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Klolei HaChinuch Education Principles Rebbe Raayatz #7
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Educator must invest in developing his virtues and transforming negatives to successfully improve student
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we're on page uh 33
and uh just to recap um
what what what he started to speak about
on 31
it was chapter four tonight he calls
this the first
condition the first prerequisite what is
that because
of the self-examination of the educator
and the guide and the guidance counselor
biacos liatsemi in in
about himself and and and he does that
by introducing uh the idea of
every person has miles and he's
there's no such a thing as a person
without virtues and deficiencies
if you find me someone like that he's
not a person he's an angel he's a malek
and even and even malachi it says in
kabul and hasidis are limited to their
mission
so that's a that itself is a deficiency
they cannot do
everything only in the shrama this is an
important point
the virtue of a soul over the summer has
limitless potential
so that that's why you need because we
have an ashrama
we are able to do things that maybe we
weren't raised with
we didn't uh we weren't born with those
talents and character traits
but the fact is that our neshama has it
all
so the body might not have it if you
access the neshama and you have the
right
key to access that aspect of the soul
you will at some point in your life and
no one knows when that'll be it's up to
the person
when he goes about to access it
he'll he'll he'll be a different person
so kind of like right a get
again again yes yes the rebel always
repeated
what it says the the mystery mother says
there are three people that their
sins transgressions are are
uh are are are forgiven or not there
cotton they a minor you know
no cotton that comes by mitzvah
like uh and called cotton oil anyway gas
gas and this guy here a convert that
converts
and chosen
a groom right so the question is asked
why does it say
gesh in this guyer yakov it should say
it's not gash in this gaia
he wasn't a gay at the time of
conversion he became a gayer
what was before a gentile a non-jew a
guy
so it's explained the the reason is
that this shows that the that the the
gear
always had a jewish spark in him
and he was never a goat
although according to jewish law he was
a guy
and he needs a conversion and everything
else that goes along with it
nevertheless
uh the language of hazal is indicative
that he was always aguer aguero so means
firing and strange
it was lost it became fire and it became
strange
jacob if you want to say something i do
um
we had a terrible uh mice in chicago and
i'd like to
mention the aguero who i was very close
with
uh was murdered and the lava was on
friday
his name was tequila mordechai than
abraham he was a very sweet
guy and uh just the terrible story here
no they're able to help you should have
alias on the shrama
and um there should be less of these uh
killings in chicago too many killings in
chicago
so you guys from chicago here online
pray for chicago
anyway let's go back to the text so
so jaime's saying that this idea that
i'm mentioning
is similar to the the gear that the gear
always had the potential in him so
that's a very good comment and remark
you made
but getting back to the text so the
rebecca says
that every so every person has miles of
extraneous
and by the way this is such an important
thing to
keep in mind always because we're so
quick to blame
we blame we blame we blame ourselves and
we blame others
what are you blaming yourself from
blaming others
you have miles of sadness that's how
you're born you're in a constant battle
chapter 27 of tanja is a must learn for
everyone
dr ebba opens our eyes and tells us in
chapter 27 and tanya
based on what it says in pirkei
this is why you were created to in to
battle the eight sahara
delta rabbit teaches over there this is
the mission of men
and anyone that asks says to himself
wait a minute
i worked so hard i doubt i learned i
give to dhaka i move territory slow
i'm doing all good things why does the
age of heart bother me
why does it make me struggle why does he
give me tests
says doctor 11 27 you're about guyver
that's his response look 27 if you think
that way you're an egomaniac
you're arrogant you know why because you
think you're a sonic that doesn't have a
yates or horror
well guess what you're not
and every person who's not exotic and
has a yate sahara
has to struggle and that has to struggle
struggling is good and that's what we're
learning in this chapter over here
that avoid the includes
taking the miles and kasrinas assessing
them
and balancing them so then he says
towards the end of the first up
31 at the bottom going on to 32 33
he says there are two types of
categories
that these virtues and deficiencies
find themselves in or are are consist of
one is tyvien dossier
which means innate from birth
and then the second one is saying
page 33 top of the page habits
then he says that moshe asked about this
yesterday pointed it out because it was
important
he says a person who works on himself
can contract
can transform his innate
natural tendencies
to become part of his essence
in a good way and
and he can also take the habits
and make them natural tendencies
so we have three things and i pointed
this out yesterday
we have habits we have innate
uh character issue traits and then we
have
etson who the essence the person in his
essence
and we spoke about that yesterday now
let's continue now on page
33 second paragraph movement
itself it's understood
[Music]
and the the form of the deficiencies
ain't on miss godless misrach voice
um three words regardless is from the
the sheriff
god great
they're not gonna get any better
or any worse on their own they're going
to be stagnant
believe that without effort
right you could be born with the
greatest talents
if you don't use them they can remain
with you
till
just as man will not comprehend these
khakim
and will not become wise be loyally mood
without study there are no shortcuts if
you don't learn
you don't know in a cane
lay his goddamn so too
the deficiency will not become greater
and broader below
without effort that you invest in
it the rebels not saying he's not
suggesting you do that
he's just saying that why is it
why is it that deficiencies
i'm sorry how is it that deficiencies
grow within a person
it's because you're being shaken in them
you're you're invested in them you're
using them
yeah but go back to tonya chapter 20
feed out that ever says over there
that the the body our body
eats and sleeps and you know and uses he
says just by the fact that we eat and
sleep and we do everything the body does
it makes our body regular with these
things so we become
more like you know more of food and more
you know more gosh news
in other words it's not that i did
anything wrong but the fact is
i have to have my coffee in the morning
all my orange juice and then
with breakfast you know i had
i i just you know silly silly things to
show
i was down in florida for uh for pesach
about my kids right
so you know it's a little hot so my son
said he has a second car that i could
use i said thank you thank you very much
it didn't have air conditioning
i said in florida a car without
air conditioning and you know what like
it's sitting
i know about it already here before i
went and i said you know i should rent
the car but
it's a headache and you know and and it
was uh the
springtime it was expensive
and then i you know i got into that car
i opened all four windows and i drove
down to 95
and it was a majaya
now i'm a high i mean it's still not air
conditioned but the point is you become
so radial
to to certain lifestyle like
already sitting here i'm worried what am
i going to do when i have to drive
somewhere i don't have air conditioning
so that's what the alternator said
that's what the rep is saying over here
saying
that a sufficiency will not
will be stagnant if you let it be
but if you invest in it and what i added
now is that investing means
usage of it the very fact that we every
day we eat we sleep and then we do
whatever we do and gosh he is
so all of a sudden we must have our food
it comes a fast day we run to the
pharmacy to buy the pills
that help us fast and all that like
i mean i guess this is the argument to
the the the natural what do they call
the hillel the naturals that nature is
you know say that um you know just be
with nature
go back to the way it was once in many
aspects some not kosher some kosher but
the idea being
like who says you have to eat processed
foods
it's unhealthy eat the grains eat the
vegetables eat them
you know so the kudu is that
the gospels becomes shkida
you put effort and energy just by
osmosis
that's when the deficiencies grow on you
and all of a sudden you turn around you
say
what happened over here yes hello you
want to say something
no no no okay okay right
yes yes you know what what is
this particular
i think this case means just as
if you want the my your miles your
virtues to be
stronger and better and more effective
you have to
invest in them and the negative if you
invest in the destroyness in the
deficiencies
it's going to make you uglier it's going
to make you more deficient deficient
you got it yeah okay
now uh yeah i thought he was saying like
that just like if you want to develop a
talent
you have a talent you have a natural
inclination you have to put work into it
similarly you have to put work into kind
of
to knowing and recognizing and opposing
your negative
forces i don't know i i i also thought
when i learned you know
before i don't know look at the language
so too the deficiency will not
um be broader and greater
so so how how do you see your
interpretation in those words
i don't i don't see it in that sentence
right but
i know i know i know it makes more sense
what you're what you said but i i i
don't think it's that's what he's saying
according to the text over here
and therefore i i you know explained it
that way okay next paragraph such a it's
such a different
quality of language than we're used to i
know i know
i know i know you know that that's the
hardship you know
that so you know yeah exactly
tom's there third paragraph guys
tom said him therefore we see bemush
we see with our own eyes in actuality
is um quite often
ashley lady monarium children or youth
baliki have they have great
talents of bali the theaters or the
opposite they have great
deficiencies and bad characters
all of a sudden they remain stagnant
without either of them
being developed and he explains the
balik is shot in
and those that have good great talents
kisly say him
their talents the their talents remain
stagnant if there's no use of their
talents right
i want to play football i want to do
this i want to do that
and okay you're you're in school yeshiva
you're 13 you're 14. okay
you have you you know but you have some
talents in those areas why don't you
develop them
or the same is true where someone's only
stagging
and they they have have a talent in
music a talented art
they should be given a a way to express
those talents
and when that doesn't happen there's the
talent remains stagnant
over ballet and in those
of the youth and children that have some
ugly tendencies
they're again the way on when this
has to say and their deficiencies
will remain stagnant now to me that's a
good thing but
i mean what i think what it means is
that if you don't if you don't develop
a way to deal with your deficiencies
those deficiencies will remain
stagnant but they'll be but they're
there
in other words
the fact that you either was born with a
deficiency or you developed a certain
deficiency
if you don't work to to change it and
transform it
it's walking with you and it's always
there with you
let's go further yes it would increase
and and it's quiet would increase now
and it's yeah yeah yeah yeah wait yeah i
think it's going to speak about that a
little later yes
what's the reason if
because when it comes to the
virtues what what's missing is the
investment this
effort being spot-hood
through by developing hakusho and the
talents
and comma is
highest dominos and you're missing the
opportunity bespot
by developing your
the wayward impulses again the language
implies like you know so what's wrong
with that
why should i remain stabbed and i just
let them be so i believe that
it means that you're missing
opportunities to transform
the deficiencies and this is a very
important idea especially with our
children grandchildren and the youth to
find
you know opportunities and ways to have
them develop
their strengths and at the same time
to deal with um the issues
the issues you know
it's it's a combination it's a
combination of
both you cannot just say i'll deal with
the strengths
give opportunity for strengths and just
let
the deficiencies right on their own and
and be dormant because there will be a
time
when it will come out and it won't be
good so you might as well
invest now in
reading your oneself or one's children
and
youth and all that from these issues and
that's what that's getting at what he's
getting at is he's telling the educator
educator you might have a student in
your classroom
that's quiet and and you know but you
have to really assess
what are his strengths what are his
weaknesses
and you need to and you need to develop
a plan
to help him in both areas
to help him both in those virtual areas
to develop those talents more and more
and at the same time to give him a path
from his youth to slowly
obliterate and get rid of negative
character traits even though some of
them he was born with
that's what he's saying next paragraph
i'm numb however
[Music]
even someone whose base characteristics
have
hey miksada to have grown hey it's
whether it be from those those base
character
traits that are innate that he was born
with
hey mitzados or whether it be those
character traits
that he picked up through habits
his spot who boy from
and he they were developed by the the
individual
in a wild way in peru like
i thought yesterday that language not
korea perea
is from the root peru peru is a
different word
peru means um you know wild
untamed yes lawyer
this individual has the ability
layer up with heisen not only to push
them aside will i see them relevant to
remove them
from himself
he can also transform them from bad to
good
when the goodness
based on the jewel situation
the kayak that comes may eluyon so now
he's introducing the concept
that even if things
are natural to a person and even if you
feel that you you're so
you made such a habit of it and it's
hard to uproot and to change
you need to know that you have a kayak
which is nishama and knowing that you
have a
that hashem gives to every single person
if you can access that hashem
through that player will help you
change the situation
and the rabbit quotes the gemara that
the alternate quotes in chapter one of
tanya
must be and i say we administer an oath
to the soul before
it descends on earth into the body
to heed sadiq be righteous
it's explained in yeshua this
right the word shivua has three meanings
three words
associated the etymology of sure
sheva seven sovereign
satiated and shivua an oath
so here he quotes he's referring to the
second
meaning that the word shavuah
means that hashem that when you take an
oath and when hashem gives an
oath i'm sorry when hashem gives an oath
makes the soul take an oath prior to to
descend into a body hashem is
satiating vis-a-vis that oath
then the shrama he calls it look at the
wording here guys
the spiritual the soul
hashem empowers the soul
fills it up motion salve i feel full i
can't eat anymore i had enough pizza
already enough
right then the shrama has been satiated
with hashem special kayak
and this makes the summer
if just access able to accomplish
to overcome because the summer
our nusrama got this prior to us coming
into our ghoul for our bodies
and the rabbit now quotes the good
morning
based on the
camel is its load
should i call that noise say next page
35 to
every to every person at
and to um sweeten
bitterness to sweetness by
dosa through serving god begins
buster through the divine
service known as this the effort of the
flesh and the soul so the rebbe says
here
very briefly he doesn't elaborate
remember because this is clay it's
principles
so he just gives us a principle the
principle is like this
you tell me that you're born a certain
way
you tell me you have a you know a
limitation because
you habituated yourself in a certain way
so that ever says i'll even accept that
but what you're forgetting and what you
need to do is remember
that hashem who made you gave you
something before you came on earth
that's in your system and what did he
give you he gave you a kayak elliot a
godly
not a human a godly kayak
so you're telling me that humanly you
can't overcome
you have an addiction you have a craving
you have an indulgence you have a taivor
says i understand but you have a coyote
that you're not talking about and you
have that too
and if you access your kayak helium
through work
it's avoid the biggest boss of a nephesh
it doesn't come through
you know just laying around and wasting
time
and when you access that you'll be able
to overcome
so there ever says that the educator
and the guy the mother
they need to explain this
to students and to develop
it with students and to you know to
really make it crystal clear and when we
do this
we have more success both in ourselves
and again remember
here he's talking about right what was
the the tonight re-shown
at the beginning of chapter four it was
one second unison
it was the the uh the principle the
prerequisite principle
that the educator and the guide must
self-examine himself so what he's saying
is
you have to do that too in order for you
for you to get this accomplished and
your student they have to see it in you
and if they don't
you know what they say you're a
hypocrite and we have plenty of that too
you preach one thing and you do
otherwise
so that ever says tonight
is for the educator to live that way to
do that
and here we ask ourselves the question
do educators do we as parents do we do
that
and i think we could include we do some
of it but there's much more
it's much more room to grow because
it's so easy to tell others to do
something
but the best way
of impacting a person is being a living
example of what you want to
impact him or her with yes youngest you
wanted to say something
yeah you know this idea
you know that i used to be i i
i got a fba
religious education from milestone
and i got a master's degree in special
education
from from delphi delphi university
so i was teaching special ed you know in
new york
and that was an experience it really was
you know you have to develop
individualized programs for each kid
and you have to write down their
strengths and their
weaknesses and what programs you're
going to have to try to develop them
it's not an easy job it's really not you
know because
when you're trying to educate a child
you're concentrating on
partly it's information you have to make
sure that your
and then you've got another another
another
another another job is to to
watch their character and develop that
that's another thing all together
right and and and what's the rabbit
teaching us here that
it's more important for an ed to educate
to deal with the the character
than the limu remember what he said in
one of the previous chapters the limo
they'll either get more or less a little
more information less information
okay but character is life skills
character is menstrual kite characters
everything that's gonna make them or
break them later in life
and you're so you're right and what
you're saying it's it's a heavy task
in the secular school in the public
school they don't really
care about character development they
could go
there you know to get max
to get minimum amount of behavior in
order to
have a classroom where people listen
and they behave right they're not
interested in making the person
developers
trying to keep the status quo
yep yep of course of course yes hello
i i covered kind of a structural
question um
by going back to the beginning of this
uh this uh
chapter or yeah tonight re-shown
but korrasama khane
in connection with himself right yes
it seems like but what this chapter is
really
talking about is like how he should view
other people
more than how he views himself right
right
i i i picked that up yes but
in order to accomplish this and others
you have to do it in yourself
okay yeah yeah you know
so in other in other words i would say
that the general
uh chapter its language and and and the
paragraphs and everything else and the
structure is
an indian claudia it's a general
idea of who man
is and what the issues are the strengths
the weaknesses
etc and
both the educator and the and and and
needs to do that to succeed with the
students
in as far as character development i
know i put a lot of
the way i taught it was more about the
the recipient the student but the truth
is
he's talking it i said it but i didn't
maybe say it with
much elaboration he he's talking to the
educator
that if you want to succeed with in this
manner with your student you need to do
it
within yourself
um the kids
it's towards that goal uh
rather than sort of saying these are the
qualities rather than emphasizing these
are the qualities one needs in order to
sort of contemplate being an educator so
it's like it's addressed to somebody
who's already made the decision this is
about what i'm going to be doing
so these are the qualities i need to
cultivate okay
and as opposed to a different question
like should i be a mechanic
right right good so
remember historically he had
the rashaab had the previous letter
put this together for the two educators
who already educators must be him
in the baby
you understand so that was that's the
history that's why it's so important to
know it's history
but but but by extension hillel it does
answer what you just asked should i be
am i should i be a teacher an educator
am i
shy to be an educator and and and you're
innocent just said it
you heard what he said you know it's a
lot of work
you know my wife also you know does this
uh special ed teaching
you know but you know yeah doesn't speak
about special ed but even outside of
special ed a
regular teacher in the classroom and in
any situation you know
um again i i think i
i believe that you know if more teachers
would would look at this and and
inculcate it and develop it and
there's more of it going on barak hashem
we would we would have a lot
more success um with with our youth and
you all know
what's going on of course you know with
the youth
um i told you i told you and i'll finish
with this
you know my son was 15 or so i was
having a hard time with him yeshiva you
know and i you know i come from a
traditional place
you're learning yeshiva and that's it
there's no way you learn yeshiva
and you know he's he's having issues
so i didn't know what to do someone told
me to call i think was uh the
but c and torsk i think rabbi yotorski's
son who's a
also a professional here in in brooklyn
so you know i've met him you met him
very fine person so i think i called him
i remember i remember i was laying down
i was talking on the phone and he said
to me he says
not every uh boy or girl are cut out to
be in yeshiva
you know and to me that was like hair
raising and
and like coming from you because i know
who i'm talking to
you know we come from the same hater you
know what i'm saying
we grew up together in the same and and
it was an eye-opener and i accepted it
and and and he continued yeshiva hashem
and
you know because i had frankly because i
had good educators
because his principle
understood and accepted what i said and
i told him you're the principal
i'm not going to tell you what to do but
i know if you want to have success
try this because he was you know he took
he wasn't good at written tests he was
good in oral tests i said give him a
normal
test even though others are taking
written tests so you know don't do it in
public doing a private in your office
whatever that's my suggestion but you're
you're the principal
and he did it and he turned them around
and and you know and then he continued
in yeshiva
so there's no question that it was
a good educator i saw this firsthand
a good educator made a change in in in
this young man's you know life
for the rest of his life you know um
so this is this is why the the
this countries is a very important
countries
and um we need more teachers like that
and like i said you know
we need we need
better funding i'm serious for teachers
and educators there's not enough of that
you know there was a jew here in
brooklyn in new york
mr joseph cruz you'll see
me i don't know i don't know if his name
is on the news yeah his name is
underground
berlin he put up entire buildings very
survivor he did very well and he was
very successful
i don't know if he did anything there to
throw well he actually uh the yu
campus um in the in jerusalem it's the
gross that's his
that's his product that's his baby
anyway
so he he had a he has
he has funds even now it's called the
joseph groves foundation
he has funds to pay substantial extra
money to teachers
who excel you know and that's what i'm
talking about you know
it's it's it's it makes a big difference
and that's also
sometimes you know before yeshiva or
girl of the school starts
you give the teacher a little extra
money
it'll go a long way i'm not and i'm not
looking at as a bribe i'm just saying
you know you got to use your cycle you
know
you know people are struggling people
need money
and it will help it it will help
and besides it's a dhaka so you know
what what's the worst thing you
give to docker so let's go
i'll see everyone tomorrow mr sam will
learn take care have a good day bye-bye