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Atem Nitzavim Likutei Torah #5 - Is yr relationship one of convenience or necessity? G-d transcends.
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the fourth chapter
and what we're learning
what we learned yesterday is about the
is about the idea of
hashem
we say this in the psalm that's added
from rosh hashanah through yen keeper
and out of the depths of the milk says
out of the depths
hashem i call you to hashem
and the alter ebba gave his
interpretation
of why it says
because here we're referring to a quote
that comes from previous alive the inner
aspect of the heart
which is beyond and much greater than
just
a call
that's you know uh things are not great
not rosy i need help
this is where you cannot
you cannot
exist
without god in your life
i get i said yesterday they simply when
a person is hungry very hungry and
hasn't eaten a long time or tired
they don't meditate
they don't make an assessment should i
eat now what should i eat when should i
eat
and the same is true for for sleep
but they automatically
go to the food
and they automatically
collapse on the bed or on the couch
in other words it's so deep in the
nephesh in the soul
that it's one with the person and that's
what we're talking about here is
says
hashem from out of the depths i call to
you hashem that's where i'm feeling i
need you
and dalton explained yesterday a
phenomenal thought that needs medita
reflection
from the distance god appears to me
so literally it means that
hashem helps us even from the distance
but the altar
interpretation of the verses
specifically when one
finds himself or feels himself
distant distant from god
and that really bothers him that itself
is the springboard for seeing god
so
this is a very important
idea that when a person
is is feeling down
he's feeling lonely he's feeling hurt
you know
that
itself
is an opportunity to feel the greatest
love and connection to god
because you feel so distant
and but this does this requires
seriousness
reflection
in other words
and what's the reflection
we know that hashem loves us we know
that hashem cares for us there's not
even a question about it
if we find ourselves in in we're distant
and everyone is distant in one area in
their life from god
in a certain area
rather than dwelling on the negativity
how bad it is
how distant
we take the distance itself and
transform it for positive in other words
the distance brings to man the greatest
longing for hashem the deepest longing
and that's what's meant by the possible
hashem
specific david miller felt very distant
ask yourself a question martial how did
governor miller feel distant david malek
was king david
and he did what god wants
the answer is
that
that he had enemies
many of them and they were looking to
kill him he also had other issues that
were perceived and i used the word
perceived precisely as sinful
the story of batsheva and other such
things so there was there was there was
reason for david to feel that he's
distant
in other words even though
he was justified with it with baksheva
and even though he was justified here
and there as the commentaries explained
in many places and as the gemara shabbat
says
whoever says dovah sinned
the the
is making a mistake that's a good
morning
not a piece of zohar it's not a piece of
musa it's a gemura uh open my faith
explicitly
shabbos called misha madova
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is making a mistake but nevertheless
nevertheless
david felt
distant
because david felt the fact that someone
can
think
that i am a sinner
and the fact that someone can think that
i am not
doing what god wants it irked him and
bothered him so deep
that he calls out to hashem hashem
forgive me and help me and bless me and
protect me everything you have until
them and it's all encapsulated in those
few words
hashem
so come the 10 days of repentance
you may choose
when these aren't just ordinary days
but we know because i'll say
that what a congregation can accomplish
uh at seaboard can accomplish throughout
the year
a yoket an individual can accomplish the
same
during the assassination
that's a ghazal
right
so during these 10 days each individual
as an individual
not just not only as a congregation as a
community as an individual is able
to accomplish if they call from the
depths of their heart to god
this is what we learned yesterday with a
little more elaboration now let's learn
top of page noon verve pedicle v
hallelujah
until him we say it every day
praises god praise is the holy god
hallelujah by the kiosa praise him in
the in the heaven the mighty heavens
hallelujah
praise him in his might his strength
hallelujah goodly halloween praise him
with the abundance of greatness hell and
praise he be praised beside of what he's
praised when you blow when the chauffeur
is blown
seeks to explain now what does it say
here because the second of the hallelu
hallelujah
in this
sentence
peter's because they showed the meaning
of the word in holiness
because
god is praised not only by us here below
on earth but hashem is praised in
supernal holiness
in other words
who
what does the praise consist of hillary
of hashem
that he is exalted and holy
move though
separated the prince levade in a next in
a level an experience called alone
without any association
and to
to uh to hashball
just for a brief moment
there is the way hashem your innocent
is already as a mashbiya
that's that part of god
that takes into consideration
the recipients that need influence
hashpaul
but that's not the essence of hashem
there is the way hashem is to himself
pre
in concept
pre hashball the pure god that's
ever says here
that this level of
hallelujah
because
praises hashem in holiness it refers to
hashem in his pure state of holiness
already
one step removed
from god in his purity
and altered says this is what we
referred to earlier that god is an
all-consuming fire
what level of hashem does that refer to
this level hillel that that we say
hallelu
the
kadushoi
hashem in his holiness
not in the way we understand his
holiness because in the way we
understand his holiness is what he does
for us creates the world
sustains us everything else that's
already the way hashem is kind of
mitsumtsam is already limited and
contracted
for bria for creation and creatures
there is the essence of god that
transcends that and that's what we're
doing says that's what the verse
says
praise hashem in his holiness in his
pure holiness
in his own in his exaltedness
the way is completely removed from any
creature and creations let's continue
um
and from that
supernal god as we discussed
he continues
after you have to follow the line
emotion even though you're driving pay
attention because you say this every day
after it says hallelujah
the next few few words is hallelujah
pray praise be he with the mightiness of
his heavens
says the altar
this
praise hallelujah
is the way hashem already is being
mashipia
so we have hallelujah
the way god is in his culture in his
exalted state of holiness pre-hashball
and then from there
comes about another and lower
one-step removed
experience of god
which is called
the mightiness of his heavens
shaheem next let's continue inside the
text
they are the many
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the many
veils
which conceal god
god's revelation
and concealment after concealment right
there a kia there's one one out of seven
heavens and each one is another layer
what does that mean each one
hillel dims the light more
the first to the key i never see the
first rakia is closest to the god head
the second another key has two steps
below third is three until seven seven
steps below the godhead
so what's the shot that each rokia is an
additional hell of concealment
top of paige moonzion overgrowth
now he continues to the third hallelujah
avi
hallelujah
right
we're following the the the text
over here but referring to the verse
that he started with this chapter
praise be he big with his strength
what is
that mean says the altar on page
simpson
you know what simpson you're innocent
you're innocent why is simpson called
gavura
you know why
because
in order
to
be with some same you have to control
yourself you have to limit yourself and
that's very hard
you want to see you want to say
something
yeah i'd like a
typical example of that
fear once you
want to explain something to him
to his people
so he had to
stop from the stakehold
in order to my spiritual earth to take
self-control that's right that's right
and that self-control is very hard
so we praise hashem you hear this
hillary look at this tights this is
this is this is
elation itself tainook
it is if you think about it
it makes me happy
that that hashem
had to control himself i mean
anthropomorphically speaking what do you
mean he had to control himself hashem
wanted to be my spear hashem wanted to
give but he knew if he gave too much it
would blow us away would be too heavy so
he had to make a symptom on himself just
like johnny said he learned yeshiva the
rav the teacher has so much information
and he has to be something his cycle he
has to limit and contract and control
his his logic and his knowledge and just
communicate what the students can can
hear
putting within that little amount
information that he shares
all
the the um
the he puts into it
the he teaches it in a way that if they
were to open up and explore what he
teaches them they will come to the
depths of his
uses the example of onig
and it says veintov lamalameone so you
were talking and what's uh and odeg is
like the highest uh
contact so to speak that we can have to
with any of you know god's presence in
the world like the the
very beginning of symptoms exactly uh
and and then he and then says and
similarly barack i sort of the example
of
the whole beginning of the letters that
the universe is created from and
similarly
the same letters make up the word nega
and the seyfriend syria says
that it goes to that's the very lowest
point
and and uh
so um i was also thinking as we were
saying this but
that's also how you strengthen a muscle
by contracting it and then expanding it
contracting it and expanding it so very
good it operates on the physical level
too very good very good
okay let's continue
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with
after god conceals and invests his
infinite light in many garments in
different levels
worlds and the lower worlds each to be
able to receive the vitality he has to
give a certain limited amount to each
he continues now from the verse
good luck hallelujah
praise be hashem the abundance good
lovers greatness heroes this means
after the veils and the contractions
nisavu venezuela venezuela those are
three words
to create is created
is is made
and it's created it's all means created
but it's different levels
laying cats with doctors we have adam
from item a mount
and within each world there's no you
cannot count
it's it's it's it's ranks it's it's it's
individuals it's ex
and within one one one battalion one
group elephant often there's so many
thousands and thousands
an abundance
of his greatness and that
the greatness of his greatness stealth
it ever says because kirov implies
not only a quantitative
amount
but also a i'm sorry not only a
qualitative
point but also a quantitative point to
tell you that there is an abundance in
quantity two of levels that experience
hashem in different ways
the whole sir now he continues and all
of these praises that we give to hashem
and this parrot in this paragraph of
hallelujah
because hallelujah is laham
schaefer all of this we should draw down
through the blind of the schweifer
supreme
it's the inner essential essence of
every year and it's expressed through
coil partial to
no breaks in the sound coyote
police calculus without a division of
letters leaves penis deeper canal right
dibor
is already icy ice icios they reveal
when you hear me speak
you hear ideas based at ica is very nice
but nevertheless nevertheless it's not
possuted
tequila is possible
simple straightforward sound what is
that represents the depth of the heart
the depth of the heart transcends
divisions
uh differences
details
it's sincerity and simplicity in its
best form
conversely
he refers back when you scream out to
hashem and it comes from
up here you realize how terrible it is
and and you dwell on that and that makes
you call out to god
that will lead to prayer
but it will lead to calling out with
words
and which is automatically
distinct a distinction between the
letters and words one person uses and
the other person uses key next page
letters words are carved out from logic
ki
the father
is is the source of the daughter
you know the
of the son
the the
the idea is like this that that oceans
which are represented by prata
uh
which is meaning the the daughter
so the father which is
the source
for the boss the macabre
so in other words
how does someone benefit
when wisdom when intelligence
has a way of expressing itself in words
says dalton i understand
and that's necessary too but that's not
the coil portion
in other words
moisture when the baltokaya blows the
schaefer he always begins and ends with
a kia it's explained elsewhere say this
why
not to get lost avi
in the true and swarm
the true and swara maybe make you cry
more uh-huh
in other words it's more detailed
oriented and therefore you cry
but guess what it loses
the efficacy
of sincerity and purity
and that's why we have a kia before the
shwarim and the true and kia after to
remind us this is one reason
to remind us
don't lose the sincerity and call out to
hashem
because if you limit your call
to
the chariman trua
yes you feel better and you might relate
to it more
right and you have words that can
express it but you should know that's
not touching the core essence
the core essence
doesn't have words
it doesn't have words
right
so that's why the for the kia
co-portrayed and that's why we say
what's the last hallelu hallelujah but
take us chauffeur
so beautiful delta rivers ribbon
doesn't mean
just blowing the takia
specifically the tequila
sound
of the chauffeur
is where all of these hallelujahs are
concretized
beautiful beautiful beautiful next
paragraph
page
what causes
that the hashpaw should come from this
experience called consuming fire penis
control
elliott and the level we called earlier
god's holiness
and princess kelly
how is it that jews are able to tap in
and arouse god's innermost drive to
being our king
as we mentioned earlier from the very
core essence
who
all these greatness about hashem and
these levels at the inner and the outer
without subjects
the king is not a king
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i've been saying for the last 35 years
40 years of my
hafoza
outreach years in various ways
i am not scared of funds not having
enough money
i am scared and fearful of not having
enough people
how many people have big buildings and
barely can get a million
how many people have big institutions in
the share is called and only five people
show up
people we need people
ain't
melissa i'm a big king
really where are your people you don't
have people you know big king you're a
big fool
and melaka
there is no king without a nation
so hashem you're majestic
and you're royal
and you're panemius
and we want to tap into that but it's we
the people
you don't have people you have nothing
let's continue
you know what am i means a
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in hebrew without men
it doesn't say below
it says
picks up on this language
we're talking about people that are like
god
we're talking about people that somehow
and somewhat
associate and relate to hashem
they are the lowest they are of the
lowest of levels
for who
you are and the king the melech is above
them
that's why it's called a king over them
that means
we're not just talking about
the intellects the sophisticates
we're talking about
any person identifying with this nation
be it someone who is a bore
someone who's a low life is considered
an arm and god is a king over him
conversely the essence of god
not as god as a king it's a very
important point when we talk about god
as a king
we're talking about
the way god already has put himself into
a
description
called king
when he's in that description
he must if he wants to be king
reckon
with everyone even the commoners
but then there is the way god is in his
very pure essence
that god transcends everything look
further
commercial elu
neymar it would be similar if we would
say shameless
god is a king over stones
rocks and and stones
with people
they aren't of the category and domain
that you would say he's a king over
trees
it doesn't make sense
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himself on us to be our beloved loyal
god
even though logically
this is not a good business deal
why would moshe shem want to be
with us when he is god and we are we who
we are
but that's what hashem did because in
his essence he loves everyone
so
speaking
god kind of forced himself with kasha
enough
by his body
to connect his soul to us
israel
that that to the point that we are
sending god's thought
and god thinks about us which is
gallaudet
and that god's essence should reveal
itself to us
the zelda goes back to the verse
to go through a priest to have a breeze
although
this is similar to what it's written
until god
god passes over the hainu lava madrigal
madrigal for to go from level to the
devil
from below to above me
this is only possible
because hashem makes a covenant with us
islam because hashem says you know i'm
making the covenant with you because i
want you as my nation peter's this means
he
but because you guys some of you know
many of you are
you're very simple and worse so hashem
says i have to force myself and i want
to force myself and i make an agreement
that i'm yours
you hear that in other words hello if we
were all goody goodies and great guys
and everything's going smoothly we
wouldn't need a bris
he makes a bris
because he says i have to bind myself
unison
to these people and they're armed
they're dim and dark
they're problematic many times i really
don't like these people i have to then
put something on myself and make a a
promise to myself they're my people
and he says if lee is
metaphorically speaking lowered himself
with the holy kim to be a god for you
um
and this level connects us with the
abstinence i i
there is a heavenly judgment
me yes
who will merit to be in this level where
god says i accept you and want you
liaison is brother so god for for
god to be revealed to the person that
she is and binding his soul the question
with a very tight connection
uh basham and god
in other words dr evans says
my dear friends he says it's very nice
but who merits to this
look what he says next
that is what we need to arouse on rosh
hashanah
we need to arouse our rosh hashanah by
god that he should want to be
makusha connected to us at all times and
at all costs
and this is powerful and this is why
it's rosh hashanah
because we know that during the year
we're going to have difficulties
so the alternative says
what do you need to focus on rosh
hashanah that god is your king god is
your father
we're crowning god as king and at the
same time
we're causing hashem to say i'm going to
stick with you guys
for another year
it's you know i i know i'm making this
like a business deal i'm gonna keep the
contract going for one more year
it's true but it needs to be looked at
not in a simplistic way okay when you
learn citizens you have to have what we
call a psychology expanded consciousness
you got to open up your head and your
brain
and and the the first thing that you see
them hated most i heard this from
islamic brother elijah
that he was taught this when he left
lake when he came to khabar in 1944 to
the yeshiva and he heard from the old
hasid of the rashabs talmidah he said
we hate fools
fight ashayta
as a fool
in other words
open your brains
open your horizon
not by becoming progressive
and modern
be as hasidic and as from as you need to
be and should be
but up here
look at the broader picture the altitude
says here
the broader picture is
not that god needs
needs us
because god transcends
being a king
velvel
being a king is a great thing
but it's not all of god it's only part
of him or if you want to say it
differently it's not god if someone were
to say god is a king my is that correct
or not correct it's wrong he transcends
being a king he also has kingship
virtues that's correct
but is hashem
limited to king avi no
so when we say listen to this when we
say god kind of forces himself to stick
with us for another year in english in
the way i say i'm saying it sounds very
bad
it sounds very petty
and such a judaism i wouldn't want to be
part of
it's like rabbi zalman posnell the show
them told over repeated in the name of
his father shalom posner of pittsburgh
also a student of the rashad where
someone said i'm agnostic
and i don't believe in
and posner turned to him and he said if
my understanding of god would be like
yours i would also not believe
you understand
and it's not just about hashem
it's about life if our understanding of
life is about tit for tat good and bad
you know reward and punishment
and what do i do for you and what do you
do for me
i wouldn't want that either
but if our understanding is that hashem
is pure in essence and the experience
rosh hashanah
means
to find a place within ourselves and a
place in hashem that we see that were
really one as we learned in the mind and
not to
coming together as one but we are
inseparable from the beginning
and the fact that the separation is only
an external thing
and this goes back to the point you
spoke about friends yesterday
right i told you about the my friend the
46 years ago i met them and then moshe
hill someone mentioned about friends and
an attorney i learned with he also i
mentioned this mention he says you know
i barely keep up with one person from
high school the question is
when you form a friend what is how did
you form the friend and what do you want
from that friendship and what and what
is that friendship consist of and if
it's only about i like you because you
have a good head i like you because you
have good character i like you because i
like your nose or whatever else yeah
that friendship is not going to last
because soon as you find someone with a
nicer nose you like them
as soon as you find someone who's more
intelligent the next professor oh
i thought that my professor at princeton
was great and when i went to harvard to
oxford
oh my gosh they put into their pocket
these princeton professors you
understand
so what type of relationship did he have
to begin with with that princeton
professor it was not one of essence
it was one of convenience
and that's what we're looking for if you
had to sum it up maisha velvel
what are we hoping to accomplish rosh
hashanah is that it's not about
convenience it's about essence
i can't be without hashem i can't
breathe without god
that's what we're looking for
not
god
i like you and you like me and it's
convenient so when it's convenient i do
it when it's not convenient i shall get
back to you
and that's the way most of our
relationships are you know
if i like you i pick up the phone if i
don't like you i don't pick up the phone
if i like you i respond to your whatsapp
or your email or your text or whatever
right if not i'll push it off for two
for two weeks
is that a relationship
it's a relationship of convenience
rajashana is not about a relationship of
convenience it's not it's a mistake it's
a big mistake
rosh hashanah is about finding
essential relationship and that's why
it's a heart avoider
it takes two days it's not easy it's not
it takes a lot of work and you have two
days we have two days to pound away to
think away to cry away to laugh away
to to be elated to get into that void
and look into ourselves and not to rush
your governing let the congregation rush
and flush and go further and you take
your time under your dallas
and if your rabbi asks you why you're
not having a minion say rabbi dolphin
gave me permission on our daily classes
that's it
enough already we've been rushing 60
years 70 years 50 years of a life it's
time to stop rushing
anyway let me continue i want to finish
the paragraph
that's why the day to arouse and awaken
this bond is rosh hashanah which is the
beginning of all of god's actions
for his back hello to the pussac and it
was beshooting
melech when the king is called and
renowned as beshooting which has
different meanings but means the glory
index brightness etc
now remember mercia asked me about the
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these verses so i should
and simultaneously the memories will be
brought before me in about you that you
guys are great in a good way yes
that it will be remembered and it will
be aroused prince habrez the covenant
that i made with you the hakesha
the sri israel of makshava that you jews
ascended in my thought and you are my
people and i want you
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i'm very distant from you in different
aspects of my life
while when they say him of dealing
and transgressions separate us from god
nevertheless
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through the arousal and awakening
from below from our heart
inside
we awaken hashem from above
uh
velveo
what tool is used
the chauffeur
the hainu
what's the schaefer are you the panini
11 now so remember
the schaefer is the kia
the schaefer is the essence of the heart
that's what he's supposed to think about
when you hear the chauffeur sound
the thought is i'm connecting i want to
connect from my very core essence to
your core god and i want our
relationship to be that
if then it's not a relationship but
convenience it's a relationship of
essence
and this schaefer experience arouses
from the depth of my heart this
heartache
that i have regret your innocence
by removing my will
in which of what my will that i did
because we do things willingly okay
let's not convince ourselves that it's
my wife forcing me and my kids forcing
me and my community forcing me
and my country forcing me it's
your own will so you have to strip and
remove
removing the will mini kuda amity
shabalev and that comes
when you arouse the true essential
quintessential
essence of this within the heart for
azaleas
and then
the panemius is revealed
so what would they say call it in in
modern psychology the aha moment
and then you'll say
well i didn't have that aha moment on
rosh hashanah guess what
if you are thinking and looking for the
aha moment you didn't begin to contract
you didn't begin connecting to the
essence because again it's convenience
you're looking for aha the aha either
comes or it doesn't and it does it
shouldn't make a difference to you like
i told you the word or the question
right with the rabbit
lords him and praises him in the title
rabbi so-and-so
god-fearing person and he says to the
baby that's not me
that's not me i know who i am and he
says to the rebbe i don't feel it he
says in the yiddish
listen to the yiddish
feel
i don't feel it four simple yiddish
words
answers to the
but
went through stalin and gave his time in
years and he brought hashem
in the early 70s you know what he says
the rabbit says to him after he responds
that ebb says to him
feeling is knit kane moose
he asks the rabbit with four words and
the never gives him a response feeling
is knit
kane moose
for five words feeling is not necessary
we live in a world of all feelings
feelings
i don't feel the love
i don't feel the fear i don't feel this
i don't feel who cares about your
feelings
in yeshiva used to say
feelings is a boy
means stomach they talk means pains it's
a stomachache a bellyache feelings
okay
live with that i gave you some good good
material to brain within your head
maisha
feelings is nit kane moose because
feelings are only
a boy take a stomach ache
so if god wants you to have feelings
you're gonna have feelings if god wants
you to have the aha you're gonna have
the aha but don't look for it
because if you're looking for it you'll
be disappointed and when you're
disappointed you say
that's god fool
it's you ask yourself that's you
that's you it's really that really you
you egomaniac looking for feelings just
do what you need to and go on and you'll
be a happier camper
we had a sticker fabregan i hope we
could finish the mimer tomorrow
zeitgeist everyone take care
of
thank you thank you