Maamar Zochor 1934 #3- Don't be misled by the glitz - Recognize the Issue - Unhealthy Ploys

we're on page uh 141 sorry 141 and we're learning here about the the difference between amalek and the other nations the other nations can be ha can have correction a mullet cannot and therefore the territory instructors to destroy them completely and that ebba then seeks to actualize it in our real in our lives and he talks about desires indulgences that are justified intellectually that this is this is something that we need to realize that it's a ploy of the yates of hara or it's a ploy of the nether shabbat and therefore he he he spoke about the very interesting i think nunakuda for us in our learning that there's something called the tave of the nephesh hollow kiss it's good it's not something bad but nevertheless since it's it has a definition and it has a definition that's bereft of godliness it's not where you want to be and with this we explained yesterday the ideology of chabadha citizen that a taiva when we talk about a craving an indulgence isn't only for things that are forbidden but also for things that are permissible and if you recall the saying that we shared several times i believe it's also mentioned and this is the way the saying goes pretty much versus us you don't need for ages we're living and looking to fulfill this victim and mind you this is a very hard avoider this is not easy this is not small change you know you could you could simplify it to to the to basic uh cravings of of you of the human being where we want to feel good and the question is always asked what's so wrong if you want to feel good i don't want i don't want to do evil what is so bad and if you really learn and you're open enough to look at it one-on-one face-to-face and you're ready to hear it because a lot of people are not they like the kind some like the mysticism of khabar said this some like these type of memorial which is psychological but the part that really smacks you in the face it's very uncomfortable and you just don't want to deal with it but as from eden and toriy and khasid the intelligent way is to take it all on i always say when people have complaints about this or that this movement this thing this that what do i say there's the good the bad and the ugly if you're only willing to accept the good or even and the bad but not the ugly that you're not in the club you're outside of the club every group and every movement and life is good bad and ugly you don't have to be ugly you shouldn't be ugly you shouldn't be bad but this is the world we live in in the in the in the language of hazal tovara everything is mixed together it's a mixture or in hebrew it's a bala gun yes moshe if it doesn't can you can you give us an example can you give an example i'm looking at i'm looking at your face and your smile is so demonstrative that you're eating this up this is like this is i wait i live it every day i was gonna say you live you're living every day so why don't you say why do you need examples from rabbi dolphin you live in every day you're right you know you know um what should i say you know um we all in every one of us we have we're surrounded we do good bad and ugly sometimes we're the best sometimes you're really ugly you know when when you're mean to your spouse or to your kids or to your friends or to your whatever you're ugly and sometimes you're not ugly be just not on the right track so i mean examples every every moment of life is an example i mean every one of us has their situation but the point the point i want to get to which is not that to not understand that and to not accept that it is shallow it it you know you're not a man you're not in the real world you're living elsewhere so of course there's issues and i'll tell you something many people brought this issue to the river and in a way he disregarded it like and he and i told you he wrote he wrote letters to my wife's grandfather and others who were real hasidim and real yet and and i'm telling you the real mccoy nevertheless they you know there's an issue in the community and you're talking about examples my ship my wife's zayd zalman was like the leader of chabad in in australia and and he was dealing with all kinds of community issues you know he wasn't the official rabbi that robert groener was but he was the head of the the meisters the institutions and there were real issues and when he wrote to their emperor he was a very intelligent hussain you know he he was two years younger than the rebbe he came from the same ilk you know what i'm saying and he was calm and collective and smart and thoughtful you know and yet you'll find in the letters in the igor's kindness you it's printed black and white the rebbe says to kind of throw away your murrah straighter mother means your negativity you're uh you know being down but reba i'm discussing with you a serious issue that we have in the community that's fine but when it comes to the what the rebel felt and you know that's between him and the rebel what the rebels perceived as a negative throw it away not now now i ask you you have to ask yourself a question absolutely was a smart man that was answering the husset a jew who wrote to him to do his business he was working for the rebbe for haban so isn't this the time to deal with these issues the answer is yes but realize i think what he was saying then realize that zalman you're not going to fix everything and that's good bad and ugly and you got to accept it and find a way how to mitigate it and go on and that's my my solution solution my advice to you my shares you know and and i'm sure you do it is you have to know how to how to mitigate you know there are people velvet who came into the rebel and brought tightness they had tightness in hebrew we have there were times complaints the rapper sometimes wouldn't answer them he would hear them look at them and just go on to the next thing you don't have to always answer because either you don't have an answer or you don't want to answer or you want to you don't want to be critical it's because though you feel the person at that time is not ready to hear it so just go on the person will walk out and say wait a minute i asked you a question a direct question you didn't give me an answer hmm but i respect you so maybe that's the way to get the person to realize hey enough of the complaints and go on so why am i saying this how's it relevant to the miami here with our malik and all this because when when uh when you learn siddhis you have to be willing ultimately to face everything that citizens offers to really be to become a husset if you want to be a husset that's the difference by the way between just learning citizens thousands of people don't say this habakkuk and they don't become kabbal they don't have to so what's the difference between rabbi moshe weinberger's uh talbidim or rabbi mikhail torres is telling me the learning and and my friends and i learning citizen yeshiva is a major difference the difference is whether you fully embrace the system completely with the good bad and ugly and many people are not ready to do that and i respect them and as a famous question about my yours said once in lakewood at a vibranium with 200 people he said to everybody my dear friends i didn't come here tonight to to to make you and encourage you to become habakkuk you know why we have enough in 770. but what we do need and what i am suggesting if you want to see a year of shaman if you want to see someone who really believes go to 770 and and and learn and listen and see the lebanese you'll see an individual who really believes what he says and i think that that line that he shared in lakewood to all of these lit fox is a very important eye-opener in in in in this whole issue we're not here to convert you you know but you learn to say this because you want to believe more in the able state and you want to believe more in total you want to believe and work out your life that's what they alter evan the basham to came everyone then has to decide what type of custody he wants to be what he doesn't want to be and all that but but but those that do want to be the bible they want to become they're the system that then the the mimer isn't just a nice story or a nice mystical piece or a nice psychological piece it's it's it's an all-encompassing piece that puts you in the corner and you really have to work hard so one of the things this is all introduction one of these things is this idea of a scaffia now it's kafka means to hold yourself back so you'll say well it speaks about that in muslims foreign of course it does but a muslim swarm is coming from the musser angle remember this is qasidis this is so how do how do we reconcile the concept of subjugating your cravings and desires from a hasidic perspective right this is not an electric perspective this is a hasidic perspective and chabad so whether it's balshemptov or whether it's it's still khasidas and what are we talking about you crave the our cravings our our typhus so that ever hear i think this mimer gives a little insight into this question the question is better than the answer but it it there is there is what to work with the rabbit says are you choosing gosmius because it's geshemak i love that yiddish word avram means pleasurable or are you choosing gusmius because this is the right thing to do and that's what i told you yesterday i don't know for hillary you were wrong or you heard but um johnny asked a good question he said what's wrong to have the the chong darshabis you know at the kiddush and a steak and and and you know so i explained to him that if you're eating it because you haven't eaten and you're hungry and you're eating it like you're eating a piece of bread go for it the issue that siddhis identifies that is not godly is the the seeking the pleasure just for the sake of pleasure that in torah and especially in siddhis khabad is to is to be avoided and worked on and that's a very hard avoider because we know when we put a piece of food that's tasty in our mouth could you imagine it tastes if it doesn't taste then we're not discussing we're talking about it tastes good so how am i to eat something that's tasty and yet not get it carried away where i feel my indulgence my craving is in benefiting from it and and and that's what i seek and the answer is a dolphin yes yes what about shabbat and young you're supposed to have some pleasure from those wait wait wait i let me finish my monologue here okay okay good question hilo you want to say something yeah i just wanted to say that um one of the experiences i had when i underwent radiation was that it utterly changed the way everything tasted uh tasted sweet tasted bitter and bitter so so so uh it sort of taught me how how um how utterly subjective it is and how it's just uh turned something and turned on and off like that and the same thing happened in kobet for me uh all of a sudden one day there was just no taste it was gone and no smell no taste and then then it went back right right so i i want to continue so because our problems asks a very good point and it's part of the whole discussion of course we're supposed to taste and of course of roma shabbas a young that he's supposed to have pleasure for the food exchanges taino but that's because of shabbos not because you have a craving that's a difference and that's very hard that's what i'm telling you but it could be done in other words am i tasting it because it's shabbos and and and what's the proof of rum the proof is that during the week you wouldn't maybe eat it or drink it because it's not shabbos that's the answer the answer is if i'm tasting it and looking for the delight and pleasure in it because it's shabbos it's it's shahid for shabbos and that's why yo said mocha shop is the famous story or the yo yo yo yo everything is shabbos it was the perspective is it's shabbos dick there's an expression to velvo it is a shabby sticker you have to hear the expression he is a sabbather a sabbath person all week wrong he conducts himself in a sabbath way in a shabbos way what does that mean that means that his mindset and this is the answer to the issue it's all in the mind it's how the mind decides about the gosh miss that's that's the point so yes you should shabbos um eat a little more but not with shane kaivah you see the you know the shame type of means for the sake of indulgence no eating shabbos for thailand shabbos does not equal eating with indulgence it's a mistake the famous idea sheena bashabas tainak sleeping ashabas is pleasurable so come you walk here in borough park it might be this way in batshemish i'm not sure at least maybe for our age not for the young kids but three four o'clock in the afternoon it's still shh it's siesta time alicia what my uh my son-in-law paraphrased the mishnah and he said oh that's great that's a new one that's for the books whoever eats kameen is kaya beat is obligated to sleep so anyway and i remember people who would go home velvet when the rabbis started with stuff that would come down to the it at 1 30 in the afternoon 1 30. so you finished up i think shock was 12 12 30 and lo you know you had an hour an hour and a half so there were people who who either went home and most stopping at other schools and chronic i'm talking about in the 60s 70s 80s well when i think you go home and your wife serves you chunky you take your own channel um you come back to the fabregan and the rabbit's speaking for half an hour straight you're gonna go and you'll start and the rabbit several times over the years made a comment you know he has to look at people's faces who are sleeping he didn't even even say snoring but uh sleeping you know so so it was a very risky business so us bacharam and and and the and then we'll see them we didn't go home or you know we stayed we went home later but if you went home you were careful what you ate in the first thing the point being going back to the nakuda is that is that um is that we have to be very uh astute and aware that westminster terminator was it was dartmouth not everything you need you should do sashim so one of the hasidis is like this hilo i'll share with you the tights since sleeping such a mundane thing where you're like out cold right you don't know where you are becomes a pleasure and it becomes part of shabbos so how could you waste your time on shabbos on sleeping in other words not talking about sleeping a night sleeping during the day you know in other words if such a mundane thing as sleeping becomes holy that shows you how holy shabbos is so why would you want to waste your time with chavez to sleep away sleeping away and i you know all my life i i saw it but my father my father did rest in the afternoon but he got up early in the morning so everyone should find a way where they're kind of you know don't and this don't indulge this is a i'm glad you brought it up i've wrapped this is a very important point that kabat sees don't don't take this sleeping a shabbos and eating a shop is because it's tying oak and indulge no that's not what it means it means in the food that you're eating and the time you're spending the quality the quality mushy here the quality should be of tynuk the quality should be thai nuke not the quantity the quality so therefore that ever says over here that never shabbamese has a part of it called the tove of the nepheshabamis and the goodness of the nethersharbam is it wants good but you know but it wants it for itself it wants to indulge to feel more material more hedonistic more etc that is clipper that is no good this and that ever says uh in the middle on page 149 that's why it's called the behavior there's about six lines seven lines at the top let's go from there caber hey mccullen you only be on a behemoth its entire mindset is to pleasure its body um a person seeks to constantly improve their bodily issues matters and he says and therefore he worries maybe he won't have enough of the gospels and therefore when he has more material he like makes a bracha meaning he he blesses himself wow i have a boat and i have a house here and i have this and i have that and and he's very proud you spiral he brags and he's pro proud with it the zeb called in he says [Music] to be drawn after the goodness of the gosh me and the corporeality homer means the corporeality and then impacts the person to constantly strive and go after this type of materiality and corporeality and all of a sudden he makes the individual draw be drawn after this to the point that god forbid it covers this on the human intelligence the comments there are times when per a person who walks in this path of seeking the pleasures who got misaki asmoy begnevo zelo he risks his own life by with thievery and robbery where montef mali's taiwanese nafta because he has to fulfill his taiva so because he has a taiva craving he will do everything including thievery and robbery to get what he wants actually until he becomes god forbid wrote saya a murderer the grain of nephesh and a stealer a thief of souls in other words he will mislead you and deceive you and hurt you so this is one second this is this is a situation where his tithe his cravings and indulgences lead him astray where human intelligence is lost that ebb now says needless to say um his cravings and his taiva destroy his godly intellect means he loses he forfeits then from the is the entire concept of spirituality and get lucky and godliness from level to level expression he falls into the depths into the pits of evil so not only does he lose at that time his seychelles she but his say if i'm sorry not only is a psychologically loss but also so the point being and this is um you know just the beginning and the rebel will now start explaining different details so this is a moment that really many that my marim of the rabbi and mampurum or or pasha zucker are very what we call a vodadic very oriented towards you know issues like this um because when we talk about amalek we have to know it's not just you know historical fact it's very real and it's happening now so this these are these are my morim overall i'm generalizing that you'll find a lot of this type of verbiage it gets really into you know meteos and and and the ugly and the ugliness when you crave and you have typhus and how it misleads you and he look what he says here at least you could it lead you to geneva gizella erica that's what he says here and what he means is that you're you're either literally for some people it's literally even though for most many people it's not literal but it's in figurative in the sense that you're stealing from your godly holy site you're a yid we are eating we have in the summer and all of a sudden we're following the dictates of the nepheshabami's stealing energy and you know that happens daily when we lose sight and track of of what he says here look what he says here i like his words here he says here um alverton next to the last line of the paragraph er verton the entire concept of spirituality and get what kind of godliness and this is a barometer this is something that you know is this situation bereft of spirituality and godliness and if it is don't go there don't go there you know and at times it's a facade it's very glittering it looks it looks really it re really great and godly the truth is it's not and only a person with their mind and honesty no should know the difference because you know you're you're a thinking person were there times in history when we were dubbed absolutely that's a shopkins v and the false messiahs you know they misled rabbis rabbani scholars who actually believe that they were the mashiach and then they and then they saw that they um converted you know so there are times when we're fooled you know with the the ponzi scheme of the nephew bombings fools they never show the kiss that's true but usually you don't need to go that far usually we are our own self enemies and the fact that we fall into the trap because we have a craving or greed greed greed i have to have more and more and more and more why won't you have enough already what do you need more for no but my kids my grandkids my friends and then you talking and you're convinced it's for the tadaka purposes i'll give a lot of money to tsudak and all that now there is something to be said that we need lay leaders and we need supporters of yeshivas and institutions and shoes and and all absolutely but all done with a with a humility and and and and if you do that then if has to show him it doesn't go one's way you don't lose excuse the expression you don't lose your pants you don't fall you don't you know you know you take it and you know the eden my father-in-law the people the city who came from russia could you imagine available to russia imagine before the revolution people had businesses people were thriving came in they wiped them out nothing the gerardis of kremechuk i mean these were people who were like the king pins and they helped everyone lit fox others see them chernobyler and and and slunimer anyone i mean i wrote about this in one of my books i found some very interesting points and i documented it in 1919 1920 the guerraris were out and they went to rostov where the rashad was because it was inland and that's it that's it you know and they weren't the only ones um i just heard the literature family i forget now that was very wealthy oh yeah of course rabbi gifter of of cleveland the tells um his wife's grandfather was wrapping yemen banish um dates or something i forgot the last name and he was a elite fisher person and he was very wealthy communists came in wiped them out nada go home you have nothing to go yep you have to start again so did these hidden fall apart did they throw away the yarmulkes did they give up not these eden on the contrary they said a famous story that happened he must have heard of him he was like a very wealthy man hustler marash and then his his business you know was taken away and all that and then also he lost a lot of business whatever so they said that he's still a hasid of the rabbit rabbit gave him a are you still a consent and he said only now i'm a husset only now am i real hustled until now the breakfast brokers were fulfilled so i was going on the river's wings and it's all good i'm cashing in that doesn't show that you're but now that the rep is broken forever it didn't come to fruition and i'm still discussing oh now i'm a husset so when times are tough and not that we should shall look for them we shouldn't but when times are tough or something doesn't go our way we stick to our guns and our commitments and we we're just as involved and and basiimka that's the way to break through so you know also with covert i heard a speaker last night you know the same thing we don't understand why david had to do this at this time but that's what he did so if you take it the bull by its own and you embrace it and say so how am i going to become stronger and how what are we going to do more for college barclay for my family and for my friends and my community notwithstanding the covet but on the contrary taking the covert and making it a springboard something greater you've done taken the negative and transformed it that's the answer not to be morbid and complain and where is god and how can you do that and and what a mess and then now they want you to take a fourth shot in there to throw and we know all this to york it's all right but that's that's the way it is so so take the situation and work with it rather than then then then become more better negative have another share talk to everyone tomorrow zagasm shalom bye