Toldos | Likkutei Sichos Vol. 1

So it's the kinesloim weekend. Isl who runs the technical stuff all the physical stuff at the soulwards house. My son Israel his uh day job he's the building manager at the Schlom office. So he's super super busy. He's normally here. Now I do have my other son Abba who's home right now from Suffield Connecticut. Shout out to Sfield. Um, so he's home right now and uh he's running it, but it's not his regular gig. So, normally Yro would have told me that I'm not centered to the camera. I got to move over. I'm moving myself over. Okay. Um, [sighs] yeah, let me get situated here. So today's sika para to dice is to my estimation to my counting by far the longest para in lutal. Last week was super long. This is even longer. Next week is super short. Oh, I want to tell you something. I think I'm 99.9% positive. Next week, in case you are planning a pilgrimage next Sunday, I think we're going to do it as a matzah shabas. Uh I have some conflicts on Sunday next week and it's a short little sik. So I think what we're going to do is 9:00 p.m. Mat Shabas right here. Same place. What? Oh, just texted me. Microphone closer. Thank you. Okay. So, we're going to do um next week is going to hear this for the first time right now. Next week we're going to do um Matz Shabas 9:00 p.m. cuz I have to leave town next week on Sunday. Okay. So, we're going to do Matz Shabas 9:00 p.m. If nobody comes, it's fine. Don't worry about it. Um today we So today we have the longest and alf plus the time is a little bit more urgent cuz I'm trying to get to New Jersey. You know the banquet that used to be a dinner now it's a brunch and uh so I have a special I'm using a special um bookmark. I'm using this as my bookmark. This is my kinis badge. Hashem. Um, and this is going to remind me. I'm going to use this as my bookmark to remind me not to waste any time and then I got to get out of here, hit the road, and get to uh, New Jersey as soon as possible. Okay. All right. So, oh, before we begin, we have some dedications. Um, first of all, one dedication which came in last week. So I just want to mention that first which is um a yard site kaya fagga bas yitzok yanke hvi and that was dedicated by her sister Batsion and her nama have an aliyah okay now we have a very special dedication when's the birthday >> have so yours is today yes >> mine was yesterday >> okay very special birthday dedications, a motheraughter birthday, not the same year. That would not not be physically possible, but yesterday was the birthday of Vega Esther Basifo was actually here in real life. And today is the birthday of Kayushkabas Fega Esther. You may a little pattern recognition, you may realize that's a mother and a daughter. And they should both be blessed with a year of incredible success materially and spiritually with brahas that are revealed in the most easy simple plain way to see without any requirement of any second look or figuring out how these everything's a blessing but these blessings should be so clear and obvious and easy to see and easy to use. Okay. [gasps] Okay. Um and what a way to spend a birthday. I mean, could there be a better way? Come to the aisle and prepare for the aisle by learning the rebra and then go into the aisle. I'm assuming you're going in after. >> Oh, you were there. Okay. So, this is okay. This is also a good way. You go into the aisle, then you come out and learn. Either way, the point is you're in the right place. You're doing the right things. It's a good way to spend any day, especially a birthday or the day after a birthday. And I recommend everybody, maybe this will become like the new trend in Kabad. Okay. Uh yeah. [laughter] >> The bagels. >> The bagels. Yes. And uh of course the bagels are sponsored in honor of the birthdays. We have bagels and locks and cream cheese. Somebody left a cheesecake outside. >> Oh, that was your cheesecake. >> Basham is beautiful. Okay. Thank you. Yeah. By the way, that I believe um Rabbi Krinsky said that the Rebbitson asked him when it was his birthday if he's going to have a cake. Like it was it's a real thing to have a cake for a birthday. So, thank you for the cheesecake. Can't have a birthday without a cake. Okay. So, now we're doing paras. There's several sikas here. We're starting with the first page 45. Um and it goes till page 48 and it's from meaning it's not from [snorts] here we go that's the beginning of the uh the para so it says these are the descendants of the son of Afra of gave birth to Yeetsk talk like vega Esther and sort of. Yeah. Was that the Okay. But it works out well. All right. So the ask why does it double it? Obviously if Yeetszk is the son of Aram then Aram gave birth to Yeitzk or fathered Yetsk as what made it possible that should be Ben Ara or what makes it possible that it should be to uh is that was fathered by a so it's sort of like a statement and then the explanation of the statement and to means literal offspring but also means like we learn that offspring like when it says offspring also means their good deeds. So being how is it possible there should be a it's because of what got from his father of okay base. There are many things that started first by he was the first. Among those things were having a breast at 8 days old. Having a bris at 8 days means having a bris the perfect way also another thing claim to fame 13-year-old bar mitzvah. So he was the first with an 8-day bre and a 13-year-old birthday bar mitzvah. We're going to speak about that. to 99 secure from as you know his British Miller was 99 spoke about that a couple weeks ago is also didn't have a bar mitzvah at 13 I think made a bar mitzvah at 13 for his son of there's different days when recognized Hashem and the explanation in other places is there was actually incremental there all these ages are true there's different stages in his awakening but at any rate all the ages that are enumerated uh none of them are 13 Okay. And both of these concepts, the 8day br and the 13-year-old mitzvah are both hinted to in the verse. Um, I mean, it depends how you translate the word vulin. He grew up or he we we'll see. But the point is that made a party on the day that whatever happened. Okay. And we're going to see. So some sages say that means hey that hey is five gimmel is three five and three is eight. So he he giml ma ate eighth day brisa. So it was a breast party. Maybe they had white fish. Sure. It was smoked. The other opinion is vigl means he he was weaned. He was weaned from the and he was like given over to the which what does that mean? is that's what happens at 13. at 13 um before 13 years old before bar mitzvah the reason a child a boy a girl does it a year earlier a little bit more mature but a boy until he's 13 isn't morally obligated in mitz even though we're mechanic and we try to start training him and teaching him but he's not obligated because it's not even possible for him to choose the right thing because he doesn't yet um have the what we call the kisa the full integration of the nephilocus and but that happens at 13 So it's sort of being switched over from the domain of the to the domain of the and that's what vigl means weaned from the but at any rate it means bar mitzvah. So there's two interpretations via guml and one is it was his breast party the other was his bar mitzvah party either way I hope he got checks of so what does it mean big party sounds like a Trump tweet it was a big big party was biggest party okay so what is what does it mean a big party so some say gul who's gul means the aish there himself and hashem himself was at the party of like it says you my son the day my that I gave birth to you as actually that is speaking about David's mitzvah day is saying to David on his mitzvah I gave birth to you not Not just like like you were until now. I'm the one who gave birth to you. Not like until now that you were in the domain of the now you're given over to Kadusha. So that's again the baritzvah day. So that's one concept. Mishtag means Hashem himself was present and like it says by David um Hashem tells him on his mitzvah day this is the day that I brought you to me myself I brought you away from the and brought you to me another interpretation means like city or something. Oh, it means that the gadeum of that generation. Who are the gdelum of that generation? Well, was a god in many ways. He was a god. He was a giant. So, he was a god, but he was also one of the prominent people of that generation. You know that all of the nations made a leader. He was a gay. He was like the the leader of they they made him a ni over them. So being the was like a king of all kings. I guess that hashem is called but uh but okay but is and then he invited them. So he was a king of kings. Hashem is a king king of kings. Ara was a king of kings and he invited the kings. Now at this party was invited. Listen to this. He was invited because he you some some people you have to invite because they're prestigious. You know what I'm talking about? Sometimes you have to invite. Do we want to? We really I don't know. Look, because of his position, you have to invite him. So they invited [snorts] and comes over at this party. Very inappropriate. And he says about at his brisk party. He's like, "Look at this little baby. What what's his value? What value does he have? I can take one finger and I could get rid of's only child. So, Hashem says to him, I don't know if he heard it or he didn't hear if he was conscious of it or not conscious, but at that moment when he made those threats, Hashem said to him, "I swear to you by your life, descendants, that little baby's descendants and your end, you're going to fall in their hands, meaning they're going to take you down. And indeed, that's how who killed me, who was a descendant of, right? Okay, very good. So, was talking tough and Hashem says, "Let's just see. Let's wait and see." Okay, Gimmel, I made a bra earlier. Now we spoke about this actually um I think the end of and this I think it was toward the end of par we spoke about wanted he wanted should be his um successor and we spoke about Ishmael was very brave and courageous and noble that he voluntarily uh consented to his bris at 13 years old but he was lacking something fundamental which is a bris isn't about your character. It's not about how noble and brave you are. A bris is about Hashem's infinity and when there's any human component mixed in it actually messes with it. it tampers it tampers with it like compromises the real quality. So we said this in the at the end that um getting his bris at 8 days old when he could not possibly have any opinion about it was actually a good thing because it means it's all Hashem. Okay. So what we call here got his breast not only when he was 99 but he was 99. He had this big brain. He was a actually a Ram is a isma is exalted. So he was exalted was a genius. is but the whole point of being an 8day old baby and getting connected to Hashem with the is that it's on Hashem's terms in other words infinite not limited by the human qualities is nitb description it is so edifying I'm going to read it slowly it has nothing to it's The connection has nothing to do with understanding rather like a child who feels for his father and mother and is drawn after them. In that one sentence the Reba basically describes to us what does it mean when we say oh it's a connection that's vadas it's above okay what does that mean so describe it for me so so it's not it's beyond but then what is it it's the pure feeling of attachment that a little kid has toward his parents when you see a little kid who's like unfortunately like go like a public place and maybe there's a little kid who gets lost and he's crying and he's like, "Mommy, Tati and um you know, well, why are you looking for these people?" I don't know cuz that's my mommy and Tati. I don't know, but maybe there's people here could take better care of you and [laughter] I'm not interested in that. I'm looking for these. Why these people? What's so good about them? He doesn't know anything special about these people. All he knows is this is mommy. This is Tati. And that's the special connection to Hashem that I mean we call amunup sometimes that it's not based on our understanding of Hashem our appreciation maybe we learn some we learned about sayless we or misbel that's all nice that's like a mature son who appreciates his father but that's not the foundation that comes later to the contrary the foundation is like the little kid who says I don't know why this is Tati I just know that this is Tati and when I'm crying this is who I'm crying for doesn't make sense to No, I'm a kid. But it's just what I feel. And there's something beautiful about that. And that actually has to be the foundation. That's the strongest foundation. You can build on top of that with with Seahul, but you have to first have that uh supra rational connection. All right. Okay. A little bit of lumbus here. There's a question called, you know, we called it like a learning question, a theoretical or conceptual discussion. Is the mitzvah of Mila? We know it's a mitzvah, but what's the nature of the mitzvah? Is it the a one-time mitzvah or is it an ongoing mitzvah? Is it a mitzvah the moment that it's done or is it a mitzvah all the time that it's a fact exists? at last. So we have a answer to this based on a story tells about King David. So he was in the bath house and he saw he was both literally and figuratively naked and he was sad about that. init but then when he remembered oh I'm having arisis at this moment then he calmed down as a mitzvah and from that we bring the proof that the mitzvah is ongoing so even though his breast took place at one very specific moment many years prior but it's an ongoing mitzvah now that's the discussion and So what does that mean in our personal service of Hashem? That mitzvah is an ongoing mitzvah as that we said the bris represents connecting to Hashem in a way that is above. So what does it mean if continues and goes on forever? It means that later on even when you do have you're not expected to stay at that level where you're just an innocent little child who knows nothing. You are supposed to develop a a brain and I mean you're going to develop a brain anyway. So either you're going to fill it with with non-godly stuff or you're going to fill it with godly stuff. So even later when you do develop some understanding even after he develops his own understanding. But the effect of the brisk remains the the the connection to Hashem which transcends the limits of intellect. Because if it would be that the whole connection with Hashem was based on intellect then that connection will be limited could be more or less deep but either way it's it's ultimately limited. Therefore, it is demanded that even later when he develops his underlying basis of his connection to Hashem is not based on and we've had this concept several times. Okay, we've had five sikas before this. 5 weeks before this. I can think right now at least three times we've had this concept. People who want to go pull it up, maybe even send me time codes. Um, but this is definitely a recurring motif in these that the basis of our relationship with Hashem is above and the concept of midnafish. A lot of people think of massus nephish as like a an unusual thing like you know we do have a concept of kadeshim of people who god forbid but uh they they are called to martyrdom and we think of that as maybe an unusual thing from the reb's perspective mid nephesh is like a regular part of aa in fact it's like the basis of aa and it doesn't mean literally doesn't have to mean literally dying for hashem I mean it means living for hashem and it means living for hashem in a way where it's not based on, oh well, I've looked at this ideology and it appeals to me and I think I want to make a commitment to it. No, it's a connection that transcends any human limitations and it continues to transcend human limitations for person's entire life and it brings out of him a commitment which is we might even call irrational. This is an ongoing theme here. And look what Okay. Uh where are we? Yeah. Bash. We're on page 47. How's Araba doing with flipping the pages? I haven't been paying attention. Is he doing a good job? Did he flip the page? No, not hey. I'm sorry. The looked like a hey. The hey looked like a That's a by the way. Okay. Hey, page 47. Okay, top of page 47. mitzvah. So when made this big fe feast on the day of higl whether that means the brisma or it means the the day of mitzvah is even though egg was laughing at him and he was bragging that he could destroy. But not only was not intimidated by that. To the contrary, the Reb says made a whole parade for Yitzk's bris or his bar mitzvah, whichever one it was says and that actually began the downfall of himself. Now, how did it begin the downfall of because Hashem said on that day, "Oh, you're going to fall into their hands." And when Hashem speaks, it's considered already. He said, "You're going to fall to one of his descendants, which mentioned was." Okay. So, the point is these these tough guys are talking. They're posting on uh Twitter and they're they're trying to be intimidating. But not only are we not intimidated, we're like, "Keep talking, big guy." Okay, so now we're back to our original question. Why does it say? So the fact that there's cap it was capable to be the possible to be offspring of meaning descendants of and also the deeds of what made that possible. It was through fathering. What does that mean? It means gave birth tok and and it means a gave the power of birth. What does that mean? So we have to understand what represents concept that he represents like tells us is it was one he was the only one he was the only Jew in the whole world is he was the whole world was on one side he was on the other died. Nevertheless, even though he was a minority of one, the whole world was against him. But everywhere he went, he would call out's name. He would call out there in the name of And like the is he didn't say with the he said. What's the difference? If you would say, God of the world, that means that the world and God are two separate things. It's just that God dominates the world. He's the the ruler of the world. But that's not what said called out. He said, "The world is God." Meaning the only reality of the world, the only existence the world had has is that it is an expression of Hashem's ultimate reality. And this was the concept that bequeafd and that's what made it possible that should have in turn his own offspring which what does it mean offspring? We said also literal offspring, children that he should have descendants who live forever, meaning that the Jewish people are still around. And what's with the has descendants and he he fell into the hands of descendant. He's gone. Okay. Z is the practical teaching for every one of us. Let's get the practical. Let's make it applicable. Okay. The Jew starts thinking ponderers where he is doesn't mean like his geographical location. He starts thinking about his place in the world. Like it says invaza the physical world is a tough place a tough neighborhood. All the deeds of this world are difficult and evil and wicked people prevail. What does it mean that there's a world full of concealment? And he thinks about his life, how he spends most of his day, you know, he's got to work for a living. So he spends most of his day involved in mundane stuff which in a certain way opposes holiness. He's describing this Jew who's spending most of his day. He's not domining and learning all day like he wishes he could. He's spending most of his day dealing with mundane stuff and it's intimidating. It's as intimidating as the giant Ugg staring down a little child talking smack. And it's it I mean it's in theory at least it's very intimidating but I was going to say we're not intimidated by it but it could be intimidating. So the Jew is considering his place in the world. First of all the physical world is a tough place. Then he thinks about his own life where he spends most of his day dealing with mundane stuff. Then he starts thinking thinking about even more specifically he thinks about the external concealment not just his personal microcosm issues where he has to spend most days most of the day working but he thinks about the macrocosm looks at the world. the Jews are this tiny minority and not necessarily does everyone love us. And he starts to think, wow, that's not really a good situation. But here's the deal. When he is involved in spiritual stuff, not only does he make a big party over its that the whole world should see, all the the nations of the world should see that the name of Hashem is called upon you. And then some big talkers come by and say they could rub him out literally so he could think. Here I am a minority. I'm in the physical world where it's a harsh world. Most my days spent doing mundane stuff. I'm a minority of a minority of a minority. These guys are hostile. And he could start to think to himself, you know, maybe it's a good idea to keep a low profile and he starts getting intimidated. So he starts to think of where's he going to get the power for and good deeds and he has to it's not an option he has to do and it's not just he can be involved in terus yim kipper at nila you know the the what we call the once a Jew syndrome. No, he has to do it all year long. How can he overcome all this consilence? So we tell him a direct a directive like this. We say listen. We had this concept earlier. We were speaking about in the end I think of the about how um about when a waited for the until Hashem commanded him because there needed to be one commandment at least that was done in a postm way pre- mountain to because everything we do is a repetition of patterns that the uh put into place and that's based on the who says that but the Reb adds a word it's not just the Reb calls it so it's a sign an indication but It's also it's an empowerment. The fact that they create the template actually gives us the ability to fill that in to do it. A gave birth token has to know even though he's this little baby he comes from the father of all Jews. And who was? He was the guy who didn't care about the whole world. He didn't care. He was a he was the only one. He He didn't care. He was the only one. He went out and he screamed out. The world is godliness. There's nothing but God. is and through that he was able to create aim according to both explanations that through Aram's pride and his uh openness and what he believed and his complete lack of being intimidated by the world no matter what the circumstances were. That's how Ara was able to father someone like who could then in turn go on and have meaning his descendants us as well as the good deeds that he accomplished. Okay. And this is not just about this is about you every Jew in every time in every place. You do not have to be afraid. You have nothing to fear from those who claim that it is their power that accomplishes. Why not? Because you are connected with Hashem who is above any rational calculations. And not only you're connected with Hashem in that way, but you can bring it down into your day-to-day life. And you turn the physical into vessels for godliness, which is what we mean when we say had spiritual offspring. And then also literal offspring, descendants, children, grandchildren. The descendants will defeat all who oppose Hashem and his like the war they fought against. And that is the preparation to conquering the land of Israel, the holy land. How may it be very soon in our days? Amen. Okay, that's the first. [sighs] We're going to take a 10-second break [snorts] to meditate on the hero. Do not be intimidated by anyone or anything. Our connection to Hashem transcends any rational calculation. Take 10 seconds and meditate on that, please. >> What? >> Yeah, we're on 48. Okay. We're on the next and this next is actually so this is from par from the okay it says that in the future we're going to say to specifically because you are our father meaning after mashia comes we're going to see I guess we're going to seek I'm going to say to him you know how this all happened came because of you because you are our father now we have three why specifically do we single out what's unique about is singled out because represents the concept of and BL fear of Hashem, a of Hashem, self-nullification before Hashem. And that is actually the signature of what the world is going to be like when Mashiah comes. is given. Now the Reb says we could say and I believe this is the there are many aspects of which are of about all of the it says that they were given a foretaste of and we actually had it in the last week about the why does it why If if a is the nishama and sod is the goof why does hashem tell a nishama to listen to s the goof because when msiah comes the goof is actually going to show its superiority over the nishama and even though that's only going to happen when mashia comes but the obvious are already tasting msiah so the reba says yeah and it was the same mammokim who was the gob of ambassador over there at any rate the all had a foretaste of msiach They were given a taste which means they were given the pleasure of the world to come. His whole life was like it wasn't just the pleasure part of it. And how how did this happen? At the time of the soul flew out and he was that his nishama was replaced with a soul from the next world. But in truth, even even that is still not the real greatness of the says this concept of his soul flying out. You [clears throat] actually it's not unique to you find it by others as well as by Benamus. Some say that by the benesamus, the story about Alicia um reviving the child that some say that he was uh his he had this. There's others it says about uniqueness was not that his soul flew out. Others did that too. It's that his soul flew out and then whatever happened afterwards, he brought it back into the world. That was unique. So to have the out of out of body transcendent experience and then to bring that back into the limitations of time and space that was unique that was the signature of of of Okay, interesting. Now, this week's parad says, "And the and the lads grew up, the boys, it's talking about uh Yankee and Asov. Those are the in the name of the para and they grew up. So, it says When they turned 13, it became till they were 13, they were like unindistinguishable in their deeds. Obviously, physically they looked very different. But um when they were 13, that's when it became recognizable. This one was going to the B madish learning ta. This one was going to the temples of idolatry. says there's a question famous question classic question was supposed to live 180 years as he only lived 175 years less so that uh he shouldn't see as go off [snorts] into a bad And hold on a second. If we do the math, it seems like was still alive when Asov went off to a bad way because if it happened when Asov was 13. Let's do the math is of hund when Yetsk was born. In fact, the kufit say mentions it is 100 years of of uh and then in turn was 60 years old when the boys were born. As If you do the math, it should be that when was a bar mitzvah and went off his into his bad way of was and if he lived till 175. So there was two years that he saw the went off to a bad way. Okay. Now there are some answers. So there's a something called which um who was this? Well, it wasn't a person. It was a group of people. It was basically balas and it's a composite. That's why so say so they say you know what it was when was alive for those two years yeah As started sitting at 13 but he hid it for another two years while Aram was alive the says that that answer is Not enough. But if he could sin privately, secretly for for two years, he could have sinned the whole five years privately, secretly. There's no reason to take away five years from if that's the answer. Okay. So then here's a different answer and this is from it's also from the is also one of the bal um I think it's [clears throat] one of the balas. So he says so the time period that it took after the until Rifka was 3 years in one day. Remember we learned last week about that that that it was on the birthday of Rifka when Eleazar was sent on. For some reason, Aram didn't have her on his radar until she was three. And then he immediately sent Elazzar. And not to waste any time, Hashem made a miracle of duk. We learned about this last week. And go watch the sh from last week. It's the first was it the first the first week was about the the second I think. Okay. At any rate, you can go look it up. The point is there was a time period between the aada and Rifka turning three. So what happened during that time period it was two years in fact is that in Ghana was in Ghana. Now in Ghana it doesn't go by the same time you know it's like Einstein theorized if someone's traveling at the speed of light time stands still. So there's the famous like thought experiment if someone is traveling in a spacecraft going the speed of light and then he comes back to earth you know he will not have aged but everyone else will have aged right so sort of similar It was more than 62 years of time passage. But in his age, he it was 62 years of time passage on earth. But it was 60 years of aging for him because 2 years his aging was arrested while he was in Ganaden which is a plane which exists a transcendent of the the normal passage of time. [clears throat] So at that time was 172 years when is so those two years of didn't count for him is so he was 60 he was 60 of Now there are cases where someone leaves time and he comes back and it's recognizable. The story that wrote to his brother-in-law He wrote to him an event, but that event hadn't happened yet. So, how did write about it if it hadn't happened at the time of the writing? was in and in you can see units of 10 or possibly 15 years at a time. So it's like it they say time is what keeps everything from happening at once. So in Alam Haz there's a certain passage of time is part of is is alumi is one higher but apparently over there yeah also there's time and it keeps everything from happening at once but it does it much uh I guess you would call the the divisions are a little bit looser or broader. So what we would consider one instant over there um they would consider an instant what we would consider 10 or 15 years but that didn't take him out of the time of this world. So he saw what was up there but it wasn't like it you wouldn't say it changed his age. by the while he was having this consciousness of the passage of time in which allowed him to see something that in Yeets was present but in this world was 10 or 15 years in the future. His body was still here in the physical world. So his body was still aging according to the timeline in this world. Yitzuk however his body actually went to that other plane and therefore the passage of time did not affect him that's why he he missed those two years of aging even though time was marching forward in this world but it didn't the passage of time did not affect him interesting stuff is by now the pertinent point is that didn't just have this Gaden experience. But even after it there there was an after effect. He smelled the smell of uh well he thought it was but it was [snorts] it was Yankee and he said my son smells like the smell of gan. What? How do you know what gaden smells like? How do you know what it smells like? in Gaden, but he remembered from the time he was in Gaden. So the point is that he not only had a Gaden experience, but he brought it with him. It was integrated back into his regular life. It wasn't uh it wasn't something separate from the rest of his life. He actually recalled it and brought it back. And we're going to explain that that's very unusual for someone to go in between this world and the next world and to bring back the experiences and the memories of it. That normally doesn't happen because they usually wipe the hard drive. We're going to speak about that. Normally when the soul everyone's soul starts in Ghana before you're born, before your embodiment, you were in heaven. And what happens and you're learning all the and it's beautiful and then you're embodied and a malik comes and slaps you on the on the mouth and makes you forget all the and the reason it's done is to erase the memories of the previous world because without erasing it it's going to confuse you. You just need to have a fresh slate so you can just focus on one plane of reality at a time. Now in reverse this is similar to what in reverse similarly when the nishama has to go back up after embodiment. So after the person passes away. So he has to forget the world has to forget the the illusions of the physical world in order to go and enjoy ganed. So that's normal. Like if you come to this world from Ghana or you leave this world and go to Ganeden, you have to wipe clean any recollection so that one frame of reference doesn't disturb you or distract you from the other frame of reference. And Sam talks about it's like why had to completely forget the dal of bavi in order to learn yamama with a fresh slate. similar to like the shamas have to go through to wipe clean the the previous frame of reference or just it's it's very distracting. Okay. Was that he took with him the frame of reference even into this physical world which that is unusual. Okay. say only three people have the title of them is by Eden Yadin. Fun. We not every Jew has all of the qualities of all of the tribes, but we all have all of the qualities of the patriarchs. That's [snorts] why they and they alone are called the patriarchs. That's why every single Jew says, "God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, Because every one of the gives us the power to serve Hashem in a manner that he served Hashem. by. So therefore this quality of that he was able to take the experience and bring it home literally every one of us can do that because he is our father. Remember we started the by saying when mashia comes we're going to say because you specifically of all the you are our father. Okay. of Shabas as me is now a similar thing we find by Shabas which is the source of blessing for all the days of the week is above time like it's explained in the mimer and this is to the aa of the entire week Shabas. So every day you have to remember Shabas. How do you do? So and every calling every day the counting it from Shabas is how you do the Shabas. Not just on Shabas when but every single day of the week. Shame as of or like Shamin that every time he found something nice in the marketplace, he would buy it and he would say, "Ah, this is for Shabas." Shabas is above time, but we bring it into time. The six days of the week when we're ruled by time and we have schedules and we're running and we're looking, we're say, "What time does the Kneth start?" And I got to grab my badge. I got to run there and I got to this and they don't even let you park cuz I couldn't buy a parking pass and what am I I'm going to have to park at some shop right in New Jersey and then take a Uber and the Ubers they don't even let you take it straight to the convention center anymore that's I wouldn't I if it be Shabas I wouldn't be thinking like that cuz Shabas Milum and I would just be like got all the time even though yesterday was the shortest Shabas and I had it was Shabas I was trying to finish the whole it was 400 p.m. I'm like, "Oh my gosh, it's not 20 program left." But it's my limit. Okay. Well, we got cheesecake. Yeah. [laughter] Okay. Everything's fine. It's no problem. Okay. Y Olive. Yeah. Is that we are Okay. Y [sighs] the innovator is Okay. Now we're going to plug this into what is all this in practical application. when you tell a Jew, you should forgo all the pleasures of this world and your only pleasure should be in godliness. So he's going to argue back He says to you, "Come on, you put me into a physical world with a body and an animal soul where the physical pleasures are what speak to me and the spiritual pleasures that's only going going to start to be relevant to me after I leave this world. And you want me while I'm in this world to prioritize things not of this world. I can't do that. When I'm in the next world, I'll prioritize the next world. When I'm in this world, it's just impossible. I'm going to always gravitate toward physical things as long as I'm in the physical world. So, we say to them, listen, you're a descendant of Yitzk. Yitskok was able to have the Ganed experience and not just have the Ghanaian experience because that's not unique to Yitzk but is able to take the Gaden experience back to the physical plane and that's what we expect from you buddy. Okay. of them. You were given the powers of which means to really immerse yourself into the Ghana thing to the point where you could even now identify the scent of Ghana. You could identify spiritual pleasures as that you could actually be sensitive to the fact that all the pleasures of this world are the uh waste product of the pleasures of Ghana. explains that the the sedulus is like a digestive system and that the pleasures on higher plains are processed in the higher plains and then the waste product like what a body gives off after it absorbs the nutrition. So that falls below to the next world. But the waste product of the higher world becomes the the food of the lower world so to speak. Um but when you realize it you're like oh gross you're talking. So down here we think of this as as a delicacy or as pleasure but really this is the waste product of the real pleasure meaning the spiritual pleasure on a higher plane of existence. So he says why would I set aside the main pleasure meaning spiritual pleasure in order to indulge in the waste product the the the after stuff bottle. So when the main thing becomes bottle, so much more so the toffle, the secondary thing becomes bottle and how much more so the waste product is bottle. to focus on the main thing spiritual and how do you connect to the spiritual this again the is saying this theme again self-nullification surrender which in simple terms means accepting the yoke of of divine authority by the way in Ghana. How do you think it works also? The ascent that you have in Ghana is also through BTO like it says that I mean it's a Esther talking but the whole Esther is also the Malik is not just a it's metaphorically Hashem and so with this the maiden shall approach the king the Indian of Bal. So it's it's all about surrender. So you don't have to be a hedenist. You don't have to say oh I'm trapped in a physical body. There's nothing I can do but prioritize physical pleasure. No, you can be a true descendant of you can choose real pleasure, spiritual pleasure, which is also the concept of which is which we said is meaning to say to be in awe of Hashem. [sighs] Yeah. And to be in that [snorts] state of selfacement, surrender. Okay, your baseman is now we can also understand the custom why is um the says a line. They tell him what to say. Sometimes he just repeats word for word after the the the rabbi. But what does the khalif say? Does she say sure thing? You betcha. No, she says nothing. What's the call's line? She doesn't have a line. She just stands there. So, it's interesting. I never thought about it. Just been to so many I took it for granted. Why does the say a line and the kala doesn't have a line? It's counterintuitive. You know about the boy came home, little Jewish boy came home and told his mother, I got a role in the school play. She says, "What's your role?" He says, "I'm playing a Jewish father." She says, "Oh, no. Go back and tell the teacher you want a speaking part." By the way, that joke has two levels [snorts] and people don't even realize it has two levels. One is the obvious level. The Jewish father doesn't get to speak up. But in the joke, the mother is like bossing around the boy telling him what to do. Go tell him teacher you want to speak in part. So it's funny. Why is the ka silent under the mak? Now we know the legal principle that silence is consent. Okay. If you don't object then you must agree. That's what we say legally. But in flu is but wouldn't at least be better if she should. Yeah. I understand if she doesn't say anything it means that she agreed to the kaducian. But wouldn't it be better if she would say something like yes me too I agree whatever is and and it's it is the meaning that she doesn't say anything doesn't say anything and he like the says so many times the silent so what's the deal with that what's up with that is here's the answer. How can you really have a real close bond? What what we call the essence to the essence bond so that the are bonded so closely that they're able to draw down infinity through having children. It's only through complete And through is how you have the real oneness. [sighs] Page 52. Flip the page. Flip the page. 52. Aba anticipated me already. Or did it? and then can come to the level of asb which we kind of spoke about a little bit last week when we were speaking about sod representing the goof and the milof and lo that as ky the the the virtuous wife becomes an atra she becomes the crown of her husband the mus reveals that it's higher than uh thanma is musher mus and the idea of the the greatness of of femininity which is really the yidden and the whole mush of shim that the husband and wife is hashem and the Jewish people. So the point is that through our BL which is represented by the kala's silence we come to an even higher level and uh that represents the the b of you know ava is a of histo and doing and giving is self-containment personal like making yourself quiet and small why out of reverence making space for the other so the ultimate intimacy is through making space for the other, which Yitzk is the model of that. Okay. So much to say. Uh but we got to keep moving. All right. We're going to have a 10-second meditation on the BL the awe of Hashem that allows us to reach the deepest levels of oneness with Hashem. And also we're going to meditate on [gasps] having a Ghana experience that we bring back into our lives in an integrated way that gives us the power to choose spiritual pleasure over physical indulgence. [sighs] Galdic. Okay. page [snorts] 52 is giml and this is from okay it's our third we're still moving moving right along um yeah as far. Okay. This whole concept we were saying about is related to his wedding and we said that before the wedding he was in Ghana to protect him and that's what it means that when Rifka first saw him he came out to the field came out from where? came out from Ghana and then he saw Rifka and she lifted up her eyes. She saw him. Similarly, everyone before their wedding. The Reb says like his father-in-law the said that a few days he didn't say how many exactly how many days but a few days before the has to never be alone because of it says shouldn't be alone but there it's talking about honor for reasons of honor like a King doesn't walk without attendance and the the honor thing is only the thing that's only after the but I heard from the but before the also because of so there's two different things after the there should be an escort because of covet the king doesn't walk by himself but before the kassa also there should be some type of uh you they call it sham you sometime [laughter] I can tell you a few times I remember walking down Kingston Avenue and a guy standing on the corner can you be my shamer I'm aen I'm getting married tomorrow I need to go to pick up my kapot will you walk with me had that happen a few times I think that's a very kabad experience by the I don't think that happens anywhere else. Okay. Uh Now the connection of Gaden to you find the declared. What's the connection of Ganad? Grenaden is a place that does not tolerate any ravan isra and that's why was was was banished from Ganaden after the sin because Ghana cannot tolerate any You have lower worlds which are divided in general into three categories of you want to know the breakdown. The lowest world is mostly rah negativity. But if you learn doesn't mean negativity the way you're thinking of it. Like if you learn parv of just means anything that's a mitas for itself. Anything that exerts its own ego and is not entirely bottled to Hashem. Okay. Okay. At any rate is mostly and that's why the ra could actually predominate over the good like we said earlier the quote from that is of halb is 50/50 and is andria is mostly Interesting. This is also a difference between the Babylonian Talmud and the Jerusalem Talmud initia in the diaspora outside of the holy land everything comes through the full stus it comes through and that's why most of the learning the Jews do is Babylonian because Babylonian style is with lots of questions and answers and reputations and proofs back and forth. fourth dialectic. It could take pages to get to a conclusion. But through the toil of trying to answer all of these questions, that's how we create a certain refinement. We break through by pushing through those those questions, those those difficulties. Like it says about the Arizal. The Arizal used to learn Gamora used to learn nigla to the point where he would like be exhausted and sweaty. And the point was that he was exerting himself to break through the negative spiritual forces which are broken when one toils to understand the truth [sighs] and edit. So that's the of is a lot of toil a lot of work sweat is the okay initel it the the energy comes to this world doesn't go through all of the stages it it it comes from instead of a little bit higher is But and that's why is more it's more he says um there are questions and answers but it's it's much quicker to get to the resolution. It's not like the Bavi which will take you on a really convoluted trip and and and you know it's like with Bavi you have to work hard to to to help cup to to follow the thread so to speak but >> what >> the in yeshivas they only learn bali is like a more sophisticated thing which is funny because it's e it's technically easier. At least the is easier because it's less convoluted, but it's considered more advanced. Also has questions, but you get the resolution much quicker. meaning the the questions can't overpower the truth. which that's more similar to there is but not like in like it explains in the power of going through all of these these questions and resolving them. Okay, JFYI, this is why during the weekdays, non-Shabas days, most time, you know, it's funny. I've had more than once, more than twice, probably more than 10 times discussions with religious Jews who honestly thought they were not trying to make fun. They were not trying to they were not even trying to criticize, but they said in Labavature yeshivas, you learn Tanya all day, right? You learn, you learn all day. I'm like, "No, actually like most of the day we're learning kamada like in any normal yeshiva." Really? Hey, I thought you learned citus all day. No, the majority of the time is nigla. At any rate, during the weekdays, you spend most of the time in nigla. Why? And actually the gives the proportion two3 but is allus. Why? Because during the weekdays the light the creation light is coming through different garments. Dort which is could exist and you break that rah through learning nigla with the questions and the answers. So you have to is the tool to break through that shabas is different and shabas is coming straight from bria is more refined there's less ra there barely any is there so then you learn the tree of life is which stands higher than means you're refining. You're sorting. You're sifting. There's no sifting. There's no butter. Everything's good. Everything's the way it needs to be. You don't mess with it. Okay. It's okay. Now, let's break it down. the u interesting vote based on the words in the acronym that's on the six work days that's you have to switch the order scrabble tile a little bit it's an anagram that's shabas in now In Bria there still is a little bit of the is dominant but if you're talking about is but there's no at all in it will not tolerate even one speck of that's why had to be banished from there when he had now we can understand the relationship between is if you want to do a wedding, a marriage, which is an eternal edifice. Well, for that you're going to have to have something that is above any speck of of you have to be above any level of you know it says that after the sin you're going to now [clears throat] eat from after having eaten from the tree of knowledge you're going to eat from the tree of life and live forever meaning doesn't explain it here but it means that the ra would live forever god forbid so to set up a binat eternal edifice which is how we describe a wedding a marriage you have to be in a on on a plane that there's no whatsoever. How do you do that? That's why you have to have protection. You have to have somebody watching you. So in order to reach that level, you have to have a special protection. And that's why you have to have your buddy walking down Kingston with you. With this, we're gonna understand one more concept. The said that before his wedding, his father told him to get rabbitical ordination. and and it is discernible from the story that not only did the tell the to get before his wedding but apparently the father told him the same thing. There's a letter from the Marash tob from that time before his and he calls him my son the the rabbi meaning he was an ordained rabbi. From this story we gather that the aass a prospective groom getting rabbitical ordination has a connection to marriage and is actually a preparation for marriage is the concept of is to be able to make a ruling. which is called the true judgment. Every argument in is true. That's why we say these and these are the words of the living God. They're all true, but is more true [laughter] meaning every argument has legitimacy. That's connected to the name of which is concealment. which is clarification of God's will that's connected to which is revelation is if he's a clever smart guy he can make good arguments and that's called but it could be temporary why cuz somebody else can come with a better argument. Ambassador and then the he could he could nullify somebody can come and he could he could discredit the first idea is anain of but a ruling of that stays forever. In other words, you can have a really good theory, but the theory could always be supplanted by a new and better theory. That's what I'm talking about like argument. But when you're talking about where there's a din where there's a ruling, that's permanent. In other words, the Dian is ready. He's going to hear an argument, good argument, but it's not like the and he's going to stick with the cannot be argued. It is permanent. It is truth. Ultimate truth. Okay. And this is why it says in the Mishna, why do we mention the dissenting opinions? It's interesting that records all of the opinions that we don't follow. And it explains precisely why that was done. is even though the is not like that why do we record it and for the Mishna answers at least according to one explanation if you wouldn't write the dissenting opinion that was rejected someone would have come later and make that very argument and that's why we recorded the argument to say, "Yes, we've already heard this argument. This argument has already been put put forth and nevertheless, that is not the so don't think, oh, oh, if they would have said this argument, the would be different." No, we heard that argument. In fact, we're recording that argument. It's a great argument, but it's not the final ruling. Now we understand the relationship between marriage and that marriage like is eternal. A more lengthy explanation. A person's needs have three categories. Um, food, clothing, and shelter. Shelter is more permanent, not like you buy a disposable house. foright. Clothing is more per more temporary. Now it's good. Later it's not. A house is more of a permanent thing. In fact, that's why we said everything that exists in the world comes from. We've had this concept a couple times already so far. This concept that Hashem looked into the made the world. So if something exists in the world, there's a paradigm for it in that it comes from. bias also has bias. So a good argument um we'll call it a a theory that one postulates that's like a nice suit of clothing is good. It's nice for a while and it has use. It's useful. What's its use? That when you hear one of these arguments or put forth one of these arguments, you are fulfilling the mitzvah of learning to the contrary. It's it's beautiful. That's how we learn. That's how Jews learn through argument and putting forth putting forth theories. But remember, it's always possible that that argument will be countered and dismissed. So it's not permanent is an Indian but making a ruling [clears throat and cough] making a ruling that's a permanent thing that's a permanent thing my ride to the thing okay hold Okay, I'm just my possible ride to the Kinum is texting me. I'm just Okay. Um, but he says, "No problem. He's domining." Perfect. Perfect. Match made in heaven. I'm learning. He's domining. And then when he comes, we'll figure out which one of us is driving. Okay. [sighs] Um, so a good argument is like a nice suit of clothes. It's nice for now, but it doesn't mean you're going to wear it forever. You still have your kapota from your No, of course not. Um but if you buy a house you hope the h you know hope unless unless you like upgrade you can get a better house but you know house is generally you know okay so is like a house now we can understand building a Jewish house. Well, a house is supposed to be permanent and is permanent. So, the preparation for building a Jewish house is to get Now, just like getting married and learning how to pass have a general connection, they also have a very specific connection. an elder. There's a concept that it says see that being able to ask is like an idea of like being 40 years old. takes 40 years to understand your rabbi properly. Like the Jews in the wilderness with Moses took him 40 years. [laughter] Similarly, was 40 years old when he got married. Similarly, it says Rashi says before got married signed over all of his possessions to him. We spoke about that last week about how that necessitated the but you can go learn that watch that class is interesting transferring all of his property tok you could say is the concept of the student fully absorbing the master's perspective after 40 years. And it means it means that finally internalized all of teachings and also his stuff [laughter] and was was and then when once had fully absorbed everything from a then he was able to get married. So it's not just he got all of his stuff means he got all of his teachings, his perspectives and then he was ready to get married. Now we could explain why it's a minute to get before you get married just like the world was created through and again that brings that so in microcosm each person's individual world his family that he's building when he gets married that's also built through is another meaning explains why we do the why does get called to before the again because the in preparation to building the world was looking in the preparation to building your world your home your family is looking in there as gate intel den So if you want to build a house a family first build a house in what's a house in we said having good arguments and ideas and that's clothing didn't say what food is by the way maybe it's like a good vort it's food finger food cheesecake spoke about um But bias is to be able to pass. That's something that's going to be permanent. It's going to stay forever. And through building a house in through becoming a he also is able to um build a family. Okay. [sighs] Next. uh bottom of page 55 B and this is a short from what does that tell you that day first of all isite's mother Shabb's wife she's laid to rest here at Matiori she was actually the first laid to rest here and that's why the fida was here and that's why the reba is >> [gasps] >> And u more people should know about that. But if you'll think about the date that's like 3 days after bossilani it's like two days after bossani after the rabbi was mabus. So it's an early in very early bottom of page 55. Okay, there's a mimer that says why did Yankov have to be in a cunning way in a in a in a duplicitous way? We all know the story that Yankeev dressed up as and he fooled his father in order to get the blessings. Why did it have to that really had to happen like that? Why did it have to happen like that? Now again this is an early sika right after kabalis andas the rebba is laying down fundamental concepts for the for the game plan for the marching orders. Okay so this is a very very very basic concept. Okay. So why did it have to be through? Yeah. The myma isn't like like scamming. It was with it was the wisdom of his. It was more like cunning. But is of them. Okay. So we explain like this but there was an aspect of and the idea is like this that the started this whole problem. Everything in the world started from the noish and the noish was the most cunning of the beasts. So he started with his cunning and like it says it's a can when you deal with a crooked person you got to go crooked. So if you're dealing with a normal person you can be normal but you're dealing with a crooked person or a crooked snake you got to be crooked with him. So the Nish started this whole disaster of the world being anything less than a perfect Gaden and he started it with Mirma cuz he you know was he was a dreop he confused Kava and that's how he did okay so you're going to confuse me I'm going confuse you a little bit going to run rings around you a little bit gain >> [clears throat] >> Allah, what's the deal with Rifka consoling Yanke telling him don't worry if you get cursed for this cuz she put him up to it. Um, I will take it on myself. I will take the curse. How is that consolation? A son, especially a son like, you know, it would bother him if whatever happens to his mother is how is that going to calm him down? as and yet we see oh he it worked he he was oh okay you'll get cursed no problem then [snorts] even if you step on a crack you break your mother's back they're not going to step on a crack on the sidewalk this is my I'm going to write updush even won't step on a crack on a sidewalk because theash it'll break his mother's back step on a line break your mother's spine don't do that [snorts] Yankito is going to be comforted. His mother says, "Don't worry if you get cursed for this kakimi scheme. I will take the curse." What kind of weird thing is that? Okay. is remember this is a foundational from the beginning of the compared to many and he fixed sin. Now we know Kabala explains tricked them. In order to counter the original trickery which started this whole thing had to be a counter trickery and that's why took the way and here's the concept again this theme it's a recurring motif in especially in the early we're dealing with something Now that is higher than intellect. It could be higher than intellect. It could be lower than where do you see it was lower than intellect like the sin of the tree of knowledge. If you go higher than intellect, that's lower than intellect, that's doing doing a sin. The way to receive this is not through intellect. The only way to get this is through something that transcends intellect, transcends logic, something that's completely counter to any normal. I mean, every organism it wants to live. That's its basic mo is self-preservation. When you put aside self-preservation, that's totally illogical. Yes, that's the point. We're dealing with something from such a high level that you have to transcend logic. Again, this is the theme of Miss Nevish, Miss Nefish. And this is what RIFKA WAS SAYING. I'LL TAKE THE SIN. WELL, that's crazy. I mean, I'll take the the punishment. I'll take the punishment. That's crazy. What? But that was her point. She was trying to show her son that I'm in a mode right now where I will do crazy stuff. She's ready for it. Not only I'm ready for but I'm telling you we can only access this. This is something so lofty you cannot get to it through intellect. This is a recurring theme and look we can't access it through intellect. We can only access it through something that's completely crazy and I'm going to take the curse cuz that's a crazy thing to to invite a curse. And Yanka was like really? Wow. Okay. We're in a crazy mood. Let's be crazy. can't do this through an through intellectual calculations and this affected Yankee that he should also be in that mode of setting aside any logic and just doing whatever needs to be done without normal calculations. Now you want to in general it has to be approached with the same attitude. Okay. Now he says you could be you should be benched with the the the do from heaven. So they say this is mikra. This is uh the scripture. It's the fat of the land. Zumishna. This is the core teachings of the oral Torah. Dogen talmud. What is it? Dogen the grain that means talmud t which I think is like wine. That's teachings like and the only way to receive all of these which are essentially is through Merma just like Yankee received those braas through Merma. And what does it mean here? It doesn't mean to be like a sleazy guy. It means to do things that don't make [clears throat] sense. Then you come to a higher level than the Reb declared in like the the Reb is saying his Reb explained in the mimer of Bosani again this is right after Kobalas is a famous theme in Bosilani is that we have to transform the badto bad is sinning God forbid stupid sin why would you do that then you have to transform that to holy stupidity which is actually a beautiful thing. It's a great thing. It's called being a kadusha which is basically like we were talking about before is the only one in the world saying what he's saying and he's not intimidated and everyone thinks he's crazy. No problem. But I'm going to say the truth. The only way to get to this higher level is through something that transcends intellect. Again, recurring theme. from and then you come to a level that's higher even than not just but even you come to a level that transcends that that's really like a constant theme here from the Reb that you cannot be limited by what makes sense that's not the foundation whether it's the theme of bris eight days old before you can form an opinion or it's this idea of getting the brahas in a in a way where you're endangering yourself which is totally illogical but again the whole point is illogical illogical illogical ready to do crazy stuff and that's what it takes okay almost done amazing okay uh page 57 at the top and we are on the last which is from Let's meditate on the idea of being ready to do crazy stuff to get to. Not only because it might require, but but that that is what it requires. Five seconds in a row is crazy. We are definitely crazy. Ah, five seconds in a row on one coffee. Okay. [laughter] >> What? Yeah. Yeah. Make me. Yeah. With the K Cup. With the Phantom one with the K Cups. Yeah. Pull out the drawer underneath. Underneath the machine there's a little drawer. I I use the Kirkland, by the way. I like I actually like the Kirkland um K Cups. Much much better than the Starbucks. >> Yeah. Yeah. This is what I like. Okay. [sighs and gasps] >> Setting the bar so high. >> Yes. >> So early on. >> Yes. >> [laughter] >> That's why it takes decades to absorb it. H I was I last week we had a group of high school girls from Detroit here at the house. Talk about crazy. They flew in for like 5 hours. Yeah. Cuz their their plane got delayed. They they landed at like 11 p.m. They were here by midnight. I they went into the oil and then I sat with them at like 2 am until like 4 am and then they had to go straight back to LaGuardia to get the 5:30 a.m. flight and I was speaking to them. So that's crazy. I was speaking to them right here in this house. I was speaking to them about uh the 50th anniversary of the of the 12 silky and I was saying if you look in the original where the rebu was speaking about 12 sukim it's not what 12 sukim became and I was saying you know that was speaking on such a high level people just apparently couldn't wrap their heads around it so like they did what they could figure out but it wasn't and that generally would just like kind of like roll with it I guess it's better than nothing Look, definitely if I would be rabbi, one of my problems other than the fact of being unqualified for the position would be I would just be so annoyed. Like that's not what I asked for. I forget it. I give up on you guys. You see what the rabb like he worked with what he had. He built and it's a process. And like with the rabb didn't nearly get what his vision was and he laid out the vision really clearly at the beginning. It's not nearly yet what he described. Okay. So it took 50 years. It's taking 50 years. We're working on it. We're working on the invested in us. By the way, if you want my one-s sentence summary of it, you can watch my whole class. I did a class called uh 12 silkum for parents, which is on soul words on all platforms. But if you want the one sentence summary that I basically wanted shouldn't just be words that children memorize, but it should be concepts that children understand so well that they get excited and teach them to each other while they're playing. Okay, JFYI. All right, page 57. The final. One, two, three pages left and we [snorts] are out of here and I'm going to run to the Guinness. Okay, [gasps and sighs] I said that last night with my wife. Yeah. Right. After abdah, you save. Okay. >> Uh yes, let's go for shi. My wife actually told me that she bought some vit cards from kohos and then she like forgot to bring them home. So So we we said it from the from the benches from the back of the bencher, but the tab house has some new vit cards. Okay. From kahos, which god willing we will use at some point when my wife finds them. as okay. It says there's 10 in. And that those 10 correspond to the modus, the 10 utterances with which the world was created. Thank you so much. Oh, you put milk and sugar. Even just milk. Okay. Amazing. All right. You smelled the milk first. Did you? It was questionable. Was it questionable? >> It's good enough. Yeah, it's not bad. Okay. All right. I mean, it's my milk, so I mean, I I should trust it. You know, if I'm putting it out for guests, I But I'm [snorts] nervous about it. Hey there. You want to be called out live on YouTube? You want to become internet famous or you want to retain your anonymity? Anonymity. Okay. So, don't walk in front of the camera. Just sit down and you'll be fine. All right. You can hang out in the office, too, if you want. What? Possibly. You want to hang out in the in the office? You can watch the sh downstairs in the basement. Yeah, you can go in the basement. You won't be on camera. Just Just don't walk right in front of there. You'll be fine. Okay. [gasps] Um, so there are 10 in and the 10 correspond to the modus which the world is created from. is deep concept here. When two things in share a number, that's not their commonality. Their commonality is deeper. The number being the same is a reflection of that. This is a constant like I believe misunderstanding regarding gamatria that people think that the connection between two things of the same gamatri is the gamatria. That's not the point. There's a deeper relationship therefore that is reflected by the gamatria. But when you just go around making gimatrias like that itself is the relationship that's a complete misunderstanding of this concept. So the fact that there are 10 and there are 10 utterances which brought the world into being. It's not that the oh 10 and 10 no there's a deeper connection and therefore they're both 10. [gasps] Oh this is so deep. I love this. The way we as humans understand things is It's interesting. We reverse engineer things. When we understand things, we understand the effect and then we reverse engineer it to the cause. is so cool. The matching gamatria is the outermost expression. But for minds like ours, we start from there and then we work our way backward, meaning deeper and deeper to the core connection, which is more the thematic relationship. Okay. Okay. So in order to understand the connection between these concepts, we have to understand what what are these concepts each one because it's not just the number of them. Zetman is there to count the say they match. That doesn't take any deep reflection. But when the when the match match then we understand oh there must be a deeper connection. Okay. For example, [sighs and gasps] says the 248 positive commandments correspond to 248 limbs of the body and 365 prohibitions correspond to 365 blood vessels. But that doesn't mean, oh, what's the connection? The connection is the number. Same number. No, no, no. There's a conceptual commonality. The 248 mitzvah are actually limbs of the soul which bring forth energy into the 248 limbs of the body. Like it says on the verse, you should be complete or whole with Hashem. That when you do all the 248 positive commandments, that brings a that brings a completeness in the body that strengthens all the limbs. When you use each limb to do a mitzvah, it strengthens the body. Every you know there's a called which goes through the different mitzvah different which go through mitzvah goes through the different mitzvah as they correspond to the body parts at any body part corresponds to a mitzvah and vice versa and that's why consequently as a result of that they have the same number but the number is not the cause the number is the effect the final effect. [sighs] [snorts] Same thing with the gifts of the spoon that weighs 10 shekels. Now it says over there the 10 spoons or the 10 the there were 12 spoons one from each sh but the the spoons weighed 10 shackles which that corresponds to the 10 um commandments which corresponds to the 10 utterances. It's not that the again it's not that the number is the same. The number being the same reflects a deeper connection. for is like it says okay that the world was created for the sake of what is it why is there connection between 10 and 10 ten commandments 10 uh utterances that created the world and again this is a recurring theme about Alma. Although over here the doesn't use that expression but the says that the world was created [snorts] y mashishi the sixth day this a culminating day of creation also corresponds to the sixth day of sven the day of m the day of matrao and until the whole world was trembling and then after the yidden said nasma then the world settled [snorts] in other words the world only exists for without the there's no world The ten utterances that create the world are for the sake of the ten commandments of the whole point is to bring the light of ten commandments into the world which was created with 10 utterances. Bam. When aid is the catalyst for the light of ten commandments of coming into the world created through 10 utterances, the Jew himself also receives a lot of bounty physically and spiritually. If you follow my statutes, you're going to get rain. All these different which are all the How does he gain the blessings bringing the tit which is embodied in ten commandments into the world which is created through 10 utterances. So then the blessings are also in the number 10 10 blessings of that's why the 10 10 that's why it matches not because of the number but the number is because of the inner connection. So now we're going to understand a story in the Z. They asked Rabbazar meaning the son of Rashb why were Yankees fulfilled in As I mean why forget why were as of fulfilled Yankeas were not fulfilled listen there different kinds of brahas higher and lower Yavas are spiritual in nature higher as are material in nature. His kinds of stuff, physical. Now there's a and his righteousness will stand forever. The mitzvah that we do now refine the world and the effect is eternal. is in a castle. When we do mitzvah now, it's but that could just remain inos like it's held in a little box in a cast. It's like you have a little jewelry box full of pearls, but it's only going to come out. You're going to be able to take it out when uh Mashiah comes. But the point is it's eternal. The the effect of the mitzvah that we do now remains until it [clears throat] will become revealed later when Mashia comes. is now the we're bringing down is through and he explains why that's presently concealed like it's held away in a little box is sometimes okay because the we bring down is through Torah and the effect that the Torah refinement has on the world is not going to be fully revealed till Mashia comes could also be that the brahas that we're receiving somebody's hearing. Yeah. Come on in. You'll be internet famous. Is that a Amazon maybe? Is that Amazon? It's my the boxes. Maybe there's pearls in there. Okay. Um the effect that we have on the world, we will not fully see till Msiah comes. Also, one of the occupational hazards of this arrangement is that some of the you're not going to see revealed until Mashiach comes. But as desire continues, don't worry because when Mashiach comes, then Yanke's brahas will also be manifest down here in the physical plane. See, now as are manifested here in the physical plane and and Yanke many of his brahas just remains in his uh in his trust fund that he can't touch until Mashiach. But when Mashiah comes in, he's going to be able to withdraw. Uh that is. So when Msiah comes loving the whole ism will no longer conceal to the contrary like we learned last week about when when being the goof and being the greatness of will be revealed. So what's going to happen is when the greatness of physicality becomes revealed simultaneously concurrently really expression of the same inner concept is all of the hidden brahas of Asov will become manifest also on the physical plane and all of Asov his dominance that he's had in the physical world till now will disappear. It says in which is it also says in the mo of which is a cababalistic thing but it's also thing that you should taste from Shabas food. I'll call upon them. We are in the sixth millennium. If you're talking about each millennium being a day and Shabas being like the the seventh millennium, and if you count out the math, we're in Friday afternoon. It's time to already taste from the Shabas food and tasting is also it's not the whole thing but it's also something. So basically the brahas are all going to come revealed very soon once once shabas shabas once comes but we don't have to wait completely till then because you could already start tasting the now by the way the factis came revealed in this era really in the past few hundred years that's also connected to because it's also forest Msiah used to be only um you know the elite knew this kind of stuff and then it became a mitzvah to reveal it in an aphen. Especially, you know, mitzvah from the from 500 years ago, but then especially from the bal and even more so from the alterb and all of the it became a real concept to be mafit these teachings, you know, to disseminate it, spread it. Really the revelation of is something that belongs to the times of Msiah like it says he kisses me with the kisses of his mouth says the inner meanings of will only be revealed in the in the messianic future. Nevertheless, we've already begun the phase of revealing the secrets of we're tasting it. a little taste because we're in the time of Friday afternoon. It's time for the taste. And what does this matter to us? What's practical here? Since it's already Friday afternoon and if you do the math, it's actually not just after noon, it's after you could actually even take in Shabas. We should already have it. The the taste that uh gives life. We need to have the revelation of not just spiritually but also down here spiritually and physically. that the revelation of these blessings should be physical and spiritual in a good that is revealed and apparent. In other words, it's all going to come out. This is what we're going to meditate on and then we finish. father. It's all going to come out when Mashiah comes that the ten commandments meaning to bring meaning to the world which was created with the 10 utterances and that when we facilitate that by doing mitzvah in this world we bring down the 10 of however until now a lot of that is deposited in spiritual bank accounts but when comes we're going to cash it all in and it's Friday afternoon we could start cashing it in ready which means one tasting already but two in no particular order it's time to see revealed brahas not just the brahas of course hashem's benching us all the time everything hashem does is good but it's time to get into that mode where the brahas are obvious and readily apparent which is the braha we gave for the birthday girls that and which extends to all of us anyone has a birthday this year I want to bench you for Vanigla revealed obvious brahas that we don't have to search for. It should just be super super easy to see. Okay. Thank you everybody.