Zohar - Parashat Chayei Sarah - "Body and soul" - Part 6 - Rabbi Alon Anava

[Music] we're in parashat we're gonna be continuing where we left off we're reading from the zorin page 123a last class we flipped pages i didn't mention that but in last previous class we switched the page and now we're going to continue i don't want to repeat what we said the last class so we're not going to waste our time on elaborating on last class but we kind of concluded because we talked last class a little bit difficult to understand with the structure of the sphyrot and so forth but the bottom line of last class was that in order to receive an abundance a shiva from above then all the way of the spheroid has to be open and clean so the energy the life force can come through and reach all the way to the bottom and with that we're just going to continue exactly where we left off and the line starts and again this is a page 123 b said we already explained and and clarified why it says in the torah the word and again let's go back to the text the text sometimes doesn't make sense we mentioned that in the previous class if you're reading through the text and you're not stopping to ask questions something's wrong why does he say hey that's grammatically the translation the two lives of sarah oh why are you telling me that what do you mean two lives well she was a cia agent she had a shadow image another life that nobody knew of she was in one hand a nice wife making cakes in the tent and then on the other night at night she would go and make a secret missions what do you mean she had two lives okay let's see what it says here it is when itzhak was a he went to the akedah we read that last week the kedar was the sacrifice you know how old itzhak was 37 years old and because of this entire encounter that of rama when went to sacrifice itzhak sarah died because somebody know where they're going remember we learned a few classes ago that we asked how come abraham avinu went with one donkey it says we read it every morning when you woke up in the morning and he saddled or he prepared his donkey but they went four guys there well one donkey so if ramaphinu was sitting on the donkey and the rest are walking how come he didn't prepare a donkey for itzhak it was a three day journey you know what it means a three-day journey so we answered that didn't want to give a donkey to it because if sarah would see avraham preparing a donkey to its hug she would ask where are you going what are you going for such a long journey that you're taking a donkey if you're going around the corner you don't need the donkey so if ambulance says to me she's not going to question me my wife is not going to question me where are you going but if i prepare a donkey for a child for a son even though he's 37 she would say whoa whoa whoa where are you taking it so he says no okay no donkey but the satan you know the whole test with akida was a bet in jamaica because uh hashem was bragging to all the angels in the heavens look at my son of rama we know everything that i say he does he's willing to die on kedush hashem on sanctifying my name and hashem was bragging and bragging and bragging so the satan the same came the devil himself and says oh yeah you think he's so good you think he's so great let's see you testing him and asking him to kill his only son that he waited for 100 years so hashem says you think of hama has a problem i'm just going to tell him he's going to jump on the on the donkey without asking any questions that's why it says in the torah him and after the conversation that conversation may ask him so after the conversation or the bit so to say between hashem and as the satan then was tested so what did satan do when he saw that avraham avinu successful he went to sarah and told her you know what i just heard look and he showed her a vision of itzhak on the altar and avraham avinu is about to slaughter him and it says that she saw that and right away she died so of course the text this simple part of the the revealed part of the text is saying that she got shocked oh my god has vision have a heart attack or whatever whatever it is and died amore inner explanation says no she understood that that her husband and her son reached to such a high level that she fulfilled her mission in this world therefore she was ready to leave but nevertheless let's just read again the kevin d mitchell and because it's on the altar was about to be sacrificed sarah died and then it says in the text dikhtiv came back or returned in order to mourn her death and to you how do you say eulogy you eulogize her comes us over and says where did he came from that it says that avraham came back or returned where did he come back from directly to the funeral from the akida and those 37 years from the day that it's hack was born till that moment that it was you know he was on the altar these 37 years were the main part of the life of sava because up until then she didn't have a child i don't want to say the word she was miserable but you know what it is for a woman not to have a child everybody around has children and then worse than that avraham avinu goes to the mistress and has a child with her or that wasaba's idea so the zong says the 37 years that it was alive that was her life the highlight of her life more than that it's the same numerical value of the word vayi you and they were right why how did he get to this gematria because u the nude is 20. valve and is a 12 this makes it 32 plus hey hey is the 5 that makes it so there's 37 years of itzhak i mean if you're looking at the text i am hoping you're familiar i'm hoping you're familiar with the text i don't have to tell you where to go and look but it says right you and they were so the word adds up to 37 which is the third 37 years of the life of it so it's kind of saying the peak of saga's life from the age of 90 to the world age 127 that was the peak of her life seeing it grow in his in her home as it says what was the main part of khaya's life from the moment he was born till the moment he was on the altar therefore it says the two lives of sarah it says it in the torah of course to teach you the first life of sarah was from her day she was born till the day she was like alive but the next life that it's talking about from the day it was born till the day he died she died meaning that he was on her on the altar coming to tell you how many years she lived after itzhak was born also it says here it's quoting a book by organa it brings another explanation that it says begin the late lab banning it says that up until that point she was like a dead person because like a woman without kids it's like a dead person she didn't have kids mandela benin because in the book or level 9 says a person that doesn't have kids considered dead comedy where else do we see it we see it with raquel we're going to read about it next week come to me give me a child why that's what it says in the torah if you're not going to give me a child i'm like that person she had life okay so now we explain this little paragraph why it says the two lives of kaya let's continue yehuda rabbi yossi the son of aziz he went on a journey to meet rabbi yossi told to rebecca and he told him please tell me my master. so just as you get the names i know sometimes the nays are confusing we have one side rabbi yossi who is rabbiosi oh he's the son of rabbi ah okay he went to a journey to his rebbe and rabiosi tells rabbi please my master tell me ishama hai parashta he tells him please my master have you heard the uh explanation or the interpretation of this parasha that it's talking about avraham and sarah how the teachers or the sage of the mishnah explained it and interesting it calls it here mary magnita the translation will be the owners of the mishnah now interesting here it doesn't specify here but who's the one who wrote the mishnah rabbi huda right tribute or nothing so maybe it's talking about it says maybe it's the son of a buddha but it must be it doesn't necessarily can be another rebirth but nevertheless he asks him please my rebbe have you heard the interpretation what they said about abraham and sarah who the the authors of the mishnah oh yeah what did they say there oh they said that the interpretation of when it's talking about avraham and sarah it's referring to the neshama amar he answered zakah happy are the ones the fortunate other ones the righteous people in their portion in the world to come now how would you react if you would go to the rabbi and asking a question rabbi uh have you heard this interpretation and they're able to answer you happy are the ones who have a portion in the world to come that's what i asked you i asked you a question why are you telling me that why the this is the path of the torah belibhon the torah is in the hearts of the tzadikim like a wellspring full of water that's again kind of an annoying answer you come to iran but you ask a question he gives you parables or gives you these questions almost like uh you know you have to crack the atom i had once a rabbi like that not my personal rabbi but i would go to him and ask him a question he would answer me with this just like a parable and i'm like i didn't get my answer and i would be embarrassed to tell him i didn't understand what you said so i would go home here you go to answer i didn't get an answer he told me some verse from the torah i don't know what it means and i would be embarrassed to come and tell him you know i didn't understand your answer i asked you a question and you answered me with some fancy term or with a verse or with some quote and i don't know what you're talking about same thing here rabbi yossi goes to the berry and tells him did you hear the interpretation he tells him happy are the ones who have a portion in the world to come rabbi i know they're happy but what's the answer the ones who own the torah meaning that it's like they have a wellspring full of water in their hearts oh really but it's not what i'm asking you they have them even though the sages of the torah conceal it and hide it and they cover what the torah says but because there's so much water you know when that wellspring holds in it so much water you know what happens it bursts and all the water comes out and they go to all directions that's when a wellspring the water comes out now he tells him tashma come and come and listen to what i have to tell you i know i gave you some parables and some fancy answers but let me tell you what i'm trying to say i love you a lot rebecca says i hope you're following the names was the rebbe of riviosi and he tells him come come come i know you didn't get an answer but i love you a lot let me tell you what i mean i will explain to you what the parashat says i know i now tricked you because i'm not joking i mean this is funny how the text is but there was one rabbi i i didn't call him or considered him my rabbi but if i would have a big question i would go and ask him sometimes i would get clear answers sometimes the answer was some parable and i would go out and be like i didn't understand what he's what he wants from me he didn't sit with you for two hours this was not the type of rabbi that you sit and he teaches you for the hours you get maybe 30 seconds he gives you an answer and you leave now we'll figure out what he meant so same thing here comes he answers it with some fancy terms he saw that his face became like what he says come come come i like you i i you i'm very fond of you come and let me tell let me explain to you the parasha and he says as follows [Music] the body of the human after the person dies you know that your body nothing saying it in a not nice way but your body is a piece of mata that's what it is your existence is your soul when a person dies the soul goes out of the body the body falls on the floor they come and bury it and within a few months the worms come and eat it and you become manure of food for the worms and that's it the body decomposes and that's the end of the story i told you already not once or not twice the tsar calls the body a coat it's like a coat you walk out of the house now you're not gonna go without a shirt you put a coat on what does the code do it makes you look distinguished it makes you look nice or handsome or pretty it makes you warm and so forth you can put this pockets in there it can help you carry stuff same thing with the body the soul just gets dressed in a body so he says never considers his body as a role player in this existence and especially in front of an in the individual that is called duma now i don't know how often you follow all the classes that we learn but if you remember a few months ago maybe even more we learned about a certain angel that is in charge of genome you know in our world as the department of health so there's a minister that is in charge of the department of health there's the department of homeland security so there's a minister that is in charge of the homeland security we have the irs so there's the person who's in charge so in the spiritual world there's a place called gehenom this is kind of like the irs and and a few a few other departments that we have but there's a certain angel that he's the minister the angel that is in charge of genome he's called duma so he says that saddikem they don't consider their body any importance to the equation especially when it comes to douma al-shattera until i mean what's important that said the kim they don't care about the body that's a dick lives a spiritual life duma you know who douma is i just told you that's the man who's in charge of genome he also doesn't care about the body he says the body is not here when you come to genome he's not looking for the body the body is in the grave decomposing douma cares about what does he cares about pinkas simana the book that you come with what is the book that you come with i told you already when you go to sleep you go up to the heavens and you write a journal and in this journal you write everything that you did i woke up at 11 15. i wanted to wake up at 6 00 but i was lazy and i woke up at 11 15 and then i wanted to pray shakari but i started checking my emails and then i got involved with facebook and then i saw it's four o'clock in the afternoon and then he put my twilight on it so i decided to put filler and then and i'm just joking of course but the point is that you write a journal what you wanted to do what your intention was what you actually did what you thought what you said and then you sign it and this every night you do now if you do chuva then you erase like with an eraser the bad things and so forth and we're not going to get into length explaining that but you write your own journal and if you do chuva you erase the bad things you do good things it's written in the journal but at some point you come with a spin cast and cast is a notebook douma doesn't care about your body he cares about the notebook and he calls it pinka simana the notebook that you write everything that you did in it now if you remember we learned that also a few weeks ago and we learned about the the it it called the called it the windows of the firmaments how where and how does the neshama have to go through when it gets to allah if you remember we spoke that first of all the soul goes to and then it goes through one window to another one if you remember in the entrance of grenadan we said that there are two cherubs and these cherubs give the soul your journal here take and also they give the the saw a pass that you can walk through the spiritual doors to go into ganesha answers the souls after it goes into grenadine to the lower place of ghanaian it goes above to the place where it's supposed to go to turgane de leon so obviously rabiose was learning zob and it doesn't have the wish or the desire to go back down saying in other words and that's probably the reality that once the soul leaves this world and it already goes in through the gates of grenada means the lower level of grenadine and it goes towards ganeth it doesn't want it doesn't have the desire to come back here we miss the people who die but the people who die their souls they don't miss this world they don't want to come back here they finished they're done okay i'll see you when you when you come so he says let me read it again it doesn't have it goes into the gates of grenada and goes up what is the soul does it becomes a defense attorney an advocate to the body alia de duma alia duma the soul is starting to talk good about the body no the soul the body helped me he took me to shul every day to pray this the body helped me you know by because there's also a judgment on the body not only not only on the soul the soul goes to genome the body stays in the kevin in the grave so the soul starts advocating for the body um and the soul shows him who to do that the body deserves that the body is not as bad as it seems and it it's desert it's worthy and deserves to inherit the reward of the payment the sahaba is really the payment alba auto remote of 400 worlds what is this 400 worlds these are 400 concealed worlds he says kedil command we will learn about them in next pages meaning when it says worlds doesn't mean a world rather hidden lights now this is not lights coming from a light bulb as i explained many times light means in hebrew light means o but the the root is all but really what it means is an enlightenment we spoke before in the class about the laws of when i said that the souls in about they don't eat what sustains them there godly revelation what's a godly revelation a lot of people think that a godly revelation is that hashem stands in front of the souls and does ta-da well that's not a godly revelation that's uh maybe a magician in this world does the magic and ta-da but you can take it to the same idea that when you're sitting in front of a magic a magician like this wow look at the magic show and the magician goes he starts moving his hand background music smoke coming from all sorts of places and he's like [Music] and everybody's like wow how did he do that everybody's floored because the magician took a napkin and came out of a pigeon so the magician goes tada that's a revelation right he did something he floored you the magician how did he do that so of course that's my uh way of explaining so the souls are standing in front of the kadosh behold the master of the universe and the master of the universe does some mystical magical spiritual enlightenment and the souls are floored and you never know maybe this is background music in general maybe the smoke and the the the canon stands there with gloves and the soul so of course this is my a way of explaining what's a godly revelation because a lot of people say okay i i can relate and you're saying a godly revelation in the world above what is the godly revelation so of course we don't know what's a godly revelation i'm just taking it to our world that you're sitting stunned in front of a magician listen i was not a few years ago we went on some some pesach retreat so they had a lot of activity and then they brought a magician so my kids told me let's go see the show and i was like i have time to see a magician i said you go no no we want you to come with us so we sat first line the guy floored us and actually what he did was unbelievable literally unbelievable i mean he did things they didn't like pull the pigeon out of a hat he did some crazy things and we were like i couldn't even believe i was like what's going on here so that kind of gave me the analogy or the understanding that we the souls are sitting in front of hashem in the world above and hashem is showing to us all these magical spiritual mystical movements in the world above and we're stunned and we're like wow that's where sejji says we have pleasure it's like a spiritual magic show so going back to our to the text when it says that the soul comes in front of duma and says no no no the body was great the body took me to shul the body took me to dumitzvot you see that hand that hand killed charity and it's advocating the body and it's trying to convince douma that the body is worthy and should receive the present or the reward of four hundred worlds well it's not worlds were we imagining rather what's the world's mean or in hebrew is a light but comes from the word in hebrew two you you don't see a godly revelation right now and by the way very soon we will see godly revelation say very soon machia's coming we're going to see things we're going to be shocked can you imagine how it looked in me time that moshe rabin who came and he goes like that and suddenly the water opens can you imagine their jaws like how did he do that so moshe rabino did some godly revelations we're also going to see that very soon when mashiach comes but in the meantime they're concealed now here it says that the soul is advocating the body about the body that it should get the reward of 400 godly revelations that the body should receive pleasure and a reward in the world to come and obviously it's talking here when it's talking about the world to come to the body it's referring not to the spiritual allah that it we've spoken many times rather to the world that is called the world of the resurrection of the dead wow this is what rabbi yoshi says that the body is a a worthy of receiving these 400 uh revelations almin dexter finn the the translation is concealed worlds but he says here that duma already knew before that call them duma knew already if the body deserves it or not you know how because they're announcing on the soul in canadian moshe bensava is coming up to garnet and they're announcing in ghana and everything and then when there's an announcement in canada and don't just say he gave charity today the whole resume is announced there so douma also knows who's the soul and who's the morning but this is what ribria says in the name of what says but i have heard as follows at the time when they're giving to the soul this pinkass this notebook duma the soul receives the this notebook with all that the person did it goes back and fights for the sake of the body that they should take in the body by who by douma that the body should be sealed and be resurrected at the time when all the righteous people will be resurrected in triathle which means that the body is being advocated by the actions that he did for the benefit of the soul and who's the advocate there the soul saying go easy on the body not that i want to now disgust you or make you have nightmares but you know that when the body is placed in the ground it gets decomposed and it doesn't only get decomposed because of you know whatever minerals are in the ground it's kind of getting eaten by worms the more sins the person have the talmud says that the amounts of sins that the person has that's the amount the worms are going to eat the body the person has a lot of war a lot of sins a lot of worms big sins big worms small sins small worms and if you don't believe me go and ask heaven the ones who bury bodies they'll tell you the size of worms that they find sometimes in the grounds there so our sages explain that it's also a punishment for the body why does the body get the punishment because the body enjoyed the physical things in this world food sleeping fun marital relations and so forth so the body has to so to say pay for it and how does it with the bugs the worms eating the body and the are sages man it's painful for the body even though the person is dead but there's still some type of a feeling and that's why we know that the bodies of the kim of righteous people doesn't decompose there are many many stories that they dug up a grave of what's a dick in their bodies right there and and i'm not going to go in length but the talmud says very clearly that if the person has a lot of sins then there's going to be a lot of worms big sins horrible sins the worms are big and the bites are like it hurts the body it's part of the punishment part of the cave part of the punishment that the body goes through but nevertheless there are two rewards simultaneously for one for the body one for the soul we spoke about that in the class when we learned about karet if you remember and i told you there are three types of cratons carret means to get chopped off one carret is for the body that the body gets chopped off one caret is for the soul that the soul gets cut off one caret is for the body and the soul now if a person is righteous and i'm not talking about rabbi shimon bar or anyone in that caliber i'm talking about us that our acts are acts of righteousness and you win your court in the world above so you will get two types of reward first reward is for the soul this is called the world to come about organization wherever you want to refer to it right now and the next reward is for the body when does the body get rewarded in the resurrection of the dead when is that going to happen 40 years after moshiach comes mashiach is going to come very soon i know some it's very hard to some people to believe but mashiach is coming very soon 40 years from that day and i'm not necessarily on the moment but we're going to experience a phenomenon that is called resurrection of the dead and don't imagine dead corpse frankenstein coming out of graves that's not how triathlon is going to be it's going to be a very very high level of a mystical spiritual level and i don't know exactly nobody knows exactly how it's going to form some say the bodies are going to form from the ground many different interpretations and explanations but nevertheless 40 years after the times of mashiach that in the first 40 years rambam gives up that the world is going to be the same now i don't know if we're still going to have jobs and riding cars but the world is going to be the same meaning that we're still going to get married still we're going to have kids we're still going to consume food we're still going to kind of be the same we're going to have beta minas we're going to have sacrifices we're going to do mitzvoth it's going to be in a total different level because there's not going to be a yet and so for the many great things and these are called yamato mashiach that slowly slowly but we spoke in many different classes slowly slowly our diet is going to change we're going to become vegetarians all the trees are going to bear fruit and many things no more wars no more hardship no more death and so forth and we have many classes explaining about the time of machia but 40 years later will happen a spiritual upgrade and we're going to experience an error that is called that the bodies are going to come back and their bodies are going to get a reward for all the mitzvot that they did so it says here again that the soul advocates for the body to be part of the resurrection of the dead and receive its reward now it goes back to what rabbi yossi said as it says in the torah any if now you are not going to hear this is what by the way with avraham avinu is talking to a phone we just learned that in the previous classes i have given money take the money from me give me the field okay that's the text in the torah with obama windows discussion with the phone sade one is this money or really it's not money kasif is silver obama didn't give didn't come with a briefcase full of bills gave him silver comes rubios and says what is this silver for the field and he explains how much money how much did i mean i don't want to use again the word money but how much shekel did the uh how much question did avraham avenue give 400. what it now we learned about the souls advocating for the body to get 400 concealed worlds how did he call it he called it uh first of all he said a 400 worlds but it says almin de kisufin al-min is world's kisufin is concealed what does the word kisufin sound like kessif is silver in our modern day kasif means money kisufin means concealed we're talking here about 400 concealed worlds that the body receives if it's worthy now comes rubiosi and he answers ah when abramovino told the phone listen i want you to give me the field here is four hundred cases what is the kasif of the field this is the kisufa the concealment of the 400 worlds the godly revelation these are the 400 worlds of kisuf is also desire not only covered the soul nafsa and now the nephesh and the body has the desire kisufin is also a desire the khamu dim shi no tim lagoof they're giving it to the body to inherit le he not me lulamaba to inherit and to enjoy it in the world to come saying in other words and what is he saying here abraham abraham avraham is going on hinting on the soul the soul is advocating on the body playing the case so the body can receive concealed worlds what does abraham avinu represent the soul what is he advocating and bargaining on behalf of the soul for 400 worlds 400 shekels here's the 400 money let's say so what is the field it's hinting on the body so when rabbi yossi comes in the beginning the son of rabbi yoda coming to rabbi and telling him did you hear the interpretation about the about the rabbis about the sages from the mishnah that they're saying that it's hinting about the soul so rebecca confirms and says yes let's take the text out of its context figure about the text forget about the man abraham coming to buy the the sade now we're going to say that's the metaphor of the soul the sade the field is the metaphor of the body abraham of he knows the soul goes up to shamayim like we just learned and advocates for the body so it will inherited 400 worlds this is avraham buying the field or more to say redeeming the field and that's why it's kind of connected to this class that we learned before that the text doesn't say that he bought the land it just says that he gave money because really what it means that the soul redeems the body for the body to receive and inherit 400 godly revelations that will be revealed to the body very soon at the time of triathlon so now we take the text and we dissect it into more to understand really what's going on in the spiritual world what the text is teaching me to understand that abraham represents the soul the field represents the body the soul is advocating for the soul for the body for what to inherit these godly revelations very soon at the time of and with that we can conclude by saying that the body and the soul have a strong connection the body has helped the soul do it as mitzvot and as a token of appreciation the soul will fight for the body to reap its reward and some people by the way will inherit allama ba but they're not going to get resurrected in triathlete and vice versa by the way you don't not necessarily will get both you can get the world to come meaning the spiritual lamba and not be resurrected in sria madim and vice versa you can be resurrected in triathlon but not inherently or both so now what you have to take from this is where do you want to hold very soon when mashiach comes do you want to just inherit him do you want to inherit or both lose both so of course we are interested in inheriting both both that can only happen and if this time right now during the exile we are involved in learning torah doing meets vote acts of kindness with all the difficulties that we have with all the tests that we have and of course to know what to do and how to do it then there's only one way you learn torah you know what to do so right now what is required from us is to focus only on our spiritual growth with all the difficulties with all the challenges with all the tests that we have focused on your spiritual growth how can you grow spiritually you have to learn torah you're not going to find that in any type of other teachings the only way to know how to grow spiritually is learning it's going to come from the torah there's no other way i don't think there's going to be another way now once you learn torah then you start applying it to your spiritual growth because you first of all know how to do mitzvot so you gain a lot of its spot in your bank then you learn like we just learned two classes ago with economy with thomas how to become a better person how to work on your attributes to refine yourself so eventually it's all boils down to how you spend your time for your own spiritual growth which eventually will get you close to the master of the universe which eventually even though we're not doing it for the sake of the reward but eventually we'll get you to be resurrected at the time of the resurrection of the dead very soon and after that you inherited an eternal life in allah maba all because of your hard earth and your uh uh hard work while we live here in this world at the time of exile we should all merit to reap our rewards and enjoy the godly revelation in this world in kyoto in the world to come in the shame we should merit to be part of the ones who see it with their own physical eyes and with him and foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] you