Simcha #7 - Where is yr Pleasure? Focus on good - Disconnecting - Senses vs. Faculties

we're in the mind if those hashem simha page 119 and this firm that using my buttermilk cutting of the previous rabbit gimbal volume 3 page 119 to break a recap briefly at this point the rebbe is speaking about the virtue of tainuk pleasure and delight over anything else and he says that titanic is so powerful that it will it will overpower other feelings intellectual and feelings and understanding in other words if you have a deep idea or you have an idea and you're you're going to be governed by the idea yet if tynuk kicks in in some other idea where you actually get pleasure from the other idea you will go with that idea versus this idea even though maybe you understand better the first idea but the power of tainook as it says elsewhere and considers about ruxin about will it shatters it smashes it overtakes tynuk is does the same thing but without sveta without breaking it becomes so delicious to you and so pleasurable to you that you put everything else to the side even though intellectual doesn't make no sense then did it but once he established that rule that tainuk is deeper within the soul within the person than any other part of the person he then speaks about the differences between various pleasures and he compares the pleasure of seeing riya to the pleasure of of of of of understanding something called uh rhias the mind's eye and the mind's eye as much as it's powerful but when you when you experience something you actually see with your eyes it's the most powerful and uh without elaborating on this now that ebb and the last minute that he distributed before he had a stroke which is considered the last will and testament and every yard side that mimer is learned by hasidim called the it begins with the words we are because it was on parshas it was a around that time and purim cotton it's based on a mine with the previous rabb of purim cotton and in that mimery speaks about how deeply the soul in the shop the nephesh is rooted and how deep man is rooted in the nephesh and he he brings this idea the difference between seeing something and perceiving something so although we say that understanding something leads a person to the highest of heights nevertheless seeing something is even higher and the proof is i remind you with aristotle one of the proofs where aristotle was the epitome of intelligence of human intelligence and when they found him in an uncompromising uh situation where he did something very embarrassing and disgusting they asked him how could you have done this this defies the dictates of cycle of logic of intellect and what did aristotle answer at that time when i did this shameful act i wasn't aristotle i was an animal so generally speaking i'm aristotle but when i goof up or when i act like a bahama i'm not aristotle now the truth is we're all that way we don't have to creep to aristotle the reason why we're bringing aristotle's because he was the epitome of human intelligence that's that's what they say so how could it be you know any that human intelligence should allow a person like aristotle to act with such indecency and disgust and the answer is because what he saw with his eyes were more tasty for him well more pleasurable for him so the kayak you hear this the sense of of of pleasure that aristotle got from what he saw and therefore acted upon was greater than all of his understanding and that's the shot in the story i don't think i've ever explained it this way but now as we're learning it entered my cup i hope i'm right i've said the story many times and shared it with you as well and this shot never entered my mind based on what we're learning here in the mimer no don't you think it's a it's a solid explanation yeah yeah so what we so this is again an example when you look at this you have to you have to materialize it so how we materialize in this moisture that the koyakatainok of aristotle was seiko professor so-and-so at evanston or at northwestern or wherever colombia wherever you go university of berlin you learn from this professor and that professor and this with all the titles and all the acronyms and then you find out that einstein was a womanizer they say mr einstein you and the answer is that is kayak where his real pleasure and the light was more in women than in the theory of a relativity relativity relativity that that's the answer otherwise if would be stronger it would outdo the time of the pleasure that he had from women and this nakuda is a very important the code of rome in how we look at life and how we look at ourselves and how every day it's an avodah someone you know we've discussed this too this person is holy that person's holy in khabad general rule we don't think of many people really really holy that whole uh that whole idea is is is in the chabad paradigm in the bad mindset in true chabad it's a non-sequitur why because you don't know a person who who the person really is till push comes to shove till they're tested and that's why the great hasidim like i've said this before and i repeat it who told me many times when they said this concert and that cross and he's talking about now he says he asked me a question you know this one is great that one's great he said did they allow themselves to be shifted did i say looked at him what he says were they ready to allow to spread yiddish guy during the time of the communists stalin even if it meant they're shooting in the next day and they're sending away to siberia never be sent again and if they weren't ready to do that they're nothing and they're nothing why why because according to over learning in the miami here the nuke and this is a very very radical statement but we're learning this and we're thinking people and and and if you think about this it's not i'm not saying this to put anyone down he was just saying this to to wake himself up and for me to wake myself up and say this whole idea that he's this and he's the bad it's such a bluff because if you're not ready to give over your kayak to the abyss there then it's all an intellectual endeavor and we say it in david kevin i want you to listen to this and pay attention every day every morning to hashem the emis blessings of sweetness we give ourselves over right so there was a fame a famous customer who typed he interpreted this this verse when he darvened in the morning this is in the birkhauser before the second bracha after kaddish kaddish the next paragraph it says this is a shabbos only or during the week of the week also remember look at this anyway so it says there luke whatever is your most the emote whatever in yiddish whatever is most schmack to you whatever is your pleasure whatever you consider your greatest pleasure eating them give it over look hail to god it's a beautiful interpretation the kale so in other words the little shot is you begin with god you go and you go right you go further the the touch of this is the the blessed sweetness whatever you consider blessed and sweet in your life give that over to the first word locale to hashem no i'm asking you if we think about these four words uh do you think we're gonna we're going to come to an easy conclusion about ourselves about others that they're they're plugged in and the answer is not show them to to belittle anyone the answer is to i've run to to look and understand that there's so much more to do and that a person who is an avid chapter eight of tanya quoting uh rebbe right that he never was nana he never had her no he never had benefit he never had pleasure hannah pleasure me oil not that he didn't walk in the streets of paris and not that he didn't go to a beautiful museum at the gang coyote in jerusalem and not that he didn't go for a nature walk in in the face new mexico reserve he did all of that the question is where is his thai look in other words he's walking on the walk and talking the talk but what's really in his heart is hashem god i remember i must have been 13 or 14 i was fixed 1974 1974-75 it was the first time that mulhei ben david you're going to appreciate this was the first you know after employment carl bach you know like no one no one no one came to his footsteps in in yiddish kosher music but nevertheless murk had been dovid took uh kind of he went you know he had a different very different style than uh and he identified with the young the young from people okay was was very much identifiable to the 60s and 70s seekers and you know that whole i mean the fact is that the whole forum world loves his music today he sings his music etc in the biggest soccer show in monroe right this is learning about cowboys music that's not the point but i'm saying at that time in this 70s it wasn't yet popular the first one who popularized hasidic music in a sense in this uh you know way in in in in the style that you have from freed and today singers was it was uh um david he had a car he had a concert at brooklyn college i believe it was kalamoyd because it was definitely that's my recollection i remember which one my mother-in-law showed you know she she really you know my father worked very hard was working always so calabad was a time when you know she would kind of press on him and force him to take us on on trips so once we went to philadelphia liberty bell and once we went to washington the smithsonian once you went to visit relatives in montreal these were trips that we did as a family during halal similar to i'm sure what you you you you all doing that when you have it not chance but she really you know she she she made it like we're doing this don't don't tell me work we are doing this so one of these times there was a um it was the first large concert that mordechai and david was singing at and presenting at brooklyn college and this in our communities in flatbush and boro park you know out here this was this was the talk of the town and she made my father buy tickets and she's taking we have four siblings she's taking her kids we're all going to the concert it's kosher it's edition music from music you know and i don't remember i i i don't think there was separate seating i don't think i don't remember and we went to the concert on the way out and i'm saying i'm saying this not not with with guys i'm just telling you what happened because it just this etched in my memory from 1975 that's nearly 50 years ago 45 years ago anyway so i turned to my father and i was i was a bucket that you know enjoyed learning but i enjoyed listening to the new york mets sports you know but i i was a good student so i turned to my father and i said it was a nice concert but i would have rather have been home you know doing my homework learning i remember i didn't have that pleasure that you know everyone had and i have a lot more to say about that concert but it's not for now because it wasn't the same word but david that we know today who is acidic jew a real hasidic jew uh if you saw him in those days and you saw who who he was singing to in the first two rows you would close your eyes and you would go elsewhere it was a very trying time for for orthodox youth for city youth it was a very trying time you know the 60s really made an impact on everybody including our communities and i have memories of of of the catskills wood burn was called wood burn and i remember my my mother show me so after shoppers she wanted to go out for pizza sometimes you know and uh sometimes in the back of the pizza store they they might still have it they had a pool they were shooting pool uh but it was much more than pool it was uh really a place where from a fruit boy shouldn't be at so it was a very very a very very challenging time so marker at that time was in a way caught in that realm but he used his music to to channel it somehow the point i'm making getting back to what we're learning what's the point i'm making that the kayak is where the person is at that's the barometer if you want to know where a person's at you don't look at what he does and you don't look at what he preaches and you don't look about what he understands and you don't even look about what he feels you need to look at his tainook where is his pleasure and wherever his pleasure is that's who he is and that's and that's it in a way it's a simple script that's the way to see if someone is really ms holy good and plugged in if not they might be they might do great things but they're not you know there's a famous saying of the baby let's say in russian and he's off now um you know uh pontu pond pontu pondi something in other words a servant i am but not yours there's a russian saying i am a servant but not yours oh that's the question whose servant am i says whose servant am i when you're ready to let yourself be yiddish guy you are god's servant because you're only doing it because of hashem you're not getting no self-aggrandizement and you have not getting nowhere honors you're not making any money it's all for the abuser let's continue so this is what we're talking about now 119 the beginning of the new paragraph yes sorry forgive me i think we stopped actually at 117 at uh towards the bottom of the page the four lines from the top where it says domet i think that that's wrong i thought so too i was surprised that you were uh we were okay okay so i just i will go back if if you tell me that i i have a cafrusa private javascript i learned the mime with and i know i went up to here so i guess i didn't teach that to you yet so let's go thank you thank you very much appreciate it 117. four lines from the bottom [Music] in this previous paragraph he explained to us that highest vitality comes from the essence of a person's nashamah says that but there's no comparison between the caius and the organs of a person compared to the highest in a person's behavior and he says although this is a rhetorical remark although the whole idea of highest that the that the soul it animates the body it's only an emanation of the soul we've learned this many times i've run how much of the soul is in the body how the answer is it's a high order it's an emanation of the soul the x the essence is not manifest daily so the question is and the proof is sin that the soul doesn't have to work extra overtime to enliven the body as soon as the cell goes their body the body gets animated right what does that show that shows that it's not the essence because if when the essence is involved in something it takes a lot of work and the fact that we got up this morning and we said my god neither the shaman went in what work did it take it was like automatic the body's alive yes we say it's a miracle that the soul can do that but the fact is it's it's not an asic right asic means not just business but involvement in business hard work commissioner and he brings another example commission doesn't have to work overtime to warm up something that's placed next to it i did teach you this i remember now but anyway it's fine i told you that in chicago it's in new york and in baltimore it's cold in the winter and the heaters and the steam is on the radiators and you're going to sit down there did the radiator think and know before you're going to sit there and did it have to warm itself up any special way to warm you up no automatically when the radiator when you put on the the thermostat and the radiator it rises and it becomes hot and you happen to sit down you're going to be impacted says i remember yaakov even said the words i remember said the word anyway it's fine so what we see from this is that when we talk of highest animation of the soul to the body it's only a order a reflection an um right a reflection we see that the essence of this reflection of dissemination is draw is given is found within the external organs of the hand and the feet or the throat by volume especially if you talk about the organs of the ray of the level the lungs and the heart surely there we see this life force because they're so sensitive the host came to me the shabalev even more so needless to say in emotions of the heart shame more than any other or any of the organs including the mind and including the heart and including the lungs the light the energy of intellect the intellect that's the most sensitive and spiritual more than all of the above the hose why is that because what you're right that ever saying like this you're right the essence of the soul is not in the body but nevertheless in whatever in that reflection that is in the body it's full force it's there the senses whatever the senses are smelling touching seeing over there it's more external yes yeah i just couldn't question um this is so maybe the first time i i can remember hearing the concept that in the shaman essence of the shaman is not in the goof like this only like the emanation so my question is where where if the shaman's again in classical kabbalah siddhas the answer to that is it's in the heavenly source that's your source every person has what we call shoresh now you know of course it doesn't mean uh climb up like uh this uh star trek guy whatever his name is he decided to go up to the moon for 10 minutes and all of a sudden he saw martians okay he got the thrill he's been doing star trek make billions of dollars so he got the thrill at 90 years old hashem allowed him to live till 90 to go into the space okay he had a tiger he was making mistake what i'm saying is moisture the the source of our neshama is not in in this devil or you know in this uh star and this it's a spiritual concept every one of us has a spiritual connection to hashem that spiritual connection we call the source of the neshama when we tap into the what but is that connected to the natanya when authority talks yes that's exactly i was thinking the same thing and and those chords right it's like a rope rebel it's like a rope you know they have to be thick and every avera makes a little less and less still it's very thin costume solemn and that's the idea of chorus i don't want to go into it that's what it says in tanya very good so that's the shaders of the show says like we're learning here and i'm glad you asked and i pointed it out that it's only a high order a reflection an emanation of the soul that animates the body we mean an active mode the active mode now is is however when a person does an act of messiness nephesh this is basic yiddish kite just the way hasidism you know explains it when a person does an act of mercedes and efforts of self-sacrifice they they they reveal their source as it as they are in their body and they have what we call an essential see to understand this you have to first and foremost you have to go into the world of spirituality and non-tangibility you know here with with many of these hasidim here who never learned hasidis and they can have the kapotta and the people and everything and if y'all khan would teach citizen in the good old days some they say he once spoke about silas and breath of the worlds and someone that raises in he says where can i find that and you know and it was it caused people to to laugh inside like what do you mean where can you find it not in kugel and not in short you can't where can i find it which direction my gps do i go towards the turnpike or do i go on the one nine if i'm going to newark airport where can i find it where can i find it yeah the bqe gets goes to williamsburg right where can i find it kevin's valencia okay the point is whatever your whatever your source is for you at 770 for someone else's williamsburg for a third person that's here or there whatever that's the nakuta it's a mindset but but at the same time you need to be plugged in to your shinish if you go to someone else's shy dish it's not really going to help you and that's what it's one second that's what asadi does sadik helps you realize what your shainish is but you have to do it yes maisha what you want to say so just just on that note then you know when a person says ask where can i find it just looks like what you were talking about that's why i guess somebody let's say would go to if someone would would take a trip to the ukraine and he would go to different clarum of verbam and let's say he would find himself in a particular one i'll just let's just say for sake of discussion the altar okay okay and he really really feels that he's connecting he really feels something and maybe other places maybe other other other other remain maybe not would it was that would that give credence rise that you know the charge of his nashamah [Music] it's an indicator it's an indicator but but the mistake shouldn't be made i must be standing in hotdage to have that feeling because then then again you're not being real yeah and okay is the platform that maybe that brings it out because of the all awesomeness the the area the people across this you know the whole idea of connecting to one second hill though is inner from in or out not from outer in but yes yes that is an indicator i'm not going to conclude that that has to be but that's an indicator yes yes hilo i just want to say that it seems something that seems to indicate this this concept you see often in hasidic stories uh or someone would go to a particular rebbe would then send them to another rebber for their yeshua because that's where the showrush of their neshama was connected to them yes yes there are such stories that's a very good point too absolutely you know and again at sadiq we believe you know could kind of see and know what your strategy is and that's the whole idea the whole this is a uh uh this is a fundamental teaching in in yiddish in hasidis in particular that i would say i'm not sure if you know if the litvish the muslim would would would accept in other words and i have to clarify that the founder of the the the the muslim movement you know it was that was a big topic was it was a a tremendous yield right would he would he we don't find again i'm not a bucky in all of his writings but i don't believe we find this type of language in the in the bali muslim i mean yaakov you seem to have an understanding of a knowledge of busser would you say what i just said is is correct or or not finding the shortcut would maybe throw direct you no that that idea that that whole messer that whole approach do you find that in the writings of muslim um off hand i can't i can't identify okay so if you can't offense say even if it does exist it's not the common language yes i just wanted to mention that a couple of weeks ago i saw on the shelf i'm sure here a fascinating new safer written in english called nephesh at simsu which is a written by somebody from ramaphembish looks like a very extensive effort to kind of reconcile the safer nephesh with the safer tanya really with with extraordinary haskamos uh um including my cousin that's on the rebel i've never seen give a huskamah to a safer room you throw mayor morgenstern and other other other really impressive people thank you so just a fascinating kind of moment yeah yeah yeah for the people yeah yeah and it's in english very that's that's very interesting i i i i'm gonna look out for it here so anyway um but but going back to the text here the the frida karebe is sharing with us this is important very important as well that the animation of the what we call the cochles these powers of the soul uh is much deeper than the cushion than the senses let's continue the next paragraph even though from the perspective of energy and vitality of animation the senses are less than the vitality in the limbs if you compare it to the vitality of the air powers and what is that the pleasure that we find in the senses of there's no comparison to that pleasure whatsoever not only in the vitality of the limbs in other words whatever pleasure you got in your lungs and in your heart it pales in comparison to the pleasure you have in your eyes and in your hearing and your senses even in the highest type of encouragement when someone sees a beautiful painting etc or something very pretty honey miss paul but it's an abstract masonic boy he's very impacted very deep inside and he has pleasure ah lazy [Music] where his mind and his heart are all subservient and they melt away for the pleasure that he derives from seeing the painting or the situation like i told you before with aristotle that's in the negative that he had pleasure from whatever he saw so therefore his bright intellect went out the window that's in the negative so two in the positive elevator is even more so sick he can't move away like i thought in the story but mental footage was looking at the painting in my house of the ten hasidim in the wagons from kaslaja of colombia and he was like glued he couldn't leave and i'm sure maisha relates to that er those are beautiful yiddish words which means if he cannot from them from it from the painting from the seer from what he sees and he cannot separate himself honey supper is ready get over here no response where are you what's going on it's getting cold no response you're not there the picture has swallowed you well you're just let me give me two minutes and so please is his appreciation of his eye looking at this painting to the point that even when he does leave the place that he's at looking at the picture the painting or the sweet thing that he sees becomes engraved in his mind fantasies this is the whole idea of fantasies i'm sure he'll collaborate on it at another time the whole idea of imagination and fantasy is this concept where you become so one with whatever you see and whatever etc that you start fantasizing as though it's real and it could be totally bubba mice's but that's the power of riya that's the power of pleasure coming from the eel the god by malcolm says that ever he now left my studio he's walking down the lave or wherever he's walking he comes home he feels in his house at the supper table i'm still in my studio looking at the painting because the painting grabbed me so much that the painting now is making me walk down the street sit at the table and and that's why sometimes the person sitting and like hello he's elsewhere because he's he he became it's engraved in his mind now he says not only when he walked away from what he saw years later he reminds himself about that experience this it's like he saw it yesterday like i just told you before look here in 1975 i went to a concert and it's still engraved i remember what i said to my father walking out of the concert there's certain things that become that if you have pleasure and delight in that whatever it is it becomes part of you and years later it's as though it's happening now the whole zone [Music] says this all because the great pleasure there is in the sense of seeing [Music] is illuminated when you understand something because of the pleasure you have an understanding point of view i will end the cloud it's no comparison to the pleasure that you have when you see something that's the point is making in this paragraph until now that the pleasure of leah is much more powerful and heaven if you think about this it's 100 percent true yes yes what do you want to say yeah and down below you have a good word yes disconnect very good yeah so it's like when you're connected to to the telephone you know you connect them to to the internet and you don't want to be disconnected because that's where your required energy that your highest comes from if you connect [Music] you know and everybody was sitting around trying to make it go on because we didn't want to be disconnected from it i i i relate to that i relate very much i remember when the labor when the rebel would walk out after he made the bracha chris and he'd walk back to his office you know we would sit around the 770 the bucker and most of the balabatham you know we just took out a bottle of wine and we're saying look how you and then we're just schmoozing and talking it's like like i told you one peso my father drove us back one two in the morning after the fabregan and we stopped on 15th avenue borough park at corn's bakery to get the first hot loaf of bread right you know and i remember him saying to us we were young children he said to us i just came out of god and then got hating i didn't want well why if i didn't want money i didn't want children i didn't want i just wanted to be in because it's sold it's it's it's great if i bring together and learn together but i think that this concept is a very avraham you've been too quiet today of ram you have nothing to say yes this is a very powerful concept that your eyes bring to a lot of pleasures where it's very important to mom's important to be careful you what you look at that's that's that's the that that's the the basis of what it says in in the oldest forum you know that's right that's right so but the question the issue you're right with the issue so what do you do if if you saw something that's not appropriate or it's etched in your mind you need to really work on yourself instead see this siddha says whether since sherlock rather than emphasize the negative overwhelm yourself with so much kedusha and torah that all of a sudden those things are not important to you you know and and and and don't and don't go there you know don't look to to fix what i saw 15 20 years ago that was not pro appropriate and still comes back to haunt me so get more tsudaka for that learn another a piece of gemara go to help another eat across the street you know and and as soon as you go into that mode of negativity you got to cut you got to stop don't don't because if you engage in that it's only going to suck you in because it's again why because the power of pleasure is so powerful that that that's created by the eyes it'll over it'll overwhelm everything that's that's exactly what we're learning here so the advices the advice is that hasidah says is to overwhelm yourself the kedusha and that ebba told this to many many people and many students who asked him about different sins that they did and they want shuva and what could they do and you know yes sometimes rabbit did say you know fasting half days in the winter at the altar episodes and giving to dukkha and learning this it's all true but the mahalak the overall more good more good and and and i've seen i've seen that i've seen this with balabata and people weren't religious and became religious and and people in the religious community from community when you in the word yiddish is means cooking what it means if you're immersed when you're immersed in good things in holy things and tighter things you'll see that all of a sudden you say wait a minute is this is this my is this who i was 10 15 20 years ago i look myself in the mirror not only do i look different with my who i my yamakin or whatever it's not it's it's not who i was so yes when i was a a young boy in high in berlin and then in brooklyn and this and that we had one set of experience well when we become somewhere else someone else that experience is put to the side now he did say here he did say here that a very deep experience that's you had to have a pleasure in will can come back to your mind so you have you have to be on guard you have to be on guard right you have to be on guard and and and um as you say you have to be on guard but not not to avrom hasidis the balchemt of that was the accomplishment not to dwell in the negative because if you will you will lose the battle it's a guarantee it's not a question because it's stronger than us okay so rather than and i you know there's so much talk about but they talk about you know i don't really talk about it online but uh you know uh psychologists talk about this issue you know if someone does think and it does something in a marriage inappropriate you know do you forgive them you know and it's a very sensitive issue and trust me it's in all communities i mean i've met people here with you know hasidim who who specialize in this counseling and dealing with couples you know this is i'm sure hillary is aware of this everyone's aware but you know what's what would be if you had a title of a talk what is the view of hasidis on on someone who had an affair what would jesus say about that what would the bell shanker say about that [Music] i mean and i think that you know this idea also would be part of a of an answer i'm not saying the entire answer you know do you forgive do you do you do you see that as a part of a wholesome uh continuation of a marriage and a family you know and why this whole idea is if you're if you're really working to transfer your taino your pleasure from one issue to another issue that's healthy that's healthy fact that we goofed up okay we're humans that's the way it is you know ask hashem why you created us with a yates and horror why create is they say that means you know the first sin and all that nourished we don't believe that but the fact is we do have a tendency for nonsense [Music] so that's the issue that's the issue that although i have that tendency i break it by by immersing myself in good things i will continue with shrimp tomorrow as i don't have a good day everyone