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Essence of Chasidus #20- What's the difference between Kabbala and Chasidus - Study Chasidus
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so
today is wolf campbell's
today's the outside of a friend
a friend an acquaintance someone i know
his name was uh uh dr arthur reinhard
whose uh hebrew name is avrom eliezer
he never married he left no children
and um he was a supporter of the babbage
institutions
and i i knew him
and
i
tried to keep his yard side so i'm
dedicating the shirt our learning will
tell us
may have a lifting gun
he was a doctor at kingsbrook which is
crown heights you know you go straight
down there open your kingston you get to
a hospital called kingsbrook medical
center and he was there he was the
doctor there for many many years
and um
i
i made a connection with him a pretty
solid connection
and invite him to my house for pesach
and you know if he
whatever hashem took him the way he the
way he went
i told you once i don't think it was in
a very kosher way that uh i think it was
a setup somehow by
family relatives who wanted his money i
mean but again i have no proof to that
so we're just gonna leave it for now but
the bottom line is is that his the
summer returned uh in the late 60s 67 68
69 something like that 66
and um would keep us the shum i don't
keep his yards i don't know he's buried
but he's buried i was told he had a
yiddish burial
and um
we did a lot of good from his you know
money his parents money that
you know he wasn't
he didn't spend much on himself and he
lived i was in his house and he lived
where much type and david lives over
there it's called um
what's it called by the water by the
water what
seagate is seagate
he lives in seagate uh i as a boy i
never heard of seagate i never wasn't
see dave
but after i met him i went out there and
um
was in his house and you know you could
see his living as a single
and um
whatever but um
he was a good yeah he was a good heed
you know he had a good summer
and uh he did good things so i had to
say potato written
for his parents while he was alive
and that
terror now is in my son my son-in-law in
tel aviv
so they read the they read the title
this weekend i think and yesterday
you know and they read from it several
other times so there is a
potato as a memorial
for for
him getting back to the text that we're
learning here and we have to learn a
very important footnote in a moment but
before that
johnny asked a good question and
whatever you need
we did find an answer
and the question ain't asked is that in
this my mind this uh contrast
chapter eight
the rabbit says here that hasidus
gives a new highness a new life force
and energy in all other parts of
thailand which is shocked and image
through sight
and he gives as an example on page 51
he says all the avoidance of
him
a plato god needs to do them
and
they receive and when your keeper comes
out of shabbos and you normally bring
the car to lucifer shabbos right that's
why we we do musical shabbos
so
the the the the yom kippur feelers
elevate
the muscle feelers so in other words the
muscle the muscle feeler of your keeper
qualitatively is a different
muscle
this is what he said so he asked the
question why does he choose muslim why
doesn't he choose rosh hashanah rashad
is the head of the year and
he made another good point that
the you know the mouth he is
so prominent in other words
as far as music is concerned in our
liturgy which stands out more the muslim
yom kippur the muslim rosh hashanah i
mean i mean that you can argue because
because remember during muslim kipper
you have the avoider but that's already
the avoid the part of most of
muslims
the technical music of of yom kippur
compared to the muslim
it would seem and feels whether it is or
not but you know it's it's
shapeless
this question was why not highlight that
that and the answer is
i should have
got it but i you know i wasn't thinking
i just heard the question i put it off
but i'm thinking about discussing it
with a friend
the answer is
what makes young kipper special
naila
right
your kipper would not be anything other
than a regular young thing if not for
the ila right
because
there are other holidays in which we
have
we have uh the yamato will have all the
four fort felix and then and and um
and the special reading and all that
what makes them keep it different
the fifth field in the ela
what is neela correspond to we we learn
to yeshida to the the fifth aspect of
the shaman that's most unique oneness
no
so that issue yay only exists
i'm your keeper in other words what what
i failed to explain is
when we say whatever says he when he
quotes the
mishnah
that the muslim of yom kippur
becomes special
because of young kipper what is your
keeper neila
so if he said that about you
that's not true
rosh hashanah
he's not five fellas it's only four so
now that rosh hashanah does not yet
express the
and that's the point that he's trying to
make here that
is
so you have shot remember
corresponding to the four trilos
the four prayers of every holiday
only when you have yeshida when you have
siddhas
that
then which is analogous to yakita then
the entire other thrillers become
qualitatively different
is that clear
yes my
yes
what would you say
can you say it shout out
so
which is which like which feels
right right
i
again i don't know that now i i i
believe it's brought in kabbalah i but i
didn't research it so i'm not going to
give you a bubble mindset um and it's
not relevant really to the to the text
which is which but it's a good question
to put on hold and to get back to and
believe that if i get a chance i'll try
to i don't have slaughter in here you
know but
i hope i'll get to that sometime but
you are thinking that's what's important
not serious that means you've found a
problem you want to say something
i just want to answer his question uh
yes those other
foreign parts of the soul yeah so again
that too if you're going to ask me which
part
corresponds to what to what i i i want
to i want to look at that you know i
don't i don't i want to give you the
right answer it's not just pick and
choose
it's pick and choose my riff is this it
doesn't work that way i i just for a
second you see understand especially
when it comes to kabbalah and this is a
mistake you know this whole this whole
world of gematria
it it's become such a joke
in other words if you could show me a
correlation between
my riff
of of of your kipper and the level of
nephesh
then we could talk business you
understand but you got to show me the
connection i i could i could i believe i
could figure it out you know what i'm
saying but i i'm not thinking that way i
want to i'm going to get to the footnote
so um but the question that you're
asking of rum along the line of what
with moisture asked is good and let me
let me get to it hopefully sometime
later very good okay
so
here
there's footnote 71. i need you to turn
there
and here we learned the text on page 48
in the english
take a look at the english side the last
paragraph of the text on page 48.
it says here that in addition to the
explanations which you see this gives to
various subjects within all four parts
of canada which negates the common
misconception
that facilities arose
in order to explain only the esoteric
part of torah
now that ever writes these words he says
the misconception and i'm telling you
he's
boy is he right because it's a big
misconception as average man on the
street young he walked down uh rodney
avenue williamsburg 13th avenue park um
whatever streets in muncie and you shall
i aim
about
what a siddhis the average person who's
a closet
is going to tell you it's an explanation
of kabbalah
and what the rabbit says here
is that it's not an explanation of
cabola
yes
when you learn siddhis and it uses some
kabbalistic language and ideas it
automatically through the understanding
of accidents those ideas become clear
that's true
but not that siddhis is an explanation
of cabola
and and velvet what's the logical
argument for that position
because if siddhis is just an
explanation of kabbalah then it's not a
fifth level
then it's not five it's only four
and
and and so big deal some say it's four
it's not five
why must it be five because you decided
because i decided because the rabbit
decided no
and this is where it touches your
question i've run because there are five
levels on your shoulder
issa put your camera down i'd like to
see your face
since they're four left there there are
four five levels of the
nephesh
and that's what in kabbalah
so it behooves us to say what aspect of
my meshung my being is
so and therefore it also behooves us to
say what aspect of torah is
so this
kind of brings us
to understand
that there is something that's greater
than the four which is yeshida the
oneness the uniqueness
you could say this way
then the ela within the soul
then the ela within the world
throughout the year and that's your
freedom
so if that's the case
siddhis
is not
kabbalah kabbalah is one out of four
and yahida is five so yahid is unique in
it it has it just like capollo is unique
that it's sold
shot remiss brush soap
so too
yahida has its uniqueness but it's five
it's five
we normally have four what do you mean
it's five
and this is the rabbit's thesis in this
essay
that sydness is five
and that
illuminates every other aspect of torah
as as we as you will see later in the
countries as we continue learning we
don't yet have a full explanation but i
want to go to number 71. so he quotes
here derebra
in torah
page 172
the world considers see this to be
an explanation of kabbalah
that is a mistake
remember this is now from the rashad
the statement concludes
kabbalah is next page 50
is an explanation of siddhis
wow
the rashad turns it around
and he says no no no you think citizen
explains the couple you have it wrong
compilers and explanations of cities
to explain see this
to explain sorry to explain
in other words let's clap explain the
rashad's words
see this is the comprehension
comprehension of divinity remember you
want a definition for sinners here it is
it's the comprehension
of divinity
right
there is divinity we'll call that in
hebrew
get used to that word elokos is divinity
you want to understand we want to
understand that divinity that's called
the comprehension of divinity
siddhis
gives us the tools to comprehend
divinity
yahida is in the feminine form it
receives from
skip this bracket
let's go to
the c8
the smallest part of god closed itself
for the smallest part of man and it's
called
siddhis okay we'll go ahead
sid this achieves this comprehension of
god
by using analogies parallels and
explanations kabbalah though explains
that's what i told you was the pipelines
the location of god in terms of the body
of the king and the sphero conception so
cabela says
kabul says
kabul
the right hand is tested the left hand
is vula
etc and we label the parts if you've
seen you know
secular writers and others they put a
diagram of a human being and they label
the human being by the that's caballus
it's coming out in kabul
it should be also be noted
that the revelations of kessa analogous
to darkness
why is tesla darkness clever
something called kessler right the crown
above
because it's so great and so powerful
that to us it's dark we don't understand
it so we call it darkness
kessler isn't
okay as discussed in chapter two so this
is the effusion
of new radius from okay this is getting
a little heavy we're gonna skip this not
relevant right now hold down
um
go to the next paragraph the bottom of
50. there are two major ideas discussed
here
the manner in which kabbalah is an
explanation of cities and not vice versa
and number two the fact that caballo
is
only an explanation
a reduced reflection and does not
capture the essence of cities
so in other words like this
one aspect is that kabbalah explains to
you so the other one is that kabbalah
only explains a glimpse of sinners not
all of cities
in the first part
that ever distinguishes between the
nature
and methods of comprehension of
comprehending god of citizen kabbalah
and that
is a descriptive anatomy so to speak of
the body of the king that is
the various manifestations of divinity
it is interested in indexing i like that
cataloging even better
and locating
these divine revelations
assigning them places and names so is
there
when you make a bracha on wine friday
night you make kiddush that's one
location
and if you want to know the location you
have to know what shame hashems are
being said in the brother and i told you
once i saw someone do this as he held
the cup and he made kids very slowly and
someone do i know well and i asked him
like
what the kids are going to make to this
and he said he was having a mind
of the shame hashem in that particular
brother yesterday
[Music]
okay with the steady way
you have to have your mind saving his
penis
then you have to every morning death
right so so youngster gave us an example
a real life example of
the covenants that you need to have
for a particular breath at a particular
time
so that's called the location the
indexing as he says here in the catalog
hence let's go back and attack the
footnote hence
cabola is concerned with the technical
identities and relations between the
sphero
the worlds
i want you to make a note either
here on paper on the safer that if you
ever are looking to explain to someone
the difference between citizen kabbalah
refer to this you know but study it
thoroughly and get it and get it but
this is one of the places that i always
think of
of a place where you could see an
explanation to the difference because
it's so relevant to people when they say
oh
all in one okay
siddhis however
is concerned with the direct
perception of divinity
natural analogies
underlying all these terms forms and
locations you hear that
sidness is not concerned
with the locations the indexing the
comatry is and all of that see this is
concerned about divinity direct god
the god that underlines all the indexing
and all the gematrias that's what civ is
concerned about let's go further
it will thus employ all manner of
explanations example
parallels including kapolei in order to
reveal the essence of divinity expressed
in all levels that is
kapolei is the technical explanation of
these forms
and terms in themselves
while siddhis only uses
and is interested in
these forms as a means for perceiving
divinity that's a beautiful word
siddhis is not interested in the
analogies and forms and and cataloging
and indexing and democracy for its own
sake
it uses it
to understand divinity god itself
in other words my shirt
if someone says you know what god is
see let's see what what joeys have said
before with the terrain
one is being and all that right
when is that important and and why is
that is because there's a divinity
behind it otherwise who cares
who cares
in other words so you need to relate to
the divinity however
the divinity takes a form of expression
ceres
but if you if you if you don't have the
divinity behind it it's a meaningless
experience
so you could find an individual that's
very knowledgeable
in the yakuti and everything else and
guess what
and it has nothing to do with divinity
it's an exercise
it's a mind exercise there are people
that like mathematics
there are people like
science there are people that like you
know other fields of study
and
this falls into it but where is the
divinity the godliness
citizens deals with the godliness
and it's okay again it's said we say
in one word so this deals with godliness
that's a whole study
of who is god what is god what is god
not how do i fit into the picture as the
wolf yesterday and i'd you when i say
something
no okay
good thing
well
so as discussed earlier analogy
our doctor is still here no he went off
but let's see here's an analogy if is
this a physician uses biology
chemistry anatomy
only to gain comprehension
of the body's essential life force in
order
that he may be able to bottom of 51 heal
he is not interested in anatomy in
and for its own sake but only in so far
as it helps him further understand the
nature of the body's existence
similarly kabbalah is an anatomy
so to speak
while siddhis is concerned with the
essential comprehension of god's being
in existence
that ever then proceeds to analyze the
nature of kabbalah as a revelation of
siddhis
another analogy
the anatomy test book
helps the physician understand the body
not the body nevertheless
the text is only
a
schematic
secondary
reflection of the body and not of course
the essence of the body's life force
itself
furthermore
the full force and essence of the
physician's understanding
of the human body
is demonstrated not in his
particular knowledge of anatomy but
in the practical effects of the healing
similarly in kabbalah one is a
revelation in quotes
an explanation of siddhis
is merely an explanation and not the
essence of the citizen self the essence
of sinners
is
captured only in action and practical
deed
this thing here
is
is powerful and it's so true
well one second one second i
i was i was waiting for your hand one
second
you might be wondering what if you ever
say what cabo is not what
a person who's a serious bomb of couples
cabola is not looking to do it practical
what what what is the what is the
kabbalah part of his practicality you
know as you said before have a mind that
say right and settle that's not
practical
that is practical but it's not practical
put it on triple putting them azusa
if i read if i read the brother
correctly with a sample or a set right i
read i pronounce it correctly
and i have no idea like most people
don't and they're not interested they
don't know they don't care same with
being a cop but leave me alone
have i done the mitzvah absolutely
nothing is missing not an iota
so
to say
that knowing the second one that say ray
and this name of god and this
pronunciation
is practical it's not
it's practical in its own sense but not
compared to the mitzvah to the bottom
line
so cabola
cabola was what was the english word
esoteric
mystical
the meaning of which the connotation
it's not practical
see this it's just the opposite
just the opposite
you can learn and learn to learn
and if you don't do you're not hasidic
you're not a hostage
because sin is about divine and divine
is myself that's the nakuda
the vinity is mindset
what are we learning in this foreign
operation north korea
from the same but the edge is west in
the beginning and the beginning is west
in the air end
what's the beginning of the thought
what's the end action myself
says in the sperm knows to be lost in
the sight from the same from the
colossal
they're wedged in each other what does
that mean that means if you strip and
remove
the self from the beginning
and the beginning from the soap
you're not plugged in
you're not plugged in in divinity you're
plugged into somewhere else
i've run what do you want to say
sorry
yeah i was i was given the definition
many years ago
uh like this because is a verb
a citizen is a verb
and a present is one who does tests
with
man and with his neighbor
that's from tanya chapter 10
and that's very nice but uh and it
doesn't contradict what we're learning
here
it's no not a contradiction at all but
the essence of considers is captured
only in action practically that was the
message of because
is a verb meaning it's action ah
i got it
very good i had it i hear you
contradiction at all right right right i
didn't i i
right
what time is it what's the time
okay
okay um
so i i took the time
there's more but
i took the time to learn this section of
the footnote because it's very very
valuable and i you know you know
the way to learn this footnote is skip
over the you know the cabola parts just
try to get the more rational part so
that you could you could you could
become
clear to you in your mind because if you
read every single line without whatever
you know it's gonna it's gonna throw you
off because you know he interjects
but if you stay away from the kessler
and this that i'm not saying we
shouldn't learn it but
you know
to understand the difference like
citizen kabbalah of each this is a i
feel a good
english um
essay kind of
to explain i mean
do you do you agree i mean what what do
you think uh february and other others
are available
any comments or some workplace yeah
i think it's very good think it's
i think it's uh i think it's very good i
know i've had many experiences with
people speaking with people and they're
not they're not
most people are not aware
of the difference between the citizen
cabela's it's exactly right but
what was the explanation that
uh because it is not an explanation of
kabbalah but
it flips on its head so much
of what they come and understand i know
i know and and and
i i still have to think about that part
i didn't spend a lot of time on that
what does that mean cabal is an
explanation
so
i think what it means is because that's
a very powerful statement and what does
it mean
it means that
see this is about divinity which is my
set capola comes to give you the
pipelines of that
action so what it says cabela's an
explanation of citizens knows here's my
problem with
hearing this
kabbalah's esoterics what do you mean
it's an explanation of siddhis
it's mysticism
it's mystical it means an explanation
it's no explanation of sickness it makes
it more enough it makes it more removed
that that's when i read that that's what
i that's what threw me for a loop
and i think the answer is what it means
is
that
since sid is about like you said the
verb the action
kabbalah tells you it explains to you
where to place that action and this
sphere on that sphere on the right and
the left ventricle in the back in the
front and the head
i think that's what he means by that
that's what it means that kabbalah is an
explanation of siddhis
will continue tomorrow
and uh
and everyone else only simply don't have
good things and
it's a good month yes sir you want to
say something
thank you
everyone have a great day take care
bye-bye