What is Stupidity?

okay good morning we're going to start learning this new mimer called quintus mayan we're using the text this green cover called overcoming folly although uh it is available in different previous printings called countries of mine either all hebrew or all english i believe or maybe there's another one with both so if you don't have this text at least okay if you have the other text um bring it along but the best is to get this and my understanding i'm speaking now for people listening online as well uh kaha sells it should sell it and uh the new bookstore that aaron smith is running sells it so uh try to get a hold of this one this one you can follow along it's going to be too hard for for moshe to keep on um copying it it's it's tedious that's why i didn't ask him to do it because i know it'll be tedious and it's time-consuming so please let's respect everyone's time and if you want to have the text just get your own safer as suggested two weeks ago okay so this is page 27 on the hebrew side in in this mimer just a brief introduction in 19 the early 1900s 1903 1904 there was a breakdown in in yiddish kite by many balabaton by we're not talking now about bahrain students who worked for a living and things were very hard with all the pogroms and different issues and the rebel ashab came to realize very quickly together with by the way this uh holy slava uh opened uh an institution called makzikiya das i believe in 1903 or 1904. this is written about in the introduction to the safer so if you want to know more about it please read the introduction so he asked that ever ashab they knew each other if he would support him and he said yes and uh he wrote uh and and he and he and he supported him there are many letters that are printed in the rashaabs igor's kaidish there are six volumes of rashabz i'm not talking about the 16 volumes of the previous representation and the 35 or 36 volumes the representation and there'll be more volumes of the letters but the rashab we have six left six volumes so in there you will find many more letters about this it was an entire operation and um the rashaba and the slan others got involved to marzieke what is marzique means to support hadas the religion one of the things that the rashad did for it was to write this mimer he calls it a contrast a journal an essay kuntus umayon and the reason why it's called the mayan is because it begins with the apostle king joao and the prophet joel um hashem hence it got it it was got the name contra mayon and the theme of this is to to strengthen baba batum this is the theme and that's why the rashad wrote for contraism in addition to his my moran that he said and fabregas that he led he wrote four specific essays one is kuntur satrila the countries of davaning second is countries the contrast of serving hashem the third is kuntum so mayan and the fourth was i think the conscious of of of the tree of life which is referring to learning siddhis the importance of learning is about davening and is about serving hashem in the in how do you serve hashem and each of them is a phenomenal study maybe with hashem's help and will one day get to learn some of each of the countries but this one in particular so the other three atv and eight zayam were written really for the yeshiva bakarim of lubavitch because these bacharam came from all kinds of backgrounds and even those that came from chabad with babbage backgrounds but it wasn't like today where a laboratory boy a young boy a 15 a 13 year old would learn they knew what's going on it was more cultural it was difficult to travel the times were hard so they came some of them came to the yeshiva and they didn't want to say this they said we in the heider we learned what's the siddhis so the rebel hashab had a breakthrough to them the importance so he wrote that contrast that deals with the importance of learning and then there are those who understood the importance of learning hasidis but guess what they had no feeling to darwin of course they darvened they prayed they said the words they went to shul but they didn't get in invest themselves in real meditation and davening so the rebel wrote a country's country explaining the importance of of investing yourself in davening and so too with the country salvador so those were three that were geared really to the yeshiva bahrain of la babbage now naturally when you learn it it applies to everyone but the emphasis and the why was written was for them this countries this essay was not written for them it was written for us for balabatin married people who have families in the and and eat and and deal with parnosa so here the rabbit tackles these issues and that's why as i wrote yesterday my brief note you'll you'll encounter here in the beginning he talks about who is the person and the type of different different types of typist indulgences and how to overcome them and understand what they are and from there he goes into um a discussion of parnosa to gomorrahs they seem contradictory and then he starts speaking about the clipper and he develops an entire theme but again the the purpose of of this and it's a long it's a long mimer i would like to see if we can learn one chapter per day at least you know so otherwise it will get very very um uh what's the word i want to use a very uh boring at some point i it's slapping on and now let's change subjects so if you learn a chapter a day maybe we'll avoid that but it is a long line even if we don't finish the entire thing we will get the a substantial amount of it okay that's what it yes when did the rashad write this 1904 i believe 1904 pedical minor efforts so so the the way this essay is defined is this mymorim because it's so it's so large that he needs to set it up that way so this is the first mimer and the first chapter the first miner and a wellspring from the house of hashem shall go forth and water the valley of that's a possible chapter 4 verse 18. okay [Music] now literally is the name of a locale a place the message comes along and says that also has a meaning and it's alluding to the idea of folly hence the name of the english uh version of the safer overcoming folly okay now you know avi why they gave it that name that's not a name that any darabayan did that's a name that the kahus editors decided to give out this name for this version of the mimer and it's because the the beginning of the mimer which kind of sets the tone speaks about this idea of stuss as we'll see soon the hindi if you look at the shoulders of the work sheeta pedo that the word shittim is associated with the word inclination hatoya to lean to incline uh and it's similar to what it says in the toyota system each day when uh when a woman will go astray painter sister tat tate metal she will go astray from the ways of modesty so we see that the word sister means tate to to go astray to lean to incline to another way here she is with her husband and she goes astray and secludes herself with another man right so we see that the word shita means milosion hatoya and he says so that's the madrish i'm sorry that's the seifera there's a possibility and he inclined he leaned they lay out to her what is the word what is the aramaic word for what does a star mean ustar means inclined means while shames then it creates the heart of sutton and therefore the sentiment for the word yet sahara is satan because the sutton makes man incline and go astray medellin from the he prosecutes him in heaven and he he turns towards the prosecution so from here we see that the word from from the top from the targum that the word is associated with us i want to point out in footnote 5 footnote 5 if you have the text that we're using it's the footnotes are on the english side not on the hebrew side the foot note 5 is for wear for what's called safer hasher russian until i prepared this my murders for this shear i thought safe rash russian was from a thousand years ago 800 years ago look what it says berlin 1896. now i didn't have it i don't have to say for to check would be interesting to check is this just when it was printed but really it was from five six hundred years ago or was it actually first written in 1896 i don't know if anyone could find that out i would be thankful to them but even if it was just reprinted again in berlin in 1896 it's interesting to me that the reber ashab in 1904 is aware of the safer and he quotes the safer i i don't know i i really would like to find out more about the safer in other words who wrote the safer i don't know who wrote the safer i'm looking it up on google okay it appeared as a separate work it was published in 1933 that doesn't make sense um it was repo republished oh the david kimchi uh it was uh david kimchi the redact right yeah yeah so he he i think he he wrote the safer i see a date in 1847. when did yeah no when did david kimchi live so um he was born in 1160. he died in 1235. now makes sense so because i i was wondering that ashab is quoting someone who's his age and and and someone from berlin he's in russia yeah he went to 1903 uh to berlin and other times for treatment but it's like it didn't make sense to me that he would be citing here someone who's who's his contemporary it now makes a lot of sense thank you okay let's go back next paragraph since we have a mattress that says the word again we we have to remember this because it's going to come up and up again again the the deposit says the word cheating that water went from the valley to the nakhoshita maybe avi can one can tell us some time where that would be today geographically but anyway the the the chicken gets water the valley of shite the measure says okay guys we know that it's a locale but i want to talk about it in a spiritual way what's going on the measure says um something was going on there that was a folly nature then comes along that ebb and says and we see both in sephiroth russian and entire gum that the words associated with inclination and inclining towards the aids of her so now the question is is there a connection is there connection between these two interpretations that's what he does in the next paragraph motion he starts explaining the connection without asking the question is there a connection like i just asked he answers the question automatically and this coincides with the midrashic interpretation [Music] whoever has their phone uh not on you please mute yourself it says what is stupidity and stupidity away you go astray you go aside you incline from the way of truth so they go hand in hand right what no it's not grop kite grub cut is just a general word yeah it's grumpkin is the vernacular on the street after after you had four beers we call that corrupt kite yes it's crop kite but here we're we're being a little more able the rashaba is teaching us how to be more refined and it starts with us 100 percent what's the core of group guys and and and i'm glad you brought it up although it's you know it sounds a little funny but it's good because what what what rashaba is showing us is that what we call coarseness corporeality and grub guide and all that begins with a core issue that doesn't seem to be grub to just just make a little u-turn a little left turn what's the big deal right go aside a little bit go astray says that ever that and that leads you to to going all the way let's go further and so we find in the words of our holy says this is not my own interpretation how the how you reconcile the two meanings of the word but i have support for it from the words of the gemura and here you see again that ashab knows that he has lit fox all around him and he needs to prove it to them too it's not enough that he's writing to hasidim and spiritual people he needs to speak to spiritual communists so he says yeah guys there's a gomorrah let's see what the gomorrah says on the possible he sister history when me when a person's wife will go astray she will exclude herself with someone else says that the mother quote ain't adam man does not desecrate uh uh god's command i do not veda unless nicholas the spirit of folly enter the person's psyche and mind you make it logical decision because the the the the stoos has got into your head okay and there still says you must have that so here she sees a man that she likes even though she's a married man so she goes and secludes herself knowing full well that she's doing something even if she didn't do any act that's prohibited the fact that she excluded herself with another man is already a question and a no-no and she was aware of it very well aware of it but yet she had that inclination that typhoon so the gemara says [Music] page 29 had inclination and folly [Music] the good way and the rabbit says if you want to see more about the reconciliation according to the talmudic understanding of the commentator explains it in his ex explanation called godos my man is galileo okay so we now have seen we have support top munich support from a gomura that the two ideas of going aside and folly are one of the same finished now starts to rashab's understanding of the larger picture here he begins the hasidis okay who and the idea is when a person decides he's desecrating the ways of taylor and he wants and he's drawn after the titus of his heart this pleasure himself with all kinds of indulgences in the parenthesis that says even we're not talking about pleasures and indulgences that are forbidden not we're not talking not only are we talking about such pleasures but even things that are permissible [Music] when a person pleasures themselves with indulgences that are not necessary means necessary for himself for his existence says my dear friends you got to hear it and here he says it it's a desecration of the ways every one of us is obligated to sanctify ourselves with with what is even permissible and again he brings support from the save it's a biblical commandment when it says qadoshan to you on the torah says the rampant that this is a fulfillment of mitzvahs the torah means be holy how should you be holy you don't need to eat as much as sleeping much and do as much etc etc and you want to and you hold yourself back you're fulfilled a mitzvah same in a torah nor literally the idea of kaddish the idea of condition to you is what involves for me from prohibitions the rabbit says not just prohibitions according to the ramban and hasidis follow not only hasidis but citizen others follow you see the safe enumerates this as one of the mid 630 myths i say which is cut sanctify yourself even with permissible matter the heinous keeper safe is obeying them says that my great great grandfather the alta rebbe the tanya which is also known as the book for intermediate savior shall begin him pay the comment in chapter 30 he says look over there and you'll see that he also agrees with the opinion of the that it's a mrs assay what is permissible only that that is that is needed for existence and the rabbit goes further [Music] and even that that you need for existence you shouldn't be seeking the pleasure within the food using that as an example you're hungry your wife is serving your steak tonight a delicious steak you've never had the steak throughout the year until now how do you eat a steak on a night when you're being served instead of potatoes and kasha you're being served or you take for yourself a nice big steak now the natural answer is wow and your your mom is uh all over the place you say no eat that steak that's tonight's dinner so i'm not telling you tonight to eat potatoes and kasha eat the steak but eat the steak with shame shamayim but it tastes so good okay taste it and and use that taste for existence for you to be able to serve hashem and this of course is a hard aveda it's much harder to take a physical gosh mystical taste and eating in other areas of life and to transform it for it to be really for hashem is a much harder avoider we know that but the rabbit says that is the objective let's continue inside big days let me finish this to the paragraph please okay i'll get back today so you call out with this the purpose of eating this should be just for serving the creator because with that we use one purpose and intent should be there and that's the only one lashing for the sake of heaven [Music] has intent to pleasure themselves surely if it's an indulgence you don't need it you don't need it you ate the steak what do you need to have now face certain uh fancy dessert come on you're full from the steak no everyone says you get you want to extra pleasure yourself no way the reason why you're having this extra indulgence is for pleasure for for for that extra pleasure hinesha when you when you're drawn after this you're desecrating the ways of terror according to the ramban the altar says temporarily you've taken the energy and dumped it into a place of negativity of ra it's not a permanent stay it's only a holding cell and through your chuva and aveda you can re-energize that energy in a positive way but temporarily it's surrounded by mice rats and cats and dogs and everything else and it smells and it's no good and it's suffering you've put it into a place of ra temporarily kanye chapter 7 next page top of the page [Music] what's the reason why because why why why why does this go to such a bad place because you were searching for the taiva now anyone that says hasidis doesn't have a muslim i i encourage them just to read what we learned okay but what's the purpose i always say and it's important the the the the muslim is khasid to know yourself better let's continue the paragraph when we finish and we'll talk if we have a few minutes how does it happen that the energy of kedusha that a person was given by hashem goes so far so astray it's because of the hassasas the convincing of the eight sahara llama fund of the opposite hey this is good and i'm quoting braces this week's pasha it's pleasurable to the eyes oh it's see it sees it's looks so good the eyes in today's passion is and then she said hey guy come here you also indulged in also to eat with her each paragraph here has a kid's room she deems it having pleasure from things that permissible is also a desecration of the ways of torah caused by the orders which inclines man from the way of truth [Music] and he also goes in the sense and then turns the table and prosecutes the person yes yoni you had a question or a comment yeah so what you were talking about before about the type of let's say the state right yeah so so and you were talking and the rabbit says he's talking about how you have to elevate that stake or whatever that gosh miss is for a holy thing for for a godly purpose yeah so is that that that's what we do when we say kappa chavez kardash when we're having the chong or the kuggle yeah yes uh no i would say no i wouldn't say yes i'm sorry it's not just about saying words [Music] that's not that's not what it's about say say abracadabra it's the same thing say mickey mental and yogi berra and then and the jackie robinson so what it's not about words it's about inside you are you really eating in the shame shamayim and we know come on let's not kid ourselves we know the difference is how you eat it you could tell by yourself and others but begin with ourselves when we're doing something more like anxious with shame the the rush the adrenaline the the the taiva is not there i'm sorry again are there people who are kind of silent but deadly cool and collective and they commit sins absolutely but but but the the passion the passion the the excitement wow all that and that doesn't mean screaming well it means saying wow inside so when you have chong cha we don't say that whatever just don't say it so is there a difference between not me not saying it and you saying it there are times we both eat it with say more the same shamayam at at times we eat it but but you want to know the balance shapes your mind when that song is brought to you first of all what do you need a whole full plate of taunt to have stomach problems and fall asleep take a little bit begin with a little don't take a whole plate take a little and calm yourself down before you go to the plate bring the food up to you don't put your head into the food make a bracha if you made what you washed okay and you do all those things i'm telling you you're going to eat the chunk smaller shapes and you're going to eat less of it and you'll be healthier and the same is true with everything the best thing to do is in my humble opinion when when you are served food or you take food take a few minutes a minute two three don't eat it just let it stand in front of you before you start eating break the passion but again everyone has their way of dealing with it but it doesn't i'm sorry to say your knee uh it does not come just from single shane that was shaping cover chabas and um it doesn't say come from saying it doesn't come from that it doesn't come from it doesn't come from me that way and i'm not i'm not i don't mean to be little anyone says i'm saying coffee to shabbos but really it's it's an issue we have here the community and and where you're coming from i understand you know it it doesn't work this this osmosis type of yiddish kite and toyota i don't know i i i it's it's not i don't know maybe listen it doesn't work for me it works for you and others because for me shuffling and closing my eyes and jumping up and down and screaming words doesn't mean that inside i don't have the tither i think more practical things to do to to to to do something and probably hillary can suggest some psychological things that can be done to calm yourself from rushing to taiwa anyone else want to comment about that um what i think that i just at a practical level there's uh first of all the the first thing to to that i uh that i encourage us to pay attention to when we're uh in almost any state of psychological distress is whether we're breathing or not and how we're breathing and the second thing is oftentimes uh when we're when we're anxious and we eat in a compulsive way um it's uh we're uh it's because we're dehydrated first so to make sure to drink water before you before you eat so because it becomes in stress we confuse hunger and thirst so those are two of the basics thank you okay kevin we'll continue tomorrow again uh we're going to leave you know we'll leave sometimes if i'm able to get to school to an earlier minion i hear that him so right after this monastery i can get back maybe by 7 15. yes yes moshe go ahead good question i won't be here tomorrow but i'll be back thursday god willing okay yes moshe yeah i just i'm i'm struck by the i mean this those unbelievable similarities at least in the beginning between what we've learned so far and what the only son of the rashad authored the series of my mara ambassador gani i mean the holy day the him it's like i i almost feel like i'm i'm reading i'm learning this the beginning yeah there's there's it's the same engine it's the same at the issue but the the basiligani is coming from the because we haven't yet finished and we just began you see he's going to get to the idea of which is the thrust of the basiligani yes so so because you've learned basiligani and some of you have learned it so of course there's a lot of similarities um again it all goes back really to the memoriam of the alta river don't think that these these concepts are not found at the moment of the altar ever even if even even the even the bossily ghani that the previous rebbe you know wrote um has origins earlier so in other words i hear what you're saying but just be aware that uh you could find my muram in lakuta torah and tara are where he speaks about similar ideas as well but but the way it's articulated in bus league or the way it's articulated over here is very special to everyone have a good day bye bye