Chanuka: Self- Control

we are on page 102 uh the mimer marchavaca where right now the rebber the previous rabbit explained to us the importance of cabola soil as the foundation to make the understanding of hashem in what we call an achtus hashem finding hashem's unity and everything and everywhere requires that it be based on kabul of soil not just on logic and now he brings proof from the number it's the first line the top line the last two words the foundation of all foundations and the pillar of all wisdoms later it is to know yes edition that there is a first cause a first existence the who and this first existence makes possible all future and other existences and all other and all existences make sure my and the others of heaven and earth means everything um and anything and everything between heaven and earth do not become existent and possible only because of the true existence the truth that's a quote as you see the quotes from the ramba now says the previous level the rabbit says that the rambam says three fundamental points let's see what they are how you say the olives the first important point this first existence makes possible all existence that's the point number two and finally point three for yes yes calling it saying that the manner the method of which hashem makes possible all existence it's through what we call true existence true existence is the method used to make existence and although these are foundations claimed in your name after me and they are essential qualities of akadesh when it comes to inherent essential qualities the the whole realm of khakira of searching adrisha and expounding is not relevant that's relevant where you when you talk about uh uh when you talk about a discussion inside when you talk about a definition a manifestation but in xm this is what it is it is what it is it's nothing to talk about it is what it is [Music] something that we call cree a creation new intellect over there moshe the concept of hakira and risha um searching re inquiring and expounding hippo by means falls upon it it's it's applicable let me explain you honestly when you have a when you have something new that didn't exist before and now comes into existence you have the right to ask where did it come from why did it come from what's going on because it lent itself to that world it's comprised of that world but we talk about foundations in other words how the building is standing and why the building is standing and where will the building go and all that is once you have an erect building but the foundation in the ground it's a foundation it it it is it is there's nothing here to ask about so that was the previous set up is rhetorical question on his own words is what what um after the rambam's words what does it mean to to on one hand that rambam calls them yosoid hayes foundation of all foundations the fundamental ideas the three points and at the very same time we're examining them there's no seemingly there's no room for examination they are what they are so he now responds avo the word aval now is the retort to his rhetorical question although however the indian you saw this you asked me i'm sorry i'll take that back i will still part of the rhetorical point i will be in yes id but regarding a fundamental point who asks me which it is the essential issue the whole idea of searching inquiring and expounding is not applicable is not applicable so i'll say and here comes the answer the report that's why the rambam adds the words look back at those four words which everyone cites throughout history now the rambam wasn't it wasn't just into poetry writing you know poetic language the pillar of all pillars i'm sorry the foundation of all foundations and the pillar of wisdom i mean come on you know now of course you know that the son the son of the rambam says that those four words are an acronym of youth cave of k are you familiar with that right you say this you how you say this is hey the name of hashem is spelled out so avraham ben harambam the son says my father alluded to the uk wolfgang in those four words and then the mukubalam argue from this we see that the rambam was a capitalist but of course the the the the um many others disagree and they say that's nonsense you know that doesn't prove that he was a capitalist okay so those that don't because there's a big argument whether the rambam was a rationalist or a cat or a rationalist plus a capitalist it's a very big discussion and it's basically the disagreement between the yeki washington heights yet jews and and and and and many others the yuccas believed that rambam had nothing to do with kabbalah it's all nonsense the fact they denied they deny that the zoar that the zoro is from the rapture and i don't want to go into it but it's a whole this is a whole discussion in jewish literature not in talmudic literature but in you know in the more modern writings of hakira you can find it all over the web you know but hasidah and even even the guru i believe accepted that the rambam i i i'm not sure if the guru did i think he did but for sure the ball champion see this accepts that the rambam was uh was was a couple and they bring this as proof but what will get that okay so i just told you that as an aside but we're getting that over here is the rebber's point is why is the word let's [Music] this very essence becomes [Music] right in chapter two in chapter four who are you there who are you doing right he's all one so that so the the rebels saying that's what the rambam means by adding the words this essence of yes you say this this is one with khakha which is a kiddish it's a novelty because seiko and sakhal is what a mahdish a novelty a creation and if it's a creation it lends itself to questions and answers dialogue says but by hashem it's not that way that's by man but by hashem he and his knowledge are all one so just like he is beyond hakido drisha his must be on you honestly did you ever hear a shirt on that in morristown for an ability or someone else yeah because this is this is a common discussion in when you see this in yeshiva let's go on so he says the fact that hashem creates look how he looks look at the word motion doesn't use the word ubria it says you know why because when you talk about bina and beyond usually use the word uh bria when you talk about we talk which is the the first it's it's yet it in comparison to beena to understanding that and an analysis the the point in the kuda is just i don't understand it it's just an idea what am i going to do with it so it lends itself to the word i see look but it means creation but not creation as its creation embryo it's the creation as it's in the godhead called that silas that gives room and possibility for for mankind for creation for creek creatures to understand god and this is good listen to this yes hashem and his wisdom are one but the fact that there is in the godhead gives the ability for one to expound god to understand god yes masha you did it that sounds pretty radical why is that right why it means the concept of a person a human creation being [Music] seems to agree with you but he says when you learn paneemia you're having a conversation with god and that's the whole idea yeah i'm paraphrasing what he said but but in other words obviously he was like also bothered by the what you're saying it's radical but that's what he's saying that that's that's another um benefit of learning to see this is because you are in the in the ballpark in the domain of conversation with hashem that's what see this is i see lesbians and all that right and and and and and now you can understand why the muslim had a problem with it you know way back in the time of the the going and and the belgentif because like you said it's very radical but came along the holy basham tip and said no and the alternate but took it a step further and developed it in chabad in understanding and said no there's a kosher way of having a concert but it's it it absolutely is radical no if anyone tells you it's not radical they don't understand what's going on it's radical and that's why it caused an uprising but at the end of the day your test kisler substantiated from on high that this radical approach is a godly approach and not a foreign approach and that ever said 200 years later all the kindness and and concerns of the of the of the misnom you know that this is a radical heresy we see is unfounded because by and large see them remain faithful to potato mitzvahs so it's not heresy it's different than what you're used to granted but it has its sources in tata and the world needed it both because there was a melancholy and depression of the jewish community at the time and because it's a a neat a spark of mashiach's time and as we get closer we need to taste the food of shabbos of shabbos and earth shabbos so we're tasting the food of moshiach vis-a-vis the teachings of but but did they have reason for concern absolutely and that's mounted on top of the i was discussing it with my friend in australia whatsapp this morning with the the the the behavior of the carleener khasid who started before the altar he was during the time you know he was older and some of us had seen him wanted showed want showed disrespect for talbot so they they made themselves very silly you know by going into a a fruit a food store and saying they want to buy nails to to knock into a board they humiliated himself and part of that humiliation was to humiliate talmud because they wanted to show that the essence is not wisdom the essence is practice heart and they did these things they were called it was in the year 1770 in hebrew is tough kuflamid and if you reverse the three letters tough kuflama you get talk so the saying at the time was talk is niche see they talk is niche can't talk the faceboom of is not appreciative that's not the way so the the maggit and and the altareb and others were very upset with this behavior and this is a whole i've written about it too one of my books because it's important to understand the history of what bothered them is not them about see them so this was a practical issue that really bothered them but we're talking today about the philosophical issue yes motion just out of curiosity which one of your books interesting what you just had with oh you know i'll i'll have to i'll have to do a search um okay it's okay i'm just curious yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah i have to do a search you know i i write so much i'll i'll do a search and i'll tell you belineder but i i clearly wrote about it because it's it's a very important uh it might be in my first book or the volume 2 which is coming out next year i don't recall at this point but this was this was this was a a major issue or maybe it's in the book coming out now on cabaret and stalin and square i told jonathan about it could be i wrote about it there it could be um because the stone you know um the carleener the stolen carleen so it could be that i wrote about it there in a footnote you know um but and and by the way when you look at the interrogation papers of the altered casino called carliner carliner carliner which is very interesting they're not called chabad the whole i the whole name khaba didn't exist at the time or at least if it existed it wasn't it wasn't a big deal what was really known was the carina and why because of their wild behavior this is again i'm not saying sanctioned it but but as a as a result of rabbi aaron's avoider his cousin went on a rampage of being the bottle they must snag them you know you know how it is people get carried away so that you know the rabbit can say one word and then see them take it up a mile and and it led to a moment that led to a lot of problems big problems now whether whether this was the the the the main reason for the his not this for the opposition to see them or it was the philosophical issue that we discussed earlier that needs to be discussed or looked at carefully and maybe i'm sure they've written about it but you know i can't give an opinion which one had more weight than the other but both were issues anyway look yeah you know i know i've got my wife know some kind of people and they always have problems with me being come back always i mean you know what what is it for these people what is it well you know again i don't know if they you know if they're real carleeners and they want to keep to the to 200 years before what baron they were all into meet us into emotionalism you know and and chabad is the total opposite that's one issue the other issue is that the alta rabbit didn't allow that slayma karliner to settle in uh bashankavits which was under his territory and he told them he told them you could come here but you can't teach your style of situs here and he never came he ate well i'm sorry he didn't come he didn't come there but later he came but they murdered him so it's a very sad story oh my in god i think he was murdered um and um but altar ebba told him you know that i was charged to to take care of this region and the they hear i do not want to be just rely on your river i want you to do your own work and you know which is the chabad ethos and uh i that it could be that some of them are still living with that um anger you know that that feeling i don't think so i don't think that's the reason but if you want to know i i wrote about this i mean you know way back and rob usher that wait there's number point wreck usher off stolen i think is the son or grandson of rabbi iron of carlene he lived during dalton rebels times into you know the eighteen hundreds he sided with uh above rum khalaskir who opposed the altareb in the late 1700s so i mean there you know so stolen way back was not a friend of chabads but but it it then as the years went on it all kind of ended you know so i can't tell you why they you know they um yeah in in in in in other words the stolen casino history it's a different derek than chabad in a way it's the opposite derek of chabad and they're very passionate you know so they're very passionate in their avoid of response of emotionalization so you know to them they know that khabad is just the opposite of that type so it's it's it's a stita whereas gare for example or or you know another they weren't the the emotionalism they're hagas but they it wasn't a cornerstone of their belief in carlene and stolen it's a cornerstone like i've told you if you don't scream all your lungs out during dominant you're not a real stoner and and i s and i saw it by i saw it by very by top stolen even though the rabbit the rabbit doesn't do that which i don't want to go into it but it's a little uh i asked about it and then you know they throw back at me your rabbit doesn't didn't daven that lens barricades like it says in the right they're a shop so you're pointing the finger at our rabbit but the last stone this stolen the river today he ain't screaming and he ain't blowing his lungs out he's very he seems very very uh right but if you but but but but moisture if you see some real to see them who still from the past and they're not like that and even here in borough park some of them who they're not israelis they're americans and they grew up here in america in the 30s and 40s they were daving with fire i would go in there just just to get a high from it it was it was inspirational just if when you know you needed a charge okay let's i want to finish the mime let's go back okay it's good good for bringing maybe one of the future of our brains we'll talk more about it number two that this existence makes possible all over existence number three the manner and method in which he makes these existences possible whom it is coming from the truth of existence says not only is that mean to say that it's possible to know hashem as much as this radical idea [Music] but with the the the rebels interpreting the rambam what the rambo is really saying is that the mind the brain capacity of man can actually grasp god elohim and the rappers has another point what the means to say by saying this moshe is you're obligated to do this he isn't saying right those that it's the pillar of wisdom for you to play golf and if you decide to think about god go for it no you have an obligation as a yid to [Music] it falls under the positive a positive commandment is in addition to the fact that this idea is the foundation of all foundations the pillar of all wisdoms and media so he made sure to say knowing the very fact that you know this information that you understand hashem you you work towards understanding him you're fulfilling a mitzvot so that ever knows that this is really radical like moshe said so that whenever you see the indian you know the rapper is on to explaining that something that i said was really far out and radical i need to explain it in brazil so the explanation is [Music] that your brain capacity and your mind that you listen have to understand and comprehend the that you're learning um the mitzvah of knowing tata is in addition to the mitzvah of learning toyota it's two separate mixtures of the mitzvah is of the the mitzvah of knowing taylor involves saying the words of tata i've gotten in your day of producing even if you don't know their explanation the idea is that i'm sorry i'm sorry i'm sorry limou limuta also includes saying the words of toyota even if you don't understand what it means however you die the knowledge of tito shir mitzvah and the mitzvot in a beautiful way ava because he nevertheless he missed the close it's a general mitzvah believe though without difference which you're studying the noise our lane the mitsubishi ds in addition to knowing hashem it being the mitzvah saying the answer my idea the very knowledge itself hibiscus it's a specific mitzvah or the limit here's a 30 years but give more mix-less so when you learn this look what the recession look how it concludes when you learn yeah you're doing three mistakes one limo you're learning two you deal you're learning you have you understand traitor you have the knowledge via dealer and number three via dslrs and you're knowing the divinity of tata which is greater than both it's not just you're learning about uh not scoring an ox and you're not just learning about sukkah you're learning about god that's a third aspect and that ebba says here her oil out which is greater than everything else that's also a very radical mission he ties it back to the theme of the mimer this is the jug of oil they're sealed with the seal of the korean goggle that's how you win the war over the animal drive so the red bin this mimer is telling us clearly you need to learn siddhis to win the war it's not enough to have limu data it's not enough to have you dear satayr but you need to study me zatera because that is the jug of oil and only that jug of oil will light the moneta and win the war the other one is is the other two of it's traitor it's a say of course but the element of victory over an opponent acronym they rested on the 25th the rabbit doesn't go into it but he says 25 cafe is the is the 10th emanation called malchus kingship royalty this means that they brought into the world godliness that impacted malcolm's kingship royalty the world the beginning when you talk about the emanations the swedish is the last of all ten what does that mean in service of god in you oh boy whatever brings it back home talking to us now directly to us means controlling yourself the hardest thing self-control okay you crowned him over all your organs [Music] one should one should be and it and becomes control over himself you understand so in other words until you hit balchus you're still not in full control of yourself with with godliness being what controls you that's why it's when were they able to rest only on the 25th because you don't have ultimate rest if you're not in control because if someone else controls you or something else controls you you're not really at resting you're not real you're still getting waging the war and that's why we say hanukkah they rested on coral on cafe they accomplished the control over every part of their being on the 25th ie kingship that's when they became emotional oximeter see you don't have this in most of the my morning that i've seen in hanukkah you don't have this particular lesson and that's what we're learning here maisha is a very important lesson to share with the family and friends about hanukkah why did they rest on the 25th everyone will tell you because they wade they fought the war they they won the war on the 24th so they they still were fighting right and the and the season and they won so the next day was the 25th comes along and says that's true but what does it mean spiritually to a person it means that until you come accomplish that you are a ruler over yourself with god and he's guiding you you're still at war it's a fantastic thought i mean and again it's it's a very hard thought to be in control a person should lead their life to be in control and only hashem's will is what's done that's that's the hardest thing but that's what hanukkah is about so go unannounced today and put up a sign hanukkah's about self-control they'll think you're out of your mind well that's what that ever says here it's about self-control another good thing to fabrain about the zeal my hanukkah so now you look at the gemara what is hanukkah you know what he says what the gemara is asking my hanukkah the gemara is asking how can i have self-control my hanukkah what is hanukkah how do i accomplish self-control he knows how are you there that comes through working on yourself because that the month the summer months i would call the straight light or yoshi the the tough winter months that we're going to have tomorrow supposedly a northeast of eastern here's a snow storm if it ever comes hopefully it won't come the months of the winter came our heiser and you know very well from chicago how cold it gets there in the windy city where crazy moisture you know what that wind is it's what we call the rebound light right you know basketball when you got a rebound and a guy gets any stuffs you know what i'm saying it's intense the rebound it's intense or hyzer so the winter months are the intense months the summer months the sun shines it's the godliness although sometimes it says it's just the opposite but for now let's leave it at this during the summer months which is the third of the summer months civil which is the mountain tower month or the hotel what does it mean in service the summer months nissan up to ferris if you talk about it in this fierce demonations it's the third sphere called the pharah's beauty because it's all riding smoothly comes along the cartridge of the winter months or the closer it's the rebound it's the it's the argument that coming out of an argument this is an avoider not torah but davening service it's victory you know what victory means you go through a war and you win endurance oh when you got nets you're a you're a real king why because you had an opponent and you had an issue and you overcame and that's self-control self-control means you don't want to be controlled and yet you refine yourself and you come to a point where you do control yourself which represents victory but avoid that fish that's when the eden has self-sacrifice messiness on the twenty-fifth needs hope s.a from him that's why specifically on the 25th they overcame overpowered the assyrian greeks hashem who opposed the divinity not just torah right remember we learned earlier in the member they opposed the divinity of torah on its face of his brother and god's mitzvahs so there ever and you know you're probably wondering how did he answer all the questions for that i'll have to you know do another uh thinking which i'm not right now there so i can't answer that question how he answers every single question but most of the questions are answered because he asked about why the 25th he gave us an answer because the 25th about self-control which is the ultimate victory over the greeks which want to abolish self-control self-control in other words do it your way why must you keep shopping on saturday keep it on sunday why must you have circumcised a child at eight days right all of that circumcise them at 25 30 you know so so that is explaining to us the importance of the 25th and that's why it's called chanukah i i wish someone would take this mimer this is certain and rewrite it in in english maybe someday you have time this is a minor that lends itself to a beautiful essay i'm serious and an essay that's inspirational for the average person hosted not hosted will have to go your yi you see that's something we still haven't done we have to take hasidis and and write hasidis as essays that should be comparable to the world's best essays and then give source material references where it comes from i don't know have you found anyone that's done that about jacob every year jacobson jesse jacobson or simmons whatever one of the brothers has what an essay humanity okay fine fine fine good beautiful what i'm talking about is taking a mimer taking this you're right you're right i know someone i know someone take who wrote for that contest he took a mimer he wrote it up or part of a mimer and it's excellent and i actually used it and shared it with other people that's what i'm talking about this mimer my hanukkah moshe was asking me yesterday you know about my hanukkah here here's a gemara that any yeshiva booker any any from person knows the gemara my hanukkah what's hanukkah and take this and give him what the frieda could ever says how to look at this my hanukkah it's an eye-opener and and it'll be welcomed of course you say you know this is it's not the literal meaning but it's it's it's it's it's something that's you know has its sources in kabbalah and hasidis and and and more importantly it's very practical self-control is a very very important issues each day you know jonah said it's not just an important issue these days it's been an important issue in the past and will be in the future it go it go against the very the very uh existence of men in a way as we as man is now who doesn't want to be i mean in control controlled i mean what's rosh hashanah let's let's go back rosh hashanah's two days submitting to hashem you know but this is chanukah is taking it like a step further into into your practical life maisha al-atsuma and you know unless you could explain and prove why this is better for mankind people generally don't like this idea we like to do what we want to do and not be controlled right and the argument is you have free will doesn't free will support not be in control you don't tell me how to do it i have free choice the answer is of course you have free choice part of free choice is knowing that you are a creation of hashem and hashem gives you the free choice and will never take that away at the same time over heart of baha'i goes back to the torah the torah says hashem says and you shall choose hayam so moshe it's a contradiction you're telling me i have free will and then you tell me choose higher choose life and what's the answer it's not a contradiction this is the advice of god almighty to us says hey guys be smart choose cry him and you you'll have it good you don't want to don't yeah otherwise you gotta get yourself a good lawyer yeah or you got to be your own lawyer and that ain't fun but uh anyway uh musha mentioned today is the day when the altareba was redeemed released from jail the second time dalton was imprisoned it wasn't those with the same hardships as the first time and uh frankly i don't know and i'm not even sure if there is lots of information about the second the prism in moshe so i i don't have much to say about it and i don't have this forum to look into you know um but it is brought in and moshe mentioned it to me yesterday that it's this it's uh that's one of the reasons maybe why the cemetery made the latke party you could say with his family on the fifth night one of the reasons it could be that he in other words why didn't he do it more he honest in the fourth night or the sixth night or the first night it could be that was like the celebration to celebrate his grandfather's release from jail the second time moshe what do you want to say i see you're looking at something yeah i just i pulled my i keep in my studio and you said it would say yo my i'm just curious where it is that's all i thought i saw it i don't have a young girl in front of myself it's one of these days am i wrong well it was oh wait a second i'm sorry look on the look look on today's day i was looking the wrong day so look at the wrong day um yeah so uh uh so for the kislev of uh zion third day it says during the autorabbi's second arrest um in 55 61 1800 he was not incarcerated as harshly right the first time right that's what happened the charges were more the charges were more ominous right for they were at the doctrines of hasidis and the opposition was intense he was held in the tani soviet prison and released on the third light of chanukah it's interesting says it was released on the third light of hanukkah right right that's why i said i said possibly yeah so if you look at there and his volume on moadim yeah he brings it but he brings it on he says the fifth night is interesting right that so that that's why that's the question it says he was released on the third night so why we celebrating the fifth night but but you're saying robert zeven says he was released on the fifth night you know what's the i i'll have to look at it again i'll i'll get it and if he does moshe if he does it's it's not a contradiction i'll tell you why because he came from the strain of hasidis known as the couples which we discussed sometimes you know and it could be they had a different tradition than the lubavitch tradition could be see this this you got to go back 150 years we don't know but but i do know if you look into base review which is and he was also of the cup mall the couple's lady line of chabad the rabbi rabbi his name was hellman hellman the author of base reber was not a cluster of the marash he was a cousin of the mirage's brothers of the couple's dynasty with the first the ladies and the composter although later he came back to the friday career but when they already passed on and he was still alive so anyway have a great day listen i'm not i'm not giving shia the next few days we're going to learn sunday machine back to country mayan okay it's for sky dishwasher and uh you know if you need to communicate with me i'm always available you know he says by the way we're done just want to mention there is a side note in the yum yum when it talks about the rib is second to rest yeah it says here it points to c on learning from klaus page 24. it says the safe unlearning hasidis yeah that's that's for the frida kahraba okay yeah so i you know i have it somewhere in the house i don't have it maybe it's online but you can find it yeah i i i i think i have it i think i have it so then then take a look and let me know what you find i'm interested you know it's something that you brought to my attention that i never really checked out well and um it's interesting okay my societies aren't good seeing you and friends take care bye-bye