Tisha B’Av: The Radical Holiness of Every Jew - Rabbi YY Jacobson

the yeshiva.net. [Music] >> Today's class is dedicated nishmas and nishmas in loving memory of Rabbi Israel benis in tribute to his 40th yard site today of dedicated by his children. He was a devoted teacher and me at Manaish Shiva leaving a lasting impact on countless students and community members to this very day. A truly refined and very special and gentle human being and Jew. May his memory be a blessing and may be a good beta for his entire family. and thank you very very much. Okay, everybody make yourself comfortable. Thank you for gracing us today. So there's one source sheet and let's begin. Next week there will also be a classem next Tuesday but after that there will be a few weeks of break. I'll announce exactly next week, but next week we're still meeting together Tuesday at 9:30 a.m. Today we're in the middle of the nine days. Today is the fourth day of so obviously it's the middle of the nine days that begin onesh through the 9th of next Sunday. We're going to learn an extraordinary and really enigmatic and very strange story that is recorded in the Talmud in the Garate Gen. There's one mus one of Mishnay and Gar that's dedicated to the laws of divorce. It's called giten and uh it's in the section of nashim the section of women just like you have kadush you have gin and in that m in that there's quite a few pages that are dedicated to the story of tish the main story of the destruction of the basik the famous story for example about kamsarams and many other stories about zak and vespian and titus and how the basik was destroyed and the events before and the events in middle and the events after and a lot of the calamity ies and tragic events are all there in a few pages in track beginning on page 56 and it goes for a few pages and in fact on tishov we usually don't learn but we do learn those subjects that are connected to tishab like or the chapters that deal with gulos or the gmorra and the midrashim that deal with the themes of tishab so this is one of the famous gumaras that is always learned by many many on tishab in that sequence of stories and history. There is an extraordinary story that we're going to learn today and it comes right in there middle of the whole discussion of tishov. We'll soon see why and how. And the story is takes us into what you would call the very mystical realm and uh the attempt of people to communicate with the spirits of those who are not living anymore. So let's see the actual story. You have it here on top in the Hebrew. The right side you have the original Aramaic from the Gmorra and on the left side I took the English translation and just edited it a little bit 56b. You could follow any side you want. I'll read and translate. Titus had a nephew. His sister had a son. This man's name was Unkulus. His father's name was Cynicus. Who is Titus? Who is Titus? Titus's father was Vespasian Opionus. He was the general that was sent by Nero. Neroin the Caesar of Rome to put down the revolt of the Jews against Rome and destroy Jerusalem. Vespatian was the main commander. went dispatched from Rome to Jerusalem to crush the Jewish revolt against the Roman tyranny and yoke and take them down. In middle Nero was gone. Either he one version is he became he disappeared and they committed suicide or something else and Vespasian was brought back to Rome to become the new Caesar, the new leader. So he sent his son Titus to continue the war against the Jews. So Titus was the one who actually destroyed the besamed who burned Jerusalem who massacred the Jews who exiled the Jews and in fact after his victory he comes back to Rome and they built for him if you ever been to Rome they built for him what's called Shah Titus the Titus arch still exists it was built literally a few years after the destruction of the second Bish when Titus comes back to Rome there's a huge victory march and they carve out this amazing arch in his honor. And still today, you could see what is engraved on that arch. You know, you remember the image of Jewish slaves being led in chains by Roman legions carrying the vessels of the Bikash. For example, you'll see there the minora, you'll see trumpets last year of Exactly. It's quite strange because the bottom of the minora there's a dragon and the minor in the Bik there was no dragon. So, it's interesting. You have to understand what that what what's going on over there. Also that manora is round according to the Rambam and Rashi the manura in the B mikdash was diagonal not round. You see the trumpets you see the table and you see these slaves being led. This was all to represent the victory of Titus Titus against the Jewish people. The destruction of the Bameikash happened either in the year 68 69 or 70. There's different opinions. One of those three years 68 69 70 after the common era. Now is 2025. So, this goes back a little less than 2,000 years. 68, 69, or 70 in the Jewish calendar would be the year 3,828 from creation or 3,829 from creation or 3,830 from creation. Gimmel Kitus has a nephew. His name is Uncleus. He has a father named Kenicos who's a Roman noble. Uncleus comes from the family of nobility. Obviously his uncle is the leader of Rome, the Caesar of Rome. And Uncleos is obviously a very curious young man. He's inquisitive. He's a seeker. He's a spiritual man. He's searching. And in the entire process, he discovers Judaism. The Jud Jewish people fascinate him. And what happens? He wants to convert to Judaism. Now this itself is fascinating because he's living in a generation when Rome is on the top of the world. The Jewish people are being wiped out. It doesn't even look like they have a future. But yet Unkus wants to convert. He wants to become a G. What does he do? So the Gmorra says he does something fascinating. Oalus Bengida. It's the third line. Oalus Bengida. He went and he raises Titus from the grave. through necromancy. You know what necromancy is? Huh? Did I pronounce it correctly? Yes. It's basically communicating with the dead. In fact, it's discussed in one of the forms of kishv of sorcery that is forbidden is. And what is? O is a form of a way of communicating with the spirit of those who are not here anymore. Obviously, Uncle had some deep mystical spiritual powers and he decides he wants to have a conversation with his uncle who's already dead. So, this is after the destruction of the Bamed. Titus went back to Rome. He died and Uncle wants to speak to his uncle. He asks him a question. He says to him quite an interesting question, tell me Titus, who is the most important in that world, not in this world, in that world. in the world where you are now. So Tito tells him he says to him is the Jewish people. The arch enemy of the Jewish people after his death says in that world stop the Jewish people are the most important. So says should I then attach myself to them? Should I become part of them? I want to become a Jew. T says let me give you my advice. He says their commandments are numerous. Their is heavy. It's loaded. You will not be able to fulfill their edicts, their laws, their rituals. It's too much. It's too intense. It's too intricate. It's too overwhelming. It's not for a good nice Roman boy like you who's destined to enjoy life. It's not for you. I'm going to give you better advice. [Music] You know what you should do? Go out and make a war against them in this world. That's what you should bother them, destroy them, harm them. You know why? That's how you become a leader in this world. And he explains the says in whoever oppresses the Jewish people becomes a chief, becomes a rush, becomes popular, becomes leader. You want success, become an enemy of the Jewish people and you will automatically rise to the top. That's my advice to you. Uncle says to his uncle, tell me what is the punishment of this man meaning of you? What what's your punishment? He says, "But every day his ashes are gathered. They judge him. They burn him. And they scatter his ashes over the seven seas." He finished with Titus. He decides he needs to speak to another Gentile. Who's another good gentile to speak to about the idea of conversion? He decides we're going to go back some years to Bill. Let's remember who Bum is. Bam is the star of Parish Balak. Balak, the king of Moab on the trans Jordan, hires Bum to curse the Jewish people. He's considered the greatest prophet of the day. In fact, our sages say he was equivalent in his prophecy to Mosher Rabenu. That's what a great spiritual genius he was. And yet, he was also an archeneemy of the Jewish people. So, Unulus decides he wants to speak to Bum. So that's the second paragraph in the Hebrew and in the English Aramaic language goes and he raises Bum from the grave. He uses again his skill of necromancy and he raises Bumar he says to Bamash who is the most important in the next world says the Jewish people. So he asked the famous question we already know his question. Should I attach myself to them? You should have with them says no no no no you shall not seek their peace nor their welfare all the days of your life. Stay far away from these people. In fact, bum is quoting a that would says in par about he uses that stay far away from the Jewish people says what is your punishment says to him he is penalized in boiling semen seed what's the connection so Rashi and the mafaram explain that bam was the one who gave advice to Midian and Moyav to entice the Jewish people through their women. The entire plague that broke out was when the daughters of Midian and Moy went to the Jewish people and enticed them and engulfed them in their adultery and the word the idolatry of Balpar. In addition to that, Kazal know that tell us that Bum had relations with his own donkey. He was completely corrupt in the area of relationships. This is his penal penalty. Bum finished his conversation with Uncle Titus. He finished his conversation with Bum. He decides to go to one more person. And here there's a very interesting thing. When you open up Mos Gmorus, if you look in the Gmorra, it will say he went and he brought up some person. In other places, it says a Jewish sinner. Most Gmorus had to delete what it really really said. Today, we already have other versions. So we know that because of censorship most gumaras were printed in Christian countries. So they could not write the name of the third person who who was brought up from the grave which was yes. Today we have a book called where they printed everything that was deleted from the earlier editions of GRA that went through a censor before it was published. So over there it says clearly it was Yeshu. In some places it even says Yeshua which means from Nazareth Christianity. He basically brought up as we call it. So that's why I put it in here because this is based on the more modern editions where they found the original texts. But it's so interesting because when you open up a regular Gmorra today it just say some person or P is some sinner of Israel. Why is the name not there? Because it was not safe to write to print in Christian countries. So let's see the next one raises from the grave through necromancy. He asks who is important in that world in the next world. Yoshka says the Jewish people. So I want to ask you a question Yoshka. Should I connect to them? Should I become one of them? So Yeshua says to their welfare you shall always seek their misfortune you shall never seek. Whoever touches them is regarded if he's touching the apple of his eye, the apple of God's eye. Touching the Jewish people, you're touching the apple of Hashem's eye. He's actually quoting a from who says whoever touches the Jewish people is the most sensitive part of the eye that when somebody touches it, it's very very painful and it's very very very sensitive and it's so central to our life as human beings with vision. So says whoever touches the Jewish people and harms them, it's like he's touching either the apple of his own eye, meaning he's harming himself in the most powerful way or even Hashem's apple of the eye. This is what Yeshua tells us. You should always seek their goodness. Never try to harm them because whoever touches them is touching the apple of God's eye. This is his advice to he asks him the question. What is your punishment? He says he's basically punished in boiling excrement. The master said, "Whoever mocks the words of the sages is punished with boiling experiment." And now the Gmorrah gives its own comment to the story has finished his conversation and he probably converted to Judaism as we know. But now the Gomorrah gives its own final commentary. Come see. Look at the difference between the greatest sinners of Israel and the greatest prophets of the nations of the world. Look at the difference. Bam is such a great prophet. In many ways, he's a spiritual genius. He has the skill of prophecy. And yet, what does he say about the Jewish people? Stay far, far away from them. Don't seek their goodness. Don't seek their peace. Never connect to them. And here you have Yoshka who's a Israel, a sinner among the Jewish people. What does he say in a moment of truth? He says, "Of course, connect to them. Always seek their goodness. Never do harm to them. Touching them is touching the apple eye of God." So makes this comment about the difference between yashka and bum and tus. The first two were even a prophet and therefore their advice was stay away from them even in the world of truth where they were now. And yashka had the opposite advice. This is the story in the garra. Okay. What is the meaning of this last line? Comes the Maharal of Prague. And it's important to say who the Maral was. Maral stands for Morenu Harav Rabenu Leva. His name was Yehuda Leva. Yehuda Leva Benala. And he was known as the chief rabbi of Prague. Today in Czech, Czech Republic. He was born in around 1522 and passed away609. He's known as the Maral of Pra. He in fact in his day had to deal a lot with blood libels that came from the Christian communities in Europe that began already in the 12th century accusing Jews of slaughtering Christian children before Pes and using their blood for matzah. And the moral dealt a lot with this. He was also one of the greatest thinkers and seinal writers and teachers of Jewish thought, ethics, philosophy, Kabala Makav in his generation. He wrote many many works the moral. They're very very deep, very profound. Uh some hard very hard to understand extremely extremely deep deep mind and deep thinker. He was the avdon and the Russa of many cities in poison and Poland. Nichlersburg and then ultimately Prague where he is buried. He has a safer called Israel the eternity of Israel. It's a very very beautiful book about the eternity of the Jewish people. There he focuses on this story in the fifth chapter. He says why did Unulus want these three people? I mean he could have raised a lot of people. A lot of people have died uh over the years. Why these three people? So the moral says something very interesting. He says these three people exemplified the three cardinal sins of Judaism. There's idolatry, there's adultery and murder. The difference between the three is profound is the greatest corruption of person against person. taking somebody's life. Thebah of that, the audacity of that, the the cruelty of it is obviously the most the most it's most barbaric sadistic form of evil between a zor is the corruption in the relationship between a person and his creator or her creator. It's substituting truth for falsehood, true God, true energy for fake energy. That's gilar says adultery is the corruption of the person visav the person himself or herself. It's a person who has no boundaries, no self-respect, no respect for other, they're literally like an animal because the most powerful energy in a person is their sexual energy. That's their intimate energy. And when that's squandered, when there's no boundaries, when there's no respect, the person lost all respect for themselves because this is their deepest most intimate sacred energy. And when they betray that, it shows a complete moral decomposition internally. So the ulos knew that these three elements define the great boundaries of Judaism and the three sins one has to die for, no other sins. So he went to the three people So, so sorry. So, he went to the three people who literally mastered these three sins to get it to get their perspective. Let's see. Titus was the master of he was the great murderer, one of the greatest butchers in history. He massacred so many Jews as he destroyed the Bikish, destroyed Jerusalem with tremendous cruelty. In fact, the Gomorrah says right before the story that Titus took a knife and he stabbed the paroas, the curtain separating the holy from the holy of holies. He stabbed it and there was a miracle and blood came out and ta said, "Ah, I managed to murder God. I managed to murder God as the blood came out of the par." Why was there blood there? Some say because the kangad used to sprinkle blood on yam kipper at the paras and other carbon the blood was sprinkled even though it wasn't supposed to go in but probably one time or a few times it went in tisva says it represented god's pain of the there's other explanations kitus thought he killed god but this was his symbol blood blood so wanted to get his perspective on connecting to the Jewish people then he went to bum Bam's was Gileas. As I told you, Bum's dunkey wasn't just his dunkey. He was married to his dunkey, so to speak. Yeah, that's what it says. Bas dunkey. When the dunkey opened up the mouth, this wasn't just a dunkey that he used for riding. This was a dunkey that he used for intimate pleasures. That is why when Bum could not curse the Jewish people and he went back home, he gave advice and he said, The God of the Jewish people despises promiscuity, despises adultery, despises disrespect in in marriage and relationships, pro, you know, complete moral breakdowns and therefore get the daughters of Midion and the daughters of MV to entice the Jewish men and you will have a downfall. And he was successful. There was a huge plague and Pinas went and killed Zimry and Kusby and he stopped the plague. This was all Bam's scheme, Bilam's advice as discussed in Paras and in Paras. The third person was Yeshu. What was Yeshu? A des he became a Desara and you know he turned into some deity. He turned into some deity. I was once uh my brother once told me that uh he was sitting with a bunch of uh a bunch of cardinals and bishops very high level clergy of the Christian religion. They wanted to visit a Jewish community. So they were so to speak for bringing with him for a few hours and they asked him to sing a song and he sang and he spoke and they were very very like open. They were very warmed and and inspired. So at some point when they decided they could already be more vulnerable, they looked at him and they said, "Rabbi, tell us the truth. Who is the Messiah? Who is the Messiah?" You know, what is he supposed to say? Like he didn't want to ruin, you know, a beautiful afternoon. It was nice. So he looked at them. He said, you know, it's one Jew or another. And that was that was good. They got it. I was once at an event. So there was one of the time said, "I don't you this whole idea of the chosen people, God chose you." Like come on, it's racism. I'm like, "You're a Christian." He says, "Yeah." I'm like, "You're you're talking to me. You guys took a Jewish kid. You turned them into God himself. Like what what do you want from me? You you turned him into God himself." So this is Desar of Peace. So that's why he interviews, so to speak, these three people, Titos, Bam, and Yoshka. This is what the moral says. But now the moral goes one step further and he says, "But look at the difference in the answers." And he says something extremely extremely moving and profound and pretty earthshattering when you think about it. So this is your second source. You'll see in the pages and he says, this is an exact quote. You see the second source, first page of your source sheets. There's only two pages. It's double-sided. The first side, the first section was the Gmorrah, right? In English and Hebrew. And now you're going to the second section. Under the box. Yeah. Under the box. The sinners of Israel. God has imbued them with a pure soul. He's talking here about Yoshka. However, in this world, they gravitated. They were slept and they went down the rabbit hole of wickedness. And therefore, their sin essentially is circumstantial in this world. It's not essential. It's something that happened through circumstances where something alien attached itself to them, but it's not who they are intrinsically. And therefore, the moment they're not in this world, there's no sin anymore. They embrace the truth and they regret everything because they have a good, positive, holy root. And when they go back to the root, it's all good. They right away know what the truth is. As our sages said, what did the sages say in? So this is the next source taught us. This is in 19. It says unto him, which means those who pass the valley of tears, they allow their tears to be like a well and full of blessings. So he explains, who's these are people who transgress God's will. What's depth? The valley. They go deep into purgatory. They cry. In that process, they sob like a wellspring that flows. That's how many tears they have. They also bless. They justify their process. They're completely fine with their process. They justify. They appreciate it. They appreciate this process of purgatory. They say master of the universe, good judgment, good merit. When somebody merits, good guilt when somebody is guilty. It's very beautiful. It's good that you created purgatory for the wicked, paradise for the in other words, they're completely fine with the process. They justify. They thank him for it. They're crying in remorse and they're thankful. Even at the door of don'tv says it's not a question here. You're talking about the sinners of the nations. Are you talking about the sinners of the Jewish people? It's a whole different experience. What is the bringing this forth? So he's teaching here something extremely extremely powerful what the Gmorrah is saying and who is the Gmorrah saying it about not just a Jew who didn't do or a Jew who missed benching or missed mka or missed chalashudis or even a Jew who didn't put on he's talking about which Jew he's talking about Yeshuan which I don't have to describe to this crowd what this Jew achieved and what were the results of the religion that he created in terms of the long Jewish challenging traumatic exile. Nonetheless, the Gomorrah says, "I want you to see the difference between him and Titus and Bum." And the moral explains why why he says, "Because you have to understand what it means to have a Jewish soul." What it means is that essentially intrinsically you're completely aligned with truth with the divine will. What happens in this world though is things get attached to people. They build shells, husks. Their soul gets eclipsed. They don't know who they are. That a they're alienated from themselves. So they go in different directions. They cultivate different behaviors. They develop different philosophies. They engage in different types of habits and instincts and relationships of one form or another that completely completely alienate them from their own intrinsic core. As a result of that, I could run or they could run their entire life and they are essentially in survival mode from one survival mode to another survival mode from one coping mechanism to another coping mechanism. from one things that feels good to another thing that feels good, from one distraction to another distraction to another distraction to another distraction. And that's what happens. But that's all until they see the truth. The moment the curtains are removed, the moment they're invited into an atmosphere, into a cocoon, not a cocoon, into a space because it's not a cocoon, into a space, into an environment where there is MS, where there's truth, where you can't lie anymore. where the coverups don't have power anymore. The bubbles are gone. The shells are removed. The husks are punctured. The balloon, the arrogance, the ego, the stupidity, the folly, whatever adjectives you want to add, you can add in your own mind. It's all punctured. And sudden, it's a place of truth. We call mammoth. What happens? They suddenly see who they are. They're like, "Oh my god, my whole life was one long myth. It was one long lie. Immediately it's all gone. That's what the Myra says. Immediately they know the truth. They realize that everything was simply a lie that was created, a coping mechanism that was created. And the tragedy of it is when somebody sees that that really I lived my entire life literally in a shell. Imagine the chick remains in the egg for eternity. I think that egg is reality and I refuse to come out of it. And it's really a coping mechanism because that feels safe for me. And in that process, I can engage in a lot of harm to myself and sometimes in a lot of harm to others. But the moral says that's all until they touch the truth. The moment they touch the truth, they see who they are and they're like, "This has nothing to do with me." And that's why he says when Yeshu comes to that world, it's checkmate. The game is over. He tells, "Of course you should go to the Jewish people. What's the question? They are the apple eye. They are the apple of the eye of God. What's the question? This is it. This is truth. I in this world there was so much corruption. This is exactly the truth. The truth is that sometimes I don't even know what I don't know. I could be living behind so many walls and veils and curtains and facades. I know that there's something torturing me inside. there's some dissonance but I don't have the clarity or the courage or the guidance or the mentorship to even be able to realize what is going on and remember the main commandment in this world of the animal soul is survive survive survive be comfortable be comfortable so sometimes I get deeper into my mess and deeper into my shell to build layers and layers and layers and layers and then comes a moment of healing then comes a moment of truth and it takes you know how long it takes it takes less than a It's an energy. The moment you get to see, wow, how many coverups did I create through my life to avoid my pain, to avoid discomfort, to protect myself. And this is true in every person's world in their own way. Yesu took it to a very very extreme place. We'll soon see what happened to him at the end of the class. But in every person's life this is the nature of the difference of almadik and the world of lies and the world of truth. And I should say was one of the great cabalists raenuim aar of Italy rau and he writes people think ganed and gehenn are in that world. He says ganed and gehenn really are in this world. He says every person creates their ganed and their gene in this world. He says sensitive people when they see somebody they see the ganed or the ganim that they live in in this world. That's why it says when Jacob walked into and when walked into give the food but started to tremble says why did he tremble he saw that the geanum walked in with him yakov walked in he smelled gan wasn't ganim walked in with him what fires walked in with him we make a mistake we think a henam is like this physical oven this physical gem is an energy that when a person is living in lies it's a toxicity that they live in the purgatory Ganeden is the energy of purity. So the ganed and the gehenn is not created here. It's created here. It's just here. Not everybody sees it. Here I can get away with calling gennham ganadan. Ganed gehenn lies. Truth truth lies. I can get away with the delusions because there's so much uh concealment that world there's just no concealment. So you see, oh this is nauseous. This is nauseiating. How many myths and lies I lived with. And may it may have been even unintentionally by the way by so many people. It's usually very unintentionally. It's like the person just goes into that space and they're just coping. They're just surviving. And it's a lot of grief. And that's what the Gmorra says. When these P is coming together, they start crying. They so they grieve for a life that was so tragic because it was so disassociated. A life that was so alienated for my cart. I couldn't have an open heart. I couldn't live with my core. I couldn't live with my P. I didn't even know who I was. I was just seeking one comfort, another comfort, another comfort, another comfort. I couldn't even respect my own boundaries. I needed attention from this one. I needed validation from this one. I needed to pursue this addiction, this addiction, this entertainment. I didn't even know who I was. There's so many tears. As they come in there, they're crying this grief. And that grief is not bad. That grief is healing because it's the grief that allows you to release what happened. That's the idea of the grief in ganim. It's not a bad thing. That's why they come and they say, "God, wow, thank you. Thank you." This is also a very deep perspective. You know, we learn about ganed and gene and some people are still traumatized from the way it was presented to them in school and a lot of their Judaism is filled with such guilt and negativity and a lot of people have a lot of issues with God because of this. What we really have to heal in all of this because what the moral is really explaining to us is and I'll just give a simple example. Let's say a person has been living with a blacked heart or with tremendous pain or with tremendous anxiety their whole life and they finally come to a healing a heal a person who can heal them or a person who can help them heal or a modality that can help them heal. Anybody who has done any of this work knows that one of the first things they're going to experience is tremendous grief. They're going to start seeing the pain. They're going to start seeing the grief. And there's no way out of it if you don't go through it. If I want to avoid it, if I want to bypass it, I won't go out of it because it's still stuck there. But that grief, if somebody will tell the the healer, "No, no, don't do it. Don't do it." Usually, most people, at least if they have some basic element of courage and self-respect, say, "No, I need more of this. I need I'm coming back. Why are you coming back? Why are you coming back? It's really a gehenn because this is the path to ganeden. The path to ganed geanim is part of ganeden. Geennan is really releasing the toxicity. It's the grief for all of my fakeness. It's the grief for anything that I ingested even from other people. Venom, poison, self-hate, self-loathing, selfshame, self-guilt, whatever it is. Everybody in their own way. And I avoided it my entire life. Not even to admit to myself that I'm dealing with it because that itself is painful. Everybody wants to say I'm a happy person. Life is good. Hem everything is good. But internally there is dissonance. Internally there's torture and I have to face that. And that's what they face. And they're thankful. They say wow I'm coming back. Give me more. It's not to torture. It's not to oppress. It's to cleanse. It's to clear up the infections. And now the person can go back to their source. Oh wow. I'm a beautiful person. I'm a gorgeous person. I'm a divine person. The moral says the shish is beautiful. It's amazing. They got stuck in mushagasan and insanity. Insanity attaches itself to us. How true is this? What the moral is telling us. You see it in our generation so so much. People live with so much pressure and so many negative stories about themselves. And all of this has nothing to do with their essence. Literally, if anybody would touch their essence, they would see a whole different person. But it's a deep process to be able not to bypass, to be able to embrace all of these parts and realize what I'm dealing with and sit with it and then find and lean into my true inner core and strength. So this is what the Gmorrah tells us the difference between Titus and even which now brings us to the next point. And if you turn around your turn over your page please. One of the greatest masters was known as of Lublin. They call him the kangadic of Lublin lived in Lublin. Lublin is Poland. He was actually born into a family that was very very opposed to andidis. But then he went on a long journey and he met some very interesting people. He became a student of the isbre and of the grandson of and then in his last years he became a reba and a spiritual master in Lublin where he passed away in ll 1900. He wrote fascinating fascinating works. He was quite a genius of a man and a big scope and a very original and creative and he has another fascinating piece on this story in Gmorrah and he says why was all this story why are all the stories of tishabove put into the mess to the track date of divorce why there you say well it has to go somewhere he says no whenever there's a story in a particular track date it belongs there and he says because tishov looked like the divorce between God and the Jewish people it looked like The bond was over. The covenant was destroyed. It's done. You're not my people anymore. I'm not your God. You can't say anymore. That was all in the past. And that was the great Christian claim to the Jewish people. There is a new testament. What means new? The old one is the old one. It's obsolete. And there's a new one. There's a new covenant. A new people. Look how oppressed you are. It looked like giten. It looked like a divorce. But says it only looked like a divorce. It was not a divorce. So that's why all the stories of the including this story about why says something fascinating. I want to read it inside, but I just want to give you the sneak preview. He says, "When you look at a Jew who's divorced from God, who would be the poster boy for a Jew who's divorced from God?" Obviously, so his story comes in here. Let's see what he says. Why does this story come in here? Obviously, because brought up Titus and Titus is part of the story says, but it's deeper. This is the right place for it. And this is what he writes. At that period in Jewish history, this truth was revealed. Even the greatest sinners of Israel who sin so much to the point that God said, "We can't have a open relationship. You need to be expelled. This is not working." Even they don't think that the name was uprooted from them. It was not. To think that they're just another They're just like other nations. says in his prophecy, he says, "Some of the Jews say, "We're just going to be like all the nations. We just want to be regular people. We're not Jewish. We're going to assimilate." And God says, "It's never going to happen. I will always be your king." What does that mean? It means I'm going to force you to be Jewish. So says, "No, it means that that's who you are. Even if I try very hard to become a horse, Y Jacobson, it won't work. There are advantages in being a horse. A horse runs a lot faster than I can run. Even a lot of some people run a lot faster than I can run. The horse can take you up mountains, can take you up at park in like 3 minutes instead of an hour and a half. Horses are incredible, incredible animals. They have great advantages. But as much as I try, I cannot become that. So says, you always have to know who you are. I can't change my energy. I can't become you. You can't become me. I can't become another person. I can't become another. I can't become an insect. I can't become an animal. I could decide that I'm a horse. You know, there's the old was the big maggot from your he was a very funny man. You know, he used to he he could be very cynical. So he once said he would speak in Yiddish Yiddish. So he said yes once came to me and said I'm very very jealous of animals of beahus. He says why? He says they don't have to davin. They don't have to learn. They don't have to go to shul. They don't have to eat with cutlery. They don't have to use a bathroom. They don't have to get dressed. They don't have to have manners. There's no ethical behavior. They do whatever they want, however they want, whatever they want, wherever they want. And he starts sobbing and he says, God, why didn't you make me a animal? So he says, I looked at the and I said, "My dear boy, you got nothing to cry. You are a But the real point is as much as I try, I could try to behave that way. There's the DNA of a human being. There's the DNA of a donkey. There's the DNA of an elephant and each one has its unique purpose. Says you have to know who you are intrinsically. So Davka in this story of Gen you're saying even this Jew don't think that the name is uprooted from him. It's all external. It's like a debuk like a debok. You know what a dbuk is? It connects. It goes in and the venom can go deep. It can be injected deeply but it's still something that's connected from outside. And therefore the moment you come to a place of truth and you right away see the difference between the external layers and their internal core everything falls apart. That's all you need to see truth. And that's exactly what healing looks like. Healing is really a moment to integrate. It may take a few years but the healing is a moment. It says in that in one second. How? One second. Yeah. Because it's really just wow. And it's extremely emotional because everything gets turned gets upended. Everything everything I thought I see was wrong and everything I didn't even imagine. Wow. And suddenly a person realizes how sophisticated our psyches are to be able to build castles in the year and then live in them and then sell them or charge rent for them and when they're falling apart just build fake foundations. And that's literally what people are capable of doing. According to this, according to this, we understand a very very powerful teaching of the Zar that at first glance seems so so strange. And this is your second source on the on the second side of their source sheets. Zoy Pares fascinating. The zoyar says background Rab Yehuda says that noyak did not behave correctly. Hashem told him there's going to be a flood and he said okay. He didn't protest. He didn't pray. He didn't din. He just went on with his business building the ta. He was a good guy for himself but he really could not care for the generation. And Huda says you know who's the father of compassion? Arainu. When au heard that d is going to be destroyed he protested. He said, "How can you do this? Will the God of justice not behave justly?" That's what said seems very nice. The man of love comes to Z and says, "It's not so simple. Even did not really behave the way you're supposed to behave." Argues with why? Why? So he says, "I'll tell you why." You know what he asked God? And he asked God, he said, "How could you destroy a sadic with a Russia? There are sadikums died." So Hashem said, "Show me. Show me. Find me 50. Find me 45, 40, 30, 20, 10. Garnish, garnish, garnished." So said, "Okay, you're right." So the Zy says, "No, there was something missing there is teaches us what to do." What happens the Omar after the Jews create the golden calf? So there were those who worshiped it. There was those who created there were those who were quiet and acquiesed and didn't protest tells Hashem. If you forgive all of them, good. And if not, erase me from the Tory that you have written. I don't have anything to do with you anymore. It's them either. You got to choose them or you're done with me. If it's a choice between you and them, I'm choosing them. Erase me from the That's what he tells Hashem, says the quote, direct quote. Even though they all sinned in one way or another, he did not budge till he says, "I forgive." Mosha is the true shepherd. the faithful shepherd who protects his generation. Aram asks for the sadikim. He cares for he's not like he cares for his but for the he says they could go rot. It's not my business. Hashem says there's no sadikim. He's like okay you're right. That's not what Mosha did. Mosha said I want you to forgive them people who need forgiveness and if not erase me from the satire. So desire is saying that even au did not model that that reality that love that connection. Now this is not a flu. Why not live before live before the giving of the once thera was given and it says before said you will be for me a kingdom of princes and a holy nation who everyone every soul is a like it says in many smart every soul is a piece of hashem that's your DNA that's your spiritual intrinsic core I once saw a letter from an Israeli Jew. He wrote to the labrebba and he introduced himself anonyi. You know what a kilon is, right? Everybody knows I'm a secular Israeli. So the rebba wrote him back the lab wrote him back a letter and I remember one beautiful paragraph. He said I hope you'll forgive me if I disagree with you. I cannot accept your adjective about yourself because since God declared you will be for me a holy nation the creator of the world established that there's no such a thing as a word comes from the word mundane mundane earthy unholy there's no such a thing sorry I'm sorry I can't agree with you you may think you are you may behave like one you may not have much knowledge whatever it is, but essentially because felt it in his bones, he knew it. So therefore, Hashem said, "Leave me alone or I'll destroy them." And Mosha understood if he doesn't leave them alone, he won't destroy them. And that's when he went and pleaded and he achieved and revealed the essence which is so understood that there may be deep disagreements between Jews. There may be Jews who sadly fall very very low. But for him to detach, for him to say, "They're not Jewish. They're I couldn't care less. Go rot in purgatory." That concept stopped existing. That theme that that idea literally comes from a lack of a basic understanding in the essence of a Jew, which is that which was part of the essence of Judaism. because if I don't understand that, what do I know about Judaism if I don't understand the essence of what it means to be a Jew? So, what we're learning here is that it's not that Judaism is a religion and either you practice it and you don't practice it and if you don't practice it then you're not connected to it, but rather it's actually the color of your soul. I can't change the color of my eyes. I can't change the color of my soul. There could be a person who's more religious, who's less religious, who's more knowledgeable, who's less knowledgeable, who's less more in touch with their essence, who's less in touch with their essence. That's very possible. But at the essence, in the core says it's all one. It's a comes of and says, let me show you how far this goes. We all know it says but then the Mishna says besides besides this one besides that one besides that one besides that one and if you do this right says let's really give perspective to all of this and let's see the third source this is again it says in Sanhedrin 44 But you remember who was somebody who Yeshua warned nobody should take the booty of he went and he took and he already took it before byu and the gmorrah says that toldu sinned. So the garra says you see from here that even though rebelled in such a defiant way he's called and the garra says assa is a hadas a myrtle a myrtle between thorns is still a myrtle and it's called a myrtle and it smells like a myrtle. So there sometimes a person what an imagery I could be surrounded by thorns by coverups. I may have a prickly part, a part that stings, that's snidey, that's aggressive. It's all my fake self. It's a survival scheme. Sometimes you're married to a person, sometimes you have a friend, sometimes you have somebody in the family, they're so confrontational, they're so difficult, they're so challenging, we get very, very affected by it. And it's normal because it it hurts really. When we become stronger in of ourselves, we can l literally watch and have compassion for a soul that is in prison for somebody who's so uncomfortable in their own skin. And this is how they learn to survive. The hadus is surrounded by thorns, but he says still call it a even though there's thorns everywhere, you still call it a that'san. And he says the Gmorrah says that transgressed the whole he did adultery. He did a lot of crazy things. Not only that, he reversed his grace. He didn't want anybody should see he's Jewish. He reversed his circumcision. Yeshua still tells him you are here in this world. You're going to be penalized in the next and is God calls it my head. It says inn page 90 kings and four regular people don't have and he goes through the kings you have you have these were wicked kings you have these are people who were really really perverse they have no it's a we say it before before we say the first part this is the second heart comes to and says means those who expounded on the manuscripts they say they all have besides I don't understand the Mishna says they don't have comes the Gar and says there were those who expounded some manuscripts and they said they're arguing with the sages so the saddic says there's a very deep idea. What does mean? What? They found some hidden manuscript that argued with the Mishna. The word is the word. You know what Rosham means in Hebrew? Anybody? A rom an impression like an imprint, right? I may dip my finger in oil. Even if I wash off my finger, there's still a rosh. There's a residue. You may have a little ink. You may have a little oil, right? Even if I I I dyed whatever, I take over the dye, there's still a rom. There's an imprint there. It's called a residue. says means something incredibly deep. They have a sense. They have intuition for something that is beyond human intellect. It's only like a little. It's like a little intuitive secret that's not so bold and visible. said they don't have a based on intellect, based on human awareness and intellect. These guys lost it. They're done. They're finished. They have gone over the deep end. They're finished. They're doomed. But those who know how to see the the imprint of the soul in a secret way embedded in the subconscious beyond regular visible intellect they said nobody is lost but for this you'd have to know what does this mean sometimes the soul is so hidden you have to be a rum true if I look visibly on the outside of course person is a Russian the person is wicked the person is harmful the person is defying the person is cousin the person is immoral and he says that's true so the comes to gar and says there's there's those who know how to take a spiritual x-ray an MRI of the soul and they could look very very deep they could pierce through all the outer layers and explore the core and at the core suddenly They see there's an innocence, there's a purity that got so con that got so perverted, that got so lost, that went down such deviant pathways and got stuck in all of these layers of darkness and debris. But if you move it all away, you'll see of course because the can't get destroyed. That's why writes and the shal writes and the writes and the great cabalists write that ultimately every but even when it says it can't be otherwise because if it's a piece of hem a piece of hem is not going to be destroyed it's not like a piece of god is going to be obliterated forever and is going to be lost forever if it's a mamish ultimately of is like all of hashem it's one it's one essence it's going to come back to find its true source even though it goes through difficult difficult difficult processes. And he says, "And now you'll understand a great secret in the Hagada." One of the funniest things in the Hagad or the saddest things in the Hagad is you have a fourth child. He's called a Russia. And he says, "Mommy, Tati, what are you doing? We have to clean for Pes two months. Drive yourself crazy. Go to a hotel." And even a hotel has time for all this stupid. So what do you tell him? You tell him leave. If you would have been there, you would have never been redeemed. Okay. What now? You would have never been redeemed. What's the message? The message is you're a really bad kid and we should have never taken you out of Mits. This was a bad idea to have you as a child. Is that the message? Is that going to help anybody? You ever tried that on your child? I don't think it's going to work. says, "We completely misunderstand what is saying." Next paragraph, you know what you're telling him. If he would have been there, he wouldn't have been redeemed. If you would have been there in you had a choice. You want to join. You don't want to join. It would have been your choice. Once God took us out of Mit including you and you came to Matra, now you are holy forever and ever and ever. You could scream. You could be defiant. You could say you're the worst Jew. You don't believe in anything. But I'm telling you over there, you wouldn't have been redeemed. Once you're here, it's all over. This last gula, of course, you're going to be redeemed because it's an intrinsic core. It's not a question. If you wanted, it's a question of who you really really are. What does truth look like? The moment you're going to see your own truth, the moment you will face your own authenticity and honesty with candidness, the moment you won't be able to delude yourself and live in a bubble, you will right away see that you were redeemed, that you were divine, that you're completely aligned with the divine will. That actually to be healthy, to live for a Jew to live Jewishly means to live healthy. It means to live with your energy. It means to live in alignment. It means to live in flow. It means to actually be who you really are without any need to distract yourself because you're so uncomfortable with your own essence. And he continues, he says did not want to get married. You know why? He was a prophet. He saw he's going to have a son named Manasha. Manasha was the worst king of the Jewish people. He was a king for 55 years. And he was a true true wicked man. Said, "Why should I bring him to the world? Why? I'm not getting married." And what did tell him? Stop mixing into God's business. Know your place in the world. You were told to get married and build a family. how it works out. None of your business. You're not the master of the world. Powerful words was sick. He was about to die. Yes. Said, "Why are you mixing in? You're you're going out of your lane. Nobody asked you to figure out who your child is going to be." So says something amazing. But he was right. Look, he was right. The guy was right. Was a sick was a very bad king. I mean, Manasha, sorry. Sorry. says says uh says in fact is one of those people that we learned earlier doesn't have he says look what would have happened if wouldn't have been born we would have never had all comes from manasha is a grandson ultimately of David the chain goes through manasha The entire chain of holiness in the world that comes from Msiah goes through manasha. So on one hand says he's says don't mix into suddenly you see something you see that manasha was an indispensable component if manasha wouldn't have been born the chain to mashiach couldn't come in that's what was telling you there is a secret journey of souls beyond what anybody understands sometimes people look at their children today we live in a generation a lot of people are struggling with their children and sometimes it's very very easy to put it all on our children. They're defying their parents. They're shaming the family. They're shaming the community. Why can't you just behave? Why can't you just do this? We're learning here. The first thing you have to remember is your child is holier than anybody will ever imagine. It's very easy to go into a place of guilt and shame and you don't fit in and why can you be like your brother and why do you have to quit this issue whatever it is and what's with nas and you can't come to this wedding and you can't come to this and it's embarrassing for Tatagga and Bubby's not going to tolerate this and she's going to have a heart attack because you and the Awit survivors are turning over in their grave because of you. Whoa. And this poor kid is suffering from enough anxiety his whole life and now he really gets anxiety. First of all, we have to take a deep breath and have to understand that God is bigger than anybody imagines or thinks. And religion is not always reduced to the little box and picture that this person thinks or that person thinks. And although we all crave and yearn for our children to be able to be healthy physically, emotionally, spiritually, never ever could we stop believing and seeing their infinite holiness. And even if on the outside there seems to be so many disturbing things, never allow your mind and your soul to tune out and just zoom in on the thorn. Zoom out and see an angel that is there. See it. And by the way, you can only see it in your child if you see it in yourself. People who don't see it in themselves very have a very hard time seeing it in other people. And then I can help people discover that more. When I believe in them, they could believe in themselves. I can identify that more. We also have to realize something else. Every soul has a journey and nobody knows what the journey of an ash is and it's not always your fault. It's usually not. We may have played a role. Mommies and tatis play a significant role, but like we learned last week in mas there's the cause of the causes. Every soul has a journey. Khisia said manasha is a rotten tomato, a rotten potato. He's just a force of destruction. And Yesha said, "Whoa, without him, there's no Mashiach." Really, there's some mystery of what souls go through and journeys they go through through which a light comes into the world. We want to be there for them. We want to hold space for them. We want to embrace them. We want to love them. We never want to despair and give up on them. And therefore, we learn here that even Manasha somehow was indispensable in this chain. Now, you'll say, "Who needs all of this? Why does it have to be like this process?" Those are good questions, but like told, don't mix into God business. You do what you have to do. Let him run his world. You run your world. There's things I could know and there's things I can't know. Now, we come to a very special moment of reveals to us what really happened to Yoshka. What happened to we learned here that he had a pure soul in he tells of course become a Jew. What's the question? They are God's apple. So what happened to him? How did he drift away so far? What happened? Addresses one more person in Jewish history who also created havoc and it's connected to Tishab. His name was Shabsitvi. Shabsitvi was born in Turkey. He was born on Shabas. That's why he's called Shabsi. He was born on tishab which was on shabas. That's why they called him shabsi. He was born on shabas besides he was a very very charismatic person. He was a very spiritual person. He was a very deep person. At some point he declared himself the messiah the mashiach. Huh? And he said, "I was born on Shabas and Antichosa had a very good spokesman, a man named Nassen Hazi Nathan from Gaza who was a brilliant PR man and he really got the message out and with his charisma and his spirituality, he managed sadly to lure not hundreds and not thousands but tens of thousands maybe more of Jews into this trap to the point that much of Europe European jury fell prey to this idea and even gave dates. In fact, in Turkey, Jews were intoxicated by it. And then when he was arrested and in 1666, he was arrested and he converts to Islam. The because they offered him either you convert to Islam or you die and he converted to Islam. The moral downfall of the Jewish people at that time was horrific. It was a long gulus. Their hopes were high and it was all a fiasco. It was this the story of Shabiti in a very unique moment here addresses these two people. What happened to Yoshka is what happened to Shamsiti? Both Jews one ended up becoming the father of Christianity. one ended up becoming a Muslim becoming a Muslim and he addresses it through one more person of course not in the same level and that's the very very famous person Adam Harish and this is what says very very deep and fascinating words it's the third it's the third to the last paragraph I'm going to read it fast and explain the sin of was all in his thought. We look at the story, we say, "Oh, he saw an apple tree. He pulled off an apple. This is a good healthy apple. Here you need nutrition. You need apples. Enough with the cotton candy and the pizza and the pasta and the carbs. Here's an apple." And that's the end of the story. And history was changed. Gave him the apple. Got it. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Sadik says the truth is wasn't even an apple either was an estrig or wheat or a vine or or or a fig gave it to Adam and he said this is nutritious instead of eating your cheesecake at the bris and the mitzvah you eat my apples and you'll be fine okay until the since since then wives are telling husbands what to eat what not to eat and that's why there's a by the so that the men could eat whatever they want that was just a joke okay maybe not comes and says comes it's it's a deep class so we need a little humor it's fine comes and says it's much deeper than that eating is always a symbol everybody knows when you eat either you're mindful or you're not mindful if I'm mindful when I eat it's one type of eating if I'm not mindful when I eat it's a different type of eating if I'm not mindful when I eat I eat everything I relate to that I don't know if anybody does if you don't you're lucky when you're mindful what you eat you actually eat what you need to eat based on your body so Even any act of eating is always associated with consciousness. So says the whole story of the eating was really a story about consciousness. The Adam was invasc inner thought that drives it. It's like the gas the the gasoline that drives us. He says something happened in his like it says. This is the deion that the snake put into him. And the snake told if you eat you will both be like God. You will know good and evil. He says he put into Adam and Adam is an imagination a thought. What was this? This is the source of all the thoughts of vanity of imaginations of a person. The source of all distortions in people's thoughts is that a person starts imagining that he or she is in a state that is really above them and they're they're not ready for that state. It's not who they are. They start imagining themselves to be somebody who they are not. And as a result of that they start believing a fictional story that is not real. Even we see it even in very very practical ways. Sometimes a person starts feeling guilt or shame over a particular behavior over a particular thought and that is often based on it says in that's often based on the fact that I don't know who I am. I feel like this is below me. This is below my dignity. Why am I dealing with this? It's really a form of displaced arrogance. I don't even know who I am. So the source of so much distortion is a person thinks that they're supposed to be somebody else or that they are somebody else and they don't really really accept and understand who they are. The serpent put in such a powerful thought. You're going to be like God. And he says was the ultimate perfection. You remember it says God said I look at you and I say you're gods you're divine you're children of the superior one. When I look at you I see you as divine lived up to that. He had no choice. He had no question. He wasn't born from a father and a mother. He knew he was divine. He was created by the divine. He had no question. He didn't have a father and a mother and just say there was natural selection of Charles Darwin. Adamarish was formed by God. So he was the ultimate perfection. What happens? The snake comes and puts in an imagination into Adam. You're not just formed by God. You're not just a manifestation of God. You're not just a flow of God. You're mamish God. You're like a replace. You my mishe. This is it isim. You're in charge. You're mish god. And he said there's a truth there. The demian works because marishan is so is so uh refined. He is so in flow. He is so one with the divine that this is the dimmian. You're mam. You're it. You're god. to you. That's why the has a special mitzvah. You're you be holy because I'm holy. So the med says what it means is you could think you'd be as holy as me. Remember I'm holier than you. Why does the have to say this? Because the true holiness of a person is so deep that you could start thinking you're as holy as Hashem. So he has to say this was Adam's mistake. You become so holy. You're like an angel. You still have choice. What's the choice? Doesn't leave him. He entices him. He speaks to him and says that you could become Hashem. You're as holy mishem. That's how deep it is. is and it's really from the and what happens now and from there he could throw you down from the highest roof to the deepest abyss. Once you go out of your human lane and you really experience yourself as Hashem now the downfall is powerful. This is what happened to he says he means listen to his words. They were so aesthetic. They were so holy. They have so separated themselves from the physical cravings and temptations. Their imagination power, their spiritual imagination became so powerful to think. They started to think that they're already on par with Hashem himself because they initially saw themselves as so holy and then they crossed that human border and they did not accept the humility and the vulnerability of being a human being and understanding you're one with God. You can be in flow with God, but you need to accept the vulnerable reality that I'm a human being. And that is exactly what Hashem wants. Because our whole purpose here is not to be God. God is God. He's fine. Our purpose is to bring Hashem into humanness to create to make a world, a physical world, a home for Hashem. So it's the earth that becomes divine. It's the human that becomes divine. Bringing the human into the processes. I want your humanness. I want your vulnerability. I want your limitations. So it's not that our limitations are a source of embarrassment. That is exactly our mission to bring in your choice, your otherness. God himself is infinite. But he wanted that otherness. He wanted the you. He wanted the human being who has needs, who has vulnerabilities, who has weaknesses, who is mortal. And that's how you become elikim. That's precisely how you develop your deepest relationship as a human being. But there is a grief there. There's a challenge there because the human being is so divine that there is that temptation of the deepest spiritual people just to cross that border. Let go of your humanness and it's a big not everybody can understand this but those who really really do deep spiritual work know that in the very deep place the borders are so ambiguous because the soul is so in tuned. We are so wired into the truth. Our antennas are so so sensitive. Once you remove blockages, blockages, blockages, blockages, there is such a light that shines through every person. That's when the snake shows up and says just cross the border. You're it. You're it. And then you let go of that pain. The last pain is gone. And that's where you get thrown off completely because you lose everything. At that moment, you become God. You really become you become an avid desire. You become a contradiction. It's always knowing I'm one with Hashem completely in that humility. I'm here to serve. I'm a channel. I'm a channel for the light that comes through me as a human being. And I bring in all my parts including my human parts. So here we see the downfall of such a great person. But what was it based on? It was based on on such a deep sense of spiritual intimacy, of such a deep spiritual sense of oneness. It's very true. By the way, a lot of people are into spiritual healing and spiritual growth and they go on deep deep deep journeys and in their own way they make we could make this mistake and it makes sense because you cross a border because you want to avoid that last obstacle that last you see the soul misses Hashem. It's anoid mulvad. We're all part of that oneness and when we come down here there's there's a missing there's a yearning and that's really our pain. Our deepest pain is our deepest pain is that's the point of it all is that we miss Hashem. We don't know that that's the pain. So I think if I'm going to have another piece of cake, if I'm going to have another couple of dollars, if I'll have another couple of toys, if I'll have some more validation, if I'll get some attention, if I'll get this tatska, that satka, this this there, that, I'll be happy. I'm still not happy because the real pain is I'm yearning for Hashem. I'm missing Hashem. That pain is essential to life. It's essential for me being human and surrendering with humility to become the channel that I need to be. Not to replace the master of everything and think that now I have it figured out and then I lose the entire plot. Now here we come to the last inning, so to speak. And here we come to the last inning. And this is an incredible, incredible story. The truth is it's a story that is very difficult to comprehend. It's a very intense story about the bos. But it is so powerful in so many ways and so necessary to understand and it really shows us a whole other dimension that we often do not realize. Shapiti died around 1676. I think he converted in 1666. Remember this is only 20 years after theki pagrams of 1648 1649. So the Jewish world was devastated and broken and that's why they looked up to this Msiah. 1676 he was dead. The Balsham was born 1698. When Shabsiti died, Mos Jew when he converted, Mos Jew sobered up. A lot of rabbis fell pray for him because he was a big man. And he was a he was a big man. He ate on tish. He said there's no anymore. He ate on made but still there was those who believed in him and those who didn't. But once he converted most of the Jewish world sobered up obviously but there was a group of students known as the Frankistan. Ever heard of them? Founded by Jacob Frank. And they said that Msiach has to convert to Islam. Why? Because Mashiah has to go down to the lowest lowest lowest kipos and take out the sparks and then he could redeem the world. Now once you go there you know you could destroy the whole of the whole it was over but there was a group there was a group that maintained there's still a little group in Turkey that still believes it followers of they do a pes before pes these were the frankistan the bal spent a lot of time there was a huge debate between him and the frankistan they created a lot of havoc in eastern Europe in the subsequent decades after shapiti's death the bumpa was born 1698 became the founder of the kasidic movement and one of the greatest spiritual masters in the history of Judaism who really infused the kite with this mystical and spiritual depth of the world of it is a safer called stories about the there's an incredible story about the bos that the bos himself shared according to this manuscript about an experience he had after shapit's Let's see the story last last source after his death comes to the to ask him for a he wants his soul to be fixed. Remember is Jewish. We just learned about what a Jew is. Even he comes to the he wants to who told over the story said like this understood how do you correct somebody you have to connect your soul to their soul you hear you want to be maken somebody you have to let your souls merge I can't sit a lifeguard can't sit on a throne and say you idiot get out of the ocean it's not how you save somebody, you jump into the water. If you want to fix a soul, you need to find merging with that soul. Sometimes people rebuke, they just tell you, do this, do this, become this, become normal. Doesn't work. There's something in their soul. I need my soul to go into their soul. Our souls have to merge. There's an energy flow. This is deep. If you don't know how to do this, you have to know that you don't know how to do this. But this is how we heal people. We don't heal people through objective analysis. We don't heal people through words. I don't think anybody was ever healed through words. We shame people through words. We could compliment people through words. You heal people when your soul could connect to their soul which are different frequencies of the soul. And it's in that level where their energy feels it their nervous system is regulated. Healing can happen. So the the wants to heal him heal his soul. So the bash starts connecting to him but very slowly. Why the bos was scared because was some how do we say he was one he was one he was a troublemaker. He was a big Russia and the bosund understood this is after his death but the bosund understood that there's a big big price to pay here. It's not simple to connect to that level. One time is sleep in sleep. Your consciousness is somewhat reduced. Comes to him and somehow he seduces him. He entices him. He overwhelms him. He throws the soul of the he hurls means he hurls him. He throws him very far. The feels that part of him is in the abyss. Is the abyss always knows the first thing you have to do when you fall into the abyss. Look. Look where you are. Very often we're afraid. We close our eyes. I don't want to see. I don't want to see. If you don't see, you don't know what to do. You have to see where you are. You have to survey the the territory. You have to survey the property so you could place yourself. You could know who you are, what you have to do. So he takes a look. He sees he sees that he's on the same tablet. Lu is. It's a tablet like born with who? With another Jew. Which Jew? Yes. He sees how far threw him down. Here's the other Jew. That same Jew Yeshu and that would make a connection between them in a later generation. And said Omar said, "Wowites had a holy spark. There was holiness there. He wasn't just a wicked man. the toughman. But the which means the negative energy lured him into its net and he was caught. And then the bos told the story how fell so low and it was basically two things godless through arrogance and anger. Those were the two things. Arrogance and anger. He told the whole story but I'm too lazy to write or he means I am too it's too hard for me to write but maybe I should write it so people should understand how deep arrogance can go how deep arrogance can go that's the end of the story now obviously this is a very very mystical story it's above my pay grade and I am not going to have the arrogance to think for a moment that I get it and I master it and I understand it fully. But I do want to suggest something in context of the entire class. And that is the BMP is invited here to fix a soul, but not just any soul, a tortured soul, a soul that created havoc and a big big mess, a Russia. He knows that the BMP could fix him, not anybody else. The bump has something that can relate to him and see his light because I can't fix somebody if I think the guy is a loser and doomed forever. So understood that the BMP's teachings, the BMP's soul gives hope to his soul. So he comes to the BMT. The BMP understands you can't fix somebody if you don't go in. You have to experience them. You have to empathize with them. And there's no way there's no way you could fix somebody if you don't have empathy. If I look at the person, I say, "You're just sick here. I just judge you. I can't fix you. You You're not going to connect to me. I have to really really connect to you. It's mysterious to fix somebody. You have to go into their world. So now what happens? The BMP does that. And in the process the whatever that means, I don't know exactly what it means. He falls. He's affected. He's affected. He's really affected to the point that he sees the place of Yoshka and Yashka. That's where he sees. You can understand how deep that experience is. And then the BMP obviously learns how to extricate himself. What he did with Shabiti doesn't say in this story, but the BashMev reveals something to us. And what does he say? That the two factors that made this great soul fall was godless and kas. Arrogance and anger. What does that really mean? Where's arrogant? If you're so holy, where's the arrogance and the anger? We already know what the arrogance is. The arrogance is not arrogance just a a uh superficial skindeep foolish arrogance you know just fake hoodiness of vanity vanity oh vanity everything is vain heal vanity fear but rather it's an arrogance that actually comes from a very profound spiritual depth it's an arrogance that comes from seeing my light so deeply that I'm not ready to accept my humanness I'm not ready to accept my vulnerability as a human being to really realize that ultimately at the end of the day I'm here to serve. I'm a servant. I'm a channel. But more I'm a channel, the more I actually become divine because I am not God. I was created by Hashem to manifest him. the more I can surrender to that and say I'm going to manifest you as me as a human being in the ways that you help me manifest you with the tools I have with the resources I have with tremendous humility that's actually how you remain completely connected that's how you remain but that's hard the how do you say uh the delusions spiritual delusions that I want to go above that take me out of that and then I completely lose sight and focus of who I really am and I can create such havoc and disaster because at that moment the snake tells me you are Hashem and you use your talents and your charisma and you lose it and by the way we see it even on much lower levels not and they went to an extreme we see on lower levels people in leadership people with charisma people who actually are very talented and resourceful they know how to influence people and they cross a border from which it's very hard to turn there's a deep deep subtle spiritual arrogance and anger that comes into them judgment dismissiveness superiority complex and they cross a certain border and they become very very dangerous people uh in a different way even he was a warrior he was a fighter he didn't consider himself a uh a divine prophet he was a warrior he was a general he was a commander over there was arrogance that he told god don't mix in I don't need you don't help me and don't defeat me that was yeah that was also And it also comes with anger. Anger means you have no patience for people anymore. I'm angry because a bunch of low people, a bunch of foolish people, such petty, petty. You look at the pettiness of the world and you have no patience for this pettiness. What happened? I forgot about my own humanness. I forgot about my presence in this world to be able to be a loving uplifting presence to be able to see the light in people. God doesn't need a second God. He has God. He's fine. He doesn't need a second God to run the world with him. He needs me to be a human. You to be divine as a human being. And divine as a human being means divine with the limitations of a human being doing the work with what I could do in my body with my resources and grow in that space. And then paradoxically you reach your deepest growth because you become who you really really are. You don't become a a fake a fake version of yourself. And that's why in the BMP's teachings, you see the exact opposite. You see a constant focus on humility, joy, forgiveness, constant. The big mistake was the arrogance and the anger. And you'll always see the humility, the simplicity, the humanness, the joy rather than the anger, the acceptance, the forgiveness. It's a divinity you feel by the bump, but filled with humility, filled with joy, filled with forgiveness, filled with acceptance. In many ways, he understood this energy better than anybody. We spoke uh two weeks ago about prophecy. Coming back to the age of prophecy, Msiah is going to be the age of prophecy. You see more and more people searching to open their hearts to be able to hear their inner voice. It's very very powerful times because people who are opening themselves up and doing the work are seeing the depth of their spirituality. Here we come to the second part of it. It only happens for real when it comes with humanness, when it comes with humility, when it comes with forgiveness, when it comes with joy, when it comes with good spiritedness, when it comes with radical acceptance. It doesn't come with meekness, with weakness. That's not what humility is. Humility is not meekness and not weakness and not surrendering to the wrong things. It means knowing that I am here to serve Hashem and that's why I have a power that's infinite but it's completely not mine. I'm just channeling whatever I could channel and therefore I can accept also the limitations that I things that I can channel things that I'm not ready for things that I'm not supposed to channel. It's not my job. Everybody has their soul their mission because if I blur that boundary it becomes extremely extremely dangerous. And that's why the bt that a person builds it's dwelling in me in my heart with all the pieces with all the pieces of my heart. So now as a result of this we now come back and we understand the depth of what we're learning here because the depth of what we're learning here is not like some people think okay so every Jew is holy even much better than much better than Titus and therefore it's just radical acceptance and everything goes and everything is permissible because everybody is holy it's the exact opposite what we're learning here is that everybody is really connected to everybody is really connected to mitzvah. The moment they see their essence, they want to be aligned with they want to be aligned with mitzvah. That's the divine will. It's the distortions in them that take them away from. So when we understand the holiness in every Jew, it's not like, okay, so it's all fine if everybody abandons the Tyra because we just accept everybody love, love, love, love, love. And there's never a higher standard and you just lower all the standard because everybody is holy. It's so much more nuanced. It's so much more subtle. It's understanding, yeah, everybody is holy, but sometimes their holiness is black. And when we help ourselves and we help others remove all those blockages of gullus, remove all those blockages of bum and of tus and of then automatically we tune into the truth that raenu experienced so deeply that we're all one and we're all connected and everybody is in the pure divine flow. Have a beautiful week and may we merit the rebuilding of our internal bas and the collective ba mikdash in these nine days. Take it from me. Next week there is a class. >> This class is brought to you by the yeshiva.net. Please help us continue the classes. Make even a small contribution at ww.theshiva.net/donate.