Seven Streams, Seven Lamps: Preparing for the Future Revelation בהעלותך את הנרות Rabbi Minkowicz

Welcome to our class onus. We're going to be learning a beautiful discourse in the Reb. The name of the discourse is called the Reb said this discourse on Shabas that year was the 19th day of the month of in the year 58 years ago. So again, the discourse is based on the verse in this week's Torah portion where it says when you elevate the candles to the center of the seven candles are going to give off light. Now the Reb explains and he says the manoyra which we know is a manura which is made out of complete gold is referring to spiritually the Jewish people the source of the Jewish people and there are seven candles which referring to the Jewish people that are divided into seven levels and the lighting is that we elevate all the seven levels all seven levels have to be elevated seeming we have to understand What are we saying now? We're dividing the Jewish people into seven and not into the number of 12. In other words, like we find in the previous Torah portion which is right next to and he explains at length the sacrifices of the 12 tribes and the 12 princes of the tribes. Every single prince brought for his tribe a different sacrifice. And seemingly um the question is by every single tribe it lists in detail which is technically the same as the other tribe. They were all equal but it mentions it again and seemingly it could have written only written it once and then and then say and this is what the next one did and this is what the next one did. But the fact is no even though it was the same physical sacrifice, same type of sacrifice but it's not equal. Why? Because every single spiritual leader of the tribe brought the proper sacrifice without intention for that tribe. Certain elevations, certain spiritual dynamics that took place and one sacrifice from one tribe is not is different than the other tribe because each one of the 12 tribe you see is different. And therefore you can't write and so the next one did so the next one did because just like for example Yehuda for example did his did his spiritual sacrifice. So the same thing also was different. It wasn't the same thing because everyone had their own spiritual meditation and their own style. So what do you see clearly that there's a different way that every single tribe brings a sacrifice and that's why it's divided into 12. And the fact as we see in last week's Torah portion together there were 12 different types of sacrifices. And the question then is if that's the case over here when it comes to lighting hack 7 how do you go from 12 to seven. Now tora which is the classicalic discourse in the alter he explains because over here we're referring to light and we're referring to love there was sacrifices and here it's light and love. That's the explains. Now we're going to go into that says like this inra in the first chapter he actually explains the difference of the seven types of the Jewish people. Now there goes into a side note and we'll get back to the main point in a second and he says in in this discourse of the we also find that discourse of the year which is written in the in the in the handwriting of the also as well the same idea in which is the classical works in the par from the we from the alterb and over there it's written in a note that is from the alterba and It has different additions and different changes, different commentaries and different explanations. Now even though all the discourses come from the alterba because the fact is the discourse is obviously the language of the alterba and the and the the footnotes of the which is obviously in smaller fonts and also like we mentioned before in the in the in the book of tough which is in the in the handwritten notes of the of the rebba. So you find different diff different diff different um uh expressions different writing etc between one and the other. So he says it's not a contradiction because we find many many times that you that you have aidic discourse and um there's different languages and even in concept um and and you and there's different ways to explain them. So he says either the alterba said it many different times and every single time he said it differently and like you find many many times also in the in the the revealed part of the Torah that you explain certain things many different ways and therefore there's no question you find that it's written one way one place like this one place like that etc. But what do you see from here that there's if something is not understood in oneidic discourse you can find the explanation probably in a differentic discourse and but back to the main point in thatic discourse whatever there's different you know versions of it he explains the seven levels of the Jewish people and like he explains that we what we what we divide the seven levels um of the Jewish people in in their spiritual service of Hashem based on what do you have you based on the spheroid um the the the the spiritual attributes of the spheroid in other words and he explains there are those that serve hashem there strong is and we know is connected to love like water that's one type of way you serve hashem kindness love then there's another way you serve hashem with which basically is love but it's a fiery love there's two types of love there's love like water love that flows that's but then there's love that's on fire that comes from a place what of of then there's then there's a way of serving Hashem through through learning at Torah which is connected to the sphere of and then they're serving Hashem with the sphere of which is the idea of of being uh successful and succeeding then they're serving Hashem with the the sphere of which is the sphere of of acknowledgement even though that you understand in your in your intellect a certain way but you do you acknowledge you do you do what has to get done you you admit you admit to the truth. That's And then he finishes off there's a serving Hashem through his um and like he brings from the from from the Mishna the end of Shabas that all the Jewish people are sons of kings. So it's a certain level of of uh I wouldn't say in a negative way arrogance but being proud being being arrogant in a positive way and then they're serving Hashem through humility. And that's all what the author explains the seven different ways of serving Hashem in that first chapter. And late and then afterwards in the second chapter he explains the difference between the love of au and the love of because the love like water. Like it says remember the father Abraham that he went after you like water the love of water and by it was the love of the world and and or abundance love. And like explained at length in in Cabala and even in the revealed part of the toy. Now so that's what the alter explains. There's a seeming we we have to understand because when he mentions all the the different spheroids he misses one sphere out. Which sphere did he miss out? He missed out the sphere of now is going to go into explaining a little bit what what's the reason possibly why it was missed out. He says when you you learn the discourse look at so you can either learn the general idea and you don't go into the details or um you start meditating in a very very deep way of thinking but simple things you don't you don't you don't you don't take for a minute to think about it and like for example there's a simple question and nobody even asks a question but somebody that learned in the yeshiva of for a short time and when you learn in you didn't ask the question and afterwards when they when they sent you um to go ahead and publish uh the the the book then you realize it and the the question is I mean like why why is it why why is it missing because the fact is that the ideas that wrote at the end that there's a way of serving Hashem through like we said after he finishes instead of going to he goes over to his which is elevation which is uh um and then he speaks about humility so so what they'll say is oh maybe one of them is and one is malas Um but the reb you can't say that because we don't find anywhere that is connected to to like a little level of arrogance and especially he says clearly that the reason why it's called it's because it's because the Jewish people are sons of kings. So you see it's connected to malus and therefore you can say that malus which is which is basically you know a certain level of arrogance um and and and shiflas the humility is why because it's obviously that's it's the opposite of logic that he's going to talk about malus first and afterwards and not only that that malus is humility and not so back to the question is why doesn't the author mention idea of of now says in so he writes over there that is what is connection and and this idea of connection is in every single every single spir and because every sphere whether it's love whether it's all whether it's learning you have to connect so therefore you could have said the reason why he doesn't mention um as a scashu is because it's it's it's connected to all the spheres After you think about it a little bit, you can't say that. Why? Because then if that's the case that he's not mentioning because it's part of all the ones. So then it shouldn't have been seven candles. So only been six candles and especially like it's explained about the uh the um western candle that would burn from the morning to the evening. It and not only from the morning but it always burn 247 and from there you would light all the the candles. And is actually an opinion that the western candles is the sixth candle which is connected to the sphere of so therefore so it is its own candle. So therefore, you must say that the alter didn't doesn't me it's not me written there. what the you must say that's a mistake and and somebody basically when he wrote it didn't didn't didn't write it properly and the people that that edited afterwards and like we says we actually find this in the holy letters the alterba that there's certain things that were missing because of uh there was concerned about government seeing certain things etc and afterward was it was missing in later on prince and um so how much more so it could be in in in ter something missing that there's things are missing and after a while they found it. Okay, so nervous saying is back to the main point that the reason why it's not there not because it's part of all the spheroids but because obviously it was written and somehow it got lost and and and it didn't make it into the print. Now let's bring it back to the main point. The main point is the doctor is explaining that we're dividing the Jewish people into seven which is the seven seven and then the question is why do we divide the Jewish people into seven candles or seven cir and not into 12 like in the previous Torah portion there are 12 tribes explains as follows that we find the difference between the Jewish people going out of Egypt and the future redemption that when they left Egypt what does it says that the the sea the sea split into into se into into 12 paths that the that the sea was split into 12 paths and everyone went on their path. That's when we left Egypt. When we left Egypt 12 paths, every tribe went in their path. However, in the future redemption, what does it say? God put his hand. So, you see, when we left Egypt, there was 12 paths. In the future, Msiah come there's going to be seven paths. Now even though it says in reference to the future redemption say just like the days he went out of Egypt that's how we're going to see the the the miracles in the future it knows that the the power for the future redemption comes from Egypt coming out of Egypt but the fact is and therefore and seemingly should be the same but the fact explains it says in the zor that the revelation of the future when Msiah comes is actually higher than going out of Egypt and that's why he says arenu I will show you wonders because you know there going to be wonders is even compared to the wonders that we have when we out of Egypt and like it also appears in the revealed part of the Torah that in the future the revelation of the future is going to be the main thing and going out of Egypt is going to be like secondary and since all the revelations of the future is dependent on our work in exile so therefore we have to prepare oursel and the way we prepare ourselves to the eventually where it's going to be split in seven ways is by the seven candle labra of the monura and he explains like that generally speaking the worlds are divided into three three levels. In other words, uh three levels. Number one is you have the worlds of Bria, y and that's one package. Then you have the world ofos another level and then you have the worlds of the infinite world which above three different levels bri as one the world of atilus and above. Now when the worlds get elevated which means when Bria get elevated into the world of so the elevation takes place in 12 paths and like it says that the tribes which are 12 tribes they got elevated they got elevated so from Briatas is going into that is 12 pass however whenus gets elevated to the highs then it's seven pass like in the future. Why? Because when we went out of Egypt, the revelation when we went out of Egypt was is it came it came from Malus of Atsilos into By. So By was elevating Tatsilus. He had 12 and and and that's where the 12 paths when we left Egypt. However, in the future, the revelation is going to come not only from going to come from higher insillus and that's why we have seven paths. Now what does that mean more more more in detail? There it says specifically that's referring to which spher the sphere of beina and we know that after that that from Atsilus is basically the the intermediary between the infinite um uh world which is higher and the world of beyond. So Atsilus is basically is is is right in between. So therefore we find two different elevations that take a place in the world of itself because the ele the elevation in the 12 the 12 passages which corresponds to going out of Egypt which is connected to the sphere of malus which is the lowest level in the world of however the the elevation in the seven levels which is the world the world of freedom that is where that's connected to the sphere of bina so malus of is connected to the to to to the bri at that's 12 and Bina is connected to the seven. Now the difference between when we left Egypt and in the future when it's going to be in and then 12 in the future when Mashiah comes is going to be divided into seven is because the when we left Egypt is connected to the idea of speech and we know speech is connected to malus however the split in the future when Mashiach comes is connected more to the idea of thought and thought is connected to be to be and that's why it says and the stream comes down from Aen what does that what does that Practically the difference between thought which is connected to future and that's bina and speech when we left Egypt is speech is all about revealing something which is goes out from its source and that's why it's called speech it's like a small action and then from from that from that speech you have action which basically is referring to the splitting of the sea on on a spiritual level what does that mean that you go ahead and you transform and you nullify the evil in the revealed world. However, the splitting of the sea in the future is um a transformation on a higher level which is connected to to thought and this is basically a preparation for the revelation in the future which basically we're going to have the the splitting of the sea into seven levels which is basically splitting in in the world of thought and like to explain all this in the in the discourses that on the seventh day of pes which is connected what to the future redemption. So what the is explaining here is as follows again to recap you have the three worlds briatia you have atsilus you have hires when to go from briads to atilus which came out when you went out of Egypt that is that that is the 12 strands and it's connected to what to speech where you go out of yourself and it's connected to malus and between is connected to the future and that's why it's seven and it's connected to what the idea of of of of thought which is connected to the sphere of bina Now based on we just learned we'll understand the difference between the sacrifices and the incense and over when it comes to the sacrifice and the incense the Jewish people are divided what into 12 parts and between the candles of the that we divide them into seven parts. Why? Because the sacrifices that they brought on the altar which is basically transformation in the physical world that's that's seven that's 12. However, the which is light that's seven and that's also the difference between the world of toyu and the world of tikun. In the world of toyu there was a lot a lot of light but very very small vessels and what happens is the vessel totally got nullified to the light. So in toyu it's all about the light and that's why it's called toyu based on the on the light. However, in tikun, it's basically a lot of vessels and it's a little light and that and and basically that's the idea of toyu and tick which is basically toyu is light and tick is the vessel in a spiritual level and so that's basically the difference between the sacrifices and the candalabra the manura because the sacrifices is physical which is basically connected to the vessel. However, the candles of the of the is connected idea of light which is the idea of of the sphere of which is basically a light without a vessel and especially the level of deep level of called and like the verse says like oil that goes down to the what is she what is oil isma but only it goes down onto the emotions but where is its place its place is an intellect because basically what's what's light. Light is light. There's no difference. And like the the part is given an analogy of water and light that you put it into a vessel and even if it goes into multiple vessels, the light remains the same light and the water stays the same water because the color only is in the glass but not in the vessel. And that's why the ram says that the reference to the the mana that's never going to be nullified. Why? Because the the candles of Khan is applies when times of the temple and this in this world that we're in and also in the future because light light is always there. There's no difference from be from now from past, present or future. But nevertheless, if that's the case, the light is so powerful. So let's just do the light. What do we need the sacrifices? No. No. But the first the fact is you need to first bring the sacrifices of the priest first which is 12 which is the vessel. After you do the the spiritual work of the of the sacrifices of the vessel, then you can go ahead and light the candle which basically is the spiritual work. What is what is the practical part of of of the the sacrifices? That's prayer cuz first you have to go and pray and and then you work with the the physical part and then you can go ahead and bring the light of the mono which we know the light of the is the candles mitzvot and toyra is light and through doing first the prayer which connected the sacrifices the 12 and then learning tora and doing mit's delight we reach the to the revelation of the which we know is a a testimony that of to the Jewish people that the hashem's presence is resting amongst the Jewish Jewish people and like it says clearly God is going to rest in amongst us and when is that going to happen in the ultimate level that's going to be in the um future redemption like it says clearly is going to be revealed everyone's going to see God and when is that going to happen says very very soon so thanks so much for joining us for a very very powerful discourse the power of light and let's hope and pray that we have the coming of Messiah like finishes off and next class will be have a great and blessed week. 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