Text-Based Tanya Class—Week #12

so last week as we were finishing pedegv chapter six we were rushing and as i was leaving somebody said oh we went so fast we didn't really get the whole different levels of clipper clipa was too fast so i said don't worry about it because we're going to be speaking now at length about the different levels of clipper in the following chapters so whatever we rushed through at the end of last week that was really an introduction to the concept and now we're going to have a more protracted explanation of these concepts namely the different levels of klippa but just to review just review how we got here last week in chapter six we were speaking about the inner makeup and the modes of expression of the animal soul and we're saying that they are just a mirror image of or an inversion of the inner makeup and modes of expression of the godly soul and then we spoke about what is the definition what is this inversion what is the definition of kedusha and what is the definition of sitra and we said kadusa is holiness is that which is battle to hashem that which is surrendered and anything that isn't surrendered to hashem is sitra literally in aramaic the other side not surrendered and then we said but within sitra akhra or another byword we have for sutrachar is klippa shal husk there are gradations irredeemable and redeemable and the irredeemable are described as three utterly impure clip ice and then the redeemable one is called clipas noiga the shiny or luminescent clipper that's what we did last week sounds semi-familiar yeah yeah okay so now let's go to pedagogy okay chapter seven [Music] however meaning we're pivoting now because we had just been talking about irredeemable clipper and now we're pivoting to talking about redeemable clipper the animal soul of the jew which is clipper the one that's in the blood that gives physical vitality he says as we mentioned above where do we mention for bonus points which chapter you have a one out of six chance of getting it right where do we mention that the animal soul is the vitality in the blood which you're saying this like one one is hashem right who knows one yes chapter one at the end of chapter one very good so as we mentioned at the end of chapter one that the animal soul is the vitality in the blood which gives life to the body he's making a list now taxonomy so that also the vino fascist behemoths for kosher animals and fowl and fish viking daymond also any animals or or rather any uh inanimate or vegetation which are kosher vegem any behaviors that a jew does that are mundane meaning they are not expressly forbidden they're just not expressly done for the sake of hashem either al-uratsun agufa hafta vitavasi rather they're just something that you feel like doing your body wants to do va even if it's necessary for survival not indulgent allah says you just didn't have expressed intent that you are doing this survival thing in order to be able to survive in order to serve hashem so you're just doing it sort of mindlessly so all of these things we just made a list the animal soul itself of the jew the souls of the kosher animals and kosher uh vegetation and permissible inanimate objects that's a lot a lot of permissible inanimate objects although everywhere you stones trees you know talk about a lot of stuff here um all of this stuff oh and also the vitality behind the behaviors that a jew does that are neither expressly forbidden nor expressly done for the intent of serving hashem all of that stuff this list that we just made we're now going to classify it spiritually can you give an example of that last category that somebody he's eating because he needs to eat to live but he didn't think to himself i'm doing this in order that i should be able to serve hashem but what you didn't even hear what category it is and you're already saying but no category that i asked you to give an example but you don't know how we're classifying it yet can you repeat yes i will surely gladly repeat we don't even know what this is a list of but here it is the soul the animal soul itself that we described at the end of chapter one as being the vitality and the blood that animates the body the souls of kosher animals you know like cows the souls of kosher fowl you know like chickens and the souls of kosher fish i don't like filter fish what salmon this noga felt the fish and the souls yes they have souls of permissible inanimate objects meaning the the energy the energy behind them and the energy behind behaviors that a jew does that are neither expressly forbidden nor expressly done for the sake of hashem but you just gave the example of that being eating non-culture i didn't say non-kosher so this is our list the last one is energy behind the actions that we do that are neither expressly forbidden nor expressly for the sake of a ship so he says those types of behaviors are no better no higher in spiritual categorization than the animal soul itself that's why they're part of the same list very good the ha coil virtually all of it they're all from the second level of clippers reveal which is the fourth clipper hanikras which is called clipas neuga the luminescent clipper so now we have a nice list of things that are clipas neuga the shiny shell the luminescent husk where there is a covering but the covering is translucent you can make out that there's a godly spark behind it i.e you can perceive the potential for this thing to be used for the service of hashem not that it is yet being used to serve hashem because it's not yet designated we spoke about last week that kedusha also could be designation it hasn't yet been designated but it has the potential to be designated as opposed to what as opposed to something that's off the table it gets opaque right i mean you can't perceive how it could ever be potentially used to serve hashem and it can't be designated to serve hashem because torah already set it off limits but we're not talking about those things those irredeemable things now right now we're talking about the redeemable about stuff that's clipper it's not holy yet but if you use it the right way you could access the potential and elevate there it uh something in the in the hebrew word that's really fourth so remember last week you said there was like yeah yeah he calls it the fourth one because the other there are two kinds of clipper redeemable and irredeemable the iridema will have three gradations within them so then the redeemable one is the called the fourth one okay but for our practice i mentioned this last week yeah it's not important so for all intents and purposes for all practical purposes there are two kinds of clippers redeemable and irredeemable yes it's very easy to remember that's redeemable because remember the reason why it's shining neuga means luminescent it's shining is because if you can imagine metaphorically the godly spark within it is able to shine through it you can make out through the veneer right you're looking at you're looking at the cup of water so this is a husk this is a shell i don't see godly energy i see a cup of water but if you look deeply your mind's eye can perceive the potential how this cup of water could be converted into something holy you could drink the water to use it to teach torah well we're going to talk about making a barracuda we'll talk about that the ones that cannot are called shawlish clipper satimayus which literally means the three impure clippers and we call sometimes to emphasize that we call them utterly impure or we call them irredeemable or sometimes i uh i will call them opaque in contrast with the luminescent one which is clippers yeah the end of last week we started talking about the irredeemable clippers right that was our list of utterly impure that's why the beginning of this chapter starts with the word ah means however it's a pivot because we were just talking at the end of chapter 6 about irredeemable stuff and now we're pivoting and we're saying here's the redeemable we didn't discuss it at length but that's what chapter 8 is going to be about yeah okay i've been play us the song you're the piano man okay so i've been given a request all right by the way all of the requests that you have in mind i also have in mind and i just i discount them because i know how much time i have but what can i do one of my fans asked for one of my classics okay here we go so i have people here have taken the tanya shear before so anyways yeah um by the way it's not my muscle there's a circle from the rabbit partisan is actually my bar mitzvah it speaks about the spies about how the spies went out to scout out the land in the days of the ripening of the grapes so that ebba says why do we need to know it's the days of the ripening of the grapes so he says because the message is that like a grape you hold it up to the light you can see the seed through the skin that's a metaphor for klipas neuga where if you peer through the the physical appearance of something you can perceive in the mind's eye how it has a spark of godliness and since the miraglim remember they came back with ill report because they were afraid of the physical world they said no we can't engage it we won't be able to successfully refine it so meisha was sort of preempting that or attempting to preempt that by telling them hey guys the whole world is a grape in the days of the ripening of the grapes look at everything as a grape look at everything you see as just having this thin little skin that's translucent you could peer through it and perceive the fact that there's a godly spark inside so anyways clippers metaphorically compared to a thin skinned fruit if that helps you with the visualization yeah okay so are the three irredeemable um three-year demo club yeah are those related to the ten crowns of impurity yeah are they three of the ten no can you give an example are they related i mean yeah they're they're klippa but i think do they correspond to no they don't correspond to them no they're totally different things that's how you you you're mixing and matching totally different categories now don't don't don't they're totally different things they're different ways they're classifying different things the ten crowns of impurity are ways of describing the sole powers of the nefashi bahamas the different faculties the nephew promise possesses here the different categories of clipper is a taxonomy for describing all non-holiness in the entire universe they're two different things don't don't mix and match them yeah no it means to glow like the planet venus is called neuga because uh it glows because it has like a cloud cover on it and makes a nice uh like uh makes a nice glow yeah no because we're gonna do it in chapter eight just to make a little bit more you want you want one example yeah a pork sandwich there's no purpose there's no purpose for you no you wanted to give him clips to me it's a pork sandwich just no purpose for you okay all right should we continue okay wow you know what he just said in this world which is called the world of action the majority almost to the extent of being all of it is but ra doesn't mean like devilish like uh diabolical evil ra just means like we described in chapter six either it's kedusha or it's not so it's true you look around the world most of it has not been designated expressly for the service of hashem although most of it potentially could be designated for the service of a chef meaning most of the world is in the category of yes clipper but klippa snoyga very good very good okay so most of the world is a little bit of good mixed up within it that's what makes it so tricky because it's mixed up in it and here in the brackets he says that little bit of good that's mixed up in the ra of clipper snugger that's where the good traits that are natural to the jewish nation come from as explained above and again i'm going to quiz you guys one out of six chance of getting it right where what which chapter was that remember we said that the animal soul of the jew is animalistic it's survival oriented and amoral and yet there's a little bit of good traits mixed in there like what do you say by shonen gaming it's mixed in there where where do we talk about that anyone remember what you say first chapter end of the first chapter yeah the end of the first chapter we spoke about that so since clipas noiga has a little bit of good mixed in there you see that the uh the animal soul of the jew which is klipas naga has uh good traits that come from it the he now look at this it is an intermediate category or a uh well i wouldn't use that term in the context of a tiny class because it'll really confuse people because beta me has a very specific meaning in tanya so i don't want to confuse people but this layer or level or category or station of clipper or state even call it of clipper is in between bain scholars clippers between the utterly irredeemable on one extreme and the holy meaning designated especially for hashem on the other extreme these let me put it this way actually i saw something that was very helpful once in a in a circle from the rabbit where this was very helpful for me that ebba said that once you engage with something there is no more clipas noiga clipas noiga is almost like a theoretical tree falling in the forest and no one's there to hear it once you engage with something it's going to go one way or the other depending on how you engage it or engage with it so this clipas noiga state is sort of like in theory this cup of water is sitting there waiting to be given some type of definition and in theory it could go both ways you could use it for good you could use it the other way how could you use a cup of water for evil i don't know i don't want to get you guys being too creative about these things but if you're creative enough you could use anything for evil speak no we're not going to speak of evil no no i don't most six five repeating by the way do you know do you know that 83 do you know that 83.7 percent of statistics cited by rabbis and tanya classes were made up on the spot you know that i would hope that the percentage of cleepas nega in the world has been going down in my lifetime because i was because we've been elevating everything yeah so that number i would hope and it is my understanding is very much in flux so i don't know if you take a snapshot in time you know we're learning in the parsha right now parsons vallero that's this week you know watching online it could be any partial but this week in real life it's valera so hashem is taking the jewish people out of mitzrayim one of the things we know is that when they left that doesn't say in this week's page actually next week's parasha but when they left mitraim it was with an air of rav and rav is based 202. the 202 sparks of holiness came out with them out of mitzrayim yeah and um how many 202 raised base it says came with them 202 sparks came out with them when the world was created it says that the godly spirit was hovering out over the wall 288 288 sparks from toyhub died what does it mean they died there was a shattering of the vessels and they fell into this world so from the onset of creation there were 288 sparks of godliness which shattered and fell into the physical world and needed redemption and when the jews came out of mitzrayim they brought out 202. and since that time basically the the the the severity of the enslavement in mitzrayim was such that they in 210 years were dushana 210 years they took out 202 of the 288 sparks that were ever in the world to begin with leaving only 86 which is the gematria teva which means that our remaining work since the exodus has been to reveal god in nature to see how the miraculous and the natural are really one at any rate my point only is to say that these numbers are changing and uh let's look at the board what are they like the telethon let's look at the board oh look at that somebody made a bracha and a glass of water and learned to block gamora beautiful all right let's continue here is most of the world ra or is most of the world cup or are those the same thing and the answer is yes yes and yes most of the world is ra most of the world is clippers nega and yes those are the same thing although not all ra is klipas nega sumra is really ra and we can't deal with it and we cannot redeem it and we can't have any relationship with it other than ignoring it thankfully most of the ra in this world is of the category called clipper snugger which we can deal with and must deal with and all three categories are constantly in flux well watch what he's about to say here watch what he's about to say here velocin have a demotion and it can be relegated to the three utterly unclean clippers you could take clipas noiga and turn it into shallow scriptures emmaus kamehameha test pedigree machinery sometimes you can take the clipper snugger and give it a promotion you can build it up turn it into kedusha dahinu and if you wanted it to be more spelled out for you here he is he's spelling it out the hino what are the mechanics kisha hot toy of a motherboard when the little bit of good that's mixed in it nisba maharaja gets refined gets sifted from the vagraver and it predominates meaning the toy becomes predominant the toiv becomes the characteristic that is most predominant va'illa and then it ascends the nicholas and becomes absorbed within holiness in other words there was a little bit of toy in here a little bit of godliness at this point when it's uninflected unaffected neutral it's just klippa snyder it's neither godly on an overt level everything's godly really but on an overt level it's neither godly nor antithetical to godliness it's not holy or forbidden there's a little bit of toy here the potential of it to be used for something godly so when you make the broke on it and you use it to quench your thirst with the intention that i'm now going to learn toyota and then you do learn twitter or do mitzvos or daven whatever it might be then the toiv that's in this meaning the ability the potential for this to be used for the service of a god becomes the characteristic that is most predominant now it becomes a drink that is being used actively for the sake of service of hashem and now the whole thing gets elevated meaning its spiritual taxonomy has changed clippers means a by definition clippers means a category which is in flux and will always be determined by usage so the default setting of most of this world of eilem garcia most of the physical world the default setting is klipas noiga but once it's engaged it's going to go up or it's going to go down and it can go either way we're talking about right now not talking about future or past we're talking about present talking we're talking about present right what do you mean you see everything stop go go on a news fest i'm not even joking anybody who ever says to me you see the world getting worse i can tell you one thing you're consuming way too much news you're consuming too much news stop it just go on a news fest it's terrible the whole purpose of news is to convince you that there's something to be in dread of so that you have to keep on refreshing and keep checking the world's getting better yeah you're saying are there degrees is there a continuum um well there may be but let's say it like this for our purposes let's just discuss elevated or not elevated meaning the opportunity was you let's say every encounter with klippa snyder is either converted or the potential to convert it was squandered and then it doesn't just stay where it is it becomes unfortunately that by default if the potential to convert it to kedusha was squandered now it becomes charles clipped as a timaeus because if it wasn't done especially for service of hashem so then the the intent by definition was selfish well now it's selfish now it's opaque now it's blocking the godly intent so are there gradations yeah there are gradations somebody makes a bracha with more cavanaugh someone makes less cavone somebody uses the the calories and his breakfast to daven more or daven less but let's just speak about now instead of talking about gradations let's just talk about for the sake of simplification was something did you make use of something in a selfish way or in a selfless way now how selfless how selfish that's another layer of discussion but for now let's just say was it selfish or selfless okay so you're asking a deeper question which is when you avoid the prohibited it isn't that a relationship it's a relationship of avoidance and the answer is yes you're correct and that is how we have a relationship with prohibited things the way we have a relationship with that which is oh you're getting me off why are you doing this to me okay so last week last week in parshashmi's hashem revealed himself to maisha at the snack at the burning bush and one of the things that hashem tells moshe when meisha asks who are you he says this is my name forever and the my way of being mentioned for all generations now la ilam rashi even on a level shot deals with the fact that the word forever is spelled without a valve oilum should be spelled i involve it man spelled with that above so he says it's hinting to you it means to conceal i in llama means to conceal so this is my main zeshmi la ilam could also mean this is my name to conceal meaning good kavov cares hashem's name the shame of mafirsh but we don't we don't say it we conceal it and my way of being mentioned ladar dirt i have another way of being mentioned all of dalai nuneut so even though my real name is yuk kevke you should call me as if it were spelled nunyur okay at any rate that's how rasha explains it who we're learning right now and in in another safer in the toyota are his mostly his shabbos my mother his oral discourses which were transcribed so in partial schmeiche the altar mentions that okay zashmil islam is actually a hint to us that the relationship we have with hashem through guarding ourselves from prohibitions is even higher than the relationship that we have with hashem through performing positive commandments he explains shmee zashmillah 200 yud is 10 so that's 237 so we have 350 and 237. what are those numbers nothing but if you take hashem's name you'd kevke and you imagine it vertically integrated as a map of cedric stauslas from higher to lower so you have yod and hey and hey so often we speak about the top two worlds alma discarsia the hidden worlds and the lower two world ahmadis this galia the revealed worlds yo kay and vk so shmee 350 plus you'd and hey yoda's 10 hey is five so 10 5 is 15. so 350 plus 15 365. what's 365. lisa say that's the prohibitions yeah and then you have k the lower two letters of the name vav is six hey is five six and five is eleven plus zero which was 237 11 plus 237 what's that 248 what's 248 248 positive commandments so he says you see the 365 corresponds to the higher two letters of hashem's name the 248 correspond to the lower two letters of hashem's name what does this show you it shows you that the negative prohibitions come from a higher source than the positive commandments why is that because something that comes down into this world in such a form that you can handle literally you can handle it like you could pick it up and manipulate it you could take the lulav and bench on it right and also i mean you can handle it meaning you're able to deal with it spiritually it's not overwhelming for you so those are lower relatively speaking lower level sparks then there are sparks that are so high when they come into this world ah i can't handle it i can't deal with it because it's too lofty for me so hashem says bubba don't waste your time with it you're not going to be able to deal with it so i'm making it prohibited for you and your relationship with it will be to reverently pass by and say i can't deal with this sort of like when a person makes another and takes something that's permissible and says but for me i can't handle it like i can't handle maybe you guys can eat chocolate like a gentleman you can have two pieces and you can stop i can't handle it i don't hate chocolate i love chocolate i i'm in awe of the power of chocolate and that's why i say for me i can't handle it all chocolate because the way it comes into this world it's not accessible the toiv is not accessible everything has told you where it wouldn't exist but the way it's in this world i can't access it and therefore i have to be humble enough to know my limits and say you know what i got to leave this alone but the truth is in the leaving it alone is a very lofty relationship with our shop similar to another yeah yeah yeah and the gaza is a very specific thing but yeah but then we would be able to handle it yeah that's one one way of looking at it yeah yeah how about a prohibited sexual relationship prohibited sexual relationships so it actually talks about it in terms of that for instance in atsilos saw and malchus are brother and sister and they're married are father and mother and so and malchus are brother and sister and they're married whatever that means in atsilos for parts of him for combinations of spirits to be nisaren to unite with each other and when when zohan malchus and natsilas marry each other they give birth to bria to the next world and up there it's the holiest thing in the world but down here we can't handle it not because it's low but but because it's high and therefore we can't handle it now that's not something that i generally teach because people hear that they get so confused they're like well that's perverted well no it's not perverted cause of shame to say that za and malchus are brother and sister who are married in atsilos that's beautiful the problem is when it comes down to this world there's no way any human being can handle that without it becoming perverted so therefore hashem says kind of leave it alone don't touch it it's not for you because we can't handle it we cannot access in other words we cannot access the toy that's in it yeah i thought you were going to say maybe you are saying about the etadas oh okay yeah that's what you're saying yeah yeah correct also the ether das it's not that it's bad it's that it's it's so powerful you have to you can only do it in the way that where you can handle it actually hashem even told them there's a way you can do this where you will be able to handle it you have to wait until shabbos make kiddush on it then you would be able to handle it they tried to no i can handle it i'll do it on my own terms and then it was an absolute catastrophe so yeah a lot of this comes down to humility it's basically understanding that when hashem says uh looks like you had enough to drink you don't punch the bartender and say i'll tell you when i had enough to drink when somebody tells you hey i don't think you can handle it you say okay you're right i don't mean just somebody i mean when chocolate when toyota comes and says guys don't waste your time with it so you were talking about forbidden relationships you know there's always the um i mean forbidden relationship is always the the most difficult thing because people don't have incredibly intense emotions generally speaking about a ham sandwich but they do about a relationship so they say but but i'm in love but i've invested i and and i have found while we're really going far afield but i have found that it is helpful not to tell somebody well you're disgusting pervert right like what's that helpful especially if somebody says there are strong feelings i think a probably more helpful way to define the conversation would be to say that maybe this is something that we have to recognize our inability to handle we can't harness this power so we have to humbly step aside right none of us well you bring up a whole other conversation of why do we find that the human desire for forbidden for illicit relationships has a tendency to be more emotionally charged than say their desire for a ham sandwich and the answer and this very much touches upon this whole discussion here is because of the potential for good that is in human sexuality that's why there is such a draw to it and also why the misuse is so relatively catastrophic compared to let's say something look any prohibition is a catastrophe okay but you can you see for yourself that a person can fall much lower because of involvement in this type of desire than let's say that they get obsessed with eating a ham sandwich where does that power come from that pull come from it's it's an inversion of the potential for good so there's a eating is a human bodily function procreation is a human bodily function they're all just animalistic bodily functions for the perpetuation of the species right that's un uninflected neutral now when you actually have to engage in those activities they're not going to stay neutral either they're going to become holy or they're going to become irredeemably bad they're going to become one or the other okay so every time you go to eat either it's going to be holy or it's going to be the opposite the same thing with the human desire for intimate bonding it's going to go one way or the other it's going to go one way or the other okay let's get to a stopping place we're not going to finish pedex zion today but let's get to a stopping place he gives an example which i think is very accessible here i think that's why it gives it what does it mean to successfully engage with clipas neighbor kaguyinder marshall for example he says just an example happens to be i think like i said a very accessible example he eats fatty meat of an axe and he drinks spiced wine in order to expand his mind for hashem and his toyota so here you have a person who's taking delicacies fatty meat of an ox and spicy wine those are delicacies and he's turning them into expanded consciousness for the sake of learning torah better kid rava like rava said the the story about rava he said guys you want to ask me questions you want to learn with me i'm much sharper after i've had my wine and my good smells hammers wine reija's smells so after i've consumed some of these delicacies then my mind is sharper you know if i don't have my coffee i can't give my tanya class right literally like i mean for yomtaf or another example you will engage in physically pleasurable acts well specifically here he's talking about eating delicacies for the sake of enjoying shabbos or yamtiv as i then if that's what you're doing if you're using these yummy foods in order to settle your body and be able to think better so you can learn torah better or to enjoy shabbos better so then what happens he describes the mechanics of it this butter kaya sabbas nega so the vitality of that wine if that's what we're talking about the vitality of that wine becomes like sifted becomes selected out the le la corbin and it goes up to hashem like a burnt offering and like a sacrifice you know when you take a sacrifice to the base of dush and they put an animal on the altar and the fire consumes it and it goes up in flame and there's this conversion where you've taken animal meat which is not holy but you make it into a corbin into a sacrifice and then the whole thing becomes consumed in fire and transformed into spiritual energy well that's really what's happening when you eat food that you use when you burn those calories for the sake of serving hashem so it's it's the same mechanics of taking the animal and putting on the altar in the basement ignition burning it and turning it into godly fire so same thing you take the piece of meat you put it in your stomach you metabolize it take those calories burn those calories literally in order to serve hashem so it's like a corbin it's the same mechanics of of a carbon yeah that's why shabbos we eat meat and we eat fish because we have the ability to more easily elevate klipas noiga on chavez now it should be mentioned that you have to really be sincere and it's not a license to become indulgent and call it a shabbos there's a famous story that the the balsham of once was in a shul and he saw a guy sitting and eating cholent and before each bite you would say le shame shabbos kaidish and the balsham to put his arms around the talmidam and they made a circle that's how they would sometimes before they would go into like an otherworldly trance they would like stand in a circle put their arms around each other and they looked at this guy and they saw an ox with a strymo eating choline and saying the shame shabbos kratish before each bite so he was saying the shame shabbos kratish but he wasn't really thinking it he wasn't really believing it he wasn't really yeah yeah so yeah he was just satisfying his pleasure so even here when it says that you do it for the sake of shabbos it doesn't mean that's an automatic oh it's shabbos everything is fair game no no it means that because it's shabbos you have the ability to eat for the sake of shabbos but don't say everything i'm eating oh it was for the sake of shabbos how do i know because it was shabbos yeah but that's not really why you were doing it just this all these what okay the point is that this this isn't a game it's not a game and hashem isn't going to be fooled by us making pronouncements that we don't really believe so there's some commitments involved in this big commitment yeah yeah yeah uh maybe let me let's go let's go a little bit further here let's go a little bit further so we gave an example of how to sift out and successfully convert the potential holiness in the clippers nega of food we gave an example of food what about something a little bit more intangible a little more intangible a person who says a joke a witty remark now you could make a joke just for the sake of making a joke just like you could eat food just for the sake of eating food feels good it's pleasurable making jokes because i like to make jokes but here what does he do it for the he does it to open his mind and to rejoice his heart that service of hashem has to be done joyfully do we have a precedent for this yes we do it commission rava li talmidov like we have the president in the gemara what rava used to do with his telomeres he used to open the lesson by first cracking a joke ubud and then the rabbis meaning the class the pupils would be cheered up and then he would be able to teach them so here we're talking about something that's not even a physical object it's a behavior it's a joke and that's klipas neuger clean joke for steiza it's a clean show some jokes are game eclipses tomas they cannot be elevated people come up to me all the time like grab i got a joke for you i know you need jokes rabbis always need jokes and i'll listen i'll be like it was very funny but i can't use that there's no way i could use that so that that's at least for me that's not klippa snyder okay um but maybe i just redeemed all those off-color jokes that people told me maybe i just redeemed it by using it as a muscle now and explaining using that idea okay