klolei HaChinuch Education Principles from Rebbe Raayatz # 6

you know when you get me started with these things i can i just can't stop them but don't ever know if i just want to say that um it's i know it's not part of this year but of everybody who's in this year this is a topic i think that we all come come across and continue to come across it's a this is a big topic but we're discussing what you're sharing with us and very quickly right and in shame when when i'm able to get back there too so we should all get together have a fabric and invite others and have an open discussion i i know i know most exactly you're saying i had these summer discussions with people in your show when i was there you know and and there's a everyone's good there's a lot you just got to clarify issues you got to clarify issues and and you know i just want to say one thing i have noticed within the last five years within the last five years more people at least in my circles here in ramapan and also uh more openness and respect in general that a number of people over the last since since um since censor of tallucian's book came out a number of people in asia should come up to me or people in the community and people who i would i was a little shocked that they they they said to me that they read it and they were blown away right yeah thank you okay now we're on page 31 we are uh ice dalid so again in the last chapter the kids here let me just read the kisser two lines above and thirty-one kids self-love um confuses man vahabikoras and criticism or self-examination it prepares man for fruitful work i just point out to you like this this language avoid the puria is so not classical uh you know jewish literature torah literature you would say la voy des laimer complete da voda puria comes from the word peru de vu but right peru but it's not used and here's just one simple example of how the frida kedabba wrote this with a very sophisticated poetic uh language to attract the the the future young minds who are you know thinking and and reading uh the most secular books and modern books and and finding a language you know the hebrew language at the turn of the century when zionism it was a hot it was a hot topic and and very important the one of the main issues or maybe the main issue for the youth was and not just youth others was the language and the more you were able to master the language write the language speak the language think in that language the more you were a mensch and one of the great uh and and because of this the people like let's say the mumkacher rebbe of muncac who was a zealot and fighting against zionism it included this now again not saying right wrong was telling you that the language brought about a culture and the culture was antithetical to torah for most people most let's say the rebbe's mother rabbits and hannah i i i read and understood that she was educated in the hebrew language but she she was a full from lady with with a shaytal but she was an educated woman not all women were educated in fact most women were not educated they were froome and religious and they knew how to to kosher a chicken and they knew them and hug him of making schlissel hollow the shabbos after you know pesach that they knew very well but to speak hebrew to write hebrew to think in hebrew no rebecca condescended his mother was was educated and she knew that you know so so it was a surprise to like you know see them and hey you know to them it was like a black hole you're going on a dangerous path so here the frida kaderbah seems to from what we're learning and reading that he was educated for him to write a country with such language as an educated person in modern hebrew because he wouldn't say i voted perea you would say avoid the slaymer avoid the kadosha but he used the word avoid the peria so i just point that out yes hello i said two two quick comments that that reminds me of one is i heard that the semester in explaining why he supported the effort to set up the basiaco school system that he said the condition of a household in in warsaw around the turn of the century the turn of the 20th century is on friday night the men dress up put on their kaputa and their beckages and their tribals and go to shul and the ladies uh they get put on their finery and they go to the theater and uh that was reinforced for me when i read a book had a lot of extraordinary book called the rabbi of 84th street about the life of sorel besser in which he describes his household a wealthy household growing up in warsaw uh between the wars um and um you know the the uh that it and it sounded like a very european household with a lot of emphasis on elements of european culture and music education and and literary education and so on so i all those things were sort of in the air so i could really understand it seems to me that that one of the intents perhaps of this of this kind of work is to sort of demonstrate to people who have been influenced by haskell that uh you know the the the depths of sort of thought and scholarship in that's behind us right exactly exactly okay dalit tonight the first prerequisite the first condition self-examination of the educator muhammad and the counselor biakas liats in regard to himself let's see how he develops this called nayoda all human beings believe that without difference whether they come from a restructure aristocracy or common folk okay so frasier means aristocratic gezza means root means masses in better english than the common folk so regardless bali levi every human being has virtues and deficiencies you won't find anyone that doesn't yes hillel of make a comment on that as well that that um the original idea that led to uh the public education in europe was was developed by a philosopher by the name of vodka fascinating story about uh too long for this time i didn't hear his name what's his name his name spell victor please von fick i think it's spelled f-i-c-h-t-e okay thank you um and he he uh he he influenced the prince i think of bismarck one of the german states uh to to uh fouled the idea of public education the state should should educated citizens and he coined the and the original idea that he pointed was that there should be two kinds of schools a um the volksschuler which which would be the the school for like the main group of people which would be kind of uh training shall we say in skills and citizenship the purpose being to instill a sense of citizenship and patriotism etc and the other for more the educated class was called the real schula the real school you know to create kind of an intellectual elite this is this was sort of the so i hear an echo of that idea in this um yes but but let's see how it develops it because it seems to me because here he says whether you come from this class or whether you come from the other class one thing's for sure every individual has pluses and minuses positives and negatives miles and just let's see further hashem god almighty instilled within the nature who the tv adam of humans as hamila is the virtues the milo is kashin heymo for they are from the wholesomeness of humanity vias he also instilled within the nature of man deficiencies so the man should work on himself literally to kind of push them aside get away tear them out remove them [Music] and to acquire for himself exemplary virtues in their stead in their place so this is why hashem gave man not only milos but also because hashem wants men to work on himself next paragraph the labor and work that enriches people a person is supreme you have nothing more sweet greater than avoidance that transforms the bad meter to good all the machines the result is he has good produce lots of produce he may although sonic he will not have as much pleasure like someone who plows and plants in in bed [Music] and but nevertheless what comes out is tremendous abundance good protest says because in addition to the produce there is an experience that the individual who invested in the bed and it comes out good has an ethical story that comes forth but poyo yodo vallidosa through his hands and his work hamarupa the great amount of work that he put into noise of allah in addition to the financial benefit of how much produce he has excellent point there is the financial result okay he gets a lot of produce but what's more important is the ethical accomplishment the transformation of zebudus of bad agriculture and land versus idiots good agricultural land and here he's able to get the same result he feels ten times more elated and the rabbi's lesson is here at the beginning he uses the word um pleasure real pleasure is realizing the fruit of my labor the results of my labor have blossomed that's tynuk and it and and the the more difficult it is the more accomplished yes hillary you want to say something yeah i just said that reminded me something we learned in one of the previous mamaram that really stayed with me that the the uh the rebbe brought i think it was a rashy or might have been a bazaar on the term uh derek harris amara that they were people who had had the ability they could taste the soil and tell what would grow there right it was such a it was such it was so meaningful to me uh to think of that term as having such a uh uh such a uh you know a powerful alternative meaning from the way you're right right right very good very good next paragraph great is the work the of the ethical work hamasheras from the word osha was an aleph that ashrae from the word ashrae fortunate that makes one so fortunate but osha mitzvi with eternal fortune tremendous the language is so rich what's the ocean normally you say oyster with an eye in wealth no it's with an aleph because he's talking about the ethics he's talking about the spiritual side the soul side so he says that's what's primary relevant to the person who invests because the activity of exchanging two hebrew words means to exchange the bad for the good versa and the disgusting for the beautiful from the word tainook gives pleasure as an other man yay mesquite more than his diligence in good and beautiful getting down and dirty and working hard and and with the dirt and the schmutz and then you see it blossom and reap the thai nuke is much greater command commandment as the saying is this i believe is in regard to them by yehoi [Music] that takes darkness and transforms it to light vitamin and makes tasty merino bitterness lemiska to sweetness that's aramaic for the and i translated in in the english so what do we see how many people they're avoided consists of getting down and 30 and taking the negative and making the deposit now sure we all do we all try to do that but then there are people who that's their avoider you know what i mean let's say a rabbi rabbi grossman and eric's throw right how many rabbis go into a disco count them on your finger schleimer schwartz over show them on venice beach you know even even on the boardwalk how many rabbis are going to go and offer people to film and talk to jews on the boardwalk in venice beach count them on your hand because you talk have to be about argus you know but the fact is that that aveda that activity is as far as that person is concerned i know is tremendous because you see with your own eyes years later you don't see it at the time but you see what you invested in years later how it blossomed that's what he says about the next paragraph man's nature hena milos venox be that be they the virtues or the deficiencies miss how can we stay pluggers and now that he says i divide into two categories aleph tv inborn base next page 33 tv habits so we have again let's get us clear heaven in natural inborn generic uh nature right and then we have on page 33 on top tv embry lucien habits from the word reggie loot habits of them [Music] both uh take deeper take deep root within man liz and they uh they become more and more deep within man as time goes on okay she says to the point with that the inborn nature nature natural tendencies and character becomes after lots of time kim muy asks me like your essence you see now listen here there's three things there's the essence of man there's the nature of man and then there is the acquired outside issues of man it's three separate men and when and when when man who's we call xm your essence uses those natural tendencies the longer you use them they become they become like the essence i say the word like because at the end of the day listen to this at the end of the day the toyota hakadosha believes that a person transcends their nature because their their essence is not their nature and this i don't know like could be science disagrees but toyota believes this that a person can make a change even in things that he's born with because he's what he's born with is the nature for him to come out into the world what about he before he's born and even after he's born but he lives with a state of pre-birth which means essence can transform a situation you cannot box in man this is what the devil is saying if i understand it correctly you cannot boxing man into even told us natural things you were born with and this is very important because i was born a certain way what do you want from me so for one for us you know it's with this hat with this issue that issue and what if someone has he says i was born to to cut my uh wrist and kill myself every few months you're gonna say oh he's born that way no no there's an essence the essence doesn't want to hurt yourself and if you touch the essence that will stop and i just heard i don't know if you guys got into what's up there's a rabbi here rabbi zakaria wallerstein he has an organization called our nava out in flatbusher ships at bay somewhere in brooklyn i told the story and chill this week yeah but that's what i announced yeah i'm not but i'm not sure the other favorite here heard it so i'm not going to go into all the details you heard it hilo no yeah basically he deals with girls many of which are suicidal and you know left schools and big issues big issues and he he really really has helped many of them come back to a normal life and things like that so he told the story i just heard this week that um a girl calls him and she says uh a rabbi uh over the weekend i saw black i see black and blue marks all over my body so he says get to a hospital right away she goes to the hospital they say 95 percent you have what is it a blood cancer blood cancer leukemia and the doctor said we will check with another few doctors but uh it's it's bad uh so she calls the rabbi she says rabbi could you pray for me i shouldn't die i'll get me a broker somehow so he says i don't understand you've tried killing yourself many times and now you you know i i know if you want to live but like you're serious about living she says yeah i don't want to die so he says okay i'll make a call to some couple nerds roll he doesn't tell us who and but you're gonna listen she says yeah the macooble asks for her name and the mccouble uh gets back to him in a few days and he says she has to keep shabbos if she'll keep shabbas it'll go away he calls the girl and says you got to keep shabbat she's rabbi i can't keep shabbos you know i have tattoos i'll cover up my tattoos i'll try to get rid of my tattoos but i can't keep shabbos that i can't do but while she says you know what the diagnosis is you asked me to call them a kubo this is what he told you i'll go back to him and try to negotiate with him so he goes back and the mccouble says sorry nothing less than shabbos goes back tells her my dear you got to keep shabbos you don't keep shabbos you're on your own she says okay rabbi i want to live i don't want to die and she was very scared and emotional and crying it was you know and he and he says how he was so impacted because you know she made light of everything you know i'm saying and here all of a sudden life means something to her and she said i'm going to keep shabbos after that she went back he says i'm telling you what what what what this i'm telling you he says what i heard from her this is not i heard from someone else they made a mistake it was a it's a certain condition which is not dangerous which they they they need to give an infusion uh i forget you only what it was um and um every few months and this and that and it it'll be all right so you know i i reminded myself because we're saying here about teva you could say the nature the person got sick person got sick and the doctors say 95 you know you have five percent of survival i'd be like come on there is an accent there is an essence and in this case shabbos for her was the essence you know that's it i don't need to know what it'll be in the future you know all those calculations to me are from the clip of the negative side the story itself as it stands now is authentic and important okay that means that i yi just one second a yi has an essence that's always connected and good and we our job is to reveal that essence yes my ship yeah really don't just you mentioned before there's three men essence of man nature of man and acquired traits of man yeah i got that right how again what's the difference between essence and nature of man okay so nature is i'm born with a race a habit of i'm born with a tendency to to to be angry to get upset uh to brag those are all told her nature offspring of man essence is you're not an angry person you're not a a a boastful type of person you're a servant of god who has a kernel of diamond inside that's beautiful now we need to reveal that i say that because in the chat in the paragraph you look at the rapper's language he says second line motion in the middle line until eventually inborn characteristics can become an innate and inseparable part of the person so what does that show that shows me that there is something called atsumi innate so the the inborn characteristics which is called tolder can become innate to the point with that that's who man becomes now he's talking about the third category the ha the the character acquired through habits which we call regidos it will become like it as though it was inborn well kemmer hergil nasa teva the saying is habit becomes nature so we have three things we have habits nature and essence yes uh uh hilo cyclin once wrote an essay uh on the on the possible effect it's very similar uh the elements that are within you uh of that that belong to your particular land and society and and culture and and and and furthermore those of of your of your family and the particular nature of your family in order to really find out who you are in your search for god very good very good and that will also become clear as we learn yeah okay kevin we'll talk more some tomorrow have a good day everyone zeiderson bye-bye thank you