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Rus.
First of all, the sefarim are in Eretz
Yisrael
and they're in Ra'anana. I forgot to ask
my father yesterday to Chile. I forgot.
I didn't realize they were there
yesterday.
Um
Oh, you'll be there Thursday?
Oh, great. If anyone wants to
steal the mitzvah from my father.
Is he young?
Okay, so one of them thank you. Okay,
beseder gamur yofi. Yeah, the sefarim
are in thank God. We we
we got a bunch of them. So, I'm very
very much looking forward to the to you
holding the sefer in your hand.
And I've been in touch with the family
of the mechaber this last
since like since the mechaber's brother
right? The mechaber's brother is the one
that put out that video that I sent you
guys.
And
it's just a so beautiful what a
beautiful beautiful family.
Such a love there. Ne'imut such no'am.
Um
Kacha, we have good news today.
The good news is the perek that we're
learning today.
This is actually very very good news.
If you look at the title of today Emunah
Hi Bi Yerusha, that basically tells you
everything.
Emunah
that we're so longing to to discover
to enhance to surround ourselves with
emunah comes down through inheritance.
Now, let me ask you a shaila with with
din of not to go too deep into the
halachos of this.
But if there's a Yoresh, right? If
someone is a legitimate Yoresh and it's
someone that inherits logically,
can he can that person the person that
is Yoresh deny his Yerusha?
Can a person deny their own Yerusha?
What do you think?
>> I think yes.
>> Yeah? You think you can?
Let's go
some Let's start with Can a person
denounce his Yerush? Denounce his Well,
it's two different words, denounce
versus deny. Can a person deny their
Yerusha?
>> Yes.
>> I would say
>> No.
>> Can you denounce it? Yes.
But even if you denounce it, you cannot
deny it.
Right?
No, they No, it's
directly to you. Yeah.
So, that's a very So, I want you to keep
that in mind.
If we say that Emunah
and he's going to show here out there
how this is how what what that means
that there's something that you cannot
you cannot deny.
You may denounce as much as you want. I
am Emunah he be Yerusha.
Faith is something that we already have
because we were born into the family,
because we were born into the Mishpacha.
Now, similar to the way that we learned
out the two different types of holiness
in Friday's sheer,
there's a level of Emunah that can kind
of get
It can get blemished.
And then there's a world of Emunah that
exists within us that can't be touched.
It's the same thing.
Like we were learning regarding of
Kadusha. It's the same exact thing.
Works the same exact way.
So, let's start off
Let's start off right away as given
Emunah he be Yerusha.
This is a beautiful safer. I'm sure you
the Slonimer Hasidim the room you had
this safer.
This is a beautiful safer called Toras
Ovos of Toras Ovos. B'shem Harav
Hakadosh Reb Nachman of Breslovich.
S'chus yagein aleinu.
Sheyihudi tzarich l'ha'amin
asher b'fnimiyuso hu ma'amin b'emunah
shleimah. A yid has to believe
that deep down inside he he or she
believes b'emunah shleimah.
V'rak she'avim m'chasim oso.
It's just that thick layers of fog
is blocking it.
But a yid has to believe This is crazy.
He has to believe that he believes.
Sounds funny, right?
Tzarich [snorts] l'ha'amin asher
b'fnimiyuso
Not only does he believe hu ma'amin
b'emunah shleimah.
So psych- psychologically speaking over
here, what does this mean? What does
this do to a person?
If you they have to train themselves to
say
no matter despite whatever happens, not
just that I still believe in you. I
believe
that deep down I still believe in you
even when I manage
on the outside don't believe in you.
Tameivinim?
>> in you.
>> Feels whatever nachon. On the outside it
feels mamash like I don't believe in
you.
A yid's avodah in this world is that
dafka then to remember that deep down
inside I actually have emunah shleimah
in you.
Emunah shleimah in you. And I just have
avim I have these thick
thick layers of of clouds of fog of
confusion that are standing in between
that
which is emes l'amito that I believe in
you b'emunah shleimah
to what I'm feeling right now to what
seems to be like reality. Let's continue
to have him develop this for us.
Uveira d'over hu k'mo she'kasuv b'Tanya
as the Alter Rebbe writes in the Tanya
perek Yud Chet,
she' avo'er solution l'chol echad
v'echad mi'Yisrael neshama mi'ha'esser
s'firos.
So, our our our
forefathers, horishu, they left us an
inheritance to each one of Am Yisrael
a neshama
that emanates from one of the ten
s'firos.
Ki heim asu atzmam merkava l'shchinato
yisbarach.
They made themselves to be
a merkava,
the chariot,
the wheels on the chariot for Hashem's
shchina.
V'hinחילu zeh l'zar'am. And they
I don't know what the right word in
English for l'hanחיל.
>> Bequit.
Bequest.
>> Sure, that's what I I was about to say
that.
I'm sorry, yeah. Really.
You could have given me one more second,
I would have gotten there.
>> [laughter]
>> In the next gilgul, I would have gotten
there.
And they bequeathed this to this to
their offspring.
U'v'soch s'firas ha'chochma
she'b'neshama
me'ir ohr ein sof baruch hu.
V'lachen kol Yisrael, afilu amei
ha'aretz, heim ma'aminim ba'Hashem ki
b'soch p'nimiyus nishmasam heim
margishim metzi'uso yisbarach she'me'ir
b'kirbam.
Even those that are mamash amei
ha'aretz, how could it be that they have
an inyan of emuna? How could they feel
emuna? How could they be attached to
emuna? What did they What did he say
here based on the Alter Rebbe?
>> It's in It's inside of them.
>> Through which s'fira?
He called it out, through chochma. Kulam
b'chochma asisa.
Right? So, chochma is the lower level of
those three, right? Levels of
chochma, bina, and da'as.
So, through the s'fira of chochma, he
says, based on the Alter Rebbe in the
Tanya perek Yud Chet,
that's how it could be that you have
amei ha'aretz g'vorim that walk around
with some kind of sense of
where did it come from because this is a
this is a
matter of time.
So don't worry. I want to explain this a
little bit outside.
What does it mean that they became a
miracle over the
what does that mean?
What does that mean? It means that the
concept of that we all like to spoke
throw around the whole
by them. It was like that they
themselves were completely nullified
completely
self remove they didn't get in the way
at all of the
shining in this world. Once a person
does that
it's like if you want to know how you
give your kids a real Russia.
Like once once that once you do that
that you completely nullify yourself
in the holiest way to
what he wants you to do in this world
and what he wants the world to receive
from you through you
then he says you create a for your
children.
And what's the for your children which
is the greatest you could ever leave
them? That they believe that they
believe
in a sham.
There is no greater you could be for
your children.
Nothing.
Nothing in the world. That's the
greatest thing in the world you could
leave for your children.
And that's how he's saying what the
is saying
that
explaining how someone that
seems to be so
such an
he feels something because even to
once they did that all the
that comes after and
forever has in them as a
and
through one of the spheres
through a different way shines in
different way for different people.
But everyone has something
and David was right.
I don't know what I'm meaning by meaning
I mean it's not his but I mean it's it's
it's of course leave it to for
right what you do with Gematria, he's
like that with Jewish music. You
understand?
>> Okay. [laughter]
>> But on the bottom, "will if you feel
call Shiva calling will push a Israel
Muslim of Shamar Kadosh Hashim."
And therefore, even the lowest of the
low and the portion of Am Israel, they
give their life for Kadosh Hashim. But
they all must have a calling Nakudas
Israel. I never heard this before.
Have you heard this concept before?
Nakudas Israel.
She has the whole Yudi bit old that all
bit old that all. That's all that
matters. I have a Nakuda of being a Yid.
That Nakuda of being a Yid means
>> The Yid.
>> The The The The Italy. It's my
destination.
>> that's helpful.
>> And that's And well, it starts meaning
it it always for everyone starts from
Hofma, but because of the way that he
said mapped it here and how the altar
that he continues there in Parik Yuthet
and I think also in Parik Yuthet,
for other people, the aura of their
Nishama is coming from a higher
sphere. So, their access to the Amuna
that they we all have is a bit more
tangible.
But the Hofma is the I would call the
Mahanaim Mashuta. That means the common
denominator upon which everyone has some
access. And they know the Amuna of
Shlama that this is for true This is
This is real. And all of us have that. I
feel you call Shiva calling Allah.
Yeshua Mashika as well as the doubles
Gashmius lawyer gives the Amuna zone.
So, why don't I feel it? Well, what are
you running after? What kind of Yerusha
you trying to leave for your children?
What kind of Yerusha you trying to leave
for your kind of love?
How many people's they put so much
effort into Gashmius behind the notion
of I want my kids to have more than what
I had growing up.
That's a big thing in our door. Cuz many
of us in the last, you know, previous
generations or two generations ago,
what did they have? You know, I I it
came up as a memory on my phone.
It was nine year nine years ago, I
think. I was with my brother in
Argentina for my uncle's
I I guess if it was nine years ago,
Abba, then it was the first yard site.
Right.
So, [clears throat] my cousin took me to
the apartment that my father grew up in
in Buenos Aires, okay?
I'm not kidding right now.
The apartment that my father grew up in
the whole apartment, my father, his
parents, and his brother
was maybe
half of this room. The whole place.
The whole place.
And many of us have grandparents that,
you know, lived in those kind of
conditions. And their whole Indian is to
give more to their children. Now, that's
a that's a very healthy and normal and
beautiful thing.
But but the mutual of them, it doesn't
have to be stored it of that. Doesn't
have to contradict the fact that they
can give us more than maybe I don't know
if they can give us more than what our
grandparents gave those kids. Why?
Because maybe the grandparents gave the
kids a moon.
>> I'm so happy you said that.
>> Why?
>> Just I am.
>> Yeah?
>> Because for all the right reasons the
world we live in.
>> Yeah.
>> Marta
>> So,
>> Such a rough what tells us
it needs to be like this, but it maybe
it doesn't. Maybe it's more deeper than
that.
That's what we're learning right now.
>> I'm trying to say like it's a normal
it's a normal gut reaction
for someone to want to give their
children more than they had. That's
good.
Is it under the casement of something or
not?
So, he's saying over here when you're
mashkiya yourself in getting more and
more gashmius
you're not going to feel that which you
which you actually believe in.
Which would be horrible.
>> cannot shine up.
They not pull it through with that.
Yeah,
like the Tanya says the next chapter.
The hokhmah that you have when shlufi
and it's not doing what it's supposed to
do in this world. Like we have so many
muscles that aren't doing what they're
supposed to be doing in this world. Why?
Cuz they're not exercised. They're not
being used. They're not being prepared
for a time of, you know, real usage.
Which brings us back to Leo's speech,
Reb Leib Deez speech at his wife's
levaya.
>> [snorts]
>> Or maybe it was at his the two daughters
levaya cuz it was two different levayas.
Where he said
that he was speaking big words of emunah
at that funeral and all of us thought he
was
you know, mashu Reb Besser. But he was
speaking, if you remember, some of the
chevra I know that we're here, we we we
went.
He was saying words, lo yuman, what he
was saying.
And he said, "I want you to know the
reason why I'm able to to talk like this
is because I learn emunah every single
day." He didn't start learning emunah
when he heard those apikorus and his
family's in it and he's in the he's in
the cheder, he's in the hospital and
he's starting to
to to to upload shiurim on emunah. He
has a seder in emunah every day and he
credited Mama She.
He credited Reb Efraim Goldberg with one
of the most powerful statements I ever
heard about emunah, that emunah is
paying attention and focusing on what I
have versus what I don't have.
That's emunah.
So then and then he said that amazing
amazing powerful line.
Reb says, "I could look here today and
said, 'I had five children.'
Or we were a family of seven."
And he said, "Instead I'm standing here
and I'm saying we are
now a family of five. This is what we
have."
A person that's
mashkiya in ta'avas of gashmius can't
come to those con
It's just that they'll never say words
like that. They'll they'll never get to
a maskana to think or talk like that,
you know what I mean? It's just not part
of the program.
Cuz they're like the altar of the says
they're Hakma, that which we Leo is
speaking about from such a wise place,
that level of Hakma mean near them. It
went to the beginning of Sheena.
You know, I have to tell you something.
Yesterday I went to the funeral of
a really special kid.
This guy was something else.
If you've ever spent time in the Rova,
do any of you learn in the Rova?
Yeah?
Oh, right right right, it was still in
the Rova then.
Do you remember Ruven Halevi?
Yes, exactly.
Ruven Halevi.
Ruven Halevi, old school Abba
Zuker of Manhattan.
>> He danced like back
>> He married Emuna Witt about 20-something
years ago. He was He would dance with
you like it's no one's business, right?
And I I think it was either a big rabbi
or a yeshiva got up yesterday in the
funeral of one of his fading in Har
Hamenuchot.
And it was amazing how he was speaking
about the level of a year that lived
with conscious Emuna all the well
literally cuz her name his wife's name
was Emuna, but also living with living
with this level of Emuna.
And I would always wonder why is he so
He was You know, he never got He didn't
get married. Didn't have his own
children.
And yet I want every I saw him when I
saw him since I'm a kid, this kid was on
He would grab like the end of your hand
and start dancing with you, bopping with
you.
Bopping with you.
I don't know, it just it popped up for
me over here right now.
>> [snorts]
>> Ba feel the shower beneath them.
I feel she yes
Emuna beneath them.
And I Emuna high beneath them.
What a line. There are plenty of people.
If you ask them they believe, they say
yes. And you ask them, do you believe in
Ashkaha?
Yes. now you ask them all the shylas
about Emunah. Everything. And the answer
to everything is yes.
He says you could have that in your
mind,
but the Emunah is not high but here but
it's not alive.
>> It's not in practice.
>> It's not in practice. You're not
training. You're not training it.
>> [snorts]
>> It's true and according to our nature we
are my meaning but I mean it.
A person must connect Emunah to
recognition.
It has to be to level as if it's like
you're looking at it with your eyes.
Emunah now over here Emunah means the
shepherd.
Like shepherd of faith.
Emunah Reb Nachman has
very a few very powerful teachings.
Based on this again tell me just he says
the first two words of this
Emunah
the dwelling in the land that we're
living in is in order to shepherd faith.
Emunah the shepherd faith should tell
you what
does that mean to shepherd faith? You
should tell me
with an eye. You have to shepherd
finance. And what do you do with your
with your flock?
You have to give them
You have to take care of them.
Emunah
Emunah it's on. We are it's on. In our
time we were shepherds. You have to take
care of them. You have to shepherd them.
You have to faith them.
Meaning it's not enough that I say I
believe in Hashem. It's just not enough.
It's like they do all these like scoring
all these soccer.
poles
All the time about a million things,
right? And one of the poles is like
okay, Emunah
right? So but Hashem, in am Yisrael, the
hu ha ma'aminim is very, very big. Very
strong. Focus on the good. Very high,
very strong. Now, let's focus on the
bad. Right? Now, within that, let's say,
from the 100% of the ma'aminim, right?
Then you ask, etzel kama ma'am
>> [clears throat]
>> ze inyan shel ohr eh emunah?
No, because in yeshivas that we grew up
in
and yeshivas, many of them that still
exist today, that's not part of the
curriculum.
It's not part of the curriculum. Rav
Kook changed them. I mean, Rav Kook
really merkaz haRav, they really
they really put an emphasis on limud
emunah. It's a little bit, you know,
different than maybe the mahalakh we
have here, because
they were always they were they were
always asked, okay, so what does that
mean? What farm should we learn to in
order to shepherd faith?
So, you know what the main one through
merkaz haRav is, right?
The Kuzari.
The Beur ha Halakha, the Kuzari.
That [snorts] that's like a That that's
Rav Tzvi Yehuda
was really the one that pushed that and
made that to be like the shepherding of
of of faith. Give up. Baruch Hashem.
But, whatever it is, it has it must be
that we have to shepherd faith. We have
to
>> [clears throat]
>> we have to activate this. It can't be
something lying dormant. And you can't
bank on Friday night davening to to this
stuff, either. That's not how it works.
Zeh mashu yoter gadol. It's in everyday
life. Every single day.
I think it I think it comes down to
sichos chaveirim.
Like, what kind of conversations are you
having with friends? And is emunah is
emunah part of the conversation?
Well, a lot a lot of guys say, I need
guys that I could just, you know, talk
our heart and like spill my guts and
everything.
But, wouldn't you want like
that together with a a a a a
faith-based conversation? She's a gam
chelek mizeh.
Chayav lihiyot.
Uvaze yetzuras
ma sheyesh second paragraph, uvaze
yetzuras
>> Now [snorts] we can ask the obvious
question. How is it possible to command
mitzvot of the
emunah of being a mitzvah? How could you
command to have an emotion or to have a
belief?
Great question.
Same shaila. 100% It's going to be a
different answer, but it's the same
shaila. How could the Torah say, how
could the Torah command an emotion?
So the Torah doesn't command emotions.
Some of the Torah does.
The Torah commands you to get to the
gym. That's what it does.
100%.
Emunah already exists within you.
Emunah
If emunah didn't exist within me, then I
can understand maybe like okay, now you
have to develop this thing called
emunah. No. You It's already in you.
It's already in all of us.
All you got to do is stop hitting
snoozes
and shake yourself up.
What was Matisyahu's song?
>> Shake off the dust.
>> Shake up, thank you. What you got to do?
Yeah.
Shake off the dust, arise, right?
>> [clears throat]
>> Remove
the blanket.
Take the blanket off.
You know, we're going into the winter,
so it's going to get cozier and cozier,
right?
Well, last year, the year before, it was
it was we had other things waking us up
in the middle of the night. Chalilah, we
should never have to have that. Let's If
we wake If we take off the blanket when
it's supposed to take come off,
all of us together with such emunah
shleima, our oyevim have nothing on us.
We know this already.
>> says [snorts]
Moshe's hands had emunah.
>> By his hands had emunah.
>> Yeah, but how do your hands have emunah?
Because it's action. It's not just up
here. The hands are above the head.
>> I mean, it's great that we have this for
for for helping us, but
start a bracha with someone in emunah.
Just start something. Just don't don't
think too much. Right now.
Right after sheer.
Say, let's let's start learning half
hour a week emunah together. And the
ones that are learning online, find
someone. Just
right now. Get them.
Why not? It's the best the best time is
right now.
Tuesday night Huh?
>> Tuesday night after 9:00 p.m. shot in
Mar.
>> Shalom Bitachon.
>> Yeah.
>> And for those that doesn't work for them
cuz
maybe it doesn't work for everybody. I'm
not sure how but whatever it is.
The the the Anash is telling us,
remember,
it it's not something you have to you
figure out how to get. You already have
it.
You got it through yerusha. You have
emunah.
I feel bad for uh
What was Aish's program?
Discovery, right? Because he's saying
over here
then you don't have to base it any you
don't have to base the emunah on proofs.
the proofs uh
>> shouldn't be an intellectual
>> I mean, I the Judaism program though has
actually transformed the lives of
hundreds of thousands, but he's saying
that
he's saying there's a there's a there's
a way to get
that that should just strengthen that
person that already has it. But to base
it on proof,
you're missing the point. You're basing
>> Sometimes you need to
>> [cough]
>> But I think it's to base it on that
which you already have.
>> Yeah, proof that
>> Mhm.
It's true.
It's not Yeah. The Kotsker Rebbe said,
"I would never
ever want to worship a God that I can
understand."
>> [snorts]
>> But I do but I do agree that once it's
there, I'll I'll live.
Then to go Then afterwards to build on
that, I I think it's good out.
I would do it.
of your your yerusha.
Yeah.
But that's the thing, does it draw from
chochma or not?
No, no. I'm No, I'm talking about the
these the the proof stuff.
Yeah.
I mean, because I could prove I mean,
you could you could also disprove a lot
of things if you really wanted to.
So, that's why it doesn't It only works
to a certain extent.
But the the point that he's drilling
home here is that you already have it.
It came up in in the in the women's
shear on Thursday morning. We quoted
Akiva. What is this song that he has?
I forgot it now. I forgot it now.
About that that that that you have Huh?
You already
You got it as an inheritance. And also
like it's good for our anava.
You didn't do anything to get it.
You just exist, you know? You You come
into this world. You didn't really do
anything to get it.
So, just you tell me like, "Wow, this is
amazing, but now the shaila is and then
what and what do I do with it now? Now
that I have it.
Like we were saying before, this is
actually problematic when it's proof
based.
Besides the legal stuff, who is the
Benei Yissachar?
Huh?
The dinner with what was his name?
It's Zvi Elimelech.
He's a talmid of?
That's really too much. He's a talmid of
the Chozeh of Lublin.
Who has
faith in Kabbalah?
Like you could go proof or not proof,
you're not going to get to the place
that you already have.
Who does he sound like over here in this
paragraph?
Which rabbi does he sound like?
>> Sounds like Tanya.
>> Uh it was very much from the Baal
HaTanya. It's all based on Perek Yud
Chet.
In the Baal HaTanya.
To me this last piece sounded like Rav
Nachman when he was warning warning us
of staying away from
from
uh what he called machakrim. Machakrim,
yeah.
He's saying philosophers' wisdom does
not come from ain soph. It comes from
soph, meaning it comes from it's
limited. It comes from it's it's a
structure.
It has a beginning. And Khali he says if
that's where you're going with your
emuna, it may Khali have an end. But
when it comes from ain soph,
Let's just
Khokhmah is baruch. This emuna never
ends. It's not a thing that like now
I've come to the conclusion.
It's this infinite infinite infinite
never-ending journey.
The old nuskha mina.
Bottom. The old nuskha mina miza. She
amuna miza the Khali what's another
thing that we could learn out from the
fact that you and I have something in us
naturally that we did we did nothing. We
did nothing to get. It just exists
naturally.
>> [snorts]
>> She ain't lead bubble Muhammad bin
Muhammad she ain't
Muhammad bin Muhammad Adam.
But we could just say not he says this
very easily.
>> [laughter]
>> It sounds much more simple than
than in practicality. But he says and he
we don't get confused from swikas and
emuna that the puts into us sometimes.
We can see that on them. What does that
mean?
>> Distract.
>> You get just distract yourself from it.
He ain't Muhammad Khali. Cuz they're not
real. The Arabic
Muhammad bin Muhammad Adam. He's saying
if you know that you have this thing
called emuna inside of you, then when a
bill bill comes to you when a confusion
comes to you and the and Kenny is right
there again,
then what could you do?
>> Ignore it.
>> Based on what?
He's saying If you have emuna of
philosophy and Muhammad, you can't
ignore it because it's a like a bar
plukta. It's like this is an this is an
actual voice that I have to listen to.
But if I'm not coming from there, I look
at you and I say, "You're cute."
You know, you're cute.
Very cute. Shalom aleichem. Or tzeischem
l'shalom, I would say.
We're not the shalom. Tzeischem
l'gehenom, you know.
Tzeischem l'gehenom.
Or k'mo shekolso b'Tanya, last page,
shekol adam
This is the end of perek chof tes, kol
adam
shenoflim lo machshavos sfeikos al
emunah
Remember this. Like if you please we
should all remember this. Any person
that's thoughts of doubts on emunah come
onto a person heim divrei ruach shtus
ach l'vadah, just
call it out for what it is. This is
sitra achra. Hamagbiha atzma al nafsho,
for some reason it got access to you.
And it's overpowering you. But it's that
this is the sitra achra. Aval Yisrael
atzman hein ma'aminim bnei ma'aminim.
V'gam ha'sitra achra im na'atzma ein lo
sfeikos klal b'emunah.
He's saying even the sitra achra I mean
this is mamesh the mashal of the zonah
that Alter Rebbe also brings up. Who
does the sitra achra work for? Rebono
shel oilam. The sitra achra has total
emunah.
So it's almost like saying like it would
be a mind game to do this, but to start
battling with the sitra achra and
saying, "Oh my god, you're so strong.
[clears throat]
You're so persuasive. I wish I had
emunah like you.
I wish I had emunah like you in my
shlichus in this world, you know." And
before you know it
you need like really like tight
heightened sense of imagery and
development of imagination with
something like this. Before you know it
the sitra achra comes and gives you a
hug and says
"My job is done."
"My job is done. I'm I'm out of here."
Yeah, I mean for for now.
But there's a there's a Right, there's a
kamei funeral and then there's a this
amazing, you know.
>> The government
You were 2 years old.
And uh
I was hired to perform in Acapulco.
For Hanukkah, Shabbat Hanukkah.
Motzei Shabbat.
And the people and the Jews in Mexico.
And I started to play
and a Jew comes to me and says,
"Please, can you sing Ani Ma'amin?"
>> [clears throat]
>> And I start to sing
and I'm looking at this man and he's
starting to cry
and cry and cry.
Please.
I came to him after the performance
and I said
Lama?
Why you were crying? And he
when he what he told me,
he said,
"I was one of 10 survivors in
Buchenwald.
And when the Americans they came to
Leshakhrir
we stood up
and we sang Ani Ma'amin."
And [snorts] I looked at him and I said,
"I know you.
You live in Manhattan."
I'm telling you the truth.
Can Do live in the
Street? He's a giant.
Do you go to Rabbi Besser Shul
in 84th Street? There's Steibler.
Rabbi uh uh
>> Katzkel
>> Katzkel Besser.
Yeah.
I am your neighbor.
So, he looks at me
and I and I realize that he is
he survived [snorts]
this this uh genome of
>> [clears throat]
>> the Shoah.
And he built up himself
with chocolate bar time.
>> Mhm.
>> You remember chocolate bar time?
>> As in what time?
Yeah.
He's also a survivor of the book.
>> [snorts]
>> But
>> Maybe they know each other.
>> Nothing else only to sing Anim Amin.
Bemuna Sheleima.
>> And so
>> Mamash.
>> Shvim avi, shvim mami. Sorry. Mamash.
How could she do such a thing?
>> [laughter]
>> I keep them coming.
>> Yeah.
>> Wow.
If he's in the the the these these
stories
the truth is sometimes sometimes they
really depress us because
it's like and we're kvetching over, you
know, like like what what what what's
our billable, you know?
What's our billable, you know? This
What say what was his billable versus
our billable, but that's not a good
thing to do either because
we're in a different world. Everything's
a different context of the world today
than the sitra achra comes in different
shapes and forms in every door.
But it definitely didn't beat him.
At all. Didn't confuse him.
Doesn't mean
his life was good or anything, but it
didn't it didn't touch him. It didn't
touch that place.
So,
just to end off the paragraph start at
the bottom line of the gemara sitra
achra atzma ain lo safek klal be'emuna.
It's just that what?
Ach she'nitan la'reshut levalbel et
ha'adam bedivrei sheker u'mirma. So, why
Why did he get the permission to confuse
us so much if it works for Hashem?
Like why? Why?
This is from the Tanya. Ad kan divrei
Rav Kadoshim. What does that mean?
K'dei l'harbot s'charo I I learned this
on two ways.
One is Yeah. One is k'dei l'harbot
s'charo are s'chaim that you know that
this Oh wow, we we we we accomplished
this.
But it's But it's also feels like so
that the And it's really cuz of the
mashal of the of the prostitute that the
Alter Rebbe brings in the beginning
earlier in the Tanya
that um
they get reward for their fulfilling of
their shlichus, right? But what does
that mean fulfilling of their shlichus?
That they tempted the person to a to an
extent, but that they were that somehow
through that the person overcame their
temptation and then then then then
everything and then and then like the
s'char goes to both of them because they
fulfilled their shlichus properly.
So in a weird way it's like
that the the sitra achra has such a such
a koach over us,
but it wants to But it But it has emunah
shleimah as well that they're doing it's
doing its job, whatever this means.
It's a wacky thing to think about, but
whatever this means.
So I think the what what what what the
strongest thing for us as a yesod of
chassidus in in at this shlav
is that
there was a sign on the door
to the entrance of the Beis Medrash of
the Maggid of Mezritch.
And up here one of the eidus that I that
I read is that it said on it, "We're not
here to give you something that you
don't already have."
Or we're not here to teach you something
you don't already know. Mashu kazei.
And all all that Beis Medrash was doing
is making you get conscious and aware of
what they already have. What we have is
a yerusha. What's tavua ba'al habayis
yerusha? In better terms,
it changes me. If I know I already have
this, I don't have to create it. It's
not a yesh me ayin. It's a yesh me yesh.
It's not a yesh me ayin. It's not a
How do they say it in ex
It's not that.
It's not that. It's a
If I If I know I already have it,
so I just I I'm more I'm more encouraged
to say yalla yalla, let's develop it.
Let's develop it, you know. Let's
develop it. And all of us have that.
Each and every one of us have this, and
we have to believe this. The munash
thing, we just got to spend more time
talking about it.
Dibbuk chaverim, sichos chaverim, limud,
all these things, they all amount to a
place that we actually are proud
inheritors, and we know what our
inheritance is.
And that's the greatest gift we can give
on to our kinderlach b'ezras Hashem.
L'chaim.