The Power of Prayer at the Ohel

so the there's an old joke i heard it president reagan you can tell how old the joke is president reagan goes to uh the vatican and he meets the pope and uh he sees this golden phone on the pope's desk he says what is that he says that's my phone to god he says really have a phone a direct line to god he says yeah so reagan says could i use it yeah so reagan picks up and he talks to god and hangs up and the pope's like by the way it's a very expensive uh it's like a million dollars a minute so reagan says don't worry we'll have the treasury pay you then reagan goes to uh goes to israel he meets the chief rabbi and he's in the chief rabbi's office and he has he sees he also has a golden foster is this the same thing you have a direct line to god that says yeah could i use it yeah sure so reagan calls up talks to god hangs up says how much do i owe you chief rabbi says 10 cents it says 10 cents in the vatican it was a million dollars he says from here it's a local call oh you guys know what a local call is okay okay from here it's a local call i'm surprised you guys even got that because today right okay so this is a sikha it's actually the second seeker of the fabregan of yudhschwa yuchafat is the york site of the previous rabbit and uh on that date this is from the year tough shin yud dallad 1954 and in the secret the rabbi is speaking about the idea of hishtatus means literally uh prostration but it means to visit the grave site of eight sadiq and the rabbit begins the sikh by saying you know this idea of ishtar question is not a new idea and it's written about siddhis there's a whole country status from and the rebellion talk about the great and wondrous aspect of visiting visiting the oil or the gravesite of ethadic but the rabbit says we're going to bring out an another aspect that's maybe more of a kidus meaning to say there's neglect there's nested nista means the hidden dimensions of there but we also sometimes call panimayas but this is all alpinigla nigla means the exoteric the legalistic the talmudic and the way that ever frames it in the beginning of the sikh is by saying that in we see that we go to great lengths to halogenically permit kehanim to visit kivrei sadiq because we're jews we follow halacha we have to deal with allah and at the same time it's such an important thing for every jew to have access to the gravesite of atsadik that you see that the halakhists spend much time and focus in finding a proper and reliable heter a dispensation to allow this at any rate i'm not getting into how it's allowed um i'm sure anyone who's been to the oil sees the merchants or you maybe haven't but now if you think about it you'll notice that it's built there in order that kahanam can be able to go there halachically without violating anything solid the point is that that ever frames the whole discussion by saying this is not just a spiritual idea this is like everything in toyota it's both spiritual and practical and therefore we're going to bring it out according to nigla and what i want to focus on with you inside the text we're not going to learn the entire sicha but there's an incredible explanation and the dev is explaining everything according to according to talmudic sources an absolutely mind-blowing assertion that to put it in one sentence davening at the oil is a real local call take from that what you want we'll understand this momentarily okay before we get into this part of the circle which i want to learn inside i want to summarize a little bit the first four chapters or so so as i mentioned that ebbet mentions the the discussions about how to permit every jew to have access to the gravesite of assadic then the devil starts to speak about specifically how the chabad are all buried in khutsladitz meaning not in the holy land not in eretz israel so whether it's in lubavitch right the tamariki are are all buried in places in hot slaughters and that brings out that actually the precedent for this is from maison avenue that maestro bainu as we know did not enter eretz israel even in burial and the number brings out based on ahmedish in tankuma that that was by choice that maestro bainu could have affected that he would be able to enter the land and yet because his flock his generation didn't enter the land he said i will remain with them until the same and when meshich comes i will get up and i will enter the land with them but i will not abandon my flock so that ever brings out and this is a majestic so the rabbit brings out the idea of the shepherd the name of the jewish people the faithful shepherd saying i will remain even in burial i will remain with my flock geographically physically i will remain where they are this is a precedent established by maisha bainum and the method says where do we learn this from every every madrish is darshan from aposic it's from so this is the meaning of the possibilities of the final parasha update of the one that we read answers sabraka speaks about the passing of maisha bainu at 120 years old this is the meaning of the passage the yay say rashayam he will arrive with the heads of the people meaning he won't go ahead of them he'll only go with them he'll go with the people what does that mean he did the righteousness of the lord and justice by the jews justice by the jews what does that mean what does that verse even mean samantha's talent says you know what that means it means that maestro beno that even in burial he'll remain with his flock geographically physically in that place where they are and that's what it means i don't know if anyone ever noticed but i have it on the smartphone on the smart board over here that on the rebel's matseva it says this length hashem it says it also on the frida karebes matseva same line and in fact on the monuments of all of the rebellion it says this and what is it referring to it's referring to this idea that they are buried in the kutzler audits by choice as a service to their flock that their resting place and the power that's contained there should be geographically accessible to the people i'll just mention another thing that doesn't speak about it in this circle but it's a related concept you see further down on the material it's an interesting thing because the altar and we know a little bit about dalton and that and that matashabas he made abdullah then he david might have interesting thing that that itself is another discussion and he passed away that evening and the other asks how come when the democratic writes about his grandfather the altar of his passing the the the says that the altar ever passed with matsushabus it's a strange thing that ever says because there's a gemada that says somebody who passes away ereshaba simon if you pass away going into shabbos it's a good sign for you password coming out of show is a bad sign for you and the and and the mother explains because gehenna rests on shabbos travis has a day of rest for all the worlds so somebody passes away going into shabbos he goes straight into rest but that passes away coming out of shadows like it's a it's a difficult time so it's a it's a tough transition and that's why it's called semen rally it's not a good sign for someone passing so the rabbit points out that we know that the aci stalks of asadek the the moment of passing of tsaddik is a moment of incredible spiritual revelation and that it gives a spiritual boost to all those who are connected to the tsar now when is the time of the week when we need the biggest boost what time of the week are we the weakest no pun intended but what part of the week are we the most weak when do we need an extra boost what's a shabbos that's what he smelled with some in right that's why we say al-tira after yanking don't be afraid why we sing don't be afraid because you're leaving the safety of shabbos and you're going into the work week and it's scary so we're weak we're beset by the troubles of of of the mundane work week and we need a boost mats of shabbos so the time of the week that it's most useful to us to get a spiritual boost is matsushabus so that sadik even in the moment of his passing chooses the time of the week that's the most beneficial to call israel what the gemara says it's a bad sign for him it is it is bad it is harder on him but since when did ebba says since when did the nazi do things that were good for him he does things that are good for you so even in the moment of passing if the alternate knew that his histalkus would give a spiritual boost to the world and he could time it just right to be the most useful to others okay mr shabas and that's why the tamarted specifically because the rabbit says he could have downplayed uh she could have said earlier right it's a instead of saying what's a shabbos but no daft he says matishabas because to show the messiest nephesh of the nasi that even in his passing he's not doing what's good for him the fetish not he's not doing what's good for him he's doing what's good for us so this is the same idea of tsutiko israel that hashem told misha he could have entered eretz israel but maisha said i'll stay with my flock it's also related this idea of matsushabus that the the tadik chooses the time of histocus that's best for us so both in time and space the nasi is doing what is most beneficial for the cloud and not for himself okay i'm just just going to play an excerpt from this part of the and you hear that get choked up a couple of places when he speaks about the self-sacrifice of the nasi to allow himself to forego burial in israel and to choose to be accessible to his flock okay is foreign speaking about how i mean it's the secrets yo which is the yemeni lulula of the fedex of the rebels rabbit so the rabbi is speaking about how the philip rabbit was maui fish even beyond his physical life in this world to be here for us okay now the rabbit then expands on this concept and explains what exactly is the benefit that we are receiving from the fact that the nasi makes himself geographically accessible we can we have access we can go to his resting place so if you open up to page six and we'll go to ace zion on the bottom of the page and i want to thank uh lachak who prepared this kuntras specifically for this uh lee mood here and they gave us nice nakuta so we could follow and they redid this this is uh re-edited since uh since the titus menachem came out this is uh i mean it's being shared with everybody but it was done specifically for this class so i want to thank them okay bottom of page six another advantage another benefit that we have from the fact that allows himself to be geographically close his resting place is close to us chapelle etslo that it provides for them meaning for the clown israel a connection to the land of israel this is the local call that i'm talking about and remember i told you that is going out of his way to explain all of this even though it's a lofty spiritual concept that i was going out of his way to explain all this alpinigla the toyota all according to the talmudic explanations it's very exciting okay with a preface we find about davening which david is requesting your needs toward the geographical place that hashem says about it that my eyes and my heart are upon it all of the days that's a passage from uh malachim shalom therefore the is the audits if you're standing in florida yaksa panov you should face can negan edits israel you should face towards the land of israel toward your land and specifically towards even more specifically toward the best who can negative based kachikochi even more specifically to the holy of holies okay why what's the explanation why do we dive in facing israel and yerushalayim and the basa amigdas and the krishna kardashian the explanation is this poison is the 70 guardian angels of the 70 proto nations every nation has a mazel or a guardian angel asar that is its conduit now we have to remember something these angels have no autonomy because there's no creation in the world that has autonomy not even an angel especially not an angel there are only tools in hashem's hands they're pipelines you know what amazon means by the muslims from the word nasal which means to flow it's a pipeline so these guardian angels they are conduits for spiritual energy to enter the physical world and to become materialized as the bounty and the sustenance of that particular nation so the gnp of china let's say however trillions of dollars whatever it is is coming from a tsar some guardian angel lamila which is that conduit or that spiritual pipeline for that nation on earth and there are 70 basic protonations and uh there are 70 what we call the i and sodom 70 of these guardian angels when you're in hutzlatz so your physical sustenance your parnosa is coming through that pipeline coming through that intermediary again they have no autonomy that is the whole source of idol worship idol worship is where the idolaters actually think that the sodom have autonomy and therefore they try to curry favor with the with the solder but they have no autonomy but they are they're like a delivery system now when you're in hot slaughter so everything you're getting is coming through those pipelines israel but not in the holy all of the influence is brought down directly from hashem without an intermediate intermediary le loy he slaps his behind sodom without being invested in these 70 angels [Applause] and that's why we dive in towards israel because when we want our needs to come to us we want it to be an erection delivery we want it to be kailua a local call so we want our quote-unquote shipping address i'm sure you guys have done this before right a bunch of jet setters like you international uh students like yourself you know when you need to have a shipping address in another country so you have a friend you have a connection right so we want to make sure that when we dive and our shipping address isn't the chutzla it's shipping address we have an error shipping address which is yuru shalayam which is the basal mitosis and that's where we dive in toward that location so far so good yeah following okay um now we can achieve that even outside of the land of israel in addition to the fact we dive in towards your line but we can also achieve that same type of local call or local shipping address at the resting place of the today of the generation so the same thing that is gained by davening towards israel you can gain that by governing at the resting place of the tadika day let's let's see very intriguing let's see if chapter eight with me bottom page seven here's the explanation is according to rabbalaz according to that tana what about that sadiq who are buried in foot slaughters those tadikim will not have so the governor answers tunnels will be made tunnels will form in the ground underground tunnels they aim them already that's a deacon will get up under the ground stand on their feet walk through those tunnels they'll poke through the ground and they'll come up with there will be tunnels underground they'll walk through them they'll come up in there so now there's a discussion the same gemara about those who will have to roll through the ground which is an unpleasant thing which causes pain those who are buried in the cotswolds who will have to roll through the ground underground and that is why many people strive to be buried in arizona to avoid that pain but for the tardicum they won't have to roll through the ground they'll have nice pathways underground pathways that they'll be able to walk through this is the gemara consumers the opening of these tunnels is in eretz isro okay fine i got it so comes amazing there's going to be a tunnel from the graves of the tsundeki makutsularits and it's going to go to eretz israel and open up an air no problem you with me so far cave now since the openings of these tunnels are in eretz israel therefore the status of these tunnels is as if it were geographically located in eretz israel you understand that halachically there's a difference between the kedusha has halachic ramifications this is a discussion like we find in the gemarium [Music] if you have chambers or tunnels that they are built in a mundane area mundane area talking about not harabayas but their entrance their opening of these tunnels is in a sanctified area the whole inside of the tunnel has the status of the holy area why because we follow the cloud the bosses that according to the entry or the opening we determine the status so you follow what we're saying here there's going to be a tunnel from the isle to eretz israel and it's going to open up inertia cereal so therefore the halachic status of that whole tunnel is arizona is now you're going to ask a question i'm going to ask you a question but hold on a second the tunnel there's no tunnels there yet tunnels didn't form yet the tunnels are going to form this mountain at the time of the resurrection merciless right now the cavern is completely closed up there's no merciless there's no there's no tunnels we learn in a mishnah and always always is talking about uh an overhang or a structure and there's a dead body underneath and it causes uh tuma without getting into the complexities of this discussion the mishna says like this here's the case hamas babayas there's a dead body in the house and there are many uh doorways to this house coulomb call a kalim hamunukem any utensils that are under the doorways even though they're outside of the house but they're under the doorway under the if you have in mind no we're only going to take the mace out through one of the doorways alphaphysic even though you didn't open it yet and it's not open now only the caleb under that doorway become tame and none of the others do the point is well let's finish off only the caleb under that door frame even though it's closed right now those caleb will become tommy but the others will not but and only later are you going to open that door but only that one is tame you following the case here basically the question is not the kalem that are in the house the question of the caleb that are sort of in the house but out of the house because they're not inside the house they're on the other side of the door but they're under the overhang that goes over the door so the the the the any door that the mace could have been brought through the caleb under that overhang become uh become command however if you had in mind no we're going to only go out through that door now even though you didn't open that door yet that becomes the only doorway and now none of the other doorways will have that status of tumor the point is even when a doorway is closed but it will in the future be opened it confers a certain halachic status even though the the doorway is not yet open so the devil says like this if this is so in a negative thing meaning conferring impurity how much more so something that's positive because we know the mediterra is disproportionately greater than the than the negative attribute so there so therefore we can apply the same principle and even more so that even if the tunnels are not yet opened but only in the future will be opened so they will still confer a certain halachic status as if they were open already ima in other words just the fact that you know that you're going to open a door can confer to the articles under that door of akama how much more so shimane thought of that when we're talking about something that is the opposite of impurity that it's purity and in it and holiness that there's going to be that opening in the grave with those tunnels the edits israel and it's going to go territorial it helps to affect it even now that it's as if the tunnels are already there and open to a holy area and the status is that the insides of those tunnels is kurdish therefore the status of the grave ke edits isro it is halogenically and spiritually as if it were in eretz israel you're not in cambria heights queens you're in artistro so it emerges what's the takeaway for us is in the location of the resting place of the tadaka which is open to and attached to the land of israel you have the spiritual benefit as if you were davening in eretz isro okay now if that's not enough right dieno it's enough for me that's that's that's mind-blowing enough for me okay no it's not enough for the debit that i'm just going to push the envelope here where do you think we're going to go now how how can we up the ante at this point we just said that davening at the aisle is as much of a direct call as davening at the castle that's what we just said in case you're wondering did we say it yes we said it we said dobbing at the oil is as much a direct call as dobbing at the kaiser what do you think if we can do one better than that sure it's greater it's greater that's for of course it's greater when you have to fly all the way down to throw down another castle you go to cambria heights queens and not only have everything you can have by diving into the castle you can have even more okay i got i got to see how the dev explains this you see we're at page eight at the bottom all these tests you with me okay let's add here let's go further past the location of the tadik's resting place actually is a better place to darwin than eretz israel at least now in the time of gallus in the time of golis obviously when the base of english was standing on the base of english will stand again there's nothing like it but until until mashiach comes while we're in golis yeah the oil is more of a is the most direct local call with a preface is regarding the flow of hashem's uh sustenance everything we get when we daven all that that transmission of of energy that provides for us there's a difference in how we get it in gallus and how we used to get it in the times of the base of mgdosh fish over there he explains why people don't drop dead from coddex anymore it's an interesting question why the altar says we see old people who were high of cutters why don't they drop dead from it so he says you want to know it's an icky reason really the reason is because in the times the base of english people were only sustained by their nepheshella kiss and if that got cut off then their body would drop today we're anyway sustained by thomas by clipper because we're in golis so you live off of that energy but a person would continue living off of that energy because when we're in gullis and we're under the administration so to speak of the iron sodom that we spoke about before so we're not getting direct pure uh kedusha energy for our sustenance in the times of the basa mikdash we only received sustenance for our body from our nephesh elekis we got a an inner transmission from the name of hashem masha inking this man but not when we're in gallus now we're going to apply this concept you follow what the altar ever says in the gyros ochofa but basically in golis we're not getting a clean direct transmission like we did when we're in the times the base of dush so anyways we're getting things through a side door obviously ultimately everything comes from hashem because anything can only come of hashem is the only source but the point is the pathway the pathway through which it reaches us so the same idea here we said about receiving sustenance not directly not a direct path like uh when we're in gulas we're going to apply the same idea to eretz israel disadvantage that edits as well has over hutzlad it's that the hashbag comes directly and not through the iron sodium hebrew's manabayas really when does that exist it exists when there's a base amigdas standing but not in the times of golis in the times of golis it's not happening that you're getting that direct transmission just by being an heir to soul in fact that ebba says in a certain way the goalless hit edits israel harder than any other place on earth it's it's it's harsh to say but when we're in golis not only does eric's soul not have that effect but in a certain way eric's throat got got hit the hardest [Music] you say so that says more than this there's a famous parable about the falling of a a wall evan the stone on the top of the wall when the wall topples the stone that was the top row falls farthest from the base of the wall so the mushroom means that something that's holier something comes from a higher source when it falls it falls lower so that the the wound or the the the damage that edge itself suffers is actually more pronounced than any other land moving the change that god has caused and the corbin caused was more pronounced in edison we see this in a very simple way even in the in physical terms is the effect the negative effect of golisan is seen as perceived physically in the time of the base israel was the most fertile place on earth it is a land flowing with milk and honey pasha bhagasmius a fertile place not today obviously jews are very smart and hard working and we figure out ways to make a desert bloom but naturally speaking it's very harsh land and not only do we find that during golis eretz israel is not a fertile place it used to be it used to be the most fertile place but not only we find that gosh that herzegovina got hit that way that gullis affected it that it no longer physically has that that same bounty no to the contrary it's even harder to make physical bounty in here to throw than any other place in the ramban we get us visited he writes to his son he says great is the abandonment and the destruction the desolation and here's the general principle he says i'll tell you what i saw in eretz israel every place that's holier than than the other is more desolate than the other the holier it is the more desolate bhagavatam now that's speaking physically materially but along these same lines in spiritual terms you know it says faceboos actually mentions it again these are all sources in it's harder to be from an er ask all the israelis who uh become niskada through a chabad in kutzler sorry it's hard to be feminine in addition to the fact there are more mitzvahs in there so right through miss myself all that kind of stuff shmita in addition to the fact there's budget more mitzvahs you actually have to work harder for simple things regular yiddish kite is harder in eretz israel why because of this nifila's muscle because ants are so holy so then when the gullet hits it hits it's all the hardest so it's not just that physically it's it's hard to uh to to produce agricultural bounty in arizona much harder than lavada in kansas right but even spiritually it's probably easier to be froome in kansas unless he ate so harder there's an old joke about a guy who made aliyah and he said bye to his his gate sahara and then he gets there to throw and uh he sees this yet sahara again he says hey i thought i got rid of you he says no you got rid of my shliyak now you met the i'm the i'm the big boss final boss okay let's bring a proof or an example everything is strengthened when we bring a halachic example a talmud who has a stain on his shirt is kaiv misa sakai visa for having a stain on his shirt yeah because it says in michelin says all who hate me who hate hashem love death meaning you're looking for death if you hate hashem i don't say those who hate me ella mas niai those who make me hate it everyone knows the talmud represents hashem and when people see the tamakochem with uh pizza stain on his shirt they say oh so that's what tater gets you so a regular guy walking down the street with a pizza stain on his shirt big deal but the talmud oh is so special and so holy shavit its very air is pure and makes people wise even something as trivial as a pizza stain on your shirt page and behaviorally can affect the connection however everything we were saying about this yarida that golus causes good news it only affects that which is with with within cedric it only affects regular reality as we know it but not the stuff that's beyond regular reality that's beyond regular creation well what's that well you know there's hashem as he's within creation hashem as he's beyond creation and so too there's your soul as it is part of creation and your soul as it transcends creation and those two hashem as he's beyond creation and your soul as it is beyond creation are are one that's the yakida the deepest core of the soul your oneness with hashem and that exists beyond esthaus that's why it's like a fifth level because there are four worlds right the four worlds asia there are four levels of the soul nephesh shama and then there's the fifth level which is not a level at all of your soul is beyond the world it's beyond creation so within creation goalless has an effect beyond the system of creation gullis has no effect oh great how can i hack out of this system and access my connection to hashem in a way where that connection is never affected by golus i know in time it's called game kipper which is why we dive in five philosopher which corresponds to that fifth level the core of the soul the where can i go though in space where i can get away from the the effect that the corbin has on saturday i can't do it going to earth as well won't help air to start a physical place that's within the physical creation within the say their spousalist it's not going to help so whatever says there's one way to do it you got to go deep you got to go to the core of your soul and the way we do that is to our relationship with the nishama claus through the aggregate soul clause through our relationship with the tadaka who represents the core identity the core godliness of all of us our true identity our true selves let's try to wrap this up here so only would they say they're list does this problem exist there there's no concept of your sin separating you from hashem because on that level you are always one with hashem the sins can't touch nothing can cause separation the core of your soul and the essence of god nothing can cause separation shall help us there could be no concealment there can be no hiding and there can be no destruction god forbid while derek's ebbing the audience now let's apply the stairs israel there's the essence of the land which is connected to the essence of godliness the corbyn did not affect the essence of the land the physical land had affected that's within say their spouses but the essence of the land was unaffected okay bring me to the essence of the land where's that al-ashay indian accent it's very hard to access it bring me to it bring me to the essence of the land so i'm trying to dive in towards this role because of the direct connection the local call that it affords me but the goal is making it for all intents and purposes impossible and if i could get to the level of essence where goddess and sin and all that stuff doesn't touch then i can work around it but how do i do that how do i get to essence that for certain lofty souls the destruction never occurred in other words what does it mean that these lofty souls experienced no destruction of the baseline it means that the essence of the base of mikdash is intact and these people are able to draw upon that essence which is normally inaccessible they're able to draw it down into their day-to-day life into whatever says into their 365 limbs and rather 248 lives and 365 sinews and for them they transcend the whole idea of corbin they came in was never affected by god israel still the original heritage israel that existed in the times of the basement in other words in the place of the burial of the tardis even though it is as we explain those tunnels which are open to a holy area yes [Applause] but it's not only as good as edition it's actually better than the actual answer that's accessible currently in galas it's connected to eretz israel as it was in the times of the basal mikdash kevin shaboy nicker [Applause] and in the spiritual space of the toddler you're connecting not to er as it's connected to when you you visit as a physical uh location today but you're connecting to the essence of eretz israel as it remains transcendent and untouched by gallus so it's more eric's role than eretz israel is for now it's more the chrysler than the kaisel is for now let's finish it up here your base valpies so now we see there's a really special thing about davening at the aisle bizman in today's day and age when eretz israel was affected by the corbin today in a manner that would simulate davening to hashem inert israel in the times of in other words to get around the eye in sodom not to have to go through the i in sodom if you want to have that access that local call where's that place where you can do this at the resting place of the today of the generation because that place not only is that is it as if it were to throw a la yes it's on the level of eretz israel as it was in the times of the basa which you can i cannot even access currently in the actual it's understood then there's an added advantage to it fila in such a place she's kaimukula but cautious that everything one needs will be fulfilled caleb and especially the revelation of the essence in a revealed way the whole thing here is talking about essence revealing the essence what does that mean that means when i connect to the rabbit i realize that i'm a lot greater than i thought i was and i'm a lot more spiritual i'm a lot more godly but that can remain abstract you go to the oil and you connect to the tsadik you can take your essence and reveal it in your your mind your heart your behaviors that's what it means to draw the essence into the revelation in other words to finally be able to be empowered to act as holy as i really am deep down that's what the oil does for us is becomes spread out in all of your uh and all of your curios and all of your your your limbs in your day-to-day life in your thought speech in action and all in in actuality schlitz especially when you go to the aisle it empowers you to step up and to actualize your schleiches that the generation sadik ordered each one of us to carry out when all this comes without any concealment but flagger physically and spiritually together and here at the end it says that that ever got up then i was saying look and uh asked them to sing the negan measure to klopsy and then i was standing in his place and uh and dancing this is a beautiful recording of it you can hear the whole sikh and you can hear the the lachaims and the night that follow so barak hashem we are bismilchis the cute of malcolm we have access to the holiest place on earth so make use of it [Laughter] [Music] uh