Practical Chasidus w Rabbi Dalfin - Maamar V'Im Ruach HaMoishel 1924 #8 - Engaging the Problem

good thanks everyone we are on page 348 in the mamuro mill cotton that was published by the quark Abad outfit which has a compilation of discourses of the previous Lubavitch an epithet abettor yachts and we are a middle of the my mother the Umbra hub Michelle from the year 1924 I'm page 348 just to recap what we learned yesterday and yesterday we learnt the only you'll remember their three levels in China there is the aspect of Tyler that Tyler is a year ocean Alyosha well yeah you're right the first aspect is the aspect of tighter than it is a yogya effort that unless you apply yourself you won't know even if you're very bright and smart if you don't spend time learning and and and dialoguing and questioning you won't know so that's called UGI effort the second level of data is the idea of eurasia its inheritance titus evil under my share my daughter yeah cause this is the taylor that a neighbor ster gave to every single jewel we inherit the taylor whether we like it or we don't it's our data so this is called the level of your show and finally we have the third level of toyota which is a Matunga and it is the a gift and it is this third level that when we make the brook of a call to the trader but we we conclude the first brother no saint hot potato we don't say yo et cetera we don't say you're gonna tell her which is the two other levels but we say specifically in the scene that no same we thank our Shan for being the one giving us a gift what is the idea of a gift so he said he quoted he loved the other knife with enough saliva Yardley if if if one did not do for the other some favor he wouldn't get the gift you don't give gifts to the enemies or you don't give gifts to people who are neutral and you know Paris if there's someone who you like you give them a gift so what do we see we see that there's an aspect and and specifically this idea of Matunga is the blessing we make only call to the Torah because at any and he explained another difference between McCullough and Jerusha Jerusha you have no choice in the matter it's an inheritance you receive you like it you don't like it it's not up to you whereas a Matunga you have full control right you have full control in giving the gift you can or may not give the gift so this is a major difference and this is what we're saying that there is an aspect of Torah which is a gift to us it's not an inheritance of ours it's not something we created through our hard work and labor effort but rather God gave us a gift each one of these is another aspect of Torah as he's going to explain now in the effort in the upcoming in the next paragraph from 348 let's learn inside the email Lahav installation you're the mayor parte de to comprehend more more exactly improperly the three aspects these three aspects within title yes Lahab danila Masha I'm gonna be Satan's out it's necessary to preface what the what they will the sages say and in the track that I've all deserved what did they say surely sure that is shown a circle this vertical Eurasia via a potato if you ever wondering what Hashem does the first three hours of the day right from from you know from the morning on early morning etc Hashem sits and he studies Torah which article of heaven so we have to understand this is what the Gemara says you must understand mouthing intro show Salem what are these three hours polyominoes a miserable same is our our rabbis a pleasant memory have said quote color clay the potato college boy who kind of a shitty connector we have a rule illness because I'll say whenever a person learns the tailor reads the tailor Hashem God Almighty learns the tailor connect the opposite end when you're learning your Ari learning at the same time because you sat are sitting and learning ohm it's really batata 802 meters and since the Mitzvah you know that the Mitzvah to learn tire Schuller Tuvia is constant there's no such a thing I don't have a mix with now because I you know I I just don't want to learn tight I want to chill on my couch and then and and play Scrabble well if you're tired right so the same a person has to sleep to be to function then you say the morning breakfast and then you learn if I'm saying every moment that you have the opportunity to that you that Europe that you're allowed to according to halakha to learn Torah you have to learn Tator if you're if you're doing for example of mitzvot you're saving someone you're helping someone that moment you're not obligated to learn Tara but we're talking about any free moment and believe me we have plenty of free moments that we can learn later we need to learn Thai there we go so the idea is this is the rule to view myths were looking inside Oh mistress limit our Toyota he to me this the mitzvah of studying Taylor is constant to meet right in other words you have to begin from that premise not-not-not work your way backwards I can again I'm exempt from learning ABCD and when I have time I learn it doesn't work that way no I have a mitzvah to learn always however when there's ABCD the Torah exempts me from learning at that time it's a very different different orientation what I understand but the thing is is that if you're if you're supposed to be learning all day long what is their time to do mitzvahs but so I'm telling you that that's what the point is that it's not just it's vote that's going to work you have to go to work to bring home partner self not sit on your loins so at that time you're supposed to work he's posted if you're getting you're getting paid for your work you have an obligation to through your job but if not you're stealing for your employer so what I'm saying is and the same of mitzvos when you have to light the Hanukkah menorah at that time you're not learning you are doing the Mitzvah so the Torah itself accepts you from learning at those moments but what I'm saying is it doesn't detract from the obligation that you have an obligation to learn every moment except when the Torah excuses you from learning you follow the difference okay Oh commercial crossover and as it says and he quotes the person to your shoe a quote for her geezer body I'm over Lila you should exert effort in it in the Torah day and night well guess I forget my whole Harlem hobbies and Weymouth DeShazo and throughout the world look we are learning now later by me it's 5:30 in the morning bye you guys it's 12:30 in the afternoon in Poland them it's now 11:30 I believe in Moscow now it's 1:30 so does that light Bashar fed us we're learning now now when we finish at 1:00 o'clock your time at six o'clock my time who's learning we finished learning no there's someone else someone is there someone else somewhere else in the world someplace else in the world that's learning Bashar Venice at another time so in other words there is no moment throughout the 24 hours that someone is not learning Torah only half that that Calder's but who can we share kinetically a vehicle there since I caught this boat who sits and learns together with the person while the person is learning how do creative astray determine it means to say that I cut this bar was constantly learning teller although we finish at one o'clock but in China it's a different time zone and in Australia it's a different time zone and there'll be people that I want to clap for them there it's the time that they're going to a seer they're learning so and we say that God learns with the person who learns at the same time so that means to say since there's always people learning 24/7 Hashem is constant learning that's what he says we obtained so his question is he said this as part of a question Mao inion the shoulder shrugs and sadness generation potato so why does the Gemara now for the syrup which we quoted on the second line of this paragraph say that specifically it's the first three hours of the day the God sits and learns would it be the first three hours he's learning constantly that's his question number two let me go onto the top of page three 49 oh my ringing a ship doctor but what is this idea I said in the city and what if I said was making a somersault and learning whatever said was jogging it so it's wrong metaphors right God is not a the Rambam and then in the mode in the books of the glad to reflects tells us it's all the metaphors God doesn't have hands God doesn't have feet God doesn't have chairs God doesn't have jockey God doesn't have somersaults so what's this metaphor symbolism Hashem is Yoshi DAF game and and you can't say that though the Casal had nothing nothing better to do they were just like we sit when we learn we sit and we learn we we employ the same language about God he sits and learns but God is not us and also we can stand and learn and you could walk and learn and you can run alert and you could go you could walk a tightrope and Midlands and learn and say words of Torah if you're focused the point is obviously there's something with the word yo safe so he wants to look at the word yo shave what does this mean sitting in regard to God's learning he continues though you've on the head then peel oh hush lationship he says to understand these two questions why specifically the first three hours it doesn't say that God learns and why does it say that he sits and learns will understand this by pressing the three aforementioned levels of Torah that we just concluded in the previous chapter there are Union addition the first ideas he only said earlier who which is Hosking ox law prepare yourself little my tater to study trader Shana you shall love for it is not your inheritance meaty kid he who avoid the Vidya bits a potato the primary thing is to put forth service work and effort in your study of Torah if you don't study with your own head and fit and learn it you won't have it you have to exert effort so the helix see if it says rejoice at 800 donkey Yama's burro yo there's a per second but midburn it says this is the Torah for man Adam qiyamah spoil who dies in the tent in the oil and there are laws of the two Montera the corpse and and and the contamination the spiritual contamination those that are lost delineated in by mid bar well I'm gonna say this out the Fazal have an amazing saying I want you guys to remember this because it's really an important one for life call our main miss axe might be all the shell Tina right what is the language in the verse the judge tighter tighter this is the Torah this is the Curt what's the Torah other than qiyamah spoil a man will will die in the oh hell so again literally refers to her logic issues of of ritual contamination the laws of what we call puma and tara defilement impurity but the hazael say the words lend themselves the words of the verse and by mid were 19th chapter 19 verse 14 lend themselves to the following interpretation but I'm a massage me when you kill yourself be all oscillator in the tenth of third right well what does it say other qiyamah spoil man will die in the oh hell man will sacrifice himself in the tenth of torah in other words man will shrits man will exhaust themselves so much to the point as though he's dead he's not physically dead but he has deadened he has he has killed his y8 Sahara through the learning of Torah of them Kiyomasa oh hell it's in the tent in the oh hell of Torah Tuvia that he accomplishes death what death the death of the eighth Sahara you want to kill eh saw her get into the 10th of Torah learn and learn and learn motion and you get Sahara will suburbs be subdued will vacate will will at least be dormant let's go further and he says obey - may miss obsolete what does it mean to kill yourself what does that mean doesn't sound great so that ever says it means to miss a gayev absolutely he pains himself I know what does it mean does it mean he rose us no or he puts honey on and let's bees bite him no shima vodka would it's a nicer of how gosh tinium about whom iam here knows he obliterates his physical and material desires which filled him with that idea for the purpose of learning later he'd rather now go and I guess a visit you know the the the water and and just take he says no I'm going to hold myself back I have this great desire to to to satiate my material physical cravings not just my bodily needs but pleasure indulgence the whole idea of indulging is a physical material pursuit from a tourist perspective if it's not necessary for existence it isn't necessary for us why must we go and buy the nicest type of car the nicest type of house the nicest type of food the best type of food why oh if you could justify it really that it's for the purpose of of disseminating Torah in other words certain people if they come into a shabby house they'll they'll say oh look the way a religious Jew lives but if I bring them into a fancy house they'll say oh wow I could be or you could be a religious Jew and live in a fancy house they'll say well let me try it as well so if you could honestly say that's the reason why you're using your money for a luxury then it's acceptable but a person has to be very very honest with themselves so the point being if it's not that way but yet you have a desire to be that way and again it's a whether it's a house or a power or whatever other materials matter you're pursuing you have to sacrifice that for the learning of Torah and this is not easy that's why he says the language Seamus are gave Oxley he kind of tortures himself he pains himself he goes against his natural inkling of just indulging this is the meaning of the other key ammos be oh hell man will kill himself meaning he will he will sacrifice himself for the this of ludic torah this this is the meaning he's afraid the sewing in maimie saxman in quotes this is the meaning he kills himself or gave Oxley or torches himself the Malik okhla Kula I cook the powder okay this is a quote that's used in the Gemara I believe in public amma i think you know it speaks about a an ox boring another ox and the question is right how much how much damage how much damage does it do what I got class I got kicked out of class for that dinner for that tomorrow okay how about love I was talking about the interview your oxygen you know this oxy to pay five times gainful four times days so I said but I don't have an ox I have a car you know and I would assure you we don't have to worry about us give me a huge frost and roomy other place alright are you anyway so so the Gemara says the Maher says and the Gemara asks questions how much there is in the ox do right and so the mother says and either it damaged it killed it killed it completely or damaged it kind of a halfway so the expression the Gemara is you're still guilty why the money what's the difference look at the words re the Maui was the difference purple cooler if it was completely killed cut floors in Aramaic word that he's killed what's the difference it was killed completely I cook the powder it was complete killed halfway so what is he saying here whether you're whether he's saying here that whether you completely obliterates kill kill yourself meaning you completely obliterate the Tyva indulgence or you only so I gave out summer you control yourself in other words there's two things I still have a desire for the delicious cake of delicious steak but I know that it's unnecessary so I hope myself back so maybe I walk around the corner making my walk longer but I know I'm not tempted to go in that's called moussaka this absolutely you're controlling yourself but you still have it may miss killing means obliteration total destruction where it doesn't exist anymore so he says whether you accomplish complete removal or partial removal it's still both included in the idea that the the rabbi's say that in order to succeed in the study of Torah you need to sacrifice your indulgences and cravings whether it's complete obliteration or partial obliteration it makes the difference and that's why he quotes the Gemara Molly Cutler Kula a coupla Pago is that you've heard I carve on there but my man never says with with this idea we can understand another saying of the rabbi's the sages that says quote important bahar maneuver Z if this disgusting fellow meaning this disgusting gate Sahara maneuver means disgusting well per the book will meet you will bother you so who I ate sir her arsenic Allah maneuver the HR is called a manoeuvre love disgusting one Ephesian who got the exit Musa because the y8 Sahara is coarse grub in its very core in essence the nefesh about me is true I'm a hidden the the animal drive the intelligent part of it if my Mihir all of its name denotes what it's all about nefesh huh bahama the soul babe to view only the nefesh obamas is the drive the mind behind the indulgence when the co-state needless to say are yet yetzer hara Yeats already is inclination Yeats er is a feeling of the heart so we have two things yo listen we have nefesh our bodies and we have gate Sahara many times in our classes we interchange them but really it's two aspects one is the intellectual aspect of and justification of indulgences and foolishness and one is the emotional expression of indulgences and foolishness so what does he say so he says that if the Yeats are her who was called disgusting meats you will see soon and he says this incorporates excuse me this incorporates both the intellectual part of the indulgence and the emotional part of the indulgence so what should you do he may improve the buffer if it meets you and it greets you and it bothers you must fail the baser measures must help comes from the words Mushaf slept pull it in to the study hall put it into the colon pull him into the kollel valuates the harder may see how my vehicles are dumb the 8th Sahara convinces and influences man Lia's ninja I thought I would say desert my gosh p.m. to follow firing desires of material and physical matter the mavs Aziz I said possession the garnishes or other Miller stop and binoculars and potato peeler in addition to the fact that this activity of the 8th Sahara chases away me garnish chases away man from shading himself from covering himself from being in the inheritance of God in titan-3 law it basically keeps you away from that arena and that environment in the Azores more so in your nail ha vehicle so other than the Alpen Ayush Emily Kidd the purpose of the HR is not just to keep you out of the ballpark it's to actually push you into the slums into the dirt it doesn't satisfy what saying well I don't want I don't want most share today to come to to kollel so I'm gonna make him meet someone at the Karabakh shul who will engage in a conversation and just put them about you know whatever it is and meanwhile he'll come late to learning hostages that's one thing but then there's another thing that the ages are to make someone come and he says to him hey come here let's go for a ride where are we going I'll show you and he goes and takes him to a place that's not appropriate god forbid so not only has the eight Sahara may you firin to learning to the base Methodist it's actually captured you and and involved you in in very unhealthy things spiritually so that's what it was saying here so what's the antidote to that you got a slip in the eighth Sahara to the base Magda sure Moses says to the fellow outside the Karabakh school hey I got an idea you want to talk to me come with me and he said and he slept sin to the Colo and he says where we going you'll see you don't tell her and finally comes in he and say sit down here you'll see what it's all about ah now not only didn't you waste your time speaking about Timbuktu and wasting your time but you actually reversed the course and instead of taking him taking you to foolish places you took him to the base Madras and that's what you can do and you have to do the story I came to Marin County it was the first shop it was 95 degrees it was a July summer California it was so hot and we only had nine people for the minion and crime valve in 23 years old just came from Brooklyn from 770 he is not gonna accept not having a minion the first shoppers when he was sent by the river to bring you this kite what are we gonna do we're in my house my Bella bathtub rented a house my wife and I we were newly married six six months or so we didn't have children yet so it was all fresh and we have a minion in the house that's why they got us a four-bedroom house that was the first Shabbat house in San Rafael California north of San Francisco the Golden Gate Bridge and we have only nine people so I say to my ba-ba-ba-ba and I say to the congregants you guys wait here give me a few minutes I go outside and I start looking for a Jew it's 95 degrees it's it's a Saturday it's a Saturday morning the 11 o'clock or 11:30 whatever you know no one is out no one you got to be crazy and I'm walking outside with my calles City the city is called San Rafael it's a suburb of a county called the Marin which is the county right after the Golden Gate Bridge going north on the other side of the Golden Gate Bridge of San Francisco and the other side going north is Marin County which has cities in it the first city is Sausalito the next cities Tiburon Belvedere Corte Madera Larkspur and then you come to a city called San Rafael and in San Rafael we had a suburb called Lucas Valley which a week we coined a MEK ha glucose the valley of the tablets and and the valley of the tablets up the road was george lucas's who made you know the the Star Wars right he had his in his entire industrial light and film place gigantic he was up the road but that's not what that's not why it was called Lucas Valley he came there later and just parenthetically when we had our court case where to legally have a Chabad House issue in this 538 plant home area we were in a place where though that wasn't even a church it was just Helms houses was upper-middle class was gorgeous you have the mountains in the background the deer coming down it with the there were no lights no poles everything was on the ground it was like exclusive and that's where that's where the the people who wanted to make sure they lived there so that's where I ended up there they rented a house for my wife and I so when they the the county gave us a permit and the neighbor summit and were upset and they went to court it's a very long story a very long story I wrote a whole book about it called Chabad House an entire book of my entire I was a lawyer an architect and and and and whatever else you wanted for two three years from 1987 four years to 1991 so so during that time we the joke was the Ln and ultimately we won the lower court ruled against us against the county for giving us a permit we then hired a Jewish fellow from Brooklyn who took it a classmate of Alan Dershowitz a Yale graduate who was born in Crown Heights actually and in the 30s or 40s and he took that case to court and unanimously the three judges the state appellate court reversed the decision of the lower court and we got the permit so the joke was that and George Lucas was having his own battles with our community because it caused a lot of traffic and you know what happened george'll and he wanted to build another big facility and he backed out so the joke was that George Lucas with all of his money he backs away from the community pressure and rabbi dolphin fights them and doesn't back out and wins over them until today there's a Jabara house where the men and women's mikvah and wit and everything else and every step of the way it's I mean I could tell you stories you wouldn't believe the xenophobia the anti-semitism that we experience there but in a very very you know plush way you know the Irish the Italians you know they're very respectable they're not going to tell you they want to kill you but behind the back they want to kill you and some of them had guns one of the neighbors I remember in like Douw I happened to be a friend but at the end of the day he spoke against us and I know that he had guns in his house because he showed it to me right and he was the neighbor to the fur bat house and I mean I made a tremendous amount of enemies you know because I fought them no I'm the George Lucas didn't fight them and this jewel was a beard from Brooklyn and forth they're men that this wasn't the San Francisco Chronicle it was in the like hipster type of papers I mean it was it's all it was it was a tremendous I say kiddush Hashem because we did not allow the greatest kite to to to step and crush Yiddish kite so why am I saying this not just to tell you a good story I'm saying this I told the story was in a story you should have an understanding of what kind of area I lived in we lived in and we had our foolin so so it was Chavez Chavez de 95° I'm walking there and I'm saying I said a police send me a person that should be walking around so I could ask them if they're Jewish I have no one to talk to the trees the trees and and the cars aren't gonna help me anyway I walk up a half a block I remember that yesterday and a guy is under his car changing his oil changing his oil and and I go over to him and I say sir man hopeless you excuse me sir may I talk with you and the man comes out you know he's like laying like this under his car right he comes out slowly he's that's oily schmutz I say hello sir what's your name Andy Brown Andy Brown so I say and I say my name is rabbi dolphin he says okay I'm nice to meet you and now he's already standing he's no longer living on the floor I say Andy are you Jewish he says yes he says yes so I I quickly I quickly put my arm under his arm and I say come you're coming with me I don't ask him any questions this guy doesn't know what hit him and I walk them into shul and everyone was looking and he's looking oh and on the way there he says but I know nothing about Judaism all I know is that I was I was born to a Jewish mother I know nothing I said that's all I need I need a Jew and he was the tenth man the first Shabbos of our coming ticket to Marin County he made Dominion what am I saying what I'm saying is that there is the I must fail slip I slept Andy Brown from under his car fixing his car on Shabbos into a shul I the guy didn't know anything about you this cut I mean zero you know but he knew one thing he knew that he's Jewish that's what he told me and her lovably you're allowed to trust them if he says he's Jewish you take his word for it that's a Halawa you don't have to you don't have to check his Mila his circumcision you don't have to check his pedigree that's not Jewish law okay the fact that he's ignorant and he doesn't know is you know he's like millions of others and that that was my job to educate him to elevate him to bring him into the fold so but their ever same over here is if the Gemara saying the Rebbe explains it in detail that when the y8 sahara comes to a person and start smudging and nagging and convincing and painting a picture wow it's so good to be in this area of foolishness and and and and tantalizing tenth of temptations and whatever it is or this money scheme of that money scheme or this ego be smart and do a quick a quick reversal and grab him under the arm and swept them into the show he says I don't want to go just for a minute you come aside to the show you see people learning people smiling how you doing come sit down say look I am rabbi Adam Stein's that boy says you know what if I bringin is a good party and the eight Sahara likes a good party what's better than sitting guys sitting together with food on the table and a little scotch or a wine and saying look I am and laughing and hearing nice songs and hearing words the HR says that I like I don't want to sit and learn that we be alone but a party oh I like a party a good party I'm for a party anytime for a party it's not just at night a party in the morning a party the noona party in the evening just give me a party and I'll be there a fire praying in a facility for bringing is a great party that's why it's important guys to go to facility for brains I remember the fabric in an Aries sucker when I was there like three years ago it was great there was 11:00 12:00 at night people are you know already calming down and the Lu Bob's the Lu Bob's are just beginning and that reminds me of the story another story that's a great tagline for everyone here in the City of London you heard of this London Turkish Eden or the city of Slevin so the city of Swan him most of the Orthodox Jews there were lit lit fish they were not Hasidic and there was one little Chabad little shul what you hear about so one day the mayor of the city had a visitor the visitor was from the local government who came to see what's going on is running to consider giving them more funds for their institutions so he walks around with the with the rabbi of the city I'm sorry the mayor came and the rabbi of the large literate with factual walks and around themselves and the Jews institutions all of a sudden he hears screaming noises so the mayor asks the rabbi where these noises coming from so he says look up over there look look look look look look he says what do you see as I see a little house he says the noise is coming from there so so the mayor says is that an old-age home where people are older and already mentally not well and they're making noises he says no he says that's of people that's a steeple really it's as little synagogue whose people ISM it's called the dumb scared steeple you know Adama Adama in in in in Latin means feminine female right right that's that's a female stable females people yeah that's people is where a group of course even called Chabad Lubavitch they have a little minion there and they are like the females they're like the weaklings you know we are in a big show and we have our way and these guys are always for bringing and and they're making noise because they're making of her bring in and they're singing and they're laughing and it's coming from the dumpster Stiebel so this was a a put down that the rabbi answered the mayor when the word got to the people in the show that the rabbi the literature rabbi called their steeple della babaji stibo the dumpster danske steeple and oh and and and and and and the rabbi told the mayor then the Suganya they're like people who are in a nursing home who are murzilka cuckoo and they scream and they shout and make noises so when they heard so when the Hasidim in the steeple heard that the rabbi told the mayor they're like mr. williams so they said the following line and this is the punchline and we finished the class for this week with the following miss sugar zane than mere Meshuga crazy we are we are crazy you call this crazy you're right we are crazy are bad susan Zion and me but we are together we are nuts but were united my friends be nuts it's good to be cuckoo and crazy but be together have a great Chavez and around Andy Brown I never saw her I never saw him again I asked him I asked him to come but he wasn't interested after that listen it was obviously from heaven that he should have what right to have this once cause he needed once cause he needs once go figure here's one schools have a great Shabbos everyone was continuous Sundays I Gazoo bye-bye [Music]