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i had it i had a chance uh shabbos to read uh you know the uh introduction and different parts of the uh of the uh preface and the and the addendums so i wanna i wanna just uh have you read with me um clara to help the flow of the minor because it is a long mimer so you know it's easy to lose the train of thought so it's important to to to know that uh okay so it's on page 22 in the text that we're using this is a good very good it's called the treatise structure and it's a very good one to keep in mind it's it's brief but it's it's helpful so let's read quintus of mine consists of 28 discourses each comprised of of between one and five chapters what follows is the structure of the treatise discourse one the folly destos when one fails to fulfill the directive quote sanctify yourself even with the permissible in hebrew that's kaddish and when one's pleasures do not comply with one's mission as a human that's the state of stuss that the rabbi rashad identifies so if you want to know what is his you know view of in this mimer and countries of mayan i'm not talking about another mymorim sometimes it is sometimes it isn't i'm not talking about the way this is looked at from the perspective and and and um your purely mystical perspective and commuter perspective but we're talking about in this mimer and you could say it's this uh summary of chapter of discourse one so again this is the the uh the rashab's uh view of as he talks about it now go to this course two to four so you see what he's doing here in this uh tweet is structure they're saying that the discourses two and four have a common theme and what is that different types of yet sahara follies okay so number one moshe was about the overall number chapters two to four is the various kinds of sim in trying to cause man to transgres transgress a tater prohibition okay that's two to four now we're in the longest section of my mooring of the entire treatise 28 my murm there's over here five through eleven that's six a different sit chat six maimuram so it's quite long and we're in middle of it so you know bear with us and what is the theme of these five six my marim five through eleven the folly of one quote who goes by what his heart sees fit that's maisha is the possible that you asked about right so you know that [ __ ] is the the the verse of these six members which the rebber spends time elaborating on convincing himself man convinces himself that despite his conduct quote he shall have peace which is part of that verse so this is those six my mother so i just wanted to point that out we're not going to go any further now the treatise because we'll do that when we mr we get there later let's go back now to where we're at we're on page 107. what he didn't say in the treatise and what we've been learning about as well is the hats maya the hebrew word the posik is the joining of the thirsty to the satiated the monsters those are the last five words of that verse in the in in the verb and then i've been spending a lot of time on explaining this concept of hat smear and he tells us that hatsuma is hey smear it's comprised of two the hay smear the hay is thirsty so then he and he explained to us what does it mean what is the hay so he told us hey is malchus kingship this tenth emanation of the ten spheres and explain to us why is its mail because it's the transitional sphere between the higher and the lower so when it when it's in the higher when it's in the higher state it's not samaya it has a lot of gifts from the hot the nine emanations above it but when it trans when when it transfers to give whatever it has over to a next generation a next world called the world of bria et cetera and asea it it needs to give room and make room for those those experiences and those experiences are not as holy and not able to to to to uh to accept the hay the way the hay is in nazinus so therefore when it does come into brie which is an advantage it's cr it's now giving a new experience an opportunity but it itself temporarily loses its high you know it's you could think of it as an example uh it usually comes out of 770. he was a buckler and 77 he was a student surrounded by the see them and the rep and everything else that's a high it's this it's the abode of of his life then he has to go to timbuktu here there and everywhere he doesn't have that so of course the purpose is greater because to to to help a yid who doesn't have it yet elsewhere and to bring him back to codexborough is greater than than sitting in in crown heights of borough park flatbush i mean you know big deal okay you have it all at your fingertips but go out to timbuktu and do it that's an accomplishment but nevertheless so as far as purpose as far as mission and purpose the the kavanagh where you really score points is when the hay is not in its potency but nevertheless look at the hay itself forget about the intent of the hay the intent of the mission good morning moshe myers but the hey the shliya who's out there gets dry and he gets uh you know he needs a battery recharge because he's he's by himself he has a few bella bottom and he has a kegel and even if he has a bikihila this is not his mouth his mouth's her ink you know or his or his trunks or whatever he likes isn't is in in in in his hub you know isn't it his with his fellas you know what his drinking partners you know you know what i'm saying where's cover this is not where discovery is okay understand that okay and every one of us has a hevra okay um it reminds me uh adding steins also steins you know probably don't know this but he had a a group of fever too that was his little corner and in the 70s and 80s it was tuesday and thursday nights from 9 p.m to 3 a.m i know someone who went there told me this i'm giving you first hand account it was a group of five six fellas who met at the on on the anchor tinsky street in jerusalem um in the van leer building do you know about you know the van lee or have you ever heard about the van lee the family are building yerushalayim in that section is a very fancy for for your shallow standards it's a very sta fancy uh building very royal and somehow they met in in one of those rooms all they had was hot water tea maybe coffee and biscuits six hours six hours what did they do for those six hours they learned they didn't schmooze you know maybe they you know in between she was a little bit they learned mishna one so on tuesday night i think they learned mishna mishnayas and gamora and thursday nights i think um [Music] it was madrish madrish and who are the people there rabbi moshe shapiro i think was very passed on he was a leader in the mizrahi movement later he was these were childhood friends steinstein's these were all friends from the teenage years so i i thought about this a lot it's like this was his like these are his buddies you know what i'm saying this is not his teaching to you know to and doing meeting people and it's all great but this is like they they they talk a different language so every one of us should have hopefully i have a friend that lives in australia but you know i'm with him on the under whatsapp and and you know every day many times either not speaking but you know it's a different language it's we grew up together you know the certain yiddish expressions that i want i don't want to say online that we use to express that that idea you know so why am i saying this because hey malhouse not its natural habitat is not the way it becomes a source for creation the natural habitat of of maltress is where when it's in a silut when it's in its original state of being in atheilus oh and there it's very warm and very pleasant and very nice so when it does go to do its mission it gets very hungry and hence the plastic says haas maya the hay is looking to to fill its thirst through being satiated and and and this is what he spoke about in this previous paragraph now let's read the kisser on page 107. um oh one more point one more point he also said what we're on 103. okay thank you 103. you're right he said it the last thing that moshe asked me about and i'm so happy you did he said validate that the top the top line the idea when when the never shelly kiss descends to develop the nephesh obama's it attains additional that's an amazing thought when you go out to put on twilight with a year then when you when you go out go out and learn a gemara that doesn't know what missionaries when you help a yid you benefit from it and not only do you benefit from it a little you benefit from it immensely tremendously and then he said so becomes a mashbiya see normally normally maokos is known avi as the macabre as the recipient right the woman in in the in the um model the male is the mashiach the woman is the the female the woman is the mercado what does it say mashiach comes asia is kyle orteris byla byler she will be the mashpir to the husband what is the idea the idea is that malchus will be imbued with such kayaks because of what it did then it becomes a leader the real leader which also parenthetically the rebbe many husbands asked the rebber about traveling and buying homes and you know whatever said ask your wife and follow what she says and that wasn't only uh a pragmatic answer because it's also pragmatic if your wife's not happy in a house you can buy the nicest house i met someone in crown heights he built himself a beautiful brand new house just now on the corner of i don't want to say weird somewhere in crown heights and i i walked by the house he's a friend of mine like it was great i happened to speak to him he said and she says and he says you know because he talks to me like you know because we're old roommates he says to me and she's not happy i'm gonna have to probably sell the house and buy her another house he built the house custom made this wasn't a board house i the property was knocked down i remember the old the old thing then so pragmatically if your wife's not happy with a house if you want to keep your marriage not just surviving but thriving you better move so that became a practical it but also spiritually why is it that you should consult your wife because asia's hire la terres baila because when meshiach will come it will be revealed that she's the crown of the husband now it's in potential so if you're smart follow the potential okay so this is all you see when you don't see this it gives you a perspective of practical things as well this is what we learned till now now let's just read the kisser oh and then he quoted the verse in zakaria living borders will go out from jerusalem and he says in parenthesis this level of malcols that we are [Music] to the eastern sea the sea of kohma and he says so when she asks what's the connection explain to him of the idea of see why is huffman see so in general water is pure pure because it's the first of the ten spheros so it's the most pure it's in the kud it's an idea once you start most of developing the idea your own stuff gets involved i think this way i think that way i have this decision but when it's an ideal form it's pure right and and um so so the waters will go forth from yerushalayim and half will go to the eastern sea so i i said this i didn't see but i believe the east is represents the eastern religions you know indian and buddhism and then all that and all those things and and it will all be transformed to early course to godliness the rebel in the 1960s and 70s spoke he alluded to this idea at that time everyone knows people were going going to to to india to find themselves and find god and everything else and that ever understood that and he you know reflected back on the prosecutor of rum presence what does rashi say he gave the gift of of of of uh of a certain you know mystical knowledge to to the east to rashi it's not this is not kabbalah it's a hirashi so is there is there some validity to that that that uh teaching those teachings in the east yes according to rashi but a yid has the tater so so because it says abram gave it to haga right he gave it to her it's for you so it's not for us but but the the the jew the nisham is very thirsty and when a jew is bereft of that of himself or herself they're looking we're searching we're searchers and it's good to search and you look you think i'll get it here i'll get it there we we all do this in different ways dates more maybe in business you know where can i make a few dollars to help the family give seduck and all that in the 60s and 70s everyone knows it was very much you know where's god who's god why god who am i all those very important questions so the yama kadmain is the eastern river is the sea of chakhma god's wisdom is in the sea in the eastern sea so the waters will go forth living waters from yerushalayim you know july and being the holiness and will inspire and transform the eastern religions and the eastern to to to reveal its essence just like there are fish and many other things beneath the water when you look at the water you don't see them right so the rambam says he uses that language it'll be like water that covered things in the sea will be revealed all of a sudden you'll see what's underneath the water beneath the water so that's the idea that the that the wisdom that seems to be antithetical to tata etc will be revealed that it is also tighter in a kosher way i mean you know and and and you could say that the rebbe already in 1979 and hillary and i have spoken about this when he spoke one time one second as all of his years where he elaborated on you know what we could do and should do with transcendental meditation and the rebin that sikh i remember i was in saint i was in kansas city a counselor in camp kanya's role 1979 i recall listening to the seek on the hookup and it was it was it was amazing you know to like never heard such language you know i was rather young you know at that time and um and uh the rabbit said that that uh you should you should uh those that need it he said they said those that need it and it's very clear in that circa he didn't say it's for everyone you know he says if you need this type of meditation and he was talking about transcendental meditation i believe tm rabbi said um we should create a kosher way of this type of meditation that will help that will help people help those that need it that's that's a simplification of what he said you'd base thomas 1979 so so at that time aria sorry rob arya kaplan did that didn't he sorry kaplan came up with uh yes yes and no aria kaplan's is not is not no i don't i i'm not a bucky hillary probably knows better i'm i'm not sure he was i'm not sure he he was looking to emulate a kosher tm um a kosher tm approach i think he used he used a more of a meditation a bristle of meditation i don't believe it was what the rebel identified and and and hence uh dr torsky dr twersky avrontorsky told me to my book conversations with the rebel when i interviewed him the rapper wrote him letters and he told me he had it on his desk for many years but then he put it you know in a second shelf because he says i'll get to it one day and he wasn't at the you know he wasn't a hustler to the rebels he had great respect so he didn't jump on it and he didn't do anything about it um that's what he told me and he wrote also to dr judah landis and palo alto who i knew and uh to a few other orthodox scientists and i brought judah landis to marin county in the mid 80s to lead a few meditation sessions using uh what he started to develop at the time where he put he had the room darkened he put on candles and i had them meditate and say you know on the candles while saying shema and trying to i guess emulate the tm approach something like that i'm not a not an expert in it so you know that was my understanding of what was going on at the time but it didn't really go anywhere it did not take off um maybe if twirsky would have invested himself into it maybe maybe it would have taken off but at the time it didn't take off today there are uh several people that are trying again and and doing things one is a woman um an orthodox chabad person out of buffalo new york and uh hilo has been a little bit into also following and trying so you know there's there's uh some some interest uh today but i i can't say that from the one the rebels spoke about in the 79 until today anything concrete happened now maybe it's also because there you know as we went into the 80s and 90s the the need for for tm you know and all that diminished okay enough let's get to the kitchener and then to learn some more inside are you there you read this on the show let's be good for never through the descent of the soul into a body into the bombings although he is going over there he knows it's going to get dirty and liable gambit varma surum even involving itself with prohibited matter and yet the neshama withstands the trial the test where all matters of physical matter should be that he that the the body needs for its existence should be for the sake of hashem nasa when when when the neshama accomplishes this while it's in the body there's an aliyah an ascent banish to the soul and the pleasure that it causes in heaven as it invests itself like i told you here below in this world but it re it's it's mavara it refines all matters that's here below the taste of body beyond it gets a greater oil what's the it who is referring to moshe it's referring to the neshama so the neshama gets more gas in its in its tank okay from being here that's that's the vote let's continue chapter two hillel are you there cause i see a frozen are you there or you you froze yourself out hill okay um [Music] right now malcolm says to me so it's thirsty because it's the lord itself she ordered this laptop it descended to the worlds of creation formation and action and therefore it's thirsty lalit's merely dossier for the call of duty it desires ascending from its descent and incorporating itself in its source is also regarding souls options when souls invest themselves in a body and then an efficient bomb is in an animal drive the soul descended from its level [Music] as as in comparison to the way this soul was pre-descent it was the ultimate spirituality of the lord because of the gospel of god and it had no connection at all to yeshua's to ego ego and to material gosh mist at all because surely the soul before its descent it did not descend and get itself it wasn't in the position of getting itself dirty by the coast guard by becoming contrary to god god forbid it was in a place of holiness but when it descends into a body canal even when it's doing its job like we discussed earlier it's doing what it's supposed to open it impacts the body by subjugating its gosh miss 105. in other words yeah it's doing its job my [ __ ] but you know what it's it's doing his job in an arena which has a lot of schmutz around it and problems and issues this line i want you to look guys 105. there's one line on top shahadahi in english it is related to existence and to the physical after all here it starts from after all after all it is actually clothed in an animal soul if you understand if it's not his lobsters if it's not mislabesh in an animal soul it's no problem you see if you go to to a situation and you're really not there you're not there if you're there as a spectator you're not there i always say when it comes to fabrenium don't sit out of a brain as a spectator sport because then you're wasting your time my time and and you're not there if you're going to vaprengan if you want a beard if i bring it up because someone told you to go you feel you have to go but you really want to be there then you have to invest yourself and to invest yourself your heart then you're there if you're just standing there but you're there yeah i'm there but i'm not there that's what he says here when does this shaman have an issue yes there's some point yesterday and shabbat said uh a dollar the rabbit fire it's very much what you said yeah he said the condition of the people coming is they have to say lucian very good very good yeah but but it it's it's ju it's not just the physical acai it's the it's the it's the it's the what the represents but so the show me here right we're talking here about the summer on high it's in a great place it comes into a goofiness is he says it's it's it's liable to get dirty to get dirty and problematic and all that says that but that's only if the neshama invests itself so the word in hebrew his slap shoot is the primary word to focus on in this sentence an investment if you do something you're not invested you could stand there and be not touched you know people say oh he went to the red but i went to here i went to this side that i went to this godzilla and uh yeah you didn't really go you went as a spectator so what do you expect you know but if you really put yourself into it there's no question you'll be you you you'll be moved on some level so that's what he says on the inside we make you want to make sure that you understand that you see that this is not just more verbage that the rashab has nothing to do to fill this um paper with with ink but rather he emphasizes it makes it clear to us that the only time that that your nephesh will will will be impacted on some level even if it's not in this but it's surrounded by those it's when you're invested let me let me make this more clear because i i'm not sure he's saying here marisha a very important point he's saying here like this yes you realize you have a mission report but and therefore you get yourself invested in the situation the situation will have an impact on you even if you are even if you know better and you know why you're there so you don't allow the situation to really you know to bother you you're still impacted why because you're invested so we have three things we have being invested and being impacted in a way that's negative that's harmful that's disturbing that brings anxiety then we have a medium way which is being invested not being you know touched to the point where you sink but you realize that there is this issue and then there's the highest way well not the highest then there's a way where you're not beholden in in a realm for itself where you're not you're not even invested but that's not what we're talking about because remember what we said that in the summer to the summer what what does the summer get its high from from being invested the fact that the summer was with angels and souls and everything else pre-descent pre-coming into a goof it's like i told you it's like being in a cable in yerushalayim and just you know not caring about what's going on are you really very of course it feels very good but you're not scoring you're not doing something you're not accomplishing but when you're in the world and you have a family and you have to pay the bills and you have to go out and you have a yate sahara and you have to make and you go there's one word over there in that one line over there it's very powerful everything's powerful but it says through the more you use your nephesh the more it impacts you and that is the struggle of the banany the struggle of the banging it consists of that i'm in this world so therefore the gospel is touches me and still to stand above the dashmas that's very hard that that that that's that's a great accomplishment the other two extremes either not having anything to do with gosh me so being so immersed in gosham is where you lost your head that's comparatively simple either this way or that way but to be in the middle to be here and not to be here or to be here and not be impacted where you lose your head that's a great accomplishment that's a banana let's continue next paragraph and just as it's in physical activities it's intellectual activity it one immerses their mind to understand something you want to know how an engine operates for example or some other idea before your neshama was invested in its golf you didn't know about engines in in heaven there's no engines so he's the angels the spheres the souls how does this one look how's this right all of those spiritual ideas that's what avi you neshama was thinking about before it came into a body they knew even intellectual ideas but they are on the gosh mystic um chart loyota clow even that you didn't know of the rashaba is heading here guys not only he didn't know the physical engine the physical engine doesn't exist there but the concept of gasmius was also removed from from the soul's perspective pre-descent although he [Music] its comprehension is materialized geshen it's become materialized the understanding in other words it understands you can say compare it to you know advanced mathematics to practical mathematics so they're both math they're both you know which is more on the spiritual scale but nevertheless there's a difference this is applied mathematics and this is theoretical mathematics um so the soul the way it's in the body comprehends gas means it understands it doesn't have the guy jose who is and why is that because once it comes into the body it's already invested in a natural animalistic soul so it identifies with those conditions generally speaking it now has an association okay very important are we going to say that the soul as it's in the beginning of its descent all full of gosh means no but it has a shikhas you're already in the ballpark you moved into the neighborhood you don't know the neighbors yet you don't know that your shules you know in the community but you're there you're there that's this idea is did the when it goes into the goofiness it's already there it's already there it's left it's going before the descent then had no association whatsoever with this type of goshwise and to the point that from there it can actually become very dirty um so when the shaman feels that it's now in a realm that it's associated with the gospels it becomes very thirsty lawless media also called milo to this to us to ascend from its descent and to be absorbed in heaven in the source it didn't have it before you see my soul is thirsty for you did the neshama have halo this tremolo when it was pre-descent no way how could i have it did the his troubles together with his buddies angels souls celestial beings it's it's happy-go-lucky comes into a golf it's dry here there's no water to drink give me some water please give me some water that's what he says there god came to her by the shoulder it didn't have it before ella it attains the potency of thirst so if someone asks you and you said what's the advantage of the soul going into the body what's the myla that one of the answers is one of the answers is that's the thirst my father told me how in yeshiva in the in lud in the 1950s and the babaji yeshiva he says you can't imagine our thirst to see the rebel he says he remembers when they got the first time a tape sent to them of the rebels foreign 55 whenever it was i forget it says they will all hover over looking at like like wow you can hear this is the rabbit's voice and then the bacharam and you know being inspired by the mashpeem and the fabregans absolutely but they still didn't and and they fought to go to america and islam didn't want to let them damage me they didn't want to let them go so easily because he said you'll get ruined in america here you're in the little statue you're in the yeshiva and slowly but surely one left another left and he came to new york and the first the thirst in a way where this coveted period is thirst right i ca i haven't been with you guys you haven't been with me there's a thirst yeah it's every day we're on the screen but there's a thirst somewhat somewhat similar let's continue being satiated we call that in hebrew from the passage in the same particular divide means that you are you satiate your just like you say you say your your taiva and gosh but love is a state where you don't have a desire for lacus in other words what he's doing here what he's doing here he's taking the words out of their literal context and he's broadening the understanding of two state of minds you hear that one state is called hillel and one state is called simone is the state where i'm hungry and thirsty my soul needs food it needs nourishment that's great daddy sees as a virtue he sees as a negative like it's contrary to the shock and the verse rather means it's satiated so you think you're satiated new a great i'm not hungry anymore he's wrong you're so satiated with your own wills desires and ego so he sees satiated being that he wants to have his physical pleasures and with these physical pleasures he says that he he quests his thirst my name is ellie museum and you know why he could do it they're right in front of his eyes they're right in front of his eyes the godly souls thirsty and desires godliness all the food and all the pleasures it still remain hungry you understand this is what happened in the 60s and 70s and all the 80s we have all the pleasures money and tibis and everything and the guy says where is god what do you mean you have a nice house and you have a nice wife and you know you have a nice bank account wait what do you need god for i'm still empty because my shrama didn't get an ioda gasmius doesn't talk to neshama remember that rule my friends kashmir's does not make the neshama happy and that's why as eden why are we sometimes not happy because we didn't yet um feed the neshram or feed it enough so we remain unhappy that's what he says here i love this line [Music] from goshmas because it what it wants is godliness [Music] to the soul when it descends into this world it's constantly thirsty next page top of page 107 and it can't and it can't satiate its thirst oh mashiach is not here godliness is not apparent so the necessarily kiss cannot cannot quench his thirst completely what does that mean it knows there's such a thing about god i know god exists i know yerushalayim exists i know mashiach exists but i don't see it i don't feel it so i still remain hungry and even those that study and learn kabbalah citizens and this and that they don't have the essence they don't know the essence i told you the story that somehow will say now i know what do you know now oh everything i was learning prima shia it was up here in my head but i had no idea it wasn't like eating a sandwich or touching something but when meshiah would come will be like eating a sandwich you're touching will say aha that's what you meant aha now i got it you know what they call that the the zenith uh the pinnacle right the the what is the word in english they use uh for the aha moment okay so he said i'd lost it your teacher will no longer be hidden then the essence will be revealed but now prima is the essence is not real that's why the neshama is always hungry remember that rule so in other words moisha is the state of hunger good for the soul the answer is yes yes you know there's a famous tai ch the frieda thank hashem that he thought of making the case he's going to make one day the case the end so the the frida karabin i think he gave the explanation that what are we thanking hashem we're thanking halifa the famous word of ken baker this is from the balshempto on the positive side of the will come i should have the same thirst that i had for god and for tata as i did during ghosts so there's a benefit in the goals period while we're here that our thirst is greater okay we'll stop here and tomorrow we'll finish the chapter we'll go on uh any questions you