Yud-Tes Kislev & Chanukah Musical Kumzitz -- Rabbi YY Jacobson & Yoeli Lebovits

[Music] you thank [Music] [Applause] you good evening welcome all there's a metaphor a parable a mush that was once uh offered presented by the famous Master he gave the Marshall he told the story and I guess he relied on perceptive thoughtful souls to decipher the meaning of the parable so here was story he said once there was a prince who purchased the most expensive an Exquisite horse available this wasn't just a horse it was fast it was handsome it was mighty it was elegant it was a beauty and it was just an awesome horse he paid an enormous amount of money to obtain the horse and when he got the horse in order to protect it he locked up he got a special lock for the stable so that the horse would not be stolen but that night as he retired to go to sleep he couldn't fall asleep he thought to himself what if he has an experience of perus where the G the thieves will break in to the stable this is for all the children here are learning perus what of the thieves will break into the stable and steal his so he kept on waking up and running and making sure nobody took his fed nobody took his horse but he couldn't sleep so he went and for the next night he hired a top security guard to stand by the locked stable and protect his horse and he went to sleep but he can't fall asleep thinking what if the guard falls asleep and then the theves come and take this horse and to lose this horse would be tremendous trous tremendous loss so after a few minutes he gets out of bed and he runs over to the stable to make sure that the guard is up and he sees that the guard is sitting he's up but he's deeply involved in thought so he turns to the Garden he says what are you thinking about he says to keep myself up and busy as I stand alert I'm thinking about something that's been bothering me for many years what says when you take take a nail and you knock it into the wall with a hammer so there's a hole what happens to the material that was in that hole what happens to it where does it disappear to he says it's a good question continue meditating on that question and stay up goes back to bed what happens if he figures out what happens to the material in the place of the cabin place of the hole he'll fall asleep so 20 minutes later he's back there he sees the man is still in engaged in thought says what are you thinking now about says I'm thinking when you eat a bagel so there's the bagel the bread and then there's the hole in the middle when you finish the bagel what happens to the hole where did the hole inside the bagel disappear to he says gal question brilliant brilliant question in life you continue thinking about it goes back to bed but as you can imagine he can't fall asleep he's just too concerned he's too stressed out he comes back what are you thinking now about I'm wondering for people who have long beards when they go to sleep where do they put the beard on top of the blanket or under the blanket you never thought about that question you don't have that problem but there's people who have that issue where do you put the beard on top of the blanket or under the blanket so uh he says great question continue thinking goes back he can't sleep comes back what now he says I'm wondering if the Earth our planet is round it's like a ball so we are in Europe we're on the top so why is it that the people that live in America don't fall down is brilliant question stay with it now he goes back to bed he thinks he'll fall asleep he can't comes back the guy is thinking says what now he says now I'm thinking about a completely different question I've been up here all night thinking about different things alert and how is it that with all this somebody managed to break into the stable and steal the horse explain how that happened this was the Marshall the metaphor what was the meaning of it you can use your own imagination however I think perhaps it represents one message there is a v from the B the B who was of course the founder ofus and whose successor his student the mag of M's yard site is today y the 19th of and the day when the mag student the was liberated from arist imprisonment on 1798 where he was imprisoned because he was so to speak the face the spokesman the representative of the so therefore became associated with the not just of the AL as a person but of the entire movement of so the B says a v that I think in many ways captures one of the great messages ofus or at least one of the great messages that emphasized it's the one of the great messages of Judaism but it's one of the messages that emphasizes in said as follows the says rud told sh sharp one Al I think the world that we live in is like a it's like a wedding it's like a wedding grab and eat grab and drink what is the meaning of this what is he trying to tell his student what isud trying to tell his student so there's many different interpretations the B gave this interpretation he said at a at a wedding lots of things are happening first of all the preparations for the wedding preparations for the wedding sometimes take not days and weeks but some people prepare for weddings for months time of the gar they prepared for a wedding for 12 months between AIS andan there were 12 months even today's day and age weddings are stressful and people prepare a lot first of all there's the gowns and the suits and the outfits and the clothes there deciding what type of meat to serve at the meal deciding if the chicken is going to be stuffed with rice what type of rice the color of the napkins the men don't know about this but in EZ the color of the napkins the color of the cutlery never mind the flowers is another uh another nightmare and then there's the music not everybody gets a beautiful band like this and then there's of course all other wonderful things the biggest problem is who do you give the under the that can cost a relationship so uh there's a lot going on at a wedding and people come to a wedding this one comments on the food this one comments on the Gown this one comments on the flowers this one comments on the hole this one comments on the onance this one comments on the dancing everyone has what to say it's possible that somebody should completely lose the essence of the wedding what's the essence of the wedding one moment that's under the when the groom the turns to the places the ring on her finger and says mesas Lee and within those words itself what's the critical word Lee you're not just betro you're betro Lee to me they say from of brv that he once said that there's people that go out of a wedding and they turn to each other and they say ah was gal music was a beautiful meal was delicious says none of them were at the wedding and then there's one couple that goes out and the wife turns to the husband and says Ah isn't it wonderful that these two people the groom and the bride came together says they were at the wedding so you could be at a wedding and you could see and observe everything but the nuda the core you missed you missed you lost it what was the nuda one moment the unity or the reunion we should say the reunion between the groom and the bride under the this world life is like a wedding there's a lot going on in the world but you could sometimes miss the you could sometimes miss the most important essential story of Life the mishna says in says if I am not for me who will be here here for me so he says what's if you don't grasp the Lee so me so who will be here for me will I not be forfeiting the whole experience of Life what does this mean in the story of Life at a wedding we understand there's a lot going on a lot of preparations a lot of stress and this person could sometimes lose sight of Thea of the wedding in life the said it's the same thing person could live their whole life and life is overwhelming life is stressful people work hard everyone has their challenges everyone has their struggles but the of life is Theus the intimacy between a person and Hashem every single moment 24 hours a day 7 days a week 365 days a year a person could be in disarray running here running the here everyone is dealing with deadlines everyone has responsibilities and duties there's a lot going on in the wedding don't lose focus that the of the wedding Thea of life is at every moment you're your Oneness right now with the core of reality with Hashem even a Jew Who's involved in and dedicates a portion of his life but also he's at the wedding or she's at the wedding but the experience of mes that sense of intimacy of Oneness is sometimes lost they tell an anecdote that there was a fellow very poor man and he was starving he was desperate for a meal so he comes to a house a nice mansion knocks on the door the man opens up and he says I haven't eaten anything in two days please give me some food he says I'm sorry this place is not for uh people of your caliber you go to sh you'll open the refrigerator there you'll find food I don't serve people like you he says I can't go anywhere I'm going to die I haven't eaten in two days give me something from the garbage give me an old piece of fish that you threw out from your shabas left over the said that I can give you goes to the dust bin takes out a f salty horrible piece of fish and he gives it to the fellow the man was so uh hungry so he eats it immediately and because it was such a horrible piece of food so as he walks out of the house he faints they bring him to the hospital this man comes home in the evening and he tells his wife I can't stay home tonight she says why not he says I have a very important Mitzvah to do she says what says you remember the guest that I fed today unfortunately he's sick there's a mitvah visiting the sick so I have to go visit him okay goes to visits him the next day he tells his wife it's a busy day today we can't go out for lunch she says why he says you remember our guest he died one of the biggest is to go to escort escort the deceased on his final journey I have to go to the L the next day he tells his wife I'm coming home late tonight she says why he says he left he left children I have to go do the I have to go for a sh comfort those who are in grief he comes home from the shiv and he's quelling he smile a smile from ear to year his wife in 25 years never saw her husband so happy she says what are you so happy about what it's a celebration you're coming NE from such a tragic place he tells her how can I not be happy I have to say this in yish and then I'll translate how can I not be happy a foring a stickle fish see how many I committed I accomplished with one decadent smelly salty horrible fak piece of fish four of the greatest where do you get such a deal in life a salty piece of fish to give you so many Mitzvah so here you have a dramatic illustration of somebody who's busy doing a lot of Mitzvah but is clueless completely doesn't get it but did exists also on more subtle levels on more brute levels and on more subtle levels a person could be doing all the right things but the Deus the experience the feeling the sensation and most importantly the awareness because emotions are fluctuate but the awareness of the objective of Life as a Perpetual intimate relationship with Hashem that in the whole wedding can be lost on some people the says that there's two parts to to is compared to a person person has a body person has a soul you can't live with only a body body could become life could be lifeless you can't live with only a soul soul is lofty Sublime Transcendent eal Heavenly it's the synthesis of soul and body that creates the powerful and beautiful story we call life so the says thises the the body of like the and so literally it means that actually represents the essence of T but the interesting expression is which the interprets as the body of T and then there's the soul of the body that's life the body we live with our body we function with our body but the soul infuses the body with Vitality with depth with passion with warmth with life with so Theus which the B the mag and all of their students the balatan and all of his colleagues taught imparted transcribed revealed what was its function not to allow the experience of Judaism and of life to become just functional routine habitual which is great but it shouldn't be a body that is sometimes missing the power the warmth the love the passion the enthusiasm the that a has they tell about the two brothers the and the they were both students of the the of the of the is known for and his brother was the of anipo lived in anipo he's actually buried those of you who have been in anipo remember we went to anipo in the Ukraine he's buried right near the his the also passed away inha passed away many years later shvat the beginning of shvat I think of s 1800 but is right near right near his the mag the mag of M were two saintly Jews and they were traveling what was called Galos they were Jews the Von also did it there were many is they would go from City to City they wouldn't sleep in one place for more than one night they would wonder they would experience the plight of the Jews this was a path of self-refinement and of helping other people once they were travel and somebody informed upon them to the police and they were cast into a prison cell in the prison cell there were many other people and it was horrible circumstances to the point that there was no bathroom what was used instead there was a pale in the corner of the room and I don't have to describe in detail that was used for people to alleviate themselves they slept over as much as they could sleep there in the morning sees that is crying so he says why you crying so says I'm crying CU according to according to according to Jewish law you're not let a DAV in this place the the odor is so bad you're not let to say you're not let to say not let to mention hm's name this is not a place conducive for prayer so says so why you crying he says it's going to be the first time I will not be able to DAV the first time perhaps since my bzv more will not be able to pray T So says no this the first time for everything why you crying so says I'm crying because for me prayer in the morning is the most important moment of the day it's the moments when I establish vus when I establish connection a relationship with my own Essence and with the essence of all of existence with my which is a with My Soul which is a frag ment of God and with with the essence of all reality with and then my day can be functional powerful holesome real authentic meaningful but without doing I'm like in disarray I'm fragmented I'm not connected to the core so looks at and he says brother I completely beg to differ I'm obviously not saying it verbatim I don't know what the conversation but this told over the story just and they obviously didn't communicate in English either brother I dramatically differ with you I completely disagree with you why are you not daving today you're not daving today because the says say that you're not to DAV in this place so you're not daving today because that's what Hashem wants so by not doing you're fulfilling the Divine will by fulfilling hashem's will you connect with Hashem so every day you connect to Hashem through daving and today you connect to Hashem through the same God who wants you to D today he told you not to DAV that's a connection you're connecting to him through not daving so instead of crying he starts singing since they were understand within a few minutes they were dancing so there was a mat within 5 minutes you had to put him in a in a dungeon with these two brothers doesn't take a lot it doesn't take a lot especially for to get them on fire to dance so they're dancing M and they're dancing with passion the Gentiles see to dancing everyone launs entertainment in prison so they join the dance so before you know it there was a whole mat created in that dungeon in the center with a bunch of Gentiles enjoying the dance the prison Warden is outside and he is a commercial he runs into the cell and he sees everybody's excited dancing he calls over one of the non-jews there he says what's this great joy what's the dancing it I don't know the Jews the Jews started it of course the Jews are always guilty but things don't change much they instigated it there he says I understand they why why are they dancing what's made them so happy in this place the man says trust me I don't know says you tell me right now what caused them to dance if not I will lock you up in solitary confinement so trembling this man points to the pale to the bucket in the corner of the room the prison Warden says could you explain to me how that bucket fill with human fertilizer can generate and inspire a dance he says don't ask me to explain it to you but somehow they told us that as a result of that bucket they developed a new type of relationship with God there was a pre-bucketing to God as a result of that buck and they're very excited about it the guy says really I will will teach I will teach those troublemakers a lesson he lifts up the bucket and he throws it out of the room turns to and says brother now you could start daving it's more than a story there's a profound message in the story a lot goes into a wedding but the is always a relationship is created it in life Lots is happening how many appointments did you have today how many appointments are you going to have tomorrow how many deadlines how many issues how many issues is everybody dealing with every person sitting here or watching it wherever you are in our mind is so much going on especially if you didn't shut your iPhone especially the Alat said he said it says inish right so you know what he said means people have to lose the attitude of Maha Maha means fast fast fast fast people are not present everything is M you got to get rid of the Maha you have to learn how to be somewhere you have to learn how to be in a relationship it's an interesting msus I was at a dinner somewhere I'm I saw there was a mother a father a daughter and a son eating malava Mal at one table and everybody was on their phone could be they were even texting to each other that I don't know and I realized what's connected but alone completely connected but alone so there's so much going on by everybody and it's very easy to lose the the point the objective the aim of all of life of all of experience the the soul the body has lots of things going on lots of L but the soul the energy the the so this is one of his great messages how is the relationship expressed every moment it's different sometimes the relationship happens through daving and sometimes asem told sometimes it happens in very different ways sometimes the relationship happens through different Journeys every person has their own Journey sometimes the relationship happens through not praying but they're always in a relationship they're always in a relationship you know let's do can we do ready why not you want to okay so go go whenever you go take it away all right [Music] by [Music] oh [Music] know [Music] no of [Music] m know [Music] la [Music] [Applause] [Music] for be my oh of [Music] our God [Music] a by one of the beautiful was composed for that event was the shom why that nigan the first was in the year T 1798 it was on a Tuesday just like this year this year it's also on a Tuesday the balat when he was liberated it was a very serious situation because it wasn't just his life was in danger the whole movement was uh was really in danger that was fierce in ways that it's very hard to describe in nowadays when that opposition is nearly uh gone and even that which exists is usually based on ignorance not substantial uh substantial ideas so the bat wrote a letter to two people and whose yard is who was a grandson of the B the son of his daughter and in the letter he writes to of me he says it was Tuesday and I was sitting in my cell in prison it was in Petersburg and I was saying now you have the the way it's divided for the month so during 30 days you say every day but there tillum the way it was divided over the seven days of the week and there's sometimes Jews who say every day of the week they finish the tillum every week Sundays when the AL of liadi was in prison he was saying not only the way it was divided by the month but also the way it was divided by the week the of Tuesday includes cap chapter 55 so he writes to I was saying to I was middle of this was this was his language this these were these are his words I believe right after he said that says liberated my soul in peace from the war against me and many all the multitudes of people supported me says when I finish that PK I I was set free literally set free this was Tuesday so composed a beautiful on the words that sung every year literally around the whole world where this the celebrations of celebrated today it's promish in every corner of the world so this nigan is the traditional where expresses his gratitude to Hashem for Liberation and what type of Liberation Liberation doesn't only mean somebody who's physical and imprisonment of course that too but liberation of all types of all of the obstacles and overwhelming fears and concerns and addictions and and cravings and habits and issues and struggles call so is an for for Liberation on every level [Music] you could sing [Music] along be are you we [Music] all [Music] all [Music] he are you [Music] the [Music] is they name car [Music] I like [Music] sh healer healer [Music] be of M the of [Music] I [Music] love is [Music] the the oh [Music] to sh the [Music] d d [Music] [Applause] by after [Music] he [Music] by [Music] [Applause] [Music] the [Music] the [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] M [Music] hey me m [Music] [Applause] [Music] and [Music] after [Applause] [Music] everybody knows the gor says theor says about the holiday that we will celebrate next week you put the on the right side of the door and the on the left side of the door but why why if the M on the right side of the door why shouldn't the to be on the left side of the door so in some places it says both sides should be M should be surrounded by a Mitzvah so you have the mza on the right the on the left and the person with his with his Mitzvah lighting the in the middle you want to make that a little lower I can hear myself which is a good thing to listen to yourself but it's an interesting thing like why suddenly here are we looking for this on the right this on the left me in the middle Why by Kaneka you could say the right is the prominent side the Kan should be on the right I want to a he says a very powerful V but in order to give it context let's change the subject for a moment Yad in par V this week's para goes to visit his brothers his father sends him go visit your brothers in seek out their welfare look how they're doing examine how they're doing and YF goes problem is he gets lost so the POS says is found by a man and he's lost a blund by so the man asks him what are you searching for so y tells him I'm searching for my brothers who is this man that encountered y lost who is this man so Rashi says that this man is Mal griel he brings a I think from Danel say for Dan it says the man Gabel so you see that Gabriel is called an is so from here Rashi deduces based on a m that who was this man this man was Gabel I want to ask you a question the there's also a man who encounters somebody same word a man wrestles with Yakov remains alone in the middle of the night and a man an is wrestles with him till dawn break what does Rashi say there this is the the spiritual Minister the guardian angel of ASF isn't this blatant discrimination in both places it says the word is same word I would expect in says who's the is so is me it's G or the other way both of them are the minister the angels of ASO seems so unfair unjust the becomes as's man as's Angel and the is what's what's the meaning of this the meaning is this my dear friends in both situations there's a man alone in the world by is alone as says there there's a in which every person is alone there's a in life there's a place in life where everyone is alone even if you have good friends or acquaintances but there's still even if you have a good friend even it's very rare that people M have a real friend but even if you have a good friend there's still a place in which you you are you in order to know you I have to be you in order to know me I have to be me yakob is alone he has a huge family but he's alone Y is also alone he's he's lost in the field both are encountered by a man there's an is that meets them both but look at the difference in the ish the man the mysterious man encounters a 17-year-old boy lost lost in life lost on the road lost on his voyage to his brothers he sees a v vable youngster lost what does he do he places his hand on his shoulder and he says two words M tell me what are you searching for let me help you find what you're searching for and Y tells him all I'm looking for is Brothers I'm looking for brothers my brothers and and the man tries to guide him and direct him he tells him there's going to be now a new chapter in your life where you're going to have to discover yourself in ways that you never had to this is one type of ish there's another he meets all alone what does he do you see a vulnerable man [Music] alone pounce on him bully him beat him try to kill him or at least name him and dislocate The Joint of his hip the GHA the sciatica nerve zashi this is is Mal and this is is the same is both meet a man who's vulnerable a woman who's vulnerable a teenager who's vulnerable an older person who's vulnerable alone solitary struggling lost in one way or another physically practically spiritually tionally mentally but what's your response is your [Music] response what are you looking for let me be here for you let me help you or is your response you're alone and vulnerable awesome great opportunity I can take advantage of you I can destroy you I can manipulate you I can use you the way I want to use you you have people who are in a position of lead leadership all types an educator a teacher a parent a rabbi a therapist a social worker a guide a counselor an advisor whatever it is a mentor a rebi or rash Shiva and the youngster is lost and one of them looks at the youngster and says M and the other one I'll take advantage of you I'll use you for whatever I think is the best Zak Rashi this is Sy and this is malel two very different types of people now the B once said I'll say it in and Translate a soul comes down to this world for 70 80 years and the purpose of the Soul coming down into the world is to do a favor for another Jew a material favor a practical physical favor or especially a spiritual favor so it's possible that a soul comes down and accomplishes many things but the ultimate objective of why the Nisha came down was to meet one Jew who's lost and to to say m and if instead I take advantage of the situation I'm not only I'm not only depriving that person from what they need I'm also depriving my soul from the fact perhaps the purpose for which it came down into this world somebody once asked the balat what's greater or loving hasem or is so he said it's because when you love a Jew he [Music] said imagine I tell you you know I love you I love you I really hate your kids I hate your kids I hate your wife I hate your family but I love you I love you okay love you love me on your terms if you really love me how can you not love that which I love if I'm crazy about this person and you say you're crazy about me in a good way right you love me so how could you really not love that which I love if you really love me unless you don't really love me you just love your version of me which is often lot love is do we love other people do we love our version of other people it's a very big difference once saw a Jew eating chicken with a lot of passion so he says why the passion the ju says I love I love chicken salant says uh really you really love the chicken he says absolutely I love chicken so he says wow because of your love for this chicken this chicken was killed slaughtered pled cut Saed barbecued broiled and now it's going to be converted into your blood is this what you do with everybody you love this is your interpretation of love you don't love the chicken you love your taste buds you love your abdomen the chicken happens to suit it well balat said you love hasem you love love so how could you not love every Jew if says so how could you not be in love with them so that's the real the real other words is the real it expresses itself even deeper in now I'm going to tell you a v once heard from the half I think and very characteristic of the person who said it you'll hear in a moment what's the beginning of Galos here you have the opposite the opposite extreme what's the beginning of Galos the beginning of Gus kazal say begins with ysf being sold to Egypt he becomes a slave ultimately his father will come down his brothers will come down the Jewish Family will relocate to MIT and it will develop it will morph into the first Exile of Cl go the Egyptian exile for 210 years till PES till till The Exodus so how does exile how does Jewish Exile begin y being sold into slavery by his brothers but why was he sold first they tried to they wanted to kill him he let's kill him came ruven and ruven said no no no don't kill him our brother don't kill him what should we do we'll throw him into one of the pits and the says says why did Ruben say this he had one objective they'll put him in the pit they'll go away he'll take him out and they'll bring him back to his father that was the plan perfect so what happened how was he sold so the ter hints by they put him into a pit they sat down to eat in middle of the meal the is the the merchants come by you suggests let's sell him they sell him they sell him there's the fascinating rasham rasham learns literal if you read it it's not didn't take him out of the pit right the is took him out of the P but that's rasham has a very original interpretation in the story not like Rashi it's it's not for it's not it's not it's not part of our discussion now but ah they were eating ah now we understand Ren wasn't there says comes back he rents his the child is gone what am I going to do what am I going to do so the question is Rashi asks where was Ruben where was Ruben why wasn't he there everybody was there he wasn't there how did the plan get foiled so heavily the answer is cuz it says they sat down to eat Rashi one of the interpretations was fasting when there was a meal he couldn't eat why was he F why would R be fasting so Rashi says when Raul died almost a decade earlier nine years earlier Yakov placed his bed in the tent of B Ra's M Ru felt this was an insult for his mother Leia so he interfered in yakov's Intimate life so to speak nine years later he he was repenting for this mistake how by fasting N9 years later ruin is still fasting I don't know if it was Mondays or Thursdays I don't know if it was from shabas to shabas I don't know if it was every day I'm not sure it says but nine years later he's fasting repenting doing chuva for what for interfering in his father's intimate life Al in the terms of the says inab somebody who says ruen was just a sinner he's making a mistake but he interfered in jakob's private life and he was doing CH nine years later and that's why when his brother sat down to eat he went to do his b or his BOS oros or cha whatever he was doing ruen was working on his spiritual Perfection to forgive to gain forgiveness for his mistake because of that y was extracted from the pit and he was sold into slavery by the time Ren came back it was too late think about this what is the beginning of galus that ysep was sold but how was ysep sold ruen wanted to return him because ruen wasn't there why wasn't ruen there because he was working on a spiritual Perfection so he said the beginning of Galos the beginning of Exile doesn't happen necessarily from bad people doing bad things the beginning from go the beginning of Galos occurs because of great people and holy people who are busy working on their own spiritual perfection how is it possible that you should dedicate your time your resources primarily to focus on your own Schamus on your own spiritual Perfection when there's a Jewish child lingering in the abyss when there's a Jewish child who's in a pit with scorpions and snakes how is it that you can dedicate your life to focus on your greatness on your on your SCH which is awesome it's an extraordinary this is we're talking about great person that's the beginning of Gus the beginning of the consciousness of Exile is that I'm capable of going into spiritual seclusion I'm working on my perfection when there's a Jewish child languishing in the pit whatever that pit represents what's the beginning of the consciousness of G of redemption when I will not that allow that to happen true I need to fast I need to perfect myself I have to fix my sins I need to reach myus and my Godless there's a Jewish child in a pit you have to go over and say mes that's the is mes what are you looking for that's the contrast come now back why do we put the muza on the right side of the door so what does the gor say what do kazal say means your home is also explained as the direction from which you enter so as you enter you put the mza on the right side of the entrance and that's the of basically the place that you enter the direction you enter you place it on the right says the function of a is to represent the presence of in the house so you focus on your entering but now let's go to what's the purpose of says the second chapter what's the Mitzvah of to place it at the door of your home outside why outside unless it's a time of danger or the flame will not be able to uh to endure why outside because the objective of is to bring the message of Kana Outdoors out there outside outside of my own Cubit of my own Kon so the says is not on the left it's on the right it's on the right of D the mza focuses on you coming in going into your house it's on the right is also on the right it's on the left when you're looking from the perspective of entering the house when you're looking from the of leaving the house it's on the right and the objective of Kaneka is to leave to go out to illuminate that which is outside of you to be able to go over to that Jew and say m what are you searching what are you searching so we have to know that your comes down sometimes just to be able to tell somebody M and you'll find out that he's usually looking for a brother he's looking for a brother or a sister [Music] I [Music] I [Music] la [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] know [Music] down [Music] [Applause] [Music] it [Music] I [Music] [Applause] [Music] I [Music] am in yourself [Music] by is the [Music] the [Music] la [Music] hallah [Music] the and the [Music] [Laughter] [Music] am [Music] la [Music] [Applause] la [Music] [Applause] la [Music] hey [Music] he [Music] I said I said I [Music] la [Music] la [Music] la [Music] ha [Music] [Applause] [Music] la la la la [Music] I [Music] la [Music] my [Music] hey [Music] leg [Music] oh [Music] there a story beautiful beautiful story about a Jew his name was monus mon was one of the great Disciples of the balat of the balul of the [Music] Al he had a wonderful wonderful sense of humor and uh he was quite a character but a very inspired and deep Soul as [Music] well you know sometimes people with a great sense of humor it covers up on their depth but they're really very [Music] deep and became one of the greatest of the of the of of but here's the story about the first time they met alter lived most of his life in a little town called leoa leoa a little City at the border of bellus and Lithuania which is why when he came to the mag of Mich the name the nickname with which they coined him was the litvak he was the litvak the Lithuanian because he came from that region so he lived in Lea for much much of his life that's where he founded his movement that's where he led that's where he taught later he relocated towards the end of his life to leadi but for most most most of his life was Lea he was called the Lea Magus arrived in Lea in middle of the night middle of the night where do you go there was no Motel Six in Lea and there was certainly no hayed or Hilton in Lea there's still no high or Hilton in Lea if you go there it's barely a paved Road it's one of those still little towns that looks the way it was you in Russia you have a lot of those towns it comes the middle of the night so he needs somewhere to stay so he's searching for a home that has a muuza but also has the light on is before uh electricity but they were burning lanterns burning flames and he sees a home in which there was light so he goes to that home and he knocks on the door it happened to be the home of the balat of the AL who was up in middle of the night he was learning so the alter comes to the [Music] door greets himb says how can I help you he says app PL I'm looking for a place where to Lodge where to dwell where to remain so Dr says why did you have to come to this house he says I'm looking for a Jewish Home there those other Jewish homes why do you have to come to this home so he [Music] says this is not a Jewish home I can't be here so says middle of the night you come I thought by a real re there's no night there's no Darkness says I'm not sure this home is for you I think you should stay in another home so he says no I want to stay in this home I'm going to call my Gentile who works in the house to chase you out of thereus looks at him [Music] says my is a lot more powerful than your go so ever opened the door and that was the beginning of their relationship which was a very deep and close relationship first glance it's a very strange story hospitality is a basic on any Jew never mind never mind such a leader says I want to stay in your house stay in my house it's this whole debate why do you come in the middle of the night when should have he arrived in the middle of the night what should he do not arrive in the middle of the night make the sun stop sun set for him he's not Y what should he do go to another house what's wrong if he's in this house and then the strangest thing is I'm going to call my go to expel you who speaks this way here's a guest you don't know him comes into your house you invite him in give him a bed I'm going to tell my Gentile to expel you and then he says mom is stronger than yours oh now you can come in so the meaning of this story is of course their conversation was happening on two levels there was the basic conversation about a place to stay but it was really a much deeper conversation and the following Insight I I wouldn't understand the nature of the conversation but once theab told over the story and he explained what the conversation was about I guess it takes one to know one one re can understand another re so he explained what the conversation was so he went into a very deep explanation I want to uh glean one point the D ofab the path of alabad is a very strous one it's a very Al had a different in than most of his colleagues and friends for most of them the way they gave over were short tidbits short insights you look at all the of the other students of the mag prit these are the basic books of of the first generations of authors the students of the m m really the founding fathers of all the branches of Theus of the most of them have little powerful beautiful heartwarming inspiring ver on the par on y they [Music] focus whatever even it focuses the short a paragraph two paragraphs sometimes may and I am a little longer a page two pages sometimes a little longer called his his movement there was a reason for this because his he believed that the real path to Enlightenment the real path to appreciate yish kite in the most sophisticated and profound way requires that the spirituality that cabala and that the B introduced shouldn't only remain up here you shouldn't only connect to it through faith and inspiration but for it to be internalized you have to really understand it that's why he wrote a book called the T the t is not on the par it's the only work which is like an encyclopedic presentation of what does teach about Judaism what does teach about life it's not a book that's based on the par on Insight on the par it's a book that comes to examine from the beginning what is life from the's perspective what does what does teach about mitzvas about the Jewish people about God about the world about history about the soul about the purpose of life about the struggles of life in other words he came to present a sh his colleagues didn't do that his colleagues would Inspire the he wrote books to explain the and all of his discourses are long a lot of them are very long and deep anybody here who tasted The Works of tremendous tremendous amount of toil and effort needed simply to learn it understand it it's not uh it's not microwave of an inspiration we like microwave oven inspiration the microwave oven you want it hot and you want it fast how long did it take your grandmother to bake a potato you remember you remember no still baking no still baking somebody once said in our home my mother always served leftovers we're still looking for the original meal we never found that it's always like leftovers a good potato took an hour if you wanted it crispy an hour and 20 minutes today if it takes more than 3 minutes you're going to sue the [Music] company you know the New York prayer for patience right God give me patience and give it to me [Music] now so in the in the title page of the Tanya the Shar blot of the Tanya the author [Music] writes I'm going to explain how God is is close very close to [Music] you in a long path a long path a short path it's very interesting title you know what he means he's referring to a says lovely story I think it was who said was brilliant Sayes nobody ever won me nobody was ever Victorious over me besides a child child what happened I was traveling on the road I wanted to get toam and there was a fork and I didn't know that you go right or you go left right so what do you do in Israel if you're lost you roll down the window you say what's the wave so he asks him right or left so the child says if you go this way it's this path is short and long if you go this path it's it's long and short so which one would you take which one sounds better the short one so he goes in the short he said it's short and long so he goes in the short one so it's very short heish arrives to the city but he sees you can't get it it's obstructed by Gardens and Orchards impossible to get it so he comes back to the fork he tells the child why you telling me this is the short path I can't get in he says I also told you it's the long path I told you it's the short long path he goes on the other path it's very long it's long and winding and tedious but when you get there you get there when you get there you get there so he writes on the title page of the I'm not going to give you a short path and to give you a long path but it will turn out to be short because there's the inspiration that comes from a fast liing good joke tell me about it a nice story and it's wonderful it's beautiful but it's like when you light straw or you light Twigs the fire catches on Fast there's one problem goes out equally fast then is getting the log on fire it's a long path you have to learn and think and internalize and contemplate and meditate but it's because when you're there you're there because it permeate it has the capacity to permeate to penetrate to become part of who you really are as a person not just part of the spiritual transcendental Heaven within you but also the Earthly part of you the human part of you the animal that's in you or in the terminology of the Tanya not just your but also affect your not only your Godly s but also your animal s so you remember I middle of a story mon guess it's may be a little warm but we're going to get [Music] there I don't digress I extrapolate you know the difference soas comes to the alter he says says so the Reb said he wasn't saying I'm looking for a place to stay okay thank you we don't need for that you don't need alter for that he said I'm looking for a place where my soul can rest I'm looking for a place where I can find my N I can find God that's what I'm looking for so ALB says middle of the night it's very dark you know life is dark he says I thought by you there's no night there's no Darkness here Al then says I'm not sure this is your place I'm not sure this is your place why don't you go to another house there's many great people out there he says what this is not a Jewish Home I want a home where I can get all of yish I want yish kind in the deepest way the most real way I'm sick of superficiality I'm sick of falsehood I'm sick of vanity I'm sick of a Judaism that's you know the has an expression often uses an expression you know what a is an arrogant person G so balat says what's G listen to the the is gas the spirituality is thick it's brute sometimes you can have R is but it's gas it's coarse it's spiritual but it's coarse you could talk about God but it's course you could talk about daving it's course you could talk about hak it's course what's missing is is the subtlety the refinement the Transcendence the ability to lose yourself in truth not only find yourself to go beyond your ego to be able to experience real real depth so he says I want a home I want a home where where yish permeates it fully truthfully ptic in a very internal way says there's many homes he says no I want this home I want to be by you so the ALB says I'm going to tell my go to chase you out what did he mean Al was going to go call somebody to expel a Jew from his home you wouldn't do it in the middle of the night he would do it so the said was saying was something very very heavy he was saying let me tell you how things work around around here people come they're all inspired but then suddenly the go inside it's not the go outside the the alien within you the attic within you thear within you will expel you from here you're here today you're gone tomorrow how many of us were on fire and then the Twigs burn out the kerosene is done and boom you're back in the pits this is the human story inconsistency fluctuations has an [Music] expression top M from the peak of the Mount Everest into the deepest Abyss the go will expel you from here it's not going to work you're looking for a place where there's no night he just test said by you there's no night you don't want Darkness it's going to come so tells the he [Music] says don't think that I don't know about my demons my skeletons my ghosts my darkness my coming to you is not based on denial naivity and superficial inspiration I know I have a relationship with my guy we know each other for a long time it's very strong when Al heard that he said now you could come in because the real is not repression but awareness and sublimation it's not coming ever from denying who you are but rather finding God within the place that you are in you understand it's not about denying who you are your struggles your situations it's about finding the light in middle of the night it's not about getting rid of the night not everybody can get rid of the night that's what the T says there are but everybody could light a candle in the middle of the night everybody could light a candle it's a beautiful story of from the sanov says there was once a Jew who was uh he was uh lost there was a Jew who was lost and uh he was searching for the way out of the Wilder nness for 3 days and three nights couldn't find the way out but on the fourth day he goes into ecstasy because he sees another person and the other person is holding a lantern and is walking so he runs over to the person M what do you want and he says get me out of this jungle I've been lost for 3 Days the man laughs Smiles as you've been lost for 3 days I've been lost for 3 months I can't tell you how to get out of here I don't know the way [Music] out so uh he says can you help me he says I can help you one way I can tell you which way won't get you out of here I tried so many paths I can tell you where not to go I can't tell you where to go I'm an expert on where not to go you know the G re once saids said says when you're 50 you start giving advice so what happens when you're 50 that you become a BAL anybody here knows no one is [Music] a did you start giving Aces when you became 50 what happens when you're 50 then you start giving Aces so the G re said when you're 50 you made enough mistakes to be able to tell people what not to do at the age of 40 he still experimenting at the age of 50 you realize you made so many mistakes in life you could start telling people what not to do so this guy says this guy says I can't tell you how to get out of the Jungle I can tell you we not to go so he turns to him and he says so what do we do he says let's hold hands and search for a new way together so he looks at him and he says so why you have a lantern what Does the lantern help you I don't even know where to go so he says I don't know where to go that's true but I'm lighting a lantern because I hope by lighting the lantern somebody else will find me and take me out of here so theide that the alter never want to from is if you're in denial if you're not a aware of who you really are so first of all your a hasem your service of God won't be authentic because it's coming from denial it's coming from not understanding your real condition your real situation and it's doomed to failure because when you do discover who you are either you'll become disillusioned and you're going to run away or you're going to become a fake and both options are very very poor options to live by so you have to really be aware of the very well and that awareness allows you to become an Hashem based on who you really really are it's what Hashem toldo when he saw that the bush is burning but it's not being consumed right so says why doesn't it get consumed so what does hasem say take your shoes off your feet because you're standing on holy soil what's the [Music] conversation so there's a very deep conversation the grandson the says this you get on fire but the fire never penetrates you there's always a part of you that remains cold Frozen numb dead apathetic you need more adjectives over there you're good you're never really on fire there's always a part of you that remains so M says what am I doing wrong why can't my fire burn me up in a positive way doesn't this prove that my service of God is fake phony fraud false yesterday I had and then today my addiction is haunting me or my tiis are overwhelming me I can't control not my eyes not my ears not my mouth not my computer I can't control anything I'm completely in the opposite place so which one is the lie and which one is the truth who's the liar and who's the real one the Thorns never disappear as much as there's a fire burning it never really penetrates the whole Bush I never never will be consumed in God's fire so what do you do either you give up on yourself that's our times you give up on yourself either you give up on yourself in the open so everybody has to know it on Facebook or you give up on yourself in private you still wear the of you still wear the eight garments of the K or the if you're not a you're you go you go with the you go with the you go with the routine with the system so your kids can get all the they need and get into the AAS they need but inside there's nobody home there's nobody home there m nobody home it's like you're so dis there's such disillusionment such Detachment such apathy I told you once they asked a Jew what's the difference between ignorance and apathy so he said I don't know know and I don't care so those are the two options the snare is not burning so either I become disillusioned or the other option is I'll fake it and then there's Mish nobody who to talk to cuz at least the person who's disillusion is disillusion this frustration there's at least a spear there's somebody to talk to but a faker there's nobody to talk to because you're talking to a mask you're talking to a mask so in the world of the worst the world of is the worst insult that they could give somebody is you know what a a means somebody who's not for real in other words when you talk to them you don't you're not talking to a real person you're talking to somebody who's just repeating you know what you're supposed to say fits into the click because there's there's no tick for that cuz I could never get to you there's no you you created a mask and that's what you took from 24/7 who are you at least you're having issues but there's a you having issues but if you're Mr Perfect you know you're like the real Jew and there just wonderful you repress everything else like I'm not talking to a real person so it's very painful it's very painful that's what a is somebody just lives on the outside so says do now what's going to be so Hashem says take off your shoes the place that you're standing on is your whole Paradigm has to change that's why he called a safer safer shall B in not safer shall your perspective on AEM is what does it mean to have a real relationship with God that you're Struggle free you're stress free you're addiction free you're a liberated angel in heaven that's what it means you have a relationship with God but that's not true that itself is a misguided perspective there are souls that were created with the capability of being real sadim sikim means they don't have a anymore the realic when we say he's a sadic what does it really mean means he won't backstab you but uh but a real sadic is somebody doesn't have AAR so that's unique the ordinary person could be a b the T says what's a a is the possible man the possible man is not the person who Struggle free who doesn't have ups and downs who doesn't fluctuate the Bon is somebody who has a dichotomy an inherent split that will not necessarily go away yes it may change you refine your character you sublimate your character but there's always darkness that you have to transform but what it means to have a relationship with God is not that you don't have Darkness not that you don't have night it's that you light a candle in your night it's that you bring Hashem into your darkness is that you bring Hashem into your addiction that you bring Hashem into your struggle into your life into your real truth don't fake it and don't get this illusion the place where you stand not geographically existentially the place where you are standing now can become holy if you could see it that way very good the place where you're standing right now happens now life happens now intimacy happens now truth happens now doesn't happen in a year in a month in a week you know the people who say when I'm going to start living when I lose 40 lb at 96 he's still not losing 40 lb life happens Now relationships happen now kadha happens now the place where you're standing right now but what do you mean the place the place where I'm standing is a mess okay now you know your it's strong it's stronger than the alter his guy okay now we can talk let's talk let's talk becomes a that's why he becomes a so tells the burning bush is not supposed to consume it completely there will always be a place that won't be consumed and yet your life today in this world can become a true Symphony resonating with the music of a relationship with God by finding the purpose the meaning the depth in where you stand today in where you are right now God's presence everywhere means here this moment this place mentally physically spiritually emotionally we you are today [Music] [Laughter] [Music] sing God be might [Music] is [Music] now [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] now she come [Music] down together [Applause] is she [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] now [Music] she oh over 4,000 people watching now [Music] oh see [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] the found the holy [Music] the [Music] [Applause] [Music] the [Music] love [Music] in the [Applause] [Music] tellal theise to appreciate the [Music] story let me remind you of an argument TR chabas page 22 quotes an argument between raav and about what's the argument we use a shamish to light the candles but what happens if you don't have a shamish you just have the manura itself with the candles of Kan themselves can you take one candle and light another candle with [Music] it can you take a Kana candle and use one candle let's say the first one to light the second one or the second want to light the first one so RAV says you're not says you're L why does ra say not so the gor says the second reason the main reason you're weakening you're diminishing the first Mitzvah you take the candle and you want to light the second one a little oil will pour out a little wax will fall away You're diminishing the first Mitzvah you take a shamish you take a match I don't care but you take the first candle you're weakening the first Mitzvah that's what R's R holds sh says no since you're using the candle to light another candle so Shmo disagrees with Ravi says you're allowed to do it now here is the interesting thing usually when there's an argument between ra and who's the like so we all know civil issues monetary issues but issues of religious law like and these things is like usually is always like ra besides three things is like and one of them is this you could light from one candle to another candle what's the nature of the argument behind what's the nature of the argument on a deeper level RAV says you're taking the candle you using it to light another candle you're losing part of the momentum and the strength and the quantity and the quality of the first candle what's shm's argument schm says in that process you're creating a new candle so ultimately you're not losing you're gaining what does this mean in life it's not just an argument about lighting candles physical candles and it's also an argument which still exists in the Jewish World maybe not as strong as it did in the past but it still exists in the Jewish world and that is should one candle should one n hasem the PK says in Mish that the soul of a person is a candle of Hashem should one candle get involved in lighting another candle or the candle should just retain its own light and remain in its own space and not be encumbered and bothered by the function and the task of lighting another candle one argument says practically you're a religious Jew you're a Jew who lives in M or wherever you live you steeped in Williamsburg in Lakewood you steeped in yish kite you steeped in ter you steeped in mitzvas should you now go to another person comes from a different background different lifestyle their candle is not burning their Jewish candle is not burning and spend time and resources invite them to your home or go to their place and light them it's going to weaken your candle time resources energy intensity that's what's going to happen don't do it but is like that what it's the other way around when you take time and energy to light another candle so there's more Jewish light in the world and if there's more Jewish light in the world then your light is going to become only stronger and what is more by lighting up somebody else you yourself get illuminated in a way that you could never be illuminated if you don't light up somebody else when you bring warmth and hope and love and depth and meaning and T to somebody else so your own t your own yish is experienced on a new level it's challenged much deeper it's challenged in a new way it's crystallized in a new way it forces you to internalize it in a much more powerful way when you have this comfort zone of your own cocoon then it could often be superficial so sh says not only will it not weaken your flame it will enhance your flame it will enhance your light and till today there's two views there's two perspectives but says usually we say here we say here we say you got to light candles you got to light you have to light all the candles so here's this there's a city we went on trip last year in Ukraine we passed that City there's a city called J is a city in the Ukraine in J lived a great Jew of J he was a student of the magit he wrote a safer called May the light that shines it's a beautiful beautiful work of I think he was by the actually and of lived in that was his City one day who was a grandson of the B I mentioned before he was the B's daughter's son of he's buried close to the B he came on a visit to J he was VIs isting J me bush is also in the Ukraine he's walking in the street and he sees a Jew across the street he goes over to this Jew and he says I would like to marry into your family I have a son who needs a and a son who's marriable age wants to get married and do you have she says I have a daughter galic I think this is going to work the Jew couldn't believe this a simple Jew was one of theim of the generation no no negotiations no matchmakers no resumés no emails no references right shakes his hand so let's go finalize it his Gabi his assistant Whispers to the rabis it's not a good idea it's not a good idea we got to do some research he says it's a good idea so people are gathering what happened made a with this Jew somebody tells the you know who this guy is he's the ghav of he is the thief ofam you know every city has a ghav right some cities have more than one but but every city every respect self-respecting Jewish listen everybody needs parosa so different people make parosa different ways so he's he's he's the thief of everybody knows grandson has no better for his son than this man's daughter it's a it's inappropriate it's unfair to this boy and they tell let's tell you tell you a story about this fellow they had a lure J that if somebody was caught stealing so in order to teach him a lesson they would put him on a wagon and lead him across the whole city and kids and everybody would throw things on him the G the G they would embarrass the thief they would lead him through the city and embarrass him so you should learn his lesson and you know who had this punishment in this Jew he was caught stealing they put him on a wagon they let him throughout the they let him throughout they they they brought him they traveled with him throughout the whole publicly denigrating him why would you want to make a match with him why would you want to make go into a with says I don't know what stories you're telling me I know that I see a light on his face I see an I see a on his face the gab says Reb maybe it's your light being reflected on him not a good idea the sh is done I'll talk to my son you talk to your daughter we're doing it before he leaves the city he goes to visit the Widow of of the passed away some time before and his widow was living in so went to her home to visit the wife of the holy so he walks into the house and she says I heard about the that you made the engagement what a beautiful beautiful partnership so the tell us he says the crowd is criticizing me why do you say it's such a beautiful so she says to him I'll tell you a story that happened a few years ago this Jew your mtin the father of the daughter was accused of theft and they put him on a wagon and the policeman was riding with them across jat and everybody was screaming thief thief thief all the Gentiles thief thief some Jews my husband was sitting by the window V of J and he was watching and he saw this Jew come by in the wagon in front of our house and my husband turned to me and said asov he's not the thief I'm like I you know you're a nice guy and you like saying that everyone is a sadic the guy's a GH of the guy is a thief he says he's not the thief this man did not steal a dime he didn't steal a cup didn't steal a Ruble a penny a dollar from anybody says what's going on says I'll tell you what happened another Jew stole the other Jew was caught and the other Jew was talking to this man and he told him how broken he is from the shame that he's going to experience and he doesn't think he'll survive it ever he will be shattered he will be so denigrated he won't be able to show his face not to his wife not to his kids not to a friend not to the community he's going to want to kill himself so this Jew felt bad for him he says I'll take it on myself I'll say that I did it I can deal with denigration it's fine I'm I'm good he took it upon himself I see on his face is light he didn't steal he sacrificed himself for somebody else and my husband turns to me she tells her and says and proof is that in a few years a great sadic will come and is going to ask this Jew to give him his daughter to marry his son he's going to want to marry into his his family and then you'll see that I was right so she says to him when I heard through the grape vine that you made his I'm telling you it's a good I heard it from my husband many years ago so the name of his work the name of his book is the light that glows the light that shines what's by it's different than everything else we say our job is to look at it in fact is the only Mitzvah that there a special made not only for the person who lights the Kaneka candle for the person who sees the Kan candle why you making a for seeing a Mitzvah because one of the great ideas of kanak is to see what do you want to see what do you want to see you could look at somebody and see him as the ghav he's the thief of the city but if you have the if you have access to the light to the of Kana so you could see a little deeper and suddenly the picture changes completely you're looking at the same person one person sees the thief of the city and another person sees a tremendous light coming from that person one person only sees external light which is often dark and one person sees internal light which is not visible to many I look only at The Superficial light and it may really be Darkness because it's masquerading it's disguising the depth the is the ability to be able to see to see see the inner earth to be able to see the Inner Light that's what that's what the B came to teach that in every situation should be able to see the not that there's no night to be able to create a candle in the night first of all in yourself second of all in others and third of all in the world and then you could be m a then you could light other candles when you can appreciate the light in other people then you can light up other candles one of our greatest uh setbacks is that we often fail to appreciate how much light there is beneath the surface we look at the clouds and they're very dark and we forget that above the clouds the sun is always shining it's just that the clouds don't allow us that perspective in ourselves we sometimes don't see our light in others we don't see our light we get so overwhelmed by the mask what Kan is is to be able to see Theos the Inner Light the Inner Light In Yourself the inner candle and then when you could see the that in yourself you could see it in other people where you could see it in other people you could see it in your children you could see it in the world you could see it with colleagues it's a different a it's not an a because you're naive and stupid and delusional you see the external but like you could see the inner Inner Light and uh a classic illustration of this is an interpretation of another one of the great cdic Giants of the early generations of a who wrote A sa called Bas and in par vev the basan says an incredible insight it's like it's like a mish a classic this is what he says Yehuda leaves his family he marries a woman they have three sons two of them die a dies so he has A's wife do do a lever marriage with the second boy o o dies she's supposed to boot do with the third son Shaya right but he's afraid he thinks it's her fault she's killing his children he doesn't want her to marry the third boy on the other hand she's Bound in this yum in this leverate marriage so she's stuck she's not free just to go her own way but he's not marrying her off to Shayla so what does she do so she does something incredible the ran says that before mat before the T was given y was not only with a brother-in-law it was with the closest of kin in other words any family member after m is only a brother-in-law if a husband dies childless so there's an obligation for his wife for the Widow to marry one of his brothers unless if she or he doesn't want this is what we call KH which is usually done today most tanaza communities already for the last 1500 years but before M could be with your father-in-law so T technically could marry you too so what does does t do in desperation she disguises herself thank you she disguises herself and she summons Yuda into relationship she wants money so Yehuda gives her collateral what's the collateral you remember his seal his GLE is GLE according to one interpretation mat is stick so she now has these items she becomes pregnant Yuda finds out that his daughter-in-law who's bound to Shaya in is pregnant he knows it's not from Shayla that means she betrayed the relationship she sentenced to be burnt on the way to the stake what does she do she sends the three items to with one message recognize who owns these three items he is the man from whom I'm pregnant sees and he says she's right me many I'm the culprit this is me cuz I didn't give her to sh my son I I put her in a bind in an impossible bind he actually Marvel at the ingenius and creativity of his daughter-in-law she gives birth to twins we all know parrots and zor parot becomes the Z of of says the after the relationship with around three months P they came to and they said your daughter-in-law entered into a uous relationship and she's pregnant and says let her be burnt and that's when she sends these three items and asks him to recognize them listen to this it says in in the writings of that the end of end of the end of the days of judgment are when you know we always push off we always push off the the verdict we're good at that right so you have okay we all know right Su turn around but then goes till the eight days of Kana parallel the eight days of sukus so the ultimate the ultimate verdict is till till is still uh still not clear that's what the Diel writes says many of you are learning now is name and and and all in the same word says why we take aul why we take a friend from a palm tree the has one heart the Jew has one heart the is compared to the T to the date to the palm tree we say in Theus on sukus you [Music] remember she's compared to a one heart every Jew is every Jew screams seven [Music] times three times every Jew even Jews that don't show up and all year Jews come it's a special time even a a lightheaded person the time of special time of of closeness writes that which means every soul is a little spark of hasem but usually the spark is far away from the source the bonfire the luminary comes close to the spark what happens when you bring the big flame close to the spark the spark is absorbed in the larger flame says when is he close the 10 days not three months almost three months what's almost three months from comes [Music] y or in the words of the Bas comes almost three months around three months could be a little more if he counts fromer could be a little less if he count from I mean if you count from it's if you count from it's less than three months but it's almost y even less [Music] it's the final Judgment of the comes to to the and he says [Music] suus had one heart Dum one heart but you know what Tish bites the dust and then comes AES and you're back in the real world life is stressful life is overwhelming and life is tiring [Music] so betrayed the [Music] relationship but you know what there's betrayal and there's [Music] betrayal people have moments of insanity big deal who's not insane once in a while but there's insanity and is turning Insanity into a life philosophy that's a different thing everybody's insane if you're not insane you're not really normal right to be normal you have to be auga people that are Mish normal are M you have to be predictably unpredictable but you know what this m m you know the theah the was the fourth the son of theed the youngest son of theed he lived in the city of laich in Belarus when the balat passed away the M's son settled in laich that's why the AL wasn't the first laich there was no laich then laich started by the M the name a city which means Luba love in Russian love is intellect and laich's emotion love so the settles in [Music] laich passed away 1882 a young man so he he lived like he lived very broad life aristocratic he used to go on a daily stroll he had a coach the coach would take him he would go to the forest he would take a walk there usually almost on a daily basis he was also very ill he did it for health reasons other reasons he would meditate in the forest every Jewish City I said before every self-respecting Jewish City there a city Thief but every self-respecting Jewish City also has a you know the nut of the city again some cities are mahad they have more than one and in some cities are mahad mahad right like Mish but a self-respecting Jewish City M but in the was a very serious job the Jews were broken and bored and lonely and poor and this m he was the the M the Entertainer I don't want to say the b but he was the the Entertainer laich the city of laich also had a m he was known a real real not real not job kha a real a real I don't how do you say mugan in English an imbecile I don't know whatever how does Art School translate how they translate I don't know how you translate huh I'm suan I doubt they translated that way probably imbecile so once Mah is going in the coach the jumps into the wagon he jumps into the wagon and he sits down near the re and the were very upset they wanted a SLE him down but he was already there and he's already talking to theb to De and they have a conversation he finishes and he jumps off the wagon everybody was very curious they run over to him so first they want to give him some malus but relax they say what happened was you go in the re's private time he says listen I tried to get a with theb the gab doesn't let me he says I'm a m so he wouldn't let me go see the Reb so what am I supposed to do if they don't let you through the door you go through the window I asked the Gabi for months I asked the Reb secretary to let me in he refuses he says I'm a crazy person I can't go in so I'm not going to ask a Reb a question so what am I supposed to do I jumped in the wagon they say what did you have to ask the Reb he said I had a very serious question in life what was your question so this is what he said nearby there's the city of Minsk Minsk of a city Li City and the M came from Minsk to laich and he said come to Minsk come to Minsk cuz Minsk has lots of people more people m is a little little town still M very little town very small village and uh come to Minsk and we'll be able to keep each other company because the doesn't understand me you understand me we understand each other let's be together and you know what there's more people here will both make more money it's like not an issue you're not going to lose your money it's a serious question do I leave my position in laich and go to Minsk or do I stay in laich so who do I ask I went to the re I said what should I [Music] do so the Reb said over here you're the king if you're going to be there he's the king it's not fair you need you need your own you need your own Empire I don't think you should move Tak more people there maybe a little better parosa but here you're the king you're the balab boss you got to work for yourself you can't work for other people go what the he jumped I jumped off the wagon they say no you going to listen to the Reba the guy had a good argument doesn't want to be lonely doesn't want of course I'm going to listen to the RAB said why are you going to listen to the RAB why you going to listen to the so used to repeat the story I heard from they used to say he looked at them and he said [Music] crazy I am but you need so you understand so you have Insanity every person is insane she betrayed fine so she had a weak moment which Jew doesn't have a weak moment that's already something else a person makes a mistake person does a sin okay you come back she didn't do that she became pregnant from the person in other words she wants to build a new life for herself there's a situation where a person makes an [Music] error we say what does that mean so they used to say by you know but you make believe you don't know I once asked somebody she tells me how you doing what are you making I'm making myself I make believe I don't know people make mistakes willingly a weak moment well fine we all have it she betrays the relationship I'm not going to say we all have it but some people have it that's why this true is there's a relationship and there's a relationship there's insanity and then there is institutionalized Insanity that's already will you say goodbye to your wife your children your family because you decide you need a new life for yourself in 20 years 10 years probably 6 months you'll regret it but it happens to people it happens to people [Music] so the comes to the Yehuda and says it's not just left and forgot about you he's pregnant with others the Jew is completely enmeshed entangled entrenched in Alien realities alien to you [Music] if that's the case I don't need Tamar the whole purpose of Tamar is to live a life that's ethical that's moral that's holy that's beautiful that's sacred but if Tamar is betraying her whole soul or whole identity what's the purpose of her in this world [Music] the suan is excited he got a verdict T has to be burnt obliterated destroyed galic he's about to [Music] go is being taken out she sends a message to what does she [Music] say you know who I'm pregnant from the person who owns these three things recognize who owns the seal the the the wick and the M the it's the night of T is being taken out time of judgment so she sends a message wait a minute she sends her to and she [Music] says represents the oil says in that when the triumphed over the Syrian Greeks what [Music] happened the Greeks contaminated all the oil [Music] you remember they found a jug of oil sealed with the Seal of the high priest the seal look at the oil what are the what's ail in Hebrew a is a [Music] wick says says so you have the the oil the wick and the actual man I think we can add V is literally the wandering stick of Cl the wandering [Music] stick so the one who owns these items he is the one with whom I'm having a child what is the Jew telling hasem no look look at the oil look at the wick look at the flame look at the manura look at the stick look at what the Jewish people went through only because they were determined to remain Jews and you're saying that they're pregnant from somebody else look at the Blood The Sweat The Tears the sacrifice the hatred they endured and they endure why only because they're called Jews and even the most secular Jew in the world the greatest insult you could give him is tell him you're not really Jewish he's very what what's the big deal what do you care never I'm a Jew just like you what do you see in that you see that the the Holiness of the is as powerful by him as by anybody else the Hacker no look at this oil there were so many helist the Greeks were the most P powerful Army of the time and a group of Jews stood up and fought an impossible fight to preserve the oil to preserve the wick to preserve the Mana to preserve the light with our stick we went from City to City from country to country from continent to continent and you're listening to The saan Who Says that we are pregnant from somebody else yes we make mistakes of course yes we fool of course yes we're not perfect of course but who are we pregnant from who is our Allegiance connected to who are we bound up with who are we one with who are we really really connected to to the one who own these three [Music] items recognizes the he says T is right I'm wrong me many she was always connected to me I the sa is screaming she's a trouble makers she does this she does that you know who's guilty in that I am [Music] guilty who's sh says the ruler won't leave you the deceptor won't leave his Fe till shil comes says Rashi who's shil you remember the Rashi I am guilty because for 2,000 years I didn't bring the G I didn't bring mashiach what do you expect from a people that for 2,000 years their God has been concealed with a concealment Beyond concealment Beyond concealment a layer upon layer upon layer with Jews who have been through so much what do you expect what do you expect they don't see you what did the say he said I want to make a deal with you you made all the gluttonous Cravings of this world you put in front of our eyes you put into into a book I want to make a deal let's do the other way around all the in you want to read about learn you'll figure it out right in front of our eyes he says I promise you no Jew sin for th000 years m is it's in R it's it's in it's in it's in but the concealment is in front of everybody's eyes 24 hours a day and the questions and the confusions and the tragedies and the blood and the suffering and the pain of so many innocent people say I'm guilty I didn't give her to Shaya I don't let her have sh I don't let her have they are the verdict comes out there's nobody like my there's nobody as beautiful as my tar so when you look at a person when you look at yourself you could look at it with the or not you could look at it with the glasses so you could look at a person with the glasses with the lenses of the B of the with the glasses of and then you'll see a whole other picture [Music] my [Applause] [Music] my stand [Music] I give myw the end my [Music] my know [Music] I [Music] give my again again [Music] got find the key first [Music] I assume that we have to give a very big [Applause] uh shows this song because of the V of the [Music] to say to speak of your kindness in the morning and your trust at night so he said in life there's morning and there's night in the morning when it shines when the sun is shining you could talk about your your grace your kindness when it's night then you have to talk about you can't talk about talk about but by day and by night as the tradition by the of we sing a song that's usually not sung throughout the year that's the famous Nan of the do BB sung in by weddings by byis unique times of the year one of them is by the of as you know one of Al was very unique the word unique is probably inappropriate but he was a he wrote a but he was an equally he made a whole new in I shouldn't say made a new sh he was Malala he revealed a new in addition to that he was an exceptional writer leader and organizer but he was also a Mystic par excellance and he was a composer he was an extraordinarily extraordinary composer if you hear his songs his songs on one of his great n is the n it has four stanzas that he wrote paralleling the four worlds AAS Bria AIA the world of intim iny the world of creation the world of formation and the world of implementation it's a very very profound nigan beyond words and we sing it after another nigan which is called n a preparation nigan and then we'll sing the Dal B so please join us at this time hopefully the ice 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