Shavuos Women's Class | 7 Teachings of the Baal Shem Tov

the yeshiva.net schwarz in addition to the great holiday we call its man martin teresceno the day that the terrier was given at sinai to every single jew of that generation and the future generations till the end of time and this year we celebrate 3333 years since sinai 3333 because as i said the events of china happened in 2448 since creation according to jewish history so from 2 4 4 8 to 5 7 81 you have 3 33 years mazel tov is which also means that it's connected both to my shirabenu he didn't pass away on true as he passed away in the seventh of other but he gave the terror my cable terror messina moshe is the one who gave us the turret passed away is also the earth side of one other seminal figure in jewish history rebbe israel balshampton is known as the founder of hasidis the founder of the hasidic movement he was born in the year 1698. that's in the jewish calendar that would be hey allah five four five eight they used to call it the year of nachas on the eighteenth of all high ello 1698. just a few decades after the horrible malinetsky pogroms and massacres that took the lives of hundreds of thousands of jews during the two years 1648 1649 known as xavius the washington was born just a few decades after the terrible debacle of the false mashiach known as shapsizvi who ended up converting to islam in 1676 i believe it was and brought the hopes of a nation plunged the hopes into the abyss and created a terrible spiritual moral emotional crisis for for the jewish nation in europe and wherever they lived the marshamptiv comes in to a difficult world 1698. the mashamtiv would live for 60 62 years he was born and he passed away 1760 at the age of 62. the bolshemite of course was born ukraine on the border of poland in ukraine he passed away in the city of measure bush which is where he lived after he has become revealed as a great teacher great scholar a great master a great sadiq and that's where he passes away in major butch some of us have had the privilege of visiting measure bush that's where he's buried in the cemetery over there in measure bush as i said it was on schwarzkopf 1760. there is a very insightful comment by rabbits was the famous rosh shiva of yeshiva's rabbenu berlin the author of pachadiitzhak was a very colorful and interesting man he learned in slavotka by the altar of slovatica he studied in berlin he studied in eretz israel he studied by cooke um extraordinary extraordinary mind and his last years he lived in air to surreal he passed away towards the end of 1980 and he once made a comment once made a comment and he said it's interesting to examine two yard sites the orchid of the balsamic and the yard set of the villenegon the orchard of the balsamic version the yard site of the villenegon is on sukis the vilnigan passed away 1797. a few decades after the balsamic he said now history if somebody would have asked you asked your hunch when should when to which holiday is the balsamic connected to which holidays the villenegon connected one would say the vilnigan father of the lithuanian one of the greatest father figures of lithuanian jewry whose entire focus and emphasis was learning and learning and more learning his yard said should have been on the holiday of matantera the balshemptiv would seem to be associated with sukis the time of joy the time of celebration the time of dancing of ecstasy but ibiza said divine providence headed otherwise the vilnigan passed away on sukkos have passed away and she was ontario saying interesting comment so today i want to learn with you a few pieces of the balsamic's teachings and the truth is the selection was pretty random i mean i was looking over the some of the books of the balsham that we have he didn't write any of his teachings but students wrote very brief and concise ideas that they heard from the balshemptiv they're compiled in various books the most famous is known as kasir shemtiv savasaruvash and other compilations of the teachings of the balshemptiv that was taken from the writings of his students who heard it from his mouth or people who heard it from students who heard it from him thought about his own language he spoke in yiddish and this was adopted by students and disciples and sometimes words are missing and connections i'm missing and sometimes they wrote it very briefly and concisely so i can't say this this this compilation was not you know methodically thought out in order to give an an exhaustive encyclopedic perspective not at all but i just chose a few teachings of the bolshev inside we have the text there that i thought would give a powerful perspective and some taste and flavor into the ideas of the motion of the insights of the muslim especially connected to this time of the year and this era in history and the time and and and the issues and situations that we all face in one way or another individually and collectively okay so let's begin again right away um open your source sheets i took the first one kasir shem tov and bayes it's divided in like chapters this is kasich which is one of the famous books that compiles many of the teachings of the balsamic from various works various hasidic works that were written by his students so this safer compiles them so just there's hundreds and hundreds of of chapters like this i just took literally a few and i'm gonna try to go through them i want to try to go through most of them or all of them so i'm gonna i'm going to uh i'm going to try to you know keep it moving and if you have a question by all means you can put it in either in the chat or on the yeshiva.net in the comments and i'll i'll take questions afterwards if something is really bothering you or unclear you can unmute yourself and ask your question live is also fine this comes from the balsamic it's source i'm just going to give the source where the with the compiler got this from it's from told us of he was the rabbi of the famous city of pullman in ukraine he was a great sage of his day he's as a saver called told us ya'akov yosef and he writes many teachings that he heard directly from his teacher so it's very reliable so the compiler wrote me about you see here in brackets it says because this particular edition of kasir shantiv that was edited by rabbi dr professor emmanuel shachat allah shalom from toronto a number of years ago he was very meticulous so he gave out an addition of the kasha shemtiv where in brackets he put in the original language from where the source was taken from so in the original in the original book it is i heard from my teacher intimate expression i heard this from my teacher peer shape the explanation of the passage noise this is a very famous verse for micah michael the prophet michael chapter seven mikhail passage we say it in the tash on rosh hashanah we're now actually learning about this passage in the book by ramosa cordovero tomato very the because he goes through this whole position and explains how it represents the 13 divine attributes of compassion and how we we can emulate and embody it in our own life so the expression is noise what do these words mean noise what's bothering the balsamic is that apparently these two expressions are in conflict with each other nicely offering means he carries the sin he holds on to the sin he contains the sin no you say literally means you hold on like you're holding on to something you carry you're carrying it like you say you're carrying something with you i'm carrying something in my heart i'm carrying something in my brains you know are you carrying anything in your heart so god is holding on to the sin whatever el paso means he foregoes the sin he passes over the sin he ignores it like he dismisses it whatever you go right over it like maverick of somebody who forgoes their honor or foregoes you know a hurt or resentment aren't it too paradoxical god is noisy oven does he hold on to the sin or over alpesha does he forego the transgression so the bashamtive gives you such a such a simple and beautiful interpretation and when i saw it i love it because i think it's so important for relationships okay this says let me explain to you what this means who alderich marshall let's give a metaphor higher reeve been baseball there was a fight there was a dispute between two people okay she writes in the aspire zamesa and when they want to make up with each other us then they get into a conversation to understand who did what what was their perspective what were they thinking what was their motivation how it was perceived by the other this is what they discuss when they don't want to make men when they don't want the fight to end you know what happens they don't hold on to the sin of ma to actually share with the person and share with them how hurt i am by what you said or did to me of noise god is called nice heaven he holds on to the sin um he wants to communicate to the person about the hurt that he or she caused when he wants to forgo the sin because he wants to forgot he wants to make an end to it he wants that the love should come back and therefore you have to be able to confront and look at what happened and the best application for this and this is actually his metaphor is in any relationship as the boshemtov says and maybe the most practical and day-to-day on a day-to-day basis is marriage you know there's two ways couples argue husbands and wives argue you guys look surprised they argue but this that's not the issue people argue two people who are different opposite genders different personalities different dispositions get into disagreements if they're normal people right at least it's very normal it's very common the question is how do the arguments end the balshemptiv is saying there's two ways how the arguments end now look at this because this is so insightful one argument ends by never talking about it again oh it seems like they're over it so fast they don't address it it's gone the other argument ends by them talking about it and almost continuing it which one is in a better state it seems like the former one oh they just never talk about it it's exactly opposite in the former they don't talk about it because they don't resolve it you know they get into this argument and the woman goes like and that's it stonewalling each other or he does it to her she doesn't they both do it to each other they don't argue they just drift apart and the next argument they drift apart more and then 10 or 20 years down the line they're not connected anymore they don't argue it seems like it's amazing it was not dealt with no you say of and you know when god holds on to the sin of the waivered alpesha because he wants to forgo it another couple they can revisit it and the wife can tell the husband you know what you said yesterday what you did yesterday it really hurt me why why did you say it why did you do it he may apologize he may explain his perspective the husband can tell the wife you know what happened a few moments ago was difficult for me it was painful for me what were you thinking what was your perspective i think you didn't realize something about me i didn't realize something about you they can have a conversation and hold on to the sin yes look at it discuss it look at it from my perspective look at it from your perspective let me share what i'm feeling let me share my pain about it my emotions you know why because we actually want to get rid of it because we don't want it should remain a point of contention that creates a gulf a separation between us no you say avoid because either i'll pasha next piece kofi and aleph it says in pricky office we all know this prikeyev is chapter four who is a strong person somebody who conquers his yet sahara his negative inclination kasha the hawaii lame the language seems strange it should have said who is a gibber who is strong when it says asia gibber it sounds like you're talking about two people and you want to know who's more powerful it's like two people wrestling they're going to have an arm wrestle or they're going to wrestle or box and you want to know azo gibber asa which one is stronger but that's not the question we're not here in a competition between two people it's me who giver we want to know what is a gibber what is a powerful person who is a warrior who is a truly strong person and the answer is somebody who knows how to conquer his own yetzer his own addictions his own inclinations his own insecurities his own his own toxicity so the language should have been me who gibber not azo gibber answers the balsamic yes you could say the answer is i'll give a metaphor from something that involves our world he says you have somebody who was chosen to be hashem somebody was hired to be a security guard say in a room to watch very expensive material or merchandise and suddenly he hears a thug a thief whose who's digging a furrow under the ground digging a hole to get into steel so what does he do he begins hollering and screaming he sounds the alarm so before there were alarms but he starts screaming right they said the thief here doesn't want to get caught so he runs away the yash but there's another one there's another security guard he prepares chains he appears a trap when the thug enters into the room to steal instead of screaming before he comes in and chasing him away who is that he actually traps him and he arrests him he abducts him so there's two ways one way the monsantov says is i start hollering and screaming so the ghana runs away doesn't want to get close he doesn't want to get caught the other way is no no i get him in i get him in the door i don't scream once he's in the door i figure out a way that i can trap him so i could catch him and deal with him what's the point he says there's two types of good people two types of sadiq he says means all people yes you have a type of good person his approach is aina maniac he doesn't allow any thought any sensation any emotion that's toxic to get close he start screaming get out of my life okay the governor says in kiddush there was a man named the pious one and he he edits a horror and he said when he is yahara would try to entice him to go do something promiscuous he would start screaming there's a fire in the house of amram everybody would come running to extinguish the fire the fire was inside it's very interesting story it's a whole long story they had a fire and song there's a fire in the house of ammo where's the fire is coming with fire extinguishers call the firemen called the fire there was a fire inside but that commotion that screaming that attention already what is he now going to go it didn't work anymore so it's sometimes an important approach you push it to have to run away you push enough to start screaming call somebody run go jogging do 70 push-ups whatever it is run into the forest take a hike go go go jumping do do 90 jumping jacks get rid of scream but the yes is another approach you actually bring in the craving you have to be careful by ava you bring in the love of the year or that fear which is toxic and what do you do with it he says you don't chase it away you harness it and you learn from it how it can help you serve god visel shamro this is the meaning azo gibber we are comparing heroes the boshantiv said it should have said miu gibberish is no easel gibber we're comparing two types of people who are both strong one way of expressing strength is and sometimes it's critical run away run away scream let him run away you run away or let him run away let it run away azo giveaway to somebody who's even stronger somebody who manages to spread out the chains to spread out the net and bring in the ether um he uses his very medius the very craving to the serving of god because what's the difference in the metaphor between the first and the second and the first one he's going to come back tomorrow come back the next day hello he's always coming back in the second model you trapped him he's not coming back because he didn't get to run away what is this psychologically and spiritually one way of dealing with the eight sahara which is often very important and it's a very powerful way is just get away don't deal with it don't look at it if you have to scream scream but get out of there another method is asia who give it to something even stronger now you're not you're not always capable of doing it that's why you have to be very very cautious and very careful because the sahara is so smart he might tell you bring me into the house and then you'll conquer me and once you get him into the house he doesn't leave so you have to be very careful when you distinguish between one and two but what's the ultimate guru or what's the ultimate strength says the boss of i don't just chase away the thug i mobilize them i bring them in i abduct them i fetch them and i harness him i ask myself what is behind these cravings what is behind this promiscuity what is behind these addictions what is behind this need this yearning this longing this crush that i'm having there's something i'm searching for there's some spiritual longing there's some emotional closeness i need there's some pain i need to address and then i utilize this very craving to become a catalyst for serving ourselves this itself brings me more awareness of who i could become as a per who i could become as a person who i could become as a person as a jew and this is a very powerful idea because what it means is that every single thing that's going on in me i got angry i can chase away the anger get out of here anger and control myself and do the right thing but the thug is gonna come back tomorrow i get jealous get out of here jealousy and i control it and i override it and i forgot and i do the right thing get out of here hatred get out of here promiscuity get out of here addiction you can do it and you know what sometimes you have to do that sometimes it's too much it's too overwhelming to be able to deal with it just go to another place just don't deal with it that's fine that's fine but the basement is you want to know ultimately who is the greatest giver if you have the serenity to look a little deeper and you'll see that behind this yetzer there's an innocence there's a child there's a pain that needs to be addressed there's something that's actually good that's finding its expression its outlet through a destructive urge through a promiscuous urge through a dysfunctional urge through a toxic urge but underlying it is really something very deep very powerful and therefore i'm going to use this very inclination to teach me about who i am and to actually now reorient it to be able to assist me in my serving of god which can actually fill the void and actually help me get rid of the pain this is a much deeper form of not somebody who expels the etsara but somebody who conquers who brings in the atari and now you become mine you become my best friend my tension my anxiety my stress the realities inside of me that take me away from god become my best friend they become those very forces that help me in my service next piece kuff paybays koothbay base is a fascinating teaching of the bolshemitiv about davenink it comes from a safer called toughness that compiles also the many teach it has within it many teachings of the boshemtiv kashir shem tiffkuf 182. i have heard from my teacher this is written by the told this yak of yours are the emissaries for the queen they're the shlokum for the for the divine presence who was called the queen in other words they darwin as ambassadors as messengers of the queen of god what does this mean says the bolshev ali when the person experiences his his or her own distress and what's missing and what's irking me yo daya through me i know what's missing in the divine presence that the void in the divine should be filled with and that way the person creates the oneness between between the masculine transcendent dimension of god and the shrine which is the feminine divine presence of god and this is the real power of davoning this is very heavy what the bashamtive is saying is the zayar says that it's in the ideal sense they see themselves as emissaries of god they're not praying for themselves they're praying for god what does this mean most of prayer without answer you're talking about what's missing in me that's what prayer is i need i want i am asking. says that's true but through looking at what i need i realize what god needs because who am i i'm really a manifestation of god in this world so if there's something that's irking me if there's something that i need the sheena needs it the divine imminence that dwells inside every creature including me needs this this is a need of god so this is what i darven for and that creates the israelites the infinite sublim sublime transcendence of god the shrine represents the feminine presence of god that is inside and involved in every single creation in a very intimate way generally masculinity is seen more as transcendent and somewhat detached objective and femininity is seen as much more involved and engrossed and empathetic and really experiencing a relationship in a very profound way which is why usually usually women are very very sensitive and detect immediately when there's a challenge in a relationship and have that special ability for kinship and bonding with with children with with other people empathy and so that men often have to learn on the job hopefully through humility and learning from their spouses so masculinity and femininity begins with god kocha davening is always for the shriner because there's something missing in me genuine and it could be something that you think is primitive and stupid but if it's something that you really need if it's something that i need the shrine needs it so from knowing the void in me the lack in me i know what's the lack of god so they are hashem they're darvaning on behalf of god the sorakusa comes the bolshem and says this answers the great question of the great sages of old why do we need davening hashem knows everything you need he is aware of what's happening in your kidneys and your heart and your innards god is omnipotent and omniscient and omnipresent so he knows everything so what do you have to doven why do i have to come to somebody who knows what i need and say can you please give this to me they want to give it to me they'll give it to me they know that i need it better than i know so why are we darvening why am i saying hashem please i need this and i need this and i want this i need this and i want that i think he doesn't know great question this is a question that's asber abusif albo and say foreign it's a question that's asked by the arizona toyota it's a question that's as by the maharao this is the qatari many of the sages of previous generations of some of us had asked this question you're actually not davening for yourself you're davening how do you know what god needs because you need it if i have a void if i have a lack you know where that void is coming from from a divine lack from a divine void if it's a genuine void in me it's because there's something missing so to speak in the shrine it's a void in the shrine why because the shina is the godly energy that fills and saturates every single created being the divine s the divine presence is really me i am the manifestation of the divine presence in this world that's what a person is that's the feminine that's why we're called hashem's wife we're called the shrin famous theme in zayar and kabbalah and siddhis in ashkava so the lack in me is essentially a reflection of the lack of the shrine it's the divine energy that's flowing through me that's missing something that's what i'm darving for so i'm praying that this void should be filled in the skin of the divine presence as the sawyer says real people who dive in the most real way see themselves as ambassadors of god i'm davening for you somebody who does it with his creator the cross of the pie is jewish somebody says i'm davening for you asha and automatically your own void will also be fulfilled because if the void is fulfilled and the shrine is filled in the srina then that void will be filled in you as well raksha but don't get caught up in the selfish aspect of it don't detach yourself from the source see yourself for who you really are as a conduit for the shrine you're dhawaning for the shrine the words that came from the wise from the mouth of this sage are graceful that's often how the students conclude the teaching of the the words that came from the mouth of this sage are graceful so that washington was saying now we understand why we dove and you say god knows everything i'm not doving from me i know he knows what i need i'm darving for hashem it's almost like god wants and needs me to daven for him to be able to bring out this so you might say well god knows what he needs also no he only knows what i need but obviously what the bashamtv is saying is that there's a powerful partnership the shrine is vulnerable the shrine so to speak needs me to pray for it so when i'm davening when you're dominating for yourself the balsamic says go to a much deeper place go to a much deeper space when you're praying don't pray for yourself pray for your real self pray for the sheena you say no but i need this if you need it god needs it you hear what the bashar is teaching this is incredible stuff if you need this then god needs it it's not like i'm this selfish narcissistic horrible person you know how we're sometimes made to feel you're dominating because you need help in the house oh i'm lazy my mother and grandmother for like 9 000 years cleaned the house without any help and me a spoiled brat in 2021 i need help in the house no no no wrong approach of course i should ask myself what type of help do i need be realistic don't be a perfectionist don't make my life and everybody else's lives miserable understand what i really need but when i really have a need i really have a need what is a jew a jew is a failing who is a jew with jew is the shrine's manifestation in this world so i want to say that i want to ask myself is this a need of the shrine says the balsamic if you have a real need it's god's need it's not your need it's hashem's need you're asking for your child it's hashem's need you're asking for your soul for your mind for your serenity for your home for your situation for your health it's god's need you are the sheena in this world from your void you know what the shina is missing because the shrine on you are intimately connected so darwin for the shrine the margaret once said it says in brachus with kravid royce cover george literally means with a heavy head which means with subservience you bend down your head he says kaiva droish means you have to darven for the heaviness of the head of the shrine and then automatically my void will also be filled through that because i am a manifestation of the shrine in the world let's do the next one regizen you see zion the next the next piece of the balsham tiff i'm not going to be able to do all of them but i think i want to do two more pieces rage zion says that another incredible piece this comes from maghedwar of lakota mukarra and the kota mukhara sabal adam sometimes you get scared an external fear that comes into your life you know what it's really there for it's there to arouse you and help you experience awe of hashem really what does this mean muslim odd of a dime i'll give you a one of his generals or commanders or soldiers to summon a person now this messenger comes happens to be in a very angry space and he happens to be in a state that inspires fear and reverence and or this guy is you know he's he's he's a guy you look at him and he's like a scary scary looking guy he says don't be afraid of what he looks like because he's powerless he's just a messenger who's summoning you to the king it's not like he has any anything to do or to say that carries weight he's just a messenger of the king rather focus on who sent him and that should be your focus go to the king and talk to the king and you guys will make up you'll have a great relationship sometimes you have a love that comes into you it's an external love external love means it's a love that's that's stemming from your externalities to other external things it comes to you who could hashem again it's just a messenger to help you come to the love of god mashallah david metaphor sometimes the king summons you and he's very loving he's dressed very elegantly and he speaks very very refined tone and he's all smiles and affection umisho tipish if you're foolish oh you're such a nice guy let's go out let's become friends and you spend your time to hang out and enjoy this guy who's such a nice guy because he's giving you compliments for him but somebody who's wiser why am i playing around why am i enjoying only my time with them electric let me go to the source let me go to the source let me go to the one who sent them basically he's coming from the king and the king sends it and probably the king is in a very gracious mood and a full of love to me so this person is expressing that so i'm going to get caught up in this imagine how powerful it is in the source either i want to go to the source of the love so the basham is telling us that in life every experience that you have is essentially it's a messenger of hashem sometimes it's fear stress anxiety sometimes it's cravings i'm loving i'm having a crush i'm i'm i'm gravitating to something a person or food it's really a sliach don't get caught up in the external facade go to the essence go to the core don't get caught up in the outer fear say i'm frightened of this is just god talking to you and inviting you into a deeper relationship because i cannot hear the language of god directly so what does he do he sends a messenger and the messenger is translated god's message into very concrete categories and ideas so the fear is from something very physical a very tangible very relatable and the love the affection is to something very tangible very relatable but really it's external meaning it's not what i'm really really looking for it's not coming from my inner depth it's really an external facade and therefore i'm also gravitating to something that's really external not to the ultimate core of it it's my external dimension relating to your external dimension so it's a message it's an opportunity to go deeper and ask myself what is the divine message here and then i'm going to cultivate an awe and a reverence and a respect for infinity and i'll cultivate a love and an affection for truth for real depth and that's the meaning that passage says in shayft literally it means you should be wholesome with god for hattawa is a large tough in the beginning of divre if we have the the tough is a is is a large it's a big but the tough is very distant from aleph aleph is one and tough is at the end so tough represents the furthest point from aleph which is oneness which is hashem echad which is an aleph the one so why would we make the tough big comment the tough is distant from god says the bolshem that the idea here is called there's an intimation here that you can sublimate even something that's distant whether it's a love that seems so distant from god it's like a crush i'm having maybe on somebody or some addiction or craving i'm having something that's not even good for me or a fear or stress that i'm having or some joy of connected to a very physical pleasure el alef even if it's a tough you can bring it back to the aleph represents the leader the teacher of the world so tom m tier malaca the tough can also become part of hashem in other words even that which seems like the furthest most distant element from a relationship with the divine if i see it as a messenger it's really only an alarm clock to help me become aware of what i need in my relationship with hashem what i'm really looking for god is reaching out to me either through love or through or or through pleasure or through joy but i can't understand the divine message so it's enclothed in a physical so therefore i'm feeling love to this food or i'm feeling love to this situation or i'm feeling scared of this situation don't get caught up over there that's not what you're looking for inside this love and awe is a whispering voice is a basketball a whispering message from hashem that what you're really looking for is a relationship with your innermost self and with the truth of everything so just see this messenger as an invite as an invitation he's inviting you to come see the king that's what you should be doing now don't get caught up in the external expression go to the depth of it shin paiva it's a story so we'll end with the story it happened once that the balshemptiv had to be somewhere on shabbos he had to rest on shabbos obviously and he ended up in a village and he had his own minion so he dived over there and he had the meals together with a minion that he brought now it could be that in that place there was no minion the jews there wouldn't get together for the meals or for the darwining besides one meal we'll soon see so maybe that's why the mosham have brought a minion it's not so clear in this story but the basham was there with a minion or maybe he just happened to be there with a minion and he spent shabbos in this village when it came time for the third meal something interesting happens foreign the person who was in charge on the village gathered some of the jewish villagers there and he sat with them and they ate together and they drank together and they sang and they praised god and they engaged in all these types of melodies and jewish ballads of what he saw was that this villager this man who arranged this shallow sugars was extremely accepted in heaven there was a special joy that he replinished that hashem had from these jews so after the meal he calls him over and he says i want to ask you a question why do you spend so much money on the third meal of shabbos obviously the first meal they didn't eat together the second meal they didn't eat together it could be even for the davening they weren't together maybe that's when the mosham brought his own minion it came the third meal this guy who was obviously a more simple jew spent a lot of money and he had a lot of food and a lot of drinks and he brought everybody together and they had a great party and celebration and there's mirrors and cheetahs and what was this what happened most people how did they eat yellow sugars yeah they go home and they eat you know there's a little meager meal after a big lunch and a big friday night you eat there's a little a little meal people have a little herring a little egg salad whatever it is sponge cake a bisalchala but it's a small meal this guy would spend primarily on the third meal unlike the custom in most jewish homes and most jewish communities now it's very obvious that this was a village where they weren't getting together in other words these were not jews who were steeped in learning and scholarship it was more jews who were simple like and well sometimes days you had so many of these jews who lived in little villages and they ran motels or they ran little inns or they were farmers so they didn't have a strong sense of community so that was wondering what his thinking the heishev and this person tells the boshemtov he i'm not an educated guy so to speak but i've heard people say i've heard the world say taitsi nishmasib israel i've heard people say i hope that my soul should leave among other jews this was like a hope you know these were difficult years and a lot of different situations in which people can pass away so he said i've heard jews wish on themselves i should die among jews my soul should go out among eden as it says it's a very special skus when when the that every shabbos every jew has an extra soul and amit sorry shabbas the soul leaves in other words the departure of shabbos is a form of death because the extra soul leaves you so i also said ted saying israel when my additional soul leaves it should be among jews so when it comes to the third meal which extends all the way till nightfall when shabbos ends and the extra nasham is leaving so it's a form of spiritual diminishment of life and i heard jews always say i wish i died around jews my soul should god around jews so when my extra soul goes out i want to be among jews when this tragedy strikes me when shabbos ends my soul is leaving i want to be with people i love i want to be with yiddish and ashamas i want to be among among my brothers and my sisters that's why i bring them together and the from this insight from this simple jew why he brought together so many jews shalashuddhas so when his extra soul leaves he should be in the atmosphere and the presence of so much love and indeed it's known that the bolshevik instituted and this has become the custom in many many hasidic communities over the generations that for the third meal jews should come together they shouldn't do the third meal on their own each person in their own cocoon but they should come together as a kavura and fabric together sink together and share words of terror and shizuka and inspiration together until until until this very day there's a say from shalom and he says that the and his students and the students of his students were very careful about this that the third meal should be together with other yid the commander says that the mashable's custom was also to extend shallow shooters late into the night to be together together with the people where did them have learned this from it seems like the mushrooms have learned this from this villager who told them that day that shabbos that i want to be together with people whom i love i want to be together with other holy souls when my soul leaves so that's why he had shallow shooters together okay we'll take a break here and let's take some questions perhaps the strength of this generation as opposed to the previous one is not necessarily of our own choosing but it's been imposed upon us living in american society perhaps this is the crux of our challenge today but i don't think we are choosing it per se we have no choice understanding this is a good awareness to be proactive of the kaivush es that we have to grapple with in other words maybe in other times people can actually exercise the first form of strength dismissing it running away from it not dealing with it which is amazing but perhaps we live in a time when we at least many of us cannot maybe all of us or most of us cannot choose the former we have to exercise the new type of guru the new type of strength of says to really be able to to discover and work with all of those forces that seem to traumatize us and paralyze us and and delegitimize us and and and drain us and drain us and and take us away from who we really are and really can be and and harness them and utilize them and grapple with them to be able to become a springboard for rejuvenation for for a renaissance for awareness thank you for sharing that i don't understand everything you said about prayer i thought hashem didn't need anything that's a good question so there's two aspects here i'm not gonna i'm not gonna delve into this at length but we have a few classes on this on the yeshiva.net if you put in does god need anything does god need me you'll see you'll see some classes on this but i'm going to say very two points one is the mosque you remember jews in many communities before every mitzvah they do they say for the unity of kuchaburichu and shrimp we say it in the morning the beginning of the shame represents the holy one blessed be which is transcendent and infinite is the divine presence that dwells in the world that is manifested in the world and therefore it's part of the flux situations of life the ebb the flow the rhythm of life is the divine presence that's enclosed and expressed and manifested and vibrates and flows through and in every single creature in their own unique way that's why it's individuated in in the hasidic terminology it's called mammalic and save of kalam so therefore the shrina imaya but sarah god says i'm with you in your distress when you're in pain i'm in pain i'm there i'm inside your pig i'm not sitting on a ivory tower and looking at your pain and saying oh i'm so sorry when you come to the mountain i'll give you a hug no imaya but sarah i am with you in every one of your journeys i'm not only holding your hand and even nurturing you but i'm actually experiencing it as the famous expression says at the end of massachusetts that wherever the jews went the sheena went with them in mine it's with them so therefore i'm davening for the shrine for the shrine that's there and so the shrine is in in that distress that's number one number two even hashem so to speak in his pure unadulterated infinite essence he may not love because he needs but he needs because he loves in other words if god's essence chooses to be connected to something that becomes a need not because i need because i'm imperfect and i'm missing and i need your company but because of my choice i need you because i love you it's not i love you because i need you i need you because i love you and if that's the case the need is actually deeper because if i love somebody because i need them so then the love is as deep as the need and if the need ends the love might end but if i need somebody because i love them and that love comes from an absolute free choice in other words it comes to my deepest essence then that need becomes infinite because it's who i am it's not because of my imperfection it's who i am so that's another very important point here next question if god needs everything we need wouldn't we get everything we ask for is not getting what you pray for a sign that you never really needed it to begin with thank you for such a beautiful class each one of these teachings can be a whole class and a meditation on its own that's the truth i feel a little guilty already after the first one after the first piece that the boshantov did about how you how two people want to get over fights right if you deal with it not just that it's an unbelievable meditation in marriage and all relationships so yeah you're very right in terms of this it's i don't i don't know that i have the answer to your question does it mean that when i'm not getting what i pray for it's a sign that i never really needed it to begin with that's a big statement i don't feel that i'm i'm in a position to be able to answer i i'm not in the position to be able to answer that question i think it's a very very personal very deep question what i think the bashamtv is telling here is telling us here part of it that there's two ways of davening one way is i'm davening from a detached place it's like i'm this case and i'm davening please help me this small little person who's missing everything and the balsham says no no no you you're actually dominating for god i love it i happen to love this teaching in other words i'm davening for you i'm really dominating for you like only the mosham dev could say this it's like my need it's actually your name it's actually your need if you want to take this a step deeper it's do we do i really have needs in other words did i decide that i should be born that i decide to be a man or a woman that i decide to be jewish or not jewish did i decide who my parents are my family my siblings my community i mean the most important things of life i never decided i didn't nobody asked me if i want to be born nobody asked me if i want to be a man manner of i want to be jewish where what when how these these critical critical questions nobody asked me you know the only thing they asked me is if i want this type of tea or that type of tea and they don't even ask me that you know so so the real question is so what's this all about this was god's need god wanted i should be born and i should be who i am and i should be born where i was he wanted you to be born so really really that's what we call shrina when you understand this you understand who you are and then i could emancipate myself because really i don't have any needs now i know this is big statement what i mean i don't of course i have needs i want this and i want that but really deep down i have to reach a much deeper and more powerful state of consciousness i have needs i never chose anything i didn't choose to be born so what need do i have hashem shows i should be born so this is his need i am his need when you tune into that space when i'm davening what i'm really really dominating for is i'm reaching a place where every void that i'm feeling this is hashem's real need because my whole existence is his need so even my child it's not personal there's no ego here get the ego out of the way and you become much more clear about things the moment there's ego here i'm gonna be right i'm the mother i'm the father a lot of other stuff get mixed into the trauma that are unnecessary and sometimes undesirable when it's really really not personal not personal in the sense that there's no vanity here there's no arrogance here i'm a channel this is god's need through me so i'm really darvening for you so there's a very powerful clarity here and a very deep empowerment i think at least that's part of what he's saying very good questions here what does it mean that when we darven our need is a need that hashem has how can i understand this practically you give an example i need help in my house i need help with chores in my house i need help with cleaning what does it help if hashem has that need is that supposed to make us connected to hashem more is this just a shift in perspective what do i gain from this okay so hashem needs the cleaning help in my house i'll tell you that you never ever feel like a victim who's trapped in this hole and life is just happening despite of you you know how sometimes things get overwhelming and stressful especially let's say you're having guests coming and the cleaning helped it in whatever it is i don't have to elaborate to all of the people who are here we all have in life things that just don't match up perfectly big things small things very big things insignificant things so there's two approaches of how to look at it and i think it changes my mood one approach is i'm missing this i'm missing this i'm missing this i'm saying i'm missing missing missing missing lack and the ball shunted says no no don't come from that space come from a much much more powerful space you are the light of hashem in this world these are needs of the shrina these are divine needs if these are divine needs so then you're davening for them with a joy and with a sense of simcha and with a sense of crap fulfillment and with the sense of celebration not with a sense of guilt and not from a place of sadness and depression and distance from a place of closeness and you also realize how important these things are not just to you they're important hashem if this is my real need then it's god's real need so when i pray for them it's coming from a place of closeness and from a place of intimacy and it allows me to see myself as that channel of hashem in this world so we're working together so what happens then to a person is that their paradigm is elevated the vantage point through which they see everything and in which they pray for everything is much more elevated it's also much more exciting it's filled with much more vigor and much more stamina and much more joy and then hashem will fulfill my prayers the way he sees it right to fulfill my prayers right but what i'm really dominating here is hashem this this is this is you okay now you want another mission you responded to my prayers this way you want a different mission okay it's going to be a different mission i'm not stuck in any particular place i am a fluid channel i don't know if i'm making myself clear there's a flexibility that i have i'm not stuck in a particular place and i'm looking up to heaven i'm like heaven save me from this mess no save yourself save yourself from this mess okay i'm here i'm a ch now this is this is not arrogant this is very humbling by the way this is not arrogant this is not like i'm god i'm not god i'm a channel i'm a servant don't see this as arrogance though this is not arrogant this is actually a lot of bittle nothing belongs to me i don't own my house i don't own my kids i don't own my husband i don't own my mother-in-law i don't own my shabbos i don't own my guests i don't own my community i don't even own my bank account i don't even own my i wanted to say my schedule but i shouldn't get involved in that i don't own i don't own i am your channel this is what your channel needs now in the house right we have chores we got to do the laundry this house is a mess this guest coming shabbos is coming i am yours i am yours so the bashamtv says focus on that focus on the void on the need of the shrina and then it's really not personal now sometimes it may work out it may work out in different ways sometimes god has a different answer he says i have something much better for you okay i'm ready if there's a different need fine we take our egos out of the picture we take our despondency out of the picture we take out of our sadness out of the picture we take our hopelessness out of the picture we take it away we take it out we become channels of infinity it takes a lot of humility it sounds grand but it really takes the bittle of alignment but that ultimate alignment is what gives a person all his or her power because a night mulvade so the premise of your prayer is that you're one with hashem yes that's of course the premise that's the balsamic's premise always you're one with hashem always that in fact you are hashem in this world you are a manifestation a a flow a a a fragment of god a ray of infinity phallic and therefore the bashaw says from your voids those are that in my mind those are the most powerful words from your own void you can know what's the void of the shrimah from my void i could know what's the void of the shrine you know what try this try davening like this you'll understand what the washington is saying i'm telling you my speeches won't do the trick i'm a nice guy but my speeches will not do the trick starving like this and you'll see the difference that's what i think okay next question a lot of very good questions thank you very intelligent questions insightful perceptive the last story is very very beautiful yeah i agree i agree question if if one is feeling fear and you're telling me that this is really a message from god what is he telling me how does the fear disappear he's telling me maybe a lot of things but one thing he's telling me is that if i could work on my giras hashem on my awe of god i don't have to be afraid of all these other things he's trying to direct me towards real awe of god the reason i'm afraid of people or i'm afraid of social opinions or i'm busy with social conformity or i'm overwhelmed by my self-consciousness and fear of this one and that one is because i'm getting caught up in the facade and not getting to the source now sometimes i may have a lot of trauma i may need help it's not don't turn this into guilt this is not about guilt sometimes i may not be able to do this myself i may need a lot of help from somebody who can help me with this so this is not about your guilty it's about tuning in to a deeper message that all this fear that i'm experiencing and all this addiction and all this stress and anxiety and crushes and love and and codependency and all that it's not what it looks like it's actually a divine messenger who's dressing up in very tangible physical clothes i could relate to it but my real job is go deeper go much deeper and you'll see that there is a genuine longing and opportunity here for a much more wholesome experience this is a very deep teaching this is these are not simple teachings of the bolshevik i'm just saying this is not like uh you know a good nice vart you know it's not these are very profound existential teachings that deal with very deep levels of self-awareness and of honesty just realize every teaching here you're dealing here with in infinite wisdom it's it's the basham teachings are channels of the divine infinite wisdom of tyrants it's the mysomer cover are you telling me that when i'm sick god is sick are you telling me that when i'm poor and i need money in my bank god needs the money in the bank yes that's what i'm telling you that's what i'm telling you yeah again it needs explanation it needs qualification i know our whole life we hear god doesn't need anything god is not sick god doesn't need money he creates the money i understand we know that god is not sick and he doesn't need money but the idea that we're explaining here is two things number one that the shina is manifested in every single person's life in tanya it says that if our eyes were microscopic we would not see physical reality we would see divine energy so every physical reality is a manifestation of line energy and this is the secret behind quantum mechanics just for the record and number two on a deeper level even god's essence he chooses a relationship and that choice is free which means it's essential which means it's not forced which means it's innate which means it's absolute which means it's infinite which means that the need is infinite because if i need you because i chose you then that need is very very powerful because we are forever connected it's not like i chose you because i'm in a bad mood you see that's what people don't understand they say god doesn't need me he needs me more than anybody else because when i sometimes need somebody it's because i'm weak i'm afraid i'm in a bad mood i'm codependent i'm experiencing something but when god chooses it's free it's unlimited it's uninhibited in other words it's coming from the essence so then it's infinite so the need is much more powerful it's it's more it's more it's more of a love than a need i hope i'm making myself at least a little clearer i need a home for me that's a physical need are you telling are you telling me that god needs that that's a void in the srina first of all i was teaching quoting the balsam them i see this is a recurring question yes if i need a home i need a place to live in or i'm living in a tiny home and i need more space the balsamic said it's not because you're a narcissistic selfish person who is spoiled and bratty not necessarily not necessarily you don't have to go there there's actually something much deeper than that god wants a bigger space in this world because your home is god's home yeah you want a bigger home you know why because sheena wants a bigger home for you you know whether shkina wants a bigger home for you because in your in your bedrooms and in your kitchen and your dining room the divine presence is going to shine through your love through your relationships through your connection through your good deeds through your hospitality through all the goodness that's going to live in your home so yes it's a divine need because if you have a bigger home there's a bigger deera better in this world if you see yourself as detached and as physical and coarse and grub and brute you're right but the balsamic didn't see you like that the basemtiff saw you as a channel for divine infinity so when i want a larger home hashem wants a larger home you know why because in that larger home there's going to be more a greater manifestation of holiness in this world through that larger home so that's a divine need that's a need of the srina and when you could focus on that the balsamic said automatically the flow is much less obstructed you tune into the source if you tune into the source that feeler could come and be implemented with more smoothness with more easiness but don't get caught up in yourself don't cut off that alignment really be aligned and of course if you're really aligned there'll be things that you'll loan at the oven for of course but to put it differently the narcissist can't really pray the narcissist is trapped in a very tiny space real prayer let's put it this way real prayer is when i'm one with god and i'm praying for god that's real prayer there could be other forms of prayer i could be in a very selfish horrible jealous frustrated disappeared mood and i'm not blaming anybody i'm just that could be there and i'm davening but it's a very very it's a very very pathetic form of prayer because i'm not aligned in any way prayer is alignment prayer is opening yourself up that you're not a small petty horrible person so the premise of prayer is that god is listening to me that god is one with me that god wants to hang out with me that we're gonna have now a good therapy session we're gonna talk to each other so the premise of prayer is alignment and when that's the premise of davening and that's what i'm opening up to so the ultimate form of dominating the mosham says is that we're so aligned that i'm actually darvening for you it's like when you're dominating for your husband you're dominating for your child you're so alone you're so connected and then the flow is smooth there's no obstructions you spoke a lot about learning third and how we learned toyota does this also relate to women who don't have that mitzvah of learning well this relates to everybody even women and men women are obligated to learn all of their mitzvahs that they do that includes all of the negative mitzvahs it includes many of the positive mitzvahs not all of them it also includes the six continuous mitzvahs of the terms of which is belief in hashem which is love of hashem which is oneness all these types of things so that's already you're dealing with you're dealing with infinite infinite infinite aspects of terror that relate to men and women so so this this issue i don't think there's a difference well a lot of questions here on the website okay next question relationships are not easy i try to learn to be a giving person but the same thing happens again and again it hurts so much when your friends ignore you and if you open up to a cup you open yourself up to conversation with them they raise eyebrows and they look at you differently what would be a dignified way to try and work hard on your relationship without hurting yourself the balsamic teaches that i have to confront where you hurt me where i hurt you but they're all raising eyebrows at me nobody wants to be real well maybe you're hanging on the wrong places maybe you have to hang out here much more often over here everybody wants to be real i i hear everybody being real all the time i mean we can be more real and i always should challenge myself what's that title getting real we all have to learn to be more real and more real and more real but there's a lot of people who want to be real and that's what you should be hanging out with uh you should come here where we all there's unbelievable people here who who are real who are vulnerable who express themselves you can agree with them you can disagree with them but a lot of real people number one number two it's hard for me to comment about other people without knowing them i i really i'm very careful not to judge people so you say they raise eyebrows you know i don't know what's behind that communication what are they hearing what are they seeing what is your relationship if you if these are people who are friends and you have some connection to them and you could sit down with them and you say i want to have a heart-to-heart vulnerable talk they're all raising eyebrows i don't know it's very hard for me to give a comment and give a suggestion when i don't really know the other side of the story you know what i mean but generally speaking when you meet people who want to grow and you share something with them that's genuine i find that at least in most cases the response is reciprocal but you know what you don't have to be everybody's best friend you have to appreciate that there's borders and boundaries not everybody will always be able to appreciate you or understand you as like other people and that's fine it's perfectly fine i have another question do you think any of this is really practical can we implement this in our lives so i am of the conviction that all of this is very practical in fact i think it's from the most practical things that a person could learn about the world because you know we're living in a time let me tell you something we're living in a time of very very heightened awareness a very deep awareness we can deny it we could make believe that we're not living in such a time and go back to the way people were 40 years ago or 30 years ago or 60 years ago a thousand years ago which i don't know how people work because i wasn't around that i'm still trying to figure myself out today but the point is there is a lot of heightened awareness today there's a lot of things coming out there's a lot of longing there's a lot of searching a lot of yearning and i think that these teachings they just they hit they hit the spot they cut through all the layers of toxicity and they they really they're they're gifts they i have no way of of describing them they are priceless gifts that god has given us through these holy souls like the bolshemptov and i find them to be life-changing i find them to be transformative you know to put it in different words if judaism is to be successful today it has to compete with the highest levels of psychological spiritual and scientific literature that is literally exploding in the world day after day week after week if you're if you're following what's happening in the world of physics what's happening in the world of quantum physics what's happening in the world of psychology what's happening in the world of emotional awareness of spiritual mindful techniques and all of that there are explo explosions of data and research and ideas and methodology and if yiddish right really can't hold up hold its own in the presence of all this sophisticated spiritual people will run to so many other places when you learn the teachings of the balsham if you learn the teachings of the altitude you see that yiddishkai actually embodies these greatest truths in the most exceptionally profound way and applies them to real life so it's not just theories so that the cutting edge literature on physics and science and spirituality and meditation and psychology are not just existing in judaism but actually judaism brings them all together in the most elegant sophisticated and practical way giving its ultimate spiritual spin on all of it from the most profound infinite source which is the anesth so i find it to be extremely meaningful extremely especially in today's day i totally agree with what you just said and i feel that this is the only way that we can reach our youth today they need to be introduced to the spiritual revolutions of judaism they need to understand what it means to experience god they need to understand what it means to experience infinity they need to appreciate how judaism can help them deal with trauma with every emotion with every sensation with every experience that they never have to judge themselves or judge others that they could find their infinity and find their love and oneness and work through all of their challenges and any difficulty they ever encountered sexually physically emotionally spiritually can be addressed with the utmost dignity with the utmost clarity and with the utmost focus on real relationships and real connection well said well said well said hey i know we could sit on this piece for another hour i know that i know that says again this comes from told us of you i heard from my teacher the following explanation and what the gemara says the posix says this is a gemara page not the possible says in malachi malachi chapter 3 usaf you will return and see the difference between a tsadik a good person and a russia between somebody who serves god somebody who doesn't serve god uh so the talmud asks page nine high notes the verse seems redundant but sadiq is somebody who serves god a russian rebellious person somebody doesn't serve god it's the same thing so why does he say you'll see the difference between a sadhaka and a rush and then he repeats himself between somebody who serves hashem and doesn't serve russia so the governor answers ella no it's two separate things because the person who serves the person who doesn't serve is not a tadic versus a russian both are sadika they're both good people but you can't compare somebody who learns and reviews his learning a hundred times to somebody who reviews the learning 101 times wow so the one who served the one who doesn't serve they're both learning it's not that sadly russia they're both good people one learns and reviews it a hundred times one reviews it a hundred and one times the kash asks about i don't understand the hebrews that's why you should be called somebody who's not serving god almost like a russia even though we're not calling him calling him because he learned 100 times and not 101 times come on does this make sense a person learns he reviews it a hundred times he didn't review it 101 times he's not serving god something is a wolf will be rp marshall the basham dev explained this with a metaphor it says in tehillim so the famous chapter in tehillim 1 26. we say it before ben singh on shabbos she those who sow with tears will harvest with joy now you say hello myself which means the person who's carrying the pouch the bag of seeds is walking and crying the person who's carrying the sheaves he's returning and dancing celebrating singing says what does this mean what does this mean why would somebody be crying when they're holding a pouch of seeds and why when somebody is carrying sheaves aluma is why are they dancing what's what's the point of the puzzle so the explanation is as follows the basement is talking about two people who are planting there's a person who plants with discernment with with earnestness with seriousness with introspection there is a concern there is a fear that the earth is not going to be able to take to the seed that the earth is not fertile enough that bacteria and germs can attack the plant that weeds can grow that will destroy the plant so the person is crying crying in the sense that they're they're concerned they're diligent they're conscientious to make sure that they have to do whatever it takes in order to protect the seed he says this person is going to be able to carry home a plant but but somebody who just does it with callousness they don't realize the seriousness of it there's no cell of moisture they're going to end up carrying shafts stable which means the psilos not the good kernels they're going to end up with straw so the basham says you're talking about two people it's an approach in life when you're raising children when you're working on something not that you're crying in the sense that you're you're anxious and stressed but you realize the seriousness of it you don't just you're not callous you're not insensitive you're not detached you understand the consequences of planting a seed whether it's a physical seed or a spiritual seed and therefore there's a becky there's this there's a seriousness there this person that washington says he's going to be saying he's going to come back with a lot of zerry he's going to come back with a lot of healthy seeds kernels plants the other person boy he's just a happy go lucky no you say he's going to end up with is represents sheaves that it's just straw and stable you can't you can't do anything with it it's two different they're two different approaches says if somebody's foundation of tyra and serving god has within it an inner sense of arrogance then gam shohu oyev even though it seems like he's serving god but ultimately there's something substantial missing here it's like the person who's carrying home the alumais the empty sheaves that don't have any seeds in them what's missing in his yiddish is pirush miti what's missing is the focus on the secret of the ultimate oneness and thus has 100 times 101 times he says it's not about quantity somebody learns a hundred times somebody learns a hundred times the echoed but there's an ah there's a sense of oneness they're connected to the oneness of hashem i could go through all the rituals i do the mitzvahs i'm serving god but somehow i'm not aligned with the echad the echad means realizing that i am essentially a manifestation of god in this world that mulvader that everything is hashem's oneness when a person allows yiddish guy to just become an exercise in doing things but i don't allow my consciousness to be elevated to become part of echa to see the organic oneness of the world to see the organic oneness of humanity of civilization to see the organic oneness of the jewish people to see the organic oneness in myself i'm learning a hundred times i know all the material but i'm missing the echoed hashem the kiribati kim the realization that everything is connected and everybody is connected to the divine the ability to be able to see in every person in the divine to see in every creature of the divine to see in every aspect of the world to see the torah as a manifestation of so yeah i do everything but instead of it making me a refined person actually become a more arrogant person i feel holier than thou and i feel superior to other people and i'm suffering from hubris and and self-inflation and and i have this self-consciousness i'm not part of erd the turtle is not allowing me to melt away in the ecstasy of oneness empty says you're doing everything right but you're missing the core this is called next piece kofi and dallad kastur shemptov ayandala bigamara this comes from a cipher called likutim yakarim yoshide ms bigamara the gemara speaks about a fascinating story hillel the youngest was the gomorrah says he knew the whole torah he knew the language of animals he knew the language of birds he knew the language of trees and it says he didn't abandon the great things those are small things ask the gemara one of the great things what are the small things so the marijuana says dover god of the great things is my simmer cover it's the work of the divine chariot the famous vision of the navy of ezekiel the hefty of schwes where he sees the inner divine workings of creation it's known as merkava the secrets of terror the great kabbalistic secrets the mystical secrets of the divine chariot that's the big great things and what's the small things harvey is all the discussions and territories of our bayern were the two greatest some of one of the two of the greatest of the talmudic sages whose teachings and debates and disputes and conversations and explanations fill all the pages of the talmud the kash asks how could the gemara call all the conversations of abaya and rather a small thing it's like it's insignificant when that is the primary toner that was given to us at sinai what have jew's been learning for thousands of years called how value is that the gemara here like nonchalantly says david goddel the great thing is myself the workings of the divine chariot understanding the various worlds and the various levels of angels and souls and divine energies and characteristics and the chariot and the throne on the chariot and the person sitting on the throne the whole kabbalistic system of the spiritual science of the cosmos and the higher worlds and the higher universes that's dover god the ver cut in what's a small thing the conversations of abaya and rubber that fill and make up the main body of aloha and the background of allah that's called a dover cotton small thing asks the mosham how can the gemara say that this is the meaning of it the meaning is the truth is that the two aspects of torah are really all one there's what's called torah nicholas and on his mister terraria nicholas is a turtle that's revealed what does mean is revealed it's very concrete it's tangible it's about law the reasons for the law the debates about the law the background behind each law that's basically what we call the body of mishnayis the gemara which explains the mishnayas and all of the commentaries on the gemara which explain the gemara which is basically delving into the intricacies and the depth behind every single law articulated in humus and mishnays and gemara and then the subsequent commentaries on the commentaries and the way it's codified in actual law whether rif or rash ramban which means the tangible concrete aspect of you described do this don't do this whether it's civil law monetary issues marriage issues issues of twilight or tsitzis or sukkah or shabbos or avin or agriculture or purity and impurity or sacrifices or civil damages whatever the topic is nikola is the toyota that can be tangibly identified and articulated mr is basically the hidden aspect here what does it mean hidden it's the divine energy inside of tower it's touching the spirituality the metaphysics so the rambam says the focus the question is where you are what you're seeing what your perception is what you where your mindset is [Music] if a person's entire relationship to toyota is only one where they only recognize the tangible concrete technical aspect of toyota divorcing it from its infinite underlying reality then the person is not really grasping the true depth of turtle shall love nebraska this person that says his kindness is kitsitsa it's an expression in yeshaya chapter 40. it's like the grass the grass of the field that withers fast but if a person learns and what he's craving is devacus oneness with hashem that's what he's looking for leo is mercavaloy to become a chariot a merkava a chariot for hashem a vessel frassem the aimless of dereki my day i thought of our mitzvahs and the only path to that being a channel is through toyota and mitzvahs that's the path hashem is expressed in toyota and the mitzvos then whatever he's learning the of terror the initiative he or she becomes a channel for zelda this is what they meant dover cotton the small thing is the conversations of a bayern rover what they meant like this if a person is only learning to sharpen their mind with atma or because of the intellectual pleasure they have or because of their own needs i want to become a goddamn i want to become great i want to be successful i enjoy it i love it it's awesome it's good the intellectual sharpening of the brain hudover cotton this is small peter even the champions cotton he's serving god in such a primitive way and it's extremely insignificant relative to the true richness in china because essentially one person loves mathematics and the other person found the thrill he can get from mathematics who gets from another wisdom he gets it through today but if somebody develops and cultivates the yearning i want to become a channel for infinity through torah who dover goddel now you're tuned in to the true greatness of todo vazquel dover goddamn myself the greatness of titus when you see abaya and rava as part of the mercover cover write salaam alas that through the learning you're going to become a channel so when it says i did not let go of the great things and the small things the great things is what my sim recover the divine chariot the small things is what the conversations and learning about bio has the best empty that's small things that's the whole basis of third he says no it's all about the person's perspective javi is that you could see it only as arguments and debates and intellectual gymnastics and great ideas and fantastic intellectual insights which is learning and if you're enjoying it great better than doing other things no question prime velocity is safe in africa extol is very much a person who just enjoys and loves the learning of traitor just for the enjoyment of it but the valhamtiv says if you understand the essence of the essence of there is a relationship the essence of today is that it's divine infinity it's mice and recover allows you to be a channel for hashem every piece of title whatever you're learning anything about your ever discuss if you understand what it really is saying is it allows you to become a channel foreign to become a recover so i could look at it and only see the cutness of it only see the smallness of it the insignificant the part that relative to its greatness becomes insignificant or i could see the godless of it the dover cotton is just stripping abayavirava from the true infinite depth that it has the dover gobble is the myself why is this called cotton and the basham says it's kai and it's it's like insignificant just an example would be let's say you're giving out you're given an opportunity to meet in your mind the greatest person who ever lived the greatest person and you get an opportunity to spend a few hours with them one one-on-one private audience you could share whatever you would like you could listen you can ask you could sit at the feet of this giant and absorb the ultimate wisdom right and you come into the room you come into the room and there's a smorgasbord and there's nice spear ribs and there's some good sushi and there's some good drinks so what do you do you spend the time eating those foods and drinking those drinks now those drinks are good the food is delicious no question no question but you substituted the opportunity that is a life that that's a gift of a lifetime you substituted it for something so much smaller not that the food is not good the food is delicious and the wine is delicious and you'll come and say wow that was a good meal but you had here the opportunity to touch something that is absolutely unique it's historic and that's just a metaphor that's incomplete because we're talking here about the person who's mortal and finite versus food what the is saying is every piece of trader has infinite depth in it it has the divine infinity flowing through it and it allows you to become a channel for that infinity mice and recover that's tighter but i can substitute it and just strip the most external layer which is also part of it those are part of it but it's all really one it's all one tighter even the external part is essentially a channel for this infinite wisdom that shines through even the very tangible concrete aspect of the learning but here the question is where the person is if i'm in a place of smallness dover cotton all i see is two great sages debating and there's a lot of intellectual brilliance here that i may understand part of it i may not understand some of it i understand so some people may have an agenda of just becoming arrogant i want to win the arguments in my school another person may have the agenda i want to become a great famous scholar that everybody should be able to look at me and say wow he knows his stuff another person actually likes sharpening their mind like sharpening his mind is very good to sharpen your mind teaches you how to think another person pushed enjoys intellect they enjoy brilliant stuff they enjoy the intellect they get a taste for it as they would with any other wisdom says the bashem whatever level these people are and it's many different levels it's all ultimately touching only the katniss of tara it's the katnos it's the smallness of it and relative to its true greatness it's insignificant in other words he captured every aspect he understood mice and recovered and he understood even javi is that ever of the way they could be the voice for myself wishing everybody a wonderful wonderful day a beautiful beautiful shivas kabbalah satire to all of you as they say receive the terror with joy and genuineness and may all of us allow ourselves and our loved ones to open ourselves up to the ultimate truth and ultimate depth and love that exists in toyota that exists in mitzvos that exists in yiddishkai that exists in ourselves and that exists in our fellow man and in our fellow woman may god protect all of our brothers and sisters in the holy land and the whole world all good people in the world and may we experience the ultimate moment of oneness the mosquito leaves thank you very much for joining us this class is brought to you by the yeshiva.net please help us continue the classes make even a small contribution at www.theyoshiva.net donate