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Maamar Kol #3 - World has Creator - G-d is Creator and beyond
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four perfect so we're about
good day everyone we're learning now the
my mid
um whoa
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oh i see would see that the calamari
the heading the heading over here
in this safe it says matuevo elecha
yaakov in the in the
in the header but it's the it's not
right
the mimer is called that's why i got
confused
yeah was also confused but to know
okay so we we learned
yesterday that the posix says
shemesh um hashem elokim
as just as the sun and its cover
so is god our god
because this explains this it's not just
poetry but it explains the way
hashem creates the world and that is
just as the chemist the muscle the
parable the
analogy is just as the sun
must have a cover a shield
for it to be effective otherwise
it would be too strong for the world to
receive
and it would burn the world
but nevertheless so one second so
so it has a cover that dims
the light of the sun making it
accessible and beneficial
for us nevertheless
what is it that's
benefiting us and helping us as said in
the torah
we make its voice the sweetness of tour
comes from the sun
and the sweetness of cucumbers comes to
the boom so we see there's an actual
benefit to the sunlight
and the moonlight
coming through its cover it's not take
its shield
nevertheless what is it
that we're getting it's the sun
it's a ray of the sun but it's it's not
a ray of the shield the shield is helen
the shield conceals
and if we take for another another
muscle for example
a teacher teaches a rav talmud
is is known to bring the muscle of raven
talmud very often
the rav if he were to
teach the students the way he himself
understands on his level it would be
overwhelming
and the students wouldn't benefit so
what does this the teacher do
he dresses up his information he
conceals he hides
but at the end what
that amount that is communicated to the
to the student
it's his knowledge the rob's knowledge
if it were to become students knowledge
it wouldn't be beneficial
it's irav's knowledge it's the shemesh
it's the sunlight that
helps us
vis-a-vis a cover but it's the sunlight
so this rabbit says so too is a
shameless kim
creation bria is from youth cave of
k the word utk buff k
is pronounced havaya
fire what does the word havaya mean
laha voice to create
not to sustain not to vivify
vivify the hebrew word is highest
sustain the hebrew word is kium
and here we use the word
that means to create and as soon as you
say
to create it denotes it
tells us it wasn't here before
and it become and it and it comes to be
what we know has it is to be known as
yeshmiah
something from nothing that's all
implied
in the word havaya so when the when the
titus says
when the puzzle says
is compared to the shemesh and their
locum is compared to
the mugen right it says the position
hashem elokim so the youth kavovke
the creative force of god
is analogous to the sun how is it
analogous
explains how citizens have been
explained here as well
that
creation can only be from hawaii
creation cannot be from elokim
from that force of god that's known as
elokim
we wouldn't have creation why not simple
simple logic
yeah it's simple what's the logic elo
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concealment and restraint so how could
it be
that from a negative or a
concealment that should be creation
creation means pro-activity
doing something positive and here i'm
holding back elokim
so hasidah says you're right creation
doesn't come from elokim it comes from
utk
bufke however the youth cave of k
the havaya the creation creator
the creative force and power is too
overwhelming
and it needs it needs
a shield it needs a cover
to tame it to control it that's eloquent
that's hello kitty and that's why
the the simile similarly means the
comparison
the simile between hashem elokim to
shemesh
umagain is very exact
and precise that's what we learned
until now
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uh i'm not a linguistic and i don't know
a hundred percent
the word barra
we translate voracious borrelicum in the
beginning god created
right uh the the targum says the
uh on the possibilities that that
i believe that's the target translation
it could be that again
bara represents creation x nilo yeshmiah
the ramban says that
is the force of creator even as he is
before
he is a creator of a created being
there is the concept
of oil mice before the tsimsu
and there's also the i so i'm saying
possibly yeah yeah
it could it could be the implication of
the word lahava is
is not normally we use it for bria like
you said
but it could be that it really refers to
even a creation from of
of before brian you know
uh name
and adam kadman and and all those
darkest
maybe we we would also use the word
okay let's learn inside page 204
is
the unity of hashem is apparent
and recognizable to all creatures
when is that valvo it's very easy to say
that
but you know is it so that ever says
it's so
if i know if
cash
if and when you will meditate when man
will meditate
reflect on the world he lives in and
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the creation
he will not only believe he will see
the energy and the vitality the godly
energy vitality
the zeal
and see this energy creates
and enlivens the world and its creatures
so the river starts alluding to here the
concept of what we call
me
you don't this doesn't require ammuna
this is this is das this is knowledge
and this is what he's going to explain
now
someone told me yesterday or that
two few days ago i asked him how his
father
who came from a traditional svardic
background became more religious
he said he was traveling from a country
from where he came from
and he was coming to america or canada
and um
he looked at the water as the boat with
the ship was sailing
and he said wait a minute who made this
how is all this happening
and he said it must be
that there is a creator of and things
don't happen just by chance
and that was the impetus for him when he
landed
to check into a shoe and to start
learning titan
i i i i mentioned this yo innocent
because the rabbit says here
when you take the time to reflect on
what's going on
it becomes very clear that there is a
creator here
the issue is either we don't take the
time
or our reflection is in the wrong areas
but if you're if you have if you have
the peace of mind
and and and it's unadulterated with
stick
and stupidity and all kinds of nonsense
it becomes clear when you look outside
and the sun comes up in the morning
that there's something greater than
ourselves
and the world we live in that makes it
all come together
this is what he says here
now he says he explains himself
one of the most used verses in khabar
hasidis
from my flesh sorry exa
i shall see alika godliness
if i look verbal at my body my flesh
and you're a doctor you look at you look
at it every day
not your own flesh necessarily but
people who you treat
you will see that there is eleca
there is a force there is a god
of them and just as a person
knows and feels himself
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what is the primary driving force that
makes him
alive it's the energy
and the force of the soul
validated
there's two concepts listen this is very
important
there is the overall recognition that
there is a force
that makes me alive but that doesn't get
me the force is
godly as a force i think i told you i
recall
about 25 years ago or so i was walking
with a college student home from rabbi
ferris yehuda ferris who joins us and i
know
he's the shleak of berkeley california
such a special year
and we're walking home to his house and
a college student that
was i think was a girl who was walking
along
and i started talking to her
and somehow the discussion
is about god so i said so
do you believe in god she says no god no
i don't know if they got i don't know if
there's a god so i said to do you
believe in a force
yes a force yes
you believe in an energy oh yes
but god khashoggi no
you know in other words fool
force energy god it's all the same
but what we're learning here is in a way
it's not the same
that's my point it's not the same
because that student
is demonstrative of what we're learning
here there's a force
there's an energy but
i don't know where it comes from and i
don't know how holy it is
it's kind of part of a natural
phenomenon
plato and aristotle i believe i'm not a
philosopher
but from what i was told they believe
that as well
they believe that while the person is
alive there's a force and an energy
that makes them live
when they die they don't believe in
immortality of the soul
because they never believe that the soul
is godly
they believe that the soul is a force
associated with the mind
so when the mind goes the force goes
that's what it ever says here in the
parentheses
that more than just believing
and then unders that more than
understanding
that it's a force that gives life
to the body it's it a person comes to
the realization a jew who meditates
and reflects
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that this force isn't just a force
it's godliness and as soon as you say
it's godliness
it's eternal and that's what plato and
aristotle did not recognize
and disagreed with
because their version of a force was
uh aspect of humanity of nature
and that's why the frida keraba adds
here this is from other my modern of
course
beginning with the altered it's not
enough
to use meditation and reflection
to come to a conclusion that there's a
force in the world that makes the world
go
as as that's a beginning
but it's not adequate because
if if that's the end all of your
meditation
and your understanding
then you don't come to the conclusion
that the world is is is is created
by the creator who's supernatural
yudkevkay
or in the rebels words
there's the there's two parts to the
gulf there's the outer the body
and there's the highest of the body
without associating that highest to holy
cous
so and the rabbit says that through
avoider
this is very it's a few short words here
but it's loaded i'm telling you
through avoid it through working and
hurting and putting effort in your
meditation
who mortgage you will actually
feel in a conscious way
that the vitality and the force that
sustains you
is not just a bodily force a natural
force
but it's early course it's godliness
meditation you know
there are different systems level of
meditation
years ago rabbi arya kaplan oliver
sholem wrote a book jewish meditation
and it was very popular and it helped a
lot of people
i'm not convinced that i and i love
robert kaplan's works i mean he's a
genius
i'm not convinced that it
he went he went kind of to the depth
to the end because his training was more
impressive
i mean he dabbled in khabad how could
you not dabble
but i'm not sure that at the end he
he understood that the
deep the deepest meditation to impact
the person in a way
where the person gives up of themselves
and realizes that he himself is only
nature
and it's all about the supernatural that
comes through this meditation
and it's not you don't have to be a bad
person to have this meditation you can
be
any any any type of heat it's open for
everyone
but it's the content and the mechanism
and the and and the particular thought
process that ultimately leads a person
to the realization that it's a lacus
and i heard this bjergsen from mashpeem
when i discussed with them this idea of
meditation
this was the nutshell and it's not an
easy nutshell
it's a very it's a very uh difficult
avoider
because leaving velva leaving the arena
of nature and mind
to the arena of godliness is night and
day
the jump from segal
to elekus is like yashmiyan
i say like yeshmiah
it it it's two different worlds
and and the qasida says it here
that through avoider through
working hard with your mind
a person can come to a point
where he
ultimately lets go of the mind
and allows the elykus to become who he
is
and and if you think about this then you
say
how many hasidim how many if the hashem
really really came to this recognition
in their lifetime then you understand
why lubavitchers
aren't quick to complement
and give accolades and really believe
in this person or that person that
they're exotic
you know in the world we live in
everyone's exotic and everyone's
abandoning everyone is good and
everyone's holy
that's common talk but
real real avoid this hashem
is is is unique let's continue
i listen there were sydney that
that worked himself to this this
this isn't your innocence only or ever
no i disagree if that's what you mean i
disagree no
it's shy for you and i you're innocent
depending on how much avoid this hashem
and avoid this and his bonniness we do
it can it can overtake us um
that's my understanding of siddhis i
know yesterday i was talking to a
a professor a firm professor who learned
in yeshiva and is very knowledgeable
and he said about someone else who we
were talking about he said
that the person had add or adhd
which is in the brain and therefore
they cannot control themselves
as i said well that contradicts what the
al qaeda says
and he didn't answer me i guess he
believes that the altar ebb is wrong
which is fine but i don't i believe the
alternate
is right i believe that the mind over
matter
can at least control can at least
control and tame
the the the the leve to a certain degree
now the alternate teaches in tanya the
urge is always there
that i agree with but the control of the
urge
the maya shall it
so the counter argument to that is
that's when someone has a mayak that's
functioning but when you're in an
addictive state
or he calls it an add or adhd state
you can't control your left because
your mayak is not functioning so there's
no
mayak to be shall at allah live
therefore the late is out of control
yes you're innocent
you know that the status is
it might actually come from from the
middle
yeah let's continue yes after the
parenthesis the fourth
fifth line the haguf biatsuma yena
the body itself of all isn't anything at
all
the proof is in the pudding volvo
when the soul leaves the body hagam shi
yesh nam kali vodon
although all the limbs of the air um
nevertheless the eye doesn't see
vietnam and the mouth can't speak
et cetera he is dead the body is dead
hare what does this prove
boy what is the primary aspect of the
body
who cares it
in the world
the primary thing is the energy
and the vitality that sustains the world
just as in the small world the primary
thing
is the energy and the vitality
and it can make so too
it's in the big roof that what's the
primary aspect of the big goof
i.e the world it's the highest the
energy of hashem
that's the main thing
now he goes
is recognized and observable
in actuality
in all creatures
commissioner
as explained elsewhere at great length
there's a concept
going to stop here just to say because
tomorrow will continue it's a new
new idea and other people will come to
murmur muhammad
that this idea
is one of the most fundamental ideas in
chabad
citizen here we have in about 10
lines but there are pages upon pages of
this concept in lakota
and and each of their obeying's my
modern
this is a fundamental nakuda
and i heard
from rabbi picarski in tel aviv
that there was a fabregan in the early
1970s
and abhyol khan was forbranging
and he took a little high him and and it
was udall of nissan it was rebecca
moletus and he was so animated that he
started to
he took his knuckle and he was banging
in his
forehead here and he said
we have to learn hasidis until this
physical forehead will understand god
you understand that's
and that's what you all can't you know
but each of us there's learning
and there's learning there's governing
and there's governing there's a void and
there's an avoider
and that's the the govaldige of of
hasidis
that it keeps you on your toes it
to to harvard to have harovanya means
diligence effort in understanding the
misogyny the ideas
as as as as you know they say in america
it's uh what do they call it um bread
and butter
or the you know whatever you know i'm
saying it it's like
whatever we eat and whatever we it comes
to us natural
the same way we should understand
siddhas okay everyone have a great day
um we'll learn tomorrow as i get
bye-bye