Vayechi | Likkutei Sichos Vol. 1

We are learning paras from Alf. And this is a big deal because remember we started way back paras we uh I think we recorded it during sus even to have it ready so people could learn before some and now look at this we're doing par which means ven we are finishing with hashem's help the sas that correspond to safer. Okay. And Hashem should continue to help us and bench us all with continued [snorts] learning. We are in page 102 of Alfa is the Yanko benched is the from Asher his uh bread should be fat oily fat Rash says that means he should have a lot of oil. Rash is and Rash says by the way's to usher was a similar which was he should to he should immerse or dip his feet in oil. By the way JFYI when is this from that we're learning? It's not from Pari. It's if you look at the end of the it's from so what does it have to do with anything? Well, vizra that's what it has to do with um Misha's braas to theatam are in viz which is the last s the one we lyra [snorts] and uh in is yankas to the to theatam and many of the brahas the yank gives are similar to the brahas that misha gives or I should say the opposite many of the brahas that misha gives are similar to the brahas the yanke gives okay We've said many times that everything that's in phys in the physical is also in the spiritual. Um to the contrary, not only are there also everything in everything that's in the physical realm is also in the spiritual realm, but it's to the contrary. Everything is in the physical realm because it originates in the spiritual realm. It comes from there. Now this what we said before that everything physical comes from the spiritual. If that applies even to worldly things, how much more so things that are in the toy that it comes from a from a spiritual source. So everything that's in the says that is also in the and all the way up to the that's the Gashmir oil. So what we just said everything that's in even this the simple meaning comes from a deeper spiritual meaning. So too this concept of the brahas of which are from similar from uh both yank and which have to do with oil. So that yes, every verse is literal and yes, literally they had a lot of olive oil in their uh territory. Like [snorts] Rashu brings the famous story about u bringing oil from their territory. Uh but that's not the entire content of the verse. There's a deeper spiritual meaning as well. So what's the concept of dipping your feet in oil in spiritual terms? She is a rais on of she is a reference to is tail by dimension and is the highest part of a person when they talk about. So the highest of the which is correspond to the spher. So the highest of the spheres but also in the person the highest of the isma call it the the beginning or the inception of an idea the inspiration for an idea that's that's that's the beginning of every process so that's the highest level sometimes we translate it as wisdom I think wisdom is not such a great translation especially according to this but let's just call it the initial inspiration with the emphasis on initial. Okay. Regal is the nid mentioned. Now, correspondingly or conversely, the foot is the lowest part of the person. You follow me here, right? Is the highest thing. Well, let me back up. Olive oil corresponds to and is the highest thing. The feet correspond to feet would you know it. And that they are the lowest thing. So what does it mean? Dip your feet in oil. Even though the feet are seemingly the lowest portion, they have an incredible virtue to them. So that even does not approach the virtue that is possessed by the foot. And therefore we use the oil for the sake of the feet when one thing services another thing that shows the superiority of the thing that's being serviced. Right? Like you have a means to an end. So the thing that is the stepping stone so to speak is the less important thing and the thing that's the real goal is the more important thing. So we're using oil for the feet. You would think oil which is the highest thing and the feet is the lowest thing but hey actually the feet are using the oils. We find a similar thing by Mashiach. Alim and on that day his feet his feet will stand on the harimm that's the mount of olives you know in yushim yeah alh haram um when mashia comes so the again we what we find here is that ragllov that feet the lowest level will stand on Sham isma is yeah the Reb says it here clearly oil is and olive oil comes from olives obviously is now is not just olives but it's a mountain where the olive trees grow a mountain that's very high it's the place where the olive Olves come from isim. So it's understood mount of olives is a very high level and nevertheless what do we say the feet are going to be on top of the mount of olives that the feet are going to be even higher than the is now let's translate this into a into our service of hem as she or means that he learns and he does mitzvah because he understands it and therefore he appreciates it. He enjoys it. mate. But what is regal? He serves Hashem with the acceptance of divine authority. What we call literally accepting the yoke. You know like a beast of burden accepts a yoke. And the theme of kabala soil has been a rep repeated theme throughout. Okay. And not just kabala soil, but the necessity for koala soil, even when one has deep understanding. It's not like kabala soil is for those simple Jews who just can't manage to have understanding. But if you would be deep enough and spiritual enough, you wouldn't need kabala. No, no, no. Kabala does something that depth and understanding don't do. Even though at first glance you would say that is a low level. Why is it a low level? Because you don't you don't appreciate what you're doing. You're not enjoying what you're doing. You're only doing it because you have to do it. Second, nevertheless is like we're going to explain later. There's actually a virtue to doing things with kabala soil even over doing them with understanding. Like I said before, it's not like you do it with kabalis because you can't do it with understanding. Even one who can do it with understanding will reach a much higher level through kabala soil as we're going to explain and that's why it is the way it is in physicality because like we said the physicality is a reflection or a derivative of the spiritual that's why we find that the foot has a superiority over the foot the foot has a superiority That foot has a superiority over the head. And by the way, don't don't forget like I told you, this is a sim originally. So that's the whole theme of the feet, right? You're dancing with the feet. You don't learn the t with your head on. You carry the around. You dance with your feet like it says that the feet complete the head. They do for the head what it cannot do for itself. GMO top of the second column, page 103. is given. Now to understand the greatness of the foot over the head and also to understand what does that have to do with we have to first understand the camp of Don because Usher was part of the camp of Don. You can say Usher is Usher not Don. Yeah, but you know how it was divided the 12 tribes into four um directions. So, Usher was over on the side with Don Maknadon is given massive maches. done was the I mean you could translate in different ways but the literal meaning is the functional meaning is that they uh were the lost and found that we're going to explain this they marched in the back so they would find whatever ever anyone else dropped and they would return it to the owner. What does that mean? That in spite of the fact that Dawn was in the back which means they're lower than the other tribes which means they're sort of like the feet so to speak. Nevertheless, to the contrary from this itself that they were in the back of they were the ones who were able to reclaim the lost objects and restore them to the rightful owners from the other camps. Everything physical comes from and describes the way it is in its spiritual root. What's an aa hash? No, I don't mean like a hashem like we lab say a hashem. You know with it sounds like a I mean an actual a with a [laughter] like a what is an what is a lost object is so our sages say they say who um what what is a fool who is a fool How do you define a fool? Somebody who loses everything that's given to him. But we're going to explain it a little bit more deeply. He loses all the ma the ma ma means what? But also we're going to explain what that means. This comes and says an explanation a deeper explanation of it. And you'll find it by the way in terrabic olive gimmel also in gimmel. How do I know this bucket? No, because I'm reading number nine. So this explains what does that mean when it says that a fool is somebody who loses everything that's given to him. that from above every Jew is given a ma what does that mean then means the ability to nullify oneself to Hashem that ma means the the X factor the unknown the what the what is it nothing what are we nothing so ma signifies b so everyone is given in this ability, this capacity, this potential for Oh no. But because there's an evil inclination and Malik Zin flipped the page of the is called um [snorts] old foolish king a fool. Uh that's what we're defining. Who is a who's a fool? You could lose the ma. So who's a one who loses ma all the ma that's given to him the ultimate is the foolish old king the who makes you lose your ma your bal god forbid and it was that lost object that don was reclaiming and re reinstating to its rightful owner. But you [snorts] think he was just finding car keys and uh phones? He was finding people's lost capacity for self nullification and he was returning it to them. And he was the feet. So I understand the point of the feet. V nonsum Mishkun the machnes that went up in front. They were close to the Mishkun. Ail shvet Levy and Ail Ben Kahas. Even the ones with the real what do you call box seats. Shvet Levy. I mean Ley was the one who was uh they were I mean they were associated with the Mishkan. They worked in the Mishkun and especially the Bahos who were carrying the the Mishkun stuff. can zitus they could become a mitz. They could become a separate entity unto themselves. [snorts] They could lose their ability to become one with Hashem through through surrender. on, but it was Don who was the low man on the totem pole, so to speak. Um, specifically because he was the feet. Not only did don retain their own bit, but they were the ones who would help other yed who had lost their BL to get back in touch with it cuz they were the feet and that's what the feet can do. Could be Ben Ley Shvet Levy and Ben Kah and they're sitting up front next to Mishkan and it goes to your head, no pun intended, the head and you lose your BL. comes don the schleer in the back and he not only keeps his bit but he helps you get yours your ble back too mut as dim and like we said earlier it's the foot of all parts the foot is the one that helps the head achieve what it needs to achieve Okay. Hey, and this is also what it means when it says in this week's par meaning will make a judgment says a certain person would regularly say judge my case. That's my case. And the sages said learned from this he comes from Don. This guy used to say that line. He was a descendant of Don because it says Don will judge. Now, now we're going to explain this homalytically. What does this mean? The is ofite is describes an attitude toward life that everything every tiny little thing he wants to know. What is the um guidance? What does say when cleansed he knows the world is not an abandoned place and even on the even in the even the tiniest detail has some guidance from Toyota how to conduct oneself so where does a person get that attitude toward life where he doesn't think anything is just like optional free time me time self-care I'm gonna do whatever I No, I'm nothing against self-care, but even when you do self-care, it's ali. It's because of Tao. Not Tito can take a break. I'm pausing and I'm going and doing my own thing. No, no. His attitude is he realizes every single thing he does, even his resting is dictated by that attitude or that conduct comes from when he serves Hashem because he understands he could make a distinction between big things and little things. And he brings a proof. He says itself refers to this thing as a light of the light. And this thing is a heavy of a heavy. But from a attitude, there's no difference between the light of the light, the heavy of the heavy. They're all equally Hashem's decree. And that is how don the a of don but also the aid that each one of us does when we exemplify the properties of don that's it seems like a low level because he doesn't understand and he doesn't have but the truth is the inner truth is not only is it not a low level or it is a low level but precise because it's a low level it's actually a very high level higher than understanding and it and it is so in two ways we're going to explain two ways in which kabalis soil is greater than serving hashem through understanding olive is understanding is limited. You cannot graspem which is infinite with understanding intellect which is finite. When you when you when you connect to Hashem through intellect, then it's limited. It's limited to the capacity of your intellect. but is connecting to Hashem. I'm going to liberally translate here on his terms, not on your terms with your definitions and your limitations. But Kabala is a is connecting to Hashem on his terms and Hashem is infinite. So Kabala is infinite. So that's the first advantage of Kabala over base. The second one of is the second virtue of Kabala. Advantage of Kabala is not only does it go higher, does it reach higher like we just explained, but it's actually the foundation upon which all of a is built including Seik. Seel is also even when we're not telling you to get rid of you're going to continue to use but even that as you continue to use it is built upon the foundation of we're going to explain you cannot build on itself by itself by itself is the only way will be the way it's supposed to is if it is founded upon and if you don't find it in himal it's talking about this is from am I right okay that's but when he says it's in 13 oh petting my mouth yes correct in petting my malaf it's talking about like this uh um ax. It says kura like this ax that uh he's not useful until you put a yolk on his back and if this he has to have kobalasel and if he's if this is not found in him if kabalasel is not found in him then kadusha will not rest on him. [sighs] So even the we're not telling you not to think anymore. We're telling you you should think but but it has to be built on on something solid which is coal. Otherwise you say will take you to crazy places. Okay. Now we're going to understand why Dawn went in the back and gathered up all the lost objects. There's three reasons. Olaf is because they served with this level that seemingly is the lowest level, the level we call foot. since their spiritual way of serving is the lowest level which we actually know is the highest level. So in in physical terms they they brought up the rear they went in the the back base because of their selfie facing attitude. So they they took the schleer job. They were okay with it to be the ones who gather up the you know who little old me. No problem. Even to be the back even though it meant they would be far from the the Mishkan and they would be in the back but they had that BL. It's okay. Don't don't worry about me. I can be far from the Michigan. If if this is what's helpful, if this is what's needed, it's okay. I'll I'll I'll stay in the back row. That was the because when a person is in a level of he's not a he's not an entity for himself. His only existence is to do what Hashem wants. [snorts] He doesn't care what's going to happen to him. He only cares that Hashem's will gets carried out. That's why he's okay. Maybe I'll be far from the Mishkan. Maybe I'll be in the back. It's okay as long as the gets done, which means in this case bringing a yid close to remember because that's what he would do. He would help others get back in touch with their ma. And if I have to stand way in the back and have uh nosebleleed seats like they call it. Um but in that's how I help other people get back in touch with Hashem. I'm okay with that. No problem. What do you think? I have to sit in the VIP section. Not a problem. cup.nal is what serves as the foundation for everything else even for understanding. Just like um the feet hold up the whole body. Um or the bottom of a building holds up the whole building. And uh so that's that's what it means for them to be in the back. They're holding everyone else up. I don't mean like, hey, you're holding us up. I mean, you're you're holding us up. You're supporting us all. We're all leaning on you. Okay. Z is the teaching in our service of Hashem. Even someone who serves Hashem on the highest level, the most elevated level, he's quote unquote standing close to the Mishkan and close to the But if he'll only think about his own welfare, even his own spiritual welfare, but he he's lacking the devotion to help out another Jew. because he's lacking love your fellow as yourself which like Hill said is the foundation of the whole he could even lose the ma in his soul meaning his ability to connect selflessly to Hashem. So here's a guy who's on such a high level and he's learning Tory to such a high level and he's in such a holy place meaning figuratively next to the Mishkan next to the which the contains which represents and nevertheless he's lacking the feet part of Yiddish kite the basic you know showing up for other people helping other people even when it's not glorious and if he doesn't have that he could even lose his uh lofty Interesting statement. Only the person who gives himself away in a self-facing way, in a self-sacrificing way for that's the person who can be sure of himself. He will remain whole, meaning spiritually intact. [cough] And not only will he remain spiritually intact, but he will help others to become uh to reinstate anything that they have lost spiritually. That's the guy, not the scholar, but the simple person who devotes himself selflessly to the cause no matter what is required. Now, could be there's someone who's a scholar and he does so with Kobalis and with devotion to helping others. Okay. So then you can have both. Not we're not saying you can't use intellect. We're saying even if you do use intellect, it's only valuable in as much as it's built upon Kabala soil. Okay. The mile of al the mile of men in Israel is there. Okay. Now there's a special virtue that you can reach through the of and we're using these terms interchangeably. Kobal snafesh b we're using all these terms interchangeably. They all signify the idea of ragel feet. So it says in para that this is specifically associated with shvnapali which uh it says about them that they inherited the um yamorim the uh west and the south what does it mean by lammed deuteronomy 332 23. Always like to see how it's translated. 3323. Yeah. [groaning] And of Navali, he said, Navali is favorably satisfied and full of the Lord's blessing. Possess the sea and the south. [sighs] So there in this translation it translates yam literally as sea but yam is also a direction like yama. So kadma kadam is east yama is is west. So uh yeah, these are three levels going upward from below to above. What is y? See the says where's the in the west even though west is a direction and directions are finite [clears throat] just like any direction is inad in the Nevertheless, in the west side, you [snorts] find more of a a revelation of the Shina than in the other uh directions. Okay. South as in the hits southern exposure says in that the south side is the strongest heat of the sun of Sheamish state regarding the sun. It says P can tell him that Hashem which is revelation is a son. This is higher than Yam. Okay, we're getting into deep stuff. Y which is west which is the revelation of godliness in time space is that's why it uses the termina to describe God's presence because because is malos it's the indwelling property meaning to say it's it's it's male it's more of that which comports to the limitations of you following all But we say the son which that's in the which is also was and will be which shows that it transcends time space which is higher than time and place. But what does it mean um to uh inherit to inherit it? Actually, it's yasha. That's why I want to look it up. Correct. My nudes. Yasha. Yam varum. Yasha. Yasha inherited is okay. So which means inheritance is a particular way of transferring ownership. There are other ways of transferring ownership such as which means sale not like the sale of a boat sale like selling something. [sighs and gasps] And then there's matona. Matona is giving a gift. So what's the difference between these ways of transferring or how is an inheritance a unique way of transferring ownership in Dman in a sale? The buyer has to give money. get. So, a little economics 101, but the worth or the value of uh the the thing that's being purchased is according to whatever the sale price was. You know, you go look on Zillow, you see comparable sales, how much the houses were worth. That's what are they worth? Whatever they sold for, whatever they're selling for, that's what they're worth. Also in a in a gift where the giver gives it for free. We say matosa if he had not done something pleasing for him he would not have given him a mata a present. We have a general concept. People don't randomly go around giving presents. They give a present because they like something about you. They're pleased with something. So it's not like giving money and then you sell them the thing. But the point is there is some type of an exchange. If he hadn't done if the recipient hadn't done something pleasing for the giver, the giver would not have given him the gift. is so it's understood that the value of the gift even though it's not measurable is in accordance with however the recipient pleased the giver. In other words, person doesn't give a gift unless the recipient did something that pleased him and he gives a bigger gift if he pleased him more. But in contrast if you look at inheritance doesn't matter the inheritor his what he does is irrelevant inheritance goes automatically and in fact it even goes to a cottoner a very young person meaning even a baby even a one day old baby gets It's an inheritance. It gets a share, an equal share. Um, so that's the point that a sale is an is accordance with what you pay for it. The thing that's purchased is in accordance what it was purchased for. A gift, okay, you can't really quantify it the same way. Uh, but there is some proportion that's going on there that accord in accordance with what the recipient did for the giver. The giver gives a a gift that is proportionate to that. But inheritance, it's irrelevant. Just you just exist and you get an equal share. Is so so this same concept exists spiritually. is mentions. Sale and gift are the godly revelation that come about in proportion to what the person does. Which makes sense. When the person changes what he does, it changes what he gets. [laughter] You get something in response to what you what you give. But an inheritance and every year it inherits from Hashem because you are children of the Lord your God. That's higher than the clay macab, the vessels, the receiving vessels of the recipient. It has no limit to it. So mira sale that's when Hashem shines something upon you in proportion to what you did. Matana also maybe it's a little bit more lofty but it's still Hashem is shining on you based on what you did. Yusha is when Hashem is just shining on you. It has nothing to do with anything you did. It's just that you exist. Cool. Tess. So don't forget we're going through three levels that correspond to nulli that correspond to um [clears throat] yum vim yasha yum is the west which is the most um [clears throat] the most worldly or the level of godly revelation that comports most with worldly limitations. Then you have denim which is the south which is the hot side which is sheish havaya which is a godly revelation which is hoya which transcends time space limitations and then you have yosha which is um inheritance which is the godly revelation which is not in proportion to anything that we've done. It's not a response to anything we've done. It's just on Hashem's terms and therefore unlimited like him. Okay. Tessa. Now, how do you get to that high level of inheritance? By loving your fellow Jew. Because that's what we got to do. That's how I'm translating it. In other words, not doing it because you understand it and value it, but doing it because you're dedicated to it because that's just what we that's what we got to do. Like we said before, based on your own intellect, then it's limited to the capacity of your intellect. is the grand is oblig but means dedicating yourself to Hashem as Hashem is infinite and even though we said before that every single Jew is shy to the level called inheritance I can nevertheless flip the page thank you that was asked. Oh, you're you're quick on the trigger finger over there. is and even though every year the nevertheless uh that could become concealed like we said a shita could lose the ma that was given to him and only through kabala soil do you get it back into a a revealed state in mna is shand Shave it normal. Now we have this concept. This is from McGill 21. Okay, we're talking about creaso, by the way. That's the context. We learn it from the mana, the positioning of the the flames on the the manoy and the bum mikdish. the the the the m the the the middle one meaning the middle um aliyah people call being called up for alias so that's that's mush that's the praiseworthy one okay so what we said here is we have the mahn I guess 12 divided by four is three right yes it is okay so if we have 12 tribes and we have four uh directions and the a camp is Mahnadon [clears throat] and we said that we have in that which three do we have we have doni and usher so in and it's all collectively called machnadon but in machnadon itself usher is the middle of that camp and uh like we said The middle is praiseworthy in a certain way. And here we're calling it pineia. The whole don we spoke about don which is making a judgment which means that every little detail in your life you look for Toyota's judgment because you realize who am I to decide that this is a big thing and that's a small thing. If you're going with kobala soil then everything in Toyota everything in life you're looking for tito's direction. And then we said napali is uh well that we just did that the yamasha and then usher is how we started the very beginning the idea of the ragllo and the idea of reggle being even higher than okay so that whole thing is called reggle foot which represents kabalis and and bit and snafes um and Usher is the middle of that. So Usher is Pmius. You following? Sure you are. Alien, just like we said, Don helped everyone because they were the gatherers for all of the all of the uh camps. They they reclaimed lost objects for everyone. So just like Don helps everyone, Asher also is helping everyone. He's It says that he was desirable to his brothers. They liked him. And our sages say, what does that mean? that he was liked means that he helped feed the other tribes during the Schmita year when you're not allowed to engage in agriculture. Yodal. So that that again that shows that Usher gave food but not just physical physical food. He gave spiritual influence to all the tribes again. Why? because he's part of that regal contingency over there and they are uh the ones who are supporting and holding up and helping the rest of the Jewish people. But we have to understand now what does what does have to do with specifically? Why do we say he gave food to the other tribes during schmito? Why? What's happen? What does that have to do with Okay. Um yeah. [sighs] VCS it says if you're going to say what am I going to eat don'te says don't worry I've sent forth my but that is for all the so why do they need to get food from usher everyone is blessed during that they won't starve so why are they getting food from Asha has a special let's see your base the idea of this year is a year the year that the came out in So during it says that you have to not do agricultural work like plowing is plowing and um reaping you should rest. These are labors that have to do with human food. up. You have to cease from them. So it says, and you're going to say, what are we going to eat if we're not farming? So what are we going to eat? And the the the verse continues with the answer says, I'm going to send forth my Why do we need at first it's not understood? Why do we need that extra phrase? Unless you're going to say also, why does have to make questions? And yet we have to say because this question, you understand the question means doubt. What are you making problems for? What are we going to eat? I don't know. I mean, don't worry about it. It'll it'll work out. No, but we're saying since the question is a question Toyota itself asks, it can't be all bad. There has to be some something holy about that question. Even though it sounds like it's basically somebody who is nervous about the whole schmita concept is what does that mean? It means schmita doesn't mean that there's no kasha to begin with like there's no question you know how's this going to work when the whole country I mean look one of my pet peeves is when people say you see the brilliance of Toyota because it does and that's crop rotation actually no it's not it's the opposite of crop rotation crop rotation is when you have a bunch of fields and you let one field lieow for a season is when you let the entire country lie I fellow at the same time, which presents a little bit of a question. What are we going to eat? THERE'S A QUESTION, A STRONG QUESTION. NEVERTHELESS, NEVERTHELESS, even though there's a big question how this is going to work, you leave your work alone. We did just like Hashem commanded. In other words, there's there's no virtue in in saying uh this yeah, it's crop rotation. Of course, it's going to work. No, you should say this is not crop rotation. This is craziness. There's no way this could possibly work. And yet, we're going to do this because Hashem said to do it. And you know what? Even though there's no way it could work, somehow it will work. But not because it's it makes sense. It doesn't make sense. Is connected to a place. I don't mean a physical place and such matters where there is a question but it doesn't stop us from doing what we need to do is that's why Hashem says I'm going to send forth my blessing is remember Even when Hashem sends his, it doesn't mean that we're not going to need food to grow from the ground and to eat food. Like when he was on, he didn't eat and he didn't drink. He didn't need to. That's not the solution. It's not saying, "Oh, everyone's going to keep and don't worry, for that year, no one will need to eat and drink." No, you're going to still need to eat and drink and regular food, normal food that grows from the ground in a natural way. Flip the page. Excellent of good job. Also, the solution is not, oh, the food in the sixth year is going to be so powerful that it'll leave you satiated for an extra year. Not saying that Hashem couldn't do that if he wanted to, but that's not what he did. That's not how Hashem did it. We have a precedent for that. Elijah the prophetized mole. He was sustained 14 days. That's a little longer than a year, but I mean a little not as long as a year, but nevertheless, it's pretty supernatural. He will sustain 14 days off of one meal, but rather what's the solution to what are we going to eat during the Hashem says, you know what? I'm going to send forth my blessing and I'm going to make that there's going to be food for you to eat as you're going to have bread and food during the seventh year. And by the way, and then lest you think we're talking about like heavenly, you know, mana coming from the sky raining down in little pellets. No, no, no, no, no. It's not in gilim, which could taste like anything's in. And it didn't cause any waste. You didn't It was super nutrition. It was all nutrition. There was no waste. norm, but rather in the in the year, we're going to have regular literal normal bread, including all of the the the the the negative aspects of physical food, meaning it has it leaves a a byproduct of waste, meaning a person eats and they take the nutrition that they need from But then there's waste that they excrete. And you know that's that's the nature of regular eating, natural eating. And that's what's going to happen during the seventh year. It's not going to be a supernatural way of being sustained. It's going to be the regular natural way. other nor vine gner for an eritis but rather I had to pause with the vinegner because that's the plural of a vinegart vine garden is a is a kum is a vineyard but vinegner is plural vineyards. So this is not going to take place in an unusual place like Hari or in the wilderness. No, no, the regular fields and vineyards of the land. and even though we're dealing with something very physical to the point where you're going to have a legitimate question of how is this going to work? What are we going to eat? Nevertheless, we're going to do it with kobala oil and Hashem is going to send his blessing and we're going to have food. Not miraculous food, but somehow even in nature it's going to work out. Shabasita says that the land is going to rest a Sabbathlike rest for Hashem just like Shabas. And nevertheless, aside from the agricultural restrictions, it's it's a completely regular mundane uh bunch of days. I mean you you still have shabas every seventh day but I'm saying the rest of the days of the year it's not shabas don't refrain from all labor just the agricultural ones but is not like shabas is not even like yam you know y you can do certain if it's for food preparation You can do food preparation but not any other tag. Um yeah you is all the are and it's just regular um weekdays. Dorton dar shabasm. Where do you have to rest? In what area do you have to rest? In the earthly things. In the things that earthly, you know, here means things that everyone walks on. Literally, everyone walks on the earth. walking on something means things that aren't given attention, things that are just sort of trounced upon. But that's the area where you have the shabasa, a uh a Sabbathlike rest for Hashem, meaning in the lowest things. Okay, we're on Gimmelius in. And now we can understand why this whole concept of Schmita was revealed especially in Usher's land. Because remember we said during shmita everyone has a braha but apparently what [laughter] usher had that more or that came through usher to the others that usher was giving food to people during order to carry out the aa of shabas. slashem in the most physical things and to do it in the face of all types of concealment where even you could have legitimate questions of how in the world is this going to work out is the way through it is gain because if you have oil then you can even go in a dark life. That's the power of Kabala. That when you're dedicated to doing the right thing no matter what, then you can even go through the concealment. This whole schmita thing represents concealment. We're dealing with something very, very down to earth, no pun intended, or perhaps pun intended, and doing something that's very difficult, very unnatural, very scary. And yet we make it through. And not because of an overt miracle, but rather a miracle that's invested in nature. And the way that we're able to harness that is through Kobalas. And Asher, look at him. He's the middle of the Mahnad Don, which the middle is the mash. And Don represents the ragel. So Asher is ultra ragel. And that's kabalis par excalance. And that's why everyone gets their food from user during the and to bring out that kabala where do you get that where's the source of that all that is specifically usher because he is pmius the middle shav of the regal mach Amaz [sighs] and being a the one who gathers the lost objects of all the tribes. She usher was able to sustain all of the tribes with food. your last ice of this light is gagman. Now let's go back to the beginning. Now we're going to understand Yankees braha which is usher has fat bread or his food will be oil. Maybe that's a better translation. His food will be oil. He'll have a lot of oil. And which is he'll dip his feet in oil. was [clears throat] my usher was shining in a inner way the whole idea of Kobalis soil the way it's going to shine in the future in the messianic future when we will see the greatness of action we'll see the superiority of action over study You know in the we've spoken about this many flip the page to 109 that the Msiah will reveal the superiority of the physical world. We spoke about this many times in I mean I think the first time we spoke about it was uh when we spoke about S is the body and Ara is the is the soul and nevertheless Ara should listen to Sod because when Mashiah will come we'll see the superiority of the physical. So to we're talking about this concept of action action is you know related to the body. The superiority of action over uh study is the superiority of of body over soul or of foot over head. Same concept. Remember the sikas from year and through the a of kabala soil of which is kabala soil meaning doing something scary even though it is scary not because it's not scary but it is scary because you don't know how it's going to work other than just trusting hem and marching forward you're going to merit through doing the a of andal we will merit the revelation s of the of the of the era of Msiah. The earth is going to be appeased for its um really means it's missing shabasim. the the schmita that it was supposed to have kept will be appeased which that will bring about the um Hashem will uh appease your land and uh dwell or or uh rest in it. a rest for the Jewish people. Okay. Um, that's the end of that. That was a long sika. Take a breather. [sighs] I made a bra earlier. Okay. Now, let's do the second sika, which is our last sik. It's a short little sika very short vav on page 109 second for and after we finish the we're going to say my mommy baked the chocolate cake and in the cake there was a lake in the lake there was a rake If you're 5 years old, please correct me if I'm not saying that according to the accepted as inra regarding the reward [clears throat] that comes from serving Hashem in the manner of usher which we've speaking about at length. The medish says in this week's para usher will have a lot of olive oil. [clears throat] He is going to um he's going to literally stand up or sustain the 10 gar not why did I say 10 the eight the eight garments. You see Schmeina is shaman is oil. It's also see I said it with a more of a hym. So you could I didn't want you to think I was saying but at any rate it is a pun. I think that is the basis of the uh madrish is the word play. So, Rasha says in the second that Usher had beautiful daughters who married high priests and high priests wear eight garments. You know, regular coin wears four garments. High priest wears eight garments. What What's the connection between pretty daughters and high priests? So here we must say that beauty here is a spiritual beauty which has a specific connection to to uh the high priesthood usher is sort of like what it says about Hashem says about I'm going to make for Adam a help uh helpmate Azer connectite someone to help him with his with his work. like we see when he would go into the holy of holies and atone for him and his household and the sages say household means his wife and if he doesn't have a wife he cannot go into the holy of holies. So we're equating this idea of beautiful daughters who marry kahan specifically the idea of the kangal is he must have a wife in order to do what he does and usher we're equating with the idea of a wife meaning an azer because like we were saying before usher helps out all of the otherw we're on the top of the second column the shite So the true beauty [clears throat] of the Jewish woman which is modesty that is what brings help so to speak to the high priesthood. is meant to them. And how does one merit this? Like we said before through judge me a judgment. Tell me what has to say. When you conduct yourself according to Jewish law, including Jewish law regarding mitzvah, then you will merit to raise a generation of sons and daughters who are occupied in mitzvah. to raise sons who will be high priest raising such children who go into the holy of holies where you have the ark with the tablets upon which are carved the ten commandments Not where you have ink on parchment, which is two separate things, nor but rather carved. The letters are carved in the stone, meaning that the that he and tora become one thing. [snorts] This is all symbolic of raising children who will attain the highest spiritual levels. And how do you do it? through looking to conform to and every little matter of life including the laws of now we're going to also understand what it means when it says previously in Puk that Asha will be blessed with sons and Rash says um Cphree says that no one was as blessed with sons as Usher and Rash says and I don't know what that means I mean I I can quote you the but I'm not sure in what way was he blessed with sons he had a lot of sons he had really good sons what is I don't know. I'm not sure. Not sure what it means. Rash says, "I don't know what it means because I mean simple meaning blessed with sons means has a lot of sons and you don't find that usher had a bigger population than other tribes. So how how was he blessed with sons? veloc flip the page. Okay, we could explain this with the saying of our sages that what it means is he sort of tips the scale so to speak. um for all of the other mil that the otherwatam have and this means having lots of from children. What it means is usher signifies soil. And when you educate your children with with kabalo, you're going to have children who are going to go in a way of mitzvah which will cause so much nas more and more than even quantitatively many children. And I'm so deeply sorry, but I cannot hold back. And I must say the obligatory Jewish joke because it's just perfect. And I'm saying this, you know who would like this? He's an Alama EMIS. Maybe he listens to this year from up there. I don't know. But uh Yeshua bin Yammen ben shalam do would definitely like this joke. I heard this joke from him many times and you can't read this without saying this joke. Two Jewish mothers are in Miami Beach and one says to the other, "Oh, I haven't seen you." Uh know Harriet says to Sadi, "I haven't seen you in so many years. What's with your daughter?" And she How's her husband? and the doctor. Oh, they got a divorce. Oh, I'm so sorry to hear. Oh, but she she got remarried. She married a lawyer. Oh, how are they? Well, actually, they're they're also divorced. Oh, no. I'm so sorry to hear. Well, she got remarried. She she married an accountant. Oh, [laughter] I I I'm not telling it exactly 100% perfect, but um I think now is the point where you say the punch line. My goodness. So much nas from one daughter. [laughter] So much nas from one daughter. Okay, you get it. So much nas from one daughter. Anyways, yeah. So, usher which represents Kabala. When you raise your children in a manner of Asha of Kabala, you can have so much more and more even than having lots of children. So much from one daughter is moving. Now, we're going to also understand what it means when it says, um, "And I increased his descendants and I gave him the verse. I mean this is uh I mean the the number 50 says safer Yeshua but you probably know it from uh it's right am I remembering incorrectly send in your letters let me know. So the rabbi asked the question the verse says I increased Hashem is speaking about you know I increased his um descendants and I gave him increase means a lot and then in the the verse goes on it says one one child so that was the question but the answer is like we said so much from one You can have more from one child than from many till the extent that you could have one child who gives the the the more than 600,000 for instance. who was weighed equal to the entire uh nation and there's no generation who doesn't have its so imagine if you're the mother of the misha you have as much from that one child as from all the Jewish children is from you want to have a child that causes that much nas that's through kabalis oil do me a favor by the way can you pull up the joke so much nas from one daughter just find it it's probably in one of these Jewish uh joke uh sites and just WhatsApp it to me because I want to read it correctly before we say mommy Make the chocolate cake. And in the cake there was a lake. M was a state med. The connection between mariting good kids and the concept of will be understood by what it says in before Hashem gave the he demanded that the yeden should have guarantors. You don't give somebody something precious that they can't uh stand by unless they have somebody uh backing them up. The yeden proposed many guarantors, our forefathers, our prophets, so on and so forth. And [snorts] Hashem did not accept any guarantors until they said our children, our children will be our guarantors. What's the explanation of that? In a person's life, you have different levels, different eras of life. all the different um sort of ages of rights of passage starting from uh 5 years old and you start learning and then you become 20 and then you have full brain like we know the difference between 5 years old, 6 years old, 13 years old, 20 years old [clears throat] and then even after 20 there are many levels. By the way, it's interesting that is because um [clears throat] I think uh according to neuroscience like the preffrontal cortex doesn't really uh mature until you're 20. Now the little kids, little pre1a kids, those are like the feet. Okay? So like when you're mentally mature, that's like the head. When you're a little kid, you're like the feet. and gashmas. So y are one structure or call it one body and just like the whole body is held up by the feet including the head is held up by the feet is and like we said before it's that supports understanding and so too if you look at the entire Jewish people as you Look at all the different demographics and all the different age brackets, but look at it as one body. The feet are also helping the head. So who are the feet of the Jewish people? The youngest ones, the simplest ones, the most immature or undeveloped, but they are the feet. So they are the arav. They are the guarantors even for the big scholars. declared like we said before the dawn who was in the back who was considered the feet he brought perfection and completion to the other tribes and we always need the feet. So too in the time of mater we needed the feet. That's why only occurred because we had the guarantorship of the little kids, little nursery school kids. They are the feet and they are the foundation of the entire Jewish people. like we say through the mouths of babes and sucklings you have established strength. Now you can understand and explain the connection between having good kids and having connected concepts. They're both feet. They both represent the feet. Therefore through to sons and daughters who are init and this is also a sim previous was besa and chabas pious um was yeah actually the previous was not but it was connected to because um it was the week of of um which is and it was the week and it was the shabas of which is coming right out of sim right anyways these these two we learn are from the same time period they're both from um simo basically the days leading up to simo and the days after simto it's leading up to sim and then is right after sim but the both of these are from the same uh time period same few days from tshinas meaning from 1958 wasn't yet 1959 was the last few months of 1958 and that's the end of parasi and that's the end of all the sikas from Um, say fracious Kazak Kazak Venice Kazek. And now I'm going to read it. Two women haven't seen each other in years running into each other on the street. How's your daughter? The first woman asks. The one that married that surgeon. They were divorced. The second woman answers. Oh, I'm so sorry. But then she got remarried to a lawyer. Maztov. The friend explain exclaimed. They were also divorced, but now everything is all right. She married a very successful CPA. The first woman shakes her head from side to side. M so much nas from one daughter. I basically told it perfectly. I mean I I hesitated. I shouldn't have hesitated. I told it perfectly. I even think I said doctor, lawyer, CPA. I I think I said it in that order. I impressed myself. [sighs] Chase, you shouldn't be impressed that you know these Nadisha jokes. Well, you know, maybe the Nasha jokes make it possible for people to learn. Oh, okay. Fine. [snorts] At any rate, thank you for learning with us. Um starting from par. So interesting notes and that the inf is the end of safer are from uh at least in part from shabas which is the beginning of safer. Very interesting stuff. Okay. Thank you so much for being part of this journey and may hashem give us strength to continue and to uh finish which uh means we're going to have to learn not we have to we get to learn is corresponding to and safer vikra then after we finish safer vayikra we will make a sem god willing on the entire kaik alf Be well.