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became very frightened what better time now what's going on in this to have the power of that we know from unfortunately what what to the destroyed and the the but the second was destroyed power of the power of sitting together sitting next to a neighbor that you don't necessarily know sitting from from the special day of the power of that is is tremendous and with that we like to all welcome very our world-renowned speaker and writer and you hear his lectures all over online and his videos and his wisdom and his writings we like to welcome I'm sitting or standing I think I'll I think the people will be able to see me better if I stand yeah I'm okay I'm good I hold it also they have a few mics here these your mics these are the all the videos everybody we have to make sure that the video guy can hear yeah we should be good this should work you're good I have your mic here it's not a it's a live mic are you using both using two mics I got four mics over here just make sure that's all recorded in case I mess up they'll be able to dig up the dig up the files okay Community we spent an incredible shabus here in Bim North Miami Beach uhab ofing honor of and the continues so we have a beautiful crowd here at the B rooftop but also we're joined by an an audience online where live streaming right now on soulwords dorg and uh you'll tell me later how many people are uh meny you see how many people are on the online audience so I'll tell you something interesting about the reach that we have but I'll ask you first a question about Kaneka BR in Winter of 1984 ask the question it's a little bit of AIC question you might have to have a little bit ofic background to follow the question but here's the question kanah is how many days 8 Days okay and a week is how long seven days so by definition every Hanukah always has at least one shabus because you cover all the days of the week and then some you wrap around again now lighting the monota on Friday Adam shabis poses a difficulty and that is the time for lighting the Mana properly the best time is from shaa means Sunset the problem is that chabas also begins at at Sunset so on Friday the time when you would light the Mona for Friday night is already shabas and you can't do any of the prohibited labors including kindling a flame so we can't light the man onab so what do we do so it says in the code of Jewish law that you light a little bit earlier you light a a little bit earlier and you make sure to add extra oil so that the candles will burn longer because you're lighting earlier you want it to last into the night you can't light during the night because it's shabas so you light Before Sunset and you add enough oil that it should last into the night you follow so far okay so did ask the question when rash falls on chabas we don't we don't blow the chauffer the first de if it's if it's chabas we don't we don't do it we skip it it's a it's a Biblical command if is fals same thing we do not shake the Lulu and that again that's a Biblical commandment is R so how difficult would it be to just say on Friday we don't like the man that's it you just skip that day you skip it so you say well because there's a solution for it you just light it earlier yeah but why is that that the solution that is the way of doing it after the fact you can light as early as but really the proper time is from and if you can't do it at the proper time so why why do it at all when they could easily just do the same thing they do with with Biblical mitz and say just skip it for that day okay so I'm sure you're all riveted by this very uh exciting question but the question has a significance that I think when you realize what it's really talking about I think you will be excited sometimes there's a Jew in a place where we cannot reach him or her because it's a place where the darkness the spiritual darkness is too great and in fact we're not even permitted to go to such a place that EBA gave an example he said right now this was in 1984 there could be a Jew who has voluntarily entered a an adous Temple a temple of of idol worship and and Hally we're not permitted to enter such a place to even go within uh the proximity of such a place than four cubits 6 feet so how are we going to reach that person you can't go there so what are you supposed to do so what do we do we learned the lesson from Kaneka and Kaneka we're posed with a dilem that we need to get the light to go into the dark but shabas observant pres prevents us from lighting at the time when it's dark so what do we do we go as close as we possibly can go meaning before the time when it becomes prohibited to light the light and from there we send enough light that'll go into the place where we could not we couldn't reach on our own imagine you know the difference between when you're in a battle so there's a sword and there's a bow and arrow so a sword is for hand toand combat when you can when you can get close but the bow and arrow is for shooting from a distance the same thing that ABBA said we can use technology and this was to reach somebody who's in a place where we're not able to go we can't go to them but we can use modern technology and we can reach them like sending an arrow like shooting a projectile to a place where we cannot go and sending them the light so that they'll receive it over there just like when it comes the shabas of Kaneka instead of saying up there's nothing we can do we can't light Mana tonight instead what do we do we just get as close to the prohibited time of lighting as possible and then send the light Into the Night by adding extra oil now that never said that in 1984 think about the technology that exists today and the ability that we have to reach people that's completely unprecedented in fact some sometimes we can reach a person and not even know that we've reached them we send out our light and I'm not pretending technology doesn't have its dangers it's very risky you have to make sure that you understand it's a tool you're using it it's not using you but if we use it as a tool we can send out our light to places that people we have never met and would never meet can receive it so I just want everyone to know at the rooftop tonight at our live audience our beautiful audience here that uh at the same time we're here gathered for in a physical space together that we're reaching people in places that we've probably never been maybe even places that we can't can't pronounce places we've never even heard of and uh I'll look at the camera we're sending you our light and we hope that you feel it and we want you to know that even though it's only virtually it's only through technology you're not alone and we're with you and I don't know who needed to hear that but I promise you there's somebody out there who needs to hear it right now I know in certain times I've been the one who needs to hear it as I was in the elevator coming up somebody uh said you said something earlier today I told you we were for bringing here all shabas so I was coming up in the elevator and they said we would like you to clarify something that you said earlier today on chabas so I said I'll I'll get to the rooftop and I'll see how many people are on the rooftop that weren't here for shabas and if there's enough of them then I can clarify some stuff I spoke about on chabis so I see there's a a fresh crowd over here barem due to the aforementioned akem we have a eclectic crowd so uh I'll catch you up on what you missed on chabas of lead who was the first and he was imprisoned and he was set free on this date furthermore there's a there's another significance to Utes kli and that is that it is the yard site the hilula of the AL otherwise known as the Magid of M the Magid was in turn the chief disciple and successor of his re the B so the mag passed away on this day you T this is his yard site interestingly Carl Jung on his 80th birthday gave an interview to the BBC and he said that my entire philosophy and my approach to the human mind was already anticipated 200 years ago by a great Rabbi known as Rabbi be of MZ meaning the Magid now what did Jung know of the mot's teachings I have no clue I don't know what he was exposed to not sure why he felt that the mag to encompassed all of his insights but that's what he said that's what he himself said so as I mentioned on chabas there's a there's a quote from Yung that the greatest burden on the life of the child is the unlived life of the parent and if Yung said that everything he taught was really fromus was really from the maged we must be able to find that Inus or we should be able to find it it happens to be that we don't even have to look far because today shabas was and inl we have the answer or at least an answer a prime example of the unlived life of a parent being a driving force in the life of a child we're told in this week's paraa that Dena went out she went out to see what was going on with the Canaanite girls the med says that they made a dance with music she was interested she liked music she liked dance and she went to go see what was going on and she was kidnapped by the son of the local Chieftain and she was violated and it's a terrible tragic story but the tah tells us that Dina basa why Bas not ban because like a mother like a daughter or what do they say in English like mother like daughter that she was a chip off the old block that Dena was like her mother how is she like her mother Dena also or Leia also went out she was very outgoing when she wanted to have more children with Yanina with our patriarch Jacob she approached him and she said I've uh obtained the rights for tonight and I we I'd like to have more children she was uh very outgoing very unconventional and um we actually know that she had a sister a younger sister Leia's younger sister of course was rul that really she had always been the interesting one for her whole life even when they were children rul it tells us was which means beautiful but it doesn't just mean her physical appearance it means that too but it means her personality Raul was conventionally appealing in every way her personality she was the type of kid who's easy to raise she was the type of kid who's naturally a good student naturally charismatic people like her ra me a sheep she was perky she was bouncy like a sheep very cute very lovable fun meanwhile Leia says that she had soft eyes that means blury eyes and the commentaries tell us from crying from tears why did she have tears so a simple reason which is also related to the deeper reason is that her whole life people were playing Matchmaker with her they said oh look it's so cute rul and Leia are sisters yank and ASV Jacob and Esau are brothers so Yano he's the straight shooter he's is he was a a learner he sat in Yeshiva he learned he was a conventionally good boy so they said let's make a the conventionally good boy with the conv Al good girl and they'll have a conventionally good home beautiful meanwhile Leia was unconventional so people said oh let's put her with ASV ASV was a wild guy he was an is a hunter what kind of job is that for a nice Jewish boy and so they said let's put Leia with ASF and she didn't want want to go with this Wild guy so she was crying but on a deeper level we find out that really the reason that she was crying about that was because she took it personally that her whole life she wanted to be normal like Raul like her cute younger sister who outshined her she just wanted to be the good kid that people liked and instead she was unconventional we're told also crying the fact that she was crying is the sign of a of a Bala someone who's a true penitent cries Ra was like Aus a righteous girl meaning you have two paradigms the girl who gets everything right the first time she's happy no mistakes nothing to fix nothing to repair that's R Leia is the one who's rougher around the edges she makes mistakes she falls she gets up she dusts herself off she tries to to go forward again but she you know she's outgoing so she takes risks and she experiments and you know she's a little bit scarier to raise and a little bit more unpredictable and not all the teachers necessarily get along with her and you know the type and so when they said oh you know who you'd be good for let's put you with ASV that was the deepest insult to her because that was touching her nerve the basically everything she feared the worst thing you could say to Leia was basically exposing this concept that she was offbeat that she was different and once you say go with ASF that's it that's her that's her most sensitive issue so she ran from that she absolutely ran from that and what we're told told is that unfortunately she ran from her Destiny because she was offbeat and unconventional and daring and bold enough that she actually could have transformed ASU we know that yog loved asov he saw something he saw a light in him but it was a a frenetic chaotic light it's called in Caba and and it wasn't channeled Asa was a very lofty soul but his energy was chaotic energy and he needed to channel it he couldn't Channel he didn't Channel it successfully Leia if she would have been married to ASA she would have helped him to channel it because she was also out of the box but she she resisted that she ran from it so what happens she has a daughter Dina and Dena is a replica of her mother of Leia Dena is also unconventional and outgoing and she hears the music of the Canaanite girls and she wants to check it out she's curious she's not afraid she wants to go see what's happening Dena had the potential to do what her mother ran away from when they had their Showdown with ASV Yanko took his daughter Dena and literally put her in a box Dina was like Leia she was out of the box and Yaniv literally hid her in a box not to oppress her not to not to to take away anything from her but to the to the contrary he was protecting her he knew that she was uh liable to attract the wrong attention so he wanted to hide her he wanted to protect her and what loving father wouldn't want to protect his daughter the problem is in hiding her from asov they missed it the second time she had the same power her mother had and if she would have married ASA she could have transformed him and we all know that when Yan had a showdown with ASV yanov said I'm ready for messiah are you and ASV wasn't ready for mashiah if as would have married Leia or Dena ASF would have been ready for mashiach mhia would have been here already thousands of years ago and we're told that because yanu hid din in a box what befell him that eventually ultimately this tragedy where she was kidnapped by the local Canaanite Chieftain in other words when there's a child who has an unconventional unusual light and we try to hide it because we're afraid it doesn't make things better first of all the very thing that we were afraid of ends up happening anyway God forbid in the end she was who she was she went out she was curious she checked out the scene there was no way you were going to suppress that forever so that's first of all the thing we were afraid of and tried to prevent it happens anyway but second of all probably more importantly The Incredible Gift that this child has for the world the world ends up never receiving Dena had a gift like her mother had a gift that she could have brought Messiah she wasn't given that opportunity so we have to think how many of us have children who don't fit the mold children who have a special light maybe they're extra sensitive they they feel things more deeply maybe like Leia they're crying a lot because you know they're intense like that they're not the perky happy kid they're the the kid who feels everything incredibly deeply the HSP is the highly sensitive people right and they have these quirky talents and they're interested did in all types of unconventional things and schools don't know what to do with them sometimes and we don't know what to do with them sometimes but allowing these children to shine their light can bring Messiah and by the way just so you know nothing against the r Paradigm we need r too we need the type A personalities we need the organized people otherwise nothing would get done we need people who know how to make small talk and chitchat and of course we need those people you know the head counselor types of course we need that but I don't feel like they need such a strong Advocate and if the time will come when they do need an advocate I'll advocate for them as well although I will admit a bias that I do have a certain affinity for the Leia Paradigm because that's me cuz I'm not a normal guy and bashem I found ways of channeling it I found I found my gifts and I use them in ways that I hope help people but uh and if you want me to get really personal I can but um should I what a okay this just cinnamon tea by the way but that's all I need by the way I don't even need more than cinnamon tea that's it oh was spicy okay a shabas like this is is is is hard for me because there's a lot of people there's a lot of human beings a lot of human energy and just being in a space with a lot of people is like being in a room with hundreds of radios all on full blast playing different music and and news and it it's it's overwhelming um after a shabas like this I'll be knocked out for a good week I have to stay home and stay away from any human energy other than basically my own family um just cuz it it affects me that way so obviously as you could imagine this is this like too uh indulgent you asked me to be personal it's okay all right you'll let me know when I cuz that's another one of my issues is that I I have certain blind spots and I don't know when I'm revealing too much or being cringey so you'll let me know the people online by the way they're very very good at that they always let me know when I'm being cringey I get plenty of cyber bullying they those people don't hold back they'll let you know the minute you bore them or say anything they don't like they'll leave cruel comments thank you cruel cyber bullies for giving me a reality check thank you okay um so that's tough for me right that's but at the same time I've realized how to use that as a gift like the fact that I'm able to feel things acutely and to pick up on things very very rapidly and uh to feel what people are feeling um so I've been able to use that to help people sometimes I'm able to have insights and it's it sometimes people come they'll talk to me and I'll I'll speak to them for half an hour and uh I can I never tell them anything by the way original I never tell people something that they didn't already tell me I just absorb it and tell it back to them and they say wow that was amazing oh yeah it was amazing cuz it was the person's own wisdom I was just saying it back to them but sometimes they don't hear themselves talk so I absorb it I give it back to them and they say ah that was such Clarity you changed my life okay great I'm glad that that that did it for you but that's an example of something that for me you know everything's a double-edged sword and if I only knew how it made me an introvert and made it impossible to function at Social Gatherings and made me allergic to going to weddings and things like that you know that would be pretty terrible but when you discover how to use your uh your talent right when Dumbo figures out that the big ears help him fly so it's a modern myth but it resonates for a reason so what I'm telling you is was that enough personal confession okay all right what I'm telling you is first of all there are children who have special gifts and we need to celebrate them and we need to give them opportunities to channel their gifts every weakness is a strength every weakness is a strength if you know how to use it but then the other thing I want to tell you is this this is where I started I said that uh Yung said that the unlived life of the parent is the greatest burden on the child some of you are also leas and dasas and you haven't made peace with that in yourself and what I'm telling you is that they call it masking assuming a personality for the public that's more socially acceptable we all do it to an extent some of us do it constantly which makes things uh very difficult it's very exhausting to have to see rul you put her in a social setting and she shines automatically effortlessly in fact she's ized by being in a social setting it gives her energy you take Leia and you put her in a social setting and uh if she's going to be herself with her weepy blur eyes everyone's going to say what a weirdo so she has to adhere to social norms so people think she's polite you know how many times in my life I've got from people why were you mad at me I wasn't mad at you well I I said hello to you and you you scowled first of all I probably didn't see you second of all was it in public I was probably overwhelmed by the way I want to apologize right now it's not even a joke and I know everyone's going to laugh like it's a joke I'm not even joking to everybody who came over to me and tried to talk to me earlier tonight I apologize if I was Gruff I I'm sure I I probably snapped at a few people just not intentionally but being like you know that face you know but that's just being overwhelmed just getting a lot of intense signals so uh what I'm saying is if you're like that and I know some of you are probably the back row is like all like that right yeah the back row back of the bus yeah I do the same thing by the way if I like a speaker I walk I Pace in the back that's the only way I can do it I'll sit in the front row I'll give you eye contact I'll play you know I'll play like a good boy but I didn't hear a word if I want to hear you stand in the back and Pace that's how I do it got to do it that way um so if you're like that and for whatever reason you experienced shame for being that way or the social rejection of being that way was so painful you made a vow to yourself never to be your true self again and you suppressed your light B I know that there's many people here who have no idea what I'm talking about right now and I'm grateful I'm grateful to the people who have no idea what I'm describing right now but if you are kind of a person who learned early on that there were certain Unwritten rules of life that everybody knew except for you if you realize somehow you were missing social cues that everyone knew and you were totally oblivious but at the same time you were super aware of tiny little details that nobody noticed you know the complete extreme opposites on one hand you're missing things that are as obvious as day on the other hand you're totally aware of stuff tiny little details to the point where people say are you psychic not psychic it's called pattern recognition when this is how you navigate life it takes me 15 seconds to understand what you're going to say for the next 15 minutes minutes but that's another fault it sounds arrogant really it's not I promise you people have energy and people tell you a lot and within 15 seconds you pretty much know where they're going to go for the next 15 minutes maybe even for the next 15 hours you can read it all very quickly but at the same time you know I can get lost in my own neighborhood okay so if this is you if you relate to this on any level what I'm trying to tell you is this if you've chosen success as an adult by trying to suppress these character traits I want you to know it doesn't work because Leia tried the same thing she said I'll marry Yan Vino and I'll be Norm and sooner or later someone's going to have to to to deal with this if it's not you it's going to be your child the unlived life of the parent is the greatest burden on the child so if we don't clean this up then we give it to our children and any loving parent would take on all the pain in the world to avoid their child having even one iota of pain so isn't it better that we just learn how to embrace ourselves and be authentic rather than handing down something to our child that our child doesn't even understand what it is that's mysterious and confusing and here's what I want to explain to you when I say to embrace yourself and to be yourself and to be authentic I know there's a lot of rles here who hear that as like a license to just go wild and want and abandon and flouting the rules it's not what I'm saying I didn't even imply it you didn't even think it not what I'm thinking when I say to embrace your true self what I mean is this cus teaches us how to look at our entire selves seeus gives us light to see and to confront all of us and ultimately to find the purpose for which Hashem created every one of us and even within one of us on a more detailed level every character trait that you have was created for hashem's Glory when we run from it and suppress it then unfortunately God forbid it gets Mis channeled and it comes out in Dysfunctional ways like happened to dino but if you can just admit that it's there that you have this quality this talent and that if Hashem gave it to you it has to have a a purpose there has to be a way of using it for hashem's Glory there has to be a way of using it for the sake of Heaven There has to beis is is a is a system see this is a a manual for living it's not just something you learn for inspiration I think that's a common misconception cus guides us on a path how to look within ourselves and to make sure that every layer and level of self whether it's Behavior which is the most obvious level because it's external or it's our emotions which is more interior or even our intellect which is even more internal than emotions and then even subconscious levels theim if you use the cabalistic terms this teaches us how to shine a light on every level of our Persona and to make sure that it's being used in a Godly way that it's being channeled properly so embracing yourself doesn't mean let it all go and do whatever you want and there are no more rules anymore God forbid embracing yourself means that you're not broken you're not defective you're not weird you are perfect you are just as Hashem made you and you have a moral obligation that every one of your character traits be used for goodness we have free choice yes there is such a thing as a bad choice there is there is such a thing as something you shouldn't do you're not allowed to do that's prohibited but you know what that is that's when we take a character trait that could have been channeled in a productive way and that energy gets pent up and it comes out in a way that we didn't anticipate it it it forces itself out and doesn't absolve us of accountability obviously we're accountable we have free Choice I'm not here to take away anybody's accountability there there's reward and Punishment cause and effect all of these things are true what I'm saying is because there's accountability so you know what you're also accountable for you're accountable for looking deep within yourself and and and accepting who you are and that Hashem didn't make a mistake and figuring out how to use that in a way that brings glory to Hashem in a way that benefits the world in a way that brings mhia closer in a way that makes a KES that shows the world that Hashem and T and yish kite are a force for goodness so don't be afraid of yourself don't fight yourself don't be allergic to yourself I had a whole wacky theory that uh I'm going to get really wacky over here this is why so many so many of us have autoimmune disorders I I was diagnosed with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis when I was 12 it's an autoimmune disorder I won't disclose medical history of the rest of my family but uh you know especially among Jews I'm sure you know somebody with crohn's or IBS sometimes diabetes comes on as an autoimmune disorder what is that why does your god-given body want to fight itself why does this miracle called the immune system attack its own body there there there's a there's a an inner conflict and it's not just happening on the physiological level it's mirroring that's the lower level manifestation it's happening emotionally and cognitively and even on spiritual levels so it's time it's time for the healing to happen this generation is the generation of healing and it's time to figure out why Hashem made you the way that you are and what your special gift is and your special light hating yourself suppressing yourself fighting yourself it's not healthy and really it's not the way to bring Messiah because when m comes everything will be perfected everything will be finally set right it'll go back to the way that it was supposed to be but even better Gus the Exile is where things are dysfunctional and we're constantly trying to correct them and to force them to work GIS is one long multi-millennial long struggle to take things that are broken and just try to make the best of it try to make it work somehow just Strongarm it force it Gula is when everything is right in the world and it it's actually the most natural state of being it's intuitive unfortunately we've been in gulus so long that we have now this gulus mentality that has covered up our natural intuition but that's why we have to learn sidus the teachings of the B we have to listen to the soul language and to see the truth and to absorb the truth and to start to see things from a Gula perspective teachings ofus are a foretaste of mssiah just like Ed of shabas it's a Mitzvah to taste from all the dishes that you cooked for shabas so too before Messiah comes we have a Mitzvah to taste the clarity that's going to abound in the world when mhia comes we have a Mitzvah to taste that clarity now to see what's good to see what's right to see that being aligned with hashem's Will is the most natural pleasure thing in the world not a struggle it's it's you it's your authentic self Gus is a struggle msia is we can we can finally breathe we can finally breathe so we have the tools today we have the tools to see how everything has its purpose everything has its place when the Alba was redeemed from prison he was saying to Hill him you know why because the whole time he was in prison he said a lot of to Hill him and it happened to be happened to be one of the main teachings of the B is that nothing happens to be it's all when they came to the cell to free the Al he was reading a particular verse the verse is from chapter 55 of Psalms King David said this but the words resonate through the ages my soul was redeemed in peace what does that mean not just Nai my soul was redeemed shalom my soul was redeemed in peace it was a peaceful Redemption is the it's the peaceful Redemption of every one of us and every detail of your personality rede redeeming it means taking it out of the box and using it for what Hashem intended it to be used for and when this happens it should be peaceful it should feel natural it should feel like coming home and that's what it is Messiah is coming home so each one of us has to come home to ourselves and have a peaceful personal Redemption it's not a struggle it's peace it's peaceful it's shock like shabas is a day of of tranquility and that that's what we're starting to taste now as mhia is getting closer no more struggles peace wholeness it's the same word really shal shal it's the same word peace and wholeness is one word completeness being your true self I wonder if we could get the crowd singing shom we [Music] doing it of me for you will oh the Lord she [Music] you sh sh voice sh [Music] the show he heing heing the [Music] my [Music] the k God me [Music] me yes the yes yeah I of [Music] me me [Music] me to [Music] to the I [Music] h [Music] [Applause] [Music] how [Applause] [Music] and [Music] [Applause] f [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] he [Applause] 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Community should get together and complete the study of the entire talmud every single year from Utes K to Utes K and we do this in Partnership each one taking a portion of the entire talmood so how do we get the information again because I would like to because I'm here at North Miami Beach I would like to be part of the North Miami Beach okay they took all the small okay all right I'll look at this later okay Tom is still Tom is the most popular one the most po Tom is the most popular one okay what about no don't tell me don't I'll actually not taking that no I'll I'll get back to you no but I'll take B NE I'm GNA this will be my uh participation will be in the North Miami Beach K SAS this year okay and I encourage anyone who's here if you're learning M anyway you can have the benefit that it's not only one track date but your part of was arrested sure of the charges which were liist charges but the way that they were substantiated was they claimed that the alter was supporting the enemy of the Russian Empire at that time the uh the Russian Empire was at war with the ottoman Empire and the Alba was sending funds to the Jewish community in the land of Israel we should give a little bit in the 1770s there were who made Aliyah who went up and moved to Ed to the Holy Land and their leader was one of the other students of the Magid the BMV had 60 60 students BV affected thousands tens of thousands of Jews in his lifetime but I'm saying actual disciples who were considered to be formal students he had 60s 6-0 and the mid the B's successor had double that he had 120 the balatan was one of the 120 another one of the and the mendal LED a group ofid to live in the holy city of Tas and after a while he said he couldn't take it inas it was too holy he was too sensitive to the Holiness he said he has to take it down a notch so they move to Taria and in fact the home the sh of men hard is uh still standing in Taria and it's a SCH today so I'll tell you a story about re men horer in tum when when he was there this is in the 177s this is before uh 1776 before there was a declaration of independence before the United States of America existed so a rumor started because somebody got on uh stood on the uh har B him on the Mount of Olives in udim the holy city of Jerusalem and sounded a Schaar and proclaimed that mhia was here it was probably uh a lunatic but the rumor started nonetheless and it spread and this is before technology so it spread by Word of Mouth probably took days but the rumor came to Taria and people were were saying that that they heard in Jerusalem people saying Messiah is here so there was a big debate they wanted to settle the debate so they went to and they asked him could he let them know how to figure out if Messiah is here so he said mhi is here hold on a second so he got up they had visited him in his home he was in his house so he got up and he walked over to the window and he lifted up the window he stuck his head out and he smelled he drew a deep breath through his through his nose then he came back into the house and he said no I'm sorry unfortunately it's very uh very sad but mhia is not here now the rebba told this story he said the fact that AB Mendel could smell whether or not Messiah was here that's maybe not such a Wonder because the the Holiness of am mendal certainly he could be sensitive to such a thing but the question is why did he have to go to the window and lift up the window and smell outside why do you have to do that so the rebba said that in Reb mle's house it always smelled like Messiah so the only way he could find out was to smell outside of his house this is the idea of a gus that a person can already be live living Messiah dick before mashiah is here obviously there's the actual Gula which has to mean world peace and nothing less than that but there's also something called the gula brought us an individual Redemption that we were mentioning before the shomi when we Embrace every aspect of our personality and figure out how it's a gift that can be used to glorify Hashem so amendo was there already he had his personal Redemption but he said unfortunately the the Redemption for the world hadn't arrived at any rate the AL was sending funds that he collected from the cidic brethren in Russia and uh if anyone knows about Jewish life at that time in the pal of settlement there was rampant poverty they they they were not wealthy they didn't have money but the Jews who were living in the Holy Land were even poorer still they really they had no way to support themselves and the Al used to make appeals in fact we finished Tanya yesterday there's a concept of learning the entire Tanya a little bit every day according to the schedule known ASAS which is an acronym for it's actually a word from this week's para but uh if you follow the schedule of Tanya you end up finishing the entire Tanya in a year so we just finished it yesterday out of yutes kli and if you're familiar with the last section of T what's called KES those are letters that the Al wrote and many of them are fundraising letters where the alterb is collecting money to send to the Jews living in ER Israel living in the land of Israel and in these letters he's explaining the spiritual and mystical power of Saka of giving giving charity so as I mentioned when they wanted to get the ALB in trouble what they did is they said that the ALB is sending money to the adaman Turks because the holy land was being controlled by by the Ottomans and those were the charges and that's what he was arrested for and Chargers were treason aiding and abetting the enemy supporting supporting ottoman turkey so he was held for 53 days it's interesting the first section of T has 53 chapters some people think that the Al wrote a chapter per day that he was in prison but that's not chronologically possible he was in he wrote T published T before he was in prison and I and and trust me I don't think the Russians were like oh let's make this poetic and do 53 days it was 53 days of prison for 53 days of Tanya and uh as we mentioned earlier he was redeemed when he was in the middle of reading the verse from chapter 55 of Psalms my soul was peacefully redeemed and when he was released he wrote a letter to his M the Kad Le who is also one of the 120 students of the Magid and the alter told the B that it was in the Merit of supporting ER that he emerged safely and peacefully from his [Music] ordeal so if you know anything about the story and I mean what I just told you was enough to know to have this question it's a little bit funny because what do you mean it was in the Merit of supporting the Jews living in the holy land that he was peacefully redeemed it was because he was sending money to Jews living in the holy land that the whole thing started that was the problem now maybe you'll say if he wasn't doing that they would have found some other charges to make up against him but the actual fact of the matter is those were the charges what he was brought into prison for was because he was sending money to support Jews living in the Holy Land and yet the alter says no it was because of this that I was freed it's a very interesting perspective do you say that doing the right thing got me in trouble but thank God I got out of trouble so I'm you know it's all right or do you say no no no it's that I did the right thing I did what Hashem wants that's what saved me it's an interesting perspective it's a little flip in perspective tell you a story about a a businessman it was a guy still is a guy actually saw him recently at the oel I live maybe 15 minutes from the oel that's the LA is resting place and I'm there several times a week and it's uh it's a Global Hub of activity you meet all types of people there coming and going all times all times of the day and night so uh the person I'm telling you the story about actually I saw him recently at the aisle there was a a young man a businessman living in Los Angeles California and he owned a sporting goods store in Downtown LA and this is before downtown LA became fancy and the yuppies made the Loft Apartments there this is when downtown LA was skid R and he had a sporting goods store and he had contact with the rebba actually it began he was an Israeli guy he was raised completely secular but for some reason he never ate pork that was a red line for him and then he was on a business trip to China and he unknowingly ate pork and he felt bad about it and he didn't know what to do somebody told him to to write to the he wrote to the Reb and asked what to do about it so that was actually what began his relationship with the debbit but uh like I said he wasn't religious he that was his one thing his one thing he didn't eat pork a lot of Jews have that that thing but as time went by he started to become more interested in his Judaism and at some point he decided that he's going to start keeping chabas but he had a problem that the business the sporting goods store 99% of their business was on Saturday [Music] and he had a 20year lease on the property and he knew if he's not going to be open on shabas is very quickly going to go bankrupt but he's stuck with this lease and he said when he signed the lease the owner told him this is a 20-year lease do you know what you're getting into right now he says yes I know I want it please he said if you ever go back on this I will chase you for the rest of your life I'll make you regret it it was a tough guy he knew he meant it so he wasn't uh too keen on upsetting him so he's thinking what do I do shabas or doing what's convenient doing what's comfortable and he deliberated back and forth for some time but finally he decided he was going to take the plunge and he wrote to the Reb and he said I'm going to be closed on chabas and theba wrote back to him and sent him first of all the sent them a $10 bill a $5 bill a two and a one I think does that make 18 yeah k a a 10 a five a two and a one total 18 High and the rebit told him that if you'll close your business Friday before Sundown and give Sedaka you'll be successful now he laughed when he got that because when he wrote to the Reb and said he's going to close on chabas what he had in mind was Saturday day Friday night I mean in the summer it's not hard to uh keep a shop open during daytime hours close it down and then be in time for shabas but in the winter you know shabas comes in early so it would have been a problem but he had in mind that remember he wasn't observant at all so he was going from no shabas observance to this huge plunge where he was going to shut down Saturday with when he had 99% of his business but Friday he was going to still be open the deba somehow knew that or sensed that and told him you have to close Friday at Shia GI daa you're going to be successful so now he had his answer so emboldened with that he heads down to the uh landlord and he's going to confront the guy and he pumped himself up this is it and he practiced he rehearsed the speech I'm going to go in there I'm a Jew I have to keep shabas and uh so he goes down to the landlord's office and he's all pumped up and he's ready to give a speech of basically saying I'm about to do something that's going to WIP me out I'm not going to have any money you know like that's it and uh the secretary says Mr so and so is not here right now so he pumped himself up but now the guy wasn't even there so he comes back to the sporting goods store and he's there for a little while not too long before some guy comes running into the store and he says I want to talk to the to the tenant here who's the tenant so he's like why do you want to talk to the tenant he says I just want to know who who has the lease on this place who's holding the lease so he says I I'm holding the lease what what do you want he says I was just at your landlord and I told him that I want this place and he told me there's nothing you can do because you are 20year lease tell me right now how much cash do you need for me to buy you out and break that lease so he was so stunned he didn't even know what to say he just stood there silently which can often be the best tactic in negotiations so the guy's like all right I'll give you more and and uh Reb Ami his name is reami he says that I don't want to say the exact number the check was written for he says but let me put it this way with the number on that one check Not only was I able to get out of the sporting goods store and keep shabis which is the most important thing after all he says but I was able to buy a house and I bought a factory and I went into manufacturing and I had parosa from that for a good long time so what am I trying to tell you the Alba said it sure was a good thing that I was supporting the impoverished Jews dwelling in the land of Israel that was my that was my Merit that protected me that ensured that that I would be delivered peacefully safely and you could say what are you talking about that was a thing that got you in trouble you could say that but that's not how hashem's World works and sometimes you have to take the plunge and you have to realize sooner or later doesn't always happen immediately but you cannot lose from doing the right thing and it's terrifying sometimes and it feels like it's going to break you and you can't do it but I want to explain something to you the t is not a book of laws of how to live well in this world the is hashem's Will and wisdom that existed before the creation of The World man-made laws are made for the sake of making this world a livable place so man-made laws are a response to the conditions of this world oh too many people are speeding let's have a city council meeting and let's vote should we put in speed bumps all in favor say or whatever it is man-made laws are a response to the conditions of this world hashem's laws create the conditions of this world and therefore nothing in hashem's world nothing in God's creation can oppose hashem's will that's the and the of in that when to says this is the reality that's the reality and if it doesn't appear to be the reality in the world yet it's the world that has to get into alignment but I should say it's already an alignment it just needs to be revealed so whenever we're uh we're afraid to do what we know what we need to do we have to have the AL attitude that doing the right thing can't hurt us and if anything that's the source of Salvation that's what's going to help us and it takes Faith it's a leap of faith but uh look the Jewish people at this point you know shouldn't even be that hard to have faith because our survivals not really based on the conventional things that give a nation strength and yet all of our foes have come and gone somehow miraculously we still exist it's not natural it's not normal it's a miracle and that's not just true of collectively the Jewish people but it's true of every individual Jewish person and we have to be strong in our faith and to do what's right even when it feels scary even when you think it's a liability imagine if reami lived in fear of uh closing on chabas he just couldn't do it think of that gift that Hashem had ready for him that fortune that was waiting for him he would never have found it it was only when he marched into the sea and the water came up to his nostrils like uh when Moses said March and they just walked into the sea and it didn't split until the first person that he had that he had that water right up to his nostrils another steep forward he was going to drown he kept moving we have to believe and we have to live we have to live like the Miracles that we are we have to not be afraid that doing what the holy Torah tells us to do is a liability we have to cherish it and know that it's an opportunity that it brings blessings upon us every Mitzvah is a conduit to Divine blessing you can't suffer by doing the Creator's will sometimes it looks like it it feels like it it's a it could be a scary ride you it can be don't get me wrong it can be very scary Hashem has a very good special effects Department he sometimes makes it look very scary but it's uh it's a show the reality is that the entire world was created as the Forum in which hashem's infinite Eternal will and wisdom should be expressed the world's only here for that purpose so I don't know what's scaring you right now but if there's something you know that as a Jew you need to be doing and you've been hesitating or putting it off because you don't know what the real world reaction or repercussions might be I'm just letting you know just take a deep breath it's going to be good do what you got to do [Music] um there's uh know the Alba was a musical genius he didn't just compose the and that's why his name was schne Alman is two lights the light of nigla the the light of nister he wrote the which is nister the hidden dimension of and he 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