Maamar Choviv Adam 1940 #2- Intellectual Human Drive and Free Will - 4 details to Names

so we're on page uh i think it's 243 in in the version you're using i'm using today a different version am i right is it 243 i don't think so we were started on 273 and then um on one day when what was it he said wasn't going to be a share and then what's happened okay so so but we went on to the next page the 274 am i right i think you are all right yeah i first chair that i was on we stopped on page 273 and it's in the middle of the half of the hyena the definition where of 273 is it i want everyone to hear four lines from the top in the middle of the [Music] okay now i'm going to explain today this idea of the nephesha secrets it's a very fundamental teaching because generally speaking we talk about the nefesh elixirs and the nepheshabamis seldom do we talk about a third soul a third drive a nefesh has however in tanya the altered alludes to it and and in chapter 42 and i think elsewhere one other place to my recollection he actually mentions the words nefesh so we know from this that there is a third nephesh what is this nephesh and this is what i want to talk about before we continue in the text the nephesha cyclist is what we call the human intellectual drive it's that aspect of a person where free will is centered there and and and and just for a simple a simple arg not argument position the nephili kiss is godly it's holy the nephew shabami as the name implies is bahami animalistic right when a person is presented with a situation and you say you have free will to make a choice do i have free will really well wait a minute my godly soul only knows of god am i behind me my animalistic soul only knows of behavior so how do i have free will if i'm plugged into godly soul i'm godly i'm plugged into animalistic soul animal animalistic so and in order to make a free will choice i have to be the rabbi keeps freezing okay i'm seeing a net there yeah okay yeah we're we're with you we're with you remember dolphin yeah okay but you hear me right not when you freeze we'll try it we'll just continue i i okay yeah so so the question is whatever i do seemingly is either animalistic or godly and if that's the case there is no neutrality for there to be free will so then the question is this whole idea free will is above a mice is it made of story why the way that i understood it and [Music] go ahead right one's going to drive and the other is going to be a passenger either nephew locust is going to drag the battery bahamas with it or the never bishop bahamas is going to drive the net is going to drag the nefesh a little kiss with it but who is in charge who's it yeah go ahead yeah the unanswered question is where does that free will reside how how how do you put your nephesh locus in charge well that before you get to how do i put the necessarily case in charge you have to ask yourself another fundamental question what aspect of the self has the free will right and and the answer and that's what i'm getting at and there is an aspect of the self that has free will that's not predetermined by godliness or animalism and that place is called seiko intellect hence nephesh has there is a place that god made within the human being that's called intellect which which is there that there is the true free will ability do i use my mind to go to the right to go to the left so i i i've given you the example in the past for example you have a someone brings you a plate of apples red yellow and green what yes sir yeah and you and you choose red why do you choose red because you like the color red or you like the taste of red so you're predetermined by red that's free will that's not free will and so too with yellow and green so really in the physical world that we live in seemingly all of free will is just a mirage a fantasy i'm pr i'm always predetermined nurture versus nature or sometimes nurture and nature but it can't be that way i understand that but that doesn't explain logically where free will is you're telling me it can't be that i know that as well i teach that for 50 years of course the question is how does it work so i agree with you there's no madness to this this system so see this this is what i'm getting at this says it's not it's based on the rambam and the early philosophers it's not their hidden that the seat and the kuda of free will isn't the sake of man this pure cycle of men is unadulterated the sacral of man on one hand strives for something greater the intellect the power of intellect drives man to disattach the himself themselves from the emotional and go to something more uh pure sophisticated rich intellect and at the very same time how are you going towards something that's greater i.e faith using intellect and that's the kiddush that within intellect intellect says i'm limited i can only go so far aristotle went so far and he couldn't come to a conclusion that there is what we call immortality of the soul if those who have studied philosophy should be familiar with what i'm saying and why is that because the sacral of of the human sacral moisture as created as it is including einstein and and and and aristotle and plato and the greatest has a limitation you know what's limitation is it can never unstrip itself from cycle from intellect because it only uses seiko to to come to something higher nevertheless nevertheless seiko says i can go so far i can't go more that and and a believer says there's something that's beyonce and that's faith and that's where aristotle played on other early philosophers stopped they they stopped short they could not conclude that it's faith you know it reminds me years ago a friend of mine who actually is yard says the shabbos rabbi bryn i wrote a book about him and um you know he passed away at 40. he was a you know he had a genetic illness and i spoke to his cardiologist at and at sinai or nyu a world a world cardiologist and i said the fact that he got out of his body 40 years would you say it's miraculous this was a a non-jewish person complete and he said rabbi i'll tell you i can't say it was miraculous but i say it sure doesn't happen often it's very unrare that a person with that genetic situation should live 40 get 40 years out of his body in other words he couldn't say it's a miracle why not because his seiko limited him that everything must be hardcore evidence another example i led once a shabbaton in atlanta for a a break away from a young israel minion right there were four phds in this minion four michael broyd uh don seaman and two others i mean these were very bright people educated and i spoke about my book on the the rebbe and rabbit celebration called robin river and monster shabbos they decided that they want to have a round table with me i said no problem and i knew that they're going to throw darts at me from all sides arrows darts and stones and that's fine that's what i was there for so one of them says to me i think that what i don't remember his name he says to me you know i read parts of your book i looked at it and it's nice stories and nice ideas and isis interviews but it's not hardcore evidence and we in academia we need hardcore evidence shreyma shabbas with the yamaka small yarmulke from jew very bright and i said to him i'm not i'm not an academic like you are i'm an academic in a different world and i don't want to be an academic you be the academic to me this testimony is greater than your academic approach and it's fine for you and i even discussed this with professor david schwartz of um barilone and he wrote to me that today in academia testimony from people is considered proof and sometimes more proof than all the intellectual uh approaches of academia i'm not saying that to my ton my heart i think they disagreed you know we had a good discussion it was a great discussion yes can you say that again what you just said i missed that last part which part did you miss i where did you where did you what what uh dr david um oh doc i don't know if his name is david i forget his name his name is his last name is schwartz i'll remind myself now at barilon uh he's ashamed of shabbos and a phd and i think philosophy or jewish religion or jewish history i forget um he's published quite a bit quite a bit so he said to me that there's a new school of thought in in this world of academia the testimony is as valid testimony from people who you interview is as valid as intellectual arguments and proofs that it is this way so for example um for example was rabbi salovey a worm or a cold person you know was you you know so on the face of it those that know you know knew him and those that know the brisk approach would say they were cold you know they were more on the in the lit in the liftfuck orientation of being cold and and not as emotional and you know and that whole approach well in my research i found him to be a war person although his facade was a cold one and boy was he warm and emotional because for example and i have many testimony from people told me he came into a house in manhattan and he walked to the bookshelf and he saw a book and he turned to the hosts he turned to the host who invited him in and he says misha where are you going i'm talking to you are you there he asked me a question he gets lost okay anyway i want to hear the story i know i know but you know maisha asks a question and then he gets lost okay so the point is i'm filling him look he's back he's back maisha you ask a question we get you get lost i'm answering your questions your question it's all right it's all right no no pop no apologies necessary so basically he goes to the bookshelf he takes out a book and he looks at it he puts it down and he tells the host the host invited him in and he says what what are you doing with that garbage here that was a very emotional response he didn't study the book he just saw a line and he had a gut reaction uh this writer this is a he doesn't know anything you know what i'm saying i'm not saying that go to badmouth ruby salvation i'm just telling you that so so i i wrote this right so the academics would say to me that i'm sorry this is no this cannot prove whether salvation is cold or or warm you know uh emotional or intellectual and and and what schwartz says said to me that similar type of testimony that i got from people which i presented in the book is adequate to make an argument whatever position i'm taking at the time now why am i saying this because seiko sekou can only go so far well yesterday we had what wasn't a shia i gave this there was a little fabregan about the the birthday of the rebel marash the fourth rabbit we spoke about the river the whole idea of the khakhila river is to go out of your box to break boundaries right for seiko segal needs to break its boundary what's its boundary everything must be understood intellectually if not it's not important if not it doesn't exist and this is it the answer your question is sir what you said earlier here will you explain this is the ammunite that at in the place of sacral itself say who comes to the determination there's almost there's only so much i can go and the rest i don't know and i and i and therefore i turn to faith and that's where free will is it's there where a person has their free will and we're never surely kiss or nephesh obama's kick in so so of course when a person has a choice should i call it a cyclist instead of nephesh no no no no no because the net wait good question answer the nephesh when as soon as you say the word nephesh you're talking about a drive right so we're not talking about the result of the drive we're talking about the dr what what is it that gets you to come to that result and the answer is the nephesh the drive the drive of intellect is where a person's free will is at which concludes that there's something greater than intellect i.e faith so the faith is a what it hits a barrier that's right and so i'm saying this because we're about to learn about the nephesha in other words every person here every person on earth has enough in other words a non-jew has an effort to sickly too and this is an important point listen to this this and youngest i'm sure you probably heard it heard this and thought about it and it's only in a few my maram that you could find this idea a i once wrote a a a pill on this this is my early teenage years learning to this this amazed me this idea amazed me that that a non-jew has an efficiency too what the non-jew doesn't have is the nephili kiss and that's the implication in tanya chapter one but the seat of free will not the f a non-jew has two in other words the human condition god says must have free will the human condition not the jewish condition is there this does that fit into your on the learning of of other aspects of torah see this and otherwise what i just said or not it's falling into place that no but this this that is not exclusive to jews it's every human being must have every human being must have free will the difference is the extent of the hero by the way um all if you if you guys want to really understand this better in look the rap is like volume three parties i think shmini or akhiray i don't have to say for in front of me but that's my recollection one there's a very long footnote it might even be footnote number 19 it's my childhood memory uh and over there the rabbit tackles this issue that i'm discussing it's a very important to really understand that footnote on this topic but it but in our discussion it's i'm summarizing it that free will is um is necessary for the human condition so that's where a person has the ability to make a real choice and in the case of a jew do i act do i use my intellect towards lacus or towards bahamas towards an officially kiss or nepheshababis any any questions before we go inside the text this is yes you're innocent you want to say something okay so let's go 273. four lines from the top and he says when we say adam adam man we're referring to the nephili the intellectual drive and now once the previous labor mentioned this he explains when it comes to the various names that a human being is given yes shameless there are four different synonyms i'm sorry there are four different names the heim shame her exam what's called the essential name shame hatha a figurative way of a name shame happy ula a name that's created by the action the shame and a nickname which is a borrowed name and he explains the shame her exam when we talk about an essential name this is the name that's given to this item on this person this is the essential name of the person so in other words a glass has its name a cup has its name talking about in hebrew and a person has its name and that is what the person is so shulhan is the name given to a table so somehow the table is sustained through the words sulhan avram the name given to avram our dear student is the name that makes avraham tick just parenthetically that's why it's important to use hebrew names and even people who are normally called by their english name slowly but surely they some they change and it's good to work with them to change their name if they're jewish to the hebrew name because that's the kaili that draws the highest into their life a story and maisha you're going to love this story i think you all heard of the family family the hecht family right the most known problem is jj yaakov who was like the rebels ambassador you know he was very close and you start he he he he he developed the uh wednesday hour public school program tremendously anyway this is just any rabbi hecht and he had a brother he had several brothers one was known the youngest sydney hecht and sydney hack's name was hebrew name was shalomher he passed away i think a year ago or two years ago he's 91 years old i knew him i met him i mean i met him several times and i spoke to him so it was at the fabrengan i think 1958 purim in general the purim fabregas by the rebel in the early years in particular from 1950 to 1960 were very heavenly very many many like miracles and things that were unusual happened one year johnny you gotta turn your phone off one year one year um the rapper said everyone should turn their hats upside down like you know a very strange uh behavior but there was the rebel was talking about a certain idea and he wanted to make it real another year this i think i've told you you heard the rebels said those that want to be blessed with wealth should raise their hand so these were like these purim fabregans another year the rebels said that we're at folia connor yo khan's father said that the the big lit fa lit fisher person in bernay brock uh is jealous of a little boy who learns tanya which caused the rebbe said the the the israeli post got rich because many people sent them letters complaining about what rebel falcon said but these were things where i'm purim okay so purim had that miraculous um energy as and of course in 1953 that's when the rebels said hurray hurray hurray right in in russia and that's when they said hurrah stalin died at that time so these were poor so i'm telling you now another purim story so i think it was 1958 and that ever you know took a quite a bit of him and was very animated and he spoke to people that he knew and he spoke to them like i'm talking we're talking to each other you know so the rabbit says it's on tape you can hear it the devil's voice he says sydney heft he shouts out in front of everyone sydney heart roof call yourself by your name [Applause] and say look i am on a full cup of a full cup of wine or vodka whatever and hashem should bless you well he was there and the rebels said so he said look i am and he took upon himself to start calling himself charlemagne he was married i think for eight years or so seven eight years and he hadn't had any children and subsequent to that fabrega and calling and the rebels saying he should call him he should become known as shoulder the year he had he had a child his first child the following year on one end you could say it's a miracle and it it is it is but on the other hand what's the the name the hebrew name is the bracha i'm just saying the way according to the arizon the oysters of the hebrew words is mam so again i'm not not rapping i can't tell you how what but but what i'm saying is that so we're learning here about the shame or etzem the shame oh xm is the essential name of every single person and that's what they're called by in their in their essence next thing is a figure like a toy or a an image who mashima says it's a name that describes the essence and it divides itself into several different aspects [Applause] in four different ways appearance smell taste and sound calm is the god of the cotton based on if there's lots of it or little of it or whether you're strong or you're weak guilty revealed or say or hidden and similarities of qualities in imagery and in imagery in imagery so the rabbit says this is what we mean by shame in other words let's say it used to be they would call in in in lubavitch they would call shlaima the hinkadiker hinkadik means limping they didn't coil call schleimer himself whatever his name was he became known as the hinky dickey now that's not shame that's shay mataya because he limped so he got the name of the ingredient so when people knew which slime are we talking about slimy they think addictive okay and by the way it wasn't just someone who had an issue of health issue could be uh schleimer the geller the the red one because he had red hair he had a red beard she became known as schleimer together that's shame the third name is a name that person gets based on what they do in other words uh the carpenter schleimer the doctor right okay are from the musician yeah exactly very good did you see yourself sandler maybe i remember anyway exactly so that's called shame upola now number four is a nickname and i don't have to tell you what that means you know what a nickname is it's a name that's borrowed from the essential name of the person the injury that expresses something similar the rebel all said in the name the previous call yes every jew is given a nickname jew what's who is this jew the uncle yosel the the carpenter this the the large one the small one the the red one no jew right the megillah purim ish yahoodi hoya bishonabira ishi hudi it's not a shame or adsense it's not a shame upola it's not shame at all it's shame that's what we're talking about what what time is it now take for example the name stone yes they dollared me the shame of salute the shame heaven of shame a stone a stone is a stone that's its essential name essen number two mashem i told is it a large stone or a big store small stone that would be the shame a description of the name of the item that's called with this with a certain name number three the shame upon the shame apollo means is it a simple stone or is it a diamond [Applause] and what is the remedy associated with this particular stone there are stones of grace and there are stains of success and there are stains which are the opposite a disaster and that would be the shame in other words this particular stone is it used for mining and in what way etc etc and what what does it bring to a person luck health uh you know whatever you could say the same thing with the marijuana plants the the cannabis you know there is s this is the name of the plan cannabis right that's not a big book in this you correct me if i'm making mistakes over here but um cannabis now you say it's medicinal and it helps with this illness that's already a description and within a description itself it's also a shame um it's a it it it has certain pull out certain results where it can heal a person from pain or get them to to a different state of consciousness whatever the case let's go further yes and then there is also a nickname show muscle memo which is borrowed from the essential name la dover museum the fourth name the nickname is completely it doesn't denote the essential name and he says for example can i level heaven there's an expression me say that goes like this the heart of a stone shall believe in the heart in hashem even there's no stone in the heart we have we have gallstones elsewhere we don't have a stone in the heart it's a kino it's a nickname what is the nickname moisha hard as a rock tint jaded stuffed clogged i don't feel it you have a heart as a rock leave her heaven leave heaven you have a heart like a rock that's that that name evan in that context is a kinney is a nickname that's this is an explanation the rabbit's giving is using the word evan as an example to explain the four different names that he's speaking about let's continue to have an example who says your classic recovery a stone its very essence is hard and heavy while can't kiss your body tired and you're not him to believe so therefore when one wants to explain the concept of a shaded clogged stuffed heart methylatory we use a a a toa we use a a a term betrayer the shame evan we borrow the name we use the name evan as we as a reference as a borrowed name to explain what a jaded heart is plugins and thereby says this concept you have for all four divisions of domin of the inanimate so within each of the domains you have these four types so for example we learned in the in the torah pashmini there's a bird called khasidah the name of the bird is khasidah like a husset what does rashford say she said i'll shame it's named this way because it does it with other birds that's already that's already another aspect to the name its name is khasidah the fact that it does ask it to others it's a borrowed name that we use so again in other words so now we would have to explore what are the other two since every species what i'm saying here at the end every species has these four descriptions in the inanimate world in the vegetative world in the in the in the um uh in it's a living world animal world and in the human world in the medab i know it's some heavy stuff but it could be understood it needs to be understood so i want you to think about it and tomorrow you you ask me and and and we'll try to clarify okay and we'll see everyone tomorrow have a great day shalom bye-bye thank you