Spiritual Protection שופטים ושוטרים תתן לך בכל שעריך גו A Kabbalah class by Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz

Welcome to our class on for this we're going to be learning a beautiful something discourse in the Reba the name of the discourse is called the Sheikh Rim judges and officers the rabbit said this because of the discourse of Chambers partial which is the second day in the month of elul in the year which is exactly 54 years ago so again the city discourse is based on the verse in this week's Torah portion the opening verse where it says to him judges and officers you should place on all your Gates and Torah continues on and it says you're going to eradicate all the ra all the evil all the negativity from amongst you in other words you're gonna eradicate all the evil negativity from the Jewish people in other words what does that mean because we know when according to Kabbalah it says the human being is like a small City and what happens in the small City that we have the enemy comes and wants to take over wants to conqueror a small City so the Torah says you should establish foreign judges and officers and all your gates to make sure that you're not conquered in other words and it's brought down there brings a beautiful teaching which says natalman and tract at the Yates the evil Incarnation has seven names obviously to disguise himself with different names but the point is the Yates are hurray has seven names one of the names that he has is actually called ra which means bad evil so one of the names of the Yates of hurray is RA that's his name you have to get rid of that evil inhalation you have to get up that rather evil from amongst you and those you have to eradicate the rod the evil inclination in the world from amongst the Jewish people now when you go ahead and you eradicate the ra the evil the evil inclination from amongst you so then you eradicate a person yourself and then through that you're eradicated from the Jewish people and then you eradicated from the whole world because we know change starts from within so you eradicate the evil from within then from the Jewish people and then from The Whole World In other words like it says it that a person should always visualize that um the whole world is like on a scale and literally when you go ahead and get rid of the ra the evil from amongst you you're literally tipping the scale so those of you not only tipping the scale to yourself but you're tipping the scale for the Jewish people and for the whole world why is that because we know what it says when I shouldn't create the world says be racist and it you know it means twice righteous in the beginning that means that Hashem created the world for the Torah and for the Jewish people so the Jewish people are called races and when you eradicate the evil from the Jewish people so then what happens automatically eradicating the evil from the whole world so big responsibility get rid of the evil from yourself get rid of Evil Within the Jewish people and the whole world is at peace how do we do that like it says um in the beginning you have to have judges and officers what does that mean a person should always make sure that what is the strong force in our life the Yates the good side over obviously the Yates the evil side and that's like they have shouting you have to create the policy that what is my life my life who leads my life the ace to leave and not the Yates are double my the exitary believes my life are not the eight Sahara and then afterwards you go on to the idea that's the positive side it's all about that my life is all about the AIDS of type but then if obviously when things aren't working out the way you should you have to remind him all the punishments and and that's the idea of our children officers so shaif them is they see establishes our life is all about good and if it's if that doesn't work then strike them you have to remind them there were that the whole idea of all the punishments but that's secondary now even though that um when you mentioned all the punishments that works and sometimes by going with a positive route they're saying listen our life is on the age of 12 Etc it doesn't work versus the secondary route where the punishment does work but nevertheless the way the Taurus set up is that first you have to work on the positive first you start off that we have the eighth of time our life is about good Etc if that positivity doesn't work so then the way you do it is by starting to deal with the negative and starting to talk about all the punishments Etc if you have no choice and unfortunately that works better but there ever says but our job is start with the good and let's hope that this that the good start the good starts first so in other words the rubber explains basically that's safe than a site room the goal is to get rid of the evil to go with negativity from yourself and then through us and by all the Jews around the world how do we do that first approach is focus on the positive that life is good then the age leaves our life and if not then you deal what with the the mentioning all the different punishments Etc now so in other words in order there should be judges and officers literally so you need to have before the the idea of judging officers you have to put them in every single gate of City otherwise it's not going to work now what is the idea of the gate so there are quotes the verse that says what does that mean that it's known in the gates or husband but what does mean on the spiritual level so by law the husband's referring to Hashem Hashem is the husband and Hashem is known in the gates so in other words you have to make it a an awareness of what's known in the gates what's real what color schemark was known now in Gates itself there's two two there's there's two there's two commentaries one is the idea of of gates plural is that every single one has its own uh way of dealing with things no two people are alike no people think of the think alike uh or a crazy equally everyone's unique in other words one person is not compared to the next person now even though all the souls are really one and we all have one father so our souls are one our father is one but the fact is there's a uh uh um thousands and hundreds of thousands sixty hundred thousand of of General souls and every single soul is divided up to into another six hundred thousand souls in Sparks and different people Etc so therefore because even though yes we all have one soul and we all have one father we all because we're all unique everyone's spiritual work is is unique to that that person in other words like for example there is an example the spiritual work of ruvane is is in one One path and it was moving constantly what when when his mother gave the name she said why is it called ruin give a look that's the Sun so that was the the avoid of the spiritual worker proven it's all about real seeing on the other hand what's the ability what's the spiritual work of sriman is to hear to hear and what's the avoid of lady is to cleave and like the author explains in terrorism all the different types of serving Hashem based on different names in the tribe now therefore so so there so the first component was saying is about Chara means you have to know that everyone is unique everyone's different everyone's relationship with ourselves different everyone's spiritual service is different now that is what the way every single person our spiritual work now which is also connected to the second understanding and explanation what what Sharon Gates mean I know charm the first one was everyone is unique the second sharing comes from the idea of Shire which means a sheer and a gruel a limit everything has a finite um uh component in other words the fact is every single person has its finite spiritual service why is that because since we're finite God is infinite so in reference God is infinite so and even though whatever level you're at because compared us to God so we're on a finite level and how much more so that when we didn't leave our our limitations we have powers to be much greater but the point is referring to who knows everyone based on who they are and their limitations so observer's explaining beautifully what does it mean by law that Hashem knows a our uniqueness and our limitations now but nevertheless even with our uniqueness and limitations we need to do our job now what is our job to put um shave them and show dream judges and officers on every one of our unique and limited Gates so when we do that we affect that that there's a a judge an officer on every one of our unique capabilities and our limited capabilities and when we do that what happens is we're able to eradicate the raw the negativity the evil from Windows and then we now then once we get rid of it from with on us we actually we're able to get rid of it from the Jewish people as well now has it happened it happens by the introduction of what of the Judgment officers like putting in every single gate and as we have to do the spiritual work of sharam again means everyone's unique and everyone with their limitations now so what what are what what are what are the uniqueness and what are the limitations Trevor says in general there's four Gates that we all have every one of us had four Gates what's the four Gates one is seeing real like grooving the second one is shmia's hearing the third one is smelling and the fourth is speech so seeing hearing smelling and speech and what does that mean practically the spiritual work of seeing is we have this we have to pick up our eyes we have to see what do we have to see who created this world so the ability of Ria is to look but look at what look on high look at her Cutters blow across something created the world and once your person is aware that Hashem create you see there shouldn't create the world then life is totally different you don't think of self and what's good for you Etc you do what Hashem wants so that's the ability of what the Gate of seeing not and it's it's fascinating Earth is not saying don't look at that they're saying no look at this look at the fact that God created the world pick up your highs to heaven and see what our son created that's that's the first of all you do what's the avoid of hearing the avoid of hearing like we say every single day and many times in our prayers my Israel we have to hear through our power hearing that God is our God and us God is one so that's the two avoided so far what of seeing and hearing now what's the introduction you need a judge you need an officer in other words you have to be focused in your seeing and like to explore down many many places in in the books of musar um and in many places as well and Robert points out to the kundros avoido the classical works of spiritual refinement of the Reverend and he writes over there as follows even when someone is not necessarily intensely focused on something which is inappropriate and he really doesn't even focus on a deep way but the fact is it could be that you're going to see something in the middle of the night nowhere and that will distract you so our avoida is a what not to look at but more importantly what to look at look at the College Board who stay focused on Hashem and then your sight will be on the right places that will bring you to the right places the same thing also about being careful what we hear in other words before we spoke about the hearing smile Israel but also to make sure not to hear any of Satan Hebrew translate any negativity because when you don't hear lost you're actually saving three people because we know that when someone speaks Russian power it hurts the one that's talking the one that's listening the one you're talking about so if you don't hear lost in horror so therefore it doesn't affect the personal Act is talking to the wall so he's not talking to anyone you're not listening and doesn't affect the third person and not only that when when they on a step deeper nerve it says when you don't listen to the Allah so what happens let's say in heaven they decide you know what they want to come and talk negativity about you when you behave in a way you don't want to hear negative stuff so in heaven when they want to talk negative I said no we're not listening why because you didn't listen we don't listen so they were in heaven they don't listen to the negative stuff like it says clearly don't want to hear why because since you don't want to hear something negative about your friend so there's a there's a concept in Judaism neither connected me though the way you behave that's that's the mission you get back so as when you hear all about Hashem and you don't want to hear lotion that protects you as well so it knows what happens when they want on heaven to talk negative about you it's not even on the agenda to stay away from Russian horror guess what you don't hear it and I can hear it about you so that is what about seeing um obviously not seeing the wrong things and seeing not hearing lesson her and hearing about Assam and the same thing also about smell because we know that when a person smells the wrong things um it can cause the person to have erroneous thoughts which is actually worse than the sin itself so in those eggs smell to smell Godly things we're not going to smell the wrong the small wrong things and the same thing also would speak with speech like the rambam writes that um even just idle talk is not good for the body and how much more so like it says it says that the Lord I didn't find anything better for my body rather than being quiet so just so speech means when you're saying say positive things and more importantly don't say don't say anything which is not a pro best is not to say anything so in other words the the spiritual work of of um of smell is the smell of the incense in the temple and the the the the uh the ability of speech is prayer which is um about about about about about uh praising us praising Oracle so you see what's the four avoidance of the gates is again seeing not saying what you shouldn't be saying smelling holy things not smelling ending which is the opposite of Holiness and speaking Godly things praising Hashem prayer Etc and obviously not talking things which is inappropriate or even even that's like the realm says no good now when every one of us do the spiritual work we're careful in our speech in our in our smell in our hearing and our seeing so we create that will literally have the judges in the office says which they're talking about like it says in the prophets but but we're going to once again have the Holy Holy uh judges and the holy officers and we're going to have the true and complete Redemption through mashiach to Kano so here's another beautiful discourse on the Torah proportional with all the Practical applications like verba says when we do our avoid that we'll all Merit to have the coming of mashiach and then God's willing our next class will be in yerushalayim have a great and blessed week