Atem Nitzavim Likutei Torah #6 - Secret to Bliss, Success & Popularity: Be like a Simple Shofar

we're learning that my murder attend itself we're on uh in the city's movarius volume that we're using um volume one it's page samak gimble 63 and it's pederix shishi so here we have the idea that we've been learning um the idea that we have been learning about the pneumous the whole mimer is focusing on one thing that we have to reach our anemias in order to reach hakadosh barcodes and that's the whole idea of the melaka we discussed it yesterday hashem is beyond being just a king and things like that let's get to the miner now brazil the shekel this has to do with um the mountains and and the high places are like on a a scale various types of scales that's what the verse says says the altar but this is the meaning this refers to various experience of love for hashem now you know tanya from chapter 43 through chapter 50 the aldreber mentions about five to seven different levels and experiences of love for god one is called the love of kihuka i love hashem isha because he is my life it gives me life so just as physically if someone gives you life you love that person that you love that ah object i was given bar hashem healthier life when i started to use my cpap machine hopefully one day i won't need to use it but before i use my cpap machine i was drooling miserable stomach pains headaches falling to sleep at the wheel it was a real balagant the morning after i was i started to use the the the machine everything went away i literally felt tris amazing and i became an advocate for the cpap machine i don't know if i told you this but i also believe that that it helped people during the hard time of covid survive myself included in fact when hatsola took people to the hospital i heard the first thing they did they put up they put out um either oxygen or a cpap machine so it mamish improved the quality of my life and the quality of many many other people so waiting for me including you very yeah it's a lifesaver it's a lifesaver and there's nothing to be embarrassed about it's a lifesaver i'm never i'm usually never tired if i'm tired you know i'm tired because i didn't sleep much but and i'm alert i'm more alert than people who are half my size and you know don't have those issues and and and they fall asleep and i don't and it's all because yeah because the oxygen that it's flowing you know it's flowing and it helps just parenthetically sometimes when you hear someone who passes away in their sleep it could quite well be from sleep apnea you know if the the person doesn't have uh you know any other issues and you wonder you know it could it could be anyway so what type of love do you have for hashem when you have that experience he gave you life he improved the quality of your life and that's a and that's a fine love but yet it's a love that has a condition a reason right yesterday i called it a a relationship of convenience what's the convenience you want to sleep better at night you want to wake up fresh you don't want to have headaches you want to be and it's important but that's that's a there is a reason associated with that love that i have for god and the altar in those chapters 43 through the 50 speaks about the camayom avocade a fiery love a waterloo different levels the point i'm why am i mentioning all this a because we've all learned it in tanya many times and it's a very hard part of tanya if those 43 to 50 is to because you know until those chapters you could you could you could you could understand somewhat tanya because you know talks about the psychology of person and depression and happiness and ego and you know but when we start talking about feelings of love towards hashem it's like come on you know to have any kind of real palpable love for hashem is is is a difficulty it's it's not you know it's not just saying i love you god but it's it's living that way and like we discussed you know you gravitate to hashem like you gravitate the food into the bed when you sleep you know that that's it that's you have to be more refined for that and and it could be reached dalton would not put it in tanya if it was beyond our capability but nevertheless avi it's an avoider the altar here says when the verse in yeshaya says there are mountains harim and exalted tall places this refers to in addition to its in its literal sense it also refers to certain aspects of our being that are identified with ava with love let's see what he says he says madrid if you compare hori motion mountains to guvos gevos is not as tall i guess as as horim kiga voice ain't none in my hold on you know is that a mistake here hold up iman problem is [Music] one second okay i want you to look at the note for a second in this christmas the bottom right hand column um after he the bold it says it's known the teaching of razal the harem eluj haran refers to the patriarchs the just as the matriarchs received from the patriarchs are below in level inexp the feeling of love that's developed by us through rational reasoning is is is is encapsulated in the concept of gevos the mothers it's a feeling but the mother receives from the father so there is the essential bond of between a jew and hashem that's analogous and represented by of the patriarchs and there is the relationship as is represented by imos the mothers so that look look now back in the text please look at the third line in the middle of the line where the fourth word key you got give those they are the mothers shema cobbles that they receive from the mountains which are the fathers [Music] this refers to an external type of love hanukkah which is formed created become vedas from logic his body hashem and meditation and greatness hashem for god is great in order to in order to to make our soul experience this we need to refine our soul so that the love of god shines within us you need to draw down the light of the toyota mitzvos they correspond to the 248 limbs of the king the heinken is and this we refer to as the external limbs and toyota is right like food moisture which you digest we call that type of salmon a very mapne of the inner organs you know we have the hands and the feet and the nose and the eyes those are all a vodim external you can see them then there are the kishkis the colon the heart those are all avon panemia so dr ebba says the inner limbs and all that they refer to the toyota because it's inner just like when you digest food it becomes part of you it's inner it's deep deeper whereas the external is compared to the outer limbs i'll say the study of torah is equal to everything else if a person's finger is hurt or broken or the like or a person's nose doesn't look so great and all that you still can live believe me even before plastic surgery you could live but if god forbid there's a blemish in the heart or in the colon in one of the inner organs and limbs we have a real serious problem says the altered but the nephesh the soul tully we're on the second line it depends moisture its existence depends not on the evarin but on the ivorum premium and the inner organs the inner limbs there is a law of avi in in the laws of casual strafes if an animal's uh insides kishkis are punctured if it's punctured through and through it becomes it becomes invalid so what do we see that if there's a puncture to an inner organ or limb it invalidates the animal the symbolism being it causes real damage so that's why torah is associated with the inner aspect of man hey name kim marshall and this is compared in deposit to a scale shackling because zoom we weigh items on this scale the nice name if you want to know how much is a pound of meat or chicken whatever you put it on the scale and on the other side you put something else to determine the value of the cost of that object that you're buying it forces kind of the weight of of love the very interesting concept you have look heaven you have a scale you put the items and you put something else which weighs heavy in it depending on how much it go is that's how much you know that the the weight of the item the food item that you're purchasing is worth so the item that you're using to figure out the cost of the food is a masa it's a load it says the altered through the load of toyota mitzvos we load ourselves up maisha with toyotas how much tighter do we load ourselves up with that's the amount of love that will shine from god on your soul so we also this answers another question i hear the hillel even though you're not on the screen but you said you're listening this answers the question why so why don't why aren't we more inspired with with love of god from why don't we why doesn't god make it easier for us to love him and to fear him and all that the answer is because the weight that you the weight of your tighter mitzvahs i don't mean you heal but all of us is not enough or it's it is what it is and depending on how much weight you put into your mitzvahs that's the result so if you if you study a certain amount of time and a certain quality type of study you get one result then you do it otherwise you got another result the same as with mitzvos that's the point out that i've been saying here next paragraph the the tall places but not as tall as mountains which referred he says to the mothers the images conversely the level of mountains hey penis volume they're very very tall as we know mount harmon mount me run etc etc this is symbolic of a love that's imbued in a jew that transcends logic why do you why do i love i don't know why it just i love and we're talking about a healthy love not an infatuated negative love that comes from the negative side not the positive side we're talking about loving hashem in a healthy way but not based on logic and conditions but based on i just love god transcending in logic she healed my living beginning with this love for hashem goes beyond taylor mitzvahs he connects in this back to what he said earlier how can you experience this only through truva from the depth of the heart mysha torah is logical torah makes sense if you expect to reach god in in a transcending way using torah mixes as the medium you won't because term mitzvahs only gives you gives you so much reason right and therefore there are reasons this person can't have an aliyah this person cannot according to have an aliyah this person deserves this much and this person deserves this much on and on and on because terror is confined to reasoning and logic and so too mitzvous right you know you're supposed to you hear the shape of the shot i'm fashion keeper have a sukkah so kiss and dance with the theater simply so the famous story of youtube the jew went around collecting money for someone else who was going to be thrown into the dungeons with the big fat big dogs and all that because he couldn't pay his rent to his pirates right so he goes out of your kipper and again and he collects the money and the the the nub of people who saw him were laughing at him and they weren't religious and they said if you drink a hookup of musket will give you some ruble and he did it two three times and he collapsed he said take me to shul he lays a shoe and immediately he everyone rises for connideri he sees everyone getting up he gets up and he says kumar it's time to dance with the traitor and they want to throw him out because he's drunk and he's out of his mind you'll see him kipper not some crusader and i believe if somebody just returns around he says don't you dare touch him get your hands off him and they're all shocked but if the rabbit says we follow if the young kipper they asked it up arabic could you please tell us what happened here they said sure there was a heavenly decree against our city against our people those that i couldn't i couldn't i couldn't i couldn't break it and when this jew stood up and he said kumato raisa within a month within a minute instantaneously he broke the decree because it came the umka de liber from the heart so you see that alibaba that's the liba oh and then said moshe that for this jew he went straight from rosh hashanah to simplistora yes physically was a sure young kipper but he didn't need the avoid of yom kippur he went straight from rosh hashanah all the way to simphistaire so when he said kumato resa he yeah but wasn't it also because because he managed to we went around and he raised the money and he got the guy that he got the jew out of jail yes but he did that but that but my so your your question is so meaning it's like a mitzvah no no no i'm saying i'm saying first he went and was mostly collected the money did whatever he needed to do got drunk him up on the proposition got a bank managed to get him managed to get the money give it to him and then he said bring me right right so it's right it's the mercedes nephesh right so it's the messiness nephesh that's the point it's not logical it's self-sacrifice he gave away not only his physical he gave away his spiritual side voting like a mensch imagine someone says to you my sir i need you to make a minion in this in this house and you're not going to be in sure you needed a shoe and you're sure you want to and you say to help another year i'm doing it and then the rabbi the people say are you out of your mind i mean look mercedes and efforts doesn't have rhyme and reason it's it's self-sacrifice right let's continue how does he come to this deep feeling coming from the depth of his heart because he realizes how distant he is as we discussed earlier in the mirror because you feel distant therefore a god appears to you because you're brokenhearted you contrite and you feel remorse and therefore shams i love that hashem says i love a broken vessel i lo i love someone who feels shattered meaning to say that he feels and realizes that that he's distant and the guy can have his penis and his beard then his yarmulke and his and everything but inside he knows that still he's lacking the union the connection hashem says i love that when you palace this is the idea of a way to palace peter who hamishko is a type of a scale type of that's of wood long it's it's long but it sue is fluent chocolate and besman there are two straps literally i mean the two like pulleys two pulleys and and over there on these wooden scales that's that's that's made through these um pulleys you weigh the items that are put there eights and the fact that it's very long and and it's made of woodens heavy um and because it's like distant from each other i don't know the physical makeup of this maybe you guys have seen such type of a weight whatever it is this decides what the right weight of the item is so this is the physical makeup of this type of weight why did dalton ever say this why did he give us the details of this type of a scale so too when a person is frustrated he's bitter about his own soul that it's distant from hashem in an absolute way by a day akira sin and then he decides i'm going to remove my will from those items that make me feel very distant but what does he accomplish he awakens the abundant love that transcends us so that's the answer hillel in your therapy and in your work when a person feels very despondent and very far and very lost to teach them how to take that feeling itself and and and say now you are a vessel for real godliness it's a famous story someone went into yeshidas of the rebel rashad famous story and needed a bracha he came out of the reber ashab and he was sobbing ashab's older brother raza rabzalminaran saw him and he asked him what happened didn't you go into my brother for a blessing he says yes my but your your brother didn't bless me he didn't want to bless me so the older brother was by himself what he didn't want to give you abraham for whatever you needed he said no and and if that's the case it shows how distant and far i am that i'm not worthy of a brother so the razor went into his own younger brother raphael and bear and he confronted him and he said how how you talking how did you how could you don't do such have done such a thing so the rebel ashab says send them back in he sent them back in and he gave him a broker and then later he explained to his brother that he felt when he came in he wasn't a vessel he was arrogant ego and he wanted a quick fix you know rebbe give me a blessing and and get me out of my stuff i'll continue being a sinner and and of course individual but just give me a blessing and then said in order for the blessing it's like rain in order for the rain to have an impact on the on on the seeds you need to you need to you need to plant and you need to plow you need to work on yourself and you need to be broken-hearted so specifically i felt that that's what he needed for this individual and therefore i didn't bless him because i wanted him to cry and break and shatter his ego and then as soon as he did that he came back in i blessed him because he was a vessel now of course you have to be exotic and you have to you know it's not for us to say you know someone comes and asks for help and and and and we throw them away and and we're nasty and all that you know that's not that's not appropriate but but the idea the idea idea is is a true concept so dalton says that over here that says here ali is through this you experience the avaraba so that's the answer the problem itself is the springboard for the greatest solution so but nevertheless he does say akira's you know someone did a a a a transgression that's wrong don't you know tell him hey go and do it again and then do truva that's foolishness you know and you're not allowed to do that if one says i will sin and i will do chuva and my speech is true you know hashem doesn't give him an opportunity even though the ebb and tanya already has a twist on that too but but simply speaking but we're talking about not such a situation the fact is that we fell into a hole and now we're in a dark black hole how do you get out of a dark black hole so one answer is to try to find light and and to illuminate the situation and that is generally the advice but if you and and based on that moishe the relationship is conditional it's it's a relationship it's a love hello but it's a conditional one if you want a love that is limitless that's believable that breaks all barriers for that you need to come from the meridot the meridot is the best vessel for growth let's continue second paragraph [Music] the verse says um i think uh yeah yao is uh a steam book i believe it's a type of an animal you know the the type of deer i think that have these i forget it's not they have another name it's not called the deer it's called something else anyone know what it's called i think so i think so the posix says thank you the posix says um [Music] says the tall mountains you know the way we have access hillel to those tall mountains spiritually through the gazelle [Music] right because you take you cut the the horns of the gazelles and you can you and you blow schaefer out of that the mishna says that the best type of schaefer is a yao passion a simple unwinded horn from a gazelle and that's what you use for blowing the shaft who prince children may make now this is the idea of doing truva from the very depth philosophy the term yao also isn't only a gazelle but it also associated with another hebrew a person to a higher plateau right the mission says motion you have certain windy type of horns then you have a simple horn you know it's very straightforward we call that porsche the whole mother porsche libate this more straight the horn is the better it is it's one of my most famous the sayings that i love called the porsche fay of the other other the more simple you are the better you are the sophistication leads to complication you know we we know life you know listen those people that are sophisticated and thinkers and this and that they have many issues okay people who leads who are simple in character simple in nature simple and attitude are the best just like a simple horn not windy not not the love for hashem by not being invested in the body leah psychiatry but because by one screaming inside himself as lim said enough to have them to see the snappish moisture which you spoke about before you know that the yid who went around there young keeper that was messina snapfish and therefore he just wants to be with everyone right what does he do michael isn't this he lays down a shoe you know why he wants to be with everyone as sure he's not going to die he's not going to stand rise sit left right page this after raiser he don't need any of that he just wants to be a shoe leave me alone let me just be a show with jews [Music] this is the meaning of the verse as i as i promised your ancestors [Music] it says on the other side of the river your ancestors your ancestors sat dwell lived for now when we talk about the river who are you it's in it's the river that comes from we're from eden the huskers has a gun from the to to water to irrigate what the the the um garden um you put it and and from there we have different rivers what does that mean spiritually this means that there's a a a godliness that is drawn and comes in other words the godliness that comes to irrigate the fear the the the river and from there it it from there it it it divides into four different rivers is analogous to simple and and and playing forth godliness being drawn to the to the creatures throughout the world that hashem makes and everyone perceives them in a different way so where does it come from hello from the other side of the river it comes from transcendence into rationality and again he says what is this level how is this level symbolized through the concept of tall mountains so much tall mountains refers to ava lamaila it's a love for god that transcends logic and rationale there is the source of the ancestors of of the patriarchs so that's why it says look at the plastic deposit says before the cash bala like i swore to your ancestors right literally your innocent when we say that it's it's it's it's a location issue where did god make the covenant the agreement with the with it with with avramithiakov on the other side of the gnar says the altar but that's that's true physically in its location but spiritually means that the the the the oath and promise that god made for afrom yakov that we the jews will be his people and all that it comes from a very deep place in god the deepest place called me avaraya from the other side of the ocean of the of the river meaning from transcendence not from logic because logical we would say well if you didn't do what you have to you're not doing right you're not my people go go someone else the employee doesn't do what the employer wants he loses his job so we say no transcending logic and reasoning and from there it extends itself to logic and reasoning and he concludes um so that's where the oath that god made with us comes from the crisis and the and the pact holy came that god says i will be your god with his name pre-musical way so the altar but at the end here ends the mimer the alternate but ties it all together and he says and you're going to see this when you say when you say the sukim of the khloeness and the mouth it talks about this these are all sukim by the way in in mauritius so when you say those and and and i hope you'll think about it this year you're going to come across some of these and if you know this my man i you know it's not an easy mimer you need to review it shabbos is a good day because it's a break between now and rosh hashanah so really if you could relearn this with someone or yourself or the system of arrest because there's a lot of explanation here that that's there to clar help you understand it better but this is the idea that the creases bris we're making we call it we're coronating hashem as our melody we're asking him to be in our lives but anemias this all is expressive of the ava and our relationship the transcendent relationship beautiful it's time to yes yes it's time to say to each other today or tomorrow i forget this rib schmooze stroll's father's yard site did you see him wish him his father's in the shower and um and the ikea is that everyone should have takaksi will be written and described for both of you thank you so much for such a great year of learning i benefit more than you you don't know you don't you don't know but i do i'm serious not only that i get up early which i love but uh to learn to see this in the morning i just wish i would be able to do it before darkening and not the darvin and this minion are diving so fast i couldn't i couldn't make i couldn't make this municipal stay with them they dive in so fast anyway the point is it's all good right uh the point is that it's it's it's it's it's it's time it's time that we need mashiach and departed by the way of the schaefers in the sukkah is a lot about mashiach you'll take a look the the great schaefer the copper shaffer girdle that will you're blowing the shaft for this morning your father is beautiful schaefer that he got as a bar mitzvah gift hope is part of that experience when mashiach will come you'll blow that shaffer and your father will be standing there next to you and he'll blow the schaefer and we'll all blow the schaefer and no it's it's it's not it's serious it's meant to say it's it's real it's it's it it can happen like this look the best center snap of this this this covet like this he could take it away like this and he will take it away a machine will come like this it's when hashem wants something to happen it's coming like we learned the mimer it's transcendence it doesn't have rules and regulations and you have to do this and you have to do that you have to do that no no you have to come by make a live and i think this is an important message to the to the youth even those that don't see such a great interest in coming to shul and davening and all that say listen just come in for come in and just sit in the shoe for and then not just six hours come in on the restaurant for five minutes and just close your eyes breathe in and breathe out and think about whatever if if we can get more people to do that trust me everyone will be happier you know what i'm saying because after all ev every every yid wants to do what hashem wants it's just the hardships of life in so many different ways get in the way and cause chaos and cause issues and relationships with parents and rebellion my father is this my mother's that my cat is this and my dog is this and everyone is the same and it's a big hot spot and now in california they want in the department stores not to display not the males and females but gender i mean the world is getting so sick it is nuts nuts and and they're going to have legislation they're going to vote that you have to have this place that will [Music] and the female because you don't know anymore who's what so it's it's it's it's what's the expression it's crazy and getting more crazy so [Music] so what but what's the the good that is even though that's the situation you know but that's that episode and all of this a sign that mashiach is closer and closer and closer he didn't it's the same thing we learned in the mimer i really want to say this that in my mind we learned that when you're distant it's the greatest way to reconnect in the best way in the deepest way you'll get the deepest connection through the failure and disappointment and the broken heart of this logically it's not that way you know comes down to that but he turns it around 180 degrees and that ever did the same thing that ever saw that came from russia came it was besides family royalty he was a year from a different world at a different time comes to america he sees a broken world after the holocaust and and he sees that the assimilation is just getting worse and worse that episode 1950 what people didn't see until 1990 that assimilation is rampant and it's just going to get worse and worse and it did and he says we have to open up the cupboard house and send people out and get get away i don't want you to be next to me i want you to be in chicago and and in pittsburgh and in africa go there you want to be a real chabatnik a real closet go there if you go there you're more of a chabad standing next to me and looking at me and be participating with a brilliance because jews need you no nobody else nobody else at the time no one no one had this vision in this global way and barak hashem he said it's not a copyright so people joined and and we have such a powerful balchuva movement and in a way we discussed it like in a way the bolshova movement is finished you know ended it's it's in other words the high time of the baltruva movement was the 70s and the 80s 60s 70s 80s now as we discussed it's a whole different type so the real hay day of the belt super and and that too i understand because you know it was coming you know the 50s 60s that the vietnam war and and the hippie culture and everything it lend itself it was it was right up the alley of the baltimore movement so now it's a different experience and and that ever saw that and he sent out his cover and right away and like i told you don't think they were running the parents because they were from russia and from poland they they just went through stalin they went through holocaust comes with barbara trevor says no rest move out and they they weren't cooperating the 50s don't the rabbit had a very big battle and that's why those those few that did go and there was the the young the buckler and the yeshiva he lauded them he spoke about them and because they broke through in a way they went against their own parents well we say in pirkei me as a vooni i forsake my father and my mother vashem yasmini and god gathers me so the hippie culture the counter culture in the 60s said forget about establishment no father no mother i do what i want right but it led to you know everything that it led to the the dramatic says forget about your father and mother forsake them but hashem yasfunni find god go to hashem go to toyota go to mitzvahs go to go to connect the right way with hashem so in a sense saw rebellion as a positive step to growth but channeled it it's like a flamer right i tell over that story that i heard i think i wrote it in the book you know it's 1969 it's the uh the march what's it called in san francisco to the to the ocean you know everyone's going down to let themself loose at the the san francisco bay thousands of people are walking um i think august of of 69 or july august and rip slam is walking with the cover from the house of love and prayer he's walking along with them but he makes a left turn and he doesn't continue down to the bay and he takes them to somewhere else and if i brings with them and teaches them because you knew at the bay they're doing you know very inappropriate things and it's not godly and holy you understand so there's the same there's a rebellion there's the rebellion the rebellion's good but how you channel the rebellion what you do with the rebellion that takes leadership that takes rapunzel and that takes us as parents and grandparents in a community and with families to give direction albeit with respect albeit with respect but to give direction okay enough for the fabregan we'll see you ms hashem after the vaccine and we'll talk more and learn more yeah so the next year as it stands now hilal is monday before yom kippur okay there we go bye-bye [Music] bye bye