Why 2 Altars in the Temple? מזבח אדמה תעשה לי A New Kabbalah class by Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz

Welcome to our class onus. We're going to be learning a beautiful discourse in the Reb. The name of the discourse is called the Reb said this discourse that year was the 19th day of the month of in the year 45 years ago. So again, the discourse is based in the verse in this week's Torah portion where it says God is instructing us to make an altar out of earth. And it says there's a you're going to bring your sacrifices on it etc. Then it goes on to say if you're going to make an altar for me out of stones. So don't go ahead and and and build it by cutting the stones. because you bring the sword upon it which we know a sword is all for killing you have desecrated desecrated the altar. So the Reb asked a simple question why is it when it comes to the altar that's made out of earth. So it says you should make to me an altar made out of earth. When it comes to the altar out of stone it sounds like a condition the makab if you make it then you have the conditions about how to make it. So what is the difference? So explains he says we know based on what's explained in theic discourse of of on on shabas par of the year t and it's the it's a little different of explanation the way it's explained in the Torah and he explains over there as follows these two ideas of an a an altar that's made out of adma out of earth and an altar which is made out of stone refers to two ways of serving Hashem. In other words, because what is the idea of misbeh what's the idea of of of an altar? It's basically the way that we serve Hashem and there's two types of service serving of Hashem which is goes in the level of from elevating the physical world and elevating it to the higher level. But even in elevating the world to a higher level, there's two different ways. There's the spiritual way of the misbama, the altar which is made out of earth. And then you have the altar which is made out of stone. In other words, the misbeak, the altar which is made out of earth is referring to Adam comes from it has the same letters as Adam a human being. Why is the human being called Adam? Because he comes from Adam. He comes from the earth. That's on one hand. So on one hand the adam the human being is he comes from Adam he comes from earth but in the other hand Adam he's compared to hashem the highest level so is referring to the human being that on one hand he's made from the earth but in the other hand he's compared to hashem in heaven but then you have a stone which is referring to the sparks that fell even lower into the level of idea of a stone those are the two personalities what does that mean explains as follows this command to make the altar the the the two types of altars the one of Adam which we said is coming from earth which is Adam and the one which is made out of stone which fell even lower is was commanded to the Jewish people that left Egypt. Now we know that the Jewish people that left Egypt they were a reincarnation like it says in the zor of the dha the generations that were spread out. So the one second even though we know it says clearly in the in the mission in Sanhedrin that the generations that were dispersed they don't have a place in the world to come and they don't even have an they don't even have an opportunity to to stand up in for for justice but the truth is says that is referring to in the future which is the world to come in others what does that mean that their body is not going to be transformed however their soul could get transformed and refined by working with the and the levanim with the with the bricks and the mortar they that the Jewish people worked in Egypt. And that's why par told the Jewish people clearly the these aren't just these aren't just this names of of tools they work with in Egypt. But this is spiritual um transformation that that's taking place told we're going to give you we're going to give you stones. In other words, why is that? Because we know that the sin of the generation that was got dispersed and it says clearly in the Tory They they worked with stones. They worked with mortar. And they said, "Let's go ahead and build a city and a tower is going to go up to heaven. We're going to that's how we're going to become famous." And we know that they all had in mind to serving idolatry. And as it says, we're going to make we're going to make a name. And over and in the Torah, it says clearly another buzz word of shame. You can't make any other other gods. In other words, so what they went ahead and what they used these stones was for idolatry and like in Kazal tell us that they took a stone and they and they prostrated themselves down to it. And this is what the Jewish people were working and fixing in Egypt by working with these stones. What they sinned with the stone bene went ahead and and transformed it to elevate the souls. And so from here you'll see what does that mean practically. So when it comes to the misbeak the altar of Adam which is earth we said on one hand it's coming from we come from the earth and but in the other hand we we we're adama we're compared to hashem what is that what is that referring to what type of spiritual work that's the work of learning and doing mitzvah which that's in it's a neutral neutral territory you learn ter you do a mitzvah in neutral stuff but not with things that you have arrogance and and and and and and division And like the says in that all the mitzvah in the are with neutral neutral neutral neutral items. So for example when you you want to take a let's say the mitzvah on you have to take the estrig you can't bring it from a forbidden type of fruit. It has to be neutral and you elevate it to an estrig. And that's why it says over here um with mis misbama it doesn't say misbach msbakadama a an altar of of earth and you'll go ahead and bring you'll bring sacrifices on there all the different types of f sacrifices which is referring to all the different types spiritual that we do today of learning to doing mitzvah so that means because that's all neutral stuff that all could be elevated however when it comes to the altar that's made out of stones In other words, to elevate the sparks that fell in the three impure which how do you how do you deal with that is by by subduing the negative force in Hebrew it's called or to the level you totally transform it or you you you transform it the negative energy and by doing that yes it's much difficult but you have the power of this greater light that comes from darkness or greater wisdom that comes from selenas. And that's why it says if like condition why because that's not the standard way of doing things. And that's why he continues he says no you cannot go ahead and bring any and and you can't cut it with any knife because you brought the knife and and you desecrated it. Why is that? Because since the sparks are much higher you have to have proper respect for it. It's a whole different level of dealing with it. Now the do the zo says something very very powerful that the generation that is living now in the heels before Msiah comes is a reincarnation of the generation of the author of the zor and the generation of is a reincarnation of the generation of the desert the one that left Egypt the the generation that left Egypt. So as our generation goes back to goes back to the generation left Egypt and that's why Mo which he was the first redeemer that took the Jewish people out of Egypt he's going to be the last redeemer take us out of um the the generation that's right before Msiah he's going to take us out of exile and therefore because of that we need to do today both type of service we need the service misb which is basically learning and doing mitzvah which is basically to trans to to subdue and transform even the three kipot the the three impure kipot and finish off and he says it should be the will that should happen very very soon we should have the redemption from this exile and just like we left Egypt we'll leave this exile what does that mean that all the sparks are going to be transformed and like it says when the Jewish people left Egypt it says not they saved what does that mean that they took all the sparks from Egypt and even the not only the the earth but even the stones what were transformed like it says clearly in the prophets I'm going to take away take away take it's a blessing I'm going to take out the the heart of stone and it should be fulfilled what the verse says that we're going to go out of exile with our children with the elders with our sons with our daughters and nothing's going to be left in exile. all the silver and all the gold together with all the wealth of the Jewish people and just like when we went left Egypt the minute God said we're leaving even like a blink of an eye we all left the same thing also now and especially says that we already finished all the all the uh the the the the prospects of of times when we should leave gullis in the Hebrew it's called kal kalak kit and all all the the the dates that were that were set we already passed everything. Well, only thing that's missing is one thing. What's missing to leave Galas? Chuva. We got to return to Hashem. And the Jewish people do Chuva. We return to Hashem. And right away, we're going to be redeemed. We're going to redeemed with the gulish, the true gulos, the tr the true redemption, the complete redemption. And like finishes off beautifully happened quickly in our days on a literal level. So here we have a beautiful beautifulic discourse that shows us the practical application of the two types of altars. Like most importantly ever says let's hope that we do our job we do chuva and we will all guard our gullis and next class will be your have a great and blessed week. Shabua to