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Klolei HaChinuch Education Principles Rebbe Raayatz #10
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What's considered proper for one person might be wrong for another
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so uh we're on page 41 of the kitser
let's learn the kit
of what we learned yesterday
uh of the previous rabbit written in
1898 and he says that the
the fascists souls of people
the shamans the fascists massimo is
they all correspond they're all really
one
the division begins vice
depends on
the manifestation
of the powers of the talents how they
express
themselves in other words the
caylee the receptacle
makes all the difference to the
transmission
of the summer
so the nephesh and the goof the soul in
the body
the nephesh is wholesome we call this
i want you to become familiar with the
term
translation the essence the essence the
essence
of the soul of the nephesh and what it
means is
the very core essence of the neshama
that very core essence invests itself
in the body when it come when the
neighbors that god
has it come into a body and it's only at
that time
that the the the particular talents and
senses of
the human being make a difference
how the essence expresses itself and
that's where
divisions begin
this is what we learned yesterday in the
last paragraph and it came
just to refresh our memories because
there ever
was very uh very
uh clear in saying that there's a
difference between
a teacher teaching information
who needs to assess properly
the student whether
whether it's whether it's uh
creativity analysis
or or concentration which is the three
things
it's very important but more important
is
the educator the mashpia
the rapper doesn't use the word mashpir
in the mimer which is interesting
i find it very interesting he doesn't so
far he hasn't used at all the word
mashpea
he uses the word and madrid
educator and guide but it seems that
he's really referring to
of the type of person that we would call
today a mash pia
so the mashpia here
it's not about assessing the uh
the intellectual
strengths of the student is as strong as
that's not what the mascot was concerned
about
what the masjid is concerned about is
dealing with the character the traits
the behavior or in simple english the
way we say it today in our communities
manchesler how to make a person more of
a mensch
positive mensch you know we just learned
to pick
us
whoever is liked by hashem
my father-in-law blessed memory in the
one-page
will if you could call it a will that he
left he said he wants no
eulogies at all and of course that's
tradition no eulogies and he said if you
want to do something for my
shrama for my solution my nusrama learn
this mimer there's a mimer of the
previous rabbit
not this one there's a mimer in the
yiddish maimurim
on that phrase
he said learn by heart learn that mimer
and we did and some of us memorized it
and reviewed it
and when you learned the mimer you know
and i and i said the mimer you know
before hasidim who are
you know also intellectuals and learned
and tell me
you see it seems like it's like you know
the previous labor
wrote it in yiddish in the 40s for the
journal that he you know he issued
without his name it was called hakri of
from 1941 to 45 there was such a journal
or newspaper magazine whatever you call
it that he was behind
but he didn't he was it was anonymous
and he had a he had a pen uh pen named
writer
h who was also known as hj uh
moose avrom hirsch moose
because xv is a moose
his real name was aaron levitt
aaron levitt i've written about this
moishe in the history of this in one of
my
khabad ports which i think you have now
so it's the footnotes i believe
and he's a whole story for himself and i
don't want to go right now
there but it's it's interesting to know
how that came about
so the point there was this this akri of
abdusha
so he would print in every issue there
was a monthly ish
monthly publication
in yiddish why because the whole purpose
was to be makhazik
to strengthen the faith of jews during
the holocaust when they were throwing
away the yamatas and the shaytlah
and giving up and the rabbi
the whole purpose of this was in various
ways
to strengthen their and to tell them
that we're at
mashiach's doorstep and he came out with
his famous slogan
liao de la chuva liao giulia
immediate trooper will bring immediate
redemption
and he paid the price for it because
there was a group of gadolin and
rashashiva and others
who were very against it feeling that if
god forbid it doesn't happen
it will lead to a disappointment and a
depression
and that ever that ever didn't take that
into consideration
i mean you mean to say he he he
he was smart he understood the
ramifications
but the the the the benefit
and what was needed at the time was to
be
hazardous because what's going to be
after 1945 when the war ends
with 41 42 43 yidna going away
from yiddish guide from from kai from
tradition
anyway so there is this one mimer that i
just quoted before from berkeley's
painting gimbal
and it talks about mensler kite
so on one hand what does menstrual kite
have to do with
the other day or not asked we were
talking
he said like you know it's very nice but
i'm waiting for the hasidis
there's hasidisabi here in every line
it reminds me of another vert listen to
this because it's a it's a beauty
in poland there was a very big time with
before the war his name was rabbi shimon
angle
he came from a city called zelika
and they called him
okay he was a going
he was a going in in every part of
toyota
an open an open safe and anything you
wanted
from gemara to halal
to kabbalah he knew it all
and he had a very fast head and he had a
sharp tongue
and of course he learned tanya you know
he he knew tanya
so they once asked him what does he say
about tanya so he said like
this the alter ebba says
in tanya chapter 28
don't be a fool to involve yourself
in trying to elevate
um middle his uh
character issues someone had some mute
yourself because i
have an echo hear an echo which are ugly
so let's say love a person is is is
has has been caught with you know
thoughts of
love and lust and things like that so
there is a whole
section in the in in the balchemtrove
and the magic
of torah which is called
halas hamidos to elevate the midda
to find the origin of the meter
and to go back to the origin and from
there
look at the middle and that will elevate
the and and discard the the part of the
medium
and i'm going to go into that but that
it's called halloween
says the alton edmond chapter 28 out he
said
don't be a fool to engage yourself
in this aveda and why not because if you
are dirty yourself how can you
elevate dirt look over there chapter 28
so he says the words
don't be a fool
said when they asked him what does he
say about tanya he says
wrote it only in one place in tanya
but the truth is it's in every line of
tanya
don't be a fool
in other words when you learn about the
nether shelley kiss and you learn about
the definition of bomb you see you learn
about
god's unity whatever whatever
shimon is saying that if you really
understand the shot
what is this really saying don't be
foolish
don't fool yourself one time it says it
through
god's unity one third says it through
the two souls
one time it speaks about it this way
that way but really it's one one
one punch line altihi so
avi and this my man and this says essay
although outwardly
it's very psychological and it's geared
towards a certain situation and all of
that
but the better you understand it you
will see
that it's the yiddish word for permeated
with siddhis and
i'm going to say something that's pretty
bold and that is
if not for a rebel like the frida kerebe
i highly doubt anyone else would be able
to write such a thing
okay this isn't just
uh with uh
this is this is deep stuff okay
so we're learning now about now we go to
the top of page 43 let's learn is
zion
so that ever said the mashpia needs to
know
two things right one is the essence of
the educated of the student
and two is a situation so a nice zion
you understand he deals with the essence
and then
i think he'll do or maybe later in the
eyes she'll speak about the situation
let's see yeah is about the situation
the massaf
here is talking about the mojos
home
the idea of education is not designated
specifically to youngsters
rather it makes no difference who the
student is
how old he is
and the essential aspects
of education pertain equally to both
and he says
the the the
assessment of the student's character
to ascertain the pupils uh thing
is something that something that
is mishtana
the difference is only
only with the cosmic
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only the outer part the superficial
part the informational part
there is a difference between a young
student and an old student if
a young student doesn't know as much and
no student knows much more so you can
give them more
avo
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both are the same okay so
the quality is the same the quantity is
different
paragraph 2.
the educator must assess properly the
essence of the
student with cavonous media zoo and the
purpose of this assessment
i know what does kishore noise of
um to know
his talents and to know his natural
virtues
he needs to do that
and so too he needs to
assess properly the
deficiencies ah
and and the conduct that he is involved
with which is not appropriate
he must assess that
only then can he give him an organized
uh prescription uh a
curriculum for education
this is more true if he needs to correct
a particular
deficiency is
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everything depends on the essence of the
character
and therefore if the teacher identifies
a particular issue
that needs correction he needs to
focus in on that hone in on that let's
see how he develops the thought
paragraph three yes
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there is something if this person does
this
if it's considered
ashanda a disgrace um
and he disgraces himself
and others machine came conversely
who i said if the very same thing is
done
by someone else
whether the person who does it is really
lower he's not as talented and not as
virtuous
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or whether he's of total different
nature and essence
so you're talking about someone else
aldernach muscle for example
autumn someone who was a great man i'm a
football popular
but my life people know people know
about him he's a special person
if that person won't be careful from
from
from idle chatter okay
for him it's considered desecration of
god's name
but for like kangaskh
what if a simple person speaks idol
chatter
it's not that way why not because he's
not is horseshoes
you're happy he's talking
right well commissioner began murder we
find it in the mother because
of shawnee it's interesting in the
footnotes there are 14
places in shas
i believe 14 places where it says
why is is this situation allowed in this
situation not or why is here and the
mother says
what comes to my mind is the the right
commissioner in uh brothers
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because he's an istanis he is
very very clean he's he's a fanatic in
cleanliness
so therefore what we said the bishop
says
as a general rule for everyone doesn't
apply to him because he's an exception
to the rule
here it's a different verb
right that's not what it says over there
in brachas but other than question of
motion means
he's an adam crusher oh the cause of
different rules different expectations
right you're the god by your shoe
once you put on that hat there's
different expectations
whether you like it or not or don't
become the governor you know but
when you take a position or a rabbi or a
leader
i always say my writing i give it out to
editors and if they goof up and there's
mistakes
or my copyright makes a mistake they
don't blame them they blame me
i am it's my book it's your
art it's it's each and every one of us
what we create it's a and and therefore
adam khashov
you're you're a very important person or
you're an important position
let's continue so that's why idle
chatter
for an autumn crusher is a big no-no for
a regular fellow it's not a big deal
let's continue
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someone who is totally immersed
in beautiful clothing the latest styles
everything needs to be pressed and clean
and exact
well the salsa behind he plays with his
hair he makes himself we used to call it
a chip
a lot of hair cool sometimes i look at
these uh
boys and you know guys and they're
coming to shul and
their hair is stylish and i see him
going to a mirror to check itself out
south basara yosef was punished for
south suburb
i know when you're born
you don't have that issue anymore
but anyway
you know okay
for an important person a terror person
what are you doing you're you're totally
into your clothing you have to
make your hair cool and fancy what
you're wasting you're taking mine space
that could be used for toyota and
mitzvos
now of course the bali booster have a
whole different approach to this
i'm not going there right now but even
even that is misunderstood that's not
what the bali muslim really meant
if the bali muslims didn't mean that you
should do that
and get a high from it that no
finkel of zlatka you know his
his uh approach that the bakram should
be
you know to rest with very clean and
with ties and
and maybe even shaving and and all that
it's not
the hasidish approach but he he meant it
i really believe washima he did
i'm not sure it was that way but a lot
by many of the bacharan but
where he was coming from is that coveted
he had this whole concept right of covet
cover that title and all that
but but uh but put that aside for now
the difference between the muslim
approach and the khasit
the hasidic approach of the balsham this
idea of
immersing yourself that's the word he
uses here
he gives his soul his should be used for
hashem
and he spends time thinking about all of
these things
says
the same thing by a woman
it's it's adornment adornment it's
important
for a woman to
present herself properly
and yes to take time for adornment
so the rabbit says it's the same issue
for the man it's considered a waste of
time and for the woman is considered the
valdic
next paragraph
now the educator decides i want to take
the simple
fellow the simple student i want to
elevate him with my milo's shall order
them goddel
i want to make him into a great person
baal kishadis will vlog i want to give i
want to make him into a talented
very smart person talented about magical
muffler
i want to create a good combination
of heart and mind
by removing the very refined
deficiencies and uh sediment like you
know the schmutz
assembly deserve that are found in his
character next page for yifail
45 the hippo all of you by miles adam
ullah and he wants the educator that the
virtuous elevated healthy virtue should
be upon him you know lazy will actually
he fell back
over ticking really low
not only won't he accomplish
his stated goal a lot of the
the fact that he wants to uplift him
from his very real essence to someone
who he is not
you know and has a great music
combination of middles
he knew who macau is
miss assessed this is
in other words the educator his intent
is good
but he misassessed the caleb
of this student and because of that
he rules him he hurts him
look what he says the other words are
beautiful
he will cause him to beat from the
proper path
you know to beat down
the educator with all of his good
kavanagh
he didn't evaluate properly this this
student and
thought he is to do
to be someone who is really not
hurtsome next paragraph persephobes
yes
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can i give you an example is that your
question
um
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in english there is a slang word called
a wannabe
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that ebb is saying if the teacher
wants the student to be a wannabe
is making a big mistake in other words
let's say a teacher
really likes a certain student and you
know he says
i'm gonna make this student into a great
man
or a great character and the student
just doesn't have those tools
for whatever reason
the teacher has has faulted greatly
because he misleads the student
and the student then later will convince
himself and he'll bring proof from his
teacher
that i am this bright genius
or great personality and he's not
and and i mean this unison is
rampant on the street all over
and the base madrish there are people
who are shy to godless and their people
are not tried to goddess it doesn't mean
they're bad people
they're very good people but godless
is a whole different realm and guess
what
the ones who are the godless are maybe
not
in other words someone
let me say let me let me try another way
if a person is able to learn gamora
rashi and tysons i'm a forshim you know
anything here
and he only spends time learning gemara
for him it's a waste of time
but he's learning gamora excuse me
for you it's not adequate so in other
words might
if the teacher tells him you would just
learn gemara
and really ashayak to do more it's it's
it's it's a blemish
it's it's it's it's a real shonda that
he gave him such a course of action
and we have this with students students
in classrooms some of them are very
gifted
some are gifted in intellect some are
gifted emotions
that ever saying the teacher has to
really assess what his strength is
and that student with that strength to
be given a course of action
that fits for him and if not
that he's walking around for many years
believing
he is something who he's not and that's
very damaging
that's the point here yes moshe
wow
i i didn't hear the first part meisha
did you hear can you say it over i
didn't get the first part
i heard the last part basically
right basically joining
he he he he leads the student to believe
he's greater than he is
simple wow okay
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okay okay i i just gave him muscle some
amigos no but i'm saying that
i'm very puzzled by this because i could
understand it
if if the if the real example is
an intellectual capacity but here
we're talking about midos we're talking
about menstrual kite i mean i
i think and i'm just looking at the
english
where he writes here about outstanding
abilities and character
and
he says by stripping the pupil of every
speck of impurity
and by inculcating with him within him
the sterling virtues of a high-minded
person
i mean i i guess i guess okay here's my
question
my question's bottom line is are we
talking about
midos bench kite
oh we're talking about pure intellectual
here we're talking about meters
so okay if that's the case okay so
that's the case then
what are we saying what is the web is
saying he's telling us that some people
are mamish they're just not gonna
get you know they're always going to be
but they're they're not capable of being
yeah no there's moisture there's
different kind of mention
not everyone has the same degree of
empathy and
sympathy and mercy and kindness
and discipline you agree right and
that's from the very core essence of the
person
so if you expect let's say you know take
let's each our children are the
differences they come from
father and mother and there's such
differences because they're
they're by nature and by essence
different
and if a parent expects the same from
everyone
he's making a mistake and that's
that's also what the menstrual guideline
see the word menstrual cut throws off
throws us off
because it means human decency we're not
talking about human decency
we're talking particular areas of
character whether it be mercy
discipline can you expect
once child to be as disciplined as
another
the answer is no just look at how look
at them and smell them and
hear them and observe them one is
meticulous about cleanliness and one
leaves their shoes and socks and
everything around
so as much as you tell them to clean up
and it's important to do that
and they do some of it they always
revert back i just
what do i say one of my daughters was
home for shoppers and she leaves the can
out and she leaves this that you know
my other daughter would never do that
you take a can out you take it out you
put it back
and this is after me you know 20 years
you know hacking them right it don't
help because their essence is their
essence
so the most you could do is you can do
what we call in psychology behavior
modification okay but it's like we've
spoken about you know
the cat and the mouse right the cat
pretends what's
that that's fable i'm i'm i'm a mouse or
a wolf whatever the animal is you know
and i'm gonna carry it all of a sudden
and all of a sudden the mice comes in
and he runs and drops the food that
you know that's famous fable what's
what's the the punchline for that thing
you are a cat and get over it you're not
a mouse
and you're not i'm sorry you're not
you're not you're not a wolf you're not
smart
you know that's it this is not meant to
be derogatory this is meant to be
honest that's what the rep is getting at
that the mechanic has to
be honest in assessing who the student
is
of course we endeavor to have more
mental height
and more proper behavior but
that's not this isn't you know feel good
judaism
this is getting this is very important
in education you got to really know
and assess the situation is it now clear
yeah yeah it's clear i'm just thinking i
was laughing a little bit because
one of the things is i have to work with
somebody
not going to say any names i have to
work with somebody and
one of the something that i'm one of the
things i'm involved in in the
neighborhood
yeah i've known him for a number of
years he is on
he is a lathe zahavi such a
good heart but he is a very rough
around the edges first type of person
and i've struggled because most of the
time
almost all the time that i have to deal
with him
he does says something which just makes
me like
like caustic you know it's like i want
to like take him and like
that this is it's like it's like it's
like that's his way of saying hello
right it's you know so i i've struggled
because
i for a long time i said to myself like
i gotta say something to this guy
and then and and then i realized that
this is just how he is
exactly exactly
and when you and when a person comes to
that position
they'll feel so much better and the same
is true with the education system
let me let's continue on and finish so
he says now
after has um one second
be safer but i never paid the base
he's
are we all equal
name our bully davis it comes to he
comes to conclusion
he says people who are attempting their
evolving title
in in that world
right meaning the world to come
you know what i'm i don't want to rush
it i'm going to i'll go back to we'll
start tomorrow here okay
i want to do it a little slower
okay have a great day and we'll see
everyone tomorrow sidekick
bye