Maamar Zochor 1934 #17 - What is Chabad Chasidus - Intellect vs. Emotions - Davening w Meditation

so we're on page 148 in the mimer zachary lake we're learning here a a deep thing in exidus many times in the bottom of the previous red but we're learning more psychological issues the last few days a week or so we've been learning uh what some would say real habakkus and of course that's that's part of the altar the altered came to to energize to enliven tato mitzvahs the altar but didn't come to create a new traitor became to show that this tata that we're learning has such energy that can wiggle the mind motivate the heart and get you moving your hands and your legs and to do that you have to know what type of mind you have what type of heart you have what type of hairs you have what types of feet you have to understand the whole person so again another definition that we're always looking for what is it right moisha has many people will say you're a kabat what is it give it to me i want foot tell me in one sentence combine this i i'm not i don't have time for philosophies give me a one-liner what is hypocrisis so another i've over the years i've thrown i've thrown out and different one-line answers here is another thought that comes to me is about exciting the mind to serve hashem so taiyo mitsuhis is about this is what you are to do but the excitement of the mind that takes chabad now the in the lit fat world the literature world they they cut they sharpen their mind through gamora through rambam absolutely but when you desire to make a move in your life learning about one cow goring another cow is usually not going to get you to make a move the difference between listen to this motion the difference between the chabad excitement of the mind and and and the talmudic excitement of the mind is that the about excitement of the mind is about movement it's about the psyche of the person and we know that healthy people thinking people they make movements in their lives based on what they understand if they understand that it's better for my family to live in efrat or and i have work over there they will gradually move there and then they look at the counter arguments in other words the mind process is what determines the action [Music] the more you understand better hashem through the mind through the central the healthier the decision is in other words a decision that's based only on the heart as colorful as it is and as emotional as it is and as warm as it is it's nevertheless an emotion and the risk of an emotion is that it can take you and lead you to a place where you really shouldn't be there that's why the only two times that we need alpidin a majitsa well i shouldn't selfie did but well i'll be there we need only one time it's during dabbing during services why because when you're doubting you're supposed to be emotionally involved if anyone dobbins of rum with their head not that not that they don't use their head to prepare themselves for dominating but if they dabble like a cold stone with their head they can tell you all the meanings of the words but it's all intellectual process according to desire kudos you haven't really died technically you've died but according to the holy zayer darvaning mysha requires it's uh it's called avoid the shepherd the service of the heart the you feel when you say the house is a habit of account lucky is the one who sits in the house of hashem do you feel it do you feel that you're lucky and you're able to sit in the shoe in a basement not because your wife wants you out of the house and not because you're you're you're needed as a godby that's a job a volunteer job but it's a job but you do it because ashley when you walk into a shoe you feel elated ah what happened it's not your couch it's not your bedroom it's not the ballpark it's not a restaurant it's a show but as the previous never writes in a citrus in his talks he says that it used to be in the old stetho that the place of haiy was the basement rich that was the place of not his house you hear that he felt more comfortable in the basement than he did in this house and it's not because he didn't have good shell and buyers he had the voltage showing values but the house is the house base madrish ah here i am i'm high it's a high talk about having a high you're coming to the basement i have a high so davening is that place that's the high the emotion and that's and that's why if you're really into your dabbing you get so ecstatic and so excited that if you have a woman next to you or even your own wife next to you or two seats from you it can lead to inappropriate behavior whether it be looking at women or et cetera i don't have to specify right because you're so excited so the halacha says separate the men and the women which other time do we need which isn't a din but it's become a practice by most orthodox jews from jews during the wedding so i think rabbi mannis friedman would explain why during a wedding because a wedding is supposed to dance with such joy it's all about simcha no if you're dancing with such a simple just like during diamond you need a separation between the genders so too during a wedding but that's not how logic and this is halal so why am i saying this because trilla is the place of love heart so if you see someone happening with mayakh and only mayak they're not dominating the way the zoya says you should have they're on paper dominic you if you ever hear heard rabbi celevacic describe a a a a a dabbing that he's he well he saw it was with his with his uh grandfather and i think they have it on they haven't talked about it online you have to listen to it and you'll hear what i'm you you'll hear what i'm saying in his words and he is a real litchfuck a brisker but he understands that this is dominic and where did he see it he says when is zayd and it on on your kipper in the show he said he he he goes on to share what he felt being there and the truth is supposed to be everything right now but but as warm as it is if the sacral if the mind doesn't come along for the ride there there could be a um a blockage to the feelings of the heart what we call a hasidis a jaded heart have you heard the term tim tom halef timto means the clogging the jadedness of the heart i don't feel it's robotic i do it and i'm interested in doing it but i don't feel anything why about sitting says one of the reasons is because the moach is not stimulating the heart if the mind would stimulate the heart the heart would be stimulated if the mind is not stimulated that doesn't go along for the ride the heart automatically is jaded so what's the answer you understand what does khabad say what's the answer what does the alternative say stimulate the mind as jalen knows and does meditation his bondingness his brotherness is the key in khabar to stimulating the mind and the heart what is this bondedness it's a process of the mind his abundance is not according to khabad not according to breast lift according to khabad his brotherness is a work of the mind to be to to contemplate to to think think deeply into a concept of godliness to understand it and then to let it resonate until it filters itself into the heart and the heart starts moving that's his abundance in in a nutshell here in this miner the rabbit gives us lots of his volumes to understand the intricacies between bina and details of man details of beena and how they're different and how they're similar and how each one has an element of the other one in itself all of this is very mindful okay what does the word mindful mean abrupt mindful full of mind that one is occupied with the mind the mind mind work this is what we're learning and some people who don't either know or don't show interest or or are um you know enjoy um just ridiculing they don't know what khabad is really all they know is khabar is they see someone dancing or someone's drinking or some are screaming about mashiach or putting on film with people that's kabad oh yeah i forgot uh providing kosher food in the power that's also bad is that really khabad no that's not real that's part of what a froome jew does and what khabad practically does today he didn't need kosher and they're traveling all over so khaba provides that for you good but that's the is that the uniqueness of no so in these my modem that we learn we see the uniqueness of what the altered sheet because the source started in estanya teaches us what a yid is through his lenses called chabad and and please understand that not only do people that do people today not so much or in the past have had a a a a lack of understanding and lack of interest of what khabad is and those that really feel about it it's during the altar epistemes we discussed this too and others who are the father figures of of slavin of uh other custody groups they also had a problem with khabad too much intellect they felt keep it simple for the simple folk what has 200 plus years proven 200 plus years has proven that oh that the khabar system has only brought jews closer to this borough forget about making them chabadnix that's a whole different discussion and like i told you that's like what am i mashim would say we have enough chabadnix in in 770 we don't need any more if you want to see a real sadiq and a real servant of hashem come see the bobbitt 770 that's worth coming for now did i ever say the same thing you want to learn a piece of good mother with more one second with more yiddish and with more commitment learn about this i don't think you can say that you found one person that really learned and it didn't strengthen whoever they are and whatever they do i'm this morning driving to shoe i was listening to a little clip from rabbi salavaitchik and he talks about his famous rebbe who is a chabadnik incredible in in haslavich and i'm thinking to myself this is 40 30 40 years after having this rebbe right this tape is from 1959 and he had a rebbe in 1910 49 years 40 50 years later and you hear him talking he's still it's like he's living with this rebbe that he had that this is rubbish television a genius he's living with arabia 40 50 years ago who he says instilled in him he says imagination torah imagination he says he didn't get that from anyone maybe just from his mother but not not from his father not from his lady not from his teachers and he had plenty of good teachers the imagination of trader he got so what do we see we see that that anyone that's tasted and i'm talking about siddhas he talks about alma disgusting the world the concealment of the world of revelation which we call this and which is a concept in kabbalah but he learned he says he he heard it for the first time from his rebbe motion what do you want to say yeah you gotta you know you gotta turn your finger tingle get done turn your your finger is your god my chef so i heard many years ago a very colorful similar quote but it was much more colorful than the red from from from a footer fuss he said something similar but it was much more i don't know if it's really for for this setting it might but um it was much more colorful i'm just curious if you ever heard that before yeah i i i think so but um you could later put it you could write it if you want on on the group um but but um these hasidim you know they they they said it the way it is you know and sometimes they needed to really uh you know talk talk to talk like you know so people get it you know because if you philosophize and you dress it up some people don't get it somebody if you talk you know regular talk people understand anyway okay i just gave you this introduction because we're learning these concepts and it's not just an adjunct to habakkuk that's what i want you to walk away with from for my monologue it's not an adjective it is khabar sinus and i want to say another thing the psychology the behavioral part of that we've been learning that's not habats it is in its pristine state that's an adjective this is cabbage you're here i know we enjoy more of the psychological the behavior because that's the that's pretty much the world we live in but we have to know that that's not pristine carboxylase what we're learning the last week or so this is more pristine about this which leads to a healthier psyche and psychology and behavior okay page 148 page 148 they were about six seven lines at the top yesterday that ever said a beautiful line anytime you have what we call an emanation of a mere emanation or reflection it comes gradually it comes in a concealed and revealed form helen concealment the revelation is minimized it becomes less when it when it goes from level to level our ship is safe i'm shocked until the very end where it ends meet with gandhi it's very very little you don't feel at all this origin [Music] but when we're talking about what's called the influence of the essence who labor said about the it is not in an order and fashion of concealment and revelation volcano therefore commissioner who the way the essence is in its very core essence a reflection is uh is is apt to to revelation and concealment and hence um as it comes to its closure it's it's very minimal [Applause] the energy is completely reduced right now another difference between what we call haskola and hassagar intellectualization and comprehension the basogenic the person is in position of macabre receiving the haskola ain't in the kabul when we're in a mode of intellectualization we're not receiving moisture over here in the experience called haskala the very call it idea is formed so if it's formed i'm not being i'm not receiving i am creating it hear this the point motion when you come up with an idea which we call the creativity you're not a mechabul then you are kind of a messiah in in your mind you're in the mode of my spirit i am looking to create it's not that i'm looking this experience is a creative experience which means i'm not receiving i am giving you heard me it's very important now this is a rhetorical remark and although this creativity where does it come from does it come from eating cheerios in the morning and drinking uh drinking orange juice no does it come from learning a place no does it come from the learning of my mercy there's no where does it come from how did this idea come so siddha says i want you to remember these words there's something called kayak the faculty the co-act of intellectualization in hebrew is in the soul our soul has different cohosts right different faculties one is the faculty of intellect intellectualization so an idea comes from that area in the soul and that's outside of what i'm doing no it's the moscow for some reason yokoyaka moscow kicks in at this particular time and the idea flashes so yeah listen what's his question his rhetorical question is if this receives from the masculine fish so then it's also macabre and not at so why am i saying that the estimaseo is the mode of mashpee and not mcable that's his rhetorical question as alluded to in the word this is only that the moscow the faculty of intellectualization as it is in the soul is a source for seiko below scholars [Laughter] i don't have the english words for this i don't have the hebrew words for this but anyway it's not that it's not that the seiko receives from the source there is a source for cycle in the soul and now it's being experienced what does it mean abraham what does it mean to receive something to receive something means i can make a difference and depending on how much i prepare myself that's what i receive he was saying no you can make no difference if hashem wants the power the faculty of cycle to impact you now boom the idea comes so this is this thing this is the question can i prepare myself from for an idea no people are scratching their heads day and night to figure out something and guess what it doesn't come all of a sudden they're exercising they're jogging they're in the grocery and they go oh wow i got it what happened you're shopping for groceries you're not learning you're not studying that's it the claire had my school decided to kick into that moment don't ask me why no one knows why so what do we see we see that the person is not in the mode of macabre you can't be a macabre to clay you can just allow it to be allow it to be go with the flow if the moscow hits you the idea comes just be there that's what he's saying here i think that the hamas is the is a mocker it is not it is not functioning as a mashbiyya and i'm a kabul for your let's continue although the idea came from a source before you had the idea there was nothing there the hamas says that ever because the cleric the power of intellect intellect intellectualization in the soul the faculty is what we call a kayak la lee it's not a prati for this particular idea avraham is a an artist a musician he wants to play a certain song that will motivate mercy what tune am i gonna play what am i gonna post that will stir mercy in me that's already a detail the faculty of nagina of song as it's in the soul doesn't have a particular place mercy love fear anger hope no right when the option of a rabbit said uh that's like you know knows what the shower has what is he referring to not any particular song he's talking about the gates of nagina that's what that's what he said i just say it so i don't know enough to say but the point i'm making is there's a kayak lali that's what he says the khan over here in the mind who should the scottish people here becomes new it's a hiddish so that's all called haskell so in haskala yay sin the circle is kadash avo hassagov when it comes to the second idea of comprehension hear me here the mind the position of the mind is that it's a recipient it's a mush from the idea of does not yet have the essence and is not one with the essence how can you beat someone else you're somewhere else so you see so a macabre it what does it say and after 40 years one understands daite de rave the mind of his teacher what his teacher taught him 40 years ago what does that show that until 40 years you're still not one with the idea only after 40 years which is not just an intellectual process but something greater happens making it possible tomorrow um tomorrow i have to travel so there won't be a shear but thursday shall be back in new york there will be a shear what time is it now nakuta that you said i didn't understand the last dakuda i want to i didn't elaborate he didn't understand i didn't elaborate because i want to think about it and in the next year i will i will elaborate okay take care good day everyone bye bye