Tzav | Likkutei Sichos Vol. 1

We are live. Okay. Sunday morning. Solward's house. Little bit after 10:30. Getting a little bit of a late start, but it's a lot going on. Baram, a lot going on. Um, I'm not going to talk about everything going on, but one thing I will mention is 30 letters in 30 days. Every night learning a letter from the Kaidesh as a preparation for Yn. So, that's still happening. We've been doing that every night by hashem since uh yaf ad culminating yd niss with his birthday and the reason I'm mentioning that now first of all you can tune in and join those classes but also a week from today today's daled nissen so a week from today is yodal nissen and we will we will be having our yodal nissen event which is the 30th letter class and the 30th letter of the 30 letters in 30 days last years. Yodalf Nissen 30th letter was the opening uh inaugural event of the Soulwards house half a block from the aisle and we hope to do that again uh a week from today. It'll be our first anniversary of this center being open and uh it'll be for women. It's a small I mean, if you've never been here in person, you'll see you come here and you see these are tiny houses near the aisle. We did as much as we could with the space, but we basically have either a women's event or a men's event. So, we're going to keep Yaf Nissen a women's event uh for many reasons, but one reason is that Yudolf Nissen is one of those times when a lot of people come to the aisle and uh it's a lot of men and there's a lot of spaces for men. There not too many spaces for women. So we like to provide that. Um tentatively the event is going to be in the evening around uh 8:00 p.m. but we'll give you an official time. Um we'll alert you. Want to welcome our guests all the way from Yushima. There's a baby here. If you hear crying, it's okay. Don't worry. It's just a baby. a lovely couple here brought their their baby for this year and apparently the kids are running around outside so but the kids are fine right okay okay kids are having a good time all right >> all right um we have visitors from all over the world but it's very special to have visitors from yushalay okay paras I want to explain something hey David is here Hey David, we have guests from your um I explained last week, remember when we did and and and par that is in the kas of a shaom of a leap year, not a sha a regular year. So it's a different than um this year 5786. So what's going to happen this week? We're just following the way that is in for posterity, you know, because this is an evergreen course. Um Oh, more people coming. Hey, from from Philadelphia. Okay. They're from Udallay, which is >> Yeah. And this guy's from Lawrence. >> Exotic guy. Yeah, we got you. Shallayam, Philadelphia, Lawrence, Crown Heights, Cedarhurst. Okay, so Parasav is on page 213 of Latif and it goes until um And it goes until Wait, isn't the poor stuff in here? Did I prepare this incorrectly? We're looking in the ma here. Uh oh, the poor is at the beginning. Sorry, that's what it is. Okay, Porm is first. Sorry, that's what confused me. So, we're we're we're on page 213 and you see at the top it says porm. Okay, because in a leap year that's the way that is. So, you're going to say to me, but I already celebrated Porm and now you make me feel bad because I didn't know what we're about to know. You know what? You know, it reminds me of the fores ever happened to you for the fores because you're supposed to stay up all night. But when do you read the hayy in the daytime? So, now you tell me. If I would have known, I would have stayed up last night. So, we're going to learn about porm here. Page 213. Yeah. PM is to c Hey there. PM is to celebrate the um the fact that the Yidden were saved from the the uh decree of annihilation. God forbid. in their now what's interesting is that period happened to be a very good fortunate happy period relatively speaking for galas this is during the uh the period between bayish and bay sheni so it's galis so you know you got to take it with a grain of salt but relative to galis it was actually A pretty good setup. Thank you for the coffee, sir. Regur the Yidden had a big uh had a big position had important positions in the regime in the in the government. is given who was the head of the Sanhedrin was also one of the big uh ministers of the government of government Esther was the king's wife the first lady I guess you call it was we say that a woman a wife is like a uh is like the person himself in Iber in the whole history of the Jewish people. You do not find anywhere else except for Esther someone who is the wife of a king who rules the entire world. is is existence alava. Naturally speaking, there was no more secure time in gullis than the porm time. meaning obviously except for that decree of annih annihilation. The point is that up until Hmen announced the decree of annihilation, everything looked really good on paper visak, you know, like we say, you know, technically everything looked really good. It was a very relative to gullis, it was a very secure situation. I'm going to make Yeah. But in actuality, The very opposite happened. Who' have thought? Yeah. Daf at that time of all times the time when everything was so secure that's when the decree of annihilation came to annihilate all from youth to elders to ba from babies to women that was actually the worst of decrees. on Jews. Um, that's a good point. Uh, there was never a decree. Oh, you flipped the page already before I even noticed. That was that was upon the entire jewelry like then. meaning to say because he ruled the entire world. So all Jews in the world were under his jurisdiction. So it was actually historically the worst threat. exiles like now the Eden were not all in one place. That's what we say. Hashem did us a a charity, a favor by spreading us out among the nations. Obviously, it's better not to be among the nations. Better to be uh all together in our land. But if you got to be uh in gulus, it's actually a favor Hashem did to put us to to disperse us. ict. Then if one nation makes a a decree against the yidden, the other yeden will uh will remain unharmed. And even the Jews who are in the country where there's a decree, they can in theory at least um flee to the countries where no such decrees exist. Think about this. Even the times of now all the in the world were under his power. talking about and there was no way to escape, no way to get away. We know that not even one slave was able to flee. And yet there was never a decree to annihilate the entire Jewish nation. P's decree was only against the boys. Okay. So the decree in the times of is actually the worst decree of all decrees in the times of all in the whole world were under his his power as and there was no way to get away from him vile for two reasons actually three reasons. Olive first he ruled the whole world and there was nowhere to go that wasn't under his rulership base and also it was all going to happen boom one fell swoop on one day there was no time to run it was against all yeden not just a particular particular uh group. Now, this is the question we're asking. How is it possible that in a time when the situation of the Jews was seemingly so secure that that's the time when the worst threat against Jewish survival ever should be uh leveled against us. It seems counterintuitive. So the tells us the reason the cause of the decree. It was because Jewish people attended's big party and they had benefit from it. They enjoyed them themselves. Eden is under from this we see that Jewish life Jewish existence has no connection to nature has nothing by nature I don't mean like take a walk in the woods and listen to the birds nature means not supernatural not miraculous nor is uph rather it is based on their observance of mitzvah nations have rules by which they rise and they fall naturally speaking there are certain factors that make nations stronger or weaker everybody knows that you could predict which nations are trending which nations are uh in decay with the yidden. None of that stuff matters. It's all dependent on tra mitzvah because at the time when relative to gullis we had the most secure situation on paper that was the worst time as far as a threat. is clear. son. So even though everything naturally speaking looked good but once they did something which was an affront to to mitzvah meaning they were at this not kosher party and they benefited from the not kosher party even though they themselves ate kosher they had the the kosher meals the um you know like on the airplane with the you know double wrapped and everything but nevertheless they were that's why the says they had a shyus to uh nitkar But that was enough. That was that was unfortunately that was enough to uh bring the the threat of destruction. Okay. Ice base. You see where we are? Page 214, second column. Middle of the second column. What's going on? You said I was writing something. Is that for me or for yourself? >> For me later. Anything else you're nervous about? >> Excited. Oh. >> Oh, there's Mazus over there by the uh coffee station. Yeah. And how do people avoid being on video if they don't want to become YouTube famous for getting a coffee or a cookie? >> You walk in the aisles, you're going to be fine. If you stand up right there where you're sitting, don't stand up. You get down. You crawl. >> Oh, okay. You said, "Oh, standing full height and he's not on camera." >> These two rows. >> Okay. And those two rows. Yeah, you're fine. Yeah, you're not on camera. Okay. Live demonstration. Oh, there you're on camera. Okay. So, don't walk there. Right here. >> Okay. This is safe. All right. >> Here. You're good. >> Okay. Okay. All right. >> Now you have to go. >> Okay. All right. base. Now, we said that the threat came not because of normal things that put a nation at risk, but rather because of our relationship with Hashem and our contract to do mitzvah. So, too, the salvation came about not through natural things, but through uh our spiritual connection. The way the was repealed was not through the regular channels but rather through doing and connecting ourselves to Hashem. diplomats by soon as found out about the decree. If if everything is normal, you know, if you do things a normal way, the first thing should be the diplomatic mission and try to uh make a deal with Nevertheless, that's not what they did. Toldi, hey, gather the yeden and they should fast on my behalf, for me, with me. Don't eat or drink for three days and nights. Doit of the zeta. That was the first step that they took to to uh nullify the decree meaning nothing practical totally spiritual furthermore I'm me and my girls are going to fast meaning her maidens her her staff we're going to fast too Listen, Khashdesh, we're going to say it grub the way it was, okay? Kash didn't marry Esta for her personality. Even though she was a stasis, she was amazing, but was a very crass person. He married her because she was beautiful. That was it. I mean, that's I mean, let's just be honest. So, Esther's importance in Avdish's eyes had to do with her beauty. and now we all know that fasting three days that's water as well fasting no food no drink for three days is going to is not going to add to your your beauty it's going to diminish it is fast so how does it make sense that she should fast I mean we all know that her ability to influence was based on her physical beauty So, you know, she should have, you know, she should have done the whole uh beauty prep like the like they did before they were presented. That would have been the normal thing. But no, I'm going to go fast for three days. How does that make sense? But here's the answer. The decree wasn't caused by natural things and the salvation from the decree was not caused by natural things. Yeshua is fasting. The salvation came from doing chuva. And part of chuva is fasting. is so therefore if the entire is fasting you can't beh an individual is not allowed to not fast with if it's a communal fast which it was so Esther also had to fast I mean that's that's the Jewish way so she couldn't accept her she couldn't make an exception and be like no no no except everyone fast except for me because I I got to look good no she followed whatever you're supposed to do as a Jew Yeah, that's going to diminish her beauty. And we're not supposed to deliberately rely on miracles. He's not supposed to purposely rely on miracles. You're supposed to also provide for natural means for things to transpire. Yeah. But it's a it's a garment. The natural means are just the garment. It's not the cause. We've spoken about this in terms of parnosa in a few that yeah, it's true. You're supposed to go to work. You're supposed to have a business. You're supposed to do things that alpa naturally would account for why the money is showing up in your account. But that's just we call it cle call it a lavush. But the point is that's just the I call it the plausible deniability, the natural excuse or the cover story, the alibi that Hashem has while he's busy doing miracles. But the truth is it's all miracles that are dependent on our our relationship with him which consists of that's why the particular garment is not all that important. As long as the main thing is sufficient, meaning strengthening in mitzv, then even a uh a flimsier garment will be sufficient. It'll be enough. It's not really the main thing. It's just that because we're in gullus and in times of gullis there's a certain concealment of hashem so everything has to go through natural means but themes but the real cause for everything zonitz is all it all comes down to tits that's the real cause for everything. Participating in the feast is what brought the decree. Doing chuva is what nullified the decree. Nothing else. Yes, obviously they also spoke to or Esther spoke to and they did the natural stuff, but that wasn't the main thing. That was just the vessel through which the miracle could come down and take hold. Okay. Gimmel top of the second column of page 215. Very good. Thank you so much. Yeah. We're half more than halfway through this poor. Yeah. Yeah. Top of the second column of 215. Guys, ready? By the way, I noticed that that um light in the lobby flickers like a strobe light. It always it's been doing it for about a week. If you turn it off and turn it back on, did you just do that with the app? >> No. I tell me the truth. What did you do? I've noticed in the past if you turn off all the lights and turn the mech on then it goes steady. Maybe we can find out why that flickers. Maybe ask why she turn off all the lights. Turn it back. Now it's flickering even worse. But I'm I'm staring at it. So yeah. All right. You know like why people with epilepsy can't play laser tag. You know it's a serious thing because strobe lights make make people have seizures. So okay. Yeah it's better now it's salah. Okay. Okay. So here's the lesson for us especially nowadays. By the way, when is this from? This is from Purum Shiny Zion. So spring of 19 57. Okay. Here's the lesson for us especially in our days. is diplomat. There are those who argue that the main way for the Jewish people to continue existing is through diplomacy and other natural means. by and and in fact these people they like to bring a proof from the story of Esther how she intervened with right they say of course we have to have diplomacy and we have to represent ourselves well and we have to do the normal natural things in order to secure our uh our continuity because you see Esther when she was in trouble she went or when the Jewish people were in trouble she went and she spoke to so there you see that's the president you have to know first of all these people are they're learning terror wrong they're teaching wrong so first of all they're completely flipping the truth is it's an entire it's a denial of The real true formula for Jewish survival. of him and the you all of you the Jewish nation are standing. It says even when the world is tottering teeter tottering you are standing meaning standing firm secure is is and okay anti-semmites could be upset about this I'm going to just say the truth Jewish stability is a separate track from global security the whole world can be in upheaval. And if the Jewish people are doing what they're supposed to be doing in terms of their covenant with Hashem, the Jewish people will be secure even if the whole world around us is topsyturvy. Okay? Because we have a different we have a different set of terms as far as what determines our security. Gazetsen the survival of all nations is based on natural things. We all know what makes nations stronger or weaker of course and any good politician of any country is going to be concerned with all of those factors of course but Jewish people we're not subjugated to the to the laws of nature is normus. So it's not based on the normal things that make nations secure. It's based on mitzvah. It says of diplomat. When there's a crisis, we must not rely on diplomacy and interceding with the nations. is that is not how we ensure our survival. Rather, what are we supposed to do? We're supposed to look into our deeds, examine our deeds, do some stock taking. We have to fix whatever is lacking and we have to strengthen ourselves in mitzvah in performing mitzvah then the natural things will work. Not saying you skip the natural things, you do the natural things. But again, it's a lavush. It's just a garment within which the spiritual uh energy can take hold. How did the Reb >> regarding security >> because you're saying you say you point out correctly that the Reb has said that that that security has to be done. You know, you don't you don't play around security and you have the military has to have whatever that they need. You're pointing that out, right? Okay. But at the same time, the success of all that that always pushed was based on based on our spiritual uh connection. That's why for instance on the eve of the six day war, the main push that's when millain came out, you know, the whole campaign was in the eve of the six day war. Um it was always about traits. It's always about Jewish people being more proudly Jewish, identifiably Jewish. That's always the main thing. And then yes, of course, then you have to do whatever practically makes sense. But also, by the way, here you see the is specifically zeroing in on he says diplomacy at least three times, maybe four times, diplomacy as an example of something that's not so important. Even as much as the Reba was very uh insistent that we listen to uh military experts, there are so many hundreds of where the Reb would say not to follow the diplomats that diplomacy I mean I I've I've heard the say diplomacy is is is shaker that diplomacy is is is inherently false. That's what diplomats do. They all you know they flatter each other and they say a bunch of stuff. um you know but yeah whereas maybe other nations live and die based on diplomacy the deba saying that's not really the the main thing over here >> that's also an important consideration that the Endgame here is Messiah which is peace which is not uh to figure out how to have a better army but the gullless reality is that in the meantime you do have to do what's you know to to to defend yourself but that even that is not the main thing that has to be done of course it's a pract practical thing has to be done but the main thing is always the spiritual thing it's always the spiritual health of the Jewish people is going to um is always going to be the the the main factor. It's it's it's good that you bring this up. I mean, you're talking about a time of war right now. There was an attack just uh yesterday and there were many casualties. God forbid that uh we we hope that uh everyone should be uh should heal and should be no more attacks and uh in a natural way everything should uh there should be peace and uh in the in the in the meantime what's our response you know how how are we supposed to how we supposed to take that what are we supposed to take away from that and the answer is I I believe according to this and according to things the deba said hundreds of times is that if you're moved by current events and you want to do something about it so think about your own uh spiritual state of affairs and that I've mentioned many many times that because the Jewish people are all connected and we're all one that when any Jew strengthens his or her Yiddish kite that strengthens Yiddish kite for for the entire Jewish people. So that's the main thing. So as opposed to saying, you know, I hope that we can broker a good deal and I hope that uh maybe they'll they'll reach an understanding. Look, if we're all doing what we're supposed to do in terms of Yiddish kite, then uh Hashem will figure out a way to resolve everything favorably. That's the basic point. Yeah. Okay. Where are we up to? So in demold health right so then you do the but the natural means that only works because of the spiritual stuff that we do even more than that even if others meaning other nations in the exact same situation would perish under those conditions. The Jewish people, you're going to stand firm. You're going to you're going to survive. You don't have to be afraid of the situation the Jews are in. The way that it looks through physical eyes according to the laws of nature. Don't be afraid based on don't say that according to all of the analysis from all the experts it doesn't look good. It's irrelevant. Our thing is to strengthen whatever physical garment that we we use. in then the miraculous salvation of the Jews will invest itself in that. So it's not really that important what the what the physical natural means is okay top of the first column of page 216. Now let's zero in this lesson. The yidden are not subject to the laws of nature. That is not just about the Jewish nation as a whole, the macrocosm, but also the Jewish individual, the microcosm. has to remember everything he has. It's all dependent on is not limited according to natural the laws of nature. True. said this before I think paras we spoke about this at length that hashem will bless you in all that you do meaning the main thing is hashem's blessing and the blessing takes hold in the thing that you do so yeah you have to do you have to do something because in the all that you do that's how the hashem's blessing will take hold yeah we know that Like we said, it's only the garment. The main thing is Hashem's. And how do we get the how do we get the blessing? Through our connection with Hashem through learning and doing. And when you have the main thing doesn't really matter which garment it will take hold in it. Whatever whatever garment it'll be fine. Doesn't really matter. It's not the main thing. Bottom of uh the same column that we're in. Oh, hey. Thank you. That's a hey. Hey. for as vetin. Okay, there's the says that a Jewish farmer sews his seed, meaning plants seed in the ground because he believes in the life of all worlds or he who lives eternally. And it is an act of amuna of faith that the farmer plants the seed. That's what the says says shabas alf. You want to see where it is in a tus. It's not in the gum itself but it's a tus in gum shabas in bavi. Shabas 31a. At any rate, it's a funny thing. Why do you say that planting seeds is an act of faith? Like everybody plants seeds. Like why is that? That that's natural. It's not a faith thing. So we're going to explain it. Okay. Um what how is this an expression of faith? In what way is this faith? Even atheists, there are plenty of atheist farmers. So why do you say that planting seeds is an act or an expression of faith is? But here's the something that is you see clearly as seemingly nothing to do with faith has nothing to do with faith in God. You see, even people have nothing to do with Hashem. Voxa, they plant seeds and it works. So don't make it like it's such a religious thing. Plenty of people plant seeds. They the seeds grow. They don't think about God at all during the whole process. But even in such a thing is Andelt. He knows the Jewish farmer knows that he is a Jew and he is different. He's different. Yeah. the rest of the world they might plant seeds and never think about God. There's nothing spiritual about the whole thing. Amuna doesn't come up once in the whole process. >> Yeah. Sure. Um agriculture is the archetypical job. Yeah. So nowadays, you go to the supermarket and somebody some farmer somewhere had to you're paying whether you're a farmer or not, there's a farmer involved in in your life. You're just paying the farmer to farm so you don't have to. Yeah, exactly. So we said the Jewish nation is not subject to the laws of nature. So to the individual. So therefore he knows Even if for the rest of the world seeds grow because that's nature seeds grow. You don't have to think about God say when you plant for the rest of the world that's true but he knows he's a Jew. So different rules applied to him. Oh the anti-semites are going to say rabbis said different rules apply to Jews. Yes I did say different rules apply to Jews. Let me spell out exactly what I mean. that for a Jew, even if a Jew will do things that normally work for everybody else just because they work because that's nature, for a Jew, it won't work unless we are right with God, which in our case means 613 mitzvah and studying our holy. That's the only way that it's going to work. It doesn't work because that's just the way the world was set up. That's not enough for a Jew because we have a contract with Hashem. Okay. Ah, are we up to VV? Yeah. Yeah. We on VV. Yeah. Okay. We're almost at the end of this. Okay. So, there you have. Yeah. Did I not finish the paragraph? Did I say that part? I think so. Okay. Okay. All right. So, we were talking about balasic businessmen. Like you pointed out, we don't mean just farmers, but like I said, either you're a farmer or you pay someone to farm for you because you got to eat. But what about oil? You know the famous story about the uh our holy ancestor, the Maggala Mukes. How quickly you think I could tell the So we're related? Really? Malamuk is also >> straight. >> Straight. >> Oh, you have like the straightas. Okay. So my mother's mother is descended from Liber from Berdichev who himself was descended from the Maggala Moes. So we're like 10th cousins or something like that. Amazing. >> Okay, he got to invite me to the bar mitzvah now. >> Okay. Um, so we'll tell very quickly the Malamoka story that he was going to leave uh Kraco and he had a but then he said to him staying and they said why you stay? I'm telling it super quick. Why you staying? He says because I had a dento. What was a case? What was the case? What was the the guy's argument? The two litigants. The guy said this this rich guy said I saw the bagel salesman and I was talking to him and learning and I realized he's a Tom Hawk and I said you shouldn't be selling bagels on the street corner. You should be learning full-time. let me pay for you to learn full-time. So the guy was started learning and after like a week or two he quit and the the rich guy who was paying for it said no no no this is my mitzvah you saw in contract you continue learning he says I can't so the malamuka says why why can't you this is beautiful you're getting paid to learn he says because I spoke with my wife and we agreed I'm telling it super quick but he my wife and I agreed that when we made our living from selling bagels every day it was like we didn't know it was so risky we're B make the bagels. Are we going to sell them all? We're gonna have to throw them out. How are we going to find enough people? Are there gonna be enough people walking in the streets to sell the bagels? It was we had TO DAVEN SO MUCH every day. The whole thing required such a muna. Now I just show up. I learn, you know, you give me my my uh my check at the end of the week, everything's done. It's in the bank. I don't think about Hashem enough anymore. It's no no this is not good for my So he said, I'm I I'm quitting. So uh going back to the bagels that way I'm I'm going to think about a more. Okay, that's the story of the malamukas the the dtora in Krakco. So now the reba says to what? Oh I don't remember what he told him. I think he said continue selling selling bagels. I don't know but the point was the stayed in Kraka. Yeah. So the point is that yes when you are a businessman you have to think about Hashem that your success is not coming from oh I'm so smart I made a good deal. No it comes from you come and learn on Sundays or whatever it is that you do. Okay. Um or 30 letters in 30 days orever. Yeah. Take a Yeah. There's many things you could do. All right. >> Um there other opportunities for learning as well, I'm sure. All right. What about the That was for What about the full-time learners? Did you know that real success in learning has nothing to do with talent? Oh, because you have a good head, you're smart, and that's why you're successful in and similar stuff. Success in learning has to be from divine assistance and that comes from your fear of heaven. Okay, got to unpack this. You know, it's one of the 12 migillas. Um, what's the deal? So, means I toiled. That means I put in work. Matsi means I discovered, I found it. If you were toiling, how is it a discovery? Toiling means I know what I'm working for. I expect to achieve it. That's why I'm working for it. Matsia means, "Oh, wow. I found a $10 bill in my pocket. I wasn't even looking for that." So, the deb explains elsewhere very explicitly. It's called a guide dava because in the end, what you discover is way beyond the level proportionate to what you were working for. Yet, you do have to work. And that's sort of the idea here. We were saying before about our success both as a nation and as individuals is only based on the blessing from Hashem yet it takes hold through the natural effort. So that's sort of the yagaiti and the mitsasi. So in learning yeah you have to learn with toil. You have to work hard. You're not going to be successful in learning if you do it like casually. So you that that is the that's the natural uh vessel is you have to put in the sweat equity. You got to you knowit you got to sit there and learn you got to focus. You can't be hanging out at the coffee station all day and think that that you're going to become a nevertheless the real success is all and that is based on your spiritual connection. If you don't have the main thing, the shim, the real connection to Hashem, then all of the smarts and all of the uh hard work is not going to go anywhere because is Hashem's wisdom. When you have the main thing, then Hashem is going to give you success way beyond proportion, way beyond natural calculation. Okay, so like we said, that was poor Zione. All right, we're on the top of 217 Zion. Now we're going to get into the para. So let's summarize the por. How should we summarize the porm? time of Porum was naturally speaking a very very secure time was a politically uh advantageous time and yet that's when the worst threat to the Jewish people of all history happened and just like the decree was not according to natural factors the the way of getting the decree um nullified was not according to natural factors and this is the formula for survival of the Jewish people. That which threatens us doesn't make sense naturally. That which saves us doesn't make sense naturally. It all comes down to our spiritual connection. And so too on an individual level, whether it's making your living or it's your success in Torah study, the whole thing comes down to your connection with Hashem, not the normal stuff that human endeavors or are normally governed by. >> What's up? >> Read this to yourself. >> Read this to myself. >> Announce it now. whenever you want. Oh, we could read it now. Oh, that's beautiful. Okay. >> Big announcement. >> Big announcement. Drum roll, please. >> Next week, special enhanced breakfast in honor of the Debb's birthday, Adolf Nissen. sponsored by and in honor of the Bakar Mitzvah Jacitzk Ben David Ary whose birth his actual birthday is oh that's so special everyone is welcome and encouraged to join in person so we're expecting a big you s be able to handle a big crowd next week >> okay for sure two types of locks >> two types of locks Okay. All right. 217 top of the first column. Short little sika here. >> Oh, you also have some birthday in the family. >> Oh, mastov. Okay. Okay. Page 217, top of the first kim second. Right. Now, this is para. This is para. And you look here, by the way, you have a bunch of short. So the first sika is just one um like a column and a half from uh which is also from por but it's from tiny daled then you have a second which goes to page 219 which is from tiny z then you have a third that goes until the end on page 22 which is from pares. So three short little now um all related to the para. Okay. Says an eternal flame you shall or shall be kept burning on the altar. It must not be extinguished. The shalomi says what does that mean to all the time means even on shabas all the time means even in a state of impurity. We're going to explain this. and we've said many times before all the stuff that was done in the Mishkan or the Miktod also exists in the individual Jew misbehntioned. So what's the altar? The altar in microcosm in a person is the heart. Now in the Mishkan in the mikdosh you had the inner altar and the outer altar. Outer altar, inner altar. We spoke about this before the outer altar is the also the copper altar. That's where they brought the animal sacrifices. Inner altar was the golden altar, the small one that was in the kesh. That was for incense. The altar is called the heart, inner altar, outer altar, inner heart, outer heart. You know, your inner emotions, your outer emotions. is now which is it speaking about when it says you should keep a constant flame on the it's talking about the outer one that means you have to have a fiery excitement on the outside >> is that a a few weeks ago >> yeah what was the context in salv The hearts of Brennanos. >> What? >> Yeah, we have to get maybe we could book them to come sing it now. Okay. So, we said the the altar is the heart. The heart. The fire on the altar, meaning specifically the outer altar, is the revealed excitement, the overt passion, the recognizable passion that we have. Okay. Now, we said the says that that altar has to be on fire all the time, even on Shabas, even in a state of impurity. Okay. What's shabas? Let's break it down. Shabas. Shabas is resting. It's removing yourself from the world. That's why you're not supposed to do mundane stuff. Finishing in three. Actually, yesterday we finished in three and we finished started and um yeah, we spoke about uh things that are user on Shabas. I don't think it was yesterday. It was a couple days ago. We learned about things that are user on Shabas, not because they're malas, but just because they're mundane. So in Shabas, you're supposed to avoid mundane things. Haga and in our personal service of Hashem that is that is comprehension. You call Shabas a delight. spoke about yesterday in that we have shar we have covered from the Nim Shabas the light is that the light the revelation of light that you're mass that you understand is that makes you sort of rise above transcend secular mundane things. Okay. So basically what we're said is like this on Shabas you're supposed to be separated from mundane stuff doesn't just mean u business what it means is that on shabas you are delighting in a certain appreciation of spirituality and therefore you're you're you're rising above regular mundane stuff. So you could think is you think okay on shabis I'm in this depth of I'm understanding and delighting in the the gilo the revelation of godliness oh that's so amazing I'm in this deep place it's higher thanas you know in kabadraas is like a dirty word you want to go to a go to a rave party if you want right So you might think, well, those just the Russians don't don't no I don't know what that No, those those are Russians. I don't like I won't quote him because he he'll have his gaja tag taken away, but he told me don't confuse Minhogi Kabad with with Russian culture. Two separate things. Okay, they're throwing the tuna salad is a Russian stick. Okay. D promise you that AB never took any type of shenanigan such as that. Okay. I know the distraction, >> right? >> Yeah. You know why? I'm now that you you you riled me up. If they would have hogaga, if they would learn a mimer properly and appreciate it and have some real tiny elaki, they wouldn't need to throw potato salad to prove that they're excited about yiddish kite. And all the people throw potato salad to prove you're proud proud of yiddish kite or excited about yudish kite or whatever. >> You're just exposing your own >> spiritual insufficiencies. At any rate, but listen to this. we it's not so black and white, not so simple. A person might think I'm in a mode of shabas, whether it's literally, you know, the seventh day of the week or just a shabus-like mode where I'm deep into my appreciation of godliness and I'm feeling it and it's so pleasurable. I don't need I don't need it. I'm I've surpassed that. I've transcended that fire. He thinks I don't have to have the fire. I graduated from the fire. Don't put out the fire even on Shabas. So this is not vindicating the potato salad throwing because that's nothing. But what it's saying is even if you've accomplished that level where you're genuinely understanding a godly concept and you're relating to it and you're moved by it and you're feeling the pleasure of it, you still have to have the overt passion and the excitement. You haven't graduated from that. So that's what it means. The fire has to be burning even on Shabas. Even when you're on this exalted spiritual level, the passion still has to be there. Now on the other extreme, he is far he's the opposite thing. He's he's he's far from godliness. Don't put out the fire. Even in a state of impurity. Don't think about too much about your low spiritual state. Don't put out the fire. You have to make sure your passion is not extinguished. He might feel like, "I'm such a loser. I'm so far from Hashem. What do I have to be excited about? I should just go in a corner and cry and be humiliated." NO, NO, NO, NO. I mean, you got to do chv, but don't put out the fire. You have to uh blow on the fire and you know what do you call it? Well, there's a word for it. There's a word for it in English. Stoke. Stoke. >> Stoke. Yes. Stoke. You have to stoke the flames. make sure that they don't go out and that's going to bring to so we said keep that fire even on Shabas even when you're on this exalted level of tugg and even in even when you're in your spiritual dumps and that's going to bring to in the regular reading of it is like a command to you but here we're going to read it as the outcome come of keeping the fire going. Like the taught means negativity. Put it out. So stay fiery and passionate even when you're on an exalted chabaslike level. Even when you're in the dumps on a tuma level, stay passionate and the ne the negativity in your life. You'll put it out. Get rid of it. Yay. Okay. Next. You heard a rumor >> next week. >> There's going to be an enhanced breakfast. >> Yeah. Okay, let's find out. >> Let's let's pack the house. >> It's also the one-y year anniversary of the Soul Words House opening. >> This is going to be a woman's forbidden that evening. Someone wrote in the chat, "Shalom from Mex Rob, does Mex mean?" Holaas das. It's just a thing in the chat. Okay. Shall we continue? >> Yes. >> Page 217, second column, middle of the second column. Now, we're going to go back to this thing we learned from the mag just now. In order to put out the light, put out the light, put out the negativity, there has to be an there has to be constant fire, constant excitement is not enough. that one time he was excited or even uh recently he was excited. You know Groucho Marks? Never heard of Groucho Marks? Yeah. Yeah. He went to a party one time. Okay. Groucho Marks went to a party. It was particularly boring. And after he was on his way out, he says to the host, "I had a wonderful time. This wasn't it." Like once in my life, you know, before. I've had a I've had a wonderful time. It's not not here. Not now. At any rate, it's not enough to say, "Oh, Tom, excitement. I've done that. I did that once." No, no, no, no. Not enough. has to be now. Has to be all the time. Because if even for a moment you are cold, the the negativity can jump in at that moment of weakness. That's why remembering a malik is every day. We spoke about this last week that a malik one of the explanations of a malik is coldness that you have to constantly remember a mullik. Why? Because you have to constantly be on guard against the cold. Yeah. No Indian. Did he flip the page? No, he did. The constant fire excitement we're talk we're talking about here is a preparation for the aalam. What's the aalam? The fire from above. What's the fire from above? Well, the sages say that even though the mitzvah was to bring fire means from the regular, meaning regular fire, regular natural fire, nevertheless um or rather even though fire descended from heaven, you're also supposed to bring the regular fire, but one triggers the other. You bring the regular fire talking about like regular fire, you know, like fire and then the heavenly fire would come down as a response to that. It means the regular fire down here triggers to and arouses from below to elicit the fire from above. So what we're saying is you do your part to have your excitement for yiddish kite the way that you can muster and that brings from on high another fire which is way beyond what we can produce because it's not from us. It's from Hashem. But in order to have it, you have to first do your part. You do your side. is when does the fire from heaven come? When the fire from below is there intact and we see this actually in the current paras not just in but in next week's para of You had the the Mishkan was complete and were there and they already offered carbonus. Everything was up and running. Nevertheless, the had not yet rested upon the work of their hands is because there was still a trace of the effects of the golden calf. It was blocking it norm. But on the eighth day, specifically on the eighth day, is when the fire below reached its complete state. Yeah. Which as we said puts out the the negativity and it puts out the leftover effects of the sin of the golden calf. Then the fire came out from before Hashem, meaning the fire from heaven, from above. And then the heavenly presence rested upon their handiwork. What's so extraordinary about the fire from above? that it requires the perfect state of fire from below to draw it down. We're going to explain created beings are inherently limited. Therefore, everything that we do, where we can reach through our work is also limited. on their own. Human efforts are not eternal. They're just not they're limited. Limited doesn't just mean in scope, but or or in in in reach, but it means also in duration. Something the human being does ultimately has a has a finite end to it. It decays. It dwindles. In order for human endeavors to be eternal, it has to be aided by a an assistance from above because completely unlimited. That's why during the seven days of inauguration of the Mishkan, they would set it up and take it down. Put it together and take it apart. Put it together. Take it apart. Seven times. Created beings cannot make something that will last forever. But on the eighth day of all days is when Hashem's presence dwelled in the Mishkan and a fire came out from before Hashem. It was only then they were able to set it up and not have to take it down. Then it was set up eternally. Now you can understand what are the seven days of inauguration of the eighth day. The fire from above only happened on the eighth day is seven are the days of the cycle of nature. The world was created in six days and Hashem rested in on the seventh day. So seven represents the cycle of creation. In other words, you could use theic parliament. Seven is the number that describes worlds meaning created systems of reality. But eight surpasses that cycle. Eight is the transcendent number. the light which is higher than created worlds and that eight is that fire that comes from above. So seven represents created reality and therefore everything that we as created beings are capable of accomplishing. Eight represents that which only Hashem can provide us. So after we do our part in bringing all the fire meaning the excitement that we can from our own created limitations then Hashem responds with the fire that comes from that can only come from him that gives our effort eternality. Yeah. Okay. Nit cookendic. We're on ice page 218 bottom of the second column. Need now despite the fact that created beings cannot on their own achieve eternality like we said. Nevertheless, it's the work that we do do down here that elicits the a fire from above. Interestingly, that means when a person does everything that he can do even though it's limited, then Hashem responds by giving you the unlimited fire from above. That's also what it means. Always means blevid means infinite. It's interesting. Tomid doesn't just mean constantly. Tommed means transcendent of the limitations of time because true to really means infinite doesn't just mean all of the finite time. It means all time without any potential for beginning or end. That's what really means. So it means something which transcends the limitations of time. That's what really means. Okay, I'm not going to get into a whole discussion about this, but this is one of the big philosophical questions, the nature of time. You could Google it. You could ask chat GPT. This is one of the things that the philosophers debate. I'm saying not just Yiddisha philosophers but laavd. This is like in in philosophy in the world. What is the nature of time? Okay, so the Reba says time is made of distinct increments. Then you get into a whole question of what is the smallest divis indivisible increment of time? What is like the essential unit of time, the elemental unit of time? That's a whole other discussion. But the point is time is made of is comprised of limited units. Therefore time also is limited because if it is the sum total of limited parts it is also ultimately limited. So time on its own is inherently a limited creation. And nevertheless, through the work that we do down here, which is inherently limited, we draw down the fire from above, which is inherently unlimited, which transcends time because time is limited. And here's the real. This is the acidic flare here. Not only are we able to connect with something which is eternal and infinite, but we're able to draw it down into the limitations of time. So you can draw and time itself which is inherently limited becomes unlimited and that's what tid is. So in other words, the word tid is inherently a paradox because it is the state of time which is inherently limited when it reaches a state of inherent unlimitedness which is seemingly in congruous with the very definition of time itself. So you see that it's something godly. Anything that's a paradox or rather I should say anything that is truly godly is a paradox because it is nimnoim it transcends limitations. So that's the whole idea of forever or always is a is a is a temporal term. It's a term we're using to measure things with time. And yet how much time? What do you mean how much? Always. So it's time but it's above time but it's in time godly. >> What's a revelation in our ter in in in our terms what does that mean? That means that in nature you can have success that transcends the bounds of nature. That's what it means. It means that you're living your life and you're doing things as best as you can do it with the limitations that you're working under and yet the results can be way beyond what nature should allow for like we were talking about in the porm about our uh we're not we're not we're not playing by the same rule book. Okay. Yeah. You flipped the page already. Excellent. The point the instructive point that emerges from the above concepts that we're speaking about is felt in a shall every like we say make for me a Mishka and I'll dwell within uh them within the Jewish people. So you have to know what do you have to know that Kohl's man is felt in them as long as we're lacking the fire the warmth the vitality is even if you're learning you're learning you're doing mitzvah and you're doing everything that there is in the mishk imagine a perfect mishkan with everything it's supposed to have it just doesn't have fire on the m val Alas is on but it's not with vitality meaning is completely from according to but there's no excitement felt by so he's lacking the indwelling of the and to an extent that it is even possible there should be there could be a leftover impress impression of the sin of the golden calf because remember we're saying before the reason there wasn't the indwelling of the is because there was still a mark an impression from the sin of the golden calf. What we're saying here is a person is doing everything. He has an intact Mishkan with all of its kalem, all of its decor, everything that's supposed to be in the Mishkan. He's a he's following everything. He's from he's doing everything supposed to do, but there's no excitement. It's like a perfectly intact Mishkan without the fire. What that means is it could be that there's a remnant. There's a spiritual um residue of the eagleite. that means learning, davening, and acts of kindness. And we're going to go through them uh one one at a time. Okay. What does it mean? Don't just be sufficient to suffice yourself with saying, "Okay, I did the minimum according to the laws of I did my morning, I did my night. in the rest of the 24 hours. You don't you don't think about It shouldn't be that you're doing it. I mean literally it means like whispering in a muted tone but rather it should never the words of should never depart from your mouth. It should be established firmly in all of your 2448 limbs like we say all of my bones shall declare as it has to be with. Okay. So in having a a vitality means that obviously you're excited about it. So it means that you're doing it more than just the bare minimum. What does it mean? Shouldn't just be an established fixed thing. Clock says it's time for it's time for time for you should feel it. It should be a serious thing that you're actually talking to Hashem and you're asking for his mercy. That's that's a Mishna. It says that clearly in office shouldn't just be a prefuncter thing because it's you know that's what's on the schedule right now. Should be okay. What does that mean in acts of goodness and kindness mitzvah? When you do mitzvah, it can't just be to get the job done. Get it done. Check it off the list. >> Where does it say? >> Yeah, it should say. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yates. Oh, it says Yates. Yeah, Yates. I think Yates could also could also make sense like in the way of being Yates. I don't know. Could work either way. mitzvah you should do beautifully, you know, do it more than what is required by the letter of the law because that's the expression of excitement. Yeah. Okay. And then what's going to happen through the com having a complete fire down here meaning what you can produce on your own with your human limitations it will draw it will elicit it will trigger the a the fire from above which means that theina the divine presence will dwell in your tra and your avida and your good deeds. And all of your physical things that have ads, all your like it says before, the cool concept, the paradox, the infinite will abide within the finite. That even in nature, we will see success beyond the limitations of nature. Pretty cool. Yeah. Who do we have here? We won't put you on the spot. We'll just say another guest came and joined us. We're not going to put you on. Don't worry. We're not going to make you YouTube famous. It's okay. You can be anonymous. You probably don't even speak English. I bet you don't even speak, right? What? Does with an accent? Without Without an accent. Okay. I'm putting too much attention. What? >> Without an accent? You sound like an American. It's good. Okay. All right. Speak Hebrew with an accent, without an accent. Depends which accent you sound when when you speak Hebrew, you sound like an American. You sound like a No, you sound like a regular kid who grew up in Yalai, right? Excellent. Okay. When you speak Yiddish, you have an accent. Which accent? Like a Yami accent? Well, you're gonna learn it right now. Okay. Welcome. >> Yes. We say about um that hem's eyes are upon it from the beginning of the year to the end of the year. And we say why not? Why doesn't just say always, right? This is from the the alterba and it explains that it's renewed that Hashem judges the world and he infuses a year's worth of vitality into the entire world. But based on the whole world is renewed for a year based on Hashem's attention. >> Right. No, no, but that's it's that's >> Yeah. >> Right. Right. That's what I was confused. >> Tomid. It's always >> my land. Yeah. No, my land is great. Okay. All right. Who else is here? Oh, I saw the door open. >> We didn't have B. The one time we don't have the bagels and locks. But by the way, next week we're going to have an enhanced breakfast for the bar mitzvah. Okay. How long was it? 90 minutes. on a Sunday. It's not so far from Philadelphia. >> Oh, you came from Monty. Ah, okay. So, this is on your way. >> Oh, okay. You could bring your kids. You see, people bring their kids here. >> Set up the thing. I thought you were going to >> the gate. I do have the gate. I do >> put it up. >> This kid's being very quiet. >> This kid's being quiet. Yes, >> we last week put the safety gate by the It We have it. If you bring your kids, let us know. We'll put the gate up again, which >> by the time next week the gate. >> We're going to put up the gate. >> We'll put up the gate. Okay. >> Okay. All right. Um, we're on page 219, bottom of the second column. Oce okay. This is our last sa from uh parav what what time did we start? We started late, right? Okay. So, it's not even two hours yet. When we started with bacious, did you realize that these would take like two hours every week? I didn't think it would take two hours. If I had known, I don't know if I would have started. >> Okay, I'm just being honest with you. is okay. Now, it's interesting because we already did all of these. We're already in like I told you at the beginning of the share today, we're going according to the way it's laid out in liquid olive. It's not the same because that isn't the kus of a of a leap year. All right. So the order is the you know the daled parases. Okay. So skullim and zer are connected with the redemption of purim which was not a complete redemption. That's why we say the gamora says why don't we say hal on purim. So one answer is because it was not a complete redemption. Even after the salvation of the Jews in that time, we still remain subjugated to aashes. Pes was a complete redemption. Once we were taken out of Mitim, there was no going back. Mitim was devastated. There was no more P. There was no nothing. Was all gone. Okay? Complete redemption. However, even are connected to as well vile is and yet pumm is connected to like the gamora says that we juxtapose one gula to the other. That's why like the motor is talking about if you have a leap year where you have two months of ad which which ad has the real porm you know because you have like porm cotton but which is the real porm hey did you do shushan porm that's your porm you just call it porm yeah you did purm tesv that's so awesome in shalam you were in shalam for porm this year that is so Cool. That's inspiring. Thank you for being here and inspiring me with that thought. Okay, so the real purim is in the second. Why? Because the ad that's close to niss because we want purim to be connected to pes the two are connected. Um, you read before meaning. Why? Because historically speaking, they would announce, "Hey, time to do yourum donations." And what were those used for? for the communal sacrifices. Got to fund raise for the communal sacrifices. Now you read before why is the downfall of Malik. He was a descendant of a Malik. So remember what a Malik did to you. Do before Por because Hmon was was a Malik. remember before you do. So before you do it, you remember it is before. Now why does come before is I love it. The Reb says like this. I could ask you why does come before and you might on a very superficial level answer uh because has to do with al and z has to do with yalad and olive comes before yal because one is less than 14. Yeah, that's true. But that's not why comes before zer. There's a thematic conceptual reason why comes before says McGill that the merit yeden had that brought about the downfall of Hmon was the half shackle donations like it says Hmon offered 10,000 is it called talents I think it's a keer is called a talent of silver was that the verse >> was that the verse that was that the puss that was written wrong in your migilla it was You got it fixed though, right? >> Okay. Now, we understand why Zaher comes before I mean, I'm sorry, why comes before Zahar, not just because of look on a calendar chronologically, you know, this is olive, this is your dollar. No, it's a it's there's a conceptual concept here. This that gave the half shackle donation for the communal offerings. That was the merit which brought about the downfall of Hmon. So it's cause and effect. That's why one is before the other. It's a very simple connection. Not just because you know chronologically the dates one one date is earlier than the other. It's a cause and effect thing. All right. is now after Purim which like we said was not a complete redemption. We come to Pes which was a complete redemption and the preparation for the complete redemption is and okay we understand and zakum is the merit the donation of the half half shackle which brought to the downfall of hmon which is remembered with zer both of those have to do with purim now let's talk about andesh which have to do with PES. Now the gum talks about this in your show that really there's a place to say they should be the opposite that should be before should be before because is talking about the new moon. Which new moon? The new moon of of Nisses burning the was on the second day of Nissan. They set up the Mishk. They burnt the red heer for the purification process. because they couldn't do it before they set up the Mishkan explains that shall however because has to do with the purification of the entire Jewish people we do it earlier chronologically really it's later so says As the we have to understand the answer to that question why is beforeh when chronologically happened after in is is do is the question is like this. You have to understand why do we say that the purification of the yeden is connected with that you cannot have paresh any other way unless it's after the purification of the yidden meaning to say pes which is which is the idea of both of these parhas is not called it's called it's the it's it's so pes yeah requires but why do we say has to come beforeh so that we have the purification of the yen beforeh why does it h why is purific ification a prerequisite for just means the lunar uh calendar the mitzvah of having a having a a lunar calendar yeah you have to have purification of the paradum before pes meaning corbin pes yeah but that's not what the para the para is so I don't understand's answer technically you could have left it with first and then after the declaring in them is but here's the explanation from the me the idea of is the rebirth of the moon you know when we announce the time of the milled you know where the milled >> in shall You ever go outside and look for the moon at the time of the milid? Do you understand how good of an excuse it would be to get up in the middle of the night or stay up all night? You can tell your parents that they announced the milid and shaw and I that's why I have to stay up until 1:00 a.m. to see the milled working here for you trying to help you. Flip the page after the moon was concealed. The little baby sliver comes out. The moment of the Jewish people are compared to the moon. that after all of the concealment that you didn't go through in gis they are reborn and that is redemption now the redemption from began on that's when was told byem this shall be the first of months to Now our sages say this word haz this month h is connects to on this day they came to hari to receive the tyra m tyra's Now the giving of also the concept of gula don't say don't say engraved that the the the the words of the ten commandments were engraved in the but rather say freedom freedom from the freedom from the Malikovas, freedom from subjugation to the kingdoms. So the fact that the connects with meaning and so even Nissen even though the redemption didn't happen on alfniss but alfn is connected to maido which is the full expression of redemption. So it's understood that even alfiss the beginning of the month is already connected with the beginning of redemption. Now we understand why purification has to proceed. Is the birth of the new moon of which is already the beginning of the redemptive process. We have to proceed that with purification. Purification is a prerequisite and a preparation for redemption. Like it says, I will cast upon you purifying waters. That brings to a Novi the Mavasa, the one who brings the tidings of redemption. So that's why comes before even though technically really pa is bis and is alfiss and p really is preparation for really you could have done after no no no because alfis is already the beginning of the redemptive process and thematically conceptually purification brings to redemption just like we said about purim those two parasol and zer that the merit of brings to the of Amalik. So too uh purification represented by brings to redemption which now we understand is the concept of is redemption. Okay Zion moving right along bottom of the first column on page 221. Now on the other hand a little nuance here rees of course was not the actual redemption that happened on which is pes which is the night of the seder we all know that it was only the beginning it was the alf was the which is when the moon is and then the real ultimate expression of redemption like we said before was 49 days later at cool just like for the actual redemption you need you need actual purification ation. So to for the potential redemption, you need potential purification. What does that mean? The public Torah reading empowers us. was you read which is potential purification and then you have which is redemption potential redemption. Why is why is why is potential redemption? Because it's the beginning of the redemptive process. It's not the full redemptive process that happened on that's the order purification and redemption reading is potential purification then you read and you have potential redemption then you have Biss was when it actually happened to purification the actual sprinkling of the red heer. Then you have from the 15th of Nissan the actual exodus until 49 days later that's gul actual. So you have potential potential actual actual you guys follow potential purification is reading potential redemption is actual uh purification is base niss when they actually did the the burning of the red heer actual redemption is desel you're looking flustered no you're not I'm the one who's flustered And I'm projecting it on you. You know why? >> Cuz at 1:00 I have to shoot my monthly social media videos. >> Oh, you got to rush. >> I got to rush. But I'm not going to rush. I'm going to take it easy. >> Oh, no. >> Like I don't have a care in the world. I can make this take as long as we need to. We don't have to speed. But I think we're going to be done in what? Tortoise wins the race. That's right. You know the parable of the tortoise and the hair. >> Yeah. I'm going to do it tortoise style. Okay. You ready? >> Yeah. >> It's the last ice. I think we're going to be done within four minutes. That's what I think. Okay. Well, it's that thing where you do bets on all types of crazy stuff. >> You're Gen Z. You're Gen Z. You have to know this because all the Gen Z are gambling addicts and they go on that thing. What's that thing called? You bet on everything. >> How many like how many times is >> what? What's it called? >> No, you said it. >> What's it called? Poly market. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's what I meant. Yeah. >> Okay. on the weather. >> Okay. >> By the way, I'm just talking about this in my overhead. >> That's like what that like the point shaving uh scandals when like the guys were missing free throws in the NCAA. >> Yeah. Okay. >> This is the teaching we have to take out from this. Okay. Because this is kind of like complex stuff. Four paras. Yeah. All right. Two connected to por. Two connected to pes. And then in the pes thing, we had the potential purification. A potential redemption. Actual purification. Actual redemption. Okay. Now just like the true purification, the ultimate purification that will only be when Mashiah comes because then Hashem says, "I will remove the spirit of impurity from the earth." Hashem will get rid of all the irredeemable clipper. It'll be all gone. But that only happens when Mashiah comes. their okay because when Mashiah comes there's still going to be the like says as Mashiach as his own learn is going to have to force to learn to do he has to force them. Not everyone's going to want to do it on their own. We flip the page. 222. Flip the page. The spirit spirit of impurity will still exist when first comes. But then Mashia will get rid of it. The spirit of impurity. But at first it'll still be there. And that's what he has to force. So you could think based on that you could have the misunderstanding. Oh Msiah's going to come and he'll get rid of the so therefore I don't have to worry about until then. No comes and tells us if you want to come to the purification and the gula the redemption in actuality you have to first prepare for that which is what can you have to do as much of the purification as you possibly can. This is similar to what we spoke about about the ash toid about the ash schlamat and the ash is the fire from below and the fire from above. Very similar to what we spoke about before fire from below and fire from above. You have to do everything that you can do to prepare purification like we spoke about we called it potential purification as opposed to actual purification. You have to purify yourself from the father of impurities. The father of the father, the granddaddy of impurities, which is death, which is kipa. Like these sages say, anyone who learns the laws of bringing a sin offering, it's as if he brought one. It calls it calls it a what is it? What does t call a katus? The paradum is called katus. If you have then you get rid of the source of all impurity not just the lower level. Amen. And then you have the full and actual purification and redemption through Messiah. May it be sweetly in our days. But we have to get ready for it by purifying ourselves as much as possible now. Okay. And that is the endem. And we'll see you, God willing, >> next week with a lavish what was it called? Enhanced breakfast. I love that term. Enhanced breakfast. >> Rabbi, >> good to see you. Are you good? >> Yes. Yes. Yes, of course. You guessed right.