Maamar Zochor 1934 #14-Creative vs Analytical people - Figure out your type of brain

so on page 147 the maya mazaka and uh that ever here is explaining to us why amolek requires complete annihilation destruction and that ebba says that the way to do it is through revealing what's called the ayur atsumi the essential light now what does that mean so he talks about the difference between coming to a relationship with hashem through comprehension only through hasaga understanding or through a muna that permeates understanding and the this we discussed yesterday at length is one of the main differences or maybe the main difference between uh the sheet of uh and and the plus blessed versus and we're not going to repeat that i think it's an important class for anyone that wants to understand more about wrestling you know how they differ in shita should listen to what i i said yesterday but anyway we continue now on 147 um we're on now the third line who it's the middle of the line 147. you know that in our in our brain we have different compartments one is called the kayak the the the power of creativity i'm using the words to define the hebrew terms as explained in habakkuk you see if the same line was in in let's say in levy or in order shalom it doesn't have the same meaning as it has in chabad it has another meaning in khabad it based on the altareb is tanya where he delineates clearly what is in chapter three of tanya all my muram follow that or most my modern follow those teachings of tanya because tanya is the the bible of habakku siddhas it's the magnum opus of habakkuk so when they're obeying the seven that obey him the sixth rabbi especially after the altar ebba elaborate to elucidate the the kudus points that are brought in tanya they follow the teachings of tanya right otherwise anyone can say anything there's a system here to this excuse the expression to this madness and the system is the system is tanya and you all have learned tanya and you learned tanya right so when here for example when the frida kahler in 1934 so many years later talks about a concept of amalek and he starts and he wants us to understand it better and he starts off saying this is the difference between kayak right away you have you have to you have to say to yourself right when you read those words and you think about him that he's making a difference to hawkman now ask someone any ben taylor litvis siddish svardic makes no difference did they say what says someone who's wise and bright a wise man and being there's a maven uh you know and a maven is an expert without going into delta delta in tanya says no we're talking about within a wise man himself or within a expert himself each of them has three compartments you hear that oh boy boy boy you're splitting hairs this is this is to to analyze and understand where is the thought coming from what aspect of the brain is the thought touching and this is a very i want to say complicate this a very analytical study that that when you when you master it you have a better understanding of of how you how the brain works how you work and how you see other people and you don't just put everyone in oh he's a hachem and he's a and he's a maven that's a very superficial way of approaching life and again there are people that overall are stronger in creativity they come up with great ideas when it comes to implementation a disaster there are others that are great at implementing but when it come but they can't create the idea they can hear from someone else an idea and then implement it and there's a third type of person who analyzes the idea okay i heard your idea i'm not ready yet to implement it because the idea needs details we call that a a maven of being at the power of analysis and english understanding another word understanding i've mentioned to you there is a book from rabbi matthews cantor um called the 10 keys to understanding when we were in kailu uh we had some of those suaren there it's very worthwhile reading this book because he takes the ten spheros and he and he and he explains it in very human psychological terms in a very bright rich way and based on torah is a tremendous talmud in in in gemara in in history exidus and probably has an awesome kabbalah and it's a very world worthwhile read it's a slow read it's not a read that you can read just you know what i call the couch potato reading not that type of reading it's learning but it will really help you understand in western way of thinking and words which we grew up with you know in our schooling and universities and all that to understand how what the out that ever uh the bank title i think is a guide for the entangled no but no no no you're mixing up two books stop okay okay exactly what i was asking no no no no no maybe he's right it used to wait a minute i think i think this is it hillary it used to be call tanki a guy to the un untangled okay it's either i don't i don't remember you know it's years it's either two separate books hillel or it used to be called a guide to the untangled and and when they reprinted it in hardcover and did it nicely i think it's available today from us it's called 10 keys to understanding if you if you happen to walk in my shirt maybe to the show next door maybe there's still a copy of of ours that's lying there yes i have it i have it oh you do have it i haven't okay so later let us know if it's um read the introduction is it is it is it's the same volume as uh as a guide for the untangled or something else i think it's something else anyway so that's let's go back to the text so what are the alternatives say here this is it's known being a doer remember what i told you many times when you see a siddhis when a rabbit says you do it doesn't just mean like you and i how we speak hey this is a known fact it means that too but it implies this is something that is very important in the in the in the study of hasidis and what is that and because it's so important it is a known it's your dua it's known the difference between the power of kokuma the power of bina the koi what is the particular strength of hogma it's haskola now i'm going to translate haskala as creativity haskallah comes with the root word seiko means intellect it's a very general word but what in particular we're talking about again based on the way the altered in tanya understands khakma it refers to the power of creativity the idea who asks he says this is the kernel the essence of intellect of the brain the the the very core issue of motion is haskell to took us to understand to to to intellectualize what is the power of bina this is not to um to create an idea but to comprehend to understand the idea says that ever here who cares in comparison to kakomo who responds to somebody it's an extension of moah you hear that now right now now let's understand what he's saying here yes there is three components that ebba says that's true but when you break it down further there is the essence of mayak and there is what he calls the hispashtut the extension of mayakh and he says that bina is only the samba versus which is the essence the where the essence of the idea is is is experienced in the kuda the point of the haskalah of the idea it is the very core essence of that idea so in other words like this what he's saying is in the creativity in the idea that's where you that's where you have the that's that's cycle that's pure sale everything else is watered down or or it's a watered down in the sense that it's already explaining stripping the purity from the psycho and and and and and and finding ways of understanding it which is important but he says you need to know that that's already an espacies an extension that isn't the person himself the another muscle that's given not about this about bubba that ever said is it in the sikhs many times you have a person the way a person walks outside how do you walk outside well a normal person whenever he's dressed properly you know and cold hot right goes back into his house he could take off his clothes he could he could he could you know he could do it that's it that the state i don't want to go into this right now the state of nakedness is the state of edison that's why we were born naked and that's why after 120 we return naked that that's not a concern that's not a deficiency that's the truth the state of nakedness is the truth there you can't fool anybody you can't fool yourself you can't fool others because you're all exposed and that's why when we when we're born we're born pure naked when we pass away we go into hash we go to hashem in a naked way pure i understand we put on the tahrir and all that what we're talking about that's also because the white shroud represents the color white and white is truva so when we go into shamayim we want we want that the the hashem should we remember our pure side and and and receive us favorably but really everyone knows that you're not supposed to have any clothing on them when you when you bury a person except for the so why am i saying this i'm saying this because is the pure state so but i don't want i don't want you to make a mistake oh this person's a husband he's pure this person is a a maven he's not he's impure the fact is the fact is that many times it's that way the the genius professor who comes up with the genius idea of in a way is more is more uh sincere than the person who was able to analyze because once you start analyzing there's some of the self that goes into the analysis i'll put it another way i've said it before but it's important to remember this remember what i'm telling you now is the way the idea swallows you being is the way you swallow the idea and and and this is a this is not just a difference of degree it's a difference of of of meaning and purpose and ideology when you're in the when you're one second relationship here when you hear an idea you have to let it process the brain so it goes in don't jump yet so the genius professor right who comes up with this idea and then you ask it could you explain it because i can't i don't have the words to explain it yet nevertheless the the the state of of genius that he comes up with there's the truth there is the truth why the truth has no ego bina has more ego than in the footnote on the side over there he brings he says well i heard me mori he means the market of miss rich that the koyakov itself the power of the infinite god's infinite power ain't self where does it find itself doubt that ever says give a look and that's why why doesn't it say it's found in bee in das no because in bean and das the ego has a place an important place a justified place but nevertheless there's already the self that has mixed some of its own understanding into the idea so that's why it's not pure anymore and this is what that ever means over here that that the exam i like the exam scholars the very core essence of the idea you will find the huffman maisha what did you want i want to just ask a question i find it uh this is something that i think about a lot when you mention the different types of people the idea person the person let's say who's gonna analyze it the person who's gonna implement it i i that's something that in my work and also in terms of sure work and in many aspects of life i deal with that a lot these three different elements and i find it extremely difficult to try to go back and forth between the between the three and i i often ask myself um well let's put this way the the areas that i'm feel that i'm lacking in i'm often very um jealous or envious of a person let's say who who possesses those these different elements maybe that i'm not as strong in so my i guess my question is is the red bar here i know that we're speaking about the terms concepts but is the ready here at all insinuating that really these different elements exist or abilities exist in each in every person or or is or is he saying or is he not going there meaning is he acknowledging that people listen people i'm sure he is acknowledging that people are different but like i guess my question is that's my question is is he insinuating that we have the ability to to be able to perform these different functions okay and the answer is he's not only insinuating he's saying that every person has an element of however what he didn't say yet or might not say is that people are different in the emphasis of what they are what is their strength one person is and and that's an answer probably to why you're struggling going from one to the other you know why because just just you're you're more one of the three then the other and i'm more one of those three so therefore let's let's say you're a creative person okay which you are but if you know if that's really who you are in other words and i i would as much as you're an artist and creative and me too the writing you know um i don't consider myself okay i i've seen some real you know creative people's ideas that's a whole different level i think what you and i probably are experiencing is uh within das the within das you see this is why i just don't jump and say what you're saying you know and i remember we i don't know if we learned this here but maybe we did i know i've learned it in previous huge grasp of information but anova is the person who can take information and be creative and be and and and take it to a different level can can it's it's it's a different yeah okay so so novon is bina for the word beena right okay okay but but the the way you said you said a hakam is the grasp information that that's not what was no that's i don't know if if you mean he comes up with the idea then you're correct but if if not it's not the right chabad the definition of the way dalton embassy's hawker is not grasp of information it's to create the idea that's very different than grasping information so i i always taught it i'm trying to remember where i where i was taught this that that is the first that person is the null phone yeah that is the novel that's yes that is but even that i don't know if i would say grasping it's it's it's analyzing the information you know the word grasp is a very uh interesting word and i i i don't i don't believe again you know we're playing between hebrew lingo and english so it's a very delicate balance and that's why this book he does an excellent job but anyway i want to go back to your question because it is have a very good point so we're not just you know going off on a tangent here i think it's relevant to what we're learning i should have a good point that is the reason why one has a difficulty going from one area to another is because every one of us is strong in a certain element and when you have to switch it's very hard i can tell you for myself okay i can tell you for myself the type of the type of mind that that i've experienced the last 40 50 years of my life is is not in you know in in in um in being able to go deep and deep and deep into an issue to split hairs and understand the nuances and the differences i have a difficulty in that area what am i in other words i can go so far and then i can't go further my brain doesn't go further and believe me i've spent a lot of time doing brain work okay thinking and thinking and thinking when you're learning over the years and it's clear to me that that's not my strength you see so it's it's it's it's a very good what you're saying maisha is very important especially the work that you're doing because when you realize what your um strengths are and your shortcomings and again it's not at the shortcoming you just that's not how your brain works then you're able to be more successful in the type of work that you do and nevertheless wait nevertheless a a person who understands these things is able to guide a person to someone else who does master that other area who can really be helpful and that ebb himself did this i saw there were several people in the chabad community over the years that that ever sent people to them and one in particular he lived in montreal uh his his brother was the one of the rabbanim of chronic rabbi he was a rebbe of mine so he had an older brother uh of isaac shrey who was a rosh yeshiva in montreal khabad and he he was really besides a massive talmud hochum he was pika he was sharp as a wit and he had practical advice and that ever sent many people to talk to him why because in that area the advice that such a person gives you is is is priceless it's priceless most rabbis didn't have it most others didn't have it you know it's a specialty you know they you know you know today you pay uh expert witnesses why not just because in certain areas their opinion and their way of understanding things is the correct way and that's why when you have to deal with people of all kinds yes you will encounter um you you were counted difficulties as you said yourself and that's because based on who you are some of the others don't fit into that box and therefore you have a hard time now there is a story that is worth knowing it's with the mitchell river it's not really a story it's it's just an occurrence when he would have gerhidas he would come out sweating and and they asked you know was it such a hard job to talk to someone you know you had good air and good conversation and yet you're sweating you have to change your shirt so that ever said when you have your hedis you have to enclose yourself invest yourself in the other person's issue and i have to go into one and come out and go on to another one and each one warrants a different investment that makes you really sweaty and much i think that's exactly what you're describing if i understood you correctly and it's a hard job that's why not many people are evidence but you don't have to be at ever for that i say that as long as you're able to as long as you realize what your strengths are and you know how to guide a person then you then you then you do you could do so you'll do fine so the answer to your question short is do each of us have these three elements we do but they are subordinate to the main element in us here so now that's why i said earlier my shirt there is and there is a lot of talk you see this about this in more hasidic terms but if you break it down that's that's the idea right so for example das what's das what is focus and concentration but you have to focus on something you have to concentrate on something if you focus on the sky right you need information to focus on so someone comes to motion says uh my i have this in this issue uh somebody says let's sit down and think about it right let's focus on it if you don't give him the data his focus won't help you because you didn't give him all the data so in other words in order for focus to work you have to have the data and the real proper data without fooling yourself that's been a grasp as he said the word grasping the information if you haven't grasped the information the focus is not on the full information hence the result is erroneous or not helpful yes i just want to click one one thing what i said i just make sure it was this was clear the differentiation was let's say between a person who let's knows a huge amount of vast amount of torah he has allah at his fingertips but he but it's again this was explained to me he's he's the again that the person though who's the navon is the one who could take that knowledge though and can be more um i don't want to use it maybe okay okay yeah yeah yeah yeah but in other words the person you could have a person who has a huge amount of knowledge but he's like a tape recorder right he just he just he just but then but then you have a person who can take that knowledge and can and can be wise in how he is able to apply it and be think that's already dos that's already dos that third stage application actually don't even dash but it comes from das when you concentrate and focus on information it leads to application i i want to just say i i okay you know another another like this my shirt what i'm hearing now i heard it before but now it's clear whoever told you will taught you this they taught you right but they weren't they weren't they weren't doing what we're doing here that they weren't they weren't going into a study of chakrabinidas in detail they gave your overall picture so their picture of what kabad says kakuma is wrong what the picture they said about bina is wrong in in wrong detailed analysis it's right in the general way the way we live in the world and understand torah in a general way i just want to make it clear you have you have to know that there's very different ideas well yeah i i think probably when we're discussing it i think i'm trying to remember who it was i think i knew who it was but i'll i'll yeah but but i'm saying it it could even be a la barbage it makes no difference if if he's not teaching you that part of tanyo is not teaching you this mime or or where there that he's just speaking overall he's not getting into the details you know what i'm saying i think no it could be it could be so so it's not so it's not a contradiction but here we're going much you know much deeper and and more analytical um so i would say that here and this type of discussion is is more of not the truth more more correct in the kebab ideology that's what i'm saying what time is it i don't have a watch what time is it three three sixteen what do you say about what we learned today well i i just wanted to comment that one one of the ideas that i associate with kog'maw and i think it was originally from the safety etc but i certainly associate it throughout all hasidas is the idea that it's compared to lightning that that it's a that it's a flash that it has a short duration it kind of uh and do something with it right okay okay yes that lightning is brought down in this forum as the idea i i i i still think that the english word creativity is is the best word to define the altarebe's idea of hakma the cree you know and and and bina is you know i've told you that i have this deceased i am sorry the ccc creativity comprehension and concentration c c c is creativity being is comprehension c and das is concentration c yes malaysia tcc is creativity comprehension and concentration right and and creativity the first c refers to create a comprehension the second c refers to and the third one concentration refers to das comprehension is the second yes beena bina well i just what hillel said it's very interesting because one of the things that i've had the tools i've had to make for myself over time is that i maybe i shared this book is when i have an idea for a piece or a project or something i don't usually have hours and hours just to really start to work on it that inspiration so i had to figure out a tool how i could take that inspiration inspiration and record it with a minute within a minimum amount of time and put it up on my board or my a book in my art room and then i could come back to it a later date so you know and i gave my i sort of made devised a way to do that and i gave myself a limit like a time limitation of let's say an hour between an hour to two hours maximum to take the idea to write it out to think sketches brief but the point is to be able to capture the inspiration right because that's all as i understand it yeah that process that follows your idea moisture is the beena that that and and i can tell you it's the same way in writing the same way i had come up with an idea and i i also jot it down and i use the outline which becomes usually the table of contents later more or less as the being a process to what you described that and and then i come and then i start you know basing you know so for me that works you know um and again different minds were very very differently so um but again it doesn't take away the fact that each and every one of us is strong in one of these three elements and nuances within the elements um and and that's why some people are very not practical they they don't their brain doesn't relate to practic their brain thrives in the world of ideas it could have nothing to do with practicality they don't they don't care that's not who they are in fact practicality turns them off okay and then you have people who are only great and in practicality but when it comes to ideas you know they they're you know you have you have a dozen like so many ideas get away you know let's see what you're doing about it that that's that's what we're encountering and and you you know you're right when you're in a position or a counselor hillel you know meeting different people that type of work or or the rabbinics it it's it's like i told you the middle arena became he sweat he sweat he it's very hard it's it's it's it's a it's a last night that there was a uh someone who sent me a link to a tousle touch looking to having a podcast or talking about uh secret this week and then they got into the whole topic of shlichis and this is from the 70s so he's from the oldest looking rabbi darren out from connecticut and he said very very well and articulated well he said you know the whole the idea of making about the shiva it is the hardest thing but yet that's the mission that the the rabbit wanted of ishmael is to bring people back to the fold to make bali trouba not to put up buildings a building is wonderful but it's they're ever gonna say you know make me a building make me about to shoot them and and you know that's the hardest thing i can tell you especially now you know but even in my younger years when i was immersed in that that's the hardest thing you know not not only is it hard because you know every person has a way of thinking of feeling and you have to convince them otherwise or point them to another direction but you have to yourself be interested in investing so much time of yourself into this process and that's a great that's a great sacrifice it's a great sacrifice and uh so i found it very fascinating that here is this kind of you know schliere from 50 years ago who's talking to this whole new world group of today these young young and then you know even into the 30s and he's telling him hey guys i know it's very very uh excuse the expression hot you know it's very hot to think about oh a new building a new habat house uh you know uh getting a million dollar donation you know bringing 500 people to crown heights with territory and making the news and your and your your pictures there and all that he says my friends let's not lose the plot let it you know and and that's a lot of work so i i i think it it also touches upon what we're learning now is the focus on on on what your strength is and that's why every organization a regular school should have someone a rabbi a god by another person who's strong in this area another person strong in that area and if they have a combined group of people that are strong in certain areas that organization and that shoe and and that the chabad house will grow exponentially and will be very successful because you won't mix up the roles it's when we start mixing up the roles that we have at disasters yes hilo this is uh this is often a cloud and team building that you look for people with you know specific these specific qualities and uh as part of forming a team right and and the smart ceo the smart boss it recognizes what it's good me what is not good in any and team building and he delegates and and again and i think that you could say probably the difference between the successful companies not successful companies successful schools not just individuals incessant organization nothing is that team building and that's what we learned with pasha's israeli with myself he says to my champion of my you're gonna get burned down and guess what it happens every day good people powerful people burn out midlife crisis right because they didn't from the beginning set up a system where they hired and took other people that's what history told moshe you need to delegate authority and really delegate authority not you know uh uh you're a figurehead but i'm gonna tell you what to do no i'm gonna give you authority i'll discuss it with you i might even debate you but in the end if you if i believe that you are the right man for this particular area it's your approach that that i'm going to go with otherwise why are you hiring him just to be your your pawn and you know this this is um common everything okay kevin we spoke beautifully we had a good share we'll see everyone tomorrow same time safe place have a great day zyga's on bye bye