Maamar Ma Tovu #5 True and False Gematria - Purpose of Test to Overcome - Diff bet Birur & Nisayon

196. so we're in the middle of a my miracle beg that begins with my toyota uh which talks about the importance of dealing with tests with trials tribulations and all of those things so the rabbit the freedom of the cadaver explains to us the the meth methodology of how to deal with those tests and in order and the way he does it is by first giving us a basic meaning of the word nase which means a test a miracle and strength and he spoke about that in one of the earlier chapters and from there he proceeded to explain the entire idea of ice words letters words combination of letters that make words and how through the right combination you can actually take negativity and change it to positivity which of course is a very very important issue in our lives because the word that he cites the first of the examples is something that we're all too familiar with which is the word sorrow plural problems that agony difficulties and the rabbit says that if you take the word sutter and you know how to turn it around not just by a gematria i want to take a moment here and say that today the the gematria system of tata has become all too um flippant you know the word flippant means flippant means too easy too funny too joking you know two we're like yeah the matriarch who is the most famous toyota commentator of gematrias the normal i mean i mean you could call them tor but usually when you say the tour it means the bala the the bottom the balaturi if you look into the balaturim if you've if you really study bala to it and not just read it you'll find a connection between the gematria and the idea that that that he's representing that he's that he's making the gamatory of and and he was a very big talmud a serious person he didn't just play with numbers this isn't a numbers game you know and and i'm not saying that let's say for example years ago asia toyota had this whole thing dr gottlieb who i wrote about in my book and a few others i think was dr gottlieb david gottlieb um you know the whole idea of the intervals in the in the torah words and counting the intervals and based on that showing and proving that titus militia i'm not i'm not saying that that's not that's not an approach for certain people but the idea is that when there is a matriarch the content of what the democracy is about that makes the gematria and if the token doesn't you can't say just because it equals each other therefore there's a connection it doesn't work that way that that's not that's not a taylor gamatia that's someone who has a good head and is good with numbers and he's able to put it out there and people you know like these type of um things so so when the rabbit says and he brings it from svarim kadeshim that soda when you reverse soda you get soy you get light you get a window this isn't just well but what's the big deal you take the letters you reverse them no if you you understand the whole idea of this uranus and how to deal with this uranus and and and everything we're talking about then the tsara becomes say and if not it doesn't become soya it remains total so this is this is a very important the kuda not that not only is it relevant here in this mimer it's relevant to all of taira and many other times when you learn and just to have the right hashkafa the right sheeta the right attitude towards the entire torah world idea of sorrow of of of of of gematria okay back to the text back to the so he says over here that i'm sorry the battery is a legitimate form of drush well that's that's that yaakov that's what i'm telling you it's only legitimate because the token is legitimate the material is not legitimate if it has no token behind it no you find me a source for that that's exactly why what i'm explaining and i heard this from my teacher many times it's not just just numbers no that's not that's that's i'm sorry that's a silly way of looking at kamathri it's not that if the and end when the balatorium gives the gamatria if you understand proper you'll see that the tuition the content makes the gematria listen maybe in your schooling and others she does they hold otherwise but i it's not a matter of holding it it's it's a man is not excuse if something makes no sense what if the turkey that the content of two ideas are contrary to each other and the democracy is the same but what are you gonna say what are you gonna say so if you're able to explain that it's opposite because in this situation it's opposite and yet they have an equal and numerical equivalent they both share that okay but the hashgaffer the attitude towards the this topic has to be does the hat forum is it mateem does it correspond does it make sense and then i give let me let's for a second i know i'm going off for a second but it's important because this is relevant to everything we study we say the name aloy kim hashem's name equals 86. and then we say that the word hotev the nature equals 86. so we learn in khasidis that the name of hashem that governs nature is elokim not the name yudke wafkee utkevke which equals 26 is the name of what we call transcendence or in hebrew le mila minhateva above nature right so make sure we have nature hoteva nature and we have la malaminateva above nature and then we say and this is why and and and hotev equals 86. now so one way of looking at is look the the word hotever the nature equals 86. and the word ellum came when you count it up equals 86 86 and 86 you have a nice sandwich but it doesn't work that way first you need to not understand wait that day you need to learn about god so we learn about hashem exit there is transcendence there isn't there is what we call histamines the way god created the world in a progressive way b after a c after b the tim tsum the progression first there was uranus god was filled the the void the place and then he contracted himself making room for a world this is from this kabbalah from those voting right so when you learn about this and you have an understanding of this then you look into the toilet and you see that it says beratious boro elo came as a shaman bullets in the beginning hashem created the heavens of the earth which name of god is used eloquent says rashi that hash that hashem created with elohim he saw it was too difficult for the recipients to take gevura justice and what did he do by meeting he combined and joined the attribute of mercy to elokim to soften the blow that's what he says but the question is why did he create the world to begin with with elokim with judgment with that name of hashem and the answer is because elokim also is associated with the temptum before creation there was only godliness which is utk buff k transcendence when he was with thompson when he contracted his own infinite light making room for priya as the ramban says introduces the concept of yeshmiah creation x nilo that's why i use the word boro elo kim berea something from nothing that something from nothing act that god made on himself is an act of elohim of simpson and what came about the world what is the world nature so now you say that hot teva which is 86 is the same demattra as hello kim so now you have you have the larger picture not hey the two words equal each other therefore abracadabra everything else wasn't the place it doesn't it doesn't if i didn't give you this entire introduction and which is from the from this from the sperm then it just doesn't it doesn't make sense it's like saying because i'm 55 years old and my name is yaakov for yitzchak or from therefore right now in my life i'm doing a b and c my like rashi says on pasha's bahar ma shmitas eight salhar sinai what's the connection between shemitah and har cena the two parties next to each other and however if if there is an association in content between your name and what you're doing and the age fine so that's that's that's the the healthy and proper approach to titus gematria that's all that's all so even yaakov when you see in the holy swarm gematrias you're right they're not taking the time to explain how they came to that gematria so the average person is left with no just saying dematherie de matrigumatria but the rebel explained many times this and you know why because his father rable yitzhak sneerson was a big makuba you in his writing and teachings there's lots of commodities and issues and i attended many fabregas for many years and the rabbit when he would bring shabbos anytime a shabbos he would say take a short thought of his father and explain it and many times he opened up for us what his father wrote without explanation about agamatria and he spent 20 minutes a half an hour opening it up and today so where he printed and it was understood otherwise and he said the rapper said i heard this from him many times my father for because of his situation i didn't have the time to elaborate so he wrote many of his comment comment commentaries briefly and it's very brief but we need to understand he would say what's the connection between the two so clearly the system of gematria and and then and then he explained what his father had in mind now you're going to ask did his father tell him that i don't think so but the neighbor who was a guy nylon understood in his father's short words what what he you know it's like someone learning uh uh a rugged shoveler you've heard of the rabbi joseph rosen the the sarah taylor the rugged shover going in the last century and passed away i think in 1936 you look into some his he has a famous uh swan called maybe that's the one that never cut his hair yes he was a nazir yes so he wrote a satisfaction called softness paneer softness paneer and you look at the softest paneer i remember when i was a bucket i started to look into the softest paneer i couldn't understand the half a word it's so short but yet the entire torah the man knew the entire torah and it all went through these brief short ideas came along the laboratory and the terror and select people over the last hundred years and they opened up lots of his closed secretive um hint-like commentary they tell a story they tell a story someone came to smith he wouldn't give smith easily you know and he showed him his abscess for him or his writings so he wrote him back a letter full of citations and he says so he thought oh he's giving me smikha through looking in shots over here and bob lee here you're showing me here he looked up all the places and it all pointed to saying you're a fool you don't know what you're talking about i don't know if you're a fool in other words i'm not giving you smith because you're you're you're you're you're hidduchim and your stuff is all wrong and you ain't getting this michael for me he was very sharp yeah so but he did it you know didn't want to embarrass a person he did it two of them see this gemara there next the the whole idea of there's a concept right the words of calmness but also brevity what's the kiddish of the mishna compared to the to the gomorrah the mission is brief and the gemara is elaborate so what the mishna says in one or two or three words then the gemara says in three four five pages so the same is with this matriarch with the word of the world of gomatria yes a damager is cute and it's nice and it adds you know salt and pepper to to to whatever and i'm not i'm not saying you shouldn't use it but i'm saying that it's important to know when it comes to learning and you use gematria the tuition has to be massive and and by the way the literature world you know the toyota world of literature world they're not into gematrias you know the average but if you if you open up the gematria and you show the connection the token then they accept the gematria you understand the reason why there's been a an ambivalence towards gematria is because it's become a game he's getting someone comes up with a simple and he starts throwing up gematrias and he makes a whole whole thing from the matriarch and you know it's like come on where's the bread and butter if you show first the bread and butter and then you say therefore the gematria also is so-and-so it's a whole different it's a whole different appreciation i hope that this will will be adequate uh to continue okay so i said all this because the rabbit uses the word sora sadek reishi and he says that the same word is soy har a window and this is the idea of of creeping out of the difficulties now let's go to page ice ballad paragraph four for this reason hashem says i tested you is to reach through serving hashem to experience what's called hashem knowledge in god focus concentration hashem das represents a place in your mind and in your being that transcends you know sometimes we call someone he is a badass so normally we mean bardas he's an intelligent fellow he thinks about things he doesn't rush he thinks it through and he has that strength of mind to render uh his words or in our decision based on focus and concentration we call that a badass sometimes you'll hear the in the community saying he's a strong bardass right here so that's the colloquial way of talking about it in the community in the basement in the mikveh exit is when it talks about das it denotes someone who's living with a transcendent attitude in in in his connection to hashem with my luminate that he his life with la milam and ateva so in in teva there could be an issue that's very disturbing and he sees it totally different let's look down is that these sparks that are fine found in this list exiles and more specifically during the time of the heels of the meshiach you know why it's so dark now because the sparks are very very lofty holy sparks of tests the godly spark is most concealed and hidden within the world we live in so the darker it gets the more it is demonstrative of hashem so this is just the opposite the way a normal person thinks about the thing if it's dark and problematic the the first reaction is that what hey what am i going to do about it but if you have the das attitude you have a different attitude you know why i have this difficulty in the situation it's because the it's so special it's so deep that i have to that i that when i will pass this test i will transcend you know this is similar to a gemara they saw the desolation on the temple mount after the roman destroyed the basmi it says that they cried says the gemara at the end of times that akiva rabia kiva laughed what you see the base of meters is destroyed in front of you and you're laughing say they understood why is laughing and the mother says [Music] hashem fulfilled his words by destruction because we didn't do what we're supposed to how much more so he will fulfill his words when we do what he wants and he'll rebuild the base i make this and everything else he'll be even greater so that's it one person sees a situation and he cries and another person sees the same situation in your laps and the answer is is your perspective look the haas or not and that's why we have this joyness that's why in other words what what the rep is explaining to us here is that nissionas are given to us hilal for our betterment they're not given to make us weaker less connected they're given to us to make us more connected to bring out the real strength of the neshama that if you're able to overcome a test in a trial and a challenge you are a man you are uh you're something you're strong you're tas with us hashem let's continue the fact that this that the suitcase are so dark is a is proof algol shreddish milosome about their source lamyla myla joseph that it's so so great so high so great commercial every separate shower clay cell just like a stone at the top of the wall for the mountains when the falls below it falls very far but nobody's gonna so the sparks of the world of chaos they fell very low noise so the sparks of the missionaries been awful mata yes they fell below they felt very they felt very far away so it's like the the brick from the top of the wall all the way far away where did it come from all the way on the top from this button what the left is going to now explain is the difference between what we call i want you to remember the words to refine the activity called avodah's the activity of birurim compared to avoiders yonos [Music] where is the godly spark it's in the food that you are going consuming that needs to be refined so when a person eats it i'll meet with that trader the trader says you need to eat now shrimp and he makes a broccoli at the beginning of the end next page 197. the and not only moisture you make a bracha and you eat like a glutton you make a broccoli and you eat like a mensch like a like a like not like a bahama you eat properly you know they said it through these these details you refine the food the food now has gone through transformation refinement in hebrew how does this refinement come about through man's involvement in my michael with the food the vodka have to bless on it but let's listen to eat it curry properly through human consumption he eats it for the sake of hashem and because you eat it like i mentioned a proper way the food gives you strengthens you and then what happens with that clayoff that you have from eating lemonade he learns about it this is the recipe the replicas game is a four line recipe you don't have to be i'm a couple for this four lines very simple how about your days there that ascends and is now incorporated in godliness okay we can all make an agreement that we're going to try to eat food this way very simple number one i've always told you before you you should before you start eating take a moment of time out as one great question would do the pennants he put his hand on his before he ate and they said he's friends with paris what are you doing he said when i was a young boy i went into that the third lubavitcher and he said kinderish parents don't be childish he didn't say parents keep he was seven years old six years old he was a kid kinderish childish it could be 55 70 45 and it could be childish how you just eat sleep nope do whatever you want so he said from that day on before i put something in my mouth i put my head on my hand on my forehead for a second just to reflect i'm about to eat whose food is it and therefore i calm myself down right what do they say in in meditative practices calm body calm body calm yourself down relax right you're hungry you're hungry you're hungry you go to that kiddish right [Music] two hours of shoe and you're from you don't want to eat before the diving like the laboratories you only want to drink so you don't eat before diving in a piece of mercedes so meanwhile you're dabbing the whole time when you're hungry you can't concentrate on your words because you're more from than the lubavitchers because they eat before darkening and you don't meanwhile you're thinking about food the whole time you're darkening anyway and then finally you get the kidneys for a moment and then you make shaking and closing your eyes and making your hands and making a whole theater no abortion making a broker staying abroad like a jew and then trust me you'll eat that food with more menstrual kite and more yiddish kite and more terra kite and then the rabbit says the result is you have now been navarre the food because the food could you imagine if we ate every time the way i just described the way that ever describes we would be different both physically and spiritually there's not even a question now maybe to do this every single time is a little too much for us but begin with once a day if you could do this once a day you're in good shape we're in good shape yes so because you brought up the point if somebody is is very very hungry you know they're very hungry they're thinking about this is it a problem to to after chris after christopher to to have a kiddish like a kiddush club type of thing where you go in and you you know you just make kitties you have a piece of cake and you go back out for muscle the the tradition in orthodoxy for until the last recent times was that that was not done in fact rabbi eliot henkin he was a classic a great placing he lived later he came from europe lived in the lower east side the head of ezra's tehran organization you know this question came up rosh hashanah can you make kiddish before kia schaefer you know because that's a much longer davening and and he and he was livid against it and he was a litchfork he wasn't the husset but he liked to see them but he was very upset byron cutler i think took a different approach and he said it's muther if need be the point why but that was rosh hashanah on a regular shabbos if you're asking i'll be yes you're allowed to make kid the chef the chakras that's the answer you're allowed to but we it wasn't done i don't know i mean you know i wasn't in in young israel's shoes 50 years ago but as far as i think as no this was not regularly done you dive in chakras and muslim and then you had kiddush if someone has a health issue you know super hyper glycemic or this or that of course that's not having a question but listen this issue with the with the with the kiddush club things you know it's not worth the fight if people a group want to go somewhere not disturb let them do that that's my humble opinion it's not worth making a majoricus you know but if you're asking me if that's the tradition the way you know we the way we were raised the normal shoes i don't believe that was the case hello what you want to say didn't you want to say something well the whole idea of putting the hand on the forehead that uh this is actually a it's taught as a self-soothing technique because what happens is that it draws blood flow to the frontal lobes which is you know which is our thinking brain just tell me i don't know how does it how does it bring blood flow so so um you know when you create warmth the blood vessels of the in the front expand more blood flows that helps to sort of your thinking brain which is where that's where that's located okay good you know the i i don't i don't i don't think right right i don't think repetition had that in mind but it definitely is my team yes yes yes here yeah yeah no i'm not i'm not belittling it on the contrary yes yes you're innocent yes smile you put your hands over your head like this so why did we do it no no no you're innocent i'm sorry it says that you put your hand over your eyes here oh god over your eyes okay tomorrow we'll be teaching from flowering shrimp for a week or so unless we can get back earlier but uh barak hashem we have communication so see everyone tomorrow um my didn't say anything velvet didn't say anything anything you guys want to ask contribute now's your chance okay just just just thank you again for everything you spoke about thursday giveaways and travel safely thank you and and and the rebbe i mentioned all those i sent in their names i'm sure you sent yourself it was a lot of a lot of people came uh thousands of people with the oil and the 770 and they had a seam around them if you didn't see it probably it's a replay they had the eastern parkway was closed off and it was a beautiful program of rum freed um it was reeling that they had a choir and the chief rabbi rabbi yamar was there he was in town and roberto lazar they had rabbi rama speaker it was a very nice program so uh we did what we have to hashem now has to you know that we're doing and not only us we're doing what we have to so you know we're only bust over down so we do and and there's not even a question that it it accomplished now we have to see the goalie yeah it's hashem have a great day everyone say dessert bye bye thank you thank you thank you bye-bye thank i'm maine amen