Klolei HaChinuch Education Principles Rebbe Raayatz #18

i can tell you you think we're dealing with the you know with this the missiles of this we had the craziest most wildest thing happen in the show the most crazy you have to believe a guy came to show with his wife listen to this story you heard about the the the missionaries that were jewish alive they got caught the kharadi family yeah yeah okay so so um okay make very sure i want to learn but basically there was a guy during the lockdown when we were dobbing in the park and people were coming from all over a couple came and they decided to join the shul or whatever join dominion turns out we found out pretty soon that uh they were in cahoots with this other family um they were also missionaries and uh you know they were trying to infiltrate uh you know the community the jewish you know the the shul and this and that and uh they got caught so literally this morning they packed up middle of the night three four o'clock in the morning and they're gone nobody knows where they are okay okay let's learn page 79 let's do the kitzer for a moment on top of the page kitser fish the powers of the soul is divided into two classes two categories aleph those that are considered internal like intellect and emotions and be ma encompassing which which are which are will and pleasure and we explained in the chapter yes the advantage that that pleasure has over will is in its ranks it's higher in the person maybe you could say it's deeper in the person the advantage that will has is over pleasure is it sort of it's is in its forcefulness but take it now he's gonna now continue the next chapter more about this and i'll be using more of the english here and together with the hebrew because um i think it'll be helpful to us and towards the end i believe moshe you'll see the connection and the relevance of this to the flow of the mimer of the essay which is the principles of education and guidance intrinsic attributes and figures of speech of figurative attributes right the altered in chapter one of tanya which you've all learned brings five categories sadiq badini and russia two levels of sadiq two kinds of russia and one bananee you look into the gemara and he quotes the gemaran brothers how has one to find the tsadik if he does more good than bad how someone defined the russia more bad than good and if his scale is balanced he's abandoning me that is um that is the name those kept names today in the in and russia in that analysis and that talmudic observation and study is uh is uh a is a a figure of a figure of speech then the alternative says there is the essence of what at sadiq and obey and a russia is and that's what he wishes to explore and does explore in the first 10 to 15 chapters of the tanya and he calls it over there shame hamusha like the same word we have here which are figurative attributes figure to the muslim is the plural of musa literally from the word to baro it's a term that's used and applied in a borrowed way it's not the very it doesn't define the term does not define its essence then there are what's called what he calls it calls here at me from the word ah at he says is intrinsic when the the shadows of the word is essence terms that denote the essence so in in the case of what the alternative says over there a tsadik is not someone who has more good than bad the altareba argues and positions that exotic means he's completely and always righteous he's at a point in his life where sin is not applicable to him as he explains there with it you know and uh and a russia is someone who's the opposite so in other words it's not about the scale and it's not about the reward and punishment those are all true and what the gemara says is true but that's the borrowed term of the word sadiq let me give you another example that makes it very simple you go on the street or you know a rabbi or you know a person and say oh he's exotic is he really exotic it depends what you mean if you mean he's a holy roller and he's a and he's a very very from and he's very kind and all that then he's a topic if that's what you mean that's what he is but if you want to really know if he has still ego and an effort obama's which he probably does he's not exotic right so we use the word sadiq in a colloquial way he's a tajik do we really mean that he's a level of exotic yes hilo hilal you're muted um it seems more than colloquial it seems uh that the tanya itself uses that term in two different places uh what what what are you referring to please i mean in the beginning in the first chapter one it seems like he he really defines it sadiq the way we did like the rambam does you know more uh um and then later and he decides that today you know with a great detail as somebody without any vestige of sin and he tells all story about abaye and and like that um uh with all due respect you're learning incorrectly okay the alta rebbe the alta river cites the gomorrah so so the the citation from the gemara is the the the way um one second then when he starts on on the other side page two i'll move and i'll thinking he's telling you basically that's what that's what i'm following and that's what really today means in in in in my vantage point in the altar rebecca's vantage point and it's not a contradiction this shot remiss drew's inside right so he's not contradicting himself um what he's doing hillel until he gets to the arizona on side two of chapter one is he's showing you why the talmudic analysis and an understanding of sadik is inadequate inadequate doesn't mean it's wrong inadequate means that if you study if you want to know if you want to study human psychology and you want to study uh spirituality you ain't getting it from a scale you ain't getting it from reward and punishment you need to probe further so therefore he bombards the gemara with questions and all of his questions okay you follow that yeah yeah very very important i i please don't be slighted that i said you know you're learning wrong tanya but for you know what i always say i have a hard hat throw it at me shoot it at me yes motion i just want to go back for a second the issue about essence and speak about essence and the rebels speaking about essence yeah um especially in this context with regarding regarding etc um is is the redmi note speaking about the difference between looking at a person's essence as opposed to their behavior so it's essent he did he he he did that earlier in the in the countries what comes forth i don't know yet let's let's let's study it but but what you just said he did he did say that exactly what you said earlier and he said if you base it only on behavior you're not assessing properly the student so you have to look at the essence that he said earlier moshe and i forget now which exact chapter but he said that earlier you'll reread it you'll find it okay phrases the two expressions that we mentioned earlier in chapter 15 that explain what will is what are they one there's nothing as forceful as will and number two and there's nothing that can get in the way of will when willpower avi is operative watch out it's going to like i said yesterday steamroll you it's the bulldozer okay these two expressions give us an understanding to see what the primary concept of will is um and it also explains to us the um the um the faculties that are below rodson in other words this is willpower and rotsen is um firmness so other powers of the soul are not that way and he says including hamburg and you look guys he uses the word shalom you see whether we're talking about pleasure which is above russia so hillel here the the the frida kareba is taking the position that is remember we had we spoke about it yesterday briefly so whether it be the con the idea of of pleasure which is greater above will the heimbach whether we're discussing the soul powers of intellect and emotions which are below willpower leo's coulomb amazing he says they all are affected by will chapel behind scholar it's fascinating you know what he's saying here that will power can force you to have pleasure and willpower can force you to understand and can force you to feel if you're wrestling if your will is so strong and think about it guys if your will is so strong you're so determined are you so driven you're going to use your brain and you're going to use your heart and you're also going to use your pleasure so although pleasure is deeper in man than will nevertheless the tactifus the the strength the power the might the force of razon has an impact on will on on on on pleasure as well that's what he just said including the highest of the soul powers in the soul a shalom due to its one wondrous virtue and an elevated status although it too pleasure is a power of the soul right it's not the soul it's the power of the soul we call this a manifestation of the soul which is pleasure is pleasure the soul no the soul has pleasure once you say yoni that the soul the nephesh has tainook has onig you're acknowledging that the soul is not pleasure it has a force a an element uh an expression that that expresses itself through pleasure the power of throwing something why is it considered avi the lowest because an animal can kick a pebble and it can go flying as well is the lowest power of man you don't need a brain to throw something to kick something or you don't need a brain of a human i should say because even an animal can do that it does that yes he says as it is true of the lowest the power of uh uh the power of is a power possessed also by animals and he says there there is this these ideas both in essential osmium names and it also exists in viral terms or in english a figure figure of speech let's see let's see how he develops it have to be no ask me vahamusha the difference between the intrinsic characteristic and a figurative one who shall ask me who the holy the intrinsic one is all pervasive it's all pervasive both in the internal and the external in other words someone who is accessing xm essence it's an all-pervasive feeling that takes charge of every aspect of your being from the inner aspects of your being to the outer act to the external aspects because there's a term if when an atsumi is active nothing else is active you hear that when oxme is here everything else is not here what do you mean everything else is not here i have a mind i have a heart i have pleasure i have will it's true but it's all coming as a result of atomy of essence so what's the driving the force at that time the essence the exit i'm glad you asked no already is a format a definition is another format and definition etim is the self the true self let's learn a little more maybe talk afterwards a little bit conversely motion i was talking about the shame hamusha the borrowed term the figure the figure figure of speech failure the figurative term is described for the sake of comparison to an external and adjunctive attribute let's say for example it gives an example the cleverness of the fox we we we use that when comparing we're wanting to talk about and understand the wisdom of man with fun in his comprehension he's as smart as shrewd as a fox are we talking about a fox do we have no talk about a man we're saying that this person's shrewdness or sharpness is as shrewd as a fox so we call that in english i think a metaphor right here he uses the word a figure of speech figurative in hebrew shame hamusha it's a borrowed term we don't literally mean it we use the term to express some an idea that we wish to express and says that ebb is so this applies to russian they are mispassed and limbs with great firmness and might forcefulness because it's rotten and strong to force all the soap all the powers last is gamma negative even to do something that's contrary to their nature when will power is active like i said earlier it can force someone who's not intellectual to use their brain as someone who's not an emotional to use their heart and someone who's not into pleasure to be pleasurable because willpower rides over everything with its force [Music] now he says and why is that because the accent the essence of willpower that's its nature so that's that would be his what he's doing now he's applying the concepts of etzem and musha of essence and figure in will so he says the idea of essence in will is the fact that it it alleges it legislates to every other power of the person in the body do as i say what is the borrow the figure the figure of speech the figurative idea within will he says the it is applies only to the simple aspect of wanting in other words i want and yeah there's an expression yeah you gave me this expression next villain you know used to say to the kids next felon i want this my daughter wants a computer i want to go to i want to go to florida i want this i want that so my father in his yiddish would teach us when we were young next villain you could what i want says the rabbit we use this expression want russian for that as well do we mean in that phraseology and in that idea that will as in the term of controlling everything no we mean will as a figure of speech but not not that this is the real will power let me just read a few more words next page the person that wants something he's impacted by something outside of himself he wants it because it's pleasurable because it's intellectual [Music] oh what a beautiful idea this is contrary to the real idea of will we explained earlier heaven that will is an ex real will is an expression of essence of etzem this type of will is is stimulated by the outside by what smells good what feels good what things good what pleasure is good so it's the outside this insanity is the external that's prompting this will that's why this is not real will right i want something why do you want it and why do you want it is your wanting because you want it it's coming from your inside or i want it because something stimulates me and therefore i want another something outside of myself something that's not i causes it yes yay okay so we touched about on this a little earlier today so when you're talking about with the shama the deriving pleasure right the pla it has its own thing but it's not the pleasure of this world i mean it's a different kind of pleasure we're not we're not talking about that hashama has a pleasure for any kind of thing in this world any kind of physicality in this world am i right yeah go ahead yes you're right go ahead but go ahead finish your point okay i'm saying if that's the case so and what you're saying now about i'm saying like if that's the case then how can how can we when we're learning now it doesn't to me just doesn't make sense like i don't understand how can we separate the two i mean if we if we are uh um saying that a person has a special there's a special kind of of a pleasure that is not in this world but on the other hand he does derive something from you know something i don't know if you understand my question it's hard it's hard for me to even um to really say the words but i i i i personally feel this is a stealer from what we're saying about you know about if this in this world there is there is a pleasure from you know from the neshama that the actually gets the gets the pleasure from this world i i um i don't know if i understand what you're saying but the little that i do understand [Music] we were not talk we were not talking in this chapter about the soul getting pleasure from god that's not what we were talking about here no not from god not from god i'm talking about when we're we're talking about getting this pleasure in this world things not from not from hashem i'm saying that we're analyzing we're analyzing here the person the human being a psychological analysis we're not we're not we're not yet talking about anything else at this point okay okay let's continue [Music] got mom second paragraph on page 81 notwithstanding this fundamental distinction the intrinsic russians great inherent forcefulness and strength um desires to express itself me to ask me although as we said the the figure the figurative will is from outside in and the essential will is from inside out [Music] and in addition to it being very forceful he did keep us his pastors could do the gum king it its forcefulness is broad it it it extends itself all over my muscle when you talk about the figure the figurative shame by takeover which doesn't have the forcefulness of the essence nevertheless it extends itself in other words that i was saying that although listen to this although there's the essential will and there's the figurative will but the figurative will also does its job in other words when you say i want and i want and i want although you're not talking about the essential will it still has a big impact and there are people that that pursue their wants even if it's not coming from their essence it's coming from their exterior part okay so you just answered my question okay that's my pleasure you just answered thank you okay thank you i said okay next paragraph goes back the educator in addition to him have needing to go slowly with the student step at a time similar to raising a child of the infant where you go step by step he needs us additionally the educators has to correct the flaws of the of the students with advice and knowledge by prioritizing what needs to be dealt with first me rather than working at two things at one time choose your battles this is what he says here choose your battles both when it comes to removing the deficiencies vehement and also when it comes to strengthening the virtues of the student bisman it's simultaneously choose your battles and look at the next bag if the student has two deficiencies he exaggerates and he's a liar base casa and anger and his blood boils okay the nature of a person he doesn't see his own faults joshua but every person thinks he's right he's righteous in his own eyes but saying them so his will which will drive these different deficiencies but take of goggle with great forcefulness that'll get all boiled up and all angry and all exaggerating and all lying situations the educator has to make a choice what which of the two am i going to first deal with by the way um it's different he he's classifying magazine chakra as one exaggerating and lying as one and two anger and blood boiling is number two so you find these two deficiencies by a student says that but don't deal with both at the same time choose which one you believe is worse for the student and deal with that choose the one that is more dangerous for the character um and the two deficiencies of lying and blood boiling he should first choose because the left is making here a suggestion don't deal first with the lying deal she wasting seed when you get all into a blood boiling mold it can cause that for uh available and it can cause all kinds of other illnesses i.e in my own words stress heart attack and stroke ah goof you can lose your body by the nephesh and social media that you'll go crazy very very harsh words by the river did you ever i never saw summer write such a thing that dummy blood boiling will lead to going nuts she hates him and die to it that's what he says next page 82. the educator has some dietary libido that concentrates and pays attention and and organizes an approach to a student big demo with prioritization what comes first one comes last with methods of correct correction by supporting and and bettering the virtues um and and also deals with kias vasalisa is removing the deficiencies yesterday you saw it merced he has a firm basis with kavos to hope that they saw his toys for good results and benefit of educational objectives so you're probably wondering and you know moisture is wondering what's the kesher ma shmita saint laharseen to quote rashi in last week's pasha bahar what's the connection about all these discussion of kindergarten will inside outside essence and and what he ends with and the answer is very simple you have to know who the student is and what is his real will where is his russo and the rabbit then took the time to elaborate on what russian is for you the educator to understand that it's not a simple matter of of just saying well i see that he's a liar i see that he's he's nervous i see he's angry i see exaggerates and therefore the behavior moshe right the behavior will will will will will cause will create the methodology says that evan no you have to know his russo you have to know his tynuk who is the person russian on tainan although he said it's not the nephesh hillel right there's the xm er makif and pneemi but the the makif is closer to the nephesh so this explains hillary that the market is what we call guillermo manifestation of soul so in will and in pleasure there is more of soul there and you educator needs to find out about it and this is his point this is his point and the bottom line is a tremendous very important insight don't don't go for broke in trying to correct every issue of the student deal with an issue at a time and an example that he gave between anger and and and receiver the rebbe says it's more important to deal with before anger before i'm sorry before anger and and exaggeration why why because the consequences didn't come from brazil whereas with he doesn't see that with he doesn't in other words you get angry okay we know that the the tequila we know we know all the ghazals about it like but getting angry is like worshiping an idol but that's not a literal sin there's taste it's not a little raffaero wasting a wasting of seed as a literal alvera having a heart attack is a literal problem and going crazy having a nervous breakdown is terrible very important what i said when we began a real good psychological psychological thesis or or paper needs to be written on this country's in modern and modern psychology what all this means yes yes you know yes that's one thing well what what turned him on what turned him on yes yes no you know like when you go to look at this you have a guy singing a good neighborhood you were telling just your mind like a rubber ball tail you know he just turned me on that guy i i want very good i i want to tell you a short thing and ask you if you see that you see this as what the rev is identifying here or not so um a girl and boy of course they were meeting uh you know and the parents asked her uh how do you know he's a years reminder how do you know he fears god they're having a good time they like each other but how do you know he's a real year of shamaya so she said i'll tell you how i know oh no i'm sorry i'm sorry the the the the mash pia the the the the guide for the for the girl for the color for the heard good things about the guy she was meeting but and she said there how do you know he's a year of jeremiah so he says i don't know she says i don't know what's going on inside so she says tell you what tomorrow when you go out and it was the winter you know the sun's coming down just mention to him the sun's coming down and see what happens and she does and all of a sudden he puts on his jacket then he takes out a sitter and he starts dabbing in minha now is that an example here's my is that an example of knowing the ruts and how other the timing of them the pleasure and will or it's really just about the behavior yeah i'm just about to behave correct correct correct and the behavior did you repeat it his answer was it's about the behavior and the behavior is not demonstrative of what his real pleasure is and what his real will is and what that ebb is teaching us in this paragraph in this uh a chapter in the previous one all about will and he went into so many intricacies about will is you have to get to if you want to succeed and know the real will and the real pleasure of the person and you could do that by focusing and concentrating and knowing and looking at the essence in other words the way you educator parent teacher goes about studying the student will be the results we all camp together it's obvious israel month it's torah month the way to have the tata is through help us that we've had in the last two weeks such wake up calls first with miron and now with inaudible with all the stuff that somehow we need to be more biased and and bring people together i was in the store yesterday a popular sparrow store here yesterday and someone who is a bentaira and i was told by the store owner he has an issue with some of my books so i can i didn't know who he was until yesterday and there was a whole crowd and we were talking history and the whole store was electric and everyone kept quiet and someone else and i were just going back and forth and it was beautiful and i turned to this fellow because the store owner told me this is he this is the guy who has an issue with some of your writings so i said sir i'd like to talk to you what is it that you what is it that you're unhappy about he puts his head down he doesn't want to talk i said okay would you give me a number he says no i don't want to give you my number that was in the afternoon in the evening i happened to be back in the store and he's sitting on on on on a chair comfortable and up and he says you know you're a nice guy i heard the conversation that was very interesting so now i say so what do you have against my books and he starts saying and then i say did you read one book cover to cover with the footnotes no i said no and you ha and you're being judgmental and then he goes on to say well 10 goddamn had issues with lebavich and the rep and all that i didn't answer him because you know i it wouldn't be good if i had to answer him so i just left it at that and i said we got to get together are suffering and and we're worried about what the limb 30 40 years ago said about the rabbit etc i mean like where are you at the jewish people are in a serious problem now and we need actos and i said that's what i try to do and actually some of the yoys that see them in the store who you would never believe read my books totally in the full garb with the penis and the hat up and the long because they speak english oh i buy all of your books and they start conversing so they're fine this guy has a tie he has a you know not a full beard he's uh you know he's um you see there's a guy it's fine great and he's mentioning the daylily man the issues you know and the other guy is saying hey so he says to him he says what this is my dolphin takes issues that can be very negative controversial and he and he explains where each one comes from and you decide and he heard him i'm just saying we're talking about actus you know we have to do more and more things to do after the rapper once said i heard this from there but he said when you come to he was actually talking about archie's role he said when the concept gets together and they try to imp you know don't bring up controversial issues if you're trying to get to a resolution where everyone can agree find things you agree with of course there are other times you know you gotta you gotta talk it out and argue it out but now is this month when us beneath royal clio need to find commonality with each other and the issues we'll leave for later have a great day everyone look i am good we'll see everyone tomorrow take care bye-bye