The Souls Journey. אז ישיר ישראל A New Kabbalah class by Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz

Welcome to our class onus. We're going to be learning a beautiful discourse in the Reb. The name of the discourse is called O is the Reb said this discourse and Shabas and Bok that year was the 12th day of the month of Tamas in the year 50 years ago. So again, theic discourse is based in the verse in this week's Torah portion where it says o then the Jewish people sang this song alien. So the reb explains the the insight to the verse literally is that then the Jewish people sang songs. Why? for the miracle that happened for me many many people for up up to all the Jewish people and the says we know the tremendous quality and and and opportunity of singing song and especially for miracles to happen and as we know the famous story it says that Hashem wanted to make the Messiah and he didn't why because Hashem provided a miracle and he didn't stop and he didn't sing and praise Hashem so you singing and praising to Hashem, thanking Hashem for miracles, being grateful is very very important. And uh so so Rashi explains and also in different commentaries based on the verse that the that the praising Hashem the song wasn't for the for the essence of the miracle of the well of Miriam because the fact is the well happened in the beginning of the 40 years of the Jewish people in the desert and the song didn't happen till the end of the 40 years. But the the song was on the the the specific miracle of that the Jewish people was were saved that was revealed through the well. But there's still we have to understand the fact is there's many many miracles that the Jewish people had for example the the the war with the Malik. So what is so revolutionary about this specific miracle with the well? Now literally you can say that the revolutionary idea in the miracle is of of the well compared to the miracle of amalik is that the war with amal that was before the Torah was given and the miracle of the well was after the Torah was given. But the question then is yeah what so what what is it? What what is the power of this miracle? Um explains like this we know that the whole world was created for the Jewish people and for the Tyra. So in other words, so since the world was created for the Jewish people and for the Torah, so anything that exists in the Torah exists in the Jewish people. So if there's a well that we're talking about, every Jew has a will. And like we know that Kness is the the the the Jewish people and the source of the of the of the souls of the Jewish people are actually called a well. Like it says So you see that they're compared to the idea of well know there's a spring of a of a well of water and it and it flows down from the Lebanon. What does that mean? Explains like this in this verse he explains the whole sedals the way things flow down from one world to the next through the spirit of what of the souls of the Jewish people. In other words that in the beginning of the journey the Jewish people come from the Mayim Ghanim from the spring of Gan. What is the Ganim? What is the garden? The Gan is referring to Ganad the higher garden and the lower garden. So we all started from the higher garden and the lower garden. And like we know in specifically it's more in detail that there's many many the says the term ble no limit of levels in the garden of Eden itself but generally speaking it's divided between the higher level the higher garden and the lower garden. In other words the soul basically started out we're in the garden of Eden and like the verse says Israel stood in front of you. In other words, when the Jewish people are in the first level, the highest level, we're standing there and standing there with acceptance. That's the first. Then the soul goes down lower. And what's the second level? A well of living water. In other words, we know a well. Where does a well flow? It flows underneath the earth. But even when it flows underneath the word earth is called it's called living water. Why? because it's in a level of acceptance and it's stand and standing that I had before like the verses that you that I stood but nevertheless when it comes down to this lower level it actually gets an upgraded to a higher level and that's why we say that the soul that you gave me to it's pure in other words what does that mean that before the soul came down to be a to be in existence an existence in the worlds of like the verse says. So before that it was level of purity which is the world of the world of there's no there's no bad there's no bad there's no evil there's nothing negative in there but nevertheless what does it say but the screen comes out from Eden to go ahead and give um nourishment to the garden and from there it spreads out and to the four levels. So the same thing also the soul it afterwards it goes down and it goes it spreads out up to the point that it's possible that there's going to be more of the way it's spread out than from the original flow. And that's the the air the well that happens specifically when does it become well? When the water goes through the the the the uh veins of the earth and it pierces through the earth and specifically when it goes through the earth it becomes pure water and it becomes sweet water and up to the point it actually can purify from any impurity and even from the worst impurities and that's why kazal say kazal tell us that in everything that hashem told mohenu It's impurity and and impurity. When he came to the Torah portion where it says, "Emaranim, speak to the priests." So Moshenu said, "If they become impure, how do they become pure?" He didn't answer him. And Mosha was wow. He was cringing. In other words, the purity comes through living waters. Like it says clearly, you put living waters on the vessel. knows when you take the water, the living water together with the earth, you're able to purify even the worst impurities. And the same thing also with the soul that just like the water when it goes through the earth, it's able to purify anything. The same thing also in the soul that when it comes down into this physical world in the lowest levels it's able to go elevated to the highest levels and even goes higher than the original level it started of and it can even go to the level of what may form. So in other words you start up high and you go down low but specifically through the low you can reach the higher than even where you started from. services. One second. You have to understand how is it possible that a soul by going down and down we don't mean physically down. We mean to places of darkness, places of concealment. It will have an upgrade from before it started. Let's say it starts here on a high level, goes to the lowest level and it's going to be an upgrade to higher than before. But because the fact is before it started a journey the soul was on the level of toyra. is pure pure pure like we say it's called the level of law the highest level of purity not only that'll tell us that the the thought of the Jewish people come before anything so how is it possible that it's going to get elevated by coming down to the lowest level and explains very simple because we know that the ultimate reason why Hashem created the world and all these different levels of one world that and all the etc. Because like the zora says Hashem had a desire, a burning desire. It comes from the deepest place of Hashem. He wanted a dwelling place down into this world. How does Hashem's dwelling place happen? That happens in this world specifically in this world in the low in in the lowest levels. And like it's explained in the discourse from the from the freeba in the famous discourse that he gave out for his yard site in reference to where it says bosani I came to my garden which means to my garden where the place where hashem was originally there because the main intent was hashem wanted to be in a place where hashem is con where god's concealed and like it says in the beginning of creation he put him in the garden of Edenra because the main reason we're here is to observe mitzvot. We're not on a spiritual level in this physical world in the goal is to do mitzvah in this world and this and and and this was said this was said to the first manish which is the literally the the creation of Hashem created himself and obviously applies to every single Jewish person and like we know that kazal tell us the reason why man was was created alone to teach us that every single person is like the first man the first marishine And therefore what's our work in this world in this physical world for for this thousands of years the world is created and especially now in the time of exile because the fact is the general world after the sin the primordial sin is basically it's all exile and literally we're we're physical exile where it's very very dark and the work in this dark exile and that will go ahead and complete the intent why Hashem created created the world which is connected to the essence of Hashem and and more specifically what is it doing mitzvot because the main thing is action and like action like sometimes we have to force ourselves to do it yes sometimes the spiritual services is scafia you have to practice restraint you have to you have to go ahead and and and do what Hashem wants you to do even when you don't want to do it why is that because when the soul comes down to this world we're able to reach what the highest levels and that's why it says says which means that in the beginning the soul was in the highest level in the garden and after it came down it comes to the level of of of the a well of of of living water and how does that happen? It goes through the earth and then you reach for and like it's explained the discourses. What does leav mean? It's it's actually made up of two words. What does that mean? the 32 strands of so is the 32 strands of and nun is the 50 gates of bina and higher is even which is the white high pure pure level and even the higher which is actually referring to the the place of masle which they all comes from and that's why the verse afterward says the well what does that mean spiritually so is referring to who are the officers is referring to on the intellect um that we that the the soul has. Why? Because the main work in this world is that our mind should go ahead and rule over our heart like the explains in Tanya. Why? Because what is what is when do we get the terminology that we're that we're a human being is when when we behave that what leads our life is our intellect not our emotions. Not only does it lead our life, but it actually rules and nullifies opposition of our life. And like it's understood what it's explained in Tanya, it's like um like a servant that serves and and Hashem and you have someone that's trying to stop you. And when a person does when you continue staying focused in serving Hashem, you nullify anything that's blocking it. And through the fact that we behave in a way of moyak their intellect rules over our heart and then obviously the good energy spreads out all over. And then what happens is you you dig and you reveal the essence of your soul like the taught us based on the verse where it says you're going to be um a land of a desire. What does that mean? that the Jewish people they are like a a land which Hashem desires because we have tremendous tre everyone has tremendous treas treasures that we dig deep and we reveal the treasures that we have and when we reveal the treasures we actually reveal the source of our soul and that's why it says that's when the Jewish people saying ali elevate the beer sing the song the beer is referring to what not just the physical well it's referring to the soul and what does it mean elevate the soul knows you to elevate the soul which gets elevated by coming down into this world. And what is the idea of enula? That's the place that we have the power from on high and like because as we know because the fact is even though we have a mission and we're strong and we're going to we're going to use our mind over matter but without Hashem's help without Hashem's help we're never going to be successful. And that's why we say and we say plural. Why? Like it's explained elsewhere. Hashem, Hashem needs to help me. It knows help me plural. Why? Because it's referring to the the the the holy sparks which gets uh transformed when we do a mitzvah. So, Hashem helps us and the sparks that we elevate also help us as well. And by coming down into this world, we affect tremendous salvation. Like it says in the verse Yeshua. In other words, which means that specifically when we come down into the earth and we come down into the into the place to the lowest places and we come down to the darkest places that's how we able to create the greatest blessings. In other words, what's the greatest blessing? The Yeshua, the salvation, the redemption. And then we're going to sing the song kadesh in a in a male form which means a heavy he like it says in the in the in the in the in psalms that we start saying whenever we said this discourse of for the for the for for the the for also for his what does it say in the in the psalm we're going to sing us new song and just like when his redemption that not only he was redeemed but Hashem redeemed everyone that loves Tyra and anyone that's even called a Jewish person. So, same thing also that's going to happen in the future with the coming of Messiah with the redemption, the true redemption, the the complete redemption that we're all going to sing and the the the great song for Hashem. So, here you have another beautiful Siddic discourse about the real power that we have. Yes, on one hand, the the soul was on high and it came down to this world, but specifically through this world, we can reach the highest levels and by reaching the highest level, we'll transform the world. We'll have the coming of Messiah and our next class will be have a great and blessed week. Shabua to.