Why is Exile / Galut so long & Difficult? A New Kabbalah class by Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz

welcome to our class on this we're going to be learning this week a beautiful hasidic discourse from the rebel the name of the discourse is called the ayla schmoyes these are the names the rebbe said this specific discourse on shabbos pasha smoyce that year was the 25th day of the month of tevas which is also the shabbos that blessed the month of shrot in the year tough shin lamid zion exactly 45 years ago so the acidic discourse again is based on the verse the opening verse this week's torah portion the a-list is these are the names of the jewish people that came to the land of egypt and the tourists specified specifically ruvain shimmering levi yehuda all the names of the tribes et cetera shreva says it's known the question that the the uh baal referring to the alta rebbe we knows in the 24th day of the month of tavis in his classic book safer on the acidic insights in the torah portion called terror and also in pashas by higash so he asks that the question is we know that in parties by egash the tory already tells us that these are the names of the jews who went down to egypt so in other words the question is there a simple question we're ready in partially egos torah tells these are the names of the jewish people going down to egypt so why over here is the torah again repeated these are the names of the jewish people going down to egypt trevor says also the middle arabah which is the second khabad rabbah so he adds to this question in his civic discourse in his safer on the civic insights in the torah portion called toyrashkaim the terrier of life which is actually an explanation on the acidic discourse of the altered and he says as follows we know that toyota is everlasting and when toyota says something it's not just a story in the past an episode of the past but referring to every single time and every single generation in other words so practically speaking we talk about going into the land of egypt so it's not just a story in the past we went into the lands of egypt but every single generation we go into the land of egypt and therefore there's obviously a terribly knows from the expression of a royal lesson so obviously there's a lesson for every single jewish person and every time and every and every place why because he raw terror is a lesson so obviously the lesson of the torah is everlasting now since the terror is everlasting so obviously all the details of the exile the jewish people in the land of egypt happens in every single generation so therefore if you look at these specific details of they made our lives bit bitter by with akasha with hard work the claim albanian with different materials we used with cement and cinder blocks to build to build to build the the land of egypt all or all the work that we did with with heart with back breaking labor obviously all that it's not just a story of the past we have it today it applies to us today now trevor says and he brings in the middle of rubber even though they made our lives bitter bitter but the goal wasn't just to make our lives bitter for the sake of being bitter but the goal of our lives being bitter is is for a purpose what was the purpose so we should have the redemption which is going to come comes after being bitter and like hashem says i'm going to go down with you to egypt and i'm going to take you out so hashem is part and nose and involved in the process of going down to egypt all the suffering but that's the goal is to go out of egypt in other words the whole intent of going into the land of egypt past and present is for one reason one reason only not god forbid to get stuck in the mud get stuck in the bitterness get stuck in the challenges get stuck in what's difficult but the goal is so we should have ao hug i'm only we're going to go out and we're going to reach a much much higher and greater level this is so far the area brings from the altar and the middle urban now there is going to explain he says as follows therefore says we know when it speaks about the jewish people going down to egypt what does it say yo roy uradnu we went down we went down it was a double expression twice going down there's two levels of going down the same thing also when it comes to redemption so it says i'm going to elevate you and elevate you again we're going to go out twice so there's just two going down there's two levels of going down to egypt and there's two levels of going out of egypt what does that mean so generally speaking what is the two levels going out of egypt referring to going out of egypt going out of the first egypt golisman triumph and the second one is going out and having the redemption once mashiach is going to come the ultimate going out of the complete going out so trevor says if the going out is referring to going out of egypt of past and whatever it means spiritually and going out of this exile when mashiach comes obviously there must be a connection between these two these two redemptions there's the redemption of going out of egypt and the redemption of going out of this gullis because obviously if it's connected there must be some kind of connection and the question is what is the connection jeremy explains his fellows we know it's brought down the prophet the prophet says he made says kami it's been shrine just like when we went out of egypt we experienced tremendous miracles so the same thing also mashiach comes we're going to see tremendous miracles that's the verse in the prophets so the simple understanding of the verse is that just like when we went out of egypt we had the north dakota beach to do a tremendous miracle hashem brought the plagues and the sea et cetera so the similar to that comes we're going to go out of this galas that we're in we're also going to have miracles like the past that's a simple insight but there are brings in the zoya and azaria says deeper that the miracles the wonders that's going to be mashiach comes that you know those huge miracles when god comes out of egypt the plagues and at the sea all the tremendous wonders we talk about in the night of pesach that so that's amazing it's powerful wonders you think you can't even get more you can't have greater miracles than that so the zodiac says there's going to be such miracles that they're going to be much greater than the miracles of going out of egypt it's made sense tonight when you had all those miracles i ran into place i'm going to show you wonder is much much greater so stay tuned and hashem takes that of gullus we're going to experience huge miracles even greater than going out of out of egypt but back to the point rubber says the fact that you compare the two wonders of going out of egypt and umashiya comes obviously there must be a connection not only they're both wonders but in the internal way and it's not that the wonders is the same but literally there's a deep connection between going out of egypt and going out of this gulls and because there's a deep connection there's some kind of connection that connects both of them so obviously that's why there's a connection in the miracles the miracles is a side effect of the deep connection between the two exiles and the two redemptions and that's the connection in the in the acidic discourse of the after entire earth and in the middle of antarctica after he explains the two levels i'm going to take you out and take you out again which is referring to going out of egypt and going out with mashiach comes so he continues on that verse he made seizures and he connects the two going out of egypt and the wonders of mashiach comes because the reason why he does that robert says is to show you there is a deep connection between going out of egypt which is one gula one redemption and there's the same connection between going out of this galas this exile which is going to be when mashiach comes so the question is what is that powerful connection the internal connection they both have in common so ever explains as follows the connection between the two redemptions the redemption of the past and we are out of egypt and the redemption of the future of mashiach comes and he says like this just like when we went out of egypt why'd we go out of egypt because we weren't godless we were in exile in egypt what was the reason for the exile the reason for the exile wasn't god forbid because hashem wanted us to be in exile and hashem wanted it wanted us to suffer the reason the internal deep reason why we went into exile into the land of egypt the coup d'arpenius the internal purpose of going into egypt was so that we should have the redemption afterwards and what is the purpose of the redemption and what's the ultimate of the redemption that we should go to mountain torah and receive the torah like hashem says clearly when i'm going to take you out of egypt you're going to serve hashem on this mountain so again to be to be clear because this is the essence of the of the discourse what the rebels saying is when we went into the land of egypt we went into exile that's what we did but that was not the intent the intent was to come out of egypt to have the redemption and go to mount sinai and receive the torah that's the ultimate intent the ultimate intent of the godless matriarch of the exile in egypt was to go have the gerula have the redemption and go to mount sinai and receive the torah the rebels said the same thing also this exile the way now it's not god to but we should be you have pain and suffering and being exiled being disconnected hashem but the reason is that we should merit for the guru of the redemption and just like when we went out of egypt we received the torah we're saying that we're going to have to redemption what we're going to have is we're going to have the revelation of preemie satoru we're going to have the revelation of siddhis and kabbalah which one are we going to have that mashiach comes lost lover in the future and like the rubber brings the verse where it says you shall kane him and hashika's peel when mashiach comes we're going to be have the redemption but the goal is that we're going to receive premiums we're going to receive kabbalah and that's going to be like the deepest relationship we can have with hashem and just like when we were in exile in the land of egypt the purpose was to to transform us and to refine us and to so you should purify us to receive the terror because if you're not transformed and you're not purified not refined how can you receive the torah just like um the core herbalism is when you want to go ahead and you want to take you know silver and you want to refine it and to make it beautiful and to make it a pure et cetera so it goes through a process you have to go through the process of refinement so the same thing also that's what we went through in the land of egypt we went to the refinement so you can appreciate and connect to the toyota and and and really experience entirely on a whole different level so the same thing also this exile that we're in now by going through all the hardships of exile we merit to refine ourselves so we can receive the revelation of siddhis kabbalah and we receive it through episodes we're going to receive it in a way and the expression is the aspirin or seminary which means it's going to be not just we're going to receive it but it's going to be we're going to receive it with tremendous abundance and just like espionage goes in the word pranossa it's going to be like it's going to be our livelihood this is going to be our sustenance and that's the ultimate sustenance of a jewish person the ultimate sustenance is not materialism it's not wealth it's not materialistic wealth but the ultimate wealth is when we connect to hashem through siddhas by learning living a life of siddhis connecting to preemie satoru and when we connect to it it affects us on every single level up until it literally affects the way we walk and it it affects abundance in our mind and our heart and our emotional abundance and total a total expansiveness so the goal of this goddess that we're in is for the redemption so we can receive premium terror and that's really the ultimate gift that we can have from hashem and based on this rabbi explains very very powerful this is the reason why unfortunately gullis the exile that we're in is so so long much longer than the land of egypt london beach was only 400 years and actually 210 specifically in the land of egypt we're now thousands of years in exile and the reason is because since the ultimate intent of this exile is the ultimate gula the ultimate redemption and we should marry it to receive premium torah the essen the terror so we have to go through a longer process of refinement however in mitzrayim yeah we had the redemption we received the terrible what terror did we receive we received the revealed part of the torah so to receive the revealed part of the tour we only needed a shorter refinement 210 years or 400 years total however we're going to receive premium satire the greatest revelation the greatest gift that's why unfortunately the exile so many so so much longer um thousands of years in other words just like what is premium torah there brings the verse before you shake name we connect to god in a real intimate way which is obviously much greater than the revelation of the revealed part of the torah so the same thing the the exile that we're we're in which is the cause which is going to bring us to revelation so obviously it's a much greater exile because it's going to give us the great the greater reward which is the x-ray this exiles much greater and much stronger much longer than the exile the land of egypt because because that only causes the revelation of the revealed part of the torah but now we're working to get the revelation of the internal part of the torah why is that because everyone explains because the revealed part of torah that's the part of terror that comes in a limited fashion however are siddhis kapala that's the part which is infinite no limits when you learn reveal parts here it's just finite finer understanding finite levels however when you learn premium story you learn this there's no limits it's off the charts which happens one second so what we're saying is that in order to reach we're going for what the gold we're going for the big prize the prize is premium satire which has no limits but if that's the case and that's where the exile so long but one second the exile we're in is also a finite exile if we want to have the infinite redemption and the infinite premise of terrorism but this exile the word is a finite exile it's only for a certain amount of years even though it's long but still a finite amount about amount of years so every explanation we make we say a long exile we don't mean quantitatively that's for many many more years in other words we're talking about the the depth of the pain and the suffering of this exile and especially the pain of the suffering which is called the birth pangs of mashiach which is the birth pangs of giving birth which is like the deepest pain and suffering we're experiencing right now and as this pain and suffering that says you cannot compare to the pain and suffering on a qualitative level like the pain and suffering that we had in the land of egypt now it doesn't mean god forbid that we have to have pain and suffering but in other words in an intense way what really means is anytime you have to do things that's not in your nature with something you're not used to doing that's also pain and suffering it doesn't have to be something which is really painful and suffering painful and suffering is when you're doing something which is not your nature that's painful and suffering and like brings the from the talmud where it says on based on the verse in the torah by that video that they caused the jewish people to work with with hard labor so what does that mean the talmud what kind of hard labor they give them they worked hard who doesn't work hard what happened there was they gave men to do women's labor and they gave women to do men's labor in other words for example let's say a man you give him a woman's job technically might be an easier job why because women you give easier type of work to do but nevertheless for a man it's hard work because it's not your nature anything you're not naturally doing it's hard for you to do how much more so is something which is not something where customs do it's considered a lot it's very very hard and and it's painful and suffering you just don't know how to do it you know it's not your thing you don't you're not you you're not used to it and how much more so the rubber says that we see that there was a famous king nebuchadnezzar and because the talmud tells us he went and he literally he he took three steps in honor of the king of all the kings so because he went out of his way for hashem the king of all the kings he went out of his way it wasn't the natural thing for him to do he merited for himself for his children his grandchildren for three generations he merited kingdom walk as he went out of his way for hashem and we're talking about not just a simple kingdom a a a huge kingdom a kingdom with a tremendous abundant abundance as we know was like the king over the whole world had he married it but because he went out of his way so as you see that when you go out of your way you get tremendous rewards like you see in the store he went out of his way for three steps look what he got for three generations she represents how much more so when it refers to the jewish people when we go out of our way we're doing things we're not supposed to be doing we're not we're not accustomed to do and we're we are considered this the the um the the oldest son of god as the verse says the torah says bonnie your children to god are god so what happened when we go out of our way the the good that we that we deserve and that we earn is should be much greater than the buchanan and every single jewish person even a simple person the urban says could demand from hashem everything good spiritually don't lose sight don't ask for a cheap thrill for something materially ask for spiritual rewards because that's the main reward for a jewish person the main reward is godliness siddhas premium like we're learning here the main reward is to see and connect to hashem once you have the godly connection once you're learning some of this you're connected with the infinite automatically it's going to translate the materialistic blessings and everything that you need and obviously and specifically what that includes is having children good health having what to eat in an abundance having of success and abundance and up to the point that we're a king in our in our in our in our world but the point represents we have to ask hashem not god forbid for materialism ask god for godliness ask god to connect to the light once you're connected to hashem through this automatically you'll have everything material spiritually for sure god that's what you asked for and that will translate also into physical but don't starve for the physical you're sure changing the most important blessings you can get and so from the there was points out from here you see that how the fact that we don't have what we need and we're doing something which is not naturally it's considered tremendous pain and suffering and obviously it's much greater than the pain and suffering that the jewish people had in the land of egypt which was because that was before we got the torah and now we're commanded to do the mitzvoties so it's much harder to do it but when we do we're supposed to we wipe away anything which is blocking us and we wipe away all the pain and suffering that we went through and we'll have the greatest revelations now the fact is like this what do we want we want to have the ultimate revelation we want the guru we want the redemption premium is a torah sure says we know that all the revelations it's going to be when mashiach comes it's dependent on our action and our work now in gullah for these six thousand years of exile and so based on this we're just gonna explain what does it mean the work that we're doing in exile so it deteriorates says are you murderers they made their lives bitter what does that mean spiritually they made their lives better in other words there's the physical labor what is the spiritual or what's hard for us so we can do it by avoiding kasha with hard work what is hard work so when you sit down to learn talmud whatever you're studying and you do it with with the void of caution means kasha comes in the word hard but also known as cushy you ask questions when you're learning that's that's what you accomplish on a spiritual level the hoymer refers to what carl one of the ways to learn is by something easier something harder different ways you learn things out in the talmud also for example of vein so what does that mean on a spiritual level it's referring to trying to clarify the jewish law because you have this one says like this that one sounds like that but what is the halal so you discuss it until you get to the bottom of the jewish law and those you have to work very very hard learning torah to come out with a clear a clear understanding of what what hashem wants from us by having tremendous discussion like we know it says referring to us that in the darkness we find hashem in others and what is the darkness you're finding hashem is referring to the babylonian talmud because we know you learned the talmud so jerusalem thomas very very clear babylonian talmud much more discussion but specifically through that discussion you find hashem another because you're able to wash out and you're able to through the questions you're able to come to to uh the clarity um like it says for a minute what does that mean so never explains what's that the the jewish laws in a way romino comes from the word of moir it's it there's a lot of light to it and it's shining and that's really the ultimate of learning torah to come out what is that what does jewish law have to say clarity what do i do how do i behave what am i supposed to do what am i supposed to say how do i observe shabbat and all the all the or the life cycle events everything that's brought down and explained in allah and that's the the power and the quality of learning mishna the the part of the time which is the mishnah which basically tells us what the mission what what what the law is how we're supposed to do things and that's why it's whatever it brings that would hazal tell us that what's going to cause us so to speak to come out of exile what's going to cause all the jewish people to be united it's going to come by learning missionaries because as the verse says even if you're going to be dispersed amongst nations hashem is going to gather us together how do we gather together by learning mishnah by learning and by learning to torah that's how we have clear clarity and the same thing also that's the spiritual work when we study terror but there's also spiritual work and we find that it happens when we pray and like derbek says that the the out the talmud explains that length in the discourse in taurus ryan and uh when we do by immortals when we go through all the struggles that we go through on a spiritual level by learning torah and by pray by praying so through that we exchange we exchange the the exile the the the challenges of exile into into into into godly challenges so now there's ever saying like this we're in gullis we have a lot of challenges we're not doing we're supposed to we're not doing things that we're naturally able to do but we can we can exchange it to having all the struggles while but by learning by praying and if you if you have your struggles while you're learning trying to come to clarity of the torah and by prayer to have a relation of hashem you won't have to have physical or materialistic struggles so based on this job explain it brings it now back full circle and he says like this that's why the taurus says the a-list beneath role this is the names of the jewish people that went to egypt the question is why does it say what's that either the names of jewish people they never excited this because when the jewish people went to egypt by using their names the ayla schmoys by using their names they affected the redemption that came afterwards what does that mean what does it mean the names of the jewish peoples whoever brings the measures the measures are as follows rouvain and shimon that's their names went down to exile and reuven and schumann went out of exile what does that mean they went and they went out it means dimension was very simple they didn't change their names they went in tags out ruben and shimon they went through challenges and struggles they didn't give up they didn't change my names they didn't they didn't they didn't totally get isolated get mixed into gullahs no they stayed strong they didn't change their names in other words what does that mean practically besides the fact they saw they stay they stood strong when it came to the foundations of the torah and the foundations of doing mid-choice and even on simple learning torah or a simple mitzvah or even things which is like like a minute a custom just like to beautify a mitzvah but up to the point that even what's the sign because even when it came to their name it's such a name they didn't change the name how much more so they learned terror they did they didn't observe them it's just the way they're supposed to and the same thing also that's basically someone who went out of each going out of the exile of egypt but the same thing also in this exile that we had to stand strong even on simple things just like they didn't change your name to change their names then we don't change anything we stay committed to hashem we learn terror we do mitzvos we stick to our names we stick to what we stand for and we do all the right things what hashem wants and by going down into egypt the same over without giving anything up will come out the same way and that's why it says the ayla schmoyes banaya's role we went down with our names we're coming up with our names and just like it was then the same thing also is going to be in our gulas and the same thing also applies to torah why because we know it says that torah is also called names why because the whole torah the whole torah is the names of hashem and when when you learn torah which is basically learning the names of hashem you're able to affect to draw down the ayla schmoys the names that we have the names of the torah as we know that again the whole torah resonates with hashem so when you learn torah you're bringing the name of hashem everywhere and we know there's six there's 600 000 letters in the torah which every one of the letters is the name of hashem obviously some are concealed though summer reveals the whole terrorist names of hashem hashem wrote the terrorists of hashem it's a whole terrorist name of hashem obviously a monks of different permutations there's there's different levels in the revelation of god's name so you have the seven names of which we do not let erase because obviously the hashem is much more revealed in the earth and in there also you have god oil the big infinite name of hashem and that gets revealed what is that what is the name of going to be totally revealed that's kind of comes but has it happened by our spiritual work now and gullis by learning and praying and doing our abode of staying strong with mashiach it's all going to be revealed and the fact that trevor says something very profound and very interesting he says that this this huge name of hashem which is really only revealed comes but the fact is it was already revealed in hanukkah by the miracle of hanukkah the god of hashem was revealed walk as we say in alanis what do we say in all this in prayer we're we're acknowledging we're praising so already then they acknowledged they revealed in the big name of hashem now we know when something happens it happens everlasting as we know specifically when it comes to the candles of chanukah they never get nullified but however unfortunately the way it's revealed in this world it's in a concealed way but the revelation of shema goddard when is that going to happen that's going to happen while roma comes now he went down to exile so we said there's two levels of going down to exile y'all redirabnu what does that mean on a spiritual level so we know that intellect that's where the brain is right all the deep ideas are in the intellect but if you have these deep ideas and intellect you have to bring it down what do you bring it down to the first level bring it down when you think about it the first level of bringing it down is bringing from intellect and the thought the second levels and you bring it down from thought into speech so bringing it down brings intellect into thought and into speech what does that mean practically when it comes to learning torah and praying you also have the same two levels waka's torah is the power the intellect of hashem prayer is also the the intellect of hashem so when you learn terrorists the first level is when you bring it into your thought you sit down to learn so first you think about it so you're bringing it down the intellect of hashem into your thought and then when you discuss it and you learn it so you're bringing out the speech so you're taking the intellect of hashem bringing it down from one level from thought down to the second level into speech and like the verse says so the literal translation means it's life for those that find it but the the the but it says lingamar it says like this what does it mean that might say the ones are fine they prepare life is when you bring it down from to thought and might saying you say it articulate it and you can even bring it under says even a step further into every one of your limbs like for example it says no talmud if it is spread out in your all your 248 limbs then you're going to have terrorists when you learn torah and you pray you think it that's one level bringing it down meditation then you bring it into speech but then it becomes part of your whole your whole being and when it becomes part of your whole being that's when it lasts and that's in terms of learning torah the same thing applies when you pray because even though when you pray really it's your heart that's talking to hashem but the fact is and we know because it says what is considered the work of the heart that's prayer prayer is the work of a heart but nevertheless if it just stays in your heart that's like the terrorist thing in your heads but the goal is to say the words of prayer because when you say the words of prayer you literally take away anything that's blocking you with your relationship with hashem and like the uh like that explains um in uh say for a mitzvoth in the mitzvah of confession of repentance about reference of saying the 22 letters not just to have the confession in your heart you have to say it because by saying it when you bring it down that has the power to break anything that's stopping you in your relation to hashem and brevis finish up and he says this is the whole idea of redemption what is redemption what is what is basically all about the redemption drawing down drawing down what the infant name hashem on both levels first level is in the worlds that are concealed which is not revealed which is called in the world of kabbalah you know it's just like that's like just like the word that's like the words that we have in under our thought bringing it down to the concealed world which is not really that ominous gospel is like the world of thought also bringing out in bringing it down to the revealed world which is like the world of with speech when you say something you bring it down to the revealed world and by drawing it drawing down the infinite name of hashem into the world of thought into the world of speech alma disgusting the concealed world almond the sky in the revealed world and i was bringing it down from the concealed world and to the revealed worlds that's what it says in the prayers bringing it down from one world to the next like doctor explains at length entire earth and how does this happen and it happens through the first redeemer which will happen in the land of egypt and upper we're going to have the ultimate rebellion when is that going to happen it's going to happen the current moments very very soon very very quickly here you see another powerful civic discourse from the rebbe the ayla schmoys that we go into egypt we go with our names we come out with our names but more importantly unfortunately the exile we're going through is that we should have the greatest revelations or a revelation of siddhis and that is really ultimately the biggest gift we can have when we marry it to have the greatest revelation we can start the process now that gerber says by learning terror bringing down your thought into your speech into action by praying and are saying the words of prayer feeling the words of prayer we will experience the greatest revelations and ultimately the ever says we're going to have the ultimate redemption with meshiach have a great and blessed week and let's hope and pray our next class will be in yerushalayim iraqis