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Maamar Vata Titzave 1981 #16 - Real life stories of being prosperous, yet, wanting Madhiach- RCD
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So good day to everyone. It's B.
It's a day of unity of
Biv.
And when we learn,
we're uniting ourselves with all yeden
because even those that haven't yet
learned
are one withidus. It's just a matter of
whether they know it or not. Now, of
course, you will say that's kabad
propaganda 101. Maybe it is, but
I believe at the right time I could
argue in rationally for that argument.
But be that be that as is may as it may
means
aus is really all together
regardless of the colors and the stripes
and everything else.
And on a day like this, we have to take
a few moments to really think about this
because at times it gets very very
difficult to have aus with others that
one might feel is very foreign to them
and opposes them.
I need not tell you that this issue is
very prevalent unfortunately inites
between the right and the left and the
and the and all of that.
So the fact that over the centuries we
have had this issue, it's not a
there's nothing new under the sun.
Nothing new
and yet we we somehow have come along so
far and we have
built bridges.
So this is the day of of looking at that
at in in one's own life. Are there
individuals? Are there community? Are
there situations where I'm not the with
them? I'm not united with them. And
today is a day to somehow come up with a
formula, a recipe how to bring aus into
those situations as well.
Getting to the mime here. We're on page
412. I want to read the summary
of chapter 11. It was a long chapter,
a very kind of difficult chapter. So
let's see what how Rabbi Tower who's
translated this
summarizes it. Here we go.
On this basis it can be explained how
through their divine service the yeden
the Jews can increase the revelation of
light on Mosha's level
as great as he is he needs us question
is how can we midgets compared to Mosha
increase his level to explain that
concept In terms relating to our divine
service,
Mosa connects the Jewish people with the
self with the infinite Hashem sustaining
and nurturing their faith that is
bringing out a higher dimension of faith
that the faith should come not only from
the revealed powers of the soul but from
the essence of the soul. This is what
Mosher Abenu does for us. After
the revelation of the essence of the
soul has been brought out within them
through Mosha's efforts, the divine
service of the of the Jewish people and
and um sorry the divine service of the
Jewish people and their striving that
even their revealed powers should be
aligned with the ex essence of the soul
increases and brings out a higher
quality,
a higher quality. In this manner, the
true source of the essence of the soul
as it is rooted in God's essence is
revealed. Please close the windows. Too
much noise for the sheir and turn the
air condition on. Thank you.
So, what we learned in this paragraph in
in in English, not in French or Spanish
or Portuguese,
what we learned here is
that we need a mohenu misha meers. We
need a mohenu.
Each one of us needs a mohenu in our
lives. Why?
Why is a rabbi not good enough? Why
isn't a god not good enough?
Because a rabbi, a R, a God, a leader, a
monik, they're they're all special and
they all have great purpose and they're
all fine and wonderful people, but they
don't do what it says in this chap first
paragraph. Sorry,
because that's not their job. THAT'S NOT
THEIR JOB DESCRIPTION.
The job description of aenu of the
generation is to do what it says here.
And what is that? to reveal within us
something greater than we ourselves
touch normally. What is that? And that
is that not only do I serve God in a
situation of distress of difficulty of
ms nephesh when I'm challenged and faced
I stand up and I say I'm not going to
give in and I'm going to break through
which is SPECIAL AND WONDERFUL BUT ALSO
WHEN YOU'RE A FREE person
you he teaches you how to access
that part of you even when you're free
because you realize that you're missing
the you're missing redemption
as it says the gulus and Misha teaches
us how TO HAVE THAT SAME SENSE of
commitment which he calls here the
higher level of the soul etc. That that
too should be in in sync with Hashem
and by doing that
Moshe gets AN UPLIFT. MOSHE GETS
SOMETHING that he didn't have before
because before he's Moshenu as God's
messenger, right? He does Hashem's work
and that's it.
What about he himself?
How does he grow?
Not just as a messenger, an
intermediary.
So the Mimera explains that Mosher Raenu
grows because he needs the Jews. He
needs us. The head needs the feet.
Without the feet, the head cannot get to
where it needs to be. I don't care what
kind of great head you have. What kind
of great person is, you need soldiers.
You need people
for a moment historically. Those
individuals that didn't have a team
behind them didn't rise to the top. And
if they roast for the to the top, it was
short turned.
It didn't last. Look. Look around. Look,
look at history and civilizations who
made it and those that aren't around any
more,
etc.
There are people who are very in, you
know, they're very bright and very
brilliant in their own right, but they
don't make it on the global map of
Judaism of TA. Why? Because they didn't
have a team with them. Now, that could
because that's their nature. That's
fine, but that's the facts.
The fact is that a leader is only a
leader if he has followers. In the
terminology brought
me,
you aren't a king. You aren't a mel
without a nation, without subjects.
But why? This man is is is is king-like
material. This person is superior. This
person has leadership qualities. THANK
YOU VERY MUCH. WHAT is he a melik over
cats and dogs?
CATS AND DOGS ARE IMPORTANT. BUT A MELIK
IS A mel over human beings.
And if the nation isn't saying from
their own perspective that you are the
right man and we want you as our king
and we will submit and be subservient to
you. He's not a mel.
So when we say that the yen
create gave moes something that he
didn't have it's this nakuda it's this
point they gave him the the right and
the ability to be the true raenu mishenu
I'm using the words melik
although he wasn't a melik like I told
you one of the
The difference between Mosher Raenu and
Mashiachu and the righteous Mashiach is
that Mashiach will be called Raenu and
also Meliach, the king Mashiach.
WHEREAS MOSHE IS NOT CALLED King Moshe.
You don't find such a thing.
He's called Mosha, our teacher, because
his idea was to communicate and teach to
Eden what Hashem told him.
He was a rebi a rebi a teacher he wasn't
a melik but I'm using the idea of melik
the concept
for moenu
in the context of this mime know that
this mime is not is not explaining and
talking about the difference between and
okay it's not this mime there are other
where he discusses that but not here but
what he talks about here is that this
thisenu
is
receiving
an upgrade
because of the yeden.
Let's go on to the next paragraph,
paragraph two on page 412 in the
summary.
The above concepts enable the resolution
of one of the questions
raised at the outset of the mimer. That
one verse speaks of kindling a constant
lamp while another states this is in the
beginning. It states that the lamps must
must burn from evening and morning until
morning.
From the perspective of Mosha himself,
it is at night that is
when there are
oppressive decrees that the essence of
the soul is called into expression.
When however the Jewish people bring oil
to Mosa, that is they internalize
the influence. Please mute yourself
whoever is not muted. I think Mosa
Myers, you're not muted. Please mute
yourself. Whoever is not muted or maybe
it's Yi, sorry Y, mute yourself.
When however the Jewish people bring oil
to Mosha, they internalize the influence
of the essence of the soul. The essence
of the soul shines as a constant lamp
and is revealed even in the situation of
prosperity when the Jews are not
challenged.
This answers the question is the
question was why the discrepancy of in
the language
versus MAKE UP YOUR MIND WHICH IS IT.
So you'll say well it's one of the same.
WELL IF IT'S ONE OF THE SAME YOU DON'T
SAY IT TWICE and it's one of the same
you don't change the language. And the
Reb answers the questionb
says
means there's at night there's darkness
and you make from darkness light. So in
other words the emphasis there is
changing transforming negativity
lia to boy to light to morning.
the the addition of nit is much greater.
A CONSTANT FIRE, a constant candle
burning, which means that even when you
have prosperity,
you're still longing
for Hashem because the iss
that he spoke so much about in this
mimer is expressed specifically through
the words in the
versus the words in the
Is that clear? I want to make sure you
understand. I just don't want to read
and say and then then have you look at
me like goss. Am I making sense?
Okay,
I guess since no one commented, I'm
either making sense or I'm not making
sense. But we have to go on.
Third paragraph
412 on page 412 in lessons in in the
myra. These concepts are also reflected
in the unity of the Jewish people. You
see,
we're learning this on today's day.
The revelation of the essence of the
soul through Mosha's influence will
establish bonds of connection among the
Jewish people themselves.
For from the standpoint of the essence
of the soul, the Jewish people are a
single entity. Nevertheless,
the unity within the Jewish people that
stems from the revelation of the essence
of the soul can appear as an additional
matter,
something apart from their ordinary
selves. Hence this unity is established
by deemphasizing one's mundane concern
concerns
and highlighting the essential nature of
the soul. When however the essence of
the soul as it is rooted in God's
essence is revealed there is oneness
amongst the Jewish people in all matters
even those matters involving material
concerns. So in this last paragraph, he
goes to the result. Let's put the air
conditioner on. He goes to the result of
the
the result that comes about
from the nit from the causes
and that is that our material matter
right our bank account our health
our relationships
will be healthier and special
if we access nit
Why? Because is who we are.
We're not today, right? But no one is
coming and shooting and killing you for
learning ta now on this in this year
wherever you are. We're in a free world
in A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY. We hope so.
But so but in in the in before in Europe
pre-war etc. Spanish Inquisition and
times like that, YOU WERE KILLED FOR
being a Jew. I think I told you once I
was um I had a stopover once in Spain on
the way there to Israel and I had a
whole day. So I decided to go and and
and and see a little bit the Jew Jewish
places.
So I took the speed train from the
airport
to Mad uh to to Madrid. I forget. No,
the pl we landed in Madrid to another
another city. I forget now
and I hadn't davened. So when I got out
it was very time to davenin.
So everything was like closed. So I
davened where I was outside. I do. There
was no minion, nothing.
Later I found out when I went to the
museum and went to that I probably was
doing on earth that there was so much
Jewish blood spilled there.
And then as I went around of course I
saw many churches and I couldn't
tolerate it and I just got back on the
train and I escaped. I just left my my
my you know I just felt so so
uncomfortable.
What am I what am I why am I mentioning
this?
There is
from FROM DARKNESS YOU TRANSFORM
DARKNESS. So on one handing
on on a on earth that was once there was
Jewish blood and all the tum in in the
country etc.
It's like taking and making a ver
which is you would you would say that's
galdic and it is gavaldic. It is great
but there's something greater. Something
greater is to transform
you know the streets dole and hamore and
uh wherever you are trans transform your
when you walk in the street the mishkim
what are you thinking about ask yourself
what am I thinking about am I thinking
about what's for supper my kids my
grandkids my job all very important
things says the previous rebba in his
discourses at great length we have to
think tyra and those that can say
actually words of tyra when you walk in
the streets you should do that so even
if you walk from your apartment to your
to your to your job or you're driving in
the car you should be saying words of
mishnaim
whatever you Oh,
they tell a story of aidima
alovich was his name. A family is narrol
many grandchildren.
One of them I think is zamashpia in
kirygat
a very popular kabad yeshiva
alovovich.
And I knew the son of this
one of the sons his name was alovich.
He's already
he lived in 95. He lived
and he would deny many times in the
balan shabas.
And he also would say till
every day for and he was a very fine
very fine ye.
So
knowing him I didn't know that I heard
about in front of Khan and from him and
others. So the story is that when they
came from Russia in the 1935 I believe
35 into the 40s
the poverty was extreme extreme I heard
this from various people mish extreme
and the greatest and biggest people
slept boxes drove on donkeys to to sell
bread and milk. It was like humiliating
and embarrassing, but they had no choice
because they needed to bring home money
for their children and family.
Mosha was learned in Labavich in the
original Labavich. He was what we call a
Tim and he was a and later when he
passed away the family asked the Reba if
they could write on his mata that he was
careful in
he was careful in all aspects like a
benon. I don't know if they said the
word bayon, but that's what a bayon is
according to Tanya. And the Reb said you
could write it.
You're talking about a yeed and he, you
know, he wasn't, you know,
you know, he was a a regular ye aid,
but he was so careful.
So I'm just I just described to you a
little bit who I'm talking about.
So
at that time they were building the
country
and the job that he got was in in the
red in in the Dead Sea area over there
in lot that sea area. They and one of
the things is they they were building
things and putting in infrastructure
and his job was shleing boxes.
Schleing boxes. Okay. Now, he he, you
know, he was born, I think, yet in the
in the 1890s. Here we're talking about
1940 45. So, you know, he's not a
youngster. He's not an old man, but he's
he's getting up there. He's, you know,
and the sleing boxes and the heat. I
need not tell you, the heat of the Dead
Sea is ger. There was no air condition
in those days.
So, it was very taxing.
He lived at the time in Jerusalem
and he dabbed also I think at the
Balatan Yeshu in May over there.
And one day
one or two
people come to the shoe and they say
where is
so they say he's over there.
They go he go they he go they go over to
him and they say
we have a new job for you.
The new job for you is
to
to be in charge of people
that are doing the schleing. But you are
we see you're holy. You know they you're
like for them IT WAS A SADIC. They these
were commoners. I mean regular yen yeden
good yeden but they weren't WITH AID a
whole beard and and and and everything
else they saw that this was aid and this
was they wanted to give him an easier
job
and he told them thank you very much but
no I DON'T WANT THIS job I want to
continue shleing the boxes
they thought he was like mishuga
we're offering ing you a easier job.
You're getting older. IT'S BOILING HOT
OUTSIDE. You're breaking your back.
We're giving you You'll be like a
supervisor.
So, he said to them, "Thank you, but no
thank you." Why? I don't know if he said
to them or someone asked him later,
cuz they were bewildered and they left
the sho like like puzzled like they saw
he's really a a nut. He's a kidic nut.
Like who would turn down such a job?
And they real and he said later that his
job as a supervisor would not allow him
to think ta the entire time cuz he would
be so busy worrying about everyone else
that he has to supervise.
But in carrying the box of shleing FROM
A TO B, he's his own man. And as he does
it, he's able to think ta and say ta.
It's a story for the books.
And it's not just a STORY FOR THE BOOKS.
THIS was a true
I would say aid a true and especially
aid.
So what's the connection to what we're
learning now? We're talking here about
the difference between
and
is when there's a dire situation when
there's a challenge. DO YOU RISE TO THE
OCCASION? DO YOU SHOW WHAT YOU'RE made
of?
Means it's constant. It's flowing. It's
flowing. There's no issues. It's just
going good.
Everything's going good.
Ask yourself a question.
Do you feel the same connection? Do you
feel the same burning passion for Hashem
like you did WHEN YOU WERE OPPRESSED?
When you were pressed or now that you're
coasting
and the and everything is is going fine
and dandy, you just are not the same in
your connection to Hashem.
implies
that this is
this is what we need to be constantly
and and so so that when we we express
that when things are going well and we
are prosperous and successful
etc etc we still are bothered that
there's no and that
big
This is the message of this chapter and
that's why it's very real because today
we're still in Golus. There isn't gula.
Okay, regardless of what you feel and
think it's all nice and dandy, but sorry
the B mikdash is not here. The is not
serving and we have enemies trying to
destroy us
and inside ourselves we have so many
issues and there's mental health issues
in the world. THERE'S SO MANY PROBLEMS
WHEN MSIAH COMES IT WILL ALL BE GONE.
THAT'S WHAT IT says in kazal. If we
believe in kazal that's what it says.
So the and so so so the Reb says this is
causes this should bother you and again
I EMPHASIZE NOT TO bother you to become
depressed or to become say this is all
nonsense and baloney 1900 2,000 years in
gulus and and and Msiah is still not
here. First of all don't play God. Don't
start with God BECAUSE IF YOU START WITH
GOD IT AIN'T GOOD. So just let Hashem do
his job. That's number one. Number two,
if you really want to find glimpses of
Gulah, the the the fact that we are
study, you're in I'm here in America,
we're learning, we're learning in a
classroom SITUATION IS PART OF Kula to
me. It's it's 100%. THERE'S NOT EVEN A
QUESTION. and and and in every way shape
or form there's so much happening in a
positive way to amuse that it is a
stepping stone for guula
but to become complacent
and to and and not to have a drive that
we need gula and we need and and we
can't take this
that has to be within our our soul
within our revealed powers etc. This is
what we learned tomorrow.
We'll finish the mimer was one more
paragraph, one more chapter and
Wednesday we'll have a faban for have a
good day everyone.
Bye-bye.