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How much Work must I do to Make G-d's blessing Materialize?

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i think we'll be finished a minor before you're tracked therefore maybe we could even learn something for your shot okay 353 kits on materialize through the process of the actual kaelin the vessels of the ten emanations of the world's bria yosita and asea creation formation in action and additionally the masolis through the garments of the constellations is clearly foreign for that to happen you must make a vessel for parnosa which which which it which requires actual the hotev in other words matters and ways of nature to to be the vessels to materialize the blessing in the gosh musical world and says tev itself is nature in heaven itself is godliness what type of godliness is it that's concealed and comprehended generally speaking today he's biting this through reflection and meditation you cannot come to the understanding and realization there is a god that makes nature there's hashem within nature if you take the time to be misbending over ms and in truth who outsmart the militar and you'll come to the this the conclusion if you meditate well enough and long enough and strong enough that nature itself is really supernatural and because this is all required for godliness that its dna is concealed but the form of godliness that part of hashem that does not allow for concealment but rather is what we call look what it says here eliza apparent and revealed godliness that god believes blinding this even without reflection and meditation you will realize that there's god there so what's what would be a very simple example of this ella cousin a miracle if one experiences a miracle and one determines that whatever happened is a miracle they're more apt and quicker to say that's from god because it shatters all convention all laws and rules and one concludes it's obviously from god so there you don't need his boneness you don't need to really reflect to meditate you just need to open your eyes and see but when it comes to alicus ha muster a godliness that in its natural in its innate form lends itself to concealment in order to to find god there you have to be misbenin you have to reflect and meditate and this since i am now very much involved in the whole sugiya the whole topic of breast list at bresliv and chabad this to me this like this paragraph is so is so um telling of chabad's approach to in comparison to the breslau approach at least at this point in my thinking and discussion with others is is is so the contrary to what it says here the the breslav approach is throw yourself on god and he will sustain you and support you and everything is hashem and and just um you know just go with the flow and have 65 children and uh don't have a job and hashem will help you i mean that's being a little sarcastic but you know even if you water that down which of course it needs to be watered down to be more real the attitude is the history will help you so the altar ebba says he that rebecca says here in the name of his teachers his rebels his predecessors that you must make a candy for panasonic to reveal the bracha otherwise you and you need to be miss binding breslif doesn't talk about his bones talks about his body isolated reflection isolated conversation with hashem which is which is a good thing an important thing but it's a different method than his bonninus his abundance is deep thought the use of the mind the involvement of the mind now like i said to someone yesterday when we discussed this as sure the fact is we see today that the the breslif movement is um is is you know growing by leaps and bounds and also helping so many so many people so it's not to be made light of it's it's an important element of of our our tita okay and probably one could say that probably amongst all the groups it's definitely from the leaders if not you know the leader in in kind of bringing people back um again now within brussels itself you have the nach nachmans of rabbis and then you have rabbit kenix who goes more back to the more formal uh brussels etc you know uh but regardless of which of the breast lift version you follow there's what to be said about this idea of you know talking to hashem and relying to hashem and making it very personal it's a very different type of aveda and in a way a much harder type of avoider and has many less takers why because the average person either doesn't have the information b is not interested in information and even if they have the information interested to meditate and reflect is very difficult because as soon as you start thinking your mind wanders elsewhere what's going on here what's going on there and that's a contradiction to to authentic meditation authentic jewish meditation from the khabar perspective requires complete concentration and focus during the time of meditation and reflection on what you're reflecting on and if all of a sudden i remember one after pesach the rebel was for bringing the last their pesach right what what everyone calls the ila and i was at the fabregan and everyone knows the rav the love of the community and has to as soon as pesach is over call or meet with the non-jew the guy to buy back the comments right because and this is you know this is relevant to everyone in the in in the community because if not it's a problem of course so that everyone spoke i remember it was the second seeker so the rebel would start for bringing skier time that's when the brain started and by the time the second talk came around the second sikha it was already mire of time okay now so this sikha was when myrov hit so i i we saw many times each year enough that the rav would get up and you know he in a way he he would he would try to pre leave the fabrega before the second talk began because it's he it it's rude he's sitting you know everyone is listening the rep is talking and and the rabbi the community picks himself up in front of two thousand people and walks out it's it's it doesn't look good you know what i mean but he had no choice it's it's so i remember once i don't know if he was there or he had left that ever spoke about that when you learn tata and the phone rings you shouldn't even hear that the phone rings because you're so engrossed in your title learning so that's just learning kosuke needless to say when we talk about meditation his boldness it requires a lot of concentration so that's why the chabad commodity the true chabad commodity of his bonding is not something that the average man on the street goes for that that's that you know you know i don't care what the baba just say but that's authentic now there's water down you know just put on film with people and and and and you know and go in the friendship circle and it's all good things and important things but that's not that's not chabad's philosophy and whereas in breslau the philosophy doesn't require that it doesn't require that if you if you follow a brussels uh philosophy talk to hashem in the middle of the day here if you can get get to a foreign go to your backyard right now who can't go to the backyard we all went to our backyard when the corona started we couldn't double the minion was locked down so we dive into the backyards one two three in fact in waves was much easier i opened my door i went outside it was too cold i stayed inside i was able to hear all the three of them dabble in a minion i didn't have to run to show them back the shoe whatever but that's all that mahalo is so here when we learn such a kisser you have to understand the background of the kitzer where is the rashad coming from when he talks about making a califor parnosa because you'll hear everyone and anyone say you have to make a calendar for prince what are you doing to make pranosta right everyone throws around those words and to everyone it has ever to every mahalak to approach it really means something else this is the khabar approach and what is the approach his abundance to find the godliness within the concealment when there's a problem issue what sorry god forbid find god there through his abundance okay i could talk much more about this maybe another shear but right now let's continue okay page 353 base [Music] the garments of nature that are based on the divine intent is but if you're solid they of a god who's blessed and elevated shalom his brother he'll ascend it in his will [Music] to create a physical world washing that everything off even including the godly energy in the world yeah miss salim mustafa themselves conceal godliness to the point a person who's in business she can make a mistake religious beyonce it's my creative mind that's able to do this and that i went to school i'm trained it's my accomplishment and it's his wisdom that says wow such a shrewd guy so he's so able to to manipulate the system and not be and not not not only not be caught but to find the loophole that if you want to be caught you can get the lawyer to argue and he'll win the case so it's his genius she's not got ever he conducts himself based on nature allah really is to to search to inquire calling you on he selects the most reasonable way to to to get what he wants to get in his business practices we're still doing that yeah is this a con artist well let me see let me see how we finish this thought i don't know yet wait you know when it comes to sales he does all kinds of trickery and deception there hakmus and shrewd weighs our pidakia teva using nature the whole ayla um he makes a lot of money a lot of profit so i don't know yoni if you have to say he's a con artist no he's not a con artist he's just a very clever shrewd businessman who's figured out the system and knows how to beat the system well the now again he is he's doing this within the realm of nature okay ain't no elevated you're smart guy you figured out how to use nature to your benefit how to use the system to your benefit but remember it's only a garment and not because of the garment himself don't think that it's the clever system that you beat and you figure it out and that's spring in the broker no because you could do that and guess what and you don't benefit the fact that you did benefit that comes from the abuses it gives an example the growth of wheat it's true it ha it goes through the sun and the moon gossip we make it through a shamash the sweetness of tourists because of the sun or mega garage the sweetness of cucumbers is the moon the insect nevertheless they're only messengers of the hashball the yoda and the son of the moon don't have any ability to do better do good came only hashem says to them they do and by the way there's an answer to the global warming of that whole issue if the abrasion says that the world's going to be and not cease to be so yes in nature it looks like it's going to you know things are going to change but the if the if it ultimately becomes hashem makes it appear that way for whatever reason but at the end he says i wanted to continue it's continuing i will say according to the laws of nature nature should dominate and dictate that it dries up or it ends that's nature that's a levous that's like the the sweetness coming from the sun and the moon and all that but as soon as the abrasive wants the sweetness to go another way or to become not sweet it would be that way because the at the the broker is always making and the garment is only like an emissary a mission a messenger the actual is in hashem's hands [Music] we need to have a natural cc that i shop the entire time it i want andy saying like breast lift at the other hand is saying like he's saying yeah and of course everything comes from hashem but you have to make a levels you have to make a garment but don't so it you understand they're making the garment it would be like the chabad philosophy and don't forget that the project comes from god is like it's like the brussels philosophy again it's it's the it's the torah's philosophy but i've just in the hour discussion before i'm putting into those words well the frieza movement and according to this we understand this is what you alluded to the other day you don't have to you shouldn't you don't have to make too long of a garment it's unnecessary to the one who's the owner of the wealth and the properties in the real estate the yacht claimed and straighten your ways and taylor mitchells that then you become suitable for hashem's blessing she goes back to his theme in the mimer you should become suitable for the budget that that was designated by accepting my that hashem did not give it to you you beloved okay now listen to this he says the acceptance of the yoke and his trueva are not the purpose is not that you should get pranossa that is that why we have we we we follow hashem i'm following god's up so that you give me prionosa if you don't give my knowledge i'm not following you of course not hello look inside malcolm both the kabbalah soil and rosh hashanah and the true volume keeper tia they should be true on their own without any strings attached because that's the way it should be the cause that became tiny but it should be strong all those things are personal needs the illuminati because madame cream he should have set times to learn tayden police reminisce recover without interruptions no phones no emails we're learning now after this next page go to your work go work the yaspically come out and even a little work there will be enough is monolithic and of course everyone asks what is this how do i know what's a little time what's for me one little time little times for you a lot of time and vice versa what's his point since you've already gotten your budget for nameship and the slovakian trademark caleb they've been invested in vessels of well that's the sweetest of ten emanations of brilliance here has been saying the whole time the enemy said what's only lacking the garment created by the constellations will have what to grab on to and the spot that's given to you will be given so in other words listen to this you're not going to get more than than than what you have in your bank or your treasure bank i'm talking i'm talking regularly ordinarily i'm not talking about an exception to the rule where you win the jackpot or you win the lottery spiritually speaking so but in order to get what's yours you need a caillou la bush work how much work mark so this is an interesting kind of uh thing to look at and think about the difference be you know there is a shita there is a sheet in in in toyota in the sky to work and work hard doesn't she not to work at all and then there's a sheet that to work a little now work doesn't necessarily only mean you know uh you're standing in a store you can work with your head you can work with your heart in other words there's learning and davening you're doing mitzvahs then there is the application so if you go and your work consists of putting on film with people at the castle when you get paid for that that's your work if your work consists of going to visit people in a nursing home an old age home or in your neighborhood during corona and making them happy and you get some panosa for that that's your work but we mean things that are done outside of the what your own learning and governing for your own satisfaction and needs and importance next paragraph i know if it's been established that you are an individual that is suitable because of your terror mitzvahs to get el resident you have been given divine grace which originates in what we discussed is called the the holy attic the holy level that's so removed from there it's so great i think you say this is as we explained canal is explained earlier through the arousal of the swedish it comes it gets lowered it's descended into garments the calendar of these three levels okay so it comes from let's just to take it comes from way on high and it comes down um and it's concretized and materialized in the garments of the constellations is if you have it already in your storage house a little work is my speak that's what he says if god forbid you're not yet suited for the has not yet been given they haven't allocated the funds to maxilus that if it hasn't been given at all to you and roshan kipper bye you're talking to me turn off your thing please yoni yoni turn off your thing ella filo was not given to your treasure bank there's not what to talk about you could work from today and tomorrow you're not going to get the money you're not going to get dashboard it's not there you first have to make sure it's in you know yours like today we're getting your stimulus checks the first thing is before they deposit it you have to make sure you're a candidate for the for the deposit okay but it hasn't taken the form of of of materializing itself so that it there will be able to come from it gosh music which is played earlier all your hard and this is practical this isn't ethereal or you know esoteric why is it avi that sometimes we work hard and nothing comes from it gives us an answer right here and he says it's because for some reason you don't have that in the bank in your treasury because if you were to have a new treasury even a little work would suffice so you don't need to work your head off and in my humble opinion and years of work and this is so true this is so so true i recall in my younger years when we was in marin county we were renting uh my car my congregation and people who brought my wife and i there they rented a house for us after a year or so i told them that you know to grow this show an organization in a house it won't happen so they said but we don't have the funds to rent a uh an office space so i said okay i will take the responsibility to raise the funds and so it was and we moved into a nearby office space and we grew but it still was a small it was eleven hundred square feet i think that's that's all it was i remember the i mean where it was and you know it was amongst so many mostly not jewish people in offices in suburbia america and california and uh seeing hasidim with beards and some you know shabbos walking in 90 degrees with capotes and and and jackets you know this was a very different to what they were used to so the owner uh i must say um you know he was interested in money he was a very wealthy man but he just wanted money and and he was nice you pay my rent i then he supported us and i think he he had some complaints and he brought him to my attention and i to explain to him what we're doing and he said you're right rabbi and he defended us so i give him credit for us you know for that anyway um so came a point we were looking for a property now the place we were in was a a a 538 home community it was in a community called lucas valley and we coined the phrase amec halukos we lived in a mecca it happens to be that george lucas of star wars his industrial light and film outfit was up the road and the road was called lucas valley road not because of george lucas but it's soar protest that he moved in up the road on a massive property and that's where they did their film and so so there wasn't la haveda there wasn't a church in our community they had zoning for a church and no one built the church so it was all homes and beautiful mountains i hill i assume you were there once in marin right this uh i don't remember where i was at kabab but i was in marin county many times many times okay did you get up to san rafael yes yeah yeah yeah okay so we weren't technically in sarah fell anyway so but you know in the hill in the in in you know not what the city was the city the big city anyway the point is i'm looking for a property there was one gas station on the corner of lucas valley road coming into the community and i said i wish this property becomes for sale i'll try to buy the property raise the funds to buy the property and build a shoe and then they won't because we had big issues major issues with the with our neighbors and uh we had a major court case i think i've told you about this i wrote a book about it called house documenting all of the legal arguments and it took several solid years of my time and it's a discussion for another time i'm still looking for someone to make a movie out of it because i think would be a great movie but anyway well i really was it was like it was a major uh victory and case in the courts a 48 page i mean you're talking about xenophobia you know you're talking about anti-semitism talk to george lucas yeah yeah yes i i guess i didn't think of that at the time anyway so so um there was a gas station exxon i remember the ground and one day i see a for sale sign i say wow this is it we're going to get the x out not we're not not how we're going to get it my balabad to think i'm off the wall and i said we're gonna get this exxon and i and i called texas and i got into corporate offices over the phone and i had someone uh architects start drawing plans and i spent a lot of time and it all went nowhere because they found there was you know leakage under the ground you know because they get the tanks which is an environmental issue and to get that solved would be years if the accounting would agree and i didn't have that time or interest and i dropped it and i just remember how i worked so hard so hard and i was so excited you know so it's right outside on the main road you know so everyone driving by will see the shoe see the building was the cabal you know be great publicity and if someone's going to the beach in west marin you know from the the hippies and then the dope smokers and whatever else they'll stop off for a forum for a thrilling for a piece of my zionists you know this is you have to understand coming from brooklyn having a a habar house on lucas valley road going out to west marin is like you conquered the world you know the state the the state flag in that area is the grateful dead symbol that's right that's right you guys that haven't been there you can't imagine this like this is hippie this was and and and with nothing a shop says if the project is not there for you my mom and that's what i felt i'm working so hard hashem i'm doing it for you why are you doing this to me help me a little bit the answer is this is not in the cards for you and your guys and for whatever reason i don't know why so on one hand i felt like i wasted my time it took a lot of a lot of quickers and a lot of time but on the other hand you know i i did it i did it i did it with sincerity but at the end nothing it didn't and so the shop is telling us that before you you conclude you spend so much time verify if the bracha is there for you now you ask how do i know that's that's a good question for that we did it for that we needed sadiq you know and um sounds like that is the question that is the question that's right but but you know when you say that's the question many times we don't spend we don't put the effort in to come to the point where we say what is the question this is the question in other words hashem wants us the main thing is he says to be dedicated to godliness okay and then when it's true given to you know that it's hashem's brother that makes you wealthy gambimat asic even with a little work and to your point my shirt this is this is the issue listen one thing's for sure before we jump we know that if the work gets in the way of our davening and learning and and being with family and helping and all that it's not good it's not it's not it's not a mahalak it's not an approach you know both whether one is you know neglecting the family and their own learning and dividing because they want to make more money and more money in it or because of holy reasons you have a family you know you can't go to this year you have to be with the children you have to do homework with them you have to have supper with them you have to talk with them and it takes time and and it's a balance but on the judgment of one don't make the judgment of the other because you're just hurting yourself and hurting them you know so as with everything in toyota especially in khasidis especially this it doesn't spoon feed you now it's up to us to take our spoon and make sit down and make the evaluation in our own life so it's my it's it's nice if someone tells you do this and that but that was not that's not what the trader wants and it's it's not it's not it and especially that's the part that doesn't go you know uh rebbe tell me exactly i mean we were so today it's like that's not that's not the mahalak figure it out yourself you need a broker we'll give you a broker you have the ability but you got to figure it out yourself before he passed away when he spoke about he said i i've i've left i've given it over to you people to bring mashiach what do you mean you're giving to us yeah we're 42 years of talking and educating you about torah is not enough for you to figure out how to bring the shield if it's not enough 42 years i can't help you anymore you know you gotta gotta stand on your own two feet have it have a great day everyone we'll see everyone tomorrow bye