Vayikra | Likkutei Sichos Vol. 1

live. Good morning. Welcome to ALF. We started this journey uh hey David. We started this journey with braces with the beginning. We went through all of we went through all of now. Now we're starting Vikra. Now I want to explain something to you. If you look you look at the you so just pull up the first page real quick for a second just for a second. All right. If you look at the first in so it says right under where it says yeah you see it there. Now you're going to say to yourself is the shab before porn. We we had that already. Okay. You remember last week? Maybe you don't. I'll refresh your memory. Remember last week when we had to do we got to do vayikra I mean not vayak and pukur we had to do two weeks we got to do two weeks it was like three and a half hours marathon here last week [snorts] because was set up for the of a sha mis a leap year where you have two months of ad and therefore well one thing is that via are separate uh as as opposed to joined like it was for us this year in Tshin Pv which is the year that we're recording this year. Um, also Zaher for us was a few weeks ago. Was it the same? I don't remember if it was tit but it was definitely it was a few weeks ago. And here in this the way that the schedule that the is following is now I thought a lot about this and I thought to myself what should we do about this? Because for instance uh next week tav is tav and purim and then like um later we're going to have I think mitro and shabas but it's going to be for us after pes is already over and I thought a lot about it should we like change things around in order to have the to learn about paras before paras to learn about porm before porm to learn about shabasola before shabagola and in the end I decided no Because the point of this sh the reason why we go through every single word we learn all of the sikhas every week even if there are multiple sikhas and it takes us sometimes two hours two and a half hours um the reason why we're doing it that way is because this is for posterity that we want a complete shim a complete lesson in all of and so that we're just going to go through it in order the way that it's ordered. So if you're watching this in tshin pv or any other shaupshut non leap year and you're going to say why am I learning about zer in the week of vayikra and then the answer is um well you don't have to you can you [laughter] can you don't have to watch the whole video you can in fact next year you can watch the zer part of this sh before par >> at least it's relative current events >> yeah and it's at least it's rel unfortunately relevant to current events or fortunately however you look at it. Okay. So, let's do and by the way, you know the of isra. So, we're going to make a uh which is also that's the end. So, we've got a sem coming up around uh the Sunday before. >> We're going to May 9th. Okay. Sunday May 9th. The Sunday before Log Boer. going to be finishing alf that's >> oh so May 2nd okay so May 2nd okay May 2nd and um and then we'll see if I have kayak to start base okay let's uh let's do this in parakabon state the beginning of vayikra which the rabb calls para hakabon para about sacrifices. It says famous a person when he brings from among you a carbon an offering a sacrifice for Hashem. At first glance it's not understood. If the mikm means from you that prepositional phrase if it's modifying the word meaning the person comes from among you he's one of y'all one of you guys is going to bring a should have said it should have been a different order of words the syntax should have been different so but why instead it doesn't say a person from you who brings It says a person who brings from you It's known what explains about this that this is actually explaining the whole concept of carbon in spiritual terms in our service of Hashem because there are literal carbon which we'll bring again with the but there's also the spiritual carbon which we bring even now [snorts] we know our sage pages make a precise reading of the the the words of the of the pik make for me a mikdash and I'll dwell within them plural they say sages point out doesn't say in in it make for me a sanctuary and I'll dwell within it should say but doesn't says make for me a sanctuary I'll dwell dwell within them [gasps] and our sages [clears throat] explain what does that mean in every individual Jew is from this is understood that every avoid every every task that was performed in the mikdash is also performed in microcosm in the individual Jew. That's what it means. That means that every yid is a mikdash and anything that took place in the mikdash al also takes place in each of us is now that that's regarding everything that was done in the mishk how much more so carbon offerings the animal offerings in mikdasha vip is dusk an gashm is in the bringing of animal sacrifices in the mikdash was yes it was a literal physical thing but it was also a spiritual concept. So certainly it continues being a spiritual concept. So like for instance when they brought a corbin they had to haveim they had to haveim and the zer explains what it means that the khanim would serve quietly with heartfelt intent that's drawing down from above to below and the levim with their songs and their music they would elevate from below to above. The whole thing was spiritual isn't. So the carbonis was not just the physical act. It was it was representative of a spiritual phenomenon and so much more so the way that it continues now when we don't have the physical part of it but we continue to have the spiritual. Okay, so let's go back to the soba explains explains famously in the famous when a person means not when he brings aban when he wants to get close to beak is also the word close. He wants to approach. He wants to draw near to Hashem and specifically the his talents, his abilities. He wants to bring his personal qualities to Hashem. In other words, he wants to devote whatever it is that's special about him and he wants to dedicate that to the service of Hashem. is what is that? It's a forem from you. From you he has to bring that gift to Hashem from himself. The gift is an aspect of self. So that's what the explains. It doesn't say a person from one of you guys. One of you Jews brings a No, it actually says when a person wants to bring for Hashem, he brings m from from from you from your qualities. So it means it's a personal um dedication or devotion of one's individual special talents and qualities that they are gifting to Hashem as a way of drawing close to Hashem. Base Now there are two details if we break it down further. There's the gift that you're bringing from your godly soul base as the verse continues and says from the animal in dimensions hearts that's the animal in the person's heart. What is that? animal soul, you know, basic godly soul, animal soul. And then the continues says and then it goes down into specific species was cattle, sheep. These are different types of animal souls explains this. Okay. The whole point is not the itself by itself but rather the refinement of the animal soul. And even that is hinted to in the >> [clears throat] >> Okay, let's break that down. This concept of the animal soul having, you know, being the ultimate purpose of it, the refinement of the animal soul being the ultimate purpose of this corbin, the spiritual drawing near. It says in the verse that it's in fact it says means in front of but it also means before. Before means like preceding it comes comes before. Um if you think about it in terms of which is like the system of of levels or layers of reality. So yud the shava usually is described as a map of the yud is the h is and the v is and then the lower hey is again they have to do it twice it's like triple filter vodka um but it's double filter double at any rate is four letters four four worlds seder dasis and then you have leafaaya something that's higher than the system of worlds so the point is that the refinement of the animal soul is what reaches higher than that system. So that's the ultimate point of it. It's not just de devoting your godly soul to Hashem. You know why? Because you godly soul is already inherently devoted to Hashem. So what's the Meaning like what's what's the big deal? Um but the animal soul needs to be um [clears throat] harnessed literally and figuratively. We talk about being har you know you harness an animal and that's the verse here from there's much yield from the strength from the strength of an axe that's describing the level that you can only reach the high level of that's above that can only be reached through the refinement of the animal soul specifically yeah flip the page The corbin that comes m only goes to that means the the approaching Hashem that comes from only go only the godly soul by itself that only reaches the system of sedals. M is now it's higher than Elohim. These are different divine names means transcendent was was will be above time and space and elimatria nature because that's godliness as it's invested within time and space. the godliness that's hidden in nature. So yeah, it's as opposed to elim. So it's higher than nor but it's only to virt [snorts] that somebody who slaughters who brings a corban to elim in the original context in the verse it means elim there in that immediate context means false gods yakim should be destroyed. [snorts] Um here it's has a homalytical meaning a mystical meaning. So yes, the corbin that you're bringing, the gift that you give from your reaches, which is higher than but it's still not higher than it's only through giving your animal soul to that you can get higher than a which we call higher than entirely higher than the seder than the system of worlds. Like it says when you subjugate the other side meaning the non-godly side then the glory of God raises up is elevated in all worlds. What's the point? All worlds in all worlds equally meaning it's a it's an or so we call transcendent light as opposed to an or mimal a filling light. We're talking about a very lofty level of light that surpasses the normal order because the normal order is why is it an order? Higher worlds, lower worlds precisely because higher worlds have more light. Lower worlds have less light. But that's only in mamali in the light that fills. Therefore, it's attenuated to the capacity of the vessels of each world. When you talk about se which is transcendent or it's makif, it does not have to adjust itself to the worlds and therefore it's equal in all worlds. that is accomplished. That [snorts] the elicitation of that transcendent light is only accessed through gifting Hashem with your animal soul specifically. Why? Because that aspect of kadescapia when you subjugate the other side. [sighs] The animal soul necessitates subjugation. The godly soul doesn't need to be subjugated. It's it's already inherently surrendered. its whole its whole essence is bal is is is surrender to Hashem. Um the the animal soul is the opposite. The animal soul is the drive for self-preservation. It resists surrender. Therefore, when you subjugate it and you literally like we said before, harness it. Like if imagine the imagery of a beast of burden putting the yolk on the back of the of the of the of the ox or whatever it is. Then that subjugation of the that novelty of transformation causes a higher level of light than merely using your godly soul by itself to connect to hashem. Okay. Gimmel top of the second column of 206. These are deep concepts and I'm going fast but you know you guys are all brilliant so I'm sure you're following. Okay. [cough and snorts] [clears throat] Now let's talk about literal animal sacrifices. First thing is you got to make sure the animal is a is whole. meaning it's not a balum. It's not blemished. Why? Because you're giving a gift to Hashem. It's not nice to uh have a damaged gift for to give to give Hashem a damaged gift. Acceptable as an offering is same thing with the spiritual carbon. When we spiritually draw near to Hashem through subjugating the animal soul's qualities, you understand what I mean by that when I say that. I mean the animal soul has certain qualities on its own. Its default setting is self-preservation. So whatever qualities it has, it's using selfishly. But if you can take those self-same qualities and force them to be used to some productive end where it brings glory to Hashem, that's called subjugation of the animal soul. It's called sabah bringing the animal as a gift. Okay. So if your animal soul happens to be I don't know has it's well most animal souls are very like uh kind of boisterous. That's like one of the hallmarks of animals. So not all animals but you know that's that's a classic quality. So you could use being frenetic and wild. You could use it obviously in a destructive way that's indulgent or you could channel that same thing to be [clears throat] passionate about your service of Hashem. So that's that's an example. Okay. is gate. The first thing is if you're going to give your animal soul to Hashem, you got to check it out and make sure that it doesn't have any blemish made earlier before we started recording. I got that from Josh Gordon who's the king of online and he always says I made a earlier I know why he says it by the way because I was working with him at kabad.org when he was making the Rambam and yes the word nudnik who actually said why do you drink without a braha so we indulged in nudix and then we have an opportunity to teach ha okay obviously I don't drink without a but it gives me an opportunity to teach about making okay So you got to first check it all out. What does that mean? Every corner of the soul. That means the intellect. That means the the the emotions and then of course the three garments meaning thought, speech and action, the behavioral. And you have to make sure that you know if there's anything there that's inappropriate, you're going to you're going to fix it. So the first thing is check your insides and the outsides. The insides is the the intellect and the emotions. The outsides is the behavioral expressions, thoughts, speech and action. Now in order that the you know by the way don't get triggered about when I say you're thinking about because it's like um is this week so you're thinking about which is in like less than 3 weeks right okay but don't get scared everything's going to be fine okay but here we're talking about aika of of a behemma of an animal so you're going to check out the animal your animal soul in order that the the the the check should be means like serious not like by wrote you know people just do it peruncter they go through the motions so if you really want to do a sincere check of your animal you have to know that this is I'm going to call this a matter of life and I won't say the rest of it but it's it's it's vital it's crucial then that'll be proper the way that it needs to be. If you understand this is not a joke. This is super super super serious and then whatever corrections are necessary, you're going to actually carry it out. Don't put it on your to-do list. Oh, yeah. I got to check that out. I got to fix that. No, you got No, don't. You don't. You got to just do it. Thus is because he understands that this is a matter of the life of his soul. It's absolutely critical. Take it seriously. Okay. You ready? Okay. I'm going to stall for you because you got like 10 seconds before you got to push that button. You got it. Are you remote now? Oh, you you appointed a [laughter] good job. Okay. Oh, you got a job. >> Yeah. Okay. All right. You put you on the payroll. >> Okay. Okay. All right. All right. So, uh, when we say so when he's doing the check, you're checking your animal and you're doing it seriously. You will frequently means to catch, but it means like to realize. Even if you're not currently sinning, nevertheless, there's that concept like says inm sin is forever before me. Talking about even sins that you did chuva for. Now, that's not supposed to discourage you and make you feel chuva is limitless because chuva is in the heart and there are limitless degrees of the heart. So your chuva from last year is not sufficient for this year. Why? because you've grown and now you're required to do a deeper level of chuva. So even if you are not currently sinful, you will look when you're doing your real check and you're taking it seriously, you're going to be aware of the fact that you still have some stuff in your past. Even though you've done chuva on it and for the time that you did chuva, it was acceptable chuva, but now at the level that you've grown to, it's you're required to do a higher chuva. the if you go through back through your whole life everything you've done from the very beginning even things you did before mitzvah which which legally you're not obligated you're not you're not actually culpable for it but it leaves a certain trace there's a story the Ariza Um Vital that one time [snorts] told Vital he asked to do Chuva for a lack of aim that he did when he was a child. Meaning it was a spiritual thing. It was there's no culpability. It was it was not he was not uh morally accountable yet. But spiritually it still had an effect. Yeah. So these things remain behind. They leave a a mark because he didn't completely fix them. What's the proof that it's not completely fixed? He didn't do sufficient cha yet. If his cha would be what it needs to be right now, he'd be able to serve Hashem in a in a stronger way because really we say like this the sin constitutes separation from Hashem. So we call that being in a land of um like a parched desert in a land of death. So you imagine it symbolically as like a like a barren wilderness is that's that's what sin is like. So if you are in the desert you're more thirsty. What? My collar's poking out. Don't just signal like that. If my collar is up, you have permission to walk up and physically. It's less embarrassing than having the Everyone has permission that if my collar is poking out, I want I don't care if I'm at the White House. I don't care if I'm on all three major broadcast uh channels. If my collar is ever poking out, I want anyone who cares about me to fix it with any means necessary. Okay. No, that thank God I don't have that issue. But the collar poking No, the collar poking out. It's very difficult to Okay. All right. I'm not going to get into the whole discussion about my my my size 20 neck and the the It's a whole Okay. I'm not [clears throat] going to Okay. All right. My counter poking out the whole time since the beginning. Slame you. Okay. [sighs] Was it poking out from the beginning? >> Pull up the tape. Let's review the tape. >> I don't want to ruin your middle of a good piece. >> Nah, it's okay. We'll get back on track. Listen. that >> yes >> that by learning from the carbonus our own spiritual brother physical we're actually saying physical is representing us is is it chuva for stuff that came from our animalistic soul >> okay >> direct connection >> okay people can't hear the question because there's not a mic but okay so but I'm the question is basically um The is it that just we learn from the physical corbonus about how to do the spiritual drawing near or are the physical corbon actually the spiritual concept. The answer is yes. In the times of the basa mikdash the second the latter that um in the times of the basdosh the whole point of the corbin was not just prefuncturally to bring the animal oh here you know let me like the guy who parks in the handicap spot and says I'll pay the fine like come on like a little a little remorse here you know a little introspection. Uh yeah, everything we're describing here spiritually was supposed to accompany the the carbonis, the literal carbonis in the times of the basa mdash. Okay, but let let's let's say what we're saying here. We're saying that if a person completely did chuva, he would be serving Hashem in a stronger way. Why? Because we said like this. When a person is sinning, he's he estranges himself from Hashem. And it's like being in a barren wilderness. If you're in the desert, you're thirstier. That's where we left off. So if you're in the desert, you're thirstier. We said that line before. It should awaken in him a greater desire and a love for God. [snorts] A love that turns wanting sins into merits. And and there's that as by there's a concept of that wanting sins, not just accidental sins, purposeful wanting deliberate sins become like merits. It's a concept from kazal the alterb explains it in Tanya like this. How could you possibly I understand you could say that if you do chuva your record is expuned. You know the points on your license fall off after a certain amount. But they extended it by the way. Now the points stay on for longer. You heard about that? >> Okay. What? >> So we said that I can't remember that. >> Okay. So what we saying like here it makes sense to say that my past sins will be expuned from the record. They're not going to be held against me because I did chuva. What does it mean that the past sins become merits? So it's very simple. So the alter explains that because the person was distant from Hashem, we call it symbolically being in a desert where you're thirsting for water. So because you were distant from Hashem, now you desire Hashem more strongly. You would never desire a connection with Hashem as intensely as you today do today, if you had not, God forbid, in the past been distant. So in the end, the estrangement, not that you're allowed to do this, and that's why we say Anyone who purposely tries to do this, it won't work. But after the fact, the the the the fact that the person was estranged from Hashem through sins actually ends up being a net gain because it propels him now to be more passionate, more serious, more de devoted because I don't want to ever go back to that desert right now. So the Reb says like this if you did chuva properly that's that would have been the effect of your sins. Your sins actually would have made you like that the true penitant is on a higher level. So if you had if you had completely transformed your your sins through chuva then it would actually put you on a higher level than if you hadn't sinned. Again, don't purposely sin in order to do this. But the says, "But the fact you're looking at yourself, you're checking your behavior right now, and you're seeing that you're not serving Hashem as intensely, as strongly, as passionately as you could, that's a sign that you haven't yet closed out the chuva. You haven't done the chuva as completely as you could." To the contrary is when he thinks about the way he truly is about his true his true standing up if he's not trying to take it easy on himself. He's not trying to fool himself. He realizes, he feels, he senses that he's in the opposite way that he should be. Not only has his sins, have his sins not yet been transformed into merits. Nor is gablen, but it's remaining a sin. Which is why one draws him to the next a which is what we know a we say mitzvah mitzvah. One mitzvah will bring a mitzvah in its wake. A sin brings an all momentum. Whichever direction you're rolling, that's where you're going to keep rolling. the full chauva because he can see from the momentum if his past aa is leading to another aa that means his past aa is still an aa and therefore it's drawing him in the aveda direction. If he did full chva then the past aa would actually be flipped into a mitzvah and it would start bringing him into the mitzvah direction and compound in that direction. In other words, what that means is his concept of my sin is before me always. It's not because his current spiritual state requires a higher chuva. Um yeah, it's not because his current spiritual state requires a higher level jo um that wasn't sufficient for his previous level, but rather it means it was never enough. See, I spoke about before can sometimes mean it was enough at the time, but it's not enough now. Reb is saying a different situation where it wasn't even enough at the time. And therefore, his sins are serving as a screen, a separating partition between him and his father in heaven, which is actually interrupting him and holding him back from serving Hashem. >> [snorts] >> Now when he thinks deeply in all of this and he thinks about the greatness of carbonis as carbonis is like we said before means drawing close or bringing close to Hashem your talents and your abilities until it becomes subsumed in the flames. often like says the mystery of carbon raise rises up ascends to the level of the mystery of the infinite one himself. So he's going to ask himself what kind of a connection do I have to such a lofty concept as how am I making a a which is acceptable before hashem is that um there's no limb in my body that is whole. So to answer the question is so the Reb quotes his Reb who explains deeper the concept that the Albb taught about that word. Okay. We explained before mikm means from you that the gift you give to hashem comes from you. It's an aspect of self an aspect of the nephaham is the animal soul that you are gifting to hashem by directing its abilities toward service of hashem but that's from the explains further two prepositional phrases from you and upon you the matter depends up it all depends on you. in in spite of one's spiritual state and everything that happened until now. Nevertheless, it all depends on you. Meaning, you can do it. You just have to want to do it. And every Jew can say when will my deeds reach the level of the deeds of my forefathers of that's from [snorts] everyone can and must say when will my deeds reach the level of the of don't say oh who who am I that I I can ever aspire to such levels no no you must aspire to those levels so that's what it means mikm is also bm It comes down to you. All you have to do is make that decision that this is what it's going to be. Okay. Hey, top of 208 is now next thing in the procedure we spoke about checking the animal. So that means a little and effish a little spiritual inventory like we explained. All right. So now let's say it passes muster. You did the spiritual inventory. Now it's time for slaughter. Now even after slaughter the body of the animal remains intact. It's just you drew out the you drew out the the vitality. meaning the difference between a freshly slaughtered animal and the animal a second before it's exactly physically it's the same exact I mean I guess it lost some blood but it's it's the same body the only difference is that the vitality the life force was withdrawn it's a living animal that becomes a non-living animal is and that's when you bring it onto the altar And then the body gets burnt up on the altar. Now by every kind of corbin the special fats get burnt on the altar with an elevation offering. The entire animal gets burnt on the altar [snorts] entirely on the Fleck arupa it gets burnt in the godly fire that used to come from above. They used to light it from below a normal natural fire and then there would be a a supernatural fire that would come from heaven. Okay. So that's what it was literally in the temple. Now in spiritual terms in our service of hem. So, first you got to fix the blemishes. Like we said before, step one, make sure that the animal is intact and whole. Then has to be slaughtered. You have to slaughter the animal soul. What does that mean? Slaughter the animal soul. It sounds so scary. Don't be scared. It means to remove the highest, to remove the vitality, which means to remove its excitement for physical things. And I have to explain that a little bit more because people get really scared. This is it's not aeticism. We're not telling you have to divorce yourself from the physical world. To the contrary, Hashem wants a dwelling place in the lower realms. You have to remain in the physical world. You have to be healthy. You have to live. But the point is that you shouldn't be excited about physical things for their own sake. Obviously use physicality for the sake of serving Hashem, which most mitzvah are physical actions and they even make use of physical objects and we refine the physical world through using the physical world as a vessel to serve Hashem. That's beautiful. That's great. Get excited about that. But I'm vitality from the animal means extracting that excitement, that passion that the animal soul has to go run after physical comfort and indulgence. We're going to pull that out. The meaning to say the animal, like we said before, the animal is intact. Just the vitality was removed. So all of your qualities of your animal soul, whatever whatever traits that you have are still there. It's just the this very distracting uh excitement for physicality for its own sake has been extracted. And now you can look at your animal soul and say, "How can I make this into a gift for Hashem? How can I use the different qualities of my animal soul?" Yeah. >> To fix the animal soul is to do [clears throat] a review. Like we said, go through your life and make sure that you've done chauva on everything that was inappropriate. [clears throat] That's before you can even bring it as a gift. Next step, extract the passion that the animal has for physicality, for its own sake. That's called okay this is all in order to bring it as a gift. We haven't brought it as a gift yet. The physicality itself remains full. I mean it remains intact like the animal is intact after it was slaughtered. They design in on a but they become without like that that excitement. He only uses the physicality for the sake of enhancing his service of Hashem. Like it says, "Wine and good smells make the mind sharp." This is a gam. Um they asked uh Nakman to answer uh a question and he says, "You know what? I got to have my uh I got to have my uh my my meat and my good smells." I think it means like spiced wine. Spiced wine and good smells. Or maybe you didn't know that that's another thing with the meat. He he wanted wine and fragrance. So he said, "I need my wine and fragrance." Well, what? He's like a hedonist. He wants wine and fragrance. No, no. The point is like this. You do. There is such a thing called self-care. Okay, I know that's like the big term today, but here's the here's the deal. Self-care for the sake of self-care is clippa. Self-care for the sake of making the vessel work better so you can serve Hashem better. [clears throat] That's that's that's serving Hashem. So like in this story in the Gamora he said listen if I'm gonna have my mind working a sharp you know like I have my coffee here and I made a earlier I got my coffee here so I can actually give care of the body the body does have certain I mean let's not fool ourselves there's the the body is affected by what you put into it for better for worse but if you're using physicality to prime the body so it can be a more effective instrument then that's Beautiful. That's great. You're you're you're using the physical for the sake of the spiritual. So that's what we're saying. The animal is still an intact animal. It's just the vitality was removed. We're still going to have souls and bodies. We're going to still have connection to the physical world. We're going to to the contrary make use of the physical world. It's just not going to become a passion unto itself. That's what it means. Okay. So, oh yeah, here here's the meat. That's that's the other gum. I didn't yet eat uh ax meat. I wasn't able to be as sharp in my answer. This is also what says know Hashem in all of your ways. Everything even you're eating ax meat is lash shim. I mean, if if indeed it is lash and Hashem's going to know, you can't fool him. You can't pretend. You can't say and then eat the the ice cream and pretend that it's holy if it's not really. It's got to be real. Not a higher level, deeper level. Not just to use physicality for the sake of holiness, but to turn the physicality itself into holiness. Shabas. What's an example of that? Eating on Shabas. See, eating in order to let's say make your mind sharp so you can answer a question in in Torah study. That's a step removed. Eating the eating itself is is holy. Or another example. I'm sorry. This is not you're not going to get to eat anything here, but um making uh tits with wool that's not for a mitzvah. That is the mitzvah or fillin that you make from uh parchment which is the height of an animal. That's not for a mitzvah. That is the mitzvah. Now here is the now you're going to get close to Hashem. Okay, we did everything. We we checked it out. We did the inventory. We did chuva. That's called theika. We did the we extracted all the excitement for physicality for its own sake. Okay, now we're ready for the Okay, get ready. Drum roll, please. What happens? We put the and allowing it to be absorbed in the fire of the godly soul. Like it says, that um it's it's uh flashes are flashes of fire the flame of God and the sages say it's like the fire that comes from above the flames that means the love that the soul has for Hashem the animal soul gets absorbed in that fire you know like when you take well you take anything and You burn it. So it converts that matter into energy. It becomes flame. Whatever fuel that you put on the fire becomes more of the fire. So you're taking the animal soul and you're putting on the flame of the godly soul, it becomes godly. It's a transformation. It's a conversion and which means that the animal soul also loves Hashem. The godly soul naturally loves Hashem. That's it. That's its default setting. But now we're getting the animal soul to also love Hashem. You have to ask like it says and you should love Hashem your God. Why does it say not? Because grammatically you should say and like said with both of your inclinations, both your hearts. One heart is the one heart is the already loves Hashem. That's what it is. But to get the to also love Hashem through putting the animal on the fire and turning it into fire. Now with both of your inclinations and this is actually from believe it or not it's not from parik it's from it's based on the mimer basilani tiny base the reb's first mimer was basilani this is basilani base why is it speaking about carbon well because the bosilani of the fuga bosani is speaks about this concept of the Mishkan and avitar and escafia. So that's where this originally comes from and that is our onra. Now look here page 208 you see that little crusader that little heading >> just ask one question back. >> Yes >> we know this concept of can't that the carbon animal is taking you to what you were saying before that's actually a replacement, >> right? >> The same thing that has to happen to your soul is now happen to an animal, >> right? So, as you correctly point out that when people brought carbonis, they're supposed to they're supposed to relate to the corbin that that's me. Whatever is happening to the animal, it's supposed to be me. Now in the spiritual carbonius, it literally is you. It is you. It's not representative of you. It is you. And again, let's explain what this means. It means taking your animal soul, which naturally is self-seeking. It's all about self-preservation. And by the way, it's not evil. It's just the way that it's programmed. Hashem gave us this natural uh instinct for self-preservation called the animal soul. It's all about survival. It's amoral. It'll do anything it has to do to survive. and figuring out what qualities it has and then making those qualities be used for Hashem. That's called bringing the animal soul as as a gift. But before you can do that, like we said, there's a there's a procedure checking it out and cleaning up all the the past wrongdoings, doing chuva, and then extracting the excitement that we have for physicality for its own sake. >> Physical carbon you can actually do it wrong. If you bring with a m it's not good. Is there a way you can do this role or just might never be complete? >> It can be a whole life work of bringing your carbon likely working on it. >> Yeah, there's levels. Yeah, it's Yeah, because >> doesn't mean if if you work then you didn't ultimately hit every you know corner like you said that you failed by a [snorts] carbon if it's if it's not >> right. It's either kosher or it's puzzle with a physical >> cor your life you're not perfect but it doesn't mean puzzle >> right it's a more of a process more of a protracted process yeah yeah I mean that's the difference between spiritual and and physical physical is more binary either it is or it isn't and spirituality is more fluid more of a spectrum or a continuum yeah >> right yeah you have to bring it again like we say in the corbin pesa If it was possible, you have to bring it again. Do over. Yeah, I suppose there are ways of I mean, not I suppose I think it's pretty clear there are ways of bringing your Corbin that would not be effective. You your spiritual corbin that would not work. So you'd have to do it again. You'd have to do it over. But then there are ways of doing it that it was acceptable at that time, but you know, you can know you can do it better. >> I'm saying this spiritual carbon is a timeless thing or it's it's a life's work. >> It's a life's work. Yeah, it's a process. It's a process. Yeah. And it also could be different aspects of your personality at different times. Like certain qualities you're ready to make that jump where you give it to Hashem and other qualities you haven't yet given to Hashem. That's pretty clear. [sighs] Okay. >> That what? Oh, that that the orala that gets forgiven for all their sins. Yeah. Yeah. That's there's such a concept. >> Yeah. Is that a vort or you came up with that now? >> Okay. It's hilarious. Okay. All right. All right. Let's do the para now. Okay, cool. Oh, there's a lot of comments here in the in the YouTube comments, but I can't go through it all. Okay, let's go. My collar's good. Yeah. Okay. Traumatized that my collar was poking out. Okay. I'm very serious, by the way. If anyone ever sees my collar poking out, it doesn't matter what's happening. I want you to tell me. I'm trying to think of any exception where I would be annoyed and I would say, you know what's going to happen? I'm gonna I'm gonna yell at someone and say, "Don't interrupt me about my collar." >> Someone's actually going to walk up to you and fix your collar. >> And I'm going to yell at them. Get away from me. [laughter] Okay? I'm saying right now, if you ever interrupt me to straighten my collar or to point out my collar's poking out, I I what do you call it? In advance, I uh remove all liability. Par 208 >> page 208 second column in the middle. Remember the collar. a malik. [snorts] You find it four times. Talk about history right now. A little history, a little Jewish history. Four times right away when he left, like right after the splitting of the sea base. Second time is at the very end of the 40 years in the desert right before they entered the land. Uh except then the theim were uh disguised as Canananim as Canaanites. GMO is there. mdash. So the third time is in the first years when they were in Eritis Isisro that's after Shaw was appointed king before they built the Bamedash that was through Schlamelik um and that's in accordance with the order of the things that are supposed to be done when the Yidden entertdia Okay. So four times. One right when they came out of Mit. Two at the end of the 40 years right before they entered except the amalik was disguised as Kanani. Um the third time right after they appointed the first king Shaw and before they built the B mikdash. Fourth time with Msiah. Okay. Jewish history from the time the yeden became a nation can be divided into two eras. An when they were in the wilderness, all of their physicality was taken care of. Their food, clothing, food. Wait, what were the three categories? The uh food. Mosin is food. Lavush is clothing. Bias is shelter. Yeah. Food, clothing, and shelter were all taken care of in the wilderness. And that corresponds to the food is the month superfood mana. Um clothing. Well, it mentions beer shamillium, but that's that's the beverages. Um the the clothing says their clothing did not fall apart. >> It grew with them. Yeah. and had automatic self-dry cleaning. And then [snorts] the clouds of glory, that's the shelter. Okay, so that's one. We said there's two basic eras of the Jewish people in the wilderness when everything was taken care of them for them. was in gate. Second tufa, the second era is when the yidden ordered to transform it from Cananan to Israel and that includes the exile when the yidden were sent into other lands to bring those lands also into a connection with Israel. Like the prophecy says that in the future Eritus will spread out through all the lands. What does that mean? And it means the kadusha the sanctity of will will spread out to the whole world which means hashem has a dwelling place in the physical world. Okay. So two historical eras in the wilderness before entering the land. That's era one. And then in the land as well as out of the land but drawing all those other lands into a connection with the land. That's that's era two. Listen to the structure. The four runins with a mollik correspond [snorts] to the beginning and the end of both eras. You follow that? You have two eras. Each era has a beginning and an end. So you have bump bump bump bump that's four bump bump bump bump the beginning and the end of era one and the beginning and the end of era 2 you get four different points on that continuum. Okay that's just historically that's when it happened. Okay or the last one will happen that's just when it happened. In other words, Milik frames history. It is like the book ends so to speak of history. Okay. [clears throat and cough] [snorts] is above eyes. Ah, now from this that we see the first two wars, a mullik was open. They were identifiably who they were. But then no in the first two wars the first war meaning right when the yidden came out of mitime a mullik was open they were their identity was open wasn't disguised the second war meaning at the end of the 40 years in the wilderness they were disguised as Canaanites like uh they didn't want to be identified as a malik because they didn't want to be uh be targeted. They want to be able to attack without uh without being spotted, without being identified. So that is an that is a an indication. So that shows us also the pattern. You kind of repeat the pattern. The two wars of the second era is the Malik. So the first war with a Malik at the beginning of the second era was with an open and revealed is metabolic. The moch that we're going to fight in the times of Messiah which is now is going to be a hidden amalik. Okay? So you follow that there are two what? >> That's what he just said. Well, let's find out if the Reb is right or if we're right. >> We have two eras. Okay, I want to make sure everyone understands it's a very important structure to understand the two eras of Jewish history. One era is basically 40 years. It's in the wilderness. The other era is everything after that from what mountain tit was 2448 plus 40 years is 2488. So yeah and then from 2488 until 5786. So you have two eras from 2448 until 24.88 and then from >> the pattern repeats itself >> 2488 until 5786. The pattern repeats itself >> just like >> the beginning of the 40 years is a revealed amalik and the end is a hidden amalik. And the beginning of after they entered the land the fight that they had with with with a malik in the times of schol revealed the malik. the end of the period, the second period is Messiah. That's going to be again a hidden mullik. Okay. Very good. All right. >> Well, you know, that's that's that's why we learn is to >> that's what you're saying. I understand. >> It's not what I'm saying. It's what the is saying. [laughter] >> So, I I'm I love that you're giving me an opportunity to get on my soap box. We need to spend a thousand times more time learning than looking at fake news on Facebook. So whatever you think, whoever you think is a mullik or whatever you think a malik means in our day from all the people who are um sending out their clickbay information online. Let's ignore all of that and assume that it may not be correct. find out today >> and let's find out today from Lutz what a mullik okay we need to get off of Facebook >> okay not Facebook but what my point is whatever the WhatsApp forwards or whatever the source is whoever is telling you what a mullik is ignore them and let's find out from because that's going to be the truth that's going to be the truth >> spend your energy trying to fight what they call a malik >> maybe that's even a mullik's tactic is to get you to think certain things about a mulch that aren't true so that you get distracted and you fight that false may. Okay, let's I want to learn. I I don't want to argue. I want to learn. Okay, base. Where are we up to? Where are we up to? I don't see it. I don't see it. >> Zion. >> Zion. Zion. Yeah. Okay. The bottom of page 209. bottom of the first column of 209 of now the first battle of the four which is the first battle of the first era. It says met you also means cooled you explains it means cold he didn't seek to kill he sought to cool off it was psychological warfare you understand sometimes the enemy attacks not because he actually thinks thinks he can win, but because he knows that it will create doubt. That's the whole point of psychological warfare. Were on their way to receive the they wanted they were so excited. THEY WERE ON FIRE. They were ready to say whether we understand or not we're ready to commit to it. Yay. A mul comes and he's like throw a little cold water and don't get so excited. Okay. Listen to how sneaky is. He doesn't say don't go to receive the Nicole, a Malik is also a grandchild of Aramitzk. Did you know that? You know the Amal? Very good. Israel, those tuition dollars that I spent all those years comes to >> tell me the >> Esau. >> He comes from Esau. That's right. >> Very good. >> China. So what is a China? What does he argue? Why are you so excited that you're jumping to say NASA before? You can accept it before you know what it's talking about. You're an intelligent person. The proof What's the proof that you're an intellectual person? Hashem wants to give you his which is his wisdom and his understanding in the eyes of the nations. For an intelligent person, an intellectual person, it's an it's not appropriate that you should go out of your vessels and jump uh, you know, be act all wild and do things that don't make sense. especially saying we're going to do something before you understand or even if you never understand. Come on, that's not obviously Hashem expects you to be intelligent people or he won't give you the which is intellect is intellect. Act like an intelligent person. Don't say crazy things like just ready to do it no matter what it says. Come on. Of course you're going to receive but receive it intelligently is like we said yes is also descended from isim he agrees to learning of but where he differs he does not agree to the way of Yanke or talk about Esau then Jacob um which it says about Yankeev he was an ish Tom. He was a simple straight shooter who sat in the tents of learn of them. Is there a nitask? He says like this. You want to sit in the tents, meaning you want to learn, no problem. But is being a simple person, come on. Don't be simple, be sophisticated. [snorts] Be smart. Look into it. Say, "I got to send it to my lawyer and I'll get back to you." He goes, "According to his his grandfather, Asov, what's what's a man who knows how to hunt? He understands. He he he knows he figures out how much that uh he he's going to be able to do. He looks at himself. He makes an an evaluation. Here's how much I'm going to do. Here's how much I can learn. Here's how here's how much I can do. He doesn't just sign his life away and commit to the whole thing. He says, "Let me hear and then I'll do. you a realistic evaluation of how much I can do and he he argues very strongly to the contrary since is true listen to this the perversion of logic here since is true this is what says since is true and its wisdom is what difference does it make to you then if I say and then or if I do the opposite I say and then even if I'll say nishma before of course I'll come to NASA if it's true if if is true like you say it is and of course I'll do it because it's going to make sense to me of course it'll make sense to me if it's if it's if it's what are you afraid I look into it I'll look into It'll make sense to me and then I'll commit to it. So what what do you what do you care if I want to investigate it first? Okay. So I'm very aware of the fact that we have a group coming at 12:30. >> I don't even know. >> Yeah. Oh, you're just excited about the >> Okay. I'm very conscious of the fact we have a group coming at 12:30 and we're going to be done before 12:20. Yeah. You're going to see. You're going to see. By the way, people should know we have groups who come from all over the world to go to the Reb and what they do is they come to the Soul Words House. We speak to them a little bit about the aisle and we prepare them a little bit and it's a great that we have that we've since we opened you know remember remember when we opened Gdolf Nissen last year we haven't even been open for a year and we've had >> 50 plus groups yeah for sure who have come through some small groups five six people some like 50 60 people uh from all over the world all walks of life ages levels of obser of observance incredible merit we have that we're half a block from the aisle okay of dam If you let a molic do the first okay there's three meanings means he met you but also means he cooled you then also it means ker means nocturnal emission which causes spiritual pollution vy That means the seed which is the the vitality that's supposed to be used for be fruitful and multiply which means in spiritual terms to conquer the world and to make it a dwelling place for Hashem is that creative energy that's supposed to be used to bring life holiness into the world becomes hijacked for negativity. Disastrous. But where does it all start from? It starts from coldness. Like it says about as these are day outside he knows how to hunt and says he's an ish he's a man of the field he goes out of the tents of which means the tents of shame where they were learning he goes out from that he goes into the goes into the field the se the field is not a nice place that it's a not a nice place I don't know >> starts off >> I was going to say time square but that dates me because time square is not the epitome of a nasty place anymore. when I was a it was >> so first it just starts with a with a making and saying hold on a second let me review this and then I'll decide how much I want to do but then it ends up being an ish leaving the whole let's say he left the reservation yeah you have to be like the straight shooter simple commitment was old gatemen often then you're going to go in the straight often like the says on the wholesome commitment of the upright will guide them. [snorts] If you go with timus with wholehearted simplicity, then you'll be on the right straight path. Straight path. But if you're not ready to be amaziza, that means an impetuous nation. That was the the >> impetuous you ready to sign up for something. You don't even know what it says. >> Right? >> How do you say impetuous in French? I don't know. I have to ask a year. Okay. But impetuousness meaning you're signing up for something. You didn't even look it over. You just clicked. I agree to terms and conditions. You don't even know we just signed away. Which is by the way what we did at Mount Toyota. And it's good. It's good. But as like hold on a second let me let me get let me get back to you let me review this is they say no no no hold on a second itself is intellect it's deep not just regular don't be don't don't don't uh don't jump in to them gain go in order first understand it then agree to do it and then in the end but then what happens is like the Pik says the perversity of the faithless will destroy him that this aakarus will lead to ketti the misappropriation of life force and uh bringing to all types of spiritual ruin. Okay. Okay. What we just described was the first battle of a Malik that happened right when they came out of >> the revealed one. the re and like very good we said the revealed one but at the end of that same era is but at the end of that era came again to fight but he took on an extra cunning tactic a spitzel disguise is hot inundure. He dressed up asim as Canaanites. So he wouldn't be recognized as the same nation that fought with the at the beginning of the 40 years. in the second battle he did not come as an anle of the first time he comes he's like listen I'm your cousin I also respect to the contrary I maybe I respect it more than you because you guys are acting impetuously about it I understand that it's intellect so I'm trying to act intelligently that was the first time he he openly identifies himself as a mullik the second time he does not identify as a mullik he does not come to you as a descendant of of of ramen comes to you as a guy. He says, "I have nothing to do with I have no comment. It's foreign to me. I have no opinion." A mullik, the open Mullik, who's a descendant of says, "I could also have an opinion about Tyra. I'm also your relative." When he's disguised as a can, he says, "I have no comment about. I don't know the first thing about when you're Yiddish. I don't want to get involved in a time when you're being Jewish. Do whatever you want. I have zero opinion because I'm clueless. Do whatever you want. I just want one thing. All I'm saying is matters that pertain to cananan to the land itself, day-to-day existence, do it my way. Your religious stuff, do it your way. Cuz I have no idea. I don't know what these things are. But when you're talking about your day-to-day life, like mundane stuff, physical stuff, please take my advice. Do it my way. Let me guide you on that. I'm not going to tell you how to Davin Min. I have no idea what that is. But how to work, how to [snorts] how to buy a house, how to how to um raise your kids. Um what what what uh >> food >> find food. Yeah. Whatever it is, physical stuff, let me tell you how to do it. Okay. It's the forex building. You're about to come into the land and you're going to be involved in the forms of the 39 categories of mundane labor. You have to learn the ways of the land. That's the only way you're going to be able to get a foothold here. I'm not going to have any opinion about your religious life, but please listen to me when I tell you how to live your practical life. Okay? add itan. If you're not going to learn Canaanite ways and submit to those ways init haste of If if you're not going to learn the ways ofan and submit to it, you're not going to be able to survive when you enter the land. You want to live in this world as a practicing Jew. So you you want to have enough for your expenses, but also you want to serve. You want to keep Shabas and Yamtiff and give Daka and have children who who private education pay tuition. How are you going to do it? How are you going to manage this? It's not going to happen. That's what it says in that second war that they took captives. They took a captive. It means that the king of the Canaanites, they captured a Canaanite made servant. Gan Bashi. Interesting. What did he take? He took a captive. Something that the Yidden themselves had captured from the world. He's not going to take anything that has to do with your religious life. He's not getting involved. He says, "Listen, once you leave, once you leave the base and you're then you're on my turf, and then you have to do it my way." So that's what it means that they captured a Canaanite maid servant am from among the Jews. Something that was already quote unquote foreign to the Jews. That's where they want to have their their say. is far says that in this behavior of the Canaanite king of is hidden the the the arguments the classic arguments of a malik is in bottom line is that a yid represents holiness and a non-Jew cannot have any there cannot be a there cannot be a joining of these two in what happens is the Canaanite wages war with an inner mullik disguised within him and >> the way Canaanite he's not a real Canaanite he really internally he's an amalik and what does he do it says that he struck at your rear he struck the stragglers who were marching in the rear the the the slowpokes in the back Nor is when the Canaanite king of Ard comes and he says, "Learn the ways of Cananan. And that's the only way you can enter the land. Not only is that not a way to transform Cananan into Israel, a land with the where the eyes of Hashem are on it all all all the time, but rather it is a war against Jews. It's a war against Israel. And uh this is the very same Amalik who didn't want to let the Yidden accept Toyra properly and wanted to cool them off from all matters of holiness. In other words, the open attack is the first one. He tries to cool you off from Tyra. The second attack is I'm not going to I have no opinion about Tyra. Do whatever you want. Religious freedom. I don't care. But when it comes to your secular, mundane day-to-day life, please follow my advice. I know what I'm talking about. is on is the laashidar. So reveals that not only were they fighting against the Canaanite king of Arad who was dis who was really a mullik in disguise who was trying to interfere with with mountain but rather it's not just the spirituality really a mullik's ultimate aim is to interfere with the Jewish body not just to interfere with our spirituality but also our physicality. Just like in the times of Purim that um that that Hman who was descended from Amalik, his ultimate end his his his plan was to destroy to slay and exterminate all the Jews, God forbid, meaning to physically kill them. So the hidden Amalik is not just trying to attack our spirituality. Ultimately, he doesn't even want us to to exist physically. We have to know if we have to know that the way to entert meaning the way to make the world holy like is not to follow the Canaanite ways but to destroy them. Okay? And what that means is I'm going to say it very very clearly that not only do we have to follow Jewish values when it comes to our religious life, but we have to follow exclusively Jewish values when it comes to our so-called secular life, which isn't really secular anyways because it is completely dictated by Torah. So the hidden Amalik is the Amullik who tells you, "I'm not here to interfere with your worship, your freedom of religion. This is America. I just want you to act normal like me when it comes to your secular life." And really his endgame is to not only destroy your spirituality, but to to physically eradicate you as well. Okay. Um Yeah. Where do we have to at all. >> Where's Tess? >> Oh, you Oh, you flipped it already. Now, we said in the second era, we're also going to have two battles. One at the beginning and one at the end. The one at the beginning we already had that was with in in the time of Schol. That's the ha of of Zar. The one in the end of that era is the one with Msiah. That's in our generation is so what's that war? since you're in business you should act like the rest of the businessmen like the non-Jews a job if you need the Reb uses the English word a job if you need to have a job You should approach it like an approaches it. You should ignore the laws that Torah has governing ethical business practices. just you do whatever you got to do like the world does it dog eat dog world and uh you don't have to worry so much about learning to you know you have to you look how are you going to compete with your non-Jewish competitors they don't have to take time to to have to take time to to learn a you got to be like them But you got to remember first things first. Um yeah, the first thing he this is what he what he argues. Stop with that stuff. Forget about that. Stop with the whole thing of everything is divine providence. He says that's that's you know hocus pocus. Uh stop saying that everything is Hashem's. Forget about that. You have to take the approach like everyone else in the world that your prowess is what brings you success. Stop stop trying to make it all spiritual. It's not. That's what the hidden Amalik is is arguing. Foreign, this is a English word. I'm going to try to read it the way it's written. Successful businessman. This [laughter] is literally what it's successful businessman. And then this is still the argument of the hidden mullik that you're going to uh be able to succeed in your business and you'll be a successful businessman and you'll flourish in your endeavors because you're going to go about it the same way your non-Jewish competitors do it. Stop with all the spirituality and enough already. Okay. But warned us about this. is inus. You have to know who is hidden behind that argument. Who is really making that argument in a malik? That is none other than a malik who is trying to impede your way to receive the And not only does that block the way to transforming this whole world into a holy place, a dwelling place for Hashem, but ultimately it will be revealed that his intent is to destroy the Jewish people literally, physically because figure it out simple. In order for Jews to physically survive is norm it's only if they spiritually survive is like we said that the wholesome commitment of the upright will guide them on the straight path villain up killing not to allow those who want to cool us off in tits is The only way to to make sure that the physical body of the Jew with the 248 limbs and 365 senus. The only way that that remains intact physically is if our spirituality remains intact that our Yiddish kite is uncompromised. from is called of life in mitzv it says live with them is that doesn't just mean spiritual life after 120 years after you pass away you go to heaven you're going to live in heaven no that's not what it I mean it means that also but primarily we mean literally physically living to brings physical life mitzvah bring physical life without to mitzvah you we cannot physically live. If aid is going to live in the physical world in his physical body is the only way is through learning theor of life which gives us physical life in the physical world. And you have to do mitzvah which give us life. And you have to do 248 positive commandments which corresps will be alive corresponding to to the 248 positive commandments. Your 365 uh senus will be healthy corresponding to 365 prohibitions. and then you will fulfill be fruitful and multiply and fill the world and subdue it. Remember we said before a mullik hijacks the ki he takes the seed he takes the vitality and he takes it from holiness and he puts it into the secular. though if we don't listen to a mullik and we make sure that not only our religious lives but our also our m our so-called mundane lives are authentically Jewish and and governed by and spiritual then what will happen is we'll be able to use that spiritual um reproductive power to transform the entire world make the whole world into a dwelling place forem edit And in the future, like we say, the holiness of Israel will spread out over the whole world. Anywhere you'll turn in the whole physical world as that the eyes of Hashem are upon it. Right now, it only says that is the land where Hashem's eyes are on it. But when Mashiach comes, the whole world will be obvious that Hashem's eyes are upon it. Not just at a holy special time like the peak pinnacle of yim at nila bashab or onabas and learning and not just when you're ding and not just when you're learning but rather you will see hashem's presence in the world all the time all year round every place because the whole world will be transformed. So based on what we just learned, what is a malik in our day? It is not it is not terrorists. I'm not saying terrorists are good. I'm not saying it's not a problem, but that's not a mullik. A malik is a very reasonable, ostensibly friendly voice that comes to Jews and says, "Be normal. Fit in." At least when it comes to your secular activities, be like us. That's a malik. That's a malik. And that's why, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children should of all ages, I have one more sentence to tell you. The greatest threat to Jewish security on earth today is the same as it was when this sika was said. And that is a lack of Jewish pride and Jewish education. That's the biggest security risk. A lack of Jewish pride and Jewish education. That's why we learned these to counter that. Okay. Oh, so beautiful. So this this poem was the 70th anniversary and the words of that sika 70 years later are just as true and just as important and uh as urgent. The biggest threat to Jewish people today is ignorance and apathy, a lack of Jewish awareness. And that's why we have to learn Toyota specials.