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Maamar Korov #6 - Finding the Real Me - Arizal HaChai
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okay we're in the mimer
car of hashem the whole kaidov
and uh we're on page 214.
uh the previous rabbit obviously
teaches us here uh the idea
that the goddess of its spiritual
concept of of
exile is being is that the nepheshabamis
and the yetzerhora
grab they attack
the person with all kinds of arguments
and he spoke about the idea of someone
who has
a teva ra and atevatoif
tevara means a good a bad nature
tavitake means a good
and we discussed this yesterday at
length
and if you observe situations
you you can you can decipher who has
tavara
and who has to have it off now that's
at least in certain areas i must say
that there are
also there's different discourses where
he discusses
the idea that sometimes you can't
tell because on the outside
a person might seem one way and inside a
very different
he he calls this helen harrah
concealed bad concealed evil
the discussion is that
although in practice the person
is is good he's doing good things
it doesn't yet mean that there isn't
an area inside that's really really
bad and needs tickling
so it's like i said yesterday it's a
balancing act
it's not always what you see what you
you know what you see
is the reality at the same time
the there if a person displays certain
behaviors
and deep and and you pay attention
carefully
you you could pick up you could pick up
you could pick up so it's it's
it's um it's a delicate issue and the
best thing is not to be judgmental
have it done is called all the mccuff
schools you know
so this would apply to ourselves look
for ourselves
although the holy prophet said
self-deprecation is a form of lotion
horror
and like i quoted yesterday the hygienic
just as it's as great as it is
to know your deficiencies it's even more
important to know your strengths
and virtues you're miles
however however a yid
needs to constantly be checking himself
or herself
you know the idea that we
we know who we are and we know this and
we know for sure this and we know
that's not a yiddish attitude it's not
it's not it's not a good attitude
yes self-confidence self-esteem
but we have to always remember that
why is self-confidence is self-esteem
important because akadesha barclay
wants us to be healthy with good
self-esteem and self-confidence
so if it's all because of hashem of god
you have to always revert back to god
that what does god say
that a person should constantly be
on guard the in chapter 27 of tanya
quotes the quotes the with
pirky office
he says over there if a person says why
is it
that after such work and such effort
that i
toiled all my all my years
in in serving god and i still have an
efficient bomb as a yates or her that
bothers me that shows that i
that i didn't really mean it dalton
says over there that that's a mistake in
thinking
because only at sadiq
is someone who
doesn't have a battle with the yates or
hudder
what everyone else does so if you are
upset
that you're still having a battle with
the yates sahara then you're
basically considering yourself at sadiq
and says the altar
but that's really arrogant
none of us dead none of us then rather
what
you have to know that you're a banananey
a potential betany
and a potential bailly
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not struggles because it's a never
oh you know oh yeah i have a struggle
says the altar
embrace the struggle
we were created for the purpose of
struggle
they say that the frederick rebels was
always about
if he always wasn't dead
any and he once said i heard this from
the rebel
they once said that why because being
always in debt
didn't let him rest you have to
constantly cover the budget
and it's so true you know
when we kind of finish something like
motion let's say
you're working for months on on a piece
of art and you finish
so on one hand there's a sense of
completion
there's a sense of wholesomeness on the
other hand
you probably ask yourself you should ask
yourself is what's next
because if you don't you'll sit on your
loins waiting for the phone to ring or
the customer to come in
and and meanwhile you're not producing
says that that my father-in-law
never wanted to be in that position so
it was always about life
so he always had the fire
burning under himself to
cover the budget you can never sleep you
can never rest
it sounds it sound you know it sounds
like a rabbit needs that too
right you're probably wondering exotic
needs to have that the answer is yes
because the way hakadosh berku filters
the energy to everyone including sadiq
in this world is is that teva is isaiah
stark
nature is very powerful and strong and
sets him
and every one of their different ways so
for exatic
it's setting into his avoid
and for us it's in another way so
therefore
to avoid what we call in english
complacency
you need to have the fire burning
and realizing there's a fire burning and
that
you cannot stop you have to go
and that this doesn't mean to say you
shouldn't take a vacation and
and all that but as we discussed when
you go on vacation
your mindset is how am i going to
spiritualize that experience too
so it's all about avoid this hashem you
know
and it's not about not taking a walk
with your wife or not going with your
son or daughter to a pizza store the
bowling alley
all that is very important but
everything should have
on the kuda of hashem of god's unity of
godliness that permeates whatever you're
doing
so going back to what we're learning now
probably
yes um as far as the nature of a person
uh is this part of the does this have to
do with what the mission that says i
entitled and laid
life sized i i
say a little more i'm not following your
i i hear but i don't understand go ahead
the um the nature of a person is is is
one who's
has a good nature of bad nature yeah so
one i am
yeah right okay yeah you're referring
back i thought you were referring to
what i'm saying now
yes yes the iron toy with the later
investors
with the nature so why am i mentioning
this now
why am i saying this here because we're
talking about
this idea of recognizing knowing
ourselves and
looking and asking ourselves you know
is my teva
whatever now so
so the truth is too much of this
analysis
is very unhealthy and and shouldn't be
done
it's not it's not you know because
it could bring morbidity and bitterness
and and it's not
helpful to to being a happy person a
successful person
at the same time hazal give us
times which are set for hajj bananevesh
there are times
and this is
a healthy approach where a person
balances
themselves and that's why i i just can
tell you what i saw by verba because you
know i
i spent so many years and observing his
behavior and learning from his
talks and learning from him that at the
same time in a fabrengan
where he could be clapping with his
hands and making
soul and he was so basically
and a f a few minutes later or
in the next talk he breaks down and he
can't talk when he's speaking about
russian jews who are still in it can get
out
or or that the mashiach is not here or
that
someone was murdered hospital
like how do you go from extreme to
extreme
the answer is that's re that's real
that's real
we aren't robots you know
today we've been
trained to be robots
don't react don't cry don't laugh don't
do
that you know who's looking what's going
on
it's been proven it's been proven over
and over i could tell you from
personal experience the best
way is being emma's that's it
real and let the chips fall wherever
they fall
people are walking around with such a
facade and i mean our own people
our own us you know i'm saying everyone
that to break the stereotype it's like
you're the bad guy because
everyone else is living the reality
which and it's just the opposite
everyone else is
living the bluff and you're living the
reality
so this well i'm saying this because
you know on one hand what they're ever
saying in this paragraph is like you
know
bread and butter it's pretty simple it's
straightforward you know
it's not really you're right you could
say it's not really hasidis
it's pinky obvious it's muslim it's it's
crazy
it's basically judaism one-on-one
true like like jacob quoted the
you know i interviewed leif tave and all
that true
it's true but hasidis
teresame and by the way today is that
results your site
hey of hey menachem
and the arizao is the is
what we consider the modern
day
coat of fire of tyra sakabola
why do i say that
because cabola we
we believe goes back to the shrimp
dessert and all that and then
for centuries it was studied privately
it was studied in different countries
there were the italian mukubolim
french mukubolin etc etc
and then they were north african
mukuboli
and the various schools of kabbalah had
different
kind of sheetas different approaches
okay and the rashas
i mean these are you know very different
type of
teachings and just because you belong to
one group of mukubulum or learned
one group one group's teachings didn't
make you knowledgeable in another group
it was
it was like it was different like with
different massachusetts different
tractates of gemara
okay i heard once that the rebbe asked
the great makuba rabbishlessinger
uh of yerushalayim back in the 50s i
heard that he asked him
to teach him ideas from the rashas
from sharabi now i'm sure
what
is called rashas
and the rabbit wasn't uh it seemed like
wasn't familiar or very familiar
uh with with those teachings for
whatever reason
i'm telling what i heard so i can't
verify it what i heard
and he asked robert schlesinger who was
who
seemed seemed like was to to teach him
or share him
share those ideas all i'm saying is that
the different schools of thought of
kabbalah
then came along the ramak ramosa
cardavero was buried in sfas
and amisha cardavero systemized kabbalah
now mushrika the first one who
systemized
kabbalah nevertheless
it was still kabbalah kabbalah is
abstract
then came along the rabies
right uh the first ones are called
their tzadik uh hai weren't the la
babbages with the
certain barbecues with the barbecue
remember
they already called the arizon
the living arizona after he passed away
they called the marijuana
anyway so the ariza what did he do
he elaborated
on this on the system of kabbalah in
other words
not only did he give you the the
pipelines
the the the you know
this level is this level and this level
is this level
but within a capitalistic system he
he elaborated more on those
ideas so that's why the arizona
became known as the the father
of what i called earlier the modern day
what do i mean modern day i need to say
the kabbalah of the last 500 years
now not everyone
went along with it um and that's a
discussion and a share for itself
you know to talk about that i don't want
to go there right now
but today is that iselle's york site and
the arizaw is the one who revealed to us
many of the forum where they are
in eretz israel that is
born in a house in yerushalayim
in his basement i was there i
used to be open to the public they made
a museum over there
um and his bris was in that house and
that's why
the rahaya makadush when he came from
morocco
he settled in the same house and i
believe the street that
it's on in the old city in the rova is
called the
i think right oh so
i see that avi the expert says i'm right
so barak hashem
my memory is still working i was there
avi and
i was there the first time before they
renovated
and i love nostalgia and i loved it then
they let me go in the weingarten family
owns the property or owned the property
there was a dispute for years
but somehow i was able to get in and i
was there
and i was able to still see the old
mikvah now they have just a little
window and they show
but when i went in there probably about
20 25 years ago
um it was it was fascinating
it was it was there were things there
they told me that looked like and felt
like still from the time
of the arizona and the
avi were you ever there before the were
you there before they
renovated i was there a long time ago my
first thought my first visit in israel
was 1967.
oh boy and then i was there numerous
times
until i finally made aliyah first time
in 1970
and the second time 1991 and i don't
remember
well it was i remember
uh dark furniture in the room that was
a bait knesset or bassmadrest or
something
yes yes i remember that
that's about i haven't been there a very
long time i give my clients
a list of options and they pick it i
don't
i don't pick it for them if they
another thing they had they had the
obvious remember they had on the wall
hanging
the proclamations from a hundred years
ago
150 years ago i saw those proclamations
from when king the kaiser
the kaiser came i s they have
proclamations
they i don't know if they're there today
maybe this in the museum part
now today they already renovated so to
me it's lost it's
it's lost its authenticity it's like
i can't stand when they do that they
take the
the original and they and they and they
just
renovate it anyway today is that is your
site
the arizo passed away at a very young
age
but because of his talmud raphael
we have the main sharing the kiss via
isao
and we have barak hashem
so many swarm that really
helped yidden of all kinds from
reincarnation in the shraddha gil gulen
and say for alki gulen to uh
the the peter char diesel to tie it on
the parsha
so today is a special day to be mispalo
to give to dhaka and to learn something
from the arizona so
it just talking about it is also
important
now let's go to the text
to finish to try to finish the mimer
we are um
remember the last verb we learned which
you could share with the family
this shabbos is that avoid the zara
spiritually means an avoider an activity
zara that is foreign to what to you
it should it's not really what you
should be doing
if you are you're a safer and
you're an artist and all of a sudden you
decide to go
and paint uh the cars
it's avoided it it's foreign to you it's
not what you're supposed to be doing or
doing
then there's a void of zera where people
get involved in strange things
you know who you are so that's the tai
cha de zora so we are now on page
214 about seven eight lines from the
bottom
a middle of the page after a period it
says
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what does it mean to leave egypt exodus
it is to vacate limitations and
small narrow minds
this is how does this happen when the
brain
of the when the intelligence within the
mind
illuminates the heart
causing it to have me disturb his good
character but boyle mama's in
actuality that's you'd see a switzerland
okay you want to know what is what's
ryan is
the seiko should function
properly to inspire the heart
to have nice middles right again and
you ain't why is that you'd see us with
sorry because mitzrayim has limitations
mitraim is a blockage the mind the cup
is blocked is jaded and what you see is
with zion is
to vacate the jadedness and sluggishness
of the mind
so the mind functions well and
well in the sense that it inspires
and teaches the heart
that this is proper to serve hashem in a
particular way etc
and therefore you
the heart should act upon it with good
leaders
he brought earlier in the my my deposit
no hashem your father
what does it mean that
means delving deeply into into the
situation
with your mind that's how you
connect you want to connect to someone
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a spouse a child a friend
an employer a situation
you need to develop your dos
so much so and understand it deeply
and then you will feel you will have
discussions you will be connected
look what he says in yiddish as the cup
on the hearts
that the head and the heart zones
they should be joined united and
impactful
what we're suffering from many times is
a breakdown a separation of
can be swimming in the vulnerable
thoughts
it has no connection to the lathe
when you have a skashrous yaakov when
you come to a point
where you understand it so deeply it
leaves the realm of just
understanding and it becomes focused and
concentration
which automatically leads to
to a meditative belief and then the
what is what the navi maluki says
the other it says enough time to
say uh um we should have a lathe
buster in sailor labor evan yes
vaccination leave
boston right right for us back to the
text who by avoid the left
the next part avi of the verse is
believe shalom no hashem
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your father and serve him with a
complete heart says the
how will you accomplish both day you
believe
shalom when you'll have
da when you have dust
when you have viscosities connect
connection
then you have leave showing and this is
true in ourselves and it's true
in relationships you want to succeed in
relationships
improve your da
brazil
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my comprehension of my mind
should lead to it an activity of good
faith
hashem is close to all those that call
him heina
his question was why the repetition
you're innocent so he says now it's not
repetition
you say this in ashrae every day so
listen so you can think about it
when you die refers to all those that
serve hashem
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they have an abundance of good good
health good panosa
good children it's good good good good
so they call to usher then comes the
second category
one second
and also the those that call us
then comes then there is those that call
to hashem
because they have trouble and pain and
and and and and suffering
god forbid the holy fish yes
i need to avoid the potato how could
they cause them
it's not so rosy bagashmi is because
they're calling him through tighter
and when you call him through tyra it
supersedes
the tsarist you have
him eat him by setting aside times to
learn
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now what he didn't address clearly at
least i don't
oh yes he did so what's the second part
of that
cut of asheville
he brought the whole gamora
and that's his answer that's his answer
avi
that whether you kind of hashem the
whole kind of
you call to hashem because things are
going well so therefore you recognize
hashem you thank him you call him
or even if things are difficult you call
to hashem because you're going through
emma's
and and this is so important because
especially after
the three whammies that we got with me
ron and kyrie
and give up zev and then serve side
never so many hidden lost their lives
and everything else
the only way you can get through it is
kind of is karachi including
ms through taylor i you'll say
that i don't have an answer to my
question you're right who says you
who says god's about questions and
answers if he decides he gives you an
answer
be happy that you got an answer but in
truth he doesn't have to answer you
because he's not about questions and
answers he transcends that
is transcendental and when you when you
when you when a yi will immerse
themselves in tata
you're able to overcome so
you're probably wondering so what's the
hidden like
big deal i need to free the cadet to say
it
well you should know that the free the
cadaver by him it wasn't only lip
service
he lived through it he lived through
stalin from 1920
to 1939 he dealt with stalin's
terror and he survived
and then he deals with the nazis
immaculate and then he comes to america
and he deals with inner opposition
from other communities and he's a very
broken
ill person so when he writes this
whether it's in the 20s 30s or 40s
he lived it it wasn't you know so he
could say
that even though a person has tsar and a
person has difficulty
you go with tata and you go with
strength
and the result is you see here's another
point and i conclude
that you you he didn't look at it it's
about him
he knew that he's you know ill and he
went through all these difficulties
but he saw a future so real leader
and we're all leaders you have to look
at the future
and not be you know so
self uh self focused
that if i don't do it i don't care you
know people are saying
if i don't do it forget it no you have
to make sure that the next generation a
generation after
will continue and not only
survive but thrive and they never did
that
people say why did i believe a successor
i don't know why
but one thing i want to tell you is that
it those hundreds and hundreds of swara
and all those people that study it and
and and teach it and know it and all
that
you can live for the next thousand years
now
did spend 42 years teaching claudia's
role
you know and what did he say uh
you know that famous sikh he said i've
done everything i can to bring my shift
now it's up to you
so right away there was despondency okay
how could the rabbit say that
but what we didn't realize that what we
still need to think about is what he was
saying is
guys i told you for 42 years it's time
you're no longer baby stand on your own
feet
take the material and and march with it
and and use it so yes
the the the nature of hasidim is to have
a rebel and a living rabbi and all that
so we we want that and and and and all
that we're not
we're not contradicting the basic
tenants
and ethos of hasidic judaism as taught
by the balshempt of akadesh
but nevertheless maybe
maybe for right now the rebels is saying
i'm making each one of you
yoini and avi and jonasson and moisha
myself little rabbits
we're all little rappers you have to
look at yourself as a little rapper so
if you're a little rabbit you have a big
responsibility
he lost weight he lost weight so he's a
little rapper
is that what you said yeah but he left
anyway he's yeah
rabbi nothing yes with your with your
permission
the clothes the your site wants to read
just a couple of lines from uh
shari kadusha vital on his review
please he says
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it's uh it's already telling where he
how he related to his rabbi i have
people when i die they say my rabbi
tells a good joke
or he's good at raising money in the
shul the state
that i got from east kadosha
i don't have anybody telling me that
that's the rabbi back home and then he
says
[Music]
a person who is one of the select
select person a few who in the short
years that he had
uh did phenomenally in terms of as you
said he's the abba
of modern
agalette
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wow wow
thank you thank you well with that note
we end this year on a high
level everyone have a great day enjoy
we'll see everyone tomorrow mr shem
akron
bye