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The Soul Is G-d's Exhale - Likkutei Torah "Ki Bayom Hazeh" #1 - By Rabbi YY Jacobson
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Why the Zohar Defines the Words of Creation as "Peasant's Words" Likkutei Torah - Parshas Acharei "KI Bayom Hazeh" #1 For Source Sheets: http://www.theyeshiva.net/jewish/4236
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Okay, this my mirror
is the first my mirror of this week's
parsha which is look at the Torah
parshas acharei mos
and it was said by the Baal Hatanya
on shabbos shuva shabbos shuva tough
cough samach base
shabbos shuva 1801
shabbos shuva is of course the shabbos
before Yom Kippur
and hence the my mirror began with a
pasuk in parshas acharei mos
which concerns Yom Kippur since it's the
parsha that deals with Yom Kippur
when the Likutei Torah was published by
his grandson the Tzemach Tzedek he took
this discourse that his grandfather said
on shabbos shuva tough cough samach base
and he put it in the parsha of the week
where this pasuk is said which is
parshas acharei mos that's why it's in
parshas acharei
He begins with the famous pasuk the the
Torah says when it wants to summarize
the objective and the mission statement
of Yom Kippur
on this day
he will forgive for you to cleanse you
from all of your transgressions before
Hashem you shall become clean
you shall become pure
When it says by Yom azeh yichaper it's
really out of the blue who's going to be
mechaper on you? So we put in well it
obviously means Hashem but the pasuk
doesn't make any reference to that it
says on that day he will forgive you
it's not like it says right before
Hashem so you could say you're talking
about that he. It says right after.
After that it says Hashem Titaru.
Really, it should have said
if you want to repeat it again. But in
the beginning of the passage he
completely doesn't say who's going to
forgive. You have to assume and
speculate. Well, it has to be God. Give
on this day
this he, this invisible transcendent he
who we're not sure who it is is going to
forgive you.
Yom Kippur is a day of Teshuvah.
The Indian of Teshuvah, the concept of
Teshuvah is what does Teshuvah mean?
The word Teshuvah is usually translated
in English as repentance,
which is basically a person made
mistakes or sinned then they have to
repent. But that's not the real
translation of Teshuvah. Teshuvah comes
from the word
It means to return.
What are you returning? He says
the real concept of Teshuvah is
something completely different.
The real objective of Teshuvah is
something different.
To return your soul
to its own true source, to its own true
identity.
To return the godly soul of each person
to the source
from which it was honed out. You you
honed out, from which it was cut out,
from which it was so to speak chiseled
out. The way it was, the way it is in
other words, in its pristine state
before it went through a whole major
evolution
until it descended into this world and
clothing itself in a physical body.
Originally, what is the essence of the
soul? It's absorbed in the source and in
the root of all the worlds, which is the
energy, the light of the infinite one,
blessed be he. And the soul is
completely absorbed in that light. That
is its ultimate identity. That is its
ultimate truth.
Teshuvah means, as a result of its
journeys, the soul often gets distracted
from who it really is.
And the person gets distracted from who
the soul really is. So, what teshuvah
means is
teshuvah is the work to be able to
return, to restore yourself to your true
self, to align your identity with its
true nature, with its true essence and
reality. So, what he's saying
it means return. We We sometimes
translate teshuvah as return. He doesn't
mean return as an indirect object, like
I return to my house. He means return as
as a direct return, like you return
something, like you return a favor.
Right. Not lashuv, but rather lahashiv.
Lashuv, yeah.
Yeah.
It's not only returning to my home
house, even though that's also included
in this, but it's almost like hashavas
aveda.
Like something has been dislocated, you
know? A located shoulder, you know, a
dislocated shoulder, you have to bring
it back. Hashavas aveda, something was
dislocated or stolen or lost from its
owner, and you bring it back to where it
really belongs.
So, here the person could become
confused about who he or she really is,
about the nature of their soul. Teshuvah
means to return the soul to where it
was, what it really is. Question. Yes.
Maybe we spoke about the other question.
I'll tell you what I'm thinking about.
Why does God need to send it down, bring
it back up?
Why What we need this for?
I'm not doing you any favors.
I know. I'm questioning God himself.
If God was here, I don't know.
A good question. It's going to be a
question in this mind of mine.
A few lines.
He blew into his nostrils, Adam's
nostrils, a soul of life.
And the question is, what is the meaning
of the word vayipach? He blew.
He blew into his nostrils.
With the entire creation, that doesn't
say
and God blew into the world light, or he
blew into the world the sun and the
moon, or he blew into the world
vegetation.
The term that's used constantly is
vayomer elokim.
Hashem said, let there be light. Hashem
said, let there be a heaven. Hashem
said, let there be luminaries. Let there
be vegetation.
He said, let there be fish. Let there be
animals. As the Mishna puts it in Pirkei
Avot, basara, ma'amarot nivra ha'olam.
The world was created through 10
utterances, through 10 speeches, 10
statements.
When it comes to the soul, God could
have said, vayomer elokim,
yehi nishmat chayim betoch ha'adam or
something like that. There should be a
soul. There'll be a soul.
Remember, God's words, Hashem's words,
translate into energy. The words are
energy.
Here it says, he blew.
So, the Zohar says, man denafach
mitochei nafach.
There's a difference between speaking
and blowing.
Man denafach, the one who blows,
mitochei nafach. He blows from his
insides.
In the projection of energy, you can't
compare the energy that you exert when
you speak to the energy that you exert
when you blow.
People can speak
for a very long time, sometimes
unfortunately.
Some people go for an hour, and some
people can go for 2 hours, and some
people go for 3 hours, etc.
Huh?
You blow up a ball or an air mattress
and you Right. When you have to blow up
a ball or an air mattress or blow shofar
or when you're blowing, the exertion is
much more intense. So, you could blow
for 10 seconds, 30 seconds, a minute,
perhaps if you're skilled and you know
how to you hold your breath and your
lungs are doing well, you can do it for
more, but you're going to get exhausted.
Why?
So, the Zohar says, "Mande nafakh me to
chai nafakh."
It takes from your pnimius, from your
insides. You could see the the blood
rushing to the head. You see the redness
in the face. That says in halakha, you
blow ad she dim upnei atikaya. Like till
the face of the blower becomes red. Me
to chai nafakh.
So, that's what the Zohar is trying to
say. You can't compare the soul to
anything else in the world.
But here, the Baal HaTanya takes the
metaphor a step deeper.
What is va'yifakh? He says, "She
mitkhila haya hevel kalul be makor
ha'rishon."
The idea of va'yifakh is this breath,
this hevel, when you blow,
your hevel, what's called your breath,
emits, emerges from you. Where was this
breath before? It was kalul be makor
ha'rishon.
It didn't have its own separate
identity. It was
You don't look at a person and say, "Oh,
I see the breath inside of you."
It's subsumed. It's kalul. It's
included, submerged in the source of the
person, in the root of the person. When
you speak about the neshama va'yifakh be
appav, what is the neshama? Ah, the
neshama is his breath.
In other words, the birth of a human
being is God exhaling,
so to speak. What is it What is he
exhaling? He's exhaling his hevel. Where
was this hevel before?
The hevel was inside of him. It was
mikorev vishorsha. De haynu b'moosevo
atzmo mamash.
It was indistinguishable from the
source.
It was completely subsumed and submerged
in his essence, in his core. THAT IS A
NESHAMA.
IT'S NOT A P'SHAT WE'RE saying bring
back the neshama to some lofty madrega.
It's not about a madrega. It's what the
neshama is before exhaling. What was it?
The hevel, the breath. THAT'S P'SHAT
MI'TOCH NAFCHA. IT WAS all his
tochniyus. It's all him. It's all part
of him. It's completely one with the ein
sof.
What is birth? What is birth, he says?
Ela
she'lo acher yurid seviv sh'talshul
l'som madrega.
The soul, which begins with an exhaling
of the Ribono shel Olam, descends. What
do we mean it descends? It evolves many
levels. Nishtaneh m'mooslo l'moos. It
goes through a transformation from one
essence to another essence. The yored
descends l'hislabesh b'guf Adam ba'olam
hazeh.
To the point that it has the capacity to
assume a distinct identity, where it
could become the vitalizing battery in
the body, the mortal body of a human
being in this world. But for this, the
neshama has to go through a major
process.
After the exhaling, as al kein, tzarich
l'hashiv l'mekoro k'shehaya sham. That's
why there's a mitzvah of hashavas
aveidah,
to bring it back, to return it to its
source. L'ha'alos nafsho l'Hashem,
l'hisdavkut b'Elokim chayim,
she'yiskalel b'ohr ein sof baruch hu
k'vischilah.
To elevate the nefesh to Hashem,
it should become
one with the living God, to be subsumed
and nichlal, submerged, in the light of
the infinite one k'vischilah, as it was,
as it always was. And therefore, if it
always was, that is its real state. In
its core, that is its real state. That's
what it yearns, that's what it craves.
So, all of Yiddishkeit is essentially
Hashavas Aveida, to allow the soul to be
re-aligned with itself, with its own
shure makor, with its own shure
shoidish. That is what Dveikus B'Elokim
Chaim means. Dveikus B'Elokim Chaim
means going back to who you really were,
to who you really are, which is before
God exhaled.
Before God exhaled you outwards,
you were part of his inner core, Atzmuso
U'Mahuso, completely one with the Ein
Sof. The soul is infinity, the soul is
divine, it's not separate. It's just for
birth to happen and for life to happen,
it goes to a transformation, where it
assumes a distinct appearance as a
creature, which enters into a body, and
gets a new name called I.
That name I is really a confusion of its
true essence, where it's one with the
divine I, and it's completely not
separate. And that's what the Vayyipach
is trying to say. Man d'nafach m'toichai
nafach. It's
It's the concept of him being expressed.
This is unlike words.
This is unlike words. So, we have here a
very fundamental description
about the difference between a soul and
everything else in the world.
Everything else, how does creation
describe get described in the Torah?
Hashem said, "Let there be vegetation."
Hashem said, "Let there be fish."
Right? So, his words create the fish.
His energy creates the fish. Vayomer
Elokim, "Y'hi or." Vay'hi or.
Hashem said, "And there was."
So, he speaks, he commands, and as a
result of this command, this energy
creates a substance called fish, a
substance called mammals, a substance
called the sun, a substance called
light.
With the soul, it doesn't say he said
let there be a soul.
And a soul is created.
With everything else as he said it was
and so it was. The soul is
he blows the soul. So you see the
difference. What is the soul? The soul
is divine energy. That's what it is.
It's not he blows and as a result of the
blow something else is created.
The nature of the soul is the blow. It's
the breath itself.
And he said let there be a soul and
there is a soul.
Huh?
Good question. You're asking the words
also come from inside. Where were the
words before you spoke these words?
Also inside of you. Why are you saying
this only on
say this also on the words were inside
of you.
I think there's two points. Point number
one is
words as I said before
bring forth a much more external level
of energy. Right? The person doesn't
have to exert himself so much. The
it comes from a deeper space within.
That's number one.
In other words, there's the external
versus the internal. Number two, the
words create something else.
The neshama is the breath itself. That
is what it is. It's the breath that's
becomes a neshama. The neshama is the
breath itself. As he puts it here, the
neshama is Yeah, what is it? What
Yeah, there's an expression in in the by
the Baal Hatanya that a neshama is
Elokus Nosa Nivra.
It's divinity, it's godliness that
assumes the identity of a nivra, of a
created being. Neshama shenasata bi
tohiri, ata varasa.
For what is it that you created? Not a
new substance, yesh me ayin.
Right? Like a new substance you created.
You said, "Let there be." So there was.
Rather, it is the hevel itself that
becomes a neshama. It's godliness. The
neshama is Elokus, it's divine.
That is what it is.
Emes.
Emes. That's what he was saying. When
you speak about the words inside of you,
you don't have the form of words inside
of you. You have thoughts inside of you,
right? The thoughts take on a form of
words, which is already something else.
The hevel, the way it's inside it comes
out.
The breath that's inside comes out. So
that's what a neshama is. A neshama is
divine.
It's the way divinity is externalized,
it's concretized. It emerges from inside
into outside. That's what it is.
That seems to work out very nicely with
the the blessing that we have by the
Sanhedrin by Asaf Halamaf. I mean, he
was collected back. Collected back.
By Asaf Halamaf, he gathered back to his
people. Yeah.
So in other words, birth is God
exhaling, and death is God inhaling.
That's basically what happens.
The neshama
The neshama it doesn't die. It It It
goes to where what it always was.
Mitoch ein Sof, it's part of the hevel
of ein Sof.
Every person has a soul. Every creature
has a soul. It's a different type of
soul.
The Jew has a Jewish soul. The non-Jew
has a non-Jewish soul. Everyone has a
soul, but it's their own type of soul.
So, essentially, this is what deveikus
means. Deveikus means you're not going
to something else. When you say deveikus
in Hashem, deveikus b'Elokim chayim, the
neshama is going back to what it really
is. That is what its nature is. That is
what its pristine identity is. It's
going back to that space where it's
completely one with the ein Sof. Before
Hashem blows, before this person does Is
there
Isn't it said that let us make man and
then he blew
Excellent question. Vayomer Elokim
na'aseh adam, right?
B'tsalmenu k'dimusenu v'yirdu, that's
the entire adam,
including the body. Here we're speaking
about specifically the neshama. Vayipach
b'apav nishmas chayim. Does that explain
like pre-homo sapien
mammals? Perhaps.
And also the vayomer is na'aseh adam on
the body and also the soul, the way it
comes down
as a nivra. The soul in its originality
is vayipach.
V'hinei,
so now we ask this question, l'havin
tachlis v'yiridas haneshama
l'havin tachlis v'yiridas
v'hishtalshelus haneshama kolkach
sheyoredes mimakom gavoha me'od l'makom
namuch me'od. Now, this has to be
understood.
If this is the meaning of teshuvah, what
is the purpose
of the neshama coming down
in such an intense fashion? It comes
down from such a lofty place to such a
lowly place.
V'tzarich kama yegias lashuv k'ma
k'shehayah.
It takes a tremendous amount of toil,
many exertions to return it the way it
was. While the vita has shown them all
the user and how the vita you should
even be able to return it sufficiently
key hybrid the casa has been shown.
We know that road many roads are full of
danger.
And these roads are very dangerous the
pathways that the soul comes down
through.
And now it has to be returned it's very
dangerous pathways for the llama has
raised the phone of his brother.
Why did Hashem want this whole maraca to
happen? What's the point of all of this?
What's the objective of all of this?
The neshama could have remained what it
was and all is good.
We say all is well that ends well, but
here we're not even sure that it ends
well. That's what he says. Call the
camera has gone it's not partial. How
the vita you should is a special in the
whole of vita to hey you see also could
be also.
You should be able to leave that you
like you came in. It's a very very
complicated journey.
Because the
identity is very confusing. The vita has
got the upper niche maschine is the
truth of the soul. But as the soul comes
into a body and the person begins to
live life it becomes a very intense
struggle to even recognize yourself as
divine. To be able to recognize yourself
as part of the ain't so I have to be
able to see that you are truly subsumed
in infinity and there's never a
separation between you and Hashem. To be
able to understand that all of true were
really means returning to who you are.
And by the way, we see from here
that sometimes the way people understand
true were is completely misconstrued.
Often people conceive of the ideas true
were as reminding them how bad they are.
You have to do true were to show and
true were. When are you going to do true
were? Or I hope one day you'll do true
were. In other words, it underscores how
bad you are and true were will liberate
you. When according to this definition,
it's exactly the other way around. Chuva
means, "Look how good you are and how
inseparable inseparable in
separable you are." And therefore,
it's all about you returning to you, not
you returning to me. You returning
actually to you, which is part of the
ain soph.
But what do you need this whole mishmash
of a tremendous if it's a little
journey? It's not a little journey to
get the neshama from that space to be
able to be in a completely different
space where when you speak to a person
about the fact that he is one with one
or she is one with one and there's
absolutely no separation between you and
infinity at any moment. It's a
completely novel idea. We don't We don't
even recognize these ideas. It takes a
lot of work even to understand what he's
saying. Even to see yourself in this
way. Like, what does this mean? What
does it mean I'm one with ain soph? I
come from ain soph. I am who I am. I'm
busy dealing with my mortgage
or whatever you're dealing with.
Everyone with their own parshas, right?
Those are the small stuff and then there
are the bigger stuff. So, what does it
even mean to understand a person in this
way?
Just the understanding of it is very
novel. The understanding to be able to
look at yourself and to be able to say
that what chuva means for me is to be
able to understand that I am
God's breath the way it's still inside
of God. Cuz remember, when you speak
about hashavat chuva, it's not like
hashavat saved in the literal sense. In
the physical sense, you lose a watch. I
find a watch in shul. I say, "Whose is
it?" It's yours, I give it back to you.
While the watch was in my domain, it
wasn't in your domain. It was alienated
from you. Here, you're dealing with a
different situation. It's not like when
God exhales, the breath leaves him
because he happens to be in the space
where it exhales also, right? Less asar
panim minai, there's no space devoid of
him. So, even as the soul is exhaled
from God and then goes through a whole
transformation,
and descends. That's only from our
perception. From our perception, we look
at the soul and we give it different
names. From the true perception of
Hashem, the soul is still inside.
So, what does it mean to look at
yourself in the mirror and say, "I am
divine breath
the way it's still in the source. It's
not even separated from the source. The
way the breath is in the source, that's
what I actually am. That's what you
are."
What do you think that does to a person?
If you can experience yourself as divine
breath before it's exhaled?
Before it's exhaled.
You think you look at yourself as a
shmata?
You look at yourself as an evil person?
You look at yourself as an incapable
victim of demons, skeletons, ghosts, and
darkness? You look at yourself as a
losing, hopeless proposition?
As a mistaken blimp on the surface of
the planet? A random error after 15.3
billion years of gases exploding all
over the place?
It's one definition. Right?
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You look finally to
see introspection. Yeah. The source for
you is nothing. Yeah. Yeah. You know,
why is it called I met a teenager
yesterday, 2 days ago, came to see me.
So, uh
So, I asked her about her opinion of
herself.
So, she told me, "You cannot have a
worse person.
You will not find a person worse than
I."
You will not find such a worse person.
God hates me. I hate me. Everybody hates
me. And she explained to me why she
thinks so.
So, I tried to tell her what it says in
this mind map.
She thought
I literally I was absolutely crazy.
Like,
"What are you talking about? I I know
about this. But, this is really what
every every Jew needs to know about
themselves. This is what every person
has to know about themselves.
If you can close your eyes and inhale,
that's why when you say breathe to
breathe, it's not stam pesha a random
new age invention. The process of
inhaling and exhaling is really a very
cosmic process.
Birth is God exhaling.
And coming back to the source is God
inhaling. So we go through that same
process as we will see. Going out and
going in. Now the soul had to go out.
God did not want the soul to stay
inside.
But essentially, even when it goes out,
what is it? It's his hevel that came
out.
And because it's his hevel that came
out, so there's the element of the soul
itself, which is literally one with the
essence and completely inseparable. And
nothing it can do can separate it cuz
that is what it is. So deveikus ba'al
okim chaim doesn't mean you're glued to
some big superman we called God.
Deveikus ba'al okim chaim means deveikus
to your own innermost identity, the way
you are
divine breath in its source, completely
inseparable from that.
And when the person can always go back
to that space, that's called shuvah.
That's what it means to do shuvah. To do
shuvah means it's a consciousness more
than anything else. It's a consciousness
of being in that space and living from
that space.
The question though is, this these are
words, but the identity becomes very
confusing.
And because it becomes very confusing,
she wants to know lama hoisa k'zois
mal'fana. Why did the Ribono shel Olam
devise such a strategy, such a plan?
What's the objective of all this?
So R' Nachman of Breslov k'she mal'kacha
ish oich lo.
This we have to understand the pasuk in
verse Chanan in Eikev, Moshe Rabbeinu
says,
Hashem your God is an aish, a fire which
eats up, it consumes. It's a blazing,
consuming fire. What does this mean?
So Lenny, when you grew up in Yeshiva
and they said Hashem is an aish oichla,
what did it sound like?
Uh
terrorizing?
Very good, thank you.
I knew you could count on me. You're
definitely a good boy. I knew I could
count on you.
You to create the props. He used the
boy. Terrorize it. He's a terrorist.
Hashem Elokecha aish oichla, he wants to
terrorize. That's what fire does. Aish
oichla, he's going to eat you up. He's a
consuming flame, right?
Literally, a fire you stay away from.
So now, understand psychologically what
this does to this young boy. They teach
you, when you see a fire, you run.
Chas v'shalom, there's a fire in the
house, you run for your life, cuz fire
kills.
Now you say you want to understand what
God is, I'll tell you. He's a fire that
consumes. So psychologically,
instinctively say you got to run. And
then they tell you the purpose of life
is d'veikus, to go back, TO COME CLOSE.
OOH, THIS PLAYS with people's minds very
heavily.
What is Judaism? This is what people
struggle with, this pasuk. They may not
know that it's about this pasuk, but
it's this paradox. What do you want me
to be connected to?
That which you always tell me to run
away from.
So he says, we have to understand what
this pasuk means.
Fire,
by nature, cannot shine, it cannot be
grasped to be called fire or light, if
it doesn't have a wick or logs holding
it down.
Unlike other existences, they can exist
as self-contained realities. You have a
cup of coffee, you have a table, you
have fire, the fire will dissipate, the
fire will dissolve, the fire will so to
speak go back to its source, unless you
have something forcing it, forcing it
down. You need a wick, you need oil, you
need logs, whatever it is, twigs,
branches, paper, whatever the substance
is that's flammable that keeps the flame
going.
Fire on its own will depart. It will be
nostalgic back to its my the my love the
source for you so they it's original
elements.
When you say a sham is a sham, what the
possible means is this. The sham a
little bit will be a little different
than Lenny's interpretation.
A little different.
A sham creates everything with his
words.
A sham shamayam natsu doesn't tell him
what I
mean. They say it's Shabbos morning.
With the word of a sham heavens were
made. With the spirit of his mouth, the
breath of his mouth, all of its legions.
Per cave is paid a K. 10 utterances the
world was created.
A possible can hear me
my
words are like fire. What does it mean
they're like fire? Naturally they depart
back to their source.
From our flesh, my flesh I could
perceive God. A sham a sham.
The power of speech is rooted in the
element of fire.
Words all emerge from the breath
of the heart,
going through the corner. The corner is
the windpipe.
And the heart is Yesod ha-esh. Words
don't originate in the mouth.
If you ever go for lessons in how to
speak, they'll always tell you you have
to speak from the
the huh? The diaphragm, the heart, the
inner voice chambers. It goes through
the corner. It has to go through the
windpipe and then come out through the
mouth.
And the lave is associated with the
place of fire in the body.
The place of passion, the place of heat,
the place of intense emotions. While
Cain see roof on in hevel, ha-lave
lahav.
The word hevel has these three
configurations. Hey, vays, lamed makes a
breath. It makes up ha-lave, which is
the heart. And it makes up the word
lahav. You know what lahav is?
Flame fire, like his love was passion
fire, love. Hevel, ha-lave, lahav.
Because dibur is rooted in Yesod ha-esh.
When people also speak, you could see
how interested they are in their words.
The tone of the words express also
emotion. The physical source of the
words is ultimately the lave. So, bidvar
Hashem shamayim nasu haloikoi divrei
ha-esh. Kiviyachol, this is only a
mashal. I'm sorry, Hashem's words are
also rooted in the element of fire.
Hashem Elokecha.
U'frat to some nimshal echol l'ma'alah
b'oiden shav baruchu. Ein dibur kan um
v'or hamakom acher v'hamaskil yovin.
The details of the nimshal, how this
exactly works with the infinite light,
is not enough. It's not There's not
enough space or time to explain now, and
it's been explained or will be explained
elsewhere.
And the one who understands will
understand. V'hamaskil, the wise one
will understand. But nimtza, but what's
the result of this svort?
The summation of it is just like fire
can only be called fire or light if it's
being grasped by something else that
holds it down. The only way you can
define God's energy as light
as light is only
when it gets grasped and concretized
by something holding it down. For
example, physical action, physical
reality.
That's when it could be called
The ash can't exist without a substance
holding it down. On its own, it goes
back to its source.
Or ain't so far so. The only time you
can call it or when can you call it
light? If there's something so to speak
concretizing it. Holding it down cuz
naturally it goes back to its source.
And he explains.
There's a possible in to hillum.
Forever your words stand in heaven. What
does this mean?
The word of Hashem with which heaven was
created stands there forever.
He is forever creating the world from
nothing to something.
Don't think
that the words that created the universe
were a one-time event.
The words you spoke here are key here
are constants. They're always standing
in the heaven.
Which word stands in heaven?
How are the heavens standing?
Based on the words that I said
That thing with which the heaven was
created, which are the divine words,
they're standing in the heavens forever.
This is the Russian in the mattress
table.
Creation is not a one-time event.
Creation is a perpetual event. Every
single moment, the world is being
recreated through words. In other words,
the very substance and very essence of
the entire universe, the entire cosmos
is the divine words. The words, the
energy with which Hashem created the
world initially during the process of
creation
that energy, those words continuously
invigorate
and give vitality
to all of existence.
Everything that was created through his
words, which is the smallest and largest
creations, and it's oilum, it's it's
forever.
It all those words always have to
recreate them. That's the energy that
recreates the entire universe
constantly.
Initially, the world was created by his
will on his own. He wants kindness and
he decided to create.
But to continue to exist
forever, from nothing to something, and
as we said, it has to be recreated. In
the beginning, it was his own
initiative.
Afterwards, it depends on my sat at the
end. On the work of those who live here
below. Come I shake a soul with the past
six days in Yeshaya. Call her naked fish
me. For the wedding. But also the child
of a fascist.
Whatever is called by my name and for my
respect for my honor, I created, I
formed, and I also did it.
What does this mean?
Since we ain't covered a lot of time.
Cuz I'll say covered refers to Titus
refers to the 365 minutes was
negative ones and 248 positive ones.
She laid it up at the time and they are
the vessels
through which the light of Hashem can
dwell. They become a home for his
dwelling. So that that he should have a
home in the lower elements of reality.
They could be compared to the wick and
the logs
that hold on to the light that it should
not depart above.
They are
the wicks that hold on to the fire.
Without them,
it does not stay. The fire departs.
Hashem
is a clue means
naturally, the words are not supposed to
stick to the world.
Naturally, the world is supposed to
depart, like fire. It's supposed to go
back to its source.
The fact that it's called ain't safe, it
illuminates,
it is perceived, is only because there's
something holding on.
There's something holding on to this
earth that allows it to remain in the
universes.
It's only because of
the and cover of the Torah that there
could be of the side of a system.
It holds on and it allows the earth to
become and to remain existent in this
world. As he shall continue to explain
what this means.
Question.
Page 50 on the top it says
after it.
So the
says the says
my words are like fire.
says to the Jewish people
of the car.
is
a consuming fire consuming edge.
One of the explanations in this metaphor
of
fire is edge.
He says that fire could not be
contained. It could not exist. It cannot
continue to exist and therefore cast its
warmth and its light
if it's not grasped down
by something to hold it down. It's not a
self-contained reality.
Where it just exists. You constantly
need to feed it. You constantly need to
hold on to it. On its own
it
departs. It's nostalgic.
If I don't have
the
the wick the
the wood or whatever the substance the
flammable substances
to fuel it and to contain it my is gone.
He says it's
nostalgic
towards the side of the side of the side
of the side of the side of the side of
the side of the side of the side of the
side of the side of the side of the side
of the side
And he said and this is also true of the
car.
When you speaking about godliness
that
to speak about the car
light as in fire fire cast light to
speak about light to speak about energy
of the car.
You must have
something to be typhus the earth to be
typhus the light.
So now he continues to explain this
theme.
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line three. She didn't have time to
in order to have a deer home for a sham
in the lowest reality in the world. Hey
mate, they the midst was are condemning
up sealer of
Call me a bishop
it's because of my cover the terror and
the midst was
that Briar can continue to exist meaning
that the earth will not depart back to
its source.
He made the reason is to explain this
cuz love or the mouth kill a story mill
in the head yacht.
Here there's a new concept.
This is an expression of Zohar.
Love or the mouth kill a story mill in
the head yacht meaning
it's not the way of the king
to speak
words of a peasant.
Peasant like words. Mill in the head
yacht means words of a head yacht. A
head yacht is a simple thing, a boar, a
peasant.
Or means the way the Derek love or the
mouth kill it's not the mannerism of a
king
wish toy in Aramaic to speak mill in the
head yacht.
In other words from somebody's language
you could see who they are. What do we
say in the Haggadah?
Call him a lawyer man so there's a
Jewish award call HIM A LAWYER
MAN.
WHAT YOU ARE YOU REVEAL THROUGH your
words. Russia my who A LAWYER MAN MY WHO
a lawyer man.
Is it lawyer right and you know let let
speak.
People when they speak enough, they
reveal who they are.
They may be able to, you know, may maybe
able to train themselves, may be able to
practice
like a parrot a few sentences, but at
some point you let them speak enough and
everything comes out.
There's certain million we call million
that the item. It's how a peasant
speaks, how a boar speaks.
There's how a king speaks, how a prince
speaks.
But here's the surprise. What are these
million that the item desires referring
to? What are the peasant-like words?
And you know what the desires talking
about? The 10 utterances.
The 10 utterances with which
God created the world. By the way,
the Gamora said the mission says by the
10 utterances never alone. So the Gamora
says in Rosh Hashanah, what are the 10
utterances? He goes through all the
items and variations.
Everything
goes through all the creations
of diamond to mayor time and diamond the
final one NASA Adam let's make man. The
Gamora says there's only nine items. The
Gamora answers
not me my mirror who variation is
considered the 10th variation is number
one.
So the desire says love or my color
stone that you like. There's something
off. It's not the way of the king to
speak peasant-like words. Now this is
very strange. Why is that called million
that you like? We spoke before about the
sun and the moon. Pretty impressive
characters, pretty impressive creatures.
This is the whole work of of of the
cosmos, the whole work of cosmology, the
whole island in all of its details and
nuances that happened during previous
island. So the desire says
love or the milk.
So he says Peter's million the D.
Shainon me air coin. What's that millin
de di it? Millin de di doesn't mean bad
words. Millin de di it means it's not
words that befit him.
They're They're not that it's bad words.
For somebody it's not we're talk We're
not talking here about nivel pa. That's
not millin de di it. That's nivel pa.
That's disgusting. It's vulgar. It's
derogatory. We're not talking about it.
Millin de di it hadjit is not a bad
person. A hadjit is not a vulgar person.
Right? We say al ti birkus hadjit kala
benacha.
A yid once came to the chasam sofer gone
and he asked him for a brocha.
So he said that it's not for me. You can
go to the coin. The
meshech chachma was also the rav in
dvinsk. The meshech chachma coin says go
to the coin for brochos. I don't give
brochos.
So he says rebbe, the gemara says al ti
birkus hadjit kala benacha. The blessing
of a peasant shouldn't be light in your
own eyes. So a BIG KAL VACHOMER. MA DE
HADJIT GIVES A BROCHA, IT shouldn't be
light in your eyes. You?
So the chasam sofer says, what do I need
to give you a brocha with a kal
vachomer? You give yourself a brocha
without A KAL VACHOMER.
YOU DO IT WITHOUT A KAL VACHOMER.
This was his style.
No holds barred by him. He was you know
He said what he thought. He thought what
he said. He thought more than what he
said, but he said what he thought.
So what?
Hadjit Hadjit doesn't mean it's not
vulgar. Hadjit means it's not words that
befit him. Like Trump unbecoming.
Huh? Like Trump speaks.
Okay.
You may You're saying lav orcha demalka
lishtema millin de hadjit. Am dem dafa
zeina melech, da visin was a hadjit is.
But yeah you have There's a royal way of
communication. There's words you say ah
these words befit the person.
They express the soul of the person, the
wisdom of the person, the subtlety of
the person,
the depth of the person,
the words that bring out the Gedanken
Gang,
the Gedanken Gang, the
the thought process, the godless, the
personality, the amkus of the soul.
They don't reflect this era. They're not
befitting.
What are these words?
All the universes,
the physical universes and the spiritual
universes, the higher ones and the lower
ones, higher ones means even the lofty
spiritual universes that we don't have
a clear understanding of, they're not
tangible. All of them are called Miller
the idiot. What is Miller the idiot? Not
that they're not impressive.
They're infinitely impressive.
They're incredibly, incredibly deep,
incredibly powerful. But the question is
do they express?
Do they express
the one who created them? Are these
words that express them?
He's exalted above them. Myriads,
revoves 10,000, rebuys 10,000. Revoves
is many groups of 10,000, myriads. So he
says myriads and myriads of myriads, but
don't think I'm talking about numbers, I
didn't catch infinitely. The actual is
to end it to without infinite and
without any end. The actual is my
mission all of them
are without like without Hashiva in his
presence. What do we mean? They
completely do not
bespeak, reflect, or mirror their
speaker,
their author, their designer. Who come a
marshal a marshal. You have Melech Basar
Vadam, a king, a human king, a mortal
king.
She ashley Eleph Eleph and Eleph of
Eleph of Cassav.
He has in his treasure house, in his
treasure chest he has thousands upon
thousands, 10,000s upon 10,000s, myriads
and myriads of quantities of gold and
silver.
Omar pre me in offer
the Harris.
But all he talks about is that he
managed to go out and he got some pieces
of mud. Can you imagine? He got some
mud. He collected some offer, some
earth, some Harris, some earthenware.
As Harris say Adama
shards, shards of earth. Shane Vada
Milan Eleph Eleph
is a strange [ __ ] strange king. He has
Eleph Eleph
Cassav is all yeah, and he's busy with
he's busy with with collecting huh?
He's busy collecting he's busy he's busy
a person goes to
I was at a
not long ago I had a
so the extended
what people do with money okay I guess
whatever.
Different tastes for different people.
This guy had a mitzvah
the schmorges board got from one side of
the schmorges board to the other side of
the schmorges board you have to you have
to do exercise. You have to walk yeah.
You have to make it better to get to the
end of the shalom. And they give
all the shalom.
I said that was the that was the hardest
thing yeah.
Every conceivable type of I never knew
that there's so much food in the world.
I never knew I mean I read
all
I never knew what means
all these things.
So I never saw I never saw so many types
of meat in my life I didn't know so many
in the the
Different types, different cuts, and so
forth.
And uh
and uh so now imagine somebody is there,
right? And they're starving. So, what do
they do?
They go to the garbage dump outside, and
they they go between the garbage bags,
and they find some a bone.
It's a bone, they start eating the bone.
Yeah, there's something off.
There's something off. For the dog who's
starving, he goes to the bone. Now,
that's for the homeless beggar who has
nothing. So, he goes to the garbage bag,
and he tries to find some of the
shira'im. Yeah. So, that's the question
this melech has come to resolve, and yet
what is he talking about? And what is he
busy with? He's busy with a few shards
of earth that are worth less than a
dime. They're barely shava pruta. We
know clay cheres, not even clay cheres,
it's shivrei clay cheres.
It's it's it's cheres is made from It's
earthenware. It's shards, shards of
clay, earthenware, mud.
Basically, earth and water.
So, what's his moshel, milin de hadyata?
From our perspective, the world is the
most impressive place you could live in.
It's incredible. It's crazily
incredible. Su mar'u me me neichu u me
bor'eilu, Yeshayahu navi says. Look up
and see see the mystery, see the depth,
see the incredible the incredible
wisdom. That's from our perspective.
When you understand anything about the
melech, the Zohar says, "Lav orcha de
malchush milin de hadyata."
It completely does not reflect.
V'chein yosef mechain lein keitz
v'tachlis. This is a moshel, but he
right away says, "Don't think that the
nimshal is like the moshel. The nimshal
is yosef mechain lein keitz v'tachlis."
In other words, between the moshel and
the nimshal, you have to imagine
infinity. It's not like the metaphor
captures the idea. Between the METAPHOR
AND THE IDEA, there's also infinite
space. It's important when he says it's
a moshel for a nimshal, he says,
"V'yosef mechain lein keitz v'tachlis."
Don't think you understood the nimshal
by understanding the moshel. Why? Cuz
the the disparity between gold and mud
is not infinite.
It's not a clay Harris is worth 50
cents.
Clay Zov maybe you could buy for
$14,000.
If it's real clay Zov maybe $100,000.
That's not infinite. Between 50 cents
and $10,000 there's a relationship. For
Haraya
if you collect enough 50 cents, you
might get $20,000 AND EVEN A BILLION
dollars there's still a relationship.
There was a teacher I'm a lamid he once
told Rothschild that if I would be you,
I would be richer than you cuz I
wouldn't quit being a teacher.
So I would be you and I would be still
be richer than you. I would still be a
lamid. There is some type of Yaks he
says. The Yos make ain't laying cats.
Nesh of the Gabi Kodesh Baruch the
Sapper the Hashem
by sort of my mother see he or he here a
Kia.
This king who's sitting on the greatest
treasure in the world and he's talking
about the mud that he managed to pick up
on his finger and that's what he's
analyzing and dissecting and that's what
he's busy with.
He's basically is in this presence of
riches but he goes into a garbage dump
to play in the sand.
So he says much more infinitely is it
when Hashem decides to invest
divinity
in talking about the 10 utterances that
they should become the divine Hashem.
Yihie or should become a God word. Yihie
Rakia should be a divine word. Shame
million dead the Yos the Yos may offer
the Harris the Gabi Kodesh Baruch Zov.
It's called million dead the Yos the
peasant like words much more than earth
relative to gold and silver. Shame
At the end of the day Kodesh and Zov are
also material minerals and they're
diamond. They're part of the inanimate
world, inanimate universe, what we call
minerals. Diamond come out of of a
Harris. Not only that, mean I offer no
Kodesh. Where do you think you find gold
and silver? What do you find?
Ultimately, it comes from offer. El
Shaddai has a castle of greatness as of
not so sure my name of I have been
offered an offer of everything of mine.
The castle of the silver are mixed with
sediments, but you have to refine the
silver and you have to examine and
scrutinize and separate
the What is it called? The
The from the ore.
O r e Yeah, the ore the the the silos
and you have to separate it and then you
look at the offer. The offer has no
value the silver and the gold.
When you talk about the world
not only talking about this world, even
the higher worlds and even the higher
worlds and even the higher worlds and
even the higher worlds and even the
higher worlds and even the higher worlds
and even the higher worlds and even the
higher worlds and even the higher worlds
and even the higher worlds and even the
higher worlds and even the higher worlds
and even the higher worlds and even the
higher worlds and even the higher worlds
and even the higher worlds and even the
higher worlds and even the higher worlds
and even the higher worlds and even the
higher worlds
What is the idea being conveyed here?
The desire
Generally speaking,
if you're going to take a look at a
piece at a home, a mansion,
and you say, "Who built this mansion?
Who is the architect?" Say Plony ben
Plony. You say, "Ah,
wow, you could see this genius here."
Who built it? This and this contractor.
You could see his building. Who composed
this symphony?
Who wrote this song, this ballad? You'll
say this
You see the guy in this, yeah?
You read a book
and you read how it's written and what
is written and it expresses the author.
You look at a piece of art
and it expresses
the artist. Generally, when talent
creates talent, when the artist creates
talent, he or she is expressing
themselves via that creation. Whatever
that creation is, maybe creation of a
speech, maybe creation of a music, maybe
the creation of a piece of art, the
creation of a home, whatever type of
creation it is, physical
or verbal, concrete or part of our
imagination, but the creation expresses
the one who created it.
And when you analyze the product, you
could see at least something of the
depth, the genius, the creativity, the
imagination, the colorfulness, the
talent of the one who said it. The same
is true with a speech. Sometimes you
hear words, the richness of the words,
the choice of the words, the concept
being conveyed through the word, and you
say, "Ru oyam advoram l'meesha amram."
This expresses the one the one who said
it. You know, you see the mahalacha
machshava, you see how they think, you
see their creativity, their depth, etc.,
etc. That's normally how we understand
things. It's true in every single
creation, whatever it is.
Now you take you ask a question about
the world.
The world is Hashem's artwork. It's
God's handywork. B'dvar Hashem shamayim
nasu, u'v'ruach piv
kol tzva'am.
Pasuk says,
"Eretz shamayim ma'aseh etz ba'asecha
yareach v'chachavim asher konanta
shamayim misaprim k'vod Kel ma'aseh
yadov magid ha'rakia," etc., all these
types of psukim in Tehillim and in
Tanach.
Here is the question. Does the universe
express
the artist?
Does the universe express
the one who conceived it, the one who
spoke it, the one who designed it, the
one who created it?
We'll never know.
On one level, of course. I can't make
the world I can't build the world.
There's a Yerushalmi who says, "Afilu
kol bo'ei olam yiskan'su
even if everyone comes together they
can't create a mosquito.
They can't create a mosquito. They can't
create.
They can't create a bee. They can't
create a butterfly with everything with
all the brilliance that a bee has and a
MOSQUITO HAS. JUST ONE MOSQUITO.
Never mind everything else that our
world has. They can't put together one
mosquito.
So the world is like, "Wow, I can't make
it. You can't make it." Does it express?
Of course it expresses.
The world expresses God. This is his
handiwork. This is look, this is my
book.
THIS IS MY PIECE OF ART. THIS IS MY
SONG.
THIS IS MY MANSION. Take a look and I
allow you to live in it.
That's one component.
That component is a very genuine
component.
But here he now comes to the next step.
And the next step is actually
more than the world expresses him.
It's actually the other way around. The
world doesn't express.
For Hashem
to create the world, he had to allow
himself to utter million the other words
words that are completely not befitting.
Words that are completely not
expressive
of his reality.
In other words, the prerequisite for
creation
was not self-expression.
The prerequisite for creation was
self-suspension.
Transcendence of self.
It wasn't revealing.
It was concealing. Not an act of
expression, but an act of containment.
Why is that? Why do you say that? And
the answer is cuz even Gan Eden and
ALIEN
EVEN THE HIGHEST spiritual worlds
which are
greater, deeper, more divine than our
world. And certainly our world, which is
also incredibly and infinitely profound,
nevertheless,
it captures nothing
of the true absolute infinity of its
creator. What it reflects is
a certain wisdom, no question. An
incredible wisdom
and infinite wisdom and infinite wisdom.
But
its true creator, he's actually being
contained, he's being concealed. It's
not expressing the true insight. Because
wisdom itself is very limited. It's a
limited idea.
Yeah.
Right?
Right.
And he says let's discuss the claw.
I read the book of the author and I can
grasp, at least I can grasp some of it.
He says
no thought, no consciousness in the
world, even the highest level of
consciousness
could have a face in him.
Therefore,
we call it the idea.
It doesn't express the truth of the
insight.
Doesn't express it. Does it express
tremendous stuff? No question.
Does it express stuff that we won't even
understand if we work our whole life and
after 5,000 years we still haven't
scratched the surface MS. But all of
that and even more than that is still
the idea. The idea. It doesn't capture
him.
And that's what he means cool come and
have some.
His presence, if you want to say this is
it, this doesn't capture the ultimate
truth. This doesn't capture and express
it. Does it come from him? Of course it
comes from him. But it's like a tip of
an idea.
It's like a drop of the ocean saying
this drop of the ocean, this is the
ocean.
That's why the Zohar calls it milli
the idea. A sort of a mar a milli had
yacht.
The Zohar now asks what are not milli
the had yacht?
What's not milli the had yacht?
This is a serous of divas.
A serous of divas that's already not
milli the had yacht.
That's already not peasant like words.
Now,
this changes the conception of creation.
If you look at creation as an act of
self-expression,
so then basically
in creation you have the creator. It
captures the magnitude of creator. If
you look at creation as an act of
self-suspension,
so then the prerequisite for creation
was
what's known in the lotion of Kabbalah,
the Simpson.
The containment, the concealment to
allow for it.
To be able to allow for milli the had
yacht, I'm going to invest my energy in
those realities that don't even reflect
the true infinite grandeur of
the creator. So you can't say ah, here
you see what Hashem is.
There's an expression of the outer
heaven and the good of the Hashem he
says, "Lo is a who equal to all the
course."
Marsha I'll miss miss having a minute.
You should never define godliness
by the fact that the worlds are created
from him.
In other words, to define Hashem as a
basheffer, as a creator, is really an
insulting description. Why? Not that
he's not a creator, he is a creator.
But the fact that he's a creator, this
doesn't describe the truth of the locus.
What's expressed in creation
is incredibly, but it doesn't capture,
it doesn't define
the truth
of what the locus is. Of what godliness
is, yeah. Although you'll say what's
exist in this world, the type the wisdom
that exist in this world, the brilliance
that exist in this world, the design of
it. It's like Ein Sof.
Of course, and no never can even begin
to understand IT, NEVER MIND DO IT.
But nonetheless, like I said, the truth
of Ein Sof
this does not express what the truth of
Elokus is. It's Milan de Yota. It's the
king compressing himself, articulating
himself in words, in energy, in the
cosmos,
which is like the king who has Kesser of
his own and he's dealing with Avira and
and completely not the same metaphor as
he said, it's an infinitely more remote
metaphor.
As you've said many times, this is this
is what we do when it every time we
speak. It's we're limiting our we're
we're we're watering down our thoughts
in order to put them into words that
people can Right, but the question is if
it's Milan de Yota.
You always have to you always have to
limit in order to express, that's true.
But the question is
what is it prima- primarily I'm trying
to express myself. I have to figure out
how to express myself, but it's primary
a tool of it's primarily a tool of
expression.
But yeah, that's also more quantitative.
You're limiting quantitatively the
extent of what you're going to say.
Here, that's the point of this Ram Lo
Malo he says that it's qualitative. It's
not it's not just a lesser number like
this. The limitation is a more
fundamental type of of restriction
limitation.
However, in actuality though, this is
not like this this is the bottom of of
Hashem means to say that this is like
the
what we're explaining here.
It's not it's not bad or good. No, not
bad, yeah. No, not bad or good.
way we understand it, that's why we're
saying it in these words.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah.
You're saying everything is
insignificant
in relation to it.
What does it mean that Hashem said
Yeah. No, it doesn't mean insignificant,
it doesn't have significance. If it
wouldn't have significance he wouldn't
create it.
It means call the come make a life a
Shiva.
It doesn't capture what a locus is. It
doesn't capture what a locus is.
So break this
you want to say Hashem is the
you're not REALLY SAYING ANYTHING.
AGAIN, you're saying a lot. You're not
really saying anything.
I have to qualify. Of course you're
saying a lot when you say you're by
yourself alone, yeah.
Okay.
But not like they told it to you when
you were a kid. As long as you don't do
that phrase, that's fine. But if you
want to say it's a past tense, yeah.
IT'S A PAST TENSE LIKE
really here or here a key that's what
you're busy with.
Yeah, what yeah of course.
THANK GOD THAT HE'S BUSY WITH you here.
We wouldn't be here without you here or
here a key. That's your
that's what you're busy with. Well,
we're very happy. Right? You hear my
voice. There should be animals, there
should be fish, not so Adam. But that's
what you're saying. It's a past tense,
that's what you're busy with. This
language.
Yeah, okay.
Of course he wanted to do this. That's
the whole of the island. This is the
drama that he's going to discuss about
what creation is. But first he wants to
explain the dish of it. Was
These words it's a past tense when you
say it's a past tense you say it's a lot
of them.
Right? This is this is it you hear or
you hear a key. How does it come to you?
Not that you can't do it. You could. NOT
THAT THE MATTER DOESN'T OWN MUD. HE CAN
HAVE ALL THE MUD HE WANTS. HE CAN GO
COLLECT THE MUD OF THE EMPIRE. But
that's your conversation by the table
that he collected mud. That's what
you're busy with. Talk about your
castle, talk about your
express yourself yourself.
Yeah. going to bring in Professor
Einstein for a for a lecture. You're
going to bring the whole community and
he's going to teach everybody the
timetable.
You're going to say we're going to talk
about uh nine nine times nine. It's
important in first grade to learn it.
Many of us did not.
IT'S GOOD TO KNOW WHAT'S NINE TIMES
NINE. FINE. It's a failure.
Right?
What's up? And then you're not going to
write on his tombstone that he knew how
to tie his shoelaces.
Or first of all, he probably I don't
know if he did. Or he Or he knew how to
change a light bulb.
Now, you're going to tell me, why is
that insulting? You'll write somebody
plain and simple.
Plain and simple who changed all the
light bulbs in his house. You say that's
very insulting. It's not insulting. A
dog changes light bulbs?
An elephant changes light bulbs? A hyena
changes light bulbs? They don't. This is
intelligence of a human being. NO
QUESTION.
NO QUESTION. YOU NEED A HUMAN being and
only a human being or your robot to
change your light bulb, to tie your
shoelaces, to fix your doorknob. But
what does this express?
Does how much fraction How much of a
fraction of his brain power is expressed
in the fact that he can change can fix a
doorknob or change a light bulb? Is it
meaningful? Of course, it's meaningful.
Nobody else can do that. How much does
it express of his brilliance?
Huh? You want to describe the life of
the Rambam? Yeah, you'll say you know
how to make an egg.
Okay. It's not a small thing to know how
to make an egg. Many people don't know
how to make an egg, right?
Create an egg or make an
Create an egg he didn't know how to
make.
He didn't know how to create an egg.
Maybe he knew, but he couldn't create an
egg, right?
So you say, "What do you mean?"
Let me Let me tell you, did What? You
have to use your brain to make an egg?
Of course, you have to use your brain to
make an egg. Of course, you have to use
your brain. Is it Does it require
intelligence? Of course.
Tying shoelace, putting on your pants,
closing a zipper, all these things
require and it's not small things,
especially when you see somebody who
can't do it, and you appreciate the the
motor skills and the wisdom it takes.
But what are you going to say? NOT THAT
IT DOESN'T COME from him.
It's a derech emmes ois.
It doesn't express, it doesn't convey.
It's not telling you anything about this
person. It's not even
0.0000001
of what exists in this soul, what exists
in this brain. So you say, when you look
AT ALL THE OILINESS, even Gan Eden and
Gehenna, it's a derech emmes ois the
emmes of the hakadosh baruch hu, not
even a fraction of a fraction of a
fraction of a fraction. On the contrary,
to the contrary. That's why the Zohar
calls it orcha d'malka d'stoyim millin
d'hedyot.
Agav,
to say a vort in in avodah, in life,
that's connected to this.
Okay, we should really just do one one
step Let's just do another few lines, so
you'll see the what he wants to conclude
here.
Elo,
kol ma she'barah hakadosh baruch hu
le'borah elah l'chvodai.
Comes the Mishnah in Pirkei Avos and
says, everything Hashem created he
created for his honor. How does
everybody tightshit?
Hashem created everything for his kavod,
for kavod Shamayim.
So somebody once asked me, he needs so
much kavod? Usually, imagine you say
this guy built all these moises for his
kavod. It's not a very nice thing to say
about somebody, right?
Okay. See, GUY BUILT THIS WHOLE EMPIRE
ONE REASON, LE'KVOIDAI.
You know, CITIZEN KANE. LE'KVOIDAI.
EVERYTHING HE'S LOOKING FOR KAVOD. SO
THIS GUY BASICALLY pays 10,000 people a
salary, so every MORNING WHEN HE WALKS
IN, THEY SHOULD BE KOIDIM
U'MISHTACHAVIM, they should bow down to
him.
It's not a compliment, yeah?
So how do you understand the Mishnah?
Where's Lenny when we need him?
Kol Ma she bara Hakadosh Baruch Hu ela
l'chvod Shemo.
Everything he created the kavod for his
honor. What he was looking for kavod? He
was missing kavod?
And I'm going to give him kavod? We're
going to give him kavod?
It's like a guy goes and he takes a
group of ants, a colony of ants, takes a
hundred million ants, yeah, and he sets
them up and he says, "Okay, start
marching.
Start marching and if you don't give me
kavod, I'm going to smash all of you."
And you know what the ants do? They
don't give him kavod. They're busy
collecting their food. So, you step on
them and you kill them and you're happy.
Now, the relationship between an ant and
a human being is far closer than between
man and God. In fact, ants are much
smarter than most people.
They work harder than most people.
Yeah?
And uh they're quite not They're
incredible.
But it's going to be A JOKE. KOL MA SHE
BARA HAKADOSH BARUCH Hu ela l'chvod
Shemo.
AND WHO'S GIVING HIM THE KAVOD?
IT'S LIKE YOU PROGRAM Somebody once told
me I asked somebody uh if they don't
What if they came to me about a
relationship or marriage? He said, "We
don't want to get married." I said, "Do
you look Are you looking for a
relationship?" He said, "I have a
relationship." I said, "With whom?"
"With my computer."
I said to him, "But from your computer,
you can get some emotional feedback like
you know, that endearment, that love?"
He says, "Of course. I program my
computer. Every morning it says, 'Good
morning. I love you.'"
Now, you understand how deep is that
love? You program into the computer to
tell you that I love you. So, you
So, you want your computer to stand in
front of the mirror and have the mirror
tell you that it loves you.
SO, LIKE
HASHEM CREATES IT L'CHVOD SHEMO. HE
CREATES US. He programs us and he says,
"Make sure you say nice things about
me." Which is coming from how he
programmed us.
So, a pashut pshat of this is the pshat
comes in. But the question is, what does
this l'chvod Shemo mean? Here the Baal
HaTanya teaches a whole different vart.
Lo bara ela l'chvod Shemo means the only
way creation can happen is through
meaning
and the next line
what's the connection between the two
halves of the possible
They appreciate the fact that he's above
and aloof infinitely like we say I'm
meaning he's exalted we say every
morning right exalted over the days of
the world and we say
in other words
before
the same as the 60
and this is completely beyond creation
and the whole
earth
is mine
They don't say
the whole earth earth what's
what's
the ocean
The says
used to call garments
that which
casts honor on the person that we are
going to call it clothes
money means clothes
he didn't call it clothes he called
that which is
the person
kind is the
what's
the
his ocean
meaning
some in the world in the earth and
planet earth he enclosed himself
through the action of
fulfillment of Torah
So the
his his covered
the is his wisdom and his it's his
covered the high note height to the
voosh I who my life hurts, meaning the
earth is filled with the glory of his
garment, which is his covered, which is
basically the midst of his entire life.
The covered who got my tree alarm base
cut phase of dollars 32 because we have
llama base and say for you to see what
it says there are llama base in the sea
voice of my there are
what's known as mem shari bina and llama
base in the sea voice of my
There's 32 pathways of my and there's 40
portals into bina.
So he says hey me looking base towels
with my love is towels with my love is
my matter.
The way the love of Hashem evolves
throughout the world is 32 pathways
actually slap your ball pit until it
comes into the ball pit that we have
that we learn, which is his love of my
say yes to see this happen and this will
also many pathways in the slab of my say
this right.
Yes this happens this happens this
happens this happens this happens this
happens
this happens this happens this happens
this happens.
Each one have different facets and
dimensions of wisdom what they represent
the fundamental swaras and paradigms
behind and and and and and and
because he didn't understand every sugar
is a separate sugar. There are paradigms
of my that each of these represent and
each one has this happen that's all
covered llama base this happens this
happens.
So call my sugar
by llama boy boy means
that the age needs to be held down. I
shall
age
what naturally happens to the age it
departs. How do you hold it down? You
need a wick, you need logs. What's the
connection with Hashem?
Love or had the Malkah, love or had the
Malkah list of Milan had Yalta.
Naturally, these words Yihye or Yihye
Rakia
should be submerged in their source like
the Aish. They shouldn't
be outward. They should be back part in
the source of infinity.
The ability to hold on to that fire, to
hold on to the way God invests his
infinite energy and articulates it
within finiteness,
within structures and definitions of the
world, that's a Chiddush. That's
counter-intuitive.
That's counter to reality. That should
not be the way love or had the Malkah.
Doesn't befit him. It doesn't express
him.
So, you need a hold on to the fire. You
need the wicks. You need the logs that
are going to hold on to it. What is
that? That's L'khvodah. That's the Ein
Kvod El L'Torah.
That's the Torah, the L'vush.
Yevarechecha Elokim K'Mani Machbisa.
That's K'Vayochal what holds on.
What contains
the Ohr Hashem, the Aish, the fire,
which naturally would depart, that it
should remain invested in the world, it
should remain invested in the universe.
What holds on to it? That is a Kol
Mashah Boray L'Vriah Elo L'Kvodoi. What
is this Kvodoi? They are the Keilim.
They are the vessels for the Hashra'ah,
for the indwelling of the Ohr Hashem,
that they should be a Dirah B'Tachtonim,
that the fire should continue to exist
like the Psilah and the Eitzim, that the
Ohr shouldn't go away.
This is the L'Vriah. He could only
create it L'Kvodoi, because of the
Kvodoi, because you have the Psilah and
the Eitzim, which is the Torah and the
Mitzvos that so to speak hold on to him
in this world. So, the Malachim say
Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh Hashem Tz'vaos.
M'lo Ha'Aretz
Kvodoi.
Because you have Kvodoi in the Aretz.
So, therefore, that is what ultimately
captures the divine itself. That
captures the divine itself. The Torah
and the mitzvahs.
That's already not Miller de hadaya.
That's what the Zohar says. Siyos
Hadibros.
This already expresses.
Reb Yoichan and Karl Lemon and
Mekabdeisa, this is Lavushei. This
already expresses.
In the covered itself, you have Lamed
Beis Siyos Hachochma. You have so many
different pathways of Chochma. But this
is already his Chochma Ela. And this is
the uncovered Tanya. This is where he
lives in this world.
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