Essence of Chasidus #7- Everything good and holy is in Torah - Chasidus helps u access it

we are learning the my mid on the essence of siddhis we're on page 29 chapter three torah the epitome of perfection let's go uh um the study not just the study the philosophy of siddhis the world of hasidis or in english maisha will use the word the ethos e-t-h-o-s the ethos of siddhis who beholos and look at the word baklalas on the hebrew side is in bold the rebbe made the word bold and we'll talk about that in a moment this idea that we said earlier what idea are we referring to moshe we are referring to the idea that hasidis is not a composite of talmud madrid and kabbalah wrong wrong wrong siddhis is what he called earlier the dash the new light that was revealed through the balshemptiv at the time which is a singular [Applause] idea from which it brings inspiration into every other part of torah and this is very interesting velvet because siddhas came after talmud after halakha after pikiavis after kabbalah and nevertheless the rabbi writes here that it was infused with this with this new energy that it is capable and what it does is it brings a new life into a piece of talmud and and if if if we can understand this and and and and it resonates with us as we work to understand it what what makes sense is that there's no comparison between a hostage who learns a piece of gemara and a non-husset both are learning the same baba kama bhava matsiya and the ambrachos and arvi both are learning the same aloha but if you find a real hostage if i were a rich man titled title diddle title diddle if i find if we become a real hostage which is our life's work right and then you learn a piece of gemara and you compare your gemara learning to the way you were before you were clustered no comparison now that doesn't mean to say that before you became a husset then you learned a piece of gemara you didn't understand the gemara well in fact maybe you understood the gemara better the barometer for learning a piece of gemara with the infusion of hasidis is not how well you know the text how many questions you can ask on the text and how many answers you can give and how you reconcile contradictions in the rambam and the riff and the rush and everything else no so when i told you last week the story with my rash shiva rabbi and i repeated it this yomtava i was in chronicles and it was a three-day yamcha by us and i had plenty of time to pontificate and and and and chinese in different schools that they asked me to speak here there and i shared the same story where baron cut with rasheeva of lakewood asks rabbi where you going to be for she was and he says where he knew he was a little babaji he says in 770 by the babachi rebbe so he says yes but torah is in lakewood and this is not pesach and this is not sukkah this of tyra is so for the festival of torah martin tara where should a student be in lakewood in mir and ponovich in slobodki i rabbi shark with a straight face says dear russia shiva you're right tara is in lakewood but maisha rabbenu is in 770. i just gave you a year's worth of thought that's to this and i'm not i'm not saying it in you know with the with you know the sharp edge i i don't mean that when you learn siddhis and you understand what the belgent have accomplished there is the tower of lakewood and there's no question about it it's a powerful torah but then there is the maishira bainu siddhis the baal shemptuth who teaches you how to truly become one with tata through yiddish shamayim that's baal shemptov there ever here in this country doesn't say it in such graphic words you know he says it i'm more the intellectual level which is important but i i i'm simplifying it because we need to know the direction so therefore let's go back to the text where he says well we said earlier in chapter two been a gay letter and what is that he doesn't say what that is what is that that hasidis is not a composite but it's an indian otsumi it's in an independent issue that ever says we find a similarity of this idea in all parts of today the trader has all the virtues that are found in the world do you hear that the most innovative idea from medicine available to business to music avraham to art maisha whatever the issue is it's in the torah however it's last night i heard a part of a conversation between jonathan sachs and uh dennis prager and jonathan sacks is talking about beethoven's uh second symphony i must say i i'm not uh versed in in in in the in the um in beethoven and maybe i've run this but uh it sounded very interesting right guess what guess what if you know tata not if you know the shot if you if there resonates in you you can find that beauty of beethoven's symphony and his movements and everything else that's inspirational in a in a piece of gemara in a piece of siddhis and a piece of muslim and a piece of aloha but you need to find it and how do you find it you need to have open eyes that ever says right effing the oregon you'll see mashiach open your eyes you'll see me see well i look outside i don't see meshiach you know why because i really haven't opened my eyes i don't know how to open my eyes oh who teaches you how to open your eyes your rebbe your balshemptiv he teaches you how to open your eyes so um so issa going to are not about he's a smart man he's uh a bright man no you don't need another for that for that you go to israel a doctor available as a doctor which is this uh he says this halos this and this each one of us you go to a rebel because he's a sole geologist he understands a diamond and the diamond is the neshama and there aren't many people who understand the neshama and better said who relate to the summer it's not here it's not even in here it's deep inside called soul so that ever says here back to the text has within itself all types of virtues that are found in the world undertaker next paragraph brackets in the brackets that can be divided generally speaking of them in the microchasm of man what would they be divided into the miles american the virtue of intellect amidos and the virtue of character generally how do we characterize people yes we characterize people oh this one is so bright he knows so much he's so intelligent the other person what a mensch what about needles so seigel and middles are two categories of rom that categorize all generally speaking all virtues of humanity next paragraph is when it comes to the the latter moral behavior and good character the dictates and ethical instruction within tata and the in the parentheses where we find that in our beautiful piercy others of this and similar like etc they are the ultimate of good and emis you know the rambam writes teach non-jews the seven universal laws how should you teach them one second why should you teach them because they're obligated to fulfill those seven universal laws it says that that when you teach the seven universal laws you have to teach them that you know why you shouldn't murder and have a court system not because it makes sense which it does but because god said to malaysia on harsinai i want you not to murder and i want you to have a court system why is that relevant why why does the rambam write that and the answer is what we're reading right here that tata is the source of everything not logic logic and and good character and and all that are very good things and very important but they're not an end all they're a means to an end what is the end all tied up and even the habdul for a non-jewish trader vis-a-vis the seven universal laws says that educate them in the seven universal laws but they must know why shouldn't you murder because god said so and if you teach them that and they learn it then understand it and accept it even when they'll want to murder because they think it's right or they want to steal etc etc will say well i think i should do it this way i feel i should do it this way but god almighty my creator thinks otherwise and says otherwise and i follow god and if you don't teach them that they're missing the ikar they're missing the foundation continue inside now and all other systems of morality which men by themselves by themselves have contrived not from peakly others mixed together good and evil murabas hang tight m a mixture of good and bad truth and lies you know a lie cannot stand on its own feet you know the gemara says yes sir yes sir you learned tomorrow what's the law what's the lashing in the gemara i want to i'm testing you now i don't know but it uh it needs it needs a kernel of truth and the gemara's lesson is doesn't have feet what does he doesn't have feet well a lie doesn't have feet you understand it means to say that in order for sheker a lie to be sustained it needs an iota of truth mixed in and that's the way most lies are it's not a complete one second it's not a complete lie it's a 99.9 percent lie and there's one little percent one little drop of truth there and that gives it feet yes you're innocent [Music] like one foot and racing one foot so your life they do have feet but they only have one feet once because they know what you're gonna fall no it rests on a point depends how you write it right since we mentioned feet i have to tell you a story it's not it's not directly related but i shared it out of a brengan in the shul in crown heights uh two days ago we're talking about this idea of the masjid abbayno that terror is a lakewood but maisha albay was in 770. so i told him the story is cute the vert is cute but it obligates us there's no free rides in chabad there's no free rides with the belgento you want to be about of course you want to be a chabad you want to be a husset you better work if you ain't working you got to find another club there's no free-for-alls here so this closet goes into the rabbit who's rather close to the river and he says rebbe i have a problem i need pardos i don't have i have a family the rabbit says there is someone who you know called mendel de saldat so that is the yiddish word for soldier mendel persol dot mendel the soldier i knew mendel soldat i spent countless hours speaking with him in his older age in miami and he was in the babachi yeshiva in 770 in 1941 and he remembered he told me the day someone walked in who he did not know who he was and it was during minha before after during he had a bigger muran he was looking into the gemara and he went over to the senior spirit of smaller vitamin and he said who's that and said that is the younger son-in-law of the river of the previous river and he just arrived from war-torn europe he was saved from the nazis and he's here that's him and he told me i watched him and i saw already in 1941 that this is a special person just the way he stood during minha and looked into a sitter and they looked into the gemara so the rabbit told this closet who was asking for a bracha parnosa to ask mendel the saldat what to do to make a better living you know he didn't have the hoots but to say reb i came to you i didn't come to i have plenty of friends i can go to i'm asking at sadiq he didn't say anything he goes out of yahidis and he catches mendel saldat and he says mendel the rapper sent me to you to ask you for advice how can i make more panosa and mendel said go into the shoe business people need shoes everyone has feet of hashem you know we need shoes men women children it's a good business i think for you you'll make a nice parnosa he looks at mendel and he says mendel i don't know about the shoe business i don't care about the shoe business i don't want to be in the shoe business leave me alone sorry you asked me my opinion i'm telling you to go into the shoe business you make good business he goes back to the river and he tells the rebber mendel told me to go into the shoe business but i don't know it i don't care for it i don't want it and reba it's not for me please give me a broker for something else or you know give me a brother [Music] i don't know the rest of the story except one thing that the person the rest of his life struggled for panason and worse and i'm not going to say more other issues when you when you when you ask a rebbe a question be ready to listen because if you don't you're playing with fire and it's better not to ask there were hasidim of the rebel rashabe and the rebel marash that decided to come to america at the turn of the century the 9th the 20th century and everyone knew at the time that all that sadiq and all the goddalem and all the rabbanim what was their opinion america is treif velva you heard the expression the treyfa medina the non-kosher country it's america you go to america and shortly after if not you your kids leave and guess what it happened it happened to most to the best the fathers came with long beards and the kids left and we've spoken about that a lot so let's not repeat it so here some hasidim decide they're coming to america the pogroms were terrible in russia but they knew if they went to the rebel and asked he would tell them not to go so guess what some of them would not ask they just asked for a bracha they notified the rebber i'm going to america please bless my trip generally or ever you know you ask abraca will give you a bracha but that's not asking a question that's telling the rebel what you're doing and you know if that's where we're at and i understand that wholeheartedly and i have i and and i'm not pointing fingers who am i who are we to point fingers but the fact is there's a difference between asking a rebel and telling another so when we speak about shoes and the story he asked the rebbe for advice and help with panosa and that ever gave him an answer and he did not listen you're on your own and i'm not saying because of that he was punished i'm not s it sounds that way i will admit but i'm saying is that you're taking things into your own hands and when you take think your own hands either you're connected and it's going to go or you're not connected and it ain't going to go or maybe it'll go sometimes but when you have the source of the sadiq behind you and the tadix wavelength is clear unadulterated and when you jump on that bandwagon by becoming that side exhausted and then living with his dick his instructions and directives etc and by the way there rizal writes this this is before baal shemptov i can show it to you in the arizona well the arizal writes clearly when someone dedicates themselves but masira's nephesh says they will be impregnated spiritually with energy within the summer of assadic how long that'll last is a different question a different story but for a while it will be there and they accomplish tremendous things because they're following in the derek of that sadik that says in that result so you take that arizona a few hundred years later balchemtov and you come to the concept of red but we have to stay to the topic that was just to be heights of the schwa bringing with you okay let's go back to the text so the rebel writes here all that um professors and scholars and self-improvement gurus have come up with miliba are a mixture of good and bad truth truth and lies and the good part that each of these chitos of philosophies opinions and and approaches a debate amongst people and they expressed their opinion top of page 31 everyone um regarding the titus opinion on political systems etc from azer muhammad misa mas chemist and these people ask the freedom to which opinion do you agree they were discussing politics okay why is this simple they were discussing politics the free the crab was there and they said the tardis the previous rubber rubber to which group do you belong every one of these people who were there they showed of source to their political party and their political um leanings when they asked the previous leader his opinion about this honor he answered the title being that it's it's the it's the absolute tackle means absolute it's the absolute truth and goodness yes it has within it all good aspects of each of your political systems in other words abraham they were asking the number do you belong to the right you belong to the left you've walked to the uh on the independent party right do you belong to the labor or do you belong to the liquid et cetera and that ever said i don't belong to any i belong to tayden and tata has whatever your particular shita is it's in the title and that's what i belong to by the way this might explain maybe i just thought of it see it's good that we're learning i'm talking it out came to me now in 1980 41 after the previous celebrity came to america this is recorded what i'm telling you by rabbi rakefed in his book on rabbi laser eliezer silver the chief rabbi of the union of orthodox rabbis in their 40s 50s and 60s he lived there first in springfield he was a rob and then of course in cincinnati most of his years rabbi silver the famous rabbi silver so he wrote in a note from the minutes that he asked the previous rabbit to join the agoda because we all know at that time there was the the the the mizrahi and yagoda and you peop you know robonam were deciding what party to belong to you you you probably have heard that rabbit salavachik at the end went with the mizrahi and many of the more right-wing you know russia shiva they went with the with the with the advocate silver knew about the previous but they had a very good relationship starting yet from europe and he he already understood that getting him on the agoda would be very helpful and he writes in this note that the previous rabbit told him i not ready to make a decision i i'm a newcomer to this country and then subsequently to that he told him he's not joining any party later there are letters in the eagle's curiosity i put i put a lot of this into one of my books there are letters in the eagle's koi dish where you see what the rev explains his reasoning and the rebel says isn't a political party and and he doesn't want to be perceived that way because once you're perceived as a political party you already are puzzled you're invalid meaning to say you already have agenda preconceived agenda you're on this side not on the other side and the level says khabad is of the belief that we we don't have a party we belong to tata this is maybe exactly what that ever saying over here with this story that these people asked whatever which political party does he does he does he believed to be correct and each one explained their political party and and and the good things from those from those from that party and that ever said i don't belong to any of your parties i belong to tata because tayden has everything that is good so whatever you and you and you and your political parties have that's good it's all in trade now it has to be said that over the years you should oh the rebel did not involve himself in what's called politics especially not just with the voting there was one time i think in 1989 where because of a particular situation yeah you have to know the nuances of the of the political situation at the time with the rebels they say i didn't hear this from him directly so i don't know but they say that he leaned towards miss rocky there was a rabbit misraki it was a labancher and he was in knesset and they vote they said they should vote for gimo if you remember gimmel that was a really an exception to a rule and it has to do it's it's a much greater issue that was going on the time and if you want to understand the more read my book on khabar and ponovich and you have an understanding i believe of why that was we're going to stop here and uh continue to sham tomorrow any questions any comments any thoughts on the comments i have two comments please one regarding your statement that it takes work to be a facet so it reminded very much of the katskar the story by kosk that a hussain went to the katsuka river and he said rabbi i need a bracelet for parnassa he says the katsuka river says new why don't you guard him and so this question says but i don't know how to dabble and the kasker says and you don't even know what to ask for you should ask me to teach you how to dive in that's one the other is thank you thank you very good thank you very good yes asking you're not asking of a rebel so i had a situation where i uh i was very interested in a certain share that uh i was pretty sure my brother would not be moscon too and i decided that for me for i i i wanted to go to it so i started to attend didn't after some time i was moaded to the river and i told him i started going to this year and he gave it to me he said you know you need to work on being a husband he says you should have asked me i said reggae i didn't ask you because i knew your answer would be no and he laughed and he said ah that's also an indian inquisitous that that's an indian what not to ask not to ask certain things you know there are certain things that have to come from the self and that's one of them you know don't expect the rabbit to tell you you're such a jerk what kind of closet what kind of custard are you you're such a you're such a nothing this is a hassett you try to go around me i remember a rep is not going to tell you that you know the cutscer you know will will say it in in a different way in a very sharp way like you just said before and other such statements you know like the famous story the guy dresses up for the shrimal and he comes to give shulim to the river and the rebbe says happy purim it's like come on get real you know what i'm saying but generally the rebels i'm not i'm not talking today today for sure but even the rebels of old uh going back to the balcenter and the magi the that wasn't the general style of of of most rabbits you know in chabad i heard this in rabbi shleiman karl bach's brother of the high end carol buff he once my brain with us in los angeles i'll never forget this i told you this i don't want to go you know one of my friends was smoking and blowing bubbles and he called him a fool a shaytar and he said we were taught when he when he says when i came to the babbage in and i started to learn exitus and i started to hear fabregas for the mashpeem who would tell me them of the rashab he said what was the number one thing that they taught us don't be a fool the worst sin is being a fool now what does that mean that means there's certain things you gotta use your smarts and come to it yourself and if a rebbe has to tell you that you're a big fool and i'm not i'm not directing this at you is sir but but that in a sense is what i believe your ever told you without saying those words i said that the randy is an expert uh i say uh a glo uh an iron fist and a velvet glove ah yes you know my i had a grandfather zayd schleim who lived in tel aviv first after coming from romania and then he came to and lived in neighborhood and in tel aviv i know where he lived next to my daughter there next to ben yehuda the ocean over there in the disney golf area right and he's literally uh he lived on a street called khloevecian 15 minutes you walk over to academ number 91 is where the bells are red but the holy sadiq rabaran had lived and had a shoe and we asked and my father told me that he never took him to have a private audience with the belzer but you're talking about a a mallach he had a molok in his backyard he came in the late in the mid 40s he passed away in 57 besides for the summer he was in tel aviv in the summer he went to europe a lion and i think maybe for tishrei part of tishrei don't forget anyway so my zeta said isaiah at that time didn't have a beard and he came from virginia but he was already of the generation where they didn't have beards in in in in europe in romania so he said and and he would go to the vision sir ever both in tel aviv the domestic eliezer and the division the uh mayoral in in benebrach and here he wouldn't walk into and he walked in for a for a minion but to have a one-on-one private audience he was he didn't so my zeta said i knew that if the belzer river says says anything about my beard to me implying i should grow a beard and i wasn't ready to grow a beard the next day i would drop dead i would die i didn't follow the rebber and his painter consciously unconsciously would take my life but when i went into the vision that said that but he would go like this he would the word in yiddish is glet he would pat pat his nice hand on my beardless face and say you're so wonderful you're so special i love you so much so he said i wasn't scared to go into him but to the belzer i was scared he would just look at me with look at me and you know like hey where's your beard you come from vision succeed and let your beard grow and i didn't want to be i wouldn't make i wouldn't make it the next thing and and and and i'm just saying you know they're different things you have to tell the story of the saturn wherever you like tress somewhere everyone in my press i want to bring my trust to the front of the line queen shaven and one of the hasidum had the head of the chutzpah to ask the writer who is this clean-shaven guy who cuts in in front of all the kassidin and uh he said you know you're right when some people go to schmidt they're going to say rebed where's your beard and when some people go to sherman they're going to say red beard where's your yid but beard where's your years that's good that's good anyways have a great day we'll see everyone tomorrow take care bye bye thank you man thank you