The Rebbe prepared us for Gimmul Tamuz 50 years ago: By: Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz

welcome to a special gimel Thomas for bringing so as you can tell it's a little different than our regular classes and we are preparing for gimel Thomas gimel Commons is the anniversary of their passing which will be a week from this Shabbat and because it's a very very powerful day it's important to prepare ourselves for the day so that we're ready in able to embrace the day of gimel Tamas now gimel Tamas is the day that there are we passed away and obviously for us Chabad custom and anyone's connected Chabad it's a tremendous void because it was great when we had the Rebbe you have to either go on Sunday and get dollars from him or go to if I bring in or write to him and he would respond he would get tens and thousands of letters constantly and the constant responding and communicating the people he would teach and so on and so forth so obviously there's a tremendous you know void on a certain level and you know the question is how do we relate to this you know tremendous void and Trent's concealment that is taking place since a gimel Thomas now obviously you know the void is throughout the year but as you start getting ready for game on Thomas as we start getting closer to it you start feeling the void a little more and you're always looking for some sort of you know inspiration and some kind of like a message or some kind of light that we can we made it make make of this concealment that has affected the Chabad community around the world since g''l Thomas now so it's interesting lis that you know God always has ways to inspire us and so does the Rebbe so what you need to do is you need to look and if you look you'll find so interesting recently they republished 60 volumes of the Rebbe ease talks for brains now in in the four Brennan's there's two parts the C code which is talks Rebbe gives and then there's also talking which is called my maryam because this course is returned revi would say very very deep Kabbalistic teachings and I was at many for brightness wherever you would say how they consider this course is that the preparation the songs that you that they would sing put you in such a blissful and Vergil state which is very very powerful and there would share powerful facility discourses based either on the parsha or a verse in the profits or pending on a holiday that was taking place and so on and so forth so it's recently published there are 60 values which is very very powerful and I have many many us before but it's redone retype said it and some stuff that was not printed before and thanks to my son actually where simcha inspired me cyst hi you have to get it's a new set of books and he ordered for me and he shipped it down and it literally came last week last week he came and it's funny because gimel Thomas Ginn was three and the books came in three boxes so right away so oh my gosh this is like a direct connection when given tamas their armies books being publicly published in three boxes that came now it came last week and it was you know busy so I ready to put in my office but I had this tremendous yearning I mean I wanted to you know get into the new the new the new books that came and the silencing and shipping it's one of the boxes like busted open so I was a little open and then last Friday night I what after we had the beautiful Shabbat the meal that we have a Friday night I went into my office I said I cannot go home and I can't go to sleep without connecting one of these beautiful new book so the the Box actually the middle box of the three that was open propped open from the time because it was torn the wool from the shipping so I stuck my hand and I pulled out the first book now this is the actually the first book that I pulled out and it's called see this this 16 16 different volumes of these and the name on the book is called Torah Menachem which is basically the teachings of the Rebbe now it's interesting if the book I pulled out is nun gimel everything we know in Judaism is very powerful the book I pulled that was nun gimel don't get most 53 now what's interesting is that the book I pulled out is 53 this book is has the talks and the teachings of the Rebbe that that the Rebbe said in Tufts in hub caste which is exactly known 50 years ago so the nun got me into fifty years so this is literally a talk at drubbing said 50 years ago and I looked at 50 years ago it was a nun and given well obviously forgive all Thomas right so none from the 50 that is 50 years from this talk animal Thomas so interestingly up these talks are literally from the years ago so I opened up to the book and I was looking for some inspiration especially we're getting ready for game on commas so it's all miss to me that fifty years ago the way the calendar Shabbat and the weekday the the weekdays of the month is the same setup as this year so another so in other words in other words in other words next Shabbat not this one the next about the savant of gimel Tamas is Shabbos Pontius kora we reached in the Torah portion of our Cisco rock and in that year Shabbos partial Kirk was gimel Thomas was in Shabbat just like this year we'll get most Shabbat is on Shabbat I said whoa Wow and this is amazing right so this is literally 50 years ago same schedule same schedule gimel Tamas and obviously there must be a powerful lesson because we also know that none known as fifty and we know in on the from the Kabbalistic level what is fifty resemble this fifty gates of be no known sorry vena fifty gates of vena now we know Chabad is also has three letters letters about like gimel Thomas three hokhmah vena das now the middle letter S is for Kakuma intellect basis for vena the middle one and Dollard is for das understanding and the boxes are three boxes box I open up was the middle box just like vena right and this fifty gates of vena there's 50 levels of vena so you could have 50 different levels of comprehension and understanding of anything so what that means is that it takes 50 years to really process something so something with the Rebbe tortoise fifty years ago it took us fig take 50 years tell it like really you know it sinks in now to me this was the Rebbe's message to me and I believe I'm you know shared tonight I think it's the message to everyone what the Rebbe was sharing with us as a message for the upcoming gimel Thomas 50 years ago which is basically the 50 gates Obinna so interestingly enough the Civic discourse and this is the discourse which you know is there means this course it's we call it machine amid embarrassment old crone oh it's like as if the Sheena the vari inspiration is coming like literally through his blue through his throat almost like as you would call possibly rule her kodesh divine inspiration and the discourse is based on a verse in in in the Prophet Kings and the reason why this specific verse the Rebbe shared was because many years before that the previous Rebbe was sent to prison for spent spreading and teaching Judaism he was in prison for a short period of time and then he was sent he was released to go home and he was really sent away further tax all eventually he got out but while he was going through a process it happened the first his first level of freedom was on the gimel Tamas and at that time the previous row be quoted this verse from Kings that when the verse says yahi hashem elokenu amanu that god should be with us kazehaya in my they say no like he was with our forefathers awliyas animal training you should not forsake us and that's what the civic discourse is based on so the Rebbe explains what it explains this verse based on Kabbalah based on cocido and he said as follows what is the verse a God should be with us with us Iman with us and it says cash are you ever made are they saying like he was with our forefathers that's a simple definition very explains what does it mean practically to us and every explains that every say knew our fathers we know in the spiritual world we say a voice a to our fathers and our mothers right their parents was that referring to spiritually what are the fathers in the world of spirit you guys know hokhmah and bina right so and in manu what is us who are we who are we on the spiritual world because we know we have we are we are we have all the meat we have all the tents we wrote but there's the intellectual sphere out and then there's also what there's the emotional sphere out so who are we are we a a computer system are we intellect or we are a emotional human being that lives a beautiful powerful life we the army don't we our emotions we live we're alive so the Rebbe explains that what's the idea that that the prayer is that because we're supposed to live and we're supposed to live with our emotions or social of a great life and a happy life in other words the key thing is you have to live walked with your emotions which means just to live a happy loving kind passionate life that's what we have to live now on the other hand if we live in our brain like dull computers but on the other hand the brain is what tells us right from wrong so there are bees explaining that explains the verse I'm a Kabbalistic level is that we should live spiritually happy healthy with excitement and passion but always remember that our fathers not to say about logical fathers that's for sure but our spiritual fathers our intellect should be permeated within our life and I took that to be a very very beautiful message one of these two messages I got out from this discourse and reference legal commas is that we live a great life we live we pray we study we do mix votes but we have to remember that our fathers which is our Mabini personal but also our collective parents which is the Rebbe who basically was a guiding force in our life who basically taught us tolerate taught us a mysticism he told us everything in our life and the Rebbe you should always be infused whatever we do so whatever we do and wherever we are we are who we are but we should always remember and we should always keep the Rebbe as our guiding point pour a point and our guarding force in our life but and obviously that is the goal but the Rebbe realized it's gimel thomas and he needs to give us a message for us today when we don't necessarily see the Rebbe and we don't necessarily have the opportunity to listen to his teachings live even those plenty recordings audio video written on the internet the books etc but we still there's still a avoid a missing so with interestingly enough the second major point in this this course the Rebbe speaks about connection to the Torah portion about Cora and there are we asked what was the major fight that Cora had with Moshe Rabbeinu and in Caracas a smart man what does he do belly against motion of a No why would he do that I'm he's a smart guy what's the point of fighting everyone knows fighting is not a good thing so Robbie explains that Co rock as smart as he was he had a point and but he made a mistake what was this point because we know a coin to Kabbalah see dude we have right and we have left right resembles has said right resembles love and the left side resembles what Guevara discipline now you need books just like you need two hands you need have certain guru but even though you need both which one should be the over should be a little bit stronger than the other one prasad or Gura so you always want to make sure half set is stronger than guru you always want to make sure that kindness love always has the upper hand yes you need guru at times you need a balanced life but that's said and I said love and kindness has to be the overriding force and it's interesting interesting that you know on Indian like in Indiana say Vittorio mrs. oat and fill in on the letters this target is crowns on top there's right left centered and a proper scribe will make sure that the right ones as much art are taller because you want to make sure that that Center is always stronger so what happened was Cora came along and karak said let's split the two right he made it the vision of why because Cora said I hear you you're saying tested is stronger but he said no war is really stronger why because God said comes from the revealed part of God and guru comes from the concealed part of God more comes from the symptom so since guru comes from the symptom the concealment of God so therefore what in its Irish in its source what's more powerful castling guru guru is more powerful and then a guru has name of tiberias from strength great power so correct said guess what grew as stronger Saguaro should be struck virtually isolated and only should be two equals and possibly grow even stronger as chorus Suresh giris source comes from a higher place Surabhi says interesting approach that Cora had and it was like might want to say a Kabbalist but he made one mistake and the mistake he made was as follows and there he explains beautifully he says like this because even though the conventional way of thinking is you have a relation and before the revelation you have concealment like for example by he error by evil curse you have the evening and then you have the morning it means you have the dark and then you have the light and he's first you have the symptom and then you had the revelation but that's one way to look at it but Torabi says before that symptom before the concealment there was a revelation like for example before God created the world God existed all over the place the infinite power of God was all over so before anything happened was there a relation or was there concealment there was a revelation revelation was always the dominant force thank God came along God said I want to create a world now oh boy in the world a world a finite world in order to create a finite world that has to be a concealment so God went ahead and he made a synonym which means concealed he wiped out he wiped out he created an empty space 100% empty totally empty so first it was all revealed that was the first part then God created at some somewhere he totally wiped out he made it totally empty what happens when God created Adam son now he drew in a light right we call the car veto analyte and from the life became the world that we're living in I mean other world as well but the world that we're living so the prior sister abhi explains was first it was huge revelation it was Gambas infinite then there was concealment and then there was revelation now so what was the first step revelation the first step to create the world was concealment and then there was revelation now so God said come somewhere from the last Rastro last revelation which is a small cob that comes in gabor come somewhere from the Timpson which is a step above it and correct word comes from a higher service but the reality is what came before grew what came before the team some huge cat said so another study explains so what's stronger Casa de Guevara yes it's stronger why cuz in the beginning there was revelation so to begin with revelation was strong that's it was stronger love was stronger giving was stronger kind was stronger in the beginning not only that though he takes a step further and says not only not only was in the beginning but let's look when God decided to clear the deck and he created this symptom and he created this empty space why did he do that why cuz he wants an empty space no exactly he wanted to make room to bring in the light so when God is creating that symptom at the moment when he's creating the symptom what's in his mind and his heart the concealment no the revelation so even in the process of creating the concealment what was in his mind what was in his heart what was the agenda revelation so the foundation that the whole concealment is based on is revelation so in other words are we saying is that a revelation was in the beginning initially God was everything was all revealed even the concealment it was a front for the revelation so the concealment is revelation and that's what their leox planes that was the mistake that was the mistake that clarified what was the mistake that Couric had he thought that concealment guevara is higher because a church is stronger because it comes from a place before the for the revelation but he missed two major points one is that before the concealment it was huge revelation serve elation ultimately is first and the even the concealment was only for a purpose of the revelation and therefore the concealment ultimately is all about the revelation so the Rebbe says that ultimately anytime there's concealment and we have a lot of concealment in life so you can look at its face value like corrected corrects approach to concealment is oh my gosh it's concealed we don't see it's dark it's challenging it's upsetting frustrating all the terms you want to use when when you're in a concealed place mean you're afraid you're nervous you're on unknown territory Kirby says that's coax approach what's the Jews approach when you see concealment no no no that this is concealment is a its second steer it's second here and be the whole purpose for the concealment is revelation so we live we're we live what do we live in our heart our head in our hearts we live in revelation if there are times when it's concealment yes but that's secondary to revelation and be even the concealment is for revelation and the early finishes off that ultimately halt blaze royal year or Beamish why some biblical verse in Exodus that for all the Jewish people when there was the concealment there was Marcus whole shekel this dark did the Jewish people experience darkness why it was dark because amongst the dark while it was dark Cora looks at it it's dark a Jew doesn't look at this dark look Albany you saw how your urbanites writes on for a Jew it's always liked even in the darkness and specifically from the darkness you see light because a you know that originally it was bright and be that you know the whole reason for this darkness is because after was gonna be the great light because ultimately as Derby explains the goal is that after the concealment and there's a little light that comes in it's not just a little light in this little light contains the original light the original light eventually goes through into this light so it's a beautiful message the remedies telling us and I think I'd say it's the biggest treasure I got the biggest gift right for gimel Palmas very saying hello give up Thomas is coming right you saying oh my gosh it's everything is a concealment what concealment the revelation was always there and this that you might be feeling and experience or concealment don't look at it that way don't even use the word I mean yeah you can use it but the concealment there's no found it's not real concealment doesn't have a real foundation concealment is so we can have revelation so the whole thing is a setup it's a curtain it's not real what's real is revelation and now you approach given Tamas on a whole different reality and the reverie taught the stuff and left this for us 50 years ago for us to know there's no such thing as concealment there's something as revelation and that's the truth and even that you might be experiencing MC element don't get caught up with a concealment it's really all about your relation so and I think this concept is a beautiful concept and tell any kinds of it's real yeah again it's all about revelation eight to begin what is revelation and even in the concealment is revelation I like to share a few stories just to clarify this idea and that is as follows the famous Madras famous Madras on the verse Evon ma ma sucah Bynum hoysala Rosh Pina which we say it in the NT Lane we stayed in how well every time we say Hallel and the stories like this that when they built the temple and they built the temple so they were building all the buildings with your building and they came and they had different rocks you know you had rocks do you trying to put him in the right places etc they had this weird shaped rock weird rock what do you do at a weird rock it's like what are you with the weird kid alright I'm not saying what you're gonna do with him right what do you do with the weird personality but someone you don't like right I'm not saying it you guys yeah all right I'll leave it I'll leave with you guys imagination and your opinion I'm not saying it's right what you're thinking but what do we do all right next let's bring only two good rocks bring that bring loneliness straight guy the straight the straight people they're well-behaved kids they're well-behaved adults right let's you know hang out with only with the good friends right so the crooked weird rock they throw away they throw it away not remember story they finished building the temple guess what the temple we know has to be complete perfect there was an area a weird area that had this like emptiness and the problem was it was so weird because it was like it was it was a very strange empty spot and every normal shaped rock they tried to put in and wouldn't fit until finally one person says oh my gosh I think I have the answer you know that rock that we were like that we just threw away because a piece of garbage to a strict cook it it was out of shape out of size right uh-oh I think that's the rock they go find the rock and they bring it and guess what it fits perfectly perfectly and that completed the temple so the Metro says Evan loss or boredom that stone that the builders said it's disgusting right the child is not behaving throw them out god forbid they're right that became the foundation rock because that were they needed to complete the temple and without that it wouldn't completely been complete so doesn't what do you see from the story specifically from the void we appreciated the light the rock was a beautiful rock we just didn't appreciate it because the officer looked deformed it looked different I look you're weird but what we learn from the story no no no this is what we need it sometimes we look oh my gosh concealment doesn't make sense hello that what doesn't make sense that's what's weird that's what's strange that's exactly what we need and we find that the revenue basically lived this not only he lived it he inspired people with this attitude famous story it was a Jew we all know after the Holocaust a lot of people that lost you know most of their family many many people and they were broken they were broken so this drew that lost everyone from his family and his wife has children everything so he came to the Rebbe because he was struggling he just couldn't live anymore and he was sharing his frustrations he was crying to the Rebbe that you know he had such a great life a beautiful spouse and kids everything was great and now he has nothing and he has so much to give and he just can't live anymore he literally won't like wanting to take his life and where he tells him you have a lot to give you have a greatly you have so much to give guess what you have it yeah you knows you have what to give yeah true you don't have your wife got it your children everyone perished but don't not give go to shul buy before Shabbos go to the grocery store buy a bag of kosher candies and all the children who come to shul give them a candies you late the kids happiness you have love give the kids candy it was hard because you know hey he wanted his wife he wanted his family I got it but the dhurbey tells you something he listeners he went reluctantly to the store and he went to the store and he bought a bag of candies and he kept it in his like you know Scala's bag and he came to shul in Chaves he couldn't do it he couldn't do it but a sham works in mysterious ways a child just out of the blue walked over to him and said them do you have a candy his heart melted oh my gosh how do you know I have a candy I never gave her candies in my life I don't have kids to bring candies I do have it on my bag because the Rebbe told me so he took out from his bag he could have been Elijah but it was a real story with a child took out from this bag the bag of candy and he gave the child the candy and the kids have thank you and like literally created like a opening his heart start to melt and he realized oh my gosh wow you can start giving again and he went over to another Charles and he gave him a candy and the kids - thank you and slowly it literally he started to live he started to live because he had a void he wanted to give he had an emptiness it was a concealment but guess what Derby tournament you take that concealment use that concealment use it for something good don't just kill the concealment and say it's over have nothing to live for and he started to give out candy some candies and candies and you know what happened he became an extremely happy person and he changed his life and all the kids loved them in school all the kids loved him he was the most popular guy around there you go exactly exactly Candy's right it changed his life changed his life and changed everyone's life and that's what do you see from the story that if you have an emptiness avoid yeah true you every couldn't bring back his family back alive but the void that he had represent use it don't don't ignore it don't say it's empty and I'm giving up take that emptiness and fuel it with something beautiful and tendering ladies we know the sense like for example it says in the Torah you shouldn't have a low-key Mackay room you shouldn't have other gods right which is obviously two negative things don't have any other God strange gods but consider this always it always takes and puts a beautiful spin on things and once of them say I said this explain anything that's okay Rimmer anything which is like negative turn it into something godly take anything which is negative and turning in something on the our job is to take all our negativity all our ugliness and turn it into something godly transform it into something really really beautiful and you see this is what the Rebbe basically not only lived that way but inspired people to live that way famous story but I think it's an important story talking at the same idea but taking a void and and filling it in a positive way famous story there was a boy that I was living in Europe and he Jewish boy and he fell in love with a non-jewish girl and he actually got engaged to her but his family was like you know saying hey Jewish boy she's not Jewish it's not gonna work it's not a real marriage you wanted to be a godly marriage won't you find so on the Jewish I mean but he would loved her he went to different rabbi he's people giving him telling him get rid of it it just did wasn't working for him someone said to me why don't you go to the Rebbe so he went with her shreya they flew to New York to the Rebbe and he went online for dollars and when he went online for dollars he walked over and he started to tell the Rebbe that I'm engaged to a non-jewish girl and I'm having a hard time with it one has a lover and the other hand they know she's not Jewish and the Rebbe turned him and there we said to him that I the Rebbe mm vyas of you and the guy was taken aback I'm coming to the Rebbe the biggest topic in the world and the reveries jealous of me so he was like whoa like what are you jealous about what are you jealous of me there we set them as follows because any time a person is going through in life Amy saw you in a test it's the sign comes in the word like from the ladder like it's a ladder you have the power right now you can either fall unfortunately or you have the power you can like elevate yourself knows you have this tremendous void you have this tremendous symptom it's concealed it's dark because on one hand you like this woman but only have you know what's wrong so if you get rid of her you're gonna feel terrible but in the oven if you get rid of you and become closer to gods and you every said I am jealous of you have the power now you can take the darkest moment and transform it to the greatest point of light he took the doll from the Rebbe he went downstairs for every synagogue and he very soon looks big he sat down at one of the benches put his head down table and he started to cry and he said himself that's it I'm getting rid of her in other words no one was able to inspire him one of the Rebbe dudes army told him showed him that civically in your challenge that's what the great greatest grow can me specifically in the term zone where it's concealed that's where you can grow from and not only you can look you can have the great you can have the greatest growth and I think the point the point of the story is is simple but it's deep and it's very powerful just to share another interesting story idea about this this famous story they say there was a guy walking down the street at night and he sees that is this little child by this light pole it's a dark Street and by there's a light pole and the kid is looking in the grass and he's crying see he's turning sort of child and he says you know can I help you what do you want cuz yeah I lost my wallet there's okay let's look he says by the way do you remember you know when the last time you had it he says yeah like three blocks down that way he says so why are you looking over here you're laughing right why are you looking at some down questions he says very simple cos here the light is here wish I look in the darkness it's dark I can't look in the dark so he's looking in the light what does that mean we feel comfortable we're we're it's light we don't feel comfortable words dark we don't feel comfortable it's concealed but guess what you can spend the child can spend this whole life looking for that wallet you think I'll ever find it there it's not there if you want to find the wallet what do you have to go you have to go where it's dark and guess what if you go where it's dark you're gonna find it and it's actually a very very powerful verse in the Torah where it speaks up Moshe Rubino when he connected with God and when he went to meet God so that verse sounds like this Amoy sure my gosh Aloha Rafael mote choose emotion Raymond came close to the dark clouds and the verse says is straight in the Torah this is biblical he's shown because right over the years I woke him he wanted God we was God not in the bright Sun by the beach right or on the on the Golf Course God's there too but with the Torah says where is God which dark over there Gardens in other words the lesson is very very simple we want God find them without it find him where it's dark find them in the challenge in your challenges in your struggles is that's where the greatest place to find God it's the finish of on a very practical level the famous story that the river ashab the physical barber you would say as follows a Jew gets up one day he's all inspired he feels God he sees God he's in love of God he goes to shul he opens a prayer book and his heart is open and life is great that's wonderful nice beautiful prayer experience next that he gets up he's frustrated life he had too many challenges this is not working out that's not working out life is very frustrating you can't handle life oh my gosh but he has to go to pray of service he's really nothing we were going to pray service the last thing he wants to go is now talk to God he just you know he wants his face his time but he knows prayer service he prays every day he says you don't even though I'm not in the mood I'm gonna go to shore and he goes to shul camper he tries he struggles he opens the book he closed the book he reads and he's seeing blurry seeing darkness etc but he works in it he works it and he spends the whole hour and he defends yesterday that was beautiful today it's like and finally at the end he gets five minutes at a beautiful a literally like at the end the last five minutes it was like wow everything became clear to him so the river Sam says where was the jewel more connected to God on the first thing on the second day so you'll say Bernie the first thing was a beautiful prayer that were something the first day he didn't do anything it was great so he was with God the second day his connection was his connection because he chose to stick it out he chose to show up he chose to put the effort in and because he chose he was there and when you put the effort in and when you even though with this concealment even though it's dark like we said before Moshe arena Witte meet God he went God into the Cathar cloud that's where ultimately you can find God and I think the lesson is very very simple that the concealment is the greatest revelation the revelation we know is revelation but in the concealment we have the power to have the greatest revelation and I believe that you embrace the concealment if you embrace the things that don't make sense if you embrace the things that you're struggling with that's where you'll be able to reach God on the deepest levels and I think that in order to really embrace the concealment got God there ever made it easy for us he left us over hundreds of books of his teachings start your day off learning some of the rubbish teachings whether it's a seeker whether it's a Mimer they have it in Hebrew they have it in your dish to have it in English to have it in Spanish they have you know you don't like reading they have audio their video connect to the Rebbe even though you might not see it I want to go see him okay fine you don't can't see in there but you connect to him study his teachings and interestingly and interestingly today's high Yom Yom the first book that the Rebbe actually put together from teachings of the previous Caban rabbis was called high Yom Yom in today's teaching which today we're having the for bringing today the Rebbe says if you want to be connected to me the way to connect is by studying and learning my teachings so if and when we want to connect to the Rebbe I'm sure we all do take out some of the Arby's teachings learned Rory's teachings when we learn and study the Roby's teaching will be connected to Rebbe and we will experience revelation always the real revelation will be revelation and more importantly even the concealment and specifically in the concealment will have the greatest revelations Lahaie and lehayim we should all merit to have the ultimate revelation the original racial come back we should all experience an embrace not the concealment but the true revelation Lahiya behind