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What's Advantage of Being Alive?
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Kuntres U'Maayan #11
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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
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would call you by your name
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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it refines it refines the sparks
found in the world of creation formation
in action
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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