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Nasa Na 1938 #9- Apathy is bc of Ego ,- Warmth is Natural to Person - Opposites Attract
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the name
bahamas
tells us what it is
it's a behavior
have you ever ever heard of saying
you're a behemoth
guess what we all have a behavior inside
ourselves
we're
building or will the kaya but that's
that's the other vilde but behemoth
and guess what
it's not out of the ordinary
it's normal it's teva it's nature
what's out of the ordinary is to be a
refined jew living with the nephew
shirley kiss
you know the famous story that they say
the the the boy
the father comes to the rabbis is rabbi
my son is meshuggah
he says why is he suddenly sugar
he wants to marry a non-jewish girl he
cracked up
the rabbi says
if you tell me
that uh that uh
the the non-jewish girl
that that the non-jewish girl that you
know is is is something uh
weird and strange and
and you know and not normal
i could hear why your son is not would
be is also not normal marrying such a
person
but
that he's married a non-jewish girl
that's natural he's not for shabbat
wants to have a pretty girl she happens
to be non-jewish it's america so
he's not meshuggah he's very normal
except that he has a toyota that he
needs to
listen to follow but he's not there we
have to work on that but don't tell me
he's meshuggah
in the vernacular sugar you know is it
it i told you i i didn't repeat this in
in a few years so
probably
if you you won't remember it but here we
go
i got a call one friday afternoon in the
winter about
15 years ago
a lady calls me frantically he says
rabbi i have to speak to you i say it's
a half an hour shot but she says i have
to speak to you i said go ahead
she says i see i read somewhere that you
know cabola and you're a capitalist and
you wrote a
i said what do you want is that what you
want
so she says
my son is crazy i said why is he so
crazy
because he met this girl she's a jewish
girl
ah okay next
so what's the problem
the problem is
he wants to have a a non-kosher wedding
in other words um they should not have a
kosher meal
my son is crazy
so i said to her your son is not crazy i
think that you and your son have to
start talking more to each other
this knows and so she called me think
asking me if her son was possessed by a
book
i'm serious
so she wanted to know me the capitalist
you know if i could tell her if her son
over the phone if her son has been
possessed by a capitalist i swear this
is what happened it was friday afternoon
i like i it was like like a preparation
for shabbos like no other
i said no my dear
uh we have here uh uh a relationship
problem between
a given shama
and a modern son and you know an
american boy probably just for europe or
has still european stuff in her and he's
an american boy and you know and all
that so
when we say the nephesh
is a bahami
and the rebbe adds the words with tv
this behavior is natural
it's not unnatural
what's unnatural is to be a jew to be
unofficially kiss
that's unnatural in dalton evan that
tanya
teaches us
that if that really if you're really
plugged in and he tells us how
it's really who you are but we're
talking about on the outside on the
surface
the norm is
bahami
ello ki
is not the norm
so the next time
you're confronted by someone who says
they want to do something outrageous and
you say this guy cracked up but she
cracked up or that i'm not normal or how
could this be and you're all beside
yourself stop
and just ask yourself
in my way in my own way do i act
sometimes like a behemoth oh yeah why
because it's natural to overeat and
oversleep and overdoing
and i justify no
why for that person is it not natural
for where he or she is
to be a behemoth
that's without that but that's what the
british rapper says back to the text
and therefore
the curry midas
what's the primary
mode in which
behavior
expresses itself in emotions
you know the concept of intellect being
silent but deadly it's true but it's not
the main area
of
of of
bahamut
of animalism
animalistic
the bahama youth the behemoth
expressed itself in emotions
and love and fear and in guilt and in
mercy in every kind of way you know i
have compassion of someone and i helped
them and then they
killed themselves
right we just went through this this
week and it's the hot topic of the week
right
probably a lot of these
innocent
girls and boys
who didn't say anything had mercy
because he writes them and tells them
he's going to commit suicide
anyway i don't want to go into it but
that's misplaced
misplaced
um compassion
that doesn't mean you have to go and and
and and you know
a person
all over i'm not taking a stand on that
i'm not ruling it's about just talking
out loud in conversation
but
there is misplaced compassion
so the question i'm sure you've asked
yourself and i've been asked the
question what do you do in shul if you
know
that there's someone who's been accused
of um
child abuse etc
what do you do moisture is a god buying
the shule
ah
wasn't god whatever what do you
do i asked this question i asked it to
suffer abundant because people asked me
this question
and the rebuttal that i spoke to doesn't
mean there's no no different opinion
they said
you're obligated to let people know
uh
you know that
there's someone here that's
you know
been accused but you don't have you're
not obligated to ostracize him from sure
not let him into the show
that's what they said to me
but yes
people have to know in fact one of the
letters that i read online about the
situation is
the oh rabbi eisenmann of passaic wrote
this long letter i don't know if you
read it so he calls for it's online so
he calls for he says you know um
it's really it you know if you if your
son or daughter your daughter is going
to babysit
you shouldn't be sending him themselves
in the car that the parent picks him up
so he writes i mean that's his
suggestion
you know it it it's come down to that
um
you know when you hear about a prominent
person who did so much
and you can't trust them anymore it
really shatters
the the trust level of people and
and there's no way around it you you
you're not gonna have anyone you know
like uh oh i'm gonna check in and tell
you you could trust me and prove myself
it's that's not never gonna happen okay
let's get over it
so you have to take the defense
methods to
protect your children so anyway i don't
want to get into this the point being is
the icarimedus
the primary area
in where the bahama expresses itself
is in the emotions albumin
nevertheless
now the rabbit says on the second line
if you think about it i'll be this
what use do i have of it says the rabbit
yes
it does have a great virtue wow tell me
about it and he says
um
it's one of its milos one of its virtues
is
velvel that it is act the word
in english is act
says great in yiddish
in hebrew
it is
a a a
an energy of ram that is apt
to have emotionalism
his palute
and what's special about that tells us
the rabbi
that
the lulu is
the root of the word is
the from the line before the last word
the teva
leos
the nature
of of this adaptation let his spoil to
emotionalism humility
that's my contention
there's not enough hugging i'm serious
not enough warmth
what absolutely
did 50 60 years
ago the colonel was very pure and and
right give the person a hug a man to a
man a woman to a woman but the point is
you know and i see it i just said my
my son-in-law ellie he's the the rabbi
at the
i'm telling you
what catch people they've told they've
come over to me old young middle age is
he'll give the guy a hug when he comes
into shule he got him that's it
it everything else will follow
the warmth
the emotionalism
there's not enough of that it's all did
you do your did you get a good mark did
you do your homework
now i understand there needs to be
prince
rules
but
it's gone a little too far we have to
really
put back into the school system
but what i i feel
that even though i you know was in the
70s and i had my rebbies who were
survivors
but they were holocaust survivors right
they were holocaust
and i felt that warmth
exude
through the tests
and through the learning
and that schlepped me and schlepped us
and pulled us
to want to be like them
to want to to want to learn better you
see
so the rabbit says here
the nature of the nepheshabamis
is such that it's
ready and wanting to be emotional
there are some people that are always
cold
over t by a limit spoil
and by nature they don't they don't
become emotional
and the rapper says something
fascinating the next line
don't think that they're not
emotionalism abram
is because
intellectually they're blocking their
emotion you hear that avi
says
they're born
cold-blooded
you know like you say
as far as farting
a cold person is a counterfeiter excuse
me i need some water please
a cold a cultimench
it's not that
the intellect is elegant you be cold no
we're not talking about that another why
moisture why
because the rabbit's argument is by
nature
the natural tendency of every nephesh
obama's
is
his pa
it's act it's ready
to be emotional to be warm
so why isn't it
the answer is because sometimes
the nature
of the person
is such
that they're cold
let's see how he develops it the hey
numbers the clubhouse i have this bait
saying the zoo although generally
speaking the difference between
intellect logic and emotions it is the
sacred machine
is patience
and calmness
right
thoughtfulness
don't rush
think it over
umidos and the emotions hey historaxxus
the spiders this is a very good
uh comparison and definition of the two
i'd like you to make a note about this
right here seijo he tells the circle has
two things in it
to be muscle right which means
car patient
for his joshua's
to be settled
midos
emotions are just the opposite
is to get very worked up right
the his spy looked and to get very mispa
to get very emotional
so therefore you're causing yourself to
become
very
feeling okay
okay but but but
the pilot is excited you're coding
yourself right right right thank you
thank you that's the word i was looking
for thank you excitement
thank you very much that that's a better
word than the emotionalism in this case
the excitement very good
but look at the next line
patience and set and settlement but
does not equal being cold
see people making this excuse me
people make a mistake johnny thinking
who are the who are the patient people
the cold type of people
says that but no it's a mistake
no
there's a difference between cold
and being patient you can be a very warm
person and if you've developed yourself
to have patience
you'll be patient and and at a time when
you
get involved or do whatever it is you're
very warm
so that's why it says
aino it is not
similar to kri root
the codes
in the closest
who aim them
he goes back to his point
apathy apathy
is not because
the person's logic and mind
dictates be cold
excuse me this is his nature and his
habit
to be without i guess
excitement feeling
cold in other words the opposite of
excitement the opposite of feelings
so where does it come from
it says that i'll tell you the big
secret
it comes from
a roof he says rove not always
but usually
it comes from yeshut
ego
the abbas atmo and self love
in other words
you're involved with something which
calls for excitement as your innocence
said so beautifully why aren't you
excited
why why you standing like a cold fish
because you have a deep ego
and like who cares
who cares
have you ever been in a situation where
people are all excited about something
and you go over to someone and he's
standing there like a cold blooded
you know i don't want to use the word
but you know what i mean
and yeah why
the answer is because he everything in
front of him is meaningless to him
because he feels that he's better than
them and all of this is nonsense
you know a person who is a big shot
inside a very a big shot
like
what are you stupid like wasting your
time and
i i don't want to say who because
but a great scholar
he came into uh to someone's home and
the person
and he looked on the bookshelf he had a
big library he looked at a library
and he saw a certain safer
and he turns to him he says what are you
doing with that safer in your in your
bookshelf
so he says
um
i bought it i got it i'm not using i
look at it it's a good it says
stop wasting your time
they were very very sharp
and and and i'm going to call a spade a
spade in this area he was a big shot
the rapper would have never said that
never in a million years guaranteed
the three the canada would have never
said that that rashad would have never
said that
because in this area they didn't have
ego
they eliminated their ego
and others didn't
so ego was a very very subtle thing and
i think i told you
but i was discussing this yeshua the
other day
this idea of
bitter hayes
is is such a chabad concept although
it's not it's not originated
but you won't find in any hasidic
community such discussion and such
wordage and such elaboration on the
concept of the yesh and the the
ego and the obliteration of ego
but then obey him from the outer rib
from his lakuti torah from his tanya
that is a main theme and my friend
professor david seaman of emory
university
hashomer shabbos genius harvard graduate
he was writing i hope he's going to do
it a book on beetle from the chabad
perspective
because he hold in
and he understood that the chabad unique
approach is bitter
you know uh
in the ish but says right ish but it's a
swarm it's another nakuda
a very important one but a whole
different
aspect the cutscer has their aspect
moisture is going up to tetheria that
it's a deakin there right the kawasaki
the vodka you're talking about the your
rebels a great great sata the worker
it's a whole different notion
i'm giving you a little a little food
for thought my
um it's a whole different notion
in the hasidic world
they don't talk much about this
yes khabad
and you know that famous uh
saying
which
has to be said and understood in the
right context
but i think it's worth mentioning
three hasidic groups
bresliv gair and khabad
wrestling is always speaking about simca
and they and many of them are very
depressed
very uh
hard on themselves not happy
you know
gair
casitas caught scared emma's cut skills
don't do anything for truth
and the saying on the street is they're
the
the biggest
false people around
hobart is always talking about bento
obliteration itself and the building the
biggest bali geyser
it's a joke but there's truth to it
but the fact is
that obey it so we're learning over here
it's a fascinating thought
you know hilo's not here it's good to
see how you would
see this from how the psychology see it
i i tried getting rabbi doctor of ron
twersky when i interviewed him it's in
the interview my book conversations with
the rebbe
i i asked him about he he taught tanya
in pittsburgh and i was i and i asked
him about these things and he said some
which is but i would love to have
continued seeing how he from a
psychological perspective
understands this idea this is one of the
ideas here but the rabbit says
that kriros
apathy
comes primarily because of yeshua's
self-love
not because the mind tells the person be
cold
i mean i think that's a very very
interesting
um something that can be studied and and
discussed and developed yes my shoulder
can you just repeat that again please
yes
the rabbit says here the previous
says
very important to know that he says
usually
you have the words my shirt you haven't
yet vala rove usually
most times
cree root
apathy
yeshut
it comes because of the yash of the ego
and self-love
meaning and it's not because
the mind
blocks
the feelings from going to the heart and
being excited and emotional it's not
because of that
that's a very very uh
telling statement that that needs a lot
of
discussion and you know what i'm saying
he says it but it you know prove it
why how but that's what he says
then he says let's continue another few
minutes but yes
then you have someone whose nature is
calm he's warm
um
and he gets excited
emotionally spoiled and excited but not
killed very easily
as the vernacular goes by as people say
in yiddish this is a good yiddish
expression
the word for heat and temperature in
yiddish is avi
hits
our author in 1921 had typhus he was
very sick in it he always died from the
from the high
temperature that he had
so huss had said to him
and he was speaking and it's not you
know you you have such temperature
you could sound cuckoo sugar you could
say things that
so someone said
from hits
he's talking from heat
and then later the comment came
be very careful saying that about the
fleet of cadet
you know you don't want to play with him
a hitsui mensch means a hot blooded
passionate person
who
is easily
excited
and not let's the next few words
and when he does something he does it
with excitement
but look at the next words
lit
he doesn't do it
calculate it
and that's why
sometimes
we ourselves or others do something and
it it it throws us for a loop but if
that person is the type that is a hit to
get a mensch is a hot blooded passionate
person
what he does is
it's not calculated
so for us
if we're more moisture the proper type
of person
it's wild
i'll give you an example i'm finishing
now
a pictorial book that i told moshe about
and
many of the pictures are of my spirit of
yo khan so someone sent me a picture
last night and i had to i had to quickly
get it into my designer because i
it was great it's a picture in 1983
they're in the catskills in parksville
new york
up there by liberating next to liberty
new york
and it's each year they have for the
rabbit's father's yard says
since august of 83
and
rabbis from all over the world rabbi
farkas from yerushalayim robbie castillo
farkas rabbi sago from jerusalem joseph
segel
from los angeles
my friend robbie steinmetz from detroit
you know tell me the idea is to bring
the the top torah scholars of the
bavavic of chabad all in one setting
for one weekend to talk tora disgustor
of our brain
so you have all these people arabic
shocker i think is like talking
and they're all standing around the
table and you have raviol khan conveyor
without a hat jacket with a hand on a
soda pot on about a soda bottle on a
bottle
it's such a telling picture
of who the man was
he was totally totally in a different
world
and they're all formal you know what i'm
saying hats and jackets and rabbis
and he could put them all in his little
pocket
looks like me with my suspenders people
have commented on my videos we love your
videos because of your suspenders
i'm talking about paul parker's
i'm not talking to you guys in bed
sherman you guys are cool but the power
pack are so s are so narrow
a rabbi speaking words of torah teaching
and he doesn't put on a hat and jacket
right
what a crime
so i have a friend he's a good friend i
love him he says i love your videos
because of your suspenders
it's uncalculated
that's what i learned from repgio i mean
happens to be he i and others are that
style but
the concept is that
you need to know so sometimes when
something happens to you well let's say
you know a relationship with a spouse
what if one spouse is more calculated
and the other the other spouse is less
what if one spouse is more cold and one
is warm what do you do
you can't make a go of it yes you can
if you know
the the
what what's the trigger
you can make a relationship work but you
really have to figure it out
and
respect each other's strengths
and deficiencies now you can have a good
marriage
but if if if the cold one expects
her or him to be like he or she is
cold that pathetic calculated or the
warm one expects them to be always
passionate or warm you're going to have
a big you can have a breakdown you're
going to have constant bickering and
fighting
and that's not the way it should be
where does it say the traitor
that spouses have to be exactly alike i
mean sometimes
they're more alike they're more similar
and other times they're not
and guess what
it can be great
my wife and i
you know she comes from certain parents
i come for certain parents we're
different in many ways
37 years married
you could work it out
if there's respect
and there's understanding
and understanding i clearly say of the
differences
not understanding what we share in
common that's a given
but of the differences
and to grow from each one's differences
you can have a great marriage you can
have a great relationship you have
a and the same is true with already a
teacher and students
sometimes i'm sure if you think back
about your teachers and your professors
over the years in school and in yeshiva
wherever you went to
and
you know
sometimes
i didn't relate to that teacher i didn't
relate to that read
the question the question is why why not
why didn't you relate to them
and it could be you were too immature
to
find a way
to understand who they are where they're
coming from for you to make that
relationship work
continue next monday have a great job as
my vaccine
make the best of it
great learning together have a great day
everyone said
bye bye good job good job thank you very
much