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Likutei Moharan Class by Rabbi Yoeli Klein - Continuing Torah Aleph at Scheiner's Shul
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All right. So, we were learning Allah
from the Maran. We had already two Shir
just to catch up basically what the Reb
was saying um to go into the ending and
to hopefully finish the Tyra tonight.
So, was saying that through through
learning to all
your very interesting way uh of
understanding things and he explains
that there's something called
let's say which is an or which is like
the sun and that is very very powerful.
It illuminates everything in life.
However, in order to get to that you
have to have as he explains
there's
so is just whatever it sees that's what
it wants and that's what it takes and
that's what is the surface of everything
is what is and therefore he's going to
lead his life just like that. Whatever
he feels like at this particular moment
and he sees as being the truth of this
second based on the surface of
everything that's what he takes
that's
but is that he wants to see the he wants
to see that there is more to what's
happening everything that is is just the
surface of something that's deeper and
he's always always seeking for something
deeper he says how do you give to that
that that malus of kadusha he says
through learning to through learning
Torah strongly like we said in the other
maybe means just with power with energy
it also could mean that you learn it
slowly and clearly so that you
understand it well but either way he
says that these two ideas of learning
and the are the and the is the
learning it's the as he explains and the
the is the is the he says that when you
have both of these things together they
create and together is so what does that
do so he says that that as the missing
ingredient for why archist are not
necessarily answered sometimes when we
talk or when we ask anyone for
something. So if his heart is open, so
to speak, so then it goes right into his
heart and then he's like, "Ah, yes, I'll
do whatever you want." If his heart is
closed, so then okay, you know, you get
faced with plenty of collectors here and
shiners every day and some people just
say things and you're like, "Ah, I want
to give this person money." And then
other people are like, and you're like,
"No, I don't want to get money." You
know, it's it's a matter of when you
when your heart opens. So the Reb says
that when you have this you learn to and
therefore your all of your kingship is
connected
to then all of a sudden everything opens
up and then cuz you have the when you
come to then says ah you have you're
asking so beautifully everything just
opens up in's heart it's like almost
engraving a place in Hashem's heart and
then is the together with the tv. The t
he said was a was like a it
was of engraving. So he says that that
engraves basically engraves into so to
speak and all of your are answered. So
let's go to the end of the um there not
so many markers here but it's the
beginning of a paragraph. It
says by me it's like the fourth
paragraph in the beginning of the he
said that is
the which is a very tremendous
light therefore he was here now the
rabbi is going to seemingly go through
some like proof texts and then a gamar
from and then back to the in the
beginning of the um but we're going to
see that there's there's additions and
each time the rabbi speaks about these
things he he kind tweaks and add certain
elements which if you delve more deeply
then you could find more and more.
Therefore, he
was says gave me he was he was he gave
me the gift
of and this makes sense why would is an
element of but he's not just the element
of he's the element of that's accessible
meaning the rebb said over here that is
something that's very powerful it's like
a but the or is too bright but the
sadikim they take the and they take the
they take the Torah and they learn it
strong powerfully and therefore they're
able to connect to it to connect to the
um therefore since Jacob was the aspect
of this person that had he was able to
bless his kids
with that when and this was bas a lot of
these now that we speak about are when
was coming after Yak and As says where
all these these people you have this
huge camp you know we left you were just
alone and Now couple years later the
Jews came. He says these are the the
children that was that was graced me. Um
and it's not so clear over here because
it says that
heavu gave the blessing of therefore
when he was expressing who these people
were to he said these are the ones that
I' I've been blessed with and I've
blessed them
with not there because he
was not yet
born. Therefore his brother gave him
the many many years later and he said
give you should give you grace. So it's
interesting that that that's what he
gave him because that's what he's saying
over here that the whole idea is that is
the element of because he has both
both
and he was blessing all his children
with
this. Now if all of his children got it,
so why was the one to
give because had more of the strength of
this was more inclusive of who
was that's not the literal way of
tightening up the usually you put the
comma over
there so to speak so on and so forth.
But um the Z and many other
explained was the full of the of the
giving over of the tradition was given
to they were like
one in the end of when we hear
the which really means like a majestic
sh was um how do you touch it like a
firstborn sh and his majesty but the Reb
is going to take apart the and show how
it refers to what he was
saying. Is the aspect of we
said to gaze
of you have to gaze to look
at light. What does that have to do with
anything?
is like a
shine of
light
illuminates for the person in every
single
way even in a place where it's very very
dark or was dark
illuminates
it to see what it
is then to come close to Hashem through
that it's interesting
that of
Reb uses again and again this of to gaze
to look. So a lot of times we have the
lion of
histo and with back bad things. So what
is histoloas? Histolas is it means to
gaze it almost means to steer like we
say don't stare at the at the ladies you
know like don't you stackle there. What
what is it that someone's steering? Like
why would anyone steer? You know, you
look at what you want to look at, what
you're supposed to look at, but then
something catches your eye, an
advertisement, a person, this or that.
There's something happening there. Wow.
You you you all of a sudden you steer at
it, you know, like sometimes someone
staring at another person because it's
something. So the Reb is saying over
here is that Hashem is everywhere.
Hashem is in every single thing and
every single moment that we are in. So
therefore, we have to steer steer at the
existence that we're going through.
stare at everything that you're looking
at and and look at it with the eyes of
wonder that was right now in a
conversation in a in a an embrace with
me and whatever is happening right now
and to just give that histo like to look
and to realize everything that's
happening over here is is from and
unbelievable the there there's um it
just struck me once that we
say the earth is filled with it's filled
it's filled and it struck me once Maloy
is m from not. It has the word not not
like no. It sounds interesting that the
word to represent who fills all of earth
is no. So then I thought about deeper
and m is taka exactly how we could we
could understand it. We go along life
and things flow. The light turns green.
We go through it. We got a good parking
spot in the front of Sha's not across
the street. Everything's going or we
park in the rabbi spot. So whatever it
is, we go and and things are flowing
okay and we say Hashem, thank you.
Hashem, thank you. Hashem is beautiful.
Amazing. But to the deepest depths,
maybe maybe we're not a thousand% sure
that Haku is there. Things are rolling,
things are good, things are working out.
Then all of a sudden, we hit something.
I was just now kids. I was like, "Okay,
we'll make the first barbecue of the
year, you know, nice day." a couple of
the kids. So, I got some hot dogs, a
little chicken, and we turn on the grill
that's been there for 25 years. The same
Weber grill. It's been knocking for
years and years and years. We turn it on
and we're we're grilling away and then
we start to see like some flames and
it's very strange that we're seeing
flames. So, like, okay, you know,
barbecue grills sometimes get like a
nice up, you know, some oil and all of a
sudden the whole thing was on fire. We
had a thing of water. reported out like
it was like mom was like fire flying
everywhere. It wasn't normal. Like
basically melted the bottom part that
was feeding it gas and everything. So
I'm like okay the sader okay plan A
doesn't work. We take all the halfcooked
food and we put it into the oven my nice
digital oven that's been working for for
3 4 years pretty new. And we turn it on
to broil. Nothing's going on. It's like
like 100°. So I'm like okay. So play
with it again and again. The thing is
broken. So I'm like okay. I found some
pan. I start cooking everything up. I
tried to salvage run the show. We made
it happen just in the nick of time.
That's why I'm a little late. But then
the good is that if I was running the
show, the grill would have worked.
Everything would have been on time. I
would have been exactly on time. The
kids would have been sleeping already.
Everything would have been perfect. But
says, "Sometimes you see why ash and
then I met this guy and I made a million
dollars." But often you don't see the
million dollars. You don't see what
happened. But you know me from all the
nos that says yeah yeah you think that's
gonna work no you think that's gonna
work then no saying I fill the
earth I I don't have any delusions that
I feel I didn't do that because if it
was up to me I wouldn't do
it that says I don't know you know he
knows exactly what he's doing and he's
telling us and really the deepest love
is that he's just telling us I exist
take it easy I have everything under
control everything's good. You just keep
flowing with me and recognizing that I'm
in control and that's the greatest
goodness that you could possibly get. So
that was just a thought from this idea
of that we're we're always gazing we're
always looking not necessarily we're
always going to find that in the sense
that we're going to understand every
single thing in the world but we're
going to find the deepest which is that
there's
there's now the ends off with one of the
uh the bunch of in the beginning of the
he's going to go through the which are
these extremely esoteric mystical far
out um
gumaras and babas
And uh my kids just got a a kids book
with these Rabana stories all written
out and it in the book they made it
sound like they're all dreams. But I
went and said this one of I was eating
by
Kramer's and someone said that all these
things are all just uh you know they're
not real. He pulled out a nadim or
somewhere and he looked up at a marsha
and he just showed him that they're
masha holds that you have to learn all
these kut. But either way the reb is
learning them up as what they mean but
then he's expounding upon them and
showing you deeper depths of what these
gar could be referring to. That's one
nuda. Another nikuda is that from what I
understood in the impressive is that
every single time the reb brings down
these stories and these afterwards
there's always an addition he's proving
the he learned till now from in amazing
ways but he's always going to you're
always going to find an addition if you
look deeper deeply enough and over here
it's very very uh very blet it's very
very clear what the additions are and
we're going to see that now when the
rabbi goes through this so raana says
like this hi gala then these stories are
mamish like Disney. They're they're out
of this world.
Um, there was a wave. We were going on a
ship. Many of these stories aren't
ships. And there was this massive tidal
wave that was threatening to sink the
ship.
And it seemed like it was like a spark,
the with a fire that was white at its
head. Beria on its head. Now, the Reb
adds in the rash over here. Rashbam is
the pish on this.
The Reb is not just adding in pers just
to have the pi but he brings this into
the whole explanation of the which is
quite unbelievable that he's explaining
this based on the with
the so what did there was this huge wave
that was about to you know delu the ship
so they took a stick that had engraved
on it which is name and they beat the
wave and the wave went down and they
were saved
Wild, great, amazing story. Great, great
little clip to do. What does it mean? So
now the Reb is going to
explain. So he says the gala
is this is referring to the PK that he
brought down in the beginning where he
spoke about
the kingship, but it's on it's from the
from the side of evil. They explained
with the
um the fool does not desire wisdom. He
doesn't desire to understand things. He
just whatever his heart is feeling,
whatever his heart is gal, whatever his
heart is showing right now, I want to
eat. I want to sleep. Everything that's
what it is. So the gal is just whatever
is revealed the superficial feelings of
whatever anyone's feeling without going
any deeper. So that's the metabolis
threatening
to sink the ship. What is the
ship? Something that's hidden. Something
that's very hidden is something that's
right. The um the gold and the silver
are in Fort Knox. They're not hanging
out in the streets. Hanging out in the
streets is less less stuff. So anything
that's really hidden hidden is really so
here he's saying that it was
coming to sink and to throw down the
this aspect of like you started off in
the of holy that you're looking to see
what's deeper what's really going on and
not just grabbing whatever you feel like
that the is always trying to overwhelm.
Now he explains
It looks like this white fire
that a fire with white a white tip. What
does that
mean? In the beginning doesn't just come
to a guy. He's sitting and learning and
he's diving and
he's he says what are you doing? Just go
have a beer and hang out. What are you
sitting in? He comes and he says, "You
know, you need a break right now. You've
been learning for so long. It's going to
be a big big talis if you go out and
have few cookies and some coke and hang
out with the boys and have a cigarette.
It'll refresh you." He comes with
mitzvah and he says, "It's a mitzvah to
do it." Even though really where you
were holding, you could have gone for
another five, 10 minutes, even another
two minutes. But comes in, he says,
"It's a mitzvah to stop. It's a mitzvah
to go do something else." He he
mislabbish like the famous line on him.
speak you know on such a point is that
he comes with mitzvah and that's
why what does this mean so explain it's
a white fire so fireish the thing we
always speak about the passion you have
to have passion talking it's white white
is so he's talking about a fire that's
white
but ends off and he's reading into every
word of the bam it's a white fire so it
seems like amazing
But it's not. It seems like a mitzvah.
It's coming with all the dressings of a
mitzvah, but it's
the that's obvious addition that the Reb
wasn't stressing before that the always
starts off with kind of kind of um
seducing us in ways that we think that
we're doing the right thing and they're
messing us up.
And in the story took a stick that was
engraved. What does this
mean? Like he explained it in in this in
this mime that the way to subjugate
through is what is it? It's just the of
this is something you look in the
footnotes he brings down from around 20
sources. And the Reb speaks about this a
lot in one of the I was learning earlier
this year. Um and it's that the toy the
the toy is basically one big shame of
but when you want to call someone you
call him by his name and it's very
beautiful because you call someone by
the name and they come right away they
come to you the whole being comes to you
because everything is in encapsulated in
the name of someone but being that the
the is so large gave us a gift of the
has in its totality is one long 600,000
letter name of Hashem but how do we
access that we
learn. We learn each word, each pik,
each letter and it makes sense and we
learn we learn morals out of it and we
learn out of it and we and we we see all
sorts of beautiful things from the and
that's the basic way that each time that
we're saying this from each time that we
say a word in the we learn it. We're
basically taking a little
microm and we're which is Hashem's name
and we're we're calling Hashem. We're
just saying Hashem, Hashem, Hashem,
Hashem. Every word that you say you're
saying, it reminds me of a story that I
just once randomly walked into. I
thought I was coming for the but
apparently I got the wrong night and it
was the kabales here. So I didn't
understand one word that he was saying
and he was going on and on with Sheamus
and Sheamus and Zak and Zach and and it
was all in the first three words of
of he was going this and that and
Sheamus and everything. I was just
listening and just looking at his face.
It's beautiful. It's awesome. It's fire
the nephesh and they don't understand
anything at the end of the show there's
a that's always very like and he's like
very and he says okay so you told us
that is
this when we're saying what do we think
what do we say what do we mean so he
smiled and he
goes has every word that you say it's
just hashem
What are you speaking about and this
everything is just calling out to
Hashem. So the Reb says over there in
that every single word of just saying
Hashem
Hashem you're just calling Hashem but
it's in ways and that are small enough
that you could absorb it and then when
you absorb more and more and moreish get
the tremendous level of connection
through that. So that's why he's saying
that the
is so that's nice. The Torah is of
Hashem but the Torah is also an aspect
of why. So the first thing
is it says in the Gmorrah
was contrary to all of the ten
commandments that are these big
rectangular
rounded were square they
were there 6x6 they have this element of
that's that's in their
sides in the story took ana stick which
is
sticks so it had engraved in
of like we said that it was the is
also now again it's all spinning around
the same idea there's because the were
the is of and this
stick the letter VV is like a stick like
a little stick you hold on to
it the
is we said before that this huge wave
that was coming to sink the ship was
actually the was trying to overcome the
of so how do you get rid of that? How do
you bite? How do you beat that? Only
through
the is adding another huge huge um idea.
He's saying we have to through the what
is trying to do to
every this beautiful is coming to make
manish crazy just totally mentally
when gets into a person famous
line that said he said that I never met
anyone normal until I met people were
like until you met was the least normal
human being that anyone ever saw video
he's talking about someone
you know, fasted from shabas to shabas.
when he got older he did this from from
you know 4 in the morning till 9 at
night straight uh crying and then you
know he would sit by kdesh sometimes for
3 hours in the vac like was revealing
like is normal and he explained yeah
because the rebs says over here that
anyone who
has mentally insane like he says over
here the next line like it says in
inra's crazy
you
have was a huge sadic and he was running
after to kill him and then after the
whole story and it says you
got this crazy to kill and afterwards it
says that you have to believe that he's
a huge so every single person has this
that's
sayingb had very very little if not any
if anything he was normal didn't have
everyone else we're all little Mish a
little crazy varying degrees. So he's
saying that the makes a person crazy.
Mish crazy now. So he's going to explain
how that has to do with with uh with
what we were
saying is a very interesting line just
like at least for sure in the 1800s if I
I mentioned this line on my breast today
and yesterday in the was was a little
bit up in arms and they said basically
he's talking about genuinely um crazy or
criminal psych psychotic people that the
only way to deal with psychotic people
that are mish that could kill people and
things like that you have to put them in
straight jackets and lock them
way also in those olden days they would
have people that you know would be
possessed with debbooks and things like
that and they had to use all sorts of
incantations amulets and stuff like that
I don't think you see it as much today
but the idea is that they would put them
they would beat them to make sure that
they recognize that what they're doing
is insane wrong and they can't do it and
they would put sheamus on
them so is an aspect of sticks like we
explained it was vav is a
and it was
all with
this we beat and we
subjugate and you can get rid of all
this insanity that has entered into us
into a
man right it was basically that the
stick had what does that mean it It's
meaning it was the stick in the shell is
the idea of having um the which
is to beat down and to and to uh
extricate the from within just to to
bring that nuda out maybe in a way
that's slightly more palpable for for
nowadays
um sense of a stick and to put Sheamus
and stuff if you want to put it down to
more of like today's day and age.
So there's um I would understand it that
when a person's doing a veroa, when a
person feels that desire to do an a
vera, so the first thing is you have to
you have to beat them with a stick. You
have to be strict. You have to have
boundaries and you have to say, "Listen,
I know that right now you're feeling
like you want to do this. Just try not
to do it. Just you have to let's say
they had a guy with filters on the phone
filtering your phone. do everything you
can to make sure that you're protected
and that you're not going to fall into
this thing and you're not going to have
the test. And even when you're having
the test, just try not to do it. There
was a famous story, I think it has a
little bit to do with it with the uh
with the Turkey prince, the famous story
from that the prince of the king became
crazy and went naked under the table
pecking at the at the crumbs under the
table and he said, "He's a turkey." And
so everyone came and they had all the
psychologists and psychiatrists and the
magicians and everyone. No one could
heal the the the the turkey prince. He
was he was a turkey until one adviser
said, "Just listen to what I say. Follow
my orders." And it's going to seem
crazy, but just listen to me. And he got
naked himself and he went on the table
pecking away just like the prince. So
the guy the prince looks up after a
while and goes, "What in the world are
you doing here? Are you crazy?" He says,
"What are you doing here?" He says, "I'm
a turkey." He says, "I'm also a turkey."
Okay. So they were turkeys. They were
having a great time pecking away. At a
certain point he, you know, points that
he should get his underwear. So he puts
on his underwear. And then Turkey prince
goes, "What are you doing?" He goes,
"What? I can't be a turkey and wear
underwear." Okay. So the turkey prince
also put on underwear and so on and so
forth. He got dressed. Finally they were
dressed. Finally he sat at the table.
Each time he would say, "What? Turkey
can't sit at the table." The nikuda was
that eventually he was totally healed.
He was an insane turkey, but he was
sitting at the table like a mench acting
like a prince. And what's is that
there's ways to bring normality even
though we might be crazy and know might
be doing crazy things and crazy times
but there are ways that we can we can
bring the stick like I think the bala
says that to to to um to tie us with
cords of tremendous love. The stick also
could be love when a person is filled
with and energy and love. So that also
has a tremendous kayak. You know they
say that the tyra form is corroborated
with the ta for learning tra when a
person learns a that they really enjoy
that they get a from. So that breaks all
the so whenever you have all these
things always have something that we can
hopefully beat with a stick. The other
idea is
that names that also when a person is
faced with often it very much helps just
to name it right a person's angry. So
they're angry. They're not thinking that
they're angry. They're just angry. This
guy, I'm gonna kill him. I'm gonna burn.
And sometimes when you just sit there
and you go into a quiet place and you
say, "What? What's going on now? I am
angry. Why I'm angry? I'm angry at that
guy." And you speak out just what's
going on. Name it. I am, you know, do
something crazy right now. Why? Ah,
sometimes you realize that you're hungry
or you're tired or when you speak it
out, when you name it, when you when you
have Sheamus on it, a lot of times, I
mean, part of the whole diagnosis of of
psychiatry and psychology is that just
find out what it is. When you have a a
diagnosis, you see what it is and
already you could start to to fix it and
heal it or just even sometimes just
speaking it out that I'm just filled
with this ta right now. I can't do
anything about it. It says in which is
in one of
the tell you
my going to say it
out. You're going to take it all take it
upon yourself. Very often I found that
you be filled with something that's
that's overwhelming you and you just sit
in a quiet place and you say, "Hashem,
this thing I have no control over. I
can't. It's even one of the 12 steps. I
have zero control over it. I'm just
giving myself up. Don't but you speak it
out you you clarify what it is and you
just give it up to he takes
off takes it off your shoulders a lot
just to finish off the now brings it
back to the
began he said sure is to gaze to
stare to look to gaze at this of
the next part of that we're going to
speak about
the who go in the
of through learning with
strength like we said it gives strength
to the
holy so that it can connect
with and then when you speak to
people your words go in
because this brings up
the scabel. Just to end off with a quick
story with the two minutes that we have.
There was a king that was in a forest
dressed as a peasant and he got captured
by the bandits and the bandits robbed
him and they wanted to kill him because
now they didn't know who it was but now
he knew who they were where they were.
So he said I need to think quickly. He
said, "I'm going to tell them
something." He said, "You don't It's not
worth it to kill me. I can make
tapestries, tremendously unbelievable
tapestries, and you'll gain you'll get
profit." So they said, "What do you have
to lose? Give me a tapestry." They give
it to the king, and he weaves and sews
and sews and weaves for like two days.
They come back, they see this tapestry.
It's like pretty says they're like,
"This is what you have." He goes, "You
guys are connoissurs. You know anything
about tapestries?" He says, "Go to the
shook. bring it to. They're also going
to say like you fools, you know that
that it's nothing. Wait till you get a
guy. They're going to say it's $10.
$1,000. Don't go under $1,000 for this
thing. When a guy gives you $1,000, you
know that he's some of the cops how
galdi this tapestry is and see maybe he
even wants more. They went to the shook
and it causing upro. Everyone was like,
"What is this mug selling a tapestry
that's worth 10 bucks for $1,000?" There
was a kid walking by and he said,
"Something's going on. What's he said,
where'd you get this tapestry from?"
They said, "What do you mean you care?"
He looked at it and he saw that there
was a letter intricately woven inside of
it. Like hidden, but you could see it.
He says, "I'll take it for a thousand."
Ah, you have any more? Yeah, we can
bring you. They started to bring him
every day, every couple of days.
Tapestries, tapestries, tapestries.
Finally, after many, many days, he
realized Kaka was a message. I am the
king. And he went to the palace. They
coordinated. Eventually, the king hinted
to them exactly where he was. They came
and they saved the king. The king said,
"What can I repay you with? Anything in
the kingdom?" He said, "What what can
you repay with? I saved the king's life.
What do I need a reward for saving the
king's life?" He said, "Okay, I
understand. Your reward will be that
anytime you need anything, you and all
your children have access to the palace.
You just walk in, say who you are, and
you got it." So that was the story. I
think a nimshaw could be very very well
very easy to understand and based very
much on this that we're learning is that
we have the and the we see it's worth
more than alim of it's the most
expensive thing and yet if you look at
it it's very nice it's got laws it's got
some nice stories there's a lot of books
that have nice stories a lot of law
books have nice a lot of laws like what
is it and they're selling it for
thousands and thousands of dollars lmi
there's something hidden if aid caps
there's something hidden inside that
there's hidden inside that's hinting to
him not only that there's laws and rules
but he's saying hi I am here and he's
showing you where exactly he is
eventually you're going to when you
learn it in that
view you're going to see ah really is
there and the whole time he's just
saying where he is and eventually you'll
find and then he's going to say what do
you want for a reward and you say what I
want a reward I just I found hashem what
reward do I need is going to say ah you
got thee
The reward
is anytime you want you have pure access
to me with a connection.