Likkutei Torah Atem Nitzavim #1: The Alter Rebbe’s Vision of True Leadership

The title [Music] Everybody welcome. What's the first name? I want to give a big maze for the yesterday to a very proud father and mother. Okay, we're going to begin a new today. Today's class is dedicated in honor of David Beer Ben Rifka Esther Fagger for a complete and speedy recovery. And may all adversity be transformed into blessings and have a complete recovery. Amen. Also dedicated for amen. So we'll begin a new mimer today. It's uh a mimer of the alterb that was said the shab is before and uh it's a very fundamental mimer about it's the first mime in par. So uh that would be page 87 on top it should say nit page 87 on top it says >> meal column one every starts the the page number start again. So you need to go to the top of okay it's obviously the shabas before shashashana two days before the 28th of l was shabas then would be 5562 and in the secular calendar would be tk of sakb It's a well-known known as the uh let's begin. We actually learned this mime quite a few years ago, but we'll learn it again. He starts off with the Uh uh he starts over with the POS in the beginning of uh the para which is also next week's para speaking to the people and he says you're all standing. It's an expression that he doesn't use before in it's right before uh right before he passes away. So he says you're all standing today. You're all standing in front of Hashem. And he goes through a list, the heads of your tribes, the elders, the officers, all the Jewish people, the children, your wives, the those who chop wood, those who draw water. You're all all together. Everybody is standing here. all the categories so to speak from top to bottom and you're here in order to pass through to enter into a covenant with Hashem with Hashem your God and with the oath that which Hashem is making with you today. This is what what uh what what says and he continues and he says in order for you to be his nation and he will be your god according to the oath of and it's not only with you it's those who are here today and those who are not here today etc. These opening can become the basis of this this we always learn say read before that's the always you do before it's not just a technical thing the way is set up it happens to be the way that that because this par is it means there's a connection that This is the preparation. It's hinted in the word. What's the day? It doesn't say which day. So it says in that when it says in the day today, it's referring to the shash which is the day of the year, the head of the year. That's what he says. What's the connection of toash? The section is because we say inf of this day it's of this day is the beginning of your creation of your deeds a commemoration to the first day the original day. So it's called says when it says it's obviously it's a hint that what that it's it's a it's that it's what the zy says so that's what that's what so is hinted on what's the shas all the sparks of all the meaning every so all the nitas every nish every single spark. They stand, they come, they come, they come, they show up and rise in an erect way and they're sublimated. Their elevated to their first source on this day could be far far separated from the source. But every source, every spark comes back. It stands up. It it it it stands erect. It identifies itself. You know it's not just somewhere lost, scattered and it's mislet sublimated back to its first source on this day all the way till you say you're standing. And who is this all the list all the categories? If you look in the you'll see 10 different categories, 10 different levels because you have then he goes through. So if you break it down including I think you see that he goes through 10 10 10 categories. Yeah, I guess that's the probably exactly 10. Yeah. Yeah. Huh? >> Yeah. You'll soon see it's not Oso. It's not the plumbers also, but Yeah. Y 10. It's not just like there's 10 mas meaning 10 different aspects 10 different dimensions 10 different steps or levels in the person's soulim you have the three connected to meaning the three cognitive faculties known as and you have the seven midas which are connected to the emotional embodiment of the cognition [Music] That's in every soul. Every soul has this. Every single soul. There's your faculty. There's your ability for all the way down to every soul. All of the Jewish people are one complete. Means a complete structure. Means a height like a full persona. The whole just like every person has 10. So the whole is on a on a larger scale. It's one it's one. We're all limbs and all parts of one larger collective energy field and the collective that includes everybody that's called the gathering of and therefore it's also divided into 10 dimensions because whatever exists in the micro exists in the macro. So whatever exists in every individual nephesh that's every person as an individual nits. When you bring it all together it's one larger what we would call a super oranism a spirit a spiritual superorganism. In science they have like for example a colony of ants. So you can have a million ants and they're all working together. So they call it a superorganism because an organ definition of an organism is that every part works together right? Your arms and your legs and your stomach and your kidney everybody. That that's what a healthy organism is. If not, but how do you have it? But if you have a million ants or 10 million ants, they're not connected and yet they're all working together. So they call it a super organism. So this is but this is the concept. So you have every nephish is an individual nits. But if you if you take a bird's eye view and if you're sensitive to the to the like our enemies are very sensitive to this is right there. There's a gestalt called is a who is part of this? Every single Jew every Jew is part of the of so it's also divided into 10. It's 10 larger medas that include all of them. That's why mentions 10 because it's the whole of practically every Jew was part of this miss all of the Madregas are elevated. They come back to their source. Even those who are chopping the wood and drawing the water which represents lower levels or lower states of consciousness. It's not you would think it's on the lowest but today everybody is elevated. Okay, there's a footnote here. There's a brackets here from the where he puts in a few of different that discussed this. Go down a few lines. You see, he starts a few lines later, the end of the brackets. The line starts and the brackets end continues that all of them are sublimated back to their source to the source from which they are from which they are um honed from which they are avary from which you chisel out rock. So that spiritually they're back to the source from which they come from which they were chiseled out from which they were honed. Huh? >> Noim they go back there back to their in the source from which they came. So this is the meaning of the P in the beginning of says the Jewish people are called Yeshuan. They're called Yeshuan in this case. So says that he is a king before us. The title was given to us from Misha. It's an inheritance. He is a king over is a term for the Jewish people. And he's a king. When Yeah. When the totality of the people are gathered and the tribes of Israel are together, they're in harmony. When all of the when the totality of the people come together says there's a time when everybody comes together when all the parts of the organism are working in full harmony. That describes that describes this moment when all the pieces so to speak of the puzzle are cut back. The entire organism is working in functionality in harmony with each other in synchronization. In simple Yiddish, it's called fraggin. On a deeper level, it's not just like you could do your thing. It's much more than that. There is a a interpersonal interpersonal connection where there is an interconnect it's called an interconnectedness right there is in in in English you have a word independence you're independent you have a word dependent yeah and then there's interdependence right independent means I'm on my own have a good Hey, codependent is my mitz. I'm feeding off you and your mitsus, you're feeding off me. And that really is difficult. And then there's interdependence. Interdependence means you know who you are and you know your job. And because of that, you want to connect and be able to give what you can give and take what you what what you need to take in order to be able to function in your own unique. So that's they all gather together to become to become unified like one. It's like one organism because here's a cl says, "Here's a great principle. Anything that comes from anything that represents real there's a principle a know the end is etched in the beginning and the beginning is etched in the end." What does that mean? It means there's no clear hierarchy. You're on the top and you're on the bottom. On one level you're on the top and you're on the bottom and on another level you say no it's the bottom is etched all the way on the top all the way in the beginning of if it's this comes from a state that's called inab it's called literally means circles in it's a whole of we learned in a few and other places the definition of is connected to what's called of he in circles encompasses all the worlds and the circle doesn't have a beginning and a middle and an end right not like a line and you say here's the beginning of the journey here's middle of the journey here's the end of the journey the circle is there's no mil there's no ma there's no there's no kadusha there's a communication there's an energy of there's no clear boundary of a hierarchy that's absolute you're on the top and I'm on the bottom yes there may be a functional hierarchy in the terms of different people have different functions and different roles and different opportunities and different gifts and different resources but at another level it could be no and some the person in the belongs completely and the person is that's a that's a why is it such a because this means I mean as we'll see because this means that the ego never takes over it means ultimately you're channeling something that transcends differences and because you're channeling that so even the way it comes out into differences there's still the higher energy. So you don't take your position too seriously in the sense that it becomes you know there's a hierarchy because that's how society functions but it's never absolute it's never an absolute hierarchy that really gets to your core you know there's there's there's perspective because it's ultimately connected to of kalam and over there this t there's taken no hierarchy there's taken hierarchy this is sometimes hard for people Because if your entire Yiddish guide is based essentially on hierarchy in the deepest deepest core you know is like the moment you'll hit and you'll see you know it's >> yeah in a person >> uh what >> in everything in a person and and collectively does that You have a brain and you have a leg. The brain has to run the show. The heart has to pump the blood, right? And there's a recognition of that. But if the brain suddenly becomes arrogant and says, "By the way, I run the show and nobody else exists and therefore I tell everybody what to die. I couldn't care less what's happening with you." That's not a healthy brain. If it's fet what makes the brain a brain is that 247 the brain is thinking about every other limb of the body. The moment the brain is busy you know getting validation and recognition for how great it is. Get your brain checked out. The definition of a brain is that it's in tune 24/7 with the needs and the pain and the anguish and the experience of every single of every single limb and organ and last cell in the body from all the 60 70 trillion cells. That's what a brain does, right? It's not like, "Oh, I'm ahead. Okay, all you losers, I'm the head." That's you're not a head. It means that 24/7. How do you know it's ahead? He's simply trying to help every in the body. >> But is referring to referring to But over here there's other titans that it's also Hashem. Yeah, we'll see a little later. You should be humble before every single person really before every person. I understand. Be humble before giants or before somebody who much greater. Come on. Before every person says, "Yeah." Why? because in every single person there's something that nobody else has. If you can't see that, you're missing something of reality. Every single person has Madregas has states of of of connection and ch they channel truths that the other person can't and therefore everybody needs each other. There's an interdependence. So that means there's something in every single person in the other that I need that I I could learn from that can inspire me and if I can't see in every single person something that could inspire me it means I don't know how to see it means that I'm not seeing something I'm disconnected from something. So there's a mile in every single person and in that he's unique there's something unique something higher about him and therefore back to the m of a individual organism every person has a whole structure all the way from the head down to the legs to the feet. So let's talk about the hierarchy. Yeah, you asked about the hierarchy. We are the legs. The legs are on the bottom and that's their job. If the legs decide one morning we're going on top of the head and we're going to walk on our head you know good luck I mean it's good for for a circus it's good for but generally they're at the end everybody understands that the is the head and the brain are above and superior. But if you want to walk says let's go here the whole experience of movement of motion of moving from one place to another place they had can do in addition to get movement transportation the hold up they're the pillars the midim have they hold up the gof and the whole so two things. So if the DJ decides that he doesn't need anybody and he's superior to everybody what happens a person is a very sick person the whole ability to be able to move from one place to another place here the turns to the and says I don't know how to do it I mean I can give instructions I can give directions but the bottom line is the legs need to carry you and the legs hold up the whole foundation two things he says We also see sometimes a person has a heaviness, an illness or a sickness or or a challenge is like a heaviness in the head. And one of the medical remedies that was very known in kazal and this time it's called kazam. Kazam means bloodletting. So where do you do it? What's the connection? The pain is in the head. Go to the head. Why taking out blood over the leg and the person could get healthier? and gets more life from it because the head cannot function in perfection and wholeness as a head without the the same as it's true within every organism. On one level the is the another level the gives so much to the when it comes to moving when it comes to the foundation of the body when it comes to health. The same is true with the whole he doesn't say he is even a guy even a guy he considers himself that he's ahead the other but you have to know that it's impossible to have it's impossible to function in your own maximum way with your own wholeness if you cut out If all you could do is dismiss and say, "Let's face it. I'm on top. You're on bottom." It's an internal emotion, you have to know, you will not be able to be who you are. You'll be missing a major part of yourself. So you think you're establishing yourself by dismissing the other. Really, what you're doing is you're you're harming yourself. >> You're isolating yourself. You're cutting off your from your which means that the is forever going to be a sick promoting collaboration. It's not a business uh proposal here but existentially. Yeah. He's not just promoting collaboration. He's describing the fabric of reality. Yeah. That's what he says. Even somebody who thinks he has to know. And if you're open to it, you will find that there are voids in your soul that only the other person can help you complete even if it's true that you're the and you're the right but if you want to move somewhere it's only with and as the other metaphors he gave. So there's a void there's a there's a flaw there's something missing in my neph that I need the other person's presence contribution life ideas emotions etc in order to complete And this creates a humility the other person instead of being governed by arrogance and horniness and dismissiveness and judgment. There's that's why before every person because this is true with every person in every person there's something that I could learn from that I could get and if not I'm not in touch with the organism of that means I'm cutting I'm cut off from reality. I'm like in my own little box. So that's why there's a but an expression in to the point that a real adam you don't find the beginning in the end. In other words become so deep that you can't describe it anymore. You're the beginning you're the end. In some ways you're the beginning and the other person is the end. In other ways he's the you're the surf. So you don't know what's the exactly like a circle. Where does it begin? Where does it end? I don't know that's aal everything in kadusha has this there's an element in kadusha where this exists where there's an where there's no >> so it's absolut >> this is yeah because kadush is always connected to kal so there is always this consciousness that governs that that's present >> you mentioned that the hierarchies are not absolute >> they're not absolute yeah >> the inverse is the absolute is the fact that there is no hierarchy that is the absolute not the other. >> Yeah. Or to put it differently that the hierarchy also reflects the truth that there's no hierarchy. That's a good hierarchy. That what makes that's what makes the hierarchy legit? What makes the hierarchy legit? What makes the head? Who gives the head the right to be able to be ahead and tell the f foot, we're going, we're not going. Stop putting your foot to the water. Who does that? The fact that the recognizes deeply that he's a channel for the energy, but that the energy is connected to everybody. I'm not the boss. I don't own this real estate. You know what I mean? I'm not a dictator. The moment becomes a dictator, he's a dictator. bring people availers. There's two types of leaders, right? I think Rabbi Jonathan said Sax was once talking about the Reb. He said you have leaders who create followers and then you have real leaders who create leaders. It's a whole different mode. If a leader is looking for followers, it's because I need you in order to be able to be on top. So now, not only do I not recognize, you know, the interconnectedness, I'm using you in order to be on top because to be on top, I need somebody on bottom, right? I got to sit on somebody if I want to be on top. The symbol of Egypt is the pyramids. What's the pyramids? You have all the people on bottom the slaves and then on them you have you know the higher level of slaves and the higher level of slaves and then the ministers and then more ministers and then it reaches a point the melik par who was like a demigod and I sit on everybody's back they are engaged in crushing labor and that's the pyramids the bas the symbol was the what's the exact opposite there's a base one base and then on that sit all the seven branches. That's the difference because in kadusha it's no it's so the leader also on the bottom the pyramids exact opposite that was the culture of Egypt. The culture of Egypt was everybody was here to support the power and the authority and the divinity quote unquote of par who was a demigod and therefore when he died he was mummified. in Yiddish is the opposite like it says in those who learn so says invited two of the to become leaders he need he wanted them to lead and they didn't want them it's out their humility so when they came to him they said you're making a mistake you think I'm trying to make you leaders I'm trying to make you slaves what's what do you think you big you're turning away. Don't worry, I'm not turning you turning you into he was trying to tell them something. It wasn't he talking about the and then and and the Gmor brings up that he told them that after Malik died became the king and the Jews came to him and asked him to lower the taxes because Schlma had very heavy taxes and it wasn't just money taxes people had to because he wanted to build a bik there was a very heavy building project and it was it took a big toll on the community financially and physically. So they asked to to relax it. So went and he asked for advice. So there were the elders and there were the younger. The elders told him, "If you're going to be an EVT for this nation, you'll succeed as a king." And the younger advisor said, "Go strong with them. Defy them. Crush them. Teach them a lesson." And he listened to the youngs to the young. And he said, "You think my father was bad? I will I will uh my father whipped you with rods and I will rip you with scorpions. I will increase it." In other words, he didn't let any room for he wanted to show a strong hand. He thought that will be successful. And that's when the rebellion happened and became the new king and the kingdom split forever till the never came back together. That was that moment did not understand what it means to be a mel. A melik means that you're more of an Evid. You're not less than a Nev. It's not so easy because what do you mean I'm the king? I became if to be an I don't have to be a king. But that's the you say wait a second but the melik if you and you have to be and that's all part of being an the moment it gets to his head pun intended. That's the whole here. The moment the head gets to your head you're not ahead anymore. It means you're more of an evid. You you don't look like ane in the sense that you're the king. You're the leader. But what does it mean to be a leader? It means to be a leader is you're more dedicated. It means you're more humble. It means you're more responsible. It means you have to be in tune with the needs and the pain and the anguish and the responsibility of every single one of the organs. It means you're an Evit 24/7. A regular EVT could go to sleep. You can't. The brain can't go to sleep. We go to sleep. If the brain goes to sleep, you know what happens, right? Thank god the brain doesn't go to sleep. So that's the you understand that's the a real senses this of what makes you ahead is that you're aware of more than everybody else. You're aware of this. That's what makes you ahead. What gives you the seat of consciousness that you're aware of the whole picture more than anybody else. The leg is a leg. The brain actually is aware of the whole picture. So then the brain says and what's my role here? My role is to channel it. So that's the idea. What makes you a kadusha is that you're more connected to say so you have that full full holistic picture. It's it's a dakian because it's it it comes down into very practical ways but it's also a very subtle energy. And it's true about it's true about a father. It's true about a mother. It's true about a rabbi. It's true about a leader. It's true about anybody who is everyone is a leader in their own way. Everybody is a melik. Everybody's ahead in their own way. This is the the moment you if it's how do you know if it's he says there's no there is in a functional way but there's no essentially and the moment there is you went out of kadusha and you went into clipons. Yeah, >> of course. Once you feel the actus, there's a sense of responsibility. There's a sense of oneness. And there's a sense that we need each other in a very real way. It's not like a joke. It's like the the head will say, "I don't need my arms and legs. They're just a nuisance. I have to take care of them. Let's cut it off." And then you know the brain is a sick brain. It's not a healthy brain. a real brain. If something is hurting the hand, that's what he's dedicated to. I want a holistic B. I want everyone to do their thing. Another very interesting thing is the healthier the brain is, the less it's threatened by every limb doing its own thing. If the head tells, stop being different. Just follow me. Just be like me. A good head means I want the heart to be a heart and I want the nose to be a nose and I want the liver to be a liver and I want the kidney to be a kidney and I want the pancreas to be a pancreas. I don't want the pancreas to be a heart. A real rush. Not only is it not threatened by diversity, it celebrates it because it's essential. If my heart is going to be a kidney and my kidney is going to be a spleen, it's going to be a I don't want you all to look like me. I want you to look like you. It's all part of the same. Yeah. So, every educator, every parent, every person in a position, every person is a leader there. It could be in your office, in your home, in yourself. This is the there's a and there's a but the moment it's not you don't feel the connection and the inter response the interconnectedness it's not a real that's that's the vert Yeah that's what he says through this what happens they could become united and channel the oneness of Hashem which comes from kadusha where there's no beginning and end. This is the key because so Hashem dwells in oneness. The moment we take the too seriously where it becomes fragmented, we're not channeling God's oneness anymore. That's why it's not. >> Yeah, it's already not channeling one. It went into a space where there's no oneness. In kadusha, there's no head and there's no end. What do you mean there's no? There is. But there's no You're always channeling the oneness through the That's what he was telling them. You think I'm turning you into a leader? I'm turning you into a servant. But if somebody in his das considers himself separate, fragmented in his greatness, in his milab his friend and he creates a between the beginning and the end. This is called means the world of fragmentation. The consciousness of fragmentation means a universe where the mindset is >> that's the is based on is based on so therefore inad even if there is differences and there has to be differences doesn't say there's no differences and in there's no differences in God is not a head or a leg or a heart or an arm it's one. So in when when when when when you feel that activism means you're channeling the oneness even though it's coming through different categories and different functions and different perspectives and different experiences. Just like in a jigsaw puzzle, every piece of the puzzle is different, but it's one picture. Or just like in a symphony, every musician is playing a different instrument or every vocalist may be using their own voice, but it's a harmonious experience. And that's exactly what an or a healthy organism is. You don't want every limb to do the same thing. On the contrary, the diversity becomes part of the blessing. But there's a condition here. They're all connected to a higher reality, a higher vision which is and that's what is channeled through them. The moment existentially I go into that place where I cut you off. In other words, where I'm really I'm just superior to you and there's this dismissiveness or contempt. Even if it's very very subtle, it's like the our hierarchy becomes absolute. I just became a I fell into a world of alma consciousness of fragmentation which was connected to it's such a subtle thing because it's very tempting because when you're on the bottom of the wrong this is very but when you're doing well we have this instinctive place you know let me uh you know let me enjoy the moment why not enjoy the moment so it's that's that's where you become a in one moment This turns you into a knifel. What's a knifel? You push it fall. You fall. You you you lose it. You lose the plot. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Disrupt the wholesomeness. That's what he says. It's very powerful. From what? From a It's a It's a It's a It's an electrical current in you that takes you away. Now we have this because there's a inside of us. But when the person is aware of it, they can say, "Oh, that's what looks like." [Music] >> That's the idea. >> That's the idea. Yeah. The gar says with an arrogant person, I can't live with him under the same roof. Why? Because of this. Because this is the real separation. >> God. >> Yeah. It's really taking over God. Yeah. This consciousness is really me replacing God. My ego replacing God. Right. And that's the idea of of the real we can't live together. Yeah. It's so so subtle. So so subtle. >> Huh. >> Okay. [Music] >> Yeah. Yeah, it's easier to f because you start thinking that I I I I you know God >> and and and I'm doing good things also. So there's what to justify it. It's a very subtle energy. It's a very very subtle energy. It's ultimately do you hijack the power for yourself or do you realize that you're just a humble channel? The Gmorrah says every Jew we bow down and then Hashem you come back up you bow down twice in the beginning and twice at the end but the you stand straight so the that's not a mel once he goes down if he stays down a wasn't so easy to have if you were meal he was down a whole time you know that very Fascinating. So if you wanted to pelt him with a that was a good time cuz he couldn't see he was down a whole time till the end. He has to stay down. You have a whole every standing up and the melik is down. I got sight. What's the havana? This is the dafa. Because he's a melik daf because he's a melik. He needs to incorporate this and engrave this in his heart much much more because it's so easy for him to hijack the energy the kani in the back of shul I'm not worried about him stand but the melik who has so much power and power corrupts an absolute power corrupts absolutely in the old apherism the old saying and he and especially if the melik is so there is there is something there and he's and he's a gone and he's a good guy and he and he and he and he's trying to do good things. So marsh if I hijack it for a few minutes if I take it a little seriously. So that's why da de got to be down a whole time. Now the melik more than anybody needs to have this engraved in him because the temptation is very very powerful. mentioned they have to work so hard. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Yeah. You have to be aware of all these things. We have to be aware of these voices and when they hijack us. The worst is when we turn the arrogance into holiness. It's like no it's not me. It's just for the toilet. >> It's just it's very subtle cuz yes sometimes being a leader you need to make decisions. You need to take responsibility. You need to be firm. But it's always connected to it's always connected to there's a there's a essential essential humility there that you're really really just embodying a higher reality that is not about you and Davka that's what makes you the most powerful leader in the world because you're channeling something true. You're channeling true and everybody fits in there and everybody has a place. The moment there's somebody who doesn't have a place there, it means it's clipper. Because if it's kadush, if God made him, right? Don't tell me my pinky is useless because you don't understand what my pinky does. If you're a real brain, you know that my pinky is not useless. And don't tell me my nail is useless. And don't tell me that the hair is useless cuz you don't understand it. If you were a real brain, you understand that every strand of hair does something and every nail does something. And every nuda is meaningful and indispensable. That's what makes you a brain. So the moment you don't see the unique functionality and purpose and beauty like he says in the leg or in any nikuda it means you're not channeling that energy. You're you're on your own ride you know you have your own little steps to jump out. >> Exactly. Right. Right. Yeah. I once saw an article from the rabbi I think in so he said an interesting story. It was it was the IM the was um was the Gerba the Mard alter. He passed away in 1948. It was the middle of the war. So they buried him in the courtyard. He was a son of the so uh he came to stroll. He was in Poland obviously in G is not far from Warso. And he was saved. He and some of his family was saved. Not everybody. And he was install. was near Shallay and uh he was already an older man and he was quite weak. He wasn't feeling well and it was the you know the ma it was the night of Rashana. Now Rashana after Davening the say was that people would go by and he would wish everybody like the um so he he was sitting on his couch or in his chair in his house after after Maid he was already very weak. It was I think the year he passed away or a year before 1947 48 that time he passed away I think where's our G there I think okay anyway so uh so they came by people went by and it's finished um this was knowing that people would go by and he would bless them so already after the line was done The Gabby hears knocking on the door and he didn't want to. He felt it's not right. Imra was old and weak and it's disturbing him and it's a headache. So he did not uh Oh, I just asked who is the wow and the >> look who walks in. Okay, so uh so uh the Gabby the Gabby doesn't open the door. He ignores them. He's not doing it. He so uh the Imra asks him he went to look I guess and he comes back and he says in other words basically you're not responsible for these guys you know what I mean they don't so to speak I mean he didn't say you know they're not paying taxes they're not building our community fine I don't have you don't have to so uh they told says that I think he heard it from from the from the I think I mean he heard it from somebody somebody who was there or somebody who knew the story and he said that was so uh he was so hurt and he says and he fired him. He fired him and then he says he had to ask a lot of and send people until he got him he got his job back. He got his job back. But this is a very subtle thing. Yes. He doesn't he doesn't send his kids to my he doesn't build my community. Right. >> Yeah. Especially and and there's a certain element in it, right? People who send their kids to my school and they pay tuition and they're part of my community. I mean there's a connection, right? You're responsible for for your children. We understand that. Everybody can understand that. But the moment he said that was like a stab in the back especially on any day of the year but so it's a very it's a very very subtle thing and in every person's life it's true and you have to understand there's a temptation in doing this because it it's good it's it's you know it's preparing a for yourself it's a comfort zone I have my kids I have my empire I have my mala Even if I'm not money hungry, I'm not money hungry. I may not be money hungry. I may be a good guy. I'm not a Ghana. I'm not a Golin. It's a very subtle energy. And the higher you are on top, the more subtle the more subtle energy can corrupt very deeply because it's very sensitive. It's like in the brain, a little scratch in the brain is not like a little scratch on the hand. Scratching a scratch in the brain can affect the whole organism and everything becomes rotten and decadent. And that's why when leaders don't really get this, they don't study it, they don't work in it, they don't understand it. It's a on every level because it's like an affection in the brain, you know, in in in neurological neurological real estate is different. You have to be very careful with the brain because what touch what happens in the brain affects the entire system. So when the person on the top, you know, when parro is on the top, it affects the entire system. The entire system is a system of slavery of of of tyranny. When the one on the top has this bum because he knows it of and the fact that I'm a it means I'm an eid much more than a leader. And why was I chosen? Because God wanted to choose me and my whole is a channel. I have to be more sensitive to this because I'm the right is more sensitive to the needs of the body. Then then you channel that you channel that it's also true with therapists. I don't want to leave the therapist alone. A patient is sitting there. The patient is there could just be a little wow look my life. I got it together. Just one thought that's it. You're in the wrong job. Look at this loser. It's he doesn't tell it to anybody. He doesn't say it to his wife. He doesn't say it, but he says it to himself. It's very subtle. That's it. And it's we're human. We have that. But you have to know it's it's I just became a maybe for five minutes. I could come back. But that's that's called an ail. That's an ail. I went into that space. It's a space of judgment. It's a space of dismissiveness. It's a space of absolute hierarchy. It's it's it's a space where the kipa is trying to hijack us in order to keep us in a place of ego not in a place of b which is a normal thing. I want to feel good about myself and if I don't feel good about myself from my ble I need my yeseshes to make me feel good about myself. So if I could say look I'm a success story and you're a failure and a loser and I just think about it it works for two minutes I feel good about myself till I get the next text and then I need something else. What's a good tool to stop yourself awareness? This keeps on happening. >> This keeps on happening. Yeah. The keep it's really it's it's really like experiencing. Wow. Wow. The sit is doing very well today. Let's just come back. It's almost like bringing it back. It's not even fighting it. It's not like fighting it because this is how it works. This is how it works. It needs those hierarchies. It needs those divisions. It keeps me small, safe, and in control. It keeps me in a powerful place. accept yourself first. >> Yeah, that's also true. That's that's also true. When you know who you really are, you don't need to do this. Why does the brain not have a problem with giving space for all the organs? Why doesn't the brain feel competition? Because the brain realizes that it's the greatest thing in the world. What makes the brain so amazing is that the arms are amazing, the legs are amazing, the toes are amazing. Right? The brain doesn't need everybody to be and favund and and and dead in order for the moment you know who you really are. Nobody's competing with you. Like you don't need you don't need to put somebody down in order to feel good about yourself. The only time I have to do that is if I really hate myself. If I really don't have a real core, right? Which is what the ego does. It takes over. So yeah, you know, it's really coming back. It's leaning back. It's Huh. Yeah. It's learning it and and and internalizing it like living with it. It's it's breathing into it. It's taking it in. Right. Everybody's everybody's everybody's frustration. Work together. You see how you can >> Yeah. It's giving everybody a voice. It's giving literally everybody a voice. >> It's not just autopilot like there's a system, you're part of the system, you fit in, you don't fit in. There's a presence, there's a sensitivity, right? And when when when when when such a head makes decisions, it's coming from a different place. It's very inclusive. Yeah. They say the balv was debating with the Frankiston the it was Jacob Frank. Jako Frank was a student of Shabitzvi and he propagated Shabit's Mashagasan after he died. Huh? >> He was his promoter. >> Yeah. After he died and then the Mashiah has to go to Islam and take theas from there. It was a disaster. And they had a whole group in Poland debated them. And then at the end they they they they converted it's put in I saw once in that was crying they said why are you crying said an aul even a limb every Jew is an a it's part of the even an a that's dangling hopefully you can you can bring it back once you cut it off it's lost and that's what he was crying in other words he felt and these were these were his arch enemies a real arch enemy enemies and Afelain he felt the pain you know sometimes you have to amputate an organ if it's so diseased if it's so rattled with disease it's going to endanger the whole body you know you cut off there's nothing to do right even kabad houses who would be mikat of everybody you know if yoshka comes in I'm not sure they're going to be a mat to the minion because there's there's some things that's just it's too dangerous you have to know you have to know a Ro knows this thing has to be amputated but Band was crying because he felt the pain. It's not easy to amputate a part of of the gof. So it's it's really aishned says I think that when they execute somebody who's death penalty. So what does the say while they're killing him? So he says, "Hashem says my head I have a migraine headache. My arm is killing me." So explain because every Jew is an a of the And when the a is going through this so the is crying my head hurts, my arm hurts. It's interesting I think this says because it's says so his head hurts and his arm hurts. But that's what a says because there's that sensitivity. It also gives us a little bit of explanation what a real manager means. People don't understand. People think a Jewish leader, right? You're on top, you get a lot of cover. They don't understand the intensity of it. what it really means to have a bird's eyee view of the whole system and to realize how responsible every person is in the in the in the expansiveness and in continuing this energy and that you were chosen to be a channel for all of that. It's a very very intense experience you know and you can't flinch you can't flinch because it's like this like the brain you can go to sleep it's a very uh powerful exper and that everybody has a place over there if one person doesn't have a place there it's not it's not if it's real if it's the real emis everybody has a place there >> always always yeah You remember everybody's >> huh? >> I remember when I was a kid once there was a yidden and mentally he was very very challenged. He had a lot a lot of challenges. He would walk in the street you know you could see that uh you had a lot of mental struggles and uh you know in the olden days you would call it you would call I'm you would say I'm he had a lot a lot of issues so uh I remember once I and I was just there punked by 770 and the was either coming in or going out that I don't remember and this yid was there And uh it was already days that there was no yikidis that the later years it was too many people. So the wouldn't see people privately just by dollars you can go by and say but there was no no private private in his room but you could always write everybody could write and the everyone there was a box you put in the secretaries weren't even allowed to open the envelopes the didn't let them open the envelope so everybody you could send anything then mage the last last few months or years or whatever hearts or I think would open but in any case but I saw this it was probably the early 80s some point I don't remember maybe 83 84 85 that time. So Yikid then stopped. So this was there I still remember and the Reb was walking in or walking out for 770 and he goes over and he stretches out his hand with an envelope and I think either Rabbi Label Groner was standing there or Byman Klein one of the Reb's secretaries and they knew this guy very very well. So they understood that this letter you know is could be 30 pages of who knows Mashagas. So really I think with very good intentions I doubt it was anything but that like the gab of one of them stuck out his hand to to the envelope you know he wanted to filter it basically was and I still remember you know the had eyesim and the moment he saw that he he stared at this secretary like he looked at him and he took his hand and the secretary was about to take it the took his hand and took it from him I remember put it in his bosom And it was a very powerful moment because it was like like at don't interfere in the ability of people having a direct connection and sharing what they want. And I still remember how he took it and he put it into his bosom like I'll I'll deal with it. But he stared at his secretary. It was like so intense like like that was an he did not appreciate that. No, it was just a lesson because part of that is that you have direct communication every you need direct feedback. The moment leaders don't have real feedback from the people and it goes through, you know, you don't know what the people are say. You don't know the people. Everything gets filtered through and and through this and it's it's a problem because you don't have access. You have to have access to the people. You have to know what they're dealing with. If you don't know what they're dealing with, they can't even write a letter straight to you. So, you could become cut off and it's dangerous. It happened. It happens to people, leaders. They're good people, but they have a whole they have a whole that this person comes in, this person doesn't come in. So, it it could it could unfortunately it could be very manipulative. People could be exploited, you know, even if they have good intentions. It's not necessarily Huh. That's why one of the kings went around, >> right? >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, let's finish the paragraph. is the day of what's from the word return that the whole collective entity of return back to their everybody comes back to the maker. So it's almost like you would say when every part of the body can identify its place in the brain. We all know that in the brain you have every nuda of the body is included in the brain, right? That's why there's a damage in a certain element of the brain and it affects a certain part of the body and you have to be able to find that source in the brain. There's nothing that doesn't have a source in the brain. All the buttons are there in the brain. Everything because it can't be in the body if it's not in the brain. That's like the central, you know, uh what's the word? Huh? >> The command center, the central nervous system, right? That's the command center. Everything is there every a and every is rooted in the gof in the so that's why it's everything comes back to the and over there you see the unique functionality and contribution indispensable significance of every single one of the so that's the idea comes back to the mak that's represents the thought process that's in the head. You have parts of the body that represents words, actions, behaviors. But is so what's the heads of the people that means of all of the entire nation the heads of the people means the of so is the time of the coronation. of the king becomes the so what happens then the of the whole come back together what's the idea so he says what often happens is that the of the of the people get scattered zelikan your makov is here my makov is here it's in a world of fragmentation what happens on rash what mean the heads of people doesn't only mean the leaders. It means the state of the comes together back to the place of it becomes a what's a public domain where everybody does their own thing. That's definition. You're walking in your direction. I'm walking in my direction. You're going here. I'm going here. You just made money. This guy lost money. Right? You ever go on? What's fascinating is you walk on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, right? So there's like 200,000 people. Everybody's on their phone and everybody's in a different place. This one is on top of the world. He just made $5 million. This one just lost $5 million. This one is going to his wedding. This one is coming from his divorce, right? And you look at it and everybody thinks that they're the center of the world. You ever see that? It's like fascinating. 200,000 people walking. Everybody's on their phone bumping into polls, right? But in your mind, in my mind, what I'm busy with, this is it. And in your mind, what you're busy with, this is it. That's what is what's so is a state of consciousness the come together there's a there's an interconnectivity huh and it's very you see it very much in relationships like in marriages right you can have a house it's what makes it not necessarily they're fighting but their makavas are not in sync I look at it I'm busy with my makas you're busy with There's no organism. What makes a relationship is it means in all the people are part of a oneness in but here he's explaining it emotionally and that's why you let it carry from what's the big deal. What's the big deal? Because this is really what it is. Because it's a completely different reality means we're all on different pages. Means we're on one page. Why? Because of the are in sync. That's what a body is, right? The nervous system channels. There's a oneness. There's a perspective. It's called being in flow. Your whole body is working in together in synchronicity. It's called synchronization. The of come together from the they're channeling his oneness. That's what makes the makavas work together. We're channeling oneness. If you're channeling oneness and I'm channeling oneness, the makavas are in sync. I'm going to channel it in my own way. You're going to channel it in your way. But they're in sync. It's doesn't mean one person lives there. In you can have a million people but they're in it's called a single domain a private domain. Why? Because it's God's domain. It's one it's a means whose domain is it? I don't know. Everybody you're the I'm the you can have 10 million people right? If you have the of you have and all the of you can have two million people whatever all the all the you need but makes from many it makes one. Why? Because we're all part of so I was busy with this. I was busy protecting my ego. You're busy protecting your ego. At best, our relationships are transactional. I do this for you, you do this for me. That's is a place of business. It's transactional. Of course, we could work together. People in work together the whole time. That's what they do. There's stores, there's markets, whatever it is. So, you need but it's transactional. So, I'm busy with my salary, you're busy with your salary, but you could be a benefit. You're a buyer. So, I give you fruits and you give me money and we're both happy. Fine. It's a transactional relationship. when you go home, stop being transactional. It's not transactional. I did this for my wife, so now you did this for me. Okay, but you did this yesterday, but so we have like a, you know, checklist. It's called scoring points. You take out the garbage on Sunday, you take out the garbage today, you cook dinner. It's not that people can't make systems, but when it becomes essentially transactional, in other words, it's about you do this and therefore I reciprocate, I do this, you stop doing this, I stop doing that. What's the problem? What's we want to be fear not being transactional doesn't mean you're not fear. It means you're telling one story. It means you're part of a higher story that is one that is channeled through different people. That's a very different idea. There's a heartbeat where there's a sync. There's just the experience of the other that itself is the tlas. We're both experiencing the oneness. So it's not transactional anymore. It's experience the beauty of the other as the other without agendas. Your I'm saying this is very uh this is very serious stuff in life. It's a different type of life. It's a difference between and that's the difference of death. >> That's the truth. Yeah. Yeah. >> It's very difficult. >> It's very difficult because of clip. But the truth is the truth is that I think that the being in clip is much more difficult because it's torturous. You always have to you always have to compensate. I'm always chasing my own tail. I always have to think ahead and manipulate. It's a very painful place to be. Huh? It's it's a place of lies. It's a place of torture. We go there because it's easy. But it's it's it's it's like a microwave. It's just fast and easy. But it's it's it's really long term it's it's it's long term it becomes torturous because I always have to second guess myself I have to lie I have to be deceptive I have to I'm always calculating I have to be ahead of the game you know it's like being a shark it's very very tough it's like a jungle even if I'm a nice guy >> yeah it's all part of that >> it's all part of that >> huh yeah so That's the idea of B. So he's ting the of the because the is the in other words we're not talking about an external thing. We're talking about the inner consciousness of the you bring your back into sync. Why is this so important? Because in relationships you see this. People will say you know people are sitting and talking and they're arguing and they're debating and something is not working and really what you want to ask the people is not even about behavior. It's about your makava. Where's your makavas taking you? Are your makavas taking you back to perh back to pir can you bring your mak and it's a very internal thing so they they'll have let's say a husband and a wife right and they're really it's it's hard between them it's not simple and it's it's not about so you'll say but you did this you did this you said this you did this you got to go to you have to go to the makas what's your maka telling me what's my maka telling me about this person what's your maka telling you about me and you'll see I don't trust I'm scared I'm isolated. I'm lonely. Um, I think you're selfish. I think you're nar Whatever it is, that's that that's the place. Can I look at those makas and say, I understand where you're coming from. You need to protect yourself, but if you want to make this work, can we bring the into you say, I can't. If I start trusting you, you'll kill me. Okay? So, but that that's where it is. You see, that's where the fragmentation is. It's very subtle because people could be very civil. Good people are civil. They're mentioned. We're not talking about they're civil. They're nice, but they're are not trusting. I'm not I'm not going out of my state and I protect myself. So, it's transactional. Huh? And when what does this mean on that of which is could come together and sync and this where everyone has a unique role to play and yet they're completely one because the hierarchy doesn't undermine the of because essentially you're just channeling the oneness through your own se or through your own form. And finishes, this is the general picture. And then he starts off and will continue tomorrow 8:00 a.m. Everybody have a beautiful day. Thank you for coming. [Music]