Klolei HaChinuch Education Principles Rebbe Raayatz # 9

trap is a little bit the upcoming production so we're now on page um we're on page 39 and and let's learn the kit sir uh the only time when education and guidance will be appropriate as when it comes with composure composure and courtesy the yoifi habitui and it also includes uh pleasant expressions because with appropriate expressions remember we spoke a lot about that i said let us go on now that is continuing this is the third of his conditions that he suggests that the mechanic must have before teeth before educating us the educator must know the essence of the educated of the student of this of the student and he adds this word not only his mohus but also his massive in english the word mata means the situation and we'll see what the rabbit means with this in this context let's let's let's study the essence and the massive and the situation of the educated there are two pillars two very important pillars that the idea of educating and and guidance with all of its heck if with all of its um with with all that it entails both in hekev and broadness and and circumference meaning with in in all of it it with all that it entails nishan alayhim says that ever this is what it it relies depends on them the heck if the environment the culture and everything else is the key to have a successful [Music] we've already established before that that i've been saying without saying those words that the success removing zehum zeem is like schmutz ugly character removing bad hagas coarse coarse grub kite ink if so if that's the beginning and therefore it is so important for the educator to pay attention to or to create to to come up with a misogynist a very organized limb the educator has to has to carefully this is what he's saying he has to carefully organize an approach that will will include knowing the mohus the essence of that student and if he doesn't take that time to evaluate the mohus the essence of that student everything that will follow could be a big mistake it's like building a building on a foundation that's weak which will crumble meditation and so he calls this this evaluation he avoid it's a very difficult task ukraine are much more difficult it's more difficult evaluating the character of the individual the very essential character then evaluating the knowledge of a student and what you need to teach him or her let's read what he says and if and maybe i'll give some comment to that if it's not clear why what's the difference a teacher that's involved in teaching instructing the prophets tell and he desires to place the student on a good base of knowledge of havana bummer scholars regarding concepts and ideas he wants to teach him to understand and know information he must evaluate the very essence of the talmud's talents and his senses aleph bahamut in creativity is he strong in creativity is he not based by husband explanation you know there are plenty of people that are great with ideas but there's poor in explaining three literally meaning literally meaning with it with the idea settling in the person you probably realize that out of base and gimbal is are other words for bina and das is that part of the mind where something is you focus and concentrate on something so it settles within you so that ever says that the end that the instructor needs to pinpoint if he wants to succeed in communicating information that the student will get and be able to understand and use you need to know is the student strong in a das in in the in in any of these three and all three and two other three etc because if you if you if you give someone who is weak in husband weak in explanation and you give him um you know too much explanation it goes right over his head and the same is true and this is joshua so therefore you have to evaluate what is the strength of this person's senses and talents and and the way his brain work or her brain works and that's the type of information that i'm going to give them now of course you you're probably thinking well in the classroom the teacher can't you know have 25 different 20 to 5 20 different uh what's it called uh modalities modalities of teaching it's just an impossibility that's true but the evaluation is important because then the teacher knows what to expect or not expect from a certain student like i told you if a student is not good at taking written examinations but better in oral the teachers should do that if you don't do it in front of everyone to make you know free looking differences but take into consideration and a good teacher is sensitive to these things and and is keen on these things and finds ways and this of implementing it in this way the student who is oh let's say someone who is a very bright and very creative right you put them in a classroom and you're teaching you know the basics or or to you're teaching to the to the to the average level of the student that student they'll get bored you know so what do you do so either you put them up a class or you or you i don't know you have to find a way of keeping that interest of that student otherwise you lose the student so this is this is this is a a a prerequisite for a teacher okay we're talking now we're not talking about an educator i'm a speaker we're talking about a teacher let's continue beyond and when the teacher evaluates the student then the teacher can with say about humble school he can picture in his mind that idea and manners of instruction for and then he will succeed with his teaching to the student and this is very true because if you could tap in on the students the way the student's brain works right and then and you feed him that information you gotta you got him lifelong but if you miss that you don't got him and and you know or whatever yes well just it's challenging to do that when you've got at least 25 kids in the class that's right that's why you got to do it before you go into the classroom you you you have to you the evaluation is not during the classroom it's the week before the night before the month before who are your students and you have to he says she says in the beginning this is avoid the question i mean he was talking about that avoid the culture difficult work job for the spear but even this even this is avoided kosher right even this is avoid the question but listen again if someone wants to be a rebbe in a classroom or a teacher and just you know get a paycheck this you know he's not he's not doing this but if you really want to be serious and i'm convinced that there are teachers that take before school begins they look at every student and they talk to other teachers and parents whatever and and they evaluate you know i i i teach all of you right my wife sometimes hear is he hears hears and she says why why are you saying this why are you doing this i said you don't know my students i know them i know what they need and i and it's a balancing act but one of me i know them it's not just because we're learning now because i've thought about many times you know and so i i create a picture which which i thought about so it takes hakona it takes a lot of work you know and also experience that's why an experienced teacher is is is is is worth everything unfortunately today when you know if someone has a white beard is already over the hill you'll get the young teachers there's a whole trend in the education world i i don't know if hilo if it's this way in in the secular education world but it's definitely this way in the front world in the yeshivas and girls schools anyone that's you know of a certain age regardless is is like considered you know i i don't want to mention names but you know let's say madness treatment i'm saying manuscript is a very bright man right but he's been outshined by some younger um speakers who have a they have a different style than his and maybe that stop people like better probably that's the reason they but i'm just saying you know it's just like by it's it's a natural phenomenon the truth is look what the rebel shot did who did he hire as the two must be in for turmeric in 1898 in 1897 rep handle an old man from the chamber said this time and after growing them another old memphis and then he hired a third atmosphere they called her a beholder alter and behold the old one because he really was old and he was blind and and there was a complaint why are you bringing him into yeshiva this old man and there ever said just to look at this man will make a change in you even if he doesn't teach a word that's got that's lost today there's no appreciation for looking at a man and saying just being there another story when the previous rabbit came to baltimore in 1930 1929 to 30. i heard this from the son of the president of the buddhist his name was rabbi patashnik of hilla for years his son abba patashnik was the principal of ta in baltimore and his father his father was the the president from the early 1900s in baltimore so when the rabbit came they uh some of the other members came to the previous and they said you know we have one of your students here from the yeshiva and one of you has seen them as a rabbi his name is rabbi axelrod [Music] right this man was like a tonic okay and a massive talmud he was right they complained he doesn't speak english our youth are going away and losing you know the fallen aside we need a rabbit that speaks english in addition to giving the gamora shear and that episode to them you don't know what you have and if you if you look if you learn to appreciate him and look at him and and and and somehow you know spend time with him things will change and he didn't give in to the bella bottom they're pretty much they wanted basically either he should have another rabbi with him or replaced i don't know exactly what they wanted but and that ever said no this this this is an art art and today it's like it's like the young the young it's just a new style and you can't fight the storm the the current is going a certain way you know so we have to we have to include it i would say that if if if if the if the yeshiva world and the educational system of um from would would it incorporate those people together with younger teachers i think you can have a very good combination anyway that's just an aside let's go back to the text on page 50 39 two lines in the bottom towards the end of the second the second line from the bottom [Music] when the teacher evaluates a student and then communicates the right type of teaching to the student in addition to the fact that the student will know properly what's being taught ella is next page [Music] through this very organized instructions [Music] of the teacher will succeed because he's using a very disciplined organized style and teaching the student that he will actually create an opening he will further advance the talents and the senses of the talmud that the talmud will then be able the student will then be able to think on his own and this is something else that is not enough i saw amongst my girls some of my girls you know could memorize many things but they didn't teach them in school how to think on their own and talk about learning there's one thing being a parakeet being able to repeat what your teacher says the other thing is to be able to take that information and then on your own figure out how how to learn and what to learn and understand your learning that's that's way he opened our heads he did he did uh what's it called he did surgery on our brain where he taught us by making us think how to analyze something and this is very nadir this is very special and very important when you're teaching students and also what's the benefit of that if you can accomplish that then the student will want to study on their own and you won't have to say what are you doing do your free time you're playing golf eating popcorn and watching movies they're interested in study because they now unders their mind is working because you've opened their mind you've shown them how to use their mind versus just teaching information and repeating and even memorizing the book stops there okay i'm tired i'm bored but if the mind is working i got to figure this out so whether i'm tired of bored i get to it um let's continue next paragraph this last paragraph was about a teacher mushroom now he says when we talk about evaluating the essence of the character of the educated one he'd be if and ah it's totally different [Music] because here the primary evaluation is about the ugly character of the voters and that by this person their material their homer overpowers the two of the form in other words the materialistic is overwhelming the spirituality the uh and it's so deep in the character of this person that this person is always seeking self self i it begins with i it ends with i and it's in the middle of the eye of us and and and the mashpia and the educators job is to get rid of that eye stop focusing on self that's a much harder job why because the eye is associated with who the person is so here the educator has to kind of tear out remove a very essential aspect of this particular student i'm sorry and when the mechanic removes the zeal the ugliness from the character then he's able to succeed in being mushy on him so people ask why why isn't that of of of an educator successful you know what the answer is according to what it says here the answer is because the teacher hasn't evaluated properly the essence of that student so whatever he did was on the wrong street on the wrong road on the wrong path so he he thought that his his his disgust his ugliness is a guyver and let's say it's not guy but it's taivo or he thought it was taivo and it's skyva but i got rid of guyver thank you very much this person is not suffering from guyva his real issue is kaiva so this is why the evaluation of character is much more severe and difficult and important than the evaluation of educate of of knowledge because at the end of the day with knowledge edison right it's a little more a little less yeah i mean i said before if you evaluate in incorrectly a student the student will be bored and go off the green path to other pastors but nevertheless it's a matter of degree okay here it's not a matter of degree here it's whether you whether you know this person the student or you don't know and if you don't know him then his his ugly character in that particular issue his his midara will continue and get worse it doesn't get better it doesn't get better if we think that by being dormant and just letting it get it doesn't get better and this has been proven teenagers children teenagers the longer they they they don't deal with their issues it comes out later in life it's so important to really identify and deal with those issues in youth and if you work those issues out you'll have listen you know relatively speaking as far as character a nicer character smooth sailing as far as that's concerned you know if other issues come up where hashem throws your curveball that's that's a different judgment that's chapter 26 and tanya you know where bonokai and zayn if a person has issues with children and health and prognosis that's not what we're talking about here we're talking about our character or the student's character let's continue the zoo this evaluation that we're talking about uh uh from the perspective of the educator aina must speak a diamond it's not enough well in the way when it's not enough i'm spending all this time to evaluate the essence the essential character ain't my speech educator must also interest himself also in the situation so again he's going back to the word matsuva today it's a buzz word what's the matter what's the matter with the situation leos and he hasn't yet explained what he means with it i think it's next chapter or two so you gotta hold your pay hold on so here he has the words fever the situation and the environment yes they play a major role young in educating barack summarizes only through recognizing these two things one aleph mediator evaluating the essential essence of the person the student base the word means to interest yourself to interest yourself be massive in the situation well no indian means topic but right there's there's a word i'm not sure if that's the same the the show is with his son his son gain the the the the interest means his son does anyone know hebrew well enough to say if they're associated inyan and his i'm not sure yeah yeah because think about it the indian right it's um indian means like some it's it's in its form meaning it's it's what's happening now nitanyan is something that will be to discuss right look into but no i don't believe the meaning of the word lasagna means to look into it at least it does okay modern hebrew but in in in traditional jewish literature lusani means to interest yourself yes yes yes grammar in hebrew wherever the tip the hit you know reflection goes on the person himself okay therefore and therefore i'm careful he's going into himself he's interesting himself ah okay okay let's go further so the rebel says the second idea is and only through these two preconditions prerequisites he can then hope whatever doesn't use the word it's a guarantee he says he can hope that there'll be good results [Music] the healthy mind model of all human beings are are equal shaheen bali goofing fish they [Music] you cannot say that there are virtues and deficiencies in the etzem hanefesh this is classical chabad the eczema fish of a jew is perfecto it's a diamond the x and the essence i don't care what he does on your kipper and i don't care how far he is or how corrupt he is and you only have discussed this right the jewish anti-semites and all that idea the essence is perfect so the whole idea of chesronos and milos which is deficiencies and virtues doesn't apply to the eczema fish the heads of nephews is one thing good great holy let's continue for for if we were to say otherwise you know this person's essence his real essence is gevaldine and this person's essence is really poor and bad ain't no indian cane it's not so it is not so the xm is pristine hello here is the big elo only and the first is coolant all souls in the very essence lames are complete in the alsace labels are nephesh they are on the side of the perfection of soul colic being another forces what we could discern and distinguish things by regarding souls [Music] it's only when in matters and styles of revelation of how they re reveal themselves how they come to be overzealous oh there you have a lot of differences [Music] over there you see a vast difference and the fact is that in this world what do we observe the first we observe is the goof so the first thing we judge is the goof so i'm sure davening a week ago and someone comes in and has a braids that um i don't know i i i've never seen so many braids so he looks to me like a nausea but i couldn't say i i couldn't ask him are you a nausea because i haven't seen another in a long time yeah anything remember when we were in morristown there was someone in morristown called the nazir i don't know is he still alive is he alive youngest do you have any idea uh no idea what's going on but you you remember that you remember the nausea yeah yeah what does that mean i mean he he took one not to drink wine not to cut us here absolutely kept shooting are you serious about it i remember it was a second i mean the gemara says the mother dunham says you shouldn't do that but the title the titus says there is such a thing so god comes to show it looks like another i see because the summer's gone shabbos what's honestly you don't think too many like that wait wait he puts on his talos he thought was with kavanagh i think he might have spoken a oily uh you know yiddish i think and and he puts away phil and i i upset what the essence is the same the manifestation is one guy has locks and one has ponytails and one has a bald head it's also chinese now when i say talk it is i need to say you know a person should should you know take into consideration but but but for whatever reason whether he's a nausea or he just likes to have that type of hair that that doesn't make you say this but what do i see first what what's the first thing that grabbed my eye the the the the hair that's the human condition that it's unfortunate you know and and when you talk about azadek and maybe even abandoning we talk about that's the difference we ordinary people the hussini is the superficiality hits us first the view of azadek a real sadiq is otherwise they will see this neshama first so in the rabbit when someone came to the rebel and and said about this or that last night that they had a video uh iranian jew uh herzegovina of the iranians los angeles brought um a few iranian bombardment and one and he said and he says i'm a doctor so the rebbe says you're a doctor you should cure your patients and and then he gives him a dollar and he and he walks away and never calls him back it's very he says listen i don't only mean you should cure your jewish patients but you're non-jewish patients too because you took an oath you have an obligation and i'm thinking about it like and i could see on this doctor's face you know like why are you telling me this there must be a reason which you know we don't know but that saddik sees the neshama he doesn't look oh i'm a doctor so if i'm a doctor you know abc he looks he sees something to begin with you understand and this is a training and we could we could refine ourselves when we get to a point where we don't look at the person's kids his superficiality and external we look at in the summer so whether it be the story that maisha shared the purim or whatever was with the with the man that came in that was like shikka in the shul and he made a ruckus and all that and they wanted to eat him up and throw him out you know yes it's a show there's the quorum but you know look deeper look deeper and it's it it takes a lot of avoida you see the first thing we're going to say is he's wrong they're wrong and and maybe in legal in legal terms they're wrong you don't come into a school and make this type of but then there's a whole different level of muscle even muscle you know because in particular is look at the etz and find the eczema so the rabbi here in in our context leaves us at the end of this paragraph leaves us with the following that if you evaluate properly i think this is what he's getting at if you evaluate properly the mohus the essence of the student and number two the matzah the situation you will then succeed in dealing with the person's issues because a you will look at the student as good excellent pristine and that part that needs work is because of a situation and you'll deal with it but you won't have the anger and you won't have the disgust okay and this has been proven hundreds of thousands of times where people you know they make changes in their life and not just you know i'm talking about true but just you know it's we're too quick to judge so even us who are already a little older and all that we could we could we could work on this you know not to judge it's it's it's a big avoidance it's a heart avoider a very hard avoider but it's avoided and as long as hashem gives us life but he does we have to work on not judging people i saw this my father-in-law he was so not judgmental he was like not human and he had it in his in his dna you know i don't you know because there are many others see them who are not that way but you know when it's possible it's possible to come to a point where you don't judge and um that's it you know tomorrow we'll learn the kids any questions you have any questions a couple of comments yeah i just want to say that the hebrew that the the the river riots is using is is amazing and just we were talking about earlier the the two things in modern hebrew it's interesting that like um here he was in modern hebrew one of the usages here in israel is when you go to buy car insurance you can buy also the second like uh optional insurance is called makif they called comprehensive and car insurance mckeef like it's covers all aspects of actual car that's the only one and number two that's good very good the word yeah in the hebrew in israel days in on a car again a car is the exhaust the exhaust the exhaust of a person there baby very interesting that's interesting interesting also it's also infection the same words also infection what what xe who means an affection yeah really what's the connection between uh in other words it's not the essence of the person it's their out it's like something is affected with and an infection makes you exhausted that's good so um listen tonight is uh pesachini and tomorrow um we say tachnon in the afternoon tomorrow we don't want to eat the matzah different opinions the uh holy mooncatcher rabbit you know um i think he says we eat it i think he says during the day but some people do days some do night some do both so get yourself some shibura matzah and pesach shaini of course is the famous lesson as is which means yiddish for english it's too late it's never too late it's never too late so they should help them yes what my my my wife is making uh is making us much bright because we brought some piece of shiny okay make sure you have you make sure you have your four cups of wine too i mean with grape juice anyway they should help that that um we should share this message especially with our grandchildren and and friends and family and the youth as an attacker and and really not i just lip service it's never too late you didn't learn till now you can start now you didn't because we're in a mensch till now you can start today you know what i'm saying you get your act together because you can't get your act together from today it's a new day and every day is a new day you for you start and you start dieting and then you go back start again whatever it is you know have it have a great day great cheers to everyone tomorrow bright and early take care bye-bye