Torah Or Parshas Yisro D"H Maamar Moshe Yedaber 2 | Class 2 | Rabbi Yossi Paltiel

[Music] tonight happens to be a huff-based shot so i'll tell you some rabbit habits and stories the first is quite familiar quite famous it's been told many times obviously the person who has given us the story is that ebberson herself that the rabbi and ebbinson were still in paris when the nazis entered paris i guess in june of 1940. they didn't stick around for very long they very quickly departed for the south of france where there was a puppet government a vichy government which was a bit easier at least for a time for jews but they were actually in france when the nazis initially entered the city and of course the story was that the landlady who owned the home with that ebb and everything rented an apartment came to the deb in the davidson with good news and she told them that the nazis had come around looking for jews and they came to her as a landlady and asked her who lives in the building and she identified the rabbi and that rabbits as orthodox not as jews not as orthodox jews but as orthodox which could have very easily meant orthodox eastern christians and the rabbit went to the nazi offices and registered as a jo this is the first story and the second story this story i heard only once my person that i respect you heard it many years ago i wonder if the story is true but it's it's a very interesting story that that evan and eberson were walking and there was some kind of a parade i don't know if it happened in berlin when the nazis initially came to power or in paris and that evan and that's represented were walking and the rabbits wanted the duck out of the way and the rabbit said zombies is envious gate let them see how a jew walks and they kept walking and each one of the nazi soldiers walked around them if anybody has confirmation of this story please let us know this is a story that i heard and that i believe for an ordinary person to go in nazi occupied europe and register as a jew or to to march opposite the nazi parade it would have been suicide but i've insisted on doing it because he's there ever and i tell these stories in light of the conversation we started last week that continues tonight and that is that although it's really true that ain't novade means there's nothing other than god but there are a lot of levels of the manifesting of that in other words for some people it may be true a nade movade but you have to live within the limitations of nature for other people because ain't mulvade living within the limitations nation would constitute a compromise a sin like it says in the hasidism of that yo joseph sat in jail for 10 years then the saramashima and zara the butler and the baker spent a year with him the butler was released the baker was hung and before the butler departed jason sadiq asked him to intercede on his behalf and as the pasek says velazquez with yasif the butler didn't remember when he forgot him and rashi says that jesus spent two more years in jail for the terrible crime of not trusting god and of course the question is asked in the modern is it not true that when a person finds themselves in whatever situation it's incumbent upon them to make some kind of a clean kind of a vessel in nature to accommodate the improvement of that situation so what crime was there for yosef to ask the butler to help him which was a perfectly reasonable thing to do considering the fact that he was stuck in a boy in a pit and he didn't have um rights to an attorney it wasn't america and so forth and then my mother answered that for sadiq of that caliber making a clea enter constituted a sin in other words but for another person is a requirement you must approach your life within the limitations of nature in the case of it constituted as sin now the context of this conversation is avraham and moshe ramavin was a very big saddek martial albanian was also a big sadhik but as the my mayor started teaching us last week and last week we talked about the help of almighty tonight we'll talk of maisha was a different level of rahum's godliness was from matsilas consequently the avraham that manifested in this world was much less than the abraham of inuinath as it says you cannot compare the supernal abraham to the actual abraham so although avraham avinu's mitzvahs made yehudim on high and proved atlas and it trickled down to some degree here but if rama vino had a certain limitation in other words he couldn't bring the same godliness that was his that he was able to affect in atsilos in the physical world mushroom was an altogether different level of sadiq and consequently moshe albania was able to affect that asea should be equal to what silas literally and that's why we spent so much time last week telling all these stories about sadiq whose perception or perspective of the real world is such that not only do they see godliness within the framework of their reality they're not allowed to see anything other than um godliness the highest level of sadiq is supposed to approach his life and his world with such a direct sense of the direct involvement of god almighty that anything short of that constitutes at least let's get to the text i'll tell you some stories later okay but let's read first line 24. last week we talked about ibrahimovino explained that his influence was primary in hatsilus he did midfield hashem did mitfis reciprocally and so forth and it trickled down to some measure to some degree in the lower worlds aval may shall be knew allah as opposed to his great great great grandson he was in a position to bring godliness down to the lower worlds and i think this means to say the same godliness that he brought into atheilus he brought into asia because of course khasidis explains if something is true it's absolute and if it's absolute it's all over and all over equally and if it's not all over the same then it shows that it's not absolute fahinu and the reason for this difference is why was it that could not bring the same light of atsilas to asia and maisha could is kindness in the world of vatillas now what is kindness it's infinite kindness but it's infinite kindness only me and hasidis there's a discussion called atsila's what's the difference between accidents and iraqis guillerme stuff irene's off is also identical what's the difference and the difference the language is that silas is a la costa me and can be infinite and godliness only in nazis when nazila's light descends beneath atsilas it becomes confined which proves that even widely naziless it wasn't the highest level as opposed to it or rains off cassette because it's not limited to the aim of axillas as it is on high it descends below in kind and that's what the next word says there is a kindness associated with the world israel there's an infinite kindness that when it comes la mata becomes even more reduced and said because it's from kesar doesn't change and that's the difference between moshe and and therefore when avraham comes down into this world it's the circumstance of as opposed to as when he was drawn from the water and it's explaining this refers to shemitah the first uh sabbatical comes from we know that there's tohu and tikkun our world our universe our six or seven thousand years cycle of life is the second shemitah chicken and maisha menu comes from the first from in other words from kesar and since he comes from the level of or ainsof which is higher than that are equal parenthesis whether the first seven thousand years the first sabbatical which is associated with terror actually was meta or it's the world of tayo which existed only in theory that's called shemitah i'll discuss in the writings of that easel and my understanding is that the mascara of that easel is that all of the time frames besides for hours are metaphysical or spiritual the rabbi has footnotes on this in many places but i think also in the rabbi's letter on tris hamasim he talks about this that we know that noon allah from 50 000 jubilees and we are the second shmita of the first of those fifty thousand yards so it brings the midfest phil in from izal that all of the idlers except for ours in other words elo matteo did not exist for 7000 years and the idea of bueno um which is often cited by more modern orthodox jews who want to reconcile biblical creation with with with a scientific dating of the universe by saying that by almost even as a reference to earlier epochs or cycles of life and that ebb objects to that by saying that in that easel's opinions all time other than our six or seven thousand year cycle is metaphysical and not actual so i'm not sure but i think that this is uh this is the first thought which would later be refuted and he's brought down from quesadilla into our silos and from matildas into the lower worlds i don't know how dedicated you are to these classes on deyashiva.net but i recall last year giving the class on [Music] me some people adam which says how can i speak i come from a world of worldlessness wordlessness transcendentalist and god tells them i know but i'll give you words and this is a similar notion moisture comes from ainsoft and from kesset and consequently musharrabenu can relate to godliness in such a way that attila's nasir should be the same the two divine names which come before the thirteen attributes of mercy the quran is sustained by nature the eighth muscle is nature and that's the source of the thirteenth model is which is the source of godliness which is beyond these thousands histamines explains what he means we understand the principle of a chain reaction of levels and stages for example one person first understands something intuitively and intellectually nasa havana he can then understand it more thoroughly and from his thorough understanding comes umidis his passions umimi des marshava and from his passions he thinks practically about it and so forth and in the framework of the chain reaction of steps called gestalt laws within the parameters of the material and spiritual are removed like the distance between a physical act versus the speaking of words which is considered relatively speaking spiritual and in as much as this is concerned accielus is godly asea is physical and you cannot bring utilization without modification without sims illuminati but one has access to the god then it switches beyond the limitations of the chain reaction of worlds it's so incomparable it's so quantum separated from all of historians and therefore line 31 the spiritual and the physical are identical and may shall be no because he comes has the ability to bring together opposites and if i understand that correctly maisha is unique in other words the shamas that exists in this framework of creation all come from other munitions all come from matsilas now there are no shamans that come from higher but they are uh very high but they're not deep what moisture albania was unique about is that although his nishama comes from a very very high level he was nevertheless a very deep nishamah the himself the qualification or the strength that martial possesses that allows him to bring in suff which is beyond beyond beyond the limitations of the infinity of atheilus and therefore to which nasi are equal and he can therefore bring down gardeners till this world has to do with the attribute or the idea of now the word ma of course has many connotations frequently the word ma is associated with the divine name because as you know i'm sure if you were to write out the four letters utk wafkee you can spell the vove and the hay in so many different ways to create all kinds of numerical equivalencies what's called miloi and if you spell them with aleph so it becomes hey aleph and then vov alavov and then hey aleph so it adds up to 45. 26 is the initial letters you'd know of k and of course the valve dollar of the year makes it 36. the aleph of the hay and the alpha the second hay makes it 38 and then you have an elephant above which is seven of the vav which makes it uh 45 and it so happens that ma is the numerical equivalent of adam which means man as opposed to animal but in kabbalah when they talk about ma which deliver here translates brittle there are two priorities ma is godliness but the godliness of ma is unique first of all because it's very very deep it's atsumi it's godliness that exists in a modest and in a deep way but at the same time it's ma because of its depth that's actually contained within the limitations of other in other words there is godliness which is very very high like to give you an example one who can see metaphysics see spiritually it's a very high level but but seeing is going past being human because when you see something it's overwhelming it's enchanting but you're not able to internalize it what is unique about ma is as potent and as deep as it is it is internal and that's what's so special about marijuana that as great as the person he was he was a person in all of the positive senses of the word but at the heart of it lies this bittle as the mimer calls it that brings together the absolute atom of ainsoft and the idea of primus and therefore the pastor continues and he's the containers and he says commissioner kosov we know that there's a concept of various deists i'll explain it momentarily and there is havaya god almighty to whom all the deaths are one that there are beings days there are two perspectives from the bottom up there's also from the top down which are two different approaches but because of hawaii or ma these two become equal smoke the differences become inconsequential you know there's our opinion of reality and there's god's opinion of reality now of course when we say our opinion of reality we mean our opinion of reality as jews as believers so our opinion of reality as jews and as believers involves creator and purpose naturally and of course god's opinion of reality involves creator and purpose but from our perspective we exist and serve god and from god's perspective god exists and we are simply expressions of him so although from both point of view both points of view there's god then godliness and a purpose from our point of view we exist and he exists from god's point of view he exists and we're essentially an expression of him so these are two levels and havaya joins together the bay's deus in other words the ma the bittle the essence of godliness which is represented by meshulabeda's personality affects that the point of view that says there is a world that serves god and the point of view that says there's nothing other than god are fused and merged let me make a comment here you know to try it perhaps and illustrate what ma means the temptation was asked once the the way the story is told in the liquid at the bottom is that used to have schwas a tish a table full of the greatest rabbis of russia some of whom were incredible to me and they would come to the table for us as the level loved to say shavuot was always called and it didn't mean bread that meant meredith rabbis and there was a tish there was a special tish that was called the nigletish which was exclusive for the rabbanim on the first day of schwas where they would eat milkhikes and that's amazing would discuss so the story is that somebody once asked it's adequate what was maisha rabenu doing when the sea split what was i've been doing it and then semester responded and said which means he was hot ice in other words if you would have seen how much stood as the yams of split you would have seen absolutely nothing on the outside to the degree that you would have been left with the impression that he wasn't impressed by the great revelation when in reality the impression on him was so powerful that he was beyond reaction it's like if you see two tzadikim two true tadikim and one is very passionate and one is very quiet it isn't necessarily true that the more passionate sadiq the more demonstratively passionate sadiq is on the higher level because passion is a symbol or a symptom of an inner conflict the passion is two forces fighting with one another like water and fire and heat the other who's quiet and deep is because there's complete peace within him it doesn't demonstrate a lack of power or potency or depth it simply repre represents a peace and a lack of conflict that allows him to bring together artilles nasi it in equal measure has to do with this depth this very atmospheric equality which also was a very primitive quality which was unique to maisha rabbein therefore line 33 the ability to bring down godliness any equal way gambasia also went to action uber mitsubish mice isn't doing physical true miso is the part that was given to the korean depart that was given to the lady mushroom was able to bring the same godliness which exists in atsilos into these physical things that were vessels for godliness by being used in the performance of a mitzvah and he brings a philosophical or a mystical allusion to this kennedy do we know indian affirmative in kabul there's a concept of the malachim called ifana means wheels circular angels now of course we have a wheel that has a top and a bottom within a wheel the inner wheel at its lower end is not as low as the outer wheel at its lower end but alternatively the inner wheel at its higher end is not as high as the outer wheel at its higher red in other words the more encompassing the wheel is the lower it can descend and the higher it can be the less encompassing the wheel is the less it will lower the sand and the heart it will ascend so the higher the wheel the lower it will descend and the higher will ascend the um for this is those angels called a father that exists in asia that those who descend lower have a higher source aval but to be sure this is true also and ability to make katsilasana equal is because of this model of ifanim because it's such a high point at the top it descends to a much lower point at the bottom it says that betel zed because of this unique bittle that was special to may shall be no no later there shouldn't be any kilo in other words there should be nothing in god's world that is ordinary that is unholy maf that even this so-called lowly physical world is not it is not ordinary in relationship with god but to use a classic yeshiva term it's a dish even this world's ordinariness is sanctified to be sure from the point of view of god everything is godly prior to creation after the days of creation it's all equal as well as during the days of creation when you have access to the absolute truth creation is not real there's no aspect of god's world which is outside of the truth of god and outside the absolute truth of god if you're an absolutely connected person as mashalabainu was maisha is distinct but i shall be knows the idea of ma and again as opposed to that continues and he says in line thirty seven ever and this measure of bitter explains on such a level that the master of the fear of his master was upon him to such a degree that ains that he wasn't considered human that is talking about and basically what the yamata is saying is that for most people there are divisions there are higher levels of being a person there's lower level of being person and then there's the lowest levels of being people and clearly for most people um when we do our very very parochial ordinary things we're involved in lower things that were involved in more lofty things and as a result there were rules that govern the divisions the separations or the the safety measures that are installed by the ghazal to keep us as we're supposed to be since all of us have to for example use the bathroom and there's something very something nothing very sanctified about using the bathroom there are rules about how that should be done so that it shouldn't be in conflict it shouldn't be in opposition to our more lofty selves but the kimono says he wasn't human and his lack of human has expressed itself not in his holiness but in the fact that in his world there was no difference between the most lofty and sublime and holy and the most parochial and even lowly of aspects of his being because for some reason yehuda was tuned into this dimension which our mind is calling which is so above that to it are equal for the apartment which is of course the level that we call in the morning i'm not saying a person whose whole identity is tired now think about us nobody can eat a blot people whose say means exactly that that's all they did was study well how do you make panosa from learning tata and the answer is if you are absorbed just comes because in the world of these people asean accidents are equal and therefore there's no conflict there's no inconsistency there's no disparity between there are this lives and there are see allies you know the kamada tells us an interesting exchange that's brought of course between and a certain heretic who made the claim that the human being is divided in two the upper person is godly and the lower person is the when somebody says something foolish about yiddish you have to answer and when somebody says something foolish but whatever taylor we shouldn't bother so ahmed meets this min and he says something utterly foolish that a human being is divided in two the upper half is the realm of god the lower half of the realm of the devil and they're separate so he answers him but he answers him be ivalta he answers this heretic as the heretic should be answered and he tells him if a person is split and the upper portion of the person is divine and the lower portion of the person is beast how does the beast allow the man the human being to allow water to pass through his domain in other words the way god designed human beings we excrete we give out waste from the lower portions of ourselves and why would the lower why would the beast allow the human being to dispose of its waste through itself this was a if you will almost cynical way of speaking the language of this heretic responding in kind and his point was of course we're not split we're not two there's an upper and lower person but rather all of us are integrated in the service of a kurdish battle but still even if we believe in actus and we say that there is a higher the human being is entirely integrated and the lower portion of the body that's involved in the more menial aspects of existence and the loftier the higher portion of the body that's involved the more lofty things are integrated they're still rules there's still mercedes there's still criteria in the case of there were no rules it was one constant he was so tuned in to godliness that even the most ordinary things were for him a part of that in tunis i'll tell you a story of which i'm going to get into trouble there was a helicopter isaac caliver who who was one of the great sadiq who brought hasidis to hungary way back in the times of the altar so i heard from somebody who who knows the color had terribly terribly sensitive skin and any clothing any clothing any kind of clothing was abrasive would literally scratch him cut him and he suffered a lot so when he was alone he would sometimes take off his clothes and this guy walked in and he found his rebbe in a state of undress that for most people would be embarrassing and he wanted to leave he didn't know how to react it seemed very unnatural to him and the caliph tell them come here come here don't run away from me. how do i look to you so what he's supposed to tell us he says he says you look to me like adam before the original sin and israel said true true you know in the yamada we read about uh they were so poor that between them they shared one outfit between the two of them they shared one outfit so when she had to go to the market he had to stay home he had no clothes and when he had to go to the yeshiva she had to stay home because she had no clothes and of course the question becomes how could a couple live like that there's no sneers and so forth and it's brought in swatter that they lived in a state of adam and before the this is what's being described here a person for whom not only is it integration between higher and lower there's simply no high and no low it's all the same this was the madreg of maisha bain ma and therefore mushroom has the ability to bring together if you will at silos and i see it to the degree that they're the same and i'm reading on breaking it down more ideally with that the torah that's or that measure does be bitters there with this special tool called ma mam sheikh nevis brings down the so-called essence of godliness to be manifest internally by the mitzvahs and through the performance of mitzvahs making ibrahim under special power in an indirect way which are bringing godliness down to asia in the level of ma which means how godliness permeates and penetrates and ban how gaddidis embraces and alternatively this is the idea of the name hashem and the name ali kim also become representative of ma and is ma the divine name of goes on man is like a fire commercial for example a nation of a is and you put a vessel into the fire you will see the vessel being surrounded by the fire and you also see what looks like the fire being inside the vessel vidal and the nimshale is at this level of maisha nabainu that makes us an asia the ma aspect of it is penetrating the bottom aspect of it is encompassing in short what we have learned is that moshe is very different than abram because moisture comes from a space where there are no worlds i mean there are worlds but the worlds are not absolutely divided and therefore the godliness of the highest world can be all the way down to the lowest realm now we get back to the uh mahmed to the possuk and i let me just give you an example as a way of bringing this a little bit closer to us in the the the the passage describes the jewish people as being beti the daughter of god the sister of god and eemi the mother of god now it's kind of hard to fathom the jewish people being the mother of god so of course in hasidis in a couple of days explained that godliness is where the goddess is in the world of adam of silas upon him and bas would be malchus he would be and imi would be in other words when you're talking about levels of godliness not god has to show levels of godliness there is an idea where um kvl didn't stand higher than other millions higher than this is the same idea that we have here because marisha alabainu is this theme of mine let me repeat that ma on the one hand makes moisha adam human but at the same time the adam comes from such a deep place of bitter and quiescence and transcendence that there is no divisions this place is maisha albeinu higher than godliness and the rabbi says vizago line 40 this is the meaning of the passage speaks and i'm forgive me for incorporating the words here voila and godliness responds to moshe because from the level of muslims he stands higher than the divine name of the kim which we explained in the previous paragraph very briefly to be lower so usually you would imagine god speaks and man responds here you have man speaking and godliness responding because the man is maisha bainu and martial abandons a level of godliness which is so exalted that in fact he stands higher than al-kim and lil kim is responding to measure that's the gist of the shot of this passage that his mind will now explain to us speaks in the words of may shall come from the top down is but at the same time this battle has a depth and a premium of adam which allows it to be brought into the world in a absolute way and yet so to speak fit into the world it brings god also the level of asia and it remains the absolute godliness and asia is able to receive it did we not explain last week that realm also brings godliness in the higher worlds to the lower worlds but as avraham brings them for the higher world to the low worlds they're modified then changed and diminished how does rama achieve this his own personal passions and consequently his passions are measured and the goddess which is being brought forward by them is accordingly measured he brings it first into what's and then he brings it down into us it's his own personal service that allows him to bring god that is from a higher level to a lower level and therefore it's limited as opposed to mission who brings godliness through the gift of the torah which is ma which is an absolute gift which is the wisdom of god and the power that may shall beno has to bring god the nastasia using theta and mitzvahs who nims brings godliness to this world as well the fire should inspire from the inside and to the and the outsiders to completely transform and destroy the animal soul what is the end and ultimate purpose of why god created higher worlds and lower worlds and arranges for us to bring godliness from the higher levels to the lower levels the ultimate answer is that they shouldn't be higher and lower loss that should be realized in the future the righteous will one day be called holy and the rabbit translates nayam cottage should be higher than kedusha she is happy allah that there should be no separation between brilliant and asea and nazis in other words it isn't only there should be godliness brought even to the lower worlds but that the god that is brought to the lower world is the same as the godness is brought to uatilas because they are left nayham qaddish they're hired the heavens as we know them are going to be destroyed and there will be a new heaven and a new earth and what is the new heaven is the new heavens is an allusion to the secrets of the theta the i knew what this means not that silos but higher than atsilos and therefore yep that in this the lowest world there will be not only a godliness which is perhaps greater than but measured relative to these the lower worlds but in simple words and asia are going represents this kayak of ma of bringing godliness from such a high point where the idea of high and low is erased and accordingly the theta says a lower level and moisia speaks another kim response what does this mean in other words that there malchus which which is prepared for the lower worlds sham in malchus is brought down also so is responding to maisha rabbenu in other words the godliness of atsilas which comes into the lower worlds now comes into the lower world in such a way that in the lower worlds it's less than atsilos while maisha barely brings a godliness to whom there is no difference between the godliness of silas and the lower worlds and therefore this godliness is responding to may shall be and the idea that the lower worlds are responding to major bay new means shaykh shame shamans just as the level of may shall be who brings forth and because of this bitterness there's no such thing as ordinary even asia to bring on the infinite godliness and through it into the lower worlds and the low godliness to malchus and the title that mashallah brainerd brings forward is such a torah that a fact that the law of worlds become equal to us so music beta brings on this very lofty kayak or level which equalizes attila's and asea and the worlds where malchus or kim respond to bashar abenu by making themselves equal to the inspiration that moshe banu gives him so if you wanted to read the puzzle you would say moshe yadav moshe brings forth a toyota or atsimus of godliness to matildas and i see are equal while the kim and the godliness of the lower worlds responded kind that they make themselves aligned with the inspiration that moshe provides so that even in the lowest world you not only have godliness also but you have godliness in a way that is equal to the godliness that exists even in the highest worlds links it to other discussions um we fine it says in kabbalah this is not new you had these contradictions all over the tanya and there's footnotes of the rabbi on it that sometimes you say that the lowest level of trader is only in athilas and doesn't come to the lower worlds and sometimes you say the lowest level of tata reaches all the way till i see it and it says like this talmud the gym is known in the world of um is higher than mishnah not lower than mishnah so what do you mean when you say mikhail come still i see it and the answer of course is that when you say that mikra comes in asia doesn't mean it comes in asea only but it comes in a seal also in other words the godliness of the humish the godness of the terrorism is such that you see that it is godly even in this world while the godliness of mishnah you see its godliness only in yet and down here it's just ideas and the godliness of talmud which is more convoluted more complicated is only identified as such in brie and of course because mikra has a higher source and atlas is godly also down here convention in convention it means when we learn tata if you will god acts as a chavrusa he speaks along with us we speak first and he speaks second but of course the presumption is we are down here tiny little people and the qatar who is up there godliness and our small trader down here is reciprocated by akadesh barak here the rebel is going to explain this maya mechazal in the spirit of the passage is higher than elokim he speaks another kim responds so accordingly which goes on the other motion they read meekly mishni first and akkad is lower than the other which is quite a vision let's read it inside opposite him he had toyota which is adam maisha za so the quieter of a shiny is higher than aka and the qrs responding just as we said and while the kim godliness is responding to you cannot speak of hashem responding to what silos shattered that already exists there if any of violation is there's no change in godliness and therefore tayden attains already exists um you know what it reminds me of like you have in my mouth involved a portion that was eaten by the korean and the portion was eaten under misbehave now is a physical human being is the mouth of god so to speak but it says that it is brings god that is from such a place where the differences between high and low are erased now one more detail that the river analyzes in the passage we explained moisha yadav which is higher than elokim and al kimyan means the godliness of the lower worlds respond to maisha but then it says the word because with voice so it says amplifier hashem speaks mushy repeats and god amplifies mushroom speaking to several million people and i guess it's kind of difficult to speak to several million people with the best skills as an orator and motivator as you know wasn't particularly blessed in that way so allah kim yang menu god gave him voice but it says that god gave him his own voice in other words god amplified the sound of maisha's own voice what's the mysticism of this that the voice is that of moshe not of him according to this voice sound comes from the heart shall if in other words passions are the source of words that according to one's bitter or passion the quality of one's speech reflects one's passion in other words you wouldn't compare the the godliness brought down by the title of yehuda who was called before in the inlandish and the title nothing to our own all saying the same words and exhaling the same air after nevertheless the difference is not in the sound the differences in the passion and the heart which is the source of that voice the qualitative effect of the word spoken changes life of a depending on one's degree of bitter so moisha brings down godliness and all the kim yeah kim responds be coiled with the bittle of maisha rabbenu in other words with the passions behind the words of maisha bainu that makes him a menu much more whole much more complete so this my mirror does affection in fact two things it explains the difference between avraham and maisha and explains the pasuk how moisha is higher than allah kim and al kim is psalmist now let me finish with a story in light of we just said you know that he lived the life of the rebel would very frequently make illusions referenced and of course it's based on a letter from the previous level where he quotes that as having said uh we must have said it hundreds perhaps thousands of times the previous effort may have quoted him once but if you read the biography of the abu madash you discovered that whether he said it often or not that's not the point he lived that way there's no question about it and one of the more extreme stories of the mirage was in the early eighties there were pogroms all over rush and of course if you know the history of zaras russia the pogroms were orchestrated for the highest levels of government as a distraction the russian citizenry the russian peasants were most displeased they were most disenfranchised because the government was truly unfair and whenever the government feared revolution they needed to keep the people busy and distracted and of course one of the greatest techniques was you know what they used to call in rome bread and circuses in russia they called it pogroms i hate isaiah so in the early eighteen years there was such pogroms many many jews immigrated from russia to america to israel and so forth as you know i'm sure marash contemplated leaving russia he decided to stay i don't want to go into the details but he pulled off one of the greatest acts of blackmail he came to petersburg in 1882 and there's a lot of details to the story where he met a bunch of jewish lay leaders some of which were not religious and they he told them what to do and they sort of let him know that they're not his hasidim he can't just push him around he can't tell them what to do he has to consult with them and then told him told them i'm giving you a chance to do a mitzvah take it or i'll do it myself like um you have an opportunity to help your jewish brethren but if you're too arrogant and too stuck up and believe yourself above the solution the resolution the salvation will come from someplace else and you'll end up being lost so he came to the capital he met the russian higher-ups and he had a difficult time getting a hold of them and he put pressure on them about the pogroms and they diplomatically told they would see what they could do and it was very obvious that they were not interested in stopping the program so that ahmadas did the coolest thing in the world they got on a train and traveled to the west went to paris went to berlin and within days in the greatest western european newspapers there were huge exposes op-eds opinion pieces accusing the russian government of anti-semitism and violence against the jews and there were proposals to of sanctions against russia which would have cost the government and the economy and russia severely that menace got back on the train and went straight back to petersburg when he arrived in petersburg he didn't wait in line for any appointments they came looking for him and they were livid furious and he met i think the salahutz the um secretary of state who was beside himself at the rage you realize you've undermined the government for this you could lose your life and then said i'm not going to sit by and watch jewish blood be spilled and do nothing and he he in fact told that marash you could lose your head for this and the rebel rashik used the expression which means in english i'm not thinking of myself at all now this vegan gansanesh can be understood in two ways one way is he was prepared to lose his life and he in fact passed away the following district and in the now published diary of our ebay it's been discovered that he said that he's going to give his life for the pogroms to stop but another version of it is you can't touch me i'm not afraid to say i am above your sphere of influence you cannot touch me and i don't fear for my life and uh i'll do what i need to do to protect the jewish people and in light of this my mind the second shot works better that marash is saying from the position that i am you you simply cannot touch me and this is what may idea is to him matildas and asia were shrava now of course how do you deal with the moment like this we're not moist we're pipsqueaks and the only useful answer is connection to the tadk you know you shouldn't think that because you're around that south you are that sadiq we're not we're little tiny people but when you have a connection to assad that you have those incredible curses to be more than we would otherwise be because of this connection and perhaps even more than would otherwise be in such a way that allows us to bridge the sublime and the ordinary the spiritual and the material hey [Music] [Applause] [Music] you