What are our Spiritual Gates? שופטים ושוטרים תתן לך בכל שעריך Kabbalah by Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz

welcome to this week's class on we're going to be learning a beautiful discourse in the Reb the name of discourse is called theb said this discourse which is the fourth day in the month of in the year 57 years ago so again the discourse is based on the verse in this week's tah portion where it says that judges and officers you should put on all your Gates now says falls out most cases in the month of in other words sometimes um it's in the month in the the month the shabas that blesses the month of Al and sometimes it's in the month of however is always in the month of so therefore you have to say that it has a connection with the mon and like we know what it says in sh that every Torah portion has a connection with the week that is taking place and especially like we know the teaching of the Alba that we have to live with the time you have to live with the times so what does that mean that there's a connection with now theah judges and officers to put up which was um given to the the to the community that should establish the Sanhedrin the the the judges that they should rule the Jewish people a righteous Justice and this this this uh Mitzvah is applies only in the times of the temple and in the times of the temple specifically it was an all the gates and it was every single City every single Province every single tribe but it only took place in the land of Israel not outside the land of Israel however now that we are in gut and we don't have the Sanhedrin but nevertheless we do have the times of Galos the idea of and not physically but spiritually and in every place and that's why it says to you every single individual that the idea of and applies to every single person even outside the land of Israel and even in gas so says he brings from the med says as follows he gives a m he gives a parable that a person that had multiple children and he loved his youngest son more than anyone and he had lot a lot of possessions and he had an orchard that he loved more than anything else so the king says I'm going to give the thing that I love the most to the child that I love the most so the same thing Al that's a parable so the same thing also hasem says I love the Jewish people the most like it says loves us and it says loves justice so I'm going to give the Mish the Justice to the Jewish people and through that I'll be able to reside my my my my presence amongst them so says one second what's the connection between these two ideas with M and residing amongst the Jewish people so he says well understand this based on introduction of what the uh one of the commentaries on the Torah called and it's also brought down in um on the Torah portion So based on what it says in the verse judges and officers should put in all the gates so he says that which is Gates there's two insights the way to translate Gates one is what are the gates know practically it's referring to the 248 limbs that we have in a body that's one opinion the other opinion the gates are referring to the seven Gates that we all have and like it says in in the book of Y what are the seven Gates that we have it's the two eyes the two ears the two holes in in our nose and then the mouth so that's total seven Gates and from these seven Gates it goes into the 248 limbs like the like the like the first Insight so again the gates are one opinion is a 248 limbs the other ones the seven Gates which is the ears the eyes the nose and the mouth and from there goes into the limbs now these four ideas these seven gates are really four things that the ears um and then the eyes and then the nose and the mouth so these four is connected to what the four letters in's name why because the eyes and the ears are connected to the idea of and the the the the nose is connected to Z the small face which is six Mido or and which is the main component of Z and the m is connected to what to Mal speech powerful stuff um eyes ears nose and mouth it's connected to the four letters of hashem's name which is also the way the sphere surv theid and and it's brought down in in in saf that these seven gates are actually double why because you have the way the gates um interact with the Godly soul and then you have the way the gates interact with the animal Soul so that's one double in The Godly Soul itself there's also a double because you have the the the the seven Gates so they interact with the attribute of the right side and all the everything that that spins off the right and then you have the way the gates interact with the gura with the left side and everything that that comes from from from from from the the left side and so that's another idea and also that we know that in the letters there's something which is called a dogos and a r in other words dogos means that you're you're you're underscoring which is the idea of gur strength um and your and then R which is more loose is the idea of in other words that they're both they're both coming from a place of Holiness but it's two two different Paths of Holiness like for example there's a people that are strict and that's one way of serving hem and there's people more more easygoing it's another way of serving hem and guess what it goes back to history from the times inal and the Mish was very very strict he had the Doug had to be like this was more loose and more lant and because we know sh is connected to the attribute of and B is the attribute of and they're both holy not one is right and wrong two different paths and like we see for example many times the law is like B more strict and there's times the ruling is like B which is more kindness and they're both Holiness and therefore we see that literally sometimes the law is like B and like it says in the and idas and the same thing also with the uh another double of the of the of the of two in The Godly Soul itself you have kindness and severity and from here you have where it goes out what to all the different limbs okay so now we know what what what what what what the gates are the the gates we're putting on these officers so that's why it says you put a judges and officers on the Gates which we already learned all the different levels of the gates the the limbs and the the different access to us and the right and the left Etc that the what is the job of a judge he's to go ahead and give a ruling that which means say we ourselves not someone else we have to give make a ruling we we we have to think um we have to make a decision um practically what to do because the fact is there there there is the we know that thear is working overtime and like the like the teaching of theed that sometimes the actually gets clothed in a very very fancy silky garment and he dresses up like a religious person and a Godly person and he convinces you from a Godly place to rebel against hem so therefore you need to be a you need to be a real judge so you have to ask yourself this voice that I'm hearing is it coming from Holiness or is it coming from the opposite of Holiness so that's a you have to make a decision you have to be able to analyze is coming from a holy place or the opposite afterwards you have what something is called then you have the the off officers what's the difference between a judge and officer literally now the the the the judge is basically who gives you Clarity intellectually what's right and what's wrong the job of an officer is just to just to execute what what what what what what the vision is and the same thing also applies on in our spiritual service of of hem that first we need to have the ruling just like the intellect and then you have the the to to actualizing it which is the emotions that comes comes into practically so therefore so what what comes out from here that when it comes to coming up with the vision and act act acting it out know which means the idea since is more intellect and is more emotions to draw down intellect into the emotions and that's the whole idea of counting of the because we know that before the Jewish people received the Torah mat tor we have to count we got to count the the the seven weeks what's the idea what's the idea of is to draw down the intellect into the motions and that's why we counted seven weeks for the seven seven attributes of and that's why he says in all your gates in other words in all the seven different Gates and from there it goes down to the 248 limbs which is correspond to the 248 positive and that was all preparation to receive the Torah and the same thing applies when we receive the in order to receive the tah before we receive it says first we accept it and and and and and and then we want want to hear what does accepting mean accepting and like it says in the in in the medish a powerful Med says like for example it gives a parable of a king that um uh that he comes to the city and the servants say give us decrees so he says so the king says relax before I give you decrees accept me as the king then I'll give you decree decree because first you need to have you need to accept and that's why when it came to the Ten Commandments before God gave us the Commandments have to be NASA we have to accept and then said I'm your God and he gave us all the Commandments and know first you need to accept and then you can have all the mitv so the same thing applies every single day that's why it says in the talud why when we say the shma it says we sayma and then we say and um the way the the the Paras are that that that why do we say shma first because shma is accepting and then we accept the the mitv now when we go ahead and we accept that happens when when we when we start the process of of serving hem we have to do acceptance first but after you accept then you have to do the work in every one of your Gates which what does that mean practically you have to do the mitzvot and that's that's the idea of accepting to doing the mitz Because when we do the mitv that's the de detail of the will of hem and when we do the Mitzvah that's how you reach even higher than Mak and even higher than the internal part of Mak or the essential part of Mak and literally by doing the mitz that's how you connect to the essence of hem now why is that simple Mitzvah it's all about accepted hem why is the Mitzvah important why the Mitzvah take me to Hashem because hem we all know Hashem wanted to have a dwelling place where where Hashem is concealed and and the concealment comes from the vision and the division that every Mitzvah and when you go ahead and do the Mitzvah you go ahead and connect to the essence of hem and the same thing also on a spiritual level that where is God revealed you want to know what God has revealed is in the 10 Sphero which basically it's not one it's actually in 10 in the vision that's when you get the essence of hem and that's the real power of mish because that's why he says in the Met he said before hasem likes Justice why because what is mish mbat is the intellect where you have different different details and you have to decide is this the right thing the wrong thing is it is it is correct is not correct there's maybe someone lying to you you know the question is what why why does a sh the judge have to deal with lying but what do we see from here when you go into it you get to see is it true or it's not true and then you can come out to appropr appropriate R ruling like it say Hashem is with him because he gave he gave the appropriate ruling where is Hashem when when is hasem with him only after you went through the whole process of dealing with falsehood and refining it in order to refine it you have to know all the details and that's why he said you should never judge someone until you reach their place because when you put yourself in their shoes then you can give a ruling you have to know what's going on so you see that what mishbah is about details and therefore hasem loves Mish because he likes the details and therefore it says Mish is for the Jewish people because because like we said in reference to is says n loves us and what's Thea what is the idea of a Nar lad a Nar means it's it's it's like it's small what does that mean what is it referring we now it's referring to a simple Faith every single Jewish person has simple faith in hem without putting any effort and how do we have faith it's an inheritance and like the author writes in Tanya clearly that what's an inher inheritance you don't work for it you didn't put any effort and even a a child can can inherit and when you inherit you inherit everything and even though you inherit so like a like what's the connection to it but the fact is you connect you you you you inherit it that's faith faith is we all have faith we're connected to Hashem and that's why hasem gave specifically Mish all the rules to the Jewish people because where where do we get that we get that because we have the faith because we're just accepting we have total faith in hasm that's why hasm gave us all the details like the famous teaching that um the Simplicity of a simple simple person you literally take the essence of hasem so so on one hand yes hashm wants us to give us the details but in order to receive the details we have n we have to accept we have to have faith and that's the connection with the idea of mbat like we explained before what's the idea of mbat yes there is divisions but nevertheless through that you can take hasm himself and the same thing also when your person does a Mitzvah and you do it all the details of the Mitzvah you literally draw in the essence of Hashem know even though the will of hem is higher than details but how do you how do you draw that how do you connect to it yeah it's higher but you're connected through the details and that's why it's important when you do a so you have to do every single detail of the Mitzvah because in in the will of hem it's important that every single detail is fulfilled and that's how you take Hashem himself and this is the connection between with the month of why because what's the month of the month of is the month we do a do an accounting a soul searching soul searching in our thought soul searching in our speech soul searching our action and we start off with the all the seven Gates and then it goes down to the 248 limbs and that's why he says and on a spiritual level we have to go into the details and we have to make sure we're doing what we're supposed to and then it comes not not only us it comes into the world because beginning it comes downem gives us a gift which basically that's the tremendous gift from on high until like it says that everyone will know that hasm created the world and it's going to come down initially into the land of Israel as we know Israel is going to spread all over the world all over the world and like it says in our Torah portion that hasm is going to expound the orders of K and that's going to happen through msia coming and he should come and and redeem us and should happen very very quickly in our days and the and so it should be so here you have another powerful beautiful discourse of from the rebba with practical applications of bringing God into your life in every single part of our life and by bringing God in our life by one hand being simple accepting but then bringing down God into all the details this is the way we'll bring God into the world like finishes off when God comes into the world we'll have the ultimate fulfillment of hashem's dream and we'll have the coming of Messiah and let's hope and pray that next class will bees have a great and blessed week sh