Maamar Korov #1 - Don't waste Your Talents - How do I call G-d with Truth?

and whoever else so on page we're learning now 208 the mimer uh velvet i sent it to you you have it yeah thank you very much i have it okay [Music] we say this in ashrae every morning and we say it three times a day twice in chakras once in minha hashem is close to all those that call him and he's close to all those that call there's a contradiction between the beginning of the verse and the end of the verse so plus i can tell you the belief in the beginning of the verse that god is close to all those that cloak that call him regardless of how they call him hashem is close to them in the first half of the passage of the verse he doesn't give any conditions you call to god i don't care if it's coming if you're a liar or a thief or exotic or truthful as long as you're called to god he answers you but over say for thou mayor but the end of the verse says the whole mishka coin who does god answer only someone who calls him with ms so it's a contradiction it's not just repetitious in a way right you might say well but the question you might have thought of is that it's repetitious that ever says it's not just that it's not just repetitious it's contradictory because the first verse says you call to god god answers you i don't care who you are and how you call him he answers you and the second part of the verse gives you what's nigh a condition you're innocent that the only time hashem is going to answer you is if you call him that's his question in kane how do you tonight the ms according to god only with ms is a condition telling me kharif avaya who is god close to let me show you mr chaka you only to someone that calls embarrassments with truth that's the first question question number two the answer you can have we also have must understand what's the reason he says at the end of the first part of the process hashem is closed off to all those that call him hashem the kingdom there in hebrew would have made sense kareem hashem karev hashem li qaeda right the lamid the lamid substitutes for the word is what we call an english grammar a conjunction members in the mem with right so in hebrew the llama the base and the men are all conjunctions meaning so if that's the case it's in other words it's substitutes for an entire word what is the llama in this case substitute for for the word so the positive could have sort of said of hashem liquidative without the word local so that ebba is analyzing the extra [Music] these are the two questions and now he starts his explanation you know the idea is i'll say to say when it says to call hashem with emmani what are we talking about emma's what kind of venus so the hazel say what we mean by emma's is calling god through torah through torah study the titanic class embassy is called truth why is tyra emmis because it's eternal at all times and all place and you all know that the word ms right so the beginning the first of the hebrew alphabet aleph mem is the middle of the hebrew alphabet and self is the last what is ms something that goes from aleph through mem all the way to tough and if it's not that way it's not pure ms it's shades of ms it's feelings of ms it's fantasies of ms but it's not ms what's ms aleph memphis we're the same from childhood through teenhood through adulthood tears in the kuda mission is a common denominator that's truthful throughout that is the nakutas emis what is it in the world that has that common denominator and is really always there the same only one thing called torah or someone who lives with torah and that's why velvet we say that tata god's tata is ms what's ms eternity from the beginning through the middle till the end it never changes just as god doesn't change he put himself into the tata tata doesn't change and that's why is ms back to the text so when you call to hashem through ms who calls him through the toyota so now the question is what does it mean to call hashem through toyota and the rebel explains hovens there to understand this inixiv it says know your father god your father the of the you and servant believe shalom with a complete heart overnight and with a willing heart this soul ki call of of his name is hashem because all hearts seek god the holy eights and maksha voice maven and all inclinations of the heart look to comprehend him if you will search you will find hashem and if you forsake him he's going to leave you forever you leave him and he ain't coming back seemingly this is not understood [Music] and the verse does not explain what i should know no god thank you very much what should i know about him his belly button his eyes he he what should i know about god one of the three components of the mind is which is the aspect of creativity to create an idea there is been which is to understand and develop the idea and there's gas to concentrate on the idea okay and as the saying is there are three compartments in the in man's head there are three parts each compartment is like a separate chamber separate room in that kite space there is brain and that part of the brain who click it's a receptacle it's a vessel for intelligence based on that particular space and chamber so yeah in the kali is such that it it it identifies with creativity so in the in the in the maya in the maya you're not going to get bina because the operation over there no pun intended velvet the operation over there is about so if you use bina in the clay it's not going to work it's going to mess you up you're going to be more confused so too and being there you assume if you use das when you're supposed to you're in the in the domain of bina you're going you're going to also not know it because before you can concentrate on something you have to understand it thoroughly you have to develop the idea analysis all are necessary on our components of being up let's continue is divided into three parts the comprehension and the understanding of the seiko finally vadas the third component he did now he says here judeas means the knowing of the seiko what he means is not the knowing in the sense of knowing it means the as the alternative says in chapter 3 adam had relations with khabar what kind of word does the torah use for relations yoga he knew her so the i'll explain that unless you have das when you're when you're involved with with java if unless autumn had java there wouldn't be an offspring what does that mean you need to concentrate on the activity and focus on the activity and if you don't have the concentration there's no result so what is the idea of yoda his connection or in this case focus and concentration so again it's all um alluded to in the word in the words of the letter here that does who you disassemble is really the same thing yes but but but but yeah i mean sometimes we don't we we we talk about that not at we don't focus on the discussions of the dots we focus on another aspect but yes das is is real dust in other words there are levels in das there are levels in das so you know it's like i'm concentrating well how much are you concentrating well there's differences sometimes i'm able to concentrate more something to concentrate less so that's why sometimes these gospels are stronger and sometimes these cautious is weaker but ultimately what you said is correct that thus creates the discussions focus and concentration on the issue creates the bond when you think about someone and you folk not only do not only when you understand what they're doing and not only when you understand their creativity and understand their development all that but you start taking that into you and you make that your focus and concentration that's when you develop a bond with them and look you know i'm glad you brought it up we see sometimes people you know they're married and then they divorce well they did they have doubts at a certain point they had dogs but it got lost after a while it's not as though you can't lose your focus and concentration you can and we all know how hard it is to focus and concentrate i remember when i was in yeshiva in the babaji yeshiva and we and we had our first mashipiya rabera lipscore so one night he was for bringing and he spoke to us about reviewing hasidis before david is called to think hasidis before davening so we were all excited to you know to memorize and see a piece of tanya and then before we dive in each day to review it in our mind so he said to us i i want you to do that but i don't want you to do it for more than two minutes and he was re repeating himself a lot so i remember i went over to him after if i bring and i said like what's wrong if it's five minutes why two minutes and he said if you'll be able to concentrate for two minutes without any other distractions i'll give you a medal and that's an avoidance that that's a concentration for two minutes without anything else anything disturbing you including within the idea itself not to go off on a tangent try concentrating on one thing and one thought and not allow your mind to wander not what hot dogs i'm gonna have for supper or or where my where is my dog going or or where are my kids right but try to concentrate on a thought of tata and only on that thought and not allow any other terror thought or any other hasidic thought within this idea to inter inter interrupt it's a heart avoider it takes a lot of mind work that's the void of das and so so when you say about his but the as long as you're in the mode of das true does let's continue in what we understand from this is that das is one of the three compartments of intelligence you hear this young it's not that das is already a move away from intelligence no it's it's in intelligence it's kind of the final step of intelligence is thus question is since das is so important and so powerful the posix should have explained malay that it says know your father god your father what should i know about him what should i concentrate about him on him velvet that's his question next page will um say just simply know god your father next question i'm sorry it's the same question sarah huffin so he must understand what is the content what is the token what is the content of this idea of this dot so from the continuation of the verse we understand through this idea of knowing and concentrating on god your father inaudible this will lead to having serving god with a complete heart and seemingly adieu the idea of knowledge which is comprehension and intellectualization the avoidance and service of the heart should poison that it's that the knowledge impacted the person to serve god they are so distant one from the other and yet the verse says through da said okay [Music] you'll serve him with a good heart a complete heart so the devil's question is wait a second is the oppo seemingly the opposite of of dale the lame of showing dies intelligence but later vogue they believe show them is an emotion that's his question so therefore we must understand what is this idea of delving deep into das and its result in serving god you know the idea is the initial wish that we see the beholder in every generation a person must see himself as though he's leaving egypt today and there it was the exodus of the egyptian exile my case so two on page 209 second paragraph fourth line hillary 209 fourth second paragraph fourth line so kamikaze there is also the spiritual counterpart of exile egyptian exile and exodus the hine [Music] the fact that the egyptians were very low lives and disgusting people in their behavior [Music] a nation similar to donkeys and yeshiva the very fact that the jewish people have to sit amongst these people live and dwell amongst them who dover kosher that itself is uncomfortable imagine you're living you know in a arab village that's you know hostile to you just the fact even if they don't touch you you feel very very it's very difficult he needs even more so hey marshall will be a said oil the egyptians dominated over the and they enslaved them and they they pushed them and they worked with them avoided kosher with great work and toil the middle vein him with clay and bricks and they made them work very hard the cabanas are vitiligous which relays there are taylor swift tackles and the purpose listen to this happiness mcavoy why do they make us work in such a way that ebba says it wasn't for any purpose no tackles we find that some that at times it's very important for us people who works though work could be hard but there is a one egg there is a a pleasure from it that god although generally speaking work is taxing at a person's body um nevertheless when a person created when a person does a heavy work for example building a vessel and he has to cut and he has to measure and he has to switch hagam shabbat a big although it comes to him with effort because yes learning to say yes pleasure i was just thinking about this morning i'm writing and writing and writing and you know it's it's hard work and i said to myself but the result when the book comes out and i touch that book and have it in my hand it's so pleasurable so it's worth all the hard work the pleasure is not only in the fact that that what you create ultimately brings you benefit let's say financial benefit or prestige or whatever yo tell us [Music] it could have been hashem would give you the benefit of making the vessel without you working so hard you know the pleasure's from the pleasure is not from the result you hear this the pleasures from the fact that you made it it's you who works so hard that's the pleasure not the result the result is secondary the bachola [Music] psychology of work whatever you make there is a separation the separation of your kayak your power that makes that result the that was created yes hillel don't hear you okay can you hear me yes i thought i had unmuted um that uh the this forum often bring this concept that when a attic owns something some of some rosham from the sadiq enters that thing it becomes sort of a a part of his world so to speak yes it's a similar process that's right it's the world that this foreign bring is that that's why a heifetz an object of assadic is is so cause exotic is that sadiq and he and his and his kayak his craft not just as exotic because as a human being because this is a truism by everyone now because he's he's made himself so holy and is that sadiq that is is is very special right but but but the idea that you i'm just i'm what you said is right i'm just elaborating the idea is for every person let's go further back as long as this item exists the kayak of that person is in that item okay in the book that i write it my kayak is in that writing so as long as that book is around there's a kayak of the writer in the writing in actuality there is a cloud there's a rule in ghazal in halal a person has mercy hus on his handwork okay but it could be something that to someone else it's so insignificant but if you made it to you it's everything in the world it's the best thing why because you made it off how to aim [Music] it is not because the the the reason why a person has mercy on an item is not because if the item is destroyed there's no item anymore there's no kaylee anymore okay we don't have your cup so i have velvet's cup i have uranus's cup big deal i got a bug to drink in uh so why why autumn croissant maize what do i need my club my my my cup i have another cup a buttercup because it's mine because i made it because i invested my my energy and my soul and my effort into that cup that's why i'll say autumn i say your dove good morning misha why does a person have cross mercy one about five lines at the bottom why does a person have mercy on his on his own vessel that he makes who defeats us [Music] because he did it so even though it's insignificant to you it's the most significant thing remember this this is so important with raising children and and in work what seems to us sometimes to be so insignificant so ridiculous for the person who made it it's the most valuable thing now we have to understand that and appreciate that okay and and this cloud is used in the gemara and by the way it's used in halacha let's continue and he says um and as is the nature of you of of of man to have pleasure when one's kayak one's power is mispassed expands a person has pleasure that he sees his efforts and his kayak expanding therefore even heavy work in tedious work and taxing work he has pleasure because he did it he has pleasure from it is from taylor's cloud but what if he does something he works and works and works and there is no result besides the great effort and diligence and and that he put into it he zed sar top of the next page to 10 sargon it's great pain what's the great pain not just that moisture works on a piece of art and let's say it remains in his he made it not of course to sell it but he made it because he wants the world to know about it he wants to show his inner feelings through the piece of art and if the art remains in your basement and it sits there no that's a great sign that's a great pain it's a deep pain it's not it's not just a quantitative pain it's a qualitative pain and by the way and this is important for you hillel and your work and if i may say so although you're the professional not me in this area but this idea that people don't get to use their talents is a very painful thing and and and sometimes you can go through a whole lifetime i i recall and i'm going to say who but today's almost 90 years always 90. uh a lebavature and i spoke to him once and he told me that the rebels sent him way back to do ashleephisto in a certain city this is before all this in the 1950s and the early 50s and for whatever reason it didn't work out because of the balabatim it was a show that you know and he and he tried this and he tried that and he was communicating with rabbit he took out the letters the letters that he had he showed me the letters and he literally was crying a man at the time when i interviewed him was 80. a man it was and and i i was and i i wasn't expecting that in the interview and i just like sat there like silent i was like blown away that something that he had um 40 years before in his life was paining him so much so this is a very very important point that we're learning here that a person there's a time you need to kind of focus and and and say yourself i have a certain talent i have a certain thing i want to give to the world and i'm a big proponent of this and you should go for it now when we run into where we run into a problem is how do you balance parnosa sustenance sustaining livelihood and your love and what you really love doing and this is a hard issue because you have to bring bread home and pay your bills at the same time maybe this is not what you like doing i've told you that you know dennis prager goes into the room and he says how many of you can raise your hand you like the job you do and there's some that raise their hands then he says how many of you can say i love the job i'm doing and i get paid for it too and there were less hands you know but but that i i'm not saying you should you got to have a job and you got to work i just read yesterday there was a question rabbi ruvving dunan there are stories in the chabad he had a very close relationship to the river in fact he bought a chair and he designated that chair for the rebel when the rebbe comes to swollen shia he'll come to his because the rebel told him i think that he would first come to his house when she comes he he made a lot of bali truva a lot of the chabad bali truva from way back some even the leaders were his bali trooper because he you know he came from the kibbutz and he came my father remember my father remembers when he came to the to the lord yeshiva in the 1950s with shorts you know and he was totally wild you know and what's his name again d u n or dalit v reuven dude and he's he's a known character in the chabad uh world because he he spoke and he became a real serious uh booker and he he and he started to do the rebels things and he was a tractor he drove he wrote a tractor in haifa that was his job and at a certain point he came to the rabbit he says i want to stop working and i just want to put on filling with jews and be my car because he had a tremendous pet he was able to take people and really get to them and they they did shoot her it was very interesting character we have to fabring about him a whole sheer and and uh and the rebbe said i just read yesterday they never said them no you keep your job at least a half a day and the rest of the day you can go put film on and talk to people and and and thereby writes to him there and i want you and i want you to keep the job but often cavu alike don't in other words not you'll have the job for a month and then no job and invite to you without a job no no you have to solidify your job as a tractor driver you know in the fields or whatever he was doing so what i'm saying is that as we're learning here an important issue that there's a great tsar if a person doesn't get to use their kayak their talent and i'm saying of course it's true but at the same time you have to be careful not to not to throw everything out because of it now if it gets to a crisis you go to hillel and you work how do you you know but no but but i'm saying if a person if a person says i can't i can't i can't i can't i can't my father didn't raise me my father's from romania he's a european he would always say go out and paint the walls if you don't have what work you got to bring home don't give me you know you don't like doing it go out and slept milk you know and that's the way he lived till my father you know got some partners and they bought the you know a a factory to make sweaters and they did well until then he was driving a taxi oh a froome jew should drive a taxi a laboratory and this was in the 70s when there was murders on the streets of brooklyn and manhattan taxi drivers one of my father's friends who i knew from shul was murdered on smith 9th street in brooklyn shot dead alabacher this was real and he went into that business and he worked hard and i've told you the stories we would come home minutes before the ski and my heart as a boy would fall out i was so scared my father's not home for shoppers it's shoppers yeah and and because he came back from manhattan friday afternoon manhattan traffic all to bring all to bring padmasa for his family okay so so so on one hand you have that scenario where you gotta get you have to get out and bring pannosa at the same time a person should find a way a find a way to really do what they really love doing and and i think if you if you discuss it with your spouse and with a mashpia and a rav and a good friend you you you'll be able to find the mahalak you wanted to say something no i just uh wanted to uh say yes i i this is something i think is essential to listen for in every conversation is what a person feels like is their unique mission and contribution in this world correct because i think it's it's a unique form of uh of uh insight into who a person is and yeah let me just finish the four three lines and then we'll we'll stop uh two tenths of nine all of this that ever said to tell us that when when our ancestors were in exile by by the midstream by the egyptians they made us work so hard but without a tolerance without a purpose what was the egyptians what was their mindset what do they want [Music] they may they want to break us no purpose is what the posix says to torture us through the hard work their their purpose was that we worked very hard she avoided it's such work that breaks the body that's what they wanted to do they didn't need us to put up the pyramids and afterwards kbts with science we had the exodus later on next paragraph and then we went out with an uplifted hand but all of this was to explain that the egyptians there was no kavanagh to elect there was no purpose and benefit from making us doubtful work so hard why did they do it to break us and that's evil that's evil you know it reminds me and i finished with this it's it's not as such afraid of but i read last night rabbi mangell this is mangel who's uh who you know edited the chabad siddhar he's a survivor he's a child survivor he was mamish and he was he was in in auschwitz so i just read i mean i heard this before but i read yesterday again that um uh he was there with all these children and it was a trip lincoln one of the one of the camps and the amash mengele came in with his with his surgeons and his you know professors and he says uh he says and he was laying on a bunk bed he says come down from the bunk bed and he spoke in germany and mungel's natural tongue was german he understood she comes down and he oversee him saying to his doctors i want you to to give him an injection in his veins to see if he'll die or will make him just crazy and and he heard that and he said an experiment you make on a monkey not on me and he jumped back to the bunk bed in front of mendeley and mengele walked away he said this happened to him and that he remembers it in 19 in there in the 40s united was 44 45 whenever it was he's an experiment you do on a monkey on me you're not doing your experiments and and he knew that he could just take him and kill him like everyone else experiments just for the sake of experiments that's that's the evil that was the nazi maximum their evil was just to use us and to break us and and and and what we're learning here is that there has to be a toe ellis so the question that i was asking what was the purpose of you see of of of of golosmith and he and he ends the paragraph by saying and and ghost mitzrayim was so powerful that what did it lead to vinay israel we went out with an exalted hand somehow this led not just to a release and a recovery and an expansion but it was roma with an expansion with a uplifted hand we'll see everyone tomorrow have a good day enjoy the class think of it think about it because it's very very important zygosumped bye-bye