Sukkah: The Path to Real Peace. בסוכות תשבו 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 Basuk. The Reb said this discourse on the 13th day of Tish which is the anniversary of the yard site of the Reb Marash who's known as river to begin with you have to go over the top and the Reb went ahead and certified and edited this discourse in honor of right before the holiday of Sukkot in the year 50 years ago. So again, theic discourse is based on the verse where it says where God commands us to sit in the for seven days and then it continues on in the command and it says every um Ezra every resident of the Jewish people shall sit in the suka. And the reason is so that future generations will know booth I allow I I created that possibility for the Jewish people to sit in the when was that when I took them out of the land of Egypt just as we know the questions that are pointed out in the discourse of the and and it's an intro introduction what the teaching of the Marash who was celebrating anniversary of his passing and he explains that suka so you have the physical suka but suka spiritual It's called shalom. It's peace. Like it says spread upon us the abode of peace. So the question is what's the connection between suka and the idea of peace? Also in the seven days of sukot there's several ideas what which is connected to to the idea of in suk you should swell for seven days. For example, we have the mitzvah of taking the four species, the l of the like it says you take it on the first day of obviously a connection between the four species and we know that the when you want to do the mitzvah that's doing a mitzvah is doing a mitzvah very very beautiful in the highest level. So the best way and the highest way to do the mitzvah of taking this four species when you take it in the suka. So you see there's a connection between the four species and the suka. Also in the seven days of Sukkot, you have the idea in the temple which took place where they brought 70 um uh sacrifices and those 70 sacrifices were in corresponding to the nations of the world like the med says and the says this idea even though we had it then but we have it today as well because we know it says that the way to make up for the fact that we don't have the sacrifices is with our with our lips which means through our prayers and especially like explained that Shalma which means just the you're making it up but the fact is not only to make it up but it also comes from the sha comes from it's complete in other words that even the times of exile when we say the verses of the sacrifices of the 70 nations of the 70 animals so then that it's it's it's as if it's done on the same level it's complete now even even though in the time of exile but the fact is we're doing it not just in meditation we're actually saying the S so we're affecting it in the physical realm of the of the world in the materialistic part of the world and as we know when you move your your your lips that's that's an action and like the altar explains clearly at Lent and Tanya. So therefore today this idea of bringing the sacrifices is complete on a spiritual level and especially when we do it with the the by by uttering the the the verses that talk about it. So we have to understand what's the connection these ideas of what taking the four species bringing the 70 sacrifices with the idea of suk now when the first y of sukot the first day of y falls in shabbat now the reikourse that year that's the way it was obviously in this year it's not so there's a difference when it does fall in shabbat between the way it was in the times of temple and the way it's in the times of exile and just like for example difference of blowing the And falls on Shabbat that in the times of the temple they blew the shaur but not out not outside. In other words in the times of the temple on the first day of of of of Sukkot. So then you would go ahead and take the little Vaness on Shabbat as well. However, when the temple is destroyed no you don't bring you don't you don't take it on on the first day like it's explained at len in the Mishna and in the Talmud. Okay. So to order to understand all these ideas represent the point of the explanation is that suka what's suka spiritually suk is called mak it hovers over that's what suk is and know as we know something which is called pi something which is internalized and something which hovers over suk is the concept of mak in mach itself there's different levels of mak so he says it's not like the mak of a garment because a garment is also mach it hovers over you but there's a division you have the the part that goes over a head, the part that goes over the body, the part that goes over over your feet, and then again, every single person based in their size, it's a different size. So, it's a mak, but it's but it's but it's custom made, so to speak. However, when you're dealing with the makif, the hovering over of sukot, there's no there is no difference because the fact is it covers over the whole the head, the body, and the and every part of the person. And not only in parts, but all as one. You walk in one, you walk in one time, the circle covers you covers you totally over. So if that's the case we have to understand so what are we saying is it is over and the highest level over if that's the case one we have to understand it says about which we saw is you should internalize and like like it's pointed out in different discourse and especially the classicalic discourse so and especially we explain it so totally hovering over it's not something which you internalize it's not something which you take so what does that mean bas is which is which is internalized and it says in the suka and this idea of sitting in the suka it says three times so it's almost like a contradiction so that's question number one also you have to understand what does it say afterwards why we sing the so future generations will know that the hashem allow created the opportunity for the Jewish people to sit in the suka when we left Egypt. In other words, what's the reason why we're sitting in the suka? So the future generations will know that Hashem put us in the suka. Now the fact is the mitzvah of suka is not a mitzvah which is dependent on going into the land of Israel and it's not only something which applied in the times of the temple all throughout future generations we sit in the suka because we know Torah doesn't change. So the the so therefore the knowledge of kibbasuki that we that hashem allowed the Jewish people made it possible for them to sit in the suk when we left Egypt for the future generations that we're going to sit in the suka so what is the idea we're going to sit so the future generation knows the the the knowledge of the future generation are connect to the fact what thatm allowed us to sit in the suka the first time so what is the connection okay so again so the explanation is like we explained before what Suka is something which hovers over. Now the question is if it hovers over how do we internalize it? And he explains like this. It says in the verse and there's reference to means it's concealed gets revealed in the holiday. What does that mean? All the ideas that are that are covered up that are concealed in the days before the the holiday which means they get revealed in the holiday and like for example the mitzvah blowing the what is the mitzvah to blow the so so whatever happens happens spiritually but the revelation of that happens on where does it happen it happens on the this the the the covering the part that covers over the and that's why the as we know that the the suk is called based on the the part that covers it over. So the numerically soak is spelled with three letters and sak 60 is 20 and another cup is another 20. So you have a total of 100 which corresponds to the hundreds blast that we do on on chauffeur that we blow on the chauffeur. You have 30 in the beginning, 30 in the first shes, 30 in the second shest when you repeat it and 10 10 in kadesh. You have 30, 60, 90 and 100. And that's the custom to blow to 100 blasts on rash. The when we do 30 later, that's the mix of the Satan. So you see that those 100 blasts that you blow on you think oh blast. But guess what on sukas it gets revealed we're in the also even in the specific amount of voices that that take place when you blow the because the fact is when we say spelt of spelt of which is 60 is 20 and another is 20. So 60 represents the 60 kot that's the the blast that's called the 20 is the 20 blast which is called theim and the other last 20 is the 20 blast which is called the true and the same thing also when it comes to the that's in reference the connection between rash and and sukkot and the same thing also in reference to the holiday and kipper because the only holiday and kipper in the temple they bring the toet the incense and when does they get revealed also on sukkot and as We know that the again the sk that covers up the suka is created from the smoke of the terrorist on kipper. Now even though you're gonna say one second the fact is you kipper you have the you have the smoke in a revealed way because the main idea of of bakessa which means that the the uh where it's concealed is in the beginning of the month the moon is only covered in the beginning of the month which is based on but the fact is the main revelation of yum kipper because again you do have a revelation it's 10 days later where's that revelation it's on high however when it comes to the suka it gets revealed on the lowest level up to the point that literally the physical which comes from the toas. You can literally see, you can see it, you can see this and you can say possibly that the beginning of this revelation which takes place between and is actually a preparation of of of the of of the revelation which basically which is mainly on on high is actually comes down in in literally in this physical world and that's why and that's the connection between the idea of what a suka suk is the idea of it hovers over why because the difference between the incense and a sacrifice case because in reference to the sacred it says the bread is in other words bread is something that you basically internalize for example there are certain sacrifices that the priest eat and then there are certain sacrifices that the owner of the sacrifice eats it and then there are certain ones that everyone eats it so that's a part that you can internalize however when it comes to the incense and especially kipper that's mak because no no one no one internalizes it so therefore the revelation is we on on the holiday of which is the idea of which what what is so on the it hovers over you don't internalize it but in sukas it hovers over you can actually physically see it because the fact is the is connected to what to the holy of holies which is the ultimate level of mak so therefore even the mak of suka which comes which is created from the incense of yum kiper is which as we said is higher than the mak M of a garment and it has no division and up till har is over. So the fact is on on suk is we have the power that that from sh and the 100 blast which creates the the the and even the of the which creates that all gets revealed when on sukot. So basic explains that's the connection between which is which reveals everything to the idea of what of peace like it says which is spread over the suk of peace why because since what suka we said suk is it hovers over which means it's not about division this is right left up down it's hard those mak is all about unity so what comes from the mak of suka what comes from that mak create it creates peace Because when you have something which is it means everyone's included that's ultimate unity. So you have the peace between the godly soul and you have peace between the animal soul mham and you also have peace all the levels of the god all the levels of the godly soul. Why circle said is a makave which means from the head till your feet. So therefore you have the component of mak that creates what the ultimate peace in the human being. So that's where you have suka that creates peace with the human being. But also suka creates peace in the world. Like we know that suka is in the level of the of the ark of Noah and we know that the ark of Noah was total peace because even though in the ark of Noah yet all the animals animals would they would have killed each other up alive but it says no one no one no one hurt anybody. No one no one devoured anyone else. And compared to the peace which is mashia comes like it says clearly in the prophets is not there's not going to be any harm and any damage. So you have the which is bas creates peace with the human being and creates in the world. Now even though the the mak of suk is called it's is connected to in the spir it's the is the external part of bina and the ark of no is actually the internal part of bina and however mashiach comes it's going to be even higher than the internal part of being awaits in its place but nevertheless the peace of suka is compared to the pe to the peace of the future so this is an important piece saying is like this suka is mak it creates peace you like the Noah even though again no is more the premius of the eternal body and when Mashia comes even higher but suk is connected to the to the to this highest level what's going to be like when Mashia comes in the future why is that because what's the reason that Msiah comes in the future there's not going to be any more fighting any more animosity and there's any more conflict where does that come from it comes from das the sphere of das and like the verse says clearly oh Mashia comes You know why we're looking forward to the future? Because the dal the knowledge of specifically of is going to be revealed all over the place. So therefore the of the verse says clearly so we should know. So the of is to create that das and that's why it creates peace on the level not only of the of the level of of the ark of Noah but even on the level of the future Mashiach comes. You see there's a direct connection between the peace that takes place in the suka and the peace what's going to mashia comes because again what's the reason why there's going to be peace when Msiah comes because everyone's going to know God and the whole idea of the suk is we should know hem and especially based on the explanation that the connection of the of is connected to the incense the yipper and we know the incense of kipper which level is that goes to the highest level in keta goes atic and and and like for example the whole idea of yam kiper because we have to have five prayers because it's in the level what of atik and and and that's the level of of of of vina even in the external part of vina because we know even in the external part of what gets revealed at and gets revealed in vina and this level of which gets revealed in the of the suk that creates peace and that's why suka is called so you see again that suk is all about peace because it's connected to das, it's connected to atic and that will create the ultimate peace. Now the intent of drawing down this powerful level of mak it's not just to have makif and it hovers over us. The goal is to internalize it. Makave is great. It's amazing. It's peaceful. But if you have peace out in the clouds, that's wonderful. But you want peace to be real on a practical level. So the goal is that the peace should be internalized. And that's why after you go into the suka, you take the four species which comes after the command of basuk because the mitz to sit in the suka starts right in the beginning right when when suka starts at night afterwards in the morning whether it's when from dawn or sunrise you have the mitzah to take the four species because what's the whole idea of taking the four species it's to bring in the mak of suka in an internal way and like I just brought out in Kabala and in that what's the whole idea when you take the and you shake it is the idea is to bring in D um into the female part of the small face of six which is standing in the breast of Zah and that's why you need that when you shake the little it has to re it has to touch your chest and and when you draw down into the into the nukva which basically is not only into the spiritual point but it's bring it down into the physical world up to we bring it down into the physical world on the lowest levels and therefore the effect of peace by drawing in das which is down here into this materialistic physical world is going to be just like what's in the future where it says so this what's going to accomplish in the future guess what we go into the suka which is all about peace and then we take the suka and we bring it to our chest which we bring down the priest in the physical level that's exactly what's going comes we're going to have peace on all levels of the world and the connection of mean the whole world will be filled with the knowledge of hem to the idea there's not going to be peace what's the why when there's going to be das is is there going to be peace and explain something very very powerful it's a very very important piece to know and say something like this because all the quarreling all the arguments all the fighting comes from one reason if you want to know the source anytime there's a fight you want to know what's the reason why they're fighting it's not because this one said this and that one said that and this one did this. No, no. Cabala says, you know why there's a fight? There's one reason, one reason only. The fight is because of Das is beatus. When das is small, then there's fighting. When das is big, there is no fighting. And we like the says we know the famous parable that when you have a child, but a child doesn't have das. And what happens when you have someone a child doesn't have das you could be an adult if you don't have das but the point is when you're lacking das when you don't do what they want they right away get angry and like the author explains in Tanya the holy book of Tanya that a child will get angry over something little something stupid however an adult which means an adult someone that has das you can be a child that has a lot of das you can be adult that has little dos but the point is generally speaking adults that have das you're able to you're able to tolerate something that's even the opposite of you. And the same thing also applies to the peace of the suka because what is the idea of suku? It fuels das and if when you have the das which comes from the suk then you have so here's a very very important piece of der is explaining is that what is the whole idea the whole idea is to bring in that the mak should be internalized. How do you internalize it by going into the suk and shaking and the connection how it how it works? How does how do you internalize peace on the most lowest level? By fueling dosas. And as long as the dots is strong, you won't fight about anything. And sadly, if you're fighting, it's because you have to work on the dos. You got to pick up the dosas a little bit. Now, but in order to bring in this powerful mak of suka into an internalized way and it should be done in the way of it should be, you know, calm and peace and internalized like it says about which is again the mak the peace. It should be internal internalize it. And when you actually take the suk it actually comes in in the level of the female part of the small phase of six even though the fact is mak is very very high. It's hars over and as we explained before that the of suka is even higher than the differences of a of a of a garment of the head and the body and the feet etc. And there it has no division but the goal is that we want to internalize it. So that's why he explains you know how it works because Hashem says are you ready put the Jewish people in which means I created the model that the powerful piece of Makab should be able to be internalized. When did they do when they left Egypt like you know God started the process God says yes it's very hard how do you take this powerful piece and it's all great it's all amazing everything is right and internalize it. Guess what? I already set the model up. When you left Egypt, I I put you in into a suka. I allowed you to internalize it. And because Hashem created the model and started the process, we're able to internalize this powerful Makave. Therefore, we have the power to go ahead and do and internalize this powerful energy of Mak and peace into an internal internalized way. And that's why it says so that we should know because the idea of sitting in a suka which means we're internalizing the peace. It's not in a way okay it's it's a decree and I have to accept it. No, no, it's not that. But the goal is it should come into your das into your most important your das into an internalized way and not only into your brain but into time. And that's why he says God wants the seven days means every single moment of time should be internalized with peace. And as we know the seven days it includes the whole week and let's explain many many places on the verse that says I was a child and I grew up that every single Sunday of the week starts the whole idea of of creation again and like it's explained reference when we do the the shaking and the lulv we bring in the the level of into mal which is basically the beginning of of of time and the goal is to bring in the powerful idea of mak peace in an internalized way into every single aspect of our And the verse goes on to say call her Israel. Every resident of the Jewish people should sit in the suka. So we have to we have to understand the fact is the commandment means sit in the suka. Who was he? Who was he giving? God said you should sit in the suka. Who? Everyone sitting in the suka. So what is he adding? What is what do what is he adding is we already know we're supposed to sit in the suka. And ever says something very beautiful and very powerful and he says like this Ezra is referring to not every resident every individual it's referring to from Zorak to shine it's referring to the shine of the future and that's why Ezra starts with an olive. So he's saying that Ezra is two words alf is one part and um and the zorak is shining. Alf is one of the letters that refer to the future and the zor is referring to the shine of the future and that's why he says that means there two two insights so from the perspective of ezra of Israel which is going to be in the future from our perspect we're going into the future from the perspective of the of the Jewish evil future we have the power now to go ahead internalize it and even in the even in in the resonant today and also the way it's going to be in the future And also in this we we add you can actually internalize it and that's why the mitzvah of suk is also going to be in the future and it's going to be a much greater level like it's like it's spoken about in the prophecy of that we actually say of the is saying is means that when you look in the future the future is the future is the future which in the future we're going to have be able to internalize it that's how we have the power now because we're going to have since we will have it in the future now in re in in in continuation of the mitzvah of sitting in the sukah and taking the four species. Then we said we have the mitzvah of bringing the 70 bulls which which correspond to the 70 nations of the world. In other words, when we bring the 70 bulls, we actually protect the 70 nations and we actually reveal their ultimate purpose of creation because the whole world is was would was created only to command them command them on this and we were created to serve Hashem. So knows the true idea of the nations of the world. It's like it's going to be like in the future Mashiach comes to basically serve the Jewish people and like it says in the prophets clearly that the nation the the the kings and the officers are all going to be serving the Jewish people and how much more so not only the the kings and the officers but every single person going to be serving the Jewish people. Now that answer is going to be like Mashiach comes. But since all the ideas and all the revelations of the future it depend on what like writes in Tanya the classical chapter in Tanya 37 it's dependent on our actions and our work in the in the in the time of galos even the the sadly the long part of gullus and and especially that's dependent on gullus. So this idea of when Msiah comes the nations of the world are going to serve us. How does that happen? And it happens by Gus going ahead bringing the 70 sacrifice literally in times of temple and today by praying them by saying the words um in the time of gullis. Why is that? Because we know that the work, the spiritual work of the sacrifices and obviously of physical and also the work of saying re the words of the sacrifices that affects the whole world. Because when you go ahead and you bring up an animal to sacrifice, you actually elevate the whole animal kingdom. By elevating the blood, the fat, which is the energy and the pleasure of the animal, which is which is you're actually elevating the whole animal kingdom. And when you go ahead and you elevate that, elevate the animal kingdom and then you draw down the energy from the highest level to low. So then you bring down that energy into the whole animal kingdom. So you elevate it and then you bring down this powerful energy to this world. And the same thing also when when we when they brought the 70 bulls which is correspond to the seven nations of the world that the elevation and the drawing down by bringing these sacrifices, it affects all the nations of the world. And the same thing also when we say the verses about the sacrifice and we said when you say the verses like doing an action when you say the verses of the sacrifices of the 70 bulls which correspond to seven nations world you actually draw in and you create a refinement in them and you actually reveal their ultimate reason for their purpose because they were they were they were created to be able to serve Hashem and and now and serve the Jewish people and what's get what gets revealed is the truth of chose us among the nations of the world. And that's why it says in the prophets that who will praise all the nations of the world are going to praise all the nations are going to give praise to to to Hashem. Why? Because Hashem has done so much for the Jewish people. One second. What's the connection? Because Hashem has done so much for Jewish people. That's why they're going to pray they're going to praise Hashem. And what's what what is what is the explanation? It's known the explanation that because Hashem went ahead and gave us so much. So then we got there was a transformation and refinement that takes place even in the nations of the world and it gets revealed to them in a revealed way and because they they get refined that's why they praise Hashem. So it's not like when Hashem does for us we're the only one that benefits. The whole world benefits and that's why they praise Hashem. And how does that happen? When we go ahead and bring the 70 bulls as a sacrifice and we do our work of of of of saying the prayers because when we do that it's actually an action and then that affects literally the physical world and therefore bas explains this is the connection between bringing the 70 bulls to what it says the now bring it full circle but it says the circumstage we're sitting in the circle why because in order to affect in the nations of the world you have to first the first thing has to happen you have to bring in the mak of suka because the fact is the light of the mak of suka it blinds all the negative energy that's first as a you want to start the process you got to bring in you got to bring in the the the powerful energy of the mak of suka now even though in order to transform the nations of the world you it doesn't come from maka it has to be an internal transformation and that's why we bring specifically 70 bulls because our sacrifice is premier It's internalized. It's bread. It's something which is consumed etc. And like general the idea of transformation which transformation takes place specifically through an internalized connection. Like it says clearly and know you want to go ahead and and and elevate the bread you have to eat it which is an internal elevation. But the fact is at start you have to bring in mak of the suk. Why? Because when you bring in the Mak what that creates is it creates a B creates an acceptance and it creates a total um submission and this submission is an introduction and it creates a preparation for the transformation afterwards by bringing the 70 BS and through that you have yes by by by reciting the verses through gullos you elevate it and that actually brings a preparation to bring the once again bring the 70 bulls saying like this that what the connection is Very simple. The process is you need to have the suka because suka is basically mak and that creates a co a general um sublimation general. Then you have the 70 bulls that you bring and that creates the intern the internal transformation. That's why it says we should sit in the future generation know in other words through that is we have the mak that gets internalized. In other words, the mak of suk is in a way of tou gets internalized. It gets personalized and the country the whole idea of suk is tu because we know you have to only sit you have to not only sit you have to dwell there you know eating and drinking and everything that you do in the house you have to do in the suka. So what what does that accomplish? It accomplishes that the mak should come into the generations. What does that mean? Into the revealed powers we have. What is the revealed powers? Our intellect, our seven emotions. And it should be like comes from it comes from connection that the effect of the mak on the on the um uh revealed powers is in a way that's connect that it's that's understood and connected. Now the reason and the power that we have to do this powerful spiritual work like it says I already did it. They started the process when you left Egypt and since Hashem says I started the process but I cause you to sit in the gives us the power for every single one of us and we know we are called Adam. Why are we called Adam? Because we're dam compared to Hashem and that we can affect just like Hashem affects that we we have the power to bring in the peace of the suka in everything of that we do and every part of us up till the generations which means we explain for generation means all our our revealed powers our intellect and emotions up to the point that the drawing in of the hovering over of the suka which we felt in our prayers also the prayer of Musaf and the verses of the sacrifices of the seven bulls and that affects the 70 nations of the world and like we say in in hall and because we know in the seven days of sukot we say the complete hall the nation of the world praise and it's going on literally in the nation of the world and this creates a proper preparation for every single Jewish person and like we said Ezra was referring to that's going to shine in the future and the the part that's going to shine in the future yesu we're going to internalize and like we know that the ra says is when the what does it mean the world the the world to come this is very revolutionary what does it mean the world to come that the world is already now exists and it's standing even now so why is it called the world to come because it comes after the work in this world but already exists now and the same thing also about all the ideas of the future that all everything that's going to be in the future exists today so why is it called the future because it will get drawn down and be revealed after we do the work now but it already exists now and that's why he says because when we fulfill the mitzvah of which means the mak gets internalized we actually bring in everything in the future and this creates a proper preparation of the revelation we're going to have in the future and then it's obviously going to be revealed on a much greater level and That's why when yont the first day of yont falls on Shabbat. So we know that you can't bring a little on Shabbat besides in the temple. Why is that? What's the purpose of the like we've said is to bring the mak of the suka in an internalized way. But on Shabas every Shabbat mak is is internalized just itself. So you don't need the lulv and therefore you have enough of the the decree of raat to bring it. Now if that's the case you're asking Zak in the times of the temple they would bring it on Shabbat because there obviously there's different levels of Makave and of of hovering over and when you bring the Lulv in the times of the temple they were able to bring in a much higher level of Makave higher than you than comes normal normally in Shabbat because Shabas we know is has itself is holy and it brings in and but on the times of temple they'll bring in from a higher level. However, in the times of exile, even when you when you bring the little of, you can't bring the higher level. And this what you which you this what we have the power to bring now is the the regular level that comes in in Shabbat. And like we said before, what does that mean? We have to bring down the mak of suka and bring it internalized and that creates a proper preparation which means the part that's going to shine in the future. We're going to reveal the true mak and like we said before what's the level of makius the internal part of which is the internal part of kaser and that's the revolutionary idea and the revelation what's going to be mashia comes because now all the revelations yeah we have tremendous revelations today but it only comes from the external part of however mashia comes in the future we're going to be able to reveal and that's why the verse says that that you're going to have the kiss of his mouth that we're going to learn to mashia comes from the mouth of Messiah and what is the mouth of Mashiach is the internal part of so now we have the external part Mashia comes out of the internal part and that's why we know the Mashiach is even higher than other and like it says the verse and we know is the the word the the same letters as but but but together with that um with with that permutation it refers to infinite which means that that mashia is believe in a much higher level and that's why it says we're we're going to take the mak and internalize it referring to the future that the drawing in the mak of suka is a preparation for all the revelations it's going to be like in the future with the with the with the um redemption we're going to have in the future through mashia and like finishes off he should come and he should redeem us and he should take us standing upright to Israel and over there we're going to bring the sacrifices that we're obligated to And like it says says commit like the mitzvah ine we should do it and should all happen. So you have a beautiful discourse of the rebba that suk is what what we accomplish by going into the bringing the mak bringing to the pas connecting to the future but ultimately want the ultimate future because then we'll have pmas. So let's hope and pray that with the we have the coming of Msiah finishes off the next class will be have a great day and