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yeah okay so good morning everyone good
day valvo good to see you we're on page
your tests
of the mimer
uh yesterday uh i was a little rushed so
maybe i didn't adequately explain or
address some of the question that both
hillel and moshe had
so we'll try to
revisit and briefly address the
questions
we learned yesterday the altar
in the
previous chapter introduced to us
that trader cello's analogous
to a melech basoda
although he comes in his disguise he's
still a melech but he's a melee that
finds himself in a field
because the people from the city when
they hear that the king is coming out to
the field
and he's there to
accommodate everyone
they come they the only one thing they
need to do is get up
and go to green to greet him
and when he sees that they have a
they do this he's happy about it
and he says what what can i do for you
when i get back to the palace what can i
do for you everyone tells them their
requests
and he smiles at them and he becomes
friends with them
that's the month of elle and then the
the the symbolism in the muscle of when
he goes back to his palace and the doors
close behind him and only those that
have an appointment can get in and even
amongst those only the most privileged
individuals get to get an appointment
this is analogous to heidi's tissue
because history when we have hashem
reigning upon us the brothers of rosh
hashanah
etc
um to
to identify and feel the energy and and
benefit from it in in the best way
you need an appointment
you need to dress up and you need to do
this and you need to do that and you
need to bang and you need to hit the
schaefer all kinds of conditions in
other words it's hot it's holy days
holidays yum tavi it's no longer mundane
days like we have in their little
weekdays
and that's an answer by the way i didn't
say this yesterday but it's important
for you to know
one of the questions that the
alternate asked in the end of the first
chapter two questions
one question was if
if
it's true
that on enduring elo god shines upon us
the thirteen attributes of mercy
so that implies this delay an arousal
from above
that comes to awake us
so why do we say that
the the awakening from below
that was one question and the second and
the second question is if
indeed there are the 13 attributes of
mercy if so they should be young and
tight just like yom kippur when we have
you'd give them the seraphim and that's
a yum it's a it's a fast day it's a yum
and the answer to the
to both questions is one and the same
that the energy of the you give this
on during yellow is not the same as it
is on your kipper it's only
an assistant
it's only
preparing the playing field
the groundwork but the work itself we
have to do and that answers the first
question
that that ello is the avoidance
of man to work to hashem to make a hajj
that is the month of ello
in order to have
the ability to be do that
we need help
that's the you give me this
hashem says i'm planting in the world
during the month of elul
an energy of the course of godliness
that will make it possible for you
for us
that when we were are to work we're
going to succeed and
and do our work properly in other words
let's simple muscle simple muscle
is an artist hillel is a therapist
velveo's a doctor
if each of you are are
are experts in your field and you are
and you decide to take your expertise
and use it
velvet for law
hillel for sports
and and moisture for
commerce as far as selling
clothing
you'll fail
because the playing field of your
expertise
is not
those
businesses i thought you were going to
say we'd make more money
you might make
you might make more money but
you know
just parenthetically it's like the
soccer out here right they don't go they
don't go to high school
and they're the most successful business
people the most money
and that's their argument to to everyone
he says you know
you guys go to college you go to high
school you become educated and
everything and and yet you're struggling
to make a living and and we have all
this money anyway
the nakuda is
elo ello um ello
is
your field your expertise but you can
only succeed when you're in your field
if you're not doing it in your field
you're not the top surgeon in your field
velvet you're a top surgeon if you were
to
do a face heart surgery
and they'll say well you're a surgeon do
heart surgery thank you very much first
of all you wouldn't do it because you
feel you're not that's not your field
and then even if you were to do it you
wouldn't be the top
because that's not your expertise so
what the expertise is that hashem gives
the world an opening and he says this
month i
am making it possible
for chuva to be done and to be done
properly
a month before of
we didn't have that well you say well we
could do truth anytime of course you
could do truth anytime we're talking
about the chuva should make a dent we're
talking about that you should feel that
the truva you're doing is valuable
right
another example
we're taking stock this month
if a business person takes stocks top
stock every single month
he's in big trouble
that evan told
there's a story
and this this person already i think
passed on um
uh mints
david mintz of tofutti you've heard of
the in america maybe it came to a uh
tortoise roll tofutti david lived in um
in tenofly new jersey and he was a very
a a big supporter of chabad he's a tera
vadas boy by the way he grew up in
williamsburg
so he told me
that when he took his cup company public
he was you know
looking
ten times a day at the value of the
stock right
he had to hit us with the river
i think this is online so you can follow
up and see it they put david mintz on
the gem and you'll see the video in his
own words but he i interviewed if they
told me this
so the reperceptive stop looking at the
stock
you work and look at making your product
better put all your effort and resources
and energy into making a better product
you will do that your stock will go up
and he told me he listened to the river
and his stock indeed flew up and he made
tremendous amount of money because he's
changed his mindset for you know from
the investment from the investment value
every day and all that
to
not looking at it not being concerned
about it and just making a better
product
the same is true
with heidel shallow and uh and the musa
if
we do a truva
and we need to do true for every month
of the year and every day of our life
but
the playing field that was an expression
in english the playing field the arena
the atmosphere is not conducive
for the special truther of the show
and i think you you you prob i i assume
you'll agree
that you know this month when we do
children when we take stock and we make
a henchman it it just resonates more i i
know that's the way it's by me it
resonates more like i wake up thinking
i should be learning this in the safer
it talks about you know
two of the issues and i haven't gotten
to it
that mindset
is during hey the shell i don't think
that way in of
and in
any kiss slave
in kislyak i'm thinking about hank
kislev
in this i'm thinking about pesach
and leaving boundaries
this month i'm thinking about hey i have
to look at myself and look at those
things that were not so nice and how i'm
going to correct them so the the the the
truth is very conducive this month and
why is that because hashem
planted the you gimmel midas haraham
as an aid
to our avoider and and and the express
so therefore
the consciousness of man of the jew
during this month
is more
uh in touch with that reality
i want to make sure what i said now is
clear
uh and if not ask me because it's very
very important very important otherwise
you don't you're not following what it
says in the mimer
you know it's not just more verbiage the
alternate had nothing to do say painted
a little bit on a page
this is there's a specific
system that he's that he's sharing with
us over here and if you follow the
system
you're going to benefit yes motion
you've
specifically this one
yeah and and
just
when when you say when you think about
those things try to bring a muscle to
your mind that you could relate to a
muscle if you wouldn't have your office
with the quiet and and the particular
brushes and everything
your art wouldn't be as good i'm sorry
because
right working at a home with kids and
noise and this and the wife and this and
that it's a
disturbance
but mostly you're the same moshe
you're the same beautiful art yes thank
you very much but the outside
interference
gets to you
the outsole
in the nimsho in the moral
heidi hashem says i'm going to take away
the outside interference so it's similar
to you working quietly in your office
without distractions
is the muscle a good muscle do you do
you think a muscle will you relate to
the muscle
sure
i can definitely relate to the emotion
i'm trying to
in other words we need to have the be
able to focus
and have the place to be able to focus
and and and so call that focus you'd
give me the sarah man
you see i i i think i know what's what's
what what's
bothering you or what's what's
what's still uh not 100 clear and you
should know it's by by me this way too
by all of us
because we don't
feel luckness
we don't feel spirituality we don't we
like what are we talking about over here
what is this
so so moshe you understand but when you
learn
any field of jewish study that's
outside of i can touch it
i can smell it i can see it
you have to put yourself in a different
frame of mind
and that frame of mind is not a fantasy
see some people think oh it's a fantasy
it's above a mice it's wishful thinking
no it's not
because
there are times
that we do feel more spiritual and more
uplifted and more holy even though we
don't see it we don't we don't right
you put two of them on this morning you
answered them yahish
no you don't you believe what it says in
the gemara and it says
thank you very much prove it to me show
it to me in the bank you can't
you can't
you know why because it doesn't lend
itself to that type of
appearance
is not gusmius
so we have to train ourselves
to identify
to not to to relate to
us and how is that
the more adele the more refined we
become
the more these things become
our natural
habitat the more coarse we are
the
it's more
it's less meaningful
so so so
you know to bring the muscle to a
nimbushu
we understand that the nimsho is always
in the rookhnistika sense compared to
the muscle
but if we understand well the muscle we
can think with our mind what this would
be in the nimsho so for example
we've now discussed the last five ten
minutes about this idea what do we walk
away with what do i walk away with what
i walk away who's saying is that this i
i have today is the tenth available 20
more days i got 20 days almost three
weeks
left
to make stock taking to really look
inside myself
and and and face the issues that
that aren't so nice and and to do trufa
and
and to allow myself into this mode of
thinking
and i know that hashem who loves me and
loves us
and he gives mercy to the world through
the 13 attributes of mercy
is going to be merciful
as if i will invest in time and doing
this hashem is going to receive the
prayers and and the requests
and the truva and he's going to forgive
me and he's going to he's going to say
i'm giving you another chance for
another year
now if someone says well i need a sign
from heaven well first of all
wake up and smoke smell the coffee if
you if you really need a sign and you
want a sign and you're and you're a
vessel for a sign
because you become more luchnius you'll
get a sign
you will get a sign
but then don't play around with the
signs some people they get a sign and
they start analyzing
right
i i go back to some of my stories but
one you know when there ever comes to me
in a dream
friday night in sleeping in richard and
he says you are to make the you are
to make the sugar for your son although
the week before i was ambivalent and it
wakes me up
i that's it i said i got a message from
heaven
now another person can take that and say
well i didn't have a dream three nights
in a row
and then there'll be a person who'll say
he didn't have three nights in a row i
cannot do it it makes no sense
so you see
that you can always
if you're more and more gosh meaning
more and more rational
and and that type of individual that and
you can't let go
dreams
and dreams and dreams mean nothing
but if you allow yourself into a
different world and you and you get a
message
and you and you and you believe in the
message you go with it and then
it's a whole different experience
and the result is he married that girl
there are five children can they know
her and it's a wonderful bleh and her
family
so
the the results
are from
the dream
okay so this is now 10 15 years later 10
years i love
my my oldest grandson's getting bar
mitzvah this year so 13 14 years later
14 or so years later and you have the
result of a dream friday night 15 14
fifteen years ago in rehabilitation
could i have said well say the next day
it's nars guy nan's a dream it's only a
dream
and and and this is this is my personal
experience you have your experiences a
person goes to to a sadik
the the the hill goes to the toner but
different right and if and he feels very
inspired and and he may
makes a move based on that whatever that
move is even though maybe rationally you
can't
explain it or justify it that's a that's
a holy act
and and someone who comes along and
argues and disagrees
that's coming from here
and frankly you say thank you and have a
nice day and you do what you need to do
if you're more of a rookies like a
person you want to be more of this so
the same is true with heidi shallow
if hazal tell us that this is the month
level of doing truva
and and we doubt that ebba shares we
thought that there's a there's a aid
there's assistance for our trooper
vis-a-vis
for me
that's that's all i need to hear
that's all i need to hear that means i i
have an opportunity this month and i'm
not going to have it next month this
idea of truva and i didn't have it the
last month
and the same as every single month and
the same as every single mitzvah
okay everything is an opportunity but
the key to everything is like i've told
you over and over and over is being more
luckiest being more able that that's it
there's no there's no quick fix to that
there's no quick fix to that
it's work
you know
it's like
dieting
i'm dieting now the doctor scared me out
of my wits
talking to another doctor right he said
if you don't lose weight that you don't
take care of your health you're not
going to be around for many more years
right
so you take it seriously and you start
right is it hard oh is it hard
it is hard
but like that's why hashem put us here
to work
to work and and and so the doctor in
this case was the guinomin
who has to do the work i do
he can't do it for me he can just
explain
and show based on the blood test and
everything else that i'm that i'm in a
very very precarious dangerous situation
if i don't change my diet and everything
else
so he's like you've given me this
harassment he opened up for me
you know the picture
now
go do it
yeah he wants to give me pills and
smiles and hills and you know if you can
do it without the pills great if you
can't you got to take the pills
you got to do this if you walk the hills
you won't need the bill if you walk
if you walk the hill very good
but you understand
velvet this is a good muscle another
good muscle
the doctor can only give you asa the
doctor can't do it for you
right
we think that the doctor is the panacea
the rappe
hashem gives a doctor the kayak to heal
if hashem wouldn't give
that choice to a doctor he can learn at
harvard and at the oxford
and whatever medical center john hopkins
nada his he he won't accomplish anything
only the abrasive gives and therefore
you can have sometimes
someone who didn't learn in the class a
university and he's a world surgeon
i know someone he's in cherry hill new
jersey
and he has a pair of golden hands he's
definitely one here
and yet he's a he was a star
top rate surgeon who 20 hospitals used
him
why because god blessed them with
certain hands for surgery that was
tremendous so
a big big brother
right
so
the the nakuda is the pl that the you
give me those do you give me the sarah
that we have during yellow
opens up for us the opportunity and
that's why going back to the question
that's why
it came with me that's why we want them
hashem wanted them specifically to be
weak days if they would be on them
that's analogous to being conditional
my chef achiever we need no conditions
everyone can come in
the way you are
don't give me conditions tishra you'll
begin with conditions how large is the
show for us moles of schreifer the right
side the left side you'll keep her
fasting in this and can you encount you
and with the lulu of a nest rig is it
kosher not is the silk of the right the
dimensions and on and on
hello no conditions
just work and make a decision you want
to change
so that's why they're not holidays
and this also explains why the malachi's
if the king were to be in his palace
during evil it would be analogous to the
king not being in the field the king
would
in other words the king is not one of us
he's not showing himself as one of us so
how could we do chuva he's too
too
too awesome
and we know he's awesome
but we want to we want to be in the
arena where we can approach him that's
craig
and that's why it's madoff
comes the alternate but now i'm paying
you guys in the third chapter
and the outfit ever says but what if i
eat is not a fields person but he's
actually a desert person he's a meat bar
oivey what's a midbar
eretz lozarua a quote
from aposic
on an uninhabited
land that does not tolerate
plantation vegetation and growth
the spiritual idea means
that the person
has done things against god
that makes it antithetical
to growth to spiritual growth
which means a various
the transgressions and thought speech in
action
says the out there ever but it's not
only that
a midbar is also
a place where the yoshi of audem
knows we have two at two details to our
desert one is there's no growth there's
no vegetation
another detail is
man doesn't inhabit a desert a nomad
lives in a desert a normal person
doesn't
what's the symbolism and idea there says
you're even if you're involved in idol
chatter
and conversation action and thoughts
that are not forbidden but are not only
neutral and not
godly
it's analogous to living in a desert
what's the point
what is the point
so if you're going to a desert to
explore the earth for scientific reasons
then you have a purpose in being there
but a person
who whose functions
with family friends community and
and paranosa
in in a in a city
that's where they belong you want a
small city to a small city not a large
city but in the desert
you're wasting your time so you're right
what am i doing wrong in the desert
you're not doing anything against god
but the fact that you're not producing
is also against god
why because hashem says i want of man to
produce
so when we find ourselves in a place
which is loyal
no hap no habits no habit
habitat it's not a habitat for man
says the alternate but that's also
included in a mid bar
and as he ends the last paragraph
so you'll say can't i make a temple
a sanctuary
in
in a desert
well the jews did but it was only a
mishkan it was only temporarily yes it
lasted 369 years i believe in chile
right and we went there with small with
uh with uh with avi once was so
wonderful but that's all temporary
with us
make me a permanent home a permanent
home you don't make in the desert you're
making your lion
yes
so so that may have helped me to
understand it because i was a little
perplexed by sort of the flow
of the ideas in the first sentence
because you know he's been talking about
the son and then he says
which seems like it's introducing a new
topic
you know a person could be a field guy
or they could be a
town guy
and then it says
going back to the uh umidbar
going back to the to the idea that he
was just talking about and then he
starts
said midbarren starts talking about the
midbar so you're suggesting here
that
it's the
uh
that uh
because a person because when per when a
person
has the bikinis as an ear moshav
then they are
that
would be a
adam sham he dwells there that uh
no
lo yoshof adam shum is a reference to
midbar
man does not well man does not sit there
well i i then i understand but i thought
but but
but in the last sentence and when he
when he says uh
uh
uh he
was so weird and so
so where uh does that is he addressing
at all the idea of ear moshav and
connecting it with the
silly mythos for shakanti so those two
separate ideas he is but without saying
it directly correct
he's saying that a mid bar is
antithetical to the ear
uh-huh but what i want you to do you
what i want to do now yeah think that's
what i was asking that's what i was
asking that
that um
hello let's let's let's look let's learn
you have the cedars-muveres let's read
together the first column it's not so
difficult i hope it will clarify for you
you have it or not
here and then yeah
see this move
yeah
yeah after talking to parrot the next
paragraph
okay
yes it should be here yes yes i'm going
to read
your token indian
the general idea of the thirteen
attributes of mercy
what this means in service in man's
service to god this is what he explained
earlier
he now continues to explain the paired
zen this
chapter
these this this special
novelty
music
receiving the king of the field
now let's go further yes
i'm going to go into the commentary now
look at the commentary
indiana marshall the melody or melody
the parable of a king being in a city or
a king being and assad in a field
denotes two different circumstances of
man's service to god
this refers to a person who is in regard
to the godly light skip the parenthesis
the godly light dwells upon the person
in a revealed way and in a settled way
yeah yeah but but again it's a sudden
we're not talking about a desert talking
about a field oh okay uh-huh okay okay
yeah you want to talk about a field
godliness in a field is not re i'm sorry
during the week godliness is not
revealed or this yahshua and godliness
is not settled there um
more specifically if man
who finds himself in the field is is
worse than a fields person he's a desert
person now let me say here's i didn't
say this earlier we're talking about a
person velvet who's in the field the
question is
is he is he a field
is his mind's eye field or his mind's
eye desert
he's in the field
the field represents
you know that he wants to do truva but
he hasn't yet made that
made the effort right
he's open to change
a desert the mindset of desert is either
i'm against you god or i'm not
interested in you god
in other words it's not inhabited
there's no growth people don't live
there let's look back now in the text
specifically if man is at the level of
midbar
at its low zarua
meaning a place where growth does not
take place
which denotes actions speech the
mashables
[Music]
light so so
so maybe this clarifies it for you
hello yeah i think so okay it helps me
understand the flow
we're talking about the mindset of
midbarr
as the jew finds himself in the saga
in other words
remember a yid is a city person has an
ashama right that's
so in truth every jew is ear
the question now is when you don't live
out that reality
so what's your mindset so dalton is
saying there's two mindsets one is
called field and one's called desert
so
so when you go into the field you can
have a fields attitude or you can have
even worse a desert attitude that's what
he's saying
nice okay
okay kevin i we didn't learn anything
new in the text but we did go over this
and we learned this i think it was
important to to
review i i hope i hope it's clear
i hope um you know and if you want to
ask me send me you know a voice yes my
shirt
i'm sorry just real quick
uh who's the name of the person
the the fruity
david mintz david mintz
m-i-n-t-z
ceo of of of um of tofuria he passed
away either this year last year
saigon to everyone have a great day with
everyone tomorrow take care bye bye bye