Essence of Chasidus #5- Alter Rebbe complements Besht in making Kabbala accessible to everyone

i'm glad everyone's here looks greater good hiders to everyone [Applause] of unity we know it's the tiger living you saw lady kohei kindly wavy cohen israel and um it's the idea of making sholem peace peace because when you have two opposites and the third party joins them together then you make the peace so please put on your mute so we can have quiet when and then when you have a question or comment you'll you'll unmute yourself let's continue on mobile today okay i'm listening okay good okay so i want everyone to turn to page 23 and we're gonna read note number eight together the notes now because the notes here are very very important so this is we we learned we learned yesterday that the fourth idea in hasidis that and the the rabbi used the word richa created is that an individual who's not doesn't have a lofty soul or is not refined also has a shaitis also cannot comprehend kabbalah mysticism where and we're at woo and before the belgent of came along it was either you were a holy s you had a holy soul which that itself how do you know if you have a holy soul or not but let's say someone told you or you know or if you were refined you refined yourself then you could hear the sound of kabbalah and it could it could impact you but the average person including the average room person and the average hasidic person had no shaikhs had no connection to that so the world of kabbalah was off grounds off limits for the average person came along the balchemter and he said that through siddhis and in particular through the alternative through the understanding of siddhis you can have an understanding and a relationship to kabbalah this point is going to be really um developed later in the essay but this is what he said yesterday so let's now go to oh no oh note number eight toyota show tereshalam is the uh the uh a recording of the fabregans of the rebel ashab of shalom dove there until he writes like this until the revelation of siddhis the esoteric elements of tata example kabbalah were reserve for the spiritual elite those with innately quote lofty souls or those who had purified and refined himself cities however made the most obtruse concepts accessible accessible for all to all by articulating them in intellectual understandable terms so let's say it's giving it says right yes in the right hand smile is gevorah when you learn kurdish or you learn the kiss vrdesa already the other holy swarm of kabbalah if you're if you don't have a training in in in hasidic language and my and thought it's it's it's very it's a metaphor and actually the rambam writes it the rambam reading the mauryan writes exactly that comes along siddhis in particular citizen says means a flow of energy coming from chester from the right side and that flow has a particular orientation its orientation is it and then siddhis delves into what does it mean to to give and give hashball from is it free-flowing acid is it a is it a limited acid all of these ideas are par are a further elucidation of a concept mentioned in the title and and called in kabbalah you know you mean and so you take all of these ideas let's say the ten spheros which i i told you the story about right the ten emanations casa guru the ferris and what does that mean practically what is it for elsa what does it mean philosophically all of that is what he calls here in the note articulating them in intellectual understanding weight terms if something bad in our shop let's continue explains that this was consistent with what the baal shem was told when he asked moshiach when he asked when mashiach would come and was answered which in english is when your wellsprings will be dispersed outward that is when they will be dispersed even to unrefined and lonely people so that even those who are outside should also understand godliness means the outside one the one that's out out of the pail and futsu when the wellsprings of tyra the depth of torah will reach someone who isn't then you know mashiach is here and until that moment we're still lacking and eating mashiach meaning to say the khutsa is the proof that the kutz is the proof that we're connecting to the deepest level and sean dave ben adds hutzer outside abroad can even connote rational understanding that is the articulation of hasidis which as the text will soon note transcends the realms of intellect and rational terms is already the first step in its extension to the outside in other words the the first step for outside is outside of what you're innocent outside of the self which in this case is the intellect the sacral the maya the maya the brain the cup the logic the intellect is not soul it's a faculty of the soul and we want that too to be inspired with god so this includes the first step of outside the intellect so the rashaba shalom bear positions that it's not enough to experience teres habal shem tov through a negan through a story through a cry through a hug it's all very important your mind has to understand godliness and how god operates and this is of what we call in hasidis avodah's the work and activity of the moa and the rashaba is arguing this is what the bashamptov wanted the baal shem tov didn't just want a good hug and feeling he wanted it to be experienced in every aspect of the outside including the mind you know there's a m that uh that ever writes that the the line between um connection and and and and heresy is a very thin line a very thin divider and there's nothing as cold as the mind so if we could get the mind to appreciate and understand understand godliness a little bit at a time this is a major accomplishment okay and and mind you let's talk for a moment about plato and aristotle and the philosophers who were genius minds the rambam the rambam sites cites aristotle everyone knows that and just the shabbos i was in the casino here at the kiddush and some some some uh some hosset who's you know i don't know what's under the streimo but he's been reading a lot of books so someone tells him i'm a writer so right away he says do you know about this book and that book and and i said yes no yes whatever and then he spills the beans like you know he's reading i said to him he says what do you think about learning the mora and the reading the i said well if you have a strong base and foundation you should learn it and read it but if not be very careful you know i don't know what how much intellect you you you put you have in this field and and we're not we're not saying you have to use your mind to understand hashem and before maidan the siddhis basic concept of a soul faculty soul garments of a soul what is the soul how does it operate what's love mean what does fear mean what does guilt mean what does compassion mean how does that play in with the the the purpose of creation how did god create the world why did he create the world when did he create the world and all of those issues and more so the never writes here that i should have decided to hit rashad and the shabba is saying that this is all part of teresa let's go to note number nine and note number nine um this is on page the actual notes on 23 but it refers to a hold on no no it's sorry 22. page 22 it says by explaining the ideas of the esoteric part of tito note number nine there are four approaches or interpretations of tata shot the plain meaning of the text remez the illusion ramazim like a remiss three thrush homily madrish and four is sold mystery the esoteric interpretation is found for example in kabbalah see below for detailed explanation and illustration of these four approaches so in other words kabbalah would be the fourth so no number 10 page 24. so 24 he says um he quotes the verse from job from eve where sorry for my flesh i perceive godliness let's read the note hasidic literature explains this verse to mean that by examining the structure of one's own soul and its faculties which are created in the image of god one can comprehend divinity itself can you imagine well you're sitting there in your office and all of a sudden you start thinking about a concept of siddhis you are now identifying and and understanding hashem it's amazing wherever you are lost in thought and understanding god i heard the also yesterday i forget now who is a london who is a scholar a scholar someone who becomes a scholar from 15 minutes you know what fifteen minutes between minh and mairev you know what most people do they they they talk to each other they on their cell phone in the old days they used to smoke cigarettes i don't know they waste time right it's only 15 minutes but the person who takes those 15 minutes and he learns those 15 minutes that's how you become a scholar learning when you have to learn is no big deal but the time when everyone else is not learning and you learn that's a british so why am i saying that because there ever says here he says here in the note that siddhis gives a person the famous saying i'm sure uh you guys have heard this if yes if i were to know i would be if i were to know god i would be and what did the tremox say come on when you don't see this you're dieting you know god and you are and in other words when you learn siddhis when you learn about hashem and you study hashem as he says he studied divinity right it's the study of divinity siddhis you become divine now first it's understandable you know if you have your gosh vias and everything else it can cover it up but the point is that the mind is involved in the study of god and this and this is a very important the kuda it's not to exclude the gemara or musser which is also hashem but like i said yesterday and i re i i repeat it the difference is that here you're talking about one ox scoring an oxy you pay 50 to 100 here you talk about whether you're a mansion clean and a procrastinator and here you talk about god see this is not another muslim not another muslim book it's a big mistake it happens that it's funny but it's funny that the the example that you use is the example that i asked my rebbe in third grade or fourth grade i said what do i need to know about if an ox gore's bores my my shore i don't have a shore i said if i have a car i have insurance i don't need to if i get sued or he sues me i have insurance what do i need to know four or five times right four times and what's the answer i don't know if at that time probably your rebbe gave you i got i got it but the answer was a big fuss yeah unfortunately uh that that's definitely not an answer that's uh that's that's not not good but the the answer is that toyota is elecus but again who's going to tell you that that when you learn gamut about one ox going in other rocks 50 or 100 percent it's all about god or let's say the freedom has the uh same thing uh a limit this one says it's mine i found it amen and the other one says i found it says defeated but you know what's going on here yes it's a piece of kamara but it's a discussion of divinity it's a soul issa is walking down the street he meets someone he puts on filming with him he talks and invites him for a good then comes along you're innocent it says you know the guy that you had over last night i knew him already three months ago okay nice after 120 issa and his soul come to hashem and each one claims ownership to that new soul who gets the credit right it's a whole different way of looking at a lost item in a street you understand it's a whole different way now of course you have to understand the shock and the gemura you got you got to know the meat and potatoes when you're learning your money you have to understand it but you you need and and and that's the way we learn in yeshiva as young boys and teenagers but a certain point when you your mind starts developing you start engaging in the greater picture that comes out of all of this so anyway this is all alluded to in this note number 10. let's continue next paragraph silicon to the boring in the brackets of shalom and shoulder and pillow there was a big cluster of the middle and rabbit that said his name was a pillow of parrish barak gordon if you want will teach you one of his negro or maybe more he knows how to play them on the piano i believe and i've recorded some on my negro series which now is a playlist by the way i'm making nice playlists so everything is categorized and um avraham who's a musician will be easy for him to follow and everyone else anyway so a pillow of parish had a son called rep shalom so the rashad says like this and the freedom the previous representatives once quoted an account which he had heard from his teacher raphael of paris of the first lesson in hasidis that he had ever heard and quote this is it before i became a chabad recalled repeal i considered my body to be a loathsome thing because all spiritual all spiritual woes derives from it the body wants to eat and to sleep and to indulge so this body is loathism but when i apprehended the spirit of the teaching that from my flesh i perceive god that the body is a magnifying glass through which one precedes perceived godliness my body accepted good standing in my eyes that's baalshem yes and you know what the same thing with what what some would call the kaley the tom made the tom mccailley the internet the computer you could of course use it for terrible things and what are we using for the lyric cities to learn together tata same idea can it slap you down boy can it slap you down do you need uh you know precautions absolutely but know that being that it's neutral again they would argue it's not neutral it's forbidden but it's it you know it it's it's just the screen i tell people it's the creeper noga that's right that's what it is it's either way that's what it is uh it's sir clifford snowden so the did if shalom said that a pillow taught him not to look at the body as a disgusting thing as a troublemaker but to look at the body as an opportunity for greater growth that even the body can appreciate although the body wants to go elsewhere and is made of other stuff and everything else so this was a continue see also show them next column that as a result of this innovation of hasidis that the faculties of man can serve as an analogy to comprehend their parallels above in god as it were these faculties thereby become godly thus one can connect this fourth explanation of siddhis with the third remember the third interpretation was that the the quakers themselves the faculties themselves are trans transcend their nature so what he's saying over here is this the same idea that the body itself transcends its local loathsomeness the brackets the innovation of hasidis over kabbalah okay listen carefully the innovation of qasidis over kabbalah is that hasidis makes divinity comprehensible through the analogy of human faculties if you need a a a a one sentence definition of what qasidis is you have it right right here the innovation of hasidis over kabbalah is that khasidis makes divinity comprehensible through the analogy of human faculties though kabbalah is a scent in a sense does the same it is not oh it is not truly perfect comprehension sidness however bring godliness to perfect human comprehension from fro for from one's own human faculties he can understand supernal matters from one's own intellectual attributes he can understand what the intellect of god is and from his own emotional attributes or mythos he can understand the meters of god and though this understanding and next page 25 consequently purification one faculties thereby become godly fitting vessels which can be absorbed into and become a part of god sorry sorry yeah right yeah thus the explanation i'm going to finish here that's the explanation of the fourth definition of siddhis that it enables even a simple person to understand divinity through its analogies to the soul is connected to the third definition considers changes the nature of one's character by understanding godliness one's own faculties becomes godly and finally note number 11. well at the end of page 24 on the english side it says that that this idea heaven that the mind comprehends god makes an impact not only on the godly logic and not only on the human intellectual logic let's see what he says in note 11 the intellectual soul bridges the gulf between the animal soul and the godly soul intellectual understanding is a vessel for godly understanding and thus can have effect on the animal soul so in other words what he said saying is in other words the purpose is to get the animal soul the nepheshabam is his mind to appreciate god but using a filter of the nephesha to bring that message there to say hey guy i know where you're coming from all i am is sacral i'm not god but you know let's let's talk about this logically let's let's talk it out this is a very important the good then i finish with this that in order to get divinity godliness elikos in hebrew to resonate you need to understand you need to you need to delve into the understanding of it and when you understand something you you have more of an appreciation and an inkling and a desire to to to go that way to live that way but if you don't understand or you're being you're doing it because others told you your parents your community your rabbi or it's good for your business and all that it could it could cease it could end it's not you it's an adjunct to you it's imposed upon you and never never think that the nepheshabamis can't outsmart you you see the nephesh obama's is very smart it's an animal but it has a justification process that will justify all kinds of ways to go against what hashem wants so that's why relying solely on the intellect of the nephi shabbat is a risky business so what does that ever say that ever says that's why get the nephesh hasikhlis who on one hand is being fed godliness in the nephew shalom and have that commun communicated through its brain through its mind through its intellect so that it gives the nephesh obama's something greater than just justification is not strong enough to keep it straight on the path long term have any questions or comments please i know we we we we we learned quite a bit as far as these the ideas and i didn't give you a chance to speak so now it's your turn if you want to say something is it clear i hope it's clear yeah okay we'll see everyone tomorrow have a great day zygom bye bye thank you