Yisro | Likkutei Sichos Vol. 1

Welcome to the soulwards house Sunday mornings 10:30 or thereabouts. We're uh learning is alf just like we started back in paras. Now we're on parasy para of maido. And uh before we get started over here uh is delivering the new theor this is just part of the couple weeks ago we mentioned I don't remember how it came up. I want Oh yeah I do. We were talking about that the very very end of the last inbut the last are the of which people are so far gone that they're disenfranchised from the Jewish community. And the Rebba said a story about his father-in-law, the furb that somebody was writing people off and uh the said, "Yeah, when you get to the very very very end of the last are about who to write off until you get to that, you include everybody." Um and I said, "Oh, let's pull that up." And then we didn't I realized we had a of course u we have a kit, but we didn't have a a regular. So now a good friend of ours who uh shall remain nameless has donated a full set of we got it small. You know we don't have that much space at the soulwards house library. Everything's compact over here. Um what' you say for me? >> You have a story for me >> but no one's going to hear you. You have to come over to the mic. >> Okay. Come to the mic. >> Okay. So on chabas you don't disembodied. >> But I am a disembodied. Okay. >> Okay. Okay. So on Shabas by Bushkill Gardens. We had a Shabatone. >> That was called Bushkill Gardens. >> Bushkill Inn, something like that. >> Bushkill Resort. >> Yeah. So someone came over to me and they said, "We have a bunch of books we'd like to donate to Soulwards." And I said, "I really, really, really appreciate that. Um, let me take your contact info. We'll be in touch, but at the time being, our shelf at the Soulwards house is full to the brim. >> So we're going to have to build another building and then I'll come get the books from you." And they got so excited. >> Really? Yeah, they got so excited and they said they're looking for it. They want another building, another facility. >> The broker who the the sellers agent on this house is trying to sell us a house three blocks from here. But I don't want one three blocks from here because if we get another house, we we'll do one on this block or even next door so we can expand. We we want a dorm so we can do Shabas programs at the aisle >> with a full library. >> With a full library. Yes, of course. >> What? Not just FODM. No. Yeah. And we'll have a full library and we'll have uh a dorm meaning bedrooms because here over here we used every square foot for event space. So barem we can do events here which we do. Okay. So thank you to our benefactor our generous benefactor for the and then we also want to thank our generous benefactor. What's the name of the thing? What's the company? >> Okay. for donating these beautiful pictures from these are made by a company called Tridelics. And uh you see this is a picture of the Rebea at the Loga parade and it's 3D. You can tell here on the video you can it's got a 3D sort of thing. The picture itself is not 3D. It's it is what it is but the background is 3D >> and it has oh well hold on let me show you. See the soul? Hold it up closer to the camera so people can see. Soul Words logo on it. Get it. Hold it up higher. Hold it up higher. So, hold it there. Let it get into focus. Uh, it's not It's not in focus because it's focusing on my face and block my face. Ah, there you go. Beautiful. Gorgeous. Okay. So, anyone who comes to this year can have one of those. That's a free souvenir. Okay. Let's start learning parro. Let's get ourselves ready for parro. You ready? >> What are you doing when you get >> Oh, you got to get the PDF ready. >> I can start. Okay, fine. All right. And you see the stack of next to me. I'm going to make a bra on my coffee while you're pulling up the PDF. Okay. Oh, I should mention tonight >> [snorts] >> Meaning Sunday night is an event at Leitk Library in Cedarhurst on Central Avenue. It's the schlashim of my mother. Allah shalom. I'm going to be giving a lecture on uh lessons that my mother taught me when my father passed away last year. We did a similar event for his schlashim and I'm doing the same event for my mother. So that's tonight, Sunday night [snorts] in Cedarhurst at the Levituk Library on Central Avenue. Tomorrow night is going to be a SM Rambam in Pomona. Do you know where that is? You saw. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Pomona is Pomona. It's not Monty. It's next to Monty. But do you know where? Do you know the address? That's what I was asking. No. Okay. Anyways, the Simaram in Pomona tomorrow night, meaning Monday night. Everyone is invited. There is a women's section. All right. Paris, we pulled it up. page 148 in your original liqu and here we go by mountain tate in connection with mountain the success and elim spoke all of these words saying so the commentaries ask what what does it mean saying everywhere else we have lay saying the participle laymore saying means that whatever it is that Hashem is saying to Misha should then be repeated lay another time to anyone who wasn't there by mira however by mira you can't say that vibbal All the yed were there. Every yid was present at mountain. Even the yed who weren't born yet. Every was there. Everyone heard. So what does mean in this case? You cannot say it means the nishamas from later generations because even those nishas were present at mountain tra and their foot mountain is. So the mag answers like this. The concept of mountain is as the point of maid was to draw down the ten commandments actually not ten commands we say in English ten commandments so it's it's the ten sayings into assam I modus the ten utterances ten utterances of creation let there be the 10 let there be is of creation. How Hashem created how Hashem spoke the world into being. So the meag said the point of maid was to draw down the into the modus like it's hinted to in the verse and this is from paras the gifts of the nium where it says each spoon weighing 10 silver according to the holy shekele. So the repetition of the word assur 10 10 means to draw the 10 into the 10. Draw the 10 into the 10. Who knows 10? >> I know 10. >> What is 10? >> 10. >> 10 are theas that are drawn into the modus. Okay. You remember that until pes. >> Okay. Yeah. And that's the mag says why it says because goes on goes on my you seem there's a whole thing not going to get into this off uh it's a little bit off topic but I saw once from the padok how he explains the difference between sika mira and dbor. They're all different uh terms for talking. They all have different connotations. At any rate, dbor is generally more connected with u conveying instructions. Here's what you got to do. Amira is more about conveying information. Sikha is more like just chatting just to to connect. So it makes sense anyways because it says is we translate as commandments even though literally it's not commandments and the modus is the divine code the information upon which the uh upon which reality is built. [snorts] Okay. Okay. So that's the idea is to draw the into the yeah okay base ine is so what's the concept ine why does it always do this we had a nice v it was beautiful it was non-threatening it didn't demand anything from us it was cool information we could just repeat it we had a nice 10 10 people like that they like when the math adds up now the deba comes and says what does this mean in Aveda. I thought I was going to get off scot-free and now I'm going to have to work. You know, Aveda means work. Google mayor Ga May Maynard uh G Krebs and find out what it means to say work. Maynard Grebs. Whoever Googles it and posts it in the comments. We're going to give you Where's one of those 3D pictures? Where I don't see the 3D picture >> behind my laptop. If you Google mayor G crabs and why I said that when I said aa aa then you can have one of these pictures. We might even send it to you if you live in the continental United States. >> Explanation after the question mark. You mean after when we say a >> Oh my goodness. That is you googled. Okay. [laughter] [cough and clears throat] The the means the the light of but that can't just remain in the abstract. It has to illuminate the real world every day. The belt which is the world was built from not like those who believe is one thing and the world is another thing. In other words, they believe in Tyra. They love Tyra. They learn Tyra. But that's Tyra and this is real life. A guy once came over to me. I was I don't even want to say where it was. I I was speaking somewhere and he came over to me afterwards and he said, "You know, you speak very nicely, but I got to tell you something. I'm also a speaker. I speak about I'm not going to say what he speaks about, but it was a very specific like niche expertise." He's like, "You know the difference between me and you?" It's the same thing I told my rabbi. I told my rabbi, "You speak about spirituality. I speak about reality." And I said to him, if you're a believing Jew, why would you make such a distinction as if spirituality were something separate from reality? >> Practicality. >> Spirituality before practical, but not as a negation of practicality, but that that is the ultimate practicality. Yes, that's the reality. Okay. Um when he's in a in the right environment. So he acts like that, but then when he goes to work or he goes out in the street or wherever then he's going to behave like the world. Got to you flip the page. You got to flip the page. I'll stall it. So when he's in the tiva, he acts like beautiful and then it's the way to the way to live. And then he goes out, he leaves the base medish and he goes into the world. Then he flips the switch and now he's into but rather it is required that all of his conduct no matter where he is everywhere should be according to only according to The Reb clarifies here. We're not talking about prohibitions. We're not saying this guy leaves the base and starts sinning. God forbid. That's not what we mean. That's obvious that we're not talking about sinning. That what you're not allowed to do according to you're not allowed to do. But rather, what are we talking about? even in permissible things, things that you're allowed to do. You don't have to do it in a manner of or what the Reb calls. Remember we spoke about that. That's right. So, don't be a homeowner. What's so wrong about a homeowner? That has deeper connotations than that. No matter where you are, what you're doing, even if it's not overtly a religious task, you have to do it in a way. Okay? Ayo. Is that a song? I don't know. I don't know. Music. What is it? You know where it's from? >> It's from TM. Very good. >> Is that what it is? >> Nobody can hear you. You have to come to the mic. Okay. So, David said, "My tears were my food day and night. when they would say to me all day long, "Where is your God?" People taunting David Malik saying, "Where is your God?" And it made David do sad and he would cry. And he was crying day and night and couldn't couldn't eat. He was just he wasn't eating his tears. But what it means is when you lo you lose your appetite because you're so sad. I believe that's what it means. Okay. So, what is this talking about? of my tears are my food night and day. He was so embittered until he has tears instead of in place of food. Mirros that he had tears instead of instead of food like it's known about bitterness emotional bitter bitterness. It causes you to lose your appetite. You don't feel hunger is the kite. And what caused what was the cause of David's bitterness? He says right there in the later in the same verse when people would say to me or rather um mila means from above it was being he was hearing the divine call all day. That's the emphasis. Where is your God? Okay, we're going to have to break this down and explain that. What does that mean? That's a specific way of referring to Hashem. Specifically means your and your life force. It's the elus the kite which enliven and is but who is your life force is well we're going to explain is it transcends time and space it's above what we call the system of the worlds the system of creation And yet that transcendent God which is above time and space comes down into time and space and becomes your life force. And even more than that, like it says in the first of the issier than names is the highest name, but is higher than names. The essence of God, whoever I am, as I transcend names, the loftiest essence of Hashem comes down into Havaya, the highest name, which is still transcendent above time and space, but that comes down into your your life force. And that's what it means. The demand that David was hearing, where is your God all day long? all day long that is do you have that feeling of becomes [clears throat] becomes that the loftiest most transcendent indescribable levels of Hashem's essence are what is ultimately your imminent life force that you are animated by and that you feel and you relate to. You might say, "Well, sometimes I feel that way." No, no, no. all day long. You should feel that. this that you feel that Hashem is your life force while you're ding while you're learning nice or if you have it during a also okay great but like the Reb says like that's that's the minimum learning times of a okay that's that's bare minimum that's not the If that's what what Hashem wanted to accomplish, he could have accomplished that with angels or with souls that are in heaven. But however, the fact that Hashem took your precious and put it in a body is of was for the sake of refining the body and refining the animal soul. Because we have this very common uh concept in the itself is pure and holy and pristine and perfect. It itself needs no tikun. So why did it come down? Not for its own rectification for what it can contribute by refining the body and the animal soul and by extension the physical world. quote unquote secular parts or mundane parts of life. So if you're going to tell me you're only feeling the herish of Havaya is alo while you're in a holy environment like daving learning and fabanging then what was the point? Then Hashem could have accomplished that with spiritual entities like souls and angels that stay in heaven. But Hashem sent your nom into a body to be part of the world and to have an effect on the world. Which means you have to feel that the transcendent God is your life force. Even when you're doing things that are overtly secular, but they're not really secular because you're bringing your herish into those things by Montgion all day long when he eats, when he drinks. By the way, we have bagels and locks here at Solward's house. As always, as per usual, come join us. If you wash at your house and have in mind that you're going to continue here, you can bench here. You just have to eat a kazas of bagel when you're here. Bish handled when he eats and drinks when he does business mention when he speaks with people. He should feel that his life force that's animating him is Hashem just like uh he feels it during prayer and uh learning. Okay, that was a short that's from Shabas Mikiniml. I'll tell you a a pale shav I saw this in a safer of vishnitra we know the famous gum from tinus why do labavers all know because the famous of yankino were having a meal and one said tell me and he said yash but then later on he He he finished his food and he told him our father did not die. At any rate, what does she don't speak in a meal? Maybe you'll open up first your airpipe, your trachea leaves before your uh esophagus and then you'll choke on the food. So I saw in a vision it's a uh safer that you don't speak while you're learning. meaning you speak to but you don't like speak conversations like while you're we have like a cafer open in front of you also you don't speak while you're doing you know like the signs all say in all the sh um so you don't speak while you're in the middle of ding you don't speak while in the middle of learning but what about eating yeah why not eating isn't you know anything special it's not you can speak while you eat no no don't have casual conversation during a suda suda is just as holy as doving and learning And if you have that attitude, what are you doing? Yakim means giving, giving priority. You are prioritizing the a of the kona of the windpipe, meaning the coyra, the coy over the aid of the vash, the aveda that you do with the esophagus when you eat food. Okay, just a little pale [snorts] shto and uh right next [cough] [clears throat] dollar. Okay, this sika is super super short. Mish, I think this is I know this is the shortest Sikha that we've had this year since we started. Okay. Second neat land in the is there are people who argue that because this is called it is called nister nister means hidden so let it stay hidden this is what they argue they say let it stay hidden we don't have to teach it [laughter] so what do we answer these people who say [clears throat] should stay hidden if it's hidden if it's nister let it stay nister shas mountain hutman the time of the revelation. The entire TA was given both the revealed and the concealed. to the country. says to the contrary, even what we call nigla, the revealed was hidden because we know that the there are 620 letters on the in the ten commandments on the two uh tablets. 620 is a hint to 613 biblical commandments. Seven rabbitic commandments. You know the seven rebbitic commandments. It's always hard to remember, but let me put myself on the spot. What? Chabas candles. It's one. What? >> Yeah. Mana. Yeah. When you say mana, you could also say migilla. Okay. Yeah. No. Halalim. We're up to six. What's the seventh? These are all mitzvah that you say that's mitzvah. These are all things that you say. Hashem commanded us even though it's not the the commandment is not explicitly in Tory. What's the seventh one? What is the seventh one? Got to Google it. Shabasa scandals. Natayim McGill Manraal >> Adov. Oh bra. Yeah. Yeah. All y Yeah. Yeah. Is that what it is? Yeah. Okay. At any rate, so think about like this. There are 620 letters in the set of dibus 613 biblical commandments, seven uh rabbitic commandments. That's 620. So basically the entire Tyra all 620 by the way 620 is a big casser which is Hashem's rot encompasses 620 distinct commandments but all of that was encoded in this in the in other words even what we came to know as nigla revealed to was not always revealed it was encoded in a hidden format in the asetas where the 620 letters of hint to all of the mitzvah even though they weren't yet revealed. Yeah. Said that. Yeah. Oh, is gan binigla. And yet in contrast, ironically, what we call nister was nigla. What we call concealed, meaning the spiritual stuff was actually at that moment revealed. What does that mean? And because all the Eden at that moment of mira saw what we call the chariot is unedited in PK like it is explicitly described in the PK alon shonavas nasher aron is pum like it's hinted to in in in the word the the verse from Tillum where it says that Hashem's chariot has myriads upon myriads of lofty angels. Shinnon are lofty angels and Shinnon is Sh the axe. Peshar the face of the ax. Nasher, the face of the eagle. Ary pra, the face of the lion. Um, and then the nun refers to the podum and the whole thing collectively. By the way, we have a huska. I mentioned we're doing sema ram tomorrow night in Pimona. But then there's the hcala. Everyone makes a hcala of ram. So we'll do the hakdama and then after the mishna you'll get into and over there in the ra will tell you about it'll tell you that this is secrets of the celestial chariot. So and he and he says that not everybody learned it and it was a secret. It was only transmitted to people who were already great scholars. But the point is at the moment of the giving of the Tyra that which is normally hidden the the secrets of the celestial chariot were revealed for everyone to behold. Which is so what we call revealed is concealed. Sometimes what we call concealed is revealed. Everything is relative. Anything can happen. Okay, that was a very very short and that was from Shabas Parasik. No, no, I'm sorry. That previous one was Parish Mik Shabas uh not Shabasim. Makes sense that that was a because um first of all talking about man but also the ha of is the marova the vision of the celestial chariot. Okay, third sika. We're on page 150. Ice. We're on the third Sikha. Also a short short is here today. Okay, [sighs] let me take a little drink. Those who are opposed to studying generally have two arguments. If it's so important, how come it didn't always exist? is and if we could have survived so long we live we last so long without it. So that's a proof that's not necessary. Okay. So that's one argument. The argument that it's new if it were so important we would have always had it. And the fact that we didn't always had it and we were fine without it just like I didn't have it before. Just like my granddaddy didn't have it, I don't have it. Okay. Base. The other argument people make studying nullifies. I'm going to try to translate these terms accurately. Gashim means physicality. Yash means existence. But what we mean here is that it's going to get you so spiritual that you're going to be like, "Oh, hey Nade Mvad, there's nothing nothing is real. It's all it's all just elocus." So we don't want to mix you up like that. We don't want to take you away from reality, basically. So those are the two arguments. One is I don't need anything new. Leave me alone. The other is I'm going to learn to say this and uh it's going to take me away from the regular real day-to-day world. Okay. So the answer is says in the safer of the sicknesses and physical medicines. You know that Ram was a doctor. You know, I dab at the 7:30 a.m. minion at Kabad of the five towns. That's my that's my uh mock since I was saying kadesh 11 months for my father and now I'm saying for my mother and my mother's schlash was tonight as I mentioned. So there's a yid there who I I mean I'm at the om because I'm I have to uh I'm kazen. So there's a yid there. Davin's in the front row right next to me. Dr. Shakar who you know ta yid and I see that after ding he likes to finish his kitas. He's the one who brings in the cayenos and shul also. So he likes to finish before he uh packs up and heads to his uh his his practice. So, I noticed that his phone is constantly ringing. I thought my phone constantly rings. His phone rings even more than mine. And he answers the phone. It's like I don't hear the people on the other line, but I hear him saying, "Okay, so take this, take that. Okay, I'll call it into the pharmacy." Okay. Yeah. All right. Um, and he's dealing with all this stuff and and I and he's trying to he's just trying to learn and he's answering all these calls and he's he's dealing with all these people have little problems, big problems. I don't know. So I I said to him, I said, "Dr. Shakar, thank you so much because you have given me the ability to appreciate a little bit who the Rambam was." [laughter] Cuz the Rambam, we know, he writes about it, he had this crazy hectic schedule working as the physician for the Sultan in in uh Egypt. and that nevertheless he was Isaac Toyota he he wrote the mission of Toyo but it's hard to imagine that I said so you give me a little ma you give me a little glimmer of that and I get to sort of imagine what it means because I see uh trying to trying to learn and in between learning he's he's answering uh calls okay [sighs] so then was a doctor. He said just like there are physical ailments with physical cures, there are spiritual ailments and cures. very interesting premise that EB is setting forth. It's understood from this that we can understand many principles that apply to physical illness and healing as they apply to spiritual illness and healing. Now there was sort of like mushel and nimshell sort of um without spoiling it because I don't want to give too much away but some you know there's a concept which is a but it literally means for my flesh I see God. What it means is sometimes you can study something in this world and it gives us insight into the way things are spiritually. You had you hear what we're saying? Okay. Fine. Um, yeah. Oh, do we flip the No, we don't flip the page yet. Okay. An illness in general, if you want to simplify it, means that you have a situation where, god forbid, a particular part of the body is either lacking or or damaged. It's not functioning properly. Kai says felt gished and goof. There's a specific illness however an illness that we generally many people avoid naming even and I was going to actually refer to that nothing's lacking in the body. Generally an illness is something's missing or its functionality is missing. It's not doing what it normally does. But there's a specific illness where there's nothing lacking, nothing's missing. To the contrary, as flesh, there's flesh that's added, that's growing. There are there there are extra cells, so to speak. Not so to speak, literally. Everyone understands what we're saying? Talking about an illness where it's not that there's a piece missing. There's actually extra stuff growing. that there's an extra piece of flesh. Nothing's lacking that's supposed to be there. It's just there's a little extra that's not usually there. Nevertheless, it's a serious illness. aggressor. Not only is it an illness, but it's even sometimes more serious than an illness where something is missing from the body. And it's so serious that people don't even want to mention it by name. They call it yanla, that illness. They don't even want to mention it by name. But you understand what the deb is saying. Normally an illness something's missing. Here something is extra. The additional growth of flesh is harmful where it is located. It can also spread further. on kiten just like this illness is different than other illnesses so to its cure is different from other illnesses it's an unusual type of illness it's a growth it's extra illness is usually something negative meaning it's missing I don't mean negative like bad negative like something is lacking that's normally there is a positive I don't mean positive like good but I mean like there's more there than supposed to be there. So because this mah is different than all other makasan, so too its cure is different than other cures. mention normally a healing entails giving something adding something to the person. Mitten emis but here in contrast the cure for this illness involves disrupting or opposing the growth and through that the person becomes well. So normally person's lacking growth and so we have to instigate or encourage growth. Here it's the opposite. There's too much growth and we're trying to stop it. We're trying to put a, you know, put a limit on it. Cap it off. Get it to [snorts] stop. [laughter] Got your finger on the button. The method of healing this illness was only discovered a few generations ago. And the specific applications of how to do it was even found later than that. And in fact, we're still in the middle of research. It's not something that is uh it's not resolved yet. Although I just saw last week some team stopped pancreatic cancer in mice and it may actually have been the discovery of a cure for pancreatic cancer. At any rate, um the point is it's a unique illness that operates differently than all other illnesses. The cure is a unique cure that operates differently than all other cures. And it was only discovered very recently. Flip the page. Oh, you flipped it already. Okay. On the top of page 151. Now it's understood if somebody doesn't want to use these this method of healing and he's going to argue. Hold on. Healing is supposed to develop the body and strengthen the body. it shouldn't break things down. So that's one argument the person might make. I mean the Reb doesn't use these words. So I want to be careful that everyone understands I'm adding these specific terms. But like let's say somebody wants to say and I know I'm going to get feedback from people who are into alternative health and things like that. Um and I'm not giving medical advice. I'm just learning a right now and it's all a mush for this anyway. But the Eb says here, if someone were to say, I don't want to take chemotherapy, that'll break cells down. That that that opposes growth. I don't want to take radiation. These things, they actually they they they weaken you. So, it's like, yeah, but here here's the thing. Something's growing and is too strong and too active that shouldn't be there. these things, knock them out and get rid of them. So, it would be weird for a person to argue that they don't want to use those they don't want to use those uh treatments. I should mention not to make this about me, but my mother whose schlim is tonight. 12 years ago, she was given less than two years to live. By the first time she was diagnosed already, it was stage four. Started in her lungs, went to her brain. She had to have emergency brain surgery over 10 years ago. And they told her that that's it. You know, it's so far gone. And she lived another 10 years beyond her the longest amount of time they gave her. And during those 10 years, she traveled and she took walks every day. and she attended shiim and she attended simkas and she married off two grandchildren. She was at the kupa and she met three great grandchildren who she got to hold. She was very active until Mamish the last month or two she slowed down but she was very active and that was all 10 years beyond her what they told her was the longest amount of time she could live and I just want to mention it's obviously because of her bet and she had incredible positivity and faith and she was always positive positive positive she also listened to the doctors she had a great oncologist and she took the treatment that the oncologist uh advised she did chemo she did radiation. It wasn't fun. But um just mentioning the combination between beten and uh following doctor's orders, which is from seems to be the deba's approach. Okay. At any rate, because I know I'm going to get feedback from people who are going to say, well, I I wouldn't listen to the doctors when they say that these are the treatments. So it says that EBA a person wouldn't say I don't want to do take a treatment that's going to make things not grow. I want treatment that'll make things grow. We say no no no here the problem is too much is growing. We got to stop it from growing base. The second thing is another argument a person would would be silly for him to make would be that since these treatments didn't exist for so many generations now these New doctors are coming along with their new treatments. Nah, I'm Sam Saposnik. I'll translate that in a second. I don't want to listen to these new doctors. So what is Sam Saposnik? Samosnik is Russian for I myself am a shoemaker. It's an expression that Ebi used many many times. Beitzer the story is that the Casc used to come and loot Jewish neighborhoods and then basically it was a was a game. That's how they would make money. You'd have to buy back your own stuff. And you have to pretend that you don't know they stole it from you. Otherwise, they they'll get offended. You know, they're violent people. So, Samy had his fillin stolen in a in a raid. And he found the Kasak who was selling his fillin, and he asked him how much to buy the fillin. And the coc told him a price, however many rubble, and he says it was exorbitant. He said that, you know, aren't you ashamed of yourself charging that much money for something that you didn't even make? It's not even yours. And the cosc feains indignance and he says, "Excuse me, sir. Yes, I'm a pushnik. I myself am a shoe maker." He thought that filling the leather boxes were some type of, you know, cobblers material, you know, leather, I guess. So that that the the punchline of that story Samapnik means somebody who's pretending that he knows what he's talking about and he's completely clueless. By the way, when chat GPT became available, I started using it probably a couple years ago already. And so I asked the chat GPT about Sam Saposnik because I started to realize that chat GPT is a big bluffer. It just makes stuff up super confidently. So I said, "Chad GPT, you are Sam Saposnik." And you know it said something like, "Yes." I'm like, "Do you know what Sam Saposnik even is?" It says, "Yes." I was like, "Tell me the story of Sam Spagenik." And it made up this elaborate long story where the punchline was, "I myself am a shoemaker cuz it knows how to translate the Russian, but had nothing to do with the original story." I said, "Chad GPT, that itself is the biggest evidence and example of some supposing that you're bluffing me with total confidence. Straight face straight face. It's an AI, but like you're saying it so blindly as if it's a real story and it's totally made up and you're saying it like I'm supposed with it's also called the Dunning Krueger effect. The people who are the most ignorant have the most confidence in their knowledge. At any rate, so the person is Sam Saposnik, he's going to say, "They didn't have these treatments for cancer when my grandfather was around, so I'm not going to use something that's new. I don't need new fangled stuff." When is this from, by the way? It's from Yudgiml Thomas base from 1952, the summer of 1952. So you think about where cancer treatment was in 1952. Okay. At any rate, so it would be rather silly if someone would say if it' be a Sam Saposnik and say, "I'm not going to do these new treatments. They didn't exist for in the old days, in the good old days." Any anyone understands that these arguments are not valid arguments. The guy who says, "I don't want to do something that's going to weaken me or weaken parts of my body. I only I only want to do things that will foster growth and make more growth. So that would be silly. Also, someone says, I don't want to do a new treatment. I only want to do the treatments that existed a thousand years ago. Okay, that would also be silly. The thing that you're trying to develop and strengthen is the healthy part of the body. tail but not this extra additional growth because it's actually not a proper part of the body. It's not supposed to be there. But to the contrary, it is mazic. It's damaging. It's bad for the body. So you have to oppose it. You have to eliminate it. A mole is often that makes an observation. In the past, this particular illness was not as common as today. Now, you're going to say it's the additives in the food. It's the pollution. It's I don't know. It could be a lot of things. Could be a lot of things. But we're talking about spiritually here. It's an interesting phenomenon that there's more cancer today than there was a hundred years ago. Okay? And the Reb is saying this in 1952 again. So there's more of it today than there used to be. So people didn't search as fervently for a cure because it wasn't as common. Milo Hutman Masmin did a to them and moreover and this is the primary reason the cure hadn't yet been made available from heaven there are different times when Hashem releases new discoveries dagen led but now in the current time remember the speaking in 1952 as the Mah Is that this disease became more common? God forbid made the treatment more available. He made available. Ice test bottom uh column on 151. bottom of the first comma 151 and everything in the physical world derives from its source in the spiritual world. Okay, so remember this whole thing is about a mushel a true mushel. We've spoken about this before in ALF about how a true mushel a mushel is not just comparing one thing to another but it's identifying how one thing coexists simultaneously on two different planes of existence. So when we identify it on the physical level, we are actually uh able to have insight about how that same thing operates in its source on the spiritual plane. How we doing? Okay. Yeah. So too this disease and its cure which are physical phenomena but they they derive from from spiritual phenomena. is this thing that happened in the the last few generations is it's coming from a spiritual phenomenon which is also something that developed in the latest generations. In other words, the fact that we have more of this disease in these generations is because spiritually something has happened in these latest generations. There's a new development spiritually. We are in the footsteps of the footsteps of Mashiach. Mameish holding toward the very end is Kate. very soon will be the end point of the darkness. out of us. So as we're getting toward the very end of gullis, one of the things that happened is Malik, we spoke about a malik last week, doubt, coldness, psychological warfare, or as the Reb calls it here, is insolence. arrogance or self-reliance without reason without explanation without rationale [sighs and gasps] is getting more and more out of hand as we're getting closer to Messiah. Yeah, there always was arrogance. But it wasn't as crass as today. The arrogance that exists today is absolutely a new level of arrogance. So this spiritual clipper of absolutely absurd audacious arrogance came down into the physical world and manifested itself in a physical form. [snorts] It's this thing that grows without any purpose, without any reason. It's illogical. It takes power from the body. As if it were the main thing. Like so ridiculous. This these cancer cells are taking power and life from the body as if the cancer cells are the main organism and the body is just there to serve it. It's it's so preposterous. Like [sighs] any normal parasite knows you keep your host healthy, right? Okay, cancer is absurd because it's like why would you kill your host? Doesn't even make sense. Nor McDonald said I mean he he died of cancer but he said uh that they say that someone lost their battle with cancer. Why do people when they die of cancer say they lost their their battle with cancer? because it seems to me when a person dies of cancer the cancer also dies. I would call that more of a draw. [laughter] So morbid. [gasps] Okay. At any rate, so this this kipa samolik, this absolutely irrational, preposterous, audacious, insolent attitude came down as a physical disease which has the same type of ridiculous attitude. Yeah. form gave us a treatment for it. And Hashem gave us that's the treatment, not for the cancer, for the spiritual cancer. tails which is the chemotherapy so to speak that knocks out this extra growth that shouldn't be there. In other words, you're going to say why didn't we have this in the old days? You know why? Because they didn't have such in the old days. But today where the insolence has increased and insolence here means just the preposterous belief that what you're onlogically independent. You think you could exist separate from God? What a ridiculous notion. You're walking around like like Parra used to say that. Par said, "I made myself. I'm a self-sufficient entity." It's such a philosophically absurd notion. And yet, it's pretty common. That's what the materialists believe. The materialists believe that the world is just here, doesn't need a god, and uh we just exist. It's such an absurd notion. It's literally spiritual cancer. And I guess figuratively, not literally, but like Gen Z calls literal using literal the way that Gen Z literally uses it. Um, so we have the spiritual treatment for that spiritual disease. It's calledis. So you can say this, I want something that's going to build me up and make me feel awesome. It's going to pump up my self-esteem. And we say, well, this is actually going to give you some BL. It's going to uh nullify parts of you. No, no, no. I want to get stronger, not weaker. Don't worry. The parts that the is going to nullify are parts that shouldn't be there. [laughter] Okay. >> [snorts] >> Um, so we said that Last ice. Now it's understood that there's an obvious detail here that does not match the between the mush and the niml in Marshall. aus in the mushel talking about chemo if you do too much of it then it can go overboard and it can damage the healthy part of the body so you want to knock out the cancer but then you end up also god forbid you can't just do it forever and ever can't go overboard with it doc keagen but in contrast with the spiritual version of this which is learning. You can learn and learn and learn and keep learning. It will only damage the arrogance that's not supposed to be there. But the healthy part of your self is only going to be strengthened. It's not going to be damaged. It's only going to get more power as like we say is strength and is weakness. What does that mean? a weakening of the animal soul and a strengthening of the godly soul and that's from base. Okay, that was what our third sa beautiful. All right. H [sighs] such an interesting concept there. I'm sure I will get feedback from many people about that. All right, take a breather. Drink a little more coffee. You saw there's plenty of bagels and locks still. >> People want to head down to the SWAT's house, please come. All right. [sighs] All right. You want to do one more? One more. Okay. We're on page 152. Oh, you already flipped the page. Very good. When did you flip it? I didn't even notice. Magic. Okay, we're on page 152. We have one more. There's also Oh, yeah. We replenished the hot cocoa. Do you remember that? Did we mention it in the share that we ran out of hot cocoa? Yeah. So, we ran out of hot cocoa last week. Because we had a group that used a lot of hot cocoa. Is that what happened? Yeah. >> Cold and snowy. >> It was cold and snowy and they made some hot cocoa which we're very happy about. What's that? Muffins. >> Chocolate chip muffins. [snorts] And we have new hot cocoa. And of course we have bagels and locks and cream cheese. Okay. The fourth. This is from in your tests. Should we do it? Let's do it. Okay. Page 152 at the top. yard site is there are notes from the Reb's father-in-law from the Reb where he writes memories of stories about his grandfather that Abash as well as his grandmother that I've Marsh is rabbitson rabbitifa whose yard site is also yvat the grabb's yard site is yvat and his grandmother rabbit rifka her yard site was also now among these memoirs is a story that's been published already is alg that when she meaning Rabbi was 18 years old, remember this was the wife of the Reb, the fourthbark gazant, she was very sick. Their doctor The doctor told her, "You have to eat as soon as you wake up." She didn't want to eat before doning. Mentions you're not supposed to eat before davening. So what did she do? She got up even earlier than normal so she could davenin earlier and finish the time of dining. finished doving at the time when she'd normally be waking up and then she would eat. She did a trick. She ate at the same time that she normally woke up because she woke up earlier, davened, finisheding and then ate. And that way she was officially following doctor's orders, but not really. So that way she didn't eat before davening, but she ate early. is understood, however, that this not only did not improve her health, but it caused her to miss sleep. She wasn't getting enough sleep. So, it wasn't really a very helpful approach. So the told her who is the to her remember she was married to the Marashbash was the seventh son of the sadik. So the sadic was her father-in-law. So the saddic said tokah father-in-law said to the daughter-in-law a Jew has to be healthy and strong regarding the mitzvah it says and you should live with them meaning you should be healthy you should live mitzvah shouldn't weaken you should be healthy so that you can do more mitzvah do them is and what does it mean? It's like the the mag said mentioned in the mimer as in mitzvah in order to be we're talking about the the mimer the rebba said by the way I mentioned before we started this that this was so that the rebba set a mimer at every fabangan Especially the mimer was always bosani. So when the reb says in the like we said in the mimer the reb means the mimer that was set at that same fabangan. So if you look up the bosani mimer from tshin test which is the we're learning is from that fabangan. So the Reb brings in this saying from the mag [snorts] that means a it's words from from but means that you have to bring into your mitzvah. Bring vitality bring uh energy into your mitzvah. Yeah. Um, and in order to do that, you have to be strong and you have to be happy. So you you might say, I don't need to be strong. I don't need to be happy. Yeah, but to needs you to be because in order to do the mitzvah properly investing into your mitzvah, you're going to have to be strong and happy. Even if you don't feel like being strong and happy, I don't mind. I'll be weak. Okay, you don't mind. But needs you to be strong and happy so you do the mitzvah properly. So the said then he concluded to her and he said, You shouldn't basically do it on on an empty stomach. It is better to eat in order to daven than to daven in order to eat. That's what he said. Now he was giving her practical advice obviously literally you should better eat get up in the morning eat and after you eat then go davin even though says not to eat before davening better though you should do that than to get up in the morning and davin and the whole purpose of your ding is so you can get dinging over with so then you can go eat. All of the stories have to do with the with the especially ones that were transmitted generation after generation. They're not just stories. The fact that these stories were transmitted gener generation after generation means that they're they're talking to us. They're not just interesting stories. They're they're teaching us something upline that you the listener should learn from it. You should emulate it. What does that mean? You see the little stars? Okay. Little three little stars, little asterisks. So right after that second column on 152 certain people's uh stuff that people do basically breaks down into two categories. There's the stuff you do for God like learning to do [snorts] mitzvah based in the second category things you do for yourself. [snorts] is the nightion as far things that are either really genuinely necessary or things that appear necessary needs or things that you think are your needs. Okay, so two categories things you do for God, things you do for yourself. is another way to name those categories is is is praying and eating. Things you do for God will collectively call them prayer. Things you do for yourself, we'll collectively call them eating. Obviously, eating isn't the only thing that you do because you need to do it, but it's sort of the archetypical thing. So, we have two categories of life. The dining category and the eating category. First thing is dvening. Ding means turning to connecting with knowing before whom you stand mean before the king of all kings. The holy and blessed be he. Isen. Then the second category is called asen eating. Everything he needs he he hungers for. It doesn't mean necessarily physical hunger. It doesn't ne necessarily mean physical eating, but it means different needs. When he gets what he needs, then he quiets his hunger. He fulfills his needs. Now there are various different methods or manners that one can din and different manners in which one can eat. It's not all the same. The different approaches as kenzyme and as the dement is sushbolt sushbolan. It could be where a person is split. He has a dichotomy, a rift, a schism. They're two distinct separate categories and never the twin shall meet. He has his ding and he has his eating. Two completely separate areas of life and there's no relationship between them. while he's involved in his spiritual life and he's learning there's zero connection to his physical life and you could think looking at him while he's in his spiritual mode he's a complete sadic but when he's involved later in physical things Whether it's business or literally eating, we called the whole category eating which could include doing business. So it could be business or literal eating is absolutely not recognizable in him any trace of holiness, of spirituality, of refinement. when you saw the guy Daviding, he looked mish like a tad gummer because that was that world. But then you see him in his uh business setting, he doesn't even look like a yuavins. Well, how can it be the same guy? Why? cuz this was this that was that you know the famous story Yasanov comes uh he the the rabbi gives a mad chuvaton rabbi gives this really moving sermon about doing chuva and so yanov comes to the rabbi's house he say rabbi you gave such a moving sermon about chuva I have to do chasanov he's the town thief so he has to do chuva he says I have I came to do chuva doing chovva and here's all the stuff that I stole and uh I'm doing chova and he leaves and like an hour later the rabbi looks for his he wants to know what time it is. He looks for his watch and his watch is gone. He's like, "Oh my gosh, no, don't say it ain't so." And he goes to Ysel's house. He knows where he lives. Everyone knows Yel the Ghana. It's a little The rabbi knocks on his door and Yasel says, "Hello." He says, "Yussel, please tell me it ain't so. You came to my house. You pickpocketed me in my house. He took my watch. He's like, "Yeah." He says, "Yes, so you told me you were doing chuva." He says, "Yes, Rabbi, I did chuva." He says, "And I don't understand. How'd you pickpocket me?" He says, "Rabbi, chuva is chova and business is business." Mamish, two separate worlds. Chovva is chova, pure chova. But then business is business. Okay. He also business happened to be something that's forbidden. We're not even talking about something that's forbidden. We're saying though that it could be that when he's in his essin category of life, he's acting completely secular. Not that he's doing things that are forbidden, God forbid, but you don't recognize that this is a holy person. When he was doining, he looked like a sadic. Okay? So for him, there's a complete separation between the asen category and the dominant category of his life. is regarding this approach. We're going to use the words of our sages which they often use. Are we dealing with fools or we do not concern ourselves uh we're not talking about wicked people? meaning to say that I was saying yes such an approach exists but I'm not even going to dignify that with a response. I'm not talking about that like I'm not here to clarify don't be like that cuz everybody knows that that's not a way to be. It's not good to have that complete dichotomy and split. Okay. So now we're going to talk about some other approaches how people um view their and their dominant parts of life. Another another way another approach is that his and are connected. It's not split like the other guy. No, no, no. They're connected. And he looks in he looks in to to to guide him how he should behave. But what's the connection between ornas or the dominant part of his life and the practical essent part of his life. The connection is that one thing is for the sake of the other. In other words, he uses the spirituality for the sake of the physicality. He uses the dominant for the sake of the says that means since he realizes that unfortunately he can't get around God. He's got to come to God. God's got all the goodies. You're going to have to deal with him sooner or later. the and the way to get from God what you want is like it says if you go in my statutes I will give you rain in its time. So he does what God wants. What can he do? He's held hostage. Canon so that later he can come to Hashem with his note with his promisory note his IOU and he can collect for what Hashem owes him for his domining the gamor Yeah. The says if a person will will declare I'm going to give this amount of charity so that my son shall live. He still call it meaning it's okay to do that. inc. So the says all right so it's a legitimate approach in Yiddish kite to say I will do spiritual things so that Hashem will then repay me with physical things. It is it's a valid approach within Yiddish. Yeah, Rashi actually does say over there that this is not talking about a one-off. This is someone who will regularly give to he'll continue giving is but even in the in in the in the ideal situation under this rubric where he does consistently give stalker it's not a one-time thing he gives stalker consistently nevertheless says that Eb since his whole motivation was self-s serving he had a pia he had an ulterior motive this this is clearly not the the ultimate level Yes, you're right. The says you should learn and do mitzvah even not for its own sake. But in that same saying of our sages, it completes the thought and says in order that you should ultimately eventually come to doing mitzvah and learning ta for their own sake. So in other words, this level we talk about two levels. One level is spirituality and physicality are completely separate worlds. Davin and Essen are two completely separate worlds for him. And the de says I'm not even going to address that. Obviously that's not a way to be. The second category we just spoke about David and Esen are connected. He uses the David. He uses spirituality so he can collect from Hashem on the things that he wants. And we said look there there's a basis for it in the Gora like a guy who says I'll give charity so that my son will live. So I guess it's a valid approach but it's clearly not the ultimate approach. Um yeah is let's talk about the desirable the ultimate level the ideal level that obviously we want to at least aspire to shouldn't be two separate things and it shouldn't be that doin is for the sake of nor but rather as eating for prayer not prayer for eating eating for prayer. What does that mean? is a ding you have to do because you have to not for the sake of something else for its own sake because he davins that's obvious when a person knows that Hashem wants him to learn to and do mitzvah. So it's unthinkable. He can't even imagine of doing anything different than what Hashem commanded. Obviously, you have to do it not for the sake of anything that it gets you, but just cuz that's what Hashem wants. You do what Hashem wants. Therefore, heavens not for the sake of receiving a a reward, right? Like it says in office, don't be like the servants who serve the master for the sake of receiving rewards just not not for any payment does it because that's what Hashem commanded. He doesn't ask is he going to get the world to come paradise spiritual reward and certainly how much more so he doesn't ask if he's going to get material reward you follow that the Reb says the person who davs for the sake of dinging he doesn't even expect spiritual payoff so certainly He doesn't expect material payoff cuz sometimes people do the what we call uh David essin but it's not the grub form of ess. It's the what we call spiritual materialism. Materialism stam materialism is you know the amassing of uh physical resources because that's all you care about. And then there's spiritual materialism where a person amasses uh spiritual reward like one would like a materialist would amass material resources. So it could be a person who is actually doing a dominant tulib essin approach but the quote unquote essin is not literal physical reward it's spiritual reward. So it says the EBA the ideal approach is not even that the ideal approach is you davin in order to daven you learn in order to learn do mitzvah in order to do mitzvah not to receive even a spiritual reward and how much more so not to receive a physical reward is but this is still not enough. is there's another element here that needs to be included. Not enough that he does the spiritual stuff for its own sake. But now even more than that, he does the physical stuff not for its own sake. He does the physical stuff only for the sake of serving the spiritual goals. Like King Solomon in his wisdom said, you should know Hashem in all of your ways. That means all of your ways. Even your secular and mundane stuff ultimately doesn't remain secular and mundane because even that is for the sake of bolstering your spiritual life. in Dan Broad Street. [laughter] This is English [snorts] in bracket. Bracket was in uh uh [clears throat] Fu fufic pretent tax Texas. So this Yeah, there's a lot of English stuff here. This that um he's going to be in I think it's called Don and Broad Street. Maybe you Google that for me. You'll see if it still exists. Don and Broad Street. He's gonna be he's gonna have a high rating in Dun and Broad Street and uh what it still exists. D >> unn Brad >> Brad Street. Okay. >> Business rating. >> Okay. What is it? >> What? P A Y E. >> I don't even know what that is. Okay. Or he's going to be in the 95% tax bracket. I think the tax laws have radically changed since the 50s. >> UN. >> Yeah. I never got one for soul words. Okay. Yeah. This is from 1959. Yeah. There used to be a 95% tax bracket. People don't realize this. There used to be I don't know the whole history of the tax codes but in 1959 at least there was a certain um amount of money maybe Google it 1959 what was the 95% tax bracket at a certain point you would pay 95% taxes on your wealth. So like let's say like the first million was one rate and then the next million was like this crazy 95%. Yeah. So you know the the Rockefellers and the and the like whoever the >> 1959% >> oh 19 just let me just repeat this in 19 this is from Google 1959 the top rate was 91%. >> Contrary to popular this did not apply all income. Contrary to popular belief, this rate did not apply to all income. Right? Only income >> over a specific >> high threshold. Okay. >> Income threshold over $200,000. >> Oh my gosh. So in 1959, the 95% tax rate applied to married couples making over $200,000 a year, which would be equivalent to 2 million today. So after two $2 million you're going to pay 95%. Okay. That 91%. Okay. Fine. Yes. And that was in the good old days in the Eisenhower days. >> Today top marginal rate much lower. >> Top marginal rate today is 37%. Okay. So just letting you know I don't have a dog in this race. I'm not I'm certainly not educated in this. I'm just mentioning that the prosperous good old days, the Eisenhower days when people uh worked at a shoe store and uh had two car garages, um they uh there was a 91% tax rate on super wealthy. Oh, the United Kingdom had a literal 95% super tax. Okay. So, the ultimate purpose of life is not to be in Dun and Brad Street to have a high rating in Dun and Brad Street or to be in the 95% tax bracket. That's not the purpose of life norad, but rather that everything should be for the sake of the purpose of life. So you could learn with a with tranquility and you can do mitzvah with a broad prosperous way and giving generous. That's the purpose of life and not to be satisfied just that you are doing these things but actually to help others to facilitate that others should do it as well. is that through being a rich guy, it will actually help you to influence others. It's easier to influence others. You ever noticed that the rich guys people listen to them? No, you see says the deba with poor people people laugh at them but rich guys people imitate them right that's the difference between crazy and eccentric same behavior if a a poor guy does it it's called crazy if a rich guy does it it's called eccentric so how much more so if a rich guy does something that's good a rich guy does something that's weird people will rationalize it and and say it was good. But so how much more so if a rich guy does something that actually is good, people will imitate it. So a rich guy has a lot of influences. So it's good to be rich because then you can influence people. Shabas, hitting Shabas. When the rich guy keeps shabas, everyone's also going to say, "Oh, maybe I should keep Shabastov Shabas." Because people are going to say, "Why did he become rich?" Because he kept Shabas. Obviously, that's not the reason why keep Shabas. But the ver knows that part of his um responsibility of being a wealthy person is that he has this influence on others. When he starts putting on then other people start putting fill in. If you are wealthy, what's wealthy? In 1959, it meant you had a combined income of over $200,000 in your household. And you should all said that's equivalent to $2 million today. I'm going to just say this for fun. If your collective household income is more than $2 million a year, you must put on Robo Toms. Cuz if you do, [clears throat] other people are going to start putting on Robo Toms. matzah bakery baker. So you're going to put on a benams, other people going to put on. If you're going to eat matzah, then everyone, even the simple bakeries are going to have to switch over to matzah. And that's what it means. Eating for the sake of praying that your physical life serves your spiritual life. that that all of his physical stuff which we call collectively his essin should be for the sake of bolstering of serving of infusing the adding extra life force into his what we collectively call his dominance. in which means not just prayer but all the spiritual stuff domining and learning and doing mitzvah. [laughter] Oh, we forgot to flip the page because we were looking up uh Don and Brad Street. Okay, excellent. Last page. >> This is the last page. Yeah. Yeah. So, we're in the bottom of the column on page 154, first column. Now there's another level here that we can extract from this story and it has to do with the detail that in the story the the person who was given this advice was a woman a mother a mother of a future reb is and here is the teaching you understand so far we have one basic idea. It's better to eat for the sake of praying than pray for the sake of eating. Which means that the ultimate level is where you incorporate your physicality into your spirituality. Not like those who use spirituality in order to get physicality, but they use their physicality in order to enhance their spirituality. Like we gave the example, the person who's wealthy and he puts in rebeno toms and gets other people to put on rebotoms. And everyone here could figure out different ways where that applies. Um, you know, there are all types of physical resources and creature comforts that if you're doing something spiritual that you can incorporate those things into enhancing your spiritual life. Um classic uh example is uh I don't know if it's classic but in my mind it is that Pinasis had the biggest biggest house in Schlov and he was so he wasn't into houses he wasn't into nice stuff and he wanted to downsize and the alter wouldn't let him he said no no no you you're my I need you to have have the nicest house in Schllo because your having the nicest house in Schllov causes so much benefit spiritual benefit to the community because when people have to make a meeting a town meeting they have to meet in your house and then because it's your house you end up having an influence and it ends up increasing the spiritual level incl but now we're going to go into another detail and has to do specifically the fact that the person in the story who was given this instruction ction was a woman was raisin. When you want to raise children who are not people who use spirituality to get physicality and not people for whom spirituality and physicality are two separate worlds, but rather the ideal level where they use physicality to enhance the spirituality which we just explained is the the the ideal level. If you want children to do that, if you want to raise children who are going to be that way is it depends on the mother. No pressure ladies. She should behave that way and she should infuse that spirit into the children from their very youngest years on vigil while they're still in the cradle. They should infuse, the mother should infuse in the children, even when they're in the crib. This um this feeling that everything we do is for the sake of cleaving to Hashem. And if you don't have that spirituality, then even if you have all the essence, all the physical comforts, it doesn't have any taste. lacks taste. There's two ways to read this. Tom can mean taste. It also mean has no reason. So it's a double meaning here. Like without spirituality for the physicality to serve the physicality even if you have ample physicality, it lacks taste. Meaning you can't really properly enjoy it. Also means it lacks a reason. Like what do you have it for? If it's not for the sake of enhancing spirituality, what what what's it even for? It's just a distraction. It's a disruption. It's extra weight. It's a burden. Ah, but if it's to serve enhanced spirituality, then great. Let's get more of it. And then with that attitude, you will raise children who will go on to be great among the Jewish people. They will have with what to and with what to eat. Meaning they'll have ample spiritual lives and ample material sustenance. and their material life will be the way Hashem wants material life to be. Hashem wants that you should have from his wide full open holy broad hand. Meaning it's not it's there's nothing noble in aseticism in poverty. To the contrary, if you're using your wealth for the sake of spirituality, great. You should have ample wealth. Not just that you have ample blessing in your children, but also the other there's three categories of blessing. So the children should be amply blessed and the health should be amply blessed and the sustenance the parnosa the money should be amply blessed. There should be a lot of material resources. It's not a shame. It's if you're using it for the right stuff it's beautiful. You want to pull up the singing before I finish? Try to find it. Okay. It should be like it says to Mali Malachi. Um, I will pour out upon you blessings without limit. Yeah, it's good to be rich if you're using the wealth for the right reasons. So, Hashem should pour out you, pour out upon you blessings without limit. A house that is blessed spiritually and blessed materially both the father and the mother should have in their children for long healthy happy years. both spiritual and material. It's not a contradiction. You don't have to separate yourself from the physical world to be more holy and spiritual. You have to incorporate the physical into your spirituality. And that is the purpose for which the soul came to the physical plane for its embodiment experience. to incorporate the physical. We've spoken about this many times in it's a recurring theme. I think the first time we had it, we spoke about everything S tells a should listen. We said how can that be is the body. We said because there's something about the body that poses an advantage to the soul. And we've had this theme over and over again. And this is one of the main teachings of Shamv that the physical is where it's at. If it is channeled in the right way. If it's for its own sake, then it's a disaster. But if it's channeled as a way of bringing more kadusha into the world, into the physical world, then then it's not only okay, it's what it's the whole purpose of creation. There you have it. Oh, [sighs] okay. We want to wish everybody ample brahas, unlimited brahas, infinite brahas spiritually and materially and as the material enhances the spiritual. Thank you for joining us again this week. We'll see you mashem next week.