding so therefore that level is called because mean says yes I understand the light that fills the world the light that doesn't fill the world yet true I don't know it but I do know that something like that exists so it's called and the same thing also when we serve AEM because sin intellect um allows us that we that that um that we cannot reach that level and in order to have appropriate serving Hashem you need your intellect realizes you have to have acceptance so therefore the acceptance that comes because intellect is telling you it's like so intellect we can grasp we can't but since intellect is telling you that you need to have that's called what does it mean that's a level that we can even understand that we need it and that is called not that we know we need have that's coming from the soul the soul sometimes tells you accept not the intellect because the intellect that's coming from your logic that's you you grasp you need to accept but then there some your soul just tells you just accept it do it that's so Bas on Ser explains he wants to explain the connection between these two insights in know words the two levels if it's going on like the example of intellect that tells you to accept or it's going on like the example the total acceptance from between these two ideas together with the two insides of in other words like we learned before one shot is God is your god that means god is your energy or the second level that the level of yud should be just like Elohim and Simpson compared to infinite part of in other words the idea of which is that means you understand that the something higher that mean which is a knowledge those like you use the term before so that's referring to what and that goes in in context with that that the infinite part should be your energy know the the light that's revealed through CH should be what but the deeper inside of of which means you can't reach even reach it even through that goes with the with the Insight of that which means that it should be that um it should be like the level of compared to the infinite partem that the light gets revealed through trva is even higher and greater than the light of now deeper says you can say that this that the verse says is and it says after he says now it tells you he's saying because that that the idea the deeper level that should be like elim compared to the Aran which is above is even higher than the level of because till now we said this and we said the two levels now he's saying it's obviously much deeper much higher level because because the verse goes on to the next level so what is that what what's the next level and he explains like this well stand Bas on what we explained before that when it says in the verse so it's also including is usually spelled I don't want pronounce the name of hem but it has a certain PR certain vowels that's used but then in the Z says there's times when has the same of elim which is even a higher level like it's explained based in the verb so he speaks about the two the the great elevation of the two names of Adonai and andem and again with the nikim the higher level but nevertheless what does it say knows even the level of it's even in this higher level of which isim is is only it's only in the level of Kim and compared to the infinite part of hem why because even this most powerful level of with theim compared to the essence of hem it's it's also like why because it's a name it's still a name and like the like the alter explains in reference to the reference to the two um um levels ofer like it's going to be like Mia so it says gonna blow and then it says so one place it says and then it say without without doesn't use the name in other words so the where it says since even it's only a name so what does it say they're going to blow so even the most powerful name of however when it comes to the biger it says it doesn't say who's blowing it mean it's obviously a deeper level why because this level is coming this level is coming from from the most concealed levels and the auor explains in the this this same idea applies the difference between rer because you know the the blow the we blow on the is like the verse the lower level say to the internal part of hem you become purified which means High than and not only that on this day of Yer is going to create atonement and it says it doesn't say who in front of who just like talk which basically is the higher level and that's why we saying the Jewish turn and in other words what what level of Hashem is it referring to it's referring to the level of with with nikim because on on chabas Chua we already have this powerful level yipper and in reference to this level um the level of Hashem the most powerful name is just like elim it's only it's only a level of of of of of uh a finite level a level of constraints and limitations so basically shra explains after he says we turn the Jewish people in other words and on this level it's which we as two levels which means even so he adds after why because even the idea of and which means a higher level and even though know it's not a level which not even a level of nevertheless but since you have to so to speak and say it's not including it so obviously it has a connection like like for example the idea of the b in other words the fact is how do you have atonement how do you have atonement because you reach the owner of the will so from there you can have atonement and in generally what is that referring to the names of elim with theim and through that you create all the levels of atonements and know even though that this that you have atonement that you did opposite the will of hem well how have atonement because he's not hasem is not limited to the will of it has to be done a certain way but nevertheless the will has a connection to him and that's why he's called the balar even the balar is a very high level but it's still called the owner of the will and therefore you have to have atonement because you're the opposite of the will but when you reach a deeper place when you reach the essence of the infinite part of hem so it's much higher in the B so on that level there's there's no blemish to begin with and like it's explained where in reference to the idea we say that the essence of the day of Yer brings atonement now the atonement that happens because it's the essence of the day not because you something has to happen it's the essence of the day which means on that day what gets revealed is the essential connection between the soul and the essence of hem Which is higher than the B and on that level there there's no sin to begin with and that's why after it says which we said is two very high levels he and he adds why because since shabas Chua is an in construction yipper and therefore the Chua the ronment that takes place in shat has to be not only till and not only till that that's why everything gets totally nullified but you have to be able to awaken the the the essential part of the Jew which means the connection of the essential part of the soul the essence of the Soul with the essence of hem Which is higher than the the fact that hm is the owner of the will know and that level even the level of with nikim is only it's only concealment and when you reach the essence of Hashem what gets revealed is that all these things that you did do you didn't do it's all external stuff but internally because the fact that the Jewish people are connect ESS Essence there was never anything wrong and that's really the powerful of idea of your KRA you reached a place and in that place you didn't do anything wrong you could say that even onum KRA you also have these two ideas in other words the revelation of the essence of the Soul which is connected with the essence of hem that's on one hand but on the other hand it gets revealed on all the different levels of the Soul even to the lowest level of Soul which is the level of nefes and by by so you by reaching the essence and it gets revealed so what happens then what gets revealed that the atonement are even on the level of the Soul where this where where there's no room for sin to begin with and that's why because you have these two components on there's an obligation to pray five prayers and we know five prayers are corresponding to the five levels of the soul and the day that was that we're obligated to pray these five prayers is because what gets revealed is the essence of the soul and from the ESS essence of the D Kipper what gets revealed is this this level in every part of the soul and you could say that the difference between these five prayers is not only um on the level where it gets revealed in the soul one is one is one but also in the amount of the Revelation know as we know the highest prayer the last prayer which is basically corresponds to so the Revelation over the it's not only in the but the Revelation is much greater than all the other prayers and the same thing also in reference to the other four prayers that the Revel that it's not only what level of soul but how much Revelation how much is revealed and the same thing also on on the higher levels that on this day of Yumer the day that we're obligated to do F prayers because on that day what happens is malus the world gets elevated to the highest sphere in like it's explained in s and that happens every day but nevertheless there's different levels but the main elevation when Mal goes into that's specifically oner and during the prayer of now the levels of Yumi in generally it's divided into two levels in general one on one hand it says we know in the Torah when it speaks about Yuma so it says sh he he is spelled which is a feminine it's it's the feminine the and then it says sh who which is masculine in other words words these two levels of yum Kipper where the feminine or masculine are two levels in optic and in optic obviously there's two insights what does that mean so generally speaking is we know that has two levels and and optic is the higher level of CER and specifically in the in the in in the three beginnings of it and that's called atic but the main idea of AR is referring to in in the infinite part in the first three parts and the difference between these two levels and shabab which is feminine which is antic and and and in the in the in the uh the three uh first Parts um which in there is included rist and then you have shabab which is masculine is referring to in the infinite part which is called Rous he's saying there's two different two different levels of one is antic itself in the first three parts and the SEC the other one is the infinite part so based on he says you can say deeper explanation after it says so he says why because that highest level istic like he explains um before from and this was saying that Hashem even ni with Nim is reference to the infin part of it's could could say it's referring to in reference to the higher level of the infinite part you could say that this that we say that the quality and the elevation of yipper is the day that we're responsible we obligated to make five prayers even though the day itself is the basically the essential connection of the soul that connects with the essence of hasm is even higher than the idea that we're obligated in in five in five prayers which basically the the the the specific and the details of it why because this that the soul gets revealed in the details which means that the atonement goes into the level that there was there was a blemish so it has actually an an upgrade or a beautiful idea higher than the idea of the essence of the Soul why is that he said this like this even though that in the different levels of especially in the level of so the idea of the way it's on its own so that you have blemishes but nevertheless you're able to atone for it not only that or even more than that that the atonement that takes place from yum Kipper which means what gets revealed that an internal level there was no there was there's no blemish and the same thing also when it comes to the atonement itself that the main revolutionary idea of the atonement is what's atonement for literally someone sinned because when it comes to an atonement of of of of of of a sadic know what does that mean which is a F type of sin which basically I'll say in Hebrew I'll translate he's a yes you're an ego that loves hem you're supposed to love hem not because you are you have an ego or for example on on their level it's like you're basically you're you're rebelling against hm you're supposed to be accepting the and since on these sins you can't say it's the opposite of will of hem because the fact is the ego Hashem gave him the ego so therefore the atonement over there is not it's not a revolutionary idea gave hasem gave him the ego but where's the main revolutionary idea and what we see the real quality of atonement that doesn't come from fine sins it comes from a literally someone rebelling someone doing a sin and over here what gets revealed the real power the inite power of our of the Jewish people connection hem that even we did opposite what hem wants but nevertheless through repentance and atonement we become literally accepted by Hashem just like we never sinned where's that where's that show out in a real Sin and that's why it says clearly in a place where balua that means someone that literally sinned but then they literally returned even a sadic can't stand there why is that because what is the literal meaning that the main quality of is that someone that literally returned that means he sinned and he returned to hem so Bas say Now understand what the says and um from the from the reasons of the MIT of and he says like this that we know that the Aral who was a holy man he would go ahead and list all the sins the fact is he never did all these sins and the answer is because of sins were all one body and you so one you could say maybe the re was doing it because maybe he found on a refined way that he had these sins or like for example you mentioned before there was some kind of ego involved when when he did something but no we say this is that he went ahead and he confessed because even referring to those sins that because since all the Jewish people are one body so you can say that based on this we'll understand why the Aral had also the quality of shua but since he was part of the Jewish people and when someone SS it affects him so he had the quality he did Chua as he connect to everyone else and he'd like to add that the main the the main revolutionary idea and the main quality of B is referring to when his learning to and doing mitzah after he repents why because what's the idea of chuva chuva basically is boom I'm returning to hasem but what happens after you return to Hashem now you have to stop learning T MIT so what what when does the revelation of the connection of our soul with Hashem get connected it happens when we turn to hasem and we have atonement now even though that it affects on all the levels you you have full atonement and it's and it affects the level of but that's the way they got elevated they got elevated to the level of up until the level of soul but where does it stand out TR where does repentance stand out that repentance stands out that by but after you do tra you go ahead and you learn T and you do MIT with much more enthusiasm and much more excitement because what happens is with the the serving Hashem by learning T and doing Mitzvah is done in an orderly fashion because the fact is we know every Mitzvah has has a has a set requirement like Dr explains Atlant Tanya and how much more so learning ter you can't just learn ter you have to comprehend it you have to understand they have to meditate up to the point that the the work of learning Mitzvah is after cha is with much more enthusiasm so basically you're revealing and possibly the essence of your soul into your the way they're down here physically in this world and now says even more so when a person does their AV their work of learning and doing what happens is the world becomes a dwelling place for hem and by doing that we actually fulfill the intent why hasem created the world and like we know like mentioned many many times that the whole reason why hasm created the world he he thought about the The Souls of the righteous people they're going to learn T and we this we say The Souls of the sikim and even though we just learned that it's really weird about Chua stands because the Ultimate Tent is that we should create a dear a dwelling place for hem down in this world and that happens through what through a sadic what does it mean a sadic someone that learns toing those Mitzvah but nevertheless the the highest level of learning and doing mitz that happens after you do chv because then the mitv with much more enthusiasm and through that you're actually bringing more of a revelation and godliness into into the person and to the world and through that you actually fulfill the ultimate intent of making a dweller place for Hashem in this world saying this yes even though the ultimate goal is to make a de does it but where does it happen much greater after you did cha because then the the MIT is with much more much much more excitement and much more passion and that's why it says is return and then take words so we what was the question he asked sha is is with it's through through through confession so why is he adding taking words because after he says because since we know the real power of chuva and especially the chuva of and know the TR takes you to the level of to to the highest level even at the highest level is like so what gets revealed what gets revealed is how do you have tra because the essence of the soul is connecting with the essence of hem higher than the Bal but nevertheless since you're on this high level so therefore there's not not not the fix and and especially um in order to fix you have to go down for level therefore he says you have to do confession to to to erase um from the body all the cppo that's there that's one Insight why why we have to say it to erase Theo from the body another Insight of is that you have to take the words of learning doing MIT why because when it comes to fixing the sins even though that by fixing the sins there's a tremendous power like we learned because you're revealing the essence of the soul and on the lowest level where obviously there's there's room for sinning but nevertheless it's not enough you have to go ahead and say words which means you have to learn you have to do mitz because then you'll have the the upgrade the elevation of the soul the way it's down here not the way it's was elevated and not only that by doing by learning tur mitzvas you actually transform the world and you make a dwelling place forem down here in this world and that's why the verse continues on to say after it says return to hem why because after you return the highest level which is basically elevating the world you has to be we have to bring draw down the the light from high down to this world by learning her and doing mitv which we know that is a the way of hem and by doing that we will draw down all the flow of good energy not only in spiritual things but also in physical things that we're gonna have B children life sustenance abundance and like the alar that Hashem gives the Jewish people materialism and our job is to transform materialism into spirituality and we make a dwelling place forem down here and by doing that will be will be the King on the world here's another beautiful discourse of the rebba about that we have the power to transform and Elevate and and Elevate the world like says ultimately by elevating the world will Merit for Hashem to be um the King on the world and let's hope and pray that we'll have the revelation of mssiah and next week will be your shes have a great and blessed week sh