The Greatest Blessings מה טובו אהליך יעקב A New Kabbalah class by Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz

Welcome to our Classics for this we're going to be learning a beautiful discourse in the Reba the name of the acidic discourse is called how good is your tense Jacob the rebel said this classific discourse and Shabba is partials that year was test time was the ninth day the month of Thomas and the year tough Shin meme Olive 32 years ago so again the discourse is based on the verse of this week's third portion where it says how good is your tense Jacob you're Dwelling Places Israel and the rubber brings that's brought down in in The Cutting Torah which is the classical teachings of the altaraba he brings where it says in hazal that whoever calls avraham avram without it without the hey you transgress on a negative precept because the terrorist says clearly you should not be called avram with the outer here but from now on you called what you called avraham now so the question is I asked one second Hashem changed yaakov's name to Israel so if that's the case it should apply the same thing also whoever calls viaco Jacques who transgress and he said well how can we see the Torah is still calling Jaco even Israel and the answer they give is that because you see that after Hashem told yaaka his name is Israel he still called Jacob so therefore yaakov has two names yako evangelistro yako is his original name and Israel's thing that was given afterwards it's not only the points that are pointed out what does these two names that yaakov has jacobing ISRO there is and not only that if you call yako Ibaka if you don't transgress and also why is these two names in this verse and also on the other on the other in the other Prophecies of bilam you also have both names of yaakov and Israel also you have to understand what is the two terms of oil attentive the place you dwell and they're technically both inferring the same thing a tenth in the way she dwells exactly the same thing also um if it says the expression of oil a tent and by Israel it says the place you're living in now also the Torah says it's an idea plural and we know plurals at least two so obviously you see there's four different levels here two levels in the level of yakoi which is connected to the and two levels in levels so the question is what are all these four levels whoever says we're going to understand this based when it says notorious follows God says even though billum was trying to curse the Jewish people Hashem is not listening to belam and not only that but he cursed them so it seems like God went ahead and took that curse That was supposed to be a cursed negative Karma and he transformed into actually being a blessing in other words the blessings that come from what wanted to be a curse against the Jewish people is actually a blessing and that's called in Kabbalah it's called Total Transformation you take something negative you turn into something positive now in our spiritual work when we want to transform ourselves take something negative mate and turn something positive that's the ability of truva in other words you did something wrong so he did something wrong but when you go ahead and use that energy to actually get through it and become stronger that's true but you do the ability so two of us connected in other words if somebody had sounded like a righteous person and they never sinned and they never went off the the straight path so what happens is they're walking straight they're walking the normal and made us Hashem made us to walk normal to do what we're supposed to do so what happens is if your level of at Sonic and you're walking normally you're doing the straight path and you never went off to Derek and so on and so forth so you don't have the power to do his half clay you can't do transformation however if somebody went off the Derek and unfortunately did things he wasn't supposed to do so that what happens then is the off the Derek person has the power they can do his hop because they can do full transformation because they have the power to take something negative and they transform into Holiness so it's sad that it doesn't have the power of His because he was on the right path but anyone that went off the Dirk whether it's small big whatever level you went off to direct you have the power to do something outside that can do which you can do something which is called this halfway you can transform a negative into a positive now so that's in general that isafco applies to to about otd after their Earth versus doesn't apply to azadiq but the truth is representative also applies to Watson why because a true or repenting or returning to Hashem is not only God from your sins when you went off to Derek but even someone that's a big child they could complete Sadiq but the fact is whatever level you're at we're finite so if you're finite you can still go higher and higher to go to the infinite so whatever level the child again is he's not doing true is from going off the path but he's going his half cup from whatever level he is to go to the next level and to go out from any limited place that you're in so it's a beautiful idea that this applies on a practical level or so to speak in a revealed ways because whatever level it's a finite level and he breaks out from whatever level he's into the next level that's his like Eric is an example like a reference to Roma Vino Abraham the first Jew of Roma Vino so even though it says in reference was old and he came with his days and what does it say what does that mean he came with his days the Zora says and Kabbalah says clearly there wasn't one day that was lacking by him there wasn't one garment that was lacking for him and others every one of his days every one of his garments were totally complete but nevertheless he was still climbing in his in his in his spiritual service and he actually took his yet Sahara his evil inclination transformed it into good like it says it says he found his heart with faced Hashem so it should say he had one heart but it says with two bases in other words that he would transformed besides the fact that his heart his Godly Soul his Yates was connected to God but even as Yates was also the connectors of gods he was able to transform it as we know it's brought down a powerful teaching and says that um the eight Sahara is one one to three things that God um regrets that he created them and one of the things that God regrets for creating them was the eight Sahara but the fact is of Roma Vino went ahead and transformed this yet Sahara and based on his explore explained an algorithm on this verse where it says because I love you God is referring to the ten spirits of the Creator not the 10 spirits on the lower level in the world about Silas where it comes down to us but we're talking about the 10 Spirits higher up until the way he's tense fears in the creator of the whole world so you see that the tremendous power of transformation is hafka takes place because you're able to draw in from the most highest levels so again so here you see the real power that that takes place um through the uh through the ideas you're able to take something negative and turn to something positive so in general refers to the ability but it also applies outside like in any person that go not say even certain part of Islam because from taking negative to positive but you you're in the pounds in his face but it's a finite space you go to the next level now so based on this the river explains we'll understand why in the prophecy of bilum he says how good is your tense what is he referring to he's referring to the avoidah of truva returning to Hashem and and the avoid of truvasion transforms it into positive so from here you see that the four levels in this verse like we spoke about before there's two levels of oil in of tense and two levels is referring to the four levels of true but since it's all about this so obviously there's four levels of of of uh of truva and two of them take place in the word yaakov and two of them take place in the word you soil and what does that mean sure explains like this generally speaking what it what's the difference between the name yaakov and the name Israel so it's understood from the name itself in other words comes from the word that his hand was holding in the heel of asab not only that we're talking about a heel he was holding the heel the lowest part he's holding the lowest part of Aesop so yaakov is again the lowest part and connected to Ace of Israel on the other hand comes from the word of the same letters as Lee Royce to me ahead and the same thing also says it says in the in verse that when he was called the astrology he fought with with the angel of God and that he was successful in other words he's a he's a he's a officer and a head to those that are below him so again so you see that Jacob is connected to the leg and a sub and yeshuahuas connect to a high level so from here you see in a level of serving Hashem that yaakov is the avoid of the spiritual work of of the heel and the foot and Israel is the void of the head and that's why you the Torah even after some called yaakov Israel they still call him yaakov why is that because they are void of yaakov dealing with the heel dealing with the with Aesop it still exists and as we know that this explains the terror impartial that there's a certain quality in the avoid of working with with the physicality with the heat with the foot Etc over the head on the other hand there's a quality of the head over the feet so that's why you have four levels of truva two of them are connected to Yakov the foot and two of them are connected well to you swirl the head okay so before we go first what's the number saying over here that you have yaakov in your straw yaakov the so to speak dealing with the up on the lower level Israel is a higher level and again remember we're dealing with four levels are true because all about this so there's two levels of truva associated with yaka which we'll explain soon more at length and there's two levels that connected what were true but what the idea of Israel what does that mean you're explaining this it's brought down in the verse it says like this go away from Evil the assay to even do good look for peace and run after it so you see there's four levels in the verse what does that mean the beginning of any spiritual work is the work of Surah you have to go away from Evil and like the famous Parable from the previous rabba who was celebrating the his release from prison for spreading and teaching us to this that he says like this that let's say you have a cup that you want to drink from or a plate you want to eat from Etc so before you put fresh food or fresh drink in the air you gotta clean it out make sure it's clean because if you're going to have a dirty cup or a dirty uh plate and you're going to put clean and fresh food or fresh drinks in there the food's gonna get spoiled it's going to be ruined it's going to happen I'm not gonna have the right taste and especially if you're dealing with a very fine and good product of food so you have to make sure that the vessel is very very clean and like the teaching them teaching in the market what does it mean on a spiritual level that when someone has strange thoughts a very very holy person has strange thoughts that's actually worse and it creates more of an impact in a negative way worse than than a sin of an ignoramus so again so the first avoido is you have to go ahead and clean out the vessel you got to make sure the vessel is clean and what does that mean practically you got to make sure your thoughts are totally clean and there's no negative thoughts there after you do the avoido of surma which means you clean out the cup you make sure the vessel the vessel is clean and the whole world so to speak is ready to make this world a dwelling place for Hashem so then you go to the next level so the first level again is cleaning out the cup cleaning out our thought cleaning out the world making sure the world is ready but then you need to bring in the light I'll say toive which means you have to do good deeds real good deeds tangible good deeds and then that's how you make dwelling place for Hashem so these two first levels of going away from from Evil which means cleaning it out after you tell you bringing in good now on a spiritual level which rules are we dealing with because everything is associated with the four worlds it's connected to the world of Asia and yitzira starting from the bottom up which is going away from Evil which is cleaning up the the thoughts and cleaning of the world that's connected to the world I'll see the world of action why is that because the world of asea that's what God's most concealed and that's why this world is mainly mainly bad mainly evil mainly negative like it's brought down in Tanya and it says that in this world unfortunately the clipot the negative energy has tremendous power in this world and that's where the first beginning of the avoid is this the physical mysterious the world to clean it out the negativity afterwards you go up to level against Europe the level of formation which is the level of what basic type bringing in good like it says to form light and as you already have light and revelation these two levels again getting rid of the negativity bringing light um in the letters of Youth cave it's the last two letters of the hashem's name so that is what the first avoid the first two avoid is then you have the spiritual work of bake you have to look for peace what is peace referring to that's referring to learning Torah because the fact is learning Torah is much higher than cleaning up the house even though you need to do that first and much higher now since I bring in the light and in the in the world it's connect to which world is connected to the world of Bria and in that world already most of it is good it's close to artillery it's most of it's good and the quality and the advantage of learning terrorism because we know that mitzvoys is called the limbs of the body of a college World however toira says and Hashem is one like that's what it says Tanya very very clearly so in other words the third level is what is learning Torah which is connected to the world of Bria and you literally connect their colors which terrorists connected to to a coach Markle versus Mitzvahs is only the specific limbs that you're doing that's the third level what's the fourth level so the author explains the credential before he goes into the fourth level which he says is the level of chuva so the fourth level is the highest level which is true but he says so he goes back to say that there's three levels and he says one second the fact is we only find two levels in chuva what's the two level of true well you have the lower level of truva and your higher level of true so what like how do you get how do you get the three levels services that this expression in in look what the terrorists is seeming is understood why because first he should have said there's four levels of chuva why is he first to say this three levels and then he says what do you mean but the fact is there's only two and then he says no really there's actually four in other words so why is he like giving it I could throw a roundabout ways he says it could be that by asking the questions trying to Hind to the answer which we're going to learn from it but again this is a side note but back to the point so what he's saying is again the fourth level is the level of truva now and he explains that in every one of these levels you have you have two levels in other words in the fourth level of truva in the fourth level of true which is talking at the fourth level what does that mean practically what does it mean true you have true on every level to learn soon but in token the intruva itself what is true or connected they avoid the prayer why because prayer is connected to the Kaya of the Soul when a person prays this we don't we have never and then you have a prayer now these three levels of truva is basically connected to the three levels of your soul you have nephesh ruach the summer in other words the the national park never took the higher part the summer is connected to the world of Brio which is Torah and like it says um and the prophets of nasada to Venom so you see that neshama where it says in the time in the prophets neshama used the expression of tavin which is understanding which connected Torah however when it comes to the the service of prayer that's connected to what and they both could both connect them into one idea like it says they're both called and a soul of the soul and those even though in the matter he divides into two parts but the fact that it's all connected to the deepest level and just like for example the Youth of hashem's name so you have the yud and then you also have the the the the the top the koits of the youth which is together okay so what's the recap so whatever saying is like this you have the uh the level of of uh the first level of surmi-rah the second one is assay toy the next one is what Bakersfield which is connect idea of um going away from Evil doing mitzvoys and then learning Torah and then prayer which is connected to the four worlds you know the story is the connected world of Asia um uh Toyota has connected to the world of Brio and felon true was connected to watch that world of artillos and in the Sharma is an applies the same thing also um the the survey Raj connected to the nephesh the highest level of Truth is connected to what the idea yeah so that's in general the way it's broken out but now they're just going to take it a step further than it's going to say like this we're going to look at these four levels and the way they relate and the way they're connected to the ability of chuva which is and he shows like this surmi ra the I say to you and then toyra and Fila these are the four levels but the way it's connected to the idea of chuva so he says every one of these you have connected to with the way it's the way it's on its own you have sir toib and you have learning turn and doing three law that without true and then you have it in the level of a tradic and abenini and even on the lower levels but the novel in the Revolutionary idea in this verse is that these four components they have the the quality of a yeah which poorly trained transformed and you had the level of truva so in those things like this you have generally the ability of surely where it stands on its own but then you have which will be introduced which we said is the four level of truth that's connected to every one of these four levels the way we serve Hashem and he explains this follows what's the idea of storm Iraq so it's brought down and says like this if a person sat and he did nothing guess what they give you rewards if you did a Mitzvah because you didn't do anything wrong if you sat and did nothing so technically you do anything positive but if you did nothing you didn't do anything bad so by sitting and doing nothing you're already not making trouble and in other words and even if you don't need any anything to hold you back to detain you from sitting and doing nothing something old for example somebody holds back from eating things which I've been Etc that a person like listen you don't eat some like something non-kosh because it's disgusting to you you still fulfill the mitzvah of sum Iraq you didn't eat it just because you know the struggle doesn't mean you don't get reward for it someone has zero interest in sinning and someone does have an interest in sending they both when they don't both of them don't sin they will technically get the same reward they both didn't sin clearly that there are certain people that were created in a way from when they're born they don't have any conflict they have no struggles from doing anything which is wrong they just naturally if something's wrong they just don't do it they don't have any Jitters they don't have any flies in their head if something's wrong you just don't do it says don't do it you don't do it your parents say don't do it they don't do it whatever they they they're naturally obedient so that's but the fact is they're still listening however so that's swimming around in general but then this surma which is connected to avoid of truva in other words when the surma is in a way of transformation that means you have to transform yourself not to do something you shouldn't be doing so if you have surmeira okay I didn't do it doesn't mind Zoo interest okay very nice but then you have surveillance cockatoo when you really want to do it and you really want to make trouble and you really want to rebel and you really don't want to listen and you practice restraint wow that's with the crown and with the blessing of truva okay so you see storm Iraq could be with altruva and then it could be ritual the same thing applies what I'll say tell you when you do a positive commandment so in other words there's there you can do I say time naturally you just want to do good things but then there's I say to you not just because you're just naturally doing it you're fighting you're going against your nature to do good means that you have to fight for yourself to do good and like for example the the replicacy example reference how from avino so it says the prophet says Hashem what was Abram's quality in other words even though he naturally he was about has said he helped people and he invited people to his house and he naturally was a good kind person but nevertheless he would tell the people bless and thank Hashem for giving you His blessings and because of that he was called the lover of Hashem why is that because he went against his nature naturally he shouldn't force people to bless God but he went against his nature ah he went against the stage that shows that he loved the sin the same thing applies to every every single person that we have compassion and we're shy and when we're we're kind so we have to do it in a way or some part of it has to do it more than a nature so it doesn't like this I say toe people naturally do good but even in doing good there's a certain limit up to how much we do certain things we don't want to do whatever's not in our comfort zone so when we do the product we're comfortable doing it's amazing but when we do the part that we're not comfortable doing that's true when I say to you the same thing applies in back is Charlene another comes to learning Terror because for example certain people naturally slow you give them a book a class they're sitting there they love it so that's great but you have to do more than your custom do unless you naturally love to sit for an hour to whatever the time frame is or the the concentration and you put in a little more oh and like Dr writes and Tanya you can't compare somebody at study something a hundred times but so until something 101 times why is that because in those days a hundred was natural people would sit there study something 100 times 101 I'm done in other words your nature is not going to block you from doing something that you naturally do even 100 times so therefore you're not serving Hashem you're 100 you're learning and you're doing your myths for 100 but it's not called a serving Hashem but when you learn more than your nature you do it a hundred and one times then you call serving Hashem and that's why and that's why it's brought down in in the talmud and the Tanya Etc and he gives an example someone was selling donkeys that and the the the the um that someone the donkey would go more than it's more than its regular distance or you get you get a much greater reward so the river brings from us from his father a blessed memory was a big capitalist and he says why they use specifically the example from a donkey Hebrews called a kamur why Hammer because it comes from the word of course materialistic so even though we're talking technically about a donkey really talking about the courses of the body that's not whoever's father explains and like the advocate of teaching the famous teaching says when it says when you'll see the donkey of your enemy that's the literal translation so the balshanda says is referring to the Goof the material is the coarse part of the body and you'll see that your body is actually your enemy but nevertheless you have to help him another the same thing also applies over here knows it's it could be that the the course of your body is not Humanity why because he likes learning Torah he'll learn it a hundred times it's not serving Hashem or like for example everybody gives an example like it doesn't interior opening that um somebody that's you know naturally uh not necessarily the happiest state of being so um so what happens is so you have it's natural interesting to be like pessimistic down et cetera so you have to use it to learn wisdom of the turtle in other words because whatever you're doing from your nature you have to go out of your box so what what is the what is the Revolutionary there like that but yeah some transform it that the idea is to learn Torah more than your nature in other words somebody's naturally whatever he's going to say he likes being quiet and sitting and reading but you got to do more than that so back to the point so the point is even when it comes to learning Torah is the natural part that we learn Tyrone but then there's going more than your nature and that's called true Eliminator the same thing applies also what when it comes to praying and repentance on a higher level in other words it's possible that this is what you like doing in other words the minute you see the greatness of Hashem you go whoa you automatically say my rabbu look at the wonders of Hashem in other words and by the way you as soon as you see you get up and you see all the things growing and oh you're breathing right away you're you're you're you're thanking Hashem automatically saying you don't need this powerful meditation and you let it goes you know get ready you're serving yourself because you recognize yourself as greatness that's amazing that's good but that is not true of those the Revolutionary idea of who transforming is when you have to meditate on the greatness of Hashem and the blessings of an essay and then you're standing could take you a lot a lot of effort to get there then you're standing in front of Hashem and when the more you put the effort into meditation so then then you reach level but you have a full transformation and as you reach the level above limits and obviously there's many many levels and when you reach to the highest level and that becomes your nature so then you need to do truva to go to the next level and like it's explaining the reference what it says with all your might which means there's your might everyone has their level but in reference to someone else it could be standard in other words it's not about someone else it's reference to yourself another when a person learns tairo and prays and you do more and you pray more that's cool the that's called trueva but when when it comes when it comes to your default setting so then you have to obviously go walk to the next level so in those hands explained beautifully again all the on the four levels of surmeira you have your default setting doesn't bother you but now when you when you interested in doing something you should be doing you do true or I'll say to you when you're naturally like doing good but you do more that's true though or learning Target you do more I'll pray you do more that's called true love and basically explains beautifully the verse he says how good is the tense of Jacob the dwellings Israel that end when a person serves ashamed there's two types of tense what's the two types of tens and we'll soon see why it's called a tent they avoid that the work of surma going away from Evil and the avoid of doing good and like in the level of true so why is it called a tent because what does intent mean attempt is a temper a temporary temporary abode and and so why is it called a 10 because mid's voice is only temporary because it's only now in this world however mashiach comes is not going anywhere and that's because I'll say when mashiach comes we're going to go ahead and we're going to reach the days we're not going to have any desirement from this place there's not going to be anything the survey around the house and tell you is only in this world and that's why it's called the next level is they are serving Hashem with the what is that learning Torah and prayer on the level of truva now why is it called a dwelling place because dwelling means it's it's established just there forever and learning Torah and praying that something that's established and it's also going to be in the world to come and got Aiden and also in the future when mashiach comes so here you have again another beautiful discourse sort of shows us the path of reaching true run every single aspect of our life whether it's not doing what we're supposed to we're doing with obviously in the next level doing midsole is on the next level Torah study in prayer and those all on the ultimate level of truva and they're finished so beautiful he says voice it's only today we're not going to do the choice however when it comes to learning Torah and praying that's going to mashiach let's hope and pray that we all married to come and God's willing our next class will be in your shalayan