You have affirmed this day, Hashem is your God. את ה' האמרת וה' האמירך גו Kabbalah Rabbi Minkowicz

Welcome to our class on we're going to be learning a beautiful discourse in the Reb name of the discourse is called the Reb said this discourse in which was the 18 day of the month of like this year in the year 54 years ago went on to certify and edit this discourse in honor of the 18th day of the month of in the year 37 years ago so again theic discourse is based on the verse in this week's Torah portion where it says as which is referring to the most powerful name which means the Jewish people told God they're accepting upon themselves to to learn to do the MIT and to be God's people and God says yes he's accepting the Jewish people to be the chosen people very very powerful verse in this to portion so it's brought down the tal the tal says that the God told the Jewish people you have made me one in this world like it says here Israel we have one God and hem says I will also make you carve you out as one like it says who is like the nation the Jewish people that is the one nation in the earth so you ever asked the question know it says that you have made me one ASM is saying the Jewish people made Hashem one what does that mean we made Hashem one and is the fact that that Hashem is one that happens through the Jewish people we made Hashem one that's question one also like it's understood that we compare that we compare we say you made me one so I'm gonna make you one in other words also certain one says I'll also make you one in other words just like you made me one in other words this the fact that the Jewish people is one nation yeah hasem made us one nation like the verse says me who is like the the the the Jewish people one nation in the earth as we know Hashem went around and he was looking for someone to redeem him so to speak and Rashi says what is the Jewish people special in all the nations of the world that Hashem went to to redeem himself and the only one that wanted to accept isem is us and that's what we're so special and the same thing also that we made hem know which happens what through the Jewish people now this this this explanation of which like we said it says that we made hem one we made by saying and said he he made us one it comes in a continuation what the talud says before that what does the talud say before that look in thein the Flores of Hashem what does it say in hashem's Fain what it says over there it says the verse who is like a Jewish Nation One Nation says does hem praise himself with the praise of the Jewish people and the answer yes because the verse says in this week's tah por so Hashem tells the Jewish people you made me one nation and I'm going to make you also one nation what does that mean in other words ask Hashem is praising himself by the Jewish people what does that mean because we know that Fillin the name of the named F which refers to Flores also come from the expression of it's beautiful like the says your beauty is resting upon you in other words when you put on it makes you beautiful and it's a praise to the person that's wearing them and the same thing also that applies to supplies to hem that they bring praise and Beauty to hem and like we see that this verse of who is like the nation of the Jewish people that says in theem and that's the beauty of Hashem the beauty of hm that he has a nation like the Jewish people and that's why the tal ask does hem get praised by the Jewish people the fact is the verse that's the praise of the Jewish people how is the praise of the Jewish people the praise of hem what does the tal say yes because the verse says know words it's saying it in a way of Praise that the Jewish people affect praise and Specialty in has the question is the fact is that the proof in the verse is where it says as in other words that seemingly that that Hashem is being praised by the Jewish people praising him what are we saying that's the praise for hem what what does that mean even though you're gonna say we're praising hem hasm is excited about it the fact is what compared to hasm we're nothing but nevertheless I'll say it in Hebrew ch hasem ch that by us praising him so to speak hasm is going to be proud about it but so that's correct but how is it how is from the proof that Hashem gets praised by by praising the Jewish people and know by praising the fact that we're so special that we're one nation in the world so obviously you must say that since the verse begins and it says as hasem Mar and know we are praising hm allows us to praise himm is excited about it so through that Hashem goes ahead and he's excited about praising the Jewish people and you can say that this that the verse that says in reference toin in in the T of hem it doesn't say that we praise him but it says like it says an art film but it says is who is like the the the nation the Jewish people so what do you see from here that this is the praise of Hashem that Hashem is excited the fact that he has one nation and it's actually greater than the praise that we praise up to the point that this praise that Hashem is proud of the Jewish people that's the that's in his fil which makes him beautiful also we have to understand what the the uh theab brings in a discourse with this title as that in reference to there's two opinions one opinion is opinion of the Raj the Raj says that this verse of as we we we're we're accepting hem and hm is accepting us it's like the verse that it says in the prophets that that that hasem is to us and we're to him that's the rash says the mar says us the opposite I am to my beloved my belovs to me ask a question one second the fact is the verse says which means we're accepting and is accepting us so that's more like like the so what's the reason the Raj comes with this revolutionary idea and he says which seemingly he he says just the opposite okay says all these questions that we just brought up we understand with based on introduction what the the Reb brings in that discourse that we mentioned before so he brings a teaching from the which is one of the commentaries in the and the says like this if you take that verse of and you count how many words are in that verse there's 15 words in that in that verse why 15 because 15 the says corresponds to the 15 items that the mishon had so again the verse has 15 words the says connected the 15 different items that was in the Mishka the B goes on to say that the Mishka the Tabernacle is compared to the creation of the world and what's the reason that in the creation of the world and in the Mish it's idea 15 is to hint what it says in the in the verse because which yud is 10 and he is five which is total 15 so with the power of 15 the first two letters of hm's name that's what hasem used to create the world in other words that the 15 IDE 15 items in the mishon is hinted into the y k the first who loves of's name which numerical is 15 that used to create the world so the same thing also applies to the 15 words in this verse of um is also connected to the idea of what of and the continues on to say that corresponding to these 15 items again 15 verse 15 words in this verse 15 items in the temple and 15 items in in the the creation of the world which comes from yut we find there are 15 times 500 in the seven heavens and re brings in a footnote he explains because the fact is you have the seven Heavens yeah have between the heavens and then before and after it's total different total 15 different levels and every one of the levels is made up of 500 and he goes on to explain in theic discourse that's why the the diverse in the Torah that says so we know numerically is 515 what's the idea of 515 that 15 times 500 that's in in in the all the different levels of the heaven and between the heavens now based on what's explained elsewhere that the we said is numerically 515 what's the idea of 515 so you have 500 and you have 15 but the 515 is all the same in the same word so what does that mean it's a union of 15 which is the first of name together with 500 and later he'll explain the spiritual significance of the utk the 15 and the 500 so he says you can say that this verse that says it's that has 15 words and then the same idea that the mishan is made up of 15 items which is connected to yut the creation of the world what does that mean not only the way yut 15 on on on its own but the way yut is connected with the idea of of of of of 500 like in the verse of like he's G explain later more in depth he says we're gonna understand this basic on what it says in kazal that he brought before that this idea of that we are basically making a stand hm we're accepting you and how do we do that by saying andem accepts us because how do we accept hm by saying so he says say there's two different insights to it and he says like this the first Insight is how do we accept so what is what does mean so first he brings one Insight is the teaching of the AR the AR brings the verse that it says now we know is so it says in the future not but twice what does that mean that the which is referring to and which is referring to the six they're going to be one which basic idea is we're going to unify intellect and emotions because we know intellect is One World emotions is a different world the intellect And the emotions are going to be totally unified that's one Insight of the second Insight is what does it mean like like for example which what is referring to the essence of the infinite part ofm together with that's that's all one so the essence of together with and that's why the 15 words in the in in in this verse which is the miracle value of yud um the verse of is connected to yud just like it's UniFi together with the 500 what's the connection because when you have the unification of 15 together with 500 in the word of there's also two insights similar to the before like you said just to recap what do you say what's what's what's the connection it's which the idea of unifying the intellect And the emotions or the other one is connecting the essence of hem with um the so he says the same same applies um same same applies in our case with with this verse is unifying with 500 what is that he say like this what is 500 500 is referring to the emotions which is lower than the internet what's the connection with 500 And the emotions because we know the main emotions are what from that's the main emotion which is five every one of these five are con are intertwined with all the T which that's 50 and every one of these intertwine with all the other 10 spheres again so it makes it 500 which is numerical value of 500 so again so 500 referring to the emotions to its power and to the powerful power of it and and that's why the the the the all the ideas in the worlds the the 15 levels of the worlds is is 500 why because the source of everything created comes from where it comes from the emotions So based on this which we said is numerical value is is 515 and it's in one word it's the connection of intellect As We Know know is intellect and together with the emotions like the like the first Insight of which is connecting the intellect with the emotions so it's like an INT emotion same thing also the 515 is connecting the intellect with the emotions the second Insight of 500 is referring to the emotions of ker in the lower level of K and which is above emotions so the emotions of K is above intellect and what is the idea of 515 is to unify the um together with the which is above just like the second Insight of Anem that which is referring to the essence of Hashem together with the intellect okay so you have both those go coincide together so basically says now we'll understand the connection where it says asem to to the to theing of hem in other words even though in theing of hem what does it say over there it says referring to what the quality of the Jewish people and that's that's that's connected to not as a that's more connected and what so that's what what's the connection because the fact is we'll soon see as both connect they're both really connected know even in the even though it only has a second verse of of of they have both components it has as well why is that he explains like this when it comes to filling the feries the felies as we know is the four levels of intellect the four levels of in what's the connection with four we know Das get split into two so you have two levels of so is connected to four levels of Internet this puts on on what does that what does mean hasm is putting on the F the intellect so there's two insights one is one Hashem is referring to the idea of Z the small face the the six Mido and what does it mean is putting on filling it means drawing down the intellect into the emotions in other words that come what comes down into emotions the essence of intellect and this that the the that it comes down into emotions from the intellect that comes down the way it's the way the way it normally flows it comes only way intellect is connected to emotions and comes through many many many constraints concealments and up to the point when it comes into the emotions they they become they become they become just emotions and because the fact is that the intellect of of the emotions compared to the intellect itself that's basically more emotional but what does it mean hm is putting on fill in that in the emotions what comes in there is the essence of intellect and that's why hasm is called pair Beauty because hasem which is basically is proud and and of bringing in the ESS the essence of the intellect into the emotions so that's one level compared to the the two levels we spoke about before and the second idea is referring to the essence of hem Which is higher than even the world ofus and he's putting on f means he's bringing in the most powerful levels levels of in infinite into the intellect so according to this we understand more the beauty of thein because the added light that's coming into the intellect from the essence of hem is is is much higher that's why it says which means we're saying it in a prais a praiseworthy way that is putting on fill in which is watch his Beauty how does that happen it happens through when we do our aido when we do our part and that's why he say hasem says you make me one in the world how we making hasm one the world because when it comes to the say there way things flow down the way things are measured based on on on nature so when things flow from a higher level to the lower level know it's from the Creator creator of aus and into aot then into Aus into from the intellect into emotions so basically it gets gets gets gets defined and gets limited based on what you're able to receive but in order for Hashem to put in fill and like based on the two insites before connecting the intellect with the emotions or bring above infinite into the intellect which is basically the same two ideas of which is basically Union of of of which is the the emotions with your intellect and the union of infinite with with hem how does that happen it happens what through the Jewish people doing our av so how does that work never explains beautifully he says like this he like to connect this with the teaching of the B and teaching of the Al and as we know that that's the birthday of both the and the AL so they had they explain on the verse it says you holy Sitting In Praise of the Jewish people what does that mean they explaining this hem is totally kesm is totally holy and he totally disconnected but when we sit and say the praise and as we praise hem that's what causes hem to come down here we praise that caus to come down to the world and that's why it says what does that mean that when the Jewish people praise hem to so that causes to put on thein which means it causes to draw down light above AOS and even in AOS from the intellect into emotions not based on a normal flow and and by do by praising hasem it causes to come down into the lowest level and know why is that because when you draw down through the regular flow when the light comes down so what happens when light comes down it gets weakened as it comes down up to the point when it comes into this world you literally have a concealment you don't see Hashem but when it comes down without the proper flow and the source of it coming down Conant the essence of the infinite part of hem which is above any level connect to the world and how does it happen it happens through doing our work and how how do we have the power to do it because the source of the Soul of the Jewish peoples in the essence of the infinite parem so then what happens is the Revelation comes down literally physically into this world now this drawing down of the light which means Byam is putting on F and drawing down the powerful light how does it happen it happens specifically yes by praising hem and all the Mitzvah that we do but specifically by putting on why because teach us based in the verse his words to his statute to to the Jewish people so it says in what tells us to do that he does in other words that and and and there's an Insight that says that when a je when we go ahead and we do the Mitzvah we cause hasem to do the Mitzvah literally put on has has to put on and like the usem Hashem is your Shadow what does that mean you know it's just like when when you're in a place where you create a shadow the shadow you control the Shadow the shadow can't control what it's showing in the shadow the same thing also Hashem will do exactly what you're doing so in other words the same thing applies to the MIT ofin and we know that that the whole Torah is compared toin this puts on filling why put on why cause it to come down because we put on filling well understand the space someone has known that the intent the meditation what you have when you put on Fillin what is the and we know that the intent the meditation is part of the Mitzvah what's the meditation you have when you're putting on filling to unify your heart and your intellect and what does it mean to unify that you're connecting yourself and you're dedicating yourself to God and that's like similar to the MIT of is what is you're accepting upon yourself the Yoke of Heaven which is the first part ofma and the second part ofma you're accepting upon yourself to the mitv and the acceptance that you're accept upon yourself and doing MIT that's not logical it's above logic but nevertheless you have the meditation of thein where it brings it down into your internal Powers know you're accepting hem you're accepting the MIT by now it's becoming personalized because you're you're you're focusing in your four levels of intellect like we said before and two de two and and two levels of Das because Das is divided into and from there from the int it goes into your emotions and that's why it's called You're connecting your heart to it you can say that when a person is commits and dedicates his mind in a way of accepting and know you're drawing down from the essence of your soul so that's like literally accepting from the essence of your soul and it's coming way into your intellect and then what happens by doing that when it comes from comes into your int then it comes into like the second Insight that Hashem puts on that you literally draw in the infinite part of hem into the low high level of intellect and then it goes from the intellect into the emotions and then you have the first Insight that puts Onin which basically is bringing down from intellect into emotions like to add that when we draw in through accepting which again it's above levels of of of of regular flow and you bring in into the intellect and emotions what happens comes into all all the powers that we have even the lowest power that we have and that's why we know it's interesting that the Flores has straps and the straps from the T of the head you have the head and then you have the strap and the straps come down it has to come lower than than than than your belly but in your stomach why it has to go down to to the lowest part of your body because the goal is that every part of the body should be focused and dedicated not only your intellect not only your your heart but even your your your your every part of your being and by by by affecting every part of your being you're actually affecting the world that even in the lowest part of the world we should have the revelation of God in other words besides the fact that through we're drawing in the the oness of hem into the physical hide of thein and because by Krish we say we sayma so the re the revelation of is in the person that's saying but when you're putting on in it's literally going into hide into parchment the physical parchments and that's why the whole Torah is compared to Fillin because the whole idea of learning Torah MIT is to bring godliness into this world like the famous teaching of the cab is the goal is to bring godliness into this world and the revelation of filling effects even in those that oppose godliness even if someone opposes godliness the revelation of fill will bring light into that space and like the verse says clearly all the nations of the world are going to see the name of is on you and they're gonna be afraid of you how does that happen tell us by putting on the T on your head because when you put on the T on your head it affects even on those that you have to affect they should be in a of hem not only that when they see it and they see that that the name of hasem is on you that even the nations of the world and even those on un fortunate that that admit in idolatry their their knowledge is only in the name of Elohim which is referring to nature but the fact is we know that they don't know about like we know the famous story with I know God that makes sense the god that that's beyond logic that I can't handle but when we put on Fillin which means we're revealing the infinite part of AEM by by putting on the Fain what happens then is even the nations of the world and not not only that all the nations world that don't believe um what do they see they see they see y k k and they and and and that affects them to be what in that's what we know the Reb always pushed putting on F because the fact is putting on F will bring the greatest dread on the nations of the world say he like to connect this with the revelation of the teaching of that happened on 18 which you know is the birthday of the who's the founder of the global cic movement and the birthday of the AL who the founder of the mement that these points are are powerful points in the in the world of that the goal is to bring godliness and spirituality down to the materialistic physical world and like the AL writes in classic works of in the beginning that it says in it says in the verse the words ofm are always in heaven and we know the teaching of that these words that said that that that used to create the world and the heavens etc etc so these words and these letters are literally standing forever in the he in the heaven and and and and and and that gives it it that gives it it consistent life for us TR says one second the fact is this this inside us it says and like brings but nevertheless what is the alter WR he uses the the teaching why is he teaching why is he bring that that that one of the reasons is that the bov he didn't revolutionize idea but he's the one that publicized the idea and he revealed that everyone should know about it and the alter went ahead and took this so we can comprehend it comprehending the way we should totally enjoy it and appreciate it which is that story behold they have and we and not only that that the The Godly Soul should know it but the animal soul comprehended and even on the level of those that before they learned that they didn't believe so much and the goal is that everyone should comprehend and that's the that's the Revolutionary idea of and specifically that's why the verse says what are we saying to Hashem that Hashem says that you have made me one in the world by saying know by the mere fact the Jewish people say is one God when we we when we're saying shma and especially when we're wearing filling that means we're bringing in the Oneness of asem even into the materialistic physical height of Ain so through that we do our part then hasem puts on hisin and that's the beauty of hem that's the beauty of he's proud of it now and the reason that the Jewish people have the power by doing a Mitzvah we cause hem to do a Mitzvah so the verse says you know how you know we have the power because hasem Hashem gave us that opportunity and hasem said you you you have the opportunity to be the chosen people you can initiate it and that's why the verse finishes off in the verse that wasn't finish off to to do all the MS of hem so even though in this verse it says which means that the praise that we're praising Hashem is that we're accepting Hashem and do the the statutes because the fact is to do the Mitzvah that the Jewish people do the Mitzvah we are when we we accomplishes that we do our Mitzvah we cause hem to do the Mitzvah and that's why in the verse it says um means that the praise that hem has in the Jewish people because this that we have the power through our Mitzvah that do MIT that is a tremendous praise for the Jewish people and says you could say this is why the rashba says that which is referring to our job and is doing it so seemingly we're doing our part andm is doing his part why is say why does he say that first is doing it very simple because the power that we have to say that we're accepting and we're doing the MIT and we're causing more praise in hem that comes to have to always remember even though we have the power to cause to do the Mitzvah but remember who's the one that gave us the ability to do it everything comes from that's what says now every finish off he say like this this idea that Hashem says that he's that he's accepting us to be the chosen people it's not a logical thing because we're so special and we have certain qualities and know are learning Torah mitzah Etc no no no Hashem chose literally Freedom of Choice like it says in the verse chose the Jewish people and is this that we're special Hashem chose us and because hasem chose us he didn't choose for a reason because that then you have to choose but he chose us in the essence of the Jewish people and every single Jewish person even before you learn T even before you do a Mitzvah we are chosen bym and because we're chosen what happens is we have the quality in a revealed way that by learning T and doing mitz they become the mitz of and that's why when it comes to and the's what does it say it doesn't say is that we're choosing hem but it's choosing because the real praise and the real beauty that hasem has not the more light that's considered through doing the Mitzvah but it happens through the Mitzvah that the Jewish people to people do but the fact is the real praise is that we're connected to the essence of hm that's the real quality that we have never says he like to connect this with the idea of the 18 of because besides the fact that this idea know the tremendous quality of the Jewish people and the love of the Jewish people which we know that's the main foundations of of the of the works of but the fact is is also the beginning of the next coming year starting from R what happens to R we we we Crown God as the king and the fact the the the power that we have to be able to say Hashem should be our King how how do we have the power to make hashm our King because we're connected with the essence of Hashem Which is higher than the place of hasm being King and hasm accepts our crowning him as a king Hashem becomes the king for the Jewish people and through that he becomes not only the king of the Jewish people comes King on the whole world is the god of the Jewish people he's the king over everything and it comes in a revealed way that he's the the the king over the Jewish people and the Redeemer through Mia that he's going to go ahead and and fight the wars and he's going to be successful and he's going to build a b m and he's going to gather all the all the Jewish people and the whole world will be filled with the knowledge of Hashem the whole world when is that going to happen with the Redemption the true Redemption and the complete Redemption and it's going to happen very very very soon so here we have another beautiful powerful cic discourse from the rebba in honor of which teaches us the real power that we have we have the power by learning to and doing mitvah specifically by wearing F that hm does puts unfill and that brings the greatest Revelation in the world like says ultim we'll have the greatest Revelation with the coming of msia and our next class will bees have a great and blessed week sh