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Maamar Lecha Amar Libi 1o41 #2
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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