Simcha #5 - Everything Starts in Spirituality - Cause for Anxiety is False Reasonings - Ivdu 1938

we're on page 117 of the maya if those are simcha the previous celebrity said this mimer shabbos practices 1938. [Music] says we're going to use the previous explanation of sim khan jira coming together with the analogies that he shared to explain another fascinating idea that's that's brought in hasidis and in kabbalah and what is that that hakodesh baarhu men of limitation ideas of limitation may yellow coast from godliness and this is something that that should be troubling how can from an infinite god or better set from a transcendental god there be created finite beings and f and and something that's finite seemingly if the creator of hashem is believable beyond limitations what he creates is also believed fool and yet we're all here sitting at a shear so that epic says by you by using the previous ideas that we discussed this will help us understand better because the creation the ability to create balikfor limit limitation gevoul melecus the homaginasava everything that's created yesterday milo he goes back to the principle of rome that he started that he shared earlier which is very important and mind you it's not this principle is not a kidus of hasidis this idea that everything has an origin and a source in the heavenly abode is a jewish concept in ghazal over the centuries been developed by the poland by the hokrim by the khasidim by the uh the ashkenaz the lead the lead fox the literature everyone in their own way has developed this idea this isn't you know a novelty of hasidis you look into rap sadie going in a moon and say in his book called munas videos and you'll see this concept there and he was before the balsamic way before you're going a great one of our gardening during the going period and so we find this in the rambam and in many others and the idea is hakou yeshlo omoku la milo and we need to knock this through our head everything has a source in heaven meaning everything begins in heaven see just for a moment if our analysis of life is he it begins here and from here it triggers a response there we have it wrong we have it backwards it doesn't work that way it begins there it began it begins impurity in ella cous and from melekus it extends itself to us how is this similar to what we learned earlier because what we're saying hillel is that the sweetness of an apple didn't begin in the apple as we have it coming off a tree this notion of the sweetness of the apple began with an idea a notion and that notion began in the masala which we explained yesterday the spiritual counterpart of the apple and again the example i gave you is that the student's ability the student's ability to to to create and develop and benefit begins all in the mind of the teacher if he is a good teacher in other words and and and you know there's another thought that you might have seen in hasidis and other writings israel all over marshall avi jews ascended in god's thought it's a very important line and concept in hasidism in all of hasidism that the jewish person that the jewish the shrama doesn't come just from god's speech there should be a soul and doesn't come from god's action he made a soul it's ascended in the thought this is by the way tanya chapter two if you want more clarity on this idea where the bellatonia introduces this idea to us to understand that this the shrama which he calls the nefer shall he kiss the godly soul is associated with thought is more refined than speech in action that ever told my father in 1960 in march of 1960 he was married my mother his parents were in tel aviv and eric's israel and they didn't come they couldn't come my grandfather was scared to fly and he would always cite the verse ashley lucky is the guy man who stays home don't travel he went through the holocaust he went through the he was a soldier of the army god saved his life he brought his family from romania to eric's scrolling 49 i'm staying put but my son's getting married you get married son i ain't coming i don't go on a plane and he never got on a plane right now this this idea of of of of of something having a source in heaven it can be seen in every situation so that ever going back to the story so that ever my father's goes into yakida with the rapper and he says dear rebbe i'm i have no one here you know i'm by myself my parents are there my siblings are there my relatives are there i'm by myself i have cousins distant cousins in canada but no one's here in brooklyn please officiate at my wedding the rabbit tells my father i'd love to do it but just a month ago in february of 1960 we we enacted a new a new um behavior that we do not give hope and condition anymore because we simply don't have the time to to do it for whatever reason so my father's very good friend rabbi korff was the hedge leader in florida rabbi abram korff he was the last one to officially get um who panked from the rebbe there were a few exceptions in the next two three years but they were exceptions and reasons for the exceptions and there ever says to my father to make an exception for you it's not it's not fair you know again why he made exceptions for two three four other people that's it from 1960 to 64 is another discussion but generally everyone was turned down but the rabbit told my father in that yeshidas but i will think about you when you're standing under the hoop notify rabbi khadak of my secretary to let me know that you're standing under the hooper and i will think about you when you're thinking when you're standing under the hook so my my explanation those words are that that he my father my parents had this horse that they were connecting with the rebels his thought which is more than him saying the words but divorce standing i said although of course we see someone standing we heard that or we hear him speak we the receivers get more animated and excited from seeing the physical but the truth is that the rookney is the makshava is much deeper much higher much greater so yes it doesn't tickle the fancy it doesn't excite us nevertheless the embassy is that it's a higher and deeper experience so i say that because here we're learning the and you see that the previous rabbit says the word clear door whenever you see the word kajua you have to ask yourself what is what can you do as is known it's like it's it's in a big billboard in times square oh really i wish we would have this as a billboard than the other schmutz but we don't have that as a billboard or in tel aviv that the spiritual source of every matter who but moderate is in a higher level and this is the key adora that you do is that thought is more is deeper and more sensitive and greater than speech in action so the fact that something begins in that is the truth that is its beginning the beginning of something you know there's another famous uh line that we use it's brought call us call us callers cautious all beginnings are difficult to break through imagine let's each of us imagine we began our career we began our path it was the fear of the unknown how how much about i have to work to get my degree how am i going to manage with uh with um a new person in my life anyone doesn't think about this i'm sorry to say is very shallow and immature nevertheless you have to jump in and you have to have faith hashem wants you to be married it's going to work out as long as you're a mensch right i'll go upon him i'll go upon him we have the issue that that that everything begins in the us ah let's continue with the hold of sava to the point that everything has been created this is another additional insight i want you to make a note to yourselves this is either in writing or in your head the whole division to the point that everything that's created that we see in its intrinsic value compared to the roughness is ena but you say wait a minute the gosh me is i could touch the gosh means i could feel i could smell and it's in the bank it's real it's real from our perspective and it is real from our perspective and even from hashem's perspective it's real but if you compare it's the value of gash means to its source the is no comparison right who do you like being around someone who is like we said yesterday a jokester uh a player in yiddish we use the word heverman you know yeah that's good for a nice uh cup of tea or coffee uh or popcorn at a ball game or watching the super bowl on your couch you need some excitement so you got some excitement but when you want real that's not where you go it's like there are people you probably all know this that for the young for the high holidays they go back to their yeshiva to david and their yeshiva even though they live far away in the literature world it used to be a war and even today they used to go back to slovakia i i even know some of the town meet them rabona i'm sure yaakov was aware they were outside and they came back to slab vodka or take for example the baba sally people don't know this so i'm going to tell you now where was the baba sally for elo the baba sally yes unison they don't hear you in paris very good yoga knows he went to the babaji yeshiva in paris in he left morocco and he came to the babaji yeshiva in brunois paris and he spent a good part of elo for like 10 11 consecutive years he did have students of his that from morocco that were there in the yeshiva that's also true but he liked the quietness and he especially liked some of the lava see them that were big if they hashem like a rapness and eminem and others and this has been written about in fact i included something in my book on habanes fargo what's the point the point is that when you're seeking ms where you're seeking spirituality i i i guess i you should say la have don't know how you go to the mountaintop in in montana or new mexico i mean we hopefully have a mountaintop right in your apartment in bethchamish like you know the famous joke i dive in every morning at the wall at the castle which wall the wall in my house yeah if you're able to make the castle the wall in your house like the kaiser lamaravi in yerushalayim in the old city caller but who's able to do that few or not every day so so too what we're learning here is that there is an atom for an item ena in other words you might argue avi that gosh mia's compared to rookney is it's not as great it's not as valuable but there is some association when we use when hasidis uses abraham the language a naroh right away it has to trigger in your head there's no comparison adam for night ain't no as it is in the in the scenario of the blade of grass compared to the muzzle to this spiritual energy that sustains it like we said earlier there's no comparison in a cane who behold devastating says that episode is for everything that's been created on earth it is only what's created is only a dugba it's only an example in comparison to the lowest level within the upper within the spiritual which is source so in other words what we see here is not what you get you know the expression you see what you get no what you see here is only a duke ma you know what a dukemi is right like someone was telling the other day he has a very severe back problem issue and maybe operating so he got someone in europe to make him a 3d dimension of his back a 3d model of his back amazing what you could do today so that the doctor can actually see because he feels the doctors are missing they're not they're not they're not finding what what he believes is the issue so he hired someone in ukraine to make him a 3d model and he sent to the doctor and now he you know he not only can he challenge the doctor here he can say look at it look at it look look so a duke ma but let me ask you is the 3d model his actual back no his spine no the spine is the spine but the 3d the model of the spine is a dogma so whatever says here that the gosh me sticker blade of grass is only a dug of the spiritual counterpart of a plate of grass in the or in the uh in its source asha there's a chariot and there's four faces and one's called the pine autumn cover the faith a human face on the chariot right so hasidis explains that the autumn la mata man here below is com is aina there's no there's no comparison regarding the supernova man elder elyon that's on the chariot for example but man is men yes man is men and without man here guess what other elliot can be ultimately but he can't go anywhere he needs us to walk and put on film and give to darker and say hello etc etc right that's true that's true so uh we're not discounting the virtue of goshnias but what we're saying is that you must know it's it's goshmias and that gas measures is important because it is an extension of us and if and if it's there is the gosh number if it's not there is the gospel is not important so um hypothetically speaking if you could imagine you're innocent that you have something gosh means that doesn't gush me physical that doesn't have a spiritual counterpart it shouldn't be of interest to you right and that's why when we confront things that are indulgences and unhealthy from uh for us physically or spiritually if you're tuned in to ruchnius you said you ask yourself is there the is this issue that my heart desires and lusts etc etc is this is there a place for this if there is go for it and if there isn't stay away from it that's the barometer could you imagine if we if we thought this way every day about all the issues like i told you the story right that my friend i used to know with him tanya once a week in midtown manhattan he calls me one day in the fifth or sixth year we learned for 10 years we finished the 53 chapters once a week so he calls to say rabbi thank you very much for learning with me tanya as i say what thank you're welcome but tomorrow i'm going to see you we're scheduled to learn you could have told me tomorrow when you see me why are you calling me specially he says because i came out of a meeting now and in this meeting there was an ethical question of how we should how we should act what we should do and before we made a decision i realized and asked myself the following question what would the bane in these say the bengali the prototype of the tanya what would he answer to this ethical question and that's how i made my decision i gave them my answer and and and the sensitivity and consciousness to think like abandon me even though i'm not obeying any but my mindset should think that ways because of our learning tanya for five six years so i've been sensitized to a certain way of thinking and since you taught me that i'm thanking you and i just came out of the meeting so of course i can tell you tomorrow but i'm just this is this just happened you know it's fresh news hot off the press so then the good is that this idea that which is such an important idea in life to look at things in in its in its in its source is very very important this is also this idea is also relevant when we when we encounter hardships and difficulties whatever they may be there too you have to step back and ask yourself what's the spiritual significance of this hardship and you'll be surprised sometimes you'll actually conclude it's good for me it makes me a stronger person yes i would always like to be spiritual and then happy [Music] like i told you yesterday at the greatest time of happiness we break a glass under the hooper and everyone does it right everyone does it why because we see that the breaking of the glass we understand it to be an upgrade not a downgrade because if it was a downgrade we wouldn't do it or another example it was the it was the yard site of rabies it's brought in that the russian on tish above he would encourage the children to throw these birds they're called you know they have they have little thorns and the shoe became a fiasco of kids throwing these these birds at the man crying and saying to and saying kenneth and saying echo and it became a balagan and they wanted to stop that said the holy region they have the conditioner said leave them alone but they said rebbe it's tish above it's tish above if you're really mourning birds are not gonna stop you from mourning try stopping someone who's really in mourning nothing will stop when they're in the mode of mourning oh you're not really in the mode of mourning you're doing it because we use the joke is to say that you put in front of the bald feeler under on the ahmad when he goes over right shivisi asham the neddy summit and it used to be called do you have a chavisi moshe you're a godby do you have a chavisi and that meant is there a shavisi on the amit so the khazen the balthila can see hashem is always before you so the the the joke was that joke the vert was is the shavisi only on the ahmed or is the shavisi in your heart where is the shavisi yeah where is dish above are you mourning or tisha bob is morning and you're and you are elsewhere even though you're saying the words and that's a private thing that everyone has to think about so the heil again the holy badichiver he knew about the holiness and specialty of a day like tisch above of course he did and believe me he was shattered but he felt for whatever reason at that time and maybe for eternity as we as i said it's brought in the min you know in khabad minhagem it's very strange that that's brought that adding that element is important to tish above however we understand that i don't want to go into that you know whether it is a good explanation not a disciplination all i'm saying is that we're learning here that the the luchnius the source of the blade of grass the source of man which is supernal man that's the icar so i'm i'm taking this idea and trying and making it more practical in daily life to look at a situation from the heavenly perspective from the heavenly perspective their challenges their issues and obviously they make us better not worse and therefore they're necessary so when yaakov avinu soon will be learning the parsha speak i love this this this this rashi yaakov leisha shalva yaakov wants to sit peacefully says rashi koftser olav zoi shall you save springs upon him kofsa olaf jumps upon him ruxo rogueis the anger the wrath the situation of yosef yaakov if you want to be content hey joseph yitzhak avraham hi him you want to be content coughs all over yourself so one way of looking at it is remember don't sit and get too comfortable in goals right that's a more straight halachic way of looking at it a deeper way of looking it is that the cuffs are olive makes it that the yaakov will sit really beshava how does yaakov really experience shalva serenity avi how when he also when he has the right the issues the problems the problems make you stronger the problem as as someone said a few weeks ago this year i forget who but it was that we look at it as a challenge uh yavi i think said it it's challenges the challenges are an integral part of experiencing the shovel that's the way i'm taking these few lines that we're learning and try and and and placing it on a platter for our own minds and hearts to work with and when we reverse roles and we don't do that but we we we focus mostly on the gospels we get very very disappointed let's continue we have another few minutes nevertheless has there very very well very nice heniksev the torah says nasa of them let us make man with salman in our image kid museum in our in our form in our form and image man that hashem created was made in the in the in in the image of above of heaven and the soul powers that we have had him they're divided into three general categories listen to this one what we call kayak powers hello and garments and he's going to explain clothes coulomb and all three in a yes shaheem atmi within the three there is the essential aspect of each of the categories which we call oxmium from the word sm essence for yesh mahem and there are those same three categories pashtun only the amount that they extend themselves there is the essence and its extension or better in english the essence and its manifestation so here so we have three times two equals six there's the otsumiyum the koika's osmium and the clerk is mispassed him within the koi choice there's the the concept of osmium and mispassed him within the talents in the question and there is the atm and they must pass them in the revolution in the garments and he says i i translated it as a talent i take that back yo anderson because i know yanis is right away going to correct me and he's right it's not talents in this context it's senses you understand am i right yeah yeah yeah yeah thank you i i really enjoy having unison and yaakov and everyone else here because it keeps me on my guard thank you thank you thank you i'm serious that's what makes a good share when there's interaction between students and teachers okay so he says to take the senses here listening hearing the raya smelling or the deeper and speaking says that an extension a manifestation of the of the soul's emanation coming from the soul there is seeing as it is a quality of essence in the soul there is speaking as speaking exists before i speak in my soul so when we talk about the way we see and hear and speak and smell usually we talk about it as it's extended it manifested to the outside says that ever but you should know those same four hushing senses those three senses and speech are all found within the nephesh within the soul and he says the sense of seeing and sp and hearing it's to see and to hear what's outside of itself the difference is when it comes to the sense of seeing it light go vision goes out of man of man's pupil the tafe is it grabs the object that it sees conversely when it comes to the sense of hearing oh where does the the light come out of the thing that's being heard you hear that listen to this when you see up from it's coming from your eyeball so something's coming from the eyeball to grab something that's outside of itself when it comes to hearing what's what's coming from the out from the person who's speaking is absorbed by your air that's what he says when it comes to to the sense of hearing something comes from the thing that's being heard the nikknas and it enters the osna odom to the heirs of man the point being both avi both hearing and seeing are working with the outside right they're working with the outside whether it's you extending your eyeball to the outside and taking something in or whether something that's being heard is being taken in by your air nevertheless the relationship is from he says we find also with speech i'm speaking now why am i speaking why don't i think because if i would think now you wouldn't hear anything garnish i want you to hear what the rabbit says i want you to learn so i need to speak so when i'm speaking it's called legal el hazoulas i am accessing that part of me that reveals itself to you and that's why yaakov we say oh man what does the ghost say is known the famous interpretation the wise guy the wise man mahu who he is oh man that's what he says you talk yourself out in your words russia a fool doesn't have to do much just talk and everyone will know you're a fool oh same thing or russia the same thing and why is that true why is that true because deeper the notion the idea of speech is such that it's relegated to the zulus if you if its entire um behavior of speech is for the outside for someone else otherwise you sit and thought i i just read the previous rebel went into a wagon uh in 1932 or somewhere in poland then the driver says what's your name he doesn't really tell him his name and he says what do you do and he says um not much and then he says so you know talk to me a little bit and then ever says we accomplished much more from thinking than talking obviously they ever didn't want to you know tell him you know i'm doing a barbecue and therefore he's going to jump out of his chair and i know he i didn't treat you well they have the same story with the coffee you know with the when the guy gave the guy a slap because he was speaking so uh bad about himself self-deprecation and then only later did he realize this was the prophet's crying and he went and he asked for merciless said there's no need for behela what we what we learned from this experience is that when you speak against yourself when you put yourself down it's also a form of lush and horror self-deprecation let's finish the thought and then we'll finish whether it's hearing whether it's speech it's only an extension of the energy it's not the essence as the essence is in itself how much energy is there in speech seeing and hearing mitsum sam very limited we'll stop here meaning meaning that real highest real quality of energy is not in the extension but in the essence an example jakob simple example has to show you're walking down the street and you see someone pinned under a car you go over and you pick the car up some a little bit you do whatever it is how normally you're a weekly you can't do hak bin shu because you didn't eat your cheerios that morning and here when you see someone under a car all of a sudden you become shimshana gibber how is that the answer is that in the caucasus osmium you have the kayak the way the kayak is in its essential state you're a gibber the way it is in the extended state in the manifested state you're a weak link remember that because that's a very profound idea to think about everyone in the way they are in excel in essence is complete if class of show them hashem made someone and edson not complete that's a between hashem and the person and that's another discussion but we're talking about this idea i mean it's a whole discussion you know how do we see this from the vantage point of you know um disabilities and um special needs and and that whole field how do we how do we understand or i'm in yeshiva or i'm in college and the guy next sitting next to me he gets it right away he understands it well and i had to spend hours and hours that doesn't mean that you're lacking the koya you have the koyak and if you work you have to work harder you understand yes that's true some of us have to work harder to be mad to reveal the eczema but in exam everyone has everything in a complete way uh i want you to think about that thought we'll talk about it more tomorrow mr sham and uh any questions comments anything from anybody no yes yes thank you yes don't hear me you understand yeah yeah you said that the questions the five questions yeah all right right right i i was waiting for that question i was waiting for the question and um we'll talk about it uh tomorrow or later for your room but i was waiting for the question and and and and and and another question that no one asked what about the other two senses uh tasting and feeling so far he doesn't mention that either so let's continue learning and and hopefully we'll have some i'm sorry you're smelling also smelling no he says raya he does say it he says smelling yeah but you me you mean to say he doesn't elaborate on that he only elaborates on rio shmir the simple answer to that question is that generally in hasidis we use smear we talk about seeing and hearing that's usually because for some reason people are more knowledgeable and touched with seeing and hearing versus the other three uh i would say on a simple level that's the answer but let's see if he says something more anyway hill reforeshalema remember remember remember we learned today every every negative every every issue every health issue and all that is for a greater positive so i'm sure something great is coming out of this in your life and you have it officially yeah man let every morning you know we gotta get the band back together yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah get the band back kevin eleventh science has been today is the day when my wife had a miracle on the uh in california marine county on the 101 freeway she was driving back 9 10 at 10 30 at night from a lamaze class she was pregnant seven months with my older child my son she was hit by a driver who was drunk driving at 90 miles being chased by the police she spun around from lane one to lane four took off her her shade the chapel flew off she put it on took off her belt and walked out and the policeman has escorted her home and barack [Music] wrote me a letter i had written to him and i said i don't get what happened over here and if you have any insight i would love to hear and it was in january or february of the following year um you know not the family in other words this happened in november i think that it was november and a few months later that i got him a a letter from the rep in the mail and the rabbit wishes my uh wishes us to wishes her to have healthy uh delivery and pray all that i would have brought her and then he writes the the ps to me that the lesson from the episode that you described to me you tell me about is goito [Music] the great importance of the idea of alacrity in all matters of goodness he doesn't say becca joni mitzvahs anything that is good act upon it now not later that's what the rubber wrote to high end outfit in 85 or 87 in a letter so that was what yes what did you make of that oh i mean i it's a fascinating i have a lot to say about it but um i i mean by nature i i am you know uh i don't procrastinate by nature so what the question is even deeper to me you know what is the rabbit telling him dolphin about alacrity if that's the way really i i act and behave so um i think that he wrote that because my wife her that that wasn't a strength of hers i think he was sharing a subtle message via me for her to do things more because result i mean that's this is my own interpretation because you know and and and and for me i think it's a a message to do things with with alacrity not just for torah mitzvos but toth the holy yani tov in in other words you know when it comes to to a mitzvah and to learning tater i was very much busy but you know in other matters not as much so that is sharing that the lesson here is that you should have the same alacri the same srizut in any matter of goodness whether it's a mitzvah or not whether it's torah learning or not and i think that's something that um was very helpful in in in many ways uh you know whether someone came to me in the 90s in los angeles and said i need an operation on my back i didn't ask him who what when i said here i'm putting you under my organization's insurance and have the operation and barak hashem it lasted for 30 years to call in yoni taif i didn't have to do it and believe me plenty people would have said no you can't you know what i'm saying heaven i have another shear i'd love to talk i got to go have a great day zygozoo take care thank you you