What does G-D want from us? ועתה ישראל מה ה' אלקיך שואל מעמך Kabbalah by Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz

Welcome to our class on we're going to be learning a beautiful discourse in theb the name of the discourse is called the the Reb said this discourse on in the year and there went on to certify and edit this discourse in honor of in the year so discourse 47 years ago and he certified and edited it 36 years ago so again theic discourse is is based on the verse in this week's Torah portion where it says the is and now Jewish people what is God asking from you he's only asking you be the re brings it says in the tal that mayor said that a person is obligated to make May a 100 blessings every day how do we know that because since this verse says asking from you so don't read M as what but read he's asking you may he wants from you 100 blessings are they that's what R mayor says in the tal now says it's possible you can say that the reason why that kazal said don't read M but read Maya like why are they making this Insight what's wrong with the verse the way it is because you read the verse literally the question is very simple why do you have to say what is hasm asking from you and he's asking you to be a question and an answer it should have said God is only asking you to be so since it's asking and he's putting in the word m obviously it's an hint and an Insight what he's asking you from you is the hundred blessings now we know in the in the rules of learning where anytime it says I'll TI don't call it this but call it some something else so it's not coming G me to take away that it's not more but it's adding and obviously the two Mo whatever Mo means and may have some kind of connection so now the question is what's the connection between Mo what hasem is asking from you and the 100 blessings and especially that the difference between these two insights is not only in the word itself but it's actually changes the whole the whole verse why because according to the literal translation what's he asking from you it's not much but according to the talid what do you mean he's asking you 100 blessings and God is asking you something huge so then the question is again what's the connection between these two now the is explained in many places and when you you use the idea of learning where don't read it this but read it that that that the the the the literal translation is understood better based on the new teaching So based on that when it says don't read which seems as it's so to speak negating it no what what it means is that that you want to understand what this is you have to have the new teaching that will teach you what it means so what does it mean practically in our case that but that don't read it Mo but read Maya that means when you have this beautiful new insight of 100 you'll come to this higher level of ma what hasm is asking for you so based on this re asked a simple question what does ma mean ma means what is he asking for you it's like a small thing and like the the tal says clearly m is literacy some asking a small thing but Mayo like we say there 100 it's a lot of blessings and it's a big number too and not only in numbers it's actually considered the most powerful number it's a complete number because it's it's it's it's hundred 10 to the power of 10 so in other words in order to reach the complete number which is a lot of a lot of work and literally by 100 blessings know in order to make 100 blessings every day even on Shabbat and yam or in a fast day you have to put effort into it to make sure you reach a 100 so how do you say that in order to reach more which is a small thing is by doing a bigger thing it's just the opposite so we're going to understand this with an introduction where it says in based on the verse King David says um uh King David says in Psalms I'm asking Fromm one thing so hem says to King David you started by saying you ask me one thing what do you ask me shift the I want to sit in the house of hem but then afterwards you don't stop you ask of a lot of you make a lot of requests I want to be in the the pleasure of I want visit his his Chambers and uh so like either you're asking one thing if you're asking multiple things so King David responds to hasem no I learned from you because when you came to me what you say is this verse M what is already asking from you he's asking one thing what is he asking but what afterwards you didn't stop there then you gave a bunch of MIT like it says go to go in his way to go in his ways and to cleave to Etc so that's the conversation back and forth between King David Andes so in the center was like this what what is what is how is King David responding to Hashem Hashem asked him you start off with one question you ask him multiple things so you what is King DAV saying oh I have the same question on you because you first you said the and then you do but you're not answering the question you're not answering the question that's Point number one so the the mag Rich explains that the truth is no King David was asking for one thing he was asking I have one thing the things that come afterwards Etc that's a byproduct of one thing I want one thing I want Shifty bem all those things come from Shifty basem so the same thing also when Hashem says all he's asking us to be in Orem yeah all the things afterwards to go in his ways and the CLE and come from years as hem So based on this says one second let's understand the other way this that details come from a main point like you're sitting in all the benefit that's come it's self understood so why does he have to say I'm learning it from you he should have said no I want one thing and the rest come afterwards explains this follows when we say one thing it doesn't mean one and a bunch of things come afterwards it's referring to the the essential main point Which is higher than details and therefore King David says I want one thing I don't want one thing in details I want to have the essence I want I want the essence not one that has details afterwards like we know the the the difference between Y which is Oneness there's nothing else this is one but there's other things I want the essence the same thing also what hem is was saying I'm asking you what does it mean to be you know of hem it's something which is not part of something else when you're when you're in all of AEM you're you're you're nothing it's all about Hashem and this what does that mean I'm totally accepting totally one with Hashem and also like explains in t what he says what is hm asking for you to be in all of hem know what do it referring to it's referring to the lower level of a and the fact is that so you're going to say one second there's different levels of a but the fact is all the levels of all connected and even the level the lower level of War like go says you're referring to the lower level it also coming from the or a soul and like we know the difference the major difference between or and love because love is all about your somebody and comes from the revealed part of the soul but year is not about somebody it's total acceptance and total acceptance comes from the essence of the soul and that's why King David says I learned from you Hashem that in order to connect all the details with the essence so you need a h i I learned it from you this powerful idea that that I with King David saying I want Shifty B I want the essence where did I learn the essence I learned I actually learned that from you because you're saying Leo is HEM which is the essence I learned that you get you can go to the essence now the connection that happens between the essential part with all the details is one of two ways either which called from Below on high other by by all the details you come to the main point and like it says clearly in Torah God commanded us to do all all the statutes all the different details to get to the point of theem and as by doing the Mitzvah 613 we reach that's one point doing the different Mitzvah we get to the point the second is in other words that from the point from the essence the details follow and in a way that even after his details what shines is the essence so in other words there's the essence that either the details bring us to the essence or from the essence come the details but what what doesn't doesn't we don't stay focused in details the goal is the ESS the essential connection So based on this explains beautifully now that we have this idea of the essence now we'll understand why when it says don't call it what is asking you but he's asking 100 so what does ma mean it's not what is he asking from you Ma is the expression of total acceptance what are we nothing so what what hasem is asking for us is total total acceptance and this is and that's and that's why you can say POS says that's why ma is referring to something small and know it's like we're so small amongst we're nothing which basically what does that mean practically and I'll say in Hebrew I'll translate it it's called total total essential acceptance from the essence of our soul and therefore what does it mean the total acceptance that hasem is asking for you that Hashem is asking from us in this verse to have the acceptance of M total acceptance now once you have this powerful acceptance then you have all the details that come afterwards then you're in or of hem Etc so what hasem is asking us as the main point total acceptance now so you're going to say one second the acceptance of being in O also com from our soul and this acceptance is the that is the essential acceptance that a lot of details come from it we go in the ways of hm Etc but never says no no no when you have Acceptance in the in a level of Y and which which is like all the other attributes so what does that mean you're in all of hem so that goes into the category of Revelations of the Soul bit the acceptance of ma is a total acceptance not because of a level not because of a not because of anything total acceptance like for example there gives an example let's look at the acceptance when someone is moist or neph when someone goes and self- sacrifice and every single Jew goes in self-sacrifice so we why are we going in self- sacrifice it's coming from the ma from the total acceptance Which is higher in all the attributes and even even from the r and will because this s person is giving himself over to TM it's not because he wants to because wanting means there's an eye that want to it mysterious stff doesn't come from a wanting it comes cuz I can't be disconnected and that's why he says m what is hasem asking you that the acceptance of ma is because because God is my God and that's why a total acceptance and since God is my energy so it's I don't want to be disconnected from Hashem so ma is the most deepest level of acceptance and connecting to the most deepest part of Hashem now that's a great thing what says this powerful B this powerful acceptance of ma that we will have unfortunately it's concealed we have it but it's concealed now this concealment it's not only because we have an animal Soul that's covering over the acceptance but the from from from its own it's it's concealed because it's it's so it's it's it's deeper than being revealed so it's default setting this acceptance is we have it and it's and it's concealed but how do we bring it out how do we reveal it so that's what he says Ah you want to reveal it don't call it Ma you have to bring the Maya you have to bring the 100 because ma which is total acceptance and 100 is two different opposites what is ma like we said that's the essential point which is nothing to do with details 100 is huge amount of details a huge not one not 10 not 100 and what does that mean practically on a soul level it's referring to every one of our our our our 10 10 powers that we have and the way each one is connected to all 10 and we do our spiritual work and every one of these 10 Powers they're connected to all 10 which is which is 100 then we awaken and we reveal the power of ma and that's why it says don't call it Ma but call it 100 because ma yes Hashem wants us to have that level of acceptance but it's concealed so what you should do is call the 100 you know Alti means mind you can't reveal it's not revealed you want to reveal it you want to reveal the essence of your soul by doing the H blessings not only that a step further that the revelation of the ma which happens through the work of the hundred gets revealed and it's felt in all the details once it gets revealed and you can say that this is also part of where it says Alti don't call it ma but call it 100 because when the when the revelation of the ma is only in general so then it's only revealed in reference to the acceptance before was concealed now it's revealed so he says don't call it Ma or call it 100 that you the way you should call out and reveal the ma um it shouldn't only be in reference to the ma they okay I'm accepting but it should also be revealed in every one of the hund um different different levels so those two things the 100 a pulls out the ma and B the ma the acceptance should infiltrate in all the hund okay so now one second now we Stu to understand what's the connection between what hasem is asking from you with the 100 blessings what's the connection between the two so explains like this well understand it what it says in the beginning of the verse what does it say in the beginning of this verse V is and now Jewish people so it says V what does V mean right now so the the S explains what does mean it's referring to um that all our time that we are in this world and like it says in in the end of the previous Torah portion I'm commanding you today what what does it mean today it means today while we're in this world we have to do it not in the future what was the question what do you why not when mhia comes I have plenty of time to do MIT today I can enjoy life and fact matter of fact we all know that Mia comes the Mitzvah is going to be a much higher level but nevertheless fulfilling the mitv in a way of doing them and as a way of doing I'm just going to do it that's today because when Messiah comes God's going to take away the all the spirit of impurity and therefore there's not going to be any esaia there's not going to be my effort into it and that's why the after referring to now in G's what what's that why does he use the term Isel because is means that I fought with angels in other word we're basically we're we're we're we're conquering all and we're ruling over all the concealments that come from the all the concealments that come from shim and up to the point of all the concealments that comes from our animal soul and from our evil inclination that try to convince us to do the opposite and what's the idea of is is that we basically rule over our animals soul up to the point that we rule and was successful because in the beginning they oppose and they actually try to rule us and then we do it in the way of es scafa and then what happens is so initially we just do a scaia okay restraint but then we do we go ahead and we're successful we transform and that's why it says the at now in this world Isel we have the power to to go ahead and be successful and specifically now when we now we have the the the the other side the the the opposition now we're called Israel because we we fought and we were successful and we have the the spiritual avoid of scaia practiceing restraint not falling into the Trap and is transforming so that we can do today however M comes not going to be any impurity so we're not going to be called y because there's no fight um or other other name like it's explained at length in the discourses of the that's why he says Isel now in Exile we have the power to transform more in other words that this that now when we have the existence of the opposition of the sitra and also in the times of Exile and also in the times before mhia comes literally right now every one of us have the power to overcome anything that's stopping us from connecting to Hashem we can we can o we can we can we can deal with the struggle and we can be successful now where do we have the power it's coming from the ma from the the part of the total acceptance which is connected to the level of our soul which is the level of ma which is the level of now why is that because when it comes when we pull out ma when we pull out the there's no opposition so when a person awakens the the highest level of Soul you have the power to go ahead and be successful about anything anything and everything that that's opposing you and that's why it says clearly that the Jewish people even though we sinned we're still is in other words it doesn't say yov Jacob it says you which is referring to the fact that we successful over Angels because every single person even when he sinned guess what the of the soul is always complete the never gets impacted and like R writes clearly and he makes a ruling that every single Jewish person even when his when his the the negative side gets the better of him and and he gets him not to to to abolish and not do a Mitzvah and and you have to go so to speak and force him to do it he really wants to do it and therefore every person is considered a Jew because we still have the power to overcome any obstacle any challenge or we can still do what we have to why because man never gets ruined never says one second we all know it says what's an imile he loses ma he loses the ma so you see you could lose the ma so the alter explains in the he says no no no it's referring to the ma of the nees in other words um through the fact that unfortunately he's an in imbecile he doesn't fight against the the the EV evil spirit that comes in and then he what happens he loses access to it and know it doesn't mean it God it goes away it means that he the M becomes concealed you lose access it gets concealed not that it's lost and it's gone and like like the like the question is what does it mean it's imbe he loses it in other words something that's lost doesn't say it's it's obliterated even when it gets lost it's exists you just don't see it it's complete you have to find it and if you look you will find it so therefore Hashem is asking from you Hashem is asking and pleading with us that the ma the the part of our soul which is connected to should be revealed it shouldn't be lost that we don't have access to it we should access it and if God for we do lose access says let's look for it look for the ma how do you find the ma by doing trua by turning to hasem and he and he specific and he says he's asking from you what does that mean from you that the revelation of the M comes by you by you doing your work in other words even though that we get awakened every once in a while with these voices you know to wake up or things happen in a way that we should we shouldn't get Solly uh we shouldn't get uh we shouldn't get lost but that's only a preparation for chuva real chuva is comes real repentance real returning comes from ourself doing the spiritual work now this that what hasem is asking from you is specifically now like we said now and gos is the time to do it even though one second complete doing it for the right reasons is going to bees why is that because in order that it should be the spiritual work of his scaf practicing Restraint of the sitra and is H transforming and the level of Israel and by doing by doing that we fulfill the will of creating a dear creating a dwelling place forem down in the lowest places now so even though one second the ultimate purpose is is going to be MH in other words the ultimate completion is going to be mhia why because then hasem is going to be revealed the infinite part of is going revealed in this world and the lowest love is going revealed but nevertheless this complete happens through our work now and know when we go ahead and we transform the world the way it's now that's what we that's how we will create the ultimate Revelation and that's why the soul came down to this world because the main reason why the soul came down to this world is not for the for the elevation of the Soul we're not here to elevate the soul but we're here to transform and to elevate the body the animal Soul the physical world and by doing that we will create the revelation of the M the the the of the physical world and we're going to fulfill hashem's dream and wish to create a dwelling place down in this world um like it's explained at lent in Tanya now so therefore what is the reason why the soul came down into this world is to make a dwelling place for Hashem so what do we see from here that this idea of making a Dwelling Place of hem that's that's like the main reason in its purpose we're here to make a dwelling place for hasem so therefore if we do not fulfill God's God God's dream and and Mission and purpose and even if we have great Revelations what's missing is the main thing but on the other hand when we fulfill the will of Hashem and the dream of hm to make a dwelling place down here then we create the greatest and highest ele elevation so now Bas Ser explains beautifully why the spiritual work of a 100 that through the hund you reveal the ma the essence of the soul and that's why it's specifically 100 blessings which is connected to what to transforming the world now even though we can we can accomplish it by by by by the different types of work of the Soul going in the way of hem because the ultimate um completion of the Soul even the highest level the ma is specifically when it fulfills its mission in this world and that's why it says that know by going ahead that and bringing the ma the the the the essence of our soul and we do the work with the essence of our soul and we go ahead and we practice restraint the SC we practice this and this is how we will fulfill the the reason why the world was created and by doing that we will bring the ultimate um purpose of why the M came down to this world the essence of our soul came into this world so Bas this explains beautifully that's why it says a person is obligated to make 100 blessings every day what's the idea of a blessing the idea of a blessing is to draw down the revelation of God but not only in the Jewish people but literally in the whole world the goal is that the god should be revealed in the whole world and like we say in the in the in the uh in the uh blessings that we say the blessing that we make all the blessings we make so it says what does that mean it's about drawing down the revelation of of Hashem into the Jewish people and who's our God and through that it should come into the world it's not just about bringing godliness into your life the goal is to bring godliness into the world and not only in the world but the the drawing down of the blessings is specifically we're in this materialistic world where God has concealed like it says that means we should draw down godliness in from the concealed world may from one world conceal world to the revealed world now we know that the concealed world is the high worlds which are totally um what does a high world it's totally accepting to Hashem it's totally a mirror of hem like for example you have fish in the sea that they're totally the totally in the water and the revealed world is that's the that that's the the worlds that God has concealed and especially this materialistic world that it's all about the egotistical part I'm I'm My Own identity and the blessing is that the godliness should be revealed even in this materialistic physical world now so we know that everything created he didn't create anything in vain and everything hashm created he created what for his honor so therefore we have to bring down godliness into the world that would that the world should realize the honor of Hashem and that's why we make a 100 blessings why because we said 100 is a huge number and as we know generally speaking the the the the letters um there's three category three categories you have like think look at the alphabets you have Alf right so you have one to 10 that's single digits and then you have the 10 the the the digits which each add 10 and then you have the hundreds so in other words the the the it's one the ones the tens and the hundreds 100 is the biggest number and and multiplicity has a lot of lot of parts to it so the goal is that the 100 blessings we should bring down godliness into every single part of the world and he like to add that based on what is known in reference to numbers that we said you have singles and you have tens and you have 100 so many times it's explained that the bigger number is higher and as it comes down it goes down to a lower number in other words sometimes it's explained that in K it's really 100 because all the 100 are there and then it goes down to tens and come down to Mal the lowest sphere it's one that's one way and the other way explain the that's the opposite that the top is really really one and then as it goes down it goes down to tens and then comes down into 100 where it comes to malus so two different approaches of numbers but the repr says we know the explanation that the truth is that this that we say that the the higher numbers and high or the lower numbers are high has to do with light and vessels in other words when you're dealing with light then the bigger numbers on high when you're dealing with vessels then the the um the the the bigger numbers below in other words so Bas Ser explain something very powerful and very very beautiful why specifically 100 blessings cuz the difference between the concealed world and the revealed World cuz in the concealed world what's the what's the what's the real energy in the concealed World light what's the real energy in the revealed world its vessels so what's the whole idea of a blessing to draw in from the world of the concealed world into the revealed world and other words ideas of the concealed World which we said concealed world is light it should be revealed into the materialistic World which is the vessels therefore you have to make the 100 blessings to bring in since from the concealed World which the the hund is on high to bring it down into the vessels of this world up to the point where it comes in into the multiplicity of this world like it says the the how much the greatness of hem in all details and specifically what into this phys physical world so Bas explains beautifully that's why he says and now the Jewish people what ISM asking for you don't read what and he's ask and he's asking do 100 in other words in order to do and accomplish the spiritual work of bringing in the most the hund lights into this the 100 blessings which means bringing in all the powerful lights um um uh the multiplicity qu qualitatively into the multiplicity of the creation of hem which is a lot a lot of details how do we do that how do we bring in the the in the big huge numbers into this world which has multiplicity we do that but with the ma of our soul which is the of our soul and because the the essential Essence we are which is above numbers and there's no there's no there's no multiplicity even even even an quality level and we do our spiritual work of doing the 100 blessings so through that what gets revealed is the by the mar of our soul and not only that but since the ultimate goal of of the Soul coming down to this world and including Bringing Down the the deepest part of our soul the the is in order to bring and reveal godliness into the world and like like like it's now by doing the work of and therefore when a person fulfills his his mission and and and his uh and his purpose what happens is the actual Soul gets elevated as well and finish he says since we are we're standing night now at the end of galut the end of Exile and everyone finished the work of doing what we need to do today as the as the Torah promised us that the end the Jewish people are all repent and return to Hashem but the end of galut and what happens as soon as we return we're going to be we're going to be redeemed right away and we're going to have the Redemption the true Redemption the complete Redemption through mashia and what what's going to happen then is we're going to fulfill the the dream of asem of having a dwelling place down here that God's going to be revealed in the materialistic world and and the Jewish people that they call God to be revealed we're going to be at a very very high level and the most important finish and says this should all happen very very soon literally in our generation so here we have another powerful discourse of the rebba that um many many powerful points but the fact is that when this time of Gus this is the time that we have the power to bring in the greatest Godly energy we do it by bringing the essence of our soul by bringing in the the by saying the 100 blessings draws in the essence of our soul once we have the essence of our soul we draw in the most powerful lights and ultimately by bringing the most powerful lights God will be revealed and we'll have the coming of Messiah and let's hope and pray next class will have a great and blessed week sh