Essence of Chasidus #22- Mesora, tradition is key in finding your path - Find a Teacher

uh in the mimer in the middle of well actually now we're on page 53 chapter test chapter 9. so what are we learning here we've learned here a very important idea that siddhis that siddis illuminates every other part of today and the illumination isn't just a quantitative difference oh i've said a quantitative improvement it's a qualitative improvement your nigla your gemara your musa your halacha your kabbalah is a very different one when it's animated with the energy of sidness and yesterday we discussed that length practically what that means and and i think it's a very it was a came out we didn't learn in the text yesterday but it was very very important to discuss that issue and to understand that being a hussain is not a technical mechanical you know approach another luggage someone will say i'm going to decide if i want to be a hossett or a lit or aspartate whatever right how much gamora will i know how much you know in a hasidic school of civic school i'm going to get less and i which wishes school i'm going to get more you're super going to get more i opt for that let me tell you if that's the way you approach the whole topic go there no problem in other words your whole approach is a certain approach and it doesn't fit it does not fit in i thought i'm generalizing it doesn't fit into the world of hasidism and and i mean i don't mean a given that citizen is the the the informality the informality of soul the the the ability force the soul to just ride where am i going i told you i used to go to san francisco i lived in marin county it's a bedroom community it's very quiet i got sick and crazy some days i got into the car i just drove to the city my wife says where are you going i said i have no idea go on a path just get out the same here some days maybe you don't have work enough this that get into a car get on the train and go go to tel aviv go i don't know go to your lion go go to a go with hustling bustling and bump into people and you'll see what comes from it and yes sometimes it feels very scary right where am i going who am i going to i don't know not everyone's able to do that and and i understand it but the world of kassidism comparatively speaking to the non-world of custody it is is one that doesn't lend itself to this type of behavior i'm making a generality i'm not saying within there aren't individuals here and individuals there but overall i mean just for example right um the beard right a lot of people have beards a lot of people their beards are trimmed and very power combed very exact and very precise and then you have a high-end dolphin beard this is what it is you take it or you leave it i've been called the half and santa claus no no it's open yet what i'm saying and why what i i i don't want to call my beard because this is the way i was trained for good or for bad so when we're learning here in the minor that siddhis is gives a highest pradosh in a piece of the mother there is the gamora like i said yes at the end of destination the way the brisker learns a piece of the murder now i'm going to dissect rip apart a rambam now what is what is that what does that speak of that speaks of on some level yes ego i know so much and i'm gonna tear apart around them and and and and and it gets even worse when you go into certain places when they say and rashiva could say i disagree with rashi and and i and i've heard this firsthand so don't tell me it doesn't exist is going to upend rashi rashi is the the the teacher of claudius and yes rashi lends itself to commentary interpretation argumentation and discussion as the repetitive shabbos nevertheless there is an able kite to approach arashi you understand there's a sensitivity how to approach a rashi a piece of gemara you know you know how they used to learn and you know you know how they used to learn everyone before they stopped they sat down to learn that the mother he said i just caught this in yeshiva was i was a boy that was the introduction to opening the gemara learning it's not just an intellectual piece you understand or it's like before the say that before the four caches the right the fear caches would say tata 11 father may you live if they'll buy your friend if you're cautious what do you have to say talk 11. just start asking the questions but the way we were trained as boys as children or girls too we say tata 11 the introduction be speaks of the experience another example hashems before we get to baruch i'm saying okay it's going to be the the blessings and then the requests and all that there's an introduction and the introduction is the key to the entire monastery what is the introduction hashem and the kabat city there's a comma after the word hashem pause hashem i now stand before you i need to pause and think about this i'm not just going to now ask because i have a need there's god and god wants something from us from me hashem my lips gift up hashem if you want something from me open my lips for me i can't open them myself i need you to open my lips and when you will open my lips um it is then that my mouth will say your praise if you don't open my lips my mouth can't say your praise and then we go on later this minuses to ask all these requests which seems very very selfish and the answer is if the focus and meditation of that first verse of hashem first line was appropriate was proper was meditative then the requests are not egotistical but rather as a result of god wanting you to make that request god wanted you to have parnosa and health and shiva and everything else and that's why i have a video it might be online i think it is they they stole it and put it online which is it's fine it's no more considered stolen of rabbi raichik no it doesn't have a right to one it's not on ruby rajcik was the senior slayer in los angeles he was at my house with a mental foot of us in 1987 or 88 87 anyway and um i took a video of him dominique monesser and i made a point in the english subtitles of that piece to explain take a look how long it takes him to get to kneel hashem kneeling and up right back kneeling balling it up it takes a minute whatever i pay attention i remember i saw it i was like what's taking you so long it's one line six words seven words you know it takes said two seconds three seconds and he's doing it in i don't know 30 seconds 45 seconds a minute whatever much longer because that's the meditation part if you you really got to be focused on hashem stuff and then your monastery is another feminist so in other words even within it like a closet even with a learning considers there is a humility that needs to come along with and that's what we're learning over here in different words we won't you don't find what i just said now in the text here in fact some will say it's so far from the text but it's not it's not why because the text is saying that the sidness adds a oil coverage to every part of toyota another example to prove the point i told you years ago i i was interested in learning about reincarnation about gilgaling i was looking for a teacher talking about now 20 to 25 years ago in bara park in brooklyn they told me there's someone who mastered cabola and and and flatbush a name that people know and i don't want to i called him and i started to ask so i i started to learn the history i rise up shot at bill gulen which some of you i think have learned there here and i had questions many questions and it was it was a new field for me you know and if i didn't learn it's a very very fascinating souls reincarnation migration of souls pregnation of souls a sibling rivalry uh first to second marriages you know and on and on and on i mean it's fascinating stuff really i'm actually thinking of relearning it and starting some shira minute because it's a it's a very fascinating topic anyway so and i got stuck because frankly i was i was going about as a novice i was going about the text of of our of arizona i was going about it for me so i was putting i was trying to put everything in a box in a category so for example if if if the summer if the soul is reincarnated right if it's reincarnated how many times have come back can adult can a male's soul go into a woman of women's into a male what does an animal fit into them and all these questions like i was trying to create i remember like this because that was i decided i think if i teach it this way for people who are you know even not religious anyone who wants to learn this topic if i compartmentalize it and organize it in a structured defined way it will be easier to teach and understand so i tried doing that and i came to roadblocks here there so i said let me ask a master a teacher a master so they told me to summon a flat and i called them up and from the beginning of the phone call to the end he was arrogant beyond words i wanted to hang up but out of their fetish i didn't i said that he just was so arrogant talking down not interested you know and you know when i told him you know i'm a teacher you know what i'm saying i i'm not calling just to to pick your brain then i met someone in borough park who was a host this person was not a hustler it was a lit a mitch learned kabbalah and then at bar park i met a husset hidden away somewhere in the basement of a house and he welcomed me and he he answered many questions and he opened for me that door then i met someone else what i'm saying is that even in in kabbalah this is what i want even in kabbalah even in jewish mysticism where you would think it gives more room for this informality the answer is you can learn the kabbalah like a lead which there are many that do the villain going was they say the villain was greater in kabbalah than in gamora could you imagine and then there is the way a husset learns a piece of kabbalah it's a whole different couple it's a whole different kabbalah it's not the same kabbalah but we're learning the same text we're talking about the same ideas yeah but you could be talking about the same ideas with the ego with the eye yes yes yes sir i would say that they're not considered to learn considering texts that also learn very differently uh that they just it's like a different language they just and yeah they like they like it they take a lot out of it but it's not it's not the way that i've learned from my teachers and the message is different it's a good it's a good point you're making and it's it's very relevant today a i say they should still learn they should still learn to this but you're right you're right and that's why you need a teacher a rebbe a teacher a hust these things are are communicated by reading a teacher really you don't get it in a textbook you know for example the silver shoulder of the holy son of islam right it's it's a govaldiga text it's involved right but there's a way of learning it which in a way i you know i've looked at it i've learned some of it it can be also very kind of formal you know and then there and then if you learn it if you learn it because he was a if you see he's speaking tanya there like left and right you know what i'm saying so obviously he was a student of tanya no when you when you really learn a piece of italian especially if you're learning with a with a a a hussain who learned tanya from a teacher and a teacher a teacher there's a messiah and some great people have have written about kanye have and and i find because i learned by people that i'm a sailor of your car mercedes you know and his father and those back centuries right there's a mercedes there and then there are people who don't have a mercedes they have very good heads and it's a whole different time here and guess what some things are completely out from our mercedes wrong there is there is you know of innovation okay so first of all the rebel ashab and the rabbi were very careful to say that you know one should not go and make up his own stories in a safer time but even if you're you're just exploring it for conversation and and say to those they're still a messiah and this is uh i really want to get to the next paragraph but this is a very big issue i'm glad you brought it up as you're very you touched on something very very important you can learn siddhis and not be a hostage you can learn citizens and be accosted and not have a mercedes and and and it's not it's not the cities it's just not in other words the garage see them have a tradition the stolen company is going to have a tradition their theirs their citizens has their tradition you agree or disagree but that's their and and they have the basara and they have sources because i asked them when i went into the stonewall on 16th avenue borah park and for the first time you know as an adult when i came back in california and my ears almost fell off and i saw them swaying i mean i and i saw them going back gasping for air and then going forward and going wow they're screaming and a full of 200 300 people and and and you know it was i loved it but yet i i didn't see that this is avoid the red so i asked i asked the the players there who knew you know is there a source for this where did you pick this up they said yeah and based on we could show you they're about look at that leader the stone he says the bits of it that this means shouting loud the words of darwin okay it's not the khabarov it's not the blessing of avoid it's not the chernobyl avoider but it's there for you that's the messiah that's yes yes he will just couple comments on what you're saying the first is i once heard from rob that he uh teaching from uh from carl and stolen where he said the son of the son of the stolener asked his father if i scream in davening with the same intensity as if somebody held a knife to my throat would it be enough and his father said well it would be a start oh that's good what else the second is i want to say that you know in using the example in the sieve of shalom i sort of i really began my learning of clasitus with the sea of shalom and i used to and i still learn it every day i find it immensely rich and very sweet and satisfying and i used to quip about it that it brings a kind of lip fish of order and clarity to casitas it i mean i've learned through the tanya probably six seven times now and it's the and the order of it still does not make so much sense to me uh you know the ideas they all sort of they kind of resonate but sometimes i come across an idea i can't believe i it never jumped out of me before so i feel like uh so in some ways it's like it's it's uh it's not misuddara in my mind right and um many people walk away that way but there is say there uh rabbi chase taub years ago put out maybe in some line he shows you the sader of tanya and maybe one day once maybe i'll give a few shiurim on that to just show you the sedan because it's important i have a good book i have a good book that helps a lot which one um history it's story it's story in history i think it's my englishman yeah but does that do does that give you besides the history does it show you the flow from chapter let's say yes yeah yeah so that's good that's good anyway your nakuda is a very good makuta and i can see and understand why a lot of people begin when they see the shovel again because let's look about the western mind you know you're college educated oh map of tanya excellent excellent that's it hilo mentions a good point it says map map of tanya it's an that would be very good [Music] it's been very helpful right i know the one that you have i know the one that you have the one the one that the one that answer has will be more helpful um regarding the order that you you're looking for in nasibu showa is is is a very good introduction because it brings you into the world of citizen right and it's like you said you know it's it's it's it's the lift it's the literature by the way there are many people called the lit fox within you know but not talking about now the culture now talking about now the the learning and for many people especially the western way of thinking which we're educated you know in that way it's it's very helpful it's very very helpful and of course the the messages and and and the results are but but it it shouldn't be an end it should be just you have to go further and so let's say gareth cebus again what is gareth asidis fas right i mean it's a very difficult safer and a few study it now there's been a a a uh resurgence of of gareth hasidis and i think even some have translated into hebrew they've made it big they opened it up like serious mubarak and tanya they started to do that they learned from the vote hashem and they started to open up that right but nevertheless like what what does gareth see this what's the philosophy so so we know that the slo samus the great sabbath is fascinating he had a tanya and he learned that it would go to their doctor but nevertheless he took it into the middle right so he would always say what's the difference between us and they begin with moah to the left and we begin live to the moa okay the acronym of which is khabad and what does it say the warmth of my heart so the guerrilla would say that that says that's how bad and we say the acronym is how we be completely right whatever the possible valentine which represents the warmth of the heart okay so that's the look at this between uh the the swastemus is uh look at this citizen but nevertheless there's a mercedes so so it's important to to know uh to get to the messiah and that's why it's important to try to find like i always would when i went to the karina you know shul the prince i went to rabbi what's his name uh i figured he was 90 to 95 years old he's like the famous car prince korean family i forget not a name anyway the point is that the elders hopefully received from the you know from their generation like someone told me the sacrament is a palm springs i have this thing maybe i'm gonna go down there next winter because you could get to speak them privately this is what these are things i would ask him and i don't know i don't know if he'll know he won't know or you want to share with me what's their tradition what's their tradition of sickness you understand what's your tradition of sickness what did you hear from your grandfather what it depends on which no no no i'm not talking to politics i'm talking about you know they had a grandfather of your title bone you know they they were alive they heard what tell me what what what what is that you know and because from what i've asked and to be told that there was really a schwa answer or bells right i've asked spells in other words i i inquired about these things by different kasich groups from my own knowledge and as i write and think and talk i want to be informed you know i want to so i asked i remember i asked belser on a plane was going from jfk direct to throw he says he's learning tomorrow okay they make maybe like this twice with that grab a finger and you only make once well what's sinners what what is it that's what they told me so you know again i'm not saying this to to put i'm not i'm just saying there's a mercedes is very very important i would think that in as far as the teaching of the status of siddhis the messiah is the eager and that's why much for one second that's why i'm saying this you can learn even from a great mind or you can read their writing on tanya or other places and it's not going to say it and i know that because i learned from people who had the messiah so i'm not saying that psychologically and rationally they're not making sense they are but it's not the messiah the way the the in khabar has been transmitted from the altered down to our generation and and that and that's you know that's it i'm not saying you shouldn't but you have to know that yes moishe what you want to say i was going to ask if i'm wondering if someone like rabbi uh dr abram although i wonder if he's written about this about this question you know it's interesting i'm glad you you you know i don't want to mention names but i discussed in my book conversations with the rev some of you might have it i wrote many years ago i discussed this the topic of being in russia with rabbi twersky because you know here i had him one-on-one and he's a psychiatrist and he's a thomas huffman and he's a a son of a rabbit he comes from the chernobyl dynasty i mean i mean you know this is great right and he and and it's fascinating i remember i you know i was you know i was already uh 35 you know 30 35 year old that wasn't old but you know i was a thinking adult and i walked and i you know i learned by the masters to this and it was fascinating but it wasn't the messiah it wasn't it was in other words what did was he took this tanya and he put up the psychological terms that none of my teachers did because that's not the way they talked so if i were to teach and and and want to communicate the psychological approach to what the alternative says i would definitely use but i wouldn't say to a student in yeshiva study this at this point because you need the foundation you need the mercedes so i got the mercedes for my teachers then at 30 35 when i speak to rabbi dr twersky i appreciate so much more what he says but i also realize that that's not the messiah so it depends what you're looking for in other words so for example tanya would say gimbal than either much being i said that it's kamara neither right you administer an oath to the soul be righteous don't be don't be wicked seven oath and satiate and and the explanation is that the soul is satiated with seven soul powers that's not that's not the shock of the mark and guess what most people who are not who don't know this don't learn tanya that way in fact in the in the in the uh hill others have used which is fast fantastic um either they don't even bring it or if they bring it they bring it in the back and i asked robbie old times you know who's the editor and then friend and very knowledgeable he said listen we are writing this for every eve in the world we want them to learn tanya and understand tanya in in the in the way a regular ben taylor learns a piece of gamora this interpretation is not kept shooting it's not and it's not necessary to understand the simple text of tanya so why confuse the that particular person who's not on the bobbinger and wants to understand congress there's an example of an example of you can learn the tanya without the commentary that the word also means shiva seven and and so they are to satiate and then there's a mesoderm that says that there is this interpretation and it makes sense according to the tanya and the alcohol that's why he chose this mission etc etc so here's an example of how both are right but there is the messiah and there is the normal singer so did some someone reverse tanya without the the messiah of shiva and and sovaya is he learning incorrectly tanya absolutely not does he have the message absolutely not you understand and this is only one example and so and this and the same is true in every citizen in other words hillary i'm sure that in the mercedes challenge those that are you know students uh you know if no one's left but i'm saying make the they're just one of my red man there are certain mercedes and i'm not and this is something that's communicated from a teacher to a student and that's why it's so important to learn from a teacher and i remember after dr tourism shared that with me and i was like fascinated i discussed with some of my friends and some of the people in the community and and and they said it's nice but it's not you know it's not the text and the answer is it's not because rabbit wasn't coming from that condition i'll tell you more i i met someone who told me that he learned tanya with a laboratory in crown heights he was a you know very fine jew and and then he went at night at 11 at night to see the soccer redmond williamsburg and he discussed with him tanya and he saw that that's it i mean this is what the person told me i can't i you know say one of these he says satmarov told him he talked spoke to me tanya and he was impressed like he knew the way he learned by his laboratory teachers so the saatva rub said what do you think i learned italian the way your hungarian learns italian he says i i also heard from people the tradition of tanya and that's how i know it i remember telling this and i still i it it really made an impression sapler of europe who came from hungary and it was you know there was no obama spirit there was no colleen there was no wrestling i'm saying you know it was a trickle here trickle there but basically it was it was hungarian town you know a whole different culture overlapped you know uh yet it's a whole different culture and he and and and he and he knew the tradition of how he's supposed to learn the way the tradition is that's amazing that's amazing that's a pivot that's a finish so what does that tell you that the normal way that the way the hungarians learn tanya because first of all they were related the doubt that ever was that they held their elder great great grand grandfather way back you know it's covered now everybody it's called this and they learned it but they learned it in a hungarian way but it's a different style of learning that's awesome sharing that they could okay again we didn't learn any texts but i think we spoke about some very important things it means monday will continue yes yes one one is that i have a statement that we learned extensively rabbi yoga gershol in baltimore called uh from the remedy of um horticulture called the sacred is called paleox probably sure it's a fascinating to me now having become more steeped in the in sort of the rhythm and language of khabar how it's kind of uh it's very much khabad kind of in a different with a different uh with a different organizational framework or different collection uh so that that's just one thing because uh that that's sort of an example of one of the traditions that sort of took out a difference right a different kind yes and and i'm aware of the safer i'm aware of it it's a tremendous safer i know what you're talking about it's really uh just right so they took it off the shelf after a couple of decades also i just wanted to share an act anecdote you're talking about the sora that's a very charming anecdote that happened to me personally that when i was newly married i was by the old told the remember of yogurt for shabbos and he had a classic an american classic who had who was a quadriplegic he'd been injured uh introducing a wheelchair uh and uh very attached to the toddler eva and my last you know as i went to take leave of the telnereba he was learning it was a multi so you know i i i i was very very new to everything but it made an impression and i could read the word rambam undercover and uh so 25 years later i was in our sister with my kids and we had a shout out with the daughters family the parents of the current dogma and mostly shabbos he takes me to the mall of america in the childhood based madrid and before that we go up into the opera's apartment and uh it's mostly shabbos and he's sitting there with that same fellow that same quest said over shalom he still is now gone they're learning rambo together and it made such an impression on me that you know these this is how you get steeped in something you know you do it every week when the time people come and just go the generation passes but this is how you do it you develop comedians exactly and and that's the story with the market i think he said what did you learn i learned how to tie my shoes what have you learned from the market i learned how to tie my shoes you need the market of reservation there's certain things it's saying that saying this and that when you see you're ready you see your teacher tie your shoes it's a whole different experience yes and one of my favorite little words from in the casket is the time spent sharpening the eggs is as important as the time spent cutting down the trees very good very good better you have a sharp ass much more effective that's the custard there as a sharp axe but the idea that i've come yeah yeah and and definitely see them are very big on the corner and maybe more yeah than the actual mice yeah and the example is how cleaning much cleaning cleaning for face off intake it's only it's only seven days yeah right and then it's one through three it's over i'm from i haven't heard anything from you i've drunk today what do you say about all this let's see i've grown very interesting but i don't really mind sitting back on stage okay no so so you have all these camera you know you understand what's your thoughts did you finish your vlogmas did you finish wow i bow down to you i'm serious your vomits you know the three hardest receptors are on me i mean it's a poor right on the iron stands for aravind noon stands for neither and you there's your bonus those are the three hardest deceptives so if you can master your wellness camera have a great travis see everyone give me to share monday take care bye-bye thank you chance