Vast Floods cannot quench Love מים רבים לא יוכלו לכבות את האהבה Kabbalah by Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz

welcome to this week's class on we're learning a beautiful discourse in the rebba the name of the discourse is called said this discourse that year was the fourth day of the month of in the year 60 years ago so again this this this discourse is based on the verse in the prophets where it says an abundance of water cannot extinguish the love that we have obviously the the the spiritual idea of the water since this week speaks about theak the flood so we're talking about the spiritual water says and he explains as follows that when someone is worried and concerned about his livelihood that is called Mayim just like wat is rushing so you're worried you're concerned about making a living Etc so even though someone has all these concerns and worries that cannot extinguish and it cannot wash away and canot get us defocused from the love that the Jewish people have of hem and hasem have for the Jewish people says that the the the point that's brought out in the discourse of the AL which is called Torah portion what is he bringing out with this idea that love what is love referring to love what does mean you love hem so the practicality is when a person sits and prays and you do what called avoid you're working in prayer and that's the that's the real love that's where the love for hasem gets expressed and like the Zoya says Les there's no prayer there's no connection like love forem which happens through prayer and like says like it's explained in the in the powerful um book called The cont of serving hem the difference between loving Hashem and being an or of AEM and he explains that love that's that's I mean or that's constant a person's always an or of AEM however the idea of love when this love gets un fired when this gets activated when gets that worked on that happens in prayer and it happens by learning mysticism and like it's explained many many places and especially in the teaching of um the reab in his book called now so that is what the idea the love what is mayin what is the abundance of water that's called the the worries and the concerns about earning a livelihood but nevertheless that will not extinguish the the love for hasem like we explained the love is our relationship with hem through prayer but on the contrary when we go ahead and yes even though we have worries and concerns and trying to pay the bills and try to you know to support families Charities Etc but when you your person does not get distracted and it doesn't affect your love and on the contrary you withstand the test so what happens is a concept cabala called from the darkness from the struggle when you overcome the struggle you have a much greater light because we come to the level like it says inma we come to the level we were able to serve AEM from a much deeper place and like for example the gives an example like if you have water that's flowing and then you all a you block the water so what happens when you block the the water so not only doesn't it block it but it actually creates a heavy Force afterwards because the water is going to over over overflow the blockage so the same thing also when the animal Soul tries to block and conceal The Godly Soul we become much stronger and we come to the level of a relationship withm which is called with all our might so therefore he explains over there the importance and since this happens when during prayer he explains the importance of prayer and and especially for those that are in business and to God forbid not to make of not to make the m not to go ahead and make the mistake that want to say no no that's not so why because the fact is they have much more may Robin they have much more w means they have much more challenges on the contrary they they because they have so much more therefore they have to focus more on the love for Hashem but the says but but in reference to those that s and learn so that for sure you don't have to you you don't you don't have to encourage them we don't have to remind them they have to pray why because that's self- understood and there's no there there's no thinking that like like someone that's in business maybe I maybe I shouldn't pray because again I'm not any not thinking that you shouldn't think that on the contrary of someone that's so busy learning and someone that does Mitzvah and someone that's in holy work for sure you have to pray more quantitatively and more qualitatively and you don't need for example a a command an instruction from a rebi or a leader in the generation to to to inspire you and guide you to pray or even like the hint to you have to pray and even if the person is not praying at length and um and you can think ah maybe they they know about it I'm not praying at length and no one told me anything so obviously I'm good I'm good but the fact is that's why it says in t that for for someone that's that that learning Torah you don't have to you don't have to in encourage or Inspire them because it's a simple thing that prayer is very very important to to activate and to motivate and to keep the love for hasem very very very very strongly and like say it's also explained in the the alterist T in the section GES the holy letters and he says over there as follows when it comes to shabas yto who should go ahead and be the the who should lead the prayer services a business person however during the week you can't really ask them to to to pray during the week because they're busy they're distracted they have to go to work and and and therefore they can't go ahead and lead a service um and especially when they're supposed to be when the idea of of aaz is he's supposed to being um elevating everyone's prayers and there are people that that have the time to pray longer and therefore it doesn't make sense that the one leading the service is going to try to do it quick and those that have times are are going to try to play longer so therefore who should pray the Ala says those that are basically sitting and then their parents are supporting them and they have the time to meditate and they have the time to to prolong in prayer but the fact is when it comes to prayer and shabas so that will depend on how they pray during the week like it's explained in in in in that um that prayer is like a blessing before you eat and just like we say in order to eat um who eats someone that prepared the food and more more time you spend preparing the food that's the type of food you going to have so the same thing also when it comes to the prayer um um uh on Shabbat those that prepared in the prayer during the week they're going to have obviously a whole different prayer on Shabbat and know by know so by by going ahead during the week and even though guess quantitatively you don't have the time for a prolonged prayer but you can spend time a few minutes meditating on prayer then you'll Merit that on Shabbat is it's going to you're going to qualitative qu qualitatively and quantitatively pray more so the saying is again when it comes to during the week yes a businessman doesn't have the time to pray as much but he does have the the the the the little time he has to focus more intently and when you focus more intently then comes in shabas you have to pray longer and with more intensity and this applies to every single person and if a person is going to want to so to speak argue with the Reb um and you're going to want to somehow like you know have a debate with the albb says it's better that if you feel like you can debate the AL try to use that energy and that time to learn his mysticism and especially that that people learn from that how much know how much more so in other words people say oh if they don't uh pray for long Etc no on the contrary a person should spend time praying and praying intently and like um like said he gives an example they used to say like for a joke that some people some someone would go ahead and what he would do he would take his Talis put it on over his head for a half an hour and he wasn't praying but he went to sleep but no one saw in other words he put the tals over his head and people think he's praying but the reality is he's sleeping so why is he doing it so because even because he's not ready to pray he doesn't have the mindset Etc but he'd like at least another person should think that maybe he's he's thinking something deep in and and therefore they're not going to learn from him they're not going to learn from him that the negative and they'll learn from him that you have to you you have to pray now the fact is Reb says that um once the the the rebba said that at one point they used to write um a letter to the rebba and they would write that it should have an effect in in me and for those that are hearing and the whole the same ideas it should affect me and those that are listening to it now this that affect me or not that's not important the main thing it should affect everyone here and especially those that that are listening that this is something that the alter wanted and he demanded from them and not like the the the like the mistake of people think okay learn pray a little bit with int intention because if if that's the case Al wouldn't write that you should pray for an hour and a half and since he wrote you should pray for an hour and a half that means you have to pray for an hour and a half and and deep thought and deep concentration um and not like some people say oh today's not like the olden days in laage but no on the contrary you have to pray you have to focus and it's important to to to to connect to Hashem through prayer because that will give you the that will build the love that you have and that and Serv something interesting that's what we say we calls a businessman balim a person with a lot of business because one sometimes we find the expression b as that uses the singular term and so and and the same thing also when it says when reference to a o someone that's sitting and learning that uses the singular and the fact is that in the Torah we find the Expressions oil and plural and but but nevertheless it's we we find that it's called oil so why when it comes to something that says plural something singular and why when it comes to soone learning it also we have the expression singular and plural he says when it comes to someone that's a bali Asic someone that's in business so we understand why it says a suck in plural why because since they where are they they're out in the street they're in a public and they come in contact with many other business people so that's why I use the Expression not singular as but used the expression of plural because again he's out in the street in a in in a public place and he's dealing with other business people and so what is what is the lesson from here the lesson is that you shouldn't just worry about yourself that you should pray but the goal is that other you shouldn't just like you're in the street and you're you're meeting other people Inspire them to pray as well so that's why he says Bal suak in plural however when it comes to someone that's learning to so what's the lesson by by someone that's learning that says plural and explains like this he explains it based on what a teaching of the the in his classical works and based on the verse that it says in Genesis and over there it says that tense it's plural and it's referring to two types of tense why because we know there's the literally the tent of Shame and there tent of a two different types of schools but what does that mean practically because there's the written law and there's the oral law two types of two types of learning in other words it's referring to learning that the written law from the written law from hasem because we know that all the whole Torah is basically the names of hem and the um shame comes from the names of hm is all all Torah and AA is referring to T so what what what's the lesson we have there's a powerful lesson just like when it comes to a b a business business person it obviously it's applying to him it doesn't only apply when he's out there and inspiring other people but applies to him as an individual as well so the same thing also when it comes to to someone that's learning T that the idea of prayer applies to both areas in other words not only to someone that learns and but even if someone that sits in the in in the tent of Shame which means we said before what does shame mean that the whole Torah the written Torah is the names of hem so even someone just learns the written tah and the same thing also someone L learns the oral tah know he has e one or the other or he has both and for example what when you when you when you learn T the the um the oral tah and you learn it basically just like reading and you're not going in depth because the fact as we know the difference between the written Torah and the oral Torah that basically when you read the written Torah you have to say what it's saying you can't you can't change a vowel you can't change a letter you can't change a word because it's the written T there's there's no room for any any changing um because if if you're not pronouncing it the right way it means you didn't understand what he's saying it's a different different translation that's when they're written to on the other hand when it comes to the oral tah it's just the opposite and know oh the only how do we know that you understood it is after you learned it you're able to repeat it in your own own words and that's the whole purpose of learning other words besides the fact that you have to say things in in in the name of the teacher that you learned it because the goal is to repeat it in your own words and maybe you didn't understand what the teacher is saying and and when you when you when you you when you uh when you when you share it in your world your words so then they get it oh he got it now what happens is so by you have to say the way it says you have to use your own words but what do we tell this person even if he only has the idea of and or you only has know and and even you're saying it in a simple way it means you don't know what you're saying so you can think ah listen I'm a ter person I say what it is and repeat what it says I don't have my full I can't you know totally own it so you're going to think oh when it comes to prayer that's much harder do nothing to do with me so what's the lesson even if he's just in the oil of Shame even if he's just a simple person he still has to go ahead and meditate and spend time praying and and cultivating that love for hem but and even though he's gonna say one second he didn't learn enough and he doesn't understand so how's he going to pray so therefore we say no no no even if you're an oil you're one type of person person you still have to pray and you still have to meditate you still have to develop you develop that love for hem and that's why it says may him which is referring to all the distractions that we have of of of trying to earn a livelihood and all the confusion and all the static but nevertheless that through prayer um uh through uh through through through praying you're actually going to become to much deeper much deeper level and just like someone that's in business that even though you have all distraction but by med by being able to to to to continue to pray and to clean the love of hem you will able to able to overcome it and that's why the verse says that even a person gives which means it's referring to the idea of of intellect a person's like you know intellectually powerful and um but nevertheless he said listen I I rather I rather study i' rather comprehend things Etc so he said no no no prayer is even better than that and and the verse says that the prayer will give you much more blessings then it goes on to say what happens to which is another level in a Rel relation with hem so and and so it comes afterwards again that a person still has to pray unfortunately we don't have the full end of the discourse but again we have a beautiful discourse in the rebba May importance of prayer because prayer will feed the love for hem and as long as we have the love for hem all the things that are bothering us and distracting us the love for hem Will Keep Us focused and will be able to stay stay focused with hem and have like say all the greatest and most powerful blessings that comes through the struggle thanks so much for joining us for our weekly class and let's hope like we always finish our next class will bees have a great and blessed week sh of