Essence of Chasidus #8- Torah has it all - Best of any other discipline is in Torah

we're in the middle of the countries uh see this we're on page 31 we are the third the second paragraph yesterday we learned that the uh siddhis khasidis hat is not a composite of other parts of toyota rather uh an independent way of understanding tata that infuses life into other parts of trader which is going to be explained at length later that evan said that just as trader in general is a cloud to protip is a generality for details and all the details that there are in the world including the sciences and political systems and whatever issue there is that there is a virtue in part of that system those all of that is found in the toyota and he gave he told us the story of the previous rapper who was at a meeting with different uh leaders and people not necessarily you know uh of the jewish world or maybe of the jewish world but of the from world and each one had a political system that they supported and they asked the rebber what is his and the rebels said his title and toyota has the best of everything so whatever the your political system is and you believe that that part of it that that there's good there it's the best that ever says if indeed if indeed it is the best then that part of then that issue is found in taylor let's continue now thirty-one but nigel robles that ever says the same is true regarding khafma's sciences to the eyes of the gentiles of the nations so in other words if you find a science you find a wisdom that has you should know the titus says that taita has it as well and tighter than the way the and not the way tight is the source so therefore don't walk away thinking that the science astrology or whatever else is so magnificent and it came on its own and therefore it has one over there no let's continue the laser belva third paragraph and not only this there was a collage point all ha all vivifying and sustaining vitality in the world the gamba illumina and also in the spiritual worlds shelter depends on one minute seemingly insignificant detail of tata look at um look at note 25 for a moment page 30 in the bottom in cabal exit this the term world refers to different stages of spiritual and physical experience existence and levels of concealment of god all the worlds are elevated and sustained through the performance of mitzvos and the study of tata they depend on the appropriate observance of even its most minute detail for the traitors the wisdom of god so this idea we have to take a moment and explain this idea this idea is a very important idea see this entire but see this again it illuminates it a dig the cow what's addictive cow addictive cow means let's say when you pour water at your at your table for yourself for your family for your friends for your guests you pour water like this sometimes we forget and we pour water like this or like this we pour it not forward and straight but we pour it kind of backwards twisted what's the big deal well that's the way you pour water when you purify a body a mace so the tradition is that's not the way you should pour water now is it a sin to pour water this way no is it something that is suggested not be done because we don't want to emulate the way we you pour water when someone when we're purifying the dead body yes so that's not that's even less than a dig the cow that the cow is within tata within a mitzvah you know there is the the way to do it the right way and then there's the way to kind of do it to get away with it this is even less than then this is not a mitzvah at all but nevertheless you'll find in such things and other such things there is great emphasis put in the community taught by rabbis and teachers why because every detail in and every detail of a minig touches the essence so the rabbit says here in the countries all hashtag here this is a this is a a a a very large statement all hashball all influence that comes into the world including the spiritual worlds however next paragraph page 31 lay zui muhu shalatera this is still not the essence of theta what is the essence he says the essence of there is legamini completely united with the infinity of god the infinite light of god haberlubishba that's invested in the torah but with the ultimate unity in other words velvet someone will say you know what it is toyota's so holy so special that even the minutest detail makes an impact on god's influence in the world that's not the essence of toyota that's a result of the torah i i need you guys to really get this clear in other words all of the results of tita as not the essence of there what is the essence unity of god and and today that's title divinity titus divine everything else is a sidekick is a result is a benefit from tayden fine but some will say you know what tayden is that i'm going to live long i want to learn tighter i want to live long someone else i want to oh you know what tight it is tight is i want to be wealthy i'll tell you promises for certain missiles you'll be wealthy i'll do tell you is that what it is no that's a side product to what toyota is and this doesn't contradict you might be wondering it doesn't contradict all the rewards given for tighter observance mitzvah observance in the toyota itself it doesn't contradict that of course that's true but that's not the essence of toyota in other words the essence of tater is god and if you strip the divinit the essence of tata from tata then all the side products and sidekicks and results are meaningless and this was and is the argument of this of secularism of various forms going back to the enlightenment movement the haskala to today's you know anything that you want goes and you create your own way of observance within and without the community it's a it's it's not identifying the caduceus athena the divinity of titan because if you believe in the divine aspect of tata it's not up to us mortals to decide what it is we're mortals all we can do is accept the divinity and go with it and explore it and understand it but if you don't if you don't unders if you don't accept that that it be the end all of titan is one thing divinity then you don't have tata you don't have the essence you have fascinations you have excitement a thrill intellectualism emotionalism but you don't have the the core then the kuda yes so first of all is that the reason why even a rebbe and yeshiva is not allowed to take a salary that has to be done in a you know a different way it's that kind of thing so yeah i mean that's that's part of it yeah but you know it can't be a prophet thing of of the torah right like if i'm sitting and learning in yeshiva and i'm collecting you know food stamps or whatever because i'm not doing it for torah because i don't want a job i don't want to work i'd rather have you know state of new york new jersey paid for my yeshiva you know that's that that's not using torah for divinity as as i've said and i i won't back away from what i've said over and over and we'll say it again yoni it depends while you do it if you are in love with toyota and you can't sleep at night without learning torah and that is to you like like it was to the shimon bay torosa his job was torah if anyone emulates that and it's a big if but if you emulate that then and the government says i make it possible for you to do that because you make tyra your job i have no problem with that but if it's otherwise if it's anything less then it then it's as you said and and i i'll tell you i i said it but i'll say i thought like you for years trust me you and i both grew up here in brooklyn right but that day when i took a ride with a a cold person and and saw his beat up jalopy his station wagon that they used to use in the 1960s and he's still driving in 2000 uh uh uh m5 he's still driving a beat up um station wagon that's uh an antiquated uh you know an antique that you could sell on the ebay and when i asked him how do you survive and he says i learned toyota he he was so genuine he wasn't a husset he was a lit i felt he was so genuine i i you know it was a short ride from 13th avenue to 17th yeah he knows it's in brooklyn the avenues here in borough park it's four or five blocks but you know you got traffic so you got some time to talk i was floored i was so humbled because it was the first time that i heard from someone that he's learning toyota legitimately his wife is working to bring in panosa and his job is learning and he said thank god that i'm able to learn and i love learning and learning and learning and i get government assistance and my wife works and uh when i'm able to i tutor and that's how i raise my family so you know i i don't want to judge i don't i don't want i don't want to judge i don't want to be a judge but let's go continue your point as far as if you identify with the dfinity of tata you shouldn't make kardum is what the rambam uses which means an axe to cut the wood meaning to say you shouldn't benefit from torah that's why there were and maybe still are people who didn't get smikha they weren't ordained and they could learn a lot and they probably want to learn better than most of many rabbis but they didn't want to have the title rabbi because that would be benefiting from torah yeah i know there were people in the 1950s and 770 i think my schwere was one of those people my father-in-law who didn't do that the rebbe pushed everyone to get smikha because it's practical and important for outreach you know as soon as you you you you learn smith and you call the rabbi and you go into a little good kibbutz or a little kfar or little city you know first of all gets you to move and it gets you to learn more i know ashley who didn't learn much in his youth and he told me he asked me to speak for him once and driving there in florida somewhere he said to me you know ever since i've gone out and i got you know you know from people in my community i'm not dealing in this community with non-religious people i felt so inadequate so what did i do i started to learn i learned true honor and i this and that and and i'm still learning and i i was also humbled you know here is a person you know 35 40 he's not he's not in you know and he's already middle of his career and he realizes that he's called the rabbi of the community and if he don't doesn't know the basics and and you know and things like that it's a shanta it's a shame it's awful so what did he do he started to learn and i'm not going to say but there's certain public speakers famous ones who didn't get smikha and today in the world we live in if you call yourself a rabbi uh i don't know how it's inevitable but i i would think it's the same but here in america you know uh and you and you and you come out as a public speaker and and a rabbi you better have smikha and i know a few of them were caught caught and and they quickly went and learned from smika it's not it's not you know it's not now of course sometimes people are called rabbi and today every tom dick and harry they put on their on their tombstone rabbi haravagoin which which is ridiculous but that's that's part of the culture if you don't write rabbi narava going the rabbi the scholar the rabbi the genius know that oh it's an embarrassment for my father my grandfather what a shanda one of my kids who are now in lakewood or in kebab or a pondovich or a mirror what are they going to think about the zether or take for example someone didn't have a beard in his youth for whatever reason and then he gets older and towards then he puts on a beard right they tried to bury all the pictures that he didn't have a beard with when he didn't have a beard it's an embarrassment what's the embarrassment on the contrary here you show a person who for whatever reason didn't have a beard in his youth and then as he got older and wiser and more from he put on a beard it's the greatest accomplishment and and and and the act that the you show but no no no no we got to bury those pictures i'm not going to say who but a very prominent rest of shiva came from maritime to america he didn't have a beard and today you won't find a picture of him that way because when they put out the journals they the initial journal of the 1930s or 40s had his picture without a beard i was told by someone who was in yeshiva at that time in that yeshiva that they buried and burnt all the leftover journals because it's an embarrassment he's a big rush of shiva he wrote savari so i i know we're off on a tangent but sometimes these things are so more important you know why am i saying this because because the trader is is divinity if you make a business so i wanted to summarize if you make a business out of your rabbinate and you're then you're right then you're not in sync with the torah with the divinity you're right i agree with you but if you don't then you can and if you if hashem gives you a way of of reaping benefits from that in other words when it says you respect your parents you're going to get long life well you could you know the way you were thinking before is wait a minute if i'm doing it for long life it's wrong and the answer is yeah but if you're doing it because hashem says i want to respect your parents and it happens to be that hashem also says you'll get a reward of long life take it grab it there's nothing wrong god didn't give us the tater one second halo god didn't give us the traitor for us to live like paupers and with service see that's that's that's not godly and and frankly that was a thinking for many years that you know well it doesn't pick it up it's passed by right you say for you know in the dormitory yeshiva the broken windows like someone said the other day we always had in air conditioner we had we had um central air in our yeshiva all the windows were broken so we always had central air okay right now no no hashem doesn't want you to live this way if you don't have to if that's the way it is you don't you don't skip town and say yeah i can't learn toyota because it's hot i can't learn tighter because it's cold i can't learn tighter because i don't have enough what to eat no but but to go and and and say that part of divinity is you must live like a schlepper you must live in in in you know in a way that's you know you could live better no that's not a tighter way and that's the general approach today to live in in a respectful way so yes do we do we cherish the story with the market with the zusha is there you know you want to know how to live they send them to the position he had barely a chair and he didn't even know you know absolutely you know and and believe me there are such eden and they're bali dargah really but the populace doesn't relate to that yes hillel well what you're saying a few moments ago reminded me of a story that i heard the toner uh say about the div heim of sans that um it was the custom in sans mode say that the review would throw out apples yeah and uh so it got to be a bit of a scrum you know everybody fighting for the apples and it got to be a psychonaut so the rebels said it gave it a decree said that everybody should stand in their place if an apple comes to you that's it's meant for you not not nobody should push ahead and if they and if anybody who pushes ahead it's going to get 10 years of misfortune right so so uh everybody's um you know standing very reverently and still except for one old guy and he's pushing to the front and they said to him they said to him didn't you hear what the rebbe said he said yeah i heard the rebbe said i get 10 years i'm taking it good story let's continue the paragraph but even cooler moments since all the spiritual worlds in comparison to the essence of god is nothing is killer like nothing so too are all the worlds in comparison to the potato villas isn't there for english but the gila's highest call is don't lord at all the traitor that it is the vivifying force of all worlds since it's nothing in actuality considered it's considered nothing in actuality it's no big deal that god gives highest to the worlds this is not a virtue and something to lord taylor with ella what is this due to its essential it's quintessential point which again he repeats if you had this hebrew which that being that it's united with the infinite god kolel is this is what i told you earlier it automatically includes incorporates the melee automatically you see the word gum also esco how many names of slaves all types of virtues and wholesomeness within the world val yada and because of it there is an influence of vitality into the world okay therefore last period of thirty one after co the word collision in in bold after call although all parts of terror the kudos the very essential point he marsha is that it is united with the infinite god because nevertheless primarily this point is expressed between us hakasidas in the train of cedars in other words yes you have it in the borough and you have it and you have it in kabbalah but primarily where is it expressed in cities and the rebels says as i said in the mimer that he said in 1966 ayutthaya's kislev but again it was a mimer based on the rashaab's mimer that he said in 19 in he the idea of siddhis is the the the drawing down of infidelity which really is found in residue in a level called beyond knowledge and i don't want to go into it next page 33. [Laughter] not now let me make maybe add another share okay a request has been made fair fair but not now because all parts of him is the rebel now explains why he made the statement that where is the yehud of asaf most expressed in siddhis not in the other parts of trader that's a heavy statement prove it that ever says let me explain myself he says all other parts of theodore the infinity within it has been invested in imagery in a form seer look at the words these are very precious words good hebrew um it's been dressed up in a in a in a category in a condition and in a beto in an expression in other words the the the the let's say the infinity in the gemara is expressed through one cow guarding another cow very nice but guess what what do you and i hear when we learn those halachas velvee a cow corn another cow how much do you pay 50 to 100 and the imagery that is connoted in in the simple text is the in the hit in the alluding text in the homolytic text and in the esoteric text myelin it conceals alpha so himself on the purity of the infinity hammuloopishbot says it's such a concealment it's almost as though kabalyero anthropomorphically speaking you can't undress it you can't change it in other words an ox is an ox is 50 and when you learn about that go and tell someone you know what you're learning about divinity he says you're out of your mind the rabbis are discussing here how much do you owe 50 of it i had an accident i have a guest i have a conducion i have a sukkah have a look what divinity you start explaining him it comes from god well all of that is hidden and whatever says more so very powerful in other words when we come to the conclusion that all of that is part of title which is true nevertheless the ox remains an ox and the money remains the money and the get is a gap and the condition is a conducion and and it's tangible so what so therefore the aims of the infinity of god the divinity of tata as it's expressed through all each of the four sections of traitor shot remiss through sight the ain't suff is is concealed next paragraph will conclude with this conversely see this is a genderless that's the word i'm looking for everything else has an agenda a holy agenda but it's still an agenda see this look at the words here is aina mukderes be azatsu it's not limited to a certain agenda and those uh uh seemingly um agendas that forms images that siddhis does employ he's quoting a verse it's like a garment that can be put on and take it off and it changed he has called out and that's why see this does have a relationship with all four parts of there potato um later on therefore ain't not see it might be hella mommy this is why the c or the agenda and forum that's in hasidis is not a concealment on the infinity let me say it in in in simple english when you study hasidis you're studying god and you know you're studying god because hilo says he wants to know more about rad law now when you just measure outlaw you're elsewhere you you're not eating a bagel good question but once we start talking about love and we start thinking about love we're not thinking about bagels we're not thinking about the sun we're thinking about god yes jaina said i know you have something profound to say because you learned quesadillas go ahead yes and then the question doesn't come out the essence doesn't cover over the essence right what that means is that when i when i walk without the army i can't use my hands because of my young minister my head right now beyond the colonies right so in other words we are saying is that in all other parts of toyota it's like something else covering over whereas in siddhis it's the essence so one essence can't cover it over the other essence there's a famous saying it's elijah deity if i were a rich man no elia dieted if i knew god ha yes if i would be god so that samak said i think said and when you learn of a piece a piece of the torah a piece of sinners you're dying you can be god because it's god not evil if if i were a husset if i were divine you want to be divine learn sinners see there's a piece of divinity that's all ah some of us at times don't act we'll see this that's a different discussion because we didn't really inculcate the citizen to us the hasidis didn't take us and we didn't take it it's all outwardly but iser when you when you when you when you learn siddhis and you live siddhis and you it's a different life it's a blood life it's about silas life elijah for yes if not not that you can't reach that cohesive you will become like god because it's a peace of god it's a piece of god whereas a gemara a shot remembers through sight which is all of course the abyss this tight and all that but the format of the particular style of learning on those four levels is such as johannes said that the helen the imagery the the agenda is so palpable so real that it conceals the aims of and you don't feel the insult and since you don't feel dangerous it can it it can be lacking in avoidance hashem now see you might be wondering well a plenty of sydney that i'm not living with a self guess what they're plenty of see them that are not learning and not living the payers are up the strain goes on the laboratory hat is on it's very nice it's a very nice game and i'm not saying you should stop that game i'm not saying that but you have to take it in and when you meet someone that learns to see this and lives see this you will know that this is the real mccoy you will know and and and you pay attention you will find those people kevin have a great shabbos we'll see everyone monday yes and also to do meditation to be dependent yes and we have a meditation teacher right there so you will please continue sharing and aspiring and teaching meditation sagas and everyone shoppers take care [Music]