Moshiach’s Donkey: A Drama in Four Acts - By Rabbi YY Jacobson

[Music] they tell an anecdote that there was a jew who was selling a donkey a hammer in the marketplace but this donkey cost 75 000. people wondered how do you charge so much for a donkey so he said this is a unique donkey this donkey understands language very well you don't have to strike it you communicate it you communicate with it verbally and it follows instructions like another human being so a person a customer a gentile customer pays him the money and then takes the donkey and starts talking to the donkey good morning how are you please go and call vietnamese pogba the donkey is not responding he comes back to the owner the seller and he says lo marie me sonny why did you deceive me i'm speaking and speaking i'm talking communicating the donkey is not moving he says you don't know what you're doing come here and the baller bus the jewish owner takes a stick whacks the donkey in the back and says go go go go go and the donkey starts running he says you see i told it to go with the wind he says akuts first you strike it he says no that was just to get its attention a partial bullock a major feature is of course the donkey a unique a unique donkey you see in your first source when the king of maya hires billam the great prophet of the time to curse the jewish people so bilaam fastens saddles his asana his she donkey austin is a female donkey and he goes with the princes of mayav to bollock's palace to go curse the jews but little do we know how much this donkey will play a role in the story at this point he's just riding on a donkey donkey is one of the most ancient beasts that's been used to transport people and to transport merchandise from one location to another location and bilum has his donkey but as the story progresses we see that this donkey suddenly becomes the central feature of the story because when the angel of hashem is trying to obstruct bilum's path bilom doesn't notice it but the donkey notices the angel one time and a second time and a third time and bilom is striking the donkey and wants to kill the donkey until we have a hashem god opens up the mouth of the donkey who starts communicating to bilum about their unique loyalty camaraderie friendship halloween and finally bilaam sees what the donkey has seen all the time he sees the malach of hashem this is the donkey and then the donkey disappears from the story and the story moves on to bilaam's intended curses which are transformed into blessings comes [Music] and the gemara tells the story when the princes of mayab saw that bilaam is riding on a donkey by across they tell them a man like you should be using a horse the horse was the vehicle of uh of the aristocrats a guy like you shouldn't be driving a buick you should be driving a bmw you should be driving a horse especially the horse goes much faster than the donkey even if it doesn't win the triple crown of the pharaohs but it goes faster than the donkey on malu he tells i have left the donkey to pasture i mean i've left my source my my horse to be able to pass through to the mirror and the agame and the swamp this was a surprise i didn't expect you coming what i have available now is a donkey my horse is being nurtured and taken care of who speaks up so the donkey speaks up the donkey says what are you lying about tell them the truth i'm your donkey you use me what it's like what are you telling them their lives this is how hazal see part of what the donkey is telling him monkeys not just think i'm your donkey that was always here he's responding to what bill and willem's lies are my love so billam tells her her is the donkey because it was a female donkey was an assange is a male donkey in hebrew on us and is a female dunk on my lawyer doesn't latina of course you're my donkey i use you for burden packages i need to load things you should carry i use you i'm relay so she says invite the lying don't tell me i'm only used for luggage you have used me to ride on me so first and then afterlife is the second response he tells once in a while i myself have to go strong i don't have my horse i use the donkey um [Music] a third law you are lying again a third lie you've always been writing on me but the donkey continues ha the words in escanti is i serve you by day you use me to ride you use me you ride on me and by night we have intimate relationships is very cold and they want to warm him up so they bring a visa so she could warm his body so the gemara makes xavier shava between the words and the words that the donkey of bilaam uses which literally means as rashi says have i made a habit of doing this am i always so stubborn do i not listen to your commands i'm a good donkey what schlocks do what are you getting angry what are you getting upset but the gemura sees a husky niskanti as an intimation for a relationship a physical relationship so the donkey tells billam mahnushke namaisis about your horses you are deeply connected to me in more than one way and not just as a beast to be used for transportation purposes but a far deeper a far deeper connection that's a gemara so the donkey apparently is not just a small feature in in bilum's life and in billab story but it's a major feature in bilom's story let's take this one step further bilam is not the first person to saddle his donkey in the first person to saddle this donkey in homicide avraham avinu at the end of ayden we say it every single morning a male donkey that he used with this donkey he goes to the arcade to the binding of yitzhak so avraham avinu saddles his donkey avram is the first but billam is not the second impartialist is another person who takes his donkey by hika is their two sons gershom and eliezer and he puts them on the donkey they ride on the donkey back from midyoung their home to mitzrayim to egypt where moshe is about to begin his mission to redeem the jewish people from egyptian subjugation comes rashi and rashi apparently is perturbed by the words it should have said he took them on a donkey a donkey he rented a car you would say today he rented a car he took a car by am the donkey this wasn't just a donkey this was a special dog this is the donkey that avraham avinu once used for the binding of yitzchak and i want to tell you it's the same donkey that mashiach one day will be revealed on this donkey shanema the posex says the source of this rashi is pirkei de rabi eliezer pedric lamin alof let's see inside and he adds another chapter of history in this donkey that rashi deletes wakes up in the morning and he saddles his donkey the donkey benjamin you know which donkey avraham uses for the arcade it's the donkey the child the sun the offspring of the female donkey that was created heir of shabbos moshe's during twilight and this is what ben david what mashiach is going to use as well and of course when he speaks about the female donkey created on friday he's referring to the famous mission and pirkayov is the fifth vedic the mishnah says asari ten things were created friday twilight zone one of the things are p h the mouth of the female donkey but um it's not only the mouth that was created it's the very female donkey was created then that means that of avram are the child of who of bilums of bilum's female donkey now when we think about this this is a very strange memorish i mean this donkey has been around the arcade happens in our tradition in the year 2084. avraham avinu was born which year it's an easy year to remember 1948 but not 1948 after the common era 1948 in the jewish calendar from creation almost before the beginning of the third millennium just 52 years before the end of before the year 2000 which is the beginning of the third millennium as the gemara says in our desire the six thousand two thousand years of chaos two thousand years of torah and two thousand years which are leading up with the days of mashiach avraham was born 1948 it's right before the year 2000 with him concludes the two thousand years of toyo of chaos of anarchy and begins the preparations the allah which will only happen hundred years later you see us metroid toyota will happen in the year two four four eight it's good to know these numbers you hear about jewish history it's good a little bit to put it in context the avraham was born in 1948 happened almost 500 years later 2448 base allah from tough memories avraham avinu was 137 years by the arcade right yitzhak was born when he was a hundred according to most ghazal 37 years later is dakeda so that al-qaeda happens in the year i believe bay is allah from paid dollar 2084. now according to the preequator of eliza this is the kamore who is the son of the dunk he created head of shabbos banash mushrooms so already by the arcade of the summer it is 2048 years old now this kamaru is going to be used by moisture coming to mitsray moisture comes to mitsrang one year before the exodus in the year 2447. so that is literally 400 years later 400 and 400 years later from the queda so from the arcade to maisha the hammer matures another 400 years now if this hammer is waiting for mashiach to come so now this come out at this point is five thousand seven hundred and seventy five years old quite a donkey i ask you a question vermin felt the source and if mashiach will come in a lincoln town car okay then you won't want to go after him right and if he comes on the new donkey not on an old donkey this is really the whole story suddenly the donkey is the most important feature the same donkey picker that everlaster says and now she tells this to a child it's the same donkey really that's the issue and if that okay there would have been one donkey i mean she would have done another donkey and she does a third donkey and there was another donkey created head of shabbos how did the donkey suddenly become the greatest miyukis in this whole story i saw it's a fascinating interpretation is uh everybody probably you've heard of pedric shir pedic shooter is you wake up early in the morning now it's four o'clock in the morning 4 30 in the morning you'll hear that while many of us are sleeping the birds are chirping the deer are having a good time eating the grass on your porches on your gardens and the animal kingdom wakes up and they start davening a little before the sickening they always die from a sick and they're never late they're never laid to shout and you can hear celebrities in the flea and it's really it's a very spiritual moment the world is asleep there's less cars there's no traffic and the animals are singing to god so in pariks tell us what the animals are saying and for each animal from any animals that they enumerate they give another passage which they sing every morning to their buenos it's always apostican tanakh the only exception is the frog in his mouth they put in the words which is not a passage from why the frog is such that he never learned i'm sure i know others who never learned tanakh but only the frog says what does the donkey say in parikshire so i would assume the natural association would be yaakov gives a bracha about a donkey a bony solid donkey but that's not what the donkey says the donkey says apostle from divreihayam which we say every morning why does the donkey say that possible there is a explanation on pedic shira safer called shari shimon so he suggests a charming interpretation he says the gemara says it's here the next you'll you'll see in the following to you hashem there's greatness [Music] the various terms in the plastic refer to these stages of history says the shireshima you know why the donkey says this because the donkey says by each one i was there and i wasn't only there i was he used me says i have been there in the beginning i've been there in the middle i'm going to be there at the end this is his passage are we supposed to understand this literally there's a madrid talpious take a look eric hammer madrid is the army russian that we don't have in the original but later great sages have made svarim of compiled madrashim that they had although we don't have the original midrash and one of these madrashim is called madras talpius it was compiled by a man named he was from the great rabonim in the 1500s who lived in izmir in turkey he wrote a very famous safer called shaved moosa which is still studied it's a very famous muslim for shaved moosa and he wrote he compiled madrid tolpius and there he says he found an old midrashic manuscript quite a strange matrix how did moshe get the donkey of avraham avraham lived in here to stroll marshall lived in midnight where did he get hold of this donkey the yeshwaimer says the madrish avraham australian avram took the donkey and he gave it over to yitzchak he used it for his arcade he gave it to him as a gift forgive it gave it to levi levy needed a donkey to go to the different storehouses to be able to get the meister to get the tithing of the jews he used his donkey levy muster the cohas cahasla amram amram lama leave he gives it to kaha's class timer and now gives it to the sun moisture who comes from levy okay so now escapes egypt to go to midyoung after he kills the egyptian he uses this donkey to escape so now when he's going back to egypt he uses the same donkey which he received from amram who received it from cohost who received it from levy from yaakov from yitzchak from abram if this is not enough and which museum is this commodity in the british museum where could you find this hammer in the israeli museum he told me he went to prague there was an old shamash there in the maharal shul the alt knight shall the old new show so everybody comes to prague he goes to the challenge and talk to us to me some years ago the sandwich was like 90 at the time he says who's the goyle and where's the gun there's this the golem kicking spigel you're looking for the golem look in the mirror it's to get in the garland right the manure is just saying where did this come on go end up the different answers you can give to this mattress where the camera ended up but let's hear what this madras has to say when moisture goes up to the mountain of where he passes away don't think he goes up himself he goes up with the donkey the camaros enjoying the grass on the divine mountain till mashiach comes and will retrieve the donkey from iron avoid suddenly we have a donkey who's not only surviving five thousand years but becomes part of the messiah of the greatest sages of the greatest giants of our history you took musterly apple i don't understand what this means i know you give over to your children you give over a toilet you give over your shaman you give over your messiah you give over your values you give over your beliefs etc here's a new messiah they're giving over donkeys and it goes through all the generations and when moisture reaches the highest level hiring a void the maggot of ms which says navoya is none boy because he acquired the 50th shah hanon the 50th borough make sure you know who goes up with him nobody besides one creature the donkey and mashiach is going to take him from iron avoid so i asked you once again with all of this who knew first of all needs this such a miracle a supernatural event whoever heard of this donkey can you see this donkey is this literal is it a parable comes the maharao the maharal in his commentary and the similar morales in the seifikh vurus hashem this donkey has to remain eternal nobody lives beside the donkey and a lion of it it has to be created from fascism that's what he has to use the donkey that was created head of shabbos who we now know is the child of bilum's donkey who's using a donkey that was also from mayor of shabbos bananas suddenly bingham comes into the picture what's going on there asks tamara and therefore the morale himself says this doesn't mean literal it's the way that hazal are expressing an idea comes that sri hammer the surya murder is another very interesting safer murder was written by a year his name was he was a jew from spain he was expelled from spain with the hundreds of thousands of jews in 1492 and he moved to portugal to the west in portugal there were also terrible persecutions his two children were abducted and coerced to convert to christianity he himself was tortured in lisbon until he escaped to morocco he died on a ship on the way to italy but ram saw wrote a safer that still learned it's called hammer and there too he compiled different madrashim in addition to his interpretation it's a very deep book and some of them that we don't have access to they did from before so destroyer hammer says [Music] from the day the world was created there was no man whoever saddled his whoever whoever prepared saddled his donkey until avraham avinu arrived what does this mean nobody used the donkey till of rama venus which is writes that what it means is i saw this once the first anybody here knows homashwell when is the first time a donkey is mentioned in hummus we have here a seasoned al-qaeda when is the first time a donkey is mentioned in hummus nobody is a google here but that's not the first time we've just been learning about a donkey before you sir a donkey is an animal so the recounty says the first chamois is mentioned in association with avraham arena that shot it doesn't mean that nobody used the donkey before avraham it's like yesterday but the ricanty says the first time the toyota tells the story of somebody using a donkey is avraham and that's the significance of this madrish but what does this mean and why would it be put in these words nobody was committed as we said was born two almost 2 000 years after creation a donkey is i think the most ancient to one of the most ancient beasts that's been used for human transportation comes the alcatra of any and the alcatra of any says the next source is is the numerical value of 243. avraham is the numerical value of two hundred and forty-eight gorham is reshmem gimmel that's avraham before his milla before he becomes avram before his complete conversion once a hay is added from 243 it becomes 248 is the gematria of hammer 248 that's avrom that's the association with avram who has become suddenly we learn here that avraham doesn't only use a donkey it's the very matriarch of his name after his conversion and that's what moshe is telling his there's the stage of garam and it's the stage of hamer comes the gemaran sanhedrin of the crescent alef which is the source for what we learned before in pakistan the gemara says oh my rebel alexandria oh my rebel alexandria alexandri taught yeshua ben levi ramirez the contradiction it says in yeshaya the same possibility may come in its time or mashiach may come in a hastened fashion means speed it up if there is they'll be fast if they're not zoey it'll be in its time ahmed of alexandria alexander he continued [Music] they're going to go with the clouds of heaven like a man coming the per kabari somebody who's like a man will come in the speed of the clouds of heaven looks if it says in so will it be on the clouds of heaven or on a donkey if they merit clouds of heaven if not a humble man coming on a donkey you want to ask something that's the gemara in sanhedrin so what do we see from here only is if they don't merit comes if you dream about a donkey i don't know if it ever happens but if you dream about a hammer you should anticipate salvation shannemar the posix says the same pasta your king is going to come sadly righteous victorious this is the source but we see not only will mashiach come on a donkey there's another very fascinating madrish when yaakov returns from his 20 years by love on and he's about to meet a sovereign heir to israel he sends a message to asav i've spent time with lavon by heely hammer i've had there an axe and i've had there a donkey what's the kiddish zak the madrish rabbi rabbon on amri rabbon he had mashiach he says i had a donkey in other words the way he describes mashiach benjamin is an ox and a donkey so the very nature of mashiach how does he say i had mashiach i had a a donkey let's see one more gemara and this really takes the cake i think turn over your source sheets sanhedrin base let it happen but i don't want to be there why don't i want to be there so the gemara explains the challenges of the time will be so enormous that these great amirahyam said i hope it happens i just don't want to be there rebi for my review said listen to his words yes let him come and i do want to be there but let's see how he says i should be the acid that i should sit betula in the shadow the cuffissa of the dong the comrade of his donkey let me come and i am happy to sit in the shadow cast by the dong of meshiach's donkey he had no better way of expressing himself that he wants mashiach to come they're saying mashiach should come we don't want to see it the joseph says not only do i want to see it i'm ready to sit not in the shadow of the donkey khalil that's too good in the shadow of the kuffice the camera rashi says deri the excrement the psilos of the chimer of the hammer of the donkey this is how he describes what he wishes for himself where mashiach comes so let's try to piece the puzzle together and understand the imic or at least some of the depth that the tsukim and the khazala conveying here with this unique historical donkey when in i think almost most languages the term hamoir is a euphemism to describe a an idiot and it's a very derogatory term you say in modern hebrew hamar he's a donkey it basically represents somebody who's stupid english has a very famous term for it which i'm not going to repeat in order to describe a donkey and it basically describes somebody who in your perception is uniquely stupid but the truth is this is not just slogan we have two gemaras that do exactly the same thing the gomorrah says in baba basilda in khazal were very upset with rabbi barbara and the way they said it was call abba hamra he is stupid like a donkey the gomorrah says this is why do you see that very often don't have their children following their ways father is robert shall call banaya gail and the child is completely in a different space what happens so there's different explanations because prone to call people donkeys they look down at people and they call them derogatory names he's a donkey meaning he's a shayta he's a fool he's an idiot he's a and the children see that or experience that so the children don't follow their father's path that's what rabashi says in misekt nadaram dav now i always wondered why did the hammer get this yikes that when you want to talk about you're stupidity donkey why why the donkey so i researched is it true that donkeys are stupid i never spent a lot of time with a donkey is it true it turns out that donkeys are not stupid it's it's it's you know everybody's into animal rights it's it's a grave injustice to the donkey to believe that the donkey is just a stupid animal however the donkey is a very stubborn animal that yeah so the donkey doesn't respond to you other animals you say something they right away do it the donkey hats so we have a tendency when somebody doesn't follow what i say he becomes stupid you know what i mean right i always say this it says mini salt and mine so how does it work if it's your mind it's isis gehenna if it's my meaning it's mini so if you don't follow my orders you must be stupid like what's wrong with you i'm telling you to do this i'm the most brilliant man living in this on this planet you're not doing it you must be an idiot the truth is that donkeys are stubborn they have a sense of stubbornness and this is probably how they became associated with this concept of of shaita so i was re i looked up one of these journals about donkeys i'm going to quote to you donkeys have a notorious reputation for stubbornness but this has been attributed recently to a much stronger sense of self-preservation than exhibited by horses they worry about themselves they want to take care of themselves they're not just going to follow orders they have a sense of ego likely based on a stronger prey instinct and a weaker connection with man it is considerably more difficult to force a donkey or to frighten a donkey into doing something it perceives to be dangerous or harmful for whatever reason so you're like come on geisha no you're a shiiter you're an idiot you're a mork maybe you're the shyter maybe you're the sheiter once a person has earned their confidence however they can be willing and company and and partners that uh serve as great companions and very very dependable in work which the gemara says although formal studies of their behavior and cognition are rather limited donkeys appear in recent research to be quite intelligent cautious friendly playful and eager to learn yet in many cultures to call somebody a donkey means the person is an idiot but donkeys are not necessarily stupid and possibly scientists are saying they're quite intelligent then being equated to stupidity may have more to do with their stubbornness not with their being stupid shine hopefully my donkey will be kind to me hashem and this maharao's idea you have in polynomial office in parish is the balaflow you have it in pre-saddek parish most you have it in the minute you have it from the balsamic we'll soon see and they all say the same thing hamoir is the same oysters like heimer heimer is the term we used for we we use for the physical chrymer literally means the material homerus the physical brute matter that is what hamira's when we analyze the donkey as we just did somewhat will understand very deeply the association between the donkey and the physical and every person there's a hammer and the hammer and the person is the choice in the person the humerus the physical animalistic dimension of the person which we call the donkey the hammer there's a very interesting thing about the donkey in halakha the donkey is a non-kosher animal and yet the donkey is distinguished from all other animals with one mitzvah that not one other kosher animal has and what is that pidian peterhammer you have to redeem the first male donkey born in your farm no such thing you know with a non-kosher animal every non-kosher animal that's born you don't have to redeem it you know why it's not holy there's one exception a child a human first male born pidyin haben because there's a holiness in the prayer so you have to so to speak redeem him from the cayenne and you give the kayan money in lieu of having the child that's called pidyna ben and then of course you also have the opinion of what what we call but this is what a sheep a goat a bull a behemoth kosher animals where there's also the concept of carbon car there's a certain holiness that you have to give to the cayenne the client could then you know bring it as bring it as a carbon until today there's the tusha and these animals with all the halakhas non-kosher animals don't have that one exception the donkey you have a donkey you can't just use the donkey this you have to redeem the donkey how do you redeem the donkey many people say it every morning in partials boy you redeem it with a share with a sheep and the sec goes to the cayenne and you can keep your donkey the holiness is conferred onto the sheep so the hammer suddenly has a kadusa why one reason is a taxarius acosta another reason is because the hammer was part of ethios mitzrayim because when the jews left mitsrayim what did they put where did they put all the silver and gold and vessels that they carried so the gemara says every jew had many many donkeys so the donkey was part of the experience of each muslim so the donkey suddenly became holy only the donkey this stupid animal that we call called abba khamre the karoly lynch what is the meaning of this so here we can begin putting the puzzle together there's the very famous madrish everybody knows this in the opening of arya toys the world was chaotic and dark and there was absolute emptiness and the spirit of hashem is is hovering in yiddish they would say schwepped it's hovering over the water this is remember it's hovering over the water says the marriage so you avoid the goddess of babylonia vayu refers to the goddess of persia of paras the refers to the malchus yavan to the greek exile they darken the jewish eyes al-naysayim the abyss refers to malchus roy me to the roman exile golos eddon which destroys the second base amigos they have babylonia destroys the first base amitris then persia defeats babylonia then greece defer defeats persia in the famous wars and then finally rome occupies most of the world and destroys the second base amigdas which plunges the jews into exile the fourth exile ruach in all this chaos of history there's the spirit of hashem hovering above the water and this is the spirit of mashiach as the gemara says in sanhedrin it says the world runs through all this darkness and ultimately leads to the ultimate purpose which is mashiach who reigned supreme in the development of history from hawarets the khmer is represents the material dimension of the human being and of the whole world around us the fact that we live in a physical body in a physical world and we know of nothing outside of that what we see what we sense what we experience is a physical body a physical presence a physical existence and a physical world that's what the donkey represents and this donkey evolved throughout history because the entire story of creation and the entire objective of existence and the entire drama of history is about our interaction and our relationship with the khmer with the donkey from the word climber because the great objective of existence was as the famous madrid puts it in in the lowest elements of reality meaning in the [Applause] he didn't want to create a spiritual world a world of spirit a world of heaven a world where physicality doesn't exist to the contrary the objective was diribitating to find the harmony to create unity between heaven and earth between spirit and matter between the soul and the body between the higher and the lower katsuka famously said a shamayim shamayim la shemba or it's no saying god the heavens is gods and earth he gave to man so the gomorrah says in brachas said heaven belongs to god and earth he gave to man that the human being should turn earth into heaven heaven is god's heaven is hashem made heaven literally means who is like your nation israel one nation on earth or a unique nation on earth like bilaam will say he explains it a little deeper much deeper is cut and that's the great challenge in life a person is a dichotomized creature between the self selfish part and the selfless part the spiritual the physical the soul the body the higher the lower the mind the heart the base addictions and challenges and instincts sometimes very ugly dimensions of the human psyche but a person is also a human being with dreams and lofty aspirations and sometimes we can even be idealistic and this is the great dichotomy of the human being himself or herself between heaven and earth within us between the shaman goof between khaimer and surah and the objective is to be able to not subjugate yourself and become a victim of the superficial physical instinct but rather to be able to reveal the echoed to be able to harness the donkey and bring and elevate your own donkey and the donkey around you is basically the whole physical world and in this story we have three people we have rom and we have moisha and we have meshiach and they are the three great personalities of jewish history avraham avinu represents the beginning and the era before the terror is given the first two thousand years of creation two and a half thousand years maestro beno is the one who gives us torah and then mashiach is the one who materializes who culminates the story of history the six thousand years of a millennia and that's why the hammer resurfaces it begins with creation but suddenly it surfaces to the center of the stage by avramavinu it makes a new appearance by moisha and it will make a third appearance because but each time it's different and let's see how terrorist hasidus analyzes this take the three stories and if you'll study them well you'll see there's a subtle difference in all three take you remember the al-qaeda i want to ask you a question when avraham avinu takes the donkey what does he use the donkey for who goes on the donkey by avram of a new story huh not him and not yet the wood the wood and the knife and whatever the materials he used to create the fire by ashkenaz how do i know because what does it say why did you have to put it on youtube was carrying it before i'm asking you the donkey kong if they're using the donkey themselves why did they leave the donkey with with sneena aro right they didn't use the donkey the donkey was used for that material at this point they leave the donkey behind and it sounds like they take the sim and the magellas the atsumi gives to yitzchak avram takes he places them on the donkey by mashiach who uses the donkey himself there's another difference by avraham we know it says by moshe you don't have any more of course you have to prepare a donkey but it says he uses his physical resources moisture his wife and his children himself this is not a small nuance difference it represents the three stages of history why because there's three stages in how history matures and develops its relationship with our own hammer with our own donkey and by way of intro what's our relationship and i want to ask you a a maybe a personal question when you grew up in yeshiva or wherever you grew up how did you understand the role of the body in jewish life you don't all have to answer at once how is the body seen in jewish life and do you think there's been a change of consciousness in this area if you look in traditional sources one can get the impression and i'm gonna yeah i'm doing it maybe a little black and white and that is the guff that's the evil the neshama that's the holy black and white like black and white cake and it's dark and light lmi we have a body so deal with it and one day we're told you'll work with your body and then you'll go into the world of bliss and in that world you won't have to deal with the body and you have this when you're showing them you have this incephri mustard i mean there's that concept in kabbalah it's called the zoya calls it the body is the skin of the snake okay so what so and then there's people that indulge in that with their body and they're indulging their bodies and they're seen you know as outcasts and then there's sadikim who completely dedicate their life to their neshama and the body almost has no significance and we want to tell our stories our children's stories of sadikim will always talk about the person you know who didn't eat and didn't sleep and didn't take care of his body and doesn't even know he has a body and when you looked at him he looked half dead but yet his soul was flying into heaven that's the conventional education often you know the goof is bad the neshama is good the goof ultimately has to be suppressed as much as possible i mean you can't mamish kill it so you have to deal with it and the more righteous a person the more discipline and the more repressed the body is because it's gashmis it's physical and gas means it's always associated with evil and it's just a necessary evil in this world to do avoid this hashem and one day you get rid of it and that's the tacos that's one perspective of the body till today that trickles in that trickles in into our education into our consciousness but as we will see this is right from positive it's not so positive although everything i said you could find a source and i could tell you many sources for it the body is ridiculed and the body is is is seen as the epitome of all evil and we underst we all understand why but this is really only one stage in development and it's certainly not the higher stage of development and if you'll see something interesting today you'll notice and this is really i think what we could learn from all of this is you'll notice that today to educate young people to disregard their bodies and basically only take care of their minds and souls is an educational mistake not only because aksha dari because we're such physical brute barbecue uh barbecue addicted modern creatures who are so fiz there's no choice you have to let people you know exercise and and take care of their bodies there's really something much deeper the general shift of consciousness that people are more aware of their bodies and are focused often on nutrition and taking care of their bodies and exercise is not essentially evil or bad on the contrary there's three stages in yiddishkait of how we bring the khaimer and the tsura together avraham avinu is prima tentaira moshe is matantara mashiach is the ultimate you can't go to three without one and two you can't go to two without one but you don't stay at one you go from one to two or three now when we speak about these three stages it's not only historically it's also conceptually i could live today like before martin tata and i could live today a lot of people do that and i can live today like mutton toyota and i could already introduce today the concept of the ghoul or the concept of mashiach and in each of our lives we have all three stages so yes although it sets itself up chronologically in history but the same three stages exist in our own consciousness exist in our own yeshivas exist in our own homes and exist in our own communities stage one is voice you have to teach the chamois we call it good old discipline and i think the best way to describe this is was born in a city called lyogna which is in belarus they used to call it vice rusland white russia when he got older he had a choice to go to vilna or to go to mizritch he himself they called a litvak by nature by disposition his way of thinking he was a lithuanian the siddhip his khawadim called him the litvak it's interesting the founder of khabad was seen as the ultimate litvak that's what they called in the litvak the mazda margaret called him so naturally he wanted to go to vilna to go to the gone of vilna he decided to go to ms rich and as they say the rest is history miss rich is not villain of illness lithuanian as rich as the ukraine that's where abdul if bear was the student of the baltimore the mice that they say is that that he heard in the vilna they teach you how to learn and in mizritch they teach you how to darwin he says land in kenner bissell as you know davening is not easy learning i already know a little bit how to learn i don't know how to dive and he chose us to go to the masrita margaret he was unimpressed and he decided to leave because as a litvak he needed other things and then he saw they brought along to the masrita margaret and the way he analyzed analyzed the halogens of dikas huraya and treyfus he was so impressed he decided to stay with the market also an interesting mice i'll call upon him he was by the maggot he got permission from his wife to be there i believe for 24 for two almost two years eighteen months i think he got permission which was sometimes the derek his his brother didn't get permission he told him to go back but he he got permission he was by the market he was about to leave to go back home and he gets into the coach the magi had made a harusa between him and his son his son was the angel the russian that came from him and he was the balatanyo toward him and three hours and three hours every day the balatanya enjoyed it so much he changed the clock above rome was an abstract person he changed the clock it should be earlier and he said it says in zoya that loy sigunov after lloyd is up sick lois cigno if don't steal that when it comes to this when it comes to tita so you could steal you to steal more trader from somebody and he said those hours that he that he changed the clock and he got it out from ramallah my newfound taco was the best toyota it was the sweetest waters are stolen he was leaving back home on his way home above ramallah who was a kadushan they called him an angel because he was a molest who was comes out to escort his friend abolatanya and for him everything was kadush everything was so he sees the massive they're going so the balagol is sitting by the coach and he's ready to start whipping the horse to go so ramallah gives a geshe with af mice in the fed you have to whip the horses and now here there's two versions by siddham what he said the end of the story is the same one version is he says in the fair biz as his own visions is you gotta whip the horse until it becomes a weir it's a horse there's another gears he said with schmeichel in the fed be saying very spared you have to whip the horse until it ceases to be a horse but even you heard this and he said i just got a new derek and avoid this hashem i can't go home yet and he got off the couch he whatever it was that it wasn't a coach it was probably a wagon or some buggy and he stayed in his rich for another little while and then he went home so i once heard from my rebel what's it's not two gears it's the difference of avraham's avoid and moisture's avoid you whip the horse until it knows that it's a horse you whip the horse bissevet oysfert it's two ways of dealing with hamoir hoymer one is by says what's the lotion there was no person who wepts the horse to the point that at least you should know you're a horse i don't care if you're a horse i finished but at least know you're a horse what did we saw salaam to say it says in the end of massachusetts the face of the generation before moshe will be like the face of the dog he says why it's such a beautiful compliment especially today everybody has dogs pineap the founder of the muslim movement that biswa lipka zatsal said what he said you ever saw a dog the dog always likes running ahead right you ever owned a dog you never owned a dog the dog always you have a puppy the puppy the dog always likes running ahead it's a macher you know goes ahead a block two blocks three but then it besaw says when it comes to a fork they'll never take it'll turn around it'll turn around and wait it needs directions it says pneha derek nayak sometimes the leaders they're going ahead they're leaders but whenever it comes to a difficult situation they turn around what do the polls say what was the latest up edge page of the new york times what does the supreme court have to say about morality you turn around playa der kipneh calif i don't care if you're a horse but to know that this is a horse and that's a tremendous avoider don't change your climber don't destroy your climber know what it is and therefore don't be a slave to it don't worship it don't you define yourself by it on the contrary realize that its ultimate calling its ultimate purpose is to serve as your horse to serve as your donkey that's stage one this is the subjugation of the kaiman and it's a tremendous moment in avoiding let's take the world of a more baseball the world of addiction a person in recovery and those here in recovery know exactly what i'm talking about a person in recovery you don't change your addiction a person got up i was at a shabbaton he says i've been in recovery for 33 years and he introduces himself as an alcoholic i say why do you have to introduce yourself as an alcoholic if you didn't say like i'm in 33 years do you hear this eden who just got drunk yesterday by kiddish they don't call themselves alcoholics you thirty three years astonishing [Music] you know what a bit up in this a bitter drop and you call yourself an alcoholic and he said rabbi jacobs in the moment i stop calling myself an alcoholic i'll become an alcoholic you want to stay sober you have to say i'm an alcoholic i have a hamoir and it's a hoymer and it's a donkey and it wants other things but at least i know what it is the feds always affaired and you could put it in its place the greatest challenge in life is not that we have negative thoughts that's not a problem not that we have depressing thoughts that's not a problem not that we have immoral inclinations that's not a problem the problem is when you don't put them in their place you don't classify them you have to say okay now my depression set into my brain okay the hammer started to what's the word bray right bray what does a hammer do okay the horse started to ground shine the problem is you think you are the depression winston churchill suffered from tremendous depression he writes in his autobiography that the way he dealt with it he led the world victor with victor he led the world in victory against hitler so history is in debt to winston churchill even though he was far from a perfect person and his oratory skills were tremendous and his leadership was great and he suffered from a depression and he writes in his autobiography i believe he writes that the way he came to deal with it was he compared his depression to a black dog that always accompanies him imagine you have a black dog that's always with you and suddenly it starts barking what do you do you look at the dog or you let it bark the problem is imagine you decide that you are the black dog and this was a very brilliant idea because it's really this idea that the horse should know it's a horse okay the black dog is now barking okay so in my mind i have this black dog that started to bark i'm this my life is worthless my marriage is worthless i hate everything about my life i just want to leave everything i just want to go and do the worst ev everybody knows their own thoughts and their dark moments i don't have to elaborate right that's not the issue fine welcome to the united states of america welcome to the club so you also have a hammock so your black dog spoke up doesn't mean that's all of you you have to sober up stop stop stop barking tomorrow in a week and a month in a year sometimes it's harder sometimes that's step one that's why what does avraham avenue put on the hammer avram puts on the hammer not himself not even yitzhak the khmer takes you to places that you can't get on your own what he puts on the camera is the hammer becomes a vessel a receptacle which carries the wood the knife the fire it becomes an assistant it becomes a helper but it's not a hammer that's going to transport that's going to journey that's going to bring up ram and from one place to another place that they can't get on their own because what the hammer is basically being used for is it's being subjugated as an instrument as a tool instead of being an obstacle you put it in its place and you say listen you're here to serve you're here to serve as an instrument what does this mean practically in a person's life it means you be able to tell the horse i'm not gonna become your slave your job is i have to subjugate you i have to confront you i have to educate you have to put you in the place i have to deal with you sometimes successfully sometimes less successfully and therefore the hammer takes the asian the atm and the machalas but takes us to the second level or in above words in the third bis says what does this mean this means something much deeper and let's see the madras tanhuma madrid okay we'll first do the matters you see in the in the second side it's one two three four seven seven is in the second side the middle of the page tank what's the marshal of torii the king said the members of rome should not go to syria the people of syria should not go to rome separating heaven and earth the higher shall not come down the lower should not go up mata resound matan toyota obliterated that gazetta between el nino what does the madrish mean here the maduros mean this is stage two in dealing with the climber what happens now is not only that the body the horse is put in its place as a complete slave subjugated to the soul but there's a deeper component you could be in a position where you impact you influence the fed the kedush of the neshama the kedusha of hashem permeates the body the body is not only an enemy an obstacle that has to be disciplined and harnessed and put in its place and not only shouldn't become the boss but it should always know its role to serve you and what's the you the you is not the body to you is the soul it means the khaimer could be sublimated the claim it doesn't have to be subjugated it can be transformed it can become a partner it can become an extension of a person's kedusa the body is not evil essentially the body is not bad the body is not detached from god of course before martin toyota there is a superficial decree that separates heaven from earth but what matantera accomplished and the whole territory of mitzvahs is based on this we learned before schwa is about the cheesecake tattoo that the lower one ultimately is the tackle as the low one prevails if you remember the milks from the flight tricks and the point there is the point here is moisture abbey was going to matsraym on the way to redeem the people and give them the torah and who does he place on the donkey his wife and his children the gomorrah says in a review says the wife is like the body of the husband husband and wife are two halves of one soul an extension of each other the gemara says in aeriven brah kharidavuha the sun is the leg the foot of the father in other words the extension of the father vayar kevin moshe takes his wife and his children this is not just his ates in his woods it's his own expansion it's his own extension it's his own family and they are transported by the hammer not mushroom himself but what happens here here the hammer becomes a partner a full companion the hammer here becomes a full partner that assists in journeying moisture's wife and children and bringing them from one place to another place it's not only you're subjugating it but you have elevated it you have created a dent you have created a transformation the goof should not be seen as evil essentially and eternally the goof should be seen ultimately if you work with it you can train it you can refine it you can cultivate it it's hard it's difficult but what you call stupid may only be from your perspective it may be stubborn the yash has the sense of self-preservation i come now back to why we call the donkey stupid it's easy to dismiss it and say there's no sacral but really the body has a depth it focuses on self-preservation it's a yesh but if you understand that essentially you're dealing with the creation of god and essentially the objective of mathen you can work with it you can educate it you don't have to obliterate it you don't even have to subjugate it ultimately become a partner a talmud a full student of the neshama that's stage two so we have a vram stage we have moisture stage and that's why the hammer makes a second appearance in the middle in this process you have bilum and bilom also comes along with a donkey and apparently it's the same family of donkeys but bilaam understands the donkey very different and this is the difference between bilaam and of course avramavina let's take a look in kester shemtiv from the balsham he quotes apostate kim parshas mishpottim this is a fascinating interpretation the pastor says in mashpatem when you'll see kisira kamuri you remember the passage you'll see the donkey of your enemy it's crouched under a heavy burden you don't want to help him it's your enemy's donkeys it's a mitzvah to help the donkey it shouldn't suffer even though it's your enemy to remove the burden help the donkey stand up and be sensitive to the donkey's needs comes the balshemptiv and he explains the posse and listen to these words because essentially we have a shift of consciousness when you're going to study well your homer your own body your own physical self syria you're going to focus you're going to become aware you're going to discover it's your enemy the body is the enemy of your own soul which yearns for godliness and transcendence for truth and the hamari is your enemy so you have in you literally opponents fighting with each other all day then inshallah all at once is vacus and hashem and the goof says it's sunday afternoon after costco we got to do other things and their enemies how do you deal with this the balsamic is asking you the fundamental question of the dichotomy between soul and body between the two parts of every person syria and then you'll discover next thing not only is he your enemy in his heart but he's crouching under his burden hashem gave the body a burden he wanted the body should be refined through toyota and mitzvahs and the body is lazy so it's crouching under the burden it's like i don't want to wake up i don't want to work i don't want to refine i don't want to it's your enemy and it's with takas you may think what do you do so one path is you say you know what i only have a body i don't have anything else i'm going to make peace with my body i'm going to give back the territory to the body and that's it that's one approach you don't want to struggle the other approach is you're very well aware of your other side so you say i'm going to abandon it i'm not going to help the body fulfill its mission you're going to start avoiding which was embraced by many great people the balsamic is not negating here something that has no place in jewish history there were many khasi ashkenaz and many others who were very into sugar from what's in sigur is you mortify your body you basically torture it we mean torture it in a way that's basically you say you know what this body is not part i'm not going to make it part of my life anymore yes i'm going to break it i'm going to repress it i'm going to crush it i'll teach you who it's boss until the point basically i'll give it the minimal the minimal that i need to survive and that's it says the balchemt of big loaded words this is not the way that the light of toyota will dwell in you kim eve it's and let's compare it to a you have two children in the classroom one is a goody goody and one is rebellious one way is i have nothing to do with you get out of my yeshiva get out of my house i don't want to do and if you sit here you quiet you don't say a word i'll let you be here but don't god forbid think you're part of this process that's wonder another derek is no if you'll study the child you'll see that beneath the rebelliousness there's really a deep yearning and beneath and beneath the challenges there's really a deep goodness and spirituality you have to have patience you have to work with it but don't destroy it don't break it don't crush it help the help the donkey stand up put the right burden on it focus on what it needs words of the bolshev and this is seventeen hundreds bashar was born in 1698. and passed away in the year 1760 on schwarz the founder of the hasidic movement you knew this vote of the bosh why because ultimately he sees this as matantara of course you could be i told you before he could be after martin turner and still before matantara but the balshemptiv hakadosh is magala that the ultimate tactless is azoyptasa is work with it don't crush it you only work with something that has very deep potential if the hammer was really stupid essentially so what do you deal what do you do with ashayta but khamoi is really the magala mukha says so already has a relationship with the hammer his wife and his children are carried through the hammock it's almost like the khmer is part of his shoot first it's part of his expansion it's part of his fat i don't mean it's part of his family but it's part of what's carrying his family what's transporting his family comes the position says [Music] this is not just two people saddle their donkey it's the same concept what's the concept says you have to understand israelis so they're similar both of them are doing the same thing they're leaders therefore they both have donkeys and they both have shena arya they both have two lads that follow them avraham is avram elevates himself on the choice on the material avalanche allah be long he's having bala saying the gomorrah he's having intimacy with the hammer what does this mean bilaam now becomes the recipient of the hammer billiam now becomes instead of attaching instead of using the hammer instead of harnessing the instead of elevating the hammer what happens is ah he completely unites he lowers himself to become a chamois himself he becomes the commander and that's why it's the assailant it's the feminine it's the zachary anikeva he's having intimacy with him instead of understanding that the hammer is a challenge in order to be able to elevate it either on the first level of the second level bilaam says you know what my hammer speaks this is it the voice of the hammer this is the exclusive voice and he even lowers himself and we could understand what this means bilaam's intimacy with the hammer is really a metaphor for life we all have a hammer in us but what do you do with that hammer when that hammer speaks up one perspective is that becomes my exclusive voice and i define my entire life based on it the black dog that's me the donkey that's me the horse that's me i have an instinct to have a craving that's me and i try to silence for the rest of my life this small inner coiled mama dhaka of the part of me that yearns for truth for vegas foreign and we have many distractions and opportunities to be able to do that in life can you give me the tissues that's billow bala noi and that's why the morale says it's zakhar versus nikeva by avraham avinu it's not an ocean between a female and male by human beings you have intimacy it's takaplagufa they're supposed to be partners a husband and a wife a person and a donkey but for bilaam right rama says and whatever the donkey tells billam shma because it's a whole different relationship it's a whole different connection but in a very funny way we see something and that is who gets to see the angel the donkey or bilum the donkey who's really observing the ruchni is the donkey where is the behemoth maya with his pigeon the donkey pigeon pataka this is the irony this is the paradox billam you are lowering your whole self in order to become like the donkey don't you realize that the donkey in its core is craving kedusha oz this is the paradox when you lower yourself down to the donkey you're not only betraying yourself you're betraying the donkey the khmer is begging others the rebellious kid is not really bad don't get down on the floor and say let me destroy this building together with you what he's begging is you should see his plymouth and help him become who he really is that it's really part of el yonim the assign sees the malach the awesome sees the spiritual hammers it took the jews out of matsuri so you're not only betraying your soul you're ultimately betraying your hammer the hammer is more spiritual than bilaam that's the story that's the irony that's the humor of the story and now we come to step three and step three in history is mashiach and by mashiach it's not that his wife and children use the donkey mashiach himself is only and what this represents is a third beginner it's not only that the body is a partner and as a talmud and is a recipient of the neshama to the point that the kadusa of the neshama doesn't only have to subjugate the body and keep it quarantined and crushed somewhat but he can impact the body and influence the body and elevate the body mashiach is going to be megala the ultimate kedusha that exists in the body itself and therefore he himself will be transported through the hammer on he'll be magala that the same reborn of shalom that existed in hasham exists in the gulf and the same god that's in heaven exists also in the earth and that there's no difference between ali and therefore the goof itself with shri and anoid mulvade the khmer itself the hashem itself will scream the same a nightmare of the nishaman mashiach himself will be elevated through the body and in sifreyaksidis it says even deeper that in some ways the kedusha of the gulf is higher than the gedusa of the neshama because sir that which is higher goes down much lower even deeper i don't want to get into it barricades because it's a whole sugya in the territory of the balatanya tanya but the nakuda mamish in one minute is is that part of the world that feels its source gash me is the age the donkey doesn't feel its source you'll ask the rock where did you come from he says why i come from somebody if i'm somewhere i am i mitsubishi mayatsumusi i don't have a source rookney is points gash me is doesn't point gosh me it says i am for me what do we say by the people for the people from the people i am for myself by myself with myself forever myself that's the yesh conventional wisdom and spiritual sensitivity says fe latanya writes it's really much deeper than this why if you go back to the source of everything so the reborn of shalom there's one more existence in the world that also doesn't have any source just like the yeast the ego says i have no source i am my own source i don't feel i come from somewhere even human beings we know we have fathers and mothers but instinctively we don't feel that we have a source and we don't feel we're going to die we feel that we're invincible where did this hergish come from we did this fantastical narcissistic egotistical conviction that i come from nowhere and i owe nothing to anybody this sense of jesus where did it come from everything comes from the reborn islam where did that come from and his answer is this was a letter that he penned the few mamash a few days before he passed away it's printed in tanya in the fourth section of gary sarcoid chapter 20 and the answer is this comes from one source what's another place of something that take has its own source and doesn't have any beginning and the answer is hashem himself his mathias comes from himself all the is in the world comes from hashem's from hashem's energy from hashem's presence hashem's energy hashem's light hashem's name has a source light comes from the sun the rays of the sun have a source rookhnius comes from hashem's light and the light senses its source you separate the sun from the rays of the sun you shut the venetian blind there won't be any light anymore because the light is always connected to its source gashmius the yesh and hashem's essence has no source and therefore the body also feels that it has no source the reason the body feels it has no source because it's rooted in the essence of hashem which really has no source it is its own source so even though when we look at our bodies we look at it as a yacht that feels it has no source it has no god the real reason it has that feeling is because it's rooted in a deeper ms of atsumosamohus of the essence of hashem and therefore it has that sense of yeash so when you reveal that in the body you realize that the ultimate sense of selfhood in the body is really a reflection of the ultimate yes the yeshan nivra the age of the ego is really rooted in the yesha miti in the real yesh so not only don't you have to subjugate it and not only don't you have to influence it with the light of the soul ultimately there comes a day when the body will teach the soul the truth when the soul will receive from the body he will be in this gala to the world from the hammer from the from the geshe this is the real meaning of we talk about self-esteem the real meaning of self-esteem is when you realize that the ultimate self the ultimate the ultimate sense of self there's always the tension between religion and self-esteem are you a slave of god you have to believe in yourself and ultimately the two are not a contradiction the ultimate self the ultimate true self is even the sense of self is a reflection of the ultimate yesh but history is a process i can't begin this way i can't say oh my narcissism that's god's narcissism that's very very dangerous a person could become a real neurotic narcissist this is the stage of avraham there's the stage of misha and then there's the stage of himself will be revealed through the hamas when yaakov avinu wants to define that he had meshiach he defines it through the hammer that's the messiah avraham gives the hammer to yitzhak what were they giving him no the secret of yiddish guide is that they pass down from generation to generation the mechanism to work with the hammer to elevate the hammer to harness the hammer to subjugate the hammer to sublimate the hammer and in each of our lives we have three stages there's days that you wake up and the donkey is really being stupid and stubborn and you have to turn to it and say mr hamer you're a donkey and that's it i'm gonna put you in your place that some days and other days where your hammer is in a different state and you work with the hammer and then there's deeper days we actually have to ask your body how it's feeling there's days that you have to turn to your goof and tune into the music of your body and i think that the consciousness change that we see today with the body we're used to always saying that everything in the modern world is evil but that's also it's a there's a point to it but it's also a big mistake the kaikas of modernity that get developed are derived shalom's gifts they're not coming from sitra akhira sitra doesn't control this world hashem controls this world like every kayak in the world that could be used for good and it could be used for negativity the kayak of electricity that they invented that they discovered they discovered they didn't invent it is not evil can it be used can it be used for negative purposes of course even a knife you could use the knife to cut a khalin you can use a knife for other things as we all know unfortunately the same is true with atomic energy the same is true with radio the same is true with television and the same is true with cyberspace these are tremendous quakers that hashem allowed human beings to discover in his world that can be used for either destructive purposes or for its hashem this is the hera of each person but what's the emesis of it the emis of it it's created by hashem this is what we have to understand this doesn't mean there's no necessariness and this doesn't mean that people should be addicted to computer screens of course you have to realize sometimes people could get addicted and it could become a terrible habit and then they use it in a destructive way but the essential idea here is not that the khmer is evil but that the hammer has to be channeled and harnessed and used and there's different stages in a person's life and therefore when we look at different gifts and developments of modernity there's two ways of looking at it one is we'll build the wall even stronger and not believe it doesn't exist the problem is the kids get older and they get exposed to everything and then suddenly they see a new world and the defense mechanisms are not there anymore and there was no immunity built to this and sometimes it's even worse than one can ever imagine but we're not going to get into that at this moment a much deeper way is understanding the limitations of people understanding the eight sahara and therefore creating the right defenses but in empowering our youths that when they see the world not only don't they get this fall from it and become slaves they realize the whole world is there for them to be magala in it including any new scientific development so therefore when you see all of these developments it's not only klippe and satra speaking it's hashem communicating to history in his own unique way when you see recently a tremendous focus on body between diets and nutritions and gyms and exercises and meditations and all types of of course it could become an available of course a person can start worshiping their body and the only thing is they have a body and nothing else but the body but that's a primitive way of looking at it a much more real way of looking at it is that there's a certain energy in the world of being empowered to ultimately reach a space where we not only dismiss the body as evil we not only subjugate the body and harness it for kadusa venus we not only believe that the body can be elevated and worked with and sublimated moishirabenu but we also understand that ultimately the tankless habria is that the hammer itself becomes a source of kedusha the khmer itself declares a lacuz and in a way sometimes deeper than even the is and then hashama becomes a couple of the body and that's where there's complete unity complete symmetry where the tachles of matanteres realized by mashiach and that's the unity that our youths are craving for today and that's why that says your body is garbage devil satan sahara i believe is not successful today because you're not tuning in to the rookhni's energy of the time when the body has to be seen as a complete shuttle within the summer no more the split between rukhnis this is good and this is evil this is not this is not the surah of our door the surah of our daughter is going to say is the ultimate integration of rukhinis and gashmi's not because we're so lowly and we want to worship gosh means on the contrary it's the power to be able to see in every nukuda of the hamoir and in every nakuda of the geshem a full kaley and a full partner to be margish the rotson of hashem in the world to the point that the gas mias in some ways can even surpass the duchness that's the third stage and that's why this khmer is such a much in history it's really the story that goes throughout history from the beginning from heir of shabbos comes with joseph and he wants to express this whole sheer in one line because the gemara expresses a two-hour shear in one line if you could just understand what the gemara says how does rabbi yosef express this whole sheer in one line so the bjosef says allah says i don't want to see mashiach and rabbi says i don't want to see mashiach and what does rabbi yosef say rabbi joseph says you remember take a look in the where is it the top of the second site sit in the shadow of the excrement of the of the hammer and between you and me between you and i we all understand it's very strange that he has to express himself this way even if his mouth wants to make a point and that is let him come and i'll do anything you know what do we say in english i'll be a fly on the wall i get it i'll fly on the wall like first day but i'm going to sit in the shadow the this is what trebiosphere is saying but in order to understand it you have to know a little about riyasif the gemara says rabbi yosef was unique in what sense anybody knows saginaw he was couldn't see was blind famous gemara in kadusan la madalev rabbi yosef said when i was younger i wanted to say that the that holds it as soon as potter mccollum mitzvahs is better because that way my sky is much greater because i'm doing it on my own but now that i heard god aloha submission of a voice then i want the that as soon as high of the column because he was a suma he was blind how did he become blind when you look in gemara in different places you see the bias have said certain things he saw so it means it happened later in life so there's ramban over there in kedushu says the was afraid of the world and he couldn't get himself not to look out of his dollardamas his four cubits we think we're the only ones who have necessariness with our eyes and with our hearts and with our emotions but messianes were always there that yosef didn't want to see out of his dalaramis and he couldn't get himself to do it so what did he do so to say there are darius has a whole tradition exactly how he did it he sat in a dark room he weakened his eye vision and ultimately as a result he became blind you have to understand that bruven margaulius has a whole uh a whole essay on this a i'll be allah is not going to damage his own body unless for suva the question is is it shot maybe that he felt it was almost a dangerous situation for him or he just wanted to make it weaker and then it ultimately became blind whatever the situation is rabbi yosef did this to himself that's why i think when it says allah said yes you couldn't see the yay so understand felt that the only way for him to survive in this world is if he doesn't see the world imagine we don't even have a saga in this he doesn't want to see the world disrepositive when he wants to describe what's going to happen when she comes he says i the joseph is going to sit in the shadow which what is a shadow a shadow is when the when the light is not obstructed there's no shadow when the light is obstructed right you block the light so it casts a shadow so i'm going to sit in the shadow which is the opposite of light and what of the soilus of the comet you have the hammer it as a donkey it's showing stupid now you have the soilus of the hammer the e of the hammer the kuffix of the camera the fertilizer what's that that's the junk of the junk if the camaro is hybrid this is the junk of the hammer and the shadow of that is the darkness you have your three levels of lowliness and i will sit in that shadow because if the hammer will become revealed to be the ultimate expression of the essence of hashem the yea nivra will reflect the yeshamiti so then even the silence of the hammer the dirt that comes out of the hammer and the shadow of that will be enough to enlighten me to inspire me to elevate me because even the lowest elements of the hammer will ultimately be somavore so sublimated when mashiach comes the truth of the hammer will be revealed therefore i'll be happy to sit there who rabbi is the one who felt that he has to separate himself from the world indeed when you look in rashi rashi says yey say but then the reason that the bias of didn't want to see will become bottle and since overcome bottles of yesterday as rashi puts in the word vierenu i'm going to see so now let's finally see the last source here the preet sadiq i don't think it means that the donkey lived for millennia it means that all of the donkeys represents one kedusha that's you stay with the donkey so what does the gemara say on this that's the point it's not bad or good it can be the greatest and it could be the lowest depends khmer is not bad depends how you look at it do you become a victim of it or do you understand what its real potential is and what it's begging you to do to sublimate it we all know we all have the experience right you're in front of a piece of food it's delicious your body is telling you please eat please eat please eat please eat your mind is telling you don't eat this you know what it's going to do for you right you'll ask your body what should i do so there's two parts the kitsunes of your body your taste buds will say eat it eat it eat it the ponemeous of your body is really begging you not to eat it because who's going to be hurt from at the body so if you're in tuned with the kids of your hammer you'll eat it if you're in tune with the premiums of your hammer you know that your body begs you to take care of it when you don't take care of it it betrays you it gets sick it gets lethargic it gets heavy when you ultimately take care of it it thanks you in its own secret way so it's the same hammer depends what you see in it why because everybody is doing the same thing he's being stupid the donkey of billam is called the fool right they're arrogant over the people calling them tips that's what it means they're calling them so says the priest why because another mayweather is really a kayak of stupidity in other words stupidity takes over the hammer takes over and you think that's really the hammer and that's what happens really really the khmer is a yesh and therefore superficially it's telling you to follow this taiva on a deeper level there's really a calling for holiness as we explained before and therefore avrama venus is molly kadusa ultimately mashiach is going to be revealed through that hammer the same hammer in different stages of history and the same hammer could be because it depends how the person uses it so therefore we could strike the horse till it becomes a weir it's a horse we can strike the horse until it ceases to be a horse and then we can strike the horse until the point that the horse is not only transformed but the horse and the donkey ultimately becomes the source of his gallows of queen [Music] have a wonderful week you