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The Four Divine Letters — 4 Steps of Communication
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[Music]
i want to give a special mazel tiff to
have maisha
maisha daichu is here
in honor of the hassan of his daughter
last night
chateau matslachas
we've seen here akhasan come on the day
of his hope to the sheer
we've seen a father of a hassan kampt on
the day of the hasanah but the morning
after the khasana that's
so welcome
[Music]
it's a beautiful beautiful hasanah
we should always be able to celebrate
symmetras with each other
with
frederic marcus
so what was the main the main point
that we learned last time in the
previous chapter
that the world
has two
two elements that are both very real
on one hand
there's so much separateness
and that separateness is not a mistake
it's not a random
it's not a random mutation pun intended
it's uh inherent to the fabric of
creation diversity differentiation
what he calls escalcus
in so many different aspects
wherever you turn
there's diversity
even within one family even within one
species
where did you find it
okay
you always got to put yourself into the
head of
the person in charge yeah
so that's one aspect of the world it's
another aspect
and that is there's a sense of unity
there's a interdependence
things are interlinked interconnected i
can't live without you
we can't live without each other
we everyone is a giver and a taker not
just by people and the whole the whole
system of the planet and the whole
system of of the universe everything is
interconnected
and that's the nakuda of achtus and he
says though both are true one represents
as one is represented by shemalakkim
and one is represented by the name of
utkevka alakim is the name that
represents hiskalkas and that's why it's
losing it's in the plural
why because it represents the pile
benefil the unique divine energy that
sustains and vitalizes
the unique features of every single
created being including its distinct
qualities that differentiate it from
everything else
and it doesn't mean that the two are two
separate forces
that fight with each other but they both
exist he says on a deeper level it's
really the same thing
because in hashem and as the essence
paradoxes are as logical as
non-paradoxes so all diversity that's
the greatest definition
unlimitedness is also a definition it's
also a limitation sometimes the greatest
limitation you can have is that you're
unlimited
you don't know how to limit yourself
it's sometimes a very deep limitation
you don't know how to be in a
relationship
right
you have sometimes people they're very
big they can't make space for anybody
else
that's ah
a jack of all trades and a master of
none very well
somebody who knows the price of
everything and the value of nothing
so
obviously here we're talking a bit on a
different level but the nakuda is
that league of all infinity is also
finite if it can encompass finiteness
so in the core in hashem you have both
the way it comes out in a defined world
is
eliquid represents
the hiscalcus the differentiation that
comes from the essence and hawaii
represents the actus and the two are
really one in the core
the way it comes out in the world is in
these in these
in these two names
and that's the real actos because real
unity is not a unity
that is defined by one thing that's a
very superficial unity true actors is
the unity that comes out from endless
diversity and still it's all one
so shame alakim and shaymavaya are
really one that's why we say hashem
hashem
it's a very interesting
and uh
maritz writes that
people would make fun of this
because they didn't understand it he
says it in his commentary on gemara so
it's pronounced sanhedrin
it brings it
rambam's words are it's based on a
gemara in sanhedrin
which means if you have a sanhedrin
let's say you have the court of 71
judges
and somebody comes and it's even a
capital case
and they open up and they all give a
unanimous verdict of guilty
you have a vote sanhedrin is based on
votes
you follow the majority they all open up
with a verdict guilty
knew you would think
send them straight to the to the death
penalty right
exactly i mean
if 70 would say guilty and one would say
innocent we know what the verdict would
be you would follow the majority
they didn't have another system that's
what the toyota says that's the system
of the sanhedrin obviously it has to be
a majority of sanhedrin not a majority
of people who don't know or don't care
you have to have a majority of people
who dedicate their whole life to this
type of
research and wisdom and seeking the
truth and you're shamayim it center
but
is poetry
i mean patronize it they they exonerate
him
they can't penalize him with this uh
with this punishment so the madrid
says people made fun of this it's like
it doesn't make sense right the 50
people the majority said guilty is
guilty and if everybody says guilty
which means it's so obvious
it's like it's not a no-brainer
so poetry
so the mufasam struggle with this over
the generations there's even one shitta
i think the iv it says poetry noise it
means poetry noise
you send him right to his death
it's such a difficult allah he says
python doesn't mean you exempt it means
like paraksha patrana you get rid of him
but it's a very difficult uh explanation
because everywhere in allah it means
your potter you're you're exempt you're
exonerated it's not barak sha patrani
you get rid of him
i'm just bringing out how difficult that
luck is that he even goes to say
poisonous doesn't mean you exempt him it
means
you right away you just dismiss him
right away you kill him right away
there's no hesitation
so the mufashima explained that
maritzius explains that madrushmal
explains it from a first fascinating
idea and that is the rambam is madayak
one word he says sanhedrin
means the opening of the court they
opened the court everybody said guilty
there was no discussion
there was no conversation nobody argued
nobody gave a counter-argument
nobody said one second let's look at it
from this perspective
she says that means
that this person this case was not dealt
with thoroughly
because
if it was dealt with thoroughly there
had to be a debate
there's always there's always
there's always something to say about a
person
yeah study his background study the
situation study the circumstances it
doesn't mean he's potter
but if pos hokule
you didn't you didn't investigate
thoroughly enough the particular
situation
if he says if they discussed it and
there was an argument
and
one side persuaded the other side and
then they gave the verdict then the rama
wouldn't say python nice is it possible
it was right away one side what is this
arduino for
this is a digma
that to reach the truth of one side you
have to have the other side
if not even this side we're not
convinced it's true
practically speaking
if i never hear another perspective
so how do i know my perspective is
thorough it could be it's just you know
indoctrination
it's always through the paradox
that you you yourself reach a much
deeper place of awareness
so this is an example for this
even in much deeper levels and more
spiritual levels the real actos
comes out in endless diversity
and in the endless diversity there's
unity
that's a much much deeper and more real
form of unity it's not a unity that's
defined because everybody looks blue and
everybody look or looks red or or says
the same address is the same looks the
same it's an actus
that is not defined even by the word
actos it's real unity
so therefore it encompasses all the
paradoxes on the contrary the more
paradox the more diversity the more the
unity comes out because it's a unity
that's not defined by a particular image
so this for hashem and alakim is called
and that's where the two elements in
creation it's not just two elements it's
really one we define it as two things
yeah it's not two things we defined it
as two things that was the main the main
thrust of it
now god gets to the next uh to the next
nakuna
will be the indian to understand this
more
we said earlier that yurt kevke has four
letters yud and hey and
that's not stam random four letters
the four letters of utkevka it says in
kabbalah and exodus they represent the
four worlds
they also represent if you break it down
further in each world you have all four
letters
the six middles of and malcolm says hey
it's called
so within each world you have the four
letters
why are there four letters it means it's
not just one
undefined oneness that was just proved
that yut kevaf k is also connected to
differentiation but it's the way all the
differentiation is one it's one name but
there's you then there's hey and this
woven is hey
what's what's the it's not stamped four
letters and four worlds it's just four
so the explanation is
if you say yutkay wafkee hawaii is lost
in mahava existence comes from
it means existence came out through four
steps
and those are the four steps of
communication yud and hey and
there's apostate
says
he sought
he told the story he prepared it he
investigated it and he shared it with a
person
it's an interesting possibility so the
majestic
that everything in today
before hashem said it to much he
prepared it in himself four times
it's like before you give a speech you
prepare the speech four times you say it
over
to yourself and your mind or in your or
verbally or you write it down four times
not just you don't say the speech once
you prepare it four times that's what
hashem did that's what it is
then he spoke to martial then he called
and marshall for the speech
he said
then you give the drash
i remember once i was a child so i was
shabbos afternoon i was standing by the
fabrega
so the people would go over a middle for
event we were making events sometimes
or big
so they would go up and say
so there was a show making a big dinner
a banquet that night
sorry shabbos a big malaba malka so they
happened to have as a guest speaker my
father was a guest speaker for this
dinner
the name of the show was avasm
maple street show
avas maisha
on maple street in brooklyn
so i saw my father went up and the
laboratory
so he told him something and he smiled
it was interesting so i asked him what
did he tell you
he said he told me he asked me perhaps
graded russia was that night or
cigaretted russia you didn't prepare you
didn't repair the russia
so my father he didn't prepare so much
so he you know he made what he made with
his shoulders
she says mexicano from
you can also prepare four times at least
once
i don't know why he wanted so much he
should repeat it russia but that's what
he said
but what's up shot
huh
for today's class yeah it was a
preparation
what's takadup shot i understand
it's important to prepare people who get
up and they speak without preparing
you could see it at least you could
sometimes see it
what does hashem have to prepare person
prepares why you have to know what to
say how to say you also have to know
what not to say it's also important but
what's this idea
hashem is preparing what because
it may be a confusion
exactly what's exactly the preparation
the structure you may forget something
you want to make sure you have the word
good what's the idea yeah it's hard to
understand but but that's what it says
in madrid
so the balatanya explains gevaldo the
kabir
that the preparation four times
represents four steps
four steps
in in the communication
of the divine energy to be able to be
perceived and experienced by creation
and that's yud and hey and hey shayma
vaya meloshin mahava it's not some four
letters that's what the madness means
though that those four preparations
first is a youth then there's a hay then
there's avov then there's a after that
there could be his havos that is the
source of his harvest
so it's four steps
of communication of divine communication
that's
my not i'm afraid of the the people i'm
gonna make a mistake i'm gonna forget
the joke i'm gonna forget the vart i'm
gonna miss out the punchline i'm gonna
forget the
fundraiser it's essential four levels
and steps of communication
in order to be able to bring it down
from the divine source
into a reality that we know
and that's why you have four islamists
the four worlds
are essential idea what's this four
words why not 20 worlds why not 69
worlds
in other places it says take those
endless worlds it says that and there's
many more words but generally all of
them are defined that's sillas
so again it's yodhay and hashem has four
letters but each world essentially it's
like an evolution it's called the styles
like a shall shell is a chain
it's a evolution or devolution the
bianco if you had devolution
first time i said it he said it's not
evolution it's devolution
your wife probably okay it's a plague
right
depends which direction
so it's it it but it's it's it evolves
at syllabus is the urdan and the debris
it says
that's that's what we want to understand
what are they what are these four in yon
what are these
and of course
the marriage is not saying islam like
the rebel told my father madame decliner
from them if hashem did it
right so that means that's essential to
the art of communication
the art of communication includes four
essential four steps each step itself
can have many steps of course just like
in acilis and breed there's so many
different aspects but generally it's
four steps here than hey
what is the nakuda one is called ra one
is called sapra one is called one it's
called khakra
so that's what we're gonna see the
explanation
it starts with you then hey the first
two
now here you have to understand
something as a hakadama
and this is a very important
introduction
and you have to be a typhus
all the merchant that we give
have one problem not a problem a good
problem
if a teacher or a speaker a lecturer or
a shiva whoever it is
is communicating
right
the people who who are listening exist
before the communication
his communication doesn't create the
people
it gives the people information it gives
the people inspiration it gives the
people motivation whatever it is
in this case the shear
is not giving information to the people
the shear is
creating the student
so now imagine this imagine
if your words weren't only words your
words actually created
the student who's listening to your
words he's not listening to what he's
been created by your words
okay so what you're saying is not just
what you're saying what you're saying is
gonna define
who is listening to it we don't have
that power we don't do abracadabra could
do there's people and i speak to them
you can hear you could not hear you can
absorb you could not absorb i said it
better i said it worse effective not
effective but what if your words your
seer doesn't only speak to the audience
it makes the audience
yeah we said this morning in davoning or
gonna say
who um
here the world is not created
the world is here before hopefully the
world will be here after
baruch
hashem
that is what makes the islam so this is
an important share
because the the the element of
communication is defining that
which you're communicating
so that's where the four steps are not
just four steps it creates four worlds
it creates four different types of
realities
atsillas
is the sheer
the way it's the first preparation yud
bri is a different sheer it's hey
it's serious different sheer it's not
just this four worlds because god gave
four speeches it's a different type of
consciousness if the if the shia
wouldn't go to the last hay there
wouldn't be a la masia it would be it
would stop by allah because there's a
last day there's an islam asia
you understand what i'm saying ah
foreign you understand what i'm saying
the distinction there's going to be a
marshal of a teacher and a student it's
a beautiful marshal but remember the
distinction
here
the world is basically a sheer that's
what it is
yeah somebody said i think therefore i
am
yeah sometimes we say god thinks
therefore i am and here we say god
speaks therefore i am
the world is a sheer it's a presentation
hashem is giving a shirt it says in
mishnah it's by sarah my morals
islam it was ten
10 sayings he gives short shi yoda not
like some people
short
boom next
yeah how long does it say sadibris how
long how long did it take how long did
martin tay to take you think
huh how long did it say i said i said
how long does it take to say
but
even that was medieval
[Laughter]
so it's a few minutes the whole
martensite is a few minutes but those
few minutes were enough
right if you know what you want to say
you don't need more than a minute or two
if you don't know what you want to say
then 10 hours also won't do the trick
and you prepare four times yeah
yeah
i think there's a letter from the rambam
i someone saw somebody wrote i think the
rambam he wrote to somebody
i didn't have time so i'm writing a long
letter
i didn't have time so i'm writing a long
letter
because the compressed simpson is
is a great art
so the four worlds are essentially a
reflection of the same sheer
in different stages
what are those different stages so i'm
going to say the nakuda generally and
then we'll be more specific okay
you designer cuda
hey
is always an expansion
right
you is the smallest letter in the
alphabet we always say you there's a
seminal point
it could be smaller but if
it's the closest you get to smallness i
mean you this is just
a little line on the top a little on the
bottom it's called quite social
it has a little crown on top a little
a little thorn on the bottom
but then
hey is already expansive in the
suspicious then you have
is like a youth but it's a you that's
much longer it comes down it's called
hamshach
it's an extension literally like a
channel like a pipe like a line a carve
that
represents a flow and then there's a
second hay which is obviously the first
hay is an expansive expansion of the ud
and the second hay is an expansion of
the valve
that's why it's two haze why not put in
a new ladder
mix it up a little bit give us more you
know put into the challenge of fourth
ingredient and the answer is
because the haze are important the hay
is the expansion of the previous letter
so there's the way the unit expands and
the way the vove expands the you this
does the you have hey love the higher
hand hey tata the lower what does that
mean so very briefly
explains
we also learned to that length in the
miami we learned a few years ago in the
three weeks and the shiva didn't
recommend from hillel is a besikta about
gallows and golola the whole purpose of
gulas and all over there there's also a
long section on this
so the nukuda is as follows when
somebody wants to communicate and this
is really in all forms of communication
because
from hashem it's not just hashem did it
if he did it that way that's how that's
how the system works if that's how the
system works we're all part of that
system
so communication has four elements
two is within the mashpiyya
two are within the mashpiyya but it's
about the macabre
mashpia is the teacher makable is the
recipient
you then hey it's all within the giver
the one who's going to teach
vav and hey are also within him it's all
preparation preparation nobody knows
about operation i do myself
but in preparation itself this is yud
and hey and this is
first letters and last letters the first
element of preparation is all within the
teacher
yut is on the kuda
the whole message is summarized in the
nakuda
if you want to speak very practically to
say in the most practical sense
before you speak you have to know what
you want to say
and that has to be able to be summed up
in two words in one sentence if not
don't open your mouth
you'll see sometimes a person speaks and
speaks and speaks and you say vos viller
zaga
and you'll ask him
topic another topic another topic
another topic
you deserve
what's what's the message what's uh
elevator pitch
they call it mission statement
but even even whatever it is it could be
a shield mother any indian yeah what's
the vert what's the voice
don't give me a ten minute speech what
the vart is
it may take you 10 minutes it may take
you 10 hours may take you 10 pages but
there's a yud
what's the vart
the ute is not enough with the youth you
can't give a shia you need a hay
the haze is the next level the hay
expands the yud
does what i want to say right what
but how is it being built
how am i saying it what is it made up of
a clown is a clown
right
i want to build a house
i have a vision i want a house i want a
company i want to create an organization
i want to create a website i want to
change the world
okay or more more exactly i want 10
billion dollars you relate beautiful
okay
now
what are the mortar and the bricks of of
of of that vision
all within the person
now say it no now you need a valve
what's the issue with you and hey this
is the big issue in communication
you are thinking about it from your
perspective
but you're speaking to people
they don't have your perspective they're
in a different world that's devolve the
vote is
you got to get in a sliding pawn and go
down you got to go down
you have to now
understand who you're talking to
this is not easy
what's their mindset
what are the where do they come from who
are they
what are their sensitivities
right
in the world of business when they coach
people who are communicating trying to
sell products you're trying to get
investors right they'll always tell you
you know articulate the need right make
him feel that he needs it emma's
if you don't do that
they say there was once a guy a kid a
teenager he needed a job he was out of
school needed a job so he came into a
big company and he said he's gevaldic in
sales
valdic
so the manager the ceo sees him he says
really
convince me right now yeah to buy a
bottle of water from you
i'm not thirsty i drank convince me
right now so there was a newspaper on
the desk
so he took out a slider and he lit the
newspaper
so the whole thing the whole desk was
now all the papers were right water
water water
he said i have water to sell
so i don't know if that's mamasha you
have to make a presentation light the
place on fire
i don't know if he hired him or not but
he was obviously a creative guy
he certainly convinced him that you need
water
what does it really mean what does it
mean if i'm not speaking in your world
if i'm not speaking to you inside of you
it's meaningless
and you'll see sometimes people
communicators get up
they may be brilliant but nobody it's uh
it's
the word is
there was no valve volvo is a bigger
void
because evolve you have to go out of
your own world
not so easy to go out of your own world
you're communicating to your spouse
you're communicating to your children
right you're saying beautiful things
but you have to know the other person's
world the other person if you don't
understand sometimes your point will be
completely misconstrued and have the
opposite effect at best it'll just be
meaningless sometimes even worse
but that's not enough now you need a
second hey a second hey is just like i
had a first day what was the first day
how my vision can be articulated in
paratha in details now in a second
once i know your world once i brought it
down
now how do i build it in your world
this is the real the last thing how do
you structure a class or a presentation
for the audience that they should be
able to receive it
you get you get it
you see here a muted thing that that
this this four stages in kabbalah and
siddhas it's literally reflected on
every level
in other words you could use this
lahavdil not that that's the tactless
but you could use this as a complete
workshop of teaching people
how to communicate you need the four
isis
and the reason is it's not a mistake
it's not acute martial it's because
infinity
infinity wants to create a world
a world of finiteness how is hashem
going to give his fear
and he wants the people should get it
remember we're not only getting the
share we're being created by the sheer
so if there was only a youth
what would we look like
we would look like the sheer
the way it's in the teacher's mind the
nakuda
that's what the world would look like
what would that be practically what do
you think
what would that world look like
huh
what would you see
well there's something
what would you see
ah
you would see wonderkuta
it's basically going into the teacher's
mind and seeing that nakuda
everything is there the host in atsillas
you have apples and it says
that's apples and attilas there's
oranges there's even watermelon i don't
know sushi
but it's not an apple it's not an orange
it's actus hashem
you understand
yeah
so if it would stop there
that would be the world that would be
the student
but it didn't stop there there was the
second step of the shear that's the hey
what's the hay
the hay is the way the youth
takes on dimensions
i know that's unique but but give me the
structure of it all in the teacher
it's still in the teacher
what would that word look like that
world would be an expansion of that yud
but it's still before the valve
there's no vav yet
so if the shear would stop the if the
shield would come out right there
it would be maedek
but everyone is like that went right
over my head what would that mean in
creation went over my head
it means that we would not exist
as we exist
and that's the oil um
the world of bri is a world
it's a state of consciousness
when you
in kabbalah says it kind of called
aliyas
going up worlds or going down it says
davening has different stations
so most people you read it it's like you
know chinese
and even if you know chinese this is not
even that
what aliyah who ali even aliyah so you
say it's for hillary nobody is shy to
understand it but really it's not like
that
the balatanya wanted we should
understand at least on some level
it means going through layers literally
going through legs it's almost like when
you have the shear
and you say you know what i want to go
through it the gemara says in avoidance
it takes 40 years for the student to
understand
it takes 40 years for a person to
understand to be umid on the da's of the
raf and the tsaraya from apostolic
moisture told the jewish people in
kisaway
says
40 years after it's eastern
you haven't had a heart just
lay a heart to know
and eyes to see and ears to what do you
mean what 40 years we're with you no no
you don't you haven't seen anything yet
why it takes 40 years to unravel so
that's how you unravel that's called
alias
if you go back
any coup in the world and in the quran
in the world right you unravel it you go
deeper and deeper from asia you can
climb to yet syria from yet syria to
bria
it's climbing from the height of the
vault from the valve to the hay after
the last so you have avov
is the hey is gevaldic it's the
expansiveness of the youth but it's all
the mind of the teacher it's my idea i
get it and i have the whole thing the
problem is it has nothing to do with you
it will not speak to you now you need a
vote it's a whole new symptom
and you could see sometimes you could
see sometimes
the you could see
when you hear a shear
right
an interesting way of uh you know they
they ask you sometimes to market right
mark how was it in terms of the yield
how is it in terms of the hay how is it
in terms of the above how is it in terms
of the hay
for example you have somebody who gives
a lot of details a lot of details and
extrapolates and digresses and stories
one of the worst things you could do if
you're giving a speech
is digress without a reason
people love doing it it's the month you
know like the story with the love he had
wonder russia ankara and he would travel
but he only had one russian what do you
do
nobody think about kairak
so he would drop the handkerchief and he
would say it's a mazel the earth didn't
swallow up my handkerchief as it
swallowed up kyrah
ah once we're talking about the worth
swallowing up kaira i heard a murder
dick of art
and that was it and people were
impressed even parties he has such
brilliant ideas on paris kaira
you always have to be able to justify
what's the youth what's the nakuda
what's the nakuna
always on the other hand you have a
person the nakuda is clear but the hay
was not developed
the structure was not developed
sometimes
you have the youth and the hay but there
was no valve
there was no valve
in other words it didn't it didn't touch
me
it didn't affect me it didn't go into my
brain it didn't go into my heart it
didn't go into my kishkas
and that itself there's many levels
sometimes
i know how to apply it
but i'm missing the last hey and the
last day is really creating a structure
an architecture literally architecture
it's like building a building that's the
hay hay is a building
it's very expansive a beginning a middle
and an end each one is a separate crush
one is the khush of khakima one is
now open your mouth before this don't
open your mouth
this is an avoider
hashem did this four times
when you see something it's always one
picture
just a picture
there's always the end of a sheer you
have to say what was the you saw a
picture a picture is always on the code
it's a huge
there's a lot of details in the picture
a lot of details in a piece of art but
it's one vision you take a look at it
and you see it
that's
raw
then there's bina then there is
all communication these are the four
letters
oh i couldn't i couldn't i couldn't brew
them
i couldn't record them or before
attila's
attila starts brewing
yeah that's be fortunate i couldn't
attila's begins with brudim
interesting words it's knowing the cloud
the principle in every place
shakasha mashp
a giver
wants to communicate light to the
recipient
that is not
love it's not something
that is
relative to the world of the recipient
it's something beyond it's something
transcendent
i'm not telling you something that you
know already it's something completely
beyond the recipient
there has to be a tremendous symptom
you have to have the courage to shrink
to condense yourself to go out of your
comfort zone to go out of your space me
call the cult it's a very humbling
process
because the recipient will never have
the capacity
to receive it the way the light the way
the flow
is expensive
and in prosperi and in our cover and in
greatness in the world of the masjibe
samsung
after you set aside
and you shrink your limit you limit
your very essence your very core
cotton
you're going to
basically
leave you're going to set aside
everything and you're going to leave
only a small tiny part particle
that is necessary and capable nitric and
roy to be able to be communicated
and from there the oil can begin to go
to the macabre
here is a huge aside
and that is
that the first
first nakudin communication
the first nakuda communication is
the ability and the awareness that i
want to communicate
and here again communication doesn't
only mean words communication means
every connection it's not just if i'm
giving a speech it's true in a speech
too
but it's true in every level of a
relationship every level of
communication
it's about stepping
out of
my own paradigm and tuning into you now
that's very hard
i just want to say it sounds easy it's
not
especially
if i'm suffering
from
a deep deep deep wound
that doesn't make me trust anybody
all i could be doing is
feeding myself
in order to help myself
to do this
takes a lot of confidence
because it's dangerous emotionally you
understand what i'm stepping aside
really no no no no i'm not stepping
aside nowhere i step aside i die you
have to understand the danger of this
emotionally
in a relationship to really be able to
create space for the other
you have to be free
you have to be flexible you have to be
pliable it could be very very difficult
there could be tremendous fear and
paralysis i'm not going out of my own
world ever
i'm staying here you won't come into
mind
and sometimes you have that a person
stays
they can't go out
i can't really connect to your world i'm
too
you know i'm on the defense i'm on the d
i'm on defense when i'm on defense i can
go into your space i just have to
protect my space it could be
subconsciously but i'm trying to explain
anybody relates to what i'm saying huh
it's a very serious thing i may not even
know how to do it i may push it not know
how to do it i may be paralyzed like
stuck
you know there's insects they paralyze
their foe and then they kill them
i maybe push it's like really stuck like
like they say call it a deer in the
headlights you ever see uh in muncie
middle of the night yeah the deer like
freezes
what if you're in that mode you're the
deer
and there's a reason for it because a
car came in middle of the night whatever
that car looked like
okay
and i froze like the deer the only
difference is the deer after 20 minutes
went on i never went on i'm still frozen
in muncie
faglivert it's called in yiddish if i
leave it you know what fagliver it means
karush
karosh
how do you say that in russian
nobody's frozen in russia
they drink
they're not
frozen
spirit spirit that melts the ice
the problem is it melts the ice on the
outside not always on the inside
so what happens
if i'm frozen i can't do a symptom i
can't you need smooth i can't step aside
and really tune in listening
is an art of liberation listen really
listening is you have to be able to let
go
if i'm busy attacking i'm busy defending
i'm busy criticizing i'm busy judging
i'm busy
frightened it's normal but i can't i
can't do this you have to understand
that a real mashpia has to have
self-awareness
because if i'm in a defensive mode i
can't even begin to do this
you bestow
if you're talking to your children and
you're defensive
you're defensive you're you're basically
and you and and you're anxious
you can i can't even begin to do this
i'm just busy protecting myself
and and dodging bullets in my own
imagination so you have to be really
self-aware are you capable of this
what am i what is this
this
is really he says sometimes 99
of what i know is irrelevant to the
recipient
and if i stay there i can't give him
anything
it may be it's beautiful stuff for you
completely irrelevant
do you have the courage to be able he
says very strong words he has to be your
human
my entire essence the way i know it
i have to say don't worry just step
aside for a few moments you'll come back
go to the side room you're not going to
disappear
it may have been real when you were four
years old by the way
and anyway it's irrelevant if the car is
real it's relevant if my brain thought
it was real
you understand and that's a car what if
it was a truck
what if it was a 48-wheeler truck
you know what happens to the deer
and what if the headlights are blinding
they're not just headlights you have
your hazards on
you know some cars drive the middle of
the night they blind you
now that's all a car and what if it's
psychological
i'm just bringing out
you have to be aware of this step
can i really put aside almost everything
i know
it takes a lot of a lot of humility also
creativity but humility
this is where most communication fails
you want to know the challenge why are
most speeches boring
the basic why are most speeches boring
depends where you go fine
okay because you go to the right places
you go to the right places but what's
the issue
so the key issue i'll tell you the key
issue the key issue is the person is not
really speaking to the
people of course he's speaking to the
people and he means well but he's not
speaking to the people
he's expressing himself
that's it
and you can't blame him he's him
he's not me he's him so what is he
supposed to do be me
but that's the art of communication the
art of communication is
it's
simpson
the ancestor said i'm becoming finite
god is not finite he's infinite no i'm
becoming finite
and here we are
that's communication you want to know
how to give a speech learn from the
reborn of shalom his speech was
mysterious nephesh he went from being
infinite to being finite ah that's how
you communicate
you could forget your whole atmos and go
into wool wow that's big
don't underestimate what a what a real
communication is real communication is
not expressing myself that's not
communication
real communication is
i guess you're so comfortable with
yourself you can set yourself you could
put yourself aside
you say what do you mean i'm talking no
no no that's not communication talking
is the is just the props
that's not communication
how they know right away
no that's why there's different worlds
every world is a different level of the
seer
of course
there's an ashama vasilis
has different glasses
it's almost like you know when you see a
world through a microscope you can see a
different tissue box
if you're in a shaman for matsillas yeah
your glasses are different
it says
all everyone we all come from the same
source but the way it evolves it's like
the sheer
and within i see itself
right there's endless levels where it
stops
and i see itself there's by the way two
levels does i see ah
the last hey
i see agasmas is the way the speech
leaves the teacher that's our world
you see till our world all the urim are
still
within the teacher so they all feel the
divine our world is the first world
where the teacher actually he said the
speech
when once you say the speech now
somebody can
plagiarize it
somebody can misconstrue it as long as
it's in my mind nobody can make games
with it nobody can play games with it
nobody can make a macha against me right
because it's inside of me once you say
it
the cat left the
the bag
now first of all they can quote you
right
hagoon of menagana if they can
plagiarize misconstrue misunderstand do
you understand make
that's this world
here the speech already goes out and it
becomes concretized in the world
the hidden is the ability is to be able
to connect this world to all the worlds
so the first step you have to always
have is he says disability what's left
over after kalatmus is maybe a little
little part of information this the
macabre kid here if i'm sitting down
with a five-year-old kid and i want to
teach him something
don't teach him what you know right
you may be a genius you're looking at a
possibility you're a missionary and you
know so much about this
put it all aside
and tune in
really tune in
and that's
you're left with on the kuda you're left
with a seminal point
so this is the introduction before you
get to the first unit even
shrinking
compression is what that the whole light
of the core of the masjid of the teacher
is concealed it doesn't disappear it
just has to get concealed you have to
put it aside nothing disappears it's not
being destroyed it's alim this allah
means like the moon
when it's concealed the moon doesn't
disappear just i don't see it
i'm not going to show it in my speech
it's not my point
because if i show it i'm not going to be
speaking to you i'm going to be speaking
to me or showing off you understand this
allah means can there be parts of you
that have that are concealed it's fine
not everybody has to see it
so that's the first thing
that the atsumus of the mashpiyya gets
concealed and what's left over wanakuda
wow that's all you know that's all i
know one little that's all i know this
this is my you that's what i'm left with
ah now you're a mashmiya
you're left with one akuda in a revealed
way that's what's left why
because that's what's left from the
simpson
that which is worthy to be communicated
to the recipient if it's more than a
youth you won't get it
so you took your whole genius and you
condensed it into a youth
why because that youth could be
communicated it's the beginning of it
there's another point even that nakuda
that's left over from the whole flow
is also in a state of symptom it's
condensed
built in
that itself didn't expand yet
in other words it can't be communicated
yet she's out simpson vegeta
that leftover information that yud
is also simpson
first is
that 99
is concealed and you're only left with a
youth now that information in the youth
wasn't developed yet it's still a
seminal point the nikkor
still a state of
means no thingness
you can't give that you're over yet
it's it's tiny there's no harm shocking
there's no espacies there's no meat and
potato there's no breath there's no
depth there's no length
it's not yet
so there's going to have to be a hay
there's still going to have to be a hay
to take that you'd
and turn that you're into a mansion
into an expansive mansion
so in the beginning when i spoke about
the four stages i said you didn't hey is
in the masjid
kabul but here we're learning something
even more
before you begin you start with simpson
before you begin baklal
because ut kevke is already
communication hashem is communicating
it's a name yut kevke mahava you want to
be mahava you'd
then say hey then there's above then
let's just go on we should another few
moments i want to finish
here he describes the whole thing the
way it is describing the divine that
what
since the core the essence of the hashem
is light is infinite
it's called urpasha botanicals it's
absolutely undefined
so if that was manifested in the bria
what would the world be
the world would be oil mamas
would be pure undefined infinity if that
was manifested that would be manifested
again imagine the teachers share
everything the way it's in him comes out
what's left from the five-year-old
he's like that was boring
right that was boring
in this case you wouldn't say that was
boring you'll say okay i guess i can't
come into existence
i can't come into existence so what's
the first step
he says
with you is a source of life
so he says even the source of life
hashem as a
imha s it's with you it's not you in
other words it's not
in other words
is completely
condensed relative to the core
no thought can grasp him even the
highest thought so therefore
you want to create hishtal asylum as the
evolution of the world the first thing
this is how the eight skeim of that
result opens up there has to be what a
simpson what's the idea of simpson
simpson means
to condense
to filter to shrink to compress to limit
to withdraw to withdraw what's the
withdrawal of symptom
it's this withdrawal
the other has to be concealed
it doesn't have to be obliterated but it
has to be concealed what does it mean it
has to be concealed where does it go to
she says the area is niklav and this
allen batsmusa
the ur goes back to the core
it's called speed goes into the core and
it's not manifest
just like by the teacher
he doesn't lose his light
but the light remains concealed in his
essence
in the communication
what can come
but if all the light goes back to the
essence so there's no world
so he says
f could say you one little particle or
wave
of light
one little particle a wave of light can
come out
which
could be responsible for the creation of
all of the universes that could now
assume some form of defined identity
you get it
this is where the teacher and student
metaphor so important
what's the simpson by the teacher the
first thing
this is not about me
it's about you i'm telling you it's the
hardest part of communication
i once gave i once gave
i was invited by the pentagon to speak
to all the chief of chaplains of the us
army
so unlike a jewish event they gave me
two years to prepare you know the jews
call you a night before a few hours
before at best a week before the yak is
six months before
the qasid after
they call you after
but uh
but the american army you know then they
you know
they they call early so i had two years
to prepare and i prepared well
my sister i came hilton had south
carolina
i came the night before
i'm sitting in my hotel room
and i'm writing
i'm just you know going through my notes
i'm reading it
and
but when i came the night before i met
the people i met the chief of chaplain's
name was
his name is douglas carver and i met a
lot of other people and i met the
soldiers i met it was the first time i
really saw
the culture of the us army from up close
you know it's a whole culture it's a
universe it's not
with the saluting and the saluting and
different salutes you know that there's
a different salute for a different rank
you know that
you don't know that and i didn't know
how to do it so your uncle goldstein my
friend says stop saluting
because you're doing everything wrong
and you could be penalized
because the worst thing is you salute a
four-star general with the saluda chair
to a three-star general achasdosa you
know what i mean it's like it's like 900
push-ups
so he says you're a good guy but 900
push-ups maybe a little above the limit
so just stop saluting you're you know
you're you're a regular citizen you
don't have to live they don't salute
this
and it's a whole culture so i'm meeting
all these people and i met
three in the morning i was sitting
and the priest was a lot of priests
because it's chaplains so they wake up
early and there i was i had a room by
the beach but there was an old beautiful
ocean so they were jogging three four in
the morning they were all jogging
with the bible
jogging jong and jung
and
i'm looking at the crowd that i'm saying
i'm like this speech
is good but it's just not
it's not gonna hit the spot it's just
not gonna hit the spot
because i wrote the speech from a very
jewish i'm a jew right you may have
noticed that
i grew up jewish my parents are jewish
right i married a jew my shriger is a
jew
my mother is a jew my father is a jew i
grew up in a jewish community i still
live in a jewish community
so we think a certain way
and then i'm like
it was all good but it was just
[Laughter]
it was good for a dinner of the mir
yeshiva
yeshiva maybe yeshiva university but
this is
the people they don't have your traumas
they don't have your issues
they don't have your insecurities
they have a whole different reality can
you tune into it
i push it scratch the whole thing
i threw it in the garbage i'm like i'm
not saying a word of this
and i rewrote the whole thing
why i knew right away i just felt
that
it was all nice but it was all from my
world
you have to go out of your world
it's not an easy first of all you have
to know about the other world how do you
even know about the other world you have
to listen
you have to tune in you have to be
curious
you have to find out about the other
world
people talk to teenagers right you see
sometimes russia shivers mashp
they forbrang with them and they give a
mustache moves in yeshiva they give a
shear
but all of the teenage you ever see that
glazed dead look you ever look you ever
see
oh you ever see that that remember when
you were a teenager you know that dead
look on the 17 year old 16 year old it's
like
like when is the old man gonna be done
they're not arguing with them
right
there's just no
he means well he's saying beautiful
things but it's just so irrelevant why
he didn't bother ever
to go out of his own world
and really really tune in
what this person is going like who are
you
and then say whatever i know is
irrelevant
that has to go back into me it'll be
fine i'll we're gonna come back to it in
an hour
i'm not going to take your departure now
as a sign for what i'm saying
and then you have to
that's a you that's a very courageous
unit
what's le what are you left with you
left with a little shepherd
so that's the simpson that happened in
ainsof
hashem was ready to become finite
let's just finish
[Music]
12 he reveals the depths from darkness
is
shapiro from krakow
from darkness how do you reveal light
from darkness so he says the ain't
scythe is called darkness
why
because it's not accessible it can't be
manifested to me
sometimes the greatest light is the
greatest darkness if you don't have
caleb for it
right what we're calling
just means for me it's dark it's like if
you look at the sun in the middle of the
day look at the sun what is it going to
do to your eyes it's blinding why no
light too much light
too much light you don't look at it but
it's dark
she says this
me the essential darkness of ain't safe
it's essentially dark not dark in a
negative sense
but completely beyond
what i can absorbs i can't call it light
light is communication what's light
revelation but in science today what's
light
light is basically the method of
communication if you want the
sophisticated term for communication
it's light that's god's term we call it
speeches communication
god's term for it is light
everything emits light
light is the gilui
but if it's not beginner there's no air
it's kaiser
the black hole this is the black hole
the ultimate black hole
black hole has light but it's so power
the power of gravity is so deep so
powerful
that
it it doesn't allow the light to escape
so it's called the black hole because it
has the most light you understand it's
kvaldic
black hole has more light than anything
else why is it called black the answer
is because the gravitational pull is so
powerful it holds the light back so the
light is not emitted so what does it
become becomes a black hole because it's
full of light that's a muscle for
khaishakh of ensigf
it's the biggest light so it's dark it's
black it's a black hole
you understand that's the simpson
all the other has to stay in the atmos
can't come out
oh
in order to be able to release a little
light
so he said so what happens
so from this is megala mukas comes in
from this
that the world could ultimately receive
and it become it can become the identity
of creation that's the gilui post
simpson
that that's the youth
but now we have the second symptom even
this revelation can't do anything for me
what's the student going to do with
mayurd
it's it's too it's too iron it's for me
it's nothing
but for the student it's everything if
you give him that iron he's like oh i i
don't know what you're talking about so
now you have to take that you'd
and develop it you understand and that's
really that's even that's another level
of mysteriousness
that you you could say it's not serious
it's not there's nothing there no no no
for the students it's everything that
you would you now have to turn into
something
from i you have to turn it into a yash
that's what it is
that's what's left over that could go
into the world that's true but
you're going to need to develop that
into espacitus
beyond revelation
so it's called iron no thingness
it's called iron for two reasons from
the perspective of atmos why is it
called i in shayna turf is much
conveying
because it's nothing it's just the
seminal last point so it's called ayan
the hello elements the world will also
call it i and why
is giliadine because it's no thingness
iron is nothingness and iron is no
thingness
at most calls it i and why
because it's just the leftovers it's
it's not taifus
the full light the worlds call it iron
it's too beyond it's no thing ness it's
intangible it's still a yud
without the hey it's still a yud
so they both call it iron from opposite
reasons
from atmos it's i in because it's just
what's left over from the whole earth
that which can ultimately be relatable
to the universe from the universe's
perspective it's called i in
because it's still completely behind me
it's just a seminal point and it still
needs to be it still needs to be
developed be able to be articulated
that's going to be the later process
so in every person's life you have a
metaphor for these aspects
you have an element of this
okay
we're gonna take a break here
so i'm away for a few days i'm away for
a few days
so this week they won't be sure them
anymore
there won't be a share tomorrow tuesday
and also not thursday
um not for the women and not for the men
so please your wives or daughters will
come if you could tell them tomorrow
there's no class i announced it last
week
so tuesday there's no class and thursday
there's no class and then we're going to
resume blinder next week
but not not not tuesday not thursday
so i wish everybody a wonderful week
in all four stages the yuled and the hay
and the vav and the
thank you for
thank you for gracing us
welcome
he's with us every day from montreal
i was saying you then hey of oven in the
beginning
yurin hayes and the teacher of oven
hayes and the teacher it's all true but
here he went a step further after then
even the first year comes after a big
symptom
there's still going to be verven hey
that's a whole other that simpson makes
it relatable
symptom creates identity
oh so we learned via daito moskva that
what happens after 40 years
in the ud is really everything it's just
concealed
so ultimately
you can unravel it from the youth
ultimately
another it's not like the teacher when
he's giving a shirt he forgot everything
he knows it's all there
it's just not being communicated in a
way that's overwhelming but it's there
in the words
so therefore after 40 years
the student could reach and see things
that he never saw in the beginning not
because they weren't there
because the tools
were give we're limited
he could do reverse engineering yeah
when the student becomes like the
teacher himself
so then he could see it from a different
perspective
you understand he sees it from
down
mata la mila looking up the teacher sees
it looking down it's a different but
it's the same thing but it's really
opposites so reverse engineering is
when he could see that whole process
if you want a relationship
that's if your relationship to god
you're asking a good question do you
have to know your car
in order to drive it
excellent question
no no i like it do you have to know your
car
you don't have to know your car oh
it's beautiful beautiful question so
what do you have to know all this so
that's if your relationship with hashem
is like a relationship with a car
okay
listen what i'm telling you it's like a
relationship with a car you're right
and that there are streams of judaism
that that keep it that way because
there's a certain
simplicity it's a safe structure
yeah it could work
right what happens if you're married to
somebody
and you say listen you're just my car
i don't want to know about you
i don't want to know what's happening
inside of you you're just a car
i'll be with you we're going to go to
costco together but you're a car
remember
and i appreciate you and i'm going to
invest a lot of money in my car too
i want my car to be beautiful
and i want my car to be perfect
and my car i cherish
and i'll do anything for my car but i
really
don't want to know anything about you
right
so there's different levels of a
relationship so there's a relationship
where i could just give you rules when
your wife comes home
you smile
and you say hi
good evening like when your car like
when and that's beautiful
and that's beautiful and that's
beautiful
parallel parking yes
parallel pocket respect for the car
don't crash it be sensitive to it don't
slam the door like a sugar
keep it clean yeah
let it get a manic every few weeks a
pedic here
take it to the station make sure it's
gevaldic and it's all beautiful and it
has for something to beat my bottle
but epis is missing yeah
what's missing
the pinemaus
the salt of the song
so
helps the jew
that will create and cultivate a
relationship
that's pneumonia is dependent here soul
to soul upon him upon him
so mosters gevaldik but muslim focus is
more on behaviors that are good
behaviors that are not good middays that
are good
middles that are not good
and it's
the whole toyota is one the whole toyota
is one
everything is one it's like a tapestry
it's a mosaic every part of toilet gives
out a different layer of taina yeah
it's true the focus in paname satay is
to really discuss the core
the core of creation the core of a
person the core of existence
understanding everything from a primal
state
tuck in a relationship
if i can understand and you can
understand
my my my deepest primal state
both my gifts my fears my challenges my
talents and we could connect from that
place
just a different it's a different level
of connection and there's a different
joy in the connection
right so what a person could think of
this like how does this apply
so let's say i want to connect to
somebody yeah let's stay in a marriage
for example
one of the hardest i would say this is
one of the hardest steps in every
marriage
and that is
can i really really
suspend
can i really that you that simpson can i
really suspend
everything i know about you
suspended whether it's right or wrong is
almost irrelevant
and really really tune into your world
to other person's world your spouse's
world
really
not
say i am or talk i'm listening while i'm
texting or even i'm listening just to
you know rebuff to to tell you why
you're wrong
or even just to say okay i hear
you know how man i hear okay they think
it's like a yeshiva
i hear doesn't
work but i've deadheaded
but can i really really
um create space
for your veltanxiong for your feelings
your emotions your perspective
and really really appreciate it like
really even though i i completely don't
don't think that way i completely don't
feel that way i'm just giving one
illustration
that was the whole share now you'd
simpson
to being finite you know what that is
that's much more than what you have to
go through for uh
yeah so it's one aspect yeah
it's a very serious uh
try you'll see
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