The Spiritual Journeys of Life ויאמר הוי׳ אל אברם לך לך מארצך Kabbalah by Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz

Welcome to our class on we're gon be learning another beautiful discourse in the Reb the name of the discourse is called by the Reb said this discourse on that year was the eighth day of the month of in the year 40 years ago so theic discourse is based on the verse in this week's Torah portion where it says tells go from your land place you were born your parents home to the land record I will show you I'm gonna bless you I'm gonna make your name great you're gonna be a blessing those that bless you will be blessed all the nations of the world will go ahead and be blessed with through you okay so that's the verse say it's the different the questions that have brought down the discourses from the for example in and in the comment in the discourses afterwards seemingly it's not understood like the and like the commentaries be before that ask as well why does it say go to you it should have said go what is it you're you're leaving not to yourself that's question number one Al we know the question that's asked in the order in the verse what does it say May from your land from the place that you're born and B your parents home seemingly just the opposite first you leave your parents home then you leave the place you're born and other words the the community Etc and then you leave the land also we have to understand what's the connection between leaving and Hashem is going to bless you and there other questions like it's brought down in different different uh discourses on this verse and or other commentaries that explain this verse from the aled and the the afterwards up until you have the discourses what from the previous Reb so says the point of the explanation is in these discourses that that the idea why it says is because there's two ideas here there's two travels there your in from down you're going on high and then there so there's always two things there a you're elevating the world and then you're bringing light into the world that's why use the double expression of now since this is part of and we know toyra is a lesson Everlasting Le lesson so it's obviously self-understood that these two types of travels applies to every one of us and especially that do happen to have R and and we know whatever happened to the Patriarchs is a sign for the children and let explained elsewhere the difference that that the in this Insight that's not just a sign but it's giving us power and it opens up new channels um for the way for the way of the children to make it easier for them to reach this level why because since the Patriarchs already went through it so we already we already have that energy that already broke through the passageway so what what what is this idea explains what does it mean know the first idea is going from Below on high so so so he explains like this it has to be you have to leave what is so literally it means your land but what does mean spiritually it's referring to the the will that we have the the will that we have what is my the place that you were born where things born from it's referring to the intellect like it says in tan that the intellect gives birth to the emotions so from the 10 the lower level of is already your intellect and your father's home that's the emotions that were that gave that were born from the intellect so these three ideas what does it mean you have to you have to you have you have to travel you have to go to the land a share a record that I will show you which means we said is the r the will on high which means we have to do the will of hem up to the point that we make hashem's will our will so the first idea is that we have to leave our will our understanding our feeling and what is the question is what do hasem what does hem want and that's why when when AB traveled so he made an altar and the first verse that says when he made an altar he said he made an altar hasem how to the god that appeared to him and then it says that he made an altar to Hashem it doesn't say the god that appeared to him and so explains in that that's Abraham's traveling from the lower level to the higher level because first he made an Al to God which God the one that appeared to him the one that he connected to and know the part of God which has a connection to being revealed but then he made an alar to God and himself the part of God that cannot be revealed so that is the idea of what going from from from one level to the next and what is the idea of going from high down to low so we all know that the that a was called a what is a is idea of which is intellect Ram very very high so abam represents a very very power level of of intellect so as we know intellect in general it's the higher part of ourselves we have intellect emotions and action intellect is very very high a was even higher than that up to the point SE intellect which is beyond comprehension and this comes down from the highest level of intellect into the land that I'll show you which means you have to bring those powerful ideas that you have and all the thoughts and on The Inspirations you got to bring it down into reality into into the sphere of malus which is called the land of the living up to the land of of of of the living literally into the land of Israel so means again bring the highest ideas but you got to break it practical you got to make it real you got to close the deal you gotta you got to make something happen now to explain these two ideas practically in serving hem so traveling means that's referring to when we pray or we do a Mitzvah and what does it mean bringing the powerful ideas down that's through learning Torah well how's that work and every explains like this what's the idea of prayer prayer is like a ladder that's the the feet of the lad is in the ground and the top is in heaven which means so by prayer you start working you're working your way up and the same thing also a Mitzvah was given the physical Mitzvah whatever it is the physical Mitzvah and and they they're finite and we can't add we can't subract what's our spiritual work to elevate them on high so prayers elevation doing a Mitzvah elev elevation and like we see literally that when a person does a Mitzvah you take something physical and you make it something that that either prepares for a Mitzvah or literally to do a Mitzvah and you elevate it till the level of the infinite part of theem or like it says that the that literally a sacrifice down here which again prayers are connected to sacrifices goes to the highest level that is prayer and mitv elevating the world what's the idea of learning to that's bringing down the godliness into this world and like it says clearly in reference to the made his voice heard from heaven now this idea of drawing down the light into this world that gives us the power to elevate the world through prayer and mitv and like we see literally that by learning T that gives us Direction how to serve hm doing a Mitzvah so you need both in other words on one hand you need to elevate prayer and Mitzvah one hand you have to bring down the light but bring like the tah is not just to bring it down and stays down here that inspires you and guides you how to pray and do the Mitzvah now reference to these two types of serving hem what does it say what does that mean practically in other words when you learn T has to be in in such a way that you go away Le you go away from anything that you're doing and like it says in reference to that my soul should be just like Earth and open up my my my heart to learn T because in order to be successful learning T you have to totally get rid of your ego you have to be like Earth in other words you have to go from artus you have to go from I want if you want to be successful in serving AEM you have to go away from any ego and that's why kazal tell us that whoever fulfills F the T from being when you're poor eventually you'll fulfill T being rich what does that mean say something very powerful how it doesn't say um what's going to be the reward of someone that that's a you know an average person why does it have to be the extreme of a poor now on one end you can say what I mean because the fact is that the tah is speaking about majority and the the the the the most of the Torah the sources that comes from people that are poor like it says in the Talma it says powerfully be careful from the PE the the children of poor people because from them T is going to come out but then the question is really why why is that so why is that so the explains like this because just like we learned before because when a person is uh behaves and serves hem in a way of O he's poor which means he's on a level of acceptance you totally um humble yourself to so by being humble that allows you to open up your heart to learn T and that's why so someone that um um learns to from being poor which means humble you'll eventually be able to serve hem with tremendous spiritual wealth and which comes um with with with the wealth of tah which basically learning a lot of tah and getting involved in Torah um understanding Torah revolutionary revolutionary sharing revolutionary ideas in T and the same just like it applies with learning tah that you have to have the humility and that will give you the Great learning in t the same thing applies with prayer which even though it's just the opposite you're trying to elevate because like it says what does that mean that before a person prays it says in the Mna when you want to pray you have to have when you have when you want to pray you have to have humility and when a person meditates on the greatness of Hashem and the humbleness of you of a person as we know prayer has to be in a way you're standing like a servant in front of his master so now those two Recaps the way to approach learning toyra and praying is by the introduction of humility and that's why it says leave the land and then it says and you're leaving your your arrogance I'm gonna take you to the place what does that mean that when a person does their spiritual work in a complete way we come to the level of what what does that mean revealing the essence of the Jewish people which hm is going to allow you to reveal yourself and then it goes on like the verse says afterwards the he you're going to be a blessing that when a person does their work in a complete way we get to draw down powerful blessings and up to the point that that that we have access to the blessings that the the blessings were given to and we know that as a messenger he's just like AEM that's why he says in the discourses in the name of the med that is also connected to the idea of redemption because we know Redemption is always connected to double letters double and like for example we know that the whole idea of shabas is double you have Z SH there's double ideas in shabas what's the reason because what is what is what do double mean what what does double have to do with Redemption because the um like for example you have the union of Z the small face the six me and so that's that's the double the male and the female or the union of the part that happens over of those two and that's ultimately the what's going to be the Revelation what's going be revealed in the future mhia comes because then what's going to be in what's going to be standard was going to be the revelation of so is going to be down in in in this physical world of and like it says clearly in the prophets is GNA be revealed every flesh is gonna see how do that happen that we're going to have the ultimate Revelation the Redemption and the and and and the union of both that happens by doing these spiritual work of and like literally that when like it says he he called K he called the name of hasem God world and we know the questions mean God World it should say God of the world but the fact is no because the fact is God and world is the same thing because we know there's nothing other than hem or Harden at there's nothing the only thing that really exists is HEM because we we'll see literally that the the the the yes that's created is really the yes the ultimate yes now just like it was by the same thing is by every single Jewish person because we are children with the daughters of s and just like Abu by doing his his work on a on a complete way in a way of he reached the highest level the complete level of everyone was blessed through him so the same thing also by us when we do our service in other words when we do our work in the two types of of traveling which means elevating the world and drawing the ungodliness into the world through the proper introduction of getting rid of our ego will come to the real Revelation that's going to be in the future that the whole world is going to call AEM and we're all going to serve one God and finishes off powerfully he says it should be the will of hem it should happen very very soon and she fulfilled what it says in the prophets that the light is going to come the time has come for the light to shine and it's going to happen with the true Redemption the complete Redemption through Mia so you have another powerful discourse with the Reb a practical discourse of the Reb how we need to serve hem we serve hem by the proper humility and by proper learning tah and praying and doing MIT we will make make this world a place that God will be revealed and we'll have like says the coming of mhia and our next class will bees have a great and blessed week sh