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What Do I Do When I Really Don’t Care?
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okay good morning thank you everybody
for joining us it's pleasure to have you
and
let's get right into it
we are up to page 64 lakota
the mimer anila day divided
which we began last week
and we continue today with class number
three
that's page 64.
page 64.
please open your source sheets
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source sheet so you could follow inside
page 64. the first column
we are
smack in the middle of the page
the line stop the line begins with the
words
cara de avua le voce
literally middle of the page again the
line begins cara de avua
so
the key points that we discussed and of
course
it would be worthwhile for everybody to
review the mimer
the part that we learned till now
you can watch the replays on double
speed if necessary
on the yeshiva.net
so you could really
grasp the full
the full
depth and theme
and flow
and rhythm and resonance of the mimer
but the key points that we explored
was the uniqueness of the month of elu
on one hand a time of tremendous
accessibility
a revelation of yud gimo
but what does that mean
it's not like rosh hashanah or yom
kippur
they are mundane days regular weekdays
ello days when we go to work
days then we say
it's not considered a yum yamta for
holiday
in any form
because it's the king is in the field
which makes the accessibility of hashem
absolutely unique
when the king comes out into the field
every person whoever they are
no matter their situation
their rank or lack of rank their
circumstances their attire their uniform
or lack of uniform
no matter their involvement what they're
engaged in
has that full
ability and potential to be able to go
and welcome the king and greet to the
king and
and engage in a relationship with the
king and he on his part greets everybody
with uh
a pleasant countenance as he puts it
showing a face
a displaying a face of laughter and joy
and jubilance and acceptance a face
that's kvelling
kvelling he says marry upon him
a face that's filled with with smiles
and laughter
and the altar the balatanga says that
that's the main theme of ello
that ability for such a powerful
relationship that's really accessible
not just to the people in the city and
people who want to come into the palace
and people who have that spiritual
protection
but rather to every single person
people in the field even people who are
in the desert as he put it even people
who are in the desert
but the king comes out
into the field allowing everybody those
in the field and even those in the
desert if they want if they want to come
greet them and that's why elo is
considered a regular weekday because the
uniqueness of elohim is not a revelation
of the divine that demands segregation
from the material
aloofness sublimity it doesn't demand
one to abstain
and disengage from their regular self on
the contrary the uniqueness of ella is
god wants to meet you where you are
he wants to meet you in your full
vulnerability in your full authenticity
in your full ms
that's the idea in your regular garb
where i am in my field in my desert he
wants to meet me he wants to meet the
real me the authentic me like you need
this is an expression via staten gate as
you stand and go as you are this is
where i want to meet you i don't want
you
i don't need you to get dressed for the
occasion there are other times we got
dressed for the occasion shabbos you got
dressed for the occasion yumpta if you
got dressed for the occasion
you put a white
you put a white tablecloth on the table
you clean the house you set a beautiful
table a festive dinner it demands a
certain ambiance shabbos and yamtif
are nice
the antenna of our souls are sensitive
to uh a uh
the ambiance and it demands that the
person goes into that ambiance in order
to be able to absorb that energy the
month of ello
the uniqueness of the revelation of the
month of elders of a different caliber
it's not a type of revelation
that demands from the person the
segregation to be able to go into that
ambiance the uniqueness of elol is he
goes into your ambiance
he comes into the field
without the garbs without the whole
entourage without the whole
arist the whole royal
fanfare and drama and aristocracy so
and that allows every person wherever
they are in life to be able to reach out
if they want they have to want that's
why it's isarussa de la sata if you want
because when the king is in the field
it's also it's it's not very
as he said awe inspiring there's no
sense of tremendous year as there will
be in the palace rosh hashanah
it really depends on your will like it's
courtship it's it's it's like a date you
have to you you really have to be
interested
just on on i just want to make sure on
on zoom just give me a thumbs up that
you can hear and see
okay
thank you everybody
so
that altera also discussed
the difference there's the field there's
the desert
a person who may be in a desert an
infertile wilderness
but nonetheless
there is what the passage says will be
you search from there hashem
and the question was what hashem got
lost what do you have to search for him
this is the game in hiding and seek
somebody is
lost at least lost to us so we search
for him what's up
you're going to search for god what
happened he's a lost object
and you search from there so dr ebb
explained
by yara kim
it says in the beginning of creation god
created the light and he saw was good
so it says in zayer it was good to hide
and he explains what light is that
the physical light was actually created
on wednesday
the sun the moon the galaxies the
planets the source of light in our world
on our earth
and other planets that comes from the
sun
or other stars
those were created on wednesday
the light of sunday the first day he
says that's the light of hashem himself
the expression of his infinite energy
and that got hidden by yara kim as
architect league noise that got hidden
in every single jewish soul
it's called the eightsearch of
yurishamaya the treasure chest the
treasure of yerushalayim and sometimes
it's not only hidden but it's lost
i don't know where it is i don't have
access to it it's an aveda and the avoid
of life is hashoversaved you got to find
you got to look for it and you got to
restore it to the owner sometimes it's
even an exile that's why you'll be
you have to search
and alter ebba says and this is the one
of the powerful major major points of
this mimer
the only way
you could find something that you lost
is if you search
for it in the place where it was lost
if i searched for it in the place that
it was not lost
i will never find it
and that's why my shirt says
you have to search from there what's
from there
you'll search from there
don't be afraid to go to the shum
explain the difference of z and shum i'm
not going to repeat all the details you
can go back to the previous class but
don't be afraid to go to the show what's
over there
the place where it was lost that's where
you're going to find it because it's
there
it's in here it didn't disappear
that area that light is there it's
always there
because it's who you are
but
i may not have access to it
and therefore i have to be able to
search for it over there and he says
to go if i if i examine my my thoughts
my words my actions what's happening
inside of me
over there over there
and we explain what that means you know
how practical and relevant that is in
life
that it's very hard i don't want to go
to those places
i want to say let's just
start over again
and sometimes that's amazing
but if i lost something and i need to
find it i have to be able to go back
there
i have to be able to go into that space
where it was lost
what does that mean for many people for
many people that means
that there are wounds
that we carry inside of us
and those wounds eclipse a very very
deep light
and if i ignore those wounds if i run
away
and i say i'm not going to deal with it
i'm not going to look at it
i'm not even going to acknowledge it
i'm not just running away from my wounds
i'm also running away from my light
it's not a mitzvah to go into the wound
but it's a mitzvah to find the light
and if the light is over there if you're
if your area is over there
so then i have to be able to confront
that
i have to be able to confront what is
going on in me my reactions as he says
my thoughts my words my behaviors
and be able to see
where it was lost the air was lost
you know this applies so much to
people's inner emotional work today
especially in the field of trauma
because really what it is is it gets
stuck the trauma
may have happened when i was a child
a one-time event or an event over many
years
and the person is is
stuck there's a stuckness there
and i have to open it up i have to open
it up it's literally like there's a
blockage
you know when there's a flow of water
and then there's a dam a blockage that
literally does not allow the water to
flow
so imagine if your soul's light is like
this beautiful
tranquil
river flow of divine infinity that flows
to you and then there's this blockage
that just
obstructs the flow
and it's stuck
and you need to replace it with with
other other forms of energy and
creativity and excitement
and you know how how painful that is
so the altered says ubiquitous
go search over there go that's where
your evade is
go search there
this is all and then i can discover that
uh
which is the
the light of the king
we say in the in the morning he's going
to quote later
in sim shalom the last blessing
he spoke before about kale hashem
the light that comes from kale
his gallows of yud give him the sarah
that's finding that infinite light
inside of me so even the jew who's in
the field and in the desert he says in
elu
god says come find me which means find
you
find yourself
altered now continues the next stage
we come now to an incredible peace in
this minor
you see again page 64 column one line
starts cara da vuja
the vote of the caliber sign is barack
there's a little parentheses after and
the next line
again if you have a look the duty you
can open up the toilet
llama the bay parachute a lamid base
column three or 64. i told you this is
an easy
my this is the reference of this mime is
easy to remember because it's da flav
it's a mimer filled with heart and it
begins on the page of heart llama bay's
is lave
the whole mimer is about the heart
so mayam filled with herzekite with with
heartfeltness
genuine heartsecaite as the seniors
if you don't have a look at the title
you can go to the yeshiva.net if you're
watching live or replay and over there
you'll see this monday class
and you will be able to
open the source sheet both above the
video below the video you'll see a
source sheet
sometimes you have a person
and i think some of us will be able to
relate to this very well
the person who's here
means
he or she
searches they scrutinize
they dig through they look through
myself person's action the person's
behaviors the lawyers ordered
and yet he or she will not be stirred
this area comes from the word his iris
is means arousal
when you're triggered when you're
aroused when your heart is stirred you
know something wakes up in you right you
say
you shane him he wakes up those who are
asleep we say
to wake up
his urus what's his iris desirous means
an arousal an awakening a trigger
somebody somebody's moved he says a
person does all of this he searches and
you know what
nothing
nothing is triggered nothing is aroused
there's not even a sense of of any
frustration of any
of any pain
your smile comes from the word
a frustration or a pain a sensitivity
email is
even though the person may spend time
really deepening his awareness
and
meditating reflecting deeply about
fall nitrous
that there is a divine spark
that fell into exile in inside the
person's soul the altar ever said before
you have to search
because your divinity is there but it
may be lost it may be an exile it's
inaccessible it's being controlled it's
being manipulated it's being it's locked
up it's blocked it's eclipsed that's
covered up
like somebody who's in exile
they're not free to express themselves
they're not free to do what they want
they're being controlled by other forces
so your own elacus instead of me being
israel what's israel you saw all this
side you remember your stroll he touched
the sire kale
who rules me my infinity rules me sar is
who's the siren me who's the prince in
me who is the sorrow from the word sarah
minister
like asari is a minister today in modern
hebrew sorry as a minister in the
government okay i don't know how
complimentary that always is
but the point of sarah is somebody that
rules from the word leos kalish
in the megillah right lusher to rule so
israel is sarcale
who rules my life my kale my infinity
when my pasture is aligned with divine
infinity and there's a derivative flow
literally a derivative flow from
hashem's infinity kale hashem
that's the error of insafe which
reflects the insight that flows through
me that's israel and the word the yud
represents that it's perpetual it's
constant that's what the yud does in
hebrew grammar
but this person may be thinking about
this and may take it serious to try to
understand that the nitzo tell the coast
of divine spark has fallen into exile in
my soul and yet
i'm not triggered
in a positive way i'm not aroused i'm
not moved i'm just
you know ba it's paul a it's all
irrelevant
in other words in simple english i don't
care about the fact that i don't care
anybody relates to this
i don't care about the fact that i don't
care
yeah and sometimes i don't even care
about the fact that i don't care that i
don't care
and if you want to take it further you
can even do i don't care
about the truth that i don't care about
the fact that i don't care that i don't
care
so he says zoysia said malibu this is
what the person should take to heart
should
direct towards his heart
allah
very interesting expression
person should apply to himself or
herself the following metaphor
now is saying when i'm in a state
that i'm looking for that veda i search
there but there's nothing coming up
there's no i i didn't hit i didn't i
didn't even get close you remember that
game hot and cold right hot hot hot
you're getting closer and closer yeah i
remain cold
i remain distant i never hit that
jackpot i never touched that spot
i never touched that spot
i was reading
there's a holocaust survivor who's in
auschwitz who
recently still alive she acts she's
practiced as a therapist
dr edith ager she's a grandchild of
rebecca vega she lives in la jolla
california so she was writing
about her memories and her experiences
as a therapist her memories from
auschwitz and her experience as a
therapist
so she has a line there and she says you
know sometimes i'll say something
or ask something and the patient will
start crying
and she says that's a good thing
because i know that i hit the spot
i hit the spot where there's a wound
so that's where something is lost so
that's literally in in very simple
english what the mymo was saying before
you hit the spot but here i'm digging
and digging and there's no hits there's
no spot that i hit
because nothing is being aroused
there's like an apathy a monotony an
apathy and a difference
says now
you have to think yasim alibi
put into your heart and apply to
yourself the following metaphor
and this is a very very intense metaphor
i'm just telling you
the nature of a person is
when a person feels pain when a person
has pain
if the body experiences something that's
painful a philosophy
even if the pain
affects
me
merely a toenail
which basically stumbled on a rock
person is walking
and it's not that the foot
the foot itself or the leg stumbled on a
rock it's see pyramid ragleach
apparently means
the nail
regularly of his foot so he took him on
a toenail
nonetheless
one doesn't say oh the pain only
affected the nail why should i feel pain
let me just move on and make believe it
doesn't exist
you feel the pain and like everything
you feel it in your brain
um it's tire and it's agonizing the
person has sire the person agonizes from
it
and this is true about the toenail and
it's true about the
nails on the hand and it's true about
any other part
of the human body
as long as it's part of my living
organism
when there is
pain anywhere
even in the toenail or anywhere else
the brain feels the pain
there's a sense of agony
obviously there's levels of pain
but the common denominator is this is
the nature of a person when there's pain
anywhere in the body you're aware of it
and who's aware of it the brain is aware
of it because the brain is the central
nervous system of the entire organism
but there's one condition
but this is only if that particular limb
that particular part of the body say the
nail
is still connected to him
before it was cut off
if if
if this part of the body was cut off
let's take the example of the nail
even though the nail is not considered a
limb an aver but that's the example he
gave if somebody cuts the nail
and now the nail stumbles on a rock he
says
it's a cave
you could do whatever you want with that
nail
my brain is not going to feel the pain
why they show nichras vinifera
because the nail has been cut off from
its source as long as the nail is
attached to me
as long as any part of the body is
attached to me then whatever happens to
me
even if it's the tiniest toenail
seems so remote from the brain which is
so remote from the brain it doesn't seem
very significant it doesn't have any
nerves and it's going to be cut off i'm
going to feel the pain and i'll ouch
ouch it's just your nail but you know
that your nail can make human sugar
sometimes your nail can drive you crazy
and certainly other parts of the body
but as long as the nail is connected
once i cut off my nails it's not
connected anymore now i'm not going to
feel any pain
i stumbled
i is going through something it may be
going through something but it's not
part of me anymore so i don't feel the
pain
so dr ebba says now
this is going to be very sometimes this
is a very very intense piece but then
let's see what he his solution is
he says this is a metaphor we benefit
who are all part of israel and he
explained before what israel means
we are all connected
we are all borim we are all linked with
we are connected
boy is barack with hashem
therefore
and therefore
the natural state of events
if somebody appreciates
this truth
that all of us
all of us are connected to
it's literally like one
integrated large organism and like every
organism there's many different parts
there are different limbs and different
organs and different compartments and
different bones and sinews and tissues
there's in fact not millions and not
billions but trillions of cells that
comprise the body but all of them
are part of one cohesive and integrated
goof which we call the body so all of us
are one we're connected hashem all of us
so therefore then according to the
natural order of things we ought to feel
the pain the cave and the began the
blemish
that was caused that we caused
by bringing into exile by causing the
divine spark to go into exile
we ought to feel that pain
because even a jew who has sinned the
gemara says
even a person who has sinned
is still in a state of israel and we
explained before what israel means
and even somebody who has made many
mistakes and many transgressions even
willingly
for sure if it was inadvertently and
it's things that are not even my fault
but even
a person does it willingly the state of
israel is always there the gemara says
this in
jew so as the gemara says they're
violated some of the most heinous
crimes
the gemara goes through a list of five
things that he did you could look it up
if you want but really not nice stuff
besides violating the commandment not to
take the spoil of jericho after the
jewish people conquered it not to take
dispose of
there were some other serious immoral
failures and the gemara says about him
israel
and therefore every jew what does it
mean what does it mean you're israel it
means that kale is your tsar
who is really really who is really what
is inside of you infinity vias
and this divinity will never depart from
you allah
it may be concealed it may be an exile
like we said before it may be lost i may
not have access to it but it's there the
lawyer it furthermore not only is there
elisha's
not only is the divine flow still there
but it's still defined as nasar as the
ruler of your life
because you called
it doesn't say even though you sinned
you still have within you a divine spark
it says
and what does israel mean
sar kale
that the kale is your sir who rules you
your kale infinity he says but one
second you just said that the ignition
is in galas she says
yet
you can't compare
the prince
in captivity to the peasant in captivity
you can't compare even in captivity you
completely can't compare a king goes in
captivity to a peasant who's in
captivity
it's a completely different experience
you might say what's the difference
they're both in prison
they're both in shackles
they're both subjugated they're both
exiled
what's the difference it doesn't matter
it doesn't matter like what does it
hella says right
a
living dog is better than a dead king it
doesn't you would say it doesn't matter
you're both in prison you're both in
captivity after episodes but it's not
true
the way the prince
is in captivity is still different than
the way the peasant is in captivity on
both levels on one hand there's a
certain royalty and dignity that they
never lose
and on the other hand and one depends on
the other there's also a certain pain
because it's not who i am
there's a certain inner
awareness this is not where i belong
when they're tsar when the melo is in
captivity it's a completely different
experience he says you can't compare
those two in captivity
so he says even in captivity you could
still see and recognize
the status the state of the sire because
there's an inner nobility despite the
circumstances
so he says even when your user all is in
gallows when your own israel your kale
is in captivity in exile it's lost
you're still israel it's still a tsar
you're still assad the kale is your side
it's a siren captivity it's a divine
being that's lost
and therefore the frustration is deeper
and therefore the pain is deeper and
therefore the trauma is deeper because
you know you don't belong here
but it also means that there's a part of
you that's not defined by the captivity
the part of you that remains free
the part of you that remains aloof that
remains emancipated even under these
circumstances and altered says and
furthermore in one moment with one
tenure with one motion you can transform
yourself from one extreme to the other
extreme
so therefore even a jew
whose khata
he still has that spark
and there's an awareness of it and you
still call you straw
because it's not a regular you're not
becoming you don't become a peasant your
kale is still your tsar and it's desire
that's in exile
and in one moment therefore you can also
transform yourself you can liberate
yourself because that freedom that
nobility that inner dignity is innate
it's intrinsic
but this is all if there's a weirdness
when somebody completely is numb
to the pain somebody completely doesn't
feel any pain
they don't feel their dignity they don't
feel their nobility they don't feel
their infinite love hai nu mipnei and
they don't even feel the pain of the
blemish
in other words the pain of the fact
that it's an exile
i knew this means if they shape them
it may be that the blemish the trauma is
so deep
until
there was complete separation if the
nail was cut off
then i don't feel the pain
so this is the muscle that altered is
telling me
and let's understand what he's saying
here
if the finger
and even the fingernail is connected to
the body
i'm gonna feel the pain whatever happens
to any part of the body i'm gonna feel
the pain why because there's a
connection between one part of the body
and every other part of our body not
separate bodies it's one
integrated entity if something happens
to your nail i'm not going to feel it
but if something happens to my nail i'm
going to feel it because my body is one
from head to toe
from my brain
nerve cells
the last cell in my toe it's all one
cohesive integrated self
and therefore i'm going to experience
the agony i'm going to experience the
pain
so therefore
he says if the person is connected to
hashem if kale is flowing inside of me
even if it's hurt
even if it's suffering even if it's lost
even if it's in exile but it's inside of
me
it's part of who i am so of course i'm
going to feel it i'm going to feel the
pain of god inside of me the yahshua
hashem
as he said earlier the passages of
joshua
he should return to hashem and have
compassion for him for hashem
because hashem is in me in captivity in
exile my infinite love is blocked it's
trapped
i feel that pain
you say but this part of your limb your
body is
sick and it's infected and there's so
many problems yeah but i feel the pain
because it's inside of me
so when the divinity is part of me
and inside of me i feel it's pain i feel
the pain of hashem inside of me i feel
the pain of hey look
my brain feels the pain
you say but
but you're alphapi
you're right
but israel
this is who i am
so my tsar my prince my king may be
trapped may be blocked
by a lot of layers but i feel it
what happens says dalton when i don't
feel
what does it mean
does it mean it's not part of me anymore
does it mean that the nail got cut off
so what happens to the nail doesn't
affect me
so what's happening to hashem in me is
not affecting me
so i'm cut off
so therefore i don't feel it i don't
experience it
he says that's what it looks like nifrid
vinichris meshach
if godliness is inside of me i'm
connected to it it's an exile i feel the
pain
but here i'm not feeling anything
so now what so what's the next step
what's the next step
so you might say
okay it's over
the game is over sometimes people are
just cut off
they cut off from their source they're
amputated from their source
and therefore they can't feel the pain
of their source because they're not part
of it anymore
the nail won't feel the pain of the body
when it's disconnected and you won't
feel the pain of the nail there when
it's disconnected
you're you're in two separate worlds you
you says
no
but that's never true
um
so what does this meditation do what's
the conclusion is that i'm cut off so
that's it let me go home
this means
that i need to be able to have more
compassion for myself
this on the contrary will arouse deeper
deeper compassion
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even though i'm not feeling the
compassion
that's the point i'm not feeling the
compassion for myself i'm not feeling
the compassion for my infinite light
so what does that need to do what does
that what's the result of that i should
have even more compassion
have more compassion for the fact that
you don't have compassion have
compassion
commissioners
as explained elsewhere
the meaning what we say every single
morning after baruch including today you
remember what we say
is
with your great compassion have
compassion on us
what does this mean with your great
compassion
with your great kamehameha
and we say it also later in avas islam
says
listen to this
we may be in a state where our limited
capacity of awareness
doesn't grasp the depth of the
compassion
i may not be in touch with the depth of
the pain why
because the blockage is so profound that
it's as though i would be separated from
it and detached from it so i can't even
feel the pain of my detachment because
i'm detached in my own consciousness
from that pain
so what i say is since i'm not in a
place
where i have the competence the ability
to be aware of what's going on
as his words his words ain't sick
our state of mind
does not always grasp the depth of the
compassion
so therefore what do i say
you teach me how to have compassion
if i would be able to appreciate how
much compassion is necessary here that
would be great but i can't so i said
have compassion
on us with your
you know how much compassion is
necessary here you're aware of the pain
you're aware of how powerful i really am
how good i really am how holy i really
am how beautiful i really am how sacred
i really am that i my posture is really
a reflection of infinite love but
i am so trapped i don't even know i'm
trapped
so i can't have compassion because i
don't feel it
a therapist once told me that just just
came into my mind as i was talking that
somebody was sitting in his office
and the man was telling him about his
life
and
this this thing his youth and his
childhood and his teen years and his
adult years and then his marriage
he says
in the middle and he says oh and and and
by the way
he like throw something in
his child was killed in a car accident
the therapist told me that everybody
says i started to cry
i was sitting in the office
he was rattling off one tragedy after
another tragedy of another trap jesus
and i found myself crying the person
didn't know why i'm crying
you know sometimes you hear a story
you're crying the person who's telling
the story is not crying
what's the condition alternative is
describing here
oh yeah it's such a deep such a deep
condition such a powerful idea
sometimes i feel the pain
that doesn't mean it's not painful but
it means i'm already closer to the
healing
i know where to look
there's a splinter i know where i have
to take out this pain i know what to
show the doctor here check this out
there's emotional pain i know where the
light is i know where to look
i'm looking in the right place i'm
looking at the wound
i'm trying to heal the wound i'm trying
to see what's beneath the wound
sometimes a person is deals with a lot
of pain another person has trauma but
i'm aware of something that was lost i'm
aware
i'm a weird that something was lost in
my life and i'm searching for
it and i'm feeling compassion for that
pain
that's the first level
but sometimes
oh
the trauma is so deep
that you cannot even vein
the trauma is so deep that you detached
from everything
you even detached
from the feeling that you're detached
you get it
you're so i'm so detached
i can't even afford
to feel any connection
with the pain because that's too painful
so what i do is that part gets cut out
from my life completely my inner child
is so to speak amputated so i don't even
feel it's pain i don't feel a child
crying inside of me because i got rid of
him but although says
you didn't really get rid of him
that's the difference when you cut off
the nail you really cut the tail off
it's not part of you anymore
you burn the nail
and that's it it's over but here can you
really cut god out of your life
can you really cut your soul out of your
life can you really get rid of your
inner child you know how to do that
but
you understand what he's what he's
saying here so when a person says i
don't care that i don't care
he says now let's all start
now let's feel compassion
because there's no such a thing that you
don't care there's no such a thing
my dear child is no such a thing you
don't care
but the pain was so deep
the betrayal was so profound that your
only escape
your survival skill was i don't care
i don't care
it's bringing up a lot of stuff a lot of
stuff
i remember
once reading about a
brilliant brilliant young man
and he was in a foster home
and
the person running the foster home his
stepfather so to speak
was
a very very abusive person
and uh
in the evening
he would give that he would give this
youngster it's hard to say three options
i can beat you with a belt
i can beat you with a stick
or i can beat you with a wrench
and you choose the boy had the freedom
to choose
and what do you think he chose
he of course chose the wrench
sometimes
you know it's not always so dramatic
it's not always so dramatic a case of
real real physical abuse sometimes it's
all emotional
but the concept is that there are
situations in life
when a person grows
up
with the survival skills that have
taught them at a very young age
that you need to detach
and there's a part of you that you will
not feel the part of you that you will
not be in touch with it's a part of you
that will have to die if you want to
live and that part becomes dead
so that you can survive
and now you get older and you find
yourself stuck
and paralyzed and traumatized
with the inability to emote with an
inability to connect
and altera says you have to become aware
of what happened
it's as though
that part was cut out of your system and
therefore you can't feel it now what do
we do now
so he says now you need compassion wow
you would think that alternate would say
so start screaming at the nail to come
back he says no no no now you need much
more compassion
you need to have compassion for that
piece of godliness in you for that
infinity in you for that infinity and
you for that love in you
that has been cut out of your system in
your consciousness it's been cut out
because it's not really been cut out
and you have to be able to say you know
i don't feel the compassion here i'm not
compact i don't feel i don't feel the
pain
but
no
i don't get the depth of it i really
don't sometimes i'm not in tune with it
but you are
you know how precious i am
so you know how painful it is
you know when you see the prince
when you see a prince in the garbage
dump
collecting
leftovers from the garbage bag in order
to survive you start crying he may not
be crying this is his life but you're
crying
because your sensitivity has not been
dulled because your sense of compassion
is still acute
do you know who you are do you know how
much love there is in you you're israel
your kale is your tsar infinity rules
you
and even when you're imprinted in prison
it's a sarus in prison
but that's as long as i know who i am
and i could feel the pain of me not
being who i am but what happens when i
don't feel the pain of me not being who
i am it's because i'm not that person
anymore at least not consciously
so the altered says now you have to go
to deeper
and here he adds and he says further how
is that going to help
us
meet us
the attribute of
the attribute of yaakov
this is an expression that comes from
parish's truma you remember in the
mishkan
they were british
is a bar
that connected all the beams the crush
of the mishkan
so you had the bars on the top and on
the bottom of the beams
those bars only went halfway
there was a bar that came
from the east to the west the bar that
came from the west to the east and they
met in middle but bria
the central bar was mavriach
it went from one extreme one end to the
other end so the altered explains based
on kabbalah that you have the upper body
of the lower bar that's qasid and guru
of roman yitzchak and then you have
yaakov is middlehem
it's the central bar it goes from one
extreme to another extreme in other
words
it penetrates from the beginning till
the end from the end to the beginning
from the highest to the lowest why
that's midas
all other attributes don't go from the
highest to the lowest and from the
lowest back to the highest besides
what does this mean this means
you're never too low you're never too
distant
to be able
not to have compassion on you and on
yourself
you see
i can't always feel love to a certain
person
in a certain condition including to
myself
it's not a briefca
it's sometimes hard but
you can always have compassion
you say yeah but i'm in such a low state
exactly have compassion
yeah but i'm messed up completely
exactly have compassion
compassion is something that connects
the highest
to the lowest
you can always have compassion
compassion doesn't mean you're he's
right doesn't mean you're right
compassion doesn't mean there were no
mistakes compassion doesn't mean i
didn't make terrible mistakes maybe i
did
compassion just means
that you're feeling you're becoming
aware
of the dysfunction
and you're experiencing the pain of it
something very very powerful happens in
the process
what happens with compassion
you know what happens
when you can start feeling compassion
for the pain that you're going through
even though you're telling yourself
you're not feeling anything
that itself you need to have compassion
for
i'm so detached that i'm not let it feel
anymore
what happens is
compassion starts opening up the wound
compassion allows you
to connect to that space without
judgment
and when you could connect to that space
without judgment you can slowly start
seeing what's behind it
is
even though you said it's like a person
who's cut off from his source completely
alpha p kane of course in this case i
they heard
through one thought
one thought of a person can reconnect to
his source there's no such thing as real
disconnection commission partisan
imagine if in medicine they would have a
concept of reconnecting the body to the
head
god forbid if a person was beheaded but
medicine would have the ability to be
able to reconnect the gulf to the rush
rush that's why it says entire and
nauseous rush lift up the head pick up
the head what's picking up the head it's
reconnecting putting the head back where
it belongs on top of the body there's no
such a thing you're really disconnected
your head was
the shrine really
not in you you're not a israel
consciously you may not be consciously i
may not care only because the pain is so
much deeper only because the trauma is
so much deeper
so middah sarah could you have
compassion for the fact that you don't
have compassion can you have compassion
for the fact that you don't have
compassion my friends
yeah but i don't even care about that i
got it and can you have compassion for
that too
you know what compassion does you know
why it's so powerful
listen to this
because it allows us not to be naive
and yet it does not make us judgmental
you see we have two extremes
is not judgmental but it's sometimes a
little naive guru
is not naive but it's stark it's it's
discipline it's it's it's somewhat
judgmental
what's the beauty of rachel
there's no naivete there's absolute
awareness
sobriety no blind spots without judgment
just with compassion
what that allows is
that that little child that's protecting
itself that's hiding behind layers and
layers and layers of fear and insecurity
behind layers of trauma and blockages
that inner child could slowly peek out
could slowly peek out
that's what it does when you judge it
when you scream at it oh you're so bad
get back into the game
what happens
i tighten up and i run away further
when i make believe nothing is wrong i'm
detached from reality that's the power
of rachman
can go to every place it can go into the
lowest place
without glorifying it without
romanticizing it without being naive
but without judging
you're never too low you're never too
distant you're never too remote and
you're never too high
to be able to have midas
says here
imagine if in medicine there was this
ability
to be able to reconnect the head with
the body
he says that's what truth is in a moment
true means to return you're back you're
connected
ah
okay
let's take a few questions
i see it's lebandic here in the chat
since a man and a woman who are married
are one as it says in zayar if i as a
wife learn to feel
compassion can my husband benefit as
well
absolutely absolutely
next question when the king goes out to
the field can it also be like the field
of research
this is where i meet him where we learn
and research together
okay sure
next i feel that everything you
described today applies to my life
in the sense that my trauma was so deep
as a child
that i had to stop feeling so much of
myself and i couldn't even feel that i
don't feel
wow
who would think that 200 years ago
in 1797 when this mimer was said alford
would describe this experience
yeah
and and we we need me the sarah we need
the sarah man
is this donald trump's original metaphor
that the king is in the field in the
month of ello yes somebody asked us the
first time as far as i know i never saw
the concept of the metaphor
comes from the maggot the maggot said
that in the time after the corbin
it's like the king is homeless
so therefore
any home that will let him in and
welcome him he'll be there so the maggot
says in a way after the destruction of
the bay salmiktas it's easier
to have ruach
to find divine inspiration and to have a
very deep relationship with god it's
like the king is homeless but this
marshall about elo
i never saw it before
next question
we know hashem is good and wants good
even though the the good is not apparent
to us
hashem created every creation with great
power and he created all of creation to
be good and to do good but he gave us
free choice we can also do bad this is
what makes us human
but our free choice to do bad our power
to do bad and be bad cannot begin to our
power to cannot compare to the power to
have to our power to create good
because that's what who that's who
hashem is therefore his power to have
created us to be good can hardly be
dented or affected by our power to do
the opposite the reason we can do bad is
because we need to have free choice but
the reason we can do good is because
that's the purpose of our creation so
it's always more powerful so we could
blemish that which was given us but we
could never seriously damage it so given
our relatively weak and inferior power
to do bad
and knowing that we can never get
separated from the ultimate good it's
very comforting to know
that even if we try very hard we will
never ever be disconnected
beautiful
okay question when we have physical pain
we know where to look
tell the doctor where the pain is and
the doctor will begin to cure
this is a medical condition
where
the issue is obvious but here the person
feels no physical pain sometimes the
nervous system doesn't communicate to
the brain
a person cuts his foot on the glass and
be unaware of the cut or the bleeding
that's a much bigger tragedy because
there's a disconnection if there's no
nerves or the nervous system is damaged
you don't even know that you're bleeding
this is much more dangerous the person
is unaware of the cut you could bleed to
death unaware of it all along such a
person has to be constantly vigilant to
the smallest cut because they don't feel
the pain
maybe this is the medical example of
being in a condition where you're
unaware of your spiritual cut and your
spiritual pain
on a spiritual and emotional level it's
cut and there's a lot of bleeding but
i'm completely unaware of it because the
nervous system
is not connected and what happens is my
nervous system is not communicating to
the brain there is like a sense of
detachment
is this
is this a proper metaphor yeah exactly
this is exactly exactly the point
but alter ebba's point is
that
the real way of dealing with it is not
to say you're disconnected but to have
even more compassion
more compassion for the fact they don't
have compassion now this is so important
and this is what i want to conclude with
and by the way tomorrow morning we're
going to have a share tomorrow morning 7
30 we're going to have a hustle this
year because i want to finish the mimer
because i want to learn a rasher shadow
mimer so everybody please tell your
friends tuesday morning 7 30 we have a
class and 12 45 we have the women's
class it's actually going to be live in
person for the first time since corona
in the 10th 10th gimmel 24 shea road
tomorrow 12 45 new york time for women
and girls it's also going to be
streaming live on the yeshiva.net
and you can also watch a replay so
that's tomorrow 12 45 new york time but
tomorrow 7 30 i want to finish the azir
hashem this moment we have one more
piece but i just want to finish with
this point and that is
why is rachel so powerful
one of the reasons is because what
rachel does is it directs me to the
place where the wound is
and wherever the wound is there is a
light hiding an infinite light hiding
under the wound
that's why if i start judging it and
screaming at it
i don't get access to the light
when i have compassion on it
it can open up
and give me the light that's under the
wound and that's why mr sarah
is so so powerful and so critical in all
of these situations
can you have compassion
for the pain
and can you have compassion for the pain
that you don't feel
real compassion without judging it
what's going to happen then is
you'll be able to find access to the
innermost light
everybody have a beautiful day
thank you for joining us