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Kuntres U'Maayan #17
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okay
so today we're going to continue
learning the new mimer
uh but first the kitzer we've been
learning about this idea
a very important idea philosophical idea
practical idea
how do we deal with uh bad people
prospering
how do we derive just to sum up the
verse
the ways of the wicked are successful
and that's something that you know
avi could you mute yourself please you
only mute yourself
uh that's that's something that um
that in a way every religion and every
spiritual movement
uh grapples with or should grapple with
and uh does as well and hasidis
explains it that there's dual realities
there's dual realities now you see
to to appreciate that short and brief
answer
you need to have a perspective and
what's the perspective that
teaches us that
things don't begin here
things begin on high and
things that happen here simultaneously
begin on high
and you should know that that's a
teaching of the shalom
who's buried in theria before the balsam
the the shallow teaches that
quotes it regularly that the mice
the acts below
are because there is a corresponding
issue
and more so another nakuda i need you to
pay attention to this because this is
this is very important and foundational
the second good is that
only because they are truisms
in the spiritual realm
do they become real in the physical
world
which means my sure that if
it's now raining here in brooklyn if in
shermay
if in heaven it's not raining now it
would not rain here
and the only reason and and now here
comes a third nakuda
the rain here because it's created
because from hashem
it retains its spirituality
it's holiness and truthfully the rain
here
never loses loses its authenticity
you know who loses its you know who
loses the authenticity
we do when we look at the rain and we
say
it's raining and it's because of the
clouds
and the clouds are you know and we give
all of these gosh mystical reasons
science which can't be true and is true
many times
but when we when we confuse
and say that the gospel is the trigger
for what's happening then we've lost the
plot
now this is very very important and it's
me you said on a teaching of the shalom
so it's from that perspective that we
deal with what the rashaba is dealing
with here in the mimer at this point
and that is derek
how do you balance the two
and how do you look at the two says the
rashaab
in the name of hasidis that he that his
ancestors have taught in many discourses
that this dual reality
and this dual reality has
an operative mode that
you can either plug in to the way the
operative mode is in spirit in the
spiritual world
or you can plug into it the way to the
physical world and that's the difference
between what he calls here
and
comes from
the wisdom of titus says do this don't
do this if you do this and you don't do
this or you don't do this or you do this
these are the punishments these are the
consequences
that's that's and that is what we call
satanish
the order the normal way of life okay
that's it that's what hashem wants
hashem
wants nature to have its law and order
and its regulations
so hesed says give give comes along
vuran says
why should i give why should you give he
doesn't deserve it and i'll tell you why
not
and fraser doesn't have a good answer
and it's not strong enough to overpower
gabora
and guru can overpower crescent
and vora says you know reminds me of
what happened to this guy michael cohen
here he is trump's lawyer he's working
for him he's doing all the shenanigans
right
for trump right and then trump turns to
the table
uh and and and and puts him in jail and
basically says he's lying
and he ends up in jail now he's out but
you know when i thought about it
and i don't know if you're aware of what
happened it's such a hootsburgh that's
such a husband
the man who's doing your dirty work you
turn the table on him
and you mess him up and then he sits in
jail so
well that's the way gevorah operates my
friend
voor is not our friend okay
guru is discipline and discipline
will raise the flag and say if you're
not
exactly what supposed to you're not
doing what you're supposed to be doing
you're going to you're going to have
consequences and i'm going to
make sure you have consequences that's
kevora
in order to change that says that you
need to tap
into something called which i called
before the do
reality what's it in english
the abundance of kindness what does that
mean what's that word
rav what does that add to the word facet
what does it imply
it implies that
will be so powerful that it will
overpower gevorah
and although gevorah brings all the
challenges to the table
hashem gives this present such kayak
such
power to overpower the that comes from
so earlier in the mimer the rabbit said
that
is an open book i i like that idea says
the rebel but you should know
that who can who also benefits
the clipper just like we i told you this
the muscle of the sun shining
and the garbage is is illuminated as
well
so you can have a bright professor
misleading
young minds on campus in the name of
knowledge
causing them to be
and be uh you know jew haters at the end
of the day
all coming from someone at harvard or
colombia
or yale
or brooklyn college or for that matter
maybe some of the artists role colleges
you know it makes no difference
it's up to the mind the teacher and of
course
he has 75 titles after his name so
everyone bows to him
my professor said he can't be wrong was
he studied
right well this is what happens
when when gevorah
has significance and dominance
and is dominant so we need
ralph has so someone said so i'm sorry
and gevorah can get that from ralph
kessler because raphael
says it's an oak it's an open book
says yesterday here but at the same time
raph has it has this aspect of
overpowering so if you plug in right
the overpowering element
sometimes the language is
in gevorah like okay yeah yeah
of the takboros the overpowering
of the energy that the energy
that's tested that's kind and good will
overpower the negative
this is what we learned yesterday in in
different words
i believe today i chose different words
to explain the concept
but it's such an important concept that
to know
that what we experience is a their dual
realities
so in a way what you what you see is not
what you get
right because what you see is the
situation
now on hand but what you get
is really if you're focused then you're
you know the dual reality
it's a whole different experience it's a
it's a godly experience a spiritual
experience
and you search there for an answer
and by the way this is a gemura it's
also gemara
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if you have a headache
what you do take tylenol aspirin
homeopathy apathy medicine what should
you do
go for a job tell your wife to leave you
alone what should you do
says
now here's a question i have a headache
i have a headache i can't learn
i can't concentrate and the gamoto says
yasik potato
so as we say in good in good
old talmudic yeshiva world
what was asked was not was was not
answered what was answered was not
answering the question it's like or the
lotion of rashi ma
shmitos lahar cena in the beginning of
park says bahar
what does schmidt have to do with rc
night
like wha what do you you know what's the
answer ah because
you have a headache from what's
happening here on earth
put your mind into the heaven
entertainer
and see it from a different perspective
and your headache will go away
so what's causing us the headache
something that bothers us
whether it's physical health or you know
emotional situations
panosa anxieties issues that we
we constantly speak about
you know the last few days i've been
working around the clock to to produce
um some some work some books and all
that and i've been sitting
almost all day after the sheer i just
sit from like eight
nine o'clock in the morning till five um
at the computer
i started to get a headache you know the
last few days and it
never happens to me so i said probably
because i'm sitting maybe so close to
the screen
i don't know you know that's what they
say i don't know
but the truth is that headache is not
coming from the screen the screen is
only
a an instrument there's something else
happening
now go find it but even to to
to to look at life this way takes a
sensitivity
and that's what has it in the basement
gives us
the sensitivity to look at situations
from a dual reality perspective let's
learn now inside
143 the kitscher
tanoo remember he gave
he he brought a very nice zoar which
spoke about
the spinning of a wheel avi
when you have a chance you should read
up what you missed the last few days
the zora that he quoted i believe in
yesterday's year was about a wheel
spinning and it could spin to the right
or it could spin to the left
so the rebbe said
means like like movement like you know
traffic right
in the hebrew discussion you say in in
modern hebrew
is like movement like traffic right okay
so
the movement of the wheel tickles an
aramaic word
it means wheel the you mean
when you move it to the right bash
access it
you get hashball from hassett ul ismail
when you move the wheel to the left
passport
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it's a precise accounting it's not just
your whim that decides left right right
left up
down bottom like do whatever you want no
no no no it's it's
it has do yak says
what's the medujak when does the
when does the wheel move to the right
and when does it move to the left moshe
depending on your observance of mitzvahs
and study of toyota
bays the oiphon is the res the
inclusiveness of khasid and vura
how much hesitate you have and how much
guru you have in your life
that's the way you tilt the wheel you
hear that
accounting in regard to the fulfillment
of toyota mitsubishi
and and the opposite when you don't do
it
no two people are alike there's no two
people that the wheel moves for them
alike
because we sometimes think well we're
all basically the same a little more
little
wrong every person
the difference in people is
in the details the difference of mankind
mankind art is not in the generalities
it's the details
you know the detail of a mitzvah the
detail of an activity
okay
equals
i i i don't know if he's heading this
way the red look but
you can maybe yeah you can let me know
um if he's talking about the difference
that
is the details so can this be like also
when it comes to
let's say in yiddish trade right so we
know about the twelve schwatten and each
shaven had its own topicated
each of it looked different and
everybody had their own thing
and unfortunately today you know we're
very much
you know either you're black or you're
white there's you know everything's
black away
so if you think he's heading here is
that where he's going
that each person has its own specific
topic
maybe later yoni i don't know we have we
have a lot more to cover
so i i don't know but we'll keep it in
mind
he definitely says this in the kitchen
but he doesn't elaborate on it
so let's see maybe but i it's good that
you're bringing it up
let's continue
the ways of the wicked are successful
quoting the verse
sheikh makable militarist because they
receive at that time
from transcendence hillel and everyone
can get in now let's go to the next mime
and my my test page 145
pay the call you can see it's a long
chapters a long so let's go we'll get
through it
will help us
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the source for this idea that we're
discussing
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when we talk moshe about the order and
progression
of hashem's energy as it as it
applies to the world it's it's
it's experienced in two ways one's
called
an inner way behind the way slap shoes
oh it is
i'm sorry here he says no here he's
talking about the one way of saying the
establishments he says
say that established by its inherent
conditions and ingredients
is experienced through an inner light of
the heart which means
his laptop is because the energy invests
itself
specifically in a vessel and if it
doesn't have a vessel a receptacle
the energy is wasted
where is the first place where we find
the concept of caleb of vessels
says the kabbalah it's in in wisdom
he gives us a muscle
up the power of
man is the first power yoni that invests
itself
in the receptacle in the vessels which
we call the limbs of the body
why why is khaka the first
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it doesn't have one specific specific
domain
in the in the body who knits
will is equal throughout
the body if your hand wants to move
it moves the foot wants the movement now
what's the roth sign
can we say roxanne will has one specific
kali note ratson is realized in the
brain
once you desire to move
let's continue
now look at that word
although is
more near gosh felt
realized in the brain within the head
that's his rhetorical question which i
just answered before but let's see what
the rashaab says
and feels more the will than the foot
the leg says that
that's the end of his rhetorical remark
question
now comes his retort his his his
response
to the rhetorical remark avo
so he's making a very refined difference
here between the will itself
and the realization and feeling of the
will
we're so lucky to taste hasidis
now use your head over shabbos to
to see if you understand this in your
words not in my words not unders words
the difference between pure will
being equal in the foot and the head
versus the haircut of will which is more
present in the brain than in the foot
and i'm not going to say anymore but
that's
what he says i want you guys maybe to
come up with a muscle or two
something to explain that to yourselves
that you're comfortable with and then
share it with me on sunday mr chef
i want to go further now
and the proof that our shop says i gotta
prove it to you i can make statements
but
what's my proof vahraya
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he brings this that we're about to learn
and what is that
that as soon as your foot
desires to move
it moves instantaneously immediately
without any lapse of time
if rutzen said this is his argument avi
if russian was not in the foot
but it's kaylee's place was the head it
would take time for me to go from the
head to the foot
and the fact that it it's immediate it
takes no time there's no shears
therefore we drashab says this proves
that it is in the foot
the innama and he he talks it out well i
just said
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if we were to believe that the place of
will
is in the brain of the head kamehameha
just as seijo just as intelligence
where is it seat in the brain we would
argue
so too the place of will is in the brain
that's its house it's home
why do i say that that would have to be
because let's compare it
to intelligence which is which which
the seat of intelligence is the brain
let's see
how the brain impacts other things
does it take time or not look what the
number says
take for example when seiko
that's in the brain impacts the foot
uh
the craftsmanship the of walking a
straight line you know let's say a tight
rope if you don't if you don't walk a
tightrope a straight line
bye bye charlie like it might be record
dancing at a wedding coming in and
making beautiful dances being with
me everyone's dancing nah
this guy is a dancer he knows how to
move those
feet in a way that's elegant
rich gevaltic at the same time
not not like a bohemian at many weddings
today
which is one of the great travesties of
our jewish world
where weddings have become a place of
letting out your nephesh obama's
dancing like many times etc etc i
don't want to go into it but
you guys all know what i mean
you can dance and dance with the mendez
kayak and sweat and dance and be happy
but dance like haiti so this guy rabbit
says here
another example is ricot
in other words the movement of your
dancing is
guided by seijo the left tap
first the right back second like they
trained the kids and my daughters
growing up and having plays in the
in the girls schools you know they make
plays i'm sure they do the same thing
with
your daughters in schools right they
spent time training themselves
to to perform the act and they did
dances with
songs that's but that that's so seijo
is guiding the dancing if it's
based on the on the movement of the song
so each one is another movement
who's guiding that who is saying
you what can you say is that the kids
kids run through them
yeah okay exactly so
if seiko doesn't tell you to go
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you ain't blowing that way you're just
blowing ooh one ooh and that's it
seiko's guiding the recalled
the negina etc
it takes time and it's not coming
automatic
it ain't happening if anyone thinks
that an expert just goes into a room and
does what he does
without any mental preparation totally
wrong
the greatest genius and the greatest
teacher
and the greatest performer prepares
no question about it what is preparation
the way the mind the seiko dictates
how the activity should be
and that takes time and that takes
effort and that takes prep
so what do we see that seiko which is
lodged
and housed in the brain its impact
on on on on the result
takes time takes training
so the fact that russo it's not the
the fact that russo it's not that way is
proof that it's not like cycle
and why not because sinkhole is housed
in a kali
in a specific place there isn't cycle in
your nose
i'm sorry it's not
there's cycle in the brain
but there is
russia i mean you know there are there
are people who have
sensory discrimination in uh
smell that that is um you know
unfathomable to the rest of us that's
ankle in the nose
no that's not sacral that's not hello
that's
that's um intuition
that's um hergish that's uh super
conscious okay
this is i wouldn't say it's a trainable
it's a learnable skill
it's a learnable developmental skill
like uh
you know just like um you would
you would like for for example for me
one of the things i work on in my in my
uh
exercises the individual movement of
each toe so i can
i can move some toes individually i
can't move others but i've seen it done
that you can learn to move every toe
honorable okay so you say you're
admitting you
you can learn that's that's
psychobarrenko but you could learn that
same thing to be able to do
discriminating between smells
that's not what i meant but of course
you can learn it but
that means that seiko is training the
nose
yes okay
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the cycle is in the brain and the brain
is training the nose
yeah i
is there this difference between seikel
and russian it's because
once we talk about our panimi it has
its place and its rules and regulations
it's part of a spousalist you can't get
away from it
behind the scenes
in the brain say ho invest itself in
actuality
right
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because over there
in the place where cycle rests
there is the histaus it goes from kayak
to kayak
for example it goes from the cycle to
the middles
until it it ends up
in in the movement of the foot well i
call but there are conceptuals
so the process from by which it it goes
from the brain
to the foot it invests itself
in other words is in the foot hillel
not in a superficial way
it's when seijo impacts the foot
and if it's really like you said with
the nose the discernment of smells
and you know exactly what's going on
then
it's not it it's not a habitual
experience it can be but it's it's it's
the real cycle is um
it's it's um a guided a guided
understanding experience as it is
through the nose
every smell as perceived by the nose
when it was impacted by the cycle
training it to to to to pay attention to
the different smells
each one is different than the other one
that's what we call paneers
you can't lump them all together
that's why you need loot you need
to to invest and to spend time
to put effort diligence his ascot
which means involvement right
the shiasma and it takes time and he
goes to say united
he
and if we were to say that the willpower
has
a one specific vessel
so then it should take time until the
foot
is able to do what the will wants to do
now i think that you know what probably
you're having a little issue with and
and i had to
you know when i would began learning to
see this and you know for years
is this is the idea that is the idea of
of of understanding the the difference
that i said it before
between seiko being lodged specifically
in the brain chabaroche and rutzong
being
not lodged there but rather all over
equal that's that's an important the
kuda
to to know well and to understand it
for this to flow for this to make sense
but that is assuming we we
we understand that okay and that's why
he says
for rudson to impact the feet it needs
to have
time let me just finish this paragraph
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repeats himself the will impacts the
movement of the feet
of the foot immediately without any
lapse of time
of alicia miss oscar's clown without any
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does not have any one specific vessel
it finds itself in the foot as in the
head
is
and the first kayak that invests itself
in
in a specific vessel that's
because invest itself in the brain
that we have three that mayak has
three compartments shenkalim with
democracy
which are which each is a a home a
vessel
for the three particular intellectual
components
of
so here is another important point
the koyakov pina is not lodged in the
same
apartment that's the kayak and the
das is not lost in the same place
they're all
intellectual so they're all overall in
the brain
sheba rosh that's its home but each one
has a separate room
and this is what happened and this is
why many times
someone who is excellent in creativity
which is
but all of a sudden mix has been into
which is analysis is not his expertise
we have confusion
we have an idea that's gone wrong
and vice versa you have someone who's
very strong
in beena in analysis but if he doesn't
allow and know that he is not creative
and doesn't like the creative type
to impact his bena
it also is lacking and the story that i
told you it's the story
when i made that cafe schmooze on
beverly boulevard
in los angeles and my friend
mark over strolling and i we put it
together and mark had these beautiful
pink couches
in the third street um beverly hills
area
beautiful area and he said rabbi i'll
donate them
to the to the new disguise called cafe
schmooze
and one day i come in and we have pink
couches
kai and dolphin from brooklyn new york
and crown heights has pink
couches for a habaras
leather couches wow
very interesting okay and the next
things that
i ordered was a a bar
stools because we made a cafe
and bookshelves and books
and we had a certain color a pretty
pretty uh regular traditional color
and no one's coming through the doors
so one of my friends says i go to a
younger guy and i say
a college student how do we change the
situation he says i'll talk to my
friends he gets a few guys and girls
together
who were from or fromish and they knew
the scene of la
and they said rabbi we're willing to
help you but you have to allow us to
choose colors
and turn this place inside out
i had no choice i really didn't want to
do it because it's not me you know and
but it's not me meaning i i'm not strong
in that area in creativity
and they had the creative touch
and they painted the walls um i think
dark green and banana yellow
and took out lights and turned the place
into what looked like
a nightclub and
uh you know this is the farthest thing
from my vision of a chabad house a
school
or even a cafe you know you go into a
normal cafe
here you know it's
ugly but that's what it is anyway
i said go for it because the people want
weren't coming in as soon as they
changed the colors
the place started to hop and pop
and 6 000 people walked through those
doors in one year
unit people so they were repetitive
customers 6
000 people and rabbit humanism
how many walked out you know what you
don't walk out when bob dylan's
son-in-law peter himmelman is performing
no one's walking out
you couldn't get through the doors okay
and
robert cunanan's son mandy cunanan calls
me
hi me says i hear you you you're rocking
the house
and here i have this beautiful big
building on galey avenue
in westwood with ucla right there
and i can't i can't i get so little
students
what are you doing tell me the secret
so anyway i think of this as a martial
and
and if you mix the two you got a balagan
and that's what happens
that's the reason why we have issues
because we have three components to the
mind
and has a whole other discussion focus
and concentration which hello
you know that's part of his work
meditation and
thought and using it to to cure yourself
okay and so important to know what we're
strong in
and let the other person who's strong in
the other
area become your partner and then you'll
have the best of both worlds let me just
finish the line
so we have been adas and the three
compartments we're on top of 147
where they are in the in the components
of the mind
the media is their home their dwelling
place is the heart
all other powers that one has
cocos have their separate vessels
and limbs that they resonate that they
that they resonate there that they are
there
okay this was a great yes
hello i'm going to make a comment that
uh saw similar torah
in the necessary today on the possum
that it says that three times the
passage
in the um and then
explains that the first time avraham
has a recognition that in order to get
to
to pat to accomplish this messiah
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and the second time the second
yitzchak realizes he needs the he needs
to meet up
abraham that's great thank you yeah
that's a wonderful tights and it's
apropos the parsha
so everyone should have at the valentine
and lights everyone should be blessed it
all starts from the shabbos with
him say tell him as much as what
thank you