The Dance That Changes the Year להבין ענין שמחת תורה New Kabbalah class by Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz

Welcome to our class onus. We're going to be learning a very powerful and beautiful discourse in the Reb. The name of the discourse is called to understand the idea behind and the Reb said this [clears throat] discourse on the day of the year me 45 years ago. The Reb saw the discourse. It was certified and edited and it was it was given out in honor of the holiday in the year 34 years ago. So the discourse starts off and it says we to understand the idea of and it's known the questions that are brought out from the previous that the joy the celebration of how do you celebrate the how is it actualized that you take a Torah the way it's closed with its covering and um you dance around the beimma and after um they dance around they would dance with the Tyra. So in other words, the celebration is not a Torah study. It's basically taking the Torah closed and dancing around the beimma. Now even though we know in reference to it says this is our wisdom understanding. So you would think you would sit down you would study you discuss you would analyze. No. How is it celebrate? It's not through studying, not through in-depth understanding or comprehension with our head, but by dancing and dancing with our feet. Now, this idea that Torah is connected to the feet, it's not only in reference to the human being that we dance with our feet, but it also applies to the Torah as well. Why is that? Because we know that the joy and the celebration of sukas that we're happy with what with the letters of the Torah. And it's self understood that the way we celebrate the joy of simra [laughter] is that we dance around the beimma the place where you read the Torah and you read the Torah throughout the year. What are you reading? You're reading the letters of the Torah. Now we know that there's four levels. There's something which which is called which is the the notes. There's the nik the vowels and then there's a tag and the certain lines that go on top of certain letters sh etc. And then there's the there's four parts to every single uh letter in the Tory. There's the note, there's the vowel, there's a tag which is the crown, and then there's the actual letter. And in the Tory itself, the the lowest level is the is the is the technical letter obviously have the upgrade of the of the note and the vowel and the crown, but the basic part is the letter, which is basically called the letter on a spiritual level is called the feed of the Torah. Now this idea that on we celebrate the joy is with the letters and it's also understood based on what it's known that this that we read on the day of why because we're finishing the Torah and we we should celebrate the fact that we finished it and so when we're finishing completing the Torah on the day of what are we what are we finishing we're finishing the letters of the Torah finishing reading the letters of the Torah now when it comes to the comprehension understanding the Torah. You can't say you're finished. How do you finish comprehending the Torah? Because we know the Torah is endless. It's endless. You can comprehend and understand and discuss forever. And like it says clearly, the worlds that there's no there's no there's no end to to the to the Torah. Now even though yes there's a finite number like it says shishimot which we say that means there 60 there's 60 trackct dates in the talmud and there's 80 concubines 80 80 bright but the fact is there's an infinite amount of of law that comes out from it and that was obviously everything was given to us from Sinai like it says clearly whatever any student eventually is going to learn and revolutionize idea guess what it was already given on Sinai you might have revealed it today but it was already given in Sinai. So what do we see from here? That this that onra we finished the Tory. What do we finish? We finished the letters. There's a certain amount of letters and we got to the end of the Torah. And again in depth analysis you can go in depth but what's the celebration of the finishing? It's the letters of the Torah knowing Jabra says take it a step further. When it comes to re reading Tory it's not so important you understand the Tory itself the written law it's not so important that you understand it. Why? Because even someone's an ignoramis and he gets called up for an aliyah to the Torah, he makes a blessing. Why? Because it's not important standing. Tory is all about the letters of the Torah. So what do we see from here that the celebration and the joy that we that we celebrate this the the joy on is we're finishing the Torah. Which part of the Torah is referring to the letters of the Tyra which on the spiritual level we call the feet of the Tory. And that's why when we celebrate, we celebrate with our feet dancing. It's our feet that's dancing with the letters of the Torah on the same level. So we also have to understand like he brings out in the discourse that why do we establish the holiday of seemingly when should be celebrated on the holiday how they receive the and why do we celebrate it when on the holiday of when there's this idea that we celebrate ones and not on the holiday it comes in continuation of the discourse that he that he asked over there question he says that in reference to the verse says on the eighth day it's a private celebration for us so the freed asks him a question all the holidays all the festivals and the whole Torah and all the mitzvah that were given to the Jewish people so why when it comes to specifically the holidays say to you what's the revolutionary idea over all the other holidays that this is this is for you but all the other holidays is for us. The whole to is for us and he brings over there that what it says in the medish a very powerful medish. The matter shows like this that the truth is [snorts] which is at of the of the holiday sukot really it should have been 50 days after the holiday why because let's look at pes pes we we when do we say when do we celebrate it's 50 days after pes so just like is 50 days after pes so many should also been 50 days after sukkot So the medus you can say that this that he there is you can say this that he brings that the medus that says that of the holiday of sukkot should be 50 days away like pes it actually makes the question even stronger that knows and the question then is why is celebrating because seemingly when on the holiday because what comes out from this that Even itself is compared to the holiday like we're asking is not 50 days after P. So you see there's a connection. So if that's the case, the question comes back even stronger. Why are we celebrating specifically and not on the holiday? And he explains of it in in the medish the basic question. Why do we why why don't we do it 50 days later? And and he explains over there a beautiful idea. So he said because what happens is on the holiday sukkot [snorts] is is different than the holiday pes. Why? Because what happens on the on the on the holiday of sukkot is we're we're leaving the summer the summer months and we're going now into into the winter. So when you leave the summer, you're going out to winter. So the med says there's no time to go and come back. And he gives a he gives a parable. And he gives a parable of a king that had many many daughters. And there are some that are married and they live close by and then there are some that are married and live far away. One day all the daughters came to see how and how their the king their father is. So the king says to the ones that are to the ones that are close by they they can go and come back. It's easy. They don't live far away. But the ones that live far away, they can't go and come back so quickly. So since you're going to go and you can come back, let's take one. Let's stop let's make one let's like make a private party for all of us. So the repres so the med says that's the same thing also with the pes the the with the pes in other words since you're going out from the winter to the summer so it's obviously easy to come back it's much easier to travel in the summer we know everyone travels in the summer but when you're dealing with which comes after holiday and we're going from the winter to the summer hashem says it's going to be hard to travel in the winter so let's go ahead and make one holiday right now and that's why the Jew that's why tells the Jewish people that so [clears throat] knows what he's saying is like this we're going from the from the from the winter to the summer so guess what we can we can we can come back in 50 days it's easy to travel in the summer however suko which is now is basically the end of the summer going into the winter it's hard to travel in 50 days to come back so boom right after we do it the next day we make the celebration and and explains like this the point of the explanation is when we say close and far. That was the parable of of of the daughters. What does it mean spiritually? Close and far referring to a righteous person and someone that basically is returning to Hashem. And like the verse says, a double expression of peace for the one that's far away and the one that's close. And we know that peace for the one that's close is referring to the saddic and and peace for the one that's far away is referring to the bala. and know what does that what does that mean? So if he's far then he's not close and the answer is he's far they became close was always close and was but he became close and when a person goes ahead and returns so you have the closeness which comes after being far away and when you when you when someone is close they're close someone that's was far and comes close so you actually reach a much deeper and a higher level and know you're you're on the level of far away far means you're able to reach above on the positive side and what does that mean? What place do you reach? So in cababalistic terms it's called you reaching a place of halem concealment doesn't even exist. So and that's why the place where stands even a righteous person can't get there because a righteous person is close. So he doesn't reach so deep versus bouva reaches a place which is called hell which doesn't even exist. In other words, even though every sadic does chuva returns to hashem because the fact is a chuva is a mitzvah on every single person. So sadik also does chuva but therefore you can say obviously that the quality of a bouva someone that went far away not a sadik does chuva very nice but someone that was a real bouva so his chuva is in in in in in cabalistic terminology a real buba is something that does something I'll say in Hebrew and in translug you're able to jump you you're able to take big steps and that applies When [clears throat] someone returns to Hashem, in other words, when a person does chuva, returns to them because a mitzvah, it's one of the mitzvah you have to return to Hashem. Okay? So, you go from one level to the next, it's another mitzvah and you're not jumping so far. But when you're dealing with jumping in chuva, that's referring to real chuva. [snorts] But somebody that was far away and because you were far away, when you're returning, you're not just going back one step. You're jumping into it. Now, even though that even by righteous people, there's an emotion. They feel like they're far away because they also meditate about how great Hashem is, how low we are. But it's self understood that the feeling of being far away you can't compare it to the feeling of and there are quotes from from the prophet that says that bad and bitter and you so to speak you forsook Hashem and since was in a such a far away place and the lowest level lowest possible place so therefore when they come back to return there's a lot more energy and let me use the word in Yiddishim it's with a bang and you're with excitement or like it says in the word words of kabal with a lot much much greater energy and then we reach the highest level. So a real bonuva that was so far away you're returning you're on steroids you're returning and especially according to the teaching of the Arizal with the famous teaching says that this that a human being we are from the level of there there's five levels in the world of energy do inanimate things that grow things that are alive and then madab so we're in the level of madab so if we're the highest level why do we have to come on to do why do we have to walk on the earth why do we have to eat things that grow why do we have to think things that that that that that are alive because the fact is the sparks in the even though tech looks like it's lower they're actually from a higher source higher source than the than the madama the one that communicates why is that because the rule is that anything goes higher and higher when it falls it falls lower so something that fell so low that it's its source is much higher so what do we see how much more so when it comes to someone that sadly has sinned and you have to do trouva you're returning. So the sparks from someone that returned is much higher and that's how he went down to that level to elevate that spark. And this is also one of the reason that when it comes to chuva [snorts] you access more internal powers and concealed powers of your soul up to the level of you reach a place in the voice it's not even heard. Why? Because in order to transform and elevate elevate these sparks that fell so low, the only way to do it is when you pull out your internal powers. And like we mentioned before, what internal powers the concealed part which doesn't even exist. And this is why before when the Medish gave the example and they gave the parable. So he said it was a king that had multiple daughters and there and and he said there are those that basically live close nearby and then there's the ones that live further away. So what does it mean the daughters? So physically meant the daughters. What does it mean spiritually? The daughters referring to the souls the souls within the body and the and the daughters that are married. What does that mean that the soul came down into married to the body and why the soul come down to the body? As we know it says to make a to make a dwelling place for Hashem down here. How do we make a dwelling place for God down here by learning to and doing mitzvah starting from the first which is to to be fruitful and multiply and and conquer the world and and and go ahead and and occupy the world. Now what does that mean spiritually pu which means to add more light? How do we add more light? by learning Torah and doing mitzvo and also obviously literally having children to make the world that should be inhabited and by by inhabiting the world and bringing more light to the world we make a dwelling place for Hashem down here and that's why it says the daughters that are married in other words the daughter is referring to nama married to the body and what's the idea of marriage is so that they should be fruitful multiplying spiritually and physically know the goal is to draw down and reveal the power of the infinite part down in this world. Now from there so you have two types. You have people that are married that's close by. What is that referring to? The work the spiritual work of sadic which are basically busy learning tora and doing mitzvo. That's the the close by. You get up you learn to the mitzvo life is life is is good so to speak. And then you have those that are that that that are married far away. That's referring to that the work of transformation of of the materialistic physical world and especially that of chuva that when you far away and you decide no I'm coming back and you're ready to jump back in you transform the lowest levels and that's why he says those that are are married close by they can come and go because they're close they're learning to doing mitzvah but those that are living far away what does that mean they're they're disconnected they're not necessarily learning t doing mitzvah so they can't do it like the level of a sadic because why? Because they went down to the lowest level and not on so close. So therefore foric doesn't need a special effort and and but for someone that's not close by it could take a lot of a lot of time. In other words, but for sadik it's easy. He he continues learning titles. However, when it comes to baluva since the bouva went down into the world, he went far away from the world. And not only that, even after you you you you you do chuvo, you return, guess what? It's possible you're going to go ahead and retract and go back to where you work from. So therefore, you have to have an extra extra you have to be extra careful and you can't necessarily um uh wait till later on. In other words, the the the the mode of a bala is you got to jump, you got to jump in, you got to take you got to take charge. And sometimes you have to do it without a proper procedure. And the same thing also in time the work of is and the famous line one second one moment which means as quotes from the famous story in one moment you can acquire a world and that so so based on says even though you're going to say one second this about you have to be careful why because obviously he's lacking we're concerned he might fall back into his old ways because he's far away and therefore for you can't wait till let's do it later on because guess what it's an emergency but nevertheless this idea that he he's far away that awakens a far away on a on a spiritual level. So everything has a pro and a con on one hand yes you have to be careful because he's far but again the far away awaken something deeper because that's sadic that's close. So you use the powers which is close to the soul the revealed parts the revealed powers that we had and even the work [snorts] that and the elevation they create every every single day because the fact even outside it goes from one level to the next but it's again it's it's going from level in a close level one step another step etc um know every level is connected to the previous level and even on in terms of a space um you only read it reach a level which is close to the previous place and it was like in cababalistic terminology ology it's maybe youadic can go in a deep place concealed place but it exists there however when it comes to balu know in Hebrewic reaches helm which is does exist a concealment does exist however when you're dealing with a baluva which is far away so how do they deal with what kind of powers they use further powers the concealed part of of of their soul and they're essential in those I'll use say the Hebrew words um concealed powers in your soul and essential powers because this the fact that is far away. So the farther away awakens deeper spiritual powers and even the work itself is in a level of of of far away and jumping which is not in a not in a in a proper not in a or in an organi in an organized fashion. [snorts] You know when you're jumping you're going from one level to the next a in time and also in space and you reach the level of you reach a level of concealment who doesn't even exist. So based on this says this is the difference between which is referring to of the holiday and meaning of know when you're dealing with the with the which we receive the Torah what was that receive the Torah that's the first commandments which we which we received when we left Egypt when God took us out of Egypt God said I'm going to take you out of Egypt now we're going to go serve me on the mountain and receive the Torah in hal Yeshu what is that referring to the work of a sadic Because the Jewish people at that time we left Egypt, we were tadikim and like Hashem made us straight life is good and therefore everything of going out of Egypt until we we received the Torah Mount S was was was a proper flow and we first we left Egypt and then we counted the the spir the 49 days of holiness and even the 50th day which is a very high level but it's connected to the 49 days and even then we draw then 50th level way when it weights on ways on on its own way to explain the discourse of Torah. However, when it came to to when it comes to which is connected that comes after what chuva we're returning to Hashem of the month of El the days of rash the 10 days of chuva yum kipper and that's why the joy of which is established in teres is actually for the second set of commandments that were given to us when yum kipper which is basically all connected idea of chuva and that's where the reason Why we have tremendous on because when you return to Hashem which is it's peace for someone that was far that became close and the joy of that closeness after being far away is much greater than the joy of someone that's close. You're close. You're happy. It's life is good. But when you're far away and you come back, wow, the joy is off the charts. And that's why when it comes to ateres of pesak which is and basically we're leaving from the winter to the summer and the ateras of the sukkot which is which is connected which we're going from the from the summer to the winter know when when when you're traveling in the winter it's obviously we know it's very very tough that much harder than the summer months and why is that because it's also on the spiritual level it's that way because everything in the physical world exists because of the spiritual world because the fact is like this in the summer we know the sun is strong. [snorts] Why is that? Because spiritually the sun is strong in the summer. Like it says Shem Hashem may this the sun and the the Hashem's power is is is is shining in a revealed way. Now even though obviously the sun which is buff but you have we can't just we can't just experience the yutk itself. have the protection of the shame. But the fact is it doesn't it doesn't conceal that much. And that's why when when it comes to learning to and doing mitzvah and when the when the sun when the sun is shining when even with the concealment of of it's it's it's on a it's on a close level. However, when it comes to the winter so then the the protection and the seal of which covers up which conceals it conceals on a much greater level. And that's why when it comes to learning Tory and doing mitzvo in those months, it's much harder because it's further away. And that's why when you go out from the from the winter to the summer, so that that that's connected to Pes and going from the from the summer to the winter, which is basically connected because P and and that's the sun is shining. But however when it comes to the holiday of it's aukkot that's and like we know the famous teaching that what it says that in the holiday the um everything that's revealed that what was concealed kipper which basically kip is all about chuva. So the reveal aspect of of sukus is all about the maluva and us to explain this in more depth. We know that the spiritual work of Rashana is to make God our king which basically elevating Malus up to the point the elevation essential elevation and then it comes down obviously in the holiday of Yumiper the one day of Yumiper which is called one day of the year and that's when the med says that in one day they came to ask and here points out an interesting detail the king the father so one day he's referring to y what's what's the one day he's referring to him kipper which is the one day a year that all the Jewish people come and we come united to our king our father and that's why the the med says the king our father that he says king before father it should say father our king but it says king father because then we we just finished building the spiritual significance of of malus the work of making god our king which basically brings drawing down the elevation the essential elevation and that's Why he says the word melik king before father because the main point is the by fact that gods our king and this idea of king comes into the level of father even under the lowest level however even in yum kiper it's still concealed and that's why on yum kiper we don't eat we don't drink and we're compared to kings and obviously we're compared to kings like human beings compared like like a human being is compared to an angel which obviously it's a very high level but the fact is you don't eat because you because [snorts] we're comparing to angels and and and um it doesn't come down into into the physical world of idea of eating and drinking. However, the revealed part comes where? into the holiday sukkot and by do by celebrating sukkot we draw it in into a revealed way and beginning obviously in kipper which is concealed but then it comes in a revealed way by sitting in the suka for seven days the revelation comes not only that gets revealed but it comes in a way that's actually internalized but nevertheless that's also not enough why because a suka will be revealing this powerful energy is a temporary boat but the goal is that god should dwell in the physical world and that's going to happen when we build a third base of mikdash which is going to be an everlasting building. So in order to internalize it what do we need to do? We have to take the four species and then we through that we're able to bring in the the mak the part that hovers over the suka and we're able to internalize it and like explained elsewhere the reason why when you shake the lulv and the es and you have to it has to you have to bring it to your chest why because what's the idea of taking the four species to bring it down inv which is malus of in the chest of z but this is also still not enough but the ultimate purpose is you have to You have to be it has to be internalized and by internalizing you're able to give birth and that happens when and that happens in is when you get it you totally take it in the everything of the month of tish the 10 days of chuva yum kipper the four days between yum kiper and suk sukus comes in once in a way that gets internalized in the most personalized level and through that you're able to give birth give birth to what to the revelation of the infinite part of down here into this physical world. And that's why specifically it says it's for us even though we said all the holidays is given to the Jewish people. Why? Because in it gets really internalized and not only internalized everything of the whole month of tish gets internalized kipper the the sukkot etc. And know this idea of of returning that we mentioned before and bring and returning and reaching the place of concealment doesn't even exist even to the deeper level of the ultimate concealment that part becomes it becomes us and no one else can reach that level and like it says the Jewish people and we're totally we're totally alone and that's the reason why we established that celebration When ones because day that gets internalized everything of the whole month of tish gets internalized through the the the power of chuva also the second tablets which was given kipper and therefore the joy and the celebration of is specifically given over the second tablets and that's why this joy of we said the beginning was in the letters of the not in the notes and the and the vowels s and the crowns because the real joy is that the powerful energy of Makif [snorts] with the sorah that the which is basically on the table that you read it which is reading the letters of Torah because the goal is that the revelation of the letters of the Torah and matter of fact also comes from the expression of the morning is coming referring to the future which is basically above comprehension understanding understanding and like explained elsewhere when it says the first word of the ten commandments it stands it stands for God says I put my soul into these letters and this that hashem wrote and put his soul into the where is it in the letters of thera and since on the on the holiday we're internalizing everything through the power of chuva you know someone that was far that became close and then we're able to bring in from the most furthest place from the helm the concealment that doesn't exist up to the level the conceal the essential concealment of Hashem but and we draw it in in a way that we become one with Hashem we come one with Hashem so that's why the joy that takes place then is specifically in the letters because drawing down the essence of hem where is that that is specifically in the letters and that's what that gives us the greatest bond with the essence of Hashem and I explained the discourse that every one of the Jewish people has a letter in the Tory and this letter gives you the energy that you have and it also protects us from anything negative and it's also a channel for all the blessings of Hashem and anything that you need starting from drawing it in on because everything gets drawn in in the month of Tish and we know the month of Tish is the letter of raius the beginning for the whole year and finish very powerfully says as follows from the joy and celebration of we're going to all celebrate the holiday and we're going to have total c celebration we're going to draw in the power of a yak yakob goes on his way which means going including the the energy that we need for going in in the winter months which is basically a a hard travel and and we will fulfill all our resolutions that we take upon ourselves on the holiday because the fact is the resolutions we're taken in the way of sim joy and we know when a person's happy there is no limits. It's above all limits and not only that it breaks all boundaries and we don't think of anything that's going to hold us back and we're able to fulfill every one of our resolutions that we took upon ourselves and since this celebration is with the letters of Tyra which is the channel for the blessings of Hashem whatever we need. So we will we will draw down added blessings, added success and the greatest success in everything for the whole year and especially the most important thing that we're going to have a year of gula of redemption and says what kind of redemption a true redemption the complete redemption to the coming of Messiah and the Reb says should happen very very quickly in our day. Here we have another beautiful poweric discourse about this great holiday. It's coming out. Let's internalize it. Let's live it. And every will give us the greatest blessings, the coming of Messiah. And next class will be in your have a great and best week. Enjoy and celebrate of this great powerful SKA.