Simcha #10 - Hearing over Seeing - Power of Listening to Meditative Jewish Music - Bliss - Ivdu 1938

we're on page 120 we're beginning the next chapter but just to recap what we learned at the end of yesterday's year and uh if anyone has any uh questions or comments uh later on we could discuss him because i didn't really give you a chance to be to interact with my monologue yesterday because um that's the way it went but really i'd like to hear from you so if there's any issue that you we learned yesterday that you want to talk about later we can do that anyway we learned yesterday that that a person who who who uses their cushion their senses in the sense of arousing various feelings and in particular he focused on seeing and we've spent quite a bit of time talking about the ear and in yesterday's year he mentioned briefly the positivity of seeing and the negativity of seeing meaning to say depends on what you see that's what you're going to form in your brain and it's going to last a long time and it's going to touch you very deeply which will be either good or bad that was yesterday and he says that that's ultimately how you touch your tie look in other words what seeing is is the vehicle the the see the the senses including seeing uh is the vehicle which expresses one's pleasures where one is at as we discussed yesterday let's go now back into the text 120. when you talk about life force when you talk about animation unity when you talk about highest where do you see more chaos in the organs or in the census in the organs you see more highest the heart is pumping the mind is thinking abrum right the feet are moving the hands are clapping right it's visible animation i'm looking at you you don't see anything i'm listening to you it's all in me right so there's less observable highest or better said there's less highest there's less tangible life force coming from the soul to animate the hush comparison to the animation from the soul to the organs and look how he says for the highest the life force in the senses [Music] but from the perspective rather from the perspective of pleasure there's an advantage to the senses over the organs there's more pleasure that will be felt in seeing and hearing and the smelling etc then there is an intellect in the emotions moving of the fingers speaking and all that and he gives it and explains as we see in real life the kasha s when someone hears a beautiful sound we have a musician here abram there is what we call hispalute emotionalism within the very essence of the soul of the person but with a wondrous thai look so when they sing so beautifully in the carl barshul and i love going there friday night although i'm not officially a karobaknik but i just got a high being around everybody they were so frey look and it was so beautiful it brought out deep sense of tynuk for hashem i'm not saying it's the only way but the idea of music is so powerful that it can't touch the taino shabbat and here that ebb introduces a new idea that needs a lot of good thought you could be so impacted by music that you're ready to give your soul up for god it's called in hebrew clois hanefish right from the word extinction of the soul yeah [Music] why yakov arrives because the voice is so sweet and it's so melodic it's you start floating and if you i understand and if you relate to that music that it comes from hashem you just want to be with god you don't want to be anywhere else at that moment even if it means you leave now again that's not the kavanagh that's not the purpose and the objective as we know from the story of rabba and zeta in megillah they sacked purim and rabbah rabba intoxicated himself and also zeta but he could handle it rabzadah couldn't and he had and then says comrade rabbit got up and he slaughtered her so the commentaries are explained that shakhtar doesn't mean he actually slaughtered him but it caused such an alia elevation that was overwhelming so he like fainted he lost his his his sense of being it was too much to him what we see is that when a person reaches a place of tynuk which can overwhelm him sometimes it's good sometimes it's not yes my father's family were clasmarum ah in europe so it's very appropriate speaking about music today which is a very nice special process yeah thank you very violinist he was a concert violinist oh wow okay good new you see it's allah i had no idea our last name is spiel oh spiel that's the last name when it comes to extinction of the soul another fascinating statement it's greater in the sense of hearing that it is in the sense of seeing a nephesh close on nephesh will be easier accomplished if it should happen to a person if it's coming because he hears something so beautiful rather than he sees something and he complains and he continues let's see how he develops the idea when it comes to seeing [Music] when you see something you want to attach yourself to it you want to cleave to it [Music] it doesn't call out i don't want to exist i listen to that difference okay we have two concepts we have trachus attachment connection and we have kiloyin extinction says that heaven the if it's the proper area to want to attach very strongly to the issue to the item to the point of what we call good like glue inseparable but nevertheless listen to this yakov will you exist absolutely you are now so attached and it's as though you can't leave you're like glued together but you exist whereas in kilojoule so in other words the ear seeing does not lead to kilojon it re leads only to vecus but but converse conversely what i'm saying is it's a higher state of consciousness that's right that's right whereas mia is so powerful that it can also it can also lead to kilauea let's see further let's go further inside [Music] although excuse me [Music] both seeing and listening and hearing are are are our senses that deal with the outside stimuli my eyes see something in the from the outside my ear hears music from the outside we call makeup nevertheless it's true both are triggered by the outside but the result is very different between the two and he continues the impact of pleasure coming because of seeing the paulinho not vegas he repeats this causes attachment over vegas kazoo shalom is monomoka and such dracula's the only like we've been saying the whole this week that's beyond the transcends time and space the because for even when he's somewhere else and number two and much later he had overcoming of something that he saw is like standing in front of his eyes so so avrom seeing something transcends time and place nevertheless will not cause elimination of the faculties in other words listen to this will cause yakov it will cause the betterment and improvement and highest standard of the kayak area the kayak area the power of seeing is is is at its ultimate peak when it has when it expresses time of pleasure but it's there nevertheless conversely um what's the result of pleasure of coming because of the sense of of hearing who laid out being at vegas not only does it have the advantage of of wanting to connect and attach being calculated the emphasis the hindus the novelty of shmea is that it can even lead you to the elimination of the self from hearing whatever you heard here and that's why we have the concept of fainting we're going to see i'm going to talk about that soon goes into the crevices of the air um and from there it touches the heart not the brain the heart so hearing the song the sweet music goes from the heart it goes from the ear you hear it here and directly into the heart not into the cup and if it goes into the cup guess what your composition will be lousy or won't be as good as music coming from the heart i i'm not a i'm not a great musician although i did make a cd with 39 hasidic that that aren't my composition but i explained the history of those the good man i share how you're supposed to sing them and what they're supposed to arouse the cd is called hasidic nagunim learn understand and sing but nevertheless the idea of singing of song is so powerful that it comes from the left and that's the best type of negan and best type of song and when i see and when it's one second and when a song is only limited to the mind it's missing soul yes yoni so it's so interesting that we're learning this but um you know you go when you go to foreign you know yes or you go to the crystal you go to all the holy places you know you go to the arizona so there's always this kedusha there's all this holiness you feel like this uplifting feeling but i remember when i went a few years ago to haditch and in hadith where you're going as soon as you get off the bus the car you hear the valets and these speakers they have these speakers all over and you just get into even if you never heard the negan before you it doesn't matter you hear it and the whole experience is a totally different experience than any other character just because of the negan i mean you know you're still waiting to think i went to mexico and all you know all these holy places but you go there and something about the music the it just brings you into a different realm right right so you're you're you're supporting and backing what we're saying i got it let's continue uh avraham what do you say about what do you say about what he says what do you th are you relating to what the rebbe says yeah mrs very powerful and it's all felt throughout the torah i don't throughout the healing it's about praise and share with music and everything it's like when you hear music it has an effect on you it's not intellectual like you're saying it goes into your the accent in your heart and it moves you and it moves you in direction i remember when young kippur was that ace code is darkening and the music was so incredible i felt that my soul got leave my body they hadn't felt like i was about to leave i just left myself just going i said wow it was that it was a 10 is the highest level of time you could even imagine right right so now scenario now now remember you can bring back that sense if you reflect on that and that's what he says that years later and in other situations if a person had that experience once and they allow themselves to go back and that's the whole idea right whether it be uh what's it called um uh what dr twiskie would do uh new in therapy uh yes there's something no he regresses you know not regression therapy uh forget what it's called hypnosis hypnosis what i'm saying whether it's hypnosis with the different the regression hypnosis uh i mean again you know yeah i'm not i'm not i'm not you know suggesting you know one particular form of another i'm just saying the idea of being brought back to a sense of peacefulness and wholesomeness is very powerful and ultimately we we we we wish and hope that we accomplish it through a davening a good davening where you block out everything around you and you're able to just get into your dabbing sounds like what you described before through the to the negina then you're you're you're there you're there so let's go back to the text he says second life in the bottom the last few words on the second line the time of the reason is with the the clay last yeah because because the sound of the music nicholas bernick way hoisin goes into the crevices of the ear um and reaches the inner heart she undercooked the premiership this is the inner essence of the heart top of 121. the sham over there oh what level of soul do you tap into yaakov when you get into udna the liba into the heart the only is called yeshida there's five levels nephesh ruach [Music] each of the first four three letter beginning letters be spells out na ran hai that when you get deep into the heart you touch that and you know what it does look what he says the very important words it then draws all other faculties to flow to you and to work properly so all of a sudden your head works better your mind works better your heart works better your feet jump better your hands play better and every part of your body is functioning at a higher rate of success you hear that so could and this is why someone who was feeling not well in a certain organ if they touch if their heat is touched and that's motivated all of a sudden they feel better in classical psychology i call this it's all a solid a psychological state of mind most issues and illnesses have an association with this the mind the mindset of the person now i say most because if show them someone has an illness that's factually you know missing a par an organ or a blemish of of an organ etc etc so you know what do you mean it's a state of mind the state of mind is what you do about it like we said yesterday are we morbid about it or do we accept that this is what hashem wants of us for whatever reason and we and we use it to the best of our ability and we don't allow that to deter us yes i remember hearing a member from the where the lagoon says that is the only man-made illness oh very good and then there's the famous saying of the carliner a barankar leader i believe just as um ox just as oxford's isn't a prohibition to tell you that's not a desecration of one of the 613 mitzvahs nevertheless what oxford's can lead to no other sin can lead to depression can lead a person to the worst things more than any other sin can lead the person to so too they say in the name of kalina going to the mikvah although it's no mitzvah he said going to the mikveh can lead a person to the highest of the high best mitzvas etc but that line that you said from the guy i never heard which is again let me repeat it that say it again please i i want to remember it that osus is the only man-made uh illness that's his only many materials good good so the rabbit says here on top of 121 that through the sh the air hearing the music touching the heart it draws the yakida of one's soul into an active state of being and what that does is it cr it schleps along all the other faculties to work better ace but it also at times makes it that all the kaijus the faculties have extinction explains in intellect there isn't real kind of pleasure because any if you if you argue hey look i understand something and i have pleasure is expressed through attachment the pure intellect is not the the abode of tynuk the the the pure level of understanding is understanding the fact that understanding might move you to it's vegas that's where the thai note is now that ebb speaks about sense of smell let's let's look at this when a person smells but adds them highest on that fish when you smell something that you could take with the smelling souls and all that it touches your very core which is even greater than the highest that is extended to the limbs to the organs some faints how do you restore the person's soul a day what is fainting it's the removal of emanation of the soul hamas paschal goof that extends itself to the body in other words the kesha the connection between soul and body ceases to be temporarily vis-a-vis the state of faith smell reach your knee it touches your core so although listen to this a brilliant brilliant concept although you're you're you fainted why because the connection has been severed so i i do something that goes beyond the connection that's higher than connection and guess what that's inseparable and that cannot be severed what's that your essence and this goes back to that argument that we say that every jew's essence is perfect not that every jew's essence is blemished and if you if you do things properly it becomes better no it might be dormant it might have a lot of dust on it but it's complete that ever says here that the sense of reach is so powerful that it touches that place and when it touches that place the fact that you know there was a severing of a connection so i go beyond connection there's something deeper than connection connection means conditional that's what conducted connection means there's a reason and an an and a procedure and a methodology how to connect well and if you do it right you get it if you're doing a little right you're halfway you don't do it at all right you get nowhere but then there's a place that's beyond that and when that's touched it brings it it causes only positivity and so he says that the sense of smell it's not logical you see the point is like this the faculties and the feelings are all gradual and logical the senses touch the essence even if you don't understand that you see something that's going to make a big impact on you as far as your time the sense of hearing music even if you don't understand what you're hearing will move you and the sense of smell will will revive you from a state of faint even though you faked it in other words here's the question here's the question how can smell revive me if i fainted because of a b and c what is it about smell what is it abracadabra so that so that ever says you know the sense of smell touches the exit the essence and the ass has never fainted because the essence is beyond fainting what fainted that part of you in the sum of your soul that it that that associates with the body so if there's an issue with the body it impacts that part of the soul but if you touch the essence the essence is beyond the being corrupted that's what he says further therefore who may ship us our nephesh it brings back the soul and now he talks about deeper listen to this the faculty of speech yes oh we love to talk there's great pleasure to talk commission [Music] when you speak about an intellectual thought that you have you have more animation look at look here right well as i'm teaching you and speaking to you i'm schwitzing i'm animated i have more highest i could the same thing i can learn the same image to myself it's quiet it's passive and it's not animated and guess what i won't have some of the same thoughts that i have when i when i actually utter the words with my mouth the idea is more so bit deeper more so there it exists in the quality of speaking when someone speaks words of love i love you it it heightens the sense of love but yes it says more so you love the person what happens when you use words endearing words it actually intensifies the love and that's the way by the way it's halal between a husband and wife it's not just you know a one a one two three you know uh shacking up there's a whole process as explained in the code of jewish law and in the swarm the the the the the the love making and everything else has an intimacy from the from the jewish and hasidic perspective is a very holy experience part of that experience is using your words to intensify the love which is actually very important not just as psychologists say because that's the way females operate they like to hear things and men are otherwise that's also true but because it brings in you and the man who utters those words it heightens your sense of love and if it heightens your sense of love the other person who's the recipient of le of that love will feel it and if you don't heighten your sense of love they could feel like they're being used or they can feel very cold you understand so the the epidemic's point is and by the way he's not talking here about just love in the sense of intimacy he's talking about any type of love of real alva live when you use your words and they're coming from your heart they go into the other person's heart and that's the key here you want to know what the key is to being a successful individual in all aspects of love including in intimacy it's what am i going to live in communication and relationships in in in in in harmonious relationships in dealing with children and and teenagers and every aspect of do have you have you created a situation where your words are coming from your real heart and if it comes from your real heart the other person will sense it and say i want to be with you i want to hang out with you you're so delicious you're so great you know what i'm saying that concept the magdel gamavas i have look what the rabbit says now when the world the words that come from your heart it's going to heighten the sense of love from the person to you because they will feel that the hadith it heightens the mind too the mind will understand better when you speak things out new creative ideas come to you when you talk it out hey the maven as a mosque a little bit of you sir be it that he understands the idea better for him be it that those new ideas that come to him when he while he talks how do you whom [Music] guess what the new ideas that come to you when you're talking will also make you understand better the ancillary things that you're not talking about right now you might talk about it later etc etc they will also be understood better why because you've now created a heightened sense of understanding when we finish with this or even if they're not directly the ancillary things that are directly coming from the idea even if the kind of side by-products will also be understood better the cause of all of this is because look what the river says it's not because of speech itself yaakov it's because of the taino shepherd when there's taino there's pleasure in your deep war then the devil then then the everything else becomes greater heightened okay maybe on monday but hashem will uh will um go over to that last part so again we'll keep the time the same yes no this week's no no wait no yakov this week i said that we're going to start five five minutes later go ahead yeah what what i've run remember five minutes later as i deserved we'll see everyone take care bye thank you oh