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