The Superpower of our Torah & Mitzvot. זה היום תחלת מעשיך Kabbalah by Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz

Welcome to our class on we're going to be learning a beautiful discourse from the Reb the name of the discourse is called the Reb said this discourse on the night of in the year M 43 years ago there went on to certify and edit this discourse in honor of R for the yearin M 36 years ago so again theic discourse is based on the on what we recite in the prayers based on it says in this day is the beginning of all your actions a remembrance for the first day so the re brings from the the uh the Reb who was was celebrating his birthday on a so he says seemingly a question from the beginning to the end why what is which means today is the beginning it's literally the beginning in other words that the rash the day of the creation of the world is the beginning of the whole creation of the whole world all the worlds in other words what happens then is that in rashash every single year all the worlds that get recreated from new right now just like in the beginning but in the other hand when it says a remembrance so that's saying something totally different and the opposite that today is a remembrance of the first day and he explains that R there's actually two components there's the beginning of all creation that's component number one and it's also remembrance of the first day now since he starts off and says first and then we add it's also the currently so obviously when he says the currently something on a higher level than the level of will understand this based on introduction um what we say in reference to the day of this is the day the beginning of all creation we know the question has asked the fact is the world is created on the 25th day of and rashash is a six day of creation it's the day when mankind was created and that's the end of creation technically but neveress what do we say it's the beginning of the creation what does that mean the re explains that the explanation is because the ultimate purpose of the creation of the world why did hasem create the world is that it should be the revelation of godliness so if you ask why why did has create the world what's the purpose of creating of the world so God should be revealed up until the point that every single detail of the creation should reveal the honor of hem like tell us at the end of that it says as follows I'll say it in Hebrew and I'll translate everything that hasm created those in this world like he only created it in his honor and this Revel this Revelation how does how does the honor of God get revealed in the world it gets revealed through the work of human beings and therefore we say on the day of rashash today rashash is the beginning of creation because this idea that the that God should be revealed in the world and that's the intent of the whole creation when did that start that started when Man was created on the sixth day of creation on the day of of rash in other words besides the fact that on that day there came the possibility that God should be revealed but actually it happened on that day like kazal tell us that the first man ad mishna was created on the day he was created he announced to everything all the creations of the world say let's go ahead and let's go prostrate ourselves and let's bless the creator of The World God that created us and everyone responded and said you can say that this that we say even though is seemingly only the beginning of the intent of the creation because what is what is m M action mean it refers to completion and just like in a human being the the completion is when something comes in reality the same thing on a spiritual level and how and and and on the contrary that's why that's why it it's in this world and by us because we know that we're compared to that the completion of all the creation is an action and that's why he says Z this is the day the beginning of the creation because what is what is what does action mean it has to be complete so the day of rashash is day that created mankind that's the beginning of the completion of the creational the world you can say this is also the reason why that is called in continuation of it's called he uses two expressions this and day why because and this double expression of is referring to a complete Revelation why because Z is referring to Revelation it's reveal Z this is you're revealing it like if you take your finger you say Z this is it and day is also Revelation like it says God Called to light day and is two levels of Revelation and that's the ultimate Revelation and that's why it says which means that this that R is the beginning of of of of your actions which means it's the beginning of the completion of the creation because then on that day you had the the beginning of the Revelation that through the fact that mankind will do his work God will be reveal revealed and that's the whole idea of what of this is the day the Revelation goes on to say to explain this idea that rashash is a day that mankind was created and that's called the beginning of creation and a deeper level he says we know that the the human beings have the power to change the past as well not only the present not only the future but we can change the past so therefore how much more so when it comes to the work of mankind which we know that's the ultimate creation hasem created that the the the the the power and the impact that that the Adam created everything that that hm created in the world when he came along and we quoted before and he announced Let's go ahead and prostrate ourselves in front of asem it's also referring to everything a before before he said it why because since the whole intent of the creation was that mankind should come and do its work and reveal godliness in the in the world so therefore after godliness got revealed the world it actually elevated the physical world of before as well and especially that it's all preparation um was all preparation for the Revelation that was going to come afterwards and that's that's why um uh the day of rashash which is means a day that hasem created mankind that's the beginning of That's the beginning of everything and the literal meaning is and we know that you can take the something out of its literal meaning you can have beautiful commentaries and insight but the literal meaning is that the beginning of all the actions and the creations and even everything that was created in the five days before um in time because when a person does your there their their work of elevating and creating something new in the world and that's why it's considered the beginning of creation the beginning of all creation because we are because Adam went ahead and revealed God in the world and just like when it came to rashash in the first time when when God created mankind that was the completion of the world M and in a way that it was it was was in a renewed way the same thing also not only in the past but every single R every every single year when the Jewish people Crown Hashem that hasem should be our King over us and over us and over the whole world that creates the completion and the newness of the whole creation and through that you have the completion on high as well like the the teaching of the and the AL based on what it says in the Mish which literally means no it's above you but the they translate is no that everything that exists on high everything comes from you we have the power to create great things down here and even on high so therefore after he says this is the beginning of creation he adds remembrance to the first day because this idea of remembering the first day we're going to learn now is a higher level of till now we learned the beginning that we we reveal God in the world and now we're going to learn the currently is even a higher level why is it house at a higher level he explains because what does that mean it's the completion and the Revolutionary idea of the creation that happens through the work of mankind now this um drawing down the powerful energy it so in cabalistic terms it's called when we do our work we put in our effort so we we bring down very high levels but what can we bring down only a place that the our work can reach but in that we do our work we bring down what we can reach however the idea of like so he brings from the teaching from the and that discourse that on that it wasn't from we reached it but that came from hasm himself because there was no one there to awaken that the energy should come down like it says clearly in the T there was no one there in other words not only there wasn't a there wasn't some to do the work but it wasn't even possible because there was no one there so why did Hashem create the world if no one was inspiring God to do it because that came from a place is called from the of from the kindness of himself like we know it says desires to do kindness in other words besides the point that today what how do How does the energy come down it comes through our work which means there's judgment and and and and and and the laws Etc but then from the first day came from and like we said no it says created a world out of now this level of the first is higher than the that which comes from the Mido um and even from its source the way it's in intellect because basically this level is is um it's not regular it's coming from a place like we said before a desire for comes from the word of which we know is in this in the spirit of ker it's the higher one but what is the what was the desire the was should be and through became a world that was that was built and um and and that created the world that we have so you can say that the the the internal reason that the first day of creation is called y the first day because the revelation of that was shining on that day is what light and Revelation because we know day is considered light in Revelation and that's the the S the source and the and and the cause for bringing down said that from there was created the older worlds and that's why it says because in every r that we when we mention the way the world was created on the first day what was in the first day there was a revelation of not just regular not just regular kind but and by mentioning it we're actually drawing down from so this idea that it's higher than why that's us doing our part brings down great blessings but which means again he explains is not just first day it's revealing the the desire for that's the light and the revelation of the of the of the source and the reason of all the Creations the high level and the lower level and and obviously it's this idea of is even higher than what higher and lower now this that the Jewish people through our work that we mention the way the world was created in the beginning so we're able to draw down this powerful Revelation so it reaches the level of on its own and the place where we cannot reach it because how do we reach there because the Jewish people we actually reach a place hi in like we know that the when hem decided to create the world says what was Consulting created the world it says he was Consulting with the souls of the of the righteous people and the fact is when we say sikim everyone's so this so to speak Hashem was inspired he has desire to do good why why why did he desire to do it because he obviously had an elevation in his thought and it was an internal thought Which is higher than the revelation of that in the future what's going to happen is the Jewish people are gonna come and they're gonna learn and they're gonna do mitv and they're gonna make a dwelling place for hm down there so therefore we do our work what gets what what what gets drawn down what is the re of so from here we understand that the revelation of that gets gets drawn down now through our work is even higher than the level of that was in the beginning of creation why because when we do our work and we put in our efforts what happens Hashem gets tremendous satisfaction like it says get tremendous satisfaction I said to do this people are doing what I want and this powerful satisfaction and this powerful pleasure that we're doing hashem's work it reaches the essence of hem means the pous the most internal part of hem Which is higher than the level of the pleasure of and through the fact that the the gets revealed so get what happens gets awakened that through our work so we literally draw down the the the intense desire and the pleasure of and this is also the internal reason why that um before we say currently so we say first why because the currently which comes after which means drawing down is much higher than's own Ben the beginning of the creation now so let's recap before we go forward saying is like this there's there's the part that we do our work and that brings down from what we can reach which is a higher level to create the world but then by us mentioning it by us doing our part so we reach a place deeper than the regular much deeper which that happens only afterm created the world and that's why the first thing we say because through the is actually much deeper much powerful place now even though that the revelation of that was there in the beginning and the source of drawing it down comes from the essence the pleasure that hasem has in the the work of the Jewish people and whyw he saw in the future our work but nevertheless when we actually do it in actuality so that actually adds in into the pleasure and like we see that in order to to to fulfill the uh intent and the dream and the desire that God had to make a dwelling place down to this world hasm had to create the world and literally a physical world I mean a world of concealment and then Hashem had to go ahead and give us a tah and only after he created the world and he gave us a toyra that's when we had have the the the the the commitment of the of of the the existence of the world like like it says clearly sh the the the the Earth was in awe and trepidation but then we go ahead and do our spiritual work which basically happens after M literally which means what does it mean we go ahead and we learn T and as we know that this that tah is is is is is great because it brings to all the actions and then we do the Mitzvah L physically do all the Mitzvah and um even though hasem knew in his knowledge and his thought that it's going to happen and that's that knowledge and vision caused to create the world of but the fact is the the thought and the knowledge is thought which is the essence of hasem which is above Revelation and um even that from this thought awaken the which which which which ultimately created the world but nevertheless this thought remained in the essence of hem and didn't come it didn't come down fully and um it's when did it come down fully it came down fully when we do our work then what gets revealed is the essence of the dwelling place for Hashem sayings like this Hashem saw in his thought and his vision that we're going to do but guess what that's only thought once Hashem created the world and he put us in this world and gave us a tah and we do the work then it comes down from much deeper place in a reality and this is the idea says this is the idea the completion of the world what's going to be comes in the future because it says in reference to the Future says too pars this is The Offspring of parot so too could be spelled with with without out of and it says with above which means it's going to be a full full world and but nevertheless even though it's full it's going to be higher than the completion originally created the world like we know in the beginning of the world says this is The Offspring of of the Heaven and the earth when hasm created so there also says to this so when hasem created the world says to this with above in the future it's also says with above but nevertheless the future one is much greater because even though when hasm cre the world was created complete but the completion of the world way it came from creation a told when he created it it's finite it's limited the World hasm created is still finite why because since the the the the essence of the world is finite so therefore the completion is also finite and even though that the creation came from which and we know Hashem is infinite but the fact is the was the cause of the creation but the creation itself came down in a level from higher to lower however the ultimate ultim completion when it's going to be like a mhia comes and since that's going to come through after our work and therefore we're able to draw in reveal the essential pleasure of the essence of hem and over there there's no limits so therefore the completion of the world in the future is going to be without any limits like it say told parrots parot Conant the word is of the ver of the verse you're able to go ahead and break through any boundaries it means you're literally a to break through any limitations and any concealments of the world and this completion that happens through our doing our work when did it start it all started on the sixth day of creation when Hashem created Mankind and man started to work the Earth um be the beginning the Earth literally in in the in the person himself like it says Hashem got went ahead and created um took from the the man that he created and then um so he worked with the man himself and then afterwards with the Earth outside the human being which means all the levels of the world the worlds because we know everything was originally created from Earth in other words he he affected in the creation in the whole world that let's all go ahead and prostrate and and acknowledge and bless hem so that started when in the first day of sixth day of creation and especially after the sixth day of mountain tur because the tur was given on the sixth day of the month and then you have the completion of the sixth day of creation that the work of the human being and the effect in the world um which H which H which happens after mountain is much higher and especially on rashash Shana which is the beginning of creation know it's like the beginning of creation which happened through what mankind did on the first rashash and even higher than that and was itself every single year it goes to goes goes to a higher level like we know it sayses a person has to always grow in Judaism up to the point that in every rash the a new light comes into the world that did not shine in the world till now up till we have the ultimate Redemption like it says we're gonna have we're going to break all boundaries and we're going to break all the limitations and we're gonna have the greatest most powerful Blessings Now these three ideas that come down the first thing we said is which means the remembrance the first day which means revealing of the beginning of creation and the third is revealing the the in internal pleasure Which is higher than the of creation is connected to the three ideas of R which is Mal Kingdom remembrance and and the explains as follows what we know the idea what's Mal what's kingdom kingdom is referring to the way God is ful fills in this world which is called like he explained at length in theic discourse that we mentioned before from the what does that mean it's referring to a light which has a relation and a connect to the world and a light that the our effort can reach and that's why it says Mal what's the idea of Mal so we want to to be king over us and just like a king down a kingdom down here it happens through the nation like it says clearly the Torah says the people have to put a king upon themselves the same thing also when dealing with the Kingdom in Heaven that this becomes a king over us what does that mean the Jewish people accept hm to be a king and we ask and know this request and this acceptance is part of the request that should give us decrees and we should accept upon to do the mitv so to to fulfill what hasem is commanding us and we do it we accept and like the the expression is like in every mitah we say Sanctified us yes with his Commandments it's he who he instructed us in other words why are we doing the mitah commanded us to do this hasem decreed upon us to do it and through that hasem becomes literally the king over over the Jewish people and through that not only on the Jewish people but on the whole world and through the fact that we do our work we awaken the idea of Kingdom how how does that happen because what is kingdom kingdom we said before is the idea of the part of hem that fills the world and that's something which our avoid can reach reaches there and like for example that's the whole idea now even though everything goes back to its original state and Hashem becomes a king not TR us from a weak calling but it comes from the essence of the infinite part of hem which is much higher to malus but and this the fact that we able to reach that level because we are connected to the essence of of of of of of of hem and like he explains in this that the the Jewish people are able to reveal that God should be the king is because hasem made a bond with us and with one with Hashem but the fact is this that with our source is in the essence of Hashem that's correct but the the actual drawing down where choose to be a king that's connected more to the light of M again so what do we see the first idea is malus is connected the Mal is the idea what of so and that's connected the second idea is what do we do we have we talk about different memories different mentionings what is that referring to that's referring to the infinite part of hasem which is the one part that Hashem is too power too powerful to be internalized but it happens over the world which hasem so to speak is Holier and disconnected from the world because what's the idea of know how can you remember something something you have you can't remember it you have it so the you're remembering something something that's far away whether it's in physical space or on a level up to the point where you can't can't grasp it and that's like which is referring to the essence of the infin power which basically the whole world is nothing to him or like for example like Z we said to the first day but nevertheless even though it's so powerful but never Z does have a connection to something that exists because you're remembering it but nevertheless fine it's very far away and that's why is connect the idea of because so mean there's a world but it h over it but there is a connection okay so that's the second idea so the second idea is what which connect and the third idea is like it's explained in the in the discourse of the that the sound of theer what is the sound of theer explains it's a color Prima it's an internal voice which comes from the internal part of the heart so what do you see from here that when you draw down through Sher is coming from the Eternal part and the essence of the infinite part of hem Which is higher than so we had now it's even higher and deeper and that's why it says we discussed at length in the previous discourse of of that when a person's which means when you call out from the internal part of your heart so you reach you reach the essence of hem and as you come the internal part of the the essence of the infinite part of hem and it's like the drawing in and the revelation of the internal pleasure Which is higher than and especially like it's known that Scher comes from beautifying your actions which comes from the idea of t a deep sense of pleasure and the pleasure the schaer is the source of all the pleasures up until um the pleasure of hasem in himself so what he's saying is like this these three ideas of and the internal part is connected to what to connect connected and is connected to the essence and the internal part ofm now these three ideas and the the part that fills the worlders over in the essence of the infinite part ofm so we have so to speak in human being as well why because we know that human being as D we're compared to so therefore we all have these three components within us where do we have these three components within us so the internal powers that we have that's revealed in a body so that is like the light that fill fills the world that basically gets enclosed and it gets has an impact and a revealed one that's the first part the um that we have like for example the power of ring will which which impacts all all all all all our powers but not revealed that's like the so and and that that that affects in a concealed way and then you have the essence of the Soul Which is higher than that's compared to the so what do you see from here that the spiritual work of Mal are referring to on the internal Mal is the internal and is the external powers of the soul and the of the is the essence of the soul and like we said before that the sound of the Scher is the internal sound which is not even heard now even though that the sound of the Scher so one hand was saying the sound the Scher is an internal part sound it's the essence of our heart it's very very spiritual so you think wow but nevertheless the blowing has to be a physical schifer and a schifer of an animal a a living a being which is actually lower than the level of madaba like he explains in that in that discour of and not only that the the theer has to be disconnected from from the animal has to become a so it started with a comes a so what do you see that even in the most powerful spiritual levels the internal part of of the heart which is it's coming from the internal part of the essence of the Soul no but it has to affect into the do the most inat in places and through that only through that it awakens the the the the the most powerful internal Co of the heart and like we know in reference to the four different levels of energy the lowest so things that grow more and then even more that in in human beings that that the do the most lowest part is connected to the highest part the madaba and the same thing also the the the part that HS over the person Which is higher than all the levels of which connect idea and the same thing also in the essence of the Soul Which is higher than that level that the way you waken it up is specifically through the D so therefore even though again you're connecting to the your soul how do you wake it up with so therefore you have to literally blow a physical Sher why because to reveal the internal voice of the internal part of your heart um doesn't come from the rut in the highest level and on the contrary and and how much more so it doesn't come from the level of or from your but specifically from the inanimate which what does that mean practically that's the avoid of accepting basically the most s the most inanimate part the most phys the most lack of again no r no will and no intellect no emotions just accepting like we know in reference the idea of the lower level of a that specifically through the lower level of law that's how you reveal the highest level of all and even lower than that in action which is connected to D the physical uh part of the human being and you literally blow a physical schaer up to the point that blowing the schaer in action that's the only Mitzvah and that's the Mitzvah rashash like we know what's the Mitzvah rash to blow the Sher and this we'll understand the teaching of the previous rebba in the name of the alter rebba in reference to rash he says we do not understand we have no comprehension how precious it is by hasem the physical body of the human being it doesn't mean that that that also the body is is pressed bym no no no but the main Beauty and the main power and the main specialness is specifically in the physical body and that's why he says we don't have any comprehension it why because the fact is the preciousness of the body is much higher than the understanding and comprehension because the body the do comes and is connected to the essence of hm say he'd like to add that since wanted and his whole dream and his whole desire was to make a Dwelling Place in a place where God Is concealed that means even that means even the physical materialistic world that's outside the person should be a dwelling place hasem so therefore it's not enough that the in voice that's coming from the internal part of your heart gets revealed through do which means accepting an action of the person but you we need a create that this Revelation should be this powerful revelation of the internal part of your heart it should be through specifically a Scher from an animal and specifically the way it's disconnected from its source and that will affect in in in in in the world and in the in the most materialistic Park to make the most lowest part of the world a dwelling place for hem um compared just like it was the first time that the first man he went ahead he affected in the creations of the world that has nothing to do with him outside himself and he came to all of them he said let's go ahead and prostrate ourselves and let's acknowledge and let's bless Hashem the one that made us now this idea of Scher which means blowing Scher with a materialistic Scher an animal and the way it becomes a do it's disconnected from its sour it's from the expression of to beautify our actions which comes from idea spiritually of of internal part of pleasure because through that that's how we fulfilled the ultimate dream that hasm wanted to make a dwelling place down here and the same thing also literally the idea that creates a pleasure on high from the fact that we do hm's Mitzvah and this pleasure is the internal pleasure hasm has Which is higher than we said where does get pleasure when we do a physical Mitzvah with literally AER from an animal and that causes hem to say no you did my Mitzvah now the fact is this pleasure and this enjoyment that hasem has that we that that we're doing his mitz it's a whole year but the fact is like this on rash the the the main Mitzvah of the day is and the the powerful idea of rash is is based on our work and our pleasure and that affects the whole year in other words when the Jewish people we add in our work and especially therefore we add in the in the pleasure um of AEM a whole year so that creat in the pleasure that has we do his work on rashash and since says every one of us um did for sure in the previous year everything you're supposed to because why how do you know because the the rule is call we assume everyone is kosher and it's it's aak it's established fact and the Torah says an established fact and especially that were after the the the spiritual work of the month of el and an itself after the 18th day of the month of and we know the 18th is com from Kai which means it gives life and energy into the month of um besides the fact 18 says it's it's the most power it's a very very powerful day because two powerful lights were created in that day the and the Al and then that day we have the established ruling that every single person is doing what he's supposed to do off the charts and every single day from from from the 18 day of on the the the the the kosher part and the purity of every single Jewish person is we we're constantly adding light and especially in the days of so it's sure that we're all standing here today like it says in the in the in the Torah portion that we read in the previous Torah portion before scores and and all the days get blessed in that day and like the teaching is referring to it's a day of judgment and every one of us every one of us standing and we we're meritorious in the judgment and this idea that we're all meritorious it happens already before rashash so therefore how do we because in rash we start wearing white garments and we wrap ourselves in white garments and we go with joy and with great joy the says to Crown the king of rashash because in a rashash we have all the preparations already of sim joy that breaks through all the boundaries and that creates a proper preparation it's going to come and break through all the boundaries very very soon that we're going to have and never finish up beautifully we're gonna be written and sealed for good a good year a sweet year and um it's going to be included that this is going to be the year of redemption we're going to have the true Redemption the complete Redemption through M Pirates going to come and break open the all the borders of and it's going to happen very very soon very very quickly in our times so here we have another beautiful powerful discourse in the Reb the three different levels and then even the essence of Hashem and which applies in hem applies in each and every one of us but like finishes off even after all sudden on the deepest levels the premus of our our heart but the goal is we need physical mitv physical blowing the Scher and that will give us the the the that God will reveal on the on on every single level and says he'll break open the boundaries of G and we'll have a great and a beautiful year so I want to wish you all which should written and sealed in the Good Year we should have a sweet year and we should have like the says the ultimate um Revelation the true Revelation the complete Revelation and God willing our next class will bees have a great and blessed week sh