#8 - How to Daven - I am a Davener explanation clip 8 z schechter 2010 Interview

so now we'll discuss uh clip number eight of the interview i did with uh zalman schechter in 2010 when he was 85 years old this is a phenomenal clip because he tells you what he thinks about when he dives and um whether he's right or wrong is not the point it happens to be that he he identifies uh very accurate information that's that's discussed in chabad hasidis things that over the years in yeshiva we hear from our mashpm in a general way but zalman goes into details somewhat and from those details that he does share you see that it wasn't just an intellectual exercise by him but it was actually an experiment mental type of experience i asked him was your his abundance your meditation in davenink avoid this hamilton avoid this means the activity of the mind mind work in other words in his abundance in a meditation there are various forms of meditation there is breast lift meditation there is arya captains jewish meditation and today we have many meditations most of which are nonsense nonsense as far as a base in judaism with sources in ghazal in our holy writings the overall meditation in most hasidic dynasties if they have that is emotional the abstract thinking of unity of god how hashem is united with everything both from das el yon and dastak from the higher perspective the lower perspective i'm not i can't go into now all the details what these things mean but those that are watching this i think have familiarity with these concepts and if not you will become familiar because you're interested in the topic right yeshmiah creationx nilo something from nothing ilava olu cause and effect the difference the tenth sphere of the emanations of god do they exist only for matsilas and below do they exist higher if they exist higher before the tsim zone before the contraction what is the content of their existence and all these issues are part of what you're supposed to think about and meditate on when you govern when you pray and when before your prayer and as you want to evoke feelings of connectedness to god almighty and this is a very very detailed system in philosophy in khabad ethos and salmon articulates it very well in english if you pay attention to his few his words short as they are but he's like touching upon pages you know with samavov and the ranath and i am based in there with the second terror you know the khasidim of old many of them they didn't they they they look what the terror was holy it was hayley just to sit and say the words were sweet they did understand they didn't understand that introduced the importance in a way of understanding this for every single student not just for the great mosquito and the great intellectuals and the great to see them with great bad lineage but every single person who joins should be able and should endeavor to understand hasidis and that's what i meant when i asked him salman is your meditation avoid this or is it avoid this is it you know the the guitar is it the feeling and and it's important because at the end of the day the average american has to infiltrate the heart and the heart has to express that ava that love or that offer for god almighty and that's where he went off to talk about the the the the the fact that he adopted her he said if you want to be a governor you don't learn from the books you learn from another governor for someone who already is immersed in this chabad meditation and davenink he tells the story that uh the frida krabs daughter hannah helped the fruit grabber fix his trillion shall roche has to be on the head between your eyes not too far down the cashier the not in the back should be in the right place so she helped her father because he wasn't well and i guess she showed him in a little mirror or maybe he was he was bad at mirror i'm not sure how but to see how the children are on him after she helped him she asked him father are you is it all right so he said dustbin he looked and he looked and he saw himself with the film and he saw himself and he said does bin i never heard that this was a very beautiful and important insightful meaningful story that salma shared i don't know where he heard it from but it's a tremendous story this is who i am who really who am i really not a businessman not a rabbi not a scholar a governor what's a governor there's davening to pray prayer is who you are that's what identifies you as a jew someone who is constantly dabbing even when he's not happening the clip continues talking about such issues and again i must say that i walk away feeling on one hand elated the way zalman expresses davening and the issues that we've discussed that he discusses that i'm elaborating on are phenomenal phenomenal it's one of a kind but at the same time i'm very sad i'm very sad sadly you could be such a governor and convince yourself convince yourself that you are such a governor that you can decide what to do with your davening and how to do things with your dabbing that's where the buck stops here because more than a governor is kabbalah soil acceptance who establishes what is and what isn't a rebel now if the zalman is thinking that he's a rebel at sadiq again i'll let you decide but i believe that most of us know that we aren't sadie kim and he wasn't exotic he had his flaws we have arrow floors and as as intelligent as we are and he as he is it was and to appreciate davening you need a sensitivity which he had and which we can learn from at the same time it's not up to him or not up to us to decide how did darwin went to dharma so for example let's say with the river our rebel you see the picture in the background the rebels have brainstormed with the start 1 30 in the afternoon there are people who are used to dominating for two three hours after chakras and they can dive at the two three o'clock in the afternoon and 7 70. but the rep is faster for bringing their 130s they were comfortable bringing in their towers and either they finished later or they finished before and they were sitting in their tallis and guess what that shoppers they didn't dive in the way they dive and every shop is why because the rapper decides whether you need to dive in the sharpest of three or the two or to 130 because this is what's important for the world and and you as well so this clip is important to listen to but put it in perspective and the right perspective yes find yourself someone who thousands and and and learn from that person but at the same time make sure that the person is connected and doing his title mitchell's the way god decides not the way man and even the governor decides