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Why did G-d Create Problems

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not just for siddhis but understanding the way who created the world and that is the difference between creation of man and creation of all other creatures and briefly that ever said the creation of all creatures was the summer together with a goof they came out together they came out as a full form and and by the way this is one of the arguments when the scientists certain scientists have argued the world is millions of years old and the proof is that you take a look at something that that that has these fossils and these rings and all that so uh one of the counter arguments that ever brings us as well is that to begin with it was created that way so yes it does appear to have been millions of years old but because the nephesh and the ruach this is basically based on what we're learning yesterday and learning today it answers this question because the nephesh and the the nephesh and the goof the soul and the body of all creatures were created together in full form therefore what yes if if they weren't that way it would have taken millions of years but it was that way so hashem to begin with made it that way conversely man man adam was created a golem a piece of mud as jonason so nicely uh corrected us yesterday so uh a golem is a is a piece of mud a piece of mud uh a diamond that's called diamond silent right silent but deadly right silent and then within this piece of mud a living soul so the rabbit's question that rashaab's question at the end was why did hashem make this difference la mashina the word sheena why did he make this change so the entire uh paragraph that we learned yesterday was a an elaborate explanation explanation explaining the difference and the question is where we're at now let's learn the kisser page 219 please turn off your uh mute yourself whoever is not i think yakov please mute yourself it's kitser 219 all hosts all creations heavenly and earthly bali guf and nephesh they both have what we call a body and a soul the heavenly hosts the formation of their existence are of the elements the more refined elephant elements called fire and air the nature then being which also includes the their formation consists of not only the two refined more refined elements of fire and air but also a dust [Music] the nature of the way they were created it is that matter takes control and overpowers form that evidence said goof venefish we have a very uh uh in kabbalah on a muscle that's used constantly for soul and body that is urvakeli actually all refers to the nephesh the soul and kaley refers to the goof the body massem there are shops at an interesting point they match each other it's a it's a proper donors match okay the the blood type is the same who is the one who makes a difference in the way man goof is created in comparison to these and all other creations is hashem and remember moshe what we learned yesterday is that's why that's the meaning and it's very important when we say in the morning that word mostly you have to have why why do we say mostly mafia means it's wondrous it's in yiddish the word is it comes from the german wunderbar right what's the wunderbar over here what's the wonder the answer is because hashem you've made a u-turn on us or a left turn sheena you created every creature in this in a certain way why didn't you create man that way no man i'm going to create differently so this difference is startling and this is what we're going to explore now in the next paragraph panic base page 219 let's go for all this good all animals were created in their posture and their image versus man who was created earth dust from the earth first man's body was created and only afterwards via hurricane initna was his soul inserted within the mud the golem in the goof says this is not a negative aspect a point on the contrary healing hashem did it as a virtue male users in the word ma allah benefit this fact that man was created from earth of the dust dust of the earth murder algae la flores miles nicholas it denotes it demonstrates how great the neshama that hashem gives man is and let's see what he says to understand this [Music] the four divisions which are the which divide call next page 221 which divide all creatures the heim here are the four divisions they maim the world of the inanimate the world of vegetation hi the domain of the living and finally um the the the domain of the speaking he which is the human being the lowest and is the what is the inanimate island the one that's above that um i'm sorry and the one that's the highest and greatest and the most praiseworthy [Music] the choicest of creations he name often you see this therefore the way the man's body was created it is different with the change of material that hashem created man's body dust from the earth from from the or from the the coarse earth but yeah he said right it's dust of the earth you can't get any lower than that it denotes how great soul of man is but the ultimate of exaltation you why is this based on the famous rule the whole here is the rule hebrew the whole hakka voyage whoever is higher yo raid la mata mata the oyster they fall lower okay we see because when you take a wall a wall that has stones bricks when the lower bricks of the wall fall and dismantle they end up being close to the wall however when the bricks on the top of the wall fall hey so they fall very distant from the wall the whole heavens said and each brick the higher it is it falls further away so what's the rule the higher you are the further you fall so that's the way it's badass now is that aspect of the soul that's the animating one that makes the person bottom line live and breathe the liaison is since man's soul is so much higher than any other soul of any other creation specifically because we have such a high need hashem gave us the most so in other words we we might think that wait a minute if we are from the domain of the living which is the highest of the four domains we should have the most refined body and we find that we have the most coarse body right and why is that so the answer that ashab says is because we have the highest soul and the purpose of the soul is to refine the coarsest of the course i.e the body so hashem specifically gave us and not angels and not celestial beings etc a coarse body but us he gave a course body because we are able to refine it and they aren't because they don't have to hide the summer [Music] much worse than um you know undomesticated animals that tear and and destroy and they use their their their their kayak to destroy and hurt people and he says in yiddish to make narrow tight uncomfortable and bad then straighten the other person they use their god-given talents of being the human being with the shrama to hurt and hurt and destroy others they go they going and they they rob they steal they rob they stay they rob and they murder because type is not from in order to fulfill their indulgences by most people by most of those people who do this it's because the their goof their body is inclined towards bed vegeta and these bad inclinations of the goof paellas it makes a bad impact on their soul very interesting what he says here in other words the only saying and this is what i've been telling you for for years and just spoke about a motor shabbos in tom's river where a gentleman spoke about the russian how he got a russia to do chuva and i said to him that's wonderful but why do you have to call them in khabad we don't know what that word means it's not in our lexicon well she says what i mean it's it's a mission i said i know the mystery too i don't want to tell him i know the mr better than he knows the mission i know the mission too but the attitude when you learn siddhis and you learn tanya is you you you look at yourself if anyone's a russian you look at yourself first you look at yourself and other people you look with the right eye and yourself you look with the left eye and even yourself you shouldn't have self-deprecation etc then it could have been that that ashab says here that if anything is wrong including murder stealing robbing hurting cheating and many of those things that we discussed in the last two weeks in our classes moshe right says what does that happen say here that's from the goof's perspective the goof is the is the cause then the same the summer that's in this goof that's acting so bad is not the cause of those bad traits now you say of course it's not it's not of course since the gulf the nephesh unites with the golf you would think it's like you know have to remember patty hearst from the uh the sympathy said the the member in the 1970s for those that were alive and know about it and she was uh rehearsed the famous uh newspaper journalist the founder you know daughter and she was caught by this cult and group and you know enemy and they they brainwashed her and she became an agent for them for them so what what's the nakuda then the shrama you would think once it unites with the gulf it identifies and adapts the culture of the goof so if the goof is a cheat and a stealer and a murderer and everything else then the shaman's also that way says that no no and what is he saying here what are we learning this morning what we're learning is that the goof is really so much higher and the high i'm sorry sorry the soul of a man of a human is so much higher and that's why he's put into a low goof into a goof which is you know a piece of the mud like jonathan said and over there make the difference and that includes being a cheat and being a murderer and let me see how you can change the situation so it's so contrary to the way the the way we normally think about the relationship between the soul and the body good and bad another example their four sons that are asking questions based at night russia tom shayna day alicia let me ask you a question why is the russian next to the ghost wouldn't you think the russia should be number four sitting far away he's a russian 40 years 40 years i've been asking that question so you're gonna get the answer now you're gonna get the answer it's not my answer it's an answer everyone knows and this is the answer the answer is that the russia has a good spark in him and the russia is more animated but as a troublemaker and therefore who has the responsibility of changing this russia the hakam so we have him right next to him the time is sincere is a cadillac doesn't know any different right shania day alicia doesn't even know what's going on right so those two are kind of out to left field right and they're not troublemakers troublemakers are right next to the and i told you what what ramshell broke he was he used to say he had yeshiva the first in tel aviv and then originally only talking about 1950s 60 early 60s so he would say i'd rather have a wild beast animal kid than a tame goody goody because those kids that are wild if you work on them they're going to be leaders one day and i know and you you probably know from people who in their youth were very wild but when they say who kicked in one of them in particular i i know that was very wild in yeshiva he did some very wild things and he had to hit this with the rabbit when he was 18 to 20 or so 20 i think and whoever told him i and he had an excellent head that ever said what i want of you is to be a rev like a rev was in europe and from that day on he didn't stop learning and he was my rebbe and i saw the way he learned till 11 at night every friday before he went to make kiddish and he came into 770 with two bags full of swarm i saw this you know because no one else was that came early an hour before shoppers and my rebbe walks in and he was tall and handsome and big and he put down the the two talasim sacks full of swarm from let's say on the shop was like this 4 30 in the afternoon till 11 at night and then and then his son told me he was younger but it's still a friend that he was sitting on a recliner and wouldn't go into bed all friday night it would of course doze off sometimes but otherwise you'll be learning and he as a teenager you wouldn't want to be next to him because it came to a lot of trouble because he was all full of trouble so the ghost is placed right next to the russia that's the answer so when you have a son or a daughter or a grandson or granddaughter or a friend and all that and the troublemakers embrace them embrace them because they have the potential to be gevolic really devolving outstanding and this is what that ashab is saying here in different words that this the shrub of ours is not the cause of the problems the cause is the goof and the neshama is there to transform the goof and the same is true with i always i probably told you this years ago when i was 17 or so when we went under before him on manhattan fifth avenue fifth avenue everyone knows fifth avenue 42nd street 45th street thousands and thousands and hundreds thousands of people are walking walking and i'm standing there asking who would like to put on film one response is i'm too busy i have to go to lunch i have to go to work and they just go further other responses it's nonsense it's it's outdated don't waste your time don't waste my time which of the two people which of the two is closer to the villain the one who fights you or the one who just laughs at you and walks on the one who fights you because the one who fights you there's something inside that's bothering him and the other story that i told you in the valley in california rabbi yeshua gordon of blessed memory who everyone knows about and learns with him so it's in the early days in the seventies he's 20 30 people men and women adults intelligent not religious yet are in a room they're talking about tata and about hashem about and and josh gordon is the rabbi that's you know and there's one guy sitting on the floor in sweatpants and the rabbi says yes he says no the rabbi says hey he says be he says white he says dark everything he's arguing with the rabbi is very bright and the rabbi is thinking get out of here leave you're ruining the situation i have all these captivated people who want to learn about hashem and about torah and we can you know bring them into the fold and get them started and you're ruining it and i knew this person and he became more fruit than everyone else more of a husset a few years later because he would have some anger inside or whatever the issue and he was just giving it out you know he could control himself so you have to allow people to to to let their issues go out that's the goof the goof the goof then the shaman knows how to transform that but then hashem has to realize that that's his job let's go back to the text please let's go back to the first question before you go yes yes yes i thought about this when when we were learning tanya that it seems like the way that tanya describes a russia uh is a russia is somebody who's doing wrong a given moment that uh and uh not um you know i guess the majority of richard are resha right well we call it russia but right so that given that how would you understand the uh the haggadah uh labeling somebody in russia in that way wow especially given all the facilities here saying about the russia because yeah what are they doing wrong but the answer is what do you mean right right now he's doing the vera right now he's the the act the practice the behavior the behavior is russia not that he's a russia his behavior is a russia so in ghazal we classify someone whose behavior is a russia as a russia and uh so he uh so at some point you're you're looking at him and you're uh and he's and uh it's and he's doing something wrong and that's how you're responding to him that's right that's right okay yeah yeah i can i can go with it yeah okay back to the tip i apologize i gotta run but okay we we know we've been speaking obviously about we have the goof and then we've been speaking about the nephesh uh the navigation bahamas the netherlands cyclists and that case and i i guess i've always been been puzzled by what were this difference between what i just said and now this whole terminology of the goof and then the shama in other words i've been under the operating of the assumption under the understanding you have the goof which is clippers could be good could you know could be used for good not or not you have the nephesh of bahamas which is driving the goof animated the goof with its you know one you know seven layer cake right or it's a cream right or good or good rip steaks exactly well and then you have the nephesh which is coming in and saying you know let's let's let's channel everything you know for good etc so i guess what i'm asking here's my question my question is given what i just said and what what we've been this these these series of series of terminology how do we make sense of that and now this whole concept just the goof and the shunt okay good question and on top of that on top of that one last thing about the concept of like this particular person's spoof could be drawn towards something and this person's goof could be drawn towards something what's that last what's your question about that the last meaning i thought that the i thought the goof was part of this noga it is and that's the person's and the bits the person's nephesha bahamas which is driving him towards this or this one's never shabbat is driving him okay okay i understand but the the short answer to your question is when we're talking about the goof we mean after bombings we're talking about the shaman we mean officially kiss in in this i'm glad you brought it up in this discussion this is an example in khasidis and i've said this and it's important to say it again everything is relative you can't you can ask but the answer is you can't compare the two because it's a different comparison it's a different set of of of of of god of laws the discussion here is nishama versus guff you're introducing you're talking about a discussion where we have never seen the kiss nefeshabamis and guff that's not the discussion here so if you want to look at your scenario based on what we're learning here the goof would equal in other words the animation of the goof is is oriented towards bahamia's kite so he's not making he's not making he's not discerning between the animation and the goof he's discerning between the spirituality i.e the shama which you would call the nephilim kiss and the goof you understand see you can't you you're asking a question from a different discussion which does it's not that's not the discussion here and and and it's not a contradiction it's not a contradiction here we're talking about the the psuchim embraces we're taking the text in its literal way hashem created a goof and then the khazal say golem afar you know talk we're not this is not casitas this is little this is tighter you know basic genesis braces and we're looking at that and then we have hashem giving man another verse in the torah right so we're looking at the soul we're not going into now the differences of what aspect of the soul and what aspect of the gulf are are are operating we're not discussing that we're just making a generality i hope that's clear and it continues from its own perspective is the oath is is the epitome of virtue of the so to reach true spiritual heights who came excuse me from the depths of of of the lowest degradation the level and it went up to the highest next page 223. well this is man has three things that are similar to angels schleich man from the perspective of the nature of his body and its inclination is like an animal there are other i'm sure he said and when a man does an animal act he's worse than an animal why the bahay mainly does an animal doesn't have dust knowledge the organ actually does and man does have knowledge and conversely [Music] from man's perspective of his soul its inclination is like the angels because one can reach the highest heights of spirituality [Music] when man climbs the the the ladder of knowledge who gavaya he's greater but than angels why angels they're fixed and limited to one arena to one place called the world of spirituality man when they wanted these to the modern shabbos when the angels said they wanted the title hashem said to them hey guys do you guys have a yate sahara you don't abala shubaila nevertheless although man is on earth he comprehends and he meditates and reflects on greatest thoughts of godliness boy and this meditation upon godliness impacts him to have a great desire in yearning the hidabik bellicose to attach himself to godliness therefore are you building yes man is even higher than angels because in this avoider because what does he do yani he actually elevates the gosmius so again this is basically a recap of the whole idea that the neshama is specifically higher than angels so again the commander says man has three things like angels and three things like a behemoth so that our shop is explaining that really that's true but really in one aspect man is is greater than malaria because malacca because angels are limited to to um to the place and domain you know they're in bet chemist they don't go to modi there are modi they don't go to swas you know everyone stays put and everyone says it's not my territory it's not my responsibility angels of love are only love angels of rain are only of rain angels of of health or health ask the angel of health do me a favor would you today send someone paranoid he says i'm sorry i can't why can't you're an angel because i'm limited only to giving rain and the shrama is not that way on the summer what yoni what is they have a tough kid and they can only do their top kid and that's why we are higher than an angel exactly no you guys heard it from a good hasidic student of siddhis you're right that's what we learned that's what he says here let's continue the next paragraph high timer and because of this this is the answer to the million dollar question that is why man's body was created in a different form than the bodies and then then of all creatures including animals the goofy and this is why young sin specifically man's body is of the most coarse and corporeal and grub material of that mud that youngest mentioned yesterday because only only man what is the summer has the kayak to schlep this grab a goof out of its grub kite out of its coarseness and make it a gem a diamond and been satiated with an energy and a force to do that to illuminate the darkness and not just the ordinary darkness but the thick darkness and to transform the darkness of the goof into light because this is the ultimate kavanagh so heaven the ultimate kavanaugh is to have what we have and have a situation and sometimes you say hashem why why do you give me such an assertion why do you give me such a test i i want to i want to be a servant i want to do good and and you give me challenges and some and are so ingrained in me whether it's because i was born that way i was raised that way but the fact is here is the answer the answer is only us only humans are given this nishama because we have such a coarse goof and that is why hashem to begin with didn't give all creatures such a coarse goof as he gave us and this is and the colonies that we have to live with and learn whatever challenges we have in life we must know they were given to us and only to us i i've said it over and over that famous secret that you must learn of the rebel in 1976 speaking to the israeli soldiers that were injured and they came into 770 being called nike israel the invalids of israel on wheelchairs comes to the barbecue ribbon a hot boiling new york day in august and tells them you shouldn't be called nike israel you have to change and call yourself israel the most excellent of israel they're sitting in wheelchairs and the rabbis telling them they're excellent and that ever says yes because it says in the holy sword and that you're in the shamas are from the highest are are are are higher than ordinary people's souls and that's why you were given this challenge so if if someone you know if parents are are confronted with having a certain child and and and etc etc we don't look at it in a negative way we're looking today because that gave us a higher sleepers and he and only we can do it not our neighbors and friends they have their issues and and and and when we understand this again if you learn that sikh and you look at this the maya mcclamus who brings from maurizio and this foreign and you start putting it all together i i'm convinced it will help many people in many different ways understand you know deficiencies and injuries and all kinds of issues and and then there's no difference on the contrary on the contrary it's higher it's higher now again to go and look for that you're not allowed to that's us or you're forbidden but if mine hashem sends you such a sliches you must know like we're learning here that you have a higher the summer and it's not this is not you know the rapper wasn't saying it and i'm not saying it you know to make someone feel good this number three this is the fact you know and and although by the way in chapter 26 in tanya when he talks about the curveballs that we get thrown in bonner and children's health empire and and um pannosa dr ebba tackles that issue in chapter 26 and what's his answer you learn tanya what's his answer his answer is that it comes from the uk it comes from the apple of god's eye you understand here i'm not making i'm suffering a piranha or in health or with children et cetera et cetera and dr rabbit says it comes from the uk thank you very much hold your uk i don't want this youth king if you have an opportunity to embrace youth gay that means that there's going to be blessing in uk you have to find the blessing you have to find the blessing and we see someone who who who had a a challenge and a difficulty and overcame that is much greater is is is way above a person who had it easy so so the all of this is part of a result of this discussion here okay so what we're learning here is kind of a technical issue but i it it opens up an entire um important issue in understanding ourselves and our relationship to hashem and families have a good day everyone we'll see everyone tomorrow mr chairman bye guys bye bye thank you sorry what right now it's cold yeah