Vyadata #5- Why is Chasidus a Must? Why isn't Talmud enough? Memorize 12 lines of Tanya chptr 41

okay so good morning we're holding in the miner um that the rabbit of the philippines said in 1932 it's in the volume of my mother-in-law cotton of the previous labor that we're using volume three and we're holding at page 208 just to recap briefly so whatever said over here that it's not enough to have faith in god you need to know god and it's not the rebels it's not his words it's it's a possibility so if someone asks you moishe and challenges you at shul and says why must i learn qasidis why is it not enough to learn gemara music why must i engage in in hasidis and the intricacies of godliness spheros alamos worlds spheros kabbalistic ideas plumbing systems of god you know this is not it's not my reality my reality is marriage uh uh a a get you know um sukis pesach every morning i think it's a very good question i'm sure you've been asked that question not only in h kodish or the community but also probably when you were at the chapelles that's that's a basic question and guess what i asked my i i asked myself that question when i was in morristown when i was a you know 19 20 years old so you attended private university and i attended rabbinical college of america and the question is the same for each and it's a good question especially now or a heidi's kislev a youth kislev is next week this is like the the question for you tess kislev is this question this was growing up i'm going to talk about it and some more when we make up a brand new this kiss love one morning of yo khan although asholin whose yard side who's he is passed on this year was still celebrating his the summer he would start for bringing eight o'clock in the evening utes kislev night and till 11 we the younger class this was an ocean park where he and brooklyn and la babachi shiva were allowed to stay and then officially we had to go to sleep because we had yeshiva the next morning we were all dressed in in um in fine shabbos garments and then we had a special meal and they gave out prizes for the those students who excelled in their hasidis studies because it's youth kislev the day when we celebrate hasidism and um with fabric till 11 and then from 11 if i bring till the morning literally and not figuratively literally until 6 7 in the morning with the older students and many guests that came to participate not everyone stayed of course till the morning but plenty did and it was a one-of-a-kind for brendan i really want i'm going to be hashem i think my clip my weekly history clip is going to be about recollecting those fabregas because they were so awesome and and it was really like it it was the fabregan of the year with a gossip for it was like he set the tone for the year and he would choose different stories to use to analyze you know he would take a story and analyze it from each from every angle and and and elaborate on hasidic concepts um as they apply to the story into our life so this is this is the question really in this mimer too of rum why must you know god why can't i have just have faith i'm wondering and the way this looks at the pussac it's a verse in the torah the question is how do you interpret the verse of wrong violin you should know today you should make your heart be attentive how do you interpret that so for most orthodox from jews the way they interpret it is to know god means to know there's a god in the world who create this who creates the the heavens and the earth and the six days of creation and and that's who and that's it and believe that in other words they interpret the adaita as a munna comes along the outer edge but this idea didn't begin with the previous rap it begins with the outer rib already and the alternative says no your dieter means you shall know him and your dear means understanding him you shall you should you you are obligated to understand god not just to believe in god understanding god this is this is a heavy load really how can i understand god god is infinite and and this was a question that the rambam assad you're going all the jewish philosophers the codifiers they struggled this question the rambam wrote an entire book called god for the replex the guide to answer this question so the alternator also has his approach to answering the question that's what we're learning about but before you know we we we're ready in middle but before we look at the answer it's important to know the history and the importance of the question otherwise why waste your time on this let's take out a gemara now and learn gemara missionaires why do you want to explore the right side of god the left side of god the inside of god the outside of god all these metaphors that seem to be so foreign to us says habakkuk it's not foreign to us it is us it is us if we understand ourselves better and and first and foremost we understand god better will see that it is us and this is god and guess what we can understand this god and that ever says the previous episode in the mind until now therefore after giving it an explanation and i don't want to repeat it because just take take time we have to continue but basically that ever says that once you know god don't waste faith on knowing god reserve faith for something that's not no noble faith and munna is there for a year for a situation and it's a situation that's constant of understanding the unknowable god or better said in english abraham the transcendental god the god that is finite and the god that's infinite does not require faith so nature the sun's out it's hot it's cold it's warm it's raining it's cloudy the mountains the checks and balances of life are all what we call within the realm of teva nature this nature doesn't require this for aspect of god the way god finds himself in nature does not require faith every fire it requires understanding and realizing that that god made nature now god hides himself in nature so find god within nature but for the natural phenomenon you don't need faith so too for the supernatural phenomenon i.e miracles you know you also don't need faith it's also relegated to knowledge why because nature itself understands there are things that are above nature so as soon as you say nature itself understands there's something above nature that itself is noble in other words if i know i've run listen to this if i know that my brain can only understand so much i did an iq test and it's been proven the tests show that this is the capacity of my brain and that's how much i understand what does that tell you by def what does that tell you it tells you there's a part there's some that informat information that you won't you aren't able to know with your brain so that very equation is knowledge in other words we call this in in the language of of hasidis the knowledge of positivity and the second thing is hash leela the knowledge of shlila means to negate of negation one plus one is two one plus one is not three so if i only know one plus one is two automatically i know that one plus one is not three how do i know that one plus one is not three not because i know one plus one is is is three is not three it's because i know one plus one is two so i automatically i negate anything else that would be the eq equivalent would equal one plus one so my knowledge of one plus one equaling three being wrong is because i know one plus one is two before i go further i have to know if you understand what i just said or i'm speaking french to you i'm trying to speak english i'm moisha did you follow are you lost i understand yeah maisha do you understand [Music] the point you mentioned about the moon the muna [Music] a moon for can we just go back to that for just a second i will but could you answer me if you understand my point of one plus one equaling two and one plus y not equaling three or you are not you can't think about it because you're still stuck on a muna okay maybe maybe you need a good coffee or a little slap to wake you up anyway wake up maisha wake up okay here it is wake up and munna is a prized star and munna is for is is experienced and to be used on something that you that is not no no noble not something you don't know something something that you that you don't know you don't know so study more and you'll know there's something that even if you were to study day and night you'll never know it not only won't you know it i won't know it no one will know it and the world doesn't know why because it's beyond knowing we use the word transcendent the word transcendent we've chosen we've chosen i've chosen others have chosen to use as representing this on inherent unknown noble issue an item right so siddha says there is an aspect of hashem the three aspects nature supernatural and transcendence three things elokim is nature utke wafkee is infinity supernatural and then there is anoiki or atmos essence see this khabad says jainism please turn on put on your mute jonasson please see this says that that and munna is is for the transcendent god it's something that we don't relate to so therefore the only way we can relate to it is by having faith but everything else you can understand and with that in mind i was explaining that even the supernatural force of god is noble and i gave an example and uh that one plus one equals two is the natural is similar to god's force in nature one plus one not equaling three is is a derivative of one plus one equal to and we call this yadis hashlila knowledge of negation that knowledge of negation is still in the realm of knowledge so so miracles shattering of convention which is infinite and out of the box still is associated with the box meaning to say that that's that's that's of course not literal what do i mean there is an experience that that we know with our intelligence that we cannot fathom and no one can fathom but that but it it it happens and it makes sense for it to happen it makes sense for there to be such a result as well even though we don't know it so as soon as you say it makes sense for that result to be you're putting it into the box into the category of knowledge what type of knowledge you're innocent not yet not the knowledge of positivity the power the knowledge of neg of negation but your diaz leela itself is the idea you even said did you have a study about do you ever study this topic yes and then there is oxmoos so what siddha says from the altar on that a muna is on in athmus and in utk fk there is that using a muna is a waste you know for that you need you need your deer you can know and should know for your dieter that this and and you understand that there's a force of god that it's daily enter nature and there's a supernatural force and that you don't have to rely on having faith in god i believe in god that god is also supernatural no and and if you think about this concept then it needs thought it needs thought reflection study when you when you think about this concept you know you know what the moisture the result is a very powerful one guess what that is that even miracles right which come from utk fk are part of the now of the adi experience of the knowledge experience and in a sense expected not expected like nature we get up every morning but we only say unbelievable you know it's either says wrong it's believable it's not unbelievable unbelievable is osmos it's that's unbelievable so you need belief to believe in it but shattering of convention god's force includes infinity so it's believable i'm not alone by it it's not it's not a daily occurrence but it doesn't point yet to the essence of god and therefore it doesn't require faith it requires knowledge moshe is it any clearer to you now uh yeah yeah yeah it is it's clear one question i was going over the mimer so i see that you know obviously the rabbit brings up here shame avaya shame eloquene yeah now we know we know so is the issue of one plus one would that fall under the guys that said elopeem yes plus one yes we all you guys have yes but what does that mean that means that the fact that one plus one doesn't equal three but if god wants it to be three it will be three that's from shame of hashem it shatters the rules of convention and law and order it's a miracle but but but one plus one equals two tells you only one plus one is two one plus one cannot be three so if i have a one plus one equal three one it's supported by one plus one equal to in the sense that naturally it can't be and yet god can make it happen in other words you know let me let me try to simplify this in words that we could relate to we know who we are at least we should know who we are or working on knowing who we are throughout our lifetime we know how much we can understand we know how much we can do at the same time we know that there are people that know more et cetera et cetera right the acknowledgement of something or someone that's greater than ourselves etc is i i'll never get there but i understand that that exists see so that that's idea that's knowledge that's not faith i wasn't based madris right i'm sure you were at university right you had students who you looked at and said wow they're so gifted i'm so behind right i had that yeshiva they were that their their brains their capacity was much quicker much sharper they might have not known more for different reasons because they weren't so diligent that us as us guys that were more diligent but the fact is i looked up and said wow my brain just doesn't get it hashem didn't bless me with such a brain so i acknowledge through my brain that there's something greater than my brain so that that thing that's greater than my brain becomes is relegated to the realm of knowledge not faith i don't need faith i understand that i have one brain and they have another brain that's beyond my brain that's knowledge that's not faith what is faith faith is and where's faith necessary to say that god in his very essence is found in your house in your car in the world as much as he is with the angels and the souls and even more so that makes no sense that makes no sense and guess we say it in halaluka and in halal right and how well how um in the earth on the earth here and that was the early the early philosophers that was their mistake by the way what did they think they thought that god is is limited to infinity so since god is limited to infinity god cannot find himself in the finite world it's a contradiction to what god is what was their mistake what does that say abraham god is not affinity infinity itself is a definition of what i called earlier a box the world of infinity you're innocent is the world of infinity anything outside of infinity feels uncomfortable for infinity so infinity finds itself comfortable in the box of infinity anything that is finite contradicts it and we say that god is found here in the finite world that makes no sense and for that we need faith that's where faith plays the role in other words your motion to take a parent film to take height and to write on it portions of the toyota the work that you do and say that by putting on these villains we're binding ourselves with god almighty makes no sense no sense whatsoever and yet and that's where you have to have faith so from when you think about your connection to hashem there's a connection that's that feels good right i'm i'm writing now about the uh the the orthodox jewish community from 1900 1950 in chicago and detroit to st louis and new york and the bronx and here and there right so what i'm what i'm smelling and and and analyzing and thinking about is how you choose the stibo was their hub everything happened to that steeple and you know you had societies do you know this however the society you know if you have if you wanted to be part of some you had to pay dues and become a member and that meant that they provided for you a doctor who would come visit you there would know 1910 1920 1930 so you had you had right to a doctor you had right to a cemetery plot you had right to a seat in the shull these were all the rights part of the rights of belonging to the society and that's why if you go into the the the cemeteries and and you see the entrance to many of them they have these gates you look up sometimes in english sometimes you get it sometimes in hebrew you know i'm saying yes 1920. i'm she you know i'm shay lickfish those were the societies that's what you're looking at and there's tremendous history there it's a you you could write volumes of books just from walking in cemeteries really you you could get the the uh um the panoramic view of judaism in of those periods by walking and and studying cemeteries and you know who has the time for that but that's that's that's a fact just a little that i'm dabbling and it's truly so little because it's so much it's overwhelming it's like in front of my eyes now that belonging to a society is the norm is the expected right then there are those that don't belong to a community but don't sign up as a member but nevertheless they're in the community and they come into one shoe once they're coming to another show so although they don't belong to your shoe and your society you see them once in a while you hear from them once in a while and guess what you have a responsibility to them not as much as to your members because your members are your members so they would be in using our example the utk versky they're out of the box but they're associated with the box okay so this is a good word you're in the box you're out of the box but yet associated with the box and then there is transcendence which you have no connection to the box other than if god decides he wants a box you got a box he doesn't want a box you don't have a box transcendence that's optimus and and for that we need belief and that's why i say i've run so when you take a parrot villain or a mezuzah and and you and you say this is holy this makes no sense it doesn't make sense and the answer is it doesn't make sense god chose and decided that he wants a pair of children for to be worn by every male yes moisher hey dolphin so that let me ask you a question uh let's see mrs like to fill in and was this fall into the category of aegis right right um like not necessary right right that's it but then what about you know when we hear about them they do make sense okay so right right so there's also a lot of conversation about that especially by the previous celebrity where he says that although mishpotem can be perceived the way you just said the truth is it's mitzvahs of hashem as soon as you say mitzvahs of hashem whether it be the hashem mitzvos of hashem of god is the icarus primary meaning to say my fulfillment is not because it makes sense because guess what we tried that once more than once and people slaughtered us and slaughtered people the spanish inquisition the pogroms the holocaust stalin everyone said it makes sense to kill to murder so logic and rationale failed so if you do a mitzvah because it makes sense tomorrow someone might say don't do the mitzvah because it might make make sense to them and you they won't do their mitzvah so therefore the whole idea of doing the mitzvah of adus being done because it's a testimony it's the anniversary it's thanksgiving next week no problem but we're thanking with thanksgiving every day we should be giving up thanksgivings every day there's yes there's a rosh kislev we're thankful that the the rabbit you came back there's there's uh you test kislya we're thanking the altered get back in different days okay fine you want to celebrate thanksgiving that that god gave us america and have freedom no problem but understand that it's all because of hashem a mitzvah of hashem avraham i want to make sure you understand do you have any thoughts questions you can understand i was reading uh tanya yes last night about mitzvahs the will of god yeah so we're asked to admit we're doing exactly what she wants to do and that's how i was that's why such a high thing that's how you bring children to this world by doing their mitzvahs and learning torah doing the will of hashem that's what makes it so powerful so special that's how we that's right that's how it all makes sense to a degree i mean we don't understand it we do because sims will right but but i i'm adding this morning to that thought that only that doesn't make sense nature is supernatural makes sense a god that's in nature and a god that trans that shatters nature i.e through miracles and the like it's it's sensible but to take a piece of high and make of it a mix and make it an item and say that this is holy and it's a mitzvah that makes no sense whatsoever it just doesn't okay uh jadison any any thoughts questions okay let's learn a little bit inside we have a few minutes left page 208 second the new paragraph this is this is the meaning order a you shall you shall feed faith it's apostle dylan verse 3 chapter 37 verse 3. you need to feed him if you don't feed him guess what and one of stars we have a beautiful term he was the loyal shepherd raya muhammad means rohit the the loyal shepherd why was majira been called the loyal shepherd says israel because bainu sustained jews the national and muslims and gave jews food of faith you understand moshe hi moishe moisha fed the yeden faith so he's called rohair raya the shepherd mohammed not as an adjective but as a noun he is the shepherd that gave faith and gives faith to the jews okay so literally meaning i want to make sure you understand guys literally rayam him that means the loyal shepherd meaning that the quality of moshe is that he's he's loyal here we're interpreting that he gave and feeds to us in this interpretation is becomes a noun you got it gosh me is and i want you to share this because this is a simple easy thought to share with your families shop is at the table troy i want you to take these two lines and just explain them to your wife and children because it's very important and it's very very deep and profound and necessary to understand what a rebel at sadiq is if you understand this many other things will make sense if you don't understand this you're missing the foundation to the building so you can jump up and down and when push comes to shove you say i'm gonna do it my way wait a minute who gives you faith who builds in you faith in god not faith in him you need someone to feed you faith because if he doesn't feed you someone doesn't feed you faith you're gonna starve and you're gonna be spiritually bereft and you'll do things on your own and plenty of people do that but if you have someone who guides you and leaves you vis-a-vis building your faith in god you're a blessed man you have a great teacher and so for example when begosmia his spiritual faculties become strengthened right his mind his heart you need right if you if you didn't sleep enough it's hard to compre to understand the shear in the morning you need your sleep if you didn't eat enough and you're hungry it's hard to concentrate this is the muscle and comprehending godly concepts come on you hear this twist that itself by knowing god for your data and understanding god that itself feeds your faith now what about what seemingly knowledge should not feed faith knowledge feeds knowledge that emphasis is something different knowledge not only does it feed knowledge that you know it actually strengthens your faith how is that i would think just the opposite and the answer is because clear knowledge comes to a point where it says i give up i don't know anymore this is beyond knowing healthy knowledge will acknowledge that it's limited that's what he says here the very fact that you have idea you have understanding comprehension of godly ideas that itself is the faith that is the food which feeds faith in other words i need faith why do i need faith abraham yo they said moshe he live velvet why do i need faith just use knowledge the answer is because the gas is running out of the car you're gonna stall so you need faith to keep you going or better said you need to understand that faith at the end of the day if that is what makes the connection that's why we say muna is the foundation what's the foundation of a building the building stands the building itself is like knowledge the foundation to the building is faith i think i told you when i picked up robbie cuna the head of khabar in california years ago when i lived in marin county and i picked him up at the airport so he asked me to drive him to berkeley to visit his khabar house at where rabbi yehuda ferris who joined us knows you know was the rabbi of the khabar house and uh he so he went to look at the house it was a question whether selling a certain house or something and what did he do he got out of the house he didn't even go inside he went and crept under the foundation he got schmutzic and dirty and i saw wow this meant this i asked him i asked him like rabbi why are you doing this go inside and look at the house he says you don't understand to see if the house is really worth its money you have to see if the foundation is strong if that's good you go further if the foundation is ruined everything else is cosmetics that you know either i can't sell it for a certain price or it's not worth that price i gotta and cudin who was a he was a maven in real estate and understanding real estate the assad the foundation the foundation is munna if you are plugged in with faith in god no one can budge you not a pandemic not a holocaust nothing will budge you from the connection if the faith is shaky then the whirlwinds and curveballs that we've had shake our faith and you start throwing off your yarmulke and your beard and your sisters and your shaytal and we had plenty of that yes uh yeah water oil floats on water so the oil can be so therefore the more water you add the higher the the oil flow so what what what you believe now it goes behind them and you understand what you believe now what you believe before you understand now right for a higher level excellent you heard what you said excellent what you believe now you understand later and your belief is in something higher greater and he gave the muscle from water and oil the more water you add the higher more on top the water the oil rises because oil would be the ammuna and water would be the knowledge okay this was a good class in hasidis khabad and think about it listen to the to the youtube if you need to to understand it better and as i said share it with your family any any other points everyone have a great day it's uh today is you'd be zelu right so we're getting closer five more days it's rosh hashanah of hasidis you test kislev so prepare yourselves uh velvel asked uh just to repeat i said that the rebbe encourages in many letters the importance of memorizing either literally word for word or in the concepts of the first 12 lines of tanya chapter 41. so it begins with bahram sorry those are the opening words of chapter and that ends on the other side second line with the words let's before the king and it's a total i believe of 12 lines so if you have the ability to memorize the words in hebrew or english do that if that's too difficult then remember the concepts and then my my suggestion and another suggestion actually is to think the to think those 12 lines before you begin davening daily for the rest of your life i'm i'm not saying what i'm going to say now is not to to pump my horn but since i heard that when i was a a teenager i don't know if every single day but almost every day in my life i don't begin darvening before i think those 12 lines shabbos when i have more time i meditate on those lines i reflect on those lines but even today in the shoe when i have to you know kind of rush because i have to get to this year i'll review in my mind those 12 lines and it's not just for before darkening it's at any any time as well but primarily if you had to kind of make a fixed time to do that before darkening and it shouldn't take you more than five minutes really but we mean to put your palace over your head or close your eyes close your ears no distractions think those words and you have to know what it means you have to first learn what it means so study it it's not difficult it shouldn't be and i'll be more than glad maybe one day to learn it with you if you want to i'll be more than glad to do that and and to use it it's it's a pill first of all it's a very it's a chill pill to use today's language as a chill pill it slows you down it calms you down you know and then you begin hashem so that's what the rabbit says and um it can be done it should be done it's it's it's it's good advice especially the last part of those 12 were lines the hine hashem nitsava love which became which the rebel made into one of the 12 verses that he wanted every child to memorize and it's not just for children but he was talking to about children right the 12th sukkah we call it the 12 verses one is it's not from the torah it's from tanya three of them are from tanya the the the last few lines of those 12 lines is and god stands upon us players were laid and god is all over and he knows what's in your heart so if you there ever says you know a person who's struggling with a certain issue spiritual issue if they were to stop and think about those words it'll help them either not do what they're not supposed to or do what they're supposed to and for sure it'll it it'll kind of put a hold or like i say time out right so the these 12 lines aren't just you know a meditation and reflection for before governing but it's it's it's a reality that could be used throughout our day and that's why it's it's so important and in in for the barbecue boys even girls but the barbecue boys in particular from bar mitzvah on this or maybe even pre-bar mitzvah you know this is as is a is a mainstay it's a staple it's it's a it's something that the the teachers and the rebbies and the muslim encourage them to memorize it and i can tell you that if you memorize something when you're young then when you're older um and you do it like i say every day it's it it becomes like ashrae right you know backwards and forwards because you say it three times a day so it's it's good to encourage our children and grandchildren to memorize that i remember my girls when they were studying in bassrivkin the girl chabad girl school they had in their sitter in the inside cover some of them had these 12 lines pasted in you know so that's what i'm referring to volvo do you have any questions on that or is it now clear what we're talking about no thank you very much yeah i said i said it rather quickly so i'm glad you asked me and it's always i woke up i woke up this morning to your what's up asking me about this and i felt i felt like a million bucks that the people actually taking what we're learning uh and using it that's the purpose it's not just a mind game it's it's you know so thank you very much for uh for giving giving us the opportunity volvo i'm very serious and big yeah i mean that that makes the makes makes me and makes everyone happy i mean say you know happier you know that that it's you teach you all know your teachers in different and when when a student of yours or people who benefit from your work when they when they comment on it and they give you feedback and have questions you see that you know what what i'm doing with my life is is is important holy and and and necessary so yah should play up to you i'm giving you the yashikaya okay zygos and everyone everyone tomorrow take care bye-bye