Simcha #9 - Secret to Successful Investments - Seeing & Carefulness of What you See - Ivdu 1938

turning the mimer if there's hashem simcha page um wait a minute uh is it 119 yeah 119 where he brought a fascinating story from the zaira kudish of a student named eli yahoo hanavia leo the prophet who would learn daily with reprimand in the idra in the chamber you can imagine what kind of holy holy people were there and great people and one day he no he's not fair he's not in the basement you know the gemara says when you come normally and you don't show up one day the the teacher the rabbi asks and so too god asks i didn't see you in base mattress today where are you and not because they want to make you uncomfortable but because because i out of genuine concern sophia was not here one day and we don't see him we say hello where where are you and then he tells us you know he got the covet and then he's recuperating so it's a genuine concern and and and we as have adam as friends you know what we created and continue to create is what we call a brotherhood a brotherhood is really the meaning of the words that are used frequently in khabad and other circles anash a-n-a-s-h in hebrew aleph noon um exclamation shin which means our men of peace meaning we are a brotherhood so the reform movement and the conservative when they they have the brotherhood and the sisterhood it didn't start in reform judaism it started way before uh in uh i think even in in ghazal there is such a concept but surely in hasidic circles and and karabakh some of you you know follow rip slam and all that um was very much into this idea and the whole idea of chaburaz you know khaboorah so the liturgical world you have the habura concept where groups of students and rabbis get together and they study a certain subject certain section of talmud of etc then we have the 70s and 80s the for the i don't know if you everyone knows this but we had which was very popular in in in the baltimore world at that time chabad also had it and basically people who wanted to know more about hashem and about torah they would gather together in a home and a rabbi or a rabbitson would come or both and they would teach and talk and it was called right from the word khabura which means a group joining together this concept is very much um a mainstay in chabad hasidis as far as the the practicality of implementing hasidic thought how through brotherhood and brother and yiddish the word is and i think it's a beautiful yiddish word to to memorize brudershaft you know that means brother i don't know this is the english translation it means brotherly togetherness brotherly oneness and this is so important today it's it's it's like a relic of the past even most people and most torah learners and was observing jews there's missing that brother shaft my show was telling me how i hope it's still it's happening that they started to have after um dabbing in age code there's a little kiddish for brengan whatever that's the brooder shaft that i'm talking about which in a way is greater than the davening okay i'm not talking holagically okay we're talking about that spirit that's created where you sit down together for 5 10 15 20 minutes with a little high-end more little without the but you sit together you say a story and this one says avert that goes so far that it supersedes you know just darkening and learning so part of this uh shear and that we have is to create this genuine hovershaft friendliness of we're all together as friends so when one friend doesn't show up right away we you know where is he what's going on how's he feeling and and if more of us extend this to to the community at large uh you you'll see an upgrade in many many issues and the same is true for the women for the wives and and girls to create uh havershaft and and and like feelings and this was going back to the founder the belchemtov and his students so whether it's the slonammer or the or the or the bowser and all of that this was really in europe this was a probably this was much more of what kept hasidim together than the actual learning of hasidis i mean because you know very few hasidic movements really spent the time delving into discourses the way we do here okay that that's the truth that wasn't their style and there's a lot of history about that and there were times there were very big disagreements about it which i'm not going to tell you about now we'll leave it for another time and it's written about and i've written about it as well but anyway the point is that when eden get together it it goes so therefore velveo is in germany and yaakov is not here right now is in chicago and i'm in the brooklyn and you're in the chemist right who cares and when i the habershaft is being created you can't replicate that you cannot replicate it and and and this is something that needs to be emulated in and and and when it's emulated you get more and more of ava of love and and brotherly love and togetherness and it spills over with helping a person with paranosa helping a person with with an eight cell with advice with counsel and every issue uh jainism this morning um sent me a message he knows a couple needs help for marriage you know do i have an idea for him i gave him an idea hopefully he'll follow up and it'll work out the point is whether it does or it doesn't the the the cover shaft creates this bond that goes beyond walls and this is another final lesson for this before we start inside judaism yiddish as it was it wasn't is um highlighted by hasidism emphasizes that yiddish kite is not limited to a locale the the the locality of the jewish experience is not in sticks and stones so and and maybe and maybe we could say this is a maybe that one of the positive lessons that we have from this covet experience which bar hashem is getting less and less until it be eradicated completely or maine so one of the one of the positive experiences is that we've learned that you could learn toyota and be friends through a screen and it really is a messianic because until then who until until the the pandemic hit who had this thought i mean you know their yes they were starting you know business meetings but who was doing the things that skype shield and that are now available in a mainstay no one and minnesotan hashem said you know we're closer to meshiach and one of the ideas of mashiach is that the terror will be all over and we'll be able to learn and see each other and and and wherever you are and there's no excuse and that's what happened so every negative we have to always train ourselves that in every negative to find a positive and if you do that you'll be a happy person or be happier okay if you see only the problem i the people that died nebuchadnezzar died my friends my my relatives and and you you become a very dark morbid person and a very negative person and no one will want to be around you not your wife not your kids not your friends and you'll be a mess so be smart use your cycle and understand that abstract knows what he's doing and he loves us and in every negative there is a deeper positive now go find it so back to the mimer 119. so he brings this muscle where revere elio and navi is missing so rush b says to him the next day hey leo where were you so he says there was there's someone called him rabbi saba and he needed help and i needed to go and help him but in order to help him i needed to invest myself in him yes hello this phrase from the zohar medualo asimar is that the same phrase that the bashantav used in his famous letter yes about his vision of yes yes it's the same phrase but but a different letter about a different context but that's the same yes kind of an echo of it yes correct yes so so um he he um he says where were you so he says i had to go help raven and to do it i couldn't do it through an email and i couldn't do it through a tick tock and i couldn't do it through a fax and even a skype i had to go in person because sometimes you got to get up and go and i had to invest myself what self the soul of leo he says needed to invest in a body and when that's done you can't be in two places you see heaven you could be in two places simultaneously if you're not fully invested which really means you're not here and you're not there and you get the shot we say nistahind you can't dance at two weddings simultaneously where are you make up your mind yo retorts back to to to to um to raj b the holy raj b and he says b i'd love to be at the class but i couldn't why should we use you you as an example yesterday would help with your permission that you couldn't be here yesterday because you had nebuchadnezzar you needed to be physically at the levia so you couldn't be physically at the computer when partaking this year an investment a real investment yaakov requires what we call hasidis hislopshus the enclosing the investment of soul and body and therefore he says be when when i come to the sheer you want me fully here you don't want me just to be you know elsewhere like sometimes some some of the travelers have to drive and they put on the sheer they get it for a few minutes it's better than nothing but you're not really there because you're you're driving you have to watch the road or off he's doing a tour you know you can't do two things at once you know you try your best and it's it's a nice attempt but a real a real being there requires fully invested says if if the expectation and the need is to be nephesh be goof so within a body i can't be in two place at the same time what why does that have but the previously ever bring this this wonderful piece of zohar the story from desire here to point out to us that when it comes to the nephesh to a person's soul their the at the end of the day when it comes to the real nephesh you are who you are and you're in one place now if you decide to change that place tomorrow and you go through that transformation that can be done but as long as you still are in your one place that's where you are and that's why he gave the marshall earlier moshe from the person looking at the painting that even after he leaves the the the studio and he goes back home and he's sitting and having supper and he takes the soup and all of a sudden the spoon remains like this and i saw this bite away by the oil con that with soup with a cigarette before he stopped smoking that he did i i saw it sometimes he would light a cigarette and he would hold a cigarette in his hand for a minute two three until it burned completely and it went into the floor or at the garbage but he just just lit a sticker to smoke the cigarette but he was he was elsewhere i i saw this my own eyes this is not making up and this because where was he he wasn't there uh how did he like the cigarette i guess by osmosis you know nothing but you know he's used to lighting a cigarette like we're used to saying ashrae we can say in our pajamas in our clothes or laying on the bed we know ashley yeah right there are certain things that you don't have to even think about and you do them but that's behavior mode what about essence mode what about the shaman mode the shaman mode requires involvement and that's uh gets so much to elaborate on but that's really you know is your neshama there when you ask yourself you know if what i'm doing is my soul there eventually you need to have your soul there otherwise like you have rum said his music you know he gets a high and pleasure if your soul is there kvaldic and if one of your soul is not there so either you need to redirect your soul to the right place or you need to find a way to do make what you're doing now to be uh to be soulful you know to recreate yourself we have a we have a concept that word in in today's world the recreation of man so at 30 he was one person 40 another person 50 a third person and at six days and a fourth person can you do that if you go through that re transformation yes every 10 years you could be another person and you aren't a charlatan and a fake but most people aren't that way most people who they are they are so the rabbit says here that is experienced through time through pleasure velvet where do you see the true essence of the person or through the shama in in that area that the person derives pleasure from like i told you the rabbi tells the the student he says you think uh you know me running the chabad house is my pleasure my pleasure is teaching you siddhas learning siddhas for him he says that's where is my love everything else i do and i need to do it and i'm going to do it but where do you have the taino so tynuk pleasure is such an important area in a person's life not to dismiss and i don't want you to get confused between negative lust and time we're not talking about that i mean unfortunately if a person experiences negative lust you know lust which isn't healthy and then negative and then there needs to be a change but i'm talking about in in in those areas that are positive and are good to to capitalize on them and that's really like i told you right i told you once that dennis prager was not the biggest target on earth but anyway very bright so he said once in a room full of young people on on wilshire boulevard sinai temple on westwood i was he said there were a thousand young people in the room and he said who can who can raise their hand and say they love their work some hands went up and then he said and who can raise their hand and say they love their work and they get paid for it too less hands went up kainuk tainook again if money is meaningless to you and you don't care if you make money you don't the fact that you you know are an artist or a creator or a rabbi whatever your job is and you get pleasure even though you don't get paid for it caller but a lot of people aren't that way and they feel better when they're paid for their work you know and and i always say that that isn't a negative that's a positive because we are limited beings and we have a mind and heart besides a family and paying bills and tuition right but as a human being hashem made it that that money is not a bad thing it's not evil we say money is the root of all evil yeah if you misuse money and if there's greed and there's plenty of that but if you look at money as the german says that the the only reason zahav gold was created was for the heaven and the base of mikdash if the only reason that you have and what money is to do more for akadesh baruch and your family and your friends and your community you should make a lot of money i just saw a video that ever told someone who wanted to retire you know he oh there was a gentleman uh who and his wife chabad had something called the mahna israel development fund this was active in the 1980s and this was a group of shlukin got together and they they felt that the the rabbit could do so much more if he had a lot more funds available to his dispersion so they made a fun on the mahnis role which is one of the chabad organizations the americas chabad organizations and the goal was to to raise millions of dollars anyway the one of the ways of getting balabatim who were substantial to contribute was to have them speak individually with the rebbe him and his wife and sometimes the children and the rebel will come down to 770 they cleared out all the benches in the big shul they put the red on a little table with a podium and people will go over and their shliyak would go over and so there were lines of people and there's videos of it and it was a very interesting and important event and experience so i saw one of them this past week so a gentleman goes over with his wife and he says to the rebel thank god i just sold my business and we did very well um and i'm i'm considering i i want to know he says rabbi i want to know i think michael sent you the video right he says i want to know when is the right time for me to basically retire to you know he was basically saying to the rebel i have enough money for me my kids and grandkids why do i have to work more and the rabbit tells them tells him the fact that hashem put you in a position that you could do business and succeed and make money means that that's your obligation and just as god is infinite his blessings are infinite and you can be part of that infinity by continuing to work so then he says to them so he got he got the rapper's message very quickly so he makes a very quick u-turn and he says so should i in reinvest the money in a similar business or try a new venture and here is whatever says something so important and right to the point that it's relevant to us there ever says that depends on your personality if you're going to be bored with reinvesting the money the same type of work you did till now that you succeeded don't do it if you'll have more happiness in a new venture that's where you should put your efforts and i found the second part that i just shared now much more important than the first part because the first part we know it's a don't retire you know it's it's very simple like what are you gonna do play golf all day you're gonna go nuts and drive your wife crazy and we know the fact that some of you your wives threw you out of the house when we were meeting for a year in in in ensure we had that we opened the kylo i remember clearly we had a conversation with some of the trevor they said my wife wants me out of the house right it's and it's normal but the second part is a wonderful novelty what should i do now i have this money i have the answer is it depends on the person on the did i use the issue youth personality if you're the type that you're going to get bored from the same type of work and there's another opportunity that will be a fresh start to something different something new that excites you and turns you on etc go for that if you're the type that you know reinvesting and and making more and then you know even though it's kind of something you know and you've done and you can handle that do that so it depends on your happiness and this is such an important insight or you know and all of us some of working some are retired retired different levels of our occupations it's important to reassess especially during midlife and as we get older we need to have happiness and sipoci it's called in hebrew um how do you say that in hebrew how do you say uh um i mean simple means satiation but satisfaction spiritual satisfaction yeah see right sad satisfaction but but hillary i'm not talking now about the spirit i'm talking about even the physical and mental satisfaction that you're you're excited about what you do rebel wasn't taught that ever wasn't talking to him about spiritual satisfaction that's another issue and a very important issue he's talking about simply getting up in the morning and knowing you're going to go to work and you're happy about that even if it's an hour or two or if your work is in the total world it should be that way could you imagine a rebbe going to a classroom and we had that and probably still do although it's getting less boro hashem and not really wanting to be there why because they're not the best rebbe or teacher and they should be elsewhere but they can't get a job and they need some panaso so they were given jobs and this happened post holocaust all over america and inertia's role where there were plenty of teachers that should have not been in the classroom because they were not made to be teachers but they had panosa i had a few such recipes in my days to say the truth i was a good student so i was able to kind of tolerate it and handle it others weren't and they suffered because of it so so it's very important and the same is true imagine an employer who who really doesn't want to do what he's doing and for whatever he's doing it meanwhile he'll he'll abuse the employees by being arrogant and negative and insulting and on and on get away don't be in that position be the admin behind the scenes so all of this we're just going on here we have to get to the text all of this points to this idea of tainook and that's why i'm elaborating on it because you can't say enough about tainogan it's really the first time in our four years of learning is that we tackled this topic of pleasure of time to to really hone in on what our title is and to understand that ultimately it's in our tainook and in our it's in our in our pleasure and the light where the nephesh is and it can only be in one place at one time and if you think otherwise it can't be and this explains um explains a famous saying in the early philosophers jewish philosophers and they would say like this [Music] i recall a conversation with someone in your neighborhood where i asked the person uh someone from you know the states like what are you doing here you know what do you need to be here you know you have your big house and you have your cars and you you could do that anywhere in america and he said it to me bluntly he says if i can have eric's throw if i could live in there just row and have my american comforts why not in behavior mode it's emis but then he's showing him the first philosophers joshua teach us you can't have oil but together it doesn't work in other words if you're really if you're really uh inaudible and the gemara says in kedushin kosher that if so eric israel is acquired through yesurin through pain and struggles that's not a negative statement that's a positive statement in other words the methodology and of heritage role is hard work and hard work is good for us so the country club and the internet surfing and everything that we have here it's not energy's role it's it's american it's lawrence [Music] so the truth is it's either this or either that you decide so again in behavior mode yeah you can have your comforts and we should have our comforts that's in behavior mode but in tainook that's what i'm getting at in tainook as far as your pleasure you can't have them both you decide you you decide do you want oil habba or do you want to hazard and and and and this is why they were yidden and our eden who although offered all the riches in the world and all the comforts of the world they turned it down not not just because it says impeach the us you know um [Music] you know eat the bread with some salt and and all that and the pain and the struggle we we we learned that that mission empirically of us and we walk away the average person is ah a jew has to be a schlepper a jew has to be you know down that negativity you know what i'm saying and what we say is oh we're all we're always in defense mode right now again the truth is we have those arabs around us those enemies we had them on the the germans we had the the the spanish inquisition we always do have enemies till machia comes but the mindset and where one comes from shouldn't be from that because if it does it harms us and surely harms our future generations because as we go further towards mashiach the youth are less interested in which was the common saying post holocaust and uh you know even the 1920s and 30s in new york we're pushing the carts and in the lower east side that sigh of pain and agony who wants to be part of that not not you guys not me no sorry sorry that's not what we come from so the answer is that the real meaning in the peer key of us and then is that where is your tainook where is your taino and if you're kind of this hard work and labor and creativity and serving hashem and yes switzing for hashem like i told you with abraham your the shakthing yes the shaykh if god needs me now to do yiddish and they're going to shake me i'm going with simcha because i can do something for hashem if i can slap and get hot in 90 degrees to help change someone's tire on on on on route 1 or route 6 where you drive over there and i don't need to do it then i do it i'm happy to do it i feel so good doing it because that's what i was made for and that's all coming for your tinyuk so this is all not just in you know theoretical concepts in on a mimer but it really really has practical ramifications let's continue please we're on 119 um five lines from the bottom the middle of the page vlog when it comes to survival to life all men all people are equal everyone wants to live just basically the idea of life not how they look not how they feel not how they think not how they fear have pleasure just specifically he divides and he says the place where watson finds itself a comfort zone is by love in the heart will expresses itself in the most palpable best way in the heart and where does pleasure express itself best in the mind although where in the mind do we find the essential essence of pleasure in the the essence of the mind nevertheless intellect does not have the essence of pleasure the intellect as we process ideas you cannot say that that's where the the kernel of pleasure is found it's only a processing method but the exam of tainook is not experienced in the external um intellectual process that's what it says however hoshem this is all a very long-winded um comparison and here is the end of the comparison the census yoni your view looking with your eye or or hearing or feeling or smelling et cetera in nemius there the inner aspect of pleasure is drawn there at the museum to the point where your entire being is drawn after that beautiful picture next page type of 120. that beautiful scene that you see draws you and you're like floating could you you know you know how it is music you you're walking on this thing you know they say about rabbi yitzha ginsburg of erich's role the other you know the the famous yeah ginsburg so i was i heard that how did he begin in the early 60s his process of trouble he lived in saint louis he passed a steeple uh and they had shallow shooters and they were singing hasidic tunes reflective and meditative in nature and this genius of mathematics and other sciences he just started to float and his feet floated into the steeple and the rest is history when you when you experience so that was through his ears his ears the shemia heard a coil of music and it and all of a sudden the sciences and and the mathematics and everything else became secondary you understand because it draws your very essence and as a musician i'm sure you can relate to the new i want to finish the paragraph please [Music] in spirituality um the pleasure that we have of seeing something it causes either an ascension or a descension in man as the saying is the the the the seeing of the eyes of sadiq elevates them in other words what really elevates the tzadikim avi not their study but the aliyah the true aliyah comes from morrows from what they see because moshe because the seeing is most impactful as far as one's pleasure is concerned that ever brings it home now to serving hashem government when a person imagines how the supernal heavenly world looks like and he compared he says based on what i see here it surely and more so is that way in heaven oh mercedes and this arouses the bishop that imagination in other words here we're talking kind of about a fantasy to imagine you see something in your world on the street right and you say wow remember that famous saying that there ever writes to president ben's feet 1951 he says from the age of three i've been imagining how the world will look like when meshiach will come that and the rabbit says then basically that has driven me all these years to get to where i am and to preach what i preach and teach what i teach so the the the the power of riya be it physical seeing or imagination drives a person in a positive sense and so god forbid as avram shared briefly with us the other day the other way it says the aim of the leba the eyes and the heart are two uh vehicles and methods that take a person to either the right place or the wrong place who clothed the milsa and what's the general rule the cashier when the eye sees the other type something good or the height of god forbid something bad in the alley of claim that the heart desires and lusts yes that is how i engage in because the seeing of the eye causes an awakening a revelation an awakening of the emotions and it's all comes from because of the inner pleasure that's derived from seeing right so this this of course underscores the importance as avraham said the other day of how careful wants to be with what they see you know again when you learn muslim you talk they talk about it like hey don't see what you're not supposed to turn your head it's true but but here it's a much more profound if you think about in this term who are you your tying of your pleasure you don't want your title to be seeing inappropriate things because then it messes you up for a long time and i always repeat that what i heard back in eighth grade in yeshiva still is in this mind and i'm i'm i'm 16 so 52 years later and it's still there hashem i know how to handle it that it doesn't disturb me but but why is that because when you hear something it goes so deep inside that it's all it's virtually impossible to get out and i said yesterday we shouldn't be concerned and just overwhelm that with good ideas and good hearing i agree but it does tell us that from here on we have to be careful so when you talk to your kids and your gran and your grandkids and your friends about you know non-jewish music you know what what why why shouldn't we listen to non-jewish music we're talking about inappropriate music i'm not talking about classical music or something like that but you why why because if the one who composed it is an abuser or other with other maladies you don't want him to be in your life the rabbit told someone in 1967 he told me this he lives around the corner here he said to me his wife wanted they should play a certain song by the hooper he wanted they should play the outdoor rebels and he asked the rebbe is it a minute to play the altar and he wasn't he was a lit but he really liked khabad so he wanted the out to rap as a litchfuck wanted the altar rappers and his wife wanted a standard or whatever so he asked the rebbe is there a minute khabad that you have to play the outer rebels under the hoop the rabbit didn't answer him yes but what the rebbe said is listen when you when you sing the you are identifying with the soul of the person who composed the if you want this other person to be at your hoopa right there with you sing their if you want the bellatonia to be with you under the hoop sing his you got it right have a great day everyone a lot to think about zaika zone we'll see everyone tomorrow bye bye take care everybody bye