Maamar Vkibel 1927 #5 Virtue of Mind Objective Truth

97 the members of keyboard 197. it says like this that's when the pizza the kids are before invited those people that uh support the tata like terror supporters with their money and their exertion of their own body got it so he spoke about that but what's even greater is someone who sustains tata through teaching tata through the spiritual aspect of toyota meaning giving someone spiritual sustenance and he quoted the gemara greater is the one that makes torah possible for others than the one who does the torah itself okay kane who believed so that ever says so is this idea of learning tita robin teaching titan public it's the greatest type of torah that a person could do someone who learns with people who are more simple than himself who don't know as much zelda's question and we explained the virtue of the foot over the head although the foot is the last kayak within the man the lowest kayak and we also explained from there is lavus drawing art is a garment for the idea for the intellect let's continue verve zion 197. [Music] the emotions are greater even than the panemias of the hamas remember i want to refresh your memory we learned about two aspects to action the kidzainis the exterior and the that's the difference between what throwing something and drawing right that was a we spoke about at length i don't want to repeat it now but the criterius is just the throwing and reverts back down as soon as the gravity the right the when the with the crayoff ends whereas the pneumous in in art it remains there always in other words when you see a piece of art like you know here i have a piece of art i don't have to get one of moses pieces but i have one of uh henry lieberman's almond climates here that my friends gave me as a gift when we went on so when you look at it each time you could you refresh yourself of a concept but wait a minute this was drawn so long ago because the panemias of the person the eye of the which is the idea is there if it's if it's a right piece of art so that's called premium says that evan now middays the emotions are even greater than the premiums of mice let's see what he means so too in the receptacles the harihal level mishkin the heart is the seat of emotions so in other words like this what he's saying is i believe that as much as inspiration you get from my sir from action if you talk about the heart and you relate to the heart and you live with the heart the emotions are that's emotions that's real emotions in other words when i'm looking at the the art even though i'm looking at the art and i get a high from looking at the art because the artist is in the art and the idea of the artist is in the art nevertheless it's still a picture it's still a it's still painting it's not it's not shouting with emotions whereas when you have a real life emotion it's very palpable that's what he's saying the rep is quick to dismiss the virtue of emotions in comparison to the head remember remember we we had we had a thought you have to remember rosh goof regal head body feet he's comparing one to the other so in last chapter we compared regal meissa to emotions now he spoke about emotions briefly telling us the virtue and now he's saying well but if you compare emotions to the cup to the rosh another's words it's not that important it's not that significant why the bachelorette when we talk about the part of the head of nylon talents that are most elevated sophisticated of man are found in they come from the brain so if you talk about a talent it's associated with the brain the head not the heart the real smear and it says for example talents like seeing and hearing tom tasting thereafter smell four of the senses and those four associated with what with the brain when we surely if we talk about the power of intellect within the brain surely it out does the the emotions my friend the heart and the brain are similar you need a heart need a brain if you don't have either you're gone like the rapper asked me now it was thirteen bar mitzvah i went into my bar mitzvah this was the custom for uh the bar mitzvah boys to go into this with their parents and the rebel would many times ask you like test you a question so they're a basket with a straight face so he says what what do you do if a person doesn't have a head what brother does he make other film and i i i didn't know what to answer i was like lost and my father you know who's from a different world from a european world you know he lost his uh his patience and cool and he like said to me like you don't know the answer like and the rabbit turned to my father with a big smile on his face he said i'm not asking you i'm asking him of course if you don't have a head you're not alive there's no problem to make but the rabbit you know he was just he was just you know just try to see if i if i really out i'm understanding what i'm reviewing the mimer and i was saying that my bar mitzvah boy habats is a mimer are you just mimicking words and i just lost myself of course i knew the answer but at that moment i got confused anyway why am i saying this because it says that this is a rhetorical question we just made a difference between the feet the heart and the and the mind the roche the left the goof and and the means the middles and the regal he says but in order for a person to function you must have the head and the heart the emotions the shame she actually is just as it's impossible to exist without a head caney yesterday is believed it's impossible to be exist without a heart okay and just this is a true fact an external man behind the behind the magazines as it replies to man of the physical world so does this idea apply to the inner aspect of life which means the inner aspect of man and i'll explain with the murderer listen i'll take any any pain but not heart pain call me hush i'll take any i don't feel well well they make us but not a headache the kamata continues but there ever doesn't quote the rest you know what it says korrell take every bed except the bed of a bad wife he doesn't say he doesn't like that here but it's in the it's in the gamora anyway let me tell you something the same is i'll take any bad man except a bad husband it's just as true well i think the mother didn't decide it we'll leave for another time there are them her buddy who she is a healthy man has a healthy cup a healthy brain and a healthy heart there's a good balance okay one is not a real unless he's tested and goes through life you know talk is cheap talk is so cheap oh let me see you've gone through this you've been tested people respect me if you're gonna talk to talk you gotta walk the walk right exactly people respect people who've had nissan experience okay that's why everyone here is is getting there with their with their with their age pointless daughter of myself someone whose wisdom stood well for him and impacted him in doing something good as a result of the issue that he challenged there are people who understand so well they comprehend oh they can they can they can split hairs and they understand what the truth is and what goodness mizu but this wisdom of theirs is just intellectual the lawyers say not more next page 198. for who the engineer has no relevance to actuality and bottom line it's all in the cup in the mind he says that's an example of a morocc a brain that doesn't impact the heart the halem and the heart and in that case the brain the heart is not listening to the muscle yes motion unlike unmute yourself yeah all right i i missed this point but what was i'm sorry to bring us back but what was the rabbit trying to say to you right right right he's going from one into the other i know i know exactly he started off his go ahead god no no no what was the rabbit trying to say to you when you went into the epidural bar mitzvah oh the rebel was trying to see if i really understood what i'm learning what i'm what i'm reviewing the mimer the mimer talks about phil and shel rosh and shelyad so the rebbe asked me if a person doesn't have a head what brother does he make on that villain he was catching me off guard he wanted to see if i and the answer is he's not alive there's no broker to be made he was being um okay okay he wanted to see if i'm just reviewing the words mimicking which many boys do which is also something it's not something it should be done because that's the tradition or and but you understand what you're saying yes hello zach doesn't have a good day so is that clear yeah yes you said it wasn't any big it was just to see if you were paying attention yeah yeah yeah okay okay i got it but but that has nothing to do with the mind but i just because in the mind we learned about a head without a heart and a heart without a head i just yeah that's all okay got it but now now he's on this theme this theme of he he made a statement this this is a continuation of the previous chapters in the previous chapters he spoke about he gave he said there's three things in man the head the body which is the emotions and the feet in the previous chapter he spoke about the virtue of the feet over over the head which means action over the intellect and that's when he spoke about the the two types of actions throwing or drawing an artist all that right now he's now now in this chapter in the beginning he speaks very briefly about the virtue of emotions the the action doesn't really get into it much and now and and and and and and and to this he he's saying he starts with a rhetorical remark we'll see where he where he ends but he starts saying that you're telling me there's a virtue that the head has over the emotions well practically man can't exist without a head in the heart so he's the middle of a rhetorical question remark right to his to his statement so from this he takes off speaking about the the mind and he already takes the opportunity as you know when you learn to see this and especially the previous rabbits see this when he when he's speaking here this is in 1927 and he's speaking to all kinds of people especially i told you he had college students university students i was told that was at this mimer who are thinking people maybe maybe this is just my assumption moshe he's like saying you guys are big intellectuals you're in university in moscow you know so he wants to say he wants to say you could be big into intellects but if you don't act upon it it's not that again this is in between the lines just trying to put the whole picture 1927 moscow with your university students there okay let's continue and it says now the second line on 198 in yiddish state as a zod this intellect the one who's strong and intellectually he understands so should be the result of but in actuality it's not that way so what type in other words you can be such a great philosopher and deep thinker and it has nothing to do with actuality because you don't act on it it remains all in the cup and therefore he says the true brio is the true help the true healthy person hold on i got to get this thing to stay here by the gadgets [Music] it's when the mind the heart and the mind both act kefir royal as they should the brain the moah receives very well in a broad way in a good way comprehending the idea simultaneously the haleigh the heart takes that idea and brings it from potential as is obligated by what we call the correction of the of the emotions the rectification of the emotions to refine your character you learn something you understand it you understand it well what's the next step it should make a difference in your life it should make it it should be there should be a result you should make a change in behavior the in kane if this is the case both the brain and the heart shnayam both are equal in man's life so here ends the rhetorical question what is the question what did i tell you before that there's an advantage over the that the head has over the heart practically speaking you can have a govaldega head and not do anything about it then it's nothing that's his question so here you see the words umikomakim usually is a response to the rhetorical remark remarkable question um nevertheless it's more advanced to the heart the cup the brain so yeah so so what's the answer yoni what's his answers what's the free to grab his answer when you see this you have to understand it's not just saying words it's not zoa you have to understand what is he here he asked a rhetorical he made a rhetorical question and it gives an answer what's the question what's the answer the question i think we understood didn't sound like a steroid that's what i'm saying so you have to you have to use your cup if he says nevertheless he's giving an answer and what so this is what i do think about the words he used the word the answer lies in that word in poe you know the word paul means in actuality you're right you need both motion a heart and a head and and if someone doesn't have hardening the emotions and doesn't refine the character all of his cycle is worthless right but nevertheless who is more hustle more customers in a qualitative way it's the head over the heart in a poem mama's way in actuality you have to change your behavior and improve your character that's true but you can have excuse the expression a golem do the same thing you know what a guy limb is a golem someone who's just simple there's something to be said about a healthy mind i don't mean a mind that's deceptive but the rush you know think before you speak so you will find people that speak a lot and they don't think before they speak and sometimes they make good comments sometimes they're very foolish and stupid excuse the expression because they didn't think before they spoke so what would be the thinking the rosh the head right so he says it's more when you think before you speak and then you speak oh your speech is so much more intelligent so let's let's let's talk about changing character when the change of character is guided by a healthy head by by the guidance of intellect the character will be a much nicer and healthier one whereas if someone just makes a change because of osmosis or pressure or situation you don't know what's going to be with that change you need fuel for the car without the fuel for the car the car at some point is going to stop an emotion that's just based on family traits community input peer pressure all of that it doesn't last it's just like the one before all all the zeros when it comes to yichus if you don't have a one before the zeros it's going to it's gonna backfire at some point because you're a zero my father was this my mother was this but who are you like the famous story with shaika pfeiffer sheikah the whistleblower he comes to the party and they say we've never seen you here he says right he says billy tell me who are you called shiva's son who are you he says grandson and who are you oh the love of yerushalayim i'm his son wow wow and he goes around the room asking everyone holding his little his nice cup of vodka or wine and he's walking around like a big mocker toasting and drinking and smiling and talking and after a while they see that this guy is really a player so they asked him and who are you and he says i'm shikha pfeiffer the whistleblower i'm a nobody all i can do is just blow a whistle so i heard two ways of relating telling that story i heard this would have mental foot of us my great uncle one way is he says with a broken hearted heart heartedness you know i i'm a nebuch i'm in that book you guys caught me you know and this is so real we have this today there are people that they make the in yiddish we call the word moshe you should learn this word and memorize it a schwitzer did you ever hear the word schwitzer the schwitzer literally me someone sweats a lot he only knows very well the words from the communities out here in brooklyn it doesn't mean someone sweats physically it means he's a big shot he makes himself grandiose and big you know with all the fancy stuff and all papa papa and really you poke a pen into him he busts it's all a lot of air he's a schwitzer so that's one way here's a schwitzer he's he's showing goth but birds walking around and he makes shoving his shoulders and moving the right way and then when you and you corner him you're saying who are you he says i'm a sheikah pfeiffer he has to admit i'm a nothing then that mendel said there's another way i am shiki pfeiffer he says it with a pride you know why because he says i myself am a nobody but i am a whistleblower for my rebbe when i i can whistle and repeat and teach what my rabbit teaches me and i myself i'm a nothing you're right but what i bring to the table is not i is my teachers my rebbes my saddikin and i am their whistleblower and that method would explain this and avoid this hashem how a person has to have in a sense both on one hand a humility and at the second time if he is connected to up to a rebel he goes with full strength and and and and pride not arrogance but pride so why am i saying this because we learn here we're learning here the importance of the brain of the mayak is more than the lathe so again this is a i believe the answer to the question is the word we talk about importance what makes the person someone who people identify and want to be with and want to be close to want to learn from when there is a roche a mind that controls dominates and harnesses the emotions and it's not just emotions because of peer pressure or um community or family or background what do you say about that motion what do you think i think that i see all the time people i think i've said this before all the time people who say to me you know they my grandfather was so and so my my alta zeta was so-and-so so i want to say to them so new for you i want to say i i don't say that obviously but i but i want to but i uh yeah you know yeah i want to tell you when people are in a relationship you could say it you can't say it if you don't have a relationship with a person but if it's not talking at each other but with each other you can say anything and it'll be perceived in the right way if not today and a year from now and there'll be a day they'll say thank you for saying that to me you know yeah you know of course there's a balance and sometimes we have a person who is um very sensitive or very erratic or cuckoo either or you know and saying anything will upset them but the the people who are not that way and there are many people not that way they're waiting to hear such type of what we what i call constructive criticism done in a loving way and they want to hear it from a good friend and and and that's very important it's very important because at the end of the day if not for others who are objective how are we going to grow how we're going to develop right we need that we need that true you know i told you when i was in yeshiva in morristown there's a 20 year old bucker you know so you know it was very involved like you know in learning and davening and trying to grow and so i went over to the mashpeer at melissa all over he was uh going and everything so i said to him you know that i feel ego from what i'm doing so he said to me okay he said to me take care he said to me find yourself find yourself in the basement a friend a bucker who will give you musser okay yeah but but but you know not someone who wants to tell you off because he hates you doesn't like you you know what i mean someone who is your friend and likes you and you like him you have a relationship let him be the one to judge you and give you muscle because that's the way to really