Vayeira | Likkutei Sichos Vol. 1

Welcome to the soulward's house just to have a block from the Iel. Um we want to thank we have so many thank yous. We have a lot of opportunities for Hakar today. I want to recognize our partners in uh this project including Kohus who gives us the PDF of the original layout of the Sikha. That's what we learn through and you can get the PDF at soulwords.orgls ls as in lut sikas. Yeah. Uh also sikas in English our partners you can oh there's the from the sikas in English. Can you just scroll through that just for a second people see the beauty of that? Yeah. So that's incredible with translation. And look at the footnotes. Go back there. You got a little bit more than just translation. you have like over there explains me which we'll talk about later. Um that's from the sikas and English team. We want to thank them for making that available. And then also and you'll also find that uh PDF at soulwords.org/ls as well as a link to purchase your very own copy of lutas from kahos publications. Um, and I want to mention also just a little bit of fun, a little bit of history. So, this is the copy of Lutas that we use in this year. It's the newest and latest. And we should just do a little tease here. We didn't officially unveil the Winer Library yet, but this is the Sam Winer Library. This is uh Michael Savage's grandfather who he uh dedicated the uh library Soulward's house library to his grandfather. So um it's part of that library and we just picked up a bunch of copies at Kahas showroom uh last week which our illustrious uh students here are making use of by hashem. It's the first time we're using these fodm. These are brand new yet so use them well. And but I just want to show you a little piece of history. I mentioned at the beginning of the first Shir when we did a little bit of an overview about Lutas and its background that Lutas came out in 1962 base. At any rate, um here is a first printing first edition first printing of Lutas. You can sort of see the difference. Yeah. And I got this actually from someone who learns with us every week, not in person at the Soul Words House, but virtually as many thousands of you can yearbook do. Um, my dear friend Izzy Clapman or Clappy as they call him. Um, and he had this and he offered to uh donate it to the shar. So, I have this beautiful first printing of Lutic Olive here on my desk and yeah, I don't know you. So, can you zoom in at all or is that not so possible? Well, you don't want to mess with it. Okay, maybe could I walk it up closer to the video without that cause too much disruption? At any rate, you'll I don't think anyone heard what I was saying just now while I was standing away from the microphone. At any rate, I said it smells like a safer from the cuffs, meaning good. It's a good smell. Okay. [gasps] Memories, nostalgia. But this is not nostalgia. This is living with the times. This is current events. This is fresh off the press. Okay. We want to also thank [clears throat] we have sponsors this week. Um I have an anonymous sponsor who wants to remain anonymous who sponsored the bagels and the locks and the cream cheese which as always plenty of bagels and locks and cream cheese here at this year. We also have additional sponsors uh in honor of a yard site. This is a very special occasion. Many of you know that today is Rahmenu's yardsite y alfesh but today is also the yardsite of another Jewish mother who was also a leader of the Jewish people um a schla an emissary of the rebba to Nashville Tennessee rabbitsonia posner rabbitson of uh zman posner so we want to dedicate the learning and you Dedicating learning is something you do often on a yard site. Today is her yard site. Um but especially it's fitting that Rebson PNER was very into learning and had special nahas from the fact that her daughters obviously her sons as well but her her daughters knew how to stand by the rabbis fangans understand the Yiddish and then write notes in Hebrew and know what they were listening to and appreciate what they were listening to. She had special nakas from that because she herself was a very learned woman and enjoyed learning was passionate about learning and teaching and especially the tyra. So learning lutas on her yard site with her [clears throat] daughters here present they're physically present right here um is a very special way of uh offering a uh [snorts] nishmas. So this uh learning is Lily Nishmas Rishia Bas Schllema Aaron you said it correctly um originally Kazanovski from Benenhurst originally from originally from the real labavich where's what Nikolai Asher okay very good that's the whole um and her she have much nas from her children's children uh children's children's children Yeah. Okay. And uh and uh very fitting dedication. Okay. So, and today by the way, one of our sikas is about uh about our first actually both of our about our first is clearly about the other one is also about uh children. Okay. I'm going to make I didn't make a yet. Okay. And some people were sending me messages saying, "Can you write in the YouTube description where the different Sikhas start and stop?" Today there's only two Sikhas. Um, so I appoint you, dear listeners, can you send me the time code and I'll write it in? [snorts] Okay. We are on Lutas page 23. Push this aside. Put this over here. [sighs and gasps] Okay. So, today is not uh 20th of Today is not the 20th. It's the 11th of In fact, we're not even going to get to this week. most years is in the week of Vo. We're about to tell a story in which was in the week of Vay. The Reb told the story we're about to hear the Reb telled to va dozens of times at the Fabangans or at the paraben happens to be this is a uncommon occurrence but this year is not in Viraa it's next week in okay but at any rate we can still get ready for so the story is like this see because it's It's the birthday is the father of the says I'm going to tell a story which I've already told and this is saying I already told this story this is an early this is actually gimmel very early years the is saying I already told this story and as we know the went on to tell this story again and again and again and to bring different teachings and directives out from this short little story but just rich with instructions for all of us. Okay. on his birthday used to go into his grandfather the like. It's possible that this was not an exclusive thing that the other grandchildren also had this opportunity to go in for on their birthday. We're not sure. is orang is algor. Okay. So one time on his birthday when the the went into the his grandfather he could have been four or five. It was it was his birthday. So either it was the birthday he turned four or he turned five. And the Reb explains the mathb was born in their was right Nissen of so mathematically it had to have been couldn't he couldn't have been older than five. I mean, he probably wasn't younger than four. He was crying. He was hysterical. The little boy was crying. So his grandfather asked him, "Why are you crying?" So he answered as inshund he either learned it inh or he heard somebody relate what it says insh from that week's para para in fact from the first verse of this week's para or that week's para um it was par and it starts off that veto means and he revealed himself hashm revealed himself to a so that the rabbi said he heard that Hashem showed himself to Ara. So now he's crying. Why didn't he show himself to him? Why didn't Hashem reveal himself to me? He's crying. Little boy is crying. What's he crying about? He uh dropped his ice cream on the floor. He broke his toy. No, he's crying. Why doesn't Hashem show himself to me? So the his grandfather answered him he said look when a Jew and in other versions of the story he says a Jew who is he makes a decision when he's 99 years old he has to circumcise himself so he deserves it as flip the page that Hashem should reveal himself to him is The child accepted that answer. Stop crying. Okay. So that's the story. Simple straightforward story. We are now going to unpack the story. All right. Base. Even though this story is about the before he was a bar mitzvah, before he had the obligation of mitzvah and in fact not only he did not have yet the obligation of mitzvah he was before the age where others are obligated to educate him. So even though he was before either of those milestones, nevertheless, you have to learn this story. Because since the told, how do we know this story? because the told it to his son the in turn the told it over and that when the freed told it he told it in a public way that it should be conveyed to the whole world. So yes, even though this story is about a child and generally speaking, how can you learn something that you're supposed to do from a child who doesn't yet have any obl obligations yet, but since this story was told by the to the told it to be publicized is so that's a proof this story has an effect on us. So says that we can learn two concepts from this story. Shiloh. We can learn. We can learn a lesson from the question [snorts] that the little boy asked. We can learn an uh something a directive an instruction from the answer that the grandfather gave. Good. Okay. So the first part of the story from the fact that the little boy was crying that Hashem had not shown himself to him. We can learn as every Jew any situation whatever status whatever circumstances this person is in any Jew interesting. So the Reb is taking that it's a story about someone who's not yet of education age which we would think would make the story less applicable. The Reb says no actually that's a pertinent detail. That's what you're supposed to learn from it. That it's a story about someone who's not arrived at the age of education. Now the Reb is using this metaphorically. There's technically literally someone who's so young that [clears throat] he's not yet at the age of education. But also there's metaphorically a Jew who's not even yet in the the phase of life of of receiving a Jewish education. Why? Because due to circumstances they were not properly educated. That is going to explain. Wow. This guy is lacking so much das how we're going to call that like discernment understanding that not only he doesn't understand that's that's one thing he can't even take direction from somebody else [laughter] the word I would use in English is unteachable like that you understand that's another cate there's somebody who's ignorant okay he's ignorant but you can work with him this guy is ignorant and he's ignorant because he is not yet ready. He can't listen to you. Whatever it is, you know those people, they're just waiting for you to be quiet so they can say what they wanted to say all all along. They already have in mind what they're what they want to talk. He can't he he he cannot absorb. He's just emotionally or cognitively immature. Whatever the reasons are, we're calling this he's and this guy could be like that I was about to say, he could be a full grown adult, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, [laughter] but he's not teachable. Okay? But that's all part of the point. That's all part of the story that this person, as we're about to say, even in his situation, can learn. [snorts] Not only can learn, but we must learn about him from this story. But here's a parenthesis. When you count years, age, biological age, yeah, he he's he's an adult, but spiritually he's a child who's not even at education age. Said Jewish years are not counted by the passport. You could have the passport shows your your your do ob, right? Your date of birth shows your age. You could have somebody who is advanced in years on the passport, but as far as their spiritual development that I was going to say, they're they're still pediatric passport. According to his passport, his documents, he could even be an old elderly Jew. in his true spiritual age when it comes to his level of mitzv is it a kind he's a little kid playing under the table I love the flourish of adding playing under the table not just he's a little kid a little kid playing under the table so biologically he's a mature adult but when it comes to his yiddish kite he's still just a little kid playing under the Okay. But what's the point? The point is beautiful. He can demand. This guy can demand. And he could demand with a he could demand forcefully, which the Reb says that's what crying is. Crying is when you're overwhelmed. In another parenthesis, little parenthesis here. When you have something that is beyond your ability to intellectually grasp, it causes cognitive overload. Those are my words says you can't tolerate it. You can't you can't you don't uh have space to integrate it. But I'll call it cognitive overload specifically cognitive over overload is the is the term which means excess brains and there's a footnote um one with an asterisk sayshin k it's the summer mym of tshinal hashem giml it's a mimer from the called halalo hashem which actually happens to be one of my favorite It's a short little m I believe I didn't look it up this week while I was preparing the but I believe it's paras I believe it's paras the summer of tshin um and short very aime meaning it's got a lot of practical direction for spiritual growth and oh yeah so over there I I I believe I I should have looked it up but I believe the example was was um rabbi crying from a beautiful Torah concept cept that was like blew his mind. >> But the point of me is when you have something and even somebody on a on a level of sadic somebody who has an incredible capacity obviously his capacity is greater so that which overwhelms him is greater but the point is when you have something that's beyond your capacity so comes out as crying. So you could have somebody who um gets I mean I guess this the the the more narrow the vessels the more easily overwhelmed they are. The point is you can have somebody who not only is not observant of Torah mitzvah, he's not even ready to be coached and yet he's exposed to some idea about godliness and he feels this intense yearning for God which he doesn't he himself doesn't understand. and he can't wrap his head around it and precisely because of that he becomes overwhelmed and he starts crying. He starts crying because it's just so intense he just has no place to put it. He can't even process it. Okay. Uh so he could get this person who just described is not only ignorant but he's unteable for the time being in terms of Judaism. This person can demand and demand so much that it overwhelms him to the point of tears. What can he demand that Hashem should reveal himself to him like he revealed himself to Abraino? So that's what we learn from the child's question to his grandfather crying why doesn't Hashem reveal himself to me like he revealed himself to Ramavino. What do we learn that even somebody who is a child spiritually don't say h you think Hashem should reveal himself to you? Who are you? What level are you on? Go to yeshiva for a few years and then maybe maybe you'll start. No, no, no. Any Jew can authentically have this desire for the highest levels of spiritual revelation. And and not only we shouldn't question it, but actually we should understand that that's that's normal. Okay. Not only can this person demand that Hashem reveals himself to him, but he can demand that Hashem reveals himself to him in the manner in which Hashem revealed himself to Av's bris. As that I was about to explain, there are degrees of revelation, but the degree that Aram was able to experience after his bris was the highest level. And that's precisely what this guy who's ignorant and unteable has every right to demand. Okay? his to even before which was right after his we find that Hashem revealed himself to visi is the there which means which means revelation is yes Hashem revealed himself even before that but it's not comparable to the the level of revelation after the hay. When Hashem revealed himself to after the he revealed himself to him after already had his extra hay. I can balabias it the hay you know becoming from a was the additional hay. So that hay is five right alf is one and b is two and giml is three dollar is four hay is five. So the hey being five represents the goto says this the um five limbs that people na naturally cannot control which we say are the two eyes the two ears and the reproductive organ. So what you see what you hear and then the desire for uh reproductive urge those are things that naturally speaking people don't rule over meaning they have it's an open door for the atahora those things I mean obviously you have to resist it you'll learn a little Tanya and understand the difference between having the urge and controlling it right which is what the benon does and that's the goal of Tanya or not having the urge at all what we're saying is it's natural to have the urge of course you're going to have the urge um to look where you're not supposed to look or listen what you're not But you know, you have to control it. But you're going to still have the urges. When became with the extra, then he didn't even have the urges. All right. Previously, when it was without the he could only control that which a person can control naturally. But then afterwards he did everything he could do with his own he came as high as he could on his own as much as you can do on with your own power. So after he completed that so from heaven he was given also those things the things that you cannot get to on your own of then he was given control over even those things that naturally [snorts] cannot be controlled. Okay. is given. So it's understood then that whatever the level of revelation was that happened after that point after he gained that extra control over himself was a much higher level of revelation than previously. Okay. And going back to our point, nevertheless, every single Jew, what does every single Jew mean? Inclusive of what? Even the one like we said before hasn't even become spiritually teachable. He could also demand as Hashem should show himself to him just like Hashem revealed himself to Ara and not just any revelation of Hashem to Ara but rather but as he was after the that should be the level of revelation that he experiences. says, "Okay." Hey, so we learned from the Rebab's question, a little child being genuinely distraught why Hashem doesn't reveal himself to him, that any Jew, even a Jew who's not on any type of spiritual level, can legitimately desire the fullon revelation of Hashem. like Ara experienced after his complete perfection. That's what we learn from the the question of the child. We said we're going to learn also from the grandfather's answer. Okay. Hey men it from this that the answered well you know why Hashem revealed himself to him. He was worthy of it because he knew even at 99 that he needed to circumcise himself. Okay. What do we learn from that? It's not a contradiction. Yeah. True. True. That what like we said every Jew can legitimately demand Hashem should show himself to him. But you can want it. And not only you can want it, it's perfectly understandable that you want it. But if you really want it, practically speaking, here's here's what this here's what it's going to take. You understand? It's not a it's not a contradiction. It's a paradox. We're not saying, "Oh, you want it? You can't have it because you didn't do this." No, you do want it. And you can even want it now without doing what it takes to receive it. But additionally, here's what you need to do in order to receive it. the as you have to know that you need a circumcision. [clears throat] That's what happened in the story said knew even at 99 he needed a circumcision. Uh he was worth hashem should reveal himself to him. What does that mean? You have to know that you need a circumcision. That means irregardless of whatever virtues you have either in actuality or in potential because parenthetically it says potentially every Jew can come to the highest levels. like it says every Jew must say is obligated not only every Jew can say every Jew is obligated to say and what is footnote number four it's the tonio which is a med but of course [snorts] know this from bosani is quoting the tonio but And what does that mean? He says in [clears throat] when will my deeds arrive at the level of the deeds of my patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, Jacob. Not only you can say that, you must say that. by the way this that it says in a continuum with indicates we're talking about as he was already after the at any rate nevertheless you have to know that you need a circumcision we don't be confused we didn't explain it always said was answer was okay but if you're 99 you know you need a circumcision then you are worthy of Hashem revealing yourself revealing himself to you so now what we're un we're unpacking that we're saying okay what does this mean it means knowing that you need like in the words of the tono or from when will my deeds arrive to the deeds we didn't explain it yet, but we're sort of beginning to create the uh the idea here is you have to know that there's a higher level even that seems unattainable, but that has to be your goal and you have to feel like you need to somehow get there. But we're going to explain it explicitly here. Okay. Uh Even those who can control all of the limbs, even those limbs that normally a human being cannot control. Like we said before, even those uh sadikim know need to know they need a circumcision. In other words, even if you have achieved abraum with the he which means controlling all of the limbs including the five limbs that people naturally cannot control and you and yet you have to feel but you're still lacking something. You still need one more thing. You still need a circumcision. Whatever that means, we haven't explained it yet. Okay, in honor of another story about the and it's pertinent here to the context of he one time complained that he couldn't hear out of one ear inimish. So they investigated the cause and um apparently it was the Fredba himself who was the one who was sent to investigate and come back with the explanation. They investigated the cause and they traced it to uh that on Shabas previous Shabas I don't know what day of the week this [clears throat] happened on um that was saying he was delivering a mimer and in the other room someone was having a conversation this this disturbed him from saying the But since he felt the responsibility that his job is to to [snorts] teach and this conversation in the other room was disturbing him. So he just removed the power of hearing from the ear that was facing toward that room. just took it away so it wouldn't bother him anymore. Obviously, this point of this story is to illustrate the degree of self-mastery that sadikim have like we're saying about a becoming a with the he controlling all of the limbs including the ears and the and the eyes. So, uh here's a control story of control over the ears. At any rate, so the didn't know why he couldn't hear in one ear and then he realized, "Oh, I I I unplugged I disconnected the hearing from that ear. I got to plug it back in now. That's what it means when it says in a mimer. It's actually a mimer of the tesalab's own mimer. So I don't know if this story happened before or after then but the rebab himself described such a phenomenon of sadikim um who were able to remove their seeing or hearing when they didn't want to see or hear something that would be disruptive to hashem. they can control even those limbs that naturally you can't but the point is like this even those who are on that level they too need to circumcise themselves they they we're going to elaborate but they they they need to know as high of a level as they are on there's still something more that they So this is like a contrast from the rabbi's question. We see that even on the lowest level, somebody can legitimately yearn for the fullest revelation of Hashem. And then on the other hand, someone on the highest level has to feel deficient. It's called a paradox. It's okay. We live within the tension of paradoxes all the time. That's what Tyra is. That's what Yiddishkite is. that on one hand the lowest person can legitimately yearn for the most intense revelation of godliness. On the other hand, the highest guy has to KNOW YOU'RE NOT THERE YET. You haven't reached the pinnacle yet. There's still something more you need. Okay. Uh de is that even when there's a tiny or tiny foreskin but or I mean biologically it's a foreskin but symbolically it means the covering it means the impediment that which uh blocks sensitivity to godliness. So even when there's a tiny blockage a relatively what he calls doc means thin uh blockage but through hishalless it can devolve through a a negative process um something much more serious. So he has to know that even if there's like a little issue for other people they would they wouldn't even consider it an issue but he has to know that from that can actually devolve something much more uh egregious. And that's what it means of 99 years old knows that he needs a circumcision. 100 years. What does a 100 years mean? 100 years means he refined all of his 10 like we talk about the 10 faculties of the soul 10 soul powers. He has nothing to worry about. He has no more connection to the world. This is from at 100 years. It's like he's dead and nullified from the world. Okay, just slow down here for a second. We're talking about somebody who's at 99 years. 99% let's call it as opposed to someone who's at 100 years. Let's call that 100%. What is 100%? 100 is that as within each of the is included all other like the within the within and so on and so forth. You're probably familiar with like in when you have like the that's only with the mid here's with the entire including the By the way, someone was saying to me that I should use less Hebrew and Yiddish or at least translate all the Hebrew and Yiddish and they sent me an email and I want to apologize and say like this. I would love to do that but these sikas already take me two hours and if I would translate every English word I think it would take me three hours. So just know that on soul words there are all types of different classes for all types of different students and um yeah so this we're learning every single word in Yiddish and it's uh for ease of learning there is an assumption of a certain degree of background but I would also recommend that if you are lacking that background and you're patient you should just watch these classes and I guarantee you you will pick up the lingo So, how do you think I picked it up? How do you think anyone picks it up? You just hang around and you pick it up. Okay. Um, so at any rate, what does it mean 100? 100 is perfection. The 10 subsets of the the 10 subset qualities of the 10 main qualities of the soul, they're all perfected. They're all completely uh transcendent of any worldly connection. And and where do we get that? We get that from the pav that says when he's 100 he's like he's dead and he's nullified from the world out to launch. So the Reb asks a question seemingly what does that mean when it says 100 he's like he's dead and he's nullified from the world. All the other ages are milestones of like directives of what you're supposed to do at that age. Like for instance, learning when you're uh fiveishna learning when you're 10 becoming a bar mitzvah and obligated the mitzvah at 13. So all of the ages in that Mishna are talking about milestones and what you're supposed to do at that milestone. [laughter] But what kind of instruction or directive is this that it says 100 years he's dead. Okay. So you lie down do nothing like it it can't it doesn't match. It can't even mean that. So this is the very interesting saying this is what's the when he comes to the level he refined all of the 10 soul powers and not just in general but in particular. So all 10 but each of the 10 as it contains a subset of the other 10. Then it is a Benmeha. He's called a 100-year-old. He got 100%. He got all 100 sub qualities of the soul all cleaned up. Now is he's like he's nullified from the world. That that's a good thing. It's a posit. It's saying he's not connected to worldly things. He doesn't have to be afraid of their pull. It's like he has no more. Okay. So, at any rate, when someone's 100, that means no more. Completely transcendent. So then what's 99? 99 is almost there. It's practically there for all, you know, for for engineering purposes. Good enough, right? Okay. 99. If he's 99, he's still lacking one little detail, but he still has to do the ma. He still has to take care of it even though it's one tiny little thing. [gasps] Why is we said that? Fine. By the way, when we say this word that through a process of devolving things can get worse and worse. The say we don't even mean a lot of is that the person is in one world, one plane and that he'll descend down to another plane. A person is a funny thing. In one hand, he's the first and he's the last. He's the last, meaning chronologically the last creation. But he's the first, he's the purpose of all creation, which indicates the idea that person can reach the highest heights, but a person can also, god forbid, fall to the lowest depths of depravity. So like they say only a human can be inhuman. Is by mufa kenzulus. This is negative. this devolving uh where one little minor problem just gets out of hand and grows and becomes a major problem. That doesn't mean that he goes from one world down to a lower world. It's saying it could be completely in microcosm internally. It can just mean you don't have to imagine like going through worlds in the macrocosm. It could just be in the microcosm internally there's a shift within him where a tiny character flaw gets out of hand and becomes serious. So therefore this guy at 99 who has this one little crumb left to refine, he takes that seriously. And that's what it means at 99 knows he still needs that last degree of perfection. Yeah. That one little deficiency can lead to very low things. But when he has the general, humility, surrender, he knows he's still lacking something. He still needs a circumcision. He's not fine the way he is, even though he's at 99%. He knows the way he is. It's not okay. He can't be that way. He has to make himself different. of that is the preface the prerequisite to coming to the higher levels of Hashem revealing himself to him and a degree of revelation that is like the way Hashem revealed himself to Ara after a's circumcision is he he he becomes worthy not with the extra he controls all of his senses of even those that naturally we don't control even more than that oft not only does he become a master over himself internally but by extension he becomes a master over his portion of the world. This is a concept. Each nama is given a certain portion of this world to refine that that constitutes that like we said about when they refine themselves internally, it also there's a ripple In fact, it creates a refinement in their surroundings. So when he controls himself internally, he also is able to control his surroundings of which means that anything in his surroundings that's necessary that he needs in order to serve Hashem, this is not [clears throat] for his personal gain, but it means whatever resources are necessary for doing the in the three big categories of blessings which is family, health and wealth. It should all be ample meaning to say that the person takes control over himself entirely and then by extension he's controlling everything even outside of him which means that anything that he needs all the tools that he needs in order anything outside of himself inside is your your your faculties but then around you are the tools that you need in order to accomplish. So those are the those are the blessings of health and wealth and and family that are given to you in order to do he gets all of that as well. Okay. But and that's the end of the uh so like we said just to to to recap the concept is a story that is crying at four or five years old. Why doesn't Hashem reveal himself to me like he did to in the para says if you're 99 and know you need a bris you're worth it. So we we learn two things. One is from the question that anyone even on the lowest levels, even someone who's not only ignorant but unteachable at the present moment can legitimately yearn for a revelation of godliness in their life. And it's a completely legitimate um yearning. And I want to spell this out very clearly because sometimes people don't get what I'm trying to say. I'm going to be very explicit. Never ever ever put down a Jew for having a crazy spiritual aspiration. Never tell you. Why do you think that you should want something on that one? You do. You even fill in the blank and that's what you're yearning for. It's a legitimate thing. It's a natural thing. Don't judge it. Don't put it down. Celebrate it. On the other hand, yeah, there's an on the other hand. [laughter] You want it to really happen. You want it to really happen. I mean, it's you could yearn for it and that's fine. We will not judge it. In fact, we we we will validate your yearning for. But JFYI, if if you would like it to happen, there is the rest of the story, the the Tamakadik's answer, which is you have to know that even when you're on the verge of perfection, you cannot rest on your laurels. You need to pursue absolute perfection and then you will have that ensuing revelation. Okay, that is the end of the first Sikha. So, whoever is gonna send me or put it in the comments maybe um the time stamp wherever we're at, just let us know. We just finished the first I think we're at it. I don't know. Just write it in the in the in the comments. Okay, fine. Now, a second. This is interestingly not from Pares Vo. It's actually from a Yudbamos Febra. Didn't Salman Pner always come in for Yudb Thomas? Wasn't that a thing? That was a thing, right? Isn't that beautiful little connection? Yeah. He used to always come in for Yud Tamos and then Can I tell the story, but you'll correct me if I tell it wrong. One time he came for Yudb Tamos and then he wanted to hear better and he was standing by the speakers and the deba couldn't see him and the eb was asking your grandfather both grandfathers he asked posner's father and his grandman where was he and then he was inhus during the faba where is he okay and then was there after so the next day there was a yus this is amazing I'm able to get all the information verified so the next day after the was and the asked your father or whenever it was it was yesterday or however where were you at the fabbran and so he explained I wanted to hear the reba's holy words so I could you know appreciate the the fabangan And I guess kind of like laughed maybe or smiled and and said one one time a year you have the opportunity uh to get pushed basically get [laughter] smooshed. Uh I think the or something like that. Okay. You have one time a year an opportunity to to push the the the materiality of the body away and and you stand far away. Incredible story- which to me I learned a lot from this story. You were talking about before how your mother had special nas that you were able to listen to the edition and write notes in in Hebrew. Um there's two things and we spoke about this at the first shir when we started in parishious there's the fabin and there's the han the han means the transcript and then there's the edit which we you know we call the there's two different things there two different things the that we're learning that's that's learning learning like like like brains The fabin meaning the occasion where the teaching was originally delivered is not so much limitra. It's more of I would even say a physical experience of being present. Yeah. Getting pushed. Yeah. Maybe even I mean not maybe not being able to hear as well. I mean that's part of the story is that your father was like I wanted to be able to hear. And the deba basically explicitly telling him it's better you should not hear as well. You know like the didn't say these words. So I want to be very clear I'm inserting this part like you'll you'll you'll study the han the next day if and you'll catch the words that you missed at the actual but don't give up the opportunity to pack in there and get elbowed and get smooshed because that's that's the experience. So, it's a an important thing and and now I'm really adding my own commentary, but I'll mention being that we're half a block away from the aisle, the idea of of going to the Mitb writes about this in the countish, which is a pamphlet about going to uh the aisle. He says that part of the power of the experience of going to Kadikim is the physical process of getting there like you know so you came in with your your suitcases from I'm assuming from JFK or from came at least at least you flew out of Palm Springs that's a that's a Mela airport. Palm Springs is like you can deal with that. That's a nice airport. It's a small little airport, right? It's like you don't have to. It's not like JFK where you're walking at two miles to get to your gate. Palm Springs is a nice nice little airport. Okay. But at any rate, the point is the physical experience of being uncomfortable and getting smooshed and standing in line and getting in the car and all that stuff is actually part of the experience. Um because it's a it's a physical connection. So all the physical inconveniences that you might have to get to the aisle is also part of [clears throat] the it's part of the depth of the the encounter. Okay, I'm glad that came up. So we're learning now the second from Alf of which is originally from Yud Thomas. Your father is probably there Thomas. He was My pleasure. Come anytime. >> What? >> You came from my Okay. >> Oh. Oh. What's called >> Anash of South >> air? South my every Sunday the ladies get together they learn after. >> Oh you learn you watch it independently at your own pace and then shabas you get together at the kdish and do of the year. That's amazing. >> You want to take some some tomatoes to the >> my life? >> Amazing. Amazing. Okay. Tell everyone I say hi. >> Okay. And tell them they got a shout out today this year. Okay. Your father's probably at this for. Yeah. I would assume so. I would assume so. Okay. Probably. Okay. Um Yeah. Let's do this. is as one of the things that happened after his bris, we said that was his perfection is that [clears throat] he was on the level where he was capable of fathering Yeetszkok. To be to be able to father Yitzkok, he had to be on a certain level. He had not been on that level until the Brit. And like we say in the the prayers that we say at a brisma ceremony, it's referring to u the words that the beloved one was sanctified from the womb. meaning he was uh born already from a father who already he was the first child who was conceived from a father who already had a breast. Okay. Even though before the yeah was already a chariot to godliness but he wasn't yet at the level where he could father but through the miler it says vmim you should be complete tom means complete um intact whole so through the the miler is when a became tom So demo specifically then that's when it became possible that was on the level he could father ah from this we could further deduce the advantage of over what father doesn't want his son to surpass him by a gibort Because look at it with birth it actually it didn't require that he be born from a father who already had a birth on the other even if you look at all the accomplishments and the the greatness of that he had before the circumcision but it still wasn't enough to be on the level to to father Yitzk But he couldn't father until he reached that level of completion. Okay. So what is the reason why Yeitzk specifically had to be born under those conditions of conceived from a father who already had the completion of circumcision. So now this is basically going to outline the paradigms of a and as they apply to our lives and we're going to talk about why the yeets paradigm is actually more demanding, more difficult, more challenging and yet the one that we should pursue. We should pursue both of them that we should give special attention to the paradigm of okay is like it says in or this is basic by the way anytime you have a basic concept in you talk about usually 99% of the time um I don't know if it's 99% of the time you know that 83.4% 4% of statistics cited by rabbis are made up on the spot. But 99% of the time you have a basic concept it goes back to the alter either Tanya or um so this is a concept goes back to from from the the alter [clears throat] that I mean we know and the nature of are which means above to below and below to above and we're going to explain this at length so I'm not going to elaborate now. declared. So it's explained in many [laughter] that is like water. It's love and it's water. Those things are all connected. Gashim like we said in gashim. So remember gasham. Remember who did what to the tune of the ben. Yeah. Yeah. We got to get Mandy Herz in here. Shout out to Mandy Hertz the five towns. We got to get him in here to sing of it's a line in Gashim. We say remember the father who was drawn after you like water. We're speaking to Hashem and we're saying, "Hashem, remember the of Ara who was drawn after you like water." That means a served Hashem out of love, which we compare that to water. Why? He's going to explain because water flows from above to below. Like love gets you to like go go down a level. it uh you know generosity is that mode of like being giving and putting yourself more out there as opposed to what as a fire which is gura which is the exact opposite which it goes up and so it's not it's not going down it's going up instead of putting yourself out there in the world it's like escaping the world transcendent more uh but we're going to speak about what that actually looks like at any rate so a is water >> [clears throat] >> Turn the page 28. Nature of water is to flow downward. But in contrast, The flaming fire is but was fire was water flowing downward. Was fire going upward. Hold the candle. Don't hold it like that. You'll get burned. You got to hold it like that. Pro tip. And this difference it was not just internal. It was also how they related to the world. Okay, let's talk about that. What does it mean to relate to the world in the way of flowing downward or striving upward? to the world from above to below but had an opposite effect on the world that the world itself should elevate and become a vessel to godliness which is called elevation from below to above and we're going to speak about what that means for as well as for us We see those differences expressed in their behaviors as Tory describes it to us. Yeah. Aino drew down godliness to everyone in Eritan. And where did he do it? In a place called Eritz Cananan. It wasn't yet. was not yet sanctified. It was not only it was not sanctified but it was a depraved placean was a place of depravity. The cananim were depraved before it was refined and he also also had a little uh journey to last week to their And he even was able to bring godliness to the lowest people to the Arabs of that time who were not yet monotheists. They were um pagans who bowed to the dust on their feet which is the very lowest level of um of that's the the lowest ideology. We're going to explain a mench is angel in dry tail and a person is a portion into three sections head body feet is the foot's the lowest obviously but what's the the dust on the feet remember told the angels he thought they were Arabs he told them to wash their feet because he didn't because he knew they worshiped the dust on their feet didn't want them to bring their idolatry into his light didn't care so much. He wasn't so particular. So the feet are the lowest part of the body. The dust of the feet is that's even lower even lower than the foot. And so these particular Arabs of that time were on such a low level. They bowed down to the dust of their feet. What does that represent? Bowing. putting your head down. The the intellect is they put their intellect down below not only the feet but below the dust of the feet. So they these were very low people very depraved people. Nevertheless, said I could work with them. Said I could also um bring godliness to them. He called out there in the name of Hashem, a god of the world. Don't say he called out because others to call out. A shrine. He got them to call out um God of the world or actually not even but God is the world. Similarly, the methods that Aram used were also from above to below like the sages tell us that his main tool for publicizing godliness and getting people to call out in God's name uh was through hospitality. Again, that's that's a that's a of that's that's being magnanimous, generous, giving. Same same type of thing. He took in guests in the wilderness and gave them everything. Duncan when they wanted to thank him afterwards he would say to them no thank the one who's from whom you have actually eaten not mech so we established was all This means basically he would go down to a low level, deal with low people and he would lower himself. That's what generosity and and hospitality is. You lower yourself. And by doing that, he would bring godliness to these people. Now, did he elevate them? Did he lift them? No. No. No. That wasn't his point. His point was, "Wherever you're at, we're going to meet you down there and we're going to expose you to godliness. We're going to bring godliness into this situation." And look, let's let's say it very very explicitly. These were not people who wanted to have a philosophical conversation. They wanted to eat. So, he spoke their language. He gave them food. And then after they ate, then they would be sort of appreciative because, you know, like they understand somebody had to provide them that food. And then he would philosophize with them. No, no, no. Thank Hashem. In other words, he would meet people on their level. The food was about, you know, going down to that. You can watch my video on uh YouTube about winning the trust of the soulwards house stray cats about how I got these skittish feral cats who wouldn't come around me. I I I got to the point where they're comfortable around here. Um, how did I do it? Food. Food. It's all food. It's very primal. Just soothes the nervous system. And that was Aram's language. I mean his real agenda was he wanted to talk to you about God but he knows you don't come up to a guy a low-level guy whose sel is lower than the dust of the feet and start talking about philosophy you uh you first relate to him in his love language which is you give him a you know a nice piece of steak or whatever so that's the whole concept of is said we're going to bring godliness even to low people in low situations all >> [sighs] >> through love, through generosity, through hospitality. Fine. So that that was what's what's Indian is given concept was like we said already, whatever that means, elevation from below to above. We don't know what that looks like practically or for us, but we're going to we're going to talk about it. First of all, had no connection whatsoever to outside of the land uh and not to not to which is disgusting place. uh a was able to go to those low places was an he was sanctified as a uh burnt offering which is entirely consumed by Hashem and so he had a certain level of holiness to him where he just couldn't deal with uh the kind of low situations that Aram would go into as an embodiment of. Okay. So, it sounds like we're saying that Yitzk was kind of like separate from the world, couldn't deal with the world. But we're going to find out actual practice. It's a lot more complicated than that. A lot more nuanced than that. But let's learn. [sighs] Now, when he was inro, what did he deal with? Uh, digging wells. Digging wells is symbolic of revealing godliness from below to above. Remember, a reveals godliness from above to below. Digging wells literally is bringing up the water from the water table up to the ground. So that's bringing it up from below to above. That's how Yitzk approached godliness. He said, "Look, the world itself is godliness, even if it's concealed, and you have to scratch the surface or sometimes dig deep and bring out that godly core." And as opposed to's method of importing godliness from, you know, if you want to talk about wells as as water, you know, you could talk about a as irrigation, bringing water from somewhere else. They do that in Palm Springs, right? They bring the water from somewhere. They don't got it from there. Where does it come from? Some somewhere Colorado River or something. Um, that's Aram's method. Yitzk says, "No, right here in the desert. That's dig. Keep digging and keep digging. Eventually, we hit the water table and there's water right here. There's water right here. Local, not import. [sighs] because we were saying before that he was so holy he could he wasn't connected to the world he had to stay away from anything that was like mundane but doesn't mean that he sequestered himself from the world to the contrary he sort of forced the world around him to have that same thrust upward that he had a given since he himself was striving upward in that flamelike manner int he he he caused the world to also be like that he he brought out in the world that it should also be drawn after Hashem in other words is leaving the world as it is but bringing in godliness which obviously is an improvement. You bring godliness into the place that that makes it better, but it's still foreign to the place. It's it's imported from outside from from from heaven. Yetszuk says, "No, we're going to tap into the latent hidden godliness that's already here by bringing it up from below." So, it's ex the exact opposite approach. And and we're going to elaborate what that means. If this sounds a little bit abstract to you, we we're going to explain. Okay. Y base job was digging wells. which means bringing up the water that's hidden in the in in the earth. Not to pour water in from somewhere else. Not to pour in their water from somewhere else, nor but rather but to reveal the wellwater that is there already. is because the truth is living water is there. It's there. It's just covered with with earth with stones with with mud. But if you remove the covering, then unple then you reveal the living water that was there. Meaning there's godliness in every situation. But it's really hidden deep. Okay. So you remove whatever the covering is and reveal it. This whole well digging thing was also emblematic of his whole spiritual service. His job was to remove all of the coverings. Anything that was covering concealing and to transform the world itself into a vessel for godliness like we call it elevation from below to above just like that water which flows from below to above. Okay. Not only did not give credence to the opposition which was covering the water but more than that another level he didn't give us he didn't give credence to those who opposed his digging the well. There's two levels. One is you're not intimidated by the earth that's covering the living waters. You uncover the earth until you hit the living waters. Okay, that's one level. But now another level is now people are harassing you while you're doing it. [laughter] So it's one thing I'm not intimidated by the circumstances. You know there's earth, there's dirt. Okay, I'll remove it. We'll excavate. We'll get the water. Then there's the human factor. You know, that could be a lot more intimidating. People are coming up to you and thwarting the digging project, which indeed is what precisely what happened to Yitzk is they were messing with his wells, the we're going to talk about this. So, but Yeetszk's whole thing was not only he's not intimidated by the dirt that's covering the the waters, he's not intimidated by the people coming trying to stop you from uncovering the dirt that's on top of the waters. Okay. And this is what the Torah tells us. Um, is that where we're at? Yeah. When aim was pushed, he was the king. When his shepherds came and hobbs and they chased off shepherds stopped the bruns and they clogged up the wells is he didn't get intimidated. He just told his workers, "Keep on digging. They every time we dig, they plug it up. Dig another one." Was not intimidated. No. But furthermore, symbolically, what we're talking about is somebody who comes into a c a certain situation and says, "I'm not only not going to import godliness to here." No, that's not what I'm going to do. I'm going to uncover the native godliness in this place. And they tell you, you're crazy. There's no godliness in this place. there's there's no yiddish kite and palm strings. There's nothing here. You can't do this. And they say, um, yes, we're there is godliness everywhere. Less pa. There's no place devoid of godliness. We're going to tap into it. We have to dig. We're going to we're going to get it. And then so you start digging. Okay, that took a lot of courage. And now people are harassing you. They're undoing your work. It's a whole other level. Now they're everything you do, they come in and you try to swort it. You have a permit for that? or whatever, you know. Okay. Um, and whole thing is it's okay. It's okay. We're not going to get nervous about this. That's that's the So, this is another level. They stopped up the wells, but also they stole the wells. So, even when they took away the wells, that servants dug. So they took wells and they gave them to the transferred it over on a deeper level says the Reb. What does that symbolize? They take the warmth and the life, the life and the warmth that you uncovered and misappropriate it and put it over in kipa specifically not any kipa is maful and again this is a basic concept and therefore if you remember what I said before uh you'll look in Footnote 20 and you will not be surprised that this is from this is also from the alter is my modem that clipasim kipa is a shell is a negative force but there are different clippers specifically the clipper called pishtim is related to the word maful if you learn if you learn about carrying on shabis you'll learn about an open-ended alleyway so you know there's like uh an alleyway that has a a dead end which is a little bit easier to uh carry in. Then you have an open-ended alleyway has streets on both sides. So mauve mafulish means this open alleyway where basically the way I would describe it clip being related to the kinds of muish it is the specific kipa of having no boundaries everything's open there's no categories no um there's roles defined um just an erosion of standards uh roles just complete like um everything's open uh to the point of eroding all structure okay which is obviously I mean I don't have to elaborate and I'm not here to uh give u a soapbox speech about uh the ills of uh western society in 2020 25. But I think we could all understand the relevance of that. So what happens is Yitzk comes in and he against all odds he says I'm going to expose some leedite some life and some warmth here and he does it and he overcomes the challenges and then they come and they misappropriate it and they use it for their own nefarious purposes. Now, that's very discouraging. And at that point, you would say, you know what? I think we got to just stop this already because it's like we're not getting anywhere. We're spinning our wheels. It's [snorts] very frustrating. I It's more than frustrating. It's disheartening, discouraging. I don't know what to call it. It's uh it's it is it's very easy to to just give up to say this is this is not possible. too many too many obstacles. That's what the Reb is saying here. But was not intimidated. And he kept on digging. They didn't stop that they they misappropriated one well. They did it a second time. They misappropriated a second. Well, [gasps] he a third. until finally the third one worked out that he called which means wideness. Hashem will give us wideness, bounty, space in order to be fruitful in the land. So yeets really represents not giving up even when the attempt to expose the latent godliness in a place is met with all types of obstacles and yet doesn't stop. He doesn't he he will not be dissuaded. Okay is logically we spoke about last week that you know brisma represents the connection with Hashem that's or actually brisma at 8 days old represents the connection with Hashem that's above intellect because at 8 days old you don't have an opinion you don't understand anything we spoke about the necessity of going above logic logic will only get will only get you so far okay so similarly here we say logically there's no reason not to be intimidated by Avi Malik he's a very scary guy flipped the page is sitting on his throne and he's thwarting the digging of holy wells. It's very intimidating and discouraging. And here these wells that we dug with such hard work and misappropriates them did not give any credence to any logical calculations. is he know he knew that his job is one thing to reveal living water and he did it with nevish midn like we said last week doesn't just mean getting yourself killed the hardest nefish is when you stay alive neafish means you give away what makes sense to you and you serve hashem in a way that exceeds your limitations okay so logically should have said, "You know what? This isn't working. We got to stop." But he wasn't getting into logic. He said, "My job is to dig wells. We're going to keep digging wells." Wow. I love this. It's poetic. The task of making the world into a vessel for godliness reaches the true infinite. It's kite true infinite. He who is without end. Why? Because by doing this you accomplish the ultimate purpose for everything. Like it says why was he called? Why did call him? Because God uh did me a you know a joy a pleasure because when you deal with which is the same gamatria as the nature nature meaning that which conceals the miraculous uh inner mechanism of really God creating the world something from nothing every single second like we've spoken about in previous but tea covers all that up tea is the is the facade so when you work with the concealment and you break through it and then bring out the godliness that's hidden in the That is specifically what causes the for Hashem. Hashem's greatest joy or the gratification of his ta like the says he had a ta lust a desire forum to make the world the physical world the lowest of the worlds into a into a home for himself. So that causes great joy great gratification for Hashem. But that's what it means is the concept of that from the things that derive from the name Elohim meaning from concealment we reveal and that causes joy and laughter in heaven for Hashem. Okay. Now we're going back to our original question which is why did Yetsk have to be be conceived from a father who already had a didn't have that later was circumcised but he wasn't born from a father who was circumcised [sighs] was born from a father who was circumcised but he wasn't conceived from a father who was circumcised I mean he was born from a father who later became circumcised yet was the first child who his father was already circumc says when he was conceived. Okay. So why did why did he have to have that conditional level was the world of which means limited elusimosite like we said before through he came to completion. wholeness is that's above meaning unlimited. So a on his own was fromos which is limited godliness. I was learning the hayium the other day the alterb couldn't even write the full word because he would pass out from the ecstasy of it. I think it was yesterday's hayim actually. Um, [laughter] but here, so I'll side point because we're almost finished. When I'm learning with young labavatures, I like to explain to them that I say to them, you were born into a world where levels of godliness that the of the alterba didn't dream of are being bandied about [laughter] like spoken with such almost with with with a casualness. I I tell them you're like, you know, like rich kids who are like like uh trust fund babies. They grow up, they get a Lamborghini for 16th birthday and they crash it and then they get another Lamborghini. They they don't even know the value of money because they just grew up with it. Silver spoon in the mouth. I say in this generation and obviously this is what the deba wanted because it's what the deba did. We are all um spiritual trust fund babies [laughter] cuz we grew up in a world where levels of elus are being discussed publicly to everyone the like the highest highest highest levels. So I I sometimes I say to like you know like when I would teach in Berifa seminary like slow down a second okay [laughter] the alterba couldn't even write the word atilus and the is coming in here and talking to us about levels above and we're just breezing through it like it's uh you know ordering lunch like slow down a second obviously the wants us to be privy to these levels but let's at least have a little bit of respect in context that we're talking about some really lofty stuff. So at any rate, the Reb just said atos is limited elocos. That's what a was originally, but then he got the bris and he went to higher than unlimited elocose. Beautiful. Okay, we're higher than than theosh. [sighs] by so then a comes to that level of higher than he conceives and now yeets born already into that level and what does that do it summons from elicits from a zais that he should serve in in a limitless way he was fathered he was conceived by a father who was already on that higher than limitless plane and so he lived that level of limitlessness which means which means even the of kadusha holy intellect would make certain calculations and say costbenefit analysis this is not working why you can why do you persist trying to expose godliness in a place that clearly is is opposed to it you're right it makes total sense that I should stop I'm not going to stop because he's above those limitations ations. This is the last chapter of the we're almost done is here's the teaching for us are both called the fathers of every single Jew. So we have to emulate both of them. You have to be you have to be both. Every one of us has to do both. You have to do you have to do so that I was going to contextualize it when is learning or diving or doing mitzvah. So he's in a place of light and he's not dealing with the world at that moment. And not just when he's dealing with and which obviously we spoke about in parala go into the word the words of so there he's obviously sequestered from the world like we said the ark is that safe harbor where he's away from the world temporarily but even when he's doing which seemingly puts you in the world because you have You have to have somebody to be to, right? Nevertheless, when he's in in a mode of you have to deal with physical stuff like you have to deal with people, you have to deal with usually money or different resources you're allocating. So you are more dealing with the world is but he's not in the world. Yeah, he may be dealing with money and and and going to the bank, but he's not at the bank. He's in a total mode of of Elishton's villain. Um, so that that's sort of means just being like totally absorbed in in godliness. Not just when you're learning and deting, but even when you're doing uh acts of kindness. And what he's doing is he's bringing the godliness into the physical. opponent in Gash Lane, but he himself is not dealing with the physicality. I mean, he's there. Yeah. But as as just cuz that's where he's got to be to do what he's doing, but that's not where he's mentally or emotionally connected. And and for sure he's not dealing with with opposition with people trying to stop him. And for sure nothing that's like covering godliness. He's not dealing with that. He's just he's he's in his mode. He's in his in his place of and that's it. And just he's spreading out godliness. Okay. Now, let's say you're you're at that level that we just described, but you're still not at the the the tas. That's still not the ultimate purpose. It's beautiful. We what we just described somebody who is totally absorbed even when he's in the world, the world isn't touching him. It's it it's it's amazing, but that's not the ultimate. You did a very nice, but now you got to do the paradigm. Everything good? Okay. knit on me and of the you have to deal specifically with those guys who when you look at them all you see is the mud and the stones. You don't see the you even have to deal with the guys who are opposing godliness. So there's two things you have to deal with. People who are like the earth, meaning you look at them, you do not see any spiritual sensitivity in them. You see grubkite, you see [snorts] crass, materialistic, selfish, uh self-absorbed, spiritually immature. Uh that's what you see. And yet you you insist deep down in this guy there is spirituality. And I'm going to bring it out. And I don't care what obstacles I have to overcome. It's in there. I'm going to bring it out. See, the paradigm was I'm so into my Toyota and even I can deal with these guys and it won't touch me. It's I'm impervious to it. That paradigm is I'm not going to be impervious. That goes without saying, of course, but it's a it's another level. I'm going to engage with these guys until I get them in touch with their own godliness and that not only the guy who's like the ground that's covering the earth that's covering the water but even you're going to have characters who are like the pishim who are deliberately thwarting your efforts and by the way you know the doesn't say explicitly so you can imagine it perhaps could even be the same guy it could be one and the same person [laughter] someone you're helping them and they're trying to undo all of your work as you're doing it. And at the same time, you don't get dissuaded. Okay. What does it mean? People who are misappropriating the the living water. It means people who are deliberately sinning on purpose just to anger God. like these people seemingly there's nothing you can say to them. You can't deal with these people. Yeah. Come back to me for a second. You I just want to a little bit of a a note here. Um yeah, I'm going to be on a soap box for about 30 seconds and I'll get off. I hear a lot of people, friends of mine, colleagues who say something which to me is I'm I'm going to just say is deeply disturbing, which is okay, sure. You know when the Reb said, "Yeah, there was there were people who were difficult to deal with, but not like today, [laughter] but not like today. Today we have people who are just so out to lunch you can't even deal with them, my dear friends. Not like today. [clears throat] All this stuff is based on paradigms from thousands of years ago. It's all this has been around for for all of history. It was always there were always people who made it very difficult for us to not only bring godliness into the world but reached them and bring out their own latent godliness. That was always a challenge. But don't tell me, well now we have people who are so far gone and they're so brainwashed by Tik Tok you can't even reach them. Learn look what is do what it says you'll reach them. And if they keep thwarting your efforts, don't be logical. Don't say, "Oh, I guess it doesn't work." There's no guessing. Don't think. Just keep doing what you were told to do. Okay, let's go. We're about to finish. So, even these characters, you got to dig. You got to dig in them. to remove all the obstacles that are covering until we dig out the living water in which is found inside of them. Deep down there is there's a pint. Yes, you will get there if you never give up. and you reveal it and bring it out in a revealed way. Okay. I always love this. You know, I was I don't I I was much older when I understood the I used to think when the Reb would say that it was a rhetorical device. I thought the Reb wanted to say something. So he made up a pretend argument that somebody no one would really say this but if someone were to say this then you would say that as a response and then the got to make his point. Then I lived a little bit more and I realized [laughter] that is describing actual arguments not only people could make that that people were making the Reb is answering exactly the arguments that people are making. Okay let's see if we can understand this. So a person could argue. They could hear all of this and they could argue. Listen, I dug once and I dug again. Not only I don't see any accomplishment came and misappropriated the they confiscated the wells. In other words, it's one thing to say, "I'm working for nothing. It's not accomplishing anything." It's counterproductive. The more I'm working, THE MORE THE BAD GUYS ARE TAKING what I worked for and using it for for evil, nefarious purposes. Like, I got to cut my losses here. It's It's not just I'm working for nothing. I'm working against myself. We got We got to stop. We got to get out of this. No. Is So, he's going to say What logical place is there to argue? You should continue digging. So to this we answer like it says we mentioned we quoted this line from the ceremony earlier that was the beloved theid the beloved to Hashem who was sanctified from the womb that he was the first child who was fathered from a from a father who already had a bismillah and not only but his descendants in other words user's job and the job of his descendants meaning us has to be without any calculations. We said that we're born already from a as he is above from the the completion of of the which which puts us above any limitations even of that until now you didn't succeed. Let let Hashem figure that out. It's not for you to figure out why he didn't succeed. Let let Hashem figure that out. Why are you digging into Hashem's hidden matters? What matters to you? The only thing you got to know, mister, is you got to dig and you got to dig [clears throat] until you're gonna reach the living waters until finally you will like reach that place of of wide open space where you will be able to be um fruitful in the land. But you got to dig and dig. Okay. So just to sum up the second sika, why was Yeitzk born from a father who was already at the level of perfection that is afforded only by brisma? Because a is importing godliness to the world. talk is something a little bit harder, a lot harder, which is unearthing, pun intended, the living water, uh meaning the the hidden godliness, uh even in inhospitable antagonistic places and for that you have to have a special extra level which was granted to Yitzk and to his descendants to us by being born from Aram post brisma. So bottom line, don't stop digging. Don't be intimidated by anyone or anything. Dig and dig and dig and dig and dig and you're gonna find the water. Okay. Amazing. Again, we want to um mention that the learning today is alias of basin. And uh you're going to go you you went there yet. You're on the way to go there. So you go tell her the you tell her you learn the from the I'm sure she'll have a lot of she knows you learn the but maybe give her of the she should have a lot of nakas from you and from all the children children children children children children children children children children children and uh yeah [sighs] okay my pleasure all Right.