Derech Mitzvosecha Minu Melech #10 - Pedagogue: Do you have one? Is the Rebbe one? RC Dalfin

Meeting, yeah. >> So, we're learning the my mid mid mid of the Tzemach Tzedek, we are getting towards uh the end of this chapter and then into the final chapter. With Hashem's help, we'll finish it. The last day of class will be next Tuesday. And then we break for pretty much a month till after uh the three weeks. Um not after the three weeks, after till the shalom shalom. Um first, second, and third, depending on the calendar where I am, uh we'll resume. So, we have four classes left today. Uh yeah. Uh Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, five classes. Okay. So, today we're going to learn about the importance of the three of the three the four people who gave away their life part of their life actual years to to David Hamelach. I I I don't know if I explained this, but I I do want to take a moment cuz it's it it it sounds very uh like spooky. Yeah, in other words, here's the question. Can Can you Can I Can Can Moshiach Can we decide to take 5 years of our life We First of all, we don't know how long we're going to live. But, whatever it is, and we say, "Have God, I'm taking 5 years and I'm giving it away to my son, my daughter, my rabbi, my friend." I mean, it sounds like so uh ridiculous. Now, what we learn in our writings of the Torah, first in the midrash and then in the Zohar and the Talmud that it says it says that that's what happened with King David Hamelach, with King David. So, A, if you believe in the writings and teachings of of the rabbis, then you believe it. If you don't, you don't. Since the Tzemach Tzedek does believe it, and since we believe it, therefore, we have to understand it. Now, just for a point of reference, you should know when the previous Rebbe, the Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, in 1921, he was very sick with typhus. He had very high fevers, and he They say he was almost, you know, dead. So, Chassidim, his followers, his adherents, who loved him, they pledged years of their life to the Rebbe. And, you know, I don't know how many how many you know how how many years how many people, but I heard that they they they they they made a pledge to God. It doesn't mean that they went to the Torah and made a pledge at a Mishaberach. But, to themselves, they made a pledge and said that we want our Rebbe to live longer, and he's so sick and seems like he's going to die, going to pass away. Therefore, I give away one of my years, whatever that amount I have. I don't know how many, I give it away to the Rebbe. When you when when when you believe in ruchniyus, in spirituality, that it's as real, if not more real, than physicality, then this is possible. If you don't believe that, then it's all a hoax, or in good Hebrew Yiddish bubbe mayse. You must have heard it growing up. It's a bubbe mayse, it's baloney. You You it's Houdini and and and and and and magic and stuff like that. But if you believe in the world of ruchniyus, that that there's there's so much more to to the fact that we mentioned, you know, Mark and I met in in the hospital. It's not just that he did a very nice thing to visit a friend a rabbi his rabbi a rabbi, you know, he went to he was in the hospital. He came to see me. That's true. BUT THERE'S SOMETHING GREATER to that meeting. There was a message that needed to be communicated at certain PRECISE TIME that came through. See, that that's the spirituality of the experience. It happened in real time. It happened on the eighth floor of of of a hospital. It happened this day and right? So, here what we have is that the spirituality funnels itself through the physical material world. And when you open yourself up to this ruchiniyus, you'll see in your life many things that you wouldn't normally pay attention to. And you'll see how it impacts you. Hopefully only in a good way. So, this is an underlying foundational thought to what we're studying here in this limer about Adam Adam Harishon first man and Avram and Yakov and Yosef giving some of their years in the case of Yak Yak Yakov it was 28 years and Joseph Yosef 47 years. It's a lot of years. Right? And you think about the self-sacrifice of these individuals or even in the previous Rebbe's times in 1921. For a person to give away you know, today they talk about kidney donations. Um it's very common out here and in the from world and probably in the non-Jewish world, too, but I know it from a brother-in-law of mine, Rabbi Reitzes from Potomac, Maryland, who made it public that he donated a kidney and he saved someone's life. So, we know that most people don't do that. It's hard for us to do that for whatever reason. And here we're talking about someone giving away years of their life. So, one has to be a kind of sensitive to the issue, then the issue can can can be effective. If not, it's just uh um you know, just words. It has no meaning. Okay. So, let's go down to page kuf yud 110. But it's in the Hebrew. And we are about 10 lines from the bottom. After the colon, the line begins with mem lamed apostrophe. Right? And then in the middle there's a colon over there and the word begins with vihinei. Let's learn from vihinei. Vihinei mikol ohris eilu, from all of these energies hanimshochim uma'alah bemalkhus d'atzilus, that are drawn above into malkhus of atzilus mikol tzinus hanal, of all the previous levels. And he he enumerates them. Adam, Odum, they were always in the patriarchs. Mikulo nimshakh mid-David all of this was drawn to David was given to David. Klalos malkhus d'Atzilus because the overall idea of malkhus as it's in the world of Atzilus, the highest of the four worlds, he'irah b'malkhus d'David illuminated, it shone into malkhus of King David. So, Chaim said, David is the lower level of malkhus. The higher level is malkhus d'Atzilus. And malkhus d'Atzilus, the reign, the kingship of malkhus as it's from the perspective of Atzilus, was sent given to David haMelech to help him lead the nation. V'yoiris b'malkhus d'Yoiris b'malkhus d'Gam Kein because in David's reign, in his kingship, there's also base minei chokhmah now. These two types of wisdom that we mentioned earlier. V'hech s'dadim and the other five powers of sweetness d'Avraham of Avraham, d'chokh ches Adnai d'Yaakov and d'koyach Adnai d'28, which we discussed yesterday at length, of Yaakov, v'zayin tach'tonois al y'dei Yosef and the seven lower ones of Yosef. We discussed this yesterday at length. Oh, alter Rebbe Mashke Kosol says there is some said it, this is analogous, similar to what's written by Yeshua quote Ish asher ruach bo, Joshua the successor to Moshiach Yeshua it says he was an individual, this says in the Torah in parshas Bamidbar, not in the prophets or the writings. He was an individual when when our God says to Moshiach to choose a successor he says it has to be an individual that the spirit is within him. Ish should be a man, a person asher ruach bo, ruach means the spirit is within him. What does that mean? So the Talmud explains it's brought down in Midrash also she yochal ha ruach neged ruchai kol echad vi achas he was able to understand the spirit of every individual. In other words, he was able to relate. FIND THE PERSON, GOD SAYS, Hashem says to to to Moshiach you we need a successor it has to be an individual Yoni who can relate to every single person from where they're coming from. Wait. Dahai noshanim shil boi mitzvah is kol is koach meluyino, that means it's an individual that has been given the overall supernal wisdom from on high she kol el is kol samach reis dayoi which includes all the 600,000 opinions shel samach reis shishim ribo of the 600,000 souls. We know according to the Kabbalah there are 600,000 general souls. 600,000 people with general souls and 600,000 um opinions. And this individual that should be the successor to Mosha has to be someone who can relate and understand every single opinion of the 600,000. Hard to find such a leader, but that's what Hashem told Mosha. And that's who Yeshua was. Joshua, Yeshua, wasn't just a shepherd, an aid to Mosha. YESHUA WAS SUCH A SPECIAL PERSON. He didn't leave the tent of Mosha. He himself was a holy of holies. But and and what stood out in him is the ability of of of of him to be able to relate to every single person. So, this the Tzemach Tzedek uses as an as an example to understand David. Let's see what he says. Continue. Kach b'Dovid so too with Dovid, gam b'Mosha hoya melech al kol ha'am, the fact that he was a king over the entire nation nimshach v'nislabeish gam kein mipnei chachma. It was drawn and invested from the level of chachma, of wisdom. V'hi p'ninus klalus ha'chachma, this is the overall idea of chachma, she'kolal kol ha'deios, that includes all wisdom, all opinions. So, Dovid ha'Melech, how was he able to be a functional, excellent king charged with the responsibility of leading the Jewish people? It was analogous, he was analogous to Yeshua. And he because he was gifted the highest level of hokhmah, of wisdom, from God on high, just as it was given to Joshua, to Yeshua, to be the successor to Mosha, so too it was given to David by these individuals starting with Adam Harishon, Adam. Uh conversely, all other kings mentioned in the prophets, sheholu hakhamim, they were wise. There, God's wisdom invested itself in the individual, but he wasn't given the pedagogy of wisdom. He didn't have the rule book. He had the rules. You hear the difference? The rule book, or better said, the one who writes the rules, the trendsetter, the visionary, wasn't given to each individual king. Each individual KING WAS GIVEN, "HEY, HERE'S THE INFORMATION, now implement it." I told you, I think once, I'll repeat it. I have a I knew someone, a very respected professor of Andrew Canology at McGill University. His name is Professor Brauer. I think he's retired now. James Brauer, or in Hebrew, Yaakov Brauer. When I was in Marine County, I brought him twice to lead a shabbaton class on the reconciliation of Torah and science, because he knew science well for his field, and he became a baal teshuvah in Boston. I think he was a Harvard graduate. He had a He has a tremendous mind, tremendous mind. And I felt that he would be a good individual to synthesize Torah's views and science's view. So, in talking to him, he once told me that he he gets many calls from people from men, women women who can't who can't reproduce. They can't They're having They can't have a baby. They're having a hard time having a child for whatever reason. And they would ask him for his advice. So, I said, "Why are they going to you? You're a professor at McGill." Why don't they go to a you know, an OBGYN, people who I don't know, you know? He said, "You don't understand. They don't have the answers. They just know how to cut and do what they need to do. My My field, he says, "Professor of endocrinology has the understanding of what's going on in the body um you know, on the highest level. So, when a woman's having a problem or a man for that matter, you know, whether it's his issue or her issue getting pregnant, I I I look at it from up down, not from down up. That's what's going on over here. The difference between King David King David and all the other kings. All the other kings were from DOWN UP. KING DAVID IS FROM UP DOWN. He's the master. HE'S JUST NOT HE'S NOT JUST A FUNCTION the functionary or the the implementer. He's the master. HE'S THE PEDAGOG of kingship rulership. That's what the Talmud says says says here. And you need that. Because and that's why he is crowned as King David of Israel. Why isn't Hezekiah? We have an individual named Hezekiah. He was a king, the Jewish king. And he reigned and he controlled, but he's not called Melech Israel. He's not called the king of Israel. Only David, King David is Melech Israel. And the answer is because Hezekiah and all the other kings, they individually they were inspired to be a king. God gave them that inspiration, BUT NOT TO BE the pedagogue of kings, not to be the one that understands the mechanism of kingship. And why is this this way and why is that that way? That's a maven. That's an expert. That's a I don't you know, a guru. That's someone that knows it from top down. Let's continue. Kefi mashu bemishka vetchunasa. And he says that every other king was inspired based on his composition and his nature. In other words, Yoni, Hezekiah Melech had a certain nature. Based on that nature IS WHAT GOD GAVE HIM to rule the people. In other words, Hezekiah Melech was not given anything contrary to who he was. So, it was his composition, his nature that brought that drew A CERTAIN TYPE OF energy for him to lead. But he didn't have other energy, so it could be that for that reason he related to CERTAIN PEOPLE, MOSHE MAYERS, BUT he didn't relate to other people. You understand? Who's there? >> I need the car moved. >> My car is in THE GARAGE. IT'S NOT MY CAR. >> WHAT DID YOU SAY? >> THAT'S NOT MY CAR. >> YOU SAID SUP WHAT? >> IT'S NOT MY CAR. >> OH, I THOUGHT YOU SAID something else. This car ain't yours right here? >> IT'S IN MY DRIVEWAY. >> YOU GOT TO MOVE it up cuz we cutting the sidewalk. >> COULD YOU WAIT FOR 10 MINUTES? >> NO PROBLEM. >> THANK YOU. >> Watch how you talk TO ME. >> YOU MISUNDERSTOOD ME, SIR. >> ALL RIGHT. >> Let's go on. I'm sorry for the interruption, but it's part of the part of the show. YOU'RE AT THE DOLPHIN SHOW. YOU YOU HAVE THE DOLPHIN SHOW FOUR TIMES A WEEK. ANYWAY, back to the text and the idea. So, Hiskiyahu HaMelech >> You have to place it together with the picture. >> All right. Hiskiyahu HaMelech Hashem gave him what he needed, Mark, to lead based on who HE WAS. KING DAVID King David didn't get from God the energy that he that he needed because of because of he he he he had a he was nice or he was stringent. No, he was given everything because he was the master. That's a that's a tremendous insight. And I'm thinking about it, you know, that's the idea of a rebbe. Guys, a rebbe the way Chabad understands what a rebbe is, a rebbe is a master. A REBBE GOD GIVES a a blessing to a rebbe and gives him a certain neshama that's klali. THAT'S WHY A REBBE CAN relate to someone who who's THIS WAY OR THAT WAY. It's You know, our rebbe Jews from all OVER THE WORLD TODAY, 32 YEARS AFTER HIS PASSING, COME TO HIS GRAVESITE. You can SEE THE WHOLE WORLD AT THE OHEL ON A TUESDAY MORNING. >> NON-JEWS. >> And non-Jews. >> And non-Jews of all DENOMINATIONS AND ALL COLORS, ETC. I'm serious. I told you the story with the woman from from England who came, she was, you know, the dark and and I I said like, "What are you doing here?" She said, "I have a dream. I had three dreams with the Rebbe. He told me to come here and then I didn't KNOW WHO HE WAS." AND THEN A FRIEND SAID, "THAT'S THE LUBAVITCHER REBBE." She said, "I have to get up and go." She gets up and goes, pays money, COMES TO BROOKLYN, goes to Queens, goes to the Ohel. But I I want to I I don't want to get fixed on the the spirituality and ethereal experience, which it's true. I'm talking about there's an neshama klolis that Hashem from on high gives into certain individual souls, in this case, King David. In my in my example, the Rebbe. That's my belief. Others don't believe that and that's fine. But my belief is that the Rebbe was gifted this particular type of soul to relate TO ALL KINDS OF JEWS AND ALL KINDS OF NON-JEWS. AS YOU only said well. So let's go on. Avo einze in the gaya klala klola The individ- The king who was who who was given a specific energy based on his composition and his nature, IT'S NOT RELEVANT TO ALL OTHER PEOPLE OF THE NATION. IT'S RELEVANT TO THOSE THAT RELATE TO HIM. BELOW KLAL V'DAL. That means by them by him it's the individual not the general. Without the dial maven it it that person who has is a maven a maven in the sense of understanding citizen Kabbalah and all that will understand the idea. We'll receive by zoo 33 lines in the bottom middle of the line Zohar David because of Malchut that's why David King David married the crown of kingship. Because of Malchut Mamesh Malchut Kinnah. Because he was a chariot. Remember what a chariot is? THE CHARIOT IS TOTALLY SUBDUED to the rider to THE WAGGONEER. THE CHARIOT HAS NO SAY in where it's going. It's not like today's Teslas and up and coming AND ELECTRIC CARS WHERE YOU GO in you PUSH A BUTTON AND IT DRIVES ON ITS OWN. AND it takes you. So in a way you know it's even that's not a really a good example because it's pre-programmed. If you don't pre-program the car to GO DOWNTOWN IT'S NOT GOING DOWNTOWN. So it still takes someone to pre-program it whether it's the inventor whether it's the you know the one at Google or or you locally well whatever. But but in a way we could you know once it's done you just press a button it takes you where it is. So a chariot doesn't have its OWN OPINION. I DON'T WANT TO GO TO HERE I WANT to go there. SORRY YOU'RE A CHARIOT. YOU'RE A WAGON AND THE WAGGONEER DECIDES WHERE TO GO. So the Rebbe says the Tzemach Tzedek says when we say that David HaMelech married it to have kesser malchus. The crown, not just the particulars of kingship, BUT THE CROWN OF KINGSHIP. This is expressed it expresses itself by David being a a merkavah. He uses the word look at the manash. An actual chariot to total and complete subservience to God Almighty. The malchus, in this case to the level of malchus, cannot, as we mentioned earlier. Tomorrow, we will learn about Shaul HaMelech. How was How does Shaul HaMelech, Saul the king, who was the first king before David, and who kingship was removed from him by Shmuel and given to David, how does he fit into the picture? Everyone have a great day, enjoy yourself, and a good chodesh. Tonight is Rosh Chodesh Rosh Chodesh Av. Remember One second. Remember that if you wash garments, outer garments, you need to put them on. If you have three shirts you plan on wearing during the nine days, listen, you have your rabbis, ask your rabbis, but I'm just telling you what I grew up with. The shirts, pants, the the the the other garments, the under undershirts, etc., and even socks, some say that those you don't need to. So, I'll let you, you know, have your rabbis' ruling. But, remember that the nine days begins from tonight. Yes, Yoni, what do you want to ask? >> A quick question. Are we going till till Tisha B'Av? >> No, we're going till till Tuesday. Till Tuesday. Two classes next week, Monday and Tuesday. Then we break till Elo. We have a break about a month's time we break. Okay? Anyways, I have to zoom to everyone. Have a great day. We'll see everyone tomorrow. Take care.