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Ukraine #10- Find the problem so that you can deal w it -Don't box G-d into Greatness Ohr lArba 1940
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this mimer we're learning now
oil arbor oscar
focuses on
what pedicus comet says
and what beer hummus is
and
um it's a very important idea
because normally you think of zika
summit searching for muhammad
searching places
and that happiness mimer says that if
the only meaning of
this mission
the night
of the 14th we search for muhammad
to the light of a candle we use a candle
a light
it never said if it's only about
searching for comments
then
it it's searching for for places where
there's comments then the mystery should
have said
the night of the 14th you search places
where there's comets say exactly what
you mean
it's like instead of scratching the air
this way you scratch your air this
way israel you want a plane
i don't believe it
are you you're actually flying
you're in the air flying or you're
how are you able yes yeah i don't think
you can hear for the headphones i can
hear you i can hear you how are you able
to hear me yeah so
go ahead i got free internet because
they gave me they gave my kosher meal
away to somebody else so they gave me
free internet as a compensation
you're flying from air to stroll to
america
yeah yeah
i'm telling you it's really mashiach's
time i mean this is amazing
you know i remember i remember oh i'll
tell you
let me tell you the highlight of the day
rabbi the highlight of the day yes we
had a stop over in frankfurt airport
i put on palace into philly and
frankfort airport that was the highlight
of the day
hashem
transformation
wow wow this is i remember we had the
the the chaplain from uh in kuwait he
was in kuwait or saudi arabia he was on
one time
we're talking to you
mid-air you're learning mid-air
it's it's really bushier's time yeah i
mean if mashiach's not coming if mushy
doesn't come because of this i don't
know what's going to take him to come
it's unbelievable anyway good to see you
so let's learn a little consider so what
i'm saying yeah what were you saying yes
sir go ahead
no i didn't say anything i just i put my
background in as much baking since we're
on pesach so
okay that's cute so let's go back so the
rebbe says the implication of the mishna
of orlar but also boycott as a comments
lawyer on there implies you have to
search the comments
not search for the comments you have to
search
the comments why should you search the
comments because the comments represents
horniness ego guy of a negativity
the question is what form
do do we each have
and we have to search that and that's
the
beginning stages of leaving mitzrayim
because remember
when are we searching for helmets the
night before pesach so you'd see us with
ryan the actual exodus only begins the
night after so we have a 24-hour period
of
finding out what's our type of comments
once you find out what type of comments
he is comes the next morning
and you have to do beer comments
you have to get rid of the comments
and this is a very important
lesson in in in character refinement and
in many other things
before you can succeed in getting rid of
a problem you have to know very well
what the problem is
before you could defeat an enemy you
have to know who your enemy is
okay a basic rule that i was taught when
i was you know actively doing uh you
know solicitation for sliches for chabad
house and all that was
you have to know your donor
if you solicit them with too little or
too much
both are are a waste of time and and and
that's not going to lead to success
you have to know
what that person is worth or what they
what they like giving to you know things
like that then
you'll you'll look um
you'll customize your solicitation so in
every aspect of life
knowing the comments knowing the issue
is is very important so that's number
one that's at night
then comes the morning
and the morning is you have to get rid
of it if it's something negative you
don't want it because you don't want to
go into pesach
with this negativity because a
boy
is not going to feel uncomfortable
sitting at the seder
we're celebrating the exodus we're
celebrating liberation and freedom
and yet
we have a full plate and this is also
very important it's important to
and i i would think i you know
arab pesach on one hand it's a hectic
day on the other hand there's time to
like breathe a little bit and
and just think and and prepare
so it's a good time to to to incorporate
that that
getting rid of the of the of the comets
in the morning hours
of total
total elimination and the rabbit says
this is the elimination that's analogous
to a wealthy person versus a poor person
because the night of pesach
says
[Applause]
is associated with
the hebrew word die dalagyut you reverse
your dollar you get die
and the gamora says
that you have to fill
the poor person with with their needs
as much as they need
but not more
you're not obligated to give them more
so the the why is that because the poor
person is coming with a limited request
i don't have this amount of food or
clothing please fill me up
okay
but
the attitude of
an expansion that goes beyond what what
the needs are that's not included
so that's why the rebel says the night
of the 14th the avoid the sir activity
is
just
filling up a need
whereas the morning already brings the
gemara the more good morning is called
the re-show although the 15th is the
first but the commander equates the day
of the 14th to the 15th night to be
re-shown rishi implies
the
we say in hebrew it is the vedic
attitude the wealthy attitude what's the
wealthy attitude there's the negative
wealthy attitude that i own the world
and i'm the boss and you're not going to
tell me because i'm a picture and i have
a lot of money but on a spiritual level
on a holy level the attitude is
complete
um complete wholesomeness that doesn't
come it's not generated because of a
problem but because in in and of itself
it's wealthy it's rich
you know there are people who are
aristocratic
aristocr graduates
that is
that is not because
you know i i have to act a certain way
no
this isn't your dna if you come from
that type of family
you know you eat you know in the dining
room you don't eat in the kitchen every
night
the rabbit's brother-in-law will tell
you a secret you're a shock
i was told from people who were in the
house
every every evening he had supper in his
dining room
not in the kitchen
because he felt he comes from royalty
the gorari family and royalty doesn't
sit in the kitchen
royalty sits in a dining room on a large
table you know with
the windows you know and it's royal
my wife told me too that you know she
observed or heard about certain people
who
looked at themselves or actually came
from
a restructured graduate and and wealth
and all that
that they you know they
they conduct themselves in a different
way many times unfortunately it comes
along with a guyver you know with an ego
uh horniness but
the the attitude is i'm not here to
solve a problem i'm not here i'm not
someone that you have to help
this is the way it is
so that evan says
this attitude should be the one that we
take
to getting rid of the problem of the
comets we have to burn it completely
not we have to burn it because it
plagues us
the the character deficiency that we are
looking to
uh
liberate ourselves from so that we we
are able at night to go out of mitzrayim
should be with the attitude this doesn't
belong in my experience
it's just not
the jewish experience it's not my
experience i i'm better than that like
rabbi abraham towards giova shalom
writes so so beautifully in his foreign
he writes that he was raised by his
father when he was a young teenager and
wanted to do some mischievous things his
father would say yiddish as past
s past nit
it's not in english it means it is not
be fitting
why not
you know the family you come from
you come from a rubbish a family
you know the harness type of
on and on and on and and and he says
that
you know
that was something that he heard and he
shares that in his books to say that
we as eden
have a responsibility to something
greater so it's not about
you know oh this deficiency is only my
problem if it's your problem if it's our
problem it's because it's a problem for
the jewish people and therefore should
not be done
so it's much greater in other words when
we act inappropriately when we act not
nice when we act uh out of control
it's not just our issue
it
we are representative of of the jewish
people
we are representative of you know
orthodox people or from people of
charadin whatever the case
and and and
you'll be judged you people judge you
whether you like it or not
so this this is the attitude of the
usher so let's continue
then the devil said
this is
the morning
and then
comes the night
and at the night we start dealing with
the exodus deliberation which didn't
really get to yet let's go back and find
the page over here
we are on page 163
oh
uh 163 no yeah what i did want to say is
that much of brought to my attention and
i thank him for it
we quoted the verse
right the
mimer
chapter 4
and 162
begins with the first godless sham of
muhammad
right
god is great
um
is very praiseworthy it's a blessing
until in chapter 1
verse 3.
well look to allah say and to his
greatness
so i translated yes to the takers i mean
there is no end i translate it that way
because it was a paraphrase of the real
translation
the real translation comes from the word
khakira searching
but it doesn't rot into his greatness
there is no searching it doesn't you
know it doesn't sound good
so i i what does it mean there's no
searching it means
that
you can't find them god is so awesome
and so great that even if you search the
search you will never find god i know
god
you know aspects of god
so that's why i i just say in in myself
yesterday
right right
but the wording is there is
doesn't say so you have to so i
translate
there is no end meaning he's
basically
less less
increasingly that
that's what i'm saying i'm i'm using a
word in english that i thought
summarizes what we what the plastic
literally means with the word faker
so it was good that you pointed that out
moisha that's not the actual translation
literal but it's the the paraphrasing
the concept that the prosecutor means to
communicate and now
we are at
um
we are at the second there ever said
there's two ways of interp explaining it
um
are we on 164 already where's the second
way
it's four lines from the bottom right
thank you
so let's go to the second wave in obey
so the second way of understanding this
verse the a messiah god oh
well this is not a verse this is the
gemara the gemura's interpretation on
the verse
when is hashem great kisha who being ali
keno when he finds himself in the city
of god
i know the a messiah
like say godo
when is it possible to call hashem great
it's only when he is in the city of god
but his true greatness
there is no
there is no ability to search and find
till the doula
because
if you're looking for the essential
greatness of ram god's real awesomeness
a
cloud no one can truly
find it
commercial kosovo and now he brings
another verse to support that
it says
that's the way you're supposed to read
the puzzle with a question
if you will search here hear me if you
will search eloka god
sir
will you find him
you really think you'll find god if you
search for him the essence of god
oh see if there's another person that
says
to you hashem
has this interpretation
that the the attribute of godula of
greatness is ancillaries to fail
and subservient to the her
hashem
so literally it means to you hashem is
greatness see this says
much much deeper
that the concept the definition of god
being great
is
ancillary to the true god
because god transcends greatness god is
not limited to greatness if someone's
going to say to you moshe is god great
it depends what the the answers depends
if you want to box god into greatness
he's not great
if you want to say god is also great
he's also great
abraham you understand
so
the rev interpreted the interpretation
bro look see this that
doula as a definition as a box
is to fail is ancillary
and will be taylor and subservient to
you meaning your the essence of god
you cannot say god's essence is great
god's essence includes greatness
guess what yes sir for that matter god's
greatness includes
humility
and many other
character traits that khazal used
some will say well
god is only great you can't tell me god
is not great oh really
what kind of god are you talking about
you're talking about a god that's
already associated himself with a
definition called great and who made
that definition
god himself so god is greater than the
definition
he created the definition great
so if he created the definition of great
himself transcends that definition i.e
he's beyond greatness that's why we say
hashem
doula get doula is ancillary and
subservient to greatness to god to the
hope let's continue
okay my man and now he brings a very
famous gemura
be walking with the velocity we turn the
page to 164
in the very same place where god is
gedula god is great
there
there and then in that very same
location
in that very same experience you will
find his humility
not elsewhere motion you could say
god creating the world or making the
splitting the red sea taking the jews
out of egypt when they're feeding on my
lake that's greatness
but walking on the street every day the
sun coming out that's small change
what does i'll say no
wherever you identify god as great sham
in that very place in that very
experience you see his humility
what's the humility
what's the humility of ram
that god condensed himself to a
definition called great
because the definition of great is also
a box and a definition and god's way
beyond that god transcends that so in
other words god is transcendental
or in in the language of kabat khasi
this god is athmus
we discuss this essence
so that's why
if if if you if you consider god great
being a definition then in that very
same point the same place you can
consider god being humble and and small
it's no difference it's another
definition of god and he chooses to be
that way whenever he wants
let's see what he says
itself greatness itself
is humility
and modesty
in comparison with god of his butter to
god in his in transcendental state or
commandment as well and as the rabbis
say
martial they give a mushroom
often
someone who has tens of thousands of
gold coins
shockingly
and yet you praise the same person
for his silver coins
chazelle shiftless nylagaba this is an
embarrassment right
if you have gold coins praising it with
silver coins is an embarrassment
another example a wise man
because
who's very wise in all
fields of wisdom in science in torah
in art in all kinds of areas the person
is gifted
in medicine
and godly knowledge
the man not only knows
tomorrow
divinity the study of divinity so he
knows gemara he knows siddhis and he
knows medicine
right
maybe our velvel is one of those people
and
simultaneously he's like he's like
moishe
he's a craftsman with his hand
and he can use his hand for all kinds of
tremendous kog'maw be it art be it the
carpentry his gift with his hand
someone will come along and said you
know this fellow his greatness is wow
what a craftsman
how does it know this is an
embarrassment to him
here is a person who's it was who excels
in godly wisdom and torah wisdom in a
medicine and what are your laws about
him that he can make a nice round table
or a square table with good legs and and
etc come on
this is a muscle yes motion
that's just interesting so we're talking
about this that the video crap is
bringing this muscle because
his
grandfather
the rebel the river uh ma rash right was
also
knew how to work with his hands yep
right yep is it in in the library it's
upstairs in 770 there's some things of
his right the in the library in the
rebbe's room
in the rebber's room there's a round
table a little round table next to his
desk
that table was built by the rebel mirage
and it was sent here
by a relative
to the rebels library to the rebber
uh in parts it's made out of pieces so
it was tran
you were able to send it on a boat
and that's how it ended up here and
that's the table that they say that abba
maharaja built with his own hands
it's also it's also interesting because
she also wrote two or three mcgillis
yeah
and
i when i was writing anyway it's very
interesting because
he was a sofer also yes yes
yes and and that's how does the hygiene
going right that we don't
the megillah doesn't have our mcgillers
don't have hamelich beginning each
column because the marash didn't write
it that way
yes right
let's go back thank you hey
so so too
the concept of greatness is comparative
comparable
to calling a a a gifted godly man and
scholar and and and and
doctor
that he it's it it's it's it's nothing
it's it's a another shiftless
making a big deal about god's greatness
it's you're missing the point you're
missing the boat god's way beyond
greatness if he also has greatness but
don't limit him to limit him to
greatness
there will go down say oh ask me look at
the words his essential greatness ain't
care you cannot
find
a clown
god's greatness is transcends
in the intellectual realm at all
completely
the inna god
make a note where we're up to
we'll stop over here because it starts
another con he explains a little more
and i don't want to rush it
but
this idea
is very important and uh just for a
second
people are
enamored
does anyone have a bad word to say about
a moisture
no
you know even those that were upset with
some of his rulings 50 60 years ago
was scared of him
the samurai who was very upset with his
ruling on in vitro fertilization back in
the 60s
i mean really very uh and he came out
completely against him ramosa was you
know moderate permitted it in a certain
way but nevertheless in the sample of it
was a great time of hawking felt it was
a wrong
sock or it shouldn't be ruled that way
um so they they set them so should we go
and uh meet with him he said don't go
with me with him because he'll make
minced meat out of you
because he can learn much better than
you
the the satmarovs are
objection was that this will lead
to a
um a callousness in in in the overall
issue you understand
and i and i in my book on saturn
identified that i think a lot of his
rhetoric
it was rhetoric why
his rhetoric was if he doesn't make it
into a big deal you're going to go
further it's a gether it's what hazal
called together the german shabbos
almost half of hill kashabus is all
about goddard or maybe you know
it's technically you're allowed to do it
but we don't want you maybe to do this
you don't want to swim so don't do this
you know you know what i'm saying so the
sapphire felt that a a ruling like that
will lead to issuance to actual
you know wasting of semen okay
in this case you're a lot of way you
know spill the semen why for the purpose
of analyzing it and then inserting it
and having a child
right but it it leads to uh to have
cadence to uh to um to a situation where
you'll do whatever you want
so then when they when these people said
let's go and confront them not just sit
in the back and and send out letters and
publish articles and you know and talk
not nicely that's
something up said stay away from him
because he's gonna he's gonna show you
you're you're totally wrong
now
so this happened the emotion was was was
elite the leading plastic of the
generation the past generation
was that rabbi
i think everyone anyone who knew him
would say that wasn't how much moisture
was his humility
that he could sit at the same table with
a little boy or a girl and talk to them
and feel good and the same with
themselves
if you heard what what i said from what
i gathered from the people i spoke to
was
yes he learned day and night and yes he
support you know knew all of torah
whatever that means but that that
to me
that's not his greatness
his greatness is his accessibility
and willingness to help every jew that
came in to ask him something he
come in you don't need an appointment
and you don't need cars
you don't need show time
you know what i'm saying now of course
uh you know uh
a little say that you need but but the
attitude the accessibility the
the the being you know homely fatherly
you know that attitude that's special
that my show was that way too
she was was such a
sweet person
sweet person i think i told you uh
when i researched the article about him
uh that i wrote the book about him
actually so i came across a certain
rabbi who lived in the the queen's area
who came out with a book
against our moishes chuvas i mean this
is like
a and and like you would think that they
would they would stone him
he went to the printer the same printer
who printed that meshes for him and he
asked him
would you print my safer so the printer
said i think it was a kabotnik i think
i told you this just to repeat it
quickly israel didn't hear it i don't
know if i've heard it
so um the printer said i have to ask
grammation first of all i've been
printing this far in for many years
so he has
preference you know
and you're writing a book against his
book
he asked her my should have what she
said sure you should print it
sure you should print it
and and and mind you he wrote
not with the greatest there are heroes
that's humility the person who's
opposing what you wrote you tell the
printer you could have easily told them
don't print it it's not appropriate
especially if he's writing you know with
chutzpah he was a great scholar this guy
this he was a great time with hunger but
nevertheless
but
that's an english
that humility so what i'm what
we're learning here about
doula
if cadoula becomes a definition a box
a thing
stay far away from it
if catholics part of a
uh humble experience entertain it
i've also told you in the past years ago
my experience with a capitalist
i was
i was learning certain teachings of the
arizona i you know about reincarnation i
really took time to to to learn it and i
had questions because i was like you
know questions from the text and so i
was told there's someone here in
brooklyn that knows it well and i called
them
called him
and he spoke down at me like
very very arrogant i i should have hung
up the phone but i had their parents
so i said thank you and goodbye and i
never called them again then i went to
someone else here who
was much more humble
so
you know
the definition delta rabbit says it
already chapter 6 if you understand
chapter 6 in tanya it's clear al-taraba
says what is the definition of holiness
kaddush kidusa
it's a bittle
and this is such that's it
if you if we want to know is this person
holy should i follow this rabbi should i
follow this rebbe should i follow the
answer is do they have bitter if they
have beetle
entertain it if they don't have bitter
stay far away no they can still they
still can answer your hello questions
and they can teach you a share but
they're not your
teacher they're not your mentor they're
not your god you need bitter
you need people that that's what we
learned in chabad
that that you bitter is the
the kernel
of truth and ramosa had bitter abraham
kenyatsuki it seemed that had that that
bittle you know not that i'm better the
fact that he's a person that knows all
of the titan and learns all the tighter
does you know
what are people bothering him
or say my father when he was
um
1950 12 and a half he wasn't even bar
mitzvah
he comes from the maborot
in uh near haifa with the
a
athlete
where they took in the refugees that
came from romania
and he helps the
manager the the organizer there of the
camp
by making an announcement in romanian so
that the people can understand to come
two o'clock to a meeting in the
main hall
and then my father says can you help me
with something says sure i would like to
meet a novi
he says you want to meet a navi
go to bernay brock you'll find the navi
my father says i don't know what the
name brock is i just know what my rebbe
took my my tutor taught me after i went
to public school during the day
and at night my father hi my mother my
mother my grandmother hired a teacher
for me several times a week
he told me there's such a thing the
torah talks about a navi
you want a navi there's a jew they call
him the hazarinish he lives in blackrock
go there my father comes to his my
grandfather he says
i'd like to go see the navy and bernie
brock
my grandfather probably thought he was
out of his mind
but he didn't say anything and he gave
him a few coins a few lyra
and the first time that my father went
on a bus i think the same number 54 that
goes into jabatinsky and vane brock
from the tanya he went from athlete to
netanyahu
for another bus and and then up the
third bus and he got to the house of
they told them the house of the of the
khazanesh of the navi he knocks on the
door and the aid for the kazanish comes
to the door the gabay
and he says what do you want little boy
he says i want to see the navy he says
get out of here and don't come back or
you'll be in trouble
my father takes his fists and bangs on
the door
and he keeps on banging and the garbage
comes back to the door and says i warned
you i'm going to hit you
you are bothering us there's no time for
jokes
my father says i'm not bothering you i
know there's a nubby here and i was
taught by my my malama in in in in
romania that the terror talks about navi
i want to see a nervy
and the guy slams the door at him
my father the third time bangs on the
door he
the guy says i'm gonna hit you
he doesn't care
and he comes back
and he says
i went to the khazai nish and i i asked
him i told him there's this boy
bothering he says let him in
he opened the door his whole attitude
changed to my father he wasn't angry at
him all of a sudden
and there was a table with soda and
cookies
and the kazanish came out
and he told the kazoos that his malamute
he didn't tell him are you the numbi
you know he had enough brains
he saw the knobby
and he said myself she says what can i
help you with boy
he says i uh my malama told me when i
got there so i should go to yeshiva he
says you want to go to yeshiva
i have a yeshiva pharisee on here in
benebrach he calls his um assistant the
principal and he came and he took my
father from the kazani shiva
to
the from his house to the yeshiva why am
i telling the story
humidity
was was a very holy person and
everything else and you know the ability
a little boy comes to you
seems to be has nothing better what to
do you know running around and nudging
and he doesn't say that come in
talks to you for a few minutes
tries to help you
so the the the hashem doula
has to be put into perspective
and that's why
in chabad we don't get
we're not fathomed by greatness
greatness doesn't talk to us that it's
it's a nice uh it's a nice you know um
what's it called candy you know what i
mean okay okay
the whole concept of gadolin i don't
want to go into it now because it's late
but
you know
that's not our language you know
but in particular this whole concept of
gadolin you know he's a goddess she's a
godly he's not a god
it's not part of our jargon our
dictionary
you know
um
you could be a simple person and you're
really the greatest of the great
ashley mccarthy slave would always tell
all the stories of the the miser and the
the pauper and the pauper and the beggar
and they were the greatest of the great
right who is to say
because again philosophically that's
what we learned in today's sheer
philosophically
if if you if you if you box god into
greatness
he is not great and you're not great and
it's it's it's ridiculous if you
understand that god transcends greatness
and
one feature of the of the puzzle is
greatness then then it means something
i think uh everyone understands yeah
so zeitgeist everyone and uh have a safe
trip to sir
this is uh a first for us for me at
least
um
so you gotta teach when you get back the
secret and uh we'll be able to uh do
this because years ago when the rebel
was fabring
you know and you were flying from la to
new york and if i bring in
you it was you couldn't connect and if
you connected it it costed so much money
i mean you know so
now look you can fly in a plane and and
you can not only hear but you could see
i mean
mashiach
they say you've brought mashiach to the
shire
psychism to everyone shallow