Maamar Choviv 1940 #7- Existence is form of Ego which is essence of human intellect - elevating past

good morning what we're learning the maya mohave vlad maisha wanted i should speak about the deficiency but i'm going to see how much iscafia he has will he be able to control himself till next monday when i'm back home and i have my swarm there's a book masha you must have it in your library called on the essence of hasidis and in the essence you right in the essence of hasidis there's a long footnote which explains in english very well and what i want to do is find the the page have you then send that out to all of us and we will learn it and read it in english together uh and and i think that will be helpful in explaining better what the nefarious circus is so i'm not going to answer and and explain it today but just have you i know that you can't sleep at night and shabbos you have to you have to have this for your meditation when you're diving so um i'm going to ask you to control yourself and and use something else from meditation and mundane mr sham will go back to that because i it should i should find it but i am here in florida i don't have my forum so please forgive me okay but let's go back to the text now we are um we are uh uh i think at least dalit is that correct oh no we're we're actually four or five four lines from the end of of chapter three when you see those words it's a rhetorical it's it's a question we said that the intermediary to bring together the two worlds of nephesh eloquis and efficient godliness and animalism requires an intermediary someone who can talk to both parties understands both parties and themselves make a compromise in which both parties feel good and want to have a relationship and we call this nefer jacques and again we'll explain monday god willing more about that but whatever it is it's called nefer has sickly is the place of intellect of logic which understands what the godly soul wants yet it understands the bodily needs and it says let me figure out a way how to get you guys together but his question is according to kabbalah kabbalah says that the nephew is from the noga from the trans translucent clipper so as soon as you say no god you're talking about negativity it's not complete negativity that would be called as the alta river mentioned in chapter one and tanya defiled contaminated clippers which are completely bare and no good and the neph and the nephew is being that it has an element of cycle which it creates so therefore it it it lifts itself away from animalism and goes towards godliness nevertheless where are its feet its feet are its feet are in this world in the world of animalism in the world of sheker right and so so that's called in the terminology of kabbalah the world of noga yoga means translucent there is some light so the rebbe's question is how could it be an intermediary an intermediary seemingly would be someone that not only is its head not in in in uh in the schmutz but its feet is also not in schmutz it's not yet pure godliness so therefore such a position i can understand as an intermediary but something or someone whose head's not a schmutz but his feet isn't schmutz guess what you can start you can quicksand and you can slip in and fall in so you you are already grasped taken absorbed by the clipper so it's not a true intermediary that's his question and those three words is sir the emails that never secrets and although the nefercia clean cyclist is also from clippers nogam avon continuing he me we'll just leave it at this point because it's a concept in kabbalah in noga itself there is the madregal yona the upper level and there's the lower level there's the upper schmutz and the lower schmutz the lower schmutz gets you to sink further and further down the upper lets you breathe and not sink anymore and it gives you the ability to raise your head realize what's going on and pull yourself out of the schmutz so yes you are in no god but it gives you the ability to uplift yourself and here he goes again with another historical remark okay you're telling me that regarding its feet right feet with quotations around it it's not in the lower it's in the higher well let's look at its mind sakura you're saying you're calling it nephesh has the intellectual drive what does this intellect consist of it consists of understanding natural phenomena look at the words being imagined for example look das to know to understand the whole mitzi mitsio's govern every existing matter how to cover surely his composition what how is it made what is it comprised of that's what we call how to cover the look of to understand all of its parts vitivoir and its nature the hainu the these are beautiful words its entire mind is occupied with understanding the yesh of the thing the existence of the thing and not the negation of the thing which in hebrew is hadari now listen to the yiddish words beautiful yetis words its mind is not is not occupied with its non-existence nor rather in them its mind is occupied in the existence of the matter let me explain this you guys are philosophy students here he use a little philosophy seijo when you use your mind your brain right and hopefully we use it more often than not okay so when you use your seiko what what does sakel explore and how does it explore it explores something that already exists and it wants to know how does this thing exist what is it made up what are its elements and details so from the very beginning maisha from the very beginning of seijo it's all about understanding existence of from existence is yeshus now yeshua's we usually translate as ego we're not talking about ego we're talking about existence okay so now we're using the translation for the word yeshua's in this at this point in the mimer not as ego but existence do you see the difference between ego and existence ego is guyva existence could is not necessarily guyver but it's amitsyut it's already an existence and as soon as you give credent one second as soon as you give credence to something being in existence you're you are already trapped you're trapped in the world of existence and if you intellectualize that using your sacral very difficult to unravel yourself from existence when you're in the world of existence and that's what he said he says your your mind is not thinking about how it doesn't exist your mind already is wrapped around and swallowed absorbed by existence and if that's the case and so what's his question it's not a true intermediary because godliness transcends existence god is the creator not the created so how so the rabbi's rhetorical question is yoni how can you tell me that the has the human intellectual drive is the right um vessel is the right medium to be an intermediary between godliness and animalism the human intellectual drive already is part of the animalistic experience i.e existence that's his question yoni what do you want to say just a short thing like um kind of like the mashfiya in the show his name is he says that ego is edge god out that's what ego is that's what he calls it that's nice that's a new one i never heard that edge got out i like it so that that's the question what's his retort what's his response turns it around he turns it around he says just on the contrary but because the nephesha cyclist is because of its content and its occupation which is intellect and nature that's what makes it the proper intermediary if it wasn't if it wasn't occupied with existence and if it wasn't part of existence it couldn't be an intermediary because the nafishabam is his existence boy is it existence give me i want i need me me me so of course the nephesha circles has to identify with that and that ebba says this aspect that it it it's absorbed by existence makes it a proper intermediary to talk to the nepheshobami's and the novice lets it in and says i'm with in other words imagine if the nephesh asikhlis would come to the nephesh obamas and say look you're a big bahama you're an animal you're you're you're so grub you're so coarse change your ways stop with the foolishness guess what we had that already in fifth grade in yeshiva in 1950 and 1960 where people came over they didn't have a job they needed pynosa they had no idea what real of being an educator and they were religious and the kids were all you know brooklyn boys um children of survivors wanted to play baseball wanted had baseball cards watch the farms the fans of fonzarelli on television go to sports games and just enjoy and look at girls and the rebbe comes in and says you're going to burn in hell if you look at a girl and talk to a girl and watch television right no and what's the result of that we all know a disaster because this is who i am now you know and this is this is where where i am not where i am and i don't know any better and that's what i was raised with so what do you want from me so there's no there's no conversation it meant nothing and we lost the whole generation a whole generation until changed its whole view we lost a lot of kids and a lot of families to because there was a breakdown there was no there was there was there was no nephesha cyclist there was only elikus godliness torah and animalism and then and behavior that's against hashem etc act like a behemoth so the rabbit says that yes you're right the nephesh is identified with existence but its existence that gives the nephesh of bamis an opportunity to get involved in a conversation and this does actually maisha uh speak a little bit to what you asked what is this nephesh has the is is not godliness it's not hello course it's not in the summer but yet it's not a pure old behemoth that just wants one thing indulgence and hedonism it's able to have its feet and its mind focusing on existence but but but because it it has the single element the intellect element it strives upward it looks for something more rational and it says hey if i'm gonna live like a bahama i'm gonna hurt my body i'll drink till i die and i'll indulge till i die and i'm gonna be very sick and very miserable and i want to have a breakdown of family and everything else so okay you want to drink you say hi once in a while you you want to go to a game no problem but know that shabbos you know we we close the tv the internet you know we don't play around with shabbos hashem you know used to be probably the only remembers in in brooklyn when the world series was on in september it came out with shunyam kipper we used to pass the stores uh whatever neighborhoods to see the tvs playing so you could look at the game that that graduated to another level where we preset our our tv uh to read to preach to record to sometimes go on so i didn't put the game on the game went on by itself so i come home from school and i could just sit on my couch and watch the game then then they became a little more froome and that was too outrageous so they pre-set it so it records it so much of shabbos and what's a young i can watch the game that was taped and jumped right all these type of little uh uh maneuvers to get around the halacha and then not worry too much if it's there abundant or it's a rabona rabban you know if it's a schwarz dish rose and 75 shrusim and you know who's looking who cares and we play around right that's all existence that's all yes but there is hardcore yes and there is you know choir is no one sees my mother doesn't see my review my rabbit doesn't see my kids don't see so i can you know do what i really like right so did i be safe my father told me you just said my father and i should be well amazing he told me a story when he was in yeshiva he was yeshiva in flushing in queens yeah and on shabbos afternoon after the set when they would have a game at shea stadium from seventh the seventh inning the guards would go away right it's a first but the point is the point is that if you you know if you rule out say you're shakits you're a you're a bum you're such a you know what i'm saying okay the guy says go go away go i you know i want to be i want to be this way but if you say okay let's let's let's walk to the shea stadium from from the shul and on the way there you talk to the the teenager and you say avoid that maybe as they come to the game they'll turn backwards like with their flavor kyle about the famous story the summer of 69 in haight ashbury everyone's going down to the ocean to enjoy themselves this is going to be the enjoyment of life uh being uh you know naked at the at the ocean etc we'll leave it at that and and and and i i heard this was someone who was walking behind the script slammer he lives here in this community he told me himself so all the jewish boys and girls um from the house of love and prayer are walking behind salima and and and thousands and thousands are are walking to the ocean right and their schleimer realizes this ain't getting any better and at the last moment he makes a left turn and all his chevra go not down they go elsewhere you know i imagine he would have said from the beginning we're not doing this right yeah you would have some that would listen because they really loved him and they followed him right but many others would say i'm sorry thousands are going to the beach in the water i'm not gonna go and the fact that whatever's gonna happen there will deal with it later he starts walking pretending like he's gonna follow and then as they go he makes the u-turn the left turn it it's a it's a i don't know if it's an exact example but it's somewhat of an example of what we're talking about here so hillary says here om nom ly so we're the end the last line of chat of perry gimble of the mimer here um the tv since the very core of the nephesha cyclist is intellect and nature and i'm using the word existence to substitute for the word tv nature you have to emphasize it is with this aspect that human muta that the nephew shasikhs becomes the proper intermediary they never show they kiss obama's and this is what i told you whatever of the show would always say that if you tell someone come to a fabrega and we're going to talk about god and spirituality they'll say have a nice day i have better things to do with my time you tell them come to a party oh a party oh that i like there's gonna be scotch yeah there'll be men and women yeah there'll be food yeah there'll be songs yeah i want to go there he comes to the party and he sees a man for bringing an older person or a younger person and all of a sudden he says look i am but right after the look i am he ain't going crazy and smoking up and doping up and becoming crazy he's talking about hashem and about telera about jewishness so automatically already the nefesh obama's is in he's already in he's caught now he starts hearing a negan and a verb and and and they're heavier together and it feels good and the the feeling you're able to make movement that's the job of the nepheshan sichulis and that's why the nefesh has is key in accomplishing the the purpose of of of of of torah of hashem to bring together the nephesh who kiss and then up shabbat what time is it it's actually ten after three i mean i have to go and stuff my my wife just okay okay so so whatever so just for another five minutes so uh well before the end of this year we'll start the next week uh i want to read that piece from the essence of hasidis and then finish the next paragraph hopefully by that blamer but black bomber is a thursday this year correct yeah so this shop is shabbos what oh right right for you guys my heart well i have to say a word on both old news over here yeah so the interesting thing is that there's a connection between between emor and bahar emra means to say right rashi says that the the oh the the the daily the elders should give instruction to the youngsters now this is in regard to the the laws of kohanim and tumor etc but it has of course the the broader interpretation that it's up to the elders the older people the parents the grandparents lahazier to give instruction or to warn but the word lahazier comes from is associated with the zohar splendor brilliance illumination la need to make brilliant and inspire through illumination the youngsters not to squash the youngsters but to turn them on and when you turn them on then they're eager to know what what we the elders have to offer and that's our job our job is to focus on the positivity our job is to inspire so the onus is on us so in other words when you learn this rashi hashem is instructing the good i live yeah but it's kind of warm the youngsters just warn them and caution them right the deeper meaning is not warn them inspire them and when you talk about inspiration and inspire them the onus is on you you have to be inspired to inspire others whereas in warning the emphasis is not on you as much as them just bottom line make sure they get the warning i think that's a very um important insight into even the the the opening and then we have bahar bahar is a mountain no who wants to climb a mountain climbing mountain sometimes could be very risky it's hard as rocks says who can ascend the mountain of god and who can stand in the place of holiness involves someone who has pure hands who has a pure heart in other words when a person is inspired themselves that includes being pure being being more honest you know realizing our shortcomings and uh you know dumping out the yeshus the ego from the personality and really feeling the other person empathy not only sympathy to always put yourself into the position of the other person and to understand and listen to them we've discussed in the arashiyurim the the the you know that the art of listening is almost out the window and how important it is to listen to listen to other people in every situation give another person the benefit of the doubt bahar so if you want to climb onto a mountain if you want to reach a peak if you want to reach the har c night which is in another few weeks the heart you need to incorporate the mr yes hillel i just want to say i have a friend a colleague who uh the last time i saw her this week she had injured her hand i said how'd you injure your hand she said i was climbing heart c9 tonight and i fell and i had to be medevaced out by camel wow that's that's really timely yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah very good very good so that's our thought on on the connection between har and c knight and um everyone should have a great shabbos preparation for that blamer uh the david of shimon i have to tell you you know it's called like the modern torah of satire the zoya codes arizal and everything else has been by the babachirabe and they i believe they write in certain places that it's like la boimer is the modern torah of ponemia satire schwarz is the modern terror of the tyrant nigla what about panini you know that's associated with shimon with uh with aemon so i don't know if you guys are going or aren't going but wherever we we are we should celebrate the the lord in a in a way that's meaningful have a great shabbos we'll see everyone on monday take care bye-bye