Maamar Lecha 1940 #4- Intellect over Emotions vs. Willpower over Intellect - Automatic vs Novelty

so we're middle of the mind on my Libby and we're getting now to the part which is a little more down to earth and that is the role of Seiko de middles intellected emotions how they interplay with each other and I think you'll find this interesting because it's not like we speak about cause and effect does anyone remember the Hebrew words for cause and effect that's used in this don't be bashful don't be shy tell me not you you're innocent you learned in Yeshiva that's not fair Moshe any is there any cause and effect I I remember the Hebrew terms but I know specific to Chabad okay what what's what what do you know that's true but that's not the words used in Chabad yes Moshe what hello uh uh a room is on the right track okay okay you gotta have a point now from Israel got a zero and you gotta have a point then what does Marsha say no yeah I remember now learning this we learned this over the summer I couldn't think I'm not recalling it okay and now we'll go to we'll go we'll go to our see the scholar and if you're innocent what is it thank you Ela oh so you were very much close of rum Ila means the cause it's it's an another word uh it's for siba Ila the alul is the effect or in Hebrew there's the siba and the missoulav actually there's also a discussion not not you know not often the difference between but I don't want to go that that right now into that so anyway normally when you think about something and you understand it you have a feeling towards it either you're attracted to it or your distance from it so there's a correlation between seho the the mind the thought the intellect and the allul the result the effect the question is how much of the ELA is in the owl and that's I believe part of what we're going to discuss now okay let's look at what the reper says and then we'll talk so let's go now to page 11. um over here but it says it's like 15 lines at the top uh premium protein Misha asked yesterday what's the difference so here Moshe is explaining what he calls not the Cocos makifim the encompassing co-host which is pleasure and willpower which is similar equal throughout every part of the body but rather the inner meaning that permeate motion they they have a specific place you're not going to say you know I'm a world I'm a world I'm the world's greatest pedest and my ma my my intellect is in my hands how I play the piano it's not true your intellect is in your head and your brain from the brain you've trained yourself to to use your fingers to play the piano but intellect is not in the in the hands emotions with our emotions emotions are in the heart have you seen someone who tries to be emotional with their head stay away from them it's not it's not real emotions it's it's what we call today an actor there are people who are very good in playing with emotions they're very smart so they're able to manipulate with their smarts an emotion that's not true emotions you know what true emotions are spontaneous feelings person who like who feel but but here we're not talking about that type of an emotion that's here we're talking about a seba and a massive yes Maisha [Music] I live so you're gonna have emotions if you're being misbonen on a particular subject Etc that's going to generate emotion it's coming from the mind right man in other words originally in a sense right that's right that's and I'm saying that that's the classical type of emotions generated by the mind which is the the concept of cause and effect what I was saying earlier is there's another type of emotion that kind of bypasses the Mind and that type of emotion could could be very very authentic and very um much deeper much more powerful because it doesn't have the limitation of the mind so when we say we're talking about in the ordinary situation but there's a Time whether it's Anila whether it's uh whenever you know a person you know gets in touch with their real Deep Emotions that sincerity that mimut shouldn't be underestimated yes whoever's on their iPhone please beautiful go ahead motions I was gonna say able to focus on my artwork and uh and I'm and I'm working on something sometimes don't get they'll be like a burst of inspiration I don't know about I don't know about uh from maybe you feel that also but that person Improvement of inspiration sometimes that bursts of creativity that burst of wanting to put images color motion Etc and the canvas and the paper whatever it is sometimes it's like it comes like that right right and and that would be a good example official at all based on all of the you know days and weeks and hours and hours of just work and all of a sudden you it's like I don't I I I one word you said I I wouldn't it's not based it it because you you've already you know prepared then it's possible for a spontaneous burst of inspiration as you call it to come forth you see there's you've laid the groundwork you you've planted the field now how much produce will come from that field you have no idea God can bless the Agriculture and it can give a tremendous amount like it says in the Hamish right and imperations May assure him our good old measure a hundred fold or it could be a disaster that's up to our code so the same is true with us I think I've told you and I really we're getting off on a tangent I want to get back to the text but I've been in in public speaking situations where my emotions are too much for the recipients and then I've been in situations where the emotions are very much impactful on the recipients so that too in other words Maisha if you get a burst of energy and you decide to color something and paint something with certain colors and then when it comes out the the recipient is not a vessel for it they ain't buying that piece of art it's to them it's ugly it's not nice and whatever it's too overwhelming but that doesn't so that doesn't mean that your burst of energy was wrong what was you didn't assess since your make if if you're making it wanting to sell it and wanting other people to enjoy and benefit and appreciate you need to take into consideration their reaction that's already another detail that we assess what we call the Kaylee we assess the outside how will the outside be impacted by my emotions and and that is in every creative art and in every field it's a very important it's a very important aspect because you can be best intentioned and and and very sincere but you always need to assess if the if the macabil is ready for it I'll give you another example and just to want to really finish with this that you know when when the Reba spoke so emphatically about mashiach beginning from you know the late 1980s till he had a stroke right there was a sense of mashiach coming any day I mean it that was the the the atmosphere environment in the Chabad world and I'm not saying it was that way in other worlds but in the Chabad world the rebels almost weekly emphasis in every talk they gave with with with about mashiach and not just the way he spoke about it in the 50s and 60s and 70s but in a very different way and here's not the place to describe that more but you know it was I think Anderson you must have been around then it was very very very palpable it was very very palpable the difference an urgency of his words you know whereas you know for example he would some he would speak more briefly and succinctly but and and always drive an issue so some some people uh you know got carried away and they they took it to the point where we're gonna start pointing at you the Reb has the mashiach and we're going to you know try to rally the world the Jewish World to do the same okay and um so someone wrote to the rebel about this during that period and and the rabbit said famous words it's wonderful that you want to assist in bringing mashiach because that's what every Jew should do but you have to do in a way that the macabelle the recipient the the people who are not Chabad and who haven't been raised this way etc etc they should understand and feel and go along with it and if not stop it you're on the wrong track so what do we see clearly that there were that there was a a fervor well I remember I I called mashiach fervor I wrote like he had a lecture once mashiach fever mashiach fever there was this mashiach fever in the air but it needs to be but even I'm a scar bill and those are the river's words to his khasidim that's not my words I'm not making that up I have no position to make that app or to criticize for that matter but the Reba did make that statement so anyone that tries to twist those words of the red book God bless them I mean you know that you know it's up to him how he would justify one second my ship justify you know this um that's what I'm looking for uh forget you know putting aside the macabelle and just going out and doing what I need to do and I'm saying this the same is true Hillary came late we're talking about intellected emotions ELO cause an effect and Maisha brought up the idea of a burst of energy and then we were speaking about that that you need to also know that the burst of energy is good for yourself right but when you when you expect others to go along with your burst of energy you need to assess who those others are and this is a very important Point yes Maisha I just want to clarify I really apparently we'll just confirm enough what you just said said about about two minutes ago and we have when an artist has a burst of energy their creativity he's got to go with it he's got to let that not just he's got to put it all out there then he's gonna do and he's just gonna do the emotion yes that's for him but he can't necessarily that's not the stage where he's gonna start controlling whether or not to whether or not the people will be able to handle this stroke of purple here or not he's gonna do it and the next and the next stage oops go ahead the next is to um once he's produced his work once it's produced a series of works you know what have you could be also a musician instead of anybody in the creative fields or then take it and then you assess how do you present that how do you you know what will people be able to handle both in terms of the presentation of the subject and do you have to then take the actual item and you have to almost you have to modify it but that's already a second stage right you have the amount of people can people to be able to accept you know receive it like I'll just give an example like you know an artist will create the original and then when it comes time to making prints so I would say that the print is a separate entity it's based on the original print to make that print you're gonna go in with the with a technician and fine-tune colors and maybe certain elements of the Beast and then then and then you come up with your product your your print but based on the original right and and and and and I agree that that initially there needs to be that inspiration and creativity because without that then then the the macabo also loses and doesn't benefit because he doesn't see he doesn't see a real live individual you know he sees someone who has uh conformed to limitations and and opinions you know yeah um there's a lot more we can say about it but let's go to the text okay okay so now although I'm actually missing in the micrometers we're on page 11 we're about seven eight lines from the bottom it's the middle of the law it's the middle of the line one two three four five six seven eight you're welcome we delve deeply into the inner makings of intellect and emotions in an angel it's not only they have that they have an association between each other they actually complete each other and explains proper comprehension of a matter is when it leads to a result as the sages say foreign who is wise only one that's been that's tested himself tested his theories and his theories have proven to be right he went through the visayan that person is right I recall that was told that when the previous celebrity came to America all hacks were off including from the literature world and including people who you know maybe didn't think of him as the greatest terrorist scholar right why did they take their hats off why did they roll the red carpet out because they knew that they didn't fight Stalin they considered a piece of gamara or or go to Washington you know on behalf of Judaism very nice in a free country the previous celebrity was arrested nearly shot to death thrown down iron steps on and on now everything else they said is small change so regardless you are it if you could do that then you deserve the red carpet balance talk is cheap very cheap bright people intellectual people right so that's what the Ghazal said there's no one that's really aham like someone who went through the test himself and proved himself correct that's a real Hustle yeah you gotta you gotta turn you gotta turn your your mute off turn it back on I just turned it on cause I wanted to comment that that's okay oh yes please okay when you're talking about this this concept the reason why I started being over 40 years old it should be you know somebody that's the Elder that's what that has bound to science yes yes yes yes yes it's one of the reasons that the person who's leading the congregation isn't just because he has a beautiful voice and and is knowledgeable whatever but he he lived through he lived through the experience absolutely that that's that that's definitely one of the I give another example um I remember there was a yeet from yerushalayim in our shoe and we and he was already he was from the elderly people in shul and we asked him to read Kenneth's tissue buff to read sorry to read and give us the next day why because we are like you know like my wife said the Australian the Russian would call the Americans chocolatinas chocolate you know they like chocolate chocolate yes you know you're a hustle with a beard and pants and a Yama can you see this but at the end of the day you like chocolate right here see them who who were you know they paid their dues their parents were shot you know etc etc so you're gonna tell me that you know so so um so here is Tish above and we're supposed to be mourning the the destruction of the base I make this and we in Brooklyn or Chicago or wherever we are and the sun is out and the pool is beautiful and the beach is great right and the beer is delicious right and we're celebrating a dish above but someone who lived in yerushalayim in the 1940s and then in the 30s and 40s and saw what took place and walked with his bags out when the Jordan Daniels forced us out and then the war and on and on we all felt like this is a person if anyone that can really feel the mourning of the base amigdush so we find this concept let's continue the completion of Mythos of emotions it is intellect that makes me those emotions complete gazelle clothes I happen to pay me this stuff and they all completed this is the overall difference between a human emotions and animal-like emotions or an animal's emotions animals they also have emotions their emotions are their quarescence right to get National money the legal is merciful they have been a raven akhazardi is cruel those are two Tendencies as we see in these type of birds tibian nevertheless the Midas of of balikaim are natural to the animal versus conversely Adam you millimeters foreign this is what Maisha alluded to earlier they are specifically special right when they're driven and guided by intellect us look at this line this is this is what it says and therefore the Revelation from the mind to the emotions is in a manner in a that we call cause and effect so I have to stop of next page 12. so I have finished Chloe by now let's say cool this is the overall difference between the way willpower impacts the mind or they not give Imam and and the way the miracle the way the impact the way these intellect impacts the emotions and explains foreign foreign [Music] foreign and generally speaking the way cause and effect works is that it comes automatically what what does it mean something comes automatically it means that the effect the Aloo is ready and waiting for it to to receive Direction the emotions want guidance give us guidance so the when when the cause the ELA in in sends its message it's um inspiration to the amidos it's like a glove fitting on a hands very nicely they it fits very nicely because the media expects in the mind to give a direction and the mind enjoys its intellect being accessed in the middle in the in the emotion what about willpower broadside which is willpower rat sign overwhelms do it my way or it's the highway willpower so willpower doesn't negotiate with the medium it says hey guy you better listen to me if not you'll be in big trouble so what does so from the from the from the Sega from the mind's perspective I don't understand it this way if I don't understand something a certain way I don't want to do it and nevertheless willpower drives you to do it anyway what does that mean that willpower breaks the mind it shatters the mind the mind doesn't is not a vessel for willpower it's just a funnel for willpower and this is why that epicenter the word it's hot shoot it's new it's not expected it's a hitus you know when I was building not building I was I was I was sure the Marine County and we had very big opposition from The Neighbors and we had a lawsuit I've told you about that over the years so you know it was our mind willpower to have a Chabad house a shul an institution of theta and I tried negotiating with them I tried using intellect and negotiating and dialogue and it didn't work so I had to go into willpower mode and it cracked it cracked him and the result was they took us they took the county to a lawsuit and we won because we were the willpower was sanctioned by Hashem in that case but if you think about it why did it why did it break them because they were scared what we call in America Xena xenophobia you know they never saw this they never saw this they never saw people wearing you know coats and when it's 95 degrees outside everyone's in sandals and shorts you know it's like but where'd you land from you know this wasn't Brooklyn or Chicago this is Marin County California capital of uh Hedonism as we discussed in the past so there was a shrira sakeli a Breaking of the vessel to the recipients but in that situation we felt that we tried the good way and you're not willing to play ball so we have to go with with America to use our willpower and go For Broke and we did my point is like this that it's people are scared of new things people don't want to handle new things they're fearful of the unknown wrestling willpower from the perspective of the mind is unknown what the Mind understands is a one plus one equals two do this first do this second you don't know that but when you come in going for the top going for broke and you say that's the way it is there's no you know the the Mind does not handle it that's what the reper says here that the way roadside willpower impacts the mind is in a way of a novelty whereas the way the Mind impacts the emotions is cause and effect cause and effect is to be expected I want to make sure that you understand this difference so please tell me if you have questions on it Now's the Time yes myself okay you just go over what you just said the summation we just did the summation is that oh you want you want to do it go ahead no no I'm asking for you to do it the I I don't want to repeat I want to be a summation so basically Russell Russell willpower overpowers shatters the mind that says I don't care what you say you do understand you don't understand you're doing this way will power so from the mind's perspective that's it's new it's a novelty it's it's like come on you didn't negotiate with me you didn't discuss it with me so that's why he uses the words in the minor that the impact of Russell on the mind is then it says conversely the way the Mind impacts the emotions right so comparing before comparing willpower to the mind I'm sorry will Powers impact on the mind and we're comparing it to the mind's impact on the emotions and he's saying that the mind's impact and the emotions is to be expected in other words the first one my to put it succinctly is not expected that's something what's not expected unexpected is that we had a hundred people at this year if we had 100 people in this year now we would all say it's unexpected it's not that like you know we we go we spoke to 100 people and they all got excited no somehow it happened it's a Kiddush it's a hiddish but the the the the the the the system of the real the relationship between mind and heart mind and emotions he says is automatically it's expected you can expect an emotion coming for after you use your mind and understand to understand something everyone else understand what this means yeah any other questions what time is it now okay so we we're holding it and tomorrow meets the Sham we will learn a nice Gimbal and uh we're on a good track to finish the mimer um and maybe even learn a little more for something for Rosh Hashanah so yesterday we had Burger Hashem the first day in North Miami Beach in the Chabad shoe baseman we had six people but you know people who were eat there was two have three have roses so I gave them a sheer and then they they learned together and we'll see but what I found uh surprising is that if the chakras there was no one left to shoot it was I don't want to use the German word but it was like rain clean cleansed you know my idea of putting it there was there'll be a spillover from chakras and maybe some people will come and join there was no one to talk to you where's the food where's the food where's the food um I don't know you're right it's a very that Community is a very disciplined very very disciplined you know and um the the rabbi and the shul didn't want to you know they're friendly and they said you want to learn Titan teach Taylor no problem but they they can't get involved right now so you know to to start bringing in the food right now would throw them off you know so um no but but it's it's a younger community and everyone you know by nine eight through eight nine o'clock between carpooling their kids to Yeshiva and and girls school and going to work you know it's uh whatever whatever I'm just saying you know every every every community and every shoe has its uh you know its thing but Hashem those that came and learned uh benefited and there was actually a group of three young guys um they have a program like Alias they have the program Aliyah in Crown Heights uh guys that you know didn't um you know didn't go didn't continue Yeshiva and you know they struggled in different ways and uh so they made a whole Center for them they were they brought a lot a lot of kids and people back to Tora uh so they did a similar thing in Miami in in in North Miami and some of them came some of them came and they want me to bring with them for high yellow so maybe maybe they you know to get these guys out of bed at 9 30. it's like miraculous anyway have a have a great day we'll see everyone tomorrow take care shalom guys