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The Self Sacrifice of Purim וקבל היהודים את אשר החלו לעשות Kabbalah by Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz
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The Self Sacrifice of Purim וקבל היהודים את אשר החלו לעשות A New Kabbalah class by Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz מאמר וקבל היהודים תשי"א קונטרס פורים - תשמ"ט בס"ד. פורים ה'תשי"א A Project of. Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida 5620 Winkler Road Fort Myers, FL 33919 239-433-7708 www.Chabadswf.org
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Welcome to our class on we're going to
be learning a beautiful discourse in the
Reb the name of the discourse is called
the the Reb said this discourse on the
holiday of in the
year 74 years ago and every went on to
certify and edit this discourse in honor
of the holiday of pum in the
yearin mes 36 years ago so again the
discourse is based on the verse in the
mill
where it
says that the Jewish people accepted
what they began to do so the uh previous
rebba explains
um with AIC discourse with this title
which said at that time when the Reb
said theic discourse 74 years ago is
when it was actually printed that he
explains that they accepted that they
started what in the time of M in other
words this that the Jewish people by
Mountain
said we're going to go ahead and we're
going to do in and here which is huge
but nevertheless that's only the
beginning he they started then at
Mountain T but in the times
of which means the times of the thec of
hmon that's when the Jewish people
accepted the they accepted it at the
times of and he points out over there
seemingly it's a a tremendous Wonder
because the fact is in the times of mtin
Terra the Jewish people on the highest
state physically in other words the
Jewish people were were in a great time
they were totally free on a physical
level and the same thing also on a
spiritual spir spiritual level because
the revelation of the of of Godly
Revelation was in the highest level of
mat T however when it came to the times
of it was the lowest level besides the
fact of the concealment of of of Exile
and as we know that it says the verse
says it's a Darkness covers up the Earth
with many many contractions and
concealments Etc but but specifically in
the time of the decree of hmon that the
the concealment was even even deeper and
even stronger than normally in gas so
that's on one level on a spiritual level
also on a physical level the Jewish
people on a very very low level because
the fact is there was decree
to destroy and kill and wipe out the
Jewish people and all the Jewish people
the olders the youngers the children um
the the adults the the men the women in
one day they were going to wipe them all
out but nevertheless as dark as a time
was and as great as a struggle was in
the times of Matra when it was the
highest level for the Jewish people like
we said spiritually and physically it
was only the beginning but when you had
the cree of hymon when we were on the
low lest level that's when we
specifically accepted um what we started
in MRA so the question where's that from
how's that possible so he explains over
there the time of the decree of hmon so
the Jewish people
learned and did the MIT in a way of and
here's the key
word self-sacrifice and points out and
he says to bring out that in the in the
in the classical teaching sh Al ter ear
he explains that the self-sacrifice the
Jewish people had then was as follows
and know if they if they for example
would given up their religion they
wouldn't do anything to them because the
the cree was against the Jewish people
behaving like a Jew but nevertheless
they didn't have even a thought for a
second God forbid to give up the Judaism
and he explains over there that the
selfs sacrifice they had wasn't only not
to deny God but they literally went on
self-sacrifice not only not to deny God
not only not to give the religion but to
make sure they they went ahead and they
learned T and they did all the MIT up to
the point that they gathered people on
mass they they got they got together in
groups to learn to with self-sacrifice
so that's the power that took place and
they learned her and self sacrifice the
person that awakened within him that
self-sacrifice that was morai the Jew M
Yi in other words we know in every
generation ofu and in that generation
who is the mo of that generation who was
M that he went ahead and gathered the
Jewish people to be to strengthen their
faith in
Hashem and the main work of M was
learning to with with the expression
Hebrews
called with Jewish children because as
we know they are the foundation of all
the Jewish people and like he explains
at length in the discourse about the
tremendous quality of the in Hebrew it's
called he
the the the learning um the the breath
of the of the of the children that learn
like the M says that M would gather
22,000 students and he learned with them
to
self-sacrifice up to the point when H
harash the wicked H came so Mar turns to
the children he says run go run away
from me so you won't get burnt up with
with my fire and they told the children
told M no no we are with you whether
it's for life or even if it means death
God forbid and know they are willing to
accept any P punishment but as long
providing that would they would they
would not disconnect from the ter their
commitment to ter was in the level of
and that's why he says the that the
Jewish people accepted when the times of
times of the what they started M why is
that because in Mountain was only the
beginning and and when you had decree of
hmon that was they actually accept it
because when they when they went
committed to hasem in a way of
mysterious self-sacrifice not
potentially in
actuality of of learning and doing so
they were elevated to a whole different
level um than higher than the level of
and that's why specifically then was the
acceptance so that's basically what the
the previous Ser explains in the
discourse say you have to understand the
fact is the point that he explains over
in the discourse that specifically in
the time of the K that's when we
accepted it why was it like we just
learned because M for
self-sacrifice so the main theme is why
is it accepting because they had
self-sacrifice very good so if that's
the case why is it important to tell us
that the sacrifice took place through
morai and also to underscore that the
main work of morai was learning t with
with the with the children that's
question number one also we have to
understand and what it says specifically
in the beginning of discourse that this
that in the times of MRA that the Jewish
people are on a very very high level and
the time decree they went a low level
and it says in the discourse that we're
talking about spiritually and physically
so he say seemingly the whole point that
they're trying to bring out about is
that how is it possible that in a
Time the when the Jewish heal M they
were such a high level and on the other
hand in what in time degree they on a
low level it really that's what's what's
the important point the important piece
is that we're talking on a spiritual
level and mod ter on a very high
spiritual level and when they when in
times of the Creed they on a low spir
spiritual level but why is he bring the
second point that in the time M um
versus the time of the decree um was
also a difference what in their material
in their physical in the physical level
okay it's another question we have to
understand which later on obviously and
we we we we explain all these ideas okay
besides the questions we just asked the
we also have to understand also in the
in the essence of the explanation that
this that the Jewish people accepted was
in the timer of decree why is that
because then they had mysterious they
were they were they were on self
sacrifice both in learning to and doing
mitv says one second the fact
is when it comes to doing the mitzvot
most of the what does the Torah tell
us God wants us to do the but God wants
us to live so in other words we're not
supposed to do all the Mitzvah
self-sacrifice God wants us to live and
enjoy do the Mitzvah without
self-sacrifice and even the three
Mitzvah the three Cardinal Mitzvah where
it says over there yes you have to be
willing to give up your life you have to
be willing to
die versus transgressing these these
three NE commandments so it's it's not
God
forbid that that it has to be done with
self-sacrifice the the idea is that you
have to observe these Commandments even
if God forbid your life is on on the
line but but the fact is the Mitzvah of
to be on is only one one commandment so
so so therefore what is the what is the
idea that M they accepted referring to
everything what we learn that that that
t MIT they didn't self sacrifice only
first the most say you don't have to S
sacrifice and even even even even the
ones that they have to it's only if if
you're in that situation but so why why
are we saying that the whole all the tah
and all the M of self
sacrifice there points out he says even
though we learned in
t teaches us that the reason why Mo
commanded the Jewish people that were
going to go into the land of Israel to
reach shma shma Israel twice every day
so that we can accept upon ourselves
mysterious neph self sacrifice twice a
day even though Hashem promised us that
the
fear
of hm is going to be upon you so why do
we have to why do we have to meditate on
self sacrifice because because the fact
is that in order to fulfill learning T
and doing mitv in a real deep way it's
dependent on that we have to remember
the self-sacrifice
forem so you see that Mo does want to to
be self-sacrificed and learning old
because that's why it's done completely
but the fact explains there's a
difference the mysterious NE self-
sacrifice that we need to learn T in the
level of self-sacrifice new MIT it
doesn't mean in a in an actual way it
means potential know you're learning tah
you're doing Mitzvah and you're
committed to it even if you have to go
on self sacrifice but doesn't mean
you're literally going on self-
sacrifice and even when we Reed the T
when got Jewish said NASA we're going to
do and then we want to hear and how much
more so afterwards when Mo instruct us
to say sh every day so we we accept it
upon our that we're going to do
everything even if we have to go on
self-sacrifice but the fact
is when do we say what was the real
acceptance which happened in that was
when they had when they had
self-sacrifice in reality okay so says
it's known that
um
twice Jewish people had self-sacrifice
not in potential but in reality I not
the certain people had different times
talking the the whole Jewish people as a
whole so when did the whole Jewish
people out of as a whole ex learn to and
do Mitzvah self- sacrifice it happened
twice one is the holiday of Kaneka and
that was the decree of the Greeks and
the second one is the holiday perm the
one we're discussing right now with
decree of hmon now since we know
everything in toyra is very very
specific so you have to say this idea of
the Jewish people accepted when do we
say that it's referring to specifically
the self-sacrifice of Pur why is
that not only because perm was before
Kana it happens first but the fact is
that the the Sirus NE the self sacrifice
of of Pur is is more connected to to
receiving the T on Mount sin so the
question is what is the difference
between the self-sacrifice of purin and
the self- saac kanah that and and
because of that difference the
completion of accepting that is
specifically connected to idea of purm
versus the idea of
Kana okay so now that we have all these
powerful questions we're going to try to
get a powerful insight and this will
hopefully give us insight into all the
questions that we had je as well
understand this with an introduction
which is known that the Revolutionary
idea of m t God gave us a tah the
Revolutionary idea of God gave us t
compared to learning T and the doing
mitv of before m in other words um as we
know that the Patriarchs and the tri
tribes all they learned her the Mitzvah
as follows because the Mitzvah of the
Patriarchs and in generally all the mitz
that took place before MRA so it was all
spiritual Hebrew it's called was all R
so it was all spiritual besides the fact
that many many mitz they only observed
on a spiritual level like for example in
reference to the MIT ofin so in thein
what do we have they have the par of
going out of Egypt they they never they
didn't have they didn't have the Exile
yet so the whole thing was a spiritual
level but even on the mitzah they they
observed in on a materialistic level but
nevertheless the drawing down of the
Holiness was done in a spiritual way but
not into the phys physical component
that he did the Mitzvah why is that
because before mat to before we received
the the Torah mat T so there was a
decree what was the decree that the the
ones on high don't come down below and
the ones below don't go on high and
other words it was a disconnect there
was spirituality was physicality so
therefore there was no connection of the
Holiness of a Mitzvah which is called
high high doesn't mean physically high
it's referring to the to the
um uh the spiritual level with the the
the the the physical technical mitzah
you're
doing however when it comes to the
Mitzvah of
after and then the decree was nullified
between high and low so then you had a
union between the physical of during the
Mitzvah with the Holiness of the Mitzvah
and up to the point that many Mitzvah
the the the the physical Mitzvah becomes
a holy physical um entity and that
requires a special uh requires a special
way to to uh to to to protect it Etc so
again to be clear before Martin Tyra
spiritual is spiritual physical is
physical there was no connect once we
received the T there came there came a
fusion of the two now based on what it's
known when you have a union of two
opposites how do you unify something
which is high spiritually and low
physically so you the way to unify It Is
by something higher than both of them so
know what do you see from here that the
union of something which we call High
Spirit more spiritually sensitive and
something low something more
materialistic that happened by MRA so
what happened in M that you you're able
to unify the two because there was a
drawing in I'll say in Hebrew of the
infinite light of hem Which is higher
than the limitations of higher and
lower okay um so so therefore before we
go forward let's recap is giving a major
distinction of before M to after M what
does that mean before Mar T the high
wasn't High the low wasn't low there was
no connect M created a fusion of the two
in order for that to happen you need
something higher to to unite the two
what is that that's called the infinite
light of hem Which is higher than the
whole idea of higher and lower and
that's how it's able to fuse the two so
what do we see from here that when it
comes to the mitz of after M there's
three components what are the three
components component number one is I'll
say in Hebrew trans L
explain means something which is down
here which means something which is
physical something which God God is Not
So So revealed in other words because
even after God gave the
T and with the physical thing that we're
doing the Mitzvah and becomes a a
Mitzvah the fact that is still physical
for example take a mza a muza when you
make it a becomes a holy object but
guess what it's still a piece of hide so
there still a component of material ISM
in in the physical part that's one
component the physical part then you
have ELO El means again spiritually high
it means even after mat when the
Holiness and the spirituality comes into
the pH physical
things guess what it's you have a
spiritual component you have the
physical part and you have the spiritual
spiritual part and then you have the
third component which basically means a
nullification
of the physical part and the
notification of the spir spiritual part
and through that the physical and the
spiritual can unite even though they're
opposite how is that by each one giving
up its own
identity how do you do that by bringing
in the infinite part of hasem which is
above above both of them so there's
three components the physical the
spiritual and then the fusion of the two
by bringing in the infinite part so you
could say that these three ideas also
apply to when it comes to doing a
Mitzvah in other words when a person
does a know Way You observe the Mitzvah
there's one level of doing a Mitzvah
which is called in I'll say the Hebrew
Hebrew term it's
called what does that mean you doing it
by wrot you're doing it by wrot you're
doing the exercise of doing the Mitzvah
it's a mitvah to do it but you're doing
the technical doing the Mitzvah why you
doing it because that's why you educated
you were brought up to do the Mitzvah
and what happens when we're educ to do
something it becomes our nature so
therefore when you're doing something
because it's your nature so the doing of
the mitzva is coming it's coming from
the nature of your body and from your
natural natural
self which is called the lower part of
the human
being and when you do the Mitzvah
because you love Hashem and you want to
cleave to
Hashem and in order to cleave to Hashem
yes you have to do we have to do one of
either the 248 POS of Commandments which
is called the limbs of hem so then you
do then you're doing observing the
Mitzvah is coming from your Godly Soul
which is the higher part of the person
so the first part is technically you're
doing it the second part is you want to
connect to Hashem and then when you do
the Mitzvah just for hasem for just for
hasem not because you're going to have a
benefit from it not even a spiritual
benefit but you're doing it because the
will of hem so then the Mitzvah is not
because of you and not even because of
your soul but you're doing in total
acceptance for hasem in other words
everything you're doing is to do the
will of hem so in other words see this
when it comes to doing a mitzah there's
three components one is you're just
doing it cuz that's the way you were
educated okay that's the lower level of
doing a Mitzvah the higher level is
because you want to Cle to Hashem and
then obviously the the third and the
highest level is it's it's the will of
hem and there's no me that I want to
connect I'm doing whatever the will of
hm is that's the three components when
it comes to doing a Mitzvah says he'd
like to
add that the source of these three
components of doing a
Mitzvah is because in the Mitzvah itself
you also have three components similar
to the three components of the
observance of the Mitzvah and he
explains as
follows when Hashem gave us to do a
Mitzvah down here in this world so
what's one of the reasons so it says
that the Mitzvah were given to to
transform us
know the intent of the Mitzvah is not
because of the Mitzvah
itself the connection but the purpose of
the Mitzvah is to transform and to
refine the powers and the limbs that a
person has and in order for the to
create the transformation that's why
you're doing the Mitzvah so now the one
purpose of the Mitzvah is all about
transformation transforming what the
physical world that's what's that's the
lowest level then there's a higher level
in doing a Mitzvah it's a
Mitzvah like it's like like the verse
tells
us which means
whatever hasem does he tells us to do so
Hashem goes ahead and does the Mitzvah
before he before he tells to do it so
why is he doing it it's spiritual
whatever reason hm assigned to a Mitzvah
and like we see that the 248 limbs is
basically connected
248 limbs of hem and um and why is that
it's because that's that's on a
spiritual level so the first component
of the first component of a Mitzvah is
to transform the world which is a lower
level then basically the second level is
a Mitzvah and the third component is
when we go
ahead and do the Mitzvah that hasem is
doing so we're going in the ways of
Hashem and we we cleave to hem and
through that we receive energy from hem
like it says in the Torah
clearly when you do the mitzah you get
energy because by doing a mitz you
cleave
and by cleaving to like the Torah
says you you're alive
now since this idea in a Mitzvah and we
say it's it's the ways of Hemm does the
Mitzvah so it's higher than having a
connection to the world so therefore the
energy that you receive is the energy
which is called slaving the one that HS
over much more powerful energy and from
that level it's it's totally holder and
and
disconnect connect disconnect from the
world but never by doing the Mitzvah you
literally internalize that energy so
that's a second level but even this
component of doing a Mitzvah so that
means there's there's a form to it so
therefore the Mitzvah on this level it's
also it's also has levels to it it's the
ways of hem multiple ways of hem like we
said 248 Limbs and by doing each mitah
we draw down specific energy for example
into our eyes into our our ears and so
on and so forth and
therefore you're able to do the Mitzvah
that hasem does why because the 248
limbs that we have are compared so to
speak to the 248 limbs of Hashem and as
we know God made us in His image so
that's the second one then there's
something even deeper in doing a Mitzvah
that the Mitzvah is the will of hem
which what does that mean it's the will
above
logic as we know the will in all the 613
Commandments from the will perspective
it's all
equal it's higher than 248 everyone has
its energy no it's the will of Hashem
and since the will of hem is much higher
than the person that does the
Mitzvah which means it's much higher
than than than the human being so
therefore and when it comes to this
level like what connection do we have to
it and and as we're totally we I'll say
it in Hebrew and I'll translate it we're
totally existing on the level of B which
means total nullification that we don't
exist or like in terms ofal it's called
who are we now even after there's a
command to us to do the Mitzvah and by
doing the Mitzvah we become a somebody
we become a somebody doing the Mitzvah
but what is our mitz what is our
existence our existence is to fulfill
the will of hem and by fulfilling the
will of hem you connect Mitzvah from
from the expression
of with the with the one that created
the
Mitzvah so again so there's three
components basically when it comes to
doing the Mitzvah one is the
transformation physical world the other
one is it's hashem's Mitzvah so it's on
a high level and the third is no doing
the Mitzvah hem and there's no me three
levels when we of the Mitzvah itself so
so far we learned the three levels in
observing the mitzvah three levels of
Mitzvah itself now we're going to learn
the same thing applies these three level
applies also when it comes to learning
Torah so besides the fact that the three
ideas that you have um in learning T
because learning T is also one of the M
like just like you have the three levels
in a Mitzvah you have the three levels
in learning tah but also that's that's
from the Mitzvah component but also in
the learning itself there's three levels
just like we learned before so was going
to explain now the three levels he says
as
follows one reason why people learn T is
T is brilliant it's a brilliant tah
there's a lot of intellect as we know it
says coming from the term of even in
compared to the nations of the world
people are blown away how smart her is
so why you learning to from the nature
of your body and your and natural soul
and because people love intellectual
ideas so that's the lowest level of
learning Torah it's brilliant it's
brilliant people like studying brilliant
ideas that's the lowest level what's the
next level that you're learning T not um
you're learning T because the tah
connects us
with like like it says in the Z that
there are three
connections that one that connect with
the other in other words the Jewish
people connect with the T and through
the T we connect to and know by through
the fact that we connect to the T we we
we allow ourselves to connect to hem so
so why are we learning it's coming from
our soul we want to connect to the T
that gives us connection to
hem so but nevertheless I want to
connect to
Hashem yes it's coming from my
soul and then there's a higher level of
learning tah so the first level of
learning Torah is brilliant that's
physical second level is the soul wants
to connect it's already spiritual but
then there's even a higher level
learning ter that you're learning ter
not because of the elevation you're
going to have from it you're going to
con to hasem but just the ter itself why
is that since that hasem and since the
hasem and the ter is all one and not
only not only with hasem it's one with
at the essence of hem like like we know
it says that when
the is four
letters which stands
for put himself in
the in other words what is it's the
essence of H and what does it mean not I
my soul I wrote and I gave to you that
literally hm wrote and he put in himself
in the Torah Hashem is in the Torah and
when you learn Torah you connect to
hasem
himself and just like Hashem is not
something a middle in order to get
something else but what is the ultimate
Hashem is the thing itself so the same
thing also when a person learns tah what
are you feeling that the ultimate of
learning Torah is the Torah itself not
for all not for for a different
reason now so again so it's through
three levels of learning one is the
wisdom one is the connection and one is
the Terra
itself in other words this that you know
that the T and hem is one so wow the T
and hem is one that that that causes you
that you're willing to give yourself
over totally to learning ter without any
calculations not even the calculation
that through that you're connecting to
Hashem and therefore when you're
learning ter because the ter itself
that's called learning in Hebrew it's
called with the ultimate in in
acceptance now these three ideas of
learning tah where does that come from
it comes from three levels in tah itself
because on one hand we know is and it is
brilliant it is it's the wisdom of hem
and therefore we're able it's able to
come down to our our intellect then you
have toyra as a component where it
connects us with hm which is true and
then you have where toy and hasem is
really really all one
now so we had learning the three levels
of of observing the MIT the three levels
of the Mitzvah itself three levels of of
of Torah and different and three levels
of the of learning Torah now we're going
go a step further these three ideas we
also have in the in the Jewish law of
learning tah why is that explains like
this the first level is we have an
obligation to learn the Jewish law which
we need to know what to do practically
in know to know what to do so why do we
need to know what to do that's like from
knowing from the from the nature of our
physical body and a a natural Soul so so
that the doing in the mitv even the ones
that we need to do verbally to be done
from our physical body and from our from
our from our soul that vitalizing Soul
now so that's first level then you
have the obligation of of knowing tah
which means we have an obligation to
know the whole tah even things which
don't apply practically the side not
that's why the re to that we should
learn ra every day this way throughout
the year we'll L all the of Torah so the
first component is to know what to do
that's physical the second thing is to
know the whole
Torah cuz what's the Mitzvah the Mitzvah
is that every single person has to know
which is knowledge the whole Torah so
why why do you have know the whole T is
Not Practical the answer is because it's
for the soul and the you could say that
that's why that there is basically a a
um uh a certain set time of of of the
Mitzvah of knowing tah like we know the
tur for example it's it's longer than
any measure um you can't you know can't
count all the depth of the Torah but the
fact is when it comes to comes to M
there is there is a finite amount and
some people can learn the whole Torah
why because again it's it's about
knowing the whole Torah because the fact
is the Mitzvah to know tah is that we
need to know the tah and the fact is a
person is finite so therefore the
learning ter which is connected to this
mitzvah it's limited we can we can learn
we can learn all the Tor so that's the
second level what's the third level the
third level is where it
says we have an
obligation not only to learn the Torah
we need to know what to do but to learn
to the to Torah when by day by Night
24/7 we have to learn Torah in other
words even after you learned the whole
Torah let's say and even people that
don't have the ability and they they
can't re learn the whole T they don't
have they don't have the capacity but
the fact is we all have an obligation to
learn T just for the sake of learning
T and since
T weights on its own is higher than any
any limits like we said it's a Torah is
infinite so therefore the Mitzvah of
learning t a tah itself is that we
should learn tah by day and by night
every minute we have without any limits
so again so what do we see from here
that when it comes to learning toyra
there's three levels one is basically
just to to know to to know what to do
then is to connect to hasem and then
there's just connecting to to ter itself
without any limits you can say in a
deeper level that even the Mitzvah of
the highest level of
the they have to toil on her by day and
by night since the fact is the Mitzvah
is a command to the person not like T
which is basically the the the
the Which is higher than really having a
connection to the world but afterwards
it came down into the world we should be
able to connect to it but the fact is
that the ter that we're learning from
this Mitzvah of
what know not the ter on its own so it
has some kind of connection to a person
so even though it's very very powerful
but still connected to the human being
but the real learning T which has no not
limited to the human being is by
learning tah and key word is just for
and know you're learning T not to
fulfill the Mitzvah of learning Torah
over
but for the Torah himself he'd like to
add that this super quality of almost
like it's like a fourth level of
learning TMA compared to the learning
tah to fulfill the Mitzvah of learning T
is not only in the intent of the
learning but even in the actual learning
what does that mean where does it play
out never explains like this when a
person learns tah in order to fulfill
the Mitzvah of learning T so the fact is
you're learning with a with in a finite
level because even in the Mitzvah where
it says you should toil by day and by
night so technically it's infinite but
the fact is there are limitations and
like it says clearly in the laws
of however when you're learning ter
which basically that's like a fourth
level off the charge just for hasem so
you don't think and you're not limited
to any
limitations like to say do I have to
learn this I don't have to learn learn
this and the fact is you learn in a way
where you're not you're not limited of
any limitations of time and also you're
not limited to any limitations of space
like the famous teaching in the tal tra
K it says over there on page 33 so he
speaks about somebody that you're not
there certain places you're not all
you're not all to think about toyra for
example in the bathroom it's not a holy
place you can't think so it says what
happens if somebody's like so obsessed
with learning tah and it's like it's he
can't stop himself wherever you are you
just think about t so you see that
people can be on a level of learning
that that it's going to there's no way
to control it wherever you're going to
be you're going to think
about now the reason is on a spiritual
level because the
Mitzvah which is a powerful Mitzvah
you're learning Torah always because
that's a command to the human being so
because it's a command to a human being
which is finite therefore therefore it's
finite however when it comes to
learning and since t as we know t on its
own is not limited to any limitations
like we
said so therefore the learning T of the
person that's
learning you have no limitations not of
time and not of space and you can learn
an infinite level and you can say that
the unification of and that took place
a where do that revealed where is that
revealed in the real way the real Union
when you learn t on the highest level
ofma so not the first level not the
second not the third but really the
highest level ofma that's the real Union
why is that there explains like this
besides the fact that in order to have a
union between something which is high
high we don't mean physically high high
something spiritually high and something
which is low physically how does that
happen it happens by The Nullification
of the idea of high the nullif of of the
of and you bring in like we learned
drawing in the infinite part of hem
Which is higher than both of them where
so where is that practically when a
person learns where does that take when
a person
learns because what happens then is then
there's there is no me both from a
physical level the body is not there and
both even from a spiritual level so
therefore the union of of high and low
where's they get revealed when you
learn because the infinite part of to
which is which is considered on high
effects on the human being which is
considered low that you're that you're
learning T should be in a way which is
which is not limited to
anything he like to add that through the
fact that the infinite part of toyra
affects the physical human
being and through that t comes down into
this world so what happens is what gets
what what what what gets revealed is the
infinite part of tah even more why
because this that t is infinite not only
let's say in physical place but the fact
is that the turret comes down until the
lowest level and when it comes down to
the slow what gets what gets felt in a
revealed way the infinite part of teror
and therefore when you're learning teror
you're learning in a way of
infinite So based on says he like to
explain the reason that the completion
of receiving the like it
says what it was dependent on was depend
on never self sacrifice why is that
because to create the union between high
and low is by by nullifying the the the
limits and the borders and the
boundaries and the physical constraints
of el high and low and therefore in
order to create the completion of
receiving the Torah there had to be the
total acceptance of selfs sacrifice now
one second the fact is when we Reed the
T we said NASA we're going to do and
then we're here so we agree that we're
going to we're going to do everything
even if we have to go on
self-sacrifice so we already had M and
explains no because as long as you're
willing to go on self sacrifice it's
only in potential you're ready to do it
it means it's coming from the soul not
from the body and since the acceptance
that
creates the union from spiritual to
physical has to be both on the spiritual
level and on the physical level to for
the completion of accepting the is
dependent on not self-sacrifice
potential it has to self-sacrifice in
reality because the fact is when your
person goes and self-sacrifice in
reality it affects the physical body and
your neish activis your natural Soul So
based on this we'll understand also the
the the the um uh
upper quality of the self sacrifice that
took place on puim versus the self
sacrifice that took place in Kaneka why
is that
because even though self- sacrifice is
coming from where the soul the soul is
unwilling to do anything when it learned
her do MIT Etc and the fact is when the
person goes and
self-sacrifice it affects the body to
come along and also on your on your
natural soul but since the body and the
natural Souls it stays stays what it is
so therefore the revelation of M too
which means the union of the high and
low which comes to them through the
acceptance of of SES so therefore when
it's coming from the soul it's it's like
two two two different entities and
that's the real power of the
self-sacrifice of purm over the self-
sacrifice of Kaneka because on purm we
were totally on the level of acceptance
even not only from the soul but more
importantly from the body because the
fact is in the holiday of purm we were
in Hebrew it's called hefer we were
totally um totally released um and we we
had no control of ourselves we were
given over to God for to be killed
anyone could have killed us and the fact
is on a natural level there was no way
to be saved now even though you're going
to say the fact is the cree was only on
the Jewish people and we had an option
we could have basically said okay we're
giving up God and they wouldn't do
anything to us but nevertheless
since the the decree was not on un
learning doing mitzah but was Lally on
on the physical body it was like it says
clearly said
he wants to kill and he want to destroy
God forbid so in other words the fact is
the bodies were on a very very low
level because when did the on like for
example because what what what happen in
it
says they want us to forget the they
want us not to do
the if we do they're going to kill us so
by so then what happens
is if it was all about Mitzvah so the
body's not is is is is not totally uh
available yeah you could you can say
you're not you're going to rebel against
and you'll listen to them and then your
body will be saved however when the
decree was the specific decree wasn't
about it was about to kill the Jewish
people okay yes you could get out of it
by by basically um uh accepting what
they wanted but the fact was what was
the decree the decree wasn't on terance
it was specifically on the
body so therefore it showed that the
body was so to speak in their possession
they could have killed us
and that's why when the Jewish people in
the holiday perm went in self- sacrifice
specifically in perm that was the the
completion and and and and the and uh
and the complete acceptance of the Tera
why because the the fact was that when
they went on and they accepted to to uh
to go on S sacrifice it was coming not
only from the soul was coming from the
body and therefore they were a vessel
for the tremendous revelation of what
that started mat both from the soul and
from our body and you can say that is
why the
the he says specifically in that time in
the time of decree we were on the lowest
level also on a physical level not only
spiritual level why because this shows
us that the the revelation of T reached
the lowest level in materialism which
which was represented what by our
physical
body now there goes on to say and he
says as follows based on we learned
before that when it comes to the union
of a high to the low there's three
components there's the high there's the
low and then the way they totally become
nullified so what do you see from
here that in order to Merit to the
completion of receiving the T it's not
only enough the Nullification of the
soul and the Nullification of the body
but it has to be that their Essence um
is existing on the on the on the on on
the on the complete level and the whole
Essence should be connected what with
the idea of T and like we like we
learned before that the the quality of
learning tah on the highest levels we
learn just because of's
T so it's not only in the way of
acceptance know that you're learning in
a way um for the completion of the of
the of the Soul Etc but the fact is that
the whole essence of the of the human
being both the soul and both the body
gets connected with T and therefore you
go out of all your limitations and you
connect to the infinite part of T you
can say that that's why he brings in the
discour that who is the one that
awakened in the Jewish people
mes M why and mor was at that time he
was the M of the generation because the
fact is the learning ter of M was on the
highest
level and because he
awakened and the Jewish people to learn
t on the level of self-sacrifice
as we know was the leader of the
generation just likeu and from here from
him it spread out to everyone so he was
able to draw in not only the acceptance
but also the high level of learning tah
the way T's learned on the highest level
which you have the completion of both
the soul and the body so basic like to
explain what but he brings in the
discourse that Mo gathered 22,000
students what's the quality of of this
type of learning tah which again is from
the completion of both the soul and the
body where do we find this we find this
specifically by when it comes comes
comes to young children why is that he
brings what what the kazal tell us that
the world does not exist only through
the fact that Jewish children are
learning T and he brings a story there
that um so after the statement that it's
all about the Jewish Children s Papa
tells so my learning and and your
learning what is it if it's all about
the children so he says that you can't
compare you can't compare this the
stunting tur of children because they
don't have any sins they're pure now
even though the learning to of Papa and
Abaya obviously it was totally
altruistic and it was the highest levels
of
turning and as we know the fact is there
is a downside of Child Learning teror CU
why is a Child Learning teror they're
learning ter because of their fear
they're they're afraid they're going to
get they're going to get they're going
to they're going to they going to get a
trouble and so on and so forth prop
doing it just forem but nevertheless
there is a upgrade and there's something
unique about a child learning Tera um
that that through the children learning
teror obviously the world world world
remains alive and what is that so the
every explains it's only new explanation
that the quality of a young Jewish Child
Learning teror is both from their soul
because we know their soul is closer to
Hashem cuz it's just came from a
spiritual world so the soul just came so
it's still connected and also from the
body why is that because but the child
didn't become uh um totally materialized
in the world through eating and drinking
and other pleasures and like explained
elsewhere the beauty of a child is a
again on the so level since it just came
from heaven and be it didn't get totally
submerged in the materialism of the
world so Bas explains and he says he'd
like to say this one he brings in the
discourse that in the time of thee
decree Mar gathered for 22,000 students
to to explain that the learning of the T
that that existed then was wasn't only
from this acceptance of the soul and the
body but you also had the completion of
the soul and the body and and the the
this quality of of the soul of that of
that the the students
had wasn't NE necessarily connected to
their learning ter why because the fact
is they learned her because they were
afraid there was other motives the for
the prize and so
for the body not necessarily from the
soul from the soul and they were lacking
the idea of acceptance so therefore he
brings Not only was they learning but
they learned through M because this way
they had the the quality of the students
that they're pure but also that the
learning was done in a way of serious
nees he' like to add that through the
fact that M gathered the 22,000 students
so what happened is he actually received
an elevation in his life of the pureness
of the students of of of the students
that he gathered and therefore by doing
that he actually was able to r transfuse
that into all the all all the Jewish
people basic he like to explain what
what what it says in reference
to is an obligation to get intoxicated
until you don't know the difference
between um blesses Mori and curses hmon
why is that because every single year
onim this idea of the Jewish people
accepting gets reawakened just like in
the the first time and on the contrary
since it's a new year gets even a higher
level and he' like to add that the
Revolutionary idea of PM compared to m
tyu is in two two ideas one is that in
the holiday of PM was the that was the
end and the completion of receiving the
we received it we finally received it
that's Point number one like we
explained below that we finally received
it on the highest level and also the the
um establishment of T like it says like
it says in the talud
that that they they accepted and they
established T which means they they they
they continued what they accepted before
and as this that the Jewish people M
were accepted T it wasn't Everlasting
you can accept something but you don't
know if it has a key you don't know if
it's going to last forever because as we
know after the Jewish people Sinn in the
golden calf they lost they lost their
shine however when it came to purm like
it says the the days of PM is not going
to is going to continue on for
Generations so by PM not only they
accepted in a higher level but it
actually created that we're that that
it's going to last an everlasting it's
going to last forever and the same thing
also the days of P every single year
that we have these two components every
single year what gets added is in the
completion of T and A the acceptance and
also the acceptance should be
Everlasting so therefore when it comes
to the holiday of P we have to do the
avoid of not to know what does that mean
and he says say I'll say I'll Translate
you have to go out of your limitations
because what is the ultimate and what is
the completion of receiving Torah comes
from acceptance when you go out of your
limitations and that's why in order to
go out out of your limitations like it
says you have to be in a way of you have
to be intoxicated like it says in Rashi
with wine physical wine why because the
acceptance of per has to be from the
body as
well and from here we receive the power
for the whole year that the the
everything of our physical body
should not be something which basically
is uh obsessive and takes up who we are
and therefore we're not going to it's
not going to stop us what from going
ahead and learning ter and basic on we
learned before that the quality of
learning ter the the highest level is
not only an acceptance but you're AC
because you're accepting not only in
that level but it's idea of you're
learning ter No Limits you could say the
same thing also when it comes to not to
know which basically affects an
elevation even in understanding in other
words that the learning ter that you
have to understand that you um that that
you understand a totally different after
you reach the level of when you go out
of your limits like says he brings from
the teaching of uh and the explanation
of the previous rabba one of his talks
about P that when a person reaches the
level of L you don't know in other words
you reach level that you don't know
there's no limits so then the
knowledge that happens afterwards is a
whole different level so the goal is to
know but you have to go out of yourself
not to know and then afterwards your
knowing is totally different and the
general idea is that the that the
intellect which is
finite should be unified with the tah
that you're learning which is infinite
so our finite intellect should connect
with the infinite and then we become one
with hem and like it finishes off
beautifully
says that the Jewish people and are all
one here we have another powerful
beautiful discourse about the holiday
about learning to her about doing
Mitzvah all the different levels the
ultimate level obviously of learning LMA
and ultimately let's hope and pray that
we connect to the highest level and by
connecting to the highest level we'll
have the greatest connection to hasm and
let's hope and pray we'll have the
coming of Mia next class will
bees have a great and blessed week sh