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Doing a Mitzva one time as Important as Learning Shas?
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Maamar Liolom...Mincha 1931 #7
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we're on page 401 but i'll just give a
recap of what we learned
uh before we begin the new paragraph
we actually learned a very very
fundamental teaching
not just in hasidis but in jewish
philosophy
of all sorts in other words yesterday's
uh i
teaching which i'll repeat in a moment
is fundamental not just hasidim
not just the but jewish thought in other
words
the the maharao the shallow
rabbin
the rambam
and the names go on and on prehasidas
all in various ways with different
words express the same idea
oh what is the idea the idea is
that to argue that spirituality that
luchnias
has more importance to hashem to god
almighty than gosmius
is means heresy
and what is the argument in order to
call
something heresy for the ghazal to call
it heresy
for our great teachers you have to
understand where they're coming from
because otherwise it's just uh you know
very flippant and using language without
really
backing to it so the argument was like
this
that the tata it says in the holy tata
me meg
what's the exact language um
megad
again the tour that the the the
uh produce comes
wheat comes from the chemist
and the cucumbers are
tastier and better because of the
moon that's a pasta in the tata that's
not
i see this kabbalah murray titan
what does it mean that somehow the
abrasive put
within the sun and the moon the ability
to give a better taste and make a
better vegetation for the various
different
foods that come from the ground
now if we understand that and we accept
that the argument would be
that hakodash barakul gave
power kayak to the sun and the moon
and if he gave power to the sun and the
moon the sun and the moon are also
players there are also
creature creations that have
god-like abilities
and that's why the
non-jewish idol worshipers believed and
prayed to the sun and the moon
and the stars in the constellations
because
they said that true there
is god almighty who is the creator of
all creations
or in the language that we use here
eloqua
the god of all gods but nevertheless
he's a god of all gods meaning that the
son of the moon
are also gods so it's appropriate to
thank them
and to bow to them and to worship them
because
although the kayak hat
the power of vegetation
is is put into the ground by god
almighty by hashem
nevertheless once it's inserted there
it's up to these the the vegetation
and the sun the moon that impacts the
vegetation
to give forth various kinds of
vegetation
so we have two things we have to
separate one thing is
the kayakatsumiha or the koakatsumayak
that everyone acknowledges is mean
from god but the
style the formation the accessibility
of the and the quality of of the
vegetation
that's up to the sun and the moon and
the earth and everything else
so being that that's the case
we we give credence to the sun and the
moon
they're also important and this is the
way
that explains to us what we say in halal
what do we say in halil that the
non-jewish
idol worshipers argued
hashem hashem is exalted
over all nations
avoided where is hashem's real presence
in heaven but when it comes to earthly
matters
hashem is not interested
as much this distinction
between gosh mia and rouhnias
from what we're learning here seems to
be an old
outdated motion meyers to please turn
off your
mute your thing you see yeah so i'm
walking here
okay but but thank you what seems to be
a
a uh uh a primitive argument
not relevant to us well guess what
it's so relevant to us you know how it's
relevant to us
do we see goshnias
as important to hashem as
is important to him
we ask ourselves you know learning and
davening and giving to dhaka and doing
mitzvos
hashem is there hashem wants those
things
but sleeping taking care of our health
and things are more that are more
gas-miss oriented
we think and seem to feel
that it's not as spiritual
and this is a one of the reasons why
many movements
of many spiritual movements argued
in order to be spiritual
you need to separate yourself from the
world of the
physicality and materialism
so the the you had the buddhist monk
and you had the celibate priest
both in their in their own ways
preaching a certain asceticism
comes along the titan says and i've said
this to you
i've said this to you many times that
the toyota says
that the the the more you're involved in
gas mias
not in the roof and not in homerus
remember this difference we've learned
it over and over
not the corpora reality but the gosmius
the more holy you are and that's why
students
of a sage hide themselves in his bedroom
to see how he performs the mitzvah of
intimacy
what a voyeur you know today they would
arrest him together with that georgetown
orthodox rabbi right the beeping rabbi
i mean what hutzpah the answer to the
mother says
is that they wanted to see how you could
take
a mitzvah like that that so gashmias
and make of it or perform it naruto
and without seeing it they couldn't
believe it
right they couldn't believe it can you
believe that
your teacher your rebbe your rabbi your
the person who you respect is is
able to holify such a that they act
it's very difficult so they said we're
gonna check it out
it reminds me in williamsburg the
sophmore yeshiva
was on bedford avenue i think 505
bedford or somewhere like that in the
corner of bedford and
and the tour of adas yeshiva before it
moved to kensington
it's a section in brooklyn was across
the street
now the boys interviews were not
you know not hasidic or not as hasidic
or they came maybe hasidic backgrounds
but the sacrament yeshiva was supper a
very hasidic
group so they heard that the satmar
rabbit pretty much doesn't sleep all
night
he's up till three four five in the
morning then he lays down for a few
hours
and and by the way i interviewed one of
his
attendants who told me himself that he
saw it with his own eyes every night
while he was attending to the satmarov
so he told me that it's
a hundred percent accurate and true
he did sleep every person has to sleep
but he went to sleep very late
he got slept a few hours and he got up
but the boys at tara vidas
thought that this is what we call
khasidyshev bubba mices
baloney stories you know fables
so they decided for an entire week
that go their window from the sec third
fourth floor
was able to see into the window of the
soccer
rebbe's um
house room and they decided they're
going to have
shifts of bahrain
up all night and they will
keep on looking to see if the rebbe lays
down to sleep at 11 12 o'clock
and if he does they'll publicize it and
say
it's all baloney you're all fakes and
all that
and they did it i heard this from a
student who was there who was involved
with this
activity this is i believe in the 1950s
or 60s
anyway they did it and indeed
all week six days sunday through
thursday five days
five nights they saw that he was
not in his bed all night until four
five in the morning they saw it they saw
their own eyes
so seeing is believing
right so the sages say that
the um the talmudim of this and this
of this rabbi of the sage wanted to see
with the his their own eyes how their
rebbe performs
the mitzvah so what do we see
we see that in our religion
gosmius substantiates
we see another thing that gosmius
is no less of a
connection to hashem than ruchnius and
in fact
it's more of a connection if you are
only and you cannot
demonstrate your use
in in your gas mias something is lacking
in your
knees right they tell the story of the
fourth laboratory
he said a mimer once
was the devra moscow the beginning of
the mimer and he spoke about various
levels of bitter subservience to hashem
and the greatest level is milvada
there's nothing besides god everything
is hashem
so came to him and he said rabbit
if ain't it it's all anointed
so the rabbit said lay down on the table
lay down on the
on the bed and he says
he's about to give him a whipping
and he says is it is it is it a night
novaday
is it a nightmare day or is it veracious
burrell or kim of course it's a
nightmare
but through in the beginning god created
the world
the world is a reality and if you cannot
live with anoint mulvade in the world
then your whole aenoid bovada is a big
fantasy a big above myself it's
imaginary thinking
it's wishful thinking so when we learn
here in the minor
this very important idea and we here he
takes
us back to the early philosophers
who argued that
where's hashem's presence in the heavens
but the earth he lives to the dra the
drags the
the low lives yeah he doesn't care about
that
or not all and he leaves it up to the
the sun and the moon you guys
decide whether the cucumber should be
sweet or sour
i'm giving you the ba i'm the battery
the energy
but the the application of the energy is
up to you
so if that's the argument you'll need
then
we understand that we have to give their
hearts to the sun and the moon
and the next step is we can worship and
should worship the sun and the moon
because they're so powerful you know
it's similar think of it this way here a
little
you need a favor you need you need
something right
so you go to the deputy and the
ministers or the congressmen of this
the statesmen the right and you lobby
them
and you lobby and you lobby and you buy
them off
or in order to scroll a friend who used
to walk well i don't know the hebrew
word for the lobbies of them
yerushalayim and he would go in and he
would sit and schmooze and joke with
them and throw them
candies and cigars and keep on laughing
and shooting the breeze wasting time
and at the end he gives them a nice
portfolio and a
new building goes up in bernay brock
lobbyis it's a fact of life
in arizona or in america all over it's
all the same okay some places maybe a
little more the less but
right now if you
believe that they are the
the boss the icar you're a fool
they have um
ability to to uh
put things on top of the pile instead of
bottom of the pile
but at the end of the day at the end of
the day there is someone they work for
so again in the world that we live in
the the lobbyists and these people
are are very powerful and
just as the people
by uh you know um bribe them
they bribe their superiors okay so the
example is not exactly
the same as baccalaureate with the
with the sun and the moon the sun and
the moon
how they bribing hashem oh they're
bribing him because hey hashem
if you are if you don't give it to me
the rug
the way i want it i'm not going to shine
today
nonsense can the sun decide not to shine
today
that's nonsense the sun has no
sail shining today at all if the
abrasive wants the sun to shine today
it's going to shine
and this is why i'm elaborating on this
because it's an important
indian in ammuna and this is something
you should
dial up with your family really when
they're young
so that they and then they'll learn
about it then they'll think about it and
they'll decide
and that is that that the kayaks
the power of birth
if someone is childless
do you do we believe that
is the one who decides and yes you have
this organization
and this organization we have some
wonderful organizations here i'm sure
you haven't there just roll
right but at the end of the day
all the money in the world cannot buy a
child
yes it can help you get to better
doctors and
and have better tests and and and do
things that hopefully will result in an
offspring
but at the end it's the kayak you know
the rebel and the rabbitson didn't have
were childless so once
one of the khasi de manapuram took you
know some mask
took some wine and he cried his heart
out to the redhead and you know and he
asked for a bracha
and this is what i heard i heard this
always growing up
and the rabbit turned to him and the
rabbit said and what should i do i also
don't have children
who helped so many people in so many
ways including having children
and you guys have heard many stories i
don't have to tell you again
the stories and nevertheless he himself
can't help himself you know why
because the kayak alley that comes from
and if i call this barco decides that
for some reason
these two individuals husband and wife
should not have a child
as we're saying yiddish cancer clapping
cup and you can bang your head on the
wall from today till tomorrow
as we're saying
nothing will help you you have to do
status
but there's kayak
come to one one second i just want to
finish i'll take your question while you
comment
comes along siddhis in this miner and
says
that the shame elohim
and the shame youth cave of king and
shay melo kim
concealed shame you'd keep off king
so the the what what seems to be
the operational mode is shame of kim and
it is that way
but nevertheless you must always
remember that the shame you'd keep
off gay energizes shame elokim
and without the utke wafkee which is
you know without the drive the energy
the battery
the shame elokim would get nowhere so
the sun
and the moon would get nowhere without
the the the the the the
the shame hashem and therefore and
therefore
rebecca explains to us in a minor that
has and we say this
but hashem
who's exalted sits
dwells rests in the heaven and the earth
not just in the earth
but in heaven too because you heaven are
also
a downgrade from god's perspective
you're no closer to god than the earth
and that's why to put phil now with a
jew
who's lost is as valuable as someone
learning shas
and if anyone tells you otherwise i'm
sorry to say
but i will say it he's a kaifer
he's a graphic he denies in the
existence of god
because we don't look at it this way but
you're basically saying
that the jew that learns shas has
one up on the jew who's lost
sorry outwardly yeah this terror admits
to this reward and punishment
but the truth is in the summer
so there's no there's no difference as
far as the essence of the person
so putting on twilight was a yid one
time or
or having him do another mitzvah one
time
is as important as learning shots should
you learn shots
absolutely of course
but don't minimize and undervalue
what there is to putting on film or
putting the mezuzah
or saying krishna one time you know the
khalifa river
of yerushalayim he made a deal with
hashem he said hashem if you get me out
of the hellhole
auschwitz i will go around
the world and pronounce your
oneness by saying shema israel
with people and hashem helped him
and he was saved from that
camp and others and when he came to
he traveled all over the kibbutzim
and by the way he came first to new york
i think he was in cleveland
not i think he was in cleveland first
and then he came there to throw
and he made his business this khasi
destroyer i was once in his basement
madrid bernay brock
you know the nazis gave him that poison
though that those were vaccines whatever
and he was hairless you know with a big
strimer you know this white calf
cuffed and it was so interesting to see
and he went around teaching and saying
to everyone shema
what the guy is still doing since
the guy is still not doing mistress you
know so what's the big deal
that's that's the biggest deal
ah he's not putting on filling yet no
hopefully the shema slow will be
inspiring and if not
it doesn't detract from the one-time
shamaya's role and this all comes as a
result of what we're learning now
that gosmius is on the same
level and even more so he doesn't go
into the morsel here in this mind or
else where he does
but let's say from this mind on the same
level as rookness and that's why
hamak bila shavas we praise hashem
that you lower yourself you sit
you who was makbi los chavez
pass yoni it's your turn
first of all a beautiful story i never
heard that story by the column but it's
a beautiful story
very inspire it is inspiring um so two
two
kudas first of all i first is um
where would muzzle the whole term muzzle
good muzzle
a bad muzzle where does that factor into
uh between you know the the the sun the
moon hashem
like where is that that's my first
question where is muzzle
like where does that fit in second
question is um
when it comes to uh when it comes we
were talking about how there's different
energies and different powers that
hashem gives like he gives the sun the
heat or
the moon he gives even energies where
does the kayak
of the angels like we were talking
remember about the angels a few months
ago about the coyotes
and that they have only one mission
right like human being doesn't have one
which they have
but is that also in that realm or that's
a totally different thing
good very good question very good
questions both questions so
first of all we say the mazzolos
the constellation and the stars mazel
where is the word mazel where do we find
the word muzzle in the torah
the noiselim live on
from lebanon
comes along the commentaries and it says
the noise lim no zell is a hebrew word
right avi no zell
where is it dripping from well it means
like the trees and
the noise limb it's dripping down drip
meat goes this way
it's here and it drips down imagine if
you have
a leak in your house boy are you running
around right
where's the leak coming from somewhere
on top
where's the stop where is this where in
china where is it in india where is this
noise look
kabbalah explains that islam comes from
a part of the neshama
that's yours but it's kind of in heaven
it's your it's your thread it's your uh
safe deposit box although today the
banks are getting rid of
of save the box deposit boxes i had a
box here bank of america
and two years ago they said time to give
it up we're eliminating safe deposit
boxes
no one uses them anymore but
there is a place where our neshama
begins in the treasure chest that's
called the eights and
the shamas the treasure chest of souls
and from there it drips into
our noshoma as it is here in our body
so when moishe myers has a simcha
and moishe bronze says to him
is wonderful he uses the word masal tov
good muzzle so of course we translated
good luck good charm good fortune
no no mazel tov means
maisha myers i am wishing you
that the the place where your neshama is
stored
should rain down from there into
your neshomer here vis-a-vis the simcha
that you have in other words
the one second the simha that you have
is demonstrative of the muzzle
of the neshama on high
talking and relating and impacting
your neshama below that's what nishama
is all that's what mazel tov is all
about
right that's what mazato is all about so
it's not just a
flipping thing
molotov is is a a very profound blessing
and that's why we say on a birthday
right on a birthday
we say the muzzle of the person is
operational
meaning although we have a mazel
throughout the year
but on the yom ha lettuce on the
birthday the
mazel of the neshama is active
and it is on that day that a person
vis-a-vis their birthday and all the
good deeds
that they do in conjunction that they do
in conjunction with their birthday
they access more of the muzzle of the
meshima
so that is where it comes from now
the rambam writes yoni and he quotes the
verse ain't
earth ain't least role model there's a
verse which the rambam i believe
quotes meaning you cannot
limit a jew to luck and charm to muzzle
because as much as we just discussed the
significant idea of mazel
nevertheless it's limitless it's limited
sorry it's limited
so someone will say like this and and
we've heard this
so many times i'm down on my luck
i have bad muzzle
is it true or not well
of course it's true i mean it's true on
one hand because
i i've repeated certain behaviors or
certain things
many times and it all goes
to the left to the left it doesn't work
comes along the rambam and he makes a
ruling and he teaches us
a jew is beyond
mazel yes there is the level of mazel
but the truth is that the essence of the
essence of the nusrama is beyond
muzzle and can actually change your
model
in other words what we talk about
the noise it drips from
lebanon which by the way is
white right white which is the color of
purity
it's dripping down from a pure place
into your life
nevertheless that's a that's still a
definition
and a box and a limitation
says the rambam a yid must know that
they're not
limited by mazel as good as mazel is
they're not limited to mazel
so therefore
if you ask
is my muzzle bed not your real muscle
because your real muscle is beyond
muscle
your real muscles beyond muscle
so we have the essence we have
muzzle of the soul and we have the soul
as it's here
that's the first answer to the first
question regarding your second question
i would say malachim are in the same
arena as mazel but
they're they're angels
mazel is an aspect of nishama
of soul malachim is not
sold as you said the proof is that
malachim are limited to one
mission whereas assault can do
simultaneously
several missions right the difference
between
om dim and as we discussed in the
memorial
nevertheless malachim are also limited
so this whole you know fantas not
fantasy
this whole craze about uh this
is my pin of which malach is walking
with me and that whole thing
for a year it's it's
it's not it's not where it's at
and we do things which we say which we
are taught that malachi and angels go
with us
and watch us and friday night we say
shalom
allah
absolutely but again there
it's an experience it's a manifestation
it's not the essence so to answer your
second question
is another aspect
of a manifestation of hashem but not
the very essence of hashem
clear you only clear
yeah thank you excellent okay now let's
turn to page 401 so we get a little
learning in today
where the second paragraph beginning
with
and all you didn't believe with simple
faith
in this that hashem that utk wafkee
is what energizes elokim
however it is only
periph in a peripheral way in a mock
way
and this doesn't enter
our innermost
as our sages of blessed memories say
quote
israel you guys are going to love this
one this is
good this is one for aliyah right
israel it's
eaten and outside of verity stroll
or if they avoid the soda they worsh
they are their worship idols but the
hara
in a pure way hane with a dollar bill
with the chunk and the cuckoo and the
kishkin the cars and the houses
uh-huh you're living in narcissus roll
i don't care it's it's tough the gemara
says it's tough
so the komodo taka says
you better know you guys you're living
off the fat of the land you have three
houses one in florida one of the cats
goes one
one in in in brooklyn or manhattan
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you're serving idols in a kosher way
remember that
but still this is a very ignomatic
statement
what did mean well the ghazal was so
was so uh was so sarcastic like i am
i don't think so no okay so the god
explains
open ashashi so comes along
what does it mean to serve god in a
kosher pure way
claim out this means to say
without intent they ain't summoned alive
and they don't pay attention
in other words no one
says i'm worshiping an idol no
just you know i had some extra money so
i bought a second or third home
i'm not really i'm not really stuck to
my home
you know i i really don't care i can
live in a little hubble you know
that's what russia says
wait a minute where are most jews
inherited
as you would all say never
lie there woe on you
that you guys are still huts alerts
because so if this is the case
you still cannot say that we're
worshiping idols
the fact is
the majority of jews most shall wear it
lawrence so for the gemara to say you're
going back two thousand years it was
that way then too
not just today so for the gemara to say
that their oil is
is is very is very questionable what
does it mean
not so sure that the majority of jews
are in kutzler's today it's
it's pretty close to 50 50. okay maybe a
little bit
okay but it but you understand the idea
aloha the energy said
so the rabbit now we're going to stop
here but i'll just
we'll continue tomorrow because this is
very important the rep is going to
analyze what eric's eritrea
means and based on that this
saying this teaching of the fazao will
become clear
okay so um this will continue tomorrow i
took
i took a long time to explain and recap
because
to get the flow and get us back into the
whole mimer it was necessary to
understand
the greater idea that that we learned
in this that we're learning in this
mimer and again to show
how properly learning of my mechasidis
isn't just
some esoteric teaching but rather it has
practical implications and very very
fundamental
for our existence and our continuing as
eaten
with families and growth have a great
day everyone will see everyone tomorrow
bye bye thank you guys