Resurrection and the Real Reason for Mitzvos

welcome back to our weekly share in contrasting success and we are now on chapter 13 tonight in hashem will be chapters 13 and 14. to recap we are discussing how siddhis is axon what is atsum we could translate it as essence but what does essence mean we said that in reality there are levels the soul has levels torah interpretation has different levels um we haven't spoken about it really yet but the worlds have levels there are four systems of reality or four elements worlds um in fact there are many many examples of the the four levels as they manifest within within creation and then there is etson is nothing and it's everything all at once in terms of torah interpretation if siddhis is atom that means it cannot be classified as any one of the four methods or approaches shot to them can't be account classified as any one of those four and yet somehow it is not only compatible with but intrinsically linked to all four so it's none of the four but it's present within and has a an intrinsic relationship with all four and the way we're demonstrating that i mean that's a very strong claim but the way we're demonstrating that is we learned all four we took a subject maidani the first prayer that a jew says when when he or she wakes up and we looked at maidani according to according to remembers according to according to and then we did it with according to this and showed how this wasn't like any of those other four and now we're taking citizens going back and looking at the first four through the lens of siddhis and what's coming out is that when you plug these four interpretations into the acidic lens it's not that sidis is um different from them it is it is but it is that's the whole paradox uh it's it's distinct from them but yet when you go look back at those four interpretations from the perspective of sydney you see how basically it's like organically linked or unified it's one thing in other words it's not like two separate things that you're putting together um maybe can i say it like this this is not exactly the devil's words but becomes even more shot when seen say this becomes even more redness becomes more so it becomes more sight each one of them is what it is meaning has its distinct characteristics and yet those characteristics come to life more vividly when seen through the perspective of sinners so see this is not one of the fourth torah interpretation levels and yet it's it's connected to all four of the levels more than connected with it it has a i keep saying it has this intrinsic connection um as opposed to something that's like superimposed from the outside uh so at any rate we demonstrated this with shot we went back and we looked at shot the shot of maidani is gratitude you're thankful to hashem that he gave back your soul and then sidness comes and says yeah let's clarify that even more it doesn't just mean i'm i'm grateful to be able to get up and walk around and my body's moving and my my my lungs are breathing my heart is beating as much as a mirror of a miracle as that is but the gratitude is i have my soul you know there's the soul and there's the soul i have my spiritual connection to hashem my uniquely jewish spiritual connection to hashem and that's what my gratitude is for so sid this comes and and brings out a whole dimension from shot that was always there but it needed to be brought out okay so that's that's essentially what's happening here all right um now let's do this for drush for remis and then for okay chapter 13. kamehameha just like with shot merida ani doesn't add a new or additional explanation to the shot because even according to shot the meaning is it's expressing gratitude that you got your soul back so this isn't saying different than that allah rather what's it doing it illuminates it it brings clarity to that explanation itself i'll you day through my by clarifying what is that soul or that vitality of a jew for which we are grateful and what is it that we are grateful for so with shot again if this didn't say something different than shot it just sort of brought out clarity in the shot shot is gratitude for your soul sydney says yeah and even more with more precisely gratitude for your jewish soul your connection to hashem not just the fact that you're walking around alive but the fact that you have this essence within you that is one with god okay same thing with the level of remis would be the same principle with any subject and title that we could study this comes and illuminates and clarifies the explanations on all four of those levels themselves okay so like like we were saying before see this doesn't fit into any of those four categories it's its own category and yet it fits with all of those four categories so uh and and that's really you know one of the properties of an etsum that it isn't any particular category and yet it has this natural and intrinsic link with all the categories and and in fact all the categories are ultimately manifestations of it and that's what we're trying to demonstrate here okay let's do the dems [Music] of maidani is that our thanking hashem in the morning for giving us back our soul after sleeping is a hint or an allusion to the gratitude we're going to have when hashem returns the souls to the dead in the resurrection without siddhis coming and explaining that more who rem is seemingly it's a very let's call it far leap he calls it you know ram is always means it's a step removed that's what it means a hint but then there could be like you're hinting to the thing next to you or you're hinting to the thing you know in the next room over so the rabbit says here seemingly their gem is of maidani is a it's a pretty big leap because how are you getting from waking up in the morning to resurrection of the dead you're going from something that's mundane and literally a daily thing to something that has never happened yet at least on any wholesale level and which will constitute an absolute revolution in the laws of nature first of all sleep is only a sixtieth of death not actual death hade but additionally when you wake up and your soul comes back all that's happening is reconnecting the soul to the body it's like you have a charger you got to plug it into the wall outlet and boom so they have the charger and you have the wall outlet you just got to plug the two together the resurrection is where you have to reinstate the body and the soul themselves in other words not just like when you wake up from sleep you have two entities that just became separated and now you got to plug them back into each other no here the two entities are gone the body is for sure gone decomposed and uh even the soul that i was going to demonstrate here has also had its so to speak spiritual decomposition at some before resurrection all the body has left of it that hasn't decomposed is the loose bone um so then you could infer that also the the soul which has a relationship with the body has also undergone a fundamental change and then therefore in the time of resurrection what will happen a totally new body will be an intact complete body will be rebuilt from that one bone valdez the soul will also have to undergo its parallel rebuilding process whatever whatever that means it's hard for us obviously to wrap our heads around i mean can we wrap our heads around the physical component of it either but the point is the both the body and the soul have to be rebuilt not just reconnected therefore learning that the the return of the soul every morning is a is a remis to the return of the souls to bodies at the time of the resurrection it's a big leap he calls it a semen ba alma it's just like a faint or a vague representation they're not very similar phenomena at all at least seemingly when we just learn it on its own all right so what are we going to do we're going to plug this into this and see if we get a better perspective you want to know something even every morning when the soul comes back to the body it's not just that the soul and the body are reconnecting no they're being completely rebuilt brand new from scratch that's why in fact we say that every morning a person is a new creation what does it mean a new creation not just that he's renewed or rejuvenated or restored he's newly created as if he didn't exist before what do you mean i didn't exist before i remember yesterday i existed yesterday i just needed to sleep to to refresh no you're not just refreshed you are a new creation how could that be how can you be a new creation simple qui because because really every single second the entire world is being renewed something from nothing it's a fundamental concept of siddhis that the world is being recreated something from nothing every single second you think that it's only two entities the soul in the body that need to be re-plugged reconnected every morning no no actually it's not just reconnecting them it's making them from scratch brand new and it's not just in the morning although psychologically subjectively we feel it more in the morning it's actually every single second came near me so then why do we compare this to waking up in the morning really we should compare it to every single second because where we perceive most keenly that creation is being renewed is in the morning you know i heard a story once from uh simon jacobson that his father uh geschenberg came back from the soviet union i think he had an interview with khrushchev or something anyways he came back with all this i mean very heartbreaking information about the the jews there in russia i think he had 350 names that he had to memorize because he couldn't write it down obviously it would endanger the people he spoke to and he came back to new york and then the after a few days that ever called him in rabbi explained why i think why he didn't call him in right away he said because emotionally it was very difficult um i mean these were people who were languishing behind the iron curtain and uh so all night throughout the entire night gushenbear was telling uh that abba all all these names and reporting everything that was going on there in the soviet union and it was clearly very very very painful for the debtor to hear about all these families and it was like uh i don't know if we could you know say such things you know to read you know i don't want to put my own interpretations into it but it was like a very grueling process for the debit like grueling and painful and exhausting and and it was all night it was like an all-night uh discussion then at the end of the night the sun started to come up and gershomber saw how the the rabbit got up walked to the window of his room looked outside like saw the daylight breaking and his expression totally changed from one of being exhausted and pained hearing about all the things that are going on in the soviet union all of a sudden there was like this new expression that ever looked like all of that had been lifted and there was like this sudden sense of hope and courage and enthusiasm as as that i looked out the window and looked at the the sun rising and and and and that ever then said a new day in yiddish a new day um there is something very powerful about this idea of a new day i mean what literally changes from the second before dawn to the second after dawn and yet there is something about that um transition from the one day leaving in a new day beginning of course how logically a day in judaism ends uh with daylight and begins with dark which is another discussion but our experience of days you know um you know sleep on that and you know time is the best editor you know go to sleep and wake up and take a look back at your project in the morning right um there's something very powerful from a human perspective about a new day anaya talk so that's the idea here that maidani is actually testifying to a constant truth that creation is brand new every single second and really you know these these are quick classes we do a 30-minute class and we don't really have time to do this uh justice but the idea of creation next nihilo the idea of something from yash mayan that creation is something from nothing really is something that needs to be explained at length of course if you're interested you should study um the second helicopter where it's explained there at length the idea of how creation isn't just being revivified every second like hashem is just giving it its life force but much more than that its very existence not just its life its existence the fact that it's a something and not nothingness as it was before the six days of creation that's constantly happening so really that i was flipping we started off saying how can you even compare waking up in the morning in the soul coming back to the body to trees so coming back in the morning is is two things that already exist just being reconnected the body broke down the soul on in in its way has broken down and they have to be remade and then reconnected so how can you compare the two now comes this and says says no actually it's the opposite it's the opposite mason the resurrection that's not as amazing as what's going on every single second every single second hashem is making everything from absolute nothing so what what's what's a stretch is it's a stretch to say waking up in the morning is it can be compared to resurrection what's going on every single second is much more marvelous of a phenomenon than the resurrection the amitas hergeszet the feeling that creation is new something from nothing and being able to tune into that at least in the morning at the beginning of the day let me explain something here real quick i mentioned four worlds before now we're going to speak about them explicitly how they correspond to the four soul levels corresponds to the world of asia ruach the soul level of corresponds to yetziro so each one of them corresponds to a different world and so what they relate to is the idea of a world you know first of all the word world in los angeles is alam which is from the shredish the etymological root ayalam and mem concealment so a world is a concealment creation conceals creator so from the four the perspective of the four soul levels which correspond to the four worlds or levels of creation creation is obvious and creator is more of a philosophical concept however the perspective that no creation is the novelty creator is the axiom that that would be a wild idea for the four soul levels that the worlds are actually being created every single second have no independent reality and they're actually constantly being recreated per se they must be recreated because they don't have their own existence on the independently and they're constantly being renewed so that's again a connection to yukida from a perspective of nafe and rural and even um it's not troubled by the idea you know of how is there an ongoing existence of creation of course there's creation creation is reality i mean that's reality is reality as we know it right the the reality that started with creation so of course that's always there only yahida comes and says no the essence of reality transcends creation it came before creation it in certain ways is is existing after creation that they're from a perspective of yukida there's an essence of reality that has nothing to do with whether or not created reality came into being and therefore created reality demands an explanation meaning it requires explanation from the perspective you have to explain don't take for granted oh this is reality it's always been here the reality as we know it no no that's that's a perspective from the four soul levels from the perspective it's a weird thing that there are that that there is created reality and therefore it requires some explanation that and that explanation is that it's being put here recreated something from nothing every single second and if not it would revert to its uh essential non-existence which was its eternal state before it was compelled into existence that makes sense so basically what we just said here uh ram is according to this is the idea that um you're gonna that you're gonna say well how can you even compare waking up in the morning to something as monumental as resurrection and we say no no it's the opposite how can you compare the resurrection to something as monumental as the ongoing existence of reality every single second that's the real kiddush that's the real novelty it's just that from a psychological point of view where we're most tuned in is on a more uh each morning when it happens you know when a new day breaks and and that's why we say maidani then when a new day breaks because that's a moment when we're uh on a human level most able to tap into that feeling of how things are being created new um and that just as they're being created new body and soul are created new every single second surely body and soul will be created anew uh at the time of resurrection and we will give thanks at that time as well maybe uh very very soon okay let's continue chapter 14. here is the way that this clarifies and vitalizes vitalizes and clarifies the level of drush what was the level of gonna recap remember we said just like hashem he gives you back your soul every morning he doesn't hold it over you as leverage so too if you have a debtor and then you come by some possession of his you shouldn't hold on to it and refuse to give it back to him until he pays the debt so that explanation bli habbir shall say this if you don't have this again like we did with them as we're saying if you don't have acid this what are you going to think so here with you don't have to say this what are you going to think english doesn't make sense let's talk sex this guy owes this guy money mainly directly pardon me man and he has no way of getting paid it's called unsecured debt right he's dominance localized so if he has an opportunity to gain some leverage i.e what we call collateral why not let him use it um why is it any different from when somebody gets stolen from and if he can't uh get his his property back through the courts so he's actually permitted to tell somebody else go buy my stolen object from that guy even though you're not supposed to buy stolen objects but this is the way that he has of recovering his property and we allow him to do so so here why not allow him to use the this method of of recovering his property doesn't make sense not to allow him that citizen comes and explains you want to know something all mixes even mitzvahs that seemingly have an explanation they're all really just hashem's will which will transcends wisdom even when will comes down into a reason you know sometimes you want something and then you figure out why and i don't just mean a rationalization i mean will by definition can't be rational or irrational it transcends rationale but then after you have a will you could figure out what rationale it is consistent with but even after will comes down into wisdom like when we learn toyota we learn we call mishpot the mitzvahs that seemingly make sense you're supposed to perform them with the same pure cabalis oil acceptance of the yoke of heaven as when you do the mitzvahs that we call hook it's those that have the reason that's above rationale or rather the will that's above reason comes down into reason so now you're supposed to do it also according to its uh rational explanation in other words this is not a leniency it's a stringency when there's a mitzvah that has an explicable reason or a reason that makes sense to human intellect it's not that that reason now becomes instead of doing it purely because it's god's will it's in addition to like i said it's not a leniency it's a stringency so hook him it's very simple what the intention is you do a hoyt because it's hashem's will like don't steal don't lie you know pay back damages those mitzvahs now you have to do them for two reasons you have to do it because it makes sense and like any mitzvah you have to do because it's hashem's will that you would do even if it didn't make sense but since it also happens to make sense so you do it for that reason as well as well in addition not instead of um just like philosophically it's impossible to say that hashem exists for any other entity but himself in other words he needs no justification for his existence he needs no cause for his effect he just is kane it's vase of enum bishop taples so to his mitzvahs don't need a justification they don't need a reason you know if you have a a city council gets together and passes some new ordinances you have to have reasons why did you pass those ordinances ah we just needed something to do no you have to have reasons but mitzvahs don't have to have reasons just like hashem doesn't have to reason it just doesn't have to have a reason to exist the mitzvahs don't have to have a reason why because the mitzvahs are hashem because mitsuzu hashem's will and hashem and his will are one or of giving back the collateral even though you need it for leverage to get paid which doesn't make sense why you should have to do that the goal of this mitzvah is not only for the benefit of the depositor that his article should be returned to him no returning it itself is a purpose so it's not just to be a nice guy it's a mitzvah or what's the purpose of the mitzvah what does it accomplish who says it has to have an extrinsic purpose who says it has to accomplish anything other than just being done therefore so therefore even when he hasn't paid it back and making a what does one thing have to do with the other of him you're still obligated to return it to him so if it were a rational thing then i understand well normally i would do the mitzvah of giving you back your collateral but in this case i have no other way to recover my debt so i'm not going to well yeah if the mitzvah were in order to you know make sense then that would that would make sense but no the mitzvah is for the sake of the mitzvah hashem wants it why does he want it because he wants it that's what that's what desire means he likes it because he likes it so therefore you do it just for the sake of doing it even when it doesn't accomplish what you wanted to accomplish or let me add not only it doesn't accomplish what you wanted to accomplish it runs counter to what you're trying to accomplish which is getting your money back but it doesn't matter because a mitzvah doesn't have to make sense in fact no mitzvah makes sense even the ones that make sense don't make sense it also happens to make sense but the essence of it is it's just what hashem likes it's his preferences his peculiarities and idiosyncrasies and where do you think that feeling comes from that feeling that mitzvahs are just what hashem wants even when they happen to also make sense that hergish that sensitivity comes from the yikida kina high because the four levels of the soul mchavin um each of the four levels connect to another aspect of godliness so they relate to hashem's will as hashem's will is expressed in a particular level um has no particular uh form and it's not looking for anything else other than its intrinsic oneness with hashem its connection to hashem is from hashem says so it relates to the concept of shams will in the purest sense of the of of that term which is that the purpose of the will is the will itself i mean let me try to clarify we're going late here but usually a will is to attain something else and that's why it's it's kind of funny though god wants something isn't he perfect so you know when we're wanting something that means we're lacking like that everyone said about we want now he said he likes the english because it implies that we are lacking it's true when we say writes a hashem right hashem wants something it doesn't imply that he's lacking anything because he's everything so really he wants something within himself everything's within him so it's not desire as we understand desire desire means not i want it because of what i'm gonna get to no the rotsin is this is what i want because this is what i wanted now it sounds like certainly circular logic and frankly it is but that's what etzem is atsum is it's not for the sake of anything else so therefore hashem wants you to put on fill in because well we could give different selling points and on the level of nafish we probably would we'll tell you how it'll help you to i don't know discipline your mind in your heart or we'll tell you how it'll order your day or we'll tell you how it'll connect you to your ancestors or whatever where it's time for meaningful meditation you know what we would say somewhat you put on film why because once you put on film but what is putting that phone accomplished you know putting on phone accomplishes putting on film and it's the same thing with the mitzvah like not using that to call them not using that uh that property is collateral you're gonna say well surely there you know we're gonna you know evaluate that on logical criteria because the whole thing is you know it's about you know uh a business relationship it's about ticking oil it's about you know the society running properly no no no it's also basically just hashem's desire he wants you to give back the collateral because he wants you to give back the collateral even when that won't help you to achieve what you wanted to achieve because it intrinsically achieves what it achieves which is it's what hashem wants now again that is a very hard thing to sell to nephesh to rooft because those four levels want to pay off they want to reason i mean even even a religious reason you could say well it'll be meaningful to you right it'll be meaningful it'll be inspiring it'll help you be selfless right but doesn't need a uh it doesn't need a uh a selling point it's just hashem's will and that's it that's good enough for me so just to recap the drush here the drush is that um just like hashem gives back our soul doesn't hold it hostage on us um we should give back the cutting to somebody even though they owe us money and we're saying well how does that make sense and the answer is it doesn't make sense it's a mitzvah mitzvas don't have to make sense sometimes they do but really a mitzvah's hashem's will and hashem's will is one with him therefore his will is synonymous with him and just like he doesn't need a justification to be who he is or to exist hashem's will his mitzvahs don't need a justification they don't have to accomplish anything outside of themselves now they do it happens to be that mitzvahs refine the world and they they're good for society and they're good for us but that's not the point and yukida doesn't care about any of that from perspective the mitzvah is the mitzvah because it's a mitzvah just like you are you because you are you that's and hashem is hashem because hashem it sounds so is but it's not so simple okay we ran way over time i apologize and uh good night