Simcha Series # 1 - Mitzvas are Opportunities - Maamar Ivdu 1938

we're learning the uh uh shabbos passion my mother will look at volume three page and uh brawn yeah sending out the first three pages to everyone's whatsapp so even if you don't have the safer you could follow with us now the reason uh i chose this mimer is for two reasons one is we just finished circus and simcoe stereo so we're still we're still under the influence of simcha so we need to really tackle and understand better the idea of simcha and as i wrote in a kind of um um the in brooklyn we used to use a word i don't know if it's a real english word a smart alec have you ever heard of the term the slogan of smart alec anyway i wrote a smart alec remark about simcha but as as much as it has some um uh you know of that of that uh of that in it nevertheless there's truth to it and what is that that in order to in order to feel simple you have to know what simcha is not just jump it's not just jumping and clapping and dancing although the rabbit did say 1960 in a mirage they sent a shop as possible and it's worth learning it's only two pages the rep cited a mimer of the alta rapper and he said amazingly then that through a repetitious behavior you can actually change your your your essence which is a big hit because they're um and others speak about changing your behavior not necessarily your essence so for example someone who is not gifted in seijo in logic with a with a with a deep mind so the altar ever brings there that if this individual who is what he calls in the mind is a great fool but he listens to classes and lectures and and teachings of an ish for a long period of time after a long time this individual can actually make a change in a cycle that he'll become he'll be not only considered by others who hear his words but will actually become and so doubt cruel and mean and a cheapskate and all that and he gives the duck and he forces himself and he finds this excuse and that excuse and he does discuss it and he thinks he's gonna die tomorrow so you better better go and help someone before it's too late whatever the reason is and he does this many many times says the balatanya says they're there of the altar he says it can it can make an actual change in his essence it's a big kiddish it's a very but the rebel set at one time because in classical jewish writing we don't find at least i didn't didn't find through my years of learning that there's an actual change in the mohus in the essence there's some change in the behavior yes that that's a rambam hilhaz is full of that but to say that you're gonna become a smart person or you're gonna from being a miser you can actually be no longer a miser you'll be a a person that's that's so generous and all that not only in in in actuality not only in behavior but in essence that's a kiddish but nevertheless nevertheless we're talking here about the importance of simcha and to know what simcha is so yes if if yeah if a person doesn't know what simply isn't he starts clapping and joining and dancing with the toyota simplest data is it important absolutely but nevertheless if you really know the element and ingredients of what simcha is and what it should be and how to attain it then your simcha is way superior and you're avoiding hashem is way superior this mimer which was said in 1938 by the previous rabbit the rayas in atlas poland i believe which is a suburb of warsaw and i was there in 2019 uh so he said the mimer there there was a little barbecue yeshiva there in poland the yeshiva was originally in warsaw and moved to the suburbs for various reasons and um he talks about this so we're going to learn so what i'm saying is since it's coming right following the hagim where where the last of the game talk about the emphasize success and and seriously emphasize this mime is very appropriate there's another another reason now you'll notice that in the title it says that shabbos partial so the question is what's the connection with khayasura and simcha and the answer is it's a piece of zodiac the zarya coverage the holy zoa says that chava tried to serve hashem with alcohol with wine because one of the uh mad russian says that she used the grapes uh and she became intoxicated so she failed came along says and he also tried serving hashem with wine and what happened is as we learned in this week's pasha the the embarrassment and everything else says came along to the world and it says yes and the question is all the repetition and the numeration as rashi and others ask and explain and desire qatar says the law her life versus hava that's true life why because she took the element of wine and she was able to successfully use it for avoiding now it's interesting i don't i don't know um where we see that she used wine dessert says that but i i don't see that she actually used one so maybe it's a madrid somewhere if anyone knows later let me know you know that sarah also employed wine just like chava and nayaf for avoiding but this brings to ma and so therefore wine is the source of of simcha nicholas you drink too much wine secrets come out right so so therefore the frida kadeb in 1938 he says a mimer which by the way this mimer was said with different headings opening paragraphs of ghazal by each of the laboratory rebbe since the altar rabbit the balatanya was the first one who set a mimer on this concept of of simcha and each success of rebbe elaborated on it and and and added to it and explained it more so it's not the previous rebels in the sense of the original idea but in the nuances it is and i think in the style of the previous which is very much psychological and oriented toward averages hashem his is very unique where you'll find from the balatanya till the previous rabbit it's more in the scholarship and intellectual meditative type of of of approach mashinking conversely the previous rabbi especially he was in poland and you know when in rome do like the romans when a poland when you're surrounded by gareth hasidim literature and all kinds of eden and for him to to give straight khabad intellectual style of hasidis would fly over the heads of many of the people that listened to his my moral alert is my murder during the 1930s so i've told you this before i'm just repeating it we find that he kind of um finds ways of how to take the deep ideas and make it much more psychological and practical and that's why i love learning these my mother myself and teaching you and everyone else because it has a very practical psychological element to it yes hello hello what year was this again well in hebrews toughness traffic tests but but it's still like november 1938 or so so in hebrews already the new year exotic test but in in the secular year it's 38. so i'm saying that that's why he begins the maya where if there's hashem because the zoya cutter says that sarah came along and she used uh wine in a positive way so the rabbit now goes further and says so what is this element of wine and simcha that we could access to use in a healthy way and just one more introduction then we'll actually read the text learn the text this this this this touches upon a whole other issue which is the whole issue of alcohol you know rabbi abram torres guild version who was still in the year of shiva you know he he was uh very against um using alcohol almost any time at any occasion and except you know shabbos so you have to make kiddus but he you know he saw too much abuse within our community as well uh i don't have to tell you that so he was a very much a um an opponent of that nevertheless the the thai raka dosha does speak about wine and using wine so we have to know how to handle your drink so this is not just another mimer about simcha but if if done correctly you sh you should be able to use wine in in in the in the best way and i want to i want to share a story with the semester that that ever said in in the early years of his leadership that san mateo once took a lot of spirit spirit is what we call uh like 196 um percent alcohol it's like gasoline okay it's called it was in russia was called spirit and and the russians you know the constitution is they could they could drink a lot that we we could we could ask velvel the doctor uh who could probably tell us about the the russian drinking styles but anyway because he's from russia originally but anyway the the nakuda is then the kuda is that was for bringing and and and he said uh quite a bit of him on spirit or maybe he said a little amount of kind but spirit goes right it's it's so so powerful and then it was time to say oh my mahasidis so what did he do what did he do i mean it's like the halacha says you know what when you're drunk right when you're intoxicated it says that he was he put his hand over his forehead and he meditated for a moment on the greatness of hashem so it brought yida all into his consciousness and being and the entire intoxication left now i heard the story from the rabbit many years ago and you know so you think oh someone on that level is the only one that can do that but i recently read just the last few weeks that uh someone a regular hosted was by the red and he had quite a bit to just to drink to say lehigh and then it was time to daven and the rabbit told him stop and think about hashem for a minute and your intoxication will disappear but you really have to focus on hashem for that those few moments so i i saw from at least from the rapper's perspective that this isn't just you know his great great grandfather thomas said such a big topic was able to do it he's actually saying that if a person is able to concentrate and and to that to that extent um it will remove the intoxication it reminds me of the other thing that i shared with you with the budget surrender one of the emergency rappers and the rebel also said this by far bringing had to go for a very serious operation and they wanted to give him anesthesia and he said no tell me when you're operating i'm going to compose a negan because they were very big composers the taub family is the family of the modern sir and they have many long and extensive um uh songs meditative with with stanzas it's in the famous um flatbush yeet whose nail and mama's already read but seeing schweinker um who i spoke to once was like mr mujits and he documented and he played the piano and barak hashem he had a ricochet pastor in his 90s so he was able to really put the magic's music uh uh in in in for history it's it's it's online it's it's you know you can in books so the majesty rebbe he said let me know when you're going to operate i'm going to compose and they're going to sing a negan and i will not need anesthesia and you know i heard there ever said this and it's printed this is not and it's not a made up story and he did that and he had the operation without anesthesia and you think about it you know i had to go to the doctor the other day and then i needed some anesthesia right and i woke up i didn't feel anything to know and i felt great you know but that was the anesthesia without the anesthesia we have dr velvel with us you know you you'll be it's jumping out of you your your bed the point is that the power of riku shovel and this is study today hillary neuroscience and it's a whole discussion for itself how the how the usage of the brain through the focus of concentration one is able to accomplish things that ordinarily normally you can't do so i'm saying this that we talk about simcha and we talk about how to handle properly lechaym and alcohol and wine and all that this mimer i believe at the end will give us an insight into that field before we begin any questions any comments yes hello i've also said this before and this year but um you know one of my specialties in my life was that clinic was in clinical hypnosis and uh i once trained a woman to go through and she went through surgery with nothing but listening to the sound of my voice on tape wow and i i i sent her afterwards i said i said i get to listen to my voice in my head all the time right okay thank you thank you that that's good to remember beautiful thank you for sharing with the help of hashem shabbos [Music] the implication of the prosecutors [Music] it's only then that you'll be able to sing and dance before hashem but if you don't serve hashem simcha you can't come before him this the previous level says is the implication of the verse in the hilum behind you the boy you see the word miami which comes from the word ms the boy of the fun of banana is confirmed as a truth when you serve hashem okay i'm sure a lot of people would dance in border hashem in the carl bakshul on on on circus torah right how many of them how many i'm sure how many of them do we know it was truthful now what does it mean it was truthful just dance you're right just dance but how many of them felt hashem in his dance and not because of the alcohol says that ever that the boy who the father banana that gov says come before me my shin dance and sing it's only when it follows the first part of the verse if those hashem that you you're you're accustomed and the way you serve yaakov hashem is basement so if you are quote a simcha person if your avoidance hashem in general constitutes simcha then you can come boil the fondant of banana otherwise otherwise you're innocent we don't know if it's a true renowner that's why he used the word here miami's the boy of the founder it's it's becomes truthful we know that it's true what does this mean if those are the that's the how so the rapper says that you're you're avoid as hashem when you learn when you doven and when you do acts of mitzvahs nitric and if you're missing simcha when you learn taylor when you dive in and when you do mistress it you can't you can't dance you can't sing leo is it denotes the pleasure that you have real geshmak because when you have pleasure mike says moisture is an artist he draws and when he draws i i would think and i'm sure it is this way you have tainuk because this is your life when i write and it's when i'm writing something that i really want to write about i have gishmak and each and every every one of us in whatever way our what we want to really do really do not we do it because we need a paycheck we do it because we really enjoy it's like i once heard uh about rapper of a shusterman in los angeles he says to to one of the balabat and was learning sit this with him he says my re and he was asleep he says my real tinyuk is teaching this is learning see this teaching see this covering the bank and and and sermonizing and all that that's not my real title my real dino is this is this is siddhis and teaching siddhis and sharing considers that so the rabbit says that simcha is hero it denotes that you have real geshmach real pleasure that's when you'll be simple let's continue these three things one titan three might submission is hey musculation for him these are three things the world stands upon camera as we're saying obviously made the three wait a minute wait a minute abby what did we say taira trilla and mice and mitzvahs what does it say picky office toyota available right away sees the difference and speaks about it can you open the windows please oh both it therefore says what do we mean we mean acts of mitzvos now wait a second what's a camilo's question it doesn't necessarily mean a mitzvah somewhat doing a benevolent act with someone who needs a favor and you do it free of charge unconditional that's a good military what's a mitzvah mitzvah seems to be a commandment an obligation so that this question is without saying i'm asking a question but he just gives us the explanation is wait a minute how is khassadin it would seem that contradictory look what he says look how he explains inside out of text every question yes yes actually stopped your day your day of work your day of learning whatever you helped another person you that itself is not the mitzvah but because you're stopping you're going to do the pizza well why what if i won't do a mitzvah afterwards i'll do a question for someone but it's not a mitzvah it's not always a mitzvah it's a it's an act of huss it's fine it's a nice thing but when you what you're making a mistake you're assuming that camilo is a mitzvah what i'm telling you is that the classical meaning of milos khas sodium isn't mitzvah it's benevolence that's all it is that's that's what hasn't benevolence yes when the when the camilla's hesed is used in a mitzvah it comes together with a mitzvah but can you do a millisecond without a mitzvah sure that was a mix of the 613 commandments then then there is hassodim which are outside just you know what let's learn the next two three four five lines and i think it'll answer your questions give me give me a few minutes and if not i'll get back to it okay the reason why pierce calls the acts of mitzvos when seemingly they aren't acts of mitzvos but rather just favors and kindness that miller's hassan is not compared to reward for work you work you get a reward correct camillus hasset is not a reward why listen to this motion reward is what you deserve to get according to law according to the measurement the call tit for i'm doing this work for you this is the cost they pay you for the work is that kamila's recent when someone pages the work absolutely not that's called scar reward [Music] you're all familiar with that word it's not din it's left nim it's beyond it transcends the it's greater than din it's not that you're obligated to do it you have no obligation whatsoever and you can you do it anyway that means you go beyond thin [Music] clothes says this is gonna knock you off your feet i'm convinced you never heard this before you ready therefore he says that mitzvahs are the actual epitome of camilla's kassadin why it's the true benevolence is did hashem after give us mitzvahs hillary no he did us a favor and gave us mitzvahs the opposite way that most people think i'm obligated to do mitzvahs i'm conditioned to do mistress i'm commanded and then that ever says it would be like a reward but since hakodesh baruch who chose to give us a school to do a mitzvah so what god did was an act of milos has it to us how do you like that the enzyme [Music] and the only reason why hashem gave us mitzvahs is because yoni hashem has an essential love and god's supernal kindness for us or commandment and as the saying goes in in markets differently you know people saying is for the shama they say that right what does it say god wanted israel what do you mean to give a merit an opportunity to israel to you through all the name israel no he gave us an obligation hey guys i'm creating you and if you don't do this and i want you to do this no lisakos this is a 180 degree change of way of thinking about mitzvahs that that ever says in this mimer that's unique and special and important that the whole idea of of course when hashem chose to give us the opportunity of of connecting to hashem through a mitzvah the mitzvah has a structure the mitzvah has has details you can't decide one second yaakov you can't decide hashem gave us mitzvah mitzvot putting on two thank you god for giving me this crescent now i want to put on thrill in backwards instead of the straps being on the black side that would be on the white side all right i want to put on seven pairs on my head because it looks cool you know who knows sorry chap you aren't it's not up to you to decide and if you do that you're doing another it's like you're wearing nothing on your head so so so ask yourself the question if that's the case mid-smiths do have structure mid-smiths do have conditions that's true but it only has structural conditions when it becomes important to us who chooses for the missiles to become important god does that's a lesson on god's part in other words yaakov i'm going to take your question a moment i want you to think about it this way happen does god and it's a madrish the medici asked this question what does god get and benefit from mitzvos or does he benefit from mitzvos says the madrid that there's no difference to hashem whether you shacked an animal here or in the back the front is kosher the back is tafe is there a difference to god if you do this way that way says the medicine no but he chose to have pleasure from doing it from this way and that's the way he wants you to do it that's it yaakov what did you want to ask or say i must be missing some some darkness uh of a point here because the the gonzales that have shown was so what one is the rabbit bringing that's the kiddish the hindus is that mitzvahs are called the miller's crescent when you when you learn pirky others you don't think of mitzvahs as milos kassadin as opposed to a mitzvah a mitzvah is an obligation is a kindness you want to do it do it you don't want to do it don't do it so what about the mitzvah as a way of connecting that that's that's uh it's a true type that's not literally literally what's a mitzvah a commander what what i'm not saying this is literal um but but no but but i'm saying that of camilla's hesitation is very unique yes if you if you don't if you want to argue and not accept it go ahead it's not it's not telling you you must accept my my way but i think it's a whether one accepts it or not it's a very interesting uh view and and again you have to logically refute his argument right i don't want to go into that but his argument is that the abrasive is is not forced to give us a mitzvah he chose to give us a mitzvah so when you talk about him his argument is isn't that the ultimate of khmer's heset so so going back to your point yoni you asked me the the common denominator of gamila's casa de magi miles is not oblate obligation which is din it's hadin okay so changing someone's tire who yeah on the road on the on the freeway and on the one on whatever on the behemoth road you stop your car you don't have to do it i'm sorry right it's not like what it says in the trailer when someone asks you if it's a docker you're not allowed to hold your hand back and all that no and you stop your car and you exert yourself and it's 90 degrees outside and you help them change the tire that's a camilo's acid okay it's a camila's hazard it's not a now will it necessarily mean from that you're going to go into the base of medicine learn left africa left africa you're going to work you're not going to learn will will it make you more able more refined yes it will because if your character is such that although you're on the way to something else and you take the time the middle of a heat wave or a hamsin and you help someone else that shows that you are really on the right track in in as a person as a year that you you extend yourself for someone else and your ego is is really deflated you know it's a good value it's a great thing but it's not a mitzvah it's not a mitzvah it's a news guess says here yoni that all mitzvahs are in fact from god's perspective because that god did not have to give us a mitzvah and so he supports what what yaakov just said he quotes it was zaku says israel it's a horse so yaakov what what excites me and why maybe i sound you know more you know more dislike of this is because the idea that a mitzvah is not not just the here of protein of details but clawless mitzvahs the attitude towards mixers is opportunity you all know from your own life from your own life and from what we see in the community what's the number one thing where people have a problem mitzvahs obligation restrictions 24 7 i have to not not take a phone and then go to don't tell me i want to do it my way the whole idea that the normal way that a frugal regularly ordinarily looks at a mitzvah is that it's a obligation what we're saying here is of course it's an obligation once you understand that hashem does again to us in other words that comes as the foundation to the obligation yes avi avi yes hi darling um i think of it and i and i read it somewhere i don't remember the source that mitzvot mitzvot are like shoelaces you need to be able to connect two sides together and the connection is via the mitzvoth so my doing the myth vote is like me as a grandpa giving my grandson a cell phone for the purpose of him being in touch with me now there are other benefits of it that he can use the cell phone for but he's getting it to be in touch with me that benefits me and it benefits him of you no that's i i really i the first part though the shoelaces that i really like that the shoelaces that's a very good muscle i never heard of it that way hila you want to say something i don't like the cell phone marshall no the self i like the cell phone i also like it's also good but the shoelaces you know got me okay i want to clarify that muscle in my own mind so i don't tie the two shoelaces together i've got to go but uh hope to see everybody tomorrow okay we're gonna finish now here so uh let's continue tomorrow any more uh maisha the velvel anyone have something of a unison any comments any questions and it's like an example given about become a hawker who is so uh removed from a simple person he doesn't have connection with him when he asks some person to do something for him he had a connection with her correct so try to give me this massage chosen to have a connection with her very good yes sir avi i'm not uh a hundred percent set with the idea that it was hashed a simple that you need the synchro to get to the renault because sometimes you do something in the end congressman so sometimes by the by the dancing even if it's not sincere and it's a super duper isla but it can develop into that yes yes and and we're going to talk more about it we're just in the beginning of the mimer um so if you could put that on hold what you said is true and and and we'll we'll get back to it it could be the mimer itself will clarify it there's a tai chavi that the real inside the the paneemius of shalom is lashma so it's not that the shema leads velvet to a la shmoop but the truth is that even when you're doing shiloh the shema the inside the inner feeling and depth is small and that's i think what the rebbe is getting at that that yes of course and i said that in the beginning an introduction we danced together same question but no one is philosophizing and learning considers before he gets up to the edge with the torah okay that was the wrong attitude get up and dance okay with the torah but nevertheless what am i dancing with what what am i dancing with ah just what am i i'm dancing with a toyota i'm dancing with another heat those ideas and feelings are the talk that's the simcha that's what we're gonna that's the symptom in in other words if a person dances and doesn't know what they're dancing and at the end you know there's there's a risk that that dancing will not last you see it's very easy to say but how do you know avi that the dancing is going to last that in three months from now you're serving hashem and you're learning and you're davening and you're doing it and you're doing work and you're helping your grandchildren and all that it's direct result of that simple stereo dancing so the rabbit saying that if you're plugged in and you understand what simcha is which again we didn't even begin yet he's just setting up the scenario it will help us um have a genuine egoless experience of simcha khabra we'll see everyone tomorrow again a quarter too because of this bye bye have a great day take care bye you