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Maamar v"im Ruach Hamoishel 1924 #5 - Rabbi Chaim Dalfin: Teachers Beware
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This discourse. printed in Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn's book of Maamarim, 1924, discusses the idea of Authority, Criticism and Rebuke in spiritual terms. He teaches healthy criteria for giving criticism. This refines character. Rabbi Dalfin teaches the discourse from the text in a user-friendly manner.
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I said if you had to change your clothes
on an oven I thought right right
that's the story to bring on your heater
so why am I saying that because here
we're talking about when it comes to
constructive criticism to feel the
person you have to get involved you have
to you know remind yourself that you
might be elsewhere and you might think
you're better but the truth is like the
outlet ever says in chapter 30 of time
you have a shroud roof Biffen a cold um
and the altar that bears the words
mojave mmm islam eatery in other words
it's not just a figment of one's
imagination it's not just I'm gonna
pretend that I'm humble no you really
are
nothing you know are you really a
nothing because that man is on the
street and you have complaints and you
say he's not religious and he's a bum
and he's an outcast and I am a little
guy and I am an upstanding guy says dr.
Deborah you're fortunate that you'll be
able to sit and play limbo cherish and
learn he doesn't have that luxury now
put yourself in the same situation where
you have to be on the street and you
have to pedal and you have to walk
around San Francisco or Wyoming or face
that thing whatever you get to walk
around and you have all kinds of things
all around you know would you be better
maybe you would actually be worse Wow so
this is all this is all part of what
that ever saying that in mind me here
you have to think about this before you
start criticizing the other person and
remember dr. Deb in chapter 32 of Tonya
when he quotes this possibly if they
after here cuz I miss fo he says in
sheath huh he's with you he's together
with you the story I've told you over
and over and I repeated again that I had
a ball above the cardigan of the doctor
in Marin County and he was a good Jewish
Brooklyn boy and he went to the Erasmus
high school with Barbra Streisand wind
they were all together all the Jewish
youth alive in Brooklyn and on Church
Avenue over their Erasmus high school
before it became a war zone and you
would you wouldn't walk there during the
day today already could walk there
during the day but in the 60s and 70s if
you walk there you wouldn't come back so
any who hate so so so this friend of
mine is kind again who actually was one
of the people who brought me to
California are sleepless in 1984 brought
my wife and I there so after a few years
he comes to me says rabbi I can't take
it anymore all my friends who I grew up
with in public school in Brooklyn
they're all eaten and they come to the
cafeteria so that they don't keep kosher
okay but they have to eat pork they have
to eat ham your you know better you come
from Brooklyn
you don't need hand you know you eat
trays but you don't eat pork so he says
I just want to I wanna I want to give it
to them I want to say you're a jerk
you're really you know you're a Jew how
could you eat pork okay so I said - and
so he asked me for permission if I give
him permission to criticize his friends
so I said - no I don't give you
permission she says why not I said cuz I
have a question to ask you tell me the
last time you played golf with them it
looks and he says what my English meet
the Saints hearts tonight what what does
golf have to do with their meeting trade
so I set them dr. EV answers your
question to chapter 32 and Tanya and
your alibi betray your cousin you have a
nice beard and all that
thirty-two and Tanya says that before
you can do the midst of a half that
heels I mean settle in Delta versus inch
it cobertura mitzvahs he takes the word
I miss echo which means your friend and
he and he breaks it up into two words in
Chiquita he you're together with him if
you're not together with him you have no
business of giving him criticism what
does they bring together with him
playing golf together
having a cup of coffee together going
for a stroll together oh you just rub
shoulders in the Hawkeye road or of
Kaiser Permanente Hospital in San
Francisco and you guys were together on
rasmus high school so what that doesn't
make you real good friends it makes you
not you know you know each other but you
need two different totally la lives and
therefore for you to criticize them here
is meaningless totally meaningless and
is wrong first become as friend first
befriended and first and then you'll
become friends not only will you be able
to talk about not eating Qasr you'll be
able to eat talk about making your cows
kosher and as a Brooklyn boy and a
teenager you know that it's something
special and you can have a conversation
and let's learn and let's smooth let's
talk and let's make our kitchen kosher
so Delta debe without saying all this
it's I'm sorry the flea the culebras is
is also addressing this by saying you
have to be in the same boat
empathy put yourself in as a situate in
the other person situation so that's
basically recap what we learned we're
now on page is it ratio tests or race
cuff you guys remember I think we are
yeah I think we are a pay to race cuffs
on them on them I'll die in the next
paragraph well you have you have a news
forum you have these okay so then over
here would be these this is the safer
it's called my moral of cotton Hale
agimo it's it's not that it's not the
previous rappers can trace him it's the
collection with vowels are very nicely
done by the other about outfit I guess
in there just row and the moment would
be from page
344 thank you small 344 oh no my dying
sort of loving however we still must
understand that I got Lada who Nazi the
leader of a generation is a leader as an
Aussies of Prince Marte and the epitome
the doline we learnt in the paucity
qohelet remember this my murder began
with the pasta Kymco helis
and he says the second half of the
processes is Omar pay and healing young
Nia will alleviate her pain good daily
and greats it's how pay - who the
meaning of this is they should go to
Lotte the Marriott Srinivas Nasser
cellex-c borne by the leader of the
generation preventing himself from
rising and exalting himself over the
congregation and make himself a big-shot
that he's much better than them and
rather what does he do Umar swats
Malcolm
he puts himself on the same plateau as
the generation as the congregation and
he's no better with than that him
somebody does that had a busy home
Merapi capadders a shady doing this he
accomplishes healing as as we explained
the meaning of healing in the second
interpretation earlier hi Noam show who
he dare to vow save either by Joseph
through his true ver and the service to
a sham
maybe the fool avan-ha died he brings
healing to the to the sin of generation
he heals the transgression of the
generation well the fighter when that
get call us again on the seals that but
now I asked a very powerful question
seemingly this attitude of the leader
making himself part and parcel of the
nation thereby causing healing to the
nation is contrary to the overall
objective and behavior that we that
Thoreau wants of enough see because the
inion are the seals that sort of Lee is
Babas muscles the seals mmm
being a prince requires being exalted
and above the ordinary alcohol Dharma
Rabi and as Rabi says in the good mother
Goose club Arama conduct your leadership
with exaltation he gives on the cleaner
there's a few gifts is a few ways of
within the camera and the previous 11
says this is the right gear so this is
the right way of reading that Gomorrah
so what do we understand from the
schematic Super's that a leader Alessi
that's which we're talking about should
leaders his himself in a way of
exaltation like murder become either the
governor says could throw mutter mutter
means fear but tell me them on to the
students they shouldn't come into a
classroom and laugh with you a smile of
you and like they're your buddy buddy no
a teacher comes into the classroom
there's a certain reference okay forget
about the word fear but reverence so the
governor says that honey moving is there
we understand from this camera and sub
is the hama co-speaker leaders they have
bhavish nozzles that the seals that
leadership requires exaltation and
elevation in canaan if soul 8th
aficionado vote how is it possible I
should go too hot during Yahshua acts
Morocco that the leader of the
generation should make in him make
himself similar and part of the
congregation as though he's one of the
guys that's the question yo Jason and
even more so I shed your copies be Ott's
my limb sorry I should gone boy but
doctors the doctors yes more than I did
and even more so you sitting there ever
saying we just concluded in the previous
paragraph teaching that
he should fight with himself even the
most refined way that he has a
similarity to somehow up to the
transgression of the generation wait a
minute
you want your rabbi you respect the
rabbi or of because you say he's
different than I I'm a regular guy I do
this and my Rob my rabbi my Rebbe my
leader is something he doesn't have that
but wait a minute
in the previous chapter we said with a
regarding giving constructive criticism
that ever says that the leader should
look to find within himself a deficiency
that in the deficiency that the nation
has that people have in a coarse way he
suffered that there is fine way but
nevertheless he said look for a flaw
that's the question my god he may no sir
came and we learned earlier swore that
if he doesn't do that honey who grated
muffin I'll do it he makes he
exasperates the problem the
transgression will become worse by the
people if the leader doesn't find it
within himself somehow that's what we
learned earlier and continues and this
is the question and he said is the OJS
actually happens about you actually pull
out the awesome might return of classes
he has to space them flight and what why
does why will he cause the transgression
to be worse why because because he did
not endeavor to stop them sleep all for
sir
he didn't activate he didn't do what he
needs to do really yes anymore so she
later LaDainian more so he sent his
generation
you hear that hi guys a leader of Sadiq
a rather a rough a rabbi who doesn't say
you know take a position and doesn't
take leadership and
doesn't scold basically it's
contributing and making worse what's
going on like we discussed in the last
year we don't have to repeat it so that
every now answers this question so how
do you reconcile the two jealousy
how do we say that a leader should be
exalted should be above the nation and
at the very same time we say you should
be part of the nation are you understand
the question no okay
okay hold on tell me why you don't
understand that what don't you
understand okay okay so so basically
wake up now now you're awake and we're
asking a simple question we're learning
in the minor the fact that that was even
a leader when he gives criticism he
shouldn't be the big honcho the big boss
the big rabbi the big Rebbe but he
should be kind of similar within
together with the people and the Rebbe
says how could that be he brings the
Gemara
he says if students come into a
classroom and the teachers is you know
yadda yadda friendly friendly knuth all
the kids forget it it's gonna be a
terrible relationship but it's not gonna
accomplish anything there has to be
reverence from the students to the
teacher and so to when it comes to a red
bee arrived a rabbi a leader that he
should be exalted so how do you
reconcile the two that's his question
and now he answers he begins this you
know the idea is the he may hazard a zoo
in the hide this he was a bird on this
instruction that the Chimera says can
quote conduct your leadership with
exultation conduct yourself in a way in
a manner that it is felt and present
that you are above the others he shall
eyassa have no seed of our human Agudelo
osseous it is he regarding manners
matters in which the Princeton OC
shouldn't do something that's contrary
to
leadership Lahaina masa a knight rider'
shall not see that commander ever says
refers to issues that contradict the
idea of small what's called Vader shall
not see the other of NaCI there is an
institution there is a reality called
the silt leadership you are not allowed
to to blemish damage and and belittle in
any way shape or form that institution
and we call that in halakha void I shall
not see him well you must heard of that
term the honour of the Nazi the
grovelled
right and let's continue inside the key
shame should Talmud Horsham ain't sort
of miasma enough in our yards just as a
towel Makaha a scholar is not supposed
to be mixed with the ignoramus of
playing a moment cane who gamba no see
so is also regarding a Nazi
you know there's a difference between
atomic awesome a plate of scholar and a
Nazi there are many many tell me the
Harmon but they're not many eaten the
sium right an us is very very very very
rare a leader a real leader so that ever
says just as a comic awesome
the gomorrah says he's not supposed to
make himself cheap by finding himself
with the ignoramus and the boars because
guess what after a while and rubs off on
you and even though you're a town
McCullum you act in a boorish way so
that's why the gomorrah says keep some
distance keep some distance it doesn't
mean you shouldn't smile to them and
give them sell them away them and give
them a hug and invite him to your house
but it means you have to know that this
top this time we'll call them and
bors and and and and each one has a
place okay that's a Gomorrah it's now
casitas it's not mu sir
it's AB Gomorrah so to go further and he
says should not see who lotion have
bother animals the word Nazi we
translated English as Prince but join us
and what's the meaning of the word NaCI
exaltation miss ute right higher right
have bother animals the hey no drama
sure who dynamos write the word Rama
remember what what is the Gemara saying
supers look at the quote guys new hike
Nishioka Barama yawns what does that
mean now hi conduct the co through your
leadership
Behrami a high-level right Behrami
so the rebus says the word drama is
associated with the word Shalom Ramos
Roman look how close they would close
they would wrap with a gale this year's
Bovada when do we say all of this that
you should be exalted it's only
regarding the matter of the silt of
leadership
she used the heat of betrayal you that
you should be careful to honor the
institution of leadership and a leader
in that area who can say Tadashi
Anna's la she says over the other good
mother Martel alayan Aimie
the Nazi places upon them fear live ID
honest you say why to let know his miss
youth why does why should a leader re
place and create fear in the people not
for himself for in for the institution
of the seals otherwise you think he's
another guy of a block and we're going
to play volleyball together and one day
will go for
strolling beats together and that one
day we'll go to the movies and go forth
together but just the other day he was a
nut see I'll tell you the famous term
Aristotle or IRA startled the big
intellectual and one day define dividend
I'm compromising position and a car I'm
compromising thing and they say mr.
Aristotle you're such a sucker and
you're the wisest man you're so smart
what happened to you he says guys when I
did that and when I behave like an
animal
I wasn't mr. Aristotle now what does
that tell you
that he was never really a Nazi because
if is really enough see if he's not
allowed to abuse his the silk and and by
doing that it's a an abuse to miss youth
so in that area there's no compromise in
that area there's only remembers when
there ever when we when we looked and
learnt from a rebel and any weapon
Howard ever especially there was
reverence in Chabad you don't look at it
as chitchat you know when I take the
data I was scared to open my mouth and
not only me thousands of thousands of
people because this is a this subsonic
he's in a different plateau he's he's
worried about the whole world
grandma's motion Rubino right so in this
area Rashi says Mathilde
L AM a mer he places upon them this fear
Livadia missio say to make them aware of
his leadership the hey new Ben Urich
mother but I'll meet him so also whether
the mother says that the teacher should
throw murder reverence but Almeida fear
into the students should be lead over
misko in a measured way not that the
teachers come in and and curse out and
and say nasty things
that's not we're talking about we mean
that a teacher should
eight an aura in the classroom that they
know that they are students and he's the
teacher and she's the teacher
that's what me but me though a Misco
measured this this is not a card blonde
for teachers who come in and they bully
kids and they pressure kids and I had
that and I'm sure you guys had it and
you only definitely had it yeah you know
you take you know young little children
even at nine ten eleven twelve
and many sometimes teachers abused and
thank God that this has come out today
and now teachers are very careful
sometimes as cameras in the room if not
in the room there's maybe mics and
everyone has a cell phone and he can
turn it on in his backpack you're
finished one time you caught on on
camera or on your cell phone
the Hakata on the tape recorder and the
cell phone and that's brought to the
attention of the principal higher-ups
you've lost your job because you did not
just create healthy reverence you
bullied and abused some of those
children by screaming at them and
talking to them nasty and belittling
them why cuz you lost your cool and
that's why before one takes a job as a
teacher in a school or a red beanie
yeshiva they really have to think hard
if they're cut out for it we're not all
cut out for it
and we have then sometimes especially
post-holocaust many of the achievers had
teachers who needed part no sir they
needed a job and they weren't cut out
for the job but they need it and they
went into the achievement today girls
school pressure shivers and the Talmud
tourists and they were a disaster for
the kids and we lost thousands of kids
the Yiddish kite but Hashem
many of them are returning today but
some of I'm sure some of your
grandparents or parents went through
that and we went through that so now in
hindsight I
say and I think you guys could say to
that there's been an approve an
improvement in this area that still
needs more to be done but there's been a
very nice improvement because a teacher
knows they can't get away with it you
won't get away with it you will be
caught and you will be ousted and it is
something really bad you'll be behind
bars let's go further so he says look
man I shall tell me then you cob load
the rudder because what's the reason why
the teacher is it is instructed by the
gamora to throw to create reverence in
the tell me then so that to tell me then
the students you cobbled vote of batalov
should receive his teaching his words in
a proper way in a good way
there are the Talmud hurry killing your
nation I'll tell me to next page 345
when it comes to relationship of a
teacher to student the main idea of a
student whom I share you copy
Tiffany I love it so that the student
should receive the word the words of the
teacher but they're who in use Lika have
motivation scofflaw thought and because
this is the idea of creating and
throwing and throwing you know they're
just now from ISM the the this is
reference to the students so that they
should receive the teachers words well
and they should know who are talking
about you don't have just any if it's a
real teacher you know you have reference
so Tom McLoughlin is more refined he's
you know over a year Medea crushin and
that ever says with this idea will
understand better the term Zurich murder
the Talmud oh nicholas Bechet mora
the Rebbe is looking at the word Mora
why does the DA mother say hello create
throw create murder for
while Dennis here hapless murder but
coffee okay you know the money is small
mother Slater mother Lavina what does
that mean true the black eye right the
black gold the white gold right in the
body there's the the good mother right
so this there's that part that makes you
happier and there's a motivator a part
that makes you kind of sadder bitter so
but but the the word is mother's murder
the mother is associated by coverage
would deliver the hack of aid who plays
HeLa you wanted to say something I just
wondered sometimes in English we use the
word vile bye all right bye
well no swordsman violent vile is not
secreted by the liver it's excreted by
the gallbladder so I just so but I know
I know III I don't know the science
enough to I I was wondering I myself I
don't know oh you know what I better ask
you shoe shoppers may be other have a
doctor as the head of the department and
Maimonides I'll ask him maybe he could
explain it anyway the hawk of aid who
plays Cove aid what what now it says
here the liver is associated with anger
what's the connection between the two
anyone though in what the deliver I'm
asked to deliver purifies the blood oh
that's what the Liberty okay so so that
means that so that so the dam is like
did the heat the anger okay right for
her mother and the bile against the
motor Hema shock at this Cossack of it
so how does that has that workout Hillel
it calms down the anger of the liver
does it make any sense to you
well yeah I mean we're talking about
amorous Clara like you know like a
depressive neurotransmitter or something
you know something that causes you to
have a bad down spirit yeah yeah no but
but but but but but right right that's
true but right here he's talking about
the gosh me is the physical Maura
he says it's me shocked at this gossip
of it how is it me shocked endlessly
liqueur a it gets processed to through
the liver
well III I see I have a good a good
friend of masculine see this someone on
the stand see this on the Facebook live
in Yokohama of so maybe he will write a
note and and explain what the rebus says
here this whole idea with the mother
being that the mother that again the
mother be shocked at this Cossack of it
yes I understand um mom says that Evers
air Bushido me the doctor this process
of using the murder to calm down the
situation here this process that the
mother creates the reverence and that's
why the de mother says the rake murder
but tell me them the teacher should
actively and prevent prevent and
proactively create a a fear a reverence
a murder in the tummy then that
emphasizes Reshiram either
it's a measured way the india-pakistan
she will you ask either covet oh no just
the opposite of I said sorry if there's
not a
of the Mara you hear this unison if
there's not enough of the Mara that's
active in the body the the heat in of
the coveted of the liver will be out of
control and be very angry so you need a
certain amount of kind of thrust it's
interesting you need a sample of
frustration and bitterness so that that
the it doesn't go into anger the
frustration and reverence although it's
kind of in that it with holes in its
discipline that itself will hold back
from the situation spiraling out of
control and becoming worth becoming
anger full-blown anger so what he's
saying is it's a very gavel to cover a
very deep idea that the more itself is a
catalyst for a healthy situation
avoiding anger what a spin
what a spin and he says the india told
us have bought about called yes Almeida
on the other hand if you have too much
mother more than the measured amount
years that slavery cos Michelle you
become sick
Jana Singh so too much murder in the
body brings illness in other words too
much reverence put on the students will
backfire as well so a teacher needs to
be very balanced in giving the right
amount of murder of reverence to the
students that I want and they get the
point this is the teacher we're students
at the same time the teacher doesn't get
out of control and express his
frustrations and anger on the students
make a just a few more minutes we can be
kids because I'm mother but al-midan
she's lethal ears with me the Nahanni
boyfriend said to Solomon Cavanaugh a
métis that needs to be the proper amount
of discipline in order for the purpose
and objective the true purpose an
objective to be
filled the Kabbalah's DVD arrived to
receive the teachers words beefy tithe
in the best way
relieves I be quite the shall arrive and
they should be careful with the honor of
the teacher and will stop here but this
is an amazing amazing thought of how
important that is for a teacher to
evaluate himself in order to communicate
properly to his students everyone have a
great day we'll see everyone tomorrow
mr. Shimizu