Arizal: Sensitivity to Reincarnation

age uh page 403 in the mimer but before that let me just say a word or two about the aries the holy today's is your site hey menachem is the york site of the arizona he passed away a young man and he taught and left teachings about his student vital he was his pro prodigy student talmud muvak as we called it in hebrew he documented many of his teachings in the what's called the kiss for harizal the shemena the eight gates in various forms the question is for hasidim how do we relate to ariza because technically the arizal and his teachings are kabbalah and hasidim generally did not learn seriously kabbalah rather through their through the writings and teachings of their rabbis right students of the present of in the market and then the generations that followed taught ideas from the ariza through hasidis through their hasidis their qasidic teachings so this is a question that's been looked at and thought about and there ever i'll just share with you the rebbe however ever response to it really and the rebel response to that the alta river who his predecessor and the founder of the chabad hasidic movement altered says that he bring he quotes a zoya it's a nigerian but the zoya says that through this safer baha'is this safer which refer refers to safer if yidden will be released they'll leave gullahs with the safer so technically it's the book of the zoya not the tanya and not near meli melech right the other statement that quotes very often is your future through the through the dissemination of your teachings will be the the exit to mashiach who come and we'll leave ghosts which mayanos which wellsprings are we talking about so you need you need to know the historical context of that letter the letter was written from uh the the letter was written there was a letter written by the brother-in-law of the balshampta of rage when will well when will your master come while the master come for into mashiach if you look earlier in that letter there's there's a discussion about the topic that's being discussed is kabbalah or what they call specifically the dim the unification of hashem's names you know each time you pronounce barakat hashem yudkevke is a unification with the with what the block has been made on at that time and each time there's a different covenant so you're supposed to have a different intent in mind of the particular details of the name of hashem and this is called yehudim be that as it may if that's the context of the letter from in the letter that i'm referring to so what would be the mayan mino the the wellsprings not khasi this would be kabbalah yehudim so how do we say how do we say that your futsum is a reference to the teachings of the baal shem tov the basham dev wasn't teaching kabbalah he was teaching hasidis i mean i i don't should i elaborate on this or is this clear to you you know if this is a fundamental the idea in in our learning yes motion i have a question regarding um the the alta rebbe and the tanya when he was writing and developing obviously did he not refer was he was one of his sources aries the arizona writings and uh she won verified absolutely absolutely yeah so we're getting to you right we're going to get to that in a moment but i'm saying if you want to be technical a question was asked in the letter how do we bring mashiach he says when you disseminate the teachings that i've been we've been speaking about what were the teachings kabbalah not say this so we should be learning kabbalah and i see them generally don't learn kabbalah you know you you might say kabbalah you might say so or you do say it at different times throughout the year a little zoho i hear little zohar there at the oil you say zoya and the tikka knight you say some zohar but mukubo and kabbalist learn learn zohar and see them over generally speaking don't learn zohar i mean you know i didn't say you're not allowed to learn zohar that i didn't say there aren't individuals who learned so i didn't say maybe a certain time in your life you learn some zohar but anyway so the rep so the altar answers this question the altered says that when when when the zora itself says with this safer we will go out of golos it means with the understanding of the safer it's not just the reading of the safer what are we reading and understanding is um is not learning so what when when when when when in tata it says this safer this approach this teaching will help you leave ghosts you have to learn it not just say it you know it's not like saying to hillary you know when you have an issue you'll need when there's a problem but there's a torah someone's not feeling well when there's there's the covet you grab it telling me you say tell him you understand you don't understand the saying of dylan is important why is that but you don't understand because the gemara says it's a gomorrah the gemara says that that requested by hashem and his request was granted that being that the reciting the saying of tillam should be tantamount to the learning of the most difficult laws of the torah to mantara and hashem said yes david you're my servant i'm going to grant you that request so that's kind of an exception that hashem made for david and lucky are we that he made that exception because we keep on saying and reading tell him and many times we don't understand what we're saying we don't stand as much makes no difference so is that the same approach for for for for zaya the same approach for learning no you have to understand someone so when desire says that with this safer with this book of desire you will be redeemed from ghosts what is it just by holding the safer and you know people from various groups you must have had this experience they tell you just buy the safer you know they buy the whole set of the zoyar some say scan the safer you know they they come up with all kinds of concoctions and it's not that's not that's not what it that's not you're supposed to do if you're smarting you have a tradition of reading zoar like ashkenazim like we read to heal him i'm not talking about that that's if they have that messiah that's their messiah but for us ashkenazim that's it's not so therefore the al-qaeda's explanation in the gary sakuras is that if you want the zoya to be impactful to lead to the exiting of ghosts you need to understand it how do you understand it it's kabbalah the answer is through hasidis and this ties into what you were saying moshe that when you learn hasidis all any any and all of hasidis not just but any oth and you understand the hasidis then the zayar flows through this hasidis and then there is the gift of going out of golos with the safer what does khasidas do hasidis opens your mind to understand the unity of hashem with everything in the universe and this is a fundamental teaching ah there is a breakdown in in in finding god in every aspect of one's life maybe you'll find hashem here but not there well if you find them here and you don't find them there then in that area we don't find them we have a problem is it a godly experience or is that a godly experience is god there or not so this teaches us to analyze this to focus on it and gives us ideas and meditations to think about to help us understand how hashem is here hashem is everywhere and this dial that ever says in the gerash this is the deep the real meaning with this safer you will go out of golis and this is why the bashamth told his brother-in-law rabd that in order to appreciate the yehudim you need to have the understanding of the teachings of the of the hasidis because the teachings of hasidis break down and make understood the ideas in zaya so so so so is hasidis kabbalah no it's kabbalah is becomes what i call applied kabbalah practical of a kabbalah understandable kabbalah through the teachings of hasidis so the holy ariza whose yard side is the day and we call the aries the living arizo why is he considered a living of israel because his teachings are are a living fluid in today's reality if you just learn them through the teachings of hasidis yes my shirt i don't want to take this off the top it connected to what you're saying you mentioned the word practical kabbalah now canadian question the the ashlag family right and they brought right and then and i know that one of the ashlags there's a video of him one of them by the rabbit but the question is my understanding is that kabbalah is practical cabela quote unquote exactly i'm not even really sure how to even define that but is also different or some sort of uh um derivation maybe of the result i'm just curious if i'm only mentioning this i'm bringing it up just because you mentioned practical in other words i guess my question is is there if maybe is there anything that you can share with us about that that offshoot is that uh is it is it is it i don't know i guess i'm just bringing up because the practical element the the the practical element in the in the tradition of the ashlag and those that follow that type of kabbalah learning is to is to use kabbalah let's say in your davening what does that mean or when you make a bracha it's to to to to evoke hashem's names during an experience and uh that wasn't a tradition by hasidim except the kamara maybe you know the commanders of the sheikh dynasty that hillel talks about sometimes he was a very big makuba and it could be he was of the opinion to utilize the in one's daily activity but most hasidic movements did not and the al qaeda surely didn't and i'll give you an example this is relevant to everyone to anyone that dives from ahabad siddhar if you haven't read the introduction to the chabad siddhar please make it your business to read it at some point because you'll find it fascinating but the kid said what does it say there one of the things it says there is that the altered collected information from 60 different siddhurim and with that he made his noosa so it's siddharth look at the cover page is the sitter of the praises for hashem based on now this is very important in other words the outer episode is not the only siddharth that's alpia rizal it's one particular one that the alta rabbit shows let's say uh let's say the scoliosis with them and other hasidim they also have what they believe to be our pr these alberta different in a different emphasis and some of them have tag him they write the letters in the city like you're right now say for today so they're variations of this but the altar ebba chose to include the arizon's and ideas in a sublime way in in in a hidden way so you get the text as any other sinner have you seen the sudurum of of mukubalim where when it says hashem's name they leave a space in the hay of the of the and there's letters right that's that's what we call maisha more practical they're they're they're they're saying and each one has a combination of hashem's letters and they're thinking about it and using it so that's more that's what i mean practical and i'm sorry that's that's the way they do it what i meant practical meaning means what i meant before is that through the simple text of the cedar for example the altered inserted automatically kind of without you knowing that it's you said on the arizona and so so in a way in a way you get the benefit of both experiences on one hand you get the benefit of the kabbalah and on the other hand you get the benefit of being practical i.e yes so just so just a question of what you're saying just makes me wonder what's the difference between the city we have today the the regulation and the city it's called um you know the sitter that the red be used what's it called then this is it's called iron yes yes yes is that connected to anything that we're talking about right now yeah the siddha tyra is the city i believe that used and it it's it's it's the alternative sydney it all begins with the same it's all the same whether it's the outer river city the big you know volume have you seen it which has the middle rebels hasidis all around it or the citadel that the rebel asham used or the sydney tell us hashem that the rabbi believed in 1947 they simply we didn't have we didn't have a a siddhari labage it wasn't it was you know it wasn't that see the torah wasn't accessible and the outdoor episode because there was no there didn't reprint it and he needed to sit there so the rabbit took and put together a siddhari and and i guess the i don't know who called it hashem either the frida kepler was called tillers hashem before i'm not sure and um that became kind of the household sitter for the lubavitcher classic but they're all based on the altered you understand they're all based on the alta rep as a regional city there's no difference between the three the difference is that in the outer episode the original one you have cassidus all around so they that's that's that's if you want to learn how citiz so you know you can learn casinos from say from my marion or have it are surrounding the text of a city that's just a a practical thing you know that has nothing to do that it doesn't change in iota the nusselt and what the tree is based on okay so anyway that's one thing i wanted to share with you about the uh the arizona so hasidim have a a great childhood to the arizona but not just hasidim because as you know there's a it's fast today there are two shows one is the aries [Music] is you know and one is ashkenaz so there's a disagreement was the arizona ashkenazi or svardi you know about that right so the point being that the ariza was someone that was shy of the claudius wrote what was what was one of the basic teachings of the ardizal we actually say like and again here you see how the outer ebba slipped in he put in he inserted a teaching of the ariza without making a big fanfare and to do and and writing it in big words i and that is before you start matuevo it says that is from the arizona and the altar ever put it in before we begin [Music] so here is a very practical example of how the altered in his nose chose a concept from the arizona and he put it into the to the nusa of his sitter you all know that there ever years later i think it was in the 80s i don't forget exactly when but there have been years later he had a campaign that we should say this before davening we should we should make a a an emphasis of this so from then on people who i don't know house today i assume the same used to put film on with people they would they would say harinama table in hebrew english or whatever language before once they put on the film they would have and before they said shma they would say hari lima kabul i mean and this isn't just something that's you know semantics you know and uh you know all the babies came up with this idea you know and the this is arizona so you have a striker to the arizona if you consider the arizona hey league holy you have a cyclist to him you have a relationship with him by by by saying this before twilight so whether you're a laboratory or not makes no difference you have an opportunity to say something from the nusa of the arizo so i point that out to you that this is not the theoretical but rather practical and finally and finally when you learn and you taste some of the teachings of the arizona it really it really opens your heart and your mind to to another reality the rebbe writes i believe in igris kurdish volume 5 he writes a letter to someone who questions him about why do supposedly bad things happen to good people the famous old question and the rebbe says to the person that if he were to study the teachings of reincarnation gilgal based on the teaching of the arizona it will help him deal with this question and i remember when i was researching uh this topic for a book i was writing on its reincarnation experiences years ago it fascinated me this answer of the rather because what he was saying is that there is the the average a normal approach of of a bent of a person who's learning and dabbing whether it be a a hasset or a lit makes no difference right the average individual is um is not delving into reincarnation far and few know this topic and rightfully so like you know it's not something that uh we study seriously at least until this letter that i saw from the rebel but then the rabbit says to this person you're asking good questions if you really want to understand it better take the time to to study this topic and understand it and that's what i did i i was doing it because i was writing about it not that i had that that you know anything but anything you know that i experienced that made me study that just i was writing about it because i saw many people are struggling with such issues so when you when you start learning the writings of the ideas on this topic in in the shower gil gulen and i think hillel had a seder fierce with uh with boro gordon or someone else on this topic i believe a few years ago or whatever anyway it it it it talks about for example sibling rival rivalry why is that why are two children two of your children why they're fighting with each other and later in life sometimes they hate each other they come from the same mother and father the mother and father care for each other so how is it that two children from the same mother and father will come out and develop to be at enemies of each other and if not enemies they don't have a relationship etc etc and the arizona talks about this and he says that they both come from the same sacha the tree of life the the their branches on the same tree of these two nashamas of the parents and each one nourishes sucks nourishment nurtures from the life force in the tree and each one wants more life force hence they have a rivalry between each other now you know if if if you don't if you don't have a belief in in the spirit and spirituality then this means nothing to you but if you have a sensitivity to ruchnes and you and and you're open to understanding that there is an it's a there's a tree of life and and when we learn and beratious about the aids of das and all that i mean this isn't these aren't just words a garden of eden he was in the garden he ate from the garden he kicked out of the garden like you got to be kidding you know right the bible critics will say you got to be kidding but we as tata from eden we know this is exactly what happened but nevertheless what really happened what's really going on what does it mean a garden what does it mean on aids hadas what does it mean it's achaya when you learn together these questions are presented and you have food for thought and when you learn kabbalah you don't see this you get more information so then when you hear that it could be the sibling rivalries because they're both on the same route and they're both struggling for the same for the amount of nourishment highest and therefore it results in a jealousy that's one example another example and when i share these examples it's very important to to have a a context because otherwise i think i told you once i'll repeat it again briefly i was giving a lecture at this underst at the shul in belle harbor florida rabbit lipstick schultz called the shul and i was speaking about uh reincarnation in gilgal this was around the time when i wrote my book and another issue that the arizona talks about are first and second marriages and it's a very sensitive issue and i presented what the arizona said and then there's the uh there's a letter of the rebel on it i gave a whole lecture on it in the middle lecture i saw a young man young nice well dressed like pick himself up kind of abruptly in the middle of the lecture you know everyone's quiet everyone's listening and walk out and i i sense there's some something i said that he didn't like after mindfulness i saw him a shoe i went over to me after a minute and i said excuse me uh may i ask you something he said sure i said you know um i saw you were at the sheer and um how'd you like how'd you like to share so he says i really liked it except i have one problem i just got married last week and we talked about second marriages versus first marriages i don't want to hear that and the alizar writes there sometimes your second marriage if someone ends up in a second marriage is better than their first marriage why because they're real bashar on in the uh on the eighth sachayam where two people come from the same route could be in the second marriage versus the first marriage in other words coming from the same root is not a prerequisite for marriage i mean when i learned this like wow because what if we walk around here especially when we're young and we're looking to get married my soul mate my bachelor you know right that's that's the that's the conversation where do i find my soul mate where do i find my bachelorette and there are rights you might not have found it is that a reason for divorce no is that a reason not to have a good loving marriage absolutely not but the idea of a sheriff and a soul mate is a whole different idea according to their result it's a and um it's a long discussion and we would have to learn it together to kind of dissect it and and that reason is not proposing get divorced once twice three times till you find your soulmate hustler that's stupidity you know how to do that you shouldn't do that he says if you end up for whatever reason whether you lost your first wife or or you you divorced and you have a new wife she he makes that statement and explains that this person who this newly married it just it blew his blues antenna you know i just got married last week i don't want to think about it and i said i'm sorry i didn't that's how careful you have to be you know when you speak and you don't know who's in the crowd you know but what why am i saying all this why am i saying all this because so imagine someone who went through a divorce or someone who lost a spouse or someone who's not married you know another point if you read what that reason writes about not being married it's very scary it's very scary i'm not even going to repeat what he says but it's not great okay so how do you reconcile the fact that some people want to marry but they don't end up marrying so you know you could literally look at that and say well according to the arizona you're kind of a sinner and you know you're in deep trouble or or and if you exert and you try and you really put it to establish and you end up not marrying which happens to some people then it doesn't apply i'll go upon him that's what i think that's what others think as well but if you want to learn straight arizona on this topic it's a very very uh serious matter a fourth example i'm giving you examples after examples to show the expansiveness of how the arizona's teachings are relevant to our life and this you've heard from me but i think maybe not everyone searched i'll repeat it again now these are rights that if you're not careful with making the right bracha for the food item or the the liquid item you'll be in this gauguin you'll be reincarnated in water because then when it because you took the leniency of making a shahakal nearby everything is with hashem is created with hashem's word because you don't know the broker so when in doubt make a shahakal i mean that's the way we were taught in yeshiva yoni remember as young boys that's the way we were taught if you don't know the brotherhood make a shackle nearby what does it mean you don't know the broker you're no longer 13 14 15 you're not you're now 40 years old or whatever learn take out the sugar ask explore you're lazy you're not interested says theresa my friend you need a ticket for that you need suva and your truth is you're going to be reincarnated in water so when someone else makes a bracha on water or on items that are shahako that shahako rectifies your your leniency with shahakal you were lenient in chicago so when someone else will make an appropriate shahako he'll elevate your nashoma and that's the gilgal that you go into water so hopefully someone will will drink the the water and the chihuahua that your musham is in i mean but i learned this the first time in the result i took it very seriously and excuse me and for example rice according to the alta rebbe is a big sheila what bracha to make on rice and actually it remains a question according to the alternate but not according to the mishna but if you follow the alta rebbe and that's why i was saying to you avi the other day if you if you know it's important to you know to learn the altera if you're following his his his his instructions so the outer rabbit says it's a shiloh and it's a shield of three prophets messianis and shahaku so what are you supposed to do with rice so the answer is either you washed before and all brothers are included in shah in in in the washing and then you can eat rice or you have to make three broccolis before you eat the rice shahaku mazayna's and adama and then you eat the rice now you sit down for dinner you're so tired yo you come home your wife serves you some dinner you take some dinner and you have rice you want to eat the rice and you can't eat it you need a pretzel you need a mezzanus before oh yeah i got to get up and find the misogynist where do i don't want to i don't eat cake now i'm eating supper you know it comes about a gun too bad so wash i don't want to wash i'm too heavy i don't want to eat scarves the middle of the week so you know that a soup nut an awesome little yellow soup cut that's a mercedes but my point is in all serious my point is that the arizona's teachings are real they're real now should a yiddish mayan do that make you know make the three brokers because is a lot because he got because he's a froome jew the answer is because you're from june you have to give us your mind but let's let's call a spade a spade sometimes you know we just we just slack off when you remind yourself of the i was teaching you say hey i don't want to be reincarnated in water so it's a special day to understand that the arizona's teachings are very much alive and well and they and mamish they bring simcha in a person's life and that was another and i've concluded this that was another essential theme of the ardisal was if this [Music] fundamental yeah of course simplest fundamental eating and sleeping and is it is it as fundamental as eating and sleeping do we approach every aspect of our life with simcha and it's hard if it was easy we wouldn't need to have the tire instructing us and they are reasonable clarifying it but you wake up in the morning you go through the day and you have a hard day and you have bills and you have health and you have a covet and you have mashiach not here and you have tisha above a destruction coming up and fasting and and it could be with simcha i mean come on so what's the answer the answer is do for others and you'll be if the focus doesn't on yourself not even in a selfish way it is impossible to be always with because we're not perfect we have issues we have problems so you focus on yourself and my self and my family my am i everything about myself we don't have simcha they don't have as much simple but when you focus about someone else you learned what someone has shop is you call someone how you doing you feel so elated you feel so good so today is a day in conjunction with the arizona's teachings of of simcha it's important to do something after this year you have still hours till the end of the day pick up the call call someone how you doing you meet someone smile you know i will shout as a shoe and someone says whenever i look at you i i start i feel good because you're smiling and laughing and you're joyful i'm not listen we're all different believe me there are plenty of times when i'm more serious you know so we have to work on it it's an avoid it's an avoid that nothing comes easy in life anything that comes easy you'll about alabachia can see them had a saying anything that comes easy run the other way if someone wants to give you a million bucks and you didn't do anything for it don't take it it's a million dollars yeah but maybe it's stolen money and maybe it's it's and maybe it's this and maybe it's that be very careful there's no freebies in life if you work for something and you have a relationship and then there's a gift on top of what you you earned that's a different story but overall the attitude is that avoider serving hashem through through hard work and labor and and and every aspect of life is the is the reward and that you take with you after 120. comes that's what you walk away with and that's what you own right famous story with uh what's it called with that wealthy the wealthy man all right um in europe the famous uh was involved in the government there was a yielding and he gave a lot of money and this and and his friends say to him to this king to the czar whatever he says he's a charlatan he doesn't mean your best he's tricking you watch and see that he has so much money his bank account that he never told you about he checks the records and he says he has so much more money so he says what happened he calls them he says i thought you were my trusted friend and you told me the emma's and you told me you had only two thousand rubling you have ten thousand rule but he says and he says because of that i'm gonna take away your money so he says your honor sir before you take away my money let me say something you say i have ten thousand ruble i don't have ten thousand ruble you know why because you just took it away from me if you could take it away it doesn't belong to me when i said i had two thousand rubles that sadaka that i get i gave you can't take that away from me so the mice and told him the hard work that we do and the living basement and emulating the ideas on his teachings that's ours that that that's yours and no one can touch it and that makes and that makes you that's who you are that's who you really are everything else can be taken away from us this no one can take away this is yours so feel good about it feel great about it feel elated about it not with guyver not with ego but just that you know when you work hard you've accomplished be proud don't allow someone to say well who are you what are you look let's look at your record you did nothing at the end you know why you wasted your life joshua if you in your own mind and heart know that you worked hard in a certain area and you accomplished although you didn't make face hollywood lahavdo or you didn't make bernay brock you know but in your little world you know how hard you worked on a certain issue whether it was when you're young or middle age or older age and and you accomplished you should walk proud with proud in the way in the sense of i'm serving hashem i'm doing my best and not negative so this is very important because sometimes we turn around and life passes us and we say so what did i do i wasted so much time what did i leave to the world the answer is what you left i couldn't do and what what i do you couldn't do and that's why we are indispensable and there isn't a person alive that's dispensable and this is all augmented when we learn the teachings of the ariza through hasidis we didn't learn in the text today but we will finish hashem in the next few days the mimer anyone has something to say to ask say it now please before we finish what was his name um yitzhak right right above yitzchak what was his father's name anyone know a result anyway when you find the name avi i'm sure you will send it to us and everyone send it to the whatsapp groups everyone could know his name to think about the ideas of today um i mean square thank you thank you thank you [Applause] yeah i just want to say a few minutes in the earlier in this year uh i was asking a question or two i've been dolphin about the cloven brook