Torah & Charity will create redemption ציון במשפט תפדה ושבי׳ בצדקה Kabbalah Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz

Welcome to our class on. We're going to be learning a beautiful discourse in the Reb. The name of discourse is called the Reb said this which was shabas and it was that year was the fourth day in the month of in the year which is exactly 39 years ago. So again theic discourse is based on the verse where it says in the prophets with mishb with justice is going to be redeemed and the captives but stuck with chatter charity says it's known and spread out the the differentic discourses from the in every single generation on this verse starting with theidic discourse of the alterb in the beginning of the Torah portion And because we know that um the it's also the beginning of parasim and tora and also it's printed as the first discourse in it's a wonder a wonder because the beginning of parim is about the verse seem which is actually a verse from the para and thera itself it's the last verse but when it comes in in the in the the pro portion of in from this is listed the first discourse and he explains over there with an introduction what it says in the Torah that these words I'm commanding you today that's what the verse says so kazal tell us what does that mean that every single day it has to be like it's brand new and that's a a a major point in in serving Hashem that the whole tora every time you learn Tory to it's not like you're learning an old Torah, God forbid, you're learning it brand new as if right now Hashem is giving it to you. How does that happen? When you do a a general meditation and when you meditate, you come to the realization that everything is um like it's brand new. And not only that, even a step further, it's not only like it's new, but it actually it's new right now. Hashem is sharing this with you now. That's the way you're supposed to learn and that's the way you're supposed to live. It's brand new. It's right now. The revelation is right here right now. And this idea says is promised from on high because that's the whole idea of that every single day should be like new. And it's a it's a commandment and it's a promise. So it's a commandment and a promise. And so what happens is the way you're supposed to serve God with you're learning and when you're praying and you're doing mitzvot is if it's right now brand new brand new. You're receiving the revelation right now. and like explain the length in that discourse. And he goes on over there to explain new that's the way it's supposed to be. You learn, wow, it's brand new. Hashem is right now revealing it to me. But sadly, when you're not feeling it, it's brand new. So then it says, in other words, when you're supposed to be serving Hashem and it's not the way it's supposed to be. So then you need to be redeemed. Then you have to go back to your original source. And that's why it says that the redemption and the returning comes through two different ways of now we know what is the idea of it's referring to like explain the discourse and like he brings from the where it says so it says like the first so the first way is through through learning and the second thing is is through is is through charity and charity is referring to all the mitzvah now in this itself there's many many detail details. Why? Because the the literal translation of the verse is that when it says it's going on what it says right before that, what does that mean? No, those that are captive or those that are returning to their original spot of tion and they get redeemed also what through charity but you can say that the explanation is as follows that what what does that mean that even before you learn Torah even before Mishb you're learning Torah but you have to you need you need the help from Hashem that that that you should be learning Torah the way you're supposed to and especially you want to know what is exactly Hashem saying not to put in your own thoughts and get get sidetracked and and and And and like Kazal tell us in order to learn and to be able to be have clarity and stay focused what the Hashem's intent is. So you need in Hebrew it's called you need special help from Hashem. And since the the way Hashem operates is connected in other words you want Hashem's help. So then you have to do your part. You have to you have to do something. If you turn to Hashem help me that I should be able to learn and I should do it should be new. So you have you have to do your part. If you want Hashem to help you means you want Hashem to do charity with you. So therefore you go ahead and give charity. So by giving charity to someone else you're showing that you care and Hashem will care for you as well. Now but the fact is so you see he connects the two that the mishb is connected stuck and stuck is connect mishb but the fact is the verse doesn't say and and it bridges the two together and it says we redeemed through mishb and saka together. No but it's actually it's it divides the two. It says is Zion gets redeemed with with with with learning Torah and Shab the captives of charity. So what what do you see from here that the main the main explanation is like it's brought down that the the redemption of comes through Mishbah which is and the returning going out of out of of of being in exile um that comes through through charity. Well what does that mean? You're explain as follows. When it comes to the mark. There's no there's nothing to return. You you're you're right there. So therefore, if you're if you're not doing what you're supposed to, so you just need learning to mishb will say is enough. It will do it. And like he explains in the course that what what is what does mishb mean that everything should be in its right spot. In other words, you don't have to return it from from a from a lost space to to to its original spot. But you have to effect that if you're in the right spot, it should be the way you're supposed to be. So in other words, seeing means let's say you're sitting and you're learning, you're just lacking the motivation. You're lacking the same light. So learning more to you, you fire it up. It's not like you have to come from a place that you're not even not even you're not even inspired. You're not even sitting by the table. In other words, so that's the first level. Then there's a lower level. It's called the and in there's two different insights. One is from an expression of a shave, someone that's taken captive. And the other one is where you have to re um to return and and to the to its original spot. And in both of them, what you realize is that you basically left your your your your main space. Either you're basically held as a captive or you need something to bring you back to the space. It's not enough just learning to since you got involved in a very very low spot. In other words, you you you took upon yourself too much materialism. So, in order to bring you back to be more spiritual and to be more more more godly, it's not just enough to learn Torah because you're learning Torah, but you're lacking the the the light. But therefore, in order to be to to start sparkling again, you have to do the idea of charity. And not only charity but all the all the mitzvah because generally all the mitzvah the positive commandments and negative hand commandments in the physical world and or or by doing or by staying away not doing anything negative in the materialistic world when you you're busy doing physical mitzvah um in the physical world then you create to come back to its original source. Now there is one second we're saying you want to be returned from either returning or coming back to the right spot you do it through you do it through but we're saying it it applies to all the mitzvah the question is why are all the mitzvah called stuck you can say based in the altern chapter 37 and there's the 37 has the same numerical value as he because lament z is 37 he is hay is five and ba is two and lamin is 30 which is 37 like it's explained everything in the famous uh talk which is connected to the he the breath of the mouths of the children and also connected to the seven breaths that hashem used to create the world that what happens is when a person gives money to charity that mean you give money that you worked hard for or if you didn't work hard for but the fact is you could have used the money to literally sustain yourself so when you're giving charity You're literally elevating your total self by giving that charity either because you've worked for with your own with your old whole being or cuz you could have bought something that would have given you energy. So in other words, when a person gives charity, you're giving yourself and and and therefore when you do a mitzvah, you're elevating the ele you're elevating everything. Um you're elevating the world and and and especially to the mitzvah of charity. And that's why all the mitzvah is called stucker. Why? Because what's stuck? Suck is basically about elevating yourself and by doing a mitzvah you're actually elevating what? The physical world. Now the general rule is in everything in holiness there's a concept in cabala called which means the beginning is connected to the end. The end is connected to the beginning. There's always a connection between the beginning and the end. The end to the beginning. So therefore this that this verse is said we are the end of the because in the beginning after it speaks about terrible things. Why is that? Because the two things are connected and know the redemption and the returning is not through nullifying the things which are good in the beginning of Torah but on the contrary it's about transforming the the negative stuff in know creating his um creating the transformation. So what do you see from here? That in order that you should have sealing that Zion should be redeemed through through through learning Tory and the captain should go to go back to your place through through charity and doing all the mit and should be done in a complete way. It's not enough just to to nullify the negative stuff that's going on. But you actually have to transform it to good. It's not about getting rid of the negative. It's about transforming the negative to good. And like it's explained in reference to these days and which is the days of fasting that all these fasts are going to eventually go away when Mashiach comes. And not only that, not only they're going to go away, but they're actually going to come a y they're going to come a celebration and it's going to take days of joy joy rejoicing and celebration like the prophet says that in the future it's going to be for the for the house of of the Jewish people for days of joy and celebration holidays that truth and peace is going to love us. So the goal is for to create the transformation goes on to say you can say even even further that one of the qualities of Elohi is going to come Elijah is going to come is by transforming things which are negative into positive and like it's like it's like it's hinted in the end of the verse where it says which means truth and peace is going to love what was it referring to it's referring to the ultimate completion and doing mitzvah because The ultimate way to do a mitzvah is not for a reward and not because it feels good. Not because even Hashem wants it. It commits us for this is the rat. This is the will of Hashem. Why is that? Because today in this world, not all the Jewish people are fulfilling all the 613 commandments. Why is that? Not because they don't want to. Because there are certain commandments apply only to a priest. Certain commandments only prior to a Levite or only to an Israelite and therefore not a priest, not an Israelite. And then there are certain commandments apply only to the king. And the king obviously um include you know tries to tries to elevate everyone else. Why? Because the king is the heart of the Jewish people. And the same thing also with the priests and um they they try to elevate the Jewish people because they they become their emissary etc. But the fact is come what's going to get revealed which means true and peace because we're going to have the ultimate and peace and we're going to have the ultimate of of peace which means everyone's going to be part everyone's going to be one and it's going to be like literally the whole Jewish people are going to do be one and everyone's going to be doing the you're the mitzvah of Hashem even the mitzvah that's that applies to a king why because the fact is all the Jewish people are are children of of of the king and not only not only are we children we actually are kings like like there was says the Zoro says we actually kings and to reach this level of the future. How does that happen? We want to we all want to reach but unfortunately we have to go through galot. You have to go through exile because when we go ahead in exile and we transform the negativity then we and by by learning to and doing and doing all the mitzvah we become to the ultimate completion of the full completion which is we're going to which we're going to experience and and and and live when Mashiah comes. Remember finish over and he says it says as follow the will of Hashem that when we do the completion of our work in in in this world and the way that we're all children of the king and we're all kings and as we do it with with tremendous power and stren tremendous strength and what we will fulfilled by us that in this world we're going to have a taste of what what it's going to be like of the doing the mitzvah for what's going to be like in the future when Mashia comes. Why? Because what is the idea of doing the mitzvah doing the mitzvah of the will of Hashem in the future is referring to literally about the sacrifices in the third temple and we know that the uh the ultimate mdash Hashem is going to create which we know the the bas is an everlasting bas and the fact is the everlasting on a literal level it's not only in the future but it's also on the present and on the past. So in other words, the bas of the future and everything about is everlasting. In other words, it always existed on a spiritual level and exists now. So therefore, it's possible you can experience today what it means to do the mitzvah of even today. And there's this is literally the idea of that the the base of mdash hashem created with his whole with his own hands which also existed in the mishk of that that that mob did and also in the first b mikdash and also in the second base mdash should be the will of hashem and we should have the revelation of the third base of mikdash it should happen very very soon very very quickly and it should happen in our generation. So here we have another beautiful discourse of the Reb about the idea of learning Torah giving charity doing the mitzvah doing the will of Hashem commits and even though again the ultimate completion we're not going to have to mashia come we can taste it to now and let's hope and pray like says we should have the coming of Msiah and our next class will be have a great and blessed week of