What is a Name? A New Kabbalah class by Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz

welcome to our class on siddhis we're going to be learning this week a beautiful hasidic discourse in the rebbe the name of the hasidic discourse is called the rebels said this hasidic discourse and shabbos pasha's which was the eighth day of the month in the year tough shin memzayin exactly 35 years ago again the discourse is based on the verse in this week's torah portion where it says it was in the middle of this day yatsu called siva israel all the time hashem all the jewish people left the land of egypt and it says in a few verses later by yehib it was the middle of this day israel hashem took the jewish people out me eric's been shrine from the land of egypt al sivaison the rabbit brings from the different hasidic teachings in terror earth from the altareba and from the other hasidic teachings of the pre rebellion of the previous generations on this topic even though that doesn't certainly have this beginning of the discourse of the name and they bring the question is what khazal tell us we know in the gemara it says that in reference to hana that from when hashem created the world until khanna who was the prophet samuel's mother there was no one that called hashem with the name of zva's until khan is the first one that called hashem prayed to hashem with the name's voice and hashem said because you're the first one that called the name hashem toys so what's going to happen in the future is your son is going to start a prophecy and we know in the prophet it says you see that shmuel called the name it i prophesied with hashem's name specifically the name of its voice so they explain in these specific discourses why in this verse it says hashem in other words si voice means si voice it's written with a heric the the the vowel is heroic underneath the tsadik in other words it's not its own name is the name of hashem subvoice means it's connected to the next word which is hashem so here it doesn't say it's voice referring to hashem it says see voice hashem the way voice is connected to hashem however when it comes to hana when she prayed to hashem and when her son the prophet shmuel prophesies of adiratut's voice i know his dad is one of the names of hashem a matter of fact spice is one of the most powerful names of hashem which you now let er erase if you wrote down this voice is the name of hashem on a piece of paper you can't erase it it's a holy name of hashem so the question is why is it that specifically this powerful name of choice was only introduced by khanna and later on by shmuel and why isn't it mentioned beforehand in other words you have c voice hashem but it's not voice it's two different two different ideas also we have to understand in the prophet with the prophet shmuel samuel prophesies with voice names voice what is the prophecy about the prophecy about is about erasing eradicating the name of amalek so the question is why what's the connection between the names voice hashem which is one of the most powerful names of specifically what with the idea of erasing the name of amalek so ever says in order to understand this he's going to give an introduction about the whole idea of names in other words we're going to talk first about hashem so we know hashem is there's different levels hashem what is the essence of hashem how's it described in kabbalah next to this it's called the essence of hashem and the essence of hashem is much higher and much greater from anything that hashem draws down of a light or energy in this world the essence of hashem is much more powerful than any light or energy that comes down to this world or anything that's revealed in this world because nothing in this world compares to the essence of hashem hashem is infinite so anything you have in this world greatest things the wow wonders of creation the greatest revelations how can you compare to the infinite it's all finite and hashem we know is infinite not only that even when you say wow if you can't compare it's also not appropriate why because you say why you can't compare to the to the essence of hashem so you're saying there's a there's some kind of comparison but you're saying you can't compare when you have two things which are totally far apart you say you can't compare but obviously you're saying you can't compare there is a comparison you're saying you can't compare it however by hashem what are you going to say infinite finite it's this is infinite this is finite it's not about how can you even use the term you can't compare one to the other it's off the charts in other words when you're referring to the essence of hashem hashem is totally far i mean again it's hashem is infinite so he's totally disconnected and he's totally has no relation with anything that's a flow of energy or a light or a life force that exists in this world so therefore even the expression of anorex doesn't does not fit by hashem like germa gives an example like the famous example a beautiful example in tanya the altar but says that someone says for example let's see someone comes with a brilliant idea a brilliant intellectual identity everyone's mesmerized so someone says you know what you know it's so deep that you can't even touch it so they're ever since out of right you're gonna laugh when we touch it when you're dealing with intellect you don't use feel feels for something physical so how do you use the idea of physical for something for an intellectual idea so just like somebody would laugh if you use a physical example for something powerfully intellectual so the same thing also how can you talk about the infinite hashem and say and comparing it or not comparing it to anything that exists in this world anything and everything in this world as great as it is and as high as it is it's finite and hashem is infinite now what happened this infinite hashem at musa infinite he had an idea an idea he had a he had a desire tainug which we know was the higher level in kessler or ratsa and he had a will which is the lower level in kessler so he had a desire tainam which is part of kessler a rat san which is part of kessler obviously on a spirit on a godly level that there should be drawing down energy into this world god should be revealed in this world but obviously this the revelation here is no connection true it comes from hashem everything comes from hashem but you can't compare what we have in this world to the infinite hashem in other words we can't compare it so there's nothing it's it's there's no comparison but nevertheless all these energies in this world which is included in all these revelations in this world whether it's all the series so that goes under the character of a name we're giving a name to it you know the infinite hashem there's no name but something that gets drawn down just really give a name to it in other words since there's no comparison and again as we mentioned before you can't even use the word no comparison so but we have to give some kind of a a definition to these these emanations of light and energy it comes down to this world so we give the name shameless it has names to it which is plural or in a higher level shame we have a a a a definitive name to something in other words what does that mean practically just like for example they use the example of a human being you have a human being so a person every person has a name but the name of the person doesn't represent the person it has no comparison to who the person is and it's just like when a person a human being we have intellect we have emotions we have talents we have gifts whatever we have the name doesn't personify who we are it's a name it's it's just what we call we call the person the same thing also just like by a name for a human being they're just what calls the person doesn't represent the person the same thing also all the names that we use for the steroids and for the light and for the energy does not do any justice to the infinite hashemas in other words let's take for example a human being on one hand a human being has powerful energies from one extreme to the next so for example we have the head you have the body and you have the foot so obviously the head and the foot you how can you compare this is the head this is the brains and the foot is so much lower or for example take the soul and the body how can you compare the soul to the body your soul is godly and the body is physical or if you if you want to even go look in the soul itself of different levels to the soul this nephesh ruach on the highest level of the soul we're telling let's look at take focus on the highest level of the soul level if you hit the one that will one with hashem and look at the heel in someone's foot how can you compare this is one with hashem and this is the heel on the foot but nevertheless you can say they have a connection why they're both in the same body there's some kind there is some kind of neck connection because they ultimately they're all in the level of finite this is a very very high level and this is a very very low level so they're both in the same sphere of finite however when it comes to the name of the person that doesn't that that has no connection with the with the brain or even the foot what's the relationship it's a name so the same thing also applies it applies also for example take a name from an animal any type of an animal or take a name of anything that grows any type of fruit any type of vegetable or even inanimate objects an inanimate object what does the name have to do with the thing nothing it's just we use it to identify what it is but it has no no connection to it so the same thing also when it comes to all the things that god brings down to the world all the different lights and emanations and energies and all the steroids there's the name really has no connection to it but it's a name so that's what we learned so far is a name really does not represent what what it is today this what the connection with the name and the item is so far apart and that is in with human beings how much more so with the infinite hashem but nevertheless trevor says even though a name doesn't really represent what the thing is but we find two different levels of names and two different components to names one the first thing on one hand what are we saying what is the name it just gives you an identification relation a representation of what we're talking about but nevertheless we know and we learned this in kabbalah in many places that through the name of the person life and energy comes through the name in other words the name that someone is called in hebrew that's the name that's used to give the person life and vitality and energy to exist so that's one level of a name so one hand the name really doesn't represent but the on the other hand the name is the the channel of energy that through the name is where you get its life force on the other hand that's one the second level of a name a name has nothing to do with a person like you said before it's just a name it's not really a no no no connection to it so there's two components i want to just a name and the other yes it's a name but through it comes powerful energy so same thing australia says apply is the way it works spiritually and high in other words on one hand you have the idea that when there's a flow of energy that comes down into this world so one hand is coming from the infinite hashem when it comes down to this world the flow of energy exists on a level of which means there's nothing other than hashem in other words like this where does anything and everything come from in this world so we know before hashem created the world it was the infinite light of hashem anoit not the only thing that existed was hashem so anything before hashem created the world what was it a night nothing else it was just since hashem was the only thing that existed a night there was nothing else that existed before that's before hashem decided to create the world so before hashem decided to create the world what existed anoint nothing else with us hashem a night after hashem decided tainough and rotson that there should be a flow of energy into this world so now there's already something else what is something else so now we have add to ain oid that existed before some creator of the world now we use the terminology anoid milvando what is another mulvaney and never explains very powerfully milwaukee from hashem there's nothing from mildly from hashem there's nothing but with hashem anoid with hashem there is something else it was like this besides hashem there's nothing but with hashem there's something else what is with hashem there's something that exists that when you see and feel that existence you experience anoid mildly in other words like this before hashem created the world anointed it was only hashem once hashem created the world a knight mulvaney there's nothing really here that that exists without hashem but but what exists is because of hashems hashem is felt in that existence what does that represent in the world of the worlds that hashem created we have silas so the first world that hashem created is called the world of attilas what is the world of attilas in the world of artillus it's a world that means it's already there's it's not infinite but what you what the energy in the world is you feel hashem and actually it's called another name for it it's called the world of unity waka is the only thing that you feel that exists in the world it means it's a world it's a creation you feel the oneness of hashem you feel the unity of hashem you don't it's not me you him her this that what you experience in the world of godzilla's is only hashem in other words even though it's a world it's a new world it's not infinite it's already finite in some level and what does the world mean in the world of kabbalah we know it comes from the word of helem concealment so we're dealing with a world of concealment but even within the concealment what what you do feel is you feel the unity and the oneness that it's all hashem and like we like like for example we explain when it says my israel hero israel hashem what does that mean what does one mean so we know echad is made up of three letters alex is for the one hashem is the seven heavens and the one earth and four is the four corners of the world so echad means that even though we're dealing with seven heavens and the earth and we're dealing with four corners of the earth but what we feel is the aleph the utke hashem we feel the hashem and as we feel and experience within the world and all the heavens and the world and the four corners of the world what we experience is aloof islam the aleph hashem so what what does that mean so even though there's the seven heavens and even those in earth and even though there's four corners of the world what we experience when we feel is the act as the unity of hashem the oneness of hashem and that's the the definition of which means there's nothing else but with hashem there's something else what is there seven heavens there's the earth there's the four corners but again with hashem it's all from hashem so in other words like this the first level is there is something else but what you recognize it's all coming from hashem and that's represented by the world true love is the world of actus what's the second level the way things come down into the world that you don't recognize and you don't experience the infinite hashem where is that that's right when you leave the world about us and it goes into the world of bria and the world of yitzira and the world of asia all those three worlds have one thing in common it's called in the world of kabbalah the prudha the world where there's separation you feel this your existence someone else's existence hashem is not number one you know not only assumes not on one is actually the vision there's there's real this real identity so to speak that things that they that they exist two different levels so you have the level when hashem decided to create the world that even after you created the world in the world about seals which still recognizes one as hashem once you come down to the world of briya you'd see renassee then you have the the the separation and the division so based on this explains the difference between where it says in the torah in this week's torah portion voice hashem and the way it says on the prophet's voice in other words in the torah in this editorial portion where it speaks voice hashem so what does it say says voice hashem and explain the beginning of this course it's what it's with a herik so that si voice is connected to hashem which means that the c voice the energy that exists in the world is hashem what the the voice the world is is nullified and it's meshed in it's in sync it's unified with the uk above k that's the way it's in the torah on the other hand voice knows the way you already have something that exists in this world the way it's mentioned by hannah when khan appraised its voice or the prophet samuel when he uses the words voice that's voice on its own his voice is standing on its own right and you don't see in the name in the in the emanation of this world it's not it's not connected to the oneness of hashem so there's a huge difference in this week's torah portion the way the light comes down to this world different levels so voice hashem you still recognize the one hashem however when it comes to the prophet with khanna when she prophesies and her son shmuel so there it's voice has its own its own identity there's something nobody there's another existence that exists and it goes like this sid voice hashem we're testing this week's torah portion where the main thing is uk above k and the fact of this civilized it's totally um in sync with uk buff k so that represents the way the way it serves hashem is in the world of godzilla's in the world of unity the oil ma in other words over there everything is tougher everything is secondary to youtube why because in the world about sillas it's the world of unity it's all one it's all about hashem however the way shiva is hashem comes down into its voice comes down to the world of bree and syracuse over there it's voice has its own identity it's not in it's not in sync and it's not totally one with with with with the uk buff k and their explains why is that and is why is that that in the torah it's all it's all unified and the prophets with ghana and samuel it has its own identity there is something very very powerful and very very intriguing it sounds like this in the torah what are we talking about we're talking about the jewish people and as the desire says that the jewish people in the torah is called the dur deir so says the zoya what does that mean we're talking about the generation of moisture banana the generation of israel called the dirt they are they were the ones that connected to hashem through torah in other words even though there were six hundred thousand think about the number six hundred thousand male adults besides the woman besides the children under 20. so you can imagine how many people they were talking about huge amount of people but nevertheless even though there were six hundred thousand men there was women there was children over under 20 but they all stood in a level of unity true unity and there was no one that had an ego and there was no one that took claim that they are their own identity they were totally one with hashem so because they were totally unified and that's the powerful gift of unity we all know ah springs the greatest blessings because they were so unified so therefore they were able to have draw down the godliness in a way that it was hashem even though it was civilized it was energy in this world we live in this physical world but it was all the main focus was with k why because they were unified the unity allowed them to mesh and to totally lose their own identity and to be part of ut kevke however in the generations afterwards and especially after the prop after joshua died and the elders that were in the times of joshua and then there was referring to specifically in eighth day the montessori what happened was then all of a sudden hannah came on to the scene and she called hashem's voice why because specifically in that time in the time of the prophet samuel what had to happen then then we had to elevate the worlds of brio and syria asea other words what does bri and syria i see represent practically in our world it represents the world of division we don't all get along and we everyone has their own ideas the ego is strong and that's why because that's also why what was prophet samuel prophesizing with the name swiss about amalek what is a molecule about doubt not the opposite of unity he came to doubt the unity of hashem so over there he had to elevate amalek and the jewish people were 100 unified so that's why it says choice not civilized hashem when it's civilized it's connected to the united kingdom he's had its own identity and there it goes a step further and that's why what's voice mean sloice means an army in other words why do you need an army when do you need to know when you have an opposition and you have to fight with the opposition so the the inherent value of voice is represents the vision there's an army to fight the division to fight the opposition or if you either fight them or to scare them they you won't have to go to war but you're still dealing with opposition and as long as you have a a an existence of an opposition so therefore you have to have the names voice on its own however in the times of moisture the civilized were were um humbled and they were in sync with utk and that's why just specifically hashem and rubber says obviously when the bernays were in were were considered a dirt and hashem was taking them out of egypt and they were on the level where they were totally in sync with that with with kevke so you need to have power you need energies you have to stand strong with the unity of hashem because since unity is with all the blessings so you need godly energy to be able to continue uh to be unified so there was a because because we needed to have powerful energy from hashem to be unified so we needed we needed special powers from hashem and and unique powers for it and that's why in the verse where it's called siva's hashem it says three powerful extra expressions what does it say like it was the etzem in the middle in the essence of this day what's the idea of the essence in the middle of this day sure explains very simple these are powerful energies hashem is giving us join the rebel says they refers to light and revelation as we know in the beginning of the turret says what do you call light day so day represents light how said this one is also revelation like it says in the term mario bets look with your finger and say that so you see there is also about revelation and ethem the essence refers to intense power of revelation like the commentaries on on on the verse say that what is the ethan what does it mean in the essence of the day it means the power of the day in the midday when the sun is the strongest so since we needed the strength to be able to remain unified thousand empowered us by the eths by the revelation and the intense revelation the greater intense revelation so that we can we can continue with our unity and because we were so unified not only it was unity then but the unity affected later generations and because of that hashem had the power to take the jewish people out of egypt although some and everything like it's explained in many places in this what's idea of outside some in the second verse that we quote because what does it mean it's referring to the sparks of wholeness that are that are elevated and transformed through physical work that's c voicing but also voice means above this the the transforming the sparks in other words that the jewish people are higher than the sparks we are higher than the sparks it's not that we're the sparks no we're higher than the sparks and we're higher than the sparks then we're connected to the unity sparks is we have to deal with transforming them we're hired and we we're one with hashem and there was this powerful energy that we had when we went out of egypt continues on and it draws on even later on to the time of small that we had that when you had the revelation of its voice from the contrary you still had some of the energy from going out of egypt and as we know it says that prophet shmuel the prophet samuel and his generation were on the same level as moisha narayan something very very powerful we know that when there's a revelation of the etzem hayomi mazette that created the unity so we know that when it when when there's such a revelation at last last everlasting what does that mean it's everlasting in other words we're dealing with a powerful level of hashem which is higher than time but on the other hand the power has power to go in to this world and transform the world you know this means that it exists on every level from the highest level to the lowest level and by doing our avoider by bringing revelation into this world and creating unity in the world we ultimately come to the greatest revelation the greatest trouble because the goal is more revelation more revelation we'll have the ultimate relation what's going to happen when mashiach comes as the and it says in the torah the oz then when meshiah comes yahshua we're going to sing that we know it doesn't say sure sing but it says yahshua we're going to sing it's referring to future tense and that's what as the commentaries tell us referring to the idea that when meshia comes we're going to have the resurrection of the dead everyone's going to be resurrected from the dead and we're going to be reunited with all the people that passed away when is that going to happen it's going to happen with the redemption the true redemption the complete redemption which happens through moisture bainu who's the first redeemer of the jewish people and david was the ultimate the last redeemer of the jewish people and it's going to happen god willing the of the amenum amish in our days very very very soon and very very quickly so here's a very very powerful kasich discourse of the rebbe about many important points i think one of the major point the point is that the key thing is through unity when we have the real unity that's when we have the greatest revelations and that's when we have the greatest connection to hashem and by having the greatest revelation we'll ultimately marry it to the greatest relation when shia comes and will be all together in your kodish and god willing our next class will be inherit israel have a great and blessed week shabua tov