To Receive & Grow, Humility is First. ויקהל משה A New Kabbalah class by Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz

welcome to our class on for this we're going to be learning this week a beautiful civic discourse in the rebbe the name of the hasidic discourse is called the yakel moisha and moishrabeno gathered the rebels said this hasidic discourse and shabbat is possessed by yakil that year was the 24th day of the first adar which was also the shabbos that blessed the second adar in the year tough shin mehmed 41 years ago so again the civic discourse is based on the opening verse of this week's torah portion where it says gathered all the jewish people and he tells them these are the words that hashem told me to tell you any instruction instructs the jewish people in reference to the laws of shabbat that we should work for six days it's an obligation to work for six days be productive and the seventh day we should rest and then he goes on to tell him the laws of building the mishkan the walls and the curtains etc and then he goes on to tell them about the vessels in the mishkan in that order shabbat the wolves of the mishkan and then the vessels in the mishkan sure ever said it's known the questions that the different khabad uh leaders in the past generations um is specifically in the altar of in in the in discourses in the year tough summer um and also interesting from the middle arab and uratora from the summertime and the questions are asked as follows how come when moisrabenu instructs the jewish people so he tells them like we learned first the laws of shabbat then the curtains and the different uh parts of the actual building the structure of the mishkan and then the actual vessels in the mishkan however when you look when hashem commanded moisrabenu so first it says about making the vessels in the mishkan then the rio is the walls of the of the tabernacle and then the end shabbat and over here you see it's just the opposite mushroom told them just the opposite knows first shabbat then the actual building of the tabernacle and then the vessels of the tabernacle so that is question number one also they have asked another question we have to understand why does it say by yak hell moshe that moisture gathered the jewish people who knows what why is those there was merchandising told us all the mitzvahs the 613 commandments 248 positive 365 negative so why specifically over here by this mitzvah is does it specifically save you by yaki why over here merchandise typically gather the jewish people unlike all the other mysteries so he doesn't gather them he just tells them the mid-choice in other words there's many many general mitzvos and then there are many midsize in reference to shabbat and about building the tabernacle and the the details of the mishkan and there was no gathering so why we were here specifically was their gathering so the question again why did it say by yak hill the question about the via question number two next question is why does knows we're now talking about the prank that says the moisture may have gathered the jewish people because why is it why did was this gathering god specific to maestrobainu in other words it could have been they couldn't know we're not we're not talking about the commanding we're talking about the gathering part by yakala mushroom rice is the one that called them in hey we're having a meeting why is the moisture the one in charge of calling the meeting there's many ways you can call a meeting they had the trumpets or they would come on their own as as as it happened many many times in the torah and the prophets so why over here is specifically the gathering through moisturizers the first the second question was why are they being gathered and the second question why is moisture the one that's in charge of gathering the jewish people over here also why does it say moisturizing gathered as color does beneath israel he gathered benedict israel why adas the term of das what's what's the why specifically using the term of a dallas the community of the jewish people so everybody explains what he says as follows he gives the outline he's going to go in detail so the outline of the explanation is as follows says gave over the words of hashem to the jewish people there's two types of of components that took place the two types of ways that moisture made and gave over the words of hashem to the jewish people step number one is maishrabenu gave over what hashem told him to tell the jewish people in other words mushroom's job was to share to be a conduit to share what hashem was saying and as the focus is lemur he was telling them what hashem told them what what hashem told him was there just to deliver the message that's one component the second component is that moisture not only was there to tell them the message but he was there to make an impact in the jewish people by gathering the jewish people themselves meaning to say is they should gather them they should be a recipient for the word of hashem so now it's like this let's say let's clarify because this a lot is getting built on this when moisture gives the message of the shorts moisture bainu saying it and the jewish people hearing it that's an either either wait but the question is what's the main thrust of the conversation so the first idea is that my friend he's delivering it for sure that you have to accept it but it's all about mushroom i'm here to tell you what hashem wants me to tell you the second idea is true he's telling me what hashtag what to tell them but the goal was that the jewish people should receive it that they should accept it they should connect to it or in different terms in kabbalah it's called there's something which is called when you draw down my lila mata which means you know there's a flow of energy the most important thing is it's coming and then there's something which is called halal no with the with the with the person receiving it gets elevated in other words you can listen to a speech and it's an amazing speech and you say it's amazing and then after you say what did it say i don't know but it wasn't interesting what that's called no my la mata there was a great revelation you're inspired you're motivated you're moved but afterwards you know it didn't really have make an impact but then there's a time you can totally be transformed then you say what what transformed i know what transformed i'm transformed what does that mean it affected you so the same thing also at moisture vein on one hand there's a component where he's sharing what hashem has to say sharing the light and the other hand it's all about being that the receiver should be transformed and moved and motivated by it so that's in general two different types of of connect of relationship and when moisture gave it over again just to recap and short this one is just delivering the message and one is is impacting the receiver impacting the jewish people as we use the terms in kabbalah it's drawing down myla lamontagne it's all about the flow from above to below or malmoth where basically the person got the the receiver gets affected so that's in general but now that was going to explain this in more in a detailed in a detailed fashion and he explains like this any time there is a flow of energy from a master macabre that means from the person giving over the end the message to the receiver so there's a major difference the way the flow of energy is sitting in the person that's delivering the message and the person receiving it in other words let's say someone came up with a brilliant idea fascinating idea so the person that developed the idea spent hours days and months and thought about it the person has real clarity why they spent days months weeks analyzing thinking meditate to them the idea is brilliant and they see it from a whole different perspective and they see it in a clear a clear perspective and it's a true it's it's on a true level because they see it it's clear it's true to them now what happens when you want to share that to a student or to a recipient so the person receiving it doesn't have the same clarity and in order for them to gain the clarity the person has to meditate on it and be allowed it should be internalized and it's a process so it's internalized so in other words there's the the way they must be the way the person giving over the data sees it with clarity and truth and the way the person receives it now the person has to process it in other words what does that mean there are explains like this anytime there's a flow of energy a teaching from the merspia from the teacher to the student there's three levels three levels that have to happen for the energy to go from the teacher to the student and i was like this initially let's say you have a brilliant idea a brilliant thought so it's your thought your idea what happens if you never share it no one's going to know it and there's a lot of ideas that were never shared but let's say you have an idea and you decide you know what i want to share it so what does that mean it means i'm making a commitment i'm making a decision that this powerful idea this powerful teaching i want to share it to my students students to whoever i'm planning on sharing it with so the first component is that the teacher with the brilliant idea the mashpia has to decide it wants to share that powerful information because if it doesn't make that decision how are you going to step two how you're sharing it so first you have to make a decision you want to share what you have that's step number one step number two is you start sharing it you give over the general idea you can't start with the details you go with the general idea so in kabbalah it's called it's a hamsaka you're drawing down but makif it's the general idea it's not you don't have the details yet you don't have all these specifics specifics you have the general idea that the teacher decides to share and then he shares a general idea and then you share all the details to the student so again we're talking now from the teacher's perspective from the from the teacher's perspective is the way it works is the first is the person has a tremendous clarity the first thing they're deciding they want to share point number one point number two is they share the general idea and point number three they share this with the specifics of the details of it and that's the way the flow of any time is a brilliant idea that's shared with a student or a a child you have the willingness to share you share the general idea then you shall share the details now that's all coming from the teacher from the teacher from the parent to the student and the child but let's look now from the student's perspective that's going to receive a teaching or idea or a child it's just the opposite in other words what was the first step of the teacher he's deciding he's sharing and he asked what to share the student when it's when he wants to receive something it's just the opposite what has to happen is the student has to create an empty space and the student has to has to get rid of any arrogance or thinking they know it because they know it what are they receiving so the student to be a recipient or a child to be recipient the first level of receiving is i know nothing i am a vessel i'm ready to hear because if i know how am i going to listen so the first level from the student perspective is hineny i'm ready to hear i'm an empty vessel share with me after they become an empty vessel now they receive the general idea the market and after they receive the general idea then they get to the wow they get to the that's what you're thinking that's your idea that's your message so it's literally just the opposite by the teacher he's ready to share that means there's something there he shares mockiff and then he shares the details the students is the opposite in beginning he knows nothing he gets the market they're both equal in the middle one and then he gets to the essence of the original thought so that is the way the flow of energy goes in detail where it goes down from the teacher to the student it means the teacher's process is it goes from the brilliant idea willingness to share mark if general idea and the details the student is the opposite where it knows nothing it gets the general idea and then it connects to the essence of the idea now so two different realities from the teacher's perspective on the teachers and the student when it's receiving so based on this trevor explains beautifully uh why moisture bainu when he took when he told us hashem told him first about the the the um the the vessels of the mishkan the mishkan and then shabbat on the other when it came to moisture they knew what he start with he started with shabbat and then he started with the the the uh the um the walls of the miscon the riot etc and then he went to the vessels why because what's this torah portion talking about is it talking about moisture bainu like we spoke before where his moisture is all about delivering the message or is this about moisture but you know inspiring the jewish people to be a receiver of hashem's message so since this is by yaya kale what does vayako mean he's gathering the people he's inspiring them to be a recipient this is all about the jewish people as a recipient or in kabbalistic terms it's called mil mata lamaila the student has to get it vayako muy tremendo is gathering the people that we should be students to receive it now since we're dealing with the student receiving it it's not measuring just giving over a message he's giving over the message we should get it the student has to get it so since it's all about the student getting the message mil mata lamaila what comes first from the student the student has to be an empty vessel that was the first thing we learned a student if you want to be a student you have to be an empty vessel so therefore in order to create the environment that we should be able to ultimately get the ultimate message we have to go to step one what's step one to be a student to be a recipient you have to be an empty vessel so therefore he starts off with the first thing what's the first thing shabbat why shabbat because what shabbat shabbat what does shabbat mean shove us to rest like the idea of bitter what's bitter nothing on shabbos we do nothing we're supposed to do nothing which represents the idea of acceptance and that's what we know in a simple level what shabbos shabbos is all about a person shave us you rest you literally rest you rest from all things that you're busy with during the week you're doing this you're doing that and you're running and you have a deadline to meet this et cetera shabbos is no there's no clock there's no there's no there's no there's no there's nothing shabbos we do nothing that's why in shabbat we're actually ready to receive the greatest gifts from hashem so the first thing moisture being taught about shabbos that means you want to be a recipient of the powerful wisdom of hashem shabbos you have to be willing to relax and accept just like i do in shabbat what does that mean practically practically we know because everything has to be practical it wasn't even practically on a spiritual level what is that called that's idea of prayer because what's prayer prayer is also bitter if you want to be able to have a meaningful prayerful experience and you walk and you know everything you're not going to walk away with anything out of the prayer of service when a person is ready to accept to be in the level of bitter that's prayer so shabbos is acceptance and practically every single day when we pray that's also the avoidable and so since shabbos is all about acceptance and prayer is all about acceptance that's why what do we do in shabbat shabbat is a day of prayer we pray extra in shabbos we pray longer and shabbos quantitatively we pray more with more meditation in shabbat why could shabbos and prayer go together shabbos as wrestling and prayers wrestling resting in terms of bitters less of self shabbos is less of ego i'm not doing anything for shops i do nothing i'm wrestling and prayer is also resting and that's why we all know what to say in the taliban shabbos he's supposed to do nothing matter of fact he even not allowed to learn torah they found as the expression is because she with tremendous difficulty they allowed to learn torah and shabbos why because shabbos is supposed to do nothing so they found that they found the loophole to be able to learn torah and shamans because shabbos because terror is will allow you to rest and connect to hashem et cetera so that's what happens on shabbat even during the week it's known from on a kabbalistic level that when someone prays during the week whether it's chakras or any prayer that you pray and you're really focused and you're really on the level of bitter that is like experiencing shabbos during the week so if you ever want to experience shoppers during the week shut your phone off no distractions sit down in a meditative prayer you'll experience shabbos during the week and that's why what do we do every single day when we get up the first thing before we start our day the first thing we do is we pray because we want to experience that level of bitter that level of acceptance so we can be a vessel for all the great things throughout the day after we pray that means we're ready to accept then what happens is where do you go for after you pray then you go sit down and learn a little torah what does torah accomplish that you draw in the mock of energy with which is the second level the acceptance to be a good student so first you accept which is prayer which is shabbat then you're drawing the market through learning torah and then what do you do after you learn torah now you have to go to work now you got to deal with the world and as you go deal with the materialistic world literally the physical world why because then you're ready to make a deal with doctrine you're ready to make a dwelling place hashem in this world so the process is a shabbos which means acceptance which is basically prayer that we do every day then we learn torah and which is basically makif drawing in hashem's light into the world in a market way and then how do we bring hashem's light in an in an internalized way that is by going to work and living a normal life but obviously coming with the energy and in the introduction of the prayer which is acceptance torah which is market and then when you go to work it's a whole different work it's a godly work because you're going to elevate the world you're going to bring to bring god and make god and godliness a reality in the physical world now this powerful idea that we need to prepare ourselves and how do we prepare ourselves again through prayer through the experience of shabbos which is bitter and then through learning torah and then through bringing god and godliness into the world which is the three levels of self-transformation so where do we get the power to do so so the answer is we get it through moisture amino and that's why by yakel who's the one that helps us become a real student on all three levels that happens through moishmeno so you're going to say one second moisture yeah moisture raining was the one that went up to god he's a power powerful uh person but what does that have to do with us could we be a moisture of a new i mean that's what moisture banana can gather and he can practice acceptance and he can learn torah and bring down the godly knight market and then he can transfer all the world but the fact is rebecca says we all know where his husband tanya that moisture being who is called what's my sharing is title he's called the raya mahemna what does the raymond mean he feeds faith into every one of us and that's why every single jew every single person has a component of moisture within us deep within us we all are imbued with moisture one has the power to gather but guess what we all have a part of my shivering within us so we can all do the vayak hell we can all meditate we can all be on create the level of acceptance and learn terror and then bring god into the world and as we know the altar writes in tiny explains what doesn't ryan muhammad mean he he feeds faith in other words we need moisture maybe to feed faith we the fact is we all believe in god we believe in god our ancestors believe in god so we're called my meaning we believe in god and we're children of people that believe in god but the fact is what moisture orbital does is voice radio accomplishes that the faith that we have you know we fee we have believe in god and our ancestor believe in god well moist renders which means he he feeds the faith that shouldn't just be external we believe in god and therefore we hate differently no he brings the moon and the faith that we have it comes into literally every one of our 248 limbs and the 365 veins it comes into every single part of our physical being literally in our bachola in our heart which means and we know it's plural the eights are taught even the eights are harder and all are never intellectual emotions up until the point you're ready to come a serious nephews based on the ammuna so moisture when it brings the ammonia to be real it should be tangible to be practical and by awakening the faith that we have which moisture we know inspires us to make it practical that affects within us that we can do the gathering we can transform ourselves and we should experience real bitter and real real acceptance and real relaxation so we can be start the process of being a real recipient again because the key thing is the first the first the first way to enter to become a real really connect hashem is through bittel through shabbos through bittel and that happens again through prayer and that happens to moisture but again not moisturizing outside with of us there's a moisturizer within us that inspires us to have real faith in hashem and like whoever brings from the from the from the famous teaching in the talmud it says that in reference idea of you is hashem we should be in all of hashem so the question is wow you of hashem is a difficult thing and the answer is no for moisture who said it's a simple thing to have yours hashem but the but the question is moisture they know it's very easy to be know hashem a moisturizer is a holy person but the answer is that since to moisture banana was simple to have behave or hashem therefore it's impossible every one of us to have the same all of a sudden why because moisture bainu feeds us and inspires us to have all hashem and to be bitter have the real acceptance for hashem and when a person practices bitter which means we we relax from any part of our ego anything that we want how do we do that and the rebel says a very very simple simple tip based on what it says in the talmud that we have to meditate for a second and what it says the only reason why we were born was to serve hashem so since the only reason we weren't using hashem so guess what whatever we need to do we'll do we're here to serve hashem so whatever someone asks us we're ready to do so therefore since we we we we think about the idea of i need the rest of the shamans kindness there's no ego it's not about it's not about i have an agenda my agenda is i'm here to serve hashem so there's no no personal agenda so once a person internalizes that idea so that's what allows him to gather himself and elevate himself and has and not only elevate himself but elevate all the jewish people as torah says clearly that if we're going to be spread out all over the world we're going to be all over the place hashem is going to bring us in gather us in together and the same thing on a practical level is what does that mean that we're going to gather all the different coefficients of our soul our intellect and our emotions that are all over the place that are scattered and all our thoughts and all our different speeches and all our actions that we're all going to be a vessel to receive the powerful energy and high so in other words to see clearly what's moisture bainu's first mission by yakel is to inspire us that we should gather ourselves together and we can gather ourselves because we all have a part of moisture in it within us and the first part of gathering ourselves together is taking all our thoughts speech action intellect all and all what acceptance just like the idea of shabbos and just like the idea of prayer once we are accepting now we can learn torah and bring in the market and go ahead and transform the world and the represents that when we do our spiritual work of becoming really a calea vessel now we cause more energy to come down to us in the beginning it comes down into the urea submission into the walls of the mix of the mishkan which is called mikdash where god dwells which is the idea of makif mark of energy powerful energy comes down to us and afterwards it comes down to the vessels of the mishkan which practically means if it gets internalized we have an essential connection hashem and it comes down into the 13 or the 15 items of the mishkan um like the government has explained in many many discourses the way it comes down into every one of the components of the mishkan and we do our and then when we we accomplish that what does that mean practically we make this world for a deer but we make this world a physical world which is physical we make it a dwelling place for hashem and like for example everybody gives a michael what does that mean you're making a dwelling place for hashem because think about it think about a home or a house so what is it what is the dwelling place is if you have a house you live there you don't just live there like a guest you totally live that you you say what you want you behave the way you want you think that you're obviously all morally and ethical but you feel comfortable to be yourself in other words the s who whoever the person is feels comforting to express themselves in your house that's in a physical house that's the muscle what does that mean practically in the nymph that literally we make a dwelling place for hashem that hashem the esteem hashem is comfortable in this world it's a world that respects god and godliness and torah and mitzvot is in the will of hashem and that's why jabba says that's why we it says in the in the verse gathered as color dashbane saul so he asked why does he use the term idols what's the point of vadas and it's wrote that many discourses as follows because what does adas mean ada says from the same word as adus testimony witness and notice like the the the verse says says your witnesses hashem says what does that mean what is it we're witnesses we're witnesses that a god runs the world so our daughter represents the idea of witnesses that we become witnesses no it's not the physical world it's hashem that runs the world and we get to see hashem in everything and when we and in representatives known when we're saying witness that you're that there are some runs the world we're not talking about to an external part of ourselves we're talking the essence of hashem that the essence of hashem is in this world that we jewish people are witnesses on the essence of hashem that the essence of hashem is in every part of this world and that's why it says the idea of adas we have to become witnesses that what who runs the world who creates the world who maintains the world it's hashem that runs a great containers and maintains it and now there are brings a powerful teaching from the uh result it says as follows it says in the verse by yaakov so the result says wasn't emotionally gathered that moisture renu was supposed to gather all the people of his generation moisture maintenance generation is known as the dura deo the generation of knowledge and what he had to gather them he had to gather them knowledge that's already a media it's one of the attributes it's not it's knowledge but he had to gather them back to its source because in knowledge it's all about me i think you think etc so my trainer's job was to gather them back to the source and that's why it says it's color das he had to gather coal all the adas which means everyone that was from the level of das of knowledge and even moisture made with some does so he had to gather all the thoughts back to the source and then he says something even that reason something even deeper even more powerful so much better job was to gather the dots back to the source then he says like this that we know that the jewish people when they left egypt so there was a riv rav the people that were the troublemakers so moisture bainu had to gather them also what does that mean so he said something like this aravrov numerically so a r of i in a 70 raises 200 vases to raises another 200 and these of two which is a total of four hundred and seventy four eight of rob is 474. take the word das das dalat is for i you know 70 and stuff is 400. so it's 474. so das is the same numerical value as ayravrov so moisture may have to gather das as kaladas was referring to the jewish people's dots but also the area of rob which is das and moisture may have to bring them back to the source moisture bainu's job was to fix and transform the air of rav because ayurveda is kaladas who is he obligated to gather he's obligated together the dust referring to all the jewish people himself but also more importantly themselves even the arab rav that the miracle is the same the same value as thus and the rubber says that's why they're called we're called the the the nation what means the nation of moisture as the verse is clearly the nation that you took out of the land of egypt and what does rashi say it's referring to the arab rav that you you accept them you basically took the place of take them out of egypt therefore you're going to have to fix them so moisture baker's job is according to that results to to gather everyone's dos everyone's different ideas bring it to the source bringing back the airbrush to the source and so from here you see that moisture of anu not only was there to elevate degenerate his generation the durdeo but even the erev rav as we said is the same numerical value as adas and he and he was able to impact on his whole generation and including the erev that we should be israel we should be the community of the jewish people up until the highest level we elevate such the highest level by yak moisture moisture gathers everyone together and brings everyone back to the source to hashem and what happens once he affects in everybody and including the iriv which means we're all ready to be received the first level is receiving do we have the bittle have kabbalah soil so through that he's able to draw down the urea and that's in this week's star possible yakil but after this week's third part of maryaka we learned and possibly could the next victoria portion the counting in the mishkan and over there it speaks about not only what we're supposed to do but we actually did it that literally we're able to establish the mishkan we're able to make the caleb that means we're able to accomplish what we're supposed to accomplish in bringing down god and godliness into this world and represents by learning about these ideas which means gathering everyone together creating the bittle drawing in the market flight enjoying in the previous light will come to to to um to to the fulfillment of the promise that hashem promised us in the prophets the attempt to look to the echoed by learning about the fact that mushroom is gathering everybody will come to where it says in the prophets and we're all going to be gathered every single one of us that not one spark holy spark is going to remain in gullis and how's that going to happen but yeah moisture moisture is going to gather every single spark and take us out of gulas and as the verse says while you share an iron together are going to take us all out of gallus and the cahol god of yeshua haina we're going to come back as one community when come back to hashem where we're going to come back to to eretz aquidus to land of israel to jerusalem the holy city and to the base of mcdust the third base of magnus which is also called mishkan hashem dwells there and it's going to happen the karaoke very very quickly be a menu mamas in our days literally with the redemption the true and complete redemption so obviously this is a very very powerful hasidic discourse and there's obviously many many messages but i think one of the most powerful messages is that we want to be able to receive the greatest blessings from hashem and we want to grow in life the first step is humility when we practice humility practice bitter we do it through prayer and shabbat and we do it through prayer during the week we'll be merit to have the greatest blessings as ultimately we'll all be gathered um through moisture of anu will all all our thoughts will be gathered our feelings will be gathered and all the people will be gathered and we'll all be connected back once again in your schleimer quite this and god willing our next class will be in yerushalayim iraqis have a great and blessed week