Vayishlach | Likkutei Sichos Vol. 1

Okay. Sunday mornings 10:30 approximately approximately 10:30 at the soulward's house learning lut. Leave that on the table please. I want to talk about that and then you can take it away in one second. Hey there. Come on in. We're just getting started. Okay. Um, wow. A couple things I want to talk about before we jump into the sika. One is that box that you said all tried to move, but I didn't let him move it. I came here this morning. I was so excited. I saw a box on the front steps and it had an address of uh 1526 Union Street. And I was like, oo, who sent me something from Crown Heights? And then I realized it's the shipping department from Cayenu. And I got, look what I got, a whole box. Yasi Pel, the executive director of was here last week. We just dropped a podcast last night. Matashabis. Anyways, I got my Vishlah. I got my Vesv. I got my Mikates and Kaneka Vigash, which is also Kaneka. Two two weeks of Kaneka. And those are all the regular Kenos. Then I got my threes. I don't know if this is nor three. Anyways, I got a whole box of cayenus. And then what am I going to do with them? I'm going to put them. Oops. Can you help me here? I'm getting a little bit overwhelmed by all my here. Okay, we got these cool leather cases. Why do we have two? Cuz one for the regular Cena one and one for the for the Cayeno 3. So, this is like the Cayeno 3 and the brown leather. See? fancy Corinthian leather over here. And then we have the blue. I got the regular Cayeno. Anyways, very exciting. There's a special campaign right now. Get half off of an annual subscription to Cayeno uh from uh Yudgimisv ateno.org/subscribe or something like that. At any rate, we're big fans of Cayeno over here. Um it is test. It is yud kisv yagula of the mitlerbe. Yesterday shabas was testis the uh birthday and yard site of the mitlerbe. Before we get started I just wanted to tell a quick story. Uh this took place tessis and yudkis of tuffshin lammed h which is the winter of which is the year I was born. I was born 1974. So this is the first test kislov and yudkis of my life or of my embodiment here in this world. [snorts] At any rate, the story is like this. The kas was the same as far as this year tough where tesis yesterday was shabas and today Sunday like we call it in uh in America is yud kislv and it was extremely surprising that the rebba did not fabbrang that chabas. The gaba was looking at the reba for there was a certain signal if uh the reb would fabbrang on shabas signaled by whether the reb would walk away from his at a certain point in the announcements or not and uh the the gab ended up announcing the time for mka which I think was like 4:00 or something like that which meant the wasn't going to fabang and they were very surprised cuz tesla was like that's the the mitb's birthday in yard site and it would have been a day that the Abu Fabrang at at least in those at that time it was the pattern that it was expected that Abu Fabbrang was very very unusual that Reba did not fang. What was even more unexpected surprising was that the next day yud kiss the rebba did not fang again and nobody really knew why except for uh in the reba secretariat and then years later it was revealed the behind the scenes story. There was a kid who was going to Lamavat Shiva and um he was getting teased. He was getting teased because he was different. He looked different. He had a black father and he looked, you know, marketkedly different and kids unfortunately are not always so tolerant of differences. And he was being teased and it's painful to admit that he was going to uh yeshiva and being teased, but that that was the reality. what would a Jewish mother not do for her child? So the boy's mother wrote to the Reba and pleaded with the Reba to do something about the bullying and uh the Reb apparently contacted the school and spoke to the principal and when the bullying did not stop actually the Reb told Rabbi Khadikov his chief secretary tell the principal that if the bullying doesn't stop I want to know should I come down to the school myself and make a seder obviously when the principal heard that he was petrified and they took took care of it. But at any rate, that shabas teslin lammed Hey was the boy's shabas of his bar mitzvah where he uh there was a kdish. He got he got his aliyah and there was a kdish after uh davening obviously. Oh, and it was in it was in the what they called the um Franklin uh Shaw, which is now it's maybe even considered part of Crown Heights, but a mall it was considered like the the the shortest tala, Franklin Avenue. Um it's past I think it's past Bedford. It's toward uh the museum circle. At any rate, um [clears throat] so that's where this boy was doveting and that's where his kiddish was. And if it would if the rebba would have had a fabang and that shabas, everyone would have run out after daing and not stayed for the kdish. And the rebba didn't want that because the boy was already sensitive to feeling different and he didn't necessarily have such a big family the boy um and a lot of friends to support. So the rebba didn't fang on chabas. And the next day, the next evening, Sunday night, was the bar mitzvah party like in America like we do. And apparently the Reb was aware of that as well. And the Reb did not fabang yisv in order that because the rebu there would be a fabang and then people would either not attend the boys bar mitzvah party or they would attend but leave early. So that's the story and of course as we have to reflect upon this the fact that the rebba would cancel a fabbran two fabangans even if this would just be a fabangan a regular fabangan of we know that what fabangan can accomplish even the malik m cannot accomplish. So to cancel any faban is [snorts] a wondrous thing but especially a fabbran of the reb you know what a faban of the rebba means of is a gileus it's a new revelation of godliness in the world that never existed before especially when the rebba says a mimer [clears throat and cough] remember hearing raiel speaking about what is a mimemer it's not just lira every time the rebba says a says a mimer it makes a new reality in the world that never existed before. And you think about the fact that the rebba knowingly purposefully did not fabang twice and what that would have accomplished in the world which we can't even really fathom and apparently the chose that in the name of anti-bullying and compassion and avisro that it was worth it or perhaps we can even say what the not bullying or the anti-bullying it's not just not it's not just enough to be passive and not bully, but the anti-bullying to go out of your way to do something to support the downtrodd and the different and the the stigmatized. Um, that going out of your way to to to act compassionately to someone who is marginalized, apparently perhaps we can deduce accomplishes even more than what the reban accomplishes, which is something beyond our ability to even fathom. So that's a very very important story I think for all of us when we're preparing for yasis and we want to be on the same page with the reb getting ourselves aligned where we ought to be in mind and in heart. It's a very important thing to to consider and to reflect upon without further ado. I apologize for the long introduction. I felt that was an important thing to clarify. Paras Paige, move to the left a little bit. Oh, your left. >> A little less >> like this. Thank you. Okay. All right. And you see that the subtitle is so the the are under parish um because is the shabas before. So I know today is only of so we're going to have a whole week to get ready for shabas which is then in turn the shabas that we get ready for. So we'll have plenty of time for ours. And today's yudisv and we all know the connection between yudisv and yudisv like uh theic saying goes the yudis is the birthday of aid. Is the of the [snorts] okay? Yeah you can take that away. Thank you. Okay. And the verse Yankee is speaking to uh Asov and he's saying love and garti I I sojourned I never used that word in real conversation but I hung out with so garted means I wasn't dwelling there in a kind of the point of this [snorts] I I was like uh I was residing there I resided with that's how I'm going to translate I resided with loving and rashi says what does it mean? It's a it's a code garti. The letters garti is tarag. Tarag is 613. So I I I sojourned I resided. I dwelled or is it dwelt with love and I kept 613 commandments says the isandic in them? It's not understood three things. What's the connection between the the way that uh uh what do you call the the exigesis of the puk and it's you know the the how do they fit together base what does it matter to tell as He kept 613 mitzvah. Is that something Asa was particularly interested in? Would that be intimidating to him? I mean, what what was the effect that that was supposed to accomplish? Gimmel and classic's question. What is the directive for us? Because it's impossible. This is just academic knowledge. This has to be instructive. Okay. Base is gi the simple meaning of love and garti has that connotation that implies that everything that Yankov is saying everything that I had by loving which really means the physicality the materiality all uh uh possessions he amassed the ox and in donkeys and sheep and servants. All of that was for Yankeev in a manner of gus. Gerus means being a stranger, not a resident, not a not a um not a native born, you know, a visitor, someone who's just kind of residing, passing through a strange thing. Not strange like weird, strange like it's not my thing. Well, that's literally what he says. So, Yankee was conveying the fact that yeah, I was living by loving and I happened to have succeeded materially succeeded over there, but it wasn't really my thing. And I mean, yeah, I did it. It wasn't I didn't really get into it. His home, Yanke's home, his true home was and mitzvah and all the physical stuff that was to him in a in a manner of gus of just visiting a stranger visiting. Okay, this is also supported by what it says later in the same sedra that it says after the whole runin with Asov. It says that he built for himself a house and for his cattle he built uh huts, you know, like we have we build huts. What does it mean? He built for himself with for himself, for his essence. What's his essence? the soul and everything that belongs to the soul. He made an established house, permanent house. And for his cattle, what does that represent? The the cattle means the possessions, the things that he acquired. So the soul itself has no relationship with any of this these physical acquisitions. It's just that down here in the embodiment it needs to deal with this stuff. So for that he made booths huts which means a temporary dwelling. Okay. So it's the same concept for him meaning his real self his deepest self which is the soul. That was where he found permanent dwelling with his spirituality the physical stuff and he did very well physically. We spoke about it last week in um in Viet. There was a a whole in last week's sik about how Yankeeino was this immigrant who came to the land and he didn't assimilate and he ended up doing incredibly well materially. So same same kind of concept here is that he did very very well materially but it wasn't something he really got into. It wasn't like his not only wasn't his main thing. It wasn't it wasn't even his thing. It was I guess sort of incidental. It was you could call it uh temporary. Yeah, it was part of what he did, but it wasn't his identity. H is and the fb told a story about the the mag that he said at home it's different the doesn't tell the whole background story but basically somebody saw that the maggot was living in poverty his home was very very sparse and he said where's your furniture this guy was a uh a businessman who was passing through Mesich and so the the maggot asked him well where's your furniture he's like what do you mean I'm traveling right now I don't travel with my furniture my furniture's at home and And the mag says, "Ah, me too. I don't travel with my furniture. My furniture is at home." So that was the and meaning to say that Alam Haza all the physical things. I'm not uh this is not where I'm building my all my permanent stuff. Come on in. At home you have to have everything. True. But when you're on the way, but when you're traveling, you don't have to have such a nice house. You don't have to have uh such nice furniture. You're just passing through, right? And should we give a plug for the Kaneka retreat? See.org. Kaneka Shabas Kaneka in Connecticut with special musical guests. Eighth day and me and my family Israel are you coming with me? You'll see. Eighth day is going to be there. Okay. Shabas Kaneka in Connecticut. We're going to with eighth day. We invite everyone to come join. Did I make a already? I don't think I did. One second. shotgun. Okay. Passing through, right? That isn't that song about that. That's okay. So here's the deal. What's the relationship between the simple meaning of the verse? I I dwelt with loving and the expounded version of the verse which is I kept 613 commandments. The relationship is a onetoone relationship that if you only dwell with love and meaning you don't become his peer. You don't become assimilated to him. You don't identify with him. You have an an attitude of I'm I'm I'm a stranger here. I'm literally just passing through. Even though you're doing incredibly well materially, but you don't attach, you don't form attachments to the material life. So that's how you're able to keep s3 mitzvah. That's the relationship. So we answered our first question. Yeah. We had three questions. One was what's the relationship between the uh homalytical interpretation that Rashi brings and the literal version or the literal meaning of the verse. So we explained that. The second question was why why tell as third question was why tell us why do we need to know this? How does it make our lives better? Okay [snorts] by the way the theme here of this is very much about how to strike an appropriate relationship with the material plane with physicality. In the next as well and if you'll remember from paral that was a theme as well when we spoke about uh everything S tells you you should listen to her voice but hold on this is speaking to Ara who desire says represents the soul and S represents the body. Why should the soul listen to the body? We said when Mashia comes the body will become so refined that it will actually give influence to the soul instead of the other way around. And uh this is a a common theme in this in general especially in the Reb's especially as we get closer to Mashiach when the physical will be refined. So the Reb is teaching us here how to have a healthy relationship with the material because you know before the bal the relationship with the material was aeticism you deny the material in order to be spiritual and comes to BMP and says no uh you don't deny the material you engage with the material but on the other hand you don't become a hedenist because if you engage with the material and then you think the material unto itself for its own sake is important that's actually incredibly destructive. So the deb is guiding us how to have that relationship with the material where we're engaged in the world where we value our embodiment. We understand that Hashem sent the nishama to Alamaza for a purpose and yet we don't get distracted from that purpose. So it's yeah this is the guidance. Okay. When you have the prop proper approach, furthermore, when you have the proper approach, not only does the physicality not disturb or disrupt the spiritual, [snorts] but it actually becomes helpful and to the point where the physical receives sanctity from the spiritual and the physical can become sanctified as well. Like it says further in the verse he says I dwelt with love which means I never identified with him. I never identified with materiality. I was in a manner of gus of keeping a sort of uh distance from it even while I was engaged in it. an emotional distance, a lack of attachment to it even though I was engaged in it. And then it continues and he says, "And I have Lee." Lee means to myself, to my, you know, the pronoun as opposed to a name always indicates something deeper. A name is sort of a superficial way of describing someone. The pronoun is the deeper way describing someone. Even with Hashem, we say that. U so Lee to my essence, what do I have? I have I have this I have axen and donkeys. What does it mean that these material acquisitions are they belong to my to my to my etsum because it seems like a little bit of a contradiction. We just said that his essence is more into the soul stuff and his possessions his material possessions is remember we said that the for his essence he has a bias for his possessions he has a suka. So how do we explain this? The lee is to my essence. Well, we're going to explain all this in it says when says I have I have ax and in donkeys, sheep and servants, the med says that the donkey is Malik Mashiach. It's a reference to Messiah. Why? because it says about Messiah that Mashiach is compared to a pomper riding a donkey. Donkey is not like a classy um mode of transportation. So it's like a poor man's. It's like uh I was going to say Yugo because in the 80s that was the cheap car. What's the cheap car in the 2020s? Nobody knows. Okay, maybe there aren't cheap cars anymore. In the 80s, there's something called a Yugo. It was like $4,000. They made it in Yugoslavia. That country doesn't even exist anymore. Anyways, of Alamia is uphir. The coming of Msiah depends on I'm not going to get into a whole long explanation of what is a habim. I will mention however the number six here points us to Tanya Pediglammed Zion which I could do a computer search and just put this to rest but in my brain my assessment is that this is probably the most commonly referenced uh source or citation to Tanya and Lutus. It may not be but it to me it is that the beginning of lame where it says that uh that all of the theim are to are dependent on my are deeds and our of during gulos that onetoone relationship that everything that happens in Msiah it's an outgrowth it's a natural expression of what we accomplished through refining the physical world in gulos. So um aud basically means engaging the physical world for the sake of hashem meaning using mostly it means using physical objects as instruments to accomplish mitzvah which is hashem's innermost desire panemia without any hiponim and when you take an object that exists from a lower level of rotain meaning does hashem want cows obviously he wants cows or there wouldn't be cows but is the his [clears throat] deepest innermost desire that cows should exist. No. But if you take a cow and make the cow hide into parchment to make a seafer a seafer that's a mitzvah that's his innermost desire. So another way of saying is you take the clip and you make it into kadusha. There's many ways of describing it but the point is that's so which means the refinement the job of refinement that through this that this process every Jew refineses himself and his body and his animal soul and his portion of the physical world that was allotted to him to refine and using all of this for holy purposes. says that's how we bring about the revelations [snorts] of the future of the messianic future. That's what it means. You read the whole verse, the whole continuation, the whole flow. I was a stranger by loving. I didn't become emotionally attached to materiality for its own sake. And now I have to my essence lee to my essence through this attitude that had that materiality was something foreign to him. And as such he made them he was able to make them into vessels for godliness. In other words, he didn't get immersed in the physicality for its own sake. He remained sort of aloof and detached from the physicality and but not separate from the physicality. He was because he was aloof from the emotionally removed from the materiality. Therefore, precisely because of that he was able to deal with materiality and refine it and turn materiality into vessels for godliness which means vo in garti means dwelling. He made that the elus should dwell in the physical is great to and through that he was ready for msiach he was telling as I'm ready for mashiach I have a means also it means as we're about to say the materiality meaning I was able to engage in aim I was able to refine my materiality I didn't have to be an aesthetic who sits on a mountain top with an oath poverty and it doesn't deal with the world. No, no, no. I dealt with the world but I didn't get pulled into the world which is the you know that's the whole concept of uh I guess and that's why sent angels angelic messengers to go tell I finished all my side of the room is clean is great to and he said I'm ready for Mashia making the calculation that what is that is also after his that as also is refined as can and from for for's part ga can come already is saying I'm ready for ga depends on I finished my subur I did a ton of it by len and the way the I was able to do a ton of it at was because I didn't get pulled into it. I had that gus attitude. So he yanked telling as I'm ready for Msiah. How about you came back and said I'm sorry we were by your brother. By they said from your perspective he's your brother. Meaning he's you're ready. He's ready. From your perspective, you're ready for Msiah, but from his side, he's still as he's still before the refinement. Cannot yet come. Okay. [sighs and gasps] So, I knew I was going to teach this today. I knew it for weeks. I started looking into the sika last week. Shabas, I was actually in Crown Heights. My family and I spent Shabas in Crown Heights. My daughter had something at school for Shabas. So the whole family stayed in Crown Heights. And so I was divining at 770. I was upstairs in 770 last night. No, not last night. Last night was Matzah Shabas. Two nights ago. Friday night. Western Wall. First time ever there. No, Friday night upstairs outside of the Reb's room and um I was thinking about this where the Reb said Yankee was ready for Msiah as was not ready for Msiah but I remembered the Reb said now Asov is ready for Msiah and um I was thinking about this and this came by and I said to him hey go get me find me a nun base and get me the page that Ebis speaks about Ace of Now after the beer. I waited 3 4 minutes. He came back, he got me the safer and uh was funny because the next morning I ded into the late minion, the basement basement 770 is a basement, but there's a basement below the basement. People don't realize there's like an 11:00 sh down there. That's why I went down there. And and when I was finishing, I was looking again at Seun base and Makma came in again. and he said, "You've been looking at that all night. I wasn't looking at it every second since you handed it to me, but [snorts] I was looking at it a lot." Okay, so here's what I feel like. If I wanted to make life easy, I would just avoid talking about this, but we're not here to make life easy. [laughter] Um, as you know, I we spoke about in the first class was published in Tik Base, right? We have the I have here this this is an a first printing a 1962 printing, right? And there's, you know, in the forward there's a letter from a actually from T from uh Yodal Nissen think no is the letter from Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Anyways, so this is base. I mean this that I'm learning with you right now is um twoas actually. It's tin and tshin. So two different years uh from 1950 I guess you gota got to do the math here because looks in the winter. So it'll be 1958 195 no 195 Uh how do you do that? Seven in 1959. Yeah. Okay. But the point is look came out in 1962. But then in which was the winter of 911. So you're talking about almost 30 years later that said we've got news tidings of redemption. And one of the [clears throat] things that Ebis said was that Asov is now ready. that even though when Yankeev sent Malohim to Asov to say he was ready for gula, Asf was not ready for gula and apparently that was true enough even in 1962 to be printed. The Reb says here clearly and this is all based on a mime of the alterb from where the alterb explains how Yanka was ready for guula before his confrontation with As. Asov was not ready for gula. Um but in tinun base the deba said now asovv is also ready for goulah. And what does that mean? [sighs and gasps] You know, I don't know exactly what that means, but I think it's important for the sake of honesty and thoroughess that when we learn this ho that I was about to say of what does it teach us that we're ready for gula and we're dealing with a world that's not yet ready for gula. Obviously, this teaching is eternal and we should relate to it as something that is relevant to us. At the same time, I think we need a larger context to realize that the reba the same rabbi who told us this told us 30 years afterwards subsequently that things are different and uh obviously the of base are sometimes difficult to grasp. That's why my ultimate goal really is this first time I'm saying this publicly but after I get I want to go through and then bass and then I think even gimmel and but after I think we go through al and olive through I want to do not skipping a single word not skipping a single word um and dealing with whatever it says there and then people can really get mad at me from all sides but that's life. Um, but like I said, it's it's lofty stuff, but just to like bring it down a little bit. So in that base where the reb is speaking about as already after the bureau and uh the connects by the way to the whole concept of France that that um okay so in the ha parish which is the vision of a vada who was a g from which is and he was za to prophecy about the downfall of Adom of Asov. So one of the things it mentions is Saras France and uh the deba talks about how France used to represent western values liberal western values to the extent where the alterba was exceedingly opposed to France when during the Napoleonic wars and because France was a danger the values of of France were a danger and now because there's aim in France France and there's so much hapata is coming out of France. Now there's a certain bureau that was already accomplished and finished and um the situation is different today and that Saras France is actually the same letters as parata which means spreading out which is likearata spreading out safon and it's also big 770 and uh tasa and paratha are both 7 the same letters in the same gumatri 770 which obviously 770 is 770 Eastern way. And this is also another remnis to the Haft Torah where it says that B Yanke is going to [clears throat] be like a like a flame and B Y the house of YF will be [clears throat] like Lava like a like a flame and they will devour uh B As which will be like kash will be like straw and so the deba says bas what's bas 770 because that's the house that was established by the Fedic Reba whose first name was Ysef and so and and and the hashbah of Bisf on the world is through uh which is 770 is is through the parata of spreading out and spreading out all over the world which accomplishes even the refinement of 770 which is again the idea of Asov's refinement and so therefore it's a different world today. Um, what does that mean? Very, very lofty stuff. Um, I won't take liberties to try to interpret it myself. I'll just tell you what the Reba says at the end of this what the Reb says. The says and the Reb translates it into practicality. And here's what the Reb says is [snorts] the practical the gives some practical guidance in these as lofty as they are. Um, [snorts] by the way, I should just mention not since I'm already on a parenthesis within a parenthesis. I didn't really understand the style of nonbase until we did the first uh evening of tribute for the Reb's father Huff of I don't even remember what year that was. It was five, six years ago. When was it? 2019. It was right before CO, right? So, it was iness or something like that. Um, and when we prepared the texts, when I went through a lot of the Reb's father's TRA and started to, I wouldn't say become familiar because I'm still very much a novice, but started to notice patterns in the Reb's father's style. I started to realize that that was that very much became more and more revealed in the Reb's style in the later sikas. the deep connections, how everything is interwoven, every word, every letter is significant and the codes that are hidden and [snorts] names of things and dates of things. At any rate, so it's very lofty stuff. But then the Reb gives the at the end of the of the says like this um bottom line and by the way and base was the same. I told a story earlier about tshin lammed hay had where it was the same tshin nun base well tin wasn't entirely sus because kisv was mole kis and tavis were both mole um but at this point meaning what was similar was that the shabas before kislv was shabas vishl and it fell on tess zion kislv which by the way is my father's first yard site coming up so if you want to hear me do for the almet chabas you can come to Cedarhurst. [snorts] Um so the kus was like this of shabis was tazv which is the full moon of kisl and then tion and then yudian uh to the full moon and then is the is of then are y on their own and then you have the you may so basically the said [laughter] that the my of understanding that Asov is ready for refinement is that we should make a faban in every single place every night from tessv through and that every place should have a faban that is like the mimazi it's interesting I'm thinking about the event we did with you said it's because one of the questions was like well can anyone just make an event? So in this theb says very theb says that every place should make an event. It shouldn't just be the maker marazi and every place should make an event on the level of not being an a tuffle but being an eker and it's okay. It won't outshine the makuzi. won't outshine the main place and to the contrary it's from and every place will raise the bar because of it and there should be no tuffle and no and one of the things this does is shows that everyone is a mashia it's interesting how is that going to be possible everyone's a mashia and the says but that's mashiach because when mashia comes used to be in gulus that the moon is a mabo from the sun which is a mashia mashia comes even the moon will also be like the sun so everyone will be a mashia Yeah. So, don't worry about the fact that there's the main place and they have the main thing and you shouldn't outshine them. Literally outshine you, no pun intended, moon, sun, but every place should have the best possible um level of celebration and this will be good for everybody. Show that that everyone's a mashia. And then one more thing the says and then one more thing every individual should make three fabang for with himself with his family and with okay three every individual should make a lot of you come to my I'll come to your okay with himself it's like porm yeah I'll give you my shakon you give me mine then we have that that's our pora Very good. All right. So every every individual has to make three with himself with his family and with his friends and friends. I'm not sure the andid I think you did them you actually like but it doesn't matter. The point is you have to make three. Every individual has to make three fabangans. And what does this show? Again the says that everyone is a mashia. I've always said that it's unhealthy for labavatures really for every yid but with labavers you especially see it to not be mashia when labavatures are in a mode of being served doesn't work well it's not healthy they have to be they have to serve they have to be the servers when labavatures are serving they're very healthy when they are being served causes dysfunction so at any rate as a now after since Asov is already and uh yeah Asov's after the beer. And now you have to ask if is after the beer. And I saw in a mime of the that ano he has no beer which has says either means he cannot be refined or it means he has no which is what makes him angry because he's he was always jealous of has the mitzvah and he doesn't have it. So to the extent where asov is so refined that if anyone from asov is not acting in a refined way you say you must have taken money from kqatar right [laughter] isn't that doesn't that show that I'm just I don't know maybe okay at any rate everyone should make fabangans and every single location should have a fabbran on par with the main place and it doesn't outshine the main place it only raises the bar for everyone that's it okay back inside Hey. Yeah, that's who we are. Okay. And her teachings, her instructions are eternal. So, we just said if the Reb said something in 1962, it's eternal. Even if in 1992, he updates it. For every Jew in every time, in every place is so here's the every every Jew has to know this that even if his environment around him the world is not ready yet for Msiah because it's not yet refined and as we mentioned now apparently the world is refined enough for Messiah and the Reb said the fact that Mashiach isn't here yet is not understood good. In other words, the the amount of refinement is not what's holding it back anymore. That critical mass has been reached. And the fact that Mashiah isn't here yet, at least since 1992, is not understood. There's no logic for it. Okay. [snorts] So, the here from 1962 is even though the world around you may not be ready for Msiah, but the Jew for himself, for on his side, The Jew has to get himself ready and all of his stuff, his donkey and his and his uh oxen and donkey and sheep and servants. He has to get himself and all of his possessions ready for gula. And how much more so uh if the world is ready for gula okay is and how do you get yourself into a mode where you are ready for mashia and you and all of your physical stuff are ready for mashia. It's the attitude of which we said means holding an aloof attitude to materiality. He has to know that physicality is just a passing through kind of phase and um yeah I I'm dwelling in the land dwelling meaning temporarily his whole life the 70 or 80 years we tears or even the 120 years his embodiment ment is a time of passing through is the and then if that's the attitude materiality is not a contradiction to spirituality and then you know what the good thing is you're also going to have material abundance for Yank it was livestock and stuff like that but in 2025 almost 2020 26 different stuff, different assets. But the point is that when you have the healthy attitude toward materiality where you don't value it for its own sake and only for the sake of the Aveda sabirudim and getting the world ready for Msiah, then you can also be rich. Why not? It's not a contradiction to spirituality. And to the contrary, it can help your spirituality as we're going to speak about even more. We spoke about it a little bit already. We're going to speak about it even more. And when he gets himself ready for he gets the by extension gets the world ready is a shock of because the world is perfectly balanced. This is from the rama right? [snorts] So many times the brought this is. So with one good deed he can tip the scales and bring redemption to the whole world. like when they will be immediately redeemed and adds take from not just Miyad but the words take from you. You see the Reb favored that phrase take from. So therefore um irrespective of what the stat the status of the world may be he can do chuva and he can bring his personal redemption the gula clawless and then by extension he can also bring a gula clawless he can bring an objective gula for the whole world and the is saying this when the world was not ready for msiah the world was not yet refined and the debah says you with your own chouva can bring to the world. How much more so after the said the world is ready and there's no logical reason holding back Msiah everything is by divine providence the redemption of the and the Tufas was in the week it was on a Tuesday the day in which there is double good um but the shabas before actually this year it's also on a Tuesday uh but the shabas before and in base it was as well I think the yeah the speaks about that in that uh base that the shab before in which we have all of these about having a healthy detachment from actually allows you to use for a holy purpose. [clears throat] This gives every Jew the ability not to calculate, not to think too, not to take too seriously the status of the world. um [snorts] and to accomplish the attitude of which again means the healthy detachment from Gashmir and that allows us to come to a level of [snorts] Msiah where we can actually not only not be distracted from our mission by materiality but by uh but we can actually take materiality around us and align it to our mission which ultimately is the definition of mashia. Mashiah is the refinement of the physical world of materiality. is a preparation and a vessel for the revelation of Msiah that through like Msiah told the soul of Mashiach and Ganed told the BMP in his leas and his uh out of body experience [snorts] that through the spreading out of your the Balsh's wellsp springsings the master Msiah will come uh speedily in our day. Okay, that's the end of the first that is again I said from paras from two different years and okay next starting [clears throat] from let's take a 10-second breather there. Okay, it was intense. We had a lot of stuff there. We mentioned uh from and need 10 seconds to breathe. Okay, this is just coffee. Disclaimer I always have to say How's everybody doing? Somebody wrote in the YouTube chat, "We are ready." I'm assuming they're meaning we are ready for gula. I'm [clears throat] assuming from context. Okay. Second Sikha starts with Zion on page 70. [snorts] And this is from same year as part of the we just learned but it's itself. So obviously the rebang is were about the essence of what is mean? What does mean what did it accomplish? [snorts] What does it accomplish? So we're continuing the theme that we just learned about uh materiality and the refinement thereof and its connection to all right. So we mentioned before that the is a an illusion to Msiah. But now we're asking another question. Why specifically does Yankee use the donkey to hint to Miach? as basically is going to say there are different ways to hint to Msiah. Donkey is one symbolism, but we have another symbolism which is the cloud. um like it says in Dunil and I actually I wasn't sure how to translate varu and I looked up you know dil is in Aramaic and I looked it up and I was looking at it I was seeing did the mafam explain anything no and I looked in the English the English didn't help me it just skipped it just didn't translate the word but safaria has different language translations I looked in the French I don't speak French. Really? Just a little bit. Vu. Yeah. Really? So, I'm going to tell you what it says. Oh, yeah. It said voila. Voila. Which even I knew what voila is. [laughter] So, varu means voila. Behold. That's how we'll translate. No one says behold. People say voila. No one says behold, but check it out. Um, var behold. Check it out. Voila. Um, Mashiach is uh coming on uh clouds of the heavens. So the rest of the panel says no like uh like a person semblance of a person which referring to Mashiah is a person. All right. So one way of referring to Mashiach is coming on clouds of glory or clouds of heaven. Yeah. Of uh Okay. But then we also have Yeah. Remember Oh, here's See if you guys retention. Where does it say? Where's the puss? So we know the puss about the clouds is from Daniel. Where's the puss about Msiah coming on a donkey? Remember we mentioned it doesn't give the there's no footnote here but we mentioned it earlier. Remember anyone remember Zakaria? That's what I remember. Am I correct? Footnote five. Zakaria test. Okay. Yeah. Okay. So, the medish reconciles these two sources in Tanakh and says, "Listen, they're both true. It just depends on circumstances. If they merit, meaning the Jewish people, then Mashiah will come on clouds of glory, on clouds of heavenly clouds." um but if they don't merit then will come and the says that in Yiddish is now it's even more difficult to understand this doesn't make it easier makes it harder to understand fact that Yank was ready was because of the completeness of his aid, his level of zak that he refined the the materiality by love is an alka. So then why did msiah why why did yank reference mashia with the lower level with the donkey level not with the cloud level? Yanka was so ready. He was trying to to express uh his the degree of his readiness. So why did he reference the the level? Okay. says in that the Mashiach riding on is the same the same donkey that's mentioned by Mishenu that he put them who's them his wife and his children Gman alazar on the on the donkey And it's the same donkey that a used when it says that he saddled the donkey. Okay. Thus haste as this means that Misha and Messiah going in chronological order are one continuation of the same concept as represented by their relationship with the same donkey. Ara began the two millennia of Tyra. You know, we have millennia that are corresponding to days. Each millennium is like a day. And so the seventh millennium is like the seventh day is like Shabas and we're in Ed of Shabas because we're in the sixth millennium right now. The 5000s are the sixth millennium because the first millennium is you understand the year thousand starts the second millennium. So the year 5,000 started the sixth millennium. We're in the end of the sixth millennium. We're in uh Friday afternoon, which is why the world is getting crazy. So Aram started the two,000 years of Tyra. There are 2,000 years in history which represent well mountain tyra happens in that time and then the proliferation of tyra through uh centium. Okay. So Aram started that Aram was born in 1948 not 1948 CE 1948 from creation right which is almost 2000 and uh basically his main career was after the year 2000 and I don't mean like Y2K 2000 I mean 2000 from creation. So the first 2,000 years is before the Torah and that's why everything was kind of crazy and you have floods and you have giants and everything. But then started the uh yes and I did say floods plural because there was a flood before the flood starts the 200 years of and then also during those two millennium to millennia it's one of my pet peeves. Millennium is the singular. Millennial is the plural. It's how Latin suffixes work. Okay. Farra. Oh, by the way, if you want to get really super technical, yes, Mosher Rabbenu put his wife and children on the donkey before mountain was on his way back to start the process of redemption. So, how can you connect that to Okay. So, but nevertheless, he put them on the donkey. Misha put them on the donkey to take them back to Mit to start the gula process. And of course, the gula process from Mitim is all connected to mount to because the whole purpose of Mitim was in order that the Jews should come out and serve Hashem on that very mountain where Mosha experienced his call to be the redeemer. So that's all connected to mountain. And then of course Messiah is the idea of taklas of the ultimate culmination of mount tra where all the mitzvah will be reinstated and can be performed in their perfect state. Okay. So starts the era of tra obviously is synonymous with and mashiach is the ultimate catalyst for being fulfilled in this world in its most perfect state. Okay. So anyways, we have this motif of the donkey, but really we also have this motif of toyra becoming more and more uh aligned with the world. I shouldn't say it that way. the world becoming more and more aligned with Tyra. Nevertheless, there's a difference in how all three of them relate to or use the donkey. So the deb is going to get into a deal here. How do these three figures who all represent one ham of the toy becoming more integrated into the world? Materiality becoming more aligned with its purpose. How does that and the obviously is the is the materiality. How does that how is that represent how is this continuum represented specifically by the way in which these three figures make use of the donkey [snorts] to mention often a put his stuff on the donkey, specifically the wood and the knife. But he and his lads walked. They went by foot. And he only put the things that call it, let's call it technology. Technology are things. Technology doesn't have to be high-tech. It doesn't have to have a circuit board to be called technology. A broom is a technology. A hammer is a technology. any any tool that's outside of yourself that you pick up and you use to accomplish something to extend your coyak is called technology. So a put the technology on the donkey, the wood, the knife, the stuff that he was using, that's what he put on the donkey. says he took his wife and children, put them on the donkey. Now, it goes without saying that a person's wife and children are a lot closer to him than his stuff, than his wood and knife. A wife is the helpmate. She's considered actually like your own body. And and what about a son? A son is the the foot, the leg, the extension of the father. The thigh is the lower portion of the person. In other words, it's not the person himself, [snorts] but it's almost the person. It's his wife. It's his children. So that's a closer relationship with what was being placed on the donkey. With a it was only possessions with it was wife and children which are almost oneself but not quite. By Mashiach he himself he puts himself on the donkey. Okay. So what does that mean? Interesting observation, but what does it mean? Writen of an isel is inite. The idea of riding on a donkey is that you can come to a place that either it's too high or it's too far to come to without the donkey. Same same thing here spiritually. What is the accomplish is the materiality like we know from the baltov when you see the the donkey of your enemy and the bump explained when you see the your materiality as your enemy and you want it to collapse under its load. No, do not do that. You must help it. You have to be kind with the body. Don't crush the body. Be gentle with the body and then incorporate the body into your hashem because that's the whole point of everything. The point of the soul coming into this world. And do you guys remember a few weeks ago this brought in in an earlier? Very good. Who said that? Very good. Remember because we were speaking about how's it possible the zah says s is the body and a is the is the soul and the is supposed to listen to sod the body is supposed to listen to the soul and we said yeah because they were already experiencing what it's going to be like when mashia comes the elevation of the body [snorts] and um the elevation of femininity for that matter and the elevation of the physical world and of creation and we're going to see the ultimate infinity in the finite. We're going to see Hashem's essence most marketkedly in Alam Haz not in not in the spiritual realms in Ghana to the extent that the souls in Ghana will have to make a U-turn from all their alias and come back into embodiment through so what we're really speaking about here is the BMP came to revolutionize the whole point remember this is so the is speaking about the essence of the BMP came to revolutionize is our relationship with our embodiment. And this is something you see so clearly today is a burning issue that we have more people than ever who are sensitive souls who struggle with embodiment. You know maybe in the past I think there was a struggle with embodiment in the other direction that people were falling into hedenism that they were enamored with physicality. Today we have people I think who are sensitive souls who don't know what to do with embodiment and they on on the lowest level like you can [snorts] unfortunately it causes people later in the actually not this in the next actually the is going to mention syndrome which is what I call it doesn't call it but he's the references and the the way he explains it basically people who are uncomfortable in their own embodiment uncomfortable in their own skin and they want to go fly away and have clay neish and escape the physical world came to help heal our bodies and our relationship with our bodies and to embrace embodiment and to have healthy embodiment and really we when we speak about Msiah for sure gula protis but maybe even the gula clas what we're really speaking about is developing a healthy relationship with physicality and all these concepts that now the world is talking about, you know, I they speak about it in negative terms about trauma, how it affects the body. But by the way, I I saw a letter in where the Reb is speaking to some girls from Kabad who are complaining to him that they're they lost touch with their spirituality and they they say they're they're apathetic. And the Neba says, "But your parents and grandparents are messes and clearly that that spirit of mass nephesh has left a permanent uh mark in you." Meaning to say, we speak about epigenetic trauma like your your grandparents got messed up and now you're also messed up. The deba speaks about epigenetic strengths. Your grandparents revealed something awesome. Now you have that awesome thing even if you didn't live it. So the point is the physical is very very real and very important. And if the soul weren't meant to deal with the physical, Hashem would have left the soul in its natural habitat where it's very comfortable and happy, which is in the heavens. But we came down here for an embodiment experience in order to accomplish the ultimate revelation of godliness, which is the infinite as it's revealed in the finite. >> [sighs] >> So this is this is the essence of and that's what it means that came to prepare us for Mashiach that Mashiah is the ultimate refinement of the physical andidis comes to teach us how to have the proper relationship with the physical and again it doesn't meanisus is our uh excuse to be hedonistic people who are pleasure seekers and god forbid you know that we get into physical things for its own sake god forbid to the contrary but it also doesn't mean we have to do the opposite extreme and be aesthetics and renounce the physical what it means is we can be very much present in the physical ical. We can have a centered and grounded embodiment experience where we're not fighting embodiment. We can feel aligned with our bodies because our bodies have [clears throat] become tools for for the mission. Okay. [clears throat] What it means is we can refine the physicality so much that we can actually lift the soul to a level where it cannot reach on its own which is reflected in what Schllema Malik the wisest of all men says there's much yield in the strength of an axe. You understand what we're saying? Riding on a donkey means that the soul needs a donkey. [laughter] The soul cannot reach this. There's this mountaintop or whatever it is. It's too far and it's too high. Was it too high and too too far for the soul to reach on its own? What's too too high and too high for the soul? I mean, the soul is up there in the heights. No, but this is this ultimate paradox. this level of the refinement of the physical world so that creator is no longer a concealment of creation or rather sorry the creation is no longer a concealment of creator and that we're able to see godliness in malashian helm which normally the world is inherently a concealment and the world is no longer a concealment and that's the ultimate height but the soul can't do that on its own [snorts] with all of the gillium to which it's privy in in the higher worlds. It cannot do that on its own. It needs an embodiment experience. It needs the the physicality. Yeah, there's a lot going on in the chat, but I cannot keep up with it. A lot of stuff going on in the chat too much. We'll look at it later. Okay. Um, Udalof. Are we on Udal page 72? Okay. declared in as in the times of which began the process of the 2,000 years of which means at the beginning of that process the physicality of the world could not was not refined enough that it could lift the person himself to a higher level of holiness. Um, and that's because before Mount Toya, there was still a decree in place that the people from Syria can't go go down to Rome and the people or rather the people from Syria can't go up to Rome and the people from Rome can't go down to Syria. um which is a metaphor in the medish for the spiritual worlds and the material worlds could not mix. All that [clears throat] was capable of happening was [snorts] that the tools outside of oneself they could become incorporated into kadusha to be used for serving Hashem but the person himself that was still not accessible. Okay. So in Abramino's time he was able to he was able to use the the donkey materiality to transport his objects his stuff because at that point in the beginning of the process of the physical world was refined enough that it could help the things outside of you. That's one level. Now the next level is by meeno already it was possible that physicality could help things [snorts] that are closer to the person as represented by putting his wife and children on the donkey. Because after there was a refinement enough in the world that physicality could um could become holy. Like we know the difference between before mountain to after mountain to before mountain to physicality could not become one with the whole job was just to keep materiality from disturbing or opposing uh spirituality. or even best case scenario getting physicality to help uh spirituality. But to get physicality itself to become holy that was not possible till after mira. So before mountain tora you could if you really try get physicality not to oppose spirituality or even get it to help spirituality but you couldn't make it into spirituality after you could example the staffs we learned about it last week in pars [snorts] and the troughs is that what it's called of Yankerino that he used for the the the sheep. [cough] We need more coffee. Even though it said Kabala that when Yanke remember the sticks were like these brown they had like brown um bark and then he would carve stripes into them like I guess the wood is white and the bark is brown [snorts] and he would carve the the the patterns into them so that the sheep would see them and then have babies with the same patterns. But also it says in Za that this if you imagine it like the the stripes are like the stripes that are formed when one winds the fill in straps. So Yankavina was accomplishing through his uh staffs and his troughs. He was accomplishing what one would accomplish normally with fillin after mountain title. you accomplish with fillain but it didn't it wasn't it wasn't inward and it wasn't absorbed what does that mean let's continue what's the proof that after he used them [snorts] the staffs didn't retain any of the sanctity calls it light they didn't contain any of the spiritual light they didn't retain any of the spiritual light is why because even in the time when they were being used to draw down this light [snorts] the light was not absorbed within them. They were he could use the staffs to a certain extent but because it was before mountain ta he couldn't cause spirituality to actually rest within and become integrated within anything physical. Okay. After the revelation at Sinai, if you use a physical object to do a mitzvah, then the physical object itself can become sanctified. [snorts] The physical the physicality of the world itself can become a vessel to godliness. But there's still a limit to it. It can only refine what he calls the lower aspects of the person which is I'm not please don't read anything into this when we say the lower parts of the person as symbolized by his wife and children what we mean is external your wife and children are very close to you but they're not you so wife and children are close to him but they're not In spiritual terms, what this means is the the revealed capacities of the soul. [snorts] The soul comes into a body and it expresses its powers through the body. That's what we call the revealed powers. Revealed powers means manifest powers. Powers that the soul is able to express through the body as opposed to what? as opposed to nonrevealed non-revealed powers. What does it mean non-revealed powers? Uh transcendent powers which normally speaking and end is going to say this we equate these with the different levels the five levels of the soul. So you have the the three embodied levels of the soul. Then you have the uh which are the transcendent levels and [clears throat] makifs. They're so uh lofty that they can't be contained within the body. They're not directly expressed through the body. [snorts] They they certainly have an incredible influence, but not in not in ways that are so discernable. Like your soul comes into your body and makes you walk and talk and move around. That's pretty discernible. um or even it gives you a talent I don't know to to understand a concept to to explain a concept to to sing a song those are discernible traits that are expressed through the body from the soul and and that level of soul was was refinable through mountain to but then there's this these levels of the soul which are so rarified so abstract so transcendent that we can't really or we have not yet been able to reach them. However, in when Mashiach comes, we're going to accomplish something even deeper, which is what as symbolized by the poer riding on the donkey. He himself on the donkey. Like we said a few weeks ago in par that when comes it will reveal the advantage of the body over the soul. Those who were worried before when we said is the so now we're saying that the virtuous wife is the crown of her husband. The the the feminine surpasses the masculine. which means when Mashiah comes even will receive refinement will receive an aliyah I'm sorry through the refinement of the material. So that's the ultimate stage where the where the the where Mashiach himself is the passenger on the donkey. That means where your deepest self which is your transcendent self your will be elevated through your embodiment meaning your your your deepest soul which is we describe often is called because it's one with God already [laughter] that that will achieve even deeper levels of godliness if you can imagine such a thing exclusively through its embodiment experience by having relationship with the physical world and refining the physical world. Crazy concept or if you want to understand the mechanics of this in cababalistic terms, we'll say it like this. Actually, these are more terms than cababalistic. But uh when Msiah comes, it will reveal the true source of the Yeshiva. Yes means Yesh means something that exists as opposed to something that doesn't exist. But you know there's the and there's the yeshiti. Yes means the created something. What we call a something. And we say where does it come from? From nowhere from nothing. Well really doesn't come from nowhere and nothing. It comes from the yeshiti the real existence the ultimate existence absolute existence. Hashem himself. [gasps and sighs] But we're going to see the value of the yashra of created existence is that the true existence of the created existence is the ultimate absolute existence. I've been adding a lot of explanations this week and I don't want to like belabor the point here. Go look in the Reb's first and the Reb explains there he brings it in the name of the Mitb the advantages of of gashmas overn the physicality issum the thing itself spirituality is gilly it's revelation revelation I know we take that revelation as opposed to concealment we think that's so awesome but the reality revelation is a dirty word because it means not the thing itself It means a glimmer. It means a glow. Standing in the other room and you smell the cholant in the other room, but you're not eating it, right? Trying to make it relatable. So the fact that the only place in sayless where the concept of something can exist and feel autonomous meaning the physical body its consciousness is that I exist because I exist which is preposterous. Nothing exists because it exists other than hashem right in the spiritual worlds no one makes that mistake. All the emanations in the spiritual realms, they understand they exist because they're being emanated. It's like you see the light beam, you trace it to the light source. There's no such thing as a light beam without a light source. So the fact is only in the physical realm do you have this phenomenon of the subjective belief I exist because I exist. Well, this comes and explains that you know what the ability to say I exist because I exist is a lower level manifestation of the truth that Hashem exists because he exists. And you don't find that anywhere in all of the worlds. You don't find that in spiritual realms. You only find that in the physical realm. And the fact that in the physical realm, the body's consciousness is able to think that it exists autonomously and absolutely and unconditionally is actually an expression of the fact that Hashem exists autonomously, unconditionally, and absolutely. Bam. I mean, come on. That just that's crazy stuff. It's wild stuff. Should blow your mind. And that's what's coming into Revelation when Mashiach comes. And maybe that's you know when the deb is saying that as is already refined maybe what the deb is saying maybe I don't know is that the world can start hearing these concepts I don't know I'm on YouTube right now saying these concepts it's not just the people here at the soulwards house people from all over the world are able to listen to this and maybe understand it maybe appreciate it maybe even recognize it in their own lives who knows at any rate will come and reveal how the yeseshan is really an expression of the Yeshua. And then what will happen is through the refinement of the of physicality, there will be an elevation in the highest levels of the essence of the soul. Crazy stuff. Wild stuff. Crazy. Crazy wild stuff. Okay. Um, good base. Let's go back to the medish. We had two sources describing Msiah. One was riding on clouds of heaven. One was riding on a donkey. The medish came and said, "Yeah, if the yeden are if they merit, they'll get the higher version, the cloud version. If they don't merit it, they'll get the donkey version, lower version." Okay. Comes to Reb and says, "Let me explain what it means. This is what it means. Here's what the medish means. If we only deal with things that are already refined here means refined but already refined. If we only deal with thing the things that are spiritual and pure then yeah mashia can come but it's only it gonna be the flips it but we were thinking was the higher level is the lower level the lower level is the higher level it will only be an a straight light from above to below as opposed to what if we do the which means If we deal with things that are with we deal with things that are not yet refined and we deal with them, we refine them. But we do refine them. Then we'll get the deeper level of revelation on a donkey which is [snorts] rebounded light from below to above. So there's straight light from above to below. Then there's rebounded light from below to above as what does that mean? Means the revelation of godliness comes from God. Well, in a certain way, it sounds crazy to say, but like what else do you expect [laughter] means the revelation of godliness comes from creation that's much more infinite when we perceive godliness not only from creator but from creation itself that's the ultimate expression of infinity that's msiach we really need to do the okay so we have this concept of we're dealing with with the physical things. Then we're going to get to then we can reach a place the soul on its own could not reach because we're only able to reach this place by engaging with physicality and refining it. And that's what Yankee was saying. He's saying because I was with love and I was forced to deal with physicality and I dealt successfully with it. And we know his formula for dealing successfully with materiality. We know from the previous because specifically I was engaged with the physicality. That's why I have a I'm ready for the Malik. I'm ready for Msiah because I've been dealing with physicality. for and now there's a Russian word I'm going to have to read slowly. Okay. At any rate, the told a story that when the alterb was, remember this is the when the alterba was sitting in prison. He was interrogated by the Anyone here speak Russian? No one. Okay. So, there's a Russian. It actually is like the communists use it a lot. The comrade uh soar the minister for minister there was a high ranking minister and he was interrogating the altar. Actually, he was respectfully interrogating if such a thing is possible. He was bucky in Tanakh, meaning he was expert in the entire Hebrew Bible and he was familiar with Jewish ways. So, he was interested in the alterb. He had a respect for the alterb as you'll see from the story. So this minister one of the questions he was a government minister I don't mean like a religious minister a government minister one of the questions that he asked the alterba was what does it mean in in in in you know the incas in Genesis it says that after the sin of the tree of knowledge god called out to the to the man and said where are you where are you see Is it possible Hashem didn't know where Adam was? He had to ask him, "Where are you?" So answered what Rasha says. What does Rasha say? He says he didn't want to scare him. He didn't want to startle him. So he said, "Yayaka, give him a heads up." basically. Yeah. So the alter said according to Rash. [laughter] So the minister said what Rashi says. I don't even think the alter said according to Rashi. I think the alter just said Rashi. And then without mentioning the name or the attribution and this guy was so well verssed that he said yeah that's what Rashi says. I know that already. What Rashi says I love this turn of phrase. What says I know already I want to hear what theb says love it. [snorts] Okay. By the way, the Reb is telling the story bezer, but one of the things is before he answered, the alter asked him, "Do you believe that Toyota is applicable in all times and all places to every person?" And the guy said yes. And the Alter was relieved because one of he knew he was in prison because he was spreading the teachings of the BMP. I mean the he was technically in prison because of sending money to you know for kabad but that the real reason was the kit which we're going to speak about in a moment in the he knew he was in prison for for spreading sham and one of the main teachings of Shamv is that is applicable to every person every place every time. So when he asked do you believe that and the guy said yes he felt that was a certain sign to him that perhaps he was going to be acquitted. At any rate, the Alba wanted to clarify. It seems that the Alba wanted to clarify if this person even was receptive to the idea that the shot could be something that was personal and psychological as as the story as you'll you continue with the story and you'll see the way that Abba the Alba interprets the story is that the meaning is not about exclusively about other Marician but it's really about all of us. Um okay. So he said um I I know what Rasha says. I want to hear what the Reba says. So the alterb has told him mentions. So the a person is such and such many years and he said a number and that number happened to be the exact age of the minister. Hashem comes and asks this person, "Where are you up to? Um, do you know what you were created for? What you're supposed to accomplish and what you actually have accomplished? Ayaka, where are you?" Means take stock of where you're up to in your mission in life. which the minister heard that and he liked that and he accepted that answer. Continued the mountains. When the alterba answered this answer to the minister, it actually rescued the alterba from which in gang expiration of the soul. Sometimes a person's soul can become so excited, spiritually excited that it'll leave the body. Remember I mentioned earlier not syndrome. Okay, so that was actually going to reference that. The idea of the soul being so excited that it doesn't want to be contained in a body because it doesn't want to be held back from uniting completely with the oneness, being absorbed within the oneness. [snorts] The alterba apparently was spiritually excited when he was in prison. We're going to explain this. And he was at risk of his soul taking flight. The alterb was actually extremely happy that he had the privilege to sit in prison on behalf of the teachings of the mag. He had a great pleasure in that which took him to the verge of the expiration of the soul. mention. But then when he thought as he's telling the minister this story and he thinks to himself, hold on a second. I have to take stock. Where am I in my mission in this world? See, did he accomplish everything he needs to accomplish as it affected him? He should stay down here, soul and a body is and to continue the things that his soul came to the world for. In other words, the on his own probably would have preferred to leave the embodiment and experience the pleasure of oneness with Hashem. But in the context of the greater good, what Hashem sent his soul to the world for, he realized that he was not yet free to go. He had to stay until the job is done. His job is done. is a story that happened to one of our holy and that was told to us by one of our holy rabbis meaning a story about the alterb told to us by the and it was given over to the flock meaning the it's a teaching for the and through the a teaching for every Jew as the sha cotton cotton. Everyone should know that the question of ayaka where are you holding where are you up to is being asked to everyone from the greatest to the smallest except the question is phrased differently to everyone in accordance with that person's essence meaning the ayaka question is tailor made to each of us he gives examples by some people means hey hold yourself back from like it says about the arin sons when they came close before hashem and they died and in the footnote 33 it says to see the on the vik I posted once on uh Instagram about binarin being holy and they left the world because their souls yearned for closeness with Hashem and I got so much flack from people that's a false teaching it doesn't say that in my Bible what do you people were really angry about that okay so for one person the ayaka could be hey don't allow yourself to succumb to the temptation to leave your embodiment You have to continue and do your work down here to make the world a home for Hashem. That's for one person or one sort of person and by and by another person or sort of person the question comes to him to demand from him what that comes to to wake him up that he shouldn't fall into temptation and lust and pleasure that could completely take him away from his mission. Like one guy it's to wake him up that he shouldn't have a spiritual out-of- body experience. For another guy it's that he shouldn't immerse himself into material temptations. Rather he should strengthen himself and he should learn and do mitz. And this demand that the represents is also every demand. This is the always says this. Every demand is also an empowerment. It gives you the ability to live up to the demand that he should finish his job and uh fulfill the purpose for which he was created and he should do so happily. Regarding the connection between the question, where are you and the story of the imprisonment? We can say like this. Alba was in prison because he was revealing there was a an attack in the heavenly court uh prosecution against revealing the secrets of the Tyra that reveals So when the came and what did he do? How did he push the envelope even more than his predecessors? Because the the alchem and the the mag were the ones who started the revolution. Why did the alterb why did the kit why did the prosecution come back in the times of the alterb? Because his style the alterba started kabad means means the intellectual faculties. That means teaching the most lofty spiritual ideas in a way that instead of just taking it on faith, you actually understand it logically somewhat. Well, that's a new frontier and that aroused a new opposition in heaven. And the Reb says here that through teaching in a way of kabad where the nephew can understand these concepts not just take them on faith then even the b then even the the animal soul can understand and even the body the physical body on its level can appreciate these concepts. So that was considered too much. That's now you're going too far and it caused there to be a prosecution in the heavenly court and that's why it was devolved and came about on the physical plane that he was literally imprisoned. Now, the fact that he was acquitted down here is only a reflection of what happened up there. That up there he was given permission and empowerment and an obligation. [laughter] See different levels here. permission, the power and and a commandment to reveal the secrets of the secrets in human intellect. Again, that's the point here that alterba was not just saying secrets of because someone could stand on the corner and and and recite zhar and people are going to walk by and not know a word what they're saying and okay, that's safe because no one could misinterpret it because they can't even understand what they're saying. But imagine the altb is saying it in words that you do understand at least somewhat. So that was considered dangerous and that's why there was the the [snorts] prosecution. But since he was acquitted in the spiritual realms, then he was acquitted on the phys in the physical realm. But how can someone take such lofty spiritual ideas and bring them down into human intellect? The emphasis is on the adverbus. In other words, yeah, I guess you could bring lofty ideas into human intellect, but then just be blown away by them and not really even understand what you experienced. But what about bringing it down in a way of be of of his of being settled where you can actually integrate it where it actually changes you where actually changes your day-to-day life. Says this as a question being exposed to the secrets of the secrets of the Tyra ostensibly should cause your soul to fly out of your body. It should be the opposite of being settled, of being grounded. And the alterb is coming and saying, "No, we're going to do it in a way of we're going to take the secrets that normally make your soul fly out of your body, and you're going to integrate those secrets in a way that helps you be grounded in your body." Antithetical to what you would think, all right? But when the heard the words and he heard the interpretation, his own interpretation of which means did you do your job in making the world a dwelling place for Hashem that gives power. that the physical world in its physical state should become a dwelling place to hashem. So this is what happened when the alterb related that idea and then he applied it to himself and he realized hold on a second what's our job here our job as a to make the world into a home for hashem I cannot allow myself to leave this world to the contrary the whole job is to be engaged in the world to refine the world and in fact that's what does specifically kabad is it takes the loftiest stuff that really the world shouldn't be able to tolerate. Either the world should reject it or if it does enter the world, it should cancel out the world because it's so lofty. The world should just sort of become buckle, become nullified out of existence. But to be able to take these ideas and bring them into the world and the world should still remain physical in its created state. That's the special of But here's the deal. Once he thought about the yaka, it removed all the bound the boundaries. Because when you do this by yourself is one thing, but when you do this as an emissary of Hashem and you do it with Hashem's power, the power of the one who's saying, which is Hashem's, in fact, it's the power of the essence of Hashem, which Hashem's essence is no held back from all holdings back. Um he says see the and also uh it's a concept but it means that Hashem is held back from all holdings back that the ultimate infinity is the fact that no limits of paradox can be imposed upon Hashem. that even things which are seemingly mutually exclusive by definition exist within Hashem because to say that thesis and antithesis cannot exist within Hashem is itself a limitation or like we say he sustains opposites. That is the nature the true nature of infinity that he can sustain opposites. And so you bring down the hidden secrets of Tyra in a revealed way. It reveals it reveals the hidden levels of the nama which in turn is connected to the hidden levels meaning the ultimate essence of Hashem himself. And this is the concept. The integration of lofty thought that normally should not be and until that point in history was not capable of being integrated into our day-to-day lives. and the breakthrough of having the capacity to bring these lofty concepts into our human mind, our human psychology, so that not only like the Reba says, the the godly soul can could experience it, but even the animal soul and even the body, meaning this should become a physical reality. In other words, I I should feel this in my in in my cells, not just as a abstract concept, but literally on a physiological level and perhaps maybe you know Misha's story about being able to control his his his his [snorts] fear response when Napoleon was testing him, accusing him as being a spy. Perhaps that's an illustration of it. Or we spoke about a few weeks ago, we were speaking about the body. We speaking about how that that was able to remove the effects of the of the the the alcohol by thinking about the the fear of Hashem or No Chernobyl or getting fat from that we can actually experience a physical effect from these lofty ideas. So they're not philosophies, they're not abstractions, they actually become a physical reality. Okay, that's the end of the from and now have a short little third of today. Let's take a 10-sec break. [sighs] Yeah, a short little sika and then we'll be done. I thought we'd be finished so much earlier this week, but then I ended up with giving some commentary. [snorts] Okay, short little sikha. Third sikha. Did you at least have a bagel? >> Take one for the road. You can bring one for the road. [clears throat] Okay. Come back anytime. Okay. [snorts] Okay. Last third here. All right. We're on page 75 chapter 16. Third sik. This is from [clears throat] regarding the month of it says is like is an important month to me because that's my birth month. If you want to give me a present, Seven is the third month from Niss. Niss is also called Roshash. If you look in the Mishna, the first Mishna Roshash, it speaks about um different times of the year which are called Roshashana. So Niss is the first month in counting months. It's when the calendar was established when the yeden were still in. Um so is you know you have [clears throat] seven is a third month. In fact the calls is also though because is when the new year starts. So you have [snorts] Nissadik. So what's the difference between Niss and because they're two um sort of they're both called Roshashana but they're two sort of opposite points in the year in the cycle of the year. Niss is called. Um, why do we say that? Dum as the way serves Hashem. Why? Because when the Eden came out of Mit and by they were like brand new converts who are like newborn children who have no sin. is so counting three months from Nissan is the time of and it's all in that continuum of what's in in counter distinction uh is not the butch and you see that we do chv right we have status here may we have the 10 days of tshuva. Lots of tishuva in uh although if you learn you'll do all your tisha in the you just coast. All right. And similarly just like is the third month from Nissan and it's the month of M meaning which is so which is the third month from is the month of is the mountain of Now the concept of chuva being that chuva is higher than how what how do you say chuva is higher than where do you get this from? Uh because chuva can help you with something that you damaged god forbid against. The fact that a person can god forbid violate tyra and then fix it through chuva shows that chuva has a greater power than itself explains it at length. I mean one place uh that I know it from is in the mitzvah he explains there how you know uh these levels and say there'sless and is uhma and it's even even uh but uh but it's these levels within rat which is kaser and then really chova is from the higher level it's uh it's from atik and therefore it can uh remove all of the the blemishes that were done through violating Tyra, God forbid. Okay. On the other hand, [laughter] you wouldn't know about Chuva if it wouldn't be for because TA is what tells you about Chuva. So chuva is higher than but we only have chuva because of similarly which takes place is it comes from the mountain. In other words, chuva is higher than tora, but you only have chuva because of uh mountain of pistora in a certain way is higher than the regular mountain to. But you only have that because of mater. There wouldn't be a in 2448 then there wouldn't be in fact at the time when was given at Sinai everything was given all future revelations of even which that which will only be revealed in the times of Msiah that Mashia will reveal in Mashiah's the deepest levels of the vets is the we learn now is you have to put this in perspective but is is he is is air compared to the we'll learn when Mashiah comes is But even that was contained albeit maybe in a latent encoded state but it was all contained in [snorts] is but on the other hand again on the other hand is yes was given in civ because all Torah was given in but that's in a concealed state. The revelation of was inis the third month when you count from not when you count from from and and we know that that tish represents what and we know that spreading out of is the way we prepare for Msiah. is because the time when a new revelation of toy took place meaning that itself causes is that Kislv is a time of miracles. Page 76, we're on the last page. We're almost done. How did I manage to take a short week and turn it into a long week? There was a lot that needed to be said. [sighs] This is Hanhogus is hanhogus. See this explains very well that even nature is actually miraculous. Yeah. Oh really? So then why do we call it nature if it's also miraculous? Call it all miraculous. But the difference is like this. as is that which is constant and because of its constancy we take it for granted. We could even think it's autonomous that there's a palace without a ruler. God forbid. But then when a miracle takes place, you're not used to it. Then all of a sudden, because it's a departure from the norm, then the miracle causes it's a new it's a new revelation. So h now you oh that that that didn't just happen on its own. Oh, really? Nothing happened on its own. But the n the miracle um makes you conscious of that. So therefore, I think this is the third we had where the Reb mentions that Z that Hashem looked into the Tyra to create the world that because a month of new revelations, it's also a month of miracles. You understand what's a miracle? A miracle is something that departs from the norm. It's a new revelation. So therefore, you recognize that everything's from Hashem. When there's constant revelation, it's also all from Hashem, but you don't recognize it. When there's a new revelation, you say, "Oh, it's all from Hashem." So that's the difference between miracle and nature. So we're saying is a month of miracles because it's also a month of new revelations. The revelation of it becomes because it comes from Tyra and Hashem made the world from the blueprint of Titus. And then it also becomes re revealed in the world as therefore is a month that even in the in the physical world is a time that's propitious for miracles. Interesting. You're going to say happened thousands of years before you test. Doesn't matter. These things are above time. The point is that because Kislv is a time for new revelations, it's also a time of miracles. Because the time of miracles, a time of new re revelations and does happen inv the same concept. Miracles, new revelations, same concept is and wouldn't you know it, what was the miracle related to? She olive oil which olive oil floats on top and it represents you know titers compared to water titers compared to wine. But the secrets of secrets of Titus compared to olive oil a new revelation a really high revelation like writes in the name of the med talk to Hashem told don't feel bad cuz the nim all brought their gifts in the [snorts] end of par in the beginning of parin is like hey what's up levy we didn't bring uh we didn't bring uh gifts and um says no don't worry your role is even greater than theirs because you light the mano And that's the now that's talking about the mik but the kan are even higher thanto of a why how do we say this? How do we see the kanuk is even greater than the original mana in the basish upon which the khan mana is based because the the the lights of the bish are not always meaning they were they've been unfortunately canceled for the past 2,000 years but the lights of lit even in gulus we continue lighting them so just like there was the miracle of kaneka uh in its time which was a manifestation of the basic character of the month of Kisv. So too was there revelation of a miracle in the time of the time is a cle and [snorts] it's very fitting because the revelation of in the world is a preparation like we've been speaking about. It's a vessel and a preparation for the revelation of Messiah. In other words, just to sum it up, prepares us and by us I mean us in our embodied state and prepares the world around us which we engage in with our embodied souls. Prepares prepares all of that for a revelation of godliness to take place in the world which is the definition of Messiah. Okay. Amazing. God willing, next week we'll do Vayesv and Kaneka. We have um the from Vesv also infanas. So we'll do uh a little bit of prep for Kaneka as well next week. Okay. Thank you so much. All right. I'll end the stream. >> What? You just end you ended it. Okay. and crystal.