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On the Essence of Chasidus #2 - Two reasons why the Besht introduced Chasidism - Beyond a checklist
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so we're gonna actually start good
morning everybody uh good afternoon uh
the contras uh on the essence of siddhis
uh uh page 20 is the first the paragraph
the first chapter
first chapter
one thing i didn't mention yesterday
it's worth mentioning before we begin is
that
when this countries was brought to the
attention of rabbi
rabbi salavaitchik the rev
he
sat and learned the the the story that i
heard from someone who
you know says he heard it from rabbi
lichtenstein it was already oliver
shalom
lichtenstein yes
i have to just say
i was about to say this and you just
when you were mentioning rabbi
salavedrik sunday night we were at
akhasana my wife and i
one of the verbatim was in the gushitsyo
and one of the rabbanus called up to
read the suva i think wizard of mosha
lichtenstein
who i i think if i'm not mistaken is the
son of the person you're about the
russian you're about to speak and
because of because of what we've been
discussing it over the years and this
year
about rubbish
i looked at his face
and you could see his he he's a grandson
of i assume of yeshua bear correct yeah
the person i'm speaking about yes so i
wanted to tell you i wanted to tell you
you could see the rubs
i could recognize the rob's
face
on this this on his grandson
so i wanted to tell you because it's
because of our sheer that you you've
mentioned her of salvation all the time
it made me sensitive to look for this
right later
i'm gonna look forward to you later a
clip i came across of his
mother tova lichtenstein who i believe
is alive
she was interviewed by rabbi dr zev leff
and i think it's fascinating i mean
she's you know she
in her calm way she just talks about her
childhood than growing up in the refs
house i mean i wish i would have had
that before i wrote my book
um
i didn't i guess it wasn't done yet you
know this is at causa covent he was able
to to do it there and and she really
says some
very important things about a father
um that's that's crucial i mean you're
hearing it from from the daughter i mean
you can't get any better than that you
know
so i'll share that later but let's what
i wanted to say is
what i wanted to say is so
robert lichtenstein robert lichtenstein
um
brought the somehow got a hold of the
countries this is in the 70s when it
came out and said it's 1970 71
and he uh he asked they showed it to the
rev and and
the ralph said yeah let's let's learn
together the contras
well learn together means they were up
all night friday night learning the
countries
these two geniuses that robert
lichtenstein was a genius himself
and of course representative
and they were up
all night learning
salvation was so
impressed
by the
meticulousness and depth you know
everything he was a brisker everything
is deep
of this contrast
that he told rabbi lichtenstein
as soon as shabbos is over call 770
and tell the secretaries to tell the
remember in my name that he must
produce
more
such type of works on hassanus
because this really speaks spoke to him
this the as you'll see the ana the the
approach the analysis the depth the the
the splitting of hairs bringing together
a halacha and kabbalah
um you know
it really touched him and and you should
know it was very difficult to impress
from zelda
and he was a genius and and i'm telling
you very few people
uh with their swarm impressed him in
fact he was pretty critical about
manny's forum which i also told you once
in the past how somebody was in
someone's house and he happened to see
the bookshelf and he took out a book and
he said what do you have this garbage
for here
you know so he he was very out and he
talked about
you know a safer and of a safer or in
english or in hebrew but you know uh
safer of tyra book of torah he was he
was a very you know he was a he was the
pedagogue
so you know so for him to make such a
statement
about this countries and by the way he
would not make the same statement about
lukuthi sikhs and about my muram i he
made it about this
because this whole style is very much
the way a brisker thinks in the way he
thought going from the beginning through
the middle to the end
so
he was aware of the rebels lakota circus
they would come out every weekly but
this was different so it was this that
that he said to rabbi lichtenstein go
tell 770 that i that i i i want to see
more of the rebels these type of country
sim because this is really with with
torah real terrorism this
okay
so now let's look what is this what is
it let's learn what it is
the idea
the s again the english translation is
the essence of siddhis but i'm telling
you the word in yana does not mean
essence
it means topic
the inyan the concept
and so much yesterday i just said that
could be that's why the english
translators
call this countries on the essence of
hasidis
in other words because the word indian
doesn't mean essence
but yet it it it talks about the essence
so the way to compensate for the
the the
lack of the english language
uh expressing really the hebrew
language and this of this name of the
safer so they added the word on the
that's that's my own that's my own
interpretation i might be right i might
be wrong
because otherwise i i don't i don't see
you know so you know on the essence of
citizens is a very weird and strange
name for a book have you ever heard
amber i mean do you guys know i mean
you're all learned and scholarly and
educated that you ever heard of a book
called anza
hillel anything come true
i don't hear you hillel
he will mute yourself sort of
what
um that's a common literary device yeah
you know on the nature of this on the
nature of that and uh and and there's
books like that their names are books
yeah yeah okay okay you guys know better
than i
anyway but again uh in yonder does not
mean on the essence
but
let's go on so it is talking about
hasidis
so let's see but again
this regarding the concept of
siddhis
is
that's within hasidis
in over in addition
to all other parts of the theta
that were revealed before siddhis
because it started with the belgentov
many explanations have been given in
other words what's why don't we need an
explanation by
a very simple question why why all of a
sudden considers
what was wrong with 500 years ago when
gemara and halakha
what
why hasidis
so there have been different
explanations given that ever says
for the need for hasidis or mayhem
and among them
aleph one
is
during the time of death
the world was in a situation of faint he
saw foot the world was faint
i'll explain a moment
the world arose it woke up
from its faint state
okay
yeah is it is it referring to the the
the revelation of uh robbie shimon
no
daily you're talking here about
200 years ago 250 250 to 300 years ago
that's it
you're talking about 2 000 years ago no
no i understand
like wait wait wait let me let me
explain
good attempt the answer is no to your
question
what is referring to is the helminitsky
pogroms of 1648 and 49.
the bashemto lived if
after that you know
and the
pogodon
the
terror
including terrorizing jews in padalia in
that sec area of of europe
and he even got to the carpathian
mountains and the the border of romania
the romanian carpathian mountains i'm
writing about that now so i read a
little bit about that the point is
that he left massive not only physical
destruction spiritual destruction
where jews were murdered uh massacred
plunged and uh purged
and
they were very depressed
you know like where's god and how can we
continue we have nothing to eat and they
they've killed relatives
it was very bad devastation that's one
reference to the
hisal foot the faint state of judaism at
the time number two
the false
mashiachs the false messiahs chapter and
pesa frank
which was also around that time
before the laughter
in various parts of europe
especially with chapter three
the community was devastated the rabbis
leading rabbis and scholars and rabbani
believed that chaplaincy was the messiah
and and then when they saw what he
became and became a convert to
islam and everything else
you could just figure how how they felt
they were
fooled so badly and
and the average jew said how can we
believe in in in rabbis anymore if
rabbis are so dubbed and so foolish
you know i don't want to
say it's the same we're not the same no
political statement but we discussed it
briefly
when someone in urchin swell you know
came out to be an abuser
and um
basically the repercussions is that you
can't trust anybody
so you can you can't trust anybody i
mean here is a person who was so popular
and known and
you can't trust him so
it leaves a very bad stain well that's
that's what happened then
so
judaism jews
were in a state of faith they said
why believe that we can't believe
anymore yeah you're a religious man you
put on phil and you go to shul and then
you do all these things and you claim
your mashiach and then you convert to to
islam so this is a second reference this
is what the rabbit means here
that at the time of the balshemptav the
world was in a situation of faith i want
to show you the reference now go to the
english side
please
um
and that is
where is it
yeah
look in the note number three
this explanation is found in an old
hasidic manuscript whose author is
unknown
so
the first explanation of why
the bashamtive came along
and introduced qasidis to bring back
faith in god faith and tata with simcha
and everything else
and that's why he established hasidic
judaism
this is comes from a source we don't
know whose author it is but it's found
in a manuscript
now the the translators ex say the
following
it has since been printed in seifer have
my marim 5 six
six three
when the balchemter is initiated
his movement the material situation
of eastern european jewelry bottom of 21
of the footnotes
economic and political
was precurious and the religious state
was hardly better
the pogroms of 1648 and the false
messiahs
were critical blows that the people
barely survived
their condition was virtually comatose
that's pretty heavy
see also contest you trot
when a person faints
there is a tradition of whispering his
name in his ear in order to revive him
because a person's hebrew name
has an essential connection to his
general life force
the soul of the balshemptiv was the
general soul of all the yitan as
indicated in his own name israel
which he shared with all the eden
an israel's general so a yeast's general
soul
of which the particular soul of every
individual
was a component detailed the bolshev's
purpose and mission
was to revive with all jews
survive all jews even the lowliest
from their unconsciousness
and to connect
even the lowliest jew with the essence
of hashem
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so
let me let me let me point something out
to you something else that he says
elsewhere that's important to know
the rebbe's wording here is look at the
paragraph in the text
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now why does it say how you hold them
why don't you say hi
shouldn't say how you
throw him
who was fate
who became despondent
who was comatose we just read the jews
the eden of the time
the language of the ebb and the text is
the world
was faint
so that ever made a note it's printed in
the hebrew version i don't see it here
right here
and that ebb explains very beautifully
and very importantly that's why i
mentioned it
for who did god create the world of
for who did hashem create the world for
the eden to make a an abode for god on
earth by including the non-jews as well
but it's our responsibility to give
direction
so if we are faint guess what
the world is faint
because we are the inner
essence of the world
if we don't exist or if we are weak the
world is weak
so the oh so that
in in writing and and uh his
sentence over here
says
that that
that the balse
during the time of
the world was faint
and through the belcentive and the
revelation of hasidis
the world awoke it woke up
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again the word hoola
not messiah israel
why
seemingly who woke up from its faint
state the jews
the bolshev came
and he said
guys
so only our bodies were purged by
helminitsky
and only our mind was dubbed by the
false messiahs but our inside which is
the ikar which is the primary aspect of
a jew i.e the shama
the shama is pure
as pure as it is as it was
it is it is even during these horrible
times so let's reveal the soul
let's
celebrate within the shama
that was the krishna
until the belgento you all know
depending on how many pages of gambara
and
mitzvahs you do
that's what type of jew you were
and that's the way they looked at you
comes along the belgentiv and says no
a yi there's this in the summer the soul
and everything else is an adjunct to the
shama
so
when
the baal shem tov introduced this
concept to the jews its impact wasn't
only on the jews
it was on the entire world
because the entire world was because of
jews
and that's why the rebels language here
is
that
the bashar ventura
awakened the world not just the jews the
world from its faint state
i want to make sure you understand what
i just said because it's very important
so in other words
mohammed point hillary i'll just say
of hasidis
it's not just for ye
it's for the world
you understand
we're not talking now about you know
you know
teaching the seven mitzvahs that's uh
that's that's a method
one of the methods
of sharing with the world what toyota
offers what hashem offers
but the concept
of hasidis
is for
the world
now this is a hard pill to swallow by
many orthodox jews
in other words what we don't have enough
enough to take care of our own hide that
we have to worry about the world
and and what's the answer to that
question it's a very good question
velvet
the answer is
you can't separate the jew from the
world
because the jew is the the battery pack
of the world
so if the jew is
sick
unconscious comatose the world's
comatose and if a jew is happy
celebrating
god the world has the chance to
celebrate god and that's a very very
important thought and deep thought
that uh
we need to think about yes hello
i got an answer i just wondered where
the hebrew notes were but i found them
okay
point number two please while we learned
this if you have a question you know a
comment stop me and ask me so that it's
clear okay
base
number two the second reason
why the belcentos
the cool the the call of duty
okay
as the sages say
say your fun closet i'll explain
when you burn the nails you're a
clustered
alpha
massive
although
it endangers him okay
the gemara says
when you cut your nails
you shouldn't leave them around
you should bury them
because if a pregnant woman walks over
cut nails she can lose the pregnancy
that's what it says i do understand that
i don't understand that's a quote from
the gomorrah
okay
comes along the good morning it says say
from
if not only if not i'm sorry if you if
you do more than burn the nails
sorry if you do more than bury the nails
which holographically you can work like
today right you could throw them in the
in in the bathroom in the toilet
but if you do more than that
if certain
you burn them
the commander calls you a husset
the gemara we're not talking about
balsham the gemara two thousand years
before the belgium
although
the nails when you cut them and it's
part of your body so there's like some
kind of he says mazzikloy
it damages you meaning to say it's part
of your body that you're cutting
so not withstanding the fact that you
could get away with just burying the
nails
and rather you don't do that but you
actually burn the nail burning part of
your own body
why
so that
maybe maybe
someone shouldn't come to uncover the
nail being buried a pregnant woman
whatever and whoever reveals it from the
place where it's buried it'll be exposed
or someone will walk over a pregnant
woman and have a problem
what does this concept
allude to
ever says let's name
that you go beyond the letter of the law
there is then
and there is
so so what does he say
he says
and i want you to look at note number
five i'd like to read that together
he says like this
the mother says the talmud the second
paragraph the talmud explains that one
who cut his nails should not throw the
bearings on the ground lest a pregnant
woman
pays 22
step on them causing her to miscarry
one who does throw away nail pairings in
this manner is a russia wicket
one he buries them following the letter
of the law is exadic righteous
and one who burns them
thus taking extra precaution against
them being uncovered
is pious
twice this
quoting
the aruh explains that the burning of
any particle of one's body
can cause harm to the one from whom the
particle originated
i i didn't get a chance to look it up i
have to i don't understand that i mean
once it's cut it's cut
but tyson says it can cause damage to
the body
although one may be harmed
nevertheless one who burns his nail
bearings is a husset
for he goes beyond the requirement of
the law
and is prepared to suffer for it you
hear that
that's what it means to go beyond the
the the letter of the law
he's ready to suffer for it because he's
good he's suffering tyson says there's
damage to him somehow
and he says the law does not require a
person to harm himself
right and here he does it that's called
lethnim
so
what
what's let's now
so what is the second reason for
learning to see this abraham
what's the second reason why
the baal
the second reason is
that it's not enough the balsamic says
to be a jew
in an orderly fashion according to law
a re you know
really it's about going beyond
yourself with nimes
as the gomorrah says
so you're right you're right alcantara
says you could learn only gemara
let's let's talk about it right
practically you can undergo
and muster and all that
and you're a fine jew
they'll give you slicing
after your shoe
and if not you're complaining to my
shirt
right
he's up a couple of dick a drew sits up
front at mizrah
he comes in he expects everyone to rise
he's the tom mcclurkin
right well guess what guess what
you might get it anyway because
otherwise they'll stone you in sure
they'll maybe fire you as the gabai
or have tightness but between you know
ourselves we know
it's the left shoulder
the person that goes beyond the letter
of the law that's really the special one
and the one that you look to and respect
because if this person is willing to
harm himself
for a maybe
or maybe someone will come and un
uncover undig take out the nail pairings
it's it which is like ridiculous
this this man really cares about someone
else so the balsamic
comes along and says it's not enough
to serve hashem in a legalistic way
check
right what what's the word
khan
lift now you have to cry
start crying
come on here you have to laugh
here you have to stand here you have to
sit you know
you know the many about to shove us when
in the beginning they don't they didn't
learn so when they start learning
stand up and sit down and that's the
beginning of learning that's important
but once you reach a certain point you
don't need anyone to tell you to stand
up and sit down because you learn it you
know you know when to stand when to sit
and uh you know
of course if it's necessary whether it
be you know young israel and brs
and you know they still they they don't
announce it but they have a board with
page numbers and i'm looking there like
it seems like most people are are you
shiva guys they're modern you know but
um you know whatever
it's good it's good because there are
people that come in
for sure
but the point is
that
the idea of going beyond the letter of
the law
and looking for something greater
is the
now i i again i'm using the word
you'll say wait a minute
it has its source let's say in chanukah
of course it has that's the point
basham i says 8761 but still it says one
two three four
and we rule like base hill
by chanukah and when my heart dreams
manhattan that everyone should have
their own monoida
which by the way that's what i heard
last night
from
robertson tova whisnerstein it blew me
away she said her father of his
elevation taught the girls to like their
own menira
that's what i that's what she says
and i'm saying wow here is this lit
this miss nugget this blisker you know
and he
taught his girls to light their own
maneuver and to be involved in every
aspect
sitting in the in the sukkah he says
we always sat in the circle what do you
mean we didn't sit in the sukkah it
wasn't like
maybe
his the rabbit salafatrik wanted his
daughters
he had two daughters to sit in the
sukkah
and i was thinking about it in that it's
again we're not talking about i'm not
going to maybe maybe he had a source for
allegedly i don't know i'm saying the
concept
of educating your daughters
that you know you're like boys in a way
you know come on you know
suka's there i know i have it here
sometimes you know i don't have
i say to my wife i says no i want to be
in the sukkot with the girls
the suckers make the sukkah big enough
for everyone to be there understandably
when guys come to fabrega or
have a kid they shall
come there's no room the women go out
but but what what i'm saying is that
there's yiddish
so again
well when i say when i say the baal shem
tov the rabbit says here introduced it
it as as a general teaching for the
world of tita
not that individual is like a rebel
salvation if he did that with his girls
or others but the overall idea
of introducing siddhis to the world
was this idea so yes you don't need a
you don't need a full beard
you don't need a beard hello quickly and
if you want to have a beard have a dream
beard
have a cool beard
have a yuppie beard a williamsburg a
north williamsburg beard you know
baseball players still have their
wearing beards i mean take a look at
some baseball players you don't know if
they're jewish or not they got entire
beards
it's like right
says the beard that i've talked to you
about you'll know that that
and this beard of of dolphins
ain't a north williamsburg beard it's
not kept
it's it's it's wild it's the way it is
there's a certain kind of yiddish guy
that's
that's a only an example
in so many other agartal what do you
need a garden for if we have a pair of
pants and a shirt
and according to you this
you you there's a separation between the
upper part and the lower part what are
you going to put on a dart before
constable shampoo says no
he can't prepare yourself and not only
like some of the lit to wear the
gargle inside what some do on the
outside since it's sticking out versus
sticking in
all these examples
happening with a slot davening with a
certain type of focus and say slavis
this is about shrimp said you're right
it's not necessary but listen
and you want to show that
yeah
i love
the amish dude i love god so much and
i'm connecting with that aspect of my
neshama
that i go beyond the letter of the lord
that is the second reason
why the baal shem tov introduced hasidis
at the time that he introduced hasidis
there was learning and there was
darkening and there were tommy
and there was a healthy yiddish kite
but according to the second reason it
was din
it was like tit-for-tat a checklist
while chanting says go beyond the
checklist drop your checklist
any questions
okay good stuff
yeah good job good stuff good stuff okay
yeah i don't know if i'll be here
tomorrow because i'm going i have to
pick up someone from the airport okay
okay okay try to connect online if you
can with your phone but whatever listen
to the ever i put it on youtube so you
can always listen to the showroom have a
great day everyone see you on tomorrow
zag isn't right bye-bye take care
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you