Vayeishev | Likkutei Sichos Vol. 1

And we are live. Good morning. Welcome to the Soul Word's House. Just a half a block from the aisle. Sunday morning, 10:30 a.m. We have a nice crowd here. See, we're starting to form a like regulars who come here. You come here for the bagels. You come for the learning. Come for the learning. Stay for the bagels. The coffee. We have the beautiful Kurig machine. And we get we I prefer the Kirkland. What? We have hot cocoa. Can you bring the hot cocoa here just so we can show everybody that we really have hot cocoa? We have hot cocoa. And some of our students are actually consuming some of this hot cocoa right now. And it creates the sweetness creates positive emotional associations with Torah study. That's why when little like a little boy starts you know [clears throat] the ceremony when you bring him to study olive paste and you put honey on the olive paste chart. [gasps] Okay. Um this week we have in parv if you look you'll you'll actually see it says vesv you see that >> uh you can pull it up. Yeah, says Vesv and then underneath Vaneka. Yeah. You want to maybe pull it up just like this so people could see more clearly? Vesvan because what we have here is two of two para para related and then we have a kanuka. Now also um next week in paras mikates we also have kaneka I'll show you that too. See paras mikates next week says mikates and it also says uh yeah it says shabas kaneka. So we're going to have a what you're pulling it up. What happened now? Everything was black. Um so this week and next week we have Kaneka related stuff. It's not really working. Um, this week and next week we have Kanek related stuff along with the parha. Uh, today is yudislave and uh, next week is no. Is that right? No. Very good. Okay. So, you see there. Okay. Um because of the way the calendar is this year in Tshin Pav basically we're gonna do both of the Kaneka sections before Kaneka even begins which I guess is fine because we'll be ready ahead of time. Okay. Um are we ready? Shall we begin? Okay. Olive, I'm going to pull up the Okay, you have to do it so big like that. Can you do it like the screen and screen? Yeah, I like that better. Okay, >> there you go. I like that. Yeah. Okay, fine. Inhibious mikates. And we want to thank, by the way, Kohos Publication Society for providing us with these PDFs. You can leave it on because I'm talking about it. Do you have the uh sikas in English by the way? Because I also just want to give a shout out to sikas in English. Every week in English provides us with their version of the sika and we always post it in the description. U someone was asking me where to find these in English. I said where do you find it? Right below the video player there's a description and you can click on it every single week. And um in English version of Lutas has a lot of cool stuff in it. It's not just a translation. Of course, that's one of the advantages, but there's a lot of uh explanatory footnotes and insights that enrich ones. Yeah, there you go. Look at this. Uh very good. Yeah, let's just take a look at that. Nice little intro. Go back a little bit. You have a nice little intro. Uh, and then you have uh the translations and it fills in a little bit, gives you like some background sometimes. It's a very nice resource, very helpful and enriches your experience. Anyways, that those are all downloadable, clickable uh right under the video. Okay. Inh. No, now I'm looking at mikates. Sorry. Okay. And if you're in the real on page on the verse, the opening verse of which says Yankee dwelt Yank dwelt in the land uh in the land that his father dwelt in which is Kanan in the land of Cananan. Mag the mag the mag the successor of the balm and the rebba of the alterb taught ves what does that mean as yaness that yan settled so to speak inkite in physicality earthliness we've been speaking about this a lot by the way as a theme in lut about the importance of physicality and channeling physicality to uh become a a tool to serve Hashem. We spoke about Yankee also in terms of specifically Yank in terms of being involved in the physical world to refine it. We spoke about that last week. We're going to speak about that more today. What did he do it for? It's a knife climbing in order to gather migur migur. What's migur? Migur is the the so place of sojouring of his father. But here we say um harvest the summer harvest. So migur means he means migur instead of dwelling or sojouring it's which means harvesting and means not his father's literal literal biological father but means of uh of his father in heaven meaning hashem so yank settled into the to the kite the physicality for what purpose migurov to harvest sparks energy, lofty spiritual energy that's embedded in the physical world, which we call a sabirud, the disenumbering of the sparks. He um to to disenumber those sparks and elevate them and return them to his father, his father in heaven. Okay. [snorts] In edits is even though Yankov's dealing with physicality was for him a descent, right? He would for sure rather be studying in yeshiva not dealing with physicality being a shepherd and business and all that stuff is but it was only temporary but only through that exclusively through dealing with the physicality one comes to an increase and an ascent and that's why it says remember it says says edits cananan. Well, what's editan? Canaan. Well, what'san cananan is a proper noun, but it's also a common noun. It's a name of like these nations, Canaanite nations, but also cananan is a is a common noun. It it's a it's a it's a word that has a meaning. Cananan with not a capital canan uh cananan from the language or the meaning etmology of uh commerce a aani can mean a merchant like we're about to say like it says in there won't be any more merchants in in the bashem no more people uh selling uh t-shirts and uh keychains in front of the and you know the rule in business in commerce is that you spend money in order to make money like it says in Mish the proverbs of the wisest of all men Solomon that there's someone who spends money and then he gathers in more. He doesn't waste the money. He spends money to make money. He makes a net profit. So here we're talking about the spiritual profit that sometimes you got to do a certain uh job in the world, get involved in the world and it it it's it entails an expenditure of resources and energy. But there ends up being a spiritual net gain. So that's what the cananan part there means. Okay. So that's a from the base always wants to give us the directive the instruction. A Jew doesn't have to look for big things. >> [laughter] [sighs and gasps] >> You might, you know, in your fantasies, you might imagine that what you need to do in order to serve Hashem is something earthshattering. But actually, the most powerful thing can be something really seemingly mundane, just really normal and simple, as we're about to elaborate on. rather what could his be his way of serving simply to refine and elevate the sparks of holiness that are in the worldly things in his possessions. And why do you do it? For whom do you do it? For your father in heaven. The Jewish people are compared to a bee. He says it in Yiddish. Jews are compared to a bee because everything that the bees amass meaning the honey is all for the beekeeper and the Jews go around making sweet honey for Hashem the beekeeper of they don't serve to get a personal payoff and this is very important these following uh words not materially or even spiritually that's an important point that we serve Hashem not for our personal payoff and then the emphasizes and per personal payoff could be a material payoff right if I serve Hashem he'll answer my prayers he'll give me what I want that's a material payoff or [snorts] even aistic payoff even a spiritual payoff which could just mean the spiritual satisfaction like it talks about in Tanya in chapter 10 that the B aliyah serve Hashem not to quench their spiritual thirst but rather for Hashem's pleasure nor which is a very very important concept and a very central concept in this in general and in the especially and I don't want to get into the whole side sidebar over here but you know the takes the story of the who said I don't want your paradise and your world to come I don't want your heaven I just want you and the says that's not just a story that impresses us about the incredible level of the alterba but it's really revealing the inner desire of every one of us that that's what we all really want. We just want Hashem. No payoffs, not material payoffs and not even spiritual payoffs. We just want to do this for Hashem. So, we're really okay. I I said I'm not going to get into a long sidebar, but I'm going to um the alter you know is coming in a couple days. Al wrote a safer called and teaches you how to be a ben and peric talks about the sadic but it's just one perk because really the point of the safer is not the sadic it's the ben but you know he just has to tell you where the parameters are so he tells you about the the sadic and pericut um just like he tells you about the Russia and perigur doesn't mean you know supposed to become a Russia god forbid just means you you should know what the the extremes are and then the rest of the whole safer starting from good base. It's all about the bayonet. But I say that a lot of what the Reba teaches if you would just learn Tanya, if you would learn Tanya from the alterb and then you would be transported to our day and age and start learning the you would think the Reb is teaching how to be a sadic. A lot of the stuff that Ebba says and he says it like this is for all of us. It's for every one of us because it's our deepest desire. It's the it's the pineas of every Jew are things that if you would learn Tanya without the Reb's explanations, you would think this is certainly not talking about a regular person. So like here this is not just something that's domain of this is you know in talks about two two levels of sadikim also called bio and it like impresses upon you this is such a rare level and very few people are at this level and quotes the says very few people are at this level and and and what is this level it's they're called because for two reasons it says two reasons and they go hand in hand they're um serve Hashem for the sake of man that to to elevate the the which basically means to um take physicality and elevate it. Um and that everything they do that so that's one reason they're called aliyah cuz aliyah malian uh ascent elevation they elevate the physicality uh and then the other reason is because everything they do they do for the sake of the most high meaning they don't do it for their own spiritual satisfaction but they do it for for hashem serving hashem for his own sake which is uh fundamental concept I mean it doesn't originate in in this it's definitely very much expl explicitly and at length described the the shal speaks about the serving hashem for hashem's sake not for our own sake and really it's it's a mishna um like the rabbed here the from to serve hemopas not to reser not to [clears throat] receive a reward that but rather we do it for its own sake and there are different explanations what does it mean but one explanation of lishma means for hashem's satisfaction at any Great. Um, so the balia, they're called for two reasons. One is they elevate the gashmas. And the other reason is cuz everything they do, they do for Hashem's sake. And then he says, and those are really two two sides of the same coin. Because what does it mean to do it for Hashem's sake? To give Hashem what gives Hashemas dealing with the Gashmas and and transforming it, making dark into light. Um but there it's talking about bane aliyah not just tadikim but like the highest rarest level of tadikim and over here the deb is basically speaking about it like this is regular basic yiddish kite. So yeah. Um, [sighs] why is there not a skilled? Is that true? Um, maybe in honor of the drrele. I don't know. [laughter] What is gimmel? If you get the gimmel on the you get everything. Maybe it's to humble us that we shouldn't I don't know. You're okay. You're right. I don't see gimmel. At any rate, so here's this idea of gathering the sparks that are in the physicality and doing it for the sake of Hashem, not for our personal gain, not even our spiritual gain. as in. And in order to make sure that [snorts] no ulterior motive will creep in, that's by doing the in simple things. Simple. Keep it simple. when he's dealing with elevated things and the def defines what elevated means brain work stuff that you understand then ulterior motives can creep in but in order that your should be clean meaning the motives should be clean without ulterior motives is that's by that's by specifically serving in a simple way with simple things. In other words, obviously we are thinking people and we use our brains and we're using our brains right now to learn. We're learning right now because we use our brains. But we're extoling the virtue of keeping the avoida simple. In other words, don't get so philosophical. Just get the job done. Don't analyze everything so deeply. Just get it done. And get it done means get it done. The simple stuff. Do the mitzvah. Put one foot in front of the other and do the next right thing in front of you. It doesn't have to be something glorious or newsworthy. Just simple mitzvah that are actions in this world. Like the said that the simplicity of the simple Jews is connected to the simplicity of Hashem's essence. So the rebba adds to that concept and says similarly the simplicity of a simple aa is connected to the simplicity of hashem's essence is spelling it out now this is the virtue of acceptance of the yoke of heaven discipline And that's why the yeden are called Hashem's army. What started in 1981, but this is uh this sik is actually from uh Tshin the the winter of 1954. No t no trim testo which means uh which means the winter of 1956. Yeah, it's actually from Shabas visv. So this is uh 30 years almost 30 years before hashem. But really like like shimmy wam pointed out to me from Hashem. He said uh when did Hashem start? And of course I fell into the trap and I said I don't know olive and he says no when Eden came out of Mitim because that's where it says okay so is a very old concept that's why are called's army because the concept of a soldier is acceptance of the yoke of heaven and that's really the main thing and that's what it means dwelt in the land of his father then in order that should reach that level where his entire service was for the sake of hem you understand not to be a user where you understand that hashem is the big atm so you got sort of flatter him and make him like you. Reb speaks about this. I mentioned the mice of the alterb. So one of the places one of the places of many where the talks about their story is in the the mimer which is the birthday m of and and the speaks about over there that um you know a zod is predicated on the idea of doing what is most expedient for you. So if you can get better customer service from from the mam you serve the maml but I will serve the king means that even if you'll get less customer service you'd rather the connection to the king. So what we're saying is in if if you want to come to this level where you're serving Hashem not because of what it's going to do for you, meaning not to be a user, basically that's what we're talking about, being a user of Hashem. Um meaning don't be a user of Hashem. Um rather be a servant of Hashem, serve Hashem. Don't tell Hashem to be your butler and serve you. You serve him. But in order to come to that level where it's for is that's by getting involved in how the mag tes those words which means um dealing with physicality which the calls simple without smart ideas. Then if you keep it simple then you get rid of all the ulterior motives and you connect yourself to your father meaning to Hashem. So don't try to be so fancy just keep it simple and do mitzvah and this is the teaching the instruction that we get from Yankee was involved in refining the sparks and where did he go he went to which we know was a nasty place and what did he do there he worked with Lavven's sheep And he worked hard. He toiled like it says. And then I was consumed by heat in the day and cold at night and I didn't get any sleep on and in addition aside from the toil there was pain physical pain involved. Flip the page. The brings from a proof that although a person is not the boss of his own body. Meaning you cannot tell someone um punch me and I forgive you cuz it's me. It's my body and I can forgive you. No, it's not your body. It's Hashem's body. You're not allowed to to tell someone they can hurt your body. Okay. You're not allowed to tell someone to hurt you or to pain you because your body is not yours. Your body belongs to Hashem. Nevertheless, if there's a need to for money, but what are we really talking about here? We're talking about Yeah, you can be cynical. And because people are cynical, I'm going to stop and explain that. Meman, you're allowed. Okay, let me explain. So, you're going to say, "Oh, of course, for money." Yeah, of course. For for for money, you could always find a way. No, no, no. What we're talking about is this money here is symbolic. Not just symbolic, it's actually directly representative of the idea of working in the physical world. And the purpose of working in the physical world, like we said, is to refine the physical, to uplift it, to enlist mundane things, what we call kipasa, and use it for what we call kadusha, to elevate it. So, we're allowed, it's an interesting, it's a kesh, but we're allowed to um willingly undergo risk to physical injury for the sake of being involved of a sabir of the refinement of the physical be precisely because it is so important to Hashem. So for Hashem we do it we do it for okay now could have argued why should I go to it's a terrible place true and can't be together at that point in the narrative because they were um I I was going to say they were fighting but that's not that's like a CNN uh title. No, they were not fighting. As of wanted to kill Yankee. That's more accurate. a little shame for a at least in theory. at least in theory like let as be the one who leaves and uh Yankee can stay and continue learning in yeshiva at least in theory but Yank didn't say that he didn't say why should I be the one who leaves and why I have to go to disgusting place no he didn't ask He went and he did his job of elevating the sparks and he did it with a with a sense of discipline. And even though see it's not a even though he did it with meaning accepting accepting the yoke of heaven he also did it with vitality and with joy. It's not a contradiction. You think, oh, because it's discipline, uh, I'm just kind of dragging my feet. No, you can do both. You can do it with discipline, with submitting yourself to the will of God, and at the same time, you can do it with excitement and joy. Like it says in Yakov, lifted his feet. He was like floating. He was so happy. And not only did he not suffer a descent in his spiritual quality, but he actually achieved an incredible spiritual accomplishment which was that he raised a spiritually thriving family. And it'san that's what it means in the land of Cananan we said cananan is a merchant and merchants make money. You don't go into business not to make money. So what does it mean making money? It means he made a prophet. What does it mean a prophet? A spiritual prophet that he collected all of the sparks that were sitting by and also the sparks that were sitting by. Now we're getting into cababalistic technical terms, but he drew down the transcendent light that's so lofty it cannot be internalized of. And he affected as in such a way that as actually kissed him at least according to one explanation he sincerely kissed himan. So cananan also at any rate as change of heart was a direct result of his reaction as reaction to the incredible spiritual lights that Yank was man managed to draw down through being involved in elevating the physical. made Kanan. Another thing means literally business he literally became wealthy a lot more than previously. In other words, and we spoke about this in parates that you know the yak is like the image of this like immigrant who can't really he's not really savvy and he doesn't know the customs of the land and he just sort of stays true to his uh tradition and yet he's not some rube. He actually ends up being incredibly successful. He ends up like successful the way the world determines what's successful meaning he makes a lot of money. spoke about in Par um in this this safer. So Yankerino he did business the real business which is when I say real business I mean uh a sub rudd elevating sparks and he also did business like we the conventional definition of business which is literal business. Um, and he did it really well and he made a lot of money. And the point is that these two things go together. They're not mutually exclusive. Serving Hashem for Hashem's sake and being materially successful are not mutually exclusive at all. In fact, they they're very much aligned with each other. is and this is the this is a teaching for every Jew that by dwelling in the land of the sojouring of his father which as the mag ted it out means by getting involved in gathering the sparks of the physical world it ends up being an edit its cananan it ends up making a profit or like we said before in the the pik from mishi there's someone who spends earns money and makes more. [gasps] You lay out a certain money uh amount of money you invest. Takes money to make money and then you end up making more by by the outlay of expenses which we call the descent meaning forcing yourself to deal with physicality is a descent. But you end up making your spiritual livelihood. JFYI side point your literal physical um arnosa as well ends up working out pretty well until you come to a level where Yankeev came to when he finished this whole uh situation and he told yeah I'll meet you at seer I'll meet you at uh at mount seer and we're going to explain what that means because serving Hashem with again that paradox of kabala soil and acceptance of the yoke of heaven and excitement vitality and that reaches all the way to the depths of the soul and that brings about a personal redemption and that's what it means when yanke tells I'll meet you at harayer that is a reference to msiach so doing this work this simple work of soil with in dealing with mundane physical things and elevating them. That is what brings the personal gu that ultimately brings us closer to the macrocosmic gula like it says um this is actually the from last week from uh from the safer of and um saviors will ascend to mount [clears throat] Zion and judge the mount mountain of As which is referring to Messiah. Okay, that was the first as I mentioned that was from paras which means uh tshin yian winter of 1956. Okay, let me take a breath and we'll start the next. Okay, I have two coffees here. They're really the same. One is from my house and one is from here. I want to thank you for fe sending me the picture on my WhatsApp that you fed the cat. He's still here. Okay. He's not our cat. We don't own any cats. You want to see the cat? Okay. >> Walk quietly because he's very skittish. Okay. Walk quietly over to the kitchen and you can see him eating. He's a stray cat. There there are stray cats in the neighborhood who hang around here and we put out food for them because it's an act of kindness and compassion to God's creatures. Well, it's a simple act. Yes, that's correct. Okay. Did you see it? Can you see the cat? It ran away. Take a chair and just sit in the kitchen and it'll eventually come back probably. Okay. So, you want to post the picture of the cat? Yeah. So people can see. Are you able to post it? Let's see. Ah, there. [laughter] Probably a health code violation that was in the kitchen. It's okay. And now you, by the way, so the people who don't like the cats are going to harass us. Why are you feeding a cat? The people who do like the cats are like, why didn't you put the food on a plate? >> [laughter] >> Whenever I post the cat pictures on Instagram, people are like, "Why do you put it on a plate? He's making it stick its snout in that little can." Can't win. Can't win. Okay. >> Does know that we're >> I don't use Grock to do the time codes. I use uh Gemini, which is the lamest of all AIs, but because it's the it's the Google AI, and it's the only AI AI that can read YouTube videos. So, after we shoot these videos, I put them into Gemini, and I say, "Give me the time codes." And it's 80% correct. I have to manually check all of them, but it saves me some amount of effort. Okay. Page 78 O second also partial related tells us about now we're transitioning to this is the first this is the first about speaking about Yank Till now Ysef was he was beautiful of appearance and form and he would curl his hair is and his master's wife set her eyes upon him meaningifer she noticed him she wanted him or Menhot Min Gazette Infisa and he ended up getting put in prison. You guys know the story. She falsely accused him. She was the she was the instigator. She was the predator and then she got caught. So she flipped it on him and he was just this slave boy who had no clout. So he got thrown in prison is a hashem. And even in prison though he had this magic touch. everything that he did was successful because he ended up he was a smart Jewish boy even when he was in prison they made him basically the honorary warden uh and he was running the prison and everything was successful. Now there's two parts to this story, two components to this story. One aspect of it is Ysef's beauty bay. Another aspect of this story is about the wife of um you know her her role in it. So there's his role, there's her role. And both aspects of this story like everything in are eternal directives for us in our day-to-day lives. Again, this is one of the motifs in the debra in general especially in everything in has to be practical and instructive and applicable and personal. Okay. V of Yenate Ysef Hashem Lee Ben Aer regarding Ysef. It says uh Hashem increase shall increase for me another son. Who said this? Rahul said this when she gave birth to Ysef. She she named him Ysef because right when she had she prayed for another son which she did manage to have. She had been. So the explains what does that mean as the explains the of is what baneer to take from an aer means an aranged person. You know when Alicia Benavuya unfortunately when he left the the fold he became known as a so a means an aranged person someone who's not uh living the way that a Jew should live to take this a and make him into a ben into a son in other words that idea of influencing others to return to Hashem so the explains is the a of turning an a into Bain turning a an aranged person into a son of Hashem of them is given and had the ability to inspire people to return to Hashem because he was beautiful of form and structure. Elain is given Shane in he himself was beautiful in all matters. What do you think? We're just talking about physicality. Yeah, we're also talking about physicality, but that's really like secondary. The main thing is is talking um is talking about positive and negative commandments. That is explained in many places that uh toy is mit and m is misay. So he's beautiful in all mitzvah of and that's why he was successful in in influencing others who were in a state of a to come back to Hashem because he himself was beautiful in his service hem and this is a an instruction to every individual of Every individual we demand from them not only they should work on themselves but they should work with others. But if you want to accomplish with others you have to remember the rule correct yourself and then correct others. You have to be beautiful, spiritually beautiful and intact and complete and then you can affect others. Okay, now that I was going to explain what this means because it's a complex thing which sometimes people misunderstand and they go from one extreme to the other extreme and um there's some nuance involved here which is required. So that I was going to clarify it for us. What we're not saying is until you're perfect before you deal with other Jews. Because we just said, hey, you want to be like Yv and be able to turn a a into a bane and a strange person into a son of Hashem, h you have to be you have to be spiritually beautiful yourself and then you'll be able to influence others. But we don't mean that you have to wait until you're perfect. No, no, no, no. For sure not. irregardless of your personal spiritual status, you have to deal with others. You have to help others and you're not allowed to put it off. Okay? So, even if you're not ready, you got to do it anyways. But on the other hand, from the other side, but don't forget, you have to deal with yourself. You have to deal with your own lacks, your own character defects. And this you're fixing your own character defects is not just a personal issue. It's not just relevant to you. It affects how you're able to help others because when you have deficiencies which you're not working on. In other words, I'm kind of being media here, but the Reb didn't say you have to fix it, but at least you have to have started. You have to be dealing with it. But if you have character defects that you're not dealing with, you're just ignoring the other person feels that he senses that you're not working on yourself. Now you can't affect that other person. in this which you which you're supposed to affect him said that when you ask a to put on it's a huge huge leap for him it's a really out of his comfort zone at least consciously obviously in this panemius that's what he's aligned with already that's what he wants more than anything but on a conscious level it's really really really foreign for him and he has to really uh push himself to do it so Ramen said Fabangan he said uh If you want to ask people to do something that's such a big leap for them, what are you doing that's a big leap for you? You got to think on your level commensurate to what your comfort zone is. You know, what would that mean for you? You have to think about it. Does it mean three? Does it mean shabasim? I'm just throwing things out there that could be a struggle. Um, at any rate, the point is that I was saying it's not that, oh, I can't go onto because I'm not learning Rambam yet. You got to go onto anyway. But obviously, if you're not working on your own issues, that's going to be sensed by the person that you're supposed to be influencing and you're not going to be as influential as you could. So, your working on yourself is not just a personal matter. By the way, this is a motif bakl that nothing is truly completely personal. No man is an island. You cannot argue and say well it's just me. It's not true. We all affect each other and we have responsibilities to each other. So no your personal aid your working on yourself and becoming a mench kind of does affect not kind of it certainly affects others. Okay. We have to know about the incredible responsibility we have to fix our our deficiencies because if you don't work on yourself, you're not only damaging yourself but someone else as well. The person that you could have been helping. You have to put in a lot of effort to become a beautiful of form and structure or beautiful of appearance and form. Because you're not just dealing with an individual, you're dealing with a multitude. How? What? What's the multitude? You mean if I have some personal defect, that's that's a multitude? No, it's my personal issue. Yeah. But m listen mister or miss you're supposed to affect you're supposed to affect the multitude. So that multitude that's waiting for you to step up and affect them is not being affected by you as much as they could be if you would fix your internal stuff. Okay. Bottom of page 79 is okay. Now we're flipping. We said there were two aspects to this story. One aspect is YF's beauty. The other aspect is Pifer's wife. So regarding YF's beauty, we said that means you have to be at least working toward being the best version of yourself in order to be able to make an into a bane. That was one part. The other part is what we learned from wife acted for the sake of heaven. She saw she's going to give children to Y. But she had made a little error. It wasn't from her, but from her daughter. Not her biological daughter, but her adopted daughter. Who was her adopted daughter? Osnos. Very good. Excellent. Who was the biological child of Dina? Very good. Thank you, Israel, for shouting it out from the back. Can you flip the page now? No, not behind. We're right on time. Perfect. Page 80. Okay, Zmen. We're on the top of page 80. as so from the fact that wife was actually her real intent was a good intent. You see from this that something that superficially he says and superficially the way it presents itself and in actuality the way it presents itself meaning the way it's functioning it's the opposite of kadosha it's the opposite of holy but in its inner core and in the real purpose it's actually for the sake of heaven it's actually there to increase holiness. Now, what does that mean? Cuz that's a very dangerous concept. Oh, yeah. This looks like it's profane, but really it's holy. No, I know this pork sandwich looks profane, but it's really holy and it's palemous. Okay, so this is very, very, very, very important. We understand this. You have to be grown-ups here. We are never ever ever allowed to abrogate. Jewish law governs our behaviors. That is not what we're talking about. This is not anti-nomian stuff over here. Okay? So, God forbid, we're not talking about choosing to do something that is against Jewish law. Rather, what we're talking about is when we're going through an experience and the experience presents itself to us as if it were coming to undermine our ability to connect to holiness. We should understand that that experience is actually not coming to undermine our ability to connect to holiness. But the experience was designed specifically to get us closer to holiness. Not by giving into it, God forbid. Obviously, if something is is is forbidden, we're we're not allowed to do it, but by overcoming it. So, you might say, "Well, this experience is is is evil." Well, the form that it's presenting itself is darkness, is evil, is whatever. But the end result will actually be that we overcome it and a net gain of positivity of holiness is achieved. Okay? So I just want to explain that says it's important that we say that footnote because there are two places in Tanya that I couldn't think of maybe there's more where the alterba talks about you're dinging and a heathen is blabbering in your ear trying to distract you from davening and one of them is uh in Alf but That's not the reference here. Um, and the other is in letter 25 of that's what we're talking about here. So the so he's trying to dive in and this uh wicked heathen is blabbering in his ear trying to distract him. So his response should be not only it doesn't weaken him [clears throat] meaning his prayers but it arouses him to greater focus with even greater with greater intent from the depths of his heart for at first glance is not really understood. If the purpose of it, like you're saying, is to arouse him to davin with greater intent, then why create a situation like this where this heathen is bothering him from davening? That's the opposite of the the intent doesn't make sense, right? Like this is the question we ask, Hashem, you want me to serve you, so why are you giving me problems that make it harder for me to serve you? No, but the explanation is this wicked heathen who's bothering you from domining deep down. What does it mean deep down? Is he conscious of it? I don't know. I don't know. Maybe maybe he's not conscious of it. But deep down, he senses that there needs to be an increase in holiness, and he's on a mission to help you accomplish that. I mean, if you would ask him if that's what he's trying to do, he'd probably say, "No, I'm trying to bother him." But deep down, because the says the shish of everything, the root of everything really is um in kadusha in holiness. gate. But this experience which is in it's engineered to increase holiness but it's coming through this like nudnik [clears throat] guy this weird annoying guy. Um so it comes in a form of like a negative experience is off to health and but the real intent is to increase holiness like we're talking about ultimately she she was trying to do a good thing whether she was conscious of it she wasn't conscious of it I'm not sure another vote from the mag by the way we should mention And perhaps this was the Reb's intent that the Magged's yort site is utesis. The magid was the baltov's successor and he was the alterbas and obviously is the alterbula when he was freed from imprisonment but also is the the the yila the y site the anniversary of the passing of the mag. So we have this is the second vort from the mag. We have the first we had a vote from the maggotan here we have another vote from the maggot. Okay. So like the maggot said the you remember remember when love and chased Janke. So the mezzicha says and and if you would ask love I don't think loving would agree to this but the reason chased yanke was because there needed to be more letters in the toy. [laughter] Therefore chased after and that story is written in. Then a para, an extra section, an extra story got added to the to. So that wasn't Loveven's conscious motivation. His conscious motivation was he was a control freak, a narcissist. He wanted to abuse Yankov and he hated the fact that Yankee went out on his own. But in Panmios, Lovven was on a mission to go create a story that would then be recorded in give more letters to the Tyra. And this is a teaching to us about anything that conceals our ability to serve Hashem. But the reality is the way it is in its and its [gasps and sighs] not only is this thing not antagonistic to kadusha but it's really helping kadosha nor vivald gate. But since it's coming through this particular pathway, but it presents itself in a form that appears antithetical to what its real intent is, but in in the inner reality is thus a hilen kadusha. It's really there to help holiness and to add to holiness. What's up? just looking at the screen. Okay. And when the person will not fool himself, he won't make the same mistake that the guy who's bothering there's this annoying guy bothering him from domining. Don't make the same mistake that the annoying guy is making. But you you're supposed to know as that no evil descends from above. There are no true concealments. Everything you see will assist you in coming closer to holiness. >> [snorts] >> All you have to do is just make sure that this concealment doesn't weaken you. To the contrary, what should happen? That it should bring out more strength from you. When you make a firm decision with truth, you make a a resolution. for truth. Everything that is not true falls apart in the presence of truth. All of the concealment falls away. All of the obstacles fall away. When you know the truth, what's the truth? that there's a godly spark in everything, even the scary stuff and everything is really there to help you to get closer to holiness. When you know that truth, then you actually also affect the thing that was concealing the concealing entity. That in that thing that was concealing its spark should be awakened and revealed inten. Then even down here you'll see openly the real purpose of it as does that it's really supposed to bring more holiness. So when you don't fall for the deception, you don't get fooled and you react with strength and with confidence knowing that this whole challenge was really only supposed to bring you to a higher level. Then even the concealment itself will uh fall away because it'll realign itself with its true purpose which was to bring you to a higher level and then it will present itself even outwardly as such. >> [snorts] [sighs] >> This is the hero. The the practical instruction from what I say just to say the potifier's wife was acting for the sake of heaven. I wanted to say piphar in English pronunciation. That's how they say it by the way. You know that they say pipar. Oh yeah. Yeah. They say Potifhire. If you say Pifer, they wouldn't know who you're talking about. Yeah. Potifier. Potifier's wife. I think it's like a famous painting like Rembrandt or something. Can you Google that? Pifar's wife. Like a famous Rembrandt. >> Plifer. It's spelled the same as Plifer. It's just Popar. That's how they pronounce it. Pipar. P O T I F A R Pifar's wife. Look up Rembrandt painting. I think it's a Rembrandt. >> Yeah. Is it a Rembrandt? [cough] >> What? [cough] >> Is there such a painting? >> It's probably not SNE. They don't show it like [sighs and gasps] [laughter] >> it doesn't say. Okay. Well, maybe someone will write in >> Rembrandt. That's what I said. >> Yeah, it was a Rembrandt. And I don't mean the toothpaste. You know, there's a smoker's toothpaste called Rembrandt. >> Yeah. There's also smokers toothpaste called Toppel. Toppel was a fiddler on the roof. Thank you. [sighs and gasps] At any rate, this is the practical teaching from Pafar's wife acted for the sake of heaven. When you encounter some obstacle, a concealment, there are two paths or two ways. is one way. One way is you can fight the thing that's concealing. That means of you address this thing as if it's truly a real concealment and you treat it as such and you fight it. But the second way and the Reb says in parenthesis which is much more pleasant is you know that this thing isn't really a concealment. It's really there to help you out to come closer to holiness. And when you when you address it like that is then you arouse and reveal as then you make that come down here in a revealed way the fact its true nature. you bring out its true nature that it really isn't antagonistic. That through the seemingly ostensibly antagonistic concealment itself, it's really an assistant or an assistance in adding to light and holiness. So, two ways to respond to a challenge in life. One is to say, "It's a real challenge. It's actually here to disturb me and I've got to fight it and I got to defeat it. Okay, that's one way. Another way is to say it's not a real concealment. It's presenting itself as a concealment for the purpose of overcoming it. So really, it's entire purpose is to bring me closer to Hashem. And therefore, all I have to do is really just pull the curtain back and reveal what it is. and then it'll even present itself as such. Okay, that was the end of the second which is from I think we had another earlier in from Okay, let's take a minute to breathe. [sighs] Yeah, Gemini. Yeah, Gemini. [clears throat] Uh AI, please. This is the end of the second SA. Okay. Yeah. All right. Page 81. Kaneka. You see that little thing right there? Uh, see that? Kaneka. Kaneka. I heard the door. Is someone here? I don't know. Is there someone more here? Let's see if someone were here. Someone else came. Could be. No. Okay. Okay. 81. Okay. So, we had one about which is about and the importance of dealing with simple stuff with kabala soil and kaos. Then we had another about um it's important to be like YF if you want to affect others you yourself have to be the best version of yourself and then also to know that any obstacle in life is really engineered to bring you closer to Hashem. Right now let's do the third page 81. Regarding Khan, we find two antithetical concepts. We love paradoxes. We love seeming contradiction. So it's explained that is related to the word which we translate as education really means like inauguration um the the beginning usage of something which literally literally is like the dedication of the altar um which in the Kaneka narrative was the rededication of the altar after it was it was defiled. So one meaning of of Kaneka is which you know we translate as like dedication but really means like how something gets started and education meaning like the education of a child is how u it doesn't have to be a child by the way like let's say somebody learns a new skill and they need to be initiated into that skill. So their kin would be their beginning of being exposed to that that area. Uh so means the beginning introduction of someone or something to a new to a new usage. That's what Kaneka means. Okay, that's olive. That's one thing base. The miracle of that we found pure oil even though we could have under those circumstances used impure ritually impure oil because regarding a communal offeringly the issues of ritual impurity would either been uh pushed off or even altogether released. And nevertheless, to show his special love for the Jewish people, Hashem made a miracle, an unnecessary miracle. I mean, Hashem doesn't do any unnecessary miracles, but from a certain perspective, it wasn't necessary. They could have used impure oil, but no. Hashem says, "I love my people so much. I want them to use the best oil. that that um that when we were starting to light the min again that we didn't that we were able to do it in the most beautiful way the most meticulous way without any heatum loopholes I'll translate it as loopholes although it's not really loop loopholes but use the word loophole because it's intentionally provocative. It's intentionally provocative because for some hilarious reason, tragic and hilarious, um, whenever I see anti-semites online getting upset about hala, something unnerves them about what they perceive to be as loopholes. That's a story for another time. At any rate, the point is there were legitimate loopholes that could have been re relied upon in this case. It would have been okay. It didn't have to be pure oil in this case. And yet, Hashem made a miracle that we should be able to use pure oil for the entire amount of time until we were able to produce more pure oil. Okay? So remember the Reba said there are two antithetical or contradictory or opposite concepts in Kaneka. What are the two? You have to spell it out a little bit. You have to fill it in. The said Kaneka means which means the beginning of something like the beginning training. Kaneka is also about doing something in the best possible way the most meticulous way. That's the seeming contradiction because when you're just starting off, you know, like doesn't have to be perfect, you know, like so he's a little kid, you know, he's just a kid. You don't have to do it in the most meticulous way, you know, it's good enough. All right. So the deba was saying that's going to be the point of that that point of tension between the way you start something on one hand and then doing it in the ultimate form on the other hand and the how those two things go together. So we see from this the the teaching that when you're talking about something that deals with holiness then right at the very beginning from the very beginning of education you have to do it in the ultimate perfect way the most beautiful way. Hidther means beautifification the most beautiful way. So too when it comes to educating a child, boys and girls from the very beginning of their childhood, you have to do everything without compromise and without loopholes. Like says, even when he grows grows old, he will not depart from it. Flip the page to 82. You cannot rely on the fact, oh, later on when he's older and he goes out into the world and he's exposed to the street, then we'll tell him, "Be careful. You're going to have to fight out there. They're telling them tell them don't don't be influenced or don't be intimidated by any obstacles and you have to have self-sacrifice for it all. But basically, you're going to shelter him and give him an easy like really really watered down Yiddish guy. And then one day you're just going to set him out into the world and be like, "Oh, by the way, you're going to have to be really super tough and you have to like sacrifice yourself. It's not going to work." Like you're going to give the kid whiplash. If you want that when he gets older, he should be able to stand the tests, then you need to start when he's even when he gets older. So you have to start when he's just when he's just a little boy. [laughter] That's why the Jewish sages put in a lot of effort that the education of Jewish boys and girls should be pure should be done in a pure way. to Gab. Traditionally, Jewish leadership, they fought for little things, even things that did not appear significant, but we fought not to give in over them. Because we understood we didn't want to compromise on any detail even seemingly insignificant stuff because we understood that the the years of their you know when their their formative years affect the young man or young woman for a lifetime. We knew we had to give them weapons of that they should be able to fight back, fight the war, fight the good fight that they're going to have on their path in life. A person is compared to a tree like we say. What's the song? There's a song. It's an eighth day song. Should we mention the uh the >> passing through just like you? What's the ultimate song by eighth day? Come here. Come here. What? Yesterday at yard sight and you helped me to practice my so I could be a nice out of the five towns on Shabas. So I was able to be like right you help me. Okay, you guys really missed out if you didn't hear my on chabas. Yeah. Ander came to sh because he heard about it. >> Yeah. >> He said he was listening to the to the and he came to sh for the yard site. Pull up the eighth day thing. I want to give a plug if >> it is. So this not this Shabas but Shabas Kaneka. We're going to be in Connecticut. Me and my family is and his family and me and my wife and kids and the whole family. We'll all be there um at the Shabas Khan getaway. Go to se retreat.com. See retreat. Is it crit.com? And we're going to be there for Shabas Khaneka in eighth day are the special musical guests. Did you pull it up yet? Okay. So, a person is compared to a tree. We have a lot of >> what? >> A lot of >> sponsorships. Yeah. Go get it for us. >> Yeah. >> You know what? I'll give you a cut. If you can get all these people to send in a donation, I give you 49%. >> Okay. [laughter] Okay. A person is compared to a tree. Vin, if you make a scratch in a tree, a grown tree, picture a big grown tree, you make a little scratch in the bark, the scratch is going to just stay in that one place and it doesn't really damage the tree. It's a big tree. It's just scratching the bark. Maybe cosmetically it doesn't look so nice. It doesn't really damage the tree. But if you scratch the seed that you're planting, it's possible that from one scratch that the entire tree will grow crippled. Found it. So bring the bring the thing. Oh, we're going to get a copyright strike. I don't need a copyright. Yeah, it's not from them. This is from their publishers. I don't need that. Okay, just do like a one note. Okay, because I No, the YouTube copyright strikes are extremely aggressive and I don't need that. I don't need that in my life. Okay, stop [laughter] cuz what the shout out to you. [laughter] What? Do you see it like that? Okay. All right. Okay. Anyways, I want to tell you something. Ever since I was a bak and I learned this, I always thought in my mind, I cannot imagine this muscle. I never told you this. What? Ever since I learned this decades ago, I always thought to myself, look, it says in a sik, I know it's true, but I just can't imagine that. Like, if you scratch a seed, it'll make the whole tree messed up. Maybe a sapling, if you mess with a sapling, then it could affect the way the whole tree grows. But when it's a seed, it falls apart anyway. Falls apart anyway. I mean, that's how mushrooms consist all the time that the seed falls apart. All right. So, I'm going to tell you something. I checked it out last night. And I researched it last night and it depends on what kind of seat it is. So the Reba said it's possible, right? It says that um avocado pits if they are scratched avocado farmers will not plant them because the tree will be messed up. Also, mango pits. Basically, it's like seeds that are like big stony pits. Apparently, like thin skin seeds, like imagine like a cucumber seed or something, then it won't matter so much. But stuff like uh Oh, I also said walnuts, walnut farmers, they will not plant a walnut seed that's scratched because it'll the tree will grow messed up. Now you know same thing when it comes to education of the child. of a person who's already middle-aged. He's already been in the world for half of his time in the world. Um, and he thinks that he has to compromise. This is only going to affect him for a certain amount of years. for 40 years. Let's say he lived without compromise. So if he will make compromise for a year like he'll become kind of bummy for a year in one area but he still has the 40 years behind him where he was doing when he was and he was doing it good. he can get back on track. He can say, "You know what? I don't like this halfbaked way that I was doing it. I want to go back to the full force and it will just be like a little aberration, like a little deviation." Then he can get he can get back on track pretty pretty good. But when you're talking about the young generation and you want to raise them with compromise from the very beginning, you're removing from them the warmth and the zealousness of Yiddish kite for their entire life. If a middle-aged guy gets exposed to some lame corner cutting Yiddish kite, yeah, it'll mess him up for a short time, but he can get back on track. A kid who's exposed to that kind of corner cutting has a lifelong effect. aalum. The little scratch that was done to the kid will cause could cause that he'll grow up a uh a balm. He'll be disfigured. He'll grow up spiritually disfigured. good base is now even someone who sins he's still a that's the gumar in Sanhedrin as listen we're not tell it's not saying the guy loses everything he's still aid but there's some this this the same gam same sugara Sanhedrin um it's actually d earlier it says there's certain people you say to them you you're going to have a very not nice life an ugly life in this world now fortunately he's still he's still going to have a a portion but he's messing up his life in this We need to have a young generation of yidden in this world. We need to have a young generation of Eden in this world. So don't tell me, okay, well, you know, it all come out in the wash eventually, you know, in Haba, he'll be okay. No, no, no. We need it in there. They should be healthy Jews, spiritually vivacious Jews. And then automatically they will also be alive and vital in in the physical sense as well. Flip the page. And then they will be able to conquer the world. Not just that that for them for themselves to make a a sanctuary for Hashem, but they'll also do this for the middle aged and elder generations. Yeah. Well, Mikdash, making the world into a mikdash for Hashem means Mashia. Yeah. Okay. Okay. [sighs] All right. No, no, no. We're still This is still the same seven. We're still going. Okay. All right. Good game. All right. Passing through just like you. You think they'll let me do a duet? It's not called a duet. What's it called? Trio. >> Yeah. >> You think they'll let me do a trio? You >> what? Oh, that's just they're saying song lyrics. Certain things seem trivial. They seem just like a hair. Just a little hair's breath. Come on. Don't make yourself crazy over that. It's not such a big deal. But it could be this little hair's breath. This the hair hair's breath from which develops the entire yates entire evil inclination which the gum says that see it like ah it's just a hair it's nothing. Yeah. Well that's how it starts. How how's it even possible that aid becomes a god forbid every wants to doem's will? How's how's it even possible that a yid would do things against hashem's will to the extent that this yid would be called a Russia? How does that even happen? So we can explain how it happens. It's the slippery slope. That's how it happens. The selfdeception. That's how it happens. It's the rationalization of compromises. That's how it happens. It comes from the fact he sees it as little hair, a little hair's breath. Is aite. It looks like a triviality. Sometimes it is tak little thing. canite, but in his situation, that little thing can actually tip him over the edge. And in that tipping point could either bring him to be a sadic who is written and sealed for for life or to be someone who to use the language from Daniel the book of Daniel that he will be uh in the eternal shame. He'll be set up for eternal shame. God forbid. Um, and what did he do it over? A little hair's breath, a little triviality. Hanked up. This is such a powerful paragraph. If he doesn't have enough strength and enough brains to distinguish what is that detail upon which his entire being depends. meaning it's a little thing but it's this little thing that will have a huge ripple effect. So in the current times when is this from the Reb is speaking in the 1950s. This is uh lean. So this is the winter of 1953 and the Reb is saying in in these times everything's becoming more clear truth is becoming more clear in these times. Such an interesting description. It's the in current times that truth is becoming more clear is so here's the way to get sort of clarity about what about the about the antagonistic side, the other side, the opposition. It's so so interesting. So I can like I try not to do too many sidebars here, but [snorts] perhaps in the past the dangers to Yiddish kite were more subtle and e and and easier to be deceived by an example I don't know like I'm just off the top of my head theam cipher fought thought that there should be yeshivas that only learn halaka because he felt that would pull people away from learning gam and it would actually serve the purposes of the enlightenment and these were like supposed to be like from yeshivas but he saw it as a slippery slope that would take people away from from Gumra and ultimately destroy authentic yishkite But it took aam to know that that wasn't a good idea. Okay. So there are things that like perhaps in the past were it was a little bit more difficult to detect that this thing was was dangerous. Now it's not as hard to detect because everything's becoming more and more clear and everything's becoming more pronounced and everything's becoming more identifiable and everything's sort of just separating and in some ways becoming extreme and now it's like we know who you are. We know what you want. We know what you think of us. We know what you're trying to do. Thank you at least for being clear about it. That's what's happening. And that I was saying this in the 50s, how much more so in the 2020s, I think we see this that everything sort of separating and coming out in a very clear way. Okay, listen. This is so interesting. So the Reb says, "Look at the opposition now. Who who who is the opposition? I'm not even sure like who this is describing like what groups what organizations what subculture is this describing I'm not sure even but the says you look at the tad shikeneg the opposition and you see that they're they're they're presenting themselves with such strength such intensity that it's possible they will lose millions of dollars like they'll they will throw away millions of dollars, file it in comma mention, they will lose many many people like I guess like they'll um alienate many many people they will lose support from many many sides. all just to not have to give in over some minor detail. So the devil says look at the opposite side the opposition. They are ready to sacrifice money and people and support so that they don't have to compromise on a small matter. In fact, it's illogical. It doesn't make sense that they do that. But that is a lesson for us. We should learn from that. We should not give in over even that little thing that we're told is a is a triviality is this is the sandal strap. What is that talking about? You look in the footnote Sanhedrinal base 74b. It's talking about at the time of Schmad when God forbid historically it's speaking about the Roman persecution but a time of Schmad a time of persecution when there is a war against Yiddishkite. So the whole suga there is talking about things that you're allowed to compromise if you're being threatened especially if it's a you know life and death matter things you're not allowed you know famous three cardinal sins that you're not allowed to compromise even to save your life but then it says that it could be a case where there is a there's an act of war to undermine Yiddish kite and in that case even if there's a certain sandal strap that's considered fashionable by the non on Jews that we won't give in and wear that sandal strap because it it's what it represents because we're in precarious times and we have to hold strong. So it could be that this that this little thing is a little thing but it's the sandal strap during this time of persecution. And this is that this is the the the the hair's breath that with the passage of time you're going to see this is what his whole remaining Jewish is dependent upon. So it seems like a triviality but really it's going to undermine and destabilize his entire future as a Jew. of them is in is in another indication another teaching regarding this little matter that you might want to compromise about is connected what the sages say and there's two versions of it. One version is in Gamora and the other version is in in Yankee. The gum in the the the version of the gum is if you flatter someone anyone in Yankee says if you flatter a wicked person but either way the end of the sentence is you will end up falling into their hands. So the person that you try to flatter ostensibly, you know, they they talk about like trauma responses. What do they call the the fight uh or flight or freeze or fawning, right? So the fawning is the flattering. Fawning is, oh, maybe I can appease this person, get them to like me, butter them up. Okay. So, the gamut says when you go to butter someone up, it's not going to actually end well for you. They're going to end up um hurting you. God forbid. Flip the page to 84. We see the Reb says this is in the 50s that all those who have the approach that will compromise in order to win over the youth in parenthesis we make the calculation those who are already religious are going to stay religious and what are we going to do For those who are not yet religious, we're going to have to make compromises for them. of not only we see clearly we have enough the data is in that not only do we lose those who we were trying to attract with watered down. But it also weakened those who were religious and were influenced by those who were raised with a compromised Yiddish kite. So the calculation was those who are already religious, they're fine. Those who are not yet religious, let's give them some compromises. And that did not work out as planned. What happened is those who were exposed to the compromises certainly were not helped and they even landed up hurting others. So the deb is saying this is like the flattery. The flattery. You try to appease someone. You try to make friends and uh not saying not to be nice to people. Obviously be nice to people. But the point is out of fear. Trying to appease someone out of fear never works. as mentor but those who if you go back 10 15 20 years so the reb is counting from the 50s he's saying those who back in the 40s or the 30s were already fighting the good fight and saying we don't compromise those people have been successful Like the Fed when he came to America in tough shen in 1940 he said America is nishand we're not making any compromises no we're not modifying they're not Judaism with training wheels this is the fullon intense classic version and that's what succeeds and those who tried to make an Americanized version an adapted version of yishk was a it was a disaster tzv tzv on the health. Okay. So now the Reb is speaking. I mean this is a U Kaneka Fabrean but um you have to imagine at this Fabrean there were people there who were not necessarily maybe they were supporters of the yeshivas. So the Reba says all of those who are [clears throat] devoted to proper Jewish education they're devoted with their body and with their soul and with giving money. Now they might come to you. The is sort of like warning them someone's going to come to you. It could come to you and sayim, why are you giving money to yeshiva that's producing? How are we going to translate batlonim? losers like how do you want to translate it like >> that's [laughter] not it's not a translation that's v >> so this is what you're produc you're producing a bunch of uh nonpro nonproductive people you're producing people who have no connection to normal life. This guy's going with a beard. [laughter] I remember a fabian once um [clears throat] Shalomir Gordon, although Shalom was saying that when he was in Brownsville in the 30s that the only beard he said they used to call him Smith brothers cough drops. He said the only beard on a man that anyone ever saw was the picture of the Smith brothers on the Smith brothers cough drop box. Okay. This guy's going with a beard. This guy's going with a with a capot with a long coat. And you, sir, you are giving money to this yeshiva. You're the you're the cause of mention and you're producing these people who are going to go into the world and not know how to handle themselves. So the Reb is warning them, you're going to get harassed. You're going to get harassed. Nevertheless, you're not going to get intimidated. And to the contrary, of the fact that people are trying so hard to tear you away from this is itself a proof that this is how the salvation of the Jewish people will come. So, not only does he not decrease his work that not only does he not decrease his work that he's doing for that he's doing with his body and soul and his money or he's doing with all three could be one of the three, two of the three or all three to the contrary Now he's doing even more. So if people come and harass you, why are you supporting this yeshiva that's producing these people who can't succeed in the world? That should not only not discourage you, it should encourage you and this itself strengthens the youth. So the deb is telling these supporters who are I don't know how religious they are or not but they're supporting the the yeshivas. So the deba says first of all people are going to harass you and not only you're not going to be discouraged you're going to be encouraged and you're going to know you're going to know that's a sign you're doing the right thing but also the says you should know when you support the yeshivas this actually encourages the bram who are learning it encourages the youth as people are going to ask these these these youth listen there are other youth your peers who are receiving a Jewish education without canos without uh zealatry without ddukim without being so super super meticulously observant where does it say that you guys have to be the mahadim that you have to be so meticulous vis The youth are going to actually be emboldened and they're going to answer, "Hey, look, there's a businessman who supports us. There's a a rich man who supports us. This guy's a rabbi. There's an elder man or woman who who who supports us and this strengthens them to deal with their challenges that they have in their in their private world. So the deb is telling these people who are supporting the the maest you should know it's not just your money it's what you represent and the fact that you're aligned with our cause the youth are very much aware of it and it encourages them and it gives them strength to respond to the detractors now that I was talking about the people who learn with the so first was like the supporters now is these people learn with the students and they're they are also not intimidated and they continue teaching this style that we've been talking about. Now, now we're talking now we're flipping to like I think like another category the asim. What do you call the asoneim? You know, you have the supporters and you have the the and you have the they they're not stingy with giving their their soul their body and giving their their their wealth. They give as much as they can. In fact, they end up giving more even than their ability. They overextend themselves. as long as they're able to continue to support proper education, pure education. Next page, flipped page 85. Last page. We're almost done. So when we educate children in the manner of which like we said we don't rely even on legitimate loopholes remember we said at the beginning of the halically it would have been acceptable to use nonpure oil in that under those circumstances it would have been okay to use non-pure oil and we didn't do it we refused to do it and Hashem actually made a miracle to enable us not to have to do it so when we have that approach that we don't even rely on legitimate loopholes We need to have a miracle in order to like in the story in order to have because we because we want to have a pure sanctuary, a pure pure oil and therefore the light will also be pure. Just like in those days, Hashem gave over, meaning meaning delivered into the hands of the Torah learners. Remember the in the in the Alanism, it talks about that the the many were delivered into the hands of the of the few and so on and so forth. So that just like then where the greater opposition was delivered into the hands of the few and then we lit the in such a way that it remains lit until today. Remember the kanek remains lit even during gallos of even when it's dark outside and I I don't think it means literally dark outside although yes we light the mana at night which is part of the symbolism but even when the world is getting darker and darker the Jewish homes are are are more and more bright and every night we add we add more like B hello. So just like Hashem did miracles for our fathers in those days. to today we can be sure that very soon in our days we will merit there's going to come down the built pure and built miktoshm we only have to prepare an area, a place where to set it up. We don't have to build it. It's already built. It's coming down, ready. Just have to clear the space. And then all the the Jewish people, the the youth and the middle age and the the the elders. They're going to illuminate the mdash and the whole world around it. Not just with a mitzvah. Not just a mitzvah, but a n that is pure in the ultimate sense and holy in the ultimate sense. was meaning to say there are levels but we will light a candle which is pure and holy in the ultimate highest most perfect sense and this will draw down Hashem's into this world into the really into the physical world that this physical world which until now was a hum or a gashi. Means more crass. Gash gashi is like physical as opposed to spiritual. Is like even more crass like where the the physicality becomes a source of pleasure unto itself. So the world which until now had been a or at the very least a gashmi that same world that is going to become the whole world is going to become a house a holy house for hashem's and of the okay amazing shakaya thank you so much yeah I'll end the stream Okay.