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