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and welcome everyone this is the
auspicious day birthday of Suk which is
the IDE of the rebi
ruas and I'd like to dedicate this
second half of our
our
shur to the rebi who whose primary Story
one of his primary stories that he told
and we'll get to that in a moment was
the story of the Seven Beggars and
according to our B Kaplan the seven
Beggars correlate both to
thein and to the Y vus so we're going to
explore that programmatically but first
a little bit of background as you are
probably or may be aware nman passed
away in about
1811 he was a young man less than 40
years old he was the great grandson of
the balov through his daughter UT who
was the mother
fga um and uh F's son was RAB nak and
his father's name was
s
Hena the young man was born in meus
which was the BTO Hometown he was a
direct heir to the estate of the he
grew up in the
bmo's house
vicinity and although they did not did
not um learn or meet each other directly
certainly all the tamim of the
bem came visited widely he um his
grandmother UD was really the spiritual
heir of the legacy of the bmov more than
the bmov son and everybody consulted
with her and went to her and gave to her
asking her to pray on behalf once the B
passed
away the what is um interesting and
unique about reab
rabman is his Universal appeal unlike
other faic RAB the possible exception of
the BTO and perhaps um others
the world
has developed very strong opinions about
Rin one way or the other within the
world of Hut almost immediately when he
passed his primary student rbe nasan Aba
who came from a
revered um Lish rinic Dynasty his
father-in-law was very saintly RAV who
was the chief Rabbi of all the
communities of galitzia recognized
recognized halakic master who was much
who was not involved Inus not not didn't
promote and wanted his his um sonin-law
gifted son-in-law n of
neov as he became to be known
to either be a r in his vast network of
communities that deferred to his
saintly
father-in-law's um
jurisdictionally or do uh enterprising
business which incredibly the Jews of
Ukraine were so Adept at despite the
odds stacked against them working with
non-jews and in in very hostile
environments harsh environments both
physically and and uh in terms of
anti-Semitism and yet they
prospered and his family was were cloth
merchants and even R not was familiar
with that business from his own
experience and this was a big industry
at the time what we would call in modern
20th century lingo the shata business
but not making dresses actually it was
fine Fabrics so there was two ways for
NL NE to make a living but he chose to
cling to his rebi and became his Bard
what I mean by that is he reported his
teachings extensively all of the L Maran
lessons were written by hand by rman and
orasan and recorded and published by
rasan uh one in the lifetime of the rebi
and the second volume post humously then
the rebi encouraged Ness to ground his
very lofty cabalistic thoros which are
very difficult for a
Layman uh to fully
appreciate and we'll get more into that
into the a very a very lfish Touchstone
which
is and not sh by the way of his
contemporary the alter re but they're
actual the backbone of observance it's
interesting wanted through his student
rasan who was a World's expert in ALA to
take his
inspiring uh cryptic and often
undecipherable uh but obviously
brilliant Toros and explain them in the
context of that people could
appreciate the
various um and by linking them to a that
was known and also to a period of the
year that was familiar MO khaka
P um the words of in that in that
rubric became more accessible and more
understandable so the series is massive
and I as far as I know there's no
extensive researched uh index for it
which is on which is unfortunate very
deeply unfortunate but it's a massive
massive work and it's still really
people really scratched the surface in
terms of digesting it famously said that
if n had not come to to him as a not one
word of his teachings would have been
preserved we cannot
underestimate his primary T there are
many many great Personalities in brov
who became teachers the
shman in our generation the Galia kenig
Sons the rabbis of of thought who I was
very dearly personally close with and
who introduced me to uman and to breast
love in a more profound way I'm very
grateful to them nearly 20 years ago
and the are um the the rabbis in Ukraine
the last surviving members in the Soviet
era who secretly furtively made their
way to uman Rashana as the rebi taught
his students please come to me for
Rashana as Rashana was
a unique opportunity where his could on
all those gathered with him and to all
for the benefit of
Israel um render and many others we
can't go through the history now of the
leadership but let's suffice it to say
that without neov and the various
leaders that came afterwards that ended
up for the most part in the
Ukraine and some immigrated to erel
either early on like aam Stern hars
certainly one of the great shining
lights of of a modern day rest of
teaching and a teacher of many of the
Great Masters including Ralia Kenn who
was a Pioneer in kir a true Pioneer in
kir and encouraged his children to build
the city ofad as an iresh as a natural
prerequisite for the Sha's return to
erisel as a
whole so
all these personalities contributed to
the literature but the literature
itself um breaks into two essential
Parts the Maran the teachings of the
rebi himself either that he wrote or
that recorded secondly the
immense series penned by
by which as he said based on Shar
reference to this to the year round
bringing the ideas down to earth in a
more digestible way and then of course
all the commentaries on either
or compilations extensions of those
ideas and then there's there's the the
literature of rman stories and perhaps
more than anything else in the World At
Large rman
stories have a tremendous sense of
curiosity not only to Jews religious and
not religious but also to non-jews
academics
um Christians interested in Judaism
people who want to come convert to
Judaism people who just are appreciating
it as a form of Jewish literature I had
the privilege myself
to get close to uh Professor Elle who
was a big fan of rakan and for those who
don't know besides Holocaust books he
wrote extensively on various cish
figures very eloquently and beautifully
gave lectures about the tamic Masters
the Masters in the mishna and then his
ability to Converse in lofty and
uplifting terms about key ideas in
Yiddish Kai has been paralleled truly
unusual remarkable
man um used to give lectures up in
Boston University
in his in his massive building there
should rest in peace that was built for
him by one of his key supporters and he
would teach stories an old worn out
um volume in Yiddish because originally
the stories were yish and then
translated into Hebrew and then later
into English by none other than re Arya
Kaplan recently published by the bre
Research Institute is a brand new
tales
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and the Fantastic and absolute genius
discovered in
America um and put to the the holy task
of bringing some of Torah literature's
most esoteric cabalistic Works into the
focus of modern man in English
language uh everything that he writes is
imp researched was impeccably researched
extensively uh documented and
invaluable Rabbi Arya Kaplan perished
also young with every mman some say
because he revealed just a bit too much
about the cabalistic text and the world
was not ready or resisted his uh
remarkable
achievements passed away tragically in
the 1980s but he did Translate and give
uh voice to a number of works there's
also the biographical Tales of Ban's
life
um which are attributed to his
T but what I'd like to say is that let's
take a look a historical
perspective as we passed away in 1811
the world was undergoing a massive
transition was about to undergo a
massive transition to the concept of
nationalism and democracy with the
French Revolution with the American
Revolution just just nent just years
before um and in and in Russia Ukraine
the
Zar sadly was given leadership rulership
over millions of Jews and Russia had
never been a place that wanted to even
admit Jews their their strain of
Christianity was so varly
anti-semitic that Jews were really not
welcome in the Russian realm which is
why they restricted them to the pale of
settlement which was outside including
UK all of
Ukraine and and impoverished them and
they LED such a miserable life that some
of the great
rebes uh prayed that Napoleon 179 9 or
so be victorious over the Russians of
course he wasn't so that the Jews would
at least leave their crushing poverty
and
anti-semitic uh
decrees that they constantly faced which
again would later be even
exaggerated the religious persecution
would be exaggerated of the Soviets
which of course would lead to the fact
that oran's graveside became a criminal
uh offense to even try to get
there it's kind of like what's happening
now but in any case um so the world was
getting ready for major shift many times
my sh I pointed out and I would like to
include that in this year as well we
speak about the seven days of creation
that Arya Kaplan says together with usin
is the way to have a perspective on the
story of the Seven begar the famous
story of the Seven beggar ofin
um is also relevant not only to the days
of creation but to the Millennium of
creation that s97 a says I quoted in
previous shum that the world will be
following that pattern will have six
millenniums those are a thousand year
periods and at the end of the sixth
Millennium in other words um when we
reach the year
6000 which is uh really really
approaching very rapidly uh we'll enter
the period of Shabbat the seventh day
and the world will
advance it is advancing but will even
further advance to such an extent that
the Physical Realm as we know it will
will cease to exist and will be some
sort of hybrid spiritual physical world
that we cannot fully determine what that
means but only rely on the words that we
have from our greatest uh we
him back from the gorra etc etc but it's
something that no one has ever really
seen I'd like to comment that this sixth
day began in the year
1240 uh its midpoint was 1740 and 1740
coincides with the birth of all these
movements that the world had never seen
before whether it was
democracy and uh
emancipation of slavery with which
became later in America but first
appeared in Europe the rights of
individuals higher education and of
course a lot
of
uh heresy which the the man's
intellectual Powers seemed to go on a
warp speed and human reason and logic
became the main stay of the Western
World it something that I that I learned
was that the the notra Dame should part
in the
expression uh place of of Christian
worship according to many of what is are
um which not that long ago burnt down I
don't know if it was ever really
restored or you don't hear in the news
because nobody goes there anymore but it
was the place where the Tom was burned
in that year 1240 signaling a new
era of the Messianic both persecutions
and
redemptions uh the Jewish
people had gone through tremendous
suffering but as the world was going to
change New Opportunities would come to
them not all of them so fortunate for
example the emancipation of Jews and uh
through
Napoleon uh led to rampant
assimilation the um the persecutions in
Russia kept Jews
away from society that was one way that
they stayed religious but met met the
challenges of being conscripted to
Bear's Army and living miserable lives
uh not being able to build families not
being able to practice their religion
and himself wrote a special
volume for those cantonis and there were
many great Golem that almost were were
taken forcibly from their families to be
conscripted to the Zars Army which
include kab tarus of course rapid
anti-Semitism and more so so it was a
challenging era Ran's day but also
opportunities were
comingin understood perhaps better than
almost anybody but the world needed a
type of Torah that
would help the Jewish people go through
this transition he claimed and this is
one of the reasons of was persecuted by
other Casas because of
R's incred incredible statements one of
which was that his teachings were there
were something completely new the world
had never seen before and they were the
next level of the revelation of Torah
after the B and that there would be not
any other level in other words no one
would reveal
more of cabala and C Torah the hidden
Dimension the in Dimension or prus Tor
no one would reveal any more than what
had revealed the Mia and he also claimed
that Mia would also somehow relate to
his own works and give sh in his works
that was number one what other presented
about second claim was of course Oran
famously promised that anybody who would
come to his Kev give a little bit of
stup and recite his 10 K that he
selected known as the
t uh that R would engage on their behalf
in the Heavenly courts and see to free
that those Souls from
gam and from suffering in other words
that R would actually intervene on their
behalf and use his superal influence to
gain entrance for his quote
unquote to enter alh there many stories
about this I'm not going to go into that
this time how
people had kind
of uh near-death experiences and they
kind of were reviewing they were
experiencing their life review and
judgment and that rakman actually
intervened for them and and uh they came
back to Earth for various reasons but
they remembered that intervention and uh
those stories have been widely shared he
said that he would pull up a Jew by his
pis but even if he don't have pis I
think that's the idea he would do
anything for him
uh or for her that matter the ti CL
himself he revealed to two of his
students
notos but he said that they were remedy
against sexual impurity that if they
were cited as a unit they were like a
mini tum 10 out of
150 that had a powerful combination kind
of like a song He describes him his
songs and the story of the Seven Beggars
he speaks
about the arrows of the Satan
poison arrows of the
saton that pierce the Jewish soul with
sadness depression
defilement and that can only be pulled
out or or
remedied through the
songs that are represented by these 10
Psalms of course they are Ted Zion 16 32
L Bas interesting Le like Bre Bre he
said Le BAS it's a flesh flesh and blood
heart
um and then 4142 m m b NES I Zion
59 and
77 and then KU
105 no excuse me sadic 90 and KU 105 90
105 137 F Zion and kman in the final
capital
uh people who are close to breast love
who feel themselves as a to of breast
love would say those T tell them every
day not only that but but would would
try to make the journey to rashash so
many did and particularly in this year
and I've been blessed to go many many
times and I always like to
say not everyone not everyone how should
I say can can get into being close to
rabeno and his teachings but it is
available for anyone so let me reiterate
that PR of might not be quote unquote
for
everyone but it is for
anybody it's not for everyone but it is
for anybody when I say anybody it's
without exception Jew non-jew CID litvak
um Seeker not seeker heretic not heretic
anyone who is interested intrigued by
his teachings his stories the experience
of uh the effect of the practices that
he that he uh focused on especially
personal prayer he B doing in one's own
words ideally for about an hour or a day
sh or period of time doesn't have to be
an hour where you talk to God as a
friend as a mentor and look to create a
personal relationship with that goes
beyond ritual and
rote one could view akman especially
from his story the master of prayer
where he literally described himself
pulling individuals out of
society bringing them out to the
Wilderness and mentoring each one
according to what they needed this one
needed to be built up he needed fancy
clothes this one needed to do modesty he
got less clothes this one needed a lot
of reinforcement each one to his own the
master of prayer the B he saw himself he
described himself about kind of like a
personalized messiah in fact did say my
Messiah has arrived so could look at
that as a way in which Reb Nan was
arguing and and the rebbi was rain was
promising that the pathway to Messiah
began with individuals as opposed to the
group every the more enlightened
individuals that would gather
together with this uniquely personal
heartfelt relationship with Hashem
grounded in Practical which was the
required learning and some suggest also
DFI there was a group that was from
Poland
of was a famous Rabbi brider who was a a
kind a Cornerstone of the teacher he
became influenced by the by the rabbis
in um he traveled to Ukraine he learned
from the Masters that were there brought
his teachings back to Poland we're
talking about the time the early 20th
century prior to the Nazis and he
perished in the Holocaust of a brider
but not before
establishing uh the teachings of R ran
in Poland and when they no longer were
able to travel to uman due to the Advent
of the Soviet era which barred it and
threatened those who would go there they
made them their own Minion and as
the as the history tells us that they
convened in the famous yiva of
ofin which is itself a a massively
important
subject it that Yeshiva represented the
modernization of the Yeshiva to be on
every level of the modernday academic
society that tempted so many Jews men
and women away from traditional Torah
mitos which they viewed as being in the
context of a quote unquote primitive
primitive or old-fashioned culture and R
shapira wanted to lift the the the covet
of Torah and he did so paying with his
own life investing his own fortune his
life insurance policy that there should
be a overcome budgetary concerns and
build a massive building and feed BM as
if they were going to the finest quote
unquote secular institution University
of berin he named it so in that place
reinman's followers had their rashab
some say that Sho doav with them and
notice that according toan's style of
learning which
was very very much uh the alternative to
what we came to be called today the
classic briser briser is the idea
of
finding uh through careful analysis and
definitions differentiations between
various Halos the stages of their
development as their impact and the
ability I would call to split the atom
to see nuan differences that clarify
difficult difficult seeming
contradictions in the works such as the
rambam or Beyond in the literature and
him so that D won the day it was the
intellectual um champion of Torah
learning saved it saved Torah because
young people were
wanted that academic level
laav and it kept them in the world of
Torah it kept some of the bright
brightest and most Brilliant Minds not
mind you so many so so many were lost
and assimilated whether it was to
atheism whether it was to nationalist
movements Comm ISM socialism even
Zionism secular Zionism
but the bris allowed people who had
Brilliant Minds to have a real joy in Le
Torah that that satisfied their their
um interest in
investigation
classification and knowledge that was
just so
satisfying that is the Cornerstone not
that there was it's still
Derman had a different approach and I
think it's the fact that brusso as it
sounds is more focused on Le basar on
developing a person's emotional and
personal connection with God then
intellectual uh achievement of Torah
which sish World cherished and still
does and not that the world doesn't
today such a hybrid after World War I
and World War II every has L Tendencies
and every LV has Reish Tendencies they
turn their
Ras into rebas
and in terms of doing at their for in
terms of seeking guidance personal
guidance very much a faic model that the
world has become integrated has become
integrated we not been said to learn a
lot
panovich used to do that too cover
ground panovich they wanted to learn a
lot so the bre in Lin used to learn a
daily a daily page of gamar because the
re said learn learn just learn take a
complete tour of Torah in your lifetime
all of sh m in fact to his Elite
students challenged them to finish all
of Torah lit literature every year even
the most
incredibly um gifted students didn't
quite manage to do all of
shi
MIM um of
course and saying so on the vast Corpus
of Torah literature in a year maybe a
year and a half but the rest of us were
were were famous for being page Turners
they would learn a lot and in fact in
their years of being
tormented that was one way that they
were identified in Israel and elsewhere
it says these were ah he's learning a
lot of blot at once that that's a breast
thing that's what Renu
suggested and some people suggest that
the fact that they were headquartered in
Shin
inspired R Shapiro to Institute a doomi
which was here to before really unheard
of because no one could understand how
he could reach depth still can't
understand how reach depth study uh
moving in in that
pace and it seemed to be a polar
opposite to the general approach to
learning and uh I'm thinking that today
there's more synthesis of both that one
without the other is most certainly
incomplete and is certainly part of what
what recommended to
learn the persecutions of of breast
emanated from Ran's startling claims as
we said earlier that he contributed to
the development of cabala and and pis
Ator the final stage before
msia number two that if you came to uman
on rashash Shana or any time and recited
his
that he would save your soul from
Ganon which is why people even under
this year's
circumstances and the this recent year
circumstances and inan this past
year there was no there haven't been any
flights available directly to KV as
there were maybe 10 years ago because
the
war with Russia has rendered kev's
airports uh destroyed uh one had to fly
into neighboring countries last year
they managed to secure many flights to
neighboring countries mova Romania even
Poland Hungary uh people found their way
there and truly get to show resourceful
ways this year another blow happened
when mova decided not to accept any
Israeli charter flights for reasons that
were they said were Financial but in my
mind perhaps political as well I think
it was pressure brought to bear on them
somehow uh to allow individuals but not
allow large large grp group of Israelis
anyway people were stranded they had to
make their way back to Romania was
24-hour bus rides back from Ukraine to
uh places such as BAU Romania tiny
little
airports which had his dispatch
thousands of thousands of Travelers back
to Israel it was probably the most
difficult year of traveling and people
some people had easier times they had
trains they had this they had other
opportunities everybody their own mle
but despite fact apparently tens of
thousands of people went to Davin who
can understand who can appreciate the
level of m nees the financial physical
and emotional commitment that would make
people take that Journey which other
rebba could possibly demand that sort of
Alliance Allegiance and that's part of
the mystery of why would Professor wiell
teach it to a group of non-jews
as I sat there watched him do it at a
huge table with his Yiddish copy of the
Zion bers of the seven Beggars discuss
it with people as a piece of Cl classic
religious philosophical literature where
did what is how can we make sense about
any of this one thing I will tell you
that left me very left a very big
impression on me as I became more
familiar with these
sources that there were in Ukraine where
he lived especially in uman where he
chose to be for his final resting place
he died of tuberculosis like I said
before before his 40th birthday 38
something and change and
um there apparently were very very
brilliant Jews who were musculine and
had
become I would call them
atheists uh people dedicated dedicated
they were very very brilliant they knew
Classics Greek Roman everything
mathematics some of them came to see
rabman when he arrived in um in his last
year of Life they wanted to make they
wanted to make a little fun of Thea that
came to their midst from the nearby town
of
brlo and they and when he arrived at
their
Tish at at his Tish the rebby all of a
sudden switched to a to a very esoteric
toast with a complicated
mathematical um uh calculation and they
all of a sudden like kind of took it
between the eyes and said whoa this guy
is feisty he's going to try to talk to
us on our own level and sure enough they
started to hang out with him there's a
fellow named H rice her bear um these
people were some of them later became
professors at Oxford they're talking
about people of enormous enormous
intellectual gifts and also heretical
views and somehow they were drawn they
were so intrigued by this young Rabbi
who could take it to them in their own
level they once you know they had a game
with himman said I can coach you Homer
and Plato just looked at it a little bit
and he started quoting it B remember
Ma's knowledge of Torah was
encyclopedic he knew every P inside and
out Val he knew gorus he knew Zohar he
knew shamies it was nothing no limit to
what he had mastered incredibly at his
very very relatively young age but he
could go toe-to-toe with these people he
played chess with them and when
horrified students like Aron would come
to visit him and see him playing chest
with these Heretics they would say what
are you doing here the holy Rabbi is
sitting down with these apostates with
with these with these people and playing
chess with them and they didn't call him
Rabbi they called him na they wouldn't
even give him the respect of calling
Rabbi they didn't believe in Rabbi they
believe in God and then he
said it's not for you it's not for you
but it is for
rabina and it's the last Russ sh of B's
life they had took out a house to Davin
rashash Shana with him and this hsh
bear uh and his cohorts were there and
apparently he was also very very
politically powerful locally and also
very rich his attendant came with his
shaving kit before Yan to help him get
ready for you know to shave for the
holiday which of course is AER according
to Shar and he refused it and he went
into rash with
stubble and he
said that had R lived one more year he
would have been a complete Bel as it was
he did an extraordinary
thingman suddenly and unfortunately
passed away on sukus today being the
fourth day of sukus
um there was a major major debate what
to do in terms of his burier uman wasn't
his natural environment he was more in
breast love he used to travel to the
more wealthy cities where his fatim more
keman chog and all these you know more
substantial cities in the in the the
venitzia part of
Ukraine and each Town came with its
Representatives wanting to claim burial
rights but this HS bear her rice hsh
bear too HS Bear Went Over to basan who
knew that although wasn't respected as
the leader or certainly not as a
um he was a Tom of Mok but not everybody
appreciated him there were people of
great stature who were rees's
tomen though he was no person of small
stature himself of and he goes right to
him him and says where does Reb want to
be buried and and reab N dutifully said
here in um why because there was a
massacre of the
hiac uh
kasaks about 50 years earlier before was
born and many many Jews died in uman Kem
and there was a very big Massacre it was
probably one of the biggest massacres in
that area until Bobby AR which would
take place in Holocaust also in Kia
you're not that far
from of course all the all the Jews of
were slaughtered in the
H except those who could
Escape so he says okay want to be right
here with the martyrs okay good he
bought with his own money two spots one
for their to be buried one for them to
be a
canopy to put over you know like a
little building to put over those who
would visit
and
um he uh his Rabbi the re's third wife
his widow paid for little that little
canopy to be built over wordss and
that's why the Reby is buried in uman
today all because of the effect of a
local Jew a brilliant apostate who
started to
become a holy student of arakan and
became his student and himself paid for
oran's burial place with which became
the magnet for all those to medium and
and for random people from all over Jews
mostly who would want to make the
pilgrimage to make connection to this
unique would be called sodic em and
what's the difference between sadic and
EM took upon
himself the the burden of not just being
aoic was a great resource for people who
go and Inspire them and teach them and
take their
sadic emis goes beyond his box goes
outside of the boundaries of his area
and maybe even his continent and maybe
even his era and looks to
draw uh vagrant Jewish Souls back to
their
Source people who do care of her and the
rebis in the in the years before such as
the fre kabad who was Rabbi in Russia 19
20 under the Soviet era had to escape it
to America 1940 as Mish and sent
suicide to do brismas and right and do
haers under the watchful eye of the
aesia the Jewish atheist communist who
job was to destroy to Judaism from its
roots and who personally persecuted beat
and imprisoned the FBI and that story is
a story for another time but the people
said I'm going to rescue every Jew my my
rebi from was a in my in my
understanding his heart was with the
Soviet Jews arriving in Israel and he
and his palum um I was part of that it
established the shuu network of schools
here in
Israel which has done kir work for four
or five decades now and is really a
resource of uh tremendous tremendous
power here in this country multi multi
multi-million dollar budgets all to
bring K know nothing about
toroser to so when you're talking about
sadic Ms you're talking about somebody
who has Mass Appeal think about in our
generation B he had Mass Appeal people
came to roll over Jews non-jews you go
today to the cave of the Bob shevy and
see
ministers they know they come there with
their lists of names that they're
praying for praying for they know the
word is out here lies it sadic EMS an
ainu kind of figure which is appeals to
all people we
say says in the
Torah you are the prince of Hashem in
our midst and a great s always is that
always is that beloved by all Jew
non-jew brings out the work of their
Holiness and their their tellim to the
max okay with that introduction we have
another
time I'm gonna have to do part three I
wanted to get this out in in terms of
the yard site I will tell you that I had
a personal Miracles the year I first
went to way back about 20 years ago in
that year I was privileged to D in uman
for the first time R having uh
the freedom to do so after spending many
many years in In a formalized Pulpit
position and when I became a reagent it
was that the first year I was a beine r
and in that year I experienced the
personal Miracle of having a child born
that uh was difficult to come by and I
had gone also to the Reby M CER so
though my my background my
father was very very big in his own
right came from a lith background near
Isel I kind of gravitated more to toas
there were people like R and rosha
Wilson so I had an appreciation ofus
even though I worked in the mod Orthodox
World educated more in that world and I
see the advantage of a more nuanced and
inclusive position and at that level
there are no arguments reup would never
speak bad about anyone uh
whether whether it
was there was such thing I mean AIC is
AIC AIC and I I believe that sadiki EMS
have that in common that they're just
above The Fray they should never utter
any word which would denigrate any other
person who was an get a sh it's not not
possible and um this was the environment
that I came to know I encourage people
on this day of the yor site to focus on
two things number one the rebi spoke
about personal prayer to Hashem as a way
of building relationship one could
argue that the transition that took
place in the
1740 and 1840 Landmark years as we make
our way through through this sixth day
of creation which is preparing us for
the the Millennium of shabas rapidly
rapidly
approaching
um the intellectual knowledge of Torah
known as
the allowed the Jews to survive starting
with
y and all the way through the academies
in Sur andisa and later in the north AF
African communities and Spain and France
and Germany gery and Poland and all the
places where Jews thrived throughout and
eventually back to America and and of
course
Israel that journey of
the was
primarily one of Torah
knowledge and there was a background
starting in the
1740s when 1733 when B revealed himself
to supplement that with a
heartfelt relationship sh to Hashem as
an emphasis not that exist before but is
your connection to
Hashem through the
M or in in addition with or person and
of course said of course it's both he
said you doin and learn and do and he
was very big about turning Torah into a
full integration the mind and the heart
one could argue that Judaism was like
kept in a box in our bitter gulo years
wherever it might have been and that it
the brain the head of of of Cl was
preserved to the of brilliant T
throughout the
generations but the actual manifestation
of it struggled because when we set down
roots in one country before he knew it
they were torn aund ripped up and and
exiled especially in in in Europe
especially in the countries that were we
suffered the pers persecution of the of
the Christian church and and and indeed
of the Muslim um you know mulas but
we're now in
AR and even to a certain extent in
America the full-bodied
experience of yudish Kai is possible
building institutions setting down Roots
I don't think so much in
America uh but the K Torah is profound
and has built communities of great
magnitude in America hopefully they
should continue to prosper and survive
the travails of Gus and here in AR
Israel we should survive the travails
of that try to prevent the full
manifestation of yahadus not just head
but body heart and soul and of course
that is the pathway towards the
Messianic era we're undergoing a lot of
change I can't get into too much detail
about the history but there is a lot of
history that we have to observe to
understand the trends that have
dominated the world and how the Jewish
Journey towards
Gula are paralleled by that um I will
have to take a break here and having
given you just an overview
about the rebi some of his
intentions some of of his basic
practices and not even so much his toor
Ros which is another
subject um the rebi
pioneered the battle of the 20th century
against
mental health issues such as depression
anxiety lack of identity poor
self-esteem his Torah such as aamra
where you look at the good point within
every person especially yourself were
built out by psychological schools such
as reer roer and regard became part of
psychology social work and now the
entire positive psychology movement
rahman's teachings are and were
groundbreaking foundational work on how
to tackle the worst emotional states
addictions depressions
um
conflicts overcoming bad
meos um sh bias parosa
issues Solutions are there that only now
in the 21st century are starting to
become discovered and appreciated in a
more profound way but everything seems
to be integrating very nicely we need
lumus we need Al we need the ability to
battle our inner battle against the suon
which represents depression anxiety
sadness worthlessness purposelessness
mindless
Pursuits uh sexual um frivolity and
immorality just the worst the worst
challenges that our generation has ever
seen and maybe any generation has ever
seen was there to lay a
foundation that preceded it kicked inaka
and only people now today are starting
to realize it so the story of the Seven
Beggars is an epitome of that attempt to
explain to people a perspective on life
which will be far more successful and
out of the
box than what you might have thought
otherwise it's linked to the message ofp
it's linked to the message of the
evolution of creation that Hashem wants
the world to mature through in these six
millenniums that we're in and the very
end which we approach and the events and
state of Israel that we're going through
especially today so to be continued
we'll go a little deeper now that you
have some at least a superficial
overview of Ran's intentions and
purposes was from my perspective there's
so much more to say people have
different views people could say that
whatever they their their opinion
experience they greatly differ from mine
this is what I can humbly offer you on
this holy day at his your site and that
the integrative approach of Torah
psychology
positivity um
resilience um positive regard sh bias
all these things are somehow magically
rooted in the teachings of in ways that
are only being distu to be continued
thank
you and we should be back
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