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Does G-d Really Care whether I'm Religious?
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we're on page 129 we're starting a new
mimer my miches
the eighth mimer so
the last idea that we're gonna get sir
yeah so let's go to the bottom of 127
actually
the kids are call israel
um
all eden from the perspective of their
neshama
and from the perspective of uh the uh
learning talent fulfilling mysteries
every year comes from the preemies the
inwardness of god's will
in we were in uh uh
my mercas and we were up to the kitchen
the first kisser in my mercado
no no no i did not do it
no maybe maybe you did it
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okay we didn't do it anyway let me just
finish this kitchen over here
so over here when a yid commits a sin
he draws tosephis haara
more additional emanation mahapneus
in other words hashem sets yani for each
neshama a certain amount of energy from
plenus
when you commit a saying you do an
interesting thing
you draw down some more of the premieres
which seems to be great
but guess what the venetel halek berosh
avalnevsekis who takes
and you get and you get that but it's
nif
suck it ends in other words basically
you can't win by doing a sin
even though you're drawing down energy
it's going to terminate
so which would you rather have
terminating energy
or eternal energy which maybe doesn't
have that
oomph it's just the norm but it's with
you
of course something that stays with you
that's good let's continue
the clayton so before one does truth
hashem does not enjoy one's total
mitzvahs before one does true vote
and hence you don't draw down what we
call revealed light
we want revelation you know just to have
uh energy come into the world but we
have no benefit from it
is is not this is not where it's at
and the result of that is if you
dedicate yourself instead of hashem
to the negative side god forbid
then the negative side will bite you
will come back to haunt you
so in other words hate and transgression
is not only a place of darkness but it's
a place that will come back to hurt you
so therefore
why engage long-term why engage in that
if long-term
it's going to bring issues let's
continue 129
which is dealing with a d6 member from
from five through 11
that woman's voice horror
as that's mayor for the joining
of the thirsty of the satiated with the
thirst
thirst is
terms this means when the emanation of
malcolm's the tenth sphere
its legs metaphorically speaking descend
into the lower worlds called the world
of
recreation formation and and action
from the combination of the satiated
which is the situation associated with
it with its indulgences
when you have that joint imats may um
with the with the with the part of the
self
which in in spiritual terms penis models
which is hungry because it came from a
place of vasilis of holiness
and now it's in a lower level so it's
thirsty to get back
to to taste and to drink and to be back
in the realm where it was very
comfortable and inspired
the kabul kaya's magdusha
so the hey malchus
is thirsty to receive more vitality from
holiness
zelda petersburg
says this interpretation of mine is
based on rashi's
explanation of the word suffolk
right remember there's a word in that
possible
sephos
wanting to rejoin where it came from and
to have more energy
that ever brings the peers of david
known as the radak
he says the word suffice doesn't mean
joining but the word suffice comes
is associated with the word it means
multitude mahalini and so the rashtraps
question is
what does it mean that the state of
being
rather satiated
increases more is it
it increases more than the state of
samaya what does that mean let's see
what he says
the idea is
he summarizes in a way ideas that he
said earlier and
and and we'll see if he does it in a
clearer way hopefully he does
he says the nourishment of
extraneous forces
the nourishment of extraneous forces
negative energy
bad creeper evil all those are
synonymous
we are basic it's in two ways
one way is that they receive from the
back side and the external which we
learned
earlier like throwing something in the
back and the drags from the you know and
all that
is it comes through the multitude of
contractions the prince
there's something called the external
vessels of malchus we're not going to go
into it but that's where
it's the external part of malcolm's and
when they are contracted
when the when the energy from theirs
contracted more and more
and more what's left over is a trickle
of energy and we call that acharya
the back side they have the hinder side
and who gets that
the clip of the that's one way
number two right mark it down for oif
and our base says rashad
the second way that clipper gets its
energy
for elio they receive from something
that's called the supernova
peripheral energy here it's not
it this energy only is not the acharyan
of panemias
the first one is it's the backside of
pneumous
there's i'm looking at you i see you you
see me i smile we communicate that's
face to face anemias panim
imagine i turned around and i'm teaching
you i'm teaching you
right i'm teaching you and you hear me
but my backside's to you that's the
acharyan of my face
that's the first way the ethernet obeys
the way the clippers receive energy
is to begin with from the market
from the face of the machine but it's
not the face of the preemie
what does that mean there is the face of
the preemie which
which its orientation is to begin with
towards happiness kindness
invitation then there's the face of an
energy that to begin with
says i don't reckon with details
it's makif it's superficial to begin
with i'm giving let's let's take an
example a lecturer
one lecturer decides tonight he's going
to teach
details and he's going to present
details
and he's going to make himself
in a realm that's relevant to details
so why do the students succeed in
understanding his details
because he placed himself in the realm
of details
take another teacher who decides you
know what
today today i'm going to teach my
students
but i'm going to teach them from my
perspective
which is way beyond their perspective
and i'm not going to make a change and
lower
myself to the way they think i'm gonna
overwhelm them
so it so to begin with
the fact that the students don't
understand the details is not because
they don't understand the details
it's because the realm is a different
realm
i wanna i wanna i wanna make sure you
you got
this point because this is the
difference between
one and two the two i found them whether
the clippers
get from the haram of pneus that's the
first way
or number two they get from a different
experience altogether i.e the market
and the market so
but this face is an encompassing face
it's a superficial face hilo you want to
say something
no no okay your thing is on can we
continue
so let's again let's read the second
line the iphone obeys
the second or for the second way
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who she might coblin
to show you how hashem
has such patience and hashem didn't
lose his patience with all the sins that
were done during that time
as and he continues shakola
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and they repeatedly angered hashem
those generations received their
nourishment their energy
the stability from a level called
the lengthening of the anger
okay
is plural it should have says
it should have said
the the the length
you know he lengthens his his anger to
both wicked and
and ander and kadikim rashi explains
he says the word apayam implies also
face
pain
why does it say moisture there's two
type of faces
a happy and smiley face and a sour
face
is one type of erica
um and for the wicked ones he lengthens
their
their their punishment you're gonna
you're gonna get punished for a very
long time because of what you did
um and he enforces
he postponed no i'm sorry and he
postpones the
the the the the punishment for allah
and that's why they have it good here
that's pretty honest let's continue the
next page
so once one second one second so
so we have so the rabbit so he asks a
question
he let's let's repeat he brings the two
interpretations of the word
um of the word uh svice
rashi so he says i've explained to you
what based on what rashi says joining
we spent time in it now he starts saying
there's another
voice means increase
so he says if so what is the meaning of
in the in the verse
that the state of being satiated
is increased and and the state of samaya
has not increased like what's going on
over here
so to that's his question he puts aside
the question
and he starts tackling the whole idea of
of era
of the because we're dealing with
dealing with a negative remember
remember that the the state of um of
rava
the river said in this mine until now is
not a healthy place of being satiated
with
with good things it means you're
associated with indulgences
so from there he says what leads to
indulgences
he says one and two and now now he
starts
speaking about this whole idea to um of
erica pay now let's continue we're still
in the middle of a thought page 131.
okay
in simple english infinite the
infinity of god's light of god's energy
what does that mean in simple words says
this means it is
it's the position of hashem it's an
energy hashem
that is removed from the worldly
experience and not just our world but
all the most
all worlds
cloud if you compare moisture
the iran suff as hashem
is in his infinite state of light
to where it comes the world's islamists
there's no comparison
and therefore
he says the the navi says
i hashem i do not change
is there there is no iota of change in
hashem
before and after creation which is so
different than the human experience
before you lived in betraymesh you
didn't live there
now that you live there you're a
different person
the community environment the housing
the cars
the the the streets the mountains and
everything else
the way of teva nature is that before
and after
you go through a transformation of some
to some degree
here we say ani hashem
i am hashem i do not change
bring down the world bring on angels
bring on people bring on whatever you
want i still remain the same
why because i'm ain't suff
the category the definition of a god
as a creator is an infinite creator
and not infinity that depends on the
situation
but inherently infinite so when you talk
about
an inherent infinite god and
energy it doesn't reckon itself
with what it experiences
it yes it accommodates okay let's use it
accommodates
experience but it's not fathomed and
changed by experience
hello is everyone with me i know it's
two in the afternoon and maybe you want
to shuffle a little bit but this is a
deep thought
this is very important for basic jewish
philosophy you know we just lost rebbe
sachs
he was a philosopher this is a
one-on-one in jewish philosophy
in philosophy in general and jewish
philosophy in particular
let's continue
smoking cloud why
why hello why taka why indeed
is there no change in hashem before and
after creation
so the basic answer is she ain't the
toffee smoking clown
because everything takes no place
it doesn't takes any place if it it it
doesn't fathom him it's not
fisa what are you when are you moved
when are you when are you changed if
something impacts you
so even if walking on the street in bed
shemesh compared to chicago
or or baltimore or wherever you're
coming from and all that
there's a difference there's a different
you're right the trees look differently
the streets look different
the people looked their differences and
and when you are and when you're
fathomed by it you're
you're impressed by it you're you're
you're
you're in a position where your mindset
is that i'm going to
accept the differences you change
you change my osmosis
um subconsciously you changed
this is so but the abrasive
is aim self meaning it's an experience
of god
infinity of god means that nothing
fathoms me
and whatever you do and wherever i will
be in whatever experience
i still remain the way i am in this in
myself
and you know you find such a different
sources on these people there are you
know
there are people may be rare but there
are people that wherever they are
they're just the same they they don't
change because of their situation and
that's a great accomplishment
it i i should say it's a great
accomplishment if the situation is is
is the right one and and you know they
don't need to change where
many times it's important not to change
i mean
to accompl to accommodate the situation
and engage in the situation
because if you don't engage in the
situation you're outside of the
situation
so you know so i think about this a lot
you know i
i've been here over like 24 years i
remember when 9 11 was
okay 9 11. i remember when bashkin got
out
had nothing to do like i'm happy i'm sad
here i'm happy here but
you know i go to my house and that's it
i'm just saying because my position is
not
such that i need to be involved
in both of those things where you know
i'm an active
uh participant because that's not what
i'm involved with
what i'm saying is so you a person can
also
be unfathomed if they you know if they
remain
to themselves and they don't have a
responsibility in a way
to to to others in in a way with which
requires them to come
out of themselves and get invested
so ain't soft that's an example the
muscle is ain't self is this way too
let's continue
and now he brings no gum que master
costo if there's a positive eel
a very
motif boy what impact will you have on
him
and the and the multitude of your sins
what will you do to him nada
so to him so doctor if you will be
righteous from the word sadaka said it's
a doctor
what are you giving to him you think
you're actually adding something to
hashem by giving
by being seductor
and what does he take from your hand
explains that
that's the end of the passage in ilf
says the rashad
this is a basic foundational thought in
this because i mean it you know goes
back to jewish philosophy
but the chabad
those that are below on this earth
the action the activities of our
activities
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cloud don't
fathom hashem at all if you
think if we think that hashem
is tickled by our
good or bad we don't understand what
hashem
is all about yes yes avi
but don't we have a concept we want to
give nacha
so if we want to give not that world
hashem if he's going to have knockouts
then it's gonna affect him in a certain
way he may not be permanent may not
affect his
but why should we care about giving
if none of that activities affect them
one way or the other
very good question your question is
asked in hasidis and the answer to the
question is
like you said you said one word
the mohus
it depends if we're talking about the
mohus or the mitsiyut
in other words when god decides when
hashem says
i want to have nachas from what you're
doing
then what you do becomes valuable to
give him nachas
when the posix says matsudakto
matitinlay all of these very powerful
words and ideas it means bereft of god
wanting that from our perspective
avi from our perspective you don't add
anything
to the godhead nothing
so therefore what what does that what's
the hazal say
it what would be the difference if
hashem said i want the oil to light
or i want something not all the vinegar
as an expression the vinegar vinegar
vinegar doesn't bring light
oil does when you light it right but if
hashem decided he wants
vinegar to to light it would happen
so in other words it's all goes back to
the abuse this and what we say here
is
we don't mean that hashem doesn't want
myself
in him what we mean is that hashem says
that the myself
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should be generated by
and oriented with the sensation
that god wants this
not that i decide or we decide
that we want it that's what deposit
means
we cannot create
the the the that god should kind of like
us more it doesn't work that way
so that's why when we say that hashem is
the and and
and what's the logic because hashem is
not is this
a person who who
a person who's oriented and and drawn
and um configured
by what people say about him or her
or what experiences the person is
involved with make a difference
there's a change and a real change it's
not a fake
change by hashem he's not
he's the creator so the answer avi is
the difference between the creator
versus the created so from the
perspective of the created
myself activities of us here below
have no impact whatsoever he's not
fathomed
from the perspective of the creator boy
do does it count so that's the question
what is our mindset
are we coming with the creator's mindset
as being creations you understand us
as creations what is our reality
is our reality creator or is our reality
creation and that's up to us
that's what hashem gives free will to
every single person
to either instill himself the creator
prototype
that that is what he lives with and who
he is
or no he is a creation and and he's
adapted
the mindset of creation and creature
and hence as an adjunct
you put a little salt and pepper in i.e
the creator
once in a while you do something for the
creator but really
what you're all you're doing you're
always riding on creation mode
oh in that situation we couldn't say any
hashem
there is a shinui kasu but the verse
says
says that the reason is
because hashem is the creator therefore
the tactic
and it takes a welcome cloud let's see
what he says further
okay
it says like this let's look at this
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the way of hashem is perfect the word of
hashem
is pure he is a shield to all those who
take refuge in him
and it says if his ways are perfect
how much more so must he be
must he be dr drakov are his ways
so if you if the verse says that
hashem's ways right the word
dar koi ho kale
concludes its thought if god's ways are
sincere
who allah has come of akama how much
more so he
who makes the ways is surely sincere
so why did hashem give us mitzvahs ralph
says he gave us mitzvahs
to refine creatures we are
unrefined we're born like a wild the
donkey
with all the other verses so hashem says
i'm going to give you guys mitzvahs
you do these mitzvahs you learn
if someone shifts lord of the animal
from the neck like you're supposed to
oh it means or someone who slaughters
the animal from the nape
which is invalid puzzle
you got to be kidding hashem
really cares where you slaughter an
animal
says the madrish avalo
or himself ain't no indian again clown
oh one second she says it does
does it make a difference to hashem
where you slaughter the animal
from either the neck or the nape
so the major says that's the answer is
no
it doesn't make a difference hashem
doesn't really care only
because to refine people so somehow
slaughtering the animal from the front
from the neck
teaches you something of being more
refined whatever that is
that's that we have to you know explore
but but really hashem doesn't care
this way or that way
ava gabby himself ain't no indian again
says that but to the infinite light
in other words according to this message
listen to this heaven
according to this madrid where
is god tickled when god decides that he
wants the
people to be mentioned to be
decent to be refined so there he says
these things do do make a difference to
me
but in god's infinity which is
transcends let's use the word transcends
transcends refinement or non-refinement
it makes no difference ain't no gate in
your cloud
the rabbit has a mimer in 1952 postures
from spot him i believe where the rabbit
tackles this indian this idea here and
what i saw there i i i it remained
when i was a student many years ago when
it was yeshiva
it remained with me the rest of my life
the rabbit says over there
you know what hashem to this matrix to
this exact matrix
you know what hashem ki you know what
what you know it tickles hashem you know
what he cares about
he says
what god is looking for is as
jonathan as your innocence sacks
although vashallah i shared with you if
you
yesterday said instead of self
improvement say other improvement
instead of self esteem
other esteem get rid of that self break
the self transform the self
and yiddish in other words what does
hashem want in the midst
i i i can i can
take a a slaughtering knife and i can
slaughter an animal but i do it
by the nape it's much easier for dude
by the neck it's very difficult comes
along
and says you want it to be kosher shrita
you it to be kosher
you have to slaughter for the neck but
that's uncomfortable i don't know how to
do it
break yourself change yourself
oh that's what he wants in the midst of
right he wasn't hey look i'll dive and i
can dive into three hours from now
to get up early in the morning when you
want to sleep in
and you say no i'm gonna dive in early
that just gives you an example
that's called breaking yourself going
against your your comfort
so the answer in english is ash what
does hashem want
go against your comfort zone whatever
you do
and wherever you are in your life
young middle-aged old you have to ask
yourself the one question if you want to
know if you're on the page
if you're in the right direction if
you're over the hashem am i
going against my comfort zone that's
the answer in a nutshell you could pour
and spill milk honey uh
orange juice anything on it that's all
add-ons flavors
then the kuda right the essence then the
kuda here is
avi what's the good uh
and this if you know in the baby was a
mainstay
when we looked at ourselves or others
and you wanted to know is this person
really someone to emulate
and to learn from it wasn't how much
knowledge the person had
and if it was whether the person could
be as
less knowledge than many other people
but this person
went against the comfort zone his
comfort zone
that's a special person because it's so
hard to go against your comfort zone
it's so easy to do something that you
enjoy doing
tanya chapter 15 what does the outfit
have to say quotes to the murder
if the custom was to learn something a
hundred times
and you learned that a hundred times
says the gemara dr rabbit quotes it in
chapter 15
you're called lo ovate you're not a
servant of god you're not a servant of
god
why a hundred times
my dear friend in those days the norm
was to study something a hundred times
so studying something a hundred times
does not mean
that you broke the comfort zone if you
studied one more time
101 times just one more time
it says that your mother you called iva
delhi servant of hashem
why because you went against the comfort
zone and that's that's
that's where it's at that's it that's
what's happening everything
and everything exert yourself
beyond your what you're comfortable with
and that's what it says over here
and that's the meaning of the medici
whether you slaughter from the neck or
the nape
the answer is also beneficial
refine people says the rebel
his mind of 1952 what does that mean
that means to
break your comfort zone
and why is that important who decides
that's important
ainsof infinity god says i want that
hashem decided that he gets a high
and he gets a kick and he gets an
elation
from when i yield goes against the grain
and and and this and this is
as a every single yid
makes no difference right
this doesn't this doesn't depend if you
if you're learning your street friend
kylo
if you're learning you're not learning
at work
you're middle of work and it's easy for
you to learn a little bit before dabbing
and a little bit after you come home in
the evening whatever you go to
hamaire what about the middle of the day
you're middle of drawing black moisture
a beautiful piece of art
or checking fiddle in the mezuzah potato
and all of a sudden it's a quarter it's
a quarter after two
and there's a sheer see this and you're
right in middle
and you'd rather not and you and you
stop
and you and you put aside your work
to learn so you're going against your
comfort zone
that's that counts but i'm checking
messages
and i'm checking twilling and i'm
writing a save potato
but that's your job
so you're doing a good job a holy job no
problem
but that's nothing special there's
nothing special
and the guy learning in basement is day
and night
that's his job he's getting a check he's
getting some shekels
right so in every aspect that the
barometer to know
whether we're in or were you still
outside
is the break the rebels were the breath
the the subjugation of the of the self
okay uh we'll stop here because it's
almost eight
and um and it's a new
not a new thing but it'll continue we'll
just continue tomorrow
any comments or questions on what we
learned today
is it clear
right right you're comfortable in
brooklyn
in ramada shemesh yerushalayim go out to
kibbutz
go out somewhere in timbuktu and you
know
how are you and avi turn your thing off
abby turn your finger off because we can
hear your conversation
that was the whole nakuda sure the rebbe
the rebel
in in in in the 1950s the 60s
when he planted the seeds of his vision
for yiddish kite was
leave your comfort zone oh boy and guess
what he was talking to those
lubavitchers from russia
who just came and here they went through
so much
the holocaust stalin poverty
sickness typhus they finally come to a
free country
los angeles new york boston
arizona and the rabbit says
hey guy get up and go somewhere and go
be makarev and teach eden
don't think for a moment it was easy for
these parents who went through this saga
to let go of their kids it was not and
some
didn't go cooperate okay
today it's like you know bread and
butter
for the lubavitcher boy or girl who you
know who thinks i want to really make a
difference i want to go on
but in those days you had to break the
ice
and the rebels spent 10 years of
talking about this and teaching about
this and explaining it
with concepts like we're learning today
and yeah i'm so
glad to hear how you put the two
together because you're right on it's
exactly
the the rep is teaching and thinking is
doing the mitzvah is important
but doing a mitzvah when it's
uncomfortable
and you do it anyway and you do it with
others who don't know yet about mitzvos
or
need inspiration it's it's a whole
different experience
so not only are you
are you helping helping your
others you're helping yourself because
until now everything you did
was self self and more self
as soon as hillary step out
to timbuktu
and you're there for a meeting and
you're there for a conference
but over there you walk over to jew
would you like to put on twilight would
you like to learn some torah would you
like to give some chadukka
hey we're here for a conference i know
but part of the conference is the godly
experience and for a jew it's chilling
as well
so let's put on film together oh all of
a sudden
the conference becomes a very different
conference
it becomes one that you're uncomfortable
you wouldn't go and solicit someone to
put on thrilling it's just not you you
know
i'm uncomfortable and you push yourself
against yourself and he can you could do
that once twice three times
then you're you're really you're making
a difference not just for him
which of course is the icker the poor
person should get the food
the spiritual person who's deprived
should get the the message
but for yourself because everything i've
done till now is just self and more self
and myself good fun
but when you do something for someone
else
you're avoid that becomes transformed as
well
have a great day we'll see everyone
tomorrow bright and early take care
shalom bye-bye