Why Do We Love Looking in the Mirror? Because It Teaches Us the Secret of Life

[Music] good evening and welcome it seems like a short and very innocent pasa curse in parshas vehicle and yet it bring it brought forth very fascinating and intriguing ideas and discussions and I'm referring to the story of the mirrors bring up source number one please and the portion of I Akal the Torah discusses how bit Sal and his team of craftsmen constructed all of the pieces of furniture and vessels of the Michigan of the tabernacle source number one in your PDF right below the video vias ASA Kieran officious vase Canaan officious but sallow made the kheer the washing basin out of copper as well as its pedestal also out of copper the Maris had service assured Tsavo pacify Umayyad with the mirrors of the women who congregated at the door to the sanctuary to the tent of meeting what were these mirrors is the question we know that one of the pieces of furniture in the tabernacle and later in the temple was the kheer the kheer was a large cattle which was filled with water and each morning before any cow ate any priest would enter into the sanctuary to do the service he was obligated to wash his hands and his feet from the kheer from the washing basin it had faucets the Kohen would open up the forces and the water would flow and cleanse his hands and his feet and only then was he permitted entrance into the sanctuary to perform the service this kheer this washing basin or water kettle was made of copper from the mirrors which mirrors are we referring to what type of mirrors the Torah scriptlet or does not elaborate it just says from those who congregated near the sanctuary and when it's talks about those who congregated it says it in the feminine term had so votes which means the women who congregated it so let's first quote a very basic and simple interpretation presented by the Rambam the Ramban Rabbeinu moisha banishment also known as namana days was the great spanish leader rabbi philosopher thinker town you this physician who lived in the 13th century in Spain and then made aliyah to the holy land where he lived in Jerusalem and he passed away the Ramban wrote an extraordinary commentary on the homage and in this verse there Ambon explains that women used copper for mirrors and Durham bon says they were beautiful they were of good quality they looked good and they were clean the women would polish she says the copper until it shined until it became a really good and functional mirror when the women heard that mirrors are being used to make to construct the washing basin the kheer so many women congregated to the sanctuary to donate and contribute their personal mirrors for the kheer for the copper washing base granted now of course we have the conceptual question why were the mirrors of the women used for this particular vessel in the holy sanctuary in the Michigan this was not just another vessel this was the vessel from which all the Coenen every single sanctify themselves through water which is a sanctifying substance in the Torah in order to perform the service so why was it the mirrors of the women which was used in order to make and design the kheer to bring sanctity to the colony what is the reason for this among the biblical commentators we have here two interpretations that are quite opposed to each other to drastically different perspectives extremely different perspectives the first I wanna offer is the one of the Evan Ezra Rubino of Rama Vanessa Rosso the great Spanish commentator of the 12th century says bring up source number two Sukhdev and ezra Fatah matzo voz the reason they brought their mirrors commish both Kohanim with suffice leader a spoon am Bajal baker the Mira's nauseous his focus was Sakinaka areum shall recite the routine of all women is to beautify themselves to look at themselves in the mirror every single morning either a mirror made of copper or a mirror made of glass in order to beautify their here their body Hey - chorim be safe or you Shia these mirrors are mentioned by the prophet Isaiah chapter 3 committee geese are all higher common egg is small odd hey I'm the custom of the Jewish people was like the custom of Ishmaelites the Arabs the Evan Ezra is writing in the 12th century till this very day vahini who you be is wrong Russian youth days Hashem show sorrow my Tevas a Harlem the national my race am the Dava kam-lam terrified Liz yeah please but there were some women according to Ibanez are serving God who decided to segregate and become ascetics to segregate themselves from all of the cravings and pleasures of the physical world so thus they did not need to use mirrors any longer to beautify their bodies and faces and hence they gave away their mirrors to the sanctuary so it's from these mirrors from taken from these women through which butts Allah made the kheer which is a symbol of sanctity and holiness coming from the women who decided to segregate themselves from what he would see as material indulgence of focusing on their body and its aesthetical value they gave up their mirrors and hence these mirrors became the source from which the Kohen in the priests everyday would sanctify their arms their hands in their feet yet there is a completely different perspective and I should say probably an opposite perspective which is found in the Madras already made wished an Ummah on this verse and it's the tradition that's embraced and accepted by Rashi Rashi the 11th and 12th century most famous and fundamental biblical commentator in France Rabbi a jockey who embraced quotes this Madrid Madrid tradition and embraces it as the literal interpretation of the verses let's see what Rashi says please bring up source number three in your curriculum below the video dr. Rashi the Maris had savors it's a long Rashi and a beautiful and very moving story that rash she tells us here so trashy the noisy soil how you be awed and Maris Shara is behan Keesha how you miss Costas the daughters of Israel hadn't had in their possession copper mirrors which they would look into when they would beautify themselves valve ice sunlight Ekholm ilaha villain adverse a Michigan and even these mirrors they did not withhold from bringing for the contribution of the Michigan of the sanctuary for higher Maya's my Sheba hipness I assume lead Sahara Moses rejected these mirrors because they were made for accomplishing the ends of the Yeats are of the evil inclination Moses fell that these mirrors were used to arouse the yoo-min intimate cravings which come from the eight Sahara from the negative inclination so Moses was disgusted moses rejected this contribution o maleic others burro who God told Moses listen to this kibale I want you to accept these mirrors from these women PA Luka Vivian a lineman a coil because these mirrors are more beloved to me than everything else all the contributions that all of the men and the women are bringing gold or silver or copper or oils or incense or diamonds or stones and different materials wolves and substances all very precious and beloved but a loop but these mirrors have even alignment occur they are more beloved to me they're more precious to me than everything else why shall you'd am dr. ashish Ali they am and me doin awesome voice table as permits Ryan because through these mirrors the women created many legions of offspring in Egypt and he tells the story how you ballet muga in Boveda spirit their husbands would be exhausted by the horrific labor imposed upon them by the Egyptians how you Hulk I saw my little Amma hello mister their wives would go and bring their husbands food and drink in the places where they were slaving away under the Egyptian taskmasters Omar feel a size their wives would feed them the nightly Samaras and then those woman would take these mirrors become a curse or a yachtsman by Libba myron and each one would view herself with her husband in the mirror who Mashhad out a bid for employment and she would entice him with word saying i need no america i am more handsome I am more beautiful than you but Mahavira is by Layla ballet in the date either and through this they would bring their husbands to physical desire and craving VIN his caucus lab and they would have intimate relations with them will miss a breeze violist some so the women would conceive and give birth there to a new generation of Jewish shann Emma this is what the verse says in the Song of Songs Paris at a party huh under the apple tree I have aroused you possession my beam Maris had service and this is the meaning of the verse here that the kheer was made of the mirrors of the legions it means those mirrors which produced and gave birth and were responsible for the armies of Yiddish akin the lack of Jewish children that were raised under impassable conditions in Egypt as a result of these mirrors when NASA Hakeem ahem and the kir the washing basin was made of these mirrors what is Rashi telling us here Moses rejected these mirrors because he felt it's immodest to use these mirrors for the temple the place of holiness where God is going to dwell why are we using mirrors that are made to nourish and nurture the material physical bodily desires of the eights are in terms of intimacy comes God and says no these are more precious than any other contribution and all other contributions want because in the Egyptian nega's are the husband's were exhausted they lacked interest they lacked desire they lacked physical power to even think about relationships and it was these mirrors that the women used in order to make sure that the Jewish people don't die in order to make sure that there is a tomorrow to the Jewish nation through them they conceived that gave birth to that civis Hashem to the legions of Jews who and ultimately one they leave Egypt and come into the desert and build a sanctuary you'll take these mirrors God says and build from them the washing base what are we discover from this Rashi a fascinating idea that it was precisely the mirrors which Moses rejected because he felt they were unworthy to be used in the sanctuary in the Michigan and yet it's these mirrors that become not just eligible for the Michigan but they actually become the stuff through which every priest sanctifies himself refines himself elevates himself to a higher state of holiness and sanctity through these very mirrors let us try to understand this and to reflect on it what was the argument between Moses and God Moses feels a Lois only eight Sahara these mirrors are serving the evil inclination and a person and therefore they don't have a place in the sanctuary what was God telling him it was not just the God was telling him Moses something very special happened with these mirrors and therefore I want you to use them rather what God was telling Moses was something more profound you're saying that these mirrors are assuming it's a hardware they're made for the evil inclination you're making a mistake they're not assumed ly it's a hurry these mirrors were actually sacred mirrors these mirrors were made and they contributed to holiness why so the Lubavitcher never once gave a lovely interpretation this was at a put him fabric and a put him gathering 1960 and he said this look at the product look at the Jewish children that were born as a result of the physical intimacy that came from these mirrors look at who they were these children with it severs the legions that civis a sham the army of God who left Egypt this is the generation which broke the shackles of Egyptian slavery and ultimately would come to sign and receive the Torah these are the children that were created that were conceived than were created as a result of these mirrors we know it's discussed in medicine and many ethical works and in Zohar and in the tanja he discusses it that the thoughts of the parents during physical intimacy effects many components of the psyche and the personality of the child just as the body of the child comes from the seed and the egg which come from the intimacy of the father and the mother the psyche of the child the inner workings of the child the mental psychological and spiritual makeup of the child many components of it are created through the inner consciousness of the parents during their intimacy and relationships so from their physical bodies come the physical components of the child and from their inner spiritual emotional state and consciousness during intimacy is formed and developed the inner consciousness of the child so God is telling much to look at who these children are and you'll be able to see what they were thinking about during their relationships it's a famous story about the COTS ke raba he was once talking to one of his children and one of us has Siddim said Reber do you even know this child you never spend time with him do you even know who this child is and the COTS care said yes I know violet of a smith.welcome asha vez if ever moranga brafton develops i know with which thoughts i brought him into the world so God is telling Moses look at these children who left Egypt they will understand what were the thoughts what was the state of mind what was the consciousness of the mothers who then introduced it to the fathers when they were using these mirrors in order to entice them and create intimacy it wasn't a materialistic narcissistic beastly physical craving that was at play rather it was an experience that was deeply human deeply Jewish the police sensitive deeply refined the police sacred and deeply spiritual and yet Moses initially did not realize this because here we come to one of the important distinctions discussed in Jewish mysticism and Hasidic works and also in that talk of the lubavitcher rebbe of Purim 1960 between men and women generally when it comes even in this to this very issue one sees that for women a physical relationship is meaningful if it's a reflection of an emotional relationship of a deeper relationship of a human relationship for men often the two can be completely divorced a physical relationship can often have a lot of value and power and importance even if it's completely divorced from the emotional component of love and attachment and commitment and devotion but for the woman naturally the way God created the psyche and the body of a woman the physical relationship for it to be meaningful interesting enjoyable and deep it's usually when it's mirrors something deeper something more profound something more emotional and something more spiritual and therefore it's the Jewish woman who has the ability to reveal in this element of life in this experience of life the sacred quality of it the fact that it's not all the eight saw her it's not just a selfish narcissistic human thing the evil inclination wants physical relationships the woman reveals that these mirrors are kedusha they're sacred and not only are they sacred from this all the kaien am I going to sanctify their hands and their feet and perform their service and even the high priest when he went into the Holy of Holies that day of Yom Kippur he sanctified himself through these mirrors through this skier that was made from the mirrors of the woman because the women have this special spiritual power by the way God created them to be able to reveal that even in this element of life which is often seen as the most mundane and crass and animalistic component of life all about physical pleasure on a deeper level it's really oh so as sacred and holy and divine experience it depends how you look at it it depends how you perceive and it depends how you view it and she has the power to share that gift with her husband as well to be able to help him understand that what may seem as a shallow physical experience really has so much more depth and if you really want to suck the marrow out of the physical experience you must align it with its true power it's true profundity with it which is the spiritual holiness that's involved in the relationship of love between a husband and a wife which can also produce a new generation of children this also explains why it was the washing basin that was used that used these mirrors because why do you need a washing basin to wash your hands on your feet why do you have to wash your hands in their feet because they may have become dirty they may have become filthy what does this represent somebody who is segregated from physicality somebody who segregated from materialism somebody who's just an abstract soul can't get their hands and feet dirty only somebody who's in meshed and who's involved with the physical world can get off and morally and spiritually unclean that's why you have to wash your feet if you're not wearing shoes your feet are actually touching the earth physically and metaphorically you get dirty with the dirt that may exist in this world so the Keir the washing basin is there to help you distinguish that dirt which you have to remove in order to come into a place of holiness and that which can remain on you when you enter into the place of holiness this ability to be able to make this distinction when you are in the world to be able to appreciate that which is sacred and therefore you could retain when you come into the holiness of the sanctuary and that which is not sacred and if we have to reject it this again as the gift that was given uniquely and specially to the woman who has that ability to be able to be within the physical world and access this sacredness and holiness that's inherent in the physical not just to access the sacredness and the spiritual on the transcendental but within the daily responsibilities of a physical life living in a physical material world to be able to see it from a more meaningful and spiritual and holistic and sacred perspective it's the power of the woman and therefore she can create that spiritual peer the washing basin to distinguish and say these elements are holy and sacred and can be embraced and these elements cannot be embraced we're often the man there is a duality in the world of spirituality did a lot of spirituality but sometimes when he gets into the physical he could fall down into the physical and not to be able to create a link between the two and to be able to distinguish and say this is physical but it's sacred it could be sacred and this must be rejected from the life so the sanctuary would then be a metaphor for the home and the woman creates the foundation of the home gives the home its energy its ambience its beauty its positive energy its love and its sacredness and she becomes the kheer her mirrors become the cure the washing basin which when the husband comes home physically and conceptually she appreciates she's sensitive to that which should be allowed into the home and that which should not be allowed in the home that which should be allowed in the home because it's productive it's meaningful and even if it may be physical it could be sacred and beautiful and that which should not be allowed into the home because it would compromise its integrity and compromise its purity this is the potential that the woman the feminine soul has and what she can offer to her masculine counterpart and to her entire home and entire family now let's take it to the next step we see here an argument between Moses and God Moses believes if the eight Sahara and God says no this is more precious than everything so we explained Moses comes from the perspective holiness comes from spirituality holiness comes from transcendence holiness comes from Torah holiness comes from heaven these mirrors used for physical intimacy that belongs to the earthiness take leave it out of here and the God says no you don't understand and this is the power of the Jewish woman's the power of the woman that you might should obey no don't understand in fact my sharavino separated from his wife you don't understand that the woman has the power to reveal that this is really sacred this is really holy even the physical and yet the still needs explanation that Moses not understand and comprehend that even physical components of life can be done with a holiness with a sacredness I mean this is the foundation of so many Jewish teachings the way we eat the way we drink the way we sleep the way we dress the way we engage in relationships the way we have children these are physical mundane things and yet the Torah challenges us and invites us to suck the marrow out of these experiences and get to their depth and reveal that they're deeper than simply selfish physical cravings Moses could not relate to this Moses could not understand this but understand this to answer this we must go to the next level we have to go a little deeper and I want to introduce a very strange and I'm telling you it's strange and difficult to understand line in the tunnel Hoodman metrascan coma from where raschi took his story open up source number for Raschi took it from Tahoma but there's a few major changes between the source and raschi and i want to focus on one of these changes take a look source number 410 home of coude tests jeremiah scheisse and i my resolve and when Moses saw the mirrors of the women he got angry at them Emmaline least Rowley told the Jewish people to mock us with she bruised shaken shillelagh take sticks and break their thighs hamari Swami Haynes written who needs these mirrors on Malaya College borrow hoola my cigar told my son my shall a lotta Mufasa my sir you're embarrassing these mirrors or you're embarrassing these women how Mira's ha hey Lou hey man me Duke uh Lots lawyer saw all of them it's Ryan these mirrors our response bull for creating and establishing all of these legions of Jews in Egypt Tomei am take from them the mirrors by same and cured necrosis mechanically and I'm sure many of you miss cotton and make from it the water kettle and its pedestal for the priests to become holy from it Shanna Marva yosik Irina fascias was cannon aphasias Ramada stats over searched servo but Ison himera sham mid to his collets voice a low what does it mean but Maris had save a sachet servo with the mirrors of the legions which gathered it means the mirrors that created armies of Jewish youngsters Jewish boys and girls who were born because of these mirrors what does Mosin what does it mean I ask you that Moses say take sticks and break their thighs who speaks like this women came to contribute to the mission based on God's command you know one accepted mirrors don't accept the mirrors Rashi says Moisture didn't like them and he rejected them he was disgusted by them and he said no and God said take a night what type of expression is this take sticks and break their thighs this is a moisture of a no speaks my sister I mean who doesn't know about the sin of hitting the Jew the first story we know about Moses the second story when it comes to Egypt is he sees one Jew striking another John what does he say Russia Lamas Sakurako why do you strike a Jew and he doesn't even know why he's striking him here women are bringing a contribution they're bringing their mirrors you're angry you're upset fine dismiss them say it's not for us thank you very much what does the man repeat Moses says take sticks and break thighs for what and this is the same person who sacrifice themselves for the Jewish people who worship the golden calf forty days after the giving of the Torah to the Jews who create a golden calf and deify it and dance around and and scream this is your God and God says let me annihilate them and Moses says no erase me from the book which you have written as discussed at length in the sea the class of kiss ISA for them Moses sacrifices himself completely here are holy beautiful wonderful women who want to contribute their mirrors to the in the sanctuary here suddenly he loses his patience speak such words what does it mean without the deeper mystical and spiritual understanding of the story it's very difficult to understand this Mandarin in order to understand this we have to understand how kabbalah and hasidism understand what a mirror's since this is all really about a mirror most mirrors these mirrors were made of copper which was a reflective substance it was polished as the Rambam says and you could see yourself through the copper the common mirror was and is made of glass and the glass is coated with a reflective substance which reflects you usually silver which covers the glass and from a window it becomes a mirror what's the difference between say a glass window and a glass mirror the difference is very simple you're looking at of a mirror you see that which is in front of you you see everything that's outside glass is translucent so through it you can see what is ahead of you what happens by a mirror when you look at the mirror you can see what is outside why because the glass is covered the glass is plated but glass could be covered with different substances it can be covered with a substance that's not reflective if you cover the glass with a sheet of plaster or cement or something similar to that you're not going to see anything it doesn't reflect anything nor is it transparent you can't see what is ahead of you when the glass is coated and covered with silver with a sheet of silver so then you do not see what is in front of you but you can see yourself and you could see that which is behind you that took that which is before you that which precedes you not that which follows you but that would precede you this is the physical basic difference between glass and glass that's coated with a reflective a substance a mirror every physical substance evolves from a spiritual reality and Kabbalah this is known as seder espousals there's a process of evolution we're not talking here about Darwin evolution ism Darwin's Charles Darwin's evolution we're talking about the evolution from spiritual properties to physical properties and to understand and appreciate the difference between these two realities we must introduce ourselves to a beautiful verse in the Song of Songs she assured him Song of Songs chapter to open up source number five keen a stove over the song of songs sings in a stove over winter has passed had got some color for her luckily the rain is gone stopped raining and it's on him Nero boretz the blossoms the first blossoms are seeing on the earth a summer he Ghia the time for pruning has arrived wakaya tarnish my bard say no and the voice of the dove is heard in our land attain a hunter figure the fig tree began producing her first figs hack fun him smother smother and the vines began blossoming blossoming their grapes nos Nureyev they're giving their fragrance Camila Gracia Fauci of osteology luck rise up my wife my beautiful one and go forth and then he continues yo na see but had vias Ella miss a serum a drag my dove is in the clefts of the rock in the hidden step Harini s made are my riot ash Mohini escola he : ah rave America novel show me your myra show me your countenance let me hear your voice because your voice is sweet and your countenance is beautiful what do these poetic words mean Midrash the Kabbalistic tradition explained that they actually define two different states and the relationship between the groom and the bride between God and the Jew between the soul and the body between heaven and earth there is a time when stuff of our winter past it's not raining anymore it's a time of blossoming spring is here you know the feeling it's a time of pruning you can hear the Dove singing this fig tree is producing the vine is producing and the groom turns to the bride and says stand up my bride rise up my beautiful wife and go forth that's one stage in the relationship this is a stage when the passion is palpable the emotions are very powerful the love and the affection between the groom and the bride are there in their full intensity come stand up my beautiful wife and go forth this is the time of song and passion it's the sign of ecstasy and fulfillment as the relationship is beautiful romantic filled with emotion and affection but then there comes another stage in life when you're in awe see biscotti our celibacy I'm a dragon when I'm looking for my dove my mate and I can't find my dove because she is but Raghav a a seller she's hidden in the clefts of the rock in those little holes and the crevices of the Raps possession of my dragon the hidden step and I beg and I say Irena is my right let me see your face hush Mimi is careless let me hear your voice this is a different state it's a time of concealment the time of estrangement it's a time of alienation Mara in Hebrew is the word for a mirror her Aeneas arrhenius meyraiyuth means show me not only your countenance but show me your mirror and here is we we discover where we discover the deeper meaning of these verses in the relationship between the Jew and God or the Jew and his soul there are two states two states of consciousness one is life is like you're living behind the glass and you could see glasses translucent it's a time when you see clearly what is before you what is ahead of you this is the time when the Jew experiences and a very clear fashion like through glass his relationship or her relationship with God you feel you so you know your depth you appreciate your inner identity you sense the spiritual cosmic vibrations within the universe you're permeated with a sense of meaning and clarity and purpose to their hairs you appreciate a sudah gut of devout that there's a God in the world and that you're orange you are an a journey and every day is meaningful but then there comes a day when you're enough see but fat veja seller the winter has not passed that didn't stop raining you still have the gloomy winter in the dark rain clouding your vision the trees are not yet blossoming with fruits on the contrary this is a time of alienation when the Jew cannot find God the Jew cannot find his soul on the contrary there's a tremendous blockage it's not glass you don't see and the reason you don't see is because I may have a thick and dense body and animalistic soul which curtails my vision and which creates a very powerful veil and curtain that blocks me it does not allow me to be inspired it does not allow me to feel any meaning that does not allow me to feel any holiness sacredness depth on the contrary my inner spiritual energy is hidden in this cleft of the rock but kaga veja celibacy sinner my drag in the hidden step it's buried under layers and layers of rubble and debris and I cannot get to it and the rubble and debris consists of my addictions and my fears and my insecurities and my animalistic and beastly self-centered desires and instincts and cravings and appetites and proclivities and emotions which don't allowed me to get to my inner purity to my inner godliness to my inner holiness to my inner confidence and hope and endless joy I no see but cog of a arcella this a said I'm a drag what do you do then then the groom God says Irene es Maya if now I need you to understand the secret of a mirror Hirini s Moriah I need mirror you have to understand what is a mirror what is a mirror a mirror is there's no glass the glass is covered the glass is blocked your vision is thus obstructed you want to see out but your eyes the vision the light that comes from your eyes hits instead of hitting the glass and therefore the glass allows it to carry on and to see what is beyond it your vision stops now what happens now there's something which the Kabbalah and a Hasidic masters called Earth Kaiser there's the light which goes straight forward above which goes ahead of you or your star straight light and then there's the Earth laser which means returning light or the light that bounces back or the reflective light not the straight light that goes forward but the light that actually goes backward reflective earth noise or it bounces back when the eyes want to see forward but the glass is covered so now what happens is the light hits the silver plating which coats and covers the glass so now your vision instead of going forward it actually goes in the opposite direction the light balances off this silver plating and shows you not what is ahead of you but that which is behind you when you look at a mirror you can see everything that is behind you in other words everything that precedes you not that which follows you like through the window but that would precede you and you can also see yourself what does this represent it represents a very profound spiritual idea sometimes in life you get to have revelation there's no blockages so then you see clearly out the window but sometimes there are concealment star blockages what happens now so there are two types of concealments sometimes the glass is so concealed that it stops all vision you don't see anything you just see a wall this represents a concealment what it doesn't allow you to see anything the concealment is so dense it's so thick it just obstructs any vision you can't see what is ahead of you and you can't see that which is behind you you just see the wall doesn't reflect anything beyond itself but if the glass is coated with a layer of silver not plaster or cement or other help substances but a reflective surface or like copper when it's polished clean copper translucent copper a reflective copper so then you do see something but what do you see you don't see that which is ahead of you you get to see yourself in the mirror and you get to see that which is behind yourself what does this mean in a person's life it means that when I experience in life the blockage that comes from the physicality of the body and the blockage that comes from the beastliness and the egocentricity and the materialism of the animal consciousness and I struggle to work with the concealment to challenge it to work with it to confront it to subdue it to transform it that generates a vision and it generates a light which is called a hyzer it's not the direct light which allows me to see that which is ahead of me but it's the light which balances off and allows me to see myself in a way that I have not seen myself ever before because when you have to fight for something it crystallizes to you who you really are when you don't have to fight for something when everything is easy when everything is clear when everything is comfortable when you don't have to wrestle with anybody and anything then you don't really learn who you are you may know yourself externally but you don't know yourself internally but when you have to fight you have to establish what your priorities are you have to figure out who you really really are you can't take things for granted you have to understand what is it ready that you're ready to sacrifice for and what not when you have to put up a fight for something that lets you appreciate yourself in a new way and a new depth so when there's a blockage that's when you get to see who you get to see yourself but it's not just you get to see yourself you get to see even more you get to see that which is behind you which cabbalistic alee mystically represents that which is above you that which precedes you that which is even higher than you which means through the glass we experience the light that is contained within the structure of a human being and within the structure of the universe but when we confront the darkness and we have to subdue and challenge and break and crush and transform our darkness into light a whole new light is created a whole new depth is created a whole new energy is created and let's explain this for a moment there are two types of divine energy that exists one is a divine energy that is contained within the structures of the universe and within the structures of the human psyche that's one type of divine energy there's another divine energy which transcends any structure it transcends any vessels it transcends any containers it's beyond it it cannot be defined in any finite and limited way I spoken Kisa about the ink that's articulated in the letters and the Inglot contained in the quill it's ink that cannot be articulated in letters it's an energy that's beyond structure it's beyond definition it's beyond description when I serve God when I connect to my soul in a straightforward way in an accessible way when my life is surrounded by windows and I could see out of the windows then I connect with the light that is available within the structure of the universe but when I have to deal with a blockage when I have to confront addictions habits instincts cravings and desires that schlepped me down bog me down make me sluggish and heavy alienate me from my soul estranged me for my essence and I have to fight with it so now I have to fight with my character now I have to transcend my character this allows me to experi the divine light that transcends containers that transcends characters in other words there is the light that you experience through affirmation and there's the light that you experience through conflict and negation the light that you experience through the positive association with holiness is the light that's available within the containers of the world the light that you experience through the conflict through the challenge through negating negative cravings and instincts and desires and habits that's the light which transcends the vessels and you can only capture that light by transcending your own vessel how do you transcend your own vessel when your vessel is filled with so many black holes and your vessel is filled with skeletons and demons and ghosts that you have to challenge and you have to transcend so now you're transcending your own container you're going out of your structure you're challenging your structure you're not fully prey to your external darkness and then you can access the transcendental divine energy that is beyond structure this is the light that you get through the mirror not the light that's in front of you and following you but the light that precedes you that's higher than you that's higher than structure you challenge your own structure and you get the light that's beyond structure there's an expression in Zohar Kedah scoff you sit there after the style if you carry the coach abusable Kalam when you subdue on holiness so then you have a relationship the glory of God extends into all of the worlds when the person's subdues the own holiness and then when the person's subdues the darkness in them then they become vessels for the light that's completely beyond vessels when you have to break your own nature when you have to crush something in yourself when you have to say no to yourself then you access the divine light which can never be grasped through yes but can only be grasped through no you grasp the divine light which can never be grasped through self expression but can only be grasped through self transcendence because it's the transcendental light when you transcend yourself you access that that's the meaning in the verse of Song of Songs there's a time will you tell the wife stand up my beautiful one and rise and let's go forth but then there's a time when everything is hidden and the glass is obstructed by layers of concealments so now we say you're in Asti mahogany our celibacy cinema draga howdini aspire is show me your mirror Kiko lay re because your voice is sweet to my reef loving your mirror is beautiful it's this confrontation with the obstacles of life and the challenges of life including your inner mental psychological and spiritual obstacles and obstacles around you it's this confrontation with the silver that obstructs the glass that allows you to see yourself in a new way and allows you to see and experience a whole new depth of godliness and a whole new depth of energy that you would never be able to experience without the challenges and the concealment it's only through the fight and the confrontation with the layers of ego and profanity that obstruct the human spiritual vision that you can reach I place of light and a place of vision that transcends infinitely the light that you would have experienced if there was only glass and you would only be able to see that which was ahead of you but never that are others that new light which completely transcends you which is why the Talmud says in Breakfast tracted Brothers been welcomed Shambhala true though I am them in son dictum do more reminded the place with about sugar with a man of repentance stands even the complete righteous person doesn't stand because the righteous person is the man of glass and the ball Truvia has to deal with the mirror irony is my life ah now we'll understand the difference between Moses's perspective and gods perspectives take a look in source number 6 the Talmud says in Yvonne Mustafa Memphis amid bays : I ve missed a clue bespeak lie Shane Amira Moira been mystical bespeak Laramie all the prophets sword godliness through a non translucent medium Moses saw godliness through us pacaya meera through a translucent medium what is the difference my sherab a nose saw godliness like we see things through glass you can see them clearly the way they are in truth in reality that's how you see them the other prophets could not see and experience that vision they sought through a sparklier Shana meera which is like a mirror take a look at number 7 Rashi brings source number 7 a she brings in mitosis Hanna Venus na boo boo koyama Russian my safale a magician estimable oceans aired over the Prophet SAW used the word koyama a sham so said God Moses said Zeb over this is it car is you have some type of understanding of it a simulation of it Moses is Z he actually sees it the way it is when you see something in a mirror you don't see its real reality you see a reflection of it you don't see the actual substance you see a reflection of the substance when I see myself in the mirror you break the mirror you're not gonna break your nose why it's a reflection of your notice a reflection of your face when you see something through a window you see something through a glass door through a glass window you actually see it the way it is you not thought you see it you see the real it you don't see a picture of it you don't see a mirror of it you don't see a reflection of it you see it and that was the vision of Moses when the Jewish people worship the golden calf and now they were being a tone and they were building a sanctuary for God my shrah Boehner did not want mirrors maschera Bain who wanted a speck l'homme era he wanted to translucent medium to experience holiness or to put it differently Moses didn't want the whole mirror experience of the maturity and the depth and the light that you get through confronting urease or hurry your evil inclination so Moses says why are we taking these mirrors ello assume liate Sahara even if Moses understands that people have a ate Sahara they have physical cravings and it could be dealt with and they can fight with it and struggle with in and bring holiness into it Moses said I don't need mirrors I want a speck lie I'm here I want glass I don't want a mirror the winter is gone the rain stopped we got over the golden calf and all the problems now everything is blossoming how I turn this my bar it's saying you can hear the Dove I saw some Arrighi it's a time of song zombie is pruning and singing call me Laura off y'all see a fossil of Gila why do I need mirrors I don't want mirrors i1z I don't want Cory I want to spoke like a mirror that's what my smushy says I now will understand what the Meldrick says when Myesha says take a stick and break their thighs he didn't mean God forbid physically to break their thighs the totally pro biddin it's grotesque it's it's ridiculous what Moses meant was the thighs which are the part of the beautiful part of the body that surround that part of the ice brisk a dish with is the procreative and reproductive substances Moses says that point has to be broken morally spiritually break it crush it don't deal with it don't deal with the HR and don't deal with an evil inclination don't deal with obstacles don't deal with concealments see godliness and holiness and a translucent and transparent fashion I you say you have thighs and inside the thighs there's this and there's that my tresses break them that's what a human achievement is the human achievement this transcend them break that entire component and go beyond it break anything that's connected with Kairos with cravings and struggles that come from human weakness on this God told Moses know a look of even a lime in a coil you're wrong you are the level of spoke la rioja materia but what's really precious to me in the labor of love of people in this world is that often they find themselves in clef it's of Roxanne and hidden steps and often their inspiration is covered by layers of debris and rubble and yet Irina is mariahs they never forget the secret of the mirror they never forget the secret that life is a continuous engagement with the ate Sahara with the negative inclination and from that engagement and from that conflict you can create a new type of depths and holiness and beauty and grandeur and human richness from the confrontation with your negative inclination as these women did and this is more precious than everything else in the tabernacle because there is the beautiful holiness that comes through glass that comes to transparency through which you see the way things are but then there's another holiness that comes through the entanglement with your animal consciousness and your ego and your beastliness and yes the reflection of the mirror never allows you to see the way things are they it's only the simulation it's only a copy it's only a mirror it's only a reflection because you're in a lower state but yet it allows you to see yourself in a deep way and it allows you to experience a new depth and a new light that comes only through the entanglement with the struggles and challenges of human nature to be able to find a light buried within the darkness and that's the secret of the pasta can perishes the first man and woman God says light over I saw them Levada ASA LASIK and negative it's not good for a man to be alone let me create a help for him against him so the outer deprivation is Amon of the earth explains interior how Adam Levada represents the man alone a noise move are they God being alone with glass you see everything there's no obstacles no obstructions no veils the doors of perception of cleanse light over you saw them Levani that's not good s Eleazar I want to help him connect today by creating something parallel that's against him by creating an obstacle by craning in opposition by creating the silver that coats the glass and then you look in the mirror and from that confrontation with the concealment a new light is created a new light emerges and that's the asic and negative the power of the woman who understands the value and how to take the very physical world and reveal holiness in that place that holiness that comes from the holiness of the mirror the Maris observers have in a lime in a coil that is more precious than everything else in the sanctuary have a wonderful night [Music] you