Dealing with Your Enemy

today we're getting closer to chanukah to light to illumination we're learning kuntusa mayan and we'll read the kisser on page 223 going on to before we continue to play the gimbal which is a lot of nice avoid this hashem conversation you'll see but we learned yesterday that ashab's answer to why akades borgo created the the man's body men's creation in a different way than all other creatures and let's learn the kids that are prefaced this answer by introducing a basic concept brought in the many swarm whatever is greater higher falls lower the example of the stone that's towards the bottom of a wall because you know fellas when the wall falls he smokes a lot crystal i'm sorry when the when the brick when the stone falls from that wall it ends up being near the coastal near the wall washer brush top of next page 225 aggressor what about the stone that's from the the top of the wall when it falls but if he lost up he beneath him and okay so it ends up much further and distant from the wall how the tears had goof no hagov the tendencies the bodily tendencies and indulgences within man green mibaly are much worse than an animal's desires and pleasures and um he says when a tears have used and conversely the spiritual soul-like inclinations and desires nylo is me are much greater than the angelic desires and inclinations and therefore it is within the capability of the nishama the to actually transform doctors to lightest because darkness to light because we're we we have the neshama that's even greater than malachi and this was all uh a response not a response but a clarification of a hazal yakov what ghazal said there's three things that man is similar to to to um animal three qualities and discrete qualities is similar to to an angel to angels and that and what we learned yesterday is that ourselves explaining that really a man is even greater than a chain angel but this is the shaman okay let's learn how to paint a gimbal and the next few pages are pretty easy reading you know it's more of older and booster so we'll go you know not fast but um it should flow so milo salem and this is the virtue of the physical world in comparison to the spiritual worlds um and the advantage to the descent of the soul into a physical body and into a natural soul the miles amidosa in comparison to its stance it had the ultimate unity perhaps and subservience to helicos but nevertheless even though it had that level of unity and subservience to godliness the way the soul than the show me is here on earth it's even more advantageous safer in the book of the intermediates which we began learning a day or so a few days ago pedagogue chapter 36 the ultimate reason for creating this world is that god had a spiritual lust to what to have a home on earth therefore all the spiritual worlds progress in a downward spiral from god the godhead are your daily believers through many garments that conceal the light and the vitality that comes from him and he is water from god almighty and it progresses downward downwards me until this energy from coming from the essence of god actually it creates the physical world and the material world mummish in actuality and this world is the lowest in levels you can't get any lower than it the indian in what matter is it's so low in regard to hester earliest buddhist in regard to the concealment of god's light the choice and a double in a redoubled darkness actually molly clipped but this is all from tanya 36 chapter 36 to the point that this world is full of clippers of the negative energy and the negative side negative they are mamish contrary to god opposite god layman by them saying ani the absiii that's a quote from tanach i for observing i in my existence we are it we're it behind the tackle meaning that the purpose of all spiritual worlds hashem had yeah i could see you better now much before there was a clear that's one thing for sure you guys have a nice son out there while we're just getting ready over here anyway if you should [Music] and because of this man was given the strength and power to overpower the nephesha bombings since uh moshe and yaakov come from chicago and chicago is near cleveland so i'll tell you just something very briefly one of the issues that rabbi gifter didn't understand or had a problem with and he wrote to any and he wrote he he had someone asked the rebber on his behalf i think rabbi khan goodnight from melbourne australia who was a friend of his from their days in tells in 1936 they both were intel's at that time and uh rabbi rabbi gifter sal was was older than rabbi uh the good nick about five four five years older but nevertheless they were together uh in tells before the war and they stayed friends throughout their lifetime brother gifter was bothered by this piece of tanya what was he bothered by he didn't understand he he wanted to know why chabad why the of chabad makes such a big deal from this one madrish that the alt arabic quotes in chapter 36 and tanya you see here there are sharp the previous level we learned it from him and our there but for sure you know they go on that trail and he his question was and you know it's like one madrish and that madras drives the entire [Music] ethos of chabad that was his question so the rabbit told rabbi gutnik who was who shared the question of rabbi gifter you know hey your question is on the altar but it didn't start now it didn't start you know a hundred years ago it started 250 years ago delta ebber already you know the tanya was printed you know in 1796 or so right that's over 200 years ago and the fact is that the alternative sees in this message the answer to why hashem created the world and what he wants of us that's and the altar i mean the question it's so the rabbit really just he didn't he didn't give any any more you know food for thought in a way i don't forever gifted but he's saying that your question points to the answer the answer is that it's not just a little madrish it's if the outfit chooses to put this in his tanya which is a book for banana which means the average man that means it's for you and i and every one of us so it's not just a madrish but this was an issue that he he and maybe some of the other people but he he he articulated it you know like what are you making this big deal of the madrid because you understand what follows this madrish is the chabad's development of 200 years which is to reach out to another jew in every any way in russia in in its way inherit israel way and and and you know and whereas you know the more literature derek of the vilner going was to basically you know learn by learn and be with your own people you know learn toyota taylor taylor and not be worried about getting on the outside i'm not even talking about non-religious people you know okay we're talking about just the whole concept of should i be worried that there be a hater in my village you know because we need more khadori or another mikvah within the froome community you know later in america it it you know it expressed itself in the chabad house movement and going to the college campuses and ever and bringing people back to frank okay but this began 200 years ago and it's this chapter 36 and tanya which the rashaba is now quoting that is really the answer so you know kudos to rabbi gifter who understood very well because he was a great talmud he got it he got very well he he identified in the kuda he identified the what is driving khabad he had he had an issue with with why do we need to take that in the way khabad has taken it but that he identified it as a is very telling so you know here is another example in in my writing style and what i share with you and people is that you could take his opposition and make a big issue of it and you know and this and this discarded and disregarded and and it becomes a the whole to do or you could take the question and look at the question and talk about the question and develop the idea which we just did now then they have more food for thought now again at the end of the day he had his shita and the rabbit had his sheet no question about it but it becomes no longer me versus you you know it's because it's an intelligent argument it's a it's an intelligent question and it's an intelligent argument you see so no longer the the the fire and animosity will dissipate because he has a legitimate question why take one madrish and make of it and the altar obviously does that so that style to that approach and i think when we learn and as we're learning here we understand why the al-qaeda does it because if not we have a lot of questions why just over here this whole idea of why hashem changed the the format of creation of man versus the format of creation of everything else is a very very solid question that begs an answer the the alta rebbe and the rashad and khabad's answer to that is to show that we have a certain mission of making a difference so because this is a mission that's unique to man hashem created man different than everything else is there another answer maybe and you know and if if the literature world has another answer call it kavod no problem but this is the author of his answer and the rashaw's answer so i i share this with you even though it's on a tangent not relevant to the text but it's a very important mindset to understand and this is my humble suggestion when when we when we when we look at differences between the daily israel and sadiq and this is the approach we should use okay and then everyone will choose whether they want to be accosted they want to be a literature they want to be smart you know that's already that's that's after that's after you know i always say would come from because someone legislate you must be above uh a talmud of rabbi gifter talmud of yasha bear salad the whole idea of of of of of hasidis and leadership means it has to come from you so the more you learn and the more you hear and the more you experience and then all of a sudden you gravitate like i told you that rabbi that grew up you know actually i think he learned to wait a minute he's a gifter as a son and you know in a group you know he goes to jerusalem thinking he's there for aliyah and to stay he ends up meeting the toner rebbe and he tells me on the phone earlier this year i became a hustler tonight at 80 years old at 75 years old at 70 years old that's it huh you ask yourself wait a minute you you you are a love yourself you are a writer you're a talmud you learned by by great rash of shiva your father was rabbi gifter rather of a gifter you know you you're he's a person with a great pedigree and a great background and nevertheless something moves him something talks to him and he doesn't feel at peace until he learns from this person and then he's and then he comes to a point where he says i am a hostage of this rebel that that's no one can legislate that that comes from inside and the same is true you know someone who decides this russia shiva this god will be israel is their monah is their leader that's the way it is you know you know could you imagine someone from a chabad home or another hasidic home who leaves and becomes a literature the parents the grandparents the community away how can you do that well that's what felt right to him and i know some of those people i met them you know whatever you know whether i like it or i don't like it makes no difference that's what talks to them and this is part of everything we're learning here let's continue next paragraph the clothes this idea of refining the body but there is this is what we call my friends waging a war the goof having the nepheshan bombings they are not interested and you understand you have to basically battle with them is this enough muslim for you a man must know that the nephilim bombings and the yay sahara are your greatest enemy the faith and they come to man in clever deceitful ways to convince him using their smooth tongue i love his language and with great wisdom and they trap him to make him go [Music] they begin by saying just indulge eat more sleep more etc etc you know first they get in into tives that are kosher not trace eat a lot sleep a lot indulge a lot pleasure your body um and slowly but surely madison might say they push him aside minah at their top of next page gomer from complete permissible matter ella heter shall be the evidence to pro to permissible matter under duress circumstances so we have two things motion we have hetero and heteropathy evident so first the first thing obama's the eighth holiday says listen it's it has six shades and bells and chabad and and and and and um and some safer and and whatever every [Music] so he made his business to put in his office here on 14th avenue borough park for his poultry in iowa you know the famous rabashkins um he had a a letter of approval from like five or six different from washington heights from the yakis from the sophmer from the laboratory from here there everywhere sir everyone should say that they're happy with his hecture and eat his meat so so too what we're learning here is that the yate sahara says to the person listen what this is kosher according to everybody there's no questions that's called heterokatrila then he goes to hector be the evid you know this group says no this group but you know you could rely on you know you're not you're not a lich you're not a husted you're not as far to sure you know saying you don't have to follow them if you if you eat okay i know you don't eat basios of meat but there's nothing else around so now what are you going to say thousands of as far the shayden are eating god forbid traits no it's kosher it's not what you usually hold oh hector bit the evid for you it's a header because you normally don't eat basios joseph meat i'm just picking an example not picking on anyone let's continue ah you say become amino types and this leads to accustoming the person to indulgences and you become this is the word addicted hillary's not on i see but here he talks about addiction maybe a habit like oh you're there i just didn't i'm sorry i didn't see your face i just had my picture off because i was i didn't want it okay okay okay no no no no it's fine it's fine okay fine good there's longer than you're there so so here the rabbit says he becomes addicted to the taiva habit he can't control his what he sees you know i mean pornography would be an example grace and his spiritual powers are weakened to control his abundance of desires physical pleasurable desires you remember we when we learned the previous episode he would say these juicy lines you can see where he got it from his father shop who usually was floating in intellectual ideas here he's really down to earth and re really using this juicy language he flow he he ends up like a corpse in the through the in the hands of the yetzer horror and the devil babies therefore in the clones you say no liats to yourself no i'm not going to follow you well because i am alive and whatever the aids are hurting says no you ain't met julioxane you should say to yourself yes having this opposition this defiance to the aids of hudder who may deal i ate sahara man notifies the hate sahara who sinai you are my enemy and i'm fighting i'm fighting against you very important this we've said this this negotiation nonsense many times it's pure nonsense you are my opponent and you want to destroy me okay we have an enemy the iran they want to destroy people okay they're cloaking everything they are an enemy that's that's it until they do real chuva which they haven't yet done they're always finding ways to swing that way and that's why eric's role is hashem doing what they have to etc why because it's a constant enemy by the sanctions and deuce and that and shaking hands they're an enemy okay the yate sahara please no is our enemy and there's no making up with an enemy because this enemy has one thing in mind to get you so you have to fight it now if you're able to and you're smarter and you have the the means of techniques you convince it to your side and transform it to be an eighth as it says in qasidis from an oyeyev which means an enemy to an oyhave aleph hey verves which means a lover a beloved one the enemy the ayate becomes the oihave let's continue [Music] one of the strategies of battle who are see muslim in your name is to pay careful attention to details victory is not dependent only on a great army of many people and much ammunition who the primary mode of victory is it is to come up with smart strategies outwitting an enemy more than through flaw of large forces and better arms sometimes and that was the six day war right the six day war we were the underdogs and argento won the war why because hakodesh barco gave people seiko and gave us sacral and we used our sacral and we outsmarted the enemy so although they were larger in numbers and in ammunition nevertheless we won the war so it's also true and spiritual the spiritual battle the veda is the indulgences and the transgressions hey mcclay zion they are compared to the ammunition of which man upon which man justifies himself hein heimer that's considered the intellectual um you know the rationalization of the eight saharan africa bombings by clever and deceitful tactics to convince man to do nonsense what does he do to capture to conquer god for it even those who are unyielding to lust and sins what does the yeats of how to do it convinces him he works on his brain on his on his mind and he convinces him to finally give in although ordinarily he wouldn't do so so what do we see that it's not the a large amount of ammunition and great amount of people army people in the spiritual sense the abundance of of stus that gets the person to follow yet sahara it can be in a small little corner with a small private conversation where the eight sahara convinces you to follow its dictates my shadow came therefore look at this line yo this someone is a perfect sadiq can discover in himself foolishness of disorder she may see even though they're very refined and it won't cause him to do a very coarse and obvious aveda in kosair nevertheless small deficiencies that are no good for a saddik are the greatest blemish mushroom or hitting the rock was the greatest sin for all of us we would have been embraced and kissed and said we're the best but not militia because martial abano is moshe rabbenu there's no room from this type of imperfection he's not learning for the sake of being a rabbi not learning for the sake of of paranosa he's learning from one thing it's god's title um and he dives with great kavanaugh next page 29 well the dust over dweckers and the floyd he's totally immersed and has the vehicles in his darkening arch until he has this great thirst at a tickle on that to the point that the the the spirit is so that the flesh becomes repugnant to the soul that means he's really in love with hashem [Music] oh but when he says it's my accomplishment ah i learned so well right the boys when he comes from you know feeling that he accomplished it to feeling of a sense of pride arrogance of pride in a gayest authentic this type of arrogance lowers them so much until he loses all the good that he does so this is of course a concept in moosa and qasidis the idea is you can learn from day to tomorrow 24 7 and what and it's all guyva and rashab is suddenly alluding this at a time 1904 where there are many yeshivas learning tight on that level and that ashab is giving uh you know guys he says you know don't think that if if indeed your learning is based on gails then it's problematic they are man's enemy in this physical world was the purpose of the progressive descent of the world of the of the energy of hashem services to transform the doctors to likelihood of muhammad you have to do it in a way of waging a war but see my slave by paying attention also to matters that seem insignificant and unimportant aveda aveda taivo available and the as i said earlier the foolish foolish justifications are worse than the actual veda we discussed this earlier just like guyva concedes that ruins and hurts even everything that one has done in terror mitzvahs what time is it okay so um what do you think about what we learned today any comments have it i i've got a question yeah so not that long ago and i hear this i've heard this many many times but not long ago i either heard an interview with a rav i don't want to see too many details with his rav who's in the united states he was saying he's a very successful love and he's um the large following and uh he was speaking about how all he wanted to really do was just sit in like ushalaim and learn torah but for various reasons he had to go back to the states things that were beyond his control and he for various reasons so some one thing led to another and he became he basically basically became a rav of uh of akilah he was asked to come and help and so with and his his attitude was he was very nice but his attitude was like really like i i just want to sit and learn torah new shalom you know and like basically no no one bothered me but it was so it was almost as if like i'm gonna be blunt it was almost as if like but never you know like i needed to go i couldn't do that so now like i'm a rav and and you know i'm helping people but really that's i just want to sit by myself and you know be by myself and you shallam you know and i i've heard this over the years so many times in various forms i'm bringing that up because when we we were just learning about the i don't know i i i feel that i know something i feel what i'm describing is connected with this this last part that we were just learning i've been i don't know i'm just curious what you would say about it that's all well there are and also why am i raising it i'm raising it because really listen i mean it's a good thing learning torah we know is a good thing we know it's a good thing and we know that there's halachos probably that like regarding the person is parnassa how much if he has pronounced us how much really should he be going after work if he has pranasa from i don't know you know like investments or real estate or what have you and he has time to learn so i guess he should learn but this this but i felt that there was an attitude which is like um it seemed very selfish at the end of the day it always seems very much i hear you loud loud and clear and i believe we all hear you loud and clear and and it's actually what we've discussed at the beginning of this year today that the question of rabbi gifter and the rebels answer and the altered answer now you know the gifter had you know they have pierche and they you know they did things but by and large robert cutler rabbi gifted the litvisher shiva is an american so to not just roll they you know their their is learning for learning and that's it you know um everything else you identified it very well is a second tier no question about it no question about it second tier it's like you said if i never couldn't sit and learn full time in yerushalayim or lakewood then get a job and we've discussed this i think you know this is spilled over to the whole like what you do you know um the wife has to work and bring him income so the husband can sit and learn you know and now on one hand you know it's like yeah a husband should learn but you should make your wife work because you want to sit and learn you find a way to sit and learn and if your wife can work fine you know but but this is what they i told you i gave a shirt about 15 to 20 years ago here in borough park and actually a baysiaco building it was a shrewshire i remember like yesterday and those 50 60 ladies in the room and a lady got up and later i found out she was a principal or a vice principal of the big bass yakov you know with hundreds or maybe a few thousand students and she challenged me in public which is fine because it was a question and she did it respectfully but i spoke about this nakuda and she basically in front of everyone said this is not our shita she meant our delicious cheetah and you know and i handled it fine and this year continued after this year i'm on my way out and two girls you know teenagers at 18 19 whatever they cornered me and like i was like it was like unusual you know their fruit you know i'm saying it's it's i'm a rabbi the two girls they're like you know it's like it was a little uncomfortable and they said could you come to our school and talk about this po in public i said i wish they wouldn't let me in and and this is this this continues what should i say i mean this continues and and it's not going to change it is not going to change or in other words what you're identifying is not changing the the the kitsonius the externality that maybe is changing a little bit because of social pressures and issues but in shita there's no change and last um august or september 2019 and it's coming out of my next book on khabar and tells it's a shame in two three weeks a rabbi it'll be in the book because he went public with it so i have a right to talk about what he said he was asked by the by the interviewer um you know would your father say today what he said in 1964 and over the years that it's it's better just to learn and learn and not deal with the world like you're saying and he's and and he's and this is the way he put it the moderator he said is it better to have five people learning in a cold versus five thousand people in the chabad house coming in to eat chunked and to schmooze and he's and who didn't know any different then all of a sudden started to come to a cabaret house and he said on the radio in front of everyone and anyone better to have five people learning and my father would support that so that's it you know you know and i know that his own siblings were very upset for why he said it but really he said the truth and i'm so glad that he said it because that's the shita you know so so everyone has to decide what they're comfortable with and it's not a question of better or worse it's a it's a difference of of attitude have i have another sheer i have to go to zygozoon talk to you tomorrow bye bye have a good day thanks have a good day thank you thank you