The 42 Journeys of Life אלה מסעי A New Kabbalah class by Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz

Welcome to this week's class on we're going to be learning a beautiful discourse in the Reb name of the discourse is called the Reb said this discourse in Shabas that year was the 28th day the month of Thomas which is also the Shabas that blessed the month of in the year 42 years ago. So again theic discourse is based on the second Torah portion. So it says as follows this is the traveling of the Jewish people that they left the land of Egypt by the guidance of and it says wrote down they're leaving and they're traveling and then it says this is their traveling from the leaving. So we know the the general question which is understood from the from the alterba and inidic discourses afterwards and and and the question is why is the Torah give going to such details about the traveling you know seemingly whatever happened happens so they traveled it was a journey but since the the traveling of the Jewish people is part of and we know to gives an everlasting lesson as we know that it says so the that we receive through from Hashem through Mosherenu is an inheritance. In other words, the whole Torah is an inheritance for every single Jewish person. So therefore, obviously, if it goes into such length about the traveling, there's a message and a a lesson for every single Jewish person every time and in every every space. Why? Because the Torah is everlasting. And therefore, Mosher wrote down the travelings because there's a lesson, a specific lesson, a special lesson in us serving Hashem in every single space and in every time also there's another question that they ask in the in the in the language of the verse. So, because it says moist wrote they're leaving to their traveling and then it says this is the traveling from the leaving. And there's a point there to actually find this expression also when you learn about the um the uh building of the beta mdash. So it says um the the leaving and the coming which is similar to this expression over here. But the question that he asks is why does it say moisture? Because the fact is we know the whole term received through moisture. That's question number one. And also why do you have the double expression they're leaving to the traveling and then it says they're traveling to the leaving. And also it switches the order. First it says they're leaving to the traveling and then afterwards goes the opposite. They're traveling to the leaving. Says to understand this we have to have an introduction. The whole idea of the traveling of the Jewish people. Why? Because we know the famous teaching in the medish. It says that the reason why that the traveling took so long so that when they get to the land of Israel and they inherit the land and they take over the houses, they're going to find all these treasures in the houses. But if that that's the case, one second. if they left Egypt and we went straight into the land of Israel like Rashi says it would take three days so they wouldn't have time to go ahead and hide the treasures but is the question is was it worth all these traveling just for the treasures also this deter comes along and gives us a whole length of details of the traveling obviously that's not just a preparation for what's going to happen later but there's something specific that's important about the traveling itself. There must be a powerful lesson in the traveling because since the traveling not as an as as a introduction of something later but the traveling itself is a lesson in terra and the question is what is that lesson also we know the explanation on a on a spiritual level that the idea the idea of the traveling in the desert was in Hebrew it's called the work of transformation but that's the question is asked one second where do you transform where people are living you transform a physical world but most of the traveling was where in the desert no one lives there and like it says clearly in that in the para besides a few places they travel that they had they had to have war with nations of the world but most of the traveling was in the desert so if it's all about transformation where's the transformation there's no one living there will understand this based on we know that the ultimate purpose why God created the world is and I'll say it in Hebrew I'll translate it God had a desire to have a dwelling place in this physical world for Hashem. In other words, that in this world, it's not only about transforming the world and elevating the world and refining the world, but the goal is that the world itself, the way the world is a a dark world, a concealed world, that world should be a dwelling place for Hashem. And just like in a dwelling place on its own that the person lives in the dwelling place the same thing also the goal is that this physical dark world hashem should be comfortable to live in this physical world and where's the where's the dwelling place on the lowest level we don't mean physically lower we talking about spiritually lower on the lowest level and it's like it's understood that when it says we're not talking like this is higher and this is lower. We're not talking physically lower. We're talking about in the spiritual level where it's lower because as we know anything which is higher when it falls it falls lower. So what do we see that when you're talking about in the lowest level in the darkest level you have the greatest sparks there. And that's why the ultimate goal is that where there's you have the greatest darkness since the source is from the highest level. The goal is to make over over there a dwelling place for Hashem for the essence of Hashem. And that's why the soul came down from the highest level to the lowest level to transform the world and to elevate the world and to refine the world but up to the highest level of our calling is to make a dwelling place for Hashem himself for Hashem himself in the lowest places. Now since what's our spiritual work to make a dwelling place for Hashem down in this world and what does that mean? Not only to transform the world, not only to to refine the world, not only to elev no. But to make Hashem a dwelling place down here at what what for what level? For the essence of Hashem. So it's self understood. In order for us to have the power to make a dwelling place down to the lowest level of Hashem, we need power from Hashem because as as the tell us, Hashem has to help us. We need help to do our mission. And not only that, it's not only that we're doing our work and Hashem is helping us, but we need to begin with there should be a transformation and a refinement on the lowest level. And after we have the help from Hashem for that transformation, then we do our part in making the world a dwelling place for Hashem. Reb is saying this, what's what what do we need? We need to transform the world. So we need help from Hashem. But not just help from Hashem. Hashem starts the process and then with the with Hashem starting the process we do we do our part. So based on this we'll understand the whole idea of the 42 traveling that the Jewish people did in the desert. And we ask one second there's no nations of the world because what is a desert? A desert means it's deserted. It's a place of kipot negative energy which is the lowest level. And like we know it says that in the desert there's no snakes, fiery scorpions etc. which is referring to the three impure and then it says sim there's a thirst which is the which is the fourth level of a kipa. And so therefore, in order for us to start our work and make a dwelling place for Hashem, so we have to go ahead and prepare the desert, which is the lowest place, so that we'll have the power to do our spiritual work to make the dwelling place for Hashem. And that's why we went in the desert, the lowest place, where there's four three levels of impurity, even a fourth level. And we traveled 42 42 travelings because Moheno was with us and he went in front and he wiped out the snakes and the scorpions and which basically means he went ahead and he abolished the source of the kleot. And when you have moisture bing going in front of you as that of introduction to pave the way to the the source of the kipot then every single person can go your do your specific job of making a dwelling place for hashem ready. They paved the way for you. Now since the traveling in the desert is the part that gives us the power to do our work in making a dwelling place for Hashem out for all future generations. So therefore making the dwelling place has to be similar to the travelings of the desert. And that's why Mosherenu had to wrote down all the 42 travelings and he actually signed it off. And like it says when you when you write it's also writing and signing it off. So what does that show? that shows our spiritual work of making the dwelling place for Hashem is similar to the 42 travels and like it's brought down from the bosto that every single person throughout your life we go through 42 travels just like in the desert what's the first traveling that we did we left Egypt in other words when you wake up when you when you when you're born into the world you're leaving you're leaving Egypt because before that you were you were you were in impregnated in in in your mother's womb which is and which idea the soul is in exile and we know that exile is compared to compared to pregnancy and like in a literal level it was was confined to the mother's womb and then you go out to the world and then you go through life and you travel through 42 steps but then at the end of the 42 stops what do you come to you come to you come to a good land an abundance land and the same thing also ref applies to the Jewish people that we go through 42 journeys throughout out our lifetime or including the last exile which is connected to the the the the weeks between um the the of mourning but the ultimate goal is to come to the land that's good abundance on the other side of the Jordan we're going to have the revelation of Msiah because we know Mashiach connect to as it says in the verse and that's why it says this is the traveling of the Jewish people that they left Egypt and Mo wrote leaving and the traveling because when you're talking about the traveling it's referring to the traveling the Jewish people did in the desert to go ahead and subdue the kipot the negative energy and where do we get the power from it we get the power from the fact that mob wrote down us leaving and our traveling know leaving is referring to going out and the source of the of the Jewish people and as we know the source of the Jewish people where where's What's the source of Jewish people from the highest level? Not only do we are we part of the initial thought that had have Godhead but the Jewish people's source is where in the which is the source of all the sources and which we know is called the Mala he's the escort um and just like the king he doesn't go himself and he has escorts that go for him and messengers. So Moses was the escort which means he brought down godliness from the highest level to the lowest level and the same thing also for the Jewish people that we bring down from the highest level from the source of our soul the source to the soul the way it's in the body in our in our journey and this is what gives us the power to do so so just like took us out of Egypt so the same thing also he takes us from the source of where we come from which in the he puts within us in the soul and the body that we have the power to go through galus and continues on to say in other words after we have the power from from on high then we have to do our work down here doing the travels to bringing it back to the source source and through that by doing that we fulfill the ultimate intent and this creates the impact now that mobenu is whose impact is through the toy Like it says to remember the ofenu because he gave his life over the so to is called in his name. He affects in the Jewish people the power and high and we can do our work elevating the world and elevating to the highest level and finish says as follows. It should be the will of Hashem that we learn these ideas and especially when it comes learning not just learning in in in conceptually but which affects action. The greatest part of learning is when you actually affects in in reality and we're going to come to the literal action. We're going to come to the which is the level of msiach and we're going to get redeemed and everybody all those passed away are going to wake up and mo is going to be there. It's going to happen with the redemption which is going to be through King David the King Messiah and whoever finishes off beautifully and powerfully it should happen beh very very soon and very very quickly. Here we have another beautiful discourse that shows us what our mission in this world is but where we have the power from to go ahead and create a dwelling place for Hashem like finish off so bad for you beautifully. We'll create the dwelling place for Hashem. We'll have the coming of Mashiach and next class will be have a great and blessed week. Shabua to.