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Maamar Vkibel 1927 #11 Selfish Faith is Preliminary
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we're on page 203
the mymath that we've been learning
my grandmother agree yeah the shears
dedicated to the yachts the in the
summer of yoni's grandmother
with the name
uh so 2
203 we're learning the mime of the qibla
that the previous videos
the 6th said in 1927 in moscow
and the theme of the mimer is
to understand what is
a motion abandon of a generation
what are the qualities of a nation are
being of a generation
and why is that important because
moisture was the most rare thing of his
generation mordechai had sadik
was the maishira banu of his
time of purim so who gave
the yiddan this kayak the strength
to overcome the gazeta the decree
it was the masjid albano of the
generation of purim which was murkhayat
sadiq
and that's what he's called maracai
hayahoodi
what is the element of monsieur beno
that we talk about
what is the specialty
the specialty is that he is
roya nemon and that's a chazal a medes
moshe rabbein is called the faithful
shepherd
so the simple way of understanding that
is
that moisture bainu
you know fee it gives uh he himself
is a loyal shepherd has nothing to do
with us
the yidden the rebel the mimer based on
his
predecessor's teachings beginning with
the altered
and the following success of lubavitch
say no
it's not only that he was a maishira
bainu
a faithful shepherd but he actually
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instilled within every single yid
faith he made every single jew
a faithful shepherd
because he teach he taught he teaches us
and how and what a munna really
is what faith is real is really all
about and how to access it
and this is the meaning of the verse
you shall feed faith why do we have to
feed faith the only faith
is natural i believe so
this says if that's your faith
your faith is really
shallow the story that they say over
is that you came to uh
lebanese
and was arguing with him about
the existence of god
atheist agnostic believer
and this person blackmon
heaven for friend concluded that there
is no creator god forbid
so the rabbi told him
if my understanding of god would be like
your understanding i would also conclude
there is no god
but because i have a very different
understanding
what god is and what god is not and your
understanding of
god is like ridiculous so therefore
your conclusion is there is no creator
that this anecdote story anecdote
is really real when we learn this mimer
when you understand faith just as a
shallow experience
and you don't know if someone says
explain faith to me
articulate faith to me and you can't
then you need to go back and do your
homework
you have you have to re read and restudy
jewish
writings from rambam to rabbenus
gone to the kuzari
to hasidis and
you'll have a better understanding of
what emunah is and what a moon is not
in habakkuk this has been all capsulized
and summarized in its writings of the
seven rebellion of lubavitch
because it's a mainstay in avoidance
hashem
i always say why is it that certain
people
are religious and certain people aren't
religious so many times people say well
it's because of circumstances they
weren't raised in a religious home or
there was hypocrisy in the
in the in the home all kinds of
arguments
i believe that at the end of the day an
intelligent person and we're intelligent
people
it's a choice that is made by individual
and it boils down
down to whether you really believe or
you don't believe
a do you believe there is a creator and
do
and even if you believed as a creator
you believe that the tata
and the titan vis-a-vis the jewish
religion for a jew
is authentic ms exactly the way it is
and if you don't come to that conclusion
you don't believe that
of course putting on blackstrap straps
on you on your arms and your head with
boxes
uh it looks very silly and is ridiculous
i don't know if you guys heard but i
could forward it to you
michael savage is uh he's a jewish man
and he's a prominent uh
radio show host here at least something
so something she said he's a wacko
but whatever uh but it's very bright and
just uh they just had a clip and someone
sent it to me he speaks about
filling about for five minutes
and he says the world is so getting so
nuts that he decided to go onto his
porch
and to think about god and religion as a
true and he took out his villain
that he he put on once in a blue moon
you know and he decided to put on film
again now every day
i don't know how long it's going to last
hashem would last
but he explained he talks about it
you're going to have to listen it's
coming from michael savage
not coming from from a guy in in
lakewood or or in brooklyn
or in your lions who's very secular
and he speaks about the black straps and
the boxes he says
outwardly looks nuts and and there and
and he says it goes back to belief in
god
so you're gonna ask of course if so why
don't you become about the shuva
and and and keep shabbos and mitzvahs
that the the the faith by him is not
yet been permeated inside every detail
of his being
in mr hashem it will but he
he's on a path he's on a path so why am
i saying this
because it's amazing who teaches
us what is faith and if you don't have a
munna
and realer not lip service
or not the pressure and muno you know
they say the story the the ladies that's
your kipper and the zim
and people are making pledges that
called nidre
and she says i'm very sick i'm dying i
pledge a hundred thousand dollars
give her passes and she says i live
through it forget about i didn't really
mean it
what type of moon is that when you feel
your life is in danger
you make your pledge that that's that's
that's faith
that's that's that's that's ego it's
about self that's not
faith so we have to really understand
what a muna is
and this is a system that the balatanya
set up in the second section of tanya
yikood the gates of unity and faith
where there
he he deals with this issue of faith in
god
and he speaks about israel
at one position
and what does he say he says one is what
we learned
one is where there's a yesh and the yes
is nullified to the i into god and one
is to begin with
there is no yeshua which we just
explained in the last few years i don't
want to go over it right now
the point being that faith is not simple
it's it's not a simple matter and if you
ask i'm telling you you ask
i don't care the average religious jew
from jew
from the biggest rush of shiva to the
smallest you know
simple person
their faith they could just say over the
word faith ten times one time more
emphatic than the other
but if you ask him what is it explain it
talk about it
it barely can tell you anything about it
so the daltereba in in his my modern
spends a lot of time
and i mentioned this because when we
learn these ideas and see this in our
classes
we try to explain them as best as
possible it's not just to
kind of because it says it in the mimer
so we need to no
it it gives us a better understanding
of what god is and what god isn't and
what a moon is
and when we have that we understand what
the motion of benue tribe
is doing for us what what moshe did for
the jews
vayaminu bashem every day we say this
they trusted they've had faith in god uh
moshe
why do you put the two an emotion his
servant why do you put the two together
as though they're equal
you know one of the old
old arguments of the misnom used to be
it's gone but how can you equate a
rabbit to god then how could you put him
in one sentence and all of that
no but hazal said it doesn't begin with
the proscent of
me no oh which is a conjunction
and in moshe his servant in other words
moshe his servant and belief in god
are kind of the same how can you say
that
did you ever ask yourself that question
when you're diving
if not it's time to ask yourself that
question i've been thinking about this
for 50
60 years of my life well actually 50 to
as long as i'm diving and i became
cognizant of this
verse from 15 years old or so
i've tried every day i tried to what
does this mean i used to spend time
a long time thinking about this and
what's the answer
the answer is what says in the mimer at
least one of the answers
the answer is that if you understand
what a moshe rabbenu is and what he
does for the for the jew and for the
jewish people
yes he is the embodiment and the
intermediary between
hakodo and banaya's role and hashem has
mercy on the world and on the jewish
people
and he says i give you and moshe are
baner in every generation
if you listen to him and learn from him
and emulate him it's like emulating
that that's not the siddhas
quotes in chapter 2 of tanya so this is
this is a very important part reason why
we learned this mimer at this time
because when
purim came and purim is coming in a week
from now or so
we can have purim is coming and
we rethink the miracles that happened
and how we were saved that's cavaldi
absolutely
but it's much deeper it's much deeper
if you understand this and you relate to
it and you live with it you you will
experience that in your life
so those things that are cut that are
difficult right now and we have
difficulties and challenges
in all aspects and if you live within
munna
you you you'll be fine you'll be very
fine and you will go up i'm just
thinking now
i just saw before i came into this year
a clip of hasidim dancing
in 770 uh either in
in 1970 no in 1985
86 when this forum would return to the
library the rebels library
and you see the the lawyer jerry i think
show stack from philadelphia
he was one of the main lawyers in in the
case
and he's dancing there with rabbi pinson
from tunisia
and rabbi raskin from morocco
and rabbi garelick who just passed away
and i'm making a clip on him imagine him
in a few days from
italy like these are the rebbe's
original
in the world not in the just in the
states
right and here's this lawyer the
yarmulke has fallen off every two
minutes from his head
noticeably that you know he doesn't
regularly wear yarmulker
who knows if he's religious or not
irrelevant and he's dancing with them in
the most hasidic way
in 770 with the vodka all around and
see them dancing away the night and he's
dancing there it's it's
it's so moving and so inspiring
and what is going on what's going on is
as i said to myself i'm saying here all
these yidden
who literally gave their life
for other jews you know how dangerous it
was in the in the 50s and 60s to be in
morocco
only lebovaters who are like
don't take no for an answer would do
that
no one else was there of course there
were moroccan jews who lived there
who were born there raised there
but you didn't have a torah or samaya
or oh you lakewood
ponovich no one was there no one would
go there
you gotta be cuckoo to go there or
tunisia
i mean and these are hasidim that
lived through stalin these look him who
became
their life was spared under stalin in
the 30s
and the 40s right and then they were
then until they settled and they left
you know france and
they left samarkand and to france and
then they came to australia
to hurt his role to america and then
comes along the la babachir
and the previous the rabbit sends them
to tunisia to morocco
and to italy you got to be kidding
and it wasn't easy don't think that
everyone uh
jumped on the bed on the wagon the
parents and grandparents of these people
they they said what are you doing to our
kids we just came
to the land of peace of honey and dew
and you're sending him away now again to
a far out
continent and country where it's
dangerous what are you doing
and that ever says yeah we have to bring
meshiach
and jews are here and there and
everywhere and until every yid knows
about god
still not here and now you think about
it
it's so many years later 70 years later
60 years later
merciful still not here so i was asking
myself this morning did they fail
most laboratories won't ask that
question well i do
did they fail
and the answer is they did not fail
because they built another step
higher to mashiach
and i really mean it in other words
at some point mashiach is going to come
and we need a full set of stairs
and steps and they continued
building the steps higher and higher
closer to meshiach
and they left over children
grandchildren
other custodian you know in france there
was a shliyaka rabbi azeem of in paris
he literally made hundreds of bolichuba
single-handedly who today
are sluhim and whose kids are slogan
so you probably have several thousand
people who are a result of one man
because he believed that in
in in god's mission one man
did this in paris in the 1970s
60s 70s 80s etc
so when we learn about ammuna it's an
investment
for ourselves children grandchildren in
the future generations
because the more a person has a faith
they accept tighter
you don't have the faith you don't
believe then
then ultimately there's a breakdown for
one person
oh he you know he can't he has to remain
religious i'm going to remain because
my father was that my mother was my
grand tradition
but you know i won't be meticulous here
there
so everyone has their quirks
what they choose and pick right
but the truth is if you have real and
munna you don't choose a pick you do
everything
to the best of your ability the best of
your ability
so this is why i took a few minutes
extra now to explain this because
towards the end of yesterday's year on
page 203
some of you weren't here so i repeated
it that evan mentions here
a very beautiful thought listen to this
this is like the four launched in the
bottom of two of three says
it says
hashem says you follow terror mitchells
i'm going to give you
grass in your field for your animals
comes along the refridge and gives a
spin on the
on the literal meaning it doesn't only
mean that i'm going to give you food for
your animals
there are certain souls that are called
zetta behemoth
animal souls and i don't mean souls of
an animal it's a human
there's in a human there's human souls
and there's an aspect called animal soul
within the human.
so he says
these behaviours these animal souls
are will be will be given grass
what does that mean grass it doesn't
mean weed
it doesn't mean lsd it doesn't mean
alcohol
it means they will be given knowledge
feeling
feeling venosati asaf
right like like like grass is food for
an animal
these behemoths
these animals will get grass
they'll be inspired with knowledge of
god
and who's going to give it to them moshe
rabbingham
because maishwara bainu inspires even a
soul
that's quote a animal-like soul
also with us
my my mother-in-law may she be well
always says the rabbit
took a bunch of boars and he saved their
lives
he made him into mention
behemoths but we're all a bunch of
behemoths
animals gluttons
indulgences food
honor pride like behemoths comes along
may should says i have mercy on you guys
hashem loves you and i love you and i'm
gonna
give you a little sequel wake you up
that
life is not about just being a bore and
it gives us
das intelligence
thoughtfulness ha citizen english
art scrolling gomorrah steins gemura
english hebrew arabic spanish french
portuguese
learn it's in front of you and then now
we have social media
from all sides look how we've been
learning
see this every morning hashem
from i'm here and you're there
and he's in poland and we're all
learning
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gave to the world and the moisture of
bainu
says don't squash it don't say the
internet is strafe
you're not allowed to look at the
internet oh there's plenty of tray
stuff on here no not kosher stuff on
here and it's
very easy to mess up so put on your
filters
leave it in your dining room where
everyone can see you
you know do it in such a way where you
can't hide
yeah you gotta put restrictions on
yourself
because our gate sahara is alive
until the moment when we close our eyes
okay let's not kid ourselves anyone who
thinks otherwise
is uh smokey something okay so the yate
sahara is good and alive
and really really active
he doesn't stop again that vert of the
cutscore
remember that work i'm i'm dying on my
bed and what am i thinking the cuttscore
holy cutscore said
what will people say about me after i
die
right it's like think about how true it
is
like you know what what will our epithet
read under my saver
you know
and and because this is kashmir
this is the world we live in it requires
of us to daily rethink
and relive and and all of this and
that's what's called avoid this hashem
so now let's turn to page 204 and read
the kitser the
the synopsis of the previous paragraph
kid city of value we explained
every person confined within himself
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he actually asks god to give him
something that's contrary to god
he says this in response responsibility
to the good to the khazal
gandha rahman akarya the thief
on the threshold of the tunnel where
he's about to steal
he says god please make
me make it possible for me to steal so
the rabbit asked hillel
could you bring that could you could you
bring that down to our daily live stream
he says yeah i can no problem
he says we request certain things daily
that are contrary to what god wants and
we're still asking hashem
give me lots of this and lots of that so
i can indulge
so we're calling to god to what to
supply us
the to supply us the gospels to the
taiva
for what purpose to go against god so
we're just like the gaanev
who calls god to help him steal
let's continue or didn't tell him
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it's interesting moshe in the paragraph
the rabbit didn't say burn him
he only said wealth he says every person
you only
the person thinks themselves i deserve
wealth remember we spoke about yesterday
here in the synopsis yoni look he adds
the words not only wealth
burning what do you mean i'm gonna get
mad of course i'm gonna have children
i remember i married in my mind i'm
gonna have
a first born a son then a girl
another son you know and and we'll you
know we'll have
several boys and several girls so barack
obama had a son
and afterwards one girl next one a girl
third one another girl oh hashem
calls the shots imagine someone
gets married in rahman islam
ain't bonnie he doesn't have boy sons or
daughters
so the rapper says the feeling
is i deserve you know what i'm doing for
you god you're not going to give me
children
you're not going to give me wealth
you're not going to give me
honor and pride and greatness godula
so because the person convinces himself
that he deserves
he falls into a pit
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he forgets hey you know why sometimes
you don't have any of these three or one
of the three
because although you're not a big sinner
you're not a
you don't have any grub sins
but you got him in a refined way you
know if someone doesn't give you a
certain alia that you want
boy are you bent out of shape or if
someone doesn't stand up for you when
you come into the room because you're a
rusher shiva
boy are you upset et cetera et cetera
it's just patakos
but it's the same ego kenmore
that the example we gave is when it
comes to parnosa
where a person is not honest in their
parnosa
and this is what motivated does
that he feeds the munna it should
illuminate the person
in an inner way in it should
permeate every aspect of his life
including his daily life his business
life
let's continue
youth
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the nation of god which are born
with holiness
one second
the nation of god that's born with
holiness
and impurity alpi
in accordance with him are all righteous
if you look at every jew from a soul
perspective the show that they
have they're very righteous
and very righteous
okay
the belief from the soul perspective in
and then we say uber shame blessed be
his name
the glory of his king kingdom
for eternity shabbat shalom
these two verses
they are our tradition and our faith
in the two levels that which we re call
spoke about earlier one
the malika meme how god pervades the
worlds was saying
encompasses the worlds
the primary activity our primary
activity should be
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that the faith should illuminate
our understanding
is to the point where this faith of in
hashem in god
will illuminate and permeate the inner
core of the individual
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both in the in the mindset
of blessed be his name and his kingdom
be glorified for eternity
she is
how will that happen through reflecting
and contemplating
on the way god creates the world ex
nilo yes
and the person's meditation will be his
bone in this party
a individualized a custom tailored
and in the manner in which god creates
right we discussed that i don't want to
we spent a lot of time on that so we
have to go on
vaha that means and how wondrous this is
here is god who is so
awesome and this very same god
look metaphorically speaking lowers
himself
to to permeate
and and enliven man
the universe and that's that's why he
says
needs to be near the ish
if the iron is not near the yes how can
that have an impact on the yes
yes you're honest
yes you've been there all the time
correct we're talking about the a38s
possible to make something and the
person made
it and the object is still there but
when it comes to nationwide i can make
it
overcome thank you yes so that's what he
says the iron has to be
kirov
that's why we have something called the
order of progression
called satanish thou shalt how the
energy comes from
on high moshe and it goes to this level
through this level was finally
impacting the actual creation i.e the
ish
that's on one hand simultaneously
if the creator will be a parent
in the creation no creation can come to
be
right your son and your daughter won't
shine if they stay in your house when
they're 25
and 30 and 35 let them go out because
they need to
be on their own to be their selves
under your guise they're not your son
and your daughter
as they are independent they're your son
and your daughter
who are a subordinate to you
the same is true with the iron the ion
on one hand
what is what he's saying now is we see
kind of a contradiction but it's not a
contradiction but
on one hand the ion has to be close to
the yesh and at the very same time
the the creator
has to be the helen from the nivra
concealed from the liver
for the never to be to form
to come out
but as
explained elsewhere the manner in which
these two
opposite forces coexist
and the wonder of its
being right
this is your innocent what we call the
haflah of yeshumiyan
if you ever come this is the term he
uses here and it's another maimarum too
of the rashaba another obeying the
what's the wonder of yeshmiah that there
is on one end the kirov
and at the same time there is the helen
how does it work hilo
and the answer is it works
because each one in its in its
source knows what its purpose is that's
the answer by the way
if you know right
if you know what the purpose of the
energy is
then you understand how to operate if a
parent
knows when he he and she are parents
in the house leading the family and
their children
under their wings and then they also
know when they have to stay back
pull back you have a good healthy
relationship
when you don't have that your knee then
we have bill bulim
we have parents mixing in to kids
even when they're married forget about
the mother-in-law and the father-in-law
as we're saying yiddish
the good old figure many either jokes
about a shrinker shrieker is a
mother-in-law
a nagging mother-in-law forget about
that talk about the parents
right you got to give kids space
there's a time when let go
you gotta let go for their sake
the reign by a silly ki
so too regarding the godly energy
actually would overhide me awesomely
one hand it's independent of life
it's in the independent in that it's
life itself
the god the energy is is existent
because of god's force
the year goes by
all of this that we just discussed these
last few lines
need to be understood with your cup with
your cycle with your mind
just as a person feels he's alive
right if you know you're alive you're
you're we're here
ken yargish
so he feels that he sees in the world
the world is alive it's functioning this
morning
this afternoon
the kashmir market came but now
and when a person feels that the world
is alive from godliness godliness
sustains and creates the world
he needs because me who marcus is the
highest of the
we'll stop here because this i have to
explain tomorrow
better it means hashem
so uh any questions
good stuff yeah very good yeah yeah yeah
you know you want to see this try it
also
internalize it bring it down to your own
understanding
yes i've got a question going back to
what you mentioned earlier in this year
a guy who you know god forbid is in a
life-threatening situation
and he you said you brought the example
he
he wants to make a large donation
right remember yeah you you okay
so the um i think all of us
work we we see this scenario meaning
this scenario that you mentioned i think
that we see it all the time
as we hear about it all the time and and
it's and it's looked at
as like wow you know he
he he was in a situation and he
he says he has
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as a muna i'll even say he has
he wants to go he wants to make this big
donation
and he's going to save himself because
he has
a moon and it's interesting because you
you you said something fast that he said
that's selfish
but is that still a muno is that
still he's doing something
it's it's it a selfish is not the ammuna
that
that that we're talking about
that when we talk about no i don't mean
talking about in the mimer
the jewish belief of munna is not about
popcorn and frankfurters
and about uh you know if i'm gonna die
i'm gonna i'm gonna give to dhaka
no that's not that's not our level of
faith
you could say that's maybe a christian
level of faith if you want to really be
harsh
that's not our level that's not um and
you're right moshe
unfortunately many times it is this way
but if you think about it
and you learn yeah
if it's selfish it's not a munna it's
about you
not about god it you can't have it both
ways
okay now now wait
does that mean that you shouldn't give
the check
accept the check you should
understand yeah in other words
just because just because
you don't have yet that level of faith
you still should do the action this goes
back to the chabad
ethos of put the trillion on
but i don't know and i don't believe
you'll know and believe tomorrow if you
want to go in that direction hopefully
you will
because the act will help you get closer
and i go back to the story with michael
savage
it's it's to me it's it's fascinating a
man who's
who doesn't you know was is not
from far from it and he goes on he says
the world is getting so crazy let me let
me
let me rethink religion and he takes out
film and he talks about it on the radio
i mean it's fascinating it's a great job
yeah no but but you you heard
you heard this clip that i'm talking
about
you're talking very recently yeah yeah
it must be i'm gonna i'm gonna forward
to you later mr shrimp to you guys
okay but no but but but but my
you understand so to go just because
it's selfish
doesn't mean don't do it but at the same
time if you think that doing it
you know you have haven't you have it
right you don't
you don't and a person who is
a froome person a learner person who's
in a community and one you know
you know they're there these issues
become
more meaningful someone who's in the
street who doesn't know anything and
you know you know you you're happy he
puts on film he puts some azusa on his
door
he gives sadaka you know what i'm saying
yeah
yeah okay guys have a great day we'll
see everyone tomorrow take care
bye-bye thanks take care