Maamar Korov #6 - Finding the Real Me - Arizal HaChai

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 [Music] 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 [Music] 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 [Music] 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 [Music] 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 [Music] 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 [Music] 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 [Music] 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 [Music] 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 [Music] 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