Rabbi YY Jacobson - Sicha Shabbos Behaaloscha 5751 / 1991

We're going to learn something very very special today as you can see on the title al which means this is a part of a talk that was given by the at the shabas the 19th day of and the year was tough which means 1991. I had this and the privilege of being present during this during this talk and before I begin to learn it inside with you I'll just give you a brief uh description of the background behind the behind this talk. Um, in those years I was a yeshiva boy and I had the privilege of being on the team of which means oral scribes who were charged with the mission of memorizing and transcribing to the best of our ability. The Reb's hour-long talks on Shabas and holidays Yumptiff when of course there were no tape recorders, no recording devices. So everything everything had to be memorized and transcribed after Shabas or after Yumptiff. The rebas weren't short. They can go anywhere from two hours. Um in later years they were shorter but it could be two hours to three hours, four hours, 5 hours and sometimes there were fabans that were even longer six seven hours and so forth. So everything was memorized and transcribed this too. During the Shabas Fabangans, usually towards the end of the Fabangan or e either mamish at the end or very close to the end, the Reb would invite up to the podium where he was sitting people who were making large events connected to connected to mitzvah, connected to Yiddish, yeshivas, kyim, kabat center organizations. they were making whether banquetss or dinners or fundraisers or just large gatherings and the Rebba would want to participate with a blessing. So before Shabas they would give in a bottle of mashka to the Reb's office and it would all be brought down to the Fabrangan and then the Reb at the Fabangan would give each one of them and he would ask them to announce the event so that people should know what's happening. that Matsi Shabas there was a dinner a banquet in honor of Kabad as you know Kabad as it says here Alvarabad is probably the oldest sucker organization in the world Rabbi Dman will fill in if I make any mistakes here and it's the oldest institution in terms of years because it was founded by the founder of Kabad by the Alterb himself the Alterb himself founded Kabad when his great holy colleagues moved Israel and the Yeshu the settlement in Israel. This is in the 1770s. The 1770s they moved. You understand that? Tok 1777. He himself wanted to go butk told him to stay back. So he stayed in Russia. He settled and he lived in a place called Le in Belerus. later in Liyadi in Belerus. But alter founded this organization called Kabad to support the Jews who were living in the holy land learning terra and had usually no source of income and they would god forbid starve. And alterba developed this organization astoundingly in a very very elaborate and professional fashion. You're talking about the late 1700s, the early 1800s till's passing 1812. And then it was succeeded by the subsequent kabad rebas as the reb is going to talk about the middlebad the rebar the reb the rebay the previous and then of course the rebba that shabas there was a dinner of kabad so I believe it was rabbi shalomman the manal the executive director of I think it was him even though I don't remember clearly but my assumption is that it was him went up to take about to take to get from the reb and announce Now, usually when the Rebba would finish, he would start a niggan. Some years he started and later years it was every single Shabas and the would sing for a few minutes and then the Reb would either finish the sometimes he would give another talk. In this case, the Reb added a short brief talk after that and he said that one of the announcements was about and therefore he spoke for a few minutes about it and that's the context the history of the as I told you I remember it I had the privilege of being there and now let's go inside we're going to learn the text inside this was written up in the next few days and uh the Reb edited it that's why it's printed in what's called safer is tough analysis which includes the the talks of 1990 the end of 1990 and 1991 that the Rebba himself edited besides other talks that he did not edit they were just published in a non-edited version by the so let's start section one in connection to the event of the Mala that is taking place to benefit the institution. It's appropriate to mention and arouse inspire the crowd by talking about the great importance and significance of this organization called it's already well known the love the affection and the diligent effort that our leaders invested for the benefit of supporting the poor and destitute Jews of the holy land. It begins. It begins with who is the founder of and its leader. He doesn't only found it. He actively leads it. He sends people to raise money. He's responsible to send the money there. But the alterb wrote numerous letters in which he extols the tremendous quality of what he calls the charity that goes for the Jews in the holy land which was the mission statement of the known as some of these letters were printed with the Tanya. The first few editions of the Tanya didn't have it. But after the Alterb's passing, his children published a new addition of Tanya and they added section 4 called letters, holy letters. And over there they put in quite a few letters dedicated to send these letters to individuals and communities inspiring and arousing in them a dedication to support the Jews in Israel. Now these are very these are not just letters not just a letter please we need your money those who know the alterb is igris today there's a whole book called Igris kesh and you know that these are letters that contain some of the profound teachings of the alterb and of kabadis connected to the holy land connected to connected to the relationship between saddaka and other mitzvah the power of sodaka and the impact on its soul the holiness of the generally about being there for other people. Very very amazing letters. That's what the Reb says. It's like it's wondrous what he writes there. as a continuation all of the who succeeded also as leaders of the ko they continued in this path throughout the generations afterwards all the way till my father-in-law the says the leader of our generation my father-in-law Everything is by divine providence by theb there was nothing random. So if the mala for and the event for is happening on it's by divine providence it could have been another week. So the Reb says let's connect it with the par because this is the shabas when it's happening the opening of Hashem tells as you kindle this is a message of course to Aaron tell Aaron when you kindle the lamps the flames of the so there were seven branches all the seven flames should be facing the center of the mana which literally meant that the wick of the first three branches, the wicks of the first three branches and the wicks of the last three branches were all facing towards the center of the mana. So all the flames were centered and anchored by the pa by the face of the mana, the central branch of the because had seven branches, three on one side, three on the other side and one which was the spine. It's called the the middle column, the center column of the everything, every mitzvah, especially such a mitzvah has a spiritual and emotional explanation. The seven lamps of the represent all the souls of the Jewish people divided into seven categories. Every soul is a flame of God. The says in the flame of Hashem is the soul of a human being. So every one of those seven lamps and seven flames represents the soul. Why seven? Because there's seven types, seven categories. There's more than seven. Everybody is an individual. But generally souls of Jews are divided into seven categories. The function of every soul is it lights. It's bright. It luminescence. It's luminescent. It casts its light. And in a way of karashi says you need that the flame should go up on its own. So everybody finds their own inner strength, not just relying on the one who kindles them. So they create light through the light of mitzvah and the luminescence of as the says since generally there are seven levels or categories in serving Hashem like the explains in this week as he says in the footnotes there is a Jew his primary service hashem is with love. There's another Jew whose primary service of Hashem is gura, strength, discipline, boundaries. There's a Jew whose primary service to Hashem is through tiferes, compassion, empathy, glory, beauty, extoing the beauty of Hashem in the world. There's a Jew who serves Hashem through net, victory, hid, gratitude, connectivity, malus, royalty, leadership, confidence. Each one of the seven midis is uniquely connected to a particular soul. Even though we all have all of them, the question is what is the emphasis? So therefore there's seven branches, seven flames and iron and the would kindle each of these flames every single night of and then you have the itself the whole not just the seven branches the had to be hammered out of one ignant of gold. They didn't spilled it in separate parts and then weld them together. You weren't allowed to do that. Miksha means it was hammered out of one slab of gold all the way from its urea is the base of the until the flower on top. Everything was made of one piece. This represents the collective singular entity of the souls of the Jewish people. The entire manura together the whole manura. the entire entity of Kessus is of Israel. And that's what it says in the of this week. He speaks about the golden mana in its totality representing the nation of Israel says Here the Tyra says that all the seven should face and re be kindled facing the face the center of the means that all the Jewish people with all of their differentiations and different categories of souls should all be integrated and united. it through the cloud through the face of the mana. We should remember that we're all serving one purpose. We're all manifestations of one singular light. We're all connected with the cloud with the collective mana. And it says pa the face which also means the pinus the core of the divine will. Every one of us manifested in a different way. But when you let you don't go into an ego space, you're serving Hashem. So we're all channels of the core of Hashem's desire. This is not only true about all of the people. It's true about every individual. Why? Every single soul is a manra because we all have the seven mid all of us. So in every single candle you really have seven branches. And here we give a special mitzvah and that is your work in the individual facets of your personality should be brightened by the core of your soul by the source of your soul. What often happens in life is we get carried away with details. We get stressed out and overwhelmed by this task, by that task, by this situation, by that situation. We get stuck in the details. Reb says you need to go into details. We have seven different branches, seven different avoid, seven different things to work through, but let them always face a mulan. Always remain aligned with the core of who you are, with the face of your mana, with the essence of your soul. always remain aligned with the truth that you are a manifestation of God himself. The source of your soul is rooted in Hashem's essence and you're channeling that through the individual facets of your life. That's the mitzvah and the opening of never allow the details, the nuances to become severed from the core purpose, the core mission. Everybody knows in a company the worst thing is when the employees are not acting in alignment with the mission statement. The details and the mission statement. The pratt and the clout should always be reconnected in life. Whenever you're getting overwhelmed and frazzled, go back to the basics. Why you're here in the world. What's it for? What's the purpose? Who you serving? And you'll get less stressed. This is specially connected to what's the cognitive faculties that give birth to the seven branches to the seven emotions. That's what's the collective theal the that combines and therefore all of the seven mid it brings it all back into oneness. You remember your core. You remember your mission statement. You remember the core of the Jewish people and the core of your own soul and make sure that everything comes from that. But this is also mainly the whole work of Dr. It's the says it's not just the name. The most important thing is what is the work of and here he gives the mission statement for the work. The main work of Kabad is to help every single Jew, men, women, children. First of all, physical, financial, simple duck. That's the first thing. Also, spiritual help, spiritual charity, spreading, spreading, spreading the wellsp springsings of the and outwards. What does this accomplish? You bring the Jews back into oneness. When we give sodaka, when we care for other people, he quotes a rash here, a beautiful rash. You see footnote 13, he's quoting a rashi from Rashi says when a Jew sees that you give him, you do him a favor. He realizes you love him. He realizes you're his friend, they become brothers. When you know, sometimes Jews fight and argue when suddenly they see you're here for me. You need a shabas meal, I'm here. You need clothes, I'm here for you. Your kids need something, I'm here for you. This hatred goes away. You love me. We may disagree that's creates kyo. It goes back to the core. Of course, Jews are different. But the whole point of kyabad is bring them together. Create a kyo. Create a collective. Create a cloud through physical charity. And he says certainly through spiritual charity which connects the Jews with their source with God. So that all the flames are pointing towards the center towards Hashem. for shallow. Let me say what he says there. It's an powerful paragraph. He says there's one more point here and that is the leaders of Kabad who they were what they represented what they embodied. We're talking about connecting the seven flames to the core flames. This was the whole job of the from the alterb all the way theb says to my father they were rash says the job of a leader is to be the head of the Jewish people. What's the idea of a head? If the brain says, "I don't care about nails. I don't care about my legs. I don't care." You're not a brain. A brain means 24/7 you have skin in the game. You take responsibility. If there's a pain in the pinky, the brain feels it. If there's a pain in the chest, the brain feels it. It could be a tiny little part of the body somewhere at the bottom, but it's connected to the ro. The ro doesn't detach. on the contrary the head connects the entire body sends the life to all of the body governs the body a real ni what's a real ni of the Jewish people like beginning with mobenu takes responsibility for every Jew to bring them in alignment with the source to channel the flow of hashem physically and spiritually to bring unity to the generation to remember who they are never to drift away into individuated separateness like a conductor of a symphony. All the musicians are anchored in the panra to remember we're all one golden mana and we all face the pia and that's what they revealed through connecting the core of the soul with the core of hashem in which there is complete oneness and integration and the rebba finishes may it be the will of God I hope everyone who's helping with their soul, with their body, with the money should themselves become a by connecting all the parts of their life with oneness and radiate that to others and most importantly Through adding in especially we hasten the gul when all Jews will become one. We will gather and become oneas. See that we're hammered out of one divine entity. What this means literally is with our youth and our elders and our sons and our daughters. Maybe there's a word missing. Jews will be gathered from all seven countries. He quotes the Ni from Assyria and from Egypt etc. We come to the holy land. We come to the third which is also because it includes the first two literally physically the says may it be this shabas in the afternoon of this shabas the was around this was probably 3 3:30 so he says in the afternoon of this shabas we should see iron light thera in the bik is before the third meal which is connected to the third redemption and the third certainly we'll see it before the fourth meal which is the of the fourth leg in the chariot of this is connected to the redemption the way it's counted as fourth redemption after four exiles when the throne of Hashem will be complete. So you'll have four legs of David which is the fourth meal when the event was happening and may all this be taki now literally. Amen. Thank you very much.