The ONLY way to be free | Letter #22 of 30 Letters in 30 Days

all right barem we are in letter number 22 of 30 letters and 30 days we're going to start our learning with somea remember we're preparing for y niss through Torah study that's by learning the letters and through Act of T I'm going to use the kabad pushka app oh it's shaking already kabad pushka app okay the link for the Kad push app is down below in the YouTube description also uh the link to reserve for the event yeah I'll repeat that last night I made a very joyful Announcement by the way I made a earlier I made a very joyful announcement last night that b we're going to have a live inperson event for the 30th letter it's a women's Shear at the Ole or more accurately half a block from the Ole at the New Soul word's house which bar after a long time many months of renovation it is God willing opening um so the link is below please please please RSVP it's RSVP only space is extremely limited okay um let's get into tonight's letter and uh I apologize for the PDF this I I've think I've mentioned before that a few days before 30 days before you all niss and I wasn't really even sure I was actually I was sure we were not going to be able to do 30 letters in 30 days cuz I just didn't have the team together to do it and a friend of mine Ley shamon from West Bloomfield Michigan said if you're in it I'm in it so we did it and then we got a couple more guys to help out and uh so somehow we're doing it but um we're doing our best over here there's lots I'm not going to use the PDF tonight because the there were just so many errors in it I'm going to read from the actual um effect simile of the page from igis I'm telling you that because in case you see me reading it differently uh it's because I'm not reading the typos okay hope you appreciate that unless you really like the typos there's nothing special about them um but I guess everything okay this is a letter from to mha hakin I think last name is shich U greetings and blessings I'm acknowledging receipt of the few lines that you wrote meaning the letter in which you write about yourself and about your wife may she be well I will mention them meaning you and your wife at a propitious time at the holy resting place of my father-in-law the for all that you need materially and spiritually all right your generous donation I don't know what a generous donation means in this case I don't know if this person sent a lot of money a little money person sent money sent money and as a as Apparent from the context of the letter the letter that the money was not earmarked for any particular cause he just sent a donation to the debit okay so the says your generous donation since it arrived in the days before it was allocated to a timely cause uses both Expressions is an Aramaic expression which literally means PES flow meaning the flower to make Matas and mo means money or coins for wheat um it's interesting that EBA mentions why does it say wheat wheat is a specific species of grain and not in this letter but there's a that talk about how really you could make matah out of any of the out of any of the five types of grain and you know what those are remember the pneumonic brows uh like when you're taking kala also you have to remember this pneumonic barley Rye oats wheat spell okay um wheat is considered the nicest of these five most prominent the most uh the classiest so uh the ne mentions that and this is in line with the content of this letter that um if you want to skimp and you want to save and you want to be frugal with your own Mitzvah okay I guess that's your prerogative so you don't want to use the wheat you can find something cheaper by the way it's ironic because the oat is like twice as much but if you want to use less quality for yourself okay go ahead but when it comes to the money that you're donating for other people's PES needs that's what MOS is for what what's what's this money for PES the money for PES is money you're donating to provide for other people's yam needs so for that it has to be um has to be wheat money don't don't don't give them Rye money barley money give them give them wheat money good stuff okay and this is very align with the message of this letter here which we're going to read where the debba is ex stoling the great virtue of giving money to funds which support the less fortunate to uh to have their their PES needs met now it is known the saying of the I heard this saying of the B many times from my father-in-law the everything that you see hear everything you know about anything that's on your your radar screen you must learn from it a teaching of how to serve Hashem because that is the whole purpose of man is to serve Hashem like it says in the end of kushin I was only created to serve my maker okay so that's the saying of the B that theb heard many times from the which is again everything everything everything even things that seem irrelevant they seem uh trivial no no such thing you must think about it and learn a an instruction in how to serve Hashem from from everything now here's I think the I think if it's true the says you have to learn an instruction how to serve AEM from anything that you know about how much more so a matter of toyot Mitzvah itself now you could say to mitzah itself is already serving Hashem yeah but there are levels and the debba says from something that is a matter of serving Hashem you can learn from that even more levels of how to serve Hashem and in this case the I was going to talk about the teaching that we can glean from the idea of mos yeah you can say MOS yeah you're giving money for people to have what to eat how to celebrate uh yam that's that's that's the inion yeah yeah but of course and ham the bottom line is to give the money to other people so that they have the ability to make a nice yff but theba is gonna now unpack it and and highlight an even deeper level of of appreciation that we can have for this Mitzvah all right now in our case we're talking about a holy custom of the Jewish people which has the status of and it's also brought in the writings of the that before the days leading up to P we collect meaning people go around and collect um Kim which I said before Aramaic for PES flour now do they go around collecting literal flour maybe historically at some point they did but today it's that's why this also the other term MO which means money or coins for uh for wheat and it's not just for the wheat or the flow or the matah it's really and the dev spoke about this many times all of the needs of yam not just the matah not just matah and the wine but food and fish and flesh and everything that they need okay and clothes and everything okay that is to say assisting the needy all right and also if you look in the when we begin the S we say the the words called which means all who are hungry come and eat which is similar to this concept of Mo of providing for the needs of the less fortunate okay so the Seder also begins with a an announcement that we are giving uh we're we're we're giving a place at our at our s to those who need all right here's where the unpacks it on a on an even deeper level there's a special teaching and a special emphasis here all Jewish people now it's interesting you could translate this two different ways literal way is guarantors for one one another for each other like someone who cosign alone let's say um physically and and and and spiritually also um can literally mean mixed with each other so has a double meaning we are inextricably bound up with each other materially and spiritually okay so it's not possible for one person to express his freedom on PES and and conduct himself as a free person on whichi this time the time of this whole season of PES is called the time of our of our freedom and especially the night of the SED there is a time of Freedom we're supposed to do many things to express our freedom but it's not possible to tap into your own Freedom unless you've done everything within your ability to make sure that your fellow Jew is also free and what does it mean that he's free that he's free from worry that he's worried how is he going to pay for all the things he needs for Yam it's very expensive so your friend down the block maybe he's not your friend maybe you don't even know his name you may never met him but doesn't matter Jewish people are all intertwined so there's another yid who's worried how is he going to make yum how can you be free until he is free from his worry and the the Deb is saying the answer is you you can't you can't and that's why we have to deal with this first that's why this gets first priority you could say well it's a practical thing of course we collect M before PES because if you don't do it before PES you don't have time to collect the money to distribute the money by the way there's the collecting the money and there's the Distributing the money and sh there's a video of him going around where he's talking about that um he makes two announcements one announcement is we're collecting the other announcement is we're Distributing and if you know anyone who needs let us know so there's the collecting and the Distributing it all takes time right so obviously all this has to happen before PES but the rebba from a practical standpoint yeah obviously but the rebba goes in deeper and says there's there's a here there's a there's a deeper teaching which is it's not just a practical thing that first you collect and distribute the money and then you have PES there's also a teaching here about prioritization that top priority is first take care of someone else and then you're you're you're in a place where you can start to connect to your own Freedom this is what the rebba says right here to the contrary not only can you not be free until your friend is free of worry about how he's going to pay for y you have to put him first you have to worry about his freedom before you get started pursuing your freedom that's why the whole lead up the whole preface to the season of Freedom who [Music] it's collecting and distributing funds for the poor and specifically we start the Seder with the announcement of all who are hungry come and eat okay so it's not just a practical thing first we collect and distribute the money and then we have yam but it's also a spiritual teaching here that the way the path the only the only method to connecting to your own Kus is to first see to it that you've done everything within your ability to ensure the freedom freedom from worry of another Jew who on his own would not be able to to make ends meet for the Yum now goes a deeper level deeper level we can learn a lesson about the soul and the body the soul can't be free free which means a servant of God not a servant of because Freedom doesn't mean being ownerless doesn't mean being Hafer Freedom means you're not a servant of par it means you are a servant of hem so the soul cannot begin to be free which means a servant of hem goof gaman unless it frees the body the soul might think I can go do my own thing saying in fact if I get rid of this body right no no no no the soul is inextricably linked up with the body the soul cannot pursue its spiritual Freedom until it takes care of the body we're gonna we're gonna read the body needs to also become hashem's servant not par servant now this is another teaching of the B this our second teaching of the b in the short little letter UHA his his known teaching that uh and this is based on on on a when you see the donkey of your enemy so how does that or how does read this um when you see when you see the donkey don't read read the physicality materiality you look at your own materiality meaning your body you're going to see he's your enemy your body's your enemy the soul is yearning for spirituality and for godliness and the body is interrupting that distracting you from that saying let's go out for ice cream you know like ah body go away stop bothering me we're trying to learn we're trying to Di and right you get upset so you say the body is my enemy I'd rather get rid of it if we just take it away life would be so much better so it wants to do it wants it's yearning for now you see the body's crouching under its burden it's it's it's it's a it's um weighted Down Under the load the load that Hashem has put upon the body that hasem gave the body a certain burden in order to refine it with and the but but the body is is crouching under the the body is lazy to do it it may rise up in your heart meaning it may occur to you you should refrain from helping him good let him break let him fall apart then we'll get rid of the guy that's what you might think then I'll do they'll be free to do my my be beautiful no um that you you think that you're going to start to mortify your body to break the materiality but that is not the method where the light of T will be able to dwell but rather you must help him must help the body you have to refine him you have to polish him up not break him with punishments with mortification so this is similar to the idea of Mo on an even deeper level one yid cannot be free until every other yid is free or at least you've done everything within your ability to help every yid to be free from worry to be able to have dtive um and and and to the extent where you have to put that first not just chronologically but in terms of prioritization and similarly the soul cannot be free until the body is free what does that mean that the body becomes an evid hasem that instead of the soul is the evid Hashem and the body is an evid laare and you just try to avoid it or sidestep it or even get into a fight with it no no no no the Shama is an evidem but also the body is an evidem that we train the body to gravitate toward mitz and only when that happens only when that happens is the soul truly free as well deep deep deep stuff here all based on the uh concept of uh with a blessing for a kosher and happy Passover re is Holy signature okay galic galic we'll see you tomorrow night