Strengthening Emuna our Inner Knowledge of Hashem to fight the trends - Likutei Halachos 3 @SD Efrat

Back in the Shir David base midas and this time we're in person with our holy brother. Always better than on the phone. My son is actually back to work. Thank god he had issues with his with his uh back and he's had a former but the good news is he got his gun license. >> So that something we're all dinging for >> and he'll be a you know when it's a good boy he'll be able to be another for us to have a bit more shme and it gives him confidence to do his his holy role in the world. And that's part of the relationship flow is getting ourselves with all the voices that are going on in inside and outside of us that trying to take away our sim and our confidence, god forbid, and to both of those things. And also to um to make division, you know, make people, you know, one of the things I'm always trying to do is collaborate. I did like a recent little clip of a guy Mikavo. I don't if you heard of him, he's put stuff around those places. I even got from my family who live there. they they posted it in our family group. Um but the point not the point is not the video. The the point is the message in the video is that about collaboration and working very hard to keep people working together and in the business world I'm sure you see sometimes that can be challenging. Yeah. Meaning you have oh >> you have a divide somewhat between because of different agendas of the the different parties or different organizations have different goals. So everyone there is an aspect of where everyone needs to be real and you know protect and build their own you know little uh mostus or big Moses organization whatever it is projects but I feel that really for us to go the next Schlav in as a people especially in Eric as well we need to be more collaborative we need to undo that sort of hustle overdrive over hustle like where it's there's too much um need to sort of survive in instead we should we thrive. We should be able to thrive. So, not just survive, but thrive. And thriving means that we're together because because once you join, as Steven Kovi brings down, this idea of synergization, and this is a big point in relationships, once you synergize with someone else, you join with someone else, you 2 plus 2 equals 4. But really, in synergization, it actually means 10, 100,000. It multiplies like 10x like they talk about in all the seminars. It actually is a multiplier by joining of other people. That's way more than just a simple math. It becomes a a complete diff different reality when you join with people. We had forgen last night. the the feeling and energy felt like thousands of people because it was such each one each soul there anyway has a big sphere of influence and it was special people but it's you feel it grow and obviously that's the concept of relationship of a marriage is where you literally two people come and suddenly you end up you know with a whole big family you know can have three four five you know all the way till 10 to grow and then they have children their children and it becomes a nation you know like what happened to it we became a nation and we only came there 70 and we came out millions and you know this is this is the concept there wants vui wants us to grow wants to multiply wants us to expand and is a part of the the ways the mashia comes all the namas are coming down and joining together and that's through aus and through ziv and the all these holy things this is what brings the mashia matzah closer and that's how we can instead of just surviving we're thriving and that's really how am I should always go the the higher path the bigger path the greater create a path and and obviously means taking care of what's in front of you also. So that that that's a little bit of like a um important point I feel like that that was brought up in that video that organizations will grow much more if they're able to have the confidence to work with other organizations or even help other organizations who are who are struggling initially. Startups should be getting help from established companies if they really have they don't you should never feel that someone's taken away from you because everything's from Hashem. So uh that's important. So one of the things that we learned in haka in the previous section we're just going to just fly through these five points rising withus we learned about the importance of getting up early remember that um so that means like a cohen being zen like getting up with fire to the base of mdish so to every Jew has this of of dinging of especially mana and you know there's a certain time frame especially a man where we have time b mitzvah we can't just sleep as much as we want there's there's a time for ding there's a time for vod there's a time for krishma there's manim and we have to be z ourselves awaken ourselves be the word have elactricy electricy I forget the exact translation but the point is that we have to be aroused and have energy and and the word it uses here is it doesn't even try to translate it so lust for money lasting for money is the other thing we we we're handling and that's once again when I was talking about the businesses and all this stuff That's that's the point. If we're not lusting for money and we're doing it shamay, our business, then we'll be open to collaborate and help other organizations. But it's only about money. So then sh what it creates kind of society. Everyone's just cheating each other. God forbid. We don't want that society. That's not that's not breaking desires. We have to break the desires. Yeah. You can't in your office or in your in your home always be thinking about what can pleasure can I get right now. You have to think about what pleasure can I give? How can I smack someone else? How can I serve as someone else? How can I give to someone else? Closer to Torah. We have to try to become more closer to Torah. To realize that Hashem's hashka, hem is the one who's running everything. You know, I've been talking the last the last class about I got scammed last week and I trying to sort it out, but it's looking less and less likely. And uh it's one of the first times it ever happened to me online. I've always been very careful. I did have a tremendous toothachake at the m at the time, and I probably should have waited because I had less. I was mind wasn't working so well when I to when I did the the online uh forms I would have been more aware what was going on but you know that was my like my wife said I should do only do things with more and she's right the closer to you realize and Hashem's teaching you something each time sometimes it's worth paying something to learn a lesson even if it's god forbid for not good things because you learn a lesson and learning a lesson is also it's also how the Torah teaches you through different ways Torah teaches you through opening up a safer The Torah teaches you through struggles, through through mistakes, through through difficulties. We always dumb for the Torah to teach us rather learn it than have to go through the struggle. The opposite we ask Hashem, if you're going to help us grow, help us grow through Torah and mitzvah, not through pain. In this one, manifesting d when you break your sleep and you get arise at midnight. You get up and you're up to we talking about it last night. Tinos is are usually the darkest time. But it's also the time of transformation from darkness to light. It's a time of what's on wheel and there's an opportunity to get this concept called das. This is internalized knowledge and awareness that imminence fills all creation as we mentioned before and that we said is accomplished by a pigeon. So that was really a nice short summary of the previous everything we've learned till now. Now we're going to jump into the next and this lion he uses in the translation here of internalized knowledge and awareness of Hashem. This is what now we're going to go really clarify through das and through kavana through intention and we've been learning about that in the tan as well. The importance of kavana and intentions everything always aligns usually and also para's bow. So we know that hashem took us out mitz and we know that that was the beginning of our people began with ziz. We had to go. We had to break our tyra from the ty of mitz for Egypt. Get rid of the watermelons and the lifestyle over there. And we had to leave Egypt. We have to leave mitz. The marim the place of restrictions and restraints. >> Yeah. We have to do it and and like we sing on it's all happening. Everything's connected in. And I'm nationhood is born through zas. It's through energy. is through breaking sleep going to serve that's that's what we're here for. So the beginning and it brings it again in we're here to wake up the morning and I do believe the Tanya says and I believe in this it's a very strong thing the whole the whole par's bow is totally the same to as waking up in the morning on your it's the same because when you gaba on the gaba on your sleep you misgab on mitsgab in its place sleep is like it's restricted straight as state you can't really do much physically fine especially you're up in in learning holy things and you're on the sh level but in your level which is to bring theness into the goof into the g you know you're stuck you're lying in bay you can't do anything yeah so that place of restraint is like mitz it's a place of restraint we have to break that and that's one of the things we say in hallow part of hallow is breaking through the whole thing of halo with going through the yam and all the different beautiful about going out of our mean our mates of karasai call out to you from the from the restraints filled with this this this graduation of waking up and and he says the next part of the and is based on lesson and we're going to talk about there in that Torah based and we're going to bring it to remember is the reb And the of the beginning of the the whole is the is the student bringing the Torah of bringing it alive in in that's why he's bringing this Torah and it this Torah is helping strengthen our Maha and everyone needs to strengthen our in this generation saying the main is a perform comes while books are about amuna and amuna is internalized knowledge and one of the ways you experience internalized knowledge of Hashem is through talking to him having a relationship with him should be real by you he's going to say now clarified the rabbi's lesson is distinction exist between two sorts of questions raised in challenging alashsh So this is a famous concept. There's a cash that we type a question a solution a person can easily comprehend because it says by know what to answer there's this convas it's very important and I had a rebi who used to say this very strong his name I brought him up in recently he used to teach us and we used to learn just and a bit of gar together he used to teach us and say I know what to answer heretic I know what to answer send me any person any atheist I'll I'll be able to argue with him. I'll be able to teach him. I'll be able to take him out of this apicosis. And he said it with such a confidence because he said one of the reasons why he feels so confident because he had the even though he was a brisker and he was doves and whole another derek of limmed he was also a saddic helping at risk but now he worked at Kesha. remember that yeshiva especially when he worked in but um which is where I was but he said that he said as well as learning in brisk he said that he learned by rav was the big the big uh from the yeah rah and he he sat by his sharim in lakewood for years and years in Tanya and that gave him the sodas to be able to fight with any heretics to deal with them and he felt that and he was giving it over to us that we have to be strong to know want to answer a heritage. What we're saying in this in truth concerning that which Hashem delineate is comprehensible to the human mind who borrow. It's a great mitzvah to hone the intellect and equip the comprehensive matter clearly. By the way, we say this concept to should be sharp in your mouth. When you teach your children Torah, it comes from the fact that you sharpen the Torah in your head and your heart. So that when you're overflowing, we just had a meeting today with a Rebi from my one of my sons and the whole the whole thing was basically just learning how to communicate better with my son and that he he thank God has an amazing relationship with my son and we we came out and the conversation you know a lot of it's private but the the main is that he bear Mrs. Mai when it says that a Rav loves his talid from them anyone tremendous a is generated and not any god forbid any other negative kind of love and a pure love of just wanting his because says your your children also connected to your your students as well but the idea the reason that the way you can give over is because it's clear by you means sharp clear and you have to be able to have the Torah clear by you and that's why it's so important to constantly hone our intellect sharpen it clarify the Torah more and more because there's going to be situations going to come up where people are going to my kids ask me questions. They're not always so easy. You know, you're going to have to you're going to have to be in that in the right headsp space and and have the focus. You can't just be falling asleep at the table sh's real stuff going on in life and your kids need you. Yeah. They need to talk someone to talk to can be lead them and and to be that presence your your wife also. And this idea of a masculine force, this mashia, this energy we've been talking about a lot. You have to be in that home state. And you have to know sometimes they're going to hear things that can be also borderline stuff they picked up from the street from the online apps or even god forbid from a friend or even someone even god forbid a rabbi who's a bit like you know dodgy or whatever. You have to going to have to help them with those kind of questions that they're going to have. it's going to come up and you have to that means you have to be in a state where Gdalia Fence always talk about and please God we'll be having him you know in Tel Aiv in in Shalim and two locations and then here in right above where we're sitting now he'll be coming here one of the things that I get a lot of from he's always on his game you know you have to be ready focused ready for action that's that's someone who's constantly all the time ready for the next next uh the next stage the You can't say go off the previous stories. You can't It's like when I I did a bunch of good events in the music business for Nissim for other people. One of the guys that once said to me, the show must go on. So basically, you you feel good for a minute, but now you got to get your next story. It's always the next event. That's even though we do have to internalize thank for the good that he's given us till now but that's also important but we have to always be on our game because that's you see how fast life is moving and you know like even right now like with everything going on in as well you never know what's going to happen you we hope Gaddi is coming because with Iran who knows with Trump everything's unpredictable so with life and before Mashia comes coming in a state where we don't know when it's going to be exactly and are all about that the Arabs are all about that so they're the perfect exile before Mashia comes because they are everything's just, you know, out of nowhere. They don't they're not orderly like the previous goddess of Asov and and the Germans and all these other terrible empires we have to deal with. They they were organized. Things were set up. This is like we don't know when what like we see with terrorism, we don't know anything what's coming. Yeah. God forbid. So we would ask Hashem obviously it should be for good. But so knowing what to answer a heretic, we don't know when we're going to come across that. of courses. We have to know it's going to come. It's going to come either through our children, through the online world, it's going to come into our life. We're sitting in you're in a business meeting, a conference, someone's going to say something that's off. You're going to have to know how to answer it. And it's not once again, it's not just for them. It's also for yourself. >> There's also the sort of question that is impossible for human intellect to follow them. boys only in the future to come will the answer be revealed. Yeah, this is the remember was someone who would go deal with these kind of people. He himself would go out not saying we should but he'd go and play chess with the real masculine the real the beginning you know of all that whole movement he was busy dealing with those souls and answering them and helping them. Um so he had no he had no problem dealing with the so-called non-believers. So sometimes we're going to have to wait till the future when the the answers will be revealed. We don't have answers to everything. You know that's also important. You know one of the big W you say blime learns it out like on we don't answer them all completely wasn't satisfied with the answers of this. There's much more you're asking answer I have many more cashes than just those four questions on youm. Yeah, the holoca there's a lot of things. We have a lot of questions. You have questions. I have questions. Everyone has questions. You can live with that. You can live of cashes. It's okay to have questions. And Balamuna goes vital with with the questions and they'll come. There will be an answer in the future. As us to explore questions of this sort. Now he's talking about certain kinds of things that are like overlying philosophy kind of stuff. That's not that's not maybe not into that. Anyone who relies on intellect doesn't such questions as is written whoever goes to her will not return. So this idea of goes to her. We're not to her. Who's this her? Yeah. We're not going to go too much more, but this is important. This is like the um the mistress like the woman, the what's the word? someone who's trying to get you involved with things and are not a lady who's not enticements. Yeah. They're trying to entice you, you know, like the whole online world with the the whole feminine energy trying to entice men instead of them becoming vessels for the holiness and receiving. It's all about how they can make money out of you and entice you to their thing and it's not real. So that that [clears throat] is enticing. So too when we get busy with a muna that's not a muna with the opposite ma with thoughts that are not a muna that are the opposite of true belief and we're busy with philosophy and overly questioning things that aren't for now aren't for us to understand then it's like we're almost like cheating. Yeah. We're like having being enticed and it can pull you in just like a enticing woman can pull you into a wrong kind of relationship. Lain. So these are things that Rabbi Ak is very careful to warn us about. Oh, especially before Mashia comes. You see how in touch he was with what the kind of realities we'll be going through all the way till Mashia comes regarding questions of the source from his intellect. He must stand in. That's where you head towards head towards a muna is the answer. Muna is the quest is the quest. We have to constantly request to go after we have to stand everything standing off. We have to be someone who's very aligned with what amuna is about because it's intrinsic deep knowledge of Hashem. We're experiencing godliness. And the more we do that, we say that scam that happened to me that was I have a muna. Fine. I'm going to learn from it and but I'm not going to say why why all this stuff. Don't need that. Yeah. And same with uh everything that happened the last years with the war and some of the the friends of my sons that were killed and there's no point going into the y game. Yeah, we have to have a muna and we know that we're going to do for their soul. We dedicate our learning to Bengavio and we dedicate our learning to Isab and all these souls. He he was actually an older person just passed away but his son served in my son. All these souls we have to have in mind that we're they're with us. They didn't just disappear. The zawa says they're all with us. The souls carry on with us. The bodies aren't here now, but they're in the ground, but their souls are still with us. They're still connected to us and we're having them in mind. They're having us in mind. And even regarding those questions that do have an answer, sometimes the path of the person becomes blocked. He doesn't know how to respond to the question and count his. He's going to end up God forbid in heresy. Apicauses is the idea that he gets like is like injected heresy in him and that's what the member the snake when it came to the original when it came to kava injected apicauss in her it injected kafir injected inside of her a false kind of relationship with hashem this is called the zah of the nash this like pollution and that in that went went to Adam and that all of humanity has it there was a time was removed when we had our seni had it removed so we've tasted what it's like not to have it and when we do certain important mitzvah in a voda we have moments of freedom from that a little bit obviously when mashia comes going to be removed again but it's like this injection of course we don't want to have that inside of us so we don't want to be busy with that and even regarding those questions do not have an answer and the path is a person who become blocked and he doesn't know how to respond to the question. He gets this injected into him. I just read it again because it's important. He says for each a person according to his spiritual level can understand this sort of heresy to the greater or lesser degree providing he looks within. It's all about that intrinsic amuna. If you're in a panemia state, then you're going to be allergic to this kind of, you understand? You have to develop. This is why it's not enough to put filters on your phone and try block it off like it doesn't exist. The real avod is in your heart. Your heart's alive of a muna. Yeah. You're you're with Hashem. So when you're with Hashem, you're automatically going to reject this kind of stuff. Yeah. that this idea of moatness a person can be get into small mightiness and his amuna. So when you're in a time of challenge and you're you're not feeling great consciousness, you know in your heart you have this amuna, this intrinsic amuna that's inside of you that's so deep and so profound and gives the ability to overcome every test even when you're in a weaker state and that amuna is the key to go through those dark times and we have numerous stories of people going through darkness like all the hostages been reading Ali Sharabi recently. You read Ali Sharabi and you see and and from all of them because he talks he met a lot of them. Yeah. maybe not all every hostage but he met a lot of the famous onestov and he was around all these hostages and he was able to see by them like they were saying shilamalis as they were coming out the famous one with mashtov and the other and Ellie Cohen and they were saying shilamalas they were saying feelers when they were coming out and they were dabbling there the whole time there was a ma going on even the ones who weren't so into you know yiddish kite but there was a constant feeling of a muna that they drew into the focusing on the good that happened to them that day. story after story after story and that's functioning level and then what happens suddenly Hashem unblocks the path and this is what we're all praying for and then you get to moas but you get this expanding consciousness and this will end with this and that is the mitzvah to explore the questions to seek to answer them then you can start dealing with the questions so there are going to be times your mind's going to expand you're going to have ability like the rabbi said to me I know what to answer in napic courses because he was in a state of moddas where his consciousness is is alive but when we're being challenged and we're now in a smaller state. Now is not the time to deal with that because just go straight to the ma I have a ma that's it I'm busy focus in on a ma that's still vod now and that ma is going to manifest through talking to hashem through through developing a a seder of and and tora like we're doing now and that strengthens our and that's the idea as we said this gaba this is the whole thing it's a real thing from the beginning of the day we're already the fight already begins you just from the beginning mit the mitzv came after us what they were shooting arrows. They weren't just arrows, physical arrows. It says in the swarm, they were arrows of a courses trying to take us away from our so protected us with anan with the clouds of glory. Hashem's constantly protecting us from all this is trying to come and inject into us all these false beliefs and Hashem's protecting us again and again and again. And we should be z to strengthen our maha and and to have moments of greatness where we can deal with all this stuff. And when we're in a more smaller time to also strengthen our be believe be there with our to home in on the truth of and we're one with him and he's given us this holy n and we have the ability to overcome the that's the whole idea the is that it wouldn't give you if you couldn't do it. So you have the power to misgab on it and to to strengthen your muna. It's there. It's within us. It's within our grasp.