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Ohr lArba 1940 #13- Why don't I feel G-dly after I meditate on G-dliness - bc I'm coarse, unrefined
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so we're on page
uh
166 in the mimer
brazil
chapter six facebook
a lot about also
what
we're sorry we're at the bottom of 165.
we we we we're the bottom line
mikhail malcolm
you're right i'm sorry
okay
165 mccombo
it's very common
but if they are chambered villa by those
that
invest
themselves
we call that those it indavating we call
those individuals
hashem
have you heard the term i have them
the singular is ay vade
plural is of dim
the rapper refers to them over here or
if they hashem
in chabad there is a
one moment there is a
a buzzword
that
the heirs of the laboratory perk up
he is an oyvate
when you say that about a lababatcher
booker or young man or older
i mean someone who spends a lot of time
dabbing concentrate
concentrating much and dominating yes
masha
yeah what so what's the difference
because i've heard this before and i
just forgot
and i know there is a significant
difference in lavabitch between the
versus an ovid
and an evid
your yeah yes and no that that's chapter
15 and tanya the altar ever there says
inevit is in in present tense
is someone who
no
no chapter 15 dr ebba says the
difference between
god's servant and lawyer
not his servant it's a gomorrah
and the gomorrah says the difference
between doing something 100 times or 101
times
that's not that's not what you're
referring to
no it's not an evident and
i've never i've never heard
i i don't recall such a difference
i i i think i think what you're
referring to is the difference between a
oyvate and a mosquito
so i i don't know you get me get me a
reference on that i would love to you
know see it because i don't know
evan means a servant which does avoid
her
i don't i don't remember but
anyway the word ayurvedic
is there has
great significance
the greatest respect in khabad is for
someone who's an ayurveda
not someone who's a mosquito moscow
meaning someone who is very strong in
understanding the deep ideas of hasidus
that in khabad
as much as it's uh you know wow
it's at the end of the day not as great
as an avid because someone who can spend
time hours dabbing
focused and darvening and and expressing
ava and davening it's it's something
of a different level
so that you should just know those terms
in the chabad lexicon
i don't know if you saw but you really
should be reading
a book i wrote called uh lubavitch speak
alibaba speak is a dictionary
of chabad
colloquialisms
and uh words
and expressions
i wrote it specifically to bring people
into the lebanese culture who didn't
grow up with lebanese culture
so you if you're if a person is
interested in that they would know
what's being referred to
when you use a certain word so this is
an example
when you say the word ovate in another
community
literally for sure and even other
hasidis communities it does not have the
same meaning as it has in chabad
it has a great meaning but it's a very
different meaning
what i just told you the meaning of the
word evidence
is not the meaning of that word the way
it's in literature communication not
even others
so that's an example of a of a word used
in this culture
that has a specific meaning and and so
the book
has the the word
the transliteration of the word and the
meaning what we mean with it's the that
word usage in the in the chabad world
so for example another word
is an adam
he is a
human what does that mean every person
is another
in the babbage
see them would say
adam
he is a wholesome person
whose muslim
who's complete
in
various in many in in in all areas that
are necessary
to be a godly person in in torah
in avodah
in the gina maybe you know
he's muslim
that was the particular
word
that
they would say about a certain hostage
oh he's an odom
you ask a guy in ponovich what does that
mean he's going to tell you it means
that he's a person a human being
has something so i'm just saying this
you know their their every culture
has its words and i'm sure in the
literature culture they are let's say
the word steigen right
what the word schteigen means in the
litvis world is very different than the
chabad world in the chabad world we
don't even we barely use the world
schteigen
we barely use it
in fact because
the literature turned the word stagging
into what they mean by steigin
i would say that khabad
it
and the word steigen in khabar is looked
down upon so if you go to a a chabad bar
mitzvah
and you were asked to speak
and you say
this by mitzvah boy he stinks in
learning
the laboratories in that crowd if
they're not laughing at you
they'll drop their heads and like
it's like
come on
here's a little baba it's your boy
so in other words it's the word
schteigen
the the way it's become used in the
literature culture in the chabad culture
it's
i'm going to say it's disgusting
it's it's not where it's at do you
understand this it's apostles
right
mr said it's not befitting yeah
but but let's let's turn around
you know we have to be honest you know
this is not you know i'm better than you
look at the delicious cult culture that
word is
kedushantara
yeah yeah in the literature
in the literature culture the works
diagon is not considered guyva
that's the norm
and if someone's really striking and
learning
that that's a value that's a virtue
same word
two cultures two different meanings
opposite of each other
right but it has to do with what the
entire literature culture has been built
into finding it around right
fine fine but
i'm saying and and and so
how would you say it in the chabad in
the chabad
he learns
so
you know i'm just saying that as you as
you as you learn and you grow and you
you inculcate and all that you know and
i'm sure uh it's in in the bustner
culture there must be some words that
that have a particular meaning there
that you don't have in chabad and and
and of course
in the literature world et cetera et
cetera so
i'm just i don't think we have our own
lexicon but we don't
you don't hear people say styke you
don't you right i don't think that we
have a reflection because that wasn't
that wasn't
it wasn't the european i think that very
much is a lichfish that's like that's
the goal that's the that's what you're
shooting for to be a steigen entire
it's what you hear all the time but not
uh we
you don't hear that in boston yeah yeah
okay anyway i i'm just saying so when we
say here i've from
the bottom of page 165
on the ramps
so that's why i got off on this because
he says we find that by many people who
are if they hashem
so a regular person reading this will
say if they're hashem means someone who
serves god big deal i mean you know okay
but really darwin's
in chabad or even hashem it means
this person and this group of people
they're in their own class
and let's continue
[Music]
next page 166 although they
they they exert
diligence
harvey
much diligence
because
requires
reflection and meditation his bonus
that's
true avoider in the in in the chabad
context his bonanus
and he comprehends and he understands
and comprehends
betraying
very well the idea that he's
contemplating about
umi spoil
bin michael
to the point where
he understands now in his
he he is impacted
in his mind but emmaus
the example i've given in the past to
repeat this you think about how much you
like your wife and you think about how
much garbage in your house stinks when
it's full
and you say it's disgusting you say you
know what my wife is tired i'm going to
take out the garbage
and put it into the bin
you understand i mean this is a silly
example but
you understand
that it's not right
to leave the garbage in the house
and have your wife take it out or slip
so from understanding it goes to a place
in the brain in the moa
which we call hispailus
the emotionalism in the brain meaning
i have other
in other words
oh when you take out the garbage are you
feeling love for your wife if you are
you're out of your mind
[Laughter]
what you're feeling is i'm doing the
right thing
so there is a mint a feeling there is a
his pilot but it's not a spilowed bellev
spiral bellevue is a heart palpitation
okay
he's spiraled but mayak is not a heart
palpitation it's a brain
movement
i want to make sure you you you
understand this is this clear or you
want me to elaborate more on this
the difference between an emotion of the
heart
and a spineless
so
the rabbit says
when you die
and you think of let's say about the
concept of how hashem created the
creates the world ex nilo yeshmiah
hashem is here
and yet he's distant because if he's too
much here he overwhelms us but you think
about this idea you understand it
so it goes from a place of understanding
to a place of a spilot that
causes you to say up here
i want
more of this of this godliness
i don't feel yet godliness like israel
said you know i don't feel the pain of
the other person but i understand that
there's pain here
and i understand that pain is real
i don't have it yet
the uh i think the best verse unison to
describe this is in to heal him i
believe it's chapter end of chapter 74
where david says
the closeness of god
is good for me
so siddha says in this four words there
are three steps
there is elokim god
one
number two is kirvas elokim
the closeness of god that's already the
way you're close to god or god is close
to you
that's already
a
departure from pure god
into
what we call here the emotionalism
within the brain
the the notion that
god can be close
in other words god being close of god
being distant
is already a notion
there is something that precedes that is
god
not closeness and not distance god
himself
atmos essence
so there is elokim
says elokim
then he says
kirvas elokim the closeness of god and
then he says li tov
it's good for me
in other words we have three steps you
could be at the place of just god
you could then come to the idea that god
is close and then finally
i want god lee
that's the heart that's the heart
palpitation
and you should know that these three
steps are true in every aspect of life
if you could break down almost
everything or everything into these
three stages
right
a spouse
taurus says marriage
marriage is correct i need a spouse
right
like the bachelor of uh in the babbage
when they told him to go find the
he went to the masjid don't go here
there and knock on the door and a girl
opened the door and he said
i'm evil oh a girl and he ran the other
way
he knew the idea of marriage because the
terror speaks about the marriage and
mercedes conduction was all about
marriage
when it came to reality and he opened
the door and he saw a girl he ran away
because you know he's not supposed to
meet girls and talk to girls and then
she runs the other way but wait a minute
you're going there for marriage
it doesn't register
because there is elo kim there is
marriage and then there is the concept
of
kier vasilo kim and finally keva selokim
litov
and these three steps
are
three worlds
and if you think about it and i want you
maybe shabbos to think about this this
idea because i think it's very important
it's it's it's so it's the way we
interact with ourselves and and spouses
and children and families and friends
and sure than
everybody where you could be someone's
you know someone
you become their acquaintance and then
your friend three steps
another
an acquaintance and a friend
let's continue so there ever says here
that although you meditate well on the
idea
and you have this emotionalism on
in the head
the imna
it does not result in a feeling of the
heart
vahci
what's the reason
he is
because your soul your nephesh is bound
to corporeality
sleeping eating and other pleasures
you're you're you're one with those
those got you
you're in their web
shame gimme sorry these are what we
refer to as the three
ministers of paris
which prevent
feeling god in the heart that's the
answer
issa brought it up the other day
regarding the suicide the pain and all
that we spoke about it
so
practically why is it we could learn and
learn to learn and learn and we can feel
dull like a stone the answer is
because we're still mikusher to
achilla
and the rabbit said before they seek his
abdomen anger meaning
you know unpro inappropriate emotional
behaviors
my mates are in order to get out of this
limitation
this also requires the neck when we
spoke
that comes from the air of the heart
then going through the throat
here we go abram this is your field
music
coil
sound
and he says
it's brought down that coil sound
voice
arouses the in inner intent
believe that it should be also felt in
the heart so practically speaking
coil
can you go back for a second
can we speak about that point you just
made a person could be learning all day
yet they're cold as a stone
now unfortunately
i feel
like i see that all the time
and
let me ask you
you see it you see it in others or you
see it yourself too
that's a good question
so
all right so so
i
i would have to say
that i feel it in others
i see it
in so many different circumstances and
circles
and
i just feel i just it's a natural
visceral
reaction that i have that i see like
someone and then and and i
so so so maisha
i won't i won't elaborate but i i'll
just say that i see this in myself
if i can gravitate to food
in automatic
or to the sleeping and automatic
um
then then i am part of this issue that
the rebbe says here so
what am i why am i expecting
how can i expect to feel hashem to love
hashem to fear hashem
if
that's not in my dna yet
and what's in my dna is eating sleeping
and then pleasures
[Music]
so so when you say
you see it in others i think you're
you're it's yes looking at others you
know
may might be easier than finding
ourselves and again i'm not i'm not here
to point the finger at you i'm just
saying
when's the last time a person
gave a
they gave away their bed gave away their
food
completely
not knowing not knowing where they're
gonna sleep if someone doesn't have a
bed
remember but even in bet chemistry i
remember there were certain people who
asked where they could sleep and no one
was going to give them a bed i mean
doesn't that tell you that the culture
again assuming they're safe
not not if they're dangerous
but if they're safe
and and maybe that's part of the
equation not maybe it is but
the the the the the the self is so
strong that's what the devil is talking
about here
mikusharan look at the word that he uses
he used the word
he is not sure second and the second
line his consciousness
means you're tied up
you're completely tied up
to khumrim isn't just material gotcha
abuse whom it means corporeality
you come into a shoe you have a kiku
without sugar
and it's four days old
and then you have a good piece of cake
which one are you choosing
we know what we're choosing
why
because it tastes better
now
someone who's truly
truly nama kusha to goshmias the whole
idea of tasting better taste and worse
should make no difference to molesties
that's hadik who can make you who them
and really is at a level which we're not
so
who of
who are we fooling so when when you talk
about moisture you see so many people
that can that learn and
their hearts like a stone
that ever saying that it begins in the
person themselves
in
that
there is a blockage
that harmony is brings to a person
and again whether it's it's it's it's a
gila dia sleeping other pleasures
those pleasures are a blockage
and unless you unplug that blockage
you can't i don't know i i guess i'm not
i'm not
right now i'm not completely related to
what you're saying because to me i see
people all the time
who
they're like
will use the you know they're learning
a lot
it could be a person it's like a
person's a rosh shiva
and
could be that they're not into gosh myth
so much it could be that they mamas only
make kiddish on grape juice okay
but
i see them and i see how they look i see
how they carry themselves
and it's just to me it exudes coldness
and i think it's like like
that
it was only
that's always been such a turn off for
me
yeah i didn't hear well i didn't hear
one word you said it exudes what
coldness coldness oldness
oldness like who would want to be
attracted but like i don't
me
i don't i don't get it i don't
understand but but
my shirt i know what you're saying but
mike i think
you are looking in this issue and i've
heard it from you you know several times
i believe i understand what you're
saying
you're looking at the chinese of this
thing which is fine it's the you're
looking at the outside we are analyzing
the inside we're not so it's a different
analysis
so i'm not saying what you're saying is
wrong
but that's not that's not the discussion
here i mean i have no problem discussing
that issue
you know
with you um but that's not what we're
talking about here when you're talking
about you know people who are cold so
they're you know they have a temper
that's cold that's a different
well i see it sort of as i see it a
little bit deeper than just the template
but but
if i could throw in and i don't want to
get the discussion too far off yeah
because i have to go to another sheer go
ahead
so i i think that intellectualism for
people is often an escape from the
difficulty of dealing
um in a more deeper way with
emotionalism
meaning that
um
it's hard dealing with emotions um
emotions
it's a difficult work
and as i said i'm speaking as one who
has difficulty feeling the penalty who
wants to feel the pain of another
but
you know for for even our own
experiences the the the painful ones
sometimes the escape could very easily
be to take on an intellectual approach
to life and an intellectual approach to
um to learning
that
sets up a a wall so to speak that i
don't have to deal with emotions i just
put everything in the context of how do
i understand this rationally how do i
understand this intellectually and i
don't have to um feel
the emotions
it gets in the deep philosophy we used
to study in in
philosophy secular philosophy why do
people enjoy
uh you know going to tragedies or
watching tragedies why do some people
not
but there's a a tevla of i don't want to
experience emotions and so by being
intellectual i
and that's not necessarily a cognitive
process it could be a subconscious
process of i don't need to deal with it
i'm not affected by it i i analyze
everything from a rational and
intellectual perspective or from a
dollar perspective you can say you know
in the
right but around the learning but
this discussion
that you you you just took it's not what
we're talking about here
i mean you can
you can extrapolate but that that's not
what we're talking about here we're
talking about here is a person who is
blaming very well an idea
and he wants to feel and why doesn't he
feel it's a different
motion do you understand it's a very
different
it's a very different
it's not
it's not what you presented it's talking
about a different person who is an avid
who wants to feel warm and loving and
emotional and he can't
now i'm not saying that that that what
israe said has no
so anyway listen i i i would love to
talk more and we're going to have to
continue monday um because um we do have
to finish this
mimer but um i do have to go with
shabbos
so i'll be at the oil this weekend it's
hashem with a group from potomac
maryland leading the chabeton
someone from chicago's flying in someone
from florida so they should help that um
all that all the hashposts that
the abused and then
we're gonna be at his is in his facility
should um as the rabbit himself our head
would say by
it should impact me and those that hear
what i say
so i'm i'm asking for the same broker so
if i'll be
whatever i say should impact me first
meaning to say i should live with what
i'm saying
and the listeners
but uh we'll have you all in mind amen
and hopefully i'll see you tomorrow he's
in new york he's not far from the oil
he's in london
five towns
so he says he wants to see me with his
girls
so hopefully we'll see him towards uh
you know late afternoon for a few
minutes
and um we'll say lehigh
keep you guys in mind then everyone have
a great shopping see everyone on fridays