What's Advantage of Being Alive?

i call here okay page 99 99 we're starting a new mimer today my merv peter calif for those that came late please know sunday the time we're starting is 2 15 your time 2 15 until three minutes [Music] would call you by your name [Music] is called hakato the small one and yeshiva we used to use the word the shrimp i don't know why they use the word shrimp does anyone know why they use the name shrimp for a guy who's very small very short but anyway that's that's uh a slogan from the yeshiva world from the 1970s shimola cotton the small one the that yeah short one davida caught dove with the small one so what do we see yonder sin that hazal give attribution and prominence to the idea of cutting in other words the lavana moisture came and said listen it's not fair i'm large and i'm big and what are you doing to me you're saying shrink become small it's not fair so hashem says my dear livana you are so special that such people like shmuel and like david such leaders and prominent people for the jewish people for eternity they're identified with your attribute hakka tone that's that's what that's what it says let's continue so that's the end of the chazal now comes the rashab and develops the idea let's see how he develops the idea is that he can't beat each other this is the same when it comes to the descent of the soul investing itself in a body in an animal drive i said who olo is going the soul over there is um it's liable to become debased in other words it's going to get schmutzick dirty it's going into a goof it's going into an africa bombings these four words are a quote those i believe from khazal but there are shab uses in here and i've seen another member all paths all draghim are fraught with danger now what that means is in the olden days you traveled on these you know roads and ways that were you know not not paved and there were robbers and thieves and bandits and gangs all over so all through him are dangerous parenthetically i think this is a great insight if i bring about not now but just to put it on reserve for a future time old the derek that you choose whatever the derek is it's because it's fraught with danger what does that mean they're going to be issues someone comes into yiddish right and says i choose this path if they don't understand that you're going to have issues someone's going to say why that path why not this path you're not at this level this is for other people i don't care whatever whatever path you take you're saying you're a little you're as far that you're this you're that you're not religious whatever it is and if you know at the time when you choose your path that call out you'll have less issues you prepare yourself better right right if you're going into areas that are a little tough you do what avi does you know you put that revolver in your pocket and you drive through like a lion anyone starts up who gets a shot or if you don't do that you're just careful who's to your right and who's to your left you look behind you or you have a mundane talking without your gun and without you you just go full forward full force ahead now i'm not saying abby's making with his muscle right the point the point is that i knew i knew i knew i would get ravi to smile good hashem so the kuda you is some people they they convince themselves i thought about what path and way i should choose in my life i spent days and i spent years and i spent my mind space and you think i'm going to choose a path and it's going to be all rosy and the next morning you wake up and you get a curveball and it's upsets you knew what happened always all paths are fraught with danger and if you know ahead of time you'll protect yourself back to the moment one of the great things of living in israel is you whenever you're on the road you never forget that you're right you're right and guess what hillary we're having the same thing in the united states now too it's happening okay anyway let's go to the minor kilo pesos for seeing crunches on the door so your neshama comes into the world it goes into this goof and this nephesh are bombings is at its door temptations are all around you indulges as i hear live it up [Music] nevertheless hashem says you know it's worthwhile i should send to the shema on to this um merry-go-round or um you know cycle or big wheel you know because of the ascent the benefit the honey floor look at the rabbit's language the wondrous aliyah nasa and again parenthetically here you all move territorial you gave up everything in america right or wherever you're coming from but the aliyah is take these words and live with them in your own lives your family lives this wondrous aliyah that you made is worth the urethra you read the meaning do you read it for the gosmius that you had outside of registration it's worth it all shouldn't ask all your days that because you you're the shrama get something you cannot get outside of verity's role and never forget that i'm sure when it's liable to get dirty and and and and and and room god forbid you you have this the wherewithal and you stand up to the test the whole practice [Music] you don't follow the convincing of the yetzer the inclination and you're careful by not doing what you're not supposed to that's bad and you're careful in doing the good where you're supposed to behold retain the dignity in all of their details and the matters of paying the bills and making parnosa and taking kids to school and all everything else ain't on my name they don't prevent and stop you from tired of avoiding other other on the contrary you use gash mirrors for the sake of hashem you turn it around it's not that you avoid gas mirrors you use gas mirrors but you use it because of the shame you eat not for the purpose of indulging the [Music] that you eat will give you the kayak strength to learn to daven for who lay me the mispalabamas and you actually learn and you govern with truthfully based on that food that gave you the kayak the fame basic so also with business you do everything with the ultimate heck sure the rashad in 1904 and you're not immersed and anxious about it to the point that it does not prevent you from learning and davening so you're in business and you do work and you do your work muscle it's kosher and if it's that way it will not be an impediment for learning taylor and davening the cavon is hamas and what's the purpose of the business who could they say you should make a profit that ashab understands people need to make profit they'll retain sadaka when you have profit you can give board sadako this year and you'll have more time to learn and davin because you'll be able to hire someone to run manage your office or do your business and you have time to learn enough there is a next paragraph nasa leah so when one does all of this there is an aliyah much greater muslims as it was prior to its descent into the body of bombings before it came into the body it had nothing to prevent it the that's the bottom line that word you hear the word the avid there was no avoider yeah you're very very holy yeah you're sitting in a corner no one is disturbing you and you have everything provided for you no avada no work no effort oh it's missing aveda if you're missing avoiding you're missing everything avoid this where it's at next page 101 when the shama works it does its work for it to be complete in its activity canal as we said earlier this may this brit makes a great aliyah for the show mom and hashem has great pleasure from it you know we're always asking what does hashem have great pleasure from avoda one word avoid the effort and work and this is this is something we need to educate our children and grandchildren people work any kind of work but work sweat work hard because when you work and everything you you accomplish you do what hashem wants and your man manhood manhood is through avoider not through the easy way out one short story there was a hosted by the name of rabbi moisha alberovich he lived he came from russia in 35 or so with the facility's father and the brooks uh the goraris a whole gang of of the which has came in the 35 or so uh territorial there was nothing to eat the poverty was fair look going into the 40s i heard this from the bureau who told me room we went into a separate room with a few people and he like reminisced of how poor to see them were they didn't have what to eat i mean literally this was i'm not it's not figurative literally it was so hard in those years in arizona so this closet that i am which was one of these and he got a job in the in the uh i think in the yamaha area and his job was to to um schlep boxes boxes they were they were you know developing the country um and that was his job one of the super one of the people who was in charge came one day to jerusalem where he assure him i don't lived maybe forget and he went into the lubavitches school and he said he he he wants to tell everyone he wants to tell the people what kind of yeed what kind of jew this high immigration is that with with back breaking schlepping he's so devoted and he complimented him greatly and he went over to him to highway sure and he said i i i have a another job for you because you're older and you're you're you know you're so devout and so from and on and on and on i want you to become a manager to see supervise the other people who are slapping the boxes all you have to do is supervise them kaya moisha heard what he said and he said let me think about it he went back to work the next week and he said to the supervisor thank you very much really appreciate it but i want to keep my job the supervisor went back to to to yerushalayim to the khabachu and he and he said to the people is this high moisture meshuggah is he nuts i offered him a job of sitting sitting like this and just supervising and rather than doing that he wants to schlep boxes so the facility really i mean this is like strange so they were his friends they went over to the center of high moisture what's he thinking he says i'll tell you when i slept the boxes i think tata i remember i i know i memorized taylor and i say is tanya and i do that the whole time as i'm schlepping the boxes if i were to take the job as supervisor i won't have as much time to do that why because i have to look here and look there and make sure this is right i'm like a manager now my time my mind space my head space excuse me will be occupied more with super v supervising responsibilities and i won't have as much time to think tita and that's why i didn't take the job it's a story for the books but it happened right here in edition okay and we know this jew his his you know his kids his grandkids his great-grandkids are all over the country okay they're very fine the albertovic family okay and i those that i know i see a certain refinement that reflects this attitude of their grandfather and great grandfather and why am i telling you this because the rabbit says here that what counts is the avoider how he was trained in the bhavat yeshiva was work is good and healthy and you know my father we come from vishnu from romania and my father taught us the same thing here in brooklyn in in the 60s and 70s this was a this was and he still says it today it's like 50 years later he hasn't left romania he hasn't left his title he's still like in esteto now some people america doesn't change that my father is one of those people even though he benefit so much from america making a living and building a family and everything else but his mind space is still romania and what's the message that he taught out of it work i remember him always saying you know because someone said i don't have prognosis my father said you have no you don't have a prognosis why don't you go to the grocery store and offer to do deliveries me i should do deliveries it's not respectful okay forget about deliveries why don't you um paint uh wash the windows of bank of american chase they need their windows washed on 13th avenue or on on fifth avenue manhattan me with like a a yamaka and a beard and peyos me oh you think no way and so what happens you end up with nothing until hashem has mercy on you and he sends you something right and my father's jargon this was taboo and this he he hacked into us growing up but that's arbiting you gotta work and not sit on your you know and and and just wait for hashem to send you the perfect job so and he's and he's not coming from you know a chabad background a business background the point is it's not unique to chabad vision it's lit for it's it's it's the whole approach of trader the approach of taylor is avoiding this up here explains it in such words that makes it very clear so if you're not working and again working doesn't necessarily mean only with your hands mind work you know mind with your cup if that's what you're engaged in and that's what brings you panason that's but but this idea of just taking it easy and having fun is not something that is like either it's not a jewish value you know when rabbi guptnik rabbi schneider's almond goodnight retired from his pulpit in melbourne australia in in the 80s or 90s whenever it was he had so he came to the rep and he had this with the rebbe and the rabbit said to him so rabbi guptnik what are you planning on doing after retirement he said i don't know so the rebbe said you know i'm a little older than you that was quite older than him i'm a little older than you and i haven't retired and guess what i have plans for the next 10 20 30 years of what i'd like to accomplish i should be able to do it what retirement okay you're retired from your position you're getting social security fine but so you became 65 she's sitting there no so so get into something else and everyone knows that without avoider it's a very very boring life i was speaking to my sister yesterday may she be well she's 58 she had a birthday so she said she's been a teacher for 35 years in sydney she was in sydney teaching and she's read 58 and she's teaching fourth grade for 35 years and a good teacher you know so i said rachel maybe it's time to like and oh so she moved they moved to baltimore because many of her children live now in baltimore so right away they knew about her and they said uh mrs blasenstein she's married to avron blasenstein my brother-in-law because mr blazenstein maybe you teach for us we heard you're a phenomenal teacher she said sure she's the oldest teacher in a school with 200 kids and 20 25 teachers and everyone else could be her daughter and she and and she said she loves it and she said to me yesterday what would i do without it what would i do without it and the pay compared to sydney is really you know there's no comparison okay the the salary she was making the sydney compared to to baltimore it's you know even though you know it's america but you see this don't pay great whatever just that's not the point he says the main thing is i have a job the main things i have something to do and i feel fulfilled and i love it and she said they they all respect me uh uh mrs dolphin mrs blasistee rabbit some blazenstein you are our guru 35 years teaching and they all look up to her she says like and she's a very you know humble person i'm a teacher i like doing i have experience it's so it's so important to to to work in any and to work so going back to the text the idea of the avoider my kane know one second so he says oh um commercial kosovo third line on page 101 comma a middle of line commission right hashem has caused me laughter the daft guy they shame elokim why does it say hillary ello kim why does it say it's ali hashem yoni uk it doesn't say that laughter was made i was made to laugh and laughter because of elokim says that yes elokim is very specific that choice of hashem's name in this verse is very exact the dafg they say melody keem specifically through the name elohim through this as we learned earlier this gives the the the apost the ability for existence to exist for all of material and corporeal matter to exist that all comes from god's name elohim which is the name of 86 equaling and it's the name that god disguises himself and nature comes to be commissioned as it says baru elokim right beratious kim in the beginning hashem created it doesn't say beraceous borough youth cave off kay why borrow kim why avi because in order for there to be a world like we have now that needed to be a symptom of contraction of the skies of the infinity of hashem continuing this nephesh obama is that we have short-shared what's its root what's its source who's its father who's its mother guess what shame elokim shame elukim is the source the mocker of the nephesh obamas known explained elsewhere so they through our avoid our activity here below by subjugating the the material the course corporeal body and indulgences and oh and [Music] we're not talking about here laughing you know put on uh face uh um a jokester uh the the laughter you know comedian we're not talking about comedians here we're talking about a holy laughing it's quite laughing what does it mean hashem is laughing what is laughter laughter is an expression of ultimate pleasure that's holy you're laughing like hahaha you feel so good you feel inhibited you're laughing laughing therapy what is the ultimate laughing therapy the ultimate laughing therapy is making pleasure for hashem and yet this is an expression to listen to this one you guys gonna love it five undeveloped fife whistle literally whistle off whistle up grace devout to the world in other words in in i don't want to say the vernacular of that but you all understand what the vernacular is fife undeveloped the world tells you you can't do it go fly a kite as we used to say go fly a kite or enjoy this drain it can cup don't mess up with the head yes hello is that like the english word phi like spy on them sounds like it what what what frankly i don't what does the word mean phi what does phi mean like uh uh uh take care get it yeah don't bother don't bother me but by the way how do you spell that word how do you spell that word i'm not sure it could be f-y-e uh-huh but but there's there's an actual word phi i thank you i believe okay um i don't know i mean five and five means to whistle a fifer is a whistler pfeiffer means to whistle and fight fun means whistle up the world so that that is so now let's go back to the posik yeah it's a dewalt of the tai chi innocent strike lee elohim laughter god made for me what does that mean when you take de la kim and you realize that that the world and all of its indulgences and pleasures is all one big concealment of hashem it really comes from hashem you give a big laugh out and you say wow hashem you're so wonderful that you could even make this world and i laugh at it and hashem says i got you you're right such a different type again it's not the literal meaning of the positive of course but alpicha it's a very profound idea that laughter look at his last words in the paragraph refers to tiny the supernal pleasure can we just finish the chapter do we have another five ten minutes yeah okay so to the level of malchus here he goes back now to malchus we've been talking all about malcolm's the hey the malcos kingship the 10th emanation of the spheros when it descends to the world of creation formation and action [Music] it refines it refines the sparks found in the world of creation formation in action [Music] similar to the investment of the soul in the body as we discussed earlier that causes a subjugation and an and a subservience of gosh means to hashem so too hope he slaps us invest itself in the worlds of creation formation and action [Music] it what does it do it refines the sparks the spiritual sparks in the worlds of briencino as it says in proverbs she gives tariffs spoils to her household tariff began [Music] plus the cola plus the word itself so tariff equals and you add the word itself you get 288. meaning she gives spoils to the household meaning these spoils were given what are the spoils you need the spoils are all of gasmius why did ashram give us these spoils to the household for us to refine the spoils type of 103. by days then it take yes is the word tariff related to the word trace it is it is uh and through this through this activity of the mouse refining the sparks it creates an abundant of light [Music] friday night's coming up guys and we say asia's kyle the woman of valor is the crown of a king what the woman is malcolm is which is the woman marcus will become the mashipiah they have swedish illamila in the holy spheres so all of us males who are macho and big shots and wearing the pants guess what our wives our our our our females are going to be the crown they're going to take over kosovo living water will go forth from jerusalem what is that avi that's the level of malchus [Music] talking now he's explaining the process in in this so he says that will come will will be disseminated to the eastern sea meaning to the sea of wisdom [Music] that will be when we will complete and finish the process of refinement that we will correct and refine the worlds of bria you'd see it in asia we'll learn the kitchen next time to refresh ourselves so make a note we're on page 103. everyone should have the best shabbos [Music] we live with avramovino nayak we have a flood and we have immorality and we have this and this but this we have zeitgeist everyone have a great shabbos remember 2 15 and thank you