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i'll tell you in a moment okay good morning we're on page uh does anyone remember i think 31 correct um i think so yeah we're at 31. 131 towards the bottom of the page we spoke about the two different types of fire fire within a flintstone of fire within a coal right right so we're middle and towards the end of this idea at least for now when the rebbe is talking about the difference between and this is very important for for your understanding of hasidis the difference between the way the middles or the we call them the the sub the traits of the soul as they are in the soul compared to the way the last trait the last meda the last sphere of malcos the way malchus is in the soul and what's the difference the difference is that all the traits etc all of them even when they're not revealed when they're concealed when they're not yet in their prime they're ready to be revealed and all it takes is a kind of uh light awakening just like if you touch the coal the spark will come out because the spark exists in the coal in the language of the mimer as amitsyut as an existence as an entity as a mathias compared to the sphere of malchus what are we talking about the feeling of i am over you and you are too dumb and i'm dominating over you you only royal regal kingship that feeling in a person who is who has that as their mainstay like a king is not readily available unless you really plead and begged and reveal it just like you have to take the two the stone the flintstones and rub them against each other just blowing on a flintstone is not you're not gonna get a spark blowing on a coal you're gonna get a spark because the spark is ready right there we're in the flintstone it's it's there it's not that it's not there because if it's not there we cannot create ex nilo only hashem can create yeshmiah so if the spark were not to be within the flintstone we wouldn't be able to make it come out even if we rubbed 55 flintstones with each other the fact that we can we could we take a flintstone when we rub it and we get a spark it shows that it's there but the question is in what manner is it there so that ebba says it's in a manner called helen no bitmatsuyut it's concealed and it is not and it's concealed it's concealed when you say it's concealed you're saying it is there but what's the manner of how it's there ain't nobody see you describes the manner of which it's there and what is that that it's non-existent but what it means non-existent we mean to say now listen to this when we say existence and non-existence we mean it in the in our world of words and ideas we're making the comparison within our world so in our world in our usage of words existence and non-existence invest in this scenario means it's readily available or it's not readily available it takes a lot of effort but it does not mean to say that it doesn't exist at all so you have to be very clear about that and why is it so because malchus is such a trait that's so deep within the the person's soul that to reveal it takes creating the willingness on behalf of the person who is in in the category of a melech to want to be a king and this is this explains to us why there are people who do have leadership qualities and yet they can go through their life and never be a leader and you ask your question yourself a question why if i know the person and i'm telling you he has those traits the answer is because he didn't have the subjects to want and reveal within him a desire to want to be a king to want to be a leader and that takes subjects and guess what he cannot create the subjects can the king create the subjects no hashem creates the subjects the king acting like a king and being such a person will interest the subjects but at the end of the day the subjects have to acknowledge the king the person and say we want you as our king that's why we say every every that we say hashem on second motion get you we talk about hashem's exaltedness and we connect it to other means going to say it here later in the mimer too it's rosh hashanah when adam harishan acknowledges hashem and says i i want you as my king that is rosh hashanah not the 25th available on the date when the world was created because the world was created as we spoke about yesterday hillel said i want to do a good thing i don't care subjects no subjects this is what i want to do russia wants to do it is going to happen but then from that day on he says now from here on it's no more free rides i gave you a free ride because i wanted you to come into existence you're here now now i want to see you work for it hashem yes moshe moshe it just reminds me a little bit about what you're talking about the mella and subjects person needing to actualize the leadership the story that you told that you sent out to us a few weeks ago about the bob of a rabbit going into the rabbit think about crying and the rabbit told him you you're you're a king you just have to be you just have to be that king i would say the connection to the story that you're talking about is that the rebel was telling him the trevor said to him there is an entire kingship waiting for you on the other side of the door but so so allow yourself to um allow yourself to be available and being morbid and depressed and broken is not going to be uh inspiring for your subjects for your hasidum so i understand your pain you lost everything in the holocaust and get fair enough but you have a job to do hashem gave you a job and right now the job is these people so now you need to change focus and in a sense stop crying you know and look towards the light and that's what he did that's what he did and he rebuilt an entire empire of the sedum let's go back to the mimer now we're on page 31 and we're i'll tell you one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven lines from the bottom in the middle of the line where it says page 131 in the mind [Music] the idea of revealing the trait of exaltedness of leadership [Music] this is the meet of mouthless avi if someone want to ask you what is the middle what is within yourself tell me what it is you're not a king i'm not a king so the answer is the quality of leadership so the question now so the issue is how do we reveal this leadership totally the answer is it depends the expansion of their essential power of leadership of kingship and royalty maluka hakula benefish that's incorporated and included in the soul if you don't want to be a leader you are not going to be a leader even if your father is a leader your mother is a leader and your grandparents are going back to other marisham if you don't want to be a leader it's not going to be and we've seen this you know i'm writing now about different considerations so i'm writing about capiscenits and beyond and region you know the the right and they and they for years didn't have a rabbit because those that wanted the hasid didn't want and those that wanted they didn't want so it took years until the bayana river for example in 1984 hanukkah when he was 25 years old he accepted the leadership but there's a whole history that most people don't even know his grandfather passed away in 1971 71 to 84 is 13 solid years what happened during those 13 years and the answer is there were many attempts and a lot of pressure some of it which was no good which i'm gonna which is coming out in my book in a in a respectful way but it needs to be told because uh pressure and bullying doesn't help and we shove it under the carpet but it's real and it's time for us to wake up and realize that pressuring and bullying doesn't only hurts people doesn't help them and this will be i think a very big revelation to the those that read and are open-minded they're not scared to deal with an issue but it just so it took him 13 years to become a rebel and so coppishness passed away in 1667. so his son of marcia hessel took over then he suddenly passed away in the early 40s in 1975 and from 1975 till most recently they didn't have an official rebbe and in fact the rebbe of boro park doesn't call himself a rebbe doesn't want to be known as a rebbe so here it is people who supposedly have this malhouse with of the rabbinic rebbe in their lineage it's not being accessed or was not accessed for access for years and it takes russian and it happened with the rapid too let's talk about our debut the rabbit from 1950 juice fought january 1950 when the previous level passed away until the following year huge fought when the rebels said the first mimer and officially accepted the leadership there was tremendous pressure on him to the point where he said if you don't stop pressuring me i'm going to go away my wife and i will just leave town and you won't know where we are you won't see us and goodbye charlie so they tried this and they tried that and they tried that and finally it worked because they were made and actually they credited the rebbe's wife rabbits and kaya bushka for for getting him to agree where she said to him that what will be with my father's holy work if no one replaces him you know all of his hard work and his mesita's nephesh that imams gave his blood for yiddish kite not only him but his hasidim will be out the window and the rebbe alluded to all that in the first uh fabregan of uchat first formal fabregan where he said that we will help meaning i'll help you as much as i can but you have to work yourself because that's at the essence of chabad hasidis there's no free rides here but we will guide and advise and help so there too it took a year of being my eider the russoing of the rabbit to want to be arab of hasidim so you see this trend throughout history and recent history and what we understand is exactly what it says in the mimer here because malhus is so latent within the person it requires a a a a powerful root sign to get that to want to be a melee okay let's continue [Music] through accepting the king we are your subjects we're willing to do what you want and the more that is stated and the more that is shown and the more that is heard by the king the king says you want me you really want me then i'm gonna i'm gonna come through like this morning before chakras a young citizen boy came in and he's looking and looking and it was uh it was like it was still 5 30 in the morning so i said you're looking for a minion i said the next million is a quarter to six but that minion is before nato and if you're making the dabble it's the minion that we're at right now which won't which which won't stop at 6 15 or so because 6 28 doesn't that's a hammer so i said to him then i see he's looking at me and he says okay and he's looking thinking maybe i said and if you could stay here we could you could learn some hasidis before davening meanwhile three people sitting all around me their eyes lifted her with a smile because of course they heard alabacher speaking talking about learning hasidis before davening and not gemara but they're all all nice guys and they're all like continuing to dive and while they're smiling although above just starting up with this guy why am i saying that so and i sent him a quote under the murder so so someone some smart guy another friend there dominion says so are you ready to give a shirt i said any anytime you want to share i'm available but i want to see if the calf wants the nurse i'm the cow where are the calves if the cats want a nurse i will give you milk if you don't want nurse you ain't getting any milk from me you know it's so easy and and and conversation ended no want to share and life just continues you understand so this is what we're talking about here he said avi requires subject matters to have kabbalah soil if the subject matters don't have real kabbalah soil the king says i have better things to do with my time bug off go bother someone else okay and this is so true true in every aspect of life you want your wife to to respond show her that you care you want your employer to respond show them that you care you want your your teenager to respond show them that you care genuinely not fake fake news real let's continue taught him about rosh hashanah when he was a little boy in haslavic and his mulamid was allah bro he remembered the name even and he would say he taught us that rosh hashanah is not about banging your chest and not about crying rosh hashanah is about crowning hashem as the king and he said it in yiddish but his real russian aristocratic yiddish of a salvation spoke aristocratic yiddish a litvish aristocratic yiddish the kore nazir which in english of course is coronation the quran in hebrew you know the crown of a torah we don't pay much attention attention to it but you should know the crown of the torah it's not the titus the crown but the crown represents something in a way that's deeper than the tater it makes the tater because without the crown of the tata you know you're showing you don't really give significance to the tata when you put the crown on the tighter it becomes a real tighter i'm not talking i'm not talking halogen you're talking about an idea and concept so the king is that way too much for the king to be a king where is the crown imagine the king is wearing a sailor's hat we're not boating now and fishing where is your crown there is something to regal clothing and just for a moment i want to talk about that for a second this idea on one hand you know you know the whole idea of dressing up and clothing is like indulgences if not indulgence is a show off if not show off it's it's like what for and frankly in chabad there is that attitude and that's why khabad has said in let's say that mental foot of us you've seen pictures of him what is he wearing even a shabbos a sailor's hat because that's what they wore in russia and the rabbit told i don't know if he told him but he told those khasidn there was a vishatsuki robert vashetsky and red mental foot of us were three hasidim from russia who survived came to came role and visited crown heights and they were by fabregas and by davening with their custody called cascatla casketla like the sailor had and they wanted to change some of them because everyone else is wearing a a hat up or a hat down and that ever said don't change don't change because that had that casquettel that sailors that represents you in russia fighting for yiddish kite and we need to preserve that because that's what year describes about that's what taylor is about don't change so did there ever give credence and significance to that absolutely you understand so how do we say that khabar doesn't care about clothing and all that what we mean is we don't we're not into you know rosh hashanah comes you here in baruch having out some betraymesh but yoni probably knows from flatbush also but especially in bar prep the hungarians are everyone has to have the five girls of a family that have the exact same dress and the exact same shoes and and and everything has to be matching and they don't buy it at a cheap store you know at a bargain store in the lower east side they buy it retail on 13th avenue pay the highest prices and and and they enjoy doing that and they mean it for the mitzvah really but at the same time it's like it's over the top it's over the top they don't think it's over the top others think it's over the top so there there is that that that issue then there's the issue that there is a a symbol of clothing which is demonstrative of of self sacrifice for yiddish guy and and and nakadoz barco and that is valuable that is valuable because that means right why would we liberate it from from its rayamavi because of three things one is leishino as levushrom they didn't change their clothing yes my shirt wait dolphin sorry just a quick question you're talking about i know that within there is an indian though let's say to wear silk on shabbos could you just speak about that for just yeah yes that that that is that when you say chabad it's an indian in kabbalah it's brought down in kabbalah and chabad is mock bit on that why go back probably to the altar but it's you know i don't know but but but it's not you know it wasn't originated in the khabar it's an indian broken kabbalah that that obey him and is he um supported and wanted so that is correct but that's also that fits into what i'm saying moishe that's because of the holiness it's not that we're looking to wear silk because we want to show off our fancy kappata could you imagine you know and let's take another example you see how many people wear anatara around their towers right they have an attorney you know the natara is a a silver some silver i don't know what you would call it um a silver whatever so the story is that the baba chick see them also wore that torah but when the altar ebba was imprisoned they sold their arthur to for ransom money for the altar ebb and since then they never put it back on did you ever hear that yes yes uh hillel well other than the subject of police i want to ask you something the two holes in the talus that first of all one is that a is that just on the telescoping is it also in palestine and two what is it about okay yeah so i can answer posh partially i can answer the question the the two holes are both and the tallest cotton and the towel is goggle that's number one number two in khabad the two holes in the talus cotton are um straight and then a tallest goggle they're on a slant and i'm not sure check those that are not wearing la bachelasim see if if it's that way on the nangla barbecue talism i don't recall now so uh so i've never seen non-lavabite uh to laser that have two holes even though i do see it on palestine a lord okay okay so so moshe is that the case moisture is that the case don't have two holes no some do some don't it depends hello it depends okay okay so so i i i don't i don't know hillel i i don't have the sword on the front of me to tell you if the if this is an indian a cable or two holes versus one i don't uh to me from what i know what well you can also just say what what the what is this what is the distinction of a bad talent that's the distinction that's the distinction a khabar tallest does not have anatura many of the others have an atturo b the the the two ho there's two holes versus one hole number three the two holes in the chabad towers are on a slant not straight third and number four number four i think when you make the texas there's a different way of making the situations coming out of the two holes in the way you make a chabad dallas versus naraka and number five and this is true for citrus and atalis the difference is what we call the julios you know julio's mind the loops hold on what i don't know if you could see on the screen but these loops that form the seven eight eleven or thirteen in ah bad way makes there's a little loop on either horizontal uh horizontal back away from the screen i can't see it yet do you see do you see in addition to the regular loops do you see this line of loops yeah okay it looks like uh like they're longer and more stretched out so it's not just much stretched out it's it's the way it's made in other words the the regular way making synthesis is just loops that's it within khabad way we use the shamish to create a loop within a loop so it's a different way of making it okay that and and and there's a difference it's not there's not a question that there is a real difference between the two both the kosher both of course but there's two different ways so i've told you five differences between the chabad talis and um the regulators but but i want to go back to the point of the arturo right that you can so we did wear nattera but on the outer when the out