What We Ask of Life; What Life Asks Of Us - By Rabbi YY Jacobson

[Music] good evening to all tonight's specials lewis class is dedicated in the merit of our dear friend lady it's Cockburn Cyril for a fool a menorah for Craver for a complete recovery and a speedy recovery may the unity of so many Jews this evening coming together to learn Torah only increases merit and the flow of our Shamas blessings to him and his family that he should have a complete and speedy recovery bakr of mom-ish and iris this young member shanem davis our main Kenji Hirata tonight we will study and reflect on a letter which was written by the lubavitcher rebbe exactly 60 years ago this is a letter dated Arabs Wuest option tests the day before she was 19 to 49 which explores a fascinating story in the Gemara which is connected to this holiday of sh lewis below the video you have a curriculum a PDF which you can open up print out and follow the letter inside Baruch Hashem era of Hagah Shavua stuffs and tests the eve of SH Lewis Amaru risalah the rabbi's teach that Schleich add variants avahi say fellows Bonoff aqui soy el instructed his children three things before his death number one al tu b McLucas do not enter into quarrels number two valt Imre dooba malkos based of it do not rebel against the sovereignty the royalty of the house of david number 3 vm tov shallots iris borer zero hit him if the weather is clear on the holiday of lewis then you should plant wheat this is in ba-ba-ba Sarah Kaufman Zion amid olives this is the story the Gemara relates in tractate baba Basra page 147 a vakama Soros even Boozer the rebus says there are several questions that come to mind when one learns this piece of gomorrah who mayhem some of the questions are as follows number one Val Tim radula Malthus based of admire you sir Kevin chef Aram are LT Obama Quakers once a she safe already instructs his children do not enter into any quarrels so automatically that includes not to rebel and betray against the kingdom of baised of it that certainly a mock Lycus if you rebel against the royalty of based of it you're entering into conflict so one sorry soulful already gave them a general and generic instruction LT you Burma Quakers do not enter into any quarrel into any conflict it seems superfluous and unnecessary to then give the second instruction not to rebel against the mouse is based of it because that's also a McLucas so if you're not gonna enter it going to enter into any quarrels certainly you will not rebel against the mouse was based of it next question servoz Adam the final will and testament of a person that savour that a person gives before he passes on to the next world OB frat Adam god--all especially that savour the final will of a great man shall love hey Doc Oh solutions vara Vayne Castro ye shall is but very alikum a person concerning whom the plastic testifies that his words are like the words that come from God referring here to the pasta can small bass peyrac to Zion the Tanakh says in Samuel to chapter 16 that the advice of our his soulful the advice that he would give to people consulting him for advice was cachet ye shall each bid verella him it was like a person consulting God for advice came cholatse sake saiful Gamla Dovid gamla solemn this was the reputation that the advice of a high soffel had the reputation this person had was that to go to him and get his advice was literally like going to God and getting his advice this is the prominence and the high regard in which FC saiful was held certainly the final will of any person certainly of a great person certainly of a person upon whom the posix says that seeking his advice was like seeking divine advice Bovada he kal-el Aceros acquiesce hurry roars Chloe is Shiva Hannah Caritas evil holy certainly his final words his final instructions before he leaves this world contains within them fundamental lessons in life and general fundamental lessons which capture and convey his veldt on shaolong his world philosophy his perspective and this is the question where do we see in this final will of a hosoi full fundamental directives which he feels important to convey before his death and ones that capture his life experience in his life philosophy Mao Asada serve I shall begin with vari - Karim lay oh so what is the common denominator between these three instructions first he says to his children don't enter into quarrels then he says don't rebel against the kingdom of based of it and then he says if the weather on truest is clear make sure to sow wheat what is the connection between the first two items in the third another question maou a toy company me the hoggish evo is borer what is the inner message and content of a statement to them that when the weather of shavoo is is clear you should sow wheat what is he really trying to say certainly it's not only an agricultural piece of advice that have the weather on shrewish is clear you should sow wheat first of all we have to understand that as well what is the connection that if the weather and foolís is clear then you know to plant wheat why is a few so follow so telling this to them as a final instruction before his death if he just wants to give a click agricultural advice there's certainly other advice a farmer can give to his torturer to other farmers why does he choose this piece of advice and when does he choose it he chooses it as the last final instruction before his death this means that there is a deeper message that after sofel is trying to convey to his family and what is it so in summation we have here a few questions in trying to understand what was the nature of our he siphons final will and testament before he died conveyed in the Gemara number one the first two seems superfluous he could have said one and that includes the other one number two why did he choose these three items as his final instruction before his death number three we're doing where do we see in these three items a perspective and summation of his life number four what is the connection between these three items number five what is the message symbolism and significance of the final instruction that when the weather and slowest is clear you should sow wheat and this the lubavitcher rebbe is going to come and answer and explain in this letter sixty years ago she was nineteen forty nine a brief introduction about the historical context behind this episode and gomorrah is necessary in order to appreciate the message who was a disciple ashley soffel was one of the most prominent Jews of his they he lived in the days of David hemella of King David he was brilliant his insight and his brilliance were unparalleled by any contemporary of his generation at a very young age he already became the leading figure the president the chief justice of the Sanhedrin of the Court of 71 members the most authoritative body in among the Jewish people the body that was responsible for the transmission of Torah from moisture Rubino from Moses in each generation and after his soulful was the chief of the Sanhedrin the chief justice of the Sanhedrin after his soulful was also the prime primary adviser of David hemella and as we see in the past quoted a few moments ago his advice was so powerful that people treated it as though they received divine advice for many years as he cyfle served as the chief adviser of David hemella but when dovid son Absalom rebelled against his father David and created that famous mutiny discussed in the Tanakh and Schmuel Bey's chapter 15 and 16 and so forth a few cyfle deserted he became a deserter he betrayed over Tamela and he went over to of Shalom's camp and the Tanakh describes how David hemella became frightened when he realized that now I shall him is going to get the advice of our key cyfle why did our key cipher leaved of it and go over to our Shalom to help him in his revolt against his father in his attempt to overthrow Dovid I'm Alec and take the royalty for himself why did I she soulful do this the mad Russian y'all could Sharmini says that as his soulful fell that he was supposed to be the king he was supposed to be the monarch rather than Dove it and this was the main motivation behind his rebelling against of animal there are doc and other commentators believe there was another motive behind that his Ophuls actions namely a fee soffel had a granddaughter her name was bacha ewa the one who was married to her Yaffe T the one who'd of anomalous sent to war and he was killed in war and then mm Ellis married but Sheva and was born from that marriage slay Muhammad and according to their a dark half his soulful never forgave Dov a time outlook for what he did with much ever and what he did with her husband dorayaki T and always wanted to take revenge although Dov a Tamela repented and was punished severely after his soulful never forgave Dover tamela's and thus this was his opportunity to betrayed of it and ultimately to have dove it killed and executed now in this fascinating story in the Tanakh a key saiful gave off Shalom two pieces of advice one was a brutally unethical piece of advice that he has public relations with other MLF concubines discussed in small bays in the Tanakh another piece of advice a later piece of advice was that as David escaped from Jerusalem with his loyal men at a fear of a solemn solemn should launch a sudden attack on Davi Ramallah I feel safer with 12,000 people would go in the middle of the night attacked of it catch him off guard and RC soffel said he would personally killed over them all yet I've shot him at another advisor a man named who she Archie who she our key was a loyal friend of David MLS and of it asked him to go to our shalem's team and serve as Dov its secret agent as an advisor DAF solemn but then come and reported of anomalous who she was another adviser of David who now publicly left of its camp and went to our Shalom only to help Dov it in his cause he was a secret agent working for governor Malala who she gave our solemn opposite advice he said your father is a warrior he will be prepared rather you need to amass a huge army and prepare a major offense against of anomaly our solemn decided to go with who she's advice rather than at his Ophuls advice actually saiful realized correctly that if this is the case the revolt will fail and dovid will come out triumphant and ultimately as his soulful will be killed and thus are he cyfle the PASOK says left of Solomon he went home and as the Tanakh says by its aval base say he gave at savoir to his family via hunnic he killed himself he strangled himself to death and he was buried in the burial place of his father's this is now the context behind the gomorian Baba Basra what was that savour what was the final will he gave over to his family by utsava base say three things he told them do not enter into quarrels do not rebel against based Ovid Malthus based of it if the weather on Lewis is clear make sure to sow wheat based on the historical context we can clearly understand the nature of the second instruction he cyfle said look at me my rebelling against Malthus based of it did not prove successful on the contrary I am now at the verge of death and by the way according to the gomorian Sanhedrin some are test the rabbi say that's actually saiful was 33 years of age during his death quite a young man and yet wrote red rose to such academic prominence during his lifetime so we can understand the nature of the second instruction don't follow my lead do not rebel against the the kingship of based of it but the other questions that they're ever raised in the letter are obviously still here what is the common denominator between the three why do you say number two if you said number one and primarily the great question is what is the point of instruction number three if suus has a clear weather make sure to plant wheat and the wrapper begins to present his explanation to this gomorian baa baa baa let's look inside again in the letter you can open your curriculums the PDF under the video to follow inside word by word via Schlemmer we could give the following explanation or be Kitson imminence but it's going to be very concise and brief Roja male staff seus I should allay Anisha Fordham whobilation the height of so full virtues and qualities to which a person should strive can generally be categorized in three venez by ruby Mishnah they have been explained in the mission in perky others the ethics of our fathers chapter 4/6 I remain there are three crowns representing three major virtuous qualities which a person should strive to achieve and attain in his or her life Kassar Tyler Cahoon Omaha's there is the crown of Torah the crown of priesthood and the crown of royalty there is the crown of Tyra this represents the virtue of learning of information of knowledge of wisdom the divine wisdom of Torah the second ambition the second great virtue which we should strive for is Casa Kahuna the crown of service the K&M who served in the holy temple they were responsible for the a void in the base hamikdash this is the crown of spiritual service and commitment to God and then there is the crown of leadership of power of influence of mouths of royalty there is the great virtue of study of discovery of wisdom Tara there is service commitment dedication and then there is the power of leadership of influencing of motivating inspiring and molding others in a generation and serving as a leader hadera calm a villa lhasa Luca Aida officially is Vishnu a fauna the path leading to any one of these three virtues which encompass the three major goals and ambitions to which a person should strive the three crowns we should want to put on in our lives in one way or another the path leading to them apparently it would seem could be one of two paths one is URIs at a Kabbalah so al Qaeda mezcla Hamas Satan Vedas Allah HEPA the first path to paraphrase a mission arose from pretty August and chapter three is year asshat academic Masai the fear of sin should precede wisdom or conversely the wisdom should precede fear of sin whereas he said in parentheses Kabbalah soil the acceptance of the yoke should precede logic and intellect or the other way around which means generally that there are two pathways that a person can embrace in life one path is everything is defined and qualified based on my logic based on my search my intellect my experimentation my discovery that's one way of going about things till I do not figure it out on my own till I am not persuaded and convinced that this is true this is right I do not embrace it what the first thing is hummus a the person's wisdom Tanvi das my rationale my reason my logic my knowledge and this will lead me ultimately to yearís had to fear of sin to embracing the right path in life but what is the axis what is the basis upon which everything else is founded it's my own wisdom my own logic it's my individual quest that makes sense to me and then I embrace it a second path is the other way around the Kabbalah soil precedes the Tanvi das the year estate is the foundation of the hakama which means the person embraces the authority of the Torah the person accepts the standards the truths that have been transmitted from generation to generation and upon that he builds or she builds as with after that resolve and foundation then the person can begin studying analyzing dissecting researching to put it maybe in modern terms you can say there are two different philosophies in life one is the focus is life focus and life is what I ask of life what I want from life what I see as the value in life another focus could be what does life ask of me it's not about me figuring it out but rather me having the courage or the willingness whichever way you want to put it to transcend my own wisdom and commit myself to certain traditions values and standards that are beyond me or before me wahee may a faithful call Youm off his snake boy - Husseini all his life after he soffel followed the second path articulated here where the hokhmah precedes the euro cent rate tastes with the buddha Maskull coil hagigah to Smotherman base toy Smithson miss Africa Giga writes about his soulful as well as diagur do me shallow yoyo lehem iroquois they did not have URIs a sham they did not have fear of God for us he cyfle the foundation was his logic his brilliance his ability to determine what is right and what is wrong his capacity to define truth this was the paradigm of a sofa o Kailash nourish bamboo Baba Baba Baba Baba Baba stirred some like eerily often what happens taffy cyfle as the rash mom puts it above a pastor he tells them don't rebel against based of it the fistula Arella Yaffa because the results in his life were not very beautiful the consequences for him were bitter for Lehane Hazaras bond of and therefore he cautioned his children below haenam saber shafts and therefore it was transcribed in Gomorrah in Talmud keys oh hey Ron because mana become welcome the hula halau advocate because this is not just a lesson from our disciple to his children it's a timeless eternal lesson in every time in every era in every location and to every person it's not dependent upon a particular milieu a particular geographical location or a particular type of person it's a timeless lesson for all of us in all times in all places al tu by mellitus do not enter into quarrels that's the first instruction he is giving asha Binion ávila Camacho a Christmas MSHA ma ma di Mishna says Amish Leykis clarify devadasi al-khasaka unum the foundation for every conflict not for the sake of heaven the Mishna says in pretty office what is the prototype of a mock locust not the same sham I am it's the quarrel of Koyuk and his congregation against Aaron after Tyne is created a succubus a homo come over with Josh's rasam although the complaint and rebellion and mutiny of Kyra against the priesthood of Aaron against the crown of Kona was very strong in logic and intellect Clara had what seemed to what he had very logical complaints nonetheless it's defined as an ill-fated conflict a McCoy case shillelagh sham sham ayam with catastrophic results so the first thing that his cyfle tells his children is don't enter into quarrels representing the first and foremost of quarrels the quarrel the McLucas of cairo what was chaos complaint Kyra had a great point Kyra said all the Jews are holy why is Aaron holier than thou madhu it is national college and why do you exalt yourself upon the congregation of God this is the prototype of every argument Clara seems right everybody is sacred everybody is holy why is there such a thing as a client why does such a thing as a client goggle the answer of course is God chose Arne to be the client goggle God chose designated Aaron to be the high priest this is the prototype of every every conflict in history ultimately people cannot accept the position and the mission and the unique energy and talents God gave them they're not happy with themselves they have to be somebody else to have to replace somebody else this is the essence of every kind of flick throughout history every McCoy cause shillelagh shame Shania it was a logical conflict there's always logic behind it comes out he saiful and says I followed logic my whole life my logic you can end up undermining the Kesser kahuna the ability of kahuna of aaron being a client and you being a client in your own life this is the first thing to not enter into this conflict base the second instruction actually cyfle says is Altamira double mouth was based of it do not rebel against the sovereignty of the house of dove it sure who hate him altar of old sugar double MLS the rabbi's say erected he created the yoke of Torah and the yoke of Coover of repentance Kessler malkos the second crown the crown of royalty are shall PR say hello though logically had a shoal bass has been little memento a mouse whose sole committed one sin and royalty was taken from him VM Cana lack has come a vakama chicane sorrows Lisbon davechowie bashed I am so certainly dove it's mal whose has to be taken from him because he sinned with two sins and the Rebbe here the lubavitcher rebbe here is referring to a Gomorrah massage the human of cough bass the Gomorrah says that Sheol committed one sin of not wiping out Amalek as small our Navi instructed him and because of that royalty was taken from him dove it committed to number one this whole story with Oriya he Tian batch ever discussed earlier sending Oriya to the front and number two counting the Jews and yet royalty remained with him and his children and his family so logically you could say Sheol deserves to be the king mm ellis doesn't deserve to be the king after his soulful followed his logic his whole life and with logic he decided that the venom ella is not the proper king somebody else has to be the king he or a solemn what was the uniqueness of Davi Ramallah so hate him I'll try River also true but this refers to another Gomorrah miss activate cottoned after Zion omit mais de cámara says there that when the past success Nome had gather hate him all about David Benicia in small base of gimel Nome david Benicia and omaha gather hey Kamau hate him oil or salt silver dollar mela is the one who created the yoke of truther as rashly explains there he's the one who set the path for every bulk silver throughout history if somebody sins they say be like David amela who did silver he is the one who demonstrated what it means to be about sugar to be a person who returns to God after stumbling and the Gemara continues there are the diamond would humble himself when he would study Terramax a do not smoke it alas he would wrap himself up as though he was a worm he would sit on the ground and wrapped himself up like a worm and study Torah with complete humility and dedication this was a very different paradigm than a few cycles paradigm if a key cipher believed it's all about individual discovery I have to discover my truth I have to use my intellect and there's nothing above it Davi ramela represented the contrary trend a lush shelter a little java kabbalah soil the yoke of terror the commitment to tailor the humility in the presence of terror and the humility of true ver of having the ability to say I made a mistake I'm accountable and I have to dedicate myself to something that transcends me he stifled therefore rebels against based of it he doesn't field of it as the king he doesn't doesn't field of it is the appropriate king first of all logically he has reasons that dove it should not be the king and furthermore dove it represents a paradigm contrary to what he believes is the ultimate perspective in life and therefore he should be the king at the end of his life he tells his children I made a mistake do not rebel against based of it dove its path is the right path and then there's finally number three gimel hit Emma Michael Adam wheat is the food for human beings versus barley the gyum samsara is the food for animals bow cycle oaxaca a human being is unique in the fact that he has developed sacral intellect and wisdom the eight sidarsky toys the tree of knowledge which Adam and Eve ate the gomorrah says in breakfast was wheat it was wheat shana tena koe de our holy brother staff member of the Chimera says in Brussels that a child does not know how to school his father Abba Father father until he does not taste grain and that's where the Gomorrah says eight sadhus which is the tree of knowledge of awareness of cognition it's the wheat because only when a child begins to eat bread tastes grain that's when the child ultimately learns how to call his father father so heeta wheat which is the food of a human being and is the food of the tree of knowledge is connected very much to say whole logic rationale the he may 8th siddhartha verse 8 hulu tavira the tree of knowledge of logic of intellect as the past success in voracious is good and evil that's what logic is logic on one hand can allow you to cultivate your life and elevate yourself to tremendous high moral ethical and spiritual levels on the other hand larger can also be used to manipulate and justify almost anything in the world it Steven raah it's a mixture of good and evil if it's evil a bun of sake stifle instructors children shakka daysius lee who hath it envy you tithe if they want that their wheat should be successful and the weak should come out good and fresh is that Tully but hoggish of West Africa they need a clear voice you want to so eat you want to have good wheat you need to make sure you have a clear shoes De La Hoya - ha - mahogany Luis apparently the question is what happened unique on the holiday of Luis that alum do Collett Erica LeMay aza macadam the information of Terra was learned earlier formerly a commandment as a lumic of cats the Gemara says the noumic of custom at maze my alumni huskily Shivam avisae know never has a yeshiva seized from our fathers i've rama v no learnt in yeshiva it's got Yakov is she with the same behavior there was the yeshiva of shame a neighborhood Huli so the wisdom and information of terror was already passed down through generations the Jews knew it they could study Torah they can internalize terror they can enjoy Tara so what happens slowest the information was there the wisdom was there so much Nibbana could have offered the jews whoever wants to come to classes whoever wants to learn terror ever wants to be inspired by terror comment i'll teach you tire what was the uniqueness of the holiday of sh luis el estaba matin tyrannous radish the novelty of Martin Tara was to call his colleague d moon a Selena Sh'ma that at the mountain of Sinai the Jewish people said NASA we will do and we will understand Kabbalah's our leymah they completely accepted the yoke of heaven come over but countries as explained in the countries a discourse that came out for that Sh luis luis tough contested discourse from the previous Lubavitch Arab the uniqueness of Shavua says Mount Sinai was that the Jewish people entered into a covenant with dura binational alone they committed themselves to the relationship they did not just have terror at their leisure you want to learn learn you want to experiment experiment challenge grow scrutinize dissect that was all available before what happened that Shoeless was they agreed to enter into a covenant to make a commitment to God to make a commitment to terror except upon themselves the yoke of terror in their life NASA we will do before nish my before we will understand vakidis burro who is still a nicely and the first words of the ten commandments hashem begins with the word an icy acronym unknown knife sheik service your harvest Shabbos go famine of the Gomorrah says it's an acronym of I have transcribed and imbued my soul into the terror acts Muslim Hussein Subaru Nitin Mukesh Massa Tyra the essence of God himself has been imbued he placed himself in to the wisdom of Tara when a Jew learns Tara he's not only learning a logical idea he's coming face-to-face and touching the very essence of the divine he's touching God in other words in the very wisdom of Tara there is something that transcends wisdom there is godliness inter-caste Surtur this is the crown of Tyra so our he cyfle tells his children he says my dear heavenly my dear children you want to sow wheat you have to make sure that your weather of service is clear only if you have a clear slowest only if you enter into a commitment towards Tyra only if you surrender yourself to the authority of Tara to the truth of turn only if you're humble yourself to Tara only if you have a clear unwavering slowest then sow wheat then will your wheat your eight Sadat's your hokhmah your saiful your logic your search be successful you have to have the foundation of Schloss actually saiful again was summarizing his life I have tried the other way I have followed the contrary path but finally before I leave this world let me tell you that I have erred and this is my message to you if you want wheat you want to use Huck macaca is not bad karmas give all that you have to search and understand and dissect and internalize individually but make sure that the wheat follows a clear weather of shoes the Zelo outside are shovel shovel coal get malaria Shailaja sofa this then is the common denominator and all over the three lessons of a high social what is the common denominator and all of the three instructions shall you say the shall Cole give Milosh llamas trader Kahuna oh malsu's who'd ask a Kabbalah social of myeloma Talmud oz the foundation of all of the three modes of perfection in life to have Tyra in life to have wisdom in life to have kahuna spirituality in service in life holiness in life and to have Malthus to have to be able to be a leader in life to be able to be a royal king in life the foundation for it is Kabbalah soil the acceptance of the divine yoke transcending your own intellect and logic chozo gam Kingdom is a mission in the others dollar dude gimel gimmicks are remain holy the castor shem tov i'll alga Bayon this is also the deeper symbolic meaning in the above-mentioned mission there are three crowns the crown of terror the crown of priests - the crown of royalty but the crown of a good name allele alga Bayon transcends and surpasses all of them he casts her Shem Tov the crown of a good name representing the crown of humble acceptance of resolve and commitment the shame type the good name of somebody who commits himself and surrenders his intellect and his ego to the truths of the Torah Hooten IET the whole gimmicks are amana this is a fundamental prerequisite and condition for all the other three crowns for them to be able to be cultivated and successfully adorn the person's life he must or she must first have the Kesser Shem Tov the crown of a good name representing the Kabbalah Searle representing the Year Isetta the fear of God which precedes your wisdom the aim can McCleary lahar this is not the place to elaborate any further and the Lubavitcher ever concludes but burkas Kabbalah cetera Basim Kobe enemies with blessings - except tario withdrew with joy and in an internal fashion and the Lubavitch arriba signs his name guten Yom Tov to each and every one of you good night and good Yom Tov and once again this class is dedicated for living its Hogben Cyril for refers Lima or a for craveable hora Mahavira vicious argued of la rioja shaman wish on MTV's Beethoven Iravan Ziggler good yontif and good night see you next Monday at 8:30 p.m. [Music] you