Thursday Night Cholent

all right thursday night cholent uh we learned something different every week this week we're going to learn a mimer from the lava churro um obviously something that i have the particular enjoyment in and this week there happens to be a particularly short mimer usually hard to learn a whole nightmare in a in one sitting but this mimer from pasha's valley is uh on the short side so i'm hoping with hashem's help we'll finish finish the mimer tonight and uh so here we go after uh all the different spharm we've learned from we're learning from uh say from my modem of the babachir okay so here's the mimer actually it wasn't from a shabbos it was uh a uh early aim gimmel it was a uh monday night uh sadavatevis tonight going into sarawaters 1978. i don't know actually was it in 1977 or 78 depends if it was january yet it was december still was 77 it was january someone can use the uh hebrew english date converter and you can let us know okay so here we go the mimer yehuda ato you know last night i was at the birthday fabregan of gaiam cone here in cedarhurst and he was mentioning that many years on his birthday he would cause of this mime he would repeat this moment because it's such a short mimer so it was only it was an easier moment to to remember so that that was partially my inspiration i said you know it's true there is a short mimer from this week okay maybe times out there in youtube that's what the positive says this is yankovino's blessing to yehuda yankovic is before his passing is blessing all of the shvatim his 12 sons and the and the blessing to yahudah is your brothers will admit to you create produces admirabi now the first thing that ever says in this mimer is what the outer rabbit the balatanya says in torah um since you're reminding me about the okay so i'll mention the style of the dev is my modem um this should not be taken in any way in a course or um less than reverent way but you could you could describe lava chureba as a sort of a professor who's teaching a course on a survey of chabad service in other words the rabbi is taking all of this from the balatanya through all of the rebellion and showing us comparisons contrasts themes motifs the evolution the development of ideas how they were expressed differently in the different styles of the rebellion and the style of the rabbit is very analytical and getting into the getting into the deeper meaning behind the texts of of his predecessors so if you would if you wanted to learn a survey obviously you know to really know all of this khabad there are hundreds of sort of and you have to learn all of them but if you wanted to get a really good survey and have a good feel for what each rebbe the style of each rabbi and how different themes were developed over the generations just learned the rebels my modem if you just look in the red is my modem and then you'll have a nice overview of how ideas were developed in this khabad from the altarebe all the way through okay so here that ever starts with bringing from uh the toyota air of the uh of the altar are my mottom our discourses basically shabbos roshas that the that the alphabet said and which were uh orally committed to memory and then transcribed and then compiled okay so in toyota shame happened hashem we know that when leia named yahudah right the zeruven shimon levi yohoda so that was her fourth son and being that there were four mothers so 12 divided by four is three so after she had a more than her fair share she was beyond her share she now had more than three sons she'd had her her fourth son so she says now hapam this time um i'm going to thank hashem and the al-taraba explains what does that mean in spiritual terms israel that yehudah is the gratitude that is natural to the jewish soul it is a natural characteristic of the jewish soul to have gratitude toward hashem and that is what is referred to by yehuda's name and happy birthday and in order that that that gratitude should be revealed remember it's a native trait it's there it's embedded it's hardwired in the neshama but in order that it should actually become expressed who are you today that is through your brothers what does that mean yehuda is gratitude but the gratitude comes out or is manifest through yehuda's brothers ruvain shimon valevi that were born before him that precede him and that's what it means your brothers will acknowledge you it means acknowledgement and gratitude are the same word i mean to acknowledge like a litigant is maida he admits to the claim of the uh to the other litigant also could mean you're like maidani i give thanks so gratitude recognition acknowledgement those are all the same words is the natural gratitude that every jew has for hashem but in order for that to come out you need ruvain shimon and levy whatever they represent we didn't say yet what they each represent and he explains over there sudarba is still teaching us an overview of the altareb is mimer in terrar so he explains over there indian base parties tikrishma reuven and shimin are the two paragraphs of shema and then you come to the silent prayer beginners that's what when you're standing in a state of bitter bitter is where you are just channeling at that point it is hashem's fossa tiftac just open up my mouth speak through me that's why we're able to speak about our material needs in the shemination because at that point there's no ego left ostensibly that's the level that we've reached but all of that that selflessness that surrender that uh that [Music] transparency that is achieved through the stages of reuven shimon and levy through the the the shema and uh the blessings after the shema okay so that's that's a little bit of an overview of what the mymentair speaks about okay base how many uh i forgot to look how many i mean there's yeah six seven seven uh seven chapters here okay right base chapter 2. now the concept is again as explained in toronto earth is not saying yet not yet the indian is the concept is like it's explained in there or over there ruvain was named when leia named reuven she named him after the fact that hashem has seen he has seen my plight you've seen my situation so rouvain is riya is vision sight shimane al-sham ki shama is named after the fact leia felt that hashem heard her now she's been heard vinyan bavedas hashem and what do reuven and shemin vision and hearing represent in our service of hashem israel meaning each one of us as applicable to everyone is means on a personal level it means when you serve hashem you're not just doing it as a theoretical concept you're doing it um he calls it vision now obviously we're not talking about physical vision but we're comparing it to physical vision they say seeing is believing or the the toyota version of that adage is that ain't aid nysidayon that a eyewitness can never become an objective judge because once you've seen something that's it i've seen it i'm not open to any other narrative i saw what i saw so seeing means experiential first-hand personal knowledge as opposed to a saga which is somebody told me about it they described it sounded interesting i believe them but saga is very theoretical or abstract real vision even mental vision as opposed to optical vision we're not talking about optical vision but mental vision is experiential tangible so to speak not literally tangible because we're not talking about something physical but it's not enough to appreciate hashem as a philosophical idea no you have to have uh what i'm just thinking because you just kiss live in muncie with ravi jacobs and i mentioned something i got the whole thing about carl jung so i'll use the carl jung expression a vital spiritual experience that's what he called he was carl jung had a whole theory about recovery from addiction and he said the only thing that can cure you as a vital spiritual experience so that means it's not enough just to know about hashem from what you've read or for what you've heard or from what others have explained to you it has to be a personal thing okay that's called vision [Music] that you you have certainty again like we said seeing is believing you have such certainty in in hashem's existence adam sharaya is a dover like a person who has seen something she in shaykh shia at bizarre it's not possible anymore that he can doubt it mikhail because he himself saw it if you told me something and then someone else comes and tells me another version of the story okay so that's hearsay and uh you know maybe i doubt both of your accounts but if i saw it that's it now i know it for sure valdez hashem so same thing when it comes to our service of hashem that when a person meditates when a person meditates on hashem and that ever says especially when you meditate on the concept of protest that hashem is meticulously orchestrating every detail of creation hiba aphin this is called histoclas his tacos literally literally means staring or gazing it's called staring it's not staring with your eyes but it's mental focus where you feel that you've experienced something when the idea has become so real to you that it's no longer an abstraction it's like it's like you've lived it it's like i've been there i've it's it's as if i've seen it like the idea becomes as clear to him as if he had seen it with his physical eyes um and then from that real experience of god you come to love of god uh kamehameha like it says shame ruvain when the torah is describing the naming of ruvain it says that now he's going to love me who indian pasha rishain krishna and that corresponds to the first paragraph of shema which says and you should you should love hashem so first stage is called ruvain the first son and that is meditate with focus until the idea becomes real to you and that will translate into love and that corresponds to the first paragraph of shema the all right phase two is named after hearing now we're saying it is something that you merely understand as opposed to something that you've seen for yourself okay why why is there a place for that um because he's still [Music] now we're not talking spatially obviously but he's still in a place of distance like a person who hears a report of something they tell him hey did you hear what's going on in the next town but he himself didn't see it i mean nowadays you would just facetime somebody in the next town and then you would see it but once once upon a time if you had uh if you were in a position of rehook if you were far from something so you couldn't see it yourself you would have to just hear about it and therefore there's a different emotional reaction the emotional reaction of awe see before with with ruvain the consequent emotion was love you're staring now the idea of staring actually talks about this entire that you have staring like gazing like ah like our eyes locked you know it's like this romantic thing you know like gazing at your beloved so staring and looking ava as opposed to and and that's all that's a whole indian of cutoff when you feel close and you want to get closer shemia is i can't look at it it's not happening right here it's happening somewhere far away somebody told me about it somebody gave me a report of it so that's yira because yuda is when i feel that i have distance from something like i think about hashem is so great i can never get there i can never arrive hashem is so beyond me so then that arouses a feeling of of awe of reverence of uh of of insignificance that is the second paragraph because the second paragraph is a little bit more stern that's a little more blunt as far as talking about some uh we call them consequences we don't call them punishments we call them consequences but it's uh some tough stuff um and that's that's the idea of a feeling insignificant or less than or that you haven't arrived and that that's uh that's very very different than the experience of love where you're feeling oh here i am i'm so close i want to get closer we think of godliness as being beyond us if you hear if you hear of it so because it's something you hear about then therefore he he shall means be careful be careful is yira you know is watch yourself um you might even call it the self-containment watch yourself like a little respect hold yourself back too comfortable don't get too comfortable exactly after album that's coming after alex yeah yeah should come before yeah and yeah well yeah no in other places it says that the euro comes first you know pedigree maleficent first is uh has to come to you oh okay so we're gonna find out okay you know ever every mime is different just first of all to keep you on the on your toes so just so you should ask so the child should ask okay um so the third face i'll shame your lover ishii eli when leia named levy she said now my husband's gonna be attached to me you love it means to become attached bonded connected after schma we say the words atmosphere adobe what is this thing this thing is true and upstanding this thing means the toyota you love it we're going to explain later what that means but through toyota there is attachment so we have vision which is love and the first paragraph of shema hearing which is awe and the second paragraph and we have torah which is attachment and the blessing after shema okay if i had a blackboard i write it on the blackboard okay better gimmel ace gimmel um [Music] so these three categories that we've discussed also correspond to the three pillars three pillars upon which the world stands is a there's a mission devoted they made the world stands in three things right alot of elevators and when we say the world stands on these three pillars we don't just mean the macrocosm we also mean the microcosm that each person is a world and each person as an individual also is held up by these three things there is [Music] ruvain we said already is love so that's easy which one of the three pillars does ruvain match up to if he's love so he matches up with acts of goodness and kindness because that's love you know that if you love hashem then you also love his people so because you might say to me well hold on oh reuben you have to be nice to people i don't like people i like hashem it says hashem didn't say anything about people so he says if you have um if you have amazon then automatically you have obviously sort of you have real obvious gem then you have amazon you have love then you're going to do acts of goodness and kindness [Music] and uh what's the relationship between hasser and ava they're very related terms but if you want to get technical ava is the cause of acid and it's core its cause and its core in other words has it is the form that it takes but the energy behind it that is enlivening it and at the core of it the whole time is love so hasset is more about an expression an expression of what love love is the emotional energy and this is also called an elicitation of of the law of above to below why above to below well that's the whole idea of of love and kindness is um what's what's that old expression from the posters back in the 1970s a man never stands so tall as when he stoops down to help a child in front of those posters from the 70s claim cone gave me last night of his and his birthday for bringing he gave me a present he gave me uh footprints in the sand mug but people thought he was being serious so he had to explain to them he was doing it satirically anyways footprints in the sands this is all these inspirational you know refrigerator magnets and posters and keychains and it's one of the one of those things a man never stands so tall is when he stoops down to help a child somebody will google that and maybe if you're watching in youtube let me know who said that and never stand so tall is when he stoops down to help a child and it was the idea of hasset is it's flowing from above to low because it's like generosity so who are you helping you're not helping someone who has more than you i would help someone has more than helping somebody who has at least in a particular context in the context in which you're helping them that's somebody who who who has less than you and therefore you're helping them uh okay let's move to phase two so we know that shimon is hearing and awe veda that corresponds to avoida which means service but it specifically refers to prayer it's also called the left side as opposed to hasid which is the right side this is the left side ub canal and as we said before uh within prayer itself if you want to get really particular it's the which prayer is it it's the second paragraph which we've already said and we've explained why it's talking about yidda type things okay and there he says that's opposite trajectory acid was from below from above to below above to below like and that's why because it's compared to water it goes down flows out water always slows down can't pile up water water is always trying to spread down low and then you have the gura you can call it but uh that's called the myla that's going up and that's what feel is you're yearning you're you're striving for something that's it's above you um yeah and then the third phase levy i'll shame levy is named for connection and that is the pillar of torah study why because through toyota the jews and hashem are entirely one how do we unite with hashem through learning toyota so that is the idea of connection levy is connection so our connection is through learning toyota i heard a vart once i don't i don't know where it's originally from but somebody just told me this um [Music] why we don't learn torah so he said it's the reason why a shadhan doesn't come to the choppa you're going to say i saw i saw a childhood yeah it's fine just for the purposes of the var the shotgun doesn't come to the choppa maybe they do go to the but let's pretend for a minute for the purposes of the vote that the shotgun doesn't go to the why why why would the not go because the whole job was to push through a deal that was you know could have gone either way the couple didn't necessarily have to end up getting married and the the shotgun had to massage things i mean the altar even says that that shidduch has to have some some aspect even of myrma a little bit of we call it massaging called pr called spin it's called spin so i'm sure there's a little a little bit of spin they even said shotgun it was what uh shakur diver the cassette so they speak a little bit of spin and then they collect a fee for closing the deal so anyways the shotgun represents the phase when the couple's whole relationship was up in the air and now when they're getting married it's like hey i don't want this person here who represents the need to massage things so that we agree to marry each other so it's better don't let the shantan be there and then we'll forget the fact that this couple ever was in doubt and they ever had to be you know talked into it let's just pretend that they always were 100 from the moment they saw each other they knew it that was it they were completely committed anyway so the idea is that toyota is like the shotgun between hashem and the jewish people and sukhas today is the khasana so yeah and some custody you don't learn toyota because you don't want to be reminded about the fact that there had to be a broker that acted as an in-between a go between hashem and the jews just let's pretend that hashem and the jews are just one without any type of intermediary at any rate so the idea of your lava connection levy is toyota because toyota is the means through which the jewish people connect with hashem ishii zachary leia said my husband will be attached to me who's my husband my husband means our husband hashem i was one time i i don't want to say where it was but it was a place where a lot of different types of jews from all walks of life and all different levels of observance and all different types of traditions and anyways in the middle of a talk a woman interrupted me and she said why do you keep calling god he and i said because he's my husband and that bought me a little bit of time to be able to explain a little bit but i explained yeah that you know jewish women are women in both their marriages so it's like at least it's consistent but jewish men so in my marriage down here i have to be the husband but in my marriage between me and hashem i'm the wife that's like you gotta you gotta be able to switch directions it's a more versatility required inconsistency anyways so uh and then that's why we when men put on fill in because i shared its face of we say which is like washing kiddush and hashem betrothed us and you put under and the finger like the kabbalah says like a tabash alcadon it's like a wedding ring like a husband betrothing a wife so anyways hashem is the husband on the arm you know what you know what they say it is it is um the umbilical cord from the from from the womb yeah yeah that's how that's the closest men will get to experiencing uh pregnancy yeah so um so yeah levy is attachment to the husband which is hashem and that is through toyota so we have the three uh pillars we have uh in in the order that we listed them not in the order of the mission and the the mission but here it is which is vision and love and uh and then we have avoider which is shimane and uh and or and then we have toyota which is lavi and attachment okay so so that's why levy corresponds to that portion of davaning right after the shema uh hadover because what did we say after shema we speak of toyota we speak about how toyota is upright and and true and affirmed so uh that makes sense that after we've done ruben and shimon which are sodim and aveda respectively now we do toyota that's right where it belongs okay is dalid somebody is watching from melbourne australia where it's head of shabbos yeah it is it's very close to shabbos right now okay so we're going to hurry it up somebody wrote in the chat they're watching from melbourne australia okay we're going to hurry it up so that you can uh in the middle of summer oh that's right there it's the summer time there oh okay so you have time you have time okay yeah that's a because the shortest fast for us is sort of a tavis and over there it's the longest one shiva but thomas is short for that so if you really want to plan your year you go to australia for shivasam tamas you come back to america for sara batevis tisha beau we can't help you because it's 24 hours so there's nothing to do but meshiach could come and that's the best solution so now we get rid of the other fast as well okay uh dalit let's do dalit okay it's 2 p.m that's what it says 2 p.m in melbourne this is what it means your brothers will acknowledge you that the aveda that when you each jew each one of us does your reuven and does your shimmering and does your levy which means that is the preparation to bring you to the level called yahudah which is what like a servant standing in front of his master the way that we're supposed to feel when we stand during the amidah the standing prayer is like a servant who's standing before his master in absolute bittle total selflessness at that point your self-awareness disappears it's like you're so you're so much in awe you can't even be in awe because it's just overwhelm and at that point there's no existence but the king himself so you become completely transparent complete ego uh abnegation and that's why we say hashem hashem open up my mouth at that point you're just channeling at that point you're just a conduit if you're doing it right if you do you're ruining you're shimming your levy then by the time you get to schweinsteiger you're you're at the level of yehuda and you're just i can't do it okay [Music] the level of beetles it his levels in battle but the level of bitter in the shebanas complete surrender it's higher than the battle of krishna when you're saying shema is also you're also saying hashem is one which one doesn't just mean one god it doesn't just mean monotheism hashem is one means there's only one existence that's what ah it is the aleph is one and hes is the seven heavens and the in the and the earth which is eight and the dal is the four connections are the four directions so you're saying hashem is oneness hashem is everything everything is god and god is everything so that's certainly bitter but um it's more of a philosophical bittle is like real little like i've i've lost the capacity for self-awareness not even thinking oh you know what my existence really is battle to hashem no i've lost the capacity for self-awareness which is why when you come to schminacer you can speak about material stuff because at that point it's not me not even for me okay [Music] now here's a little fun halacha when it comes to the laws of when you're allowed to be mafsik when you're allowed to interrupt in prayer ben krishna regarding uh interrupting between shema and schweinsteiger in there the the point the point is that you you you're not mouth sick so one leads one into the other one is uh the result of the other the indians there masha ali they are available at okay so now we say like this you go from shma and it's brachas into shma nasra which is basically rubensheim hashem levy taking you into yehoda that is similar to the idea of the three crowns what are the three crowns the crown of toyota the crown of priesthood and the crown of kingship shaheem which are big those match up right you have the crown of torah which is obviously torah and you have the crown of kahuna which is available and well that's interesting um okay interesting interesting it's a good argument anyway so you want to say malcolm either [Music] okay so let's go with that i'm outvoted so the coin is ish acid so that's the at least one of them is obvious okay so that's the the three comments james covent all right and then you have a fourth crown the casser shantae laga behen the crown of a good name good reputation which surpasses them all jewel my left man which is higher than all of them sorry says what does that mean that kasa shantov the crown of good names surpasses the other crowns the crown of toyota and the crown of kahuna and the crown of malcos doesn't just mean it surpasses them it's a progression it's a process that through having those three crowns you come to the highest ground which is the crown of uh a good name and he's saying this is similar to the process the progression of going through reuven shimon levy you hold the same same thing you're going through the the three things then you're coming to the fourth three things which are precursor to the fourth level so again same the same the same type of uh pattern here okay ice hey the why does yohoda require going through three stages first why do you have to go through three stages why those three stages only because like we said before look the truth is the haida the gratitude of the jew is latent it's always there but that's just the point it's latent and it has to be brought brought out in a in a revealed way so to get it out into a revealed way you have to go through these three stages deep down that gratitude and that humility gratitude and humility are really synonymous you know if you if you're arrogant then you feel entitled then you're never grateful because you always think you deserve more but if you're humble then you're grateful oh that's that's so that's so nice that's even better than i thought that i was gonna get well so if uh you're grateful you're humble you're humble you're grateful and that that's always there that's running in the background because it's hardwired in the neshama but it's not always manifested it's not always brought out in a revealed way you're not always feeling it consciously that uh grammatically yehuda the shredish is again surrender or gratitude or recognition or uh do we say humility although all those words are synonymous but then what's the yod of yehoda ye huda so the yud grammatically functions to show an ongoing action and the the example of that is from the pastor can you the verse in the book of job where it's describing eos minute his custom of uh he's making different parties by his uh by his children so uh means that's what job used to do that's what he was always doing so that's what he was always doing so the ud shows something that's a constant something that is always happening is deep down again not on an active level but deep down the hedo is always there it is always the master kosov so then why do we say now this time this time i'll thank hashem right when leia named yahudah she said this time and we're saying that that's not just referring to you that's referring to all of us and what what within us is it referring to it's referring to our gratitude toward hashem and we're saying that that gratitude toward hashem is in us all the time well then hold on and why in the original scriptural context and say now this time this time as opposed to until now i haven't been so grateful so then what's up with that so he explains when it says hapon this time it implies that not all times are the same that's only talking about revelation you want to talk about the essence the essence of the jew and that's why jews are called yehudim the essence of the jews and that we are constantly grateful to usher just essentially grateful but that's not on an active level all the time that on an active level it fluctuates and there are times where it comes out and times where it doesn't come out so you see where we're heading right because we've been asking a question what's up with reuvenshim and levy and why are they necessary precursors to yehudah who are saying is well if you for to have the door to hashem just to have it to have it somewhere you know like the guy who had a hard drive in england last week maybe it was this week you heard about the guy with a hard drive with like 300 million dollars of bitcoin on it he bought he bought like 12 of bitcoin 10 years ago or whatever it was he had 300 300 million dollars of bitcoin on a hard drive and he threw it away and he's like turning over a whole garbage dump in england i saw this this week or last week anyways so so that guy in theory you know he's a millionaire he's got 300 million dollars somewhere on a hard drive somewhere in some garbage dump if you can find it anyways so you know there's there's a dog there it's always there you've got it you know like you've got 300 million dollars in bitcoin on your hard drive you've got the dog yeah but if you want it to come out and you want to feel it you want to consciously be in a state of gratitude then there are there are preparations that you have to go through to get that to come out and that's what we're about to explain helen the hasta gufa navja bamas because having a body you know this whole embodiment thing and having an animal soul the animal soul is the personality of the body and the will of the body the survival mechanism of the body so all that stuff covers up it's helen behaster it causes concealment helen has to regulus oh and that's an exacerbating factor not only is yoneshamma stuck in a body with an animal soul but look at the world we're in a when we're in a condition right now the past couple thousand years where godliness is is hidden so a lot of stuff is covered up including namely for the purposes of this discussion the constant gratitude of the jewish souls that's why we're not feeling it right now it's there but we're not feeling it i but the godly soul of every jew which is his real identity doesn't matter what he's feeling doesn't matter what he's conscious of his real identity is his godly soul he tommy it is constantly faithful to hashem the adas hashem who at slim to me this and it is constantly thanking hashem not just this time but all the time and it is not even possible to undergo change because that's what it is that is the essence of the soul so it does not change and what does it mean to come out it means to come out in thought that means conscious thought in speech verbal articulation and in action physical actions so it's not just that you are grateful it's that you are doing something about it you are doing grateful but in order for that to happen you have to go through the stages you have to go through the process okay i'll explain why that's the process like that's what it sounded like is about to explain why those things are necessary for curses all the experience is that it's just about helen though because it's it's a it's a i mean gratitude is synonymous with bitter buttocholis he says it's not just a regular bit it's bitter but oculus so how are you going to go straight to bitter buttachulus i mean you know how much damage comes from trying to artificially accelerate that process and make people take somebody from zero to sixty you know like like a tesla one time riding with a guy in tesla he went to show me how quickly they accelerate i was not ready for it but anyways to get to bitter but i mean some people do it artificially they try to like just shatter your self-esteem and tell you you're worthless but that's that's not bitter but ultimately i don't have a sense of self that interrupts my sense of of the infinite so how do you how you're supposed to get there well one one way which is not really healthy and it's not even doesn't really even accomplish the goal is just to shatter somebody's sense of self so he has no sense of self okay so chicago that's not really that's not really accomplishing bitter tacos that's not causing uh that you become a transparent conduit that's just destroying the self how do you refine the self so he says the process first thing is you've got to love you got to love love is the first thing i mean you have to explain something you have to explain to somebody why is something good for them why should you like it get them excited you got to get them attracted to it so they you get them feeling good about it that's love remember you're going from from from a from yesh to the bitter bataclas so we're going to start we're going to start from i mean uh ava's we know that yashmichae is office a little bit uh self-aware that's uh ultimately that's what ava is and that's why by the way if ava isn't tempered by ira then it becomes invasive and cloying because it's it's about me it's like oh look at me how loving i am it lacks a certain bittle but uh then then you then you mature you go on to year a year is like you said don't get too comfortable so so there's a little bit more bit though there would be with the ira is like okay now back off now give space it's like love it's very nice you can you can be you can be loving but if it's too much you become smothering it becomes invasive it becomes uh cloying so uh okay now the euro is a little bit more bitter all right fine now i'm standing back okay all right should i just stand here should i just stay here because no now now approach respectfully now you can do you love it you can do connection which is toyota and that's where you're connecting but it's it's it's connecting in a when when you're learning toyota it's it's hashem's ideas it's hashem's ideas it's like when like in in pericare of tanya was talking about the yucat niffler in kamehameha that when you learn uh torah you're you're one with hashem why because his thoughts become your thoughts no because your thoughts become his thoughts because okay so that's that's even more bitter that's even more brittle no i'm not because i'm not totally one with him because i'm totally one with him you know because i'm still thinking because i'm still thinking because i'm kiddish you know because i'm i'm still thinking still using my brain then still this this is another level schmidt accident that says now i'm just a conduit i'm just transparent and then you come back come back full circle because at that point where you're completely selfless you can talk about all your material needs and your personal all the personal things you need like phyllis khanna because at that point there's no you complete surrender complete intimacy like when when a husband and wife become totally one so then it becomes like what's the difference between something i want for myself or something i want for my spouse i mean if you're really that that surrendered if you're really that that bottle so that point schmidt asked it was does it matter if i'm asking something for hashem or asking something for me what's the difference between me and hashem at that point but it's a process and supposedly it's a process that i i guess people are able to do in about eight minutes because that's what i've been seeing the people that's what i see that from shema until the end of schminescer so yeah like eight minutes 12 minutes but uh that's what it is okay all right fine so let's uh we got uh we're on valve all right we're going a little bit longer than we normally go but why not um somebody's asking here a question in the chat how does a person who spent most of their life almost completely assimilated get over the anger and regret slash resentment for having missed out on toyota and jewish community for so long well that's an interesting question all right not really on the topic here so i don't want to get it's a wonderful question but i don't want to get off topic too much so i'm going to try to answer it very uh succinctly um if you are now studying toyota and devoting yourself to mitzvos that means you believe in hashem right you're not doing this for the heck of it you're not doing it for some secular reason like you think it's culturally important right you're doing it because you believe this is the will of god so if you are committing yourself for beginning to commit yourself or trying to commit yourself as much as you can right now each day to the service of god and doing the will of god then can you accept the idea that your life story has been the will of god and that god knows exactly what he's doing and he put you in the family that he put you in and he put you in the community that he put you in in order that you should be able to come to this moment right now of torah study that you're engaged in with the background that you have and that everything that you've been through is important and necessary necessary because they weren't necessary hashem want to put you through it everything you've been through is necessary to your attaching yourself to hashem as you are right now so there's really nothing to be resentful of um that's that's second guessing hashem's plan hashem knows exactly what he's doing and i'm glad you're here i'm glad you made it to this point and this is heavy stuff you're learning a mimer here in the actual text this is not this not easy study a lot of hebrew here and a lot of kabbalistic terms so uh congratulations you you've arrived but don't get too comfortable because each day you gotta grow more and more okay anyways he says i see the logic conceptually but i'm still trying to accept it viscerally thank you so much for replying yeah all right well it sounds like emotionally you uh yeah i get it so you're you're if i weren't being recorded right now it'd be more uh free to uh reply but uh if we were talking one-on-one in the youtube world weren't listening i would actually try to get real with you right now and ask you tell me a little bit more about this resentment like who was it your third grade hebrew school teacher like tell me who who exactly was it anyways but we're not going to do that right now we're going to get back to the i'm going to get back to the mime okay anyways you're in a good place just keep it up okay [Music] that when you come to the level of of this complete surrender that we're describing this transparency of ego then you'll also come to the level of grabbing your enemy by the neck spiritually like it's explained in terror the ganbagash means but also physically no verse departs from its plain meaning so the plain meaning still stands then after that it says that yehudah is a lion i think the word is welp is that the right word lion welp cobb is a like a a bear cub i'm from chicago we have the chicago cubs bear cubs but i think of baby lions called a wine whelp yeah someone's giving me a thumbs up but i don't know if it's about that or it's about the discussion about the resentments about the third grade hebrew school teacher with the guitar he had a guitar right okay anyways i think it's called a lion well the scepter will not depart from yehuda the scepter the kingship symbol of kingship yes now here's the rabbish your hand will be on the neck of your enemy meaning you will have dominance over your opposition both spiritually and literally physically that will happen even before the redemption which restores the kingship of yehudah david malachi is from shaiba yehudah and he is the forbearer of mashiach but even before mashiach begins to rule we will already experience this idea of domination over our enemies the phrase is the lion whelp or lion cub we'll find out which one it is and uh the scepter will not depart from yehuda those refer to uh king david and king solomon father and son yeah that will be from their lineage become now regarding it says that a scepter will stand up from the jewish people a ruler and then king david's rulership will be eternal kamehameha torah the shabbos over like it says in the haftarah not of shabbos but of the after of last week of that shabbat blesses all the days of the week that come after it so we're still under the influence of the previous haftarah even though we're learning before the gulas even ends we'll experience this domination over our enemies israel shall call you crime i'll shame you every single jew is called yohoda and yehudah will have dominance over all of his enemies and dread and awe will befall all of the enemies of yehudah when the idol with the gratitude and humility of the jews come out then they will dominate over their enemies even before the advent of the messianic era that shabbath and of course let's take this personally what does that mean to have domination over our enemies not just in a geopolitical sense of course that too but on a personal level that we're going to be able to control our own thought speech and action and not allow the enemy the internal enemy to co-opt our thought speech in action then all your enemies will fall before you enemies both what is it in the the oath the president takes i swear to defend the constitution and the united states against all enemies foreign and domestic what's the lawsuit what's the all enemies foreign and domestic so enemies foreign and domestic enemies foreign means uh outside of you domestic inside of you that's my islam i'm darshaning the oath of the pres somebody will look up the oath of the president and put it in the chat okay foreign and domestic okay what vice president that's only the vice president says that no i'm sure someone wrote the vice president the president doesn't have don't the president's got better things to do but the vice president make sure he signs all the oaths okay zion let's finish up here okay we usually finish okay i i thought that this is a short mimer we could finish it in 45 minutes okay we didn't okay i thought i thought that it would take 45 minutes but uh okay all right yes sir now we're going to connect this particular verse that we've been studying about yehuda we're going to connect it to the overall title of this torah portion and the opening verse of the torah portion which is and jacob lived talking about yankovino take away father's life his last years of his life 17 years of his life in uh in mitzrayim in egypt okay israel named begolis even when jews are in exile just like yankev was in mitzvah shakol hagolius every exile and every foreign kingship that ruled over us they're all called mitrai trium is the archetypical exile and foreign ruling power but through learning torah then we live we live even in exile the ki mitzvah and by doing we say about the mitzvos and you shall live with them [Music] yankev came down to betray before he even arrived he sent johodan in front of him ahead of him to go make a yeshiva then even in the exile of egypt yankee was living the good life spiritually because he had toyota and it wasn't just tight it was the title of you hold it right who made the bass talmud okay nice now so we have the the first passage we have the first passage of the of the parsha which means living even when you're in galas living through torah and mitzvos and that's connected to yahudah why because your hood is the one who set up the toyota should be available there in galas and that's connected to the idea of dominating over our enemies because that's the bracha de gate you're going to grab the enemies by the neck but the midrashes that when the voice the the sound of of the jews is reverberating in the study halls and in the synagogues in the day ace of shelters so then the hands of aesop of our enemies will not dominate you said it mizzou and even more than that even more than that not just that if we're learning and we're doing mitzvos the right way that the bad guys are going to crawl into the corner and leave us alone no even more than that that the nations of the world will themselves assist the jewish people the holo and yana megasmium with every physical thing obviously they're there to help us with uh logistics with what we call it uh right the physical stuff so that we can learn taylor and do mitzvos with material abundance with comfort we don't have to worry why because the nations of the world are running a tight ship they're running a great world lots of technology and transportation and medicine and all types of advances of communication everything beautiful everything modern technology and everything's running smoothly and uh we can just sit back and i mean i want to say sit back because it's not it's not like sitting in a hot tub drinking pina colada but we're not going to be preoccupied with running the material stuff so then we can uh delve sufficiently into uh learning toyota and knowing hashem but even the mesa mesa in in a growing fashion an ever increasing fashion and this light this increasing light will push off the darkness the spiritual darkness of exile or maybe yes bring the redemption through messiah okay all right we did it