Hechaltzu chapter 1b - Would you want to know the day you'll pass on? Purpose in life- RC Dalfin

So this is good morning. This is the second shir in from the reb and yesterday we learned the the question the first question in the mimer. The verse says par that um that uh Hashem says to Mosher Rabenu to that he should take revenge for the Midionites because of their evil plot which they they they did which was to send their beautiful women to to to seduce the uh the Jewish men and thereby getting them to bow to to worship the the idol Balpar etc. So this was a very very devious plot and Hashem says this needs retribution and therefore Nickmas take revenge of midy and the verse says and after that you will pass on. So we understand that the passing of is is will only happen after he leads the warriors in war to fight the nation. So the Rashab's first question was the Reb's first question in this course is what's the connection between the two. Let's continue now and um we are on page tell you in a second. Okay. We're on pa well in in the in the lessons in in lessons inu it' be page five but we're towards the beginning like a paragraph and a half in >> you stopped right before the parenthesis the >> okay thank you a page page four in that in that now the says that this question can be answered simply and he says out. We might say until the Jews went into Israel everything was done through the for example the battle with the nation called and the battle of the nation with and the division of the land to the tribes of Ruv and God. Moshe, Moshe, Moses, he he he led all of those battles and he divided the land based on what Hashem told him and all of that. Therefore, so too the war with was through Moshe. In other words, in other words, what the Reb is saying is it's not really a question. Why? Because just like Moshe led the Jews in in war against the other nations, he led them against Midion. It has not. In other words, why are you making this big emphasis? It has to do with his passing. That that's that's his rebuttal. That's his his his rebuttal. His temp. Yeah. So, the rashab rebutts his own rebuttal. says but since the verse says you you are to take revenge etc. And then in the same verse it says and only and after you will pass on it implies the verse is implying that there's a particularness to this detail that the war be specifically during his lifetime. So in other words, this war with Midian is different than the war the previous wars. The previous wars were were wars that he led because he was the leader. Moshe the leader. This war is associated with his mission. And that's why his mission is not over. I.e. he won't pass on until he accomplishes the war. And that's the question. What's the connection between his mission and the war? Okay. Another question it implies the implication is that soul will will receive its completion only after it battles the war. It it he wages the war with mid mark. There's something that's explained the kabah each and every one of us. Our nama our soul has a mission on earth and we don't pass away before we do that. That's a basic belief of Torah but emphasized in other words and this includes by the way even when a child passes on at a young age etc etc or a terrible tragedy someone lose their life. So the Jewish belief is that that is that is symbolic of their mission has finished. We don't understand why. We don't like it sometimes, many times. But when your mission finishes, you're not here anymore. We're here for a mission. So this is the the background to this statement that we just learned. Mosherenu Moshe, the verse says, you're not passing on until you wage the war with Midy. So in other words, this tells us that Moshe is incomplete. His soul is incomplete until he accomplishes that. And it's a very important idea in our own life. We work, we toil, we slept years and years, right? It it could but there's a certain point when you do something and that's the moment you've completed your mission and then you you pass on and it's it's not and it's not a negative. You see, we perceive it sometimes as a negative. It's a positive. I don't need to be here anymore. I'm I did what God wanted of me. So, this is a whole different focus and orientation that you have to train your head. I'm here for a purpose and and I have to find a purpose and I don't know what the purpose is. So I work every day and I do good things and I help and on and on and on and then one day from on high you hit the jackpot, right? Tell someone, go tell a regular normal person, you hit the jackpot and and and that's why tomorrow you're dead. They'll say you're crazy. If I hit the jackpot, I should be able to go to Vegas and live up live up my life and party, right? No. Going to Vegas and partying is not living life. It's spoiling your life. It's ruining your life. You're you're in foreign territory, dangerous territory. But when you when you do your mission and Hashem takes you back, that's completion. That's wholesomeness. And it's a very hard thing and it doesn't contradict by the way the laws of Shiva and Sloshim and the first gear the laws of mourning. It's two separate things. But on a spiritual level we know this is true. And by the way in the Zadesh the holy mystical writ the the rabbis of was buried in in northern Israel is called Hilula. Hilula. You know what hilula means? A sima, a great joyful event. Here is this rabbi of 2,000 years ago who passes on and people are dancing. Why are they dancing? Because his nishas found completion wholesomeness and we're very happy for that. At the very same moment you have to go back home after the burial and sit sha. And by the way life life is such you know the contradictory parts of life. Happiness and sadness up and down fulfillment and and lack of fulfillment. Right. And and and I I I I when I think about this, I see it as a very very healthy way. On one hand, you feel you you need to feel accomplished. You need to do and you need to self, you know, that's good for the self-esteem and all that. At the same time, you need to be kind of brokenhearted. I could do more. I didn't do enough. How can I do more? Never let the cup be full. If the cup is full, you're full of it. If the cup is half empty, you have you have more to fill up. Okay, enough of that musher smooth. Let's go back into the text. Mosa, we're we're we're we're on page um five in this in this version. It's about six, seven lines after we left off yesterday. I suggest every day you make a mark in this in the particular mime. What? I'm just curious what what was I came in towards the end of the mush. What was the how did that start? >> Oh, because it says here it says here his nama doesn't have completion till the verse says until he passes on you know and and the passing on is specifically conditioned on the taking revenge and leading the war against Midian. So from that I I sprung off on a side note but an important one that we are to look at the death as the completion of the mission. That's how that's why I spoke about that. Let's continue. And he says back into the text and that's why the verse says to after you will take revenge of the midionites of the nation the enemy you will be gathered to your people you will pass on the it's known that the concept of stalus meaning what literally removal but there's another Meaning that it's such a great light that comes into the world that it's like it's been removed cuz we don't have an connection to it. But nevertheless, it's here which is the ultimate elevation. When do we experience the concept of when a person completes their mission on earth? of Elena after a person completes the designated mission that that from on high was given to the person then he he he's elevated to the highest elevation at the time when he passes on and that's why the verse says take revenge of the Jewish children name of the Medionites and only afterwards Moshe to you will pass out with this act of waging war against the Midionites will be the completion of your soul. Do you understand what God did over here? Moshe, the two Moshers and everyone else. Hashem told this is Phenomenal. God tells Moshe, "You want to be complete, you got to wage this war for the Jewish people and lead them in war against this enemy." In other words, God gave Mosha Raenu, Moses, the our teacher, Moshe, he gave him he gave him the secret. You know, you tell this to a regular person, he'll say, "Why are you telling me when I'm going to die? I don't want to know when I'm going to die. Do you think most people want to know when they're going to die? I say they don't want to know when they're going to die. I don't want to know. I want to be immersed and passionate about life, not about when I'm going to die. Whenever I'm going to die, that's when I'm going to die. That means my mission is finished. Here, Hashem lets Mosha in on a secret because that's what it says in the Tyra. You will wage war against doesn't mean in seven, you know, in seven years from now. When you finish the war, the war is over. Boom. You go back to your maker. That means God is telling Mosher Rabenu when he's going to die. So, you could look at that as very negative. Like I said, who wants to know when they're going to die? But what what what the Rashab is explaining here. No, what he's opening up for Moshe, which he doesn't open up for most people, is how your soul rece will receive completion and wholesomeness. That's a big thing. It's like my father-in-law of my father-in-law asked the Reb in 1959 or so or 60s, what is his mission on earth? And the Reb said to him, "Whatever others don't want to do, you do." And I always think about it, besides the the fantastic, fascinating lesson and and mission that the Reb told him. But do you understand the labb is this big saddic when he sees the soul he doesn't just see your white shirt he suspenders he sees your so the labb tells this this Jew this that your soul will have completion when you do what what others don't want to do it's like halavai you know we would have that opportunity and guess what we do we pay attention you pay attention, you can figure out, I don't want to go into this now, what your life's mission is. And if you stay focused, you will get that completion and that wholesomeness. But you got to not lose track because it's so easy to veer to the right and the left with all kinds of fascinations. The Reb told me in 198 uh six in a letter after my wife had this you know terrible accident which I told you about when when with with my son and her you know pregnant 7 months. So I I asked the Reb what's the lesson from this? I don't want to go into all the details cuz it's a very long story but the Reb gave a braha that the the to to my wife that the baby should be well and you know and everything should be fine. And then he wrote in the PS, "The lesson from the story that you shared with me about the accident is not to procrastinate in all matters of goodness and kindness." Now, to me, and that was a letter to me. To me, he he did me a big favor on in that letter. He gave me an insight to what I need to do the rest of my life. And I'm convinced that this is my particular mission on on earth because I believe that the rebadic knows my shama because I have a connection to him and therefore he was kind enough to write that which is very unusual. He usually doesn't write such a type of notes two or three lines which for the and in the 80s he didn't write excessively such type of notes for sure. So what I'm saying is now it's easy to to start playing with these answers and these responses. Oh, you're by nature someone who doesn't procrastinate. So what's the big deal? Right? This is where the Yates and the Clipper comes in. starts convoluting. You just got an answer from you should be jumping for joy and you should be following this the rest of your life. You're going to allow the to say nah that's not that's no big deal. That's what I mean. In our lives, in every one of you lives, in our lives, the there are times when we we get a message and the message is clear, but we make ourselves mug and we make ourselves cuckoo and we fuddle, you know, the message. We mess it up. We we we go off on tangents in in in ways which are ridiculous and that's problematic. So you have to stay focused and you have especially if you have a relationship with a sadic. I'll give you another example just I'm just sharing personal examples. um in about I don't know either I think the 1990s I don't don't remember maybe even the late ' 80s I was ner and I brought two people one from New Jersey and the other one was I think from California along with me to see but hopefully to get a spot ired. They weren't observant, you know, but they were involved with Kabad. And somehow uh I met them and we became friends and they came along. So I wanted to show them a cabalist, a real cabalist. You know, you're going to you talk about Cabala and in the 70s and 80s. It was still maybe today it's also, but it was very popular mysticism and all that. So a friend of mine in yeshiva, a good friend told me that he knows someone who knows a real cabalist and he he goes there, he takes people there and I he connected with him and we made an appointment. I went there. It's a whole a whole story. It's also a lot of details. I documented I filmed and I have the film of the cabalist and myself and and maybe the some of the the people how he did his cabala. It's very very fascinating. He had a black book with the names of Hashem. A whole big book. Big book. And how he put his hand on it. He didn't even read it. I don't want to go into all the details. It's but he says to me he said many things but he says to me he says to me um you should make all your dealings on Thursday and Friday. Now I'm not the big businessman. I was a you know but that's what he said. This is now 30 35 years ago as far as I remember a long time ago. I have lived with that instruction till today and continue to. And every time I followed it, I've seen success. When I haven't followed it, I've seen failure. Now this was the Baba Sali's uh great nephew. His name was Mlu Lasseri and he lived in Deona. So on the way up from we stopped there and then we went to I forgot my hat there. I think I told you I we came back at night and he was sitting under a light say reading Zor got my hat. That's the person philosopher. So what why am I said telling you this? You either believe that that a capitalist is real and that when he says something he sees something about your about your soul and now it's up to you. You either follow or you don't follow. So I I I'm giving you firsthand accounting that I have seen it work and and and I'm not coming at this from hocus pocus. You understand? I'm not a hocus pocus guy. Okay? I am like all of us, you know, Americans. You know, what's in the bank is in the bank. What's not in the bank is not in the bank. You you know what I'm saying? And yet when you when you when you smell something spiritual, you know, grab it, hold on to it, and don't let anyone disturb you. And my kids know, oh, did you do this on Thursday and Friday, whatever, whether it's buying a stock or whether it's this or whatever, or whether it's signing a contract for a kabad house, whatever the issue is. and I will delay things from Monday till Thursday and Friday. Again, if you make kind of an avoid an idol out of this where I'm going to, you know, I don't do that. You know what I'm saying? But to dismiss it as for me, not for you, for me. Because he told it to me. Maybe he told it to other people, too. I don't know. But when he took out that black book and he put his hand over the book and then he pointed to something and then he started to speak and then he tells me about doing all dealings of contractual business and other issues on Thursday and Friday. I have the belief that there's holiness there. He saw something in my soul and he did me a big favor. He revealed it. If a person doesn't believe this, they're not a bad person. They're a normal person. So when the Reb talks, I'm saying these two examples that I shared with you personally because he says here that Hashem opened up the secret to Mosha Raenu and he told Moshe that you're soul Mosha Mosha Rabenu two of our students here Mosa well three he's not here the other Misha he gave him a mamisha gift. So again, someone who who's reads a shallow will say, "What kind of gift did he give him? He's going to die." He's telling Mo is going to die. That's good news. The answer is yes. It's the best news because you know what you need to do. Yes, Misha. >> What told you about Thursdays and Fridays, that was for you specifically, I'm assuming? I I I He told it to me. I don't know. He Are you Are you asking? Did he say Are you asking if he said to me all people should do their business affairs and and contracts on Thursday and Friday? He did not say that. >> He was speaking to me and he said it to me. That's I can't say more than that, you know. And and I would I I think I believe that it's it's doesn't mean only me. It it's only shy to a person. It's only relevant to a person who soul needs that or will will will thrive on that. And for that it a rabbi can't tell you this. He give you good advice but we're talking about soul advice. You understand guys? We're not we're not talking here about a psychologist, a doctor, a good businessman, on and on. Not talk, we're not talking about that's, you know, that's advice and important to check with the professionals. We're talking about a soul response. It's a different it's a different it's a different level. It's a different experience. So, I can't tell you Misha, you know, if it applies to others. And look, you have to go back a step since you asked the question. You have to go back a step and ask yourself, do I believe that this person is so holy and so connected to Hashem, to God that God speaking through his words? And when he says Thursday and Friday, it's like God saying Dolphin, if you do your stuff on Thursday and Friday, you're going to have tremendous great success. That's what you know, you know, I like to sometimes I put things in very in extremes because it makes it clear that's what he said. That's the belief. Now, you either believe it or you don't. That's it. This it's it's not, you know, it's not it's not a game of like, you know, uh a bet how many times can it be right. It's not that it's it if we go about giddishkite and kite and reb and and sadikim in that way and my humble books it's nonsense. It's like it's a game of attrition. How many how many times will you be right? How many times will be wrong? It's so unfortunately a lot of people do that. And by the way and by the way m one second even with this mlof some people try to tell say that to me not not about maybe about this Thursday or Friday other things oh you know this is right and this is wrong and he's just a asphardic asphardic you know baba you know what I'm saying and things like that go ahead mish what >> yes one one just another example maybe something that's come up now for a long time is and on the same vein is um we see that it's brought in that um in right should >> yes >> okay see in I think it's inhab that that the rebba seems to give the the every year a person to check his f Absolutely. >> We know the issu there's it's not even clear. It seems to be that if it's Phil and he haven't been exposed to cold severe heat set of moisture that you might even and not even have to check them again the paras because this because the uh strength of the batim but nonetheless we see that the rebba said to check is every ele >> right he by by the way just you should know for yourself he based it on the matim that wasn't the reb's kdesh that's not the rebb's novelty it's the mate ephraim rebim margles who lived about 3 400 years ago he writes it in in his safer called mate fryim which is a review of all the of and tish >> and the rebba cites him. So I mean I think it's very very important when you repeat that that you know that and and because people will think oh the labre made that up the labba didn't make it up the mafim writes it >> right okay I appreciate you telling me >> but what I was going to basically say is the bottom line is that two things one is that the botm of that time 3 400 years ago 400 years ago were different than the bottom today they're not nearly is strong um sealed etc. That's one thing. But the other issue is that when you open up the shell ro and you take out the parishes, the parishes are folded need to be folded up and put into the shell ro into the bottom of the shell roach. Every time you open take them out, open them up and close them because you're folding them, you run the risk of of causing letters to to potentially become um raise the risk of damage. >> Okay. But what's the what's the connection to what we're discussing now? I'm not following >> the connection is because I was speaking with my bat maker already a year ago or two years ago in the last two three years and we were discussing this issue and he said to me he raised the question of that every time you take them out and put them back in we know that you you you you run a risk of causing potential damage to the paras. But then he said to me, he said, "But if the rabbis gave this, he gave this directive, then it's kadosh and that you you you you you have obviously what to not just what to rely on, but that's a directive from from >> I agree with him 100%. Not even a question. Let me just finish the the the paragraph, please." Okay. Thank you very much for that. Really. So next page on in page six if you're using the uh lessons in the so ascends higher and higher um based on this based on finishing the war with mid and so the asks now all this needs clarity and here he concludes his question. Why was the why was the war necessary to be led by specifically that's one and number two and what does it mean that his soul was has colesomeness and completion through this is in a synopsis that he wrote and we'll read it is midun we discussed over here the the war of midn Moshe is applicable to Moshe and his passing and without waging that war Mosha's would would have not passed away only when he when he will fulfill and complete the war then his nish returns to Hashem we'll see you all tomorrow mashem have a great day bye bye thank you welcome byebye