Maamar Vata Titzave 1981 #16 - Real life stories of being prosperous, yet, wanting Madhiach- RCD

So good day to everyone. It's B. It's a day of unity of Biv. And when we learn, we're uniting ourselves with all yeden because even those that haven't yet learned are one withidus. It's just a matter of whether they know it or not. Now, of course, you will say that's kabad propaganda 101. Maybe it is, but I believe at the right time I could argue in rationally for that argument. But be that be that as is may as it may means aus is really all together regardless of the colors and the stripes and everything else. And on a day like this, we have to take a few moments to really think about this because at times it gets very very difficult to have aus with others that one might feel is very foreign to them and opposes them. I need not tell you that this issue is very prevalent unfortunately inites between the right and the left and the and the and all of that. So the fact that over the centuries we have had this issue, it's not a there's nothing new under the sun. Nothing new and yet we we somehow have come along so far and we have built bridges. So this is the day of of looking at that at in in one's own life. Are there individuals? Are there community? Are there situations where I'm not the with them? I'm not united with them. And today is a day to somehow come up with a formula, a recipe how to bring aus into those situations as well. Getting to the mime here. We're on page 412. I want to read the summary of chapter 11. It was a long chapter, a very kind of difficult chapter. So let's see what how Rabbi Tower who's translated this summarizes it. Here we go. On this basis it can be explained how through their divine service the yeden the Jews can increase the revelation of light on Mosha's level as great as he is he needs us question is how can we midgets compared to Mosha increase his level to explain that concept In terms relating to our divine service, Mosa connects the Jewish people with the self with the infinite Hashem sustaining and nurturing their faith that is bringing out a higher dimension of faith that the faith should come not only from the revealed powers of the soul but from the essence of the soul. This is what Mosher Abenu does for us. After the revelation of the essence of the soul has been brought out within them through Mosha's efforts, the divine service of the of the Jewish people and and um sorry the divine service of the Jewish people and their striving that even their revealed powers should be aligned with the ex essence of the soul increases and brings out a higher quality, a higher quality. In this manner, the true source of the essence of the soul as it is rooted in God's essence is revealed. Please close the windows. Too much noise for the sheir and turn the air condition on. Thank you. So, what we learned in this paragraph in in in English, not in French or Spanish or Portuguese, what we learned here is that we need a mohenu misha meers. We need a mohenu. Each one of us needs a mohenu in our lives. Why? Why is a rabbi not good enough? Why isn't a god not good enough? Because a rabbi, a R, a God, a leader, a monik, they're they're all special and they all have great purpose and they're all fine and wonderful people, but they don't do what it says in this chap first paragraph. Sorry, because that's not their job. THAT'S NOT THEIR JOB DESCRIPTION. The job description of aenu of the generation is to do what it says here. And what is that? to reveal within us something greater than we ourselves touch normally. What is that? And that is that not only do I serve God in a situation of distress of difficulty of ms nephesh when I'm challenged and faced I stand up and I say I'm not going to give in and I'm going to break through which is SPECIAL AND WONDERFUL BUT ALSO WHEN YOU'RE A FREE person you he teaches you how to access that part of you even when you're free because you realize that you're missing the you're missing redemption as it says the gulus and Misha teaches us how TO HAVE THAT SAME SENSE of commitment which he calls here the higher level of the soul etc. That that too should be in in sync with Hashem and by doing that Moshe gets AN UPLIFT. MOSHE GETS SOMETHING that he didn't have before because before he's Moshenu as God's messenger, right? He does Hashem's work and that's it. What about he himself? How does he grow? Not just as a messenger, an intermediary. So the Mimera explains that Mosher Raenu grows because he needs the Jews. He needs us. The head needs the feet. Without the feet, the head cannot get to where it needs to be. I don't care what kind of great head you have. What kind of great person is, you need soldiers. You need people for a moment historically. Those individuals that didn't have a team behind them didn't rise to the top. And if they roast for the to the top, it was short turned. It didn't last. Look. Look around. Look, look at history and civilizations who made it and those that aren't around any more, etc. There are people who are very in, you know, they're very bright and very brilliant in their own right, but they don't make it on the global map of Judaism of TA. Why? Because they didn't have a team with them. Now, that could because that's their nature. That's fine, but that's the facts. The fact is that a leader is only a leader if he has followers. In the terminology brought me, you aren't a king. You aren't a mel without a nation, without subjects. But why? This man is is is is king-like material. This person is superior. This person has leadership qualities. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WHAT is he a melik over cats and dogs? CATS AND DOGS ARE IMPORTANT. BUT A MELIK IS A mel over human beings. And if the nation isn't saying from their own perspective that you are the right man and we want you as our king and we will submit and be subservient to you. He's not a mel. So when we say that the yen create gave moes something that he didn't have it's this nakuda it's this point they gave him the the right and the ability to be the true raenu mishenu I'm using the words melik although he wasn't a melik like I told you one of the The difference between Mosher Raenu and Mashiachu and the righteous Mashiach is that Mashiach will be called Raenu and also Meliach, the king Mashiach. WHEREAS MOSHE IS NOT CALLED King Moshe. You don't find such a thing. He's called Mosha, our teacher, because his idea was to communicate and teach to Eden what Hashem told him. He was a rebi a rebi a teacher he wasn't a melik but I'm using the idea of melik the concept for moenu in the context of this mime know that this mime is not is not explaining and talking about the difference between and okay it's not this mime there are other where he discusses that but not here but what he talks about here is that this thisenu is receiving an upgrade because of the yeden. Let's go on to the next paragraph, paragraph two on page 412 in the summary. The above concepts enable the resolution of one of the questions raised at the outset of the mimer. That one verse speaks of kindling a constant lamp while another states this is in the beginning. It states that the lamps must must burn from evening and morning until morning. From the perspective of Mosha himself, it is at night that is when there are oppressive decrees that the essence of the soul is called into expression. When however the Jewish people bring oil to Mosa, that is they internalize the influence. Please mute yourself whoever is not muted. I think Mosa Myers, you're not muted. Please mute yourself. Whoever is not muted or maybe it's Yi, sorry Y, mute yourself. When however the Jewish people bring oil to Mosha, they internalize the influence of the essence of the soul. The essence of the soul shines as a constant lamp and is revealed even in the situation of prosperity when the Jews are not challenged. This answers the question is the question was why the discrepancy of in the language versus MAKE UP YOUR MIND WHICH IS IT. So you'll say well it's one of the same. WELL IF IT'S ONE OF THE SAME YOU DON'T SAY IT TWICE and it's one of the same you don't change the language. And the Reb answers the questionb says means there's at night there's darkness and you make from darkness light. So in other words the emphasis there is changing transforming negativity lia to boy to light to morning. the the addition of nit is much greater. A CONSTANT FIRE, a constant candle burning, which means that even when you have prosperity, you're still longing for Hashem because the iss that he spoke so much about in this mimer is expressed specifically through the words in the versus the words in the Is that clear? I want to make sure you understand. I just don't want to read and say and then then have you look at me like goss. Am I making sense? Okay, I guess since no one commented, I'm either making sense or I'm not making sense. But we have to go on. Third paragraph 412 on page 412 in lessons in in the myra. These concepts are also reflected in the unity of the Jewish people. You see, we're learning this on today's day. The revelation of the essence of the soul through Mosha's influence will establish bonds of connection among the Jewish people themselves. For from the standpoint of the essence of the soul, the Jewish people are a single entity. Nevertheless, the unity within the Jewish people that stems from the revelation of the essence of the soul can appear as an additional matter, something apart from their ordinary selves. Hence this unity is established by deemphasizing one's mundane concern concerns and highlighting the essential nature of the soul. When however the essence of the soul as it is rooted in God's essence is revealed there is oneness amongst the Jewish people in all matters even those matters involving material concerns. So in this last paragraph, he goes to the result. Let's put the air conditioner on. He goes to the result of the the result that comes about from the nit from the causes and that is that our material matter right our bank account our health our relationships will be healthier and special if we access nit Why? Because is who we are. We're not today, right? But no one is coming and shooting and killing you for learning ta now on this in this year wherever you are. We're in a free world in A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY. We hope so. But so but in in the in before in Europe pre-war etc. Spanish Inquisition and times like that, YOU WERE KILLED FOR being a Jew. I think I told you once I was um I had a stopover once in Spain on the way there to Israel and I had a whole day. So I decided to go and and and and see a little bit the Jew Jewish places. So I took the speed train from the airport to Mad uh to to Madrid. I forget. No, the pl we landed in Madrid to another another city. I forget now and I hadn't davened. So when I got out it was very time to davenin. So everything was like closed. So I davened where I was outside. I do. There was no minion, nothing. Later I found out when I went to the museum and went to that I probably was doing on earth that there was so much Jewish blood spilled there. And then as I went around of course I saw many churches and I couldn't tolerate it and I just got back on the train and I escaped. I just left my my my you know I just felt so so uncomfortable. What am I what am I why am I mentioning this? There is from FROM DARKNESS YOU TRANSFORM DARKNESS. So on one handing on on a on earth that was once there was Jewish blood and all the tum in in the country etc. It's like taking and making a ver which is you would you would say that's galdic and it is gavaldic. It is great but there's something greater. Something greater is to transform you know the streets dole and hamore and uh wherever you are trans transform your when you walk in the street the mishkim what are you thinking about ask yourself what am I thinking about am I thinking about what's for supper my kids my grandkids my job all very important things says the previous rebba in his discourses at great length we have to think tyra and those that can say actually words of tyra when you walk in the streets you should do that so even if you walk from your apartment to your to your to your job or you're driving in the car you should be saying words of mishnaim whatever you Oh, they tell a story of aidima alovich was his name. A family is narrol many grandchildren. One of them I think is zamashpia in kirygat a very popular kabad yeshiva alovovich. And I knew the son of this one of the sons his name was alovich. He's already he lived in 95. He lived and he would deny many times in the balan shabas. And he also would say till every day for and he was a very fine very fine ye. So knowing him I didn't know that I heard about in front of Khan and from him and others. So the story is that when they came from Russia in the 1935 I believe 35 into the 40s the poverty was extreme extreme I heard this from various people mish extreme and the greatest and biggest people slept boxes drove on donkeys to to sell bread and milk. It was like humiliating and embarrassing, but they had no choice because they needed to bring home money for their children and family. Mosha was learned in Labavich in the original Labavich. He was what we call a Tim and he was a and later when he passed away the family asked the Reba if they could write on his mata that he was careful in he was careful in all aspects like a benon. I don't know if they said the word bayon, but that's what a bayon is according to Tanya. And the Reb said you could write it. You're talking about a yeed and he, you know, he wasn't, you know, you know, he was a a regular ye aid, but he was so careful. So I'm just I just described to you a little bit who I'm talking about. So at that time they were building the country and the job that he got was in in the red in in the Dead Sea area over there in lot that sea area. They and one of the things is they they were building things and putting in infrastructure and his job was shleing boxes. Schleing boxes. Okay. Now, he he, you know, he was born, I think, yet in the in the 1890s. Here we're talking about 1940 45. So, you know, he's not a youngster. He's not an old man, but he's he's getting up there. He's, you know, and the sleing boxes and the heat. I need not tell you, the heat of the Dead Sea is ger. There was no air condition in those days. So, it was very taxing. He lived at the time in Jerusalem and he dabbed also I think at the Balatan Yeshu in May over there. And one day one or two people come to the shoe and they say where is so they say he's over there. They go he go they he go they go over to him and they say we have a new job for you. The new job for you is to to be in charge of people that are doing the schleing. But you are we see you're holy. You know they you're like for them IT WAS A SADIC. They these were commoners. I mean regular yen yeden good yeden but they weren't WITH AID a whole beard and and and and everything else they saw that this was aid and this was they wanted to give him an easier job and he told them thank you very much but no I DON'T WANT THIS job I want to continue shleing the boxes they thought he was like mishuga we're offering ing you a easier job. You're getting older. IT'S BOILING HOT OUTSIDE. You're breaking your back. We're giving you You'll be like a supervisor. So, he said to them, "Thank you, but no thank you." Why? I don't know if he said to them or someone asked him later, cuz they were bewildered and they left the sho like like puzzled like they saw he's really a a nut. He's a kidic nut. Like who would turn down such a job? And they real and he said later that his job as a supervisor would not allow him to think ta the entire time cuz he would be so busy worrying about everyone else that he has to supervise. But in carrying the box of shleing FROM A TO B, he's his own man. And as he does it, he's able to think ta and say ta. It's a story for the books. And it's not just a STORY FOR THE BOOKS. THIS was a true I would say aid a true and especially aid. So what's the connection to what we're learning now? We're talking here about the difference between and is when there's a dire situation when there's a challenge. DO YOU RISE TO THE OCCASION? DO YOU SHOW WHAT YOU'RE made of? Means it's constant. It's flowing. It's flowing. There's no issues. It's just going good. Everything's going good. Ask yourself a question. Do you feel the same connection? Do you feel the same burning passion for Hashem like you did WHEN YOU WERE OPPRESSED? When you were pressed or now that you're coasting and the and everything is is going fine and dandy, you just are not the same in your connection to Hashem. implies that this is this is what we need to be constantly and and so so that when we we express that when things are going well and we are prosperous and successful etc etc we still are bothered that there's no and that big This is the message of this chapter and that's why it's very real because today we're still in Golus. There isn't gula. Okay, regardless of what you feel and think it's all nice and dandy, but sorry the B mikdash is not here. The is not serving and we have enemies trying to destroy us and inside ourselves we have so many issues and there's mental health issues in the world. THERE'S SO MANY PROBLEMS WHEN MSIAH COMES IT WILL ALL BE GONE. THAT'S WHAT IT says in kazal. If we believe in kazal that's what it says. So the and so so so the Reb says this is causes this should bother you and again I EMPHASIZE NOT TO bother you to become depressed or to become say this is all nonsense and baloney 1900 2,000 years in gulus and and and Msiah is still not here. First of all don't play God. Don't start with God BECAUSE IF YOU START WITH GOD IT AIN'T GOOD. So just let Hashem do his job. That's number one. Number two, if you really want to find glimpses of Gulah, the the the fact that we are study, you're in I'm here in America, we're learning, we're learning in a classroom SITUATION IS PART OF Kula to me. It's it's 100%. THERE'S NOT EVEN A QUESTION. and and and in every way shape or form there's so much happening in a positive way to amuse that it is a stepping stone for guula but to become complacent and to and and not to have a drive that we need gula and we need and and we can't take this that has to be within our our soul within our revealed powers etc. This is what we learned tomorrow. We'll finish the mimer was one more paragraph, one more chapter and Wednesday we'll have a faban for have a good day everyone. Bye-bye.