24 Teives Farbrengen—Livestream with Rabbi Shais Taub and Eli Marcus

[Music] we'll open the program first nigan is known as nigan yashan it's also called Nan Missi [Music] now [Music] you [Music] oh [Music] oh for [Music] oh [Music] they say that the would sing shalim to this nigan can find it on one of the AL freed albums with the words of shalim [Music] foree [Music] k foree [Music] speee go [Music] make for [Music] Shak it's a pleasure to uh share the stage with you again this is not a stage we're not performing we're faing it's a pleasure to fa with you again thank you thank you likewise um this is a very special occasion this is Kad Tavis 24th day of the Hebrew month of Tavis which is the yard site hilula of the AL the bat the first Reb ofab and I want to sort of set the tone for this evening and for just what a special opportunity is for us to be partaking in this event um before I explain that I just want to make some uh take care of some thank yous of course we want to thank B kabad which is not just another local Crown height synagogue but in many ways is a synagogue to the entire kabad world and services visitors from all over the world who come to Crown Heights and of course is a thriving and growing community right here in the sh and they are our hosts here at uh the jcm at the je Jewish Children's Museum tonight and if you're in Crown Heights and you can get to uh Jewish Children's Museum uh it's at the lower level upstairs by the way is aim I want to wish a mazov to my dear friend mayor ginski and his wife hadasa whose daughter Rosie is aala and mazov if it wouldn't be for this faan being scheduled already uh I would probably be up I would defin be upstairs and hopefully at some point maybe I'll have Ellie sing an extra long nigun and I'll run up I'll sneak upstairs and I'll say with uh with my dear friend mayor mazov um of course also we want to thank K kabad and we're going to be speaking more about k kabad k kabad is a charity fund that feeds the poor and hungry in ER but it's so much more than that because it's a 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live stream on your phone what now I should talk less quiet less more quiet what what it's on the bottom right thank you on the bottom right of your screen is a QR code you're gonna have to figure out if you're watching the live stream on your phone how to take a picture of the QR code on your screen with your phone but maybe you'll have to get a friend and you'll help each other out and you'll take turns taking the picture and then you'll each donate for each other you'll let your friend decide how much to donate with your phone I think that's a good a good idea and you'll see how much you you trust your friend or really how much your friend trusts you how highly they think of you that you would want to give give such a generous gift on the uh on this auspicious day okay so there was a faab that's Saturday night this very date um in the year 19 well was already uh the year 1963 and it was 150 years from the passing of the AL and quite unusually the faan was announced to begin at 10:25 p.m. it's an odd time that never ever started at 10:25 p.m. what was that time so the AL when he passed away dalis wasab he actually the at the very very in the last moment of his life he made have dollar um actually he made have dollar and then he DAV might have in that order and then he passed away at 10:30 p.m. so the rebba called the faan for 10:25 p.m. and when the faban began the Rebus spoke for less than a minute the first s of that is less than a minute and here's what the rebba said in so many words the said that it's known that the yite the date of the passing of a Reb of a is a time of it's a time of the arousal of abundant mercy so just in general when we come to the yard side of a sadic it's an auspicious time there is powerful spiritual energy in the air the Reb then added and said however this is AED RAB him clawless it's a general arousal of abundant Mercy the specific arousal of this energy in a totally different way is for those who specifically take part in a faan on the date of the Y site so the Y site in general is a time of but that's in a general way those who participate in the fa and on the day of the yard site they received this energy this raim in a much deeper way so here we are those who have joined us at the the jcm lower level sh to experience this not just clawless and I guess by the virtues of uh modern technology those who are joining on the live stream are also experiencing they're also you're also taking part in this fa this this very specific energy that is available for all of us who are honoring the Al and taking part in on on this date and and not just at this date but on this at this time it's not exactly 10:30 yet but we will keep our eye on the clock and uh we'll have something special at 10:30 at that precise time but at any rate when theb began that fa and that matab fa and like I said theb spoke for less than a minute just explained that concept how being present at a fa and on the date of the Y site is a very special place to be it puts you in the in a position to receive abundant mercies and then very quickly the deba asked that the should sing the Nigo and they sang the N then the asked quite unexpectedly for the AL which is the which is a that's not normally sung it's only sung on very special occasions and in fact when the Reb asked for the ALB at first the one who is leading the nunb zov wasn't really sure that the Reb had asked for theb actually had to say two times the mountain Reb's the said twice they sang the AL and then the went straight into a mimer a very short mimer the mimer is about three minutes which is actually a mimer of the Al and uh the precise time of the singing of the Nal was time or the was timed to be culminating at that time of 10:30 where the debba went straight into the mimer which is a mimer of of the AL so as I said at 10:30 we'll uh we'll try to time something very special but anyway like I said when theba opened the fa at that particular fa the first theb asked for was was AO which is one of the AL so uh yeah yeah Ellie when I mention this a nigan you got to yeah you got to take that as a cue Ellie Ellie I'm not just mentioning nunam for the fun of it Ellie oh by the way before you start I'll give you a little more time to get up here before you start a Viano for those who asked people actually asked and I'm very um honored that people asked me people asked about the fact that I'm an oval if there's an issue of being at a musical event so you should know this is not a musical event this is a fa in this is not we're not singing songs even though Ellie's got plenty of hit songs we're singing uh nunim this is a whole different thing and it's just not it's not a band it's just a little accompaniment so I of of course as all things that a Jew does I consulted with it of and it's more than okay and so I just want to mention that everything is kosher here and our faing and also I just want to mention my father who SCH was last week he passed away um the 16th of kli I actually had to miss so the of the AL so this is sort of my my makeup for what I missed and he was and um yeah AO re [Music] [Applause] [Music] Ali know oh [Music] we [Music] we we we a yeah [Music] oh oh [Music] oh [Music] new new y [Music] oh [Music] beautiful now Ellie I want to ask you a very blunt question which perhaps I should have asked behind the scenes but how I know you're they say there's an expression you can't dance at two kasas but Ellie isim he is dancing at T singing it of how much longer do I have you for before you have to run away what if I go now and come back in uh 30 minutes I can stall 35 minutes yeah I can stall now you know what that means that they're going to all know that there's not going to be another nigin for another 30 minutes they're going to get nervous I'll be back anytime between 5 and 40 minutes that's a good way to say that's so very sharp okay so you're gonna you gonna sneak off right now okay per fine yeah absolutely with my blessing okay Ellie is One of a Kind One of a Kind okay so as I mentioned there was uh there was the fa of matab in the year the 150th year of the alab is passing this is uh if you do the math this is 22 did I do the right math 212 years from the passing of the albe the circumstances of the Al's passing were unusual in that he was not at home he was not in his place of residence he was actually traveling and it wasn't a pleasant trip it was actually fleeing from the oncoming French army this was in the middle of the Napoleonic Wars what we call uh in uh North America the the War of 1812 which was the sort of the North American Theater of that war and the Alba was literally fleeing from the oncoming French army the Alba had been one of the opponents of Napoleon he was a staunch supporter of the Zar this was a point of division among Jewish leadership during that time but the alre insisted that the values that Napoleon would introduce would perhaps momentarily or temporarily provide some relief for the oppressed community of uh Eastern European jewelry however ultimately it would be a spiritually negative uh event it would uh bring with it a uh a degradation of the spiritual level of the Jewish community so the alterb was a staunch opponent of the alre at any rate the the AL was a staunch opponent of of Napoleon and Napoleon uh for his part there are many stories that indicate the stories that we have as a in a tradition in Kad that the Napoleon was aware of this we know actually even uh that the AL went as far as to plant spies within Napoleon's Army the famous story of mha misel who was Aid of the he uh was a polyglot he spoke many languages and as such he didn't find it difficult to be employed by the French army as a translator and at one point he was in the war room he was reviewing some battle plans or Maps he was translating and Napoleon himself entered the room and he saw this unusual looking person this thisa and uh Napoleon said to M misel you're a spy and then at that moment he didn't know if he was a spy but this was a sort of a a an ad hoc polygraph test that Napoleon would administer he said you're a spy and then he put his hand on the on on the Misha's heart to see if he was reacting like a guilty person and Amisha controlled himself and didn't react the way that Napoleon assumed that a guilty person would react and afterwards mha misel explained that he was able to save his life because ofus because of the Bas most basic teachings really ofus found in Tanya which originally goes back to the zahar but it's brought in Tanya and elaborated upon at length as one of the great themes of Tanya which is hamay sh that the the brain rules over the heart so Tanya teaches that we're in control of ourselves and that amha brought this to a level even of what you might even consider involuntary systems how you know you can control yourself not to uh you know speak lashan right that that would be an example where T would say or you can control yourself not to get up and walk to go do an a right but or conversely let's say in the positive you can force yourself to get up and go to sh and Dav in a minion on time even when you're tired but can you really force yourself to regulate your heartbeat and um doesn't say that in Tanya at least not explicitly buta gained this from the alter and from this we see that uh the teachings of Tanya run very very deep the application goes as far as levels of self-regulation that perhaps uh might seem unattainable and I don't want to pretend that if you'll learn Tanya you'll also be able to regulate your heartbeat and things like that and I don't want to pretend I understand how to Misha actually pulled off that trick but I will share with you for whatever it's worth my own two cents my own con conjecture or in the 2025 I think they call it fan Theory or fanfiction my I I I I will tell you like this I would assume and again this is just me trying to make sense of this story I would assume that what rmha did based on what Tanya explains about May is that it wasn't that he willed his heart to slow down I'm not sure that's a skill that you'd get from Tanya although I'm not sure I can't prove that it's not but what I do think makes sense based on Tanya is that he very quickly obviously this whole story took place rapidly chose cognitively to reframe the situation in other words the way that he perceived the situation instead of identifying it as imminent threat he chose to identify it not as a threat meaning there is a way out of this he was able to to deduce what the proper reaction would be and he sent himself a message calm down and his body got the message and consequently even on a physiological level his body behaved like a calm person that's what I would assume he did meaning I don't think that he directly willed his heart to stop beating fast or not to beat fast I that's kind of implied in Tanya that we can't do that or only very special rare people which Al refers to as sikim and they're not the tadim referred to in the gar the sikim in Tanya are a very very rare level so they can directly at will control their heart but even a ban meaning a regular guy can use his mind as a medium to intercept the signals that his body is receiving and then I mean this is what the story illustrates get to a point where he actually reacts on a physiological level in a totally different way what I'm saying is this um Tanya is not just telling us to behave in a certain way even when your nervous system is disregulated although if the only way to prevent yourself from doing what's wrong and the only way to force yourself to do what's right is to go ahead and do something even while your nervous system is is is is disregulated then yes of course force yourself but there's a higher level of May where you're no longer forcing yourself you're actually changing yourself to the point where your body gets the message that it should react differently so I think a lot of the messaging that people have about Tanya for whatever reason wherever this came from is that Tanya is sort of this um this Tough Gym coach telling you I don't care how you feel I don't care if you're about to collapse just force yourself to run another lap and in some contexts that's true if that's what we have to use if that's the tool that's appropriate in a certain context that's what we do but in another context and this is really like I said it's a second level or a higher level of this is really where we spend most of our time is we get past the point where we're dragging our body Kicking and Screaming where we're fighting what what the Ala calls the ne Bahamas and we've actually won it over we've actually made the body and the animal Soul comfortable so they're not resisting they're not feeling like they're threatened they're feeling regulated and at peace and feeling included in whatever this holy Endeavor is that the neelis what The Godly Soul wants to be involved in so my point is I think it's important for us to understand that the tools of Tanya run very deep it's not just about force yourself even when you hate it yeah sometimes it is but not just about that and ultimately it's about getting yourself to like it and when I say yourself I mean even those parts of you which are the most resistant to Godliness which are the most unfamiliar with the language of spirituality to make the body and its survival impulse called the animal Soul comfortable and Serene and tranquil while we are serving Hashem now I'm making a point of this only because I've heard so many people Express complaints that they have felt that when they were applying Tanya that there wasn't room given to to what they might call the the the the truth of their body you know the body keeps the score and the reality is if you look at the story of Mamel and if you understand what the alter is saying about ultimately transforming the neis and transforming the body what emerges is that the Tanya cares a great deal about you're having a a regulated nervous system the Tanya cares a great deal about your body being on board with this project and feeling aligned with the mission and in fact you could connect this whole concept with the AL is passing with kavis there's a a letter Aima a note I don't know how to describe it that the Al wrote in the very last days of his life there are different opinions about exactly when he wrote it that ebba says that it was in his pockets on Ed of chabas I mentioned you earlier that the AL passed away on aot shabas so the rebba said that this note was in the Al's pocket on Ed of chabas when you clear out your pockets before chabas so this was one of the things he removed from his pockets and apparent he gave it to theed to his grandson who was with him when they were fleeing and uh this note it's it's called the first word by the first words the first phrase the lowly Soul or the humble soul and it's a brief text it's a it's a paragraph and in this paragraph the AL speaks about the nature of physicality and embodiment and says that there's a there's a mish that talks about when Hashem wanted to create the world there was a dispute between two attributes of uh of Hashem the EMS and theid the the truth and and the kindness and EMS truth said not to create because the world is falsehood and CID kindness said you should create not just because it's kind and yeah of course if you're kind then you say yeah go ahead and create but because kindness said the world will be full of kindness because these creatures who will be created they'll they'll bestow acts of kindness upon one another so upon hearing that says that Hashem took the EMS and cast it down to the Earth got it thank you and he created the world the AL again this is a very short text just a few lines the AL then goes on and explains that this world meaning the physical plane the plane of embodiment is full of Shaker it's intrinsically full false what does it mean the world he doesn't say those that expression but it's a common expression in the word for world it's from the which is the word which means concealment meaning the very nature of creation is that it conceals Creator because if you would see the Creator you wouldn't see the creation by so if you're seeing creation that means you're not seeing Creator so the very nature of creation is a Lie the lie that there's anything other than Hashem because the truth is a there's nothing but AEM so in that sense the creation of Worlds is a big lie and the AL alludes to this and says that the the physical needs that people have to tend to that that these things that feel so real these these pressures that were were forced to to to deal with as embodied Souls it's all a big lie like at the end of the day what does it matter so you have money you don't have money Health not Health who cares I mean it's all just temporary stuff it's all just physical stuff and what the AL concludes in this very short text written in the last days of his life is that this this is the ultimate truth ironically that the ultimate truth is theid that is practiced in this world of Lies now how do you explain it's so paradoxical seems like the ultimate truth is that Hashem should just never have created and there should just be nothing but but Hashem and none of this this facade called called creation and yet the alter says no no no the ultimate truth is in the embodied Soul doing acts of kindness tending to physical needs like how do we explain that how do we wrap our heads around that so the Reb explains that really the AL is giving us sort of you might call the punchline of all of the the bottom line so to speak that after all is said and done the Ultimate Reality is the physical reality we use the term which is a a phrase from the M from that Hashem wants to be at home in the lowest realms and therefore that which has the most value is here in the physical world and so the soul in heaven it experiences divine revelation but the soul on Earth has the opportunity to surrender itself and precisely because the soul on Earth in its embodiment is lacking spiritual sensitivity it's lacking spiritual sensitivity so that actually lends itself to the act of surrender because when you feel and you think deeply then you start to get a you know your own ideas but when you realize your way out of your league and you don't really understand what's going on then you can be more humble you can be more surrendered you can be what we call a vehicle Hashem ride me take me wherever you want to go I'm not the driver you are so actually ironically the soul in heaven so to speak can see Hashem but the soul on Earth gets to be Hashem or an extension of Hashem by being surrendered to Hashem and so the ultimate purpose of it all is not in the spiritual worlds even though seemingly that's where the truth is more revealed because God is more revealed the ultimate purpose of it all is in the physical world where we have the opportunity to surrender to God's Will and be an extension of his will by being his arm so to speak that carries out his will and to have an objective experience of godliness as opposed to a subjective one see the soul in heaven is having a subjective EXP experience of godliness it appreciates godliness and it experiences profound pleasure from what it appreciates but the soul in a body has an objective experience objective in in as much as its feelings about its own experience are are are irrelevant the experience is objective it's happening whether you feel it or not in fact like I was saying before precisely because the fact that you don't feel it it actually lends itself to your greater degree of surrender and ultimately what happens is there's a transformation in the entire physical plane which is the purpose for all of creation when Mia comes that the physical eyes will see doesn't mean an Enlightenment state where we will have a consciousness of godliness no it means your physical eyes will empirically behold Oneness what does that mean it means just like today that we look at the physical world and it appears so real to us because we can see it with our physical eyes when Mia comes we will experience Oneness not as a pH philosophical idea but we will see it in everything that we look at we'll realize that it's all one so the ultimate state of the soul is in the body where it's involved in Mitzvah myus physical actions which are the will of God whereby it employs its body it uses its body it expends energy that was consumed from physical resources eating drinking um it in many cases many mitzah require the use of various different objects the different objects that you you you make use of to do the Mitzvah and so the ultimate in godliness is the physical this concept that the ultimate Godly experience is physical embodiment is a radical idea let me try to bring it down a little bit because I'm maybe speaking a little bit philosophically here people today are more aware I would say of of their bodies I mentioned earlier about having a disregulated nervous system so people speak in terms of the body the nervous system somatic healing we can't talk our way there it's not we can't do it through ideas the AL 200 years ago already introduced a system which not only takes into account the body but which actually puts the body at the center of the entire spiritual system the entire goal of this system called kabad is to regulate the body is to make the body feel comfortable with having a soul in it and conversely the soul should be comfortable being in a body you want to get very practical let's get very practical I speak to a lot of people I don't know if you'll relate to this but speak to a lot of people who feel uncomfortable in their bodies talking about sensitive Souls sometimes they call them the hsps people who you know maybe they have sensory issues they feel things more deeply they hear things more acutely they their experience of this world is very intense and so it's hard for them to be comfortable and I identify a lot with that maybe that's why people tell me about it so much because they know that uh I have empathy for it the soul came to the world not to be tortured and not even to be inconvenienced the soul came to the world because the ultimate experience that the soul needs to have is being comfortably and I emphasiz that adverb comfortably embodied yes initially it's against your will do you live of course because initially the Soul's being ripped out of its home its natural habitat in heaven it's being plunged into a body which is completely foreign to it it's completely antithetical to its entire framework of Consciousness so initially it is against its will but by the same token the same Mna continues and says at the end it's against your will that you die because by the time you've been down here for a while you start to appreciate that the ultimate condition for the soul to be in is where it can do Mitzvah where it can have what I was referring to earlier as an object experience of godliness as opposed to just being a conscious Observer of godliness in heaven a subjective experience so all of these people are feeling uncomfortable in their own skin you know they have that existential angst and it really is truly existential angst the people who feel uncomfortable just because they exist again I don't know if this resonates with everyone in the room but there are definitely a lot of us who feel this way and it seems like more and more every day who literally feel weird about existence why am I here this is so strange this is so weird like and the truth is if somebody feels that it's weird to exist are they wrong according Tois not only you're not wrong you're you're getting it totally right because really nothing exists but AEM and any separateness is a lie so to feel as a separate selfhood and an entity unto yourself that's completely weird you should be subsumed in the Oneness which is ultimately what the AL say in that's what the wants the ne wants to be subsumed in Oneness wants to be completely bottled wants to be totally one with Hashem so yeah it is funny to be an embodied soul it is weird to be down here in this world and have to deal with all the things that bodies have to deal with all the problems and even the good stuff how good is it really so good ice cream is that good like I'll tell you what would be even more pleasurable don't create me in the in the in the beginning to begin with in the first place you tell me oh tab you're being cynical that's you no I'm not being cynical the gar says that it's much more pleasant not to exist you know there were two guys inm and they were philosophizing and one said to the other says you know you think about how difficult it is just to exist sometimes I think it would be better never have been never never to have been born says the one guy to the other guy these guys are inm you understand the the pseudo intellectuals so he says I think it would be better never to to have been born so the other helite says to his friend he says yeah you're right but how many guys do you actually know who are that lucky one in a 100 how many guys do you know who are so lucky never have to have been born you met them you know them how many you know everyone here has been unlucky enough to have been born you're here you were born and you exist and it's a funny thing to exist and so if somebody tells you that I'm uncomfortable in my own skin you know I have that feeling of being terminally unique lonely in a crowded room always wanting to be a part of and instead feeling apart from are they crazy or actually they in tune with the truth and so you're seeing this more and more people who are feeling just not right like what's going on here this isn't right and what I believe they're picking up on is is a deeper truth that embodiment is weird you this entity called a soul that existed before not only before your body was born but existed before the creation of the physical world you're this infinite unbounded Consciousness that so suddenly plunged into this very constricting meat suit where you're bombarded with physical stimuli and that take over everything where even if you want to think spiritually it sounds like a a faint radio playing from another room down the hall spirituality is just this dim little glimmer and physicality all the the stimuli that are bombarding your five senses that's front and center and so yeah embodiment is weird and as such there are many spiritual Seekers who resist embodiment who actually want to escape embodiment famous story if you want to go back to the the the the OG sensitive Souls you know from from the Torah you have n of an a so they were uncomfortable in the physical world and um I mean that's how explains that why did they die when they entered the KES kashim because once they had an once they had an opportunity to have such an intense Godly Revelation that would overwhelm them to the point where their souls would just fly out of their body they were like this is what we're here for yeah this is great and they ran with it and they just leaned into that outof body experience and they did not come back they were not interested in coming back you look how the thees describes their experience he says they it was it was Bliss for them was such a relief they were getting to escape their bodies this goes and doubles down and triples down on this whole explanation it says you know different medim that explain what was the real of and and all of it says is basically their comfort with embodiment like for instance it says that they were they were single they didn't get married which is also related to why a God has to be married in order to enter theer why weren't they married again because being married is about being grounded it's about I don't mean like when your parents tell you you're grounded I mean marriage settles you down marriage is an Endeavor in in a very specific way building a home building a family that's testimony to the fact that not only do we want to be involved in this world but we're going to bring more souls down into this world so not of an a they never got married because they didn't want to be involved in that kind of stuff they wanted to be monks they wanted to have a you know like they want to live in the monastery so to speak another explanation says that they were they were drinking wine well same thing escapism they were self-medicating they didn't want to feel what they would otherwise be feeling again they're trying to take the edge off of the intensity of their experience so they were drinking they were numbing with the wine another explanation by the way is that the wine means is Caba because Y is also and Y wine so secret they're the same gatria it means the the secrets of the Caba is also called wine what can be so wrong with with cabala well it's not the what it's the why it's how you use it if somebody's getting drunk off of P if he's learning the secrets of TOA to distract himself from so that's that's drunkenness the secrets of the TOA are supposed to motivate you to appreciate God's world not to escape from God's world so even if you would say that doesn't meanus they were drinking it means that they were getting themselves riled up on cabalistic teachings and M mova whatever it might be okay but still the same concept is escapism then there's even one explanation says they were they were lacking clothing which a simple meaning means they were lacking their uniforms but uh another explanation is that Tanya says that clothing is Mitzvah right it calls uh mitzvah clothing for the soul and there's a reason for that which I won't go into right now but the brief explanation is that when Tanya talks about changing yourself so it says at first just change your behaviors you don't have to change your insides just change your outsides and we call that the clothing it's like just put on a new suit of clothes just like you take off this jacket and put on another jacket so go instead of doing this Behavior do that behavior so the clothing of the soul is uh the behaviors the Mitzvah lacking clothing means that they spurned the value of Mitzvah Maus of doing physical actions for Hashem you might say similar to the meraglim the the spies where they wanted to be inv involved in yides kite on a philosophical level they wanted to learn all about it but they didn't want to actually have to implement it and get their hands dirty especially you know those agricultural laws and stuff like that I mean literally get your hands dirty you're going to have to like touch dirt and vegetables and stuff you yuck right they didn't want to do that they just want to learn just you know so at any rate n AIO these were the OG sensitive Souls they had every oh by the way one more sign C this doesn't speak about this so I just want to mention when I tell you something that I haven't found a source for I try to mention it so that you'll know that um if you find a source let me know and if you don't find a source then don't take it that seriously but another thing that they did we know that they did is that they they made a halic decision in front of their teacher meaning they defied Authority just occurred to me recently that a common quality of these sensitive Souls who don't feel integrated in their bodies and kind of feel out of place here in the world another thing that they often are missing the boat on is uh social hierarchy they all often get branded as Rebels don't talk back to an adult what if the adult isn't smart right like no they don't care about that they don't understand that or they ask questions oh why should I oh you're insolent no I I I need to clarify I need to understand I want to know why I'm doing it's a sort of a package deal that these types of kids they're not just kids because you don't necessarily grow out of this take get into adulthood you just learn how to they call it masking you learn how to hide it a little bit better so that you don't get uh you you don't uh incur the wrath of other people but at any rate yeah this lack of recognition of social hierarchy and this sort of being oblivious to rules and especially like the chain of command that's also a very common trait amongst these people people this type of person so at any rate um it makes a lot of sense why a person would want to leave their body what doesn't make sense are the people who are comfortable in their bodies that's weird I mean according Tois somebody who says yeah I'm having a good time in the physical world I'm enjoying this I'm very comfortable this is great that's weird I think as we're getting closer and closer to Messiah I think a lot of this stuff is changing and what used to be considered weird is going to be Con well is already becoming considered normal and what was considered normal is becoming considered weird and now if somebody tells you I don't understand why I have to be a soul and a body I think we're hearing it more and more I mean not necessar are kids using those words they might not even have language to articulate it that way but you know they might say stuff like why do I have to exist and everyone gets scared like that's so morbid no it's not morbid I'm asking a question why do I have to exist or the kid who just can't be soothed he's just uncomfortable and then you try to figure out well what physical stuff can I give you what Creature Comforts can I give you that'll make the physical world and your embodiment comfortable enough and the answer is none because like I said before no matter how much ice cream you give me it'll never amount to the Comfort that the soul had before the embodiment so there's no way to there's no amount of physical reward pleasure comfort that can offset the inherent inconvenience of being a soul and a body doesn't exist okay so what are we supposed to do with this sounds kind of Bleak and for those of you who identify with this I'm sure this is not just a philosophical question this is a real pressing issue what are we supposed to do with this so like I said the alter's approach is very concerned with your body I mean really it goes back to the Bal the Balu was the one who first reversed the trend of aestheticism and Judaism where people thought it was spiritual to deny their bodies to punish their bodies or at least at the very least to neglect their bodies and the balm have taught to take care of your body to to to be gentle so the AL teaches us and it this teaching becomes revealed in his last days here in his body that the ultimate purpose of everything the ultimate truth ironically enough is what the soul does in the body in the world that seems so untruthful and that is the hassid the kindness that can be done in a body so here's the sematic therapy of Tanya and the AL it is if you want to address the underlying discomfort and existential angst of being an embodied Soul you have to use your body and specifically you have to use it to do acts of kindness you ever wondered why the ram says that repeated acts of teda are superior to one lump sum of Saka different explanations given what what does he mean about with this this concept it's a it's a it's an expression from the mishna the ram explains that if you can give the same amount OFA one time as a lump sum or you could spread it out and give it in smaller portions but you do it repeatedly that it's preferable to do the second to to spread it out and to do it as a repeated act over and over again why is that so the reason and obviously you're going to say to me well what if somebody needs the money right now okay if if there's a pressing need if somebody needs the money right now so obviously you give them as much as you can give them right now but I'm talking to you in a situation where you're setting up your giving for the year and you know you're going to give a certain amount should you give it all as one big fat check at the end of the year or should you give a little bit every day until it adds up to that same exact amount that you would have given in the end that the the the the ram says give one day at a time every day over over and over again and it's better why is it better so obviously it doesn't mean that it's more money because it's not it's the same exact number the same exact amount of money so then how could it possibly be better I'll tell you how it's better every time you use your body as a vehicle for God's kindness that is healing your body it is making your soul more comfortable in its body and making the body in turn more comfortable with a soul so every single time that you give Saka you do that act the repeated Act is therapeutic and if you can do it every day so every day you are introducing this healing this this stability this soothing and the effect by doing it repeatedly doing as a regimen like an exercise over and over and over and over again even if the the the some total of money at the end is the same exact amount but the effect of doing it as a repeated exercise that is superior to doing it one time so what does it all come down to after all the philosophy after all the big deep ideas is that the ultimate Godly experience is not what the soul sees and appreciates in heaven which is obviously amazing and it's profound pleasure and all of that but the ultimate Godly experience is when a soul and a body can be comfortable when there's an integration a seamless integration of soul and body and the soul and body are at peace with each other because they're acting in tandem in Partnership as a vehicle to do kindness so at this faan I'm going back where I started from but uh kavis 150 years after the AL is passing that ever emphasized Dua and there was a frenzy because the de said you know the balem couldn't sleep until he got rid of all the cash in his home he says in America it's the exact opposite everyone's got a savings account and they want to Mass more money so the debba didn't say you have to go empty out your savings account but what the debba did say say fine you'll have money in the savings account you'll have money in the checking account he says but at least the cash get rid of the cash and and the de even said tomorrow you'll write a check and you'll get more cash but at least don't go to sleep with the cash on you get rid of the cash and then the debit told everybody right now right here and now at the fabr in this is this was Sunday night I mentioned before the the faan M shabas which was timed exactly for the time of the the the the AL passing then there was another faan Sunday night and the re spoke about givea said in Russian like it's like a Russian saying like stick them up you know empty out your pockets this is this is a hold up and there was a frenzy the reab himself started pulling out from every pocket at I was told there was like it wasn't so much money it was maybe like a dollar's worth of money but that EBA was pulling money out of every pocket and then everyone started going crazy just pulling out any money they had on them and apparently some people had like serious money on them like one guy had just made a withdrawal from the bank and he was going to go pay his landlord and people there was a who just had a bunch of money they gave somebody gave him for his so people were running over over to the r to toan shim they were asking him shilas like do we have one guy had a Shila he he he took the Reb's $2 dollars the Reb used to pay for the Mikvah this is before dollars this is decades before the rebba gave dollars so how do you get a dollar from the Reb in in the 60s so this guy this Bak he went in after thatb had left the mikah thatb left $2 to pay for the Mikvah and he took those $2 and he had them on him at the faan the that was saying get rid of all all the cash out of your pockets and he he was asking people what should I do what should I do so somebody told him it's not money anymore you you're not going to ever spend it so it doesn't count as money it's it's it's a you you have it only because it's the rebba dollar it's not it's not money so that was enough rationalization for him to hold on to it and uh he felt guilty about it later much later 15 m is 15 years later he wrote to the Reb to apologize he said I still have these $2 and he sent it into the Reb the rebba took back the $2 so better late than never but the point is get rid of that money spend it because it's therapy it's healing that's what your soul came to the body for if you're in a body don't sit there feeling all uncomfortable why am I soul in a body if you're a soul and a body get rid of your money get rid empty out your pockets this is a good time to to mention the kabad pushka app yeah I don't know how that exactly works as far as like empty out I don't max out your credit card I don't I'm not that's not taking responsibility to say that but at any rate you should definitely download the kabad pushka app and you'll have the ability on a daily basis you'll go and uh you know push the buttons but I'm not I'm not joking I'm saying this totally seriously every time you open your phone and you push the buttons and you make a donation that physical act just the physical act of you know pushing those buttons that's what the soul came to the world for so at any rate this uh this whole scene this frenzy of emptying out your pockets at the height of it at the climax of this frenzy the started the famous that Hashem should empty out blessings for us and even during the nigon as were singing the nigon um people were continuing to empty their pockets just to make sure they'd given everything they'd clean themselves out they'd given everything that they could give we have Ellie's back you know this one that [Music] for for [Music] die [Music] die for [Music] ion yeah I mentioned earlier that although I'm an oval I'm allowed to be here because this is not a concert this is a but I see I'm not necessarily taking it that way and they're enjoying Ellie singing a lot we all love Ellie singing but we should join in and sing with Ellie um you're going to have an opportunity to do so in one minute and we're going to need your help we're going to need your support your singing support I hope you already downloaded the kabad app maxed out your credit card already but your singing support we need in addition to your monetary support um as I mentioned that the 150th yite of the AL the faan started at 10:25 on Mo shabis the set a short of less than a minute they sang ofo and then that timed the singing of the NAD to lead right into 10:30 the time of the passing of the Al and then that went straight into the mimer of the faan so we are approaching now 10:30 and this is a solemn occasion this is the not only the day this is the moment of the completion of the AL here in this world it's a powerful time as we mentioned it's and it's not just in a general way but for those who participate at of fa it's in a very very specific way and this raim that's this abundant compassion that becomes available for all of us who are participating this F and we should all absorb it and we should all use it out in our lives to to do kindness as we were mentioning before way way above whatever it is that we think we're capable of because we're uh we're writing checks on hashem's account and Hashem covers all the checks so we're going to Now sing the nalis will lead us but I'm hoping everyone will join in [Music] oh oh you [Music] y m m [Music] m I'm [Music] oh yeah I [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] not [Music] Oho [Music] know you [Music] no [Music] oh [Music] my [Music] la [Music] la [Music] don't go down by the way because when you people who were here earlier know what was happening the reason I had to speak so long is because we're waiting for Ellie to get back from the KAS so but now you're here so don't leave me I'm I'm just G to talk like two minutes and then I want to hear you sing again but I don't want to hear you sing I want you to lead us in all of us singing okay so don't run don't go away okay thank you I just feel better when you're sitting near me anyways Ellie so even thank you appreciate that appreciate appreciate your presence your physical presence very calming it is we're mentioning earlier the when you were away so I'll just I'll just give a brief summary CCH catch you up so in the last few days of his life the alab wrote a Aima called The Humble soul and it's very short it's like a paragraph but one of the things it talks about there is like the physical world it's all falsehood and what's it all about and then it comes to the conclusion no but the ultimate purpose is for the soul to come to a body and to do kindness and that's that's the ultimate that's what it's all about okay so we're talking about the importance of the body and embodiment and being comfortable in our bodies and being aligned with our bodies and all all that stuff that good stuff okay um it's a short little paragraph but there's so much it's very dense very rich so there's one part there where the alabra mentions that this physical world not only is the physical world false but we're at the end of History we're at right before mssiah is coming and in a certain way we're at a very low time okay it's also the brink of this this new light but in other ways we're in a very very low time and so he says not only is the physical world inherently this this place of false like we spoke about but our generation is comparative to previous generations is is falsehood and he says like this in the times uh he says the times of the sages of the mishna and the the talud the H that they did was true meaning the the language is very tur you have to like unpack it but he says they did Al and today the that they do is not really emis it's really um it's it's it's not Al it's through Kash what does that mean you know what it means it means in Once Upon a Time they told you what's right and you did it you didn't have to like it you just had to know that's what T demands and now we have to make you like it K we have to win you over we have to convince you you so it's not even the realid it's like this modified version ofid that's tone down enough to make you comfortable and this is all part of the question the AL is like this is what it's all about and then the answer the Altera concludes yeah this is what it's all about that ultimately the purpose of everything is for the soul to come into the physical world and to do kindness even when it's not the highest level of Truth the ultimate kindness as Toyo would dictate it even when it's modified and it's caught up into little Babys siiz pieces that you can tolerate but but that's what it's all about because in the end you're the one who has to do it you're the one who has to be present for it you're the one who has to be has to show up for it so in the end yeah it maybe is not the ultimate quintessential archetyp iCal that they were able to do in the old days but you know what at least now whatever you're doing it's really you you're owning it it's you so the speaks about this also at the faan we were mentioning about how in in in today's day and age everything's through kiras which basically means buyin that that'll be the marketing language for it you have to get get by in you don't just tell people what to do you get them to care you get them to want to do it so I I was thinking about this you know if this was true in the alter's generation how much more so in our generation there's a famous story about uh Herman woke went to the re and you know Herman woke to me represents a certain a certain archetype of a certain type of a Jew from a certain type of era basically I mean people know him he's famous he was a piter prizewinning author he was one of the most acclaimed authors of the 20th century like extremely commercially successful critically successful as well um but he was raised as Aid in New York at a time where the vast vast vast majority of American Jewelry was not observant even those who were nominally Orthodox were not compared to what we consider Orthodox today we're we're not Orthodox um and he but he was he was Sher shabas his whole life and he was part of that Minority you have to understand when people came to America they the vast majority of them abandoned yish kite so he was part of the this tiny minority who preserved their Yiddish kite and was successful also as an American he was he fought in the the US Army and then he got out of the army and he wrote books in English which became like not just successful books like cultural icons of American literature so you could say here's a guy who was shabus observant his whole life and extremely successful within American culture like the ultimate orthodox American Jew so he's meeting with the Reb and he says to the Reb with all due respect like he hears the Reb's aspirations the Reb's vision and he says with all due respect do you really think that you can tell American Jews to do anything like what he's basically saying is he didn't say it because you know he was polite but he was saying I know these people I grew up with these people you can't tell them to do anything they're completely resistant to any type of authority I mean that's the American culture is the the rugged individualism right the cowboy the lone cowboy riding off into the sunset like that's what American culture is about it's like individual rights my freedoms don't interfere with you don't tell me what to do as opposed to like the old world which is about collectivism and it's about tradition and it's about the the the the greater good and and and we we we you know top down Authority and America is very like no get off my back don't tell me what to do you tell me what to do I'm going to do the opposite right so so Herman woke says to the ne he says with all du respect do you really think that you can tell American Jews to do anything and then neb says no no you can't tell them to do anything but you can teach them to do everything and for me that one line sums up the whole approach of you know the Seventh Generation from the ALB the's leadership the's Vision which is you know they ever said it about American Jews but I in today's day and age I don't think it's specific just to American Jews I think in 2025 and probably for a good number of years already I think all Jews today are quote unquote American Jews meaning you don't tell me what to do don't order me around and the Deb understood that and said no I'm not going to tell them what to do I understand that that's counterproductive but you have to understand just because you can't boss them around doesn't mean that you give up on them what it means is and this is going back to the AL is win them over get their bu in explain it to them make them care so it's an interesting Revolution that in some ways you know a lot of us are waking up to it right now we're like wow what's this new what's this this this new attitude with you don't just do whatever you're told like friends this is not so new like thba was dealing with this already and for sure since day one of the debba leadership this was the model is that you don't boss people around and and and not just because it doesn't work but actually from a from a deeper perspective if you boss them around then all you've succeeded at gaining his behavioral compliance meaning you got them to do what you wanted them to do but you didn't get their mind space and their heart space but if you can bring them aboard bring them into the into the vision which is essentially what the rebba did through all the of the years of of explaining and explaining explaining everything explaining the vision of what we're doing doing and how we're doing it what the goal is and reminding us of the goal we're here to bring mhia that could have just issued memos with like do this and this and this and this but theba spoke at length at every fa here's what we're doing here's why we're doing it here's what we're accomplishing to win the the the hearts and the minds of theid when you have buyin now it's not just your body showing up now it's all of you it's your intellect it's your emotions and now what happens is when all of you shows up you'll continue doing it even when you're not forced to I have uh a parenting course no I'm not trying to plug my parenting course because we already had class three out of six this week so you can't join it late so I'm not selling my parent the course tonight I am by the way promoting you know what I'm promoting did I promote it well enough that you know what I'm promoting tonight what k kabad k kabad pushka app very good Ali at least you know whenever Fang with Ellie at least I know one person is listening appreciate it yes I'm promoting the kabad pushka app the QR code is on your phone okay um I'm not promoting my parenting course but but I'll tell you from my parenting course CU I just taught this last night I just had the we have the men on Tuesday nights and the women on Wednesday nights and so just last night I was talking to them about values what are values values are ideas but they're special ideas they're ideas that we use to prioritize our actions and make decisions of what we're going to do and not only do these ideas help us to choose right from wrong but more importantly where values really come into play is when you're choosing right from right when there are two good things to do and you can only do one our values help us to decide the right thing to do or the wrer thing to do so I was saying to them a lot of times when we parent we just focus on behaviors if the kid's doing what we want then we're happy we leave him alone if he's doing what we don't want then we go and intervene but does the kid know why he's doing it does he care about it or is he just doing it because you're watching is he just doing it because you're reminded him right now and what's he going to do when you're not watching and when you're not reminding him and when he could do whatever he wants will he still care about this thing so when you focus on behaviors and your whole goal is behavioral compliance so then it's all about the what here's what I want you to do do this and this and this and this but when you teach the values behind the behaviors now you're teaching the why why it matters why I should care why I should bother myself to do this when it's hard so this approach is not so new for the people like what is this new parenting it's not so new that EBA was dealing with this from day one this is a new approach going back at least to uh yat yod and perhaps we could even argue going back to TK I gimmel going back to 1813 and perhaps even earlier that we don't force people to do stuff and then call it a win because we gained their behavioral compliance rather what we do is we speak to them we explain things to them we make it attractive to them until they decide to pick it up on their own and make it part of their their lives and yeah as as says in theim of that it's lacking a certain amount of EMS because if it were pure Ms then you just got to do the right thing no matter what we don't care what you think we don't care what you feel your opinion is irrelevant yeah yeah but then what is more pronounced in that situation the truth or you doing the truth it's the truth not you doing the truth because you're not even there you're you're sort of like removing yourself and just sort of checking out so that the truth can be done but when you bring it down and you make it accessible and you make it attractive and you explain to somebody why they should actually want to do this thing now when they do it what's coming out the person in fact I mean one one if I dare be a little bit creative here I might even say that one of the Novelties one of theim of of the's leadership is the marriage between yish Kai and self-expression so that doing a Mitzvah or learning toyra or daving can be become a profound Act of personal creativity and self-expression as opposed to what as opposed to it's not about me it's about something greater than me and I'm making room for it which is nice it's great it's better than not doing it but as we're getting getting closer to the as m is getting closer means we're really in the we're really dealing with everything all parts of ourselves every aspect of yourself so then what's happening is it's about the Buy in it's about being fully integrated in the Mitzvah caring about it knowing why you're doing it valuing it not because somebody told you to do it once and then when that becomes your relationship with the Mitzvah then when you do it it's actually an act of self-expression which is a crazy KES because it's such a paradox I mean seemingly a Mitzvah is not about you it's about Hashem self-expression you want self- expression go paint the picture and what we're saying is that a yid can get up and go DAV and Dav and that can be a profound expression of what matters most deeply to me not an abreg of what matters deeply to me not me putting myself on the side checking out and just letting something bigger than me take over no but literally an expression of what I care about the most which is if you think about it the ultimate marriage of soul and body where or or Call It The Godly soul and the animal Soul where I don't have to be I don't have to ignore my true self in order to be good and the ultimate Way of being true true to myself is ultimately by being good it's an incredible concept and how should I say this delicately if you will have discussions with people if you will uh broaden your horizons I think you will come to find that this this Paradox or this this K is something unique to the Rab's teachings I think you'll find in other places where it's either or either have you have to do The Godly thing or or you get to be your true self you get to be authentic and uh Al and his successors and our have given us a path where truth and the highest truth meaning God's truth and personal authenticity are are not at odds with each other which is very cool what what do you want to respond to that or do you want to sing a niggan you have the choice what would be more authentic to you no pressure nigan a nigan a how about a niggan that that really expresses that yeah this idea the niggan that we already uh presented together I think the niggan of um K you want to say why that it expresses this idea or should we just believe you just believe me because the words oh you have to explain because when you say one thing seem me the the which is much more famous okay so okay back up you're talking about the AL which again you said The Words which is from from from it's fromma okay which seems like a nonse it's very disjointed like a deer is thirsting by the stream and you should put Fillin on your head like see soul songs season one no explain it to us Ellie what does it mean that the the thirsting as represented in the in the r person wants to just be one with godliness has to culminate in in in in in the context in the self-expression of a Mitzvah is that does that yeah yeah for sure that was beautiful yeah I just wanted everyone to know that you are not just a beautiful singer that the reason why you're such a beautiful singer is because you understand what you're singing anyway you guys should watch soul songs Ellie and I did how long there was like five years ago we did a project where we explained different neon that was one of them yeah okay so guys help us out it's it's it's just it's really it's a very simple nigun musically it's just yeah very very it's a t just a short T let's but it's one of the 10 nun it's one of the 10 of the AL [Music] that's it that's it that's the whole yeah you want to do the maybe the guys will join in [Music] King we must [Music] again [Music] somee [Music] galic one more short yeah what do you got one more short yeah we always want a doesn't even have to be a short one well it's like you're bargaining with me just a short niggan well before you said you want a long niggan so you could run upstairs I don't know if you had that opportunity yet I didn't yet all right well one more short Nan yeah sure so the the 10 of 10 special Nim a lot of them are just short NOS just like the previous KY one of them is a nigan called from very interesting [Music] n [Music] the in the fore [Music] [Applause] [Music] know [Music] okay don't go anywhere I I you want you know what you remind me of we did this also a few years ago you know where I'm going right oh uh oh I I don't know I don't know okay it's one of the well it's one of the 10 of the AL so you can narrow it down okay so there from the to the words of a from now you got it narrowed down okay okay but okay so which is of Al but before we we should sing K but before we sing there's a nigon of the AL call him senior colleague Mel vsk the priit he was one of the talid he was a student of the M along with the AL was a senior colleague and uh when after the hallus of the the Magid actually for a Time the alterb took Reb mendal upon himself as a Reb and in fact when Reb mendal went to ER he led the Aliah at first they settled inas and that ad mendal said that the air is too holy it was too intense for him he said I need to take it down a notch so he went to Taria and there's uh I think you told me you were at sh you weren't there no okay but there is a sh inia that's I think it was his house and they made it a sh um the famous story that Eber told about at mander's house that somebody started a rumor in Yim that Mia came because somebody went on a on a hill and he started blasting AER and announcing mhia is here it started a rumor so somebody came to Taria they said that there's a there's a rumor mashiah is here so they told and he was in his house so he got up and he went to the window he lifted up the window he stuck his hat out the window smelled the air and he said ah unfortunately no mashiah is not here so what's impressive at first glance is that Raa was able to smell if mesiah was here but what's even more impressive is how the rebba explains the story which is if he could smell it why did he have to go to the window and the Reb explains that the reason he had to go to the window to see if msah is here is because in theb Mendel's house it always smelled like mhia he had to smell outside if it also smelled like mashiah out there and it didn't and meant mashah is not here but had a n called which which has Yiddish words and it's a nigon of gag of Yearning For for the Magid for his rebit it's actually it's a beautiful expression of A's love and devotion for his reab and musically this n who was a teacher of the AL is in Parts identical to the Nigi of the AL the AL is musically more complex has more parts but there are parts that are musically identical and we don't know exactly the story I mean was it that the AL heard singing this nigon and then he expanded upon it elaborated upon it interp it's called interpolation maybe that's whatever it is okay we don't know exactly it the story took place but be that as it may we have these two okay so you have the you have a cute up every ready okay and maybe you'll teach us the words also all right okay if you need help let me know but I I think you got this ell's a pro if I had Golden Wings what would I do if I had golden wings I would fly to you I'm talking to the debit this is like this the the yearning that a has when he wants to be by hisb saying if only I had Golden Wings what would I do I would fly to you okay if I had golden Wheels I would travel to you that's a lower level by the way obviously taking the train is lower than flying right right now cabalistic the flying the Godin is the a so if I had enough a i would use that but maybe I don't have enough okay so then I'll use the lower level Aus that's the the golden Wheels if I had a horse and saddle I would have ridden to you I would ride to you that's even lower level you know horse and saddle that's like not even like uh that's like you know Spirit Frontier [Laughter] if I had um ink and quill a pen if I had a pen I would write to you now here I'm not going to you anymore because I can't get there this is even lower level where I can't get there but I could get a message to you I could get a message to you I could text you yeah this is the lowest level if I had a golden ring I would give it to you why is that the lowest level I can't even get a message to you because I'm not on the level where I could formulate a message but I own something what do I have I have this ring okay fine it's yours and that's the lowest level where it's I can't reach you through intellect or through emotion but I can do something meaningful for you and I can forge a connection through that it's beautiful beautiful song the lyrics are just so moving if you think about it anyways yeah [Music] oh oh oh [Music] we [Music] I oh oh so that that's um and you hear there's basically just two parts to that which are identical to this I I think the second and third parts of Ki KI is more complex has more parts to it um but you'll recognize the Sim the musical similarity obviously the words are completely different but thematically it's not so different because shim you heard the old saying that if would be a he wouldn't write the metaphor of husband and wife to express the love of Hashem and the Jewish people he would have used the metaphor of the love so is and it's also an expression of intense longing desire for closeness yeah I'm just thinking yeah the speaking about yeah I would give it to you yeah isn't that the idea of is is right so why is that the lowest level that's the point of is that ultimately this thing which you're calling he says the physical world it's all sheet it's all Bluff it's all what what do we care about physicality the truth is in heaven and he says no at the end of the day it's about the physical act so in the end the lowest level is actually the highest level so you know with all the Ava the Y the the the gildin all the it's beautiful but it comes down the and this is the ultimate purpose of everything this is what that the essence of the what what was his for the Physical Realm for the embodied soul for the physical act for the act of kindness for the for the that we give so yeah it's the lowest level but really it's it's the highest level which is the highest and you're giving it away yeah yeah you're really giving it up right of the year you could keep it you broadcast it yeah yeah okay all right yeah try maybe the said we'll sing with you ising [Music] your [Music] oh [Music] oh yeah oh [Music] in in [Music] F the fake [Music] [Applause] [Music] feel your hoy is [Music] feeling oh [Music] oh not you're not [Music] now [Music] oh remember when you showed me but you have to do this slow so that I could get it how there's possibly another nigun also from The Tam that also has this a piece of this same Melody remember this you were showing me but you have to super super slow put down how yes yeah yeah yeah [Music] okay yeah but do that [Music] again I think that's a similarity right with with the with the which we know from the the famous story in the that he was a fire he was very passionate because the the the the Bam put his hand on his heart and he became very fiery so it's like the same notes more or less but it's bouncy it's fiery it's passionate yeah yeah yeah forgot about that you got it yeah [Music] that's interesting uh [Music] similarity kign kign what's I got I gotta work that out I gotta work that out what do you want to uh bring us out with that's a good question what I didn't prepare a I only prepared an opening a middle I didn't prepare you didn't prepare an end yeah well well well I'll tell a story while you're thinking there's a story that told Z the rebit told the story as well multiple years story The mba's Dream the mlba saw in his dream two people walking on a bridge over Raging Waters and when the first person walked on the bridge the bridge was shaking and the second person which he recognized as his father the AL the bridge was not shaking the ml told the dream to his father he described the first person and Al confirmed that that first person was the mag Al and that when he was walking over the bridge it was shaking when the Alba walked on the bridge it wasn't shaking so the MBA asked his father he said why was the bridge shaking when your rebba was walking on and it wasn't shaking when you were walking on Al say it's very obvious because my re the Magid he made sadik but I make Bal chova that was the explanation that made sense the debba explained it like this that sadim are pure they're holy they're innocent so they can't bear to have any connection with things of this world because it's just too foreign to them they can't handle it but they stay away from it but therefore the bridge that they're walking on is shaky because if God forbid they would get pulled into the world who knows Bal Chua understand the world they understand exactly what it is that they're staying away from and they know why they're staying away from it and therefore the bridge that they're walking on is solid is they have no desire to go back so the EB explain that this is what kabad is special approach of kabad kabad makes Bal cha people who know the world who know exactly what the world is about and understand not just that they accept what they're supposed to be doing but there's bayin they actually have integrated it as we've been speaking about at length this evening and so when they're confronted with the world when they have to show up in the world to to do a Mitzvah to help another Jew there's no risk of it pulling them in because they they're standing on such stable ground when you've integrated that's what kabad is kabad is when you actually understand why you're doing what you're doing when it's not just accepting it at face value but when you've put in the time to appreciate it to to to give it your own word your own metaphors your own stories to be able to explain it even to to your animal soul in language that's compelling to to your lowest self now now you actually have it you own it and now you can show up anywhere and be and be safe secure solid yeah you got a nigging about that maybe maybe maybe anyone n from the Ala that we didn't there's a few more there's a few more I don't know if I can ready to sing that publicly yet but says that from okay good enough yeah is like P that's right so p is like so we could sing the the post bouncy one right yeah yeah from [Music] the whole [Music] la [Music] oh [Music] G to also thank our host uh we want to thank kabad for the live stream 3 to1 motion for the live stream and remember to download the pushka app give early give often repeated acts OFA to refine your body to give peace and comfort to your soul in a body and of the should not just be a protection for us but we should follow in the ways that the AL laid out for us that we should own it we should integrate it we should be true mon pus that means not just to observe it and to be moved by it but to become it and uh thank you to everyone for participating in this very meaningful happy occasions should always be happy occasions that we should share together yeah Sim yeah the upstairs for