Turning Destruction to A Blessings צהר תעשה לתיבה by Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, 5783

welcome to this week's I said this class we're going to be learning this week a beautiful acidic discourse in the Reba the name of the Civic this course is called sayhart the Reba said this Hasidic discourse which that year it was on the sixth day of the month of my husband in the year tuftsin memsai in exactly 36 years ago so I want to start off by saying I'm dedicating this class to everyone that helped whether they helped you help with a donation or you came to volunteer or any other type of help that you've given to the Chabad to Southwest Florida the hurricane iron Relief Fund until now and for your future help and support as obviously this is an ongoing effort to help the people that were affected by the hurricane and it's interesting this class actually addresses the issue on a spiritual level so again the name of the Civic discourse is based on the verse in this week's Torah portion where the Torah says and instructs on the table you should make and the word is for the ark what is this the river brings from the previous rabba from a Hasidic discourse with the same title of soya taslatable in the year Zion was stunning more in depth which was 40 years before whatever since it was 36 years ago it's obviously for us at 76 years ago and it represents that what happens once you've passed 40 years you get a whole new level of understanding to what you learned 40 years before so the previous row brings on this verse Sawyer task live at table he brings the commentary of Rashi that Rashi says what is it it's a unique word what does it tell you so he brings Rashi Arash tells us two opinions one opinion and what does that sayar tie is a window and the other second opinion is it was a very very special stone that would give off light was producing light the question is how is it producing light so one opinion was produced Lie by by a window so through the window they had light in the ark and the second opinion was no they had a very a special stone that gave off light so the previous from asking question one second who creates light we know our son created like crates light like we learned from the last week's teleportion process braces it says clearly by joymirakim and God said this should be light and there was light so what's so if we're saying that Toya means light so I'll be saying Toyota you should make light we don't make light a sun made light you're opening a window you're bringing in a a stone in there but ultimately light comes from Australia so what does it means that you're making light and that's also this course the previous server explains um uh explains it based on the on both insights whether it's a window or it's a stone and he also explains what does it mean that you're doing the the you do you're doing and you're creating a light whoever goes on to say those files we know it's it's famous Trevor says the teaching of the balsamtov which is brought down in many many places after this and also in the in prisoners in general and more specifically in the sons of Chabad that when notorious says that God instructed no you have to make a table which literally is an ark so there's the physical table that built but these spiritual Teva is referring to Teva means an ark but also table comes from the letters so it's referring to the letters of prayer and the letter of Torah study that's what the Los Angeles says and based on that he explains when the Torah says you should come into the ark you and your family into the table which is the ark so in other words on a spiritual love what does that mean you should go into the table the letters of Torah study and prayer and you should connect to it just like you go into the ark your whole body goes into it and you submerge into the ark the same thing also when it comes to learning Torah and praying you should connect yourself to learning learning Torah and praying now driver explains and he says as follows this the verse is referring to you can say one second it's a it's a direct but the fact is it applies to every single Jewish person why is that because whoever brings out a teaching of the river ashab the fifth River and based on what we say in the praise of Rosh Hashanah what do we say in the praise he remembered him with love in other words if it's if it's a personal thing what no you ask why are you mentioning because the fact is it's an individual but it's referring to the all the Jewish people so therefore since it's referring to not referring to all the Jewish people so everything they're applying tonight building the ark and going into the ark applies to the Jewish people as well So based Mr Mac says that this where the Torah tells us soyhar you should make for the table which again we just learned is referring to based on our teaching of a sense of what kind of table we talked on a spiritual level we're talking about the table of the letters of learning Tyro and praying so therefore what does it mean saw your toss all table we should make light to the letters of Torah and prayer so maybe that's one second how is it possible that we're gonna end and we're gonna create something with the words of Torah and the words of prayer the fact that Terror was given to us from heaven like it says clearly in a Torah I mean there's a Mayan from Heavenly I utter the words of turn from heaven we heard the voice from Hashem or like it says it says in Ten Commandments right now brother came God spoke I'm guard you God so what does that mean that we're gonna add light to the words of Toria and Philo that through our work we're somehow gonna add to the territory comes from Hashem so everyone goes on to explain he says like this we know the famous insight on the verse where it says sorry her tassel table so the commentary explain as follows what does it mean because in the beginning there was actually a degree a decree to bring the flood and the flood was going to destroy the world so Hashem comes to noyak Before the Flood actually can he tells him Sawyer tape what is he tell them that he should take the the um trying to invoke the com the um the uh media of compassion and he was called minus and to obliterate the middle the the the attribute of judgment that was going to destroy the world in other words he should take um the sorrow a terrible decree whether it was on the Jewish people and turn it into toyar so in other words to recap because the discourse is a lot based on this God's bringing the flood a flood is not a good thing it's judgment God is a story in the world he reached it out tonight and he says listen the people are terrible I'm destroying the world that's judgment I would like you Nayak to invoke the attribute of compassion and therefore he tells them so yeah what does that mean that the the word say how is the same letters as Torah a terrible thing and he's reaching out tonight and he's saying no no wanting to beseech and bring out the action of compassion to transform the sorrow the the the the attribute of judgment into what into something positive in other words I know it brings us brought down and safely it's zero one of the books of Kabbalah and says like this two letters if you have two letters an elephant a base you can build two houses it means two words you have an olive means it's either Ava which means father one one word or you know the other way beige Olive which means boy come inside so two letters gives you two words on the other hand safety yitzer says if you have three letters so three letters gives you six houses you can get six words out of it so therefore once you have a word with three letters take in this case where Hashem says you should make for the table so since it's three letters you can build three words six words out of it now remember it's the five words from from these three letters is known the sixth one is not known but in our case that take the word soyhara which is one type one house those three letters in that in in that set up and then another another way to build a word from those three letters is sorrow and what's the ultimate goal the ultimate goal is the ultimate goal is to transform eight tsara into tsaihar so since these three letters again in general the six we know about five but in our case we're talking on D specific two one is a sorrow which is a a problem an issue a challenge a disaster a hurricane whatever it may be whatever the Torah is embedded with we our job is to take the sorrow and transform into sire Sawyer is light now so based on based on what we just learned before that um that what is the Arc of Nayak on a spiritual level the the table the Arkham Knight referring to the words of Tyran Fila So based on land Jurassic a simple question one second we're saying we're supposed to take a Torah and turn it into that take something negative and start something positive coincident about Santa just explained that the the tavos nights referring to the letters of a prayer and total study how can you say that in Torah and in prayer and something negative that you have to transform the negative God forbid of Torah and prayer into something positive where's there anything negative in there so whatever explains this files when he sounds like this even though we know that the whole Torah from beginning to the end is all the names of Hashem whatever you're stunning in there whether it's a story whether it's something that happened good bad the whole terrorist names of Hashem because it comes from high and the truth is the whole Torah is 100 holy and pure Torah is the names of Hashem and it's holy and pure on a spiritual level but what happens is when Toyota comes down to this world so now the Torah that was part of Hashem the infinite Assam becomes finite and it's not infinite so the Torah and again we're in its source it's connected to the information when it comes down to this world it's finite but what happens is when we sit down and learn Torah we actually add in Torah like the river culture in the Sawyer that says when you learn Terror the expression is I'll say it in Aramaic the goal is to create something new energy up to the point that when we learn Terror we take Torah if that's in this world that's finite and we literally can make it infinite So based on this River explains that's that's the whole idea of transforming the words of Torah from a sorrow into sayar what does that mean we're taking Torah then the source was infinite it came down to this world it's finite and by learning Terror we're taking the financial and returning it to the infinite part of Terror why is that because the source of Sorrow what does Torah mean Sarah means you can translate as something not good uh something something challenging Etc but sorry the service the source of the word sorrow it comes from the word Sarah sorry and yeah this means it's in it's tight so the source of Sorrow means it's tight what's a Torah it's hard when it's tight mentally emotionally physically that's what Sarah when things are tight constricted restrained a place that's limiting so to represents something which is limited now when when so when Toyota comes down here it's limited but when we learn Torah we take the limited part of Torah and we turn it into sayar in other words since when it came down to this world the terror was in a way of limited which is connected idea about sorrow it's limited we affect that the start the target should become infinite like right why because what's the what's the true concept of light the true concept of light that has no limits like we know or it ain't safe light without any limits and so basement explains Sawyer tassel table we should take from something which is limited and make it infinite when it refers to the idea of Torah and they're saying also a prayer why because prayer in general is finite and like we know when the Torah speaks on yakovina when he went to pray so it says suleim the latter was on the ground and the and the head reached the heaven in other words it's limited from the ground to the heaven it's a fine find that perspective of a prayer but when a person goes ahead and actually works through the prayer and you put your effort in the prayer so even though it's on the ground which is finite you're able to reach your mind you're able to reach heaven which is basically tremendous abundance up until you reach the heaven Which is higher than the regular heaven so might not like and like the like the previous server explains that length and those you you reach the level I'll say in Hebrew I'll translate merchav the abundance of ask me the essence of abundance so in other words explaining is that we could have the power to transform from sorrow which was limited to soya which is infinite which is represented by language both when we learn Torah because we take the third way it's down and where it's finite and we think it into Infinite we study Torah and also through prayer we're able to take um the finite part of prayer and create tremendous abundance and success in our lives now whoever goes on to say as follows not only is our spiritual work to transform from something which is a sorrow which means something which is finite which is something infinite that's one level but now there's going even deeper that the finite part The Limited part from from there itself from and specifically from the depth of the finite part we're able to reach a place of infinite not that you're transforming but literally from the depth of each infinite like for example whoever brings a famous verse from Psalms or King David says in other words I called out to Hashem we are from the from the constraints from the limiting part from where it was I was it was stuck I wonder what it was small and it was narrow that's why Richard Hashem and anonym answers from from the place of constraints Unlimited in other words when I called out Hashem King David says from the year specifically I was able to get the tremendous abundance and there episode this is the whole idea of Rosh Hashanah what happens what's the main theme of Roshan we blow the surfer the midst of the day belonging to Schaefer and when you blow the straightfor we know the Schaefer has a small part and has a big part where do you blow the sofa from you don't you blow for the small part and the noise comes out from the big part and that's a matter of fact the Jewish law if you blow it the opposite way you didn't below the surface you have to blow it specifically for the for the narrow part and which is connected to the idea I mean I made sorry you're calling God from the part which is limited which is finite which is constrained and from there you're able to go out to America after the abundance part in other words by by literally by reaching out to our son from nature from the part which is limited and the part which is constrained with the Partridge is finite we come to the ultimate and and huge abundance and like it's explained elsewhere says this that we say that a year which is so to speak finite and limited in the beginning what happens at the end you have tremendous tremendous wealth in other words the fact that in the beginning it's tied and it's constrained and it's a struggle and you don't see a way out from there civically from the constraint when you call to Hashem that's when you get the tremendous tremendous success and this happens represent every single Rosh Hashanah why because what happens in Rosh Hashanah it's a new year and basically if the new year so you're starting from from scratch from nothing and like the author brings that girl brings the ultimate ultimate from Tanya in in Garrison according to us that literally what happens on every single Russia there's a brand new light that comes into play which was never existed in the world so in order to affect the brand new light you kind of say give me a brand new light you have to reach from the depth you have to reach from the mate sorry you have to reach from the constraints and that's how we Merit to receive the powerful new light now so that's what happens in the beginning of the year a restaurant which we just came from but from Rosh Hashanah this idea that when we call from our constraints we have tremendous abundance this this affects us a whole year and I explained many many places that why is it called Rosh Hashanah because what is a relation to the head just like from the head you get the energy and the Vitality for all your other limbs in your body and and that's the ultimate complete of of the head the same thing also Roshana creates that energy throughout the year so that's on a general level but the fact is every single Larry Derby says when we start at our day when we get up in the morning we get up in the morning we're calling out my mates are from from a place of of limited limited is place where it's tight to a place where where it's finite how do we do that we start a day off with a level of what's called Bittle we're we're in a place of acceptance or Kabbalah soil we're willing to accept whatever else wants from us how do we do how do we how do we express that because when you get up the first thing in the morning what do we do the first word that comes out of our mouth is Munda which means I'm accepting to USM that you're the king and so you start every day with a level of of mates are of acceptance and the same thing also we pray every single day so even though in General Lee the whole idea of prayer is you're accepting Hashem because what do you what's like they'll pray you're saying Hashem you be our King over us but besides that the fact is we know that even before you stop praying the talmud says you don't start praying unless you're in a place of cleavage that means you're in a level of um humility and and and respect for ourselves and like it's explained in many many places and say this and also in the Civic teachings of the previous rabba that the the in order to start praying you start with a place of acceptance humility um a recognition of Assam you come from a place that you're that we're we're small we're mates are and the same thing also when it comes to when it comes to the praise of Krishna so even though the whole idea of Krishna the whole idea is you're accepting us at the Oak of Hashem but nevertheless we know that for example in the Christmas there's several sections and the fact that we read Israel before the second one which is and why is that so to explain the talmud's very simple because the first thing Israel you want to accept cabalose you want to accept the sin and then you accept the idea of the specific mixes that you're taking upon yourself so you see the goal is to create an acceptance of Hashem which is not accepting the the Civic mitzvahs it never goes on to explain to some of those followers we know that it's it's brought down in the town but it says that when a son created the world he looked into the Torah and based on the Torah that's what he used to create the world and those what does that mean so this the fact that in the world you have like we just learned unless Asana is the beginning of the year and from the beginning of the year we have energy that that gives us throughout the whole year where does that come from that constitutorial because anything in the world any energy any anything any force that comes in the world all comes to material and because it comes from the in Hebrew it's called from the cloud from the general Point down to the details so restaurant comes the general idea of the energy for the for the whole year and then you have every single day Renewed Energy and that all comes from the terror so so where do we see that in the terror it never explains like this everything in the Toyota starts with from the first letter what's the first letter in the alphabets The Olive and if you give a look at the Ten Commandments the first the Commandments thought of which letter what's the first word in the Ten Commandments I am Hashem what's the first letter in the word aleph and in that letter aleph which is the first letter included in there on a on a deep level compacted in there's all Ten Commandments and not only the Ten Commandments the whole term is in there and we know the term was given with all the commentaries you know we're talking even the even the not only the original but also the oral law up to that point any teaching that anyone will ever revolutionize in Terror was all in that little that little out of what the Ten Commandments it all started with the Alpha from the Nike not only that you take a step deeper nervation you know what Olive is is made up of that has a like a little line on top across the line like above on an angle they even line the bottom so not only is it from the algebra says it actually comes from the from the from the little piece on top of the olive and not only that you can say it even comes from the higher part which is basically the tag in the coits which is on top of the olive off to the point where it goes if you want to go even deeper and higher it comes from place I'll say it in Hebrew and I'll translate which means the initial thought act stands for Adam the the the the the the primordial man in other words everything that exists started off in the thought of Adam now so what does that mean so ultimately every con everything comes from the initial point and from there it plays out just like in the Rosh Hashanah you start and goes throughout the year the same thing in the tour where it all starts from the aleph actually from the top of the olive Adam Carmine to the to the first part to the whole Olive and there are some Ten Commandments in the whole and the whole Torah and all the other teachings in the oral law and then we're going to say that once the world was created so again the process was it started from the dark then it went into the aleph then it went to that then it went to the Ten Commandments then I went to the whole Torah et cetera so you're going to look at Ah that's the way it was versus no it's only past tense that it was once initially in the act in the thought of Adam Carmine and once it goes down to the details it's over no no but even now everything is still included into the Maks and literally every single second is there like there ever brings the famous teaching in about every single second the world is created from uh from nothing into something literally every single second son recreates the world and where's it all start from it starts from a kabbalistic very high level and from there it goes down into all the details that we see in the world in front of us all the all the all the great actions of Hashem all the great creations of Hashem I'd like to explain that length in the teachings of the mythical rubber in a book called terrific now back to our Point remember something else what's our job in this world our job is to transform a Torah it's something which was constrained limited um finite in Detroit which is light which is infinite in other words the Hebrew expressionism now mates are avoida every single day and every single moment is to create a Merc have experience out of nature to look at something negative and it transform something positive to look at destruction and to create a blessing out of it now that's our avoida that's our work in that work that we have that's our vision that's our mission there's two different approaches there's two different ways there's something which is called in Kabbalah said this which means it starts from high and it comes penetrates down into the physical world and then there's something which is called No matter that starts below and you elevate it to a higher level and this is better explains this is the base of the the idea of the two insights into what soyer is what we learned this course that the previous story brought from Rashi that says one opinion is it's a window and the other opinion it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a special a special stone so when we when we refer to the idea that Sawyer is a window what does that mean practically that when you what what is a window that means the light existed outside and there's something blocking and when you open a window guess what you allow the light to come in so that window accomplishes you taking away something that's blocking the line from coming in or on a kabbalistic level what does it mean on a spiritual level in the words that by through opening a window what you're doing is you're drawing in the light of their amp in the small face which is a six meters so in other words the line existed and what our job is take to take away What's blocking by putting a window and then you're Drawing the Line it's called and you're drawing it from the Spheres of Tsar The Six Million into my house that is what the window what is it what is a a special stone referring to that is the receiver becomes a light that's Shining in the first case by a window the light is coming from Salt it's coming from a higher place it goes into Malthus in the inventory the second way no Mal has itself gives off light which is very very powerful what does that mean practically in our in our in our spiritual service of Hashem it's a difference between and I'll say in Hebrew I'll translate it now void of the spiritual work of surma which means taking away something negative taking away something which is holding you back and bringing in positive light so the spiritual work of the window is basically um taking away What's blocking and the event is bringing in positive light or for example there gives another example two different types of two different types of ways of of of of of of of walking one is where you're walking from on top of the mountain that to the bottom of the mountain and that's connected to the idea of learning Torah because Torah comes from Hashem by learning Terror you bring in the light of tyrants of the world and the other way is what walking from the bottom of the mountain on high and that's prayer because prayers when you're trying to transform yourself and these two spiritual Services one is bringing the life from high into this world learning Torah or mal has been transformed through prayer Etc that those are both in the spiritual work that were commanded of Sawyer table and that's why now we understand why it says Tasha we should do it why because we still have work to do what's our work our work is to and to create I mean her mates are El America to take something which is constrained something which is limited and create abundance and there's two ways we do it one is through learning Torah bringing the light from on high down to this world I want us through prayer transforming the world and just like when it says in the verse what does it say in the verse may not rain sir King David says men our mates are from constrained karasi what does that mean karasi I called out King David I have to do the work you have to call the address and that's why even though learning Terror guess where it's coming from Hashem you can't just sit down and learn Torah before you learn Torah we know you have to make the blessing like for example if you get an Ali you make the blessing God chose us and he gave us a Torah why because by making the blessing you're acknowledging and you're recognizing the Torah is coming from Hashem and but and when you make the blessing you're allowing to draw down the power of Terror into this world through our work so true the tiger comes from Hashem but our average is to be a vessel to receive the Torah how to become a vessel to received her making a blessing before we learn in Togo and not only that the whole idea of making the blessings who established it the rabbis which means that our spiritual work established we shall make a blessing a channel to draw in the drawing the light so when I tell you even though in general it comes from Hashem we start to become a vessel Ford just make a blessing and and be willing and to accept and to draw down the light of a sermon and the same thing also when it comes to prayer because the fact is um pray on one hand is much higher because you're standing literally like a like a like a humble in front of Hashem but nevertheless even though you're standing humbly for Hashem in order for your prayers to really connect and plug in so before you pray we all know when president talmud that before you pray you should give charity like the expression is some money to a poor person and then you pray because like giving something away of your own that makes you a vessel that's your work that your prayers should connect to our sin so again so the rep is explaining here is that what is our voida Sawyer Tesla table our job is to take things which are constrained things which are limited and transform into things of tremendous blessing how do we do it two ways on a practical level one is by learning toyo and before in accepting the fact that and the second way is prayer and with an introduction of what by giving charity beforehand and whoever says he liked the connection connect is what it says in the beginning of the power show hey this is again and it's brought down in the Madras no it says this is the officer why is it repeating I am saying twice and the murder says because it's it's a um it's a level of uh calm and peace Etc so it's calm and peaceful for unhide and calm and peaceful down in this world it's two different levels of New York in other words so what services this is also that same idea that we say two different levels one is where you're elevating the world elevating the world like we've learned right through prayer and the other way is you're bringing down light to the world like we learned through toy Road and whoever goes on to say that this is why after you learn which when you do that you pray and you study and you do and you give charity Etc around you and you're bringing you're bringing a tremendous abundance to the world you come to the next terrible portion after passenger which is and it also says a double expression of the same word the same two letters twice which is referring to again the two types of uh walking one is like we learned from Roy which is the idea of Torah and the other one was through prayer and we do our spiritual work complete in other words both drawing down the light into this world through Torah elevating it Mal has got transformed through prayer and with the introduction of Charity when we do our work complete we come to the land that God is going to show us and we'll have like the Torah says we're gonna have a tremendous black blessing we're going to have the blessings of avraham the blessings of Yitzhak the blessing of yaakov which we know yaakov is basically a chosen of all the all the Patriarchs up to the blessing of ufarats though God is going to expand our borders and we're going to have an inheritance without any limits even though in the verse it says your mother came and turn your neck before sides but never nevertheless it's still it's it's still it's still it's still an infinite blessing I'm nervous this is connected also to the times of the discourse which is right even the Riven which is the highest powerful part of Shabbos which is the Feast of the third meal and especially Garba says that we're standing uh right before the San Francisco's on Charlotte so right before the seven of classroom and then that's from the reign of blessings came down why because that's when the last person was able to reach home um and he reached the high press and once everyone was home God opened up the Gates of Heaven and started to pour real real blessings we called heavy heavy rains he called hurricanes we call them gishmail that's where they're called they're the reign of blessings even though sometimes we don't see it right away but hopefully God's willing God will show us the blessing in it and to be the will of Hashem the river says that all these powerful blessings should be fulfilled within us and should be filled very very quickly and which ultimately will have the the um true and complete Redemption through Messiah to Kano so again here's another powerful and beautiful this this course in the river with a practical application where you see that specifically from the place of challenges and struggles and limits and constraints and anything which is finite we have the power to call Hashem from there do our work whether it's through Torah study through prayer through doing mitzvot or giving charity and we will be blessed with tremendous tremendous abundance so again once again I want to thank everyone that was there for our community when we went through this terrible Challenge and terrible constraint through the hurricane that allowed us um to continue connecting to Hashem and allow us to give us tremendous blessings that God should bless you all with tremendous tremendous abundance we can obviously still use your help so please reach out on our website hurricane relief fund.com or reach out if you want to come by and volunteer any other type of help you want to give and God should bless us let's hope and pray like the urban says at the end of the discourse which is the ultimately the greatest and most important blessing is as River says that hopefully we'll all Merit the true Redemption through mashiach and next class will be in your area have a great and blessed week