We create our redemption. פדה בשלום נפשי A New Kabbalah class by 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 re said this discourse on the 19th day of the month of in the year 47 years ago and went on to certify and edit this discourse on the 19th of kave in the year 38 years ago so again this discourse is based on the verse in the in in Psalms where King David says redeem my soul and peace be cly from those that were close to me be because multiple people were with me that's the verse says we know what the AL who the day of his Liberation says in his holy letters in reference to the Redemption of the 19 of and he says as follows when I was reading in the Book of Psalms this verse before I started the next verse I went out in peace from God with with god with with God's peace in other words that his the alter Redemption is connected to the verse of and there from here you see that also in reference to the Redemption of his son the one that took over his leadership the middle of rebba and he was redeemed on the on the tent of klave it's also connected to the verse ofi why because this verse is in the when you take the Psalms and you divide it based on the day of the month is on the 10th day of the month and that's the day he was redeemed and he like to connect this with the long explanation um of of the class discourse of so that so far the Al and say also the Redemption of the previous rebba on the 12th and the 13th day of of tamas who basically took over the leadership obviously after he was the the leader is also connected why because we see that many discourses connected to the IDE to the day of start with this verse you can say this idea know the connection of the Redemption to is um also connected to the fact that the 19th day of the month of kle the day of the alar Liberation was on Tuesday and we know Tuesday is the day that the Torah it says twice it was good and so that's Point number one also The Liberation was when in the third month and know when you count the months from the in the Torah the we become a people starting from Nissan that's the first month but from the from the months of of starting with the third month so he was redeemed on the third day of the month also it's the third the third month and also the Redemption of the M which is on the 10th day of the month of K and the the previous which on which was on the 12th was also on a Tuesday why because the fact is that the Redemption of the mid on the 10th of K wasn't a Tuesday and the Redemption of the the previous Reb which is in the 12th of Thomas also on Tuesday which again says twice is good why is that because the main revolutionary idea in this verse of that my soul was redeemed in peace it's not so much the focus on the Redemption yeah Redemption is important but the fact that the Redemption was done in the way of peace and re says what and three there three the third day of the week and the third month and three is connected to peace three is connected to peace and that that's the that's the connection now this verse of there's two there's two ways to translate the verse one way the literal translation is King David was saying that God redeemed him in other words God God redeems righteous people that knows a literally that God redeemed David and also from all the wars that he was in like like for example it says in thei that he that that that hem redeemed his soul in peace is referring to the war that King David had with a shal and the same thing also with the Redemption that took place of the 19 of K of the ALB the 10th of K of the M Reb the 12th of thas of the previous rebba that God redeemed all these righteous people so the first idea of means literally God is Redeeming the souls again what was said by King David and obviously all theik all the righteous people the Redemption that's one Insight another Insight in brings T that says that God says whoever learns toyra does charity and praise with the community is as if you're redeeming Hashem know the person that's learning toyra doing a mitvah and praying you're redeeming hasem so it's thus the opposite the first ins is Redeeming the the second Insight is that we by doing our part learning tah doing MIT and praying we're redeeming we're redeeming Hashem says we have to understand the connection between these two opposite insights and know besides the fact that we know that when you have many commentaries on one verse there's a connection but more than that says the fact that in the cic discourses of from the alas of the pre previous Reb and obviously we know then there was literally redeemed the rim out of of their prison and and and but over there in these discourses many of them um in the right in the beginning um they bring that teaching of kazal that whoever learns T and praise of the community and does charity you're redeeming hem so you see there's some kind of deep connection between these two and the question is what is the connection between these two Tech seemingly opposing insights now even though AC even according to the the the teaching theal so and that so that the verse is referring to the the redeem redeeming not only Hashem but it's also Redeeming the Jewish people like Hashem says you redeemed me yeah we're redeeming hasem but you're also Redeeming the the Jewish people and matter of fact in the commentary of of the mar he explains over there that the saying um know those that are close to me referring our children so we're also being redeemed but that's referring to again obviously who's being redeemed Hashem and the Jewish people but the factors doesn't change the fact that when says redeeming who's the one that's doing the Redemption so again according to the little little insight Hashem is redeeming redeeming King David and and the RAB that were in prison but according to that according to the teaching that that we're Hashem is saying that you're redeeming me who's the one Redeeming the Jewish people are redeeming and again seemingly it's opposite and the question is how do the two go together understand this with an introduction at these three ideas learning toyra giving charity and praying with the community that through that we literally we redeem Hashem and his children so we know that these three components learning ter giving charity and praying are the three pillars that the world stands on and like the um that it's brought down in one of the commentaries and the Raj other commentaries Etc now since that the The Establishment and the the the upholding of the world comes from these three pillars again learning t doing um giving charity and praying so obviously you must say if that upholds the world it existed even in the beginning of creation of the world now one second you say what me the fact is we know that when hasem why did hasm create the world so it's brought down and says decid of his own kindness to create the world now after he created it so now we uphold the World by doing our part and was learning to praying and doing mitz but nevertheless even though yes the world he decided to do good but since the intent of the creation begin with why did create the world so we know he created the world for two reasons for the Jewish people and for the Torah so therefore you must say that these three ideas of learning Torah praying and doing mitv that uphold the world that existed also when when when the world was originally created so how how does that work if we know that the world was created says the idea behind is as follows we know there's a powerful teaching for the mar of MZ and of the alter and uh which is called obviously on their name So based on what it says in kazal so the literal say as follows you should know what's above you that's the literal translation but what what what is the what is the what is the is Rich the alach no no no you want everything that's that takes place on high comes from you we create the reality we create the reality and he goes on to expl explain in the continuation of this idea that when a person does their spiritual work in this world that's what happens on high even before you did it so it's a deeper it's a deeper thought first thought is that what we create the reality the the deeper thought is that even before we create it since we're going to create it the reality already created like the explains and he says based on the verse that says God says let's make man in our IM our image so he says for he gives an example like that um a person has a child and when because the the the tremendous love that a parent has of a child so the the image of the child gets engraved in the in in the parents uh thought in the parents brain now so therefore since by hasem past present and future is the same thing so therefore the image of the Jew people and yes the way we are the we are actually created later on and the way we're down in this world so it is exists already in the thought of hasem even before we created and that's why when it says before created the world it says who do he consult with with creating the world it says he consulted with with the The Souls of sadik and righteous people in other words this that Hashem knew that he's going to get tremendous pleasure with the work of sadik and people that pray and Le so this existed this pleasure even before he created the world and because of this pleasure that he foresaw that's what that's the power and the energy he used to create the world and that's why these three pillars of learning T praying and and charity existed even in the beginning of creation because since God went ahead and he constrained himself with in the in the image of the Jewish people even before we created so when we go ahead and learn T and pray and do which is the three pillars of and also thought speech and action so that that reality gets created on high even before hasem created the world the image OFA the three those kindness discipline and and and and beauty thought speech and action and through that where the world was created so almost like saw the future based on the future he used it to create the world now but nevertheless this that get created on high you know by us doing our our spir our spiritual work before we do it it's not the same level as after we do it yes sure hasem sees we're going to do it and that's the inspiration to create the world but you can't compare the way he envisions it happen to when it actually happens and like we know the famous teaching where it says tells us words to Jacob the statutes and the laws to is to to the Jewish people in other words that and and and what does it mean that the the the words and the statutes and the laws that God basically does the Mitzvah so there two components when we say that God does the Mitzvah and he explains as follows the first idea is like K tell us based on the verse knows whatever Hashem does he tells the Jewish people to do in other words what does that mean first Hashem does the mitz and that gives us Jewish people power to do the mitz in the words ofab it's called it's an Awakening from high is doing the MIT and that inspires us to do the mitz that's the that's one one perspective the other perspective is that when the Jewish people do the Mitzvah so that causes the Mitzvah to to to be created on high that does which means in the cabalistic terminology that it's a an Awakening from high means is Awakening based on our work now so this idea in mitz that gets accomplished through the fact that we do the Mitzvah obviously it's much higher than the Mitzvah that do own like for example the an Awakening that comes through doing the avoid down here which is much higher that of of an Awakening saying is like this anytime there's an Awakening from on high and inspires us to do it that's amazing but what's much higher when we do our part and that inspires The Awakening on high so there therefore even though hasem knew what we're going to do but once we do it it's much more powerful in other words and like he explains just like the mitzo that that God does which he does based on we're doing the Mitzvah it's much higher and much deeper and much stronger than the Mitzvah does on his own so the same thing you can say in reference to the Mitzvah that hasem does that gets accomplished by else doing the Mitzvah that the Mitzvah that hasem does after we do it not in in theory but in reality is much higher than mitvah be before we do it you know there there's the real power in the action once you do it it becomes much stronger so basic explains what it says which teach us based on the verse it says in the Torah when created the world says there was evening there was morning and it was a sixth day so what is a sixth day technically it's a sixth day of creation and and um and and we know the main part of creation is the sixth day why is the main part of the creation sixth day because that's when Adam was born the first man was was born and like we say in in the prayers of referring to the sixth day of creation was the beginning what do you mean the beginning was on the first day creation why is the Sixth Day called the beginning because that's when Adam was created so the same thing also applies to the 19th of kle which is the Redemption of the altar from prison which we call the high holidays for the teachings of and the ways of and because this day of that is the day which creates the completion in the intent why we're created on on on the sixth of of of of of day of creation Man was created but when you have that that creates the intent why we're created to transform the world now so this sixth day of creation which is basically the day that man was created and it's connected to the day of that's when our tent our tent is is is is is established is dependent on what on hashishi the other sixth day what's the other sixth day the sixth day in the month of Sion and the month of Sion we know the sixth day the that's the day we receive the T because hasem made a condition with with when he created the world that if the Jewish people accept the toyra on the sixth of Sion then the world's going to Esta to continue and if not unfortunately it's going to fall apart another words this a God made a condition with the sixth day of creation and he conditioned it on the sixth day of the month of so what it comes out from here that this that the the the the strength and the establishment of the sixth day of creation of the world is connected to the sixth day of c and it's not whether Hashem is like maybe it will happen maybe it won't because that's the truth because God knows that we're going to accept the obviously we have to accept it but God knew we were going to accept it and does he like that add that since we say that if that we accept the her that's a condition in the creation of world so even though hasm knew it before when does it really happen it happens when when it gets complete so there was the same idea when hasem created the world in sixth day he's creating the world and say it's going to last pending on us accepting it but guess what he knew we're going to accept it and therefore he was good with it but when does it really happen when is the condition fulfilled not when he knows or when he thinks so when he has binoculars he can see in the future no it happens when we actually do it now so one you're going to say what do you mean the fact is if we accept hasem knew in the beginning but besides the fact yeah Hashem knew on a spiritual level as we said God past present and future the same thing but the fact is in the world didn't exist we still didn't do the mest in the world yet and therefore the the to to um certify and to say for certain that the world EX is existing doesn't happen till the sixth day of Sian and when the Jewish people accepted the T in reality in the physical world on the sixth of Sian that's when everything got elevated and and and even the idea of accepting the tah the way it was in hashem's thought but again it's only in the thought the goal is that's what it has to happen in reality now idea is like this and like he explains before he's referring to a different course myin that the elevation that happens to the soul when the soul comes down into this world the question is what do you mean what the fact is before the soul came down to this world the soul was connected to the infinite part of hm the essence of hem the the essence ofm and that's what Hashem consulted to create the world in other words when Hashem consulted with the souls what he should create the world all the souls are on the level of s and like it says clearly consult with the souls but when we do our spiritual work of learning to and doing MIT in reality when we come down to this world that's when we come on the level ofua every single person when you learn you do mitz you come to the level of returning to like the verse says the spirit returns to the one that gave us and like it's explained at length in that discourse now based on what's known that the ultimate intent of the Soul coming down in this world world the reason why the soul comes down to this world is to fix and transform the physical body the animal soul and the physical world the body the soul and the world so you can say that this effect in the world and in the body and the animal soul that happens through the soul that is the that's called chuva that's called transformation means elevating all the Sparks know in the cabalistic term it's called the light the light that turn that goes back to that goes back to its source you're elevating it that's idea of CHA and on the contrary the ultimate intent why the soul comes down is not for the The Godly soul to return is connect to God but it's to the purpose is to transform and Elevate the sparks in the world the the doing truva in the world and that's obviously much higher than the repentance that takes place through the says he'd like to connect this idea with the teaching of the maret of who was celebrating his based on the verse that says in the Torah Canan that yakob sat and he settled in the land of his father s joury in the land of Canan so the so the mar translates and explains that yak was a holy man and he went down from his high level to come down to reality into Earth erots ERS materialism and know like the soul comes down down to this world up to the point by Yes Yes means like he's he's spending time in the physical world why is he doing that M so what does m mean so he explains M comes from Gathering you know it's like you you're you're you're you're Gathering stuff what is what is he Gathering he's Gathering the holy Sparks and he wants to take them and to elevate them so have a beautiful teaching on the M that what that g came down to go ahead and Elevate the holy Sparks now in this powerful teaching of of the mar of mes in the beginning he explains before he explains the idea of holding this the holy Sparks he says M what does m mean it's referring to the year hasem to being an O of hem and like the expression of M comes from the word of M it's like the expression of being an O and so therefore what does it mean by that came down which means even though the erit even though yakob came into the Earth even though he got involved in physicality and materialism and this world and not only that but he was not only in erots but he was in ER Canan and like Canan comes from the idea of of of of of trickery know he's he's with Wicked people but nevertheless even though he's an ER even though he's an A's Kanan even though he's gets involved in the world but nevertheless MRI he kept his year Hashem he kept his all for Hashem very very strong so that's the first idea he explains and then afterwards he explains another Insight that MRI of means that he gathered the holy Sparks so there's two points to MRI of first point is that even though he's in the world guess what he remained strong with his offer AEM the second thing is that he was doing a job he was elevating the sparks in this world says you can say that these two insights is the same two components like like we learned before that happens when the soul comes down into this world in other words in the beginning he talks about the tremendous power of the soul that when that comes down to this world that even though it comes into this world the physical world the materialistic world and it comes to the land of Canan but nevertheless it remains God-fearing and by doing that um it actually gets elevated like before that's the first component and especially like it's explained in ter ear um in the the in the in the the the inside that starts with and you have also the the different um footnotes of the and he explains that when the soul comes down and it over and is able to overcome all the concealments and all the distractions of the body and all the things that it's doing in Exile and nevertheless even though it's here it still awakens its love for hasem it's a for hasem so the love and the a even though we had it before it's much stronger it's much stronger so that's the first comp oon of the sh going coming down to this world and afterwards he explains the next level that when the sh when the soul comes down to this world which is the ultimate intent why it's come down here why is it down here to elevate and to gather the holy Sparks and bring it on high so that's the same idea of the teaching of M which means it's and elevating the Sparks says you can say that um that this insight and explanation of M which means Gathering the holing Sparks which comes into continuation of having being and the connection of these two different insides is also explained in and he explains for the two ideas of M know one is the expression of you and also like a treasure they they're really both one even though in over there he explains that M comes an expression of treasure and explain the idea of and like he gives the verse that year is hasem the or of hem is is a treasure and then he brings another verse that that that year is a treasure but you can say that the connection between these two insights is even according to the teaching of the maged that MRI comes from the idea of of of gathering which is referring to the um elevating the holy Sparks but back to the main point saying is that the main transformation and elevating the Sparks know it's like mures it's Gathering the Sparks how does it happen it happens by by by being an or of AEM know by having being living on the level of I'll say in HEB I'll translate when you when a person behaves in a way of a bit of an evid you means you're totally levels of an acceptance you have years hem and what do that mean practically that your whole intent in what you're doing is you're not doing it for yourself you have no agenda and you're not even doing it to cleave to hasm because that's also an agenda but the only reason why you're doing what you're doing is because you want to serve hem you want to make a dwelling place for down here and that's how you can accomplish um transforming the world in a complete level so was tying the two together that when a person basically has years sh when you're over and it's all about hem then you'll have the real power what it takes to transform the sparks in Exile now this transformation of the world which takes place through the three different aspects of learning tah praying and and charity and um but and obviously says all three has to be like we learned before in a level of year you have to be in like we know it says in t very very clearly the beginning of serving hem the main part of serving hem and the source of serving hasem is when you serve hem with year with a in other words just like when hm created the world so hasem created the world based on what the three different attributes so the same thing also the transformation of the world up to the point where the world comes a dwelling place for hem happens through by doing the work in these three components and that's why he says by y sat what does that mean transforming the world who's how how do you transform the world through Yakov what does Yakov represent he's the third of the Patriarchs and we know he's called the choice of the Patriarchs why because he he's because he includes all three as we know yakob is connected the sphere of the FIS which basically includes within like it says clearly the god of Abraham and the tration of Y that so he know yob had a his own to F but also within him he has his grandfather Abraham which ised and his father which what represents gur and that's why we know the t is also called the T of three and the same thing also many things m t disc connect the idea of three why because the ultimate purpose of giving the Toyah is to transform the world and like we know it says that to was given to create peace in the world and that happens by the three different areas of um of of of of of the power of three thought spech and action and learning to praying and do doing and that's why tell us based on the verse that whoever learns T and whoever does charity and whoever prays with the community you redeem me other the Redemption of the sparks in this physical world that happens by redeeming ring Hashem and his children from from the Nations world that happens through our spiritual work of to learning to and praying and doing mitv now as follows since the ultimate intent while the soul comes down into this world why is why is why is the soul come down into this world it's not coming down to this world because of some kind of elevation that happens through the theama but it comes down to go ahead and transform and Elevate the Sparks that's in this world that's the reason why it's down it to elevate the Sparks so you can say that this that a person does his spiritual work in the three areas of learning praying and doing so it elevates the three of so how does that happen it happens by doing these by by doing the three of Torah and prayer and MIT that elevates the Sparks and that creates the transform of of transformation World which that's the ultimate intent now basic this says he'd like to unify the two different insights in like we brought in the beginning of discourse in other words what what is the simple meaning the simple meaning is that Kem is redeeming um the King David and the different sadik and the second Insight is that the Jewish people are redeeming God and the People by learning T and and doing MIT and praying so what's how do you how do you fuse it to n is very very simple this that hasem goes ahead and redeems King David and all the sikim and everyone in this world and up to the point that literally that in the time of Exile the famous saying that says is notm is not sleeping and he's not dozing off he's always watching over us God is watching the Jewish people on nervous say spiritually and physically he's watching us that nothing should happen to us and like it's explained at length in the in the in the in the the psalm of Yos and not only that but afterwards hasm is going to take us out of Gus how does that all happen that happens by us doing our part in the three areas of to mitz prayer and that's how we create that God redeems we redeem God and the Jewish people out of gas and and and and and through that you have the Redemption which basically is the first first in where has redeems us and it's actually much higher than if hasm just came and redeemed us because if hasm comes redeems us it's amazing right we're redeemed but if we hasm redeems US based on the fact that we do our part the Redemption is much stronger much more powerful and he and he points out and he says whoever is busy and occupied comes from like business like you're you're you're intensely involved in learning T in other words when you're learning T and doing mitos and giving charity and praying you're doing it in a way of a as of a business what does that mean and he explains very simple just like somebody's involved in business so you're you're preoccupied you're totally intensely involved all all throughout the day and even um when you're not actually doing business but you're still thinking about it so the same thing also when it comes to learning tah that you're busy learning Torah all day long even when you're not learning T you're thinking about Tah know even when you're busy with with whatever errands or materialistic things of stuff you're doing but you're doing it what for the sake of hasem up to the point like we says everything you're doing want to knowm know even when you're dealing with materialistic physical things all you're thinking about is knowing hem and knowing the Torah and when a person does that that means you you intensely involv in Torah then you create part we create peace in everything and peace in all our our attributes peace in every part of our soul and we create peace on high peace on down this world and these two these two ideas we have in the the soul of every every every human being and we create real peace between the creation and the Creator and that the Jewish people through toyra become connected to Hashem become toly one in in in physically in this in this world and other besides the fact that the world will not stop you and won't distract you from Ser serving hem but on the contrary the world agrees with it and it actually helps you everyone's in agreement that you should connect to that means even the holy spot Mar s are standing with a yearning a strong yearning and they're praying and they're saying please Elevate me just like that the mult with me literally that even the people of they prayed for the success of King David and the verse says what does mean there two levels of Peace like he explains in that means you have peace comes down from High down below um coming down from high below is through basically bring learning to you bringing in Godly light into this world doing MIT brings God light into world and the peace elevating the world which is basically the the spiritual service of chva up to the level of returning to Hashem that the spirit returns to Hashem and literally the in the soul and the body and will have many many long gears and good gears and even while it's in the body even while it's in the body it's in the level of returning to Hashem and up to the point like it says the verse that you'll see your life in this world you'll you you'll see the real blessings in in the physical life and these two ideas are connected to what again back to the main point learning to praying in the with the community with aan and and giving charity um and and as we know like by learning T and doing doing doing charity doing MIT you're drawing it down on the other hand by through prayer you're actually going ahead and elevating it and that's they finish off and he say says like this this is real peace like tell us I'm going to get peace in the earth and then it says and a sword is not going to go into the land and say even a sword of Peace So says we know what what what what's it says going to give peace and not even a sword what's what what does it mean a sword of peace and every explain spiritually says like this what is a sword of Peace it's referring to prayer and regular piece is with there's not even a sord of piece is referring to referring to Tyra so so prayer is it's it's conflict it's peace but it's a conflict it's called The Sword of Peace T it's just peace like God like Godly light comes in the world so basic explains beautifully the order that of the teaching kazal that it says if you look at the kaz's teaching it says whoever is occupied like you explained before obsessed with learning ter ter comes first giving charity and praying so he the question is he says one second what's the first thing he he mentions learning ter which we said that's that's pure peace and then charity and then prayer but the fact as we know the the schedule of the day is that learning tah comes after praying which comes after giving charity because we know before you pray you give you should give um some some some money to charity so the normal procedure is you give money to charity you pray and then you learn Torah so why does it say over here prayer first and never explains because the true level of pieces comes through learning Tah which is called and there a way that you're learning T that's that's that's your life and this is by learning tah and especially learning the internal part of T that is something which is it belongs to everybody and and everyone has the ability to to learn T and everyone has the power to learn ter as much as they can every every every single day in other words that when you're learning TR even if you're taking out an hour that hour should be this is my business I'm totally focused because the fact is when you're learning T that hour when you're totally focused there's not the world doesn't even exist and then your learning is Everlasting which means you affect that throughout the day everything you're doing and everything throughout your life should be a life based on tah when you behave that way this becomes a a proper preparation for the time when messiah's going to come cuz what's going Messiah comes the whole world's going to busy with what one thing to know Hashem and we know the true knowing of hem is like the re taught us that when a person learns the which is basically teaching on the par and he says he says this I'll say it and I'll translate it you hear the essence of hem and by learning that and by hearing it you have the power that it should be in everyone that follows the footsteps and like like like the theab Tau Us in reference where where it says and he explains that every single one of everyone every one of thean people that learns and prays with their heart you hear he used a deeper word d you like literally hear and absorb and you feel that that that um that everything comes from from from from our and that's why it says my soul was redeemed in peace and what doesm say whoever is busy learning Torah and whoever is busy giving charity and you're praying with the community is if you redeem me and we know that when Hashem says that is it's reality when he says it it's reality now but the fact is when in the beginning it's only as if we redeemed him is like if we redeemed him and if we don't see it with our our physical eyes but the factors afterwards it comes down in reality into the physical world that we really literally redeem Hashem and the Jewish people from the nations of the world literal Redemption not as if no we actually redeem it and what's going to happen is we're going to have the whole world's going to be busy with doing what learning tah and giving charity and praying with with aan on on the highest level in the complete level like it says we're going to do the mitvah what kind of Mitzvah like the will of hem on the highest level of doing what Hashem wants when is that going to happen it's going to happen with the coming of Messiah and finishes off beautifully and he says he should come and he should redeem us and he should take us standing upright to the and should happen very very soon and like the like the tum translates by literally in our generation so let's hope and pray by learning this we will experience the most powerful energy of God and like finishes off we'll have the coming of Mah and let's hope and pray that next class will bees have a great and blessed week Shabu to