Your unique Soul will define your personal connection to G-D Kabbalah class Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz

welcome to our class on to this this week we're going to be learning a beautiful hasidic discourse from the rebbe the rebels said this discourse on shabbos parishes which was the 23rd day of the mount of tamas which was also mavor camachoides in the year tough shin mem aleph which is exactly 40 years ago the name of acidic discourse is called umikhne wrath based on the verse and the torah portion in pashas mata so in the first torah portion of the week impartials mata is the verse says as follows for the tribe of reuven and the tribe of god they had a lot of cattle like yerus eretz yazza they saw the land of yazer and they they saw the mikna the place is a place for cattle so the the the families the tribe of bene garden reuben came to moisture bainu and they said to him they know we know that you're going into the land of israel but this land is beautiful for cattle and we want you to give us as an inheritance this this this this piece of land which is on the other side of the jordan not in the side of israel so moisturizing rebuked them and he says what do you mean this is not the land of israel we're going to go and going to conquer the land of israel why are you cooling off the jewish people they said listen we really need it for our cattle and they said well to moisture i'll make a deal with you we'll set up our places here for our cattle for our children we'll go and wage war for the jewish people and we'll go in front of them so moisture told them as follows if you're going to go ahead as real warriors and you're going to go in front of the jewish people and fight for the land of israel then i will give you this piece of land on the other side of the jordan not in the side of the scroll for an inheritance so the question is asked why did benay god and bene ruvain choose for a land the other side of the jordan not the sign in the land of israel and knows what's the issue we're dealing with 40 years they were in the desert and they heard so many times about the tremendous qualities of the land of israel israel eret israel so why would they choose choosing something that was given to them they're choosing to be not in the land of israel now you can say what do you mean they gave it a reason what was their reason or their excuse we have a lot of cattle and this place is good for cattle but that is the question why why only did they have so much cattle what the only ones had a lot of cattle why did they have more cattle than everyone else that they had to choose to be on the other side of the jordan also we have to understand moisture beta says okay you know what first thing you're upset at them they said you know if you go and wage war and the jewish people and they conquer the land then you can come back and settle here what's the connection because if it's not okay then you shouldn't have given it to them if it's okay you should have given it to them but he made like a condition if and when you go and you go on the serious nephesh and you wage war for the line of israel then you can have it what does that mean so the army explains this and he says that um this that several of the tribes most of the tribes actually took their place in the land of israel and was on the other side of the georgian of the jordan to speak on the west side of the jordan and some of them renegotian took as an inheritance on the east side of the jordan has to do with not just real estate it was better for the cattle we're dealing with on a spiritual level the way they served hashem so in other words bane got in beirut and based on their service of hashem they took it on the east side of the jordan and the rest of the tribes based on their service or certainly took it on the west side of the jordan in the land of israel what does that mean so governor says in order to understand this we're going to have to understand we know that in the tribes there's a major difference between yosemite and all the tribes what's the difference that the tribes excluding joseph they were royal sign they took care of sheep like the verse says no torah royal son of a deca your servants take care of cattle take care of sheep what does that mean so technically you say that's what they did no no but it's deeper than that spiritually they chose specifically to deal with sheep to take care of cattle to be out in the field because since they wanted to dedicate themselves to hashem and they felt like world and world of fears and world challenge would be distraction so they felt like the life of a shepherd will not cause any conflict in their relationship with hashem why because the fact is when you're taking care of sheep where are you you're out doing um in hebrew it's called his boitidus it's you and hashem you're out in the field there's no building there's no car there's no distractions there's no i mean there's no uh cell phones text messaging emails none of that stuff you're totally disconnected from the world not only that even the sheep they have to take care of so to speak is disconnected from them why because since they were taking care of the sheep they had other people that actually technically took care of the sheep they were the supervisors they were supervisors of the people taking care of the sheep so because that allowed them their opportunity to be out there to be disconnected from the world and more importantly be connected to hashem without any distractions so therefore they shrug them the tribes excluding yosemite and also not only the tribes even the others they were taking care of sheep why so that in kabbalah it's called the mysticism is called they can be a mercover lilacus they can be a chariot for hashem in other words they can be totally dedicated to hashem 24 7. that means even when they were even when they were working their working didn't pull them away from being disconnected hashem that was all the tribes and including the the patriarchs however yoshif was in a whole different league for himself joseph was busy in commerce joseph was busy in business like the torah says clearly by your voice i saw yousef came to the house la says he came to do his work in other words his work his own work that he was doing he was also doing the work of praitifa the person that he was working for who was the uh one of the big officers to power in the land of egypt and later on that's when he started out guess what sadiq he was doing his work for tifa's work later on he actually became second in command to parody and as we know the torah says paris says no one can make a move in egypt he was running the whole country not only was he running the country it says that parade was a moisture the keeper pari was ruling the whole world and the whole world came to buy food from egypt who was in charge of that sadiq so you see that joseph was engaged with the world but nevertheless even though he was engaged in the world so we know it says that even though he was engaged in the world all his business and fears were done with a moon with faith in hashem so mean to say is everything he did his worldly affairs was always connected to his faith in hashem now you can think yes i think he's busy running his life egypt's life the world world the world commerce business and yeah he did it with faith so maybe he's not so dedicated to hashem but nevertheless if this fact that he was connected to the world and doing business in the world this did not affect at all his relationship with hashem and his serving hashem in other words even when he was busy and he was occupied with the world at that moment he was a chariot for hashem as well just like the brothers and just like the patriarchs so josefa sadiq is powerful so not only was he busy with the world but even when he was busy world he was dedicated to hashem and that's why joey swatzatek actually was on a higher level than the tribes as we know the famous dream he had mistakenly everybody came to prostrate themselves down to yosef why because the tribes they were totally disconnected from the world they served hashem wallah yahusiv was involved in the world and during his involvement and with his involvement he was connected to hashem in other words he was able to be a mercover acoust like his brothers and his and the patriarchs but he was able to be a merkava he was able to be a charity to hashem while he was involved in the world and that's why it says when when the brothers came to mitsrayam to scout out the lands it says if recognized the brothers and they didn't recognize him and the questions asked what do you mean josef is one person he recognized the brothers here you're dealing with the older brothers they couldn't they had much more power so many more people they couldn't recognize joseph why what was the issue wasn't that they didn't recognize him because they literally thought when they saw someone like being involved in business running a country has to be an egyptian you know the way he was working in the world the way he's involved in commerce they could not see that that could be a godly person someone involved in business could be godly they couldn't see that he could be on their cover on the coast they just couldn't recognize it and that's why when it comes to yaakov if yaakov says when the torah says ayla told us who is the offspring of yaakov yosef whatever happened to yaakov we know happened to yosef and he was the main of his children why because yosef was above the the brothers because he was literally above them because he the brother is the only way they can stay connected to hashem is they go out into the field joseph wherever he was in the heart and the hustle bustle of business and commerce he remembered hashem is the one that's in charge now the question is that's great so that's the reality but where does it come from that the brothers the only way to connect hashem was disconnect from the world joseph was able to be involved in the world and we connect hashem and rubber explains his files and he says like this we mentioned that the brothers and yasif were both of them are covalently they were both a charity for hashem which means they were totally dedicated to hashem joseph was in a higher level the brothers in our lower level what why is that so rabbi explains that the brothers they were a chariot for hashem but it's called merkava tata a lower level of chariot why because they were only connected to the to hashem through the world of briya yetzira and asiya the three lower worlds because it says in the torah it says from there a reference to the world of athelus the parade will go out and from there it goes out to the world of brilliant in other words in the world meesham over there there's no you parade there's no going out it's all one the only thing not silos the only thing you see is hashem god ungodliness what does he parry mean where it goes out what does it mean goes out that means there's a separation it's separated in other words in the world what comes out to matildas which is bria gets syria and asea what do you have you have a preeta you have a you have a separation a separation between what between good and bad innocence nothing is good and bad it's all good even if there was possibly bad the only thing you see is good in breitseracio no this is a distinct separation this is good and this is bad now so since in the world of bree at syracia there's something which is good and there's something which is bad so good you engage in and bad you don't touch who touches something which is bad who touched who talked to something which is evil which is negative now so since in brie at syracia the world that the tribes were connected to the world that they could relate to and in their world it was good and it was bad so they had to separate themselves from bad they saw the world as bad and they had to separate themselves and therefore they chose to take care of sheep and to do his voidedness to disconnect from the world and to separate themselves in the world and the same thing also applies to the others which they will also recover chariot and that in other words even though every single part of them was dedicated to hashem and they were disconnected from the world like explained at length and tanya so knows they view the world as the world is bad god is great and they have to separate that disconnect that is who would disrupt him so there's my more con instruct them in the office are connected to the world of breed syria and that world is ron taylor separate and therefore they were busy only with taiv and they couldn't deal with iraq now on the other hand was he he was an ashama from the world of atsilut a whole different type of soul the world of atsilos represents what itself it's close to hashem atsilas is the world of achtus real unity is in the world of athillus it's only one it's all good it's all god ra doesn't exist maybe it exists but you know it's not noticed because what you notice is it's all it's all good in other words even though in the world of atsilos you have everything that you have in the world of bree and see rasia why is that because it says in me parade everything that exists in the world of breed it's syria city where's it come from it's not created and created itself it came from matsilos the difference is that in its source the only thing you see is god and godliness as we go down into the world of brio where there's less of godliness more concealment yet zero again more concealed lesser godliness the world of us even more concealed with lesser godliness so now all of a sudden you're seeing good and bad you're not seeing the unity you're not seeing hashem and everything so again in the world of atheilus you have everything that you have in the world to breathe cyracia the difference is over there it's in a level of unity it's all one what does that mean practically if it's ryan it's toy eva just like in the world of bree at crc uh it's a household one and the answer is very simple in the world of atsilos everything is bottle lilikus everything is accepting god and godliness everything is humble to god and godliness so in other words whatever saying is like this in the world of athilos brigitte see asia both the same components toy ray on both of them the difference is in the world of atlas you have tui you have ra but the difference is the ra is totally humbled and accepting to god ungodliness so therefore even though it's there but it's gone from a practical standpoint on the other hand the world of brilliant serious what's lacking is bitter humility is lacking acceptance is lacking so when there's no bitter when there's no acceptance all of a sudden there's wrath and if it's right you got to stay away from it but on the other hand joyce of a topic let's stay focused on yourself he was in the show of darcillus he was a soul that he's coming from the world of unity and anything that's not god and godliness is totally butthole doesn't totally exist it's totally humbled and nullified to hashem so the world was not an issue so therefore yes was able to be a chariot for god and godliness even as he was involved in the world which the world resembles concealment of god and the world resolve resembles sometimes bad bad things because the world the concealment didn't bother him why because from his use of perspective his nashamah was shining and his shama was in a sham of that sillas so when the neshama vatsils is shining and even if you're in this world you know what you see you see god and godliness i know this is a very very important point if someone's in the summers and hashem of yah but bree at syracia so unfortunately you see god and you see the opposite you see good and you see bad and therefore since you're only busy with bats you have to run away from the bad you have to run away from the evil on the other hand if you're in a shaman like i would say it looks like yo and whether you are you whether you're born that way you can work yourself to be that way so the only thing you see is god in godliness how through tremendous battle so therefore the world doesn't bother you you don't see a world that's a contradiction to hashem it's the same world the difference is in the shaman sees the world as competition hashem sees the world as a contradiction to hashem and there's some of that syllabus there's no contradiction it's all it's all hashem what does that mean practically so everybody explains like this it's known that there's two types of levels in serving hashem there are certain people that serve hashem with their soul within the shama and there are certain people that serve hashem with their body in other words what's reality is there a summer in the driver's seat the godly soul in the driver's seat of the life or is the body in the driver's seat of their life who makes the decisions in your life your godly soul or your animal soul your godly soul your body and again it's not right or wrong there's two types of people and it could be the same person in different times of the day in the morning for example the godly soul and the shaman trying to stop to be the godly souls in control maybe in the afternoon in the evening and other times of the day the the body takes over so it knows like this if you're a person that what's draw your driving force know your service travels with your body what does that mean that the body is important and you're busy taking care of the body and therefore if you're busy taking care of the body and you want to feed that body and you want to make sure the body's happy and you're trying to placate the body a whole day so the body's going to distract you from connecting to hashem so what happens at some point is and this is very the source of all addictions when the body becomes important whatever whatever the source that's giving you the addiction whether it's food drink alcohol whatever whatever pleasure whatever the pleasure may be so then the only way to stop it is by by disconnecting yourself from it because if the people that serve god with the body and the body is important bodily materialism etc pleasure so then what happens is the only way to start you have to disconnect from it you have to go on a detox and that's one of the reasons why we have vowels someone makes a vowel and in that case when someone that serves the god with the body they need the vowel and actually according to jewish law a vow in that case will help you disconnect from something which is hurting you because you're getting too involved in it so and that's not going to allow you to serve hashem so again there's people that serve them with their body and when you service them with the body guess what at some point it starts to start taking over and you have to say whoa i'm making an oath i'm going to uh you know 12-step program whatever it may be to disconnect from the world on the other hand if you serve hashem when you serve hashem with your soul saying you're totally above it you're totally disconnected and therefore you're serving in a shaman the only the only the one that's in the driver of your car is your soul so what's what's on the radar god and godliness whatever hashem wants happiness unity friendship et cetera now what happens to the bottle and it doesn't bother you because that's not driving the car that's not driving your life not only that but take it a step further when the summer is the one that's running your life you can actually elevate your body up to the point for example if you made a vow that you're going to disconnect from the world you can go to a hakam it'll take away the value you don't need to vow anymore and others when do you need the valley you're going to stay away from the world if the body's important but what happens in the body is not important it's really about in the summer your life is about serving hashem connecting to hashem then you don't need to vow anymore you can go to a hakama says you know i was used to be totally obsessed with my body physical things materials i made an out and now i need your help and guess what you're ready to live a life for innocent voila don't worry about it the body is not going to disturb you and he takes away the oath and more specifically says this is the difference between those that serve elokim hashem which is connected to nature which is serving hashem with your body and serving good kevke connecting to the infinite part of hashem which is in the shama so here you see two powerful ways to serve hashem two powerful ways to go through life you can live your life with no shama that whatever is godly you're connecting to and whatever's not godly it's not like you have to fight with it it's not on the radar it's not something that talks to you doesn't speak to you it doesn't it's not you on the other and then life is great on the other hand if it's about you're living your life in the body then then physically eventually it's gonna it's gonna it it's gonna disturb you from living a functional life you'll have to actually make certain vows and commitments to get away from it two powerful ways to serve hashem now so that's the difference we just explained until now difference between joseph and the swat team in general you should have served the sun with no shambles or there were one step further the difference between serving your gut now there is going to bring back folks so circle to the difference between the tribes that wanted to go into the land of israel and the two tribes bene god and brene rubin they wanted to go in they wanted to stay on the on the other side of the jordan on the west side of the jordan and you ever explain to this in other words before we spoke about joyce jo joseph and disrupted we're going to use the same analogy and bring it over a step down between the swat and the tribes and the tribe of the government is represented like this the rest of the tribes excluding the god and be revained had they served hashem with their soul hashem says go to the land of israel we're going to the land of israel sheep no sheep it's not important we're serving ourselves we'll figure out how to how to provide what we need so they're ready to go hashem's guts go to the land they're ready to go to the land of israel it's all what hashem wants and therefore they're willing to go to our land which is in hebrew it's called land that you have to work the land they have to deal with the land and you have to deal with physical things and plowing around warding the land except whatever you're building whatever you have to do with the with the world however when it came to the tribe of black garden they ruvain these people were ancient mikhna they took care of their cattle they took care of their sheep so they needed a land for for cattle why because they were involved in the world there wasn't a they were serving hashem sausage with their body and because they were involved with the world they needed to play the world was a contradiction if they got into the land of israel it would bother them or consume them they have no way to control themselves so therefore they had to be disconnected and that's where they specifically chose the other side of the jordan the west side of the jordan not in the saudi by the stroll because they felt like the world the world part of israel would distract them from serving hashem they wanted to be disconnected so that's why that's that's what they wanted then comes the longer explains that's why moisture really told them guess what that's the life you want that's life you need because you feel like you can't deal with the world okay i get it you can you can't expect someone to to to deal with something that they feel like they can't do it mushrooms aren't going to put on putting them put on them a response so they can't do he says guess what i'm going to make a condition with you if you're willing to go ahead like you said and wage war for the land of israel then i'll give you your wish and you can have your his buddhists you can be disconnected from the world why do i explain to this how do they serve hashem with their body and because they serve with hashem with the body they don't want to deal with the land of israel it was too much they want to be disconnected but on the other hand you can't just be on the other side of the jordan and not elevate that that side as well because they have to elevate it because the fact is every part of the world has to be out of elevated because the other the other side the georgian jordan it's goes under the category of of the so to speak the other lands in reference to the land of israel and as we know for example it's brought down the message it says like this that eric's israel the land of israel that is the holiest land that exists from compared to all the other nation lands out there eretz kanan who was before they totally transformed it is holier than the the land on the other side of the jordan in other words even though the average yarding where renee they got reuven wanted want to inherit even though it has certain halachot certain laws where it's actually compared to the land of israel but nevertheless so knows even though it's upgraded compared to all the other lands in the world but nevertheless in certain components it has the same category as eritreals here and the and and the other lands are here and available in the same category why because eritreal means eretz sharok salas the land that wants to do the will of hashem so heritage israel is a whole different league why because earth is all resembles that it wants to do the will of hashem now but nevertheless since they wanted to be in the other land and they had to create a way in a way to transform the land so moisturizers in order for you to elevate the land on the other side of the ordain you have to go forward and and conquer the land of israel as well why because in order to conquer the land of israel would require from them going to war going to war simple english or simple hebrew it's called masira stephens you have to be willing to sacrifice your land your life for the land of israel now sacrificing your land for the land of israel that's not a logical thing why would you want to sacrifice your life for land go find another piece of land and the answer is hashem tells you you have to conquer the land so you're willing to do anything you're willing to give up your life it's not logical in hebrew it's called on the word of kabbalah it's called the military you have to go out of any type of calculations while it is worth it's not worth it now once they were willing to go on the serious nephesh for the land of israel they're willing to go out of the box so they acquired that gift of mysteriousness going out of the box so through that they were able to go back and elevate their body as well that they were able to go ahead and take the other side in jordan and make that as an inheritance what does that mean by going a messier snefesh that allowed them to elevate their bodies and the other side of the land of israel not only that by their by them doing the because these people that serve hashem with the body they wouldn't want to go into language but they were serious nephes it actually elevated them but it also elevated all the jewish people that went into the land of israel why because when people that are that serve or share with their body and they're willing to transform their body as we know in tanya what is what was the body called it's called mishra the skin of a snake so what happens when you elevate literally the body which is on the kabbalistically on the level of the skin of a snake what happens is then you create a tremendous elevation also not only in yourself but even in those that serve as shown with the soul and like there are brings the famous verse from mashira sharim which says draw me after you and a rutsa then i'm going to run after you so naruto means plural inspire me right to come after you naruto we're going to run when one person is running and the answer is no no you inspire me to run after you who the nephew bahamas runs after you so now roots are lush and robin then the nephew bahamas runs after hashem and the nephi shall kiss as well in other words it becomes a right you're going to say never kiss runs after hashem but it starts running after hashem in a much deeper and much more powerful much stronger way so now just to recap what the rub is saying is that in order for them when they got invade and ruvain who served the show with their body to do their work disconnected they had to have first and serious nephesh so mysterious nephesh going on self-sacrifice was a prerequisite for them to do their avoided their spiritual work to elevate their body and that only not only to help them but actually helped all the jewish people that served us and whoever goes on to say and he says it's possible to say it's possible to say this that this avoided that they did then this is actually the avoider now that we're going through in the days of goddess days of exile and specifically the days of bana matsuri between shivasam and tish above that when we do our spiritual work in the time of galas means where hashem is concealed we're in exile and we're when we're outside the land of israel because unfortunately because it's as we say in the praise saying no because we sinned we didn't have the proper love for one another we're out of the land of israel and we're out of the land of israel which means two components robert says one is the physically we're not in the land of israel those living obviously outside the line of israel and also spiritually not in the land of israel because spiritual land means that we're doing the will of hashem we're doing the will of hashem already but when we do our avoidance monogals which means we learn and we pray and we do mitzvos and we work on having obviously strong activists wrong getting along and doing tremendous great things so what happens is then we just like they transform the other side of the jordan so we also transform chutzlaris outside the land of israel in other words what does it mean outside outside the level of will of the revealed part doing the will of hashem how do we do that and just like before we said that the government ruben had to go on a serious snapfish we do it today also by going on nephesh a lot of the things we do today is not easy to do to learn to pray to do mitzvahs but we sacrifice to do the rats in hashem so when we do our avodah and we do avoid them a serious nephes drive us as we merit to receive the other side of the jordan as we know it says in the torah is going to expand the boundaries of heritage role we're going to receive eretz caney knees and nervousness according to many many opinions that is the land of america which is on the other side of the jordan and um and uh also part of it is holy just like the holiness of the land of israel and reference a certain halal of truma in terms of tithing etc and um and the representative you can look in that also we know that the land of amino is on burkney so the spiritual level is very very important and the the mithla rebbe explains at length the whole spiritual void of amman and way of elevating it but says main thing is it's really the will of hashem that we should merit very very soon that hashem fulfill the promise of will expand the borders and will receive the land of eretz keaney knees and will receive it the bias mashiach to kenu because with the coming of mashiach very very soon and very very quickly so obviously you see this a beautiful discourse about the whole idea of expanding the borders of the land of israel mashiach will coming but also until then our avoider whether we serve hashem we have to identify we do we serve hashem with our soul service on our body obviously if we service from the body we have the power of we have to remember to go on my seriousness first self-sacrifice will allow us to do that but i think it's also important to try to service someone in a shaman make arnold sharma the driver in our life just like ghost of attack and all the shrapnel that went to the land of israel and this way will busy with good and great things and with the proper bittor with the proper humility we'll have true um uh will experience real actus and ultimately all know that actus brings the greatest blessings and al akhtas will bring the goula thanks so much for joining us for our weekly class on siddhis hopefully our next class will be as rabbit says when the borders of israel will be expanded and it will be god willing and eretz akoydish have a great and blessed week