The Kabbalah of Frederick the Great and the Seven Years War

in the last days of his life here on this earth the al-taraba reveals to his beloved grandson the tamartzadek and eventual successor something that he had learned 50 years prior when he was a student of the magid in mezrich he learned it from the son of the maggid named otherwise known as the malek and it was that the approach that hasidism takes to personal development and personal refinement this is what the altar is revealing literally in his last 48 hours here on this earth revealing to his grandson that's amazing and he says i want you to know something i learned when i was a student of the market 50 years ago the entire hasidic approach to self-refinement is based on the military strategy of frederick the great of prussia during the seven years war that's tonight's presentation in one line now in order to understand even a little bit of what that means we're going to get into european history we're going to get into military strategy we're going to get into kabbalah we're getting into psychology so if uh if you're ready to begin the journey yeah okay so let's take a look at the first slide the first slide shows you where i began this journey i began when i was studying a secret the successor of the altareba seven generations later in khalik tess vav that's volume 15 of lakute sikhs there's a secret partially and it's speaking about yanke vavino our forefather jacob and how he prepared for his reunion with his brother asaph esau in english so yankiv is preparing for his confrontation with asaf and it says he did three things he prepared a gift you know as a bribe he prepared to fight prepared for war and um he davened he prayed and it's discussed over there how those three different ways of preparing represent which kabbalistically are the three main emotional characteristics and in a footnote to other number 55 here which i i have the original page of the circus and i circled it in red and then i magnified it here a little bit larger footnote 55. the debit refers to a few sources about this idea of yanke vivinu using all three emotional facets when he is confronting asaph and here's what the here's what the footnote says this is a manuscript this is the holy handwriting of the tsam sadiq the third khabad natak bahat which was copied a facsimile of it appeared in hattamim we'll talk in a minute what is hattamim volume three okay it gives it away that it's a magazine we'll talk in a minute what kind of a magazine when where what aleph page 120 folio a and the rebbe also gives a couple of other sources he says almond 407. we'll talk about that in a little bit but let's look at this let's uh still show the slide here let's look at this source of the manuscript of the deck that appeared in hat tommy first of all what is hattami it says here koevitz means a magazine it was a magazine or an academic journal maybe more accurately and it was published by the lava to yeshiva in poland after the sixth khabad rabbi had to flee the soviet union so they transplanted lubavitch lobovich as a town in white russia which became part of the soviet union they transplanted lumovic into poland and you see here that it says in the uh and the the the title here where it says kaivetsatomim and then at the bottom not the bottom but the bottom of the like the uh the bottom of the top but it says with the help of hashem varsha varsha means warsaw the city of warsaw that's where they published it nissan tough wrestling month of nissan meaning the springtime of 1936. so this was a magazine that was printed by the labovich yeshiva and it was about hasidic scholarship and they put it out during these years now let's look let's go to the next slide this is the holy handwriting which appeared there in that spring volume of 1936. this is the actual facsimile of the the handwriting of the tsa mahzadik and here's where our journey is really going to begin we're going to look into this manuscript and we'll take it apart word by word and try to understand a little bit what it's saying okay so let's just begin with the beginning and you'll see next to the manuscript i wrote it out it's very tiny but i wrote it out in block letters easier to read block letters and i have each line of the block letters corresponding line for line with the manuscript so you can try to follow inside okay i want to explain according to my best understanding what does it mean that jacob gathered all the flocks this is a story about jacob was a shepherd he gathered all the flocks what's this talking about now i should mention to you as we we mentioned earlier that there is remember in that footnote in the quest it mentions verse from the torah so that that's this page right here that's the page from like our oral discourses delivered by the altareba that were transcribed later after their uh being delivered and over here he speaks about this idea more at length okay but he doesn't give the uh the bombshell information of where it comes from here just speaks about in general the idea of of yankee visti ferris which is the middle uh channel and it com it combines love and or and transcends both of them and it avoids problems that are symptomatic in the when you compartmentalize each emotion you you you you have certain inevitable issues that arise but if you can have the middle path which is yankiv so then you you get the best of all worlds i'm not going to get into that just yet because we're going to get into that with hashem's help but let's continue on the top line of the of the manuscript he says i'm going to explain according to my best understanding of what i uh what i heard alpi according to a preface let me let me uh give you an introduction in accordance with what i heard from the holy mouth of kvade kedushas of the admir of my my father meaning my grandfather my rabbi nishmasa may his soul be in paradise be piana in the village of piano kim doomy lee and it seems to me to my best recollection beyam shabbos kadish on the sixth day of the week meaning on friday out of shabbos kurdish schlieffner next line histalkusa okay let you can come back to me over here i think we had the slides on for a long time so just the people watching our video should not continue hearing a disembodied voice you understand what the tamartic just wrote he says i want to explain something to you where did i get it in piano when did i get it on friday afternoon before the altar is passing from whom did i get it from the altar rabbit you have to understand what this is saying here the altar we know we mentioned at the beginning his yard said his hof dalai tavis in the year of the al-qaeda's passing tough coup of iron gimmel which was still the secular year 1812. that day the 24th day of tavis was on matsushabu saturday night sunday and the altar passed away on matsushabus on the evening following shabbos in fact it's known the al trebbe normally we darwin might have made kavdala the the altar made of dollar yi david maidev and passed away later that night so the tamikhzadek is saying this is what the altitude told me on ed of shabbos so do the math this is yaim vov this is the sixth day not even the sixth night meaning thursday night but this friday day friday day then you have shabbos and then the night coming out of shabbos that's that's the histalcus that's the altar of his passing so literally we're we're within 36 to 48 hours from the altar of his passing and this is what he's talking about i mean we have to assume that this is important this is important and he's sharing it with his beloved grandson most of us know that the tamartzadek was raised by his grandfather because he was orphaned his mother rebecca leo passed away and he was raised by his grandfather the altarebe and eventually became his successor not his direct successor but after the alt-rebel son the mithla rabbit and then the be was succeeded by the temeczadek so this is important stuff we have to assume this is important stuff and and you you caught the detail he says where it happened he says in piana what's piano piano is a little village the only reason i ever heard of piano and i told some i told the ukrainian the other day piano he says well we don't pronounce it piano we call it i can't even do it with the ukrainian actor he said it we pronounce it pena i said bottom and all the hebrew and you just manuscripts i see it's pretty it's it's spelled piano so i'll say piano but piano is a little there's nothing in piano piana is the alt actually i will refer you to a recording from i think two years ago i don't even think it was a year ago we did also beshmukh sponsored the khof dala tavis event where we did the biography of the altareb and specifically focusing on the last days of the altar in his flight from napoleon which took place basically from the end of the summer of that year until a few months later his eventual passing on on this very night so i'll refer you to i guess you could go to soulwords.org and you could go find that class just use the the search and soulwords.org and you search for altareba and uh there gives a lot of detail about the altera flight from napoleon's armies but at any rate napoleon was invading napoleon was sweeping across europe and he was having unprecedented success the altar opposed we're not going to speak about this at length again i refer you to last year's khof dela tavis class because there we spoke about this at length but the altar opposed napoleon which was interesting because his colleagues his other peers who were also students of the maagid in mezrich they supported napoleon because napoleon promised to liberate the jews to give equal rights obviously jews in europe at that time were second-class citizens at best napoleon was promising to be a liberator so uh the other talmide hamaged the other students of the margaret were very much pro-napoleon the altarebes said that if napoleon's going to win that will be materially beneficial but it will cause a a massive assimilation and uh spiritually it'll be devastating so he opposed napoleon so he was fleeing from the oncoming french armies going deeper into the interior of russia and finally where he passed away he was in the village of piana so that's writing setting the scene it's friday afternoon it doesn't say afternoon it says friday day it's friday day what hov based davis in piano it's 36 hours approximately from the altar of his passing and this is what the al-tarab is choosing to share with his beloved grandson that's amazing okay let's look back at the at the saviat that he told me bashem he told this to me in the name of rab avraham also known as the malach who was the son of the magid from mezrich he actually pull up from the sliding you can come back to me the magid let's back up even further the balchemtev had 60 official students shishim gabairam the magid was pishnayam he had double the amount of official students 120. now obviously both the balsham and the magette influenced tens of thousands of jews in the region in their lifetimes but i'm saying official students who studied directly with them the market had 120 students and these were the all-stars of siddhis virtually every hasidic dynasty is traced to one of these students of the magid one of them of course is the al-taraba who established the chabad school of hasadism but they were the greats uh who were both brothers or another pair of brothers is malcolm in nickelsburg and the pinchas and all all the greats all the greats so one of these talmudim was the son of the maagid named and had a nickname they called him the malek and they called them the malek for a reason because in yiddish we would call we would call it flag and kite in english you might call it absent-minded professor and i don't mean that dismissively the the the malek was a holy holy holy jew but he was so holy that he didn't really pay attention much to his physicality and so they called him the angel in fact many of you may know that the margaret has a famous aphorism that he said about physical health about guarding your health about a clean look and guff a small hole in the body can make a big hole in the soul the context of that aphorism was an instruction that the maggid said to his beloved son to the malach he pleaded with him take care of your health and he he just couldn't he couldn't be brought down to this world to care about such things it's interesting the that the alt-right had three sons we mentioned before that the altar of his direct successor was the mithla rabbit rep dave bear who was named after the margaret the morgan's name was but uh the the the the alt-right had another son of mesha and then another son khayim abraham jaime was named after the malach but the al-triba added the word you should live like be like avram the malek but but live in this world have a healthy body so he called him ghayem avraham when when the al taraba came to mesrich he was paired with the malachas cavrus it's actually interesting we know that the the altar when he came to mesrich it was after a deliberation where he was already married at that time he was 19 years old and he was trying to decide if he should go to vilna and study with devil nagon or if should go to mezrich and study with the maggid and finally he concluded he said well in vilna they they teach you how to learn and in mezrich they teach you how to daven how to pray so he says i know how to learn the altar even before he came to mezrich was already a genius in in in torah in the revealed legalistic aspects of torah which also has something to do with the fact that later on the margaret appointed him to write a shochonura a code of jewish law and later on also when they used to debate with the opponents of khasidism and they they would have to bring out their best guy to debate talmudic arguments with the mishnag them so they would the al-tadabba was was their uh ace in the hole for that so he was he was a gon and nigler de toyota in the revealed legalistic talmudic aspects of toyota already so that the altar said since i already know how to learn i'm not going to go to vilna i'm going to go to mezrich and learn how to pray so he came to mezurich and they paired him with the malach they were havrusas they were study partners and the al-tarabha would teach nigla he would teach gemara to the malach and the malek would teach siddhis malach was the maggot son so he would teach siddhis to the al-taraba and when the al te rebe was enjoying the lessons so much that he didn't want them to finish they had an agreement how long they would learn they would take turns so when the the clock was ticking and it was almost the end of their uh of their hasidis session the malach was so oblivious because he was so ecstatic in his in his deep spiritually sensitive uh way that characterized him the malach the altar used to get up and walk over and set the clock back so he could steal a little bit more time of learning siddhis with the malach the malek actually sometimes when he would learn this he would have an out-of-body experience and al-trebba used to take him to the sink to wash nation to the ritual washing of the hands and then to eat so they they say a buttered bagel that was a delicacy in the late 1700s uh poland so that's a buttered bagel and that would draw him back into his body okay so at any rate the tamar sadiq is saying this was a day and a half before the altar of his passing the al-treb is revealing to me teachings that he learned from the malach back in mezrich oh let me let me show you a little bit um you know okay let's go back to the let's let's go back to the slide here okay so you have the slide yeah okay all right so we're on uh we're on the second line and if you're looking at the actual manuscript so on the second line there's a like a dash a little bit more than halfway through the line there's a dash when i say a little bit more than halfway through i'm i'm talking about right to left because it's hebrew so uh a little bit more than halfway through the second line there's a dash like a long hyphen okay and then after that hyphen it says next line of ram this is the hasidic discourse that the aforementioned of ram the malach came up with innovated [Music] from the war that was then in their days hanikrah which was called zibin yorke krig the seven years war that's in yiddish ben friedrich melech between frederick the king of prussia i'm sorry and the other kings okay let's come back to me on the on the video there's a lot to unpack there so the mallach told the altar a hasidic discourse that he based on the war that happened in their days which was called the zibin yorika krieg the seven years war between frederick the great of prussia and the other kings let's let's explain this um pull up the slide so a little bit uh of chronology here the altideba was born in 1745. the seven years war took place you want to guess how long it went on for seven years 100 that's correct yeah okay give the man a prize seven years war lasted for seven years specifically from the year 1756 until the year 1763 so you see this was happening during the altadebus childhood it would have started when he was about 11 and it ended when he was about 18. now i mentioned earlier i don't know if people remember i said that the altar ebba deliberated whether he should go to vilna or to masrich and he had permission from his wife he was married already and i mentioned in age do you remember what age i said 19. so the alternative was 19 when it came to mezrich now the seven years war ended when he was how old 18. okay so this was a year later but i want to explain something to you this was a couple of hundred years before the 24-hour news cycle so this isn't like today where you wait an hour and the news changes didn't have that kind of technology and news was news for a lot longer time so that's first of all that's first of all second of all i want you to understand that seven years war made major changes in the territorial boundaries of europe especially in eastern europe where many many many ashkenazic jews lived so you're talking about something that had a direct effect on jews i mean these battles many of them were being fought right next to jewish communities so for those two reasons a that the news didn't become old so fast and b it had direct effect on the lives of jews you could well imagine that even though the war ended a year ago a year prior when the altareb arrived in mezrich the seven years war was still very much on everybody's minds it wasn't obscure it wasn't like oh you remember that war that seven everyone knew the seven years war it was something everybody lived through and was affected by and it was it was a buzzword it was current events it was very much current events so imagine now the altar ever comes to mesrich and the ma the malek the son of the market says to him i want to tell you something spiritual that i learned from this war that just happened and many of you probably know that one of the tenets one of the fundamental teachings of titus of al-shamdev is fun although everything you see everything you hear and therefore can men musman vedas hashem you have to take out you have to extract from it some type of a lesson in serving hashem so that's not so surprising that the mala is saying hey this thing happened it's current events and i can learn a spiritual lesson from it but i want to tell you something it seems to be even more than that it's more than just learning a lesson from it i've been showing you the savvyad from hatomim that was printed in in the hattomi magazine unfortunately i do not have the actual facsimile of another saviad there's another savvy of the temperzadek i have not seen it but i i found it reprinted not the facsimile of the actual handwritten uh manuscript but the words the words were rewritten in a safer and much of this research by the way is based on the safer migdal oys of yeshua manchin all of a sudden and there he brings from another xavier culture of the tamartic which again i don't have uh can we pull up where is it uh oh here it is here it is okay i'm sorry so this is from mcdonald's this is from uh monshan safer and uh this is this is aksavyad koche of the tamartzadek i just i don't have that facsimile i'm not even sure if it exists or where to find it but there that tamakh sadiq uses even more radical language attributing this language to the malach and he uses the term siddhis venus that the malek said to dalton wrote it down that this was a hasidic teaching that was innovated and revealed through the from above from above through meaning from heaven through the war that was in their days so there in that manuscript the language is even more powerful the malek is not just saying i saw this current event and i tried to learn a lesson from it he's actually saying in some way this spiritual lesson was delivered to us in the form of this war okay so now let me uh let me look at this okay seven years war let's talk a little bit about seven years war the seven years war was a european war but in many ways it was the first world war now you're going to say the first world war was fought in the early 1900s how can you say there was a first world war in the late 1700s so it wasn't called the world war but it was a world war and i'm going to explain to you why and students of american history may have a penny drop in just a moment um do you see the belligerents here that means the sides so um you have great britain on one side and of course if great britain's on one side you have france great britain and france always rivals on the other side you have prussia what's prussia prussia doesn't exist anymore it's basically northern germany uh on one side and their rivals austria on the other side austro-hungary or the holy roman empire the vestiges of that and then you had russia actually it's funny russia changed sides during the war but that's a whole other story that's a whole other story russia changed sides the czar died and they changed sides so you see here who's fighting this war but here's what i want to tell you all of these european countries were colonial powers they had empires this is the world all the pink zones are where fighting took place during the seven years war so when i say it was a world war it really was there was fighting on every inhabited continent on the earth except for australia i said come back to me i said that students of american history may have a penny drop in a moment um do you know that general george washington later president george washington fought in the seven years war he was a general in the seven years war first of all let me ask you what side did he fight on which country did he fight for he was yeah so he's a british colonist he was the subject of the king so he fought for britain yeah he was an english general don't forget that all the founding fathers at one point they were good english subjects so george washington was an english general yeah and where did he fight where geographically i'm saying where did he fight in the seven years war pennsylvania good where are you from you're from pennsylvania you're from ohio so you're nearby and you probably know about fort duquesne in pittsburgh which is also fort pitt and that was actually one of the battles of the seven years war except in north america they called the north american theater of the seven years war the and you know the french and indian war yeah good okay you know what it's the french and indian war and why did they call it that because that's what the british called it because they were fighting the french and alliances of indigenous tribes of native tribes indians what they called who who were teamed up with the french fighting the seven years war but on north american soil yeah so this was really a world war this was big news big news all right so let's go back to the actually if you could pull up the slide again he mentioned frederick great so i'll just show you frederick this is frederick the great we call him frederick in english we say frederick i don't i don't think he called himself frederick frederick because he called himself friedrich you'll forgive my poor german pronunciation but in yiddish is called friedrich which is similar to the german friedrich friedrich he's also called de grossa the big the great we call him frederick the great uh they also had a nickname for him der alte fritz i don't know if that was a nickname he was okay with or not but that's what they called the fritz and officially if you want to say his full name it would be friedrich who insular was the name of the prussian royal family sort of like the hapsburgs in austria so you have hunsoleran from the prussian kingdom and they basically ruled until world war one yeah and that's a whole other story the real world war one okay so uh let's uh let's go back to the manuscript yeah so he's saying that the malek was teaching the altarebe spiritual lessons from the war that happened in their days called the zebin yorika krig the seven years war between friedrich frederick and the other kings okay so uh look on the third line in the hebrew well it's the same both in the manuscript and in the block letters but the third line in the manuscript at the very end of the line there's a hyphen and then after the hyphen there's the you could probably make this out the two letters the word key because can you see that the last word on the third line key okay you said all you have the other side okay key next line fourth line the way of waging war always now he doesn't mean always like eternally forever but what he means is in that era in that era when warfare was fought in that way with muskets shooting at each other there were other formations the way they used to fight before in little groups but that's that's not this era this era they would have guns and he's gonna he's gonna describe the way they would form those lines and how those lines would interact with each other okay so the way of waging war always meaning in that era was shimakalkim they would divide the army into three portions one portion in the middle the nickel deifenheim toy called the center which they are this human is small and two flanks right and left right flank and left flank next line the message and so like that and so too with the opposing side set up three sections just like that the nilhomme elu mule elu and they would fight one against the other literally one across from the other okay so you could come up to me so i want to explain something here i'm not going to pretend to be an expert in military history when i was researching this i did call experts in military history and they tried to the best of their ability to explain these things to me without a background it's very hard to follow but i'm going to tell you what i did understand and i spoke to a few experts i spoke to a professor at west point at the united states military academy the army and here's what i understood you know we ask ourselves how come they would just line up like basically like like a football game like we have a line of scrimmage and you have the offensive line you have defensive line like why did they do that like why follow those rules don't follow the rules so you have to understand something unless you're fighting like guerilla warfare like the american colonists where you're hiding behind trees okay but if you have a big army a real army a trained army and you have real firepower the only way to engage it's not that they wanted to stand there like ducks in a row and get shot at that was the only practical way to engage you have to remember also armies are not very mobile see we we think of it oh just take a left take a right you can't do that it occurred to me after i started learning the this subject in chess you know why pawns only go forward and backward because that's what it's really like in war it's not like you can just you know take a hairpin turn and start running you're not very mobile an army i'm talking about a whole army and these armies were massive we're talking about tens of thousands of soldiers and these battle lines were massive they were miles long so there's no there's no way to communicate either it's not like you can give new orders on the fly as things are going down so basically you could say march or you could say retreat there's two directions it's forward and there's backward and all you get to do is really pick a direction you can aim this way aim that way aim whatever you way you want once you're going you're going and then you're just going to go and you're going to shoot you're going to shoot forward why are you going to shoot forward one simple reason you shoot this way you're gonna shoot your friend in the head so you really can only go one way and shoot one way and remember those guns were not that accurate we're not talking about snipers okay they're just spraying in the general forward direction so what you have is massive armies lining up as lines usually two lines too deep so one could reload while the other ones were shooting okay and and these these thin but very very very wide like shallow but very very wide lines uh and they would just come as close as they could and then start shooting across from each other and whoever has the least casualties at the end they win and that that's how it was done it wasn't done for fun it was just that's practically speaking how else are you going to engage the enemy so that's what war was that's what it was now friedrich or frederick had an innovation and the tamarted calls it an innovation he calls it a stroke of brilliance and this too i asked the military historians and by the way when i called them military historians and i asked them about this the talmud doesn't mention the name of the battle but specifically this is known to every military historian the name of the bel of the battle is called lighten light enlighten is a polish town with a german name it's spelled l-e-u-t-h-e-n it's pronounced loyten so the battle is the battle of loyton and it's a famous miraculous victory of the prussians led by frederick over the austrians when they were outnumbered two to one roughly two to one there were about thirty thousand depressions and about sixty thousand austrians can imagine the numbers we're talking about go to like a a baseball stadium think about the capacity of a of a baseball stadium you know go to go to yankee stadium what's the capacity of yankee city anyone know huh 55 000 okay so the austrian army would have overflowed yankee stadium just the army okay and then you had the the prussians so we're talking about massive numbers of people and also the point i'm making to you is that the prussians were massively outnumbered by the by the austrians so it was not a battle that they had a very high likelihood of winning except for the military brilliance of frederick which as i was about to remark is still studied to this day and when i called military historians about it they said oh yeah frederick at loyton we study this till this day it's a brilliant maneuver and i said oh that's thought so too he also thought it was a brilliant maneuver okay let's let's look here let's go back to the xavier all right we're in the middle of one two three four five i think the fifth line in the middle of the fifth line there's a little hyphen and after that hyphen it says lochus friedrich okay friedrich the success of frederick oz then at that time al-yaday was through what i told you he called that stroke of brilliance shinish means that he was full he was filled with wisdom he had a a brilliant innovative creative thought and and i'm going to explain to you in a minute because i asked the military historians what's so brilliant about this and i'll explain a little bit okay vanessa he got smart he wised up she see that a coal gimbal chalet that he set up all three of his sections remember they used to do right left and center they used to spread them out you have to uh you'd have a right flank a left flank and a center so what did he do he took all three of his sections shallow [Music] against one third one portion of the enemy so remember there's 60 000 prussians 20 000 roughly let's pretend they weren't really equally divided but let's pretend twenty thousand in each section and you take the whole austrians you have sixty thousand austrians so divide them into three sections so pretend twenty thousand that's it wasn't really that but twenty thousand austrians in each section and now the prussians have 30 000 so if you take the whole prussian army against a third of the austrian army now the prussians have them outnumbered so he took all three of his sections against one section of the enemy meaning the austrians is that we aren't no uh and this is this approach or this strategy this strategy is what is called atakirin atakirin similar to the english word attack or attack here it's called atakiran that type of strategy i'll show you something interesting there's a yeah there's a mimer of the tsa sadiq in torah in in torah are the tsa sadik's own my morm and so this is from rosh hashanah this course on rosh hashanah and over there you see it's highlighted the word atakiran he mentions very very briefly in passing this concept of atakiran but he doesn't explain it he doesn't explain it but over here let's go back to the sav yeah he explains what atakirin is it's this approach where you take all three of your groups and gang them up on one of the enemies three groups at a time okay let's continue here so he takes all three this is called atakiren yeah yeah right after the word atakiran kevin shakol next line all three of his sections are now surrounding encompassing one section of the enemy the al-jadday said that through this means gabriel bivaday they certainly prevail because now they have superior numbers allah on them over them and then afterwards then they gobble up the second portion of the enemy the gimbal and then the third odd kalasam until they finished them all off okay come back to me so i asked the military historians venice hakim this was so brilliant i i could think of that i mean if if you put me in a position where i had to come up with a battle strategy i think that would have been one of my ideas why not why do i have to wait and why do i have to play fair let me gang up on one section at a time so it was explained to me everybody wanted to do that go ahead and try it it's not so simple it's not so simple how are you going to get the other side to play along how are you going to let get them to let you do that that's first of all so you have to have some type of a ruse you have to have some type of a trick second of all even if you trick them it's not so easy because and this is what was explained to me i told you before armies really they just go one direction front and back okay imagine driving a box truck down the service lane of eastern parkway okay you don't have a lot of mobility you're not exactly a ballerina okay you basically forward and backward and even backward is a nightmare you just want to just move forward okay so it's not so simple to say i'm going to maneuver in and we're going to gobble up we're going to come in boom grab one section and then we're going to pivot and we're going to grab the next section and then wherever the other section is we're going to pivot over there and get them it's not so simple and remember if you turn you're you're totally exposed because you can only shoot forward you can't shoot sideways you'll shoot your friend so you really the only safe way to move and the only practical way to move these tens of thousands of people at a time is forward so everybody wanted to do this everybody of course thought oh i wish i could just gang up on one of their sections at a time but practically speaking to pull it off you had to be a genius and that's why frederick's strategy at loyton is studied until this day so let's talk about what he did how he did it i mean the democratic says what he did but let's talk a little bit about what he did okay let's pull up the slide again this is a map of the battle of leighton and uh you can kind of see the red is the austrians and the blue is the the prussians and you can kind of see how there are more austrians than prussians although it's not that clear from this map but you can definitely see how the prussians are coming from the side that you can see and you can kind of see their path i don't know it's uh very light but there's these blue lines and you see that sharp turn that they take see frederick had see khabad we're russian jews but we know about yakuz okay you know but yak is german jews right so german jews are very punctilious they're very uh you know about the yaka he told his wife he said i'm going to be home a little bit late for dinner tonight because tonight's the the night that we we switch from hussein bracha to the saint tala motto of raja so i'll be a little bit later for dinner right and they say what hap what happens when uh when a chabad hosted marries a yucca you have a choppa that starts exactly three hours late so the yak is the german jews where did they get that from they got that from german culture okay so frederick had something he had the advantage of of the prussians of these german soldiers a lot of them were mercenaries hessians who the the actually would fight for any side uh they they fought for the british during the revolutionary war what we call the revolutionary war in america anyway so he had these really well-drilled really well-trained uh german soldiers and they could do these maneuvers they could make these these uh sharp turns so you can kind of see what's happening here now i just want to show you one more slide oh here's some images these are obviously artistic renderings that were i don't think someone was sitting with an easel in the middle of the battle this was done later on but these are artistic drawings of the battle of lighten okay so i just want to show you this is this is like this field here is the battlefield i don't know when it was taken but it's it's a recent picture there's nothing there just a bunch of grass so um that's leighton that's where the battle was fought it's the the closest city legend is not a city the closest big population center is actually a town in yiddish we call breslov in poland and actually i spoke to a professor i spoke to a lot of professors when i was researching this i spoke to a professor of of european history and he actually was at the university in brest live and he said oh loynton that's like 10 miles from me i'll i'm gonna go drive there and go take a look at it that's not the picture that he took this is the picture from uh from wikipedia but you see here it's a big field so okay so come back to me what did what did frederick do frederick he had to fool the the austrians so what he did is he had a bunch of decoys you know what a decoy is a decoy is a distraction or sometimes they call a faint f-e-i-n-t like you pretend you're gonna go to one side and you know like a michael jordan head fake right pretend you're gonna and then you drive to the basket that way i'm from chicago so it's called michael jordan head fake okay so at any rate he had a decoy he had a few have to pop over the horizon let's pull it up i can show the slide again okay it's not a very hilly area but i don't know how long that visibility is but uh let's say it's a mile or so and then after that there's a there's a ridge and you can you can hide behind that and then just pop up over the horizon so come back to me so what did he do he had a few soldiers enough soldiers to make it look like it was an army pop up over the horizon first on the austrians right side okay so they said that's where the prussians are and they would have no reason to doubt that because remember that's how militaries engaged so they understood from that that's where they're coming that's where their lines are okay so that's where the football field is going to be that's where the line of scrimmage is going to be let's get ready now what really happened let's uh pull up the slide again they came around the other side they came around to the left flank of the austrians with their entire army the entire prussian army all 30 000 odd prussian soldiers came around to the left side of the austrians to the left austrian flank and gobbled up that entire flank by itself and you can kind of see that in the map come back to me so i want to explain something to you you're going to say to me i don't get it how long did the trick work for so everyone just turn around and come running first of all what kind of communication do you think they had you think that radios all you could do at that point is scream and now guns are going off second of all even if you could communicate maybe like a flag or something uh what knowledge did they have what knowledge do you think that aerial photographs they didn't know was going on until it was happening and remember i told you these lines were miles long like 10 miles long imagine can you imagine that we're here in crown heights just try to wrap your mind around it imagine a battle line that is going all the way from here all the way to jfk okay and that's the battle line if you're including all three all three sections so some guys in jfk without a cell phone are gonna know help me we're outnumbered over here in brooklyn it ain't happening and guns are going off this is a realistic scene for brooklyn actually [Laughter] so they don't even know and then add to it another factor what are they supposed to do they're supposed to turn i told you already they can't turn you're saying why can't they just turn just turn one guy can turn you have thousands of guys you have an army you're trying to move an army and you're trying to move them in the same direction remember this also i don't think we relate to this adequately you have thousands of men it's very important again it's not just to be fancy to go marching like this that wasn't just to look cool there's a reason for that you know what the biggest reason for it is people start running at different speeds in little bit different directions people are scared they get disoriented at that point they don't know which way they're going and then you're completely sitting ducks so marching has a vital absolutely essential reason behind it so that you know which direction you're going so it was not so simple all of a sudden to take the austrian army goes guys just turn 90 degrees and run down the line miles oh and by the way while you're running you can't shoot or you shoot your friend in the back of the head so while you're running you're defenseless so that was the brilliance that was the brilliance of frederick and he gobbled up all three of the austrian sections first the left side then the center then the right until they were completely wiped out so that's what happened all right let's go back to the saviad koche so now you're you're wondering like okay this is cool but uh i almost forgot that this was something the altar rabbit told the tsa mahzadik 36 hours or less before his passing something he shared with his dear grandson in the name of his dear study partner and said that this is a spiritual lesson and a spiritual lesson of the type that was important enough that this was one of the last things that dalton had even told that sadik so okay we got the european history lesson we got the military a little bit of the military history lesson what's the spiritual lesson so let's let's look here um it's a word we get up to the indian yeah it's one two three four five six seven lines down almost the center uh line seven lines down after the dash it says you see where it says toward the end of the lines after a hyphen those who are following in the manuscript can see it no seven lines down toward the end of the line after the hyphen and there's the word means and the idea in this case the spiritual idea or indian and we said already that in this manuscript it sounds more like a lesson that he took from it but in other manuscripts it's actually saying that this is the way that this spiritual lesson came to the world war indian here's the concept the concept that the holy rabbi rabbi avram may his memory be a blessing extracted by vedas hashem in terms of the service of god which the service of god is sometimes also called the war it's called milhamus haitzer the war against the evil inclination the internal desire to not do god's will so we have like tanya explains the altar wrote tanya that tanya explains about the steiner fascists the two souls the godly altruistic drive and the animalistic selfish drive and they are at war like it explains in chapter 9 of tanya it gives also there the metaphor of a war of two kings fighting over a city fighting a battle and the battle is raging within each of us okay so that's a familiar concept that the service of hashem is sometimes also called the war so it's not hard to understand how an insight about actual war could be aligned with an insight about the spiritual war let's continue this is a saying from king solomon in his in his wisdom in the book of kahala says one opposite the other did god create that's a basic hasidic idea i mean it comes from solomon it comes from the bible but in hasidic thought it means that everything in the world is counterbalanced everything that exists in the realm of holiness has a counterpart in the realm of the profane and that includes the inner dichotomy or schism within the heart of the human being so zellum he speaks about this in tanya in chapter 6 in chapter 6 of tanya he says that the makeup of the animal soul is a mirror image of the makeup of the godly soul they're almost like symmetrically opposed opposites one opposite the other did god create watch how he explains it here uh just like there are holy emotions love and awe and compassion next line ferris or hi sparrows or pride sometimes compassion and pride are both used to describe the middle emotion the one that is a blend of love and awe hulu etc so just like there are three main emotions in the holy realm meaning the love of god and the awe of god and the glorification of god the desire to glorify god those are holy emotions so too cain so too yes there is the opposite of that love of profanity which is taiwas royim bad desires and lusts and so too with awe being in awe of things other than hashem cow towing and being afraid that people places and things can rule your life when really only hashem directs your life okay so come back to me what he's describing here is some basic aveda the word we use in this is a veda means work but it means inner work this is basic avoid the 101. you have two sets of desires which are not only diametrically opposed in their agenda the godly soul only wants to be one with god and surrender to god and the animal soul only wants to protect its interests or what it thinks or is it or are is its interests so not only are they diametrically opposed but they have mirror image compositions they're like those who know the superman comics like the bizarro version right you're nodding you know what i'm talking about so it's like what is a soul after all a soul is a proclivity or it's a drive so a godly soul it's driven toward god and then there are a few different kinds of ways that that drive expresses itself so you have a you have an emotional palette but chiefly you have three colors in the emotional palette three color families in the emotional palette you have love which is the attraction towards something and you have awe which is shrinking away from it and then you have ti ferris which is we called it pride also it's called compassion um sometimes we call it compassion because love can be indiscriminate i'm walking down the street and handing 100 bills to everybody and then the opposite would be din it's called jira but it's also called din which means judgment where now i'm giving to nobody nobody's worthy and then tifares which is a blend of those is sometimes called rahmanis or compassion because now i'm walking down the street and i'm giving a hundred dollar bills to somebody who looks like he needs it so i'm making a judgment like the left side din and gavura but i'm giving like the right side like so it's a blend of both of those and in a vedas hashem in the service of a god one of the ways we express rahmanis is like he says in chapter 45 of tanya to have compassion on the plight of your godly soul think about your poor little pristine princess the souls compared to a princess and she left her father's castle and she came down to this rough neighborhood she came down to brooklyn and you have to pamper her and you have to make her comfortable and it's rahmonas that she's uh so yeah you should have compassion on your godly soul you know when bill clinton was running for uh president the first time so during the primaries he gave a speech in borough park and obviously he had a jewish speechwriter i don't know who wrote this line for him but he had the islam rolling in borough park he came down and he said do you want a president who has rahmonas or do you want a president who is a rahmonas so yeah yeah bill you know how he had a good way with words you know anyways so you have this godly soul and it has love of god it has awe of god it has compassion for god that's the godly soul and then you have this animal soul and it's the opposite it's got love of stuff other than god the things that it finds attractive and interesting and pleasurable and it has awe reverence for things other than god you know i'm afraid that uh my boss doesn't like me and i'm gonna compromise my values in order to curry his favor you know that kind of stuff that's that's classic animal soul fear and uh it has tifaris of the animal soul i don't know maybe that's like having compassion in a inappropriate way misplaced compassion which is actually cruelty any rate the point is we have this dichotomy and the dichotomy is very counter balanced and it's countable sounding familiar sounding familiar we have this battle these two sides and they're counterbalanced right left and center i mean this is literally like the way that battles were fought during that time so it i mean it's not surprising that the malek would say hey this stuff sounds kind of familiar all right so here's what he's going to explain let's let's pull up the saviat again let's pull up the manuscript okay so here's what he explains vagine kiday in order to subjugate or even better to win over to transform the other side to turn them into your allies that's the ultimate seemingly the obvious manner in which to do that the no-brainer how would you handle this conflict that is configured in exactly the manner that we just described so he says the iphone push it the obvious way to handle that would be di mine yo bae le chadebe naga that the handle for the ax comes from the tree of the forest that then comes back to the forest to chop down the tree in other words a taste of your own medicine in other words if you're going to come to me with ava i'll fight you with ava you come to me with you i'll fight you with jira they call it fight fire with fire right so if my animal soul is provoking me with lusts and desires that are ahava that are love of the other side i'm gonna start shooting that's called the right side whether that's the right flank so i know the attack is coming on my right flank right flank fire back and i'm gonna shoot some godly love back in his direction counter him counter him okay so that's the iphone portion that's the obvious way how to handle it he says if you're experiencing dysfunctional love so arouse the holy love if you'll arouse love for hashem you will throw down and you will subjugate the foreign loves the hain and so too what do you think the next thing is going to say ayaday hakadesha through holy awe or of hashem you will throw down the negative fears the unwarranted fears of people places and things makes perfect sense hulu etc the who in this this approach which he already called the no-brainer approach the obvious approach it's like a worship nilham called heilig where each section fights the one opposite pull it up come back to me there is a mimer from rabhil patricia reb hillel was a khasid going back to the times of the altareba although he never met the altered and he fills in some of the gaps here hillapathic explains it very clearly there's a lot of stuff that we can understand better from about this teaching from hillel particular which he heard presumably from the tsa he doesn't say he heard it directly from the tamar sadiq but that would make sense because many hillary interactions with the tsa teddy and he would have been there in lubavitch to have those interactions so hillel parachute explains that the old way of fighting a war pre-frederick is like the old approach called musser and he says it's the iphone passion actually at first glance it makes perfect sense if your dysfunction is in the area of love misplaced love you're attracted to something that's no good for you so the obvious approach would be let me counteract that let me counter balance it and let me arouse some love of god and if the dysfunction is in the area of of yidda of all misplaced reverence so let me counteract that and i'll have some reverence of god one-on-one mano almano he explains that siddis came along and said there's a better approach there's a better approach and it's not as obvious you need to be more innovative you need to be more of a creative strategist but this is sort of what it means that frederick brought it into the world and and i want to mention something i mean pull up the pull up the slide here chronologically speaking obviously frederick's battle plan was in the time of the the childhood or the adolescence of the altar so we're talking about during the neces during the leadership of the market you can come back to me we're not saying that before frederick fought this way nobody was able to do this spiritually because obviously this goes back to the balchamptov who was a generation even earlier than the market so the balchamptov was teaching this approach and we didn't even say what the approach is in case you think oh did i miss it was i checking my phone when he said no you you were checking your phone i saw you but not what i said because i didn't say yet what this approach even is although if you're smart you could probably start to figure it out and you know what it isn't you know what it isn't and you kind of know metaphorically what it is um so obviously this existed going back to the times of the bashamtive but if i can take the liberty to interpret what does it mean that this was nishkadesh and it was nisgala it was innovated and revealed mill mila from above aliday through through frederick maybe i could say that you know it was a concept that it existed in the world i remember last year hey davis i was here i think i was standing right here and we were talking about the rabbitson but rabbits and kayamushka about her contribution to the the trial about the the ownership of the library of of a good chabad and and i mentioned here that i don't want to get off topic but i mentioned that you know the debut said about his wife about the rabbits and one of the things she accomplished was that she was able to explain to the non-jewish judge a very deep spiritual concept that caused him to rule in favor of a goddess so and and and and said that that was similar to when the altar was in prison that he was able to explain to his captors his position and they were able to understand it and that that was important not just because of the favorable court decision both in the times of the altaraba and in the times of the rabbits and kayamushka but it was also important because it was a certain bearer to use the kabbalistic term a certain refinement in the world that a regular person a non-jewish judge not using kabbalistic arguments but just listening to human reason should conclude something that aligns with kabbalistic logic and and maybe i could say perhaps that that's what it means over here that yeah the balshampton was teaching it and the margaret was teaching it but the fact that human intellect came up with this idea and then put his money where his mouth is and carried it out on the battlefield that that sort of made it more real let's say quote unquote it made it more real in this world perhaps okay so let's go back here to the manuscript so we're saying the old way in hilo particular explains the old way is the musser wayne a hilly potato says it's the way of musser when you have a problem just counteract it fight fire with fire counteract it with the opposite with the exact opposite just like they used to fight right flank fights the right flank the left flank fights the left flank and the center fights the center okay let's continue here um here we are where are we that is not enough to really win the battle the old way of fighting is not enough to really win the battle clipper miss gaberes gameca because now what are you going to do you're going to actually provoke the bad guys you're going to make them mad now you're going to make them mad you're going to provoke them you're going to be mirror them you're going to arouse them back at you and here he quotes what it says about yankev and asev about jacob and esau where it says that one nation will strengthen itself over the other nation in other words like a see-saw there's pushback it's counterbalanced so when when you fight against the opposite so what do they say in physics for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction and come come back to me hilla potter explains this a little bit more again it's not so filled out here in the tamartix manuscript but hilipottich explains a little more it says when you let's say you analyze that you have a certain spiritual dysfunction let's just for the sake of example we'll say an inappropriate desire or attraction and a foreign love a love other than a love of god and it's getting you really excited so you say uh that's my problem so let me counteract that with love of god well he says you already kind of lost because in order to even identify which side the attack is coming from you've actually just spent energy and focus thinking about the pathology thinking about the sickness and you're gonna get you're gonna always get a little bit dirty hello potato says when you start analyzing where is my dysfunction coming from you're already getting too connected to it the altitude says something similar in tanya says when you wrestle with a dirty person you're also going to get dirty even if you win even if you win you're going to get dirty so he says in the old way you had to analyze where the attack was coming from but in the process of analyzing it you get dirty manus friedman once told me that he was a baker and jim kipper he was sitting in 770 and and uh lemando futafus came in and he saw some guys i don't know he just started up with them and he was asking them like uh what what are they doing and uh i think he asked them if they're doing chuva and and and so the mendel asked him he says you know what like what what's repentance he says [Music] then you think about you think over all the evidence he did you go through the years you see that's true he says it comes out you spent the holiest day of the year wallowing in sin so the the the point is similar to that it's like if you have to analyze where the attack is coming from you're already way too focused on the negativity and it's going to rub off on you hello potato actually says you're going to get yourself excited in the wrong way while you're doing it you're going to be like oh i hate that thing oh that thing that thing yeah i really oh yeah i really hate that right he says it's it's it's it's an inherent risk it's almost unavoidable he says it is unavoidable so so that's that's one problem he says with the old with the old approach now what's the new approach i mean we know what it is we know the metaphor on the battlefield it's you take all your armies and you gang them up on one army but let's find out what that means and again we're going to use the the tamartix holy handwriting but we're going to fill it in with hillel's amplifications okay so let's let's uh continue here inside um so you have the slide yeah okay i'm by the way people here live the slides you can always see the slides but uh on youtube they can only see it when israel turns them up so okay um yeah so he says that it counter balances it comes back malay miami hello [Music] what should you rather do what should you do what should you do instead what's the new style is that you arouse all three holy emotions the love the awe and the compassion the right the left and the center you get it all worked up all your emotions for god don't compartmentalize get all your godly emotions worked up lo uma's next line mida ajo de clipa 1 one of the negative emotions and actually if you're following up hillel's beer you haven't even necessarily identified which is this still on did i turn this off you haven't even so happens you touch it once it's working now god forbid i won't touch it again okay i have a little more tea when my tea gets cold it means i've been talking too long that's my tea is cold okay so if you're following what abhilla is saying you haven't even necessarily identified where the attack is coming from because it's not necessary now because you're going to have the same response to any attack the old way which he calls the musser way you have to know is it dysfunctional love is a dysfunctional awesome dysfunctional compassion in order to have the appropriate counter attack but in the new style it doesn't even matter what the dysfunction is because we're going to respond we're going any attack is going to be responded with our entire army which means love all compassion all of it the whole thing so we're going to go against me the ajo de clipper this is like the third line from the bottom first word [Music] then we are going to certainly throw it down and we're going to be victorious and this metaphorically is exactly like the atakirin strategy of frederick the great holo etc mccain then afterwards you just go knock them down all of them one by one he gathered all the flocks who yankee vavino jacob gathered all the flocks why because the aves the fathers are casey foreign so it's not explained over here so much but uh if you remember you can show the slide i showed you that there's a mimer in lucote toyota from the altarebe parshas vasconden over there he explains it a little bit more you can come back to me because you're not gonna be able to read it that size anyways but i'll just tell you outside he explains over there without going into the whole frederick thing he explains over there the occupational hazard of a fighting with a concentrated attack of love or of awe he says like this avrom abraham wiscasset was kindness the problem is kindness has a uh a byproduct that's unwanted it's called declipa the negative form of khasid and that was ishmael avraham had a son ishmael ishmael was also so it was into generosity but a very invasive type of way here i have something to give to you and if you don't want it you better want it yitzhak is good and he was holy gwoda but a waste product that comes from it and that was asev asap was gutted the clipper aggression asap was the hunter he was very uh pugnacious he's always looking for a fight so in holy terms yitzchak's voter was self-discipline self-containment but in clipper the way it came out in asov was yeah i'll be tough but not on me tough on you that's go to the clipper right but only yankee who was to ferris mitosei all of his sons all 12 sons followed in his ways and that's because tifares doesn't have any unwanted byproduct and he explains that in a veda this mimo in liquidity explains that's the beauty of tifaris and ferris here doesn't just mean tifaris to the exclusion of khasid and it actually means tifares as it combines clearly it means ferrous as it combines within it in voda means like this throw everything that you've got because when you compartmentalize the approach there's always going to be an unwanted byproduct when you're fighting using your love you're going to have an unwanted by-product of love like you're going to have oh i didn't i didn't anticipate that to come up i'll give you an example in voda it says sometimes when somebody will dive in by veda if they'll daven with a lot of contemplation concentration then afterwards they'll be ornery they'll be continuous they'll they'll they'll be angry that doesn't make sense because you just dove in so beautifully and now you're like in a foul mood so it explains and i said this yeah because ava because because gavura when you're davening it's a lot of it's a lot of self-containment it's also you're you're striving upward like a flame which is also which is also and what happens is after you're finished with with your prayer you have like this overflow of and it's not being channeled in prayer anymore and it could come out like a negative byproduct it could come out as being angry and grouchy so the point is that love and awe meaning compartmentalized approaches can have a negative byproduct and he explains also there in that mimer that's why avraham dug wells and they got plugged up and then yitzchak dug wells but they also got plugged up and yankev came along and he unplugged the well he unplugged the well and he gathered all the flocks and those two things go together that when you have an approach where you take all of the emotions from the holy emotional palette and you gather them all together without just picking one flank you take all of them at the same time so now there are no negative repercussions no one's going to plug your well so to speak you're going to unplug the well you're going to have success so what does this mean let's let's finish off the the manuscript okay let's let's go back inside he says you're always going to have if you push with one compartment or one area you're going to get that counter strike that equal and opposite reaction and you're going to end up with those unwanted byproducts so he says this is what it means he gathered all the flocks shame you get all of the emotional attributes of the godly soul worked up oz daika then specifically vagaloissa evan shall p haber then you can remove the stone from on top of the well the mylar like it is explained above okay so i'm going to use come back to me i'm going to use the words of hillapathica to fill this in and maybe i'm going to add some of the words of of me i'm going to add some of my own words for 2021. once upon a time before frederick before lahav del it made sense to analyze and to diagnose exactly what's spiritually wrong with me because i have to know exactly my illness in order to know exactly the medicine the antidote but now we have something called holistic healing where i don't treat symptoms i strengthened the overall organism that's not how reb hillel says it that's how i'm saying it but i think it's the same idea once upon a time we treated symptoms so i had to figure out where my animal soul was rearing its head and it had to give it specific pushback in that area now we don't do that anymore now you know what we do you know the new form of avedas hashem and tikkun hamido stikonamides means rectification of the emotional attributes you know how we fix our emotions today rebhill says his abundance clawless just think about god don't try to oh here's a here's a here's a love maneuver love back at you oh there's an awe maneuver all right back at you he says don't do that just think about god and don't even get so specific just think about god so in 2021 this is what hillary says so 2021 by the way i think it makes more sense today than even in in those times because in those times you had guys who would probably be annoyed like in the times of frederick you probably had soldiers who were pretty good at the old form of doing battle they're like what do we need newfangled ways so when the times that someone said you hadn't waved him who are like why are you telling me to do it this new way i can handle it the old way i'm pretty good at it and i see this is coming along and saying listen to me you don't have to become such an expert in your problems you don't have to become such an expert in your spiritual dysfunction they all warrant the same exact response no no no no because if it's a love dysfunction you counter it with love and no no no that's the old way frederick innovated things baby now it doesn't matter what the dysfunction is just strengthen your general relationship with hashem if you have midday suraj in other words you have me destroys that means negative emotions okay so i'm experiencing a desire for something that's really i know it's awful i know it's wrong okay or i'm living in awe i'm living in fear and dread of something i know really has no power over me because i believe in god and i know that thing really has no power over me and and i realize i'm experiencing some emotional dysfunction so i want i want to zero in on it and i want to counteract it and and frederick the great's plan comes along says listen don't do that you want to do ticking to me this yeah i want to take any minutes yeah okay go learn shout out to talking no shout out talking from jesus the gate of uh of trust yeah but where does it talk about avedas and and midas royce i want to know i want to do i want to really i want to zero in on the problem don't no zero don't zero in on the problem just learn shadow but talking just learn how to trust hashem more think about protest think about divine divine providence just go think about god a little bit in other words don't tell your don't tell god how big your spiritual dysfunctions are tell your spiritual dysfunctions how big god is think about the abhishek i want to tell you something even in a case where you messed up and you actually did something you you crossed the line behaviorally you did something wrong not just midis which means you had a desire but i mean you crossed the line and you did the wrong thing you know what the altered says in tanya and perez he says okay fine you feel guilty fine we're going to take care of it so you're going to have to do a little bit of a moral inventory and you're going to have to admit to yourself what you did and admit before god what you did he says but even in that case he tells you what to do he says first of all don't do it all day long you have to have items you have to make an appointment usually at night the end of the day it's quiet you do your moral inventory but he says even then at your appointment he says what's the time set aside for liz blaine and big doula to meditate upon the greatness of god against whom you have sinned it's so important there not to meditate not to meditate on your sin sometimes we think what does it mean to do chuva i grabbed mendel like about jim kipper you spend all the olym kipper thinking about evaders right what do we think chuva means oh i did an aveda so let me think about how bad that evader was okay it's almost like you're doing it twice but now it's the slow-motion replay let me watch that one again right meditate upon the greatness of hashem against whom you have sinned in other words it's almost irrelevant what the sin was it's not about the sin it's not what you did it's about against whom you did it you know it's not like well what what did you do that made your wife upset you forgot your anniversary or you uh you made fun of her mother what does it matter you offended your wife like it's not about what you did it's against who you did it to so think more about your kesha with your wife think about more your relationship with your wife and that'll clear up all the issues you won't forget your anniversary and you won't make fun of her mother it clears up all issues like i said before holistic healing holistic healing so that's that's frederick the great's battle plan he says don't stop and wonder where the attack is coming from don't identify is this dysfunctional love is it dysfunctional or is it dysfunctional compassion we're going to respond to all attacks with one and the same general approach take all of your emotions and arouse them all for hashem by thinking in general not specific in general about your relationship with hashem and when you have a more solid relationship with hashem automatically the ava issues clear up dysfunctional lava the dysfunctional yidda issues clear up the dysfunctional t ferrous rachamim issues clear up all the symptoms clear up so stop thinking about avedas and stop thinking about spiritual dysfunction and stop thinking about your shame and your guilt and everything that's broken about you stop that's the old way they used to fight now just think about hashem just get excited about your relationship with the infinite and how the infinite has chosen you for an intimate relationship and if you think about that automatically all the issues will disappear in such a clean seamless way where you never had to wallow in it you never never had to get pulled into it you stayed clean you stayed above the fray take the high road take the high road anyways that's what the uh on friday air of shabbos before the altareb is passing the night following shabbos in the village of piana in the winter of 1812 while fleeing from napoleon he shared with him a memory that was 50 years old when i arrived in mezrich my friend my beloved study partner my teacher the malek the son of the magid said to me hey you know that thing that just happened that the whole world is talking about yeah that's our new way of serving hashem that's our new model we don't think about negativity anymore not even to fix the problem not even to fix the problem because we got a better way of dealing with it we think about god we think about the solution not joking if you have something inside of you that you're grappling with something ugly something dark go learn character time go increase your your trust in hashem go think about you have a loving father taking care of you and i promise you if you ever want to go back and analyze and get back into the the dirt and see and check on how the dysfunction is going i promise you you learn shadow token every day and you come back a year later and tell me that you're not overall a more spiritually healthy person that's what the altar eva was sharing with his beloved grandson we've got a new battle plan make sense yeah you're going to go do it anyone going to do it someone maisha is going to do it salvation's going to leave it he's going to do it okay thank you [Applause] you