Who is a good artist?

good morning we're in the mimer of omar libby fonay it's in this if you have the actual safer it's my moral cotton that we've been using volume gimmel volume three it's page eight so here the river begins with the passage that we're saying twice a day in the uh you know after midha during minha depending on your minute my heart says to me to search for you search for your face and i will search for you you you hashem so rashi rashi on this verse in tehillim says something very uh very strange very uh enigmatic something very unusual and what does rashi have to add the word for with you for your mission you're asking me to search for you okay arashi adds a word then when russia has a word it's precise in other words rashi is saying there's something not clear in the verse and i and through the word it will become clear so the rapper's first question is what is that then rashi continues and he says towards the end of the rashi it's the third line in your place replacing you god my heart replaces you and it tells me to search for you what does it mean my heart replaces you why can't you have the heart and hashem why do you need replacement for hashem vis-a-vis the heart to tell you to search for god these are the questions that the rebbe asks in the beginning in the my verb and he began uh to explain to us what the idea of bakasha is in the english language the word baka bakusha is bereft it's bereft of what we mean in hazal and in hasidis because back question english is translated as a request a request does not connote i really want it i really need it no i request of you now if you want to do it you don't want to don't do it the request word the word request is more lackadaisical that ever says that according to our messiah and our understanding of the word the word bakasha implies two things look at the first thing yes it's on the fifth line yes in towards the end of the line it means to request and to plead atrina with tremendous arousal i don't know if you know but there's something called keynote do you know that in some traditions the women friday night before and during the time that they like shabbos lift chaba scandals they they say something called keynote which means prayers and if if you saw the way my grandmother would stand right here and and and and and do the three note you would melt she would cry she would talk she would she was so emotional like she's praying for her family i mean you know it was a very very powerful few minutes as we entered travis as we were actually going to fuel the men you know and we came down and she was standing there and it was a whole ceremony i mean and as she got older you know and her mind you know also became more emotional but the point being that keynote the whole idea of three notes of of of of pleadings of these supplication prayers is not just uh you know well i'll dive in a little bit i'll pray a little bit i'll enjoy and if you answer me great if you're not we'll get you on the rebound no means i'm convinced that if i pray and if i dive in and if i beg and plead no question you're going to answer me so the rapper says that the first idea of bak shupangai this bakasha this request is not a request as we understand it you know in our language in the english language but rather look at his words they're so beautiful she had feel up he cited as gedailah it's a trilla it's a prayer with a tremendous arousal of hashemi and the second interpretation of bakosho he comes up with the word what does the word mean well we translate it as the search but it's not the search like when you search for a book in your bookshelf it's like the search yoni of medica's hummings where you're supposed to get down on your you're on all four and look under the table and look under the bed and schvitz and it's a whole ceremony and it takes a lot out of you that's a real badika's comments it's like you're looking for a diamond or you're looking for that that that um old photo that you remember from from years back that was so special to you and you can't find it and you turn your house upside down that's the implication of the word and the rebel says he doesn't justify us by saying this type of bakosho and at isuma with great amount of bother and toil and effort yeah you got to be bothered it's uncomfortable who wants to be on now could you imagine here that during this month of elul bakshi funai hashem wants of us to make ourselves uncomfortable in searching for him who wants that no one wants that i want to come to an air-conditioned shoe i want to sit on a comfortable chair and i don't want to have someone i just came from shul and someone came and sitting next to me someone parked himself and he oh and he and he seemed to have i don't know if it was a stutter on ocd he repeated words over and over and i'm trying to doubt him and it was like uh may god give you and he's switching from english to hebrew and it was it was uh very interesting you know and where does he park himself right next to me there's a whole show that he has to park yourself next to me and and you know and i'm trying to say the words and he's going on repeating the words jose so anyway but but on the other hand he was governing he really was he really was he really was diving i could see he's saying names of his family and praying and and color covered you know except just do it a little further away so you don't disturb me but anyway but anyway the nakuda is that governing is not a time i i'm on a comfort zone davening is a time i want to knock myself out that's what governing is otherwise you're just saying words it's lip service you could scream mama for today and tomorrow and it's big lip service so not only are you saying the words you hate me robber you're shouting on my yahi me robber and you really believe that you're you're you're you're buying yourself a piece of the love live yasser you know oh am i going to get a big chunk of yourself for saying you hate me rather so loud and see teach us that it's the inner aspect of the heart that feels you know like shattered and torn and and has gone through you come out of darwin and schwitzing but it's air-conditioned and there's kodesh no one's fixing or they open up those large windows and some people want them open some people want it closed it's all to do right but you have a nice table and you have nice people and it's large it's grounding i love davening there governing is a personal agenda governing is a personal trip and the trip is such that you have to get into your heart that's percussion fun i is not just i request and yet if i don't get it the first time tomorrow i'll do it again now every day you have to feel and think this is the only day i'm darkening this is part of all what that ever says now let's go back into the text oh and and and just and and that and the part that we ended yesterday he says thrillers he's known hillary allah's available the service of the heart yes avodah believe that it behaves the word beto alev it's not enough the service of the heart that has to be inside your heart and in yiddish i love when he says the yiddish because the yiddish gives out gives expresses it exactly to the kuda to the point what does it say in hearts or meet them hearts in in your heart and with your heart it's not enough to be in your heart it has to be done with your heart and when it's done with your heart where in the heart because you could do something with your heart and in the feet uh a dancer who's a govaldiga dancer have you ever seen someone come to a hasanah and there's some people that come specially to do a dance for the cousin of akala in in crown heights we had a year driving broad there's a lubavitcher family broad brod and i recall he would come in to out of every hassan on many hasanas for five minutes ten minutes and what did he do he would make he was thin and he was athletically looks like and he would make a very and people would stand around to see how fesco broad dances it was it was a feature of the night for the hustle and column so did he dance with heart absolutely but where where did he where was his dancing in his heart or in his feet and his feet someone is a great pianist right so but mele he's he's he or she are tremendous on the piano wonderful but it's not it's not the top it's big left but not without left so that ever says here that when you dive in where where are you diving this is another point that's very important where are you davening are you dabbing in your cup in your head or you're darkening in your heart aveda sheba live has a location the location is in the level so until your lev is motivated inspired and ignited and ignited you really haven't yet fully done it and this is why we dive in every day because we all know that this is a constant aveda and we're waiting and hoping and working towards one day one twila we should doubt him let's continue now he says now [Music] oh and then the final point that he made yesterday what type of davening are we talking about well if you go into a carleen stalin pinsk shoe whether it's a sharim or in borough park on 16th avenue or wherever else maybe you have one of the chemist a lot a lot of screaming a lot a lot of breathing a lot of oh man from deep down they give it out you're going to visionettes there's a lot of saying of the words with me ashrae yo yes so you hear in the words the meaning of the words through the you go to breast lift it's clapping clapping interesting clapping coming out for the right and the left at various times or like my wife and i once gave a breast lift hustle in in berkeley or marin county i forget where it was a ride and we had a van and all of a sudden as i'm driving he rises from his chair and he starts clapping in the middle of the of the van it's like i said what are you doing he says rab nakhma says while you're traveling you should talk to hashem and clap okay go ahead clap various forms of avada's hashem they're all good they're all holy what's the chabad what's the chabad approach to this idea of trilo it says that every here in a few short words he says it here it's through i want to get those words exactly it's about six seven lines down is to come to an understanding to come to a comprehension that godliness is all there is havana you see those words a good understanding bahasa in a godly way this is the content of the davening the way the balatanya and khabar has seen them see it and hasidah how can i say enough if there's a big universe out there how can i say that the supernatural forces of god control nature when we see nature dominates how can i understand the creation x kneel or yes god is something that's that's here that's not here when is he here what is he not here when does he take a walk when does he go to sleep does he go to sleep what does it mean to go to sleep and ever this is all about us thinking that ebb says this is should be part of your tv because in order to feel for someone or something or in our case i call this barco you need to understand it and if you don't understand them you could chuckle and scream for today to tomorrow you don't unders you don't have him you don't understand it i'm not i'm not i'm not saying that those that understand them have a deeper casual record as well those that just use emotions i'm not going in that direction what i am saying is that the importance of havana that i possess here is the content of the tv let's continue that the helix eve were about ten lines from the from the beginning of the mimer the last few three words on the line after the print the um apostrophe the the comma i'm sorry the he next if it's written um how can man and how does man see hashem from the combination of the body and the soul in other words when we combine motion our body and our soul together then we can have what we call riya bellocus seeing a god vitamin so the question is why does it say um what's the hebrew word yonasan for seeing so we should say um from my flesh i see god here we have the aramaic word for the iamb [Music] although the combination of body and soul makes it possible to see god nevertheless the primary aspect of a jew is the soul and not the body yes gazing well we translated as gazing but you know it's another form of road we you know what i'm saying it's a it's really a synonym for road but we translate it in english as gazing to make the difference let's let's see his thought how he develops it the organ will call him a goofer nephesh man is combined of body and soul one's body is called the flesh of man the nish masala and the soul of man is called the soul of men and when they join together nikra of them they're called adam adam who is going to see godliness moshe the soul or the body the soul always sees hashem it's not a hindus it's not a novelty [Music] the novelty is that the goof the body will see god that's why he uses the word accent let's look further look inside he says when we say um sorry from my flesh exhale i will see eloka i will see godliness we what we what we mean is that even the coarse body the corporeal body will see god although the truth is what is primary to man it is other it is soul fish um so the question is if the soul is the primary aspect of man of a yid why is it saying sorry referring to the body perceiving god so he says [Music] what we're talking about here is a tangible muhash a tangible view la that's similar to the actual eyes seeing god [Music] we see each other now on the computer we see each other we've seen each other in person when we talk about seeing hashem the ultimate experience is it's as though you actually see god of course it says a funny lawyer that you know no no pay no one can see god's plenius we understand when i'm talking metaphorically speaking that the body the goof has become so transformed and so electrified for godliness and god it's as though the goof the body the flesh itself sees god this is why it says um this is the answer to the question i want to make sure we understand the answer yoni so then it would refer to the soul seeing god what's the big deal of course the soul seeker the soul comes from god the soul isn't you know its comfort zone is hashem and big deal [Music] this body that's normally coarse and corporeal that doesn't is not interested in godliness but through the soul transforming it and making it a godly being it too sees god so why does it say ro x and not row is like the back side of road so the kiddish is that even the back side sees god even the the the at the issue that is antithetical to god i.e the body it too says i want more godliness i like you god oh you all of a sudden appreciate the let's intellectual seeing not seeing actually with your eyes but the mind's eye you've heard of that the mind's eye that's what we call hillary riya where the mind the sacral understands it so well that we we attribute seeing to the mind [Music] someone who sees the future the nylon he sees with his mind's eye what the future will bring and this perception it is with the seeing of the of the the mind the minds kind of [Music] this is what we call a spiritual seeing that's one kind of riya number two jonas [Music] it's a gosh mr casing you see it with your eyes she really so remember this word over here there is moshe underline it and there's from the word tangible actual you could feel it you could see it it's muhash it's not only it's not just in my mind's eye it's mukhas says jacob uses in his dialogue with rift about uh about going to yitzhak what word my father will look cheney something like that in the photo i'm trying to remember father will feel me and know that i'm uh oh no that no that's the word it's not no it's a different word very but it's similar okay that's interesting it's it's not the same word it's similar well it doesn't have s you could say maybe that the implication is similar but one of them it's two different words uh okay but but yeah like what i'm saying is the content of both there's a similarity but the words are two different words so knight says or stay the esl and these two types of these two types of singing whether it's they both require a combination of soul with body right because if you don't have a combination of soul and body working together you don't have any of these types right whether it's tangible whether it's through the intel intellect it requires a a joining of both and just as when we talk about the actual tangible scene it's when man's soul descends below into a body and invest itself [Music] and you're alive with physical life so so too indicating who betty is it's also true for the intellectual scene it's only possible when man's soul descends below mr abbasis big gosh mean investors over the physical body and when you are alive physically you you aren't having before birth and after birth it's an experience that you you could have and should have while you're alive because it requires both soul and body the shame and just as in the intellectual scene him is it's because of the perspective of the soul how do you like the language theory he he what does he he mean it what is it my that makes you when you draw when you it's your seiko thinking about a certain idea and once you understand and have that mind's eye picture of what you want to communicate then you use your hand to draw that beautiful picture so the without the without the neph the the nephesh that's that's mascaras that comprehends what you wish to communicate your picture will be meaningless even if you're a great artist someone will look at that picture and say yeah this person has a great pen a great you know but but what's the message you know sometimes whether it's art whether it's writing whether it's another type of um you know activity it's bereft of soul it's me if not even so i mean so in the sense of intellect what are you trying to say over here what is this babble babble you're babbling and babbling in yiddish there's a word play the ring have you ever heard of the word play the ring play the bladering means to babble what are you saying and sometimes in yeshiva you understand if you remember if someone went on and on and on you would say you're a player zach you're a sack full of babel like what's your message what are you just talking for the sake of talking have you ever seen sometimes you sit down someone comes over and starts talking what is your point the rebel says that in order for the any type of perception whether it be intellectual perception or tangible perception that you see requires a cycle to guide it to drive it otherwise it has no purpose i remember i want to share this with everyone especially moisha who is an artist in my house and i have it over here you can't see it from the video but there's a piece of art that the famous hasidic artist zalman kleiman drew of ten hasidims sitting in a wagon and a horses is taking them and they're going upwards and the name of this piece of art is called fungus let me tell you the history because very few people know the history in the minsk region in belarus there was a little dinky village called khaslovic and you know who was a robin that little city that little village in town ramosha salavaitrik the father of rabbi yahshua bear salah he was appointed i think for seven or eight years he was the a rabbi of in that city and there's a lot of history about that i wrote about it in my book on rob and rebbe there's a tradition that the salvation had that when the altered when the altered but here's the picture you see it i don't know if you can see it no you can't see it when the altar ever was running away from napoleon the people of haslavich hit him and saved him and and uh because of that delta rebel wishes gave them a promise that from then on the the rabbis of the city will be mostly lit fox although there were many hasidim but the rabbi the rav will be a lit now rabbi yeshua moonshine already the the late great researcher and scholars says the story can't be true because minsk is at the other end of lyadi where the altar eva was running running away from but i'm not going to go into that discussion but be that as a may you have this picture they're sitting in a wagon and they're traveling from the rebera shop calls one of the three corners it seems like there were three cities that were very misnomish talking about a hundred and eight two hundred years ago and there wasn't like a haven for hasidim so the but they were hasidim a group but you know so the picture depicts the following the laboratory has that were kind of stuck in goslavic with the miss nagdin they're going to their rebel so you see them in a wagon and the horse is taking them and the picture is called fun kane lubavitch and there's an actual song that they would sing phone has [Music] and the answer is that going to the river they're sedum they have a rabbit in the babbage so yes all year round they live in ghazlavic surrounded by miss magdam and once a year they go to lubavitch so this is a classical piece of art that many laboratories have in their homes so when i got married my chavarrum they gave me this as a gift and that was kind of a gift that we gave to each of our friends was this picture because it depicts uh the the the notion of khabad you know and i had it hanging on my wall in marin county and my great uncle amanda fotefast came for a visit like i've told you before and i notice the middle of the visit he walks over to the wall with a picture is hanging and he starts staring at the picture and he turns to me and he says in this good old-fashioned russian yiddish it's francine mentioned a minion is there a minion in the picture and i never even thought about it i said what are you talking about so he says do i said we're a minion i didn't have a minion it was he rabbi raichik and myself david together in the morning we didn't have a minion so he points to a picture so i look at the picture i start counting and guess what there were 10 people in in the wagon saying lechayan because they're going to the rebel and then he turns to me after he says that and he says the balshemptiv the balshemptiv that whenever he traveled he traveled with a minion this is what a mental foot of us told me that that day so moshe here is a beautiful piece of art that my friends gave me and we gave them and i gave them as a gift celebrating our going on to the next stage going on in life i but i never i never thought about how many people are in the picture what are they doing everything i've told you i learned since i got the picture the history of the picture and what mendel told me right it was all later what am i showing you that is the same piece of art that you can have hanging in your living room for years but if the seiko is not there the picture is a picture a nice picture fine a nice piece of art what makes the picture alive it's the it's the uh it's the cycle another example of this that's is that clear the story and how it applies to us yes another example is that rebera shop went to a museum either in paris or somewhere once on his travels and he went into okay you know you know the beautiful museum the met whatever and he was standing there and he made a comment something's wrong with this piece of art he said is the word worth thousands of rubles or whatever you know the franks whatever it's so expensive that ever says yeah but usually when a bird rests itself on a on a leaf on a leaf of a tree what happens moshe to the leaf exactly unison it bends the pressure of the bird makes the leaf bent and in this piece of art that have been said the leaf is not bent while a bird rests on it this said that ebon shows the artist did not understand what he was doing he didn't anticipate the consequences of that exactly but what's the nakuda what's the point when you draw again and moshe is the expert but the way i understand it that when you draw and you want something to be be real that the person seeing this in 50 years will say i'm there i by looking at this art it's like i'm there what what does art do then again i'm not the artist you are but to me a a good piece of art is supposed to draw you in as though you're in the experience right you're in the experience so the rebel shop said you want me to be in the experience you want you want me to be standing right next to a tree with a leaf and a bird on it then the leaf then the leaf should be bent down because that's the way it's in real life and what you're depicting is not real it's baloney and so it's missing in the art we go back to the miner and we finished the day with this that very ear and this is the point we want to get at that very ear that seeing something is real when you understand it if you don't understand it it's missing into seeing something and this answer is another very important thing some people say well there were people who came to the rebel to another sadiq and they saw him and they went on yeah because they had no understanding so there were people who just by seeing his blue eyes or his face or or smile or being in his presence and or other sadiq they were turned on fine they have a sensitivity but is it possible to be there and not be turned on the answer is yes and if anyone tells you no they're liars and they're fools because you're missing the the havana what are you looking at who are you looking at right so the havana the seiko makes the ear makes what i see whether it be intellectual perception or physical actual perception very real however have a great day think about what we learned yes i wanted to wish everybody today is my hebrew birthday oh why don't you tell us i'm sure you're 20 i'm sure you're 25 years old yoni so hashem should give you you can drink it you should be gazunt you should have only your father for suleiman and your two your daughters should grow up to be real hashem and bring you and your wife tremendous yiddish and we should only have good simplest to share with each other and and and you should continue being an inspiration for people in the in the carl bakula and all over they should see you they say i want to be like yoini hashem happy birthday