Essence of Chasidus #23-Modeh Ani: Guarantees you'll have a successful day - The Ben-Torah needs it

so welcome to the the next room used for the sheer back into my one room where i sleep i write and i teach and barack hashem for that still having an issue is still having an issue shaking the cold but hashem will help so i mean i mean listen if i'm able to sit here and teach and talk so it's already it's already good and i just hope it gets better so we're learning the mimer we do have to learn inside as much as for bringing and talking and schmoozing and it's great we do have to learn some more of the text so let's go to page um we're on page 53 is that correct why should you have us a 53 or a war i i'm pretty sure 53 of those tests i believe i think or maybe the last paragraph me in the second paragraph from 53 right before tests right no no that that that that that we did it we didn't do that we did already we're holding ice tests okay your name potato they are infinite titus infinite um says this line as an introduction that is going to give us now an example of he's going to give us an example of one idea in tata that is demonstrative of how each of the four aspects of tita explains them and then how siddhis adds insight into each of the other parts of tata on the subject matter so that's why he says you need to know first he says that tata is infinite and being that it is infinite being that tight is infinite it's really impossible to capture this idea in every part of tata and within every part of taitu the quality the quality because tater's infinite nevertheless nevertheless he'll choose or unrefined and pedera will explain possibly i'll call upon him at least one concentrated commercial who i'll be shot we're not going to look at this idea and tell you how the simple text explains it number two our p remembers we will look at it from the remna's perspective number three i'll petrush the number floppy site according to say the esoteric mystical understanding of tito which is the fourth level of theta and then we will also look at the vitality and the clarity the illumination that has inserts within all four realms of taylor um and from this one example that i'm going to choose we will learn and we will understand chicken who behold the same way of thinking exists for every part of toyota and that's a fascinating statement because in a moment we're going to start learning about the four and the idea and then just to not forget what he says here the same is true about every aspect of theta could you imagine if someone wrote a book of this with this methodology the book would probably be 5 000 pages at least you know okay if they were able in a position of truly mastering all of taita that they could create such a book if the idea that we will choose as an example is the first thing we do when we wake up in the morning we open our eyes we're still in our bed before we watched lego vassar i give thanks to you hashem that you returned my soul to me that ever says we're going to choose this thing now mind you is this a biblical obligation show me anywhere in the torah shepard where it talks about maidani it doesn't the ghazal derive it and explain it and it becomes part of the and the rapper says but i want to use this as an example and just parenthetically why moshe why did the rabbit choose mow the ani i think he said this other times it's very simple because this is like the credo not only of the jewish experience but of the human experience you wake up in the morning if you don't wake up god forbid you don't wake up you wake up that means you're alive life begins so this aspect is common to humanity waking up being alive so he chooses the quintessential that this is my my understanding based on what i heard from the rabbit many times he chooses the quintessential aspect of life as an example for showing us the four ways that we understand it and the way this adds to it let's continue okay just before you continue yeah um you had once uh shared with us the practice of mo down knee you were turning on the side and making your hands like in a prayerful position can you just review it sure again i don't know if this is standard to all traditions but the way i was raised before so and i liked it a lot so well the the as soon as you wake up your eyes open you're awake you you you you you you sit up kind of on the bed in your bed not you don't do this lying so even if it's hard for you so you kind of tilt yourself a little bit up you put your hands together like this not like this you're not supposed to do that point these out like this right and you put your hands above above your head like this like you know a little above your head now some people go like this i i don't know i i don't know i don't know if that's because the christians do that i'm not sure we should go like this anyway i don't know that you might want to ask others but i go like this because i i have this weird feeling that this is like a christian thing maybe i'm wrong but that's i go like this and i go above my head and i start saying my knee so again my body posture is either sitting up in bed or bending over upwards kind of because if i'm you know if if i'm tired i don't know where i am or you know i just woke up so is it on your side or looked it straight forward um it's it's either it's either it's it's either in other words if i'm able to be straightforward i do it straightforward but i i'm not sure it says it has to be straightforward the idea is that you should kind of elevate yourself in a position where with your hands acknowledging the amish that god almighty that's above you i've never heard this before this is uh tradition or you know from other sources i i this is the way i was taught as a boy you know uh for my teachers and my father probably i i can't tell you that it's tradition i mean it you know i don't have the shukham in front of me i guess the first thing to do is to take out and see over there um if and when it says something both in the text and the commentary you know because i don't want to say that you know in other words it could be that's also where i saw it years later i pushed it don't remember right now it's you know it's one of those things so it's in your bones you know this is like when like you breathe that's the way i do it you know what i'm saying um to tell you that this is tradition i would think not but uh why no no one here has been taught to do my knee in such a manner really i've heard this before i don't remember when it's been a while uh but i want to ask you one question connected with this riverdale but we're very like we try to have the nevada you know right by our bed so the question is do you wash the necklace sir before you say madame yeah because i got the question before you said you first said and then you watched last year i'm just curious no is after after after for sure yeah that my that's the whole reason what in other words like this i think is going to speak about it briefly washington negovassar the tradition is that there's a tumor and this is broken there's a spiritual contamination on the fingers you don't know that in order to say abraca you need to remove that vis-a-vis the water washed on your hand on your nails and your fingers maidani is beyond tumor we're going to learn this this is this this is the this is what we're going to learn here soon it's the quintessential aspect of a jewel that that does not lend itself to being contaminated and that's why we say it specifically before we wash our hands to teach us that even if we are so-called contaminated spiritually and who isn't on some level it makes no difference to your essence as a heat and maidan and there's a lot more explanation that i think we'll talk about later but the answer your question bottom line is it's done after negovassa yeah yes janison i remember when i was in shiva and the and so we've been doing sex episodes yep so did i did the the way i described it is that the way rabbi lipscore taught you you have it in your background okay yeah okay same thing okay let's go on let's go on okay so we're on page 55 since one is to accustom himself to immediately upon waking up and through doing this he will remember as hashem god hawaii midolav who stands upon him in front of him the yakum and who get up with alacrity therefore this statement of maidani is saying veracious it is the foundation and the beginning from man's service to god in the parenthesis kium ko the word call is in bold kim ko haroy the foundation fulfilling all precepts and instructions of tata depends on the foundation of the building which is maidani everything that will happen to a person throughout his life depends on the mesh of so if you want to know what's going to be at 5 45 p.m after sleeping back on a packed freeway it all depends on your maidani in the morning yes moishe i i heard that i heard that that he was asked once what is his favorite filo and he said [Applause] you know i i thank you for sharing that because i do remember hearing the same thing i could hear that but but but you'll see here how he takes this money on me this is amazing what he does to my daddy here so i would say that based on what he does here to maidani it was his favorite fema okay so the first that could have happened is what the maidani is the assad voracious right the foundation and the beginning for the rest of your day including all mitzvahs and instruction that happened through the day are all in that maidani number two base taken amira zoo the content the token of this statement which is quote name you should think why you say my knee before who am i lying i am resting in a bed it's before god who commands you god fills the heavens in the earth and therefore it's now time to get up and do what god wants by getting up jacksonville again looking like like in the previous paragraph the word call isn't bold over here the word behold is involved and by the way it's there that instructed that the words be embold it's his instruction okay like i told you this was prepared by nabio khan but they never edited it and edited every word and when he wanted something in bold he underlined it either once or twice he had they had it he had a certain simmon uh which meant to make it bold or to make it italics etc so here he says not only is this thought hillary that hashem is is is standing before me relevant to when you're sleeping in a bed and it's time to get up and be thankful that you're alive and you woke up but also the whole asap of the enemy whatever you do whenever your involvement throughout the day you don't need to remember that it's there clown god this is a great rule in the title well the minor sacha they are constantly placing god in front of them in other words hashem's reality is negdy summit it's constantly in front of me it's not that hey what i remember about god whether being sure whether it be at home at those times he's with me no neddy summit you need to feel and to know that hashem is in front of you and with you every moment of the day so i say menace in other words just as when you get up in the morning and you say my daddy avro and you realize that god is standing before you so it's time for me to get up now and start my day so throughout the rest of the day you need to understand that god is also right in front of you and therefore get with it get get with the program and make sure that what you're doing is in accordance with hashem number three kohana all of the above point one and two which available man's service to his master hariz for a moment when you wake up what are you waking up from you're waking up from a state of sleep you're waking up from your sleep what's the symbolism of this that everything outside of hashem is a sleep state and that ebba's words it's nonsense it's not important it's heaven it's air it's a bunch of air kilos as the famous teaching of the rambam um quotes of quote 84 the rambam says kumu you know get out from your dreams have leona so in other words in other words like this what's this point three yeah this point three here in the in in the text in the countries is teaching that the maida anni has a beginning even before the maidani and that's the fact that you're asleep you're asleep means we are asleep in ghosts we're asleep in nourish kite and you have to wake up from that sleep so when hashem god almighty wakes you up from asleep be so thankful that he woke you up from asleep because a person could be asleep 10 years at 20 years and 40 years and 70 years it was asleep and by the way it doesn't mean only if you were involved with lsd and you involved with head with with the hamburgers and traifors a guy in learning yeshiva could be asleep for 50 years and he's learning day in day out he's asleep you know why he's asleep because he doesn't recognize the blade of oil he doesn't how could that be that's right because it can all be self learning so you're asleep because your whole learning is about the yesh about the i i want the job i want the title i want the position i want to sit on the dais i want to be the good speaker i want to be you know all of that so you got to realize that this is heaven and neither the maidan with is the experience of waking you up let's continue with that juventus with this we will understand peace gumbo you shall create the pisgah the slogan the teaching of the rebel rashad of shaolin bear the fifth rabbidish mosaic he said when he was a child behind i don't know if it's another sedum we say like this is there is a pause a comma between hamlet abundant so either you could read the word with great abundance or you can read it pause with mercy pause great is your faith the rebel ashab said when he was a child that there's an akuda appoint a comma after the word behemoth and he explained that in when you when you say modali and when you live with the concept you need to extend alcohol you need to extend the maidan knee throughout the day one second keep correct because for for every single minute of the day you shall measure throughout the high entire day now how is it look in the english side 54 after he says the last paragraph that ashab said that we must spread out the dot that is the period which is after the word mercy in maidani over the entire day okay so what i said before it's true but it's not the point he's making the point that our shop was making is that although there is a period or of the comma after the word hamlet one should not think that this concept is paused is interrupted is separated from the rest of the day but rather you have to schlep the hamlet of modernity into the rest of the day so the rebel sites there are shops teaching why because it it supports what he said in points one two and three that the is not just an experience for the morning when you get up but rather it's for the entire day and for the entire life just as that our shop said you have to take the hamlet and although there's a pause with a period or a comma and you need to extend it to the rest of the day yes my over how do you translate the word how do you translate i'm asking because i'm why is there another translation uh okay i'm just looking at the sitter anyone else have another trip isn't that the translation of camber yeah so so copenham will stop here today but so right here that ever gave us he he he's late he he's maybe moshe's question is how does hamlet differ from rachel okay that we we need to take out the sid uh the city little the two volume commentary which i don't have here in florida leave nether you'll remind me i'll take i have it in new york and i'll look it up because no no no no no the it's the classical uh two volume set for davening if you want to know anything about darvanine meaning the words repetition what's the difference like issa said you look there um it slipped my mind now the name it's two volumes i used it as a boy i used it later when i gave classes on siddharth every every teacher you know it was always a bar mitzvah there was a bar mitzvah gift that were given to us what um oh yes it's called it's called eight eight zeros sid there is two volumes and it it gives basic a commentary and more throughout the whole city it's very good for such questions yes maisha what else yeah that that was my question i was curious what was this this set of this two volume set oh it's not fearless but i just want to say that that ebb here in this paragraph that we just learned plays the foundation for his thesis and in a way if you don't understand this or you don't agree whatever you can't really go further you understand in other words like this go and ask someone who grew up in any yeshiva if if their understanding of my ideas like this not necessarily you know what i'm saying i say my god in the morning when i get up god gave me back my soul i thank you that's it next what that ever does here is phenomenal and and he's not telling you that you must well if it he's not saying it but really without saying it he's telling you that if if you're if you don't experience money on me this way yeah you're alive you woke up what kind of life is that yay it's like the famous story with the altar everest closet that you could seal of left leg that was a city over there russia ukraine was his birthday oh it's his 60th birthday 50th birthday 70th birthday comes to the altar and he asks that ever please give me a bracha for my birthday the altar is about to begin talking and he says wait rabbit wait if your broker is going to be that i should live like a player like a peasant i don't want a brother could you imagine a jew a husset goes into right out the rabbit such at sadiq and tells him gives him the conditions of the blessing that he wants for his birthday and what are the conditions not to be a player player is a peasant and if that's the bronco you're going to give me i should live another year just to eat and sleep and be a glutton and waste time surfing the internet and hot in the china no thank you reb i don't want such a broker and of course the altar never gave him a spirit a spiritual blocker but my question is where was it you could see him coming from he was a smart man and he knew he's standing before the outer river and the explanation is that to this year that you could see he was so refined that he was so sensitive and he was so connected to god tashem that he that he said to the altar he was saying what is a bracha only godliness anything outside of godliness is tantamount to being a peasant and being a peasant is death you're not blessing me rabbi you're cursing me we've got to think about this because it's very powerful you know people always flip in there okay that's that's that's courtesy but you know i i described to you maybe somebody you weren't on the show yet i i i saw with these eyes and heard with these ears how abraca is to be given from the option of the rebel and buy into the gun 20 years ago i brought a friend from america at that time it wasn't yet from and we spent an hour and 45 minutes with him from 5 00 am to a quarter to 7 we were by him spoke okay okay so very nice so we spoke about many things and at the end you know it's like it's so we asked you know we asked you know no you know we were leaving and and and we were face to face with this man who we saw and heard his stomach growling from not eating a person who was up probably all night you know he was literally he is over the shem like the tanya talks about a bananee this is a living baiting and you have him right there right there half an hour from your 45 minutes it's this option of a rebbe he some he doesn't want to be called rabbit with this jew right so when he gave the bracha when he when he you know it was like face to face and you could see online he's making when he makes a broker by a chuppah you can see this online but buh and believe me it's not ocd i'm convinced it's not ocd it looks like ocd but it's not ocd i don't know what i have no idea what's going through his head but there is the um that's really good imagine people say but then there's the maida annie that permeates every aspect of the day maidani you constantly remind me you're driving and and and olive my daddy is clapping you in your cup my daddy you know at the market maidani you're on a plane maidani it's the maidan niche within every single year that's what he said that's what ashab meant although there's a dot there's a comma it's kind of personal to our wake up experience it shouldn't be that way you have to extend it out throughout the whole day and as the rabbit says that becomes our foundation we will learn he makes hashem this coming monday it's shabbos utah in and when shabbos that is it's a time to elevate with simcha you know how to mourn shabbos you have to be freila and then you'll see that your sunday is will be as the rambam says these days will be transformed to joy and happiness with the coming of mashiach good shabbos to everyone thank you all right thank you