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which city in germany
okay let's learn page 211
so uh in yesterday's year
uh that ever took a piece of tanya that
we learned
chapter one and tanya the end of chapter
one of tanya
and he cites the arizona that every year
has
neshama is two souls
not just one because the posix says
venus
it doesn't say venus
writes this implies that every year has
two
two souls but
you look that up in don you'll see
exactly the exact language
he changes from the word nishamos as the
as it appears in the pussac
to the facilities which is
the language in the tanya uh i i just
it does stormed i mean whether that's
also the language of the arizona
i would venture of vital i would venture
to say not but it has to be looked up
it would be interesting to see if the
alta rep
is the one that makes the change from
the chamois
to the fascists already the reply and
vital did it
that would be interesting uh maybe uh
hilla will you have a chance look up in
the
exitus move eras because they i'm sure
point out this difference
see if they give a citation uh
on this difference to earlier
you mean in chapter one of tanya yes
yes chapter 1 the last half of the
chapter
and the the reason why delta
brings the difference between the shamos
and the fascists again in english we
translated
the same words souls two souls
but in the hebrew there's a very
specific difference
based on kabul and khasidis and the
difference is that the nephesh
the word nephesh denotes
the vivifying activating
power that gives kayak to the body in a
practical way
whereas the word neshama refers to the
more spiritual
aspect of the soul that is its
essence so we have
neshama referring to the essence
more of the essence might say more of
the essence
and nephesh referring more to the
practical side of
the the animating the body
you all know that there are five levels
to the
summer this is brought in kabbalah
nephesh
the acronym of which is
and the general explanation one second
please the general explanation is
nephesh refers to myself to action
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willpower and pleasure
that we're talking about where is it
from where's the puzzle from
um i believe you look it up i i
i i believe is isn't it ef
it's not leave yakov do you know you
could look it up one two three but uh
in safari or whatever i i think it's ev
i think
okay oh actually
if so i'm not sure i'm not sure yeah it
is so are you just
are you saying that this the the
the that positive is quoted in the first
chapter of tanya
yes okay and the quote taken from sarah
kadusa from
vital remember you asked me about that
right so it's from there
it's impossible okay thank you thank you
so you heard hillary the answer it's a
and you're shy
you got it okay
so and why does the alternate yoni why
does he change
i i just explained to you that the fact
is
either he or the raphaim vital changes
language
he changes from the word used in the
positive the question is why
and the answer is because the here the
altarebin chapter one italian the frida
karebe here in this mimer cites it in
this
paragraph is looking to explain
the the driving force
of a soul associated with a body
he's not talking about the soul in its
own state
so since he's looking to explain the
driving force
of the body and everything that comes
along with the body i.e
character the middays therefore
he says shaheen stay in a fascist
you all heard me understand that's why
he makes the change
if velvet if he was talking about the
aspect of the neshama
as it's in its own right in its own
place in its own domain
and idea he would keep the word neshama
but being he's talking about a nephesh
and an ephesian keys he's talking about
that aspect of the soul of the summer
that vivifies and activates
the person in certain behaviors
therefore he changes from the shamans to
the fascists so that's one
one important idea that
it that we that when we learn hasidis
many times you won't find this
distinction i'd say
most times but in tanya at the end in
this section
chapter one it's very clear the
distinction
so yes overall when you learn on my
mechasidis or maybe other and also other
places in tanya
the the the words are kind of
interchangeable nephesh and the shaman
the shrub
fish right well
in other words moishe why don't we call
the nephesh of the kiss
nisha melo kiss or or
mahaba hamas we don't use the word
nusrama for
elo kiss and bahamas we use the word
fish
yes masha i just want to ask because you
know
this is very fresh in my mind when we
were at the o'hall yesterday so we said
the monolash
so that's something that is used a lot
in the manulation
and i was actually asking myself the
same question
yesterday right um
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are you referring to the uh to that that
trilla that we say before we read the
pond the pigeon
yeah you know you're not you're not
you're not referring to the section
of zoar that they have which we read
later if you get to that no
no right right so i
i don't know the exact wording now but i
believe i
i i know i think i know what you're
talking about but the wording exactly i
don't remember
again there you're standing at
at at the top at the oil or for that
matter
any oil and you you want to bring the
the tsaddik should bring your tillers to
cottage barcode to help you
practically
so so the word nephesh i think is a very
you know nephesh implies the
practicality that's that's the point
the summer defines and refers more to
the spirituality
so in other words you have the
spirituality within spirituality and you
have the physicality
or the in in the spirituality
so when you're standing and asking for
the foo for shidduchim
for you know success and business and
learning and
you want to you want to identify with
that
aspect of the topics the summer
so that the conduit is the right one
because if you go through the wrong
conduit
it might take you a longer time to get
an answer
which by the way is one of the reasons
why sometimes we ask ourselves i darwin
i must follow i pray and the brother is
taking a long time to come
if you're honest with yourself it could
be you use the wrong channel
that's why you have to be very very
keen and sharp and and to make sure
that you use the right channel for the
right broker
yes there is an overall bracha okay but
you know from overall brokers we get
overall results
which is general we want as we say in
good old english in the bank we want it
you know exactly for what we need
right now we also have stories
in ghazal and in in in and
in jewish literature and lore that
that sometimes we ask for a certain
bracha and abhishe who knows best
basically gives us
another broccoli not in the area that we
asked for because he knows best
so that's another issue that that's
already a metaphysical issue of
reincarnation and gilgal and and and
other aspects and we know the stories
you know
whether it's whoever said to them what
would you you know
you want to have you came for children
you came for panosa
would you rather have that or children
if they were childless you know
there are such mices and and the idea
if you take it out of the story realm
and you look at it from the
philosophical realm it makes a lot of
sense
because because the my second hero
because
the the the idea of tapping into the
right
energy at the right time is a very very
important thing i've said this many
times and i i will say it again and
again
to you hashem is the auspicious time
you know the auspicious time when i
whatever i should get at what time and
what we down for is that we should have
this horse
the merit we say the mateovo every
morning before we dive in
to tap into the ace russell
but the ace ruxin is a very very
specific thing and that's why the story
of course which was also shared in 1953
purim
where the rebels said you know
though those that
want a bracha for ashirus for wealth she
raised their hands and only three khasid
raised their hand and the rabbi said
afterwards
you were all shaytim
foolish hasidim because there was an ace
rotten
and because of your hassiduskite you
were too embarrassed to raise your hands
money you're asking money to thousand
better to learn better
you know and and the rapper said that
and those three khasid
that raised their hands in front of
everyone
became very very wealthy we know who
they are
we know the real estate that they own
and we know the token that they give
or some of it that's a fact you know
so there you know when there's an ace
ruxin
don't squander it you have to have the
cycle now
i i the flip side i want to say is where
most of the chassis
were coming from was from a healthy
place although the rabbit called them
foolish
says that and has to say that and it's
true but from their perspective
their modesty didn't let them raise
their hand it wasn't that they're
you know but that so so why is that ever
calling them foolish hasidim
because not every day does
reveal to you what's going on in heaven
and here it's purim
and the rebel reveals uh actuals 1958
sorry not 1953 i think anyway the the
rebel reveals kind of that
there's an opportunity so put aside your
own
hasidiskai and modesty but again
asadi a rebber says that
the the hosted if he feels this humility
he has a right to say i i don't i don't
want i don't feel it you know
so i don't see it as a contradiction but
that's what happened yes hillel
sorry two things when i found the
reference
uh that you said so so this
line is an exact quote from the tanya
and then i want to say what the jose de
smuguera
so it's a direct so that's a direct
quote from the tanya
no no i know and my question was if it's
a direct quote from sharokidusho
does not seem to be the case no because
the quotes the quotes
end yeah does not seem to be the case
right
that's what i thought um
but but uh the casinos explains the
the the change as follows stay on the
shamosa
the two shamans that dwell within a
person
each one um
that uh will be is as a complete nephesh
unto itself with its own
defining powers
like a full body of impulses
and senses and talents
the coyotes as kayavka divide
that it's like take over take over and
rule the person
okay right so
i just thought it was it sort of was a
good explanation that i wanted to share
with you
a quick story on this the idea of the
aceretzane that
when i met the strep of arabah shrita of
yerushalayim
lives in gevacioul i told him that i was
a stratton or a nicole
he told me the following story he said
that once one of the rebbers of
region visited the strattner and the
strength
of them were famed for um for being kind
of
amongst the poor qasidam so the original
says to him
why don't you do something to help out
your people he said i try but
but what can i do let me show you what
happens so he goes outside in the
basement
he gives a clap and he says that now is
an
ace red sun if anybody wants the review
anything you want from shamayim is open
so so all the qasim
run to bring uh to bring a committal and
and the and the rebels there look at the
committal but not one of them was for
wealth that one of them was for anything
megaspheres they were overlooked he
said what can i do
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yeah i remind me also when the rabbit
wasn't
well after his heart attack in 1978
so there was a very big dispute amongst
the hasidim
several years later whether they and he
started to give out dollars later and
did different things
whether you should stand online and take
his time up
or make the line go quicker by less many
less people going up to get the dollars
and this was a heated the heated debate
amongst khasid
you know and i i i saw some
very prominent hasidic jews they went up
and they argued
when a tadik gives take it
take it don't don't don't play your
khasi this guy
and others felt this is you know their
it's his health
have mercy on his health why you make
him stand at his feet
after a long day of the old not eating
anything and just drinking
you know why you're doing that and it
was it was an ongoing um
an ongoing thing but the rabbit from his
perspective i could tell you
numerous times he he he criticized
sometimes the secretaries
sometimes somehow why you playing these
games and not allowing people sometimes
they tried
cutting the line off so that people
no more and somehow there ever found out
about it then he really
chatted them you know what what what
right you have to do that
they're coming to me not to you you know
and and
the the the case whoever it was you know
didn't say anything but the answer was
obvious
we care for your health yes yes
yakov
you know different times of the year
you know different times so if we
team up this keenness that you're
talking about
of how to channel abraham
what we need and it's that a lot of sin
so you've got a triple header
absolutely absolutely
right the the what yaakov was saying is
true that you know there there are
certain
queens set size in our calendar based on
hazal
that our aceretzen just but
i was talking more about you know the
other times and even then i do want to
say this yaakov that
even if something is an ace ruxin
it's an ace ruxin if you're in the
rutson if you're not in the russian
it could be in these trucks and and it's
it's a waste
it's not it's not shot
automatic there's no automatics in this
kite
you know there's no automatics you know
okay
what i don't understand that
we have the famous story there's a guy
who goes up to aaron and he puts down
the olympics and he says hashem you you
massage the olympia
pretty much feels i don't know
okay so see that
that what you're referring to and the
famous story the bell shrimp
with the basham the response that one of
the sadiq who
hired someone to be the baltilla and he
he had the kavanaugh soul written down
pierre and then he lost the paper and he
blew schreifer anyway
and and and the rapper said to him it
was the holiest and the best blowing
australia i ever heard
but he said rabbi i forgot the covenant
he said exactly
it wasn't from a script that came from
your heart
that's the my limit that's the
transcendence you know
on that there's no shyness there's no
questions uh you gotten to the
neighborhood with his full heart
anytime anywhere he's get it's getting
in
we're not that's a different target
that's a different experience
i'm talking about not that target you
know so yes
you're trying to be a scientist
yeah yeah yeah
yeah you could say that yeah kind of
figuring yeah
yeah it's it's uh yeah like
being a scientist yeah along the lines
of being more calculated the more
uh you know figure figuring out what's
the right time
to get in like truest morning it says
right you should go
in the morning when there's the the the
the the threat of khasid shines in the
world then you should go into the mix
for them
that's like a scientist it's and it's
true it it says
in that kabbalah you believe that it
says it says
but that's a calculation that's like
preparing this for the schreifer
with the carvanes and and i would say
that both are needed like you said a
triple header you know
or all three are needed you know what
i'm saying it's not that one contradicts
the other but there's no question
that the the the highest the best and
is the uncalculated heart
complete surrender today you know
you talked to the bister face-to-face
direct
and no no what conditions whatsoever
not nothing beats that and and and we
have numerous
hazal and stories well there are
blossoms
what do you need more the gemara
in the book he did and the mother says
that uh he did true god and he cried and
he screamed and he died on the spot that
rebbe says
he went from being the biggest sinner to
into ghanaian
what's the explanation for what
instantaneously in a moment what
happened because he
tapped in and that moment somehow to
this
unconditional uh chuva
that got him smack in so
the the question is better than the
answer the question is better than the
answer
and this and with this thought process
it answers a lot of things at least
i think you know like the story i've
told you don't be shaking the hand of
the
murderer who's sitting in in in
solidarity confinement in the los
angeles jail
and then when i shared the story with
bala with with with uh
balabat at charles schroeder in the los
angeles young israel of
of melrose they wanted to eat me up they
were so upset with me
how can you give a murderer of the the
from the known as
the israeli mafia how could you give
them um
your hand and the truth is i wasn't
thinking i wasn't thinking
about hashem that i wasn't thinking in
other words i did it because it's
genuine
you see a year
and i of course i didn't know but the
way i'm saying is that
there so so their question is a good
question
in logic in a sacral and like yaakov
says in science
it's a very good question what business
do you have giving
such a year to your hand when he's a a
murderer
but then there is beyond science so
i think that this is that we're going to
find a tangent a little bit from the
text
but it's a very important idea to to
really understand
when we deal with with ourselves with
family with friends
and and i saw this i saw this by my my
father-in-law's
relatives who were communists some of
them communists
and i saw the way they came to america
and and
he dealt with them like with the
greatest love like a brother and sister
and it amazed me because there was a
certain level of connection that goes
beyond
all the sins and all the trouble and all
the
nonsense you know and that's a place we
have to get to especially now where
three weeks coming closer to the nine
days
you know the real obviously we throw
around that were
those words unconditional love
unconditional love you know
so really you practice it it's a very
hard
it's a very hard thing to practice at
least for me it's a very hard thing
to have unconditional love and to love
anyone everyone because they're
they're a yidd even if you disagree with
them
that that's that's an avoider it's a big
avoidance so that's that's the lesson
let's continue now
page 211 the second paragraph
is
this is from tanya as well the second
left that every it has is an actual
divine part it's a part of of god of
divinity
as it says
for a part of hashem amo is his nation
meaning that every year who's part of
the jewish nation has a helicos
and now he says
is a part of god we have a stick
and yet is the word stick a stick get
the
part of godliness in ourselves
from the name of god to the
tetragrammaton the name of 26 uk
as it says he blew within his nostrils
a living soul and it's oh and also it
says
have blown within me
and desire comments on that verse
the one who blows who exhales
it's coming from first inhaling it's
coming from very deep within
himself he exhales gives out this is all
quoted in the second chapter of tanya in
the beginning
says it says
i don't hear
that kind of ends the citation from
tanya chapter 2.
now the freedom could have been
elaborate as we see in actuality
um in man's nature they ain't they might
source
you can't compare the the air
that comes out from the from your heart
commercial who be deeper
by the coiled negan when you speak
or when you sing a song you can't
compare that
with commercial might see heaven as it
comes
out liberty because enough of the quaker
when you blow
takes a lot more energy to exhale and
blow why because it comes more from the
anemias
so we have by the way three stances
available we have speaking
we have singing and we have blowing
speaking papa papa papa you can speak
all day you won't get tired just speak
speak speak
singing you can sing also a lot not as
much as you get tired after a while but
not as much as
speaking and to go to blow that knocks
you out pretty quickly
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exhales and it comes out when he blows
with
kayak this is the muscle
the parable
yiddish souls he's
explaining now more of the that section
in tanya
nishmas israel the jewish souls
all over marshall where
do they come from from god's thought
you remember yesterday we spoke about
the difference between thought and
speech
the altar ripper in chapter one cites
the concept
that neshamas you jewish souls
don't come from the deeper of hashem
from god's speech
metaphorically speaking if they come
from god's
thought
just as a son a child
it comes from the brain of the father
metaphorically speaking this must call
you soul the soul of
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hashem has and is the virtue of
we cannot fathom
and understand god so in other words
god's is not our
that's what it means he is
hakeem from the word but
not in the type of that's understandable
because weak
right we we understand
that's not the type of god has
yes hillary i think that's a direct
quote from the
um
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with the worlds of creation formation an
action
we call
it
because it lends itself to comprehension
by the creatures of the worlds of
creation formation and action
but from the world of atsii was the
first and highest of the four worlds
he like we call that type of lawyer
no knowledge beyond knowledge
creatures i.e from
creation ex nilo cannot
fathom and understand and relate
to that with their cycle with their
intelligence each and their level
um and it's from that place of
silus
must call the source of every soul
every jewish soul and that's why
that's why we we compare
the the connection between the summer
of a jew and hashem to breathing
to blowing because it's so
deep within and it so just as the
difference motion between
speaking singing and and blowing
breathing
so too is the difference between the
souls of jews
and all other neshamas and all other
creations
forget about non-jews
angels who
everyone says i have an angel helping me
take your angel i don't need an angel i
got a soul
i got in the shama so
yeah okay you know angels help us at
times and it's
it's always good i like what i still
like what you said you know
the triple header it's always good to
have an angel on your side
but we have something greater than an
angel on the sharma
i can't hear you hello you're saying
things but i can't hear you
i don't know okay invited
okay we'll stop here we'll stop here
visehu will continue tomorrow mr sham
bottom of 211. any questions any guess
my
yeah rabbit dog would you say just
basically we just said it i've heard
this many times but before
could you just elaborate collaborate on
them for a second
when we say that the shama has
me
and that's another aspect but it's not
what we're talking about right now
no
i'm not really sure what that means
exactly okay is that relevant
it it's not relevant here it's relevant
but not relevant here but
um basically just briefly
anything that's a creation or or in the
language of the free the cadet
anything that lends itself to
understanding
is by definition um what's the word
unbelievable
by definition um
self ending
if you have a beginning you have an end
if you have an end you have a beginning
yes nilo means there's a creation
so then from that perspective
has a beginning so it has an end if it
has an end it's not eternal
but in the summer the yi it comes from
the
silus which in this scenario means it
comes from eternity it comes from a
place that's beyond
creation
that's what i'm i'm explaining i should
do that's why
we could that's why only the neshama is
eternal
and by the way this also i don't know if
you had to share when we spoke about
the difference between plato aristotle
and the jewish belief
this taps right into that whole
discussion
why did they why do they conclude that
when the body dies the soul goes with it
because to begin with their version of a
soul
is not silas
their version of the soul is from bree
and down so when you talk about breein
down when the creation ends i.e when the
body dies
the soul goes with it because to begin
with their type of soul
is not the soul of the altar evan
explaining
here in tanya which me which is which
transcends
meaning it never to begin with it wasn't
a creation
do you understand it's an amazing
thought do you think about it
that hashem put within us
an aspect of himself which is creator
in other words our nusrama is not
creation
it's creator
and that khalic of creator
he put within our within out within us
it's an amazing thought
an amazing thought to think that i'm
walking around with a par
a part of hashem not not just
metaphorically speaking in other words
that the shama
that's that's why we call it velvet
and says this is of the outer river the
word
mamish is a citation from a verse in eof
that's not the altar that's a pussak but
the altar
adds one word mamish what does mamish
mean
it's tangible that that very nishama
that's a helicopter hashem in his
infinite wisdom nobility
puts it into us in a way that it's so
tangible
in the world we that we live in that's a
hidden
and only only a creator can do it so we
are
the creator put himself
as a creator within us that's that's my
indeed
and that and that's why we can we can do
anything and everything there's no such
a thing that a yi can't do
anything it can do everything why
because
if you're looking at the jew as a
creation you're right i'm limited i
can't do it
but if you understand that a yid is
creator
as creator is within creation
the creator can do anything so hashem
gave me a kayak to do anything for the
sake of a god
chevra i know it's some deep stuff but
it's important you know this is siddhis
to understand this
because the more you understand it you
so many things in in your life
will open up and and become clear so
spend some time
think about it re-listen to the share
we'll see everyone tomorrow
bye-bye thank you take care bye-bye