The Gap: Life in the Space Between the Ideal and the Real - Parsha Korach - By Rabbi YY Jacobson

[Music] you [Applause] [Music] good evening the gap life in the space between the ideal and the real they tell the story about an attorney who dies comes to God and says God why'd you kill me God says listen every person has his day your time has come the lawyer says fine but at the age of 43 God says here listen everything works here with a calculated account let's pull up your life let's pull up your career let's see what the computer says they pull up the file of this lawyer and God says listen I'm looking here at your billable hours and there are 89 years based on the hours you build your clients what was he fighting about what was the nature of the rebellion that Kyra staged against his relatives Moses and Aaron Moshe and Aaron in the beginning of the portion of Cairo please bring up source number 1 the opening of the Torah portion of Kyra has Kyra together with members of the tribe of Reuben together with 250 prominent distinguished men vaya con lo al my shovel Aaron they assemble on Moses and Aaron value all a.m. and they say to them Rav love them enough enough power you have taken for yourselves key color aid the coulomb good ocean Alberto Hamas on the entire community is holy and God dwells among them uma duit is Nasu alcohol a sham and why do you exalt yourself on the community of God the complaint seems clear and straightforward why is Moses the teacher the king the master why is Aaron the high priest the cayenne God though everybody is holy every Jew is sacred as Rashi says every Jew was that sign I heard the Word of God why are you lofty why are you in the position of leadership why do you exalt yourself on the congregation of God yet in the Madras in the oral tradition and interpretation of commish known as the Madras we find two other arguments that Korah represent presented to Moses source number two the meddra says in Bamidbar chapter 18 partial test Pisgah gimel valleca Kyra maxilla my lumina in what is the portion that precedes Kyra the Isola ham tsatsis at the end of schlock right before the story of Kairos rebellion a mutiny is the commandment for cities for the strings the strands at the edge of the prayer shawl the talus that we use make cities covets Clara Clara jumped up Vimala my shanty tells Moses tell me how is she cool a tailless a palace which is completely made of turquoise wool the Blue Dot turquoise warrior wool is painless it's a wool that's dyed with a special bluish color at Allis that's completely callous mouse attempt to remain at census is it exempt from that census as we know every talus has two parts to it there is the part of the shoal that encompasses the entire body the cloak and then at the edge at the four corners there are the Citiz there are the individual strands and strings eight at every corner the Torah says at the end of sloth for us Elohim cities the Jews had to make census and in each one of the four corners in each one of the strings hanging from the foot in the each set of strings hanging from the four corners that to be absolute Ellis a thread of turquoise wool what happens khayrat asks if the whole Palace is made of pins it's not just a palace made of white wool with sits on the bottom with half Kahless and so the whole Palace is wool which is turquoise it's dyed with this special bluish color on male Moses says hi Eva's but senses even this cloak needs to have senses on my Lake arias carried a thousand houses shackle a tailless in potato sacks Moe IRA Hooton pointer say so if the tile does the cloak is completely made of Kahless of turquoise wool it does not fulfill the obligation it does not exempt it now for individual strands for individual strings at each one of the corners with turquoise wool because in each corner you had one that does fulfill the obligation that does dispense the person from the mitzvah that makes you fulfill the Mitzvah of senses a mockery you have a cloak that's all Katelyn is the whole Palace is Kahless it doesn't suffice if you have four tiny strands of Kahless oh now you fulfill the mitzvot of senses come on here you have so much painless the whole body is covered with scales not enough doesn't make sense certainly correct as a Tallis that's all Kahless doesn't need any senses by ease or certainly it doesn't need it doesn't need turquoise wool in it in the strands of senses you already have enough of it next question bias Molly's father Marcia put them in a mezuzah if you have a home full of Torah scrolls is it exempt from the mezuzah from the mitzvah of having a mezuzah on the doorpost on my lane Moses asked I ever misses the home still needs a mezuzah which is parchment with two sections of Torah hanging on the doorpost Oh male critic said collator quality shine a passages in the potatoes a bias partial custody mezuzah pay terraces a bias the Torah has 275 portions you have the Torah in your home it does not exempt a home from having a mezuzah it's not enough you have one portion of a mezuzah and that's enough for the home again this doesn't make sense my home has one portion and parchment on the doorpost good great I have in my house 275 portions of the Torah that's not enough I still need a mezuzah on my lake road I said vada may lend its the visa lien you have never been commanded these Commandments may Liberata Boyden you invented them from your own heart now why did the sages present this complaint in Kairos mouth why did they add these complaints the Torah tells us about his lamentation his revolt against the leadership of Moses and Aaron where do we come putting in his mouth these new arguments about a Tallis that's completely made of turquoise wall and a home that's filled with a Torah scroll many commentators explain that these questions of Kyra has posed to Moses actually capture the essence of his complaint because his point was that just as a cloak that has tailless does not need cities and a home that has if retired that's filled with torah scrolls does not need a mezuzah his point is as well when you have an entire community which is holy you don't need a mezuzah you don't need citizens you don't need moisture and Aaron as the spiritual leaders if the community wouldn't be holy than Moses and Aaron represent and carry the mantle of spiritual leadership but sins the whole cloak is filled with turquoise wall sins the whole community is sacred sins the whole house is filled with Torah scrolls I need one misses on the doorpost I need a strand of turquoise in the strings and it's it'ses it's already included in the Tallis that's Taylors so the questions of Cara are just another way of explaining his words to Moses and Aaron why do you make yourself holier than the community but then the obvious question is why did the Clara have to pose both of these questions the question with census and the question with mezuzah the point could have been clearly made with one of them why the need for the redundancy in addition there's a more general question what is lacking in the understanding of what he says in the himesh we don't need you as leaders when everybody is holy and everybody has a direct relationship with God what is lacking in that understanding that the sages in the Midrash felt the need to articulate his complain in another two examples with Tallis and senses and SIF free territory scrolls and mezuzahs there's a very interesting statement in the Talmud please bring up source number three's up the Hayley kegger Marlin son had enough Coe feud column oxyde remark like as a verbal of anybody who holds on to disputation and arguments quarreling transgress is a cinch and then by the Torah says in Cairo at Villa de kercadiou's Mikado say nobody should be like Cara and his congregation so here is a clear prohibition against somebody who continues to fight and engage in quarrels and disputes he's like Karina's community now the obvious question is Clara's fight was of a particular genre it was of a particular flavor he wasn't just fighting for the sake of fighting he was fighting against the positions of Moses and Aaron Ravel ahem you have taken too much power for yourself how can the town would then deduce from the story of Clara that call a MARSOC Mama's Lakers anybody who holds on to any fight anybody who was engaged in any quarrel of disputation is comparable to Kyra in his community what if your fight is about another issue cleric wasn't just fighting for the sake of fighting he was fighting about something but the gomorrah says here : max infamous lakers anybody was involved in a McLucas in a quarrel is perpetuating the legacy of career and hence violating this transgression that you should not be like her in order to understand this we have to get back and discover what is the essence of McLucas McLucas means fighting quarreling a conflict is called in hebrew malaika's what was the source first conflict ever first conflict ever happened before there was a human being it happened on the first Monday of existence the second day of creation the Torah says that on the second day of creation God created a rakia a firmament and he said let this firmament the Marvel been my emblem I am let it separate create a separation between the water within the water and thus the firmament created a gulf or separation between the water that was above the heaven above the rakia and below the rakia that is what happened on the Monday of creation on Sunday the entire universe was water and on the Monday the firmament separates the water is there is now higher water and lower water comes the mattress source number four bodacious rapper the madness on voracious chapter four llama Inc ceviche Nikki type the only day of the six days of creation where it doesn't say God saw what he did was good his Monday every other day as the day concludes the night and the day chronicling what was created on that day it says hi-yah really Kim God saw what he has done the Vahine a toy was good but on Monday it does not say that it was good what makes it machine Iquitos why honey no image to burn your ass McCloy christian emma v marveled a miami Maya because on Monday Maha Lycus conflict was created the firmament separates the waters there is now a gulf a so to speak a partition between the waters the higher water is the lower waters the waters above the heavens above the firmament and below the firmament the waters that we have on earth the oceans and rivers and streams wells and lakes there's now a separation and hence on McLucas on separation God does not say keepeth I'm a relative you me rabbi to view me says in the mesh emic lake is really taken a shillelagh Malia shoving in Paquito if even a conflict that's designated to fix the world to civilize the world still the Torah would not say the words it's good my life is chilly here oopsie he leave over a life has come of a comma a conflict that causes the confusion of the world it causes chaos and disorientation certainly we won't say on this it's good if even did separation between the waters which was there only to create and allow the allow civilization to take roots which is why the waters had to be separated still the Torah refuses to say Quito you've certainly an argument that's there to undermine to denigrate confuse a myriad of small says efficiently Nick Monroe molasses a my sins the work with the water was not complete on Monday Lafitte has caused officially shaky types napalm it therefore on Tuesday it says good twice on Tuesday the Torah says twice that God saw what he did was good Acathla molasses am i invented the molecular cell yeah one is for the work of the water on Monday which was completed only on Tuesday and one was the work actually of Tuesday itself basically on Tuesday two things happened number one the work of Monday was completed in the sense that all the waters below the firmament retreated to their designated places so that the dry land can emerge which was essentially the completion of the work of Monday and number two vegetation and produce emerged the Botanica kingdom was created and therefore on Tuesday it says twice key tithe he saw that it was good so the origin of Mallika's the origin of conflict was when was on the first Monday of existence with the separation of the waters when the Talmud says call her max atomic Lycus whoever holds on to a conflict is perpetuating Chiron it means that Kyra doesn't only represent a particular argument about a particular issue rather TRADOC embodies the concept of a fight it's not just cleric was fighting about something particular Kyra represents the concept of separation of conflict of quarreling and therefore anybody who holds on to any dispute ation whatever it may be about is perpetuating the negative legacy of Kyra in fact the name Clara in Hebrew like the word Carla means P log separation the very word Kyra the noi'm Alamelu the halacha Ribera bella Melek of illusions one of the earliest Hasidic works as the no Emily Melek by rubella Melek of illusion school was one of the famed disciples of the magnet of Miss rich writes that vehicle Kyra it says Koya Koya took himself to one side the tired room that aramaic translation is valid color correct separated himself and the nallamalla Melek rights it's similar to what happened on the first Monday of creation in which the separation was created between the higher waters in the lower waters and creditor was perpetuating that separation what does this mean what in the world is the connection between cleric and every argument why this credit embody the concept of conflict what's the connection between Kairos conflict with Moses and iron - the separation on day 2 of creation and Genesis where God separates the higher waters from the lower waters these connections seem so far-fetched and difficult to make sense of now we see the Med which points out that on Tuesday it says twice ki Tov God says twice it's good on Tuesday somehow he revisits Monday as well and the Monday which was always lacking those words kita it is good because it was defined by conflict and partition that Monday is revisited retro actively on Tuesday and it gets a key tithe when the work of the water is completed on Tuesday we all know there's a famous RAM bond 13th century great Spanish sage and scholar physician and leader durum Barnaby inhalation of announcement rights in Mauritius or vain Obadiah writes it there many other commentators it's a great theme discussed in common and the various books and literature commentators and Kabbalah and custard ISM that the six days of creation correspond the six millennia of history and the seventh day Shabbos corresponds the seventh millennium so if you study the creations of each day of the six days you can see a reflection of those events during the corresponding millennium in the history of humanity and civilization so day number two represents the second millennia day number three day number one represents the first thousand years day number two the second thousand years day number three the third thousand years what happened on day number three in the millennia we know that the Torah was given on day number three the Torah was given in the year 2448 since creation that's in the midst of the third millennium the third thousand years corresponding to the Tuesday of creation so day number one is the first thousand years that's really the era of Adam Adam who lived close to a thousand years a little less then we have the second thousand years and of course that's the era when the flood happens the world is destroyed there's a tremendous separation between God and the world between the spiritual and the physical between the purpose of life and the reality of life there's a major gulf to the extent that god so to speak gives up on the world and plunges it into a major mikvah for 30 day for 40 days a 40 day flood that's also the generation when the durha flogger happens the Tower of Babel which was built that Tower which is supposed to reach heaven and again deny God or whatever the explanation and that Tower is it's a very mysterious story the word have flogger also means separation the third millennium 24:48 is the millennium that the Torah is given Sinai happens in the third millennium of existence and then there's the fourth and the fifth in the 6m it's a fascinating discussion of how the seven days of creation correspond to the seven millennia of history it also has to do with the seven Kabbalistic emotions but it's beyond the scope of our class now take a look at source number five there's a fascinating Madras the Metro says discussing the giving of the Torah mashallah mahadeva Diamond let's discuss a metaphor lamella ragazza vom Rabbinate oh Emily Angela Surya blase really a Tallulah Ramey there was a king who made a decree the children the inhabitants of Rome cannot dissent Assyria the inhabitants of Syria cannot ascend to Rome Khakassia Baraka there's Burroughs who Asylum Gaza of Omar when God created the world he made a decree and said hush amyum amyum wash em there are it's not living a Adam the heavens belong to God and their earthy is given to humanity be cash latina Toyota when they wanted to give the Torah bottles ADA to China he nullified the first original decree that the Syrians and the Romans do not interact with each other well amar and God the clear had a Steinem yah Lula Yanam the Halloran amulet a Steinem let the lower ones ascend to the higher ones and let the higher ones ascend to the lower ones let there be an encounter even more an integration and a unity between the inhabitants of Syria and inhabitants of Rome let the partition and the decree that created such a distance between them be absolved let the touch join him the lower elements the lower creatures of reality assent to the higher realms of existence and conversely let the higher realms descend to the lower realms here we see a fascinating thing if Monday represents conflict separation separation between the waters Tuesday represents the healing of that riff because of Tuesday corresponds to the third millennium the objective of Torah was to synthesize the Elyan ham the higher ones and the lower ones represented in the higher waters and the lower orders which now come together on the third day of history represented by the third millennium when the decree is absolved if that's the case let's try to summarize what we have studied till now if Carrie Roth embodies the essence of conflict of mellitus the genesis of all conflict is when the Monday of history the second day essentially what we are discovering is that what Couric wanted is he wanted to go back to Monday he wanted to undo the Tuesday and reclaim the Monday Monday night is already the beginning of Tuesday Clara wanted to go back to Monday he did not want the third millennium representing the giving of the Torah embodying the unity between the forces indeed he staged a war against the one who gave Torah against moisture Rubino the one chosen by God to give the Torah to the Jewish people who was called up to Sinai the first one to go up as God came down as the Midrash explains there Kyra fought against him because it's the Tuesday which worked him he wanted to go back to Monday what does all of this mean how do we understand this so this evening I want to share with you OB it briefly an explanation presented by the Lubavitch Arriba on the Shabbos gatherings of Cairo one of them I merited to hear myself it was in the year 1988 Korea 1988 and some of the ideas were said in earlier years 1964 and 1967 torsion Havdalah torsion of Zion and torsion Memphis 64 and 67 I didn't hear myself I wasn't born yet the letters of the Hebrew alphabet are extremely significant the Talmud says high Rabbi Meir died bhishma rabbi may used to study the names of people because he felt that their names capture their inner story in Kabbalah it says that the name of every object and every person is actually intrinsically connected with the energy of that person because the letters of the Hebrew alphabet are not just random letters they are the building blocks of creation meaning the letters make up the inner energy of that particular object so the letters of the name of any person or thing in the Holy language define the shape the character of the soul of the divine life that grants it existence design and vitality so by studying the letters of a name of a person or an object you can actually glean its inner shape the shape of its soul is conveyed via the letters of the name we want to do this tonight with the name kyra hoof race and yes bring up source number 6 and look at it stay here for a moment hoof race has are the three letters of kyra if you think about it all these three letters are essentially a RUP ssin of the letter hey let's analyze for a moment the letter hei which you have in source number six and let's see how cooperation has each of them is a derivative of hey but it's also a distortion of hey hey is comprised of three dimensions hey look at the hey has three lines there is an upper horizontal line which forms the roof of the letter then there are two vertical lines one to the right and one to the left they form the walls or the legs of the hey the right leg of the hay is connected to the right end of the roof and it extends downwards to the bottom of the written line the left leg of the hay extends along the left side of the hay but it's not connected to the roof leaving a small gap between the upper and the left lines that is they now take a look at hoof race and s-corporation tests are all similar in form to the letter hay but with three major differences in coof the left leg extends below the written line the race is a hay which lacks a left leg the race is identical to the hay in the roof and in the right leg coming down attached to the roof but there's no left leg at all how about the tests the gas is a perfect a without a gap it's a hey whose left leg is joined to the roof just like the right leg who was Clara Clara was the person who wanted to undo or redo the hay make from the hay a coffee or a race or a s what does this mean why is it important source number seven suck the Gemara Menaka stuff cough testament BAE's own military says a littell desertion by invalids be Bora this is the history of heaven and earth when it was created I'll take you to be Barham ellaby hey Borah don't rust read be he boredom when they were created but to read it more particularly bear hey Boram be he baram is a combination of two words be hey Boram God created the world with the letter hey only play my new Varela Mazda be hey why did God create the world like hey hey maybe should I'm Alessandra shakaal hurts a lot says Yates a the world is compared to a corridor whoever wants to go out can go out and that's where there's an opening on the bottom if you want to exit at any point feel free to exit or my time Italia carrot why is the leg the left leg suspended why is there a gap between the left leg in the roof between the vertical and the horizontal line of the hey the HUD observer if a person returns in repentance Maile lei they'll bring him back in from that gap separating the left leg from the roof of the hey so a person can fall down whenever he or she wants the door is open but I can also come back I can climb up and make my way back into life back into the space the middle space of them so now we have the whole structure everything we discussed now let's try to understand what all of this means Hasidic teachings explain that the letter hei encompasses the very energy of all of existence all of this world is defined by a hey in fact the same Talmud says that the future world our Lama haba paradise was created with a unit but this world are la maza the whole reality of this world was created by a hey if every name captures the particular individual flavor of that existence which carries that name the hay captures the flavor the genre the identity of all of our existence in this world the fact that the hay is comprised of three lines the horizontal line at the top of the roof and the two lines that come down that extend till the bottom line the right which is connected and the left which is disconnected represents three components and this is a teaching of the alter rebbe reb missionary Zalman of liad the entire area and Lakota tailor the three lines of the hay represent three dimensions of our reality mahashiv a' d' Berenice thought speech and action the upper line the roof represents the world of thought the right leg represents the world of speech the left leg the world of action we all nurture in our minds a vision of an ideal world a world as defined by our purest instincts knowledge dreams visions ideals a world that's defined by its potential for goodness and to reflect the perfection and the harmony of its creator this is the thought dimension of reality this is the way we access the world in the realm of thought in the realm of vision it's represented by the haze upper line every one of us every one of you sitting or standing listening watching has your thoughts about how you think the world ought to be how you would like your life to be how you would like your career your family your relationships to be this is the beautiful world of vision of idealism of dreams of thoughts it's the top line of the hey then we have speech that's our endeavor to articulate the vision to ourselves and to our fellow human beings this is the right leg of the hay which comes down vertically from the roof we study we talk about we teach we write we communicate these ideals of the world of thought and we bring them down we create a new world of words the world of words brings down the lofty and abstract upper line of the hey down words into a more concrete dimension of speech we can articulate it we can speak about it we can smoo is about it it comes down from thought to speech that's the right leg coming down the left leg of the hay the second vertical leg coming down is the world of action this is the realm of our interaction not with our thoughts and not with our words but actually with the real physical world in order to translate our visions and to bring down our words into the real concrete world here we try to transform the physical material world in accordance with the vision we hold in our minds and the words we articulated with our mouth like speech action to is a downward extension from the realm of thoughts we draw down our ideals into a more concrete reality and hence the upper leg once again comes downwards vertical through action there is however a major difference between speech and action and it's illustrated by the difference between the Hayes right leg and the Hayes left leg the Hayes right leg remains connected to the roof the Hayes left leg remains disconnected from the roof you see in the realm of speech we can forge a reality that is a direct extension of the reality we inhabit in the realm of thoughts we can express the idea the same way we understand it we could communicate a vision the same way we see it we can convey a belief just as we Harbor it in our own soul and in our own psyche but when you try to apply your ideal to the world of action here we will encounter a gap between the upper roof and the line going downwards here we will encounter an encounter in Herenton comes in inconsistency between the ideal world and the real world when we try to act upon the physical world when we try to translate our dreams into physical reality and make it part of the real world when we want to change our the world here suddenly we will encounter a resistance it will not be easy to translate the ideal into action there will be barriers there will be conflicts there will be unbridgeable breaches between our inner truth and the obstinate external reality which refuses to move let me give a few practical examples so you can relate to it in a in a very concrete way you want to build an institution you want to build an organization you want to build a movement you have great visions and ideals and dreams in the world of thoughts you talk about it you schmooze about it they get excited about it with your spouse with your friends with your loved ones with people now talking about it writing it down is already bringing down the thought into the real world of speech but yet there's still a direct continuum between the ideal and the communication you communicate what you believe in you speak about what you feel there's a direct link between the upper leg and the right vertical leg they're attached now you have to translate it into the real world or you give out here you encounter so many gaps here you have to suddenly deal with money issues you have to deal with bureaucracies you have to deal with mortgages you have to deal with buildings you have to deal with employees you have to deal with payrolls you have to deal with all of the pressures those that I mentioned and so many more that come about when you want to take your ideal and translate it into the real world from the nitty gritty details of life to the very overwhelming stressful financial considerations it all comes to smack you right in the face and sometimes make mockery of that vision which you were so excited about education of children right you go to seminars and workshops you read books and essays you listen to classes on the eve of dotnet or wherever else and you have a vision of how you should treat your children how you should educate your children now what to be a good mother what it means to be a good father and you think about it and then you talk about it and now you have to translate it into reality you're exhausted you're tired the house is a mess the kids are screaming there's a gap between the world of action and the world of thought the world of ideals so many other areas I could talk about relationships you dream what type of relationship you want you talk about it but then there's the action take the world of business a person has a dream a vision what type of person I am I can talk about it but then when you actually encounter the real world of business can you really maintain the same integrity of your visions and of your words in the real physical world it's so hard it's so difficult there's such a gap and this is true in so many instances whatever it is you have a vision you want to create something beautiful idealistic you talk about it but then in the reality of construction of the physical thing when you have to get to the bricks and to the mortar when you have to call that electrician and the plumber when you have to deal with the IRS and the bank when you have to deal with your employees and with taxes when you have to deal with your staff and with the different pressures and the onslaught of reality it's not easy to find a direct link between the upper roof and the left leg not only it's not easy it doesn't exist there's a gap it always gets interrupted it never comes directly downwards there's never a smooth flow it gets stuck in the gap there's a disruption there because the world of physicality contradicts creates barriers paradoxes that threaten to undermine the vision the gap between thought an action is not a projection of own deficiencies it's not a consequence of your own weaknesses it's not because of your own fear or your lack of talent or confidence or luck no this is reality the world is like a hey you can't change it there is a gap there is a space between the ideal world and the real world and this is what the sages were telling us in tracted Monaco's when they said that God created the world in the form of a hey the gap is real it's not an illusion it's not a fantasy it's not a dream it's not a subjective projection of our own deficiencies of our own problems it's put in place by the creator of the world deal with it you have to deal with it he desired that the breach between thought and action should be real it should be an inescapable feature of our existence and the narrative of our lives because it's in this dichotomy it's this tension between the ideal and the real which lends challenge significance and ultimately harmony to our lives as we shall see comes kyra comes our friend Kyra and says listen my name is a cough for Asian access please bring up source number six again Co phrase guess Co phrase casts are similar in forms in their form today but the coof the left leg is longer the race there's no left leg the test the left leg is attached let's understand what happens now you would think on the face of it these three letters are much better off they're much more harmonious look at the casts no gap look at the race no dissonance no left leg no problem look at the cuff let the left leg go on its own let its take its natural course it seems like the Kufa narration the fans are much healthier lifestyles no dissonance no tension no paradox are they you get rid of the left leg or you attach the left leg to the roof or you let the left leg go loose take its own course that's Clara Clara represents three philosophies three perspectives that are profound and they're all there to change the hey to take the hey and do something to it to corrupt the hey so to speak in one form or another the first distorted perception is the cuff we're going to call this person the ultra realist the ultra-realistic Ignasi gap between thought and action he accepts it to this person the world is a cuff he says the left flank is disconnected from the other two lines and it drops below the area delineated by them this person makes peace with the gap this person says listen there is the world of idealism but there's the world of Madison Avenue there is the world of dreams but then there is concrete world of competition there's a major gap you won that I should apply the same standards then I have in my spiritual mental deep life to my real interactions in the business worlds you're making a mockery of yourself the gap is very real and you have to recognize that the world of action is divorced from the world of speech and words and hence the left leg will go very far down it's on its own it runs its own course it's a cynical world it's a harsh world it's a materialistic world he who fights harder and is more aggressive and sometimes more deceptive and shrewd will prevail that's the philosophy of the COFF person there's different sets of standards don't try to integrate two worlds which are so very powerful next we have not the ultra realistic idealist the ultra idealist says race I don't want to become dirty I don't want to become tarnished I don't want to become contaminated I'm not going to the left leg I'm staying with the race the right leg going down and the upper leg the horizontal one the race personality is the super and ultra idealist his gap is also very real and therefore he says let's get rid of the left leg entirely let's shun the world of action and let me devote my energies and resources to the worlds of thought and words so that I don't have to compromise the higher element of my being the reality I want to live in is the reality of race I want to live in a two-dimensional world of theory and polemic I don't want to have to go into the complex and sometimes unclean dimensions of the physical world why should I Sully myself why should I tarnish my character why don't I remain a little detached does that mean I have to remain in the dream world that's where I will remain but I will be able to maintain my highest standards my highest aspirations my highest nobility my deepest qualities the ecstasy of existence and can cleave to why do you need me to go into the left leg eliminate the left leg I love the race then there's the third man the Hesse the castes is a more subtle but no less destructive form of idealism rather than getting rid of the left hay it rather the test guy claims there's no gap whatsoever there's no separation between their various realms of God's creation look the right leg is connected to the roof the left leg is also connected to the roof the Tyrael is no less sacred than the spiritual actions are no less pure than words the legs are equally connected with the upper line the right leg as well as the left when they can both equally bring down the ideals into the real world the problem with this vision of reality is that lacking the proper awareness of the true state of the world one is far too easily satisfied the fact that you can believe that the left leg is directly connected to the roof and there's no gap it means that you're being satisfied with far too little because if you would really enter into the world of action to make a difference in the real world you will have to encounter the gap you will encounter the resistance and the fact that there's no resistance means you're satisfied with very very little it may be that the actions you're implementing our few and symbolic or it may be that your idealism has been so deeply compromised that you don't even see that there is a gap any longer it means that your inner consciousness has fallen very low and therefore there's no tension and therefore there's no gap I hope you get the point there's so much to discuss it with examples but use your imagination to figure it out in your own life are you struggling with the cuff have you given up on the world and have let your physical life just go wherever it wants to go Rach are you paralyzed do you remain stuck because you can't make it real you're scared to make it real it's too difficult vs. the cuff guy who makes it real but the real is detached from the ideal or yes or have you simply lowered your standards tremendously and you're just satisfied with too little and you're not aware of the real tension which one are you in which state are you in Kyra a fought against the HEI and Cray rock represented each three of the stages both race and yes let's now revisit all of his complaints and let's see how each one of his complaints represents another letter very briefly his fight against the priesthood of Aaron and the leadership of Mishra Bane was which letter it represents the tests everybody is holy why do I need moisture and Aaron to guide me to inspire me top lift me to communicate truth because I'm an ordinary person were all holy it's all one test there's no gap the world of thought the world of speech the world of action are all equally connected this direct continuum from the roof into the left leg just like there's a continuum from the roof into the right leg why do we need a moisture and iron to teach me to uplift me to inspire me the physical is as Holy as the matter as the spiritual and the body is as sacred as the soul and business is just another dimension of God's reality there's no gap there's no frustration we're all only that's the first progress now there's the next the tallis talis Chicago Kayla's what do you need census let's explain what this means Palace the cloak represents an energy that encompasses the whole person sits us individual strands individual threads individual strings represents communicating something in a detailed particular and tedious fashion it's like the difference between ideas words and action action is always detailed oriented you have to get this done and you need this person in the world of dreams everything is holistic and organically connected in the world of action everything is particularly and therefore tedious you want to build a website in your mind you see the website in reality the design and the program and every single code and every single default all different world palace represents the encompassing energy that encompasses the whole person citizeness is communicating it in a tedious way what does this Clara say carioca wants to know talus Akula tailless kai Eva's bits it's us or not if cities is communicating the energy of the talus and the details moisture a banner says yes the talus can be okay less but you still need senses you need still an individual strand of turquoise careeraccess there's no hole Kara's believes in the cool talus sekolah painless there's no senses when you have a talus that's all caylor's the vision and the ideal is powerful and holy and sacred but it's not gonna come into the citizen you cannot communicate it you don't need a communicate at North but envy reason is because you can't communicate it into the individual strands into the individual tedious elements of your life action takes its own course there's this world plays by its own rules and don't try to bring in transcendence and I Deedle ism and love in the world of coffee the palace is all of Kahless and the talus is all careless that's enough let the world of action take its own course is no hope the next is the rage career F says if you have a house filled with Tyra what do you need a mezuzah what's different between Tyra and a mezuzah Taurus squirrels represents the study of Torah thought and speech mezuzahs and mitzvah of action you have to take of physical mezuzah and place it on your physical door cleric says you have a house filled with Tori you need a mitzvah to raise we have the upper roof we have the right leg I don't need the left leg I don't need the mezuzah who needs the physical mitzvah now let's understand something if this is the case what is Kyra fighting against he's fighting against the very Tuesday the very concept of theta what's the concept of tire or whether we learn from the Madras there was a decree between Syria and Rome they can't meet God said let the higher elements come down that the lower elements come up what does this mean Tyra is about acknowledging three realities number one there's a higher realm but there is a lower realm and we have to engage and deal with the world around that's number one number two the higher reality must come down into the lower reality in form it inspired erected number three the lower reality must come up to the higher reality those are the three components in the mad rush number one there is a lower reality that you must engage in not denied number two there has to be interaction the higher one must come down number three the lower one must go up each one of the three letters Khafre stress is a war against one of these three ideologies rage says there's no lower reality I don't know about it doesn't exist in my world cuff says the lower reality exists but it's on its own the higher one doesn't have to come down to inspire it Cass says there's a lower reality but it's already up there it doesn't have the urine to go up there's no tension anymore it doesn't have to strive to go up each one of the three letters of courier presents another conflict against one of the three major ideas that tora created when it came down to cyanide is that we should revolutionize the landscape of earth and generate the kiss between heaven and earth true harmony and life can only be achieved by recognizing and confronting and grappling with the dissonance between thought and action if we succumb to the gap we end up with a cuff a physical world that slipped below the line and has left the principles upon which it's founded if we escape the gap then we create a world that's lacking its most real and important component the world of action if we ignore or make light of the gap we end up with a s a fool's paradise in which nothing has been really changed and nothing has been achieved besides in your own imagination because we are failing to deal with the world as it has been forged by its creator each of the three letters of career arc approaches breaks down ultimately into chaos and conflict the cuff creates one type of chaos they raise another type of chaos and the yes another type of chaos the chaos that's created by KUHF is the left leg can go wild and life could become detached from its true design the rage can create chaos because ultimately the real world will come to haunt you if you ignore it and the test can end up in chaos because you're denying the dissonance that's true and when you discover that dissonance you may not have the tools to deal with it so each one ultimately perpetuates the mahalik is the conflict of Monday what was the concept of Monday the higher water waters this water represents in Cibola pleasure water produces pleasure water grows pleasure pleasurable things when we're by water there's a special sense of pleasure that's aroused water does something to people water and kabbalah and hasidism is associated with pleasure on Monday God created a separation there's two pleasures there's the higher water and the lower water there's a loof higher pleasure and lower pleasure there's a pleasure from the ideal from the truth and this physical material pleasure which can include money or a piece of cheesecake or self-aggrandizement or any other pleasure there's a separation Tuesday the Tuesday of history is tired it creates the synthesis between the waters it creates peace not by saying there's no separation but by telling us there is a separation there is a dissonance between the higher leg and the two legs of the hay between the roof and the two legs there is a dissonance and now we have to communicate the higher must go down the lower must come up the higher must engage the lower and inform it and the lower must strive to go up it has to feel the dissonance and understand that ultimately in each the urine and work hard to strive action has to know that it's detached and therefore don't give up don't become lazy don't become complacent it's a never-ending struggle to create a synthesis between the higher and the lower the higher must come down must fight to come down and the lower must fight and work hard to come up this gap is a source of tension it's a source of dissonance but it's the constructive tension which drives our aspirations with which crystallizes our goals which challenges our ideals to make them real and refines ultimately our work in life for anyone who had to translate a real ideal into a real world an abstract ideal into a real world you know how the real world and the dissonance is what really challenges you to refine your ideal it's our knowledge of our imperfections furthermore which fuels our striving to improve ourselves to improve the world it's our sensitivity to the dissonance between what we are and what we ought to be which makes us aware and productive partners in the divine endeavor of creation and yet in the Taira we only mention one complaint of kyra although there were three there is de against the priesthood against Tallis having cities and against a house with safer Torah having a mezuzah but the tour only mentions one the mega-rich mentions the other two which won the fight against the priesthood which is that the tes not the course not the race that that's why because in some ways the test is more dangerous than the coffin their age and with this we conclude you see the cuff somebody falls down in the world of action and loses their idealism one day they'll wake up and they'll say what happened to my soul why am i dead their race somebody looks at their lives and says you know I totally did not enter into the real world they haven't made an impact on the real world and they'll come back but somebody who's in the world of the tests can easily deceive himself or herself I'm perfect I got everything I got the higher roof I got the two vertical legs sometimes by compromising their ideals they don't realize and what LO state they are so sometimes there could be more dangerous than the Coast Federation when the Talmud says in Sanhedrin that Clara is children after their swallowed up they scream my said they screamed moysha ms vittoriosa ms moses is true and his Torah is true ms it says is an acronym of ms aaron mezuzah and tailless it's clara ultimately affirming the truth of the hay which is the inherent design which God made to this world which ultimately allows the healing of the world the recovery of the world and the redemption of the world and thus every quarrel every fight in life which creates disharmony between people disharmony between communities disharmony between ideal and reality ultimately is alluded to in that original McLucas of Monday which was perpetuated by Kyra in his argument which came to pervert the hey which is the blueprint for the healing of the world hope to see you all next Monday night 8:30 p.m. that's June 14th there'll be a global evening of music and inspiration the song and soul of our people live from New Jersey commemorating the 16th yard site of the Lubavitch Ariba live on the yeshiva dotnet have a good night [Music] [Applause] you [Music]