Klolei HaChinuch Education Principles Rebbe Raayatz #5

okay mute your phone your your computers please good morning we're learning now let's start learning the third chapter of countries the principles of education and guidance from the fleet of kadebo were were on page 27 in the hasidic heritage series just to recap what the rebel explained earlier that there's a difference between and limud and lima de niro means a teacher a teacher who teaches and hira means he instructs and it's very different than an uh a guide and a mechanic an educator and the difference that he says over here the primary difference i mean he said several i don't want to repeat the whole chapter it's important it's a very important chapter for the rest of the country so if you haven't really studied it you should but basically the difference is that the the teacher teaches information and if the information is not understood or understood a little or you know it doesn't really make a big difference to the student because a very very slippery slope okay so this is this is what he said in the previous uh chapter and this is why this contrast this essay is dedicated to this because at the time in 1898 the the students that were in the bhavat yeshiva were tabitha but character wise they had flaws like everyone else and however the flaws that are by talbit are a lot worse as the gemara says so therefore the rashad the previous rabbit the man the the principal administrator of the yeshiva was beside himself when the two maine mashpeem rependell and rob green and came to him that handel was supervising the students in lubavitch and upgrading was supervising the students in a city called jembin jambin so they came to him and they said we're not being effective we're not being effective and we need help we need help so the free frida karaba went to the rebel shop his father and he asked him for help and he said here is an essay that i wrote about educational ideas i'm sorry here are letters that i wrote 10 years before in 1888 about educational ideas take it study it develop it and write it up in a form of a essay which will be helpful to these two uh mush pm and subsequently helpful to the talmudim that's the the the chronological development of this countries so the whole idea of the countries was to refine that to to teach and counselors how to appropriately educate students so that they are less course in their middles this is not about knowing another or another mimer that's not what this was countries was written for i think i told you the story or some of you that in lubavitch there was um a student named avram eliyahu plotkin plotkin a plotkin and he came and he was a very big talmud my father-in-law of sheldon had him as a reshiver in samarkanth in the mid 1940s and he would always rave about him how he was such a going and yet he was able to explain so clearly murder yes hillary where is he turned you turned off your screen you turned off your thing what where is samarkand in kazakh kazakhstan okay okay where today okay the geography will you'll have to find on the globe anyway kazakh some uh someone's radio's on you're interested i know who's it is a yakov turn off mute yourself um when russia when stalin came in and he you know and he made all the terrors for the eden they ran to a safe haven which was kazakhstan some and the bigger cities they were known as samarkand and tashkent and that became a refuge for many eden polish eden [Music] they fired him everyone was a hodgepodge because there was safety they they wouldn't they wouldn't be persecuted and they set up and and this fight and the spy the and this father see you that were there from way back already were you know they had shoes and tom potatoes you know there was an establishment there but that's another story maybe another time we'll we'll talk more about that i just wrote about it i i just printed a book called khabar and sfardim and i went back to the time of the rashad some of his qasidam were asked to come from maritz's role they went to raise funds for chevron but while they were there the community said wanted to have a real love and they stayed for several years [Music] and then several others anyway it's not it's another partial another story but going back to this story is that this rabbit this you know the more you learn many times the more diver you have you feel you know you're the kingpin you know and the frida karebe saw this but you know but as a good educator he saw that he has here a diamond the diamond needs to be polished so he spoke to his father about it and it was decided that for pesach the bakker and baked matsus right so they decided they're going to give him the toughest job in the house and and i think it was the rolling the pins and cleaning the pins it was you know for him there was something that you know would avoid what does he say men were doing women's women's work and women were doing men's work and ashley says that's that meaning of avoiding when you're unfamiliar it's not your type of work you weren't raised to do this it's very difficult even though maybe it's not so difficult but for you it's very difficult so here he was having amelia plutky was there was was a it was a time of learning day and night and here he's rolling pins and he's switching and it's like hard for him and and and the frida krebs says that that pesach i think was 1906 in the early 1900s it it literally he said he after pacer he came back to the basement she was a different he was a different booker the guy that was broken it you know the guy was broken because how can that ever give me such a job i i should be standing and checking the monsters like you know i'm a rough you know a rabbi now that ever says you you you clean those pins from the though for the 18 minutes so you can use it again or whatever the case so it broke in the the aveda avoid the the physical labor shattered his guyva and it came out a new anub i'm saying this the the story is because when we talk about these are educational tools and uh mechanic has to know when to apply them how to apply them how much of it to apply and this is what this countries is all about let's go on now to page 27 to ice gimbal any questions before i continue before we start okay [Music] the caption the title reads here man self-examination and preparation any person that desires a life of labor now again you understand from his opening words that a life of labor is desirable not not we not not we shouldn't avoid it we should look for a life of labor because a life of labor is healthy for us sorry luscious he has to examine himself in every aspect of his ethical life he for the greatest enemy of men who have us asthma itself love happiness that is unbridled it comes from the word para other right you've heard that other than pero other man is born a wild donkeys petter so unbridled this is natural to mankind from birth of the gas three things he's materialistic he's dense and his coarse that's it yes hello so we're doing here the spiritual meaning of the word avodah yes yes yeah okay right i mean it also happens to be that when you when you work it it really it makes you into a mensch but yeah here he means i voted spiritually yes you're innocent self love is very very important for development if a person doesn't have self-love they don't want to preserve themselves and they don't have an ability to relate to other people okay turn your mic off because i have background noise and i'll talk um we're not talking here about healthy self-esteem unison we're talking about a self-love that's not associated with god only with man if it's only humanistic it's not healthy it needs to be godly and and spiritual and then the self-love become comes godly love so of course we're not talking about uh self-deprecation the huff it's kind of the famous story with um with the person who gave the prophets khaim a ride in a car a taxi whatever and didn't know it's the khofitskayam and he saw he was talking against himself so the sky later then later he came and he he met the prophet and he was so imp and khabib says self-deprecation is also a form of lotion horror so yes from that perspective you're innocent it's if that's the self-love okay yeah i agree with you but we're not talking about that we're talking about a person or dembrya there's the commander right a um sees all other people's faults quotes mini gayatsumay except his own blemishes his own faults self-love and that ever says that this is matulda you're born this way and unless you work on yourself you will be stuck in this self-love next paragraph yet more so this self love is one of the tools of the yates and horror of the evil inclination of the sahara blinds man's intellect libre and clogs his heart seismic enough closes his eyes for oitimus ozdov and stuffs his heirs milo hovind from understanding us from realizing his deficiencies and his mistakes of iniquities because the style of man who walks in this jolly way will cope and he feels he's right in all matters including his in transgressions because because in his own he's up even in his inherent humanity is obscured by the self-love in other words there are certain things that humanity would dictate forget about spirituality humanity would dictate that you don't behave that way and why is he behaving that way because the self-love covers up the situation stuffs up the ears closes the eyes and everything else that he said here and clogs the heart so you become despondent totally smart [Music] for stopping it is the word as far stopped next paragraph [Music] self-love makes the fool and the one who is silly ignorant turns him into a great man in his own eyes oh you're so great he thinks himself i'm so great yes as and it causes the mind to be clogged from comprehending and seeing the truth and understanding the truth es again of the honor sorry [Music] it makes him think that guyva that he has he's really anonymous something that is ugly le faye toyot he makes him think he's it's beautiful something that is cruel with almighty makes him think that these are proper characters someone who's jealous has jealousy with toy he has a good eye okay and many other examples yes hilo this word a tomb in the second line is that the word like the word yes yes i believe so okay like that okay which which what does what's your translation like to clog up yeah that's the way the course is right right so that over here in this paragraph elaborates in with different words the result the negative result of abisosumate next paragraph comma [Music] the fool for the fool mocks the the the the stupid what does that mean does the the the clogging of the mind la nivermidas um to be you know it takes the the mind again he's using all the words in the previous set paragraph is he's saying basically that this of self-love self-love causes a foolishness and a blindness that all of these negative character traits and issues are highlighted and put on a pedestal and looked at as in a good way and all other blemishes ethical blemishes i means ethical blemish may please kashif without at all taking into consideration a mummy ottoman the very core deficiency of the issue itself in other words guyva is negative so don't you know don't try to convince yourself that gaiver is good it's not there is the mother says in sight it might even use the word guy over there what it means is healthy self-esteem but arrogance is arrogance now along comes a person or people and they say to this fellow my friend your your self love is so all over the place that it's really causing you issues in this area in that area and all that he has maori him he's being awakened aroused to wake up from his sleep he will find hundreds of excuses and esoteric reasons you know why i have this uh negative fault this issue i got it from my father you know why i have this i got it for my rabbi i got it with my friend i got it from a community i got it because i was raised in a certain way and he has all kinds of excuses why he has the khasarin deficiency sorry and he says the person who has this deficiency not realizing it is a deficiency and is a negative says blames the person who comes to him and says hey you have this issue you're making a mistake i if i have an issue it's not mine it's because of my father my mother about computing my rabbi baba and and you're making a mistake um built him and the rebels says next page there are those that have such open and obvious negativity and characters just visit and see if it is like us it means a smell but this like it's so it's so obvious their their character flaw favor bleak wool it's like you can't it's gold it's me what are they saying hebrew me adam ever right over blake wool it's like over cogwhole sorry i even it goes over all boundaries it's all over the place but due to the the these people who are blemished this way they sin against the the choicest of creation a shabbato kim that man created which is who are other men they're going against clapping this muslim their soul is to expand their chutzpah and they have the audacity to place themselves besought in a category that's lamyla menopause beyond criticism you can't criticize me you know who i am you know where i come from you know what i have i'm in a very different category they put themselves in there and it all comes from the same dakuda that i was saying you know comes from abu satsuma look at the next words guys you're gonna like him [Music] you've heard the expressions right here second power for page 29 whoa to the individuals to these individuals lowered their soul ignorama from a lofty and exalted plateau libido amigda mountain all the way to a low valley hashem took the nusrama from very much from on high and centered below balaam has in this world to serve him to guard his mitzvahs also through the acquiring of midday voice nice about him in the television scheme it's in addition to learning tight and doing mitzvahs keep in mind yeah hashem wants you to be to acquire meet these types so when when when when a person says he's beyond fault and criticism and places himself in a category that's beyond that he is sinning against the purpose why hashem created him in addition to this so evil in addition to this they're losing the advantage the illui that they would have this as ascended in spiritual matters and they would gain reward in the world to come for refining themselves in addition to this i should have showed him hey my they remain disgraced and forever repunctant republican so that i was saying your calculation you guy who has avas atma is so wrong and so ridiculous because hey you're not doing what god you what god created you to do and b you're you're you're you're squandering the spiritual alley that you could have from all this next paragraph says that and this blame for all this is true the natural love that the person loves themselves and because of that he covers up on everything and i shall do ability makes him die a person who doesn't pay attention doesn't make his heart and his mind pay attention the vaqueros asks me to criticize himself check himself after the dictates of the heart whatever like an ox going out to be slaughtered who just marches towards the slaughter not understanding where he's going to and ready to be shifted yuval and his human purpose why was created man's life on this earth hey [Music] what's beautiful really and what is disgusting and during the time of a war one of the ploys one of the tactics warfare tactics habitus udettus the very keen um inspection an organized inspection that is necessary to recognize the tactics employees of the enemy [Music] even people who are friends lovers friends what needs to be one needs to be careful and pay attention there ain't a pickle with an open eye are they fulfilling their obligations helped in being helpful to overcome the enemy [Music] this powerful supervision is is needed the habitus and the inspection the very sharp inspection alloy of him over those who you really care for sorry i'm sorry i'll oil them on those who are your enemies sorry more more important is this when it comes to assainance an enemy who clothes himself cloaks himself in garments of a lover someone who loves you what the devil says is a sign is an enemy but he puts on these garments of i just want the best um and he fools man i'll cold side of its side on every step i'll share next last paragraph 229 a person who desires life he wants life that corresponds to the slichos to the mission that from heaven was decreed upon him the hoya saul him to illuminate the world by iraq mitzvah with the light of traitor the candle of mitzvah um and hashem does good to sustain him the call of duty whatever he needs but his ai nissa with his missingness his food name spiritual food the fiancee expat page page 31 based on the work that that's upon him the way you prepare yourself says that heaven to be a vessel a healthy vessel who are your day habiquitis is through self-examination she evacuated that he should uh examine himself in his avodah and in his conduct now this was a long paragraph with wonder kuda and to the code is as he says at the beginning i'm 27 self-examination and preparation and and he says that and he gave gives the marshal that when you're you're you're you're in an army and you have warfare and you have an enemy you're standing there you have to be very keen and very sharp in in recognizing what the enemy really wants to do and is doing and how he's doing it and he says we are in a constant battle hashem we have beautiful and disgusting good and bad there's a constant ongoing battle that's the that's the gether that's together of the world that's the the condition of the world is avoider so we talk about i don't want to someone says i don't want to be an avid i don't want to be in battle well my friend if you're on earth and alive as long as you're breathing there's an avoider i've told you the famous verdict of the cutscene he was lying on his deathbed and it was the last few moments before his neshama returned to and he said with his sharp witticism as the cutscore was known for and he said you know what i'm thinking about now what are they going to say about that me the cutscene after i die and when is he thinking about it moments before he dies when you should be like you know only with god he's thinking about now you you understand you told me to hear about the cutscene the halogen is such a big sadiq this vert of the kotzker is not anything different than what we're saying now that we are in a perpetual struggle as long as we breathe and are alive till the last moment and that's the point of that story that here you are your moments before your last moment and what are you thinking about what are they gonna say about me after my death all right what are they gonna write on my tombstone you know et cetera et cetera so the rapper that ever says get real understand that humanity is such that there's a struggle and the mailer you have to you have to know that in order to overcome and win that battle you have to remove ava's oxmoor self-love the way to do that he's suggesting here it's through self-examination as he will continue in the next paragraph in the next few paragraphs this is required on the mechanic before you can get to teaching i'm sorry to educating and guiding the student this the child etc you need to do self-examination on yourself and when you examine yourself and you come out from being self-absorbed with yourself then you're a vessel to communicate that to the to the others to the students yes yes i don't hear you no i don't understand how possible to make a self-examination by being completely objective with yourself a person is normally subjected to himself how's it possible to be objective with yourself the the the way to be objective is by having someone else help you be objective okay yes then you need somebody to help you get out yes i've told yes uh melissa people who you knew our mashpee and morristown when i went over to him when i was a bakla yeshiva and i sat there and i feel you know this uh this uh you know this pride you know because i'm doing everything right you know you know so he said to me and i said i don't like it i know it's not right so he said to me find yourself amongst the bahrain here someone who will give you musser yeah and he meant it that's the answer so you're right it's very hard it's very hard or virtually impossible to to know you know but but let to know like what's the truth and to be objective but unison you know there's plenty of room to get to that point where then we need the outsider to confirm for us what is the real objectivity from from you know etc i think that for most people the the very initial steps of self-examination is something that is is difficult you know we struggle with who wants to who wants to look at themselves in the mirror it's very uncomfortable very uncomfortable and so you're right and what you're saying but but i believe it doesn't contradict whatever it says here that i was talking about you know start self-examining you know and yes if you find that you're justifying everything oh i'm right i did this i'm right you know why i'm right because of this and the never used the word before mayors he has hundreds of excuses he uses it right so then it's time to have uh uh someone else and this this this touches upon the whole idea of having a vachavruzza a friend a good friend a good friend is not someone that says oh you're the best a good friend is someone who shares with you you know how to refine yourself that's that was always the essence of a real cassidy fabregan was where people sat together and they were open enough to hear how to improve that was the whole idea any questions trevor yes gentlemen um so the remy keeps repeating this opposite uh idea yeah so how is different how is that different than gaiba because we know don't we know that all the root of all evil all sin is from guys right yeah is that the same kind of thing it's it's it's the same idea but much more refined you know there's there's this course and grub guyva i'm i'm a big shot ava satsuma is is not is is much more refined but it's still self-love in other words when a person justifies many of the things they do when really others would say it's outrageous they aren't necessarily baligaiva you know boasting and bragging but to themselves they feel you know like they're doing it right so it's you're right it's it's it's a it's a more refined sense of geyser but guyver in ghazal and in community has you know the the the uh feeling of more ostentatious avas atsuma is much more refined it's it's you know quiet but deadly it's that type of uh issue hello do you have any uh words you could add to yoni's question and uh i i i i all i know and what the only thing i would say is that because it's so uh it tends to be so unconscious so outside of our awareness it seems to be the point he's emphasizing that that becomes one of the major obstacles to learning and open-mindedness is because we because of our hidden biases yes but he's not talking so much about learning he's talking about character improvement remember right character better going in the direction of learning right yeah well well uh but what it means going a direction he's going in the direction of improving character since it's a mime around hinok i'm just assuming that's where he's going that he's he's sort of setting up the psychology of learning and the obstacles by describing the obstacles to it okay well let's see how it develops haven't have a good day we'll see everyone tomorrow