Maamar Vata Titzave 1981, #2- Moshe Rabbeinu in our generation, Who, What, How - RC Dalfin

So, the day we're learning the minor of Atah Tsaveh uh that the Rebbe gave us as his last minor before he became ill. And it's the last will and testament. We're in the middle of chapter two. So, in the beginning of chapter two, after the Rebbe asked five or six questions, he he starts explaining why it was necessary to bring the oil to Moshe Rabbeinu. So, he First, in order to understand that, you have to understand who Moshe Rabbeinu is. So, he starts talking about Moshe Rabbeinu. And he says that by bringing the oil to Moshe Rabbeinu, who gave the oil then to Aaron to light the menorah, Moshe Rabbeinu receives an aliya because of us. That's where we're at. So, we're on chapter two. We're in the the beginning, the third line or so, fourth line. There's a parentheses. The Moshe of Yisrael, because Moshe, the Yidden, "And took mass reish v'regel." They're comparable to the head and the feet. As Moshe calls them, as it says, "Sheish me'os elef ragli am." 600,000 foot goers, foot walkers. "Asher anochi b'kirbi Moshe." Says, "Of which I stand amongst them." The whole Yisrael heima raglayim d'Moshe. All Yidden, all Jews, are the feet of Moshe. U'Moshe hu ha'rosh lahem. And Moshe is the head of the Yidden. So, we have the feet. The feet are symbolized by the Well, the symbol is the feet, but they represent the Jewish people, the Jewish nation. And the head represents Moshiach. And he explains further, And just as in a person, the feet bring the person to a place where the head can't get there on its own, and the head must have the feet to get there, come make change, so too in the moral, who be Moshiach is regarding Moshiach of Israel, regarding Moshiach and the Yidden, so I say Israel, through the Yidden, which are the Raglayim, the feet of Moshiach, Moshiach, Mitoshav Elokim Moshiach, there is an advantage that Moshiach gets because of the feet, because of the Yidden. D'zeh Moshiach Kosav, this explains properly the verse, Sheish Me'os Elef Raglay Am, 600,000 foot goers, Asher Anochi B'Kirbi, that I stand amongst them, Shai Yidden, Raglay Am, it is because of the feet of the nation, Nimshach Ha'Giluy D'Anochi, there is drawn that to Moshiach receives the revelation of what we call Anochi, I am, B'Kirbi, Shel Moshiach within the insides, the innermost of Moshiach. Moshiach gets Moshiach Rabbeinu gets the Anochi revelation, which is the greatest level, revelation of Godliness, only because of the foot walkers, and therefore he says, I stand, MOSHIACH, I STAND TODAY amongst the foot goers, with tremendous humility, because if not for the foot goers, if not for the feet, the head couldn't get there. So, the head is the head and the head is the big shot. Very nice. But, you're only a big shot IF YOU CAN GET THERE. And you can't get there without the foot goes. And hence, Mosha acknowledges that because of his humility and he says, "I realized that the feet have something I don't have and I need the feet." And when Mosha realizes that, he gains the advantage that the feet have over the head, which will be explained later, I believe. Let's continue. Zelva Titzaveh Yisrael. And this is why it says, "You Mosha shall command the Yidden." Remember the question we asked is it's very This is a very different way of expressing the same idea. Yeah. Okay. Um the Yikchu Lecha Shemen Zayis, "Take to yourself olive oil." L'hadish Mosha Yitzaveh. Next page. I don't know in your in your version what page it is, but it's in in the old Hebrew, it's it's going on to the next page. L'hadish Mosha Yitzaveh. V'hikashrusam L'me'ah Zayis. How does this take place? He says it takes place when Mosha commands. And remember, he wrote He adds the word Chaim Ze'ev V'hikashrus. He connects. Because we learned yesterday that the the word Mitzvah is Lashon Safa Chibur, connection. So, when Mosha commands the Yidden, he's he's simultaneously connecting them with Hashem. Aidei Zeh, through this Yavi'u Bnei Yisrael Shemen Zayis L'Mosha, they bring the oil to Moshiach. They you shall take to yourself meaning Moshiach. So you see food taste of Moshiach this adds energy to Moshiach. So what we understand for this paragraph is the importance of A knowing that there is a Moshiach of being. If you don't know there's a Moshiach of being this whole paragraph doesn't apply. Right? The Rebbi was assuming that we know there's a Moshiach of being. In every generation. But here is not he's not up to that. That is going to explain soon. But in in the text of the Torah there was Moshiach of being the Jews he commanded the Jews to bring the oil. They brought the oil to him and he subsequently gave it to Aaron. And the Rebbi explains that this scenario which we questioned before seems to be uh strange and different than all other commandments of the Torah says that Rebbi yes it is different. And the reason why it's different is because here begins the bond with Moshiach that's very unique. It is in this mitzvah of bringing the oil for the menorah in the Mishkan that the way it was done the details of the way it was done brings to mind the scenario the relationship between the Yidden and Moshiach Moshiach and Hashem and what Moshiach of being gets a benefit that he didn't have before without the Yidden. So here again when you think about this concept the mind matter is much greater than just answering a question or two or three. The mind matter starts tackling the overall idea, what does it mean to have a motion of a banum? Who is motion of a banum? What is motion of a banum? And now you you see already the beginnings of how the Rebbe why the Rebbe left this myman to his Hasidim kind of as a of a last as a last will and testament. It's to to wake us up, to make us alert and aware that a boy sigh you're you have a motion of a banum. And understand what motion of a banum is. And that is independent of the physicality of the body whether the motion of a banum passes on or lives on etc. Just like the first motion of a banum continues to live on especially every time when you read this parsha. That is the greater message that the Rebbe is sharing and alluding to in this paragraph. So this para- this this this myman this paragraph become a prototype for years to come. So far 31 years that the Rebbe has passed or 33 if you count from the stroke. And if you understand this, you understand that this is an independent idea outside of the physicality of the body. Now then if someone wants to say, if someone argues, "Well, MY MOTION OF A BANUM is is is double the matter or this rabbi THAT RABBI." NO PROBLEM. No problem. But do you understand what a motion of a banum is? And do you understand that there are certain qualities that are necessary to be a motion of a banum? And do you understand the relationship between yourself and and us Jews to make sure I been And if you if you could check the the boxes with a check to all OF THAT, NO PROBLEM. But how many people say they have another motion of being and they have no IDEA WHAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT. It's just another rabbi, another teacher, another time with another robe, another of best men. Very nice. Very important. It's not a motion of being there's something totally different. So this this is this is the inner the inner workings of this mind. That's what I'm I'm I'm going to I'm going to show you throughout the mind. Let's continue. Misha, you got it? Misha Brown, you got it? Yeah? Clear? I I can't hear you so you'll have to just shake with your head. Okay. Don't worry. I'll be back tomorrow in Brooklyn with the sham and hope I think everything will be working. We'll we'll have a normal connection. I'm sorry. Let's continue. I ask him all. Well, the value is there to explain this market by my mirror. He prefaces my father-in-law that ever saying my father-in-law prefaces in his discourse of 1927. Show me show me show me the naked eye man. My shadow being is called the loyal shepherd. From the Hebrew word the row a row with an eye in meaning a shepherd man from the word man. Loyal trusted shepherd. The rabbit says there are two explanations in this I in this. Show one show me a man show yes to I am. That he is the the shepherd of the loyal shepherd of all you can. The show who's on and number two the show who's on number four nice. Number two is that he sustains. And gives gives sustenance to Yidden b'inyan emunah. In the manner in the manner of faith. Moshe Rabbeinu builds our faith. That's the second interpretation. The first interpretation is that Moshe himself is a trusted servant. So the first interpretation you only refers to Moshe himself. The second interpretation refers to what Moshe does for us. What does Moshe do for us? He instills in us a a a deep faith in God. Let's continue. The emunah she yesh to be Israel to that one. The question is why is that necessary? Don't we have our faith? We every Yid has faith. Why does Moshe have to instill faith in us? What does that mean? So the Rebbe says, without asking the question he answers the question. The emunah she yesh to be Israel to that one. The faith that Jews have on their own, she Israel hey mom and them and them and that we Jews are called believers, the children of believers. If she should be a big nice, market. It can be peripheral, encompassing. In simple English, superficial. IS THERE A MOSHE ON THE finest Israel? And this is the idea that Moshe sustains and he and he and he gives sustenance, he feeds Jews faith. In emunah who shall munati be nice? It is that the emunah should be permeate us in a pnemius. And that's the answer to the The emunah that every Yid has is mocking. IT'S SUPERFICIAL. AND TAKES THAT IN ALL. AND MAKES THAT SUPERFICIAL BECOME WHO YOU ARE. THAT'S WHY YOU NEED TO BE NEW. RIGHT? WITHOUT MY BEING NEW BUT ETC. VERY NICE. AND THE NEXT moment you're you're doing whatever you're doing. But when you relate to my being new. And you allow my being new to take the that put within every Jew and to somehow. Make it become part of who you are. It's no longer superficial. It is who you are. Let's continue. This is the meaning what it's written in a human this supernal faith. It's in the on this will become sustained. And internalized like food digested through you through my share. That's a quote from Isaiah. The fact that sustains and feeds the faith who shall be it is it means he draws the faith into it into the inner into the of the person. The most inner aspect of man of the Jew. Finished. Mom should be my says that my father will continue in his discourse. The fact that is the loyal shepherd. The meaning of this is. He the most whole daughter diet. This doesn't only refer to the motion of the title it refers to the motion of each generation the extension of motion of the day. This is from the freedom the rebels quoting his father-in-law. What did you say for what is the father will say more further? The Russia of Israel shall be called day the leaders of the Jewish people in every generation came they strengthen the faith of Israel of the hidden of the nomination generation. So that the of the Jews in that particular generation should be inward should be permeated previous. Take for example Mordecai he was the extension of motion of the way no in his generation. As all as the sages teach shamash in his motion in his generation this is from the Gamora or madish. Yeah madish Esther rabba that motion in his generation was analogous to motion in his generation. This means also at the time when there was the decree evil decree of Haman of Haman shall live without misses. At the time to learn title and do misses was bound and connected with self-sacrifice. Nevertheless Mordecai went around he gathered congregations he people but he had them in public talking to them to strengthen their faith in to strengthen the faith of the Yidden. He would talk to the Jews of his time to strengthen their faith in God Almighty. And he encouraged them to stand strong. Stop. Okay. And after my father-in-law explains by who had length that motion of being all those that are an extension of motion in his generation should be called daughter. My skin is in the soul. Their job is and what they accomplish is to strengthen the faith of Jews. The faith that Jews that have should be in a premium is and they they strengthen that. My father-in-law goes on to explain do the preciseness of the words of the verse shaman it's oil. What type of oil causes lamoya crushed to the illuminary. And the never writes in the apprentice lamoya to the illuminary of a lawyer lawyer. And not to illuminate. Right? It doesn't say causes lawyer. The verse says causes lamoya. Moya is the source of the light. The illuminary. Lawyer means to light to ignite. Why you make with your hand lawyer? You lost? We're we're we're in the same paragraph. Three lines two three lines from the end of chapter three. That's what I can tell you. I can't hear you. I'm sorry. Let's go further. Or write me a note. Maybe I can read it. Every person is shattered and broken. Which is the concept of causes, smashed, crushed. Right? Why? Cuz we're in golus. We are in exile. So, therefore, we are shattered and crushed. Says that Abba Why you days and my game specifically through that position of feeling crushed and shattered, it leads us the more to reach the source of light, the illuminary. For exit, the essence. When do you reach the essence? When you're down, rock bottom. Step number 12, step number 12 in the AA program. We totally are rock bottom, then you can begin a healthy recovery. When we feel so despondent that we're IN GOLUS, THAT ITSELF triggers the greatest connection. It's only from God. NO ONE ELSE WOULD WOULD SEND US SO DEEP AND SO SUCH PROBLEMS. HASHEM FOR SOME REASON WANTS IT. we don't understand why, but it's Hashem. So, that is I want God. I'm not going to focus on the results of God, I'm going to focus on God. And that's what it says, "Kosi is lamor." When you're in a position of crushed, kosis, you reach not only illumination, but illuminari, the source. And this is so true in life. I once discussed this with Reb Yoel Kahn, my mashpia, and he explained to me that the Rebbe doesn't is not suggesting we we we look to be crushed. That's ridiculous. The Rebbe is saying that that the idea of of uh of of a challenge, a problem, is a springboard for the greatest goodness. That's the idea. Not In other words, some people learn the ma'amar and they make a big deal about, "Okay, I should be crushed. Crushed, crushed, crushed." No, that's that's depressive. But, if that's the situation, and it is the situation cuz we're in galus 1,900 years high and zev, and it doesn't look better, it looks only worse day to day, more problems, more more darkness, more fighting, more killing, etc., etc., that's the that's the facts on the ground. So, the you have to ask yourself, why is God doing it? What does God want? The answer is, you should feel that it's a problem. And when you FEEL IT'S A PROBLEM, YOU SAY, "ENOUGH OF IT. I WANT OUT OF this problem." And you find a way to get out, and you go way beyond it. Way beyond the normal rectification. You go to something greater, which we call etzem. Look in the parentheses. He says, "So, etzem, the essence." Next, next line. Shimon Menachem Mendel Schneerson. It is from that essence that light comes from that essence essence. Asks the Rebbe the question, with the Torah of him, we must understand how shaikh is pirus because it's lamoir the connection of the interpretation that it be crushed for the luminary lamavur bamaima to what is explained in the maima the previous Rebbe. The Rebbe said that that it mentions before Shimon Schneerson Shimon Schneerson the delay in Shimon Schneerson daughter that Shimon Schneerson his extension in every generation Shimon Menachem Mendel Schneerson Menachem Mendel Schneerson Menachem Mendel Schneerson sustains and feeds the faith that it be in a f'nimius. That's what the Rebbe is asking now. This is the Rebbe's question. What is the connection between the concept the two concepts that the previous Rebbe brings that Moshe Rabbeinu feeds the faith to be in a f'nimius to the idea that the through the through the idea of of the crushing of the oil it leads to the luminary to the source. What's the connection? Is there a connection? That's his question. The answer is there is a connection. That specifically through identifying, that's what we're going to learn in the upcoming chapters, by specifically identifying with the Moshe Rabbeinu in every generation and understanding what he wants and what he is that enables us to leave the position of kosis or rather better said to take the attitude of kosis of being crushed, downtrodden, and broken and reach the highest level of mo'ar of luminary. And those that participated and still can participate through videos and listening to the farbrengens of learning the sichos and the maimorim, see this see this clearly. See this clearly. It's not as though during the Rebbe's times from 1950 to 1992, uh we weren't in golus. We were in golus, but somehow through living with his teachings and the teachings of Torah and the atmosphere and everything else, it was like 42 years living on a high. Living on a high. You know it says in the Torah the seven fat years and the seven right? Skinny and lean years. The dream of Yosef. It was 42 years. And this is why this maamar again, just to conclude the shiur, is so important because the Rebbe will teach teaches us in this maamar that all of that you need to take and make your own pnimiyus. And if not, you're living on my shoulders and I've already given you 42 years. It's time that you grow up. Stand on your own two legs. A tzaddik is a tzaddik and you have to and you go to the ohel and you davven, you know, you ask you go to kvorim, but you have to you have to know that Hashem wants of you of us of as individuals to connect. Okay, have a great We'll see everyone tomorrow. Have a great day. Take care. Bye-bye.