Thought for the Week Chukas Balak 12 Tammuz Yearn for the Sky but Remain Grounded, Rabbi winner

how are you I hope everyone is gizant star conversations hope everyone is healthy strong and happy physically and spiritually today we're holding elive conjunctive because this Shabbos is youth-based tamils the game my letters and the khagar of the Friedberg so for us and as defeated grab himself writes in a letter that the holiday events Thomas is not only a holiday for a certain community of Eden not only for those that are observant but it's a victory of the entire Jewish Nation as we'll speak hopefully in today's video a bit so it's two parishes so obviously as usual the first question is what's the connection between and youth base Tamil is the holiday of the previous lebbies Redemption and Liberation from Soviet Stalin era in 1927 imprisonment okay first as usual start with a prayer and we'll start with the which is one of the songs that we sing on these tumblers and that is from capitaland prosecutors [Music] [Applause] [Music] which translated is he redeemed my soul and peace from combat against me folks because of the many who are with me this is a verse that begins when you're considering discourse and one point is that the Redemption should be in a way of Peace which means in a way that there's no casualties and there's no collateral damage but the Redemption came in the way of Peace higher than the battle in other words it was resolved in peace there was a situation which was going to be very dangerous and very threatening and nevertheless it was redeemed in peace the many were with me and based on the mother which explains the verse that it goes on the davening with a minion because my prayer was with the many and the same thing in particular if we talk about the previous Rabbi one of the main focuses of his projects and campaigns was about the study of Torah barabin with Shirin and that's why many of this course of the previous Remy connected to the holiday with islamus start with the mission asada 10 people sitting and learning Torah so that's the meaning of the verse here when do we come when do we achieve and include more people then the Merit is much greater and therefore you'll accomplishi okay usually people in his feet I don't know why but most times is most many talks is more on the concept of today we'll start with Bullock then go back to the connecting theme how we find it in so Impressions but look what I'm going to say today is primarily based on the secret of the river bulk and this is one of my favorite sukum actually and the person says for from its origin I see it rock-like and from hills do I view it is I once spoke about this plastic but it beholds is a nation that will dwell in solitude and not be reckoned among the Nations so I once spoke about the second part of this plastic hen um and that was talking about the concept how today in the secular world you know they're getting scared because Israel is becoming isolated guess what that could be good news the real meaning of the word here we're saying is because we're isolated we're apart therefore we don't have to worry about our future and about the immortality and survival of the Jewish Nation that's what we spoke once today we'll speak number one and at the beginning of their roots you saw them and I see them entrenched the hazakuman strong as these rocks and Hills by means of the Patriarchs the emoys in the matriarchs so um goes on the others goes on the ovaries they have What's called the rack like and the hills the middle of the cliffs and the hills goes in the emoys so we have to understand first of all what's the difference between obviously moist in general what does it mean what relevance does it have that we need to have the role models of the others and their mice and as explained in other places in Cleveland of is illustration that means there's certain attributes and Yankees that are equal inherited to all of omnisro and the same thing is that means that they have certain characteristics that they inherit to all of the Navy Israel and these characteristics are essential to our survival in the makeup of Mr Joe Mr average Jew he needs these ingredients he needs this DNA he needs these Genesis so why this emphasis both on obvious animals today we're not going to explain each one individually but just idea of always animals and then how does the first the beginning of the Posse fit with the second part of the Posse which is about the survival of the Jewish people so from this we can gather we can surmise that actually the message the key to our survival is accumulation simple meaning the person is when you have the cliffs and the hills like they survive they're Rock Solid same thing as with the Jewish Nation when we look at the emergency we connect to the Emirates and the others so then we'll be as rock solid as they are but what does it mean in the service of Hashem what lesson does it take word relevance doesn't have for me today in the year 2023 so Kabbalah and sidious explains the following this is again the secretary valid but that's itself it says comes from a minor so basically I am reviewing a Hasidic discourse the river said so this is more like straight up see this Civic calls the the obvious and is the tallest who are called the others in particular Aberdeen is the intellect the intellect of the fathers and the mothers so to speak And the emotions of the children and we say like this that the father provides the seed the Zera the drop the point and in the mother's womb that seed gets developed I'm not going to um exactly how this fits going to science but this is still a fact the father contributes a seed and it's not like exactly planting a seed in the ground but I'm saying similar that in a certain sense in a certain sense we have the seed we planted into the ground and in the ground is where it becomes completely developed and comes to its full blossom similarly and I'm emphasizing similarly when we speak about the father and the mother father supplies the seed the point the nakuda the tipa and then in the mother's womb for nine months that people becomes developed and therefore in general the father's connection to the child generally is not as detailed and specific and particularly the mother's connection the mother's connection to the child is closer that is a fact generally speaking the mother gave birth to the child as we see in many stories this is a familiar Trope there's people that pass away God forbid and the last thing they say is mother mother so the regular relationship when we speak about closeness and more of a love is the mother's love and why because the mother was more involved in the details and so too when it comes to practical life basically the one who's picking them up you know after school taking them to school making their lunches making sure they're buying the clothes for young div the shoes that whatever it is the mother is much much more involved in the details of the child's life and the father is more involved in a general way don't get me wrong General could be more essential General can mean more more um important matters but this is the point in general and it starts from Kabbalah that the is more distant from the middays and BINA is more closer to the me this just like the physical mother and father so too it's an average as it is by God so let's talk about being a bit I'm sure we spoke about this before in general in the process of understanding these three steps in the meditation as the river explains in Chapter 3 of the Tanya this which is concept Bina which is comprehensional understanding and then this dance concentration collection we're not going to talk about that today even though dance is really the final step but in general as I once said from a spear a male Sybil and he said his followers what happens when a person in the state of you are uplifted you're learning something you feel like you're in the darkness and then ding the light comes the bulb lights up on top of your head that's the moment so The Germ the kernel of the truth has revealed itself to you and you go ah but you don't have the words yet to explain it you just feel like there's a light it's an aha moment but you still didn't digest it properly you still didn't internalize it properly Etc so then foreign moment happens the first step you were in darkness and you and you decided you have to you have to get rid of all your baggage your difficulties and now try to see what the truth is you made yourself a vehicle so to speak like you became empty and therefore you became a vehicle and therefore the truth reveal itself to you but as the truth reveals itself to you you become uplifted and enveloped by somebody which is far greater than you and that means with this Dimension the concept has grasped you and you've become enveloped and encompassed by the concept but the truth is you don't have your own words to explain it yet and that means the exact Dimension then comes the next step the opposite step now we have to analyze it now we have to dissect it now we have to take it apart now we have to look at the details now we have to see how it all answers all the questions that I had before so if during hakima first I got rid of my excess baggage my difficulties my problems everything that was an obstacle now after the truth revealed it's up to me I have to absorb it totally and then go back to see what was bothering me so business that concept that grabbed you and uplifted you now as they brought down taken apart made into details particulars how it all works out is the ding when the light bulb goes off into your head but it's only a DOT thought of the truth it's only a point Bina is the dimension of this actually we said before so it's not a point it's already developed so too hochman is called the father just like the father's contribution is just Zera tipa Bina corresponds to the female the mother because the nine months that the seed is in the mother's womb becomes analyzed developed Etc okay now let's go to the next step that's all part of motion intellect then comes Midas but this is still not enough to create an emotion intellect in general is more abstract or we could say objective midday is a totally subjective it means that I'm affected and also it's my relationship to others once I become and I have an emotion by definition what does an emotion mean it's an emotion how do I feel about this or how I feel about that in intellect it's not about how I feel about something it's I'm still in the Press of about understanding the thing you understand what I'm saying the concept it's not about others so now since we say that there's a step then comes being and then comes me days between the two which is closer to the emotions of course Bina because didn't have the self when does the self become conscious that do I really understand it by be now when you're in the middle just being carried away you're being uplifted so watch it which is more abstract which is going to be the next step to come to a full-blown emotion because then it becomes about you subjective I understand so now according to see this these two represent two meditations two perspectives of dealing with the world I just want to say one more thing that alsoever writes in chapter 35 that the attributed so too in chapter 18 of Tanya represents Allah say the O-ring safety Infinity of Hashem shines in the attribute without any obstacles without any colors it's just a pure revelation of it itself why because just like you the person becomes totally enveloped by something graving themselves presents how the full Infinity could be revealed through it but being it represents we sense that there's something called Bina over here foreign we sense only that he and he alone is the truth but we send something brings out what the English is anyways so now let's talk about what does it mean in every session the river explains Something Beautiful over here represents more and Bina represents what does that mean that means that this one perspective which is let's say sometimes you see this talks about the difference between we don't even talk about the world we're like describing the step of the intellectual in the intellectual process where enveloped by something greater somebody could reach levels of consciousness that he's not even aware of the world you know he puts himself somewhere else there's people that are deeply deeply into meditation and they they put their mind somewhere they're in a different reality so when you're in the level of in the service of Hashem you've become so spiritual foreign existence period it's you're living in a different reality you know sometimes you look at a person and say he's elevated he really doesn't care about the physical too much he's really a spiritual person which is more abstract to give it a more coarse example imagine you have a mathematician but a serious mathematician all he cares about is is figuring out the mathematical equations he doesn't really care so much about food and drink and other physical necessities and it's understood there are such people that's really what they care about they're not holy they're just living in the world of mathematical equations then we have been a the being a person is more realistic I.E more realistic more down to earth and therefore he also is living with Hashem but more of the idea of what's he meditates there's a God aleph the premieres the seven skies and the Earth that's eight then comes down with these four corners of the world and now he brings that down to earth he's grounded so when he's meditating theoretically this sort of perspective they've been in perspective is actually thinking what difference is going to make in my life how am I going to go to the shop as Kiddush after my diving in Shabbos am I gonna press seven pieces of cuckoo which my nature feels like doing because I love coco or while I was dominating also in a certain sense I was thinking about you a lower level of unity which means I accepted the world's own existence but the existence itself has to be done with the true intentions foreign has to combine both elements it should be parts of him dating parts of the day or once a week or whatever you have what have you that is living with the others you have to have the ability to be able to have a deep level of cleaving and attaching to something totally higher than yourself go spiritual let's get spiritual love the world is non-existent there is such a level and you must have such a level in your life and then you'll be able to be successful in Bringing Down Heaven to Earth on the other hand you must have the other part be realistic be grounded and connected to reality in the physical life and see how the world is a world and that itself has to get United and it's not a contradiction both of these elements have to go together foreign [Music] means you see it from a distance because the ovaries have a more distant relationship with the child also the cochma level is more distant from the world so to speak okay now by the way it also mentions so again let's reiterate the problem with only living with the law is that sometimes you could fly you could take off and you're not out of land and that's why amazingly interesting it says about the mice that when it came to I don't want to elaborate life anyone spoke about this also when it came to you small and I came to asov it was the most I got it right sorry understood that Ishmael is not The Narrative of the Jewish people and he posed a threat and the same things with Rifkin Asaf which is much deeper it's her only it's her child ASAP and still she was the one that understood that yeah the question is how could the others has been so mistaken aren't they higher than they must aren't they at least very great levels how could they be so fundamentally mistaken and the answer according to see this on one level is they're being mistaken was because of the high lofty level not to make a mockery but that's what we say in a way they were like a space cadet in other words they're living in a higher reality and as explained the way they saw is the word the way that explains this wording yeah the very high levels so it was divorced from the way it was in the physical reality on this planet Earth so that's the problem when someone's living only with the alarm he can make a mistake because he's misjudged or misinterpreted the situation as it is in Planet Earth and therefore Sorrows right and Rift goes right because they're a lower level so they're more connected to what's going on in planet Earth so therefore they could see really in the physical reality in that plane of existence what was really going on is if you don't have that higher Dimension then you get stuck in the lower Dimension you must always be attached to something which is totally higher similar to the law we say if the level starts from a level if the perspective starts from a level in the first place that acknowledges the world as a reality that means that it's giving too much Credence to the world in the world could take over only when you start and you have a dimension in yourself where you're able to transcend and escape from the world completely then you can be successful and bring it down successfully into the world but to sum it up in one beautiful that says when a person prays should be liberal the aim of lamata which means no matter how high is going we'll leave it alone you still have to remember in of the matter your heart Rises there's a great yearning but still matter you have to see the objective never lose sight of reality Etc so that's putting both things together okay now let's connect it with us time is running late so it'll have to be very quick because I still want to throw away these Thomas and pastors who cast is one of the most famous questions that altered but one of the most famous and we spoke about this once before starts these are the statues of the Torah question is and the answer is because the truth is that in the midst of paradumel encapsulates the totality of all Alternatives we spoke about this very many times recently excuse me by titties how there are some misses we say then let's demonstrates in a certain way something about all the other mittens that we don't see by other mittens my cities we spoke about so over here's the same questions how is it that paraduma represents in a way the quintessential mitsu and these three explanations one explanation one spoke about because the idea of um educating re-educating conditioning your animal soul that represents the cow I'm not gonna repeat it now and there's a third explanation about the origin of all mitsis that they're really all in a place of hukum but today I'm giving a third explanation which is also down through every Library it's greatly and that is about the fire and the water that what do we see by paraduma that the mixture that made the person pure had to have fire in it yeah they had to burn the cow so it's a fire element but then they poured water Mayim also and the fire which represents the ashes mixed with the water and that solution was used to purify and the ultra explains that the fire in the water represents the concept of I don't elaborate now at length it's too late but in general we spoke about this I'm sure other times razi represents a yearning the original verse says that is talking about the angels and they're going up and down see this mate takes a gigantic leap lead beautiful Prof it says life itself Works according to the principle of is that Dynamic the heart spans and contracts the contraction is the rotary the blood as it goes back to its source and gets oxygen That's The Rustic part the shoe is when it expands and then it spreads throughout the whole body so only that Dynamic works now the same thing is true in the whole life of a Jew only when he has on one hand which represents the idea of the fire fire goes from above From Below above it yearns it's always yearning so Phi represents Russia yearning to the source there's always that that search for greater that that that human beautiful quest of breaking out of limitations and The Seekers of spirituality and meaning and purpose that's the rotary part but the shoe means returning to the job getting on the job of making this world and transforming this world as a Dwelling Place worship and here's the irony let's put it in a different context only the person who's the one who doesn't care at all about money is the one who's really worthy to have billions of dollars at the able to Grant him because then we know for sure that the money will not corrupt him because he doesn't really care about it I'm just giving an example okay now the same thing is true only the personal completely is successful and effective with this rotary with his latching on cleaving and connecting and attaching himself to spirituality with a high intensity with a major dosage that person who's filled up with spirituality and with purpose and meaning he could go down down below into the physical not only he takes over but he knows it'll land properly and then bring that spirituality down to earth so that's the idea of relatively sure this is in every single area as we understand this this secret this Dynamic this formula of the balance of only the person who's constantly connected to something greater is the one who really successfully carry out the mission in the lowest of the low that is a statement and a definition of all of Yiddish kite all of you this kind is about um attaching yourself to the heaven and then bringing that down itself into the Earth lots of issues so now that's similar to connection what we're talking about a person's Bullock like Mandina you could say that is like the rotary and the show in other words molecular rotary your attachment to something greater being is more like to shove and it's tougher precisely with the combination of the both they'll be successful in carrying out your mission and serving a ship now let's go to youth base Thomas he speaks about his father and one of the things that he brings out what makes the field Grabber unique was that he was intense and passionate about the deepest deepest things which everywhere was the authority and the one who was The Voice to reveal Rosie Taylor the secrets of the Torah hasidus which is the deepest part of Torah the premier Satora foreign the words of the rebbe which are like Hashem is speaking through him so that's on one hand was the one the agent to transmit the word of God the conceiving discourses down to planet Earth so that means they're connected to the highest of the high and the whole idea if anyone who's ever opened up and it may have been a contest is and the fruit of the group in particular produced it was a manal of Templeton was all about colleges like West Point we're making we're making soldiers of the highest order was about producing students that would be people of mercedesh and particularly the grab it was Mr Mercedes nafish I urge you to go read the book The heroic struggle it's a guaranteed inspiration to think that less than 100 years ago 1927 we had these stories of the previous rebbe who stood defiantly against Stalin and as they represent a single man against What's called the superpower government I Can't Describe to you right now the awesomeness of the feeder Grabber who was leading an underground movement every single town every single Village the friedrichable is aware of who is there who's sitting there who was teaching it hey today who was running a mick for there who got shot Hashem and then he sent the replacement and this is an entire country under the leadership and his inspiration galvanizing those students of the laboratory Yeshiva of time in Russia and this is a guaranteed fact and therefore we see the success in Russia later today what was the result of the work that the freedom started and never gave up which now is not the time to get into it but what I want to say is the rabbit says in the secret I think it's a Hillary that we see by the figure of this combination that on the one hand he stood for the one who is totally immersed in the highest highest levels of spirituality and the inner dimension of Terror and the esoteric and speaking writing discourses of the deepest deepest deepest highest level that's on the one hand but on the other hand if I remember correctly the secret of the river pointed out to two things he very much urged the people to learn law law is the part of Judaism that's about being practical and the same thing is he sent hundreds of the London to the Mercedes nephesh that went on Mercedes to teach a child come it's aleph o so one of the primary primary objectives and work of the field was in this who's on the run from the KGB is a fugitive and he's running from one hunting place to another hunting place in some Cellar learning with four or five kids comments and that's a fact so this is what the rebel says this combination similar to everything we're talking about now on the one end the leaders of Chabad and this is true also about the Rebecca I don't want to get into it in a way you could say there's one aspect of the Lubavitch that they were rabbit full of average which we see that and that's obvious but then there's the idea how they're a leader of kalistro they're worried about like the river sharp is worried about the matter for the Russian Jews that were involved in the Japanese Russian war that's going on Countrywide the entire Russia and so on and so forth The Liberation was busy to try to make a city for refugees things that have nothing to do technically in a certain sense with with the laboratory rib and the answer is simple because they they actually weren't a laboratory but they were leaders of claudi Israel Soto over here they were particularly in that City brings out this combination of what we're talking about today the ratri and the show the the being involved in the deepest deepest highest thing highest things lofty abstract spiritual and the leader who's the same leader who's demanding the highest of the highest spiritual levels of involvement and spirituality of davening for hours of working on a character trait of things like that at the same time he's the absolute activist who's urging on all of his disciples to take that spiritual cleaving and connection to Hashem and bring it down to the most minute details and practicalities landing on Earth busy busy making this world a Dwelling Place in a successful way getting involved in the details of the operation which boils down to being an excellent organized person dealing with the practicalities of the physical physical limited world and that's how it transformed the world so this is a lesson today once again you see now the connection of is Bullock and the central theme for all these things is how we have to take the highest of the high and connected with the lowest to the low successfully and only then only then and this is a fact only then will you be successful in transforming the world to make this world dwelling place for Hashem that from this suit based Tamil we should come to the ulaima take it from here posting from my home your man posting from her home you're a man in Melbourne