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Take Responsibility - Rabbi Chaim Dalfin
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Practical Chasidus w Rabbi Chaim Dalfin - Maamar Rabi 1942 #2
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can we can i just ask can everybody
please be really careful about putting
their phones on mute
because there's one person i don't know
who someone
keeps not putting their phone on mute we
keep hearing a lot of like static and
noise of
things moving around okay okay but also
i also want to see an opera okay if i
sing an opera moisture
okay oh also you know yesterday we had
some new people who people people that
you know
don't come often um if people want to
ask
you know especially new people or
comment they should feel free
um you know in in at the appropriate
time
uh i don't want this to be just me
talking which is
most of the time what i do but anyway so
can you send in a climber
my shirt can you send the new mimer
because i don't think i don't think you
sent it
he sent it already he sent it check your
phone
i sent it but i'll send it again okay
so we are uh in the mimer rabbi oymer
it's a yeah uh purely obvious yes you
don't have to send it i see it i said
sorry it was there was so many messages
since i see it
thank you okay so we're in the my mirabi
which started on page 279 in the volume
gimbal volume three of the my modem will
cut them from the
based on the previous synapse discourses
and we're actually on page
280 just to recap uh that
the mishna says who's called robbie says
what's the path what's the proper path
that man should choose
one that's good and beautiful for for
hashem the creator and one that's good
for men you know good for good for
people and good for hashem
you you excel in both areas
so he brings the question of the madrid
and medishmull says
you know the quest there's only one path
to mitzvahs that's what we're told is
the best path
and it makes you you know good in both
areas
so what what's the mission are adding
obviously the mission is adding
something more
so that brings this question
and um from there he goes into
explaining the whole idea of the of the
soul coming in uh
into a body on earth and he says that
the word
adam because the mission that chooses
the word azahid theraph
yeshua what's the right path
that man should choose so who is this
so you know although this mime was from
the previous mind was from 1940 so it's
not a continuum
nevertheless it's interesting the way
they stay they placed it here in the
book and probably they want to put it
together had that in mind
because we learned in the previous mimer
all about names and about adam
so here he also finds a mimer in which
there's um
a focus on the workshop
okay but i want to make it clear baroque
that this is from two different years so
it's not a hampshire
right you know there's something in
chabad called hampshire a continuum of
discourses
where a rebber starting with the fourth
rabbit raphsmule rabbi marash
we don't find this in the previous first
three rubbers of the baby
we don't find the concept of a continuum
of my murray
the first threat and khabar that did a
continuum of my mural was the rebel
mirage what do we mean by continuum
that the the mimer that was said
this week was a continuation really of
the mime of
last week and the mime of the next week
was a continuation of
this week it's called in in in in chabad
circles uh
it's called hampshire a hampshire of my
morm
a continuum of my moral this is not so
no no no no no the basiligani
that was originally um
published for yucat
was 20 chapters those 20 chapters the
previous level
divided into four discourses to be
studied at four different times
so the four discourses that he wanted
you just
wanted us to study in 1950 on youtube
on purim and on his father's yards at
base nissan i believe
those four were a continuum
what you're referring to is the
basiligani that each year the rebels
said
that's not a continuum each year the
rebel took one chapter
of his father-in-law's mimer and he
expounded on it i'm not talking about
that
i'm talking about the mimer itself
and my muram they're continuing from one
week to the next from one month to the
next depending on
you know how often he said the mimer
anyway let's go back
so so what we're learning here is that
the other who is this
who is this man and that was one of his
questions
then he introduced the idea
of um
and he taught us that the aim over here
doesn't mean if
as though you have an option hashem you
always have an option because you have
free will but the implication and he
brings support to it him
here means halawa it's my wish
it's my wish that you do torah mitzvahs
and that itself that hashem has a wish
gives support to a person to do torah
mitzvahs
that's what we learned let's now
continue as he continues this thought
and it's like nine lines from the top
it's
10 lines it says the who alters the last
three words
on the line on on page 280 like line
number 10 or 11
for who al derek received do you guys
have it
baroque you have it or not yeah i have
it
you don't have it bro
we'll find it one two three four
five six seven eight nine ten
ten lines from the top the last three
words on the line
for who i'll receive this idea
is similar to what's written over her
hashem says in the torah you shall
choose life
see if before this verse it says
i i give before you today maybe i give
before you
life and goodness and death
and evil i give you a choice make your
choice
and at the end after it says i put i put
before you either life and goodness or
death and evil
yet the verse concludes
choose life moshe it's like a
contradiction
you're telling me i have free will to
make my decision
and then you conclude the verse but you
should choose life
is it my choice or not that's that's the
question
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is
although god almighty chose two
different paths
one is the path of life and goodness and
the second one is
the path of death and evil
the north sampras is leo and hashem gave
free will to men
leave foreign to choose what he desires
whether in baha'i in between to choose
life and goodness
so yet you have free will the hoser
nevertheless
he annoys them like a taver i'm giving
you a good recommendation a good answer
over heart of account it's up to you
you've got you have to make a decision
but my advice to you is
choose life
listen that though
that suggestion by hashem
that is the aid that hashem that has
mamish
has tangibility has actuality
to actually make you help you make the
decision to choose life
and i explained this yesterday at length
yoni you weren't here but
i explained that that i gave a lot of
examples
how how when someone who we care for
get wishes something for us or we know
that this is what they want
that itself gives us the impetus to
implement it
if you know that your wife wants
something then you try to do that for
her without her telling you that
and that itself creates the bond and
that gives you the kayak to be able to
do that
so that's the same thing with hashem yes
we have free will
no question about it but by the fact
that hashem
says in the torah at the end of that
verse dealing with free will
and i recommend you choose life that
itself
gives us the help to choose life
because otherwise we're in a you know
we're in a
a dilemma like you know right and left
up and down
good or bad how do we have the coyote to
make the choice
how do you have the kayak so the
tightest that that is
explaining to us because hashem itself
says to you
my suggestion is this and when you hear
my suggestion is you say ah
that's really what he wants if that's
really what he wants and i'm really in
love with him and i really
care for him i'm going to do that so
those words of
heart behind are the actual c
you are to go and choose good
my misery
as the saying of our holy blessed and
blessed sages
in the good morning shabbos tommy
if someone comes and he wants to defy
himself he wants to mess himself up
he wants to make himself impure place
can lie
we it's open for you we can't stop you
you want to mess yourself up you can
but while the tire the gamora says if
someone says i want to come and become
more pure more holy
not only do we say the door is open but
messiah
we actually help him become more pure
sorry god hashem says you want to mess
up the door is open you got free will
you want you you you want to improve and
become more tahoe or more pure
messiah now you say will help you
and he brings you from rashi look inside
guys
and hashem prepares for him an
opening you make a resolution moshe
meyers
you want to go and visit people
who are in a nursing home and for some
reason you're tired that you're not
feeling well or
or you don't have the wherewithal hashem
says you want to do it
i'm going to make it possible i'm going
to make it possible someone calls you
says hey motion let's go out
so you say yeah we'll go out but let's
stop or first at the nursing home to
visit this
and do the mitzvah of visiting the the
the ill the sick people
bitter hailing what happened he didn't
you didn't he why all the sudden is he
calling you now because i couldn't
saw that you want to do a that type that
mitzvah
but you didn't have the kayak messiah
they help you from above
hashem makes it possible somehow that
you actually do it
that's that's that's the shot over here
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since hashem gave man free will if he
based the direction
to choose what path he wants because
nevertheless if he wants to make himself
impure to me
to choose the path of evil ain't mine
and i say
we don't prevent him but vayne messiah
we don't help him either
hey charlie you're on your own i can't
stop you but you're on your own you
ain't getting help for me to mess
yourself up
right my father told me when i was 19
and and and
i decided to smoke cigarettes what did
he tell me he said i'm telling you i
tried this when i was your age
and for and it messed it was smelly and
costly
don't do it but it's your free will so i
tried it and after a while i said you're
right
it's costing me and i smell from the
smoke and i dropped it
but it's your free will messiah
you could do you have free will but i'm
not going to help you i'm not going to
support that endeavor
let's continue
ain't mine you know you say so when you
when a person wants to
be become tummy we don't prevent him
from
from not becoming tommy because yes free
will but at the same time
ain't no signing we don't help him ella
poison lloyd
it's open the door is open because you
have free will
and now he brings another another
statement visel
in la lates
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it says um in malaysia who yell it's
if i think lazy means scoffers if
for scoffers who yell it's he wants to
kind of
participate in the scoffing activity
so in the latest who y'all need to be at
if he himself wants to become a scoffer
i know but also in otsuka him with his
own will but he decides to choose to sit
amongst the
boars and scoffers and jokesters
and waste away you can do it my friend
the bowery is open the bottles are there
the drunks are all over if you can't
drink here they'll drink there you can't
drink
right and you got free will you got free
will
and sometimes you can go into a show and
get a good drink
right and the kids club you need a drink
you can find a drink if you're so
it's open i will get your body tired
conversely when you want to become pure
you want to become better you want to
become more holy not only do we say the
doors are open you can you could
you have free will and we're not going
to stop you from doing that
but messiah namely we actually will help
you accomplish that
everyone has to know this so sometimes
we say
moses says to me i like learning that my
mother i'm
having a hard time finding time to
review the my moral and he's right
without khazara you guys know from
yeshiva
you all went to yeshiva i think they say
rabbi hutner earl washoe said
the greatness of learning is not the
learning the greatness of learning is
the hazara
the review
and the fact is if you don't hazard you
don't review you don't remember
maybe you remember the general but you
don't remember the the details and the
details of where is where it's at
and to have khazra like moshe said you
need time
so that's why i told them shabbos is a
great time
shabbos there's no you have to find time
you will
have russo if not so you get up a half
an hour early you sleep a half an hour
less in the afternoon
you know anyway so so here it is
how but if you have that desire my ship
because you're both
tired you want to become more pure you
want to hazard but you're finding it
difficult
he never signed them from heaven they're
going to help you
and somehow you're going to succeed in
hazard you'll see
but you have to really want to cause her
you have to really want to review that's
the key over here
right you know lip service is easy but
you know i really want this like i
really want to do a
a nice a nice art piece of art for a
client
or to to help someone all that i really
want to do it
the same thing you have to be driven and
hashem sees that you really want
hashem will provide it and i'm sure we
all of you can say
in that you've seen this in your life if
you if you really want to do something
and i don't mean only
taiyo mitsubishi with terry but if you
really want to do something
you will see you will get see you uh you
will get
assistance because hashem
wants us to be on the right path let's
continue
you will be helped from heaven over
gamora and the
mother perish
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russia if someone wants to make himself
impure to be
wicked
the opening of con defilement of of of
contamination spiritual contamination
is open for you the is like to go
in claim it
my speaking we make it
possible
and from heaven they don't stop you
you don't you're not gonna get stopped
you know it's like someone says
i'm gonna prove that this is all baloney
and it takes
anyone kipper and he eats a good ham
sandwich you see
you see where's god where's your tighter
right my friend don't scare me with your
tactics
you know this was kind of the european
like you know
oh the heavens are gonna open up and you
and a like lightning bolt is going to
come down
and strike you as soon as you eat that
trey from your kipper
well let me tell you it ain't happening
if i shouldn't want it to happen because
you got to die and you'll keep her
you're going to die
but not you understand at the same time
that i'm not saying that what it says
that toyota
reward and punishment is not ms of
course it's emma's
but the point is that a person has to
know
free will was given and like it says
here
if you if you want to make yourself
tommy
the doors are open and hashem is not
going to prevent you
like the lightning bolt is not going to
come and hit you before you eat that
traffic on your kipper that's not true
right sim who y'all is
him yet
if he wants to attach himself to
scoffers
who yells
who yell at the emphasis is barack on
the who
who yell it's you will join the scoffers
you have to initiate it i'm not going to
help you join the scoffers
i'm not going to prevent you from
joining the scoffers but
you ain't getting help from me to join
this office
conversely if you want to be modest who
believes khabib you want to
attach yourself to modesty and modest
people
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god who is able and capable of giving
you the grace
will give you the grace that the modest
people will say ah you're a modest
person come join our club
come join our group come we want you
you are an asset for us you bring to us
a a a a purity a refinement
be part of our group
the ha the harvey see you yes and the
rebel now says
what he said earlier he says this is
what i mean when i said before
this is this is an assistance
yes those are very important words i
want you to underline those words
see you ashley yes there is
there is help that is fantasy people say
i'm going to help you
and you know what that means i'll see
you next year
that's not see you or she yeshua mamash
here he says that the help that hashem
says to us that i'm going to help you
if i see that you really want to do this
i'm going to help you make it possible
it's it's you can bank on it say yo
you can bank on it then you go back a
year later you say
wow this dream and this aspiration
that i wanted and i was struggling and i
couldn't accomplish it and you turn back
you say i accomplished it how did you
accomplish it
because you had sayata the shemaya
you've heard the word sayata deshmaya
help from heaven that's what it means
help from heaven sayata
did you ever think about what's the word
sayata mean
assistance when your car when your car
breaks down on the wheel you have a
issue with the wheel you need the
roadside assistance
you need a8 to come along or a tow truck
or someone else
who stops and is kind and helps you fix
the flat
that's called assistance it's momish and
you get back on the road and you
continue driving
well the same is here you want to drive
somewhere you want to go somewhere you
want to accomplish something
and you're struggling you're having a
hard time so we say
show hashem that you really want it and
you show hashem you really want it
and and one more point and it's what
hashem wants of you
meaning to say you're not you're not
going up the wrong alley you're on the
right way
or you're not going on a one-way street
the other way you're going on a one-way
street towards your destination
because sometimes you can go on a
one-way street thinking you're going to
your destination
and you're actually going further away
from your destination you know why
because you don't have your mission
clear
but we're talking about when your
mission is clear
you know what you need to do and yet
it's hard for you
then hashem says i'm going to help you i
will help you
and the help will come
and we've seen this over and over in our
lives
hashem puts interesting things
in our way unexpected
and many times it's because he's giving
us that siyua
mamish tangible actual assistance
saying come here come here come here
come here go this way
this is a this is this is going to get
you in a very good place
let's continue
all of this moshe is a long example
to explain the verse that he brought
earlier if you
follow in my statutes and he translated
look
i only wish that you go in other words
this is my wish
and i will help you to carry out the
wish so get on the bandwagon and join
the
the wish is
it's like it would have said you know
instead of saying yoni
in if
it's as though it would not say if it
would say
and in my statutes you shall go
then we wouldn't have this whole
discussion right the only reason we're
having a discussion is because the
implication of the verse is
if you walk in my ways implying you can
or you cannot
and to that the rabbit says that the
real meaning of him over here is not you
can
or cannot but i wish
so that's what he says here that really
if although it says the word in in the
tita
the it's as though it does it's as
though it does not say the word
m and rather the word m is replaced with
the v
and o meaning what the v meaning what
and in my statute you should walk and if
it says
in my statute you should walk it's not
giving you a choice at
all i'm telling you in my statutes you
should go
follow my directions not you may follow
or you may not follow
follow
hashem the misfits you become
a mahalak you're no longer a
a a o mate standing but you become a
goer
you're on a path you're walking you're
trekking along on the mile
of walker right
this is the advantage that the soul has
by investing itself and clothing itself
in the body
in comparison with milo
comparison to the soul the way it's
above
prior to descending in to a body you
would think that the soul before
coming into a body is much higher is
greater
and in one way it is but there's an
advantage to the neshama coming into a
guff this is where on top of now 251
281.
i will give to you mahalhim goers
walkers bain ho india
among these these people these
who are standing so we have oindim
and we have what are you so the rabbit
says
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the group of angels called fiery angels
i.e
seraphim own them stand
me right before hashem
okay another saying it says
it's is brought on them they stand
in the exaltedness of the world
referring to the angels
the reign behind the show may be milo so
just as
regarding angels they are called i aim
them
so too much right hello guys there's a
difference between on the summer
a soul and an angel okay
angels are not in the shamas and the
shamas aren't angels
yet the way the neshama
is before it enters the body
it's like an angel in the but in in a
disadvantage meaning in what
disadvantage
that it only stands it doesn't move
and i'll explain that in a moment
before then comes into a body they're
called standing
commissioner
life of god it's a promise i promised
hashem
i promised the name of hashem eli kay
israel the god of israel
a shadow that i stood
before him
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before it went into his body and what
does he say about his ashama
a i stood before you god
why i stood
up
and only because the soul descended and
invested itself and closed itself in the
physical body
mixes and feels tedious it leaves the
state
of omad and it enters the state of
mahalik a walker a goer
i want to conclude and then i'll explain
in kane if so he goes back to his
question this this whole paragraph was
like a long parenthesis to explain the
question and now he concludes with the
question
in canaan and moving it based on
everything we said it's not understood
mao identify yeshua what is the right
path
zuma star container mitzvos the
implication is the some other right path
in addition to torah mentions so the
rabbi says what is it tell me the secret
says after this the bishop says you
should be careful about
what's considered an easy mitzvah like a
stringent mitzvah
so the rabbit says there is some kind of
path there is some kind of approach
that we don't know yet what that is that
seems to be outside of torah mitzvahs
not a real mitzvah not a real learning
of torah but some kind of neutrality
that doing that will help you be careful
about doing lenient mitzvahs with the
same vigor as you do
stringent mixers now going back to what
we're learning over here about the
difference between
a mahalaka mate amalah
you know today there's a fascination
with angels and people wear pins that
are symbolic of angels and they talk
about angels the first thing you should
know is they don't know for their
highest
they don't know from their living being
what an angel is it's all fantasy
and nourish kite okay
when we learn taita and we learn
kabbalah and we learn khasidas
we also don't know what an angel is i'll
never forget i was that if i bring with
the rabbit
it was shabbos it was a beautiful
fabrenium a beautiful day
and the rep in the middle was explaining
a rashi that had that
that speaks about angels and in the
middle of that he
he broke out in a smile and he said i
never saw angels either
like who are you kidding
who sees an angel it's all fantasy mode
now the story that i told you once when
i was in marin county
the first simchas torah which was 1984
i think was that or the next year 85 and
we had nine people
simply told it was it was a like a
tuesday or wednesday
at that or it was actually eight maybe
86 87 when one of those first years
and we rented a gazebo in a community
office complex the place was
packed with cars and people were working
and it was nice and quiet you know
it was very rural it was it was very uh
a beautiful scene and yet we are that we
are davening
and it's torah and barak hashem the
owner of
mr erickson i remember his name as long
as he got paid his eleven hundred
dollars for the rental
he was happy and um you know from time
to time the kids you know threw a little
of stones and pebbles stepped on the
flowers we got some complaints and we
said we'll take care of it
and um they left us alone and it was a
very nice few years
two years i think that we were there or
so and it was very nice anyway
we had nine people it's simplest torah
it's 90 degrees outside and
there weren't many jews that i knew of
in the complex and if they were
a few they were working and they weren't
from yet
and they didn't uh care or know about
simplest torah
where am i going to get a tenth person
we this
office complex was at the edge of this
community
and there was a gas station at the
corner and
basically inside was a planned community
538 homes
of a planned community and everyone's
out working
so i go out with my towers and i run to
the right then i run to the left and i
look here and i look there
and i say to my bellabottom i say just
hold on we're not going to continue
because it's simplest torah and i'm not
going to allow symbols torah
we shouldn't have a minion it's not
something that in my bloodstream
i didn't come here to just say oh we
couldn't make it and
chloe you know dance yourself and do
everything no
and that's a you know if we had another
example of being
having a strong will hashem helps you
because i had a very strong will to have
a minion
and all of a sudden i see someone
walking on the road with a knapsack
and like a baggy man like a straddler
and i asked him if he's jewish and he
says he's jewish
you would never think he's jewish like
ask him could you come here
to help us for half an hour or an hour
and we'll feed you we'll take care of
you
he said sure and he was number 10.
because it was simplest tyra and you
know we were diving and we had a
schedule i couldn't really converse with
him and
and you know make you know what i'm
saying it was just not the right venue
at the time
when we finished davening my plan was to
invite him home and you know and have
him part of the soda and everything else
and he was gone
and no tragedy i went running outside i
couldn't see him nothing
i had the feeling that this was amalah
this was an elio anov who came to help
us
to make dominion but
that's a feeling i'm not i'm not gonna
you tell you i know
i saw an angel i could just
share the story and describe to you what
happened
because that's what happened that what
happened happened
so what
it's almost as good as the other story
the mechanic
well the mechanic was a real person
mechanical no
no here well no the mechanic one he
lived four downs
doors down i know who he was you know
here
someone came in for half an hour and by
the time i wanted to go to him
he disappeared and that's it i never saw
him again
that's that's the difference but all i'm
saying is that
so the we talk about now we're gonna
talk a little about for
two minutes three minutes about angels
and souls it's the concept
the concept i want to talk about the
concept of an angel is that given a
mission and that's it just like this guy
if he was an angel he dressed up as a
baggy man and all that to help us make
dominion
he did his mission yoni and he goes back
he goes back to whatever hashem wants of
him
he is limited he's an old mate he's
standing in one place
he can't move i give you this mission do
this mission
and go back on the shama
is a mahalik when it's in the body it
can do this and it can do that
you can be most of the agave kodesh
you can be most of the artists you can
emotionally host it
there's no limitations and it's a
fantastic idea
because as people and as yeden
we must know that don't box yourself in
to one one area that's it's a great
mistake that some people make
where they decide this is who i am and
yes
there is like emotion was go bad we keep
going back to the guy
who's rigid in davin's early and all
that that's who he is
but nevertheless break out a person must
find ways to break out of their
tendencies and routine
and their box and the the summer camp
and then
that's the that's the novelty of the
neshama
that you can break out so
when you see someone struggling in their
you know they're stuck in a rut they're
stuck in the same thing
you have to encourage them encourage
yourself break out
how you're going to break out we have to
find ways of breaking out
sometimes it takes like the rebel rights
and letters
you you walk around the perimeter of a
pool and you don't jump into the pool
you're not going to know how to swim you
have to just jump
in you have to just jump into things
too much calculation is an inhibitant
to the jumping in process so on one hand
to be
a wild goo a wild goose and just jump in
and not be calculated and do and things
like that
is is also wild it's touhou as we
learned
in last minutes chaos at the same time
there is the
jumping in and this is probably a
question baron's gonna ask me
how do you balance the two the katrila
ripper mode
over the top go for it jump in and at
the same time pull back and be
balanced and the answer bar is it's not
an easy
way of discerning and finding only you
and your in only us and ourselves
know when we're stuck when you feel
you're stuck
that's the time to jump in
when you when you're not stuck then you
do what's root what's the routine for
you
so for example if i feel i'm stuck
i can't there are times i have writer's
block and i cannot i i
just not motivated to start writing and
i really want to write
you know so i'll try you know i'll do
i'll think i'll go i'll do you you try
and finally
it helps you get to what your objective
in this case in my case
the writing another everyone their own
so so so the the over the top and the
neshama ability is
finding ways to
leave the the routine
and this is the overall answer i
remember when i came to bashemis one of
the first things that moshe and i spoke
about was
that people could he has agave season
shul people are
like stuck in their in their in in their
yiddish kite
in a good way not in a bad way but
they're not moving they're not growing
the whole idea of yiddish guy is to grow
and by the way our kids grandkids and
the youth
if they see us growing they're going to
grow
you know it's not enough to say and and
you see this today you know with the
courses people in the 50s and 60s are
going on 70s going back to college going
back to courses
taking more courses right adult
education
stay fresh stay stay otherwise you
become stale
even if you're doing good things so this
is the difference between on the summer
that's in a body which has the ability
and the drive to become to do to not be
stuck to be a mahalak
and not and not be boxed into one cave
versus an angel of
they're fiery they're in love with
hashem but only in their field
take that angel and put him into another
field
he is uninterested
he's uninspired but you're the same
angel that was in fire for hashem
yeah but only in what i do you we've you
right we've heard this one
only what i do i i can't i what what
in the other area no interest i'm a cold
fish
i'm uninspired the toyota wants
of a yeet to be inspired in all aspects
and we saw this by the river that he
could he showed inspiration to the
little children
he saw his thrones inspiration to the
adults
he showed inspiration to rabbanim
you know like all in different all
different types of people
different ages different um intra trusts
there was a um i mean
a person who was alive and fresh
that's what the sharma is fresh
whereas as angelic
and holy they are compared to ancient
souls the shamans
in a body are considered earned this is
a brief explanation
between the concept of aimdem
and mahalak and that's why in khabadi
only you'll hear the expression are you
a mahalik
you'll say well of course i walk no what
it means is are you
really a mahalik are you really uh
break breaking through breaking the
barriers
in in in in all aspects or are you just
doing the same old thing
and i'm going to tell you growing up
with the rabbit so many years
he put put this fire into his hasidah
and i would say he put it into his
hasida maybe in a way more than the
previous generations
because because because in europe with
all the situations
and the wars and the anti-semitism there
was a limit how much you could do in a
way you know
the physical oppression stopped everyone
we come to the free world territories
road to america to all over the world
and there ever you know takes over in
1950 51
and he goes over rockstar like we spoke
about yesterday
break out and he was talking to his own
casino in the 50s
who were used to you know still the
settlement mentality
you know do you know that they were
hasidim who were scared to speak in
public because maybe the kgb is
listening to them
they were walking around with the fear
it was it was it was in big hasidim
it was a real fear and you know those
were still the days when the kgb had
spies
and america and and and russia were a
cold war
so you never know who's listening and
ears rapping and and taping and
recording
you know some say that's the way it is
today with the internet you know
you can never know what's going on but
the point being
it took a long time to to get his own
hasidim
to to to break out and not have the fear
so the first 10 years kind of as a
leadership from 50 to 60 or so
you know was dealing with them that's
when he set up the shaykh
you know people people like you know
okay for ourselves we'll put on a shaker
for ourselves but we should go and make
a journal a magazine and
a women's awareness is heard of in
europe and portland and elita
that you know women said i don't want to
say who but uh
someone who passed away recently an
older khabad woman a very special woman
so i once i told her once i was sitting
at a shabbos uh my shabbos table
and i said i wrote a book who's who in
labavich
women were chronicles the
39 women their lives my mother-in-law
show them and other women
where they came from brief biographies
five to ten pages each or something like
that anyway
when she heard this she started to curse
me out
an 85 year old woman she she
went right into me she says husba
writing about women
her husband was sitting next to her and
he was so embarrassed and he said shh
it's all right and i took it the right
way but where was she coming from i
understand where she was coming from
she was very old-fashioned although she
was born the old country but she came
over
as a young girl she basically was an
american but she was very froome
and and and and that mindset of europe
stayed with her
so as soon as she heard and she was
alibabacher you would tell the barbecue
now you would think that she got it
what the rebel wanted was that women
should have their own
organization and they should this will
encourage more women
to to be through and to to do things for
yiddish guide and everything else
but in her mind you don't write a book
for the public about women
forget about pictures that actually
would have slapped me i didn't have
pictures in the book
i put them put pictures in but you can
imagine if she
the same woman i happened to be sitting
with her and her husband outside of
seven seven they were already older very
between eight eighty five ninety they
were oh
in the nineties and
a husband a wife or a boyfriend a
girlfriend i don't know
walked by across 770 on a bench
they were sitting and i was making
conversation with them
and she picked her head up and she saw a
guy and a girl
holding hands or walking together she
flipped out
she became so upset what's going on here
so she had that tendency of you know
stringency why am i saying this because
because i understand where they're
coming from
at the same time there's
i'm not justifying the guy and the girl
or even the husband or wife in public
holding hands and walking that's not
the chabad approach it's not the really
the right wing orthodox approach
the modern orthodox world was more
lenient than this we're not going to go
into the discussion about that for
another time
but but you know you have to look beyond
okay you're not happy about it sit and
learn with them sick and schmooze
invite them for coffee get to know them
and then you elevate them to a higher
experience of hashem
well they'll realize in public they
shouldn't do that
rather than squashing them and putting
them down
and and be rating them you understand
that's the difference and you always
want something practical
that's the difference between them and
so you can be in a show you have to say
two people
don't show one person will scream
no noise no speaking for sure and he's
right you're not supposed to speak in
the show
the other person will go over and put
his hand around him
and maybe say that
we'll talk later you know make him feel
and believe me you'll gain so much more
from that
that the person will you'll be able to
talk i always say not
at the person but with the person you
you'll find ducey
you'll feel commonality between that's
why we have issues because
we're talking at each other
why because everyone feels the other one
you're telling me what to do and who are
you
you hypocrite and all that
versus we're friends if we're friends
we could talk about anything and
everything
and you know we understand each other's
struggles and we understand that we have
a taivor
to speak lash and hara and to speak
during shul and when else am i going to
see you during the week you were
all running around so we get together of
shabbos and that's one of the beautiful
things of coming to shul
but there's appropriate time for the
talking and not talking
you know so so this idea
of mahalhim of being a mahalik
that the neshama the soul is able to
break out
includes this ability to
not be boxed in in your thinking and in
your
in your rigidity but rather
be not be an old mate i'm sorry the only
experience
of the malachim is the rigidity and the
in
being boxed in at the same time being a
mahalak doesn't mean you know
being half dressed and coming to shul
and everything
everything has tom vireya you know they
say tom berea
regarding taste and smell english
you can't debate we all have our own
taste but nevertheless the shul
has rules and regulations you have to
respect that
okay have a great day yoni may your
father have a fool shalema
amen and you should be simple you don't
look
you're just tired i see mosha has been a
little yawning you've been tired
and why am i not tired at seven in the
morning and i got up at uh probably 5
30.
you know the secret is
sleep apnea use a machine like i do i'm
i'm since i put on that machine i'm
so fresh yeah i'm telling you
when i put on that machine i know i'm
not wishing you know
one shouldn't have to use the machine
but from the day i put on the machines
about 10 years now
it was matrias amazing for me it was the
resurrection of the dead
i was falling asleep at the computer
falling asleep
as it got dark falling asleep at the
wheel
and feeling stomach all kinds of issues
and i couldn't figure out what's going
on the doctor says i think you have
sleep apnea
put put on the machine got the mask the
next morning
the next morning i felt like a million
bucks i said to hashem
you saved my life wow
so i could you know i'm the big talker
right you got
hashem you don't have that so you're
tired you're tired at two o'clock so get
up and go for a walk or
or just do some jogging and say you're
dancing in your house
and that will be good zeitgeist everyone
take care
thank you